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GOD'S LOVE-ALONE CAN BRING PEACE TO EUROPE, SAYS PASTOR
Dr. Walter B. Hinson at White Temple Laud's President's Appeal for Peace Prayers From Christians of Country.
3T DR. WALTER B. HINSOT.
WE STAND upon the apex of 6000
years of slow, laborious, pain
fully evolved civilization. Into
our life, as streams flowing into a. lake,
there flows the result of man's toil,
and sacrifice, and discovery, and
achievement. And we are the heirs of
all the ages in the foremost files of
time. Other men labored; and we are
entering- into their labors. For us they
thought; for us they wrought; for us
they made discoveries; for us they
thought out inventions; for us they
Bang; for us they legislated; for us
they fought; for us they builded.
And we have as our inheritance a
fair world; its fields golden with the
harvest grain; its fruit trees colored,
as God's rainbows are colored, . with
wonderful fruit. Beauty of country;
beauty of city; magnificent homes; mag
nificent schools; magnificent churches;
temples and palaces on every hand.
Science has done for us-a great work;
as has art, and culture, and religion.
And every now and then, as men looked
upon all these splendid advantages of
the age in which we live they said,
"The millennium has come." They
seemed to think already Tennyson's
words are being fulfilled.
When the war-drum throbs no longer
And the battle flags are furled
In the parliament of man,
The federation of the world.
War Disrupts Conference.
For about a score of years we have
met at The Hague to think about peace,
disarmament, brotherhood, fraternity.
A few weeks ago the last Peace Con
gress gathered there, one of our prince
ly Baptist preachers a delegate to it
And while the Peace Conference sal
deliberating at The Hague, like some
eruption of hell war broke out in
Servla, Austria, Germany, Belgium,
France, England. Japan. And other
nations are trembling on the brink of
war, a. war such as was never waged
before.
Terror under the water; terror fall
ing from the air; weapons that illus
trate man's latest scientific thought,
capable of slaughtering beyond the
dreams or visions of old time; san
sjuinary tyrants; more men arrayed
against each other than ever looked
Into each other's faces in hate before;
cultured peoples, if you please; edu
cated peoples; civilized peoples. A
racial hate permeating millions of
men; and Protestants, Catholics, Greeks
and for ought I know, Mohammedans
i Stand feeling for each other's throats.
War! War! It makes the heart al
most hush to think about it. "Extra!"
(he cries on the street. And we say,
"The allies have moved back," or "The
Germans are in retreat." But O, what
lies behind those expressions! The
newspaper has saved me the terrible
task of describing it; the horror of the
wounded; the killing suspense of those
In the homes; the metal tag all that
Is left of a German son, a. French
brother, an English 'father: God's
beautiful yellow harvest fields streaked
with blood; and the grapes that contain
his air and Tain and sunshine, bleed
ing in common sympathy with the men
who trampled tbem under foot. This
Is the dark background of Mr. Wilson's
proclamation that on this Sunday we
meet and pray for peace among the
nations of Europe.
Strife Chill. FraTrr.
And I want to call your attention to
the sanity of the President's proclama
tion. I know not how you felt when
this war broke out. But as I read the
first tidings of It, a cold chill seemed
to wrap my very spirit about, and 1
said, "What is the good of anything?"
I say the Lord's prayer every morning
of my life. I said it the morning the
news reached me of the outbreak of
this awful strife. I said it more slowly
than I had ever said it before. I said
it with more of unbelieving fear in my
heart than had ever been there when 1
said it before. I said, "Our Father,"
and then I stopped. Does it look like
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it? I said, "Hallowed -be Thy name."
And I seemed to hear the varied noises
of strife, and in them I caught no echo
of reverence for the name of God.
I said, "Thy Kingdom come"; and my
troubled heart said. "It is not coming,
and it never can come through this.'"
I said, "Thy will be done." But is that
His will, that the earth should shake
under the tread of millions of men,
whose sole business in life for the time
being is to kill? I said, "Give us this
day our daily bread." And I thought
how wheat fields are being trampled
down by horses' hoofs and the wheels
of the guns. I said, "Lead us not into
temptation." And I thought of the na
tions. I said, "Deliver us from eviL"
And I said it haltingly. And I seemed
to hear the mocking laugh of the devil
at my ear. And I repeat, the upper
most emotion of my soul was the utter
futility of everything. And when 1
read in Mr. Wilson's proclamation, "We
are at the end of all human effort," my
heart responded to the sentence. That
is where we are. At the end of all
human effort! He says in that procla
mation, "There are things we cannot
change nor alter." True, emphatically
true. And he says, "We see no way
out, though we have scanned the hori
zon round." He adds, "Vain were the
counsels of statesmen." "
President Turns to God.
And then he bids us turn to the duty
of asking counsel of the Almighty
God. Now that Is very sane, that ac
ceptance of the condition as it Is; that
steady gazing upon facts as they exist.
But is it sane to turn to God? Well,
some great thinkers of our land have
said it is. Few of those days pass
without my thinking of Lowell's verse:
"Careless seems the great Avenger,
history's pages but record
One death grapple in the darkness
twixt old systems and the Word.
Right forever on the scaffold; wrong
. forever on the throne;
Tet that scaffold sways the future, ani
within the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow, keep
ing watch upon His own."
Do you recall the little speech that
made President Garfield famed? Lincoln
was slain And a mob surged in front
of a Washington hotel, turbulent and
enraged. And Mr. Garfield stepped out
on the veranda; and Intimated that he
wished to speak; and everybody stood
still. And he said, "Fellow-citizens,
God reigns, and the Government at
Washington lives." And the mob dis
persed, and the tumult subsided. In
the wild slavery time, Frederick Doug
lass went up and down the land like
a firebrand, ever cheering men by his
words of lofty faitrf. But one night the
heart of Frederick Douglass quailed.
and in a big hall he said, "What is the
use? We try in vain. We hope, and
our hopes come to naught." And away
in the rear of the building, an old ne
gress, "Sojourner Truth," she was
called, stood up, and pointing her long
bony finger at the orator's face, she
said, "Frederick Douglass, is God
dead?" And there was order, and hope,
and confidence! I was the first man of
my name who joined a christian church.
There is no drop of blood in that arm,
but it is skeptical blood. I have
wrestled with doubt in the dawn, noon,
twilight, and midnight. And as a re
sult I do not merely think there is a
God, I know it! It is no opinion with
me, but it is a conviction, and a certt
tude. There must be God, else the
world which seems to lie before us like
a land of dreams hath really neither
hope, nor certitude, nor peace, nor
light, nor love,, but left on a darkening
plain indeed.
Napoleon Realised God
There must be a God to whom we
can make our appeal. Every magazine
han told you how Napoleon said, "God
is always on the side of the heaviest
guns." But I wish those magazines
would also tell you that under the
skies of Egypt, when French philoso
phers said, "We have formulated a the
ory that does away with God," Napo
leon lifted his hand skyward towards
those stars that burn and blaze in the
blue, and said, "Gentlemen, who made!
all that?" And when Napoleon's fel
low-countrymen, Victor Hugo, would
write the story of the battle of Water
loo where Napoleon was overthrown,
he said, "It was not the British; it was
not the Germans; it was God who put
down Napoleon." And if you have read
Greene s history of the English people,
you may recall how he says of the de
struction of the Spanish Armada, "It
was reserved for a mightier band than
the hand of Drake to destroy it." And
Queen Elizabeth, on a medal struck to
commemorate the defeat. Inscribed
"Thou didst blow with thy wind, the
depth covered them."
Xhere Is anity In Mr. Wilson's
proclamation that in epite of all the
strife and the seething cauldron of
hate. In spite of it all, we approach
God and pray that he who is the Al
mighty may interfere and restore peace
to the nations of the Old World.
And I am proud to call your attention
to the saintliness of this proclamation.
Executive's Act Lauded.
Whether you be Republican or Demo
crat, you ought to be thankful for the
fact that a 'saintly man occupies this
wnite ilouse. Good men have usually
been there. And a good mt t is there
tonight, a much afflicted man. for
whom we should invoke God's sympa
thetic, protecting blessing. And he says,
"Let all God-fearing persons gather in
their places of worship to pray." Now,
there are two ways in which a man
may fear God. He may fear God as a
timid child fears the thunder; or as an
abused dog fears Its naster; or as a
slave might fear a brutal overseer. He
may fear God like that; or he mav fear
God with a filial fea- the fear of a
child who loves the father and is
frightened Jest In any way the love of
the father be outraged by the speech
or conduct of the child. My friends, a
little more of the fear of Cod because
he is great would not hurt this Nation
any. The "Recessional" was written by
an Englishman, but the United States
of America has as much reason to say
as ever - d England,
Lord God of hosts, be with us yet.
Lest we foreet; lest we forget.
For there is a God who fills the
cup of vengeance full. And I am en
deavoring, in the fear of God tonight,
to do my little best towards bringing
some of us into an apprehension of
that fact-- God is great, and greatly to
be feared. But God is good; an addi
tional .reason for being God-fearing.
I so often think about my early home
when I think along these lines. I
feared my father, and I feared my
mother; but there was the width of a
world between the two fears. I feared
my father for his corrective tendencies,
and I feared my moth' r because she
wept when I did the wror g thing. And
the combination of these two would in
no wise hurt the ordinary American
citizen, when he thinks of God. For
let us never forget that he is the Om
nipotent Jehovah. But, thank God, he
is also our Heavenly Father.
Neutrality Is Necessary.
And the religious 'an who holds the
helm of the American ship of state to
day says al God-fearing persons should
have sympatuy for Jie nations of the
Old World who are tortured by strife.
I have been noticing the sane, calm
way in which in this country we have
discussed that European war. And we
ought to so do, for we are Servian, Aus
trian, Russia::. Germa-, Belgian,
French, English. And therefore we do
well to be exceedingly careful lest by
any Impetuous speech we hurt the feel
ing of any man "ho came from either
of these countries were war rages.
You sang a little whue ago "My
Country, 'Tis of Thee. And these men
have not forgotten the fatherland, the
old land, the old home. Therefore, let
us with carefulness and a strong sym
nathv exnress even our ouinion flbnut
I his strife. Not f r one moment am I
nipeaching the sincerity of these men
I when they took oath of naturalization
ani sain. nenceiorm we are Amen
cans." But he who was the best French
man, German, Englishman, makes the
nest American. And sympathetically
let us, even in speech, regard those
whose birthplace Is otner than our o.vn.
But let our sympatuy be expressed in
a practical way. .verybody who possi
bly can should have part in the Red
Cross ministry, of binding up the
wounded and assuaging pain and allay
ing sorrow. And 1 am pleased to call
your attention to a suggestion that-the
young people of this country send
Christmas gifts for children across the
ocean, whose Christmas will be dreary
indeed.
And let not only children attend to
that, but let everybody who next
Christmas Eve expects to carry a bun
dle along Portland's streets for the
little ones who will waken a little
too early the -next morning, let every
one send something to some child whose
dead father will help to make just a
little bit greener a ridge In France or
in Belgium or In Germany next Spring.
And this proclamation says, "Let us
confess our sins." Now every cannon
booming In France says "sin." Every
hissing shell says "sin. Every flash
ing gun says "sin." Every wav
ing saber says "sin." Every shriek
of hatred or pain says "sin." It is sin
caused the war. It is sin made every
single tear fall, dug every - grave,
blighted every hope, blasted every
prospect. Let us forsake sin. He says
we should confess our Bins of wilful
ness or of error. Rootage does sin find
In both, in the stubborn .wilfulness
of a wicked will, and also in our ig
SAFETY OF PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY
LEADER ABROAD ASSURES CONCERTS
Josef Stransky Cables That He Will Be in New York in Time to Resume Rehearsals Early Orchestra Loses
Two Members by War New York Symphony to Open Season October 23.
BT KMIL1E FRANCES BAUER.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3. (Special.)
After long suspense concerning
the whereabouts of Josef Stran
sky, the Philharmonic Society an
nounces that a cable has been received
from the conductor saying that he will
be in New York soon to resume re
hearsals at once. The organization not
only plans not to reduce the number
of Its concerts, but it will add a new
series for Saturday evenings in Car
negie Hall. The regular season in
cludes 12 Thursday evening concerts,
16 Friday afternoon concerts, 12 Sun
day afternoon concerts all In Car
negie Hall, two young people's con
certs In Aeolian Hall and five Sun
day afternoon concerts in Brooklyn.
The orchestra has lost two men of
the first rank. These are Henri Le
Roy, the first clarinet, and Parma, the
bass clarinet, both of whom have gone
to Join the French army. Among the
soloists engaged some will be unable
to be present. The engagements In
clude Pasquall Amato, Lucrezla Borl.
Alma Gluck, Lucille Weingartner-Marcel,
Julia Culp, Fritz Kretsler, Zim
ballst, Arrigo Serato, Jacques Thibaud,
Leo Schulz. "cello; Eleanor Spencer, Ger
maine Schnitzer, BUBSonl, Gabrilo
wltsch, Carl Friedberg and David Saplr
stein. Kitty Cheatham has been en
gaged for both concerts at Aeolian HalL
Symphony Season Neaiins;.
The New Tork Symphony Orchestra
will open Its season Friday afternoon,
October 23. at Aeolian Hall under di
rection of Waltec Damrosch. Mr.
Damrosch Is rejoicing over the fact
that he ararnged all his progrrammes
ealy in Jude after having returned
from Europe with such novelties as he
wished to obtain. The entire quota of
85 musicians will be in the orchestra
norance, for which we are culpable
because we have shut our eyes to the
light. So let us repent. And he adds,
"Let us pray that we may see the
vision, and be led in the paths of obe
dience, and be so blessed by God aa to
be made wise, and have our hearts
purged of wickedness."
A message I wish every American
would heed, issued by a sound, sane,
common-sense and Christian-sense that
does the Nation credit. For it is so
intensely Christian. For Jesus Christ, In
whose name I speak tonight. Is called
"the Prince of Peace." No war did he
ever occasion. But all strife he came
to destroy. And significant is it that
at his advent the angels sang "Peace
on earth, good will toward men." And
he spread out his beautiful hands one
day and said. "Peace I give unto you;
my peace."
Pesee la Europe. Prayer.
O that he may lift those same hands
over the European battleground to
night and put the thought of peace in
the minds and hearts of the men who
are responsible for the continuance of
strife. For he comes to impart peace
to men, Godward. without which mark
you there never will be peace man
ward. For till we all say, "Our fath
er." he shall never In sincerity say,
"We are brothers."
But it was through war he brought
the peace. Let me tell you a true story.
On the coast of England a poor woman
one day called at a rich house and of
fered fish for sale. And when she plain
tively named the price the mistress of
the house said, "My, they're cheap!"
this season and Mr. Damrosch' con-1
slders himself lucky that none of the
members of the orchestra is available
for military duty. Alexander Saslavsky
will be concert master again, George
Barrere will remain as first flute,
Jacques Renard as that 'cellist and
Gustav Langenus will be first clarinet
again. The first rehearsal is called for
October 5 in preparation for the two
weeks' engagement which this organ
ization will have at the Pittsburg Ex
position. Scottl, it is announced, sailed on the
Mauretania Saturday with all his cos
tumes and personal effects. He was
due a little earlier, but he waited to be
able to bring his luggage. He will sing
a number of concerts in addition to his
appearances in opera.
Paderewaltl in Switzerland.
Paderewskl and Mme. 6embrich are
in their home in Morges. Switzerland,
where they have received great num
bers of refugees, for whom they are
caring. Both of these artists expect to
come to America later if they are not
prevented through lack of finances or
by being bottled up In the event of war
in Italy.
In regard to the situation in Italy,
Agide Jacchia. who arrived just in time
for the opening of the Century Opera
Company, said that no one under 3S
years was able to get a release from
the military service of that country.
On the othere hand, it is understood
definitely that Mr. Gatti-Casazza has
laid plans to charter a ship to bring
over the entire Metropolitan Opera
Company, and that this will sail from
Genoa, the impresario having asked all
the company to assemble in that city
as early as possible.
Mrs. William J. Guard, wife of the
press representative of the Metropoli
tan, and Mrs. F. C. Coppicus, wife of
the secretary and assistant of Mr.
And the poor woman burst Into tears
and said, "Cheap to .you, madam, but
dear to me. My boy lost his life last
night helping to catch these fish." Tea,
they were dear fish to the mother. I
come to you with peace, Godward, from
the nail-pierced hands of my Savior;
and you get It cheaply enough: but it
cost him his life. With a great price
obtained I this freedom! So let 'the
sermon preached by the chief executive
of this Nation lead you to think about
God. who revealed himself through
Jesus Christ, and who will allay the
wild passion and selfishness and evil
of the human heart and bring us Into
such loving relationships' with God that
we shall be able to say, "My father, my
friend, my Savior, my comfort, my ever
lasting reward." "Lest we forget."
I did not intend to say the word with
which I now close my sermon, but God
has given it to me to say. How we
have forgotten. Do you remember the
time I do do you remember the time
when you knelt and said, by the side of
one who long since went Into the glory
and better friend than her you will
never have In this world you said, .
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray the Ior2 my soul to keep;
And 1C I die betore i vaxe,
I pray the Lord my soul to take;
And this 1 ask for Jesus sake.
God bless father; God bless mother, and
make me good."
We have wandered far away from
that far away. I wandered so far away
that I many times said.
Now I lay me down to sleep, '
With little thought, or care
Gatti-Casazza, have arrived in New
York. They corroborate the news that
every effort is being made to bring
the company as complete as possible.
Pour Slnarers Reported Killed.
it was reported by a former member
of the Century Opera staff that Ar
mond Crabbe Gustav Huberdeau, and
Marcel Charlier, all of the Chicago
Opera Company, were among those
killed in France and Belgium. Otto
Kahn received news that Leon Rothier,
well-known French basso of the Met
ropolitan Opera Company, was killed
in the French army.
Fritz Krelsler, who last week was
reported killed, has since been located
among the wounded. The eminent vio
linist has been taken to Vienna, where
he will remain for the present.
Dr. William C. Carl, who returned on
the Lusitanla this week, had seen a
great many of the musicians well
known in this country. He said that
Krelsler was one of the 'first to re
spond to the call. Chaliapine, the great
Russian basso, all the members of his
company: Rachmaninoff, the Russian
composer; Dohnanyi, the Hungarian
pianist and composer: the sons and
son-in-law of Alexandre Guilmant and
many others, according to Mr. Carl,
responded early to the call. Henri
Marteau, the well-known violinist, a
Frenchman by birth, who was called
to the Royal Conservatory of Berlin to
succeed Joachim, refused to fight
against either country and willingly
made himself a prisoner. Mr. Carl
said that he does not believe a single
artist is left in Germany, France, Bel
gium or Russia unless he is beyond
the age limit or disqualified on account
of ill-health.
Whole Company Volunteers.
Mr. Carl was present at Beyreuth
when the curtain fell on the first act
of "Parsifal" and all the eligible art
Whether my waking; find me here or there.
Lest we forget! Come back to your
mother's God. Come back to your fath
er's Bible. Come back to the old asso
ciations of the family altar, when the
old man pushed his chair back from
the table and adjusted his glasses and
took the book and solemnly read from
God Almighty's truth; and then you
went shambling down on your knees
noisily, out tne noise was soon hushed,
and you prayed with vour old father.
Come back, boy. Come back to it. Let
him sneer who is fool enough to sneer.
Do you come back to vour mother's
God and to the Lord Jesus Christ, who
says.
Though your ain be as scarlet.
It ahaU be as white as snow;
Though It be red like crimson.
It shall be aa wool.
Do you remember the story I told
you of standing on the street of Lon
don preaching about this Christ; and
a man stopped and sneeringly said.
"To- have got a pretty Cod. haven't
you, when everyone else kichs a man
out he will take him in." Tes, we have
a great God. a wonderful God, a God
absolutely heart-breaking in his love
for us; and when everybody else has
forsaken you he will take you In. For
there is not a poor man went out of a
saloon on a barkeeper's boot last night
out Jesus Christ will save that man,
and love him into a new life, and make
of him a new creature. This is the
Christ to whom I swore my allegiance
30 years ago, and by his help I will
die with that allegiance unbroken.
Amen.
ists, stage hands, men in the audience,
chorus, orchestra and Siegfried Wag
ner, himself, went from the theater to
offer themselves in service.
Campaninl was at Bad Nauhelm at
the beginning of the war and reached
his home in Parma by way of Switzer
land. He cabled to Edyth Walker for
money and Jias spent all the rest of
his time in trying to advise the differ
ent members that the Chicr.go Opera
Company has been disbanded.
Anna Case of the Metropolitan Opera
Company returned this. week via
Montreal.
Josef Hofman is among the latest to
arrive from Genoa. Other pianists due
in America are Godowsky, Mark Ham
bourg, Harold Bauer from Australia to
open his tour on the Pacific Coast.
Thuel Burnham. Katherine Goodson,
Leonard Berwick, who will arrive from
Australia; Gabrilowitsch, who is an
nounced as a certainty, and many well
known artists who had not intended
to come to this country.
GIRL IS DYING OF GRIEF
Return of Fiance Only Hope to Save
Woman Now Ebbing Away.
WILKES BAR RE, Pa., Sept. 2S. Po
lice here are searching for Mearns Ar
bogast. to get him to return to the
home of Mrs. Henry Ryan. 224 North
Front street. Lewisburg, where it is
claimed that his fiancee is lying at
the point of death.
According to a message signed by
Mrs. Ryan, the girl's mother, doctors
have Informed her that unless Arbogast
returns to the daughter's bedside she
will die of grief over his absence.
The letter declares that Arbogast and
Miss Ryan were engaged to be married.
A short time ago Arbogast Is alleged
to have left on a fishing trip and failed
to return. Miss Ryan is said to have
become seriously ill, and her mother
says in the letter that only a visit from
Arbogast may possibly save her life."
Kegnlated Publicity.
"With what part of our military sys
tem are you concerned?" asked the
General.
"I have been -of service in connection
with the press." replied the young man.
"Ah! Agent or censor?"