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ments, yet Presidents. legislators and
jurists We're among its congregations from
the first
(Which of our Presidents were Uni
tarians?'
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson. John
Quincy Adams and Milard Fillmore
were all avowedly of our faith. John
Adams home minister in Massachusetts.
the Rev. Lemuel Briant of Quincy. be-
came a Unitarian about 100. and John
Adams attended the church her. after
entering the White House. jefferson
wrote in 1S22: I trust there is not a
young man now in the United States
who will not die a Unitarian John
Quincy Adams also attended the church
here. did Willard Fillmore. Abraham
Lincoln. though not an avowed Unitarian.
once defined his religious belief in these
words, which describe perfectly the
scope of the Unitarian faith of today:
When any church will inscribe over
its altar. as its sole qualification for MEM
bership. the Savior's condensed state
gospel. Thou shalt love the Lord thy
God with all thy heart and with all thy
soul. and with all thy mind. and thy
neighbor as myself" that church will I
=
I'VE have had in our denomination also
ore Vice President, several cabinet OFF,
GERS. including Mr.. Taft's father; thres
justices of the United States Supreme
Court, and besides these more than a
score of governors and nearly a score Of
chief Justices of state supreme courts.
Among notable Unitarans In the United
States Senate have been Webster. Archer.
Anthony, Howe, j. i. Hale, Allison, Ed
ward Everett. Morrill,. w. K. Chandler.
Hoar and Sumner. Rev. Edward Everett
Hale, chaplain Of the United States Sen'
ate. Is a Unitarian minister. Other Cni-
tarians have been the poets Bryant. Long.
fellow, Lowell and Holmes, and such writ.
ers as Emerson, Thoreau. Dickens. Haw-
thorne, Bayard Taylor and Bret Harte.
Joseph Priestley. diScoverer of oxygen;
Peter Cooper, AgaSS z, Sir Isaac Newton
and Mazzini were also of our faith. as
have been such women as Dorothea Dix.
Elizabeth Peabody, Mrs. Humphrey Ward
Susan Il. Anthony, Mary A. LivermOre.
Lucretia Mott. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Margaret Fuller. Helen Hunt Jackson.
Julia Ward Howe and Florence Nightin.
gale. The Battle Hymn Of the Republic
our most popular national air. and Near
er, My God, to Thee were both written
by Enitarians. These names given
in spirit of Boosting. but simply as the
assurance that it is no criminal ofense to
be Unitarian"
-.How came it that you were named
after Grant,
My father was warm partisan ut
Grants. and /. having been born in 81,
was I'D in arms when the general waa
at the zenith Of his glory. My name was
originally Ulysses Baker. bur during tho
first Grant campaign my father declared
that he would add Grant to my name
were the general elected l have down
stairs now large photograph of Grant
which he presented to my father In honor
of that event"
JOHN ELFRETH WATKINS.
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1.-THE cowboys at the canyon elected me
bishop and after they were through
with the dance hall Sundays they clear
ed it early. that might preach to them
there In the beginning one Of them
came up and told me the boys had dele
gated him to ask ME not to preach about
ing9y.
what all OF the other parsons that
have been among US have harped on
year in and year out and what always
puts a cowboy down in the dumps
And what is it?' asked.
The story Of the prodigal son.
"Well. avoided the prodigal son.
preached them a creed they had never
heard be fore. and each showed his interest
by dropping chunk in the collection
lars spent upon the nucleus of library
for their camp. They wouldn't take
cent from me for my food nor l a cent
from them for my preaching. l dedicated
the first hotel there-a big log house.
which they called the Log Inn The
only music we could get for those cere-
monies was one guitar. I dedicated the
hotel. to the infinite spirit of beauty and
of power who is immeasurably above all
of his works. To the enlargement Of
vision of all who shall visit here. To the
refreshment and inspiration of all who.
weary with the worlds dullness and tired
of lfe's monotony shall seek a shelter
here While l was at Pomona my father
died and I came east, taking church at
Ithaca that ] might be near my mother.
l came from Ithaca here. eight years ago.
I'VE have had a church here since 1921,
and the old bell, cast by the revolution
airy hero, Paul Revere. in 1892. now tolls
in the new church The old church, later
the Police Court, was indeed a test of the
Unitarian faith in the early times. It
was neither popular nor of fine appoint
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VAIN CHARITY.

tSIF charity said Health Commissioners
1 Darlington of New York. were really
as fine and serviceable as we incline to
think it is, disease would almost disap-
pear"
He shook his head and smiled
TOO much of our charity" he said
resembles that of the Norwalk woman,
A tramp. on a gray and freez ng day.
presented himself at her back door.
Madam he sa d. my feet are nearly
froZe.' He pointed to his shoes. a tangie
of string and strips OF leather and holes,
through which his bare feet showed
Have you got an old pair of boots you
could give me, madam
The woman. after rummaGing in her
closet returned to the tramp and said
feelingly:
Poor fellow, / know you must suffer
terribly without shoes this bitter weather.
l have none to fit you, but here Is a pair
of my late husbands skates you csA
have"
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Stacle. Say the chroniclers of small talk
that at least five young matrons are
taking note of Mrs Taft's procedure with
a view of presidential conventions of the
future. Mrs. James r. Garfield is one,
Mrs. Herbert Parsons is another, and GER
tainly Mrs. Beverdee a third who are
molding social popularity into strong po-
litical influence for the future greatness
of their Husbands.
Mrs. Beveridge is not one of the leaders
who see possibility Of salon in Wash
ington. But she has excellent ideas about
something which would fit into the Amer
lean life of today and which would place
tedious social functions OF the lofty plane
of pure patriotism.
Il have listened to many structures on
the frivolity of American society here and
abroad said Mrs. Beveridge but gem
orally the criticism emanates from those
who are not in a position TO judge intelli-
gently. There may be purely frivolous
society, and I have no reason to doubt the
accuracy of certain publiciStS. but as a
rule the woman who gives much time to
the amenities Is not governed by mere
personal ambition to rule but 10 promote
some political patriotic or benevolent
project dear to her heart. In the latter
category may he counted the functions
winch make up a winter III " Wishing on
As for the political salon about which
one hears SO much. certainly those who
mingle In casual way in Washington do
not deny that there are salons in Il
modern and practical sense and that they
are powers III the world OF affairs. Con-
d'tions now and when the and historic
queens OF society reigned in Paris and
London are SO different that there is
no level OF comparison. Likewita in
Washington the situation is so complex
that no one man or woman short OF the
President and his wife. II they chose to
go in for such honors. could interest the
great mass of society. There are many
little circles of influence and interest
and those who talk entertainingly about
their particular theme and put forth new
ideas gather their coterie and can main
tain their popularity against all rivals.
x *
Though the contrary is the general
belief ! find that American women a
rule are excellent politicians. They I'M
derstand every detail where their inter
ests are involved and they can give ex-
cellent advice on occasion. English
women are fond of drawing the compari
son between their influence and the small
part which their American cousins play
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did she admire her native land and its
masculine products. Just before leaving
Berlin to spend the winter in Washing
ton. an eventful one for her. in that she
met Senator BeVeridge for the first time.
she declared To Il friend that she was
tired of being an eXpatriated American.
Il can imagine no more dreary lot.
she said. than that of passing your life
In foreign country with nothing to oc-
cupy you except the social functions and
cominSs and goings of celebrities.
want To take part in the national life, to
get some role of my own, even small
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18th and /. streets northwest, may be
used as n -trage 10 the man and his
faith
The minister sat at a fiat-top desk, with
a snowy white cat mapping upon chair
at lis right hand. He is clean-cut,
clean-shaven man with black hair turning
to an iron gray. broad expansive brow.
large, brown eyes which flashed inquisi-
lively when question was asked him, but
which looked dreamily ont of the WIN
dow while he answered. His erect. spare
figure bespoke the man of energy. Now
and then he was called from the room and
J would hear him whistGng a merry air
as he returned up the stairs.
Upon the desk lay open before me a
prospectus of the seventh season of this
happy mans lectures, and on title in par
ticular attracted my attention, The Cos
pei of Laughter" Beneath this title was
printed in small type:
To shorten the face is to lengthen the
life
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politically ,ncre are signs of preparedness
for the fray. Especially is THIS true
among the young statesmen, for whom
the Rooseveltian era has brought honors
at the council table as well the posi-
BILE honors OF war. Pre-em.nent among
the Youthful matrons who preside over
homes conspicuous in the national consid-
Grafton at present and with interesting
potential suggestion, is Mrs. Albert J..
Iieveridrc, wife Of the senior senator from
Indiana. Mrs Beveridge was VI SIS kath-
crime Eddy Of ChCago. and her wedding
is less than one year and half removed
from the present date. Yet In these
eighteen months she has made such head
way in the donna. n OF the political salon
that all heights seem possible for her to
climb.
1t is gracefully conceded that the exam
pie of Mrs. william Howard Taft Is the
inspiration Of the ambitious young matron
who wishes to gu de her al bark into
the safe haven of the highest official
honor. Mrs. Taft has acknowledged that
IL was she and not her husband who
loneed for the White House tempo
Sary domicile. Her entire career has been
Shaped that she might prove a valuable
ally and never an REMEMBRANCE or an OBJ
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THIS Young Matron, For
/ merly Miss Katherine
Eddy of Chicago, Is a Promi-
nent Social Leader in Official
dom-A Handsome Hostess
of Many Accomplishments
and With Much Experience
in the Amenities That Her
Position Demands.
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Copyright. 1905 by Johu Elfreth watkins.)

F Mr.. Taft's per-
sonal creed l know
nothing, but his
d e ply religious
nature is to me a
sufficient guarantee
Of his faith"
These words from
Mr.. Taft's pastor,
the Rev. Ulysses G.
Il. Pierce Of All
Souls c h u r c h FL,
at the corner Of
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ius instead of Calvin. Calvin maintained
that man cannot act freely for himself
but was strictly under the sovereignty Of
the Divine will. Arminius, q Dutch the
should always be obedient to the ra-
tional spirit that nature should be the
test in regard to all which affects human
conduct and that the critical spirit ought
to be applied to dogma and the Bible.
l mention this in connection with my
grandfather because after the reforma-
ton Arminian!sm was the first notable
step toward Unitarianism.
Il used to sit In the pulpit alongside
my grandfather when small child. He
put me there that he might keep his eye
on me. Although born in Providence and
making my home there with my father,
who was a merchant. 7 spent much time
up in Barneyville. Often I was awakened
me and praying. while I was in bed.
He lived to the age of nearly ninety and
preached for forty-five years in that one
church. where I also preached my first
sermon 5. mon And l., as grew Older he saw to
Baptist College. Hillsdale, Mich.
X *
To help pay my expenses at Hillsdale
7 was for some time associate editor Of
the Leader. a progressive country weekly.
1 had charge Of the sports and general
news, had to drum up subscriptions at the
county fairs and write editorials. 1 was
also in county politics. Thus I was en-
gagged from nineteen to twenty-four.
II also wrote syndicate articles Tor the
daily papers under the pseudonym Frank
Arnot.' There was no typewriter in Hills
dale in those days and / wrote out q
dozen copies OF each syndicate article in
long hand. Those articles I later used
as lectures. and one describing a tramp
which ] made through Kentucky and the
Mammoth Cave is still q part of my regu-
lar lecture course. I used it only last
week..
"It has been said that you went to Har-
ward and that after reading Huxley and
Darwin there you altered your religious
views to conform to the teachings OF
science
THAT is not exactly true. When 1 lef.
Hillsdale with my sheepskn knew pretty
we'll that l could never again preach from
a Baptist pulpit. Newspaper work is
broadening and Hillsdale was a live little
town. We had an excellent lecture course
there and after reporting all Of the lee
lures for the Leader, ! used to interview
the lecturers, who included such men as
Beecher. Talmage, Russell Conwell, DIR.
p. S. Henson and George KEENAN,. All
sorts of geniuseS met at the Leader Of
flee and threshed out the problems of
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centers was Kansas. Various church pa
perS warned their readers to vote against
him. Here is a sample of such yellow
church journalism dedicated to Christ. II
is entitled The Emptiness of Unitarian
ism; refers to my 'nondescript flock COM
plains that in our creed there is nothing
of sin and of atonement for SIM or of
spiritual DEATH and ridicules me because
our congregation pays the salary OF a
trained nurse who visits the poor. black
and white, in one section of our city and
teaches them how to care for their sick.
But it Is tribute to the age in which we
live that all of this propaganda ended in
q ffaSCO.'
How did you come to enter the min
istry?'
81 was set apart for the ministry. when
small tot. by my grandfather. the Rev.
Waterman Pierce of Barneyville Mass.
who was one of the founders of the Free
Baptists.' The Baptists proper then fol-
lowed Calvin'S teaching of predeStinatiOn
and they held only close communion al
lowing only members of their church to
partake of communion therein. My
grandfather took the ground that com
munion was not his table. but the Lords.
rs he expressed it, and he invited all who
would to take It, And it may be an In
communion, always invite members Of
this church. Of sister churches and of no
church. My grandfather also formu-
lated d predestination theory of his own.
holding that we were predeStined to good
and never to eviP-that we We're doomed
to be happy as l often heard him eX-
press it. He was a follower of Armin
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+ one may judge
from surface ind!-
cations. the second
session of the Six
tieth Congress Will
he one of the most
entertaining meet
ingS which the de-
Lucrative and legis-
latiVe divisions or
the government have
held i'll q score OF
wears. Socially and
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and prospective, Mrs. Beveridge may well
feel justified in pinnins her chariot to q
star.
Copyright. 1908, by Margaret 3. Down.
ing.D
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in campaigns. The entire system is diff
ferent and one might as we'll draw the
parallel between the way Britisher
seeks honors in the house OF commons
and the procedure of tie American who
runs for Congress. The great majority
Of American women do not desire to
make campaign speeches. They are con-
tent to permit their husbands or those
specially trained III the art of political
speechmaking to manage the practical
part of electioneering. Every nation,
just as every individual woman. must
judge of the eXpediency of such measures.
But | think that in the drawing room and
in the home generally il is the part of
woman to place politics on the high
ground of patriotism and To eliminate
sord'd and unwor,ay considerations"
Mrs. Beverage is an exceedingly clever
woman. whose training began young and
in foreign courts. Her marriage to Sena-
tor BcYeridge was IA tremendous surprise
to all but Il chosen circle of friends. For
the senator had entered the lists against
the very class of society to which Ills
future wife belonged by choice and en-
Vironment, the idle rich. 1t was only a
few months before his betrothal TO the
brilliant young belle of Chicago was an
nounced that he had written some scath-
ing criticisms of the gilded circle. There
are whispers that quite Il lively tilt de-
veloped between himself and Mrs. Levi
T. Letter who took him to task for his
structures after the And thou. too,
Brutus," manner. Though il was known.
that the Indiana statesman admired Miss
Eddy and had paid her devoted court it
was believed that what the phrasemakers
call solidarity OF class would keep her
from accepting him. But Miss Eddy had
ideas OF her own and one was that pa
triotism and ambition to rule for the sake
of the lofty ideals which govern true
patriotism are to be placed above caste
prejudice.
There is a story which IS current among
the friends of Mrs. Beveridge which re-
lates to her innate love of her own coun-
try. AS the sister OF Spencer Eddy,
one OF the younger corps Of diplomatists.
she received tlattering attention in Lon
don, Berlin and Vienna. She might even
have aspired to rule in Mayfair II she
had listened to the addresses of certain
young British peer. She might have be-
come one of the inner circle at Berlin
and Potsdam il she had been inclined to
FAVOR Teutonic Mars who held high
rank in the emperors guards. But Miss
Eddy again and again declared that she
had seen the best which the older coun-
tries c0eld offer and had met their repre-
sentative men and that more and more
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life and the topics Of the times. Ii was
here at Hillsdale and not at Harvard that
l read Huxley and Darwin. as well as
Spencer. One Of my classmates there also
read them and We discussed them togeth-
er. He is now a Unitarian minister in
Chicago. After returning east 1 took a
postgraduate course at Harvard Div nifty
School, which you know is undenomina-
tional. And finishing there I decided to
go west.
THE danger was of inertia, / knew ::
and ! made up my mind that L would not
settle east Of the Mississippi. So 1 got
married and went to DEBORAH, Iowa, up
in the Norwegian region. a fearfully cold
place. Here I took my first Unitarian
Church. with congregation composed Of
people Of all shades Of belief.
Next I went TO Pomona, Cal, where
had three churches six miles apart in a
triangle. Each Sunday I had a drive Of
eighteen miles, preaching first at II am,
then at pm. and finally at pm, re-
turning home at II pm. Work among
my people took me over the same route
week days, and I had plenty to do those
years. Summers I camped in Arizona, in
the Grand Canyon Of the Colorado. and
made study OF that paradise. with its
wealth Of nature and prehistoric ruins.
had my camera with me-have always
been a camera fiend. I described this re-
gion in more syndicate articles and later
in lectures.
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one" 1t is further said that Miss Eddy
declared that if she married 1t would be
some capable American, one whose voice
was heard in the councils. who count d
for something in the history of his time
That failing to find this ideal she would
declare for the bachelor existence. so
popular now among rich young women
who fail to meet their affinity. She was
eloquent against marrying just to be the
head of a fashionable home and without
proper affection and cOngenial tastes.
That she had satisfied herself that the
eloquent young statesman from Indiana
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God has done is to make a man. In so
far as the Bible is a record of what man
has imagined, hoped for. known. the
Bible becomes a part of the never-ending
revelation of God. Art is what man
imagines, and, therefore. art is revela-
ton Of God. Literature is what man
hopes for. and, therefore, literature is a
revelation of God. Science is what man
knows. and. therefore. scfence is a revela-
ton Of God. So revelation began when
man came to self-consciousness. and 1t
will continue so long as there is in man
that which aspires to what is God-like.'
What sort Of teachings from your pull
pit might result in a heresy trial?''
mo Unitarian minister can be tried for
heresy for the simple reason that there
is no tribunal before which he could be
tried. We believe In the right. duty and
responsibility of free speech. but that. as
in civil law, If one of our ministers
abuses this freedom Of speech he is re-
sponsible to his congregation. Each OF
our churches is absolutely Independent.
choosing and dismissing its own min sters
as it pays it's own bills. Our conferences
are simply advisory bodies. discussing
outside missions and other cooperative
work.
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"Did you encounter any organized at
tempt to defeat Mr.. Taft because Of his
religious views"
Yes. Ministers of various organiZa-
tons united to defeat him and at
various ministers assemblies the question
of his defeat was brought up, while reso-
lutions to that effect We're passed. That
movement was most strenuous in the mid
die west, and one of the most active
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met every requirement is the logical con-
clusion. She met Senator Beveridge in
December of 1906, and the marriage oc-
CURED in Berlin August s, 1907.
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ments, yet Presidents. legislators and
jurists We're among its congregations from
the first.