Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-11-17

\ 10 witness the battle Of Pieter's Hill. II,
which nine British regiments ware en-.
which resulted IN the seizure OF the
heights that made II possible for Buffers
column to relieve Ladysmith. Th!. bat
tie Is described with the wonderful WV
idness and strength OF detail. which the
Of Mr. Davis.
Then follows an equally vivid dcsc.4p.
relief Of Ladysmfth. Mr.. Davis was pres
cnt on the ground. ana his work here IL
81 special value and interest from the
iace tnat ne states only what heapersuE-
Following the relief Of Ladysnrth, Mr..
Davis changed his point Of view. shy %
Of the time. here he made his headquar.
terS at Pretoria Unlike that other great
correspondent. Julian Ralph. who went
to 1.-The Transvaal prO-f,oer and re-
turn a. pro.EnElish- Mr.. PAWS ! states
came radically pro-Boer. The greater
part OF the volume under consideration
his home. in the field. in his methods sof
warfare, his humanity. his courage, and
H. general consideration OF his cause.
bot Mr. Mrs. 6 esdsny ns,hins hahway
Saul Of Tarsus could not have teen more
complete or radical. He sings the vir-
OF fervor. He constantly contrasts irir,
with the British officer or. Tommy At
vantage. In fact he becomes a special
pIeader who Is not willing to admi; tilat
England may after all have had some
slight prOvOcatiOn from the somey. har
pig -headcd inhabitants Of the Transvaai.
What hypnotic charm grizzled and self
assertivc Paul Kruger was able to exe..-
else upon this impressioDable young man
That NJ should fall down and ,s?rship
altogether apparent 10 the tt.oushtrui
reader, neither does the plignacio,i.; old
president appear 10 have placed such n
captivating spell upon any OF the nu-
Derous other correspondents who have
visited, his capital. There 4. is a sus-
picon that Mr.. Davis may be just trif:a
stronger in his descriptions than in his
for its vivid and doubtless accurate word
pictures alone the book is worth many
times its price. 1t is in this line. by far
that has yet been published on the war
in the Transvaal and will undoubtetil,
meet with large sale The Illustrations
graphs and constitute a most yal-,a HE
feature of the book.
Loving Ny Neighbor. by the Rev. J.
II. Miller. ID. ID. One vol. IL mo, - Do.
ornamented white binding. IS cts New
York; Thomas y. Crowell & Co, Pub
fishers.
DIR. Miller says rightly tina; even now.
after nineteen centuries OF, Christian
X,
neighborg'' which Jesus answered SO ron
ciusively by Ills parable of the Good
Samaritan. is hardly understood by the
majority Of men. f'iguratiyeiy speaklng
rich and poor have alike 10 pass .,yer
the Jericho road and are likely 10 fall
among thieves. IL is. therefore, a prac-
teal question to decide who win come "a
our aid. and IL is exactly as sfnDortant 10
decide whom We shall assist in similar
conditions. The priest ana the I4avite sec
the suffering victim of the thieves. but
t..s. he. hos L..
uf many men who might easily rescue |
their suffering fellows. In other words |
We all sin against God and our brothers
by not doing the things We ought 10 do |
Love and loves service are required i'm |
our homes and in life. DIR. Miller gives
practical examples of the meaning of |
the negative side. He also shows th,.
positive side as illustrated by the Good |
Samaritan. WING heaped his cup of benef,- |
cenee running over for a. man who was /
his hereditary enemy-a Jew. Or. Miller l
ends mis- practical and excellent little
tract with the beautiful story of the |
pottery workman and his crippled son,
whose reflex influence on the pottery wa,
so great. DIR. Miller makes no claim, TO I
originality of treatment Of subject al Il
most hackneyed but he treats il so sim
ply and unaffectesily that it comes to one I
with the effect of freshness and sponta-
neity.
The Supernatural. By Lyman Abbott.
d. d. One VOL. Il mo, % pp.. ornamen- |
tai white binding. 90 cts. New York: |
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.. Publishers.
The full title of DIR. Abbott; booklet,
which was an address delivered before
nary. is The Relation of Nature and the
Supernatural TO the Christian Thought /
OF Today" He believes that this reia-
ton has undergone great change in the i
last half century, and this change he IL
Illustrates by the recognition of the /
change which he finds jim his own views I
he conceived of God as a great architect
designing and framing the universe or
as an engineer creating an engine and
regulating it as the engineer does, or as
ruling men as a great king rules men.
sitting apart from his universe. Now
he has come to conceive of God as in his II
universe somewhat as the soul is in the
body of a man. and he no longer recog- l.
nizes n gap between the natural and the
supernatural. and has abandoned the dis
tinction between general previdences and I:
being a manifestation of extraordinary l.
power is an extraordinary manifestation
OF ordinary power; birth is more Won
derful than resurrection. because IL is |,
more wonderful that something hat lev-
er was should begin to be than that ;
something which was and ceased to be +
makes a distinction between miracles; Il
some related in the Scriptures he regards 4
as poems or romances; others. sucn MS
Christ's reappearancc To His disciples. he II
regards as the best attested sac. of hts
tory. He has beautiful theory of the
forgiveness of sins. While he is still or y
thodox and trinitarian. he believes that II
God is more than Christ, just as a whole .
is more than its parts. This new view
OF God he believes promotes Christian i
life because it brings God nearer to US Il
in our Christian thought and makes re- |:
ligion more natural and more real. DR.
4Abbott's tract is one of the most inspir- Il
ing utteranceS of the new theology.
Straight Shots at Young Men. b. |,
Washington GLADDEN., d. d. One vol, II +
mo. 81 pp.. ornamental, white binding. |:
IS cts. Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 496 and
42S West broadway. New York.
DIR. GLADDEN. delivers his straight
Shots under three heads. The first he
entities. by Luck or by Labor" and
here he impugns getting into debt. He
acknowledges that the coal to keep our
houses warm, the shoes to protect our
feet from the frost, the oatmeal and the
potatoes to sustain life are SO necessary
that the case might arise when a young
man would have to go into debt tempo
rarily To secure them: but he has no pa
thence with those who would borrow so
as 10 indulge in amlsementS or in new
neckties. DIR. GLADDEN. believes that Inst
as the ear for music may be cultivated