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(If, PART fOUR PAGES 37 TO 48." VOL. XXIV. PORTLAXP, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 31, 1905. NO. 52. MM, .....1, Yesierday,Tpday and Forever Christmas Sermon Written for The Sunday Oregonian by Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis, of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS' 16th ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE This Is the Greatest Furniture Sale in Portland ' -SALE COMMENCES TUESDAY Every Article Reduced From 10 to 50 Per Cent NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES Sideboard Bargains $134.00 Sideboard, now $80.00 110.00 Sideboard, now $75.00 84.00 Sideboard, now $59.00 65.00 Sideboard," now $45.00 40.00 Sideboard, now $30.00 37.00 Sideboard, now $28.00 35.00 Sideboard, now $26.00 30.00 Sideboard, now... .; ..$22.00 25.00 Sideboard, now. ..$20.00 20.00 Sideboard, now $15.00 Buffet Bargains .$100.00 Buffets reduced to $65.00 75.00 Buffets reduced to $50.00 60.00 Buffets reduced to $42.00 45.00 Buffets reduced to $36.00 37.00 Buffets reduced to $25.00 27.50 Buffets reduced to $18.00 China Closets $90.00 China Closet, now . $68.00 86.50 China Closet, now... $60.00 82.00 China Closet, 'now $59.00 60.00 China Closet, now $40.00 45.00 China Closet, now $36.00 37.00 China Closet, now $28.50 30.00 China Closet, now $25.00 25.00 China Closet, now t $20.00 20.00 China Closet, now $15.00 Parlor Suit Reductions One $100.00 Five-Piece Suit, now $77.00 One 95.00 Five-Piece Suit, now $64.00 One 80.00 Five-Piece Suit, now..! $53.00 One 65.00 Five-Piece Suit, now $45.00 One 45.00 Five-Piece Suit, now $35.00 One 35.00 Five-Piece Suit, now $27.00 One 80.00 Three-Piece Suit, now $62.00 One 60.00 Three-Piece Suit, now $45.00 One 53.00 Three-Piece Suit, toy? $42.50 One 45.00 Three-Piece Suit, now $37.50 One 38.50 Three-Piece vSuit, now $27.50 One -25.00 Three-piece Suit. now.". $20.00 Extra Special Three-Piece Suits $30.00, $27.50, $25.00 reduced to $17.50 Others as low as $14.50 Mission Furniture In "Weathered Oak. For Dining-rooms, halls, libraries and dens at sale prices. CARPETS SPECIAL CASH SALE Hartford Axminsters, rcpuar $1.85 sale price yard $1.51 Alexander Smith's Axminsters, regular $1.70, sale price, yard $1.38 Saxonv Axminsters, regular $1:60, sale price, yard $1.30 Wilton Velvet, regular $1.60. sale price, per yard S1.30 Dunlap Velvets, regular $1.25, sale price, per yard " 94 Body Brussels, regular $1.75. sale . price, per yard ;$1.43 Sanford's Brussels, regular $1.25. sale price, per yard 9S? Smith's Palisade Tapestry, regular $1.10, sale price. yard 86c Higgins' Tapestry Brussels, regular $1.00. sale price. yard . 73 c Best Extra Super, all wool, regular $1.00, sale price, yard 78 C Maharajah, Pro-Brussels, regular $1.00, sale price, yard - 78p Ingrain, all-wool filled, regular, S5c, sale price. yard 70 Union Ingrains, regular 55c, sale price, yard.. 44? The above prices include making, laying and padded lining. An allowance of 10c per yard will ln made if Carpet is only cut from roll. Rugs Are On Sale At Reduced Prices $50.00 Bagdad Kugs, 9x12, sale price $36.00 48.00 Bigelow Wilton Rugs, 9x12, sale. - .$36.00 38.00 Burlington Axminsters, 9x12, sale.. $27.90 35.00 Hartford Axminsters, 9x12, sale $27.90 32.50 Body Brussels, 9x12, sale price $25.55 30.00 Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price $22.30 27.50 Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price $22.30 27.50 Itoxbury Rugs, 9x12, sale price $22.30 20.00 Brussels Rugs, 9x12, sale price $16.20 18.00 Brussels Rug, S-3xl0-6, sale price. .$14.00 22.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x15, sale pricc..$16.20 20.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x13-6. sale $14.60 18.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x12 feet $13.00 16.00 Pro-Brussels Rug, 12x10-6, sale $11.40 14.00 Pro-Brussels Rug. 9x12, sale price. .$ 9.75 12.00 Ingrain Rug, 9x12, sale price $ 9.75 Sample Carpet Rugs 3 for $1.00 Brass and Iron Beds $70.00 Brass Beds, now $50.00 60.00 Brass Beds, now $40.00 45.00 Brass Beds, now $35.50 25.00 Brass Beds, now $16.50 37.50 Jjron Beds reduced to..:.; $22.50 22.50-Ir$ii Beds reduced fo. . $16.50 18.00 Iron Beds reduced to $13.50 15.00 Iron Beds-reduced to. , $10.00 12.00 Iron Beds reduced to $ 9.00 10.00 Iron Beds reduced to $ 7.50 8.50 Iron Beds reduced to $ 6.00 6.50 Iron Beds reduced to. $ 4.50 o.OO Iron Beds reduced to $ 3.50 3.50 Iron Beds reduced to $ 2.85 Odd Dresser Bargains $70.00 Dresser reduced to $50.00 65.00 Dresser reduced to $45.00 50.00 Dresser reduced to $38.50 40.00 Dresser reduced to., $30.00 35.00 Dresser reduced to $28.50 29.00 Dresser reduced to $22.50 25.00 Dresser reduced to $20.00 20.00 Dresser reduced to '. $16.50 18.00 Dresser reduced to $13.50 15.00 Dresser reduced to.... $12.00 .12.00 Dresser reduced to $10.50 Others as low as $ 6.50 Bargains in All Departments Including Bedding, Crockery, Lamps, Odd Rockers and Chairs, Odd Parlor Pieces, Lace Curtains, For tier e and Conch, Covers, Heaters, Cookstoves and Ranges and Office Furniture, all at reduced prices. We Are Sole Agents for the Celebrated Majestic Ranges Prices Reduced WILLIAM GADSBY & THE HOUSEFURNISHERS -, Corner Washington and First SONS Text Forgetting the thlnss that are be hind, and re&chln? forward to the things that are before. Henceforth there Is laid up for me a cro-wn. T Is often said that the future Be longs to youth, the past to old age, and the present to maturity. If the saying bo true, then hopo Is the guardian spirit of young hearts. memory presides over the destiny of the aged, -while the mature are con trolled by the spirit of. -work and con tentment. But, . strictly speaking, life cannot bo divided into two sections. as ships Into -water-tight compart ments. The true life has at once unity, order and movement, nnd the great soul lives at onco In the past, tho present and the future. At his peril the youth drifts through tho present, living only for "far-off days, when golden success Is to bo his. The time will come when this youth will bo like unto the hus bandman "who postponed sowing- from April and Slay unto those months that stand beside tho October frost. While the old man. who Uvea only in the past, will find himself like Lot's wife, overwhelmed with destruction through much looking backward. The ideal life is like the great tree. whose trunk has accumulated the riches of a hundred Summers and a hundred Winters. Its roots stand in the soil of today, its bough3 stretch forward, ready to receive tomorrow's sun and tomorrow's rain. Not other wise Is it with a life that is strong, vigorous and immortal. Ther man Is here today, earnest, alert, opcn-eyed, eager, but a multitude of yesterdays He behind his life, lending it weight and momentum, and presslngt it forward. while the real career lies in front, in cluding many tomorrows. The Uses of the Past. Consider the importance of the back ward look and of the days whose riches arc treasured by memory. A great today represents the capital assembled by those servants named the yester days. The present success is the place where all past labors have brought in theirsheaves. Life is Indeed a growth; the soul docs begin a' seed that slowly expands and takes on stature and ripeness. But growing from with- less ones march In band? and compa nies. Here is the young man who covets a reputation for wisdom; he is going to take all knowledge for his province. Ills standard Is high; he proposes to stand among the very first. But he will never be a scholar because "he postpones hla study. Tomorrow he will buy the book: tomorrow ho will lay out the cuurso of reading in history aud science; tomorrow ho will mature his plans. Hcrc are tho master minds. When ho is lonely theso great poets will speak to him; when ha 13 tired they will keep silence and brood with him. They are tho elect spirits who have survived the ages, outliving tho cities that rise and fall, immortal amid empires that como and go. Next year theso young men will choose tho company of the great authors; now they prefer a light evening's entertain ment or an afternoon in the smoking room, given to desultory conversation. For all such there will never be any tomorrow. The point named 50 will sim ply be a place where these men will sit weeping, with broken hearts. But we must not think that young men only are guilty of neglecting the present. Our number contains many gifted men and women who intend to do something for thoso who arc young and struggling for knowledge. Tomorrow they propose to seek out some youths with hungry minds and send them to college to speak for them; tomorrow they will seek out some young artist or sculptor to go abroad at their expense and return with rich forms of beauty to enrich the state. This man's tongue Is dumb but that youth's holds eloquence and power of speech, and next year this silent man will find a voice and lend It wisdom, that it may speak when he is dead. Today the mer chant needs his gold, and holds tho mon eybags with hands that will not let them go. But tomorrow, oh, tomorrow, It will be easy to unloose the strings, and then the bag win'overflow "with yellow treas ure. Tomorrow the house will be deeded as a home for orphans. Tomorrow a home will be founded for young girls, here In the very heart of the city, where are their tragedies and their heart breaks. Tomorrow there will be built an amusement hall for homeless young men, with clubrooms. Nay, nay, a thousand tmw nav TTor -will he no tomorrow. In, greatness comes also from accu- There no acti(m save tne prcScnt mulatlon of forces from without. This giant tree in California began as a seed, but-to the size of the seed was added, by slow accumulation, tho rich ness of a thousand Summers and Win ters, until Innumerable tons of mat ter have been compacted Into the tree's trunk. Slowly also the great Nation accu mulates Its power. A people 13 savage when it has no history. The South Sea islanders, had no past no heroe3 to celebrate.Sno battlefields to recall, no birth of liberty to rehearse In the presence of their children, no banner bright -with stars, and red with the blood of patriots, to carry through the streets. Our Nation is civilized because wc have a past that is four centuries long, and turning our steps toward that great past wc behold the Inventors making tools ready for us, wc behold authors hiding wisdom for us In their Jooks; we sec the poets tolling upon songs that the future is to sing; wc sec the statesmen per fecting laws that are to protect the liberty of children yet unborn. That past Is a great treasure-house, In which Is assembled all the Intellectual and moral wealth that blesses . the children of today. Civilization Is not a rapid growth; slowly the soil deepens through the cl ient falling of meteoric dust. For ten thousand thousand years the leaves liave been falling from the .trees that yester day's maple leaf may make tomorrow's leaf have a little richer red. Slowly the coal stratum was formed, while boughs and trees were condensed into single flakes of shining carbon. Slowly yester day's thoughts, yesterday's love. Its tears and hopes and prayers are compacted into today's character. Alas for the youth whose past, like David's, holds a black sin and a pool of blood, for his past will be an avenger ever tracking him down; his yesterday will be a Gehenna, filled with dead men's bones; his memory will be a cage or dungeon, against whose sides in -vain he beats his bruised and bleeding forehead. But happy, thrice happy, the youth whose yesterday is filled with noble deeds, with memories of pupils to whom he has oolnted the path of wisdom, of young soldiers whom he has armed against their battles; of mari ners into whose hands he has placed a chart that will guide them across the sea Into the promised haven. The future can never harm him who can gladly look back toward the past. No man who can look backward with smiles" will ever look forward with tears. .Tomorrow's crown was begotten by yes terday's battle and remembered victory. Today and Its Watchword Work. But . if that capital named character was assembled in the past, life derives its meaning from tho present with Its work and duty. Life's greatest word. Is "today." The Bible holds one charmed sentence: "Now Is the accepted time." Tho fleeting moment Is the one that 13 big with opportunity and frclghtwl with destiny. The world is full of men of great talent who will end their careers without having fulfilled their own hopes or the hopes of their friends. On their tombs should be written the epitaph. "He neglected today." On the other hand, the world holds many men of very mod est gifts who are making themselves a place among the Immortals. Above their threshold should be inscribed these words: "He .made the most of every passing hour." la "Don Quixote" Cervantes has a pic ture of a youth who lived In a house samed Tomorrow that is built on a street aaed By-and-By, and the name of the city la which he, dwelt was Never." With Mtig sarcasm the great huorfet 4crifce the jpwtk who drift in the praemt aad malm Ms, appwl to the fu ture; hut that yoath Ik not atone; .he is Mt a. Mttyary Individual. These, thought- action. It is now or never. Have you forgotten that word in the "Christmas Carol"? When Scrooge in his terror wakens, he pleads his business, the neces sity of pinching pennies, the making of a name for himself, the rising up early and sitting up late to hoard and hoard. Every hour must be given to business. "My business, my business 1" murmurs Scrooge. And then the angel answers, "Your business? Why. your business is to help God's little ones. His orphans, his boys with,, hungry minds, his girls struggling toward character. This is your business to help God's little ones." Whatever you propose to do, do It quickly. There is not a moment to lose. YVnte your will today, today give your gifts, and harden not your heart. There is a critical moment in the life of the patient, when the pulse wavers, and tho spirit hovers between life and death. In this hour when your noblest aspirations rise and spread their wings, and stir, no mat ter how feebly. It Is for you to act with Instant and decisivo energy. Life's great est word is "now," and Its duty 13 work and service. Tomorrow and Hope. But if life is rooted in the present, and the boughs have been nourished In tho past, its growth is in the fu ture. Even for the old, it is hope that should rule, and not memory. No mat ter how much you have done for your fellows you have never done enough. How snperficlal that word. "Society owes me a living." and that other word. "I have done my share." For rverj man society has done a million fold more than he can ever possibly repay. There never lived a teacher who taught enough wisdom. On a day like this; at the end of the year, every author should feel that he would fain write one more page; every jurist that he would fajn win one more nnhif cause: every? patriot that he would fain start one more good mdve ment; every soldier that he would turn in and strike one more blow. Every reformer should determine to grind under his heel one more serpent or scorpion named lust or lying or drunk enness. All should catch the spirit of Paul, who wished to make his last day his best day, and send forth one more battle cry for the Christian Church, and lift the trumpet and sound tha charge for one more advance upon' the enemy. Happily earth's greatest spirits have Imitated that grizzled hero, Paul. When Tennyson Is fourscore and can no longer plume his wings for the sus tained flight required in all "Idyl of the King." he writes a gentle poem before he sets sail, writing a little song .about the pilot who will meet him when he has crossed the bar. When Mr. Gladstone's voice has be come weak, so that he cannot speak in the House of Commons, when his strength has abated so that he is no longer equal to book or review, then he determines to do one more good deed, write one more Inspiring word. So he takes another man's book, But ler's "Analogy," and on the margin of the page he writes a commentary for tho help of college students. 1'ou say that you did not like to -see the au thor of "Juvcntus Mundl" descending to the work of preparing textbooks for school boys. Blessed be these noble men who wish to work to the last. The last work may have been lesser work than that done In the fullness of their manhood, but It is useful work. When the husbandman can no longer sow the fields, and care for the vh.s yards. It Is a noble thing to sea the old man, stooped uyon his crutch, find ing out soma exposed spot in the land and stooping down there to plant a tree, whose boughs shall offer fruit to weary travelers, homes to the nesting birds, and shade to tired beasts. How admirable is the spirit of the old man. who does not look back, but, .blind and weak, still presses toward the fature, planting one more shade tree, digging one more spring, carryisg one were burden who when he stands en death's threshold, before he. paseeg eut of sight forever, turse to light a. Httle taper to guide some pilgrim home There the old hero stande with the light falling on his face, and therc God hUm 'aim, let. him stand forever. .