THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920
DEDICATE LIVES
AT CHURCH'S ALTAR
Young Folk Respond to Plea
for Christian Workers.
UNION SERVICE IS HELD
Dlelliodists Celebrate Junction of
Centenary and Wilbur Flocks
With, Special Ceremony. -
An important consolidation of two
leading Portland churches was form
ally celebrated yesterday when the
congregations of Wilbur Memorial
and Centenary Methodist Episcopal
churches joined in services as the
Centenary-Wilbur church. The new
organization was formed last week.
Directors of Wilbur church took ac
tion on the plan for a union Tuesday
evening, and the following night simi
lar steps were taken ty the Centenary
leaders.
In response to an appeal made at
the close of the sermon, 30 young
men and women representing the
membership of both churches pre
sented themselves at the altar in
token of their purpose to prepare
themselves for definite Christian
work as ministers, missionaries, dea
conesses, social workers and in
kindred fields.
Wilbur Fasfor Speafc".
Dr. K. C. Hickman, formerly pastor
of Wilbur church, now associate pas
tor of the new Centenary-Wilbur
church, preached yesterday morning
at the service c6mmemorating the
union of the two downtown churches.
Taking as his text the words of
Christ, "What God ' hath joined to
gether let no man put asunder," he
Epoke feelingly of the providential
circumstances which had led to he
union. In speaking of the spirit in
which Wilbur church joined Centenary
church and of the benefits to be de
rived from the union he said: "That
Wilbur church had not disbanded and
liad no thought of disbanding."
Church Seeks Larger Opportunity.
"We come not as those who have
Buffered defeat." the pastor declared.
Wilbur church was established for a
purpose. That purpose has. not been
abandoned. We arje only seeking
larger opportunity for the expression
of our vision. Wilbur church has
made a distinctive contribution to the
moral and spiritual life of the city.
We join hand and heart to accomplish
larger service than was possible for
either organization alone.
"We do not come to be your guests.
We do not expect to be entertained
and feasted. We will do our full
share of the housework from the
first day. We come to go out with
you into the highways and byways
to invite in the strangers, the home
less, the heart-hungry, the sinful, and
bring them to the gospel feast. The
motto of Centenary church has been
The friendly church.' The motto of
Wilbur has been 'Everybody's friend
ly.' Your friendship and ours kin
dled by holy fires of zeal and conse
cration, must reach out into ever
widening circles until it has encom
passed the entire city.
Sympathetic Judgment Asked. '
"Not all will agree to the wisdom
of this union. We ask you to temper
your judgment with sympathy. Al
low no unholy prejudice to mar your
Joy and Christmas fellowship. If God
Is not in this union it must come to
naught. But if he has inspired It,
blessed fruit will come forth. Wait
until the evidences of divine sanction
are as clear to you as to us before
pacing final judgment.
"This union should mean that Port
land Methodism will forever quit
washing her dirty linen in public.
This is no occasion to discuss who
soiled the linen, nor to assert that
the linen should never have been
Boiled. Any review of past 'unfor
tunate experiences cither in public
utterance or in private thinking can
be of no possible avail. Let us move
out with St. Paul and, forgetting the
things that are behind, press on to
ward the kingdom and the glory of
our Christ.
"This union will make possible a
frreat down-town institutional plant.
We look forward eageny to tne com
pletion of plans for a Sunday school
temple and a recreational hall from
which we can minister effectively to
the unchurched multitude in this sec
tion of the city. We see in vision an
earnest band of Christian workers
leading scores and hundreds into fol
lowing with Christ and the church.
Youns to Crown Efforts.
"The crowning glory of any union
Is the children that come to bless the
home. The crowning glory of Centenary-Wilbur
will be the young peo
ple reared within her walls who will
go forth to give themselves in king
dom service. Never did the call sound
so loudly for life service recruits in
this northwest as today. The records
of three Methodist conferences in this
area, the Oregon, the Puget sound,
and the Columbia river, reveal the
fact that 30 men drapped out of the
active ranks of the ministry this fall.
by death, retirement, or withdrawal,
and only six young men joined the
conference to take their places. Min
isters had to be called from eastern
fields to man our pulpits. Centenary
Wilbur church will send forth her
full shrc of voting men and women
to take places of leadership in the
church."
SPIRIT. MESSAGE PROPHESIED
Dr. W. T. McElveen Believes Com
munication Is Possible.
At the First Congregational church
yesterday morning the pastor. Dr. W.
T. McElveen, discussed Mr. Edison's
proposal to invent a machine intended
to enable the living on this earth
to get into communication with the
so-called dead. Dr. McElveen said:
"Mr. Edison has done very many
wonderful things. We are all his
debtors. He has added much to the
comfort and joy of living. We heart
ily congratulate him on his religious
progress. Not many years ago he
dogmatically asserted that there never
had been and there was no such thing
as spirit. Ho practically declared
himself a materialist. He bowed the
supernatural out of existence. Now
he talks of the possibility of there
being a spiritual world and of our
coming into communication with it.
He appears to affirm what he pre
viously denied. Only a few years ago
he indorsed what we thought was a
discarded theory that of material
ism. Now he thinks he may get us
a kind of a telephonic communication
with the spiritual world. Mr. Edison,
while he doesn't talk in cock-sure
terms about the reality of the spirit:
ual world, is no longer an agnostic.
"Edison's change of view is sym
bolic of what is going on almost
everywhere. At the beginning of the
19th century atheism was militant
and arrogant. We have now moved
out of the age of doubt into the age
of faith. There never were so few
people who disbelieved in God. There
never was a time when so many of
mankind's foremost thinkers were
simple-hearted believers in religion.
No longer do we hear of attempts
to reconcile science and religion.
The scientists and the religionists
recognize that they are not opponents
but colleagues, that they are study
ing two different worlds.
. "I don't- think Mr. Edison's en
deavors to create a device to get into
communication with the spiritual
world will succeed. And for this rea
son: Psychology teaches that dif
ferent departments of life are dif
ferently known. The organs of
knowledge that we first use we call
our physical senses.
"I venture to prophesy that event
ually we will be able to talk to and
to hear from the spiritual world but
it will not be by means of tipping
tables or material inventions, but by
means of our own spirits, that at
that time have been sufficiently edu
cated to understand the things of
the epirit."
DEATH OF CHRIST IS TOPIC
Description of Death of Savior Is
Kcad to Congregation.
Rev. Lewis Sperry Chafer of New
York city, now lecturing on Bible
themes in connection with the Moody
Bible institute, in progress this
month at the White Temple, spoke
yesterday morning at the Central
Presbyterian church on the subject,
"Why Was It Necessary for Christ to
Die?"
"Xnly men who remain true to the
word of God, as. Mr. Moody did," said
the speaker, "are chosen to undertake
the Bible teaching Mr. Moody found
ed. I am in fullest agreement with
this form of doctrine as my word to
you this morning will disclose."
After reading the 22d Psalm, which,
the speaker stated, is a description of
the death of Christ written fully a
thousand years before Calvary, he
went on to say: "Our answer to the
question, 'Why did Jesus Christ die?'
determines our eternal destiny. This
is the teaching of the Bible. Because
this question is' so imperative, men
have sometimes been disposed to
evade the issue by assigning some
other rcsaon than the one and only
reason given in the Bible.
"No one can say Christ died because
of his own sinfulness. Some say that
he died to show how sin hurts God,
and so to discourage men from sin.
This theory fails, since the purpose
of God, according to the Bible, is not
now to get men simply to cease from
sinnlngx it is that they may be born
again and become children of God by
nature. One is reformation; the other
regeneration. Nor did Christ die to
give us an example. He did not die
to show us how to die gracefully. He
died that we- might not die. He got
something done, which has not to be
done again. It is, therefore, offered
to all men that they by believing
Christ as their Savior, may have the
gift of God which is eternal life and
all the blessings which were pur
chased by Christ for us on the cross."
BISHOP PLEADS FOR SOLDIERS
Dignitary Fears IT. S. Has Not
Lived Up to Promises.
"My text contains a striking coin
cidence. It is a national warning to
those at us who do not practice and
live the principles of true brother
hood to our fellow man.
"My text has a special meaning for
Armistice Sunday.
"You will remember that the arm
istice was declared in the battle lines
fn France at the eleventh hour, of the
eleventh day, of the eleventh month.
"My text is taken from the eleventh
verse, of the eleventh chapter, of
the eleventh book of the Bible, to-wit,
First Kings, verse 11, chapter 11:
'For as much as this is done of thee,
and thou hast not kept my covenant
and my statutes, which I have com
manded thee, I will surely rend thy
kingdom from thee, and will give It
to thy servant.' "
The preacher was Bishop Walter
Taylor Sumner, speaking yesterday
morning at St. David's Episcopal
church, on the meaning and purpose
of Armistice day, and especially with
reference to the men from St. David's
parish who died, or were killed in the
late world war.
"If we do not do as we wish to be
! done by, if we do not live and prac
tice the real brotherhood of service
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to others, and especially to our sol
diers and sailors who offered up
their all In war then woe to 41s,"
warned the bishop. "That which we
have may be taken from us. I do
not think that our boys who went
over there' went, as has already been
said, 'to save the world for democ
racy. They went in service iox Droin-
erhood, because other men had given
their lives for rellow men. xney
fought our battles for us. May we
be faithful to the memories of those
gallant ones who have passed into
paradise.
"It must have rmea us wim sorrow
these past six months to see two
great parties in this country occupy
ing the time by abuse of a personal
nature. . Surely there were othek
ore affairs to strive ' after? For
instance, what have we done as a
nation nave we aone wnai we couia
to relieve the necessities of our
wounded and maimed boys? I am
'afraid not.
"Let us hope that, as a nation, we
will not any longer be found want
ing.
Mrs. Mary F. Hall Dies.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 14.
(Special.) Mrs. Mary F. Hall. 72,
pioneer of the northwest, died here
Saturday of dropsy, the after-effects of
influenza and double pneumonia con
tracted February 13.. She crossed the
plains in the early sixties to near
Oakland, Or. She came here with
her husband, the late Alfred Hall,
about 1865. Two sons, John L. Hall
and Arthur C. Hall of Walla Walla,
and three brothers, Charles W. John
son of Colfax, Edward Johnson of
Spokane and George Johnson of Pull
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LIVESTOCK OFFICIAL TELLS OF
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Editor Declares Livestock Show
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Big Factor In Bringing Pros
perous Conditions
"I wonder if the people of the Pa
cific coast country appreciate the im
portance of the Pacific International
Livestock exposition as it relates to
the buildfng up of a more prosperous
condition throughout this extensive
section?" Was the query made yes
terday by Frank D. Tomson of Lin
coln, Neb., editor of The Short
horn in America and special repre
sentative of the American Shorthorn
Breeders' association. "
Mr. Tomson has been in close con
tact with the development of the
pure-bred livestock for more than 20
years and is familiar with the growth
of the fairs and shows and their cIobb
identity with business expansion.
"The remarkable increase in the ex
hibits in all divis'ons in your show
this year over the 1919 event, which
far surpassed all previous shows held
here," said Mr. Tomson, "is an. im
pressive assurance of the responsive
attitude of the fine stock breeders
over the nter-mountain and coast
country. Tour people, should not fail
to grasp the fact that the Pacific
International is second only to the'
great International at Chicago in point
of numbers, breeds and quality rep
resented in the exhibits. And here is
a significant fact: Your exhibits
represent only the western mountain
and coast states, the products of
western herds and western skill. Yet
you are only beginning out here in
this displaying of the farm and ranch
animals before the public in an edu
cational way on a broad scale. This
is the second show to be held in the
great pavilion and already it has
reached far beyond the capacity of
the structure.
"In the shorthorn cattle section
alone there are 330 entries, not in
cluding the calf club entries. I am
proud to say that the American
Shorthorn Breeders' association has
offered in this show, as cash prizes,
the sum of $8000 as a co-operative
effort in the building up of your
western livestock interests.- This is
the largest amount offered by any
breed association, but our association
recognizes the identity which Short
horns have had with the betterment
of agriculture here in the west and
cannot ignore the general inclina
tion of the stock growers to this re
sourceful breed.
"As a suggestion of the quality of
the display of Shorthorns there are
entered, and quartered now in the
exposition building, champion win
ners from Montana, Colorado, Idaho,
Utah, California, Oregon, Washing
ton and several winners at the Chi
cago International last year, among
them the grand champion female.
They nave come here to enter the
final contest of the year. It is sig
nificant, too, that a judge widely
known pn three continents as an ex
pert will decide the contests. I re
ferr to William Hartnett, a leading
importer and exporter, just returned
from Argentina and the British isles.
"I would not detract from other
breeds. They are all contributing to
the wealth and betterment of this
country. They are here in larger
numbers than ever before, and of
better character as a wbole.
"It is a great onstructive ineti
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