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PAGE SIX. DAILY EAST QREGOXIAS, PKXDIJCTO?f, OREGON. MONDAY, NOVEMBKK IS, 1911. EIGHT PAGES. l. tlio gout-faculty t'y which we per- j book called "The Will to Believe." Ci.ive the invisible relatives of the j Jesus is Justified, too, on demand- i spiritual universe. It enables us to lug faith first. In the business world apprehend thins beyond tlie horizon of the physical senses. We have a s!iht faculty, the eye, by which we men act on faith and Judgment first (and as we have seen, faith is the basis of his judgment), and the re- (K. .7. Milnes, Minister, Phone 544.) Tlk-tit': Taitli. Text: "Tlio Hfo that 1 now Iio in the flouli, I. live by the lultli f the Son of tiinl. h loved ih- uiiil lliio-If for mo." (iiil. K.vih is tlie hr.sls of life here an 1 lie hcn-iU'ter. It is the source of all ur.'i,- achi'.-vcir.i ni ; it is the primary IKi.lty of peiieption; it is the f jun ction f all the virtues and powers f Ir.iT'ian personality; it i the tssen- ial unifying principle underlying the .hole system .if credit which makes j'ossi Mo the domestic. social, and :n:Mn.ss relationship of mankind. We uut not narrow the meaning of this v.ord; we nui.-t Rive to it its full weep; for it removes all arbitrary Min:;m limitations and makes our ii. oral and spiritual possibilities infin ite. "Aivordirg to your faith be it jiilo you." The men and women who have faced and fought gigantic wrongs, re moved mountains of difficulty, and initiated the great movements of pro cress and reform, have been inspired 4-nd sustained by a mighty faith. It was faith that hung the lanterns on the prow of the carevals of Columbus Hid lighter a path over the spaces that -cpartted the old world from the new. It was faith that stood at the lu-lm of the Mayflower and piloted ihe Pilgrim fathers across the Atlan ic to establish on this side the sea .-a Republic of freedom and righte ousness. It wr.s faith that led Wesley t abandon the life of a scholar, take up the life of an evangelist, and awaken Ens land from the fatal s'.um ers of ritualism to a vital experience wth God. It was faith that led Liv ingston to pioneer the Dark Conti nent and help heal the open sore of the world To the worldly mind the career of the Apostle Paul is a rid dle. He nas a cultured gentleman; ie moved a prince among the world's lite. He was a born aristocrat. But suddenly he forsook learned and cul tured society and threw his life with the unlettered followers of the Xa Tarene. For this he received con tempt and contumely. He was ma ligned, imprisoned, stoned and flos sed. Put none of these things moved iim. The secret of that heroic change of career is given in the text: "The ife that I now live in the flesh, I have by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." According to the 11th chapter oi Hebrews, everything good and ;?reat in the history of Israel was done .through faith. Faith, then, is a force of character t nd power of achievement. Erase from the earth the principle of faith, 2nd you reduce mankind to the mon otonous lovel of the brute. Faith tloes not mean mere assent to certain doctrines or dogma. That is the de finition of credulity. Faith and cre dulity differ utterly. They are pure antonyms. Credulity is blind; faith i.i vision. When we distrhguish be tween faith and credulity, we destroy the foundation of every doubting castle in history. This distinguish ing definition defeats the arguments 'f Ingersoll, plucks the sting from Tom Paine's "Age of Reason," and removes every intellectual excuse rhich hinders thinking men from embracing the Faith of our Lord. In vain the skeptic compares the dark iwe of credulity, Ignorantly called faith, with the brighter age of rea an. For when we apply the plumb line of definition to the corner-post f his argument, the leaning tower of Pisa becomes perpendicular in com parison. Writ;: this, then, upon the retina of your memory with an in delible pencil; faith is not credulity. Wind ecclesiastical acquiescence dif Hrs from faith as glib ritualism dif fers from vital piety. Moreover, faith is the primary fac ility of perception; it in spiritual vls-i'.-n. The Scriptures define it as -the substance of things hoped for. Ihe evidence of things not seen." It apprehend the form, color, and bulkjsults ucrue later. In the world of u uie iiuuermi oujecis ttui'ui ua. nojafimioj uiso men lay uown an nypo have a sound faculty, the ear, by . thesis first and then make observa which we apprehend harmony and tiens and collect their evidence af discord. We have the touch faculty j ttrward. Scientists are first dream to which we apprehend the tempera- ers and visionlsts, i. e men of faith, ture, weight, and surface finish of 'and later men of fact. Why then' tilings. We apprehend physical : should we object when Jesus demands LONG VOTING LIST FOR NEXT PRIMARY OKKGOX MIST CHOOSE MANY STATE CANDIDATES rtT.ES Cl'RKR IV 6 TO 14 DAYS. Your drusrgist will refund money if PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure any oe of Itching P.'lnd. Bleeding or I'rotruding Piles in 6 to 14 days. 50c. tilings through physical faculties, Likewise we learn of spiritual things through spiritual faculties. Each faculty performs its own functions and only its own. We cannot hear a painting- or see the melodies of music or experience the fragrance of a rose by logic. We do not test a chemical substance by a political principle. We ;.io not observe minute objects with telescope or distant stars with a microscope. Neither can we observe si iritual realities with physical in struments, or with processes of logic of mathematics. Love, joy and hope are us much a part of my life as the food I eat, yet I cannot see them or hear them or handle them. So the heavenly realities are a part of my life, yet "eye hath not seen nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man the things that God hath prepared for them that love Him." But Just as I trust the report which my physical senses give me of the material world, and act upon it, so I trust the report which my spiri tual sense gives me of the spiritual world and act upon it. Indeed, my soul-faculty, being the deepest, is the most trustworthy of them all. I can not always believe what I hear and I frequently cannot trust my eyes. My eye tells me that a straight stick in serted in a glass of water is broken at the surface of the water. My eye deceives me. But faith, like charity, never faileth. Through faith I be come aware of the person and pres ence of Jesus. "My faith looks up to Thee, Thou lamb of calvary," and like Moses. I endure "as seeing Him who is invisible." Eut more than the power of achie vement or the soul-faculty of percep tion, faith is the foundation of all other virtues and faculties. It is the corner stone upon which rests the whole temple of character. "Add to your faith virtue, and to your virtue knowledge." Certainly faith is the oasis of most of our knowledge. The information we attain through per sonal observation is insignificant compared with that which we attain through faith. We believe the tostl- mony of other men. This is the source of most of our knowledge of history and very much of science. Likewise faith is the basis of our judgment. When I hear a speech 1 judge its arguments by the standard in which I have been trained and educated to believe. A socialist could scarcely see much merit in the logic of a stand-pat republican because his judgment is controlled by his political faith. Moreover, faith is the basis of conscience. The heathen mother throws her babe into the Ganges as a sacrifice to her gods conscienti ously because her faith controls her conscience, faith, then, is the basis of my intellect, judgment and consci ence. Indeed, when Jesus demand ed faith as the prime requisite of character, he pressed the master el ectric button which illuminated every moral and intellectual light of the temple of man's whole personality. But, it is objected, Jesus com mands us to believe, while belief is involuntary and cannot be com manded. He should give us the evi dence and then belief would be ine vitable. But, belief not being under the control of the will, cannot be pro duced by order. To meet this ob jection, we again appeal to definiti on. The revised translation of the Bible says that "faith is the giving of substance to things hoped for." Can I hope to become a Christian man? Certainly. Can I in a greater or leas degree give substance to that hope? Equally so. These two elements of faith, hope and action, are certainly tinder control of my will. Every man who hopes and strives to give sub stance to that hope, is a man of faith, according to the definition. Hence faith is a reasonable demand. This i.s not the theory of merely a senti mentalist. The greatest psychologist of modern times, the late Prof. James of Harvard, placc-3 the approval of science upon this reasoning in his this same order of procedure Cer tainly not because we can't believe, but because we do not will to be lieve Beloved. If you wait for the gratification Of nil your intellectual In quiries before you accept Jesus as your Savior, you will never know Him, whom to know Is life eternal. Why be so unreasonable? Why so confuse the order of faculty func tions? Let us be as wise as the busi ness man or the scientist. Let us take Christ as our hvnothesls if us hope that He is divine and that! He will give us eternal life. Let us take this. risk. We cannot have the proof at first. But we can act unon our hypothesis, and if we make our experiments consistently day by day, we shall have the evidence. We shall have the sweet awareness of His liv ing presence; we shall be guided, in spired, and sustained by a new force of character: we may testify with Paul: "The life that I now live In the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Him self for me." In Addition to 1 'resident ami Vice lretiiileiit of I'liilori Slates. Senator ami Tliiv,. Congro-tdonal Moni tors Must lie Srkvktl. The Soothing spray of Ely's Liquid Cream Balm, used H an atomizer is an unspeakable relief to sufferers from Catarrh. Some of them describe It as a Godsend, and no wonder. The thick, foul discharge is dislodged and the patient breathes freely, perhaps for the first time in weeks. Liquid Cream Balm contains all the healing, purifying elements o? the solid form, and it never fails to satisfy. Sold by all druggists for 75c, including spray ing tube, or mailed by Ely Bros., 56 Warren street New York. IiOlXD-VP ANN IAL STOCKHOLD ERS' MEETING. On Tuesday evening, November 14. in the assembly room of the city hall will te held the Round-r;p Annual Stockholders' meeting, at which time a complete report of the last year's business and the 1911 show will . submitted for your approval Also (at this time will be held the annual election of officers for the ensuing year. Every stockholder Is urged to be there. J. H. GWINN. ! Secretary. Saved Many from Death. W. L. Mock Ark., believes he has saved many lives In his 25 years of experience in the drug business. "What I always like to do," he writes, "Is to recommend Dr. King's New Discovery for weak, sore lungs, hard colds, hoarseness, obstinate coughs, la grippe, croup, asthma or other bron chial affections for I feel sure that a number of my neighbors are alive and well today because they took my advice to uso it. I honestly believe It's the best throat and lung medicine that's made." Easy to prove he's right. Get a trial bottle free, or reg ular 50c or $1 00 bottle. Guaranteed by Koeppens. EATS 28 DOUGHNUTS, DRINKS 11 CIT'S OF COFFEE Springfield, Mass. Lulga Longone ate twenty-eight doughnuts and drank fourtee" ncups of coffee In a Main street lunch room on a wager. On a bet that he could not eat sixteen egg sandwiches with a gener- j ous slice of onion included in each, he put down twenty for good meas ure and left in dissatisfaction be cause of the inability of the estab lishment to fill a dessert order for Ice cream and pickles. Salem, Or., Nov. 13. When tho voters of Oregon go to the polls at the primary election April 19 they will have a formidable array of candidates for a large number of offices from whom to choose. In addition to voting for the candi dates for president of the United Slates and vice president of the Unit ed States under the new Oregon pre ferential preference urlmary plan, voters in each of the firt, second and third congressional districts will be called upon to select their choice of candidates for representatives in congress. Next year a United States senator also will be selected to suc ceed Jonathan Bourne, Jr. The office of secretary of state is to be filled and one justice of the su preme court is to be elected to suc ceed Chief Justice Eakin. The term of J. W. Bailey as state dairy and food commissioner will expire also. Ten 'delegates to the national conven tion for the nomination of president and vice president of the United States are to be elected and five elec tors for president and vice president at the general election. A railroad commissioner from the first and sec ond congressional districts is to be I'omlnated and elected. In the second, sixth and eighth ju dicial districts judges are to be elect ed and in the fourth Judicial district, or Multnomah county, judges for de partment No. 1 and No. 2 are to be elected. District attorneys are to be elected in all but the 13th Judicial district, where the election w8 neld lust year for that office. Representatives from all of the d's tricts wjlr be elected from the lower house of the legislature and 16 sen ators are to be elected. County judges will be elected the coming year in 13 counties, these counties be ing Columbia, Curry, Jackson, Linn, Malheur, Marion, Morrow, Multni mah. Polk, Sherman, Wallowa, Wasco and Wheeler. WHERE TO ? Seattle ? Spokane ? Portland S Leave Pendleton 1 :30 P. M. ( Arrive Seattle .8 :15 A. M. Arrive Spokane 9 :55 P. M. V Arrive Portland 8:10 A. M. Northern Pacific Railway Tho Pioneer Line. First class trains. Close connections. Good leaving time. Good arriving time. SLEEPING CARS FROM PASCO Through Tickets to all Points East or West Secure tickets and full information from W. ADAMS, AGENT N. P. RY., PENDLETON. Ask about EXCURSION FARES for theee events: Nation Apple Show, Spokane, November 23-30. m IMJOriTS IN UOSTOri'K E. Nab Alexander at linker. Baker, Ore. The United States postoffice Inspector brought charges of misappropriation of money receiv ed for money ordera against Mulvin Alexander, a member of a prominent local family and employe of the local postoffice. Christmas may be made saner, but many people will continue to write it Xmas. For First Tlino Siuo 188:t Federal Mall Service ls Conducted With Surplus. Washington. For the first time since 18S3 the postoffice department during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1911, was conducted at a profit. In twenty-four months the conduct of the postal service has resulted in changing a deScit of $17,479,770 for the fiscal year 1909 to a surplus of $219,118 for the fiscal year 1911. Dur ing the last fiscal year the audited revenues of the department were $237,879,823, and the audited ex penditures $237,648,926. These facts are detailed In a re prrt of Charles A. Kram, auditor for the postoffice department, in a re port submitted today to Postmaster General Hitchcock. During the fiscal year 81,906,025 domestic money orders were Issued aggregating $300,034,432, and 4,000, 413 International money orders were issued aggregating $96,681,211. A large amount of money Is avail able for postoffice department, the rtnnrt showing that more than $3,- 000,000 is held by tho treasurer of the United States and assistant treas urer for the use of the postal ser vice and that more than $6,4O0.O0 li similarly held for the use of tlie money order service. 1'IXD GOLD SF.EN IN DREAM. AND NOW READY FOR BUSINESS! Before buying your tea, coffee, extracts and spices, call and see us. We carry a fine large stock composed of every popular flavor, and blend our teas and coffees to suit your individual taste. Coupons given with every 25c purchase Redeemable in our up-to-date China Dep't. THIS IS PENDLETON'S GREATEST STORE FOR Cut Glass China Haviland Hand Painted China Japanned Ware Glassware Porcelain Wars Crockery Enameled Ware Owl Tea House Next to Livengood's R. J. Cress well, Mgr Couplo Iteuardrd for Their Faith in a Vision. Oxford, Md Wye Mills, a small vil lage in Talbot county, is excited over the realization of a dream of buried treasre. Some Hold has been found and with It directions for digging for more. The burled treasure dream came to Fachel Stansbury. a colored woman, at her home In Philadelphia and was followed, she declares, by a ghostly visitation from her deceased undo. John Scott, who ured her to act upon the dream-given hint. Finally she and her husband, Em ery Stansbury, went to the spot de served in the d renin, near their old iKime at Wye Mills, and began dig ging. Three feet under the surface they found a wooden box containing three gold tokens of Irregular shape, each about tho size of a silver quar ter. In the box also was a paper, fall ing to pieces from age, on which was written: "More money buried here deeper down. Pig fast and get It." Stansbury and his wifo are doing their best to dig fast and want help, but the negroes of the neighborhood are superstitious and fearful und will not approach the hole and no white labor is to be had. l'ctir Ho Is Slain for Money. Klamath Falls. Ore. Paul Scheln mester, a wealthy saloonman of Dairy, this county, Is missing. When last seen by his relatives ho had $2000 In his possession and his disap pearance Is supposed to be another of a series of undetected crimes commit ted in this city, w here the saloon man was visiting. State of Ohio, City oi Toledo, Lacu County m ...... Frank J. Cbenejr makea oath that ha la sen If partner of the firm of V. 1. Cheney k Co., doing hunlneB In tba Cltr of Toledo, County and Btate aforesaid, and that ulrl firm will pay tbe aum of ONB HUNDRED tiOIXAKH for earb and every caae of ca tarrh that cannot be cored by tbe oae of all'e Catarrh Cure. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and anbacrlbed In my prMence, tbla Oth day of December, A. D '"is'eall A. 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