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The conception of religion as a life which we have derived from the teaching of Jesus confronts us with no easy task. Jesus did not minimize its difficulties. There were no glowing enticements to soft living in His portrayal of it; nor did His most loyal followers, out of their experience, promise to new recruits a smooth road and freedom from struggle. "Fight the good fight of faith," wrote Paul to Timothy. "Endure hardness as a good soldier." is to say, the full realization of God's best for life- to be worked out, developed with effort earnestly and persistently employed, and with a consciousness of the perils involved.

"If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me," declares the Master, making abandonment of the self-regarding attitude toward life an absolute essential at the very beginning of the new experience, together with readiness to undergo the supreme sacrifice for which the cross stands as DO other symbol. But there is another side to the picture which must not be 1g- nored. Jesus made it very clear that the man who resolutely accepted his way of living would find power for the undertaking, and Jesus spoke from knowledge. He had, himself, found that power. He had experienced its operation in His own life.

It had been sufficient for Him under every circumstance of stress, of temptation and demand. He had wrestled with the subtlest forms of temptation during forty days of loneliness and increasing physical exhaustion at the outset of His public work, and He had conquered through reliance upon this power. He had thrown himself into a life of arduous toil and constant drain upon sympathy and nerve force, and had met its requirements without failure. He had carried His ideals of selfless living unsullied and unlowered through every test, through the mental agony of the garden and the suffering of He, promised that this same power would be 'available to those who adopted His principles and set hemselves to follow the way He had traveled. He spoke of it as he Spirit, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, the Helper.

His promise was that this Helper vould come into the lives of men nd women who accepted and beyed His teachings, and would to them a source of power and visdom. "Work out your own salvaion," wrote Paul later, "for it is od that worketh in you." We are admittedly in the realm the mystical here; but we are the realm of reality. We have 10 historic fact of Christ, and me indisputable experience of His blowers through the centuries 3 a demonstration that the myscal is the real. The power of Le Helper has been manifested, ad is today manifested in multudes of lives. Analogies are dangerous and ust not be pressed too closely; it faith today should not be ditcult in a power unseen.

In the orld of physical phenomena we innumerable demonstrains. We reach out, press a butn and immediately a flood of tht appears. We have brought to operation an unseen power rich lay ready at hand, because had faith in its existence and eyed the conditions necessary obtain its help. It was long fore man learned that this power was latent in his universe; long before he discovered the conditions under which it could be made available for his use. But it was no less really present because of his ignorance.

From some obscure corner of the world a man might come today into the midst of our civilization. He might sit for hours in a dark room, eager to see, but unknowing that the touching of a button or the turning of a small key would flood it with radiance. The light is there for him when he obeys the conditions necessary to obtain it. For untold centuries the waters of Niagara poured over their mighty precipice. Men regarded them with wonder and awe; but now men have found in them a source of power which turns the wheels of industry, moves, the transportation systems of great cities, illuminates streets and homes for millions of people.

They have brought the power of Niagara into the lives of multitudes by obeying the conditions requisite to its utilization. Jesus believed and taught that there is spiritual power in the universe. He proved it by His life as surely as you can prove the existence of electrical power by pulling a switch, lifting the receiver from your telephone or turning the dial on your. radio set. Jesus met the conditions necessary to experience that power, and there followed certain effects ate which men ever since have wondered with w.orshipful love.

That power is there for us, but faith must recognize the fact before experience realizes -faith must induce the obedience to conditions, the acceptance of the way of life which Jesus disclosed. Faith must begin the working out of its salvation, the abandonment of the old self-regarding attitude, relying on the assurance that God will work from within, that the mighty Niagara of spiritual power will become available, that we will know the presence of the Helper. A UNITARIAN CENTENARY. The American Unitarian Association, which has been ing the centenary of its organization in Boston, seems to have been having rather a cheerful and happy time. For that matter, its reports ordinarily, convey, that impression.

This may be because it is not disturbed by doctrinal differences, its creed being sufficiently settled and at the same time elastic enough to adjust. itself to the progress and developments of science and philosophy without friction. Naturally this tends to peacefulness, and this serenity perhaps accounts in part for the advanced age of some of its ministers. Of sixteen who died during the past year, it is announced that six lived to be above 90, two were 89, four others were past 70 and the youngest were 59 and 48. In an address before the assoclation the Rev.

S. Parkes Cadman, a Congregational minister and president of the Council of the Churches of Christ in America, gave high praise to the work of the Unitarian church, saying among other things: During this memorable hundred years the pulpit reached one of its notable peaks of power and influwidely evangelized; constructive non nations were scholarship reinterpreted the Bible; the Oxford movement shattered Angelican insularity, and your own association was inaugurated "to diffuse the knowledge and promote the interests of pure Christianity." Such ostensible gains absolve our immediate past from the indictment of spiritual weakness and futility. The great and gifted men and women from whom we inherit carried forward salutary, ethical and religious movements which liberated and enlarged the behaving mind. They sweetened the atmosphere of ecclesiasticism, and deeply pondered standing problems of faith to the advantage of all concerned. Dr.

Cadman also paid tribute to the services of Unitarian prophets, poets and thinkers in promoting the spiritual life. Another speaker urged upon the young that they give heed to the call to the ministry. In some mysterious way, he said, the psychic elements in individual persons are so incarnated as to bring a concentrated energy to bear upon certain avenues of selfexpression. Men are 'called unmistakably to art, to medicine, to law, to the fields of mechanics and of business and to innumerable other ways of service. They are likewise called to the ministry and should obey the dictates of the silent guide.

It is not stated that there is a special shortage in the Unitarian church of young men seeking the ministry as their profession, but the complaint comes from other churches. Several causes may account for this scarcity of men studying for the ministry, but the fact that the average financial recompense is small doubtless has Lits influence. Doubtless commer-1 A SOCIETY OF SPIRITUAL VAGABONDS. A few weeks ago, attention was, called in this column to a religious drama written by Don Marquis of "Old Soak" fame, and disclosed that this humorist and realist had within him something of the soul of the Greeks who donned the comic mask to put the whims of the hour and were glad to doff it and be themselves when the mood of the public warranted it. Before one can reach the depths he must have within him something of the comic for relief, it his writings would live on; or, if need be, the order may be reversed without harm to the argument--the comedian must have a touch of Hamlet to be a perfect mime.

Under the early mask of Mark Twain hovered the spirit that found outlet in his later years. George Meredith wrote of the "tragic comedians" and was one of them himself. Thomas Hardy, in his younger years, mixed freely the comic with the tragic until his mysticism became pronounced and tears were found flowing in the midst of laughter. To return for a sentence to Don Marquis: his name opens the door to the riddle of his personality. Thomas L.

Masson, whose appeal had been from the fountain of mirth, has in him a deeply religious train of thought with the former mask removed. For almost a generation he was an editor of "Life" in the days, those years of virility and satire mingled with mirth. A dozen volumes in a lighter vein, very light, sometimes have appeared from him. The book that was prepared with the "paint is termed "Why I Am a Spiritual Vagabond." Reading it one might fail to understand the "Vagabond" part of it for the theology of the author is orthodox without losing its originality. But there is a wider meaning to "Vagabond." On emight say that John Bunyan was a "spiritual vagabond" and even Saul of Tarsus.

The wellbeloved Robert Louis Stevenson, in spite of the 1-with-the Muckrake who has appeared recently, could be classed as a "spiritual vagabond." An invitation is tendered to the reader of the book. to join the Masson-created "Society of Spiritual Vagabonds;" and there is not a doubt that he will find himself in good company, a pleasant and joyous company withal. A definition of the kind of vagabond he asks for is given by Mr. Masson: We have been wandering around, here and there, under the stars, watching the sun rise, rubbing sticks together to make fire. eating when there was food.

and going without there was not, and exercising only enough to defend our bodies and keep them going. How careless we have been about our souls. They have done pretty much as they pleased. It has been only recently that we have got the idea that these respectable religious folks need us. have always been a little shy of regulars.

We thought perhaps they had been building churches all these years, just to keep us out. We thought it shocked them to see how intimate we were with God. And the building material they have piled up! It's a scandal. And all the time they were trying to save the world, each for himself. We want everybody in the world to join us, and something over--well, to be frank, for God, whom we have learned to love for Himself alone in the wide open spaces.

own up that we have been careless lies and rough and forgotten God. But now we are aroused, and we just feel we must make good somehow. Somebody's got to. The rest of 'em tried and failed. They had war, and jazz.

It is now up to us. This is not the vein the volume is written in, however; it is a prelude, purposely written in contrast to the rest of the work which is vehement and often evangelical. Here is the spirit of the major work: The pride of learning and the pride of earning are the two great obstacles that confront the seeker by scholars or bulldozed by experts. after truth. He is either patronized As vagabonds without fixed dwelling who search for God under the open sky or within the secret recesses of our own souls, we hereby these twin of illusion, renounce our furthers submission to learning and tradition.

In sunshine and shadow, up hill and down dale, through fire and water, we deal with God alone. The book is a revolt against tradition. It takes Issue with cial interests should not interfere, but it is a commercial age and it is easy to see that its influence may affect even the spiritual call. Nevertheless, though youth seems to show indifference, the church continues. This Date in History May 17.

1672-Joliet and party start an expedition to explore the Mississippi Valley. 1690-Casco, was captured by French and Indians. 1741-John Penn, lawyer and congressman, born. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. 1743-Seth Warner, Revolutionary soldier, born.

He captured Crown Point, N. in 1775. There are thirty-two different thicknesses of one-inch boards in current use. much of which we are fain to boast. We like to think of the immense sums given to the cause of higher education by rich men and women.

Mr. Masson warns that our educational system, as it increases in splendor and luxury, owing to these endowments, is a temptation and a snare. The idle rich breed barrenness and parasites multiply. In certain strata of society "cosmetics cover an almost inexhaustible lack of virtue." Too many of the religious institutions in the country are the prey of glittering humbugs. Then what of the marvelous strides of science? Have they left impressions on the inner man? No question exists as to the effect of discovery and invention upon the outer man.

The author is pessimistic still: "Have the marvelous inventions of science added anything to the tranquility of the human soul?" he asks and answers sorrowfully in the negative. The growing leisure coming from inventiveness is occupied with trival and often debasing pursuits. City slums flaunt their crime crop in the face of the most opulent country the world has seen. Gunmen and divorces flourish. Indecency and mediocrity have become standardized.

"The state breeds its 11- legitimate progeny of laws, which turn and rend it," he writes "In the material world for thousands of years everything has been tried and everything has failed. We need no more geniuses. We have not yet caught up with those we have on hand." Let us away from the materialistic and the mechanistic and proud boastings of greatness and superiority; let us move into a higher plane and the literary aviator takes us there gently and peacefully. Into the Kantian realm he soars but not into a maze of metaphysics as most persons do when they write the name of the great German. The latter's "Critique of Pure Reason' caused the awakening.

On reading the opening pages Mr. Masson found himself in a new role, dazed, the impact of the truth made him powerless to read anything else. "When finally I awakened from my meditations, there were vast places burned in my soul," Masson reveals. "Sitting in the charred remains I began my life all over again." Revealed to him by the Kant intellect was the fact that what he believed to be unreal was the real and what he had been hugging to his soul as real was dross. Above all he learned like many another that there is no quick-fire way to salvation and he must work it out for himself.

Jesus by example and percept showed him the way. In discussing the World War situation as it affects the worldsoul Mr. Masson has original ideas worthy of thought now that we can think, freed from prejudices: "And 80 now to see, just as in the beginning we saw that the thing we called war was in' reality peace--now we begin to see that the war we must ultimately win was a war not against Germany, but against ourselves. If this is not so, then we are now unconsciously preparing ourselves for another war. Consider! Germany is an illusion of the human mind.

There is no Germany, a8 we have come to hear it said there was. There were only our own weaknesses. We have but to confront these weaknesses for 8. moment to understand that, if they had not been present, there would have been no war and no Germany, in the sense that we have come to believe Germany is today. And by 'we' I of course the allies; for I do not believe that any real American who has thought and felt the war from the beginning could have had any other idea of his country, as being apart from the struggle, however much, outwardly, he may have considered it temporarily expedient to acquiesce in a surface neutrality.

Not until the social consciousness of the world has been forced up to a new level, and this as a permanent contribution to posterity, can the thing we call Germany be conquered." The word represents not a nation but an embodiment and so Mr. Masson did not read his Kant in vain. Sunshine Pellets Dr. W. P.

Thompson A wishbone is a poor substitute for a backbone. Every form of artificial stimulation is accessory and unnecessary. From far and wide there tropped tidecame from every quarter; every ill they drank their All praised the famous water. Exercise in moderation, when taken in the open air, is constructive and prolongs life. Exercise involving violent exertions are destructive and shorten life.

The hand that fries the chicken is the hand we all adore. When the baby yells because A pin is sticking him, soothing syrup will make him insensible to the pain. but it won't pull the pin. Lots of folks think that they have forgotten more medicine than the doctors ever knew, until Willie spends five years and all the family's loose change at medical college. WHO'S WHO IN THE DAY'S NEWS.

GENERAL FERRIE. Amateur wireless from a score of nations and sentatives of all branches science from many parts telegraphists repreof of the world recently convened for the First International Congress of the craft in Paris. The gathering and its proceedings had as outstanding figure an interesting personality in the realm of wireless a French soldier whose achievements as inventor and as scientist have made him famous internationally. He is General Ferrie, since 1923 in charge of all transmission from the great French wireless station which makes use of the Eiffel tower. The station is one of the chief points of interest in Paris for wireless enthusiasts.

To the world's millions wireless enthusiasts. the name of Genby a whole series of inventions and eral Ferrie has been made familiar adaptations wireless apparatus. His work in this direction long ago bought him public recognition and its scientific value was shown by the fact of his election to the French Academy of Sciences. Head of Army Wireless. During the World War the gen eral was head of the military wireless services of the French army.

Under his direction was developed the remarkable organization through which the French and allied armies maintained mastery of the ether against the central powers until the day of final victory. His reward included the cravat of commander in the Legion of Honor and this was followed by his appointment as inspector general of military telegraphy and transmission. General Ferrie was born fiftyseven years ago in the Department of Savoie, but the years sit upon his shoulders lightly. From his early youth he displayed a marked aptitude for scientific pursuits. This aptitude resulted in his entrance into the celebrated Ecole Polytechnique and his graduation therefrom with high honors in 1889.

His army career began with him holding the rank of lieutenant and his progress, both as a soldier and as a technician, was steadily upward. He was a lieutenant-colonel when the war broke out and a brigadier-general soon after It ended. A few days ago a presidential decree made him a general of division in the French army. DINNER STORIES GUSTAVE FERRIE GUSTAVE FERRIE A tramp had been admitted to the casual ward of an English workhouse late one night and the following morning he appeared before the master. "Have you taken a bath this morning?" was the first question he was asked.

"No, answered the man in astonishment, there one missing?" An Australian visitor to the United States tells the following story: An American was being shown about the bush when a herd of bullocks made its appearance. "What are those?" the American asked. "Bullocks, of course," was the answer. "In America they are three times as big," the visitor remarked. A flock of sheep passed, and again there was inquiry as to what they were.

"Sheep, of course," the Australian replied. "Guessed they were rabbits," quoth the American. By this time the Australian had learned something, and when three kangaroos hopped along and the American inquird what they were he replied: "Grasshoppers, of A man, somewhat in his cups, staggered up bridge spanning a river, He leand over the rail and gazed down into the stream where was reflected full moon. The sight fascinated him, and when another gentleman who had also looked into the cup that cheers Joined him, he pointed to the reflection and asked, "Whassat?" "That's the moon, answered the other. "Well, if thas the moon, whats is down there and whata my doin' up here?" THE HIGH- WHEELED BIKE Kansas CIty Star.

"You write about the thrill of sliding down hill belly-buster," an old-timer writes: "Why don't you say anything about riding the old high-wheel bicycle?" We shall; we do. Candor compels the admission that we never rode one. Not that we were not of bicycle age at the time of the old high days, bicycle, wheels. only and But the we in rich were those could attorne plutocrats. We used to study the old A.

W. Gump catalogue of secondhand wheels. It came from Dayton 0. if memory serves, a dazzling gorgeous document, presenting grand bargains. But the prices quoted never fell below $25 and 80 far as we were concerned $25 was just as prohibitive as $2 500.

Once we had a faint hope we might get enough subscribers to the Youth's Companion to get the Columbia bicycle pictured in its premium list. But after working all one Saturday we gave up. We saw we would have to live to be 200 years old before we would have accumulated enough subscribers to do any good. Another a spark was kindled by a young profligate who offered his old bike for $10. But carrying in stove wood at 2 cents a week, and shoveling snow at nickel a week failed to make apperciable progress toward the $10 goal.

But we admired the riders from afar, and we were always out to see the parade of the local chapter of the--let's see, L. A. W. wan't it? Yes, the League of American Wheelmen. And we worshiped the heroes who bore the bars testifying to the completion ot century runs.

Speaking of heroes, there was Doggy Jones. Doggy had a Star wheel, a high bicycle with the little wheel in front. He would ride down the street and just before getting opposite a bunch of girls he would tilt back and continue on his way with the front wheel in the alr. He could use that front wheel to knock tin cans off the street. A real artist.

As we were saying, we got the thrill of the high wheel bicycle all right. Only It was a vicarious thrill. We got it watching the other boys. THE STAR'S SUNDAY SERMON PARENTS AND CHILDREN By Ernest Fremont Tittle A distinguished Englishman once declared, "If I thought of the past with contempt, I would think of the future with despair." And wouldn't you? If you really believed that your parents were fools, what reason would you have to suppose that you yourself would turn out to be a genius? And if you really believed that during all the generations past men had learned nothing about life that was worth knowing, what reason would you have to suppose that during the lifetime of your generation, or even of the generations that will follow yours, any momentous discovery is likely to be made? It precisely because you cannot think of the past with contempt that can think of the future with hope. Those you have seen or read the play called Chanticleer may recall that the Cock of the Walk, in that engaging performance, feels enormously elated by the thought that the sun rises, not only when he crows, but because he crows.

I have sometimes thought that I detected, in certain young persons of my acquaintance, a similar elation. They have appeared to believe that they were not merely the recipients of modern civilization but the cause of it. They had, to be sure, only the haziest of notions as to what lies back of the telephone, and the motor car. and the aeroplane, and the radio, and the parcel post, and clean streets, and porcelain bathtubs, and a college education, and the marvelous freedom which modern young flappers and they a appeared to believe that beardless philosophers enjoy. But was- -must all of be--a causal connection between these achievements and their own exceedingly delightful selves.

I feel very sure, however, that a little thought would serve to remind them that although these things have come to pass shortly before or during their own lifetime, they have hardly come to pass as the result of anything which they themselves have done; that they are, as yet, merely the inheritors. not the creators, of civilization: and. therefore, that a little humility would be, in them, entirely becoming. From the beginning of history, I suppose, each generation has thought itself wiser than the generation which preceded it. And not altogether without reason.

Certainly, it ought to true that children are, in some respects. better informed than their parents. For, in the evolution the race, each new generation is comparable to each year in the life of an individual, and if any individual ought to be better informed at 40 than he was at 39, the race, as it appears in any present generation. ought to be better informed than it was in the preceding generation. But the fact remains that life has revealed some things to men and women 40 years of age and upwards which it could not reveal to boys and girls of 15 to 20.

It has taught some lessons to parents which it could not teach to children. The pathetic cry of many a parent, see my children making mistakes which I could help them avoid, if only they would listen to me!" is by no means without justification. The externals of life are continually changing. How extremely funny the fashions of 1900 appear to the eyes of 1925 as funny, suspect, as the fashions of 1925 will appear to the eyes of 1950. I was a boy, I turned around to look at an automobile.

My son turns around to look at a buggy. His son may turn around to look at a Ford; for in those days Fords may have wings instead of wheels, the only resemblance between the new wonder and the old being the noise. The externals of life are continually changing. But life itself -are not the greatest secrets just the old, old secrets that were learned by many of our parents before we could walk, and even by a few of our grandparents before we were born? It follows, then, that the refusal to pay any attention to the advice of parents, revealing a philosopher, may reveal a fool. And would not a little humility be becoming even to parents, especially in view of the tragic happenings of these recent years? "Bring up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart therefrom." But who knows the way a child should go? What is the exact road which the "younger generation" should, travel at this particular juncture of the world's affairs? We can, if we begin early enough, bring up our children in the way we think they should go.

We can In many, perhaps not most, cases persuade them to accept our views and to adopt our attitudes. And if our views are true views and our attitudes right attitudes, well and good. But what if the views which we urge upon our children are not true views? What if the attitudes which we press upon them are not right attitudes? Will we not, in that case, merely perpetuate the mistakes of the past, and hand on to future generations our own heritage pain? There is much in civilization today that good. There is much also that is exceedingly bad. Our problem is, how to hand on to our children that which is good and, at the same time, not to force upon them that which is bad.

What a terrible mistake it would be if we should say to our children, "You must not. under any circumstances, call in question the political, or economic. or moral, or religious views of your Those of us who come under the category of "parents" obliged to confess that our generation made a pretty rotten mess of things. We did not, to be sure, will the war. But as even Mr.

Lloyd George has acknowledged, we all blundered into it. We consented to conditions out of which it as inevitably came as mosquitoes from an undrained swamp. And now, surely a little decent humility would be becoming to us. If the younger generation, which is now "banging at the door." can discover any better way of believing and behaving than we have found. God forbid that we should try tO hinder them! Timely Views on World Topics "CRIME BECOMING BUSINESS; WE NEED NEW SYSTEM TO HALT ITS GROWTH." America's failure at ment has impressed statesmen more than about the country, Richard Washburn law enforceEuropean enything else according to Child, former ambassador to Italy, Child, who classifies himself as a lawyer although he has served as a writer, editor, lecturer and diplomat, be lieves lawlessness will become much worse before it is remedied.

Remarking upon the difficulty attached to getting an honest opinion on America from the European diplomats, Child RICHARDW CHILD said: "When you can get men of RICHARDW CHILD really substantial opinion to take off the lid and say what they ACtually think about this country, they will say that we're fail great at passing laws but utterly to enforce them. "They don't mean merely the flaunting of the prohibition amend- Our ment. but our laws in general. murder record is particularly bad, both because of the number of committed and because of crimes the few convictions obtained. Predicts Greater Crime.

"Lawlessness is going to become and more a problem in this more I believe the situation become much worse than it is country. will now before any lasting reform is effected." about remedies, he replied: "A remaking of our system Asked of punishing crime, which will act faster than the organization now going on in the world. Crime is becoming business. More money is being invested in it all the time. One reads fewer wars between than two years ago.

The gangs reason for this is the large operators in crime are taxing the smaller ones into their organization to keep the little fellows from A discrediting the business by acts of violence such as shootings." MARGARET BRENT She Is Worth Your Devoutest Attention BY REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. By and by, when history is fully written, it will be found that among the men and women of the good old colonial times, were some of the most virile personalities to be found in all history. How many of the rank and file of the people as they come and go, know very much about Margaret Brent, the unconquerable Marylander, of whom it has been.

written, that "had she been born queen she would have as brilliant and as daring as Elizabeth; had she been born a man, she would have been a Cromwell in her courage, audacity and achievements." Margaret was born in England about the year 1600, and died at St. Marys, Maryland in 1661. In between these dates a life was openly lived before the world that will be an inspiration to men and women for ages to come. It was in 1638, in her thirty-sixth year, that Margaret Brent reached Maryland from her home in England, and without losing any time she began to make her presence felt in the colony. It was impossible for Margaret Brent to be anywhere very long without letting those about her know that she was around.

No man in the colony had The Star's Cross Word Puzzle 13 15 16 18 2 5 8 10 12 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 42 43 44 45 46 147 48 49 50 51 52 53 54155 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 75 1. Male geese. A speech. 13. To be indebted.

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The solution of today's Copyright, her brains, and but few possessed her audacity and energy. methods that were pre-eminently clean and lady-like, without compromising her womanly dignity, and purity. she rose to supreme place in the council of the state, and was regularly consulted by the governor, Lord Calvert, in all of his undertakings. In turn Margaret was courted by all of the unmarried members of the council, but remained "Mistress Margaret Brent" right through to the end, being satisfied with the sovereignty of her own soul, the mastery of her own mind and purpose. When Lord Calvert was on his deathbed he sent for.

Margaret Brent and pointing to her SO that all present might see and understand, said to her, "I make you my sole executrix. Take all and pay What a compliment was that, my countrymen! How many times can you duplicate it in your memory of history? How many men have been at any time honored with such a compliment? "Take all, and pay all." In obedience to the governor's solemn request Margaret moved into the governor's house. It was no sinecure, for the addition to her duties as governor, with the sanction of the council she became Lord Baltimore's attorney, in which position she had control of all the rents, profits, and issues of his lordship's grants. If words--and the dying words- of a great and good man have any meaning, then Margaret Brent was governor of the colony of Maryland. And SO thought Margaret Brent herself.

She them, "If I am governor I have good right as any one to voice a seat in the General Assembly. Leonard his life as Lord Baltimore's attorney, had the right vote, and now that Leonard Calvert is dead, and I have succeeded to the attorneyship, it is only fair that the right to vote should pass to me. With the courage of her convictions, Margaret Brent, January 21, 1648, at the first beat of the drum calling the assembly together, strode in and advanced her claim. "We had better adjourn" cried out the big, burly man who pushed himself into the governor's chair. And he meant what he said.

He was a politician. Margaret Brent right, but he had the Potent and he crushed down all opposition. But Mistress Margaret's "fighting blood was now fairly up, and rising in her place in the assembly even before the steam-roller could get to going, she made her last, brave, eloquent plea for her most righteous cause: but.to no avail. As Bishop Butler said a long time ago, "If right was as strong as it is just it would rule the world; but often in the 'corrupted currents of this world, offences' gilded hands oft shove by justice. It did 80 that January morning, 1648, down in Maryland, but he laughs best who laughs last, and to Margaret Brent the gods gave the last laugh.

steam-roller crowd are all forgotten, not one of their wretched names is ever remembered, but Margaret Brent held her ground until she made her eternal fame as the first woman who claimed the right to sit and to legislature hall on this continent. "Mistress remained the greatest Intellectual and moral force in the colony. Without a vote she wielded more power than those who voted: and when the army rose in mutiny it was the gentle but powerful soul of Margaret Brent that greeted the rebels and saved the government. 76 HORIZONTAL. 33.

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