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CLEVELAND 70 STUDY THEOLOGY.

CLEVELAND 70 STUDY THEOLOGY.
Washington, Feb. Al a'0 assared
by one who asserts that lie has it from
tbe best authority. that President
Cleveland intends to devote the &c
mainder Of bis life 10 The study Of
theology. That, says ny informant,
is the explanation Of the removal Of
the President ard bis family to Prince
ton.
81. is all inherited trai; Of the Clevc'
land family 10 dwell! upon things
sacrcd," says this gcnt!eElan, who, j;
may te stated, has been q frequent
and welcome caller a. Inc wi:i:c house,
"ard as SIr. Cleveland Increases il
years, he has developed anew those
serious tendencies which he had quite
early in life: but which were tem-
porarilY interrupted 0y his enhance
into politics, when he WAS iupel;ed to
conduct himself after the manuer oI
politicians Of tic kind which olen be-
gins q greater career by roughiDg in
the ware school,. C!evcl.nd was
never gate in his clement among the
city politicians OF Buffalo, Al it was
necessary he should do as they did
that the greater good Of a:ler years
might be accomplished by his eeva-
ton to the Govcrnorship ard the
Presidedcy.
':During all these, years. when The
young.man Was
living, the nndercurrent Of piety ran
strong within him, and he was at
times tempted to break away from it
all and assume holy orders; as more
than one Of his nearest relatives had
done. But to turn upon ones lively
companion is rot the easiest thing in
life and Cleveland remained with
them, doug es the Buffalo Romans
did, and landed in the Presidency.
+" eff the President has not shown eVi-
dence CT deep religious convictions
while he has been an inhsbi;ant Of the
White House, it as mainly because
he detested all that would be construed
into en- effectat!on Of quality that
few would have believed was natural
or sincere; but I can assure you that
the feeling was the c. ana far stronger
in lis influence upon his daily walk
and conversation that even his most
frequent associates would have be-
lieved. His fishing excursions were
really for the purpose of meditation,
and when he was supposed to be gun
ming for ducks, With no feeling more
exalted tran lore Of such Aport, he
was coming and pondering those alb
struse problems which must lie close
to the soul Of even that man who has
suffered the gro:sest violation Of his
spiritual be;;g by imperative associa-
Iion with the brutal comDanlonshi
that is to be found in its highest de-
il the lowest circles Of po-
iitical life. What direction the
thoughts Of the President took at these
solemn moments no one can tell, and
no orc should attempt 10 discover.
Suffice it to say that it has been hinted
merely in the most delicate way, by
some who were his compa1ions on
these marioc ex :ursions, that fish and
duck were the least Of his ambitions
anu that isolation and meditation,
such as the antique Eeriaits were won't
to seek, were tic grand purposes
which led him so frequently 10 divorce
himself from his official duties at
that were almost critical in
the public work.
"This will furnish a clue 10 the re-
markable decision Of the President
to plant himself al Princeton, the axis
around which revolves the best that is
left of the Cd orthodoxy. There i'll
association with eminent
professors, the knightlv defenders CT
the Calyinist vie Of this life and the
life to come, the ex-Pres;dent will
live the life Of pure and gGdly per-
son, oelVirg ever deeper and deeper
into the mysteries of the phsYchic
forces, bringing to. bear upon them that
grasp Of thought that has marked his
treatment Of so many public questions.
It was this impulse that LED him,
possibly with unuUe aud short-sjghted
zeal, into the movement for arbilra-
ion, and the mistakes which have ap-
9eared in those prospective treaties:
which sive Great Britain such mighty
material aGvan:ages, are ;racoable
clearly to C.eve!aud's growing ten
tency to lock upon tie spiritual SIDE
Of ali thirgs.
81 Go not mean to suggest thal G1r
Cleveland viii formally enter the pull