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PART FOUR
PAGES 37 TO 48
VOL. XXV.
PORTLAND, OREGON. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1906.
NO. 22.
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God's Providence and Man's Lif
Sermon Written for the Sunday Oregonian by Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis,
Pastor of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
WHEN YOU START OUT
TO BUY FURNITURE, CARPETS AND OTHER HOME FURNISHINGS
THE THOUGHT UPPERMOST IN YOUR MIND IS TO GET THE BEST POSSIBLE VALUE FOR YOUR MONEY. THAT'S
NATURAL AND IT IS ON THAT BASIS THAT WE ASK YOU TO INSPECT OUR OFFERINGS. WE ARE CONFIDENT
OF OUR POSITION; WE KNOW OUR STYLES, QUALITY AND ASSORTMENTS ARE FAR SUPERIOR TO THOSE SHOWN '
ELSEWHERE AND THAT OUR PRICES ARE LOWEST IS A "FACT-SO CLEARLY IN EVIDENCE AS TO LEAVE NO
ROOM FOR ARGUMENT ON THAT POINT. BUT COME INVESTIGATE COMPARE AND. JUDGE FOR YOURSELF.
GADSBY SELLS FOR LESS. " ' '
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LEATHER
UPHOLSTERED
FURNITURE
Of all classes of uphol
stered furniture, there
is none that afford
such "solid comfort and
Is so well adapted to
continual and severe
usage as Is standard
leather upholstered fur
niture. Among? the many
new furniture pieces
which, within the past
few days, have been
added to our display of.
high-grade furniture
are such pieces In leath
er that combine In their
construction, splendid
design, thorough work
manship and the very
best materia.
Porch
Rockers
and
Chairs
We have the finest Hue this
season In the city. This one,
made of hard maple, finished
light or forest green; special
ERDICT
$3.50
MAJVVTie RANM9 SOLO IN ALL OP THE ABOVE COUNTHItt,'
Full Size Metal Bed The Great Majestic Range
Leader
Range
All Are Guaranteed for Tea Tears.
LEADER RANGE, with high closet and
duplex grate, spring balanced oven
doors. This is a heavy, substantial
and durable range, made of the best
quality cold-rolled steel, adapted for
coal or wood; oven thoroughly braced
and bolted; asbestos lined through
out; elaborately nickel trimmed; sec
tion plate top. GaJsbys' special
Price $27.50
BEDDING
This Is one of the handsomest designs in
an enameled metal bed we have shown
this season.. It has massive posts, em
bellished with massive design chills in
a variety of popular color combina
tions: an exceptional value offering,
worth 810.00, special price ST.SO
This Handsome Parlor Suit
$5.00 Cash, $1.00 a Week
This is a Parlor Suit that we can heartily recommend to our patrons. It
is a new and exquisite design, in rich mahogany finish, and is hand
carved in the highest style of art. The covering is of imported Verona
velours, upholstered on oil-tempered steel spring dQQ 7C
well worth $40.00. Price on above, easy terms only PdO I J
Gadsbys' Extension Table
SPECIAL
This handsome pedestal Ex
tension Table is offered at
this extremely low price
that we may demonstrate to
the buying public our abil
ity to undersell any furni
ture institution In the city.
It Is solid oak throughout,
hand rubbed and highly pol
ished, has 42-lnch top and
extends six feet. Special at
our store C17.5U
Terms 82. 50 cash; fl.OU
weekly.
i , WM
GADSBY
SONS
Washington Street, Corner First The Store. That Sells for Less
Everything to Furnish Cottage or Mansion in Stock. Majestic Ranges, Washing Machines, Refrigerators, Go-Carts
!OT CHEAPEST. BUT LEAST EXPENSIVE..
Requires ' fewer repairs, uses less fuel, bakes perfectly and
gives abundant hot water. , -
The oven .Is absolutely air-tight; , heat can: be applied as
needed. . . 1 '
"Water-front is separate from oven so' water cannot affect
temperature.
Patent anti-cllnker grate Is suitable for either wood or coat.
Firebox is beavier than that of any other range on the mar
ket. The Majestic has the only oven bottom which can be guaran
teed against warping.
All exposed parts are of malleable iron guaranteed not to
break under any circumstances.
Wt will take your Old Stove and nllow yon all It Is worth
part pnyment for a Mew One.
We have greatly enlarged our Bedding Department and offer
the finest selection of high-grade Bedding to be found in the
city.
WE GUARANTEE SATISFACTION
And with
vary HEUDI(i it in Dossible to purchase, at prices as reas
onable as is consistent with quality. We use only the purest and
best materials In the construction of all our Springs and Mat
iresses and emplov the most skilled labor. Every Spring and
Mattress is made up to order, clean and fresh, and i carefully
. Inspected and passed on before delivery. .
th our long experience and careful study of the subject
e td give you the MOST COMKOBTABLB AND SEM-
Great Specials in
Carpets and Rugs
Royal Brussels Rugs, 9x12 $20. OO
Imperial Pro Brussels, 9x12 $12.00
Ingrain Rugs, 9x12 , T . $10.80
Smaller Rugs in proportion.
Bromley's Velvets, with borders $1.15
Burlington Brussels, with borders $l.lO
Tapestry Brussels, with borders $1.05
Dunlap's Tapestry Brussels O0
Reversible Pro Brussels 95y
Brusseletta Carpet, s-yard wide 5a
Granite Ingrain Carpets 45
GO-CART
This elegant and graceful Go-Cart Is
the proper style for rhe coming sea
sonmade with full reed body, uphol
stered In assorted colors; the parasol
is of mercerized satin, ruffled edge
and adjustable automatic brake, rub
ber tire wheels, enameled gear. The
footboard and back can be adjusted
as desired. Push rods are made of
iron with neatlv turned handles
at - S1Z.75
S2.50 cash: 81.00 weekly.
Folding Go-Carts, like
cut, $2.75.
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Text "Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow; they toll not, they spin not."
In all ages scholars have cherished the
thought that Individual journeys forwad
under the care of ari infinite God. In
the realm of Nature, men have noticed
that the largest planet and the smallest
grain of sand are alike led forward by a
force named gravity, and held by a hand
that never allows the smallest speck of
dust to wander from Its place. And In
such a world, for reflective minds, it has
seemed to lay too great a task upon
credulity to ask the intellect to believe
that the soul is an orb that wanders
wildly through space, without an ap
pointed orbit, or a divine and controlling
sun. Looking upward, man beholds the
snowflake, fashioned after the most ex
quisite pattern, and looking downward,
he finds that no flower petal falls with
out Nature's notice, and, taught by these
events, he learns to associate these great
Incidents named the falling of an apple
In Newton's garden, the sailing of a
Mayflower from the shores of Holland
the prayer of some Washington at Val
ley Forge, or the death of some mar
tyred Lincoln In the Nation's capital, with
the thoughts of an infinite God, beyond
the circle of whose thought no blossom's
foot maly ever wander. So careful is Na
ture of dead things that those masses of
vapor named clouds are all shepherded
home by the night winds.
God Cares for Man.
And shall man, who "suffers countless
Ills, who battles for the true and Just,"
be bound by fate and chance? Shall mat
ter and force use the soul for a lifelong
game of battledore and shuttlecock? Shall
man. Nature's last work, who weeps, and
prays, - who sings, who rolls the psalms
of wintry skies.
Who build, him fanes of holy prayer.
Who truats that God waa love indeed.
And lov. creatlonV final law.
Be blown about the deaert'a dust.
Or aealed within the Iron hlll.T
Rude and savage men may support the
thought that there Is no place for them
in God's loving regard, but the great in
tellects of the earth have felt no sur
prise that King Lear should suffer a
broken heart and ruined mind because he
had ceased to be cared for by his own
daughters. But If man, with his three
score years and ten, filled with labor, and
humility and sorrow, is simply the child
of night, wandering aimlessly through
the forests, then the brightest day is
darkness, all muslo Is a dirge, all flow
ers are black, death Is the only good, and
hope passes under a perpetual eclipse.
Contrariwise, the thought that God's
providence Is personal has armed man
against many emergencies and been a
panoply against a thousand ills. All the
heroes who have stained the battlefields
with their blood, and won our victories
for religion, have survived their disasters
through the faith that God's providence
Is a golden chain that binds each life to
a throne that is sure and Immovable. To
the exile, wandering upon lae mountains,
to the patriot, lying In his dungeon, the
thought of God's providence has come
with all the warmth of a Winter's fire
and all the welcome of a dear friend. And
beside each fountain of bitterness tne
thought of God's care has planted some
living tree. In life's darkest hour It has
unveiled some star of hope. Indeed, it Is
the thought that God lives and loves and
plans, that lends consideration to the
dreams and the chivalrous hopes of
youth; that lends enduring strength to
the strong men who bear life's burdens,
while this thought also sustains men
grown old with care, in the hour when
they sit upon the western piazza and wait
for the sunset gun. Perhaps we may be
permitted to doubt whether any other
thought has wrought so powerfully for
liberty or heroism or religion. In the
faith that God reigns, and shall reign
forevermore, the heroes and the patriots
have gone dry-shod across all seas,
turned stones to angels' bread, made the
desert rocks to fall In cooling streams,
found every mountain smoking In God's
presence, and every hill of difficulty
bright with the lightning of his command
and purpose. He who believes that God
cares for man has a right to "see the
best clamoring through the worst; to feel
the sun's warmth piercing through tne
thickest cloud: to taste the fruit before
the blossom falls, and hear the song
within the lifeless egg"; and In the prat
tle of a child discern the foregleams of
the wisdom of the sage and seer, r or
the soul that is made In God's image,
those events named a cradle, the mar
riage altar, a voyage, a friendship, a sig
nal from the battlements, making ready
for death, represent events so momen
tous as to Justify the entrance of a su
preme God into the midst of the earthly
scene.
The Enemy Become tlie Friend.
Fortunately the attempt to destroy
God's providence in Nature and life has
ended by science creating arguments to
establish that which it once tried to over
throw, for the world material la big with
testimony and the laws of Gsjd ara, writ
ten all over those scrolls named land
and sea and sky. For if science has
taught us anyfhlng, it teaches that the
Intellect is Justified In chertehlng the be
lief that there is a pilot who directs the
souV In Its long voyage across the ages;
that there Is a divine guide who leads
the pilgrim In his march from that shore
named birth, across the plains and moun
tains and rivers and deserts to that shore
named death. If 30 years ago the doc
trine of God's personal care was a vine
upon whose clusters the teachings of
science fell like a withering force, . now
the teachings;, fall like nourishing rain
and cooling dew from heavens that are
Indeed benignant. At 'last' the' time has
come when the God of Nations, whose
presence at Runnymede and Marston
Moor seemed plainly manifest to Tenny
son, is discerned by the great poet as
one who is present also to note the spar
row's fall and to regard the lilies and
to hear his children's cry. He who once
was manifest In such events as the earth
quake and the Are and the battle has
been unveiled as that one In whose pres
ence the generations dwell as in the
midst of an all-encircling air, and an all
surrounding Summer. For science- and
faith alike unveil God as one whose light
divine doth ever fall upon life's darkest
clouds. If now we pass through Christ's
statement of the doctrine of God's lov
ing providence, we find that statement
Includes three great thoughts. First, he
afTlrms a general providence . over Na
ture and the framework of his universe.
God will support the sun In his place and
ordain the movement of the clouds and
winds; seed time and harvest shall not
fall, and the bow of hope ever stands in
the Fast. Also, this watchful care over
physical nature Bhall extend to men, good
and bad, to the high and the low, In
that the sun shall shine on the evil and
the good, and the rain fall on the Just
and the unjust. And science has estab
lished this uniform upholdlngs of Na
ture and her laws that make harvests by
the omnipotent hand of God. Measured
In periods of 20 years. It Is found that
the rainfall and the average warmth of
Summer and the average richness of har
vests varies scarcely at all. Thus far.
there Is a unity between the scientist and
the statement of Christ. Then, as match
ing Oils general providence over .the
forces of Nature. Christ declares that
God will maintain a specific equipment
in the Individual within. That Is, re
lated to Nature and her forces without.
He uses the grass and the Illy and the
sparrow to interpret his thought. He
says that God has given the lily the
equipment that enables It to supply all
Its wants. But the lily Is not clothed
by a miracle. The sunbeam comes in
the morning and whispers. ''Little flower,
wake up! The morning has come. God
has sent the sun, and last night he sent
the rain and the cooling dews. There Is
food also In the soil. The sun father has
written your name on the palm of his
hand. He has a beautiful dream for you.
You need not worry, about your food, or
your drink, or your warmth, for he will
maintain his forces In Nature, and he haa
givm you an equipment for your task.
Every morning you must waken early
and pump sap. evern noon you must be
alert and untwist the sunbeam and ex
tract your tints of gold and red. EveYy
night you must refine your perfumes In
the laboratory that God has made for
you. You may not be able to sing like
the bird, but you can make your perfume
to be a kind of floral nightingale. Do
not worry. God's care to maintain your
equipment within matches his care over
the sun and the clouds without." And
ultimately this thought is to expel the
Joylcssness and somberness that some
times creeps over society. Men are learn
ing that all things work together for
good. . ..
Our earth holds no truth so practical
as this God. cares for me. It energizes
every faculty, calms every purpose, lends
trength through tranquility. Since God's
providence Is over man, he' can bear up
against every ill, rejoice midst adversity
and conquer midst defeat. The classics
tell of a royal exile. The Grecian King
sent his young son, the heir apparent,
from the palace. In the care of a servant
the child grew up In a distant village.
Wrestling with adversity, inured to hard
ship and daily toll, the boy grew strong.
One day. he chanced upon armorial bear
ings and the insignia of royalty. Soon
suspicions became certainties. The con
sciousness of his royalty, and that he
was beloved of the King, fell upon his
heart like a flood of sunshine. He saw
that his father's care, unrecognized at
the time, ran like a golden thread through
the years. That thought lent his feet
wings, lent his heart hope, redeemed his
days from drudgery, became a golden key
unlocking the treasures of happiness. In
the midst of obscurity and drudgery, the
youth walked victorious. Ignoble with
out, he wore a crown within. The soul
Is an exile. Discrowned, the child of
drudgery, oft enthralled here, it is also
the heir of a kingdom beyond. Here
midst life's troubles, the soul enters into
victory when the thought comes, God
cares for me. In that faith men have
subdued kingdoms, quenched the violence
of fire, escaped the edge of the sword.
kconnuered when wandering in the deserts
and in mountains and in dens and caves
of the earth. In his poverty, Bernard
said; "God cares for me," and his heart
rose like a bird's. "God cares for me."
said Francis of Asslni, and his garret
widened Into a king's palace. "God cares
for me." said Xavier. falling through
weakness in the Jungle of India, and lo!
every bush burned with God's presence.
"God cares for me," said McDonald:
"therefore I cannot be too poor." "God
cares for me." said the Apostle John, ex
iled to Patmos and weary with the weight
of fourscore years; "therefore I cannot
live too long." "God cares for me." said
John Hubs; "therefore I cannot die too
soon." In the consciousness that Goti
cares for men, heroes have achieved their
heroism and climbed so high that men.
admiring, would fain pluck the very stars
from the sky to make diadems for these
heroes of liberty and religion.
NEWELL DWIGHT HILLIS.
Lewis and Clark Fair's First Anniversary
Beautiful Grounds Once Thronged ly Exposition Crowds Are Soon
to Be Turned Into a Hive of Industry.
FRIDAY was the first anniversary of
the opening of the Lewis and Clark
Fair.
One year ago 100,000 people In this city
focused their attention on the resplendent
Fair Grounds, Into which poured a steady
stream of humanity, and dreamed dreams
of profit from the Incoming throng.
A state and nation combined with this
enterprising city to prepare a show that
might' dazzle the local multitude and
please the oldest globe-trotter.
Zip! Up went the flags! Loud screeched
the orators. Click went the turnstiles,
and the exposition race was in full cry.
As I stood at the crossroads there to
day, contemplating the tattered remains
of an American flag that floated over a
corner Just without the grand entrance,
I reflected that all who hoped for gain
had not realized their expectations on the
minute, but we shall gain Immeasurably
In the end, for Portland and Oregon are,
at least, now on the map In every geogra
phy that Is used by Amerlcan'cltlzens in
any American office or any American
home In the land.
Those crossroads where you get off the
car to Jump Into Guild Lake, or to go
dotfn the Llnnton road to Clalrmont. are
pasture now. Row of nailed-up shutters,
a sign "A Gall," "Hotel Falrmount."
"The Outside Inn," make you feel almost
Inside out and weepy with memories.
Some made, and some lost, but It was a
grand spectacle, and we whooped It up,
did we not?
I took from my pocket a note for J231. 83,
a memento of my misplaced confidence In
an exposition accommodation bureau
which claimed to be directed by the ex
position directors and to be backed by a
local banker, but at length paid for my
services with a piece of paper that proves
to have the traditional value of a chattel
mortgage on a flock of pigeons.
As I viewed the remains of the once
hopeful outskirts of the grounds I felt
that I was not alone In my distress.
There are others. And our little losses
are as nothing to some who have come
and gone away In lamentation.
But many profited. The whole affair
was a financial success, and the officers
became proudly famous. Also, Portland
grew several feet In height among her
sisters. As expositions go. and have gone,
since the Centennial, which I saw opened
in 1876. I believe our Lewis and Clark
stunt ranged up rather creditably as an
attraction In the world's confederation.
I hopped off the M car and stepped up to
the ticket office In front of the big gates.
The window was bare, and the little
building looked like a bursting money
chest Its walls were bulging outward.
I entered through the door at the Ad
ministration building. Mr. F. A. Insley
Is In charge now for the Portland Devel
opment Company, which has bought the
80 acres that include everything that once
was the Lewis and Clark Fair with the
exception of two acres alone on which
stand the Forestry building the latter be
longing to Portland.-
All the rest belong to a Seattle man,
Hon. John S. McMlilirt, the head of the
company which has purchased the
ground:.', and plans great things for the
site.
In we passed through the colonnade.
"Westward the course of empire takes Us
way," roared those words on the .frieze.
Just as loudly as they. did twelve months
ago. - .- -.. - .-
It--ls all the same. Nothing Is lacking
but the crowds. The grass Is clipped. Men
are restoring the buildings to their pris
tine whiteness. Paint and whitewash are
blotting out the few splotches of vandal
Ism that Portland permitted at the first
breaking up of the great show.
Here and there are gashes and wounds
inflicted by ruthless electricians when they
ripped out the wires and fixtures' as If It
all were a putty ball to be dissolved in
oblivion the next day.
Ion Lewis was there seeing about put
ting cement foundations under certain
buildings so that they might be secure
permanently against settling. A hundred
workmen were busy fixing up flower beds
mowing the graws along the beautiful
grove toward the west. Hillocks of liny
stood about In pastoral mood. The Ore
gon building had Just received a new coat
of white, and she peers out at you Just as
serenely as on the evening when the
Governor made a speech on the porch.
Although you may see through the roof
of the Foreign Exhibits building, the busy
mechanic Is now at, work reconstructing
the upper portion. Cornices that were
weak and dilapidated are being put to
rights again. The smaller structures are
missed at certain points, but nearly all
the landmarks are there Just as when
Homer Davenport nearly wrung my hand
off in his Iron grip one rainy day in Juno
a year ago when I met him on the way to
his Pheasant farm.
The Trail Is a streak of nothing.
' Stand there and Indulge your imagina
tion If you will.
I shut my eyes and could only see a
trained horse, a "Venice" ballet, a camel
and a picturesque Orients! dancer. I re
membered a beefsteak sandwich that tast
ed of black Japan paint. I remembered a.
menagerie odor. I remembered many
lunches and dinners at Kruse's and the
Little Hungarian restaurant. I remem
bered the chutes, the boats on the lake.
I could hear the spielers.
But bah! That's all gone. T'p on the
hillside. Just below the Trail, where today
you may eat your luncheon as you used
to do when the Exposition was In full
swing, there are most beautiful sites for
residences, and this shrewd company Is
going to sell those sites for that purpose
some day soon, you may be sure.
Look off toward the Willamette hills.
What shades and tints of green! What
shadows and verdure! What lovely homes
and stately residences! What a picture
to any one who does not see it every
day! Could there be a sweeter, more
charming spot on God's universe? I sus
pect there are few quite so perfect and
few spots quite so fortunate as to climate
either. It's nothing that all the deluded
people who possess titles to that land
thereabout, outside or inside the grounds,
hold It at Eiffel-tower prices. They'll have
reason some day, and then the world can
move ahead In Its old. natural way again.
A piece of land Is worth what a person
will -pay for It. Ask your price, and gt
It if you can. Some time or another buyer
and seller get together, through conces
sions on one side or the other. Outsiders
don't care which yields, and the trade es
tablishes a market.
Some young men yesterday wanted to
rent the Oregon building for a clubhouse.
Many are the offers from business houses
to establish factories in various lines
within the Fair buildings. I looked out
over the broad expanse and contemplated
again the fine outlines of the Government
building. Some one proposes to make it
over into a gigantic dairy.
Oh. you beautiful arsenal! Oh. you nice
big thing, that cost so much money and
hfld cute little fishes and wonderful Gov
ernment relics and exhibits! shall they .
be allowed to turn you Into a buttery?
O tempore! O mores! I'm going back,
back., back to Baltimore.
I cannot Imagine a pieasanter run for
an afternoon than a trip to the Fair
grounds.' The foliage Is abundant In the
woods. The swards are inviting. The men
who own the- place make you welcome.
There Is an evidence that courts trust that
these people from the busy Northland are
bound to make a tremendous beehive of
Industry out of what for a little while
was the neglected remains of our mag
nificent Exposition grounds.
What a year ago was an immense, soul
llfting pageant, a triumphal argosy of the
wide world's products, and what yester
day was almost a funeral pyre, will to
morrow, as it were, be a thriving settle
ment of manufacturers, surrounded by a
unique flood of Nature's beauties.
A. H, BALLARD.