The somewhat dull voice of the woman seemed to echo softly from the
remoteness of the past. It aroused hope, it carried conviction; and
the company listened in silence to its music, to the great story of
their brethren in spirit. They looked into her face, lean and pale,
and smiled in response to the smile of her gray eyes. Before them
the cause of all the people of the world, the endless war for
freedom and equality, became more vivid and assumed a greater
holiness. They saw their desires and thoughts in the distance,
overhung with the dark, bloody curtain of the past, amid strangers
unknown to them; and inwardly, both in mind and heart, they became
united with the world, seeing in it friends even in olden times,
friends who had unanimously resolved to obtain right upon the earth,
and had consecrated their resolve with measureless suffering, and
shed rivers of their own blood. With this blood, mankind dedicated
itself to a new life, bright and cheerful. A feeling arose and grew
of the spiritual nearness of each unto each. A new heart was born
on the earth, full of hot striving to embrace all and to unite all
in itself.
"A day is coming when the workingmen of all countries will raise
their heads, and firmly declare, 'Enough! We want no more of this
life.
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