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II 1 K aiOKSIJSG OKEGOMAIf, 3H)M)AY, JAM7AKY 3, l'.llU. "MIRflCLESMOOT COST FULLY PAID r NEW CHURCH, DEDICATED YESTERDAY "WITHOUT DEBT, AND ITS PASTOR. Toll & (GaTbTbs, Hoc. Housefurnishings MORRISON AT SEVENTH Sold on Easy Payments The Home Furnished Complete TEST OF RE German Methodists Dedicate Church Free of Debt. Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr., Calls Father Thompson's Position Attack on Reality. PLAN DRAWN BY MINISTER LIGIUH - "' x,v:,,:- ' - - v-: :-,: " . " V ;..:- , : ? ,::-:-:-:::"-:. 'i. : --i iV , . j$$. ' .rjp :: -,jy; . :. : ..:...- .1 MYTHS DO NOT AID BELIEF Unitarian Also Deplores Agnosti cism and Irreligion Subver sion of Physical Order Has Xo Moral Value. "An attack upon the reality of religion" wae the phrase used by Rev. W. G Eliot, Jr., in his sermon at the Unitarian Church yesterday morning to describe the pub lished sermon of Father Thompson, de livered at the cathedral a week ago. Rev. Mr. Eliot's mibject wag "A Plea for Moral Freedom tn the Church." He said, in substance: This sermon is a response to the eermon by Rev. Father Thompson, of this city, pub lished last Sunday morning;. It i not an attack upon the Roman Church, but a de fense against what from a Unitarian p-jint of view is an attack upon the reality of religion. I paas by much that I might say of sincere appreciation of the Roman Catholic Church and of many things in which I agree with Father Thompson; nor do I attempt to traverse nil the matters in which , 1 disagree. I confine myself to three of Father Thompson's contentions: First, that miracles attest Jesus character and teach ing; second, that modern scholarship worked out on the presuppositions of all sound his torical study is subversive of religion and, laird ly, by inference, that moral freedom and real religion are incompatible. Limit Placed on Thought. For surely, to take up the last point first, that which Father Thompson believes to be real religion can be maintained only by denying the validity of any thinking which does not begin and end within the bounds of Catholic authority. And to consider the other points together, the Unitarians and all other "modernists" hold that thus to make our knowledge of Jesus depend upon our belief In the mir acles, and at the same time to condemn all scholarship which does not take this for its starting point, is to reason in a circle. Moreover it constitutes an assault upon the independent reality of religion and upon the reality of that In man which In as capablo of responding to religion as to either miracle or dogma. And this assault involves moral peril. The world is full of men who have been taught from childhood that miracles were the at testation of religion; and these men have become just intelligent enough to know that most of the alleged miracles probably never happened, but not intelligent enough to have learned that the true attestation of religion is not miracle at all. And when these men are confronted with these alter natives, "You must choose between religion with miracles and traditional scholarship on the one hand and no religion at all- or a false one on the other," which alternative will they choose? That Is the case with a large part of the world today, and accounts for much of the agnosticism, atheism, ma terialism and irreligion, with all their direct and indirect consequences, which Father Thompson and I alike deplore. Belief In Myth Not Essential. Father Thompson believes that the myths that grew up about the story of Christian beginnings were not myths and that they attest divine truth. I hold that these myths are myths, and that all that Is true and vital in Christanity is believable in spite of, not because of, these myths. A sub version of the physical order, even if be lievable, has no essential connection with moral values. The Issue in the present day is becoming Increasingly clear between the churches of authority, whether of hierarchy, creed or hook, and the churches, together with the "modernists' in all churches, who bold that Christianity and heresy are iesii inconsist ent than Christianity- ' with ecclesiastical strictures upon moral freedom. We are per fectly aware that we are between two fires the fire of those who deny that we can be free and Christian, and the fire of t hose who deny that we can be Christian and free; but the place of peril has its own Joys, and If we can believe that even our defeat as an organized company would inspire and organize the r.ext battle we shall stand our ground with generous and happy loyalty. The world's evils are too serious to per mit the reality of religion to be under mined. Religion Is too vitally real to re quire miracles in the physical order for its attestation, unscientific scholarship for its substantiation. and constraint urder the dread sanctions of excommunication or per secution for its outward growth and power. CUmCII CALLED TO AWAKEN Presbyterians Urged to Begin Active Campaign for Membership. A New Year's message, sig-ned by Rev. E. Nelson Allen, moderator of the Portland Presbytery, calling upon Pres byterians to awaken, and not to rest until the membership of the church has been augmented materially, was read in all churches of Portland Pres bytery yesterday. The message says that the activities of the church have been chilled, the vows of church mem bers relaxed and their consciences deadened by the strong drift away from positive religious convictions. The mes sage says, in part: The strong drift away from personal com munion with God and from positive religious convictions, which is found lu the world, has also chilled the activities, relaxed the vows and deadened the consciences of many Christians. The lust of money, the passion for pleas ures, the craving fur worldly dictlnctions have laid hold of us whose citizenship is lu heaven. The consequence is that interest in de votional life has slackened, attendance at stated meetings is not what it should be, and the ordinary tasks of Christian service have tn many Instances become irksome. The church is not dead, nor is It dying, but is in need of awakening. The prebytery. having in mind the history of the church from apostolic times, recog nizes this situation as a recurrence. The former times wore not better than those; and the presbytery believes that it Is noed ful for us, as it was for our fathers in their days, to realise the gravity of the situation, and the vanity of human ex pedients, and to turn anew to our Lord Jesus Christ, the great head of the church, by whose blood we are cleansed from sin. whose will is our rule of life and whose grave Is our only hope. The presbytery therefore counsels that In very heart, and in every home, and in every organization of this church an honest fcearch be made to discover how far this drift has gone, and that, however far tt has Kone. t be clearly recognized as an occa sion for genuine repentance before our Lord ml Master, and for a new purpose to re turn to his fath and his service. After these messages had been read in the various churches they were sub mitted to the clerks of the sessions for further consideration and such action as the sessions deem wise. The Dalles Levies Six Mills. THE DALLES. Or., Jan. 2. (Special ) A city tax of six milla on an assessed valuation of 13.723.200 was levied at last night's meeting of the City Coun cil. One-half mill was levied for the maintenance of the new Carnegie li brary, two and one-half mills for the general fund and three mills for streets and roads fund. The levy is lower this year than last, but taxes will be higher, as the valuation of taxable property lacked only a few hundreds of dollars of being doubled for 1910 r ; ' tPg llH fccx fel"-, -J.- J.'J! GKHM A-X METHODIST CHURCH. RODXEY AVEJilK A.N I STANTON STBEET. CHINOOK WORK BEGINS T72CITED STATES CONFIRMS RECJ OMMEXDATIOXS FOIt DREDGE. Remodeling Contract for Craft to Re Used on Columbia River Bar, Goes to Marine Iron Works. Recommendations made by Major Mclndoe for awarding the contract for remodeling the dredge Chinook, which is to be used on the Columbia River bar, have been confirmed by the Chief Engineer of the United States Army, and work will begin on the vessel early this week. The Chinook was formerly the tran sport Grant. She is lying . at the present time at the Government moor ing, from which she will be taken to day to the Marine Iron Works at St. John. The work of remodeling the Chi nook will be done by the Marine Iron Works, and the time in which the com pany is to complete the work is four and one-half months. It is believed that the vessel will be ready for work on the bar by June 1. The contract bid for the work, which has just been formally accepted, is $132,000, being about $50,000 less than that of any of the other five bidders. The principal changes to be made in the Chinook will be cutting; away of the sides of the main deck, thus re ducing the depth of the hull; moving the engines and boilers to the stern and making sleeping apartments for the officers and crew in the after-part of the vessel. When the work on the Chinook is completed she will be specially fitted for dredging the bar "or doing similar work in rivers. She then will have a much lighter draught than at present. BREAKWATER IS ICE-COVERED Stealer Arrives in Portland With Coating on Forecastle. Ice to the thickness of between 6 and 12 inches froze on the forecastle head of the steamer Breakwater, which arrived last night from Coos Bay. The weather was unusually cold and the Coos Bay bar rough when the vessel passed out over it. The wind was blowing at that time a stiff gale from north-northwest, and as the spray struck the vessel it froze into Ice. The Breakwater arrived at Astoria at 10 o'clock yesterday morning and left up the river 15 minutes later. She arrived in Portland a few minutes after 7 o'clock last night, and as1 she neared her dock she (rave three long whistles as a New Tear's salute to the port. The Break water was 17 hours in making the trip to Portland from Coos Bay. The Breakwater brought 65 passengers, 45 tons of frozen fish. 80 tons of generai merchandise and 350 tons of coal. Among the passengers was Mrs. N. T. Singleton, of Portland, who had been to Coos Bay to visit her sister. ELDER MAKES FAST TIME Steamer, Aided by . Tide, Comes From Astoria lu Seven Hours. Aided by the Incoming tide, the steamer Elder made the trip up the river from Astoria yesterday to Port land in seven hours. Although as 1 good time has been made by that ves sel in the past, the record is considered unusual. The Elder arrived in Portland at o o'clock yesterday afternoon, carrying 45 passengers and between 500 and 600 tons of general cargo.- The trip from San Pedro to Portland was in fair weather, except the last day on the ocean, when the vessel experienced a cold, disagreeable gale. COLD WEATHER HITS SHIPPIXG Cascade Locks Compelled to Close, Interfering With Traffic. ' Serious interference with river traffic is threatened by the cold weather, which caused the Cascade locks to close yes terday. The Dalles City was the last vessel to pas through the locks and it was announced last night that the Bailey Gatzert will not leave on her usual trip today on account of the closing of the locks. Ice was forming rapidly along the Ore gon shore of the Columbia River last night opposite Vancouver and les rap Idly on the Washington side. Port of Portland in Ignorance. Although recent dispatches from Washington have stated that the clos ing of the bridge draws on the Wil lamette River during the rush hours of traffic across them was subject to the will of the members of th tct of Portland, that department has re- ft w if I 1 A 1 im i ht'y''i.i"' Rev. E. E. Hertzler. ceived no official information to that effect, according to a statement made yesterday by C. F. Swigert, president of the Port. Rose City Sends. Wireless. The local Weather Eureau received the following v wireless message yesterday morning from the steamer Rose City, by way of Eureka: "Steamship Rose City, January 2, 1910, 4 A. M., latitude 42, longi tude 124 Barometer, 29.90; temperature, 42; wind, northwest; weather, cloudy; wifid, light.' Madison Bridge Work Delayed. High water in the past and the present cold weather have combined to delay the worlc on the Madison-street bridgre, until now it seems thatthe work will be two months later in"be-ing- completed than had been intended originally. The contract calls for the completion of the bridge in May. Coal Cargo Reaches Astoria. ASTORIA, Or., Jan. 2. (Special.) The collier Mackinaw arrived today from the Sound, with a cargo of coal for this port. The schooner Commerce left up the river today in tow of the tu& Tatoosh for Stella, where she will load a cargo of lumber. Lumber Schooner Goes Ashore. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 2. The lumber schooner Alice McDonald, which went ashore near the entrance to the har bor Friday night, is still aground. The crew was taken off today. It is be lieved that when the cargo of lumber is removed the vessel may be floated into.deeo water. Arrivals and Departures. ABtoria, Jan. 2. Wind north; weather clear; sea smooth. Sailed At ft A. M.. steamers Santa. Rita, for Nome City and Bowdoln for San Fran cisco; at 7:15 A. M-. steamer Alliance, for Coos Bay; at 8 A. M., steamer Santa Clara, for San Francisco; at 2 P. M., French bark David d' Angers, for Queenstown for orders. Arrived At 8:30 and left up at 9 A. M., steamer Seorge W. Elder, from San Fran cisco; at 10 and left up at 10:15 A. M. steamer Breakwater, from Coos Buy; at 10 A. M., steamer Mackinaw, from Seattle ; at 10:15 and left up at 11:30, steamer Northland, from San Francisco. Left up at 11 A. M., schooner Commerce for Stella. Arrived down at 3:30 and sailed at 5 P. M., steamer Asuncion, for San Francisco. Ar rived at 6:30 P. M. and left up at 8. steamer St. Helens, from San Francisco. Sailed at 2 P. M- French hark avid d Angers, for Queenstown for orders. San Pedro, Jan. '2. Sailed yesterdar steamers Shoshone and J. B. Stetson, for Portland. San Francisco. Jan. 2. Bailed at 2 P. M.. steamers Maverick and Olvmplc, for Portland. Arrived At 2 P British steamer Falls of Orchy, from Honolulu for Portland; at 4 P. M.. steamer Eureka, from Portland. Liverpool. Jan. 2. Arrived Tunisian, from tet. John and Halifax. Queenstown. Jan. 2. Sailed Arabic, for New York: Carmanla, for New York. Liverpool. Jan. 1. Sailed Sicilian, for Philadelphia. Halifax. N. S., Jan. 2. Arrived Gram pian, from Liverpool. Portland, Me.. Jan. 2. Arrived Canada, from Liverpool. Seattle. Jan. 2. Arrived Steamer Wat son, from an Francisco. Sailed Steamers Admiral Sampson and Queen, both for San Francisco. New York, Jan. 2. Arrived Umbria, from Liverpool. Los Angeles. Jan. 2. Arrived Schooner Robert Searls. from Everett: schooner Ho qui am. from Grays Harbor. Sailed Schooner Y'ellowstone. for Columbia River, via San Francisco; schooner Taurus, for Tacoma, in ballast; schooner Salvator, for Coos Bay in ballasc. New York, Jan, 2- Arrived Minnewaska from London; Caronla, from Fiume. Sailed Furnessla, for Glasgow; Russia, for Libau San Francisco, Jan. 2. Arrived Steamer Westerner, from Grays Hrbor; steamer Ar gyll, from Seattle; steamer G. C. Lindauer from Grays Harbor; steamer Charles Nelson' from Everett; steamer Falls of Orchy, from Honolulu. Sailed Steamer Centralla. for Seattle; steamer Maverick, for Astoria -steamer Sen Jacinto, for Gravg Harbor steamer Nann Smith, for Coos Bay. TILLAMOOK EVERY 5 DAYS Steamship Golden Gate sails January z, Monday. Freight only, at Oak-st. dock. , . Vv rf v I v I I . . Bisbop Compliments Pastor on Aus picious Beginning Expendi ture of $7000 Is Repre sented by Building. The new Rodney-Avenue German Meth odist Church, Rodney avenue and Stanton street, was dedicated yesterday with three largely attended services. Rev. George Harting preached in the morn ing and at 2:30 Rev. Charles W. Smith, resident bishop, of this city, delivered the dedicatory sermon. Bishop -Smith laid the corner-stone of the new church about eight months ago and he yester day congratulated the pastor and con gregation on the completion of the new building without any debt. Pol lowing the sermon the church was ded icated formally by Bishop Smith, as sisted by Rev. E. B. Hertzler, the pas tor, and other ministers, including Dis trict Superintendent Hollingshead. A platform meeting was held in the church last evening, when addresses were delivered by Rev. Joseph Hepp, of Mllwaukie, Or.; Rev. P. H. Luecke, of Tacoma. Wash., and Professor Fred eric Cramer, of Willamette University. As all obligations against the new church had been provided for it was not necessary to raise money. The new church cor KnmotHfno- , tna1 $7000. The plans were drawn by ",cv- ""-son, ot the Swedish Church, of Portland. It has a full con crete basement in which is the Sun day school room. The auditorium will seat about 500. It is provided with a gallery, is handsomely furnished and has comfortable pews. Rev. Mr. Hertz ler accepted the mil t-. j - - ..He nuuney. Avenue German Methodist Church two yeais ago, coming from Bloomington RIGHT 6000 STUFF, THIS DIPLOMAT TELLS WHY EXGLAND AXD GERMANY WOX'T CLASH. King Edward Found Austria AVouId Not Join Alliance Against Ger many, and War Scare Was Over. Washington Letter to Brooklyn Eagle. The Inside facts of present European politics, with special relation to the talk of war between England and Germany, are set forth in a confidential letter re ceived here from one of thtf best-known diplomats in the service of the German government. It appears irom this com munication that men who. two years ago were confident that a Seath struggle be tween England and Germany was inev itable, now take the view that iliere will be no clash. Thu sensational speeches in Canada and the United States recently, of .Admiral Beresford and Lord Nortliciiff, Predicting early war between England and Germany, are laughed at by the Garman diplomat in question. He says that tht. Kaiser does not seek the overthrow of his uncle. It is the Intention of Germany, however, to keep on building Dreadnoughts and eventually to win the friendship of Bng land. Interesting light Is thrown upon the tottering Triple Alliance and new alignments that are being formed by the war powers of Europe. The communica tion is as follows: "You know that in 1906 and 1907 we be lieved there would soon be war between England and Germany. Britain then be gan to realize that Germany, as her com mercial rival, went aheai faster than she did. What did it amount to that England st'll went ahead if her rival went ahead faster? Between 1SS5 and 1905 Germany increased her exports of manufactured goods $415,000,000. while England increased hers only $300,000,000. The day seemed not far off (and has since come nearer) when Germany would sell more in the world's markets than England. To prevent this danger England could enly make war and try to annihilate Geiman commerce and shippins. . "England indeed began to prepare for this war. The King bt'gan his famous policy of 'isolating Germany.' The Eng lish press fostered distress of Germany in every country by sending out tales of Germany's hunger for land and colonies. In 1907 all the powers of Europe, with the exception of Austria, seemed lined up against Germany, and the powerful coali tion evidently believed that in the face of such a formidable array of powers Aus tria would never support her ally. We Germans only know that our enemies were mistaken. Old Emperor Francis Jo seph had loyally told the Kaiser how, at Marienbad, Xing Edward had tried to win him over to the anti-German League. The other nations in Europe were ever after that convinced that Austria would, if not join Germany's enemies, at least not take the seemingly great risk of supporting Germany. "Then came the Balkan crisis of last Winter. Austria had annexed Servia, Turkey. Servia and Monteneerro stood ar- I rayed against the Dual-Monarchie (Aus tria-Hungary) and waited for Russia to give the signal for a fight, in which, of course, Russia would join as well as Italy. For you must be aware that Aus tria and Italy are though both in the Triple Alliance enemies, and will prob ably come sooner to blows than any other two powers. "Again the " anti-German League mis calculated the strength of the ties tnat bind Germany and Austria together. The kostiles believed Germany- would not come to the assistance of an Austrian attacked by Russia and the combined mousetrap manufacturers. The dramatic climax of the situation was reached at a dinner given by the German Ambassador at Vienna. The Russian military attache approached the chief of the Austrian General Staff, General Konrad - von Hoetzendorff, with the question: " 'What's the news. Excellency?' "Konrad. smiled. 'Not much. My sov ereign has signed the order for mobiliza tion of our entire forces, so that I may give the orders out at any moment, and our faithful ally, the German Kaiser, has written a letter in which he again gave his solemn promise to come to our help with the last man of his army.' "The Russian never ate that dinner. He knew that General von Konrad could and would speak as he had done only under instructions of Emperor Francis Joseph and his diplomatic councillors. He went home, changed hie dress and left the same night for St. Petersburg. Three days later Iswolskl recognized, to the amazement of England, 'who had cooked up the entire row, the right of Austria to annex Servia. The war scare was over. - , "The value of this episode for us was See Housefurnishings Sold on Easy Payments that the Servian imbroglio has convinced Europe that Austria and Germany will go to war in support of each other under any and all circumstances. You know that France would have attacked us, and also England, if we had aided Austria against Russia, but nevertheless the war would have been popular in Germany. The old gag of Deutsche treue (German faithfulness) was worked to the limit during the critical days and the result Is that in Austria, as well as Germany, the alliance is so popular that the anti-Germans can hear the hollerjng and shout ing in St. Petersburg, London and Paris. "Against this combination they won't stand up. Russia will need 20 years more to reorganize her army for such a fight. Austria could hold her in check until we have had a reckoning with France. Italy will in any case wait on the fence until either France or Germany has won bat tles and then only join, weeping with joy and shouting over the victories of the one who won. But if Italy would (what nobody believes) march at once, she could reach with the advance guard of her armies a Central European battlefield only on the 17th day after the mobiliza tion, and it must be remembered that about on the 14th day the fight between France and Germany Is decided. These figures are Important. The world has at present only four armies (France, Aus tria, Japan and Germany) which are ready to strike with full force at a mo ment's notice. As we can count on two of these armies, we are in a. position to deal with our adversaries one by one. In view of the stability and strength of the German-Austrian, combine, the anti German League has realized what It is up against. "Strange as it may seem to you, France is a power that will prevent war between England and Germany. The French real ize that they would pay the cost of such a war. While they are talking of re vanche they are acting for peace, as was proven during the last Winter's cri sis. England alone would never attack us. What can she win? Would she win? The Armada was destroyed by storm. Trafalgar and Abukir were victories won over a nation of men helpless whenever thpy go down to the sea in ships. But on those two victories is based the legend (for such it may prove) of the superior ity of the English navy. "Read the history of the War of 1812. The "mighty squadrons' of Britain could not overpower the miserably" equipped and hurriedly manned little coast de fense ships of the United States. I don't say the English navy will, but it may turn out a bluff. Besides, England never yet In all her history succeeded to down a nation of white men either in military or commercial war. She could not hold on to the United States. She was re cently (after the war) forced to grant the Boers the economic independence which she had refused them before the war. England gave away to the Boers what she had been fighting to hold. She is still fighting Ireland (at least with freight rates), and after a struggle of more than 750 years, cannot claim that she has fully downed and conquered the Irish, for they are clamoring for a parliament and home rule louder than ever. "No! It's God's truth that we do not fear England, but we have no desire to disturb the old ladj? in the afternoon nap of a long and worthy life. We never will invade the 'green field of Surrey," and we don't write or play stories of in vasion. We don't send out Admirals or editors to scare peaceful Yankees with tales of war, but we attend strictly to business and build Efreadnoughts, for we are convinced that when our new navy is completed, when we have only half as many battleships as England, we will not only avoid war, but even win Eng land's friendship. The old lady always liked to lean on the young and strong." . (I Our Grea.t Amuminal IBsi rMaiio Event COMMENCES TODAY Every Department Contrib uting Liberally to Make This the Greatest of January Sales Unparalleled Offerings in "Women's, Misses', Juniors' and Children's Wearing Apparel, Waists and Cor sets. Remarkable Bargains All through the Furniture Displays, Rugs, Carpets, Linoleum and Car pet Remnants. Lace, Curtains and Portieres, Bedding, Remnants of Upholstery Drapery and Curtain Materials. Crockery, Glassware, Silverware, and Graniteware. Odds and Ends of Every Description. Announcement in Sunday's Paper, Section 1, Page 9. 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