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'I EIGHT VfiGEB. EVEflXO OB8ERTEB. LA GRAJTDK, OREGON, THCItSOAY, MAItCH It, 18. rASR TWO DIRECTORY or THE I FRATERNAL. ORDERS LA GRANDE, ORE. . ; . Woodmen of (lis World. L Grande Lode No. Hi. W. O. W meets first and third Friday of ch month in K. of P. hall In Corpe building. A visiting members wel come. M. M. MAKQUI3, 3. H. KEENEY, Conaul Commander. Clerk. Fcreatera of America. woun uaia Marian No. ! meet ana rourtb Wednesday night in K. of P. hall. Brothers are Invited to attend. NERI ACKLES, C. R. ' O. V. HENDRICKS, F. S. ' - Board of Trustee: Dr. O. L. Big Cera, Oscar Berger and Herbert Patterson. , Rebekaba. . Crystal Lodge No. (0, meets every Tuesday evening at the L O. O. F. lodge. All visiting members are ta ttled to attend. ; ' LAURA STILES, N.!Q. JENNIE 6MITH, SecreUr. Pythian Sisters. Rowena Temple No. , Pythian Asters, meets every Thursday evening tip. m.. In K. of P. hall. In the !Wm bnllrtln. Vlaltln members oor- eually Invited. - . . ' LIZZIB HA WORTH, M. E. C EUNICE PROCTER. M. of R. 1 F. O. E. La Orande Aerie No. 261, F. O. E., meets every Friday night In Elks hall at I p. m. Visiting brethren In vited to attend. - D. H. PROCTOR, W. P. ' J. H..LEISHMAN, W. S. U O. T. U. . . i o. t. it., meets very first and third Thursday of each month at t o'clock In the afternoon. Visiting members mads welcome. SADIE KLINTWORTH. L. C, MRS. EVA MTNTTRE, K. of R. Brotherhood of Owls. V - tm . .. ... uranae jvest No. 17, meets In K. of P. hall every Tuesday eve mtng at s o'clock. Visiting brothers ordlally Invited. J. B. VANDERMUELEN. Executive, C W. BAKER. Secretary, Red K. of P. n vrtwa jLiOOge NO. 17. m.t. very Monday evening In Castle Hall, Corps building.! a Pythian welcome to all visiting kalghta, D. H. PROCTOR. C. C. R. U LINCOLN. K. of R. 4 a A. F. A. M. . i L Orande Lodge No. 41. A. F. A- M., holds regular meetings first And third Saturdays at 7:10 p. m. L. H. RUSSELL, W. M. C. D. HUFFMAN. SecreUry. I. O. O. F. La Orande Lodge No. 1, meets In their hall every Saturday night. Vie Jting brothers cordially Invited to at tend. Cemetery plat may be seen at Model Restaurant. T. J. SCROOGIN, N. O. D. E. COX, Secretary. C. J. VANDERPOEL. Fin. See. M. W. Am La Orande Camp No. 770t meet every Monday evening at I. O. O. F hall. All visiting neighbors are cor dlally Invited to attend. E. C. DAVIS, C. D. E. COX, Clerk. relief cornTr!t' K. C. Davis. HUMAN NATURE AND RELIGIOUS TRITIL EXISTENCE OF GOD. In my last article I made the point that our moral nature was a compass whose needle pointed to Ood. Now as some deny the existence of Ood and many who believe In Ood cannot give any particular reason except that they have been taught so to believe, I pro pose now to consider some' of the ar guments which may be advanced to sustain the belief In Ood. As my main purpose In these articles Is to show that the moral nature In Its de mands witnesses to religious truth, I shall begin with what Is called the moral argument. Charles Dlsqua, A. J. Warner and E. Cox. M. B. of A. Meets first and third Thursday eve at I. O. O. F. hall. VUltlng member always welcome. J. A. ARBUCKLE, President C. J. VANDERPOEL. Secretary! B. P, O. E. La Orande Lodge No. fit, meeU each Thursday evening at I o'clock Is Elks' hall on Adams avenue. Visit ing brothers are cordially Invited tc attend. W. B. SARGENT, Exalted Rule O. E. M'CULLT. Rec Sec. O. E. 8. Hope Chapter No. It, O. E. S.. hold stated communications the second and fourth Wednesdays of each month. Visiting members cordially Invited MART O. FORREST, W. M, MART A. WARNICK, Secretary, I. O. O. F. Star Encampment No. tl, L O, O F., meets every second and fourth Wednesday In the month In Odd Fel lows' hall. Visiting patriarchs always welcome. D. E. COX. C. P, W. A. WORSTELL, Scribe. By buying a coupon book good for 5.00 worth of washing at Cherry's ew Laundry, you can save SO cents, Isn't that worth while. Talk to your wife about It. 3-4 r4tit4it4ii4(eieaslAa4,...Aa(... ...... . , I AT COST FOR CASH On account of ill health we are compelled to dispose of our Marble and Granite business, and in order to dispose of the stock at once, we are offering our e :tire stock, set up in the cemetery, at actual cost This offer is good until April first, and may be withdrawn at any time without notice. This means a direct saving of.25 to 60 per cent to purchasers. Largest stock o marble and granite in Eastern Oregon. The moral nature as we have seen has a standard of perfection by which to Judge the actions of men. It has also a voice by which to pronounce Judgment, which voice is called con science. ' The question arise whence comes this standard of right and wrong? How is it constituted? In my last article I said such a standard of moral perfection could only be found In a perfect being whose nature is absolutely morally perfect. Moral ity remember, can only be said of per- annul beings for it Implies a power of It j BLUE MOUNTAIN MARBLE I AND GRANITE CO. . . . Works on Fir Street- La Grande, Oregon s o BRICK IS CHEAPER Brick building, at the present price of lumber is sheaper as well as tetter. It has been demonstrated tnat my trick is superior to any made in Oregon. I ;an furr ish cemmon brick in any quantity. No order too large or too small to receive Dromnt mtr,tirm J Correspondence with contractors and builders solicited! Estimates cheerfullvTfumiRhBH Pr;ro mA l mm ' -WW. a WW umuQ niJU W II or, application. IGRO- KRIEGERI T Dk.... D.-ij ,,. . .. . . . .v.,..-Pl.a.ncs. Biack ui. Yard. Red 621. La Grand.. n,.. choice. Which choice to make moral, Implies a knowledge of good and evil. The animal has no such knowledge, so If It exercise, in any way, a power of choice, It Is by no means a moral choice. Even the fi delity of the dog In remaining faithful to his master under the most adverse circumstances, does not reach the moral level. The dog is not capable of comprehending the moral Issue at stake. For a perfect moral standard which can only originate In a perfect moral nature and be manifested by a perfect moral character, we are obliged to look to God who alone can be such a Being. That there Is no such perfect moral standard Is abso lutely unthinkable, for all men have some Idea that such exists. Beside 8 such a standard and so originating If absolutely necessary to make morality blndlnsr mm. If there be no God whose character! exhibits a perfect moral standar.1, then I whatever standard men adopt, It will be purely arbitiaiy. Though experi ence may prove such a standard to be beneficial to the general welfare of men, yet it will lack universal con sent There will be some who will lalm It Is Injurious to their interests and do not see why they should sac rifice their own welfare to that of the majority. In such a case tho moral law depends only on expediency and the power of might to enforce it. But given a Creator whose character ex hibits a perfect moral standard and given a man who has been created to pattern his life after that of his Maker, then that moral standard be comes the natural one for man. Be cause It Is the standard according to hlch he has been created. It Is the iow ui nis nature anil ho nt ve naturally unless he Is conforming o and obeying this law. Consuouent- It is not only binding on him, but also promotes his own interest as it leads to what Is highest and best. The voice of conscience moreover confirms this Idea. Conscience Is the needle of the moral compass which points to God as the source of morali ty and Its upholder. Conscience Is the faculty within us which perceives what Is good In reference to a future responsibility unto God. It has also been defined as a mind naturally con scious of God. Conscience pronounces Judgment on our rnoral actions. It approves or disapproves of them Probably Its disapproval is more pro nounced than its approval. Some huve maintained that It merely disap proves. Us object being to shut men "lit from WrollKilnhlir hv nr..1ill.ltln.. rather than to shut trietn Into t!u. Sod by affirming It. CVituiuly eon soirnce is more active when iv nn lnltiK wrong than when we are doing right. Thot is, we feel it more keenly. It Is a question whether the sense of complacency which accompanies right uolng is due to the active approvul of conscience or whether it 1 the natural result of the conscience bring undls-tiirbt-d. However, conscience Is recos nlzed as a Judge and its Judgments have Hnrflih.nt force to make a man uneasy, if they condemn his actions. Hut conscience Is utterly unable to en. force its Judgments or Inflict a penalty case of disobedience. Whence rom. osoDhlcal to be popular.. It appeals more to the student than to the prac tical and average man. The simplest and easiest argument to understand Is that from the evidence of design in nature. Any thinking marr- who uses his powers of observation cannot fall to see that there is a design In the construction of the universe. That it Is not a haphazard arrangement. -'l-ncn has Droved this conclusively. It teaches us that "there is nothing use less," nothing meaningless In nature. nothlnc due to caprice or. chance, nothing Irrational or without a cause, nothing outside the reign of law. Or der Is the first law of the natural world." Does not this imply an in tellls-ent suDerhuman mind? And as the plan of nature Is a unity In diver sity that mind must be one. A man might Just as well believe that a stronf gust of wind should Jumble together a mass of printers' type and produce a play of Shakespeare as to believe that the universe Is the result of e similar process by blind creative force. Again, some who appeal to reason are fond of, referring to the theory ol evolution, which they think has done away with any need of a God. . Let us appeal to evolution then. Here I shall call the late Professor John lKe to luc Witness St?.!!", who was an ardent evolutionist and 'friend of Darwin, Huxley and Spencer. What does he tell us? In a book entitled "A Century of Science," and in th fourth lecture, he writes as follows "Just at the time when the human race was beginning to come upon the scene, when the germs of morality were coming in with the family, when society was taking tis first start, there came Into the human mind, how, one can hardly say, but there did come, the beginnings of a grop ing after something that lies outside and beyond the world of sense. That groping after a spiritual world has been going on here for much more mm. r "n Main 43 PHONE Main 43 SN0DGRASS GROCERY (Continued on page 7.) II v ti it SAVING MONEY by dealing at Oeddes Bros." Is no illu sion, as the amount of your purchase is never excessive, as It is always computed at the lowest possible prices. In fact, many tell us It Is al ways lower than they expected. We keep only the highest grade goods. Our trade Is among the highest grade people, so we make few bad debts. We buy In very large qantities and sell at the lowest possible figures. . GEDDES BROS. I BEST COAL! !$8.0! : -PER TON-1 in men its authority? The only adequate reason Is that it voices a Judgment which anticipates a future Judgment to be strictly enforced by a rlghteom ind all powerful Judge. That Judge can only be the Supremo Lawgiver of 'he universe. Thus conscience testl 'les to Ood as Its explanation. Pt-t the mort.1 argument is too phll. Rock Spring Lump and Rock Spring Nut. PM0NE MAIM 10 Prompt Delivery. Big Stock on Hand. " ' A CILIR HOSPITAL. If you have a chair or In fact any piece of furniture which Is on the invalid list you can not do better than to bring it to my furniture hospital, where a speedy cure is assured. Prompt and neat work assured. Remem ber that I make all kinds of buggy covers. Call on me for all kinds of upholstering. i. n. inixMAjr. Shop on Fir Street, Next Door to Thorn's Grocery. Black 1811. 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