THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, ' rOTITLAXT), NOYE3IBETC 6. 1921
WORSHIP IS DECLARED TO BE THE HIGHEST ACT OF MANKIND
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Contact With God Should Be Happy, Radiant and Jubilant Service, Says Dr. Harold Leonard Bowman; Reverence Must Be Added to Reality to Achieve Purpose.
I:EV. HAROLD LEONARD BOWMAN.
I 'a tor of the First Presbyterian Church.
o worship the Lord in the beauty of
liolineits. Psaim Iffl.tt.
They that worship the Lord mutt wor
ship him la spirit and in truth. John 4:J4.
THE supreme act of man is the
outreach toward God. The long
ing of the finite for the infinite,
the yearning for the all-complete,
the search am Id. si the temporal
and the transient for the changeless
and the eternal these are the phases
of the irrepressible quest of mankind.
And man is never nobler nor more
potent than when he is seeking to
know and to feel the divine person
ality In whose pretsence he lives and
moves and has his being. Whether
it be the savage bowing down before
his sacred tree, or the Hindu devotee
"wasting Christian kisses on a heath
en idol's foot," or the adoration of a
Christian saint the act of worship,
the reaching out of man's spirit to
ward a. Deity, imaginary or genuine,
is the loftiest act of the worshiper'
personality.
Conception of God Grander.
As igronance Is exorc'sed idols give
way to more spiritual deities; po
lytheism bows before the conviction
of one God. Fear of an arbitrary spirit
rives way before the revelation of an
affectionate Father. As the conception
of Deity thus expends and the effect
upon the worshiper grows. "the
minds of men have broadened with
the progress of the suns' until today
our conception of God is grander,
greater and more intimate than ever
before in the history of man. As to
personality and attributes we find in
God the infinite fullness of what we
see in Jesus Christ "He that hath
seen me hath een the Father" and
the longer the race lives with Jesus
the more cleanly shall men under
stand the nature of God.
Lvery astronomer who discovers
for us a etar further removed in the
Infinitude of space bestows upon the
world a larger God. Kvery scientist
who makes vivid for us the age-long
process of creative growth magnifies
our conception of Deity. And every
soul who in distress or uncertainty
discovers the love and the sustenance
of a patient and affectionate and di
vine friend, or struggling w'th temp
tation ascertains the existence of a
power outside of himself which makes 1
for righteousness that person is not
only himself thrilled with the touch j
Of Deity, but endows the world with
Zionism and World Polities, by Horace M.
Kallen. i'h. D. roubleday, Fage fc Co.,
Garden City, N. J.
Our distinguished author is con
nected with the new School for Soc'al
Research, and Is accepted as an au
thority on Zionism.
Certain of Dr. Kallcn's articles, re
produced In this book, appeared oc
casionally in educational and reli
gious magazines, but most of the
message is new.
The studies presented so ably by
Dr. Kallen were begun in the year
11 5, and have been brought down to
date. "Zionism," he writes, "is to
day's phase of the unyielding effort
of the Jewish people to make good
the promise of the promised land-.
This promised land, glamour though
much of it is. is yet no land of Beu
lah, no kingdom of heaven in regions
supernal. It is a definite piece of
the earth's surface, of definite dimen
sions, bordering on the Mediterranian
and lying at the junction of the three
continental masses of the eastern
hemisphere. Palestine has been the
center of the Jewish theory of life,
and the Jews' outlook on the world.
The purpose of Zionism is now the
effective establishment of the Jewish
commonwealth, in Palestine. The
whole future of Palestine is In the
bands of the state which controls the
liitani, the Tarnak and the headwa
ters of the Jordan.' And Just now
that state la imperialistic France, to
w hose rulers Palestine is a mere pawn
in their imperialistic game."
Doubt is ex press t-d as to help for
Zionism coming from the big powers
of Europe each one jealous of the
ther and the opinion is sketched
that the common cadse of the Arab
and the Jew "rests upon a unity far
xnore competent than merely common
action, under the covenant of the
league of nations' (p. 2iM.
Cultural communion must be cou
pled wth economic co-operation, con
tinues our author "and the building
lip of Palestine must be accompanied
toy the development of Syria and Mes
opotamia.
Education, and the sources or
American teachers to teach the
use oi ine nanns as wen as me
r.ngue, are advised to help create
the new Zion. the Jewish homeland.
In other words, the new Zion is not
a dream, but now a possibility.
Chapter heads: Pioneer, O pioneer;
the ovegla and basis of Zionism; reli
srious imperialism and the Jewish po
sition; effect of the philosophy of
natural rights upon the Jewish posi
tion; the nationalist transvaluatlon
f natural rights and the return of
secular Jewish nationalism; secular
nationalism among the Jews of east
ern Europe; Ahad Ha'am, Herzl. and
the development of organized Zion
ism; parties and programmes after
llerzl's death: the pre-Zionist Jewry
of Palestine; Zionism in Palestine and
the near eastern question; enter
American Jewry; Z'onist endeavor
and the politics of the great war; the
Jewish caupe nt the peace confer
ence; from Versailles to San Ilenio
the conflict in Russia and America;
from Versailles to San Ilemo the
conflict in Poland, the I kraine. Hun
gary and Rumania; from Versailles to
i?an Homo Palest we and the near
eastern problem; San Ilemo the end
f an epoch; and "Vita Nuova?"
The Tracedy of Lord Kitchener, by Regi
nald. Viscount felufv-r. K. P. Put ton A
Co., New York city.
Viscount Ksher, according to cable
dispatches, has aroused fierce dissent
and even disapproval in Hug land
among contemporaries because of
what they term his "attack" in this
olume on the late Lord Kitchener,
Knglishman, one of the great soldiers
of the recent world war. Viscount
Ksher, In this book of 219 pages,
writes calmly and without passion
about his friend Kitchener and is not
afraid to speak out.
Our author explains on pages 213
tlt that, although his book U called
"The Tragedy of Lord Kitchener," its
title la not meant to recall the death
of Kitchener in the sinking of a great
warship, the Hampshire, in the stormy
seas of the Orkney Islands, as the
Ship plowed Its way to Russia, but
rather to present the conviction that
In his mid-career of military glory
Kitchener himself suddenly became
convinced he was not the great mili
tary genius his devoted friends as
serted he was.
Lord Esher, as a permanent mem
ber of the British committee of im
perial defense and chairman of the
LngUoh war o XX ice reconstruction
a more Inescapable certainty of the
reality and immediate fellowship of
God.
Workfp I. Highest Act.
There Is nothing else then In all
the gamut of human activity that is
more glorious or more profitable than
to reach out toward God. No contact
with the physical can compare with
association with the spiirtual. No de
gree of interest in the heated lowlands
of the temporal can compare with the
exhilarating air on the highlands of
the eternal. No amount of contact with
men can answer the need of man's
soul for touch with God. Man is
noblest, man Is purest, man is most
free from evil influences, man is most
self-forgetful, man is nearest to the
I fulfillment of his destiny, man is most
divine when he consciously enters the
presence of God. when, stripped of
the rags of pride and the distractions
of the physical world, his spirit com
munes with the divine spirit. That
communion and fellowship marked
with both pei.itence and abounding
praise is called worship.
Worship is not only the supreme
act of manr It is also the transcendent
motive of the church service. It is
primarily for worship that men gather
m a church from week to week. Be
fore God. they do not form an au
dience to come to this place passively
to near music and a sermon. A great
congregation of . active worshipers
should come to God's house because
they want to praise him for his great
ness and goodness, because they seek
fellowship with him. because they de
sire the power which in the struggle
for righteousness only God can give.
Dr. Jowett in his fresh and sug
gestfve way has said, "The main
business of the church Is to offer
a service of worsh ip so reverential
and inspirational that it will serve as
a spiritual tonic to men and women
anxious to escape the tyranny of ma
terial things and easrer to catch a
glimpse of that intangible heart
kingdom where the spirit is renewed
and purified."
Divine Fellovrnhlp I psermoit.
Christians need to have constantly
reinforced the primary principles of
Christianity. Banish from your minds
the whole idea that you come to
church to hear the minister; that you
come passively to listen and receive.
You should come, unless you dese
crate the church, to Worship God, to
f el his presence, to talk with him
and hear him epeak to you; you
come here to perform the supreme
act of the week, to eloperh off the
sin-tainted interests and the material
distractions of six days, and to feel
the liberating, purging inspiration of
committee previous to the world war
and as sub-commissioner of the Brit
ish Red Cross in France during that
war, was long in special and intimate
contact with the leading British mili
tary personalities especially with
Lord Kitchener. Lord Ksher says he
bases his estimates as to the judgment
passed on Lord Kitchener from daily
diaries he kept as a close record of
passing events in the historic period
just closed. Certain correspondence
was also drawn upon, and the author
says he may collect this correspon
dence and other documents pertaining
to It and eeal them up for, say 60
years, so that posterity may judge and
render its verdict as to this subject.
In the beginning the volume busies
ItHolf with brief references to Lore
Kitchener's earlier, more glorious mil
itary career in the Kgyptian Soudan
and the Transvaal, and the author
speaks always with warm apprecia
tion. When Kitchener emerges as a
great Knglish war minister devoting
his life, health and all he possessed to
defeat the Germans the acid test is
applied. It is shown that, although
Kitchener was a hard worker, he ever
remained the engineer: that his tem
perament was unsuited to discussion
and inevitable compromise; that on
occasions he remained dumb under the
shock of decisions which he failed to
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The late Lord Kitchener, hose
htogrnph)', by Incount Kuhe
Is a notaMe new book.
understand. It is asserted that Kitch
ener "had been too long himself a
final court of appeal to enable him to
become reconciled to finding himself
overruled on matters which were
within his competence to decide, and,
as be thotmht. quite beyond that of
his colleagues."
In the fall of 1916 It Is shown that
Kitchener had retained only a few
friendships in the British cabinet, and
that on one occasion when in an em-,
basj-y reading letters from two friends
in France Sir John Cowans and his
own personal private secretary
kitchener became affected to tears.
"When he broke the silence he spoke
of the dislik- felt for him by his col
leagues, adding: 'Asquith is my only
friend.' One present told him that
an eminent member of the Knglish
cabinet had complained he was want
ing in candor and too fond of what
was supposed to be 'oriental methods.'
Kitchener said, quite humbly, 'Yes, I
suppose it Is so. But I am an old
man and I cannot change my habits
it is too late'." (p. 173).
In the early fall of 1916, it is stated.
Sir Douglas Haig's armies began the
battle of the Somme, "which, taken
with what Jellicoe had achieved off
Jut Tand, settled the inevitable issue of
the war." i-p. -07).
Kitchener always looked for the ul
timate defeat of the Germans, and
that done, his ambitions were for fur
ther administrative service In a high
capacity In Egypt Kitchener's great
work in the war is shown to be his
creation of the famous Kitchener ar
mies, on the basis of voluntary serv
ice. It Is shown he was drowned, on
board the Hampshire en route to Rus
sia, when the cruiser struck either a
moored mine or a mine that had
drifted from the mine field westward
his presence, to gain the moral
energy which will send you out to
live nobler lives of service the week
following.
The. practical question which we
must answer is this: How can these
services of ours be truly services of
worship? What can we do that willl
make God's presence more manifest
and our contact with him more real?
How can we so impregnate the at
mosphere of this church with a rev
erent devotion that every one who
comes here will feel and be helped
by our worshipful spirit
While the history of worship is ln-
i teres ting we can not discuss it save
to remark that during the dark ages
worship degenerated into a fr'gid
ritualism, dead, monotonous, formal,
repeated in in a language unknown to
the majority of worshipers. The
lean ears of form and ruble consumed
the full ears of devotion and sin
cerity. Then came the reformation
with its corollarial reactions. Not
only was there a change to a sounder
theology, boat the rejection of forms
of worship was so intense that there
were swept away even the decencies
of devotion.
So It was that Puritanism rode on
horseback into quiet cathedral sanc
tuaries and defaced their beauties and
shattered their stained-glass windows
with the same ruthlessness with
which Nebuchadnezzar sacked the
tenple in Jerusalem. With a xeal
which was intense if not Christ-like
they blindly branded as "popery
every aspect of Christianity of which
they disapproved. All praise to the
sturdiness, the fidelity of Puritan
character. Would that we had more
of it. Their contribution to religious
progress was invaluable but what I
am seeking to stress Is that their
reaction carried them too far; that
In their desire to get away from for
malized Christianity they surrendered
much that Is truly helpful, particu
larly in their thought of worship.
Early Practice Recalled.
Let me illustrate. In New England
in the early days the reading of the
scripture, in the church service was
forbidden because, as they said, that
was "a rag of popery." The horror
of ritual resulted in the assignment
cf the entire service into the hands of
the minister, the congregation taking
no part whatever. In some churches
musical instruments were barred.
Many of our forefathers .felt that the
church and the service must be bar
ren and unattractive, and anything
that pap took of beauty or ritual
should not be permitted in the Prot
estant church.
Indeed, to this day this ancient,
unthinking, prejudicial suspicion still
of the Orkneys according to the
opinion of Lord Jellicoe.
There are several references in
French In the book, without transla
tions into English.
A CHmbers Guide to th Roekr Moun
tains of Canada, by Howard Palmer and
J. Monroe Thoring-ton. With maps. The
Knickerbocker Press, New York city.
Brought up to date, bristling with
Information and well written, this
bcok of 183 pages Is a volume that
has long been sought after. It fulfills
a great need In occupying a hitherto
empty place In the rucksack or pocket
of all interested in climbing the
mountains In the Rocky mountain re
gion of Canada. The section described
includes the entire Alpine section of
the Canadian Rocky mountains be
tween the international boundary and
the 54th parallel. The pages, with
index, number 183.
The book Is ba?ed upon the moun
taineering literature which has thus
far appeared for the area, including
the recent surveys of the inter-provincial
boundary commission, as far
uorth as the Lyell ice fields.
The book, also, is the first of its
kind, so far as present Investigation
goes. The index contains names of
i more than 4o0 peaks above 9000 feet
j in elevation. Locations, altitudes, lit
erary references, data about first as
cents and climbing directions are giv
en for these, as far as available infor
mation permits. Entirely aside from
its utility in the field, the book should
prove acceptable in the library as a
substantially complete Index to the
mountaineering literature of the Can
adian Rockies and to the chief maps
delineating them.
Our authors have listed the named
peaks of the Canadian Rockies above
9000 feet in elevation as far north as
Mount Sir Alexander, 450 miles away.
Under each is inserted a brief descrip
tion and wherever possible concise
directions for the climb, based gen
erally upon the printed report of the
first ascent The names of the party
and the principal references relating
to the peak also are printed.
Difficulty was experienced, it was
stated, in entering the mountainous
country selected for investigation and
it appears that along the railroads
alone are there places that can be
regarded as climbing centers. "Depart
from these but a little, and a pack
train must be employed, so that far
more time will be spent in travel
than In actual climbing. The country
away from the railway is In a prime
val state. Trails are only nominal
because so seldom traveled. They usu
ally are obstructed by fallen trees.
Frequent mountain torrents and occa
sional rivers must be forded. The
open gravel bars of their beds are
highways whenever they can be so
used. Everywhere veritable pioneer
conditions prevail. - The Alpine hut
Is unknown, and although at several
points it is possible to spend a night
at a permanent camp, a light tent
and camping outfit must be brought
along by the traveler who wishes to
work from lofty btvouacks."
The authors are frank to say that
mistakes Inadvertently may have
crept into the recital, owing to "lack
of precision in the literature consult
ed, and in part to incorrect interpret
ation of the writings of others." That
is to say, the book, in the main, is a
digest of printed accounts of moun
tain climbs made by persons other
than the authors.
At the same time due care has been
observed in the preparation of the
book, and the industry of the authors
and the skill they show in the crea
tion of original statements are highly
commendable.
WHUam Lloyd Garrison, by John Jay
Chapman, the" Atlantio Monthly Press,
Boston.
A second edition of a book that
long has been out of print, a book
that has as its text the life and times
of William Lloyd Garrison, a great
American who blazed the way for the
abolition of slavery In America. A
new introduction is furnished, writ
ten this year. An admirable, sound
biography.
The Boy 8eoot' Tear Book, edited by
Franklin K. Math lews. Illustrated. D.
Appleton & Co., New York city.
Just the delightful, entertaining
book for all boys young and old.
Pages are 259 and the book measures
8 inches by 104 inches. It is filled
with stories, poems and educative ar
ticles written by people who know
how. It is also ably edited and the
matter has been carefully and wisely
selected.
How to Ron a Store. y Harold White
bead. T. Y. Crowell Co.. New York city.
Mr. Whitehead Is head of the de
partment of sales relations, college of
shapes the thinking of many people.
One dear old saint of God in Chicago
said to me that she thought the Prot
estant church ought not to make any
observation of Easter because it was
a papist observance. Fail to observe
the resurrection of our Lord? That
is the possession of every Christian.
The last holy week of our Lord's l'fe
with its sacred events should have
for every follower of the Master an
unfailing importance. It transcends
man-made boundaries of sect and ex
clusion. No person's ecclesiastical
prejudice should rob the church uni
versal of the inspiration to be srained
by living through day by day the
events of our Lord's passion, culmin
ating In the victory of Easter morn
ing. We have our Protestant faith which
we cherish with a deathless loyalty,
but there are spiritual truths, there
are methods of devotion, there are
aids to worship, there are visible
symbols which make more vivid eter
nal realities these things must be
ours. Nothing historical or ecclesias
tical-must be allowed -to bar us fromj
tne use ana trie appreciation 01 every
thing which will bring us to God, or
bring God to us and thus advance the
culture of the spiritual life.
This must be kept in mind because
there is a real need for the enrich
ment of our Protestant worship.
Jesus instituted the feast of the
Lord's supper because he knew .that
the human mind needed visible sym
bols in order to make spiritual truths
tangible. If the spiritual nature of
every Individual were highly enough
developed to be able to commune with
God under any condition for any
length of time then the formality of
church services would be unneces
sary. But mankind,, by reason of his
physical nature, never his and never
can attain that state, therefore there
must be aids for worship. There
must be an atmosphere in which
man's spirit will be helped In his
search for God. "There must be help
ful channels. There must be leaders
in prayer. There must be conse
crated forms which will aid man in
the accomplishment of the purpose
for which the service of worship is
created. That service should not be
meager, nor barren, nor, tiresome.
Nor, on the other hand, should it be
laden with a hollow formalism, nor
hampered with an overly ornate rit
ual. However, it Bhould be rich, ra
diant, jubilant, filled with beauty and
redolent of holiness, marked by spirit
ual heights and the sincerity of un
dimmed truth.
There are two dangers In worship.
Into one or the other every service
falls which is not ideal. One is an
absence of proper dignity and order,
lacking reverence; and the other is
buslress administration, Boston uni
versity. This friemdly. Instructive book of
296 pages is dedicated to "J. C. Pen
ney, a master retail merchant, a
builder of men." The author empha
sizes the mournful but obvious fact
that the mortality in too many man
agements of retail stores is a present
condition due principally to incom
petency and ignorance of the retail
business principles.
This book is meant to be a doctor
for ordinary small store needs, and
its message is fashioned along sound,
common sense needs. Some chapter
tfeads are: Expenses and sales; the
lost art of salesmanship; advertising,
the salesman In the envelope; buy
ing; credit or cash; developing or
ganized loyalty, what Is a proprietor's
profit? service, etc
The Big Four and Others at the Fence
Conference, by Robert Lansing. Illus
trated. Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston.
Our author, formerly secretary of
state under the Wilson administra
tion, ceTtainly had abundant oppor
tunities to study notable diplomats
at close range at the recent Paris
peace conference, and he faithfully
records these impressions In this in
teresting book of 213 pages. He was
one of the five American representa
tives at that historic affair. He thinks
Clemenceau was "the dominant figure
and the strongest man of the many
strong men Who participated In the
negotiations."
The conclusion reached is that a
plenary session of the said conference
"was a farce. It was never a delib
erative assemTfly which reached an
agreement by a frank exchange of
views. It was In one sense a farce
but in another a tragedy." In other
words, Clemenceau, the French pre
mier, "bossed" it.
It is related that at the conference
in question, Clemenceau was an auto
crat as presiding officer. When op
ponents talked or objected to his
Ideas, Clemenceau would growl: "Ap
proved" or "Adjourned," and nobody
dare say any more.
The "big four" are: Clemenceau,
Wilson, Lloyd George and Orlando.
There are also impressions of Ven
lzelos. Emir Feisul, General Botha
and Paderewskl.
A Magnificent Force, by A. Edward New
ton. Illustrations. The Atlantic Monthly
Press, Boston.
Mr. Newton lives in Philadelphia
and he Is a business man; secondly, a
book collector, and thirdly, h pos
sesses the ability to write- a charm
ing, agreeable book on literary sub
jects, celebrated people he meets and
places and people where he visits.
In this book of 255 pages Mr. Newton
writes his frank Impressions upon
the topics mentioned.
Of course Mr. Newton speaks good
words for Philadelphia and men and
women of Its literary and bookish
circles.
Once when Mr. Newton visited Lon
don the. horse carriage in which he
rode broke down and one of his legs
was broken. His" description of this
experience and his brief and enforced
residence as a patient in St. Barthol
omew's is worth reading.
But Mr. Newton is at his best when
writing in his quietly humorous
way about books, book collections
and authors.
The term "A Magnificent Farce"
Is the title of one chapter devoted to
observations on the trial of Warren
Hastings, Westminster hall, London,
in the year 178S.
McLonghUn and Old Oregon, by Eva
Eroerv Dy. Douoleday, Page & Co.,
Garden City, N. Y.
A new edition of a splendid story
that already is an Oregon classic. It
tells the wonderful, romantic life
story of Dr. John McLoughlin, head
of the Hudson's Bay company's af
fairs in this state the father of
Oregon.
Already the reading world has
placed its seal of cordial approval
upon this excellent American his
torical novel. The new edition will
make a most acceptable Christmas
preseut-
Masterfnl Personality, by Orison Livett
Jlnrden. T. Y. Crowell Co.. New York
city.
The first sentence in this book is a
quotation from Walt Whitman: "A
man is not all included between his
hat and boots."
The message that flows to the 3 4 1st
page is more cheerful, sensible Mar
den philosophy the reading of which
makes life better.
Romain Kolbind, by Stephen Zevei
Thomas fceitier. New York city.
Translated frcm the original manu
script in French by Eden and Cedar
Paul, this -biography of a great
an undue magnification of form and
ritual, lacking reality.
Let us note the first and I am
frank to say that here is a prevalent
weakness in the churches of our
country. The details of the service
have not been planned out, there are
hitches and interruptions, the minis
ter stops and talks to the choir di
rector, or chats familiarly with anoth
er minister in the pulpit. Sometimes
there is such an emphasis on the so
cial, congenial, familiar factors in the
church that worship, true worship, is
impossible. One occasionally attends
services which are so a wk wardly
planned, so haltingly carried through,
or else so filled with the rollicking
spirit of the Wild West show that one
cannot worship there.
One enters the church and there Is
the buzz buzz of conversation, run
ning right through the prelude; then
a jaunty conduct of the Bervice from
the pulpit, a hurried passing through
what the minister calls "the prelimi
naries," a giggle from the chorus
choir, then the all-important sermon,
a quick .benediction, and a mob-rush
for the door. I have gone into serv
ices like that again and again seek
ing to worship God and to feel his
presence and I have come away feel
ing cheated, and, in youncer days of
less self-control, almost blasphemous.
A physician quoted in the recent
book, "Wanted a Congregation," has
expressed his feelings in this way:
"I go to church eager for spiritual
help. I am shown to a seat by an
usher who greets me very much as
he does at the city club. He is glad
to see me. I am, in a way, his guest.
The organist is thundering away on
a big: 'showpiece that makes a deaf
ening racket. A glare of light suf
fuses the place. Everywhere about
me people are whispering. There is
no more reverence than at a theater.
Presently the organ is done and Dr.
Thompson rises and says, in that
great jovial way of his for I love
him very much 'Now let us open our
service of worship on this beautiful
Sabbath morning by singing that
tuneful song we all love so well. No.
264 in the small book, and No. 175 in
the large book. I do hope the time
will soon come, brethren, when we,
will all have the large book and
avoid this confusion. They may be
had at the door as you leave for $1.50.
Let us join heartily then In singing
this hymn, 'Let the Lower Lights be
Burning.' Now I don't know how
other people's souls are constructed,
but I know this much about mine
that sort of thing does not encourage
me to worship. Indeed I rather feel
it rather chafes my soul into a state
of spiritual nervousness.'
"Why," asked a friend of mine who
has known many Dr. Thompson's "in
ject stupid commonplaces, announce
Frenchman, publicist, pacifist, play
wright and futurist, is notable among
the important books of the fall sea
son and this certainly is one of
them.
Romain Rolland was born January
29, 1866, in Clamecy, Burgundy, and
already he has won an honored place
In European letters. He opposed all
war as being wreckage of brother
hood in the stormy days in France
in 1914, and ventilated these in the
famous essay, "Abova'the Battle." He
was, of course, violently attacked.
His views on war were curious, as
at that time the Germans were seek
ing to destroy France and also most
of the world outside the battle area.
Rolland's career narrated in these
377 pages Is a stormy yet interest
ing one and the life-story is well
tdld.
NEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
Seven Centuries, illustrated, in the Con
gregational library, 81 page, stiff paper
covers, valuable, descriptive read ins mat
tar with specimen of lettering- and print
ing with type from the. 14th century until
now from archives of American Congre
gational association. Boston.
The Unknown Quantity, by James Pax
fbn Voorheea, 16 pages, paper covers, a
eries of comments on historical and other
topics. (Caverns of Dawn Medium, Piain
fleld, Ind.).
The Gay Cockade, by Temple Bailey, 14
sliort etories. interesting, and admirable
in form and style. (Penu Pub. Co., Phila
delphia). The Hidden Power, by Judge Troward,
late, of the Punjab, India, 216 pages, help
ful, magnetic and healing meaeagea and
advice, upon mental science. (Root. M. Mc
Bride A Co., N. Y-).
Playing Square With Tomorrow, by Fred
Eastman, pa.per cover. 14 pages, six chap
ters that are thoughtfully written and
helpful in purpose, teaching help-a-hand
work and loving service to othere. (Mis
sionary Education Movement, N. V.)
Blue Pete, Half-Breed. by Luke Allan,
a dashinsr, exciting novel of the. Canadian
northwest, dealing with cattle ruatiers.
Mounted police, etc.; Xlght Drums, by Ach
med Abdullah, a splendid, powerfully
written novel of Africa a novel In which
an American and an Arab seek adventure
and depicting love and nacrifice; and The
Little Soul, by Elinor Monriauot, an in
teresting English novel, 4tth admirable
character analyi. (Jas. A. MoCann Co..
n. y.)
The Girls, by Edna Ferber, a big novel
and surely one of the large seller fea
turing Chicago life of the 18"0s. Chirafto
of the late F00s. and the Chicago of 1!20,
and This Man's World, by Will Levlng
ton Comfort, a rapid-fire story of ad
venture, told entertainingly and depicting
the attempt of a clean-aouled white man
to protect natives of the South seas against
wrong, t Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden
City, N Y
Aaron West, by John Knit tel. a first
novel of this author In th English lan
guage Mr. Knlttel Is a Swiss a brilliant
anil clever novel teaching realism, and
picturing a masterful hero with a thirst
for adventure. (Doran Co., N. T.)
Tangled Trails, bv William MacLeod
Raine, an attractively told, exciting mys
tery story of the west with plenty of ac
tion. ( Houirh ton-Mlfrlin Co.. Boston).
Smliing Pass, by Eliot H. Robinson, a
sequel to Smiles, a Rote of the Cumber
lands, a girl's story of the south and
worth careful reading. (The Page Co.,
Boston).
Work -a -Day Heroes, by Chelsea Curtis
Fraser. Illustrated, well told, stirring stor
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miners, structural Ironworkers. divers,
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America'. Power Resources, by Chester
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fusely Illustrated. Z2Q pages, an educa
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portance of energy resources coal, oil,
gas, water power, etc., and teaching con
servation. (Century Co., N. T.)
The Beggar"! Vision, by Brookes More,
with nine charming photogravures, seven
poenu religious, spiritual and possessing
quality. (Cornhill Pub. Co., Boston).
Old South, by William Almon Wolff, a
fine, stilling, manly novel of South
American life nearly as readable at the
late Richard Harding Davis Soldiers of
Fortune; The Seventh Man. by Max Brand;
a rousing, thrilling novel of the open and
filled with adventure; the Mind Healer, by
Ralph Durand,.a healthy, merry novel of
Engl.sh life. te;ichlng that the tang o
the seas U good medicine for all. (Put
nam's, X. T.)
The Career of David Noble, by Frances
Parkinson Keyes. a finely-told tory, in
which Xew England Puritianism Is
matched against continental freedom.
(Stokes Co., N. T.).
Julia Talcs Her Chance, by Concordia
Me ire 1. an English novel, and a daring
one full of romance (Thomas Seltxer,
N. Y).
Hunting Hidden Treasure In the Andes,
an exciting novel for boy readers, depict
ing the discovery of buried treasure of
the Incan; and Plotting in Pirate Seas,
the well-written story of the adventures
of a budding newspaper youth, with
vivid word pictures of the West Indian
Islands the author of both bonks for boys
is Francis Bolt - Wheeler (Doran Co.,
X. Y.).
The Day of Faith, by Arthur Snmers
Roche, a powerfully written novel with a
great message of making men over, and
an illustration of the ideal "my neighbor
la perfect-" (Little-Brown, Boston).
Views Dayllftht Savin. '
Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.
The Cow What do you think
of
this daylight saving?
The Rooster Easy enough. I just
turned my crow forward an hour.
the hymns twice, extemporaneously
read a stanza or two, and keep up a
constant chatter about every detail
of the Bervice?"
Reverence Is Remedy.
The remedy for all this Is a proper
reverence, a sensitive appreciation
that worship is the supreme purpose
of our coming together. That spirit
of worship should guide the thought
and conduct of the minister,' the choir,
the ushers and the congregation. Not
the delivery of e sermon, the exhibi
tion of a vocal technique, the inter
change of gossip, nor a sartorial dis
play is the aim of the church service.
These all which mar the spirit of
worship seiould be eliminated and be
supplanted by a humble, reverent ap
proach to God.
Here are my ideals for the service
of worship: First, that the person
wTno entera the church shall feel the
warmth of Christian fellowship and
a happy reverence of God's ""house.
When he takes his pew he should feel
the' hush of worshipful expectancy.
Those moments preceding the opening
of the services are not for the con
versation which precedes the rising of
a curtain at a theater; they are for
spiritual preparation for divine fel
lowship. The music Is part of the worship.
In the hymns worshipers should join
earnestly, voicing their praise and
their consecration. The choir should
be composed of Christian ministers of
music, who, in beautiful harmony and
stimulating thought, lead us to ap
preciate anew the beauty of God and
the melody of righteousness.
Musical discord, like every other
noisy distraction, makes so much
more impossible the purpose for
which we come together. This, then,
is God's house. God is in this place.
And whatever in beauty, in harmony
and quiet, in prayer, in song or in
preached word will reverently mag
nify our consciousness of his pres
ence should be welcomed in the serv
ice of worship. Whatever fs awk
ward, jarring, discordant, intrusive,
undignified should be removed. Not
carelessness, but calm; not joviality,
but deep joy, "too full for sound or
foam"; not jaunty familiarity, but
reverence, must prevail such a rev
erence that when the worshiper leaves
the church he will exalt as did Jacob
at Bethel, "Surely this is the house of
God and this is the gate of heaven;
such a reverence that when you go
you will be able to say, as did a 20-
THE- LITERARY PBKISCOPfr
BY JENNETTE KENNEDY.
(Circulatloq Department, Library Asso
ciation of Portland.)
AT the approaching Washington
conference the French press is
to be represented by some of the
ablest newspaper men of France, ac
cording to the Boston Transcript. The
largest paper in France, the Petit Pa
risien, will have as cable correspon
dent its political editor, Philippe Mil
let, reputed to be "one of the best
informed men in French politics today,
and also a brilliant writer."
Pertinax, who wae so widely Quoted
during the peace conference, will rep
resent the Echo de Paris. "He cart be
generally counted upon to give the
government point of view." He is
contrasted in this with Millet, who
generally does not give the govern
ment point of view.
Another brilliant political writer Is
Bassett of the Hawas Agency, whose
brother, Sergeant Bassett, was a war
correspondent for the Petit Parisien
and was killed during1 the war.
Several other French correspon
dents described as "able, critical, witty
and caustic" are expected to attend
the conference, which is Important In
its relation to all France.
Peru la to be Invaded by American
textbooks, according to a hews item
which states that Dr. Harry E.'Bard,
formerly of New York but now direc
tor of education in Peru, has sailed for
New York to buy books and other
school supplies. Dr. Bard has- been
working: for several years under the
minister of education building up the
school system on the "American plan."
Did you know that a modern Greek
poet has been called the "greatest poet
of contemporary Europe ?" Kostes
Palamas, whose volume of verse called
"Life Immovable' and a later one, "A
Hundred Voices," the latter published
last spring, have produced such a
judgment from the French critic, Eu
gene Clement. These have been trans
lated into English by Dr. A. E. Phout
rides with critical and biographical
notes.
What is the good of a battleship?"
was a pertinent question asked some
time ago by Sir Percy Scott. An an
swer is given by F. Maurice in an ar
ticle on the "Limitation of Arma
ments" in the Contemporary. Review.
He says that Sir Percy never received
an answer which satisfied him, and
Mr. Maurice suggests that "the chief
purpose of a battleship is to fight a
battleship. We have tacitly admitted
that this is so for years past. . . .
Battleships are not required to pre
vent piracy, to police seas, to help our
mercantile marine, to survey unknown
waters or to bring aid to our colonies.
We have them because others have
them."
.
Sir Henry Lucy, who has written so
entertainingly of his colonial life in
his "Sixty Years in the Wilderness,"
has reprinted his impressions of fa
mous men he has known and seen dur
ing the half-century since he entered
the press gallery of the British house
of commons, under the title "Lords
and Commoners." He speaks at length
of Gladstone, whom he greatly ad
mired, but hardly gives Insraell his
due, considering him "indifferent, po
lite, superficial."
A new novel with a biblical setting,
going back to the early days of the
Christian era, is "Princess Salome a
Tale of the Days of Camel Bells,' by
Burris Jenkins.
George S. Chappell, who, as "Dr.
Walter E. Traprock" of the famous
cruiser "Kawa," has enjoyed so many
eood dinners and other entertainments
given in his honor, was recently feteffl
again in New York by the Booksellers
league at a dinner, where his after
dinner speech ended In a little song
entitled "My Filbert Flapper."
mm
Oliver Herford has rendered 50
Aesop fables into verse, illustrating
them himself.
Alfred Olllvant, known to a wide
reading public through his famous dog
story, "Bob, Son of Battle," has just
put out a new novel entitled "One
Woman: A Romance of Sussex." It
has been described by one critic as "a
fine story, well planned and written
with dignity."
The old saying. "We're in the same
boat," has been dated, and Is attrib
uted to the fathepof a Chinese writer.
King Wu, who died about 208 B. C.
The origin of the expression is said
to have been due to the co-operation L
year-old lad of my acquaintance, w ho
remarked to his mother as he left the i
church, "Mother. t feel as though I
had been in the presence of God." j
But to achieve that result, to rev- i
erence must be added reality. This
must be emphasized In order to avoid
the contrary danger of an overvalua
tion form of ritual. You have heard
and I have heard ministers racing
through a set form of service with
much holiness of tone and piety of
posture, and you knew, as I did, that
the ministers thoughts were ram
bling, that he was utterly indifferent
to what he was saying; that while
his words fell from his lips, they did
not rise from his heart. Now there
is a peril which lurks for all, whether
or not we have a liturgical form of
service the danger that devotion will
become devoid of reality. We repeat
constantly the Lord's prayer, yet I
venture to say that most of the time
when we are repeating the words our
thoughts are elsewhere. I think the
church has abused that prayer and
reduced it from a real petition to a
vain repetition. We need to guard
ourselves, so that the times of prayer
do not lose their reality. When the
minister is praying that is the top
peak of the service. We cannot mag
nify too much the prayer times, for
that communion with God is the es
sence of worship. It is not a time for
wandering thoughts, nor for gating
eyes. It is the time for you to talk
with God.
But the time of prayer must be
also a time of listening as well as
speaking. I wish it were possible
to have four or five minutes of silence
in every service. But I have never
found a congregation which, as a
whole, was capable of quiet prayer
for that length of time without grow
ing restless. There must be some
thing going on all the time! We seem
toe losing the capacity to be still
and know that God is near, to hear
the still small voice. We are getting
to be like the little boy in the cathe
dral. The great arches towered up
ward joining the misty height of the
nave. The soft light through the
stained glass windows cast a warm
subduing glow over the place giving
the feeling of expanse and yet of
intimacy. The worsh'pers were
startled by a strange sound and
turned to see a little lad coming down
the stone pavement of the cathe
dral drawing after him a little iron
wagon, its wheels clattering noisily
The sanctity of the place, its beauty,
its significance, all were lost to him.
Not with this absorption are we to
come into the house of God.' Out of
the tumult Into the quiet, out of th
confusion of busy activity Into the
calm contact with the spiritual, out
of the natives of the rival kingdoms
Wu and Yueh, who laid aside their dif
ferences when they met in a boat dur
ing a storm on the great river Kiang
and worked as one man.
Is Margot Asquith responsible for
al the gossipy tongues set wagging
about people in public life since the
publication of her very frank confi
dences? "The Gentleman With the
Duster" Immediately followed and the
"Mirrors of Washington" took up the
lead in American circles, then came
the "Glass of Fashion," and now "One
Who Knows Them" has set the curi
ous agog by another volume of anec
dotes and personalities called "Mak
ers of the New World."
Some of the "makers" are M. Clem
enceaii. Mr. Balfour, Mr. Hughes, ex-
The
Book Review Contest
now being conducted by
The Boys ' andGirls' Own Book Shop
in which thirty prizes are to be given for the best book
reviews by children, has been extended to November 1 2.
Get copies of the lists of books and the rules from the Boys'
and Girls' Own Book Shop. Prizes will be awarded during
Children's Book Week
Testing
Your Literary Knowledge
Following are 1 2 -questions which will
be of interest to. all readers:
What was the first book published in Oregon?
What did "A Gentleman With a Duster" write?
What is the world's greatest poem and why?
Who was the greatest diarist?
What author has overcrowded ships sailing in the South Seas?
Name five of the most prominent Oregon authors.
What writer produced the best historical novels about Oregon ?
Who is your favorite Dickens character?
Can you name the five greatest poets of all time?
What is the greatest sea story?
What is the philosophy of Edwin Markham't verse?
. Nominate five American authors for the Hall of Fame.
We are offering, for the first five sets of answers most nearly correct
in the opinion of ihe judges, whose names will be announced later,
copies of John B. Horner's book, "Oregon: Her History, Her Great
Men, Her Literature."
Tickets for the series of lectures on DRAMA AND
POETRY by Maurice Bro&nc and Ellen Van
Volkenburg are on sale in the Book Department of
The J. K.
Third and Alder
of the enslaving world into fellow
ship with God are we ome.
And there must be joy in that
worship. This must be a happy serv
ice, radiant and jubilant. Sursum
cordo, the old Latin command, we
must heed lift up your hearts. "I
was glad when they said unto me,
let us go into the house of the Lord."
Too often is seriousness made sepul
chral fcnf the sacred sad. It. L.
Stevenson one time ?aid, 1 have been
to church and I am not depressed"
Worship should never be depressing.
It often touches our wounds, and
opens up fountains of remorse. But
always it should apply the balm
which comforts and the mercy which
forgives. Joy must be here.
There must be In the service also
moral inspiration. There must be fur
nished the power which will energize
men's lives for the coming week.
Men need on Sunday to escape from
questions of profit and expediency
and desire and to value life accord
ing to the standards of right and
wrong. They need to rehearse their
conduct in the light of God's pres
ence. They need to bring out their
acts and their motives and to have
them assayed by the divine chemist.
Here we seek to Judge human con
duct by his standards and to conform
ourselves to his will.
The church service must also be a
time of enlistment for service. Here
God gives us to ste "the needs of a
world of men" that calls louder than
-the path of gold." Worship and work
must not be divorced. Worship is
not worship which sends us forth
idle and at ease. As we worship the
Christ who died upon the cross we
are Inspired to go forth to suffer and
to serve, to give our lives as he did
for others.
So we worship with reverence and
reality in spirit and in truth. We
a re told that God seeks such to be
his worshipers. God la looking to
us constantly as we gather from
week to week eager for the worship
ful response from our hearts. For
us the church service must be a
Mount of Transfiguration, a time
when we see the king glorified In all
his beauty and all his majesty. We
wish, as did the disciples, that the
vividness of that vision might re
main; but no, we have to go down
into the valley, back to a week of
work when the vision will be more
dim and the sense of God's presence
difficult to hold. The "task in hours
of insight willed can be through
hours of gloom fulfilU-d.
So we shall live until the spirit of
worship shall permeate all our work
and the Joyful fellowship with God
which we experience in the hurch
will become an unbroken experience.
President Wilson, Marechal Koch, Mr.
Bonar Law and others. Mr. Punch's
comment on the Illustrations for the
volume is "that (at least of the civil
ians among them), whatever gifts
providence showered upon them, it
withheld the faculty of choosing a de
cent "tailor a testimony perhaps to
their fundamental seriousness."
Speaking of the character Quln in
Alice He Ran Rice's recent novel, one
writer says. "I shall remember the
amiable resourcefulness of Quln long
after that hero's local habitation and
his name have vanished from my mind.
It stands alone likehe Cheshire cat's
grin, and, to do It justice, is almost as
taking."
Tetrazzinl has told her life story In
a new volume called "My Life of
Song," full of anecdotes, strange ad
ventures and whimsical touches.
"Tired Radicals" is a collection of
short papers by the late Walter E.
Weyl reprinted from various jotirnnls.
Gill Co.