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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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result. Mrs. W. B. Hinson is teacher I
of the class. !
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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:.
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