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CHURCHES « HEROIC MOTHER SUPERIOR a LUTHER
EDUCATIONAL MISSIONARY
CONFERENCE IS CRITICIZED;
PULPIT THEMES TOMORROW
Newark Pastor Declares Methods at Silver Bay Are Inclined to
Take Too Emotional a Form and That Effect Upon Wom
en, Especially, Engenders a Neurotic Type of Devotion.
THE missionary conference which has been in session at Silver Bay,
Lake George, and of which Rev. L. B. Hillls. of this city, is one of
the leaders, Is called an educational movement* it is regarded as one
of the denominational congresses of most importance in the Protestant
church. It Is criticised by some of the clergy as being too emotional in its
methods.and especially among the women wrho attend it there is strong evi
dence of this sensational form of devotion to an ideal. As one prominent min
ister of Newark said the other day: “This conference does not appeal to
me, nor does it, I think, to anyone of a strong masculine temperament.
Nor is It good in its effects on the feminine mind. While under the in
fluence of the excitement attendant upon the highly-pitched meetings
women are inclined to pledge themselves to missionary work in far-dis
tant lands, work for which they are untrained and unfitted.” Neverthe
less, the impetus which the missionary conference gives to missionaries is
something upon which the church counts. The great spread of far East
ern missions In such countries as India and <’hina is well shown in an
article which will be found in another column on this page and that is
taken in part from a pamphlet issued by the Presbyterian Foreign Mis
sions Board.
One of the well-known and most esteemed clergymen who will soon
leave his Newark rectorship is Rev. Mr. Atl^inson. of 8t. Thomas’s
Church. He will officiate in the church for the last time one week from
tomorrow. His congregation, when he goes, will have lost one of the most
sincere, efficient and single-minded priests in the diocese. As one of his
friends said of him: “He is a towrer of strength a lovable Christian and a
faithful shepherd. That he should leave Newark is a distinct loss to the
Episcopal faith in the city.”
•Below will be found the announced i
sermon topics in the various churches
tomorrow and the musical programs
arranged by the directors of the
choirs of these churches:
Prtsbimrian
Rev. W. T. {Using. D. D„ of Brook
lyn, will preach Jn the old First Pres
byterian Church tomorrow morning
anil evening. The Sunday school Is
meeting at 9:30 o’clock in the morn- i
ing. Tlie Christian Endeavor Society
meeting at 6:45 o'clock will be in
charge of young women who attend
ed the last conference at Northfleld.
On Tuesday evening the prayer-meet
ing will be in charge of C. G. Tits,
worth, the subject being. "What Kind
of a Prayer-meeting Is Best Adapteo
lo the Upbuilding of the Church?"
During the summer special organists
and soloists will care for the musical
programs. Tomorrow the organist will
be Roy Cregar, of the Roseville
Methodist Episcopal Church, and the
soloist C. Henry Earle, of Newark.
The musical program follows: Morn
ing—Organ prelude, Choral and Priere
a Notre Dame, Boellmann; tenor solo,
"The Lord Is M.v Light,” Frances Al
litsen: offertory, "Berceuse," Del
bruck; organ postlude, "Toccata"
(from sonata in C minor), F, de la
Tombelle. Evening—Organ prelude,
"Evensong," East Hope Martin: tenor
solo, "O Lord, Be Merciful," Homei
Bartlett: offertory, "Lullaby,' Mac
Farlane; organ postlude, Premlure
Sonata, Salome.
At next Sunday's services J. Louis
Minier will play the organ and C.
Henry Earle will sing. On August 2
the organist will lie Mr. Minier and
the soloists Miss Dorothy Howkins,
soprano, and John A. Campbell, tenor.
The organist and soloists on August
9 and 16 will be the same as August 2.
On August 23 and August 30 J. Thurs
ton Noc will be the organist and Miss
Howkins and Mr. Campbell the solo
ists.
The assistant pastor of the old First.
Rev. Lewis Bradley Hillls, will preach
on July 26 and August 2. On August
9 and 16 Dr. Davis W. Lusk, super
intendent of the Presbyterian Church
Extension Society of Newark, will
occupy the pulpit. Rev. C. R. Kueb
ler. D. D„ of Hackensack, will supply
on August 23, and Rev. J. W. Bab
bitt, of Newburgh, N. Y., on August
30.
During the month of August C. U.
Brown, D. D., dean of the school of
religion at Yale University, will
preach. Dr. W. J. Dawson will re
turn from his vacation about the first
of October.
"What to Do When You Are
Afraidf* will he the theme of Dr. Rob
ert Scott Inglis's sermon tomorrow
morning in tile Third Presbyterian
Church. North Abingdon avenue and
Ridge street. There will be no more
evening services or prayer-meetings
until September 13.
mctbodist episcopal
In the Central Methodist Episcopal
Church tomorrow, the Rev. H. Y,
Murkland, D. D., pastor, the services
will foe at 10:30 a. m. The sermon
topic will be on “How to Enter the
Kingdom.’’ The pastor will conduct
and speak at the mid-summer evan
gelistic service at 7:45. The Sunday
school meets at . 11:30 a. m. and the
church prayer meeting on Tuesday
at 8 p. m.
During the absence of the pastor.
Rev. Dorr Frank Diefendorf, who is
in Europe, and of the assistant to
the pastor, Rev. W. C. Timmons, who
has- gone to his home in Kansas on
account of illness, the pulpit of the
Roseville Methodist Episcopal Church
will be supplied during July and Au
gust as follows: July 19 and 36, Dr.
A. H. Tuttle, of East Orange; August
RELIGIOUS NOTICES.
BAPTIST.
SOUTH BAPTIST CHURCH, East Kinney
street, near Broad—Rev. Clark T. Brownell,
pastor. Morning worship 11 o clock, ser
mon bv pastor on “Something to Remem
her ” No evening service. Sunday school
9:45. Midweek service, Thursday. 7:45. All
invited.
PRESBYTERIAN.
THE THIRD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
' —Robert Scott lnglla. minister. Services
In new building, corner of Abington avenue
nnd Ridge street; Mt. Prospect av. care.
The pastor will preach tomorrow morning
on the topic. - What to Do When ^ ou Are
\fratd." No evening service and no prayer
meetings until .September 18th.
THE OLD FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH. Broad street, one block south of
Market—Strangers welcome at tllBePl
Dr. W T. Rising, of Brooklyn, will preach
at 10:45 a. m. ami 7:45 p. m. AIJ depart
ments of the Sunday achool at #:30 a. m..
rxcsptlng the adult Bible class at 4 p.
Christian Endeavor at 6:45. Tuesday, at 8
|>. m.. meeting for prayer and praise; In
(barge of Mr. C. G. Tltaworth.
, METHODIST EPISCOPAL.
‘ ROSEVH.i.E METHODIST EPISCOPAL
CHURCH Orange street and Bathgate place
—Dorr Frank Dlefendorf. inlnlater. Morn
ing worahip and sennon at 10:30 0 dock.
Evening worship and sermon at . :4o p. m..
preaching by Dr. A. H. Tuttle, of East Or
ange <1:30 a m... Sunday school. Mid
week service for worship Tuesday al 8 p.
ni All seats arc free and strangers aie
cordially invited to worship with us.
FRANKLIN STREET METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH, opposite l lty Hall
annex—Dr. William Bakins will preach
10:30 a. m.. -mind Bartlmena. 7:30 p.
m " People W-e Meet—Kickers; service
one hour. 3:30 p. m„ Sabbath school.
REFORMED.
CLINTON AVENUE REFORMED
CHURCH—Services at 11 a. m.; St. Paul Is
and South Park uniting; Rev. George P.
Dougherty officiating. Tuesday evening
prayer servlco as usual at M o clock. Stran
ger* cordially Invited to all these service*.
South Park Preobyterlan nee Clinton Ave
nue Reformed. St. Paul’* Methodist sec
Clinton Avenue Reformed.
NORTH REFORMED CHURCH—The
Rev S. D. Chamber'* will preach on "A
Reasonable Invitation” »n this church to
Biorrow morning. *’A Now Power will be
hlb evening lupin
►
2 and 9, Dr. George C. Wilding,of East
Orange; August 16, Dr. William C.•
O’Donnell, of New' York; August 23,
Dr. George G. Vogel, of Newark;
August 30, Dr. William C. O’Donnell,
of New York.
In St. L#uke'p Methodist Episcopal
Church, Clinton avenue and Murray
street—the Rev. .Tames H. MacDon
ald, pastorfl The pastor will preach in
the morning at 10:30 o’clock, "The
Source of Life." In the evening at
7:45 on "The Test of Fidelity." This
church will hold services morning
and evening through the summer.
The choir selections for St. Luke s
Methodist Episcopal Church for the
morning are: Prelude, “Larghetto,"
Brosig; duet for soprano and alto,
"Whispering Hope;" offertory. “Melo
dle," Merkel; solo for soprano, "Some
thing for Thee." Sheldon, Miss Korb;
postlude, "Marche," Deshayes. Eve
ning—Prelude, Prelude In A Flat Ma
jor, Foote, duet for soprano and alto,
"One Day Nearer Home," McGrana
han; offertory, "Slumber Song,’*
Schumann; solo for contralto, "Rock
of Ages,", Miss Owen; postlude, "Pro
cessional in F." Hird. Lucy J.
Stephens, organist.
Union Street Methodist Episcopal
(Church worships with the Prosinjct1
Street Fifth Baptist Church next Sun
day morning at 10:45. Rev. Mr. Coon
will preach; theme, "Two Blind Men."
The united churches will worship at
Union Street M. E. Church. Green and
Union, at 7:45 p. m. The pastor’s
theme will be, "The Fish’s Mouth."
Midweek prayer-meeting occurs on
Wednesday evening and class meeting
nn Thursday evening.
Dr. William Eakins will preach to
morrow in the Franklin Street Meth
odist Episcopal Church, opposite the
City Hall annex. His sermon themes
are: Morning. "Blind Bartimens;’’
evening, “People We Meet—Kickers.**
Methodist Protestant
“Life’s Battlefield” will be the
theme of the morning sermon of Rev.
Eugene C. Makoskey. at the First
Methodist Protestant Church, Clinton
and Treacy avenues, tomorrow. At
night his subject will be: “Walking
With Jesus.*’
Baptist
At the South Baptist Church the
pastor. Rev. Clark T. Brownell, will
preach tomorrow at. 11 o'clock, on j
‘'.Somet hing to Remember." Evening!
service will be omitted.
The choir will sing at the evening
service "Te Deum Laudamus" by
Buck and “Open the Gates of the
Temple," by Knapp.
The Soul of America.
In “The Soul of America" Dr. Stan
ton Colt advocates a policy for the
spiritual unification of America. On
historical and psychological grounds
he identifies the higherspirltof nation
ality with religion. Judaism, he af
firms, was a worship of the unifying
soul of the Jewish tribe. The Roman
Catholic Church was only the organ
ization and instrument of the soul of
the Roman empire. Philosophy, he
maintains, is the doctrine of an acad
emic school; religion is the active
moral idealism of the nation, sanc
tioned by a state in the interests of
humanity.
Dr. Colt places the highest value
upon the sociological or national
function of the'various religious de
nominations within the nation, but
argues that they will never do their
true redemptive work until they re
gard themselves not as churches, but
as ecclesiastical parties within the
nation.
Underlying Dr. Coit's special doc
trine of religion is a spiritual philoso
phy of society. He takes up the evo
lutionary conception of environment,
but he looks upon environment not as
the material, but as the psychic
sphere by which any human being
as a created spirit is fed or poisoned.
Dr. Colt has a message for the preach
ers of every religious denomination
and for every layman. He appeals to
what is perhaps the strongest altru
istic motive in the human breast—
patriotism.—Macmillans.
The A. B. O'. Republics.
"If those—and they are many—who
still regard contemptuously the term
‘South America,' as applied in a gen
eric sense to some of the Batin coun
tries on the southern portion of this
continent, were to pay a visit to Ar
gentina, Brazil. Chile and some of
the other republics, they would soon
be disillusionized," writes General
Rafael Reyes, ex-president of Colom
bia, and known as a statesman, ex
plorer, diplomat and soldier, in “The
Two Americas.” (Stokes).
“Formerly it was convenient for
European bankers and others having
commercial relations with some of
these countries to use the expression
‘South America' to signify political
unrest, financial disorder and other
disturbing elements. The phenome
nal development, however, of many
of them, their stability of govern
ment, and the enormous extension
during recent years of their foreign
trade have combined largely to re
move such unfavorable impressions,
"Brazil is the largest of the coun
tries of Latin-America, its area be
ing more than that of the United
States and sixteen times that of
France, and, although much of its
extensive territory is ■Will unculti
vated and its immense natural re
sources for the most part undevel
oped. its great national industries,
the growth of its foreign trade, its
large and beautiful cities, its admir
able systems of education and gov
ernment. together with its general
progress in everything pertaining to
modern civilization, give Brazil the
justifiable claim to be regarded as a
truly great country."
Mass Movements
Vanquish Caste
Among Millions
God, Working Through Human
Agency, Brings Success to
Missions in India.
What Protestant missions have
done and are doing for the Pariahs
of India, those victims of the terri
ble plague, Caste,« Is fully shown in
a little pamphlet, entitled “Out From
India's Outcasts/’ written by the
Rev. A. G. McGaw, and published by
the Board of Foreign Missions of the
Presbyterian Church. We quote por
tions of the pamphlet.
The author says, well: “In India
Caste is king. Ages ago he was mar
ried to his own mother. Religion.
Chief apiong their own offspring is
the giant, Custom, chief of police,
possessed of large powers, yet al
ways in accord with his parents.
“The king is crafty by rant. He
has made it unlawful for anyone In
his realm to marry or to eat and
drink except within a prescribed
circle. He mRkes it almost impos
siblefefor anyone to travel abroad.
Those who do so are humiliated and
fined when they return. His loyal
subjects, starving in famine, have
been known to refuse bread rather
than break the rules of the realm.
India In Awakening.
‘But India, with conscience aroused 1
by democratic ideas, and especially by f
the Message of Christ, is beginning i
to face a gigantic problem—the uplift
of the depressed classes. These ‘un- I
touchables,’* of whom there are sixty !
millions, are down-and-out, not be- J
cause they have fallen or sinned, but i
because it has been so decreed by
those who are supposed to have
sprung from the head of Brahm (God)
and are counted as gods themselves,
the Brahmans.
*' ‘The poor now. however, have good
tidings preached to them.' This
proof of Messiahship Christ gave to
the disciples of John w ho came to in
quire. The missions in India have not
been lacking in this same evidence of
it's divine commission—but they were
slow about beginning such work on
a large scale. Some thirty-five years
ago in different part« of India God
opened the outcast door so wide that
the missions could not but enter.
“They gradually took up this phase
of work and today it is estimated
that of the nearly four million con
verts fully three-fourths are from the
outcasts. They were not specially I
sought for. There were faithful ones
who prayed and prophesied:
“ ‘There was a noise, and, behold,
a shaking and the bones came togeth
er. bone to his bone. And when I be
held.-'lo. the sinew’s and the flesh
came up upon them and the skin ;
covered them above; but there was
no breath in them.’
The 9«m Movement.
"In India we began to call such
phenomena mass movements.' God
was working and God was command
ing.
"Missionaries saw and heard and j
marveled. They took courage and be- |
gan to prophesy, ‘and the breath came
Into them and they lived and stood
up upon their feet, an exceeding great
army.’
"Has the church yet awakened to
the fact that the India missions have
been reaping immense harvests—that
an extensive and continuous revival
is going on; that these missions have
had a Pentecost—an accession of 3,000
souls—every two weeks for over
twenty years?
"Thirty-five years ago the Ameri
can Baptists received in the Telegu
field over 10,000 In ten months. To
day that community numbers over
100,000, and since then another 100,000
of the Teiugus have become Chris
tians in connection with other mis
sions.
“In Haidarabad. the Methodists had
an increase of 31,000 in ten years,
while In the United Provinces of
Agra and Oudh they have over 150, -
non, mostly gathered in during the
past twenty-five years. In a singlo
district they baptized 6,680 In four
years.
"In the Punjab, the United Presby
terian Mission has grown from 153 in
1875 to over 45,000 In 1911.
“In our own Presbyterian work, the
Punjab and North India Missions for
the past fifteen years have been
reaping large harvests in connection
w’itli the mass movement. These two
missions now have about 45,000 of
these recent converts.
“In yet other regions, other mis
sions are reaping largely. It certain
ly seems as if God had spoken and
moved the hearts of these multitudes
in some direct way. Movements
spring up where very little seed has
been sown. There seems to be an In- ,
ner preparation which is man ,1 ous, j
arid the only explanation is—God.
Moral and Spiritual Results.
“One of the most striking features
of these movements is the mental and
spiritual results achieved. Even
where the converts have come from .
the lowest and most degraded section
of society, already within the short
space of fifty years large numbers of
them have exhibited to a very re
markable degree the fruits of the
spirit and have by their Christian
lives won the respect of those who
formerly despised and treated them
as untouchable.
“These mass movements, if proper
ly dealt with, will be of untold value
to the cause of Christ in India. * • •
It is a remarkable fact that, wherever
In the village districts the work
among the depressed classes has been
most successful, there the caste peo
ple have been most ready to hear and
hccept the message of the gospel. It
is noticeable, too, that no part of the
church's work In India excites more
concern and emulation among many
sections of the educated classes. This
in itself is a strong testimony to the
influence of this work as a witness to
the true nature and powfcr of Chris
tianity.''
A Visit to Joseph Conrad.
Mary Austin, in Harper's Weekly,
speaks of the rich and vivid person
ality of Joseph Conrad, confirming
the impression recorded by Mr. Brock
in a recent interview with Conrad.
Mrs. Austin says:
"This was the first impression he
made on me when I went down to
And him in his English country home
three years ago It stood out all the
more vividly for the unmistakable
traces of the illness from which he
was Just recovering. Here was a man
who convinced you at the instant of
contact, that sickness and misfor
tune, and even death itself are very
trumpery devices to be employed
against the invincible human spark.
And the next was that the man was
inescapably a romanticist.
“He was one to whom life had
chosen to reveal herself in that guise.
To begin with, there was the tigure
of the man himself, the thin frame,
the long face with its dark burning
eyes, the preternaturally long hands,
white and nervous, plucking at his
beard. Behind him there was the
dramatic heritage of exile, his un
pronounceable Polish name, his
strange calling to the sea. and his
youthful passion for the tongue (not
the one he was born toi which his
writing has so enriched.”
Popular Reioark Pastor
T2EV. GtOQGZ P DOlKTHCQTY.
SfV0»C
ST. PAUL’S METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH. IN BROAD
STREET, OF WHICH REV. G. P. DOUGHERTY IS THE PAS
TOR, IS. AS WELL AS BEING ONE OF THE NOTABLE
SANCTUARIES OF NEWARK, A TRUE SHRINE OF ART. THE
INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH IS BEAUTIFIED AND ENNOBLED
BY STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. WHICH ARE REGARDED AS
AMONG THE MOST MERITORIOUS WORKS OF ART OF THEIR
KIND IN THE UNITED STATES. THESE WINDOWS—ONE OF
MAGNIFICENT PROPORTIONS. FACING THE ALTAR, AND FIVE
WINDOWS ON EACH VIDE OF THE NAVE—WERE GIVEN TO
THE CHURCH BY FORMER GOVERNOR MURPHY. WHO ALSO
PRESENTED TO THE CONGREGATION A PAINTING OF RARE
MERIT AS AN ALTAR PIECE. THESE EXAMPLES OF ART
HAVE DRAWN TO THE CHURCH MANY APPRECIATIVE ART
ISTS AND ART LOVERS. THE WINDOWS. FOR WHICH THE
FORMER GOVERNOR PAID A LARGE SUM. ARE THE WORK OF
SIR WALTER CRANE. THE ENGLISH ARTIST. WHO. WITH
WILLIAM MORRIS. BROUGHT ABOUT THE REVIVAL OF THE
DECORATIVE ARTS AND CRAFTS IN ENGLAND. IN THESE
EXAMPLES OF THE WORK OF SIR WALTER CRANE IN ST
PAUL’S CHURCH THERE IS STRONG INDICATION OF THE
PRE-RAPHAELITE INFLUENCE WHICH DOMINATES HIS
STYLE IN HIS PAINTINGS IN OILS AND IN WATER COLORS.
AS WELL AS IN DECORATIVE ART.
This Pastor Saves Sinking Church
When It Is in Fear of Dissolution
Efforts of Rev. George P. Dougherty Bring Relief to St. Paul's |
Methodist Episcopal Fold When Congregation Talked
of Uniting With Another Church.
The Rev. George Prior Doughterty,
the young pastor of St. Paul's Meth
odist Kpiscopal Church, Is proud to
say that he is of the fourth genera
tion of his family, all of whom were
born and reared in Bordentown, one
of the historic shrines of New Jer
sey, about which hover such stirring
memories of the past, of notable per
sonages and of noble deeds. Mr.
Dougherty is also proud of the fact
that there is in him the blood of sea
faring men. of men w-ho, in the days
when the mercantile marine of the
United States was in its glory were
bold sailors.
Indeed, there is a suspicion of boy
ish pride in the face of the young
minister when he remarks that his
father was the only one of the heads
of the families of the four genera
tions who died ashore. His grand
father, that the melancholy tradition
might be kept up, as it were, fell
overboard and was drowned. Before
his death he had been a pioneer cap
tain on the Delaware and had plied
up and down the Atlantic coast for
vears.
Mr. Dougherty's father was an offi
cer of the United States Marine
Corps and during the Spanish War,
as a quartermaster, he had charge
of the supply department of the
whole corps.
Thus It will be seen that Mr.
Dougherty has born in him the ele
ments that constitute a man. and
that this pastor is a man endowed
with energy and euthusiasm. with
charming personality and STacious
address, no one may deny who meets
hlMr Dougherty was educated for the
ministry m Drew Theological Semi
; nary, Madison. New Jersey. His first
charge was in West Orange, thence i
he went to Woodbridge, from there j
corning to Newark.
He is fully cognizant of the im- j
poriance of his fold and appreciative,
of the treasures with which his i
church is adorned. The great east-1
ern window, which former Governor;
Murphy gave to the church as a
memorial for his daughter, Mr.
Dougherty speaks of with the en
thusiasm of one who knows the
precious influence of art upon the
worshipper at the altar of Christ.
When Mr. Dougherty came to the j
pastorate of St. Paul’s the church'
was in somewhat of a distressing;
crisis. So low had its fortunes fallen)
that the congregation in despair
talked of consolidation with some
other church. But to the older mem
bers, those who had not “gone to
East Orange or gone to heaven," as
one lady expressed it, seemed a pity,
and in desperation Mr. Dougherty
was summoned.
From that time better days have
dawned for the church and recently,
i as the every member movement
! proved, St. Paul's is in as flourishing
a condition as it has been at any
period in the sixty years of its ex
istence.
Mr. Dougherty, who is a noted de
votee of the sport which engaged the [
attention of so profound a philosopher j
as Sir Humphrey Davy- is about to;
go on a long vacation to Maine,
where there are lakes and trout!
streams and where, to his heart's con
tent, he can test the skill which per
haps he has perfected in studying;
' that delightful book. “Palmonia." i
North field Meeting of C. E. Society
of First Church Conducted by Girls
Young Women Who Have Recently Returned from Massa
chusetts Will Have Charge of Gathering Tomorrow Eve
ning in the Venerable Sanctuary in.Broad Street.
The Christian Endeavor Society of
the Old First Presbyterian Church
will hold a Northfield meeting to
morrow evening, July IS. al 6 4"
o’clock. The program will be yn
charge of the Misses Jennie Reihing,
Mabel Thompson and Catherine Hale,
who have recently returned from the
young women’s conference at North
field.
THcy will tell of the spirit and in
spiration one receives while there.
Several New Jersey delegates who
have attended Northfield in previous
years are expected at the meeting.
They will also make brief addresses
relating their impressions received at
the conferences.
The Northfield Conference this year
was an especially interesting one.
The thought is always brought back
by the young women returning that
each year is better than the year
before. .
A special musical program is being
arranged fer next Sunday s meeting
by the committee. C. Henry Earle
of Newark, tenor, will sing. There
Will be a violin trio by Russell Wana
maker, Victor LeMoine and Julius
Heydegger.
At the last business meeting of
the Christian Endeavor Society the
following officers were elected and
committeemen appointed: President
Miss Jennie Riehing: vice-president,
Russell Wanamaker: corresponding
secretary. Miss Mabel Thompson; re
cording secretary. Miss Lillian Brix^
ner; treasurer. Miss Laurena L.
Teachman. Committees: The look
out. Miss Mabel Thompson, chair
man; the Misses Bessie Reihing. Ger
trude Heydegger, Beatrice Smith,
Louise Martens and Paul Renalre.
Prayer meeting. Ernest E. Bedell,
chairman; the Misses Madeline Spain,
Lillian Brixner. Laura Meyer and
Russell Wanamaker. Social Miss
Minnie Heydegger, chairman: the
Misses Elizabeth Turbitt. Bessie
Riehing. Elsie Wherle and John
Franz: and music. Miss Gertrude
Heydegger, chairman: the Misses
Laurena E. Teaehman, Bessie Relh
ing. Paul Benatre and Ernest E.
Bedell. Missionary, Mrs. L. B. Hillis,
chaitman; the Misses Beatrice Smith.
Flossie Ackerman. Elizabeth Turbitt
and Lester Bedell. Sunshine. Miss
Laurena E. Teaehman. chairman: the
Misses Laura Meyer. Mabel Thomp
son, Anna Lavery and Viola Kass
iliau. Good citizenship. Lester Be
dell. chairman: Paul Benatre. Carl
Boyde. John Franz. Ernest E. Bedell
and Russell Wanamaker.
Success.
No mortal yet has measured his full
force.
It Is a river rising in God's thought
And emptying in the soul of man. Go
back.
Back to the source, and find divinity.
Forget the narrow borders, and
ignore
The rocks and chasms w hich obstruct
the way.
Remember the beginning. Man may
be
And do the thing he wishes if he
keeps
That one thought dominant through
night and day.
And knows his strength is limitless
because
Its Fountainhead is God. That
mighty stream
Shall bear upon its breast, like gold
en fleets.
His hopes, his efforts and his pur
poses.
To anchor in the harbor of Success.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Na
tional Magazine.
A Religious Who
Was Great in War
Persecution
Superior-General of the Order
of the Sacred Heart a
Heroine.
From a Frenchman, one who had
fought in the Franco-Prusuian war,
and whose dearest possession was the
bound volume of L'illustration. con
taining the illustrated record of that
war. we first heard of the heroic,
though youthful, mother superior of
the House of the Hacred Heart at
Marmutier. This Frenchman, whose
own mother was long one of the
best known teachers of the French
language in New York, was one of
the soldiers engaged in the defense
of Tours, which the Germans at
tacked with such ferocity. There
he saw Mother Mabel Oigby. to
whose youthfut lot it fell to face the
perils of war and organize the care
of thn wounded.
The verdict or this man was ot
value when he declared that of all
the brave offl'-ers and men that he
had seen the mother superior was
the peer, for the Frenchman was a
cynic and a scoffer, and all who wore
ihe garb of monk or nun he regarded,
as a rule, with unrighteous contempt.
There has now been written a life
of the superior general by Anne
Potten, and while the author betrays
her devotion to the memory of her
heroine sbc, as a woman, descends
to too much trivial detail and In
vests her book with too trivial a tone
to make it a worthy biography of
a great and wonderful woman.
If the mother superior was cou
rageous in war when aiding the j
wounded, her fortitude was not less j
remarkable in the last years of the |
nineteenth century, when the French |
government, under M. Combes, re- 1
lentlessly carried out that scheme of
persecution which ended in the ex- |
pulsion of the congregations from
France. Then it was that Mother
i Mabel Digbv exhibited that grand
commixture of bravery and worldly
j wisdom which enabled her to steady
! the courage of her order, to direct
i its conduct and to safeguard its
vows.
The biography of a religious, says
the Athenaeum, must, in most cases
i appeal «*ply to that somewhat re
I sirieted circle of persons who care
for the special alms and practises to
! which its subject is devoted. But that
j of Mother Digby should interest a
; much wider public, as may be Judged
i from the introduction to this article
In the first place, the manner of her
j conversion—while not unexampled,
| nor. perhaps, from the point of view
1 of a nun of the Sacred Heart, to be
1 preferred as a grace from God to
! many another less startling—has in
I it those characteristics of the mys
• terious and the dramatic which can
not fall to set anyone musing
Authenticated as the story is. and
what is more, borne out by further
cognate experience in Mother Digby's
subsequent life, it deserves to be in
i eluded by the student of religion in
i his dossier of evidence concerning that
I department of human psychology.
She Has or >ome »io»u.
Mother Digby had one great advan- |
tage in her life. She came of good j
hlood and one may say of her as of so j
many other of the heroic yvomen of !
France—noblesse oblige. And to this
ad\ antage, of birth Mother Digby un
doubtedly owed much, as well as to
her early training.
As a girl she was a daring eques
trienne. and her father, w ho idolized
her. and .vet was severity itself in
teaching such an accomplishment, as
the manager, once found it in him to
bring the lash of his riding-whip
stingingly down upon her childish
flr*?ers because she dared to clutch
at the pommel of her saddle to save
herself from falling off her restive
pony. ,
Mother Digby’s family nad been
living for, several years in Franco
when, in 1857. she entered the novi
tiate of the Society of the Sacred
Heart. She became Mother Superior
at Marmoutier in 1865, and. in 1872,
after the sorrows of the war and still
greater sorrows of the Commune, was
transferred to the house at Roehamp
ton. which shetgoverned until, in 1894,
she was summoned back to France
as assistant superior general.
Perhaps the most important work
she achieved during her tenure of
office at Roehampton was the founda
tion of the Wandsworth Training Col
lege. to provide Roman Catholic
teachers able to fulfill the demands of
the Board of Education, for elemen
tary schools.
In 1895 she was unanimously elected
superior general, and thenceforth her
life was one of incessant and multi
plied care and, as well, of Incessant
traveling.
But the great work for which
Mother Digby will he especially re
membered was her leadership of the
society- during the years of religious
crisis in France. Forever memorable
is her reply to the liquidators in
Paris, w-hen she said in fiery protest,
all the noble hlood in her veins boil
ing with indignation, "Our rights are
imprescriptible'"
i nder the stress or tne perwi-uuou
this noble superior general never lost
her heart nor her courage She carried
out completely the task then laid
upon her. For each of the forty
eight houses she was called upon to
close, she founded another beyond the
borders of France and not only se
cured for each of the professed the
continuance, in its original conditions,
of her life as a religious, but also re
fused either to disband the novices or
to send away postulants themselves.
Her good judgment, her foresight,
her powers of invention, and her un
alterable serenity proved equal to
every demand upon them.
That she achieved so much. nay.
merely, that she lived to the age of
seventy-six. is a thing to be won
dered at, since her health was of the
frailest.
A sptenaia ana mgnii limucu
nurse, able to do anything required of
her at the most difficult operations,
She was held in peculiar esteem by
doctors and surgeons.
She was marked out as a leader by
her extraordinary power in sustaining
others, by her keen, intuitive sympa
thy, and her splendid memory. It is
clear, also, that she had the peculiar
gift of being able to do much and to
| bestow much in short spaces of time.
But she made great demands upon
I her novices. She would endure no
i hankering after petty comforts and
; what may often have been more diffi
I ( ult to comply with, no shyness Her
practical wisdom and knowledge of
i affairs and of society were great; her
: humor ready, her kindness without
! end.
lirerk Charily Set.
Greece has issued a charity set. in
cluding two and five lepta values. The
design Includes a wounded soldier
upon the battle field with a sister of
! charity at his side. The stamps will
be obligatory for use during the fixed
period in each year for the benefit or
the victims of the war.—The Ameri
j i an Boy.
"The Fortunate Youth" First.
! The Bookman's June report lists
"The Fortunate Youth," first of the
best sellers, with 213 points; "Dlaii*
of the Green Van," second, with 1M.
and so on down to the sixth, with
ninety-four points, "What Will Peo
ple Say?” •
Canal Street
Mission Proves a
Great Success
The Canal Street Mission, Friendly j
Centre No. 4. which was started on
May 24, 1914, is now well on the road
to success. At a meeting held last j
Sunday afternoon, after the service, J
it was decided to organize and Mr.
Thomas H. Wood was elected superin- i
tendent. The room in which the mem- '
bere meet is now too small. By the •
first of September the school mem
bers will be in their own building,!
which is now being constructed by j
the church extension committee of
the Presbytery of Newark.
The officers are looking for a most
prosperous future and extend to all a
most hearty welcome.
The Vacation Bible School, which !
was opened on July 6. 1914. has an en- (
roilment of 147, and the work of the
Italian children is most gratifying. I
They have a large kindergarten, are j
taught basket and hammock making, |
chair caning and sewing.
At a meeting of the oltfcers held on I
Wednesday afternoon at Friendly;
Centre No. 4 it was deemed advisable |
to hold devotional services on Sun
day evenings. An English class of
sixteen men is about to be started at l
their own request. Italian hymns,
scripture reading and an address by
Joseph Romania, an Italian divinity
student, will be the program of the
first meeting to be held tomorrow’
evening.
The Craftsman.
The Craftsman cornea out this i
month in its beautiful cover with a
varied and Interesting table of con
tents. It includes the following.
'The New Civilization: or America
at the Forge.'* by Mrs. Havelock
Kills: “Spring and the One Elm
Tree.” by Will Lexington Comfort;
“Cheering Up the Country.” by Wal- !
ter A. Dj’er; “We Are Looking to
Our Country Folk to Develop Na
tional Music and Drama." by Arthur
Farwell. The illustrations are. as
usual in this magazine, unique and
charming. The article to which we
would call particular attention is that
relating to the development of music ■
and drama. by our country folk. 1
Speaking particularly of the pageant
of late years popular both in this
country and in England, the writer ,
of the article says: "The pageant. j
community drama, has shown a
bright pathway up and out of the
bnghting grind and joyless routine
of the present mode of life with
which our nation is becoming at last
so profoundly dissatisfied." And. as
the writer says, again, while in Eu
rope the pageant is a spectacle, in
America it is a drama with Mother
Earth for the stage, the artist sense
dominating the whole being, the com
munity, the whole one mighty artist.
And. when music employed in
whole scenes in this grand earth
stage representation there is the
music-drama, rivalling any of those
of the master artist. Wagner. We
commend this article in the Crafts
man to the people of every’ rural
community. If they would follow’ the
example of those communities which
the author cites as having instituted
the village pageant there would be
a gradual decrease in the sordid and
horrible depravity w hich disfigures
country' life and which is so debasing
that only the pen of &ola has ever
succeeded in picturing its effects.
and thf Truth.
| There has been some feeling that
I the incidents of slaughter and rapine
which Alfred Noyes pictures in "The
Wine-Press." his impassioned plea
against war. are hysterical and over
drawn. But, loathsome and revolting
as they are, the recent report of the
Carnegie Commission shows them to
be but typical of the orgies of Balkan
soldiery in the sacking and burning
of Turkish, and later of Bulgarian,
villages and cities. Th*' culminating
incident of the poem is almost literally
paralleled by the sworn statement of
a Greek volunteer. So much for the
truth of Noyes’s picture—as to the
taste which prompted the picturing,
let the poet speak for himself:
I "For O. good taste, good taste. good
taste.
Constrains and serves us well;
And the censored truth that dies on
earth
Is the crown of the lords of hell.
* • • * •
The child, the child that lay on her
knees • • *
Devil nor man may name
The things that Europe must not
print.
But only whisper and chuckle and
hint,
Leet the soul of Europe rise in thun
der
And swords melt in the flame."
Pag iiacri.
Child of those lovers, mortal mirth
and woe.
Poor Pagliaecio, fool and lover
both.
How often have I laughed, and
left you loath,
Not dreaming that your play was
mingled so
With prayers and creeping dread; or
that the show
Of gaudy silks could hide so red a
heart,
A mind so tantalised and torn
apart.
A soul so taunted of the powers
below.
And lookl the laugh, the kiss, the sud
den blow.
The flaring lights, and frightened
faces round
A stained and sinking form! Oh.
sure I know
That rising, ringing cry! The knife
has found
A lovely sheath! Aha. Pagliaecio!
Your heart was breaking then; I
know that sound.
—Douglas Duer. in the Century.
Arnold Bennett's Yacht.
Possibly for some folk my sloop |
“Velsa's" chief attitude would be
that, once seen, she cannot tie foV
gotten. She is a lovely object, an/
not less unusual than lovely. She is
smart also, but nothing more dissim- ;
ilar to the average smart, conven
tional English or American yacht
can well be conceived. She is a
magnet for the curious When she
goes under a railway bridge while a
train is going over it. the engine
driver, of no matter what national
I itv, will invariably risk the lives of
I all his passengers in order to stare
I at her until she is out of sight ThiF
1 have noticed again and again. The
finest compliment her appearance
j ever received was paid by a sehool
Ibov, who. after staring at her for
; about a quarter of an hour as she
I lay at a wharf at Kingston-on
j Thames, sidled timidly up to me as I
leaned in my best maritime style over
| the quarter, and asked. "Please, sir.
I i« this a training brig"" Romance
[ gleamed in that boy's eye.—From the
log of the "Velsa” by Arnold Bennett
| in the Century.
y. m. c. n.
'■ The auto e'angelistfle committee
| and the Young Men's Christian As
sociation wi’l conduct a service in
Military Park tomorrow afternoon at
A o'clock. Rev. .John McDowell, pas
tor of the Park Presbyterian Church,
will speak. There will lie a special
mixed choir of fifty voices, under the
leadership of Mr. Fred Y'reeland.
Luthers Nature
Was Multiform
Paradoxical
Thought Marriage No Sacra
ment, Urged Divorce and Open
ly Advocated Polygamy.
The monumental work on buthet
written by Dr. Hartmann Grisar, ha? M
now reached the third volume. As a j
German Review says, it* interest!*
increase? 4s it proceeds. The vital H
force of the man. his vast interest f
in life, impress themselves upon any j
one who reads about him. He is the j
most multiform, the most paradoxical |
of men. These characteristics arc S
thus described by Adolf Hausrath. |
whom Dr. Geiger quotes as follows: 1
"The very union, so eharacteristiw ; j
of him. of mother-wit and melancholy g
19 quite peculiar. His wanton humor 1
seems at times to make a plaything j
of the whole world, yet the next: j
moment this seemingly incurable |
humorist is oppressed with the deep- -
est melancholy, so that he knows not |
what to do with himself. * * * In I
one corner of his heart lurks a demon jg
of defiance, who, when roused, cat
rio? away the submissive monk tq -J
outbursts which he himself recog
nizes a* the work of some alien |
force, stronger than his firmest res
olutions.
A Mlfht> Ke\olutioni»t. |
“He was the greatest revolutionary |
of his age. and yet he was a con- 1
servative theologian, yea, conserva- 4
tive to obstinacy. • * * He insisted }
at times upon the better as though '
the salvation of the entire church |
depended upon it, and yet we find him |
rejecting whole bpoks of the Bible |
ami denying their apostolic spirit. «
•Reason appears to him as a temp
tress from the regions of enchant- *
menu intellect as a mere rogue, who I
proves to his own satisfaction just
what he is destiou* of seeing proved,
and yet. armed with this same rea- ,
son and intellect. Luther went out
boldly into the battlefields of the pro
longed rebgious war.”
Dr. Grisar takes huge delight in |
exposing the inconsistencies of S
Luther’s character. He appears to
enjoy dwelling on the dark side—-the
coarse indecency, which Erasmus so
eautically commented upon; on the
savage violence, the recklessness of
his language; not in themselves, of
coursefsthe proof, but. as illustration?
of what seems to him almost the nee- ^
essary consequences of obstinate •
apostasy.
Doubtless in some respects h*
proves his case. There is not a tract '
of exaggeration. The words them
selves arp apf**aled to as ev idence.
Two examples it will suffice to cite
The first is the curious indifference
to the salvation of souls which wa?
observed ,n the reforming monk. He
was quite ready to minister to thf
godly, but as to the conversion of th*
ungodly, that did not seem to inter
est him
Luther was asked how he woulc
behave towards those who had no'
been to church for twenty yearja. H
answered. “Why. I would let them gr
to the devil, and when they wer*
dead I would pitch their bodies ont<
the manure heap.”
Another example is Luther’s atti
! t tide toward marria ge. He had, h
1525. espoused Catherine de Bore. w*h«*
i had lived in great freedom in Witten
i berg, where, as a French writer says
; she lavished kisses in profusion upor
| the young students of the university
Erasmus aspersed her character mor*
! seriously, but later he retracted hi?
charge and said that it w*as causec
by idle gossip.
Rrllrvrd In P*lj gam.* .
However, Luther, after his marriage
to the emancipated nun, openly de
clared his belief in thr looseness e*
the marriage tie and advocated grea
freedom in divorce. He also gave hi?
sanction to polygamy, not only in his
writing*, but in practise in one his
toric and notorious case
Marriage, Luther declared, was b
matter for the temporal authority, anc
he said in his book ‘ On the Baby
lonish Captivity of the Church” tha*>
the sacrament of marriage was-om
not divinely inspired and instituted
“but one invented in the church by
men led astray by their ignorance
alike of things and of words.”
As Dr. Grisar sajr», Luther, in
speaking of marriage or sexual mat
ters. could adopt a tone calculated to
make even the plainest of plain
speakers wince.
On the other hand. Dr. Grisar re
jects the more serious charges ad
vanced against the reformer’s morals
He was self-indulgent, but then he
nad a theory that such indulgence
was the true and only cure for
melancholv. Others have had the
same idea For instance, Robert Bur
ton, the author of that curious book.
“The Anatomy of Melancholy,” war
so burdened with the ‘'black choler,”
as he called it. that he could find re
lief only in Voing down to the ten
don docks and listening to the pro
fanity and obscenity of the barge
men.
in Dr. Griear s account of Luthers
relations with Melanethon he proves
lhat in essentials the latter was quite
as advanced as the former, and he
traces the growth of divergence be
tween them, showing how, for ex
ample, Melanethon gradually reached
the Zwinglian doctrine of the com
munion. Between Zwingll and Luther
there was never any real harmony of
opinion and Luther received the
new s of the death of the Swiss on the
battlefield of Cappel with a feeling
not far removed from glee.
"Mery (iff** First."
Mary Goes First," Henry Arthur
Jones's sparkling little comedy which
was so enthusiastically received in
London 'ast autumn, now appears ir
the Drama League Series Of PIay3
issued by Douhleday, Page A Co.
"Mary Goes First" is a mild satir.
on the politics of a provincial town
A delicious coincidence enlivened its
production in London. In the play us
a character named Whichetlo, a
wealthy tanner, the husband of the
wilful and charming Mary of the
piece. Now in London there hap
pened to be a certain Mr. Whiche
low—the name, it will he seen, is
nearlv. but not quite, the same— als-'
in the leather trade. This was M'
George Whichelow, of Bermondsec
who threatened Mr. Jones with an
action for libel if "Mary Goes First"
were published w ithout a revision ac
ceptable to him.
To the threat of legal proceedings
Henry Arthur Jones replied in a long
letter of twentv-one clauses, charac
teristically humorous in parts, but
containing one paragraph of serious
importance. Mr. Jones writaa:
"The matter, trivial and indeed
ridic ulous as it must appear to most
people Will assume a real importance
if the authors are to be forbidden to
i take suitable surnames for thfir
I characters, for fear that some pat
tlcular John Brown, may, on the
merest pretext, bring a lawsuit >o
; the strength or some quite externa:
or purelv imaginary resemblance to
himself in some fictitious character.
N,. sincere portraiture would then be
! possible either in fiction or dram."
i without the author laying 'umset
! open in a costly log us action from
I every imrson who happened to have
] a similar name or occupation to any
I one or to every on* of hi> < karat
1 tera."