generations. At length an enemy, darkling, lifted weapons for
destroying. Would these who had received institutions nourished with
blood, give life-blood in return? The uprising of 1861 is the answer.
Then the people rose as one man, the plow stood in the furrow, the
hammer fell from the hand, workroom and college hall were alike
deserted--a half-million men laid down their lives upon many a
battle-field. Similarly, the honor given to Washington during these
last few days tells us that the patriot who gives shall receive. From
the day when the young Virginian entered the Indian forests with
Braddock to the day when he lay dying at Mount Vernon the patriot gave
his health, his wealth, his time, his life, a living sacrifice through
eight and forty years. Now every year the people, rising up early and
sitting up late, rehearse to their children the story of his life and
work. Having given himself, honor shall he receive through all the
ages.

To Abraham Lincoln also came the word: "Give and thou shall receive!"
Sitting in the White House the President proclaimed equal rights to
black and white. Then, with shouts of joy, three million slaves
entered the temple of liberty. But they bore the emancipator upon
their shoulders and enshrined him forever in the temple of fame, where
he who gave bountifully shall receive bountiful honor through all the
ages. There, too, in the far-off past stands an uplifted cross.
Flinging wide his arms this crowned sufferer sought to lift the world
back to his Father's side. In life he gave his testimony against
hypocrisy, Phariseeism and cruelty. For years he gave himself to the
publican, the sinner, the prodigal, the poor in mind or heart, and so
came at length to his pitiless execution. But, having given himself in
abandon of love, the world straightway gave itself in return. Every
one of his twelve disciples determined to achieve a violent death for