We may stretch forth our hand, if we will, to enlighten the Hindu or to tame the savage of the wilderness.

It is ours, if we will, to put forth our contributions and thus to operate not ineffectually for the relief and renovation of a continent over which one tide of misery has swept without ebb and without restraint for unremembered centuries.

It is ours, if we will, to do something that shall tell on all the coming ages of a race which has been persecuted and enslaved, trodden down and despised, for a thousand generations.

Our Father has made us the almoners of his love.

He has raised us to partake, as it were, in the ubiquity of his own beneficence.