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The Crescent Digital Commons @ George Fox University "The Crescent" Student Newspaper Archives and Museum 3-1-1911 The Crescent - March 1911 George Fox University Archives Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent Recommended Citation George Fox University Archives, "The Crescent - March 1911" (1911). "The Crescent" Student Newspaper. 106. https://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/the_crescent/106 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Archives and Museum at Digital Commons @ George Fox University. It has been accepted for inclusion in "The Crescent" Student Newspaper by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ George Fox University. For more information, please contact [email protected]. 1iI 2.)- THE CRESCENT PACIFIC COLLEGE -—.--p’ ,auii ii11 ii”j III 111 I MARCH 1911 --- I Dr. Geo. Larkin Dentist First National Bank Building THE CRESCENT Newberg, Oregon. Phones, Bell, Main 41 Mutual, White 31 I VOL. XXII. MARCH, 1911 NO. 6 Chas. Lapp CONFECTION ER ,ope. Hot Drinks a Specialty When hope is gone and life wears on, Fruits, Candies, Nuts and Soft drinks An endless night without a dawn— I I No beauty then In starry skies, Parlor Pharmacy No meaning ken I H In lovers eyes— E. W. HODSON, Prop. When hope is gone. We have the most complete line of Post Only a doom of sombre gloom, I cards, new, clean and up-to-date. Post I An empty life; the end a tomb— card albums, Toilet articles, Perfumes. What tragic sadness Headquarters for Lowney’s Candies. Of farewell, I Opposite Post Office What dearth of gladness NEWBERG, OREGON : Tolls out its doom. When hope is dead, all joys are fled I Try L. E. TOWNSEND Despair and grief hold sway instead. for Fresh Candies, Fruits, Nuts, and Ambition’s fire I Soft Drinks. I Is drear and cold, Ideas inspire e . Not as of old— * I J. B. MOUNT ,0 When hope is dead. Keeps a fine stock of Hardware, Stoves, Etc. Call and see Then give us hope and strength to cope when things are wanted. With doubt, thru’ which the soul must grope, And if at last I•i••4•e•••+••*•* I 2 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 3 When we depart, They constitute his chief interest from superstitious Shades of the past to contemplative c h ii d of c i vi Ii z a t i on. Still cloy the heart, savage Witness t h e i r beginning in prim it i v e man. To cW God give us hope! him the ceremonial dance is, after food, the most important thing in life. Gaudy with war paint, clad in Ijc iflrnitrp of oetrp. skins of animals, he dances for days or weeks chanting in monotonous tones a rude prayer to the Great Spirit— a prayer for food or for victory over enemies. Here in (Given at State Oratorical Contest.) this rude, repulsive ritual with its selfish aims we find We live in a transition period in the development of the seed of these two best fruits of civilization—poetry mankind. Hence, our age has peculiar characteristics and religion. But what an advance! There worship and grave faults. It is an age of materialism, of com and song were expressed in repulsive ceremonial, with mercialism, of social unrest. As a result of these dis frenzied mind. Now man, if he be a true man, wor eases religion is losing its vitality; art and poetry are ships God, his Father, in calm serenity and utters pro being neglected, and the spirit of our people, that fund found and spiritual truth in words of ravishing beauty. amental element in human progress, is becoming viti Coming, as they do, from a common source, religion ated. We must see the destruction to which this ma and poetry are inseparably united. Priest and poet, terialism leads. We must understand what it means to psalmist and prophet, minister and minstrel have, as neglect the fruits of the spirit. one brotherhood, served humanity. The religious and If these evils are to be cured, we must reach the in poetic seem separate only when priest becomes Pharisee ner life of the people. There lies the real cause of them and poet dilettante. An insipid orthodoxy is always all. One of the best means of effecting this cure is the unpoetic, and poetry, when paganized and purposeless, ministry of poetry. Religion and the arts are the most is irreligious. But history and individual consciousness immediate expressions of this inner life and, among the show that they thrive together and are complementry. arts, poetry is the most universal expression of what is Dante and Petrarch, in a revival of Letters in Italy, noblest in the soul. Better than music, better than make possible Luther and a reformation of Religion in sculpture or painting, does poetry reveal the depths and Germany. Puritanism leaves its most enduring monu heights and richness of the feelings and aspirations of ment—the incarnation of its spirit—in the poetry of the human soul. Milton. By common consent, religion is the noblest creation Nineteenth century England gives us a notable ex which emanates from the spirit of man. Religion, in ample of this religious nature of poetry. The greatest I in its primal essence is poetry, in its highest power spiritual teachers of that age were the poets—Words made a guiding force in life. Poetry and religion are worth, Browning, Tennyson and their compeers. These the omnipresent expressions of the God-seed in man. men, and not the tradition-bound church, turned to 4 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 5 spiritual account the new truths unearthed by science. the death of his friend. For eighteen centuries, Christendom had been living The poets in their treatment of this idea of evolu under an ethical code far superior to that of Moses. tion make plain the superiority of poetry to science. To Now the world was ready for scientific conceptions of Darwin this is a biological theory, to Spencer a meta equal superiority. Repeatedly and with increasing physical one. But the poet, touching it with religious force, during those christian centuries, reason had de emotion, says, in moments of inspired insight: manded recognition. Now its hopes were realized. The “I doubt not through the ages one increasing purpose runs” Mediaeval Church with its unreasoning, outgrown dog and matism could not stay its onward march. And not “Move upward, working out the beast and let the ape and tiger die.” alone had unreasoning faith failed; the faithless reason This goes beyond the inductions of mere science and of the age of Voltaire was like-wise insufficient. The conceives nature and man to be moving God-ward. new age of reason must be an age of faith and in the Not alone in these higher speculative matters were reconciliation of these two the poet-prophets performed our minstrels true to their calling. None attacked the their greatest service. popular evils more valiantly than they. They brought This turning-point in the life of the intellect 4 a telling indictment in turn against war, frenzied fin came with the formulation of one new idea, that of develop ance, oppression, child labor, and personal vices. Ten ment or evolution. That one idea made possible a nyson sees clearly one of the grave faults of his century romantic conquest of much of the region of the unknown and of ours when he says:— in each branch of human knowledge. But it did more “Is it well that while we range with Science, glorying in the Time. than that—it made the old credo inadequate. Faith, City children soak and blacken soul and sense in city slime? which is essential to real progress, was giving place to There among the glooming alleys Progress halts on palsied feet, hunger cast our maidens by the thousand on the street. doubt and dispair. However, the poets, mediating be Crime and the Master scrimps hi haggard seamstress of her daily bread, tween cold science and a dogmatic church, There made possi There a single sordid attic holds the living and the dead. ble for untold thousands an adequate faith. There the smouldering fire of fever creeps across the rotted floor, Science affords only one of the means of progress in And the crowded couch of incest in the warrens of the poor.” advancing civilization. Poetry and religion must give America, also, furnishes splendid examples of the the other. There was danger, not in scientific advance, vital influence of poetry. As national teachers, as fore but in the exclusive advance of science. Darwin and runners of reform, our poets accomplished a work which Spencer were led into agnosticism by their exclusive frees poetry from every charge of inefficiency and use devotion to reason. But Browning and Tennyson found lessness. Their part in the anti-slavery agitation de an over-powering faith—not a faith founded on author manded heroic virtues. When, to be an abolitionist, was to be hated, they stood boldly for the righteous but ity but on experience—their own experience. It is no unpopular cause. In fact our whole national history creed or metaphysies that gives Tennyson his belief in has been indelibly stamped by the songs of our poets. immortality but his agonizing doubt and suffering after At the present time our great cause for alarm is not 6 THE CRESCENT THE CRESCENT 7 the meagerness of production, but the total lack of ap spirit:— r says of its preciation of poetry. We must insist most emphatically “He came so beautifully clad on the necessity of wider reading and deeper apprecia They could not see the strength he had.
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