The sun., 1916-08-31

regrets his former and bias
phemy and ascribes the alteration
to the insidious temptings of the de-
mon. 1t seems that in those troubled
days the cities II countryside were
Infested by madmen mcssiahs. redeem
ers. preaching the speedy destruc-
ton Of the world. For "a period Jesus
called himself a son of God and threat
encd his fellow men with fire and
the sword.
Till he was five and fifty years Jesus
lived with his focks. The idyilic pic
lures are In Mr.. Moore's most charm
ing vein; sober. as BELTS the dignity Of
the theme. lie has fashioned an undu-
lating prose. each paragraph a page
long. which flows with some of the
clarity and music of "A style once de-
rided by him. the style COulhnt Of that
master Of harmonies Cardinal New
man. He Is a great landscape painter.
Jesus Is aging. He gives up his
shepherds crook to his successor and
contemplates a retreat where he may
mediate the thrilling events of his
youth. Then Paul OF Tarsus inter
venes. He is vigorously painted. A
refugee from Jerusalem. with Timothy
lost somewhere in Galilee. he invades
the Essenian monastery. Eloquent
pages follow. Paul relates his adven-
lures under the banner Of Jesus
Christ. a disputatious man, fun of
the Lord. yet not making il any easier
for his disciples. Yon catch a glimpse
OF Pauline Christianity. differing from
the tender message Of Jesus. that
Jesus of whom Havelock Ellis wrote.
Jesus found no successor. Owe the
stage OF those gracious and radiant
scenes swiftly fell a tircproof curtain.
wrought OF systematic theology and
formal metaphysics, which even the
divine flames OF that wonderful per-
sonality were unable to melt"
II this be the case then Paul MAS.
II not the founder. the foster father
Of the new creed. A seer Of c%pilcptic
vis!ons-Edgar Saltus has said Of the
sacred disease that all founders ot
religions have been epileptics-Paui.
with the intractable temperament Of
a stubborn Pharisee. was softened hY
some Greek blood, yet as Itenan wrote
OF .Amicl: HE speaks W sin, Of saliva
ton. ~ redemption and conversion as
II these things We're realities For
Paul and those who followed him they
were and are realities; from them Is
spun the web of modern civilization.
The disniay Of Paul ON learning from
the lips Of Jesus that he II was who,
crucifed. came back To life may hc
fancy. The sturdy Apostle. " no recalled
the reproachful words of Jesus issuing
from the binding light on the road
To Damascus: paul. Paul. why per
secutest thou me- naturally enough
denounced Jesus as a madman. hut
accepted his services as a cuide to
Caesarea, where, in company with Tim
oihy. he hoped to cmbarl, for Rome.
there TO spread the glad tidings. there
TO preach the gospel of Christ and
Him Crucified.
OR the way he cautiously extracts
from Jesus. whose memory Of his cruel
tormentors IL hating. parts OF his
story. lie believes him a hair crazy
, fanatic. deluded with the notion that
he is the original Jesus Of Nazareth.
Jesus gently cXpouuds his theories,
though George Moore pulls the wires.
\ pdnthc.sm that ends in Nirvana.
Meant, NADIA, Nothing Despairing Of
ever forcing the world To- see the light.
he is become "A Cuietist. almost "a Bud
dh!st. He might have quoted the my
to Joachim Flora Of the Third
k!ngdom-who said that the true as
celtic counts nothing his own save
only his harp. '"Qui we're monachus
t-t nih.l reputat esse SUM nis. citha.
iam.) Whom . mans cross becomes
toe" heavy a blrden To carry then Ut
him cast it away. Jesus east his cross
away-his spiritual amhitiou-b,-
!.eving that too great love ot Tod leads
to propagation of the belief. then To
hatred and persecution of them tina,
won't believe.
The Jews, says Jesus, are an In
tolerant, stiff necked people; they love
God, yet they hate men. liorritied at
al this Paul parts company with TIE
son of Man secretly relieved to hear
that he is not going. as he had CON
tsmplltod, To g!yv himself up t.
Hanan. the N.gh Priest N J.rusal,m.
to denounCe tn" falscu"ss Of the herct-
iral sect named after nm Faiil, with
ont Crcditing Tn" story. saw in Jesus a
d~aneerous rival, The last We hear ~
the G.Ninc shepherd il a rumQr that
n" may Join a rowing band of East
Indians and 30 to III" source of a..
luiicis, to Asia, impu.o, mysterious
.A.,ia.. the IN I'her ut mNstio cults. iHJ'
too disappears. anl on the little
coda. The rest Of h. story Is uu-
known" We are iain to believe tina,
the rest of his story" is very We
known in the wide world. The book is
another milestone along Mr., Moore !
road To Damascus. VIII he ever again