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A MAGAZINE OE GOOD CITIZENSHIP
ELEMENTS THAT ARE NECESSARY TO
MAKE NATIONAL PROGRESS SECURE
rpUTURE generations, scanning the pages of the world’s history,
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will find the most amazing chapter of nation building when
they read of America’s development and progress, of the making
of a nation of many immigrant people and races and of how they
changed a practically uninhabited continent into a fairyland where
the dreams of the ages were converted into realities and made to
come true. A nation’s chapter of progress is never complete un
less it records that the spiritual life of the people transcends the
material state. America’s present material progress is noticeably
away from any spiritual relationship. The consciousness of the
spiritual life is an essential part of enduring national life. The citi
zenship of America will never be complete without it. Our edu
cation has too long been away from the spiritual. In our efforts to
speed up the intellectual and the material, eliminating the spiritual
development, we have come to place too much reliance on the hu
man elements and the efficacy of thoroughly trained brain cells.
The stout and strong hearts where the finer emotions are
coursing will have to be given some attention in our future pro
gress as a nation, if we are to keep clean our shield, preserve the
covenant and vindicate the spiritual ideals set up as a background
to our governmental concept without which our national honor
and integrity, the bulwark of our structure, will fade as a
withered leaf in autumn. The older and the newer citizens of
America must pursue a new course. The sordid faithlessness, com
mon among our citizens in public life today, can not go on else the
people will begin to look for relief in new and untried institutions
in government. Put on the spiritual armor of the American fore
fathers; then public confidence will become sacred anew. The
scales will fall from the eyes of JUSTICE and the present reign of
human frailty and spiritless INJUSTICE will be at an end.
UGUST, 1924
PORTLAND, OREGON