THE SUNDAY O REG ONI AN, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 27, 1914.
ALL WARS COME FROM AMBITION, SAYS BAPTIST PASTOR
Dr. Walter B. Hinson, at White Temple, Repeats "War Is Hell," and Says It Is Inspired by Satan.
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BY DR. WALTER B. HINSOIT.
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they not come out of the lust
ings of your own hearts?"
James iv:l.
An American has given to the world
the tersest and truest definition of war
In the three short, simple words: "War
Is hell." But have there not been wars
in which was involved some great prin
ciple, some fact making for righteous
ness, some motive that caused the very
conflict to be praiseworthy? Students
of history will readily recall tome con
flicts of the ages gone, at which the
world etill wonders and offers admira
tion. The pushing back of the progress
of Napoleon the First; was it not right
eous? When they fired the shot heard
around the world, was not there a
principle of righteousness at the heart
of that revolutionary war?
Base Passions Appear.
Yes, but even then, ere ever the
strife has advanced very far, there is
apt to come to the surface the pas
sions that are base; the motives that
are low, and the method of procedure
of that same conflict is quite apt to
savor of the pit. But in most wars mo
tive and method alike have been simply
devilish. And it is almost natural that
this should be so, for how can men re
tain saneness of mind and heart and
soul and resort to methods of settling
differences that savor of the jungle,
and have in them Rob Roy rule if you
will, but no trace of Christ's- golden
rule?
The present European war Is the
disgrace of the world. In Its Inception
there was no moral principle Involved.
For its commencement no righteous
cause carr be assigned. Greed and lust
and ambition characterized it at its
very start. The Oregonian's cartoon of
a savage in Africa reading an extra
printed in London was exceedingly sug
gestive. Savagery might well criticise
the result of 2000 years' civilizing and
Christianizing influence as displayed
today in the armed camps of the Old
.World.
If dogs resorted to such tactics . to
settle strife, we should separate them.
If children went to work to settle
their quarrels in this way we should
correct them. And if men Individual
men upon the street undertook to set
tle differences in this foolish manner
we should send them to the rockpile.
A pity it is that some power cannot
arrest the progress of men be they
crowned or uncrowned who wickedly
disregard treaty right, and human
right, and with devastation In their
pathway, march along in their insa
tiable ambition, regardless of broken
hearts and burned harvests of God and
the accumulated treasures of man's
genius and skill and sacrificed human
life.
BIsj Armlea Cause for War.
Our great ex-President Roosevelt has
told us over and over that prepared
ness for war alone guarantees peace.
IThe sophistry is exploded, and the folly
of such reasoning is exposed. Think
you antagonized sides In a school back
East will perpetuate peace by accumu
lating snowballs by the score and hun
dred? Every single snowball made is
additional reason for strife. Jordan, of
fStanford University, told us financial
reasons would prevent another war. It
ought to be known by now that the
passion of a man's heart is reckless of
financial obligation, financial necessity
or momentary gain or loss. And Mr.
Aked is reputed to have said: 'A marvel
that the socialistic tendencies in the
European nations did not - prevent
strife." Sirs, there is that In the human
soul that will ride rough-shod over any
theory or any philosophy if once its
passions are set on fire in hell. And
(they are telling us today this Is the
last war, which is fo inaugurate the
general peace. Does history teach that
lesson? Or did France nurture In her
fcreast revenge, year after year, and
decade after decade, after the Franco-
Prussian War? Don't you know that
already they are forecasting future
wars as the result or the present con
flict? Do you think for one moment all the
world will become German?-Not by a
long shot! Do you think for one mo
ment all the world wjll become Slav?
Never! Do you think. If Germany wins,
the world is going to be supine and
obey the behests of the Kaiser? Well,
then, you think foolishly. Why, you
know very well if you have been read
ing the papers and magazines that
Turkey, if entering the strife, will do
much to prevent Russian occupancy of
Constantinople after this strife is over.
War is hell. It has always been since
Cain struck Abel, and it always will be.
And the cause of it goes down deeper
than mere diplomacy, or philosophy or
theory. Assassination in Servia, Aus
trian arrogance, German Interference,
Russian diplomacy,' French revenge,
Britain's regard for treaty rights,
there is something .underneath all -that.
And I should not wonder but my text,
though taken from a book too little
heeded in these degenerate days,' puts
its fingers down on the sore spot and
says, "Thou ailest here and here.
Whence comes war? From the lust
lngs of your own hearts." You young
people who read the poets will ap
preciate my reminder of Tennyson's
strange prophecy ,of this warfare In
the air that we are witnessing for the
first time. Do you recall how in "Locks
ley Hall" he says,
"I heard the heavens filled with shouting,
And there rained a ghastly dew.
From the nations' airy navies
Grappling in the central bine."
Ambition Blamed for Trouble.
That same poet lines himself up
alongside the writer of my text, as he
says, "Put down ambition, envy, pride,
jealousy, the evil ear and the evil
tongue, for each is at war with man
kind." And he tells us how in every
single one of us there lurks the fuel
fot the feud and flamee of actual war
fare. We are puppets; man In his pride and beauty
in her bower. ,
Do we move ourselves or are we moved by
an unseen hand at a game.
That pushes us oft and others ever succeed?
And yet we cannot be kind to each other
e'en for an hour.
But we whisper, and hint, and chatter, and
smirk.
And serin, at a brother's shame.
However we brave it out, we men are a
little breod.
Whence come wars? From the lust
lngs of your own hearts. And accord
ing to that same gifted singer, there
are none of us free from those grim
possibilities that mature in open con
flict and horrid strife, for be says,
Below me there Is the village that looks
so quiet and small.
And yet bubbles over with gossip and scan
dal and spite.
And Jack on his ale-house bench has as
many lies as a czar.
For we are all made alike. One
touch of nature makes the whole world
kin; and there is that in your heart and
in my heart that arrays Itself along
side these tremendous passions that
have produced warfare all adown the
ages, and are soaking Europe with
blood tonight.
I so often think during these days of
the great utterance of my Master, "An
enemy hath done this." I told those
who listened to me this morning how
fair was the world when it rolled off
the creative power of God, when the
birds were singing, and the flowers
were blooming, and all the world was
gay. And yet inside a few days the
whole thing changed because of man's
sin. And 4000 years afterward an in
spired apostle put his ear down to
the throbbing heart of the world, and
he said, "The whole creation groaneth
and travaileth In pain." Why the poor
flowers were plucked and put to un
holy uses upon guns; places where God
Almighty, the great artist, never in
tended -his flowers to be placed. And
the birds were startled out of their
slumber by the bellowing of guns; and
he who loved the sparrow and watches 1
the fall of every single one of them,
never intended his birds to be thus
rudely affrighted. And the horses are
screaming in their pain on - battle
grounds tonight.
Man's Sin Responsible.
O ye who sneer at the utterance of
the Book, tell me la it not true that
the very creation groans because of
the damned degradation of man's sin
and its dire result? What do we see
today? We see & war lord, strutting
In his contemptible haughtiness; jest
ing about lunching in a spoiled city;
arrogantly talking about retaining the
uniform of another country that he
may command that country's troops
while attired in it; commanding that
war be conducted along certain Inhu
man lines, though it mean the de
struction of SO per cent of his soldiers,
doing havoc in Louvaln, and counte
nancing the slaughter of noncombat
ants whose only prayer is for peace,
and whose only effort moves along that
same line.
But, oh, let somebody remind us, for
God's sake, that under the Servian uni
form, and under the Austrian uniform,
and under the German uniform, and
under the Russian uniform, and under
the French uniform, and under . the
British uniform there is the human
heart, the common heart of humanity,
that hopes and fears and trembles, and
grows elate, and when I- think of two
German regiments so cruelly shattered
that the two are blended in one, and
only 60 men can be found, and when
I think of 1500 men lying dead on a
single street, and when I think of 20,-
000 men burled in a field where God
wanted His grain to rustle, and his
crops to ripen, my heart grows as
heavy as lead.
Wounded Are Considered.
And, further, when I think of these
maimed men who are doomed to go
handicapped through life, who will
never be the men they were before;
whose chances of success In the world
have been cruelly crippled and spoiled,
and yet further, when I think of the
women, the mothers palpitating with
fear because of their boys, and the
wives who teach the little children to
pray for the fathers when the twilight
drops, and the sisters agonizing be
cause of the brothers, and the sweet
hearts who will be losing the best
thing God has given them out of
heaven; when I think of these women
1 find it in my heart to curse any
body or any number of bodies who
are perpetrating this frightful crime.
Do you remember how the. woman of
Italy, through Mrs. Browning's lips,
talks of her bereavement?
I taught thorn indeed to speak plain the
word "country" ;
t told them a country's a thing men should
die for;
I prated of liberty, rights, and the tyrant
turned out.
And when their eyes flashed O, my beau
tiful eyes
I exulted; nay, let them go forth at the
wheels
Of the guns, and withheld not.
But then the suspense, and the news;
Then one weeps, then one kneels.
God, how the house feels.
Dead, both of my boys.
One of them shot by the sea in the east.
And one of them shot in the west by the
sea.
Dead, both of my boys. If in keeping the
feast
Tou want a great song for your Italy free.
Let none look at me!
The women and the children! Only
with bated breath can one hint at the
effect of this, strife on the children
yet to be born. And what about those
whose Imaginations are being filled
with sights and sounds that God Al
mighty's angels turn their faces from?
Boys of 18 who ought to have a father's
hand on their head and a mother's arm
about them, fighting, falling, turning
their young faces up from the bloody
ground on which they lie wounded,
while the cavalry charges and the big
guns rumble and thunder. Oh, my God,
Isn't It awful? And we ought to sym
pathize with all the intenseness of
our hearts.
And we ought to pray, as perhaps
we have never yet prayed, to the great
God to Interpose. And we ought to
sustain to the utmost fraction of our
ability the activities of the Red Cross
and send whatever amelioration - we
may to those so bitterly cursed. And
we ought to drive in, as with a pile
driver, upon the consciousness of th
rising race, that war is hell; that for
nations to resort to brute force to set
tle questions, is brute's way of settling
questions; and can never really determ
ine any moral Issue whatsoever. And
we ought to tear mt of our imagina
tions the last figment of pride in mar
tial display; and Jingo talk; and all
exaggerated boasting; and we ought to
emphasize, as God will help us, the fact
that there are no Servians, Germans,
Austrians. French, British men. Japa
nese, in God's sight; but that all souls
are his. And we ought, as the Scottish
poet has said.
"To pray, that come it may.
As come It will, for aye
That man to man the world o'er
Shall brothers be."
But not alone are there the wounded
In Europe. They are here in America.
They are In this house tonight. And I,
as you know very well, would not
spend this Sabbath evening In talking
about a war, and allowing that talk
to omit the stern fact that not only
does a man on French soil want the
help of God, but the speaker wants It,
and the hearer needs it. There waits
for me a soul In God's hidden glery. who
eald to me one Sunday as I went out
to preach, "Let me give you a cymn."
And I said: "What is it?"
"Deep are the wounds which sin has made.
Where shall the sinner find a cure?
In vain. alas. Is nature's aid. '
The work exceeds all nature's power."
And- I looked at It, and I said. "That
is a terrible hymn." "And that saintly
soul said, "Read on to the last verse."
I think I can. recall it. though many
a moon has passed away since then:
"There is a kind physician near.
Look up, O fainting soul, and live,
Sea in the Savior's smiles appear
Such ease as nature cannot give."
Christ's. Red Cross Pictured.
So I bring you the Red Cross, my
brothers, the original Red Cross; the
cross my Lord Christ made red with
His own blood. O. I can trust Him.
Those little quacks, who come to me
and talk to me about self-reformation,
or the Ignoring of the fact of sin; and
suggest that I be like a silly ostrich,
put my head down in the sand and
think because I cannot see hell. It Is
gone; O, I turn, away from them! They
do not know the gravity of my condi
tion. They do not know the blackness
of my sin. But one day there comes
along the Nazarene. And when I say
to Him. "Physician of the soul, what
ails me?"
He says. "The whole head is sick, and
the whole heart faint; and there is
nothing but bruises and putrefying
sores; and there is no help for it ex
cept in my blood"; and so He wins my
respect, for He knows my disease, and
He Inspires me with confidence. And
then when He moves along in His won
derful way to where the Heavens
darken because the sun refuses to look
upon the suffering of its creative Lord;
and when out of that gloom He says,
"It la finished"; and tells me my sal
vation is an accomplished fact; then
the red cross gives me hope and cheer.
Christ is the cure for war in Europe,
or war in your heart, and in my heart.
May I say it again, though you have
heard It before:
"I know a land that is sunk In shame.
Where hearts grow faint and tire;
But I know a name, a name, a name.
That can set tbat land on fire.
Its sound is thunder, its letters flame.
It's the name of Him who from Heaven
came ;
I know a land that Is sunk In shame,
But I know of a name, a name, a name.
That can set that land on fire."
'Tis the name of Jesus. And what
He can do for the nation. He can do
for the individual. And He has done it
for me. And if there be none other un
der God's broad, starry sky tonight,
who has found redemption through the
shed blood of Jesus Christ upon the
cross, write down my name. Sir! I
have.
"Once a sinner near despair.
Sought thy mercy seat by prayer,
Mercy beard and set me free:
. Lord, that mercy came to me.
I know it. I rejoice In It; and be
cause of it there shall be no shred or
fiber in my nerve, and no drop of blood
in my veins, and no power or capacity
in my soul, but I will consecrate it to
the service of the only One In the
world who ever loved, me enough to
give Himself for me. Men, women,
you are wounded. O, we are brave!
And we wear a rose In the hair, while
we feel like slaves. And we smile,
while drip, drip, drip, goes the blood
that tells how bitterly we are wounded.
But we will quit our fooling now, and
we wilp go to Christ, and say. "It la
Tou. or nobody. It is your cross, or
nothing." And the blood of Jesus
Christ will wash us whiter than the
snow.
OPERA SEASON OPENS AUSPICIOUSLY
AND MUSICAL LIFE IS AWAKENED
Century Company Makes Fine Impression and Its Permanency Is Predicted Tina Lerner Rests Before Under
taking Long Tour Nine Public Rehearsals and Five Concerts Scheduled for Worcester Festival.
BY EMILIB FRANCES BAUER.
NEW YORK. Sept. 26. (Special.)
The season may be declared
formally open with the first
week of grand opera at the Century
and the Worcester Festival, which
occupy the week from September 21
to 25, Inclusive. The Maine Festival
will follow the one in Massachusetts,
and all around there will" be some
showing of musical life.'
Following the opera in New Tork,
the Bevanl Opera Company will open
in Boston, October 6, and while sev
eral of the largest cities in America
have abandoned their seasons of opera
it is interesting to note that grand
opera is running In Berlin. In Hamburg
and in other German cities and musical
life Is opening up freely in London.
A number of American artists are
appearing in Germany, among whom
may be named Francis McLellan and
his wife, Florence Easton, Marie Ca
van, who has a fine position in Ham
burg, William Wade Hinshaw, who
may, if he chooses, remain in Berlin
for the present, and. others who have
been identified with musical life in
Germany.
Tina Lerner arrived in this country
last week to rest before her season
opens. A few days after her arrival
she received a letter from her London
manager in which he said: "I hear
that you are leaving for America, but
presume you Intend to return to fill
all your engagements in England.
There is a perfect craze here for
everything Russian, particularly Rus
sian artists and Russian music, and I
would not like to disappoint a public
where you are such a favorite."
Artist Is Fatigued.
As a matter of fact Miss Lerner was
completely exhausted upon her arrival
and could not have played, had she
remained abroad, but she has been
resting in the country and will soon
be In condition to undertake the long
tour which has been booked for her
by Loudon Charlton.
The Worcester programme will be"
carried out exactly according to the
original schedule. There will be nine
public rehearsals and five concerts.
The works to be given include Wolf
Ferrari's "La "Vita Nuova," Bruckner's
Te Deum," Mendelssohn's "Elijah,"
Elgar's "Challenge of Thor," and the
works which will be offered by the
several soloists. These will Include
Alma Gluck, Florence Hinkle, Olive
Kline,, sopranos; Mildred Potter, Chris
tine Schultz, contraltos; Evan Williams,
William Pagdln, tenors; Herbert With
erspoon, Clarence Whitehlll, baritones;
Rudolph Ganz, piano and Efrem Zlm
balist. violin. Dr. Arthur Mees will
conduct the concerts " with Gustav
Strube assisting in the symphony
numbers. Members of the Boston
Symphony Orchestra and the Worcester
Festival Chorus will complete the per
sonnel oj the performers.
"Elijah"', la First.
"Elijah" will be the first offering
with Florence Hinkle, Mildred Potter.
Evan Williams and Herbert Wither
spoon. Thursday afternoon there will
be a symphony concert With Zimballst
and Mildred Potter as soloists. Thurs
day night the Wolf-Ferrari work will
be given with Clarence Whitehlll as
Dante, Olive Kline as Beatrice, fol
lowed by the Bruckner work in which
the soloists will be Miss Kline, Miss
Schutz, Mr. Pagdin and Whltehill. Fri
day afternoon another symphony con
cert will be given with Rudolph Ganz
and Miss Kline as soloists, and in the
evening the regular "Artists' Night"
will offer Alma Gluck, Clarence White
hill and Evan Williams, soloists, the
Boston Symphony Orchestra and the
festival chorus.
The principal stars of the Maine Fes
tival were to have been Mme. Eamea
and de Gogorza, but these artists have
canceled their American tour and in
stead Marcella Craft will make her
first appearance in this country upon
this occasion, following it by opening
the season of the San Francisco Sym
phony Orchestra. Salvatore Giordano,
the Italian tenor, will be another "star"
performer and Cordelia Lee will be the
violinist. .
The Century Opera Company opened
its second season with the sort of per
formances which made an instant ap
peal to the audiences. Instead of giv
ing one work through the entire week,
the direction has seen the advantage
in alternating operas and casts which
makes the situation easier all around.
The two first performances were "Ro
meo and Juliet" and "Carmen" and the
proceeds of both offerings were donated
to the Red Cross fund. If the Century
will keep up through its season the
quality of the performances of this
week. It should be easy to predict that
it can remain as a permanent insti
tution. A wonderful new factor, of
course. Is Jacques Colni, artistic di
rector of the house and another which
cannot be underestimated is the pres
ence of Joslah Zuro as chorus master
and conductor, and there is no doubt
that Agide Jacchia, the new Italian
conductor, has his forces well in hand
and Is able to bring the best results
from those under his baton. The
chorus has been tremendously strength
ened and the orchestra has been prac
tically remade.
It may be remembered that Coinl
and Zuro were largely responsible for
the great Hammerstein success and
their acquisition by the Century
Opera Company may direct the future
success of the institution. This was
apparent with the opening of the sec
ond season, and if they will be per
mitted a ' continuance of control by
those who direct the financial support
of the enterprise, there can be no ques
tion of failure.
"Romeo and Juliet" Interest.
"Romeo and Juliet" never seemed so
interesting, it being at best one of the
works which most opera houses have
laid to rest. It seemed to lend itself
well to the English text, and the ar
rangement of Algernon St. John Bren
non was a real literary achievement.
as there is no small degree of responsi
bility attached to the reconstruction
of a Shakespeare text which is a trans
lation inasmuch as it was set in French
by Gounod.
The cast included Lois Ewell. who re
turns as fresh and sprightly as though
she had not passed through a season
which almost crushed life and voice
out of her. For the benefit of those
who enjoy the lovely singing of this
charming soprano it is to be hoped that
she will be spared more she was
last season. Her Juliet was appealing
and lovely In spirit and her singing
was excellent.
The opposite title role was sung by
Orville Harrold. who effected his
usual successes notwithstanding the
fact that he did not have much rest in
the Summer, having appeared with
numerous opera companies. Thomas
Chalmers made a splendid, manly Mer
Cutio with his lovely voice and his dra
matic manner much improved and the
Friar Lawrence had as Interpreter a
new member of the company, Henry
Weldon. whose success was one of the
most pronounced of any artist who has
appeared in New York for a long time.
Son of Admiral Pleases.
Mr. Weldon. who In private life is
Henry Weldon Hughes, son of Admiral
Hughes. Is no recruit to the operatic
field. He is an artist of broad experi
ence and his work Is of superb finish.
Most beautiful is his full bass voice,
which brings to mind an organ no less
wonderful than that of the late Flan
con, and he has poise and command
over his resources. It will be a delight
to watch the basso in the different
roles after a debut of such sensational
success as ho enjoyed and merits. Two
newcomers that promise well were
Hardy Williamson, the young Welsh
tenor and George Everett as Tybalt
and Gregorio. Alfred Kaufman, the
ever reliable, did credit to himself and
to the performance as Capulet, and -Gilbert
Wilson, also a member last
season, was heard as the Duke. Two
new members were Stella Riccardo,
who made a favorable Impression as
the Nurse, and Elizabeth Campbell, a
young soprano, who made a dashing
but inexperienced Stephano. Jacchia.
conducted with excellent results.
Tuesday evening "Carmen" received
a truly splendid performance, full of
life, color and fine effects musically
and in stagecraft with the usual
Coin! magic The conductor was Zuro,,
who brought out all the fire and spirt
of the Bizet music and won immediate
recognition. Kathleen Howard was in
the title role and gave a performance
that was unique and impressive. She
is large of body and for the role, but
she handles herself with tigerish
fierceness that compels and she In
vests it with a degree of cruelty that
makes her interpretation distinct from
that of many others who have sung
the role. Miss Howard has never
seemed in better voice, particularly
in the high tones, and her enunciation
was a delight.
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