XJtiE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 20, 1914. CONGREGATION HEARS PASTOR MAKE CRUCIAL TEST OF FAITH ' Belief in Works Related in Scriptures and Full Conception of God's Ownership of Life Declared Essential to Christian Living by Dr. Hinson. BY BK. WALTER B. HIN'BON. Ctf' OD whose I am, and whom I I serve-" Acts xxvil:23. Will you V! connect with that text this dou ble affirmation: "I believe, and I be long?" I believe God. To some men who firmly believed in God Jesus once dar ingly said, "Believe also In me." And they familiarized themselves with Christ by living with him, listening to his speech, watching his manner ot life, beholding him asleep and awake, when he was among friends and among foes: until they expressed, themselves as believing him to be the Lord their God. And what that belief did for those men we well know. For it took ordi nary, humble fishermen of Galilee and made them the leaders of the world's religious thought for all time, setting them upon thrones of spiritual power and influence, at which all the world wonders tonight. And the marvel of marvels is that they were enabled by Christ's grace to perpetuate that faith In the lives of men and women who had never seen the Lord, as they had done. So that people from every rank of life and every grade of society and every type of thought accepted the news of a once crucified but risen and reigning Lord. And they hurled back all kinds of hos tility and persecution and lived their heroic lives and finally surrendered those lives In martyrdom, becausa of their loyalty to the Son of God. You remember how in the front rank of these stood Saul of . Tarsus, tlie vengeful persecutor, who even unto strange cities harassed the believers ii Jesus Christ. Tut who was suddenly struck down by the power of God and so marvelous a transformation was wrought in that strong man's life that the persecutor became the preacher and the apostle. And under his influence by the hundred and thousand men for Book the old gods and the old faiths and came over to the new creed that Jesus Christ was the world's only Savior. Faith Gave Them Pnvrer. And because of their faith in that risen and reigning Lord they were stronger than paganisms and philoso phies and they overcame all obstacles and lived the wonderful Christian life that is at once our inspiration and our despair. Yet it would be a marvel If faith in God did not enable men to thus heroically live. For what cares any man for power when he knows the om nipotence of God is being exercised in his support? Or what cares any man for organized evil arrayed against him . w,hen he knows that God can make even the stars in their courses fight the battles of his elect? So I say it would be a greater marvel still if faith in God did not infuse men with a lofty courage that would despise all opposition and overcome all power. Now have you this faith In God? I sometimes wonder if we people, whose names are on church rolls, and who sing these wonderful hymns of trust, and who say our prayers, and read our Bibles, I sometimes wonder if we should display like faith in God should persecution overtake us, as it raged in the centuries that are gone. For it is one thing to sit in a church, and give assent to the proclamation of a gospel: but think you that your faith in God would suffice you if you had to stand EMBROIDERED LINEN COVER This embroidery design -makes up Into an excellent linen cover for hot rolls. To apply the design to the material upon which it is to be worked secure a piece of transfer or impression pa per. Lay it face down upon the ma terial, then draw over each line of the pattern with a hard pencil or the point of a knitting needle. There are two points to observe In this simple process if you would exe cute It satisfactorily. One is to see that your material Is level, cut and folded by a thread, and that your de sign Is placed upon it evenly at every point. ' The second is. when placed accurately secure the design to the material with thumb tacks or with pins, so that it cannot slip during the operation. alone where the great conflict raged? How much sacrifice could you make for your faith, think you? I remember when in England, at tending a service in a church, and see ing at the back, of the pulpit a door, and I failed to understand the reason for that door, fjr apparently it led nowhere. So I asked the . preacher. "Why have you a door at the back of your pulpit?" and he replied, "We need no door now; but this church is 500 years old; and when it was built, they took the wise precaution of appointing some means of escape for the preacher, should the enemies of the faith sud denly appear. And so with all the renovating this church has undergone, we have retained that old oaken' door as a memento of the heroic days that are fled." Trials Then Test "Worshipers. Should I have been a preacher then? Would you have been gathered in pews then? Should that testing time return, would I still preach; and would you still worship? How about your faith in God? I have many times wondered howi much of that same, faith which you and I possess is allied to a tradi tion. We never thought it out. We never reasoned about it. We never held it tightly in our grip "when the great winds blew, and the wild storms broke. We have worn it rather as men wear articles of raiment. And perhaps that is why it so slightly affects our conduct. 1 Think you, could we stand out oh the quivering deck of the storm-driven ship, and looking wild elements and wilder men In the face, say, "I believe God," and transmit the heroism gen erated by our own faith into the hearts of those about us? Do you really be lieve God? Do you firmly hold to the fact that God Is in this house? Do you believe God is acquainted with the life you lived last week? Can you say with the old Greek poet, "In ,Jiim we live, and move, and have our be ing?" O, is he an article of faith to which you give Intellectual assent; or is he the living power dominant in your life? Do you young people believe in the God of Moses? A young woman came to me the other day to ask if a belief in evolution excluded God from the universe, for so some professor had been hinting in his foolish speech. Do you no matter what the method -he employed may have been do you stand and say, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth?" Do you believe in Moses God? Do you believe in the God Isaiah possessed? What are the dimensions of your God? Isaiah's God Cited. A profitable inquiry in thesf days, when they tell us God originated cer tain lawst and now He is a slave to the very laws He created. Do you believe in the God Isaiah saw when he said. "He holdeth the waters' in the hollow of his hand; and meteth out heaven with the span; and comprehendeth the dust of the earth in a measure; and weigheth the mountains in scales; and the hills in a balance; and calls all the stars by name." Do you believe in the God of Matthew? Mr. Aked. of San Francisco, informed us that he could not. Well, do you? Do you believe when Jesus was born into this world, there occurred the great break in human history; and He alone of all those born of women, pos sessed but one earthly parent? Do you believe in the God of Mark, the human Christ, who was bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh, who hungered, and thirsted, and fainted, and bled, and died? Df you believe in the God of Luke, the universal Christ; the One dying for the sins of the whole world; the One who said he came to seek and to save the lost, everywhere, for all time? Do you believe in the God of John? "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." Do you believe in Jesus Christ as God? Do you believe when he stroked the hair of those little children, it was God touching the child? Do you be lieve Him when He said, "Whoso has seen me hath seen the Father; for I and the Father are one?" Do you really believe God? God'a Ownership Discussed. And then pass to the second question. Do I belong to God? What do you think is the marvel in the conversion of Saul of Tarsus? The being struck down on the Damascus Road; the blinding light from heaven; the voice that spoke: the answer that went back to Christ; No! The most wonderful thing about that marvelous conversion was the size of the Christ whom Paul, with blinded earthly eyes, saw with the eyes of the spirit on that eventful day. A Christ so large that he said "Lord" to the Nazarene. Have we said "Lord" to that Savior. ' So often I catch myself thinking of the treasurer of a church I once served, who after I had preached to him for years, stood up one night in the 'serv ice, and said. "Mr. Hinson. let me say a word!" And we all marveled, for he was a man slow of speech. And he said, "You have Just now caused the light to break In on my life. I have had little peace, or joy, or power, in my religious life. But just now, when you said. 'It is not enough to take Jesus as a Sa vior, you must go on to take him as the Lord of your life, from whom you receive your marching orders, and whose will is the rule of all your con duct' I saw my fault; for I took him as a Savior, as best I could. But I have lived my own life, according to my own will. But he said. "I here and now sur render that life to Christ; and so for the first time I say, 'Jesus, my Savior, and mysLord.'" Brother, have you done it? Have you gone on to say, "I believe, and I belong?" You can easily see how Christ became the pas sion of Paul's heart, when he saw in that Christ, the Son of God dying for him, rising for him, living for him, so that he could regard all the prizes of the world as being but dung in com parison with the "Well done" of Jesus Christ; and declared that his highest ambition in life was to. know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and to have fellowship in his suffering. This is where all these little reformers are like men striving to propel a boat with one oar. For if you lack the faith in Christ, you will lack the dy namic that makes your life like a power to overcome sin, and eradicate selfishness, and Inspire you to deeds of high and holy daring, for Christ's sake, "I belong." Gifts Hot Used. O! people, have we looked at all the possessions that we hold under God, and said. "They are not ours. They .OWE-HALF Of o o O O 0 o o belong to him." Has " he given you power of speech or of song; organiz ing power; business power; ability, to make wealth; or the higher gifts of sympathy, and Influence? Are - you using all these gifts with the realiza tion that you are accountable to God for every one of them? "I belong." for It is God whom I serve. Do we thus belong to God? How many hours of this day set apart for the worship of Jehovah, have you and" I lived under the high con sciousness that the hours of the day belong to God? "The idea," said a woman not many days ago, "that I am asked to give a tenth of all I possess to God." A tenth? Why don't you know the whole of it is the possession of God, and that you are only his steward? And on that day when the mountains are rocking, and the great seas are being licked up, you will have to give in to God an account of that stewardship of yours. ' "I believe." That is not enough! Let that belief evi dence itself in your conduct, as you say: "And I belong." Now sometimes the surrender of the soul to God that enables the man to say, "I belong." is a slow process. Hear me carefully, lest you misunder stand me. Sometimes the soul by a series of visions and revelations, comes to the final surrender of the life. Do you remember that wonderful hymn of Monod's? O the bitter phame and sorrow. That a time could ever be. "When I proudly said to Jesna. "All or self,' and none of thee." Yet he sought me, I beheld him, Uleedlr.g- on the accursed tree. - And my wistful heart said faintly, "gome ot self, and some of thee." Iav by day hi tender mercy. Healing, helpful, kind and free. Brought me lower, till I whispered, "Lets of self, and more or hee." IllBher than the highest heaven, Deeper than the deepest sea. Lord, thy life at -last has conquered, Grant me now my soul's petition, "None of self, and all of thee." I.lgrht Sometimes Comes Slowly. Yes, sometimes by a series of slow processes the soul come into the light and makes the complete surrender to God. But I believe it can be done im mediately, if one will but do it so. Paul did it! Thrown in the dust, he said, "Who art thou. Lord?" and the Lord said, "I am Jesus, whom thou perse cutest. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks." And in that same moment the man made a complete sur render of his life, as he said. "Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?" And afterward he rounded out an entire life of unresting, unwearying, devoted service to Jesus Christ. Now for the conclusion, ere we sepa rate. In the light of this truth, am I a Christian? In the light of this truth, are you a Christian? Do I believe God? Do I belong to God? Does my calmness in the midst of strife; my strength amid the surrounding weakness; my confi dence when the hearts of men are dis mayed; does it evidence the fact that I believe God and that my life has an chorage within the veil? Do I belong to God? Do those who know me best regard me as a man of God? Do they regard you as a woman of God? Does your household believe in the Bible because it believes in you, and has perceived the astounding fact FOR HOT G O V T OorciNE fLAf' JolV tv I T H OUT SCAM o o o o o that your life is shaped by the truth of the holy record? Do the men who as sociate with you connect you with re ligion, with Christ, with God? And do they feel unable to suggest the business deal that is. crooked if you are near, because the holiness of your life seals their lips in your presence?" Isaiah's Definition Recalled. - O, more and more I am' growing In love with Isaiah's definition of a man. Do you recall it? A man should be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, and as the shadow of' a great rock in a weary land. Preacher in this church now, are you that kind of a man? Deacon in this church now. are you that kind of a man? Officer-bearer in this church now, are you that kind of a man? Busi ness man In this church now, are you that kind of a man? Professor of re ligion, can you say tonight with a cheek uncolored by shame, "I believe, and I belong?" If not, your profession is Inadequate and It becomes you to repent in earnestness and humility and at the foot of the cross get right with God Almighty. ' I want with God's help to leave with you a final sentence that will make upon you an indelible impression. Do MUSICLOVING COYOTES FALL PREY TO TRAPPER Wild Dogs Answer Phonograph's Call but Vocal Selections Found SILVER LAKE, Or.. Dec. 16. (Spe cial.) Luring "wild beasts to their death' by music is a new trick in the trapper's trade successfully applied by Lloyd S. Allen, who exhibits the pelts of four coyotes, one bob cat" and a cougar to back his assertions. A weather-beaten phonograph Is exhibit "B" in Mr. Allen's array of evidence. Another discovery made by Mr. Allen Is that only vocal music lures the cat family, while wild dogs are attracted more readily by Paderewskl, Kubelik or Sousa than by Carjiso, Melba or Nordica. The bobcat trapped by Mr. Allen fell for a Southern melody. It took a series of "Ben Bolt," "Annie Laurie" and other oldtimers to draw the cougar into a snare; Sousa is responsible for the death of two coyotes, and Kubelik gets credit for one and Paderewskl one. Experiments will be continued by Mr. Allen in the hope of finding a voice and tune that cannot be ' resisted by cats, and an instrumental selection equally . deadly to wild dogs. Ragtime Not Appreciated. ? "Ragtime," says Mr. Allen, "is a fail ure, so far as my experiments have gone. I ground out ragtime for two hours last Thursday night up in the Juniper thicket at the foot of Table Mountain and didn't get a. howl out of anything except the phonograph. In my opinion, these wild animals appre ciate good music. They want the real thing. I'll try rag again Just to see ROLLS AN o o you really believe in God? Would much go out of your life If you lost God? Would you stand like some poor be reaved orphan if God went away? Would you regard It direr than loss of business, loss of money, loss of health, loss of friends, loss of life, if you lost God? How large a place In your life is occupied by God? Do you be lieve? Then do you belong. Have you consecrated the members of your body to the service of God? Have you set apart the faculties of your mind to the glory of God? Can you really say, "Vhose I am and whom I serve?" Such a life as that knows no failure, and can sustain no loss, and wan suffer no defeat. Christ Jesus help each one of us to live that life! For then shall we be calm and strong here; and when we are passing away, having reached the place where the two seas meet, we shall serenely say, as did the Apostle Paul, "I am ready to be offered, and the time of my depart ure is at hand." And on the other side we shall see the King and hear him declare. "Well done." The Lord God add his blessing to this searching truth and these sol emn vows, and may our lives during this week and the rest of our time in this world give evidence that we have not only heard, but also heeded this message of God to our souls. When Orchestral Numbers Are Played More Alluring to Cat Family. If there are any depraved tastes in the cat and dog world of the woods. "Sousa's 'El Capitan,' played by the entire company apparently la a favor ite of coyotes. Whenever I wind up Sousa for two or three innings the whole mountainside echoes with yelps that drown the music from the ma chine." It was by accident that Mr. Allen learned the weakness of wild beasts for music. He was en route from Sum mer Lake to his ranch near Thorn Lake with a wagonload of produce when a battered phonograph and several rec ord's came into his possession. It was necessary to camp over night in the edge of a juniper forest, and it was here the rancher discovered his coyote lure. After Bupper Mr. Allen placed his music maker beside the camp fire and fitted on the first record he found. It was "El Capitan." and a minute after Sousa's canned product vibrated through the Juniper woods the whole forest rang with the yelps of Joyous coyotes. , As the selection was finished and Mr. Allen stopped the machine in stantly the baying of the wild dogs ceased and the forest was silent. Encore Is Applauded. Again the rancher repeated the piece; again the woods rang with a coyote chorus. Mr. Allen removed the horn from the 'phonograph and softened the tone. The beasts crept nearer to the camp fire, modifying the pitch of their voices. " The record was changed. Kube lik was next on the programme, and as his bow raked the strings the musical dogs again altered the key of their APPROPRIATE GIFT BUTTON-HOLE , SATIN OUTLINE ANb EYELET tSTlTCHES. 9 . v-- , "J jfzz? IstfL ??v co- wail and fell back farther into the Juni pers. Paderewski was tried, with and without the horn on the machine, and each player and each variation of tone brought a different howl from the wild audience. Sousa responded to an encore. There was no mistaking his popularity with .no ut-uiieiis or me jumper thicket. Then Mr. Allen spread a blanket over the -machine and tried "soft" music The coyote chorus died away into a mere whine and the animals -crept so close to the music that their blazing eyes could be seen across the camp 1 ire. ,.Vo"' music was next tried. Possibly, ivir. Allen says, it was due to the ap proach of a cougar, or possibly the wild nogs had tired of art. Whatever the cause, when the canned lullabv of Mme. nordica was wafted into the "forest the coyote audience took to its heels, and S-Mi-iV; end of the son" waa reached the fh f purr of a Kiant cat came from tne darkness beyond the camp fire. x, Records Ordered. SIr- A"en's next experiment was In the Junipers on the slope of Tabl Mountain. He made camp in the for est, setting a semi-circle of traps about the place at a distance of 200 yards. A camp fire was started as night fell ' and Sousa was summoned from the disc box as an entertainerC As the strains of "El Capitan" floated from the horn the sides of Table Mountain echoed to the yelp of scores of wild dogs. Over and over the selection was ground out until there was a break in the har mony of the coyote chorus. Suddenly the howling of all but one of the beasts ceased. There was an interval of . snarling that soon became a moaning whine. A trap had been sprung, and all the wild dogs, save the one en trapped, had scurried to a safe dis tance. Joe Wendling and Karl C. Allen, a brother of the musical trapper, accom panied Mr. Allen on his following . nlsntly excursions to the juniper woods, and in a week this trio took six pelts. New records have been ordered In an effort to find something more to the liking of the cat family. Uoyd S. and K. C. Allen own the Al len -ranch of 1000 acres in the Thorn Lake district. They came to Central Oregon from Spokane and are sons of Rev. J. W. Allen, a retired pastor, of that city. 2 DRINKS ENOUGH, MAYBE Expert Says Nervous Susceptibility i Governs Men's Capacity. NEW TORK. Dec. 12 "One man may take two drinks and be seized with a wild mania, while another may drink a quart and go peace ably about his business. It is a ques tion of nervous susceptibility," testi fied Dr. John W. Doherty, called as a medical expert in a murder case yes terday in Jersey City. The doctor insisted that the defend ant, August Martin, by constant drink ing had reached a state where he was incapable of an Intent to wilfully kill. Martin killed two brothers-in-law, George and Raymond Leonard.