stopped and stood silent for half a minute, and then brushed his hand over his face, and said, "Pardon me, gentlemen, I saw the shades of my ancestors!' At a time like this we see the spirits of those whose bodies are not here with us, of those who, humanly speaking, ought to be standing where we stand, and sitting where we sit, and we rejoice to know, as in our hearts we do know, that their sympathy is with us and that their souls rejoice. And now as we look forward, we do it not without some touch of apprehension and yet not without a large and radiant hope. You may not always agree with us: you will, I think, believe that our wishes at least are high, and our purposes not wholly ignoble, and we beg of you to feel that you and we are united, and united with all people throughout the world who aim at the best things, in "looking for and earnestly desiring the coming of the day of God." UNIV. OF MICHIGAN, FER 26 1912 |