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New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
The Church of the New Democ-
Tdcy.
The Peoples Church.
The Free Fellowship.

A MOTHER ecclesiastical move
ment of which something may
be heard later was launched at the
meeting of the Episcopal Church
Congress, recently held in Synod
Hall, to discontinue the lessons from
the Old Testament, which form part
of the liturgy at present, or to at
least make the selection of the les
son optional with the officiating
clergyman. Action of this kind, of
course, can be taken only by the
General Convention of the Church,
since it would require an amendment
to the Book of Common Prayer.
The Rev. Wilbur l.. Caswell, rec
tor of St. Thomas's Church, Mamar-
oneck, who is opposed to Old Testa-
ment lessons, cited the question put
to him by little girl in his own
Sunday school:
"Why do you make us learn all
about Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and
then tell us that they were not good
Christians and that their God was not
like our God?"
us there not q real danger" Mr..
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

went onto the water. Soon it came up
to our knees, to our waists.
Hurry shouted the old man at
the tiller NO time to sparer
Just a minute MORE l answered,
only one minute!'
THAT minute seemed like a year
the sail of the boat was shaking in
the wind When it filled she must
move away. We waded on and I
grasped the gunwale of the boat. I
lifted the child in and helped my wife
to climb over the side They clung
to me. The little vessel began to move
gently away.
"'Get in cried the old man sharply;
get in quick
"But l felt that could not, I dared
not. let go of the boat cried
'Goodby' and turned to wade ashore
81 was compelled to go back to the
doomed city. / must know what would
come of the parting of Man with God!
"The tide was running cut more
swiftly. The water swirled around
my knees. I awoke
But the dream remained with me
just as I have told it to you"
@ Charles Scribner's Sons.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Brutal Baseball

OUR national pastime is consid-
cred brutal by the French. No
less celebrity than Christy Mathew
son is authority for this statement.
as quoted in Outing" He says:
Baseball will never be popular
game in France, I'm afraid. The
French think it brutal. There we're
plenty of games between American
doughboys and French poilus, but the
schedules never lasted long. because
you couldn't get Frenchman to act as
catcher.
"Out in the street one day some Of
our men were playing a game. The
pitcher, on one sidewalk, was shooting
them over pretty hard at the catcher,
on the other sidewalk. Trafic was
blocked in few minutes. Mono of the
French would walk behind the catcher.
They were deathly afraid he would
miss the ball. 1t looked faster than 4
bullet to them"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Is the Church Turning Away From Creeds

gregation in the Church of the Mes
siah to adopt new statement of
purposes, from which mention Of
Christ and Christianity is omitted.
DR.. Holmes is quoted in The Trib-
une as saying:
"a spirit of progress is awakening
in all religions, although it has not
yet manifested itself in most churches.
! We believe the day of denominational-
ism is gone. ! myself am Christian,
but | believe the best in Christianity
and the best in Judaism are IDENTICAL
We already have about fifty Jews and
some Hindus in our membership. Chi
nesc will be welcome, regardless of
their faith. You will notice that Chris
tianity is not mentioned in our new
statement of purpose"
DR.. Holmes's position would be
rather more sensational were it not
for the fact that his church has
belonged to the Unitarian denomina-
ton, which by it's very name repudi-
ates the orthodox belief in the
Trinity, and justified his wish to
abandon the "too orthodox" parish
name: "The Church Of the Messiah" /"
The names submitted to the church
membership for adoption we're:
Tho Community Church of Nerv
YOrk
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
From, Glory to Glory
And he tells us the dream


"I found myself floating on the
luminous night in body lighter than
air and charged with power, buoyed
up above mountainous region. Be-
meath me was wrinkled dusk like the
crater of some huge volcano. There
were others with me, people with
airy, glittering bodies, all, like my
self, intent on a being mightier than
our own. A breath of power poured
upward from below as from q foun-
tain, or as if from here some sidereal
river flowed out to the country of the
stars. We hovered over the fountain
from which came that invisible breath
filling us with delight and power.
While we hung intent there came the
apparition of vast and glowing orb
of light like the radiance about a god
and of those glittering ones some
flung themselves into that sphere of
light and were absorbed in it; and it
faded away, ebbing from us as if it
had been living galleon come to the
hither side of being but for moment,
to carry with it those who might go
to the heaven world to be partakers of
the divine nature and live in their
parent Flame. could not cross with
that Charon, and I remembered no
more, for the curtain of darkness
which was magically lifted was again
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Ch in and
HGeorge Sand
(Continued from page si1)

pin, bending over the piano compos~
ing his Nocturnes. The novelist, by
the light of the candle, was writing
Spiridion,' the story of the monk who
finally forsook his faith; but frequent
y she laid aside her work to rush to
the musicians side and give him medi-
cine, alarmed at the frequency of his
cough. On moonlight nights, tempted
by the thrill Of the mysterious, in a
voluptuosity OF fear, she stole out into
the cloister where the darkness was
pierced By the milky spots of the win
dowpanes Nobody! Then she
would sit down in the monks ceme-
terry vainly awaiting the apparition
Pf the ghostly friar to enliven her
|nonotonous existence with novel adj
Venture.
Zone night during carnival season
Csrtuja was invaded by 'Moors.' They
Fere young men from Palma, who,
liter having overrun the town dis
gulsed as Berbers, thought of the
trenchwoman, ashamed, no doubt, at
The isolation in which she was held by
the townspeople. They arrived at mid
plight, with their songs and guitars
breaking the mysterious calm of the
monastery, frightening away the birds
Perehed in the ruins. In one corner
cf the cell they danced Spanish dances
which Chopin watched attentively with
nis fever-lighted eyes, while the novel;
ut hitted from group to group, expert
eneing the simple joy Of the bour-
geoise at finding herself not forgot
kn.
This was her single happy night
N Asjorca. Afterward, with the re-
sorn Of spring, the beloved invalid felt
relief and they began to leisurely re-
urn 70 Paris. They were birds Of
ssage, who, after wintering on this
Prtunate Isle,' left no other trace
aa an undying tradition"
The reader is told that jaime
ebrer, the hero Of the novel into
WHICH the above account is inter
poiated, experienced d kind Of ret
respective affection for chat cx-
faordlnary woman" He imagined
aer "as she appeared in her youthful
PICTURES, with cxpressionless face
snd deep, cfigmatic eyes beneath
huny hair, with no other decoration
Van roae over one temple. Poor
leorge Sand. Love had been for
Der like the ancient Sphinx; each
TINE that she vcnturcd to interro-
gate 1t she had felt its merciless
Sioy upon ner heart. She had
'assed all loves abnegatons and
peryersities. The capricious woman
oi the Venetian nights, the unfaith-
sui companion Of De Mugset, war
'ne same nurse who cooked the
neals and prepared the cough syrups
or the dying Chopin in the solituder
|'f FaIl1emosa. All, a woman "who
|eofnblr~4 within herself the nature,
m a thousand women, With all their
nn7'te feminine variety of sweet
ssA and cruelty .m
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

yet absolutely different in expression
and bearing, the one serene and be-
nignant, the other fierce and threaten
ing. The quiet one was still plead
ing, with hand laid upon the others
shoulder. But he shook it off and
thrust his companion away with a
proud, impatient gesture.
"At last l heard him speak.
"1 have done with you,' he cried.
1 do not believe in you. 1 have no
more need of you. I renounce you.
Away forever out Of my life!'
"At this look Of ineffable sorrow
and pity came upon the great COM
panion's face.
"'You are free,' he answered. Il
have only besought you, never con-
strained you. Since you will have it
SO, | must leave you now to YOURSELF
"He rose in the air, still looking
downward with wise eyes full of grief
and warning, until he vanished in
silence beyond the thin clouds.
"The other did not look up, but,
lifting his head with defiant laugh,
shook his shoulders as if they were
free of a burden. He strobe swiftly
around the corner of the cathedral
and disappeared among the deep
shadows
"a sense of intolerable calamity
fell upon me. I said to myself:
"'That was Man! And the other
| was God! And thew have nartedt,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
( S THE Church declining"
"The Chicago Evening
n Post" puts this question edi-

a Post" puts this question edi-
torially, and then admits
that to one section of the popula-
ton, that which sticks by the Church
through thick and thin, it would
seem an impertinence, while to an
other class, that which is tempcra-
mentally hostile to the Church, it
would be answered in the affirma-
tive. But there is another class, it
says, much larger than both of these
classes combincd~-and they are TO
be found outside as we'll as inside
the Church-who, in fact, are ever
ready to point out it's faults, yet to
whom any signs Of its decline would
be a matter Of grave concern. Saws
"rhe Evening Post" pursuing this
thought:
at Eas doubtless this class which
Bishop Thomas Nicholson Of the Mctho-
dist Episcopal Church had in mind
when recently, addressing the North
Indiana conference, he called attention
10 the fact that In the Last fifty years
there had been fve-year periods in
which the Church gained more follow
~rs than in the first nine centuries of
its existence.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
They I'll ),
n
n one 8
ofUs!
Rumor Has 1t That Amer.
lean Fashions in Mems
Attire May Be Taken Up
in England. But Just
Read This!
o A WRITER in 'The Lon.
don Globe" we are indebt-
: ed for the following:

" "A WHITER In 1.-The Lons
don Globe" we arc indebt-
Il ed for the following:
"'Men's Wear is RESPONSE
Bile for the statement that we ara
likely to be favored in the near future
with large quantities Of mems clothes
from America. The public will buy
them readily eaough,' states the Jour-
nal, owing to their superior finish
and novelty
"As to whether their undoubted nov
city will appeal to British tastes is
debatable question. Certainly. in
the opinion of that we'll known ssr-
torial authority. the editor of The
Tailor and CUTTER the invasion will
meet with scant success. II the
Americans think that English rentle-
men are going to adopt the outrS
character and style of transpontine
fashions in male clothing, they are
making a great mistake. Tho Eng
lishman will never allow himself to
be turned into a walking clothes
screen.
"'The British tailor knows his GUS
toners we'll enough to aim at pro-
ducing the impression Of q fine man.
rather than to make the clothes he
is wearing the chief object of at
tention. It is recognized in good So
ciety that the best dressed man IL
he whose clothes have nothing aston
lshlng or remarkable about them. and
their characteristics are merged in
the general impression Of the wearer.
"1n fact added the editor of The
Tailor and CUTTER so far from tho
English being likely to adopt Ameri-
can fashions in mems clothes, the
reverse is likely to be the case. There
are firms in the West End of London
which are, at the present moment,
simply crowded out with orders sent
from America because they like the
style, neatness, and finish of the Brit
ish goods. The tastes of the better
class Americans are being modelled
rapidly on the tastes of the English
aristocracy.
There are no better tailors than
our tailors. The making of a suit of
clothes is az art, and just as the
French are superior in the art of
millinery the English have always
been recognized as leaders in tailor
ing.
"'The Americans are good mechanics
and can produce an excellent Ford
car, but in the tailoring art they have
yet much to learn as to what con-
stitutes an artistic and tasteful pro-
duction. That this is so is proved
by the fact that they make the funda-
mental mistake Of supposing that any,
thing which appeals to the music hall
artist is likely to be adopted genersl-
ly by the Englishman of taste'''
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

"Regiments Of Christ" which are
reported to have shown eXtraordi-
nary bravery when led into battle
by their priests, who wear their
canonicals and carry crucifixes on
the field. Perhaps merely sporadic
manifestation of the faith that is in
them and certainly is not in the
Bolsheviki, these "Regiments of
Christ" may, on the other hand, be
pioneers of movement which shalt
really reconstruct Russia from the
inside.
At any rate, there is a tendency
on the part of the Church in these
days to get nearer to the people, to
lay emphasis on achievement Of
Christian work rather than in dis
tinctions of creed, to make the aver
age man and woman feel a COM
ponent part of some great scheme
for the betterment of mankind.
More than a straw in this direction,
signpost, in fact, is Old Trinity,
whose pews became free last Sunday
for the first time in the 220 years
that have elapsed since the parish
was founded.
THE Rev. John Haynes Holmes
goes so far in his opposition to
creed that he has Influenced his con-
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

w 40 DilleLSU one DlHnC IN a
loo ruin that had at one time
been dwelling. Great holes
gaped in the roof and the
a,s1Is With me there were five Ameri-
can doughboys-a corporal and four
nrivates They were hard and tough
customers, and did not care who knew
it. Why, gentlemen, their language
would have blistered the skin of Satan
himself.
"In poking about the ruins they dis
covered French peasant family cover
ing in a very small cellar, where they
had taken refuge from the retreating
Germans. The family was almost
starved and we found that the peasant
voman's infant had died short time
before for lack of nourishment.
"Those tough doughboys drew off to
corner of the ruins, put their heads
together, dug down into their pockets,
contributed to a general fund, and then
disappeared into the night. In the
early morning they returned, bearing
barrel of -four, for which they must
have paid a fabulous sum, as we'll as
large supply of other articles of food
and clothing.
SIN some unexplained manner they
had succeeded in obtaining a small
white casket, and in the early gray
light of new day the body of the baby
was tenderly buried in grave the
boys had dug. AS the small mound of
earth was heaped above the grave with
gentle hands those five tough dough-
bows scattered some blood-red poppy
blossoms upon it,
1.-THE French mother, who had main
tanned stole calm throughout the
night, poured forth her passionate
gratitude to the boys, who understood
not one solitary word of it. But when
she stopped the big, redheaded cor
poral, nstinctively realizing that there
should be some response, mustered up
every bit Of French he knew, dug his
toe into the earth and, as his four COM
panions twirled their steel helmets un-
comfortably, said simply:
"vive la France!" Saturday Eucn-
ing Post.
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

E. in his "Carale of
Vision (Macmillan Company. The
irish mystic has been led by dreams
to assume that "in the heart of
sleep there is an intellectual being
moving in world of it's own and
using transcendental energies" To
quote further from this passage:
"Most of the dreams we remember
are chaotic, and these seem often to
DC determined in character by the
accident which brings about our wax
ing. Chaotic as these are they are full
of wonder and miracle, for in the
space of a second, almost before a
voice has reached the ear of the
sleeper or hand has touched him.
some magical engineer has flung q
bridge of wild incident over which the
spirit races from deep own-being unto
outward being. Never when awake
could we pack into second of vivid
imagination the myriad incidents that
the artificer of dream can create to
bring us from the being we remember
not back to the dream of life"
The writer speaks of "that loftier
life in dream which to others I
know was truer like than waking"
Rarely, rarely can one hope con-
sciously to sail out beyond that
"froth on the ocean fringes, where
there are buffetings of air, churn-
ings of sand, water and weed" out
and out to the realm of "deep
purple" Yet A. E. declares:
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
A Dream in Which Van Dyke Sa,u
q Conflict Bet,Ueen Man
and God

and luggers-all filled with people and
slowly creeping seaward.
There was one little boat, quite
near to US, which seemed to be wait
ing for some one. There were some
people on it, but it was not crowded.
Come said, this is for US. We
must wade out to it,
$50 took my wife by the hand and
the child in the other arm and we
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Hov the Mystic, A. E., Glimpsed
the ':High Adventures of the
Unsleeping SouI'

"The black curtain of unconscious
ness which drapes the chambers of the
brain in sleep once, for an instant,
was magically lifted for me and had
glimpse of the high adventures of
the unsleeping soul"
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Dreams That 1nhabit the Deep Purple

dropped over the chambers Of the
brain.
"But when awoke I was murmur-
ing to myself, as if in Interpretation,
the words Of the Apostle: we all
with one face beholding as in a glass
the glory of the Lord are changed unto
the same image from glory to glory;
and knew there were many at that
mystery who would wake up again
outcast Of Heaven, and the God Of
this world would obliterate memory
so that they would never know they
had kept tryst with the Kabiri."
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

through the rain Of death. Many were
struck down and lay where they fell"
The Flight
How he got through the inferno
which the town presented the
dreamer does not know. He blindly
sought his wife and child whom he
had left in lodging in quiet
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18
Another s'Tision' Book

had kept tryst with the Kabiri."
Another s'Tisi0n" Book
One turns to the preface of
new book by Henry van Dyke,
'The Valley of Vision" Gust pub
lished by Charles Scribner's Sons)
and finds curiously parallel con-
ception of the dream, seldom re-
membered, yet which is, in reality,
more significant far than the dream
which fits across the sleeping mind
on the leeward side of that realm
Of the "deep purple" II believe,"
he writes, dreams have a part in
real life. Some of them we remem-
ber as any actual experience. They
belong to the imperfect sleep. But
others we do not remember, because
they are given to us in that perfect
sleep in which the soul is liberated
and goes visiting. Yet sometimes we
get trace Of them, by happy chance,
and often their influence remains
with us in that spiritual refreshment
with which we awake from pro-
found slumber."
The first story in the volume at
hand is called "A Remembered
Dream" and is, the writer tells us,
an actual dream Of five-and-twenty
years ago, which remains to-day "as
vivid in memory as anything that
have ever seen in the outward
world, as distinct as any experience
through which I have ever passed."
1t is interesting to peruse it in the
light of what A. E. has said about
"the high adventures Of the u,,-
sleeping SOUL" and a portion of
Mr.. van Dykes dream is here re-
Scorded:
"It was evidently very ancient
place. The dwelling houses and larger
buildings were gray and beautiful
with age and the streets wound in and
out among them wonderfully, like a
maze. The night sky was
clear, save for a few flmy clouds,
which foated over the face of the full
moon, obscuring it for an instant, but
never completely hiding it-like wells
in a shadow dance. The spire of the
great cathedral was silver fligree on
the moonlit side and on the other side
black lace. The square was empty
But on the broad, shallow steps in
front Of the main entrance of the
cathedral two heroic figures we're
seated. At first I thought they were
statues. Then I perceived they were
alive and talking earnestly together.
The TiUo Figures
"They were like Greek gods, very
strong and beautiful, and naked but
for some slight drapery that fell
snow-white around them. They glis-
tened in the moonlight. I could not
hear what they were saying, yet l
could see that they were in q dispute
which went to the very roots of life.
"They resembled each other strange
ly in form and feature-like twin
brothers. But the face Of one was
noble, lofty, calm, full of vast re-
gret and compassion. The face of the
other was proud, resentful, drawn with
passion. He appeared to be accusing
and renouncing his companion, break
ing away from an ancient friendship
In q swift, implacable hatred. But
the companion seemed to plead with
him and lean toward him and try to
draw him closer.
"a strange fear and sorrow shook
my heart. felt that this mysterious
contest was something of immense
importance; secret, ominous strife;
a menace to the world.
"Then the two figures stood up, mar
vellously alike in strength and beauty,
New-York tribune., 1919-05-18

"The number Of members gained in
1917, according to the Bishop, was six
times as many as in 1901. A table pre-
pared by DR.. II. X. Carroll for the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ
shows the growth in membership of the
thirty-thrce Protestant denominations
represented to be $4,000 for the year
1917.
an borrower, statistics issued by the
Census Bureau at Washington show
an increase in the decade 1906-'16 Of
about 25 per cent for the eight leading
denominations"
1t concludes that whatever else is
happening to the Church, it is not
declining in numbers; that there is
no chasm between sacred and secu-
lar affairs and that church member
ship is not a blindfold.
If CHASM there were between
sacred and secular affairs, war
would bridge it. What the Church
has meant to the soldier any of
Father Duffy's boys can tell his
neighbor orally. What spiritual
strength it can lend to nation Bel
gians are ready to testify to on be-
half OF Cardinal Mcrcier. A delayed
Associated Presg dispatch from
Archangel tells Of the appearance in
Admiral Kolchak's army Of the