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OREGON
One of the Most
MONMOUTH, Or., May 2. (Spe-j
cial.) The Oregon Normal
School In June will honor Its
SI st anniversary, and will turn back
into the years of its existence to note
the growth and improvements made.
The present term haa been one of the
most successful In its history, and
since the reinstatement of the school
in 1911, three new buildings have been
erected, the course of study was re
vised, and the enrollment has " in
creased in numbers substantially.
Oregon's first normal school, located
at Monmouth, was created by an act
of the Legislative Assembly of 1882.
The necessity of such a school In Ore
gon had been deeply felt by those
who had labored for the advancement
of popular education in the state. Ex
perience had proved in other states
that a normal school, under the care
and direction of the state. Is a neces
sary part of an educational ' system,
that good schools cannot be had with
out properly trained teachers, and to
supply these no agency had been found
so efficient as properly conducted nor
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, ea-'Wi' VP'&iirte '11':. . Jt.- ill If., .m rt 1 "-.v-
i - I 1 "'- i'XjiesV: ; tJ V - t . f ' H mouth: J. I. Thompson. Salem: E. Bed-
4 Vir rif ' i Al . well. Monmouth; F. S. Powell, Mon-
" ' ' f" ? J-"S i mouth; D. S. Stump, Monmouth; W. D.
" . s-T V I'm f ' 1 9 txtT A Fenton, Portland: T. F. Campbell. Mon-
f - t I - ' mouth; T. D. Humphrey. HlllBboro; 3.
? ? I I - u R'KSTS. Monmouth; X. T. Stanley, ex
t if ' I ?-"- ' officio.
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ETERNAL LIFE IS
Doctrine of Substitution as God's
The Foreshadowed Cress,
Tet dotb God devise means, 8am.
xiv:14.
BT PR. WALTER B. HINSON.
THE context Introduces us to a
King and two Princes, a princess,
a General in the army, and a so
cslled wise woman. The King was
David; the Princess was tils daughter,
Tamar, and the Princes were Amnon
and Absalom, his sons; the General was
Joab: and the wise woman was the
woman who uttered the words of the
text.
And the story f the text runs some
thing like this. . King David's son.
Amnon, had wronged and shamed and
ruined Tamar, King David's daughter.
You see those were days of polygamy
of old-time Mormonlsm. Another son
of King David. Absalom, who was
brother to the daughter ot King David
who had been so cruelly and so foully
wronged, slew the betrayer of his sis.
ter. and then fled to escape the ven
geance of the King. But Joab wanted
Absalom back again, and so he called
for the aid of the wise woman, who
pathetically told a wonderful story to
King David, in which she urged the re
call of Absalom. In that story Is Im
bedded the text.
Now David occupied a two-fold re
lationship to Absalom, namely, that of
father and of King. And God occupies
that two-fold relationship to us. For
he also is our father, and he is our
King. Thus David was under a two
fold obligation to punish his son Ab
Balom. for his awful sin. Two-fold was
the obligation we say. because he first
ly was his father, and secondly because
he was his King. And God is under
that two-fcld obligation to punish my
sin, both as the author of my being
ana aiso as my sovereign.
As a father it was David's duty, so
far as he possibly could, to safeguard
Absalom; but instead of safeguarding
him he mined htm. As a King it was
David's duty to enforce the existing
law. without partiality or mawkish
sentimentality. But he utterly railed to
do so. Very humbly and with the deep
NORMAL
Successful Terms in the History
mal schools, where education is taught
as a science and school management as
an art.
The first faculty consisted of D. T.
Stanley, president of the school, and
nine other instructors.
First Catalogue Qnoted.
"As an economic measure the normal
school Is Important to every citizen of
the state,'; said the, first catalogue.
"For want of proper professional
training a large per cent of young
teachers make so poor a degree of
success that the money paid them is
little better than thrown away. Any
of thera would do much better work
by having the proper methods at hand.
The training that the normal school
gives will more than double the effi
ciency, of public school teachers, so the
money expended will produce corres
pondingly increased results in the edu
cation of the young. This is too im
portant a matter to be overlooked by
any citizen of the state, and school of
ficers should be especially careful to
see that the teachers whom they em'
ploy shall have either a. large and sue.
I cessful experience of their own, or
est reverence I say God must escape'
these two evils. ,
And if he forgives my sin, as I pray
he may, he must so forgive me that
neither his fatherhood nor bis king
ship can be ashamed or Impeached. For
the kingship of David should not ftave
obscured his fatherhood, though the
red blood of relationship ought ever to
be a great and solemn bond. The
fatherhood ot King David should not
have obscured his kingsihip, to the ex
tent of causing him to do a wrong, and
thus violate the righteous law. even
though the transgressor was his own
son.
But David so forgot both his fatherly
and kingly obligations to Absalom that
he played fast and loose with fatherly
affection, and kingly obligation, and
so was false to his own son and sub
ject. As a partial result he plunged
the National of Israel Into confusion
and rebellion, while he ruined his own
son, cams near to destroying his king
dom, and set a bad example to all the
ages.
Now God must not so forgive man!
For God is our King, and the laws he
has established he must abide by, and
cause us to observe and respect them.
And -he is also our father, and so he
must seek our highest good. But he
must seek it along the line that makes
for our betterment in things moral
and religious.
David Devised No Meaaa.
Now King David overlooked the
chief and Important word in this wo
man's sentence, for the text reads,
"God ddth devise means, whereby his
baniahed may return." But David de
vised no means at all. He simply
allowed frail sentiment to conquer good
sense and idle and pernicious senti
mentality to outweigh hla real love.
and actual Justice. As a result he
wrought -havoc in the kingdom of
Israel.
God must avoid that mistake! And
God must so forgive man, if he for
gives him at all, that the law of God
shall be honored by the acts of for
giveness, that the penalty of the offense
shall be enforced, and that the char
THE STT?fIAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND.
TO HONOR THIRTY-FIRST ANNIVERSARY
of the Institution for Training Teachers Is Drawing to an End and Finds Many Improvements Made Course of Study Revised.
have such a professional training as
will insure their success."
During the first term, which began
in the Fall of 18s2, more than 100 stu
dents' enrolled. Free scholarships
were given all students who obtained
a County Superintendent's declaration
certifying that the applicants were in
sound bodily health,' desired to fit
themselves for teaching, and that It
was their intention to teach in the
public schools of this state for a period
of time at least as great as that spent
on the scholarship in the State Normal
School.
The first board of trustees consisted
of the following, many of whom are
prominent in the state at the present
time: A. S. Powell, Albany; George H.
Burnett, Salem; John Wolverton, Mon
mouth; J. VI. Cowls, McMinnville; A.
B. Griggs, Monmouth; J. J. Bristow,
Monmouth; J. Vanduyn, Independence;
J. H. Hawley, McCoy; L. Bentley, Mon
mouth; A. W. Lucas. Monmouth: H.
Lindsay, Dayton, Wash.; L. B. Row
land, Eugene; Ira F. M. Butler, Mon
mouth; S. C. Adams, Salem; J. R. Cald
well, Carlton; H. W. Murphy. Cleve
land Wash.; William Dawson, Mon-
PROMISED TO SINNERS WHO ARE FORGIVEN
Method of Dealing With Sin of the World Is Outlined in. Sermon on "The Foreshadowed Cross," by Dr. Walter B. Hinson.
acter of the transgressor shall be
changed for the better.
Then what are God's "means' 7
Calvary! The cross! And now with
me, look at that cross, and there see
how God's wisdom shines out in his
"devised means," of getting his ban
ished one home to himself. v
See how the law is safeguarded! The
penalty of sin is death; behold Christ
on the cross. The way of the trans
gressor is hard; behold bow the great
substitute suffers when he takes my
place, and bears my sin. Oh, there is
deep suggestiveness in the searching
statement of the psalmist, when he
says, "There is forgiveness with thee,
that thou mayest be feared."
For I tell you, my brother, when you
see God forgiving your sin by the
sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, you be
hold as-never before or elsewhere the
gravity and heinousness of your
offense. You see as nowhere else, and
at no other time, how the decreed
penalty is enforced, when Christ suf
fers for sin the Just for the unjust
to bring us to God.
. And the character of the transgressor
Is transformed,- Is completely changed,
and is made over and becomes new.
For do not forget, my friends, that the
most potent factor for holiness under
God's stars tonight Is the grim cross
ot Christ on Calvary. And even now
as I speak, as down all these 20 cen
turies, men are turning from the
practices that are dishonest to the
things that are honest; from Impurity
to the things that are pure; from god-
lessness to actual godlikeness, by the
great passion tor holiness ot life,
created by the vision of Calvary's cross.
and the Lord Christ.
Law and Love Transform Character.
We all know that law -and love are
great transformers of human char.
acter. And the perfection, supremacy
and righteousness of God's law. Its
unsullied purity and colossal majesty,
along with the infinite and therefore
perfect grace of the massive love of
God, shine out nowhere so forcibly and
grandly, or In such instructive and
illumining and saving and inspiring
form as at Golgotha, where Jesus on
The cardinal principles on which the
Normal School waa founded were (1)
that education is the accumulation of
power by self-government through voU
untary effort, much more than the
mere acquisition of knowledge" of pre
scribed tasks; (2) that true government
In education is self-government, in
duced by educating the higher nature
of man, and not by a system of laws
and penalties prescribed by boards of
trustees and enforced by a' faculty of
spies; (3) that the co-education of the
sexes brings about better results in
study and in government, makes bet
ter members of society and citizens of
the state. Concerning . the rules for
government. President D. T. Stanley
said: "The normal school relies on the
all-pervading spirit of study and 'emu
lation among the students as the con
trolling power. Police regulations and
detectives are found to be unnecessary.
This system throws the responsibility
on the students, develops manly self-
reliance and love for the right because
it is right, which in Itself is a most im
portant element in education."
The first graduating class was in
June. 1883. It consisted of three stu
dents of the commercial department
Armilda Doughty, Monmouth; May
Hawley, McCoy; Allen McQueen, Amity,
Special emphasis was placed upon this
department In which many students
were enrolled.
The buildings consisted of a brick
structure, 36x72 feet, with three work
ing stories in .which were located the
study and class rooms. Sixty feet south
of this was a chapel, a frame building,
40x60 feet with 24-foot celling, well
seated for an auditorium, with a gal
lery on the east and a rostrum 45 feet
long in the .west end. This was used
daily for the chapel exercises, for lec
tures often, for entertainments of va
the cross redeems by the sacrifice of
himself poor and lost humanity.
- David forgot that the forgiving of
sin is the problem of all problems,
the one problem of eternity as well as
of time. But God, the Infinitely wise
Jehovah, will know by bis own divine
perfection that bis wisdom and Justice,
as well as his love, must so shine out
In forgiving sin as to result not only
in the remission df the offender's guilt
and sin, but also in the transforma
tion of the transgressor, thus causing
him while he rejoices that his Iniquity
has been pardoned to also strongly
resolve to commit the offense no more,
lest penalty find itself unsatisfied again,
and the holy redeeming love of Christ
be put to an open shame.
And God's method of dealing with
the sin of the world, with your sin.
and with my sin, is revealed in the
fact of substitution. They can tell us
as we preach this doctrine that we are
old-fashioned. That may be true, and
place upon us no discredit, but all the
same, it is the doctrine of the Book,
and it is the doctrine which proclaims
unto us the Christ who saved us. More
over it is the doctrine that Is saving
men and women all over the earth, and
is be it known unto rou all the only
sufficient answer to the great question,
"What must I do to be saved?"
Iniquities Separate lis From God,
My 'brothers, we are self-banished
from God. No dogma or decree closed
to, us the gates of heaven, but our in
iquities, as the Bible says, have sep
arated between us and our God. I say
it is no decree of the Eternal that shuts
us from bliss It is no incarnate hate
above the stars that dug the deep,
broad gulf that separates our souls
from the holy God. But it Is our in
iquities that have separated us and
God. "
And to oridge that gulf Is a task
beyond the skill of man or of angels.
Here the priest is an impertinence and
an offense and ritualism Inane, as the
water in which Pilate washed his fin
gers, in the day of his shame. Here
Abana and Fharpa are of no avail, and
here the seven-fold dipping in the
Jordan, efficacious to Naaman, the
MAT x S, 1914.
rious kinds, and for commencement ex- I
erclses. It was connected to the chapel
by a covered porch. These buildings
were beautifully located on an eleva
tion. In the midst of a fine artificial
grove of firs and maples, on a plot of
10 acres.
School Becomes Popular.
In the second year 211 students at
tended and County School Superinten
dents adopted tire slogan: 'We will
send students to the Xormal School and
it must send us teachers." Whenever
teachers were needed, the County Su
perintendents Informed the president of
the Normal School and demands were
promptly tilled. The Oregon State Nor
mal had become firmly established, the
Interest shown by the enrollment con
stantly accelerating. During the first
26 years more than 1000 students grad
uated from the school.
Early in 1910 the Oregon Legislature
failed to make an appropriation for the
maintenance ot the State Normal. For
the last few months of the term the
school received its support from the
faculty and loyal citizens in various
sections of the state, who made con
tributions of funds with which to oper
ate. The Alumni Association imme
diately came to aid, and for the pur
pose of effecting a reinstatement, offi
cers were elected for the sole pur
pose of handling Inquiries relative to
the school and to give the voters reli
able information. The signatures of
the necessary 5 per cent of the voters
of Oregon were obtained on a petition
to invoke the referendum and at the
general election of November 8, 1910,
the question. "Shall a normal school
be created at Monmouth?" was decided
by the people. The result was 50,191
votes for the school, with 40,044 against.
J. H. Ackerman, for 12 years State
Superintendent of Public Instruction,
was chosen president, and with a new
faculty of instruction the Oregon Nor
mal School resumed operations on Sep
tember 15, 1911, as the only Oregon
institution for the training of teachers.
The course of study was revised and
leper, avails nothing for Naaman the
sinner. For though the guilt-stained
soul be washed as In the snow-water
mentioned' by Job, tha curse of con
demnation unllfted and unremoved.
shall plunge the soul back again Into
the ditch, which the much-afflcted
patriarch mentioned.
"Between us and you," thus might
the unslnning. unfallen angels say to
man in his transgression, "there is a
great gulf fixed." And that gulf, of
which the cause Is sin, can never be
bridged by ceremony, or church, or
ordinance, or rite, or penitence, or
reformation, or aught of man.
For the violated law in tones oi
thunder declares of the sinful record,
"'Tls done, 'tis done, and all the power
of all the universe may not though
millions of mortals, and millenlums of
years be spent in the attempt change
that record by even a single Jot."
No, no, the trumpet that peals so loud
from Sinai can never be silenced by
act of mortal. Condemnation sat and
wrote down the evil that we wrought.
And now the very nature of things, the
great facts of human experience, and
the unalterable laws of God concern
ing that written page, assert
"The moving finger writes, and having
writ
Moves on; nor all your piety, nor
wit, .
Can call it back o change a single
line.
Nor all your tears wash out a word
of It."
Penalty la Reverse Side of Siau
Tis so recorded in the book, O
David. The misguided energy of even a
king Is futile, when rushing on the
thick bosses of the armor that Pro
tects those great law: that govern
man's relationship to sin, and to the
Judge of sin, as would be an attempt to
withstand the moving of old ocean's
mighty waves, or the halting of the
flaming stars along the great . high
ways of God's space.
The reverse side of sin is penalty.
Though Joab counsel, and a wise
n
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many other Improvements were made.
the school draws one twenty-fifth of a
mill on the taxable property of the
tate. As soon as the enrollment had
increased considerably, It was evident
that additional improvements would be
necessary. In the. Fall of 1912 a new
(60,000 girls' dormitory was begun on
the campus, north of the main Normal
building. A new heating plant was
erected the same year. Accommod
tlons are provided In the dormitory for
80 girls and Its surroundings make l
similar to ideal home life. The old
gymnasium last year became Inad
equate and a new structure was built
at a coat of 110,000, the money for
which was obtained from the regular
fund drawn by the Normal School.
Instruction In the school is given
from a two-fold standpoint. The stu
dents obtain a thorough knowledge of
the subject matter. Then they mus
learn well how to impart knowledge to
others. By arrangement with the local
district the Monmouth Public School,
located one block east of the Norma
building, is used as a training school
for the benefit of the Normal students.
A well-euulpped playground Is provia
ed and the games played are carefully
supervised by the Department of Pnysl
cal Education.
The supreme purpose of the Training
School, however, is to educate the cnii
dren, and nothing Is allowed to Inter
fere with this plan. It serves as
model school in which to observe the
best teaching to see wnat will be help
ful to the student teacher. An oppor
tunlty is given to note the application
of the principles of education upon
which proper teaching is based. Th
student teacher is enabled also to gain
sufficient teaching experience under
expert Instructors as will form correct
habits and give a mastery of the educa
tlonal principles that will lnsur
growth. To secure these each student
is required to observe and teach durln
the last year of his course under con
dltlons which duplicate in all essentials
those found in the public schools of the
state. No one Is allowed to graduate
who has not passed this test and been
woman reason, and a proud monarch
decree, yet wrong adjustment Godward
may never finally prosper; nor wicked
ness laugh pen-.lty to scorn. So 'tis not
done when 'tis done. O Joab. woman.
Absalom. David, because it was not
rightly done. The maker of the soul
has decreed that sin cannot stand up
right; nor that hurt of moral" evil be
easily cured, else were all law a lie and
a myth all cause and consequence.
"They have healed the hurt ot the
daughter of my people slightly," was
the ancient remonstrance on record In
the Sacred Book. But here where sin
spreads its dread curse o'er all the
world, a worse case still is presented.
Here there is no healing of the soul
at all, not even the poor, pitiful ameli
oration that could find shelter unto
the Impoverished word "slightly." For
ot self-help in this sad case, there
can be none.
The dramatist of the guilty woman
In the grip of an accusing conscience
made the physician say that in such
cases "the patient must minister to
herself." But when the whole head
Is sick, and the whole heart faint, and
the entire body but wounds and bruises
and putrefying sores, it is self-evident
that in such sad circumstances there
can be no binding up effected by the
sufferer and no mollifying by any oint
ment within the patient's reach.
"So, though thou make thy nest
among the stars," cries outraged law,
"I will drag, thee down;" and, "though
thou fleest Into the wilderness, I will
mercilessly seek thee hence."
And the soul becoming conscious of
the irreparableness of the doom
and the Impossibility -of the escape
therefrom, is constrained by the flame
that burns within to lament "If I make
my bed in hell, I still find thee pres
ent, and from thy heavy pressure the
flames of perdition have no integrat
ing power.
And so all the talk of the self-
righting power of the human soul is
as the fools' laughter, of which the
philosopher declared it was but as
the crackling of an impotent thorn
fire.
And Adam leaving paradise, and
Esau in his bitter wailing, and Saul
found capable in discipline and effi
cient :n itiHtruction.
The Training Ischool Is maintained
Jolntlv by the state and the local school
lstrict. It is supplied with a principal
nd four critic teachers. The heads ot
he departments of music, art. and
physical education in the Oregon Nor
mal have full charge of these studies
n the Training School. The Training
School is an actual public school, com
posed of pupils under the usual condl-
ions and with the usual problems to
be found In publlo schools, so that the
experience gained Is of direct value In
the preparation ot the student lor xu
ture work. The course or stuay is tne
same as that prescribed for the State
of Oregon, with such enrlcnment as is
possible under favorable environment.
with liberal equipment, ana a. strong
staff of teachers and supervisors. Ow
ns: to the increased attendance at the
Training School, It is evident that the
next need of the local school district
ill be a new building, allowing the
present structure to be used entirely by
the Monmouth High school
The Normal School endeavor to help
solve the rural school problem and has
strong courses In rural school sub
Jects.
More than 700 new teachers a
needed each year In Oregon, and the
Normal School should supply a large
part." said President J. U. Ackerman.
in a statement to persons contemplat
ing & Normal School training. "Boards
of directors and county superintend
ents have learned by observation and
experience the value of the normal
trained teacher. I believe that yea
will agree with me that such training
will not only Increase one's usefulr.esa
to her school but will result In bet
ter positions and sa'.arles. ,
Sole Pvrpose to Train Teocltersw
"The Oregon Normal School Is ef
t&bllshed and maintained for th sol
purpose of training teachers for the
schools of the state. Here no one can
matriculate without signing a pledge
to the effect that the purpose of enter
lng the school Is to fit himself or her
self for the work of teaching. It la
easier to retain good positions If one
is able to say, 1 am a graduate ot a
normal school.
"We have a faculty of 18 thoroughly-trained
teachers. The Oregon Nor
mal School Is the only one In the state
whose sole function is the training of
teachers. It offers five courses of
study, leading directly to state, life
and one-year state certificates with
out examination. A well-graded pub
lic school and two rural schools are
used for training school purposes.
thereby fitting our teachers tor any
grade of work.
The water supplied is pure, the cost
of riving reasonable, and last, but not
least, one ot the most helpful, cheer
ful, co-operative, sympathetic student
bodies that one could wish. This is
brought about from the fact that every
student pledges himself or herself to
become a teacher, therefore, there Is
one definite purpose, namly, prepar
ing for the great work of teaching.
"Normal units, subjects running one
year, five times a week, with recita
tions not less than 40 minutes in
length, are required to complete the
several courses as follows: Standard
normal course, 10 units above the com
pletion of a four-years' high school
course; supervisors' course. 10 units
above the completion of a four-years'
high school course; elementary, rural
school, and primary courses, 16 units
above the eighth grade.
"There are two ways of securing ad
mission to the school, first, by creden
tials; second, by examination."
In the midyear exercises at the Ore
gon Normal School this year S3 grad
uates received diplomas, and in June
this year a class of 75 will finish, mak
ing a total of more than 100 students
for the term. This will be the largest
class ever graduated from the Normal
School In a single year.
leaning upon his sword on Gilboa, and
Judas falling when the twisted rope
unwove Itself as In mocking scorn, and
the Neros, and Charles of France, and
Robespierre of a later day, and the
Macbeths, and the wretch who mutters
in the ballad ot "Reading Jail." H
refuse to be comforted by any Inef
fectual suggestion of help for the
transgressor from within.
Condemnation Rests on All Men.
Nor is there succor visible from
without, from one's fellows. For all
are in the same sad case, seeing that
all have sinned and that there is no
difference, for condemnation rests
upon all men. So "go ye rather to
them that sell and buy for yourselves,
for we possess not enough oil for our
selves and you," reply the wise vir
gins to those who are foolish, in
Christ's great Judgment parable. For
not by companies, or In groups, must
men be saved; but each for himself,
and one by one we pass through the
door into the sheep-fold.
What then are the means devised by
God whereby His banished may return
unto Him? There is told a wonderful
story of fatherly love in the world
across the sea, that faintly illustrates
the truth we now confront. It is said
that in a great city, down in the poorer
quarter, there was a narrow court
wherein the houses on opposite sides
of the street were so close together
that one with outspread arms could
touch the walls of each. And a fire
broke out in that crowded alley one
f-evening.
Hope of, saving the burning build
ings was soon abandoned and the ef
forts of the firemen focused on the at
tempt to save the surrounding prop
erty. But Just then a working man
rushed onto the scene and frenzledly
asked If his little son, motherless, and
whom he had to leave alone during the
day. had been rescued.
Pityingly the firemen answered that
doubtless the little lnd was dead. But
hurriedly that father rushed away and
soon the bystanders saw the man as
he called to the boy from the house
opposite. And the little boy, who had
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