“And will He not pardon? Yes,--He will, because He must! To Him we owe our existence;--He alone is responsible for our life, our probation, our progress, our striving through many errors towards Perfection! He, who sees all, must needs have pity for His creature Man! Out of the evolutions of a blind Time, He has made the poor weak human being, who in the first days of his sojourn on earth had neither covering nor home. Less protected than the beasts of the forest, he found himself compelled to Think!--to think out his own means of shelter,--to contrive his own weapons of defence. Slowly, and by painful degrees, from Savagery he has emerged to Civilization;--wherefore it is evident that his Maker meant Thought to be his first principle, and Action his second. He who does not work, shall not eat;--he who does not use all his faculties for improvement, shall by and by have none to use. Injustice and corruption are amongst us, merely because we ourselves have failed to resist their first inroads. Who is it that complains of wrong? Let him hasten to his own amending,--and he will find a thousand hands, a thousand hearts ready to work with him! All Nature is on the side of health in the body, as of health in the State. All Nature fights against disease,--physical and moral. Therefore do not,--dear friends and children!--sit idle and passive, submitting yourselves to be deceived, as if you had no force to withstand deception! Show that you hate lies, and will have none of them,--show that you will not be imposed upon--and decline to be led or governed by party agents, who persuade you to your own and your country’s destruction! The voice of the People can no longer be heard in a purchased Press;--let it echo forth then, in stronger form than ephemeral print, which to-day is glanced at, and to-morrow is forgotten;--wherever and whenever you are given the chance to meet, and to speak, let your authority as the workers, the ratepayers, and supporters of the State be heard; and do not You, without whom even the King could not keep his throne, consent to be set aside as the Unvalued Majority! Prove, by your own firm attitude that without You, nothing can be done! It is time, oh people of my heart!--it is time you spoke clearly! God is moving His thought through your souls--God stirs in you the fear, the discontent, the suspicion that all is not well with your country;--and it is the Spirit of God which breathes in the warning note of the time-- “‘Hark to the voice of the time! The multitude think forthemselves, And weigh their condition each one; The drudge has a spirit sublime, And whether he hammers or delves, He reads when his labour is done; And learns, though he groan under poverty’s ban, That freedom to Think, is the birthright of man!’