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jforb ·lball ffieetfngs
Co11ducted by
THE BOSTON BAPTIST SOCIAL UNION
EIGHTH SEASON - J9H-1915
EVERY SUNDAY EVENING AT 7.30
PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 2l
l\11ss BERTIIA BARNES , Contralto
l\l1 s s BEATRICE HOLBROOK, Piani s t
;\LI<. IIARRIS S. SIIAW, Accompanist
Gebhard
1.
"Ga volte"
1\·I 1s s J lo1..,unoo 1
c
2.
.
.
.
. a. "A,-e l\laria"
b. "The Bird"
.
.
.
{ c. "Ha di e Id s and Butle rllie s "
•
S chubert
Gilbert,!
Hicga
:O.l1ss ll,\RNRS
HYMN, "America, the Beautiful"
3.
"Polonai se"
Lisz t
1\ltss Ho1.11noo1c
~c
L e t Us llav e Pence"
Ball
i\l
rn s
BA HNR S
ADDRESS, "Classes and Masses in the England of Today"- S. K. Ratcliffe of London
HYMN, "0 God of Earth and Altar"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 28
l\l1ls. l\lAR Y PIPER WILKINS, Soprano
l\[1rn. VIOLA SIIA W BOSDAN, Violini s t
l\l1rn . ETIIEL C LIFFORD BRYAN, Accompanist
1.
a . "Can ✓,on e lla"
b , "l\ladrigale "
{ c. "The Bee"
A. d 'Ambrosio
A. Si111011ctti
Fra11cois S chubert
111 ll S , ll oS DAN
a. "Spring"
2.
Becker
b. "0 Lieb"
.
{ c. ''Peasant's Lullaby"
L,:,zt
Gideon
1\[1t. S , \VJJ , KIN S
HYMN-" The Day of the People Is Dawning"
3.
"Sing, Smile , Slumber" .
.
.
.
Gou11otl
,\1n s . \\' tr.JON S wilh Violin Obli g ato by M1t s, BosDAN
ADDRESS, "A City Finding ltself"-Peter Witt of Cleveland
HYMN, f'Hail the Glorious Golden City"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
PROGRAM FOR MARCH 7
I\I~m. ELIAS l\IELTZIO: R, i\[e n o Soprano
l\lRs, GEORGE KRASKA, Accompani s t
1.
fa. ''Eili Eili Lomo Azavtoni"
'\._b. "Oas Wi eg Lied"
SAl\IUEL COOPER, 'Cellist
EDWARD LIPKIN, Accompanist
Russotto
Ru111shi11sky
1\ln s. MRLTZ.l!.Tl
2
'
a. Adagio from Con ce rto
.
.
{ b. Variation s on a Ru ss ian Them e
l\lu..
. S ch11111a1111
F1-a11cho111111 e
COOl'l!.ll
HYMN, "God Save the People"
3.
4.
"La Favorita" .
"II car Y e , I srael"
S·
.
a . 11 Berceu Sc"
{ b. "Dan se Rustiqu e"
Do111 zetti
1
lfc11delssoh11
M lt S,
M R LTZltlt
}
Sq11ire
i\ln. C o o 11E1t
ADDRESS, "What Constitutes a Good Jew"-Rabbi Samuel Schulman of New York
HYMN, "A Ford Hall Hymn"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
,
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AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL.
0 beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of gram,
For 1rnrple mountain majeslies
Above the fruited 11lai11 !
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In lib era tn.g strife,
"'ho more than self their country loved,
And me rcy more than life!
America! America!
l\fay God thy gold refine,
Till all s uccess be nob1 eness,
And ev'ry gain divine!
0 beautiful for pilgrim feet,
\Vhose stern, impassioned stress,
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across th e wild e rn ess !
America! America!
God m end thin e ev' ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy lib erty in law!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees l:leyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed H is grace on th ee,
And crown. thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
-Kathar in e Lee Bates.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
·when wilt Thou save th e people ?
· 0 God of m ercy, when'/
Not kings and lords, but nation s,
Not thron es and crown s, but m en.
Flow 'r s of Thy h eart, O God, are th ey,
Let them not pass like weeds away,
Let th em not fade in sunless day.
God save the people.
Shall crim e bring crim e foreYer,
Stren gt h aiding sti ll the strong?
Is it Thy will, 0 Father,
'r hat men shall toil for wrong?
''No !" say the mountain s; "No!" the ski es ;
"Ma n's clouded s un sha ll brighlly rise,
And s ongs be heard in stead of sighs."
God save the people.
When wilt Thou save the 11 eople '?
0 God of mercy, wh en ?
The people, Lord, the people,
Not thron es and crown s, but men.
God save th e 11eo[lle, Thine they are;
Thy children, as Thy angels fair,
Save them from bondage and despair.
God save the peo ple.
-Ehcnc;1,er Elliott.
A FORD f-:IALL HYMN.
Come from many sundered races,
vVe from all the land s of earth,
Turn our sunrise-lifted faces
Toward a whole world's glad r ebirth,
Thou, great Spirit, who, exis ten t
Under many nam es, art Goel,
Hear our footste]ls, still persistent
In the paths Thy prophets _
trod.
One in passionate desire,
One in righteous wrath at wron g,
Thrille d by sacrificial fire,
Here we lift to Thee our song.
S[leed th e dawn, so lon g ex ]l ec ted,
Herald of the common goo d.Justice free and resurrected,
Our trium[)hant brotherhood.
- Miriam Allen de li'ord.
The Collection Boxes, which m ay now be seen in the Hall, arc for suggestions or contributions to promote the extension of the Ford 1-fall Idea.
GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Chairman and Director of Meetings
Miss MARY C, CRAWFORD, Secretary for the Meetings
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Ollice Hours al Room 707, Ford Building, Stale House Hill, ·3.30 lo 4.30 dally, except S,1 turdays
Telephone, Haymarket 2247 /
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THE DAY OF THE PEOPLE IS DAWNING.
\\'e
For
But
And
(To the mu sic of "Lyon s")
kn e lt be lore kings; we bent belore lords;
th eirs were th e crowns, and theirs were th e swords.:
th e tim es of th e bending and bowing are vast,
th e day of the 11eovle is dawning at last.
We cringed be fore gold; we deifie d wealth;
We laid on Its altar the life and the he alth
Of manhood and womanhood, childhood and youth:
But its lordship is doomed in this day of the trnth .
The strength o[ the Stale we'll lavish on more
'fhan making of wealth and making of war;
We are learning at last, though th e lesso n comes late,
That th e making of man is th e task of the :::Hate.
Great Day of J ehovah, vrovhets and seers
Have s ung or thy coming for thou sands of years;
Thank God for each sign that the dark night is past;
And the clay of the people is dawning at last!
- ,Villiam Pearson l\'lerrill.
0 GOD OF EARTH AND AL TAR
(To the music of "Webb")
From all that terror teaches,
O God or earth and altar
From Ilea of tongue and pen,
Bow down and hear our cry,
From all the easy speeches
Our earthly rulers falter,
That comfort crnel men,
Our people drift and die;
From sale and profanation
The walls of gold entomb ue,
The swords of acorn divide,
Of honor and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Take not Thy thunder from 11e.
But take away our pride.
Deliver ue, good Lord .
Tie In a living tether
The priest and prince and thrall,
· Bind all our lives together,
Smite ue and save ue all;
In Ire and exultation
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A elngle sword to Thee.
- G. K. Chesterton.
HAIL THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN Cl1Y
(To l he mu sic of "J\ us(ria")
We are builders of that city;
All our joys and all our groans
Help to r ear its shining ramparts;
All our lives are building stones:
Whether humble · or exalted,
All are called to task divine;
All must aid alike to carry
Forward one sublime design.
Hail the g lorious Golden City,
Pictured by th e seers of old!
Everlasting light shines o'er It,
,vo1idrous tal es of It ar e told:
Only righteo us m en and wom en
Dwell within its glea ming wall;
Wrong is banished fro1n its bord ers,
Justice reigns supreme o'er all.
And the work that we have bullded,
Oft with bleeding hands and tears,
Ancl In error and In anguish,
Will not perish with our years;
It will last and shine transfigured
In the final r eign of Right
It will merge into the splendors
Of the City of the Light.
-Felix Adler, 1909.
'
l
FEBRUARY 28,-PETER Wrn, Commissioner
of Public ·works in Cleveland, Ohio, will appear
for the first time on our platform. It will be remembered that Mr. Ross of Buffalo r ece ntly
r e fe rred with the utmost enthusiasm to Peter
\\T s g ifts as a speaker, declaring that he
itt'
possesses spiritual fervor in so marked a degree
that, in o ne year no less than eighteen churches of
Buffalo were g lad to welcome him to their pulpits.
:M r. \\Titt was one of Tom Johnson's most trnstecl
lieute nants and, since :tvlr. Johnson' s death, has
carried on m a ny of the reforms dear to the heart
of that g reat a nd good man . One of these reforms
brou ght a three-cent car fare to Cleveland and of
this and allied movements Mr. \Vitt will tell us in
his lec ture, '' A Citv Findill{r Itself. ''
I '
MARCH 7 ,-RAnnr SAMUEL ScHULi\lAN of New
York, the first man who ever drew what might be
called a good audience to a Forcl Hall Meeting,
will speak on" f,Jl/ial Co11slil11/esa e,·oodJew." Dr.
Schulman's first lecture h e re was an extraordinary
mass ing of th e social and intellectual achievements
of this chosen people and a passionate arraignment
of the unju st attitude many otherwise fair -minded
folk assume towards Jews . \,Ve may fairly expect ,
a similarly stirring address wh en he comes to us
on :M arch 7.
,..
MARCH 14.-JoHN SPARGO, who first became
known in England when, at the outbreak of the
Boer War, he protested publicly against England's
stand in that famous contest, will come down from
his present home among the hills of Vermont to
talk to us on "Socialism aud 11,e T/lar." 1vir.
Spargo is one of the most engaging speakers in
the socialists' ranks, a man whose gentleness and
sweetness always make friends for him, whether
one accepts his economic doctrines or not . The
Spargo night should be a big night at Ford Hall.
. I
I
•i
FORD HALL, corner Bowdoin Street and Ashburton Place
DOORS OPEN AT 7.00 O'CLOCK
THE MEETINGS ARE ENTIRELY FREE
NO TICKETS REQUIRED/
~15
I
jforb ·lball ffieetfngs
Co11ducted by
THE BOSTON BAPTIST SOCIAL UNION
EIGHTH SEASON - J9H-1915
EVERY SUNDAY EVENING AT 7.30
PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 2l
l\11ss BERTIIA BARNES , Contralto
l\l1 s s BEATRICE HOLBROOK, Piani s t
;\LI<. IIARRIS S. SIIAW, Accompanist
Gebhard
1.
"Ga volte"
1\·I 1s s J lo1..,unoo 1
c
2.
.
.
.
. a. "A,-e l\laria"
b. "The Bird"
.
.
.
{ c. "Ha di e Id s and Butle rllie s "
•
S chubert
Gilbert,!
Hicga
:O.l1ss ll,\RNRS
HYMN, "America, the Beautiful"
3.
"Polonai se"
Lisz t
1\ltss Ho1.11noo1c
~c
L e t Us llav e Pence"
Ball
i\l
rn s
BA HNR S
ADDRESS, "Classes and Masses in the England of Today"- S. K. Ratcliffe of London
HYMN, "0 God of Earth and Altar"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
PROGRAM FOR FEBRUARY 28
l\l1ls. l\lAR Y PIPER WILKINS, Soprano
l\[1rn. VIOLA SIIA W BOSDAN, Violini s t
l\l1rn . ETIIEL C LIFFORD BRYAN, Accompanist
1.
a . "Can ✓,on e lla"
b , "l\ladrigale "
{ c. "The Bee"
A. d 'Ambrosio
A. Si111011ctti
Fra11cois S chubert
111 ll S , ll oS DAN
a. "Spring"
2.
Becker
b. "0 Lieb"
.
{ c. ''Peasant's Lullaby"
L,:,zt
Gideon
1\[1t. S , \VJJ , KIN S
HYMN-" The Day of the People Is Dawning"
3.
"Sing, Smile , Slumber" .
.
.
.
Gou11otl
,\1n s . \\' tr.JON S wilh Violin Obli g ato by M1t s, BosDAN
ADDRESS, "A City Finding ltself"-Peter Witt of Cleveland
HYMN, f'Hail the Glorious Golden City"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
PROGRAM FOR MARCH 7
I\I~m. ELIAS l\IELTZIO: R, i\[e n o Soprano
l\lRs, GEORGE KRASKA, Accompani s t
1.
fa. ''Eili Eili Lomo Azavtoni"
'\._b. "Oas Wi eg Lied"
SAl\IUEL COOPER, 'Cellist
EDWARD LIPKIN, Accompanist
Russotto
Ru111shi11sky
1\ln s. MRLTZ.l!.Tl
2
'
a. Adagio from Con ce rto
.
.
{ b. Variation s on a Ru ss ian Them e
l\lu..
. S ch11111a1111
F1-a11cho111111 e
COOl'l!.ll
HYMN, "God Save the People"
3.
4.
"La Favorita" .
"II car Y e , I srael"
S·
.
a . 11 Berceu Sc"
{ b. "Dan se Rustiqu e"
Do111 zetti
1
lfc11delssoh11
M lt S,
M R LTZltlt
}
Sq11ire
i\ln. C o o 11E1t
ADDRESS, "What Constitutes a Good Jew"-Rabbi Samuel Schulman of New York
HYMN, "A Ford Hall Hymn"
INTERMISSION
QUESTIONS FROM THE FLOOR
,
I
l
l
I
AMERICA, THE BEAUTIFUL.
0 beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of gram,
For 1rnrple mountain majeslies
Above the fruited 11lai11 !
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee,
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In lib era tn.g strife,
"'ho more than self their country loved,
And me rcy more than life!
America! America!
l\fay God thy gold refine,
Till all s uccess be nob1 eness,
And ev'ry gain divine!
0 beautiful for pilgrim feet,
\Vhose stern, impassioned stress,
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across th e wild e rn ess !
America! America!
God m end thin e ev' ry flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy lib erty in law!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees l:leyond the years,
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God shed H is grace on th ee,
And crown. thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
-Kathar in e Lee Bates.
GOD SAVE THE PEOPLE.
·when wilt Thou save th e people ?
· 0 God of m ercy, when'/
Not kings and lords, but nation s,
Not thron es and crown s, but m en.
Flow 'r s of Thy h eart, O God, are th ey,
Let them not pass like weeds away,
Let th em not fade in sunless day.
God save the people.
Shall crim e bring crim e foreYer,
Stren gt h aiding sti ll the strong?
Is it Thy will, 0 Father,
'r hat men shall toil for wrong?
''No !" say the mountain s; "No!" the ski es ;
"Ma n's clouded s un sha ll brighlly rise,
And s ongs be heard in stead of sighs."
God save the people.
When wilt Thou save the 11 eople '?
0 God of mercy, wh en ?
The people, Lord, the people,
Not thron es and crown s, but men.
God save th e 11eo[lle, Thine they are;
Thy children, as Thy angels fair,
Save them from bondage and despair.
God save the peo ple.
-Ehcnc;1,er Elliott.
A FORD f-:IALL HYMN.
Come from many sundered races,
vVe from all the land s of earth,
Turn our sunrise-lifted faces
Toward a whole world's glad r ebirth,
Thou, great Spirit, who, exis ten t
Under many nam es, art Goel,
Hear our footste]ls, still persistent
In the paths Thy prophets _
trod.
One in passionate desire,
One in righteous wrath at wron g,
Thrille d by sacrificial fire,
Here we lift to Thee our song.
S[leed th e dawn, so lon g ex ]l ec ted,
Herald of the common goo d.Justice free and resurrected,
Our trium[)hant brotherhood.
- Miriam Allen de li'ord.
The Collection Boxes, which m ay now be seen in the Hall, arc for suggestions or contributions to promote the extension of the Ford 1-fall Idea.
GEORGE W. COLEMAN, Chairman and Director of Meetings
Miss MARY C, CRAWFORD, Secretary for the Meetings
'
I
·i
i
.i
i
I_
Ollice Hours al Room 707, Ford Building, Stale House Hill, ·3.30 lo 4.30 dally, except S,1 turdays
Telephone, Haymarket 2247 /
I
I
I
·1
THE DAY OF THE PEOPLE IS DAWNING.
\\'e
For
But
And
(To the mu sic of "Lyon s")
kn e lt be lore kings; we bent belore lords;
th eirs were th e crowns, and theirs were th e swords.:
th e tim es of th e bending and bowing are vast,
th e day of the 11eovle is dawning at last.
We cringed be fore gold; we deifie d wealth;
We laid on Its altar the life and the he alth
Of manhood and womanhood, childhood and youth:
But its lordship is doomed in this day of the trnth .
The strength o[ the Stale we'll lavish on more
'fhan making of wealth and making of war;
We are learning at last, though th e lesso n comes late,
That th e making of man is th e task of the :::Hate.
Great Day of J ehovah, vrovhets and seers
Have s ung or thy coming for thou sands of years;
Thank God for each sign that the dark night is past;
And the clay of the people is dawning at last!
- ,Villiam Pearson l\'lerrill.
0 GOD OF EARTH AND AL TAR
(To the music of "Webb")
From all that terror teaches,
O God or earth and altar
From Ilea of tongue and pen,
Bow down and hear our cry,
From all the easy speeches
Our earthly rulers falter,
That comfort crnel men,
Our people drift and die;
From sale and profanation
The walls of gold entomb ue,
The swords of acorn divide,
Of honor and the sword,
From sleep and from damnation,
Take not Thy thunder from 11e.
But take away our pride.
Deliver ue, good Lord .
Tie In a living tether
The priest and prince and thrall,
· Bind all our lives together,
Smite ue and save ue all;
In Ire and exultation
Aflame with faith, and free,
Lift up a living nation,
A elngle sword to Thee.
- G. K. Chesterton.
HAIL THE GLORIOUS GOLDEN Cl1Y
(To l he mu sic of "J\ us(ria")
We are builders of that city;
All our joys and all our groans
Help to r ear its shining ramparts;
All our lives are building stones:
Whether humble · or exalted,
All are called to task divine;
All must aid alike to carry
Forward one sublime design.
Hail the g lorious Golden City,
Pictured by th e seers of old!
Everlasting light shines o'er It,
,vo1idrous tal es of It ar e told:
Only righteo us m en and wom en
Dwell within its glea ming wall;
Wrong is banished fro1n its bord ers,
Justice reigns supreme o'er all.
And the work that we have bullded,
Oft with bleeding hands and tears,
Ancl In error and In anguish,
Will not perish with our years;
It will last and shine transfigured
In the final r eign of Right
It will merge into the splendors
Of the City of the Light.
-Felix Adler, 1909.
'
l
FEBRUARY 28,-PETER Wrn, Commissioner
of Public ·works in Cleveland, Ohio, will appear
for the first time on our platform. It will be remembered that Mr. Ross of Buffalo r ece ntly
r e fe rred with the utmost enthusiasm to Peter
\\T s g ifts as a speaker, declaring that he
itt'
possesses spiritual fervor in so marked a degree
that, in o ne year no less than eighteen churches of
Buffalo were g lad to welcome him to their pulpits.
:M r. \\Titt was one of Tom Johnson's most trnstecl
lieute nants and, since :tvlr. Johnson' s death, has
carried on m a ny of the reforms dear to the heart
of that g reat a nd good man . One of these reforms
brou ght a three-cent car fare to Cleveland and of
this and allied movements Mr. \Vitt will tell us in
his lec ture, '' A Citv Findill{r Itself. ''
I '
MARCH 7 ,-RAnnr SAMUEL ScHULi\lAN of New
York, the first man who ever drew what might be
called a good audience to a Forcl Hall Meeting,
will speak on" f,Jl/ial Co11slil11/esa e,·oodJew." Dr.
Schulman's first lecture h e re was an extraordinary
mass ing of th e social and intellectual achievements
of this chosen people and a passionate arraignment
of the unju st attitude many otherwise fair -minded
folk assume towards Jews . \,Ve may fairly expect ,
a similarly stirring address wh en he comes to us
on :M arch 7.
,..
MARCH 14.-JoHN SPARGO, who first became
known in England when, at the outbreak of the
Boer War, he protested publicly against England's
stand in that famous contest, will come down from
his present home among the hills of Vermont to
talk to us on "Socialism aud 11,e T/lar." 1vir.
Spargo is one of the most engaging speakers in
the socialists' ranks, a man whose gentleness and
sweetness always make friends for him, whether
one accepts his economic doctrines or not . The
Spargo night should be a big night at Ford Hall.
. I
I
•i
FORD HALL, corner Bowdoin Street and Ashburton Place
DOORS OPEN AT 7.00 O'CLOCK
THE MEETINGS ARE ENTIRELY FREE
NO TICKETS REQUIRED/
~15
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