its matchless power. "Its voice is the harmony of the universe; its throne is the bosom of God." The problems presented to the Supreme Court were altogether new in a tribunal of law. There was no precedent for their solution-they had to be considered upon broad and general principles of jurisprudence. Marshall's task was therefore the arduous one of construction. He had to make constitutional law, not to expound it. And it is in this respect that his legislative workmanship stands as one of the marvels of history. Thoroughly imbued with the principles of the Constitution, repudiating the fatal doctrine of States' Rights, and exulting in the ultimate unity of the young Republic, he saw the possibilities of true national growth and development. Like a skilled mechanic, he adjusted the component parts of governmental machinery until it moved noiselessly and without friction. Guided by naught but an intuitive perception of right and wrong, with an eye single to the public welfare, this plain Virginia lawyer wrought out for a despairing nation that most precious national boon, a government of law. It is not too much to say that but for Marshall such questions could hardly have been solved as they were. For his high judicial station he was preeminently fitted. It was said of him by William Pinckney that he was born to be the Chief Justice of any country in which he might live. His mind was of an original and solid cast, admirably balanced, and combining the comprehensiveness of reason with the penetration of instinct. His judgments, armed in invincible logic and expressed with a simplicity that permitted no word to be misunderstood, approached the nature of demonstration. His lofty patriotism was equalled only by his inflexible integrity and his unfaltering fidelity to duty. He was not simply a lawyer, he was the embodiment of law. He was not simply an American-he was America individualized. To his memory there have been reared many monuments; of the majestic life he lived there have appeared many memorials. But his most lasting monument is his luminous decisions, which guided a nation along a dangerous pathway; his most fitting memorial is the "Constitution, which he defended and strengthened and preserved." To-day it stands the "Parthenon of statesmanship," a magnificent "Temple reared by labor vast, Sealed with blood by heroes shed, The peril-fraught age of Marshall now rests in the bosom of the past. But today, in the dawning twilight of a new century, we find democracy and nationality assailed by problems as perplexing and conditions as portentous as those which confronted the genius of the great Chief Justice. Inequality of condition generates discontent, impedes progress, and renders liberty and property insecure. The industrial world is a mighty battle-ground, whereon Capital, led by Avarice, oppresses and robs, while Labor, led by Malice, massacres and destroys. Corruption steals into the halls of Congress, stains the ermine of the judge, stifles the voice of the people, and causes elections to degenerate into the mere registration of the dictates of selfishness and greed. The huge, dark form of Materialism the Mephistopheles of the agearises, "obscuring the loftiest ideals of life, paralyzing humanity's fondest hopes, and rendering existence a sordid struggle for the ownership of unsatisfying wealth." As we go forth to meet these problems, the story of Marshall's statesmanship comes to inspire us to high resolve, to heroic endeavor, to grand achievement. It comes to teach us that reform is the product of reason, not of impulse; that Democracy is conditioned upon self-restraint; that self-conquest forms the basis of all true government. It comes to bid Capital cease its aggressions, Labor its riots. It comes to proclaim to all that law, though imperfect, must be obeyed. And when these eternal principles of progress govern the conduct of nations, then will democracy, under the guidance of truth and the guardianship of law, move down the shining pathway of a glorious future, an image of just, intelligent and beneficent power, towards that most perfect union, "where the rights of man break every chain, except the sacred bond which links man to man and all humanity to God." THE ORIENT AND THE OCCIDENT. By ROBERT LOOFBOURROW, of Baker University. BIOGRAPHICAL. Robert Loofbourrow was born on a farm near Fredonia, Kansas, October 24, 1878. Ten years later his father died, leaving Robert the youngest of a large family. He attended district school near home until he was fifteen, when he entered the printing-office of Mr. C. E. Burke, of Fredonia, where he remained until the fall of 1895, when he entered Baker University. While yet young, a peculiar individuality manifested itself, and remained with him as he ripened into manhood. Yet, unlike most men with such individuality, he has been a favorite wherever he has gone, and his friends feel that the great honors that have come to him since entering college have been the result of close application and earnest work as a student. He graduated from Baker University with the class of 1902, and expects to enter the profession of law. The following will give some idea of his success as a student: In 1897 he was commencement orator for the senior academic class; in 1897-98, business manager of the Baker Orange; from 1899 to 1901 a member of the B. U. L. A.; in 1900, commencement orator for Biblical Literary Society; in 1900 represented Baker University in inter-collegiate contest; in 1901 represented Baker University, ranking first; the same year he represented Kansas in the Inter-State contest, taking first place. THE ORATION. Delivered at the Inter-State Oratorical Contest at Des Moines, Iowa, May 2, 1901, taking first prize. Judges: W. H. H. BEADLE, Judge FRANCIS E. BAKER, Hon. WILLIAM S. SUMMERS, W. N. HARTMAN, and others. From the end of the fifth to the close of the fifteenth century the world had its dark ages. ages. It was the midnight of progress, and civilization |