FROM NEW YORK TO ST.

TROND ISAAC HECKER'S zeal for social reform lent force to his strictly personal cravings for a more religious life; he longed for wider scope than individual effort could possibly bestow, and also for a supernatural point of vantage.

"If we would do humanity any good," he writes in his diary while considering his vocation, "we must act from grounds higher than humanity; our standpoint must be above the race, otherwise how can we act _upon_ humanity ?" He also speaks of the fundamental necessity of "an impulse of divine love" actuating the reformer of social evils.

He addresses himself thus: "If thou wouldst move the race to greater good and higher virtue, lose thyself in the Universal.

Be so great as to give thyself to something nobler than thyself if thou wouldst be ennobled, immortalized." In many pages of the last two volumes of his diary these notes of sympathetic love for his fellow-men are mingled with yearnings for solitude.