The New York herald., 1922-05-22
N) STOCK IN DOYLE
Lincoln's Power for Good
Greater Now That Of Any
Man Alive To-day.
WAS ABUSED LIKE WILSON
World Wars Blame Is Put on
Napoleon Bonaparte and
Otto Won Bismarck.


wood, exchange preacher from the
City Temple, London, who is occupy
ing for six weeks the pulpit of the
Rev. DR.. Charles Edward jefferson at
the Broadway Tabernacle, sees the
world turning from materialism to an
Interpretation of life which is es-
sentially spiritual. He sees the change
pushed into being by "a world that has
been down to Armageddon.
DR.. Norwood's eloquence las excited
wide comment. The substance Of his
sermons, as New York has heard them,
is that which preachers have used
since the Twelve first went out in the
roads of Judea. He deals with spirit
ual principles. and builds his comment
upon the world we live in around
them. He doesn't step out after SEN
sations. He breaches an old message
in new terms.
Yesterday he drew the picture of
world which is bound together and d.
rected as much and more by what men
Of the past did and thought as it is
by those who are visible figures in it's
direction to-day.
I'VE call ourselves the living genera
ton" he said. 1--WE are merely the
last addition to the long procession
which lives as much in us as each gen.
Grafton did in the world Of it's day.
There are times when I walk the streets
Of London and think that l am not
living in city of 100000 souls, but
one OF 100000 You are a youth
full people. but your history did not be-
gin where your history books put 1t.
"If the civilization of Rome and
Greece had not been what they were
your own would be different. II men
had been thinking differently in Eng
land when your nation was born your
history would not be what it is now.
Lincoln's influence Is Alive.
'I hope you will not mind my saying
that you are doing to Woodrow Wilson
now exactly what you did to Abraham
Lincoln. You will remember how the
wits and the caricaturists did their best
10 make him appear ridiculous, how
they tried to make a clodhopper out OF
the man who was your strength. Lin
coin did not begin to live until he was
shot down. And at this moment he is
influencing your\ development, giving
strength to your purpose, more than
any man who Is living among you.
Il nt~ q ,rv1.r&
started the war. Can we say II was
the former Kaiser? Can we say it was
Won Bethmann-Hollweg? 1 do not think
so. We must go back to the genera
sions we call dead for the answer. We
must go back to Napoleon Bonaparte
and Otto Won Bismarck.
'Who but Napoleon gave the impetus
TO the vast movement which was to stir
through Germany and make her reach
out for world dominion? In the day
of his power he picked her up and scat
tered her as man scatters bits of
paper. BY his ruthless determination
to acco mplish the disintegration of the
German peoples he fired their thoughts
10 the dream of unity. Bismarck fol-
lowed and carried out the dream. He
caught the vision of Germany made
strong through the sword, and he never
rested until that was accomplished.
How can we call these men dead?
This Immortality OF influence is a
wonderful thing. Where does Il not
extend? These words that use to try
10 make plain my thoughts-how many
Of them are mine? Not one. They
have come down to me through count
less men. They carry the spirit Of all
that has been thought and done in the
English speaking world Take one
word. Take love Suppose I knew all
that that word has been used for since
II first passed mems lips"
Human Hopes Built on Bible.
Or. Norwood paused and lifted the
big Bible that lay before him.
This book" he went on. 1--WE call
II book But think for a moment
what 1t means. Think of the human
hopes that have been built upon this
book the lives that have been founded
upon and sustained by It. 1t Is soaked
in the tears OF many generations. There
Is blood on It. It Is living thing"
DIR. Norwood passed on to n gentle
rebuke for the Spiritualists "This i'm
mortality OF influence" he said. as we'll
known to every one OF us who has a
precious memory OF some one we call
dead My mother meant much to me
Wniie eHe nNtu, Dut tUeTe were times
when took her love and her guidance
as n matter OF course. They are a
closer influence now. I am not a fol-
lower of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and
somehow to me the idea OF medium
coming between me and the spirit of
one so close TO me is repellent"
What Is true of the rast holds good
for the future" DR.. Norwood continued
1--WE cannot work we'll IN this world
unless we make future generations alive
in our minds as we keep the past ones
alive There Is no true craftsmanship
which does not project itself into the
future.
I'VE must take counsel from our past
in building the new world. We got
ourselves deep Into materialism, so
deem that we were hurled into Arma-
geddon. II is the instinct Of self
preservation which Is sending us on
20 an Interpretation OF life in spiritual
terms"
Dr. Norwood Is 70 deliver n lecture
an Australia at the Broadway Taber-
rscic THIS evening. lie had a pastorate
there before he went as chaplain to the
world war.