THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, APRIL 25, 1915.
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BUSINESS IS CALLED MOULD IN WHICH LIVING SELF POURS
Kev. John H. Boyd Urges That Prayer Start Day's Journey Across Unknown Hours That Shape Destiny for Good or Evil Tragic Sides of Business World Bared.
BT REV. JOHN H. BOYD. D. E..
Postor of First Presbyterian Church.
"Oh, Lrd God of my master, Abraham,
send me good speed this day." Genesis.
xxlv-12.
THE picture presented to us is rich
in Oriental form and color. The
text is a superscription to this
picture.
The trusted servant, Ellezer, has
crossed great mountains and lonely
deserts and now camps with his cara
van beside a well of water. He has
come to his destination the 'land of
the kinsmen of his master. He Is
seeking a wife for Isaac. The success
of his mission is uncertain. There is
treat delicacy in the situation. Mo
mentous Issues hang upon what he ac
complishes. Realizing the inadequacy
of his own wisdom and appreciating
the complexity of his duty, he lifts up
his soul at the beginning of the day
and cries: "Oh, Lord God of my master
Abraham, send me good speed this
cays'
I take Eliezer to be a business man,
standing at the beginning of his day's
Journey, looking across the unknown
hours which lie between him and the
setting sun, earnestly facing the diffi
culties and responsibilities which in
evitably arise, and then commending
himself unto the guidance of the great
God who cares for his earthly children.
My theme is "A Day's Journey in .the
Life of a Business Man." The Journey
of life is made in short stages. Every
night is the tenting time after the
short day's travel. The tasks of life
come not , to us in massive bulk, but
are given'in infinitesimal installments.
The duties, the weighty responsibili
ties and exactions of life, the Joys and
the sorrows, which constitute the con
tents of life, are all brought to us,
little things, one by one, by the toil
ing hours. It is a mass of these little
things which constitutes the bulk of
our life.
Three Things Urged In Day.
Every day is a little life and every
life is but the repetition of a single
day. The problem of the whole is the
problem of the part. The possibility
of taking each day and making it full
and true and pure and good, demon
strates the possibility of making all
life a harmony and a glory.
I am addressing you who are ac
complishing the great Journey of life
by these little stages of daily living,
nnd I come to commend unto you three
things which you are to bear with you
as yon start in the morning for the
day's Journey across the unknown
hours. The first is a sacred act. The
second a great thought. The third a
noble ideal.
The sacred act is the simple act of
morning prayer, when at the begin
ning of the unknown, untried day, you
commend yourselves to the help and
guidance of the unseen Maker and
1'ather. "Oh, Lord God of my master
METROPOLITAN GRAND OPERA SEASON
IN NEW YORK CLOSES THIS WEEK
Career Made Remarkable by 208 Performances, All of Highly Uniform Order Company Goes to Atlanta Sat
urday Night for Six Performances Alfred Hertz on Way to Los Angeles to Produce "Fairyland."
BY EMILIB FRANCES BAUER.
EW YORK, April 22. (Special.)
lJ With the present week the sea-
' son of grand opera at the Metro
politan closes. It is nothing short of
remarkable, considering the difficulties
tinder which the general director,
Oatti-Casazza, worked, to note the list
of 208 performances all of a -uniformly
high order which have Interested the
public.
There is no doubt that it was a hard
ship to keep up the standards, and it
was a risk that has had no parallel
In the history of the amusements of
the world. To the credit of the New
ork capitalists who made it possible
to keep the house open it may be said
that their attitude put to shame those
who dropped liabilities, responsibilities
and everything else which men of
standing should have been proud to
protect.
Thirty-three different operas have
been given at the Metropolitan, of
which 17 were Italian, 14 German and
two French. In adition to the per
formances In New York, as above re
corded, there were IB performances In
Brooklyn, 12 in Philadelphia, and when
the doors will close Saturday night
the company will go to Atlanta for six
appearances In a repertory that will
present all of the famous artists who
have been with the company this sea
son, except Caruso, who left some
weeks ago. Mme Gadski, Urius and
Emmy Destinn, wno is due- to sail Sat
urday, April 24.
Martinelli will sing the role of Raoul
in "The Huguenots" and for this opera
Scotti will make the trip, returning at
once to adjust his plans for the Sum
mer. Riccardo Martin will sing Don Jose
in "Carmen" and also Hoffmann in
the Offenbach "Tales of Hoffmann." in
which Atlanta will ha v an o,io., ,
over New York in point of the fact
mat n was not sung here this season.
Anna Case will sing the Doll, Rita
lornia will have the part of Giulli
tta and Mile. Borl will sing Antonia.
Geraldine Parrar will be heard twice,
once as Carmen and on the closing
night as "Madame Sans-Gene."
..rm,;to wU1 sln the titular part in
Rigoletto," with Madame Hempel as
Gilda and Botta as the Duke, his great
role of Napoleon on the closing night
- nd on Friday evening the part of
Manfredo in "L'Amore del tre re" in
a cast which 'will have the original
singers, excepting for Botta. who will
replace Fontana-Ferrarl as Avito
..Ji.Iela"ie Kurt w, sing Valentine in
rhe Huguenots," usually sung by
Madame Destinn and Pamina in "The
Magic Flute." in which both Madame
Destinn and Madame Gadski have won
their 8 purs. Madame Hempel will sing
Marguerite de Valois in the first
named opera and Queen of the Night
in the Mozart work. The conductors
will be Giorgio- Polacco. who will con
duct "The Huguenots" and "Rigolet
to"; Richard Hageman to conduct
"Tales of Hoffmann" and "The Magic
Klute." and Toscanini for "Carmen "
"L'Amore del tre re" and "Madame
foans-Gene."
Meanwhile Alfred Hertz will be
speeding on his way to Los Angeles,
where he will begin work for the pro
duction of Horatio Parker's "Fairy
land." The great German conductor,
whose ovations during these last days
at the Metropolitan have been well
night indescribable, will have more
than one man's occupation, as he will
have the preparation and production
of the prize opera in Los Angeles and
between his rehearsals and the produc
tion he will come back to Boston for
the presentation of "Siegfried" al fres
co in the Harvard stadium. For several
days during the past week Mr. Parker
has been in New York with Mr. Hertz
going over the details of the work.
In speaking of the undertaking. Mr.
Hertz said:
"I may say that I have never known
a body outside of a skilled opera com
pany to undertake such a remarkable
and elaborate production. To present
a work of this so,rt in an opera-house
where all things are In running order
good speed this
Whatever may be the difficulties as
sociated with the question of prayer,
the cry for help out of human need,
whatever its subtleties this fact is
not open to dispute, that Vhere a. man
earnestly and reverently enters into
a hushed silence, invoking the presence
of the enfolding spirit of the divine and
lays his burden of anxiety and the vast
Issues which belong to life before Al
mighty God, he comes out of that hour
strengthened and calmed. There Is
no question about it.
Henry JDrummond emphasizes again
and again the truth that five minutes
spent in sweet companionship with the
unseen Christ or two minutes, if It
be face to face and heart to heart
changes the whole day. Every thought,
every feeling becomes different.
Men of work, men of responsibili
ties, whatever may be the exactions of
your life, however crowded your days
schedule may be. you cannot afford to
begin the day's Journey withopt open
ing the mystical avenues of your spir
itual self to the presence and the help
ful contact of the enfolding Spirit of
God.
This cry out of the heart sanctifying
the individual life is but a preparation,
a precursor of a ministry which be
longs to every man in the sacred pre
cincts of his own home, to bring the
family circle into the presence of the
unseen Lord and God of all. - Men,
there is a duty of priesthood belong
ing unto you which you cannot escape.
Every child has the right to see his
father minister at the altar of the
home in the simple act of devottbn.
The homes of America today are need
ing that hushed, separated hour, when
the father, in the attitude of invoca
tion, brings down the atmosphere of
sanctity as he cries out. "Oh, Lord
God, give us good speed this day!"
I know tho pressure of the morning
hour. I know how unaccustomed to
the attitude and to the words of
prayer you men are, but if you realize
the duty and sanctity of your position
within the home, there are many de
vices and many words in the Bible
which can be simply used. If I were
the head of a prayerless home, from
this hour I would take such words as
these from the 143d psalm, beginning
wiiu me eigntn verse, and would hang
them upon the walls of the dining
room, where, before the meal is eaten,
the family might lift up their voices
together and say this:
"Cause me to hear thy loving kind
ness in the morning, for in thee do I
trust. Cause me to know the way
wherein I should walk, for I lift up
my soul unto thee. Deliver me, O
Lord, from mine enemies. I flee unto
thee to hide me. Teach me to do thy
will, for thou art my God. The spirit
is good; lead me into the land of up
rightness." Let that prayer breathe across the
and equipped in modern style is one
thing, but to do so in a place where
there Is bo little in the way of equip
ment or material is extraordinary."
The conductor estimates that there
will be a chorus of 100 voices, who
will be placed at study immediately
because the choruses form an impor
tant part of the work :nd they are
elaborate. Mr. Hertz says that they
are also beautiful and should contrib
ute much to the success of the pro
duction. These singers and those who will
have the minor roles will be drafted
from talent In the West, both San
Francisco and San Diego contributing
their resources, and most of the orches
tra will be drafted from Western cities.
There are five principal roles, in--eluding
Auburn, the King and later
the ..Prince of Fairyland: Corvain, .a
brother of Auburn; Myriel, the abbess;
Rosamond, the principal soprano part,
and Robin surnamed "Goodfellow."
There Is no stated time or place, it
being a "once-upon-a-time" story, but
in the matter of costumes and setting
the time is roughly estimated to be
around the 13th century and the place
might be anywhere in a rolling coun
try of Central Europe. A year and a
day are involved in the development of
the story, the action of which takes
place in the Valley of Shadows, which
some people call the world. Therefore,
the stage people are not all of Fairy
land, nor are they entirely of common
clay.
The parts definitely allotted are
those of Rosamond, to Marcella Craft;
Myriel, to Eleanora de Cisneros, and
Corvain, to William Wade Hinshaw.
Rosamund, who has turned away from
the world and Its allurements, finds her
self in an abbey from which she can see
the castle of the King on one side and
the village with its busy inhabitants on
the other. The beautiful young Novice
Is disclosed on the balcony of this ab
bey on Halloween. Is she dreaming
of the life she led behind, or of the
day when she will lay off her present
garb for that of the nun with its graver
responsibilities when the doors of the
world will all have been closed behind
her? As she suddenly sees the young
king ride across the valley, a longing
for life and for him take possession of
her, and he, to whom the fates have
been too kind, is weary of his kingdom
the wide unknown calls him and he
responds.
This la only one of the several oper
atic endeavors springing up all over
this continent among which the Havana
company, is probably the most imposing,
including as it does the great baritone
Titta Ruffo, Lucrezia Borl, of the
Metropolitan, Madame De Cisneros,
who will with Ruffo be a
member of the Chicago Opera Company,
and Berenice de Pasquall, wife of the
Impresario of this company.
The Aborns with several of the form
er members of the Century Opera Com
pany, will open in Brooklyn with
"Faust," and the week will be divided
Into two parts with "Lucia" as the
second offering.
The last offering'of the Metropolitan
Opera Company in Brooklyn brought to
Scotti one of the greatest tributes he
ever has enjoyed. It may be said inci
dentally that the baritone receives su
perlative praise nearly every day of
the year.
Upon this occasion In Brooklyn
"L'Oracolo" was given Jointly with
"Hansel und Gretel," which gave Otto
Uoritz the first opportunity he has had
this season to see it. He stood like
one glued to the spot In the wings, and
when the curtain came down and Scotti
started for his dressing-room, the great
German comedian threw himself upon
Scotti and. with a voice utterly choked
and Inarticulate, he said. "I have never
seen a work of art to be compared to
that In my life. I think it Is the great
est piece ,of acting on the stage."
Later some of their fellow artists said
that Goritz was so moved by It that
he could hardly pull himself together
In time for his own act. In commenting
upon the Incident Scotti said. "I can not
imagine anything which could have
touched me more deeply, because Goritz
himself is one of the greatest actors of
the stage.
"His Beckmesser, for instance, is a
marvel in every detail, pactlcularly In
the psychology of the nervous, self- ,
Abraham,, send me
day!"
table. Let it fall Into the hearing
and into he hearts of your children.
Or else take our Presbyterian "Book
of Common Worship" and from Its
pages read a brief prayer, or even re
peat the words of Robert Louis Steven
son at Vailima.
Oh, men, you who are going down
along the trying ways of stress and
temptation, where every hour is a
temptation for you to forget the divine
values of yourself and your life and
the spiritual realities of the universe,
how dare you enter upon- the great
issues or each day, how dare -you at
tempt to meet the burdens and stress
without that cry out of your heart
which came from the lipe of Ellezer:
"Oh, Lord God of my master Abraham
send me good speed this day!" This is
the sacred act which I commend to
you.
The second thing which I want you
to carry through the day's journey is
a great truth, a great thought. The
Pslamist standing yonder in his Syrian
environment, with the . massive moun
tains and their eternal serenity about
him, or looking along the distant,
shimmering horizons of the desert, or
at night up where the stars hung in
the half-illuminated abysses of tile
Syrian sky. cried out, as he felt the
littleness, the insignificance of man:
"What is man that thou art mindful
of him?" So we, in these days, when
geology his given infinite scope to the
horizons - of thought, when the tele
scope has opened up- the unsearched
deeps of the universe, and -we realize
the stupendous forces around us, feel
ourselves to be but motes, infiinltest
mal things, on the great currents of
the universe, or blown about by wind
breathing Out of chaotic blackness.
The individual seems an insignificant
thing. What are we In this infinite
universe of God?
The Psalmist discovered that God
had clothed the individual with glory
and honor and power; and we too
should find out that in all the universe
there is nothing, in that great world
of business nothing, among these mas
sive enterprises of man nothing com
parable in value with a single Indi
vidual soul!
That's the great thought I want you
to take with you. When you have
crossed the threshold of your home,
after you have sanctified yourself and
your family in the sacred act of. prayer,
you are to hold the thought that there
will be nothing in all the day's round,
no success, no failure, no enterprise,
no contract, no profit, no gain, no ex
pectation, no enlargement nothing
that is comparable to the worth and
divineness of your own individual per
sonality. That you yourself are'thn
greatest thing In all the world around
you!
Why are you great? Why this lnflnlto
valuation? It is because of what is
takijng place in the spirittial. Immortal
Belt! With all its mystical processes
confident old chap, who still has some
thing to be admired beyoid the ridi
cule he calls forth." It was then re
vealed that one or Seoul's well-known
roles of the days when he reigned with
glory in the opera-houses of his own
country was Hans Sachs, a part which
he said had given him more Joy and a
greater degree of true musical educa
tion than any of the roles he sang at
that time.
Paderewski was the object of most
of the attention at the great benefit
MEN ACTIVE IN WORLD EVENTS
ARE POSED BY PHOTOGRAPHER
Denmark's King Goes on Operating Table Claude Kitehin, of North Carolina, Succeeds Mr. Underwood as
Democratic Leader $2,000,000 Raised to Feed Destitute Belgians Greek War Party Likely to Win Election.
NEW YORK, April 24. (Special.)
King: Christian, of Denmark, who
underwent an operation recently,
was born in September, 1870. He suc
ceeded to the throne in 1912 on the
death of his father. His heir is Prince
Christian Frederick, who was born in
1899. The crown of Denmark is hered
itary "and has been since 1660. Before
that time the crown waa elective.
Claude Kitehin. of North Carolina.
has succeeded Mr. Underwood aa the
leader of the Democrats in the House
of Representatives. Mr. Underwood
having- been elected to the Senate. Mr.
Kitehin was born near his present
home, Scotland Neck, N. C, in 1869. He
is a graduate of Wake Forest College
ana a lawyer. Me nas served 1 year
in the House.
Edward B. Lyman, notwithstanding-
tne Handicap of o other war charities
asking for aid, raised nearly S2.0O0.000
for the Belgian relief fund, of which he
is manager, and put the money into
food for Belgium at only a fraction
over 1 per cent of the total amount
contributed.
An American author has gone to the
front to drive an automobile for the
allies in France. He is Henry Sydnor
Harrison, who broke into public notice
with "Queed" some years ago, added
to his reputation with "V. V.'s Eyes"
and has given to the reading world
lately "Angela's Business," which is
reckoned the best of his three books.
Mr. Harrison became filled with the
idea of war service at the beginning
of the war and. although he had never
driven a motor car ef ore he set about
learning how to do it and in two
months qualified as a chauffeur.
Probably some literature will come out
of his war experience.
M. Veniselos, who resigned a montn
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of growth, of ascension and accumula
tion, with all these possessions of
thought and -feeling and willing and
accomplishment, which make your life
and mine character is forming. - 1
want you to see that that business
world into which you are descending
each morning is In its last analysis a
maker or an unmaker of manhood.
Yon molder, dealing with the molten
iron, who has cunningly shaped his
matrix and pours the liquid stuff to
take form, is not more surely deter
mining the destiny of his Iron than
you, as you go down into your bust-
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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHl'RCH,
ness world, are being molded Into
shape of character by the things that
you meet with, the influences that ply
you, the choices that you make, the
things that you accomplish. Your
business is a mold into which your
living self is being poured, to be
shaped into manliness or unmanli
ness. From my remote point of view, men
of business, your world presents tragic
aspects. How my heart often groans
as I look out upon the places where
you are and see the awful waste of
life. Some move on to greatness and
success of character, while others have
been cast, broken and wrecked, upon
the shores of life. One has found the
given Saturday afternoon by Madame
Sembrich, Efrem Zimbalist and Josef
Hofmann. Alma Gluck was to have
appeared on that programme given for
the relief of Poland, but she altered
her decision and was the object of all
the attention after the great Polish
pianist had been sufficiently studied In
profile, full face and in shadow.
He arrived only two days before, and
will pass the Summer in this country.
While he will not play officially until
Fall, It Is not unlikely that he will
make some appearances in the Sum
mer resorts for the benefit of his coun
try, aa it is said that it is for this pur
pose that he has come.
While it is believed generally that all
the artists of the world are sojourn
ing in America at .this time, it is still
a fact that while an Irish bull 1b left
roaming around Covent Garden or while
a song bird of any description is run
ning around loose in Italy, France or
Germany, the managers are going
abroad "to secure artists for next
season."
ago tho office of Prime Minister, may
De recalled to his post in the coming
elections. He waa heartily in favor of
Greek participation in the war on the
side of the allies, but his policy was
vigorously opposed by the King to such
a degree that it came to an open break
and the resignation of the Prime Min
ister followed.' His successor in office,
M. Gounaris, although siding with the
allies, w not in favor of ceding any
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competitions of business too strenuous
for him.
His own powers were not competent
in the world as it exists today. He
has gone down to defeat. He has turned
sour. He Is embittered; All the eternal
harmonies of his nature are broken.
He has turned against his God and his
brother man. He stands as a rebel,
breathing out bitter utterances against
all society and all success. Is it not a
tragedy for a man to be overwhelmed
In that way?
Here Is another man, who, venturing
to win success at any price, has thrown
upon the counters of trade his honor,
his purity, his brotherlin'ess, his kind
ness. He has squeezed all the sweet
juice of his nature out and left him
self hard and cold and withered. And
when he finds his chance, he plays the
game roughly and unjustly. His soul
has gone from him.
There is another man. who has cast
aside the affection of his wife, the love
of his children, the confidence of
friends, and all the finer values of life
his love of art, his capacity for
poetry and beauty has thrown them
all upon the counters of gain. He has
won, but in the midst of his amassed
fortune he is a shrunken, shriveled
personality. No one has any interest
in him for what he is, but only for the
things that he possesses. That la fail
ure. Character has been sacrificed,
and character is everything.
In your world of business, when a
proposition is put up to you, you say,
"What am I going to get out of this?"
Do you dare to ask that question of me?
Then I answer: There is but one thing
that you are getting out of your busi
ness. All the transactions of tomor
row, all the profits of the year, all the
coupons of -your holdings, all the con
tracts that have been signed, all the
Interests which have accumulated,
mean nothing but this that a char
acter has been made or marred by it
all. That Is all you are getting. That
is the meaning of your life. Is It not
glorious to see a man who has traveled
across long days and has made the
Journey well; has maintained the in
tegrity of his selfhood, has grown to
largeness, has been ripened by his ex
periences until his strength is so de
veloped that he can resist the tempta
tions of the world? Around him lie
the accumulated assets of manly power
call it acres, call it money, call It
mental force, call It experience, call it
honor and position It means endow
ment and endowed personality. The
individuality raised to the high power
of selfhood and accumulated assets is
the noblest thing in the business world.
And it is a great thing to see a man
who has so succeeded.
But it is Just as fine a thing to see
a lowly man, whom the world never
looks upon with interest, nor sets him
at large valuation. His plans never
could be wrought out; his thinking
Sunday Cliurch Services
(Continued From Page 8.)
Man." Sunday school, 9:45 ; public wor
ship, 11 and 7:30; Ep worth League, :3u.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL SOCTII.
First, corner Union avenue and Multno
mah. 10 A. M. Sunday school; 11 A. M.
preaching by XV. J. Fenton; 7 P. M. Epworth
League; S P. M., preaching by O. W. OUl
cotu . PRESBYTERIAN.
Piedmont, corner Cleveland and Jarrett
streets. Dr. A. L. HuLcheson will preach
at both services 11, -Waiting on God";
7 :30. "Seven Foundations' ; ; Suuday school.
0:45; Christian Endeavor, 6:3
Spokane Avenue, East Sixteenth and Spo
kane J. E. Youel, pastor. Sunday cchool
at 9 : 13 ; morning worship at 1 1, sermon,
"Best Reason for Rejoicing"; even in
service, 7:;J0, subject. Tie Promised
Crown."
Calvary, Eleventh and Clay streets Rev.
Oliver S. Ba.um, pastor. lO:30, "The Law
territory to Bulgaria, as was M. Veni
selos, A new election has been ordered
and it is expected that the Veniselos
ministry will again be swept into of
fice, as the sentiment of the people is
decidedly for war.
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could never reach far enough, was
never clear enough; his energies were
never potent enough for him to suc
ceed. Life has disappointed him; plan
after plan has gone down; defeat after
defeat has come to bis enterprises; and
yet in the midst of it all he has main
tained his honor, he has kept his sweet
ness, he touches his fellow men. with
gentleness, every act is kindly and
Just. That man, too, has succeeded.
Both have wrought out a character one
upon the high places of worldly honor
and recognition and success, and the
other in the lowly places of failure.
Both have succeeded in making a life.
Let us look at the third thing: a
noble ideal, the Ideal of a tender, help
ful life. I have known business men
who have felt that they were under
limitations, preventing them from the
best service in the world. I have heard
men wish that they had turned to the
ministry as a place of unselfish en
deavor. They look at some college
president, or head of some Institution,
or turn toward -the avenues and places
of reformation and envy men whose
walk is In these wide, open places of
helpfulness. -
But, men of business, I as a minister,
that president of a college, yonder
ernest reformer, have no such oppor
tunity as yourself to do good In the
world. I often regret that my minis
try is not in such intimate contact with
the world's needs and the opportuni
ties of helpfulness as the life of the
ordinary business man. You have the
opportunity of manifesting your faith
in revealing worthy living in its normal
and most winsome form. You can
lift yourselves above the sordid am
bition of life, above the common lower
motives that animate most men. You
have the opportunity to see and to de
spise and escape from the mean self
ishness which makes the business
world; to touch men with gentleness
and kindliness. There is not an hour
in the day when such opportunities are
not presenting themselves to you. You
can manifest forth the Christian life
as a minister cannot do it, or as a re
former cannot do It, or as a head of
a college cannot do it.
The faith of men in God and human
ity is not created in the sanctuary,
under the touch of the minister's dis
course. It is fashioned and strength
ened, or else marred and broken in the
places where men are living their com
monplace business lives.
It was my privilege to enjoy the
friendship of a noble Christian man,
Robert Scott. At the funeral, while
the body was being placed in the
hearse, I stood beside a young man, an
employe.
He was deeply moved. Tears were
flowing down his cheeks. I said. "You
knew Mr. Scott well and his going is
a loss -to you?" "Oh, yes," he said. "1
am only a common clerk, but it was
of tho Manna"; T:30. -Knowing; Christ After
the Flesh."
Fourth, corner First and Olbbs streets
Henry U. Hanson, pastor. lt:30, 'Forget
ting Our Keutlng .Place"; li. Sunday
school; 3. Juniors: U:30, Christian Kn
deavor Society: 7:3(1. -The Diifnifled Fool,"
first n a series on "Bible Fools."
Kenllworth, East Thirty-fourth street
and Gladstone avenue Kirk Kichardson.
pastor. Bible school, 9:45; morning wor
ship. 11. "Surprises of the Judgment",
Y. P. 8. C. 7; evening worship, 7:40 "To
God."
XEW THOUGHT.
Temple of Truth. Filers bnlliltnr TXmuA-
wy and Alder. Perry Josnph (Jreen, teacher
nocture, ii a. JM. xruth school, 10 A. M.
?!.un People's meeting. 7 V. il. lecture.
- ' , 1UBJIC1U 111 1 ll II, O 1 . M,
NEW CHl'RCH SOCIETY.
. New Church Society, Knights of Pythias
Ejiwveuin ana Aiaer streets. Kev.
tamuel Worcester, IX !., pastor Service at
suujeci i ne f irst fclep In the
Christian Life." Sunday school at 10:15.
KEKOKJILD.
First German, 12th and Clay G. Hafner,
pastor. Services 10:45 and 8; SuudaJ
school, 9::i0; Y. p. g.f 7.
(I'lIUTl AL.
F1r3t Spiritual. :0 Allaky building, cor
ner Third and Morrison streets 3 o'clocu,
lecture. Walter Struble Headlini?. messages;
8 o'clock, lecture, Mrs. A. V. Wiesendanger,
messages : special music.
Christian Spiritualist, Seventh and Has
salo streets Rev. J. B. Bhaw. pastor.
3 o'clock, "The Christ-Way School"; 7:45
spiritual questions answered; spirit com
munication at euch service.
Spiritual Church of the Soul. 2(l8'4 Third
street J. H. Lucai, pastor. Conference
meeting at 11, medium meeting at 3, lec
ture by Wallace K. Struble at 8 P. M.
THtOSOPHY,
Theosophlcal Society, 726 Morgan build
ing At 8 P. M. Mrs. A. Taylor will speak
on "The New Interpretation of Immortal
ity." UNITED EVANGELICAL,,
First United Evangelical Church (Ladd
Addition) Dr. C. C. Poling; will preach both
morning and evening. Subject ot the morn
ing sermon. "L.et Down Your Net." and
evening subject, "Putting Away Sin." Bun.
oay school at 10 A. M. Christian Kn
deavor at 8:45. Good music. All welcome.
This society will have a "get-together"
meeting on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock In
the Sunday School room of the church, nans
for the year win he discussed and pro
gramme rendered. Social hour at close with
refreshments.
UNITED PRESBYTERIAN.
First, corner Sixth and Montgomery
Frank DeWitt Findley, minister. Morning
worship. 10:30 o'clock; sermon topic. "The
Right Patch"; Bible school. 12 M. : Chris
tian Endeavor, :S0 P. M., topic "The Bible,"
leader Mrs. Duncan; evening services 7:30,
address by MLss Emma Dean Anderson, mis
sionary from Egypt.
CNIVER8ALIST.
Church of the Good Tidings. Broadway
nd East Twenty-fourth street Rev. Dr.
James Dimond Corby, minister. Worship with
sermon at 10:4.1 A. M., theme, "Tne Co in
the G-ospel: Work for the Unemployed In
Christian Fields"; sunshine hour Sunday
school at 13 noon, special features; evening
service omitted.
UNITED BRETHREN.
FirBt, East Fifteenth and Morrison J. D.
Nisewonder, pastor. Church school, 10;
preaching, 11, on "Why Increase Cam
paign?" 7:30, Illustrated lecture by E. R.
Martin, ot American Sunday School Union.
UNITARIAN.
Church of Our Father. Broadway and
Yamhill streets Rev. Thomas L. Eliot, min
ister emeritus; Kev. William G Eliot. Jr.,
minister. Services at 11 A. M. and 7:43 P. M.
Morning. "The World, Its Peril and Its
Mope"; evening, "Oliver Wendell Holmes."
Sunday school at 9:30 A. M. ; Young People's
Fraternity, C:30 P. M,
UMVKKSALIST.
Alameda Sunday School. Kapt Twenty-fifth
and prescott streets Htble St'idy Service at
3 P. M. ; sermon by Dr. Corby at S:3o P.
M. ; a welcome for strangers.
MISCKLLANEOl'H.
Christian and Missionary A 11 Is nee. Gospel
Tabernacle, East Ninth and Clay streets,
John IS. Fee, pastor Sunday school, 10 A.
M. ; morning service at 11 o'clock; prayer
meeting, Tuesday, 7:45 P. M. ; Friday meet
ing at 2:80 P. M.
Divine Truth Center, Dlvlns Truth Chapel.
Sclling-Hlrsch building, corner West Par
and Washington streets. Rev. T. M. Mlnard,
pastor Services. 11 A. M.
Chrlstadelphlans. 21 East Washington
street Services. 10:30, Sunday.
Temple of Universal Fellowship Service
at Woodmen of the World Hall, Eleventh
street, between Washington and Alder, at
7:45. Topic of the evening will be taken
from the audience. Write the subject you
desire to hear from. Rev. J. 11. Dickey,
I D., will give a demonstration of soul de
velopment. AH welcome.
"Christian Yoga," Sunday service, at 8
P. M-, Abington building. rooms 318-2(1.
Topic for the evening, "Freedom." Wednea.
day, meditation. 8 P. M.
Albany Lays Cornerstone April 30.
ALBANY, Or., April 21 (Special.)
The cornerstone of Albany's junior high
school will be placed Friday afternoon,
April 30, and the local Masonic lodge
will conduct the ceremonies. This has
easy to do right with him sitting in the
office." Isn't that a splendid tribute?
"It was easy to do right with him sit
ting in his office."
Prayer triced at Joiner's Start.
It is said that the face of Edward
Simmons carried the Ten (Command
ments in every feature.
The opportunity is yours to use your
wealth, to consecrate your trained
powers and Invest your endowed per
sonality in the work of uplifting en
deavor. The business man who dedi
cates himself to that task is the high
est type of man.
It is a shame for a business man to
sit in his office and be asked for his
money, or to give himself to some
worthy cause. There is something bet
ter than that, and that is for a man to
realize what he has become, how life
has grown strong and competent, and
then to assume the aggressive, to be
constructive, to Invest himself and his
money for the good of the world with
out any man's begging or enticing or
coaxing.
Then there is the matter of sympa
thy, the opportunity of kindliness in a
world of defeat, where sore hearts are
everywhere about you, where lonely
people are discouraged and almost
ready to give up the hard task of liv
ing. You meet them. They come to
your desk, they knock upon your office
doors, and oftentimes you turn them
aside, but that opportunity of kindly
human contact and helpfulness is sent
from God. You strong business men
should know that young men Just start
ing out upon the untrodden ways of
ambition prize a simple word of ad
vice, a glance of recognition or a
handshake from you. Do you give it?
Ruskin asked the question: "What
are fools made for, anyhow?" Then be
turns and says: "They were made for
you wise men to guide." The strength
of the strong was not given that he
might exercise his powers for selfish
ends, but that he might provide for
and support the weak.
What are all of the incompetent men
thronging the ways of life, the great
masses of" unled, wandering children
of the earth? They are not competent
to think out their problems alone.
They are fools, but they are respon
sibilities upon your intelligence and
your kindliness.
This is my message. Begtn tomor
row's Journey with the sacred act of
prayer. Go down upon the highway
of life with the great thought that you
are working out a character. Hold be
fore yourself the great idea! that the
best use of all your competent energy
and acquired endowment la to drop
words and deeds of kindliness and
helpfulness Into a lonely, tempted, sor
rowing, failing world.
"4h, Lord God of Abraham, send
these thy servants good speed this
day !"
been determined upon by the Albany
School Board. Work on the new build
ins:, which Is located at the corner of
Ninth and Ferry streets, is progressing
rapidly. It is being constructed en
tirely of brick and concrete, and will
be the equal of any school building in
the I'acitic Northwest.
MOONLIGHT SCHOOLS OPEN
Fanners of Southern States Are Kn
thuilattc Attendants.
ATLANTA. April IS. "Moonlight"
schools for adults In the rural sections
are the newest agencies in the cam
paign attalnst illiteracy in the South,
The plan already has been inau
gurated in several Alabama, Kentucky,
I Georgia and North Carolina counties.
Other states are considering it.
1 Such schools are planned especially
for persons whose labors allow them
f no time except at tiiKht to Jevota ti
education. The Fchools are advocated
by the State Superintendents of Educa
tion. In most instances they are tauKht
by the teachers who conduct the pub
lic schools In the daytime.
The plan is yet In Its experimental
stage, but is proving popular and la
expanding. It first was tried In Ken
tucky, where a large number of farm
ers took a great interest in It. The
little schoolhonse was crowded every
night.
in a county in Nortnern Georgia tho
scheme proved so popular that at tho
end of the school session, when tho
teacher was offered a higher salary
by another school, the farmers who
had been attending the "moonlight"
school authorized the County Superin
tendent to increase her salary, promis
ing to bear the additional expense
themselves.
This teacher was the winner of a
special cash prize offered personally
by M. L. Brittaln, State Superintendent
of Public Schools for Georgia, for tho
most effective work in the reduction
of adult illiteracy. '
A "moonlight" school was estab
lished only last week at Whites Gap,
in Calhoun County, Alabama. W. 1.
Newman, who Is teaching this school
without remuneration, has reported to
his County Superintendent that tho
school already has an attendance from
the immediate territory of 21 persons,
whose ages range from 8 to 70 years.
"Kvery member," he says, "is tak
ing part in the work in earnest, and
mu-h interest is manifested."
This was the first school in the state.
A second Alabama school already has
been established at Wellington.
CAUGHT FROM WINDOW
Hotel I'atrons Then Wait for Cook
to Announce Breakfast.
PITTSBURG, April 14. Up In Belle
fonte. Center County, is a littlo hotel
where the chintz-shaded windows on
one side of the house will be in great
demand until August 1. No, there isn't
going to be any Knights Templar or
O. A. It. parade or an Inaugural pro
cession, but every one of the window
on one side of this three-story cara
vansary will be occupied by at least
two, maybe three men. for much of
the time allotted by the state tor trout
finning.
WhyT Well, right under the win
dows on this side of the tavern runs
one of the finest trout streams In
Pennsylvania. All the guest has to do
Is to dangle bis line out of a window
with an enticing fly thereto and he
will soon have a speckled beauty,
which the cook In the little hotel will
drop Into a skillet, with three or four
strips of bacon on the side. Then the
fisherman Hits down to breakfast and
there this story can safely leave htm.
TWO WED AFTER 20 YEARS
Quarrel Separates Sweethearts Wlio
Are Finally Keunlted.
SKAFCRD, Del., April Is. An
nouncement has just Leen-tnaUe of tne
marriage of Mrs. M.trtha Perkins,
dauithter of John A. Thompson, and
Clark Thomas, who In connected with
the Northern Central Railroad. Tlu-y
were childhood sweethearts, but parted
20 years a;o after a quarrel.
Both married and renewed their
courtship after becoming widow and
widower. The ceremony took place
last November at the homo of tho
bride's sister, Mrs. Benjamin Co burn,
at Rock Hall, Mo.