But say all we may of public affairs and political power and the government and its greatness, the source of it all is the home. From the home go the taxes, the votes, the soldiers, the officers, the principles, the intelligence, the public spirit, which make and support the national power. The nation is a combination of homes and their interests. It comes back to this that the nation is what its homes make it. Therefore the best work for the nation is done in the home. The intelligence, the moral worth, the business success of the home is so much done for the nation. If the home is coarse and poor and drunken, there is so much done to make a coarse, poor and drunken country. If the home is shiftless it puts so much shiftlessness into the national compact. All worth and meanness in every home go to make up so much worth and meanness in the nation. So it comes to this that The Home is the Heart of the Nation. Every member of every home makes the contribution of himself to the nation. The nation is not a few of its leading citizens, but all its people.

How inspiring, therefore, is the thought that each humble home in this country is a part of that great republic, which today, commands the attention and admiration of the civilized world. How quickening to honorable pride and personal endeavor in the way of well doing and Christian witnessing, is the fact that each citizen adds the force of his character and substance to the country which is doing so much for humanity and holds such a place in the world's esteem.