contribute the massive timbers that form her keel and shapely ribs, were still waving, in all their leafy splendor, along the slopes of rock-ribbed Katahdin. They have lost the life of the tree, and utterly missed the grander life of the ship. What idea of a ship would one have who should never see any ship but that? How utterly would the true idea of the ship, the full-rigged ship, spreading every sail, like some mighty bird poised over the water, an image of triumphant power, of all-conquering beauty, or scudding with bare poles before the angry waves, like a hunted deer, - fail of entering his imagination!

The "Ship of State" has furnished metaphor alike to poet and orator; but I have thought, ofttimes, that it was the long-housed ship on the stocks, and not the real child of the sea, after which they modelled. To ride out the storms of turbulent populations, to bear the passengers safe over the trackless sea; that is the end and object of the ship: therefore it is to the practical sailing qualities, not simply to the "constitutional" ribs, that the eyes and thoughts of the statesmen, the navigators, must be directed. How to keep the ship true to her course, how to avoid the rocks and reefs and lee-shores of politics, these are the problems. I know no other guides than the fixed stars of principle. They must

know well the heavenly landmarks who would navigate safely over unknown seas. When clouds and tempest obscure the stars, sad will it be for that nation whose pilots have not some compass by which to lay the line true to the pole. For republican statesmen, that compass is to be found alone in an innate, unalterable love of Liberty and Justice. Such pilots has the good Ship found in times past, nor, under God's guidance, shall she lack them in the days to come.