3.
NO TROUBLE TO KEEP FOE OUT OF SOUL POSSESSED BY GOD
Christians Recommended to Fill Empty Places of Life Letting Savior In Is Like Sunshine Coming Into Darkness Evil Spirits Thrown Out and Victory Achieved.
THE STJXDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 13, term
BY DR. W. B. HINSON.
Factor of the East Side Baptist Church.
w-rHEN the unclean spirit is
M gona out of a man. he
' walketh through dry places
seeking rest, and finding none. Then
he a-aith, I will return into my house
from whence- I came out; and when
he is come he findeth it empty,
swept and garnished. Then eoeth he
and taketh himself seven other
spirits more wicked than himself, and
they enter into that man and dwell
there. And the last state is worse
than the tirt."
Now, there are three facts clear and
Plain in that story an evil-possessed
man. first; evil dispossessed from the
man, Becond, and evil repossessing the
man, third.
Evil spirits possessed men. The
origin of evil ia inscrutable and ob
jured by mystery we cannot pene
trate, l'ur we know not how long
ago sin came into existence, nor how
it came to have a being. We only
know rin originated lonqr before man
was created and we are taught, 1
think, that it originated in Satan.
We may he sure, however, that sin
originated from within the sinner. Jt
must necessarily have been so with
Satan, for he dwelt an unfallen angel
in heaven, and there is nothing in
heaven to engender sin. For heaven
is full of Hod, and God tempteth no
man to evil. .So that sin must have
originated in Satan, the great sinner.
And we further know this is true of
man. O but that Kden was a fair
and beautiful place; a garden, and
a garden made by God; and a garden
made by God and pronounced by God
to be good. There was nothing in
Adam's heredity to induce him to sin.
for he was made in the image of God
and had no evil taint. There wa
nothing in his environment to sug
gest sin, for the garden was pleas
ant and had everything in it for him
he could desire. And when that
temptation came from the serpent
if it had found nothing corresponding
to it in Adam it would have been as
non-injurious to him as the blowing
of a breeze over the scented flowers
at the eventide.
Sin Originates in Sinner.
Sin must therefore have originated
1n th sinner. For. you see, while a
life is under the dominance of the
divine nature it cannot sin. That is
the teaching of John in his first
epistle. He is so bold that he says:
"There Is an incorruptible seed in
the life of the regenerated man that
exercises over him such a sin-loathing
ministry that he cannot sin." But
when the life passes under the seduc
tion of the Satanic nature, then man
sins awfully, persistently and eter
nally. For in hell, we are told, the
more they are tormented, the more
they blaspheme. Now when those
contending forces of the supernatural
meet in a man's soul and life, there,
and not in Flanders. i the great
A I- rnh Woman & Impressions of A mrr
ica, hy louiucsa Jladeime tin iiyraa
and Jacqueline de Liyras. The Cen
tury Co., New V o r k c H y .
It is always an interesting- experi
ence to read the candid views ol our
visitors who sit in judgment on uh
and our institutions. ISuch a book is
now under review. It is cleve r,
witty and fair-minded.
Uur authors are eisters and, al
though born in France, are daughters
of Rose Clymer, a Philadelph ian by
birth and a direct descendant ot
Ueorge Clymer. one of the signers ol
the .Declaration of Independence and
a frame r of the United States con
stitution. As a little pirl Ro.se Clymer
went to live with her aunt, Mrs. John
Jacob Kidgeway, in France, and after
ward married Comte Jacques de
Hryas, member of an old French
family.
Durinsr the big war our authors
ecrved in hospitals in France and
founded a society w hich furnished
little huts erected by the govern
ment behind the firing lines. Finely
educated, talented as public speakers
and able to converse fli?ently in
French and Knslish, the sisters, at
the request of the "American com
mittee for devastated France." visit
pd this country in 1918, at the time
of our third liberty loan. The sis
ters traveled from the Atlantic to
the Pacif ic, addressing many public
meetings and watching all they heard
and saw.
Thi comtesse was curious about
Americans when t-he landed ii
New York City hotel:
I rans the bell the waiter came In and
took my order. He erpoKe with a very
oronounced foreien accent. Pushed by
curiosity, 1 asked: "Are you American?
"Vn inn'-am. lm & Pole."
Then the telephone rang a sain; it had
already rung1 several timea since our ar
rival. "Hello! Hello! Is this the Countess de
Bryas. who arrived on the Chicago?"
"Tea."
"I'm reporter from the Y paper, and
tthould like an interview.
"Verv well. 1 will see you tomorrow
morninsr at 11 o'clock at the studio."
The porter brought up our luggage. He,
too. had a decidedly foreign acceuu
"Are you American?"
"Xo. ma'am: I'm a Swede."
Then the maid came to. ask us if she
could help up.
"Are you an American?" I asked, hop
lng at last to see a real American.
"No, ma'am ; I'm Irish."
"But where are the Americans? 1 ex
claimed to my Hitster.
"I'm berinnina: to wonder whether we
tiiall ever see any," was her reply.
A picture of an American liberty
loan speaker:
At the movlns-picture show which w
attended one evening a man mounted the
platform and showed an obviously new
straw hat and called out in a powerful
voi'-e:
I lust bought it today and hoped It
would spend the summer with me. But for
my country 1 am ready to separate my
self from my new acquisition. So for
thousand-dollar bond 1 will offer you the
diverting sight cf the willful destruction
of my new hat. its, iadleW and Rentlemen.
I will stick my fist right through it. Now
(and he rained his voire louder than ever)
who will subscribe for a thousand-dollar
bond? Who ill give the thousand dol
lars?" "Five hundred dollars," cried a voire.
"No, I want the thousand dollars. I
won't spoil my new hat for less. Come
elong now, a good bid. Who will give It?"
"A thousand !" shouted a man's voice
from the balcony. And the speaker, with
a happy smile, thrust his closed fist vigor
ously through the crown of his straw hat,
shooting it straight toward the generous
subscriber.
A visit to Colonel Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay:
Colonel Roosevelt showed us his precious
and unique collection of autographed pho
tographs, one signed by a well-known per
sonage none other than Wilhelm 11, Uer-
man emperor.
We recollect that Colonel Roosevelt was
received at Potsdam by the kaiser several
years before the European conflict. The
emperor entertained his guest with the
greatest hospitality and Invited him to be
present at the review of the German
troops. Photographs were taken of these
' two personages conversing together on
horseback, and these are the ones we were
hown at Oyster Bay.
Wilhelm II presented the autographed
photograph to Colonel Roosevelt with a
election of Intimate thoughts written on
the back of each one, Bethmann-Holweg,
battleground, where not Frenchmen
and German men fight, but where
the Invisible hosts of the dark and
the invisible hosts of the light lock!
in conflict and surge to and fro on
that fiercely contested battleground
of a man's soul.
And if you want an illustration of
all I have thus far said, let me read
you a phrase or two out of the life of
riaul, the great king of Israel. Samuel
said to the first king of the Israelitish
people. 'The spirit of the Lord will
come upon thee, and thou shalt proph
esy and shall be turned into another
man." And then I come over and find
Saul has sinned, and Samuel says.
'Thou hast displeased God." And I
read this statement that chills me
always: "And Samuel came no more
to see Saul until the day of his death.
Nevertheless Samuel mourned for
Saul, and the Lord repented that he
had made Saul king." And then I
read: "But the spirit of the Lord de
parted from Saul, and the evil spirit
allowed' by God troubled him. And
Saul's servants said, "Behold now an
evil spirit troubieth thee." And they
ser.t for David to play on the harp.
"And it came to pass when the evil
spirit was upon Saul, that David took
a harp and played with his hand. And
Saul was refreshed and was wen. ana
the evil spirit departed from him."
"And it came to pass on the morrow
that the evil spirit came upon Saul,
and David played with his hand as. at
other times. And there was a jave
lin in Saul's hand and he cast the
javelin, for he said, "1 will smite Da
vid even to the wall with it." "And
the evil spirit was upon Saul" this
is not repetition, this is another time
"as he sat in his house with his
javelin in his hand, and David played.
And Saul sought to smite David even
to the wall with his javelin. And
Saul's son Jonathan his soul clave
unto David. And when Saul saw it he
thrust with his javelin and would
have killed Jonathan." And one more
record. "And Saul said, the spirit of
God has left me. Find me out a witch
in Endor."
;reat Kins Lies Prone.
And the man who had been posses
sed by the spirit of God stood and
waited for the incantations of a witch
Can you not hear the crash and shock
of the conflict in the soul of that
leonine first king of Israel, as the
spirit of God struggles, and the evil
spirit combats, and the victory moves
now here, now there, until at last
with the evil triumph, the great king
lies prone upon the earth, his sword
point between his shoulder blades.
Yes. that is the Old Testament. Oh,
I am so tired of hearing that, but I
seem destined to hear it so long as 1
live. Well then turn to the New Tes
tament. Now listen to this as though
you had never heard anything about
it: "And when Jesus came out of the
ship, there met him out of the tombs
a man with an unclean spirit, who
had his dwelling among the tombs:
and no man could bind him, no, not
with chains: because that he had been
often bound with fetters and chains
h is famuus chancellor, came the next
morning to ask for his sovereign's gift to
be returned. He evident ly did not then
seem to consider it a "scrap of paper," and
he wan very anxious to get it out of Colo
nel Koosevelt's possion on account of
some of the very imprudent declarations
made thereon.
On page 246 is a description of this
part of the country: i
We left California for Oregon, and after
"4 hours traveling reached Portland, the
lovely city of roses, where, among interest
ing experiences. 1 addressed on the evening
of my arrival J."oo workmen composing the
night shift of the Grant Smith-Porter ship
yard, li was truly a curious sight to see
the crowd of enthusiastic laborers clus
tering around the wooden table on which
I stood, in the open air. talking to them
of what was going on 6000 miles away.
rhe night was a moonless one. and our
outdoor gathering was lit by a few electric
lamps, which cast fantastic shadows over
tiie w hole scene a scene strange enough
to tempt a painter to represent one of the
unexpected sidelights of the war, The
next day we motored to the famous Co
Mary Roberta Rinchart. author
of "Affinities' and other atu
rtea. lumbia river gorge and the Multnomah
falls, which are among the most beautiful
sights In America.
This frank paragraph is delicious:
After a little while in America I began
to miss the strong, commanding, predomi
nant rose, which is considered rather an
aristocratic feature on the old continent
Women's noses in the United States are
generally a poem of delicacy, small, re
fined and regular. Almost all the (Amer
ican) women wear their shoes and slip
pers long and pointed, which gives an ap
pearance of refinement to the foot. I be
lieve, in general.' I prefer the look of
American feet. 1 am much struck by the
aainiiness or tne young girls and women.
They almost invariably have neachlik
comp'texions. in spite of Indulging in out-of-door
"sports and exposure to the sun.
Affinities, and Other Kforien. by Mary
Roberts Rinshart. George H. Doran Co.,
New York city.
Five short stories of sentimental ad
ventures, with plenty of love-making,
and married people as the actors.
The titles of the stories and it looks
as if they had appeared serially are:
"Affinities." "The Family Friend,"
"Clare's Little Escapade." "The Bor
rowed House," and "Sauce for the
Gander."
Mrs. Hinehart is an experienced
story writer and has the talent to
amuse.
Sometimes, as in "Affinities." Mrs.
Ttineharts plots are wildly impossible,
but a certain cleverness in the re
cital carries the story along to a
ludicrous conclusion. In "Affinities"
the chief trouble with the married
couples is that they do not have any
children to occupy their energies, but
are society idlers who kill time. Mrs
Day, social butterfly, t,ella the story
t
ff iff
and the chains had been plucked
asunder by him, and the fetters i
broken in pieces; neither could any
man tame him. And always, night
and day, he was In the mountains, and
in the tombs, crying. and cutting him
self with stones.
But when he saw Jesus afar off, he
ran and worshipped him, and cried
with a loud voice and said: "What
have I to do with thee, Jesus, thou
son of the most high God? I adjure
thee, by God, that thou torment me
not. But Jesus said unto him. Come
out of the man, thou unclean spirit, j
Ana jesus asked nim. "W Hat is
thy name?" And he answered, saying:
'My name Is Legion: for we are
many." And he besought him much
that he would not send them away
out of the country.
inow there was there nigh unto the
mountains a great herd of swine feed
ing. And all the devils besought him,
saying, "Send us into the swine, that
we may enter into them." And forth
with Jesus gave them leave. And the
unclean spirits went out and entered
into the swine; and the herd ran vio
lently down a steep place into the sea
(they were about 2000) and were
choked in the sea. And they that fed
the swine fled and told it to the city
and in the country. And they went
out to see what it was that was done.
And they came to Jesus, and seeing
him that was possessed with the devil,
and had! the legion sitting and clothed,
and in his right mind; and they were
afraid. There Is the man and -here
comes Jesus. And the man worships,
and Jesus bids the evil spirit come
out. And In response to the question
of Jesus, "What is thy name?," the
spirits make the man talk. And he, as
though he were the evil spirit, says,
"My name is Legion, a host, a mul
titude. We are many." And. the evil
spirits begged to be incarnated In
something, even if it were only the
swine. And the man liberated from
the evil spirits is clothed and in his
right mind.
Soul Battle-Scarred Place.
What a battle-scarred place was
the soul of that man possessed of the
legion of evil spirits! And illustra
tions are numerous in the word of
God along the same line, but I have
given you one from the Old and one
from the New Testaments. The book
of Stevenson that is most discussed is
called Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The
two were one man. Dr. Jekyll is a
good, kindly gentleman: but some
times a transformation takes place in
him and then he becomes vindictive,
cruel, devilish, and masquerades as
Mr. Hyde. And no man can pene
trate the mystery. Until at the last
the great novelist tells how the man.
the dual man, lay dead; and then it
was discovered tnat the two were one.
But even the Apostle Paul says of
himself, "The good that I would do, I
do not; and the evil I would not do, I
do. O wretched man that I am. Whc
shall deliver me from this body cf
sin and death?"
And later on when he was the
heroic Christian apostle, he wrote and
about a wild picnic participated in by
eight married folks somebody else's
husband and somebody else's wife
to Devil's Island. ' Puddlers from an
iron works have a picnic on an ad
joining island, and the idlers and pud
dlers just escape coming to blows. A
most complex conclusion is presented.
Th RiRins Tid of Color Against While
World Supremacy, by -athorp Stoddard.
Ph. 1). Charlc-a Scribner'a Sons, New
York city.
"The total number of human be
ings alive today is about , 700. 000, 000.
Of these. 550.000,000 are white, while
1.150,000.000 are colored the colored
races thus outnumber the whites more
than two to one."
Such is the kernel of this remark
able book, of unusually educative
value and historical significance. The
answer to the color peril is. according
to our author, that the white races,
particularly the Nordic portion of It,
had better cease such wasteful war
as the big one just concluded else
ruin is ahead.
An eloquent , plea is made to stop
scattering white solidarity. It is com
puted that of the 70,000,000 inhabit
ants of the German empire in 1914,
only 9,000,000 were purely Nordic in
character. It is believed that the 30
years' war virtually annihilated the
Nordics of South Germany.
'Mr. Stoddard insists that the over
whelming majority of Nordics live
outside of Germany being mainly
in Scandinavia, the Anglo-Saxon coun
tries, northern France. The Nether
lands and Baltic-Russia. The su
preme point is made: That the white
race must keep itself pure. We stand
"at the crisis of the age."
Letters of Travel. 1R92-1913, by Rudyard
Kipling. roubleday. I'age Co.. Gar
den CHx. N. Y.
Sketches and stories, written hy
Ttudyard Kipling with all his well
known charm of expression. There
are 24 of these presentations dealing
with Mr. Kipling's travels and ob
servations in this country. Canada.
Egypt, etc.
The series consists of: From Tide
way to Tideway. 1S92; letters to the
family. lt07: and Egypt of the Egyp
tians. 191 3.
Many of these sketches have pre
viously seen the light in other edi
tions and are of the past. But it
is a pleasure to read the message
contained in these 302 pages.
It is the great Kipling who Fpeaks.
The Solar Empyrean, by John M. Russell.
Flynn Publishing Co.. Chicago.
The author of this remarkable,
learned message of more than 2S0
pages, with appendix, has studied
hard evidently, for many years, in
interpretation, astronomy, prophecy,
and general research lines. This book
is the result. What it teaches so pro
foundly cannot be determined at one
sitting there is too much ground
to cover.
Part one treats of cosmic 6cience.
dealing with the material universe:
and the second part is a presentation
as to theological science, with a series
of interpretation of the various chap
ters of the book of revelation, con
cluding the Bible. "
Much of the message is speculative
and theological, but always worth
while.
The Birth of the Russian Democracy, by
A. J. Sack. Russian Information Bu
reau. New York city.
Many public documents and official
reports generally add weight and
conviction to the mass of Information
concerning modern Russia, unfolded
in these 552 pages.
The first part of the message con
tains a history of the Russian revo
lutionary movement from the Decem
brist uprising of 1825 up to the March
revolution of 1917; and .the second
part completes the Russian story
since the last revolution mentioned.
There are many pictures in the
book, but these pictures, as a rule,
lack clarity.
The Five Rooks of Touth, by rtobert Hill
yer. Brentana's, New Y'ork city.
Mr. Hillyer's "Sonnets and Other
Lyrics" was, it is stated, the first vol
ume of critical verse issued by the
Harvard university press.
I ue present volume of 126 pages
and contaiaine about 80 poems
said, "We wrestle not against flesh
and blood, but against principalities
and powers and spiritual wickedness ,
in the high places. Put on the whole
armor of God that you may be able
to withstand these unseen supernat
ural agencies of evil." Now hark
back to David a moment. What a con
tradiction is the great singer of the
Heb ew people! "Have mercy upon
me. O God, and deliver me from blood
guiltiness." "The Lord is my shep
herd, I shall not want." What does
it mean? Why. it means that Dav.d's
soul also was a war-torn, battle
plowed ground, over which the white
and black forces of the supernatural
engaged in awful strife. Now do you
begin to sse why Jesus said, "Every
time you pray say. 'Deliver us from
the evil one."" Ah, some great reli
gious leaders today tell me tney
do not believe in a devil.
But Jesus Christ teils us to pray
against the devil every day we pray.
And you know how he says through
his own lips, and the inspired lips
of the apostles, "The day is coming
when the supernatural agencies shall
incarnate themselves in human beings
as they never did before, and God and
satan shall go to Armageddon and
fight." and then Jesus says there
will be tribulation such as there never
was since the world was made. Well,
so much for the first point. A man
may be evil-possessed.
Then a man may have the evil cast
out. The unclean spirit was cast out
of the man. I wonder how Mary Mag
dalene felt when God possessed her.
instead of the seven devils that-Jesus
had cast out of her soul. O the trans
formation! Like unto getting into
heaven after roasting in hell! I won
der how the man who said. "My name
is Legion" felt when clothed and in
his right mind and he sat among his
friends. O. there is no illustration can
suggest the greatness of the change.
I wonder how the little lad who made
the transfiguration mountain memor
able, who was possessed by the spirit
who tore him and tormented him till
he foamed at the mouth; I wonder
how he felt when Jesus commanded
the evil spirit to come out of him,
and) he went home to his father and
mother, normal, whole, and restored.
Paul Write to Corinthlana.
Writing to the Corinthians. Paul
said: "Such were gome of you." And
then he recites a catalogue of vices
black as the plagues of Egypt and evil
as the devil. Such as you were, he
says, but you are "washed, sanctified
and justified, in the name of Jesus
Christ, by the spirit of our God."
What a transformation! Writing to
the Christians of Galatia, he said:
"Once you were under the dominance
of the works of the flesh, evil and
accursed: and now you bear the fruit
of the spirit, love, joy, peace, long
suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
meekness, temperance." What a
transformation! And I wonder how
great is the transformation in some
of us. Ah. once if only we could have
got rid of God! Now if we lost God!
Leave the two sentences as they
strengthens the opinion that Mr. Hill
yer is one of the most promising, most
able of our younger American poets.
He is not an extremist, and follows a
serious, and often tragic line of
thought, but is always interesting. His
veneer, too. is one of undertones. Many
of the poems within the covers re
cently appeared in magazines. The
quality of Hillyer verse is academic
and is not "popular."
England to Amerie. by Margaret Prescott.
Montague. Doubleday, Page & Co.. Gar
den City, N. Y.
It Is notable that the first prize of
fered by the O. Henry memorial com
mittee for the best American story of
1919. was awarded to "England to
America."
It is a short story, yet a splendid,
eloquent one. It reflects an episode
in the b'g war just finished. Lieuten
ant Skipworth Carey of Virginia had
been given leave of absence from his
section of the royal flying corps and
had been told by his flight comman
der. Captain Cheviot Sherwood, to
visit the Sherwood family in Devon
shire. Carey finds Sir Charles and Lady
Sherwood to be nice people, and he is
made a most welcome guest. At the
same time he notes a certain restraint
BT ETHEL R. SAWTER.
Director of Training Class. Library Asso
ciation. Portland. Or.
THERE seems to be a great diver
sity of opinion among those who
converse on literary matters as
to whether Vicente Blasco Ibanez Is
Senor Ibanez or Senor Blasco Ibanez.
So let us pause for a moment to in
vestigate the curious system of Span
ish names. It would appear that In
Spain they still cling to the old Rom
an custom of having the surname, or
family name, in the middle. That is,
this author's fathers name was Blas
co. But when a man and woman
marry custom ordains that the name
of the woman is added to the name
of the man and they become hyphen
ated (with the hyphen usually omit
ted). And a nice little custom, too'.
Why not have a joining together to
make a new family name, instead of
the simple process of absorption cus
tomary with us? Therefore Blasco
Ibanez is correct. Ibanez used alone.
that is the mother's maiden name,
would imply that his father and moth
er were not married.
"I remember once being present at
some party in a London house, when
all the latest patterns in poets and
prtists were present," writes Hugh
Walpole in the "Patrician." "Arnold
Bennett was there, silent and observ
ant in his corner, very ready to talk
if someone wished to talk, but quite
happy to watch and listen in silence.
"I remember a young poet, flushed
with the success of a recitation of
two of his own works, going up to
Bennett and asking him whether he
haa anv use for any of the 'old stuff.
"Old stuff.'" said Bennett. "Well
I don't know. There's 'Job.' you
know, and 'Ezekiel '"
"Oh. the Bible," said the writer.
contemptuously.
"It's pretty good," said Bennett
"You read it."
Brinsley MacNamara. author of the
recent novel. "The Valley of the
Squinting Windows." has received
considerable attention from the Irish
public. Copies of the book, it is said,
were publicly burned in real medie
val fashion and the author was han
dled with considerable violence. The
reason for this public tribute was that
the book deals with a section of Ire
land in a not too flattering way, and
many of the inhabitants of that part
of the country .thought they recog
nized themselves as the originals of
some of the characters. Evidently
shoes pinched. Mr. MacNamara doubt
less finds comfort in recalling the
similar outburst stirred up by Synge's
"Playboy of the Western World." It
is really awfully irritating to see our
selves as others see us without the
flattering disguise of the play-actor's
costumes that we so lpve to dress
1 THE LITERARY PERISCOPE 1
stand. Once w blasphemed, now we i
pray. Once we mocked the book, and
now we implicitly follow its teaching.
Once we said "Away with him." and
now we say "We have no king but
Christ." Oh, the transformation!
But how scarred . is the battle
ground that represents your soul?
What conflict has been there? What
fierce fighting? I have sometimes
looked into the faces of mighty men
of God, and I have thought I could
see the shell holes, the broken
trenches, the spiked guns, the blood
shed, the agonized struggle to the
bitter end, aye even death I have
sometimes thought 1 could see it all
in their faces. To be dispossessed of
the evil spirit.' Ah, there are great
dynamics in the soul of man like pent
up volcanoes hot with lava. And
once in the while the soul makes some
frenzied spasmodic effort, and then
you begin to see the capacity of a
human soul, a cataclysm, a revolution,
a wild upheaval, pent up powers sup
pressed no longer, but exercised for
the throwing out of the evil spirit and
the asserted dominance over the hosts
of the dark. I have seen it many a
time and I have undergone it many
a time when horror-stricken and
maddened by shame, and stung by
the immeasurable subjectivity to the
evil, the soul has roused itself like
an army, and has flung oirt the evil
even as our Lord said in the story.
And the drunken man signed the
pledge, and dared the saloon keeper
to do hi3 best, or his worst. And the!
profane man set a watch on his Hps
and would not let the oath pass. And
the family like the family of that
man whose name was Legion sat
around in mute astonishment, and in
fear and trembling, glorying in God
and shuddering lest something hap
pen and the man relapse.
And that is the tragedy of an
empty soul. The unclean spirit has
gone out of the man. But, oh, the
menace of an empty house, that any
vagrant, any damnable hobo of hell
can enter! That is reformation apart
from regeneration. Hurl the evil
oirt. and stand empty in comparison
with the condition before. Dispos
sessed evil. That is not enough. O
yes, the castle is empty and the foe
out. but what is to prevent a recur
rence of what happened before? So
Jesus goes on to talk about the re
possessed man. The devil has been
cast out. And the man stands there
with a new light in his eye and a dif
ferent expression to his face, for the
old craven look Is gone, and he really
looks like an incarnation of courage.
And he is subject for self congratu
lation and the congratulation of oth
ers. Soul Is Made Empty
But where is the foe? Is he dead,
or only outside? Though once devil
infested and beleagured, he has made
his soul empty. But where has the
evil gone? Now listen to Jesus. Of
my master, he is a marvel! When
the unclean spirit has gone out of
a man. he goeth up and down seeking
the damnation of the man that with
stood him: and he finds no satisfac
in the Sherwood family and he won
ders if it is because he is an Ameri
can, and therefore strange to English
eyes. Everybody tries to give him a
good time.
When the cause of the restraint is
explained, much that puzzles the
reader is cleared away.
Suspected, by George Dllnot. Edward J.
Clade. New York City.
Written in tense, dramatic style,
this is an English novel of the pres
ent, with af ter-the-war people as
principal actors. The hero is Jimmy
Silverdale. star reporter on the Lon
don Daily Wire newspaper, at a
salary (stage) of 5000 per year. He
is not distinguished looking, and his
second occupation is to smoke cigar
ettes. Sir Harold Saxon is found mur
dered, stabbed in the heart with a
woman's hatpin. Jimmy described
in the novel as a "journalish" loves
Miss Hillary S'.oane, formerly a Red
Cross nurse in France, and the police
think she killed Sir Harold.
Miss Sloane has a chum. Miss Nora
Dring. who secretly had been Sir
Harold's wife. Jimmy helps the girls
to escape, and the chase for the
murderer begins.
Mystery deepens.
ourselves up In wheneve"r we sit be
fore the mirror of self-contemplation.
The following interesting sketch of
Johan Bojer. who has recently become
quite a prominent figure in the liter
ary world by reason of the transla
tions of his very successful novels,
appears in the Bookman.
Johan Bojer. author of "The Great
Hunger." was born in Trondhjem. Nor
way, in 1872. the son of a poor serving
girl, who was unable to take care of
him. She put him in the hands of a
peasant family, who reared him as
their own child. He attended the vil
lage school and later, while working
for a merchant, studied at the Latin
school.
Denied the benefits of a formal edu
cation, he made up for it by working
and living in various countries, ob
serving life of all sorts and condi
tions. While still a young man he
returned to his native village and at
tended a military school for two years
and a half, devoting much of his time
to reading extensively in European
literature.
When he left the army he went to
work with a village gi jeer, who dis
charged him shortly for leaving the
plug of a petroleum barrel open, ruin
ing thereby a cellar full of grain. He
finally, having produced a successful
one-act play. "A Mother," gave his
whole time to literature. He has a
number of dramas, two volumes of
short stories and several novels.
A unique suggestion for co-operative
advertising lies in this tale of
I Konrad Bercovlck's "Dust of New
York. This Interesting picture of the
romance of the polyglot city, its
strange streets and colorful spots, was
seen one week decorating the win
dows of a vacuum-cleaning establish
ment in New York city. The floor
was lined with copies of the book
and a placard above the head of the
vacuum machine manipulator carried
this legend: "This is the only dust of
New York that this vacuum cleaner
can't absorb."
The best four biographies of the
past year or two are said to be one
by an American, "The . Education of
Henry Adams"; one by an English
man, W. H. Hudson's "Far Away and
Long Ago." It is Interesting also to
note that these two are autobiogra
phies. An Englishman's life of an
American. Lord Charn wood's "Abra
ham Lincoln," and an American's life
of an Englishman, W. L. Cros' "His
tory of Henry Fielding," complete the
chosen four. This record should as
sist the cause of Anglo-American
harmony.
American scholarship has suffered
a real loss In the resignation of Har
old J. Las-ki, formerly of the depart
ment of history at Harvard univer
sity, who baa accepted the professor-
tion, and he saith, "I will go back to
my bouse." And he goes back to'
the old lair where the brute beast,
from hell crouched. And when he
gets back he finds the house empty,
cleaned up, all the spawn and filth
of the evil spirit cleansed away and
garnished, furniture of good reso
lutions, good habits and, perhaps, re
ligious customs.
Now what will he do next? You
see he has been flung out. And he
saith, "I will do this, 1, will get spir
itual reinforcements." And he seeks
seven other spirits. One was thrust
out, but how will it be for one sup
plemented by seven other spirits, and
seven other spirits worse than him
self? O God help the empty house!
The evil spirit that was cast oirt is
coming back, and along with him
there march seven other spirits all
worse than the first. What will hap
pen? Ah. the Son of God puts it, "The
last state of that man shall be worse
than the first." I think I should
have known that.
Because you see there is the man
who expelled the evil spirit; and he
complacently beheld his victory and
congratulated himself on the heroic
deed he had wrought: and he .pro
ceeded to garnish his house, sweeping
jt clean, and keeping It empty; and
now when with wild uproar bach
comes the expelled evil spirit, and
tumultuously seven other worse spir
its enter. he man from his mountain
peak of triumph will fall off into a
hell of despair, and he will say. What
does it matter now; thou great hell
take the victory! So I know it must
be worse with him than at the first.
O Jesus, they have not ousted him yet
from his position of authority. He
always says tha right word, the true
word.
"The last state of that man shall
be worse than tha first." That evil
spirit was unceremoniously thrown
out of the house to the dunghill and
the garbage, and he picked himself
up and went away full of devilish
hate and stung pride. And now he
says, "Let me find entrance with
those seven other evil spirits.'' And
what that man was before shall be as
dawn, shall it? Yes, the dawn of
some accursed conflagration that
burns the works of men's hands and
the bodies in which men's souls find
bousinir. And so that evil spirit fired
with the burning passions of the pit
comes back and reeks over the ruin
accentuated by ruin; over the curse
followed by curse; and wallows in
satisfaction as he sees the last state
of that man under eight devils be
coming worse than it was under one
devil.
Audience Divides Into PartH.
Now the audience divides into three
parts. There is the evil-possessed man.
and the man, where the evil has been
dispossessed, and the man where the
evtl has been dispossessed, and the
man-where the evil has re-possessed
him. Where are you? What men have
done under the influence of possession
is an awful lurid warning to you as
to what you may yet do under the
dominance of evil. Insulted, are you
by my suggestion? T have not time to
ship of political science at the London
School of Econonfics. Mr. lt.ki's
books. "Authority in the Modern
State," and an earlier one, "Studies
in the Problem of Sovereignty." have
been widely read and discussed and
are acknowledged to be rarely able
and well balanced contributions to
political clear thought for today.
Latt autumn Professor laski was
under fire for alleged radicalism, and
the customary pressure was brought
to bear by the usual groups to secure
his removal from the university. But
in shining contrast to the self-crippling
policy of some of -our educa
tional institutions the board of over
seers accepted the report of the execu
tive committee "that they had col
lected information from all available
sources and were satisfied that Mr.
Laski's opinions had been misunder
stood and misinterpreted, and that
no further action should be taken."
A poster-portrait ot Lincoln, which
Charles Falls designed to advertise
Drinkwater's "Abraham Lincoln, " has
come to an extraordinary end for a
poster. It has been secured by the
Metropolitan Museum of Art. Thiabeauty among men. It all comes back
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tell you much about him, but there is
a man. in that Bible named Hazael
and he is noted for one thing.
A prophet of God went to him and
said, "Do you know what you are go
ing to do?" And this, man rose up
in scorn and said, "Is thy servant a
dog that he should do this?" But hear
this: "And he went and did it." If.
when Jesus first took Judas into the
band of the disciples you had said
to Judas, "Some day you will sell your
God for $19.60," Judas would have
struck you. But what do I read? "Sa
tan entered into him." and he stands
out there for 2000 shuddering years
as the incarnation of treachery that
is absolutely hellish. A man may well
be afraid who is possessed by the evil
one. I am talking to some men and
evil dispossessed is the term that
characterizes them.
They are better men than they used
to be. I have had them say to me,
"Well I told you I have cut out swear
ing, and the state and the national
law made me cut out drinking, and
I pay my debts, and I am as good as
most people, and I will get through
with the crowd." Swept and garnished
and dispossessed of the evil. Are they
all right? Remember Jesus, And he
cometh back and bringeth ' with him
seven other spirits worse than the
first." I have been noticing men all
my life very carefully. I could name
you men who since i nave been
preaching to this church O my, but
on the end of my tongue is the name
of one who stood up one Sunday night
and flung out the evil and said, 1 am
dispossessed of it" and one day that
man to his wife openly repudiated
Jesus Christ. And tonight he is
loathsome beast in Portland city, and
I know him.
And repossession awaits all dispos
session that is not safeguarded by di
vine possession. John Bunyansays,
"I observed that from the very gate
of heaven there was a road to hell.
And Jesus Christ said, "Capernaum ex
alted to heaven by privilege, oppor
tunity and blessing; thou shalt be
brought down to hell. Well, what is
there for any of us of safety? None
at all.
Who can stand against an evil
spirit supplemented by seven other
spirits worse than the first? No
body can withstand them. Vain is the
attempt. Yes. that is all true. But so
is this, else I should not be here to
night. Revelation 3:20, "Behold I
stand at the. door and knock. If any
man hear my voice and open the door.
I will come in." And then suppose the
one evil spirit shall return with the
seven others worse.
Instead of meeting me, they will
shudderingly shrink back from God.
God is in possession. The house is no
longer empty, but it is occupied. He
shall be in you: and if he is in you.
how in the world can the eight evil
spirits enter? And so you find right
before the text there is this little
picture. "When a strong man armed
keepeth the palace, his goods are
safe; but when a stronger than the
strong shall come and overcome him.
he shall lose all he had." Satan is
a strong foe. do not minimize him. for
drawing Is singularly well adapted in
style, not merely to Lincoln's, rugged
personality, but to Drinkwater's spare
and yet significant outline of Lin
coln in his strangely effective drama.
Fundamentals are stressed, details
scanted: the picture is flatly done in
black and white against a dull orange
background.
It is estimated that up to July 1.
1919. the titles of books about the
great war numbered oetween 60.000
and 70.000. This is exclusive of
periodical references .which are lifted
at approximately 1.000.000 entries.
The task of bibliographer in these
times is much like that of the boy
trying to stem the leak in the dike
with his arm.
"We crave our turbulent fate. Can
wars, then, ever cease? Look in
men's faes, read their writings, and.
beneath masks and hypocrisies, note
the restless creeping of the tiger
spirit. There has never been any
thing to prevent the millennium ex
cept the nature of the human being.
There are not enough lovers of
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he is not a wise man who fails to
estimate his enemy. He is sawing
wood in Holland, is the ex-kaiser.
and may he strike knots is my earn
est hope, but a few years ago he said.
Kitchener s army of shopkeepers
cannot hold back, my trained sol
diers."
Do not be" too sure. He made the
mistake, did that poor God-forsaken
hell-awaiting wretch, he made the
mistake of antagonizing God. And
if 1 let Christ into my life, those
eight evil spirits will make the same
mistake, if they return, hoping to
find the house empty. Empty, no;
but filled with the omnipotence of
the eternal Jehovah. That Is regen
eration. A man said to me last Sun
day night, "I tried and I failed."
Certainly, you always will! There
is no hope for you there.
You cannot keep that unpossessed
house when the evil comes back. But
suppose you let God come into the
house. Then when the eight spirits
come and look through the window
they will see the effulgence of Qod
filling the life, and they will shrink
back to hell and carry the alarming
information that the house they
thought was empty is full of the re
sistless power of the infinite God. -
That is the gospel I bring to you
from Jesus Christ tonight. Other
gospel there Is none. Accept it- Do
you know some of us who have been
Christians for a long time need to
accept this gospel. 1 am very much
afraid that some of the compartments
in our life-house are empty. And an
empty house is a menace. And an
empty soul is an invitation to hell.
So you had better get possessed by
God. Then you will not have to keep
the foe out. for that will be God's
business. And you will not meet the
eight evil spirits alone, indeed you
will not meet them at all. but you
will stand there and thankfully and
exultantly bless God as he throws
out the evil spirits and claims the
victory for you by his infinite grace.
Christians, had not you better fill
all the empty places in your life with
God? Open all the soul to Christ.
And you man, conscious that you have
reformed, be warned, for the evil in
fluences are coming back, so there is
no hope for you there. Then hear
Jesus' solemn thunder peal, "Worse
than the first." One and all, let us
hear him knock, and let us open the
door; and let him in to do as he sees
fit, and protect us as He knows how.
and save us as he can well do; so
shall we be saved. "Behold, I stand
at the door and knock. If any man
hear my voice" I have heard it and
so have you "And open the door"
have we done that? Well, I do
not quite know! Is he in your life?
If so. you have opened the door, and
if not. you have not opened the door
yet; so now open the door and let
him come in, and it will be like sun
shine coming into the darkness, or
rippling water falling on the desert
sand, or liberty to the enslaved cap
tive, or heaven to the prisoner of
despair. Let the Saviour in. Will
you ?
to that. Not enough who want the
green hill far away who naturally
hate disharmony and the greed,
ugliness, restlessness, cruelty which
are its parents and its children.
"Will there ever be more lovers of
beauty in proportion to those who
are indifferent to beauty? Who shall
answer that question? Yet on the
answer depends peace. Men may
have a mint of sterling qualities: be
vigorous, adventurous, brave, upright
and self-sacrificing: be preachers and
teachers; keen, cool-headed, just, in
dustrious if they' have not the love
of beauty they will still be making-
wars. Man is a fighting animal.
with sense of the ridiculous enough
to know that he is a fool to fight.
but not sense of the sublime enough
to stop him."
Galsworthy "Ta t terdemalion."
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