May 19, 1916. 
VILLAGE CHURCH 
Dr. L. Lincorn Wirt LEcTURES IX 
MAGNOLIA ON “IN THE WAKE 
OF THE War.” 
Peo tLNCOLN WIRT of Wel- 
lesley Hills delivered a most stir- 
ring lecture on the European war and 
its consequences at the Village church, 
Magnolia, last Sunday evening. H's 
subject was “In the Wake of the 
War” and the little church was filled 
to its capacity with an audience that 
listened intently to Dr. Wirt’s vivil 
word pictures of scenes in the war 
zone. 
Dr. Wirt sailed from New York 
about a year ago on the first of May, 
the same day that the ill-fated Lusi- 
tania departed from port. He was 
booked to sail on the Lusitania, but 
at the last moment was influenced to 
sail by another route. When he ar- 
rived in London sometime later he 
found his friends mourning his death, 
as his name was included in the list 
of Lusitania victims. Dr. Wirt was 11 
Rome when Italy decided to go to 
war. He described the dramatic 
scenes on the streets of the Eternal 
City as 100,000 war-mad_ Italians 
waited for the decision of the king. 
“The next day,” he said, “Along 
the line of battle from Flanders to the 
snows of Switzerland the Italian flags 
intermingled with those of the Allies 
and millions of men thundered the 
chorus of ‘The Marseillaise’ in de- 
fiance to the Germans. And over the 
hills appeared the spiked helmets of 
the Germans. They saw the battle- 
flags of Italy, knew she had thrown 
her lot with the enemy, and hurled 
back in answer their ‘Wacht Ain 
Rhine’ Think of it 6,000,000 men 
singing their battle songs in derision.” 
Dr. Wirt told of conditions in Lon- 
don during three successive air raids 
by the Zeppelins and of the state of 
mind of the people. He crossed the 
English channel on the twin vessel 07 
the Sussex which was sunk by a sub- 
marine recently. Air craft of every 
type were circling overhead, the per- 
iscopes of the submarines ( Allies’) 
were cutting the water and in the dis- 
tance huge dreadnoughts were ma- 
neuvering. As land was approached 
masses of troops were visible march- 
ing on the beaches. Dr. Wirt was 
loud in the praises of the French sol- 
dier. Not one of them had any com- 
plaint to make. They fought cour- 
ageously and never criticized. In every 
other land America was denounced 
and ridiculed as ‘‘too proud to fight,” 
but in France there was the most 
friendly feeling expressed for Amer- 
ica. 
In England the better educated 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
people approved of the attitude of 
America in regard to the war and 
said, ‘We look to America to keep her 
hands clean and in the end to lead us 
out of this.” He described the means 
used to get young men in England to 
enlist and told of the catch phrases 
used. In a cemetery he saw written 
on the wall by some wag, ‘Wake up, 
your King and Country need you.” 
Dr. Wirt was with the American 
Ambulance corps in France and said 
that of all the wounded brought in to 
the hospitals only five percent were 
injured by bullets. The balance were 
the victims of gas bombs, liquid fire, 
hand grenades or other devises which 
modern civilization has devised. 
He described the destruction occa- 
sioned by the big shells, the effects of 
the fighting upon the men in the 
trenches and of the horrible methods 
of destruction used by both sides. He 
said: 
“This war will settle nothing. At 
the close of it they will be where they 
started. Neither side will have gain- 
ed anything and the losses will be in- 
estimable. In a whole year there has 
been no gain on either side.” 
He said Henry Ford was called a 
Don Quixotte by the people of this 
country and rediculed because of the 
voyage of the Oscar II, but that the 
very ridicule had been the very means 
of carrying around the world the 
news of the voyage. ‘The men in the 
trenches cheered when they heard of 
the trip and “today the thrones of 
Europe are tottering because of the 
‘Peace Argosy’ of the modern Don 
Quixotte.’ Two names would go 
down in history as the world’s great- 
est protestants, said Dr. Wirt, those 
of John Brown and of Henry Ford. 
Dr. Wirt ridiculed the idea of 
Japan’s ever attacking America and 
said that no nation in the world had 
ships enough to land more than a 
quarter of million of men on our 
shores and in the space of two months 
which must elapse before reinforce- 
ments could arrive, he said the 100 
million Americans would have dis- 
posed of an invading army. Germany 
and England would lay for and 
watch each other until the end of 
time, he said, so that there was noth- 
ing for us to fear from either of 
them. He approved the preparedness 
program of the present administra- 
tion and is in favor of a “league to 
enforce peace.” 
A woman who had some knowledge 
of baseball took a friend to a cham- 
pionship contest. “Isn’t that fine?” 
said the first. “We have a man on 
every base.”’” Why, that’s nothing,” 
said the friend; “so have they.”— 
Everybody's, 
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UNFAMILIAR QUOTATIONS 
NE is often tempted to sug- 
gest that those who pester 
our police superintendents with 
confessions of murder might 
very wisely be taken at their 
word and executed, except in the 
few cases in which a real mur- 
derer is seeking to be relieved 
of his guilt by confession and 
expiation. 
'—Shaw: ‘‘First Aid to Critics.’’ 
_ 
The mother of the family stood in 
the reception hall, with her eyes fixed 
on the applicant for a position. “Why 
were you discharged from your last 
place ?” she asked. “Because | 
sometimes forgot to wash the chil- 
dren, mem.” “QO mother,” came the 
chorus from the children hanging over 
the stairs, “please engage her!”— 
Household Words. 
A young man who had received the 
privilege of shooting over the land o: 
a farmer got rather close once or 
twice to the home grounds. Later ta 
the day, he met the farmer. ‘You've 
had pretty good luck,” said the farm- 
er. ‘‘Well, no,” said the young man, 
hesitatingly. “I haven’t had any luck 
at all.” “Yes, you have,” repeated the 
farmer. “This morning you just mis- 
sed my best Shorthorn.”—Country 
Gentleman. 
Ex-President Cleveland was once 
driven to a great gathering when a 
tremendous storm was raging. ‘The 
hailstones rattled on the roof of the 
carriage. Meanwhile a band, undis- 
mayed, began to play. ‘That is the 
most realistic music I have ever 
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heard,” said the President to a friend 
in the carriage. ‘‘What are they play- 
ing??? “‘Hail to the Chief,’” said 
Mr. Cleveland, “and they are playing 
it with real hail!”—Sacred Heart Re- 
view. 
A Buffalo man stopped a newsboy 
in New York, saying: “See here, son, 
I want to find the Blank National 
Bank. “I'll give you half a dollar if 
you direct me to it.” With a grin the 
boy replied, “All right, come along,” 
and he led the man to a building hali 
a block away. The man paid the 
promised fee, remarking, however, 
“That was half a dollar easily earn- 
ed; §Surel?_ responded . the -. lad. 
“But you mustn’t fergit that bank di- 
rectors is paid high in Noo-Yawk.” 
—E-xchange. 
“That man,” said Mrs. Twickem- 
bury, “should be sentenced to solitary 
refinement —Exchange. 
