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PAGES 37 TO 48 VOL. XXV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, JANUARY 14, 1906. NO. 2. The Impartial God and His Love Sermon Written for The Sunday Oregonian by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis, Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn. WM. GADSBY & SONS' See Our Windows See Our Windows ANNUAL CLEARANCE SALE CONTINUES See Our Windows for Bargains. Every Article Reduced From 10 to 50 NOTE THE FOLLOWING PRICES Chairs and Rockers At Clearance Sale Prices $50.00 Genuine Leather Eocker, now 37.50 $10.00 Genuine Leather Eocker, now $30.00 $30.00 Genuine Leather Eocker, now 525.00 $25.00 Solid Mahogany Eocker, now 19.50 $20.00 Solid Mahogany Eocker, now $16.50 $15.00 Imitation Mahogany Eocker, now $11.50 $10.00 Chairs, now 8.50 $8.00 Chairs, now S6.50 $6.50 Chairs, now...... $4.50 $5.00 Chairs, now..". S4.00 $2.50 Bedroom Eockers, now $1.50 Dressers, Chiffoniers Clearance Sale Prices $60.00 Dressers, solid oak, now $45.00 $55.00 Dressers, solid oak, now $40.00 $40.00 Dressers, solid oak, now $34.00 $30.00 Dressers, solid oak, now $25.00 $25.00 Dressers, solid oak, now $20.00 $40.00 Chiffoniers, now $32.00 $30.00 Chiffoniers, now $22.50 $25.00 Chiffoniers, now S20.00 $20.00 Chiffoniers, now $16.50 $15.00 Chiffoniers, now $12.25 $12.50 Chiffoniers, now $10.00 $9.00 Chiffoniers, now $7.50 Dressers as low as $6.50 CARPETS Special Cash Sale Hartford Axminsters, regular $1.85, sale price, yd. $1.51 Alexander Smith's Axniinsters, regular $1.70, sale price, yard $1.38 Saxony Axniinsters, regular $1.60, sale price per yard $1.30 Wilton Velvets, regular $1.60, sale price, per yard $1.30 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 yd. 9S Smith's Palisade Tapestry, regular $1.10, sale price, per yard 86 Higgins' Tapestry Brussels, regular $1.00, sale price, per yard ; 73 Best Extra Super, all-wool, regular $1.00, sale price, per yard 7S Maharajah, Pro-Brussels, regular $1.00, sale price, per yard 78 Ingrain, all-wool filled, regular -85c, 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 he made if Carpet is only cut from roll. This Is Mission Week at Gadsby's Mission Furniture In Weathered Oak For Dining-Eooms, Halls. Libraries and Dens Eeduced 25 Per Cent This Week. EXTRA SPECIAL 25 Per Cent Discount on Leather Couches and Leather Chairs Rugs Are on Sale at Reduced Prices $50.00 Bagdad Eugs, 9x12, sale price S36.00 $48.00 Bigelow Wilton Eugs, 9x12, sale S36.00 $38.00 Burlington Axminstcrs, 9x12, sale 27.90 $38.00 Burlington Axminsters, 9x12, sale 27.90 $32.50 Body Brussels, 9x12, sale price $25.55 $30.00 Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price S22.30 $27.50 Wilton Velvets, 9x12, sale price $22.30 $27.50 Eoxbury Eugs, 9x12, sale price $22.30 $20.00 Brussels Eugs, 9x12, sale price $16.20 $18.00 Brussels Eug, 8-3x10-6, sale price $14.00 $22.00 Pro-Brussels Eug, 12x15, sale price $16.20 $20.00 Pro-Brussels Eug, 12x13-6, sale $14.60 $18.00 Pro-Brussels Eug, 12x12 feet S13.00 $16.00 Pro-Brussels Eug, 12x10-6, sale $11.40 $14.00 -Pro-Brussels Eug, 9x12, sale price S9.75 $12.00 Ingrain Eug, 9x12, sale price $9.75 Sample Carpet Rugs 3 for $1 Desks and Bookcases At Sale Prices $12.00 Ladies' Desk, birdseye maple, reduced to SS.00 $10.00 Ladies' Desk, birdseye maple, reduced to $7.50 $6.00 Ladies' Desk, white maple, reduced to $4.50 $15.00 Ladies' Desk, mahogany veneer, reduced to .$11.50 $12.00 Ladies' Desk, imitation mahogany, reduced to $9.00 $30.00 Ladies Desk, solid mahogany, reduced to $22.50 $25.00 Ladies Desk, golden oak, reduced to $20.00 $20.00 Combination Bookcase and Desk, imitation ma hogany, reduced to $13.00 $30.00 Combination Bookcase and Desk, niahogany ve neered, now $22.50 $25.00 Combination Desk and Bookcase, in quarter-sawed oak, now $20.00 $22.50 Desk and Bookcase, oak, now $17.50 $15.00 Chautauqua Desk, oak, now $10.00 $12.00 Chautauqua Desk, maple, now $9.00 $15.00 Bookcase, glass doors, 3 feet wide,. 5 feet 6 inches high, mahoganized 'maple, now $9.00 $4.50 Open-front Bookcase, now $3.50 Hundreds of others equally as good all through the establishment. Small Parlor Rugs At Clearance Sale Prices ' $8.50 Eugs now $6.75 $7.00 Eugs now $5.50 $6.00 Eugs now $4.75 $5.00 Eugs now $3.75 $3.50 Eugs now $2.25 $2.50 Eugs now $1.25 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 S36.0O $ 37.00 Buffets reduced to $25.00 $ 27.50 Buffets reduced to $18.00 Open Saturday Evenings Until 9 o'Cfock Brass and Iron Beds $70.00 Brass Beds, sale price C. "$50.00 $60.00 Brass Beds, sale price $40.00 $45.00 Brass Beds, sale price $35.50 $37.50 Iron Beds reduced to -....$22.50 $22.50 Iron Beds reduced to $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 $ 5.00 Iron Beds reduced to S3. 50 $ 3.50 Iron Beds reduced to $2.85 Sanitary Steel Bed Daven ports and Couches Reduced S13.50 Steel Davenport, now $10.75 $10.00 Steel Couch $ S.10 Parlor Cabinets At Sale Prices $50.00 Mahogany Parlor Cabinet, now $40.00 $45.00 Mahogany Parlor Cabinet, now $38.00 $35.00 Mahogany Parlor Cabinet, now S27.50 $25.00 Mahogany Parlor Cabinet, now $17.50 $20.00 Mahogany Parlor Cabinet, now $16.50 $15.00 Mahogany Tinish Cabinet, $ow $10.00 $13.00 Mahogany Finish Cabinet, now S 9.00 $10.00 Mahogany Finish Cabinet, now $ 6.50 Sideboard Bargains $154.00 Sideboard, now S80.00 $110.00 Sideboard, now $75.00 $ 84.00 Sideboard, now S59.00 $ 65.00 Sideboard, now $45.00 S 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 $ 16.50 Sideboard, now $12.25 China Closets $90.00 S86.50 $82.00 $60.00 $45.00 $37.00 $30.00 $25.00 $20.00 China Closet, now. China Closet, now. China Closet now. China Closet, now. China Closet, now. China Closet, now. China Closet, now. China Closet, now. China Closet, now. . S6S.00 S60.00 S59.00 $40.00 $36.00 $28.50 $25.00 S20.00 . . . .$13.50 and $15.00 We Are Sole Agents for the Celebrated Majestic Ranges Prices Reduced See Our Windows Buy Your Carpets Nfovv The Only Furniture Store That Owns Its Own Building No Rents to Pay That's Why We Sell Cheaper WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS THE HOUSEEURNISHERS (INCORPORATED) COR. WASHINGTON AND FIRST Text: "He maketh His sun to rise upon the evil find the good, and aendeth rain upon the Just and the unjust." AFFIRMING that God is love. Jesus goes on to affirm that this love Is, impartial and" all-inclusive, being for the low as well as the high, for the weak and the strong, the bond and the free. How wonderful that type of all cmbraclng love called the sun! If there bo any Image better calculated to set forth the all-Inclusive benevolence of God, I know not what it Is. Alone, the seed Is helpless. 3n our ignorance we say that every seed has power to take care of itself. It carries a root toward tho soli, a stalk that work3 toward the air and light. But until the sun comes and releases the seed from Xho frost and awakens it from Its long slumber, the seed is Impotent. But Is the Father-sun J partial? Does ho love vines and hate weeds? 33 ho affected by consideration of size, so that on tho April days he gives his beams to big acorns and re fuses his warmth to little violets? "What a universal lover is the sun! Burning by day and night, from his chario the sun god sends his warmth to gild the mon arch's palace, but steals also into the peasant's hut. He wakens the scholar with his stainless life to hi3 joy, but wakens the outcast also and the prodi gal, and warms his cold limbs. The sun lends color to the birds of paradise, pour ing forth their song in perfumed forests; ) It also lends beauty to the tortoise as it ! crawls: and makes brilliant its shell. The sun shines for Catawba grapes, but It f shines for the thorns and thistles that surround the grapes. It nourishes the corn with its beams, but it nourishes the weeds also. Its measureless tides beat upon the fields of yellow wheat, but the sun shines also for the arid desert and the barren lands. It tends the insect as well as the elephant, and the bkide of grass as well as the elm or oak. It shines for slaves as it does for monarchs. It is not the rich man's sun it is evcry- body's sun. And this sun that shines on the evil and on the good Interprets God's love that Is also Impartial and all-Inclu-sivc. God loves good men for their good ness, but lie loves bad men also because they need to be good. And tills poor mother In the tenement-house region hus borrowed this Impartial love from God her Father. Some of the children about her are strong and wise and self-sacrificing. And one of hei little ones is in valided and crippled and helpless and dis couraged and bitter. The more helpless the child is. the more the mother loves, because the more the babe needs. Such "Love Beyond Men. We do not understand it. "We love those who love us. Interested in books, we love scholars. Interested in business, we love merchants. Inter ested in politics, our friend3 are poli ticians. "We are not universal in our loves. "We do not understand God's love. Tills is the pathos and tragedy of God we think of him, not as he is, but we think of him as we are. We debase him to the level of our life. We suppose that he is such an one as we. What if some infinite genius like Plato should choose feeble-minded children for Ills pupils, instead of the bright est young- minds of Atliens! What if some great poet should refuse invita tions to rich men's houses, and for swear all congenial friendships, and make his way to some orphan asylum and carr in his arms these .forsaken little ones that are even without names. Why, our earth hath never known a man or woman so divine. And but for the life and example of Jesus Christ and his revelation of God's im partial love, In our wildest moments we would never have been able to dream of such a one. But God loves the unlovely and sinful. Being pure, he loves the Impure. Being strong, he loves tlie weak. Being wise, he Is In terested In the ignorant. Being holy, he loves the children of iniquity." Yen, he hath "set his heart upon man." Why docs he love sinful men? Because it is his nature. How can you explain the ail-righteous and all-holy God forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin? Because it is his nuture to do so. We cannot explain It. We do not know how he makes a mother love a sick babe, or -why. he makes a bird love to sing, or why the rose Is red, or why the dewdrop Is pure, or why the sun gives warmth Incessantly and forever. But we do know that God waits upon sinful men; that his love never grows faint; that his heart Is never discour aged; that though men's sins be as scarlet, he will make them white; that he does not desire the death of any man; that to the very last, if we con fess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins. For nothing shall be able to separate man from the love" of God in Christ Jesus. God's Love the Life Blood or the Unl- verse. Consider that the love of God is tho life blood of this universe, tho sap that flows through all tho trees, the tide that runs through all tho seas, the music also of his wide-lying universe. Husbandmen know that so long as the sap runs freely the vine and tree are safe. You can prune away the boughs from the vine; yes. you can lift the ax upon the trunk itself. The storms can pound away the leaves, but the sap within will heal the wound without. Is the gash deep? The great tides and life juices will send forth oils, and heal the gaping cuts. Is the bough broken by some wild beast? The sap will grow new boughs. These life currents will weave a new raiment of glossy leaves, will put on a new coat of bark against the storms of Winter, will ripen new clusters, and in another Au tumn bend the bough with fruit. Oh, beautiful Image of the love of God, that pours through the heart of man, and when old plans fall like leaves puts forth new hopes, manifests itself in new boughs, new friendships, more glorious activities. The other day. on the southern shore of Connecticut, I stood at an inlet of the sea. The cold night, with frost lingers, had covered the little- bay with, a coating of jce. Running- out, the tides had left the ice behind. The carts also from the city had come down, with their sweepings of the streets, their dust and ashes and coal cinders, and broken boxes and tin cans, and old barrels, and made the shore hideous. Now, what power could cleanse that filth away? Yonder In the sky hangs an orb, that loves sweetness and works towards beauty. Silently It sends forth its whisper. Quickly the waves hear the secret call, and the waters, obedient, spring forward like well-trained steeds. Fulfilling their task, the tides came in to cleanse the bay. They knew well their work, these cleansing waters. They lifted the ice, tore it from its place, ground it to dust, tossed its cakes like driftwood, swept all the scavenger's filth from th shore, and. retreating, carried all out to sea, to bathe the cakes of Ice in the far off tropic streams. Even so the love of God flows in upon the generations of men. and that love, coming in like the tides, brings cleansing and recovery. What! You are discouraged over economic wrongs, social abuses, commercial iniqut tics? Go'd's1 loving thoughts, and his pur poses of righteousness will grind to pow der every iniquitous custom, every unholy law, scatter all wicked wealth, as the tides grind the ice in the harbors, as the tropic waves consume the icebergs of th north. One frosty Winter's morning, when the air was sharp and the wheels sent forth that sound of crunching snow that comes from bitter cold, and rich men went toward the ferry turning up their fur collars, and drivers slapped their arms to keep the blood pulsating, a little girl, with an old shawl pinned over her head, went along the street, folfowing a coal wagon, to pick up bits of anthracite. Sud denly, on the clear, sharp, frosty air. th child began to sing "In the Good Old Summer Time." It was the tide of youth and hope, bursting through all the cere ments of frost and snow. The song of hope and joy bubbled upon her lips. Anil taught by a little child, every patriot who loves his country, and every Christian who loves his God. has the right, in the darkest hour of depression, to remember that it is God's world, that his love will warm all inhospitable shores, change all the Winters into Summer. What His Love Docs Depends Upon Man. This love of God that comes to man comes to our generation with all the shock of a thrilling discovery. We al ways knew that God was strong; the earthquake exhibits his strength. We always knew that God was wise; the firmament showeth his deft handiwork. But sometimes the harvest of pain that comes from the sowing of sin has made men think that he was an all-consuming fire. And s-o they have thought of him as the cold, marble, iron-handed, unfeeling God. who beholds the sinner caught in the meshes of his sin and rejoices in the oitlalls into which the transgressor. caught red-handed in his guilt, lias fallen. Others have thought of God as one who has made the world house and stored Its pantry with foods, who keeps the sky roof over the child, who lights the lamps of the night and then leaves man to look after himself. But what if some man should found a fireside altar, build a beautiful home, and then go to some distant city. What if from time to time he returns, to send provisions against the Winter and coal for the bin; and what it he provided the family with money against every possible want, but himself answered no letter, visited the house only at night when he could not be seen, and dwelt at long remove? You would say that this man had deserted his home. The hearts of those that dwelt in the household would break. Yet this has been man's idea of God. God is the far off one. he is the silent one, the God of mystery. He is a vague, shadowy, un known and unknowable one. who dwells In the clouds and darkness. He is shroud ed in mystery. But over against all thosn pagan, heathen views stands Christ's rev elation. Jesus says, his name is Our Father. His nature is love. God is the great burden-bearer and sin-bearer. He stands in the darkest hour .for the patriot or parent, within the shadow, keeping watch above his own. All troubles ar deeds of chastening love. He draws a golden circle about each life. He is with his children always; he feeds the im mortal hope; nothing shall be able to sep arate his children from his arms and his love. And this thought, that God is love, changed the world for some of us. Just as Newton's discovery of gravity . lent unity to the cosmic system, changed the chaos into a cosmos: just as Darwin's principle showed us how God made seeds into trees and babes Into men. and the natural man into the spiritual man; ju&t as the Spanish mariner's discovery gave us a new continent and altered the cen ter of gravity for a world, so the discov ery that God is love has made us look with altered eyes upon an altered world. God cares for us. We are not buffeted about by events, or fate or circumstances. Therefore, let events do their worst. Let sorrows confe in like storms. Let good name or property or friends go. Let health and strength turn to weakness and an infant's feebleness. Thougli man be buffeted and peeled of all his pos sessions, and rolled in the snow, the measure of his manhood is .his power tt recover himself. The oftener he fails, fince God Is love, the oftener he will suc ceed. For all things work together for good for those that love God in return. God's Lovo the One Grent Thing in Life. Fulfilling such a career for man, the love of God Is the one great thing in life. It Is Important that we have food and drink and raiment these support strength. It Is good that man obtains competence; this lends tranquillity in old age. It is a good thing for a man to be a scholar; this lends man wisdom and knowledge. Friends, a troop of friends, these enhance life's happiness. But when the parent gives the child a Christmas gift, the toi ls soon forgotten. Becoming familiar, it is cast aside; the one thing that abides in tho child's heart is the parent's love. LCoacluiid oa Pass 41.1