Excerpt from The Fortune of the Republic: And Other Addresses Upon the America of to-Day and to-Morrow As for morals, it is enough to say that the surety companies for bank clerks and men of position tell us that for three years the losses through dishonest clerks have been steadily falling, while the Conscience Fund in Wash ington has been steadily rising. In the reli gious world there have never been so many men going to church. And having preached in fac tory towns and large cities, from New York to San Francisco and preached every day in the week, I have found that the people will crowd any theater, any church, any hall, at any hour from nine o'clock in the morning until ten O'clock at night, to hear straight sermons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.