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]" HERE is all too much truth in the
sarcasm that when the Puritan
fathers landed in our hemisphere
they fell on their knees, and then rose
up and fell on the aborigines. The mar
riage of Rolfe and Pocahontas was earn
est of the intellectually benign conse-
quences that would have issued from
numerous such marriages. 1t was that
splendid adventurer Vasco Nunez de Bal
boa, the first white navigator to see the
Pacific ocean, who forfeited his head
sooner than divorce his Indian wife. In
the treatment accorded the Indian by the
European, that of the French was the
most humane, and had the Spanish and
English been as gentle and as conciliat-
ing, the work of conquering the western
hemisphere by the Caucasian would have
been consummated with much more ease
and with infinitely less infamy
That brilliant genious and wonderfully
gifted man, John Randolph of Roanoke,
was boastful in the pride that he was
a descendant of Pocahontas, and many
of the F. F. VS. love to trace their line
back to that Indian princess. Where is
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7 T has remained for this Belgian, l
think, to formulate the sweetest, low
i INCEST concept of life. This concept
has been woven into book called wis
dom and Destiny" too little read, too
seldom displayed on book shelves. We
seem to have grown deaf to the modern
savers of large thoughts. We either mix
overmuch with the classics, or waste time
with words, books that stand for nothing
nor give leadings, promptngs to lessons
that matter at all. The group of real
priests, singers, poets that live today are
but half understood
Exploitation by printers of earnest work
is naturally a speculative venture. and
as a result we have been deluged with
an entirely salable surface literature we
are MacGrathed, Elinorglynned, Corei-
lied into barren wastes Of words-done 10
death by quite impossible clowns who ca
fer sorry caricatures, travesties OF real
life. Better for us the Madame Bova-
rvp OF Flaubert, the "Kreutzer SON.
alta" of Tolstoi real though hideous. than
that we should mix with this motley
surface-people of the books. There is
more sane teaching in that picture OF lb-
sen. Ghosts" framed though 1t be IN
creme than in IL or 20 of the newest pop
,lar novels that you spend good money
for.
But one needs to laugh-to divert one
self, Ell? Truly. but let those clowns De
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was a second mother-rongue to him."
writes Cornelius Weygandt in the Book
News Later followed 1.-The Intruder"
and THE Blind" both tragedies in which
death is all-dominant These were fol-
lowed in quick succession by "Ardiane
and Barbe Bleue," modern version of
the Bluebeard story; SISTER Beatrice"
and the death of Tintagiles," in which
his beautiful actress-wife, Georgette Lee
blanc, has appeared in the title roles.
But 1t is through his "Essays' we
Americans best know Maeterlinck, six
volumes having been translated into
English by Richard Hovey and Alfred
Sutro. He has been variousy called
mystic, pessimist symbolist prophet.
iconoclast, poet, moralist, agnostic-and
no doubt these approximate, in a fash
ion, what the man stands for and Is. In
so far as words can interpret ones inmost
thought and self we seem to under
stand Maeterlinck He is an inquirer,
an examiner, a lover of life. Nothing
is contemplate in this world save only
scorn" he writes and for the wicked he
has the same love as for the saint.
Nothing that exists Is without wonder
for him, because of its existence. and of
the mysterious force in and back of it
all, and to him love and wisdom are in
separable. Joining hands in a circle of
light
The materialist who calmly defines the
soul as 1.-The developed consciousness"
or the intellect plus the emotions" has
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J. CARTER OF OKLAHOMA-By Savoyard

ridge, John Young Brown and James A.
Mckenzie, each and all of whom had
lung room OF the orator, each and all
of whom we're born for the forum, each
and all of whom were orators compelling
and persuasive. l fancy Pericles had
that glorious rotundity of bust that was
possessed by all three of the men 1
have named. But this Indian congress-
man Carter has a more magnificent chest
than any one of the Kentucixians l men
toned and had he been born the son
of some Kentucky Breckenridge or Brown
or Mckenzie and bred to the forum, l
am persuaded he would have surpassed
all three of the great orators 1 have
named-the dulcet Breckenridge the tor
rental Brown, the tunefui Mckenzie.
This Indian Carter is no carpet knight
in the melee of parliamentary controversy.
He has shining lance and a savage ak.
His speech on the bill entitled an act re
moving restrictions from certain lands in
Oklahoma delivered March IA. 1908, is.
all things considered, a wonderful produc-
ton. I wish every American. pure Anglo
Saxon, would read It. A sedate man like
James b. Beck or Isham G.. Harris, or a
brilliant man like w. c. F. Breckenridge,
or George G. Vest might have been proud
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haps, yet tells them what seems true to
him.
In Maeterlinck we find that rare COM
bination of altruist and sceptic-Adhem-
ism, let us say, that makes for vigorous
llfe-earthly we'll being-loving kindness
for earths highest and lowest. Truly
they who know" he says, still know
nothing If the strength of love be not
theirs; for the true sage is not he who
sees, but he who. seeing the furthest,
has the deepest love for mankind. He
who sees without loving is only straining
his eyes in the darkness. And again,
ut Is we'll to believe that there needs
but little more thought. a little more
courage, more love, more devotion to life
a little more eagerness, one day to fling
open wide the portals of joy and truth
And this thing may still come to pass.
Let us hope that one day all mankind
will be happy and wise; and though this
day should never dawn. to have hoped
for 1t cannot be wrong
We are told that the bulk of his writ
ing was done at Passy. France, Out
DOORS in that fair garden of flowers
close to the earth that he loves.
After all, whatever opposition Maeter-
linck may encounter from groups OF men
as to belief, religious, irreligious. or
what not, it is encouraging to discover
that these differences are in a large sense
artificial. The same men who bicker and
clash around. hearths, in offices studies,
Indoors, grow to common thought Out
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HEART TO HEART TALKS-By Edwin A. Nye

he degenerates, not only in body but
what must inevitably follow-in mind and
morals.
England's history affords a warning
to the United States, where, especially
during the last quarter of a century, the
drift to the cities has become a strong
current
The best thing that could happen to our
nation Is a popular migration to the
country districts, where open spaces,
fresh air, sunlight, pure food and quietude
viii renew the vitality of the people.
child is punished by a parent for a
fault, the parent should be punished in
stead of the child
So declares an eminent authority.
The statement may be somewhat over
drawn for the sake of emphasis, but
there is much truth In it.
Seldom does the parent in Furnishing
the child stop to consider whether the
child is inherently naughty or whether
II has done something that might have
been prevented by a little care or fore
sight on the part of the parent.
For instance
Much misbehavior on the part of the
child Is the natural result of its lack of
occupation.
The child, like nature. abhors a vacuum.
The boy or girl bursting with vitality
simply cannot endure a state of idleness.
There must be something doing. 1t is
useless to command a growing child
after the manner of some
Keep your feet STILL
Don't fidget so much
Don't make so much noise"
A normal child cannot keep still. It
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-HE Staying Of Elsie sigel, city mis-
sionary in New York, by China
i man has filled the newspapers with
i+s horrid details during the last month";
The moral generally drawn from the
deplorable tragedy was that young girls
should not be permitted to come in per-
sonal contact with individual Cinnamon
in the effort to "Christianize" the for
eigners.
Which is true.
The influence of the average Oriental
over the average girl is stronger than
her influence over him.
Poor Elsie Sigel!
The mother did not understand into
what peril she put her flesh and blood
when she allowed her daughter to go
into the slums day and night and I'M
attended.
The sincerity of the mothers belief in
Elsie's mission is small comfort now
that she appreciates her neglect of the
girl
The warning comes to all mothers.
There are perils to innocent girls other
than 1.-The yellow peril"
1t is not from foreigners alone that
daughters need to be protected. There
are men of every nationality who do not
scruple to take advantage of unprotected
womanhood. They do more than kill the
body and put 1t into trunk. They kill
the soul.
Mothers cannot be too careful in
shielding their daughters from ravening
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little sympathy with Maeterlinck's ref
erences to 1t as the seat of something
mighty, inexhaustible. So, too, may the
dogmatic postivist be veKed at his say
ing that God, who must be at least as
high as the highest thoughts He has I'M
planted in the best of men, will with
hold His smile from those whose sole
desire has been to please Him. and they
only who have done good for the sake
of good, and as though He existed not;
they only who have loved virtue more
than they loved God Himself, shall be
allowed to stand by His side"
OF SELF-LOVE.
you are told you should love your
neighbor as yourself; but If you love
yourself meanly, childishly, tmidly, even
SO shall you love your nelghbor. Learn
therefore to love yourself with a love that
is wise and healthy, that is large and
complete
OF SALVATION.
1.-THE soul can never be happy If it pos
sesses not, and love not, something that
is pure. 1t may perhaps err in its choice,
but then even will 1t be happier than the
soul to which It has never been given
to choose And thus we are truly saw
ing a man II we bring 1t about that he
loves evil somewhat less than he loved 1t
before; for we are helping that man con-
struct, deep down in his SOUL the refuge
where against destiny shall brandish her
weapons In vain"
OF GOOD DEEDS.
'If there be In my life no noble or gen.
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her slavish obedience to modes and con-
ventionality.
And many a poor girl, noting how the
gracefully gowned are applauded, comes
to believe that Dress instead of charac-
ter, is the supreme thing in social life.
She adopts the motto: Get beautiful
things Get them honestly If you can,
but get Them
And so-ruin.
The great trouble is in excess. So
many women of certain type seem to
consider that life is a sort of dress pa
rade-for exhibition purposes.
Glorious is that woman who has learned
to esteem the rich graces of sweet wo-
manhood above the tinsel of Worth
gown.
Wise is she who dresses neatly and
as richly as she can well afford but who
cares more for the things of the mind
and heart than for the things of the
body.
England is teaching the nations by
horrid example that they cannot afford
to neglect the physical welfare of their
people
In 1850 the lowest standard for British
infantry was feet inches. During the
Boer war, In order to fill up the ranks,
1t was further lowered to feet.
Which tells a sad story for physical
decline.
Or to put it in another way: During
the Boer war 80 per cent of the Eng
lish troops fell below the minimum stand
ard of chest measurement and rs per cent
of them fell below the minimum weight
required.
Put in terms of everyday speech, that
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meeting Mr. Earle prayed: 20, Lord!
bless Brother Pratt, pastor pro tenn; that
is, Lord, for the time being Brother
Pratt, who told this story with great
glee. insisted that Earle thought the
Lord did not known Latin!'
My excellent friend and brother, the late
John William Jones. was once SO untor-
tunate as to shock the editor of the
Christian Inquirer, who seems much given
to making shocking discoveries whenever
he turns his eyes southwark. Brother
Jones had very fine lecture on stone
wall jackson, the Christian Soldier" and
this lecture he delivered in Waynesboro,
Va In dismissing the audience he thought
proper to pronounce the following bene-
diction: May the God of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob, the God of our fathers, the
God of Robert E. Lee and of stonewall
Jackson, the God and Father of his peo-
pies In all ages-the grace of our Lord
Jesus Christ, and the fellowship and conf
munlon of the Holy Spirit, abide with
us and all the Israel of God forever.
Amen"
Upon this benediction or rather upon a
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on hypnotism, which was criticized py
local Christian Scientist, she made the
erroneous charge that a hypnotized sub
ject was in an abnormal state. On the
contrary they are In the most natural
state imaginable, for there Is nothing
supernatural Or artificial about suggestion
Hypnotism is an exact science that any
one Of ordinary intelligence can easily and
quickly learn.
The trance of a hypnotized subject is
induced by the applied influence of the
subjects mind over the material matter
of the subjects body. The suggestion of
the hypnotizer merely shows the subject
how to enter the hypnotic trance. This
so-called phenomena is produced by sug-
gestions that the subject can accept or
reject as he sees fit, for it Is impossible
to hypnotic any one against that per-
sons will.
The Christian Science hypnotizer gives
a very potent suggestion to a sick per-
son. This powerful suggestion is always
given: BE still and know that l am
God" When a sick person sends for a
Christian Science doctor" that person
has the necessary faith and confidence
that the doctor can accomplish cure.
The doctor arrives. and through power
full hypnotic suggestion puts the sub
ject in a hypnotic trance and by means
of suggestion alone either cures or fails
to cure the patient. They make as good
a showing as any hypnotist as they aver
age about 80 per cent of the number of
cases they treat. When they make
cure they give Christian Science the
credit, and when they fail they say
that the subject had not sufficient faith
Christian Scientists and Christians gen.
orally refuse to admit that the same re-
49, ina hVrn th n re-
of the worlds peoples who never heard
of Christ The greatest number of cures
that have been accomplished are found
in the historical records of Mecca, the
Holy Shrine of the Mohammedans.
Mecca 10 the birthplace of Mohammed
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in her desire to be beautifully clad she
is carrying out her natural longing for
adornment.
A woman who Is sloven Is an abomt-
nation in the sight of gods and men.
But
To be beautiful it Is not necessary to
be ultra fashionable or extravagant.
Some Of the modern fashions are hid
eously effective in their Disagreement
of natural beauty.
And It Is a mistake to suppose that
men, for instance, are attracted by the
extreme display of modern styles. 1 not
ed the other day in a fashionable hotel
the appearance Of young woman who
was very simply though very neatly
dressed, in quiet contrast with the elab-
crate toilet of swell dressers And 1
noted approval in the eyes of the men.
In personal appearance, as in other
things, excess Is sin.
Fashion ruins its thousands and ex-
travagance It's tens of thousands
Undue fondness for costly garments on
the part of the wife has sent many a
good man down the moral toboggan
slide The husband has compromised
himself by vainly trying to cater to the
fashionable caprices of wife or daugh-
ters.
Benedict Arnold ruined himself and
nearly ruined his country for the sake
of the family wardrobe.
And since and before Arnolds day
other men have betrayed trust from
similar cause.
Fashion and desire for establishment
have ruined women victims as we'll.
The extreme devotee kills herself by
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must fidget If there is nothing else to
do. 1t must make a noise. Its vitality
boilers must have a safety valve. Its
cup is full of life; If more is poured in
the cup must run over
Now
If you, the childs parent, do not pro-
vide work or play or something to oc-
cupy its mind and body, the outcome will
be restlessness, ndgets. noise and, If OPP
portunlty Is afforded, mischief or wrong
doing.
The trouble with most of us as parents
is that we forget what We were once
like; we cannot put ourselves in the
child's place.
1t is easy for us to sit still for length
of time. We have our "reminiscences.
But the child has no past history to
speak Of 1t is governed by impulses.
Besides
We have learned how to exercise the
power of the mind over the body. Years
of self-contro1 have disciplined the body
to the service of the mind.
The child has not this power If any
thing its body is stronger than its mind.
The physical dominates the intellectual
and the result is: Caprices.
OF course, 1t is not always an easy task
to provide occupation for a child, but 1t
pays. Either the parent or the child
must direct. If the parent neglects to
do So the child will choose for itself.
and to its peril.
Do not punish your child for doing
something that you might have pre-
vented had you done your duty.
In such case, instead of whipping the
child whip yourself with the lash of re-
morse.
You are guilty. not the child.
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the American of today, with one spark
: of the pride of ancestry, who would not
be proud to know that he had Tecumseh
for ancestor? What a hero he was,
and the tradition that he slew that hero
in forefront of bloody battle made Rich
ard M. Johnson vice president of the
United States.
This is the age of commerce. Nothing
goes but money. Success is measured
by the &C cumulations of the citizen. Har-
riman, Morgan, Rockefeller and that illx
are the correspondents of all the all too
powerful and insolent barons, like War
wick in England and Burgundy in France
when a good lance was the stead of
what a sound dollar is now. The captain
of industry has usurped the place of the
captain of battle. The soldier has ceased
to be the primate The millionaire is the
aristocrat. In time he too will be sup
planted by the intellectual man. and he,
in turn, will give place to the good man,
but that will not be till this wicked world
we live in is civilized-possibly some 20
centuries hence.
But the Indian can hold up his end of
the log even in this race for money.
There is Lon G. Hill, Choctaw, who
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wolves who masquerade in Sleeps cloth
ing.
Because
The girl does not know. She simply
feels that life is good. The attraction
of sex is strong upon her. And in the
hands of designing men she may be al
most helpless.
Therefore the need of the mother
watchfulness and care-even from baby
hood to marriage. The mother knows.
Difficult, sometimes?
Certainly. 1t is one of the problems
of motherhood, the first principle of
which is this: Keep. by every means
in your power, the close confidence of
your girl child.
Mothers, you must know where your
daughters go and with whom they are
friendly.
You must know the character of their
associates and surroundings.
Especially must you know where your
daughter spends her evenings.
You must know that she receives all
her male friends at home and not by
appointment at some street corner. You
must know that when she starts for a
church social her escort will not take her
to a public dance hail.
You must know all these things and
more-because you are mothers.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever.
There may be prettier worlds than this
in which we live. However that may be,
certainly the great artist has dressed
this one in such robes of beauty as to
make it constant joy.
Woman instinctively loves beauty, ana
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mutilated recession of it, the editor of
the Christian Inquirer bestowed pretty
tart malediction. He thought-yery cor
recetly. indeed-"that Rev Jones must be
a character" He certainly was. and one
of the very highest and purest that this
scribe has ever intimately known.
1t is not my purpose here to defend
John William Jones. Nobody who knew
him Is at all likely to suspect that he
needs any defense at my hands. But, DR..
Samuel Johnson has immortalized Fanny
Burney MADAME d. Arblay) as his lit
tie character monger" and, as the editor
of the Christian Inquirer displays some
natural taste in the same direction, it has
occurred to me that it might be pleas
ing TO him to meet with a few more
characters which probably have thus
far escaped his notice.
During my pastorate in New Bedford,
Mass, the Taunton Baptist association
held one of its meetings with my church.
The reverend gentlemen who preached
the Introductory sermon told us In that
sermon that for noble self-sacrihce and
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bless those middle-aged females of the
congregation whose youthful hopes have
been blighted''
The chaplain of the United States SEN
ate opened one of the sessions of the
woman's rights convention with prayer.
In one of his petitions he spoke of woman
as formed from the rib of man. After
the conclusion of the reverend gentle
mans prayer Mrs. Lucretia Mott an
nounced that at this petition she held up
her right hand, because she could not aS-
nit any such inequality on the part of
her sex
Dr. Bushnell, in a public prayer, prayed
that the Lord would deliver us from
all the nonsense of sin"
After R. w. Emerson had delivered. at
a college commencement, an address
which threw Orthodoxy to the Winds
an old orthodox preacher closed the ex-
ercises with a prayer in which he asked
that 1.-THE good Lord would deliver us
from ever hearing any such nonsense
again" Emerson asked a gentleman:
'Who Is the reverend gentleman who
closed with prayer" MIR. Hopkins, pas
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and is the holy city of the Mohamme-
dan world.
1t Is situated in a narrow valley sur
rounded by low black hills. By simply
obeying the sacred rites of the sick,
blind and crippled pilgrims are healed.
Countless thousands of miraculous cures
have been accomplished at this shrine.
The most important OF the sacred rites
is to walk seven times around the Kaaba,
q large cube-like structure, said to have
been built by Abraham Its four sides
are covered with black silk, which is
renewed every year at the time of the
Hail annual plgrimage). This silk is
called the "holy carpet" and is sent
every year from Cairo. and Is carried
with much pomp and ceremony from Jed
da to the Holy City. Several OPEN
ings are made through this holy car
pet In order to show two sacred stones.
The black stone, situated at one of the
angles. is an object of special venera-
ton. Here sick pilgrims pray and In
shirt enter into communication with
Mohammed himself 1t Is wonderful. but
true. that 60 per cent OF the sick VINO
pray before this holy stone are cured.
The most powerful and potent illustra-
ton of the wonderful influence that nina
has over matter. HoW eiso "ouiu
Christian Scientist explain this phenom-
enon? Would they give Mohammed credit
for the cure the same as they would
give Christ the credit had the cure been
accomplished through the practice or
Christian Science? Such marvellous and
numerous cures can only be accomplished
by the most powerful suggestion. In THIS
case the suggestion is objective. me
Kaaba stands in the center of a mosque
(church) which enclosure seats IS 600 peo-
pie. Before entering the mosque Pill
grim must lin order to follow out ana
strictly observe the rites of the pligrim-
age) run seven times between the Two
mountains, Safa and Merwa Another
rite is to stand in prayer and listen 10