Dedication
with feelings of great respect and love i dedicate this little book to the memory of my brothers and sisters who throughout past ages have kept alive the principles of love and comradeship: of those saints and martyrs, of all the churches and no churches, who lived and died without seeing a glimpse of the dawn of a new day, but who, through faith, remained steadfast to the end. and i dedicate it, too, to my comrades of to-day, especially the young, who are destined to see not only the dawn but the full noonday sunshine of the new day. i would say to these latter: “ be true to one another, be faithful in small and great things, cultivate love of the beautiful and the good, hate darkness and iniquity, but, in hating things, keep your minds full of love for men and women. remember always that god and humanity need you, and that the greatest, the cleverest amongst you, are called, because of their talents, to be the foremost in serving and giving to the commonweal.”
