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The Church and Woodrow Wilson HE dominant part o f the church and o f early Christian training in the forming of Woodrow Wilson’s character is strongly emphasized in Ray Stannard Baker’s “ Woodrow W ilson: Life and Letters,” o f which the first two volumes have just appeared from the presses o f Double day, Page & Co. In this first comprehensive biography of the late President based upon the complete files o f his let ters, papers arid memoranda from his earliest days at Princeton to his retirement at S Street, Mr. Baker traces the influences of his father and. of his father’s faith upon the boy’s formative years. “ At the center o f the life o f the Wilson family stood the Church. The Presbyterian Church with its stern doc trine, its veneration for Holy Writ, its profound sense of the presence and judgments o f God, its emphasis upon the value of hurirnn personality,” he says. “ The Church was always before the boy’s eyes, lit erally and figuratively. There it stood, with its spacious ness, its dignity, its beauty— a power in the eyes o f man. On summer evenings in his ,early boyhood, lying in his bed, the boy could hear through the open windows o f his room the sweet cadences o f voices singing hymns. He attended the services and the Sunday school as a matter of course. It was as inevitable a part o f his life as his daily food. The pew where the Wilson family sat, reverently pointed out to the visitor of today, was the fourth from the high pulpit. The lad could look up into his father’s face as he read sonorously from .the great Bible. Dr. W il son’s sermons were carefully prepared, sound substance finely expressed, and occasionally went quite over the heads o f the audience. But the little boy there in the pew with his mother and his two older sisters never doubted that the' magnificent minister was the greatest preacher in the world and the noblest man. Long afterward he wrote, referring to his father’s preaching: “ ‘I wish that I could believe that I had inherited that rarest gift of making great truth attractive in the telling and of inspiring with great purposes by sheer force of elo quence or by gentle stress o f persuasion/ W il s o n A s A L ad “ A glimpse o f this boy comes from a lady who was quite a number of years older than Woodrow Wilson. Though a young girl at the time, she was an accomplished musician and was sometimes called upon to substitute for the organist. She soon discovered that the minister’s boy, whom she thought shy and reserved, was peculiarly a f fected by music, and that when certain doleful selections were played, such as the hymn, ‘ ’Twas on that Dark and Doleful Day,’ sung often at communion services, the little boy would sit crying. “ He was not shy, but sensitive and imaginative, no doubt easily hurt by the ineptitudes o f a fumbling world of grown-ups. He himself has given an autobiographic glimpse o f his own boyish life: “ ‘Those who have read that delightful book o f Ken neth Grahame’s entitled “ The Golden Age,” the age of childhood, will recall the indictment which he brings against the Olympians, as he calls them,J|the grown-up people,—who do not understand the feelings o f little folks not only, but do not seem to understand anything very clearly; who do not seem to live in the same world, who are constantly forcing upon the young ones standards and notions which they cannot understand, which they in stinctively reject. They live in a world o f delightful imagination; they pursue persons and objects that never
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