Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-29
CURRENT LITERATURE.

The idea that a minister has right TO
yield TO lassitude and depression on Mon
| day because of his exertons on Sunday Is
! effectually punctured by Or. Floyd W.
| Tomkns, rector OF Holy Trinity church OF
| Philadelphia, in an article entitled What
| OF Blue Monday'?" in the Sunday School
| Tines of September q. Or. Tomklns says:
The time has passed when the oficial
position OF the clergyman can carry him;
he must be a man II he would have
the power TO lead souls to God. For a
minister. therefore. to have what is called
a Blue Monday is to make himself ridicu-
lous in the eyes Of healthy men. and 10
lose his influence. Tired. because he has
been telling the old story of the cross?
Nervously exhausted because he has
preached twice. and perhaps spent five
minutes In the Sunday school? Dependent
when he has been urging others to hope
! and cheer7 II so. surely he does not be-
lieve what he breaches, or, worse yet
makes no EFFORT to set an example to his
flock. But the majority of ministers must
plead guilty. Nothing is at once so sad
and so ludlcrous as an average Monday
morning ministers meeting. There they
stand or sit, heavy, weary, sad, with the
ring OF yesterday gone from voice, and the
| thrill lost from handclasp, and the nash de-
parted from the eye.
Monday ought to have 80 many oppor-
tunities that the minister would have no
time to think of himself. The day Is too
short for 1t all II we would be faithful to
the trust Monday is a harvest day. Arise,
hasten, for souls are waiting"
William Allen White has written for the
October Reader an article on the fight in
| Kansas against the Standard OIL company.
The article under the title, THE Kansas
Conscience" is written in the style that is
peculiarly Mr.. Whites and of which Nor
man Hapgood says in a recent issue OF
Golfers Weekly:
william Allen White writes about the
best English and about the best morals
turned out by American journalism today.
Racy without touch of slang, he is earn
est but never prim. Money, political ambi-
tor, attentions from those in positions Of
authority, personal antipathies-none Of
these things can turn him from the even
and happy sanity OF his ways"
A full-blooded Indian, totally blind at
that, concerned in the writing of a novel,
is, indeed, an unusual spectacle. Yet such
is the situation in regard to Nathan J.
Cuffee, who, together with Lydia A. Joce-
Ign, wrote Lords Of the SOIL" published
by the c. M Clark Publishing company
of Boston. Mr. Cuffee has had an inter-
esting career. During his youth he fol-
lowed the sea, shipping before the mast
on whaler. His eyes were so badly in
tured in railroad wreck that he became
totally blind. He is Iineal descendant
Of the Montauk chieftain whose tragic
career is such a striking feature OF sthe
tale. Lords OF the Soil deals with the
life of the Indians and white settlers Of
Long and Shelter Islands In the seven
teenth century.
Report has II that H. @. Wells is at
work upon series of reflective articles
for McClure's Magazine, later to be pub
lished in book form under the title Mind
of the World" The story is as circum-
stantial as 1t is persistent. and in one Of
its forms advances the information that
1.-The twenty-five articles are to emanate
from kind OF literary Mr.. Dooley who
sketches out twenty-five ideal novels
romances. histories treatises, essays, etc.
! to fit what he coneeives to be the tastes
and conceptions, of our time" Mcclure
Phillips are as much puzzled as the au-
thor as to how the mistaken rumor or
iginated.
/ Probably a great hymn never mad a more
Y humble origin than Onward, Christian
Soldiers" which is one Of the most popu-
lar of our modern hymns. In the October
Delineator Allan Sutherland writes:
"A great school festival was to be held
, in a Yorkshire village on whit-Monday,
| 1866, and the scholars OF Horbury Bridge
! school, over which the Rev. Sabine Barring
! Gould was curate, were invited to attend.
AS the place Of the celebration was some
distance away, the minister thought 1t
) would be an excellent plan to have his
g scholars march to the singing of an ap-
: propriate and stirring hymn. Fortunately
, for our hymnology, he could find nothing
I in his song books suitable for such an &C.
! casion, so from sheer necessity he sat
|. down on the Saturday evening preceding
3 the celebration and composed this great
q professional hymn. little dreaming that he
r had produced that which would be world
2 wide in its usefulness and make his name
! a household word. Barring Gould, a minis
I ter of the Church OF England, is an author
: ity on many subjects. and is a voluminous
: writer, having published nearly 100 vol
umcs. In twenty years, between 1870 and
1890, he issued no less than forty-three
books, sixteen OF which were novels Dur
: ing the next six years he published seven
: teen novels. A number OF his works have
l ! passed through several editions. This sug-
q gests the poet Thomas Gray. who was
also a man of vast learning, not only In
literature but in all the arts and sciences
of his day, and although he left writings
: enough to form, with his life a book OF
r four volumes, edited by Edmund Gosse
IT is by his one poem. "Elegy Written ir
2 a Country Churchyard," that he will bt
e ever remembered. This may also prove
true OF Baring-Gould. The few lines hur.
/, riedly composed on a Saturday evening
y as marching song for band of little
children will doubtless give to his name
greater fame than all the books he has
ever written"
10 The frontispiece OF the Worlds Work FOL
n October is a full-page portrait OF william
% Travers Jerome, the district attorney o.
" New York. In 1.-THE Sad Story Of In
% dustrial Trusts there is a revelation o.
some Of the ruin brought on by hnancla