Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-10-27
I. YSEYES' DISCUSSED FROM
PULPIT BY DR.. DOREMUS SCU.DDER

the address delivered hast night by DR.
DoremRs Scudder at the Central Union
church, Taking as his text Luke %:
g, Do tkcu, waab once thou hast
turned again establish thy Brethren
DR.. Scudder tcck ap Henry Sydnor
Harrsson's latest ADDITION 10 literature,
speaking az follows
!, - -Uah vi Iieaon whisa Cues 40,
strike the social chord fails 10 reach
the heart of today. It may move your
heart as Their Yesterdays or The 70
sary' or THE. Glory Of, the Conquered
or as any one of a handreds more have
done bit not tAa social scul center
For a century the great noFelists have
Of Israel Nicholas EiCkleby, LttlG
DorTit, Alton Locke, Looking Back
ward and their silent comrades were
mightier utteraHces for their time than
Isaiah's inspired eloquence. They
swept away abuses, fixed the minds of
men upon great evils, mCbilized ar
mics Of devoted spirits to eeaspire for
q new social era. Isaiah never did
that. His prominence lay in being
the great atomic prophet to inspire
the lesser tine-prophets OF every sub
sequent age, d creator Of souls that
see moulder of dynamic refoTmers.
A written message has the 2dvan-i
tage Of a spoken word that You cannot
get the Beftef%.of it By identifying il
with its author and suppTessiIg him
1t is q more impersonal thing II pe-
fuses to be misrepresented. You can
not accuse 1t OF saying the opposite OF
what Il does say and oFerawe It's de-
NAL By shaking stenographer's notes
in Its face. Newspapers even cannot
down it though theY MY figat II into
nationwide popularity. Hshee the
great social novels Of the nineteenth
and twentieth century have been cre-
|ating a new earth. Where in Merrie
England today will you find debtors
prison or a Squeers running Dotte-
boys Hall or the unspeakahle condi-
lions that Parson Lot exposed? Gone
forever!
Attacks Factory Conditions
THE book we consider thiE evening
Henry Sydnor HarTisons y VS.
Eyes" is on its face prominently e
social novel. Its text Is Bad factory
conditions must go. Il does not touch
the sphere Of organized religion. the
theme of The Inside Of the Cup, nor
does it rebuke so many social crimes.
Manipulation Of public franchises for
private gain, wages that pander to
prostitution, department store evils,
lcomplicity of the respectable in COM
merciaIized vice, all are squarely hit
| In Mr. Churchill's book While v, VS.
Eyes concentrates its venom upon fac
tory conditions that sap the health Of
young girls, drive naidens to the
street, main and kill Gods children
and pay starsation geg al to ere
ate a leisure sFass that are as hide5us
a caricatpre Of manhood and woman
hood as The wretche3 anorted cFeat req
lexplpited ia the making OF these pg-a-
pered human apologies. Ehe terrible
waste of our factory system which at
both the so-called upper and lower So
| cial levels tsrns cut ruined lives,
white too often II rcbs The world Of a
| twentieth century Christ, like DR.. ".
Vivian, is the tragic picture of this
vivid Etcry. Some emotional souls
would have Y. < i've and mary Cars
! Isle Heth but that would be TO cheat
| the Monster, alias The SysteR four
present-day Industrial SYSTEM soff ssits
Legitimate prep For ia actual e8per
rsenee Jesus is c-lleifiesi, Y. Y. is muir
dered BY the System Only thus viii
the System ever be swept. from thu
earth
Here We touch aP11 tie secret Of
the power Of this story. II has no
message. CT comugnity salvation by
community action It sounds no plea
for Socialism or any ether like pana-
cea. Il presents no plan OF labor
unioaisn, of compulsory arbitration,
of profit-sharing propaganda. OF pre-
gressiye legislation. It goes back two
thousand years to Galiiee and finds
the solution CT social Ills in the power
of personality Here it striEingIy
Joins hands with Mr.. Holder in "The
Inside OF the Cup. Alison Parr ex-
claims to her lover. 30 you remerl-
Der saying to me once that faith
comes to US in some human form We
love? You are ny faitE. And fstth
in you is ny faith in humanity, Rna;
faith IN Cod That is tie erowniag
message Of Mr.. Chwchtll's book. But