The Oregon weekly., January 20, 1908, Image 1

VOL. IX.
EU G EN E, OREGON, JANUARY
20, 1908
S I KONG LECTURE AT Y. M. C. A. original America to the South Sea
FRESHM AN GLEE A SUCCESS
I stands.
By C. W. Converse. Line of Descent
“Some seventy-five years ago John
Large Crowd of Students and Out-of-
Traced from King David to
Wilson developed a hypothesis which
Town Guests Enjoy the 1911
King Edward
has since demonstrated its claim to
Party to the Utmost
ctedence.
Wilson discovered that
hriday ev ening M r. C. \ \ . C onverse according to the Irish chronicles, there
addressed the Y. M. C. A. on the sub landed. 2500 years ago, in the north of
ject, “ The R om ance of H isto ry .”
lielan d , a man nam ed ,eventv (cf. Jer­
“ The Rom ance of H isto ry ,” said Mr. em iah) and a k in g ’s daughter. The
Converse in p art, “ is the story of the Bible relates th at Jerem iah had the
ten tribes of Isra e l; the story of the care of the d a u g h ter of Zedekiah, who
loss w ith them of the line of descent of was taken captive by the Assyrians.
David, and the a p p a ren t nullification Previous to this tim e an invader had
of p ro phecy; and of the finding of this conquered Ireland. He is claimed to
line ot descent in the m ost unexpected be of the line of the scarlet thread, the
place, the royal house of E ngland.
untraced line from Judah in Genesis,
I lie rom ance is divided into seven lie m arried the P rincess Tephi, and
parts, or ch ap ters. 'The first is the the tw o houses of Judah were united.
Adamic age, from creatio n to the flood. From this union, through the houses
D uring this age men attained to great of Ireland and Scotland came the rid ­
age. I here was no rainfall d u rin g this ing house ot E ngland.
time. I his fact is confirm ed by science
“ I he w estw ard m igration of the ten
as well as im plied in the Bible th at the tribes m ay be traced, because the tribe
how of prom ise ap eaied first at the ot Dan, alw ays fond of nam ing things
time of the flood.
for itself, exercised that penchant and
In spite of the fact th at all plans
which had been made in regard to the
denotations tor the l're sh m an dance
had to be changed en tirely at the
eleventh hour, the “glee" o f 'th e class
ol 1911 will go down in the annals
ot V arsity history as a com plete suc­
cess.
I lie intention of the class was to
have an .Alaskan scene; the program s
adorned with the totem poles helped
to carry out the scheme. But because
the m aterials planned were of too in-
tlamable a character, the A laskan ef-
fect was abandoned to m ake wav for
the m asses of evergreen which cov­
ered the walls and all but hid the
many m irrors which were [hung in
every available place. Greens were
strew n on a net overhead festooned
I he second c h a p te r is from th e we find the route * traced by many
time of the flood to A b rah am . In it nam es of H ebraic origin from the D an­ around the balconies and in the cor­
nets with altern a te red and white
the earth was re-peopled. In the third ube to Denm ark.
lights shining (tut from and through
chapter, M oses delivered the tw elve
“ T h at the early name of the W elsh
them, creating a beautiful and effective
tribes which had come from the tw elve! is found on Assyrian m onum ents, that
( background tor the dainty maids and
patriarchs. H ere we have a prom ise i tbe W elsh language contains about
| the stalw art men of the U niversity,
"I th e M e ssia h .
(5000 H ebrew words, that the Anglo-
and their guests.
’ I'lie fourth c h a p te r is from M oses ' Sax(,n race is inlfll1in^ prophecy by
Mrs. C hurch, M rs. DeBar, Mrs. D uff,,
S olom on; the fifth from Solom on to I‘occuF-vin^ the vvaste l)laces’ arc cor-
ili • fit st ad v e n t of the M essiah ; the j ’cb o rativ c evidcnce- Q ueen V ictoria j Mrs. Jones, Mrs. M orey, and Mrs.
i D earborn acted as patronesses, and
■- Mh from the first to the second ad- bdieveil tbis version and hoped to live
they had reserved tor them the so u th ­
v e n t; the seventh is the golden age d e s - |to £ ive oVcr llcr tIirone to C hrist,
“ I he literal fulfillment of prophecy west corner, opposite the entrance
vribed in the last ch a p te rs of Revela
n rd march which began at 8:15 led by
t i< 'US. an age of a new heaven and a ! is t,lus ,nade Pos*ible» and tbe
Miss Josephine Sm ith, of Portland,
” a earth , when God shall reign as I of God is vindicated.”
and Calvin Sweek, president of the
Mug o v er his chosen people.
T rain in g is being done for the five l'reshm an class.
Each c h a p te r begins with a prom ise,
I he music was exceptionally good,
mile relay race on F ebruary 22 and the
wo ol these prom ises seem incapable
indoor tournam ent at the A rm ory and the punch which was served in the
111 1 ttllilbnent, as they depend upon the
M arch 6. The medals tor the relay are reception room was also exceptionally
v istence of the ten ‘lo st’ trib es of Is-
on exhibition in V illard Hall. For the delicii »us.
'• In w hat we have called the fifth
tournam ent T rainer H ayw ard prom ­
E veryone voted the affair a big suc­
'p te r.o i the rom ance, God prom ised ises some exceptionally good m at
cess ami ju d g in g from the rem arks
’ ’at ‘David should never w ant a man
events, an exciting tug-of-w ar. and a I overheard, every one had a delightful
sit upon the th ro n e. H e als'o prom-,
com plete track meet.
time.
I he executive com m ittee who
that the trib es w ould be restored
I are to be con g ratu lated along with
l<> th eir land.
M iss G ertrude East and Miss V e lle h h e other m em bers of the Freshm an
I low can the W o rd be tru e, if these B arker, of Roseburg, were in a tte n d -[ cjass> for t |lc success of the dance a re :
'»phecies cannot be fulfilled?
ance at the freshm an p a rty on S atur- Calvin Sw eek, M ary H ow ard, Hazel
a vital q u estio n and the ten trib es (lav evening.
'I hey retu rn ed home
' bce»i so u g h t ev ery w h ere from ab- Sunday evening.
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