The herald., 1897-11-21
WHITE HORSES
edited by Enoch Knight.)

'Twixt tide and tides returning
Great stores of newly dead,
The bones Of those that faced %i
And the hearts Of those that fie
Afar, off-shore and single.
Some stallion. rearing swift,
Neighs, hungry for new fodder,
And calls us to the drift.
Then down the cloven ridges
Ten million hooves unshod-
Break forth the wild white hors
To seek their meat from God!
Girth-deep in kissing water
Our furious vanguard strains
Through mist of mighty tramplings
Roll up the touchdown names
A hundred leagues to leeward.
Ere yet the deep hath stirred,
The groaning rollers carry
The coming of the herd!
Whose hand may grip your nostrils-
Your forelock who may hold?
Fen they that use the broads with US,
The riders bred and bold,
That spy upon cur matines.
That rope us. when we rum
They know the wild white horses
From father unto son.
We breathe about their cradles.
We race their babes ashore.
We snuff about their thresholds,
We nuzzle at their door
BY day with stamping coursers.
BY night in whinnying droves,
Creep up the wild white horses,
To call them from their loves.
And come they for your calling?
No wit of man may save.
They hear the wild white horses
Above their fathers grave:
And, kin of those we crippled,
And sons Of those We slew.
Spur down The wild white riders
To lash the herds anew.
What service have ye paid them
Oh. jealous steeds and strong?
Save we that throw their weaklings,
Is none dare work them wrong.
While thick around the homestead
Our gray-backed squadrons Craze
\ guard behind their plunder.
And a veil before their ways.
With march and countermarchings-
Wi III press of wheeling hosts
Stray mobs or bands embattled-
We ring the chosen coasts:
And, careless of our clamor,
That bids the stranger fly.
At peace within our p'ckets
The wild white horses lie.
Trust ye the curdled hollows-
Trust ye the gathering wind
Trust ye the moaning groundswell-
Our herds are close behind!
To mill your foeman's armies
To bray his camps abroad
Trust We the wild white horses,
The Horses of the Lord!
RUDYARD KIPLINti.
Copyright 1897. by Rudyard Kipling in
the United States of America)
Aprapos of the above ringing lines OF
Kipling correspondent of the New York
Times sends that parer the following:
After reading and enjoying white
Horses" cool assumption and all. the prop
er thing for an American to do is to set
a clothespin on his nose--a good clothes
pin with spring-and quote from Lowell
I'VE own the ocean tu, John;
You mustn't take 1t hard
Eff we can't think with you. John,
It's jest your own back yard
The leading books in the line of sales
the country over continue to be "Quo Va
dis" and THE Choir Invisible" with "The
Christian close third. The last report
ed sales from this city showed six books
in the following order: The Choir In
visible" Quo Vadis," Soldiers Of For
tune" The Martian.' Pursuit of the
House Boat" "Equality.'
THE THEOLOGY OF AN EVOLUTION
lST. BY Lyman Abbott. DID. author
of Evolution and Christianity"
'sCbrictiao and Gncial proh1eyne
etc. 16mo. s1.25. Houghton. Miffin &,
In this striking book Dr. Abbotts object
is not TO convince orthodox believers that
evolution is true. but to convince believers
that they need not give up their Christian
faith because they have become evolu-
tionists. Evolution has been described by
John Fiske as Gods way of doing things"
Theology may be described as an attempt
to explain Gods way of doing things-n
fact. theology can be nothing but this. in
its Just sense. The evolutionist simply be-
lieves that God S processes are the process
es of growth, not Of manufacture. Without
exception biologists are evoiuttonists, says
DR.. Abbott and we are all partial evolu-
tionists. We all believe that everything
grows from the seed or cutting, and has
changed since earlier forms: and that this
principal of growth applies to the animal
as we'll as to the vegetable kingdom. DR..
Abbott says that the doctrlne-which. by
the way. he has not always believed. but
has gradually been forced to accept
appears to him to illumine as well as to
interpret the main doctrines of the Bible,
and in nowise beittles God nor anything
the creation of the world. or
mankind.
DR.. Abbotts other books in this series.
1.-The Evolution of Christianity" and
"Christianty and Social Problems" were
very notable contributions to religious dis
cussion on new lines, but this volume Is a
serious attempt at a statement Of Chris
tianity as a system of doctrine. Still an
other volume is promised in the near fu-
ture, which will trace the growth of the
Old Testament, if not the whole Bible as
a body of literature. We know OF no other
books that have treated the doctrine of
evolution so fairly and so reverently as
these of DR.. Abbott's have done. He stands
by the divine purpose in all things and de-
clares full belief in the risen Christ. AS
to most of the alleged miracles he express
es doubt or disbelief but there Is no ag-
gressiveness or flippancy. 1t Is all In the
finest spirit of enlightenment and brea.h hes
a grave and devout purpose. 1t Is a great
book, and we have copied its closing pages
as the best service we can do the reader:
The evolutionist thinks that the object
of Christ's coming into the world Is, not