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THE SUNDAY ORESONIAN, POBTLAND, JUNE 18, 1932
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CHRIST'S SUFFERING IS STIRRING LESSON TO THE WORLD TODAY
Pastor Scores Teachers of Theologx Who Declare Atonement Futile and Foolish and Who Fail to Find Appeal to Mind or Heart Savior's Loneliness and Years of Sorrow Exemplifed in Story of Winepress.
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BY DR. W. B. HINSON.
Pastor of the East Side Baptist church.
Isaiah 63:3 "I have trodden the wine
press alone."
MUCH I have wondered about
the pre-vision of Jesus! I
have imagined Mary, the
mother of Jesus, sitting in the cot
tage at Nazareth reading this Book
of Isaiah from which I have taken
my text. And as her eyes rested on
its fifty-third chapter, and as in the
tearing of her boy she read these
deep words, "Me is despised and re
icted of men, a man of sorrows,
acquainted with grief," I wonder if
her voice broke in -her throat. I
wonder to what extent she identi
fied her boy Jesus with that
prophetic picture of the Messiah.
And I have wondered whether he
did not break her heart by asking
some evening as she read, questions
like these: "By whom will he be
despised and rejected, mother?
Who will be healed with his
stripes? Smitten by whom? Of
whom does the prophet speak?" Oh
it is not mine to look into this great
mystery. I only scan the surface of
it, but I have often wondered how
the pre-vision of Jesus worked
while he was yet of tender years.
And I have wondered greatly as
to the kind of questions he put to
the doctors in the temple. What a
lot we have got to find out in
heaven. The shame of it, that 30
years of the son of God's life upon
the earth is gone and there is no
record left but one solitary sen
tence! I wonder how deep he probed
into the condition of those ecclesi
astical men in the sanctuary of
God, and I wonder if he astonished
them by allowing his own mind to
dip into the future; and if fed by
the sentences he had heard his
mother read, I wonder if he put
questions to those doctors they
never forgot when their heads were
gray and th'eir shoulders stooped
and they looked through the open
door into eternity.
Paul's Words Recalled.
And then; I have wondered much
how Jesus felt when standing by
the Jordan he heard his great kins
man say, "Behold the lamb of God
The Vehement Flame, by Margaret De
land. Harper & Bros., New York city.
At the head of the first chapter of
this emotional and gifted English
novel appears this verse from the
"Song of Solomon," a verse which
is the keynote of the entire mes
sage which Mrs. Deland so well
portrays:
"Love is as strong as death;
jealousy is .cruel as the grave; the
coals thereof are coals of tire, which
hath a most vehement flame.".
Scenes are set in England, and
the theme is handled with com
manding emotional power. Its prob
lem element is well managed, al
though puzzling and seems to hark
back just a little to Hutchinson's
"If Winter Comes" at least now
and then.
The hero is Maurice Curtis, who
Is introduced at 19 years of age,
and who has just married Eleanor,
20 years his senior. He had just
.failed in an educational examina
tion and had come to live in the
neighborhood to study advanced
mathematics, when he suddenly
drifted into tne romance which
altered his life. Eleanor, who was
a staid school teacher, thought she
loved him and he thought he loved
her. So they ran away and got
married. They both were foolish
and romantic. Maurice feels ne
must get a job, as he calls it.
"I have a little money of my own," she
said, "six hundred a. year." !
- "It will pay for your hairpins." he
said and put out his hand and touched
her hair black And very soft and way;
"but the strawberries I shali provide.''
"I never thought about money," Bhe
confessed. .
"Of course not! Angels don't think
about money."
It turns out on analysis that
Eleanor is afflicted with - jealousy
about other women. She becomes
silly on this subject, and it is not
surprising that her young husband's
infatuation for her cools. Now and
then to her great confusion lie is
mistaken for her son. '
The "other woman" appears in
the person of one Lily. She lives
with a man who Is too often drunk,
Maurice happens to see this man
strike Lily, and he knocks the bully
down. Lily looks upon him as her
"preserver" and "a great hero."
Lily and Maurice are unduly inti
mate and Lily has a baby boy of
whom she says Maurice is the fa
ther. Maurice suddenly develops
what he calls 'Conscience," another
name feu- remorse. Eleanor dimly
6uspects that he has an affair1
with another woman, but keeps her
own counsel.
Maurice has a romantic attach
ment for Edith, a pretty school
girl. When Mrs. Curtis finds- out
about Lily and Edith she becomes
so despondent that she wadea into
a stream of water intending to take
her life, but on finding the water
too cold, she shivers with disgust
and wades out again in wrath. She
develops a cold from which she
dies.
Two problems confront this "Don
Juan Maurice Curtis": Shall he
marry Lily or Ediyi? What is his
duty in the matter?
It seems that Mrs. Deland rjlanned
this story about eight years agojj
with Lorin Deland, her husband,
who has since died.
The Escaping Club, by A. J. Evans. The
James McCann Co., New York City.
A collection of war stories princi
pally dealing with escapes of pris
oners of war from Germany, during
the recent world conflict, and told
with, captivating humor and bright
ness. The stories are so well told
that they not only serve the pres
ent, but will prove capital reading
say ten years hence.
One of the best stories in the col
lection is the account of Captain
Evans' own escape from German
prison camp to Switzerland, in June,
1917. Captain Evans insists that
however hard you try, and however
skillful you are, luck is an essential
element in a successful escape.
Strange to say, after escaping
from Germany, and then serving
with the British army in Palestine,
Captain Evans was taken prisoner
by the Turks.
The House Owner's Book, by Allen L.
Churchill and Leonard Wickender.
Tunk & Wagnalls Co., New York city.
All interested in the building of a
Jwwri, or in the management or di
rection of one, will welcome this
valuable book.
After assuming that the money
with which to build the house is in
sight, the authors proceed to give
the information and advice one
should have in order to build prop
erly, and without waste. , The rela-
who beareth away the ein of the
world." - I know what John thought.
He could see 'the multitudinous
lambs of sacrifice being slain, he
could see the ever widening river of
sacrificial blood aa it flowed, and
he saw the culmination and the ful
fillment of all those sacrifices in
the lamb of God, Jesus Christ. But
I wonder if when Jesus' ear caught
the word "lamb" as it fell from the
lips of John, he harked back to the
olden time when he heard his
mother read that fifty-third chapter
of Isaiah as he bowed at her knee
and I wonder if he recalled how
Isaiah said, "As a lamb" shall the
great sufferer of Eternity be.
I know how the Apostle Paul
looked at baptism and saw in it the
death and resurrection of ..the son
of God. I know how much Paul saw
in the baptism; but sometimes I feel
I would give my right arm to know
what Christ saw in that baptism
how much of his passion was re
vealed and borne home to him as
he sank beneath and emerged from
Jordan's water. "
And I have gone to Nazareth and
wondered, too, " when he preached
his great sermon there in the syna
gogue, and with such carefulness
turned to the book of Isaiah and
selected the particular place where
it said: "He was anointed to preach"
his great gospel to suffering, sinful
man, why, if he knew where that
text was, he knew where other texts
were. And if he was able to apply
that utterance to himself, then he
was able to read, "My God, my God,
why hast thou forsaken me?" and
apply that to himself also. And I
have wondered as I heard him
preach the greatest sermon he ever
did preach that marvelous "Serr
mon on the Bread of Life" when
he angered the people as he said,
"Except ye eat -the flesh and drink
the blood of the Son of Man, ye
have no life in you," and they went
away to talk with him no more, be
cause they said it was a hard say
ing. But I tell you in my judgment it
was a harder saying for Christ than
it was for them. Yes, and I could
keep on wondering, for have I not
listened to him when he said, "The
Son of Man is come to give his life
a ransom for many," and I have
marveled much as to the quantity
of information he possessed - about
that ransom giving. And when he
tive value of building materials is
explained does one prefer wood,
brick, hollow tile or stucco? What
roofing asbestos, asphalt, copper,
wood which is best? .How shall
the house be heated hot air, steam,
hot water, .vapor, vapor-vacuum,
gas, steam? What verot'ilattan and
water supply? What paints which
will be the best color scheme? The
book also advises as to the care and
conduct of the home how to handle
tools and do odd jobs around the
house in carpentry, plumbing and
painting; how to run the heater
economically; how to build a con
crete path or a garage; how to avoid
fires or save lives if fires occur;
what to do in accidents from gas or
electriaity; how to do repairing;
how to build an iceless icebox; how
to abolish the garbage can. The
message is thoroughly practical,
non-technical, written, in plain, sim
ple language, with illustrations, and
gives the big chance to profit by the
costly experiences of others in the
construction, care and conduct of a
home.
New Growths and Cancer, by Simon Burt
wolbach. M. D. Harvard University
Press, Cambridge, Mass.
Dr. Wolbach is Shattuck professor
of pathological anatomy, in Harvard
university. The message of which
this little book is a part, was, it
seems, originally delivered as a Sun
day afternoon lecture at Harvard
medical school. It is no doubt pub
lished in this condensed form, and
told in non-technical language, be
cause the position is taken that the
reading public ought to know more
about cancer, and should be advised
what can be done in time, as t
preventive measures.
We are told that "the unit of
structure of living matter is the cell.
Margaret Deland, author of "Tke
Vehement Flame," an English
problem story.
Under the microscope, these units or
cells are as fully evident as are the
stones or bricks of a building to the
naked eye but in the human body
there are many more kinds of cells
than there are materials usually em
ployed in building." It is stated.
later on in the book, that "new
growths or tumors of all sorts', in
eluding cancer, are composed of cells
which are derived from the -body of
the individual in whom the tumor
occurs. A tumor is a new forma
tion or mass of cells which arise
from pre-existing cells in the body."
Here the author discusses certain
malignant-diseases of" the human
body as to generative organs a
subject that cannot be discussed in
a newspaper.
A caution is given to watch all
tumors. It is thoueht that the so,
called "roots ol a cancer are simply
the irregular extensions of the
growth into normal tissues. They
are more like branches than roots.
should we feel obliged to obtain a.
descriptive term from botanical
sources. Cancer is by far the most
malignant new growth. Cancer is
not. infectious and is not hereditary.
Cancer is definitely associated with
the long persistence of process.
iooseiy caiiea enronic inflammation,
in the location in which they arise.
Tnere is cancer of certain occupa
tions; of peculiar practices of peo
ples; in association with chronic in
fectious process of -skin and mucous
membranes.
Dr. Wolbach mentions chimney
,sweep s cancer, due to the mechani
cal and chemical action of soot, and
warns gardeners who use soot as a
fertilizer or fangicide, worker in
carbon ' factories, and, those who
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said, "I, if I be lifted up, will draw
all men unto me," did he know that
already the wood was grown that
would make the cross, and that the
nails had been hammered into
shapeliness? And did his tapering
fingers close "over .his sensitive
palm as he anticipated, the time
when the spike would strike
through flesh and blood?
And when he said, "All ye shall
be offended because of me this
night, for it is written, I will smite
the shepherd, and the sheep will be
scattered abroad," how much did
he know about the smiting? Did be
hear the swish of the scourge and
feel the sting of it about his shoul
der blades even before he got to
the judgment hall? And suddenly
did his' beautiful brow contract as
he thought of the coming moment
when the thorns would pierce it
thickly and deeply?
'Tree tor Cross Known.
And when he went into the gar
den of Getbsemane, saying, "My
Father, here is a cup; it is a terrible
cup, undrinkable; let it pass." I
wonder if by, the flickering moon
light he could see the varied awful
ingredients that made up that cup.
I may not speculate. I am only an
infant crying in the night with no
language but a cry, but I know
by myself that he must have known
a great deal, and then I know by
himself that he must have known a
great deal I have never imagined.
I know he knew from all eternity
the hillock where the cross would
be raised. I know he knew, the
bramble was growing that would
pierce his brow. I know he knew
where the tree was, out of which
they would make his cross. But you
know suddenly he sunk all that
knowledge in Bethlehem's stable,
and he knew no more when Mary
bore him on her breast than my lit
tle grandchild not a year old knows
tonight. But then he began to
learn. I wonder how fast he learned,
how quickly the knowledge came,
how large it was, how vast, how
broad, how high, how deep, how
tragical! I wonder if what he knew
did not make him look as if he were
50 years old when he was only a
little over 32? But there I stop,
handle tar, paraff ine, aniline oil and
other products of the distillation of
coal. These workers are thought to
be subject to cancers of the hands
and face.
As to cure, the author says that as
cancer is a local disease, and that
there Is always a stage when com
plete removal, -with cure, is possible.
"Successful surgical treatment then
Is a matter of early removal." Any
ulcerations, any lump . appearances
that do not readily heal, are sus
picious, and medical attention is ad
vised immediately, toe book says.
Dr: Wolbach points out the grav
ity of cancer as a disease, and says
that the number of fatal cases
throughout the civilized world is es
timated at about 2.5 per cent. He
thinks, however, that cancer is not
increasing, and that there is some
thing wrong about the story as told
by statistics. He Bpeaks with ap
proval as to our general habits of
living. i
Dr. Wolbach' does' not mention any
speeifl.? to dure cancer, and It is
qustionable if there is one.
An eminent American surgeon in
a recent lecture said: "We do not
know exactly what causes cancer.
But as to preventatives: Do not
drink or eat anything very hot or
very cold. See to it that you have
regular bowel evacuations. -Watch
any bodily irritation, or a sore that
won't heal. Live quiet, good tem
pered lives. Submit regularly to the
examination of a regularly qualified
pnysician.
Two Plays. Stewart Kidd Co., Cincinnati.
"Mirage," by George M. P. Baird,
is a curious, dramatic play depicting
realism, love and thirst among the
Hopi Indians, and certain white peo
ple. There are six persons in the
play of one act. The pages are 36.
The Ghost Story" is a one-act
play by the celebrataed Booth Tar-
klngton. It may be briefly described
as a play for young persons, ten
in all. It is most amusing, and de
picts principally the love-making of
George and his Anna. George is a
shy lover, and he has a great diffi
culty in bringing himself to the
point of formally declaring his love.
He speaks in short, jerky sentences
and Anna demurely replies "Yes.
George."- The lovers are subject to
various interruptions by their young
society friends.
Bennett Malln, by Elsie Singmaster.
Houghton, Mifflin Co., Boston. -Written
in serious, cultivated
style, this fine American novel tells
a story with a simplicity and sin
cerity that places "Bennett Malln"
into the front rank of contemporary
American fiction.
The hero on being first introduced
is a student in the Tremain sem
inary and he is "preparing for the
ministry, but a great call comes to
him from within to be a writer of
books of fiction and for a time
he is torn between the two des'res.
His personality is a powerful one;
and in the recital, his happiness,
trials and temptations are sharply
contrasted.
How to Make a Home Badio Set to Cost
JTom B to szu. copyright 1H22. by
B. J. Flynn. The Universal Press. Chi
cago. Within the 'space of 64 pages and,
within paper covers, our author tells
in simple, understandable language,
without perplexing technical terms,
just how to make a home radio re
ceiving station. It is 'stated that
these instructions for constructing
a home receiving station were pre
pared by the United States bureau
of standards in response to the re
quests from, beginners who wish to
know in simple language, just how
to make an Inexpensive, practical
working set.
The Health Care of the Baby, by Louis
jriacner, m. J-. funs: & wagnalla Co,
New York city.
A little, book that is of great
value to all concerned. It is an
authority for mother, and nurse,
and discusses all that the infant
baby needs, as to airing, bathing,
clothing and dieting; and with
chapters on fever, injuries, acci
dents, etc A new edition of a fa
vored book that is completely re
vised. Hoax, by a.n anonymous author,
H. Doran Co., New York city.
George
Talent of an unusual order 4s
shown in the creation of this mod
ern novel. Its central text is love.
The hero is dissected mercilessly
and his many affairs of the heart
are described with a skill that
makes the reader curious to know
more of his doings.
Watchers of the Sky, by Alfred Noyes.
Frederick A, Stokes Co., New York
city.
Space is not available at this time
for an extended notice of "Watchers
of the Sky," a book which because
of its literary excellence in verse
deserves two or three readings be-
resting my case., Beyond I may not
move. But, I have wondered about
the pre-vision, the far-sightedness
of Jesus Christ.;
' Loneliness Is Amazing. '
" And then I look Into- my text again,
and I wonder at the strange loneli
ness of the Christ. Somebody has
said there are two kinds of solitude
place and spirit. That is not so.
There is only one solitude and that
is of spirit, not of place. How can
you isolate a merely gifted man and
confound him with a solitude of
merer position and circumstance and
environment? Why a man can hear
the nightingales of the south sing
in the Sahara desert! And a man
can see the blossoming flowers on
mid-sea. There Is no solitude of
place if the soul is right. ?
But there is a solitude of spirit.
There is a manjn the Hebrew book
who has the most illuminating sen
tence regarding that that I ever yet
read. "No man cared for my soul."
That is when the man fell- down
past beauty of the world, music of
the world, friendship and kindred
and love, until he struck the bot
tom, and he said, "No man cared for
my soul." And there is a solitude
created by character. Can you con
ceive of a worse hell than a poet
having to live out bis life among
BWinish materialists? Can you real
ize anything worse than absolutely
unflecked purity having to live
down in the stench and sewage of
abominable sin?
Then, if you can, you can imagine
something of the loneliness of the
Son of God; as in absolute purity
and light from the very heart of
Jehovah he walked among sinning
men. He was lonely. And he was
lonely because his character isolated
him from everybody in the world.
There is a loneliness of shame. If
you have read Hawthorne's "Scarlet
Letter," you know how the woman
with the scarlet letter on her breast
was always lonely. Now I must be
careful, for if I make a slip here
I may be damned for it. Jesus
Christ had no sin in him, but Jesus
had the sins of the world on him.
He knew remorse, not by experience
that, was personal, but h6 knew it.
The parable of the rich man and
Lazarus shows it. He knew how a
prodigal felt in the far-off country,
though he had never been there.
When they said he was crazed and
had a devil, do not believe for one
fore one can justly pass on its
merits. The present notice must
therefore serve as a beacon light to
guide to the many literary treas
ures within not as a final estimate.
Reverence for God the Creator is
the central thought in this sterling
book of verse.
Mr. Noyes takes the Idea that
great scientists, discoverers and in
ventors are the torch bearers of the
world, each receiving the torch of
learning and carrying it forward un
til it must be passed to their suc
cessors. In this manner our poet
tells in inspired verse stories of the
astronomers . Copernicus, Tycho,
Prahe, Kepler, Gallileo, Newton and
their successors down to the mod
erns in the Lick observatory.
Here are thoughtful lines:
The center of all things. There he lives
and reigns.
There infinite . distance into nearness
grows,
And infinite majesty stoops to dust
again;
All things in little, Infinite love in man.
Oh, beating wings, descend to earth once
more,
And hear, reborn, the desert singer s
cry: . ,
When I consider the heavens, the work
, of thy fingers,
The sun and the moon and the stars
which thou hast ordained, ,
Though man be as dust, I know thou art
mtnHfnl tf him:
And, through thy law, thy light still
vlsiteth him.
Radio for Everybody, by Austin C Les
carboura. Illustrated. Scientific Amer
ican Publishing Co., Munn & Co.. New
York city.
Our author is a scientific author
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In 334 pages, with index, Mr. Les
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Art of Amplifying"; "Transmitting
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the Damped- Radio Telegraph"; "The
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C. W. Telegraph Transmitter"; "The
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Sea and in the Air"; "Radio in
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"How. to Construct Simple Radio
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Radiophxxnie Programmes," and "The
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This is a new dictionary from
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Truth About the Jews, by Walter Hurt,
Horton & Co., Chicago. .
The complete title of this hook f
344 pages is: "Truth About the Jews:
told by a Gentile."
The Jewish "Criterion," Pittsburg,
Pa., in speaking of this look', says:
"The most talked-of writer in the
Jewish press today is Walter Hurt.
We feel that our readers owe him a
vote of thanks for hiB splendid work,
Rarely have we encountered Buch an
Intelligent and thoroughly under
standing analysis of the Jewish sit
uation from the viewpoint of a Gen
tile." In this book Mr. Hurt lauds the
Jew, and discusses him a-pprecia-
miriute that Jesus passed it' by with
a pitying smile bordering on con
tempt. It stung! And when one said,
"He Is a blasphemer," and he knew
nobody could ever love and honor
the father as he loved and honored
God, it stung! And I who have gone
up and down those streets and those
byways of Palestine reading those
four gospels and keeping step with
Jesus Christ, I tell you I have seen
him wince and noticed him start,
and have seen the red flush his
white cheek, and the moisture gather
about his eye, as he realized how
desolately Isolate he was made . by
the shame of sin! He was lonely.
Suffering Is Shameful.
He "came," says the fourth gospel
with a tremendous suggestlveness,
"He came unto his ovA, and his own
received him not." The poet of the
southland has talked about the trees
being kindly disposed toward Jesus'.
But that is poetry. For with its
thorns the earth pierced him. Upon
its wood the earth let him be cruci
fied. He came unto his own' and the
sunshine burned him and the rain
soaked him, and the stones In tne
road bruised his feet. Yes, he came
unto his own, the world he had cre
ated, and the world, knew him not.
And he came' unto his own people.
He was a Jew, he is a. Jew, he will
always be a Jew. When you have
been in heaven millenniums number
less as the stars In the sky, you will
still have .been saved by a Jew. He
oame unto his own. And the seed of
Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob did
him to death. He came, the match
less patriot of all the ages; and the
city of Jerusalem that he loved and
that he delighted to look at, whose
streets he walked and whose tem
ple he frequented, would have none
of him. And the Jews, his own coun
trymen said, "His blood be on us
and on our children."
And it has been on them till this
night; and it is on them yet; and it
will be on them tomorrow morning:
and it will be on them until by it
they are- cleansed from their un
belief and iniquity and they say,
"Blessed is he that cometh in the
name of the Lord." He came unto,
his own, a little household in
Nazareth and they received him not.
"Do you not think more of me," said
the young wife to Mohammed and
the great blasphemer said, "By
tively as a man and citizen. The
history of the Jews is examined and
pronounced good. Their family life
with its quiet, domestic virtue, is
praised sincerely. The book is one
of reference, and can be accepted as
such. Sometimes Mr. Hurt criticises
the Jew and points out what' he calls
faults of manner and conversation
for Instance on page 115.
On page 181 we read: "On the Jew
depends the salvation of society; in
him rests the hope of humanity's
regeneration. He will spread a
bountiful feast of brotherhood in
which all men shall share. Whoever
interprets correctly the ideals of Is
rael must know that the Jews are
indeed the chosen people chosen
not for special benefits, but for a
special mission."
Some of the more important chap
ter heads are: Causes of race an
tagonism; solidarity and exclusive
ness; approval of mixed marriages,
as a means of Judaizatlon; the
Fordian frenzy; Jewish culture and
achievement; religion of the Jews;
citizenship of the Jew; Zionism its
negatives and affirmatives; and the
morning breaketh.
Mr. Hurt writes that the world
is sick today of a mighty malady,
that it needs an infusion of ideals,
and that for this ailment Judaism is
the only specific In the social phar
macopoeia. .
The Book of Life, by Upton Sinclair.
The Paine Book Co., Chicago.
This wordy and boldly written,
book of 426 pages, which is -really
two volumes in one: "Mind and
Body," and "Love and Society." The
messages contained in them were
written with all -the economic radi
calism, for which Mr. Sinclair is
noted, and indeed some of the sex
questions he discusses at length us
to love, marriage and divorce had
better not be ventilated in the col
umns of a newspapef. The book Is
filled with our author's personal ob
servations, and with accounts of his
own adventures and experiences.
Tramping With Poet In the Rockies,
oy Stephen uran&m. uiuatr&iea. xj.
Appleton & Co., New York city.
A delightful account of a record of
a tramping, tour through the Gla
cier National Park and the Cana
dian Rockies, undertaken by Steph
en Graham and his friend Vachel
Lindsay, the poet. They met and
talked with many people by tne
way, natives. Mormons, Dukhobors
and others. A book that grows on
one and several chapters are so
interesting that they compel a sec
ond reading.
The authors have caught the true
spirit of vacation land.
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Everyday Life in the Old Stone Age.
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Exchange.
"Why do you think of moving
When you like your place out In
the country so much?"
"The place is all right. It's the
bunch that commutes. They're the
slickest lot of card sharks I ever
ran, latt -
Allah, no! I think more of the wom
an who married me first and "be
lieved in me when nobody else
would."
Christ might have had the con
solation of going to the cross know
ing him down In Nazareth there was
a little family who believed in him,
but Jie lacked even that. His own
in Nazareth believed not on him!
And I have taken my imagination
into that gospel sometimes, and I
have'llstened and I have heard a
sneer and hiss of contempt as his
own brethren said to him, "You
mountebank, go up to Jerusalem
and do your wonders where all men
can see you!" And he had to correct
his own mother.. -v
And he came unto nis own, his
disciples, his apostles, whom he
lifted up out of hell into heaven
and crowned them with glory and
honor. And do you know the story
of the twelve? One said, "Put $19.50
in that palm and I will sell you
my god!" And another with an oath
said, "'I do not know anything about
him at all!" And they all forsook
him and fled! The lonely Christ! Yet
deeper still. He, went into the
Garden of Gethesame.
There come times when the
strongest among us. longs for some
sensitive finger tip to, touch the
brow, for some one, to say, "I am
still loyal ;" and he felt that way
when one night to three men, who
went into Gethsemane, he said, "Sit
down there and watch.". And when
he ' came . back to them, with his
bloody brow and on his breast the
stain of the soil, for he had fallen
on his face, he found them asleep!
And he went back in his loneliness.
He waded "out into the deep water,
until he . said, "All thy waves and
billows are gone over me, the proud
waters have come into my soul."
and then he cried, "My God, my
God" everybody else went long ago
"why has thou forsaken me?"
And I have let fall the plummet
of my thought and Imagination into
that word "why" as Jesus asked it
of his father, but there never was
a line long enough to let the plum
met down to the bottom of its awful
and terrific significance. But there
he hung, the lonely Christ. For
saken, did Isaiah say? Isaiah saw
only a pinpoint where there Was a
Bky, as he said, "He shall be for
saken." He surely was!
: I have-wondered about his pre
vision and his loneliness, and now
THE1 LITERARY PERISCOPE
BY JEANNETTE KENNEDY,
Assistant in Circulation Department of
the Public Library
THE author of "If Winter Comes"
is described as a delicate, shy,
modest man who is surprised
and almost nonplussed to discover
that he has become famous just
overnight. His real enthusiasm is
said, to be for china-collecting and
"hg also has a taste in dogs."
"I hate a straightforward fellow.
As Pinto says, if every man were
straightforward in his opinions,
there would be no conversation. The
fun of talk is to find out what a
man really thinks, and then con
trast it with the enorjnousr lies he
has been tellintr all dinner, and. per
haps, all his life." This sentiment
from Disraeli's novel, "Lothair," ut
tered by St. Aldegonde, is quoted' as
a key to the personality of its
author, in the opinion of Stuart F.
Sherman.
The combination of the "rag-time
poet," Vachel Lindsay, and Stephen
Graham, the traveled philosopher
and author of many books on Rus
sia, "Europe," "Whither Bound?"
etc., has resulted in a book by the
latter describing a trip together. - It
bears the title "Tramping With a
Poet in the Rockies."
With the Beatitudes in mind, Ida
M. Tarbell has called her studies
and impressions of the delegates to
tYie- Washington conference "Peace
makers Blessed and Otherwise."
Blue seems to be the fashionable
color for mystery stories this year,
for among the new ones are Sidney
Williams' "The Body in the Blue
Room," Augusta Goner's "The Lady
in Blue and Elizabeth Jordan's
"Blue Circle.".
Captain Scott's last dash for the
South Pole, with its tragic ending.
is one of the most dramatic chap
ters of Antarctic history, and now
to have the fully illustrated pic
torial record of the expedition is
made possible by the publication of
"The Great White South," by Her
bert G. Ponting, official photogra
pher with the Soott polar expedition,
1910-13.
.
Rupert Brooke directed in his will
that any money he might leave, with
the proceeds of his books, be divided
among three friends, who also are
poets, Walter de la Mare, Abercrom
ble Lascelles and Wilfred vGibson.
He stated his purpose: "If I can jset
them free to any extent to write
the poetry and plays and books they
want to, my death will bring more
gain than loss."
... 4
Stephen Leacock's genial humor
has found such a delighted response
among the many readers of his
"Literary Lapses," "Nonsense Nov
els," "Arcadian Adventures With the
Idle Rich" and others, that a new
volume by him, "My Discovery of
England," promised for immediate
publication produces anticipatory
crinkles of amusement..
...
That Beau Brummell, the eccen
tric dandy or in Carlyle's expres
sion the "Poet of Cloth" wis well
endowed with brains is demonstrat
ed by an anecdote which E. Beres
ford Chancellor relates: "As he
leaned one day upon the door of
Lady Hester Stanhope's carriage in
Bond street, a certain young officer
happened to pass. 'Who ever heard
of his father?' drawled Brummell
'And, by the way, who ever heard
of yours?' retorted Lady Hester.
'Ah! my dear Lady Hester, replied
the beau, 'who indeed, ever beard of
my " -ther and who would ever have
heard of me if I had been anything
but what I am? But you know,
Lady Hester, it is my folly that is
the making of me. If I did not im
pertinently stare duchesses out of
countenance and nod over my shoul
der to a prince I should be forgot
ten ia a week.' "
. . ,
The Child of -he Forest, ajsom-
ing novel of the tropics, is a de
parture for the "sailor-troubador,
as he has labeled himself, A. Sa
-froni-Middleton whose books are
usually so saturated with salt air,
5". -tf
Jiooks procured
reviewed at
onthis
GILVS
I am wondering about the wine
press in which he found himself.
I disagree with Alexander Whyte,
the greatest preacher of Scotland in
my day, in one thing. He has said
somewhere that that bgy down in
Nazareth had a perfect home where
only peace and happiness ruled su
preme. I think not so.- Can I re
call among the boys with whom 1
played, one who was good, unbe
smirched, truthful, tender, docile?
He Was hated! Yes that is your ex!
perience too -or rather I should
have said it was your observation.
You do not look as if it had ever
been your experience, most of you!
Christ Boy of Sorrows.
I believe he. was a boy of sor
rows, and acquainted with grief.
And I know he was as he grew up.
He could not have been otherwise.
We get a pretty good impression of
what life was in Nazareth by those
murderous thugs who heard him
preaching his first sermon, and their
eyes flashed and their fists clenched
and they said, "Take him "out to
the precipice on one side of the
town and dash him to atoms at its
bottom!" Ho was a man of, sorrows,
acquainted with grief, when he lived
in Nazareth, as well as when he
hung on Golgotha's cross.
And he continued all his life in
this wine press of suffering. There
are few things -rankle worse in the
heart than for a man to have his
speech misunderstood and misrep
rerented, twisted, contorted, made to
mean what it never was intended to
mean. Why I -read these four gos
pels sometimes, and it seems as
though he never opened his mouth
but there was some devil near to
twist the sentence; that he could
never let fall one of those golden
sentences, musical as heaven) itself,
but somebody turned It into a dis
cord. And he went through, life
with his head in a cloud of poison
ous flies, and - they buzzed and
stung him. .
"Lake Soul" Possessed. '
His was the lake soul, and into
it every single river of evil, an
noyance, peril, suffering flowed, un
til as I have already told you, he
said. "The proud waters that have
been surging around my- life 33
years have broken through and have
got into my soul." And when he
as in "Sailor and Beach Comber,"
"Confessions of a Life at Sea," "A
Vagabond's- Odyssey" and, "South
Sea Foam."
Apropos of Alfred Noyes trilogy
on tlhe romance of scientific discov
ery, the first part of which deals
with astronomical discovery under
the title, "Watchers of the Sky"
it is reported that when the great
hundred-inch telescope on the ob
servatory at the top of the Sierra
Madre mountains in California was
first operated Mr. Noyes was the
only person present not connected
with the observatory. The scene of
the prologue to "Watchers of the
Sky" is in the Lick observatory in
California.
In this connection Joseph Conrad's
statement made under the date of
1910 has at last been refuted. He
said in his essay, "The Ascending
Effort," "much good paper has
been lamentably wasted to prove
that science has destroyed, that it is
destroying, or, some day, may de
stroy poetry." Also Mr. Conrad re
ports that numerous lovers of the
obvious have remarked that poetry
has so far not given to science any
acknowledgment worthy of its dis
tinguished position in the popular
mind."
Mr. Noyes' 'splendid- tribute to sci
ence and men of science in his epic
poem, "The Torch Bearers," has in
troduced a new element into poetry.
...
A novel comedy has just been
produced at the National theater,
Prague. It is "The Life of Insects,"
by Karl and Joseph Capek. It is a
three-act drama based on Henri
Fabre's interesting analogies be
tween insect life and the human
world as shown in his scientific
studies.
The first act deals with the but
terflies light, social creatures like
their human prototypes. The beetles
and crickets, less lovely in their
follies, appear In the second act.
The efficient militaristic world of
ants supplies the medium for the
satire of the third act.
The play is provided with a sym
bolical prologue and epilogue.
World Seen In a Thimble.
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went into that wine press he used- -language
that I' hardly like to re- ;
peat, and yet he used it and the in
spired historian has written it down. ;
He said, "My soul is heavy," aneV
he did not stop by saying that. But
he said, "My soul is exceedingly
heavy." And he, the clear-eyed and
clear - tongued, seemed to get be- "
wiidered for a moment, for he said
what I might say, "What shall I -say?
My soul is exceedingly heavy...
It is sorrow full. It can hold no
more. It has got everything of sor
row in it. What shall I say?" iLii
he did not stop there either, but he
said, "My soul is heavy, exceeding
heavy, full of sorrow. It is sorrow- '
ful unto death." That is the way he
trod the wine press.
And you know when people tell
me today that he was only like
John Brown in his sorrow and suf -ferircg,
and when they have the in
solence to tell me teachers though
they be in theological schools that
the atonement is futil nd foolish;
and when they say - me as one of
them did. "I find nothing in the
atonement that appeals to my mind,
or heart, or l'fe," I say, "You fools!"
And I spell it with a capital "F,"
and I underscore it, and I do not
care what they make of it, fools
they are, dim of vision, else they
would see the Son of God as he
goes staggering into the wine press
and says, "My soul is heavy, it is
exceeding heavy, it is sorrowful:
It Is sorrowful unto death! What
shall I say? Let the cup pass? No!
Let me drink it, if it is right!" And
then they sneer at the atonement!
It seems they ought to be silenced.
I do not say they ought, but it
seems to .me as though they ought.
Well, that is the wine press!
Do you know what a wine press
is for? It is a place where the
pure grape, the beautiful purple
grape, the lovely sun-kissed grape
it is a place where the grape is
crushed until its life blood exudes
and flows, and it becomes the wine
of the world. And he went into
the wine press alone. And the wine .
press crushed him, until when the
great storm he encountered flung
him high up on the rock, he was
gashed and blcody and bruised. And
he looked like a man who had gone
through the Eurociydon. And I will
say in his nearing, it is a marvel
that even the strong Son of God
could hold or. and endure as he
stood in that wine press alone.
of this water on the slide of a mi
croscope and a new world is opened
up. One of the first creatures likely
to be seen is the hydra, a cross in
miniature between the octopus and -a
starfish. As it rests upon the stalk
of a water plant its arms wave to
and fro in search of prey. Let a
water flea the hydra's favorite
food touch one of them and his
doom is sealed. In a flash arm after
arm enfolds him Each is provided
with hundreds of fine stinging hairs
and fight as he will the water flea
is soon overpowered and drawn
down to the hungry mouth. The
water flea himself is one- of the
most beautiful inhabitants of this,
tiny world. He looks like a creature
made of fine glass for he is bo
transparent that you can see every
organ of his body.
It is possible to watch the action
of the hairs which surround his
head; these are in constant motion
and their action creates a current
which sweeps into his mouth a con-,
stant supply of the plants and mi
nute creatures on which he feeds.
Looking through the microscope the
passage of an atom of food right
through the organs of his body can
be traced. The heart is visible and
It is even possible to watch the cor
puscles of the blood as they travel
through the arteries and veins.
France's Kmpty Cradles Menace.
France's gravest danger is not ex
ternal but internal. If she perishes
it will not be by murder, as the
shrieking militarist politicians
would have the world believe,
but by suicide. She is a waning na
tion. Notwithstanding the accession
of Alsace-Lorraine, which approxi
mately compensated in population
for her war losses, she had nearly
400,000 less, inhabitants in 1921 than
in 1911. It will be only two or three
years now before she will cease to
be first of the Latin nations. Italy
will have displaced her. Germany
has five times as many babies in a,
year as sterile France. The traglo
significance of this is unmistakable.
No power of arms can indefinitely
maintain a people unable to replen
ish itself. A great French medical
authority estimates that, unless his
country's birth rate, speedily in
creases, in less than a generation it
will have degenerated into a second
class power of only 25 million in
habitants and a great military au
thority adds this touching and sor
rowful -warning: "France is dying
because her cradles are empty." All
the reparations in Europe cannot
compensate for this condition.
day without a battle
was good going
With every Indian tribe
in war paint, bent on stop
ping the white invasion,
with women and children,
to care for iin the deserted
wflds, with no resources
exceptunboimdedcotiraga
and plenty of gunpowder,
a handful of American
pioneers blazed the trail
to anew empire. Andwith
them went Molly "Wingate
and Will Banion whose
thrilling romance is un
folded in this extraordina