o be
a public speaker, a lecturer, an orator?

_Answer_. We call this America of ours free, and yet I found it
was very far from free. Our writers and our speakers declared that
here in America church and state were divorced. I found this to
be untrue. I found that the church was supported by the state in
many ways, that people who failed to believe certain portions of
the creeds were not allowed to testify in courts or to hold office.
It occurred to me that some one ought to do something toward making
this country intellectually free, and after a while I thought that
I might as well endeavor to do this as wait for another. This is
the way in which I came to make speeches; it was an action in favor
of liberty. I have said things because I wanted to say them, and
because I thought they ought to be said.

_Question_. Perhaps you will tell me your methods as a speaker,
for I'm sure it would be interesting to know them?

_Answer_. Sometimes, and frequently, I deliver a lecture several
times before it is written. I have it taken by a shorthand writer,
and afterward written out. At other times I have dictated a lecture,
and delivered it from manuscript. The course pursued depends on
how I happen to feel at the time. Sometimes I read a lecture, and
sometimes I deliver lectures without any notes--this, again,
depending much on how I happen to feel. So far as methods are
concerned, everything should depend on feeling. Attitude, gestures,
voice, emphasis, should all be in accord with and spring from
feeling, from the inside.

_Question_. Is there any possibility of your coming to England,
and, I need hardly add, of your coming to speak?

_Answer_. I have thought of going over to England, and I may do
so. There is an England in England for which I have the highest
possible admiration, the England of culture, of art, of principle.

--_The Sketch_, London, Eng., March 21, 1894.

CATHOLICISM AND PROTESTANTISM. THE POPE, THE A. P. A., AGNOSTICISM
AND THE CHURCH.

_Question_. Which do you regard as the better, Catholicism or
Protestantism?

_Answer_. Protestantism is better than Catholicism because there
is less of it. Protestantism does not teach that a monk is better
than a husband and father, that a nun is holier than a mother.
Protestants do not believe in the confessional. Neither do they
pretend that priests can forgive sins. Protestantism has fewer
ceremonies and less opera bouffe, clothes,