XJtiE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN. PORTLAND, DECEMBER 20, 1914.
CONGREGATION HEARS PASTOR MAKE CRUCIAL TEST OF FAITH
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.