THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 25. 1922
EACH MAN IS CONSIDERED TO HAVE GODHOOD IN HIS OWN HEART
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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
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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
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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.
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