Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-18

| recently attended a phonoftim
service at DIR, Christian +. Reisner's
church i'm this city and was amazed
to see the form and hear the voice
of a United States Senator who had
been dead for several months. The
service made profound impression on
me. What Is the explanation OF so
wonderful thing as the phonofilm?
Answer--Tt seems to be realism
last word in the realm of invention.
Nor am | surprised at your amaze
ment, for / have seen the Aim you
have mentioned and felt its thrill. 1t is
a combined reproduction of picture
and sound which brings on the screen
the nearest possible resemblance OF
the speaker and his words as he ut
tered them, although he may be dead
or a thousand miles away.
Speaking generally. the treatment
is an application of the principles or
the radio in their reverse order. pro-
ceeding from light to electric current
and then to sound.
Certainly this device. which makes
permanent the personal influence of
leaders in every sphere of social and
religious service, has a great future.
BY it's mysterious agency the veri-
similitude of civilizations best guides
and what they have to say can be
imprinted on the motion pictures now
shown around the globe.
Is it not right that wife should
know all her husbands business? /
write as an injured wife.
Answer-Under normal ctrcum'
stances the wife is the husbands con.
fidante and counselor. AS such she
has the right to know what his bust
ness is and something about the way
| it is conducted. If q respectable
woman had no right to know how her
| husband gets his hving-and hers
she might become associated with a
! diSreputable business. Nor is this by
any means a purely supposititious
| case. 1t occurs frequently.
| On the other hand, if the wife Is
| ignorant, garrulous, vain or WastetuI
the husband IL justified in keeping
his business affairs TO himself. In
numerous instances. however, the
gray mare Is the better horse" in
which case the husband is wise to
recognize his wife's superior abilities
and govern himself accordingly.
Sometimes the husband has a part
ner and is forsworn to secrecy by
him. Or he may he the manager of
another mans business, about which
he is not free to talk. Under these
circumstances his silence is no az
front to the wife. He is only fulfill
ing his agreements.
Not a few happily married men
consume their own smoke in business
affairs. They hold that their wives
domestic responsibilities are heavy
enough without add1ng business
anxieties to them. Yet If conditions
| become stringent, the men / have in
mind would at once turn to their
wives for sympathy and strength.
Perhaps the personal issue of this
question refers to your husband
| income. I have never been able to
see why a man should submit false
| figures to his wife, and where their
relations are congenial / do not think
such deceit is common. But when love
| is dying or dead and finances are low
| the question of money is usually the
| first source of trouble. While affec
| ton reigns, matters of business and
! income present few difficulties of the
| kind YOU mention, and your right tC
know about them is not seriously dis
puted. But should unhappy estrange
ment occur, it is not easy to enforce
your right. Don't threaten. Try
/ diplomacy.
Boston, Mass.
What. in word, is John Wesley's
theory of entire sanctification?
| Answer-If / may answer youl
| question in archaeological Language
I should say that Wesley's idea of en-
tire sanctification was that the be
/ lever reaches a stage when the urge
to sin is dead. He is wholly and un
reservedly on the side of righteous
ness. without a spark of desire for
actions regarded as evil.
| Character has been described as a
| completely fashioned will. Essen
| TALLY this was also Wesley's idea
| The katharsis of the heart has been
so thoroughgoing that nothing of the
| old nature remains. The believer be.
| comes a new creation; his will is the
| side of God.
| Wesley complained that many