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feminism, religion cannot get along
without regard to the feminine powers
and feelings of the soul. Neither must
we forget that these feelings are by
no means monopolized by women They
are, let us say. the negative. the recep-
tive, the fractional quality in sman-
kind, while thought, science, industrial
and other organization of power are
the positive and masculine side Mr.
More does well to quote from a letter
of Newmans to his sister concerning
certain scenery which had impressed
him:
Il wish it were possible for words
to put down those indefinite. vague
and withal subtle feelings which quite
pierce the soul and make 1t sick
What veil and curtain this world of
sense Isl Beautiful, but still a veil .
We have all had such feelings, and
they spring from the woman in us.
the yearning for sympathy, the spiritual
homesickness, which is so powerful an
ally of the religious life in all its
manifestations, except perhaps in that
Protestant dissent which Is portrayed
by Mark Rutherford and which has so
many curious analogues in this coun-
try. In the case of Newman his con-
fessions serve to show why he also felt
that impulse which forms the chief in
terest of his career. He was sensitive.
But such feelings as her describes were
all the keener In Newman because he
knew their power also in so many as
sociates, the best minds of his world
keble, Hurrell Froude Pusey and the
rest. 1t was this impulse that both
attracted him to and repelled him from
Rome this that made the subtle charm
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HISTORY-THE CANOE FIGHT-By B.

and crushed his skull Soon the boat was
we'll in the current, and was moving down
stream.
Being on the side of the river opposite
that on which his boats were, Dale called
across the river to his men to bring the
boats. Six sprang into boat and started
toward Dale. but when they got near
enough to see that the canoe was filled
with savages lying flat. they sped back.
Just below was a free negro named
Caesar. with boat and gun, and Dale
shouted to him to bring his boat, and
when the negro declined Dale yelled to
him that unless he should. come at once.
he would cross the river and kill him.
when Caesar crossed a hundred yards
below the canoe of the Indians. Dale and
two OF his men sprang into it, and Caesar
was ordered TO head Off the boat of the
Indians
So soon as the boats touched Dale
sprang up and placing one of his feet in
each boat. the nearest warrior leveled his
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do aot mean that Newman ever repent
ed the step, nor DO I mean that his
real greatness was ignored by his new
associates. But what seems clear is
that he was of little Value to his new
environment, Roman Catholic priest.
and afterward q Roman Catholic prince
in his native England. Mr.. More does
not fail to touch this chord of his sub
ject, but he hardly explains the cause
of the apparent neglect OF Newman $
powers The truth seems to be that II
was the dramatic fact of the conversion
Itself that was of a certain value TO the
Catholic propaganda, but that the very
genius of spiritual fecundity which dis
tinguished Newman made him a diff
ficult. not to say dangerous. apostle or
servant of that august and ancient sys-
tenn to which he had now sworn alle-
glance The church feared his fem
inism, his ambition that was so subtIy
a self-satisfying thing
Protestants will always feel that New
man made quite unnecessary mistake
Catholics will as naturally see that he
took the one inevitable step. And both
Protestants and Catholics argue about IT
in q circle which begins and ends with
the necessity of each soul discovering
the true authority. The one finds au-
thority in book, the other in body
in which tradition is vested and kept alive
But there is a new Professionalism which
refuses to consider that the ultimate
authority is either in the book or body
either in Bible or church, either In writ
ten or spoken tradition One of the great
est expositors of the new Professionalism
was Alexander Balmain Bruce and with
him agree practically all modernized Prof.
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CARDINAL NEWMAN-By George Eaves, D. D.

with its rationalizing and its pragmatism,
a reaction towards the medieval and
monastic IDEAL towards contemplation,
symbolism, mystical aloofness from the
hurly-burly and the Philistinism even of
those who did not imagine it possible
that they themselves came from Askelon.
Now instead of calling the oxford move
ment an example of romanticism, l think
it is less confusing and more illuminat-
ing to call 1t an example of the external
recurrence of feminism Insofar as the
Oxford movement swept aside in the
Church of England the unbeautiful, un-
imaginative churehmanship of the early
nineteenth century, as well as the Prot
estant revival of the Wesleys and even
the ignorant suspicion of the masses of
the English people as regards all things
different from what they are accustomed
to, that movement was an artistic awak-
ening overdue when it arrived On the
other hand, its attitude to historical and
scientific crteria was the old revolt of
feeling against fact. the jealous cherish
ing of religion as something imperiled
by too free use of knowledge and In
vestigation, an almost angry protest
against the material world denial that
any other existence counts but God and
the human soul. That Is to say emotion
not knowledge came to be supreme, and
it is not always certain that such emo
ton produces ethical majesty. Indeed
the bane of all religious emotonalsm is
that it tends to become an end in itself
so that ethicaily there is little to choose
between its most refined expressions and
those dreadful exhibitions of it. wherein
the subjects scream, or dance, fall
in cataleptie exhaustion.
Now, as said in a recent paper on
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PEELED to read the hymns OF F'abeT.
Instead of intellect there IS feeling.
feeling expressed In excellent meter.
but feeling of the most super feminine
sort. as though the Eternal could be
most honored by sighs and groans and
vague aspirations after the unavail-
able. They resent the lachrymose and
the pre-Raphaelite languishment which
he revels In. Hanging his walls with
crusaders trophies and teaching a sort
OF martyr heroism. he somehow always
seems to be looking in the glass to
watch the mournful ecstacy of his pose.
Not for a moment do l liken New
man to Faber After all Is said, the
intellectual life Is vastly served by
Newmans sermons. And yet it must be
confessed that the accession of both
men to the same movement was more
due to their fundamental likeness than
to their apparent dissimilarity. And
this in which they were alike was pre-
cisely the feministic. or as Mr.. More
calls it, the romantic quality as CON
trasted with the masculine. or creative
Newman's hopes were never fulfilled
on the side of his ambition 20 accom-
plish something for England by his
conversion TO Rome. Instead OF his be-
ing encouraged to great undertak ings
the authorities of the church preferred
to keep him somewhat in the shadow
of inactivity He had lost the ear of
England when he ceased to preach at
St Mary's and the signs are plentiful
that he mourned the loss of prestige
1t may almost be said that neither
Rome nor England gained by The most
unique religious event in the history of
England in the nineteenth century
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HHE raging storms of debate that
have surged around the name of
= John Henry Newman are in man.
ner photographed by the excellent lens
and sensitive plate of Mr.. More In his
second essay on "The Drift of Romantic
cism." At first sight it is no less than
shocking to find Newmans name at the
head of a paper in juxtaposition with
that of the author of Vathek. But Mr..
More shows sufficientreason for grouping
churchman and egoistic writer of romance
with critics like Walter Pater. philos-
ophers like Nietzsehe, and scientific ex-
postors like Huxley, as he does, in varied
illustration of the movements of the mod
ern romantic spirit.
Mr.. More pays tribute to oxford, as
the logical source of the movement which
came to bear the name of that ancient
city. He shows how oxford has always
produced men who incarnated the ideal
of the secluded, contemplative life amid
the somewhat ruthless and practical Eng
lish people. and he shows how this ideal
has from the first linked itself with some
thing not so good, a sort of self-exalta-
tion and indignation against society
that does not readily honor its prophets.
Back in the fourteenth century Richard
isoIle, an early Oxford man. wrote much
about the contemplative love of God. and
yet he cries out to heaven to remove
MN from community of fools and world
hngs among whom he languished i'm un-
regarded uselessness." Richard Role.
type of the oxford student, has been
called the father of English literature
So the oxford movement was at heart
fierce reaction from the modern spirit,
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gun at him. but it flashed. Quickly club
bing it, he dealt blow at Dale's head,
he lodged. and shivered the head Of the
Indian with his gun. Austill sprang up.
but was knocked down BY an Indian, who
in moment more would have killed him.
but Dale broke his gun across the war
rior's head. Austill grasped the barrel.
and renewed the onset. Dale being with
out a gun. Caesar handed to him his gun
with bayonet attached The boats
drifting apart Dale leaped into the In
dian boat alone. while the other bore
away. Smith fired and wounded the In
dian nearest Dale. who was now standing
like monument IN the boat of the In
dians, two of whom lay dead at his feet.
At his back The wounded savage snapped
his gun at Dale several times. while four
powerful warriors were in front. Too
close to shoot, the foremost one dealt a
blow with his gun at Dale, who parried
it with his gun, and then drove the bay
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of his sermons: for 1t pervades his
whole style, and 1t was his style that
won him his position as a preacher
and leader. Finally it was the very
predominance of this sensitiveness that
made against the usefulness of Newman
to the Roman Catholic church in Eng
land, after his conversion to that com
munion. suppose every student of
Newman's life has felt subtle har-
mony and unity in it all. until the
flame burned out in old age. Always
the unifying sense was what may be
called the logic of the ineXpressible,
the confession of what is normal IN
mankind, but too seldom assumed by
preachers, the awareness of veil
created by the world of sense. New
man, the preacher, stood consciously,
and made his hearers stand, In the
presence of God Newman, the thinker,
was feeling his way to something, he
knew not what, in which his soul
could rest. as in the presence of the
Divine order and beauty, veritable and
indubitable.
Let anyone who objects to this mode
of approach to our great religious
genius and to the oxford movement it.
self, study the hymns of Frederick w
Faber, in whom the central emotional
ism of that movement gets its least
controlled expression. / forbear to
quote them because all religious ut
terance is sacred to someone, and he
feels wounded when the words of it
are quoted except in worship. But lit
may in general be said that there are
millions of quite normal and whole
some minds to whom no punishment
could be half so terrible as to be com
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ROMANCE OF ALABAMA T

in contention with the Indians, but on
the water the Indians generally exeelled.
The bloody massacre at Fort Minis had
created a spirit of reeklessness on the
part of the whites. The warfare was
turned into a species of hunting expedi-
tion and the regious were secured as
though in search of wild beasts. The
massacre had put fire into the bones of
the whites, and prolonged anger was
the result. Thereafter they never waited
for an Indian advance, they simply wished
to know where the savages could be
found. The Indians made no use of the
fertile soils save for hunting, and when
the whites sought to till them and turn
them to practical use, seeking meanwhile
to preserve peaceful relations with the
red men, the Indians sought their de-
struction. The morality of the question
of depriving the Indian of his possess
sions turned on this point, and not on
that of deliberate robbery, as is so often
contended. The white settlers sought to
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Our Unmarried Million

pertinent suggestion is made by a
New York conservation commissioner. u.
y. Kittenhouse. when he asks: why are
there more than 100000 unmarried men
ana women IN the United States?s
Never, he says, has a nation been
so prosperous or so within reach OF the
comforts ana luxuries OF life. There is
something wrong. What is it?''
And he goes on to show that. allowing
for the aged and the mentally and physic-
ally unfit, there are 100000 single men
capable OF assuming the responsibilities
Of marriage, most of whom lack the cour-
age to take them up. says the New York
American
Ihey are willing 20 spend their incomes
on themselves, and they are wiling to no
extrayaSant but always for themselves.
While this enormous army OF self salts
lied males is marching or its satisfied
way, an army OF women OF equal mum,
oers is forced to work for the necessities
Of life
Properly enough Mr. Rittenhouse ~
marks There is a demand to place re-
strfctions around marriage TO prevent the
immortality, crime and degeneracy which
follow the production of the unfit But
what of the decline in the reproduction
OF the fit? Why should not our highly
developed civilization devise some means
to encourage our 100000 fit but un-
married to assume their natural and
proper places In the great scheme OF hu-
manitye'
4 II may require courage to marry. but 1t
also develops courage What our civil
ization needs,' SAYS Mr.. Rittenhouss rs
not larger families, but more and better
families
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and, essentially bad. The first couplet
of the following lines he will not ac-
cept, but believes the second:
" 'rs very good world that we live in.
To eat, to drink and to spend in;
But to beg or to borrow or get a man S
own,
It's the very worst world that ever was
known"
The question is asked, also, by the
healthy and vigorous, the thrifty and
prosperous. Everybody is in the vay
unless they are contributing to the
worlds material success. There is no
place for the parasite. Why does he
live? He cannot take care of himself.
and others are too busy to care for him.
There is another class of people to
whom the question often comes. They
have loving sympathy for the afflicted
ones, and long to understand WHY tbA
heavy chains of suffering hold them so
long in bitter bondage They look upon
the afflicted one through their tears. and
mark that the years coming and going
bring no promise of better conditions and
ask: Is the world controlled by a good
God? Has He any love for His crea-
lures? Does He care whether or not men
suffer? If so, why does this sufferer
drag through the weary years? Why
cannot he die and be at rest? Thus does
loving interest address it's inquiries to
the painful problem.
Now. | do not suppose that anyone
knows all the reasons why the persons in
question are permitted to live: but one
rational reason may be advanced,
think, that should awaken patience and
faith in the human heart when contem-
plating the misfortunes of the deformed.
the crippled, the mentally defective and
the hopelessly helpless.
In a certain home there were two
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cared for. Not for themselves simply;
for those who cared for the poor, were
more blessed thereby than were their
beneficiaries
Let the unfortunate disappear. Let
the orphanages. the asylums, the re-
treats for the prosecuted, the refugees
for the outeasts. the homes for the
homeless, and the hospitals for the
stricken-let them all be forever re-
moved from our sight. Get rid OF the
fatherless, the homeless, the hopeless
ly diseased, the insane! and while in
way there will be a saving of the
money which is now bestowed upon
efforts to ameliorate the condition of
these unfortunates, yet you VIII have
a pauper world. cold and heartless,
shivering in the rags of it's own un-
protecting selfishness, stranger to
the highest and best emotions and
principles of life
You will have world with gold in it's
hand but without the kiss of love upon
its brow; and self will be the object of
worship, to the blight of the soul and to
all that it's worth while in human ma
ture. The best things would vanish. The
gentle grace of pity would die There
would be no place for mercy. There
would be no appeal of the poor, and the
streams of charity that have refreshed
parched souls in the drouth of SELFISH
ness would cease to flow and man >
heart would become dry as summer dust!
Seeing that human nature is what 1t
is, abnormal 1t is granted and seeing
that social conditions are what they are,
it follows that the well favored need the
unfortunate quite as much as the un-
fortunate need them.
If none were sick and none were sad,
What service could we render?
| think it we were always glad
We hardly could be tender
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While on scouting expedition along
the banks of the Alabama. Dale dscov-
cred a canoe descending the stream with
Ii stalwart warriors. Seeing that they
were making for dense canebral<e, Dale
ordered his men to follow him quickly
and seven reached the canebrake just as
the savages were about to land. Dale
and his men opened fire on them. but
overshot them, when two of the Indians
sprang into the water AS they rose,
Dale killed one and Smith the other. The
remaining nine began to back the boat
so as to reach the current, and escape,
three using the oars, while the others lay
flat on the bottom of the boat 1t seems
that Neatherford was within hailing dis
tance for one of the warriors shouted
to him to come 10 their aid. In order
to facilitate the movement of the boat one
of the warriors had jumped overheard.
and was directing it toward the current.
ana as he stood breast deep in the water.
he shouted to Dale in derision to shoot,
meanwhile barring his bosom. Dale fired
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little boys. One was strong aud well
the other was a fragile little cripple
who looked as If his feeble life might
expire at any moment. But in his
eighth year the boy of vigorous body
was smitten with fever and little
grave was dug. But the fral child
lived on and lives today Through the
years has been heard the snap and
clank of the steel braces on the lit
| tie limbs that shall never walk AS one
looks down upon this little cripple and
| then glances up to the portrait of the
physically perfect child that was taken
from this beautiful home by death, the
question forces itself to the mind: Why
was this poor little cripple left, and
the other taken?
He was permitted to live to be taken
care Of left that he might have years
of sympathy and love poured into-shis
little life his very helplessness being
an appeal to those around him to per-
nit the very best things in their ma
ture to live, to grow and to express
themselves in gentle ministrations In
his home the cripple is called "the lit
tie lame prince" and while his prince
ly influence is all unknown to MIN, vet
through the years it has been mar
yeolus. 1t Is felt as soon as one ent-
ers the home. Gentleness, considera-
tion, sympathy. love-these are the
dominant elements in the atmosphere
of the homei
Apply this illustration universally.
The afflicted are permitted to live to
be taken care of. The unfortunate are
) the wards of the fortunate. 1t was de-
clared by the Almighty long ages ago
to His chosen people, "The poor shall
never cease out of your land" The for
tunate. the successful, We're to care
for them; and the poor We're always
to be in the land that they might be
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TO HEART TALKS-By James A. Edgerton

When the government collects s344,-
424, 453 In one year as the revenue derived
from the sale of Intoxicating liquors, to-
bacco and playing cards, is everything
we'll with America?
The government needs money for the
necessary expenses of government The
internal revenue tax helps to support the
government. But it may be said that
In the end the millions collected by the
government from such sources cost the
people many, many millions more than
they bring in
How much do you pay?
or course you know that every time
you take drink of liquor, smoke a
cigar or cigarette or break the seal of
deck of playing cards you help to
bring up the enormous internal revenue
total. Perhaps, you say, in doing so
II am a patriotic citizen. I am help
ing to support the government"
False reasoning. You are helping to
break down the government, not build
it up, for unless the teachings of history
are untrue the nation In which the vices
grow cannot last. 1t will go the way
of Babylon and Greece and Carthage and
Rome, which flourished in their grandeur
! until their citizens themselves broke them
down with their vices
No nation can be greater or stronger
than the aggregate greatness and strength
of its individual citizens. If you weaken
yourself by excessive drinking of intox-
icants. by too much smoking, by losing
your hours bending over the gambling
table, you are not an asset to your coun-
try, but a liability.
There are too many such in America
and elsewhere.
Work makes nation great not luxury
| or vices.
And if you impair your capacity for
work you weaken your nation.
| You remember the old question, nc
doubt:
Ill fares the land, to fastening ills a
prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men de.
| cay.
That hits the idea squarely in ths
bullseye Wealth accumulates. perhaps
in huge heaps. 1t dazzes with its glare
and it buys for one generation luxuries
undreamed of by its predecessor
But they have to be paid for The
price is not the gold spent for them. II
| is the toll OF the masses which creates
all wealth. Without that all Is naught
and crumbles quickly.
If the hundreds Of millions of interna
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rifice. self effacement somewhere by
somebody In the far away past has
secured to us every benediction that we
enjoy
It was long journey which took
over the Alps from Palapza in Italy, to
Brieg. in Switzerland But one forgets
WEAKNESS as he lies down upon his bed
after such a drive and awaits the drow-
sness Of slumber For just outside the
open window there is the gentle music
of a ripping stream tinkling its soft silver
song down through the valley towards
the arrowry Rhone. The last sound one
hears at night is this liquid music, aud
the first tones that greet the ear in the
quiet hour of dawn Is the merry song
of the brook. winding on, broadening and
deepening with its unceaslng flow
Whence comes the stream? Far away
among the mighty heights of the Alps,
spring out Of hoary crags, bursting forth
from dell and dlngle, leaping down tho
mountain sides through sunlight and
shadow, comes the rivulet. the stream,
the brook, and at last the river Snowy
crystals. fields of glistening ice, frozen
coronets that crowned the topmost crags
of the ancient hills-zall were gradually
sacrificing themselves beneath the suns
rays to the life, to the beauty. and TO
the music of the stream whose songs min
ged with the fancies OF the dreamer at
Brieg.
So, everything that we possess. worth
having, has come down out of the far
away past, where someone or many. made
sacrifices for us of the present century:
and We are what we are because of a
crimson altar somewhere in the past ages
upon which there was laid a sacrifice
the result of whose vicarious offering we
are enjoying.