TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, MAT 1, 1D21
DIVINE RECLAMATION PROJECT ANTEDATES
AND OVERSHADOWS HUMAN ENTERPRISES
Sermon Lesson Drawn From River by Dr. Frank L. Wemett God's Programme Compasses All Peoples and
Spans All Ages Primarily and Fundamentally Purpose Is to Regenerate Human. Heart.
BT DR. FRANK L. WEMETT.
Pastor of Centenary-Wilbur Church.
Text: "And Everything Shall Lle
Wherever the River Cometh." Uzekiel,
47:8.
PECL.AMATION is one of the fore
most subjects of the day. Pro-
vision must be made for the
oncoming: millions of human popula
lion. The earth's habitable area Is
limited, but life is ever enlarging
and must have room to grow. Soien
lists, statesmen, political economists
and engineers are at the present mo
ment wrestling with the problem of
how to make the waste places of this
old earth habitable. Many states of
the union are now committed to one
or more major enterprises having to
do with the development of latent
physical resources. The reconstruc
tion projects now being fostered by
our national government involve the
bringing of miliicns of acres of land
under cultivation and the ultimate
outlay of billions of dollars.
The Sahara desert, larger than the
United States in area, is gradually
being brought under cultivation.
Frenchmen are driving artisian wells
In Tunis and Algeria and planting or
chards and vineyards where no green
thing has ever grown before. Amer
ican capital is conducting the melt
ing snows from the towering Andes
out across the plains of Argentina,
and populous cities ere building
where only yesterday wolves and
jackals sought their desert prey. Ir
rigation projects are under way In
India and southern China whose mag
nitude dwarf the projects i ;'
western states.. Protestor King ;o
authority for the statement that
China today has more than 200.000
miles of Irrigation canals. Wonder
ful, indeed, is the daring and re
sourcefulness of man!
But my purpose now Is to remind
you that our heavenly father has a
reclamation project. It is an ancient
project. It is older than the en
gineering achievements of the Aztecs
In Mexico and Peru. It is older than
the raising of those wondrous dykes
by the Egyptians in the valley of the
Nile. It is older than the building
of those wondrous canals bv the
Babylonians across the plains of
Mesopotamia. It antedates the Gar
den of Eden. On that glorious morn
ing, when the stars sang together
and this lowly earth assumed its place
amid the galaxies of the skies, even
then this unexampled project of hu
man redemption burned in the heart
of God.
Man's Projects Overshadowed.
It is a great project, by the side of
which man's largest enterprises
shrink to insignificance. It com
passes all peoples; it spans the ages.
Thwarted in one generation, it moves
steadily onward toward the final con
summation at the end of the ages.
Disappointed In the leadership of one
race, ,the standard Is passed to an
other. Incidentally, this divine pro
gramme contemplates the develop
ment of earth's resources for the bet
terment of men's physical condition.
It also contemplates the complete re
construction of the social order on
behalf of man's temporal happiness.
Primarily and fundamentally, how
ever, this wondrous divine project
proposes to bring about the regenera
tion of the human heart, and the in
finite enlargement and enrichment of
man's immortal soul.
And let me remind ; ou, reverently,
that this has proved a very expensive
project. It has cost the blood of un
numbered martyrs; the agonizing
prayers and burning tears of unnum
bered saints. To a host of faithful
missionaries, both men and women,
It has meant renunciation and sev
erance of home ties, living amid un
congenial surroundings, opposition.
persecution, hunger, sickness, broken
down constitutions and lonely graves
In foreign lands. It has cost the hu
miliation of divine love. It has cost
the blood sweat and the heart break
of the Son of God.
Christianity la Dynamic
The prophet Ezekiel is particular to
indfeate the source of the river. He
says that it issues from the sanc
tuary. It has Its rise in the Holy of
Holies. "And he showed me a pure
river jot water of life, clear as crystal,
proceeding out of the throne of Goo
and of the 'Lamb." Other religions
are not without elements of value,
but one and all they are fore-ordained-
to failure because their source
is human rather than divine. Con
fusianism is decadent. Mohamedan-
lsm, if we may believe the testimon
of those who are in a position t
know, has passed the crest of it
fanatical career. The disappointed
dupes of Brahminism are now flock
Ing by thousands to the cross of
Jesus. Earth-born religions and ism
are in the very nature or things un
stable and evanescent. Man-made
systems of religion "have their day
and cease to be. And thou, O Christ
art more than they."
Christianity is unique. It has
Christ and a, cross. These alone can
never be duplicated and these alone
are adequate fully to meet the de
mand of the situation. Our religion is
not a human production. It is i
revelation; it is an incarnation. I
comes from an awful height and It
descends to an awful depth. He
who knew no sin became sin for us
that we mieht be made the right
uousnass of God in Him." Our religion
is- not a dream, it is a dynamic. It
knrM"'' hny aspirations and it pro
vides ii.:cngth for their attainment
Would you know the reason for the
purity and strength of the river?
Then look at lt.i source away up
yonder amid eternal snows! Redemp
tion Is not an experiment. Christian
Ity is not in doubtful competition
with the nondescript religions of the
world. Our Lord did not lay down
his life on a venture, nor has He died
in vain. Redemption is God's under
taking. He is too good to prove un
faithful; He is too wise to be out
generaled, and what shall defeat Om
nipotence? "Verily, He shall not fail
nor be discouraged until he has set
righteousness in the earth.
Again, let me ask you to observe
the vitalizing effect of the river.
"Everything shall live." Tonder val
ley of the western empire is today a
garden of productiveness; diversified
crops bring bountiful harvests; pros
perous farms are noted on every
band; populous towns and cities are
the center of large and varied enter
prises; ribbons of steel stretch away
to the horizon, xesterday that val
ley was a desert. Sage-brush, cactus
and jack rabbits were its products;
and the transformation from desola
tion to productiveness was wrought
by the river. This is but a parable
of the power of the grace of God.
They laughed at William Carey when
be insisted upon burying bis life in
India. They do not laugh now. God
laughs! When Robert Morrison was
leaving New York City on his long
Journey from London, England, to
Canton. China for he had been re
fused pessage on tbe East India com
pany's boats an acquaintance said,
"So then. Mr. Morrison, you really ex
pect to make an impression on the
idolatry of the great Chinese em
pire?" To which the- dauntless mis
sionary replied, "No sir, but I ex
pect God will." And God did!
The presence of such Characters as
Morrison and Bashford in China;
Judson and Thoburn in India, and
Livingston and Taylor In Africa,
predicate the complete overturning
of heathen institutions and the estab
lishment of the kingdom of God.
Wherever the Holy Spirit Incarnated
in human personality comes in con
tact with idolatry the miracle of the
river happens. The gospel works.
It works in China, where the people
have been looking backward for 4000
years. It works in India where the
very corpuscles of the native blood
are poisoned with the virus of heathen
philosophy. It works in Africa, where
superstition blacker than midnight
lays like a pall of death upon the
souls of those backward children. It
even works among the Jews, where
an inherited prejudice, more formid
able than a modern fortification,
blinds the eyes of the sons of Abra
ham to the matchless beauty of the
Christ of Nazareth.
But there is yet a further meaning
in our text, a truth as startling as it
is simple. Thl water has to oe oe
livered. The river, after all. Is re
stricted. The water is efficacious and
abundant but it is "confined to the
channel. Along its banks all is ver
dant and fruitful, but Just beyond,
the desert is blistering in the sun.
Strangely enough, this passage has
sometimes been used to support the
fateful doctrine of election.- God
fixed the course of the river. And
so it came to pass that some mortals
were predestlne'd to be born on its
banks to live blessedly, while other
mortals were predestined to be born
on the desert to die hopelessly. Yet
when we stop to think of It. it is evi
dent that the saving of humanity is
a divine-human enterprise. God pro
vides the river, you and I must dig
the canals. I
Ezekiel lived for many years among
the captive Hebrews in Babylon,
where irrigation was almost a fin
ished art. He knew the wonderful
effect produced by water when ap
plied to arid land. He had witnessed
the miracle of the river. Doubtless it
was here that he found the figure
that afterwards blossomed into a
marvelous vision of the universal
grace of God. Yonder are the dark
skinned toilers, digging away with
pick and shovel, leading the water
out over the thirsty land. The beau
tiful law of co-operation was at work
in Babylon in the long ago. It is still
at work today.
Volunteers Needed Today,
Yonder mountain valley lay sterile
nd desolate for countless years, but
he river was there all the while
waiting for man to come an
out upon the land. That ancient
fountain opened in the house of Da
vid for sin and uncleanness, Is ample
for the saving of the whole world.
But God is waiting with a patience
past understanding for volunteers to
deliver the water. And the need is
so urgent! Only think of it! More
than one-half of the present popula.
tlon of the earth have never yet
be well to avail yourself of the help
ing hand of Andre Tridon, and the
fruits of his pen. "Psychoanalysts
Sleep and Dreams" is believed to be
the simplest explanatory work on this
very important subject, and certain
aspect of the theory over which many
students gag are not overemphasised.
It is evident that M- Tridon insists
on restoring to a ranking place l
dream causation, the pie crust com
plex as well as the sex repression.
A well-known writer has likened
rood book to these five things:
1. "An intellectual dynamo. The en
glne that furnishes the current that
runs the factory that turns out ideas.'
Therefore criticism should pause
before saying, "I don't like it." Maybe
you don't like it because it compelled
you to turn out a new idea, and tnai
is always a painful job till you get
the hang of it.
2. "An Intellectual shower bath of
icy water early in the raorninj
makes you gasp, but is good for the
mental nerves and muscles." If you
have fatty degeneration of the hear
this shock may kill you but It s bet
ter to know tbe worst.
3. "An open window somewhere,
letting in gusts of fresh air. No mat
ter where, just so some new stars and
sun shine in, and some new breezes
blow." Of course, breezes are dan
gerous to very sick people and those
who are susceptible to illness.
4. An uphill road into the moun
tains and the solitudes, where It is
good for everyone to go at times, and
where all the great prophets of music
hope and ideals have often gone
For the old and feeble an uphill road
is discouraging, and the solitudes are
very lonely and dangerous to the
timid.
6. A tonic for the eoul." But a
healthy soul is a constant goad to the
tlesn and some prefer to let it d
cllne into comfortable ill-health.
Now, here's an admirer worth hav
ing. W'll Levlngton Comfort's bookn
have so pleased Rev. John T. Wilds,
a Presbyterian pastor of New York.
city, that the reverend gentleman
wants others to enjoy the books
also. He has, therefore, printed and
pasted in a corner of his envelopes
laoeis which read:
"Have you read Will Levington
Comfort's books? They have done me
so much good, so lifted my thought,
brought courage and hope into glow,
that I wish others would get the
blessing."
Then follows a list of Mr. Comfort's
works, with the pastor's signature
edded. And G. K. Chesterton says
this is an age without the courage of
its enthusiasms, or words to that
effect!
In Louis Untermeyer's new volume
d lead ot Petry "The New Adam," occurs
Tour kiss a wine that has no dregs;
Your love a bird that seldom perches.
And I must add your lyric legs -
Two dancing- birches.
Anent which William S. Bralth
waite, anthologist, has severe things
to say, such as that the last line is
dragged in only for the rhyme. A
more broad-minded, or open-eyed,
commentator thereupon reminds us
heard of him who said, "Whosoever of the changed conventions In poetry.
mo uiu jjueia uircnes snimmer; in
the new poets they shimmy," and he
adduces in support of L. U.'s stanza
the biblical cedars of Lebanon, which
"skip like calves," Points of view
they differ so!
drinketh' of the water that I shall
give him shall never thirst." So
close is tPre relation between demand
and supply, and so delicate is the ad
justment between cause and effect.
tnd very little things are often
freighted with a large significance in
the economy of God and man.
A pebble has sometimes altered the
course of a river, and the weight of 1
human arm has changed the destiny
of a nation. No man can measure
the ultimate effect of a single life in
vested for humanity. Viewed among
the mass, your life seems almost in
significant; but baptized with the
spirit of heaven, your life becomes a
factor in the destiny of a world. The
cause of redemption today needs vol
unteers. Why should you or I with
hold that which by every right be
longs to God? Or why should we
hesitate to throw ourselves with the
utmost abandon into an enterprise at
once so urgent, so deserving and so
glorious?
OREGONIANS HELP HUMBLE
PRUSSIAN FIGHTING MACHINE
How Goliath of German Imperialism Met David of American Democracy
in Battle Is Recounted by George A. White.
(Continued From Pag 2.)
ing of the battle. It followed the
Germans to the Meuse, hammering
away at them until the day of the
armistice, when its advance P. C. had
crossed the Meuse river at Dun-sur-Meusa.
In common with the artil
lerymen of batteries A and B, long
service had seasoned the Oregon ar
tillerymen of the 148th until they
took combat work coolly and as a
matter of course, and there was noth
ing iri their demeanor in the Argonne
fight that would haa suggested they
were not merely at routine target
practice rather than in battle.
Approximately 10.000 Oregonlans
took part in the Argonne affair with
one outfit or another. They were to
be found everywhere, for by this time
the replacements from the old 162d
of casuals that had been furnished
br Oregon by many army units. How
well they made their weight felt may
be Judged by General Liggetfs com
munique during a vital stage of the
attack, when he mentioned the Ore
gon men by state. Other states men
tioned were Pennsylvania, Missouri.
Wisconsin, Ohio and Kansas all of
them with full brigades in the fight.
Oregon alone of the states with
scattered men, was mentioned in an
official army communique. It was
a singular tribute to the character
of Oregon's fighting men.
Montfeocon la Taken.
Montfeucon, original American ob
jective in the Argonne, fell In a few
days of desperate fighting and the
Prussians, desperately striving to
stem the olive-drab tidal wave, began
to weaken after their finest guard
divisions had failed to hold fast on
the impregnable Hinrlenburg line.
Tens of thousands of allied lives had
been sacrificed in trying to break
this line earlier in the war. Here
was a new force that shoved through
the miles of barbed-wire mazes,'
strongholds, hornet nests, hidden
mines, death traps, poison gas clouds
and concentrated artillery bombard
ments of every caliber. Sedan was
quickly threatened and that meant
loss of the German armies in the
west before they could be withdrawn.
No provision had Deen made by the
kaiser's strategists for such a situa
tion as this. Small wonder that the
Germans sued for an armistice, and
while they gulped at the terms laid
down by Foch. it was no time for
them to quibble over details. A man
with a wildcat at his coattails Is not
one to drive a smart bargain for a
place of refuge.
As rumors of an impending end to
the war spread over the lines the
men hardly dared hope that the end
was really at hand. Dame rumor
had gotten herself thoroughly dis
credited in the army. In the Argonne
a report got started on the night of
November 8 that the Germans had
quit and there was a great celebra
tion among thousands of troops.
ills in every direction irom jjun-
sur-Meuse, the advanced American
position, were lighted with fires. Not
so much in celebration as to give
some warmth to the thoroughly
chilled men, who could not have fires
so long as German artillery and air
men were operating. Miles of trucks
and ambulances Jamming the dark
roads with wounded men and supplies
turned on their headlights for the
first time. Only low hanging clouds
and fogs prevented heavy casualties
as a result. The celebration continued
for more than two hours before the
word could be gotten about that the
Germans, while very groggy, had not
yet been counted out.
Attack on Mets Is Started.
Small need to recall at length the
occurrences and emotions of Novem
ber 11. 1918. It was on that day that
the new Second army, now formed
In front of Mets and including only
a few Oregonlans, went over the top
In the first stage of a great American
battle that was to engulf Metz. The
wisdom of this charge which cost
hundreds of American lives has been
challenged by many observers. At
any event there ended at 11 o'clock
a new battle that would have been
one of the hardest of the war, and
Into which thousands of Oregonlans
from camps at home would have been
drawn had fhe war continued. It Is
safe to say that thousands ot Oregon
Did you ever stop to think that of
the real sensational best-sellers (not
just the "repeaters' that go on of
their own momentum like H. B. W.
and E. II. P. and G. S. P. and Z. G..
etc.). the recent genuine, original
publlshlng-bank-busters are just the
things that any magazine editor will
tell you won t sell? That "depre:
Ing" "Main Street": Drinkwater's
Abraham Lincoln." a aueer sort of
"little theater" stuff, and "The Edu
cation of Henry Adams" now, what
thrills or he-man action did the Dub
uc get out oi that? It's too bad tha
the commercial world lacks the "pep'
and progressiveness of the art world,
They are so often left behind in siz
ing up what the public wants. Sort
of like some pioneer reformers who
men, noTV safely home, would have ou UU,y souming ior progress
fallen In the frightful task of reduc- tfaat they don't see the rest of the
Ing the fortress of Metz, Germany's vona catching up with them and even
greatest stronghold. s"'"a a. on aneaa.
Possibly the most amazing and
remarkable circumstance that fol- Roland Holt in an address before
lowea me armistice was ine wave oi the Illinois Woman' Pr.
acute depression mat swept over tne tlon gave dviCA to. vounsr writ,-. .
follows:
'Don't have your first novel over
tu,uuu or ao.ooo words long.
select catchy chapter titles.
-i-racuce writing telegrams for
conciseness.
"The Intimate study of the c-arhaa-e
can is on the wane. The matter of
taste, however, governs the treat
ment of any subject.
Until he Is well established, everv
author should have a grubstake.
Only about 2 per cent of all thr,
dooks written are ever published.
army. In a day when men shouted
outwardly and 6hduld have been over
joyed, there- was a general inward
feeling of deep gloom. It took the
division psychiatrists, more com
monly known as "nut specialists," to
fathom this odd disorder as being
simply the Inevitable nervous reaction
following the let-down on nerves that
had been) keyed up to high pitch for
many monins,
In the superhuman task of reduc
ing Germany to military ruin in a
few short months, Oregon had given
more than 1000 lives. Six per cent
of all her sons in the war had been
ar; HEAT 'UTILIZED
gonlans had lost an average of ten
months' precious time per man from Great Possibilities Seen In Xatnre's
had been won, but great problems I Forces Now Goings lo Waste.
mln every one of them rarln' to . HONOLULU. T. H., April 30. -The
start, must be returned to America neat or K'iaua volcano, whose grea
and restored to the productive life of Perpetually active crater 32 miles
the country. Tens of thousands of ro. on tn isIan1 Hawaii
disabled must be cared for and re- dally Provides an awe-lnsplring spec
habilitated by a grateful nation. In tacIe tor crowds of tourists, is to be
strange contrast with the brilliant uu'lzea provide electric light and
pages these men had written Into Pwr ir every town, namiet and in
American history was to be the black
page that would record the reception
of the disabled by a grateful nation
upon their ultimate arrival home.
(To be concluded next Sunday.)
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE
A FOR
shou
will
BY ETHEL R. SAWYER.
Director of Training Class Library Associa
tion ot l'ortlani.
FORTHCOMING book which
uld be of great interest and
ill doubtless provoke much
discussion is the autobiography of
Henry Morgenthau, United States
ambassador to Turkey during the
war. The work will add one more to
the already imposing list of lives of
Americans who have signally achieved
successes, yet who came, to us from
foreign shores. A self-made man,
fiom plain stock, and an immigrant,
Mr. Morgenthau is announced as the
author whose book will be, in a sense,
a reply to "The Education of Henry
Adams." the story of "the more or
less self-confessed uselessness of the
career of an American aristocrat."
Here will be a record of struggle
against obvious odds which culmin
ates In equally obvious success and an
optimistic belief in the opportunities
for service and worthy accomplish
ment which the author concludes are
limitless for the person of education
and ambition. The two books should
furnish stimulating fields for specu
lation In the subtleties and the un
dercurrents in contrast with the
broad surfaces and onward rush of
more obvious events.
'
Rudyard Kipling, his wife and
daughter, are motoring this spring In
Algeria. Excellent roads and pic
turesque Inns are a part of the Alger
ian landscape, report has it, and the
tourists are flocking to northern
Africa from war devastated Europe.
If we can only get behind the African
good-roads programme in time, there
seems to be no valid reason why we
may not arrange for Africa as the
scene of the next great war to which
certain press agents and various
statesmen seem to be so eagerly look
ing lorwara.
"We admire the witty line of our
colleague, T. K. H.. to the effect that
Lansing may go down to history as
Mr. Wilson's great fired man, like the
centurion wljo was proud of having
been kicked by Caesar.
"It may complete T. K. H.'s parallel
u we point out to him that the satis
faction of said centurion (T. Pachy
aermus xurio; was secretly based on
the fact that Caesar stubbed his toe
when he kicked him." Keith Preston,
t-nicago uauy xews. ,
The wise men of the east have ap
parently not been decoyed by this
new literary star as it is reported
that "the Atlantic legislates it ("The
t-'eace ivegotiations") out of existence
in its March number.
a
Waiter B. Pitkin's "Must We Fight
Japan?" seems to be the sort of book
we ought to have more of If we are
utin-g the above title not merely as a
rhetorical question but as a genuine
query. A book which endeavors to
examine an angles of this discussion
fairly may perhaps Justly be char
acterized as a "well-rounded treat
ment. Perhaps there is even some
thing here that could smooth off that
Yap corner.
If in the pursuit of culture you
have tripped ignominously over the
Einstein theory, be not discouraged.
There still remains psychoanalysis.
Up and at em! And better luck next
dustry on the island, if tbe purposes
of a memorial recently addressed to
the legislature of Hawaii are worked
out.
The memorial asks the territory to
appropriate jzs.ooo, to be matched by
a similar amount from the Hawaiian
Volcanic Research association, for
borings and other preliminary work
The memorial cites the fact that
volcanic heat already Is being used on
a large scale for the production of
power in Italy. The Kilauea project
has been Indorsed as feasible by the
Pan-Pacific scientific congress, which
met here last August.
The possibility of recovering sul
phur, copper and. perhaps, other
minerals from the gases of the crater,
as well as using the power generated
to extract nitrogen from the air also
is pointed out In the memorial.
Women Jurors for Alberta Court.
CALGARY, Alta. A bill has been
Introduced In the legislature of Al
berta by Attorney-General Boyle al
lowing women to be drawn for Jury
duty. However, their services are not
to be made compulsory. The women
already have the franchise. There
are at present women magistrates in
the province and the drawing of
women for Jury duty is welcomed by
all women's societies. The bill ex
empts women being drawn who have
family ties and also from serving
on criminal cases. It provides that
women on trial shall have the right
to ask for women Jurors. The mini
mum age for serving as a juror, ac
cording to the bill, is 25 years.
Big Order for Kggs Placed.
VALPARAISO. Chile. Officers of
the supply ships which accompanied
the United States Pacific fleet on its
recent South American cruise struck
a staggering blow to the pride of lo
cal produce merchants when 1. 000,000
eggs were ordered for the 15.000 blue
jackets on the return voyage to
American waters. Egg laying is not
Prtoceaa Salome, by Burrfa Jenkins.
Upplncott Co., Philadelphia.
In the matter of comparison, It may
be stated that this novel, "Princess
Salome," reminds one of the style of
"Ren Hnr"
"Princess Salome" has much to com
mend It. Bold and sweeping in recital,
dramatic in plot and powerful in
character construction, it is one of
the principal religious stories of the
year. It contains faithful wood
pictures of the Holy Land, in the days
of Jesus Christ, who is one of the
characters and an actual personage.
The Princess Salome, daughter of
Herad, makes a dramatic heroine, and
she is represented as having a pure
love for the hero; Stephanas, who
afterward is Stephen, stoned to death
for his faith.
At first Stephanas is a Greek ath
lete, a runner of races, and a youth
beautiful to look upon. Journeying
to Antioch, in Syria, then the second
city of the world, Stephanas who
was accompanied by Shaoul (Paul)
and' a gladiator named Gomar hears
the Princess Salome lamenting that
she cannot find a champion to run
one mile against Salazar of Damascus,
Salazar was vouched for by Marcus
Curtlus, who loves the princess.
This race event is the best written
chapter in the book, and it pulses
with excitement Stephanas looks
like a winner during tbe last lap,
and Salome drives alongside to en
courage him, when suddenly there is
an earthquake and runners and others
fall to the ground, sick and confused.
The horses in Salome's car start to
run away, but Stephanas stops them
and saves the princess, probably from
death, and carries her to her mother.
Stephanas comes under the sway ot
Belthazar, a mystic who tells him of
the near approach of the King of the
Jews, anl predicts that he. Stephanas,
will win a wondrous crown.
As one Eleazar and his party ap
proach Nazareth (p. 128), a young
man, barefoot and bareheaded, and
with an adze over his shoulder, comes
walking along.
'In the name of Israel, ceace." said
Eleazar.
Peace be to you who come In the
name of tbe highest." answered the car
penter. It was a voice of music
I am El&axar of Jerusalem." said the
merchant.
I am Jeshua (Jesus), the Nazarena."
responded the young- man.
Shaone and Maria are members of
Eleazor's party. A little maid, who
says she is Mary of Bethany, is also
present.
Jeshua tells Stephanas that a
greater love than his love for Salome
will come into his, Stephanas', life.
Jeshua is pictured as a preacher, a
gentleman, a friend of all and a man
of quiet and peace.
It Is shown that Salome's mother
prevented her from marrying
Stephanas, the man she loved, and
that tbe balance of her life was dedi
cated to recklessness and unbridled
rage. Salome, nearly nude, does the
dance of death (p. 217) at a drunken
scene at Herod's court, and as pay
ment and for revenge, she demands
nd gets the head of John the Baptist.
the arrest, conviction and sentence
f Jesus are described. Jesus is led
to the cross. Stephanas wishes to
rescue him, but is held back by
Eleazar. The file of Roman soldiers
at the cross is commanded by Marcus
Curtius.. The actual scene at the
crucifixion is not described, but the
scene afterward is (p. 299).
Stephanas, who is now Stephen, be
comes chief deacon of the Nazarenes.
Oriental pictures, and reverent,
emotional scenes and Incidents of the
days of Christ and his disciples, lend
wonder and awe t the general narrative.
is
vV
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Kugene l. 0IU, author ot
"The Emperor Jones" and
other plays.
hotel where Wallle, his aunt, Miss
Spenceley and others are boarding,
and urges Wallie to be a man and to
earn his living.
Plnkey goes back to his native
Wyoming, and Wallle after quarrel
Ing with his aunt also goes to Wyo
ming, with his savings of 12100.
As a tenderfoot, Wallle makes
ludicrous mistakes, but he learns fas
the free, easy and rapid ways of the
west. He files on a homestead, and
lives there In spite of enemies who
try to scare him away. Miss Spence
ley is in the neighborhood, and from
contempt she feels friendly interest
in him.
Wallie, former dude, has UDroarlous
aaventures. one ot his best schemes
is when he manages a dude's ranch
to attract the dollars of rich eastern
tourists.
Bonl
Principles of Human Geography, by Pro
fessor Ellsworth Huntingdon, of Yale,
and Sumner W. Cushing. of Mass. Illus
trated. John Wiley & Sons. Inc.. New
York city.
Quite different from the usual
school book of geography and dealing
rather with the great principles of
geography in its human aspects. The
book is ably written, is the fruit of
much research and Information, and
has a distinct educative message.
The pages are 430, with index. The
book instructs not only ordinary stu
dents but normal school students and
teachers in elementary schools. One
Is impressed by such a clearly-presented
exposition ot tbe subject.
The point is made by our author
that "teachers do not know our
world" and are not sufficiently in
structed. This book is helpful to
them and is a new step in Imparting
education.
The chapter heads are: Man's Rela
tion to Physical Environment Hu
man Geography; Man's Relation to
Location The Effect of the Earth's
Form and Motions: Man's Relation to
Land Forms The Cbntinents and Man
and Human Activities in Mountains
and Plains; Man's Relation to Bodies
of Water The Influence of the
Oceans and The Use of Inland Waters;
Man's Relation to Soil and Minerals
Soil and the Farmer, Metals and Civ
ilization and The Sources of Power;
Man's Relation to Climate Climate
and the Climatic Zones, The Climate i
of Continents and Oceans, and Climate
and Human Energy; Man's Relation to
Vegetation and Animals Tbe Earth's
Garment of Vegetation. Vegetation
and Man in the Warmest Regions, Lifo
in subtropical and Monsoon Regions,
Modes of Life in Deserts and Polar
Regions, Irrigation, Man's Work in
Regions of Cyclonic Storms. The
World's Diet, and Man's Chaneine
Surrounding; Man's Relation to Man
Political Geography, International Re
lations, and Index.
Too Old for Dolls, by Anthony M. I.udo-
vicl. u. f. rutnam a Sons. Now York
city.
So-called fashionable English so
ciety before the days of the recent
world war, and the formative emo
tions of young women as to love and
marriage are ably vlsioned In this
attractive novel
Few of the many characters appear
to do any work to earn their living.
and they exist on inherited wealth.
They lead placid existences, unless
passion stirs them.
The leading characters are: Mrs.
Delarayne, the wealthy widow of a
Canadian lawyer, her beautiful
daughters, Cleopatra and Leonetta;
Sir Joseph Bullion, millionaire; Denis
Malster, secretary, at $3200 per year,
to Sir Joseph, and Lord Henry High
born, a leading nerve specialist.
There are several love stories In
the novel, and all in operation at the
same time.
Three Plays, by Eugene G. O'Neill.
&. Liverignt, New York city.
No less a dramatic critlo than Will
iam Archer has said, in the Nc York
Evening Post, that plays of Mr. O'Neill
are the most original and significant
inings mat have been done in dra
matlc form on this side of the At
lantic.
The three plays contained In thei
285 pages are "The Emperor Jones,
The straw" and- "Dlff'rent."
The most striking play of the trio
s "The Emperor Jones," a Plav in
which Charles S. Gllpen has won
big success in the east. There are
four principal characters in this play
ana the action takes place on an
island In the West Indies as yet not
sen-determined by the world big
powers, it is governed by a self
styled emperor, Brutus Jones, colored.
and formerly from the United States
of America, His chief councilor in
the island is Henry Smithers, a Lon
don cockney trader. The character of
t.mperor Jones dominates all the play
and is virile, strong, yot pathetic.
Jones is a Powerfully built negro of
middle age, and he wears a licht-
blue unirorm coat, sprayed with brass
buttons, heavy gold chevrons on his
shoulders, gold braid on the collar,
cuffs, etc It appears from conver
sation between Jones and Smithers
that the former had prospered from
stowaway to emperor in two years,
and that he had grafted liberally. He
admits that one day the natives may
rebel against his too 6trict rule, and
boasts he has money shipped In his
name to a distant port, for safety.
to await him in case of a revolt on
the Island.
omiiners lens Jones that the na
tive court, generals and prime min
later had gone to a nearby hill for a
pow-wow, and that Jones' reign as
emperor is about to end. Smithers
is sure that the revolt is widespread.
While the two men are yet talking
the distant beat of tomtoms is heard,
coming nearer.
Jones realizes that his reign of
graft has collapsed, and he prepares
to escape into the depths of the jun
gle, hoping to reach the coast. He
has a revolver, loaded, and one of
the bullets is of silver. Jones says
this silver bullet is for himself, if
need be, to escape death at the hands
of the revolutionists.
Jones plunges into the jungle and
Is pursued by the infuriated rebels.
Here the real Jones is evolved. In
succession brave, boastful, cringing,
repentant and fearful. The Inference
is that he had committed murder, as
a Pullman porter, in this country,
and had escaped from Jail. Jones has
no sweetheart and no love affair.
What happens to him in the Jungle
Is tragic
"The Straw" shows splendid work
manship, is a literary gem and shines
In constructive work, building up
the different characters. The heroine
Is Miss Eileen Carmody. eldest daugb- j
ter of Bill Carmrvdv. a brutal, drunken '
father. Eileen, a stenographer.
engaged to marry Fred Nicholls, a
worthless, selfish young man. Eileen
develops tuberculosis and is sent to
a sanitarium for treatment. In spite
of the furious protests of Bill Car
mody, who says he can't pay the bills.
Nicholls. whose father Is well off and
a factory superintendent, wishes to
break off bis engagement with
Eileen, as he is afraid he might con
tract tuberculosis from her.
At the Hill Farm sanitarium Eileen
meets a Patient, Stephen Murray, a
newspaper reporter, who has nearly
recovered from tuberculosis. Murray
has an ambition to write stories for
the magazines, and Eileen urges him
to begin. From the rough draft of
one story Eileen makes a typed copy.
The story sells, and the editor wants
more.
Life at the sanitarium la sketched
with dramatic fidelity. Murray loves
LUeen, and when she sees that Men
oils looks on her with aversion, i
pretty romance develops. Vulgar,
drunken Bill Carmody is a powerful
characterization.
"Dtffrent" is a play depicting sea
faring folk in a seaport village of
New England, and commencing in
the spring of 1890. The men in the
play are engaged In the whale-fish
ing trade of the South seas, and are
at horns on vacation. CaDtain Caleb
Williams Is engaged to marry Miss
Emma Crosby. Jack, her brother,
who Is a notorious practical joker,
spreads a story that Captain Williams
had been tenderly attentive last voy
age to a native girl whom he met on
an island near the equatdr. Emma
jumps to the conclusion that Will
lams had guilty relations with this
girl an allegation which Williams
denies and she breaks off her en
gagement with him. Her female rel
atives remonstrate with her and say
what has hsrpened before her mar
riage to Williams Is none of her busi
ness. Emma is obdurate and says she
will be an old maid. Williams is
faithful and says he will wait 30
years for her. The other men In the
play swear and use bad language
generally.
Captain Williams resumes his whal
ing voyages.
Thirty years pass. Emma is painted
and powdered and silly, in a desper
ate attempt to look young. She still
detests Williams, who is as true to
her as ever.
Benny Rodger, Wlliams' nephew,
oomes home from France, where he
has been a soldier. He Is vulgar,
covetous and heartless. He calls
Emma Aunt Emmer. She longs for
male admiration and makes unblush
ing love to Benny who. for a Joke,
says he loves 'her and offers to
marry her.
Suddenly home comes Captain
Williams, and he reminds Emma, ten
derly, that the 80-year term of wait
ing has expired. She says, coquet
tishly. that she Is to marry worthless
young Benny.
The end has a tremendous thrill.
lively novel of Ntw York city life (Mac
aulr Co.. N. Y ).
Hops Firm Notes, by Htrb'rt W. Col
UnRwood. -ft finely. written sktcha. de.
pirtlns; ths brlirhtc-r. cheerful sin of farm
life In the east (llircourt. lirac & Co,
N. Y.).
The Lire Beyond the Veil, being spirit
messages sa!4 to bs reclvl and wrluen
Into narrative form, by H'v. G. Vsls
Owen, vli-sr ot Oiford, England. 3 vols.
tlran Co.. N. Y I.
Great Men snrt Great Days, by Stephsns
Lsuxanne. Frenchman, one doivn graphic
ally written, valusble chapters on: Mar
shal Joffre. Ieclasse. Pnliirare, Kormcr
President Wilson. Colonel Roosevelt. Colo,
nel .House, Lloyd George snd other not
ables (I. Applrton A Co . N. T ).
Ths Tsgan Madonna, by Harold Vsc
Grath on of the best of American novel
ists a wonderful, thrilling rotnancs or
a mysterious Chinese pearl, and bringing
In a charming lova story (Doubledsy,
Psrs Co.. N. Y. ).
Europe's Morning After, by Kenneih t..
Roberts. 411) pages, sn unusual, able book,
presenting a fair review of economic and
political conditions of several Europesn
nations and peoples, chsnged by the re
cent world wsr; and. The People of Mex
ico, by Wsllacs Thompson, new and first
hand Information as to the three classes
of Mexlcsn people white, half-breed snd
Indian and sn appeal to educate ths In
dian so thst he really can govern Mexico
(Harper's. N. Y ). -
Great Polar Exploration
Undertaken by Japan.
Dash Into Antarctic Regions la
Planned for Nest July.
1 of the Associated Tress.) As tho
United States has had Its Peary and
England its Scott, so Japan hopes to
produce its Shlrase as a great polar
explorer. Lieutenant N. Shlrase, a re
tired officer of the Japanes army who
made a trip towards the south pole
beginning November, 1910, and ad
vanced as far as S0:5 S.. Is planning
to make another dash into the Ant
arctic regions starting in July ot this
year.
Finding the necessary funds re
mains a problem for the Japanese of
ficer, but he hopes to get a govern
ment subsidy. The principal object of
the new expedition will be to find a
means of working the coal nnd other
precious material and to devixe meth
ods for their exportation. In Lieu
tenant Shlrase's first trip the mnlti
object was geographical, but the oh
Jcct of the coming expedition Is to
determine more definitely the local
ities of the natural resources in which
this region Is said to be very rich.
Talking about his proposed trip, Mr
Shlrase said he hoped to find coal In
the region about Mount Erebus, which
he ays resembles the sacred mount,
Fuji, of Japan in volcanic struct urn.
A sensational feature of the forthcom
ing expedition Is Shlrase's proposal to
fly over the Ice barriers by airplane.
Some of the barriers which bis party
encountered before were more than
300 feet high Rnd the party found
these almost Insurmountable. To con
quer this difficulty an aeroplane Is to
be used.
The expedition will Include 14 pen.
pie including an astronomer, a geog
rapher, a physician, a movltig-plctiire
operator, a Journalist and hIho the
commander's son. Captain Tomo tlii
rae of the Japanese navy.
Two years nre expected to be spent
on the trip. The pnrty experts to sail
first to the coast of south Argentina
and then, rounding Cape Horn, to land
somewhere In the neighborhood of the
South Shetlands.
Lieutenant Shlrase's first expedition
party was supported largely by Mar
quis Okuma and oilier members of the
Japanese Antarctic exploring party.
if of
and
passing the Bonln. Mariana mul Caro
line Islands finally reached New Zea
land. They voyaged In a small
steamer called "Open South," a ship
of only 200 tons displacement and one
of the smallest ever lined on such an
expedition. Eventually the parly
erected a wooden monument In thej
eastern part of Edward VII Land and
at latitude $0:5 S. they buried a list
of the names of the patrons of tha
parly In a copper box, cpying "ban
zai:" as It was lowered beneath the
snow. On Its return the party left
Hale gulf on February 4 snd arrived
at Yokohama June 19, 1912. shortly
before the death ot the late Emperor
Mitsuhito.
A PORTLAND POET NOTICED.
A magazine called Poetry, of Chi
cago. 6ays: Miss Hazei nan or rori-
land. Or., a contriDUior oi verse iu
many magazines, has a group of
poems in the May number of Poetry.
a magazine of verse, miss nan s nri
book of verse soon Is to be published
k .Tnhn I.ina & Co. Among her
poems In Poetry are several songs for j The voyagers sailed from the gn
sewing, one of which, entitled "In- j Shinagawa on November 29, 1910,
structlon," reads as follows:
My bands that gulda a needle
In their turn are led
Relentlessly and deftly,
Aa a needle leads a thread.
Other bands ara teaching
My needle; when I sew
I feel the cool, thin fingers
Ot hands I do not know.
They urge my needle onward.
They smooth my seams, untal
The worry of my stitches
Smothers in their skill.
All the tired women.
Who sewed their lives away.
Speak In my deft fingers
Aa I aew today.
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The hero is Wallace or Wallle Mac-
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