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cess he achieved in these restricted
fields led TO his call 70 take charge
OF Pembroke Chapel in Liverpool.
This had been at one time the lead
ing non-confOrmist church IN the city,
presided over by DR.. BlrFell, the IA
Their OF Augustine BiFreu who is a
member Of the British cabinet. but
the district IN which Il was located
had been oversun BY business struc-
lures and the church had declined I'M
Ill II had been proposed to abandon
it. on the Sunday before DIP. Aked
took charge the congregation consist
ed Of thirty-five persons at the morn
ing service and sixteen in The even
ing.
Within a few weeks. however, the
fame Of the new preacher spread
through the city. Former attendants
who had deserted the old 2. urch re-
turned and new members were at
tracted TO #. Some Of the sermons
preached by the hard hitting young
minister aroused ti-ts: controversy
but the church continued 10 grow and
for sixteen years while DR.. Aked re-
NAMED in charge it was overcroWded
and people were turned away for the
lack OF room at every service.
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C. CHRISTENSEN. premier Of
Denmark. minister OF war and
. Of marine, as well. is one Of
the most remarkable men In
Europe. Born on a small farm Ia a
desoIale part of Denmark of poor par
erts. IN a public career of only four
teen years he has not only risen TO the
highest position in the land. but dem
onstrated the final triumph of the
dowu-tro6ien and iespised class from
which he sprang.
The coming into power Of Christen-
sen is said 20 be due 20 luck He was
one Of the minor leaders ia the efforts
OF the Opposition 90 overthrow what
was known as the professor regime"
durinE which the rulers of Denmark,
which had In 1913 become a cunstitu-
tional monarchy, were drawn from
the ranks OF the professors and scien-
fists. The real leader of the revolt
OF the common people was Chris.en
Berg. but just when the back of his
powerful opponents had been broken
and he was about 20 reap the reward,
he died Christensen jumped into the
breach, was made minister OF educa-
ton, and four years later premier and
minister OF war and OF marine.
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try to the town. Even Mark Twain
and George AIDE recently have turned
farmers.
Il seems rather surprising, therefore,
on hunting up David Graham Phillips.
one Of the most successful Of the
strong group Of younger novelists. to
find that the trail leads to the fc..r-
teeHth and top floor OF a lofty studio
apartment building, a room with broad
northern windows looking on over
acres of Manhattan roofs to the spld-
cry outlines of a growing East river
bridge. Since the scientists ten Us
that we are all creatures Of ENVIRON
ment the thought occurs that this 10
cation may contain the answer to some
81 the questions that naturally arise
In connection with the novelist's work.
In the heart OF hustling New York,
with the pulsing life Of millions OF or
binary. unidealized men and women
flowing through the streets over which
these windows look. was IL not ineyi-
table that a man should write of the
systematized warfare OF fnodern bust
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MGtOOriC Rise of Humble Farmer
To POST OF Premier OF Denmark

him t. give it up. In the legislative
chamber he quickly made himself
known by an Unsuitable desire for
work After only ten years in the
rigsdag he became minister OF edg-
cation and later succeeded TO his pres
ent post.
Personally. Christensen is a thick
set man. His large head is capped
with great mass Of tow hair. There
is a tiase of gray here and there. but
hts ffty-two years have not brought
any diminution in his forcibleness and
enthusiasm. He is at his hat-toppeI
desk twelve hours OF the day and
sometimes far into the night lie
throws off work OF his triple office
with case and insists upon attending
10 a great deal OF the detail Of each.
Ills associates declare that II he had
his way Christensen would administer
every office OF the cabinet himself.
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Author Who Writes Standing Up
Talks Of His Particular STYLE

ness the sordid as well as the sa1f-
sdcrlncing phases OF human charso+o~
lHe pettlness and hypocrisy OF roarris /
IRE as well as fits ideaIisn?
The intervieEer's line OF thought was
Interrupted by the entrance. Of Mr.
Ihlliips himself. He wore a l,,-
dressing gown and explained that b5
Had but shortly finished hath ana
breakfast. The time was late tor
noon, out this does not mean that ar
thllilps sleeps more than the allotted
hours or the average man. As he Ax-
pains oeprecatingly IL IS the survival
OF habits acquired IN the DAYS when ba
was a newspaper reporter. which lad.
MIN 10 do much Of his writing after
midnight, 10 retire shortly before sn7.
rise. and 70 begin his day wei ov =,
ward noon.
No, I don't consider II a vrf+s-.s
auty 10 please he public" said Mr.
Phillips. with an emphatic gesture.
consider It writer's duty to write
about what he knows What does he
NOW? The life that goes on aroma
BIN is all that ne can know sun
pose I were to write about the mast
about what was. But / don't lnoo,
what was and the more ] read those
who profess 10 know the STRONGER
grows my suspicion that aobo,iy
knows
Shall I write about what ought n
be How do know what ought to H.
1 don't even know what ought not n
De. Tor many things ! once Thought
curses upon the race I now see were
in fact the means 70 its developusnr
IN strength and well-beiug. out n
death comes life, out Of vice comes
virtue, out OF injustice comes Justice
Good things breed decay and disease.
the bad things breed health war
teaches peace, cruelty teaches mercy.
slavery teacheI brotherhood and free
dom.
Shall 1 write my opinions. Library
shelves sag under the weight OF count
less volumes Of opinions that have
served simply TO give pleasure 70 ego
tistic writer's, TO spare otner writer's
equally worthless the trouble OF think
ing and TO obscure in dense enve-
lopes OF fog the facts OF life that some
day viii eniighten and redeem the
world.
80 you see. all that is left To write
about is what is. I try to tell no lies.
try 10 prevent myself from mixing IN
with truth little doses OF what think
ought TO be truth. OF what I think
would sound better or would be more
popular, for the truth Is the most IN
popular as # is the most Infamlliqr
OF visitors TO the human mind.
Lying is the great fault. he con.
tinued. earnestly. 1T is emptying the
churches, Is making politics and poli-
ticians a byword. is destroying home
life. is threatening to make the onconn-
Ing generations selfish, cold. and cvn-
zeal under an even thicker envelope az
SHINY hypocrisy than that which
drapes the real self. the real motive
and ambition Of the present genera
ton. Let US stop lying Surely the
truth even the naked truth, could not
do more harm or less good"
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T T IS HARD to imagine a novelist
/ living and writing in a New York
4 skyscr iper Somehow the pictures
Of successful story-writers almost
invariably portray country sur
roundings. If they are men or women
OF the old school we SAFE upon queer
rambling houses, or ivy-grown cot
tages set deep in Towering gardens or
leafy bowers. If, on the other hand,
they belong 10 the up-to-date branch
of the fiction guild we find them de-
picted in smart riding costume on the
front porch Of country places" driy-
ing automobiles along their private
maCadamized roads, or entertaining
fashionable persons on wide handsome
lawns.
AS a matter Of fact, some popular
writer's of the day do figure in city
directories. but the camera man in
variably finds them among the broad
acres Of the uncongested area Robert
". Chambers, Winston Churchill. Mrs.
Atherton, almost all the list Of con-
temporary novelists prefer the coun-
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BELL
INSCRipTIOt

~ ROCLAIM liberty throughout
- all the land unto ali the in
habirants thereof" That
the Inscription on the LIB
erty Bel la Philadelphia, and many
persons assume that # registered the
budding desireyof the American col
onists for political freedom.
quite the contrary. The words on
the bell tell only OF the religious fer
vcr Of the forefathers who placed
them there. Furthermore, the inscrip-
ton is il stands is only a part OF the
original verse in the Bible Here is
the entire verse, taken from the book
Of Leviticus:
And We shall hallow the fftieth
year, and proclaim liberty throughout
all the land, unto all the inhabitants
thereof: It shall be a jubilee unto
you, We shall return every man unto
his possession, and ye shall return
every man unto his family"
When the bell was brought from
England 20 Philadelphia and recast
there IN 1888, there was no thought
that It would ever celebrate the col
onies' defiance of their mother eoun-
Try. II was not political but religious
liberty that its makers wished the
bell 10 proclaim throughout ali the
land For I'm those days the fight for
religious liberation, the great pria-
cipIe on which William Penn founded
his colony Of Pennsylvania, was by
no means won.
In the dark days Of the Revolution.
when the British troops occupied
Philadelphia and Congress had fed
from its home, the bell was saved
from destruction by the forethought
Of its custodians. who hid II in the
Delaware river, near Trenton. When
the enemy abandoned the city it was
restored to its ole position in the
StatehOuse.
There. for several years after the
turmoil Of the Revolution was over
and the United States OF America had
taken its place among the powers of
the world the voice of the Liberty
Bell was heard on the nations birth
day. Il was not, indeed, until 1885
that silence fell upon It. Then 1t was
broken while tolling for the death Of
John Marshall, Chief Justice of the
United States for thirty-four years
From the Live Wire.
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Danish Social Conditions.

Z Is utterly impossible FOR anyone
outside Denmark, who does not under
stand the gap that separates the peas
~nt-born ami the aCadsmically grad
uated. royal official 20 realize the full
significance Of Christensen's rise to
power Today he is to all intents
ana purposes a dictator. whereas. for
generations upon generations, the
farming class. among which he was
born and bred and which he today
represents have been trodden under
Tire heel despite the fact that they
form cor siderably more than half OF
the population az the country.
Although Berg and his associates
ia tie leadership of the opposition
proved lhat they were masters OF
tae same of politics. il remained for
Christensen TO demonstrate that the
yeomanTy class were capable OF gov
eruing. And he has demonstrated il
beyond the shadow OF q doubt by his
enormous energy. his efficiency, and
his clear view OF practical affairs.
This remarkable man was born IN
Jutland, ifty-two years ago. There
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Church, Rev. Charles F. Aked, 10 crit
ioise Christianity as praeticed IN the
churches Of today and 20 assert that
the churches themselves are doomed
TO extinction unless the present course
% events changes.
Yet this IS exactly what has hap
pened and instead OF Tepenting his
rsshness the man who has the dis
ttRcdon Of being religious preceptor
L. the richest man in the world pro
poses 10 follow up his first attack
which appears in a monthly magazine
by series Of articles 10 continue for
a wear or more in which he viii tell
other uncomfortable truths about the
failure OF the churches and the need
OF a decided change IL their spirit
and methods Il icy would avoid be-
ing completely wiped out by the AZ
tack Of dry rot from which they are
suffering.
Il didn't want to do IT," said DR..
Aked. when asked as TO his reasons
for attacking the methods OF existing
organizations tor religious work, and
thus laying himself open 10 the charge
Of Undertaking the churches. II
have been, more or less. a storm cen
ter ever since I entered the ministry.
and I had planned for quiet and rest
Besides IL occurred to me that 1t
might be felt that my Americanism
was OF too recent an origin 20 entitle
me 10 the role OF critic But-and the
gaze Of the famous Fifth avenue
preacher wandered out of his study
Wondow which overlOoks the green
cry and the glimmering lake Of Cen
trail Park from the top OF a big apart
nnent hotel-"but the word had 70 be
spoken, and the opportunity 10 speak
Il IN a way that would reach a host
OF thinking men and women through
out the country came 10 me, and so
am trying 10 perform the task that
seems 10 me absolutely necessary to
the salvation OF Christianity" lie
swept the air with "a wide gesture
indicating the extent of the field 10
be covered, and paused TO see If he
was understood
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WOMAN'S INFLUENCE WANING?

Who can claim a place beside Abi-
gail Adams, 70 whom has been attrib-
uted the honor of suggesting and urg-
ing the Declaration of independence
She was the worthy wife Of one PresI-
dent OF the United States aud the
mother OF another. Her letters 10 aer
husband and to her son R.le they
were on the other side OF the track
less ocean deserve TO be written in let
tiers or gold and handed down through
all coming generations as the embodi-
ment OF the highest and noblest prin-
ciples for the guidance Of men.
The immortal names OF Anne Fitz-
hOugh. Angelica Vrooman. Mary Hsg-
idorn, Anna Warner, Esther Reed.
Lydia Darrah, and many others OF
Revolutionary fame can never BE-
erased from the pages Of history.
Epoch succeeding epoch, has fur
nished the names Of American hero
ines who made a deep impress upon
the age IN which they lived and who
wrote their names on the rolls OF
fame beside the most iIlustrious men
Of our country
They AID not achieve impertshabis
names by idIeaess or dallying with
vices. They were up and doing, inces-
sanity striving for better things and
higher places than leadership IN fash
ionable society II never occurred TO
any maiden or matron Of the olden
time that the horse fairs and races
were places where they should appear
IN gorgeous costumes OF enter the lists
OF rivals for the favor OF men ad-
dicted 10 gaming or the turf.
They cast their influence on the side
Of morality and religion, and won
many laurels IN the higher realms OF
society.
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By MRS. JOHN 4. LOGAN.

~ ? HEN one hears many women
M IN polite society OF the
v v present day boasung OF
their winnings at cards, of
the hours they have spent over bridge
and other games. Of the cocktails and
champagne they are able 10 drink. of
their enjoyment Of vaudeville perform
ances, Of the money they have won
at the races. of the cigarettes they
have smoked. and OF their indulgence
in all sorts Of modern designations,
one naturally asks the question. Are
all women filing their proper mis-
sion IN the Norld7"
The chronicles OF fashionable society
are flied with the doings and the say
ings OF women % the pretentious class
that aresso frivolous ana silly that one
bushes % think that people born 10
nobler purposes should fall so far be-
low the possibilities Of their privi-
leges-
Wealth. education, and favorable op-
portunity have been the environments
OF some people all the days Of their
lives. and yet they have never dis
covered their proper exalted spheres,
They have never sought 20 learn their
true estate or the work God intended
them 10 do. They hush the chidings
Of conscience by subscribing 20 some
popular charity about which they
know OF care nothing
With the many workers in the fields
OF literature. philanthropy education.
religion and politics there are few
such names as Aspasla, Cornelia, Hor-
tensia, and others Of ancient Greece
and Rome.
We cannot. with all our boosted ad-
vancemeut. furnish names that meant
more for civilization, religion, moral
Ity, freedom, and the welfare OF so
ciety. than those OF the Pilgrim moth
ers-Phillis Wheatley and Hannah
Daston, the heroines Of colonial days
in the persons OF Mercy Warren. Mary
Washington, mother OF the Father Of
His Country, and many others.
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ministry generally agree with your
views?'
The facts speak for themselves.
Statistic gathered by DR.. Josiah
Strong show that the gain of the
churches In membership IN proportion
10 tie gain IN population IS steadily
and rapidly falling of In the past
twenty years IL is less than half " hat
IT was m the preceding twenty. The
trouble is that too much OF our re-
Hgion. both as tt is preached and as
o. Is pTaCtICed lacks lie. The attitude
of "a vast number OF persons toward
10 is like that of the New York bank
CT who said 10 a certain preacher at
the conclusion of his sermon. This SIS
the first time I ever knew that re-
Iigion had anything 90 do with living.
/ thought &c had 20 do only with dying
and going 10 hell "
But don't you think that many
churluman will disagree with you and
claim that you are attacking religion
itself2"
Very likely; differences of opinion
are certain To exist among living men,
il is only IN a cemetery that you viii
nnd unanimIty. All the evils of con-
troyersy are temporary ali its bene-
fts are permanent. This is one respect
in which religious thought In England
is In advance of America. They are
not afraid 70 discuss these subjects
over there"
How about the various schemes
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that have been adoUlqa to attract men
o. church. such as vaudeville con-
eerts. the serving OF temperance
drinks and similar means?'
They simply show how desperate
the situation has become I'm some
quarters But / don't believe that the
church can compete with the saloon
hy turning itself into a weak imita-
ton or with the theater by presenting
a poor theatrical attraction. Practi-
cal religion must concern itself with
the saloon, with politics, with ques-
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Minister Declares People Are
Indifferent, and Therein Lies
the Greatest Danger 10 the
ChuTCh-He Would Have a
More Practical Institution.

organized and conducts IT'S famous
Rihle class. At first glance one would
set down the Rev DR. Aked as a quiet,
studious individual a lover of books.
and thinker of thoughts, rather than
man of determined action. But
when he begins 10 speak the square
ness OF jaw reveals itself more prom
ineutiy; the firm lips curve away from
the weil-set teeth and the keen gray
eyes hold one with the tenslty OF their
expression.
AS he moves about the slender fig
uTe reveals the weu-knit proportions
OF the man Of athletic nabit There
Is a dynamic force behind tbs utter
ances that makes them strike ho.ue.
There is something Roosevelttau about
the set and action OF the Jaw as Il
cuts on the words. 1t is easy TO un-
de~5tand his casual mention. OF tie
fact that he has been a storm
center during lis pulpit career.
Though a preacher OF the gospel of
peace. Or. Aked is a man of siren
uous thought and with The courage OF
his convictions as is shown by his
ministerial record.
THE question OF the decreasing
iuFtilS eisil4p ana waning influence OF
rehgion-the churches-is not a de-
ncminational question: continued Or.
Aked- 1t is not a national question.
IL Is question as wide as Christianity
itself Conditions in America are,
broadly speaking, the same as in Eng
land, and in England as ia the rest
Of Europe. ] can sea the difference
in this country since / first visited
the United States. fifteen years ago.
The danger is not from direct attack
on religion. The denial Of belief, that
is. atheism. has spent its force. What
the churches have 70 fear is a more
insidiOus danger-indIhere nee. The
man In the street says 'the church is
back number He feels that he can
do without it. IF you ask him whether
he believes in God, I'm the existence
OF an infinite power superior 60 man
the chances are that he VII say yes
But questions Of dogma. distinctions
Of creed, do not interest him and he
refuses 10 concern himself about them
He has made up his mind that he can
get along without religion-that Is, re-
ligion as It has ueen expounded to
him. But that does not mean ueces-
sarlly that he is iTrclieious.
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Unsuitable Love for Work.

As d young man Christensen showed
an inclination toward study and a love
of knowledge 50 he was sent by his
people 60 an academy for young peas
ants. Later he became a teacher in
a popular country school and remained
there until work ia tile rigsdaE, to
which he had been elected, forced
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PEN Picture of DIR. Aked.

The pause gave an opportunity TO
study this man who has startled the
religious conservative out Of their
comfortable somuolence on more than
enc occasion since he came over from
En<land 10 take charge Of the Fifth
AveNIe BAPTIST ChurCh-the church
which is celebrated the country over
by reason II its Rockefeller Counec-
ti,a, through the fact that John ID.
is It's most prominent member and
sometimes PASSES the plate of "a sun
day morning, and that John D., IT..
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NOT AHERO.

A girl with a red parasol stopped a
train and saved a great many lives the
other day"
A man with big feet stopped a train
at a ball 1 attended the other night and
he nearly lost his life. Exchange.
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Stronger Here Than In England.

1t seems 60 me that this indiner-
euce is more pronounced in America
than I'm England, just as orthodoxy is
more strictly defined and more unyield-
ing over here. And where there is in
difference TO the church I can form
no other conclusion than that the
church itself is TO blame. Yet the need
Of religion never has been greater n
any age or country than In this coun-
try and in the day we live in. Churches
exist and preachers are maintained 10
remind men and nations OF the eternal
laws they must obey and the eternal
love in which they may rest. And IN
the United States they may yet be
needed as The mainstay of social or
der. Either the churches have got 10
live mp to the task of keeping the soul
of the nation alive or they viii per
ish"
.'Do you think that members of the
The Washington times., 1908-08-02

is every reason 20 believe that his an
cestors had lived on the same farm
in uninterrupted possession for cen
turtles. There are many farms Ike
this On Denmark. which owe their es-
cape from she clutches of the nobil-
ity 10 the fact that they are too bar
Ten and Qesolate to repay seizure. It
is from these fTeemen's farms, es-
peCiaIly in Jutland. that the Oppusi-
ton has secured its recruits.
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, R 10 HIN d.
r o G x Z + Z l.
LER to attack
the conduct Of
the oil business
or for John D.,
ST.. 10 eXpatiate
on Bible classes
would be hardly
more surprising
than for the
pastor OF the
ultra conserva-
tive Rockefeller
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DISINTERESTED.

How the little children enter into thu
spirit OF Arbor Day.
Why shouldn't they? They know
that the trees they plant viii not grow
switches until they are grown up anc
out Of the way OF danger. ''-EXch augs
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Wants Practical Religion.

Practical religion sums up the re-
'9rm which Dr. Aked would intrt duce
p the churches. In hts own experience
re- has been remarkably successful by
its application in attracting support
90 the churches with which he has
been connected bis first charges af-
ter he leIt University College al Not
JiHEham were two poverty stricken
in Lancashire, known as St.
Heien's and Leicestershire. The sue
The Washington times., 1908-08-02
THE REV. CHARLES F. AKED,
Pastor Of RockefelleT's Church.

tons Of better homes and better home
for the poor, bat the way 70
stl, ugthsH religion IS not by debasing
10
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August 2. 1905