East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-08-17
BARD HAS RETURNED.
WALLA WALLA MINISTER
BACK FROM EUROPE
Rev Andreas Bard of The Episcopal
Church at Walla Walla Speaks En-
tertainingly of an Extended Visit to
the Continent.

After a trip to European countries |
covering a space of about two and "A
half months, Rev. Andreas Bard, rec
tor of st. Pauls Episcopal church, re-
turned to the city yesterday, says the
Walla Walla Union. Rev. Bard stated
that he was glad to visit the old world
and is glad to get back.
When asked about his trip, the rev.
erend gentleman spoke with enthusi-
asm:
Reviewing the civilized worll in
two months one has the sensation of
"A dream, brilliant and. ah, too brief!
Who can get an adequate impression
of st. Peters, Rome, or the Louvre
Paris, within couple of hours?
There are treasures beyond treasures
in the realm of art and those who
know will tell you that it should take
a week to get fair impression of one
of the classic paintings of medieval
days.
whence did Raphael get the colors
which produced the Sistine Madonna,
or De Vici the effects we admire In
the Last Supper? Here the enlighten-
ed twentieth century stands perplexed
before something it cannot reproduce.
We can learn much from Europe as
surely as Europe can learn much
from us. But have noticed that the
older civilization grows, the less in
clination it shows to listen with appre-
citation to the ideas of others. Europe
still considers America as sort of an
experiment. admiring indeed its ac-
complishments, but looking upon its
future with rather skeptical eye.
"Now, l agree with the man who
said, If people grow so old that they
know better, they are old enough to
die Even our eastern friends might
take this lesson to heart, for again
and again 1 met New Workers and
Bostonians who smiled condescend-
ingly when l informed them that |
came from the far west. To them
civilization seemed to drop into chaos
beyond st. Paul.
people must not forget that in this
age when the entire world is practi-
cally fibred together with innumer-
| able railroads, telegraphs and trans
! oceanic liners, culture and knowledge
\ can no longer be pent up in some hub
| of the universe, but assumes the posi-
| tion of the sun which casts his illu-
mining rays into the farthest corner
of the man-trodden earth. Western
people travel more than eastern peo-
/ pie and Americans travel more than
/ Europeans and the traveller alone has
| a fair idea of this world and its di-
versified charms.
Il am glad to be home, and shall at
an early day in the future speak more
| fully concerning my trip. At present
| am busily engaged answering the
stacks of letters which cover my desk
and getting ready for the fall work
of school and church. The outlook Is
very bright my people seeming to be
| happy that | am back and a number
of applications having come in from
| girls who wish to attend st. Paul's
school during the ensuing year. I
| shall not open the church before the
first of September, since many of our
parishioners have not returned from
| the seashore and / wish to start with
enthusiasm rather than in a half
hearted manner.
II am thoroughly western In my
sympathies. love our vast areas
untitled land our mighty forests, our
giant rivers, and I love western men
and women with their broad outlook
upon life, their affinity with dear
Mother Nature and their large and
loving hearts"