A man in the South writes to us as follows, making an unusual inquiry: 

“I write you this to ask you do you take married ladies in your school, and if so I want to send my wife at once.  Please send me the terms of the school and what she will need.  My wife wants an education and my desire is to give it to her.  You will greatly oblige me to answer this on return mail.”

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ADDRESS OF PRESIDENT EATON,

AT THE ANNUAL MEETING IN CHICAGO.

God, who writes his thoughts in the development of a nation, not less than in the grouping of constellations or in the drama of the physical world, has spoken in the birth and history of our land with startling distinctness.  In every people we may see an ideal of God embodied, however imperfectly realized by human achievement.  Happy is that people who can see God’s ideal for them, and those statesmen who have it in their hearts to lead the people along the line of God’s thought.  To get at something of God’s thought for us, we must go back even into those dark Teutonic forests into which the Roman world peered with so much fear and awe, and out of which came those freemen who knew how to leap upon that Roman world in its pride and its weakness and re-assert human liberty.

Those old ancestors of ours knew what freedom was; but as they came against that Roman world, they themselves were in part conquered by it, and they lost something of that freedom.  But God set apart one corner of the European world for them, and called over the English Channel in the fifth century those forefathers of ours, there to watch for a century and a half that tremendous conflict in which the very plow-share of the Teutons went through the roots of the Roman life in Britain and left nothing but Teutonic fields remaining.  And then God brought into this Britain, thus set apart, the gospel of Christ, and our forefathers became Christians—­not Christians such as there were in other parts of Europe, but having that free and independent Christian life that shone forth in men like Wyckliffe, denying the power of the keys to Rome except where Rome spoke with Christ’s voice, and in men like Latimer, before whom the proud Henry trembled.

All over England were sown these seeds of a free Christian faith; so that when Luther came, it was in England as in our country when the forest fires have ceased, and suddenly there spring up from the sod a new forest because the seeds lie in the prairie from age to age.  So in our English soil there were those seeds of Christian freedom that sprung forth and gave us a free and Protestant England.  And then, in the reaction, when Mary was on the throne, and the fire at Smithfield was kindled, the Christian men of England went to Geneva and there met John Calvin, whose system of Christian thought set the soul of man forth, in his awful agony of sin, and in God’s redemption for him—­set him forth independent of kings and rulers, and in