-1: . .
A . . . . . i lu
Mttrr mmtxr of the ! fmlljr who
has rinxwl'd vrmn the pen f"r
llTelih-xl. HhwiKh he h ytwnter t
later. r. ww U
l'oe U f the Boltl-
mra bramh of the faiuily oJ 1
direct trwul ciiiE of the loet.
Mo-h of the material here ned ha
Keforr heea itubliiOird. and la
authoritative than that obtained
from an other "iiirrt. In the peniMI
of thl ver Intereirtbic "r' on'
thins H1 be note.1 by the rarrful
rewW. and that b the InRulur In
ternal eonlrnrtion of the atory which
were the mental peruliarltlea of
Mum Poe'a ditinTiied nneetor.
I once B.k-d Mark Twain to sive .iia
opinion of the con hid of liinar Allan I'oe.
Why." rojoin. J the "WUarJ of Wit. -roe
la remembered afier a hundred years.
That Is f.itnt ffluuii for ny man and
testittrs th hclsl't and cepth of hi" gen
ius. If the creations of a man's mind,
art. poetry, letters, science outlive a cen
tury, then they are eood for the millen
ium." On January 19. 1A ,be sum cf mT
Allan Poe's existence living nnd dead will
round out Its century mark. It w-r.l be
th lootli anniverear- of his birth and the
literary world has prepured a festival of
Toe lovers who w ill gather around noted
to the altar or this man's gcnlua.
The most elaborate celebration of the
birth of KJar Allan Toe will occur at
the University of Virginia. Charlottes
ville his alma mater, and for four days,
proud of Poe's distinction In the world of
letters, w ill do honor to his memory, not
merely for his sake, but lr. gratitude to
him for spreading wide her reputation as
an educational institution. The celebra
tion will not be merely local, but national,
and even international In its character.
Tno university has always taken deep
cririe In the fact that EUgar Allan Poe
was a student within Us walls, dlstin
ushlnr himself by marked protioiency In
J-atln and French and In Italian trans
lation; well known to the librarian as a
free user of his book, with dievrtnilr.at
lnit taste In the selections made: and
uoted among; the students for athletic
prowess and gift of narration.
No. 13 West Range, the room designated
tv a little bronze tablet as the "small
home of a great poet." will be used as a
THE EMMANUEL MOVEMENT; ITS
(Mr. Eiot makes this statement eor.cern
Ir.c the Emmanuel Movement at Tha Ore
aanlan'a request. He h nevir connected
lilm'.f organically with the movement, and
write, therefore, from an Imlependtut
s-acdpolnt. He 1 apparently convinced of
tie tru:h of Its underlrlna prlntlpI'J". hut
a: tho am time tncrcoiinaly doubtMI or
t:i methods and present tendon :es.)
TIT VILUAM C. ELIOT. JR.
THE Emmanuel movement. In the fre
quently quoted words of Its au
thors, is "the union of the Church
with the highest medical authority for
tlie alleviation, prevention and cure of
nervous disorders: for physical, mental
and moral soundness." It difrers irom
the several healing cults; first, in that
It is not a cult, that Is. It Is not a sep
arate religious system whose charac
teristic feature la healing. It is a
movement within established organiza
tions. Secondly. It gives precedence to
the physician.
The writer relieves that the Eiu-i:-anurl
Movement, though subject to
serious practical limitations anu ex
posed to grave perils, has positive sig
nificance and actual possibilities of
good.
Practical Limitations.
The nractical limitations
of the
movement are Incident to Its funda
mental terms. -A union of the highest
medical authority with the Church"
presupposes a degree of Intelligence
on the part of physicians and ministers
which docs not yet obtain except in
extremely ra-s instances. Ministers as
a class are without genuine scientific
training most of them are In fact
drilled in unscientific habits of think
ing- Physicians, on the other hand.
a class, taking- the country -over, are
, Kt- inr means so scientifically-
minded as they are sometimes given
credit for being. In particular, physi
cians are untrained in normal psychol
ogy, and are inadequately equ'ppel
.e-et.t the specialists) in abnormal
psychology and r.eurolfgy. Under such
conditions it is pia-n tr.at any progrtss
of the Emmanuel Movement will be bad
lr the degree that It is rapid, anj good
it the derrres that It waits uron
the growing- Intelligence of both physl
ciaus and ministers.
Mowhlle many ministers will con
t-.ue to say. "we have always believed
li the principles of the Emmanuel
.. it ! nothing new." and
.mntnitni. -
many phvsicians will continue to say
we have always practiced psyc.hothe
t-npy"; th fact being that neither aiin-
" ; lh $ - 5 HtI.Z
museum. This museum will be kept open
from January 16 to the -23. Inclusive. In
this, through the energetic efforts of Pro
fessor James A. Harrison, author of the
Virginia edition of Poo's works, have been
placed not only all of the mementoes of
Po,. available in the university, but also
such as may be borrowed for this Interest
Inir occasion. .
on Monday ovenlnff. Jm.ary 18. the
Rnven Soctetv. the undensrouud society
of the university. n.-n.e,l forhe most cel
ebrated poem of the school s most famous
poet will have charge of the looa excr
etes This progrnmme will include nni
skarrendition of some of Poe's pooms. an
organ interpretation of 'The Raven. Il
lustrated recitations from his best known
works and a short address from a dis
tinguished VlrglniA speak"--
The next morning International tributes
to the genius of Poe will be given. There
will be an ad drew In French by Dr. Alcee
1-Wtier. of New Oiieaii:
enre on French literature, and an address
In KnHh by ProfeKsor leorso 11 ward.
r-eeMly "f Munich, on Poe's Influence
upon Oerman literature. .
A contemplated souvenir of tne owasion
Is a beautifully printed Fest-Sohrift. T hid
will contain nine letters hitherto tinpub
llalied in full and an Introduction prepared
I by I'rofes-sor Harrison.
A number of dis-
ister nor physician, speaking Bnerally.
has applied psychotherapy in any gen
uinely scientific way or In accordance
with any thorough knowledge of its
principles. ,
Physicians as a class are responsio.o
in no small measure for the rlso of the
healing cults. They have told people
they were not sick, quite blindly refus
ing to perceive that "a man who thinks
he's sick when lie isn't sick is sick in
deed." They have noted better than
any one else can how frequently tie
healing cult falls, but have defined
to institute rigid scientific inquiry Into
the causes . why some healing cull, or
even some quack, has succeeded after
.he tihvsiclan haa failed. Minister., oa
the other hand, as a class are equally
responsible for the rise and spread ot
the healing cults, because too .f.w...
.ermons are remote from practical
nersonal needs, and because they think
in "a priori ways.
and inculcato the
principles'' upon
which the neailns
cults proceed.
From a practical point or view, moo.
the Emmanuel Movement Is limited in
Its application and development o
the conditions Just indicated, if It
would cleave
faithfully to the iusn
severe terms
it has laid down tor ji
eclf.
Hut the movement is yet
farther
limited by the. ract that, all things be
lng equal, long evolutionary processes
i.n..t normal division ot lapor uc-
iween the nhvsiclan and the minister.
The physician's work is tne .i
the body as a physical organism, n.o
ministers of the soul as a social be
ing. The minister and physician may
ril.tlv co-ooerate, but they are rec.u-
rocally subordinate in their respective
fasks. Now the physician, when he
shall have learned how. will also hava
..v..-.jr.nrfl in the practice of
rv.-hotherany. and will call in
minister, when the minister shall have
learned how. only in those cases where
ti. minister's special part is needed.
namelv. when spiritual counsel, moral
-e.. .location, or the experting or the
emotional accounts is Indicated. So
that in a second way the movement
should be practically limited by th
physician's extension of hi own nor
ma! domain In the direction of psy
chotherapy.
The Perils of the Movement
The perils to which the Emmanue
Movement is exposed are such as ara
Incident to the neglect of Its primary
SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND,- JANUARY
lingulshed men and women have b;o.n In
vited to the exercise and the event will
be notable In the history of American let
ters. It Is said that a monument to Poe
will be placed in the library at West roint
Academy, where I'oe was once a student.
And so. extolled by sage and bard Poe
will have his day at last. His wonderful
tenius so ill appreciated at the time of his
death. Is recognized at last. His fame
brightens every day. He is acknowledged
as the father of the modern short story,
the creator of the bizarre and terrible in
Imaginative literature. Hundreds of 1 oe
lovers have formed a Poe cult and famo
Is his. Among the dilettantes of literature
Imitation of Poe Is a favorite pastime.
The manuscripts Mrs. Ciemm hawked
about newspaper shops, glad to sell for
$' or J3 brings thousands of dollars at
auction.' The grave of Poe is the shrine
and Mecca of literary pilgrims. From the
four corners of the globe they come, fol
lowing the leadership of Tennyson, who
said the only thing he wanted to see In
America was the rave of Kdgar Allan
Poe One learned Hritish peer traveled to
America to stand at Poe's grave in West
minster churchyard, Baltimore. Md. i he
fame of Poe Is founded upon rock. Tin
singular beauty of his creations with
stand analvsis and competition. He is
the American man of letters. America s
poet Uke Shakespeare, the Rnglish
voice, he Is as timely in one century ns
another The desl'.nv of misfortune, how
ever has followed his memory. Traduced
and repelled In life, a rabble of hackmen
and critics have tried to blacken the w hite
lilv of remembrance after his death.
Kven tho birthplace of Poe is disputed.
He is the prev of sharks who devour him:
of Judas lseariots who would betray him
for 3D pieces of silver: of Boswells and
Pimple Simons all unnt and unready for
their seir-appolnted tasks.
Uut In this m!re of biographers, the
work of the man shines out giving them
effectual answer. That is true. That, the
work is unsurpassed and the handicraft
1 of a 'master. The seeing eye looks on it
and calls It good.
The malevolent spirit of destiny.
principles, or failure to keep within
the limits which fidelity to those prin
ciples requires. And after speaking or
such perils, I shall consider a second
source of danger connected with any
systematic undertaking oT psycho
therapy as an organi.ed department or
the church. The former are practical
dangers: tl.o latter moral.
The practical dangers are in the main
due to the fatal tendency of undisci
plined minds to be carried away by a
priori methods of reasoning. Once con
vinced of some alleged "principle," any
fact, or any number or facts, wnien ap
pear to contravene this principle are
geutlv and smilingly assumed out or ex
istence. Such mir.ds appear 10 uc- un. it
able or perceiving that all genuine prin
ciples have their origin in facts and are
tested and shaped iy ana in too oh".
racts and are always limited in their
scope and application by the facts from
which thev are derive.1, and by all other
facts And so a minister wno siai
off flying the flag of the Emmanuel
Movement, emboldened Dy a ie ,
cesses nnd a crowueu cu.uco. ct..... ,
ceedlng perhaps In some case inai a
sician has mistakenly uiasiiot-cu n
anle." soon slips over the line ot safe
scientific ground into me unraiuu
- ... : : RtU'pen the
ing 01 an a prion .in ----
work of such an one and that or the
healing cults there Is indeed no more
difference than between tweedle-dee and
tweedle-dum. His respect tor pn)-
becomes a mere form, and he will essay
to "treat" double pneumonia; he will ex
ploit his "cures" and all -such coinci
dences as lend themselves to his use: he
will honestly find some convenient reason
ror his railures. usually the patients
fault rather than the rault or the "prin
ciples"; and only too soon win ne oe
doing the same son oi goou .-t
same sort or damage already being done
by the healing cults, with the same good
Intentions and the same reckless heed
lessness or harmrul consequences, with
the same publication or success and se
rene rorgeuir or failure. Thus. I say,
... tho first nlace.' the Emmanuel Move
ment is perilous in a practical way
wherever and whenever it jumps the
r..,." ti, nerils of which I would
now speak are ven more serious. They
.t inet-tt.hle when any individual
church undertakes to exploit the healing
or disease in an organized and systematic
way Such perils are under the Emman
uel Movement less in amount, but not
different in kind from those incident to
the practice or tho healing cults-
The tendency of aU healing cults is to
health ond relUdon. or. at least.
to make the one the measure of the
other. It will be urged that this is not
the Intention, it is a "TV
less. In my Judgment, that this Is the
. i a man was asked: Are you
interested In a certain healing cult?" He
u-,t "I rertillnlv OUEht tO be. It
I C J.'tJI " -
which keeps watch and ward over
tin
w-:ivs of human genius, was the tute-
larv angel of F.dgar Allan Poe from
the cradle to the grave. Everywhere
he turned there was the iron decree
which, while separating him from the
mass, rendered him miserably unhappy
Never was man more blessed (? with
biographers who were in the majority
of cases self-appointed. than Kdgar
Allen Poe. And each with hardly an
exception has been guilty of minor or
major mis-statements. From Giiswold
to Harrison, they either make the odd
statement that tne piacc ui ......
lineage Is immaterial lo the poet make
up or say with an hidden an
,- ikit Poe's erandfather w
air ui iipi-
Vlr-
ginia wheelwright who ground out the
very wheels that F.dgar is credited
with carrying in his head.
Now. with our friend Bobby Bums
it does not . matter over much anoui
(he -rank' and even less aouui
guinea stamp. "A man's a man for a
that But no one will deny,' least or
all in these days or Daughters of the
American Revolution and feverish
search into the graves and secrets of
our forefathers, the virtue of having
ancestors who from the common
ground of the people performed some
act that elevated them to a post above
their fellows, for that is how the primi
tive titles and names were earned by
sheer merit.
The name Poe, which is an Ameri
can corruption of . Ie . Poer. is an
old Italian one, antedating- the name of
the River Po. which followed the an
cient spelling of the family for which
it was named. The family, like other
Anglo-Norman settlers in Ireland,
passed through Normandy from Italy
and thence through England and Wales
Into Ireland where for a long period
they retained hereditary Italian traits.
Descendants of the family were found
In Ireland as early as 1327. nut now
the name was in Gaelltc form toer.
"Where was Edgar Poe born?. I have
been shown the house In Norfolk. a.,
where he is supposed to have come into
where ne is aupcu .
LIMITATIONS, PERILS
cured me of a rupture." Now a man wim
is Interested in religion because it cured
him of a rupture, is Interested for nr
better- reason nor upon any higher ground
than the interest of another man in
Runaways Ready Relief or In Dr. Brown s
Sanitarium. Sick people leave their for
mer church connections, or disconnec
tions, because they have been persuaded
to try this or that healing cult, and upon
trial have found it entirely or partly suc
cessful. If they rail to recover, howew-
ihrv refuse to ally memseivea wiui .....
w'imt cult: or ir once under
ts spell.
v.fe.i to Imagine themselves well whe
they are not (which is about as bad as
the' ooposite). or to blame themselves or
their ' supposed mental or moral delin
quencies rather than any possible short
coming in the system they have espoused.
It i alwavs protested by the healing
cults that physical health Is not the main
object rar rrom it: physical health. only
registers the state or the mind. But
this contention that physical health is an
Inevitable register, an unavoidable conse
quence of a state of mind, is morally
TER TO HOIMAMA
1
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"'lofittnisa
ta
Huatlngtom Wilson.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.
(Special.) Huntington Wilson
han Just been appointed Mlnls-
ter to Roumania. He has been .
Assistant Secretary of State, and
berore that was secretary of the . i
legation at Toklo. He has a
fine diplomatic record.
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A .WFjtl '
i viTfll KTITI.C MIMS-
1900.
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the world. Bostoiiians have assured
me with an awful emphasis, thai his
first worldly home was in their .ii;iint
town. As a matter of fact Maryland,
not Virginia or Massachusetts, can Just
ly claim "the weird poet of the night
as her own. . .
In 'Januarv. 1S05. the Hopkins the
atrical company, of which the 1 poets
parents were members, was filling an
engagement at tne iii -a
ter, Baltimore, a famous playhouse,
where the best talent of tho 19th cen
tury performed and which was .the
first theater in the Vnlted States to bo
lighted bv gas. On the evening ot the
Wth of the month. Kdgor Allan, the
second child of David and Elizabeth
Poe was born In a boardlng-house at
Number 9 Front street, two doors from
0,0 01.1 -Hot tower. The w
kent bv a Mrs. Beers, who afterwards
asserted that she had to provide clothes
for the little stranger. The place Is
now utilized as a German drinking sa
loon. This spot where the lovers of
The Raven" and "The Bells" should
worshlD and revere is now - acsec,
ited
by the clinking beer KUsses and
the hilarity of their devotees. Boston
says Poe was born In that city on that
eventful nignx which " ... . .
American literature. But the "Hub of
the Universe" must grant that many
a poet has never breathed the com
bined fragrance of cod and salt air from
her classic Back Bay. ,'...-
The infant Edgar was seen by relatives
of the Poe family when ho was but a
dav and a half old. and on such occa
sions grandmothers and aunts are not
apt to he mistaken. There Is every
proof of his -Baltimore birth. The Balti
more Sun. In comment upon his death,
Svs "M- Poe. we believe, is a native
of' tills city (Baltimore)." There seems
to be no question of it during hia lifetime-
it was only when his fame was as
sured that other cities, awakening to a
realization of his merits, demanded a
share of the spoils. The world knows ti e
history of his life until his tragic .lea h.
He was not so much a victim of drink
as a victim of circumstances. Old friends
and neighbors, mother-in-law teachers,
bovhood and college mates, have re-,
fined this fabrication. There is a legend
In our family that stimulant in t.ie light
est form would excite him and act almost
Instantly on his nerves. A cup of cof
fee has been known to have had the ef
fect of liquor.
His "Raven" was not written while in
the madness of delirium tremens. No. de
lirium tremens does not have that effect:
If it did. how many poets of nowadays
would gladly indulge in fiery liquors In
the efforts also to write a "Raven or
an equal masterpiece.
ralstf. And yet it Is one of the very ,
perils to which the Emmanuel Movement,
in common with the healing cults, is lia
ble whenever its practice falls into ignor
ant or unwisely enthusiast!.! hands. It
Is precisely of a piece with the character
istic doctrine of ancient orthodox Juda
Nm fnot the Judaism of the prophets!:
namelv-. that material prosperity is an
inevitable result of righteousness and
vice versa. If a man was unfortunate
in his worldly aftahs. it was because he
had done something wrong; if he was
1 prosperous he migm .... u " "
u J cording to tne i-nim'. ---
perltv that his lire was as ..i,.-.... ...
need be. Now. without doubt, certain
virtues like diligence, courtesy, temper
ance and honesty are. on the whole con
ducive to material prosperity. But it is
t true, at all to say- that all prosperous
men are good and all poor men .
d tiO of character auu uen.t.
questionably, right states and nanus oi
mind are conducive .u - -
versa- but it outrages all moral sense, as
in tho parallel case just cited, to main
tain that all well people are so because
thev are virtuous, and that all sufficient
ly virtuous people will De inc. ' .
The facts, facts on every
neal to all normal moral scun.u. ...- ,
clearly against this. For most ot us Know
well people, even people wuo ,.....--..-ally
been made well by some healing cult,
who are singularly selfish and self-cen
tered, yet withal quite ciiec;.u... .
1 t,w oeople of singular integrity.
dignity, unselfishness and serenity who
are lifelong invalids. Why do such thor
oughly right-minded people continue to be
mf shalf we heed the answer ot eomo
perhaps
.... !.u,. ,,t,itii in
far less won.. ......... .
whose case
'right attituae oi miuu
' Whydoes the patient ho faithfully
tries "some healing cult rail to recover?
Because he has not held the right
Umught. What evidence , ha.ve you that
he did not hold the right thought? He
,vin, circular, or more charac
teristic of the ' liaoillties Incident to a
priori ways or thinking. Were one cyni
cally inclined he would suspect that the
,.Ti ,.ti t-anahla of such pseudo-
reasoning would be precisely the Undlhat
is susceptible to the sort or disorders in
which psychotherapy is indicated,
i . .ho Emanuel Movement is in
danger of Juet such error and of attend
ant consequence, whenever it is trystem
aticallv exploited, i. e.. when it becomes a
definite and advertised department of
church work, with clinics, treatments, etc.
With the best of motives, and even In
strict ridelity to Its first principles of ac
.. i. r.ol danerer or all the
tion, .ne tj b ' , , . . .
moral wrong and personal cruelty inci
dent to the healing cults, wrongs and cru
elties Incident to any procedure - that
even unintentionally leads people to sup
pose that physical health is an Inevitable
outward sign or Inward grace.
There are two kinds of religious men In
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W. "' :t;'::;:5' "
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Addicted to tho use of liquors he-might
have been, but he was not kii
drunkard at all during his life-tune, lo
be unfortunate is not to be evil. I my
mind the quality of evil is never to h.
applied to the unfortunate. The.,- actions
are beyond their volition. Thoj. tw.
would bo honorable but physical crav
ings denv them this privilege f nmo is
11. i . .inn thai should be nour
ished and fed until the spirit reborn into
life casts away tho crust, of crime and
erans the loaf of rec titude.
"The. Bells." that haunting bit of word
melodv' was not tho inspiration or Mrs.
Whftman. but a Baltimore poem written
in one of those periodical visits to Balti
more after the death of Virginia when
with an inborn love of the Maryland cit5,
he would return to the
treats of youth and manhood. The hm s.
where this famous poem was '"""J;'"'
stands and a visit to it last week awoke
man reminiscences from its o-npants
Judce Guiles, who was Poe's host that
memnrablo night when the wild resonant
music of the sleigh be Is awoke like music
pyi'tte1ouU tfter thymine
fnark ? had I left him is still utilized as a
Uw office, and strange to say Is oecu
nied by the grandnephew of Judge Guiles
A Pariett Lloyd, a pension attorney of
BaNrrrHol,Ingsford street on Pratt it
was not difficult to locate the ojste.
?h?p of the Widow Meaghers where the
mize storv. "The Gold Bug." was wrlt
prize stoo . oyster barrel for
lendesk and the notse of outgoing and
the divine flow of Poo ' aln"lu"- !
to tradition the place Is still a grog k e .
rhemd in" freUnUng ,the . taverm
htTer beeen shrouded ln,
one3 could tell them but Poe , hlm-el
i n,AritiA-4 of the PluK bdilf
Thcy we"!e members of a secret society,
their lips are therefore sealed.
l-l.vono .for
in all probatolity thc rendcred
thought of until after ea.s tra(Utlong
any story I'lauM,) . . t authentic
and records, howey e . haxe ins a
version of the finding of P atnep
night of October . ' J, down
first cousm of the poet.
m
ANDPOITryEJVALUES
the world The one man -ays: x .
in my religion. I ou.ht to . .
because it a.. 'glory n,y
Ltacle" in the flesh which neither phM
c an no anv other means can cure.
m so far as the Hmmanuel Slovemc.it
follow" so.no tendencies a"-";;
fest. it will incur the practical p.-r.ls Intl
dent to all a priori ways of . hmk.ng . and
the moral dangers inciuem
or exaggeratedly utilitarian views of icll
Nothing shouiu ue , -,.y,
scure the truth that ciiaractei . ...
consideration than physical health that
one is not the precise measure or regis er
of the other, often far from it: and that
the supremo and dusttncnie "
church is character.
Positive Values.
The writer believes that the -Emmanuel
movement has great positive value. If
it adheres to its first principles. namei.
scientific method and the precedence o.
phvsician. the name Emmanuel Move
ment should be kept and honored. If It
flie- the track, as may happen unless
some tendencies already discernible are
checked, the sooner the name Emmanuel
Movement Is dropped the better. Then
Its great Idea would have to be worked
out under some other name or no name
at all. For tho movement, whether by
the name Emmanuel or not w,i
or fall bv its true principles. What
ever positive significance It may have
Is independent of the name and well
within the bounds of the practical lim
its that have been pointed out and of
the perils Incident to hasty, ignorant
or systematic exploitation.
First of all. in any consideration or
its positive values, we ought to call at
tention to the interest it has excited in
all intelligent and alert physicians. lhe
are studying as never before, the valid
claims or a genuinely scientific psycho
therapy: they are coming as never be
rore. I think, to a scientific analysis and
appi-eciation of the moral and mental
co-efficients in all nervous and so-called
functional disorders, and of the rela
tion thereto of moral counsel and re
education. .
Moreover, for the minister wno knows
the principles and methods or psycho
therapy and for any community where
in he may have any influence, the great
est significance lies not in those spe
cial and rare cases In which a physi
cian would call In a minister to co
operate or In those cases in which he
undertakes systematic clinics and treat
ments with a physician regularly re
tained for consultation, but rather in the
Increased efficacy or his preaching and
, pastoral offices. It 1 easy to underesti-
r
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Baltimore street on the imsht of the ...1
of October when he saw lyiW under t.ie
,cl of the Baltimore Museum, coiner or
Baltimore and Calvert streets, a man in
what he thought was a drunken stupoi.
It was
.lection ll'gnr auu --
iimiiriit was that it was some
.U1C uvn -
. ; ;...tiiiiT..iico of.tim .lay.
1'iiy
f,r tho unfortunate caused him to !) ml
over the tnau when, to hi.s ?
... it his Cousin llgar. tiinckls
sending a message to Neilsou Poe. anoth
er cousin who lived "car. he took a ai
riugo and, placid tho si HI ""';'"'
poet in it. look him to the Washington
l-nivoreitv Hospital, now the church home
.. x-r,i, ti,.,h.1m;iv- For over three das
the doctors worked
miavailingly to at
tt.o Mm to cons, lonsnesi
est, but in
vain. The case was diagnosed as dnm
poisoning and exposure couihuied with a
weak heart proved fatal. On Sunday
morning. OctoUr 7. as tho augc us w. s
ringing all over the city, his soul pa.-nrd
with the bells out into the surgiuS sea or
death. Followed to the end by his at
tending guardian, his last words have
ben reported, how urgently I cannot say.
"Would to God someone would blow my
damned brains out."
The following day a little funeral train
went through the city of Bal.imore No
one turned to look aft. it and vet it wa
the Monumental City's most gif ed I s. m
going to his long rest. Not a bell tolled
fxcePt those bells of fancy he had Im
mortalized. Reaching TV .slnilnster
Church vard. where hia ancestors were
burled, he was placed In an open gra vc .n
lot 27. by the side of David Poe. hl
grandfather, a E volutionary patriot. The
committal service was read by the . Re.
W D. Clemm. n distant relative of Mr
ginia Clemm. Even in death the ailencn
he claimed is denied him, for the noises
of tho city surge outfiido the gates, but
they do not mar the peace of the K"e
in after years the monument Provided
by tho family being destroyed Miss Sar
ah S. Rice, principal of the Central re
male. High School, having her sympatic,
aroused by his neglected grave collec ed
funds for a small monument under which
he was reinterred in 1875 with imposing
ceremonies, and forever laid at rest by
So side of Virginia and Mrs. ,CTmm
"Poor Edgar Allen Poe." the world
savs How poor? The rewards and pleas
ured of genius lie in the soul of genius
itself : what does It matter what the world
thinks? Its arter remote .
thl, increased efficacy, for it can
not be set forth statistically nor by pub
lic testimonials. There will be no defl-
itely organized body of the "cured
And yet Somewhat far-reaching mnrt b
thc effect In his work for any mi.stcr
who, beginning with a good knowledge or
the elements of anatomy, nhj Elolog.
psychology, both normal and patho
weic is tl us enabled the better to a, -p
y his more special thought. Epc'al
lv will he be able to prevent many a
time where he would fail to cure
I am convinced that tho principles of
tho Emmanuel movement are sound . 1
believe that a minister who is scientific
ally trained and who understands the
me'lliods of psychotherapy, could so ap
ply those principles as lo be of assist
ance in almost any Illness, con d add In
many cases the one element that nia
make the difference between failure and
success, and could in exceptional , a.--
bo intrusted by the physician ex.-I. i-.vely
In counseling a patient. These things
I believe. But after pretty careful ob
servation of some of the actual deye op
ments of the movement. I eel that se
result can best he achieved without
definite systcmati.ation within the church
as a part of its organized life, "hat
ever values there are In the principle,
or the ICmmanucl Movement, and thc
are considerable, they will be best real
ized without organization nnd exploita
tion if the dangers incident to the ....) -ment
are to be avoided and higher con
siderations faithfully maintained.
Meantime nothing Is to be gamed In
the study of this or any similar ques
tion bv thoughtless partisanship either
for or against, t'n tne -.n,.
;r . , i, .rained by earnest and
candid consideration and sober
ment.
juds
VINTBR.
t.
Old "Winter comes forth with the
ance of old.
And heeds not the lilgn or io
He wraps a white mantle
'round Mothei
Karth's breast
And calls on his winds to blow.
The sun is aloft, but scarce t?nipT th
Or warms the cold ice kind's breath.
And woe to the traveler out on the trail.
He's nlajing a game w itti ac.ith.
The sun goeth down; when the evaotids
.o..u sfm to moan and wail.
A . aim only comes for a moment,
and then
The snrieK oi n sirousc - ,.i
The stars peeping out in the far puipn
TVeat. ,. , .
The moon adding lustrous hprht.
The wind nhifUnK snow into '"l'"" heaps
Ah! Beauty Is Queen of Msnt.
Come on, oh ye North Wind whose cruel
aii chills .
And wraps the horizon from plain to the
And d'eadens the verdure and turns earth
Come mi. "oh" ye Winter, thou stardest alone
As monarch of all. till H'V ?,a,''" ' ''.'r
And Spring comes Hfraln with the bless
ing, of yrejIMA V13STI MH.I.ER.