THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 5 19t5.
LABOR DAY, SCHOOLS AND FILM SHARE HONORS IN SERMONS
Rev. Abraham Vereide, of Vancouver-Avenue Norwegian-Danish Methodist Church, to Give Last Address Before Departure for Conference at San Francisco.
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LABOR DAY sermons will divide
honors today with sermons on tbe
significance of the opening of the
schools. Rev. Abraham Vereide, pastor
of the Vancouver-avenue Norwesian
Dantsh Methodist Church, will give a
sermon on the labor question. This will
be his last Sunday before leaving for
San Francisco, where he will be one
of the speakers at the Western Nor
wegian-Danish conference of the Meth
odist Church of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and California. All Scandinavian
organizations are invited to attend the
services in the evening.
In the Rose City Park Presbyterian
Church "The American Public School"
will be Dr. J. M. Skinner's subject for
the morning.
Lr. John H. Boyd will discuss the
film, "The Birth of a Nation." at the
First Presbyterian Church tonight.
Other pastors have attractive sub
jects that will doubtless draw large
congregations. Many of the families
that have just returned from the
beaches are planning to attend and
amily pews that have been vacant all
Summer or that have been used by
strangers will once more be used by
the accustomed members of the
churches.
After an absence of five Sundays.
Rev. John H. Boyd, D. T., pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, corner
Twelfth and Aider streets, will again
be heard in his pulpit at 10:30 and
7:46. Dr. Boyd has passed his vaca
tion in California and the mountainous
districts of Oregon.
This first Sunday will be a fitting
beginning of a season which promises
ereat activity and interest in the First
Church. The quartet, including Mrs.
Jane Burns Albert, Mrs. Lulu Dahl
Miller, Joseph P. Mulder and J. Dom
Zan. will be in their accustomed place,
with E. K. Coursen, who is entering
upon tbe 28th year of his service as or
ganist. This elaborate musical pro
gramme has been prepared to add to
the cheer of the day:
Evening service Organ prelude, "Church
Chimes" (Harris), played by E. E. Coursen;
"""ill. "The Lord Is My Rock" (Rogers):
patriotic response. "Now pray We for Our
Country" (Fisher); quArtet, "To Thee O.
V.';Hntry" (Eichberg); postlude. "Largo"
The patriotic nature of the music
for the evening service is chosen to
correspond to the subject matter of Dr.
Body's sermon, which will cover some
of the facts concerning the stirring
days known as the reconstruction pe
riod of this country.
Christian Endeavor Notes
THE Portland Christian Endeavor
Union is about to lose one of its
most prominent and faithful workers
Alvin Kipllnger Bradford, Its vice-president.
Mr. Bradford has been connected
with the Portland union since Novem
ber, 1914, when he began his work as
prayer meeting chairman. During the
even months between November, 1914,
and June, 1915. Mr. Bradford obtained
180 new comrades of the quiet hour for
the Portland union. In doing this he
1-d more than 40 different meetings in
all parts of the city. The Christian
Endeavor members everywhere learned
to love him because of his genial and
earnest character.
Last June the Endeavor members of
Portland showed their approval of his
splendid work by electing him vice
president of the city union. There is
little doubt but what he would have
been the next president if he had re
mained with us. His ability as a speak
er and his willingness to work wher
ever he could be ot service has made
him a favorite with the cabinet mem
bers and the Endeavorers of the city
alike.
This trip will be a honeymoon, for
Mr. Bradford next Wednesday night is
to marry Miss Lilah Clark, of Lents.
The wedding will be at the home of the
bride, "Skaneateles Lodge."
...
The Bethel Methodist Church is sit
uated near the east end of the Broad
way bridge. The Endeavor Society has
a membership of 44 33 of whom are
active. The president, V. E. Keene, is
active in the work.
To have a Christian Endeavor Society
in a Methodist Church is somewhat un
SERMON DEALS WITH POWER OF JESUS CHRIST AS TEACHER
Uev. H. T. Greene Points Out Characteristics He Thinks Should Be Followed and Others He Thinks Should Not Be Attempted in Respect to Divinity.
And It came to pa?s, when Jesus had i
ended these saylnps, the people were aston
Ished at hi doctrine:
For he tuuglit them as one having author
ity, and not a-s the scribes.
When he was com down from the moun
tain a great multitude followed him. Matt
7:2S--'9. x
BY REV. H. T. GREENE.
Associate pastor Ftrat Methodist Church.
N examination of Christ's "Sermon
LjL on the Mount" shows us that no
richer field of spiritual, sugpes-
tivr, and practical thought than this
has come within reach of mortality.
Ther are tseeds embedded in rich
ffoil of this wonderful sermon that
shall one dy cover the world with
flowers more beautiful, trees more
stately, and fruits more lucious than
those that once grew in and embel
lished the "Edenic Garden" of Ions
a So.
But the concluding? events of that
eerraon, as shown in the verses which
now are under our notice presents
Christ to us in one of the most Inter
esting; relations which he hold that
of a teacher.
Humanity is ignorant, Christ is its
preat teacher.
He was, and is, the ideal instructor.
His the most fa mous school of the
apes. While he built no classic halls,
collected no grand library, yet he
turned all life into noble opportunity;
he made homes and streets, seasides
and mountain tops, places of discipline
and recitation.
There are three incidents in the text
"which indicate the transcendent great
ness of Christ as a teachr. First The
impression he made upon his hearers
"They were astonished at his doctrine:"
Second The reason assigned for this
impression "He taught them as one
having authority ;" Third The num
ber that followed him after the sermon
was over "When he was come down
from the mountain, great multitudes
followed him."
FreshnrsM Marks Statements.
These circumstances seem to unite
in giving us the idea that as a teacher
he stands alone in unapproachable
glory. "Never man spake like this
man." The common people who
heard him gladly, felt this. There was
a freshness and a force about his
statements that touched the inmost
natures of men and roused dormant
faculties to action. The teaching of
Jesus wafted the minds of his hearers
into a new world; new stars shone
9 above them and the landscape was new
to them: the balmy air quickened the
pulsation of their souls, and new
aspirations were born. "They were
astonished at his doctrine.'
While his words possess every charm
of antiquity, yet they are sparkling
-with this morning dew. He speaks
with all the simplicity of a child, yet
every sentence is freighted with the
wisdom of God. They fall from his
lips with all the tenderness of kisses
from the lips of love, and yet are as
forceful as forked ligtning as it
rends some temple of opposition.
The parables to which he ffives ut
usual in Portland, regardless of tbe
fact that, counting the world over,
there are more Christian Endeavor so
cieties in Methodist churches than any
other denomination. In the "West the
Epworth League is strong. Especially
in Portland js the Epworth League do
ing excellent work.
With the addition of this new society
to the union, there is now a total of
53 societies in its membership. The
Christians have eight societies, the
Congregational Church nine, the Pres
byterians 19, the Evangelical Church
four, the Friends three, the United
Brethren five, the United Presbyterians
three, the Episcopal Church one, and
the Methodist Church one. The total
membership of the union amounts to
over 2000.
.
The young people of the Marshall
street Presbyterian Church are plan
ning to start their Fall work on Sep
tember 12, when they will reopen their
Endeavor meetings after a Summer's
rest, and also take charge of the even
ing service. Rev. A. J. Hanna is the
pastor and is enthusiastic In his young
people's work.
The Christian Endeavor subject will
be "Throw Yourself Into Your Task."
and will be led by one of the officers of
the Christian Endeavor Union.
At the evening service the union will
give its special illustrated lecture on
Portland missions. Miss Ford, who is
the union secretary and has had long
experience in the work she represents,
will give the lecture. It is possible
that the young people will see their
way clear to consider Borne of the plans
which will be suggested in the lecture.
At present this society is without a
president. The regular president has
transferred his- membership to Anabel
Presbyterian Church. Daniel Rowland
has been at the head of the work here
for the last year.
The young people of the Fourth
Presbyterian Church plan to start their
Fall Christian Endeavor work with a
vim next Friday night, September 10.
It is 'their plan to have all their mem
bers together for an evening at the
home of their pastor. Rev. H. G. Han
sen, at 18H4 Whitaker street. Here
they will talk over their Fall plans
and have a social hour together. The
members -of this society have invited
the president ot the city union to be
their guest for the evening and ad
dress them on their Christian Endeavor
work.
Evert E. Crocker is the new presi
dent of this society He follows Ray
mond Gingrich, who did such excellent
work last year. The pastor of the
church. Rev. H. G. Hansen, is not only
an interested and enthusiastic member
of his own society, but his influence is
felt throughout all the Presbyterian
churches of Portland, for he is chair
man of the committee in charge of the
Christian Endeavor work of all the
Presbyterian societies.
Since the Christian Endeavor Union
is constantly being called upon to pie
sent Christian Endeavor work in so
many different societies, it is impor
tant that the cabinet members have
the ability to "make good" before the
young church people of the city. The
Endeavor members of Portland believe
that the union has taken a big step
j i- i,ctT(tn when they
lornaru in . .
secured Dr. George B. Pratt to become
a member or tneir misondiy i.. ......
tee. ur. rrau is 1 ' -circles
and Is considered one of the
strongest speaKers we nav ... -w-
At ine prrseiiu " --
ent of the Sunday school at the Vernon'
Presbyterian unurcn.
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ur. I ran 3 menu mi: v. .
,the Portland union will be Tenth Legion.
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une 01 ine uie uiuveiucuia wi "
of the tenth to the work of the church.
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lir. r ran win oe reauy -- i.u vena
tion ii.naeu.vor iiiecunga - 1 ,
ber 12 and wlllpresent this important
SUOjeCt. Any swirij n w
: V. I An on ViV POllintT thp.
Curing 11 1 1 1 1 iuoy uu '-j o
lookout chairman, Mr. Sprague.
ir. rrau plans IO give meuiueis vi ib
societies ne may vion i.iiau-c .yj en
roll In the Tenth Legion. The union
plans to secure a supply of Tenth Le
gion literature and be ready at any
time to push this important part of the
church work.
terance are like groups of matchless
statuary. Every prayer that he utters
is a grand organ peal that floats
around the world and down the ages,
and in which every heart finds its
noblest feelings at once expressed, sus
tained and refined. Oh. wonderful
teacher! Our blest example, our fond
est dream," our noblest desire!
But what gave this power to his
teaching? What were the distinguish
ing characteristics of the THvine in
structor? These questions are of prac
tical moment to every one of us, for
in the great "School of Life" we are
not only learners, but we are teachers;
hence we cannot do better than notice
here briefly some of the features
which characterize Christ as a teacher.
Orisrluallty in Teaching Noted.
There are many features In Christ's
teaching that cannot be imitated.
Among these, notice his originality.
What he taught was not derived from
books or traditions. It was the prod
uct of his own mind. The truth he
taught was in him, as the ray is in the
sun or the stream in the fountain. It
may be said that much of what he
taught may be found wrapped up in
the Jewish scriptures, but what of it?
He was. nevertheless, original. Origi
nality does not necessarily imply or
mean novelty. A thousand minds may
think the same thing yet each be strict
ly original in the thought. But, indeed,
was not the Old Testament itself de
rived from him? Jepus Christ was in
the world, in its rising institutions and
struggling intellects, long before his
incarnation.
I know that modern criticism tells
us that he borrowed his best ideas
from the Hebrew seers and ancient
sages. But as well might you say
that the sun borrows light from the
sunbeam, as to assert that Christ bor
rowed from Socrates. Plato or Seneca.
He drew his sermons from himself
and every idea comes forth wearing
the impress of his own nature. Even
the ideas that had been current in
the world before he moulded into new
forms, breathed into them a new life,
and gave them a new voice to startle
the dormant faculties of mankind, and
mould men into his own image. He
cut a new channel for the world's
thought and threw into it a tide of
new sentiments that shall one day
flood the world with a clearer and
sweeter life.
Again, we cannot imitate his mirac
ulousness. Christ taught by wonderful works as
well as by words. His miracles, if
they did not prove the truth of his doc
trine which we believe they did
called attention to them, illustrated
their meaning and symbolized their
spirit. Jesus made mute nature speak
for him. He unsealed the eye of the
blind, healed the diseases of the af
flicted, raised the bodies of the dead
and hushed the storm to typify the
spiritual light, health, life and peace
which all his doctrines were designed
and fitted to impart. These features of
Christ's teachings we, of course, can
not Imitate.
There are also some features of his
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SO CSS? t-T-? s-i -
'Shall America Be Foreign
ized?" Theme of Sermon.
Dr. Loveland Will DlwoBt Important
Question at First Methodist
Church Tonight.
HALL America be Foreignized?"
Dr. Loveland will discuss this
most important question in his sermon
tonight, at the First Methodist Church.
Should -any "hyphenated" Americanism
exist in America? The Americanizing of
.the Foreigner vs. the Foreignizing of
the American.
This bids fair to be one of the most
interesting sermons delivered by Dr.
Loveland, who has been heard by great
crowds during the Summer on many
like themes. Dr. Loveland has not
taken the usual Summer vacation, but
has remained in his pulpit during the
hot months and each Sunday night
during August has had the pleating ex
perience of speaking to a Summer audi
ence which filled the great auditorium.
On next Sunday night a special
feature of the evening service will be
the musical work by the quartet and
vested choir, which will make its first
appearance after the Summer vaca
tion. Calvary Church Brings to
Close Successful Year.
Meeting of Various Organization
Are Continued Durlns; Summer
Months.
CALVART PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
has just completed a most success
ful year, under the pastorate of the
Rev. Oliver S. Baum, X). D., who came
to this city from Denver, Colo. The
meetings of the different organizations
have been continued during the Summer
months, and a pleasing invocation has
been the open-air song service Sunday
nights. Many members have been add
ed to the church and Dr. Baum'a clean
cut, scholarly sermons have attracted
wide attention, lie has become a po
tent factor in the church life of the
city.
Rev. A. L. Hutchison, pastor of the
Piedmont Presbyterian Church, and
Mrs. Hutchison have returned home
from their vacation, which was spent
on Puget Sound and in mountains of
the vicinity. Dr. Hutchison will oc-
teaching that, I think, we should not
try to imitate.
First among these is his positive
ness. Nearly the whole of his teaching is
made up of positive assertion. He does
not go into proof. He rarely conde
scends to argument. He dictates, but
seldom debates. His doctrines were
among those first principles of belief
which lie beyond reach of logic and
are so in accord with human conscious
ness as to require no formal proof. He
knew that the principles which he
enunciated were absolutely true true
in themselves and true to human na
ture. Why, then, should he deign to argue?
It was for him only to pronounce: we
should not attempt to imitate Christ
In this respect. We should remember
that sin has clouded the divine page
of first principles in mankind of today,
and we have no reason to expect that
our fellowmen will receive doctrines
of belief on our mere say so. If we
would have our opinions intelligently
respected, we must seek by judicious
argument to make them harmonize
with the dictates of conscience, the
laws of reason and the word of God.
Arrogance of opinion is apt to be a re
pellant to the genuine inquirer.
Again, we should not attempt to imi
tate his self-assurance.
Christ as a teacher has boundless con
fidence In himself; he never prefaced
a discourse or a remark by an apology;
he was always able to sound the depth
of every thought and to span the
breadth of every question. This we
cannot, and should not attempt to per
form. Even Paul, at times, seemed
crushed under a sense of his own in
sufficiency for a work so sublime in
its nature and momentous in its is
sues. Jesus had self-assurance because
of the perfection of his knowledge.
The -whole realm of thought came
within the sweep of his glance, and
every object stood out before him in
cloudless sunshine. He saw everything
distinctly and in their true proportions
and right relations. He was the mas
ter of every theme he touched. The
deep things of God were familiar to
his mind. But others who have this
self-assurance have it because of their
ignorance.
The man who has the greatest dash
of this is the man who has seen the
least of the wondrous and soul-overpowering
field of the truth. Scarcity
of thought and superficial knowledge
often beget an Imprudence that is
sometimes mistaken for Christian bold,
ness. These, then, are some of the fea
tures of Christ's teaching which we
can and should not Imitate, because
Christ alone is capable of exercising
these attributes.
But there are many features of his
teaching that we. as Christians, should
seek to reproduce in our lives and ac
tions. If, as has been said, the Chris
tian is the sinner Bible, how import
ant it is that we should follow the
example of him who taught so divinely,
because he was the center and cir
cumference, the soul and the substance
of all truth. How necessary it is that in
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WOMEN PROMISiEXT IV RELI
GIOUS WORK I rOUTLAX I).
Mrs. J. Earl Else and Mrs. Flor
ence Ingalls are active in the Rose
City Park. Methodist Church and
are among the leaders in effectual
work. ' '
Mrs. W, W. Youngson is wife of
the pastor of this same church.
Mrs. H. D. Chambers is wife of
Archdeacon Chambers, of the
Episcopal Church. She does a vast
amount of good work in an un
assuming manner.
Miss Florence E. Kiehle is the
daughter of the Rev. David Keihle.
She is especially successful in
teaching the young people, with
whom she is popular. .
cupy his puplit this mofning and even
ing. The evening service is changed
from 8 o'clock to 7:30.
Rev. B. H. Morse, a Methodist
Episcopal evangelist of National repu
tation from North Dakota, will preach
at the First Church of the Nazarene.
East Seventh and Couch streets, to
night, at 7:45 o'clock. Special music.
our lives we should try to catch the
rays of his glory and fling them alone
upon the souls of those who would
learn from us.
There are, then, features of Christ's
teaching, which we, as disciples of his,
should strive to emulate.
Among these we would suggest first
his naturalness.
I say natural, not in the sense of
coarseness, for all his sentiments, ex
pressions and habits as a teacher were
exquisitely refined. An ethereal deli
cacy of feeling pervaded the whole of
his life.
Nor in the sense of uncultivatednesa
do I apply the word to him. His in
tellectual and spiritual powers were
well trained. He had evidently devoted
the leisure hours of his youthful life
to the Important work of self culture,
somewhere amid the soul-vivifying
solitudes of nature. He had so studied
the pages ot absolute truth that hia
spiritual faculties grew with his years.
The mind of Jesus reached . the full
stature of perfect manhood, as did his
body, by attending to the divine laws
of growth.
But I mean that his teaching was
natural in the sense of genuine sim
plicity. How free from everything like art
were. the reasonings and the language
of Christ. He did not formulate his
thoughts by any logical -rules, nor
adorn them -with any rhetorical orna
ment. His thoughts were the rising
Institutions of his own great nature.
His outward lie was the faithful ex
pression of his inner life, and his
inward life was ever in perfect agree
ment with truth and in harmony with
God. Every changing note of his voice
was the ring of something new with
in, and every expression of his coun
tenance was the gleam of some passing
thought or feeling of his boundless
soul.
I refer to his constant readiness- to
teach. His natualiness. He was al
ways ready. He never offers an apol
ogy for unpreparedness. He could
speak to any class, on any question, in
any place, at any time, and when he
spoke he always made himself felt and
this was because he was not the creat
ure of art, but the child ofNature.
Monotony Not Foaad lu Teaching;,
His variety as a teacher was also
due to his naturalness. There was
nothing monotonous in his teachings;
there was always something new. The
same,- twice said by him, eemed dif
ferent. Everything he said was fresh
with a new life. Even truths that had
become stale , in . human creeds and
hackneyed on the lips of the world's
pedagogues bloomed with new life as
they flowed from his lips.
Again we should try to imitate his
suggestiveness.
Every sentence he uttered started
some thought or train of thought .in
the minds of his hearers. There was
more religious thinking in Judea dur
ing the three years of his ministry than
there had been in centuries before. He
put the wheels of religious thought,
which had been all but motionless for
ages, into rapid movement which has
Social Service Class Will Be
in Charge of Vespers.
Topic at Central Methodist Church to
He "Tbe Laboring Man and Ills
Burden."
THE Young Men's Social Service
class of the Central Methodist
Sunday school, Vancouver avenue and
Fargo street, will conduct the evening
service tonight. The topic will be
"The Laboring Man and His Burden."
James Oakes. of the Oregon Hygiene
Society, conductor of the class, will
preside. The following young men
will speak: Oscar Sorenson, "Sickness
and Accidents Resulting From Over
work"; Alva Weston, "The Unequal
Distribution of the Products of La
bor"; George Rae. "Remedial Meas
ures"; Ralph Walter. "Christ and the
Individual"; Leslie Adwin. "What the
Church Can Do." A month ago the
young men of this class gave an even
ing to the question of "Poverty." The
service was interesting and instruc
tive. Rev. C. C. Rarick, the pastor,
will have for his Labor day theme at
been perpetual ever since and which
has borne humanity on to its present
stage of civilization.
His thoughts, like the breath of
Spring, swept over the world and
quickened its dormant germs into life.
This suggestive teaching is the high
est kind of teaching and the only
teaching of any permanent worth. He
who crams the minds of others with
his own ideas, no matter how con
sistent they be. does nothing to help
humanity equal to him who stimu
lates the mind to create ideas for it
self to think. Jesus knew this and
his aim was to get men to think.
Then we should imitate his spiritual
ity. He was impressed with- the para
mount importance of the human soul.
Matter, to htm, even In its most mag
nificent and Imposing forms, was noth
ing as compared to mind. Worlds
seemed to pass into empty shadows be
fore him and he dwelt upon the value
of souls. Hence you never find him
trying to awaken the animal sym
pathies nor seeking to please the sensu
ous part of his hearers. He was ever
appealing to the inner spirit the moral
sympathies the conscience. He taught
that tbe object of worship was a spirit
and that true worship was not a formal
service but a spiritual devotion.
He taught that religion did not con
sist in overt acts, but in hidden prin
ciples: not the outward propriety of
the Pharisee, but in the inner peni
tence of the Publican.
He also taught the great lesson of
tenderness.
His treatment of the woman taken in
adultery ; his tears at the grave of
Iazarus; his pathetic lament over
Jerusalem; his gracious notice of Peter
after the denial; his prayers and his
address to his mother when he was on
the cross are a few examples of his
exquisite tenderness. His tenderness
was not the mere simpering or a weak
nature, but it was like the sap of the
mighty oak the strength of his na
ture. His tears .were but the exuda
tion of moral force. Let us try to imi
tate our great teacher in this, and
learn that tenderness is the soul of
eloquence and power, and that through
it we can breathe our own thoughts
into others and make them one with us.
He also taught us the great lesson
of faithfulness.
Though poor, friendless, despised and
persecuted, he stands erect before the
grandest men of his age. He dared to
tear the mask from the- face of hy
pocrisy and ' bring into light its long
hidden sins. He could roll the thun
ders of faithful rebuke as well as
breathe the words of soothing sym
pathy. The voice that whispered in
accents of love to his disciples, re
sounded in tones of thunder elsewhere.
He had no soft and courtly forms of
speech for tbe respectables of his
country, but without mincing. In broad
terms and with emphasis and honest
indignation he told them what the
were; "a wicked generation," "hypo
crites." "serpents and vipers." Oh,, for
this faithfulness in men today!
What is needed is more of this ring
of honesty and, the withering flash of
the morning service.' "Christ's Solution
of the Social Problem."
Baptist Missionary headquarters
have been obtained in the Tilford
building, and the offices of Rev.
C. A. Wooddy, D. D.. general superin
tendent of home missions, and Rev. A.
M. Petty. D. D., Joint secretary for home
and foreixn missions and Rev. O. C.
Wright, superintendent of state mis
sions for Oregon, will be found in
rooms 402 to 406 hereafter. A public
opening and roception to the Baptists
of the city will be given on next
Wednesday, September 8, from 2 to 8
o'clock.
.
The Portland Ministerial Associa
tion will meet on Labor day at 10:30
A. M. in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium
Rev. C. O. McCulloch. D. D.. will give
an address appropriate to the day.
s
Rev. Frank D. Findley has returned
from his vacation and will occupy the
pulpit and fill all his engagements for
the ensuing season.
Dr. Luther Dyott to Occupy
Own Pulpit Today.
Programme. Following; Return From
Vacation, la Announced.
DR. LUTHER R. DYOTT Is back from
his vacation and will occupy hia
pulpit today. The programme for the
First Congregational Church follows:
11 :00 A. M . Communion servloa, recep
tion of new members and address by the
poeto-.
7:4o P. M. Divine services conducted by
Dr. Dyott.
New quartet, composed of Mrs. Herman
Politz. soprano: Mrs. Delphlne Marx, con
tralto; Oliver B. Huffh-s, tenor, and Will
iam A. Montgomery, baritone and director,
will singi A. M., "Art Thou Weary?"
(Broomej "I Sought the Lord" Stevenson):
P. M.. "By the Rivers of Babylon"
( Barnes). "Draw Me to Thee" .(Nevin) ; or
ganist. Fred Bralnard.
The various organizations also take
up their Fall work at once. Societies,
presidents and regular meetings fol
low :
First Monday, tho Brotherhood. W. K.
Royal, president; second Tuesday. Women's
League. Mrs. H. M. Morse, president; sec
ond and fourth Tuesdays, the Business
Girls' Club, president. Miss Alice Hutchin
son; first Wednesday, the Ladles' Aid. Mrs.
W. E. Mcllhenny. president; third Wednes
day. Missionary Society. Mrs. D. L. Brace,
president: second Thursday. Stiver Circle.
Mrs. W. B. Kr.app, president; second Thurs
day. Guild. Chapter 1. Mrs. W. K. Royal,
president; second Thursday, Guild, Chapter
2, Mrs. T. M. Dye. president: first Friday,
E. L. House, Circle. Mrs. W. Swart.
The new Bible training school will
begin classes this week with a large
enrollment of students. Tuesday night
class subject this week will be the
"Inspiration of the Scriptures" and the
"Interpretation of tbe Bible." by Dr.
W. T. Mellek and Rev. W. Duff. Stu
dents will be enrolled from every de
nomination on Tuesday in three grades
Sunday school teachers. Christian
Endeavor and Baptist Young People's
Union, church and Christian workers
of all kinds. Then a diss for preach
ing and evangelists, and further, a
class for advanced students, who look
forward to being missionaries &id min
isters of the gospel. These evening
classes are a great opportunity for
working people and should be taken
advantage of by large numbers this
coming week at lecture-room E, Eighth
and Urant streets.
The Young men's class of the High
land Baptist. East Sixth and Alberta
btreets, meet every Sunday at 9:45
A. M.. for Bible study. The subject
for Sunday is: "Fulfilled Bible Pro
phecies." -
Rev. J. A. Leas, of St. James Lutheran
Church, has returned from Columbia
Beach and will have charge of all
services today.
According to a long established cus
tom, on the first Sunday afternoon of
the month, a band of singers from
the San Grael Society of Christian En
deavor of the First Presbyterian
Church of this city, will go out to the
Good Samaritan Hospital today at 3
outspoken faithfulness in this artificial
and sof t-tongued age.
I wish to notice but one more feature
in Christ's teachings, and that is, the
nobleness of his example.
Christ's life was a perfect embodi
ment of every truth and sentiment he
taught. 1 need not review his life to
prove this, his death proves It. All the
teachings of his life are exemplified in
his death. It seemed as though the
great teacher had reserved the grand
est truths, the most sublime lessons, and
most divine examples, that he might
reveal them all at the close of his life
in one mighty lesson. All the virtues
which shone in Christ shone brightest
in the trials which he encountered in
his death. It was chiefly under these
trials that he by his example taugt us
the most lasting lesson of love to God.
Here at the feet of this greatest of
teachers who is under trial, we may
learn lasting lessons of obedience, hu
mility, meekness, patience and forgive
ness. Here we are almost overpowered
at the mighty thought of the majesty
of God. Here appears the brightness
of the example which we are to imitate.
An attempt has been made to drag
our Lord down to the level of other
teachers by instituting a comparison
between his death and that of the wise
and wonderful man Socrates, who was
Indeed one of the greatest of all earth
ly teachers. But here is the greatest
difference of all. Socrates parsed away
peacefully, he ..suffered no pain.
Honor of Mfe Held Example.
' He drank the fatal hemlock and, sur
rounded by his friends, he fell back
Into te arms of death as one who re
clines into a profound and peaceful
slumber. He scorned to purchase his
life with dishonor, aud esteemed death
in the cause of truth the greatest
honor. He died a martyr's death as he
had lived a hero's life, and Indeed we
may well thank God for the example
of such a life and death as iSocrates af
ford a us. But let us now contemplate
the scene on Calvary and see if it needs
to fear any comparison.
From the scene on Calvary comes
the most sublime teaching of the ages.
It may be easy to die when those you
love stand round your bedside, and
assuage by their pity and love the pain
of dying. But to be deserted by those
you have loved the most, to be aban
doned at the last moment by those for
whom you have undergone the supreme
agony, to see yourself confronted by
the hate and rage of a whole nation
that taxes to the utmost its ingenuity
to invent methods whereby it may heap
scorn and insult upon your head, to
confront them all in the holy cause of
truth, to undergo the most cruel death
without manifesting any impatience or
resentment this. I say, transcends all
Ideas of human endurance, and realizes
our conception of a divine teacher.
No human tongue has ever been en
dowed with the power to describe the
agony of that death upon the cross.
Hate and scorn and rage were there
pitted against love, pity and compas
sion, and the destiny of the human race
hung there on the result.
It was the turning point of the his
o'clock to sing favorite songs to the
ill and lonely patients there.
A committee is responsible for this
service, but each week volunteors join
in this effort to make the day brighter
for those who are shut in by illness
and misfortune. At the regular c. E.
meeting at :30 P. M. E. E. Schwartz
trauber will be the leader, and C M.
Myers will contribute a baritone solo.
The Summer has been an active one
for this live society, having been filled
with outings of all kinds, including
weekly "hikes" in and about Portland,
excursions on the river and indoor pi -nics
when the weather was unpro
pltiousi Interest now centers in the
Fall opening week of the church,
which is now in preparation. All young
people who are not engaged from 6:Kii
to 7:30 Sunday night will be wel
comed in the chapel of the First Pres
byterian Church by this society.
V
Rev. J. M. Skinner returned last
week from a vacation at the beaches.
All departments of the church will
open their work with the services to
day. The church Is organized thor
oughly and the year's work complete
ly planned, so that no time will be lost
in preparation. It promises to be one
of the greatest years in the history of
the church.
The Rose City Park Methodist Sun
day School is closing a successful
Summer season. Although the Sunday
School is but a little more than two
years old the average attendance for
the Summer has been more than 180.
The high attendance has been due
largely to a series of contests instituted
at the beginning of the season. Each,
class had charge of the Sunday School
for one Sunday. Prizes were offered
for the class having the best opening
service and for the class securing the
largest attendance.
Plans are now being made for Rally
day. October 3. The programme is be
ing arranged to set forth the work of
the school. Most of the parts, includ
ing some of the songs, will be original. '
Rev. E. B. Chsppell. D. D., of Nash
ville, Tenn., who is the Sunday school
editor of the Methodist Episcopal
Church. South, will speak in the Un
ion avenue and Multnomah street
Church this morning at 11 o'clock. Dr.
Chappell is making a tour of the West
ern conferences in the interest of Sun
day school work. He is an able
preacher and is giving to the church
the best Sunday school literature it
lias ever had.
AD CHURCH GOSSIP
Dr. W. B. Hinson. having returned
from his vacation passed in California
and British Columbia, will preach in
the White Temple today from the topic.
"The Making of Portland."
In the evening he will preach again
on the subject, "To Hell and Back."
This discourse will evidence the fact
that although a man may be in hell,
he need not stay there if he goes to
work in the right w ty to obtain de
liverance. At the morning service Mrs. Virginia
S. Hutchinson will sing for the of
fertory a hymn written by Dr. Hin
son. set to music. Kmphasized congre
gational singing will chararterize the
day.
The Sunday school, which has con
tinued throughout the Summer with
unbated interest and with good attend
ance notwithstanding the usual Sum
mer exodus from the city, will convene
at 9:50 A. M. with classes for every
one.
The Young People's Societies meet at
6:30 P. M. in the ladies' parlor and in
the lower temple. Strangers and vis
itors especially welcome.
Rev. J. H. Dickey will speak on.
"The Destiny of Man" at the Temple
of Universal Fellowship. 799 Frankfort
street, in Brooklyn, tonight at 8
o'clock.
Fresh.
Pathfinder.
Wealthy Are
Mrs.
your berries
fresh, little one?
Margaret (experiencing for the first
time the trials of a berry vender) Yes.
ma'am. Our bushes don't raise any
thing but fresh ones.
tory .of the world; the point toward
which unnumbered ages have bent their
saze and to which all mankind will
look back forever. All alone the great
teacher hung there and faced the Ro
man soldiers and the Jewish rabble.
He saw no sympathetic face, his eyes
rested only on harsh, cruel counte
nances. He heard no sound but the
jeers and taunts of the infuriated,
throng that surged around him. But
he mtt them only with compassion and
benediction. It was the old struggle
between love and hate - a nation
against a man the world against God.
Sting; Kelt In Word, -Alone.
He met his enemies, and ours, alone.
Oh. the awful sting of that word
alone! I know not if there be within
the bounds of the human imagination
a depth of woe so profound, so infinite,
as that into which our Lord . was
plunged on the cross. Deserted, not
only by men, but filled by that over
whelming sense of desolation that was
pressed and crowded into the cry of
agony: "My God! My God! Why hast
thou forsaken me?"
And yet his foes are there. They
scorn they scoff they taunt they
rage what a moment was that! How
the redeemed hosts in heaven must
have listened and trembled. - The great
throng gathered up within itself all
its rage and hate and venom and
poured the whole upon his head. Is it
any wonder that he falters and faints?
But above the terrible physical
agony, above the awful scene of deso
lation he rose as high as heaven above
the earth, into conscious union with
deity, and he crushed the howling
throng and all its rage and venom. He
annihilated all with, "Father, forgive
them."
Thus ended the great lesson. Three
hundred men of old at Thermopylae
stood against a million foes and taught
the world a lesson in human courage.
But Christ alone on Calvary, taught
humanity a lesson in divine love. This
lesson is for us all. We can amplify
it at our leisure and apply its truths as
we please. But surely we cannot fail
to see that all of Christ's teachings
are full of thrilling and momentous
truths which we should study and
heed If we would attain to the perfect
manhood here and perfect happiness
hereafter.
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