THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, MAY 15, 1921
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PASTOR TELLS ABOUT JESUS' BOLDNESS
AS DEMONSTRATED IN LIFE IN PALESTINE
Dr. W. B. Hinson Urges Congregation to Show Same Bravery Which Distinguished Christ's Conduct
Instances of Savior's Readiness to Oppose Odds Are Related,
BT DR. W. B. HINSON.
Pastor of the East Side Baptist Church
Now when the? saw the .boldness of
Peter and John, they took knowledge of
r.hem that they bad been with Jesus.
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TESUS! Why, they got rid of him
I I six weeks before. The jackals o
F- hell hounded the lion of the tribe
lot Judah, nearly caught him time
lifter time, and at last cornered him
kind killed him. Jesus was a spent
orce. For there was no doubt abou
tils death. They silked his hands
ast to the cross; they bolted his fee'
o the wood; they hung him up in the
ir as though he were an outcast from
iod and man, and watched him until
tie died; and they never left watching
ill they saw his chin drop on his
best and he was dead.
They took care even of his dead
fody, for they put it away In a tomb,
.nd they rolled a great stone
gainst the mouth of the tomb, and
hey saaled it with the Roman seal
hat meant death to break. What is
be use of fussing about Jesus any
bore? He Is done with.
And Annas the night after' th
rucifixion said to Calaphus, "We got
put of our dilemma very nicely; but
fve are out of it now, thanks be." And
Pilate said to his wife, "I am glad
his day is over. It ended badly.
trhey slenr an innocent man. I knew
that, ami I know it now. They slew
fea innocent man. But it Is done.
Dead Comes to Life.
p But a rumor came one day that
they who watched the tomb were
fcearly crazed, and they said, "We
Lvatched. and the stone rolled away
knd the seal broke, and the (Tcad i..u
ame out. dead no longer. And when
he enemy could not break down the
estimony of those Roman guards, h
but a lie on their tongue and said
Say you were asleep and the dis
fciples came and stole his body."
And then there came another rumor
hat fhe disciples of this Jesus, in
tead of being cowed and disheart
ened, were all jobilant and enthusi
stlc; and they declared in a way that
.-on thousands upon thousands of
eople. that this Christ was alive. And
instead of having one Christ to
ontend with, they had thousands of
'hrist filled lives to combat. And the
ermanency of Jesus was their mis-
ry. their heartache, and their mad
ening puzzle. -Ah, it has always been
. "What are you doing now?" they
id once to Julian, an emperor of
Id Rome, and he said, "I am making
coffin, and when I have made the
offin I am going to put the Christ
to. the coffin and get him out of
he way." But fighting on the battle
round he fell mortally wounded, and
e caught the life-blood in his hand
nd threw it skyward, and said, "Gal'
ean, you have conquered.
e bowed down his hopeless head
In the midet of a world s pride.
find dying, "Thou bast conquered I" he
said.
"Galilean." and died.
Jeans Held Permanent.
The permanence of Jesus! When I
a lad in England, Charles israa-
ugh used to rail at religion in a
uildlng called the Hall of Science:
ut Bradlaugh died and the Salvation
rmy preached Christ In the Hall of
oience. Mr. Ingersoll used to go up
d down this country uttering his
ttle slander about the Christian and
e Christian church; and about all
e know about Ingersoll tonight is
at he came in contact with jesus
hrist, and so we remember him.
The permanence of Jesus: Ine
reatest of all German skeptics said.
In the next century Christ will have
one into history." I think he has. bur
is not past history, it is present
iotorv that Is Dermeated by Jesus.
ume said. "I have gone tnrougn
od's Garden of Eden and cut down
his trees." but there has been an
maxing aftergrowth, if what he said
as true.
And Voltaire sId, "Crusn tne
retch." and the very room In wnicn
Itaire said the word is stocked to-
ght with. Bibles and New Testa
nts.
'We got rid of him six weeks ago;
killed him; nailed him fast to a
uple of sticks of timber; we put
in a grave; we guarded the
rave; and yet now they say, 'These
en have been with Jesus.
Autograph Stamped on World.
Ton see, the disciples were remind
rs to those people of Jesus. O, they
ad plenty of reminders. I thought
s afternoon how marvelously Jesus
hrist in three short years so stamped
autograph on the whole round
rid that his enemies had to be re
Blinded of him as did his friends.
'It is a red sunrise," yes it is, and
ou remember how Jesus once said.
red dawn Is very apt to bring
this city a person told me of going
fishing with a minister, and he said:
"I never want to hear him preach
after going fishing with him."
Readers Are Qntsird. '
Does your boy say '.TVell, if there is
never another '-Christian on God's
green? earth, dad la one." Does your
girl say, "If there is only one real
Christian "out pf heaven. It is my
mother." Where -you work, young
man, do they say, "He is a-Christian.
He is not one of your hypocrites, he
is a Christian:" Do they say of you,
"It is no use asking her to go to' this
place or do that, because she is a
Christian."' O, how I wish every
member of the church would size up
to the .description of a Christian that
the average man of the world has in
his mind. - These men reminded the
enemies of Jesus, of the Lord. Are
we doing .that? Cast vour eva back
over the week that has gone. ; Was 1
Daptizea in the presence of a congre
gation of people.
Do you know what I thought?
thougiht of the dilemma the devil
wonld be in to know what to do with
a man like that, for I would be
ashamed to have him in hell. And he
wanted to know if he could not be
baptized, as he put It, on the quiet.
and I said:
"No, if yon were a sick man. If you
ran any danger physically from the
presence of people, I would accommo
date you; but you say you are
whole, well man, and you are afraid
to be baptized; you are not fit for the
christian church, and all the emotion
I have regarding you, my friend, is
contempt.
But I baptized him the next Sunday
night, with the church full of people
Why? Because he went back to Jesus
and got some of the boldness of
; Christ.
Salvation Easy and Hard.
the prevailing tendency of all your Now my purpose tonight is exceed
words and acts and life to remind j ingly simple, and it is quite single. I
In
Why do you throw a stone at the
parrowr' said a father to his boy
or "do you not remember Jesus said.
narrow does not fail to the ground
lthout the notice of God?'
Tea, they are beautiful," said the
other to her child, when the child
rought in the handful of lilies from
hillside, "and do you remember
ow Jesus said. 'Solomon in all his
lory was not arrayed like one of
heser-
am going out to sow my field.
I remember Jesus of Nazareth
Id of sowing a field once. See that
Sherman, how he differentiates be
ween the good and the bad fish, and
you remember what Jesus said
bout that? And so Christ was the
suntlng ghost that would not be laid
Palestine. Do you remember how
sat in that home in Bethany with
azarus who had been raised from
dead, and Mary who anointed his
ad. and Martha who cooked the
eal for him? Do you suppose they
d forgotten Jesus? Do you suppose
alrus, the centurion, who looked in
the face of his little girl who had
een dead but called bark by Jesus,
ad forgotten the saviour?
Woman Remembers Jeans.
Do you suppose that woman of Naln
she looked at her stalwart, straight
had forgotten the day when she
ard Jesus say to the corpse. "Young
n, I 6ay to thee arise, and with all
courtly gentlemanllness of whicn
rist was the master. Christ handed
son over to the mother. Do you
ink she had forgotten Jesus? Ths
pers remembered him. though their
prosy was gone. The blind man re
embered him .the blind man who
d received sight And so Palestine
as full of reminders of Jesus. But
ese were live, walking about re-
Inders; these men. Annas and
iaphus had killed Christ, bat Annas
Calaphus looked at Peter and
ohn and said:
It was a blunder we made, killing
esus. These men are like Jesus.
y have got the same kind of spirit
t Jesus had."
ow let me ask you a question, you
en and women. Are you reminders
ft Jesus? Is that your characteristic
new a man once who went out
fishing with a fisherman whose boat
had chartered for the hour. Soon
men on the beach saw that man
ulling ashore with all his might.
d when he reached the land, they
d. "Why did you come in so soon?"
He said. "Why. if I had stayed out
1th that man an hour he would have
ade a Christian of me In spite of
neck.
remember shortly after coming to
people of Jesus? . Oh, I believe if the
sermon ended here and we just sat
in silence and asked that question of
ourselves over and over and over
again, the effect would be good. Am
a reminder of Jesus?
Disciples Are Bold.
And now I come to the strangest
thing of all. For these men, Peter
and John, reminded Annas and
Calaphus of Jesus in what regard?
never saw this till last week, I
think it was. They reminded Annas
and Calaphus of the boldness of
Jesus. Why, we had nearly forgotten
that. We had thought about his com
passion, we 'had not thought much
about his courage. We have thought
afcout his mercy: we never thought
muc.i .-.'lout his might. We have re
membered his beseeching, men and
women; but the boldness of Jesus!
I think Annas and Caiaphus can teach
us a lesson.
Was Christ bold? Well, when he
was 1Z years old he stood in the
temple talking to the learned doctors
of the law, hearing them and asking
them questions, and that would re
quire some boldness, I think, in a
boy of 12. I know I should never
have done It when I was that age.
And another time they said to him,
T.here Is a king on your trail, for
Herod Is after you." And he summed
up the king In a single word, as he
said, "Tell the fox to mind his own
business, and I will' mind mine."
Pharisees Are Defied.
His ancient enemies, the Pharisees,
caught him in a net one day, and he
completely surrounded them and
commenced to hurl woe after woe at
them, until they thought hell had
broken loose. The boldness of Jesus!
WJien they went to arrest hira he
id, "Whom do you seek?"
"Jesus!"
"I am "Jesus," and they went back
ward and-fell to the ground. The
boldness of Jesus!
"Do you not know I have power
over your- said Pilate. "I can release
yod and I can condemn you." And
Jesus said, "You have no power over
me." And when they saw the bold'
ess of Peter and John they thought
about the boldness of Jesus. The
boldness of Jesus! "Why, Annas,"
said Caiaphus, "look at those men.
Peter and John. Do not they remind
ou of the boldness of Jesus?" Do
we manifest any of that boldness?
O, yes, I will apply it to myself as
man should. Are preachers char
acterized by boldness today? Did not
Henry Ward Beecher say there are
three kinds of people in the world
en, women and preachers? What
did he mean? He certainly was not
uloglzing their boldness when he
made that remark!
Preachers Are Scored.
And a reporter of one of the papers
of this city said:
"Preachers are dumb dogs, and
they dare not bark."
But one of them barked back at
him, and he knows better! Yet he
had some justification for his criti
cism. About the safest person I know
to slander is the preacher. When
you run out of gossip pick up the
preacher and pull him to pieces. He
may hear-of it, but that will not
matter!- I cannot help remember
and I cannot help saying I remember
it how a saloon keeper years and
years and years ago threatened to
clean up the street with me. And
when I said, "You will have some
difficulty in doing it," he said. "Are
you not . a preacher of the gospel?'
want to tell you that Jesus Christ
has made the way of salvation ex
ceedingly easy, and exceedingly hard.
It Is the easiest thing In the world to
be saved, for all you nave got to do
is to fall down on the arms of Christ
and he will save you. But when he
puts you on your feet; he says
"Now If any man will come after
me, let him deny himself and take up
nis cross and follow me."
And as I told you some months ago,
If you follow a person you have got
to go where that person goes. If you
follow Jesus, you will have to g-
where Jesus goes. I was up in British
Columbia last week preaching every
night, and I thought there as I have
thought so many times since, of how
we coax people to make a confession
of Christ, and I thought it was not
very complimentary to the Lord. And
I said to myself, I am not going to do
that any more. And after I had
preached, I said plainly:
"Now I want you to ponder what 1
say; I do not want you to make a
hurried break to confess Christ
your Lord; I want you to think over
ths people looking at you: over what
you will have to go through tomor
row; the insults you will have to re
ceive: and the jibing and jeering that
will fall on your ear; think what I.
means to be in the army of the Lord
and have to go over the fbp where
the bayonets are." -
. Severe Test Proposed.
When I had talked to them for min
utes along that line, I said:
Now with no appeal and no coax
ing, and telling you -candidly this is
a fight and a hard one, and pointing
you to the Jesus who says', 'If you
want to be a christian, follow me;' is
there anybody here dares come to the
front of this church and say. 'I. here
and now. In the presence of heaven,
earth and hell, give myself to Jesus
Christ?"
It was a severe test. And yet the
last night there I was asked to, see
if there were any young people Who
would consecrate life to the service
of Jesus in the ministry at home or
the mission field abroad, and I told
those young people very plainly what
it meant to be a preacher or a mis
sionary, and then I said:
"Now I am calling you to a fight;
calling yon to a struggle; calling you
to the world's hostility; calling you to
hell's scorn; is there any young man j
or any young woman who will get up
In this congregation and walk down
that aisle and stand here in front of
this desk, and by that act say, 'I will
preach God's gospel in the homeland,
or go to God's ministry in the foreign
land?" .
Do 'you think anybody moved?
There were over SO young men and
women who. walked down the aisle of
that church amid the silence, and
stood there with the boldness that is
begotten by faith in Jesus Christ.
"Now when they saw the boldness
of Peter and John," they harked back
to the holdness of Jesus Christ.
Appeal Made to Yonng.
A word and I am done. I want to
see you young people -in this church
standing alongside Peter and John,
possessing the boldness that charac
terized Jesus. Dare to carry your
New Testament in your pocket and
read It whenever you want to. When
they rail against "the church, say:
"Why, I am a member of the church
and what you say is not true."
When the salacious story is told, do
not grin when other people smile, but
set your face like a flint and let the
speaker of the story know you have
been with Jesus. Young people, study
the boldness of Christ, until It gets
into your heart, and blood, and nerve,
and life. I am not speaking severely.
For I remember the time when it
"would have made me hot the coldest
dav in winter, to read that book in
a streetcar, but that day went long
ago. I remember when to bow my
head in my hand netore t panoos. oi
food in a public place would hurt me.
I 'remember the first time J. saw
man point to me and say, "There is a
sky pilot.
Humiliation Is Admitted.
I was red as a beet in my garden.
with shame; but God how I will be
glad 4f tonight I can be a sky pilot
to some soul. So I am calling you to
bellieerencv in religion; I am telling
you it is war time, and you have got
to possess the sterner virtues; for it
is not a sham flgnt you are eneBu
in. but it is a real conflict; it is war.
for either we or the enemy has go.
to go down, for there Is not room tor
both of us in God's world.
Do you want to enllstr. You Know
those Canadians fought wonderfully
in the last war. and I heard -a story
up there in British Columbia, of an
old Tetired British army officer, arts
tocratic and stern, who ysed to have
the letters put by his plate at the
breakfast table, and after he had
read them, if he saw fit he communi
cated a part of the contents to the
others. And his wife sat there, a
gray-haired, frail lady; and hiB young
son, 17, sat at her sme. Ana ne picaea
up a letter, "On His -Majesty's Serv
ice": ana heXheld it, and his hand
shook, but he gathered himself to
gether, and broke the ' envelope,
noised his glass and read, and the
thing dropped from bis fingers, and
there he sat.
Heroism Is Described.
And down at the other end of the
table the aged wife and mother said:
Father, is it John 7"
Dead!" he said, and shook. Now
this boyof 17 had been begging his
father to let him go to war. But the
father said: "Your mother has only
you. for 1 snail go soon, as i am
dying man, and she has only you, so
you must stay and take care or ner.
And the boy when he heard John
was dead, pushed his chair back and
said:
Father. I am going." and that old
man. done to death; turned his eyes
and looked at his son, and he shook
but he said:
I would be ashamed of you If you
did not o."
That is the way they aid tn tne
war. Have we equal lorcituae ana
oual courage in this great war in
which Jesus Christ Is the leader? In
the army of Jesus Christ I now seek
to enlist you.
"By Joseph KaeauEEN.
THE LITERARY PERISCOPE 1
ETHEt. R. SAWYER,
Director of Training- Class, Library Asso
ciation of Portland.
PORTLAND isn't the only place
that is having its motion-picture
censorship troubles. Here is one
reason for the nation-wide agitation
the perfectly unscrupulous yet legal
way in which a good book by a well-
known author Is made to provide ad
vertisement for a vicious film. In re
ply to a lady who testified at a hear
ing on censorship that "The worst
picture I ever saw in Kansas City
was written by a Kansas author and
called 'In the Heart of a Fool " the
author writes:
'Mr. Dear Mrs. iStark: I noticed In
the newspapers that you said my pic
ture. 'In the Heart of a Foo'.,' was the
Why, he felt because I was a preacher worst picture you ever saw. I quite
ne could do aught he chose with me.
'Now when they saw the boldness
of Peter and John."
I remember how over a quarter of
a century ago I preached this same
gospel of Jesus Christ, and by the
score people believed it. And there
had never been a baptism in that
community. And it Was the middle
of winter, and we had to cut the ice.
Eighteen inches thick was that ice!
Great blocks of It floating around
in the mill stream, and while I was
baptizing I had to push the ice away,
that the candidate might be im
mersed. And the candidates had to
go a half a mile in their wet clothing
in order to reach a house..
Poor. Spirit Deplored.
Now! O, now we say the water Is
tepid, and It is the same temperature
as the atmosphere, and there are
rooms perfectly heated, and while it
may be semi-public, very few people
will, know you as you stand In the
baptistry. And if you like you can
be baptized privately and some Mon
day night I will admit you in the
church, and no one need know. That
is what we puppets say! The last
fussiness I ever witnessed was when
a delegation came to me and said:
So and so has got a little bit
miffed, and you better go and see
him."
And I said, "Let him come and see
me, for I have got no business with
so and so."
And they thought that was verv
poor policy on the part of the pastor
or tnis church. But God never or
dained me to run'after every poor
fool who gets miffed under my
preaching. If you do not like what
you get. go somewhere else, for
when you come here you will get
what I give you from God, and I, do
not care for the whole lot of you.
and yet I would get up in the middle
of the night to do any one of you a
good turn.
So I am calling to your attention
tonight an overlooked virtue the
boldness of Jesus, reincarnated in his
apostles, and to be reproduced by you
ana oy me. Ana as some of you
know, my theme is timely. You
would have confessed Jesus years
ago, only you had not courage enough
to do it.
Boldness Is Lacking.
You can remember the place and
the time, the sermon and the preacher.
wnen you actually wished you dared
get up and confess the Lord as your
saviour, and you lacked boldness and
did not do It- A man as tall as I
came to me some time ago and said:
"I have been converted and I know
ought to be baptized, and I dare
not."
"Dare not," . I said. "Dare not bs
baptized." I said. "Do you dare take
a bath, or have you a bad heart?"
No, my heart is as good ss yours.
but I have not courage enough to be
agree with you. I had nothing to do
with the filming of it. I wrote a book
which had an entirely different story.
I sold the movie right of the book, to
the outfit that made the picture.
Under the court decision, when I sell
the movie right I sell the right to
change the plot. They changed the
slot and made it a nasty sex thing
and I am just as much ashamed of it
as you can be, but I have no rights in
court. I thank you very much ior
your frankness in the matter. Sin
cerelv yours. "W. A. WHITE."
Query Is Mr. White sufficiently
ashamed to prevent his selling his
name and future book titles (for that
seems all that really remains his)
for sex-exploitation purposes!
It seems "Way Down East" has also
been so camouflaged in its film ver
sion that considerable discussion has
been started. The members of the
National Association of Moving-Pic
ture Industry, representing 90 per
cent of the principal producers, have
at last been roused to action by the
public clamor, and they promise a def
ialte plan which will clean up the
movies and punish their own mem
bers who fail to comply with the aim
of making the screen clean and whole
some. Imitation is the sincereet flattery.
It would be well if all the young
things who part their hair as their
favorite actors do would also follow
them in their book tastes; if we can
judge from the New York Tribune's
photographs of popular actors. Eight
of the metropolitan favorites appeared
in a recent Issue, each pnotograpnea
bearing in his band a copy of his
chosen author. Grant Mitchell dis
played O. Henry; Holbrook Blinn,
Rudyard Kipling; Ernest Glendinning
holds by Robert Louis Stevenson;
Frank Bacon likes Bret Harte; Alan
Dlnehart and Edgar Allan Poe posed
together; Jacob Ben-Ami turns to Tol
stoi; Rolland Young chooses Max
Beerbohm, and Norman Trevor finds
not only his work, but his favorite
reading, in drama as provided by Ar
thur Pinero.
a
There will probably be a bumper
crop of master violinists within a
year or two. Leopold Auer, who came
to America in 1918 from 35 years as
master-teacher at ths St, Petersburg
conservatory, and nearly 60 years as
concert violinist and conductor, has
written a book,' "Violin Playing as I
Teach It." Auer Is now 75 years old
and has had among his pupils Zim
ballst, Elman, Heifetx and Seldel.
Auer insists on perfect technique,
but he also believes in the natural
development of his pupil's individual
ity, and puts the technician in his
place with the dictum, "Art begins
where technique ends."
0
O. Henry's publishers recently re-
celved a letter addressed In their care
to O. Henry, Esq., which they, having
no business connections with the spirit
world, are unable, to forward. The
letter is from Santiago, ' Chile, and
reads:
"Dear Sir and Friend: I am fresh
enough to call you friend right -away
because you have' done me a great
service you have made me laugh
thing I have not been able to do for
years. The reason why is that I have
turned -against bad luck, lots of it.
But this morning when I was driving
round this dirty town from one end
to the other yes, this morning, I
read your "Options," and have
laughed, as I never did. I am a Ner
wegian and can count my ancestors
back to the year 623 A. C. and have
gone through the positions of smith,
shoemaker, poet, and now am a brok
er, which is the worst of all. Through
all of this I have acquired 6 lani
guages (the half is Russian). I will
pass England in February next year
and hope I may be able to see you and
get some other books of yours."
Some men are born lucky! There's
that Dr. Albert Einstein, gets paid
J3500 or 145 00 a year just to sit
around end think out little schemes
like the Einstein theory, and now here
he gets a whole lot of perfectly free
publicity. Alderman Falconer, one of
New York s choicest sons, got col
umns of space for Einstein by refus
ing to concur with the other city
fathers who wished to extend to the
doctor the freedom of New York city.
And then that editor of a Berlin pa
per, Herr Liebus, spread Dr. Albert's
name broadcast by purposing to mur
der him for the good of the father
land. And look at what it costs some
people just to get two Inches of space
in their local paper sometimes they
even have to die for it.
. m m m
Raffles is dead! No more will that
insidious gentleman dine with us at
7 P. M. and steal our Jewels at 3 A. M.
Ernest W. Hornung, his creator, died
March 22, in France. He was the
brother-in-law of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle. I wonder why it never oc
curred to them to collaborate and to
set Sherlock Holmes to entrap Raf
fles?! Mr. Hornung lived for some
years in Australia and of his some 27
novels perhaps his best work was in
stories of the Australian bush.
Francis Brett Young, author of
"Undergrowth," "The Young Physi
cian" and other books which have
caused Hugh Walpole to assert that
he ought "not to be missed by any
student of the English novel," Is the
son of a country doctor and himself
a doctor. Although at first .rebellious
against his profession, he now says
There is nothing which so fits a man
of letters to wrestle with the minds of
man as an intimate acquaintance with
the body." Some of our 20th century
writers seem to have become bo fas
cinated by getting acquainted w
tne body that they never did get
around to wrestling with the mind of
man.
Mr. Brett's latest novel,. "The Tragic
Bride" (Sounds like one of E. D. E. N.
South worth's titles, doesn't it?) is
compared by one reviewer to Conrad's
Victory."
I
E. Phillips Oppenhelm has written
70 novels and one successful play.
Pub. Advt.
Can't somebody stop him? He's ex
ceeding the union limit of production.
It's bad for tne industry.
Editor Historically, this story is
incorrect.
Author But hysterically it Is one
of ths best things I have ever dons.
Publishers' "Weekly.
Violin Playing as I Teach It. by Leopold
Auer. Illustrated. Frederick W. Stokes
Co., New York city.
It is an impressive and pleasurable
experience to read the violin message
given in these memories of probably
the greatest living teacher of violin
that our world knows today. ' The
book now under review is the story
of Auer s life. It is a succession of
violin wonders that leave deep Im
pressions on ths reader's memory.
. Professor Auer is a violin author
ity who is entitled to respect, fie is
the teacher and pedagogue of such
eminent violin stars as Jascha Heifetx,
Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimballst.
Kathleen Parlow, Toscha Seldel, Eddy
Brown, Max Kosenj Thelma Given
and Mischel Piastre.
Auer is a native of Hungary, and
he recently became a .esident of this
country. The preface of his book is
dated from New York.
"I have (Simply and franklv en-
deavored to explain the art of violin
playing as well-nigh 60 years of ex
perience as an interpreting artist and
teacner have revealed it to me,'
writes our author. "My advice, my
conclusions are all the outcome of my
experience, iney have all been veri
fled by years of experiment and ob
servation. For them I . have no
apologies) to make. On the other
hand, I am not a writer; I am a
violinist." '
It should not be forgotten that
Professor Auer, in writing about the
violin, does not do so from hearsay.
He was a famous violinist, before he
became a violin pedagogue. When
he was six years old. Auer began tak
ing violin lessons in a little Hungar
ian village, and in succession he went
to Budapest and Vienna. The master
violinists who then made the greatest
impression on him .were Vieuxtemps,
through the grandeur of his tone and
the nobility of style shown in his
concertos; Bazzini, a big virtuoso, who
Impressed by the singing quality of
his tone and the novel piquancies of
his compositions, and Laub, who was
notable from the warmth and com
pactness of his tone and his perfect
technique.
As a violin teacher, Joachim rarely
discussed technical details, and never
made suggestions to his pupils as
t the manner in which they ought
to secure technical facility. He was
often absent on concert tours, but
when lesson time came he was an
industrious observer. Keeping his
bow and violin in readiness. Joachim
when the pupil could not play a
certain passage used to play the ex
ercise himself "in a manner truly divine."
In Joachim's house, Auer met Da
vid, Brahms, Clara Schumann, Gade
and other notables. In 1865. Auer
left Joachim, and playing in concerts
in central Europe tin 186s, he ac
cepted an offer made to him to till
the position of Henri Wieniawski at
the Imperial Conservatoire, Petro
srrad. Auer became solo violinist to
the czar, who gave him an annual
salary of $1500. Tschaikowskl dedi
cated his famous concerto to bis
friend Auer.
Some violin stars and other musi
cians are as nervous as race horses.
Von Bulow, before he went on the
stage, always rubbed his hands to
gether feverishly, and when anyone
asked him a question, the great man
either uttered a rebuke or walked
away without a word. Joachim when
he first appeared at one of the con
servatoires in Paris, and began play-
Im the Beethoven war horse con
certos, became nervous and his bow
trembled, although he had not played
to the end. "I did not wait for him.
Auer states, "to play the concluding
turn of the trill, but signaled the
orchestra to fall In with the perfect
triad. To this day, I recall witn
pleasure the look of satisfaction he
gave me.
Auer confesses that he personally
was nervous until after "the first
piece had been played." Auer does
not know of any remedy for stage
fright either hypnotic or medical.
Auer thinks the reason why so
many young folks choose the violin
as "the" musical Instrument, is be
cause a violin can be bought cheaply.
In order to succeed as a violinist, one
"must have a keen sense of musical
pitch, the right kind of fingers, a
sense of rhythm." and what the
French call "the feeling of the pro
fessional man for the detail of his
profession. They should have by
instinct, by intuition the faculty of
grasping all the technical fine points
of his art, and an easy comprehension
of all shades of musical meaning."
Auer makes the point plain that
violin mastering is not easy:
Geniuses or great talents rarely have
an opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of
childhood when they are ohildren! In the
case of the violinist, the sooner serious
study begins the better. It is in early
youth, from the age of 6 or T on. while
the muscles still have a certain softness,
and at the same time a certain elasticity,
that they may best be shaped and trained
for the great task they are set to- accom
plish the development of a perfest tech
nique. . . . The history of music and
the biographies of the great violinists in
dicate that ths majority of them began
their studies at an age varying from S
to 7 yeara
Wilhelmj had neither a good trill
nor a good staccato; but he could
draw the biggest and most powerful
tone. His playing of Paganinl's D
major concerto with double "fingered"
octaves was a novelty; dui iney re
quired a giant hand and long, slen
der fingers. Wieniawski and Sar-
asate had a very precipitate and even
trill of great length, which formed
a brilliant factor in their technical
equipment. Joachim shone principally
in short, precipitate trills, so that he
played the allegro of Tartini's "Devil's
Trill" sonata with inimitable mastery.
Wieniawski was decidedly the most
brilliant exponent of the staccato
stroke, which he played with the
upper arm and an inflexibly stiff
wrist, with dizzying rapidity and
mechanical equality. Sarasate, who
had a dazzling tone, merely used the
"staccato volant," . not too fast, but
infinitely graceful. This last quality,
grace, illumined all his playing, and
was sustained by a tone of supreme
singing quality.
Ths Dractice or placing a cusmon
beneath the back of the violin, in
order to lend a more secure support to
the chin grip, is frowned upon. Why?
Because the practice "makes the
player lose at least a third of the
whole body of tone which his violin
is capable of producing."
"Style in music is the musician
himself- To understand and to cause
to be understood this is the aim to
which the performing artist must as
pire." Violinists are advised never to
practice more than 30 or 40 minutes
in succession, and to rest and relax
for at least 10 to 15 minutes before
beginning work again (p. 47).
Notable word-lessons are given on
these features:
The evil of the vibrato; detached
stroke; hammer stroke; the staccato
up and down bow; flying spiccato;
tremolo; arpeggio; legato; change of
positions; pressure Of tne lingers on
the strings; scales and other ex
ercises; dramatic scales; fingering;
natural harmonies; artificial har
monies; phrasing; the nerves and
violin playing; and, what I give my
pupils to play.
It would be a real service to some
young; violinist boy or girl to re-
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An English writer. Sir Philip Gibbs.
has issued an illuminating book on
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English point of view, and he called
his book "Now It Can Be Told."
This publication. "Naval Lessons of
the Great War," is an American
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the late war, and belongs to the Now
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Mr. Kittredge was naval corre
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Journal and a lieutenant in the
Unit9d States naval reserve force.
The sub-title of the book is "A Re
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Naval Investigation of the Criticisms
by Admiral Sims of the Policies and
Methods of the Former Secretary of
the Navy, Josephus Daniels."
Mr. Kittredge shows that before
Secretary Daniels had charge of our
navy that the latter was highly effi
cient and that up to the close of the
Daniels administration our navy iu
in a seriously disorganized condition.
It is shown that certain statements
made by Secretary Daniels had no
foundation in fact. The assertion '
made (p. 405) that for three years
previous to April 6, 1917. "the secre
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country, perhaps unintentionally or
through ignorance, in his snnual re
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through his speeches as to the condi
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Sixteen well-written, beautifully
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Mr. Dunn writes in inaepenaem.
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at least will not agree with his his
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native American all through. Each
neatly appearing, paragraph has a
condensed four or five-line message
of explanatory matter.
Mr. Dunn calls for the growth of a
strong, virile military spirit among
Americans.
The assertions are made that Great
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of the high seas: that in 1898, the
Americans made war against Spain
so that "the American people could
take extra territorial dominion in
Cuba"; that Cuba was made a pro
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should now "take extra territorial
dominion of Mexico," else it will be
disclosed, the American military pow
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Sketches are given of United States
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Death and Its Mystery, by Camilla Flam
marloa. The Century Co., New York City.
Translated from the French by E.
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authoritative depository of facts con
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The book, with two volumes that
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Japan and the California Problem, by T.
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Dr. IJenaga is professorial lectur
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Our authors have written a sensi
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subject at Issue. They occupy the
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today, Japanese must try to please
the Californians, elevate their Japa
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and refrain from building in Califor
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scboola Japanese are urged to Be
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Our authors argue against war as
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let-us-reason policy. It is even
argued that "Japanese children born
here appear characteristically Ameri
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the nlay of expression on their faces"
p. 175). Fortunately, our authors
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Tnday and Teaterday, by Lillian Pudley
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One hundred brave, stirring, finely
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The hero la Owen John J. Gawne,
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Owen marries Mary and finds, to
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