In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me:
As he died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
                     While God is marching on.
                                  —Julia Ward Howe,
                                   "Battle-Hymn of the Republic"

To Martha who loves ancestors and also descendants

In those hot last days of the spring of 1910, on the spacious, elevated grounds of Belle Vista Castle in Paterson, New Jersey, a motion picture was being made.

The children.