THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAN, PORTLAND, JUXE 4, 1933
AMERICAN SALVATION SAID TO LIE IN RETURN TQ FAMILY ALTAR
People Declared to Desert God and Bible for Dancehalls, Poolrooms, Theaters and Other Places of Amusement Old-Fashioned Spirit of Religion Needed to Insure Check on Crime and Build Foundation for Future.
BY JACOB STOCKER,
Tasior of Clay-Street Evangelical Church.
"The Significance of the Altars of
the Bible" is the subject of a sermon
delivered by Jacob Stocker, pastor of
'Clay street Evangelical church.
Text: Genesis 12.2. "And Abrara removed
from thence unto a mountain on the east
of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having
Hethel on the west, and Hal on the east,
and there he builded an altar unto the
Lord, and called upon the- name of the
Lord." -
EVERY religion has had its sa
cred places. Naturally the na
ture of the religion has influ.
enc-ed the conception of the sacred
place. There have been holy caves,
holy trees, holy fountains, holy tem
ples, etc. Among the Hebrews the
altars were older than the temples,
and they were among the first to.
register the religious sentiment, and
to give expression to the religious
instincts.
The author believes that man orig
inally was perfect but that he fell
from his high estate, and although
man still is in the image of God, yet
that picture is marred by the fall.
Nevertheless every person born in
this world, if he be of sound mind,
has a religious instinct, expressed in
the human race in holy places of
divers kinds. The first recorded
altar Is that of Noah as we read "And
Noah builded an altar unto the Lord,
and took of every clean beast, and
of every dean fowl, and offered burnt
offerings on the altar." The first
thought that we like to convey Is,
that after times of judgments we
ought to erect an altar unto the Lord.
Judgment of Flood Fast.
The awful judgment of the flood
had passed. And what kind of a
judgment it was! "And the waters
prevailed exceedingly upon the earth,
and all the high hills, that were under
the whole heaven, were covered. And
all flesh died that moved upon the
earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and
of beast, ami of every creeping thing
that creepeth upon the earth, and
every man; all in whose nostrils was
the breath of life, of all that was in
the dry land, died. And every living
substance was destroyed which was
upon the face of the ground, both
man, and cattle, and the creeping
things, and the fowl of the heaven,
and they were destroyed from the
earth, and Noah only remained ajive,
and they that were with him in the
ark."
And then we read that the first
thing that Noah did was to erect an
altar unto the Lord. Not a word we
hear from Noah against the Judg
ments of th Almighty, not a word
of censure because the great Jehovah
had destroyed so many thousands of
souls. In the judgment of the flood
Noah perceived the mighty arm of
Jenovah. We are reminded of the
saying of Abraham Lincoln when in
his second inaugural address he said,
"The Almighty has his own purposes.
Woe unto the world because of of
fenses, for it must needs be that
offenses come, but woe to that man
by whom the offense cometh. If w
shall suppose that American slavery
is one of those offenses, which, In
the providence of God. must needs
come, but which having continued
through his appointed time, he now
wills to remove, and that he gives
to both north and south this terrible
war as the woe due to those by whom
the offense came, shall we discern
there any departure from those di
vine attributes, which' the believers
in a living God always ascribe to
him? Fondly do we hope, ferxently
do we pray that this mighty scourge
of war may speedily pass away."
Yet if God wills that it continue
until all the wealth piled - by th
bondsman's 250 years 1 of unrequited
toil shall be sunk, and until every
drop of blood da-awn with the - lash
shall be paid by another - drawn
with the sword, as was said 30K
years ago, so still it must be said,
that the judgments of the Lord are
right and righteous altogether. The
great statesman and the great think
ers of the race have always perceived
this truth, and it is only the false
prophets, and the unbalanced - and
superficial arch optimists, that cry
"Peace, peace," when there is no
peace. The true Hebrew prophets of
Jehovah, whether they were Isaiah,
or Jeremiah, or Ezekiel, or Daniel, or
Amos, or the rest of the true orophets
of Jehovah, always " predicted im
pending doom, unless the nation
would repent of its idolatry and sin.
Return to Lord Urged.
These patriots urged' the people to
abandon their idols, and to return to
the altar of the Lord. - The world has
Just passed through the most awfui
war of history. Have we learned the
lesson? Did we stop as !a nation to
take inventory, to consider the assets
and liabilities? The judgments of the
Lord are right and righteous alto
gether, and the history of the world
is still the judgment of the world.
Are we erecting an altar unto the
Lord . in America. Was the hand
writing on the wall sufficiently clear
for us to read? "Weighed in the bal
ance and found wanting?"
What America needs today more
than anything else is to build, an altar
unto God. What America needs today
is a new Jonathan Edwards, or a
Moody, or a John Wesley, to call the
people back to God. It will never do
for us to boast of our progress, and
oup civilization, after the terrible ex
periences of the last war. As yet the
judgment was not on America, it was
on Europe, and though our casualties
were heavy in human life and money,
they will not compare with the cas
ualties of Europe and the misery of
hat continent.
It will never do to. say that we are
the chosen nation, the peculiar people
of Jehovah. Israel was the chosen
nation of old, and yet,' when Israel
fell into Idolatry, the Almighty sent
the judgment of the 70 years' captiv
ity on his own beloved people of Is
rael. But we also read that these
judgments were followed by punish
ment of Assyria and Babylon. The
omnipotent God relgneth, he has not
relinquished his scepter. He sits on
the throne of the universe, and God is
always right. "And all is right that
seems most wrong, if it be his sweet
will."
Signs of Alarm Seen.
Thus far we have been the favored
nation of Jehovah, and America has
been and .still is the promised land
for millions of the oppressed. How
aver, there are signs abroadthat spell
ruin. - Our spiritual development is
not keeping pace with our material
progress, and we are progressing
much faster along: material lines, than
we do along spiritual avenues. The
decay of family life, noticeable in the
phenomenal increase of divorce, in
the growing independence of chil
dren, in the menace of the sensuous
movies, the materialistic tendency of
secular education, the substantial in
crease of crime, all these dangerous I
symptoms are alarming even the non
religious and liberal minds of Amer
ica. '
Our great civilization will not avail
us, unless we are able -to stabilize it
with the injection of the spiritual ele
ment in life. Where are the civiliza
tions of the past? What has become
of Egypt, and Babylon, and Assyria.
and Macedonia, of Rome, Greeee, of
the empirtj of Charlemagne, of Napo
leon Bonaparte, of the German em
pire? Are we an empire that is still
rising to its climax? Or have we
reached our zenith and is the tend
ency downward? The great men of
the nation, the true prophets of Amer
ica, are calling the nation to repent
ance, calling it back to God.
Babson, the great American statis
tician, to whom the world of finance
listens as perhaps to no one else, calls
the people of America back to the
altar of the Lord. He says that what
this country needs is a nevival of the
good old-fashioned religion of the
type of the prayer meeting. William
Jennings Bryan is doing the same
thing, and here and there we hear
voices that call the nation back to
God. And as Noah builded an altar
unto the Lord, aftr the terrible judg
ment of the Lord, so we should erect
an altar unto the Almighty. If we
don't;, the judgments ' of omnipotent
God will come on us, as they did on
the civilizations of the past. . .-
Travelers that return from Ger
many tell us that the churches are
crowded. Bishop Nuelsen of the Meth
odist Episcopal church tells that in
some places in. Germany the minis
ters have to inform the people that
visit the morning service on Sunday
not to return for the evening service,
so that others might have an oppor
tunity to visit the house of God.
Bishop Heinmiller of the Evangelical
association tells us the same experi
ences?, that often they had to elbow
themselves through the masses that
had gathered 'in the sanctuaries to
reach the pulpit from which they had
tc preach. The judgment has fallen
on Germany and the people are build
ing an altar unto the Lord. When
ever a nation returns to God, that na
tion will win out in the end, and un
less the rest of the European nations
are following the example of Ger
many, and unless they are returning
to God, and erect an altar, to their ut
ter c6nsternation they will find that
their former enemy will recuperate
faster than will they. "Godliness is
profitable unto all things, and has the
promise of the life that now is, as
well as of that which is to come."
"Blessed is that nation whose God is
the Lord." After times of judgments
wc should erect an altar unto God, as
did Noah. -
We notice further' that -Abram
builded an altar unto bhe Lord, for
in Genesis xii:7 we read: "And the
Lord appeared unto Abram and said.
urto thy seed w'll I give this land,
and there ouilded he an altar unto
the Lord, who appeared unto him."
Uot only is it necessary to erect an
altar unto God after divine judg
ments, or to prevent them, but : an
altar is to be erected if the Lord has
appeared' to us. Has the -Lord not ap
peared to our natjon and country?
Ws it not his providence that guided
the Pilgrims and the Puritans to this
shore? Has he not blessed America
with material assets of divers kinds?
Who placed the yellow metal into
the bowels of the earth, or the coal
that heats, our homes? Who gives
the sunshine and the rain so that the
grain will grow and the fruit will
ripen? Who furnishes the air that we
breathe, and without which we would
instantly die? To whom- do we owe
this beautiful land, this beautiful
state? Do we thank him for beauti
ful Oregon, with its majestic moun
tains and lovely valleys, with its
thousands of orchards and Its wealth
of timber? '.:'-, .
, Debts Owed Creator. '
The Lord Almighty has appeared
unto us in a thousand ways, and how
are we treating him? To tne author
it seems amazing that the omnipotent
God has and exercises the infinite pa
tience with us that he does. Hundreds
of thousands today in America rise
every ' day without thinking of the
Gcd who appeared unto them, without
saying grace at the table or thinking
of the author of all good and perfect
gifts, without' thanking him at the
close of the day for the multitude of
blessings that they receive. Every
man or woman in Amercia owes their
very existence to Almighty God, and
yet thousands forget him. When the
Lord has appeared unto us we must
erect an altar to his service, as did
Abram.
The third reason why we should
erect an altar unto the Lord is obedi
ence to the commandment of the Lord.
"And they came to the place which
God had told him of, and Abraham
built an altar there, and laid the
wood in order, and bound, Isaac his
son, and laid him On the altar on the
wood, and Abraham stretched forth
his hand, and took the knife to slay
his son." (Gen. xxii: 9-10.)
Obedience Is Needed.
God erected the altar In obedience
to His express command, and wheri
ever we have no altars in the nation
or in our homes, we are disobedient to
God. We are one of the most blessed
nations on the face of the earth. God
has showered his mercies on us in a
hundred different way. We are hardly
touched by the war. These kind of
things ought to make us appreciate
the goodness of God, and to be obe
dient to his commands. Abraham
was oDeaient to God, and we read
that God blessed him. Whenever in
America there are no altars, there is
disobedience to God, and the Al
mighty punishes it surely.
"The mills of God grind slow but
they grind excedingly fine." Inces
santly the prophets of Jehova had
called Israel back to God, unceasingly
they urged the people to be obedient
to Jehovah, to cease from worship of
idols and the heathen abomination.
With, breaking heart Jeremiah pre
dicted the impending doom of the na
tion, but without avail. Isaiah
prophesied the impending judgments
on Israel, as did Jeremiah to Judah.
However, these judgments were to
come conditionally. .
How often we read "And God re
pented of the evil." The judgments
of the Almighty are conditional, they
will come or not- come on nations or
individuals according as they behave.
Jonah predicted the destruction of
Nineveh; and after the preaching of
the prophet Jonah, we read, "So the
people of Nineveh believed God, and
proclaimed a fast, and put on sack
clothfrom the greatest of them even
to the least of them. And God" saw
their .works, that they turned from
their evil ways, and God repented of
the evil that he had said that he
would do unto them, and he did it
not. The judgments of the Almighty
are conditional, and 'he will reward
nations and Individuals according as
tlfey do. ' " '
We f urtHer notice that . Abraham
erected an altar unto God, when he
was in trouble. In times of trouble
we should worship at 'the altar, be
that altar now in the home as a
family altar, be -it the Church of God
on earth, be it some sanctuary some
where, some shrine, where we remem
ber the Lord. What a pity it is that
thousands in this land go through
anguish and through trouble of all
kinds without the comforting pres
ence of God and or Christ. The altar
of God, wherever It is, and whatso
ever that it may be is an agent of
mercy. -Trouble
never leaves people the
same, either it makes them better, or
it hardens. How many after the loss
of a loved one have chided with the
Almighty and reprimanded him for
his mysterious dealings. They went
through the great trouble of their
lives without the comforting presence
of their God and Christ, without any
consolation of our holy religion. That,
I say, is a disaster and a calamity.
The altar of God sweetens the hard
experiences of life.
: Somewhere across the sea a farmer
placed above his front door in letters
of gold the following: "Linquenda" (I
must leave it). He wanted to be re
minded of the fact that sometime he
would have to leave his house. It
reminds us of the truth that there if)
nothing down here on earth that ws
will not have to leave. Write it over
your bank book: "Linquenda." I will
have to leave it; write it over the
door of your house: "Linquenda." I
must leave it. Mother! write it on the
forehead of your child. Daughter! in
scribe it on the brow of your mother,
or father, or the dearest thing that
you have or own on this earth, "Lin
quenda," I must leave it. Things on
earth are loaned to us for a short
while, and we pass on.
The altar of the Lord helps to
sweeten the hard experiences of life,
and as Abraham erected an altar unto
God, after the terrible experience he
had when commanoea xo cimue ji
own son Isaac, so we should build an
altar unto the Lord in trouble. Wash
ington, the father of this country,
had such an altar when he knelt in
prayer before battle. : Lincoln knew
of such an altar., when he urged
others to pray to God; McKinley wor
shiped at such an altar when he
died in the sweet peace of the Saviour.
The great problems of .America at
this time, and the great need of the
world, demand an altar unto Jehovah.
The erection of the altar will stabilize
and keep America steady- -.. . ,
Altar Protests Sin. .
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iCeals; that we have sworn to protect! The good old Puritan fashion of the
our homes against the invasions of
licentiousness and impurity; that we
;.re the guardians of the coming gen
eration and that we have equally
iworn eternal enmity to sin of all
kinds, whether found in high or in
; The fourth reason for the erec- low playes, whether practiced in the
tion of the altar is that this act
constitutes a protest against sin and
wickedness. "And Joshua discomfited
Amalek and his people with the edge
of the sword, and the Lord said
unto Moses, write this for a mem
orial in a book and rehearse it in
the ears of Joshuas for I will ut
terly put out the remembrance of
Amalek from under heaven. And
Moses built an altar, and called the
name of it Jehovah-Nissi; for he
said, because the Lord has sworn that
the Lord will have war with Amalek
from generation to generation.
(Gen. rvli: 16.) Amalek, grandson of
Esau, who was born "after the
flesh," and the progenitor of the
Amalekites, Israel's persistent enemy,
is a type of sin. Moses erected an
altar unto his God and called it
"The Lord Our Banner," in remem
brance of the promise of God, that he
would utterly destroy Amalek from
under heaven. . - - . - .
Let this ring into our ears today:
God will destroy Amalek, God -will
punish sin. God's children are erect
ing an altar unto God as a protest
.against Amalek. There is never
dying war between good and ievil,
between the devil and , heaven, be
tween Amalek and God's hosts. We
are not the children, of Amalek'- we
are erecting altars unto the God of
heaven as a protest against sin and
wickedness in the world.
It. is said that Hannibal when a
little boy swore a holy oath of never
dying hatred against Rome, and he
vroved faithful to it to his last
breath. The child of God, the Chris
tian, has sworn allegiance to the God
of heaven, and he has sworn eternal
enmity to the kingdom of darkness.
Whoever is on God's side will erect
.an altar unto Jehovah and Christ as
a protest against Amalek. -
The Amalekites are in America to
day. There are those that are pro-
taning the sanctuaries of Jehovah, j
that trample on the sacred institu-
tiohs of the nation, that desecrate the
Holy day" of the Lord, that consider,
lightly the sanctity of the marriage
vow, that trample under foot the
purity of womanhood, that wallow in
filth and impurity, that poison the
manhood and womanhood and child-,
hood of America "With visions of
scenes rjf unspeakable obscenity, that
make light of the church and its min
istry and depict it as committing
crimes in order to build sanctuaries.
The Amalekites are in the land.; We
S6e them- crowd our dance halls and
our theaters; we see them in dens
cf iniquity in unspeakable debauch
and alas! We see them invade the
sanctuaries of the Christ of God and
practice abominations in the name of
the Lord.
"Holiness becometh thine house, O
Lord," buf the Amalekites are threat
ening to invade the sacred precincts
of God's house to practice the -rites
cf the Amalekites. Let us remember
that we have sworn never-dying al
legiance to God and to Christ, to
r.ghteousness and justice, to purity
courts df the land or in the north end.
Devil Erects Temples.
Let us remember that the Amale
kites are without an altar of God;
they worship at the shrine of Bachus
cr venus. - We find the temple of
the Amalekites in the land, temples
erected to the God of wine, commonly
called "blind pigs;" temples erected
to Venus, the goddess of unlicensed
pleasure. We need not go to pagan
China or India to find heathen tem
ples. We find them in Portland and
everywhere in America. The altar
cf the Lord is a protest against the
Amaleklte In the land, against sin and
wickedness of every description.
The fifth reason for the erection of
an altar unto -God is that God might
reveal himself in time of crisis.
"And Elijah said unto all the peo
ple, come near unto me. And all the
beople came near unto him and he re
pa'red the altar of the Lord that was
broken down. And it came to pass at
the time of the offering of the eve-
i.ing sacrifice that Elijah the prophet
came near and said, Lord, God of
Abraham, Isaac and of Israel, let It be
known this day that thou art God in
Israel." 2 Kings 18, 30, 36.
It was a time of crisis in Israel.
On the one hand the followers of
Baal, on the other hand the few wor
shipers of Jehovah. Thus it 's today
and it might be appropriate to be re
minded of the immortal poem of
James Russell Lowell: -
Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide.
In the strife with -truth and false-hood,
Fnr fh vnnA np svll -Ida
rSome great cause, God's new Messiah,
, uner.ng eaca the Bloom or blight.
And the choice goes by forever
'Twlxt that darkness and that lhrht
Then to Hide with truth 1 noble, '
When we share her wretched crust.
Ere her cause bring fame and profit.
And "tls prosperous to be Just.
Then it is the brave man chooses.
While the coward stands aside
Till the multitude make virtue
Of the faith they, had denied.
By the light of burning martyrs
Jesus' bleeding feet I track,
Tolling up new Calvaries ever.
With the cross that turns not back4.
New occasions teach new duties.
Time makes ancient good uncouth,
They must upward still and onward
Who would keep abreast of truth.
Though the cause of evil prosper, '
Yet 'tis truth alone is strong.
Though per portion be the scaffold.
auu upon ine tnrone oe wrong.
Yet that scaffold sways the future,
And behind the dim unknown
Standeth God within the shadow
Keeping watch above his own. .
Materialism Seeks Control.
We are in the time of a crisis in
America. Mammon and materialism
are trying hard to gain the upper
hand. The country has gone pleasure
mad. The churches are empty. The
dancehalls, the poolrooms, the thea
ters, the places of amusement are
crowded. The prayer meetings suffer
from anemia. Not only with the
ramllv altar in manv so-called Chr.P--
tian homes is getting into disrepute.
The nation must go back to the fam
ilv altar, back to prayer, back to the. .
Bible, back to God. The children in .
the home should hear the voice m
father and mother in the reading of
holy scripture, in the voice of Invoca
tion. '
Recently in the obituary of William
Grote, one of the successful busints.s
men of Elgin. I1L, we read the follow
ing, "the fires upon the family altar
were ever burning.".-
It was Paton. the great missionary
to the New Hebrides, who said, "If the
impossible should ever happen, that I
should forget my God, there would,
be one thing would call me back
again and this is the reading of God s
word and the voice of father and
mother in prayer at the family altar."
On one of the posters of the inter- -church
world movement we saw de- .
picted a mother in the home, with a
little, child kneeling at her feet with
folded hands praying to the friend or
the little children, and underneath,
printed the words, "This Faith Hath
Made America Great."
The family was one of the good old i
Puritan traditions and is fraught with
blessings for the individual and for
the nation. It is said of the father of
the great Scotch evangelist McNeil .
that every morning before ha left the
humble home to work in the nearby
coal mine, with his dinner pail in hand
he stopped at the threshold and said,
Now once more I'm going forth in
the name of the God of hosts.", If .
every home In America were a minia
ture church, where fathers and moth-
'ers would rear the children in the
fear and admonition of the Lord, all
the problems of America could be
easily solved. Crawford, missionary
to darkest Africa, anthor of "Think
ing Black," when after 21 years of
absence from the continent he spoke
in a chapel service of Willamette uni
versity at Salem, Or., remarked the
following: "The Patriarchs, wherever
they went, erected an altar unto' the
Lord, but I am shocked to notice.
after an absence of 21 years in dark
est Africa, that American families are -pitching
the altar out of the window.'.
Rome's Fall Recalled.
' Rome began to decline at the cli
max of prosperity with the deter'.ora
ton of the family life. No civilization
will endure that emphasizes the. ma
terial to the exclusion of the spiritual.
The salvation of America is in the sal
vation of the family, and true old
fashioned godliness, with father and
mother and children reading the word
of God,' lifting up their voices in
prayer for benediction upon the home,
with the parents giving the good ex
ample of worshiping at the altars of
the church, by faithful attendance at
the weekly prayer meeting and the
services on Sunday. - These things
would do more to decrease crime and
disobedience of children, and would
do more to check the pleasure and
amusement craze than all other edu
cational measures combined could ac
complish. We have reached a spirit
ual crisis in this country; we have ar
rived at the parting of the ways. The
spiritual salvation of America can be
accomplished only by returning to the
altar. May the prophetic voice never
be hushed that will call the people of
world, but with the Christian people this nation to the altars of God.
Our Railroads Tomorrow, by Edward Hun
gerford. The Century company, New
York city.
Written in chatty, informing fash
Ion, this book of 332 pages creates
decided interest in what it has to say
concerning American railroads.
Mr. Hungerford has been studying
and writing about railroads for 16
years. He has investigated the sub
ject at first hand in various sections
of this country and has made two
trips to Europe to look into the sit
uation there. He states that in one
period of six months he covered 240,
000 miles of line in the United States.
He has been writing articles on rail
roads for years in such periodicals as
Harper's, Century, Saturday Evening
Post, Collier's, Metropolitan, Mc
Clure's, etc. A book of his published
some ten years ago, "The Modern
Railroad," ran through five American,
editions and - was also published in
England.
"Our Railroads Tomorrow" is a dif
ferent kind of book on American rail
roads the problem from a new angle.
The author has frankly left aside, to
a great extent, the history, economics
and finance of the railroads. He
discusses them as a human problem,
service and need. His book serves to
emphasize a growing tendency, plain
ly observable in recent years, to con
sider railroads in their aspect of a
public service. He appeals strongly
to the imagination when he shows
clearly the national character of the
problem he Is keenly aware that the
railroads are to America what ships
are to England, and that our railroad
problem is one that must be solved.
It may be well to emphasize that
"Our Railroads Tomorrow is no
wish-book or dream-book of railroads
in some Utopia. Historically, the
work goes no further back than the
beginnings of the world war and the
Mc.Adnn administration. "Our Rail
roads Tomorrow" is a book of the
present and particularly of the fu
ture. It does not believe in govern
ment ownership. It favors the for
mation of a new activity the crea
tion of the United States railroad
and a plan for the leasing of regional
railroads to private corporations for
operation solely. It is assumed that
the new board would Include better
correlation between our steam rail
roads, highways and inland water
ways. The corporation' might have
vested in it "the title of all freight
cars, Pullman sleepers and the rep
resentation of our American rail
roads overseas." Mr. Hungerford
comes out strongly in favor of such
a new railroad scheme, which should
be "a federal corporation and noth
ing else. Once the centralized or
ganization has been created, prompt
decentralization is quite as essential
to the situation. Follow in the main
the scheme used by those vastly suc
cessful private organizations. Stand
ard Oil and the Bell telephone, and
the equally successful government in
stitution, the federal reserve bank,
and set up regional and highly au
tonomous separate organizations."
The Immigration Problem, ' by Jeremiah
v. Jenks, Ia. L. D.. and w. Jett Lauck.
Funk & Wangalla company, New York
city.
This is the fifth edition of a valued
book which is brought up to date, re
vised and enlarged by Rufus D.
Smith, associate professor of public
economy. New York university. It
is so. thoroughly modern that it in
cludes the "three per cent" immigra
tion law of 1931, and other laws and
regulations from those of 1917, with
figures revised to conform with the
United States census of 1920.
This volume is a digest of the fa
mous 42-volume report of the United
States immigration commission. Dr.
Jeremiah W. Jenks and Professor W.
Jett Lauck, the authors, were both
members of the United States immi
srration commission and the revision
and enlargement of this fifth edition.
is well done. It will be seen that
"The Immigration Problem" lacks
nothing in authoritativeness.
Other features of this new' edition
are the careful revision of the entire
text, the addition of all available
data, and the addition of three im
portant new chapters on "Immigra
tion Problems of Other Countries";
"The Race Problem in the Pacific,"
and "Present and . Future Restric
tions." Here is a non-partisan, clear-cut,
authoritative work of equal interest
to all sympathizers with both capital
and labor, business men, laymen.
sociologists, clergymen, government
officials and political economists. The
writers are not advocates of any
specific doctrine, but interpreters of
facts. Their conclusions have been
based on a long study of a mass of
statistics and arrived at only by the
preponderance- of evidence for them.
The opinion generally expressed in
this book is for a wise and sensible
restriction of immigration. A main
tenance of standards is advised as
being best for the present and future
of America.
rors. Patrons who discover anything
wrong in this volume will do the
publishers a favor that will be much
appreciated by reporting such errors
promptly."
Through the Shadows, by Cyril Arlington.
The Macmillan Co.. New York city.
Bright, amusing and sometimes
rather Improbable, this novel of cur
rent English society - depicting the
sor of church history, at the Catholic
.university of America. -
The book is a: noble, informing one,
of 864 pages and is a small treasure
house of Catholic church history, and.
of the times in which the late arch
bishop was such a ruling, powerful
churchman and patriot- Dr. Guilday's
previous work "English Catholic Ref
ugees on the Continent," is accepted
by experts as a standard in English
ui A n... will luoiurjr. no io Bleu
1 .-, V" ' known by his zeal to promote his-
Bullinger's. Postal and Shipper's Guide for
the United States and Canada. New Eng
land Railway Publishing Co.. Boston.
Clearly printed, well edited and in
cluding well selected information, this
issue of a valuable business office
book merits approval.
This guide is longer than that of
pVs j ;
Mrs. Grace Livlnprston Hill, au
thor of "The City of Fire."
last year, due to a better quality of
paper, and really is several pages
larger. It is without a serious rival
anywhere. It contains every post
office, railroad station and United
States fort, with the railroad or
steamer line on which every place in
the territory is designated or the
nearest communicating point is lo
cated, and the various delivering ex
presses, also a list of railroads and
water lines, terminals and mileage.
This number is 51 and the work was
established in 1872. Pages are 1240.
In such a large work as .this, with
a perfect mass of figures, errors may
have crept in, but, if so, they are not
apparent. A note on the last page
says: "There are a few people in
tombs along the banks of the Nile
who are not making mistakes. It is
difficult for live Americans to keep
up the pace set by those dead Egyp
tians, but the publishers of this guide
are doing and have done everything
wiuunt human power- to eumlnate- r-
an idle hour or two.
"Sir Richard Atherton laid down
the letter which he had been reading,
with a prolonged sigh of satisfac
tion, and' helped himself liberally to
the marmalade. . 'That's all right;
they're coming on Monday,' he ob
served to Captain England, who, hav-in-rr
already finished his breakfast,
was in an armchair engaged in a
study of the Times newspaper. Cap
tain England continued to read the
paper with the gloomy air of a
sportsman in late August,, wnen
cricket had ceased to be interesting,
and the gtudent is fobbed off (?) with
the Inglorious annals of women, play
ers of croquet and boy players of
lawn tennis.
Any news, old chap?" inquired
the baronet, with a courtesy too
marker to be disingenuous.
"The captain grunted again.
Usual sort of rot,' he answered,
gloomily, 'one 'silly old ass writes" to
say his son s twice the man he was
since he took to playing golf. An
other silly old ass has started to run
to Birmingham and back. That's
whtit we pay threepence for.' "
Such are sample paragraphs of the
opening of this English novel, which
is as English as roast beef and plum
pudding. Sir 'Richard is an English
landed proprietor who lives on the
income of property which he inherits.
He and Captain England had been at
Eton school together and they both
had gained glory in the world war.
Demobilize!, Sir Kichard -had noted
that Captain England apparently
could .not secure any employment
and the baronet made him secretary
and general estate manager. Word
comes that Thomas Jenkinson, con
servative member of parliament for
the Dray worth division jf Shropshire,
had resigned that position, and that
a proposal is made that Sir Richard
be invited to contest the vacancy. Sir
Richard agrees. In the meantime, he
had made arrangements " to Invite
guests for a party at his country
house. He planned to ask as the
hostess1 his cousin. Lady Mary Sum
mers. He was secretly in love with
a fair American, Miss Diana Branson,
whose mother is a spiritualist. To
induce Mrs. Branson and. daughter to
to accept the invitation, Sir Richard
had announced that his friend, Pro
fessor Lapaski, the spiritualist, was to
be one of the guests.
Now, the fact was that Sir Richard
did not know Lapaski and had in
vented him Sir Richard remembers
that Captain England is a distin
guished amateur actor, and he per
suades England to disguise himself
and to impersonate Lapaski. Mr. Wal
ton, a rich brewer, and an uncle of
Sir Richard, has also been asked to
the party, and as another guest is a
near prohibitionist, poor Mr. Walton
is asked to hide the fact of belne a
brewer and to pretend that he is a
recent arrival from India. Other
guests are asked also to hide their
reai 10.eniK.1es ana to appear as other
people.
A good deal of innocent, silly fun
follows. The inevitable love story,
for once, occupies a secondary place.
The City of Fire, by Grace Livingstone
nail, uppmcotra, Philadelphii
This admirable American novel im
presses by its power in construction
cf characters and also a fine spirit
ual quality.
The Life and Times of John Carroll, by
reter uuuaay. illustrated. The En-
- cyclopedia fress, Kew York city.
The distinguished and learned au
thor of the biography of John Car
roll once archbishop of Baltimore,-
and who died December 3, 1815 is
docteur es sciences morales et histor-
iques, Lou vain, Europe, and profea-
torical studies by the formation of
the American Catholic Historical as
sociation, and by the Catholic Histor
ical Review, of which he was the
founder and first editor.
The preparation of this book must
have been the work of years, and
the amount of research work im
mense. Many historical documents
relating to the subject that have
been lying in the quiet of European
libraries for nearly a century, have
been examined, with profit. , It is
stated that the archival depots of
Rome, , Paris, Westminster, London,
Stonyhurst, Liege and Brussels were
examined, also the Episcopal archives
of Baltimore, Detroit, Quebec New
York, Boston, Philadelphia and old
Vincennes.
John Carroll, afterward archbishop
of Baltimore, was born in Upper
Marlborough, Md., in 1735, and was
descended from an Irish family that
had emigrated at the beginning of
the 18th century. He was a blood
relative of the famous Charles Car
roll of Carrollton, one of the signers
of the declaration of American independence.
It was the custom of well-to-do
American families of th time, when
John Carroll was a youth, to send
sons and daughters to Europe for
an education, and accordingly John
Carroll became a studen'. at St.
Omers.
Correction with the ferrule was
the ordinary .mode - of punishment
Students rose at 5 A. M. and retired
at 9 P. M Trapball was their fav
orite game. John Carroll finished
his humanities in 1753 and then was
sent to the Jesuit Novitiate, in Wat
ten. That novitiate was completed in
1755, and Carroll studied philosophy
at Liege, Belgium.
Just then, various nations oi Eu
rope began the work of banishing
the Jesuits from their dominions, and
when the Jesuits had to depart and
leave all their property behind them,
John Carroll was a young scholastic
of 27 years. The Jesuit rule required
all who engage in it shall take a vow
of poverty, and John Carroll re
nounced all his property in favor of
his brother Daniel, and his four sis
ters. It is supposed that John Car
roll was ordained about the year 1769,
although it is stated, the exact date
is uncertain.
Rev. Mr. Carroll was 40 years old
when he sailed from England lor
his American home in 1774, and he
arrived just as the American revolu
tion was being formed. Heart and
soul he was with his fellow Amer
icans.
Space Is not available to recount
Rev. Mr. Carroll's multitudinous eccl
esiastical activities, and church work.
He was made vicar-apostolic of Lon
don over the United states in 1S4,
was elected bishop of Baltimore 1789,
and appointed archbishop oi Balti
more 1810. He saw the province of
T,nuisiana transferred from France to
the United States. The ecclesias
tical part of the new territory was
under Archbishop Carroll's jurisdic
tion. It may not be too much to
assume that he caused to be sent
nome of the earlier priests to the
then far-away Oregon country.
Archbishop Carroll, metropolitan of
the United States, died in Baltimore,
In his 81st year.
English and American Philosophy Since
Dy Armur Aenjun jvugers. IDS
Macmillan Co.. New York city.
Representing a small library of
learning within itself, this book of
468 pages, with index, discusses each
school of philosophic thought that has
flourished since the year 1800 in Eng
land or America, and states clearly
the views of the leaders of each
school. The survey is critical, but
discoursive and kindly. The author's
message is that the business of phi
losophy is to clarify and to bring into
harmony the fundamental beliefs that
are "implicated in our normal human
interests." A great number of au
thorities must have been studied toj
build up such a thoughtfully pre- j
sented eurvey of thought. ,
The chapter heads are: ocoiusn
realism; the utilitarians; autnority
and reason in authority; net realism
and evolution; absolute Idealism; per
nmi Idealism, nan-psychism and real
ism; pragmatism and neo-realism.
Such thinkers are aiscusseu s
wiiiiam Hamilton. Sydney smitn,
James Martineau, James Mill, John
Stuart Mill, the Oxford tecciesiaticai
movement, John Henry Newman,
Wordsworth, Charles Kingsiey, mat
ih Arnold Darwin and evolution.
Herbert Spencer, John Fiske, Carlyle,
Emerson, Tennyson, A. J. Balfour,
Pierce, Schiller, William James, John
Dewey and three figures of American
neo-realism, R. B. Perry, a. noij.
and E. G. Spaulding. The book would
be more attractive to the casual read
er and there would not be so much
eyesight strain were the paragraphs
made .shorter.
The Complete Kadio Book, by Raymond
Francis Yates ana i.ouis .
The Century Co., New York City.
hv the radio section of the
associated manufacturers of electrical
supplies, this book: or B3U pages is
friend in need for the radio enthusiast
The book is written by a widely
r. writer on ooDular scientific sub
jects working in co-operation with a
well-known ramo engineer, ivajjuumi
Francis Tates, managing editor em
ritua of Ponular Science Monthly and
radio editor of the New York Evening
Mail, collaborating with Louis Ge
rard Pacent, one of the country's most
able radio engineers, has been able
to tell the story oi radio in a mor
niio-hiv enlovable manner.
The boos; is reaoaoie irum wivct
cover. It outlines in a uuiiuii6
wa v the history of communication
down to the flashing of President
Harding's photograph across the At
lantic ocean. It tens now rauiu i
nsd on the seas; how it is useo in
h nir: how it is used in business
how it is used by newspapers; how it
is used by the farmer, it gives me
story of world-wide radio and radio
l thn home.
There is also published a number of
documents which seem to prove that
Ain wan invented by Dr. Loomis, an
American, several years before Mar
coni was born.
Two-Gnn Sue, by Douglas Grant Robert
M. McBrido & JO-, rew vi.j.
There is a freshness, a buoyancy In
this clever cowboy novel of the west
that the reader is captivated. The
scenes probably are laid in Texas,
Where ranch lands with the possibil-
itv of oil deposits are in demand.
Such a rancn is tne i-ircw oii, im
the boss of it is Miss Susanna Poin-4-.tAr
dead shot so much so that
h. la called Two-Gun Sue." Of
course there's a love story.
JTEW BOOKS RECEIVED.
KAfti!tam and the Average Man,' by Wil
liam H. Doughty Jr., LL..B., professor in
government. Williams college, a sensible
rtical exnlanation of the imprac
ticability of socialism. (Putnam's Sons.
The Notion Counter, by an anonymous
author, 108 pages oz amusing essays on
a variety of subjects. (Atlantic Monthly
Press, Boston.) ""
One Thousand Things Worth Knowing,
hv Nathaniel C. Fowler Jr.. 206 pages.
not an ordinary encyclopedia, but a con
densed explanation as to 1000 subjects not
generally known to the average reader
(George suuy ot i.. . i.
Bnecnlatlon. by Thomas Temple Hoyne,
divided into two parts, speculation and
ecomnoraic fallacies and principles and
rules of speculation the inner lesson of
the book Is speculation Its sound princi
ples and rules for its- practice. (Economic
Feature Service. 1014 So. Michigan ave.,
Chicago).
, Immortal Italy, by Edgar A. Mowrer. a
splendid presentation and study of modern
Italy since 1870, 418 pages. ID. Appleton
Co., N. T.)
Plot and Personalities, ex dwia S,
Elosson, Ph. D., aid June E. Downey,
Ph. D., clevejly and entertainingly writ
ten and giving a new method of testing
and treating the. creative imagination an
uncommon book; and The Laurentlans, by
T. Morris Longstreth, a sort of bright,
glorified guide book to the Laurentlans,
the home of the habitants, mostly In the
province of Quebec illustrated, 459 pages.
(Century Co.. N. T.)
Joining in Public Discussion, by Pro
fessor Alfred Dwight Sheffield of Welles
ley college, Massachusetts, just the book
for the times and one often sought for a
book that helps you to speak In public;
and The Moon Out of Reach, by Margaret
reaiar, an agxeeaDly written novel of Eng
lish life, with a remarkable heroine a
story that women readers will like. (Doran
Co, N. T.)
TH& LITBMRY PERISCOPE
yKCCXXCOOOOOOOCC
Literary Materials Desired.
A biological memoir of the late Sir
Ernest Shackleton is in prparation
ior publication this autumn. The
memoir will be written, with the au
thority and help of Lady Shackleton,
by Dr. Hugh Robert Mill; author of
xne siege or the South Pole." an old
and intimate friend of Sir Ernest
Shackleton.
Lady Shackleton says she will be'
extremely grateful to any friends of
ner late husband for the loan of any
letters or documents which will be of
use In compiling this memoir. The
letters will be carefully preserved and
returned as soon as possible to their
owners, publishers promise. . Lady
Shackleton asks that any communica
tion on- this subject shall be sent to
her, care of her publishers, Messrs
wiuiam iieinemann, 20 and 21 Bed
ford street. Strand, London, W. C. 2.
England.
$2000 Prize Awarded.
A messaes from tha - atiQntt
Monthly press, Boston, says: "The
7uuu funtzer award has been made
tO JameS TrBRlftW Ariama 1,
best historical book on the United
ataies, rne H ounding of New Eng
land.' The .Tnsfmh T3iilf7Ar -,..,. jn
American journalism and letters for
1.361 were announced May 21 by Co
lumbia university, and the prize of
J3000 for the best historical book on
the United States' was awarded to
James Trusldw. Adams for his book,
The Founding of New England.' We
confess this did not come to us as a
complete surprise, because the opin-
'" "i most autnoritatlve critics
in England and the United States
confirmed our early belief that Mr.
Adams" volume was of the greatest
importance."
SENSE OF HUMOR BIG HELP
Arch - Practical Joker Becomes
Successful Bank President.
Raymond G. Carroll in Public '
Ledger. . .
To succeed It is not necessary to
possess a morose,- harsh and eaturn--lne
nature. ' At the New Tork office
of .the state banking department at
tention was called to the remarkable
growth of deposits in the Dollar Sav
ings bank at 147th street and Third
avenue in the Bronx.
"This institution was established in
1889. it took ten years to get deposits
in the aggregate of Sl,000,000t" said
my informant. "When the first presi
dent, John Haffen, died 16 years ago,
the deposits had reached $11,000,000.
Then another man, George E. Ed
wards, took hold and in 12 years had
pushed the deposits up to $15,000,000.
He died four years ago when a third
president was selected, one who had
been one of the bank's organizers.
The increase alone in 1521 was $17,
000,000, and the aggregate deposits
today are $41,000,000..
"Who is this man?" I asked. Came
the reply: "Brian G. Hughes, who for
years was the arch -practical joker for
the metropolis. He is a man who
loves fun and threw his sense of
humor into the bank, with the re
sult that It permeated the entire organization."
Men who like a joke make their
way Chauncey M. Depew, former
United States senator, and Abraham
Lincoln are trite examples of men,
who itold ood sTLorieo n4, gvt on. .
BT JBNNBTTE KENNEDY.
Assistant Circulation Department, Public
Library.
QUOTED in connection with" Ray
mond Weaver's recent biography
of Herman Melville, is the great
mariner's amusing account of a Liv
erpool boarding house frequented by
American sailors, including himself,
and called "The Baltimore Clipper:
"Since each crew was known col
lectively by the name of its ship, the
shouts of the servant girls running
about at dinner time mustering their
guests must have been alarming to
an uninitiated visitor. .
" "Where are the Empresses of
China? Here's their beef been smok
ing this half four.' 'Fly, Betty, 'ny
dear, here come the Panthers." 'Run.
Molly, my love; get the salt-cellars
for the Splendlds.' 'You, Peggy,
Where's the Siddons' pickle-pot?" 'I
say, Judy, are you never coming with
mat pudding lor the Sultans?' " I
Melville relates that while his ship
mates engaged in talk and tippling
with old acquaintances, he sat alone
in the dining room appropriated to
the Highlanders, "meditating upon
the fact that I was now seated upon
an English bench, under an English
roof, in an English tavern, forming
an integral part of the British em
pire." Excavations for a new garage in
the catacombs of Rome brought forth
a hypogeum, or underground vault, in
which interesting frescoes were dis
covered in the fall of 1919.
Professor Lanciani, the eminent
archaeologist, recently has made the
announcement that ho believes two
of the portraits to be authentic and
possibly . contemporary portraits of
Saint Peter and Saint Paul.
The chamber contains three frescoes
of the 12 apostles, and in each of these
groups the heads believed to repre
sent Saint Peter and Saint Paul ap
pear in places of honor. The apostles
are pictured as robed in white with
bare feet, and they carry books and
rolls of manuscript, or appear in the
act of speakincT.
The fact that these portraits bear
a strong resemblance to the tradi
tional likenesses of the apostle'!
shown in the 'various churches in
Rome is a matter of comment Saint
Peter vigorous, square-headed, thick-
haired, Saint Paul ascetic, turn,
scholarly.
"Windows." Mr. Galsworthy's com
edy now being produced at the Court
theater in London, has brought aown
a torrent of criticism on the author:
"The play is a tissue of absurdities.
Mr. Galsworthy has never had a light
touch: the comedy sense is the most
intellectual of qualities, and a writer
of comedy who has a grievance or
complex is lost. But Mr. Galsworthy
is one mass of grievances and com
plexes. To listen to Mr. Galsworthy
trifling" with ideas is like listening
to a college 'blood' on women. There
is exaotly the same crudity, the same
lack of subtlety or Illumination." Such
Is the opinion of a dramatic critic in
the Spectator. ,
In "The Things We Are," John Mid-
dleton Murry has drawn an interest
ing character study of a "reserved
man" who makes a few attempts to
come out of his shell, but when he
does he suffers from the painful
process to such an extent that he
wishes ardently to get back to his old
"rigid frosenness."
"In Golf From Two Sides," by Roger
and Joyce Weathered, the latter con
sidered second best among women
golferB, and the former losing the
open championship last year by one
careless step, an interesting book on
the sport is presented. However, Miss
Weathered puts practice far above
theory, for she states that when a
beginner at golf she asked her brother
for advice, and his constant response
to her was: "It was no use telling
ma -anything.- since. 1 should -never ba
any good until I found out things for r
myself." Miss Wethered dealB with
driving and putting, while.Mr. Weth-
ered describes strokes through the
green with wood or iron.
.;"
A cracked head and a lost memory
are the chief assets of the hero in
I. A. R. Wylie's "Rogues and Com
pany." He is discovered on a London
doorstep and becomes the lay figure
on whom various identities are un
successfully tried, until after many
humorous complications a solution
finally is reached.
At last . Archibald Marshall has
written a story of action "Big;
Peter." The. central figure, -whoso
name gives the book its title, is trans-
TVl rt ( fl h riaoHnv 1 . . . .. . 1 :
' J .afcmuj . . 1, 11. 1. 11D AUOI.ttt.Aiaa .
bush to Cambray Castle, England,
where he is known by the more for
mal appellation, John Peter ChandoSi
"Tahiti," by George Cameron.- whet
signs himself Tahoti, is a carefully
written work on the South Seas
which is different from all the others
it has a charm of its' own. The
very first paragraph in the book en
gages one's fancy. Ho says:
xamti is an island about the sizs
of Middlesex, fished tip in the first
gray beginning of all thinsrs from
the middle of the Pacif io ocean on
mother-o -pearl hook bv soma
three-fingered god of the Polynesians."
Mr. Calderon tells of its muItJnla
blessings flowers and fruit every
where, no winter, nor malaria, nor
fever, : nor venomous Insects; of its
pure water and kindly beautiful
people. He tells of its discovery in
1606, and its rediscovery by many
tourists who have called It variously
the Garden of the Pacific, the Land
of the Lotus, the Island of Love and
other poetical names.
He says that "Europeans and Amer
icans have introduced coffee, manioc,
vanilla, oxen, goats, mice, mosquitoes.
neas, Dicycies, sewing machines, tele
phones, ice works, concertinas, cotton
frocks, corrugated iron, Christianity,
Mormonlsm, Munyon's remedies, milk
shakes, mouth organs, tuberculosis
and other amenities, which have
flourished exceedingly in that virgin
soil and caused a number of modifi
cations in the life of the natives,
known collectively as civilization."
The description, too, of his first
sight of the island is arresting.
Tahoti says:. "The ocean is so big and
vague; an Island is so small and def
inite. It wan as if the captain were
a conjurer and had pulled it out of
his pocket."
-
The likeness of the human machine
to an automobile is the comparison in
a new health book for business men,
called "Taking It on High," by R. R.
Daniels, wherein simple hygienic rules
are given for upkeep and sample
menus for repair. .
THE -GREAT
ADVENTURE
AT WASHINGTON
Tho Story of the Conference
By. MARK SULLIVAN
At Boekttarmt tlM
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
Cardan City, Nnr York
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