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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 772, 22 March 1910, Page 5

There are few.religious and.churchgoine ■ -.i people who are not , familiar , , with'that: . j popular Gospel hymn, "Whiter Thai.' I Snow"; hut without looking it up in -..-•"H their song.books,_ there are few who are:'. j able to name the' author. In retirement,' ? j at Osterdock, la., lives.Eden E. Latta, i J who wrote not only. this beautiful ■, , j hymn, but over sixteen hundred, others. ■, ;j 'as well. In fact, Mr." Latta can well ~. j claim the world's 'record as ; being the : ', . i most prolific hymn writer. Ho was born: : ; j March 2i, 1839, in a. beautiful part of ;, - i Noble County, Indiana, known as "The.V ; , j Haw Patch," has immortalised the i name of the place'in some of his pub- . i lished poems. Early in his career, Mr. . .. ; Latta'composed "Whiter Than Snow v for ■: > a work which Professor' H. S. Perkins, of ■'"■' i Chicago, was compiling. ■' It Tvas entitled '■•"; j "The Eiver of Life." It sprang, into im- h i mediate. and immense popularity,, and ■ be-, ■ | sides' being copied into- many works, , it - - ! was translated into Hindu several. yeara ;j' '; ago, ■ for ■ the use. of missionaries. Other , ■,?. j hymns of Mr. Latta,'.which.have, brought.; ■ ;j him much \ popularity, have been "Wan-:.- ,'. ! dering.Away" and Be thef.Fq'uh- ;.,V j tain. .' '■. .'■■"■.'■ : .-' '■•' ■'. :.-'■'!

Captain Mahan, x pf the United States';'-.: j Navy,- the well-known -naval -authority,.: j? i contributes a.very interesting article 'to .• .v'j the "Monthly News Sheet" .of the . :J~'\ World's-Missionary Conference. ■• Chirac-.v : i teristically he. treats the spiritual, cam-.... : . ,<j paign of missions from, a tactical 'point '. t '.-.' i of view. The attack on heathendom',- he ';';.. points out, is weakened-.because , it is in -.".' a series.of disconnected'assaults, aiming '''.: at the same result,-but lacking, in the '' . reasoned combination of effort bywhich : " :: . ' many attacks become .essentially.' one. ■, : .' This division in the field springs from •'■'■"■.■. the division of Christian bodies, at home,- ri-i .where there ought to- be- a strong, unit- T ':J! | Ed, defensive base.....Captain' Mahan |wel-r'' ; o comes the forthcoming World Missionary . .'■. -. Conference as the greatest existing sym? :'- { bol of Christian unity,-but points'.oiit.;: i'J that the. scope of the conference's, iiy, :.?:: i bussions is necessa.ri!v; i Umited.,by p ..tie;.di;,'. .'■;'/ -j 'visions of. Christendom , .' He hopes' 'the '"'-I conference may. sen'd-'its members' home' -.. ; . ' '' r with a certain 'lnth , * , ' 1 " j our. divisions." ..... ~ i '. j '• ' .Mr.. Douglas : B..,-Hall, the Unionisti-: ,, member for^th'e Isle of Wight, who willv-i,i probably be the' tallest member in tVe. . :c j new House, is. 6 feet 5 inches .•: -. • .-.■-. . i