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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
NEGLECT OF The CHURCH
THE REV. DIR. HURLSTONE SOUNDS
A NOTE OF WARNING.
There IL q Decay of the Sentiment
of Reverence, He Thfnks-PeO-
pie Rely ON Press.

DR.. Albert Hurlstone preached at Rob-
erts Park M. f. Church yesterday morning
on 1.-The Duty Of Public Worship" A note
of warning against the seeming tide Of ir-
reverence was sounded. He said:
"The daily papers have lately been calling
our attention to the sad neglect of divine
worship in many places. especially among
the men. Not long ago the Governor of one
Of the New England States made an urgent
appeal to the men to refrain from this
gross neglect. One writer recently went
so far as to argue that the man Of the
future will not attend church. Home COM
forts. art, science, newspapers, magazines.
good books, these will satisfy his needs AMI
he will stay at home. Time was when
the minister was the only educated man
in the neighborhood and so he had much
information to impart, but now education
is universal and people depend on the press
for their Intellectual and moral training.
Many or these sweeping assertions are
based upon false ideas of worship and an
oversight OF the undying needs of mans
spiritual nature. Many overlook the fact
that man is religious. He possesses re-
ligious ideas and impulses. Worship exists
In response to the needs of our entire ma
ture. intellectual, emotional. aesthetic.
ethical and religious. These elements,
BOVINE says, reach out after God SO ma
tdAdiIy dlQ Wlitn QtNSicptu, iiiioo - Htt-
essarily, that they have always constituted
the chief actual grounds of theistic belief.
Accordingly the human mind has always
adjusted it's conception of God with refer
ence less to external nature than TO its
own internal needs and aspirations. 1t mas
gathered its ideals Of truth aad beauty
and goodness, and united them into the
thought Of the enc perfect Being, the ideal
Of ideals, God over all and blessed for
ever. The religious nature being recognized
as a universal fact, and as one which can
not be ignored, worship becomes a neces-
sity. 1t is the feeling or the act of relig-
ious homage toward the Supreme God. 1t
implies alteration, Thanksgiving. prayer,
praise and offerings.
"Carelessness, indifference. unpunctuality
seem TO be reserved by many people for
their attendance at the house OF God. They
keep other engagements. Each worshiper
is responsible for the creation of the atmos-
phere OF the sanctuary. Worship should be
godly. spiritual, reasonable and attractive
in relation to all the deep and permanent
interests Of mans nature. and pleasing TO
God by its humility. purity and earnest
ness.
There Is a decay of the sentiment OF rev.
erence in these times against which we
must guard. This Is seen in the lack OF
reverence for old age, for parents and for
God. Them that honor me 1 will honor
says God. and those that despise me shall
be lightly esteemed The sublimest things
In religious life and privilege can only come
out of reverence. Faith without reverence
Is nothing; there can be no obedience that
Is sincere without reverence. no resignation
) TO divine will without reverence"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
AN AGE OF LIBERALITY
DIR. NEwBERT DIsCOURsEs ON RE-
LIGIoN AND INTELLIGENCE.
The Broad-Thinking Man No Longer q
Novelty, He Declares-Modern
Learning Is Liberal.

At All Souls Unitarian Church the Rev.
E. K. Newbert had for his theme The
Appeal Of Liberal Religion to Intelligence"
He said:
Liberal religion is more an attitude or
mind than a system OF belief. IL is q way
of taxing life. a way OF locking at the
universe, a method and a means, a force
and an influence. IL liberal religion have
a dogma 1t is this: Not authority for truth,
whether that authority be the Bible or a
creed or tradition. but truth always for
authority. Thus broadly defned. who are
the disciples OF liberal religion? Who Is
the liberal religious man.? The test Is
simple. He may be a Baptist or a Presby-
terrain, or a Hebrew or a Unitarian. What
we need TO know is the attitude OF his mind.
Does he welcome truth? Is he led by the
spirit of this modern age? Does he get his
inspiration from the new Leaning. and IL
he all done barking back to a past long
dead? And does he work uEder the for
mula. not authority for truth. but truth
for authority? Ours is an age; OF transition
in religious thinking. and reconstruction Of
thought in harmony with the truth as men
now know it is the pressing need OF the
day in the church.
The liberal religious man as have
briefly defined him is TO be everywhere
met. He is no longer a freak or a novelty.
The great editors OF the daily press are
generally liberal men, The important mag
azines are almost without exception liberal.
The novel worth reading that deals with
religion Is liberal. and my preference Is TO
such fiction as Robert ElsTaere." John
Ward, Preacher" The Story pf an African
Farm" and the great hctioE OF Victor
Hugo. And then We turn To the larger
schools of learning, the college and the uni
versity.
The very spirit Of the higher education
is liberal. The teachers IN the physical
sciences, the teachers I'm philosophy. In
ethics. in biblical criticism. IN psychology,
are quite without exception liberal men.
And every year thousands OF young men
and young women come from our colleges
and universities mentally transformed and
can never return TO the bondage of the old
religious beliefs. Indeed all modern learn
ing. all the higher education - on the side
OF the religious liberal. He f,as an ally In
science. In philosophy. In Psychology. In
history. in critical scholarship.
Liberal religion appeals 10 intelligence
because its basis Is fact. because IL Is an
attitude of mind. because IL has no doEmas
TO limit thought Liberal religion denies
much: IL. too. afhrms much. Indeed. is
great negations are historic. But wher-
ever AZ has denied a belief as being untrue
IL has given a better. Some finid folk are
afraid of religious negation. Yet constructs
i've thinking involves denial IL you want
20 plant Beauty roses I'm q bit OF garden
filled with thistles you FIRST uproot the
thistle"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
A Victim OF Conscience.

"a Victim Of Conscience" by Milton Cold
smith, is a very readable story of a timor-
Gus but kind-hearted Jew, who struck down
his drunken partner in the gold fields of
California in repelling an attack on him.
SELF. and lived for several years afterward
in the belief that he had killed him. Their
joint store of gold raised the Jew TO afiu-
ence. and the business he founded with it
prospered SO much that he supported many
charities and became noted as a philan-
thropist. He was confident that any Jury
would acquit him for taking life under the
circumstances, which he related to his
faithful wife and the rabbi. But his own
conscience gave him no rest and at last he
resolved 10 turn 10 the Christian religion
Tor solace. Through the priest he met a
man that had been reared in the Roman
Catholic Church and was about TO embrace
Judaism TO ease his conscience. 1t proved to
be the man the Jew thought he had killed,
who had reformed his wicked ways, but re-
membered nothing OF the quarrel in which
philosophers thus: Happiness is not n
matter or any particular religion, but of
individual disposition. You can be far more
contented and do more good in the faith of
your parents than In any other. Remain a
Catholic, but try to be a good Catholic, for
q good Catholic Is better than an Indifferent
jew, and vice versa. There is. after all,
put one religion, and that is love for God
and duty toward your fellow-man." TAX
ing his own advice he remains a Jewish
philanthropist.
The book aboundS in humor, most of 1t
with a decided Jewish flavor. Mr.. Rosen-
baum's advice TO the newly engaged couple
contains such gems as these: "Matrimony
is an end of trouble, but it's hard to tell
vich end" "Don'd keep nodding secret from
your wife. Dere may be some things no
man can find out; bud it's different NIT a
woman Always gif your wife her own
way. 1t viii prevent her from being obliged
10 take it, anyhow A very pretty love
story runs through the book. Henry T.
Coates & Co, Philadelphia.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
On the storied Ohio.

The book lover who owns a shelf dedi-
Gated TO choice volumes on river travel need
not hesitate to place near Thoreau's Week
on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers" and
Stevenson's finland Voyage" the revised
edition of "Afioat on the Ohio" by Reuben
Gold Thwaites, author of Down Historic
Waterways" Daniel Boone and How
George Rogers Clark Won the Northwest"
ION the Stored Ohio is the new title given
this book by its publishers, as judged TO
be truly descriptive OF its contents and
character. In 1884 Mr.. Thwaites, with his
wife and young son and a friend. 'the doc
tor" made an historical pilgrimage of a
thousand miles on the Ohio river in a ff-
teen-foot skiff, because of interest in that
noble stream as an important factor in the
development of the West. The author
wished Ito know the great waterway in its
various phases-to see with his own eyes
what the bOrdererS saw-in Imagination to
redress the pioneer stage and to people it,
nature, and thoroughly well grounded in
the history OF the country through which
the beautiful Ohio river makes its wonder
full bends, Mr. Thwaites is admirably at
home in this unique and praisewOrthy I'M
dertaking. The twenty-one chapters record
a delightful six weeks journey, with the
eavageS and pioneers OF other times and
with the oar-plying and camp-resting crew
OF the skin "Pilgrfm," through an enter
tanning panorama OF scenes on and along
the Ohio river. With "far-reaching river
vistas.' with feasts of shade and tint.
with charms OF wave and sky, field, island
and WILLOWS, the author has so mingled
stirring events Of earlier days and the vivid
shore lie of to-day as to leave on the read
er's mind, as with the boy an abiding
vision Of "houseboats and fishermen, gi-
gantfc bridges and flashing steel works,
coal mines and oil wells, pioneers and
Indians" A concise historical outline,
a valuable list OF books previously written
by Ohio river travellers, and a good index
are given at the END OF the charming pill
grimage. Among the towns on the Indiana
beach noted by Mr.. Thwaises are Madison,
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30

Frank H Spearman, who first caught up
with fame as n writer OF uncommoniy good
magazine stories dealing with railroads
and railroad men. has done his best work
in THE Daughter Of a Magnate." Mr..
Spearman is practically alone in his field:
certainly the superior OF any who write of
the iron horse. MS speedways. his stables.
his Jockeys and hostiers. He knows the
railroad from the toll o. the section man
TO the life OF the president. and knows
how to describe IL in q way to interest
other people.
In a number OF his magazine stories he
has written OF the stirring life OF the
mountain division OF a big railroad system,
where nature makes double danger and
toll II Is this same mountain division in
the Rockies which is the scene OF The
Daughter Of a Magnate." The theme Of
the tale Is not new or original. but IL Is
handled with such dynamic force that no
one cares how many books have been writ
ten previously about the trials and tribu-
lations OF poor but gifted young men VINO
have had the misfortune to fall head over
heels in love with daughters OF plutocrats.
General Manager Bucks, Morris Blood,
the superintendent, Conductor O'Brien, En-
gineer McGraw. Callahan-au the charac-
tiers that Mr.. Spearman has made flesh ana
blood IN his other good stories-play big
parts IN The Daughter OF a Magnate.
II Is Glover, however, Alb Glover, construc-
" Ch6iAACtA Va tLS A1OQIldAlA ANAoAOA NhC
man who resigned as chief engineer OF
the whole system 10 put the mountains and
rivers IL chains, that does things in this
story. While this young giant is at work
holding in check a mountain stream that
has suddenly grown into a raging flood,
the special, carrying the new owners of
the system, with their women folk, comes
into his life. By a natural error he mis-
takes Gertrude Brock, daughter of the
president, for a new stenographer he has
expected, and orders her to take dicta-
ton. Miss Brock, mystiied n a little
apgry, falls into the spirit of the thing
for a few minutes, then suddenly loses her
temper and rushes out OF Glover's Office,
leaving the latter nonplused but unsus-
pecting. When he discovers the error into
which he has fallen Glover is chagrined,
and does everything possible TO win back
the favor of the young lady, but fails. He
IS regarded by her as OF no more impor-
tance than any other one of the men who
work for her father at a sum which would
hardly buy her years gowns, until his re-
arka capacity for doing big things
tears down the walls Of prejudice she has
reared around herself. How Glover won
this daughter OF q magnate is q fasci-
mating story. The description Of a blizzard
IS particularly good. Mr.. Spearman has
rare descriptive power, and while he han
dies his incidents in a rough, straight-out-
from-the-Shoulder way, yet the virility and
strength more than make UP for a SEEM
ing lack OF finish. The Daughter of a
Magnate" is literally a good story. Charles
Scribners Sons, New York
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30

Few novels nave equaled the rapid sue
cess of Mr.. John Fox's 1.-The Little shep-
herd of Kingdom Come" II Is now I'm its
eightieth thousand.
Houghton, Mifiin & Co. report that the
Life of w. w. Story" by Henry James.
has been in so great demand that three
editions have already been ordered.
Late this month the scribners will put
out The Story OF a Soldiers Life" by
Field Marshal viscount Wolseley. 1t will
appear in two volumes, with photogravure
portraits and plans.
Messrs. A.. S. Barnes & CO. are under
stood to be undertaking ar important series
of books relating TO American history writ
ten by the participants and by some OK
the most famous explorers of the West
The ]. B. Lippincott Company has just
issued q third revised and enlarged edition
of Augustus H. Gilrs short Handbook OF
Oil Analysis" and a volume by DIR. George
w. Grille on Blood Pressure in Surgery
w. A. Wilde Company, of Boston. have
announced the publication of 4 ~pre-exposi-
ton volume on the st. Louis; fair. written
by Claude H.. wetmore, and entitled, "Out
of a Fleur-de-Lis," the History and Ro-
nance OF the Louisiana Purchase EXPOSE
tion.
The marvellous development, OF the West
which is being celebrated by the st. Louis
exposition receives. 1t is said. a fresh inter-
probation and explanation in american
History and its Geographical Conditions"
by Ellen c. Semple. which Houghton, Mi.
hin & Co. have just published
Next week the Macmillan Company win
publish Mrs. Alice Morse Earl.'s new book.
1.-TWO Centuries of Costume IN America"
The two volumes are very fuzzy and richly
illustrated. The subject of American cos
tune, which has been singularly neglected.
is now presented for the first time In an
adequate manner.
The Fleming HI. ReveTl C~cfipany's list
this fall contains some interesting relig-
ious books. THE Finger of God" by T..
H. Wright; "The Temptation Of Jesus" by
A Morris Stewart; Methods of Bible
Study" by w. II. Griffith Thomas: Arc
the Critics Right" by Wilhelm Moller:
Immortality. a Rational Faith" by Will
lam Chester.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
BY INSPIRATION
LITTLE HOLINESS BAND GOES AS
THE spirit MOVES Ut.
Evange1istic Services in Peniel Tenn
pie Largely Attended-Three
Meetings i'm One Day.

TIL Pentecostal Holiness Band Is hold
ing protracted religious meetings in Peniel
Temple. at the corner of Senate avenue and
Eleventh street. which was recently built
by DIR. d. NJ. Bye, OF the Combination Oil
Cure Company. of this city. for the purpose
OF holding religious services. The band is
composed of Ebert Hobbs and H.. L. Brown.
his wife. son and two daughters. who are
evangelists from the South coming TO this
city three weeks for the purpose of holding
a revival" Mr.. Hobbs is a resident of
Scott county. Virginia, and has been in
evanselistic work for seven years. Mr..
Brown and his family are citizens of Ohio
county. Kentucky.
The band was organized fourteen months
ago and during that fourteen months II has
met with great success. a great number of
people having protested conversion. The
band breaches In the streets, missions,
churches. reform schools, penitentiaries or
prisons. just as the spirit OF God directs.
The spirit or God directed the little band to
come To this city about ;hree weeks ago
and IL came here and has done a great deal
OF good while here.
The band held its meetings on the street
during the FIRST two weeks in this city,
preaching 10 immense throngs. At the invi-
tation or DIR. Bye the little band accepted
the use OF the Pcniel Temple. and its first
meeting was held in the temple last Sun
day night. The evangelists held a meeting
every night last week IN the temple and
three yesterday. The sermon at the after
noon session yesterday was preached by
Mr.. Brown. who spoke on The Necessity
OF Salvation"
Another meeting was held last night and
II Is the intention OF the band To hold pro-
tracted meetings at the temple every night
this week
Mr.. Hobbs sale last night In speaking of
his work thai his band has no particular
creed and does not believe that any &C.
cleslasticaI power should dominate religion.
"Whether we remain In this city next
week. he said. depends upon the die
tates OF Jesus Christ. We 30 as the spirit of
God leads us. IL he bids us go elsewhere
We must go. We are guided by His die
tates."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30

Moros," by Cephas c. Bateman; a forecast
of the Philippine exhibit at st. Louis in
1904, by DR.. w. p. Wilson, chairman of the
government board in charge of the exhibit,
with many pictures illustrating Philippine
industry and trade; a review OF the Morley
Gladstone" by w. I. Stead; some impor-
by Librarian Elmendorf, of the Buffalo
library; and an article on "Parsifaf In
New York." by Lawrence Reamer There
are also sixteen Illustrated pages of notes
on the new novels; historical, biographical,
and travel books; Juveniles, and holiday
gift books.
The Christmas number of Harper's Mag
azine offers itself in a green and white
cover without ornate design, and is all the
more pleasing therefor. in contrast with the
gay covers of its rivals. Within, however,
it riots in color like the rest. The opening
article, "Peire Vidal-Troubadour," has for
illustrations some beautiful color plates
after paintings by Howard Pyle. A poem,
The Little Past" by Josephine Preston
Peabody, has accompanying pictures in
color drawn By Elizabeth Shipper Green.
an Illustration for Robert Chambers's story.
and Smedley's drawings In color accom-
pany Mark Twain's "A Dogs Tale" Andre
Gastaigne,s paintings; reproducea IN TINT as
Fairgrounds" Among the pictures in black
and white is a beautiful wood engraving
reproducing george l0neSS 3 Ine WOOD
gatherers." The literary part of the maya
zine is largely made up of fiction. Mary
Z. Wilkins Freeman, Margaret Deland,
Alice Brown, Robert w. Chambers, Eliza
beth G.. Jordan and Edith Wharton being
the contributors An article of interest, by
George Howard Darwin, describes THE
Birth of a Satellite" Us English Becoming
Corrupt? % 9Th Lords of the Sahara and
1.-The University of st. Petersburg" are
topics of other papers. In the Easy
Chair Mr.. Howells discourses entertain
inQIv of BRET Hartp. with whom he had a
personal acquaintance. Editor Alden, in
mystery of literary expression and style.
Color effects in the Christmas Century
are striking. The frontispiece is a Madonna
and child, painted by Hugh Balm. The
opening article on Italian Gardens by
Edith Wharton, has three notable color
plates. Two Christmas pictures in color
accompany a poem. Light of the World"
and two are among the illustrations of an
| article by Jacob Riis on 1.-THE Children of
the People," They are drawn by Elizabeth
Thompson, and the second one In particu-
lar is an exceptionally good piece of work.
by Charlotte Harding accompany 'Tempta-
tions to Be Good" Albert Sterner's illus
t~rations of 1.-The Ride of the vaIkyries'
are good. The coronation of Charlemagne
by Pope Leo III in the basilica of st.
Peters, Christmas day, 500 A. d., is the
subject of George w. Hallowell's decora-
tive design in color on the cover of the
magazine. OF the literary features the
paper by the Rev. j. M Buckley on "Fa-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
JONAH HAVING The BLUES
AS THE WHALES PASSENGER HE
WAS A GLOOMY PERSON.
The Rev. George M. Smith breaches
Clever Sermon ON an Ill the
Spirit Is Heir To.

Jonah Having the Blues" was the topic
Of the sermon delivered last night by the
Rev. George NJ. Smith, of the Edwin Ray
M. E. Church. Woodlawn avenue and
Laurel street. Mr.. Smith said:
"If we drop a thimbleful Of indigo into
a tub of water the whole contents of the
tub Will become blue. Blues are contagious
and they are sometimes worse than small
pox-many people have died from the blues.
There is no quarantine against the blues.
Everybody is thrown in contact with them,
and if they are not immune they, too, will
have them. The only thing that will make
man immune from the blues is to have the
grace of God.
people. The day may be bright or dark.
the weather may be hot or cold, these peo-
pie have the blues anyway. Others are
In the morning they are on the mountain
the dark valley. which is dark as indigo.
should trust in God and be cheerful.
During the three days that. Jonah was
in the whale he was able to settle some
things that he had never been able to settle
before. He decided tina it did not pay to
run away from God. He decided that the
best thing for man to do was 10 go TO the
post OF duty. He decided that if he ever
got out of the whale he would go to Nine
web and save those wicked people. He did
go to Nfneveh, and, as there was no build
ing in which he could preach, he preached
TO the people on the streets, and they re-
pented and were saved.
When Nineveh was saved Jonah got
mad. He was a stranger In the city, and
the people criticised him and called him a
fool. because they did not believe that their
city would have been destroyed had they
not repented. Jonah went out of the city
and had the blues. His weakness was that
he was working for his own glory, working
for himself.
''There are many such people in the
church to-day who are afraid to lift their
voices lest some one ~criticiSe them. and
these people become blue as did Jonah.
These people forget God and think Of
self. Put your trust in God and be cheer
full"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30
Pa GLADDEN..

These stories, by Mrs. Elizabeth Cherry
Waltz, whose recent untimely death has
caused regret to the many who enjoyed
reading her tales, have previously appeared
in magazines. The stories deal with a low
able character, an unworldly and visionary
old man and his wife, equally kind and un-
selfish. They are childless and are con-
stantly looking for the needy and for WAYS
in which to help them. The tales have
faults of construction and do not always
carry conviction, but there is a wholesome
human element In them that makes them
good reading. Fourteen of the adventures
of Pa GLADDEN. are set forth in the book.
The Century Company.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-11-30

1t is with some hesitation that one picks
up an historical novel written by a pro-
fessor of Greek. The book bearing the
above title and written by Charles Kelsey
Gaines. however, is evidently the work of
no amateur. The author has produced a
delightful story OF absorbing interest. The
rehabilitation of a naligned historical char
acter furnishes the motive of this book.
To the general reader it Is a matter of no
great moment whether or not Theramenes
of Athens deserved the reproacheS heaped