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He leaned forward to listen, as the friar with a wide gesture swept his hand round the horizon.

"Brethren," he cried, "Look round you! Fifty years ago this was a Protestant country, and the Church of God a sect among the sects.

And to-day--to-day God is vindicated and the truth is known.

Fifty years ago we were but a handful among the thousands that knew not God, and to-day we rule the world.