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PART FOUR PAGES 37 TO 48 VOL,. XXV PORTLAND. OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, 31 AY 13, 190C. NO. 19. QADSBYS' SELL IT FOR LESS "MEET ME 9 AT GADSBYS FOR THE OUTFIT" Said the bride to the groom. Gadsbys' is now the popular meeting place for young couples. As soon as the honeymoon is ended and the young : folks settle down to the realities of life, then the young wife says to her husband:, "MEET ME AT GADSBYS' FOR THE OUTFIT." It is the right place to go at any time, but especially so 'during our GIGANTIC SPRING SALE. An outfit from Gadsbys' during the Spring Season costs you just ONE-THIRD LESS than from any other concern for the same class of goods. This surely is a large saving for young people starting in life. "TO HAVE AND TO HOLD" is the motto of young married people. During this SALE they can HAVE Furniture and Carpets and HOLD their savings; they can HAVE credit and HOLD their self-respect. They can HAVE furniture and carpets to the value of one hundred cents on the dollar and HOLD a large per cent of their earnings in their pockets.. If you intend going housekeeping don't figure and don't worry, but let "GADSBYS FEATHER YOUR NEST" and PROTECT YOU with THEIR GENEROUS AND JUST CREDIT. A Straight Carload of Morris Chairs w kit? i ;Vf? hi'; r? This comfortable and elegant Mor ris (.'hair is made from solid quarter-sawed oak, highly pol ished and beautifully flaked, also mahogany finish; the front legs have beautifully- carved claw feet ; steel spring eonst motion ; cushions on seat and back are upholstered in best . quality re versible velour, latest fifrurrs and designs, at the low price of $12.50 Others as low as S"59."30. Special Sale Refrigerators 20 Per Cent Discount Carload Arrived Saturday . . I I r AJsCS I a 1 I III I Heavy, substantial cabinet, charcoal packed and lined with gal vanized iron, removable metal shelves and other sanitary improve ments; has most perfect scientific cold air circulation. Cabinet is made in golden oak finish. White Enamel inside. Made along new lines; a great economizer of ice. Is thoroughly guaranteed in every particular. Steel Ranges The Leader Range is guaranteed for ten years and is as good and better than most Ranges sold for $.15.00 Gadsbvs' Price is only 927.50 Same with reservoir $32.50 Gadsbys' Sleeping Folding Go-Cart $9.50 1 CARPETS Mothers should give their spe cial . attention to the baby at this . season of the year. This Go-Cart has a fine reed body, with best chilled steel wheels and rubber tires and finely finished handle. Both back and front are adjustable. A beautiful parasol completes the outfit, Gadsbys have the largest stock and all are being sold at lowest prices. Folding Go-Carts from $2.75 up. BIG BARGAINS IN OUR CARPET DEPARTMENT AMBER VELVETS;" REGULAR $1.35, THIS WEEK S1.15 FIRTH TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, $1.10; THIS WEEK ..95 BRUSSEIS RUGS, 8:3x10:6; REGULAR $20.00; CLOSE OUT AT $16.50 ALL CARPETS, RUGS AND OTHER FLOOR COVERINGS MADE, LAID AND LINED FREE. Porch Rockers and Chairs We have the finest line this season in the city. This one, made of hard maple, finished light or forest green; special .553.50 GADSBYS' SELL IT FOR LESS SPECIAL! ' n i m i j ii m i ji n j it, i ij. u piwwiw i C Bridge Whist, or Five Hundred Folding " Card Table, light and substantial size 24x30. The regu lar price of these Folding Card Tables is $2.50; this week, while they last, for.... .'.$1.00 Gadsbys' Hallrack $14.50 , i?4. Made of highly polished quarter sawed oak, piano polish, nicely carved, solid metal trimmed . throughout, large- French plate mirror and spacious boy-under seat." A Hat Rack that will add grace to any reception hall and is without a doubt a most desirable article. Gadsbys' China Closet $18.00 1 1 biif!?Wf fas 1 1 'i'Ji ANinni! If III If you want an excellent China Closet of medium size you should have this one. It is highly pol ished golden oak, with curved glass ends and is a splendidly made piece of furniture; regular price $26.00 Gadsbya' Price only 18.00 II. j k M Napoleon Beds, in quarter-sawed oak,' beautiful -creations, $35.00 to $45.00 Everything to Furnish Cottage or Mansion in Stock. Majestic Ranges and Washing Machines, Refrigerators, Go-Carts, etc. WM. GADSBY 81 SONS Cor. Washington and First Streets THE; HOUSEFURNISHERS The Store That Sells for Less Christ the Reconciler of Opposing Te mpe ra merits SERMON WRrTTEN FOR THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN BY DR. NEWILI, DWIGHT HIIiLIS, PASTOR OF PLTMOl'TH CHURCH, BROOKLYN. Text: 'l am not com. to destroy, but to fulfill." - IN CONTRAST with other leaders. Jesus Is at once the Ideal radical and the Ideal conservative. He perfectly unites these contradictory qualities, both in his thought and In his life. His career seems the stranger for the reason that radicalism and conservatism are present paradoxes of thought. They are opposite poles, and are separated as the east from the west. The emblem of the radical is the ax laid to the root of the tree. The motto of the conservative is. "Hold fast to that wiilch is good." The radical is a pathfinder, going on before to blaze the way, like Abraham, who went into a land he knew not of. The conservative pre fers safety, and, like those Abraham left, remains behind, choosing to dwell in ceiled houses and to wear a silken vest. Vision power, therefore, is the charac teristic of the progressive; memory and reverence belong to the conservative. The radical is a forward-looking man, living by hope; the conservative looks backward, and, like the Mississippi River pilot, steers from behind. Both tempera ments are necessary to progress; the radical, because he forget9 yesterday's battles and victory in the zeal for a new reform; the conservative, because he faithfully guards treasures and institu tions accumulated by the fathers. Each Alone Represents Half a Man. But when either tendency becomes para mount, the manhood becomes partiar and the leadership perilous. Every full-orbed man is rational in front and conservative behind. After his master, Paul was the ideal reformer; with his left hand he re. membered the things that were behind and held fast to them, that his life might have continuity; with his right hand he reached forward to the things that were before, that he might have progress Cut Paul In the middle and the front half would have made a garrison in re form and the rear half would have made a conservative theologian, defending a creed. In running a wagon .and pulling a load, going up hill the horses are ail radical, asking only for traces; going down hill they are all conservative, ask ing only for brakes. But the absence of either element In the harness means a catastrophe. History, therefore, exhibits many partial and fragmentary men. In religion, here is that conservative young rabbi, named Saul, who will defend the old Judaism even if he must slay Stephen. In politics, here is Charles I, standing for the divine right , ot kings, even -though he is a barrier against all' progress. In ecclesiasticism, - we behold our theologians refusing to alter a creed one jot or tittle. But examples of false radicalism- are just as numerous. In politics, here is Robespierre, who led his pilgrim band out of the wilderness, not by Qod's pillar of cloud and fire, but by the light of blazing towns and cities. Here, too, is Thoreau, who would not pay taxes because he did not believe in slavery, who would not vote when he had no other Instrument for righting a foul wrong. It seems, therefore, that when a man becomes all radical or all conserva tive he Is a danger to his generation and to his country. The soul Is a living or ganism. . Ufe is a solid column of days and years, and so, too. are institutions. The continuity of life, therefore, must be preserved. . Tho soul Is 'a tree; you may cut away the rotten branch with one hand, but you must free the roots with the other. Political institutions, religious Institutions, Industrial institutions, are like vines. Tou may prune them and you may graft them, but you touch the life at your peril, for with their death comes your starvation. With one hand, then, labor for the vice's growth at the top, while with the other hand conserve the root at the bottom. In these days, there fore, when men are discussing creeds. In dustrial institutions, political institutions, we can hardly find a more practical theme than this one Jesus Christ, the ideal radical and the ideal conservative, as an example for all who seek to de stroy old wrongs and bring in a new and better way. Perhaps we shall find no finer illustra tion of Christ's power to destroy the evil and save the good in an institution than his work for Judaism. The old sys- , tem of the temple and the synagogue was decadent, outgrown and partial. There stood the temple with Its altars, the pen crowded with sheep and goats, the butcher with his knife, and the priest with his robe. The time was. In the days of Moses, and even of David, when these outer symbols were full of instruc tion to the Hebrews. But what Is good for a race in Its childhood Is bad for that race In Us maturity. Moses was the Pestalozzi of his age. He was the first to organize a system of symbols that ap pealed to the mind through the eye. Great was Froebel! Wonderful also the genius of Pestalozzi! But greater than both multiplied a score of times, the genius ot Moses. Twenty-five years ago It was quite the thing to talk about the mistakes of Moses. But since that time clay libraries and tablets have been de ciphered, a thousand old rolls translated, manuscripts have been compared, the storied East has yielded" up its richest treasures of wisdom. The result is that Moses name and fame are fixed forever. He found the Children of Israel at a sem inal point, next to nothing. They were a mere mob, a herd of cattle, and a horde of slaves. They could not read or write, they had no idea of God, of law, of sin, of conscience, of politics.- or liberty. Sup pose you were suddenly set front to 'front with a cannibal or a savage. Suppose you wanted to tell him what sin was. How would you begin? By the time you have worked over that question for a few weeks you will begin to appreciate the genius of Moses. Moses . wanted to make these slaves understand that sin separated men from God, In a moral uni verse. How did he do this? He built a series of walls first an outer wall, that held all the people aloof, because they had broken God's law. When the people had Binned, he made them bring some thing that was precious to them, perhaps It was a dove or a lamb, and then when they had; offered it, had bowed them selves 'to the ground tnd confessed their sin and repented of It, he brougrht them Into the outer court. Beyond was an inner court; further still, a holy place; beyond the next wall,' a most holy place. And then, at a sacred center, was the ark of the covenant. Into this holy place only the high priest might enter, and that only once a year. And .not only does sin separate, but Moses wanted to show the people that sin costs God much treasure. Did one man In his anger slay another, leaving children orphans? Well, God had to become the sin-bearer for the murderer. In his providence, the un seen God. raises up friends for the little ones, becoming a father to the fatherless and a husband to the widow. To. make these newly-emancipated slaves under stand that sin costs God and man much treasure, Moses made the transgressor bring his most precious liquor, oil - or wine, his most precious grain, that also upon which he lived, the lamb or the goat, and soon, through these symbols, they climbed in thought Bp toward God. Did Moses' kindergarten system of sym bols hold power to transform slaves and savages? Let history answer. How wise this judge named Samuel! How marvel ous this sweet singer, David! What emi nence belongs to Solomon, the scholar! How noble this company of prophets and martyrs and Kings! But no man must remain a child forever. The Hebrews ought to have outgrown Moses' system In a hundred years. A scaffolding is use ful in Its place, but when the house is done, the scaffolding ought to be taken away. When Michael Angelo was deco rating the SIstlne Chapel, the scaffolding filled the entire room. When the artist had completed those marvelous seraphs and the Judgment scene, he intended to have the scaffolding., come down. What if the scaffolding of Michael Angelo had been kept In the Slstine Chapel for the last BOO years? It would have been no more foolish than for these old Hebrews, who kept their slaying of lambs and kids long after their symbolic use had been fulfilled. Consider the peril of false converva tlsm. Its characteristic Is reverence for old laws, old customs and old creeds. This spirit prefers old creeds to new ones, old customs and forms to modern ones, old medicines, old tools, old houses for all these the false conservative has great reverence. In its extreme form conserva tism prefers an ox cart that is old to a Pullman palace car that Is new. Many of our' theological faculties are still Jolt ing along n the old two-wheeled cart. They prefer it, not because it is good, but because It Is old. Their reverence for an old creed U like a man's reverence for an old house ot his father's. To be sure, rain la coming through the roof and filling the house with dampness and de cay, and the wall Is beginning to crack. Nevertheless, It is too sacred to touch. No carpenter must profane this roof by nalling on a new shingle. No artist must restore this celling that has been dimmed by dampness and rain. No unholy hands must repair this hole in the floor. It is not given to men to conserve the truth; what the truth asks for is not defense, but discussion. The conservative Is in error in June because God U splitting the bark without, because the tree is growing within. But the true conservative .Is one who Is willing to destroy what is outgrown. There Is also a radicalism that is false, impractical and untrue. Every genera tion holds a few progressives, who love destruction for its own sake. They are always going around with an ax, looking for something that they can chop down. They are leaders, if leaders tbey can be called at all, who are so far In advance that they themselves become lost. If they ever blaze any path In the wilder ness, It is so long before the people come up with them that the blazed trail is overgrown with weeds, and is as if It were not. In politics we see It In a man like Tolstoi, with his strange attempt to be a peasant, yet keeping his palace, mingling the old patrician thought with the peasant life, entertaining his guests with cold bird and champagne, while he drinks water and eats rye bread. Today he stands aloof until his influence is part ly lost, when he should be the great lead er. In religion we see a man like Colonel Ingersoll, one of the half score of the inspirational orators the country has ever seen. Wrhen he saw that the apple tree planted by Moses was a wild thorn apple, and that there were many cater pillars' nests" In the boughs, this patriot took an ax and, because he loved his fel lows, he said: "Let us chop this wild thorn apple down, and sow the ground with salt." By that method you, can never have an orchard.' To get the juicy fruit we must take the wild tree that we have. Slowly the husbandman, enriches the soil. Slowly he prunes the boughs, carefully be puts in the grafts. Little by little the sour becomes the sweet. We need the sharp knife with which to prune away the false growths, but we need also the conserving hand that grows the spiced fruit.' Oh, what losses the world has suffered through the mistakes of Its false conservatives! Not less grievous, we must confess, are the losses occasioned through its mistaken radicals. In con trast with both forms, of fragments ry Ufe and thought, how sublime the figure of Jesus Christ standing forth, at once the Ideal progressive, the ideal conserva tive, in all his labors in the earth. NBWEI.A, DWIGHT HILLI3. A Prayer in Defeat. Arthur Stringer In the Smart Set. Still hurl me back. God. if thou must! Thy wrath, see. I shall bear I have been taught to know the d-uat Of battle, and despair. Bend not to me this hour, O God, Where I defeated stand; I have been schooled to bear thy rod. And still wait, not unmanned! But should some, white hour of suceess Sweep me where, vine-like, lead The widening roads, the clamoring press Then I thy lash shall need! Then, in that houor of triumph keen. For then I ask thine aid; God of the weak, on whom I lean. Keep me then unafraid! - Hostile. Mcggendorfer Blatter. Poet (to editor) The poem I wis to submit to you was the product of a sleepless night. ' Editor Yes, night is no man's friend. GIVING NEWS OF SAN FRANCISCO DISASTER TO LIGHTSHIP OFF CAPE MENDOCINO rr. I - " i ' ' k . L L 1 - St,': r r. s PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN OJf BOARD THE STEAMER F. A. KILBCRN. The news of the San Francisco disaster was given to the lightship off Cape 'Mendocino In tain Merriam of the steamer F. A. Kuburn. by Cap- Captain Merriam rsn close to the lightship and threw a stick to which was fastened a copy of a newspaper containing the first . account of 'the disaster Into a snfall boat sent out from the light--ship. The llghtihip Is stationed far from shore and only occasionally those on board have the advantage of cummunic ac tion with the outside world. . " J,, j 1 J ; novel