THE MORXIX6 OEEGOXIAN, 3IOXDAT, 3IAT 7, 1906.
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CHANGE
PLANNED
CDNSTITUT ON
Manner of Amending Organic
Law to Be Voted on
by People.
SEEK SHORTER METHOD
Power of Legislature to Be Curtailed
by Proposed Amendment Will
Allow Alterations to Be
Made at One Session. .
On of tha Important constitutional
amendments proposed for adoption, at the
coming general election is that relating!
to the manner in which the constitution
may be amended. The constitution as It
now stands provides, in sections 1 and 2
of article 17. that constitutional amende
inents may be proposed by the Legisla-t
lure, but the proposed amendments musti
be approved by two successive sessions
of the Legislature and be adopted by a
majority of the voters voting at the elec
tion. While one amendment is pending!
before the legislature or before the peo-
pie another cannot be proposed, . '
It is now desired by some to change tha
constitution in this respect, so that a pro-
posed amendment need be approved byi
but one session of the Legislature, andi
may be adopted by a majority of all the
voters voting upon that measure, al-i
though not a majority of all voting at tha
election. There is no express provision im"
the constitution authorizing the Legisla-
ture to call a constitutional convention
but the Legislature has that power aa
the legislative branch of the governments
The proposed amendment to the const!-
tutton places a limitation upon the power
of the Legislature to call a convention byi
requiring that the act for that purpose
niuit receive the approval of the people
before It ahall become effective.
Present Constitutional Provision.
In order that the effect of the proposed
amendment may be understood, the art
tide which Is to be amended is here set
forth in full, together with the amend
ment which will be voted upon in JuneJ
Article 17 reads as follows:
Section 1. Any amendment or amendments
to thia constitution may be proposed in
either branch of tha Legislative Assembly,
and If the same shall be agreed to by a
majority of all the members elected to each
of the two houses, such proposed amendment
or amendments shall, with the yeas and nays
thereon, be entered on their journals, and
referred to the Legislative Assembly to be
chosen at the next general election; and if.
In tho Legislative Assembly so next chosen
such proposed amendment or amendments
shall be agreed to by a majority of all the
members elected to each house, then It shall
b the duty of the Legislative Ansembly to
tubmlt such amendment or amendments to
the electors of the state, and cause the same
to be published without delay at least four
consecutive weeka In several newspapers pub
lished in this state; and if a majority of
said electors shall ratify the same, such
amendment or amendments shall become a
part of this constitution.
Section 2. If two or more amendments
shall be submitted at the same time they
shall be submitted In such manner that -ihe
electors shall vote for or against each of
such amendments separately, and while an
amendment ori amendments which shall have
been agreed "upon by one Legislative As
sembly shall be awaiting the action of a
Legislative assembly, or of the electors, no
additional amendment or amendments shall
be proposed.
Text of Proposed Amendment.
The measure which will be voted upon
In June proposes to combine the two sec
tions of this article and make them read
aa follows:
Seat Ion 1. Any amendment or amend
ments to this constitution may be proposed
In either branch of the Legislative Assembly,
and if the same shall be agreed to by a ma
jority of all the members elected to each of
the two houses, such proposed amendment
or amendments shall, with the yeas and nays
thereon, be entered In thetr journals and
referred by the Secretary of State to the
people for their approval or rejection, at the
next regular general election, except when
the Legislative Assembly shall order a spe
cial election for that purpose. If a majority
or the electors voting on any such amend
ment shall vote in favor thereof, it shall
thereby become a part of this constitution.
The votes for and against such amendment
or amendments, severally, whether proposed
by the Legislative Assembly or by initiative
Petition, shall be canvassed by the Secretary
of State in the presence of the Governor,
and If it shall appear to the Governor that
the majority of the votes cast at said elec
tion on said amendment or amendments, sev
erally, are cast In favor thereof, it shall be
his duty forthwith after such canvass, by
his proclamatlun. to declare the said amend
ment or amendments, severally, having re
ceived said majority of votes to have been
adopted by the people of Oregon as part of
the constitution thereof, and the same shall
h in effect as a part of the constitution from
the date of such proclamation.
To Be Voted on Separately.
When two or more amendments shall be
submitted in the manner aforesaid to the
voters of this state, at the same election,
thy shall he so submitted that each amend
ment shall be voted on separately. No con
tention shall be called to amend or propose
amendments to this constitution, or to pro
pose a new constitution, unless the law pro
viding for such convention shall first be ap
proved by the people on a referendum vote
at a regular general election. Thia article
shall not be construed to Impair the right of
the people to amend this constitution by
vote uron an initiative petition therefor.
WILL SELECT A NEW RABBI
Representatives of Temple Beth Is
rael Go Kast Tomorrow.
Joseph Simon and D. Solis Cohen, rep
resenting the committee chosen 10 select
a successor to Dr. Stephen S. Wise, of
Temple Beth Israel, will leave for the
Kast tomorrow morning; to make Investi
gations which will probably lead to the
calling of some prominent Jewish rabbi
to the pulpit of Portland's leading syna
gogue. They will visit Chicago. Boston,
Detroit and Xpw York, and If one of the
Jewish -religious leaders in these cities is
not secured to come to Portland, they
will extend their trip to other places.
During the prfst two months, since Dr.
Wise announced hia intention to give up
the pulpit of Temple Beth Israel to as
sume the leadership of an Independent
Jewish movement In Now York, his con
gregation "in this city has been actively
looking about for a suitable man to bo
his successor. A number of names have
been taken under consideration. One or
more of the names which have been
brought up are looked upon favorably,
but no offer has been made as yet by the
congregation.
It Is understood that Dr. J. H. Landeau,
of Boston, who occupied the pulpit of
Temple Beth Israel temporarily a short
time ago. Is not now considered a can
didate for the position.
The pastorate of Dr. Wise will expire
September 1, and his resignation was ten
dered to take place on that date. Dr.
Wise, however, has agreed with the com-,
mlttee to remain in Portland after that
time if a new pastor has not been se
cured. It is hoped to have the new rabbi
in Portland by October 1, at the latest.
The committee appointed to select the
new rabbi is composed of Dr. Wise, Mr.
Simon and Adolphe Wolfe.
ADDITIONS TO THE LIBRARY
The Folowing Is a List of Jiew Books
for the Library.
The following is a list of new books for
the Library:
GENERAL. WORKS.
Collier's self-indexing annual. 1905
R'WO C693
ETHICS.
Adlex, Felix. Marriage and divorce...
173.1 A237
SOCIOLOGY.
Seabury, Samuel. Municipal ownership
and operation of public utilities in
New York City 352 S438
SCIENCE.
Gill. James. Textbook on navigation
and nautical astronomy. 1904 527 G475
Mavnard, C. J. Methods in moss study.
1! 588.2 M471
Tait, P. G. Properties of matter, 1899..
530.1 T135
USEFUL ARTS.
Beldlng. A. j. Commercial correspond
ence. 1905 K58 B427
Brooks, W. K. Oyster. 1905 639 BS73
Cremer, J. H.. and Bicknell, G. A.
Chemical and metallurgical hand
book. 1903 660 C915
Krehl. Ludolf von. Principles of clin-.
Ical pathology, 1905 M616 K92
Mechnlkov, J. J. Immunity from in
fective diseases M616 M486
Souie, George. New science and prac
tice of accounts, "1906 657 S722
FINE ARTS.
Brown, N. C. How to make Batten
burg and point lace 746 B879
Hodgson. F. T. Easy lessons In the art
of practical wood-carving, 1905 736 H691
Leland, C. G. Elementary metal work.
ed. 2 739 L537
GARDENING.
Cook. E. T., ed. Century book of gar
dening R716 C771
AMUSEMENTS.
Garnler, Albert. Scientific billiards...
794 G236
Llnscott, Mrs. H. (B.) Bright ideas for
entertaining 793 L759
LITERATURE.
Abbott, G. F.. ed. and tr. Sonus of
modern Greece SSa.l A131
Aeschylus. Oestela; tr. by G. C. W.
Warr :...8S2 A 2530
Boyden, Mrs E. M. B. . Intermittent
thoughts; by Auntie Em 811 B7S9
Brandes. G. M. C. Main currents In
nineteenth century literature. 6v.809 B817
Brewster, W. T., ed. Specimens of
narration t.. 808.3 B848
Harbottle, T. R.. and Dalbiac. P. H.,
comp. Dictionary of quotations
(French and Italian) R808.8 H235d
Hunt. Leigh. Essays; ed. by Arthur
Symons 824 H941e
Lawton. W. C. Introduction to clas
sical Greek literature 880.9 L425
Montaigne. M. E. de. Essays; ed. bv
Percival Chubb 844 M761
Reed, Myrtle. Book of clever beasts.
817 RS25
Smith, Sydney. Wit and wisdom.. 824 S661
Swinburne, A. C. Selections from his
poetical works; ed. bv R. H. Stod
dard 821 S978S
Van Dyke, H. J. Builders and other
poems 811 V248
TRAVEL AND DESCRIPTION.
Burdlck. A. J. Mystic mid-region; the
deserts of the Southwest 917.9 B951
Dwlght. H. O. Constantinople and its
problems 914.961 Dfl!l
Colllard. Francois. On the threshold of
Central Africa 91K.7 C679
Mansfield, M. v., and Mansfield, Mis
B. (M.) Romantic Ireland. 2v.914..15 M2S7
HISTORY.
Browning, Oscar. Guelphs and Ghlbel
llnes 945 B8S5
Johnston. R. M. Napoleonic empire
in Southern Italy, 2v 945.7 J73
Lilly. W. S. Renaissance types.. 940.6 L739
Phelps. Albert. Louisiana (American
commonwealths) 976.3 P538
BIOGRAPHY.
Kipling. Rudyard. Rirdyard Kipling, a
crltUism; by Richard Le Gallienne.
B K57L
FICTION.
Burnham, Mrs. C. L. (R.) Dr. Latimer
B966d
Burnham, Mrs. C. L. (R.) Wise woman
B966W
Couch. A. T. Quiller. Mayor of Troy..
CS53m
Craik. Mrs. D. M. (M.) Ogilvies C887o
Glasgow. E. A. G. Wheel of life. . . .G548w
Hawkins. A. H. Servant of the public:
by Anthony Hope H393se
Hough. Emerson. Hearts' desire.... H838h
Kingsley, Henry. Austin Eliot K555a
Ixmgard de Longgarde, Mme. D. (G.)
Sawdust, by Dorothea Gerard L849s
Maartens. Maarten. Dorothea MU2d
Pemberton. Max. Hundred days P395h
Robins, Elizabeth. Dark lantern R657d
Saintine. J. X. R. Plcciola FS157p
Sand, George. Master mosaic workers
and the devil's pool S213mas
Satchell. William. Toll of the bush..S25.:t
Stockton. F. R. Chosen few SS66c
Strong, Mrs. I. (O.) Girl from home.S923g
Stuart. Airs. R. iM.) Moriah's mourn
ing S932m
Ward, Mrs. B. S. (P.) Doctor Zav..W207d
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN.
Coffin. C. C. Following the flag.j73.7 C675fo
Coolidge, Susan. Mischiefs' thanksgiv
ing JC774m
Grover. E. O. Sunbonnet babies' prim
er jG883su
Ions, W. J. Secrets of the woods.
1001. (Wood folk series v. 3)..jo90 LS49se
Long. W. J. Wilderness ways. 1901.
(Wood folk series, v. 2) j590 L849wi
Parker, F. V. and Helm. N. L. Uncle
Robert's visit. (Uncle Robert's Geog
raphy, v. 3) 1500 P239
Potter, Beatrix. Tale of Peter Rabbit
jA P866
Spyri, Mme. J. H.) Rico and Wlseli..
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Chan Sing Kai. a prominent local Chinese missionary, and family will rive a benefit entertainment for relief of the
women and children of the burned Chine quarter of San Francisco. The programme for the occasion will be ren
the Taylor-Street M. E. Church this evening. Seld Back, Jr.. will assist with a baritone solo.
ENTERS NEW FIELD
Dr. B. E. S. Ely Begins Pas
torate at Calvary Church.
PREACHES FIRST SERMON
Succeeds Dr. W. S. Gilbert in Pres
byterian Pulpit "The Rock
.. Foundation of the Church"
Is His Subject.
Dr. Ben Ezra Stiles Ely, Jr., began
his pastorate at Calvary Presbyterian
Church yesterday, succeeding; Rev. W.
S. Gilbert, who resigned to accept a
charge in Astoria several months ago.
Dr. Ely came to Portland from Rock
ford, 111., preached his initial sermon
yesterday morning upon the subject:
"The Rock Foundation of the Church,"
taking as his text, "I say unto thee,
that thou art Peter, and upon this
rock will I build my church; and gates
of hell shall not prevail against it."
After referring, by way of introduc
tion, to the various interpretations
which have been given to the language
of the text, the speaker showed that,
by a fair and natural exegesis the
"rock" must be taken as meaning
Peter himself. The selection of that
apostle as the foundation whereon the
church was to be builded conveyed
some most positive truth and instruc
tion for the present. Peter was a
type of the men now needed for the
upbuilding and stability of the church.
Convictions Heaven-Wrought.
"He was a man of heaven-wrought
convictions," he said. He had just
affirmed. Thou art the Christ, the Son
of the living God. This was the fruit,
not of personal sagacity or discern
ment, not of his own study of the
words and works of Jesus, or of the
teachings and opinions of others. It
was the result of what God had
wrought in him. Flesh and blood hath
not revealed it unto thee, but my
Father, who is in heaven. To an il
lumination, a power of vision and a
testimony divine in origin, character
and efficiency he owed his persuasion.
"Too many of the religious beliefs
and principles of the present are held,
not as positive settled convictions, hut
as tentative undecided opinions. They
are inspired by tho spirit of the times
rather than by the spirit of God. The
unparalleled superlative facts summed
up in the person of Jesus Christ and
his unsearchable work of redemption
are masked and minimized to suit the
halting, nerveless, graceless, inverte
brate, hazy-visloned, shallow, ques
tioning, quibbling spirit that finds
glory in uncertainty and surpassing:
excellence in indefinlteness.
NeedH of the Church.
"To continue and increase in real
power and beneficence, a stable in
stitution and a truly aggressive and
uplifting force, the church must have
in pulpit and in pew men who know
whom and what they have believed;
who can speak out with clear, unfalter
ing certainty upon the things of
Christ, because charged with the full
energy of a conviction which comes
only from the illuminating, persuad
ing, establishing work of God in the
soul. ' ,
"Peter was a man fo whom Jesus
of Nazareth was Christ the Divine. To
him his Master was man, but also
more than man. Not a son, but the
son of the living God; and that in a
sense in which it could be said of
no other. In Jesus Peter recognized
and confessed not only divinity but
deity, not only Godlikeness but God
hood. There is a growing tendency
to class Jesus Christ as only one
among the .most good and gifted sons
of humanity. Human he is indeed,
but if. he is not also God, he is neither
great nor good. Just rvow the empha
sis is so laid upon his self-emptying as
totally to obscure the truth that In
him dwelleth all the fulness of the
Godhead bodily.
"If. the church is to continue per
petual and powerful, the word and
work of the Christ it proclaims must
carry with them the unquestioned
tone of authority. But what authority
can be ascribed to one who, because
no more than human, must be regarded
with all his wisdom as fallible like
ourselves.
"The church is to be builded up and
stand Impregnable to the powers of
evil by being a saving agency. She
is that only as she believes in, and
presents to men. a really saving Christ.
But a merely ' human Christ cannot
save.
Possessed Transformed. Character.
"Peter was a man possessed of a
GIVEN FOR CHINESE SUFFERERS
transformed character. The heaven
born conviction within him, the vision
he had of the God in Christ, the faith
which began the day he was first
brought to Jesus, and which had
grown clearer and deeper till, under
a heavenly revelation, it had burst
forth in his remarkable confession
these had transformed, and were still
more to transform, iiis. former fickle
ness into constancy, his changeable
ness into steadfastness, his weakness
into strength, his water-like instabil
ity into rock-like stability. That was
why he was newly named Peter, and
to be the rock whereon Christ would
build the church. Character solid, sta
ble, strengthful as rock: character
made up of courage, fidelity, loyalty,
persistence, unfailing, unswerving, un
flinching devotion to truth, to right,
to duty, to Christ as Redeemer and
King; character like that put into
foundation and superstructure will
make a church that shall stand for
evermore." FAITH THE GREAT ESSENTIAL
Rev. E. S. Muckley Preaches on Aids
to Right Living.
Rev E. S. Muckley, pastor of the
First Christian Church, preached yes
terday morning on "The Moorings .of
Faith." He dealt with practical condi
tions as found at- the present day. and
told of the universal need .of a stead
fast purpose, founded on faith, to serve
as a stimulus to righteous and useful
living
"Faith in the immortality of man is
the main essential of our exlstence,'"he
said. "It is the fact that we shall be
raised from the dead to enter into the
fruition of the life of righteousness be
gun here that makes our life worth
living. This latin noiua us sicio3i,
makes us unswerving, irresistible in
nni- liven Men need a stay, something
to keep them strong when tempted to
swerve from duty. The conviction that
labor will not be oid impels, us to
achievements, the hardships pf which
we could not otherwise endure.
'"The man who sins, who works evil
in the world, is living a vain, void life.
His life is destructive, not constructive.
The man of faith abounds in the
work the business of the Lord, and
builds for another world. He is stayed
by convictions.
"We sometimes say a man has con
viction. It is better to say that con
victions have the than. The man who
has a conviction is a recluse, gits in Ms
self-constructed cell, trots out his con
viction, looks it all over and congratu
lates himself on its beauty and propor
tions, and may even write a book about
it; but when that conviction once gets
the man it drives him out of his-little
cell into the worldlife about him,
where he catches a vision of humanity
because he has caught a vision of God.
For yo can't see God without seeing
men, for God is where men are. So the
man who is possessed by faith by an
all-absorbing conviction abounds in
service.
"Men need a stay ,ln business life;
need to learn that Christ made no dis
tinction between the sacred and the
secular. It is as sacred to plow as to
pray, to sell goods as to preach a ser
mon, to make shoes on Monday as to
sing hymns on Sunday. One day Is not
more sacred than another. Each day
should be regarded and used as holy
unto tlje Lord. The business man's
chief business Is to serve the Lord with
his money. He will then earn it hon
estly and use it honestly.
"Men need the stay of faith in polit
ical life. Why should Mr. Roosevelt
attack the Standard Oil Company in
his message by incorporating the In
criminating report of Commissioner
Garfield? Because he believes big
thieves ought to be punished as well, as
little ones;- because he believes God is,
that Christ died to establish righteous
ness in the state as well as the individ
ual; because he received his trust, not
alone from men who elected him to of
fice, but from God also, who by faith
in Christ planted In him convictions
impelling him to be true to his trust at
all hazards. We are raising a crop of
men in this country like him. who be
lieve the ballot-box furnishes as good
an opportunity to serve the Lord as a
pulpit does.
"We need the stay of faith in our
church life. People got miffed and dis
gruntled or lose their courage and quit
simply because they forget that they
are working for a Christ who is alive
today. They are diverted from duty
simply because they have left the
mooring qX fat.b..w
AVEAKXESSES OF PRIMARY LAW
Rev. H. C. Shaffer Finds Much to
Commend, and Some Defects.
"Weaknesses, of the Direct Primary
Law was discussed last night by Rev.
H. C. Schaffer, at the United Brethren
Church, East Fifteenth and Morrison
streets. Mr. Shaffer spoke on this topic
y tne request or several, and he said
in part:
"It is probably too early to discern all
the weaknesses, and advantages as well,
of the direct-primary law. but we are able
at this time to examine how it has worked
in this state, as shown at the election of
April 20. So far as county, city and pre-
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cinct are concerned, there evidently has
been a very decided gain over the former
system of selecting candidates for all the
offices, which was then done by the ma
chine at the dictation of the party bosses.
Our first experiment with the direct-primary
law shows that the machine is
somewhat disrupted, but really how baa
ly we cannot tell, but the boss was not
in evidence. But in here we find some
weaknesses. I am told that a preacher,
a Republican, registered as a Democrat,
that he might vote for Tom Word for
Sheriff.
"When we come to the state officers
we find the more pronounced weakness of
the direct-primary law. Candidates for
state officers are further removed 'from
the scrutiny of the ordinary voter, which
Is not the case with the county, city and
precinct. In which there is opportunity
for close scrutiny of all candidates. For
state officers the voter must depend on
such evidence as he may get from pub
lications, sent out by the candidates,
which may be misleading. Large sums of
money were expended in the recent pri
mary election by candidates for nomina
tion for state offices, more than ever be
fore. A -man of ordinary or limited
means co'uld not meet the big expense,
and hence the poor man is prohibited
from becoming a candidate under the con
ditions because of the enormous expendi
ture of money in making a campaign for
the nomination. The poor man therefore,
may be eliminated from consideration as
far as the state offices are concerned.
We are Informed that Jonathan Bourne,
who was nominated for United States
Senator on the Republican ticket, spent
$12,000 for the single item of postage for
the vast amount of literature, which is
aside from the cost of the printed mat
ter itself and the handling of it. So one
of the essential weaknesses of the direct
primary law is' the vast sums of money
that may be expended in the state cam
paign, and also lower down. I do not
pretend to offer a remedy, to strengthen
these weak parts of the law, but the direct-primary
law does not take away the
duty and work of our reformers. It will
be one of their functions to keep the vot
ers informed concerning tne character of
the candidates. In 'most respects the law
is a good one. Some improper candidates
have been defeated. "Jane, of Hood River,
supported by the ring, was defeated by
the votes of the people. However, just
how far the direct-primary law has de
feated the machine boss is not yet fully
demonstrated, but it can and no doubt
will be improved so that it will curtail
in some way the enormous expenditure
of money made possible, and its other
weaknesses also will be made stronger."
CONFERENCE YEAR CLOSES.
Final Services Held In First English
and Memorial Churches.
Rev. S. A. Stewert closed his year's
work yesterday at the First English
Church of the Evangelical Association,
Bast Sixth and Market streets. Rev.
Mr. Siewert came to Portland Just one
year ago and took charge of this church
as its pastor.
The year has been a prosperous one,
both numerically and financially. Besides
individual members who moved away
during the year ten whole families moved
to other places In the state and else
where. The increase of new members,
however, covers all loss with some gain,
Because of' needed room this congrega
tion expects to build a new church in
the near future.
The financial board was able during the
year to make all payments promptly.
Besides supporting their own church
this congregation subscribed during the
year over $S00 for missions.
Rev. Mr. Siewert will attend the annu
al session of the Oregon Conference
which convenes at Salem. Or., May 10.
Bishop William Horn, D. D., of Cleve
land. O., will preside at this session. The
Bishop will preach at the First English
Church of this city Sunday, May 20, at
g P. M.
At the Memorial Evangelical Church,
East Eighteenth and Tibbetts streets.
Rev. R. D. Streyffeler, pastor, about $300
was expended for improvements, be
sides the debt on the church priperty
was paid. There were some additions to
the membership roll.
TELLS OF LOVE OF GOD.
Rev. Hiram Vrooman, of Xew Jeru
salem Church, the Speaker.
The Rev. Hiram Vrooman, of Boston, a
minister of the New Jerusalem Church.
delivered an address yesterday morning in
the new hall of the Knights of Pythias,
Eleventh and Alder streets. Taking for
his text, "Hear, O Israel, the Lord our
God, the Lord, is one; and thou Shalt love
the Lord with all thy heart and with all
thv soul and with all thy mind, and with
all thy strength," he said, in part:
Denial of this great and first command
ment, with affirmation of the second,
which is like unto it, is a contradiction.
And yet what a surprising number of
persons there are who profess to believe
that 'thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self,' but wnose attitude toward a per
sonal God is negative! Such persons are
as unknowing of what is involved in lov
ing the neighbor as they are, by their
own acknowledgment, of what is involved
in the personality of God.
'Our modern humanitari&nisra, which
boasts so loudly of loving its fellowmen,
contains a refined, a subtle poison of self
ishness which endangers with serious peril
the magnificent superstructure of ,good
works that it Is building. And this poison
originates In the contradiction of affirm-
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of Oriental Rugs. New Rugs
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want to dispose of all Rugs
now on hand at the earliest
possible date.
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ing one and denying the other of the two
great commandments.
"The doctrine of love to the neighbor is
not so simple of comprehension and so
shallow as is affirmed by those incapable
of gathering meaning from the first great
commandment. It is as profound and as
complex as the doctrine of love to the
Lord. The two doctrines are alike. Jesus
declared that they were alike. He who
does not know what love to the Lord
means and what it involves does not know
what love to the neighbor means and
what it involves.
"The misinterpretations of these com
mandments are frequently due to a super
ficial conception of the meaning of love.
As love is predicated of men it stands for
the complex of all tthat is in the human
heart both of evil and good even all that
is involved in the potencies of the human
heart. As to quality, therefore, love may
be either unselfish -or selfish, pure or im
pure, celestial or lpfernal. The highest
altitudes of pure love and the lowest
depths of Iniquitous love are to us un
measurable. But somewhere between
these two extremes all men either rise or
fall according to their own choosing.
"The acknowledgment of One Infinite
Being who participates providentially, lov
ingly and wisely in human affairs is in
dispensable to that enlightenment which
truly distinguishes between selfish and un
selfish loves. And spiritual progress in
character-building, be it known, is seldom,
and at best but slowly, made with him
who does not discriminate truly between
the selfish and unselfish qualities of his
own motives and loves. The smallest
genuine trust and confidence in the help
ful guidance to worldly affairs by the Su
preme Being is Just; it is that much
of an acknowledgment and love of the
one Lord. It is an acknowledgment of
the personal presence of God in the
world. . . . Any trust and confidence
In the love and wisdom of God which are
sufficiently strong to reconcile a man to
whatever apparent misfortunes befall him
are sufficient to insure his spiritual
growth."
Church Extension Work.
Members of the City Board of Church
Extension had charge of the services yes
terday morning at the Sellwood Methodist
Church. T. S. McDaniels presiding. A
new church, to cost about $&00. is to be
built at Sellwood, and these representa
tives of the Church Extension Society
were present to look into conditions, pre
paratory to making an appropriation to
assist in the erection of the building. Mr.
McDaniels made a short talk, in which he
spoke of the remarkable growth of Port
land's suburbs and the need of active
work on the part of the church to meet
the demands made upon it. -At Sellwood
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the membership had outgrown the pres
ent building. J. E. Leuton. of Mount Ta
bor, and Samuel Connell also made short
talks on church work In Portland. It Is
expected that the society will make a sub
stantial appropriation, when the work of
building the new church will start. Last
evening Judge Frazer, of the Juvenile
Court, told of the workings f this court
in the Sellwood church.
DAILY METEOROLOGICAL REPORT.
PORTLAND. May 6. Maximum tempera
ture, 70 deg. ; minimum, 45 deg. Rivsr read
ing at 8 A. M., 8.7 feet: change in past 24
hours, fall, 0.2 of a foot. Total precipitation,
5 P. M. to 6 P. M., none; total slnco Sep
tember I. 1905. 83.87 inches; normal since
September 1, li05. 41.94 Inches; deficiency,
S.2T inches. Total sunshine. May- 6. 14
hours and 32 minutes; possible. 14 hours and
32 minutes. Barometer (reduced t'l ses
level) at 5 P. M.. 30.12.
PACIFIC COAST WEATHER.
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WEATHER CONDITIONS.
The area of high pressure which has con
trolled the weather in the North Pacific
States during the last several days contin
ues central this evening off the mouth of
the Columbia River. No rain has occurred
during the last 24 hours on the Pacific
Slope, except at San Diego, Cal., where a
light shower oceurred today. . Cloudiness
has increased somewhat in the North Pa
cific States this afternoon, due to the de
velopment of a low-pressure area which ex
tends this evening from British Columbia
southward to Arizona.
The area of high pressure off the coast
will continue the controlling factor in our
weather conditions, however. and fair
weather may be expected in Oregon. Wash
ington and Idaho during the next 36 hours.
WEATHER FORECASTS.
Forecasts made at Portland for the 28
hours ending midnight. May 7;
Portland and vicinity Fair weather;
northerly winds.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho Fair
weather; northerly winds.
U4, Oreem.
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