TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JANUARY
1915.
PASTOR
BT DR. W. B. HIXSOV. !
TheHyitery of a Letter. "I. Terttm. who
writ this letter, salute you In toe lxrd."
Romans 14:22.
1KNOW of no clearer Illustration of.
tha wonder of our civilization than
la furnished by a letter. With a
2 -cent stamp on the corner of the en-j
velope, I drop it in the appointed place.,
And the greatest republic in the world
commences to move in the furthering
of that letter to its destination. And
great railroads are flung across des
erts, and through mountains, and over
rivers: and an army of men commences
its activity, so that sure as anything
earthly can be is it tbat my letter
will go where I have indicated that I
wiih it to go. And civilization Is so
advanced that I. by the Pacific, by
virtus of that little stamp, can com
municate with the man on the shores
of tbe Atlantic Sometimes I have
looked at the man carrying the mail
and have thought he illustrates the
destiny controlling my life. There he
stand, and here stand I; and what Is
contained in this missive he places in
my hand I know not. It may be Joy
that will ail my soul with an ecstasy,
or It may be sorrow that will cloud
my life with gloom. It may be the
news of a magniiicent victory, caus
ing me to rejoice: or it may bear the
intelligence of an overwhelming defeat.
Loss and gain, birth and deathi then
are all contained in that sealed pack
age: even as destiny, morning by
morning, hands out to me the part of
tbe will ot God that immediately con
cerns me. Yes. and sometimes I have
thought the mailman preaches a won
derful gospel, as he goes up and down
our streets. For-is he not illustrative
of the many messages that are coming
to us along mysterious and unexpected
lines: the varied and manifold min
istries of the CV't Ood to establish
communion and correspondence be
tween himself and his children?
Letter Oatlawta Empires.
And so I call your attention tonight.
In the hearing of some of those men
who serve us so wonderfully and so
well, to the statement I have read as a
text. And from It first I want you to
learn tha importance of those acts that
we sometimes call subordinate acts,
that go to make up subordinate work.
But for the scribe Tertlus you would
know nothing about the Epistle to the
llomana. Has your soul ever been
gladdened by the statement, "All things
work together for good to them that
love God?" Humanly speaking, you
owe the sentence to Tertlus. Did your
Ufa ever thrill as your eyes rested
upon the marvelous statement of Paul,
"I am persuaded that neither death,
nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
nor powers, nor things present, nor
things to come, nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature shall be able to
separate us from the love of God?"
Then yoo owe It to the scribe named
Tertlus, who 20 centuries ago wrote
down in a letter dictated by an Apos
tle. "I, Tertlus. who wrote this letter,
salute you in the Lord." How little
this man ever dreamed, as with a heart
surcharged with emotion, he ventured
to put in his own personal statement
that it would survive the civilization
of Rome, and live when dynasties, and
principalities. ,and powers have passed
away; so that never a Bible shall be
printed In God Almighty s worm, oui
that little sentence. eprcaoi
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FINDS
Dr. W. B. Hinson
binri rAiinr toward those Chris
tians in Rome, shall be bound up in
the inspired record. And how little we
appreciate the value of work we call
subordinate work. 1 challenge you
imagine a more serious menace to o
to
comfort and our weliare tnan it an
v.-.-- .nrHilnr to Af With
1 the
i the
great system that we refer to when
we use the word man snouia suu
denly cease to act. What disconcert
ing of business; what multiplying
fears; what anxieties would make your
hearts throb, and what a sudden halt
would be called to our manifold rela
tionships if all these men. operating
this great system were to suddenly
cease to perform their duties! And yet
we regard this sort of work as being
very subordinate. Tes, and It was
subordinate work when in the olden
time a woman saw that her child was
fair and good In her sight, and to de
liver it from death she made a cradle
of the rushes that grew along the
river s bank and slimed it over that it
might not let the water through, and
placed the little lad on the bosom of
the Nile. And It was a trivial thing
tbat a woman came down that day to
the river side and, seeing that child,
took it home to the palace; but io you
not know that the great cross of Christ
depended upon Pharaoh's daughter do
ing that little deed? And in the will
of God there would have been no Bible
tonight had not that Egyptian Prin
cess taken pity on the little waif of
the stream, so that Moses might be
come the Lincoln of the Israelittsh peo
ple. And he also was doing subordi
nate work who moved among his fath
er's sheep on the Palestine hillside and
noticed how sometimes he had to lead
them afar to find the still water
brook; and how often he had to search
out for them the green pastures; and
how he had to protect them when they
passed through the canyons and the
ravines, where the wild beasts might
lurk. This was all subordinate work.
Yet you know how afterward, with tbe
skill of his true genius, David wove all
those little subordinate deeds into the
best known psalm of the church to
night. So that everywhere the hearts
of Christian people grow elate as they
read, "The Lord is my shepherd, 1
shall not want" It was a subordinate
act when Andrew went to his brother
Simon and said, "We have found
Christ." and led Simon, all wonder
stricken, to Jesus. But O, what he did!
He. may well afford to recedd from
public gaze, for he has brought Peter
to the Master, and that means he has
brought the Pentecostal preacher, and
the man who will add two books to
the Christian Bible, and who to the end
of the strife will hold ioft the ban
ner of the Nazarene.
Small Act Finds Great Preacher.
One night on an American street
a poor man, who would not be known
but for the story I am te'.ling, saw
a drunken man, and, touched with a
Christlike compassion, he put his hand
on the shoulder of that man and kind
ly said: "Would you like to go in
where it is warm and bright?' And
the outcast looked into the compas
sionate face of Joel Stratton and said:
"Yes, I will go with you." And he
sat up close to the stove, for he says
himself, "I was nearly frozen." And a
leaker told or tne curse oi nnum
. a .v.- nneiVifiitv of any slave to
aim u i" . . .
that vice, by the grace oi uoo, or.eo.n-
th fetters ana Decomins a ncc
th fitters and becoming a free I Oregon weamer mat " 1 " -- -r--r -r- T" I I
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LESSON
Emphasizes Trifles in Life,
man. And John Gough put his signa
ture to a pledge thaCnigut, ana so oe
tti. mi7hti..t exnonent of tem
perance the world has ever seen. But
Joel Stratton did a very sooorjnui-
piece of work wnen ne lnvneu uuuau
into the little lecture hall.
r K K.olr In little
schoolhouse where I had preached iu
year- before. And a man met me when
-You
r hA.Ay Wnw t mi not re
member that I had ever seen that, man
before. But he said: "Yes, it is 10
years ago since you preached here tne
last time, and you know at the close
of the sermon, as I shook hands with
you, you said. My friend, is jesus
Christ your saviour? And I went home
and tried to erase the Impression from
my mina ana cgnacnto m.h m;
that sentence had made, but I could
not get rid of it. .And all the night
long I could hear that question, and
then I gave my heart to God. and 1
have been a Christian man ever since,
and it is all because you said that word
to me when we stood in- the aisle
there." - r -
Ah. friends, one of the great com
forts of life is the consciousness that
we need not have high genius in order
to do good. But. as the childish hymn
says, "You in your small corner ana
1 in mine," we can so shine that the
world may be brighter, and some men
may be better ana ' nouer Dcwiwe .vi
our little contributions to the work of
the world. There is glorious Inspira
tion in that For the value of sub
ordinate work is taught us. by tne tact
that Tertius in a minute of time, and
to express his friendliness toward" "men
he had never seen and would never
know, wrote down a good wish in an
epistle, and that good wish is 'im
bedded in the wonderful word of God.
Waning Ivea on TriBes.
And will you, as a second lesson,
learn how startlingly important are
the acts that we call trifling acts?
There was no need for Tertius to say
...I n w An a thinir Vnr hfl WHS fltllV
the amanuensis of the Apostle Paul.
sut raui migm tiiin k. me iiiuu(,M
put it Into the marvelous speech, and
Tertlus might have no communion with
Paul in brain; but when it came to the
heart, Tertius and Paul were alike.
And so this paid scribe says to Chris
tians in Rome. "I cannot originate an
epistle; for I cannot think the thought,
or cannot crystallize it Into the marvelous-
sentence; but I can send you my
greeting, and my salutation." It was
a little act hut It looms large now,
when we stand two-milleniums away
t. WHnt 1 it we have the chil
dren sing,- that the little drops of
water, ana nine grains wi buhu.
the ocean and the land! And did not
Tennyson tell us, "That it is the little
rift within the lute, that by and bye
will make the music mute: and ever
widening, slowly silence all." So be
ware of the acts that wu call trifling.
For I know your life, because I know
my own life, and. therefore, I am
qualified to say, that your life Is what
it is because you came under the in
fluence of the little sentences; and the
little deeds, and the little influences
that have made you what you are to
night I should never have been a
preacher, but for an accident! A week
after I was converted I w,ent to hear
the man who had led me to Christ
. v. KAforo And thev had some
rmnn vMthpr that nisht and It
IN TWQCENTSTAjP ON
Pointing Out World-Wide Influence of Many Apparently Insignificant Deeds.
rainca: Ana me uiau ui ..v. ....
appointment And an old farmer for
ever I owe him a debt of gratitude
stood up and- to the little village audi
ence said: "The speaker has not come.
But there is a young fellow here
named Hinson, who was converted a
week ago. and he will preach to JOU-
- " , " h.rf knocks? and
had a d hara nocks.
I had uvea a stormy inc. m -
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BUU1I r 1 1 ft 1 1 y bicaio, " 11 " -
daylight too; but no one ever hit me
quite so hard a oiow as um
Barnes. It was a trivial act when that
old farmer made me take charge of
that service: but it affected my entire
it,. T -. p.minfl VOU Of a
sentence from a novelist "We sow. an
act and we reap a naoit. e -,
. i .. - nhumrter: we
nauiL im i v -
- . . .. ,1 n.A weun A deStinY.
sow a '.iiai uLu.i cliiu - - -
Yes. and he might have added, we sow a
destiny and we reap aesiiuicB.
I shall never forget standing once at
a place they call the Divide, on a sreat
railway. Ana a man mcu "
ridge of the backbone of the Conti
nent! And he said, "Do you see that
if a drop of rain falls there on tne
slant that way. it has got
way Into the pacific Ocean; but if it
. .. . . mniroa in the OD-
lailS wnere ine ... --- -
posite direction, it has got to find its
r .. . .1 . 1 KnA T Mill.
home Hi tne Aimnix. . - - -
"It depends a-good deal to the drop
- . i i. folia 1 nrx it not
oi rain wirei. ... -
Ah. one day you came close to a .
and said an lliuminaiins -
ly word, a cheering word and you ar
y . . t a Tint another
tecteu a aesuuy i ----
dav you were not quite so watchful
and vou said the careless speech, and
that 'life has been blighted ever since.
O I prav God to give me help in doing
the little wings oi me. -" . r
llon's road is terrific; but lions Iwe
never killed so many people as mos
quitoes. And many a man can piay
the hero In a great crisis who plays
Uhe weakling in some of the petty
trials or lite, bo iei " -
this life there are no acts so small as
te be unimportant tor it am ui
him a minute this man Tertius to
write down the word of greeting to
those people of Rome; but it has lasted
all these hundreds of years, and Is des
tined to last forever.
Conduct's Importance Emphaslaed.
' And will you learn, thirdly, how ira
.nrfoi ix conduct Suppose someone
tonight should seek to erase from the
history of mankina mat one nine .--.
of Tertius when he wrote down, his
good wish to those Roman "Christians.
You would have to change every Bible
in existence, and you would have to
go back over 20 centuries and change
every Bible that was ever written. The
immortality of conduct! "You are go
ing my way. so let us walk together.
. , . ... nto-ht tn hiB
lnUS bill 11 dwh... " e
companion. And pretty soon they came
to where tneir cnuarwu w ei .j."
And they stopped and listened. And a
little mu .. .. -w
awful words, of which he had but dim
awful words, of which he had but dim
understanding.. And the father of that
, .A,it, soiled him tn his I
unaerBiuuuiii& " " .. . . , 7 "7
boy in consternation called him to his
side and said. "My boy, what do you
mean by using that language .' Ana
looking full in the father's face, with
the unconcern that manifested Ignor
ance of what he had been sayin. the
child said, "Why, father, I was only
saying the words I have heard you
say." He was only perpetuating the
father's blasphemy! O men, let us
learn that Jio slight deea win ena wnn
fluence till the boundless universe
feels the thrilL I heard a superficial
thinker say. "It will be all the same oO
years hence." Do not you believe It!
For it will not be tne same u ji
hence. If you live a good and nblJ
life wour influence will be alive 50
years hence, no matter whether you
years hence no matter V . ? von cisti
Mraruiutm..- - -- - -- i
the weight of your Pers,"a" , ' "
the side of evil you will be doing you
deadly and destructive work
you have ceased to appear among -the
children of men. 1 met a man
while ago who, when I spoke to mm
about the things that are most impor
t.nt tn un all. reDiiea. ur. rnnu.., .
am" an Ingersoll man." Now Ingersoll
has been dead tnese many "
he is alive in the man whose character
has. been warped by the sophistry of a
person who long ago went into the
silence of eternity. The Immortality of
conduct!
-. .. iv. ..r.ri at TTn 1 IfRv Har-
h.. hnnrdinir the steamer that
should carrv him away in' search of
health. And his friend said to him.
"Choate, you will be here in a year. '
And the man, who knew he was soon
to die, looked into the eyes of his
nH aiiB-oroKtlvelv said. "Yes, 1
.hoii v. herA in a Tear. I shall be
here in a thousand years." You see, he
had laid hold of the tremendous fact
that we live in deeds, not yearsr In
thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not
in figures on a dial, and that to live
.i..AAAnH .o .- nnri ten Is to live
forever more in the lives that have
been shaped by our speecn, conuui.v
and living.
. Result of Negligence Dlacoaaed.
Now tell me, is not this sort of phi
losophy the ennobling of life? For I
know when you bring me face to face
with these great laws, that my little
task'- is not after all a subordinate
work, but a tremendously responsible
one; and when you show me that the
little deed, which I am too often in
clined to think is unimportant enough
to sink into insignificance, is a part of
the great eternal purpose that is domi
nating the world; and when you tell
me that I, an unknown citisei of Port
land, doing my little bit of obscure
work in my own quiet way, am making
an impression on the eternal years of
God. you make me realize how solemn
a thing it is to be alive. And you drive
me to God as you tell me that my work
is so Important that there is no single
part of it but is of some significance
in the great plan of the Eternal. And
then I want someone wiser than I to
shape my life and conduct; for if even
the smallest action my fingers may
bring to pass, and the shortest sen
. . - . mi. .1 .i -i f.Am mv lin. may
lenue mm. " J ' " t- ' . -
have issues so vast and far-reaching, 1
want someoooy to use ius "
iife. who has the wisdom and the power
. T . , nr.a,. And if the words
j Bpeak now, and the sentence you win
Say when first you speak on that
.,T.t mv be so far-reaching in ef-
llltti uu " l
I speak now, and the sentence you will
say wuou . w
.tr.et mav be so far-reaching in el
feet and consequence as to move on
i .. . i .....wMunina- circles, until
aim uwi nt - ' ' J . . -
they smite against the white throne
of the Eternal God. then I want to be
made wise by someone other than my
self. And so I come to you with this
sentence the scribe wrote down in the
.i... An.ta.iA 'Paul dictated, and 1
say you have only to follow its leading
and you come up to tne cross m
vary, where Jesus Christ interpreted
the need ot your neart, mra ui m.. u..
as He put our hands in the hands of
the great Father.
A word, and I am done. We pass
out from this church tonight, and we
may dismiss all this with a sentence.
We may say we liked it or we did not
like it; we believed It or we did not
believe it. And we may put it away.
Anj ve, Goa win say. "un a unua
night in 1915 you were In a Portland
In a Portland
Church. And you made an unwise use
o r- opportunity: and disregarded a
J frQm ,plrU." And the thunder-
in ot universe In the throes of dls
futlon wm not then prevent us fron
solution, will not then prevent us from
hearing tne reproai-n ui i.
i And lot ..u who have met
tonight and may meet no more forever.
wisely act and weii. i siooa one m..i
when the rain was falling, and the
wind wits blowing, on one of the
JAPANESE PRINTS NOW
ON DISPLAY AT MUSEUM
Collection of Surimono and Others Based Rather on Aesthetic Qualities
Than on Historical Sequence Is View of Lilian Tingle.
lav T.IT.tAN TINGL.E.
N TUB collection of Japanese Suri
I
mono and other prints, now on view
t th Museum of Art. the examples
have been selected rather on a basis
of aesthetic qualities than on mat oi
strict historical sequence. By way of
emphasizing this, several German
prints, which display some of the same
technical methods and style of compo
sition, are included In the exhibit -
The Surimono are particularly deli
cate examplea of the art of color print
ing, and. though less well known than
the larger single-sheet pictures that
most people have in mind when they
speak of "Japanese prints." the Suri
mono. or "anniversary cards." are be
coming much sought after by collec
tors, and have a peculiar charm of their
own. A freer use of gold, silver and
bronze is to be noticed in the Surimono,
while "gaufrcse," or blind printing,
frequently is seen in cloud and water
effects, or for the purpose of -emphasizing
various textures.
These Surmino, while most frequent
ly designed for New Year greetings,
were also used for wedding announce
ments, for theater or concert tickets
on special occasions, as well as for the
rather curious purpose of giving notice
when an artist chose, to assume a new
name, as artists frequently did, to the
mystification of Inexperienced collec
tors. .
Stories of fairies and monsters, pic
tures of actors and actors' properties
are used as subjects, as well as land
scapes, still life groups and charming
feminine figures.
Among the larger prints on exhibi
tion are a number of Utamaros, typi
cally conventional Japanese beauties,
with their long, oval faces, slanting
almond eye and elaborate head
dresses. m
A group of Marrionettes by Toyohiro
are somewhat puzzling until one real
izes that the smaller figures belong to
a puppet play, worked like our old
time "Punch and Judy."
A series or river lanuscapeo uj
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LETTER
streets. And I heard the Salvation
Army singing a song, "There not a
friend like the lowly Jrus. no not
one." Now If this Is the lat nlaht of
my life, and this the last sentence of
my lip. I am willing to go to God say
ing that line Is true; for "There l not
a friend like the lowly Jenuv, no not
one." 1 have, proved It. As I told a
class of young men a little while fv
"Try him for a week, and If at the end
of the week you are unsatlnf led. you
can then leave him, and go back to
your old life. But If your experience, la
akin to mine, providing you get one
gllmpe of the Christ of Qod, the great
lover of the aoula of mn, the mtshtv
Saviour of the lot, the vision will
haunt you forever and ever. For I
can as easily think of lolng my own
Identity aa of tailing to worship, and
adore, and love, and obey the Christ
who nn been the Snvlmir of my soul.
cat are In a more dell.'ale style than
the "Fuji," or the "Hrldge." or tho
"Waterfall" series by which he la bei-t
t a ....... i t r I J . . I. i ... I In nlii
age. by himself, occupies a place In the
showcase, which also contains a aeries
of prtnta or fair women oy r.n'
Selyen, a book of reproduction of Jap
....... ...niinra kv .laWiirhu and a fas
cinating collection of sample of old
Japanese fabric.
a ..-. ..Irlll.il of the
Tosa school aro fresh In color and how
marked Chinese influence In atyle ami
subject The exhibit will remain until
February 8. '
HUBBIES 3, DIVORCES NONE
rcnuylvanla f.lrl of 52 Courcasc
That She Is BlgamlM.
WASHINGTON, Pa... Jan. 24. An rat
ed here on charges of bigamy and
perjury. Mr. Ida Mae Barker-Wrlght-
Kerns-Amo. 22 year old. and menmer
. . i jt r.mitv admitted ah had
OI WElI'Mmu J
had three husbands and no divorce, r-ne
added that the suicide ot ner miro nu
band, George IL-Amoa, on Christmas
day during their honeymoon waa the
result of hi discovery of her marrl-
Slnm. cell In the county jail the younjf
woman said her first husband w
Henrv B. Wright, of Washington
County, a large land holder. They
. . .1 . . u ..... v-rM and then the
uvea loKciui - ; - : -
young woman return d to the !oni or
her parents. Mr. ana aira.
Barker, who had moved to Washing
ton. She remained at home until 11-.
when she met Ralph Kern. Alter
leaving him she married Amos.
Going to tho Show.
. Exchange.
It isn't the tact that he ha a ene
of humor which take a man to a
.urlesque how.
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