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1. Lou man A Hanlord l, Seattle.
Wash.
-The mounttiorrrt visit the Islands
and shores of Puget Sound, the forests.
Itkei and rivers. They annually con
duct a mldiummir expedition to one of
the loftjr mountain of the Pacinc
Northwest. During their outings they
ammble each evening around a camp
fire for songs, lectures. Jests and play a.
Moat of these verses were written for
the campanlona at these campnrea.
They were collected In thla form with
the hope that they may now find a
welcome at campflres other than those
of the mountaineers."
So wrltea Professor Meany, of the
fnlverslty of Washington, one of the
leading authorities of literature In the
Pacific Northwest, and whose word
of counsel or observation are always
worth reading.
The book now under review con
tains (2 poems written by Professor
Meany. and the poems are high class,
polished and have the true spirit of
out-of-doora. Other poems In the col
lection have spiritual beauty, and In
others so Intimate a note Is struck
that It aeems as If a friend were talk
Ins; to us. Many of the poems reflect
renes In Washington State, and color
them with so much beauty that Ore
goniana will venture to express the
hope that, before Ions:, we mar read
similar poems written by a favored
son or daughter reflecting beauty on
our own loved Oregon scenery.
The titles of the poems are: Mount
Rainier. Carbon Olacler. The Violin In
ramp.. Mystic Lake. The Alpine Fir.
Mountain Heather, The Dog-Tooth
Violet. Crater I-ake. Tree Ghosts, Cllmb
Init the Mountain's Rum'd Steep,
Slutskln. I.lttle Lanterns of the Sea.
Orcas Island. The Forest. Chums on
he Rugged Trail. I-aw of the Hills.
The Pack Train, rotentilla. Ptarmigan
of the Mountains, Hnowbruh, Glacier
Peak. Leucostlcte. Nelson Park; Lyman
lakr. Sons; of the Dead Forest. Lake
Chelan. Thou State of Fmlllnc Waters
and the Tail Fir Tree. The Indian
Basket Weaver. Tapestry of the Woods.
Two Waves of Forest Fire. A Mosa
Grown Los:. Calypso Borealla. My Home
By the Northern Sea, Aleutian Lullaby.
Washington Beloved. Son of the Moun
tain Meadow. The Minister In Camp.
The Snowbrook. Mount Adams. Moun
tain Lupine. Snow on the Tine. Through
stately Corridors. The I.eaat Little.
Cornel. The Snowy Owl. The Devil's
Warelub, A Spider Web. Bells of 8b Hal.
Little roctor In Feathers, Twin Flow
mrm. Whulge. When the Sun Goes Down
at Kingston. The Pacinc Highway. The
Ship Is Still a Queen. At Chief Se
attle's Grave, Call for Revenue. A.
Home by the Roadside. The Meteorite,
An Hour I Call My Own. A Gift. The
Olympics. Mount Meany and The Camp
Fire.
Space Is" not available at this time
to print several of Professor Meany'e
poems, and It Is difficult, among so
many poetic gems to select one as a
fair sample. Suppose I present "Mount
MeanyT-
Vst I. a mortal, quirk wlih puHlns life.
Ijtt up mine on peak thai bears my
peine? .
No en.-l.nl here sained soch vaulted "je
Thouch inur crowa were his In valiant
at-1'e-
White auralne human eaaelons still were rife.
Mis honor risked the time of frsiltT S shame.
..r ,.. so Cull of fault, nalllns. lame.
Is men when Time ajjpiiee the jeer's cold
No h-n. no Tlrtor-s fol'owlns hand
Will shout for laurel croeu on my preufl
"tut loV'V'ill two-score anoas have fall's
This r ."Vte'es1" lf t of partial frien.ls doth,
nehot.i" l"V'c, IMS hopeful. Iremhllns hand
And .rare tlio name oinm ere I sru dead.
Star seH IMher K are. br the late William
i;rahem -ur-iner. J 3... The Tsle I nl-
-r.it ITees. Nee- Haven, conn.
In a way. these IT college essavs are
American classics, and It Is very con
venient to have them unler one book
-over, such as this Is. They are ad
nlrahlo to (tire as a gift to a youna
nan. because tliey go to form chsrartrr
nd make men. Nt one of them is
r!ry" or nnlnterestlnr. nd the wealth
-f Information. especially as to historic
Tacts and references. Is notable.
The author profeesor of political
nd social science In Yale University. a
position which he held with g real honor
to himself and to all concerned, until
lie retired In June. 109. He died short
le afterward. "Whatever may be said
of Professor Sumner's Intellectual
qualities." writes the editor of this vol
ume. Albert Galloway Keller. Ph. 1,
professor of the science of society. Tale)
I'nlverslty. '"yet the most attractive and
the grandest aspect of Sumner's latter
tears was tnat not ni ni iuhim. mm v.
i.ls character. He was a Koman soul
among; us: he lived before. Ills students
and colleagues as the embodiment of
honesty and fearlessness. Duty always
preceded all else with him; the mem
ory of hl performance of what some
would call hackwork, even when he
was III. would hava been pathetic if It
had not been done with such uncon
clonness and simple dignity. ITntll the
aid ha would not ask for was almost
forced upon him. he used to grade be
tween ) and 600 test papers each
week."
The essay on war. from which this
hook derives In part Its title. Is now
published for the first time, and the
subject la carefully considered, pro and
i on. The opinion la given that It Is tha
competition of life which makes war.
snd that Is whv war always has ex
uted and always will, "liy war. new
octal powers break their way and cre
ate a new order. The student Is tempt
ed to think that ewen a great social
mnvulslon Is worth all Its costs. What
other force could break the bonds and
pen the way? Hut that Is not the cor
rect Inference, because war and revo
lution never produce what la wanted,
but only some mixture of the old evils
with new ones. What Is wanted Is a
peaceful and rational solution of prob
lems and situations but that requires
great statesmanship and great popular
sense and virtue. . . . War la like
other evils; It must be met w hoo it Is
unavoidable and such gain as can be
get from It must be won. In the form
of reason an.l deliberation, war never
can be anything hut a makeshift and
to be regretted: It la the task of the
statesman to find rational means to the
ume end. A statesman who pro
poses war as an Instrumentality, ad
mits his Incompetency; a politician who
mikes use of a war aa a counter In the
game of parties. Is a criminal. . . .
Can peace be universal? There Is ao
reason to believe it." At the same time,
rilstnarck made war his Instrument,
and it was the principal factor In cre
atine a united Germany In 1871. W
ran also cite the justice of our Civil
War. 11-1S5. No other agency could
possibly have done lt
The titles of the other esays are:
Family and Social Change: The status
of Women: Witchcraft: Religion and
the Mores; Morea of the Present and
Future; Sociology; The Absurd Attempt
to Make the World lver: state Inter
ference: Do We Want Industrial Peace?
The Forgotten Man: The Iual Organi
sation of Mankind: The Kallucy of Ter
ritorial Fxtemston: The Conquest of
the I nlted States by rpaln: The Pre
dominant Issue; American Colleges.
aeejechltfhte e Seme AsAeetcaa lerittwlrtes,
o- Jms 1'. Ml.:. I lusiralrd. St.li. A.
'. M'-Ourc A t o., c'hhejro.
Peslgxed for the layman, the srhnlsr.
student and gen'-ral reader rather than
tnc aclrnufic person, this frienub. In-
"T do irydnV er angs oMe
me not. If any man iy able io
convince me and jhome-tbaT
'I Solid ttrink or act arigtit, I will
gladly change , for I seeK Hie
irutKi ybttch2nomjan tqs ever
-
structlve book of. H pages Impresses
by Us wealth of' grarhtc. description
and trad lessons. The American
workman Is Idealixed. "In this en
lightened axe. the life and evolution of
the American people lie In their quiet,
leaceful and productive efforts and in
the thoughtful conduct of their af
fairs." reasons our author. "Tha Na
tion Is great through Its architects,
engineers. Inventors, artists, econom
ists, teachers, business men and great
army of workers and not through its
military and r.aval forces. Its political
octopuses or Its lawyers, preachers and
policemen. The proud place Columbus
holds among national figures of the
world. Is due to commerce and labor,
production and distribution. As a
noted writer has said: "Individuals at
work are safe, and a nation Is only
safe w-hen the greatest proportion of
Its people are employed in useful ef
fort." Tha book has descriptions of these
Industries: Lumber, salt, sugar, paper,
rubber, leather, moulding, graphite and
sightless workers, the latter being a
good account of the achievements of
the blind. Naturally, Oregon being a
timber state, the chapter on "the con
quest of the forest" will have special
Interest for this region. We read about
j the pioneers and skirmishers: .ramp.
bor-savlng machinery; from log to
lumber: from lumber to mntchwood;
early methods of obtaining flame; de
tails of match-making; habitat of the
lixlKe-pole pine and its uses: the tmai
lng eucalyptus. Its usefulness for many
purposes, and lumber production in
the United States. In the comparative
table of lumber Industries, state by
state. Oregon Is credited with having
achieved eighth place on the .list of
states with 65 mills. 1.468.15S M feet,
showing a per cent of Increase of 110.2,
for the year 1908.
Thla scene will be recognized by
many Oregon readers living in the
timber country.
Now. the choppers follow the trail of
Peie. there Is mu n hard work f..r the saw
rri ei the ni.v.e trrs slvi-s np the strife.
Thy brstn with their long double-toothed
saw. one at each end. en the side of the
trunk opposite to the notch. Pteadlly these
sawyers draw ths swif r-cuttinc saw back
and forih. bark nnd forth, through ring
upon ring of the tree's yearly growth, ana
on Into the very hsart. Frequently they
atop to oil the lummy blario with kerosene
to remove the pttrh and drive wdss Into
the serf to ease 4he saw silently and also
to hc.p the notch te suidn the tree In Its
fall. Pti:i the sturdy pine, standing ss
firm and solid as a rock, gives no sign of
yielding. Only when the tearing saw has
cut throtfsh Its heart and beyond are heard
the sharp crl s of distress, a sound of rend
ing wood, of cracking flbvra. penetrating
and f .tr-reartilns.
"Waicli iul there." roara Pete, "Out of
th way!"
trrn as he yells the wedges sre sledged
heme, the mighty tree la forced over and
It loses its h.ance. The cries of distress
Increase, thev grow louder, the libers break
of? with, quirk cracks, the tup sways aside,
slowly at first, with matrhleas dignity to the
last. Tp- branches moan as they sweep
through the air and as they gather speed
the moaa he.-omre a whistle and then a
shriek. Taster and faster falls the tree,
until It strikes the ground with s tremen
dous crash. Jarring the forest, the sound
reverberating through the dense woods,
hours, appalling ibe death cry of the
pine.
Frosa sVhewl Through College. By Henry
farks Wria-ht. $1. Tsle L iiiversily. Press.
New Haven. Conn.
- The writer of this book of good ad
vice aa to college life, giving prepara
tion or training for the real work of
life, was dean of Yale College from
1:S4 to 1909. and the message now
Civra came as a thought to him when
lie was Invited to address the graduat-
lng class of the Hotchklss School.
"The college offers such large oppor
tunities for life." says the author, "that
it Is a pity that anyone who ran have
them should miss them, or that those
who have them should fail to get their
full benefit. I have fpent all my active
life In work with students, and during
a years In the dean's office of Yale
College a very pleasant part of my ser
vice was to give friendly counsel to
hundreds of youn? men who came to
me with their difficulties, ambitions,
sorrows and temptations. The sugges
tions In this book have, therefore.
grown out of personal observation of
student life, and they have this to com
mend them that they have been tested
and In some cases, at least, have been
ft-und helpful."
The heads under which this subject
ore discussed are bandied with schol
arly, sympathetic ability, and Include
mention of opportunities; the main pur
pose: health, recrearlon and exercise;
eclf-dlsclpHne. coui-ngo and honor
among . classmates, and planning for
the future. An admirable monitor for
a young man or youth seriously In
clined. iRteewaJtoMl Arhlteatloa and Ptwedure. Tty
Kohert c. Morris, p. '. I 9 1. ;;.. Tale
rnlvsrslty Press. New Haven.. Conn.
Arbitration Is literally in the air.
IDEAL AUDIENCE PICKED
BY PORTLAND PREACHER
Pastor frkes Best to Give Sermon to Congregation Whose Minds Are
Turned to God Curing Services at Church.
BT WALTER BENWELL HIXSONV
We are all hers present before God to
hsar all things that are commanded thee ug
Ood. Acts x:J.H.
THE ideal Christian audience ia tha
audience consciously present be
fore God. There la a little book
let published called "The Practice of
the Presence of God." The "practice of
the presence of God" Is the believer's
business In life. For It is the believer's
safeguard: it is the believer's privilege;
It Is the believer's duty: it is the be
liever's glory and joy always to know
he Is In the presence of God. In the
realm of Nature we should practice the
presence of God. "When I consider the
heavens the work of thy fingers." said
the Old Testament seer, "I have my
mind filled with thoughts of thyself."
"t'onslder- the lilies how they grow."
said Jesus: and considering them you
will find your Father's handiwork
therein. These four seasons that move
about us. as they change, are but the
varied God; tha rolling- year la full of
him. (
I know where wild things lurk and llngsr.
In groves aa fray and grand aa time:
X know where Qod himself has written
poems
Too grand for words of rhyme.
God's Work Seea la Dally Life.
And wo should practice tha presence
of Uod in the realm of providence. "I
read the newspaper." aald John Ang-ell
Jamea. "to find out how my Father Is
governing his world." Now who so
rightly reads history has no difficulty'
In tracing the footprints of God adown
the centuries and millenniums. For
these things that are happening In the
world about us are monitions from the
unseen, and rightly interpreted we may
become better acquainted with God as
we view them. And in the realm of
grace we should be conscious of the
presence of God.
These aspirations after a higher life
rise not from the world, or from with
in, but from him. Those felt restraints
from evil, and those constraints to
ward goodness, and those projections
of the soul out Into the unknown those
are all the movements of God, had we
wit to understand them. "If I ascend
Into the heavens," said the Psalmist,
"thou art there: If I make my bed in
hell, thou art there; If I take the wings
of the morning and dwell In the ut
termost parts of the sea, thou art
there; if I clothe myself with the
blackness of midnight, thou art there."
-Thou God seest me."
Especially in connection with the
church should we be conscious of the
presence of God. Heartily do I believe
we are required to be more circumspect
In the house of God: to have more rev
erence: and to have more of the wor
shipful spirit, "The Lord Is In his holy
temple." I would have written on ev
ery church, had I my way.
The bowing of the bead in prayer
and where two thinking men meet It
Is one of the uppermost subjects for
consideration, because modern educa
tion shows rather than quarrel over
the possession of a bone It Is often
the wisest course to nrst consider if
said bone Is worth serious contention.
This little book will be found a valued
help, because it will be accepted as a
standard deliverance on the subject.
and few. If any. volumes yet published
has said so much and so wisely within
the compass of 238 paices. The author
is a distinguished member of the New
York legal profession, and was counsel
for the United States before the United
States and Venezuelan arbitration of
1908: lecture on international arbi
tration and procedure at Yale Law
School. 1904-1911. and counsel to the
American Peace and Arbitration
League, Valuable data are given as to
the history of arbitration and progress
that the peace movement has made up
to now. A foreword Is written by
President Taft, In which ihe savs that I
the little book will he a real contribu
tion to the literature on the subject
and that he is much Indebted to Mr.
Morris for much infotmatlon contained
In the volume.
The I.lfe of Lyof X. Tolstoi, by Nathsn Has
kell lole. Illustrated. Thomas Y.
Croweil Co.. New Tork City.
Really a masterpteos or biographi
cal writing, marked by fine sympathy
and good knowledge of the subject, A
sketch is given of the Tolstoi family
from the reign of Peter the Great, end
ing- with a detailed description of i
Count Lyof's immediate ancestry, his
father, motner. Droiners ana one sis
ter. His career Is also measured and
otherwise commented upon as student,
army officer, writer, reformer and mys
tic. The biographer says that as to
the spelling- of Tolstoi's came, it is a
triviality of transliteration whether It
Is spelled with a final "1" or "y," and
-that, "unquestionably the author him
self in signing his letters In French
or English, spelled It Leo Tolstoy. Is
It necessary to conform to his spelling
of It when it goes against the ratified
recommendation of the Society of Li
brarians? Tha dleresls corresponds
fairly well to the '1 es kratol' of the
Russian letter. The name itself sig
nifies 'stout.' "
There are 81 illustrations, several
of them being portraits of Tolstoi at
different stages of his career. Two
portraits, facing page 390. are those
of Tolstoi and William J. Bryan. Lib
eral extracts have been used from the
writings of other authorities, and the
pages nuniber 467.
Mare Ohoe Ntorles. by M. It James. Long
mans Green 4k Co.. Naw York City.
Seven ghost stories of the thrilling
kind, WTltten with polished literary
art and reflecting scenes In Rngland.
A mysterious sense of the occult dwells
In those tales, also a compelling inter
est that draws you to the book again
and again.
One of the best In the colletrtion is
the story entitled "The Stalls of Bar
chester Cathedral." being an account of
something odd that happened to the
venerable John Benwell Haynes, D. D.,
of Cambridge University. One orna
mentation of the archdeacon's oak stall
Is the grotesque figure of a cat whose
"crouching posture suggests with ad
mirable spirit the suppleness, vigilance
and craft of the redoubted adversary
of the genus Mm." There was a curse
on the osk and the legend is given con
cerning it:
When I grew In the wood
I was watered with blood.
Now in the church I stand:
Who that touches me with bis hand.
If a bloody hand he bear.
1 councell him to be ware
Lest he be fetcht awav. ,
Whether by night or day.
Hut chiefly when the wind blows high
Tn a night of February.
This I urempt 2 Feb. 14V0. John Austin,
The Reform of Legal Procedwre, by Moor
fleld storey. SL. 3-Y Yale University
Press, New Haven, Conn.
A clarion rail for our times, when a
conviction tiiat our laws must be al
tered in the name of common sense. Is
slowly but surely growing in the minds
of the ultimate law-makers the peo
ple. The author, who Is a former presi
dent of the American Bar Association,
is a lawyer of high reputation, and the
substance -of the hook was delivered
as lectures before the Yale Law School
last year. The book, of I5 pases, con
cerns Itself wlth responsibilities of the
lawyer, reduction of litigation by legis
lation, delays during trial, delay In ap
pellate courts, criminal procedure and
the lawyer's responsibility for law
making. JOSEPH M. QUENTIN.
when one enters the earthly sanctuary
of God is the most seemly way of tak
ing one's seat In the sanctuary. Who
ever else may be absent when we came
into this church this mornintr. remem
ber you here meet God. Among all
those you can see, bear in mind there
is standing the unseen God! Oh, It Is
not the quantity of the audience, but
it is the quality that is the rejoicinp;
of the true preacher's soul, for there
are some saints of the eternal who
bring into the visible church such an
atmosphere of spirituality and such a
power that comes from association
with God that they do not count
merely as one. but a single man will
count as a hundred or a thousand. It
is not the size so much as the spirit
uality of the audience that is the true
preacher's strength and solace.
Now, shall we be men and women
who come Into this church, not with
a dull solemnity, but rather with a de
cided joy, because conscious we are
entering Into the presence of God? And
will you give td me the supreme satis
faction of knowing- that when I stand
here during these coming; weeks you
are looking up into my eyes and say
ing, "We are all here present before
God?"
Ideal Preacher Described.
Secondly, the text contains the pie
ture of the ideal preacher. The ideal
preacher is the man who comes with
the commandments of God to the peo
ple. "Like people, like priests," is a
proverb among us, and some truth ex
ists In the saying, for the demand does
in many instances create the supply.
Gladstone wisely said: "The orator
pours out upon the audience in a rain
that which he has received from the
audience as a mist. Now. there are
some audiences ao low down that all
they demand of a speaker Is the base,
the Inferior, the stupid and the low.
And the preacher is but a man. and
when he Is conscious that a certain
thing is demanded the temptation
comes to accommodate the supply to
the demand. May the Lord save me
from such an audience, for I had
rather be dead than spend the rest of
my life talking to straw men, whose
chief demonstration In the house of
God is a chuckle in the throat, and to
whom an appeal to sacrifice, to self
denial and high llyin? is an appeal
vafnly made. But there are some au
diences that call for the best from the
man who speaks, and he forgets all
that is inferior, and. becoming con
scious that the accompaniment is mag
nificent, his song takes on a higher,
rarer note.
May God give to me the joy of
preaching to an audience like that
an sudience whose faces cause a de
mand to be made upon the best and
the highest one possesses: to whom
one dare not sar a vulgar thing be
cause the exalted presence of the audi
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A C. Brice, ex-Consul at Matan
zas. Cuba. In 1S97, fays that he
notified the Havana Consulate of the
plot to blow up the Maine two days
before the disaster. His informant
was a former Spanish officer who was
at that time no longer connected with
the Spanish Army. Mr. Brice says that
he kept the fact that he had been
warned of the intention to destroy the
Maine from becoming public at the re
quest of President McKinley.
The third son of the Kaiser. Prince
Adalbert is to visit the United States
some time In 1912. He was born July
14, 1884, and is unmarried. The Prince
probably will follow In the footsteps
of his uncle Prince Henry of Prussia,
as commander-in-chief of the imperial
fleet. He is already an expert torpedo
boat commander. He is expected to
Join the Western Atlantic station of
the German fleet which consists of one
ence forbids it; in whose presence one
couldn't perpetrate the uncouth ges
ture even, because the soul dlfrnity of
the audience precludes him from so
doing. :
.Audiences Make Preachers.
We talk about the great preachers.
But we should also talk about the
great audiences. Great audiences go
far toward making great preachers. A
man can't speak grandly to peanut
men. "I fed you with milk," Paul
said, "and not with meat, because you
are not able to stand anything but the
milk." Oh, my people, so grow and de
velop and mature and become godly
that by your very demand upon the
speaking man you may cause him to
become better than he has ever been
before. Do you remember Dr. Gordan's
dream? There are not many Sundays
go by but I think of it. He dreamed
that he was preaching, and he saw a
dignified stranger, simply dressed, come
In and sit down. And ever and anon
the preacher, glancing at the stranger,
was fascinated, he knew not why. And
at the close of the sermon the preacher
hurried down to greet him, but he had
gone. Turning to one of the members.
Dr. Gordan. In his dream, said, ."Who
was that stranger?" And the man said
simply. "That was Jesus Christ." And
Gordan awoke. And he said ever after
when preaching- he remembered Jesus
Christ was In the audience.
I humbly bless God that I have not
preached a sermon for 20 years with
out feeling that whoever else was ab
sent, Jesus Christ was present. And
I have said many a thine that I should
not have said, because I knew Christ
was there; and I did not dare dodge the
truth In his presence. And I have re
frained from saying a thousand things,
because I could not say them in the
presence of the King.
Preacher's Life Ruled.
This thought of being in the pres
ence of God will govern a preacher's
life. He cannot live a little life on
Saturday, and then preach a great
sermon on Sunday. He can't be sordid
and base and material all the week and
then become the seer of God on the
Sabbath, because If he does, the peo
ple will say to him, "What you are
thunders so I can't hear what you say."
And this consciousness will govern him
In all his preparation. It were the
easiest thing in the world to get up a
sermon If one didn't study the fact that
God will hear that sermon. There are
few men but read enough stuff In
the newspapers and magazines and
books to make a speech 30 minutes
long. But it is when, a man sits down
and says I have got to get a sermon
and deep seriousness lie ponders his
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cruiser which passes Its time visiting;
the various ports of the W.est Indies
and North and South America. He is
expected to pass at least two years at
this station. He is to join the station
with the rank of Lieutenant-Commander
soon after the end of the pe
riod of training in strategy that he is
now undergoing at the naval academy
at KieL .
Samuel Adams. First Assistant Sec
retary of the interior riepartment. Is
reported to have handed his resigna
tion to Secretary Fisher. The reason
given Is that Mr. Adams wants to look
after his law practice in Chicago,
which has suffered considerably since
his connection with the Government.
The First Assistant Secretary's duties
are in connection with matters con
cerning or coming from the General
Land Office. The Indian office, the
Reclamation Service, the Geological
Survey, the Bureau of Education and
the Bureau of Mines.
.
Herman Patrick Tappe is the man
milliner, who was backed by Pierpont
Morgan in his business and who failed
message. And it will govern the man s
proclamation of the sermon also to
know he speaks in the presence of
GLastly, the text contains the ideal
sermon. What are the things com
manded by God? Oh, I wonder that
any among us dare preach anything
but the gospel of Jesus Christ. Never
a Sunday night comes but I sit down
and look over the utterances of the
day and say, "Oh, my God, they were
so poor and unworthy; put them under
the blood, lest thunder bolts smite the
poor, stupid speaker." And yet God is
mv Judge, I do try to get his word.
You see this ideal sermon has got to
be a sermon expository of the com
mands of God, and the commands of
God are in the Bible. Therefore it has
got to be expository of the Bible.
Bible Is Familiarized.
A man said to me once, "But yon
are shut up to such a narrow circle,
when you shut yourself up to the Bi
ble." Narrow! The Bible? Oh, I've
rolled the world into that Bible, and
then I've poured the stars into that
Bible, and then in Imagination I have
pushed universe after universe into
that Bible, and they were all lost in
Its wonderful depths as a pearl would
be lost in the midst of the sea. If
there is anything happening to God
and man that is not in the Bible I am
unacquainted with it. Preach! Why,
I could preach for all eternity out of
that Bible, and have as much left when
1 got through as when I started. Take
the Commandments of the Lord! You
see the Commandments of God circle
around Jesus Christ because he began
with Moses and the Prophets, and there
in the Bible pointed to himself. So the
ideal preaching is the preaching Of
Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ!
A grand old Congregational preacher
edified me a few days ago by telling
me out of his rich experience how he
had preached Jesus for half a century.
And I looked at the old man s face,
all furrowed, at his hands beginning
to tremble, and I thought, "Man, if you
only knew how glorious you look."
But I saw the tears running down
that man's cheek as he told of listen-
lng to a preacner, ana ne saia, i wem
with my bouI hungering to hear something-
about my Lord, and when I went
out I caught myself, saying on the
street. They have taken away my Lord
and 1 know not where they have laid
him.' "
People. If you ever have that feel
ing about ;t he man preaching to you
let him kn.w It: and if ho does not
change .his J"eaching. get rid of him:
for It Is a sin, for the church to retain
in the house Kiiilt for God a man who
does not preac the commands of God.
Thus du we li ve sadness, and mad
recently In spite of -that backing.
Tappe married some years ago Mrs.
Ada Jaffray McVickar. the represen
tative of an old New York family.
She was 55 and he was 30. They have
had several disagreements and have
separated and reunited several times.
The Duke of Argyll has written an
opera which will be presented by Os
car Hammersteln next season. The
title and subject of the opera have not
been announced. The Duke of Argyll
married the Princess Louise, sister of
the late Kins Edward. He is well
known in this country, having- been
Governor-General of Canada from
1878 to 1883. He is 66 years old. .
Julie Madero is one of the eight
brothers of President Madero, of Mex
ico. He is now visiting this country.
In the course of an interview he says
that the danger of a revolution in
Mexico is now very slight, P.eyes
proved to have no followers and the -Zaptistas
are no longer active. He
thinks there will be no serious oppo
sition to the rule of Madero and that
it will be successful.
ness, and gladness combined in the
ideal sermon. Sadness as we size our
selves up according to the command
ments of God and find ourselves get
ting more and more insignificant, un
til at last the great agonizing heart
cry will be "God be merciful." Glad
ness, because there is such holy joy
about the gospel of Jesus Christ that
it makes a man's heart beat Jubilantly
when he hears it. And it will be our
madness, for we shall hear melodies
that the world knows little about, and
see the visions that make rich the life
but which appear as the wildest im
agining to unspiritual men.
Shall we have that kind of a church
here? Shall we have the ideal audi
ence in this Wrhite Temple? Shall the
man who has no knowledge of God
come into this house and feel there is
something that has made him serious
and started him thinking about heaven
and Christ? Will you become this ideal
audience, my brothers? If you will, I
am the happiest man in the ministry
to be found in America, If you won't. ,
bo frank enough to let me know, and
I won't stay here until the end of
October. For I have only got a lim
ited number of years in which to work,
and I must not fritter away my time.
I must be where my God can do the
most through me. Oh if you will only
be this kind of an audience God will
rse you so mightily that Portland will
stand amazed at the sight of what God
can do with a consecrated spiritual
church. Will you help me become this
kind of preacher? And shall we have
that kind of gospel here? I want It!
And I want to preach this (rospeU I
want to honor the King. I want to let
the Christ who bought me with his
heart's blood see that his love bestowed
upon me has not been altogether in
vain. Will you join me in this? Let
us move together in this, so shall we
become a people characterized by holi
.ness and fidelity to Jesus Christ. '
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