The river that washes its feet will be more musical in its flow, because finer ears will be listening.

The denizens of the great city will come here, year after year, to renew their wasted strength, and they will carry back with them the sweetest memories of these pure solitudes.
"To build a human home, where woman lives and little children open their eyes upon life, and grow up and marry and die--a home full of love and toil, of pleasure and hope and hospitality, is to do the finest thing that a man can do.

I congratulate you on what you have done for Jim, and what so nobly you have done for yourselves.

Your whole life will be sweeter for this service, and when you think of a lovely woman presiding over this house, and of all the comfort it will be to the gentle folk that will fill it full, you will be glad that you have had a hand in it." Yates made his bow and stepped down.

His auditors all stood for a moment, under an impression that they were in church and had heard a sermon.