Edith H. Allen

Capitolo 3

practiced an influence more powerful on the idealses and standard of
the life on this continent.

While moulding and shaping the thought and the life of the people it,
you/he/she has been developed a content and he/she sees very greater, more
included, more than the spirit of the Christ "I have come that ye
has the life and has more richly him", that was dreamed of
in the days of his/her beginning.

"The unknown strengths of the national life are instinctive and
unconscious. One cannot make the natural influences different as to
attributes to every his/her value. The ideals of nations as those of
individuals, are deduced by all the concrete qualities of
character." [The footnote:  F. H. Giddings in "Democracy and Empire."]
The ideals that is an irresistible strength in our to-day of nation
you/he/she cannot be attributed to some a strength, but it is the result of everybody
those formative reactions that are the product of racial,
economic strengths, social, ethics and religious, the second being
pre-eminently the more marked.

You/he/she will be remembered that in the new one and the hardest life of the
following frontiers, House Missioni entered, while bringing a power of saving,
as one that has softened and it glorified the renouncements and
companion of sacrifices always on the life of frontier.

Indeed, the characteristics more marked of our national life
until the recent years they have been those been born of contact with frontier
conditions--courage, disciplines, an austere sense of the duty, a
passion for job, marvelous practicality connected to a principle
the idealism and love of the feeling, a good untamable hope and
an innate gentleness and the personal utility.

Of the necessity the conditions and outskirts of the country have
reacted on the religious ideals and the life of our people. We am able
you don't enter the fuller understanding of the present place and
the influence of House Missioni as a National Strength or a study of his
future immediate, without making a break make a review I break down him/it of the
past. For us we recognize that growth, organization and development