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QUA TRAINS.
Aoi Older.
By the allwise, almighty laws
That sway the sun and sway the star
God is no older than he was,
And we no older are.
The Nude in Am
Art is not art whereon that we
Were shamed to have our mothers’ gaze;
Whatever lewdness lying says,
The soul of Art is Purity.
Arthur Goodenough.
CONk EHN iNG WbMEN.
THE FIELD OF THEIR ACTIVITY.
The Woman’* Nntiomil Indian Amwocir
tiou.
The work of the missionary depart
nieut of the woman’s national Indian as
sociation is presented in an interesting
manner in a recent pamphlet published
by the association, called “Sketches of de
lightful work.’’ This report covers the time
to December, 1892. It is made up large
ly from letters received from the mission
aries. The state missions are reported by
officers of the auxiliaries maintaining them,
which, however, in this phamplet, are only
outlined for want of space. A sketch is
given of the work at the Digger mission in
California; the growth of the school which
was opened in September, 1890, with 11
pupils and numbers at the time this re
port was made up 35. Many touching in-[
cidents are given. One new pupil entered
the school during the week after New
Year and in that bitter cold weather was
clad in a cotton shirt, a pair of overalls and
gum boots that had lost most of their
Roles, “and yet he has come to the school
a mile and a half every day, and a bright
er and more earnest boy it would be hard
to find.” It was a great question when
this school was opened if the Indians
would care enough about it to make any
effort to send their children, and if the
children themselves could be made to come
to it with any degree of regularity. The
attendance was, however, good from the
start. In our letter after the school had
been open some months the teacher writes:
“Several have been unable to come since
snow came, on account of having no shoes,
but I tell you it is surprising to note the
weather they will face to come to school.
One morning last, week our first snow fell,
and I waded through it eight inches while
it was still falling, and brushes and trees
were bending with their burden of the
beautiful. ‘What a day! I guess I shall
be the only pupil to-day,’were my thoughts.
I had just started the fire, when I saw two
sleighs driving up. loaded with native sons
and daughters. How it encouraged me to
know that their fathers had enough inter
est to hunt sleighs to bring their children
to school through such a storm. Well, I
had 23 pupils that day. and a noiser, jol
lier set I never saw. They made snow
men, and tracked the school-house all over
with snow, but during school hours they
worked with a vim and all had good les
sons.”
.This assneiatien began uork *mong the
Seminole Indians in Florida in June,
1891. when Dr and Mrs Brecht
arrived there. The missionaries do
not live among the Indians here,
but have their settlement, or camp, some
distance away, where a saw-mill has been
put up, a store opened, and every means
is taken to establish fraternal relations
with their neighbors. The whisky
traffickers, fearing their trade would be
injured, at once upon the arrival of the
missionaries set about creating distrust
among the Indians. Stories were circu
lated that the mission was a trap to cateh
Indians, that the United States soldiers
in disguise were in the vicinity watching,
and that the steahi whistle of the saw
mill would bo a sigfinl to gather them to
gether and take them to the Indian terri
tory. The missionaries are gradually gain
ing the confidence of the Indians, and the
work is progressing. The pictures of the
life at the mission are very pleasant, and
seem quite like fiction, or as if, with a
little addition, a pretty romance might be
made. One day an Indian appeared with
his two little l»oys, having come on an ox
team to sell buck skins and alli
gator skins, for which he was
paid cash, and he in turn bought a few
things at the store. He was in full Indian
,dress, fringed buckskin leggins, red tur
ban, etc. An interesting picture of
life at this mission is contained
in a letter from Mrs Brecht. “There
has been much to do, and so inanv
delays in the work of the saw-mill, that all
of the buildings, as yet put up. are only
temporary, and of rough undressed lum
ber, except the blacksmith’s shop and the
new mill. The saw-mill does not run
daily, as the crew is limited, and must do
the cutting of the trees, clearing the
ground, putting up the buildings, etc.,
besides the sawing of the lumber: so that
lumber does not accumulate rapidly. We
"have been occupying since March a little
five-room cottage, built on the association
ground. There are three rooms in the
front; the largest we use for our little
store, the next is the sitting-room and
office; adjoining is our little bedroom: and
back of these rooms are a small dining
room and kitchen, with shed roof, and two
little porches which are a great conveni
ence. The association farmer, who is with
us. has cleared and fenced some three
acres of ground, which is divided into a
houseyard, in which we have planted man
goes and guavas, started shrubs and How
ers, and about 100 pineapples. Joining
this yard is a garden, made too late for a
supply of early vegetables, a horse-lot and
yard-lot come next, and tneu a field of
rice which promises a supply of seed for
next year. 1 have given you this account
of our situation and surroundings, that you
might picture this little oasis in
the wilderness. and judge some
what of our present comfort, and of
the effect these gradual improvements and
developments may have upon the settlers
near us. being also an object lesson to the
Indians.”
Soon after they moved into this cottage
an Indian family camped on the edge of
the woods near by. They had two sick
Children and Dr Brecht persuaded them
to come nearer and had a tent put up for
them, where they stayed until the children
were better. In speaking of this family
and others who camped near rhe missions
from time to time. Mr Brecht says “They
often take meals with ns and it is gratify
ing to note how quickly they learn to use
knife and fork, and to see their improve
ment in manners. They seem to enjoy the
‘white man's’ food, and we wonder how
they can go back to their own food, eaten
from the cooking pot with a large wooden
spoon which is passed from one to an
other. as they sir on the ground around
the pot. By our visiting among the camps
we find them hospitable. Soon after we
arrived they offer something to eat, what
ever they have prepared, usually ‘soffigs,*
a soft porridge made of grits and meat.
It is this custom for guests to eat, so we
ask them to our table‘and find that their
■shyness and reserve disappear more rapid-
Oy and they talk more freely at the table
end after they have eaten with us. Some
times we will be here alone, at others a
whole family will camp for days. We
have not yet succeeded in persuading any
of them to make a permanent camp near
us, so cannot accomplish much in teaching
them, but at each opport unity ^ve make
an effort to teach something and make im
pressions, which we hope will be for good.
It seems like sowing seed by the wayside;
indeed it is scarcely sowing, rather the
first attempt, toward preparing the soil,
bearing out the weeds of superstition and
the rocks of fear and distrust.”
There are reports and letters from the
Romona mision in California; from the
Maine association among the Shawnees of
Indian territory; the Connecticut mission
at Fort Hall, Idaho; the Brooklyn mission
among the Piegans of Montana; the Mas
sachusetts mission for the Apache pris
oners in Alabama; work in the Hooper
valley missions in California; and the
Moquis of Arizona. In a summary, the
missionary committee say that according
to latest full reports of the commission
ers of Indian affairs the tribes and sep
arate parts of tribes still without a Chris
tian mission are about 40 and are in 14 dif
ferent states. Since 1884 32 missions
have been started by this association of
women. 12 chapel cottages and school
houses have been built and three more will
soon be erected from funds now in the
treasury. Some of the missions have been
transferred to the Episcopal Methodist,
the Baptist, the Presbyterian and Morav
ian hoards, and are now their permanent
mission, thus helping the home mission as
well as providing for destitute tribes.. In
conclusion the missionary committee say:
For every reason wo should appeal in hope
to all Christians to aid us in this work
for the evangelization of the still waiting
tribes of our native race, and wo should
add that the small gifts of the many will
be as gratefully received as the larger
gifts of those possessing ampler means.
Surely this offered opportunity is a Chris
tian privilege. (This committee represents
eight Christian denominations, —tin* Bap
tist. the Friends, Presbyterian. Methodist,
Reformed, Episcopal, Congregational, and
Moravian churches.)
Nome Women nt Chicago.
'j„The Young Woman’s Christian associa
tion of Chicago have made arrangements
that every through train that reaches Chi
cago shall be met by representatives of
this association, who shall have an eye to
the interests of women traveling alone.
If such women are moneyless, or if they
are disappointed in meeting friends, they
will be taken to a certain one of five wide
ly separated homes which the association
has long maintained for working women.
At this place they will be given a bed and
board, temporarily, at least, whether they
can pay for it or not. If no friends ap
pear to claim them, a situation will be pro
vided for each one. either as domestic or
in any other capacity which they can fill
along the labor line, and they will be en
couraged to fill the same honorably and
faithfully. Any young woman is welcome
to remain at the home for one year. The
price of her board will be graded accord
ing to her earnings, and $5 a week will
give her the best that any house affords.
At the end of one year she is supposed to
have become sufficiently experienced in the
ways of city life to vacate her place for a
newer and more unsophisticated appli
cant.
UliacclhineoiiM Jlmier*.
A correspondent of the Central Chris
tian Advocate, writing on the woman’s
congresses in Chicago, says:—
It is a significant fart that the uppermost
topic, the dominant Idea, that pervaded the
meetings of the week, was this of equal politi
cal. ecclesiastical and legal rights for women,
and especially their right to the ballot. It
invaded the congresses on other subjects, and
took possession of the religious meetings: the
thought that found constant expression being
that the full franchise for women is indispen
sable to their progress. Wherever the leaders
of the movement spoke, the b • Is were filled
to overflowing, and the people clamored for
admission at the closed doors. Unfriendly
critics may say that the suffragists captured
the woman’s congress, which would hardly be
just, if it implies any intention or planning
to that end. It would be more nearly true to
say rhat their ideas captured the people. No
other interest was slighted for this. Everv
part of the vast program was carried out; but
it seemed evident that women who could com
pass the world of thought in the meeting of
a week ought no longer to suffer anv political,
ecdesastical or industrial disabilities imposed
by men.
If you educate women to attend to dig
nified and important subjects, you are mul
tiplying beyond measure the chances of
human improvement by preparing and
medicating those early impressions which
always come from the mother, and which,
in the majority of instances, are quite de
cisive of genius. The instruction of women
improves the stock of rational talents and
employs more minds for the instruction
and improvement of the world; it increases
the pleasures of society by multiplying the
topics upon which the two sexes take a
common interest, and makes marriage an
intercourse of understanding as well as
of affection. —Sydney Smith.
The state of Tennessee has recently
placed a tax on private school property iii
consequence of which the Clara Conway
institute will not reopen next September
as Miss Conway says she cannot afford to
meet the added expense. For 1(1 years
Miss Conway has devoted herself gener
ously to building up her school, aiming to
give it a standard equal to the preparatory
schools in the North, and the school has a
wide reputation.
John Strange Winter (Mrs Stannard) in
her latest book, "Aunt Johnnie." indulges
in a touch of autobiography when she
says: "I have the best of reasons for
knowing the result of one happy 1 marriage
that has lasted now for a good many
years and which was proposed on the’
fourth day after the couple met. It was
my own and. therefore, I have authority
for what I say.”
The Presbyterians at Maeon, Ga., de
clared in a special decree at a mooting hold
last month that “the session must abso
lutely enforce the injunction of scripture
forbidding women to speak in churches (I
Corinthians 13: 14), or in any way failing
to observe that relative subordination to
men that, is taught in I Corinthians. 13th
and 14th verses, and in other places.”
The international league of press dubs
at their recent convention in Chicago
started a fund for establishing a home for
aged and infirm journalists to be located
in New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Three
representatives of the New England
women’s press association attended the
convention.
Mrs Isamlla Bird Bishop, the well
known traveler and writer of books of
travel, is the first, woman to deliver an ad
dress before the British House of Com
mons. Sho was summoned there to tell
what she had seen of the Christians in
Turkish Koordistan.
The university of Tennessee has opened
its doors to women, and throughout the
state clubs of women, pressed by the
women of Knoxville, are organizing to
raise the money for a woman's building
on the university grounds. »
Sheboygan, Mich., has five kindergartens
in connection with the public schools.
After seven years' experience, the public
and the school board are in favor of hav
ing the kindergarten as the basis of all
school work.
At the recent meeting of the Georgia
press association ar Maeon, a resolution
was adopted appropriating $l3O for the
education of some girl without resources
at the girl’s normal school at Milledge
ville.
At the first annual meeting of the Can
tabrigia, held recently, the club decided to
support a free bed at the Cambridge hos
pital. and S2OO of the necessary $365 was
pledged on the spot.
WHY HOT AS ELEC fHI CL AWS MOWER >
In some of the Glasgow ship-yards an elec
trically-driven rotary nlaner is now used for
smoothing the decks of ships,—an operation
which when performed by hand is exceed
ingly laborious. The machine looks like a
lawn-mower and is handled in much the
same way. This suggests that the invention
of an electrical lawn-mower would not only
meet a long-felt w ant of the suburban resi
dent, but would at the same time assist in
improving the load curve of the local elec
tric-lighting station.
THE SPRINGFIELD WEEKLY REPUBLICAN: FRIDAY, JUNE 23, 1893.—-TWELVE PAGES.
THE VIKING SHIP AT NEW YORK.
MODELED BY THE OOKSTAD VESSEL.
OGrovered After Kight Centuries or
Kurial in the Hand- Her Cnptnin nn,l
Her Voyage Across the Allanite front
Norway.
The Viking, which is now anchored in
the North river at New York, where the
Columbus caravals lay some weeks ago,
is even more interesting a reconstruction
than they were, for it copies the old Norse
oared ship of war, with lofty prow, such
as the Scandinavian sea rovers voyaged
to other kinds in, levying tribute and con
quering nations in their piratical way,
500 years befere Columbus set sail from
Palos in the Santa Maria, with the Pinta
and Nina along. In such a boat as the
Viking did Leif Erikson reach rhe shores
of Vinland, and it is quite a compliment
for rhe countrymen of Leif to pay to the
dtscovprer who came so long after. The
notion was suggested by the New York
Herald, it. seems, some years ago, that, it
would be a good thing to build such a ves
sel to be shown at the Columbian world’s
fair, ( apt Magnus Andersen, a Norse
man who would have made a viking of
the first order himself in the days when
that was the fashion, was then superin
teqdeiit of the Scandinavian sailors' home
in Brooklyn, and he took the hint to
heart. He presently went back to Nor
way and started a paper, the Noreges
Sjafartstidende, or Norwegian Shipping
Gazette, and in it talked the viking ship
until captains and sailors had contributed
a quarter of the money needed, and then
men with more money put up the other
three-quarters, and then the task was
simple. Capt Andersen tells the story of
the making and the sailing of the ship to
•the Herald.
It was determined to copy in every re-
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spect the old viking ship found in 1880,
in the great mound at Gokstad near
Sandefjord, on the Norway coast, and
now preserved in the national museum.
It: was an unusually large vessel of its
class, the keel alone being 66 feet long,
(’apt Carlsen of the Norwegian navy-yard
superintended the building of the ship;
he had already had three models of the
old ship made, for the Scandinavians of
Minm'iipolis, for Copenhagen and Madrid.
The Viking, as she was rightly dubbed,
measures from stem to stern 78 feet, is
16 feet 9 inches wide, 5 feet 11 inches
high from beam to keel; the keel is 66
feet long and 18 inches deep. She is
made altogether of oak; the seams are
calked of oakum made with cow’s hair;
the planking averages one inch in thick
ness; i*oots instead of roia‘s or nails are
used_to connect the planks with the frame,
only the top sides of the planks being fas
tened by nails. So minutely has the pat
tern been followed that while most of the
bolts have their heads outside and are
clinched inside, there are a score of them
driven from the outside, just as in the
Gokstad original,—bolt for bolt the ar
rangement is just the same. There are
16 openings for oars on each side: there
is no deck, but louse boards resting on
shoulders are used for the shelter of crew
and provisions. Buckets are carried for
baling, as in the old times, and on the
voyage over they had to be used because
the pump got out of order. This pump,
and five small guns for firing salutes, are
about the only new things about the ves
sel.
Further said ('apt Andersen: “The
Viking was built on the spot where the
old ship was discovered. She was launched
on February 4 in the presence of 10,(RM)
persons, including the admiral and several
officers of the Norwegian navy, and many
other distinguish^ men. The vessel was
taken to Christiania, and on the way was
nearly wrecked by ice in the Christiania
fjord* In that city we selected our crew
of 12. The crew of the old ship was prob
ably about 45 men: but then, we didn't
intend to row as much as they did. The
applicants from whom these men were se
lected numbered 280, every one of whom
was exceedingly anxious to undertake
the dangerous voyage. I think now that.
1 have the finest crew that ever sailed
a ship. 1 selected the men with re
gard to i heir personal appearance as
well as their seamanship. With one or
two exceptions, perhaps, they are fitted
to act as mates, and every man is
of good physique. From Christiania wo
sailed along the coast to Bergen, stopping
at rimny places on the way, where wo were
invited to receptions. We left Bergen on
April 30 for our long voyage across the
north Atlantic. A big flotilla accompanied
us out to see, and the mayor, town coun
cil and several thousand persons wished
us godspeed.
“We made our start under the most
favorable auspices, having a fresh breeze
from the north. The next day, however,
the wind veered to the west, and the
Viking made little headway. It took us
five days to get across to the Shetland
islands. We continued our voyage with
variable weather until May 12, when we
had heavy gales from the southwest^ west
and northwest. We had to let down the
sail, as when the Viking was pressed she
shipped some water forward and the men
had to get to work to bale her out. Nev
ertheless the ship behaved remarkably
well, ^nd under a elose reefed square sail
lying about five points from the wind she
breasted the seas like a duck. The Viking
proved herself on several occasions to be
a very fast sailer. Under her primitive
sail she logged off at times 11 knots an
hour. Our voyage across was pretty near
ly as lonely as that of our forefathers,
who sailed to America long before Colum
bus stood an egg on end or persuaded
Queen Isabella to fit out r fleet for him.
We never saw sail after passing the Shet
lands until we were on Newfoundland.
When we got toward Newfoundland we
eiKountered heavy westerly gales. We
sighted Newfoundland May 27. Off St.
Johns a big tow boat sighted ns, and
thinking the Viking was a dismaatod
sehooner came out to give us assistance.
W<» were thus enabled to get letters and
telegrams ashore. Then beating along th«*
const we encounteiM'd a southeast gale
with heavy ruin. We w<*re off Cape
Sable June 7. when we were spoken by a
Gloucester fisherman with papers of June
6 aboard.’’ The Viking got into Newport
Thursday, the 15th, and the captain and
crew were given a reception. Thence the
ship was towed by a tug through the
Sound to its anchorage in the North river,
where she will lie some days.
(’apt Magnus Andersen and his mate,
Christian Christiansen, showed the stuff
of which they are made seven years ago,
when they attempted to cross the Atlantic
from England in a small open boat. They
got safely as far as the Newfoundland
banks, but they were so worn out that
they were glad to accept the opportunity
which offered there to get aboard an En
glish bark homeward bound. As the event
proved, they did not gain anything in ease
and comfort. Three days after the Norse
men got aboanl. the bark encountered a
terrific gale. The mast was struck by
lightning and, falling, killed the captain
and first mate nad disabled seven of the
crew. No one else aboard had any knowl
edge of navigation, and Andersen ami his
companion took the ship safely into New
castle. In speaking of his adventurous
trip in the small boat, Capt Andersen said
that it had a puriswe and was not the act
of a crank. “The obj^-t of Christiansen
and myself,” said he, “was to show sailors
that they are not necessarily lost when
their ship is lost. Sailors as a rule have
too little confidence in their small boats.
I + hink every one will agree with mo that
:i an of having two men go along on
such a voyage is a great deal more sen
sible than that of a single man taking it.
One must sleep.”
warlike~prep~aratioFsln SAMOA.
King Ualieton Deter mined to ('rush Out
the Aspirant Jlataafa.
Advices received by Secretary Gresham
from Samoa are to the effect that affairs
there have reached a crisis, and it may be
that the United States will again be
obliged to intervene between the parties.
Ever since the establishment of the tri
parte protectorate over Samoa, the islands
have been disturbs!, and the best efforts
of the representatives of the United
Stales, Great Britain and Germany have
failed to improve the situation. First
there was trouble growing out of alleged
arbitrary acts of Coderonkontz. the Swede
who was selected by the parties to the
Berlin treaty as the chief of the Samoan
land court. Then there was a financial
tangle resulting from the attempt of the
German adviser of the king to force the
people to accept German thalers at a fixed
rate; serious discontent was shown at the
exci'ssive burden of taxation, and finally
rebellion has broken oht. Matanfa. who
acted as king during Malietoa’s en
forced absence, preceding rhe Berlin con
ference, has never admitted that he has
ceased to bp king, and taking up a strong
position on one of the lesser islands of the
Samoan group, has really maintained him
self in the native regal style. He has
always had numerous adherents, and of
late the troubles that King Malietoa has
encountered in the effort to govern his
kingdom have driven many more of the
inhabitants over to the side of Mataafa.
The disaffwtion has become so serious in
extent that Malietoa has felt it to be
necessaiy to crush out the aspirant for
the throne, and the advices received at
the state department indicate that open
warfare is now about to begin.
The United States, Great Britain and
Germany have obligated themselves by
the treaty of Berlin to preserve the auton
omy of the island, ami to maintain order
and iH'ace. Under this agreement it has
been the custom for the three nations to
take turns in keeping a war ship at Apia,
or in the vicinity, and it so happens that
just now the German vessel is on guard.
In the crisis, however, it is desirable that
more force should be at hand, and it may
be that one of the United States war ships
will be sent Io Samoa. At present the
nearest are the Boston and the Adams,
now at Honolulu, but in view of the un
certain condition of affairs there and the
importance of American interests involved,
it is probable that, not more than one of
them at Samoa can be spared, and owing to
the lack of cable connections with Hawaii
sailing orders could not reach them for at
least a week or 10 days, from four to six
days more would be consumed in the voy
age from Honolulu to Samoa, so that no
naval ship can reach there before August.
SOCINTY OF CIA C2NSAII ELECTIONS.
The last sessions of the meeting of the so
ciety of the Cincinnati were held at the state
house at Boston last week, Col C. S. Sims of
New Jersey, acting president-general, in the
chair. It was voted not to accept the resig
nation of Hamilton Fish, the president
general. These officers were chosen: Presi
dent-general, Hamilton F.sh of New York;
vice-president, Gen Robert Mulligan McLane
of New Jersey; treasurer-general, John
Schuyler of New York; secretary-general,
Asa Bird Gardner of Rhode Island; assis
tant secretary-general, Thomas Pinckney
Low nds of South Carolina.
Lieut Peary will take along with him
to northern Greenland a cotv of carrier
pigeons which he will use as nu'ssengers
in connection with his explorations. He
does not think the birds will find it too
cold, but he is a little afraid that they
will have trouble with the gyr falcon, a
bird of prey found in the Arctic regions.
LYMAN ABBOTT AT MT HOLYOKE.
HIS FRANK SERMON ON THE BIBLE
And the JEifectw of ^lodrrn Research on
Fnith HHcrahinrrHie Hermon to the
<«rMdunting < 1m««.
An impressive baccalaureate sermon was
preached Sunday to the students of
Mount Holyoke college by Rev Dr Lyman
Abbott. He arrived Sat unlay and an in
formal reception was given to him by the
senior class at which ft sort of impromptu
question-box lecture was held. The church
Sunday morning was crowded to its full
capacity. The decorations were attractive
and excellent miivic was furnished by a
choir of 16 young women of the coih*ge
under the direction of Dr Blodgett. The
senior class passed into the church in a
body, and occupied seats in the front of
the house. The preacher was heard with
especial interest on account of his recent
liberal utterings on religious topics. He
treated the subjects of faith and the Bibb;
with characteristic candor, and the cordial
r<‘c€‘ption of the thought he expressed with
the discussions that followed among the
students indicate that the pupils of Mount
Holyoke can certainly not be conmdered
too conservative in such matters.
Ilev Dr Lyman Abbott, took for his
text Hebrews xii: 26-27, “Whose voice
then shook the earth, but now he has
promised saying ’Yet once more I shake
not the earth only, but also heaven.' Ami
this word, ‘Yet once more.’ signifnuh the
removing of those things that are shaken,
as of things that are made, that those
things which cannot be shaken may re
main.” I suppose there are times when
all of us would like to get out of this
agitated world, but there is no way io
get out of the agitation without getting out
of the world. At all events, so long as
we are here we are in a state of perpetual
controversy, iH'iqM^nal agitation. Just now
it is an intellectual agitation. Il is a con
flict between systems of theology—between
theology and religion. This is the thing
I want to talk about this morning; it is
a divine providence. God puts us into
This condition in which we are shaken.
I read now and then of unshaken faith.
There is something better than that, it is
a shaken faith. That is the only faith
that is worth much in this world. God
puts us into a shaking process. He treats
humanity as a gold miner treats the gold
in the sand. He puts them into a sieve
and shakes them ami the sand percolates
down through the sieve and the water
washes it away. It is our business to
keep the gold and let go the sand. Unfor
tunately some people reverse the process
and keep the sand and let go the gold.
A young child has been brought up in
a country home. She has not been
taught systematically on religion, per
haps not on any subject. At all
events she goes out with some such
conception as this; that God made the
world in six days, that man transgressed
the divine law and was driven out into
the wilderness, that then there began a
period of suffering, that (iod selected one
little nation ami one little land and in that
nation and land p -hIo some manifestation
of himself and left the rest of the world
in darkness, that he sent his Son into
the world and said “They that believe in
him shall have happiness forever.” I do
not say that she is taught this: it is child
theology, but it has grown up in the mind
of the child Who is not taught to discrim
inate between history and imagination.
She has come to believe that to believe
this is to bo religious. Now she begins
a course of education, and the moment she
does that she begins a course of evolution
ary education, the whole of which treats
life as a growth. She begins to study geol
ogy and learns that the earth has lasted
a great many thousand years, ami as.tron
omy, and paleontology, which runs the or
igin of man away back beyond the 6000
years on the margin of her Bible. She
studies perhaps zoology and learns that
every individual man has an animal origin;
she studies history and sees that every
ejxjch is the effect of every preceding epo< li
and the cause of eveiw following epoch.
Little by little her childish theology is
shaken, badly shaken—shattered, badly
shattered, and perhaps she gives it up
altogether.
What happens falls into one of three
things; sometimes the person shaken stops
and says, I must keep my religion, there
fore 1 won t take anj* more scientific in
struction. I will preserve mv ndigion and
stop thinking. Well, if she ’must surren
der one or the other she is wise. But 1
do not think that is necessary’. Or per
haps she takes the reverse course, and
says. 1 must have truth, whether 1 have
religion or not. Or perhaps she tries to
do both things at the same time. I think
there are many people who believe on
Sunday that the world was made in six
days, and six days of the week that its
age runs back thousands of rears. Now
1 cannot do this.
Theology is not religion. I do nor say
that it is not a very good thing, but it is
not religion. Religion is faith, hope, love.
Theology is what people believe. The sun
shone on the earth, and spring, summer
and winter followed each other on the
earth when people believed the old theory
of astronomy, and it did not do otherwise
when people believed in the Copernican
theory of astronomy. Flowers did not
stop blooming when The Linnaean classi
fication was changed. Religion is eternal.
We know now in part. When rhat vhich
is perfect has come that which is imperfect
shall be done away with. Behind that
and beyond that were faith, hope and love,
and these abide forever. . . 1 am not
here this morning to present evolution nor
to argue evolution, nor to take down one
system of theologj’ and put another in its
place. I will tell you why I came. I said
last fall: I will not accept any invitations
to go to any educational institution, and
then when the invitation came to speak
here in Mount Holyoke, an institution so
sacred in its history, and so sacral to me
because of one I loved. I said: 1 cannot
refuse; and then when I said to mvself
and to my father: What message shall L
take? “It seems to me,” he said, “that
there are some of these students who an*
puzzled to know how they can reconcile
their increasing knowledge with the faith
of their fathers. Show them how to do
it.” That is what I have come here for.
In the first place, then, we are coming
to see clearly that God is not some one
who sirs outside of Nature, like a carpen
ter who builds a house, or au engineer
who now puts on more steam and now
less. The world is not like a machine
which (4od has to regulate. I think ,we
are coming to see rhat the work! is an’ex
pression of God the dress of him. the
body of him. The other day a young man
from a New York paper came to interview
me on theology. He wanted me to give
him a system of theology. 1 declined.
Then he asked me at least to give an
answer to this question: “Do you believe
in a personal God?” “What do you
mean,” I asked, “by a ^‘rsonal God?” “I
mean,” he said, “a big man who sits in the
center of rhe universe and runs things.”
I said “No.” He was not very intelligent,
but I fear that a great many people have
just that conception. The conception of a
great big man sitting in the center of the
universe and ruling ii by a sort of teh'-
phonic communication is a subtle, delicate,
nffimal form of idolatry. It is an idol, an
image, a pure figment of rhe human
mind. It is not the religion of Jesus Christ,
not rhe religion of Christianity. Let me
read from one of the psalms: “Whither
shall I go from thy spirit? or whither
shall I fly from thy presence? If 1 asiand
up info heaven, thou art there. If 1 make
my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.*’
What docs this doctrine of omnipresence
mean? That God is in every part of rhe
universe as I am in every part of my
body. Eiiery part, of my body is equally
subject fb my control and my direeaion.
ber-unse I am in-it. It is far more true
to rhe Bible to think of (J/«i as dwelling
in the universe as ’he soul dwells in the
I body than to think of him an dwelling in
it as the engineer dwelt* in the engine.
Pantheism this is not. F*anrh€Msm teaches
that all is God. This is the rover*’. My
l»ody is not me. but I am omnipresent in it.
And so we are < oming to think of crea
tion nor as a mechanieai proecss of man
| ufa<'ture, bur as a continued pr»>”e«w of
| growth. One sys Raphael’s cartoons under
takes to represent the creation, and the
Creator is seated crossdegged on the
grounde Mhile around him are what look
like the fragments of Noah’s ark which
he putting togerber. That is not the
Inblical conception. We are coming to a
larger, diviner world. John says. “In the
beginning was the wont” What is the
word? Your friend sits by your side and
you wonder what he is speaking alxmt.
He might as well l»e a thousand miles
away, Yon call him back to yon. John
says he was always a manifesting ami
disclosing God. Light is thus the out
coming of God. AH physical manifesta
tions are the roan if <«stat ions and disefos
nrpM of God who is thinking out the nni-
Verse.
The egg that is opening to-day. the
bud rha? is «*j>reading In-canse rhe sun has
bm-konod it into a larger life, the bHde of
grass that is just pushing its way ijp, the
forest that is manifesting more power
than any manufactory, making shade for
the cattle, all'these are parts of his pow
er. because he is in the universe perpetu
ally, bei'fluse he is speaking perpetually,
for so Jong he wifi be not an uncons< ions
Brahma, but a living, personal, manifest
ing. producing God. What is meant by
saying “Gml is love” is this, thar love is
always giving rtseif out. Erery act of
power is the divine power. What we rail
laws of Nature are only acts of the divine
power. Is this a meaner, smaller coaci^e
tioh of the divine being than to say that
he woke up one morning and said. “Go
to. we will make a world?” It is a larger
conception.
W e are coming, too, to see that the law
is not like a i>a|>rr constitution or an em
peror s edict issued once upon a rime by a
beneficent despc>t. We are coming to see
what Paul saw very dearly, that that
law is written into hearts and consciences.
Moral law is the nature of things. There
is not one law in moral science and anoth
er for the astronomer. Moral law is as
much in the nature of things as natural
law is the nature «>f things. I sometimes
meet a man who says that the world does
not need a God. that it is so governed by
law. When Congress passes a law that
the Mississippi river is to be dredged it is
not the law that dredger the river. The
laws of moral life are the laws of man’s
own nature written in him. God did not
first say. “Thou shalr not steal.” when he
gave Mwes the 16 commandments. They
were written on the hearts of men when
man came to rhe mount of God. The pres
ence of God awoke the conscience and that
gave clearer interpretarions to that which
man had long known. Man is the child of
God, and it is against the very nature of
man that he should stray away from God
and not follow and love God. Thar is
what God made man for. When he does
something else he is unnatural. He is
violating the laws of his own nature. And
so we are coming ro sec what sin is. It
is going against the best in our nature.
It is violating God’s law. It is lawless
ness. We are coming to see Thar tempta
tion is the necessary process by which men
from a low condition are lifted up ro a
higher condition. Some of you ask^l me
last night if Adam was perfect. Even if
I took the Bible account just as it stands,
as a history and not as a poem. I do not
think he was. I do not believe that he
had electric lights in the garden of Eden,
‘•r rhat he was perfect in his knowledge of
rhe moral law. He certain^ yielded the
first time he was tempted.
The babe lies in rhe cradle perfwt, in
nocent. It has done no wrong: it could
do no wrong. As it begins to see it begins
to choose. In choosing the right it goes’
along the path to light. It gers moral
muscle just as it gers physiixil muscle.
Temptation is the road from innocence to
virtue. We are not virtuous rill we have
been tempted, and have resisted tempta-
Ti<m. Yon cannot get patience out of a
minister unless he preaches a long sermon
on a hot day. The soblier gets courage
when he says. “I will go down to death,
but my i-ountry shall be preserved.”
Temptation is the high road to virtue if
we resist the temptation and choose the
path of rectitude. We are learning this,
and lea ruing that law is written on our
hearts. Many object to rhe d-M trine That man
came from the animal race. I do not care
much where 1 came from, but I do care a
great deal about what sort of a man 1 am.
and in me. in every man, there are two
men. Sih* how Paul describes it: “For
we know that the law is spiritual: bur I
am carnal, sold under sin, for thar which
I I allow not: for what I would, that
do I not: but what I hate that I do.”
What is that bur a picture of the man who
has some interitam-c of the animal in him.
We all have it if wo know it. A peacock
is made to spread its rail and be proud,
and pride is no sin for it. but it is a sin
for a girl. Unrestrained ap;>erire is n<»r a
sin in a pig, but it is a sin in a man
Covetousness is nor a sin in a bee that
stores away its summer’s wealth, but it is
a sin in a man. because man has the di
vine in him and from it he goes down into
the slough of appetite. Everytime be fol
lows cov(‘tousness. hack into animalism,
there is a fall. I do not know whether
Adam fell in the garden, but 1 know that
I have fallen, that I have done the thing
1 ought not to do, and God knows I hate
the things I do.
We are coining. I Think, to a larger,
better conception of The Bible, of inspira
tion. and revelation. The Bible is a
unique hook, but it is a mistake to think
that it is a history of unique events. Let
me try to make the distinction here. The
Bible is a book written by men who clear
ly saw that God is in his world, but it is
a great niisiake to suppose that God was
in his world only where they saw him,
that ho was in Palestine and not in
Greece, in the centuries before Christ and
nor in the centuries after Christ, that ho
was with Moses and not with Abraham
Lincoln. The old Hebrews were wiser
when the saw G.ml in the hand that led
them out of bondage. He has always
l»een with his children. He is the All
father.
Some people seem ro imagine that
Palestine and the Jewish history is like
Si Paul’s in London or Trinity in New
York. The great sea of secularity is
around the church, but if you get into
the cathedral you are in a sacred spot.
They think rhat there was a little spot
about the size of Vermont where God
dwelt No. God is in the world with all
his children. When one has b«x*n brought
up with this belief and finds thar she can
not draw the same hard and fast lines be
tween inspiration and genius that sue
used to draw, when she finds in the teach
ings of Uonfueius, Plutarch and Aurelius
similar teachings sht is in danger of say
ing that the Bible is not different from
other Isroks, The history of that book
ought to corrtvt that impression. The
Bible has brnm under the pillow of the
sick, in the ha ml of rhe mother when she
laid her child in the grave, and as she
held thar lxM>k faith and love have sprung
up. It has gone with the pilgrim wh<» has
nut the enemy under foot. It has betm a
light to those in the darkness of the cata
comb. It is a uui<pie b.»ok. There is none
like it in the world. Whittier ami Long
fellow and Tennyson have told it. ortho
dox ami heretical men have told it. When
Paul stood on the Mars hill and looked
off on the city he said: “You worship your
altars, a token that you are feeling after
God> if haply you may find him.” He is
in th<* universal heart, of humanity, and
has been in the world shaping and direct
ing .it.
Im this to give a lover place to the
Bible? Is this belief that God in in his
world to the end of time, is that to give
a lower place to the Bible than to think
it gives an account God only in respect
to that one nation? I am like a boy lost
in the forest; my father baa got out of
niy ken and I know not where to find
him. There are those who say that this
lxH>k is like the blazinga of the trees; if 1
follow the blazing* and keep on my jour
ney 1 will get to my father by and by.
Bur I think that if. I walk with my
brother that has found him we will get
to rhe same God.
Now. if this ’oe true, if it be true that
God is in his world shaping ami directing
the material world, if it be true that crea
tion is rhe continual process of perpetual
development, rhat history is the continual
jirocess of develojuneur, do you not see
what this means? I said a moment ago
That I was au evolutionist. By that I
mean that God is working out the king
dom of righteousness, rhar God is using
all resources of history, philosophy, rhat
he may train up children to himself, that
he is in proct’ss of making sons and daugh
ters of God. rhar he is manifesting him
self and revealing himself to men. I mean
what John means: “I, John, saw the? h«dy
city, new Jerusalem, coming down from
Go<l out of heaven, prepared aa a bride
adorned for her husband.” How I wish I
could make you see rhat text as I have
sometimes seen it. God wants some one
that he can love, that can think his
Thoughts and live his life and love his love;
he wants some (Hie that shall be to him
something that rhe bride is to the hus
band. and so John, at The end of that
series of resplendent visions, says, “pee
parts! as a bride adorned fur her hos
band.” What a Thought that is, if we
could get it—rhar God is trying out of
such as you and I to make <*ompauio!is
worthy to be his eompanions.
If ।bar is true, if he is trying to mani
fest himself to us, if there is a hunger for
God in the human heart, if God wants his
children and his children want God. if he
wants to reveal himself, will you tell me
how he »-ould do it except by entering inio
human life and showing himself m terms
of human experience. Could yon under
stand the an hangel? If God should write
across rhe heavens. “G<ml is love,” would
you know it so well? If he wished to say
that the great white throne is not merely
a vision, and there are angels now watch
iag over us. will you tel! me how he could
show us rhat except by entering into hu
man life? Was it not necessary that God
should have rome down to life and walked
among men and known what it was to
hir e hearta»-he and tears and suffer and
die? Incredible? Read your Browning
and answer his arguments. Is it more in
crpdible that Go«l should bare done this
or that you and I out of our mean little
lives should bare thought it?
< r<> on with your studies, and if any one
tells you that you must not. for ynu will
losm your religion, claim the right to think
and think on al! subjects. But do nor i >.-e
y mr life in thinking a Iron t it; do not lose
faith and hope and love in studying stars.
Do not lose rhe center and source of I>emg
4,1 studying lesser Things. The larger
knowledge you are coming to is a larger
(•nneeption of God. But it is a great, great
thing, it Sf-enis to me. to be getting an
intellectual equipment in a college ruled
over by rhe baptismal spirit of holy
w men. by the sanctified and glorified
spirit of women who have departed, by
tup love of God. whose love speaks
through ait the love that trickles down to
us from human hearts and human lives.
Would God I <t»uld tell you. not my own
ixror conception, but just some suggestions
of that our <>f whi< h in the future you can
work your own ideas on the revealing of
<h»»l that is all rhe timo going on, though
it tomes our. in this book more clearly
than anywhere else. Oh mat Christ couid
come into your heart and my heart. That
is rhe coming down of rhe new Jerusalem;
that is the preparing the human mind
like the preparing of a bride adorned for
her husband.
VERSES FOR MA SSA CHL'SETTS
B» lleary O'Meara. Read at the G«r
vrnor’w Banque t at < hi<a»o. Friday
Evr aing.
As when glad-soul ed Columbus viewed that
gleam
The coast revealed, previsioning faith at
tested.
We scan new realm where power and prog
ress beam—
Denied to the Ids overer’s marveled dream-
From prairie and from wild primeval wrest
ed;
We Pilgrims from the bound of Ocean tide.
Greet those who by the land-embrasured
Lake,
Amid this joy of grandeur massed abide—
We yield their praise, yet share in troubled
pride-
In triumph of achievement joined partake.
Our Old Bay state wher* Freedom’s rule be
gun.
In light that tinged her primal battling dav.
Shines here from patriot sire to parted son—
Our East relumes what filial West has won.
Whose victory’s dawn is lit with parent ray.
Bright arr the meads where fathers brave are
laid.
Their lowly mounds that stand for free
men's strife
More lofty by exalting tribute made
Than all the towering palaces of trade—
More radiant symbols of uplifted life.
Not vanished flowers alone our vision fill.
Nor streams that fall oa fields of bvgone
bloom—
Of Concord. Lexington or Bunker Hill:
Through laureled beds our rivers chant and
thrill
In song with theme of throstle and of loom.
In vale, in river, shrine, and home. and mart,
Loved Massachusetts still her legend leaves,
In textile fibers wrought with toil and art.
With warp and woof of twining brain and
heart.
The texture of her manhood's fabric weaves.
To thee, white-crested City proud she sends.
Where commonwealths and nations cluster
now—
The jewels of her glowing life she lends.
And with their gems her Hiding luster
blends.
In coronal of glory on thy brow,
O regnant Queen, bi- cultured Science
crowned.
O’er thee earth's regal ensigns float un
furled,
Man’s last. consummate offerings fold thee
round.
For in thy aureole eryetalized Is found
An era’s centered genius of the world!
THE CANOE RACES A T HADDAM.
A large number of the local canoeists went
to Haddam island on the Connecticut river
Saturday to attend the meet of the eastern
division of the American canoe association.
It was held under the auspices of the Hart
ford canoe club, and clubs from Holyoke,
Newton and Lowell were the ones
most largely represented, about 50 being
present in all. E. H. Barney of this
city and Paul Butler of Lowell were
present. A number of fair friends of the
canoeists also attended the camp and t K e
illumination which was given in the evening.
The races gave fine sport but were not par
ticnlarly exciting. In the three-mile sailing
C. F. Schuster of the Holyoke canoe club
proved an easy winner over three competi
tors. Harry Banks of the local club took first
prize in the standing paddle and the hurry
skurry races. Clarence Euson of this city
won the trophy in the one-mile straight
away paddling race, with W. S.
Warriner, also of the local club,
second. The tandem race was won
by two numbers of the Newton club,
Euson and Warriner coining in second. Only
single paddles were allowed to be used in
this race, and the representatives had sup
posed that they could have double paddles,
soithey were handicapped by the change. In
tba race for club fours no one appeared
against the representatives of the Springfield
oauoejcluh: who were awarded first priza.
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