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THE K3RNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, JANUARY 6, 1908.
CHRISTIAN HERMIT "
ft MORAL COWARD
Dr. Heppe Says Co-operative
Colony Schemes Are
Wrong.
REMOVE BEST INFLUENCES
Religion Is Eminently Practical and
Must Be Lived in Present-Day
Surroundings, Not In the
Sheltered Cloisters. .
Taking for his subject the question:
"Is It Practical to Live the Christian
Life in the Present Age?" and for his
text Titus 11:11-12, Dr. -William H.
Heppe. pastor of the Grace Methodist
Church, said last night that the
Christian hermit Is a moral coward,
and that, on the other hand, the Chris
tion who Buccumbs to the low stand
ards of the world around him Is also
weak morally. He declared himself
opposed to the Christian Federation
movement because too many grood peo
ple are thereby expunged from so
ciety. His sermon in part follows:
The Christian religion, to be of real
and lasting value to a man's life, must
embrace two fields of service, the pres
ent world and the world to come. Any
type of faith which unfits a man for
the highest Bervice and efficiency on
this planet is abnormal in character,
and unworthy the dignity and glory of
human nature. It is here that charac
ter must be sculptured, here that des
tiny must be wrought out, here that
life's problems must be solved. If re
ligion is to be of any great value to
us. it must prove such In the present
world. Unless a man's faith makes
him a better man, it is worthless. The
true type of religion will always be
equal to the demands of the world life
of every age. It matters not what its
conditions or its tendencies may be,
it is the force that is able to cope with
the age, and which makes a man equal
to the demands of his time.
Not Easy, but Practical.
That it is easy to live the Christian
life, no one will declare: If there are
any who do they have not arrived at
the proper conception of it. They have
never realized what it means to be a
Christian in fact. But to eay that It is
Impossible and impractical is for the
individual to declare that he has not
awakened to the true and highest
meaning of life. He has not glimpsed
the highest Ideals, or he purposes to
live beneath the. best and highest, or
else he Is too weak, morally, to live
up to the highest .standards. Yet there
are those who say that business stand
ards are relaxing, home habits are
loose, self-seeking is the common rule,
plain living and high thinking are not
the custom of the time.
Men who think so do one of two
things in attempting to live the Chris
tian life. They either attempt to live
apart from the world, or they vleld
themselves to the tendencies, ideals
nnd spirit of the age. They show them
selves moral cowards. They are afraid
of their age, and wax valiant in flight.
Thousands have done this in ages nast,
but what have they accomplished?
This Is the -chief objection I have
Rgalnst all Christian co-operative
schemes, which withdraw the best peo
ple from society to live In separate
colonies. These are the very people
who ought to bo In hand-to-hand touch
with society and prove the salt of the
earth. To flee from society betrays a
want of confidence in the. Christian
faith.
Christian Lire Natural.
The ideal Christian life embraces the
qualities of sobriety, righteousness and
godliness. There can be no well
rounded character without any one of
them. The life with them Is the truly
natural life. There has never been an
age or a country which has afforded
such an opportunity to live the Chris
tian life as our own. While there is
much in our age that Is contrary -to
Christian Ideals ana principles, yet
there in no reason why any one should
abandon the age, or yield to the evil
In it.
Our position Is much like that of the
potter. He takes the material at his
disposal and forms the best vessels
possible under the laws and limits of
the clay. So the material we have to
deal wlh is not any too clean; the
ways of business, the methods of in
dustry, the customs of society, the
vices of municipal life, the corruption
in politics, the wickedness in high
places, are soiling to the touch; but
under the laws and limitations of the
age we are to take the material we
have and mould it Into lives of moral
beauty and power. It Is an easy thing
to run away from the world, but It is
cowardly. It is still easier to succumb
to the Influence and power of the
world, but that Is weakness. On the
nthr hand, it Is manly, heroic, CJod
llke, to come tn contact with the world
and yet not be defiled bv it: to throw
one's best powers of brain and heart
na me into tne worm s work, and yet
live soberly, righteously and godly.
ASSAILS THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC
f
Colonel John Sobieski Lectures to
Men at Y. M. C. A.
Colonel John Sobieski. a scion of the
royal house of Poland, who was banished
from Russia many years ago, and whose
father was slain in the course of free
dom, was the speaker at the T. M. C
A men's meeting yesterday afternoon.
. bonlesKi Is a noted temperance lecturer.
ad spoke yesterday against the liquor
-afflc. In course of his remarks he
; elated the experiences of a hotel and
Barkeeper in the State of New York,
with whom he was formerly acquainted.
The hotel-keeper. Colonel Sobieski said;
had decided to quit the business because
Ms ;n-ln-law had become a drunkard in
spite" of all his wife and her father could
do. and because grandson was following
in the footsteps of the father.
Colonel Sobieski closed his address by
comparing the Government of the United
States with that of China. He said in
part:
"I hope the day will come when this
shall be a Christian civilized nation. You
know we are not, now. I live in Cali
fornia, and we are down on the China
man because we can't civilise him. We
Tau't make him drink, and there are
some other civlliEed ways which he will
not adopt. So we are determined to rid
the country of him.
oil know In 154", when the en
lightened monarch of China' gave his
word that opium should not be Imported
. into his kingdom, the beautiful sovereign
of England would not consent to such a
plan. China showed battle, but she did
not know how to fight. She had not be
come civilized enough for that. yet. The
Chinese made a fearful smelling coneoe
- tion. put it into jars, and threw It into
the Knglish camp, but It did not scare
the British. It only made them home'
tick.
"His Majesty, the Emperor of China,
said recently In a proclamation that he
ld not look upon the opium traffic as
the so-called civilized countries did. He
declared that he could not consent to
live in a land where he must derive I
revenue from the degradation of his pet
j !e. I tell you men. we ought as t
Nation to be at least upon as high i
plane as so-called heathen China. We
are deriving a revenue from the sale of
rum. Its sale should be prohibited. We
bear a good deal about tainted money
these days, but liquor license money is
dirty money, and I, for one, do not
want it."
Colonel Sobieski's address was preceded
and followed by a number of prohibition
songs by the Meneley Quartet.
General Secretary Stone took occasion
to refer to a recent editorial In The Ore
gonian in which towns existing under
prohibition are mentioned, and said that
three cities or tne country wim more
than 100,000 inhabitants now have pro
hibition, that 33,000.000 people are living
under prohibition, that one-half the land
surface of the United States is Included
in prohibition territory, and that it will
all be without saloons In a short time.
Walter Thomas Mills, editor of the
Seattle Tribune; Is to speak at the Y.
M. C. A. next Sunday.
Home Mission Headquarters. '
The Board of Home Missions of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States has established the Pacific Coast
headquarters in Portland for the present.
The rooms are at 415-417 Worcester block.
Third and Oak streets, where the field
secretary, W. S. Holt, will be glad to
see friends of the work. Probably the
rooms will be in readiness to receive
callers on Tuesday, January 7, and
thereafter, although during the present
month Mr. Holt will be absent much of
the time. His engagements for January
are: Fresno, Cal., January 11 to 13: Ala
meda, 18 to 30; Los Angeles, 21-27. Doubt
less some arrangement will be made for
keeping the rooms open constantly.
POWER FROM WEAKNESS
STRENGTH IS FOUND IN NON-
RESISTANCE.
Fellowship Circle Advocates Substi
tution of Conviction for Rnde
Force and Violence.
The meeting of Portland Fellowship
Circle, yesterday afternoon in Mrs. Mai-
lory's parlors, was well attended. After
a song service the president read Flor
ence Morse KIngsley's "Meditation for
the New Year," giving as the thought for
the silence, "I, the Lord they God, am
with thee whithersoever thou goest."
That there Is no contradiction in the
words of the subject of the day, "The
Strength of Non-Resistance," was stoutly
maintained by Mrs. C. C Chapman, the
leader, who defined what she understood
as the principle of non-resistance. She
took It to be the substitution of convic
tion for rude force or violence. Just in
the degree that nations and Individuals
recognize and live this principle will be
the spirit of true liberty and harmony
throughout the world.
Those who advocate non-resistance, and
those who do not, are perfectly agreed as
to the need of safe-guarding society from
the mistakes of its Ignorant members, or
ttcse of criminal tendencies; but are not
agreed as to the method. Mrs. Chap
man instanced the fact of Garrison advo
cating non-resistance as a publld policy.
and said that if this had been followed
the horrors of a fraticidal war would
have been spared. No nation that goes
to war, the speaker thought, ever settled
the matter a issue by the war; it always
had to be settled by other means after
ward. For Instance, the liberties of the
negro were not gained in the Civil War,
but have yet to be achieved.
Mrs. Chapman related a number of
anecdotes which illustrated the subject.
One was the discomfiture of the burglar
in Hull House by Jane Addams asking
him, very calmly, "What can I do for you,
sir?"' Another concerned the experience
of an English lady who was forced by the
illness of her husband to stop off on an
island where there were only male con
victs, and the Governor, who warned her
that she would not be safe. Having put
her sick husband to bed she was prepar
ing to retire when she saw a brutal, re
pulsive face at the window. Taking the
empty water pail she stepped to the door,
aud opening it without a semblance of
fear, said, "Pardon me, sir, but will you
kindly bring me a pall of water?" There
was no trouble that night,
"In this question," said Mrs. Chapman,
"we can all of us recall many Instances
in private life which show that -it is im
possible to overcome evil with evil but
that we can overcome evil with good.
and only thus. This means, as Mr.
Mills would say, by the non-resistance of
the evil and the positive manifestation of
confidence and love. And this is true of
evil of every sort and the principle can
be proved by each and every one of us,
Mri. Chapman spoke of the separation
of Norway and Sweden as an illustration
of this. These countries are more truly
united now than they would have been if
King Oscar had resisted and drenched
both countries with their best blood. Mrs.
Chapman quoted what Tolstoi, who is a
consistent advocate of non-resretance.
said to W. J. Bryan. Mr: Bryan had
presented what seemed to him would be
exceptions to this rule, and Tolstoi re
plied: "I uphold non-resistance, because
having lived 75 years I have never, except
in conversations, met that fantastic mur
derer "who before my eyes wanted to kill
or outrage a child; but I have constantly
seen, not one, but a million murderers
outraging children and adults, old men
and women and all working people in the
name of the right of violence over
others."
Mrs. Florence J. Chapman continued
the subject, showing how failure would
come in applying the principle when there
was a mixed motive. Dr. Mary A.
Thompson, the first woman physician in
Oregon, gave Instances from her early
experiences.
After a solo by Mrs. Emma Campbell
the subject was taken up by W. J. Co
recco; who showed that evil could not be
fought with evil any more than one could
fight darkness with darkness...
Dr. J. J. Story said that the secret of
carrying out the principle successfully
was to ally oneself with the strength of
the Infinite. Rev. P. J. Green related
an incident that had happened lately to
Dr. T. Mlnard. He was walking home
meditat'.ng on the line of the hymn, "I
Clothe Myself Safely About With In
finite Love," and It was borne in upon
him that he was so shielded, when from
behind a tree stepped out a man with
every appearance Gf intent to hold him
up. But Instead of doing so the man
retreated hastily and went. In the direc
tion where there was a hold-up of another
man a few minutes later. Mr. Grcn
emphasized the idea that one giv?s
strength to whatever one resists. Ellas
Fiwler spoke of the power of thought
and said that evil thought always re
bounds upon the thinker of It.
E. De Young took up the subject, illus
trating it by reference to the marked in
stances of the averting or the ending of
wars by the exercise of the united
thought of over a million persons who
concentrate in the "Whole World's Soul
Ommunion" on the 27th of each month,
closing his remains with an appropriate
poem.
Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby said that the
exercise of this principle must not be be
cause of fear, through any cowardly de
sire to escape trouble, or with the wish
to gain the victory m this way, but in
the exercise of- love, which gave Infinite
strength, and with the wish to benefit
and free from his error the one who was
committing the wrong.
Mrs. Chapman closed the discussion for
the day but it was voted to continue the
subject next Sunday with Dr. J. J. Story
as leader.
The meeting of the Emerson class was
announced for Tuesday night ait the same
place, and Miss Sullenberg invited the
Fellowship Circle tu meet socially at her
home. The Woodland, corner Sixth and
Madison, next Saturday night. It was
announced that a Fellowship, greeting had
been sent to It F. Mills.
Ml THUGS READY
Dr. Foulkes Gives Invitation to
Revival Meetings.
WILL CONTINUE ALL WEEK
Introductory Sermon to the Special
Services Preached by Pastor at
the First Presbyterian
Church Last Night.
Dr. William Hiram' Foulkes. pastor
of the First Presbyterian Church, laid
the foundation for the evangelistic
services he will conduct the next two
weeks. In hk sermon last night. Be
ginning today, the whole Christian
world will observe the week of prayer,
and the session of the First Church
has decided to devote it and the fol
lowing six days to the annual revival
services. No traveling evangelist has
been imported . for the occasion, but
Dr. Foulkes, who was called from Clin
ton, Iowa, nine months ago, will con
duct the services himself. Professor
W. M. Wilder will have charge of the
music.
"Come, for all things are now ready,"
was the subject of the discourse' last
night, based upon the parable of the
rich lord who spread a great feast
and when it Was time to partake of it,
his guests all sent excuses. Christ
spoke the parable at the table of a
Pharisee who had Invited only the
rich and powerful who would respond
In like courtesy, while the man of his
story sent out into the highways and
hedges for the lame, the halt and the
blind.
Dr. Foulkes read the idiomatic trans
lation of Dr. Richard Francis Wey
mouth, and said In part:
No mention is made in this parable
of the preparation for the feast.
Nothing Is said of the haste and labor,
save that it was a great feast. But
the plans must have been long pon
dered before the first invitation was
sent, and then worked out in detail
before that final Oriental summons of
"The feart la ready" was carried to
each guest.
We must dwell upon those prepara
tions lest we forget. We sometimes
frow monotonous issuing an invita
lon to come to Christ without imply
ing the age-long preparation the mes
sage contains. Salvation through the
blood oi tne iiavlor was not an after
thought. The provision of grace
through Jesus Christ was prepared be
fore the foundation of the world
was laid, and as I stand before
you and say, "Come, it is because all
things are ready, because the lord of
the feast has made preparation for
you.
Some of you intend to come some
time. You feel In your Inmost heart
that the' Lord is calling, yet you post
pone. Why make light of him who has
prepared the feast for you? Do you
await a new Christ? Do you look for
easier forms or a more attractive
creed? Brethren, the more we read,
the more we experiment with life, the
more we realize that the sum total
of all that is worth while is contained
In the word of God.
The three excuses given by the
Bible characters for not attending the
feast contain nearly the range of hu
man subterfuges. One had bought a
piece of land, one wanted to try a yoke
of oxen, and the third had just been
married Dossesslon. occupation and
social life were pleaded as excuses for
spurning their lord's offer.
I bump Into people's excuses every
day and I rind that most of them are
the creations of their own hands. "Too
busy." they plead. Too busy with tern
poral things to care for the eternal!
We are all busy, or ought to be, with
our work, our clay, our charities, all
the work of the Lord's vineyard. It
is only sophistry that separates the
first two from the third, for no man
can be too busy to give heed to the
paramount matter, the relation of his
soul to its maker. The question is:
"Are our hearts so full there is no
room for Jesus Christ?" When we see
ourseives as God sees us, we will not
be too busy.
"Tomorrow." is the excuse of many.
Tomorrow may never arise. He who
uses that is trifling with what he has
not. He Is presuming upon the mercy
of the God whom he neglects. The in
vitation has been Issued and the feast
is now ready, come In while yet there
Is room.
The final reason, the only real rea
son I know of. Is: "I won't." After all
the subterfuges have been exhausted
and sophistries exposed, me soui ae
serts Its outnosts. Is driven back from
its false embattlements and breaks out
into open rebellion. There is no hope
for that soul who persists. The lord
of the feast did not pursue his false
friends, he did. not throw them Into a
dungeon until they repented, but he
sent his servants out into the wide
streets and the narrow streets and in
vlted those in who appreciated.
It was simple exclusion for the re
bellious and I know of nothing more
fearful than eternal exclusion from the
presence of God. The master is not re-
vengerui put nas commissioned you,
his servants, to go Into the highways
and hedgeroads to constrain them to
come in. .
Still there Is room. I wish I could
thrust that into the heart of every one
of vou. We sometimes grow self-sat
lsfied and ourselves and the outsiders
thlnlc the door is closed and the seats
all taken. But there Is still room for
all. If the church does not urge the
strangers to come In, they cannot have
confidence In it. It has been said that
every man either propagates his faith
or changes it. If you believe, oh falt
er not, lest you fall. The feast is
spread. Bring them In, "that my
house may be filled," for there is still
room.
T
BCT REGULATION HAS NOT
KEPT PACE.
James N. Davis Declares the LeglS'
lattre Department of Government
Has Not Solved Its Problems.
PORTLAND, Jan. 1 (To the Editor.)
Your recent articles about the Title Guar
antee & Trust Company and the news
items relative to the discovery of fraud,
etc., are amusing to one who has watched
"this lusty babe In the Banking family
of Portland as it calls itself In its recen
booklet, showing the nine departments
and magnitude of its business and ability
to advertise on a metropolitan basis, ab
stract and title Insurance, rear estate,
trust, rental, law, safe deposit, mort
gage and bond a department store in cor
poration clothes.
The United States Steel Corporation re
ports earnings for 1906 at about $150,000,000
this is also a department store run on
the same general lines as the Title Guar
antee & Trust Cocpany. The Title com
pany made the mistake to come Into the
open some years ago and enter politics
personally. Its representative In our
Legislature had the courage to pass sev
eral laws r.long the line of Its recent de
velopment In corporation gymnastics.
These antics are all legitimate, they
are in keeping with the spirit of the times.
a corporation cannot commit a crime and
its officers have a right to run the cor
poration to suit themselves. Of course
the United States Steel Corporation and
its satellites, the' numerous companies it
owns and controls have not gone Into
politics to have-friends in the legislative
bodies of the country. Its executive
could manage nine departments, Ross
could not and there you are.
The corporation medium for doing things
that individuals cannot and dare not un
dertake is rampant. The laws made the
corporations, and the son is father to
the man. The business of the whole
country is honeycombed with corrupt cor
poration practices, and we eit by and let
them go on in perfect ease.
President Roosevelt in his last message
to Congress recommended and suggested
enough legislation to keep Congress busy
at its usual pace for many years. It
seems to me that the Ship of State Ib
drifting towards dangerous shoals and
men In Congress who glide along the cur
rents of least resistance are In a great de
gree to blame for present conditions. v e
need and what we must have in that
great law-making body are men who
have the courage to overcome the Influ
ence of the lobbyists, steering committees
and dilatory schemes of those who may
be Interested In continuing affairs as they
re. '
The policy of protection is the best ever
devised to promote the growth of Na
tional Industries and is founded upon the'
theory of least Interference with individ
ual freedom, recognizing that it Is the
function of government to steer" the ship
of state in Industrial matters and not to
propel it. This is what the Republicans
have so long voted Into our party plat-.
forms and established in the Congress,
but we have lived to see such an abuse
of this fine theory that It is a menace to
our Institutions.
Can we expect tariff or other reform
or remedial legislation when the protected
interests have combined with transporta
tion and industrial corporations,' tariff
leagues, oil kings, coal barons. Insurance
brokers, syndicate newspapers, etc., all
taking an active part in our politics as
under our present laws they have a right
to do?
What Is to become of ue and our chil
dren unless we get relief from conditions
which make it possible for a few cor
porations buccaneers and gamblers to
grasp so much of the business and prop
erty of the country as to dictate to the
whole people?
What branch of the Government is
more to bame for these conditions than
tne legislative? I say, none.
It may be said that the shrewdness
of these men and their well-paid law
yers have kept ahead of the lawmakers,
and that the crime of being a monopo
list by forming trusts has not been de
nned as such, and proper laws passed
to prevent a limited number of our
people from getting control of so much
of the resources of the country as to
bring about the present state of af
fairs, which continues to grow worse.
To a great extent this Is so, but this
can only reflect upon the men who
have filled our legislative halls, and
It does. Anyone familiar with the
workings of our public men as relating
to the Government, of trusts by su
perficial restrictive legislation, knows
that there is a dilatory truckling to the
interests to such an extent that dis
trust and uncertainty are found every
where. Sharp practices prevail in
many quarters and large and unearned
sums and luxury are secured as the re
sult of ability to manipulate corporate
management.
The slave trade was legitimate, and
men engaged in it were as good as our
corporate buccaneers, but look at the
results. An early prohibition upon this
trade, and if neoessary confiscation,
and liquidation of the business, would
have been a wise prooeedlng. How
ever, state and property rights were
held above future Interests, and natur
ally calamity and suffering followed,
not yet ended So with corporate and
syndicate organization, at first right
and beneficial, but see the results; they
have become the whole thing, with no
death orfear, no souls to save.
In great trouble or Impending dan
ger, the intelligent being called man
looks to the highest and strongest
earthly power for relief. We naturally
look to our Government for relief from
much of this trouble, and strange to
say, the same conditions arise that
were present In the slave-trade trou
bles state lines, property rights and
the cry of "let us alone."
Our Government cannot legally ex
amine into serious labor troubles un
less they arise between the opera
tors and employes of a concern having
a railroad track crossing a Btate line,
and then the chairman of the Inter
state Commerce Commission, whose
other duties are more than any man
can perform, is one of the arbitra
tors. This Is mentioned to show how im
practical Is the act of Congress, passed
in lsss, relating to labor troubles and
concerning which the President in his
message says "The wisdom of the ex
periment has been demonstrated." In
labor troubles, where Interstate ques
tions enter, our Government sends an
arbitration committee, otherwise It
sends the military. I
I am a young man, but I have lived
through the greenback redemption pe-
rioa, tne crime or '7S, the panics of
85 and 93, and I am satisfled.that if
we had a money system similar to the
Imperial Bank of Germany, and Postal
Savings Banks, we would avoid the
losses to those who can least afford.
ana wno ought not to lose monev in
banks.
Speculators and half-baked bankers
brought these conditions upon us and
they will do it again.
The four currency bills now before
Congress, which seem - to meet with
most favor, all provide for., corporation
Issue of currency. This Is wrong in
principle and the thing to do is to get
our currency issue out of -the control
of the corporations and out of politics.
The momentous questions that will
come up In reorganizing our currency
ana industrial systems, which must be
done, will require much thought and
will have to be worked out bv con
servative, positive but active men. with
courage to rise above money or party
considerations.
Our banking laws are a poor make
shift and we know it. The Industrial
fields are occupied by buccaneers and
gamblers to the exclusion of legitimate
and honest effort tind we know It.
The recent break down In these quar
ters carrying with them good and evil,
only brings to the surface what was
beneath. The Title Company is only
one of thousands of such cases. Ross
has company galore and to scold him
is only to get away from the issue.
There are other things being neg
lected while our public men play pol
itics our harbors, rivers and taxes
need attention.
The genius of citizenship is not In
holding office or running a corporation,
but In taking such part In politics and
affairs as will secure to the living and
to those who shall live hereafter,
rights and opportunities of obtaining
a fair degree of this world's benefits.
JAMES N. DAVIS.
Curbstone Trade in Gold Coins.
St. Louie Globe-Democrat.
The recently-coined 520 roldpleces
were sold at a large premium in the
New York City curb market. It was
reported that some of them changed
hands at as high as $30 each. The coins
which commanded the high premiums
were those struck from the original die,
which made the edges very sharp, and
rendered them difficult to pile up. Re
cent advice from Washington, D. C,
asserted that nerw dies were being
made and that no more of the "sharp,
edged" ones would be issued. The
popular view was that only .a relative
ly small number of the original issue
were in circulation, and as many of
these as possible would be withdrawn,
KISKR CALENDARS 10c JTP.
Halfprice while last. J48 Alder.
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KEV. S. C. IA P HAM SCOUTS OB
SOLETE DOCTRINE.
Continues Series of Sermons That
Have Caused Much Comment in
Baptist Church Circles.
Rev. S. C. Lapham, pastor of the
Second Baptist Church, East Seventh and
Ankeny streets, spoke last night on "Kin
ship With God." His text was from Acts,
xvii:2D: "Being ,the offspring of God."
The sermon was to some extent in line
with the series which Dr. Lapham has
been preaching, that have been pro
nounced a little "broad" by some who
have heard him. He scouts the declara
tion that the God of the Christian is a
God of vengeance and a God only satis
fied with the cries of the tortured. Dr.
Lapham said:
Taking the words of their own poet,
Paul said to the people of Athens that the
"Unknown God," whom they isnorantly wor
shiped, was the source of their being.
Idolatry was an Insult to and unworthy of
beings who were in themselves the lmafe
and likeness of God. y
In the face of a hard and unreasoning
dogma of total depravity, the unthinkable
statement of the election of a chosen few to
eternal bliss and the' damnation of count
less multitudes by the decrees of a God
whose wrath and vengeance can only be
satisfied11 when bathed in blood or sated
by the agonizing cries of the tortured In
hell, the fatherhood of God. which is the
central truth of Jesus, has but scant recog
nition. - The conclusions of modern psy
chology have compelled even the most
narrow - to concede; the spiritual entity,
moral possibility and eternal character of
humanity, until the doctrine that man is
devil, a beast, or both, can And no reason
able advocate. At last the Christian thinker
and scientist can say "Man became a living
soul." At last, after thousands of years with
the evidence of man's psychic being known
tnd demonstrable, we assert the new
ruth, old as the centuries "We are the off
spring of God."
The greatest study of God is man. man
who stands next In order and being in the
expression, image and likeness of God, Ha
who touches the brow of a child Is in
more sensitive nearness to the deity than
contact with nature in her manifold and
beauteous forms. To shape a character Is
attainment more lofty than to build a
temple, to rescue a man nobler than carv
ing a Sphinx or building a pyramid.
No man was ever made better by magni
fying the sin and failure of his being, or
by asserting the helplessness of hopeless
ness of his state. Society marks the con
vict, brands him with suspicion and mis
trust and -he lives up to the estimate and
the standard we set.
How can men be anything better than
devils or beasts If we tell them they are and
treat them as such? The trinity of words
even on the lips. In the heart and work of
Jesus was. Father, brother, sister. Jesus
saw sonshlp and brotherhood hidden.
Zachaeus, Peter and Matthew, daughters and
sisters In Mary, and the woman at the
well.
In the most dejected and despised child
of poverty and sorrow and sin he still
saw one who was the rational offspring of
the Father: a prodigal it is true, and in
far country wasting his substance, degrading
all his noble endowments, but yet a son;
a son Whose miseries and dangers only
kindled warmer, deeper, stronger compo
sition in the father's heart. We are unlike
God only in the accidents of our life. In
all the essentials of our being we are akin
to him. Passion for life, desire for do
minion, thirst for knowledge, universal ap
preciation of beauty and goodness, and his
capacity for love are all marKs oi mans
kinship with God. Man's dignity demon
strates his degradation. The devil and
the angel are in every man. In every human
heart there is a genuine admiration for
what he has seen of goodness.
' The Bon of God became the son of man
that sons of men might become in place
and spirit sons of God, God In man that
we might come to ourselves, recognizing na
tural sonshlp and brotherhood, becoming
partakers of the divine nature and enter
ing into the life of fellowsnio and one
ness with God as we return to our Father's
house. Let us assert with -Shakespeare:
"What a piece of work ts man. . ko-
noble In reason; how Infinite in faculty; In
form and moving, bow express and admir
able: in action how like an angel; In appre
hension how like a god"
APPODJTMENTS FOR MONTH
Bishop Scadding Announces Episco
pal Meetings in January. .
The Right Rev. Charles Soaddlng, D. TX,
has made the following appointments for
the month of January:
January 6 Epiphany. Conference and de
votional address for the city and neighbor
ing clergy in St. Stephen's Parish Hall, 2 to
4 P. M. : 8 P. M., meeting of the board oc
trustees of EdIscodsJ fund at Blshopcroft.
January 7, 8 P. M. Meeting of the board
of missions at Blshopcroft.
January 8 Chamber of Commerce bi
aueL
January 9 Conference with St. Mark's
vestry.
January 30 Eugene, State University.
aJnuarv 12 First Sunday after Epiphany,
will nreach morning and evening at St.
Ktenhen's Pro. -Cathedral.
V stock.
January 16 Men's mass meeting at St.
Stephen's Church. At this meeting the
bishop will give a report of hjs trip In the
East and oi tne action or tne general con
vention as it effects the Episcopal Church
In Ore eon.
January IT 8 P. M., conference of women
in St. Stephen's Parish Hall to consider the
advisability of estamshing a "Mary ts. aoa
ney Hall" for young women at Eugene.
Jnnnnrv 18 McMinnviUe.
January 19 Confirmation at McMinnviUe.
January 21 "At Home," as Blsheporoft,
rVnrrrt A till 10 P. M.
.Tominj-v 28 Lecture at St. Helen's Hall
gymnasium ' on "Some Cathedrals and
Churches of France."
January 23 Burns anniversary at Armory
January 26 Third Sunday after Epiphany,
morning. Church of Good snepnera; even
lnr. All Saints.
January 270 P. M., meeting of the school
board.
January 28 "At Home," at Blshopcroft,
from 3 till 10 P. M.
January 29 Salem, St. Paul's Church.
January SO Indian School. Chemawa.
When in Portland the bishop's office
hours are from 2 to 8 P. M. every day.
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