not come when the immense development of our internal resources and the marvellous growth of our domestic and foreign commerce and a realization of our virile strength have not stimulated that Anglo-Saxon restlessness which beats with the blood of the race into an activity which will not be quenched until we have finally planted our standard in that far-off archipelago which inevitable destiny has intrusted to our hands?

Time alone can make clear the duty we owe ourselves and the people of the Philippines. To-day we face the question of rejecting or emasculating the conclusions solemnly reached by the commissioners of Spain and the United States or of standing loyally by our Government. For myself there is but one path; to my vision, in the support of the Government alone lies honor.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

LYMAN ABBOTT.

LYMAN ABBOTT, editor, author, clergyman, was born in Roxbury, Mass., December 18, 1835. He was graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1853, and received the degree of D.D. from Harvard. He entered upon the practice of law in Boston, but in 1860 was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church. He became pastor of a Congregational Church in Terre Haute, Ind., where he remained from 1860 to 1865. Then he took charge of the New England Church in New York City from 1865 to 1869. He then resigned his pastorate to devote himself to literature. He became editor of The Literary Record of Harper's Magazine, and associate editor with Henry Ward Beecher of The Christian Union. He succeeded Beecher as pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, in May, 1888, but resigned after a pastorate of ten years, and is now editor of The Outlook. He is author of the following works : "Old Testament Shadows of New Testament Truth; "“A Layman's Story; "Life of Christ; "Evolution of Christianity;

"Dictionary of Religious Knowledge" (in connection with T. J. Conant); "Christianity and Social Problems; "Illustrated Commentary on the New Testament; " "How to Study the Bible; "In Aid of Faith;' ""A Study in Human Nature; "The Life and Epistles of Paul;" and "Theology of an Evolutionist." His public addresses throughout the United States have created marked interest, and have been of a high character from the standpoint of oratory.

JAMES BURRILL ANGELL.

JAMES BURRILL ANGELL, President of the University of Michigan, was born at Scituate, R. I., January 7, 1829. He was graduated from Brown University in 1849, and was Professor of Modern Languages and Literature there from 1853 to 1860. During the war he edited the Providence Journal. In 1866 he became Presi

dent of the University of Vermont, and remained five years, when he was elected to the presidency of the University of Michigan. In 1880-81 he was United States Minister Plenipotentiary to China, and acted as commissioner in negotiating several treaties. In 1887 he was a member of the Anglo-American Commission on Canadian Fisheries, and in 1896 was Chairman of the Canadian-American Commission on Deep Waterways from the Great Lakes to the sea. In 1897 he received the appointment, under President McKinley, as Minister to Turkey, but resigned after a year of service. President Angell is much sought by educational and other associations throughout the United States for public addresses. He is the author of numerous articles in leading reviews, and is authority on international law, on which subject he is lecturer in the University of Michigan.

JOHN HENRY BARROWS.

JOHN HENRY BARROWS, clergyman, and President of Oberlin College, was born in Medina, Mich., in 1847. He was graduated from Olivet College, Michigan, in 1867. Afterward he studied at Yale College, at Union and Andover Theological Seminaries, and at Göttingen, Germany. He received the honorary degree of D.D. from Lake Forest University. He was pastor at Lawrence, Mass., and at Boston, and again for fourteen years at the First Presbyterian Church at Chicago. He organized and was president of the World's Parliament of Religions in 1893. In 1896 and 1897 he was lecturer in India in connection with the University of Chicago, and was lecturer at Union Theological Seminary, New York, in 1898, and on Comparative Religions at the University of Chicago. He became President of Oberlin College in 1899. He is author of the following works: "The History of the Parliament of Religions; "The World Pilgrimage;" "Christianity the World Religion;" "The Life of Henry Ward Beecher;" "The Christian Conquest in India." He is in great demand as a lecturer on comparative religions and other religious and educational subjects, and is author of many articles in leading magazines.

JAMES WHITFORD BASHFORD.

JAMES WHITFOrd Bashford, President of the Ohio Wesleyan University, was born at Fayette, Wis., May 27, 1849. He was educated in the public schools, and afterwards entered the Univer

sity of Wisconsin, from which he was graduated in 1873, and received the degree of A. M. in 1876. He received the degree of B.D. from the Boston University School of Theology. He was also graduated from the School of Oratory of that university in 1878, and was appointed Lecturer on Oratory in the same school. In 1881 he received the degree of Ph.D. from the School of All Sciences of Boston University. In 1890 Northwestern University conferred upon him the degree of D.D. In 1874 he was appointed instructor in Greek in the University of Wisconsin. He was pastor of M. E. churches in Boston and Auburndale, Mass., Portland, Me., and Buffalo, N. Y. In 1889 he was elected President of the Ohio Wesleyan University. He is author of "The Science of Religion," and his addresses on various topics throughout the country are listened to with marked interest.

ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE.

ALBERT J. BEVERIDGE, United States Senator from Indiana, was born in Adams County, Ohio, October 6, 1862. After the Civil War the family removed to Illinois. He attended the common schools and the high school of Sullivan, Ill. He then entered De Pauw University, Indiana, from which he was graduated in 1885. In his senior year he won the oratorical contest of his university and the Intercollegiate contest of the State of Indiana, and the same year the Interstate oratorical contest, held at Columbus, O., in which representatives of ten States participated. He then entered the law office of Senator McDonald, of Indianapolis, in which he became managing clerk. Later he was admitted to the bar, and was associated with McDonald & Butler until he began practice alone. He became celebrated as a jury lawyer and won many important cases. He persistently refused office, but was most active in every campaign in the State, and was sought by Republican committees from other States as a most vigorous and popular campaigner. He made addresses before the Union League and Marquette Clubs of Chicago, the Alger Club of Detroit, and the leading clubs in Boston, New York, Pittsburg, and St. Louis. In 1898 he entered the Senatorial campaign in Indiana and was elected. Immediately thereafter he made a trip to the Far East, visiting China and our new possessions. On his return he entered the Senate, and was at once looked upon as the man best prepared to speak on the Philippine question. His speech was widely read and commented upon.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.

WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN was born at Salem, Ill., March 19, 1860. He was educated in the public schools and at Whipple Academy, Jacksonville, Ill. He later entered Illinois College at Jacksonville, from which he was graduated in 1881, and from which he received the degree of A.M. in 1884. He was valedictorian of his class and was a very devoted student of oratory. He represented Illinois College in the Intercollegiate contest of the State. He entered Union College of Law, Chicago, and was graduated in 1883. He began the practice of law at Jacksonville, Ill., where he remained four years. He then removed to Lincoln, Neb., which has since been his residence. He was a member of Congress two terms, from 1891 to 1895. He was nominated by the Democratic Party of his own State for Senator from Nebraska in 1893, and again in 1894, but was defeated in the Legislature. He became editor of the Omaha World-Herald in 1894. He was a delegate to the National Democratic Convention in 1896, wrote the silver plank in the platform and made the famous speech, which won him the Democratic nomination for President. During the campaign he travelled nearly twenty thousand miles, speaking almost constantly. He received 176 of the 447 electoral votes for President. In 1897-98 he lectured throughout the country on various topics, chiefly bimetallism. In May, 1898, he organized the Third Regiment of Nebraska Volunteers for the Spanish War, and was appointed its colonel. He is the author of "The First Battle" and many magazine and newspaper articles, and is looked upon as the natural selection of his party for the Democratic nomination for 1900.

DONELSON CAFFERY.

DONELSON CAFFERY, United States Senator from Louisiana, was born in St. Mary's Parish in that State, September 10, 1835. He was educated at St. Mary's College, Maryland. He studied law in Louisiana, and was admitted to the bar there. He served in the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War. After the war, in addition to his law practice, he became actively engaged in the management of a large sugar plantation. He was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1879, became State Senator in 1892, and in 1893 was elected to the Senate of the United States. His present term expires in 1901.