with more than she should have trusted you. Be true, women, to your lovers and your husbands; men to your wives, your partners, your fellow men, your patrons; to your talents, your opportunities, your country, your age, your world! Be true to God! If you have no God, be true to your highest conception of what God ought to be.
"It sounds like a homily. It is a principle. You can multiply it indefinitely. It runs like a scarlet thread through religion, and it will go all around the borders of life.
"Eternal Loyalty is the Price of true Success.
"To this conviction I subscribe my name, myself and everything that still remains to me.
John felt that he wrote this and that he signed it in the presence of the Presence. The address and not the sermon was his valedictory.
