The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-09-04
RABBI Levy HEARD
BY BIG AUDIENCE
He and the Rev. Cathell
Proved Big Attractions
for the Chautauqua.

I'VE will make money" said a Chau-
tauqua official yesterday in reply to
question as to the financial outcome
OF this years Chautauqua, although
the assurance that the expenses would
be covered has been made a day or
so earlier.
"The gate receipts" went on the Of
fetal, "were greater this year than ev-
er before and the daily attendance
larger. Before this more season tick
cts had been sold, in proportion, than
single ones, but the balance was on
the other side this year. While the
talant for this ChautauQua was higher
priced, because we had the very best
in the field, the receipts were also in
creased and we are therefore in a
gratifying position financially.
THE advance sale of season tickets
for next year compares most favora-
bly, with that of formerly when we
took subscriptions from the audience,
the patrons coming up to headquar-
tiers tent as requested the other day
from the platform and We regard this
tons of the interest that will be TAX
en- next year, since no undue solicita-
tons was made.
"One of the successes of the pro-
gram was also due to the platform
manager. the policy of the Chautau-
qua this year to get an official of this
character from out of town, having
been attended with successful results,
since he 'whoops things up without
any previous local affiliations. Alto
gether we are more than well pleas
ed with the outcome of this years
Chautauqua."
Optimism was the note of yester-
days session, the three addresses
made having for their underlying mo-
tives the social progress of the race.
DR.. Dent Atkinson whose sermon in
the morning had for its subject, THE
Bible in Civilization" made an elo-
quent appeal for a belief in the BIZ
BILE as the source of all wisdom, in
tellectual as well as moral, and to
sustain his contention, quoted from
the greatest English and American
writer's to show that in the final analy'
sis of their work, the philosophy and
teachings of the one greatest book in
the world was woven into the fabric OF
their literary product and that the
apogee of their artistic expression
could only be interpreted as a be.
lief in immortality.
That DR.. Atkinson is a devotee OF
the older and more conservative
school of religious thought was evil
dent, nothing in his address being in.
dicative of the more advanced type
of modern research, DR.. Atkinson be-
ing what is termed thoroughly ortho.
dox.
An audience of fifty thousand people
listened to the address OF Rabbi Leon
ard Levy, of Pittsburg, yesterday af
ternoon on Yesterday, Today and To
morrow" Rabbi Levy being a speaker
of compelling personality and splendid
platform presence and holding his au
dience magnetically.
Progress never moves in a straight
Sdlu Levy. 6lCoo 10 q
zigzag," and with this introduction be-
gan a comparison of present condi
tons with those of the past and the
possible ones of the future.
Rabbi Levy has little patience with
that pessimistic philosophy which
looks upon human activities as mere
oscillation from one extreme to anoth
er, with no final upward movement.
ut would be almost hopeless" said
the speaker, ito anticipate a tomor.
row If we believe that man could only
reach a certain degree of progress and
then be hurled back
DR.. Levy, who was chaplain in reg
iment in the Spanish American war
and who is one of the great opponents
of universal peace and arbitration in
this country. referred at some length
to this phase of the status of nations
reiterated his conviction that the rec
ognition OF human brotherhood would