THE HOPE OF THE RACE.
Joy to the world, the Lord is come, let earth receive her King.
Let every heart prepare him room, and Heaven and Nature sing.

WHAT life is at all fruitful in success and the joy that attends it unless that Iife has constantly in view a purpose and pursues it with fidelity and hope. Likewise how can our race achieve its best endeavor unless it lives under the constant purpose to achieve a certain goal. Human life must have an object of existence that is worthy of its high endowments. The only objects which are worthy of our pursuit are Purity, Peace and Truth, and the only embodiment which the world has ever known of these supreme things was Jesus of Nazareth. Therefore we look toward his second coming with confidence and longing. As the embodiment of our highest aspirations he will be the fulfillment of all our desires. At his approach the clouds of uncertainty, Ignorance, superstition, distrust, doubt and despair will vanish.

For all nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy judgments are made manifest.

Rev. 15:4.

Scanned from Fifty Great Cartoons (Chicago: The Ram's Horn Press, 1899) unpaginated. This cartoon is part of the collections of the The Cartoon Research Library of Ohio State University.