Sandstad, I present this album containing photographs of
your fellow-citizens. Your well-known and conspicuous liberality has
put you in the pleasant position of being able to number your friends
amongst all classes of society.
And to you, Mr. Vigeland, I have to offer this book of Family
Devotions, printed on vellum and handsomely bound, to grace your study
table. The mellowing influence of time has led you to take an earnest
view of life; your zeal in carrying out your daily duties has, for a
long period of years, been purified and enobled by thoughts of higher
and holier things. (Turns to the crowd.) And now, friends, three cheers
for Mr. Bernick and his fellow-workers! Three cheers for the Pillars of
our Society!
The whole crowd: Bernick! Pillars of Society! Hurrah-hurrah-hurrah!
Lona: I congratulate you, brother-in-law.
(An expectant hush follows.)
Bernick (speaking seriously and slowly): Fellow citizens--your
spokesman said just now that tonight we are standing on the threshold
of a new era. I hope that will prove to be the case. But before that
can come to pass, we must lay fast hold of truth--truth which, till
tonight, has been altogether and in all circumstances a stranger to
this community of ours.
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