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4 AFTER t ; u . . . -. ' v 0 FLEGO.VS annual poultnr shew nded last nUtat after tha moi - auccasaful azbtblt irer held in thta atata. About 1000 attended tba show, a larger number than in any prevfoaa year, nd tha number of exhibitors alao waa larger than eer before. There wera 304 peraons and flrma who bad rhlckena. ducka or (eese on exhibition. The receipt amounted to about f tSO. In V... . ; , "-xX -..'. S r. t-? - v A vs' H AS, ".W' V Vv "X r-rr . ...... i- - ft ;)" . If- - - ill - . V -' ; :i HUMBLEST OF SERVICE IS DECLARED IMPORTANT by Walter ben-well hi.vsox. f. Terttoa, who write this epi.tle. salat b tae Lord. Romans XVI.it. wLXi you know about Tertlua Is coa L talned In that sentence. It say little, but If you ara wis you can 1-arn from It great deal. And you may clearly know be was a scribe. And as certainly you may know ha waa a saint. As a scribe he teaches us tha value or subordinate work. He wtll co operate with an apoetle in writing an Ptatle which shall be the means of converting Martin Luther to Inauvu rata the great reformation; and be aa untold blessing to tha church for nearly : centuries. Over In Scotland as aged aint aaid to his daughter. "Put my finger on tha aentenca In Romans eight mat saya. Nothing aball separate us rrom the love of God. For," ha added, "I must be going to die. as I cannot ee. And she said. "Father your fin ger la on tha text" "Then, he said. daughter, good-by. J breakfasted with you this morning I shall aup with tha lra Christ tonight." And Tertius wrote that verse that sustained tha - faith of the dying saint In Scotland. Sabardlaatfasj la Isaartaat. Tha value of subordinate work! Here cn earth wa know very little about An. drew, but they know a great deal about him In heaven. Andrew brought Simon Peter to Christ. Simon Peter has been filling tha church's horizon for cen turiea. But humanly speaking wa should have known nothing of Peter, save for Andrew who did the subordi nate work. Tha great cathedral rises np In London city that we call St. Paul's. There is no cathedral erected anywhere to tne memory of Ananias. But Ananias received Saul, after Saul's DAYS OF GAY SHOW CHICKENS GO HOME TO ROOST Annual Exhibition of Oregon Poultry Association Closes With Largest Record for Attendance and Greatest Number of Exhibits in History rxw: ' la i if: ' i addition in th. lim ..v..... . I -" ivulm tU ( I Meier Prank Company. Tha R. L. Stevena White Lechern cup for the beat cockerel of thla breed In tha show went to R. J. Renney. of Vancouver. Waah. The Laeh cup. g-lTen for the ten highest acorlna; Rarred riymouth Rocka, went to B. F. Kaeney. of Rugene. Mr. Keener alao won tha Gllbauph cup. nWen for tha best pen. The Rhode Island Red cup. given for conversion, and Instructed him In tha gospel. "All I am." said America's greatest preacher. Beecher. "all I am I owe to a darkey mammy who told ma the story of tha Lamb of God." "If I have dona anything In the world." said the Earl of Shaftsbury. "It Is all to be attributed to a servant In my father' house." An unknown preacher led Charles Spurgeon to Jeaua Christ. The value of subordinate work! What comfort there la for us In tha fact that If wa can not da tha great things, wa may ba faithful In tba small things, it Is not ours to legislate for Israel, but wa may hold up the bands of Moses. Wa cannot originate tha mighty message, but wa can stand be side Tertlua. and being faithful In things that are subordinate. . we shall not mlea our reward. Trlflea Ara XeaalagruL As a scribe he teachea us tha value of actions wa call trifling. Ha bad almost finished tha epistle, when, bis heart warming towards those Chris tians In Roma, ha on bis own account slips in 11 words: "X. Tertlua. who write thla epistle, salue yon la tha Lord." It Is a trifling act. But the Roman throne has gone down; and Greek lit erature has become a thing of tha paat; and great dynasties have risen and de clined, and gone out of existence; but tba trifling act of a scribe who sent a salutation to the saint a of God la re corded In the Bible. Probably ware we wiser wa should know there are no trlflea. no unim portant actions. "There Is no great and no small to tha God who maketh IL" saya Emerson. There Is no atone In this building can say. "1 am of no service," for It helps to keup all the TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, ir-;.vt other stones where they should be kept. And tha eya may not say to the body, "I ara of no use." Nor may tha body say to the ear, "Thou art without serv ice to me." And speaking after tha manner of man It Is certain, my peo ple, that every one of us during the last week said words, and did deeds, that will live till the sun grows cold. and tha stars grow old, and tha leavea of tha judgment book unfold. Tet we thought them but trifling word trifling deeds. "What revolutionised your life?" waa asked of a rough prisoner In a Jail. And ha said. -Mt was the look of a Bible woman who handed me a tract, and aaid nothing." And the wisest among us- a few yeara ago aaid: !t-a the little rtrt within the lute That by and by wilt make the mmie mute. And ever-wldenlnc slowly silence all. Be careful of tha things you call trifles, and watch tha worda you think to be unimportant. For two mllleniums ago a man wrota down a aentenca and It waa a trifling thing to do, but there naa never been a Bible written with out a record of that man's act. Talua af Conduct Shows, And as a scribe he teaches us how Immortal la conduct. He cannot origi nate an epistle; he cannot receive from God the great message at first band; but when tha groat Paul, listening to the spirit of God, caught the clear notea of this wonderful book, and spoka them In the ears of thla man Tertius, he could write down the words. And wherever Paul'a epistle Is read, the name of Tertius shall be known. How Immortal la conduct! Said the novelist. "You sow an act. and you reap a habit; you sow a habit and you reap a character; you sow a character, and you reap a destiny." He might have gone on to say. "You sow a destiny, and you reap destinies." if No sMshtest deed will esd with yoa; It slope not there for sod or for III. But stretches throush ether worlds far en Till the boundless universe feels the thrill. Oh bow awful to say a wrong word, or do a wrong deed, and know the word and the deed are Immortal! I never think of Mr. Ingersoll without a heartache, as I remember how though he Is dead, young men In America to day ara reading hia booka and forget ting the God of their fathers. How ter rible! But to do a good deed and to have the consciousness that no grave can bury that deed; no aea can drown It; no lightning amlta it; but that It la eternal In its consequences! How sub lime! Do you know that last year they pub lished more of Mr. Spurgeon's sermons than In any year during his life? How j wonderful Is this fact of the Immor tality of conduct! When Stopford Brooks was writing the life of F. W. Robertson ha went down to Brighton to secure data for the book. He had heard of a grocer who had been a reg ular attendant on Robertson's ministry. Entering that store he said: "Could you tell me anything about Mr. Rob ertson?" Quite timidly the man said: 'No sir." "Well," said Mr. Brooks, "I am only seeking to find out something of your wonderful minister, and I hoped you could give me some information." He said: "Come this way air." And ha led Stopford Brooks Into a little of fice back of the store and aaid: "Do you aee that picture on tha wall? And there bung tha portrait of the great preacher, and that grocer said: . "Sir. whenever I am tempted to do a shady thing that may possibly be wrong I look at that picture, and then I don't do it." Oh tba power of a righteous life! Robertson had gone. Are wa sure? Robertson remained; tha Immortality of conduct! Scribe Sends Greetings. Now as Saint Tertius teaches us that all Christians are one. Poor Tertius! DECEMBER 10. 1911 1 . .V tha best pen of this bread, went to I D. Elliott. Fred Johnson, of Tacoma, won the Da Brauwere cup for the best cockerel among the Partridge Wyan- dottes. George W. Speight, of Hub- bard, won the Black Minorca cup, for the best cockerel among thla breed of fowls. The fowls entered by children under 1( years old scored high. Olive Brelt- May there not have been times as Paul dictated that epistle to the Romans, that the brain of the scribe racked, and bla spirit disturbed; for it was no light task to follow the letter to the Rom ans. But Paul halted for a moment in the dictation, and then the Christian heart of Tertius, the scribe, began to beat high, and be thought of the people In Rome who would read that epistle, and so without a word to Paul, for the great man must not be disturbed in his meditation, Tertius writes down, "I sa lute you In the Lord." The union of believers. No two of us are alike, yet if at the close of this sermon we sing: Bleat be the tie that blnda Our hearts in Christian love. We should all be able to Join in the hymn. We are one! You remember how they led Polycarp out toward the arena where the lions were, and they said, "If you will forsake Christ you shall not die. You are an old man, and life should be sweet to you." And he said, "Eighty and six yeara have I served the Lord. He has given me no reason why I should forsake him, now my hair is gray." And we reach across the ages of Polycarp and salute him. We are one In the Lord. Do you remember the story of Blan- uma. tnat early Christian who was being tortured that she might reveal the hiding place of of her fellow Chris tians? And fearing lest the awful pain might cause her unwittingly to give away the secret, she bit her tongue off and spat it out on the floor. We in Oregon reach hands across the seas to Blandlna of, century two. . We are ona in the Lord. Faith Keepa Slatera Steadfast. Thay tied the Wilson slaters to stakes on the sea shore of old Scotland, and then shouted, "Renounce your savior and we will save your lives." And the Wilson sisters sang the songs of David I " ' 1 --.s4-.. jr..-:-: enbach, a 15-year-old girl, winning first prize for a White Orpington cockerel, Winners of the cash prizes given -by the County Court are Jubilant over I their success. The most of the chll- dren are members of the poultry club organized and Conducted by the T. M. C. A. Since the show opened last Monday I what-not for the convenience of poul no less than 150 eggs have been col- I try-raisers. Value of Subordinate Work in White till the rising waters hushed their breath. We are .one with them. The persecutor leveled the-gun and John Brown's brains lay on the sod. And when John Brown's wife picked up the fragments of her husband's head, ha said, "What do you think of your hus band now?" And she said, "Sir, I al ways thought a great deal of him, but I think more of him now than ever before. We are one with John Brown's wife. "There Ib a fool at the end of my stick," said Judge Jeffreys, who slew so many of the aristocracy of God in trig-land, that they called him the "Bloody Judge." And the brave man at tne end of the stick said, "At which end, my-Lord?" And we are one with the humble Christian who could not be intimidated; one with all the natri archs. For Moses belongs to us; and r.nocn wno wanted with his God, until one day be went a step too far and never got back; and Abraham and Isaac, and Jacob are ours. One with all the prophets; with thundering Ell- jan; ana persuasive Elisha; with Ha bakkuk when he sees the desolation revealing the providence of God; and with thundering Nahum when his horses plow the waters; and with Eze. kiel when he beholds God riding on the winds of heaven. One with all these heroes of the Old Testament glory; with Daniel in the lion's den; and the Hebrews in the flame. They all be long to us. All the Apostles; Feter and John, James and Andrew, and Phil lip and Jude. They are all ours. I saw a book once purporting to be tha genealogy of Queen Elizabeth, and it would be a good load for a wheel barrow But mine goes further back than that. For I trace my genealogy back to Abel, and I am one with all who kept step with God, and lived for the glory of the eternal. And lastly, as a Saint, he teaches us how the bond of union among believ ers is the Lord. Nationally I have 1 J lected by the manager and secretary of the show, which at the regular market price of 55 cents a dozen, should net about J7. As many more eggs have been taken from the pens by the own. ers of the birds. The Mallard ducks and the geese have attracted considerable attention, as have the pups on exhibit near the entrance. But of more interest than all other birds have been the Japanese silkies, small-sized and peculiar look ing fowls sent in by the Simpson Pheasant Farm, of Corvallis. Portland folk being unfamiliar with the birds have kept the show officials busy an swering questions about them. And then, as is usual at poultry shows, there has been on exhibit incu bators, hrnndprn. rhiclr feed, noultrv i journals, patent chicken houses and Life Is Emphasized in Address at Temple. nothing to do with Tertius; nor politi cally; it is only religiously that we are one. When they brought Athanaslus be fore the council, and he stood up and confessed his faith, and his enemies said, "You are alone in that faith." And he replied, "Then it is I, Athanasius, against the world." Ah, I do honor thee for those brave worda. Against the heretic so boldly hurled. Though no one else believe. I hold the faith. I, Athanaslus, against the world. We are one In the Lord. Eleven hun dred years have passed since Bernard of Clairvoux wrote his marvelous hymn, and yet when we sing Jesus, the very thought of thee. -With sweetness fills the breast; But sweeter far thy face to aee, And In thy presence rest. We forget the 11 centuries gone, and we are one in the Lord. ' No Catholic am I, but when Newman says Bo lonr thy power has blest tne; sure it still Will lead me on. O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and torrent, tljl The night is cone: And with the morn those angel faces smile, Which 1 have loved long since, and lost awhile. I and the cardinal are one in tha Lord. I belong to the Baptist church: literally belong to it. For in mv con." science, all my time belongs to you. I belong to the church: but I belonar to all the churches in Oregon: I belonar to every church in the Baptist denomina tion; ana I belong to the household of faith. I belong to every Methodist church, every Presbyterian church. every Episcopal church; because wa are all one In the Lord. I belong to the family of God. He went to heaven a long, long time ago. It seems to me; did my old father, with his straight body, his set face, his mane of white hair, and his eye that never Quailed be fore a mortal, but he and I belong to the same family, we are one in theX Lord. N One family we dwell In him. One church above, beneath; ThouKh now divided by the stream. The narrow stream of death. K
