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TIIE MORNING OREG ONI AN, TUESDAY, MAT 2T, 1919. i PATIVIDS TOPAZ ISLE SET IH SAPPHIRE SEA Island of St. John Ten Miles jong, Five Miles Wide. REVELATION SITE NOTED William T. Ellis Writes Interestingly -of Place AYhere Disciple Read in Jsature Mind of Creator. Copyright, Canada, by the New Tork Herald Company.) (Copyright by the-Xew York Herald Com pany. Published by Arrangement.) BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS. BY THE. ISLAND OF PATMOS, IN THE AEfJEAN SEA Here is -where the skies were opened to the eyes of John the Seer and the man received his. clearest revelation of the new heaven and the new earth. All about, set in a sea of glory, are the islands sung by poets ever since first Greece erected a civilization that has kept its shaping- hand upon the centuries until now. It is not of these that I must muse as our ship passes among them, upon a radiant day in March, the effulgence of which brings our variegated passengers from be tween decks up into the sun to talk and sleep and sing and pursue their domestic arrangements. Even this near panorama of the hu man life of the east loses its thrall for the moment; for yonder, to our left, and showing with cameo clearness as I lift my eyes from my paper, is Patmos, the island of St. John and the Revela tion. 'What Patmoa Looks Like. Shining white in the sun' upon the topmost peak of Patmos is the monas tery of St. John the Divine. Lower, out of tight, is the monastery of the Apoca lypse, with its cave where John is said to have heard the Voice saying, "Write the things which thou hast seen and the things which are and the things "which shall be hereafter." Hard by, a thing of beauty at this distance, is the ruined Hellenic acropo lis of an ancient day. There is no green of'forest or vegetation upon the slopes of the mountains, but the bar renness is softened by the distance. Patmos is a. topaz island set in a sapphire sea. Of the Greek inhabitants, who live by collecting sponges, there is no trace; their homes are on the other side of the island. There is no running water and only three or four wells. Ten miles long is Patmos, somewhat crescent in shape, five miles wide at its greatest width and almost divided into two by the waters, its continuity being pre Kerved by narrow isthmuses. It is an island of mountains, whoe bare, steep sides have been torn and eroded by many a storm and whose feet are washed by the waters of the Aegean. Very lovely in the sunlight is it from the deck of our shop and I envy the French artist aboard who is sketching it. though he is more interested in the adjacent island of Samoa for its mem ories of Samos wine. "So near, yet not a bottle to be had," he sighs. Banc of One, Boon of All. Clouds, fleecy and fleeting, as grace ful as the gulls that swing and circle about the rocks, and of ever-changing shape and suggestiveness, hang over Patmos: and in the distance they wrap the head of Samos' highest mountain like an Egyptian woman's nebulous veil. What forms and similes did the clouds suggest to the lonely compan ion and most intimate friend of Jesus, ' as in his old age he waited in banish ment upon these heights? After he had become John the aged he had been sent hither by the Roman emprorer Domi tian for preaching the gospeU and what was meant for his punishment became the whole world's boon. Here were written by John's pen the words of comfort which are spoken at every Christian funeral the world around. The lonely island became a place of outlook and uplook, where, above the dashing of the surf against the rocks, "the voice of many waters," the ven erable exile, whose body had wasted while his soul grew great, heard the messages of another world. Not until the island is seen does the place-character of the book of Revela tion appear. Set amid these colorful waters, with the endless charm of tint and motion, it was inevitable' that the apostle's book should abound in allu sions to the sea, "a sea of glass," "a sea of fire" that at sunset surely and then because the waters were the MORE SERIOUS NOW Than Ever Before Because off Var Rfducfd Reserve Strength. The war has been far-reaching In Its effects. It has caused worry and anxiety in every home, and has af fected the health of every family. It has aggravated chronic troubles. In creased their tenacity and made all epring ailments more serious. As a result, a blood-purifying, stomach-toning spring medicine is more nec essary this year than ever. 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Bdnry. 3380. walls of his prison, beyond which his soul soared in longing for his flock on yonder shore, he conceived of the New Jerusalem as a place where there shall be "no more sea." Prison Becomes Shrine. One man's present vision becomes another age's shrine; we mako pilgrim age to the homes of our dead poets and starve or break the hearts of the liv ing; so Patmos contains several build ings dedicated to traditional associa tion with its seer. The monastery which marks the site of his experience of the Revelation covers a cave where he sat at the time. We reject "the tra dition. Those refulgent images of the Apocalypse that bewildering wealth of daring figures, the teeming phrase pictures, the spaciousness of it all come not from an underground cave, but from a mountain top, with sea and sky and cloud unrolled as a scroll be fore his transported vision. John had been taught in the school of a master who loved the heights and the birds and the open air. He read in nature the mind of nature's Creator. Pictures of the venerable, white bearded, luminous-faced disciple, as he sat at evening on a craggy height, come to mind as we gaze upon Patmos itself. Was it on this grayest, gaunt est peak that he used to tarry oftenest? Or did he choose the more central, soft er one, rounded like Mount Tabor, be cause of the memories of the mountain that was daily in the eye of the Master and his company as they walked the flowery paths of Galilee? Whatever John's favorite spot. It commanded the ever-changing aspect of sea and sky, with the Hellenic Islands, which were associated in thought with the pagen deities, destined to fail before the name of him whom the seer, in exultation of rapt vision, called "King of kings and Lord of lords." Even Rome, whose prisoner John was, had not been able to conquer the gods of Grece, but had taken them over into its pantheon. Greater than Rome was the New Jerusalem, whom the rapt dis ciple saw, with prophetic vision, com ing down from heaven. Though a soli tary exile, he bore ever with him the sense of conflict which his environment suggested. Geography of Revelation Here. This place sense is clearly shown in the Apocalypse by the addresses to the seven churches. Readers of the Bible ordinarily look upon the seven churches of the Revelation as being as other worldly and as spiritual as the seven stars and the seven vials and the seven angels. To John, alone with his thoughts, they were real and tender memories. Every one of them was an actual company of disciples, many of whom he knew by. name, in cities lying a short distance across the water, on the mainland of Asia Minor. His feet had trodden the streets of every one of the cities. Because their Christians were his personal flock, they were, in a way, all the world to him. The traveller today may visit every one of the cities of the seven churches of Asia; I myself have been in most of them Ephesus first, John's own dear Ephesus, now a mighty ruin with a church bearing his name; Smyrna, still a great city, and much in the dis cussions of the peace conference; Phil adelphia, a living community amid ancient debris, built about a wonderful spring; Sardis, where Princeton Uni versity conducted excavations before the war; Laodicea, Pergamos and Thy atira, ruins with squalid Turkish vil lages hard by. Even the inspired writer of Revelation could not escape the in fluence of his personal associations and affections. The shepherd note sounds wistfully in his book's messages to the seven churches. From Patmos to Paris Told. Because In the light of the eventide of his life a life so spiritual that It was deemed worthy to have a clearer glimpse into the supernatural realm than had been vouchsafed to him In young manhood, along with Peter and James and Jesus, on the' mountain of Transfiguration John saw a new heaven and a. new earth" commenta tors and preachers and teachers have dwelt for centuries only upon the reve lation of a new heaven. Nowadays we accept also the vision of a new earth which he envisaged. Because Chris tians look for heaven they work for earth. With the zest of a new apprehension of truth the church and her children have leaped -to the task of creating a new earth, one that shall be free, safe, just and? happy. In that faith and for that goal a great war has been fought and won; and even more difficult-tasks in the realm' of statecraft and human! tarianism are being faced and accom plished. The connection between Pat mos and Paris is not difficult to trace. John's dream has been long in coming to realization, but it is on the way. As I sit and ponder and lean on the ship's rail painting the picture of re ceding Patmos on my memory strange thoughts and recollections crowd into my mu'ngs. This island, one of the precious sites of all the world, repre sents far more than certain shapes and substance any other island hereabouts is quite as interesting from the gen ealogical or scenic or historic stand point. Patmos means a man and a vision; and one man's vision has "ever since the world began been a greater thing than soil or cities or armies or events. Is not the deepest cry of our own perplexed day for a seer, a prophet, a man to whom there has been given a vision of a new heaven and a new earth? What the Saltan Related. It was but a few days ago that the sultan of Turkey, himself the accepted spiritual head of 00, 000. 000 Moslems throughout the world, told me of his yearning for a prophet to come from God to lead aright the stumbling feet of the- world. In this he was but one of a dozen with whom I have conversed since leaving New York harbor a much-decorated British general in a high administrative post confessing himself baffled unless there shall rise a great spiritual leader for the race; Venizelos, the one man who is Greece's greatest asset, speaking wistfully of a spiritual rebirth; another, a romantic figure from the desert, a hero and a champion, talking not of battles, but of whence and how we may expect a new interpreter of the Eternal; another. a powerful and wealthy business man with whom I dined in Paris, freely de claring that the social tangle of the times cannot be unraveled unless there shall come a clear Voice calling to the spirits of men. "This is the way, walk ye in it"; others, American officers in France, ripened by their own great deeds, musing upon the possibility of Personality who may merge the dis tracted and divergent minds of men into one common purpose of good will; still another, himself a soldier saint. troubled in soul because in his America there had arisen no great spiritual leader to call in prophet tones the na tion back to God. It would be less than honest journal ism did I fail to report that amid the welter and turbulence and discordance of world politics which is my present assignment I find among thoughtful men of every creed and country a de cided note of spiritual wistfulness and expectancy. We are too serious now for the mercenary and mechanical methods of a noisy evangelist uttering only safe and remunerative sensation alism; we want a man from some Pat mos who can say, "Thus saith the Lord." As democracy and its limita tions spread the world's need of the one King becomes greater. y . WALLACE LOYAL TO EVERGREEN STATE - Ambassador to France Wel comes Washington Man. DIPLOMAT FACES TRIALS Xew French-American Treaty to Be Negotiated One of the Many Tasks Lying Ahead. BT J. NEWTON CALVER. PARIS. April 29. (Special.) Ambas sador Hugh C. Wallace granted me an audience the other morning at 6 Rue du Chaillot, the American embassy. Did you ever visit an American embassy in a foreign land? Did you ever view the bending, functionaries, the suave solemnity of those foreign servants who put on the manner of their diplomatic polish as if it were a cloak? If you did 3'ou would have appreciated, as I did. the square-shouldered, level-eyed ma rine guard. He did hot approach, rub bing his palms and wearing a manufac tured smile, the upper half of his body bent at an angle of 30 degrees and swaying pendulously. My assurance that I had an appoint ment, made by telephone with his sec retary the day before, with the am bassador between 11:30 and 12, met with a slight bending of the head and very matter-of-fact, business-like but courteous: 'Yes, sir. Take a seat In that room for a few moments, sir." I might have been theprince of Tokio, a brewer, archbishop of a great area. or plain John J. Smith, for all this big, handsome marine cared. Wait Not Lone One. And I waited in a large, but unore- windtentious anteroom, hight ceilinged. warmed by a crackling fireplace and lighted by those rare, high French windows. Not many minutes and I was in the hands of a tiny French guide, who piloted me up another flight of stairs and through more doors, till I was before the ambassador's secretary. He was a tall, young fellow, in the uniform of a captain of the American signal corps. He speaks fluent French as I learned while waiting, when the phone rang and I heard one end of a con versation that was only meagerly in telligible. He hung up the phone and greeted me as if I were a United States congressman instead of an ob scure purveyor of news from a far-off community. The ambassador said I was the first newspaper man in France to whom he naa granted an audience and further that he was seeing me on the fourth day of his accession to office. Then he indulged in a warm eulogy of the great state that he and I came from. We chatted a few moments of the men and cities and institutions of the great northwest, with which we were familiar, and the ambassador made me feel that he was glad to see someone from the state of Washington. Ambassador Faces Tasks. I did not expect to be able to quote the new representative of the United States to France on the momentous events of .the hour.- I knew tnat ne had come to France under trying con ditions. And he was hardly more than comfortably" seated at his desk when. the lid blew off with a bang at the conference de la Paix and the Italian delegates left for their own land. These, you knew, were not his prob lems, and if they were, all the more reason why he could not discuss them. So I turned the talk toward what I knew would be one of his heaviest tasks, the new commercial treaty, and I may put in my own words a few of the points of that discussion, the reader understandign that the ambassador could not be quoted in the first person. In March France denounced all her treaties, expecting that they could be renewed within three to six months. Her treaty with America had existed since 1882, nearly 100 years. The denunciation in March made this fa mous treaty inoperative after a period of six months. In other words, in Sep tember there will no longer be any treaty to bind America and her great sister ally. New Treaty Now Necessary. The establishment of a new treaty for the American government is by no means an Inconsiderable task. The sen ate is a party to that treaty, which needs its ratification. Among the many complications of the new commercial treaty is the fact that one of France's chief exports is wine. That is all cut off now as far as Amer ica is concerned and may never again be renewed. France will lose that great revenue from America. Another cpmplication. perhaps less serious, is the fact that France will not permit her actual currency to leave the country. If her merchants import goods from foreign lands they must have long-time credit, one or more years. An economic commission of the American government was handling that matter, however. One thing the ambassador discussed freely was his visit, only a few days before, to the trenches, dugouts and battlefields of Lens, Arras, Peronne Chaulnes and Koyon. He greatly pleased the French by making this visit within three days after the pres entation of his credentials, a quick concession to the wounded spirit of France. This -was the first of a series of visits the ambassador intends to make to the ruined regions. Work of Fiends SnCEested. "We shuddered as we gazed. Could this be the work of men or fiends? Can such wounds be healed? Can the beings who inflicted them ever obtain forgiveness?' These were t he queries that ex pressed the dominating impressions of his visit. He continued: "No more poignant emotions can grip the human soul than those inspired by the scenes we beheld. Here men fought for France and left their mark on na ture. The ruined villages, this tortured earth, this awfub desolation stretch ing league after league unite in show ing what men will do when they put on the livery of imperial militarism.' The ambassador is living at 14 Ave nue Eylau and at this time he and Mrs. Wallace are happy in the presence of their son. Captain Melville Weston Ful ler Wallace, of the 65th infantry, who is on duty at the Paris base. For more than 30 years Mr. Wallace lived in Tacoma. He was chairman of the first democratic state convention of Washington In 18S9, immediately after the accession to statehood, and was state chairman during the memorable campaign of 1916. HUN DELEGATES GLOOMY COXFEREXCE AT SPA ADMIT TEDLY rXPLEASAXT. OM I Despite Protests Impression Gained Leaders Less Inclined to Reject Terms. BY LINCOLN EIRE. (Copyright by the New Tork "World. Pub lished by arrangement. ) VERSAILLES, May 25. (Special Ca ble.) "It was not a pleasant Journey." This phrase, uttered in grim tones by one of the secretaries, was the only commentary upon the Spa conference vouchsafed by the German peacemak ers upon their return here yesterday. There is a general impression anong those . coming into contact with the delegation, however, that Count Brock- dorf f-Rantzau and his fellows are less Inclined to reject the allied terms than before the meeting with Philip Scheide- mann. Modifications envisaged by the big four in certain phases of the treaty. notably in the Saar valley clauses, may give the bitter pill a coating sufficient ly sugary to warrant the Germans swallowing it. Although rigorous secrecy has been thrown around the concessions made to Germany In the Saar valley question, the answer to which is being released tomorrow, there is reason to believe I that the main point concerns the meth- j od whereby Germany may more cer tainly recover the region at the expira tion of 15 years. As it stands now the treaty makes i its recovery of the region extremely dubious, because the Teutons are re quired to pay in gold, which they will scarcely be able to do under the obli- j gallon . imposea ay ino reparation clauses. By a compromise they can i pay for the mines in commodities and thus make easier the reunion of this section with the fatherland than was at first provided. There are Beveral other changes deal ing with the commercial details calcu lated to make the operation smoother. There are other changes in the air. but nothing definite Is in sUrht. except the evident desire on the part of the allies to reduce German dissatisfaction with the terms. Friday and Saturday the experts talked the treaty over, and the allies find that the Germans are beginning to take a more encouraged view of the situation, but this must not be taken to mean that their signature Is any more certain. Scheldemann and his foreign minis ter already show signs of claiming a diplomatic victory, although the changes in the conditions will probably affect only the shadow and not the substance of peace. With the exception of Menchior. who is remaining another day at Spa, all the plenipotentiaries returned yesterday. 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