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5 REINDEER INN AT BANBURY, ENGLAND, USED BY CROMWELL Crown Prince Frederick Wilhelm of Germany Has Become an Author Kegina Was Damaged to the Extent of $10,000,000 in Canadian Storm. THE SUNDAY OKEGOJilAX, PORTLAND, JULY 21, 1913. & - r Si - ST A. If " -4t "X rair-. - -V -rsr v a. ' rt fe iX'ifS WL- it, , cx J r fit';t . I r zwffr J - - r J , til" 1 1 - l J s ' - , NEW TORK. July 20. (Special.) On of the- finest examples of early ETngllsh architecture and crafstmanshlp is said to be found in th old Reindeer Inn. at Banbury, Ens land. The building was used by Crom well, who held a council of war here prior to the battle of EdgehilL This room is said to contain unexcelled specimens of Jacobean carving. The building is reported to be for sale and that negotiations are being entered into with an American millionaire who proposes moving it to America. The Champlain Monument at Platts burg, N. T., which was erected by the Champlain Tercentenary Commission of the state of New York, was dedi cated recently. It la a granite pedes tal, 22 feet high, standing on a ter race and carrying a 12-foot -bronxe statue of Champlain. The base of the pedestal is a seat that is interrupted in front by a die on which crouches a Huron Indian in granite and similarly interrupted on each side by a die that supports a canoe-prow. About the top of the pedestal are garlands of Indian corn. Champlain is shown In his cos tume as a soldier, holding in his hand the arquebuse of which he speaks in his memoirs. A number ' of distin guished men delivered addresses. - a ' Crown Prince Frederick "Wilhelm of Germany has written a book entitled "From the Diary of a Sportsman." As the title Indicates, the book includes hunting stories of the Crown Prince and these range from experiences at home to hunting in India and Ceylon. The publication of this book furnishes an interesting proof that he is follow ing in the footsteps of his father as regards versatility of taste and achieve ment. The Crown Prince had the assis tance of the Crown Princess in the work of getting out the book, as most of the photographs used were made by her camera. This royal couple have four children: Prince Wilhelm Fried rich, born July 4, 190S; Prince Ludwig Ferdinand, - born November 9, 1907; Prince Hubertius, born September 30, 1909, and the baby Prince Friedrick. A spectacular occasion was the re cent inspection by King George of the St. John's Ambulance Brigade at Wind sor Park. The king was mounted on a black horse and wore the uniform of a field marshal. Queen Mary drove out to the reviewing place in an open carriage drawn by four white horses. A feature of the day was the exhibi tion by a life-saving party, which in cluded a demonstration of a survivor being brought ashore in the breechesM buoy. One of the leading figures at the Baltimore convention was Governor T. R. Marshall, of Indiana. In the early days of the convention- there was prospect of his being nominated for the Presidency, but he was later chosen as Wilson's running mate. Governor and Mrs.- Marshall were re cently photographed on the porch of their home In Indianapolis. One of the towns that suffered most in the tornado which swept over Sas katchewan, Canada, recently, was Bii gina. Here 80 people were killed and property was damaged to the extent of $10,000,000. Buildings of brick and stone were demolished with the same completeness as was the case with le.-ss stable structures. The distinction of having been pho tographed at the highest point in the city of New York belongs to a crew of steelworkers employed on the Wool worth building, the tallest skyscraper In the world. The new building Is 65 stories high. Before it was built, thi highest building in the world, with the exception of the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, was the Metropolitan building, in New York. CHRISTIAN VIOLENCE SOMETIMES HIDDEN BY GENTLENESS . . Rev. W. F. Reagor, of First Christian Church, Points to Some of the Violent Characters Who Have Besn Converted to Christianity and Made Instruments for Its Spread. HE Church a Storming Party." Sermon preached by W. F. Realtor, pastor of the First Christian Church, at that church last Sunday morning. Text: "The Kingdom of Heaven suf fereth violence, and men of violence take it by force." S. Matt. 11:12. Does not the success of the Christian life lie largely in our taking the of fensive? Is there anything more try ing to the endurance of soldiers than being compelled to be forever awaiting an attack? But is the offensive spirit the popular conception of the Chris tian warfare? Is not the Christian life looked upon as nerveless, incompetent, wishy-washy and defensive? We have read "blessed are the poor in spirit" and "blessed are the meek." until we hove lost the grace of rush and ve hemence and holy daring. We never think of meek men taking a battlement by storm. We seldom regard Christians as a "storming party," winning height after height of the promised land, and yet this is exactly what our Leader in tended should be. Listen! "The Kingdom of Heaven sviffereth violence, and men of violence take it by force." Not much of meek ness and poverty of spirit in these words. It is an Impetuous and vehe ment figure. It makes one think of Roosevelt at Chicago and Bryan at Baltimore. There was the swift and terrific attempt of Roosevelt to seize the coveted honor, and the obstinate and venturesome siege of Bryan for the man who would carry out his policies. Jt was the battle of giants. (So it is In these words. The figure almost sug gests, a determined burglary, the very j thing that Teddy charges against our President. It means a passionate and exhausting persistence, along a stiff and bloody way. If need be. in order to carry the bristling forts of the enemy. The fact of the matter Is, our concep. tion of the passive virtues, such as meekness, poverty of spirit, patience and humility, needs to be vitalized and energized; and we need to remember that everything in Christianity, even its passive virtues, has a core of tre mendous purpose, and in the light and heat of that burning passionate purpose they must be interpreted. Meekness without passion is worthless. Savonaro la was meek and humble, but he was fiery and terrible. Poverty of spirit separated from strength and daring will never plant a standard on the heights of the New Jerusalem. In the true man of the Kingdom, in the man pictured here by the Master Artist, meekness comprehends the spirit of vio lence, and the "poor In spirit" are In vincible and terrible. Violence I Desirable. John Bunyon was of great humility, of great poverty of spirit. He watered his couch with penitential tears. But when some law of the land or some magistrate in whom that law was In carnate got across his heavenward way, his meekness and penitential tears pre pared to take the position by storm. This is ever the characteristic of the true child of the Kingdom. Our Lord came to make men of violence, to give his soldiers the daring of a Roosevelt and the unflinching persistence of a Bryan. Let us note the elements that fur nlsb the equipment of the strong and, triumphant men, of the "men of vio lence." First, they are men and women of decisiveness of aim, "This one thing I do," said Paul; and In the strength of hat concentration all weakness was eft behind. A man of one book Is not -,y, nil). ... .jl n rr" v ' I U ' - - -M ; .. sit 1 r - vv? 'it ; - - .-" it hiffliiffl fiTfliin-nuriiMWhiiW irtiftfflirfhiifftmiiiiini Tisl f Rev. W. F.' Reagor, Pastor of First Christian Church. to be despised. A man of one Idea may overturn a commonwealth. A man with one commanding spiritual ambition will sit with the Lord on his throne. The Apostle Paul was no novice when he declared that he must detach his life from the multiplicity 'of distrac tions, that he might gather strength for his work. He was an old man rich and ripe with many graces, far and away beyond the experiences of most Chris tians, and yet he felt the need of con centrating his. efforts. The Christian with decisiveness of purpose says, "No one can realize my possibilities for me but myself; no one can make me good or evil but myself; no one can bear my fruit or reach my star but r-yself." He works out bis own salvation, financial ly, socially, physically, mentally and morally. If I have this element I know that my life Is an individual problem that I must solve for myself. With this decisiveness I will never recognize a proxy vote In my relationship to my God. - - Personal Service Kecessary. And do you know that we recognize this law in everything except our re ligion? We know that all the exercise in the world is of no value to the In dividual unless he compels the bars and dumb-bells to yield to him, in strength and muscle, the power for which he pays In time and effort. We can never develop our muscle by send ing our valet to the gymnasium. We know, too, that all the medicine chests of the world are powerless unless we reach out and take for ourselves what we need for our weakness. But when we come to the lofty realm of religion we treat it as we do the Pullman car, with Its aoft cushion seats, where -we, pay for our ticket and some one else does all the rest. We accept help but we must live our own life. We are not passengers but engineers and the train Is our life. We must rely on ourselves, live our own Christian lives or we will simply drift through existence, losing all that Is best, all tnat is greatest anu all that Is divine. The man who is lacking In this de cisive aim is hesitating and doubting in all that he does. He fears to take a decisive step, because he dreads fail ure. In his cowardice and his conceit he thinks that all his non-success is due to others. He is not appreciated, not recognized and is kept down. But the man who has it seeks to dis cover and to conquer the weakness within him that keeps him from at taining that which he holds dear; he seeks within himself the power to bat tle against all outside odds. Defeat, conflict, sorrow and suffering are no mors to him, than the passing through a .tunnel .- is to a traveler he knows that he must emerge, again into the sunlight. Oak, Not the Vine, Is IdeaL . The man with this element in his nature is an oak, not a vine. He dares to stand alone. He stands ever ready to give support to others who are less able to stand alone, craves nothing for himself and does not depend upon it. He stands for great principles and great issues, and for these he is will ing to die. As Bryan stood and stands for political principles, so the Christian statesman, the man and woman of the Jesus type stand for the things of the kingdom of Heaven. But this element suggests another, that Qt the strength j that comes from harmonizing our pow ers, the unity of the individual state. The man of the one Idea is not to be despised, but the man with unanimity of soul; the man with all the forces of his life marshalled like an army Is the man of violence Indeed. Our powers, too often are discordant, fighting at loggerheads, and we are pulled many different ways. We are like an orchestral band before the conductor appears. Every instru ment goes on Journeys of its own pro posing, and the result is bedlam. But some men's souls, thank God, are like an orchestra when the conductor has appeared. All the instruments co operate in harmonious ministry. When the great conductor reigns supreme In the soul, harmony reigns, and "all that is within me" blesses and praises God's holy name. Our courage In attacking the brist ling fort of the enemy is sorely smit ten when the powers of the soul are divided. But when all our powers are one, then we put on courage like a robe and go forth as a storming party owned and led of God. These are they who. like the great apostle to the Gen tiles, bring all their guns with them. at their conversion and direct every one of them against the stronghold of the devil. In the love and interest of the kingdom of God. Paul brought his great trained intellect, his fiery heart and his persistent will to the service of his master. His vigor, his determina tion, his singleness of purpose, his pas sion, his all, alike distinguished him from the common herd and made him the greatest of all leaders in the king dom. Ho man, could coma sear Paul without recognizing the full charged battery of his personality. Powers of Sla Unite. Do we not recognize this harmonizing of powers in the sinful and destructive violence in the world? The forces of Satan are always united. You never find his forces at loggerhead, either in the individual or in the collection. Look at Lady Macbeth. She is the most commanding figure in the entire trag edy. She moves to her purpose with enormous energy, with passionate ve hemence, with intense and concen trated decision, with consummate skill and with a wealthy force of an evil character. Is this man in the way? Murder him. And that one? Do the like with him. She moves to her ends like a great rolling stream of lava, and ruin and desolation fill her ways. She was a type of the forceful character among the violent, the destructive vio lent, endowed with hidden energies like the forces of the planet. Suppose that in the midst of that great tragedy, the tragic note had ceased, and by some marvelous min istry Lady Macbeth had been brought under the mighty powers of redeeming grace, what would have been the char acter of the change? Would that strong, full-flavored, intelligent, full-blooded woman have become tame and insipid. Just cooing away like a mild dove in its cote? Oh, no. She would have re mained violent still, passionate still, resolute still, forceful still, but with all her energies transformed, the fires of mind and heart purified ana instead of remaining a callous murderess, carv ing her way to place and power, she .Concluded on Pke 8.1 t