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9 CHOICE OF RIGHT RATHER THAN WRONG URGED ON YOUTH ' Dr. Walter B. Hinson Preaches on Eight Value of Estimates From Text, "Jesus Said, 'Come, Follow Me,' and the Young Man Went Away." THE STTNTXiT OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, TUXE 28. 1914 BY DR. WALTER B. HINSON. OF ALL. the evil in this world. It may surely be affirmed that It Is but the result of wrongly esti mated values. The ages have echoed to the controversy surging around the cuestion. "Whence came eviir If originated in Heaven once, may It not nrla-infLte there again? ADd books that would dam the Willamette River, and turn this city into a lake,, have written In exDOsition of that same origin ot evil. Yet the Question is a simple one, and demands no liter ature at all. For evil originated in a wrong estimate of values. And I rather think Milton is nearer the truth than . many a theologian has been, when he makes Satan say, "It is better to rule In hell than to serve in heaven. For Eatan then made the wrong estimate of values; for all men know, it is bet ter to serve in heaven than to rule in helL But may we not sin, though the pearly gates are shut behind us? For If sin originated In the presence of Uod once, why not again? Most surely we might sin after reaching heaven, if we went to heaven as we are now. But do vou not recall how the beloved Apos tle says, "We shall be like him"? And na great characteristic of the Christ, as he walked this earth, was that he always rightly estimated values, and everlastingly made the right choice. This is where man tirst lauea, iu the non-discernment of the good and the bad in moral values. There it hung, the bit of fruit, that in the pictorial Btory was prohibited by God. And there stretched the garden, beautiful and fair; with the smile of God for sunlight; and with the whisper of God moving among the treetopa in the twi light. But our first parents failed to right'y determine the value of Eden smd God, and the forbidden fruit; and lecause of their wrong choice they walked into darkness and gloom. Poor Esau, when hungry, saw the birth right of God. and he saw the meal. And as the writer of the book of He brews said, "For the morsol of meat, he sold his birthright." And afterward, when grieved, and wanting the birth right back, he obtained it not; be cause he once made the . choice that determined all his life; and let slip the crown, and preferred the clod. Balaam Cited as Illustration. The highest position avails nothing. it a man is unable rightly to determine values. One of the poets of the Old Testament was Balaam. And he moved. among the prophets, those great seers arHn .av.ai. the visions of God. But Balak, the King, offered gold, and God the eternal, offered eulogy, and Balaam was unable to see that the "well done" of God was grander than the glittering rold of Balak; and so he, too, made the wrong choice. And. therefore, in the last book of the Bible, we are warned against becoming Balaamites, the pe'o ple who cannot rightly determine moral values. - " Association with the best is not pre ventive of evil, if a man cannot rightly choose. Gehazi was the servant of one f Israel's greatest prophets. And he lived in the very household of Elisha. But one day he saw glittering raiment, Bllver and gold in the hands of Naaman; and he realized how, with a lie, he might come into the possession of all the treasure. And so he for feited the confidence of Elisha, and violated the moral law, and brought down upon"hlmself leprosy as a curse from the God he had offended. All be cause he was unable to rightly esti mate values. Rich Ruler" Made Example. When you come down into the New Testament, numberless illustrations point to this fact that I am placing before you. The young ruler moved along in the even tenor of his life, until be approached Christ. And then Christ said: "Choose. There are your posses sions and here Is dlscipleshlp." And the young ruler was unable to place a. right estimate on the Dlscipleshlp, and fhe Cross, and the Christ: and he went away to his great possessions. And you young people can recall from your "Dante." that in the poet s vision of hell, this young ruler is spoken of still as the man who made the "Great Refusal." And he made It because he was inadequate to interpret moral val ues. And therefore he preferred the low to the high; the materialistic for the spiritual and the eternal. A most tragic illustration is dffered by Judas. Did ever man, from such a height, fall to such a depth? In the school of Christ for three years; listen ing to the parables of the Master; wit nessing the miracles of the Lord; hear ing the Sermon on the Mount; and yet for two-score and a half bits of silver forfeiting it all, losing all heaven for the sake of 20! Why did he do it? Because he failed where you and I shall likely fall; unless God keeps us. He failed to distinguish between values; between the silver and the Christ. ' Corse Put Dean, There is no man In this house named Deinas. Why not? It is a much more euphonious name than mine, or possibly yours. Then why does no mother call her boy Demas? Because two millen nlums ago a man spoiled that nam a For it is written down in a letter from Paul, "Demas hath forsaken me. hav ing loved this present world." And yet he might have been a Timothy, an Apostle, and he might have written an epistle to be bound up in the Bible, only he was unable to rightly estimate values; and therefore he made the choice that was ignoble and ruinous. And so all over this great sea of life there are the derelicts, who are the result of a wrong estimate of values. "God-like"' they said Daniel Webster was, and the echoes of his marvelous eloquence fascinates men still. But there came a crisis in that great man's career when he had to choose between values. And he made the sorry choice that caused the gentle Quaker poet to look at him and say; Fallen and lost! From these great eyes The God has fled; When faith declines and honor dies. The man is dead. Young Urged to Choose Rightly. And' Webster's fall was the result of Webster's inability to rightly de termine between values. I am saying these things this morning in your hear' ing, young people, for this purpose Your life will be determined by your early choices. And not always will you have to choose between the bad and the good. For harder is the choice between the thing that is good and the thing that is better. And harder still, the choice between the thing that is better and the thing that Is best. And the great reform movements in this world are crying out in despera tion for young men and young women to line up their defense and advance ment; and their prayer to you is that you rightly choose, so that in the de termining of values you give the assent of your will and the allegiance of your life to the very highest thing God places before you. And then, secondly, will you remem ber that all the good in the world to day is the result of right choice, de termination and decision In regard to values? Now sometimes the soul chooses with -a wonderful deliberateneSs. And the good and the bad watch while that slow determination is being matured. And a hundred things out of the past may come into that decision. And a hundred anticipations from out the fu ture may enter into that choice. And slowly so slowly one might imagine destiny becoming impatient is the choice made, and the decision rendered. But sometimes, swiftly as the light ning, does the soul make the life-determining decision. And in a moment the whole course of the career is In fallibly and eternally settled. And therefore, I bid you this morning, for ! your own soul s sake, bear in mind how all the good of life is the result a right choice in view of that apprecia tion. And here I recall a text of Scripture that tells how Moses despised the treasures of Egypt, for allegiance to the God of Israel. Young man, where are the treasures of Egypt tonight? In 1314 where are they? But Moses! Be cause he lived, our Jewish friends built that synagogue across the street.. Be cause he lived, Judaism became the foundation upon which , God erected Christianity. And because of bis choice of loyalty to God, rather than tne pos session of Egypt's treasures, up in heaven today they sing the song of "Moses, the servant of God, and or tne Lamb." The other day I heard a child singing this very simple little verse: -Do not fear to tread the fiery furnace. Nor shrink the Uon's den to share. For the God of Daniel will deliver. He will send his angels there. Wherevdid that verse come from Why. once three Hebrew young men stood before a King, who said: v or ship that image of gold or be thrown into the burning, nery rurnace. j-.hu they looked at a life made ignoble by th worshiDof gold, would tnat ail American young men could learn the lennii. And they looked at a lire sac rifinod in obedience to the God of heaven. And they rightly estimated the value of each. And so they correctly chose. And to Daniel, the other char acter mentioned in the verse, the King said: "Pray no more to the wia ot Abraham. Isaac and Jacob, or enter the lions' den." And Daniel looked si life prolonged through cowardice God- ward. And then ne looaea at tne an clause of the ages, and at the com mendation of Jehovah, and he rightly determined. and made the -Wise choice, and therefore that child, thousands of years afterward, -was telling us not to fear the fiery turnace, nor uni me lions' den to share. Joseph's Decision Recalled. " There is no story in the Old Testa ment American youth needs more to study than that of Joseph. Yet all the career of Joseph is pivoted on one nine five minutes in his life, when in the house of his master the wife of his master to him made a black and hellish suggestion. And Joseph looked at values and said: "God forbids ine to do this." And the reason Joseph had the most wonderful funeral of all history far exceeding that of .Moses, of which Mrs. Alexander sings goes back to the time when the young man rightly distinguished between moral values and preferred recitude and Jail tn a nalace and sm.. There sat two men once menains their nets by the side of a lake. For fishermen were they. And up to them a stranger walked, and said as lie irazt-d into their eyes: "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." And they looked at the boats and the nets. and they rose up ana ronowea jesus. And their , names are written in every copy of the- Bible under God's heaven tndav. because they could rightly dis cern values and rightly make choices. Loral Citation Made. Oh. I thought this morning in our Sunday school of two voung men once knew. They were brothers, and they went to school together, ana to the house of God togetner. dui mere came the time in the career of these two men when the great determining choice was presented. And one com menced to soar and the other com menced to sink. If I told you the name of the young men who went on the ascent through the right choice, 200 people in this audience would know to whom I referred. And the other was burled years and years and years ago a poor worn-out sot in a drunkard's grave. And of that ascent and of that descent it may be -affirmed that each was the result of a wrong or a rignt estimate of values, of a wrong or a right determining choice. And. young people, I have saia ims you what your instructor would like to ave told you, and what your father would like to tell you, and what your mother will thank God you have heard. I want to tell you that the good in your life, and the good you will ac compllsh. and the good that will be laid up in the eternities, for your ever lasting renown, has got to be the re suit of your right decision in view of issues that are moral, and of your right determination between values that are spiritual. So do not. I beseech you, choose the sod when you have oppor tunity to choose the sky. ' Encouragement Is Given. And, lastly, is there any word given me to say tnat will help you in the hours when these mora values appear and you will be compelled by destiny to make your choice? Yes, there is. Now hear me say it and my task is complete. You ask the business man in this house to tell you what is the best investment and he will tell you that which gives you the largest re turns and the longest returns and the surest returns. Now, In the hour when the ways part and the soul must make its choice and the constraints and restraints begin to nlav uDon the will, choose you that which will bring you the largest divi dends of good and which will bring them to you for the longest time and which will most surely produce those dividends of satisfaction. But, ethically, one more word should enter into that definition. And you should so choose that there may come to you the largest dividends, for the longest time, and dividends of the surest character, but do not forget the quality of those divi dends. Here Faber has an illumining line in one of his poems: "Let us do, then, dearest brothers, Wot will beet and longest please us. Adam's Choice Recalled. O, ask Adam what he thinks of his choice, as he leaves Eden; and ask Esau what he thinks of his choice, as he weeps bitterly; and ask Gehazi what he thinks .of his choice, as he blanches with leprosy; and ask Judas what he thinks of his choice, as he falls, and bursts asunder. "What will best, and longest please us." 80 when you are making these decisions, my young friends, learn that you must have the far look. Not what will be a gratifl WOMAN'S CLUB DOES MUCH GOOD WORK IN 2 YEARS Mrs. Elizabeth Eggert Reports on Campaigns Conducted and Conditions Bettered During Her Administration Many Features Discussed. of a true appreciation of values, and I also in your hearing, .that I might tell S RETIRING president of the Portland Woman's Club, which office Fhe has held for the past two years, airs." Elizabeth Eggert de livered an address at the installation of. the new officers Friday afternoon in part as follows; The standard by which success In life is measured is service to toe social whole. So wrote one of our Portland editors In euloelzine the late Jacob RI1& The year Just closing has not been for the women of Oregon, and for the members of this club In particular, the epoch -makln period which distinguished it predecessor. in which equal suffrage was granted us ny the just and generous men of our state. But in this period has come tho exercise ot our new duties of citizenship In the sober, second thought, when the senso of responsi bility has succeeded and overshadowed the novelty of our relation to public art aire. Four Lost by Ieath. We have this year received -'8 new mem bers. These, with 32 the previous year, makes 450 added during this administra tion, and we now have 32U active ana . associate members, a total enrollment of St5. A working force of 320 women band ed together for .good should be able to ac complish much. From our midst four have departed for "tnat bourne rrout wnence no traveler returns." Early In the year Mrs. M. A. Dalton. a charter member of blessed memory, always loyal and true; In her is years with us she was absent only three or four times, and in every duty assigned was ever capable and efficient. l,ater Mrs. Roderick prince, cj.uiet, unostentatiour-faith ful to every trust, whose last act was one of charity "to those that are In prison." went from us as Christmas drew near. May Mrs. E. B. Wright, a newer member. highly esteemed by those who knew her. died abroad. .Tune A another charter mem ber, Mrs. Phillip Lawton, went home. New Plan Works Well. Our new plan of alternating programme nd business meetings Is working very sat isfactorily, and the more careful enforce ment of the rule for admission by ticket only has Kreatl lessened the work of our financial secretary. Our financial condition was never better. If a good. Our membership, department and press committees have faithfully performed their medal duties. Our calendar committee, un-! der the capable and resourceful leadership of Mrs. Harah A. Evans, who Has so ably served In this capacity for three successive years, has secured very interesting, enter taining and instructive programmes. The social committee, with Mrs. A. Wursweller and Mrs. J. -'. Hare as chairman and vice chairman, has been a source of delightful pleasure In the social fellowship of members and cordiality to guests. Conspicuous among our social functions was the luncheon-reception, August 0, to lira. William L. Jones, president of the Los Angeles Kb ell Club, and January 21. our istn birthday reception. Through the publicity committee we co operated with the Manufacturers' Food and Industrial Exposition, participated in Reed v onege "fortiand HUG" conference ana other public enterprises. The philanthropic committee did valuable work and aided needy families of unemployed Portland men. The education committee studied conditions of our publlo schools and by correspondence and a personal visit or one of its memoers the methods of the far-famed school of Gary, Indiana, The civic committee baa endeavored to secure women attendants for women bathers at the park playgrounds and at swimming pools on ladles' days, better conditions for women at Union Depot, better women's Quarters at new city Jail, more stringent en forcement of curfew law, and Is now labor ing for more drinking fountains and com fort stations In the North End of the city. It conducted Bed Cross sales at one of the headquarters, secured and decorated the Woman's Club -auto for our participation in the Rose Festival floral parade and di rected our Rose Festival committee of 100. The public health committee has directed Its efforts toward securing better conditions for the care of Insane women In the County Jail, for the segregation of women prison ers held therein, also for the segregation of third-stage tubercular patients and the en forcement of the anti-spitting ordinance. Tt represented the club In the campaign for cold-storage and meat-Inspection measures. The hall and Chautauqua committees have well performed their duties. Members on Boards. We hav representation on the moving- pictures censorship committee, still main tain fraternal alliance with the Visiting Nurse Association and the Prisoners' Aid KnriMtv w loined the anti-cigarette cru sade, and have co-operated with the City Health Department in xne anii-uy ---- patgn, with the Progressive Business Men s Club in the Public Market enterprise, with h Rose Festival Association as aforesaid. and with the Portland Ad Club in the Ore gon industry league. w have -united with other womcn'i or ganisations in the school beautifying plans, the woman's building project, as also in the effort to secure a better housing ordi nance. We labored to save the University of Oregon appropriations and the club has put Itself on public record as favoring the I.lndquist pure fabrics bill, the seamen's bill and the Works National temperance bill. As contributing to the financial success of these enterprises, the club has been placed under lasting obligation to our three great dallies, The Oregon fan, the Journal and the Kvenlng Telegram, for the generous and un-I stinted contribution of their valuable space for publicity. I cation to the palate for the, passing mo ment; but what will benefit when the stars scatter like thistle down tn a hurricane, and the end of the world are fallen. And you must have the upward look. Agassis ranks higher than Kookfel. ler; and Lincoln Is heavier than Van derbllt; because Agassis and Lincoln had the upward look; and were ambi tious In the realm of the mind, rather than of the body; and set their affec tions on things spiritual, not material; on things eternal, not temporal. And you will be helped to rightly de termine, if you remember that you have only one life to live upon the Earth. And yet that life Is the determining life which conditions all our future; and which future ts as long as the life time of God. And you must remember it is the probationary life; and that youj are now sowing the seed of which you shall reao the harvest when tho sun has passed away and time shall be no more. So how wiujrou cnooeer i tell you this morning, tn unmistakably clear language. If you allow Jesus Christ to determine your choice, you will make no mistake. Mosr'i La re Mast be Withstood. Let him stand beside you when money pulls a no- fame pulls, and posi tion pulla, and let him My. "What shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose himself.' Wealth and rule go round with fortune As her wheel turns round i He who keeya his faith, he only Caunot be uncrowned. Little matters loss of fortune. Ix of ran It or crown, But the wreck were pint retrieving If the man fall down. lUet Christ come to your belp In the great crises of your life, the times when you have to determine between values. o you know Gilder's writings: Then you know Gilder said: If Jesus Christ be a man. And onlv a man. I MV. Of all mankind I will follow hlin, And to him cleave alway. That decision Is good, for Jesus has proved himself to be the tallest man. But Gilder adda: If Jesus Christ be a God. And the only ;od I swear I wlil follow him through heaven and hell, Th ttarih. th Ma. or the air. And that decision is wise. For whoso follows God has a sure road to tread. and a certain and blessed destlna tlon. With a personal word I close, when I was the age of some of you young people listening to me now, I had to make a choice. And never a week goes over my head, but I recall that choice, and live it over again. And sometimes my brow grows moist even in chilly weather, as I think of the momentouHnoss of the decision I had to make then. I know not how 1 should have fared, but I happened then to open my Browning, and I read these four lines, for which I thank God. Round the cape, on a sudden, came the sea. And the sun looked over tne mountain s rim. And straight was the pall of gold for him. And tha need of a woId of men or me. Hymn's Verse Points May. And 1 said, "God, I accept the need of the wor.'d of men for my life task." But I knew rot how to best meet the need of the world of men, until one other day came. When I found four linos that are written down In this hymn book. And these four lines have been to me as a polo star In moral things ever since. I will go where you want me to go, Lord, Over monntrln, or plain, er sea; I will say what you want me to sav, Lord; I will be what you want me to be. And I thank God that f have striven during all these years to live In the light of that simple truth so simply ex pressed. . And therefore I say to you this morn, ing, wheu the hour comes, as It will, that you have to make your choice be tween the thing that la bad and the thing that Is good; or harder, between that which Is very good and that wMh Is supremely beat; call to mind. In that hour, what I have aatt to you In the name of God this morning. And h what will bt and lonaest v'' ro, And have the far look. tiu h Is t upward look. And remember mir nn life Is. a probationary life, and a 1 f that will affect the ears. And lhn look up Into the eyes of Christ. ao ask for guManre. And If he shakes, his head in thtf negative, move to stept But If he no. is affirmative jr. move on Into the ultimate victory and overlaatlng renown. Pretty Dancing Frock It of Sheer Batiste Flouncing. Kewftt Kaaalaa Tnat 4tv-a Mmrm Meader lMerte Tkeu t ail ing; 'roan U ilit l.lae I'aaaasae la IHnay fthaaea. CHAUHINGLT pretty dancing frocks are built of sheer batiste flouncing with a machine embroidered edge In pale pink. The flounces are attached to a foundation skirt of net which falls over a slip of pink daphne silk the soft, thin silk which Is excellent for such use, A surplice bodice of the em broidered flouncing Is drawn under a wide sash of pink ribbon, tied In an Immense bow at the bark, and the short sleeves may be ot frilled lace, caught up with pink ribbon 13 match the sash, e e e Fan am a hats are as popular as erer with the advent of midsummer. Thev come in all aises and a ha pea, from chic little affairs trimmed smartly with up standing white wings or ribbon 1 broad-brimmt'd, shady models which may be garnished with a wide band of crushed pussy willow taffeta pure wh.te--araint which are od eorn trtcally elautcd white wings. 1 he whit hat Is smart only with a w hite costume, ind this must Include white panuiol, gloves and reticule, as well as the but toned boots or pumps rf white buck skin, which complete tha snowy en semble. see The very newest of the new Russian tunics are set on at the hip line which gives a more) slender silhouette than the tunic falling from tha waist line. The longer such a tunic la. the bMtr for smartness, 8m of them show only an Inch or two of klrt beneath, these skirts being;, of course, extremely nar row and short enough to show the but toned boot at the ankle Un. Ipocillv modish are tunics that contrast In ma terial with the skirt beneath, and In such cases the bodice may uisl'h skill or tunic. If there Is a ton h of the con trasting material Introduced In rufT, collar and vest. DEATH SEIZES LAKE HERO Captain Xnplcr, Who r-rd Many IjlTrw, Flntintl rad In IWtf. HT. JOSKril, Mlctv. Juns ;:. (Bin Joseph A. Naplrr. who .! llvc 1rln hi, 4 yprs s sutler nl m, titer on th prt fniin. dead In brd rcrentl)'. ! was M y.ar old. In 15I Captain Naplor rrmrn4 ,ln- Kl-handx1 3 2 of th, panr n1 rrw of tha aohonnrr Merchant, whtdi foundi-rwl off fMciti), Knr this ai t of hTolHin tha cltlnnns of Chlrsao a him a K"ld wati h and rhaln. which h carrlivl until diath. In 187 fcinnrss "fotrd htm a nid! for bravery In savlna Tirsl Hv In thi wro-k of tho mrnirifr I. ri. Will- lams, off this port In rffwtln thia rescue Captain Kaplsr sufffr-d n la the thing that la good and tha thtna jury to his spine t.sulllna In rmi. that la better: or harder still, botwei n I nmit disability. PRETTY EMBROIDERED NEGLIGEE DESIGN FOR THE SUMMER BRIDE 1 satn7 era let: an OUTLINE 3TITCHB3 The accompanying Illustration is of a charmln-f Summer negligee, made up of some coo, lacy material, and hand somely embroidered In satin, eyelet, and outline stitches. There are two ways to apply the design to the ma terial upon which it Is to be worked. Tf your material is sheer, such as lawn, batiste, and the like, the simplest method is to lay the material over the design and with a sharply pointed pencil draw over each line. If your material Is heavy, secure a piece of transfer or Impression paper. Lay it face down upon this, then draw over each line of the paper design with a hard pencil or the point of a steel knitting needle. TJpon lifting -the pat tern and transfer paper you will find a neat and accurate outline of the de sign upon your material. '