Versification by "Sylvanus," headquarters at Chicago, has been recently greeted by the opponents of modernists. Specimen:
Dear Lord, Thy Church on devious ways
Hath fallen in these latter days.
The auger-holes of Leighton Parks*
Would sink a half a dozen Arks;
While what is said by Percy Grant
Doth** make the mast both creak and slant;
And Reiland, Lord, Thou know'st his breath
Doth threaten yawning, billowy death,
While Guthrie** doth, with song and dance,
Into the spotlight blithely prance.
What can we do? The rich and great
Upon their words and preaching wait—
The men who own the railway shares,
The oil kings and the millionaires.
Dear Lord, Thou...
