THE GLOBE 75063 A NEW REVIEW OF WORLD-LITERATURE, CONDUCTED BY WILLIAM HENRY THORNE Author of "Modern Idols," etc. VOLUME VII. 1897 Decker Building, New York City CHARACTERISTIC NOTICE. The latest number of William Henry Thorne's quarterly, THE GLOBE, contains six articles by himself. Among other contributors is A. Oakey Hall, who writes of " Bluff King Hal." While many of the articles are well written, strong and earnest, the charm of THE GLOBE has always been in the pugnacious style of its editor in whatever he attacks, and his fearless stand, regardless of feelings or consequences. We do not indorse his writings, but we enjoy reading what he has to say. New York: W. H. Thorne, Decker Building.The Boston Times, October, 1897. THE GLOBE. NO. XXV. MARCH, 1897. "BEAUTY FOR ASHES." LAY SERMONS BY AN EX-PREACHER. TEXT-ISAIAH, CHAP. 61, VERSE 3. I WILL quote from the first verse of this wonderful outburst of heavenly glory conveyed to us by the words of the prophet in the sixty-first chapter, or canto, of the world-poem of Isaiah: "The spirit of the Lord God is upon me; for He hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; He hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captive, and a release to them that are bound; to proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn in Zion, to give unto them Beauty for Ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." As I read over and over again for the hundredth time this master vision of the prophet Isaiah, I marvel at the impotent littleness of all our modern thought and expression. Shakespeare, Dante, Virgil, Homer, seem tame and circumscribed before the all-encircling sun-splendor of the poet-prophet of the day of the world's redemption; and when time and again these last thirty years I have read of little soul-shriveled women, and padded, and posing, and blustering atheists of the Miss Anthony and Bob Ingersoll species as denouncing the scriptures-wanting to make a new Bible-a woman's Bible-an atheist's Bible-a Bible to square VOL. VII.-1. |