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THE MORNING OKEGOXIAX, MONDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1918. GERMANY PRESENTS i SUBLIME SPECTACLE Rev. John H. Boyd Sees Bright - Side of War. FALLEN NATION EXAMPLE Truths 'Sot "Visible in Darkness of 1'estcrday Now Plain, De clares Speaker. "In come respects the German na tion is the Bubiimest spectacle of the hour," said Kei. John H. Boyd, at the J'-lrat Presbyterian Church, yesterday morning. "The tale of Germany's mili tary BCheme, built with diabolic intent upon world dominion, almost rivals Wilton's conception of the Archangel's defiance of the Jehovah as an exhibi tion of the possibilities of an un eanctified human force. "Here in this hour, the brightest hour cf all time Christmas, 1318, we should be able to see some of the truths we could not see in the darkness of yes terday. Three things stand out. First, unless the forces of human nature be come tempered by divine ideals, they will break forth with disastrous effect. "Without Christ, as we have witnessed in Germany's story, unidealized po tencies will work havoc. World Betterment Soasht. "Secondly, the betterment of the world nu8t become the purpose of mankind. l'"or the past few generations all think ing has been directed by Darwin'3 proc ess of evolution. From primordial man to the mental giants of the present day, we have been pleased .to watch ourselves floated on into the Kingdom of Heaven by the gentle process of evolution. But how do we explain these horrors committed in Flanders, worse by far than the atrocities of ltabylon and equal to the horrors of the Congo? Instead of being in a proc ess of evolution we have been sitting on the banks of time, watching this carnage of human souls pass by us. There is something wrong with our in terpretation of the process of evolution. It is not to be regarded as an uncon scious, inevitable process. It has been turned over to the conscious will of man, and he must accept it as an aim. tiod is not going to redeem the world for us. Man must do it consciously. Christmas Manic Given. "Thirdly, In the life of Jesus we must find the evidence that a life of ministry is the ultimate reach and the greatest dory of life on earth. His life shows us that service is the divine expression of life and through it life reaches ulti mate love." The morning service was marked by special Christmas music and following the service the Sunday school gave a Christmas play, "The Magi of Today," showing the work of Armenian and Syrian relief. In the evening a Christ mas song service was held. PEACE MESSAGE IS DELIVERED Dr. Waldo, at "White Temple, De clares Prophecy Fulfilled. "Peace on earth, good will to men," was the message brought home to mem bers of the First Baptist Church in the service yesterday morning at the White Temple, conducted by the pastor. Dr. "William A. Waldo. The Christmas message was ac centuated by the return of two mem bers of the church discharged from the service, Mr. Fowler and Lieutenant Itunyan, and by the appearance of eight soldiers and two canteen work ers in the interest of the Red Cross. Mr. Fowler and Lieutenant Runyan were brought before the congregation by Dr. Waldo and were given an en thusiastic welcome home. Taking for his text the message of the angels who appeared to the aston ished shepherds. Dr. Waldo applied it to present times which, he said, com pletely fulfilled its prophecy. "Never before in the history of the world had Christmas such a meaning as now," de clared Dr. Waldo. "Since the signing of the armistice the entire world has gained the deeper meaning of the salu tation of the angels on that first Christ mas morning. "For four years war clouds have hung heavily over us. There has been peace in human hearts in fulfillment of the Christmas message, but there has been no civil peace. People have been say ing, where is God in this hour of need? Today the world has come out into the open and is uniting in the joy and gladness of belief in Christmas and that for which it stands." Thursday evening, the night after Christmas, was announced by Dr. Waldo as the time of a meeting of prayer and thanksgiving for "peace on earth, good will to men." The church will unite in a watch party to welcome 1n the new 'year. The annual banquet of the young people will be held at that time. HEROD OF TODAY DESCRIBED 3r. Edward H. Pence Delivers Christmas Sermon. King Herod, In his day, was no more foolish in ordering the death of so many babies for the purpose of putting Jesus Christ out-of his way than the aver age mortal is today in trying to kill the Savior by Indifference, or by try ing to stifle conscience, or by any other means of " attempting to shunt 5iim aside, according to Dr. Edward H. I'ence. pastor of Westminster Presby terian Church, who so declared yester day morning in his Christmas sermon on "What Makes News Good News." "The news of Christ's birth was, of course, in the light of the years that have Intervened, good news," said Dr. pence, "and yet Herod did not thus i accept it. Because Christ was said to i havo been born to become a king, ' Jierod quickly figured that this would interfere with his business, and so he set about to kill off all the children in that certain region, thinking to kill that one who would thus disturb his reign. Of course, that was most fool ish, but no more so, I think, than for people of today trying to dispose of Jesus Christ by their indifference to ward him or by stifling their con sciences when thoughts of hlni arise within themselves. News that he is come into the world is good news on'.y - to those who have clear consciences and unselfish hearts; all others count it bad news, for they can have none of the blessings that he brought," GREAT ADVENT IS CELEBRATED Iter. Joshua Stansfield Discourses on Meaning of Christmas. "Let us hail the great advent, the coming of God, as the greatest event of all times." With this statement Rev. Joshua Stansfield opened his Christmas sermon at the First Methodist Episcopal Church yesterday morning. "The great advent," he continued, "is the greatest thing that has ever come to us, the greatest thing that the mind of man has ever imagined or con ceived. The world was not created just to be set aside and allowed to take its own course, for God intended it to ibe preserved. God is the creator, pre server, sustainer and upholder. God is always present and the world takes Its S jrse because God is in it. 'Some men can see God in the phys- world. They see him in the regu larity of the : asons, in the rising and setting sun. In the water and on the earth. To some God speaks through mature, to others through words. This word was uttered in the cre ation and later through men, some times in oration, sometimes in poetry and sometimes iu a new religious cus tom. The very best thingi we have in the world came out of the word' of God; after he had spoken to tomeone. And it is noticeable that the people through whom the word was transmitted are regarded as marvelously great men God's word has always been the su preme word. "But the word was too often mlsin terpreted until it became' human life it self, and nobody has ever misinter preted Jesus Christ. He is understood by everyone. It is not what He says or writes, but it is the living God that saves. And when Christ comes into human life it is the incarnation, the incarnation which we celebrate every year at Christmas time. Christmas hmeans the coming of God into human life, the greatest advent of all times.' An unusually attract! Christmas musical programme by the First Metho dist Episcopal Church quartet added to the beauty of both morning and evening services there yesterday. Spe cial Sunday school services were held in the Sunday school temple in the aft ernoon. "SPIRIT OF CHRIST JIAS'f THEME Rev. Edward Constant Recalls Mys tery of Xativity. "The Spirit of Christmas' was the theme of Rev. Edward Constant at the Highland Congregational Church yes terday morning. "The story of the birth of Jesus," he said, "creates an air of happiness. No heart is too old to be stirred by the beauty, poetry ana romance of the na tivity. The veil of mystery which hangs over Bethlehem glows with celestial radiance and the glad notes of the supernal choir again are heard. "While the world has by no means lived up to the Christmas message, the centuries have nevertheless passed the glad word along. The race began to move forward with the birth of Jesus. At no time has the tumult been so rreat as to wholly drown, the angels' song. "I'rosaic as our times may seem, they are not unmoved by the charm of the story of Bethlehem. Our forms of cele bration are not those of rude and coarser times, when the yuletide log was kindled, when men stimulated mirth with the wassail bowl and be came temporary subjects 'of the lord of misrule. We take our pleasures dif ferently, but our joy is just as intense. "We -must not suffer the happiness of the season to vanish with the de parting of the day. Christmas must be more than a truce of God or a pleasing episode in life. The very at mosphere of this festival softens the heart and makes us kinder and more charitable to our fellows. Very ordi nary people may become "lerald asigels of 'good tidings of great joy' by keep ing alive the spirit of Christmas." VICTORY NOT WON' BY ARMIES Rev. Oswald W. Tayior Reviews Dark Days of War. Many of us asked eacbofher during the tense days of the war just closed we hope why. God did not stop the war? The question also was' asked: When is God present with us?" said Rev Oswald W. Taylor, rector of Grace Memorial Episcopal Church In his ser mon, yesterday morning. "The answer . is," asserted the preacher, "that God is ever near. Dur ing the heavy losses sustained by the British troops in the retreat from Mons, the British line was worn so thin by German attacks, that British troops stood in many cases 10 or 12 paces apart. As far as the eye could reach, there were advancing to the charge masses after masses of grey German soldiers. " 'We are doomed men. Let us stand while we may. Let us die here with our faces to the enemy.' said British fighters, and others df that gallant army prayed as they had never prayed before to God, for deliverance. God was there. The German host was stopped. "Can we, then, say that we won the fight, ourselves, aided only by our own exertions? Far from it. God gave us the victory in his own good time, and in his: own way. God Is ever present with us. It is the love of God that has kept us alive up to this time, and that saved us day by day. That love makes what we call the Christmas Fpirit. It manifests itself in the little things we do, and keeps alive the spirit by which we give gifts to each other. Beautiful symbols of Christmas are everywhere around I wish that its blessed influ ence could last all the year." ANGLO-SAXON UNION URGED LEAGUE OF NATIONS DECLARED TO BE USELESS. United States About to Take Ger many's Place as Rival of Brit ain, Says D. P. Klngsley. CHICAGO, Dec. 22. Advocating an Anglo-Saxon federation as the basis of future peace, or an Anglo-Latin world, if possible, Darwin F. Klngsley, presi dent of the New York Life Insurance Company, at a banquet of the Chicago Bankers' Club last night declared na tional sovereignty is the "fundamental fault" in the world which would make useless a league of nations. "Can any mere league of sovereign states discharge the present- duty and meet the present obligations of free men?" he asked. "1 think It may em phasize the fault. "If I understand what President Wil son means by freedom of the seas and I sometimes wonder if anyone under stands it Great Britain will never agree to it." He said the old sea-power rivalry be tween Germany and Great Britain is "apparently about to be transferred to the British empire and the United States. - - "If Great Britain and the United States were federated," he continued, "the questions that lie on the sea would disappear as tetween them and would substantially disappear from the world, because that federation would easily be the dominant power in the world." NATIVES IN ARCTIC SPARED Medicine Bearers Make Rapid Prog ress to Interior. DAWSON, T. T., Dec. 22 Royal Northwest Mounted Police, returning here today from a relief trip 150 miles north to Hart River, report that the natives along the Arctic Coast have not as yet, been affected by Spanish influ enza. Indian runners dispatched' last month with medicine to combat a possible outbreak of the disease, were said 'to have made rapid progress to the far northern part of Yukon territory. BANK RESOURCES OF NAT ON MAKE RECORD Enormous Increase Over Total for August Shown. ONE NATIONAL BANK FAILS Controller of Currency Prepares Data Based Upon Figures of November 1 Call. WASHINGTON. Dec. 22. Resources of the National banks of the country on November 1, the date of the lat call, aggregated J19.S21.404.000. Con troller of the Currency Williams an nounced today. This not only was a new high record, but was an Increase of $1,777,799,000 over the total shown by the call last August 31. The resources of the National banks of the United States, Mr. Williams said, exceed the combined aggregate re sources of the National banks of Issue of England, the Dominion of Canada, France, Italy, . The Netherlands, Nor way, Sweden, Denmark, Japan and Germany, as shown by their latest available reports. Growth Shows Increase. Mr. Williams also said that the Na tional banks' resources were only one billion dollars less than the combined resources of all state and other banks and trust companies in the country, as shown by their reports of June, 1917, and that in the past five years the growth of the resources of the National institutions had been greater than the increase which took place in the pre ceding 25 years. During the present year, the Con troller's report said, only one National bank in the entire country had failed, a small institution In California. This wan declared the best record since 1870. Returns from the National banks of November 1, Mr. Williams eaid. as com pared to those on last August 31, showed: Deposits, $15,051,000,000, an increase of 1 1,1 65.000.000. Loans and discounts, $10,097,000,000, an increase of $603,000,000. Capital, surplus and undivided prof its. $2,315,000,000, an increase of $33,- 000,000. Bills payable and rediscounts. $1,567. 000.000, an Increase of $273,000,000, the borrowings being principally in liberty bonds and certificates of indebtedness. The total holdings of United States bonds. Including liberty bonds, and cer tificates of indebtedness, amounted to $3,156,000,000, an increase of $700,- 000,000. Circulation Is Larger. The circulation of all National banks November 1 was $67 5,000,000. an in crease of approximately $1,500,000. The lawful reserve held by National banks with Federal Reserve banks was $1,101,000,000, a reduction of $12,000,000, and the excess of reserve held over the amount required was $69,000,000 a re duction of $38,000,000. Cash In vaults and due from Federal reserve banks totaled $1,803,000,000. an Increase of $131,000,000. Mr. Williams said the Increase In re sources is widely distributed through out the Nation. NOTED THEOLOGIAN DEAD PROFESSOR GEORGE B. FOSTER PASSES IN CHICAGO. Independent Thinker and Writer Object or Storm of Criticism Some Years Ago. CHICAGO, Dee. 22. Professor George Burman Foster, professor of philoso phy of religion at the University of Chicago since 1905, died here today, following a surgical operation. Pro fessor Foster was born In Alderson, W. Va.. April 2, 1858. A widow, Mrs. Mary Lyon Foster, a son and a daugh ter survive. Professor Foster was an independent thinker and writer whose writings about 10 years ago brought upon him a. storm of criticism from orthodox Bap tist circles. Some of his writings while he held a professorship at the divinity school at the Univeristy of Chicago, were quoted as follows: "It was not God who made man; man made God." "The Christian religion is not of di vine origin. It was created by primi tive man." "Freedom first, virtue second." Professor Foster, who after the con flict with his critics, was transferred from the Divinity School to the Uni versity, was at the time of his death under appointment to be Nathaniel W. Taylor, lecturer at Yale University. MRS. WILSON GIVES PHOTO Likeness to Hang in St. George's Churcli, Gravesend. LONDON. Dec. 22. Through the Colonial Dames of Virginia, Mrs. Wood row Wilson has presented St. George's Church, at Gravesend. a photograph of herself to hang in the vestry beneath a portrait of her ancestor. Princess Pocahontas. The photograph is signed "Edith Boil ing Wilson," and has been framed in oak. They Are Always Grateful For Cuticura Soap Because it means skin comfort and skin health. For shaving-, bath ing and shampooing: it is wonderful. Assisted bjr touches of Cuticura Ointment, it does much to clear the skin of pimples, rashes, eczemas and irritations and the scalp of dandruff and itching-. B mm nd try CwUm Tdta. an ntteepHe. cooling dostinc powder of f riniring f rmsrmaea. St coots of oil domlora. C fmlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllW ITALY SHIPPING TRUSTEE AUSTRIAN' TOXXAGE OF 500,000 .TO BE DISTRIBUTED. Flag of Allied Maritime Council to Make First Appearance on Seas Soon. v PARTS. Dec. 22. (By the Associated Press.) Italy will act a -a trustee of 500,000 tons of Austrian shipping now In Italian ports and distribute it for use exclusively for war supply and transportation, cone to be used for commercial traffic. . This agreement wae reached today at a meeting of the allied maritime council. The Italian flag will be flown from those ships manned and managed by Italians. On these ships the flag of the allied maritime council will make its first appearance on the seas. Four admirals,' representing the United States. Great Britain. France and Italy, whose flagships are in It alian waters, will take immediate charge of the disposition of the ship ping under the direction of the coun cil. Edwin N. Hurley, chairman of the American Shipping Board: Thomas F. Logan and Rear-Admiral Benson repre sented the United States at the confer ence; Giovanni and Villa, Minister of Transport: Dr. Crespi, Minister of Food, and Admiral Grassl represented Italy. A representative of the Foreign Office ALL THIS WEEK MARGUERITE CLARK in LITTLE MISS HOOVER" PARAMOUNT PICTOGRAPH Mutt and Jeff Cartoon I i If I Gifts a Man Can Use Choose From Our Great Stock of Men's Wearables A wide variety of selection at almost any price you want to pay. 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In his note General Wood says: "Afternoons on which the weather interferes 'with outdoor Instruction, such instruction, mechanical. Industrial and agricultural, as possible will be given men in the command who desire it. Also illiterates will be put under a course of Instruction. The Kansas State Agricutural Col lege has offered to take not to ex ceed 800 men for training In the college machine shops in practical mechanical lines. The college has also volun teered to send professors to the camp to give lectures and conduct classes In animal husbandry and agriculture." The Liberty's Annual Free Children's Show Spertal I'rogramme Including Hill Hart. Charlie Chaplin and Fatty" A r buckle. A Christina Gift for Kvery Child Attend ing. Santa Claua in Person. Tomorrow fK ( "Vj 9 A.M. . f ' --p r "Wit M'r - ; in iiiinin, ill i n ,,T - "" . 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The situation at Omsk Is obscure but efforts are being made by the powers to prevent further disorder there. Traffic over the trans-Siberian Today and Tuesday for the Last Times ALSO "PROPOSING BILLIE" Two-Reel Parsons Comedy railway Is disorganized and only spe cial trains are able to reach Omsk. There seems to be a possibility that John F. Strvens, chairman of an Amer ican commission of railway experts now In the Far Kast. will be chosen to bead an organization to bring order out of the chaotic conditions on the trans-Siberian. Japan ami the United States are negotiating to this end. The work Is being handled by Am bassador .Morris at Tokio. EXPORTERS ARE HARD HIT Apples MuM Be Stenciled and Trucked to Designated Docks. HOOD RIVER, Or.. Dec. (Spe cial.) Withdrawal of tho privilege that permits the lighterage of apples to ships in New York harbor forms an ad ditional worry for shipping concerns that are endeavoring to expect a heavy tonnage to England. Hereafter apples must be stenciled and trucked to desig nated docks, materially increasing the handling expense. Advices from tne New York repre sentatives are to the effect that move ment of applies to Kngland so far are comparatively light. Apple operators, because the freight cost on barrels is less, arc doing away with the standard box. Murtajrh AND THE GIANT SoO.OOO ORGAN ma 106.2