THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 13, 1906.
HE CLAIMS TO BE
11
Rev. P. J. Green, ex-Preacher,
Asserts Faith Will Cure
All Ills.
CITES MIRACULOUS CASES
Patients, lie Says, Are Healed Much
More Easily When He Re
ceives Proper Remunera
tion for His Services.
PORTLAND'S NEW HEALER.
Portland has a new apostle of faltn
cure, or divine- healing. Rev. P. J.
Green, former pastor of Memorial
Evangelical Church, of this city, and
atill a minister of that denomination,
has Issued a statement, asserting ale
belief In psychic healing and claiming
that he has already4 effected many
cures of a miraculous nature. He says
that his cures are performed through
divine aid and that the character
of. the disease or the distance from
the patient makesjio difference In the
results.
Rev. P. J. Green, formerly the pastor
of the Memorial Evangelical Church on
Kast Eighteenth and Tlbbetts streets, and
still a. member of the Oregon Conference
of the Evangelical Association, has be
become an apostle of psychic and divine
healing. Some time before Rev. Mr.
Green ceased to be pastor of Memorial
Church, he had Investigated the subject,
and gradually became convinced that his
duty lay in that direction, although It
cannot be said that the members of the
Oregon Conference who knew of his ten-
( nency approved of his course. At last
he landed firmly among the advocates of
lusyohic and divine healing.
At the annual conference held at
I,ents a year and a half ago. Rev. Mr.
IJreen's position on that subject cost him
Ms appointment to Memorial or to any
other Evangelical Church, and it Is said
to have been due to Bishop Breyfogel,
who presided, that Rev. Mr. Green was
not put outside the pale of the church.
He was one of the ablest men in the
Oregon Conference, and was so recog
nized, and was strong enough to retain
his membership In the organization In
spite of the disapproval of a considerable
number of the ministers. A prominent
member of the Oregon Conference said
last week that Rev. Mr. Green may
again take a pastorate, and that he Is
etill a minister in good standing, without
an appointment at present because of out
tilde employment. In his manifesto, ex-
, plaining his position on divine healing,
; Rev. Mr. Green says:
Authority From Bible.
"We believe the healing gift spoken of
by Paul In First Corinthian, 12:9, Is pres
ent today, but Is dormant ancl unmani
fet, because It is wrapped up In a nap-
' kin of Ignorance and prejudice; at least,
we know that people can be and are
being healed by the score through our
treatment and faith exercises. Christ
Is all in all. He Is health and life; the
New Testament teaches that believers
are members of Christ's body, of His
. flenh and of His bone; hence people who
believe ought to be able to be healea.
When the church, which Is His body,
also His bride for both are one will
unfold the napkin and dig this gift or
talent out of hate and prejudice in
which It has been burled by unbelief,
and will enter Into the experience re
corded in Ephesians, 4:13, then will be
fulfilled the prophecy of Jesus, 'He that
bclieveth in Me, the works that I do
shall he do also; ancl greater works than
these shall he do, because I go to My
Father.'
' To say the gifts of the spirit are lost
Is to admit that the spirit Is not able
to preserve the gilts. The facts are
these: The gifts are neither lost nor
stolen, but wrapped in a napkin and hid
den away from suffering humanity. If
Jesus came to earth again mcthinks he
would give a scathing rebuke for the
nonuse of this powerful, soul-winning
.weapon. The commission to preach the
gospel is accompanied In the same breath
to heal the sick.
"We can with your co-operation enable
ynu to touch the hem of Christ's gar
ment deep down In your soul. The king
dom of heaven, which means Christ's
control, which further means harmony
and power. Is within you, and when we
touch this power with the finger of faith
the result Is healing. We do not ask what
your creed or religion is. We do not ask
you to leave any church. We believe in
freedom of conscience and of the liberty
of choice. It matters not if you are a
Jew. Greek, barbarian. Gentile, Catholic
or Protestant God loves you and has
provided divine laws by which you can
lie healed. We give treatment for the
overthrow of any disease. It matters not
how far you are from us there Is no such
thing as distance to the soul and spirit.
We have had perfect success with. pa
tients cast of the Mississippi River."
Poctors Still Useful.
Rev. Mr. Green does not advise that
doctors and drugs be forsaken. "People,
however, come to us when drugs fall and
are healed," he" says. "We know there is
more power In God's spirit and the laws
of the soul than there is in drugs. We
also know that our father has good will
toward all men and wishes the sick to
receive his healing power. "Do you charge
for treatment?" you ask. Yes. Compen
sation is the law of nature and the law
of the spirit. Experience teaches us that
people get healed faster when they pay
than when they do not."
Rev. Green gives a long list of people
he has healed and cites one case at
Benton Ridge, Ohio, 3000 miles away,
which he says he healed. Recently a
woman In Stephen's Addition said her
little baby was In a. very dangerous con
dition, and she could do absolutely noth
ing for the infant, who appeared to be
dying. She sold that she called up Rev.
Mr. Green over the telephone and ex
plained the situation, and in less than
15 minutes the terrible fever had sub
sided and the child was sleeping peace
fully. Two cases of appendicitis are al
leged to have been healed without the
aid of the surgeon's knife. An Infant low
with scrofula, given up by two doctors
who declared the child could not live
till morning, was cured almost instantly,
according to testimony of the mother.
Tuberculosis Is healed In a few weeks,
he says.
Rev. Mr. Green appears to be thorough
ly sincere and honest, and a man of ed
ucation. He bases his position on di
vine and psychic healing on the teach
ings of Christ. He recognizes Christ as
the fountain head and source of his heal
ing power.
"Christ was the most miraculous per
son in the world's history," he says,
"yet he was also the most natural person,
and what he did he did through natural,
mental and spiritual laws. Some of these
DIVINE
HEALER
laws are known today and can be put
into operation by those who understand
them; others are not understood and
cannot be put into operation except by
accidental compliance with the necessary
conditions. In dealing with the sick we
are using only the laws which God has
created, and claim that it la legitimate
and right to do so, to overcome pain,
sickness and premature death."
NEW BOOKS AT
THE LIBRARY
THE following are the new books at
the Portland Public Library:
BOOKS AND READING.
Pollard. A. W-, Old picture books
with other essays on bookish sub
jects O90 P771
PHILOSOPHY.
Hibben, J. G., Inductive logic 161 H624
RELIGION.
Calrd, Edward, Evolution of re
ligion, ed. 3 201 C1364
Moulton, R. G., Bible as litera
ture : 220.8 M927b
SOCIOLOGY INCLUDING EDUCATION.
Bax. E. B., Ethics of socialism.... 335 B355
Newman. J. H., Idea of a university,
defined and illustrated 378 N553
Parsons. Frank, Heart of the railway
problem 3S5 P26T
Spargo, John, Bitter cry of the chil
dren ! 339 S736
Zenker, E. V., Anarchism 335 Z54
PHILOLOGY.
Motteau, A., Esperanto-English dic
tionary R408.92 M923
.O'Connor, J. C. and Hayes, C. F.,
"English-Esperanto dictionary
R408.92 018
MATHEMATICS.
Wentworth, G. A.. College algebra.
rev. ed 512 W478c
USEFUL ARTS.
Beal. F. E. L.. Some common birds in
their relation to agriculture. -.6 32 B366
Dixon, Thomas, Jr., Life worth Liv
ing 640 D621
Hall, W. L., Tree-planting on rural
school grounds 634.9 H181
Harwood. W. S New earth, recital of
triumphs of modern agriculture in
America 630 H34S
Hawkins, N., New catechism of the
steam engine 621.1 H394n
High - tension power transmission.
1905-06 621.S H638
Muller, J. P.. My system; 15 minutes'
work a day for health's sake. 613.7 M958
Thorn, W. H. and Son, Reed's engi
neer's handbook to the Board of
Trade examination 621.12 T496
LITERATURE.
Phillips, Stephen. Nero 822 P53n
Pushkin, A. S., Eugene Oneguine.89L17 P987
TRAVEL AND HISTORY.
Brady, C. T., Border fights and fight
ers 973 BfilZb
Curtis, W. E., Modern India 915.4 C9S1
Lyman, H. M., Hawaiian yester
days 919.69 L936
Outram, James, In the heart of the
Canadian Rockies 617.11 094
BIOGRAPHY.
Penn. William, William Penn, by
George Hodges B P412H
Mary Stuart, Mary Stuart. Queen of
Scots, by Florence MacCunn.B M393Ma
FICTION.
Alden. W. L., Adventures of Jimmy
Brown A359a
Churchill. Winston, Conlston C563co
Gaborlam, Emile, Mystery of Or- .
cival GU6m
Mitchell, S. W.. Diplomatic ad
venture M6826U
Mitchell, S. W.. New Samaxia and the
Summer of St. Martin M682n
Parrish. Randall, Sword of the old
frontier P2fils
Stoddard, W. O.. Red patriot SS69r
Vachell, H. A.. The hill VllSh
Watson, H. B. Marriott, Hurricane
Island .' W339h
Weyman, Stanley, Starvecrow farm..
W549s
White. W. A.. In our town W5888i
Zangwlll, Israel, Merely Mary Ann..Z29me
FRENCH BOOKS.
Berthet, Elie. La petite Chailloux..FB539p
Blanc, Mme. Marie Therese (de Solms),
Pierre Casse-con; par Th. Bent
eon FB638p
Blanc, Mme. Marie Therese (de Solms).
Tony; par Th. Bentzon FB638to
Blanc, Mme. Marie Therese (de Solms).
Un remorrls; par Th. Bentzon... FB63Sr
Bolssonnas, Mme. B., Une famille pen
dant la guerre FB6S4f
Chateaubriand, F. R. de, Le dernier
des Abencerages FC492d
Deslys, Charles, Jacques Coeur FD462J
Julliot, Francois de, Terre de
France FJ94t
Lafayette, M. P. de la V., Comtesse,
Romans et Nouvelles FL161r
Scribe, Eugene, et legouve, Ernest, .
La bataille de dames F&42 S434
Souvestre, Emile, Le memorial de fa
mille FS729m
Tlnseau. Leon de, La lampe de
Psyche FT5921
Toepfer, Rodolphe. Le Presbytere..FT642p
Toepfer, Rodolphe, Nouvelles Gene
voises FT642n
PRIDE AS BASIS OF VIRTUE
Synopsis of Sermon at the Cathedral
by rather O'Uara.
In his sermon at the Cathedral yester
day morning. Father O'Hara said:
"Pride, in the Catholic view of things,
is not merely one among many sins; It
is the first of the capital sins, the foun
tainhead from whence all other sins flow.
Humanity an honest recognition of our
own limitations and of our dependence
on God Is therefore in Catholic eyes the
only safe foundation of virtue. Humility
is here understood not in the pharisaio
sense of a feigned or forced depreciation
of oneself, but in the Christian sense of
a just and reasonable subjection to God.
"Needless to say, the spirit of the world
takes a very different view of pride and
humility. The Greek philosophers who
evolved lofty theories of ethics are said
to have been without the concept of hu
mility. It would be true to say that they
understood the meaning of humanity but
regarded it as a defect of character, not
a virtue. It might befit the character of
a slave, but of a freeman, never.
"The modern world has no higher esti
mation of humility than had the ancient.
But by a clever euphemism it substitutes
'self-respect' for pride and finds therein
the well-spring of its virtues. 'Self-respect'
is the practical as well as the theo
retical basis of worldly ethics. Shaftes
bury said rightly that there is nothing
which Is so much feared by the world as
ridicule. Hence vice in the eyes of the
world comes almost to be defined as con
duct which does injury to our self-esteem,
and virtue as conduct which makes us
thoroughly satisfied with ourselves.
"Thus, pride, under another name, be
comes, as Newman has observed, sub
servient to the social and cultured inter
ests of the world. It is directed into the
channel of industry, frugality, honesty
and obedience; and it becomes the very
staple of the religion and morality held In
honor in a day like our own. It becomes
a safeguard of modesty and veracity; It
is the very household god of society, as
at present constituted, inspiring neat
ness in the servant, refined manners in
the mistress and uprightness, manliness
and generosity in the head of the family.
'It breathes upon the face of the com
munity, and the hollow sepulchre Is forth
with beautiful to look upon.'
"But in spite of its beautiful exterior
of culture and refinement, the society of
the world remains rotten within. The
Pharisee of the Gospel is the ideal gen
tleman. No one could point the finger of
scorn at his conduct. Pride Is the basis
of such exterior virtue and the heart of
the proud Is corrupt. His conscience has
become mere self-respect. When he does
wrong, he is angry, not humble: he feels
a sense of degradation, not of contrition;
he calls himself a fool, not a sinner. He
Is both."
President Roosevelt's Cabinet.
FOTtTLAND, Aug. 12. (To the Editor.)
To settle a dispute, please publish the names
of the members of President Roosevelt's
Cabinet. - SUBSCRIBER.
Secretary of State, Elihu Root; Secretary
of the Treasury,. Leslie M. Shaw; Seoratary
of War, William H. Taft: Attorney-General,
William H. Moody: Postmaster-General,
George B. Cortelyou; Secrecary of the Navy,
Chariefc J, Bonaparte. Jr.; Secretary of the
Interior, Ethan A. Hitchcock; Secretary of
Agriculture. James Wilson; Secretary of
Commerce and Labor, Victor 11. Metcalfe.
WILSON DISCUSSES
ADVENTIST FAITH
Addresses Large Audience on
"Sabbath Keeping" at
Grace Church.
QUOTES FROM SCRIPTURES
Irregularities in Translating Greek
"Sabbaton" Furnish Only Ground
for Keeping of Seventh Day
Sacred, He Declares.
Rev. Clarence True Wilson delivered
he sixth of his series of lectures on
"Modern Substitutes for Christ," at the
Grace Methodist church last evening. The
subject was "Seventh Day Adventism,"
and though speaking well of the Advent
it church as a congregation of people.
Dr. Wilson denounced their religion in
no uncertain terms as the enemy of the
Lord's Day, or Christian Sabbath. At
the close of the service, quite unexpected
ly Bishop Snyder, of the Adventiat faith,
who was in the audience, arose and said:
"I wish merely to make an announce
ment. I am very much surprised at the
tone of . the address tonight. I came
hero expecting to hear our religion
'roasted,' and had rented a hall for the
purpose of replying to the address, but I
am agreeably surprised and pleased with
the Impersonal manner in which the pas
tor has treated the subject. As I have
the hall rented I wish to announce that
I will reply to the remarks made here
tonight at the Auditorium, 29SH Third
street, next Friday evening."
Dr. Wilson assured the visitor that it
was not his custom to deal In personali
ties, and asked Rev. Snyder to dismiss
the audience with prayer and benediction,
which he graciously did.
Dr. Wilson's address was .in substance
as follows:
"The Sabbath is the main prop to civi
lization, and, while I never advocated the
union of Church and State, religion is
the helpmeet to civil government, and
they may well help each other. Because
the Sabbath Is the workingman's resting
day, giving him leisure for thought and
self-Improvement in the ' refinements of
life, the state should protect and shield
the Lord's Day from disturbance and
unnecessary work, not only as furnishing
a college for its working citizens, but for
the sake of decent courtesy to the pre
vailing religion.
"A government like ours, depending
for its perpetuity upon the intelligence of
the average voting citizen, owes it to
itself (for self-preservation Is the law
for nations as well as for men) to throw
around the masses the safeguards that
protect from constant toil, that citizens
may learn to think, may have time for
leisure, for reading to inform themselves
and by church privileges be reminded of
the great moral ideas .for which men
should live. For it Is Just as bad to
have all head and no heart, so that the
Intellect shines over the emotions like an
electric light over a graveyard, as to have
the head bald on the Inside. Give us
Sunday, that the intellect may be bright
ened by study and the heart warmed by
worship.
"Seven years of Sabbath keeping is
equal to the time given in a full four
years' college course. The nation, aside
from the religious significance of the day,
owes It to Its citizens' health and moral
welfare to protect this holy day. If you
obliterate the Sabbath, then the work
lngman must toil on, deprived of the
blessedness of two most important in
stitutions the family and the . church.
The decay of either means the destruc
tion of the state. To cripple both is civic
suicide. To train the body to the neglect
of mind and heart reduces to animalism.
Build intellect at the expense of body
and heart and you have mental mon
strosities. Cultivate the heart and forget
culture and health and you have fanati
cism. The Christian1 Sabbath is the time
for bodily rest and recuperation, intel
lectual inspiration and information, and
for the building of soul-structure through
worship and social life. Man is a seven
day clock, needing to wind up his spirit
ual nature that he may run truly and
steadily through the engrossments and
vicissitudes of the coming week. They
are not the truest friends of their kind
who would turn the dial of Christian
progress backward and rob the world
of its Sabbath rest. They are not patri
otic friends of the nation who would
blot from the institutions of our country
the American Sabbath, or secularize it
till it loses power. 'This Is the day the
Lord hath made. Let us rejoice and be
glad in It."
"There is no subject in Christian teaching-
that has so suffered at the hands of
blundering translators of our King James'
version of the Bible as the -Sabbath. As
our English translators took the word
baptism from the Greek and Anglicised
it so the Greek writers of the New Testa
ment took the word Sabbath from the
Hebrew and made it a Greek term for
the day of rest. And every one of the
nine times that the Greek word Sabbaton
occurs In the New Testament it should
have been translated 'Sabbath.' If this
had been done we should have no con
fusion on the Sabbath question and that
retrogard movement back to Judaism,
known as Seventh Day Adventism, would
never have been thought of."
DELIVERS PARTING SERMON
"What Is Your Life?" the Subject
Chosen by Rev. A. A. Winters.
"What Is Your Life?" was the subject
of Rev. A. A. Winters' sermon yesterday
morning, just before his departure for
the East to be absent nearly two months.
His farewell words on this subject were:
"This Is a personal question, and the
emphasis Is rightly placed on the pos
sessive pronoun 'your;' not what kind
of a life Is your wife living, nor what
have you to say concerning the life
of your neighbor, but what Is 'your'
life? On the basis of true civilization,
upon what principles Is your life largely
built? Are your calculations of the future
false or true? James here condemns the
false conception of life, and upholds the
true.
"We are to answer this question to
Him who crowneth every man with good
ness and every child with loving kind
ness and tender mercy. How wide Is
the field for the meditations of the
thankful heart! Through all our days
what an abundance of fruits and flowers
of blessings. In the midst of it all, what
is your life?
What is your life as to existence or
tendency? This question is based on re
ligion. The first essential is a belief in
the existence of God. which lies at the
foundation of all true religion, and is
the only basis of real morality. It fol
lows that if there were no God there
would be no religion no moral obliga
tion or law, and hence no possible trans
gression. But every man knows with
absolute- "certainty that - ha - himself and
other beings exist. There was a time,
also, when all beings began to exist,
or some being or thing existed from
eternity. And that Being was God. Cos
mos did not come from chaos, nor entity
from nonentity. i
"As to tendency: We have the natural
and the spiritual. The natural tendency
of man is to drift. - He has an inherited
tendency that leads downward. Man left
thus alone goes from bad to worse. One
drink from the wineglass tends to take
another. We have what Is termed mod
erate drinkers. But moderate drinking
never made a sober man.
"The natural tendency Is the same in
all bad habits; dishonesty, profanity,
impurity of every kind, and gambling. I
fear that many bright and promising
careers have been wrecked by gambling.
Oh. the power and fascination of this
vice! It becomes an irresistible passion.
Kingsley said: 'It is a habit, intrinsically
unsafe and morally unchristian.' Her
bert Spencer, That It tends toward the
ruin of the gambler, risks the welfare
of family and friends, alienates from
business, and leads to bad company.' "
"THE SEW AND . THE OLD."
Extracts From Sermon by Dr. House
at Congregational, Church.
The following are extracts 'from a
very interesting sermon on "The New
or the Old" preached at the First Con
gregational Church yesterday morning
by Rev. E. L. House:
"The old has no future save as it
re-enters the new; the new has no past
save as it was nourished in the bosom
of the old. The two forces are not
Independent; they are mutually depen
dent and complimentary forces. Both
orders are a part of ' God's plan. The
moment one order is withdrawn, he
has another-harnessed for the -course.
The new is never given the reins until
it has served a .more or less protracted
apprenticeship; and the old is never
cast off until its .work Is complete and
the new has so thoroughly got hold of
its lessons as to carry them on to the
future.. i
"Now much that we call new is really
old. It not Infrequently happens that
the so-called new Idea is an old error.
Materialism, the denying of the trinity,
the denial of miracles, are all old.
Many of our new 'isms' today are
'moldering skeletons', dressed up in a
new phraseology and complacently dis
played as new.
"The new is the old rediscovered.
Our country is called the New World
but it Is as old as any other country.
It was inhabited before Columbus dis
covered it. Electricity, called a new
power, was used in Solomon's day, and
gunpowder, supposed to be very mod
ern, was used by the Chinese 3000 years
ago. We think that Galileo invented
the telescope, but ancient Central
Americans used it long before Galll
leo's time. -We are now in the era of
art glass. We say It is a modern dis
covery, but in the resurrection of
Pompeii, workmen came upon the ruins
of a glass factory, finding gems that
would deceive the ordinary man. So is
it In religion,
"The new today is but the old redis
covered. We point to our development
in morals, and illustrate the same by
stattng that we have our hospitals and
asylums, and our Good Samaritans.
But did not the early church have all
things In common?
"Again the new is the old enlarged.
The old is the root, the new Is the
blossom. Take the word 'commerce.'
First, it meant trade between indivi
duals. One man had something his
I neighbor had not, and they agreed to
exchange. Later on tne word was en
larged so as to take in states, now It
takes In the world. And so is it in re
ligious matters. The New Testament
is but tho old enlarged. And our reli
gious thinking today Is the old en
larged. What vast changes for the bet
ter in our theology of a hundred years
ago. Election, war between denomina
tions, have gone. The Bible has not
changed. It is our theology that has
changed. Our theology Is greater and
grander than it ever has been in the
history of mankind.
' "Again we might say that the new is
the old transformed. Our city is a good
illustration of this truth. Not long ago
it was a forest roamed by beasts and
Indians. Now it is a city Of beauty.
The new was called for. And the Bible
Is like a cube. It hath several facets of
light and beauty, and it has various
settings for different generations. The
early prophets saw the seed, the disci
ples the bud. but we are seeing tho
flower of truth. But the flower was In
the .'seed and bud. It is only .the old
transformed.
"But let us notice that the subllmest
truths of the world are old. The fath
erhood of God, the brotherhood of man,
tho redemption of man by Christ, all
are old. And we love them because time
has not been able to weaken them.
They are the air, .the bread and the
water of our spiritual Vlfe."
I
SERMOS BY DR. GHORSILET
Church as Unique Institution Sub
ject of East Side Pastor.
At the Central Christian Church Dr.
J. F. Ghormley spoke on "The Church
as a Unique Institution." taking for a
text statements found in 1 Peter, 4:9:
"A Peculiar People," and 1 Tim., 3:15,
"The Church of the Living God, the
Pillar and Ground of the Truth." He
said:
"Every great Institution in the world
has some specific object In view, the
accomplishment of which brought it into
existence. The Church of Jesus the
Christ is different from every other in
stitution, and has an organism peculiar
to itself. It has one supreme purpose
In the world the redemption of the race.
It has but one way in which It pro
poses to accomplish this end. and this is
by holding forth the Christ to the world.
It becomes, therefore, the ground and
pillar of the truth. No Institution, how
ever good or great, which does not sup
port this specific in the divinely ap
pointed, can lay claim to being the
church of Christ.
"Christ was unique in character and
in His teachings. He had in Him all
the potency of the complete church, so
that we are complete In Him. The
church constitutes a peculiar people
these having come into fellowship with
each other by passing through the atone
ment and entering into its blessings, ex
pressed to the world and Impressed upon
themselves the very truth by which the
world Is saved. Paul said to the Corin
thian Church:
" 'I declare upto you the Gospel which
I preached unto you, by which also ye
are saved. For I delivered unto you first
of all, that which I also received, how
that Christ died for our sins according
to the Scriptures. And that He was
buried, and that He arose again the
third day according to the Scriptures.'
"In turning away from sin and being
burled with Him In baptism, these fun
damental truths were expressed. The
great Head of the Church appointed bap
tism and the Lord's Supper for the pur
pose of constantly holding the mind to
these supreme facts. These are divinely
appointed Institutions peculiar to His
church. In this age when people drift
into infidelity on the one hand and into
fanaticism on the other, it is necessary
to have the truth in monumental form.
"In our context it is stated: 'Great is
the mystery of Godliness; God was man
ifest In the flesh." Coming into this
world, taking our own nature, tempted in
all points like as we are, expressing
through a human form the Father's love.
He was Justified in the spirit He was
seen of angels. He was preached to the
Gentiles. He was believed on in the
world; He was received up Into glory.
He left His church on the earth as His
body, to go Into all the world by extend
ing His redeeming love to bring them
back to God."
TRUTH- ABOVE ALL
Essence of Religion, Says Rev.
Mr. Vrooman.
PREACHES TO UNITARIANS
Swedenborgian Pastor Asserts That
a Mind Receptive of Truth la
the First Characteristic of. -a
Religious Nature.
"The First Essential of Religion" waa
the subject of a sermon by Rev. Hiram
Vrooman at the Unitarian Church yes
terday morning. His text was John 8:32,
"And ye shall know the truth and the
truth shall make you free." Rev. vVroo
man Is the pastor of ' the Portland
Swedenborgian Church. He said in part:
"The first essential of religion is the
receptive attitude toward truth. Hu
manity, is divided between those recep
tive and those hot receptive to truth.
The membership of all church denomina
tions is likewise so divided. And so also
are the followers even of the pagan re
ligions and the ranks of the so-called
unbelievers and agnostics. Invariably It
is that he who is receptive of truth, be
he churchman, pagan or agnostic, is es
sentially religious .and spiritually noble;
whereas he who Is not receptive of truth,
whatever may be his professions. Is
fundamentally irreligious and spiritually
depraved.
"Unitarians and Swedenborgians alike
believe in a religious psychology which
appertains specifically to the elevation or
degredation of human character. Both
realize that Intellectuality is not synony
mous with character. A man may have
a well-trained and cultivated Intellect
and at the same time be a brute. A
brutish man, whatever may be his
scholarship and inherited genius, is not
receptive to truth.
"The chief business of every man in
this world Is to build his personal char
acter. Character Is the thing that en
dures, and the true type of character is
that which protects inviolable and inde
structible, eternally, the man's mental
acquirements and accomplishments.
"Hence it is that the man who knows
his own business, or is willing to attend
to his own business. Is seeking first of
all the perfecting of his personal char
acter. "To allow money-getting to take the
precedence over character-getting, or to
allow office-getting, or honor-getting, or
power-getting, or praise-getting, or gratitude-getting,
or pleasure-getting to take
the precedence over character-getting is
equivalent to spiritual suicide.
"He who regards the quality of his
own character as of greater worth than
all else that the world has to offer will
find himself literally forced by the re
quirements of his situation to acknowl
edge the rights of others, to stand for
justice, to war against wrong and to be
an ever-growing force for righteousness
In this world's social organism.
"And now, right here, may it be re
marked that the one particular thing of
all others most powerful, even almighty,
in the improvement of human character
is truth. The specific function of truth
is to elevate, ennoble, purify and even
to create character.
"Religious psychology demonstrates that
the man who is receptive of truth has
eyes for seeing truth. The mind has eyes
as well as the body. And there Is mind
within mind, as a wheel within a wheel,
which may he called the interior or spirit
ual mind. This interior mind ' has eyes
also.
s "I have faith In the man who Is re
ceptive of truth and implicit confidence
in the outcome of his religious beliefs." .
Marshal Has Remedy
for Auto Fiends
George W. Metzger, Gresham Peace
Officer, Use Big Platol to Make
Drivers Respect Speed Ordinance.
WITH a big pistol, having a muzzle
like that of a small cannon, Mar
shal George W. Metzger, of Gresham, has
found the best means of regulating the
speed of automobiles. Marshal Metzger,
after his appointment, tried to persuade
the drivers of the horseless carriage to
moderate speed through Gresham, but
they simply laughed at him. Finding that
mildness would not prevail, he tried an
other scheme. George saw a big white
"devil machine" coming down the hill
from Farmer Cotton's ranch at the rate
of SO miles an hour. Planting himself in
the pathway of the automobile, he point
ed his cannon directly at the face of the
driver. At first no attention was paid
to him, but as the automobile approached
the nervy Marshal the driver could look
down Into the muzzle of George's can
non. He brought his machine to a slow
pace and limped out of town very meekly.
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