Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, May 29, 1916, Page 8

you get u;mde,fi‘om ripe, selected long leaves— no short Obmken i Long lzjlflijiflt:iii!!a!_sa - Just the pure Kentucky leaf, agec{ 3 to 5 years to make it meaty and rich and, satisfying for big-muscled, full-grown men. Get hold of a today — jam some kage of LIBERTY to your pipe or load up with a hefty chew, and you’ll say, “LIBERTY for mine, from now on.” THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY i DT VA A SHAKESPEARE, THE BIBLE AND RELIGION Writer Turned to Bible , Most ‘Beautiful Passages. At the Church of the Good Shep- herd, Universalist,. Rev. Joseph F. Cobb - preached - on ~the subject, Shakespeare, The Bible and Re- llfilnn. “The text was Psalm 119:105, Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.” : Just at this time much is being said and ‘written "about . the great play- writer, - Shakespeare, whom Leigh Hint calls & divine human crea- ture, divine poet- and divine philoso- pher,” said Mr. Cobb. 1 for His niversary of his death, very prominent and on the lips of many. Hamilton: . Wright Mable said: “Shakespeare was born in Stratford- on-Avon. There he died, and there al- S0 he is buried, but the end of Shakes- peare is not yet, and, 8o far as can be seen, there never will be an ending of that -tremendous force which .we ‘call Shakespeare,” ‘- = One who has made a studly of the writings of this man tells us that there is scarcely a modern problem which is not embraced in his thought or up- on_which his genius has not shined. His plays and sonnets ave.a com- mentary on the political - institutions, economic conditions. and public affairs 6f his times; but they are also a high- 1y polished mirror showing the work- ings of those greaf Human passions which —are constantly, rushing -upon Shakespeare’s | the” reason ‘as waves rush- upon ' the name is, at this time of the 300th an- |shore.” * re.’ *“From his knowledge 0,! men and ————— T, “ %y s or broken leaf used. Result— LIBERTY always gives you a long, cool smoke and . i times he.drew pictures of "life and through parable and fiction distilled Jjustice and equity, he gave praise to mercy and faultlessly portrayed wom- A fact that we ought to note, We think of ‘hir 7ho said * touch of nature make the wh e as we think, of. the.mign and his writ- ings, is, that he made much use of Bible. He pointed out its moral and relig- ious value. We read in the Bible: “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man that thou visiteth him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honor. Thou madest him to have d minjon over the works of thy h#nd thou hast’ put’ all things under his feet.” Shakespeare takes this thought and puts it in this setting: “What a piece DECORATION DAY GREETINGS TO THE HEROES OF 61-65 COMPLIMENTS OF e his villains are caught and caged. 25 | base the rude dialect of the boor, saw . life throusty the eyes of the virtuous the vicious. R 5 F ~ His works are _the revelations .- He wrought tiful, his bubbling merriment, his inexhaustable geniaulty are written out in the characters he creates and sends to the footlights. We thus know more about the personality of Shakespeare than of any other au- thor in history. We do not miss the raw material for ihe biographer. have the full length portrait in great dramas. 3. . His originality: Not that he cre- ated a new thought world. = Not- that he originated every seed plot of his plays. Not that he adheres to the strict historical chronology. Not that he did not use other men’s hinking, but how he made the old new; he re- fleshed the old skeletons till they stood up a great army. He saw and | Comedy where other eyes saw nothing. “The whole street breaks info a mas. querade when Shakespeare passes by. He made dead things live and also things new. . 4. His intensity: Perhaps Dante in this surpasses ®iim, but his words] scorch and burn themselves into the written page and into the brain and heart of the reader. His engraver's jf tool makes ineraseable indentures. His pictures are unfading. Some people find nothing to admire. Voltaire and Darwin, a present day university pres- ldent resent his spell, but a Goethe tells us how in reading him he “felt he was looking into the book of fate with ‘the hurricane tossing its leaves to and 5. His lofty moral teachings: Not since Juveral .among ‘Pagan writers and St. Paul among Christian ghinkers has evil been so depicted, challenged and condemned as in Shak s dramas. He shows us all the Infernos. He never lets evil men escape. His detectives of the moral order Ilike sleuth hounds never lose the scent tiil No man ever gets into the earthly ‘paradise for long and into the heaveniy one not at all. If you lose your St. Paul's and your John Calvin's doctrine of depravity, Shakespeare’s Masbeths and Richards nad Tagos will restore it, If you doubt the historical figures who in your Bible masquerade in the hole of evil, the stormy careers of Shakes- pear’s disciples of the devil will teach you the old, old lesson that the wages of sin is death. Evil men in Shakes- Ppeare as in the Bible and in soclety come to grief. He repeats the rouga Speeches and reports the riotous be baviour of fools and knaves, but i fills their mouths with dust before the curtain of the fifth act is rung down. [He never gilds vice, never makes it palatable. He always causes its glit- lter to fade. No man ever rose from the reading of a play to do a base or dishonorable deed. We say when the jcurtain drops that “life is a serious { business” and we cannot afford to take | our ventures. 1f. he satirizes human follles he never sneers at human frailty. He never strikes at the things men ven- jerate. He does- not depict the saint. There are no saints in his dramas. Shakespeare was too reyerent toward God and toward Christ who ‘“suffered for our salvation on the cruel tree” to put them there, but his spirit was reverent, as he worked out the prob-| of work is man—how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties! inform and moving, how express and admirable; in action, how like an angel; in ap- prehension how like a God.” The Value of the Bible. From the fact that the great im- tory of so many nations. Book that has had such an influence on rcta. artists, artisans as no other boo! It is the Book from which all writ- e e 5 HH White RRATGRTG lem of human life orf the platform of the moral order. _ There he was a great world voicc and the voice of a man sent from God to give us the vision of life and to be life’s interpreter in all its lighter and darker aspects and judged by his heal- iy influence on the intellectual, social and moral life- of the world, he has advanced the purpose which leads to “that divine event to which the whole creation moyes.” SENATOR | Summer /Resident at Peduct Will At- tend - National" Demiocratic- Conven- Former State Senator George M. Landers -6f New ‘Britdin, -who. has va summer residence at the Pequot, will attend the -national demoecratic con- vention in St. Louis, June 13 in place of Attorney David [E. Fitzgerald as a delegate-at-large. “- Attorney Fitz- gerald is unable to attend the conven- tion and has named Senator Landers as his substitute: Attorney Fitzgerald was elected one lvisory re-elected consultor of the Bless- ed Virgin Sodality. The Misses Ma- honey are graduates of Mt. St. Joseph Seminary. S GAVE OVERSEERS BANQUET classmates. AT GOLF CLUB James A. Atwood Leaves Employment of Ponemah Co. to Accept Position in Providence. The overseers were tendered ‘wich: Golf _club of the Ponemah mills a banquet at the Nor- Friday evening by James A. Atwood who left the em- ploy of the company Saturday and will go_with the Wauregan company ‘with offices in_ Providence. Covers were laid for 21 on the broad | Th; piazza of the club and each diner ceived a violet boutonniere. of the four: delegate-at-large at the | tain state convention recently and in be- ing named by Mr. Fitzgerald as his substitute, Senator Landers will tend the convention as one of the big four. The other three delegates-at- large are Willie O. Burr of Hartford, Willlam Kennedy of Naugatuck and Charles D. Lockwood of Stamford. Honors for Norwich Young Ladies. The Catholic Transcript says: Connecticut students at New Ro- chelle College have recently come in- to prominence, having been elected to re- Pineapple It CG ple Ice Cream Anorted’ Cookies Cigars Wo The 'Woman's charge clety had 2 Cigarettes mong Indiane. ‘Home Missionary so- of the Thursday Af- papers ip 2. Ma. terncon club at Uncasville, Several ‘were read describing the work that is being done by the soclety among the Indians and in the south and west. - A delegate was ited to go to the twenty-sixth meet- ing of the Woman's Home society to be held in Danielsén; June Refreshments were served and & social hour was enjoyed. The Yantic Sold to New Haven Man. Albert Widmann® of New Haven has rchased sasoline screw . m formerly halled ‘boat has been en- pui the Yantic which Norwich and the rolled in the. New Haven customs ‘| house. The Yantic is 57 feet long. She service is to be used on the ferry X mmwue m:&‘m:» oity] ant 0] New London and ©Ocean Beach. ‘l To Address Masons at Yantlo. Rev. Philip M. Kerridge, pastor of. St. James' Bpiscopal church New London, will address the tine will attend. Cadets Held Marching Drill. The Father Matthew Cadets held marching drill in St. Mary'’s T. A. B, hall on Sunday afferncon under the direction of Drillmaster John Craw- ford. The ‘Memorial business the, drill. - & > folk—It is -~ expected links of the Norfolk Downs ready for use by Memorial DECORATION DAY reminds us of our duty to our de- " parted. _ The best expression of love and reverence for them is a perman- ethonumtofmnihormarbk, tastefully designed and carefully fin- ished. Let us show you how little a truly beautiful memorial costs. * The Chas. A. Kuebler Co. (g