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PURE LIVING NEEDED TO SANCTIFY THE BONDS OF PARENTAGE
Pastor Advises Youths to Consider Corefully Responsibilities of Husbands and Wives Right of Child to Be Well Born Is Being Recognized Redemption Is in Prospect
THE SXJXTAT OT1EGONIAX, PORTLAND, JAXTJAUT 11, 1920
Sermon at the Woodlawn Methodist
Kptscopal church by Rev. J. H. Irvine..
pastor. Text: I.uKe i:3S A holy mother
and a holy child."
THE first recorded command to
humankind Riven by a brooding
Creator was whispered to a
happy pair aglow with love's first
weet thrill. "Be fruitful and multi
ply, and replenish the earth, and fill
it with a blood kindred of holy, happy
beings." Read it as we will, this holy
stream was early tainted.
Whether those early pace-setters of
the race fell up or down, there was a
fall. But the hopeful God does not
despair. The offspring of 'the race
will repair the parent's breach. The
descendants of the woman shall bruise
the deceiver's head.
Many authorities conclude that
Mother Eve believed the promise ful
filled at the birth of her first-born
when she cried: "'I have gotten a man
from the Lord." or, as some have
translated it. "the man from the
Lord." and others in still stronger
terms, "I have acquired a man even
Jehovah."
Be that as it may, every holy woman
In Bible story seems to have a similar
expectation, and if left childless she
mourns and cannot be comforted until
her reproach is taken away and she
elves to the world her Isaac, or Sam
uel, or John.
To this end was intermarriage with
the tribes of lust and error prohib
ited, "that they might seek a holy
Bced."
Promise Is Fulfilled.
It was this God-implanted cry of
holy womanhood filling the patriotic
heart and being of the virgin of Naz
areth that proved God's long-cherished
promise and gave to a needy
world the rebuilder of the race.
I have no doubt that the great
father-heart had waited long for this
well-begotten son of man to be con
ceived and born in holy wedlock, but
had found no man who would not
have, In some degree, sullied the
stream at its fountain. So his own
word of power and life conceived in
the pure, fruitful being of the holy
virgin the fondly cherished desire of
SOLDIERS BACK FROM EUROPE OBSERVE BIG
DEMAND FOR PRODUCTS FROM AMERICAN SOIL
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Europe Is more dairy cows, more I
milk, butter and all dairy prod-,'rum
nets Is the statement of Lletuenant
William E. Graham, who has recently
returned from overseas service. He
' saw active service at the front and
was also stationed in Germany. He
formerly was active in the local dai
rymen's association and his experience
made him of value in France, where
the milk supply is short and what
there was had to be saved for the hos
pital and for the little children.
Lieutenant Graham did military po
lice work and was with the 91st at
Argonne. He officiated at the burial
of "Spec" Hurlburt and 200 other men
of the division with C. A. Rexwood as
chaplain. Lieutenant Graham gradu
ated from Hill military academy,
Tortland, In 1909 and was given a
'second lieutenancy in the first offi
cers' training camp at the Presidio.
Major Charles M. Hodges, Portland
attorney, several weeks ago returned
to this city after eighteen months'
service overseas. He attended the
first officers' training camp at the
Presidio in San Francisco and was
commissioned as a captain of infantry,
having served wltti the 16th infantry
In the Philippines in 1901. In Sep
tember, 1917, he was sent to Fort Sill,
Oklahoma, and attached to the 35th
division, with which be served as
assistant quartermaster and assistant
adjutant. In, the spring of 1918 he
went overseas with this division,
which was brigaded with the second
British army on the Somme. Major
Hodges was later transferred to the
89th division and served with this or
Kintzation in the St. Mihlel and
JJeuse-Argonne offensives. While in
France be was promoted from a cap-
the true woman-heart and the "desire
of all nations."
It would seem as if the loving
Father, standing in the . fullness of
time, confesses failure to reconstruct
the race by any means or reforms
thus far tried. As if God had said,
"I have tried by every means to make
something of a hundred generations
of men conceived in sin and poisoned
at the fountain. I have given them
the wisest laws the counsels of
heaven could devise. I have sent
unto them the truest prophets to
explain and enforce those holy laws,
and I despair of rebuilding the race
by patching up ruined temples, or
making much of any generation start
ed wrong and tainted at its begin
nings. My only hope of race recon
struction is by a generation started
right a holy mother giving to the
world a holy child; not one mother,
but a million; not one holy child, but
every child, well begotten, well born."
One, generation born right and the
world is redeemed-. But a thousand
generations corrupted at the begin
ning, and at best you have but poor,
patched-up cripples, and an unre
deemed race."
The worst possible use we can make
of the Bethlehem story is to conclude
that because Mary was holy, no other
mother can be,' or needs to be, holy.
And to assume that because her child
was holy, no other child need be or
can be a well-begotten and holy- son
of God from Its very beginnings. The
story might better never have" been
told than told thus.
Will the blessed holy spirit preside
over and fill the church in and for
lesser things, and forsake his bride
in this momentous office when the
church of today conceives and brings
forth the church of tomorrow? Will
he overshadow the dying bed where
the battle is over and the destiny
fixed and forsake the marriage scene
where a generation's stream takes its
blessed or baneful bent?
We need more Bethlehem and less
Calvary. More buildings from the
ground after the Bethlehem pattern,
and less patching up "damaged
goods" and repairing ruined temples,
and remaking dwarfed, deformed,
sinn-ed against and sinning characters.
The Christmas story is God's last ef
fort to redeem the race. But how we
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tain to a major, and was recommended I
for the grade of colonel, but orders j
"B war ueparimoni, May, uu,
stopping further promotions, kept
him from receiving this advancement.
Major Hodges completed a course in
French and international law at the
University of Lyons, France, just be
fore coming home. ,
C. P. O. Frank Xorthrup Waters,
son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Waters,
formerly of Portland, and O. A. C.
student, served two years in the
United States navy. After enlisting
at Bremerton he was sent to San
Pedro, where he received his training,
and was later assigned to the sub
marine 0-16 as chief machinist's mate.
The 0-16 was stationed in the Pan
ama canal when the armistice was
signed.
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Lieutenant Horace Lyman McCoy
was recently discharged from service
in the United States army and has
taken a position under the govern
ment with the federal board for voca
tional education at Seattle. While In
the army he occupl'ed an important
position ': the war rick insurance of
fice at Camp Lewis for about 16
months.
Sergeant Howard E. Day has suffi
ciently recovered from wounds re
ceived in France to be discharged
from the Walter Reed hospital at
Washington, I). C. Sergeant Bay left
Portland as a cook with company L
of the old Third Oregon In 1917.
.While in action during the battle of
Argonne forest on November -4, 1918
he was severely wounded. After a
brief visit In the eastern states Ser
geant Day will return to his home in
Portland
H. Lebeaupin. has returned to Port
land after wo years overseas duty.
He is now residing at the Carlota
Court apartments, of which he is man
aer. Before enlisting in. the service.
have missed its real meaning and mes.
sage to marriage and parenthood and
race redemption to this day.
If Isaiah were here, methlnks he
would cry aloud- as of old against us
all on this point "His watchmen are
blind; they are all ignorant; they are
dumb dogs; they cannot bark."
We prattle about the star and the
wise men, and the angels and the
shepherds, in a manner worthy of the
kindergarten, and utterly miss .the
great Bethlehem thought and Christ
mas message, though God wrote It
large and illuminated and demon
strated it to make it plain as a
primer.
Not infrequently the minister be
comes chief Jollier at a marriage
scene where an innocent Christian
girl is being joined to an ungodly
man in an impossible union and where
the whole masquerade is turned into
a scene of hollow revelry, and the
most Irreverent hilarity known in
what is called refined life.
Instead of holy matrimony worthy
of the great name where two love
linked lives are crowned as the guests
of honor, and enzoned by all that
Christian faith and Bethlehem light
and holy love can bring, they are
often made the victims of a thousand
profano Indignities, and the butt of
everybody's ridicule till their faces
burn with sname at suggestive allu
sions, and pranks worse than pagan.
Ministers Are Criticised.
All this would be far more excus
able at a funeral occasion where
some weary pilgrim spirit is at last
safe home, forever, if we would but
girdle holy matrimony with all the
tender intelligence and vision of .race
builders and millennium makers.
Down here- where the sexes meet
In marriage relations was Eden
wrecked, and here it must be re
stored or never.
And for ministers, the prophets of
the most high God, and ambassadors
for the Bethlehem-born King, to be
silent here, to go begging ungodly
legislators for divorce laws and
licenses to regulate this Niagara of
damnation is as vain as Mrs. Part
ington with her mop against an At
lantic ti'ial wave.
And this Is at the wrong end of
the stream.
Parddn me. brothers, if I speak
Day
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lieut. Horace L.m Coy
Mr. . Lebeaupln was manager of the
Arline apartments.
Mr.-and Mrs. L. Ruvensky have an
nounced the engagement of their son.
Ensign Joseph H. Ruvensky. to Miss
Anna Rahinowits of Now York. city.
Ensign Ruvensky enlisted in the
United States navy on December 5,
1917. as apprentice seaman. After
having served as a ship's cook for
several months he was transferred to
the officer material school for the
pay corps as the result of a competi
tive examination. Ensign Ruvensky
was commissioned and received or
ders to report on board the United
States steamer Peerless as assistant
supply officer. It was while stationed
in and near New Tork that he met
Miss Rabinowitz.
After 19 months' service in the avia
tion corps Lieutenant A. R. Barnett.
son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Barnett.
547 Tillamook street, returned home
several weeks ago. Lieutenant Bar
nett received his commission at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
and later served at Kelly field, Texas,
and Bellville, 111. He Went overseas
in July, 1918, and spent a year in
France. After the armistice he was
on the embarkation staff at St. Na
eaire, France.
Captain Walter Haynes recently
returned from camp Humphries, va.,
after serving one -year with the en
gineers' corps. Captain Haynes was in
charge of the construction of build
ings and laboratory courses for the
new post-graduate school for West
Point engineers. Upon his return to
Portland Captain Haynes has resumed
his work as principal of electrical
engineering and radio telegraphy
schools at the r. m. c. a.
Sergeant Steve G. Norris. a former
Portland man, now residing In Los
Angeles where he is connected - with
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strongly here. I have suffered at this
point and for this truth's sake. And
the blocdhounds of the church and
ministry have sometimes been more
cruel than the devil's own. But.
please God, the heresy hunting days
are about over forever. -
We have wasted our strength down
at the rushing mouth of the river of
destruction, striving by desperate
valor to rescue some wreckage from
the whelming tide, instead of going
up to its sources, where unsuspect
ing feet slip ifi the ford, to build for
them a Brooklyn bridge to pass over
from thoroughfare to thoroughfare as
on dry land. We have exhausted our
resources and brpken our hearts at
the back door of tk)e saloon, gather
ing up Its offal, and building asy
lums, hospitals and prisons to nurse
Its victims back Into a half manhood,
instead of bolting and double-barring
the front door so man may never en
ter there forever. So we grow bald
and gray before our time "throwing
out the lifeline" to "rescue the per
ishing" down at the rapids. Instead
of going back and up to "cool Si
loam's shady rill," ind to Bethlehem
re-enactsd, and to Eden restored.
Prevention Is Key.
An ounce of prevention is worth a
ten of correction in race redemption.
Indeed, there can be no genuine re
construction and redemption.
Wo need more Bethlehem and less
Calvary, more building of the human
temples from the ground and less re
Pairing and whitewashing of the al
most incurable, or at least only half
curable victims of lust and sin. Not
that I revere Calvary less, but love
Bethlehem more jn what it can do in
bringing back home a prodigal race.
And the flimsy breakwater of mod
ern evangelism is utterly Inadequate
to stem the generations' tide. There
are evangelists and pulpiteers who
boast of converts by the thousand
whose superficial census-worshiping,
church-joining propaganda could
never truly lead a soul from death
to life, or from a life of sinning to
a life of righteousness and true holi
ness. This is not declaring that none of
these so-called converts and regener
ate. Nay! Nay! But you will find that
the Southern Pacific Railway com
pany, served in France and Belgium !
with the 364th infantry, 91st division.,
During his service in France he i
acted as sergeant in the intelligence j
corps.
Sergeant Norris was decorated twice
with the distinguished service cross,
also the French war cross, which
goes to prove the fighting quality in
the lad.
Edward A. ThirkelL son of Mr. and
Mrs. C. I. DuBois, recently arrived
in this country after two years' serv
ice in France as a wagoner In the
1st ammunition train. Thirkell went
to France with the old 3d Oregon,
but was transferred upon his arrival
there to the motor battalion of the
1st ammunition train of the 1st divi
sion. He later served with the army
of occupation, being stationed in
Coblenz.
Fines Imposed on Swearing
to Raise Funds.
Laws Against Profanity Enforced
Dnrlne Reigns of Kllzabeth and
James I.
MONET was at one time raised by
imposing fines on those given to
the habit of swearing. Laws against
swearing were passed in the reigns
of Elizabeth and James I. and were
strictly enforced during the civil war
by Cromwell, who says of his Iron
sides,' ''Not a man swears but pays
his 12 pence." Almost a century
later Swift, in his "Swearer's Bank,"
remarks that "5000 swearing gentle
men of Ireland, at one oath a day at
a shilling each, would furnish an an
nual revenue of 91.250." Swearing
Is much less common now than in the
old days, but a chancellor of the ex
chequer at the end of his resources
might be able to raise some money
from the objectionable habit.
M0SIER LODGES INSTALL
New Officers of Kebckalis and Odd-
- fellows Are Inducted.
MOSIER, Or.. Jan. 10. (Special.)
Manzanita Rebekah lodge. No. 161,
and Beacon lodge. No. 182, I. O. O. F.,
held joint installation of officers in
Oddfellows' hall Tuesday night, with
Mrs. Fannie Nielsen, district deputy,
presiding for the. Rebekahs and
Thomas J. McClure, district deputy
grand master, officiating for the
Oddfellows. The following were in
ducted into office:
Rebekahs Mrs Ossee Higley, noble
grand; Mrs. Erma Veatch, vice-grand;
Leonora Hunter, recording secretary;
Mrs. Fannie Nielsen, financial secre
tary; Charles T. Bennett, treasurer;
Florence Huskey, warden. Appointive
officers are: Mrs. Mabel Mathews, con
ductress; Mrs. Ethel Camp, right sup
porter noble grand; Mrs. Elizabeth
Lelliott, left supporter noble grand;
Mrs. Hattie B. Carroll, right supporter
vice-grand; Mrs. Sophia Wilson, left
supporter vice-grand; Mrs. Adele M.
Beldln. inside guardian; Mrs. Char
lotte Ruscher. outside guardian.
Oddfellows Peter A. Knoll, noble
grand; F. A. Allington, vice-grand;
J. L. Lelliott. warden; G. W. Mathews,
conductor; James Camp, right sup
porter noble grand: J. R. W ileox. left
supporter noble grand; C. J. E. Carl
son, right supporter vice-grand ; J. E.
Hlghley, left supporter vice-grand;
Elmer David Hizar, right scene sup
porter; J. O. Beldln. left scene sup
porter; Roy Abernathy. outside guar
dian; Roy Duvall. inside guardian;
John M. Carroll, chaplain.
A banquet was served following the
installation.
Girafte-Camrl Re-stored.
A camel witn the neck and legs
of a giraffe ranged the plains of
Colorado a million and a half years
ago with the three-toed ancestor of
the horse, the Amherst college geo
logical expedition has found. The
expedition, which returned recently
from western Nebraska and Colorado,
brought back what is considered a
prize collection of fossil bones.
From incomplete but representative
parts of the skeletons of the "giraffe
camel" the scientists have recon
structed in theory an animal which.
although a camel, had the build of
the modern giraffe and was nearly its
size. Ancestral members of the deer,
rhinoceros, mastodon and some rodent
families were represented by other
bones which came from sandy flood
plain deposits 20 miles from the north
of the feouth Platte river.
Under the mlocene sandstones. In
prairie deposits of fine clay a mil
lion or more years older, were found
other skeletons, including one of i
tiny camel no larger than a half
grown sheep. At the Pawnee buttes
a fossil egg similar in size and shape
to that of the present-day hen was
uncovered. Indicating the existence in
those days of a bird, no part of the
skeleton of which has ever been
found.
all that is genuine and divine in them
is traceable, not to a transient ex
ploiter and spell-binder, but to the
cradle from which they were stolen.
The real evangel and priestess and
power behind the throne is generally
a little mother, wiser than her teach
ers, fronting a woman's Gethsemane,
building better than she knew, con
secrating herself and her offspring,
born and unborn, to God, and half
bllndly approximating the Bethlehem
idea of race-redemption.
Often a. real and lifelong injury
Is done these converts by starting
them on a false scent and so filling
the sky of their minds with a wan
dering star that they have no eyes
for the star of Bethlehem rthe bright
and morning star who alone can make
life's morning pure and beautiful and
high noon holy and Jesus-like and to
found for themselves a home Bethle
hem and redeemed generation to bless
the world.
Luther Is Quoted.
And more and more the thought
burns my being that we are demand
ing of poor, old humanity the most
cruel exaction and putting upon it a
burden grievous to be borne, to ask
men with a baneful inborn bent, a
traitorous trait, an omnipresent foe
In the very citadel of their being, to
ask them, I say, with all this heredi
tary handicap to walk in the foot
steps of the Son of Man who never
knew his bosom foe and most terrible
handicap of all.
Better a legion of devils without
besieging our bulwarks than one little
Inborn imp entrenched in the citadel
of our nature. Said Luther, ''It is
not the pope without, but the pope
within that I fear."
We must have a generation start
with Jesus at Its beginnings, to walk
with him at its close.
And the modern Sunday school, the
moot praised and popular activity in
all our church life, has small power
to stem the tide. There is an awful
slump between the beautiful gates of
childhood and the strong towers of
manhood. Only one In four of our
Sunday school enrollment ever enter
church membership and many of these
still-born, without a heart "strangely
warmed" or- a personal experience,
or testimony visionless, passion
Made In. Sanitary! By Lleutenant-Colonei
Kichard Derby. Second Division. Illus
trated. G. P, Putnam's Sons, New York
City.
"I reported for duty at headquar
ters of the 2d division, December 7,
1917, in the village of Bourmont, Haute
Marne. Bourmont Is a picturesque,
small town, the houses clustered to
gether on the hilltop, bringing vividly
to mind the days when the Roman
legions harried this countryside and
safety lay in heavy walls. steep
heights, moats and drawbridges."
In such modest, descriptive fashion
begins this stirring, educating recital
of the work of an American army sur
geon in wartime in France. Our au
thor is son-in-law of the late Theo
dore Roosevelt, and this significant
message meets the reader, a message
found after the title page: "'For ex
traordinary heroism . in maintaining
the home through long months of sus
pense, while her nusband and fouri
brothers served in France, I dedicate j
this book to my wife."
After describing the work of sur
geons and nurses among American
wounded at Sery-Magneval, these in
cidents are written about: "There was!
no great amelioration In the hospi
tals farther back. As soon as the
evacuation from the front began, they
became choked with wounded. They
(the French) had neither sufficient
equipment nor personnel to handle the
large numbers. The same scenes were
being enacted In these hospitals as
had occurred in the battalion stations
during the two preceding days. Large
numbers of wounded lay about, many
of them In the open, waiting the ar
rival of hospital trains to take them
back to Paris. The French had failed
to make suitable provisions to meet
this emergency themselves, and had
refused to allow us to do so."
Interesting word pictures are made
as to the wonders of plastic surgery
noted in the big Paris hospitals: "We
saw Moresten, who has since died,
do some very wonderful plastic work
about the face. I shall never forget
a rhinoplasty which he did late one
afternoon in the Hospital-du Carmel,
where he molded a new nose and eye
brow for a poilu, transplanting a
piece of rib and covering It with a
flap brought down from the forehead
and scalp. He did all his work under
local anaesthesia by blocking off dif
ferent nerve trunks. He showed us
many other results of plastic face
surgery and they were truly wonder
ful. They Include new noses, ears and
mouths and extensive restitutions In
case.s of bad face injuries."
During Marcti, isjs, tne cniiaren
of the war, zone were an everlasting
wonder. Their gay laughter echoing
from their ruined houses was a never
ending source of pleasure and sur
prise, for the 4-year-old tot had known
no other than a world of war. Their
cradle song had been the sharp, ear-
splitting crack of departing os. or
the hissing roar and explosion of ar
riving 150s. And yet. they could laugn
and sing an! cheer the hearts of their
war-tired mothers, and be an inspira
tion to their fathers' friends from
across the- seas."
Here are encouraging notes: "The
most striking thing to me In the sur
gery of war was a comparison of the
wounded of 1918 with those of 1914
In t,hose early days it was a dis
tressing sight to see man after man
come into the hospital at Neuilly, all
with badly infected wounds. As rounds
were made, it seemed that every man
was running a temperature. The hectic
flush and pinched countenance of the
men spelled sepsis. One felt helpless
in the presence of an un vanquished
foe. What a contrast in 1918. In
fection was not blotted out, but it
was no longer the menacing mon
ster of four years before. Normal
temperature-charts and healthy coun
tenances were the rule rather than
the exception. The periods of conva
lescence were immeasurably shorter.
Men were returned to their commands
in three weeks instead of three
months."
Marching with the troops, digging
In with them In active sectors, hospi
tal work and saving lives so flows
on this busy recital.
That the world Is small, after all, is
again proved, for on page 167 we
read that on our author's way across
the bridge In Land res et St. Georges
he came across his brother-in-law
Captain Kermit Roosevelt, who was
on his way forward to join the 7th
field artillery, with the 1st division.
As the two relatives stood there talk
ins a car came by bearing another
brother-in-law Lieutenant - Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt, C. D. of the 26th
Infantry.
From a German medical officer was
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less, they oft unequally yoke them
selves with unbelievers, walk in the
counsel of the ungodly and go out
with the drift.
What' becomes of the 75 per cent
who never enter any church com
munion. Whither are they drifting
and what their destiny?
It may be disappointing to say it,
but the modern Sunday school bears
about the name relation to child life
and its salvation that modern evan
gelism bears to adult life and its
salvation. -About all the abiding re
sults that remain to bless the world
come not from the Sunday school, as
some assert, but come to us up
through the Sunday school from truly
holy parenthood and consecrated
cradles. The tides that come Into New
York harbor come through the Nar
rows, but they do not start there.
Great Is the Sunday school, but to
make it a substitute for he mighty
ministry of holy parentljV, and in
fant consecration and thrtdUme altar
and the family pew is to barter the
supernatural for the superficial and
the divine -for the earth-born.
Christ's Advent Held Mope.
And many good and sincere men
seeing the meager fruitage and the
transient results from the present-day
DroDaxanda. despair of saving the
race or bringing anything worth while
to pass during the present dispensa
tion and are scanning the heavens
for something to turn up or rain down
that shall bring to a sudden end all
their weary watching and star gazing.
And their "blessed hope." as they call
it, for the race, is the second advent of
Christ, bringing to swift judgment
a confessedly sleeping church and lost
world and damning them all together
without a chance. The mind that could
call that a "blessed hope" could find
a name for anything.
And others still. In larger number
than these, have, of late, conjured up
as the hope of the race a wlerd, spec
tacular, fantastic Punch - and - Judy
kind of second advent, arbitrarily
binding the devil and locking him
off the earth scene, making It easy
to get converted and stay converted
in a Satanless dispensation.
If to declare and teach that this
blessed dispensation of the holy spirit
must peter out In bankruptcy and the
Copyright. Underwood.
Lien ten ant-Colonel Richard
Derby, author of "Wade In,
Sanitary."
afterward obtained the Information
that surgery had stood still In Ger
many during the period of the war."
The author. In summing up what
he saw of troops and army training
during the war, of course, comes out
as a warm advocate of the value of
universal military training for all
young Americans. He also attacks the
Washington (D. C.) administration for
attempting "to lull us into a false
sense of security and fasten upon us
an impractical and millennlumistlc
league of nations. '
The DlNilluNion of a Crown Princews, by
Princess Catherine Kadztwiil. Illustrated.
John Lane Co., Nev-- York City.
With many attractive pictures to
help the recital, we have in this vol
ume of 224 pages, a graphic, sensa
tional story told in readable English
and even with question and answer
the exact story of the life of the
pretty Princess Cecile of Mecklen
burg, afterwards crown princess of
Germany, she who married the ex-
kaiser s son.
We are told how. the princess ac
cepted Frederick William, but for rea
sons of state married him against her
will, their unhappy married life; how
the ex-crown princess had an un
known American lover, who in his
notes to her signs himself, the
Sphinx: how the crown prince strikes
her with a horsewhip: the war and
Its Inglorious end for Germany: sepa
ration of the crown prince and his
wife, and the divorce she secured.
The recital proceeds in lurid style,
and apparently holds back very few
incidents, ending with the dream of
the ox-princess to live with her
future American husband "in a small
house on the shores of the Gulf of
Mexico."
Well. well.
The Complete Opera Book, by Gustuv
Kobbe. illustrated. G. P. Putnam's
Sons, New York City.
Quite a library of useful informa
tion and instruction in itself.
Extending to 873 pages and illus
trated with 100 portraits in costume
and scenes from operas, we meet
with the stories of the operas, famous
and otherwise, together with 400 of
the leading airs and motives. In
musical notation. Yet the book has
a melancholy interest to all admirers
of the literary and musical work of
the late Mr. Kobbe, for it was through
the thoughtf ulness of William J. Hen
derson, the well-known professional
New York critic, that Katharine
Wright was asked to supply material
for this opera book, material missing
at the time of Mr. Kobbe's death.
This is believed to be the most com
prehensive and educative book on
opera yet issued in this country.
The Man Wbo Won. by Cyrus Townsend
Brady. Illustrated. A. C. McClurg &
Co.. Chicago.
Told with nearly breathless Interest
and helped by pictures that are made
from photographs of scenes taken
from the picture-play, this novel has
so much magnetism in type that
there is no escape from its compelling
power until the last page is reached.
Riding on horseback one day along
the Bay San Juan, supposed to be some
where along the Oregon coast line.
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blessed executive of the Godhead must
be set aside as a failure, and another
personage come to take his place be
fore anything worth while can be
done for the race; if this is not a sin
against the holy spirit, what then
could be deserving of that name?
For instance, the heartbreaking
crime of all, against any minister,
would be for his people generally to
declare his ministry a failure, and
that nothing could be done until his
dispensation ended, and a coveted suc
cessor on whom they had fixed their
eyes was enthroned In his stead. No
matter how loud they might confess
his high and holy character, this at
titude of mind would make defeat In
evitable, break down his soul's morale
and drive him to despair. Thus does
premillennlumism grieve the holy
spirit.
No, brothers. It is not a second ad
vent of Christ, either "pre" or "post"
millennial, this weary old race needs,
but to be led by his spirit of truth
into the full meaning and gospel of
his first advent, and incarnate It Into
life as it was intended, and the race
is redeemed.
Longfellow sings:
Where half the power that fills the world
with terror.
Were half the money spent on camps
and courts
Given to redeem the human mind from
error.
T here were, no need or arsenals or
forts.
So a prenatal penny of prevention
is worth many a purseful of reforma
tlon and reconstruction In race re
demption.
We need to stress the first advent
with all its implications of the "first
born"; that is. the best-born "among
many brethren," as the "forerunner"
and pace-setter and file-leader and
pattern personage among men a thou
sand times more than all the after-
advents that can be .devised or
dreamed. "The good is the enemy of
the best."
Then will "marriage be honorable
among all men" and matrimony 'holy
Indeed, and parenthood Godlike, and
divorce unthinkable.
The times are full of promise. The
sinful silence and false modesty of the
centuries are giving way and we are
learning how to proclaim upon the
housetop, unblushingly. the most se
Miss Barbara Le Moyne, a California
society beauty, sees in the distance
an unknown white man attacked by
several Asiatics, apparently Malays.
Suddenly the white man gains the
ascendancy In the struggle and he
throws one of the Malays over the
cliff. The white man conquers the
other Malays and then falls uncon
scious on the beach. The white man.
whose name apparently is Christo
pher Keene, severely wounded in the
fight, is only partially conscious when
Miss Le Moyne arrives to help him.
They talk and the girl hurries away
to get aid. hen she returns with
help Keene has disappeared.
The plot is a most sinuous one.
turning and widening in a variety
of ways. It affects a valuable quan
tity of platinum wanted by Germany
to carry on the war and also the
bad man of the story. Lang-field, who
in reality is a German spy. The love
Interest Is well depicted.
Building the Parifle Railway, by Edln L
Sabtn. Illustrated. J. B. Lippincott Co.,
Philadelphia.
Mr. Sabln says that the Union Pa
cific railroad was built by the Irish
almost to a man. "laborers drawing
t3 a day, a fighting breed drawn from
the east and by lure of good wages
and steady work - from the mining
camps and border towns."
Mr. Sabin writes with infinite charm
and his book issof notable Importance,
telling as It does the construction of
America's first iron thoroughfare be
tween the Missouri river and Cali
fornia, from the Inception of the big
Idea to May 10. 1869. when the Union
Pacific and Central Pacific joined
tracks at Promontory. Point. Utah, to
form the nation's transcontinental.
There are 22 illustrations and a
map. '
Yanks: A. K. F. Verse, G. P. Putnam's
ons. New York City.
Here we have a collection of verses.
notably Important. The verses are of
a kind difficult to secure now unless
within the covers of this book.
Why? Because they originally were
published in Stars and Stripes, the
oiiiciat newspaper or tne American
expeditionary forces in France, and
many of the poems are otherwise out
of print. They are the work of 85
poets all of them doughboys. The
royalties from the sale of the book
will be - devoted to the Stars and
Stripes fund for French war orphans,
to which 600.000 American soldiers
gave more than 2,200.000 francs dur
ing their stay in France.
Good luck to it.
Tbe Whole Armor of Man, bv rr. O. W.
Salaeby. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadel
phia. Dr. Saleeby is recognized not only
as a noted British physician, but also
as a wise publicist whose counsel is
much esteemed In the deliberations
of national boards where health leg
islation is shaped.
This book is a small library in one
and tells what man can do for his
protection, in a scientific and sensi
ble manner as to disease, hysriene.
California
For a Child's Liver and Bowels
Mother! Say "California," then you will
get genuine "California Syrup of Figs." Full
directions for babies and children of all. ages
who are constipated, bilious, feverish, tongue
coated, or full of cold, are plainly printed on'
the bottle. Children love this delicious laxative.
cret and sacred things with unoffend
ing speech.
The thought of many turning to
ward eugenics and the relation of the
sexes is prophetic "Children crying
in the night with no language but a
cry." A giant is struggling through
birth pangs into life. It la God's "new
Messiah."
Redemption in Prospect.
The weary race is about to ba re
deemed.
The very highest service the minis
ters of today can render this present
age and at once is to seize, with ons
accord, upon Christmas anniversaries
and such like occasions to magnify
the true Christmas idea and Bethle
hem's blessed gospel till every ear
shall tingle and the whole world shall
know that prophets of the most high
God have spoken to their hearts.
The true "Immaculate conception" is
but the Eden thought and plan of
race-propagation reborn. We are be
ginning to see the Bethlehem thought
and plan born again.
Says Frances Willard: "A great new
world looms into sight like some
splendid ship, long waited for, the
world of heredity, of prenatal in
fluence, of infantile environments. The
greatest right of which we can con
ceive, the right of the child to be well
born. Is being slowly, surely recog
nized. Pocr old humanity, so tugged
by fortune and weary with disaster,
turns to the cradle at last and per
ceives that It has been the Pandora's
box of every ill and Fortunatus cas
ket of every joy that life has known.
When the mother learns the divine
secrets of her power, when she selects
in the partner of her life the father
of her child, and for its sacred sake
rejects the man of unclean lips be
cause of the alcohol and the tobacco
taints and shuns as a leper the man
who has been false to any other wom
man; when he who seeks , life's high
est sanctities In the relationships of
husband and father shuns as he would
if thoughtful of his future son the
woman of wasp waist that renders
motherhood a torture and dwarfs the
possibilities of childhood, then shall
the blessed prophecy of the world's
peace come true; the conquered lion of
lust shall lie down at the feet of the
white lamb of purity and "a little
child shall lead them."
child welfare, care of the food supply,
alcohol and its prohibition, the social
evil, etc.
One of the big, medical, scientific
books of help to follow in the wake
of the war.
Vp and Down, by E F. Benson. George H.
Doran Co., New York City.
Mr. Benson, the distinguished Eng
lish novelist, has In his new story,
"Up and Down," written a story that
really is in essay shape. It contains
the remarkable portraiture of a young
English boy, Francis, who. although
of English birth, prefers by virtue of
his money to live in Italy. Appar
ently Francis is lost to England. Sud
denly the big war breaks out and
Germany hurls her armies across
Belgium. What Is Francis to do in
the conflict, especially as he is sup
posed to be a person of peace?
What Francis does is unfolded page
by page in quite a philosophic un
usual style, and told with a gentle,
leisurely charm that is all Benson.
The Romance of Modern Commerce, by H.
O. Ken-land. J. ii. Lippincott Co., Phila
delphia. Written by an English author who
has a singularly attractive style in
descriptive matter, this book tells in
alluring, yet Instructive, fashion the
trade development of commerce, af
fecting such necessaries as wheat,
tea, coffee, cocoa, sugar, rubber, to
bacco, fruit, cattle, cold storage, oils,
shells, paper, precious stones, metals,
etc.
Unlike many books of this sort, the
recital has graphic interest and Is
divided into snort paragraphs a plan
that makes the book the more easy
to read.
NEW BOOKS RKCE1VEU.
Famous Mysteries, by John Elfreth Wat
kins, curious stories that startle and per
p'.ex the reader until the conclusions an
reached stories of famous personag-es such
as Richard IV or England. Cleopatra, Mary
Queen of fJcots. the Man of the Iron Mask,
the riddle of Shakespeare, .loan of Arc.
Captain Kldd and others tWlnston Co
Philadelphia.) The Convictions of Christopher Sterling,
by Harold Begble. an English novel, wel.
written, in which the hero, a Quaker, has
conscientious objections to war. and ro -fuss
to be a soldier and is jailed for It '
a story with an unhappy ending (Robert
M. McBride & Co.. N. Y.)
Joan of Arc. by Laura E. Rich&.-da. a
bravely-told, sympathetic study of Joan of
Arc of France, from nor earliest days to
the time of her death when she was burned
at the stake, in 141 D. Appleton & Co..
N. Y.)
Readings In Literature, by Franklin B.
Dyer, superintendent of schools. Boston,
iind Mary J. Brady, primary supervisor of
schools. St. Louis. Mo., a collection of skill
fully chosen stories of decided Interest, de
signed as a basic resdrr for the eighth
grade of the elementary school or the mid
year of the Junior high school (Cbas. .
Merrill Co.. N. Y.)
Dust of New York, by Konrad Berrovici,
powerfully constructed stories of emotional
significance, featuring many phases of for
eign life In New York Boni A Llveright.
N. Y.)
Simla, by stanwood Cobb, a long poem
but a magnificent one. dealing with rein
carnation and Oriental imagery: An Acre
age of Lyric, by Dorothea Lawrence Mann.
42 poems of serious, inspiring moods
many of them reprinted from magazines;
and Altar Fires, by Ruth Baspett Eddy. 7S
poems of fine, sentimental value, several
of them love-poems (Cornhlll Co.. Boston.)
Rapids and Still Water, by Rutgers Rem
sen Coles. 26 sonnets, charming, stately
and dignified venpp which our post says
have taken him years to perfect: and. Ths
Heart of a Girl, by Lucl'.o C. Englow. SO
poems, finely fashioned and poss-esaing
lyrical beauty, several of them depicting
domestic scenes and love-incidents tstrat
ford Co.. Rnston.)
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