The London Spectator recently gave a biography of former Secretary of State JOHN HAY and I give an excerpt from the same: "It was natural that Hay should despise the arts of the demagogue. He speaks with scorn of what he calls 'gutter Ciceros,' and of the practice adopted during a sharp electoral campaign of 'hiring dirty orators by the dozen to blather on street corners.' He very rightly held that it was the special duty of statesmen in democratic countries to have the courage of their opinions. He himself wrote a novel, entitled 'The Bread Winners,' which was widely read, and which was really an elaborate defence of capital against the attacks of labor; and in 1905 he wrote to President Roosevelt: 'It is a comfort to see the most popular man in America telling the truth to our masters, the people. It requires no courage to attack wealth and power, but to remind the masses that they too are subject to the law is something few public men dare to do.' "America at her best can produce men of a very high type. Such a man was John Hay." Part Second Spirits and the Spirit Land. 1. Reveries in the Country. It was a day in January. The desultory snow-flakes were skudding here and there and a white mantle was becoming visible on the fence tops and pine trees, and as I gazed dreamily from the window of my study I heard the church bell in the belfry of the village church peal out its glad tidings of love; and as its decadence faded away, a thought peaceful and quiet captured my soul,--it seemed as if the reverberating voice of the holy bell had told me a story--a secret of happiness and peace. 2. Redemption of the World. And as I settled back in my broad wicker arm chair before the blazing hearth fire I said to my inner soul: "How beautiful is this moment! Can I perpetuate the sentiments which give me joy on this Sabbath day, can I delve into the laws of comfort and rest and emerge with a TROPHY TO REDEEM THE WORLD?" 3. Spirit and Matter. The scintillating sparks in the fireplace rose up on the wings of a golden glow, paused for a moment and then I saw a flash of pure white light gleam like the star of Bethlehem. I had seen the wild, red coals changed to peaceful, redeemed souls of light. 4. A Truism of Nature an Eternal Principle. The church bell, emblematic of religion, and the "white spark," a ubiquitous principle of the universe; visions of the superstructure of the millennium, rose up before me--religion and science hand in hand, science the fact and religion the herald or harbinger. 5. Matter Only the Wake of Spirit.