Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1914 — Page 2

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Application «l the Scriptures to the World Today as Seen by Eminent Meh In Various Walks of Life

(Copyright, 1914, by Joseph B. Bowles) SIXTY-SIX BOOKS, ONE KEYNOTE.

fßy ROBERT STUART MACARTHUR, D. D., LL. D., President, Baptist World Alliance.)

“The most learned, acute and diligent student cannot. In the longest lift, obtain an entire knowledge of this one volume (the Bible). The more deeply he works the mine, the richer and more abundant he finds the ore.”— Sir Walter Scott.

The Bible consists of two volumes, one of thirty-nine and the other of twenty-seven books. It took sixteen hundred years to make it. It has about forty human authors; and It was written In somewhat different countries, as well as In widely different centuries. It discusses many subjects, but it preserves perfect unity throughout. Its unity has been appropriately and eloquently illustrated by the keynote in a grand oratorio. That keynote is now heard thundering in the bass, now trembling in the soprano, and now for a moment it is lost to hearing; but it Is ever appearing until it re-asserts itself in a magnificent outburst of harmony. In like manner the predominating thought of the Bible is seen in history, in prophecy, in petition, and in doxology. It is an internal rather than an external unity. It is the unity of some glorious castle or some ancient cathedral. Although cathedral and castle externally may represent different centuries, different architects, and various styles of architecture, yet the interior often shows the dominance of one great thought, and all parts of the edifice contribute to one definite purpose. The authors of the Bible differed widely from one another. Some were princes, some peasants; some were warriors, some lovers of peace; some lived in palaces, and some in tents. But all were actuated by one spirit; all worked accordingly to one great plan of the one divine Author. There may be in the Bible an absence of system; but there is the presence of method. Systems are human; methods are divine. You find methods in rocks and fields; you find systems in museums and herbariums. It might have been enough for the principles of revelation if God had made the book simply instructive; but He was pleased also to make it attractive. Like God’s other volume, the book of nature, it has its lofty /mountains, its shady dells, its suns and stars, its smiling fields, and its singing groves.

THE CROSSING OF THE RED SEA.

(By G. FREDERICK WRIGHT, LL. D„ F. G. S. A., Geologist: Author of "The Ice Age fn North America,” "Man and the Glacial Period,” Etc.) ■ "I apeak as a man of the world to ! men of the world; and I say to you, Search the Scriptures."—John Quincy Adams.

In the biblical account of the crossing of the Red sea it is said that “the

didst blow with thy wind.’’ This leads us to look for a place where the wind would accomplish these results. Such a place would exist between Suez and the Bitter lakes, if at that time the land was depressed sufficiently to allow a shallow arm of the gulf to connect the two bodies of water. That such a depression existed 3,000 years ago, is made probable by a great amount of geological evidence. Sea shells such as those now existing in the Red sea are found in great abundance in the vicinity of the pyramids and near Cairo at an elevation of 250 feet above the sea. Similar evidence of a recent general depression of the land in that region are found on the shores of Palestine and Syria and on the Island of Cyprus. In the region between the Gulf of Suez and the P’tter lakes various knobs • capped with conglomerate, protecting softer deposits beneath, indicate the eroding action of water over all that region at a considerably higher level than that of the present. All this shows that the land level in the region has for a long time been slowly rising. The highest point between Suez and the Bitter lakes is less than 30 feet above sea level, and has now been cut through for the Suez canal. If, therefore, at the time of the Exodus the land level was about 30 feet lower than now, a channel of water would have extended through, separating the children of Israel from the Asiatic shore. That such was the ease seems JikaJjr from the fact that there are

Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all the night, and made the sea dry land and the waters were divided.” Again, in the poetical account which follows, the piling up of the waters is said to have been acc om - plished “with the blast of thy nostrils.” And when the waters returned to cover the Egyptians, it is said, “Thou

extensive deposits of Nile mud In the vicinity, while according to Dawson the sands at levels which the sea now fails to reach hold “recent marine shells in such a state of preservation that not many centuries may have elapsed since they were in the bottom of the sea” (Egypt and Syria, P- 67). A study of u map of the region shows that a strong east wind might easily lower the water level a few feet at this point, transforming the strait into an Isthmus, thus permitting the children of Israel to cross over on dry land, while upon the cessation of the wind, as the Egyptians were entering, the waters would return and overwhelm them. As to the effect of wind upon water levels, the reports of the United States officials upon the levels of Lake Erie show that while a strong west wind lowers the water at Toledo sometimes as much as seven and a half feet, it at the same time piles it up to an equal extent at Buffalo. But upon a change of the wind the conditions are reversed so that a variation of water level amounting to 15 feet is sometimes produced;

THE BELIEF IN IMMORTALITY.

(By HENRY AUGUSTUS BUCHTEL, Chancellor University of Denver, Former Governor of Colorado.)

"I went to the Bible for authority, as I am In the habit of doing, for I have never found any other book which contains so much truth, or in which truth is so well expressed."— William Jennings Bryan.

The only credible disclosure of God tn literature is the Bible. Max Mueller

gives us the only credible disclosure of man in literature. From reading the fascinating pages of the Bible man has come to believe in his own immortality. The development of that faith is his most significant achievement because it has given shape and direction and color to his life. It has civilized him.

We have now arrived at the day when modern science has not only changed its tone of denial of man’s immortality, but when the president of the British association, Sir Oliver Lodge, speaking at the supreme moment of his life, makes a definite declaration of faith in a future existence for man. The evolutionist now makes bold to declare that the denial of the immortality of the soul is to rob the whole evolutionary process of its meaning. “Man is the last and greatest achievement of evolution. To suppose that what has been evolved at such a cost will suddenly collapse, is to suppose that the whole scheme of things is self-stultifying. It is to convert the whole drama of creation into an imbecile and driveling farce."

Many years ago a list was made of more than 5,000 books which had been written on the consolatory hope -that we shall live forever. That list now would pass the 6,000 mark. Some of the most significant modern contributions to this literature have been made by John Fiske, Newman Smyth, George A. Gordon, G. Lowes Dickinson, Samuel M. Crothers, William Osler and William James. The first sentence in the last will and testament of the late Professor Guizot of the University of Paris was the significant word, “I humbly trust that God allows me to call myself a Christian.” Every educated man in the world has abundant reason for writing down as the first word of his personal creed: “I humbly trust that God allows me to call myself a Christian.”

Map Long Hidden.

The discovery at the British museum last year of a map which had lain concealed in a Dutch Bible for nearly four centuries was related by Mr. J. A. J. de Villiers, honorable secretary of the Hakluyt society, before the Royal Geographical society. The Bible is dated 1532. The map was published by Jan Severszoon, whose name appears on the map as Johannes Severus, a cripple, and who has adopted the arms of the city of Amsterdam and given them his crutches ,as supporters. There is hoarded up in the museum, Mr. da Villiers says, a wealth of manuscript and printed maps whith, owing to the exigencies of space, is seldom seen, and, though there, are many famous maps elsewhere, the collection in the national treasure house is probably the largest and best In the world.

Man and Woman.

Mme. Joires of a certain Paris fashion house said to a Chicago reporter: "Woman’s dress is a little more modest this spring. But what with the sleeveless and backless evening gowns, and the transparent skirt, the latest fashions still reveal rather than- hide the beauties of the figure.

“At our show in New York ai gentleman said to me quizzically: “ ‘ln the case \of the best-dressed man,,We say he Wears nothing that is noticeable. In the case of the bestdressed woman, it is noticeable that she wears nothin*.’

gave his life tb the study of the religions of the Orient, and then remarked . in a notable lecture on Buddhism, “However highly we prize our Christianity, we never prize it highly enough until we have compared it with the religions of the rest of the world.” Not only does the Bible give us the only credible disclosure of God in literature, but it also

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“REBEL” OAKES IS PITTSBURGH LEADER

Manager Oakes of P ittsburgh Federals.

The first break in the list of Federal league managers came recently, when it was formally announced that Enn|s T. (Rebel) Oakes had been named to succeed Harry Gessler as the head of the Pittsburgh crew’. Oakes had been in charge of the team for several days previous, Gessler having been called in to Pittsburgh off the road to explain why he did not win games. He is said to have told the Pittsburgh owners that he couldn’t win in a Class K league with the bunch they had given him, but the day Oakes was put-in charge of the team it beat Miner Brown’s “all-star” team by a score of lsto 7. St. Louis, however, made eight errors—some scorers said nine or ten —and of course that helped the Pittsburgh team to victory. Gessler, it is stated, will be retained by the Pittsburgh club as a scout and coach.

STOCK EARNS REGULAR JOB

Young Third Baseman Proves Himself as Good if Not Better Than Shafer at the Far Corner.

No longer does a yawning gap at third base hover on McGraw’s bed post at night. No longer does the vision of retiring Arthur Shafer carry with it a roll of bunting labeled “fourth pennant.” The form of Milton Stock has planted itself in the breach. He has proved that Shafer will not be missed. Early form indicates that Stock is at least as good as Shafer was, if

Milton Stock.

not a bit better. Stock is better because he is far more aggressive than Shafer was. When Shafer was playing, third base was the essence of quietness. Now Stock keeps up a continuous chatter. To some this talk appears like wasted energy. It is not It helps to keep the players “on their toes” and that means a scrappy ball club, and a scrappy ball club means the winning of games. Both in the field and at bat Stock has done as weh as Shafer ever didHe is particularly good at going to his left after hard hit balls. He can throw from any position and generally his throws are accurate. At pocketing foul balls near the field boxes he is a “bear.” On the whole* Stock is a real third baseman, and the Giants will not sigh for "Tilly” Shafer. *•

Schultz to Providence.

Hugh Jennings released Pitcher Schultz to Bill Donovan’s Providence club.

N OTES of the DIAMOND

Catcher Snyder of the Cardinals looks like one of the finds of the season. • • • Jack Knight still has to make the rounds of the National and Federal leagues before he retires. « • • Washington is first in war, first in peace and first to make a triple play in the American league this season. • * * George Hughes appears to be making a hit as manager at Grand Rapids, judging from the newspaper comment. * * * Since the clock’s in Cleveland have been moved forward an hour everything’s faster there except the ball team. • • • Outfielder Andy Kyle, who has been knocked about in a good many leagues, has caught on with the Terre Haute team. • * * Pitcher Oscar Graham, recently released by Wichita of the Western league, has been signed by Terre Haute. •*• \ X Notwithstanding the loss of several of their star players the Phillies have been able to stage some pretty classy contests so far. • * • Pitcher Lefty Thomas, formerly of Wichita, has joined the Grand Rapids team. He has been pitching independent ball in Kansas this spring. • ♦ ♦ Manager Larry Schlafly of the Buffalos . attributes the disappointing showing of his team to date to bad “breaks” in the training season. • * * Philadelphia • critics claim that “Stuffy” Mclnnis, the Athletics’ first sacker, can travel farther for a foul fly than any other first baseman in the American league. • • • Walter Johnsofi says he never saw such an improvement in a club as Frank Chance has shown with the New Yorks in the short year that he has been at the helm. • « • While they are changing the landscape to suit the whims of ball players, why not move the pitcher’s slab back to second base when Walter Johnson is on the job? • • • Catcher Chester Thomas of the Red Sox has put his savings into a small farm in the heart of Kansas, where drops of rain are prized like diamonds at certain seasons of the year. • • • After several years of rather medio ere work it is predicted that Marty O’Toole, the $22,500 beauty, will come through this year and pitch the kind of ball that was expected of him. • « • What a handy man Wally Smith is proving himself for Washington. He is not only capable to fill almost any i position on the team, but the long layoffs do not seem to dim his batting > eye - Hughey Jennings has a nephew at Washington and Lee College who is fast acquiring a reputation as a pitcher. The youngster’s name is William Hugh Jennings, and he twirls with his left wing. ■ • • • Diligent statistician has discovered that Christy Mathewson always wins the game he pitches on his birthday. One doesn’t have to be a statistician to assert that Christy also wins a whole lot on other perscW birthday >■

RECORD FOR BURKETT

MANAGER OF WORCESTER TEAM LONG IN HARNESS.

, A As Member of Cleveland Club He Led National League Batters in 1895 and 1896, and Topped the List With St Louis in 1901.

With the opening of the season in the New England league recently, Manager Jesse Burkett started on his twenty-eighth consecutive year as a baseball player. As pilot of the Worcester team Burkett dons the spangles regularly, and, ‘ though he doesn’t participate in every game, he plays often enough to get his name in the records for the season.

Since Jim O’Rourke made his final retirement from the diamond to become president of the Eastern league the record for continuous service on the ball field doubtless belongs to Burkett Jesse Burkett was born in Wheeling, W. Va., December 4, 1870. At the age of sixteen he began playing professional ball at Scranton, Pa. Two years later he went to Worcester. Later he was traded to t’-v New York Giants, who farmed him out to the Lincoln club of the Western league. In 1891 he was sold to Cleveland. He remained in the Ohio city until the amalgamation with St. Lows in and played with the St Louis Cardinals through 1901. The next season found him a member qf (he newly formed American league clib in the Mound City. In ,1905 he j lined the Boston American league clut. A year later he bought an interest in the Worcester club, and has acted as manager of the team ever since, During his long career is a big leaguer Burkett established a reputation as one of the heaviest batters who ever faced a pitcher. As a member of the old Cleveland club he led the National league batters in 1895 and 1896, and again topped the list while playing with St. Louis in 1901. The same success that attended Burkett’s career as a major league player has marked his work as a minor league pilot. Since he took over the Worcester team eight years ago his team has never finished lower than third position in the New England league race. For four successive seasons his team captured the pennant. Major league scouts have great faith In Burkett’s ability to develop j talent, and they seldom fail to be on hand early in the season to give the Worcester team the “ones over.” Some of the classy players he has develop id the last few years have brought fancj prices when sold to clubs in faster company. Burkett received his higher education in baseball in the rather difficult school afforded by the old National league in the ’9os. The game was not run so smoothly in those days as now. The umpires exercised less control and a player was obliged to make good through his ability to fight his way to the finish. As a member of Pat Tqbeau’s old Cleveland team, reputed the scrappiest outfit of those fighting days, Burkett learned many tricks of the diamond.

IDOL OF THE BLEACHERITES

Joe Jackson Tosses a Ball to Fans In Right Field Seats at Sportsman’s Park, St. Louis.

If It were left to a vote of the rightfield patrons at Sportsman’s park, says a St. Louis writer, who is the greatest player in the American league, they would answer —Joe Jackson of Cleveland. Since Joe became an idol of the bleacher patrons, his habit each day has been to toss a ball over to the boys just before the game. He did this trick every time he appeared in St Louis last year and In 1912. Just before the opening of a recent gamb Joe walked out to right field.

Joe Jackson.

A bleacherite howled: "Hey, Joe, where’s de ball? Ain’t you gonna give us one?” Joe reached into his hip pocket and tossed a new ball into the seats. There was a wild scramble, and a little tot came up with the sphere clutched tightly in his hands.

Bob Bescher a Star.

Followers of the Giants already look upon Robert Bescher as a real star. Whenever this young man reaches first base the fun begins. He takes a big lead, worries the pitcher as much as possible, and when he starts he’d a whirlwind. It requires a bullet throw to cut him down at the middle bag. Bescher is playing better ball than la Cincinnati last season.

MAPLE SUGAR COOKERY

ANY NUMBER OF DISHES POSSIBLE WITH THIS SWEET. Ever a Welcome Addition to the Menu at This Time—Apples Baked With the Sirup Will Be Appres elated by All. There are ever so many ways of using maple sirup and sugar other, than merely serving them au naturel, and these goodies which I am going to describe to you will be welcomed by the family enthusiastically.. No matter how good the winter menu has been, it grows a little trite as warm weather comes on, and a new sweet is a delightful change. Maple Ice Cream.—To make it beat four eggs till foamy, boil one cup of maple sirup till rather thick; stir into the eggs and cool, then add two cups of whipped cream. Stir all together, freeze and serve. A half-cupful of pecan meats broken and added to the? cream makes a delicious variation. Baked Apples With Maple Sirup.— Pare and core tart apples, in each cavity place a nut meat. Pour one cup of maple sirup over the apples and bake till tender. Serve with whipped or plain cream. Maple Cake. —One-half cupful maple sirup, half cupful of sugar, one-third cupful of butter, half-cupful of sour milk, V& cupfuls of flour, teaspoonful of soda, one egg. Beat the soda into the sour milk, cream the butter and sugar, then beat in the egg; add sour milk and sirup, lastly the flour; bake in sheets. Maple Bread Pudding.—Make a bread pudding after your favorite recipe, using maple sugar or maple sirup l in place of granulated sugar. It is necessary to use a little mote maple sugar than granulated, in order to sweeten the pudding sufficiently. Bake and serve hot with maple sauce. Maple Caramels. —Break one pound of maple sugar in bits and boll in one pint of milk till it hardens in cold water. Add a piece of butter size of a walnut and pour into greaeed pans to s cool. Maple Custard.—Two eggs, one pint of milk, three-fourths cupful of maple sirup; scald milk and sirup and beat the eggs thoroughly, pour hot milk over the eggs and stir well; return to the fire till thick. Be careful not to boll after the eggs have been added or the custard will curdle. Maple Mousse.—Half a cupful of maple sirup and one pint of thick cream are the only ingredients required for this delicious dessert; whip the cream to a stiff froth and add the sirup. Pack in a mold and place in ice and salt till frozen.

Frozen Coffee.

A frappe, which is very like sherbet, sounds as if it were an elaborate French confection, but is really the simplest of refreshments, being just a water-ice, partly frozen (and pronounced in two syllables). Case frappe is half-frozen coffee, made in this way: Beat the white of one egg

slightly, add half a cupful of cold water, mix with half a cupful of ground coffee. Turn this into a scalded coffee pot, add four cupfuls of boiling water and let boil one minute. Place on back of stove ten minutes, strain, add one cupful of sugar, cool and freeze to a mush, using equal parts of ice and salt Serve with whipped cream sweetened and flavored, laying a good spoonful on top of qach cup.

Jellied Strawberries.

Cover bne ounce of gelatine with a half cupful of cold water, add a half cupful of hot water, stir over boiling water until dissolved, then remove from the fire, add two cupful? of crushed strawberries, the juice of one orange and sufficient sugar to sweeten to taste. Pour Into a wet border mold and let harden on Ice. When ready to serve, unmold, fill the center with fresh ripe berries and serve with whipped cream.

Bread Crumbs in Griddle Cakes.

Crusts and bits of stale bread dried In the oven and put through the meat grinder make excellent griddle cakes, that are more ehsily digested than those made of flour alone. Soak 1 cupful of the crumbs In as much milk, or milk and water, as they will absorb; add Mi cupful of flour, pinch of salt, 1 teaspoonful of baking powder, 1 teaspoonful of molasses and 1 egg. Bake on hot griddle. Make them small.'

White Cake.

One cup sugar, one-half cup butter, whites of two eggs beaten stiff, yolk of one egg, one cup sweet milk, salt to taain Flavor with lemon. Add flour enough to make it as thick as cream. Bake in a moderate oven.

Mock Cream.

One level tablespoonful flour wet with a little cold milk and cooked with a dash of salt in one cupful of milk until of creamy consistency. Cool and flavor to taste. Fine foe, puddings, etc.