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March with a firm step in that path ; believe in a good God and do good . '' The peroration was beautifully simple , thrilling the vast throng with a sudden deeper conviction of the speaker 's earnestness : '' _ Charity ! _ Oh , of all the flowers that have swung their golden censers in the parterre of the human heart , none so rich , so rare as this one flower of charity . Other flowers there may be that yield as rich perfume , but they must be crushed before their fragrance becomes perceptible ; but _ this _ flower at early morn , at burning noon and when the dew of eve is on the flowers , has coursed its way down the garden walk , out through the deep , dark dell , over the burning plain , and up the mountain side -- _ up _ , ever UP it rises into the beautiful blue -- up along the cloudy corridors of the day , up along the misty pathway to the skies till it touches the beautiful shore and mingles with the breath of angels . '' Hardly was there a dissenting voice in all St. Antipas that Sabbath upon the proposal that this powerful young preacher be called to its pulpit . The few who warily suggested that he might be too visionary , not sufficiently in touch with the present day , were quieted the following Sabbath by a very different sermon on certain flaws in the fashionable drama . The one and only possible immorality in this world , contended the speaker , was untruth .