The State of the Nation A Sermon Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The State of the Nation: A Sermon

All this has been very natural, and perhaps unavoidable, but in the mean time the nation has been sounding on, a dim and perilous way, now swerving this way and now that, and finally, to all appearance, it has quite irrevocably declared itself for that financial policy which seems to me the policy of Simple honesty. It is neither here nor there whether the national financiering was wisely managed amid the overwhelming excite ment of the war, and under the enormous pres sure Of those immediate necessities which it im posed upon us. There is the Simple fact that under that pressure, amid that excitement, we made certain promises; and having made them, and upon the strength of them'furnished Our selves with the sinews of war, there is nothing left for us to do but keep those promises, let come what will, and every man in the United States ought to prefer to live as simply as his father and grandfather did before him, and Simpler, if need be, rather than that the prom ises which the nation made should not be kept to the last syllable and SO they would, the poorest first of all, if the appeal had been made not to their selfishness and envy, but to their honor and their truth.

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