THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLANP,- AUGUST 9. 1914.
BAPTIST PASTOR CALLS CHRIST HOPE OF THE MODERN ESAUS
Dr. Walter B. Hinson at White Temple Takes Genesis 25:34, "Esau Despised His Birthright," as Text at Services.
BY WALTER B. HINSON. V. D.
NOW what that birthright was X
am not prepared to say. But it
locks as though it were so gran
and good It would have given Ksau a
place with Abraham and Isaac But he
valued It trlfllngly. Yet his brother
realized the worth of it. while Esau
did not- And so one day. being hungry
after returning from the chase, Esau
sold his birthright for a meal. And
thus it came to pass that the text was
written. "So Esau despised 1U8 birth
right." Now he may have been prepared to
despise that birthright by a long season
of slowly accumulating disparagement
of It. Just as you can easily recall
how. when we were young, there
came into the mind a feeling of dis
content in regard to the arrangement
of the home and its discipline. And we
looked about and saw how other lads
had more liberty than we. God help
ii nnrt nlrv im fnr our foolishness! And
wo nurtured the consciousness that if
we could go away from .the father and
the mother and the restraints of home
It would be so much better for us. And
mm tt,m ..Htnir to a. lonsr series of
discontents there came the day when
we ran away from home, and tempora
rily thank God It was not. pernineii.
ta .-. lost our blrthrlKht.
iv talk so foolishly right often
about a sudden fall. We say swiftly
a the lightning flash the man fell
from nobility to Ignominy and from
holiness to shame. That is not the way
men fall, my friends. You saw that
of the forest when It went
nnshlnc down to the consternation of
the underbrush, and you said It was a
Kurtrfrn fall. In a sense It was. nut nau
you gone up and examined the break
In that tree you would nave rouna it
was a 20-year fall. And that tree had
Tioon nraoarina- to fall, while the Sum-
...,,.. and the Winters. That Is
whv it is so harzardous to encourage
evil In even your thinking, because you
erow tolerant toward It. You come to
regard it with a sort of sympathy. And
thn whan the fitting occasion comes
and the opportunity offers suddenly
you make the decision which, but for
your long preparation for it, you would
never have made under God's heaven.
t, oroforA rDl the first advance of
the evil.
And yet there are men of the Esau
tamp impulsive, emotional men and
It is marvelous with what suddenness
such persons arrive at a conclusion and
form a decision. And since moat of us
torinv are imDulslvely made up, it be
hooves us to be careful how we place
ourselves In positions and situations
where the sudden squall may strike,
and we In an hour wreck a life.
You see Esau's philosophy was a
modern philosophy, an American phil
osophy. It was materialistic, and of the
present only. For he said when hun
gry: "I have a birthright, but the
birthright lies far In the future; and.
anyhow. It is of no worth to a hungry
man." And so he despised his birth
right, as we are doing today. Oh. the
price some people pay for money is
enough to make Christ again weep! The
sacrifice some people endure for the
saku of a passing pleasure or the grat
ification of a moment's whim is enough
to startle the angels. For Esaus are
In this congregation at this moment.
That is why. all the day long. I have
been looking forward to this moment,
under the consciousness that I was
going to say something pertinent to
mvself and you. I don't know where
those choices lie in your life. I know
where some of them were in mine
when I despised the birthright. And
how we wonder now that even the devil
himself could have made us such fools.
Young people, I wish in the name of
my Master I could say some warning,
arrestive word to you. Do not you
know that now you must lay the foun
dation upon which all the super-
i-'irtnM of vour life is doomed to
stand? And you have birthrights
e-rand and glorious; but almllar birth
riKhts have been bartered away by
men and women before you. for drink
for fashion, for pleasure or for the
titlllatlon of a nerve. And men and
women have forfeited the great prizes
that beacon and allure you tonight,
even as Esau despised his birthright of
old.
Flippant Girls Warned.
The other night I walked some of
the streets of this city and looked
through the open doors of the saloons.
And Esau was there, shortening his life,
impairing his faculties and wringing
the hearts of those who loved him sec
ond only to God; ho was despising the
birthright.
Ami somebody has got to say a word
about the frivolity and flippancy of the
young womanhood of this nation: how
It is moving off Into noise and loud
ness, as though it were ashamed of the
quietude and the modesty that charac
terizes the old mother. And there is
many a young girl in this city tonight
selling a birthright glorious aa the
throne of God. And there are so many
helping her to sell it that it breaks my
heart to think of the few who are
warning her against so doing.
Well, he sold his birthright and then
he grieved bitterly. Ah. Adam, it Is
easy to despise the birthright and lose
the garden and lose God. But tne nret
night out of Eden, when the winds be
gin to moan as they never moaned be
fore, and the red sun plunges to its
death as it never plunged before, and
the stars are hidden by the clouds as
thev never were hidden before, and
conscience begins to thunder like
Sinail within the breast, there shall be
grief at night, oh, Adam, for the lost
birthright!
I have wondered lately why my mind
has rested on the tragedy of Achan the
way it has. Do you know enough about
him to catch the force of the allueion?
He was a brave soldier in the army of
God. And the order had been given
that under no means should treasure
from the enemies' camp be taken. And
Achan ' saw beautiful raiment' and
precious metal, and he took them and
hid them in his tent. Oh, the foolish
ness of It! For he could not wear that
raiment and he could not use that
money. And dismay came upon the
whole army, and in consternation they
sought the reason for Israel s defeat,
and Achan was proven guilty of the
sin and he and all his family taken out
and stoned to death.
I tell you men and women, If Achan
could epeak to us, he would tell us of
the grief that follows the selling of the
birthright. Did you ever have sym
pathy for Judas? I know his crime
was ghastly. I know thjat for $20 to
part company with God, is astounding
wickedness. But I have never yet sat
wimA mvself as to the real motives
that prompted him to go back to those
Pharisees and say: "Here Is the money,
the price of my soul"; and then to go
out, hunted by the wolves of remorse,
until contain himself longer he could
not, so he tries to get out of God's
reach. And as the noose Is adjusted
about his throat, he also tells you. that
gTeat is the grief that follows the loss
of the birthright If some of these
Esaus of Portland could tell us what
has come to themselves as the result
of selling the birthright, warnings dire
and awful would go thundering and
sobbing through this audience. I shall
never forget a story a slum worker
once told of a young girl who had fal
tered and fallen. When this Christian
worker met her, she was wringing her
hands in horror. And the woman said,
that when she stood within three feet
of her, the girl seemed as though she
could not see the friendly woman, as
from her lips she hissed: "O. my God,
why did I do it?" If we knew! It tooR
not half -a minute to sign the name; but
it will take the rest of your life to
that word back. O, you may grieve
through the night, till the dawn comes,
but the birthright Is sold.
But I have been noticing lately that
often grief comes because of the effect
of that sold birthright on other people.
I could tell you some stories that some
times make my life sad and heavy. Of
a man who has been reading some book
of revealing science, and has come to
me and said: "Do you tell me that the
result of that sin of mine is resting on
my boy, and my girl?" And when, be
cause I could not lie to the man, I have
told him the truth; I have seen that
face go ashy white, and I have heard
that may say: "My God, I should never
have been born." He went out with
heartbreaking grief, but he did not af
fect the consequence of his lost birth
right any more than I should by drop
ping the hand. "Esau grieved," the
Book says.
But lastly, the inspired record says
of this man: "He found no place for re
pentance." Isn't that awful? No place
for repentance! There lie is with his
wild, unbearable grief, but there Is no
place for repentance. O. the law is so
pitiless, so pitiless! You think, the
preacher's lot is easy, but If you knew
of the times and circumstances when
the preacher sees the person in the grip
of the law, and has to admit. "Yes, the
law is there, and the penalty Is thus,
and escape there Is none,"' you would
know what makes a man's heart heavy,
and a man's spirit sink. No place for re
pentance! Does a man get there? Why,
my friends, there are hundreds of men
in Portland city tonight, who are there.
There are probably men In this house
listening to me. who are saying: "He is
describing me." I don't know why, but
this evening, as I was thinking about
this sermon, my mind reverted t Hooa,
the poet. And I thought about that
birthday -verse of his. He sat down
to think about his life, and this is what
he wrote:
I remember. I remember.
The nous where I was born.
The little window where the sun
Came needing in at morn;
It never came a wink too soon.
Nor brought too long; a day.
But now 1 often wish the night
Had borne my breath away.
I remember. I remember,
Where I was used to swing.
And thought the air must rush as fresh
To swallows on the wing;
My spirit flew in feathers then
That Is so heavy now.
And Summer oools could hardly cool
The fever on ray brow.
I remember. I remember.
The fir trees, dark and high:
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky.
1 was a childish Ignorance,
T3ut now 'tis little joy
To know I'm further off from heaven
Then when I was a boy.
Boyhood Hays Recalled.
Tom Hood wrote that our of the bit
terness of his heart. And while I am
led in that direction for let me go
wherever I may be led do you remem
ber another of his poems? O, how
Illustrative of my theme is that poem:
"One more unfortunate.
Weary of breath.
Rashly Importunate,
Gone to her death.
Had she a father.
Had she a mother.
Had she & sister.
Had she a brother:
Or was there a dearer one
Still, and a nearer one
Yet. than all others?
Yes, and do you remember how he
says, she was
"Mad with life's history.
Glad to death's mystery.
Swift to be hurled
Anywhere, anywhere, out of the world.
"In she oluneed boldly
No matter how coldly
The rough river ran
Over the brink of It!
victimizer Hood addresses tho fright
ful lines, ,
"Picture it. think of it.
Dissolute man!
Lve In it. drink of It.
Then. If you can
Take her up tenderly.
Lift her with care.
Fashioned so slenderly.
Yofng. and s fair."
Now is there any place for that man
to repent in? Though he weeps more
drops of brine than fell raindrops in
the Flood, can he bring back that"
spoiled life? "He found no place for
repentance."
The more I read it. the more won
derful does this Bible become to me.
Do you know the story of Samson?
Raised up by God to be the deliverer
of the chosen people of Jehovah, he
sold his birthright. Was there ever
tragedy more ghastly than Samson?
Weakened; eyes put out: grinding
in the accursed Philistine mill;
going round and round like a
poor truck horse? Can Samson get
back the light into those darkened
eyes? You know he cannot No place
for repentance. There is a record on
your police court in this city I sup
press the name "Sixty-five years of
age; dead with the Jimjams;" and I
don't know what heartless mortal
wrote the sentence. But there is a life
recorded In a sentence.
Sixty-five years, years in which nen
have become; in which men have done;
in which men have made for them-
" n Vi iov.il crnntnAMS and
goodness; and the result of the life Is I Aceldama field and burst asunder. But
all totaled in a miserable lino of a
police court record. No place for re
pentance! And sou cannot get that
life back. You know Rosettl has a line
in one of his poems that burns like an
acid when you go talking and think
ing along these lines. He makes op
portunity come and say:
Look in my face.
My name Is Might Have Been;
I am also called Too Late.
No More. Farewell.
Now when a man has opportunity
talking thus to him. the man's name is
Esau; and he finds no place for re
pentance. Do you remember how
Browning puts it?
Blot out his name, tuen; record .one lost
soul more -"Jne
task more declined, one more foot
path untrod;
One mora devil's triumph and sorrow for
angels.
One wrong more to man. one more insult
to God.
LlfeT night begins.
And when life's night begins, is there
anybody can bring back the lost day?
1 read last week of a man who begged
the Judge to have him hanged. He
said: "I am in too much torture to
boar more imprisonment. For God's
sake, hang me, and let me get out of
It" No place for repentance. But I
have also read In this Book of a man
who did hang himself, and yet did not
get out of It You know the Gospel
gives you the vision of a man named
Judas who committed suicide, and the
rone broke, and he fell there In the
REAL MEANING OF "I
LOVE YOU" ANALYZED
Barbara Boyd Quotes Newly-Made Wife on Things Which Go to Prove
Proper Affection Between Husband and Mate.
"I
T is easy to say 'I love you,' Isn't
it?" observed the New Bride, as
she and the New Bridegroom
swung in the hammock in the shadowy
depths of the veranda. "But what does
it really mean, I wonder?"
"What does it mean!" exclaimed the
New Bridegroom. Why why - it
means why, everybody knows what I
love you' means."
"But what does it mean?" persisted
the New Bride. "Saying It doesn't mean
anything. You have to demonstrate by
proof what its meaning is. And so I
wonder sometimes just what it does
mean." , . ...
"On that baslsT I guess it has a dif
ferent meaning with almost every per
son," reflected the New Bridegroom.
"That's the way it strikes me.' agreed
the New Bride. "I know a woman who
Is always telling her husband how much
she loves him and at all sorts of oppor
tune and inopportune times and places
is pecking him with kisses. Really,
often he is quite embarrassed. But
though she knows he likes a tidy house,
hers Is most untidy. Though she knows
he likes his meals on time, hers are
always late. She seems to think, so
that she caresses him enough, it is all
she need do." ... . ,
"But I really do not think she loves
him very much," objected the New
Bridegroom. t .
"But she sincerely believes she loves
him very deeply."
"Perhaps she hasn't much depth her
self "
"Maybe not. But you would never
think that if you met her. And I know
a man who scarcely says a dozen words
to his wife all the time he is in the
house He appears In the morning when
breakfast Is ready, eats it hurriedly,
reads his paper and maybe remarks
he'll have another cup of coffee, or
asks her If she'll have another chop. He
kisses her good-Dye in an ui
sort of way, as if he were kissing a
parlor chair or the piano or something
of that sort. At night he sits around
on the piazsa or tinkers with his auto
mobile till dinner is ready, at which he
repeats his remarks about more meat
or more coffee or more something else,
and maybe he growls a bit about things
in general. At 9 o'clock he goes to bed.
Yet he believes he really cares a lot
for his wife. He gets her most of the
things she wants. And he finds a kind
of satisfaction in having her about the
house or In sitting in the room where
she Is, like you enjoy having a dog
about of which you are fond or a cat."
The New Bridegroom laughed.
"Well, you know, some people do find
a lot of satisfaction in Just quietly
sitting in a room with a person they
care for. Merely having this person
near gives them pleasure. But a man
also finds pleasure In having his favor
ite dog stretched at his feet, or a
woman In having her cat purring at
her side."
"I guess, though. If anything hap
pened to their lifemate these people
would show a great deal more feeling
than they do ordinarily."
"Probably. But why wait for things
to happen?" objected the New Bride.
"If one really loves a person, why not
show it whenever possible in ways
that are loving? To me, lovo is the
giving of good, all the time and In all
ways, just lavishing good. And the
more one gives the more one will have
to give. I do not necessarily mean
material things, but thought and atten
tion and care. Such things are like
sunshine, and human beings blossom
out under them like flowers do in the
warm sun."
And as the New Bridegroom thought
of the hundred and one little and big
ways in which she was mindful of his
wishes and comfort, he realized that
her "I love you" was backed with
dynamic meaning,
in the Acta of the Apostles I read "He
went to his own place." So there Is no
escape in that way. 1 think the man Is
in this house this moment who said In
my hearing, "If I could go to hell and
make expiation for my sin, I would
gladly go to hell." But my brother,
you cannot make expiation even by
being damned! For the deed Is done,
the birthright Is lost!
Hope Raised by Christ.
18 this all? Well, this l all true.
But do you notice my text is in the Old
Testament? "Thus Esau despised his
birthright." I want to get Into the
New Testament before I let you go.
Suppose somebody could go Into this
hell of lost birthrights, and win back
the blessing we spurned and lost. Yes,
but who can do it? Suppose tho God
of the birthright, who li infinite in
every attribute, undertook the deliv
erance of Esau! Could be accomplish
it?
Well, Jesus Christ went through
Gothsemane, and Pilate's hall. and
Herod's court and he wont up the
Uttle knoll they call Calvary, and they,
flung him down on two cross plecea
of timber, and they nailed him to the
wood, and they lifted him up. and they
let that cross with its awful burden
fall Into the hole that had been pie
pared for It and as the shock lacerated
his nall-plerced hands and feet, he
said. "Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do." It looks like
a great hope, does it not? And there
he hung. And the pitiless sun burned
him, and the roar of the mob rose about
him, until he uttered the ghastliest sen
tence that ever was spoken, "My God.
why hast thou forsaken me?" You
see. It cost a good deal to go down
after our lost birthright. But do you
know how he closed? He aald, "It is
finished." And before that poor head
bowed on the breast, one of the sol
diers breaking the legs of those cruci
fied men said, "There Is no need to
break his legs, for he Is dead."
And the centurlau said. "No need ot
breaking the legs of that prisoner, for
the blood and water came out of the
heart Just now when 1 pierced it." He
aid, "It is finished." And that Is
why I have been preaching this gos
pel of the Son of God ever since he
first revealed himself as my Saviour.
That is why when they say, "You must
not preach so much," I say, "I must
preach more." I have a reputation of
having only one subject and only one
story. So that they say of me. "He is
nothing but a preacher." Well, he is
not much of a preacher, but God knows
he Is nothing but a preacher; and noth
ing but a preacher of this Christ who
went down Into the hell of my lost
birthright.
And somehow by the sacrifice of
Himself, He brought back to me my
birthright; and He says to me I may
yet become a child of God. and heir of
Heaven, a priest and a king unto God.
the Father. Esau, you have gold
your birthright; and you havo grieved
with an awful bitterness; and there is
no place for repentance until you touch
Christ. You know 1 thought a minute
ago how some of us would have to
go home tonight and we should have
to mourn over these birthrights we
have despised. But don't wait to get
home to grlove. Just get right now
with Christ and grieve there, yes.
grieve there. And Jesus will look
down to you, and in his eyes there
will be wells of love and sympathy,
and he will say. "I bore all the pain
for you. Now let roe take the respon
sibility of your life. Yes. let nie take
the responsibility of your sin. And
do you heed me. and live as I tell you.
and do what l tell you, and you shall
be saved In time and In eternity." 1
have felt all the day long this ser
mon was to be the turning point in
your destny, man! And It will be, if
now under nothing that is hysterical,
but under the plain statement of truths
you know to be truths, you turn your
poor sln-staineo soui to vjaivary, unu
take Jesus as your Saviour and your
Lord. The Spirit of God help you to
do It for Jesus' sake. la my heart's
prayer.
EUGENIC MARRIAGE FAILS
Courtship by Mall Ends In Divorce.
Court In Alimony Suit.
CLEVELAND. Aug. J. Cuyhogn
County'a first eugenio marriage tailor
waa recorded In Common Pleas Court,
when Mrs. Josephine Sanger. If year,
of 1248 Weat Sixty-seventh street ap
peared before Judge Stevens i mending
alimony from her huaband. Joseph
Sanger, of J7 Weat Flfty-alxth atreet.
with whom ahe waa able to live only a
acant two weeka
Mrs. Sanger on the stand told Judge
Stevena ahe and her huaband not only
had married aa a reault of tho belief
they were eugenlcally fitted for each
other, but that the whole courtahtp had
been oarrled on by mall.
Mr. Sanger. In his letters, ahe sera,
mlarepreacnted hts physical condition.
Otherwlae ahe doea not believe the
eugenic marriage would have been a
failure.
"I have not lost faith In the theory. '
aald Mra. Sanger, "If 1 ever marry again
It will be a eugenio marriage, but the
next time I ahall demand more than
specifications by mall. I will go the
whole way and demand a physical eg-,
amlnatlon."
Judge Stevena awarded Mra Bangei
S3 a week temporary alimony, pending
the trial ot the action at the Septem
ber term of court
KITS BORN IN CITY HALL
"Tammany" Oner Again Become
Proud Mother of Six.
BALTIMORE. July 10. Tammany,
the City Hall cat, la once more a proud
and happy mother.
"Tom" Rlggin. the portly bluecoat.
who patrols the corridors and keeps
an eye on the liolllday-etreet entrance
to the Hall, recently dlacovored half a
doaen wriggling, aqulrmlng kitten
hidden away in one of the rooms oc
cupied by attaches of the Appeal Tax
Court He Bays they "are going to be
beauties."
In anticipation of the daya that are
to come "Tom" hunted up the old milk
bottles and the pan (rem which he has
been weaning Tammany'a numerous I
offspring for some yeara.
No one knowa what would become of I
the City Hall klttena If It were not
fur the humanitarian heart of "Tom' -Rlggin.
although "Tom'' says be can't
exactly understand why a person who(
takes good care of cats and doga and
horses should be called "humani
tarian." He says It should be changed
to "fellnttarlan" In hla eaae. Then
"Tom" argues that a man who lovea a ,
dog ahould be railed a dogltarlan.''
$50,000 ADDED TO GIFT
Anonymous Donor of $10-0,000 In
creases Cornell 'it nrt.
ITHACA, N. Y.. July 19. An addi
tional IJO.OOO for the erection of der
raltorlea at Cornell I'nlveralty la an
nounced by President Jacob Gould
Scharman. Tho president waa tendered
the gift In New York City last Wednes
day by the same anonymous donor who
gave 1 thta Spring for dormito
ries.
The increase of the fund to 1150,000
will practically provide for the erection
of the main residential hall and give
the university a firm basis upon which
to work In the future for the extension
of the dormitory syatem.
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be worked. If 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 knit
ting needle. Upon lifting the pattern
and transfer paper you will find a neat
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