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   "The United Seas"

    By

    ROBERT W. ROGERS


    [Illustration: Publisher's seal]


    Blessed are the pathfinders who do not fear the
    seas, for they have discovered that the very
    waters are moving toward freedom




    AN INTERPRETATION
    of the opening of the Panama Canal, commemorated
    by the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.




    Copyrighted 1915
    by Robert W. Rogers
    All rights reserved
    in all languages.




INTRODUCTION.

VISION, THE NEED OF THE HOUR


We are living in a day when it would almost seem that the person who
does not value vision is neither helpful nor wise. For it is a day when
the people everywhere need an essential vision in order that they may
gain courage to settle down to constructive effort after the close of
the world war.

In other words there are multitudes who feel that there is a far deeper
significance to the opening of the Panama Canal as commemorated by the
Panama-Pacific International Exposition than what appears on the
surface. There never was an Exposition like it. There never will be
another similar to it in the future. Simply because there seems to be
something written between the lines. It is an Exposition in which it
appears to be natural for the sanest men to be prophetic--one in which
men not only behold the star of faith but also feel that the star is
calling them to move toward something better, even if they have to grope
their way. An obscure vision seems to be in the sky of hosts of