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kind, naturally will augment our national and domestic security for as long a period as such structure shall continue to stand. Whatever disrupts individual happiness likewise weakens our national life and felicity, since the nation is but an aggregation of individuals— a large family made up of the countless smaller families.

Great responsibility is laid upon the women of today. Women of character, of intelligence and understanding are being called out upon the battlefield of life. In order to meet the demands of the day woman must arise and take her place, conscious of her power and ability, and yet too clever and wise to allow that consciousness to become apparent, either in thought, word or deed. Woman is to recognize the source whence issues her power that she may perform her great work with a royal dignity that can not be impeached by the opposing forces that emanate from minds of the undeveloped.

Woman once convinced of her duty will have the courage of her convictions: she will realize that no sacrifice shall be too great for the accomplishment of the task set before her. The unconditional surrender of all petty personalities are but the initial steps so essential toward the freeing of the path from all that hinders and encumbers. Then let woman arise and come forth: let her shake the dust of antiquated ideas, customs

and conventionalities from her feet and mount upward toward the ascending path that leads to the goal.

ROSARY

America has been set aside from all of the nations of the world as the Savior nation, a nation from which shall emanate those beings who are to become Saviors unto all other nations. How can this be? It can only be because here in America woman is to be freed and liberated; therefore recognized, honored and placed in her true position-a position which enables her to fulfill her God-given trust through a sanctified motherhood: only a perfected and exalted motherhood could give birth to Saviors.

The process through which woman is to find her perfection cannot be defined or elucidated. The forces of a material nature must blend with those of a diviner purpose and here the Highest alone can guide, lead and teach. Here she must be left in the hands of the omnipotent, omniscient God. Let no one dare to tamper or meddle with the unfoldment of another's being. There is a light that guides; there is a hand that leads; faith, the helmsman, will pilot safely and securely.

It is by no means of interest to the adversary to remove evils from society, as many a fat job would have to go begging.

Federation of Nations

Edited by Nellie Wheelwright

STUDY OF MAN

Article XXIX.

Considering the White man from the standpoint of tribal relations it has to be conceded that tribal tendencies correspond to characteristics akin to temperaments, and are destined to individualize as well as classify men. Thus what the scriptures call "nations," and we terminate into "nationalities," simply proposes to point out distinctions whereby the apparently hidden in man can be determined and easily discovered.

What we call a proven virtue in ourselves we recognize in another as an incentive. Each and every "nationality" has its own character by which it may be known. We speak of the arrogance of the Amercian, the diplomacy of the Englishman, the wit of the Irish, cleanliness of a Hollander; steadfastness of a Russian, trickery of a Turk, aggressiveness of a Jew, flattery of a Frenchman, inquisitiveness of a Norwegian, tenacity of a Hungarian, naivety of a Slovak, submission of a Servian, determination of a Bohemian, gallantry of a

Spaniard, economy of a Belgian, flippancy of a Swede, consideration of a Dane, patriotism of a German, secretiveness of an Italian, and many more of the minor branches into which the race has been divided and subdivided.

Each tribe has a trait all its own, a trait which is shared by all in part, and what is considered a gift in one is a talent in another. With virtues as well as vices the law and order are equal, and correspond to talents, gifts, attributes and endowments.

Although music is shared by all, there are but few who are born a genius or a virtuoso. To acquire music in a measure approaching the artist necessitates much practice and an enormous amount of endurance. We all paint some, and through practice approach art. Still even the best of our masterpieces fall short in the presence of productions which emanate from the hands of a born genius.

We can learn to work in clay and marble, still we may never produce anything astonishing for the simple reason that by nature our calling was intended upon different lines.

"We are to be in matter what we are in spirit," is an ancient adage, and civilization aims to materialize that thought. For this reason manifold and varied are the attempts by one and all of the tribes and

their "nationalities." Each and every tribe specializes upon virtues and talents that higher attainments may find crystallization.

"Variety is the spice of life" and various are the species induced, still nature has created them in a way so that the object and purpose of Infinite Designs may be readily discovered.

While nature creates variety and calls out certain endowments more strongly in one than in the other, man is to learn to create a unit of what appears complex and make plain or simple that which appears complicated.

One thought wave permeates all hearts and minds whatever the tribe or nationality may be a universal understanding upon which to base international relations and with it eradicate differences which have arisen during the struggle for higher attainments and self-preservation of collective interests.

With the knowledge of man's origin and the purpose of life the final destiny becomes clear. We only need to reason, think and reflect, to recognize in every man, irrespective of the nationality or station, the divine principle made manifest in nature for the sole purpose of displaying and exercising the creative energy, and to prove continuity in evolutionary laws.

Inasmuch as every gain demands some

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