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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27, J917. PAGE FOUR LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER An Independent Newspaper. Published Daily and Weekly at La Grande, Oregon, by the LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER PUBLISHING CO. J. D. MEYERS J I. B. LEITER CLARKE LEITER President Vice-President Editor and Publisher Entered at the Postoffiee at La Grande, Oregon, as second-clss ' matter. Address all communications to THE OBSERVER, 1710 Sixth St. RELIGIOUS LEADERS PLAN SOIL DOCTORING AFTER WAR'S RAVAGES CEASE Boston, Mass., Feb. 27. (United Press) On tho theory that men's souls will be sick after the European war ihas finished tearing them to pieces, famous religious leaders met here today to consider what spiritual medicine shall be prepared for them. The prevention cf future wars by proper religious teachings also will be considered. - This convention of the Religious On Sale in Other Cities: Oregon Hotel News Stand, Portland; j Education o- g Imperial News Stand, Portland City Official Paper. Leased Wire Telegraph Report of United Press Associations. The Observer carrier boy are instructed to put the papers on tUe porches. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects gettr.g the paper to you on time, kindly phone The Observer, as tnis is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instruc tions. Phone Mail 3? before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. By Carrier. .J Daily,, by mail per six monuis Daily, single copy 5c Daily, per week 15c Daily, per month 65c Daily, per six months in advance.$3.50 Daily, per year in advance $7.00 By MaiL Daily, by mail per year, in ad rance W-OO o en in advance Daily, by mail per three months in advance $1.25 Daily,' by mail per month 45c The Saturday Evening Observer, per year in advance $1.50 Weekly-Obscrver-Star, per year in advance $1.50 YOUR FLAG AND MY FLAG. Has Wilbur D. Nesbit writ ton a now national anthem in hi3 poem "Your Flag and My Flag ?" The simple, stir ring verses are now sweeping the country, and one en thusiastic admirer pronounces them the Lest expression of American sentiment since Drake wrote his famous poem beginning "When Freedom from her mountain height." Still others declare it to be more American in its expres sion and more in tune with national thought of today than "The Star Spangled Banner" or even "America." With out entering into a discussion of' its merits as compared with other national songs and poems, it is interesting to note that no poem published in recent years has so thor oughly taken hold of the American people. The first stanza may be quoted: "Your flag and my flag Arid how it flies today In your land and my land And half a world away! Rose-red and blood-red V " The stripes forever gleam; ( Snow-white and soul-white ..... The good forefathers' dream. Sky-blue and true-blue, with stars to gleam aright The gloried guidon of the day, shelter through the night." Public spcakei-s in every state of the union have been, and are, swaying their audiences with Nesbit's flag yovsos as part of their speeches. School children everywhere are learning it. It is being taught in the public an i pa rochial schools of Chicago and elsewhere. It has appeared in the Congressional Record several times, and governors of various states have used it as their flag (lay proclama tions. Hardly a week passes that some musician docs not send Mr. Nesbit a suggested musical sotting for tho poem, but as yet the right composition has not been found. Mr. Nesbit for years was known as one of America's foremost magazine and newspaper writers, and withm the past seven years ho has taken his jilaec as one of three leading writers of adertising in America. J fc is vice-president of the Mahin Advertising Company, of Chicago and New York, lie is now writing and supervising copy for such concerns as Tho 15. F. Goodrich Co., Akron, O.; The Baltimore &Ohio R. 1L; The Carnation Milk Products Co , Seattle, Wash.; Wilson Co., Cliioago; Tho Ashland Mfg.j Co., Chicago; Grinnoll Gloves; The llavnos Automobile Companv, Kokomo; Tho Lowe Pros. Paint Co., Dayton, O.; The Thread Mills Co., Chicago; The Cheney Talking Ma chine Co.; and Marshall Field & Co., wholesale, Chicago. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent in newspapers, magazine and farm papers by these advertisers on copy is one of preparedness by education rather than by armament." Among those present are Bishop Francis J. McDonnell of Denver, Governor Mc Call of Massachusetts, Prof. J. E. Kel ser of Texas, Dr. Katsuiji Kato of Japan, William Douglas McKonzie of Hartford, Rabbi Henry Levi and Har rison C. Elliott of the International Y. M. C. A. - THE WH A. T-yO V-MA. y COLUMS : 5 BY "GM" Plumbing. Does your plumbing grumble? Ours does. It's had a grouch on ever since we rebuilt and let it out in the open. We can't even turn a fawcet now without being growled at. Since we've given it the run of the bathroom it ha3 spread itself all around in kinks and curleycues and festoons and dropstitch effects and nothing can plasse it. It mumbles and mutters to its?lf all the time. Put plumbing br.ck in solitary con finement! Then maybe it'll shut up. My idea of a smart man is one who can change his mind, his collar or a thousand dollar bill when it's neces sary. Old Man Sage. Get Full Values in HAT Shrewd men who are accustomed to getting full value for every- dollar spent are the men who appreciate our Hat Department. The new Spring Styles are Here in a great variety of shapes and colors .:. $3.00 to $5.00 Your TOE HEEL J I iu. i . ; . . ....... &J v Sock That The One Thin Is Really Worth Every Cent Of Its Price Interwoven socks are all made in the same mill on the same machines (Interwoven" patent) of the same high lustre silk lisle. ...... Interwoven toe and heel, reinforced sole and splioed angle , 25c, 30c, 35c, 50c LSI' yTOTTJTT" i x written bv Mr. Nesbit. . the inquiry: "Good Master, what good His years of training in newspaper writing gave Wm ffii 'S the experience and the knowledge of now to make what-1 Jesus said: "if thou wilt enter into ever he writes touch a responsive chord in the reader and life kceP th commandments." And stir his mind to action tofdo whatever Mr. Nesbit's SO dettly points the way. ,: together with the two of the Savior of "The flag verses," Mr. Nesbit savs, "are in a certain "love to God and the neighbor" Jesus s'ense, an advertisement. for the American flaf, They ffi'jySrSLSSSu'a express what 1 think is in the heart of every American shall teach men so, he shall be called concerning his country's banner. Of course, it is gratifv- jthe least in the kingdom of heaven." ing to know that so many other people agree with the sen-; wLfViaw which ? Paul timent in the verses." 1 - J speaks of as fallen in disuse is the P. F. Vol land & Co., Ml,. Nesbit's publishers, of Chi- ceremonial or Levitical law of Moses cago and Now York wereuiok to see the wide demand ISq the flag poem would 'Create, and have published it OS a j sacred Word God wrote with" His fin- hand-colored motto, also asla large poster-size motto Tor schools, business offices', etc., and as a steel-engraved postcard. In its postcard form it first appeared when the state militia was mobilized on the Mexican border, and it was the favorite of the soldier boys as a missive to the folks at home. O Groat Britain will have to got along with only 10,0(K), 000 gallons of boor. Importation of coffee, cocoa, tea, raw fruits, except lemons and oranges, hides, leather, boots and shoos and many other articles is also prohibited. We won der what John Bull will do without his boor and ale. O I Ierbort Kaufman says: "A just and strong people docs not fail nor quail before any destiny. Tomorrow is in God's hands. Let us go about our business as usual and make the most of the days that are in our own." This has a Lincoln flavor. ger on the tables of stone on Mount Sinai which shall never 'cease to be obligatory upon the conscience of man. And the Christ confirmed tfcis when He said: "Think not that I am come to destroy the law and the pro phets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill. For, verily, I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in nowise pass from the law till all be fulfilled." (Matt. V- 17.) happy are ye if ye do them," (John XII-17) "if ye love Me keep My com mandments." (XIV-15.) And the Apostles testified: "Cir cumcision is nothing and uncircum cision is. nothing; tint the keeping of the commandments of God." (1 Cor. VII-19.) . "God will render to every man according to his deeds; to them who, by patient continuance in well doing, seek for glory and honor, and immortality, eternal life; but unto them that are contentious, and dp not obey the truth, but obey unrighteous ness, indignation and wrath, tribula tion and anguish upon every soul of man that doeth evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Gentile; but glory, honor and peace to every man. that worketh good." (Rom. JI-6-19.) "Owe no man anything, but to love one an other; for, he that loyeth another hath fulfilled the law. For, this, thou shalt not commit adultery. Thou' shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, thou shalt not covet; and if there be any other com mandment, it is briefly comprehended in this saying, namely, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (XII-8-10.) "The grace of God that bringeth sal vation hath appeared to all men. "RIpskp.! rA thr.v ft-.nf ,l.- Hia fm- I teaching, thnh Hunvino' iinfrfw41itipM mandmenls that they may have right j and worldly lusts, we should live sob- to the tree of life, and may enter erly, righteously, and godly in this through the gates of the city." ( Rev. ! present world ; looking for that blessed XXII-14.) Indeed, from the beginning to the end the sacred scriptures require as the essentials of salvation the shun ning of evil as sin, and obedience to the divine commandments. Even in the people zealous Lord's prayer the supplication is (Titus 11-11-14.) hope, and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto Himself a peculiar of good works." "Be ye doers of the THE FORUM x Farmer, but No Farm! t it What Shall I Do to Be Saved? To the Editor: In a former citation of scriptural passages answering the text, the writ er hereof, made no comment ,or even suggestion, save that the Bible should be taken in its c.tirety, as is a legal document, but nowhere was it even in timated that it is a legal document, for it is not. Both the quotations and the writer are criticised, with the insistence that they were inapplicable, that a human j judgment must interpret them, that I tho Hililc sayings must be emasculated to fit a "man-made creed," and that t part was of miracle. And what is a miracle? Anything a man docs not : understood is one. ! Hut life is a miracle. Who knows ( bservation : The six English words i "is given by inspiration of God" being1 expressed in the Greek by the single term theopneustos which lit erally signifies, God-breathed. We are assured that God is a spirit, that He breathed in the nostrils of the first man the breath of life, and that man became a living soul, or spirit. The word "man" is used as Adam, or the human race. So that it is reasonable, to infev that God breathed in the Divine Wor 1 the spirit it contains, rather than the literal words. The spirit of the word: When Christ said: "Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, ye have no life in you" the Jews inter preted these word literally, and they said with surprise and contempt, "Can this man give us his flesh to eat?" In explanation of His hard saying, Did you ever hoar tell of a farmer without a farm? Did you ever hoar tell of a successful business man without a bank account? Suceess is just as liki-lv to come to you without a bank account as it is to a farmer without a farm. This bank moots your needs fits your case, and is a bank of personal service. The same heart v v . Iirr, for tho man who opens a small account, as tho man who opens one with more, I TocMQ Cni1 "It ic tliA 6rtilM tVinf ! the source and elements of electric- j quii;1;elKlth tho tieh profiteth noth- uy ; no can wny rnc same vege- . wordg thftt j k unto latum produces hair on the back of' . . . . flr a gont and wool on a sheep? Why ( ijg vi-63 ) tables are produced by the same soil? , , tne naturaJ man receiver h not c All must 1 miracles. the ihm f the SI"rlt of God for,i "Lead us not into temptation but de-jword; and not hearers only, deceiving liver us from evil." your own selves." (Jas. 1-22.) "Here- Almost immediately after the first by we do know that we know Him, if mention of evil, occur the Lord's we keep His commandments. He that words to Cain, "If thou doest well, : saith, I know Him, and keepeth not shalt thou not be rccepted ? and if . His commandments, is a liar and the thou doest not well, sin lieth at the truth is not m him." (1 John 11-3-4.) door." (Gen. IV-17.) Thus, both the Old and New Testa- How tenderly He spake to Moses ments throughout lawgivers, proph concerning the Israelites, "Oh that ets, psalmist, apostles, revelators and there wore such a heart in them, that the Lord Jesus, Himself, unite in the they would fear Me and keep My com- irresistible confirmation of the doc mandments always, that it might be , trine, that if one would be saved he well with them, and with their chil-; must shun all evils as sins against dren forever." (Deut. V-29.) iGod, and live " a life according to David declares that "the mercy of the commandments." And no covenant the Lord is from everlasting to ever- an be produced denying or qualify lasting upon them that fear Him, and ing the same. Much is said about the His righteousness unto their children's doing away of the ceremonial law of children, to such as keep His covenant the Old Testament, The sacrifices and to those that remember His com- required then were of oxen, lambs and mandments to do them." (Ps. CHI-1 doves; now "I beseech you therefore, !") j brethren, by the mercies of God, that And the prophet, as the mouth- 'e present your bodies a living sacri piece of Jehovah, pathetically remon- ice holy, acceptable unto God, which strates: "Oh that thou hadst heark- is yur reasonable service." (Rom. ened to My commandments, then had "The sacrifices of God area thy peace been as a river, and thy broken spirit, a broken and contrite righteousness as tho waves of the heart, O God thou wilt not despise." sea." (Isa. XLVIII-18). Such are a Ps- LI-16.) few examples of the uniform doctrine 0ur critic further contends that the of the Old Testament. And the teach- . writings of the Apostles are the ex- inp of thp trntmol firv. oimiln in elusive nnflinrifv tf cii;n4i,.nl n;4 v I .1 t :.i I ------- - . ........... - j . "fiuiiu What is requirftl by the text: Vliat:lm """Tact although exalted as to the qual- nd procedure, and superior to the is it we are saved from? Is it to ea-!c,in.he know. them, because nicy are.ity of obedience they command. .rest of the Divine Word. That, of enpe tho final judgment of comlcmnn-'spiritedly discerned. (J Cor. H-H.) Tho j.j c0ml,,.,n(iivl..xl 0 h t course, is not agreed even among the tio? We submit that the salvation 1 "b" f"r i 1 ""' - they neighbor as thvsel' and He writer hereof, rcmem- in tho inquiry is a salvation from , lnc ;",s , ' , , e m' "'I," j summed up this as the comprehensive bors of Wlsting an hour of time and onos sm and evil Uto and which will,""-" -"'.'""' ,Golden Rule. fM.ift VlYJfil u patience in listening Inst snmmor t I often He exposed the folly of those . La l-rI'amle sermon, by one nnnoun- La Gvr.de National Bank load to such salvation in the future wem mirn.-i-i. n. v -v -s world, as is taught throughout the the nut urn nu. . i . : sacred m-ripturcR. !h literal nioaniii,; o: n, Tho universality of the sacred ' Abreviations of the won!: given by inspira profitable for doc for correction, for coasnoss; that tho iwrfoct, thoroiig'n .ood works," (2 " 1! s ripturo i: tio'i of God. and if triiio, for ri'pro 'f, ' instruction in l ir1'. man of God may h ly furnislu'd ir- Tim. UI-l(i.l that ho is ' poos only r iptures. ivriptures: "And if any m.?a shall take away fnim tho words of tho book of t!iis prophesy, God .'ha!l Uiko away his part, out of the book of life, r.nd out of l.o holy city, and from the things which arc written in this b. ok." (Rov XX1I-10.) i ho I ommarx'''' -ts: In wno approached Him with; "Lord. Lord." while neglecting the a.-tunl service of the daily conduct. (Matt VI I-21-2,-i; Luke VI-K) The tree, He declares to le kr.cwn by its fruit. (Matt. VII-20,. ; judgment. He alw.-.vs teachoi, u-: . 0 according to the vo.ks; (M,,a. XV1-27) and He in-a'-iub!y exhibits, as the tect nt oiscip:eship. a life of submission to anrv.vr to His will: "If ye know these t ings, cing ho was college-bred, attempting to comnat Fauis doctrine of predesti nation, with such poor success that he concluded with the assertion that the obnoxious heresy was found in an epistle of that Apostle, that an epistle wni but a private letter, and this one) expressed only Paid'; M i-ato opinion, hence, was n i. .a.r.g on vhe faith- (Contimied on Pnge 5.)
