The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-07-27

was in state of preparation, and some
but eeded the polishing to be ready to
send out.
A scrap from half finished poem at
tracted the attention of the friend into
whose hand the MSS. came, and it
seemed 30 like bit of himself that we
give few lines of it here, with the ex-
PLANTATION that it is but the first rough
draught of what might, perhaps, under
his careful hand, have developed into a
thing of beauty and worth:
"The people said of him. he knows not love-
Else would he not thus hide away from men,
Absorbed with books and cold philosophy.
Wifeless and childless, without charity,
Though not unkind when pressed with human
needs,
If his philosophy is aught, quoth they.
Why serves 1t not mankind? The sad, old
earth
Groans meath the wrongs, the inhumanities
Which false philosophy and injustice breed;
Others go forth among their fellow-men,
Ease some of pain. give others sympathy,
Prove their philanthropy by loving deeds.
SO spake they. He gave no heed but labored on
In silence through the fieeting years till age
Had lined his face and whiteDed all his hair.
One day the people woke and cried; New life,
New life has come to US! Old things are passed
Away! How strange we saw not our mistake
Saw not that while we labored long and hard
To cleanse the stream the fountain poured
Its baleful waters forth. In vain our TOLL
AlmOstin vain our proud philanthropy;
For every wound we healed, for every life
We saved, our social order struck with death
Or sore affliction thousands of our race.
Now do we see! We must assail the source,
And cleanse the waters at their fountain head;
| Thus thousands save where one was saved be-
fore!
| Whence came to us this larger work for man?
| Bring out the man whose hand untiring wrought
| And sent the leaven forthi 'Tis he, tits he
| whom all the people mocked! IT'S he. Indeed
Who had the largest love of human kind!
| And is he deadl Then cherish ye his name.
And own him Saviour who saved all mankind
One should not criticize the make UP
Of course. of the first draught of poem
but this extract shows, unchanged as il
is from the first writing, how easily he
wrote and the thought that runs
through it is the thought that influenced
this pure unpretending life; that here
we see no more, but which glorified We
may expect to find again.
What is success if it is not found in
the life of the true Christian, who, en-.
deavoring to follow in the steps of the
Master, goss about doing good, modest
and quiet it may be, but Of Christ-li
spirit, and of never wearying unselfish-
ness? Many have been the tributes to
the true worth of Mr.. Baldwin, not only
from those of his own church. but from
friends and classmates over the North.
west who have come to know him, and
| great has been the sorrow over what has
seemed to us his untimely death. We
have been blessed in the years that he
has been with us and whenever we re.
member him there will come to US the
lesson he so faithfully strove to teach,-
love to God and love to man, and though
we long
"For the touch of vanished hand,
And the sound of voice that is stl,''
yet we can be comforted that we had
him so long with us. and that he was
with us and of US. E. H.
MINNEAPoLIs, MINI.