The herald., 1897-07-22
CHAUTAUQUA
Second Days Session of
the Assembly
THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
CAUSES THAT PRODUCE OVER
POPULATION IN CITIES
THE MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT
An Able Lecture by Rev. Josiah
Strong-Mr. Baungardt Talks
on Astronomy

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Ellen Beach Yaw, was warmly received
The piano selections of Mrs. Justin X
roles were also greeted with enthusiast
tic encores and Miss Condit, Miss Yaw's
accompanist, did perfect work on her in
strument. So much has been written OF
Miss Yaw's wonderful voice that any
thing special said of her on this occa-
sion would SAVIOR of reiteration. Long
Beach gave her hearty greeting and
is looking forward with pleasurable an
ticipation TO her second concert here,
Which VIII be given on the closing night
of the assembly.
The devotional exercises yesterday
morning We're conducted by Rev. Q.
Jewell of Santa Ana, after which Rev.
{. p. porland resumed the daily lesson
on the Old Testament. The theme of
the morning was The relation of the
Canaanite gods to Israe1itish worship"
Each nation, said the speaker had its
national god along with a multitude of
inferior deitiss called Balaam. The
Asherah was a wooden image of some
animal, or thing wCrshiped. The Baal
and the Ashtoroth were the male and
female gods of Tyre, the worship of
which was accompanied by licentious
rites Molech was Phoenician deity of
great dignity whose worship was accom-
panied by the offering of human sacri-
fees, which the Israelites often prac-
ticed. The idea that certain animals had
a common life with tribe was very
prevalent among all ancient Semitic peo-
pie and this family Of animals consti-
tuted the totem of the tribe. The totem
was always a sacred animal. not to be
killed or eaten except asa sacrifice. The
various tribes had a variety of animals
as totems and some had plants. Israel's
totem animal was a calf, at first killed
only as a sacrifice, and when the Israel
ties made an image of Jehovah, it was in
this form.
DR.. Wright followed in the New Tesla
ment lessons taking up the Introductory
events in the public ministry of Christ
This included the life of John the Baptist
and its relation to the ministry of Jesus,
Following this came His baptism and
temptation. The special points dwelt
upon were the significance of the bap-
tism in the development of the Meseianic
consciousness and it's test in the tempta-
tions.
President Weller gave an interesting
lecture on Memory to large audience
in Chautauqua hall at the close of the
religious lessons. Good memory, he said,
is invaluable in every way, in converse
ton, in writing and speaking. In writ
ing the reasoning powers must be used,
and memory must bold these. Memory
!,
There are various kinds of memory that
for names. for dates, faces, events, etc.
and strengthening this faculty of the
mind in one line does not imply an in
crease of strength in all lines. The
speaker advised the study of history to
strengthen and increase the memory, the
repetition of names, dates and
places and getting events clearly and
distinctly in mind.
AFTERNOON SESSION
The order of exercises for the after
noon was changed somewhat, Rev Jo-
siah Strong having been given the hour
set aside for DR.. Denim. This was done
to enable DR.. Strong to meet other en-
gagements.
Miss. Jessie Mills sang very sweetly an
Italian selection, accompanied by Miss
Condit. as, prelude to the very able lee
ture which followed.
Mr.. Strong introduced, his address with
greetings, which he said he had brought
from the Atlantic to the Pacific. While
we are separated we are not divided;
with one language and one country we
have a common destiny The speaker
paid glowing tribute of praise to Cali
fornia, and said if this great state were
divided into lots every individual on the
habitable globe might have one, and
there then would remain a surplus of
1900. The effort to follow this calcula-
ton made the heads of the audience
swim, but DR.. Strong is too dispassion-
ate an authority on our country to be
suspected Of catching the disease of
over-stat ement, with which Californians
are so often accused.
The eubject of DR.. Strong's lecture
was THE Development of the Mate
rial" Modern civilization, said the
speaker, is threatened with a danger pc
culiar to itself, materialism, and more
is this true of the United
States. Students of mechanics measure
power by tons, and we have developed
this power far beyond any other country
All power that is uncontrolled is danger
Gus, and while there has been an UMPIRE
cedented development of physical power
in our country, there has been no cor
moral and spiritual growth
to keep pace with it. There has been a
great intellectual quickening and some
thing has been developed in this CEN
fury as marvellous as the art of printing
that gave such a tremendous impulse
to the Elizabethan age. The application
of steam to printing has driven off thu
shadows of ignorance, and for the first
time in the history of the world the
workingman reads and thinks. We hear
great deal nowadays of the tendency
of people to flock to cities, which is true,
and there are reasons for it. The city
is the best presentation of our modern
civilization and holds its destiny.
DIR. Strong gave the statistics of the
rapid growth in population of New York
in the last few years, compared with
what he called, the "homespun days"
and predicted that there is not only a
greater New York, but that there will
be a greater Boston, Chicago and Gar
Francisco. Nor is this growth confined tc
the United States. This growth is not
owing to any peculiar conditions
Of new civilization, as many