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PART FODR PAGES 37 TO 48 VOL,. XXV. PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, AUGUST 19, 1906. NO. 33. or1. ! ii - 4 . '-. 1 3 I V'- 1 J 1 UIYtsrsoTM' hi v The largest and best assortment of Library Tables ia Oregron ; this one $12.50 m J if Solid Oak Extension ii?TabIe, - $12.50 Same, square top, with heavy rim, $10.00 Others as low as $5.00. Iron and Brass Bedsteads, special, $9.50 Others as low as $3.50 ft I Solid Oak polished or Mahogany and Birch, top 20x24, $2.50 Brass feet, $3.00 White Maple, Golden Ash, Imitation Mahogany Dresser, swell-top drawers, $15.00 Or in Golden Fir, $10.00 Golden Oak or Birch, special large Rocker, $2.50 CREDIT FOR EVERYONE MAKE YOUR OWN TERMS Oregon's Prosperous Condition Makes Great Demand lor New CONSULT WITH WILLIAM GADSBY & SONS The acknowledged . prosperous conditions existing every where in Oregon, and the assured promise for an unprece dented Fall season, led us to lay in the most exensive stock in. the history of our career. 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Five-Piece Parlor Suit Parlor Suit, 5 pieces, beautifully finished in rich dark mahogany, up holstered in verona; regular price, $45.00; sale price ...... .$27.50 TT11 T A f-i'-n Tl C TL.in aTl 1 it ' . -1 V W- M GADSBY: & SOWS THE HOUSEFURNISHERS Corner First and Washington In the Religious World The International Sunday School Lesson for Aug. 19, "The Judge, the Pharisee and ithe Publican." BY WILLIAM T. ELLI9. BEFORC the race had a written liter ature, its history and poetry and philosophy were handed down, by word of mouth, In story form. Still the story survives as the most effective method of instruction. The peerless Teacher, of whom It was said "Never man spake like this man," made constant use of stories as vehicles of great truths. Two of these stories, or parables, are the present Sunday school lesson. One tells of the unjust Judge, who would not adjudicate a poor widow's case fairly, until by her continual coming she wea ried him into granting her rights. The other is the familiar story of the proud Pharisee who made a publlo prayer that only cloaked hia own boastfulness, and of the humble publican, who, abashed, could only cry, "God be merciful to me a sinner." Both stories teach funda mental principles of prevailing prayer. "Sticking Everlastingly at It." Press any figure of speech too far and It becomes useless. This parable of the Judge and the widow does not apply in all particulars; for God Is not an unjust Judge. Jesus did not mean to compare h! Father with the judge in the story, but to con t rant him. The parable has one point, and one only: the need of im portunity in prayer. This was the iesson of the incident of the Syro-Phoenlcian woman. It was the teaching to the dis ciples that followed immediately after the giving of the Model Prayer, as il lustrated by the story of the man In need of bread who came to his friend at midnight. Perseverance prevails In prayer, as in everything else. The man who seeks the hand of a woman in mar riage generally wins her eventually, if he wants her eagerly enough to keep on with his suit, despite all re fusals and obstacles. All barriers at last fall before the resolute soul. Even God will not withhold desirable gifts from the heart that will not let go until it secures Its boon. This does not mean that the Father in heaven is a grudging giver; far from it. As Phillips Brooks said: "Prayer Is not ; the conquering of God's reluct ance, but the taking hold of his will ingness." He wants to bestow his bounty; but he loves the recipient so greatly that he desires for him the spirit that is better than any material gift. The asking attitude on the part of the Christian is more to be coveted than the particular boon desired. Therefore they have not learned to pray aright who have not learned to "pray without ceasing.". No prayer is unanswered so long as one keeps on praying. Sometimes, like the perse cuted Jews in Russia, men cry, "How long, O Lord! How long!" until their spirits stagger from faintness; but "shall not God avenge his elect, which cry to him day and night?" His ways are not man's ways, and his thoughts not man's thoughts. In his own time he will fulfill his word, as he always has in the past. A Deep Question. l - San Francisco is rising from Its ruins, not because the continent has rushed relief trains by the hundred,, but because in the hearts of the peo ple of the city dwells a dauntless faith. The swift work of rehabilitation that Is now under way is a monument to faith. The almost delphlc question with which Jesus concluded his para ble of the unjust judge is, "Howbelt, when the Son of Man cometh. shall be And faith on the earth?' That Is wha,t God is ever looking for faith; faith that holds out and holds on; faith that lives, despite falling walls and crashing disaster and im penetrable midnight. " One cannot read the New Testament without being struck by the constant recurrence of the doctrine of the supremacy of faith. "The Just shall live by faith." "Who soever belleveth on him. hath eternal life.'" It is not wealth, or .position, or brilliance, or knowledge, or Ingenu ity, or power that wins- the favor of Iveaven, but faith, which is as possi ble to the poor man in his poverty as to the wise man in his study. Like the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, the subject is one that expands and rami fies as one goes into it; a little thought will show that it is faith in man, faith in truth, faith in laws, that makes the world a- livable place. The Man Wlio Brags of His Religion. The blunt Man In the White House is not so plain of speech as was the simple Rabbi from Galilee, unprotect ed by any place of power, who con fronted the vested interests of his time, and the most powerful classes, with stinging words of scorn and rep robation. The dominant men in Jewry were the Pharisees, yet they were the people upon whom Jesus oftenest poured out the vials of bis comdemna tlon. This parable of the Pharisee and the publican is simply a terrific arraignment of the pompous Phari sees and their pride, as displayed even in prayer. ( A reader marvels at Christ's con stant condemnation of the ultra-religious class of his day. He was severe upon them without measure, for the simple reason that they possessed the form of godliness, but denied the pow er thereof. Like all hypocrites, they barred the door into the kingdom to others who might enter. They were offenders against righteousness in that they made virtue repugnant to men of sound, mind. While preserving the pose and appurtenances and forms of religion, they were utterly deficient In Its fundamental spirit. So degenerate had they become, spiritually, that they even boasted of their goodness. They were self-satisfied, censorious of oth ers, and churchly aristocrats. . When the man in the story struck an attitude. In proud ostentation, in a con sricuous place in the Temple and began to brag to the I.ord of his excellencies, he really, technically, spoke the truth. He had the particular merits he claimed for himsejf. Certainly he has a well-developed formal religion. In this "verily, he had his reward," for his religiosity was to be seen of all men. But he had not the religion which Jehovah desired. It was a new heart he needed. A few weeks ago a California man met with an automobile accident, after which the sur geons performed the remarkable feat of taking out his pulsating heart and cleans ing it of sand and dirt. That was the need of the Pharisee, as, indeed, it is of most of us a cleansed heart, made new. Pharisaism is the peril of the Christian. He is in constant danger of becoming aware of his own goodness, and of taVlng pride therein. He unconsciously begins to compare himself with others, and to feel his superiority in which case, may God have mercy upon him, and give him a sharp awakening. For nothing is fur ther removed from the spirit of Jesus than a sense of self-righteousness. They who have advanced farther in the like ness of their Lord best know themselves to be only sinners, saved by grace. The Poor Publican. Like the Incident of the thief on the cross, this story of the despised taxgath erer, to whom the Pharisee had pointed In contempt, who did not no much as lift his eyes, unto heaven, but, smiting his breast in contrition, cried, "God be merci ful to me a sinner!" has been the com fort of countless sln-smltten spirits. The publican's very name was a synonym for the outcast and undeserving, yet he, Jesus declared, had prayed acceptably, rather than the proud Pharisee. The penitent had that first requisite of a successful prayer, a sense of need. As the old hymu expressed it: "Let not conscience make you linger. Nor of fitness fondly dream; All the fitness he requlreth Is to feel your need of him." The divine paradox Is that the sincerely Belf-abased are exalted by God. In the words of the Master, "Everyone that ex alteth himself sha,!l be humbled, but he that humbleth himself shall be exalted." The swiftest prayer to reach the ear of God is the ever-ascending cry, "God be merciful to me a sinner." "Two went to pray; or rather say One went to brag, the other to pray; One stands up close, and treads on high. Where the other dares not send his eye. One nearer to the altar trod. The other to the altar's God." Man Who Is Good,and Knows It Terse Comment Upon the Uniform Praycrmeetlng Topic. THERE is a time for soft words, and there Is a time for hard words that sting and bruise. No sufficient teacher of men can drool honev all the time. It is a failure and an offense on the part of a watchman to cry, "All's well," when fires are smoldering and breaking out. It is not to be forgotten that the gentle Jesus meek and lowly Son of God, was the author of the most terrific philippics that ever fell from the Hps of reformer or preacher. These latter, significantly enough, were chiefly directed against the most correct and aristocratic and power ful religious class of his time. . Passing by the courage required to ar ray himself against the entrenched ec clesiastical leadership of the day, it ia to be remarked as noteworthy that Jesus picked out for special reprobation those who considered themselves, and were by others considered, the ultra - righteous members of the community. Why did he not join with the Pharisees in assail ing the publicans and the rabble, which the former counted accursed? The an swer Is to be found in the old word, "Man looketh on the outward appear ance, but God looketh upon the heart." The keen-eyed Christ saw that these phy lacterled Pharisees, with their xeal for ritual and ceremony, were "whlted gepul chers," full of foulness within. Pharisaism Is the special temptation of the good. One who is aware of bis own virtues can hardly refrain from pluming himself upon them. The church, In her rectitude, is constantly in danger of drift ing into a position of arrogance and In tolerance and self-righteousness, and away from a consciousness oT her unde serving and her utter dependence upon the mercy of God. The sin of hypocrisy lurks ever outside of her door. Her greal fear, night and day, should be that her master's condemnation of the . Pharisee should by him be applied to her. A man may have the highest-priced pew In the most arlstocratlo church in town, his name may lead all public subscrip tions and be borne by many memorials, but If he be not-a sincere, meek and trustful euppliant at the throne of God, and abased by a sense of his own sinful ness, all the rest counts but as wood, hay and stubble In a great conflagration. One thing Christianity requires, ' and that Is truth in the inward parts. In ward intention and Integrity are the tests, and not outward observance of forms. Church membership counts nothing with God. Ecclesiastical prominence does not affect his Judgments. Activity in the most approved, and fashionable religious circles has no special weight with him. He demands heart-genuineness and hu mility. Without these, nothing else counts. , ... Pride in the heart is worse than out ward' sin; the latter may spring from ig norance or sudden temptation; the for mer is a spiritual state, a canker at the root of the tree. . The Pharisee Is religious for man's eyes; the true "Christian lives for "the Father which seeth In secret." . . Pharisaism cares more for what men say than for what God thinks. .... The Pharisee's religion was not of the heart, but of the habit. '. . . Not posing but penitence, prevails with God. Seven-Sentence Sermons. Nature Is but a name for an efTect whose cause is God. Cowper. It is to live twice, when you ran enjoy the recollection of your former life. Mar tial. No man can be brave who considers pain the chief evil of life. The Heroine of the Strait. The problem of life Is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger. David Starr Jordan. Character must stand behind and back up everything the sermon, the poem,- the picture. None of them Is worth a straw without it. J. G. Holland. Only from the polid ground of some clear creed have men done good, strong work in the world: only out of certainty comes power. Phillips Brown. A man can get nothing good out of his soul when it is the slave of the body, and nothing good out of the body unless It is the servant of the soul. Charles F. t'ee vers, D. D. A Sana; ef Decrees. New York Sun.' We show In simple manner. And with a hope to plue, The work which ie expected Ot those who hold decrees. Through four long years of study Athletics prove t'iie key. With drafts on fatner's check book To gea glad A. B. Next state, the honorary. Is made both wide and free; Few men who gain distinction Escape the LL. D. But mornlnir. noon and evening The hardest work we see Is keeping dally hustling To hold I J. O. 6, i