first of its kind on the American continent. I may go even further, and say that it was the first purely manual training school in the world. It is housed in a building given by Edwin Harrison; it is largely furnished and endowed by Ralph Sellew, Gotlieb Conzelman, and Samuel Cupples, while it has been nourished by the means of Dr. Eliot, William L. Huse, William Brown, and Ralph Sellew. So much for its healthy body. soul was bestowed by Professor C. M. Woodward and his able corps of assistants. The School of Fine Arts is housed in a handsome building which is the gift of Wayman Crow. It cost $135,000, and is a monument erected in memory of his only son, who died in earliest manhood. In the threshold you find a splendid bust of the creator of the school, from the chisel of Harriet Hosmer-"a gift of gratitude" from the brilliant genius whom Mr. Crow educated in art. It is under the control of Professor Ives, who was the efficient director of the Art Department of the Columbian Exposition, and who finds time to play a valuable part in the municipal government in addition to his arduous professorial duties. He is a wholesome "object-lesson" to those educated business men who cannot spare enough ST. LOUIS HIGH SCHOOL labor from the pursuit of the private dollar to give personal care to the supreme interests of public business. The School of Botany, under the care of Professor Trelease, is the magnificent gift of Mr. Henry Shaw, and is known to the world as Shaw's Garden. Mr. Shaw was one of those few wise rich men who believed that the "deed is better than the will." He did not "heap up riches," knowing "not who should gather them." In his own lifetime he began to build his perpetual monument, and each springtime sees his epitaph freshly written in brilliant flowers beside his quiet resting-place. Very early in his Very early in his career in St. Louis, Mr. Shaw began to plan for the beauti attractive family, the cacti, without coming to Shaw's Garden. Subsequently Mr. Shaw gave the city more than 250 acres for the establishment of Tower Grove Park. The landscape gardening of this park is beyond praise, while Mr. Shaw has further enriched it with two really magnificent pieces of bronze-the statues of Shakespeare and Humboldt. The generous donor of all these objects of beauty and instruments of the higher education provided in his will that an annual sermon should be preached upon some aspect of God's goodness as revealed in nature; and that two banquets should be given every year, at which should be gathered those who, like himself, were interested in this expression of the city's higher life. Surrounded by the objects of beauty which his own generosity created, Mr. Shaw lived to a ripe and honorable old age, conscious that the coming generations would be infinitely richer because he had lived and labored for the common good. Rich men have lived and died in St. Louis, and their memories have been kept green only by the legal quarrels of their squabbling heirs. Each passing year makes Henry Shaw more of a living presence among us. In all of the great educational and philanthropic enterprises of St. Louis one is surprised to find the same names constantly reappearing, and this surprise is deepened when one reflects upon the comparative fewness of their number. I presume this is true of every large city, but it seems to be peculiarly true here. The great body of us build our private fortunes and live our self-centered lives of good, honest citizenship, while a few disinterested men and women bear the common burden and keep alive the wholesome public spirit. THE PEOPLE'S UNIVERSITY Under this head I would group all of the agencies that daily contribute to the education of the masses-of those people who are but indirectly touched by the commonly recognized instrument of instruction. Among these the newspaper easily takes first rank. St. Louis is peculiarly rich in this kind of literature. The St. Louis "Republic" is eighty-eight years old, but it has recently re W. T. Harris The late Most Rev. Peter Richard Kenrick N. O. Nelson George Partridge Prof. C. M. Woodward Head of the Manual Training School Frederic M. Crunden Librarian of the Public School Library Miss Mary C. McCulloch newed its youth, and is filling a constantly enlarging place in the polit- THE WORK OF THE ARTIST St. Louis possesses several private picture galleries of very great interest. In the residences of Colonel George E. Leighton, Messrs. J. G. Chapman, Charles Parsons, Daniel Catlin, and others, may be found gems from the pencils of some of the greatest of the modern George E. Leighton Charles Nagel President of the Council Rev. W. W. Boyd a report offered to this club by Colonel George E. Leighton. The club has shown a profound and intelligent interest in every scheme of municipal and national reform. Colonel Leighton's papers on Currency and Coinage and the National Banking System were models of exhaustive treatment of these vexed questions; while other members have been equally active in giving to the world through this club the fruits of their commercial, political, scientific, and professional studies. But no institution in the city has been more intelligently active in its educational, artistic, scientific, sociological, and philanthropic interests than the Wednesday Club, which is formed and controlled entirely by women. It would require an entire article to do fair justice to this flourishing organization. Suffice to say that in the public and private kindergartens, in the Training School for Nurses, in all the penal and philanthropic institutions, in the art schools, in every place where intelligent and selfdenying public spirit is demanded, there you find a representative or a committee of the Wednesday Club. A UNIQUE CHARITY In St. Louis has one form of beneficence which keeps alive the memories of that bitter civil strife, the perils and hardships and heartburnings of which she felt, perhaps, more than any other city in the land. But that memory is kept green in the blessed spirit of the Gospel. In the early stages of the Rebellion a number of devoted men and women, anticipating the terrible suffering of that unhappy time, formed the Western Sanitary Commission. Under the order of General Fremont, the Commission consisted of James E. Yeatman, Carlos Greeley, Dr. J. B. Johnson, George Partridge, and Dr. Eliot. Contributions of money and sanitary stores passed into the hands of the Commission amounting to more than $4,000,000. At the close of the war Mr. Greeley, the Treasurer, held about $230,000, which, by judicious investment, was increased to $335,000. Of this amount about $86,000 went to the purchase and maintenance of the Soldiers' Orphan Home, and about $15,000 to the support of soldiers' orphans who were not in the Home. These contributions were strictly germane to the object for which the fund was created. the further discharge of its trust the Commission gave $7,800 to the Female Guardian Home, $13,000 to the Woman's Christian Home, $9,000 to the Working woman's Home, $13,000 to the Nurses' Training School, $7,500 to the Provident Association, $14,000 to the Colored Orphans' Home, $22,800 to the Memorial Home for the Aged, $30,000 to provide scholarships especially for the children of soldiers in Washington University and $10,000 towards its Sustentation Fund, and $18,000 to the Lincoln Freedman Monument Fund. This leaves a permanent fund of $50,000. The administration of this money for all noble purposes remains in the hands of the Commission, of which the revered James E. Yeatman is still the head. A story of rare and touching interest is attached to the last contribution mentioned in the list. Soon after the murder of Abraham Lincoln, Charlotte Scott, an emancipated slave, gave her former master, then a Union refugee from Virginia, the sum of five dollars, her first earnings as a free woman, begging that it might be used "to make a monument to Massa Lincoln, the best friend the colored people ever had.' This money was sent to General T. H. C. Smith, who forwarded it to Mr. James E. Yeatman, with this letter: in the studio of Thomas Ball a group in marble representing the Emancipation Act. ing the Emancipation Act. Dr. Eliot told the touching story of the poor colored woman, and Mr. Ball generously agreed to have the group cast in bronze, charging only for the actual labor of the Munich foundry. In the original group there was the ideal figure of a slave. This was. changed, at Dr. Eliot's suggestion, and in the noble work as it now appears in Washington is the "counterfeit presentment" of Archer Alexander, the last slave ever captured in Missouri under the Fugitive Slave Law. Archer was. for many years a consistent member of the Church of the: Messiah, whose noble pastor had rescued him from the house of bondage, and made him the representative of his. race in a work which commemorates the noblest deed done by his country's noblest man. The Ground-Robin By Richard Burton From a low birch-tree just outside my window, I never hear his note in other places; I know, this songster speaks most plain to me, So carol on, ground-robin! each green year I listen for you, and 'twould be a grief Beyond mere words, some June, some fragrant morrow, Let us have faith that right makes might, and in this faith let. us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.Abraham Lincoln. An obstinate man does not hold opinions, but they hold him;; for when he is once possessed with an error, it is, like a devil, only cast out with great difficulty.-Bishop Butler. Of an idle, unrevolving man destiny can make nothing more than a mere enameled vessel of dishonor, let her spend on him what coloring she may. Let the idle think of this.-Carlyle. A hundred years hence what difference will it make whether you were rich or poor, a peer or a peasant? But what difference may it not make whether you did what was right or what was. wrong?" Architects of Fate." He who opposes his own judgment against the consent of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truths; he that has. truth on his side is a fool, as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it because of the currency or multitude of other men's. opinions.-De Foe. Longfellow once said to Mary Anderson: "See some good picture in nature, if possible, or on canvas-hear a page of the best music, or read a great poem daily. You will always find a free half-hour for one or the other, and at the end of the year your mind will shine with such an accumulation of jewels as will astonish even yourself." THE NORTHFIELD SEMINARY GROUNDS Moody the Evangelist By the Rev. H. W. Webb-Peploe, D.D. Vicar of St. Paul's, Onslow Square, and Prebendary of St. Paul's Cathedral, London N American judged from an Englishman's standpoint may, by some, be expected to receive but scant justice; as, unfortunately, the idea has of late become prevalent that the two nations do not understand each other, and that neither can rightly appreciate the other. A more foolish-we might say fatal-notion could hardly be set on foot, and the sooner it is confined to its proper "limbo" the better. Who should be able rightly to estimate or appraise the virtues and faults of their fellow-men if Americans and Englishmen cannot do this for one another? Cousins may we not say brethren?-by birth; speaking one language; inheriting common traditions and customs; trained in similar habits of life; approximating ever more and more closely to one another through the advances of science and the general habits of society; and, above all, enjoying, for the most part, the greatest and most glorious advantage of an open Bible, and of the blessed religion deduced therefrom; and yet having, what so few European nations enjoy, the opportunity of judging one another from a distance, and of considering one another's merits or demerits without reference to national rivalries (either in politics or in social matters), none should, we imagine, be better able to do justice to one another than members of the English and American nations. Strange, therefore, as it may appear at first sight to the American readers of this journal that an Englishman should have been asked to survey an American work, and a clergyman of the Church of England to write upon an American evangelist, who (though with a wondrously universal spirit of brotherhood toward all Protestant churches) yet distinctly claims to be a Congregationalist, it may, after all, be considered, we hope, that, so far as opportunities of observing Mr. D. L. Moody have been given to him, the writer of this article can do justice to the great American preacher and organizer whom Northfield and Chicago both claim as their evangelist. In no sense is it proposed to offer a new biography of Mr. Moody. Already a number of these exist, and the columns of a weekly periodical like The Outlook may hardly offer space for any but the briefest sketch of such a man, whose life from its very commencement has been filled with both incident and interest. The object with which we here call attention to Mr. Moody is that, as his. work has now been carried on for what is called a generation," the general bearings of that work and its prospects of enduring may be calmly and faithfully considered by the public. All work must be initiated by an individual man, but all works do not prove to be really great, nor do they D. L. MOODY |