Giant Hours With Poet Preachers

selections appearing i

taken from the followin

Enters Into Heaven, Pu

y, New

ES IN VILLAGE AND CITY; ON TE

ently sent me, he says, "Mr. Lindsay offers the following sermons to be preached on short notice and without a collection, in any chap

g, swinging, singing, sweeping, weeping, rhythmic, flowing, swaying, clanging, banging, leaping, laughing, groaning, moaning book of the elementals, was inspired suddenly,

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ne by my wood fire of a long California evening, and have found it strangely, beautifully, wonderfully full of memories of church. I thin

ND THE C

an poet has so caught t

Christ with the city i

"The Soul of the City R

Spi

thought in "A Rhyme About An Electrical Advertising Sign,"

d Broadway shall

cloud on a soul

e lifted rejoi

the planets who ch

street and the

new Zodiac gu

e one, with that

the rainbow-clad

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t walk and live and crawl under the electric signs. In "Galahad, Knight Who Perished" (a poem dedicated to all crusaders agai

t who perished

t for immaculate

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from his ease by such lines as "The leaden-

tarve, but starv

ow, but that th

erve, but have

e, but that they

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grind, and hurt and little weak children, slaves of industry! Thank God, Vachel Lindsay, that the Christian Church has found an ally in you; and poet and preacher together-for

he Scissors Grinder,"

ng of the city, have

d strongly carries into the new philosophy which Mr. Lindsay is introducing the thought that every village, every town, every city has a c

s are s

the

are sw

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are sw

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dead

from t

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her r

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t God'

, saved

he whit

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uals but the city itself receiving the gift of the Holy Spiri

rom "The Drunkard

utters, drunkar

rs by my white

about me, with the an

ness of my sou

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causes, and blames the state for "The Trap," and this strikin

rty's na

women abou

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ens under her wings, and ye would not!" The "Old Horse in the City," "To Reformers in Despair," "The Gamblers"-it is all there: the heartaches, the struggle for existence, the fallen woman, the outca

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terary world. It is good to hear one of his worth, singing the battle challenge of missions, just as it is good to hear him call the modern v

the fin

ue can

st outliv

li's al

r faith tr

ope, who s

the name

shall be

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does that other phrase, "The Soul of the City Receives the Gift of

the earth shall

no more

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oet that sings to battle." Lindsay has done this in some lines in his "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven," which he admits ha

are set, the

ur shall

l builds the fl

re sunli

n

establish

the batt

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"To go about redressing human wrongs," as King Arthur's Knights were sworn to do, would certainly be a most appropriate motto for the modern C

ttle known to the Christian world-where it ought to be known best of all-will give a glimpse of the new Christian influen

e its stranger pictures. Through the thin veneer of a new civilization, back of the Christianized Negro race

cks in a wine

kings with

led and pounde

on the

rrel with the ha

they w

boom

ella, and the ha

oomlay, bo

ligion, then

n from their re

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r was written by pen, inspired of God, tipped with fire, of the

"Bass drums beaten loudly" and then "with banjos"; then softly with "sweet flute music," and finally, as the great General comes face to face with Christ, with a "Grand chorus of all instruments; tamb

halted by the

ter thro' the

ently with a

dier, while the t

sus. They were

a-weeping in t

d in the bloo

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he City Receives the Gift of the Holy Spirit," or "General William Booth Enters Into Heaven," or "The Congo." Lincoln seems to be as much a part of Lindsay as he is a part of Springfield. Lindsay and Lincoln, to tho

rouse the Lin

gendered in

airies and God

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f God" be the benedict

nd

t heart

ue and l

b with your t

land,

le heart

truding

hing in my h

child in

dear hea

you now

of faith. O h

has set

ndering he

my doub

h feet with p

the proph

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ion: JOAQU