perity. In every department of industry and commercial enterprise in the course of forty years, the wealth of the nation was increased a thousand fold. The victories of peace shame the destructions of war, and show that affiliation and cooperation with one another, and reciprocity and the Golden Rule, are infinitely better than alienation and strife and barriers to intercourse and trade. The fruits of righteousness are sown in peace of them that make peace. They outweigh the glory of fields of battle. Come, then, O Prince of Peace, and bring the eternal Christmas of peace on earth and good-will among men! |