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THE SUXDAT "OREGOMAX. TOETLAND, JUXE "IS." 1915." CHILDREN'S DAY FESTIVITIES WILL BE FEATURED TODAY . . . Many Portland Churches to Have Programmes for Younger Members Observance to Be of Wide Variety Readings, Songs and Drills Emphasized. lO CHILDREN'S day festivities are featured in many of the churches of the city today and in addition several pastors have arranged to give sermons suited particularly for the younger members of vthe congregation. In some instances the morning services of the church is. to be turned over en tirely to the programme to be given by the children and for the evening serv ices a lecture on some topic of interest to them, in some cases illustrated, is substituted for the regular sermon, the entire day thus being turned over to the young people. The programmes in honor of Chil dren's day are. of a wide variety, but in general consist of readings, songs and drill by the children. Jn some in stances other features are added, such as a regular child baptism service. Some of ' the churches held their Children's day celebration last Sunday and these observe their regular serv ices today. Several of the churches of the city caught the Rose Festival spirit dur ing the week. The First Presbyterian Church conducted a rest room for women and children in the basement of the building during the Festival. Couches and chairs were provided and coffee was served free to those who wished it. A -committee "of competent and responsible women were in con stant attendance under the leadership of Mrs. E. C. Michener. Sunnyside Methodist episcopal Church, East Yamhill and Thirty-fifth streets, will follow up the Festival by giving a Rose Festival sacred concert at 7:45 this evening. The church has a large choir of good voices and its concerts are always of a high order. t Professor Coleman, of Reed College, lave a lecture on "The New Thought in Modern Poetry" at the meetings of the Men's Club of the First Congre gational Church Monday night. He took up various of the modern poems dealing with the unemployed problem and the immigration question as show ing the modern tendency in verse. It was "ladies' . night" and a large number of the women of the church were pres ent. Men of the club served the re freshments. Bishop Frank W. Warne, one of the officials in charge of the missionary work ' of the Methodist Episcopal Church in India, was in Portland Thursday, and visited with Bishop R. J. Cooke. He was on his way to at tend a conference of missionaries in Idaho. . Mrs. Alice Welster will address the Woman's class of the Westminister Presbyterian Church at 12 o'clock this morning on "The Beautiful Art of Liv ing. All interested are invited. m Rev. A. L. Hutchinson was installed as pastor of the Piedmont Presbyterian Church Tuesday. Rev. Hutchinson, who has been preaching in Portland for several years, resigned as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church to ac cept the call to the Piedmont church. Dr. W. B. Hinson, pastor of the White Temple, was in Astoria Wednesday and assisted at the dedication of the new First Baptist Church there. Rev. Oliver S. Baum, pastor of Cal vary Presbyterian Church, with his daughter Miss Ruth, has taken v the Goddard home, 492 Mill street, for the Summer. Dean H. M. Ramsey .will preach the baccalaureate sermon for the graduat ing class of St. Helen's Hall at St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral at 11 o'ejock today. Special services will be held for two weeks, beginning today, at the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, 288 Williams avenue, and will be in charge of Mrs. Mamie Jackson, of Boise, Idaho. Mrs. Jackson, who is missionary evangelist of the Oregon-Washington conference, will open her series of meetings tonight. m m The V. I. A class, of girls of the White Temple Baptist Sunday School, will hold a banquet to mark the close of a successful attendance contest on Friday evening.' June 18. The member ship of the class was divided into two sections and under the leadership of Miss Lydia Pliter and Miss Hulda Scheel as captains vied with each other in having the best attendance at the meetings Sunday mornings. An average attendance of 65 girls was the LONGINGS OF LIFE ARE DECLARED ESSENTIAL TO RELIGION Rev. Luther Dyott Explains How Satisfaction May Be Obtained Through Harmony With God Persistent Discontent Termed Most Hopeful Asset of Human Family. And R shall be as when a hungry man dreameth, and behold, he ateth; but he awaketh, and his soul Is empty; .or as when a thirnty man dreameth, and behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and behold, he is faint and his houl hath appetite lalah xxlx :8. As for me. I shall behold thy face In riKhteousneps; 1 shall be satisfied when 1 awake with beholding thy form. Psalm xxvi:15. BY LUTHER R. DYOTT, Pastor First Congregational Church. DREAMS are fancies when we are asleep. Fancies are dreams when we are awake Neither dreams nor fancies can change conditions. The possibility of a sense-impression finding its way to the brain, during sleep, and turning to a dream, has its correspondence where fancy overflows reason when we are awake, physically. "As the dream consciousness is start ed by some sensory stimulus, instead of taking its origin in the brain itself, so fancy forms images, or rep resentations of things, and day dreams, under cer tain powerful stim uli, run the risk of making connections with realities. Em erson says: "What the tender and po etic youth dreams today and conjures up with inarticulate speech is tomorrow the vociferated re sult of public opin ion, and the day af ter is the characterDr. Luther It. Dyott of the nations." - Individual Must Not Be Ignored. One of the first things of life first in importance is to awake to the con sciousness of the real conditions of life, and then know and apply the remedy, or remedies, for such conditions as need to be corrected, remedied, improved. Our modern social gospel, addressing itself, to the great problems of the day, and dealing In life upon a. sort of wholesale basis, must not ignore the In dividual. The former we should do. The latter should not be left undone. The common soul of humanity needs to be wide awake. The individual soul, also, reeds to be wide awake. This is a part of the programme of progress. Here art. science, literature, education, religion and all the other servants of progress and development must find their function and demonstrate their value,- Awake! awake! is the cry of life. It is better that we should be awake to conditions more or less alarm- llPPllliipIl result. Mrs. W. B. Hinson is teacher I of the class. ! c The regular monthly workers' con ference of the Millard-Avenue Presby terian Sunday schbol was held at the home of Mrs. J. F. McLoney, 4418 East Seventy-sixth street South, Monday evening.- The conference selected Saturday, June 26, as the date for the annual Sunday school picnic. It was decided not to discontinue the meetings during the Summer months and as an "incentive to regu lar attendance Roy N. Stearns, sec retary of the school, offered a "hand some banner to the class having the highest, per cent of attendance during July, August and September. The con ference adjourned to meet at the home of Mrs. William Lope. ' 7620 East Sixty-fourth avenue South. July 12. Miss Lillian Forbes and Miss Bar bara McLoney assisted Mrs. McLoney in . serving. Miss Grace DeGraff to Tell of Hague Conference. Addresses to Be- Made at Y. W. C. A. Thin Morning and at Koae City arlc (hnrrh Tonight. V ISS GRACE DE GRAFF, principal I I of the Kenton School, who has re cently returned from attending the peace conference at The Hague, will speak at the regular evening services of the Rose City Park Church. Forty- fifth and Hancock streets today, deal ing with the peace movement. -She will also tell of the international congress of women which she attended at The Hague. Miss De Graff will speak in the morning before the young , women at the Young Women's Christian Associa tion. The Grade Teachers' Association of the city is arranging for a meeting to be held Wednesday night at the auditorium of the Lincoln High School at which time Miss De Graff will tel the teachers of the city and others of the work done at the congress. Rev. Dwight Kellog. returned recent ly. from Foo Chow Mission. China, gave an interesting address at the First Con gregational Church Thursday evening, dealing with present conditions in China. Mr. Kellog is the special mis sionary of the First- Congregational Church, of this city, being supported in his work by that organization. Mr. Kellog arrived in Portland from India the week before last, and had charge of the services in the First Con gregational Church last Sunday morn ing. He left Saturday morning for Massachusetts. I Rose City Park Church Will Have Children's Day. Feature of Service Will Be Appear anee of Vested Choir of Sunday School. CHILDREN'S DAY will be observed at the Rose City Park Community Church. East Forty-fifth and Hancock streets, today, beginning at 11 o'clock. The following programme will be carried out: Orchestra; processional, beginners' department, primary department and junior choir: children's day welcome, Elizabeth Carter; hymn, "Holy Is the Lord"; "A Flower Message," Beth Pack er; rose song, primary department; junior choir; rose drill, primary pupils; hymn, "Sound the Battle Cry"; 23d Psalm, beginners' department A Smile Brigade, four boys; junior choir; -A Garland of June Blossoms, junior girls; offering; baptism of children; recep tion of church members, junior choir; children's sermon. Rev. J. M. Skinner, pastor; hymn, "True-Hearted"; parting. A feature of this service will be the first appearance of the new vested choir girls of the Sunday school, under the direction of Chester J. IIc.gue. Special services for Children's day will be held at Calvary Presbyterian Church, Eleventh and Clay streets, Sun day. A programme will be rendered by the members of the Sabbath school in the evening at 7:45. The. minister. Rev. O. P. Baum, will preach in the morn ing, taking as his subject, "A Great Message." Music will be rendered under the leadership of George Hotchkiss Street and flowers will be distributed. Ing than to have false dreams of sat isfaction. The first step toward a general pos sibly universal satisfaction - is the knowledge of a want of awareness. One of the most hopeful things about the whole human family is its prevalent and persistent discontent, refusing to degenerate into malcontentness on the one hand, or to cease longing on the other. We should thank our God that we cannot altogether fool ourselves. From this viewpoint the chief problem of the ages becomes one of the most thrilling things in the world. But the soul of man cannot live on "thrills." ItellKion .Touched by Failure. ' Among the most mysterious and pa thetic things in the realities of life are the longings of the immortal soul, and the baffled attempts of human beings to satisfy these longings. Here proud philosophy has tried to throw its flick ering rays upon poverty, misery and all manner of suffering, but philosophy has not spoken the word of satisfaction. It has been well said that "Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the pov erty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a sturdy con tempt: but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, stength and consolation." Here education has asked for more than intellectual orientation and men tal garniture, hut education, good as it is in its right place, has not spoken the necessary word, while the dilet tante, the skeptic and the sophist have lost reverence, on the borderland of the larger, better and profounder knowl edge, and radiant intellectuality gets nowhere with an atrophied will, and counts for nothing toward the satisfy ing of soul longings by imperturbably cutting the human heart into thin slices, photographing the brain and la beling fibers. Even religion has not been altogether a. conspicuous success in this connec tion. The moods of faith, the out reachings of hope, the endeavors of love, have been exercised all but in vain to answer fhe deep questions of life, while the soul of man has wan dered in theJ wilderness of fears, fan cies, struggles, defeats, and trembled in twilight turning to darkness, and then, becoming overtaxed of fatigue, has fallen asleep with a stone for Its pillow. When the morning dawned, during certain periods, this periodicity has been marked by dissolving dreams which have given place to disappoint ment and increased dissatisfaction. All dreams - of satisfaction have been mocked by emptiness of life, when we mi V i - v. r'""j 1 0 WMmmmmkm C?ne7'j CAurc2 Bc&ryT CHAPEL OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS W Latter Day Saints' Chapel to Be Dedicated Today. Attractive S12.000 Church to Be Opened by Joseph K. Smith, Prm Idrnt, at Ceremonial Service Re lief Society to Have Conference. THE new chapel of the Church of Jesus Christ; Latter Day Saints, which has been constructed at the cor ner of East Twenty-fifth and. Madison street3 at a cost of 1 12.000. will be dedicated today at 2 o'clock by Joseph Smith, of Utah, president. President Smith and Charles W. Nibley, presiding bishop of the church, who have been on a visit to the Hawaiian Islands to inspect church affairs there, will ar rive in Portland this morning. Services will be held in the audito rium of the church, tonight at 7:30 o'clock. President Smith will speak at both sessions. A special conference of the Relief So ciety of the Northwestern Mission will have had no connection with the source of real life and its means. Soul famine is at once the most ap palling and the most challenging thing about our life of today. Religion Is as old as the human race. Without it the race doubtless would have become ex tinct long ago. Religion, when it re lates to truth, increases light. Light increases civilization. Civilization mul tiplies our wants. Material possessions have increased. The inequalities of life have become more accentuated and aggravated. The rich have grown richer, and the poor poorer. Problems have become more profound and complex. The growth of the com mon soul of humanity has not kept pace with other things. But. never theless, the soul is. and the soul claims the right to persist in immortality, and to assert this immortality while here on earth r to break through the crust of things and to protest against cul pable neglect. It is at our peril that we attempt to throw a wet blanket upon this inner fire of God. That which presents evidence must of necessity be. call it what we will; neglect- it as we do, still there is a life which manifests itself in and through the body, which is-not the body; there is a life which manifests itself in And through the mind which is more than the mind: something which thinks, reasons and concludes through , the mind and Is therefore rational: some thing which wishes, desires and longs, and is therefore appetitive; something which is affected by outside influences, and is therefore sensitive; something which, in turn, influences others and is therefore potential; something find ing its real correspondence in an en vironment which is incorruptible, im material, and immortal, and is therefore incorruptible, immaterial and immortal. Now, it is this divine entity which has its longings and disappointments and pleads for satisfaction. These long ings are varied, strange and constant. They give man-a solitary distinction in their nature. They partly account for his unhappiness and attest his Immortality. SatlMfaetlon Found In God. The size of the soul determines the range of the longings. The red man, roaming in his native forests, finding the wild animals, directing his well aimed arrows, and securing his food, clothing himself in skins, and then, with lazy life, loafing in front of his tent, was only a red man. He had a red man's soul, and counted for little In the great affairs of our total life. But. still, the inextinguishable fire was there and. dying, he did not altogether die; though in living, he did not alto I r i ' - - - i tM - -H J 11 r -v. X N V''.-. " ' ss - J g) b NV . . Jd b f J ' Crs' HICH WILL BE DEDICATED TODAY, CHIRCH AND ITS FOINUISR. be held in the auditorium tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. This will be attended by the visiting church offi cials and four members of the general board of the .Relief Society, Julina Smith. Rebecca Nibley, Jenetta Hyde and Emma Empey. Monday night at 8 o'clock an enter tainment will be given for the benefit of the church building fund under the auspices of the Relief Society of the church. Miss Elizabeth Woodbury will recite "The Witching Hour," and Misses Helen and Evelyn .Calbreath also will appear on the programing. The new building, which has a seat ing caapcity of 400. Is of brick, tile and steel and is finished in rough cement. It is painted in a cream duresco. The style of the architecture is modified Spanish. The work of construction was under the direction of Melvin J. Bal lard. Miss Grace De Graff, of Portland, who was a representative at The Hague peace conference of women, will address the Berean Bible class of First Christian Church at the Y. W. C. A. auditorium this morning at 9:45 o'clock. gether live, but he seemed compara tively happy. The 20th century white man con verts the forests to other purposes, bridges the streams, tills the fertile soil, brings the precious ores from the hidden -places in the earth, builds cities, flashes his thoughts by electricity, lives centuries in a few years, turns the world into a neighborhood: but, with some, it is yet an open question, as to whether he is much happier. What then? "Would it be better to have the white man where the -red-man was in his needs? No; certainly not. Shall we try to decrease our wants by quenching our longings, and sup pressing our lives? No! Life is not found through suppression, but expres sion. Being awake, being dissatisfied, being conscious of our own eoul life, being aware of the common soul of hu manity and the constant and universal longings of life, it is ours to turn to the one supreme source of satisfaction found only in God himself. "He satls fleth the longing soul, .and filleth the hungry soul with goodness." It is difficult, if not impossible, for us to mention all the ways and means used by God in his coming into our inner life. Suffice it to say that we possess aptitude and affinity for him. The finite has attributes answering in some small way, at least, to. those of the Infinite, while God means every one to be himself at his best. To the child, God comes through his parents, when the father and mother are what they ought to be. The true parent is the medium of God. Mother's Heart Gwl's Hume. A mother's heart Is designed to be the home of God. She goes through "the valley of the shadow of death" to take a flower at the gate of heaven when her child is born. The home is a church. The father is. or should be, the preacher there. His example is his- ser mon. Souls longing for love in the home find God there when those long ings, are satisfied by knowing that life is more than food, and the body than raiment. Then comes the'school. Then comes the church. Each has its place. The former finds its sacred function In the development of the mind. Increasing the inner capacity and powers of life, and in piercing through to the sptritual quality of the soul. It is to awaken and direct, the nobler aspirations, the best sympathies, and to cultivate the purest tastes, to ele vate youthful ambition to unselfish pur poses and ends to make it possible for the longings of life to be adequate to the building of symmetrical character for the God-filled life. . It . is to .manufacture, men .and : wo i 'c-7.K f. , . . I PROMINENT MEMBERS OK THE First Services of Merged Church Due Today. Rev. L. K. Crimea. I'nxtor of Central Prea-byterlan Church. Enthusiastic Over I'roapects. THE first services of the Central Presbyterian Church, of Portland, will be held today at the Third Church, East Pine and East Thirteenth streets, when Rev. L. K. Grimes, who has "ac cepted the pastorate of the new con solidated church, composed of the con gregations of the Third and Hawthorne Park churches, will preach morning and evening. Rev .Mr. Grimes has been an active pastor for nearly 20 years. His first pastorate was at Nego, 111., where he served for nine years, and where a. church and manse were built. His next pastorate was at Superior, where a church was built, and where the membership increased from 300 to 500 He left this church in a prosperous men for the duties of life, as tho best citizens. Then, and then only, it be comes true, as Edward Everett said, that "Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army. If we retrench the wages of the school master, we must raise those of the re cruiting sergeant." The church takes its' place by the side- of the home and the school as a co-operating institution in the build ing of character and leading the soul to the source where its longings re ceive their perfect answer. Thus the value of the individual to human society is determined, pri marily, by establishing the right re lationships. . "As for me, I shall be hold thy face In righteousness: I shall be satisfied when I awake with be holding thj- form." The man who has something to -say to God always means more to life. The arrival of a God filled man marks an epoch in the human race. This is why Jesus Christ turned the streams of destinies. In him dwelt the fullness of the God head, bodily. 'The nature of the life determines the nature of the longings. Dlvlnenefta Held Eawenlial. We are never quite natural until we are somewhat divine. Divine enough to long to be right right to ward God, and right toward our brother man. and right toward our selves. This must become our hun ger and thirst. Then follows the sat isfaction. "Blessed are they that hun ger and - thirst after righteousness, for they shall b3 filled." Beholding God's face in righteousness means, then, that the man who had turned his back upon God has said to him self. "Right about face! Face God! Face him with yourself as you are. Thank him that you can find satis faction nowhere else." In reality the psalmist prayed. "Do not let me be satisfied until I behold thy face In righteousness. and thy likeness awakes within me." It was not a likeness for which- he was waiting to have after death. We never need to die to have, at least, the beginnings of the best thing-s. We do not show a greater appreciation of the world to come by despising the world in which we live. God mSde this world and it is not "sinful and naughty" save to those who ere them selves "sinful and naughty." Our soul longings may be satisfied. ' and now. But religion, while beginning with the individuai. ceases to be religion when it ends with the individual. No man liveth unto himself. .That hapoi nes3 Is not worth the name which condition to come to Portland two years ago. Rev. Mr. Grimes early saw the ad vantage of consolidation with the Third Church, and both talked and used his influence in that direction, and was ready at any time to resign if such action would hasten the union. "1 can see great possibilities for the new Central Presbyterian Church," said Mr. Grimes, "especially among the young people, and it shall be my earnest endeavor to lead the new chqrch to a high standard. I have as sisted in the union of churches as chairman of the home mission com mittee of the presbytery to which I belonged in the East, but in none did 1 see the same fine spirit of harmony and splendid feeling as have been manifested by the congregations of the Third and Hawthorne Park churches, which will make up the Central Presbyterian Church. Every step toward union has been marked by a brotherly spirit, with caro and precision as to details and legal forms. There wiH be no heart burnings grow ing out of this consolidation." Church Asks Wilson to Use Every Means to Avoid War. Portland Claaaut of Reformed Church Ura-c Prealdent to Kmplor Moderation in Crlnla With Tn-o Nations. RESOLUTIONS urging President Wilson to use all moderation pos sible in dealing with the'German and Mexican situations to prevent war, were adopted at the 36th annual meet ing of the Portland Classis of the Reformed Church in the United States, the sessions of which were concluded last Sunday. The meeting was held June 3 . to 6 in the First Reformed Church, corner Twelfth and Clay streets, and delegates, ministers and elders were in attendance representing congregations in the States of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and California. Resolutions were also adopted urg ing President Wilson to take steps to gtop the exportation of war supplies to belligerent nations "as such expor tation is against humanity and against the honor of the American Nation." Reports submitted showed a year of progress had Just closed. Rev. A. F. Lienkaemper, of Los Angeles, Cal., preached the opening sermon. Rev. J. Wernly, of Lodi, Cal., 'was elected president: Rev. A. E. Wyss. of Port land, clerk, and Elder Henry Roth, of Portland, treasurer. Children's day will be celebrated . at the White Temple today by a pro gramme given in the morning begin ning at 11 o'clock. Songs and readings by children of tho Sunday school will be features of the services. Dr. W. B. IMnson. the pastor, will preach an ap propriate sermon. Children's day services will be ob served at the Kenilworth Presbyterian Church this morning at 10:30 with ap propriate exercises, including a pro gramme of music and readings, infant baptism also will be a feature of the exercises. The programme to be given includes the follpwing numbers: Children's Recessional. Recitation. "Welcome" Samuel Schwartz Infant Baptism. Girls' Eons. "Blossom Bells" ... .Class No. ti Anthem, 'Suffer the Little Children to Cpnio" Choir Recitation, selected Robert Storey Recitation, ' The Water Iurli" ..Harold Td ii Bible drill Pastor Supplemental diill Alifi3 J." H. leijsl.eeli Motion Onf Beginners Recitation. "What Can Childreu Lo?" Verm Miranfl-l Recitation, selected .t-loorKia Katherine smlib Whistling ont; .primary Department Heading Miss Pearl Kirk Urill. "Uud'a Little .iiild" Mil's Rector's t'lasrf Twenty-Third Psalm Miss Post's Class Hesitation Viola Callaliun Recitation. "Taking His First Smoke"... ..Raymond Town Cradle Roll Exercise. Sentence Recitation. Tableau, "Rock of Ages" Class No. 4 Closinc Recitation Grace Bowman Songs and drills of various kinds by children of the Sunday school will he features of the Children's day pro gramme at the East Side Baptist Church this morning at 10 o'clock. The programme Includes the following num bers: Processional chorus: song. "On Children's Pay": song with whistling chorus. "A Song of Praise": exercise by Junior boys and girls. "The Trail Dwellers": song, "The Herald of Hope"; exercise by intermediate boys and girls, "Light of the World": exercise by inter mediate boys, "The Peace Fleet"; song. knows the other man's burdens, sor rows, pains and struggles without sharing them with him. No man Is altogether free so long as any other man is in bondage of body, mind or soul. Then there are our deductions: First There is such a thing as satis faction. The longings of life imply its existence. Wo cannot desire that which is not. unless our desires have been degraded through sin. which is moral insanity and disease. We should interpret our longings . in the best terms. ' Even when we are sinful there Is a line which we cannot cross. The prodigal could not be satisfied with the swine and the food of swine, be cause it remained possible -for him to come to himself In spite of all that he had done. Coining to himself, he decided to arise and go to his father. So with sinful man. Never satisfied with sin, he may yet And satisfaction In God. Satisfaction Declared -Available. Second We are bound to acknowl edge the soul's indefeasible preroga tive of responding to God on the basis of individual aptitude and affinity. While we are all alike in some things we are all different in others. To tho intellectual, God comes through great thoughts, but the whole life must re spond when God comes through that aptitude, for man is more than his in tellectual powers. To the one who has a clear notion of . what is right God comes through that sense. Then the man must yield hit whole life w'hether his emotions are stirred or not. To another the emotional nature Is in the ascendency. God comes to him through his emotions, but he must yield the will also, for religion is quite an uncertain quantity without the will. It is possible for an emotional religion to be destitute of the best morality. A man may be moral without being re ligious in the fullest and best sense, but he cannot be truly religious with out a true morality. He must live right in all things Third While satisfaction is available here and now we are not to seek it as a rersonal luxury ot the soul at the exr eijfe of the greatest possible good to t?. greatest possible number. There is a right way and there Is a wrons way. There is a. true satisfaction and thc-. is a false satisfaction. "He shall of the travail of his soul and shall he satisfied." The society of human saviors must share1 the lot of the' Di vine Savior of the world. It is not ours, to withdraw from the world as we find it. We are here to be "laborers together "Boat Song"; exercise by primary girls, "The Wheel on the Trail"; motion song and verses by beginners, "Jesus Called the Little Ones": address by Rev. W. O. Shank, pastor; closing song, "The Light Bearers." t J. H. Matthews, of Seattle, rrencial superintendent of tho state Sunday school work in Washington, will give an illustrated lecture at the First Con gregational Church this evening. Ho will take as his subject the general condition of the Sunday school work and will illustrate his remarks by pic tures, showing different phases of that work. Children's day exercises will be held at the church in the morning. Rev. Luther R. Dyott, the pastor, will go to Monmouth today, where he will deliver the baccalaureate sermon before thj graduating class of the Oregon State Normal School. mm Final action for the union of Third and Hawthorne Park Presbyterian churches will be taken up for consid eration to be held at Third Church Thursday evening. Other matters rela tive to the union will be determined also, including which of the two build ings shall be used for the meetings of the new congregation, to be formed as the result of the consolidation, and to be known as the Central Church. The union was approved at a meet ing of the Portland Presbytery held at the Piedmont Presbyterian Church. Tuesday. Rev. J. v. Milligan, Rev. C. W. Hays and Rev. H. H. Pratt werl chosen as a committee to represent tha presbytery at the meeting June 17. m m m V. M. Wilson will have charge of tho Warrenton. (Or.) Methodist Episcopal Sunday school today at 10 A. M and Mrs. Rogers the Hammond (Or.) Sun day school. Mrs. W. I. Morrison will have charge of the Clatsop Plains Sun day school at the same hour. Children's day services will be held at the Clatsop Plains Sunday school this morning at 11 A. M. Songs and recitations will be given by the chil dren. Miss Nancy Morrison will be the acompanist and Rev. Alfred Bates will speak. Rev. Mr. Bates also will preach at Warrenton at 7:43 o'clock. Mrs. Richardson and Mrs. Hendricks entertained the Ladies' Aid Society of the Warrenton Methodist Episcopal Church at the Hotel Warrenton Wednesday. Mrs. Clara Briggs is president. Women Hear Good Schools for Girls Accomplish. Mlaalonarj- Society of Flrat Cositrr rational Cbnrch l.rnrnx Results of L:fforta In Foreign Stntcs. THE Women's Misionai-y Society of tlie I'ir.st Congregational Church held its last meeting of the year Tues day. May S. Ofliieers for the following year wer elected as follows: President. Mrs. D. L. Bracj: first vice-president. Mrs. Har old Gilbert; second vice-president, Mrs. Hattie Fitch: financial secretary, Mrs. F. K. Beach; treasurer, Mrs. U. D. Clark; secretary, Mrs. IS. T. Alliston. The speaker of the afternoon was Mrs. Alice Ropes Keiiog;. a mission ary of the First Conm cy i tional Church of Portland, who tpoke most interest ingly on the women of China. She told of their hardships mid thf-lr amuse ments and the changes which Christian education is effecting. Mrs. Caroline Borden, of Boston, one of the first niemlicrs of the Women's Board, spoke from personal knowledge of the good accomplished by the schools for girls in foreign countries, especially in Oosh iska. Urousa and Constantino ple. She said that in spite of the war the work is going on. iind that last week 19 girls of six nationalities had been graduated. .Mrs. Hiirold Gilbert furnished sev eral excellent vocal selections. Mrs. R. McGuire entertained the Ladies' Aid Society of the Hammond Methodist Episcopal Church at her home Thursday. The society is ar ranging a series of socials to be given soon. u Children's day exercises will be held at St. James' Lutheran Church this morning at 11 o'clock. There will be songs and rcitations by members of the school and an excellent programme is promised. with God." to make a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteous ness. Never until we have done our part have we any richt to expect to know much of heaven in the world to come. Heaven, like life, is what you make it. You cannot make it for your self without making it for someone else. The kingdom of God comes to earth when we do his will on earth as it in done in heaven. Fourth The all-important thing is. therefore, harmony with God. We must have his nature his likeness awake in us. We must have his will. It is not something to bo suffered. Some persons used to say in their prayers. "When we have suffered out thy righteous will on earth, take us to thyself in glory." That was a dense misconception of tho will of God. His will is our heaven, our all. Harmony with It makes our lives relate to the ultimate satisfaction of the Eternal himself. Fifth The only life and satisfaction for us are the God-filled life, divine satisfaction and love. Thus do we come to the soul of alJ reality and are in ado "strong to apprehend with alt the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that we may be filled unto all the fulness of God." Thts Is real life. This is how soul longings find satisfaction. Baths of the Indians. Exchange. We hate to shatter a romance, but facts compel the statement that the noble red man took comparately few hathf:. OUR CHURCH AND SUNDAY SCHOOL DEPARTMENT BOOKS. BIBLES, TESTAMENTS, MAPS, BUTTONS, CARDS. CERTIFICATES, ETC. T5hn3.!K. SHii (To. THIRD AND ALDER STREETS FOR RENT CB1UCH II A I I,. 22x40 FEET, "AT US JVOKTM TKXTH, WEST 311)15. S35 A MOWTH. r.l'BV CO., 113 Front Street.