ion opens them and truth blossoms in eloquence.

The tongue is tipped with the flame that leaps from the altar-fire of
the soul.

Ingersoll and Phillips were absolutely true to their convictions. They
attacked monstrous evils and were hated and denounced. Had they yielded
to the furies which assailed them they would have perished. But the
fiercer the attacks upon them the stauncher they stood and the more
eloquent and powerful they became. The truth fired their souls, flashed
from their eyes, and inspired their lips.

There is no inspiration in evil and no power except for its own
destruction.

He who aspires to master the art of expression must first of all
consecrate himself completely to some great cause, and the greatest
cause of all is the cause of humanity. He must learn to feel deeply and
think clearly to express himself eloquently. He must be absolutely true
to the best there is in him, if he has to stand alone.

Such natural powers as he may have should be cultivated by the study of
history, science and literature. He must not only keep close to the
people but remember that he is one of them, and not above the meanest.
He must feel the wrongs of others so keenly that he forgets his own, and
resolve to combat these wrongs with all the power at his command.

The most thrilling and inspiring oratory, the most powerful and
impressive eloquence is the voice of the disinherited, the oppressed,
the suffering and submerged; it is the voice of poverty and misery, of
rags and crusts, of wretchedness and despair; the voice of humanity
crying to the infinite; the voice that resounds throughout the earth and
reaches heaven; the voice that awakens the conscience of the race and
proclaims the truths that fill the world with light and liberty and
love.

JESUS, THE SUPREME LEADER.

Coming Nation (Formerly Progressive Woman), March, 1914.

It matters little whether Jesus was born at Nazareth or Bethlehem. The
accounts conflict, but the point is of no consequence.

It is of consequence, however, that He was born in a stable and cradled
in a manger. This fact of itself, about which there is no question,
certifies conclusively the proletarian character of Jesus Christ. Had
His parents been other than poor working people--money-changers,
usurers, merchants, lawyers, scribes, priests or other parasites--He
would not have been delivered from His mother's womb on a bed of straw
in a stable among asses and other anim