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lights to pass across the hills and sobs to sound in lonely glens. But in these uplifts of the soul its feminity is what becomes dominant. Indeed it would not be difficult to prove that the power of religious art Is always, or almost always, It's dominating note of femininity. Why the perpetual recurrence to the Madonna? Why this persistent choice of such sub jects as St. Catherine? Simply, or large ly, because the artist is half woman, sym bolst, ecstatic, poet, mystic.
 have been unhappy enough to draw the criticism of some who interpret my references to recently prominent religious women as scornful or hostile references. Nothing could lie further from my pur- pose in the light of womanhood in re- ligion, than to belittle the value of woman as mystical teacher. Only one must be sure of his facts. and one must also beware lest he over-rate the prophet ess of today at the expense of her sister in the olden days. It is likely that De- borah was a greater woman than Queen Elizabeth or Joan of Arc and 1t is cer- tain that Joan of Arc was as great as any 18th century woman, religious or other wise. The mother of St. Augustine must have been as rare and fine and far-seeing soul as has ever used human speech. When we read Miss Milmine's biography of a famous modern mystic. we find that she, the foundress of Christian Science" ltgion, than to belittle the value of through stages of defeat, of ignorance. of
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under whom he afterwards read law and was admitted to the bar. Tie views and opinions of his teacher deep ly impressed him, and he became him. self state-rights lawyer and was near being arrested and imprisoned during the war for making speech advocating the right of secession.
 I remember an exhortation from him one night In a religious meeting. It went thus: My friend, you say you want to be a Christian, you pray to be a Christian. Why are you not one? You say you cry to God to make you Christian. Let me tell you a story. was a slave away down south and wanted to be free man. I used to go off in the woods every day to my self and pray, oh Lord. make me a free man: oh Lord! make me freer One dayI thought to myself. look here nig- ger, you fool nigger why don't you pick up your feet and run away and help make yourself free? And I did and was free. Now you sinners know that the Lord has invited you to be Christians, and you stand back and cry to Him to make you Christians. My friends. the Lord does not help any one who will not help himself"
 As my eyes rested upon him the night of the lecture, I thought him the
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ble truths of the spirit. Masculine hu- manity is the creature of experience, of deduction, of logical inference and math- ematical proof. Feminine humanity is never so happy as in paradox; never so raptuously beautiful or convincing as when reaching past the bounds of time and sense to the infinite mystery and glory. In every babe man tends to behold a worm, woman tends to discover "a per- feet little angel.''
 And this tendency persists inspite of all the cumulative effects of cold climate and much culture. Mysticism Is a cold climate product as truly as of the tropics
 By mysticism I mean simply the con- sciousness of the Ineffable, the Unuttera- ble, the Surpassng Reality, and the at tempt to speak of it. I have heard 1t said that much of Wordsworth's poetry is commonplace drivel But it surely was not drivel to Wordsworth. He saw, or thought he saw, a meaning in the word far beyond the commonplace apparent meaning which the average reader sees Origen has been hugely condemned for the doctrine that beneath the apparent mean ing of Scripture lies a deeper, mystical significance. But on that doctrine Swed- enborg founded one of the greatest re- putations in the history of Biblical inter- pretation. In the Highlands of Scotland every rigid Presbyterian has the mysti- cal vein. In Wales, during the recent re- vival, old things took on new meanings, and visions began to abound, strange
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DEMOCRATIC MAINE-By Sauoyard

Indeed, much of the cream of the re- publican party of 1860 came from the dem ocrats. Boutwell, of Massachusetts was democrat; so were Todd and Brough of Ohio. Morton of Indiana was a demo- crat and so were Trumbull and Palmer of Illinois, both of whom returned to the democratic faith and died members of that party. My excellent old friend, yet among the living, l am happy to say, Charles H. Grovesnor remained a dem ocrat until the enactment of the Kansas Nebraska bill in 1854. Champ Clark calls him "Old Figgers.' I believe I improved on that when I characterized him as "Old Tare and Tret.' Perhaps 1t Is not ex- travagant to say that at least 40 per cent of the republican party was made up of democrats. Wilmot himself was a demo- crat, and so was Curtin, the war gov ernor of Pennsylvania. William Cullen Bryant, the great poet, able editor and scholarly publicist, was a democrat of the strictest Jeffersonian sect.
 But Seward was right. It was an ire pressible conflict, and so strong 1t was the chains of party were as impotent to bind our statesmen as the green withes were to securely letter Samson. At the south Toombs, Hill, Stephens and Wise had been whigs and there were numerous others.
 Notu,ffhsta ndinp Maine was demo-
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nerves, to do battle with the subtle phys ical failure and social disaster. Often enough the modern prophecies knows spiritual law of which her sisters by the hundred are dying in misery because they lack the knowledge.
 In the early years of the great move ment we call Christianity. headers and helps were accredited functionaries for the general well-being. Why not now Faith, which Is the consciousness of a living fellowship with the Eternal Spirit, Is as sorely needed in modern America as in ancient Rome or Palestine, Alexan- dria or Ephesus, where Christian Thera- peutae or headers, were widely known. As one studies the conditions which are driving more and more thousands every year to the lunatic asylum or to the sui cide's grave. tho question keeps recurring, Why should not modern mystics be made a supremely practical force of social Christianity?
 Certainly those who do battle with the modern social evils, extravaganza. pre- teniousness and the sins they breed. have the greatest reason to fall back upon high faith whose comfort and courage are white and glistening' gar can whiten them" Instead of the "Im- manuel Movement we may perhaps look with confidence to return of woman to her share in the devotional leadership of the church, in the cultivation of a sane and healing faith q high and holy, wise and practical Christian mysticism.
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cratic state, presidential years, between 1920 and 1856 her two greatest men were whigs-George Evans and William Pitt Fessenden. Of these the late Thomas B.
 Reed held Fessenden to be the greater man, and so he was in character for in that regard Fessenden was all that John c. Calhoun was; but all others with whom I talked put Evans above Fessenden; above Blaine, above Reed But Evans, gigantic as he was in intellect, prodigous as were his powers in debate, burned the candle at both ends and in the mid dle He was incorporate in food and drink. He was a gamester. He was a voluptuary. Harvey Watterson used to tell very interesting story of that in dignation with which President Taylor rejected the advice of Webster to appoint Evans Secretary of the Treasury, though from the whig standpoint Evans was the best fitted man living at that time in the entire republic for finance minister. He was fresh from the great tariff debate with McDuffie, and my excellent old friend now dead, I am sorry to say, Joseph Henry Walker of Massachusetts, an old Israel Putnam of a statesman-old Joe Walker swore, as nearly as a con- sistent Baptist could employ expletive, that there had been no tariff speech in either house of Congress since 1S46, when Evans and McDuffie exhausted the sub
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he was a malicious fighter. 8 hater, the type of man who glories in throwing bad eggs.
 He wished to draw me Into old issues. to open old wounds, and if possible to enlbroil me in my church relations. de- termined then and there to treat with silent contempt any derogatory statement he might make. He talked on and after while requested every man, woman and child present 10 give him pledge by rising to their feet, that they would do all in their power to further and aid the temperance cause. The audience arose in a body. I kept my seat, not willing to pledge myself in any way to such an in- temperate fanatic, such a hater of men. Looking over the audience I saw that not one of my family Gall adults) had given him a pledge: they kept their seats. Just behind them sat in quite indifference tho only other southern person present. He was an M. A. of the University of Vir- ginia.
 The speaker closed his lecture by re- I turning like a maddened bull in a charge. Lifting his arms, he exclaimed: Horace Greeley said of the southern convention | called to consider the question of seces.
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A FALLEN STAR-By Dr. w. E. Evnas

l suppose it can now be found only in some old library. Campbell quotes from Mrs. Siddons' notes of her stage career. She says: On the night preceding that In which was to appear in this part for the first time, I shut myself up, as usual. when all the family had retired and began my study of Lady Macbeth.
 I went on with tolerable compos- ure in the silence of the night Ca night I shall never forget) till I came to the as- sassination scene, when It's horrors rose to degree that made it impossible for me to get further. I snatched up the candle and hurried out of the room in a paroXism of terror. My dress was of silk, and the rustling of 1t, as ascended the stairs to go to bed, seemed to my
 panic-struck fancy like the movement of spectre pursuing me. At last reached
 my chamber where I found my husband l fast asleep. I capped my candlestick l down upon the table without the power to put out the light. and threw myself upon
 the bed without daring to stay to un- dress. At peep of day I rose to resume
 my task But so little did know of my part when I appeared in 1t at night that shame and confusion cured me of pro- crastinating any business for the remain der of my life"
 But her forgetfulness of the lines, her shame and confusion. characterized only
 her early life. She became the queen of tragedy. and as such the English speak ing world knows her, and quite familiar is Reynolds portrait of her, arrayed as queen upon a throne.
 But to return to Miss Menkn. She was che of the most beautiful women in the
 world, and was aware of it. She was familiar with all those little artistic touches of personal ornamentation that
 accentuate beauty, and was mistress in the selection of harmonious colors and tones in fabrics that would blend with her own radiant coloring and splendor or
 womanly beauty. There was nothing mis- matched about her. My own recollection is, that her features were small, her face
 round. her upper lip portrayng to utmost
 perfection the crimson bow of Cupid, her eyes more brilliant than stars and twink ling at every thought. Her hair was either dark brown or black: and yet, 1t comes to me that there was a slight tinge | of Titan auburn in It. Of this am not | sure. She sometimes wore her hair quite short, and twisted into tiny curls all over l her head.
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? COURTESY-By J. C. Hidden, D. D..

sion, that At the first meeting they de- cided that secession would inevitably bring on a war, and there was too much risk for the south, that secession was out of the question. But that night the delegates all got on a drunken carousal and decided on secession, and, my friends, whisky was the cause of drench- ing the sunny south in blood"
 Of course knew that MT. Greeley had never made any such statement, and l certainly didn't believe that he had ever said anything like it; and I am only cit- ing this incident to show to what extent fanaticism and discourtesy will go. When the speaker had finished he looked around as if to say something to me; but I turned and walked from the rostrum. As passed the negro lawyer shook his hand. When I reached my family pew I found certain lady convulsed with laughter. What is the matter?" I inquired. "Ohl am proud of you, for in shaking that negro's hand have never witnessed such a pantomime of content; and the man richly deserved it."
 But assure the reader that the hand shake had no such significance; for ] was only conscious at the moment of a memory of the tranquil. happy old south,
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which no prejudiced northern man could ever understand.
 I was told that the next day the lec- turer was at the city court, which was held on that Monday. and that he took the opportunity to lecture to a crowd present on the evils of inconsistency, giv- ing as an instance. the inconsistency Of the First Baptist church of the city which had called as pastor "a staneh democrat, southern man who had been in the rebel army, and that too when every mals member of the church was a republican, Why" said he, Hast night he refused to speak to me after my lecture" At this the negro lawyer. who was present. ex- claimed: ''He knows a gentleman when he sees him. He spoke to mel" There was roar of laughter from the crowd, and they cheered the negro yociferous- ly, while the lecturer left the house great ly chagrined.
 Real courtesy is the product of rs- fined nature. We may not, no, we can- not all think alike; but we can be polite in our treatment of each other. Whether we have prohibition or local option in Birmingham, let all of her men work together in bonds of fellowship for the cause of temperance and in carrying out its laws, in all things.
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ject. All others, he claimed. were but weak echoes of that titantic contest But then Adam Smith and Jeremy Bentham ''exhausted'' it in the eighteenth cen- tury.
 Evans was to Webster what Choate was--his follower, though he might have been his rival. He was as faithful to his chief as McDuffie was to Calhou>., as Crittendon was to Clay-prior to 1S4S- as Canning to Pitt and Grey to Fox, in the old world, as Connlingwood to Nell son.
 A cultivated New Englander like Sem ator Lodge will perhaps tell you that
 Evans was the one man who overcame
 John Quincy Adams in debate, and there Is no doubt that Adams himself realized that he was worsted. The quarrel was about Webster. Adams had as much mal- ice in his composition as it was needful for man to have
 And if we do but watch the hour, There never yet was human power | Which could evade, If unforgiven, | The patient search and vigil long | Of him who treasures up a wrong.
 Adams believed he was greater man than Webster, or anybody else. | for that matter. and he hoped to get Webster's seat in the Senate when the
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misunderstanding, to the pinnacle on
 which she at last stood, thinking that she
 like all human begins, and to climb ment.
 On the contrary, all this intense devo- tion to things of faith and religion ought to interest every man, to encourage every Christian minister. Certainly the era of
 woman has arrived, and the new mysti- cism is in her hands very mighty weap-
 on indeed She is frequently outside the
 church. She has rebelled, become insur-
 gent from the orthodoxy of the pulpit and of the theological seminary. She Is teach ing her own sisters what the pulpits have
 not taught with much clearness, and this
 is sign not to be spoken against In- telligent women all over the land are, in
 fact, restating to themselves their creed. their gospel. They are holding parlor
 meetings, Schools of Meditation, Lee lures on Silence and Studies concerning Health. This take to be one, not unin- portant, sign of the present theological and spiritual sky. Womar be it said with all reverence, is once more up in the air.
 Now what shall we subscribe to in this
 behalf? Mere criticism and antagonism
 and unsympathetic exposition are of no service. What then?
 It has long seemed clear to their pres-
 ent writer that the modern mystic Is an invaluable servant of the church, not to be ignored or rejected, but to be well comed as a prophecies. Hers has been Q splendid function: to soothe disrupted
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of debate and all the rancor of his venomous heart. It was terrible ar- raignment and to Evans 1t looked like blasphemy. Evans never met his mas ter in such a conflict and his reply was crushing. Adams was the bully of Con- gross and as usual with a bully he had no real friends. and Evans was unmerciful, closing, as I recollect, with this denunciation of his adversary:s q leave him to the pity of his friends and to the contempt of his enemies" Pretty harsh language to fire at an ex- President of the United States.
 Before Evans left the carpet Fes- senden came on, before Fessenden died Blaine appeared. before Blaine retired Reed arrived. and thus for TO years 1929 -99-Maine had a great figure in the national sanhedrim, ofttimes two, and Dingley and Hale were little in- ferior to them.
 I started to write something about Maine's return to the democratic fold last November. In few weeks she will be represented in part by a dem- ocrat in the Senate and in the Sixty second Congress three of her four rep resentatives will be democrats.
 Give us Harmon and Wilson for a ticket and it will sweep Maine in 1912. It would also carry Massachusetts and Connecticut and New Hampshire and Rh ode Island would be almighty doubt full.
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latter became Secretary of State in Harrison's cabinet in 1S41. But Web ster was candidate for President and the boss of Massachusetts. and he knew Adams was not his friend. So he had Rufus Choate elected to the vacancy in the Senate and Adams was not only grievously disappointed but filled with the bitterest resentment.
 The old fellow nursed his rage, wait ing for opportunity for revenge Web ster continued In the state department in the cabinet of Tyler after the death of Harrison. and the country got into a fierce controversy with England over the northwestern boundary question. It was then that "Old Bill" Allen, a dem ocratic senator from Ohio. gave to Young America" the slogan Fifty four Forty or Fight" It has been years since I read it. but I think I am cor rect in saying that 1t was proposed to vote s2,000,000 secret service money to put in the keeping, without con- dition, of the administration for emer- gency purposes. In 1898, just before that inglorious and causeless skirmish with Spain, Mckinley was entrusted with s5o,000.000.
 The proposition emanated from Web ster. Adams and Evans were then nt nibers of the House of Represents l. lives and Adams assailed Webster with all his tremendous intellectual powers
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most grotesquely ugly human being I had ever seen. A pronounced type of the real negro race, large, tall, with skin as black as the human skin could possibly be, lips that protruded, rolled over and were unnaturally red; prom inent cheek bones, and eyes largely showing the whites. HeSwas dressed in full evening dress and wore a heavy wig of jet black hair which fell pro- fusely on his shoulders. little child coming up the nave of the church, caught full view of the negro's face, gave a scream and clung convulsively to his mothers skirts. The mother em- Increasingly jerked him along past the negro and after being seated stif1ed his sobs with her handkerchief
 After I had introduced the lecturer, a tall, broad-shouldered, ill-countenanced man, whose manners impressed me most unfavorably, took my seat on the ros- trum, just back of the speaker He had been told when I was introduced to him that I was a southerner, and he knew that he was in my pulpit. His open ing sentence was That vile traitor and enemy to God and man, Jefferson Davis, was opposed to temperance."- I knew then and there where to place the man
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She was famous al an emotional actress at time when Lucille Western, Mrs. D. F. Bowers and Miss Leo Hudson, and others, were in the public eye; but when at competitive theatres Menkin would draw the largest throng. In Paris she played before the Emperor and the Empress. and before the most brilliant audiences that ever graced the horseshoe balconies of any theatre. Men of letters and of arts crowded to see her, and were en- raptured at her beauty and her acting. All Paris was talking of the Menkin."
 At one time in her life her ambition seemed boundless. She would make triai of any character if the chance were given, no matter how difficult the part, even though it were outside the quality of her chosen emotional characterizations
 Some years ago I read 'The Stage" written by the once famous tragedian, James E. Murdock, in which there is re- lated an incident that illustrates the inn petuosity of Menkins fiery ambition.
 MT. Murdock was playing fin Nashville and needed an actress to play the part of Lady Macbeth. The manager of the the atre had made an engagement with Miss Menkin to impersonate the would-be- queen. This character was altogether be- yond her. She had startled Nashville with her Mazeppa and other like plays. but had never essayed anything like the massive character of Lady Macbeth. In the first rehearsal she disclosed lament able unacquaintance with the part she was to play, and recognizing her failure to portray the ambitious wife of Mac beth, she went to MT. Murdock and said. 1T know nothing of this part, but I must play it, for I have told the manager was up on all the leading characters" Said MT. Murdock, Why you don't even know the words, and have no time to study them" 70, that's of no conse- quence; I can get them in few llours,'' replied the ambitious novice. The actor told her how incompetent she would be if she had no preconceived idea of the mind and heart of Lady Macbeth and her relation to her husband. MT. Murdock read the tragedy to Menkin. He pointed out emphatic words and lines to her, and
 left her; as he did so, he begged her to learn the lines, for she did not know them.
 At night when she appeared on the
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K XAIND became state in 1920, and MI in that year she cast her nine ] ! votes in the electoral college for James Monroe for President of the re- public. That election was practically unanimous. only one vote of the entire 2s2 being thrown against the successful candidate. New Hampshire. that was for Monroe, gave one vote of her eight for John Quincy Adams for sentimental reason-the elector, a Monroe man, holding that only George Washington should have a unanimous vote. In 1920 there was but one political organization. the republican party of Jefferson, very different affair from the republican party of Lincoln.
 In 1924 there were four candidates for President, all claiming to be Jeffersonian republicans-John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William H. Crawford and Henry Clay. Maine voted for Adams. There was no election in the college. but the House of Representatives chose Adams. Clay would have been elected If he had not been the hindmost man of the four in the college and thus barred from entry in the contest in the House. In 1928 Maine gave eight of her votes to Adams and one to Jackson. but from 1882 to 1S52 both in- elusive Maine was democratic every presidential year except 1s4o, when she