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A treatise on domestic education

(1889, c1885)

p. 89

NATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS. 87
because it demonstrates the divine truth, that to
get into office, and to hold it when in, it is not
necessary that he should be a cunning politician,
filled with selfishness and deceit. Lastly, it shows
m
in a strong light that politics, in its high and
honorable sense, is not separable from a high
morality and a sublime faith in God, which is
one of the highest manifestations of religion, be¬
cause it enables an officer to do right though
death stares him in the face; and, more still, to
do right though all the powers in the state be op¬
posed to him; for to die when it is popular, for a
popular cause, with state power behind us, is small
heroism compared with the heroism of a man who
does right when popular opinion and state power
are combined and opposed to him. Such was
the heroism of the illustrious prophet and pre¬
mier. Let us not forget the relations of Joseph
and Daniel to society at the time when their faith
in God was tried and their grand traits of char¬
acter were developed. The one was a slave in a
foreign land, the other a captive without fortune
and without powerful friends. Now, what docs
history teach us by these two interesting facts?
That the humblest citizen or subject, whose par¬
ents or guardians have trained him as a child
ought to be trained, may, in some great emer¬
gency, become the greatest benefactor of his

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