The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-05-22

Some pressed violets-EnBhsh Hio lets they call them-with the ialns' sweet scent about them that IS hke thought of happy hours gone by-or IS if happy hours to come? Perhaps 1t IS both. The violets recall to me white afternoon spent at Westerleigh, Staten Island, the first part with Florence Morse Kingsley, author of ''The Trans fguration, of Miss sPhiluraV and apostle of the bright creed of joy and reaIi zation, the latter part at the home or Edwin Markham, poet of the Victor Hugo head and far seeing vision. Mrs Kingsley and Edwin Markham are ncighbors and friends. She has dedi- cated to him her recently published book The Resurrection of Miss Cyn- thia." And Mrs. Kingsley gave me the violets.
 A colony of literary and artistic folk had gathered at Westerleigh, Staten Is- land They were of theological per suasions various, none cast iron as to creed. so they united to form a union church and invited Rev. Charles K Kingsley. the fortunate husband of Florence Morse Kingsley, to be their pastor The author of Miss Philura is the teacher of a class of girls in her husbands Sunday School. and she in- structs them always in the doctrine or asking from the Infinite what they de- sire, eApeC~IIB dIWdNo iiNeah bhCy get It. So sure is she of the blossom ing of this root of her faith that she says to her class:
 Girls, be careful what you wish for because you are going to get it."
 Through all Mrs. Kingsley's recent books runs the same golden thread or love and hope inspiring philosophy- thel doctrine of the encircling good |. The supply of all the good we desire IS arOTnd within everyhwere, yet we do not get it. Ever we ask, ever we fail. to believe that we | have. Mrs. Kingsley teaches that we need only to follow literally the Scrip ture injunction and ask for what we | want in faith, believing 1t Is ours, and 1 1t Is sure to manifest on the matcria plane The sad world hitherto has hac | little of this cheering preaching.
 | Speaking of poverty, Mrs. Kingsley says the reason the average individua | is poor is not at all because John D Rockefeller has a billion dollars anC has got that persons snare. The sup ply is infinite. and the average persor has only to demand his share, 'in faitf and believing" and the good will ma teralze according to his faith Al the time he was hauling in his billior dollars. however. he may have got II together. John D Rockefeller had per
 feet confidence in the infinite supply l and in h:s own power to draw from 1t
 Tn a book soon to be published Mrs
 Kingsley is 10 give the world creed for the abolition of poverty.
 I have seen numerous preachers o
 this doctrine Of drawing, in faith he
 lievIng," from the infinite supply ot whatever good you desire, but Mrs Kingsley actually exempliies 1t more nearly than any other individual have
 met. It is not good to grow old Mrs | Kingsley is pretty woman of 46, whC
 looks not a day older than 80. Sh' has large, clear. blue eyes, bright
 blond hair, pink cheeks and dashine
 white teeth, Ii Is good to have har
 mony and beauty in ones home Step
 ping into the Kingsley house. one scent to enter a new plane of existence Idea harmony Is expressed in beauty O.
 color happy faces and gentle. courteous manners, The walls are lined with pic | lures. many of them rare flower pic lures, mostly the work of Mrs. Morse Mrs. Kingsley's mother, an accomplish
 cd artist
 Everybody works in the Kingsley
 hone; nobody drudges. Mrs. Kingslel herself is the busiest of women. Hel
 stories are so cheerful, so hope anC faith giving, that they sell In larg'
 numbers. The money that comes iron them the apostle of the radiant phil
 osophy uses to educate her five chil
 dren. "in faith believing" that more
 will always come as it is needed. Hel one daughter Is student at WellesleN College. where Mrs. Kingsley herself was educated. Two of the sons are uni versitY students. Two younger sons still are in the home of this mother with the girlish face and the heart oi youth.
 Florence Morse seemed plainly borr to write, though her first training was | that of an artist She is a native oi Medina. O. Her mother wrote before | she was horn stories and poems and writes still. The poems written by 1 Florence when she was a girl came un- der her mothers eye, and that made Mrs Morse know her daughter could