Evening star., 1926-05-30
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America Acknowledges Spiritual Debt to Sweden in Honorng
Grown Prince Gustav Adolph and Grown Princess Louise
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music. and no foreign element in America.
except the GerrlS as mas accomplished more
Tor the betterment OF music.
Sweden's great gift to the world of art,
and to humanity at large is Jenny Lind. II
has been my privileged work to study IN
minute detail every footstep in the lie OF
this great artist and woman-the exquisite,
crystalline purity OF her mentality; the
struggles which were hers through the in-
eyitable conflict with the materialism which
warred with her highly developed spiritual
nature. To her art was Gods instrument
by which she could reach her fellow man.
As she so simply puts it i'll a letter to my
kinsnan Prof. Blackie OF Edinboro. My un-
cea sing prayer is that what | give to my
fellows may continue to live through
eternity, and that the Gyer of my gift. and
not Just the creature to whom He lent II,
may be acknowledged
The Bible was to her the book OF books.
She gave up her great career at its highest
moment that she might ponder i'll quiet and
seclusion its mighty truths. One does not
wonder that she suggests the nightingale,
which i'll shy retirement pours out from
the fragrant woods its lovely melodies 10
uplift and bless. No wonder that those who
heard her declared that such tone was never
heard before. II was the tone defined BY
the great leader OF Christian Science.
Mary Baker Eddy when she said, Music
is more than sound in unison.
| want not only quality. quantity and varia
tlon i'll tone. but the JUNCTION OF love. MuNo
is divine. Mind. not matter. makes music
and If the divine tone be lacking the human
tone has no melody for me- Message for
1900. D. H.
Jenny Lnds tone poured out from the
great heart OF love, and we can imagine why
little children were soothed by its life giving
tenderness. why kings and queens bowed
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why Daniel Webster rose when the Swedish
nightingale sang Home, Sweet Home" and
turned. with tears in his eyes, to John How
ard Payne the shy author OF the song,
speechless with awe at the divine revelation
of home which she gave
Other great women who bind us i'll spirit,
ual comradeshp with Sweden are Frederick
Bremen and Selma Lagerlof Lagerlof mean
ing laurel wreath). The American-Scandi
navian Foundation has published the letters
of Frederick in book form. under the title
OF America OF the Fifties,' and from this
great Swedish feminist We gain keener
spiritual insight into the greatness OF Our
Nation than is possessed by many Amer
leans. TO Selma Lagerlof. who won the
Nobel prize for literature and whose Christ
Legends II was my honor TO adapt and first
make known from the platform i'll Amer
ica-to her owe the iruitage OF rare
mentality which has stimulated and made
dren throughout the world. Her great love
for and knowledge OF animals and birds. as
well as her deeper works, have given her
masters touch. springing from God and ex-
pressing the soul OF Sweden.
Let US also briefly mention the American
citizen OF Swedish parentage. Capt. George
Fried OF the L. S. s. President Roosevelt.
whose recent heroic rescue OF the crew OF
the British steamer Antifloe, accomplished
with spiritual modesty. has made him be-
loved and honored throughout the world.
And finally we touch upon the name OF
John Ericsson As Lincoln wrote of Wash
ington. Let us pronounce the name. and i'll
deathless splendor leave it shining on." God
gave John Ericsson to us from Sweden III
the hour OF our greatest need. Today our
distinguished Swedish guests. Crown Prince
Gustav Adolph and Crown Princess Louise,
with the President and representatives OF
our Government pay John Ericsson tribute
at the dedication OF the plaster model OF
the memorial erected TO him by the Amer
ican Government and designed and executed
by James Fraser who was born IN the midst
of Swedish colonists OF the Northwest. The
memorial stands on the banks OF the Po-
tomac. i'll sweet sanctuary with the memo
rails to the Father OF Our Country. George
Washington. to whom ! have the honor To
be related. and the preser,er OF our Union,
Abraham Lincoln. both OF Morse ancestry.
John Ericsson. a true spiritual Pilgrim. was
uiSsSSu nom SHuuIOOu WITH great inventive
genius, which constantly uniolded under his
sturdy Protestant spirit OF endurance. He
was the inventor OF the propeller which is
today used by steamships. In the letter and
spirit he lives eternally as all apostle OF true
Americanisrn. Without money and with
out price" he gave to America the conse-
Grated efforts OF his life of research and in
vention, as expressed in the ironclad Moni
tor. at a great crisis in American history.
On August %. 1861, John Ericsson wrote
to President Lincoln. in reply to the call
requesting proposals for the building of
ironclad steam vessels: II seek no private
advantage or emolument of any kind. At
tachment to the Union alone impels me to
offer my services at this fearful crisis-my
hte, II need be-in the great cause which
Providence has called you TO defend So
speaks the child OF God. In conversation
with an humble mechanic. who was Erics
sons aid in his workshop for many years. I
learned what | had intuitively felt-the
simple rugged greatness OF the man whose
deathless reality brings America and Sweden
i'll even closer relationship at This hour
In paying national honors TO John Erics-
son and in welcoming to our shores our dis
tnguished guests. Crown Prince Gustav
Adolph and Crown Princess Louise Of
Sweden. we recall with gratitude and affec-
tion the great contributions which our
brother country and Protestant nation has
made TO America. We extend to Sweden
and her honored envoys our hands and our
hearts and look forward with confidence
and expectancy to the day when all Nordic
Protestant nations shall feel and acknowl-
edge the closeneSs OF their kinShip, under
God and His Christ