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A VIEW OF THE BAY AND THE SOUND FROM DR. SNELL'S GARDEN. 



1892-'3. Lecturer on Comparative Religion 

 in Theological Department of Howard 

 University, Washington, D. C. Editor 

 of the "Oriental Review." Then Ori- 

 ental Secretary to the Committee on 

 Religious Congresses of the World's 

 Congress Auxiliary. Was President of 

 the Scientific Section of the World's 

 Congress of Religions, Chicago, 1893, 

 permanent presiding officer of the 

 World's Congress on Ways' and Means 

 of Universal Religious Unity, and first 

 chairman of the World's Congress 

 Extension Committee. 

 Regular contributor to the N. Y. Inde- 

 pendent and the Chicago Open Court 

 and Monist. Made the authorized trans- 

 lation of "Ribot's Diseases of the Will." 



1894-'5. Public lecturer. Published anno- 

 tated college edition of "Matthew Ar- 

 nold's Sohrab and Rustum"; wrote most 

 of the letter-press of the "Glories of 

 the Catholic Church in Art, Architecture 

 and History"; translated and edited 

 "Bertillon's Signaletic Instructions" and 

 adapted his system of signaletic nota- 

 tion to American use. Regular con- 

 tributor to the comparative religion de- 

 partment of the Biblical World of 

 Chicago University. 



1896-9. Editor "The Church Progress," St. 

 Louis. 



1899-1902. President of Albertus Magnus 

 University, Wichita, Kansas. 



1903. Special writer on staff of the General 

 Press Bureau of the Columbian Exposi- 

 tion, St. Louis. 



Since 1903 devoted exclusively to 

 philosophical study and writing. Has at 

 various times contributed to the Interna- 

 tional Review, Arena, Cosmopolitan, 

 Andover Review, New Englander and 

 Yale Review, Mind, Dublin Review, 

 Etudes sociales, The Hindu and various 



other periodicals in this and other coun- 

 tries. 



Dr. Snell's paternal grandfather was 

 the nephew of William Cullen Bryant, 

 and his paternal grandmother was the 

 grand-daughter of Jonathan Edwards. 

 His maternal grandfather was Gerard 

 Hallock, of New Haven, ante-bellum 

 editor of the New York Journal of 

 Commerce. 



The Religious Ministries of Nature. 



BY MERWIX-MARIE SNELE, PH. D., SOUND 



BEACH, CONN. 

 The groves were God's first temples ; ere man 



learned 

 To raise the shaft and lay the architrave and 



spread the roof above them 

 In the darkling wood, amid the shade and 



silence, he knelt down 

 And offered to the Mightiest solemn thanks 



and adoration. 



— Bryant's Forest Hymn. 



Not only did our first ancestors wor- 

 ship in the naves of the forest, beneath 

 the dome of heaven, in the shrines of 

 nook and dell and on the altars of hill 

 and mountain, but in all ages and 

 lands, even where the most glorious 

 temples of inspired art have not been 

 lacking, men have tended to associate 

 their supremest experience with the 

 manifold beauties and grandeurs of 

 the world around them. 



If it was from Sinai that the thun- 

 ders of the Divine Law came forth it 

 was no less in the groves and on the 

 high places and "under every green 



