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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 20, 1927)
v;;:d .vas greatest ERICAfJ PREACHER .. CC&linued from pace 14) - t::aTw 'would, bo an unjus. Judg- II vu tmosc Utt first la our rr&r ta reject the New England Csaraam. II did not put a new tt-hs ta the place of the reject ed ttitai For that the time was fct,t for that serrice Beechtr t ad n&t the power. He had a glo- rlotta rSsion of the God and Fath- r t the Lord Jesus Christ. He tr&ew eouhood in his own nature; fee tree son. He knew fa- tLerhoed asew hare erer known tt lie had a treat natu-e, and gmided by the humanity of Christ fca ta5ht God through his whole isanhsad. ' Here is the source of :tl ictrlne. ; Christianity is the, MmSatin of God through the di- iaa cxmanlty of Jesus; and . cstthtr took his own great hu-j iaa &al and reached , through -the CJYlne humanity of his Master! to. the : eternal . humanity of the! C4 lid Father of, men. Cutler's, teachlnf was the aarprUtj of the nation in iu rich lis aimpucKy. in iu ru-l Bwhr' eloouence ws of or elaauiJ, and4n 1U amasln rital-l, wiety and fullness. - He 117; ksjub we think of it as rrr;d by "tho "wldeet flay of mt.t:ia,'as fflle4 bya roice of woairoes compass, melody, and I atinee. as presented by a ge-i . A . - . . . - .. ... . I ' buowo liuiuer, u nis glorious 1 j unjuiucij vi iue uay( msieaa j blazing a path through storms and. thunder, clouds, there would hare been no name in the annals of the American pulpit to put In comparison with that of Henry Ward Beecher. It is with inex pressible thankfulness that all good people behold the vast shad ow that once - rested upon : him lifting, and we may hope that hi great soul may. yet come forth clear as the sun.' flr as the; moon. and. for all the hosts of wicked men. terrible as an army with banners. ; ..What coald Benjamin do- when the cup wa found in his sack? Could he proTe that he was' not a thief? Could he do other than wajt the rerelation and rlndlcetion that. time and the truth of things - would- surely bring? ' Such. in . my judgment. was Beecher' case. The cup found In his sack had been put there by malign men. The evidence against him was' manufactured, lied into existence- by word and deed. Wht could he do; what could any man do but confront - and ;defy It? and abide the righteous rerelatlons of time? W : 1 -. 1 i spoke with the inerltahleness and ease ' of "nature. -He could storm nd .thunder;; and .be" .could utter In the lowest and sweetest botes r,Jaax natural expression abso-j in45ciiatIon. although tbjat .. was taieiy aneauajea. ana oy a per sonality of her oic rigor and charm. ww tan imagine how. his name be ratae, wrer the whole .land, a fcout&held word. When we add to all this, that he was one,xf the rarllitt .and , rarest .of the anti- tlarary orators; that he had a ge-i istttB aurpaned in' any preacher or 4ha moral appreciation', of po litical ttfe; that the; honorof his eoaatry was is close , to kid- aec that t his, own home; and that iha aapreme single serrice W l!f rant? was the rerolution of pin ton Which he : created, in Great Britain, in faror of ths North. in the great cirll conflict -a reroHi tioa of opinion accomplished in the of almost impossible op-. roaIUora reYolution begun" and arrted forward by. bis indomit able coarage before howling mobs. n courage that could not heHntim- Mared. that could not'be'exhaust- d, that could not bo betrayed, ln- v iM'uvt mm . awaaava -vaa hi CthUl humor, in Vitherin! ir- ay, ta silencing disclosures of the vollowas and hypocrisy of Great Uttaiaa friendship for the South, that wrought by infinite Uct and inft&tta patience, by every Jorm of ctaaaaate from - the Play - of the hTaraatlonai note to. the rolling huadara of Impassioned dedam- "t ton and by-as splendid an ex hibition of the power Of speech "vaf popular: and maddened as semblies as was ever witnessed in e aanala of mankind It is small von&er that this man'became the erev the idol, of the American It th shadow of shame had not Vallea upon him. If his good name pad not been clouded; by a rast grand; ' not his humor, although that was without guile: not his didactic address.', although that was surpassingly clear; thVs his great enthusiasm, although ' that was instinct with high contagion; but his pathos,' ". his deep-hearted ymnathy.' his "wondrous tender ness, the incomparable : way- in which he carried tha ' wounded spirit bck into thedlylne eonso- lauon, was .nw supreme power He could comfort men -with a mar relous range of . sympathy, he cou Id comfort a continent h whei' Abraham Lincoln fell from his' vn -arrest heart. And ' when in his human orchestra the rolling of the drum ceased, and the blst ol the cornet was suspended, and the ; gay - music or the violin was held up, and the. so tt notes of the solitary flute - floated, as from hearen. into" the souL of the con-. gregatioo, one can Imagine, but cannot describe, the-magic, the mystery, of this mn's speech. Obliges As Duelist " " and Gets Jail Term OEDENBURG. Austria (AP) Erich Tyuka. court translator,; is In fall for killing Walter Sets, gor eernment official. In a duel. Ty uka explained that i Sett, baring insulted him, explained - that he must tight a duel or he could not take . his place again In society. Society made no such demands on Tyuka, but he accomodated Sets. Unhappily,, his fire was fatal.: s - Read the Classified Ads 4 1 ;t . "t- it i t ;t t 1 w . ; w a I W Vl - ' " -T ( St 1 "j- r BFEC ";. for Say "Thanlcs With Flowers Thanlcsgiving V ; Day " 1 . i " ' .' ..if: '.!... ,Truly a perfect day flowers. Take tKern with1 " wherever ybugo this memor able autumn holiday. ' , "Ask --i about -our Vspecia Thanksivins serviced v OircarD.' -Frosty : . r-!r:n3 IJCT Tclcjrcrh Florist ,11 1 1 'TO-: V ft s WlJ 1 1, g ) Mir- IB U for j - - IU- f II !V you; , ii n I - r .I t -h H-i;- i - u Si t I - -Ml :;!. ii1 1 1 ora, ct sound .Amerkan , con. 2PQ yVIFIQ 11 RAHit igua of Western Writers will go rward and," with its present or- ra." r. i r -rv; i The clear healthy atmosphere of e west has produced almost no literary degeneracy- and is' not likely to fall under un-American i lanenees. i ' .- - ? " ; ? The League of Western Writers will become a national institution, and Col. Hofer has aroused a strong. sentiment for the - better things In life when expressed in literature. He has drawn a sharp; line against ererythag that eman ates from the disciples of . degen eracy in all Its forms. Those who seek to Justify the cry of ?" Art for artV sake,; that: ends in " literary pollution of our schools and col leges along the Freudian psycho analytical cults, are not the edu- .altatlon, - a second -. Parliament of Letters is being organized to be held: on San Francisco Say next July. All writers or those seeking to derelop ability as such are in- rlted td enroll and ahjonld address Secretary , Frank Gates, Arctic Bdg.; Seattle,' or Chairman Pame- lia Pearl Jones, of the Adrlaory Board,; 4350 Pasadena Place, Se attle, and enroll as members. . (The International - League of Western Writers, organized at Se attle Sept. SO Oct. 1. is the result of work done in 19 ?7 by The Lar iat, noted Salem publication.: In 1128 this magazine, will be made a larger and more beautiful publl-; cation, from the press of Frank J. Bellemin of Portland, publisher of art books and brochures. Ed,) AS BRAVEST Ofe BRAVE" (Continued front page 14) ' . two drillans) who by direction of General Mitchell (or Buell) pene-j trafed nearly 100 miles south into tha' enemy's territory; . and cap-, tured a railroad - train at Big Shanty Georgia, la an. attempt to destrcVUie brjdres and track be- rween Chattandofa and Atlanta. t "While this Is the first award. a preceding act of heroism ' for which award was made nearly 3 S years later is recorded in the case of Assistant Surgeon Bernard '3 D. Irwin He recelred his medal in 1S94, but it was for courage displayed in action against hostile Indians ln-18l - '-e - . During 18C3 only 20 of the pre cious medals' were awarded, all to rolunteers. : . " in": 1844 rolunteers recelred Jf 4 and 'regulars three. In 1866 the number of rolunteer awards Jeaped up to X.UI, "Dcn't Tc!i" SaVS IZlCZli Golf, Pclitlcs Dcn't rix fFticli ill, all to men of ops itr latent and awarded not' for ralor la aeticn, wer later stricken from the Unif While one regular.woa'a medal Ei that year. From then on, year by year, medals Vera con- ferrjd : tor P&st action or during the later wars in small numbers untU the world war bulge of SO, a third of which were awarded posthumously, came. -: -Llentl CoL Charles W. Whlttel- sey, commander of the "Lost Bat talion, In the Meuse-Argonne, and Prira to Thomas Neibar, Co, M. 167th Infantry, were the first to recelre the medal in the world war. Whlttelsey is the only world war medal holder, known by the War Department to " hare died since the war. , Others included such outstanding heroes as Ser geants Samuel Woodfill and Alrin C. York. , . i'l -- . ... i.- ensssrs Read the Classified Ads' . PARIS (AP)--Andre Tardleu, thd- French - minister or puEaic works, has taken up golf, bat he would rather not haTe.lt known. Shhhh! : Don't mention it, he told a. Parisian journalist rno found him swinging his woods and irons on the course at Vitte. "It seldom brings, any liapplnesa to a. French T statesman to hare it known that he plays golf..'- , I don't know why ntit- In France there is a prejudice against this innocent game, so fitting lor solitary meditation." ' Probably -hoping the public wouldn't mind if the news were presented in a proper llht. Mon sieur Tardien told the Journalist that when he . played golf - his, solitary ' meditations : concerned j rest projects for repairing roads, building up the nary and improring the nation's fisheries. la consequence, of which, be ex-; plained hl3 golf game gets 'worse all the time, '.- The only other French cabinet" officer erer cbserred playing golf is Arletlde Brland end the fall of one of his cabinets was populiiiy ascribed to the pti Hcallon of pho tographs " showing him on a Ri viera course with Lloyd-George, when French politicians thought he should hare been "in confer ence" with the British statesman. Since then, M. BrUnd has con fined his sport to fishing. - , - o Will of Horses' Ovvnsr I Prpvidss Weil tor Them . . ( : ': ' LONCCCl;AP)---The horses cf the late E2fry Buffer, of La--broke GrMar, London, "a - director are now 8Ing to haro an easy ! Ume oMt. It ii 1 1 X "We are offering the widest- range in style Footwear that has ever been showrtiri Salem. 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