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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 25. 1922 EACH MAN IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE GODHOOD IN HIS OWN HEART i ; - , - Text Declared to Imply That if Humanity Is Examined Closely Enough, Something Infinitely Divine Will Be Found, Even Though Partly Obliterated by Passions of World Righteous Held to Hold Place. BY DR. CHARLES MaeCAUGHEY, Pastor of Centenary-Wilbur Methodiat Episcopal Churcb. 1 John, 3:2 "Beloved, now are we the sons of God." rtIS is a statement of tremen dous Import and far-reaching significance. If we could re alize all the implications contained tn this declaration our lives would be happier and our hearts richer than they are now, for the logic of this statement is that there Is some thing within every man that relates him to God. The writer is saying that If you examine- humanity close enough and long enough you will find something there that is infi nitely divine and worth while. The divine likeness may be marred and all but obliterated, but it is there. As the old hymn puts it: Down In the human heart, crashed by the tempter, Feelings lie burled that grace can re store ; Touched by a loving hand, wakened by kindness. Chords that are broken may vibrate once more. Eugene Field sings beautifully of the shell he found on the top of a mountain. Perhaps it had been flung there centuries before by some pre historic upheaval, but when he placed it to his ear it seemed to sing of the sea: Upon a movmain height, far from the sea, I found a shell. And to my listening ear -the lonely thing Xlver & sons of ocean seemed to sing. Ever a tale of ocean seemed to tell. Men and women are like that. Tou The Great Secret, by Maurice Maeter linck. Translated by Bernard Miall. The Century Co., New York City. "Do not look to find in this vol ume a history of occultism or a methodical monograph on the sub ject. To such a work,' one would need to devote whole volumes which would of necessity be filled with a great measure of that very rubbish which I would wish alone all to spare the reader." Such Is the common-sense warn ing written in the first page of this strange book of a great poetic seer. It is a book that repays much study and cannot be dismissed at one reading. - Maeterlinck had gathered into one great garner pearls of wisdom con cerning the origin, the plan, the purpose of the universe; the destiny of the earth and man; the nature of divinity, and the great problems of ethics. In his search after truth our author has gone back to the Hindus, Brahmans, Buddhists, Egyptians, Chaldeans and Greeks, the Gnostics and neo-Platonists, the caballsts, even the alchemists, the modern oc cultists and metaphysicians. Toward the end of bis book, Maeterlinck says that to understand the creation, to tell us whence it comes and whither it goes one would have to be its author. "The great secret, the only secret. Is that all things are secret," pro ceeds Maeterlinck. "Let us at least learn in the school of our mysteri ous ancestors to make allowance as they did for the unknowable and to search only for what is there; that is, the certainty that all things are God, that all things exist in him and should end "In happiness." A Short History of American Literature, edited by William Peterfleld Trent and others. G. P. Putnam's Sons. New York City. Based upon the "Cambridge History of American Literature," and edited by William Petsrfield Trent, John Erskine, Stuart P. Sherman and Carl Van Doren, this book is rich in message, intellect and inspiration. The pages are 428, with index. We read of the books and lives of Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Wil liam Cullen Bryant, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar . Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Haw thorne, Thoreau, Longfellow, Whit tier, Holmes, Lowell, Melville, Har riet Beecher Stowe, Lincoln, Whit man, Mark Twain, Howells, Henry James, Lamier, Joel Chandler Harris, Prescott, Francis Parkman, Henry Ward Beecher, Phillips Brooks, William James and others. The actual authors of sketches have been chosen wisdom and good fortune, have done their work well. these with They New Light on Living, by Dr. Axel Emil Gibson. Dr. Gibson, Los Angeles, Cal. A wonderful authoritative book on mother nature, health, habits and the wise selection a man should make in the choice and use of his food If he wants to keep in good health. Sometimes reformers arise to denounce our use of common salt, and speak of the harm it creates. Dr. Gibson takes the sensible mid dle view, and testifies to the mod erate use of salt as an oxydizing agent and as a cell restorative. The use of fruit is lauded and the evil of badly mixed diets pointed out. Thoughtful chapters are: An analysis of forced water drinking; the "unfired" food theory; pepper and salt friends or enemies? salt treatment as a cure for cancer and tuberculosis; the great fruit indis crimination, and self-directed evo lution. The Exemplary Theater, by Harley Gran-vtlle-Barker. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Such a cultivated observer as St. John Ervine says in the London Ob server newspaper that this is "the most thoughtful book on the the ater that has been published in England for a long time." The mes sage is written intelligently, with the critical sense ever present. It is argued that the ideal theater is neither to be built with hands nor planned on paper. It will be an intimate part of the people's life, and no one will mark the boundaries of its influence. Contents are: 'The Author's Preju dices, and Others," "The Educational Basis," "The Plan of the Theater as School," "The Theater as Play house," "The Production of a Play" and "Some Current Difficulties." Eight Comedies Tor Little Theater, by Perclval Wilde. Little, Brown & Co., Boston. Few writers have written more enjoyably for the Little theater movement than Mr. Wilde, and his plays are generally clever and amusing. This book of 178 pages, with notes, contains eight of his charming comedies. The Ship, by St. John G. Ervine. The Macmillan company. New York city. There is a humanity, a wistful tenderness in this three-act play of the present that takes hold of the imagination and keeps it until the last, the 94th, page is finished. There are eight persons in the may find them far away from God and truth and righteousness, but if you press your ear close enough to their hearts you will find that away down in the crypt and abyss of every man's soul there is something faintly a music like unto the music that God set ringing there at the dawn of his creation. We are the sons of God. Divinity Found In AIL And if that be true, and it is true, this declaration contains the further Intimation that the divinity that Is within us, rightly understood and Interpreted, may serve, at least to some degree, as a revelation of God himself. Jesus said something that is highly significant in this connec tion. He said, "The son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do." We have thought of that statement as refer ring only to him who uttered it, but we may say, with all reverence, that in a very real sense it refers to all men. The best and highest and holiest that is in) the life of any son of God must have first of all been in the heart of the father. I am not say ing that man measures God, for that would be absurd, but I am saying that man is the grain of sand and God is the mountain: that man is the water drop and God is the illimi table ocean, and that while these are parted by measureless spaces, yet in a very real eense the grain of sand does throw some light upon t'he mountain and the water drop an alyzed does to some faint degree explain the ocean. And I do say that when man comes to a realization of the best and rich recital. John Thurlow, a rich ship builder, has the largest shipbuilding yard in the world, and his one dream In life is that his eon Jack, a soldier who had seen army serv ice in France, should be "the" Thur low in the .shipyard. Curiously enough. Jack wants to-be a. farmer. Jack is an unnconscious poet and idealist He has seen so much of what he calls the "muck" of war that he thinks the clean, virgin as pect of nature ground and water is better when not soiled in trade, in commerce. His grandmother, old Mrs. Thurlow, as the book calls her, secretly approves of Jack's pacifist ideas. Mr. Thurlow, senior, is angry when Jack refuses to re-enter the Thurlow shipyard, and he bribes Captain Cornelius, who is fond of whisky to persuade Jack to resume shipbuilding. Jack wins his desire, and becomes a farmer, apparently, with his grandmother's money. Mr. Thur low, senior, completes his strange new steamship, an oil-burner, and without funnels. He says that a Thurlow must be On board of her on her first trip, and just then he becomes ill. Yielding to his father's entreaties, Jack proceeds to sea on board the strange-looking ship which , has been designed by his father. The conclusion is an artistic bit of literary work. The Crystal Coffin, by Maurice Rostand. Robert M. McBride & Co., New Tork City. Translated from the French by Alys Eyre Macklin, this novel is written by the elder son of the great Kdward Rostand, creator of the fa mous "Cyrano de Bergerac" and other plays of moment. He is I Miii'iiTr iiiiiirim insan Balm, N. Y. Maurice Maeterlinck, author of Tme Great Secret." descended on his mother's side from illustrious literary people. iius siranse, guteu story is iota in prose that reads like poetry. The scenes are mostly in France, and the persons in the recital are aristo cratic French people. The hero was born in 1892, and he is pictured as an idealist decadent, and also a neurotic. The book is filled, at first, with society adventures and experi ence. Then comes the world war of 1914. The hero confesses that he does not have the strong soul of a sol dier and consequently does not go to war. His father, to shame his elegant son, becomes a French sol dier and dies from his wounds. The son continues to dodge army serv ice and then comes a hint of trag cdy. A Vagrant Tune, by Bryan T. Holland. Small, Maynard & Co., Boston. Exceptionally quiet and placid in style and finely written, this story of sentiment is one to remember with keen pleasure, and its old fashioned charm lingers gratefully in the mind of the reader long after the book is closed. It is the pleas ant romance of an old-fashioned couple who sincerely love each other. The gentle heroine is Miss Lavender and she and her maid Eu phemia carry on much of the ac tion. The scenes are set in rural England. Mr. Holland is a grandson of Mrs. Gaskell, the author of "Cranford." Love's Crooked Path, by Wilfrid Robert Smith. W. B. Smith, Myrtle Point, Or. Skillfully written and presenting a variety of panoramic scenes in the far north, this story of 264 pages is the romance of a stenographer in the Alaskan wilds. Gold discoveries, personal adventures and sentiment are attractively presented. The Dingbat of Arcady. by Marguerite Wilkinson. The MacMlllan Co., New York City. v . "I have seen the utter blueness of the St. Lawrence under a sunny sky. I have seen the Brule rushing head long through Wisconsin, yellow brown In tbe spring, I cave seen f i - I J W i "iwiiiijijjui 3 est and holiest that is within him he may, through that which is within himself, get some faint inkling of the transcendent riches of the na ture of God. How is a man to ever know God in any degree? The an swer we make to that question will determine your happiness and mine more' than anything else in the world. For the thing that relates Itself most closely to your happi ness is not the sort of food you eat nor the clothes you wear nor the house In which you live itor any other material thing. The thing that lies closestto your happiness is your conception of God. No man, what ever comfort he may possess, can ever be truly happy if he has the wrong idea of God. And how are we to get the right Idea of God?. Someone says that we are to get it from Christ, for he is in the express image of God, and he is the one who said "He that hath seen me hath seen the father." That is gloriously and eternally true, and must forever be the theme of any preaching that is worthy of the name. . Many See Dimly. Thank God for the revelation of himself made in Christ, for all hungry hearted humanity. But to many, Jesus is a dim and far off historic figure. This should not be true, but it is pitiahly true. To many comes the longing for some very immediate, personal and inti mate glimpse of the everlasting father, and the implication of this text seems to be that there is such a glimpse of God to be found in that best and highest something that is within ourselves. ' r . This fact .that ' our own best the placid 'Isis' near 'Folly Bridge" in Oxford, and the dark, menacing grandeur of the Columbia. But the little Lewis river which we entered when we had crossed the Columbia, has as much character of its own as any greater stream that I know. The cloudy sage-green of its wa ters I have seen nowhere else." Such is one especially interesting quotation from this delightful book on vacation land. The author and her husband had their home in New York tate and planned to spend three summer months in the open. He was a school teacher and they had little money. They were then living in the west, and decided to spend their vacation floating down a river. They chose the Willamette river in Oregon. The trip began at Albany, Or., where pine lumber was bought to build a boat 14 feet long and 2 feet wide. Then began an easy, glorious trip floating down the Willamette for seven weeks. They called the vacation boat "The Ding bat of Arcady." While Jim worked the oars, the boat began to leak, and husband and wife were phil osophers enough to .take off their shoes and stockings and make the best of it.- The tourists sensed the beauties of nature and the delights of swim ming. They enjoyed the river near Oregon City and fell in love with the Clackamas river and Portland has this mention: "We had to pass Portland and her suburbs before we could go on into the Columbia and find wild country again. The river was busy and in dustrial. Large boats cut through the waters, leaving big waves in their wake. No good camper is happy under such conditions. We made all the speed we could to get past." - St. Helens a"hd Astoria get appreciative mention. Other trips were made in the re gion of San Diego, Cal., harbor, and in the neighborhood the travelers had several enjoyable fishing trips. The pilgrims changed in New York to an auto and traveling in England and Scotland used a mo torcycle combination called the ; "Rover Chug-Chug." I The American Party System, by Charles Edward Merrlam. The Macmillan company. New York city. Professor Merriam of the depart ment of political science in the Uni versity of Chicago bases what is contained In this valuable book of 439 pages on some 25 years of ob servation and study of the party system in this country, first-hand study of the party system in Eng land. Germany, France and Italy, and also on experiences gained while serving for six years as a member of the Chicago city council. He writes constructively, yet crit ically and with informing power. He analyzes the American political party system with an account of the structure, process and significance of the political party, and shows what the function of that party Is in the community. Naturally, a good deal of our au thor's observations concern politics In eastern states, but passing ap proval and review are given of such new measures as the initiative, ref erendum, etc. Thoughtful chapters are those on the composition and organization of the party, the spoils system and the party and the selection of official personnel. The limes History of the War, Volumes 21 and 22. Illustrated. The Times Newspaper, Printing House 8quare, London, England. These two handsome volumes, each measuring 12 inches by eight inches, complete an admirable, ex haustive history of the great world war, largely compiled from official documents and not obtainable else where. Volume 21 begins with the chapter entitled "The Navy's Work Com pleted" and ends with the 317th and last chapter on "The Break-up of Turkey." Attractively written de scriptions of the end of the war and after it, are furnished in the space of 472 pages. Volume 22 contains the general index of the whole work. Carpenter's New Geographical Readers Eurooe and South America, by Frank G. Carpenter. Litt. D. Illustrated. The American Book company. New York city. For years Carpenter's Geographi cal readers have occupied important places in teaching geography in our schools. It is an uncommon pleasure to meet with these two new vol umes, brought up to date, modern ized, improved, attractive in mes sage, and printed in clear type on excellent paper, with carefully arranged indices. "Europe con tains 5S5 pages and "South America" 399 pages. . , Stindry Accounts, by Irvin S. Cobb. George rl. uoran vo., rew xora vuy. In these ten short stories Mr. Cobb has given full play to the dramatic qualities that mark his delineation of American character. Often his sense of humor breaks in, but the eeneral trend of serious story tell ing is not weakened thereby. This book shows that Mr. Cobb has be come endowed with new power in the delineation of American middle- class folks, worth reading about. E. H. Harriman: a Biography, by George Kennan. nougnton, Mimin Co., .Boston. It is significant that next to the title page of this illuminating biog raphy appears this dedication: "To natures may serve, in however limited a degree, as a revalation of God, .is of great value in many ways. It is of value in proving the personality of God. . The fact that God is a person is the central truth in our religion, and it is the truth that needs most often to be re stated. The old-fashioned atheism that flatly denied the existence of God, is dead forever. Atheist Held Extinct. It has been laughed out of the world hy the laughter of universal derision and scorn. Even in the most remote village there no longer lives the bold and loud voiced citi zen who used to sit on the drygoods box and argue that there is no God. He is as extinct as the dodo. But in the place of that old-time atheism there has come a modern atheism that is infinitely more subtle and more dangerous than its predeces sor. This new atheism says that there is no question about the ex istence' of God, but that he is not a person. In the place of a personal God. that is, a God who can think, and know, and will, and love, this new atheism has substituted a vague, formless, indefinite something, called force, or law, or first cause, or divine principle, or some other hazy and impersonal name. Now this is absolutely fatal to religion as we understand religion. ' God Made Impersonal. It thrusts God entirely out of the moral realm, and makes all personal relationship with him impossible. As far as I am concerned, if God is not a person, then I care not one the memory of E. H. Harriman, whose services to the science of rail roading will hardly be reckoned, by those who know what his work was, as less than those rendered by George Stephenson himself. Mr. Ken nan paints human, sym pathetic word pictures of Mr. Har riman, the great American railroad king, and depicts him with both virtues and faults, but generally the former. The biography is completed in two volumes. Contents; Ancestry, boy hood and early life; the boys' club; entrance into the railroad field; Illinois Centrai and Erie; reorgan ization of the Union Pacific; recon struction and re-equipment of the Union Pacific; the expedition to Alaska; Kansas City Southern epi sode; acquirement and reconstruc tion of the Southern Pacific; rail road combinations; control of the Burlington; Northern Pacific panic; contests with Senators Clark and Keene; Harriman and the Erie; the contest with Santa Fe; Northern Securities company dissolved; Equi table Life investigation; far-eastern plans; life and work at Arden; changes in the Illinois Central; San Francisco earthquate and fire; the Union Pacific dividend in 1906; the Imperial Valley oasis; the fight wi.th a runaway river; the break with President Roosevelt; investigation of the Harriman lines; reply to accusa tions; the saving of the Erie; last years; and character and business methods, recollections, estimates and appreciations. Utah, the Land of Blossoming Vallevs. by George Wharton James. The Page Co., .Boston. A sub-title of this attractive, in forming book says that this is the story of the desert wastes of Utah, of Its huge 'and fantastic rock for mations and of its fertile gardens In the sheltered valleys; a survey or its rapidly developing industries; an account of the origin, develop ment and beliefs of the Mormon church; and chapters on the flora zxaxoxccaxxoxfxoccaxococoxc THBUIBRARY PERISCOPE- BY JEXNETTE KENNEDY, Assistant in the Circulation Department, I'uouc Library. "NT ANNERS are simply the shoehorn of society. They assist man to fit comfort ably into his surroundings but they are no more- a man than his socks are." "The real hero has courage woven into him, and is as honestly sur prised and annoyed at'all the people who gush on him for what he has done, as he would be if they played the band because his feet were small." These sentiments are from "Waste Paper Philosophy," by T. P. Cameron Wilson. Captain Wilson fell in action March, 1918. As an instance of the glamor with which the magician, Houdini, has surrounded himself, the story is told that when an out-of-town visitor was being shown the buildings around City Hall park recently by one of the New York city officials, the visitor remarked on the statue of Nathan Hale, standing there with his hands tied Behind his back. "Nathan Hale!" exclaimed the astounded of f iciai, ."Why. I always thought that was a statue ot Hou dini!" "In real life no one acts on the theory that he can have a public opinion on every public question, though this fact is often concealed where a person thinks there is no public question because he has no public opinion." This is one of the statements made in Walter Lippmann's clever analy sis called "Public Opinion." A Spanish proverb "He who Is willing accomplishes more than he who is able," is one given in "A Dic tionary of Spanish Idioms," by Leonard Williams, a volume recently published. The Spanish expression for sleeping out of doors is a pretty one which means "To sleep in the bed with the green curtains." The author of "Margey Wins the Game," John V. A. Weaver, an nounced recently that he was em barking on a book of prose pieces "in the American language." "There's nothing sadder to eye or heart than a very mobile thing made unmovable." "Robin," the sequel to Mrs. Fran ces Hodgson Burnett's "The Head of the House of Coombe," is due for July publication and the readers who enjoy, "the exquisite perfec tion of her heroines equaled only by the total depravity of her villains," as someone has said, will be inter ested in following furtmw the life story of Robin and Donal. The "best sellers" of last year are having their successors this fall, but no one can predict whether or not the second crop will prove to have a wide appeal. "Main Street." by Sinclair Lewis, is to be succeeded by "Babbitt" a fall publication. Lytton Strachey's "Queen Victoria" Is to be followed by a work dealing t whit whether or not there be any God. If he is merely a force like gravitation or electricity, or a law like the conservation of energy, if when in the moments of deepest personal need I lift up my hands and cry aloud, there is no strong hand stretched down to grasp mine, and no ear to hear my . cry and no mind to comprehend my need, then there is no God so far as I am con cerned. I can think of no disaster that could overtake the ordinary man, that would beA more complete and terrifying, than to rob him of his belief in a personal God. Where are we to find the conclu sive argument that God is a person? My text seems to say that we may find it in ourselves. The implica tion seems to be that personality tn God is a necessary condition to personality in man. The theory that denies that God is a person, must, if it is consistent, deny that man is a person. Tha is, of course, what the materialistic school ex actly does. . Man Considered Material. According to these thinkers man is merely a combination of chemi cals, and everything about him that we call spiritual may be explained through material causes. Herbert Spencer believed that natural or ganic conditions are the determin ing factors in ethics, and went so far as to suggest that the chemical constituents of the blood would probably explain every action and condition to which we attach a moral significance. If that Is true, It follows, of course, that the preacher of the future will not be a preacher, for why should men be and fauna, and on the scenic won ders that are a heritage to all Americans. Mr. James fulfills this promise and more, as one gathers from reading these 371 pages. A wonderful mind picture of Utah comes to the reader, and the book certainly repays study. The book is brightened with a map and 56 plates, of. which eight are in color. ' Senescence, the Last Half of Life, by G. Stanley Hall, Ph. D., L. L. D. D. Ap pleton & Co., New York city. A most wonderful and astonishing book for thoughtful people. Idle ones are warned away. Dr. Hall presents with marked ability the subjects of old age and death, from many viewpoints, show ing how the ignorant and the learned, child, adult and old, an cients and moderns, have thought of these problems. Chapter heads are: The youth of old age; history of old age; litera ture by and on the aged; statistics on old age and its care; medical views and treatment of old age; contributions of biology and physi ology; report on questionnaire re turns; the psychology of death, and conclusions. Radio Phone Receiving, edited by Erich Hausmann, Se.rx Illustrated. D. Van Nostrand Co., 8 Warren St., New York. This practical book on radiophone receiving is different from the usual radio books, because it is written by eight scientists of recog nized standing, some of them recog nized as being responsible for the great advance of radio. They are also experts who know radio tele phony, and are fully able to explain it to students and non-technical audiences. The nine specialists who write these chapters are: Michael I. Pupin, Alfred N. . Goldsmith, Erich Haus mann, Frank E. Canavaciol, John H Morecroft, Robert D. Gibson, Paul C. Hoernel, Louis A. Hazeltine and John V. L. Hogan. with personalities and literary themes under the title. "Books and Characters, French and English." Irving Bacheller s "Man for the Ages'' will be succeeded by another historical study "In the Days of Poor Richard." A greater novel than "If Winter Comes" is the promise of A. S. M. Hutchinson's forthcoming work, to be published September 1 "This Freedom." The title Is said to be taken from the dramatic conversa tion of Paul in the book of Acts, where -the lines read: "Then the chief captain came and said unto him, 'Tell me, art thou a Roman?' He said, 'Yea.' And the chief cap tain answered, 'With a great sum obtained I this freedom.' . And Paul said, 'But I was free born.' " m Desmond MacCarthy, of whose judgment I am always trustful, has said that the hall-mark of Bohem ianism is a tendency to use things for purposes to which they are not adapted. You are a Bohemian, says Mr." MacCarthy, if you would gladly use a razor for buttering your toast at breakfast, and "you aren't you wouldn't," quotes Max Beerbohm in "And Even Now" in the essay "In Homes TJnblest." ' The Browning society of Florence, Italy, is going to preserve Casa Guida, the Florentine home of Rob ert and Elizabeth Browning, as a memorial to the two poets. An at tempt will be made to restore as far as possible furniture, pictures, stat uary, so that their apartments will resemble as closely as may be the appearance they were when the Brownings lived there surrounded by objects of beauty and interest. In the spring number of "Voices," a new magazine of poetry published in Boston, Portland has the distinc tion of being represented by three poets Hazel Hall, whose charming verse has already won acknowledge ment and praise from critics, has a poem, "April Again." A young writer of verse who is personally well known to many people in Port land is Dorothy Collins, who pub lishes two poems in this issue, "In evitable" and "Return." The latter poem follows; The moonlight flickers pale upon the beach; ! Gray scarves of shadow lie' below the dune. A drift-log, flung beyond the water's reach, Rots slowly here, dull and white as the moon. The waves are cold and I can swim no longer; The sand is chill with night and wet with dew; But I must rest until my will is stronger And can shut out the memory of you. Have you forgotten how we two to gether Flung out defiance to the stars above? Raced with our shadows, . blew upon a feather, , And danced beneath if, mad with youth and love? ' I also might forget, did not the sea Forever sing our lost ecstasy. The third Portlander is Joseph Andrew Galahad, whose "Requie3 cat" begins: "l shall build me a house On the western side Of a mountain. Where the last long shade Of a -lean, tall tree Shall fall bcxoM my door. preached to if they are not free moral agents, and if their conduct is determined by the chemicals ini their blood? The preacher of the future will be a chemist. He will have an office downtown with shelves covered with bottles. Into this office will come the sinners of the community. Here is a noted thief, and the preacher chemist of the future takes a drop of his blood, analyzes it. discovers what chemical is lacking, injects the necessary ingredient into his blood and the thief goes out to lead an honest life forever more. Argument Held Logical. Ridiculous? No, perfectly logical if men are the products of merely material forces. But we know that we are not the products of material forces. We are persons. We can think and choose and love and rea son and will. We know that We are persons with every attribute and power of- personality. What light does this throw on the per sonality of God? It throws every light. Is It possible that he has en dowed us with these high attributes of personality that he does not pos sess? That would be to invert every process of reason. That would be to say that the water drop is richer than the ocean and that the grain of sand outmeasures the mountain. The son can do nothing of himself but what he seeth the father do. This fact that the best that is within us may serve as an interpre tation of God is of value in under standing the Incarnation. The doc trine of God manifest in the flesh H ERE are other hands showing the expediency of a trump lead by the adversary: 1 KJ4 64 1 KQ 7 5 2 8 7 6 AQ82 A K 7 J 10 4 3 3 2 763 J8 3 2 A ' A Q 10 D 5 Z, the dealer holds the bid at spades. A leadd his fourth best club, and, if correctly played, the hand will go as follows: 30 9 5 T Q 10 9 5 A B 986 Z K J 4 Trick. A Y B Z 1 6 4 K 2 2 J 6 3 54 3 10 Jt Q 3V 4 K 7 2 9 5 4 8 2 10a 6 ... 64 24 34 A4 7 5 K A 6 8 9 6 A 3 9 10 4 . 7 8 10 Q 5 8 J 11 9 74 44 7 12 84 Q4 10 Q 13 94 K4 Jl A "Denotes winner of trick. Z loses his' contract by three tricks, and the adversaries score to the value of 150, less honors, or 132. , Had B, upon securing the lead returned his partner's lead instead of adopting the policy of the trump lead, the result would have been . vastly different. B s play decidedly is to lead the trump in the hope to deprive the dummy of the chance to ruff. The fact that he, the dummy, will have to follow suit three times in hearts and five times in diamonds, and therefore will have no opportunity of discarding his one club, enables B to realize that his ace of clubs is in no danger and will undoubt edly make at a later stage. At Trick 2, therefore, he leads the higher of his small trumps, and A secures the trick with jack. As A then remains with the king of trumps once guarded only, it would be exceedingly bad play for him to return the trump lead, though he also sees the importance if possible of depriving dummy of the chance to ruff. His best policy, he reasons, is a lead through dummy's broken strength in hearts, especially as he car. lead a card of such value ae the 10. This card he accordingly leads, declarant covers with dummy's jack. B wins with queen and at the next trick, Trick 4, leads another trump. A wins with king, and then as another trump lead will deprive dummy of the chance to ruff and moreover will draw two trumps for one, he unhesitatingly leads his last trump. The fact that he reads his partner with the commanding club and the commanding heart renders his play unusually sound. This trick, as he supposed, goes to ' declarant, who, seeing his hopes of giving dummy a chance to ruff and also perhaps of making his diamonds entirely dashed, has nothing left but to come out with his lone diamond, the ace, on the forlorn hope the suit may be led later by one of adversaries This done, he next leads' a small heart, which B wins with ace, and then, dummy having been deprived of the chance toruff clubs, comes out with the command, the ace, and follows with his small dub, A se curing the trick with the 10-spot and at the next round making nis remaining club and then his remain ing heart. At Trick 12 he leads the diamond, but it is quite too late for dummy's diamonds to make, as declarant, nav Inir nnthincr but trumps, is forced to trump. The consequence is that dummy does not take a single trie. Z'a bid is entirely sound, but his adversaries hold an unusually strong combination, and correct play on their part renders him completely TialnlpRSt. . As it is good play on the part of the adversaries to lorce aeciarani, but to prevent the dummy hand from trumping, it follows that whenever the adversaries themselves mav ruff a suit, or perhaps estab lish a cross-ruff, it is decidedly to their advantage to do so. The following aptly illustrates the importance of such policy: QJ10 K54 Q 10 5 2 - 872 AK , 8 73 2 J43 AKQJ Z. the dealer, bids a spade and holds the declaration. A bid on a suit of four cards is generally jus tifiable (especially if it be a major suit) if the suit contain the tierce major. It is therefore more than ever sound if it contains the quart major ace. king, queen, jack. A having but two diamonds, the ace and kint. and three small 76542 A i983 10 96 A " B I AQJ A K Z 4 9 8 7 6 9 4 3 I 10 6 5 must forever be a mystery to the finite mind, and yet we may get at least a faint glimpse and Inkling of that which lay behind the coming of our Christ. He said that it was love that brought him' among men, "for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotton son." And when Jesus epoke of love he spoke of something that we can understand, for we have felt it and seen its ef fects. I suppose that if we were to sit down and reason as to what is the highest form of human love we would agree that it is the love of a good mother for her child. I ven ture to say that it is the divinest thing this side of heaven, and that when our eyes have looked on a mother bending over her first-born child, we have seen the holiest sight that we shall ever see until we be hold him "who loved us and washed us in his own blood." A pastor was telling me of the death of a noble woman of his con gregation. He said that when she was apparently dead she astonished them all by rousing herself, it seemed, from death itself, so that she might once more comfort her lamenting daughter. Incarnation Is Discussed. I can well believe it. so miraculously-and unbelievably divine, so stranger than death is the love of a mother's heart. But if that mother really came back from death be cause of her love, is that not what God did on a great scale in the in carnation? Did he not hear the cry of his lost and sin-cursed children until the tragedy of it broke his father heart? And he laid aside the robes of his omnipotence and un trumps, sees that he can save one or more of them if he can get a ruif in diamonds. In order . to in dicate to his partner his ability to do this he reverses the usual order of leads when holding ace and king of a suit and first leads ace and follows with king. This Is a con vention show'ng he has no more of the suit. If adversaries play cor rectly throughout, the hand will go as follows: Trick. A T B Z 1 A 2 6 3 2 K 5 7 4 3 10 4 J4 2 4 3 104 8 J 5 9 5 Q 3 6 6 K A 7 7 ... 2t Q 94 J 8 4 2 5 A 9 9 7 6 K4 10 4 8 10 Q 11 5 10 3 S 12 6 JV 8 A 13 7 Q 9 K Denotes winner of trick. Declarant simply makes his con tract. His own hand guaranteed six tricks, at the start, and it is only because of skillful play on the part of the adversaries that he makes simply the one trick additional. Here is still another hand showing tho value of a ruff on the part of the adversary: 954 72 AKQ 9 5 Q J 10 A Q .7 6, 9 8 5 4 8 2 AK54 J 10 8 J64 4 10 76 4 76 K3 2 AKQ 10 3 J 9 8 3 2 Z bid a club and the hand was played at this declaration. T, with an apparently established diamond suit and good protection in spades, would have done better to overcall with no trumps rather than allow the hand to be played at the minor suit. Played at no trumps the side would easily have gone game, whether B led his five-card dia mond suit or a strengthening heart, provided, in the latter case, A after making his hearts had led fourth best of his four-card spade suit headed by ace and king. Had he, however, at once led out his two commanding spades, declarant would simply have made his contract. It is when the hand is played at the club declaration that the opportu nity offers to the adversaries for skillful play. Played correctly by them, with clubs as trumps, the hand would go as follows: Trick. A T B Z 1 K 10 7 2 2 A J 6 3 8 4 Q 4 8 4.. A 4 J K E 6 7 J 9 6 6 5 10 2. 7 Q 8 3 8... 7 64 34 3 9 6 2 6 . A 10 8 94 44 K 11 '. 9 Q4 64 Q 12 24 K4 74 J4 18 84 A4 104 10 Denotes winner of trick. A leads the king of spades, follow ing it with ace, thus Bhowing he has one or more spades left, but denying the queen. .To the first and second leads B makes the echo by reversing the usual form of play and playing first the higher and then the lower of his two spades. This Indicates to his partner that he has no more of the suit, and encourages him to lead it a third time that he may trump. At trick 3, therefore, A leads a small spade, B trumps, and at Trick 4 leads the jack of hearts. Declarant covers with king and A wins the trick with ace. B'a lead of the Jack of hearts is. particularly to be commended, as It is not only a lead up to weakness, but it being a higher card than any card of the suit held by dummy, it serves the additional purpose of beating the dummy from the start. A lead of this nature places the responsibility of the trick between the leader's partner and tne declarant, with the odns in favor of the partner. Declarant's cover with king proves of no avail and Indeed he stands a better chance of winning a trick in the suit by withholding it. As the cards happen to lie, however, whether or not he covers has no effect upon the result. Should he not cover the lead will remain with B and he will then lead the 10 of hearts, which card also would hold tho trick. He would next lead his small heart, declarant's king would be forced and would fall to A's ace. Upon securing the lead at trick 4, A leads another spade in the hope his partner may again win with a trump. The dummy hand also, he notes, is void of spades, but as his highest trump is the 7 he, hopes his partner will be able to overtrump, which proves to be the case. B then leads the 10 of hearts, winning the trick, and at the next trick he leads his remaining heart, wnicn A wins with queen, and then latched the sandals of his majesty and came down and lived among men that he might comfort them and succor them and lead them back to God and home. Is it incredible that the God who placed such deathless love In the hearts of mothers should himself possess it and not only possess it but in as much greater degree as the far-sweeping arc of the ocean outruns the tiny circle of the water drop? I want you to think of the best and holiest love that you have ever ' known. Let your mind run back until it rests on that glorious thing, and then I want you to know that wonderful as that love seems to you it is but a grain of sand nestling at the foot of that mountain called the love of God. Great Are Sympathetic. The light that is shed by our wn natures on the love of God is also shed upon his sympathy. The truly great men of the world have all been men of the tenderest sympathy. Burns wept over the wreck of the nest of a field mouse, Millet received inspiration for "The Angelus" from the sight of two bowed peasants, Woodsworth saw the new-born child "trailing clouds of glory, from God who is our home," Paine wept out "Home Sweet Home" after he had seen a workingman coming home to his cottage in a foreign land. Is it likely that God gave to Burns and to Millet and to Paine and to all the princes of sympathy every where some high compassion that he himself lacks? No, "Now are we the sons of God" and all that we have or ever had of good, lives eternally in him. leads the thirteenth heart, such lead being better, he reasons, than the lead of a trump up to declarer's strength, or a diamond, which would throw the lead to the dummy and enable him to make one or more diamond tricks. The declarant trnmtia and maira all the remninine- tripVo uA iAeAa his contract, however, by one trick. "Inquirer" submits the following: In a hand recently played Z, the dealer, passed, also A, and Y bid no trumps. B and Z passed and A bid "two SDades." 7.. holrll tic nrn. tectjon in spades, went "two no trumps, wnicn nem the bid. B, the player to lead, held the fol lowing: 76 J854 K Q 10 8 5 76 Should he lead to his partner's bid or his own suit of diamonds? The lead of the suit one's partner has bid applies, strictly speaking, to a first-round bid. The fact that the suit was not bid at the first opportunity shows that it lacks the essentials to a first-round bid. A secondary bid may be on length only, and the hand if played at the bid might win by sheer force of numbers. As a general thing, unless one's hand has no lead which promises better, one should not lead to a sec ondary bid unless himself holding two honors in the suit. To be sure, in this case the lead would be a lead through strength, as Z. by going "two no trumps" over the adverse spade bid shows proection in the suit. However, as B has a good suit of diamonds, his better policy is the lead of his own suit, and as the suit includes three honors, with two in sequence he should lead king. The same player also asks whether the original bid of a minor suit at a clean score embodies a positive invitation to one's partner to bid no trumps. By no means save that 'a minor, suit bid at love score should always be changed to a better bid if one's hand justifies it. Such bids do not, however, spec.fy no-trump holdings, nor may they be construed as "no trump invitations." Simply they show four values in the hand; tha is all. If the partner, relying upoi. this inference, feels he can safely name a better bid, he should do so; not otherwise. I The habit of regarding minor suit I bids as "invitations, to no-trump I klJ." 1 1 ...;, ulu3 jeans mi umninKing partner into all sorts of unwarranted dec larations. Older Hawaiians Unafraid of Kilauea Volcano. God and Goddenn Said to Have Agreed Against Lava Invasion. HONOLULU, T. H., June 24. (Spe cial.) The older generation of Hawaiians has not been in the least alarmed by the recent antics of the volcano of Kilauea on Hawaii. De spite predictions of so-called expert volcanologists that an outbreak of immense activity would occur short ly In the Puna district south of Kilauea, the old Hawaiians declare It cannot be because there is an ancient agreement between-Pele, the goddess of the volcano, and Kama puaa, another Hawaiian god, that Pele must never invade the sea either by way of Hilo or Puna. According to the ancient legend, Pele and Kamapuaa (pig god) had a quarrel. To settle it Kamapuaa went to Pele's home in the crater of the volcano to fight it out. The fighting went on until Pele, almost overcome by the stench of the hair of the pig god pleaded for peace. Kamapuaa said he would consent to peace but only on one condition. Pele, who was suffocating, said he had only to name it. "We shall have peace between us If you will vow never to allow your lava to flow through Puna or Hilo to the sea," thundered Kamapuaa, Pele had no choice and so she agreed, giving her solemn promise, which to this day she has not vio lated, fearing an angry return of the hated Kamapuaa. In the year 1880 when a lava flow was proceeding toward Hilo in a manner that made the destruction of the town seem almost certain. Princess Ruth went from Honolulu to Hilo and standing near the flow, reminded Pele of her promise to Kamapuaa. The flow Immediately stopped. According to the aged Ha waiians, had it not been for the rec ollection by Princess Ruth of Pele's promise, untold damage might have resulted. On several occasions Pele has sent her fiery rivers Into Puna and Hilo, but to date has not forgotten her self as to let them reach the sea. and will not, the natives say, al low the flow now heading through Puna toward Kalapana, to reach the ocean. ftook$ J procured reviewed a? ?5 GILVS