PART THREE
PAGES 33 TO 48
VOL. XXV.
Portland; Oregon, sunday morning, September 23, 1906.
NO. 38.
A Man and His Mission
The International Sunday-School Lesson for
September 23 Is the Quarterly Review.
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f9y ftSrsrW S rin oot rests swing-off top and urn are
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Raise your expectations highlook to us for the most remarkable values in dependable
furniture and carpets ever offered in this city rely upon us to save you more money on
your fall purchases than ever before. Our new fall stock surpasses anything we have
heretofore attempted. In magnitude in variety in beauty of design in sterling quality
nothing like it. has ever been,seen in the city. Here are some striking examples of the
savings this store offers. Remember, your credit, as usual, is good.
LEADER RANGE
Cabinet Folding Bed, in solid oaTt, including
springs; regular $25.00; special for this
week $21.00
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 solid rolle'd steel, adapted
for coal or wood"; asbestos lined
throughout ; elaborately nickel
trimmed ; section plate top. Gads
bys' special price $27.50
"THE DAISY"
AIR-TIGHT HEATER
FOR WOOD
This is the most satisfactory sheet
top wood air-tight Jieating stove we
have ever handled, a particular fea
ture being the small lighting-door, by
means of which the fire can be lighted
without soiling the hands or clothing.
The Daisy has screw damper, hiiffjed
cover, cast pipe collar and nickeled
urn. It has sheet top, Russia iron
body, and is lined with heavy sheet
iron. Sizes and prices are as follows:
No. 180 Lined, price $6 .50
No. 120 Lined, price ..$7.75
No. 122 Lined, price $8.50
LEATHER UPHOLSTERED
FURNITURE
Of all classes of upholstered furniture,
there Is none that affords such solid com
fort and Is so well adapted to continual
and severe usage as is standard leather
upholstered furniture. 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 leather that combine In their
construction, splendid design, thorough
workmanship and the very best materials.
We have a large assortment of these
Rockers. Prices from $35 up.
GADSBYS' FIVE-PIECE PARLOR SUIT $35.00
This beautiful suit is superb both in quality and appearance. It consists of five mas
sive pieces, upholstered in beautiful tapestry and velour. - The frame is piano-poU
ished mahoganized birch, and the filling and springs are unsurpassed. The most
attractive suit that you can put info your house for the price; Gadsbys'. . $35.00
"We have pretty three-piece suits as low as . $17.50
SPEC'LS IN CARPETS
AND RUGS
Royal Brussels Rugs,
9x12 ...$20.00
Imperial Pro-Brussels,
9x12 $15.00
Ingrain Rugs, 9x12. . .$10.80
Smaller Rugs in Proportion.
Bromley's Velvets, with
borders $1.25
Burlington Brussels, with
borders $1.10
Tapestry Brussels, with
borders $1.05
Dunlap's Tapestry Brus
sels 90
Reversible Pro-Brnssels. ..95
Brusselette Carpet, 3-y&r(l
wide 55
Granite Ingrain Carpets.. 47
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NAPOLEON BEDS
Napoleon Beds, in mahogany and
' quarter-sawed; oak,- beauti
ful creations at $35 to $65
A WORD ON
MISSION FURNITURE
While the origin of this
"Furniture of Simplicity"
dates back to the early days
of Spanish rule in California,
it was brought to its present
height of perfection -and popu
larity by the manufacturers of
the Middle West.
On our floors is shown a most
interesting variety of handsome
pieces, weathered oak, mission
effects, in which the original
purity of design has been care
fully preserved. The chairs and
rockers upholstered in leather,
those with seats of cane, of
rush and of oak, are very beau
tiful in design and represent
some exceptional values.
There are pieces for the dining-room,
for living-rooms, dens
and libraries shown in a wide
variety of quaint and exclusive
designs. Dining Tables, Side
boards, China Closets, Buffets,
Chafing Cabinets, Cellarettes,
Smokers' Cabinets, Foot Rests,
Library Tables, Desks and other
practical pieces are included.
Our display is not excelled
anywhere in the Northwest, and
neither are the values to be
equaled.
This large -full -roll Rattan
Rocker . . $5.00
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BY WILLIAM T. ELLIS.
JOR NINE months past the attention !
of the great company of people who
" comprise the Sunday-schools of the
world has been centered upon the life of
Jesus Chrlat. Next year the interna
tional series returns to the Old Testa
ment. The present les-son is designed as
a review of the studies of the past three
months which were all found within the
last year of the life of Christ.
Men sometimes wonder why it is that
religion has such a grip upon the minds
of the common people. One reason lies
In such facts as that for nine months
past above 13,000,000 persons on the
American continent, most of them in the
impressionable years of youth, have been
studying every week, with more or less
thoroughness, a biography of Jesus a
book written for the avowed purpose of
showing that Jesus 13 the Christ, the very
Son of God
A King Without a Country.
Jesus was crucified as King of the Jews,
but he never reigned over Jewry. One of
his offenses was his cosmopolitan spirit.
The narrow, provincial, bigoted spirit of
his time could forgive a serious offense
more easily than it could that of an
ultra-Jewih patriotism. As slowly as
though they had been of the strictest
sect of the Jews, his disciples were learn
ing what the whole world was yet to
know, that Jesus belongs to no race or
clime, but to all the race of men. The
broadest evangelism of the present day,
with Its watchword, "the world for
Christ." Is more truly in his spirit than
the belief of the Jews or even of the
Puritans, that they alone were the elect
pople, finding a measure of satisfaction
in the contemplation of the fact that the
rest of the world would be shut out of
heaven. Provincialism, narrowness and
aectarlanlsm are foreign to the genius of
the Gospel of Christ.
A King's Friends.
Every study of the life of Christ must
deal largely with his disciples. He was
to be found with them the most of the
time. Their education was part of his
mission. As wo have seen, Jesus does
not mean the same to all disciples, nor
do all disciples mean the same to Jesus.
But if Jesus had few Intimates, he had a
great company of friends. The Instruc
tions given to his disciples are still ap
plicable to every working servant of the
Lord, and Illustrate the truth that in
the King's service are many kinds of ser
vants, and In his heart there Is place
for friends of high degree and low. As
the contending armies in the Bast had
fighting men at the front, and commis
sary and hospital departments at the rear,
so the Kingdom of Christ has a working
place for every friend of his. His dis
ciples suffered under no delusions con
cerning the work they were to do. They
would meet opposition of many sorts
and of much bitterness. That mattered
not. The one consideration that weighed
with them was that they were to bear
witness steadfastly, fearlessly and faith
fully. The friends of Jesus were one of his
trials ; friendship always costs. Jesus
was an Ideal friend; he taught his fol
lowers that true greatness In the king
dom of heaven comes not from place,
but from character and service. Self
seeking Is not the way to rise In th:s
King's service; self-surrender Is.
How to Meet Enemies.
The "Prince of Peace" spent most of
his public life at war. He himself was
the center of tremendous tumult, con
troversy and opposition. He dared to
tell the truth, even new truth, and he
cared not a mustard seed about being;
conventional or popular. As every other
big. strong, fearless man has since
done, he made enemies.
Enemies- must be expected in life;
how shall they be met? Jesus showed
how. First,, he was fearless; he never re
treated from the truth, or proved dis
loyal to his duty. Second, he was firm;
he continued to call hypocrites hypo
crites and false leaders false. There
was no weak silence or compromise
on his pp-rt. Third, he was measurably
Indifferent. He did not let the presence
of enemies interrupt his mission, but
he went right on with his work. Much
opposition dies by . Inattention. And,
then, he kept a soft heart toward all
his foes. The worst injury an enemy
can do one is to incite him to hatred.
Jesus loved his enemies loved them
too well to cease opposing their er
rors and to the end his spirit was,
"Father, forgive them."
The King's Teachings.
These friends of the great king who
trod the hills of Galilee without place
to lay his head, had need of instruc
tion. It is hard for us to be patient
with their stupidity; to us they seem
to have been very dull learners. Yet it
is to be remembered that we look back
upon them from the 20th century, after
the advent of the illuminating spirit.
They were the first to be taught this
wonderful new message which Jesus
came to bring. Nevertheless his In
struction to them is still necessary for
us.
There, was the lesson of prayer
"Lord, teach us to pray," cried the dis
ciples, and in answer he gave them
that model prayer which countless mil
lions since have spoken and which has
taught the race to say "Our Father."
By reiterated parables he showed them
that the father's ear Is always open to
the feeblest cry of the least of his
children. God loves to hear prayer and
the quickest approach to his presence
Is on our knees.
But praying is not all; there must be
watching and working. So Jesus put his
disciples under the shadow of a great
truth that they are to live all their
lives with expectant faces turned
toward God's kingdom. So live and so
watch and so work, was his teaching,
that when the Lord comes you will be
found watching. Eternal vigilance is
the price of spiritual liberty.
A Compelling Love.
The greatest of story tellers was this
king, who had new truths to ut
ter and who clothed them in the
homely form of parables. He wanted the
world to know something of the great
ness of the compelling love of God. Be
lieving that thoy could not grasp it If
treated abstractly, he cast it in the
form of the story of the prodigal son,
whereby a whole legion of wandering
children have learned the precious
truth that "Like as a father pitieth his
children, so the Lord pitieth"; and that
for every wandering, sinning child
there is a straight path back from the
uttermost limits of the far country to
the father's house and the father's for
giveness. The most of what Jesus came
to earth to teach is comprehended in
the parable of the Prodigal Son.
Because of the resurrection of Laza
rus, great crowds acclaimed Jesus as
the Messiah on the road to Jerusalem.
The triumphal entry prefigured the day
when all the world should strew palms
of victory In the path of the feet of the
emancipator of the race, the redeemer
of mankind.
This ovation, whlcTi set overcrowded
Jerusalem agog, did not affect the deep
humility of him who was its object. He
was quite willing before the sound of
the crowd's huzzas had scarcely died
from his ears to do a slave's work of
washing- the feet of his proud and
squabbling- disciples. Disinclination to
serve Is a sign of smallness and not
of greatness. It was a great principle
not a practice, but a principle which
the master laid down when he said:
'T I then, the Lord and the teaoherv
have washed your feet, ye aught alsq
to wash one another's feet."
Three Types of Men,
In the lesson of the unjust Judge, th
Pharisee and the Publican, Jesus scores
hypocrisy. Readiness to face all the facta
is the first mark of a strong character..
Jesus suffered no delusions concerning
humanity or himself. "He knew what was
In man."
Hypocrites are a fact. There; !s no usa
in trying to minimize them or to explain
them away. They exist and always have
existed and will exist so long as it is to
the advantage of the bad to imitate tha
good. It Is a mistake to assume tbafl
hypocrites are confined exclusively to
religion. There are more of them out
side the church than in It Every calling
has them and every circle of society.
A universal and unfailing rule by whielt
a false prophet may be discovered, and
any life Judged, is laid down by the wise
teacher: "By their fruits ye shall know
them." Look at a life in the large, and
what is its harvest? Is the sum total of
its Influence good or bad? Has Its weight
fallen on the side of service or of selfish
ness, in the scale of years? Is a man
looking out for himself, has he an "eye
ior tne main choice, or Is ho seeking to
spend his powers In human helpfulness?
What, in the long run. Is a man after?
Of what character Is his most coveted
goal? That is the true test.
In the long run almost every life is
correctly estimated. You may be slan
dered or unduly flattered for a time;
men may praise or condemn you beyond
your deserts. But. in the stretch of years
you will be estimated not by what the
tongue of detraction or the voice of adula
tion says, but by the aggregate and out
put of your own character.
And so God will measure you. He Judges
righteous judgments. The pious mouth
4ngs of sanctimonious speech may deceive
men as to one's renl religious character,
but It wins no praise from Christ. He
spoke with scant respect of those who
constantly cry "Lord. Lord": It is to b
questioned whether the loose and light
use of the sacred words of religion is
not as great profanity as the coarse curs,
ing of the creature of the gutter. The
danger of substituting a stereotyped re
ligiosity for a modest, vital and fruitful
Christianity Is ever present with even
the slncerest disciples. Jesus himself sug
gests the dread possibility if those who
profess most -religious being cast out from
his presence. The foundation of endur
ance In two worlds is not repetition of,
but obedience to, the will of the Lord.
TheWill That Wins
SELF-IXDULGEXCE (and all In
temperance is self-indulgence) Is in
nate weakness. It is the mark of the
child rather than of the men. It rules
with undisputed frway In the lower orders
of society, where men obey their own
impulses as first law. It is among such
that hate Is more common than love,
suspicion more common than frankness,
deceit more common than honesty and
crime more common than unselfish help
fulness. The person whose chief inclina
tion is to Indulge self shows himself
thereby to be allied, to the degree of his
self-indulgence, with all that is weak and
low and unworthy in human nature.
Vi'e must be strong in ourselves be
fore we can bo strong for Christ. A de
cided character is a first requirement in
him who would help push outward the
borders of God's kingdom. If we are to
count for Christ and righteousness in the
world we must first count as men.
Ciphers only complicate the problem of
life. AVe who are sons of God. princes
of the blood royal, should live the strong
est, completest and the most powerful
life. For it is by our strength, by our
power and by our attractiveness that tho
gospel of our father Is to be commended
to the world.
The average person needs an Infusion
of strength. He Is inclined to weakness.
His temptation Is to be a part of a con
glomerate crowd, when he should be an
Independent, Individual personality. In
stead of standing out in sun-crowned
manliness against ignoble tendencies, he
becomes a eraven follower of them. It
is easier to be good-natured and com
plaisant than to be right and peculiar.
Yet whoever would acquit himself like
a man must be strong; for strength Is the
supreme seal of manhood.
Union with Jesus is his own prescrip
tion for power and increase. As we abide
in him we grow. For Christian growth Is
due to divine power within, and that
power comes to the branch through tho
vine. Apart from Christ we perish; pres
ent with Christ we. prosper.
Seven Sentence Sermons
The good mariner, when he draws near
the port, furls his sails and enters it
softly; so ought we to lower the sails of
our worldly operations, and turn to God
with all our heart and understanding.
Dante.
Why comes temptation but fur man to
meet
And master and make crunch beneath his
foot.
And so be pedestaled in triumph?
Browning.
Every matter has two handles, one of
which will bear taking hold of, the otaor
not. Epictetus.
How good is man's life the mere liv
ing. Browning. '
Every man's task is his life-preserver.
Emerson.
Let 'me but learn to smile
Let me face bravely any blow that falls;
Bear bravely with my bondage all the
while
And hug my freedom within prison
walls. Ellen Glasgow.
"One of the rewards of wor.k done with,
out worry is cheerfulness, and one of the
rewards of cheerfulness is power to
wort,"