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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (April 20, 1914)
TTTE 3I0RNING OREGOXIAN, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1914. CALL OF CHURCHES HEARD BY 50,000 GO-TO-CHURCH SUNDAY IS OBSERVED IN PORTLAND. TBATKI.M8' r.f IDR. HAMBDRGAMERICAN THE UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK largest SICb 442 Ships 1,417.710 in the WORLD TONS PORTLAND, OREGON Ministerial Move Is Regarded as Big Success in Cam . paign in Portland. X UNITED STATES DEPOSITORY Capital .... $1,000,000 Surplus ... . $1,000,000 GOOD EFFECT IS PREDICTED 10 .fyc jr& v? J J fl Ilk' w ' -Aig 2 In Some Houses ot Worship Easter Programmes Arc Kepeateu, but Other Pastors Want Kccruits to Hear Regular Services. Ministers and churcliworkers who Tiave been active for weeks in the preparations for the observance of Go-to-C'liurch Sunday, received their re-Ti-ard yesterday in seeing the popula tion of Portland flow into and fill to -capacity 160 churches in the city In such numbers as to surpass even the attendance at the Easter services a week ago. Kaster Sunday morning has always had a natural effect to fill the bigger churches of the city to overflowing at the morning service, but there was not the same impulse at work yesterday that brings people out on Kaster morn ing. The attendance came as a result of invitations sent broadcast, or per sonal work among those who do not habitually attend church and of wide publicity piven the movement through the publications of the city. Capacity In Overtaxed. It was a congregation in each church largely composed of persons who came to please their church-going friends and who were anxious to find out for themselves something about the church institution which was inviting them to "come and see for themselves." Morning congregations in the larger churches down town overflowed the buildings. This was equal to the at tendance on Kaster Sunday. There were also crowds that filled all avail able room in the smaller churches throughout the city, crowds larger than had ever before turned out, and In the evening the same condition was repeated. This is what put the esti mated attendance far beyond the fig ures of a week ago, in spite of the fears that some of the ministers had voiced that Easter Sunday coming so near Go-to-Church Sunday might af fect its success. Accurate FleurM LacklnK. It was not possible to ascertain with complete accuracy just what the total attendance for the day in all churches was. It ranged from less than 100, in some of the tiny chapels in the city, which could accommodate no more, to between 1500 and 1S00 In the large churches in the central portionjof the city. It is believed that more than 60.000 persons attended the morning services in the churches which were in the movement and the evening congre gations were scarcely less. "A complete success" was the an swer made by practically every minis ter In the city yesterday, concerning the results of the campaign that cul minated In the day's observance. 'Both services were wonderfully well attended," said the Rev. W. B. llinson. pastor of the First Baptist Church, "and one cannot be too liberal in the use of adjectives to express the success of the day." Many Strunscr Noticed. "As to my own church, I cannot tell whether or not the special day Im proved the attendance, for in the last few weeks our church has been packed to the doors every Sunday," said the Rev. F. L. Loveland, of the First Meth odist Church, "but I find that in the congregations today there were many strangers, persons who had not been in the habit of attending the churches, and this may he significant of the suc cess of the day. The go-to-church movement will have a decided quick ening and energizing effect on tne church life of the city if the move ment is followed up, as I hope it will be, with sane and constructive work. If It is allowed to subside after this one spasm its effect for lasting good cannot be so great, but the results of this day have certainly shdwn what can be done to awaken interest in the cnurch activities. "The movement, so far as actual re sult! at the services today," said the Rev. L. R. Dyott, pastor of the First Congregational, "has been an unquali fied success, and will, I believe, lead to wider activities for the awakening and stimulation of church activities In. the city." Embellishments Are Omitted. t. j, Many of the ministers, especially In the smaller churches, gave only the regular Sunday services, dispensing with all special music or other addi tional features of attraction, so that the visitors who came mitrht sen the church work without embellishment. This plan, however, did not dampen In the least the interest and enthusiasm manifested by the congregations. At the Central Christian Church the Interest at the morning service was un precedented. The main church build ing was filled to overflowing, and an additional meeting was held for the children In the basement of the church, under the leadership of Mrs. M. W. Havener, of Kansas City. About 500 children attended this overflow meet ing. At night the attendance was simi larly large, and the choir repeated the religious cantata which had been, given Easter day. Easter Services Ilepeated. At St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Wood mere, the Rev. O. W. Taylor arranged to have a repetition of the Easter musi cal programme. "Larger than the Easter congrega tion," said the Rev. J. J. Staub of his attendance at the morning service In the Sunnyside Methodist Church, and at night a still larger congregation was accommodated by increasing the seating room. Similar reports came from the Rev. F. H. Hayes, pastor of the Sellwood Baptist Church: Rev. T. F. Bowen, of St. Michael's Episcopal Church; Rev. "W". O. Shank, of the East Side Baptist Church, and scores of the smaller churches of the city. The Rev. J. M. Lowden. pastor of the Ilassalo Congregational 'Church, was ill and the sermon in that ehnreh was preached by Professor Wood, of j.c&a college, livery seat was filled. Centenary Houses 1500. " The attendance at Centenary Meth odist .episcopal Church, East Ninth and East Pine streets, was estimated at approximately 1500. Twenty new memDers were received among the per nianent congregation. A special rausi cal programme was prepared. The ser mon was on the reflex action of the church in improving the morals of non-churchmen. The Rev. D. H. Trimble, pastor of tho churcr., regards the "Go-to-Church movement as a success. A congregation considerably larger man easier attended the Central Methodist Episcopal Church. Vancou vcr avenue and Fargo street. Rev. C C. Karick, the pastor, estimated the con gregation at about 500. lie Is well l?' " ;,,fWv 7 Hvr?' K k&. mil MU-. - I -V . .:... Tbt ilia ih v:t? if is- J. pleased with the result of the "Go-to-Church" movement. About 400 persons attended St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Twenty-first and Marshall streets, yesterday morn ing. The Easter service was repeated for the occasion. Rev. J. E. H. Simp son, the rector. -poke on "The Real Object of Going to Church." "Larefat Attendance" Recorded. "Very successful" was the opinion of Rev. A. L. Hutchinson, pastor of the Third rresbvterian Church, East Thir teenth and East Tine streets. No spe cial service was prepared. The attend ance was about 350, the same as on Euster Sunday. ADout 330 persons attended Metho dist Episcopal South Church yesterday. This, says Rev. J. H. Bennett, the pas tor, is the largest attendance of the season, and about 100 more than on Easter. Mr. Bennett preached a spe cial sermon for non-churchgoers. He regards the . movement as eminently successful. GHURGH'S RIGHT UPHELD REV. J. II. BOVD TELLS OF RELIGION BREEDING UNSELFISHNESS. Lpon SuecesHfuI Bnildlntr Ip of Moral Natures Ilepends Safety ofSo vlety, Say Mlnlsiter. "The Place of the Church Among the Institutions of Our Civilization" was the text chosen by the Rev. J. H. Boyd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, for go-to-church Sunday at his morning service yesterday. The church he upheld as the one moral conserva tive force In the community. "When under the law of evolution the survival of the fittest had produced a society of the type that we now have in humanity, it became necessary that. In the further evolution, the law where by it should proceed be changed from one of selfishness to one of unselfish ness," he declared. "Religion has this supreme function," he continued; "it prompts us to do the unselfish thing, when our baser natures prompt us to do the selfish thing. The utilitarian Idea of ethics has no power as an Impulse to do right: God has given man the only sound spiritual Im pulse and this works through the con science. ' "The burdens of our modern civili zation are not falling with unbearable stress upon our physical natures or upon our intellectual natures, but the great strain is coming upon the moral nature. All the effort of society is laboring to relieve the strain In our complex society upon man's moral na ture. This moral nature ought to be strengthened and religion is the ele ment brought In to strengthen it. "The church is the one great insti tution among all the Institutions of man devoted solely and persistently to strengthening the moral nature, that links the spiritual In man with the spiritualities in. the universe. "Here stands the church tn the midst of our business houses, schools, libra ries and museums of art and its whole purpose is to Leach the moral truths of life; and upon the success with which it fulfills Us mission depends much of the safety of our present society." Christian Science Church Crowded. At the First Church of Christ. Scl entist. Nineteenth and Everett streets. although no reference was made in ad vance as to the go-to-church move ment. about 1500 people were present, filling up the entire seating accommo dation of the church, with late comers standing at the rear of the building. No regular sermons are preached in Christian Science churches. conse quently no reference was made to the special subject of go to church. The lesson-sermon of Christian Scientists was on "Doctrine of Atonement." 63 DEAF "HEAR" SERVICE Delegation ot Mutes Have Interpret t'er at Presbyterian Church. Among yesterday's congregation at the United Presbyterian Church of the strangers. Grand avenue and Wasco street, were 63 deaf persons, with a deaf and dumb interpreter to translate tne sermon by sign language. The attendance, according to Rev. S. Earl DuBois, the pastor, was 240. a gam oi 40 over the Easter congrega tion. Mr. DuBois regards the "Go-to. Church" movement as an unqualified success. Only tho usual services were held, so mat newcomers would not be dtsap pointed on their return. . mq ' -v y 4 - rntiiUI J1 3 ti it , ataassea TOP, STKKET8 LEADING TO EVERY DLK, SCHOOL GIHLS ON WAV TO WERE TAKEN. NEW CHURCH OPENS Blessed Sacrament Dedicated by Archbishop Christie. , SCHOOL BUILDING IS ASKED ew Edifice Represents Expendi ture or $18,000 and Is Fitted Up With Social Hall and Stage in Basement. The Church of the Blessed Sacrament, recently completed at the corner of Blandena and Maryland avenues, in the newly formed " parish, was dedicated yesterday morning in the presence of a large congregation by Archbishop Christie, assisted by Rev. B. V. Kelly. Rev. Father William Daly, Rev. Father Hugh Gallagher and other clergy. Sol emn services of blessing the edifice and consecrating it by the archbishop and the priests were performed before the congregation was admitted Into the auditorium. The seating capacity of the church was taxed by the crowd, many coming from other parishes. Rev. Father Kelly celebrated high mass with Archbishop Christie In the sanctuary. "I want to thank all who have In any way assisted Father Kelly in 'the establishment and erection of this beautiful" church," said Archbishop Christie, "but I want to remind you, dear friends, that this is just the be ginning of the work In this commu nity. In the near future I hope to see a parish schoolhouse erected and a parish school established, and until that is done your work is not done. The great masses of our Catholic friends believe in our Catholic schools and the ideal Christian education they stand for. and co-operate in their mainten ance, but there may be some who do not think they have any responsibility to assist these schools. Let me say that all have a duty to perform, a duty they owe to our Catholic schools which are the best and most important if i' & .. rm ti 4? - sir is " i ( 111 11(11 WKI1K THRONGED Mm. WOlMUIr BOTTOM. THE CHILDREN work of our church. All should do their part, and hence I have said that the work that has been started here by Father Kelly so auspiciously is only begun, to be followed by the school and the manse. I hope and believe that this will be done, and that this parish will become one of the best In thd diocese of Oregon." The sermon which followed was on the resurrection of Jesus Christ and wtiat the Catholic Church stands for. At the conclusion of the services In the auditorium the congregation par took of a dinner in the parish hall in the church basement. As it stands the church represents an expenditure of about $18,000. It has been attractively decorated on the in side, the main altar being in pure white. The hall in the basement is for social purposes. The parish of the Blessed Sacrament is the infantile parish taken from St. Mary's parish on Williams avenue, called the "mother of many parishes." as it has given territory to nine parishes within the past 10 years. The new parish has a large mem bership of young people, and for this reason a fine parish social hall was provided In the basement, fitted up with a stage for plays and other pub lic functions. PASTOR SCORES I. W. W. Rev. Mr. Dyott Denounces Idle Class After Receiving Threat. "A man is not necessarily condemned to perdition because he takes his wife and children out in his automobile on Sunday afternoon." said Rev. Luther R. Dyott in his morning sermon at the First Congregational Cnurch yester day. "The way to know God is to get near to his great outdoors. Unless a man knows God, he cannot know na ture, which is in itself an expression of God." Rev. Mr. Dyott urged men to think for themselves and not accept his or anybody's Interpretation of life unless it fitted their particular needs. He was bitter in his denunciation of the idle class, saying that the church was not responsible, the city was not responsible nor was the Gov ernment responsible for the lack of work. "If men want work, let 'them look for It; it will not come to them." Rev. Mr. Dyott had received a note sent In the name of the I. W. W in which the organization threatened him. He was cheered several times on his denunciation of the order at yesterday morning's (services- J' OFFICERS J. CAINS WORTH. PTHldrat. R. LB& BARNES, Yle-Ireai4eBt. . W. A. HOLT, Asst. CuUcr. A. M. WRIGHT. Aa.t. Cutler. R. W. SCHMEERt Caskler. P. 8. Dick. Aaat. Cuklcn Built In Seven Years Resources 7 Millions lumbermens National bank CAPITAL 4 Per Cent on Sayings. CHURCH IS SCHOOL Growth ' in Spiritual Things Learned, Says Pastor. END ARGUMENTS IS PLEA People Should Xot Stay Away Be cause Imperfect People Take Part In Services, Asserts TSev. F. I.. Loveland to Crowd. The main auditorium and the balcony of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. Twelfth and Taylor streets, was crowded yesterday - morning to hear Dr. F. L. Loveland a sermon on The Mute Appeal of a Nail Print." Chairs placed in the aisles and 'at the rear of the auditorium were occupied. "Why must we appeal In a city like Portland to get people to go to church?'' asked Dr. Loveland. "Why need we plaster the streets with signs and utilize pages of the newspapers pleading with the people to listen to the voice of the master? "I am not at all disturbed by the persistent query, 'What ails the churcto? Never before has such a large percentage of - the Nation s population been in sympathy with the church. One hundred years ago only one out of every H went into a church, while to day one out of every three are mem bers of Christian churches. "Yet there is a need to set things aright in the church, for it is misun derstood In many respects. Many to day stay away from church because, as they say, so many Imperfect people are ctive In church affairs and the churcli is not a place for Imperfect folks. If you are perfect, my brother, you are overdue in heaven. "As yet we are only in God's kinder garten and if we keep on we may eonie day matriculate. We go to church just as we went to school, to learn bow to grow, to develop and- to proceed in things that relate to the human spirit. "Sometimes I think the greatest need of the age is for the churches to cease their everlasting arguments about things that none of us will know any thing about until we are dead and passed on. ' People going to church often expect to hear the argument of some dogmatical theory that may be centuries old. There may be pastors In the pulpits' of Portland who are hooting the same old hoots that were hooted centuries ago. If they are, remember that they belong to the 19th or the 17th and not the 20th century. There may be a pastor In Portland who expects his flock to listen to 52 ser mons during the year on the general subject of baptism. "Yesterday we believed the church to be repressional ; today it la exp'res- sional; the church member used to be expected to give up something: today be is invited to take on something." SERVICES ATTRACT 1000 Dr. William Fry, of Sunnyside, Tells of Churchgoers Duties. More than 1000 people attended the morning: services at the Sunnyside Methodist Church yesterday morning. The pastor. Dr. William Fry, took for his text the first verse of the first chapter of Hebrews. In his sermon, he said that while for many years In the old land on account of the church and state being united in matters of gov ernment. that compulsory church wor ship was practically Involved. In this country, where church and state are separate and independent, there Is com pulsory education but not compulsory worship. "The popular demand of today Is not for worship." he said, "but for amuse ment and entertainment. The church that is most like a show is the most apt to get the biggest crowd. 'Why can't I worship God In the tabernacle of nature, In God's out-of-doors, by mountain, river and sea? is asked. If you follow the pleasure-seeking crowd on the Sabbath you will soon find that The Cana dian Bank of Commerce HEAD OFFICE Toronto, Oan&da. Established 1867. A general baulking busineu transacted. Interest paid on time depodto. Letters of Credit and Travelera' Checks Issued. PORTLAND BRANCH. Corner Second and Stark 8ta. F. 0. HALF AS, Man or. $1,000,000 FIFTH AND STARK STS. they do not desire to worship God. The people who come nearest to worship ing God amid the beauties of nature are those who worship Him in the church to which they belong. "Nowhere In the world Is the sub limity of earth, sea and sky so grandly set forth as in the books of Psalms, and yet David says. I was glad when they said unto me, "Let us go into the house of the Lord. Oh, come let us worship and bow down and kneel be fore the Lord, our Maker." ' The serv ices of the Lord's house and day ii simply a matter of worship. When the church fails to emphasize this she will fall to piece." SAVING IS A HARD TASK And the idea of thrift is distasteful. Nevertheless the fact remains that most per sons who really become rich through their own efforts get their start by saving and a sav ings account was their first introduction to the earning . power of money. Open an account at the Security Savings and Trust Company Fifth and Morrison Sts. J. C. 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