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CHURCH IS CALLED RECREANT IN FULFILLING GREAT COMMISSION
Rev. Byron J. Clark Declares Marching Orders of Her Leader and Founder Have Not Been Followed Out in Light of Scriptures.
THE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY 25, 1920
BY REV. BTRON J. CLARK,
Factor of the Kirrt United Br"thrm church
of Portland. Rad before tlio Evangelis
tic couth:U of the federated churches of
Portland.
ARK we In a new day? Is today
. different from any other day?
If so, in -what respect is it new?
The subject presupposes we are in a
new day. Kvery day is a new day; it
is different from all other days, be
cause its background is different at
least. Today we find ourselves in the
inheritance of all that is gone be
fore; the experiences, the accomplish
ments, the victories and defeats. The
success and failure of yesterday enter
into the opportunities, advantages,
perspective and responsibilities of to
day. So from "that standpoint we are
in a new day. The material, intel
lectual, moral and spiritual attain
ments of yesterday furnish a lever
age, a vantage for today that yester
day did not possess.
If yesterday found us recreant, dis
obedient and unfaithful, then today
should find us repentant, reforming
and revolutionizing. If in the past
we were faithful, then today should
find us only going forward toward
the advancing goals, always held in
view, of which the past with its
tragedies, its tears, its struggles and
its victories, too, are but stepping
.tones to that which is ahead, or sta
tions on the way toward the ultimate
end of all good.
The "wilderness wanderings" with
its supernatural and mlracuious phe
nomena, was a new day for the Israel
ites, from the bondage of Egypt. The
promised land, where the manifesta
tion of the supernatural and miracu
lous began to disappear, and God be
gan to manifest himself through the
more natural order of things was a
new day from the wilderness days.
A new order of things was estab
lished. The transient and passing gave way
for the permanent and abiding. In
stead of migrating from place to
place, they settled down to till the
soil, and pasture the plains. Instead
of dwelling In tents they built houses.
rorth from the tabernacle, the stately
and majestic temple gave a permanent
home for the functioning of religious
rites and ceremonies.
The national age of Jewish religion,
from Abraham to Christ, was a new
day from the patriarchal age, when
religion found its highest expression,
through the family, with the father
as high priest.
.
The age of the church as instituted
by Christ brought the world to an
other new day, when "life and' im
mortality should be brought to light
through the gospel." Jesus declared
that the gates of hell should not pre
vail against his church, and that the
church should bind or lose, and
heaven would be in accord.
Are we now in another new day?
Has the church fulfilled her mission
in bringing in the kingdom, and are
we to see her pass away? The church
is not the end, but the means to an
end. But has the church accomplished
her task? Has she fulfilled the great
commission? Has she carried out the
marching orders of her leader and
founder? In the light of scriptures
as I understand it, 1 would say, no!
Most emphatically, no!- Has she be
come obsolete, infirm, senile, out of
date and unable to meet the issues
that time and tide has brought us?
Has she been besieged and ham
mered by the battering rams of in
fidelity until she is shattered.? Has
she been honeycombed by the insidi
ous burrowing of heresy and false
doctrine until she is only the mere
hulk of her former self? Facts do
r.ot prove it. Conditions do not argue
It. Because a few big congregations
have lost their spiritual power by
departing from the simple gospel
doeR not prove that the body of
Christ is not functioning. Because one
powerful institution has sold herself
for a mess of pottage and given her
self over to intolerance and bigotry
does not prove it Because the an
archistic howls of red radicalism con
demn the church and curse her min
istry does not prove it.
When the vital issues of world-wide
democracy were in the balance and
an effective influence was needed for
putting across a positive and effective
programme to save the cause, the
church was appealed to and her pa
triotic ministry that dared to stay
by their task in the face of criticism
(caused by the hypnotic spell of gold
braided spectacular patriotism) had to
be depended on to hold the lines and
furnish the needed punch to keep
the forces at home in line and fur
nish the supplies to keep the boys
in the front line trenches. It was
the church and her influence in crys
tallizing sentiment that furnished the
real dynamic force in winning the
war.
If that is not so then Foch, Per
shing. Lloyd George. Secretary of
War Baker, Hoover, President Wilson
and others are badly fooled; for they
are very emphatic in their testimony
of tliat fact. I tell you this old
world and all the forces of darkness
still has to reckon with the church
before they can ride roughshod ovei
every holy thing. The church has
been lightly treated by some who
ought to be her friends. No other
institution can contribute to the real
spiritual needs of man. Our schools
may develop the intellect: our thea
ters may stir the passions; the state
may contribute the material, but the
church - is the only institution that
can reach the souls of men.
The Y. M. C. A. has learned by bit
ter experiences that you cannot mix
vaudeville and religion.
www
Wherein is our day a new day?.
Men's hearts are the same as they
have always been. Sin Is still sin.
The devil is the same old dragon, God
has not changed. The fact still re
mains that without the new birth,
even a Kicodiemus cannot see the
kingdom. Kepentance toward. God
and faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
is still as essential as ever.
No one that I have ever heard of
has ever invented a new method of
coming into this world. The old
fashioned way still prevails.
The same constituent elements are
necessary for bodily food as were
necessary In Adam's time. We may
improve on the methods of securing
it, but we cannot improve on nature's
provisions.
There is a good deal said about the
church changing her methods to meet
the needs o the new day. That may
depend on what the church has been
doing in the past. If she has depended
on culture instead of Christ, then she
must get back to Christ; for he alone
can change the heart and transform
the nature.
If she has been substituting soci
ology for theology, then she needs to
get straight on the latter. If she has
forsaken fundamentals for fads and
facts for fancies, then she surely
needs to readjust herself or take down
her sign. The "one win one" cam
paigns and the "win my chum" drives
and any or all such movements are
good as far as they go, but too often
they lack the vitalizing spark of real
evangelism.
Any method, or all methods; will
never take the place of the plain,
fearless preaching of the word. What
ever methods we adopt or do not
adopt; remember that it is still true
that "by the foolishness of preaching"
men and women are to be saved. The
character and manner of the message
is the one vital essential in the evan
gelism of today.
Whatever may be used as an ac
companiment in the giving of the
gospel message, it must be in har
mony with the dominant note that
may be sounded. Every means known
to human ingenuity is legitimate and
may be made effective if properly
synchronized with the message of
evangelism. Pictures, both stereopti
con and movies, if they can be made
contribute to the message, and will in
struct and edify more than to amuse
or entertain.
The old sailor who sat In the au
dience and witnessed the pictures
thrown upon the screen, while a solo
ist sang "Throw Out the Life Line,"
was convicted of his sin and made to
see himself in the view Illustrating
"Soon will the season of rescue be
o er." and exclaimed "That's me." and
started forward to accept Christ as
his saviour.
In music, nothing can take the
place of chorus and congregational
singing. A congregation that will
sing, and sing heartily, as unto the
Lord will find the spiritual thermom
eter rising We need to sing the
stately hymns of the church; but we
need also to sing many of the popu
lar gospel songs of modern song writ
ers. There are popular modern melo
dies that touch a responsive chord
in every one of us.
Why should we allow them to be
used for naught, and in every form
of sentimental expression outside the
gospel. I have felt the need of some
of our classic minor productions, with
their close harmony, to carry forth
the strains of the gospel message that
portray the sorrow of the human
heart over sin, aid thus reinforce the
message of repentance and confes
sion of sin. The clarion notes of
warning need to be sounded as well
as the joys of the redeemed.
Our gospel music is not rounded
out and balanced sufficient to the
full gospel message, and many times
we are not able to build our services
sufficiently full, to completely har
monize with the dominant note of the
message.
Methods change with almost every
generation; but the fundamentals re
main the same. There may . be a dif
ference of opinion on what consti
tutes the fundamentals of religion.
In making up the list, I might include
some things, the rest of you, or many
of you might not accept.
This is vital to those who are to be
associated in any way in evangelism.
ine federated church movement can
not include in its programme any at
tempt at a mechanical amalgamation
of the professed Christian churches
in evangelism. Whatever method
we adopt we cannot hope to succeed
in attempting to compromise our con
victions on essentials by placing on
the same programme and working
from the same platform, those who
are decidedly opposite in tempera
ment and method as well as vital
doctrines. It only invites defeat;
jtliort i n 1 1 i t tho c n i ri f n 1 f n rr f
I and neutralizes all effort for good.
I The revival method in evangelism
ehould not be abandoned. If any of
us have gone away from it, the
sooner we get back to it the better.
If some of you have never used it.
you need to give it a sane, sensible
and enthusiastic trial, and you will
be convinced that I am right. Because
some have used it to excess, or have
made of it an artificial or superficial
affair is no argument against It.
Even though its abuses become the
rule, instead of the exception, does
The ignorance of the so-called
Apostolic Faith application of it, .or
the superstition of the Holy Rollers,
or the hysteria of occultism in much
of its abuse, is no reason for its
abandonment.
The wholesale, railroad, camouflage
methods of nominalism, is no sign of
its oDsoieteness.
-nr. .. ..vivai rtf old-fashioned
prayer-meeting-go-to-church religion;
religion without veneer; rennuu uck
enough to strike to the heart; reli
gion that will take the cuss words
from the mouth and put in Its stead a
prayer and a song; religion that will
make us treat both Godi and man on
the square, give us convictions that
will stay with us over night, and a
conversion that in practice will help
out the theory of once in grace al
ways there, even though some of us
cannot admit it in our theology.
Some are saying . "The day of re
vivals are past." Tes, they are past
to all who feel that way. We need
the expectancy and if we never ex
pect a revival we will never get it.
1 do not mean by a revival some re
ligious propaganda that has been
called by that name, but a genuine
work of grace, that raises the voltage
of the spiritual life of the true Chris
tian, strips the veneer from the nom
inal, superficial professor of reli
gion: puts conviction into the sinner's
heart and makes him cry. "Sirs, what
must I do to be saved?" A revival
that gives a church knowledge of
God and God's method of grace, so
they can direct the seeking soul the
way of forgiveness and regeneration.
The mourner's bench, the inquiry
rrm , a c.lr.rfi1 oln ftT J!I1V nlace
or method of instruction and prayer
that you aaopt inai win prove ef
fective in furnishing spiritual en
lightenment and lead to honest and
courageous confession of Christ be
fore men, will help to overcome the
superficial dan' rs. Picked workers,
whn ar. inte' vent and trained, sane
and sensih" will insure safety from
the abt of hysteria and fanati
f iff en von hear the criticism that
"revivals do not last." No they do
not last, but the effects of them do.
The revival is not the every -day con
dition of church life. It is a "season
of refreshing from the presence of the
Lord." Tou cannot be in a revival 365
days in the year. You may have a
real revival in your church any time,
anywhere, if you will pay the price
for it.
The pastor cannot always be his
best evangelist. In the scriptures
the office and place of the evangelist
is specific. The ministry is referred
to as "apostles, prophets, evangelists,
pastors and teachers. For the edifica
tion of the saints and for the work of
the ministry." Eph. lv:ll-12.
There are times when evangelism
needs to be sounded as the dominant
note; for that work a real evangelist
should be secured. There are pas
tors who are evangelist, and there
are evangelists who are pastors; but
the pastor is not always in a posi
tion to give the full message off
evangelism to the best possible ad
vantage. When he can, he should
give it. But if his relation to his
people becomes close and familiar he
may find himself embarrassed in
sounding the full note of evangelism
to bis people. Personal relations can
hinder and sometimes do.
The long and faithful pastor may
need a new voice and a stranger to
the delicacies of his parish to suc
cessfully combat the evils that
creep in.
The pastor of a modern parish is
often compelled to be a man of many
sides. He must be an organizer, a
business manager, a social leader, a
counselor and advisor in so many
wavs. that his enereries are used utj.
quite often in what is denominated
"tables" in the scripture, until he
cannot 1e the dynamo of power, in
spiritual evangelism that is necessary
to put across the campaign and ef
fectually get results in real definite
decisions, that lead to penitence, for
giveness and regeneration.
The day of evangelists is not .passed;
and never will be as long as God's
word stands. But the day of sifting
has come. The artificial, superficial
and hysterical snob, cannot pass as an
evangelist. The shallow, ignorant but
often well meaning enthusiast must
be sifted out and. reckoned as unsafe,
for it is perversion of the most holy
things that work some of the great
est evils.
Oh. for evangelists, burning with
an unselfish passion for souls, evange
lists informed, balanced, trained men;
called of God; to lead in revival cam
paigns, that will make the devil
tremble and hell quake.
If more of our pastors would sound
out the note of evangelism in all
their preaching, it would not be so
hard to get men and women con
verted, and the evangolist would find
a ripe field, for the full message,
which he best of all can give. As
ministers we need to leave our, ques
tion marks in the study. People are
not concerned about our questions,
they want our conclusions. They are
not concerned about our investiga
tions, they want our discoveries. The
negative and doubtful must be re
moved from all our messages for only
the positive message of faith will
bring the victory.
The simultaneous campaign is help
ful in turning the thoughts of a
great city toward the church and
religion and may result in some real
revivals: but we need to beware lest
it degenerate into a church-joining
affair dimply, and real evangelism
be jstituted into a farce. The re
vi . . is not an end. but the means
t an end. Real revivals have been
sted by a lack of conservation.
The Sunday school and Christian
Endeavor society is a great conversa
tion agency for revivals; and most of
our conversations come from the Sun
day school. Put on an enlargement
campaign in your Sunday schools as
a preparatory method for evan
gelism. Make them short snappy and
come to a climax, on the opening day
of your evangelistic drive. This will
save the relapse that might come
from contest methods of enlargement.
Crystallige and! assimilate those you
have gone out into the highways and
byways to secure.
Make the revival an assimilating
agency of your enlargement work in
the Sunday school and you have the
surest method of conservation, for
they will then fit into the real work
and service of your, adjunct societies
and be saved to the church.
Also as a preparatory measure for
your meeting, have your best Chris
tian workers hand in the names of all
the unsaved and unchurched of their
acquaintance; organize those work
ers and others who can be entrusted,
under a captain with lieutenants, who
will cover every name systematically
and regularly, so that every prospect
is interiewed by a different worker
every day, and a report back is made
every day, or two, at most, of the
exact character and result of those
interviews.
The invitation for public decision
should be clear cut, plain, positive
and definite, and delivered with force
and feeling in appeal, that brings the
claims of the gospel to bear upon
the will and conscience and result in
immediate action. We should put
more prayer and thought on this part
of our effort than all the rest of the
message. Many a strong message is
lost by a weak invitation and fold
appeal. Much attention should be
given to definite, specific and per
sonal prayer; in the home, in the
class rooms of the church: in small
groups, young men. young women,
fathers, mothers, children, meet as
such before and after the main serv
ice. Many evangelistic campaigns be
come fruitless because of a lack of
prayer.
If It seems Impracticable to put oil
a continuous nightly campaign then
take Sunday night, and the mid-week
service of each week for an inten
sive drive running over several weeks
or months. But don't let these serv
ices drop into a makeshift affair, of
a mere excuse of a pretense at evan
gelism, but build each service with
great care. The music should be of
high grade, plenty of It and of tie
right type.
The particular method nsei wtTl
depend on the type of people you have
to deal with and the habits of the
community.
I sometimes think if preacher and
people could forget that they ever
heard of a revival, or how It may
have ever been put on, face their own
task and with good commonsenne ad
enthusiastic fervor go at the job and
make use of any or all methods that
will get real results, that would be
gratifying.
We need to talk about oar religion
in a free, easy, natural manner, with
out embarrassment or artificial mia
r.erism. Too many get the idea that
religion is for. the -sick and dying,
and we are very much to blame for
that idea. This holy-tone business
and pious affectation is unnatural and
artificial, and the unsaved are quick
to detect it. We leave religious con
versation too much to that "class. Let
us rescuj it from such hypocritical
mannerism and converse about it more
in every -day. street, homo, social cir
cle, type of conversation. It should
be the most natural thing for us to
do. to talk with our friend about our
relationship to Christ.
We should seek in all our meth
ods to make Christianity appear as
the most beautiful, the most attrac
tive, the most necessary and bene
ficial thiiifr in all the world; for such
it is to those who really possess it.
We need; a better type of Christian
ity. Retter Christians as well as more
Christians. If for five years not a
single member were added to our
churches, but instead wo could see
those who already belong, brought to
the place of efficiency that is their
privilege, it would bo the greatest
five years of evangelism in the his
tory of Christianity.
A real revival within the church is
the need of the hour. "Oh. LoroX wilt
thou not revive us acain, that thy
jM'ople miiy rejoice in tlior-.
The Adventures of a Nature Guide, by Enai
A. MiUa. Illustrated. Doubleday, Page
& Co.. Garden City. X. Y. -
A charming view of Crater Lake,
Or., from a photograph by Fred H.
Kiser of this city forms the frontvfe
piece of this engaging book which
mirrors nature in the open. Some of
Mr. Mills' stories of wild nature are
positive thrillers, he has exciting
escapes with his life and his fund ol
animal stories is astonishing.
Several of these 17 chapters were
published recently in magazine form
and others were written expressly for
this book. The localities described
are widespread, being principally
among the wilds of the Rocky moun
tains, and the illustrations are ex
cellent. Contents: Snow-blinded on the
summit, waiting in the wilderness,
winter mountaineering, trees at tim
berline, wind-rapids on the heights,
the Arctic zone of high mountains,
naturalist meets prospector, the white
cyclone, lightning and thunder, land
marks, children of my trail school, a
day with a nature guide, play and
pranks of wild folk, censored natural
history news, Harriet, little mountain
climber; evolution of nature guiding
end development of a woman guide.
"The individual interested in the
world of outdoors, in many-sided nat
ural history, finds entertainment
everywhere in the'wilderness. through
J1 the seasons," writes Mr. Mills.
"Storm, sunshine, night, desert,
stream and forest are crowded with
waiting attractions and moving
ficenef.
'"To have the most adventures and
the greatest enjoyment in a given
time, ramble the wilds alone and
without a fishing rod or gun. The
rambler Is free to wander afar and
to enjoy the multitude of adventures
that come thick and fast upon him.
The wilderness being the safety zone
of the world, these experiences are
likely to be less dangerous than
staying at home. The hunter, how
ever, armed and killing, multiplies
dangers and in giving his attention
to game wanders but little and enjoys
less variety and fewer adventures.
"The chapters in this book are
filled with the experiences and ad
ventures which came to me as a
solitary and unarmed camper in the
wilds of the continent. These and
other experiences, together with in
heritances not so tangible, produced
definite results; I became a mountain
climber and a peak guide. In doing
this I developed nature guiding, that
Is. helping people to become happily
acquainted with the life and wonders
of wild nature.
The thriller of the entire series is
& chapter on "Snow-blinded on the
Summit," meaning a summit of the
Rocky mountains. Mr. Mills was 12,000
feet above the sea, he had lost his
snow glasses and the terrific sun
glare on the snow warned him of the
danger of snow blindness. But the
wild attractions of the dizzy heights
caused him to forget the care of his
eyes and he lingered to look down
Into canyons and to examine magnifi
cent snow cornices. A number of
mountain sheep also were interesting
and for half an hour he circled
confiding flock of ptarmigan, taking
picture after picture. Unfortunately
he had failed to take even the precau
tion of blackening his face, which
Would have dulled the sun glare.
Then the near-tragedy came.
As he started to hurry across the
pass, Mr. Mills began to experience
the scorching pains that go with
seared sun-burned eyes snow blind
ness. He could endure the light only
a few seconds at a time and occaslon
elly he sat down and closed his eyes
for a minute or two. Then he found
himself blinded, on the summit of the
big continental divide. He had only
his useful staff left, his only friend
fThe nearest trees he knew were
mile away and the nearest house was
several miles acress ridges of rough
mountains. He had matches and
hatchet but no provisions.
What was our explorer to do? AT
though he could not see, his facul
ties were intensely awake. He rea
soned that temporary blindness is a
good stimulant for the imagination
and the memory, a good educational
training for all the senses. Moving
by instinct to find human help, our
author relates that he wandered for
many hours, with a vague and help
less feeling that he might be traveling
in a circle and might return to the
trees of the divide where he had
climbed originally. Increasing cool
ness indicated to him that night was
upon him. Every few steps he shouted,
hoping to attract the attention of a
possible prospector, miner or wood
chopper, but no voice answered. A
rumbling and crashing high up the
slope warned him that a snow-slide
was tumbling down, bringing trees
and rocky debris with it. Luckily,
the roar swept into the canyon a short
distance away and our traveler was
saved. On snow shoes, staff in hand,
he felt his way down the mountain
and began to feel the pain of frozen
limbs.
Suddenly, he heard the cheerful
noise of chickadees and the morning
sun was in his face. A water ouzel
sang, with all his might. At times,
it seemed that Mr. Mills' path ran
through dense woods and several
times he paused to touch the trees.
Then the pungent, aspen smoke said
that he must at last be near a human
habitation. A little girl's voice gently.
uriously asked:
'Are you going to stay here all
night?"
The Story of the Great War, br W. S.
Brathw&lle. Illustrated In colors. Tea
A. Stokes Co., New York City.
There are books that have been and
are issued on the big war that are
oo bulky to read and even extend
into several volumes.
Here is one book on the war that
describes it finely, interestingly and
merly Mrs. Grover Cleveland, has en
trusted to- Professor Robert M. Mc
Elroy of Princeton the task of pre
paring the authorized 'Life and Let
ters of President Cleveland.
"All of Mr. Cleveland's papers, per
sonal as well as public, including the
collection from the Library of Con
gress, the letters to Commodore Bene
dict, Mrs. Preston's own collection,
and a vast assortment of letters from
personal friends and political associ
ates, have been placed in Professor
McElroy"s hands. He would, however.
welcome contributions from readers
who had correspondence with Mr.
Cleveland, as Mr. Cleveland wrote
ost of his letters in longhand and
kept no copies.
The public long has awaited the
authorized life of President Cleve
land, and Professor McElroy has al
ready arranged for its publication by
the house of Harper & Brothers. Xew
York. Certain especially interesting
portions of the 'Life and Letters' will
appear serially in Harper's Magazine
oerore publication in book form.
Professor McElroy has Mrs.
Thomas J. Preston Jr's. written per
mission to publish such a book, in
memory of her late husband."
If: f
Alirernon Tasain. author of The
Craft of the Tortoise," a play
about women.
concisely in one volume of 371 page
from a review ot the causes which
produced the war down to the peace
congress in Paris, .France. .The lan
guage is simple and easily under
stood, so much so that .the book is
specially suited to the reading powers
of boys and girls.
Various sides of the war are die
cussed from the diplomatic, political
and military viewpoints, with the his-
tories of navies, airplanes, subma
rines, chemical warfare, munitions,
the actual battles and the civil armies
of men and women who. back of th
battle lines, grew food for the fight
ers and made ammunition for the guns
they used.
in this battle. Attached to the corps
there were British Royal artillery
and other auxiliary troops, about 50,-
000 in all, under the command of the
American general, who in turn served
under the British high command.
The corps was first organized to
give our newly-arriving and "green
troops" field training under British
instruction, and training tours in the
front line trenches under most favor
able circumstances. In all, 10 Amer
ican divisions passed through the
corps, but only the 27th and 30th re
mained throughout.
The capture of Chipilly ridge by the
Illinois troops, and the 4th of July
"show" in 1918, when the Australians,
with about 1000 "volunteers" from the
33d American division, captured
HameL are graphically described. In
these earlier operations, the American
troops won the unstinted and freely
accorded regard and praise of their
allies.
While the authors are inclined at
times to verge on the technique of
army organization, and to emphasize
the importan
tered betwee
armies as co
tions after the war, the book is easily
followed and informative.
The reaction after the black days
of depression during the German ad
vance In March, 1918, is well described.
and will make the American reader
understand better than ever what a
tremendous part the American army
played in the winning of the war.
A B. R,
experience gained in many years'
practice as an industrial engineer in
this country, and also on investiga
tions made in Germany, England,
Scotland' and Holland.
Mr. Basset's experience as an indus
trial engineer, and his study of con
ditions in more than 1500 industrial
plants throughout the country, has
convinced him that what the working
man is striving for, is the self-expression
in hiB work that machinery
and modern efficiency has robbed him
of. Mr. Basset succeeds in supplying
this interest, that the passing of
craftsmanship has taken away, by
granting the workman a voice in
shaping the policies of the plant in
which he works. He does not believe
in profit-sharing, but he does believe
in guaranteeing to the workman a
minimum daily wage and steady em
ployment the year round at this
minimum wage. The purpose of these
principles is to provide the workman
with the kind of interest in his work
that will make it more of a pleasure
than a chore, and will enable him to
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE-
M'
BY ETHEL It. SAWYER,
Director of Training Class. Library Associ
ation ot l'ortland.
ISS LUTIE E. STEARNS, at
present talking in Portland in
the campaign for milk for
American babies, was for several
years before going upon the lecture
platform one of the best known libra
rians in the country. She entered the
profession in the early days of its
"terrible aloofness," when it was con
sidered the highest art of librarian
ship to keep books safeguarded and
preserved from the devastating hand
of the public High barring rails
and locked doors prevailed in even
our most advanced libraries, and all
modern development of service
ce of the intimacy fos- J earn, more money with less effort. At .through specialized! departments and
n officers of the allied the same time, it will result .in greater , traJned workers was an impractical
mducive to better rela- I production from the individual work-I V "1 w
man at the cost of less physical fa
tigue and will, thereby, increase the
profits of the owner.
William R. Basset is the president
f Miller, Franklin, Basset & Co..
industrial consultants. He is an engi
neer and an authority on production,
markets and finance.
Fort of Xew York Annual, compiled and
edited Dy Alexander R. Smith. Illus
trated. Smith's Port Publishing com
pany, 2 and 3 South street, Xew York
City.
Here we have a well-edited digest
of valuable maritime information re
garding what is accepted generally as
being the greatest port in the world
Xew York City.
The book is bound is blue cloth.
cover lettering in gold, is 12 by 9
inches in size, type pages being 9
by 6 inches. It contains 300 pages,
and abounds in illustrations of port
of Xew York views of every kind.
night scenes as well as day, and
covers the Xew Jersey as well as the
New York sections.
The leading feature of this 1919 edi
tion of the "Port of Xew Tork An
nual," which is a reference book for
the use of marine men the world over,
is the salient facts regarding the pro
posed revolutionary changes in the
control and administration of the
?ort of Xew York, if the existing
emporary Xew York, Xew Jersey
port and harbor development commis
sion is made permanent by the Joint
action or the xew York and Xew
Jersey legislatures.
Statistical tables show the value of
the imports and exports, at the port
of Xew York, how they compare with
other leading world ports, tonnage
of shipping entering and leaving the
port, character of the leading indus
tries of the port, history of the port.
the laws, rules and regulations gov
erning its shipping, location and occu
pants of piers, lighterage, anchorage
and towage limits, coal bunkering
piers, several of the boroughs being
extendediy leaturea as to their in
dustrial, commercial and maritime attractions.
EnJnting for Christ and the Chnreb, by
Howard Agnew Johnston. Press of the
international committee of the Y. M. C.
A.. New York City.
Our author, who gives Chicago as
his address. In this instructive and
helpful book of 180 pages, presents a
series of daily lssons that will truly
spread the lesson and need of more
personal, active service in church at
tendance and work.
Mr. Johnston calls on the church
to win the country and the world
anew for Christianity and to work
toward that end. He Insists on the
manliest duty, too long neglected, of
ministers and other recognized church
leaders, to do this: to make a place
in the programme of every church
and Y. M. C. A., "for the training of
willing members to do intelligent per
sonal work," along the line of service
indicated.
The book is divided into 15 studies.
one lesson for each of the seven days
of the week, on these topics: Enlist
ing ourselves; we are saved to serve
realizing uoas reaeeming love: en
listing others; special plans for Bible
classes: personal recruiting eouio-
ment; talcing tioa into account; how,
to approach people; principles for
dealing with people: scripture an
swers to common exercises; scripture
answers to common objections
strengthening weak Christians
Chrt.rfs call to a life work; abiding
in Christ; increasing fruitfulness, and
me Diessea rewards.
The Tsnkftt in the British Zone." Kwen
C. MacVeag-h and Lee D. Brown, G. P.
Putnam's Sons, New York.
A story of the second corps, United
States army, A. E. F., which served
with the British armies in the British
sector of northern France and Bel
gium through the latter part of the
war.
The tale has a twin moral. One is
that the American and British, mean
ing English and colonials, each find
that the other wears well when
thrown Into intimate contact and
working In a common cause. AU old
preconceived notions go by the board.
The other moral is the now old but
still important warning that unpre-
paredness for war makes war costly.
The second corps, which was com
manded throughout its fighting exist
ence by Major-General G. W. Read,
U. S. A., had the post of honor in the
great smash through the Hmdenburg
line. The corps took its first object
ive, the St. Quentin canal tunnel, con
sidered the most formidable point on
the line, on schedule time. The fight
ing was terrific and the casualties
heavy, but the Yankees made good,
and gave way to the redoubtable but
battered Australian corps, which had
been held back in support.
The 27th and 30th National guard
divisions from the Atlantic coast were
President Cleveland's Letters Desired.
Harper & Brothers, publishers
Franklin square. Xew York City, ask
that all who have letters written by
the late United States President
Cleveland kindly will lend such let
ters to Harper & Brothers, to be used
in a forthcoming book to be written
by Professor Robert M. McElroy of
Princeton university. X. J.
Harper & Brothers send this per
sonal message:
'Mm iTtinmaft J. Preston Jr fox- the combat units of the second corps
The Great ImperAonstfon. by E. Phillips
upponaeim. Ajinie. nrown & jo. Bos-
ion.
Sir Everard Dominey, English aris
tocrat, whisky drinker, wastrel and
wanaerer, ana Baron Leopold von
Ragastein, German, sober, brilliant.
fired with zeal for the Germany that
was before the fatal diaya of 1914.
With two such contrasting and
diverse personalities as types, Mr.
Oppenheim writes a mystery novel
that not only holds the reader's at
tention, but whets curiosity, wonder
ing what the answer to the fiction
riddle is going to be.
Sir Everard, blamed for the murder
of Mr. Unthank, flees for his life from
England and lands in South Africa,
while Lady Dominey becomes men
tally afflicted from worry. In 1913
Dominey finds himself in German
East Africa, sick, starving and suf
ferlng from exposure in the bush, and
is saved from death by Ragenstein.
Word comes from Germany to
Ragenstein that the "day" has
dawned and to prepare. Dominey, ap
parently, is drinking himself to death
and has not long to live. Kagen
stein impersonates Dominey, goes to
England and passes as Dominey. and
the number of war secrets he learns
in England for the use of his kaiser
Well, it a exciting fiction.
When the Workmen Help Too Maiuure,
by William H. Basse-t. The Century
Co., New xorlt city.
Dealing with the human factor in
industry, this message is marked by
practical common sense and helpful
information. It is stated that the
policies) outlined, are based upon the
XEW BOOKS RECKIVTn.
The Board Walk, by Margaret Widde-
mer. nine short stories, skilfully and en
tertaingly written, depicting smart life
and especially femininity in an Atlantic
sea-coast town (Harcourt, Brace & Howe,
X. Y..
The Inward Light, by Allan Davis and
Anna K. Stratton, a pulsing, strongly writ
ten drama or the civil war of 1861-ea,
with scones set in Berks county. Pa.; In
the Garret, by Carl van Vechlen. a series
ot well -balanced, interesting essays on lit
erature, folk songs, music. Sir Arthur Sul
livan, Oftcar Haramerstein, the negro, Yid
dish and Spanish theaters, 347 page; A
w ouian or Tnlrty, by Majorle Allen Snlf
fert, and also Poems of KUiah Hay first
are poeais mostly of femininity, and thn
daintily written little poems by Elijah
Hay. 127 pages in all; Democracy and
tiovei-nment. by Samuel Peterson. a.
thoughtful presentation of the principles
on which a democratic government must
be based to secure the essentials of re
sponsibility and efficiency, a book ot sharp
criticism and also one of the big-uncut;
The Talleyrand Maxim, by J. S. Fletcher.
new criminal story, with a fascinating
plot, showing' types of quaint English
country folk; and Madame Bovary, by
Oustave Flaubert. translated from the
French by Eleanor 31arx-Aveling, with an
introduction by Burton Rascoe, a fine
presentation of a great French classic
novel which is compared favorably by ex
perts as eoualins Cervantes' celebrated
novel, "Don Quixote" CAlfred A. Knopf.
X. Y.
Her Brother's Code, by rnlel Beor Sor-
lin, a drama of life in four acts fine,
modern work and powerfully presented
IThe Cornhill Co., Boston).
The Men From Tall Timber, by Thomas
K. Holmes, a dramatic, exciting and well
told story of the timber regions of the
northwest, contrasted with life in New
York City with a love story at the end
of It (George Sully A Co.. X. Y.).
Madame France, by R. Louise Fitch, a
;ll-wrltteu. skilfully-fashioned book.
showing what the women of France did
to wtn the bis war (The Woman's Press.
N. Y.j.
Hail. Man! by Angela Morgan, 55 ster
ling poems, dignified, many of them germs,
republished from big eastern magazines
(Joan Lane Co.. M. x.).
The Iron Furrow, by Geroge C Sbedd, !
readable, healthy novel about a manly
hero named Lee Bryant, who tries to re
deem worthless sheep-land by building a
canal through it, and In spite of machina
tions of envious Mexicans the scenes be
ing laid In Arizona (Doubleday. Page &
Co.. N. Y.).
Paris Vistas, by Helen Davenport Gib
bons, a book that is a work of fine liter
ary art, witn superior pictures telling In
descriptive, gay, lively fashion the im
pressions of a woman who lived in Paris
before and after the big wax as extraor
dinary picture of a wonder city, 306 pages
(The Century Co-. N. Y.).
Lynch Lawyers, by William Patterson
White, one of the best cowboy stories that
has come out of the west for many a
year, and depicting plenty of vigorous ao
Uon (Little, Brown fc Co., Boston).
Europe, a Book for America, luT paLgee
of able original but queer poems, prin
cipally depleting England; Debs, by David
Karsner, 244 pugea, said to be Mr. Debs'
authorized life and letters from Woodstock
prison to the U. S. prison at Atlanta, Ua.;
and the Craft of the Tortoise, by Algernon
Tassin, a clever, rousing play In four acts.
amusing in Its situations, showing woman's
innate cleverness and finesse, with an au
thenttc, historical background and dealing
principally with woman's position as con
Querer in the end in ancient and also In
human, up-to-date society (Boni Sl Live
right, N. Y.).-
The Psychology of Nationality and Tn
ternauonallsm, by W. B. Plllsbury, pro
fessor of psychology, university or Michi
gan, a learned, crtivc hook in whlc!i
many doclrinoH are expounded in a man
ner which will cause possibly assent and
dissent CD. Aapletoa & Co, X. YJ
dream.
She remembers the first children's
room, down In a library basement,
where the pioneer children's libra
rian, a one-legged old man, mounted
guard over, the imprisoned books,
which were never allowed to leave
the building, but where, with due
precautions, very determined children
sometimes succeeded in getting in to
read.
It was while Miss Stearns was a
member of this profession that she
issued a little bibliography of "Books
of Interest and Consolation to Spins
ters." It was dedicated to Myrtle
Reed, "spinster pro tern," one of the
three varieties of splnsterhood, the
other two, as Miss Stearns explained
being "spinsters pro-test and, spinsters
exultant.
The actual text of the bibliography
is most appropriately introduced by
that very significant quotation
adaoted from the Psalms of David
a nassage whose significance has per
haps never been so ruliy appreciated
as it will be in this connection
"What is man that we should be
mindful of him?"
The list which follows does not.
however, smack of the sour-grapes
frame of mind; there is much that
would Invite to gentle musings over
the delights of love such as Chad
wick's "Out of the Heart." Riley's "An
Old Sweetheart of Mine," Kiser's
"Soul Sonnets of a Stenographer." Ir
win's "Love Sonniets of a Hoodlum.'
A broad and healthy interest in activi
ties outside the range of her imme
diate environment is shown in such
entries as Cutting's "Little Stories of
Married Life," Stevens' "How Men
Propose": while a little wistful gaz
ing through the bars at withheld joys
Is indicated In sucn Dits oi uncon
scious pathos as Hardy's "How to Be
Happy Though Married and w ortn
ington's "How to Cook Husbands.'
On the whole, though, the most val
uable part of the list is comprised in
those entries which breathe the beau
tiful spirit of resignation and deter
mination to grapple with one's lot
and to wring therefrom the fullest
possible measure of content, such as
Bradford's "Art of Living Alone,'
Baxter's "Saints' Everlasting Rest.'
Lemcke's "How to Live Well er 25
i-eius a Day," and perhaps the gem
of them all, "Hearts-ease for Those
Looking Toward Sunset," by an un
known benefactor of his race.
That the Atlantic Monthly can no
longer be regarded as an exclusive
or purely academic magazine would
seem to be definitely established by
the following story told in a recent
Contributors' Column. We have, of
course, always associated its pages
with college professors and other lit
erati and llluminati. but it seems that
conductors and brakemen began to
read the Atlantic years ago and the
plumbers are recent converts. At pres
ent the circulation manager is at
work on the motormen and plaster
ers. Moreover, in the search for "un
tapped reservoirs" no trade, craft or
professional lines are to be recog
nized. Down in one of our peniten
tiaries sits a man, "Gentleman Ham
by" by name, professional burglar,
who one day in the exercise of his
precarious profession had the mis
fortune to kill an intrusive fellow-
citizen. Now he sits all day in his
cell reading the Atlantic and. refus
ing all the comforting companion
ship of visiting newspaper reporters,
yearns only to return to his favorite
magazine. "Now. if Gentleman Ham-
by feels that way, he isn't alone in
his cl;iss, see?" That reservoir is to
be tapped immediately. Can any oth
er magazine show an equally demo
cratic range of interest?
How can anyone say that we are
not a nation of lovers of the art ot
literature, when we are informed on
what seems to be good authority that
we are paying one. at least, of our
contemporary writers a higher annual
salary than that of the president ot
the Lnited States! G. Gardner Sulli
van, we are told, receives a salary of
$2000 a week, of J 104.000 a year, and
is probably the highest paid writer
in America today. Do you know him?
We understand him to be a master
in the new field of art," a popular
producer and oh most potent of
democratic pleasl he "claims no lit
erary style." He is the head of the
scenario department of the Thomas
H. Ince studios. Oh. anonymity,
where is thy sting! Oh, literature,
where is thy victory!
The death of Leonid Andreev, one of
the younger group of Russian writers,
has been recently announced from
Finland, where he had his country
home. The cause Is reported as heart
disease resulting from a bolshevic
bomb explosion. There is an element
of sardonic irony in the manner of
his death; for Andreev would prob
ably, in the loose terminology of our
day, be etimgatized as bolshevistic in
his tenor. Only a reading of his
works without adequate cerebration
on the part of the reader could justify
such a characterization unless we
give that term a most inclusive def
inition. Andreev is bolshevistic if, as
many people seem to feel, life Is bol
shevistic; and the judgment wc pro
nounce in either case seems to vary
with our unfamlliarlty with the sub
ject. Born in 1871 at Orel, the birth
place also of Turgenev, he began life
as a lawyer. He had only one case
entrusted to htm, and perhaps it was
as well, eiuce he lost that one. Wheth
er there is a special and particular
antipathy between the literary genius
and the legal atinof phere, let modern
psychology determine. It is an inter
esting fart, however, that so many
writers have served a sort of pursa
torial apprenticeship with the law.
As a police court reporter for a
Moscow paper he doubtless had ample
opportunity to observe life's under
side. His reactions to the scenes with
which ho must have become familiar
are neither sentimental or censorious
they are terribly sane.
Bernard Shaw somewhere says, in
effect, that he (Shaw) is regarded as
a fool and a mountebank only be
cause he is one of the few sane and
consistent people in the world. In a
madhouse sanity Is the startling and
eccentric thing! I would not insist
too absolutely on this view of An
dreev's writings especially in the face
of Professor Phelps' characterization
of his stories as "depicting life as
Been through the trango litrht of a
decaying mind." I do maintain, how
ever, that it takes a sane man to read
him.
Andreev acknowledges his indebt
edness to Tolstoi, the great Tolstoi of
the '60s and '70s, to Nitzche, to Poe,
and to the "best teacher of all the
Bible." He was a realist, a symbolist,
and a poet who wrote dramas, and
novels and short stories. His supreme
preoccupation was with that very
Russian theme, the soul of man. The
surface of life remained 1,0 him the
surface merely, although he was rot
ignorant of it nor did he blind him
self to its powerful shaping force.
Read "King Hunger" if you would
understand the factors entering into
revolt the desperations, the fears,
the brutalities, the illogicalities, the
tragic ignorances and blindnesses.
"The seven who were hanged" is per
haps his most cheerful story! "The
red laugh" is his terrible indictment of
war, and "The Sorrows of Belgium
reveals his suffering with the recent
acute world agony. "The life of man"
and "The black maskers" take us far,
far down into the introspective, tor
tured soul of the man who is wres
tling with life's delusions and illu
sions. Mad. very mad. maybe, and cer
tainly not consoling literature, but
surely there must be something for
us in the writings of a man who thus
interprets the office of his high call
ing to literature: "The misfortune
of us all Is that we know so little,
even nothing, about one another
neither about the soul, nor the life,
the sufferings, the habits, the inclina
tions, the aspirations, of one another.
Literature, which I have the honor to
serve, is dear to me just because the
noblest task it sete before itself is
that of wiping out boundaries and
distances."
Modern China
cA 'Political Study
By S. G. Cheng. Net $3.25
A valuable and timely volume throwing dear light on the chief
problems of modern with constructive suggestions for their
solution. The dicussion is notably free from political bias and de
serves the dose attention of aQ interested in Chinese marar.
The Five Republics of Central America
Their 'Political and Economic Development and
Halations -with the United States
By Dana G. Munro. Nei $3.50
Dr. Munro's study dealing with the history and economic conditions
of Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica is the
result of careful study, on the ground, of the ideals and conditions bf
life of our Central American neighbors and may be relied on as a
correct presentation of these peoples from an American point of view.
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