THE -J OREGON SUNDAY ' JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 23.4 1919.
Big Artists
Are Booked
For Portland
THE Steers & Coman concert season
will open at the Hellig December 10
with the Isadora Duncan dancers and
George Copeland, pianist. This will
probably be the moot unique attraction
that Portland has been offered for many
years. Fourteen appearances In New
York alone In one Reason is too ex
pressive for further words. These young
dancers bring to light the poetry, the
grandeur and the passion of the com
poser's art. It is dancing- that comes
from the heart, the mind and the soul
of the dancer not purely from nimble
feet.
Amelia Galli-Curci, acclaimed "the
world's most perfect singer," is one of
the bright particular stars of the coming
season. Mere is a singer wno is uie
product of no school, no cult, no pro
fessor. All the elements of success and
greatness were within her, and she
blossomed naturally, as the flowers do,
Into beauties and graces all her own.
Helfetz, the wonderful young Russian
violinist, who has captured the hearts
and admiration of all Kurope and won
favor with all Eastern cities, will be a
new attraction to Portland.
Carolina Lazzarl, the young and
beautiful Italian contralto, will be heard
on her first tour of the Coast, following
her startling leap from obscurity to the
position of leading contralto of the Chi
cago Opera association.
As an exposition of the highest art
In ensemble, the fnmous Flonzaley
quartet Is said to have no equal in the
world. This noted company of artists
has appeared on former occasions with
such success as assures them a royal
welcome whenever they travel to Port
land. ;
The regular monthly program of the
Monday Musical club will be held at
the studio, 148 Thirteenth street, on
Monday, December f at 2 :30 p. m.. this
meeting to be designated as Federation
day.
There will be a musical program, with
Mrs. Fred A. Krlbbs as vocal soloist,
and reports from the various delegates
to conventions, followed by a social hour.
The social committee. Mrs. Fred A.
Krlbbs, chairman, is planning a series
of social affairs, the first to be an
afternoon card party on Wednesday,
December 3, at the studio. 148 Thirteenth
street, for members and friends. A
musical program will be given. Those
who wish to reserve tables for cards
are requeued to phone Mrs. Charles
8. Campbell, East 4515.
The year book is now on the press
and will be issued at the meeting on
Federation day.
The Junior department of the club
njoyed a wonderful talk on "The Sym
phony," by Daniel II. Wilson, at their
last meeting on Saturday, November 15.
Saturday. November 22. the entire pro
gram of the juniors was given by. the
string orchestra auxiliary under the
direction of H. A. Webber.
Following its annual custom, on Tues
day evening, November 18. the Monday
"Mimical club presented a very delightful
program at the Mann home In Sandy
boulevard. Kach number was enthus
iastically received and the artists were
very generous with their encores.
Mrn. A. R. Mattingly. chairman of the
concert bureau, arranged the following
program
Trio. -'Mipnon" (DTIardelot), Mrs. A.
W. Claxon. Miss Mareuprite 0lne,
Mrs. A. L. Hynson ; violin solo, "Salut
d'Amour" (Eljiar), Miss Chapman;
dance; "Forget Me Not." Farnell Kane;
reading, "Little Bron Baby," "The Be
setting Sin." "Cuddle Doon," Miss Fran
cis M. Strowbridpre : vocal solo. "Can't
You Hear Me Callln". Caroline." "When
You Look in the Heart of a Rose," Mr.
Krnest f'rosby ; Italian dance, Audrey
Chenoweth ; trio. "Will o'Wisp." Mrs.
A. W, Claxon, MIhs Margueritp Owlngs,
Mrs. A. Li. Hynson : reading. "Ma Pauvre
Pbtltte." "Persimmons." Mrs. Percy W.
Lewis; vocal solo. "Mother Machree."
"Roses of Ptcardy." Krnest Crosby. Miss
Harrison was the accompanist for the
soloists.
The "Madame Butterfly" Concert com
pany, composed of Portland artists, ap
peared at the Astoria theatre Friday,
November 13. The Morning Astorian
says in part :
" 'Madume Butterfly, an unique dra
matic arrangement of John Long's Jap
anese romance, was well received last
night by a large crowd at the Astoria
theatre. As far as the individual star Is
concerned, there was great difference
of' opinion. Some thought the fine
golden singing of Lulu Dahl Miller, con
tralto, was the shining spot of the eve
Bins ; others conceded the palm to Jane
Burns Albert, soprano, who took the
part of Susukl, the bosom friend of
Butterfly. Adah Losh Rose took the
fine opportunity offered her with the
part of Butterfly and charmed the au
dience with her fine dramatic inter
pretation. The death scene was by far
the most impressive of the entire pro
duction. Albert Gillette, baritone, was
a splendid American consul. J. McMil
lian Mulr, tenor, sang very delightfully."
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The next regular meeting and lunch
eon of the Musicians' club will be held
t th Multnomah hotel on Tuesday,
November 25. at 12:lo, in the tea gar
dens. Professor Hudson B. Hastings,
Inead of the department of economics of
Reed college, will bb the guest of honor
nd speaker of the day. Professor Hud
son has chosen as his topic, "Should
Musicians Advertise?" Judge J. H.
Longden will speak on "Music as An :
Asset to the Legal Profession." Joseph j
A. Finley will sing and Ted W. Bacon
will play a violin solo.
A special musical program has been
arranged by J. 'William Belcher for this
morning's service at Central Presby
terian church. The beautiful duet for
soprano voices with chorus. "I Waited j
for the Lord." from Mendelssohn's
"Hymn of Praise" ; soloist. Mrs. Maude
Belcher-Pritchard. Miss Hazel Hardie. '
"He Shall Come Down Like Kain." !
Allen ; Miss Henrietta Hohrm. soloist,
and Mrs. L. W. Waldorf will play as a
violin solo, Massenet's "Meditation from
Thais."
Dr. Ella Welch. Mrs. Bertha Moore,
Mrs. Blanche Sylvester and Harold
Young, vocal students of Mrs. Fred L.
Olson, gave the program at the reception
in the, parlors of the East Side Business
Men's club for Battery A. given by the
Woman's Auxiliary Thursday evening.
Kach soloist was cordially received and
responded with an encore. Miss Olga
Ruff also a student of Mrs. Olson, was
the able accompanist.
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The Hungry Seven club enjoyed a
merry breakfast party at the Sundstrom
farm near Multnomah last Tuesday
morning. Two weeks previous the club
had a delightful breakfast at the sum-,
mer home of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel H.
Wilson at Lake Grove. The following
members were present at the parties :
Luclen Becker, W. R. Boone, John
Claire Montelth, Franck Elchenlaub. Hy
' Kllers, Henry B. Murtagh and Emll
, Enna, ...
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ISADORA DUNCAN DANCERS iwill be the first attraction
to be presented in the Steers & Coman series in Portland this
season. They will be here next month.
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Christian Science
ILectare
George Shaw Cook, C. S. B.
Member nf the Potrd of LwtnresMp of Th liotl.er Chur. li, The Firit Charch of Christ,
Scientist, in Boston, Una. Lecture dellrcred in First Church, Portlind. Tuedy e
ninjc, Norember 1H.
THIS audience there are, without
L doubt.
thoso w hi) hold many and
diverse views about theology, philos
ophy, economics, medicine. Some of
these beliefs are, doubtless, opposed to
the teachings of Christian Science. Yet
I trust that as we proceed we shall find
many points on which we can agree, and
some points, at least, on which we are
already in agreement. For example, we
are all agreed at the outset that we
exist. About this fact there can be no
difference of opinion. Kvery one in this
room admits his conscious existence.
There is no one present who is not con
scious of some kind of existence, whether
It be good or bad, happy or unhappy,
satisfying or unsatsifying. Another
point about which there can be no dis
pute is that there must be a cause for
our existence. If we accept the premise
that we exist, we are led to the unavoid
able conclusion that there Is a cause for
our existence. We may. however, differ
as to the nature of that cause.
WHAT MRS. EDDY SAYS
Mrs. Eddy with admirable directness,
on page 544 of the Christian Science text
book. "Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures," says, "Man exists be-
cause God exists," and often. If not al
ways. Jesus spoke of God as the only
Father. He said, "My Father and your
Father." and "Our Father which art in
heaven." Writing of the Master (Science
and Health, p. 31), Mrs. Kiddy says.
"Jesus of Nazareth was the most scien
tific man that ver trod the globe. He
plunged beneath the material surface of
things and found the spiritual cause."
This "spiritual cause" Christian Science
shows us to be the one supreme intelli
gence. Mind. Life. Truth, Love, that we
call God.
God Is described in the Scriptures as
the Almighty, as I am, as Spirit. Life,
Love. Christian Science agrees with
the Scriptural definitions of Deity, and
also teaches that God is absolute good,
the only real substance, the infinite con
sciousness, divine Mind, or Principle.
These synonymous terms help us to un
derstand God as causation, as the only
basis of real existence. They also help
OSCAR FIGMAN, for
merly with the Alcazar
Musical Players, Port
land,1 who has just opened an
engagement fct the Fulton the
atre, New York, with Char
lotte Greenwood in "Linger
Longer, Letty."
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us to apprehend the omnipotence, om
niscience, and omnipresence of the one j
creative power. i
Since this causative Principle is in
finite Mind, or consciousness, it follows
that Its expression, or creation, must ,
; also be conscious. The function of Mind ,
is to think. The result of thinking is
thought. The universe of Mind, then, is
a mental or spiritual universe. It con
sists of thought or ideas which perfectly
express their divine origin. This spirit
ual universe, including individual man.
partakeB of the exact nature of its cause
or inducement. It reflects, perfectly, all
the divine attributes, such as goodness,
harmony, health, completeness, perfec
tion, activity. Immortality.
THE IDEAL MAN
The Bible (Genesis 1) tells us that God
made man in His own imaee a-rTd after
His likeness. A true likeness Is a per
fect representation of the original.
Therefore, if God is Spirit, man in His
likeness must be spiritual. Tf God is
Truth, man in His image must be truth
ful, honest, sincere. If God Is Love, man
In his real nature must be loving. If
God is Life, man as His idea must be
the living Image of Life. So Mrs. Eddy,
on page 475 of Science and Health, says :
"Man Is spiritual and perfect ; and be
cause he Is spiritual and perfect, he
must be so understood in Christian Sci
ence." This ideal man, the real man, is
neither young nor old. He is not sub
ject to growth nor decreptltude. He ex
ists now and forever at the eternal noon
tide of being, at the standpoint of
changeless perfection, unlimited oppor
tunity, and limitless supply.
TEMPORAL MATTER
To the physical senses man seems to
be a material organism with a mind in
side. To these senses man not only ap
pears material, but also seems to be tha
victim of material conditions and of so
called mortal laws. Christian Science
reminds us, however, that the physical
senses, which cannot even tell the truth
about things in the material realm,
surely cannot be expected to testify truly
regarding man in the likeness of Spirit.
Those things which are spiritual, which
exist forever as ideas in Mind, must, as
Paul tells us, be "spiritually discerned."
He said, "The things which are seen
(recognized by the senses) are temporal ;
but the things which are not seen (by
the senses) are eternal." Christian Sci
ence teaches that what we term matter,
is. therefore, temporal, destructible, il
lusive. The teaching of Christian Science that
matter exists only as belief, as a concept
of the human or carnal mind, enables one
to deal more intelligently, hence more
successfully, with disease than was pos-
' sible without such knowledge. For it en-
ables one to see. more clearly than he
j was formerly able to see, that pain and
I suffering are not material but mental,
j Ordinary experience -shows that pain is
difficult to locate. The senses often
make pain appear to be where it is not.
I r'hrliatlan SeieneA fanve flint Tin In ia rpvpr
in the body but always in thought or be
lief. So the Christian Scientist in his
treatment of sickness roes directly to
! the seat of the trouble. His endeavor is
' to correct or remove through righteous
: prayer, or right thinking, the mental
j cause of the disease.
CAUSE AND CCHE OF DISEASE
The teaching of Mrs. Eddy relative to
j the mental nature of disease has to a
j very great extent changed the world's
thought on this subject. Many observing
physicians are willing to admit much in
this direction ; more indeed than some
' laymen. Physicians ef standing have
agreed that rage and fear will immedi
. ately produce a radical chemical change
! in the blood. Dally experience shows
. that acute fear will often be directly ex
i pressed in a pale, and anger in a flushed,
! face. Grief brings tears to the eyes and
worry causes insomnia and indigestion.
Since we are convinced of the mental
causes of these physical effects, does it
not seem enUrely reasonable to agree
with the statement of Christian Science
that, primarily, all disease has a mental
cause? But Christian Scientists do not
contend that all sickness is the result of
conscious fear or of willful wrongdoing
on the part of the victims of disease.
They merely claim that somewhere back
of all bodily diseases there are errone
ous condlUoaa thought which must
be discovered and corrected before there
can be a permanent cure. May not this
explain why Christian Science has healed
many chronic cases that medicine had
failed to cure? Is it not plain that phy
sicians in their treatment of these cases
were not getting at the root of the diffi
culty, because the drugs which they pre
scribed could not reach, nor have any ef-
I I act upon, uie menial cause oi disease i
fan nonintelligent drugs reasonably be
I expected to influence thought? Could
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one well expect medicines to have power
over such emotions as anger, jealousy,
worry, fear, and grief? And yet, even
from the medical point of view, these er
roneous thoughts are seen to be fre
quent causes of disease.
FEAR AD DISEASE
Perhaps the most prolific cause of dis
ease is fear. Fear is in fact the great
est enemy of mankind. If one doubts
this somewhat radical statement, let him
pause long enough to consider soma of
the things of which people are afraid.
They are afraid of weather, food, germs,
criticism, failure and poverty. And the
Bible tells us of those whe-through fear
of death" are "all their lifetime subject
to bondage." The complete removal of
fear from the consciousness of humanity
would unquestionably be a wonderful
blessing. Christian Science shows that
fear is needless. It explains why it is
needless. Thus it removes fear. Chris
tian Science removes fear by first re
moving the ignorance that causes fear.
A truly intelligent individual, one who
expresses real presence of Mind, or the
presence of real Mind, could not possibly
be afraid.
Christian Scientists do not pretend
that they are never afraid, any more
than that they, as mortals, are never
sick. Man, the Image of God, is never
sick ; for if man. as God's likeness, could
be sick, it would follow that God must
also be sick, because the likeness can
express only that which is in the orig
inal. Mortals, however, frequently are
sick, and Christian Scientists, as mor
tals, are sometimes afraid. What they
claim, therefore, is that they are much
less fearful than they formerly were and
for that very reason, much less subject
to disease and disaster.
Christian Science not only helps one
to be free from fear of disease, but it
helps one to rise gradually above all
phases of fear. In like manner Chris
tian Science enables one to overcome
other kinds of wrong thinking, such as
envy, hatred, revenge, greed and ava
rice, through understanding that these
evil thoughts do not emanate from
Truth, the infinite, divine Mind ; hence
they are without real cause or existence.
FALSE LAWS ANNULLED
As it has been previously indicated,
all sickness does not, even from the
Christian Science viewpoint, result from
willful sin or from conscious fear. Dis
ease is frequently the effect of generally
accepted beliefs of the human mind
which have mistakenly come to be re
garded as laws. Among these are found
the so-called laws which appear to con
trol the effect of food, climate, contagion
and heredity. Christian Science shows
that these asserted laws which claim
to hold mortals in bondage and cause
them to sicken and die are not real laws.
Tt teaches that these mortal laws may be
rendered void and inoperative, through must continue until evil thinking is corn
enforcement of the law of divine Truth j pletely displaced by the Mind of Christ;
which is the law of life and health. And and then shall the world have peace,
it does not matter how long one of these SCIENCE OF TRTTE LIVING
supposed laws may have been believed Christian Science is the Science of true
in or submitted to. if it can be set aside vi of rea, hp, Mr(j Kddy in lhe
in its operation in a single instance it j Christian Science textbook, says (p. 128).
is proved not to be law. It is safe to i ..T,,e term sconce. properly understood,
say that the practice of Christian Sci- J refpr8 or,v to tne ,aws of God and lo Hls
ence nas annuuea every so-cauea neaim
law" not in one instance only, but in
manv instances. Jesus, it will be re-
cai;ed. healed the sick, raised the dead
fed the multitude, and walked on the
water, not in conformity with, but in ab
solute disregard of, so-called material
laws. For Jesus it was as easy to multi
ply loaves and fishes as it Is for us to
multiply figures. He understood the
process to be entirely metaphysical, not
depending in any way upon matter or
material law.
JESIS' BUSINESS
It is neither irreverent nor inaccurate
to say that Jesus was at once the
world's greatest metaphysician and its
best business man. He knew more about
true economics, about supply and about
transportation than any other man who
ever lived. He could find the money in
the fish's mouth with which to pay the
taxes, and when he needed to be on the
other side of the lake he was immedi
ately there. Jesus was in the most Im
portant, the most exalted business that
ever was. This business he denominated
the "Father's business." It was the
business of knowing good and doing
good. Jesus was absolutely successful
in his business. He neither faltered nor
failed. His rules of business conduct
were golden : "Do unto others as ye
would that they should do unto you,"
"Love thy neighbor as thyself," "Seek
ye first the kingdom of God and his
righteousness."
We can do what Jesus did just in the
proportion that we know what he knew.
The works of Jesus were not miraculous,
in the sense that that word is ordinarily
used, but were divinely natural mani
festations of spiritual law in human ex
perience. That is why Jesus could say,
"He that belleveth on me (he that under
stands Christ), the works that T do shall
he do also." And It is a fact that these
works of healing through spiritual law
are being done today, to a considerable
extent, by Christian Scientists, right in
our midst.
THE CHRIST MIND
What occurs when there is a case of
Christian Science healing? Simply this
the light of divine intelligence pene
trates the consciousness of the sufferer
sufficiently clearly to dispel, at least in
part, the darkness of ignorance, fear and
sin. The body, or what is termed the
body, responds to the changed state of
consciousness, and a normal sense of
health displaces the sense of disease.
The body cannot fail to respond imme
diately to a change of thought, for the
body does not have ant power to re
sist the control of thought. It cannot,
of itself, do anything. Its actions and
ita- functions are controlled entirely by
thought. Jesus healed "all manner of
disease," paying no attention to bodily
symptoms, but addressing himself en
tirely to the mental state of the sufferer.
It was the Christ-mind that healed dis
ease and sin 1900 years ago, and it is
that same Mind, Truth, Life, Love,
which is healing today in Christian
Science.
It will be seen that the practice of
Christian Science is identical with prim
itive Christian healing, and that it is
not, therefore, related in any way to
mesmerism, hypnotism, or any form of
so-called drugless healing. It does not
even depend upon the exercise of human
will power. Jesus prayed, "Not my will,
but thine, be done," and said : "I can of
mine own self do nothing," "The Father
that dwelleth in me, he doeth the works."
Christian Science emphasizes the fact
that there can be no permanent heal
ing save through the transforming power
of Truth and Love. The healing which
cornea as the result of gaining an abiding
sense of God's presence and power is
thorough and permanent True Chris
tian healing doea not. necessarily, in
clude any sense of struggle. Indeed, it
may be truly said, the more struggle
the less Science, and vice versa.
IMMORTALITT OF WORKS
The life of Christ Jesus makes safe
the conclusion that he put his works
above his words. Perhaps no other fig
ure in history stands out so distinctly as
.the exponent of the doctrine of works,
but in all ages great men and women
have been immortalized because of what
they did for the human race rather than !
because of what they said In .doing It.
No modern movement more strongly em
phasises the importance of works than
the movement which has been built upon
the discovery of Christian Science. One
cannot be a Christian Scientist unless he
is willing to do the works ot Christian
Science. The very foundation of the
Christian Science church was laid in
healing works. Before the Christian
Science textbook was published, its au
thor and her early students had already
demonstrated the propositions after
wards laid down therein. Since then
students of that book in all parts of the
world have been able to prove the truth
of its teachings by removing sickness,
poverty, and other ills from their experi
ence according to definite rules of prac
tice. When Mary Baker Eddy announced
that she had discovered the Principle
and law of primitive Christian healing,
and that because of this discovery it
would become universally possible for
the sick to be healed by divine power as
in the time of Christ Jesus, her an
nouncement met with ridicule and scorn.
But Mrs. Eddy had faith in her discov
ery. Yes, more than faith, she had the
absolute conviction and confidence be
gotten of understanding and demonstra
tion. When the works of Christian Sci
ence compelled recognition, effort was
made to dix;redlt Mrs. Eddy as its Dis
coverer ; but this, too, signally failed.
Today, when there are in different parts
of the world about 1800 Christian Sci
ence organizations founded upon the
rock of Christ-healing, Mrs. Eddy is
justly acknowledged not only as the Dis
coverer of Christian Science and the re
vered Leader of the Christian Science
movement, but as one of the world's
greatest religionists.
MRS EDDY'S GREATNESS
One of the evidences of Mrs. Eddy's
greatness as a Leader is in her estab
lishment of what is known as The
Mother Church, The First Church of
Christ, Scientist, in Boston, of which all
of the Christian Science churches In the
world are branches. In founding this
church, which embraces all the activities
of the Christian Science movement. Mrs.
Eddy equipped it with a Manual of By
Laws, which, if followed in letter and in
spirit, are adequate to guide the Chris
tian Science movement safely, through
out all time. But Mrs. Eddy could only
become a great Leader by first being a
good follower, and she said to Christian
Scientists, "Follow your Leader only so
far as she follows Christ."
Many are now looking forward hope
fully and. some expectantly to the perma
nent establishment of "peace on earth
and good-will among men." This is
surely "a consummation devoutly to be
wished," but it must be admitted that
the thoughts of tyranny, injustice, greed
and fear, which cause and perpetuate
war and strlft, are still n-.mpant in all
forms of human organization, whether
known as governments, churcheB. com
mercial associations, labor unions, or
families. This is true because these evil
mental traits exist to some extent in
the consciousness Of every human being.
Thus it will be seen that the warfare
with evil in human consciousness, the
mental conflict between right and wrong.
nv(,rnrrlBnt nt the universe, inclusive of
man. From this it follows that business
men and cultured sclfolars have fund
that Christian Science enhances their en
durance 6f mental powers, enlarges their
perception of character, gives them
acuteness and comprehensiveness and
an ability to exceed their ordinary ca
pacity. A knowledge of the Science
of being develops the latent abilities
and possibilities of man. It extends the
atmosphere of thought, giving mortals
access to broader and higher realms. It
raises the thinker into his native air of
insight and perspicacity."
I should like to leave with you this
thought. However baffling your daily
problems may seem, however monoton
ous and distressing the daily routine,
however fearful your outlook on tomor
row, you may rest in the assurance that
there is a power available to you that is
greater than any human power, bigger
than any circumstance or combination
of circumstances. This power is the
law of Love. It will "turn and over
turn," adjust and readjust, until the con
scious harmony of your being is estab
lished as a present fact. This irresisti
ble law of divine Mind will surely bring
forth "thy righteousness as the light,
and thy judgment as the noonday."
Murderers Are Now
Classed by Science
Waupun. Wis.. Nov. 22. (IT. P.) Are
you a murderer?
If you are about 5 feet 7 inches in
stature, a little over 35 years of age,
and have a subnormal temperature, sci
ence may brand you a murderer. At
least, such are the ideal specifications
for a murderer based on measurements
of more than 1500 convicted slayers at
the state prison here.
Other interesting data of the genus
are that frequent headaches, insomnia
and periods of intense depressions are
common. Teeth that have grown bad
through neglect are evident In half of
the cases.
A third of the murderers never attend
ed school, while only 3 per cent completed
high school. Mqre than half were at
work before the"y were 12 years old and
90 per cent before they were 15. Almost
half of them were unable to retain the
same Job or position a full year. Half
of them, records show, murdered while
under the influence of liquor.
Kaiser Whiskers in
Berlin Not Stylish
Berlin, Nov. 4. (By Mail.) The war
brought one boon to Germany the al
most complete banning of the kaiser
style moustache.
Only a few Germans now wear the
heavy stiff moustache, brushed up in
forbidding fashion, while the flowing
moustache with a span of 12 inches or
more is extremely rare.
Whiskers, too, are less abundant than
they once were, though occasionally one
meets up with a fine, full set. The Weber
ft Fields variety is virtually extinct.
(P. S. Beer, however, is still the great
national beverage.)
Man Tarred During
War Files Action
New Castle, Pa., Nov. 22. Twenty
men, alleged to have taken part in a
beating and tarring of Walter Allen, a
Hickory township farmer. In a Liberty
Loan drive here in April, 1918, are de
fendants in a suit begun here by Allen.
He asks $25,000 damages. All of the
defendants are prominent citizens. Allen
says he has always been a good, patriotic
citizen and was never guilty of disloyalty
or treason to the United States. In spite
of this, he says, he was held up to
ignominy and disgrace, losina the respect I
of his fellowmen and suffering great
mental and bodily Injury.
The 'Education of. Herary Adams
A Soiil Revealed in a Volume That Will Live
. Rev. Edward B. Ptnec. pt'tot of Wwtatia-
At Presbyterian charch, recently reviewed "The
Education of Henry Adams" bffora the Portland
Uiniatcrial association At the .rtquet of The
Journal a digest of tha review of thi remarkable
booa ia presented . herewith. I
By Edward H. Pear
TJLOOD will telL
J Henry Adams
was grandson to
John Quincy Adams,
great - grandson of
John and Abigail
Adams. Dying, by
obvious tokens a
disappointed man, a
sad, lonesome man.
he died oo late to
know that he was
the inventor of a
now form to one of
the oldest fashions
of literature, namely, autobiography. It
is rather extraordinary that the two
greatest writers of all time, judging
greatness by the inetnsive and extensive
effects of their writings, namely. Paul
and Shakespeare, neither had a present
expectancy of a literary immortality.
We have wondered if, humanly, Paul
might not have been self-consciously
disturbed in some of his freedoms.
scopes and personalized passions, had
he known he was writing for unborn
ages instead of, as he supposed, only
for a fe wpeople in a fleeting and un
certain generation. Dr. Johnson says
of Shakespeare that he appeared eo to
despise his own productions, or to judge
them fo far beneath tne weal or nis
effort that he took no pains to as
sure his literary immortality by their
preservation.
A SOUL REVEALED
The application of ail which to Henry
Adam is in the fact that Adams wrote
his book with but a limited distribution
in vew, t beng prvately prnted to the
number of 100 copes. He little knew
that he was tearing off some layers of
the conventional posing with which
nearly all autoblographers conceal the
real self, to discover which we read such
and mostly to our disappointment. Few
men have so disclosed the ultimate self,
the noumenon back of conventional phe
nomena. There was a Greek word "zoe,"
which meant life, the fluid, spiritual
substance or principle; there was an
other Greek word "bios." and from It
we build our Knglish word biography,
which means the manners and fashions
posed and deeds done in and by a life
us lived. Few memoirs leave us any
nearer the personality than when we
started. This book is as near an un
clothed soul as souls can become un
clothed : and It turns out to be a re
markable soul at that.
OF PROUD LINEAGE "
The Adams blood ran thick in old
John, and through Abigail it took on
some fine texture, and its ingredients
were enriched. John Quincy Adams was
presidentially callbered. His son, Charles
Francis, publicist, father of Henry, will
rank historically as one of our greatest
ambassadors, occupying, next to Frank
lin in Paris, in Revolutionary times, the
most critical station in the hstory of
Amercan ambassadorshp. He was at
St. James while Great Britain strained
allthe requirements of International pro
priety and came near to recognition of
the Confederacy.
Young Henry Adams was with his
father in offieinl capacity lor those
seven years. 1861 tol868. He yearned
now for career. It Is a curious thing
that he says of himself: "For the law,
diplomacy had unfitted him : for
diplomacy he already knew too much."
He had read some law and abandonee;
It. Now he goes to work to express
his pasion for expression, and dies in
1905. apparently without serious con
sciousness of having expounded to the
world as nearly a real self as the world
often gets in vie wof.
ADAMS AND EDUCATION
One must needp have known Adams
to be able to appreciate the almost sus
piciously ostentatious humility or self
depreciation. And yet that is not well
said. I have known a few men who
had a hypersensitive consciousness of
what they did not know, a few very
few. Adams is always deploring that
he was getting no education. Tou
wonder, after observing all the ac
curacies of his observations what he
means by education if he did not have
education. If education, true to its
etymology, means drawing out to use
the powers inherently in a man then.
Judged by the uses Adams grew into
ef his powers of close appraisement of
men, measures, customs., motives and all
the things which make for human life
and humanistics was at 30 tremendous
ly educated.
Roughly speaking, the book s contents
book's contents could be divided into
private, public, personal, philosophical
Remember that he spans from 1838 to
190f. and from lisping babyhood until
he affects senility, he knew in rarer
and yet rarer intimacies some of the
greatest persons in our American and.
indeed, our English speaking worms, ai
any rate, be was In close focus to them.
SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Strange to say. while Adams never
uncovers it save hy inference, the goad
of the Adams strains was in him. He
wanted success ; he wonld not have
spurned recognition and the call to
eminent public performance. He seemed
to feel the rasp of failure. Much as
Henry Cabot Lodge and John Hay ob
viously loved him and must have drunk
at the chalices of culture which Adams
distilled we wonder If these two rare
friends did not tacitly share Adams
sense of his failure. John Hay died
too soon to taste the rare fruit of
Adams' real living, but certainly Lodge
with his high literary instincts must
feel about Adams' book. In viewing his
own public services, as General Wolfe
felt toward Grey's elegy on that night
before Abraham Heights.
We are wondering if Adams was not
about right concerning Grant as presi
dent. Perhaps McKlnley, too. must pay
the penalty In a depreciated fame and
llmmed lustre on account of the menace
to fame involved In his particular brand
of political methods. At any rate.
Adams' comments and opinions are ex
traordinarily interesting.
AN ENGLISH SOJOURN
His English sojourn gave him close
range upon British political methods in
the heyday of the olden diplomacies and
political philosophy. Palmeraton and
Russell and Gladstone rose slnisterly to
American Interests in those days.
Monckton Milnes and Richard Cobden
are names which show the saving
strains of moral greatness in our Eng
lish kinsfolk, as Chatham Fox and
Burke warm our . American blood
through the t chill at thought of
George III.
It is a fine passage in which Adams
magnanimously allows Gladstone to vin
dicate himself by apology for that
atrocious Newcastle speech October 7.
1962. Magnalnmous, for young Adams'
soul was wounded by that speech, as
indeed the quivering breast of all loyal
America was woudded.
Adams confesses himself wholl yat
mental and moral sea when a man such
as Gladstone can warp scruples to such
entanglements as evidenced by his
words October 7. 1S62.
"We know quite well that the people
I of the Northern states have not yet
I drunk the cup they are still trying to
I hold It far from their Hps which all
the rest of the world see they neverthe
less must drink of. We may have our
own opinions about slavery ; we may
think for or against the South ; but
there Is no doubt that Jefferson Davla
and other leaders of the South have
made an army ; they are making, It
appears, a navy ; and they have made,
what Is more than either, they hve made
nation."
IX CONFESSION
Gladstone rose to his real moral
height when in his confession -of 1896
he says in part, as quoted by Adams:
"My offense was indeed only a mistake,
but one of incredible grossness. and
with such consequences of offense and
alarm attached to it that my falling to
perceive them justly exposed me to very
seve're blame. It illustrates vividly that
incapacity which my mind so long re
tained, and perhaps still exhibts, an n
capacity of viewing subjects all around."
A noble confession of error and frailty
by a man who must later have shud
dered at the thought of Knglaud taking
his view In 1862.
But Adams, too, shuddered, for he saw
no fixed or standardized constant ele
ment in diplomacy. David said in his
haste, "All men are liars." Adams said
It at his leisure so far as the old school
of diplomats was concerned. Let us
observe In passing that if the failure
of the league to enforce peace means
;t return to that old diplomacy, then
no evil In the train of its adoption can
equal those subsequent upon its failure
of adoption.
AN ARDENT FRIEND
Adams is an ardent friend. It is
...M-tv, tViA Hnnlr to baa .Tohn Hhv thronith
cUe .medium of that friendship. It Is
worth much to know that Hay rose to
moral conquests in diplomacy through
the conquests he won over a frail body.
A sick man who might have plead ex
emption from toil and anxiety, yet Hay
bore on and injected the moral law and
the Golden Rule into a realm where
thewe had been lmmemorlally strangers.
Hay and his friend Henry Adams were
long deferred In coming Into their own.
Hay did not come to power until almost
too late to use it ; Adams died, not
knowing to what literary Immortality
he had mounted in this book nnd Its
companion, "Mont - Saint- Michel and
Chartres."
He probably reflects the general at
titude of his class of his times toward
the dawning science of biology. Dar
winism, not as Parwtn Intended it. but
as his expounders Inferred from and
surmised upon It was both a shock, a
.delight, a hope to some and despair to
others. Adams did not take it seriously.
We wonder If his attitude as evinced
In this and subsequent chapters is not
symptomatic of the inherent weakness.
Was Adams only a voice, which, how
ever charming as intoning the culture
of his times, yet was not the organ of
a profound seriousness with which he
took his own convictions. Old John
Adr.ms and his son John Quincy each
nersuaded his generation so to do, but
Henry Adams' generation did not take
him seriously. We wonder why ; and.
yet we do not wonder, for, while only
John Hay and Cabot Lodge could tell
the whole truth about Adams' failure
of coveted recognition nnd success yet
Adams' reader is forced lo believe thnt
the inherent man is reflected in the
mercurial fluidity with which his mind
flpws from thing to thing.
VIEWS ON RELIGION
It must be noted that Adams probably
carred through life the undefined
biases with respect to religion organ
ized Christianity as he conceived it
which he had absorbed from the pre
vailing Boston type of his day. and
upon which he makes his appreciative
but caustic comment. It is worth quot
ing :
"Vewed from Mount Vernon street,
the problem of life was as simple a
it was classic. Politics offered no dif
ficulties, for there the moral law was
a sure guide. Social perfection wns also
sure, because human nature worked for
good, and three instruments were all .-he
asked suffrage, common schools and
press. On these poios doubt was for
bidden. F.ducation was divine, and man
needed only a correct knowledge of
facts to reach perfection :
" 'Were half the power that fills the
world with error,
Were half the wealth bestowed on
camps and courts.
Given to redeem the human mind from
error.
There were no need of arsenals nor
forts."
"Nothing quieted doubt so completely
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clergy. In uniform excellence of life and
character, moral and intellectual, the
score of Unitarian clergymen about
Boeiton,' who controlled society and Har
vard college, were never excelled. .They
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tried to teach, the means of leading a
virUious. useful, unselfish life, which
they held to be sufficient for salvation.
For them, difficulties might be ignored ;
doubts were waste of thought; nothing
exacted solution. Boston had solved tha
universe ; or had offered aid realised
the beet solution yet tried. "The problem,
was worked out.
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making itself anxious about past or
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that all the problems which had oon
vulsed human thought from earliest re
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seemea to mm tne most curious social
phenomena he had. to account for in
a long life. The faculty of turning
away one's, eyes as one approaches a
chasm Is not unusual, and Boston
showed, under the lead of Mr. Webster,
how successfully It could be done in
politics; but In iKJlltlcs a certain num
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religion and philosophy no one protested.
Such protest b was made took forms
more simple than the silence, like the
deism of Theodore Parker, and of the
boy's own cousin, Octavlous Frothing
ham. who distressed his father and
scandalized Beacon street by avowing
skepticism that seemed lo solve no old
problems, and to raise many new ones.
The less aggressive protest of Ralph
Waldo Kmerson was, from an old world
point of view, Iffcs serious. It was naif.
"The children reached manhood with
out knowing religion, and with the cer
tainty that dogma, metaphysics and .b
Htract philosophy were not worth know
ing. So one sided an education c&uld
have been possible In no other country
or time, but tt became almost of neces
sity, the more literary find political. As
the children grew up. they exaggerated
the literary and the political Interests.
They Joined In the dinner table dis
cussions, and from childhood the boys
were accustomed to henr, almost every
day, table talk as good aa, they were
ever likely to hear again."
AH of which is immensely significant,
both as a comment upon one of the
greatest sources of" influence upon
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commentary upon Adatns. Obviously
Adams suffered from unrealized corn-
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' vital emotional functions. He had been
externally scsffolded up to the hnblta
of highly respectnble ethics; his moral
character was not from inner spiritual
secretions As to the force and validity
of evangelical religion he is confessedly
a disqualified witness.'
The book will live. It will stand as
an interpretation of a type of culture
which obtained widely in the latter nine
teenth and early twentieth centuries.
It shows a man revealing himself
autobingraphlcfllly as Intimately as
Bosweli revenled Johnson biouraphlcslly.
It in no book for summer reading.
Its full appreciation cnlls for both a
kindred mind and a kindred viewpoint.
I confess to much Impatience In Its
earlier chapters and some vagueness In
later, and that a subsequent rereading
here and there surprised me with what
my attention had appeared to miss, but
what I knew my eye hnd not misled.
It la a cross-section of the deeper
history, the greater personality, the ed
dying thought, of Adsms' generation.
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