New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-10-23
cHAL0NER RAPS At SHAW
Resents in Sonnets Dramatlst's
Comment on Shakespeare.
EXPOUNDS IDEAS OF HE'LL
Gained Them When Studying the
Scriptures in the Bloom
ingdale Asylum.

Charlottesville Va. oct 22-John ARM
strong Chaloner's ideas OF hell ana the
value OF the Scriptures and his criticism %
George Bernard Shaw in sonnets were IN
teresting features Of ire week in bearings
being held here Under the title 'Scorplo
Chaloner wrote forty-seven sonnets OF
satirical turn two Of which raped the
English dramatist bitterly for commenting
on Shakespeare's ability.
Chaloner Is a great admirer Of Shake
snearc, and particularly of the play "As
You Like It." He said he was disguised
and shocked at reading an interview with
George Bernard Shaw. of London, in which
Shaw said.
Not as has been enormously stated that
7 could write a better play than AS You
Like It," hut that actually have written
better ones, and in fact never wrote az
thing and never intend TO write anything
half so bad.
ChaIoner said that Shaw also asserted
that Shakespeare's weakness lies in his
complete deficiency in that highest sphere
of thought In which poetry embraces re-
ligion. philosophy. morality and the bear
ing Of these on communities. which is so
GEOLOGY; that his characters have no re-
ligion, no politics. no conscience, no hope
and no convictions of any sort"
Calls II Literary sacriIeee.
Chaloner said that he felt that II was
time that such literary sscrilege should -
called down. and wrote two sonnets against
Shaw. one called "A Bogus Bashaw Of Let
ters" and the other "Fluellens Curse" In
the first Of these he thus holds M Shaw 10
ridcue for attacking Shakespeare;
That Irish blatherskite. rude Bernard
Shaw. whose ruffan Pen dread Shakespeare
dared attack.
In the second sonnet he makes CAPTAIN
Tluelen attack Shaw as the maligner Of
his Creator In language characteristic Of
that fiery character who was the man in
the play King Henry W. that made an
Gent Pistol eat the leek.
Chsloner's ideas of hell and the Script
ures, he said, wero gained from four years
study when In Bloominsdale. His views he
VIII publish in a book, The Impotence of
Omnirotence.' He said:
There arc no material discrepancies in the
Scriptures, and what few there are are nor
strong enough 10 shake the faith of an
intelligent mind. Sin IS of an ex-chemical
compound. allied to poison of a certain
hlhh, when requires nre 10 purify thence
purgatory and hell
Hell is scientific receptacle for immor-
tai, non-pershable essences OF a deadly
nature. As all men are immortal, they go
TO the place of departed spirits and are
there put through chemical process by
which the moral hydrophohia or sin con-
tracted In this world is cauterized out OF
them by fre and other febrfuges If these
spirits don want to live; IL they are FUN
damentally lazy and would rather die than
work &c purify their souls, then a genor-
Gus God says "Die!'
Damnation is a scientific process-the
elimination of all mental qualities from fh.
lie essence. God cannot destroy the es-
sence of a mortal soul. A man can lose
his soul II he elects after death 10 he
damned, but he cannot lose his being HIS
essence Is immortal All mental otIalities
are stripped from the life essence of q souI
II II elects after death to be annihilatod
Inc essence OF all life is heat fire flame
ana the life essence of a person, after he.
ing stripped OF all mentality, is thrown into
me receptacle for evil spirits-a lake of fire
mus FIRE meets fire. Fire lives with fire
forever and without Pain, and the horror ~