The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1897-07-29
CHAUTAUQUA
Assembly of 1897 Drawing
to a Close
ALASKA AND THE ALASKANS
WITH NO LAWS THEY GOVERN
THEMSELVES
ALASKA AND THE ALASKANS
The New Board of Directors Pass Res
olutions-the Yaw Concert This
Evening

| In the opening class IN scripture Stuu.
yesterday morning Mr.. Blakely endeav
ored to impress on the minds of the pu
pills the Importance of continued appli
cation, investigation and research, aftei
their student days have passed. HI
tried also to impress them with thu
necessity of cultivating fairness, integ
rity and honor in order that helpful
useful, hopeful things may result. The
| gist of the whole matter is good will and
honesty in directing and controlling the
application of knowledge in science ano
art as embodied in machinery of pro-
duction and transportation. He coun-
seled the applica ton of the ethics OF
history as recommended by DR.. Strong
in order to relieve the strain and stress OF
our present conditions.
Dr. Wright's theme in New Testament
history was passion week, which in
Guided the suffering and death of Christ
The Old Testament work by Rev. c. P
Dorland discussed the book of Jonah and
its teaching. The Jewish conception Of
Jehovah was that He was the national
God of the Jews and that he had no In
terest in any other nation. Also, that
Jehovah could be worshiped only in the
Holy Land and that when man had
gone beyond it's boundary line he had
passed beyond Jehovah's jurisdiction.
They had one standard for all nations
and that was their standard-they were
right and other people were wrong.
The story of Jonah's experience is an
allegory teaching the truth that man
cannot hide from Jehovah even though
he flee to a foreign country; that the
heather had some knowledge of God even
before Jonah went among them; it also
teaches that no matter how far man
wanders from God when he returns and
repents and prays, God will hear him.
1t is not ritual nor creed. but righteous
ness and just judgment that insures ac-
ceptance with God.
1t teaches that God gives the heather
a full and complete opportunity for
salvation and that he has standard
for the heather adapted to their con-
dition and understanding, and then has
another standard for men Of larger OPP
portunities and clearer vision and more
favorable environment.
It teaches that there is ample provision
for all men and if all men are not finally
saved it will be their own fault.
AFTERNOON SESSION
AS a prelude to the afternoon exercises
Prof. Fillmore gave a brief talk on the
development Of a great composition from
germ, using as an illustration the
first movement of the Beethoven Fifth
Symphony.
"Bill Nye," said Prof. Fillmore, "once
said that the beauty Of scientific music
is that it is really much better than it
sounds" That is really "a classical de-
scription. The professor spoke of the
lack of opportunity among people out
side of the larger cities to hear really
great music.
Don't be too much frightened" he
said "at the word classic. 1t means
that a man must have something to say
worth saying. Every really great COM
position that lasts is a natural growth"
An oak tree is made up of a repetition
of one bud. the unity of the tree comes
of a thousand fold repetitions of one
germ. You find in it both variety and
unity. Precisely the same thing is in a
great composition. An illustration was
given on the piano of the germ in the
one little motive of Beethoven'e SYM
phony, which with notifications and
|repetitions comprise the entire compo-
sition-
The five things necessary to a great
musical production are repetition, SYM
metry, unity, variety and climax.