Article September 27, 1919 Issue

The Lectures

with contributions from Myrtis M. Gallup, E. E. Ballanfante, Root A. Pascal, W. H. Orrill, Lady Henniker Heaton, A. C. Eddy, Lew C. Church, Nelle S. Newell

Ancon, Canal Zone, Panama (Society).—Dr. Walton Hubbard, lecturer; introduced by Miss Myrtis M. Gallup, who said in part:—

The latter part of the nineteenth century, following the great industrial and scientific revolutions, was characterized by deep and widespread religious unrest. Thoughtful people on both sides of the Atlantic questioned honestly and reverently the grounds of faith, and the great writers—for great writers are but mouthpieces for the people—voiced their restless questioning. It is a noteworthy fact that nearly every serious writer of note, poet or prose writer, both in England and in America, contributed something in his characteristic way to this literature of questioning. Matthew Arnold, the great English critic, was one of these questioners,—honest, reverent, and insistent,—who, because he could not find satisfaction for both head and heart, remained comfortless. In 1867, because he could not eliminate the "eternal note of sadness" from his songs and could give no heart-cheering message, he bade farewell to poetry and turned to criticism. In his last volume of poems is "Dover Beach," inexpressibly sad, which closes:—

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