receive with reverence your salutory admonitions and orders. Whatever sentence or penalty you shall declare or inflict duly against those who oppose your authority we will ratify, and, with the authority given us by the Lord, will cause to be observed inviolably until condign satisfaction be made. Notwithstanding constitutions and apostolic ordinances, or any other to the contrary.

Given at Rome, in St. Peter's, under the Fisherman's Ring, this 24th day of January, 1893, of Our Pontificate the 15th year.

[Countersigned.]

SERAFINO CARDINAL VANUTELLI.

ELLIOT F. SHEPARD'S sudden and unexpected death removes from American public life one who reinforced by a generous use of great wealth the influence of his position as editor, politician and reformer. He was descended from a long line of most worthy ancestors. The Rev. Thomas Shepard, first pastor of the Shepard Memorial Church, now standing under Washington's elm at Cambridge, Mass., was the earliest representative of the family in America. Colonel Shepard was educated to the law and his training in that profession was of much service to him in his work as editor. Married to a daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt, he was accustomed to dispense a princely hospitality at his mansion on Fifth avenue. He was president of the American Sabbath Union. No one rendered more effective service than he did in securing from Congress the law conditioning Federal aid to the World's Fair on Sunday closing of the Exhibition. His departure will not cripple the great cause of Sunday reIt will necessitate, however, redoubled activity on the part of its friends, if the loss of this wealthy and powerful leader is to be made good.

LADY HENRY SOMERSET'S and Miss Willard's joint photogravure, which forms our frontispiece, is from a Boston photograph taken during Lady Somerset's first visit to America. It has been chosen by us not only because of the unadorned accuracy of the portraits, but as illustrating a memorable friendship, now of national and international importance, in

the memorable history of woman's work for woman.

Miss Willard's portrait bust by Miss Whitney, now on exhibition in Boston, is to be shown at the World's Fair and ultimately placed in the Temperance Temple, Chicago. It is a wonderfully successful representation, not only of head and features, but of combined size, symmetry, shrewdness, strength and spirituality of soul. Miss Whitney has also executed highly successful busts Mrs. Stowe.

of Mrs. Livermore and

OUR DAY

VOL. XI.-MAY, 1893.-No. 65.

DEFECTS OF NEW ENGLAND SABBATH LAWS.

ADDRESS OF REV. WILBUR F. CRAFTS TO THE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE OF BOSTON, MARCH 20, 1893.

The New England spirit has been the soul and heart of American history. A few years ago, in Central Park, New York, I witnessed a most impressive recognition of this fact. It was at the dedication of the Pilgrim Monument. Pilgrim and Puritan were treated for the occasion as one. Indeed, it was the New England spirit to which the occasion paid tribute. There it stood embodied in bronze, ever the symbol of strength. The Pilgrim was represented as he stood guard of old at the door of the church, leaning on his gun, his face. firmly set, gazing toward the forest but devoutly thinking of God and duty, as the true successors of the Puritans to-day watch and fight as well as pray, repelling the savages of lust and appetite and greed that would fain destroy our churches and our families.

On that dedication program there was not a Puritan name, but only such names as would once have condemned him, such as he would himself have condemned. But they vied with each other in eulogy. The Catholic Mayor Grace had agreed to make the presentation speech but was unexpectedly detained.