faith. He did but remind the children of the burden of
gratitude laid upon them. "Would you let him stiffer so much in vain?
His suffering has made you and me happier and better to-day, at this
moment, than we could have been without Jesus. You will understand how,
and why, more clearly when you grow up. Let us in return keep him in our
hearts always, and obey his words! It is all you can do for his sake,
just as all you could do for a mother who died would be to follow her
wishes and sacredly keep her memory."

'That was about the gist of it. It was a strange little scene,
wonderfully suggestive and pathetic.

'But a few more words about the Sunday service. After the address came
a hymn. There are only seven hymns in the little service book, gathered
out of the finest we have. It is supposed that in a short time they will
become so familiar to the members of the Brotherhood that they will
be sung readily by heart. The singing of them in the public service
alternates with an equal number of Psalms. And both Psalms and hymns are
meant to be recited or sung constantly in the homes of the members, and
to become part of the every-day life of the Brotherhood. They have been
most carefully chosen, and a sort of ritual importance has been attached
to them from the beginning. Each day in the week has its particular hymn
or Psalm.

'Then the whole wound up with another short prayer, also repeated
standing, a commendation of the individual, the Brotherhood, the nation,
the world, to God. The phrases of it are terse and grand. One can see at
once that it has laid hold of the popular sense, the popular memory. The
Lord's Prayer followed. Then, after a silent pause of "recollection,"
Elsmere dismissed them.

'"_Go in peace, in the love of God, and in the memory of His servant,
Jesus_."

'I looked, carefully at the men as they were tramping out. Some of them
were among the Secularist speakers you and I heard at the club in April.
In my wonder, I thought of a saying of Vinet's: "_C'est pour la religion
que le peuple a le plus de talent; c'est en religion qu'il montre le
plus d'esprit._"

In a later letter he wrote:----

'I have not yet described to you what is perhaps the most
characteristic, the most binding practice of the New Brotherhood. It is
that which has raised most angry comment, cries of "profanity," "wanton
insult," and whatnot. I came upon it yesterday in an interesting Way. I
was working with Elsmere at the arran