Watch Fires

A good Congregationalist is Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge, wife of Calvin. She is also a versifier of parts. Last week Maury Madison, composer, who made a parlor song of Mrs. Coolidge's The Quest (TIME, July 7, 1930), appeared in Washington. He plans to hunt and set to music lyrics written by wives of U. S. Presidents, such as Mrs. Herbert Hoover's free verse "interpretative of the discarded pine rafters of the White House," which she carved into gifts. Composer Madison had with him a religious song in which Washington's First Congregational Church became interested. There, where President & Mrs. Coolidge worshipped, a Miss Ruby Smithstahl will arise this month or next and sing:

WATCH FIRES By Grace Coolidge

Love -was not given the human heart

For careless dealing; Its spark was lit that man might know

Divine revealing.

Heaped up with sacrificial brands,

The flame in mounting Enkindles other hearts with love

Beyond the counting.

Reflecting back into each life,

These vast fires glowing Do then become perfect love

Of Christ's bestowing.

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