Each one of them had now for him a new value.
They were to him wandering children of his heavenly Father, whom he longed to bring back to that Father's house.

The wildest and most erring among them called forth his most tender interest, as farthest from the kingdom of heaven and in the most danger of utter destruction.
Blair's love of his country too had been but deepened and increased by his late realization of the allegiance he himself owed to the King of kings.

His native land was now to him a dear portion of the great vineyard on which he desired the especial blessing of God.

He more deeply appreciated the fact that every true Christian man is indeed an element of wholesome life and prosperity to the neighborhood and land in which he dwells.

The boys of the present day were soon to be the men on whom the state must rely for power and permanency.