THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 12, 1915,
END OF VACATIONS BRINGS RENEWAL OF CHURCH ACTIVITY
Coming Methodist Conference at Roseburg Will Begin September 22 Bishop Cooke Will Preside Leading Members of Denomination Look Forward to This Gathering.
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WITH tbe return of the pastors
from their vacations and of the
members of the various congre
gations from beach and mountain re
sorts, plan3 are being made for rally
days and m ore active church work.
The leading- Methodists of the city
are looking forward to the conference
which will open at Roseburg on Sep
tember 22. Rev. William Riley Jef
frey, Jr., pastor of the First "Methodist
Kpiscopal Church of Roseburg. is chair
man of the programme committee.
Bishop Cooke, who is now in Seattle
attending the Puget Sound Conference,
will preside at the Roseburg gather
ing. The Kirst Methodist Church of Port
land, which close? its fiscal year last,
Tuesday, will take an encouraging re
port to conference. There have been;
400 members added in the past year
The Sunday school enrollment has :
prrown from 250 to 850 and the young
people's society from 80 to 325. The:
mid-week service, held on Thursday
night. Is a live meeting, attended by
from 150 to 300.
The Kirst Christian Church is plan-;
nir.g a big Sunday rally for the near:
future.
The new officers of the First Chris
tian Sunday school are just taking up
their duties in the various depart
ments. They are as follows: General
superintendent, George Darsie; assist
ant general superintendent, George H.
Gromoacher; general secretary, Mrs.
John T. Wiley; treasurer. J. K. Faust;
Buperintandenuof the adult department.
H. C. Oarnall ; superintendent of the
senior and intermediate departments,
M. B. Meacham; superintendent of the
junior department. ""Mrs. J. Thomas
Stone; superintendent of the primary
department. Miss Lulu Forester; super
intendent of the beginners'department
and cradle roll. Miss Georgia Parker.
The Fall work at the First Christian
Church is beginning most auspiciously.
The services are attracting crowds.
Many are being added to the church.
Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Rev. Mr.
Xarsie will speak on "Our Country." In
the evening his subject will be "Light
n the Next World. Is the Soul Alive?
Is It Conscious. Io Souls Come Back?"
George Seymour Lenox has arranged
special music for the Sunday services
ft.s follows: 11 A. M-,. anthem. "God Is
Love'' (Shelley); tenor solo. "The Pub
lican" (Vandewater), Professor George
Seymour Lenox; 7:45 P. M.. anthem,
"'rven Me" (Nevin); soprano solo.
'Adore and Be Still" (Maude Hillis
Burnham).
Miss Leah McCune, formerly of Terre
ITaute, Ind., has assumed her duties
as financial and office secretary of the
First Christian Church. The office is
located at 806-7 Northwestern Bank
building. Miss McCune is a graduate
of the Terre. Haute High School and of
Miss Virginia Kelley's Business School.
Slie became Rev. George Darsie's office
secretary in Terre Haute two and one
hilf years ago. Her duties pertain to
1 he business affairs of the church and
Sunday school and Rev. Mr. Darsie re
gards the. service rendered by Miss Mc
Cune is highly valuable.
St. Mary's Cathedral Changes
Hours for Masses.
Special Service for Children Will Be
at 8:30 A. M.
T0 accommodate the public and to
X give everyone an opportunity to
attend services, the time for the masses
at St. Mary's Cathedral have been
changed and the new schedule will go
into effect next Sunday. The hours for
the masses will be 5, 6, 7:15, 8:30, 9:45
and 11 o'clock. There will be a short
nermon at each service. The 8:30 o'clock
mss will be especially for the children,
and all the families of the parish will
be expected to send the young people.
Archbishop Christie has returned
from Salt Lake City, where he went
to assist at the consecration services
for Itishop Glass. The archbishop gave
one of the inspiring addresses of the
ceremony.
The women of the Pilgrim "Memorial
Church met on Wednesday with Mrs.
A. H. Mclaniel and Miss Constance
Kantner, daughter of Rev. and Mrs.
W. C Kantner, gave a talk on kinder
garten muyie.
The G. A. It. Quartet will furnish
Fpeeial music at the service tonight of
the Sunnyside Congregational Church.
The pastor. Dr. J. J. Staub, will speak
on "A Glorious Victory Despite
Heavy Odds."
With the meeting of the Christian
Endeavor and Mizpah societies on Sun
day night at 6:30 in the church par
lors, the young people of the First
Congregational Church will resume ac
tive work In their various organiza
tions. Jack Frost, the president of the
Christian Kndeavor, with his commit
tees, is planning new features in their
work for the Winter.
This society for some time has con
ducted gospel meetings at Multnomah
Farm and the Seamen's Institute, and
this year special attention will be giv
en to aiding the various charitable or
ganizations of Portland in obtaining
PASTOR
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. (The following sermon was preached as
m ante-labor day discourse on the Sunday
preceding Labor day.
Labor not for the meat that perisheth
tmt foF the meat that endureth unto eternal
life which the Son of Man shall give unto
you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
John 0:27.
BY FRANK D. FINDLEY,
Pastor Kirst Cn:t?d Presbyterian Church.
0 scripture is of private inter
pretation." That is, if we are to
' get the truth in right balance.
TV must compare scripture with
scripture and interpret it in the light
of other scripture.
'labor not for
pertsshethV Stand
ins: alone, that is
had advice, for
manifestly the meat
that perisheth is
anion r the first ne
cessities. And there
are only three pos
sible ways of meet
ing; it. Men must
either labor, beg or
e t e a 1. And most
folks have a sus
picion that some
objection has been
the
meat that
two. . j&$tviTi
Standing alone Rev. Frank D.
this utterance is Findley.
squarely against
Jesus own practice and the practice of
all his disciples. It would put an end
to all trade, commerce and industry; to
all invention, science and progress. It
would be the undoing of civilization.
And Is therefore contrary to God and
the whole genius of Christianity.
We have to interpret it in the light
of the fourth commandment "Six days
chalt thou labor and do all they work"
- which puts God's premium and sanc
tion on labor.
AVe must hartnoniie it with God's de
cree to humanity that "in the sweat of
thy brow- thou shalt eat bread." That
t$& ls I
positions for young people who are
strangers in the city and who desire
employment, at the same time contrib
uting to the social life of the church
by their informal monthly socials. All
young people of the city who are stran
gers or who have no other church af
filiation are urged to become members.
The Business Girls' Club, a social or
ganization of the First Congregational
Church, holds regular meetings on the
first and third Tuesdays of each month.
Its membership is limited to young
women who are employed in the city,
though not necessarily members of this
church. Though primarily a social club,
many young women who have come to
the city as strangers are assisted in
obtaining employment or in finding de
sirable homes in Portland.
Day of Atonement Will Be
Observed This Week.
Initial Service to lie grin In Temple
Beth Israel Saturday lffht and
Continue Sunday,
THE next Jewish holiday, the Day of
Atonement, will be observed this
week. In Temple Beth Israel and all
the other synagogues appropriate cerv
ices will be held. - -- -
The initial service will be the night
of September 17. The entire day of Sep
tember 18 will be devoted to it- The
ritual of the day will be public and
congregational; but its significance Is
personal.
Of the celebration a Jewish authority
says:
The day brings the people together, be
cause they share the limitations of human
nature and because they are equally aware
of the fact that careers, whatever they
may be to others, satisfy or dissatisfy our
selves in accordance with our moral or im
moral interests. This holy day gives op
portunity for earnest thought on our inner
life. The difficulties men encounter In the
course of a busy year may prove, after self
examtnati jn, to be not "decrees" of God but
instances of their shortcomings. The an
cients frankly and humbly called them
"sins."
The reminiscences of centuries cling to
this day of days and make its lessons sug
gestive and impressive. In ancient times
priestly solemnities invested it with dignity
and the persecutions of later times gave it
pathos and intense fervor. It is always a
salutary experience to face the facts of life
as they are, to realize that there are illu
sions and delusions, to bring home to our
selves the truth that we work under the
limitations of mind, heart and will. Men
who feel their responsibilities will "neither
ignore this reminder nor evade the appeal.
They will avow frankly the shortcomings
of their common human nature in the midst
of their fellowmen. The day of atonement
is not for selfishness. It is for moral uplift
by which we may acquire moral strength.
The first act of moral health Is humility.
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The Guilds of the P'irst Congrega
tional -Church. Chapters 1 and 2, con
fine their membership to the young
married women of the church and con
gregation. Their meetings are held on
the second Thursday of each month in
the church parlors or in the homes of
their members. Their time is given to
sewing for various charitable organ
izations of Portland.
The Guilds also conduct a kinder
garten in the church parlors for the
children of kindergarten age whose
parents desire to attend the church
services in the church on Sunday morn
ings. At this time a trained teacher
is employed to care for the little ones
left in her charge.
Everyday Topics to Be Ser
mon Themes.
"The Strong Bight Arm" and "Rush
ing the Can' Subjects for Rev,
W. G. Moore.
AT THE Mount Tabor Presbyterian
Church, Fifty-fifth and Belmont
streets, the pastor. Be v. William
Graham Moore, wiii preach a series of
evening sermons on practical topics of
the day.
These sermons are to be up to the
minute and cover things that e very
practical man and woman wants to
know about; things that will help you
in every-day life in business and in
the home.
This series starts today, opening with
"The Strong Right Arm." followed.
September 19. by "A Black Sky"; Sep
tember if6. ''Rushing the Can"; Octo
ber 3, "The Testing Fire." This "Home
Coming Sunday" sermon will be ap
propriate for the day.
Evening services begin at 8 o'clock.
Good music and a hearty welcome are
promised all.
The Ladies Aid Society of the First
Congregational Church met in- the
church parlors Wednesday. This was
the" first meeting of the church year,
and one of the social events of the Fall.
After a short business meeting, con
ducted by Mrs. W. E. Mclnheny, presi
dent, the afternoon was passed in sew
ing and in talking over plans for the
Winter. The members of the society
had as their guests members of the
other organizations of the church.
Light refreshments were served.
EXPLAINS PART
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Rev. Frank D. Findley Declares It Is Necessary to
is no reflection on the bread. It is an !
exaltation of the method by which we
are to get hold of it.
We must adjust it to fauie vigorous
law "if a man will not work, neither
shall he eat" which would out
distance Fletcherism several parasanges
and consign some dear folk to a per
petual fast.
We must interpret it in the light of
the context and the circumstances
under which Jesus uttered it.
Trailing of Crowd Recalled.
The crowd was trailing around after
Jesus because he had wrought a mir
acle for them and fed them with loaves
and fishes. And that was all they
were after. But Jesus didnt come down
here to glorify a man's stomach or to
relieve him of the blessing of work. He
came to bring the bread of heaven, the
truth and the love of God. the priceless
gift of eternal life. It's trifling with
time, duty and opportunity to be always
tramping and clamoring for loaves and
fishes when heaven bends low to give
us all an eternal kingdom and make us
spiritual kings and millionaires.
But how the animal within us growls
and barks and refuses to die! How the
physical fights for the ascendency! How
the temporalities of life blind us and
the dust of the road rises to put out
the sun and the stars of God's heaven
above us!
It is the old story of Esau over and
over again, losing a birthright for a
bowl of soup. It is the old story of the
muckraker with eyes on his feet and
blind and dead to the jeweled crown
held overhead by the shining hand of
angels. It was a new phrasing of that
classic utterance, "Seek ye first the
kingdom of God and his righteousness
and all these things shall be added to
you," It was an arresting of the stam
pede of materialism with that luminous
and sobering interrogation, "What shall
it profit a man if he gain tho whole
world and lose his own soul?"
No, we are not out of sympathy with
Portland P actor to Lecture
on Oregon in East.
Rev. J. Richard Olson to Give Scries
of Illustrated Talks on Columbia
Highway and Pacific IVorthwest.
REV. J. RICHARD OLSON, pastor of
the Immanuel Lutheran Church, at
Nineteenth and Irving streets, will
leave tonight for a trip to the East.
He will give a series of lectures in
several cities. He will illustrate his
talks with views of the Columbia River
and Northwestern scenery and with
others of the Hawaiian Islands. This
morning there will be a communion
servlee and reception of new members
at Immanuel Church and tonight there
will be an elaborate service with spe
cial music.
During the absence of the pastor, the
pulpit will be filled by prominent men
who will visit Portland.
The pipe organ society of the church
held its last meeting Friday, when it
was entertained by Rev. Mr. Olson. A
programme of music and a social hour
were enjoyed. The society has already
accumulated a large sum toward the
purchase of the new organ.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the church
went by special car to pass the day re
cently with Mrs. Anna L. Smith at her
country home at Bonita. There are SO
members of this society.
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The Multnomah County Sunday School
Assciation will conduct a community
Sunday school workers' training school.
Lectures will be given by Professor
Norman Frank Keed Colman. Reed Col
lege has consented to combine his ex
tension lecture No. 24 with the Sunday
school training lectures. The associa
tion will meet every Tuesday at the
Central Library, beginning September
28, at 8 o'clock.
Millard - Avenue Sunday
School Plans Rally Day.
Effort to Be Made to Have Full At
tendance on September -t.
THIRTY members of the Millard
Avenue Presbyterian Church Sun
day school gathered at the home of
Rev. W. H? Amos, at 7420 Sixty-second
street Southeast, on Monday, for the
regular monthly workers conference of
the school. The teachers of the school
were present and great Interest was
manifested m the work for the com
ing search. Preliminary steps we're
taken to provide for the needed im
provement in Sunday school rooms in
the basement of the church.
Definite plans were completed for
rally day, which will be observed Sep
tember 26. As feature of the plan,
an effort will be made to have every
member jf the Sunday school present
at the rally day service, which
looked upon as a day of welcoming
back to those who have been away, as
Labor day. On the contrary we hail
it with delight, we bless the circum
stances that gave it birth, the senti
ments, ideals and struggles of men
that made it possible. The world of
labor what a thrilling sight, with all
its energies, pursuits and achievements!
It is a dream of the gods. In the broad
field of battle and in the bivouac of
life men are not dumb driven cattle,
men are heroes in the strife.
World of Labor Landed.
Indeed, properly understood, there is
no world worth talking about outside
the world of labor. In this world of
labor we find every normal man and
woman: in it we find every toiler and
every thinker; -the maker of marbles
and the builder of empires; the man
who digs ditches and the sage who
dreams dreams; the plodder. who plows
and the prophet who preaches; the
hand that threads the neeale and the
hand that charts the star-lit heavens
and counts their threads of light.
In the world of labor Is the vast
army of the redeemed.
In it is Jesus the founder and maker
of Christianity, working, always work
ing to carry the world onward and up
ward. In it are the saints in glory, who
work on without suffering and fatigue,
singing as they work in that beautiful
world above.
In it is the great God of creation,
providence and redemption, working a
work or infinite love on a prodigious
scale through the ceaseless eternities.
Yes. you and I belong to this world
of labor and this Labor day is our day
pf labor for God and humanity.
But let us give these terms their or
dinary usage. Labor day then is the
holiday of tomorrow given in honor
of labor, and the world of labor is the
working man's world, with its toil and
problems, its wealth and its glory as
we find it in commerce and industry.
Let us think of this toiling multitude
building up the Nation's wealth, feed
ing it, clothing it, housing it and serv
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CHURCH W ORKERS PROMINENT
IX AFFAIRS OF THE WEEK,
Rev. George Darsie, pastor of
the First Christian Church, is
planning a large church rally.
Mrs. "W, C. Kantner is active in
the affairs of Pilgrim Congrega
tional Church.
Mrs. A. H. McDaniel is a loyal
supporter of missionary and aid
society work. She entertained the
women's meeting of Pilgrim Con
gregational Church recently.
well as rallying of forces for the work
of the coming AV inter.
Mrs. Amos was assisted in serving
refreshments by Miss Lizzie Laird. The
conference adjourned to meet on Octo
ber 4 at the home of Mr and Mrs. J.
H. Zehrung, at 7105 Forty-eighth ave
nue Southeast.
Colonel T. AV. Scott, accompanied
by Mrs. Scott, will conduct special
services today in the Salvation Army
Hall at 243 Ash street, known as the
No. 1 Corps.
At 11 A. M. officers and members of
No. 4 Corps, with officers from the
rescue and social departments, will
unite with the workers of No. 1. The
following officers will be present: Mrs.
Gale, 'Staff Captain Andrews, Adjutant
Hudspeth and Adjutant Joseph Harri
son. Colonel Scott is the commander
of all corps in Oregon, Washington
and Idaho, known as the Northern Pa
cific province.
The programme of services will be
as follows: 11 A. M-, holiness; Z P. M.,
Christians gathering; 8 P. M.( salva
tion rally. '
LABOR PLAYS IN RELIGIOUS LIFE
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Harmonize Various Teachings of Christ in Order to Arrive at True Meaning.
ing it in its manifold ways. Standing
in the midst of it we hear the hum and
the music of industry, we see the roar
ing and belching furnaces, we feel the
wild Joy and the glad freedom and the
rugged power of a world at work.
Then with all this smoke and noise,
this struggle and achievement and
glory as a background upon it all let
us throw the lighted words of the great
Nazarene: "Labor not for the meat
that perisheth, but for that meat which
endureth."
Friendship for Labor Announced.
It means that men are not always
working for the best things; that in
their labor they may miss the real
work and wealth of life; that in the ab
sorption of their task and the weak
ness of their soul they may dethrone
the supreme things and put the crown
on trifles. It means that every work
man is to outlive his work and if he
is a man of wisdom and forethought he
will daily lift his eyes up from his
tools and his task and contemplate
some real things that are inrisible and
eternal.
Yes, I am in deep sympathy with
Labor day. I am a friend of labor. I,
too, belong to tnat craft. I am work
ing that -the yrorld of labor may come
into its divine heritage of Jife and
riches. '"
It has been said there is an estrange
ment between the church and the cause
of labor. This is tire wildest kind of
fiction. There is no basis for it. Where
it may chance to exist it is a bit of
ignorant prejudice which some men
have brought here from other lands
and other conditions.
The church is the friend of man and
the servant of humanity. Its estrange
ment is with nothing, but with sin and
wrong wherever found and to this it is
held irrevocably by the will and power
of God.
The church is democratic and there
fore cannot be out of sympathy with
labor. In a true sense it, too, is of the
people, for the people and by the peo
Girl Ushers Act at Calvary
Presbyterian Church.
SutmtAntlal Growth In f'onKrcKatloa
of "Family Churrh" Reported
During Dr. Baan'i Pastorate.
GIRLS are ushering at the regular
church services at Calvary Presby
terian Church. Heretofore men always
have served as ushers and the innova
tion is creating great interest in the
church. The girls started their new
work last Sunday and much surprise
was expressed by several of the older
and more" conservative members.
Calvary has been termed "the family
church." It has grown substantially
during Dr. Oliver S. Baum'a pastorate.
Many new families are uniting with
the church.
The chairmen of the Neighborhood
Clubs of the First Congregational
Church met in the primary rooms on
Wednesday for luncheon. Plans were
made for these meetings soon to be re
sumed. The organization was perfected
last year, that members of the church
tn various localities might become bet
ter acquainted and to promote socia
bility and good fellowship.
Rev. John Ii. Boyd, D. "D., pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church, corner
Twelfth and Alder streets, was wel
comed home from his Summer vacation
last Sunday by large audiences at both
morning and evening sevices. Unique
plans are in embryo at this time, which
are promising to work out into the
greatest series of opening entertain
ments and homecoming receptions that
have ever been attempted in the an
nual rally week of this congregation.
The dates have been set for September
22-27, and full programme will appear
next weeK.
The Women's Missionary Society of
the First Presbyterian Church will fire
the first shot in the Fall campaign
in a meeting to be held in room A of
the church house Tuesday afternoon at
2:30 o'clock. The subject for the day
is rews from the front, with Mrs,
John S. Dunning and Mrs. David Lor-
ing as leaders. Mrs. Eva Hallis Doug
las, a member of this society, and t
missionary to Persia, who has been in
this country for several months on
furlough, sailed from New York on
ple. If there is anywhere any true
and pure democracy, it is represented
by the Church of Jesus Christ.
Moreover, the church preaches a dem- 1
ocratic gospel, one gospel for every
body, one gospel for all the world.
There is no world-message, and there
fore no message really democratic, save
the gospel of Jesus Christ. Does not
the gospel stand boldly for the equal
ity of man not an equality of talents,
capacity or efficiency? for the stars
have not the same magnitude; the
birds have not the same song; the
flowers have not the same beauty or
fragrance. But an equality of right
and opportunity, and that is all that
labor can ask for.
Chorea Formation Discussed.
The gospel stands for love, service
and brotherhood, and as I understand
it, labor is not seeking for anything
less than that. The gospel is against
any system of caste and class, for that
would be a curse to all who labor;
would strangle our liberties and cru
cify the spirit of brotherhood.
Furthermore, the . churches them
selves are composed of laboring peo
ple, the most earnest, industrious, en
ergetic people in the world people
who labor with brain and brawn, who
have their shoulder to the world's
burden, who believe that labor is a
sacrament and work is a gift from
God.
Tho church universally and sympa
thetically recognizes Labor day. It
does this because it appreciates the
achievements and triumphs of labor; it
sees the problems and the perils of
labor; it knows the foes of labor; it
has its eyes on the great Master of
labor, and wants to do a brother's part
and cheer up the heart of labor to fol
low on where the Master leads.
Not on the first Sabbath of Septem
ber only, but on the first day of every
week the year throughout, the church
stands forth n behalf of all who labor.
It pleads for justice; it calls to the
September 29, to return to her field
of labor in the tragedies of the Eu
ropean war. A letter received from
Mrs. E. T. Allen, who is also a mission
ary to Persia from this society, will
be read at this meeting. Rev. Mr. and
Mrs. Allen are well known in Portland,
and news already has been had through
the press concerning the hardships and
thrilling experiences they have suf
fered, and Mrs. Allen's personal report
on present conditions is of intense in
terest. All women interested in mis
sion work are invited to be present
at this meeting.
The world-renowned "Passion Play,
as done every 10 years at Oberammer
gau. will be presented in moving pic
ture at 12:10 today in the Sunday
school auditorium of the First Presby
terian Church, corner Twelfth and Al
der streets. This is the promised cli
max of a most successful Summer ses
sion, during which a continued course
of study on the life of Christ has been
followed out. with beautiful and ap
propriate lantern slides In illustration.
The records show an average attend
ance of 300 during the Summer months,
beginning with Children's day, and of
these 62 have a perfect record of at
tendance. The following Is a detailed
list of this honor roll:
In the primary room Alice Anderson,
Eunice Anderson, Adrian Davis, La la Heu
stis, Robert H?ustls, Jr.. Florence Horn.
Ruth Sanders, Vera Sanders. Mrs. A. B.
Slauson. Miss Kate Protzraan. Esther Fcott,
Frederic Strum. Veccia Sublette, Ruth slau
son. A. B. Slauson, William E. Wheeler,
Mary E. Wheeler.
In the adult Bible class Mrs. C. Drone,
C. T. Gouldlnjr. Ievt Johnson, Mrs. Isabel
Kelly, Henry Kirk, Mrs. F. T. Montgomery,
Mrs. T. A. Sherman.
In the younir men's Bible clase E. D.
Eddy, W. W. Wlthee.
In tho main auditorium Ronald Aitken,
Charles Allen, Euphemla Anderson. Kenneth
Bonnewell, A'era Boy ton. Mrs. S. A. Brown,
H. B. Burrows. Mrs. Harry Cad en. Harry
P. Coffin, Jr., Mrs. J. F. fc-winar. Margaret
Ewing. Tom Ewing, James F. Ewinr, Grace
Johnson. Merrill Jackson. Bruce- Kinne. L.
B. Kin ra, Mrs. L. B. Kinne, Douglas Kirk.
John Kirk, Ruth Lauschton. A'lrginla Mac
kenzie. Eliza MacLaren, Maude McKibbln.
Cornelia Meek, A. A. -Morse, Estelle Muir.
Mary Murdoch. Julia Palmer. Cecil Parry.
Martin Pauibach, Lander Ross. J. H. Sidney.
Margaret Slauson, William Swindells, Ralph
Walker, Mrs. C. W. Wight, Virginia v tilt
lng.
Strangers in the city and those not!
In attendance at other Sunday schools,
at the noon hour, are invited especially
to see the moving picture exhibition
of the "Passion Play." Mr. Ewing has
returned from his vacation and will
give the story for the day.
On next Friday am interesting enter
tainment will be given, in the Rose City
Park Methodist Church, with the Hus
tlers' Club as the hosts. Superintend
ent of Schools L. R. Alderman will give
a stereopticon lecture on "Portland
Public Schools." Refreshments and a
social hour will follow the lecture.
The Silver Circle of the First Con
gregational Church met at the home
of Mrs. E. C. Cook Thursday. Mrs. AV.
B. Knapp is president of this society.
which numbers among its membership
many of the women who have been in
active work In the church for years.
Eight new members were added to
the White Temple (First Baptist
Church) last Sunday, and at the even
ing service four more decided to unite
with the church and more than 20
came forward as a result of the appeal
for decision in the after-meeting. Thus
the new church year opened auspi
ciously.. The topics for prayer meet
ings at this church during September
are: "The Gardens of the Kible." JUast
Thursday's subject was "The Garden of
Eden." Next Thursday's subject will be
"The Garden of Gethsemane.
Dr. Hinson will take as his theme
this morning at 11 o'clock, "Put God
in His Right Place." The sermon will
show that back of all animate or in
animate, natural, spiritual, temporal or
eternal life stands God., who ie at once
the explanation and clew. At night
Dr. Hinson will commence a series of
sermons on "The Home." The series
will deal with the home at large, how
It is made and how sustained, and will
be an effort to discuss fully and fear
lessly the whole subject from court
ship to divorce. The title of the first
of the series will be the advertisement
of a Colorado office where marriage
licenses and divorce . decrees were
manipulated and read thus: "Catches
and Dispatches.
On Sunday the ordinance of believers'
baptism will be administered, and a
part of tne service will be the baptism
of some tJbinese irienas.
The Sunday school convenes at 9:50
a M tn which service all are cor
dially" invited, and the Baptist Young
People s Union meets at- b:30 t. m. in
the Lower Temple and the women's
parlor.
Miss Grace DeGraff will speak be
fore the New Thought Temple of
Truth. Sunday evening at 8 o'clock
Subject. "World Peace." Miss De-
Graff was a delegate at the Peace
Conference at the Hague.
"When We Know," will be Dr. Luther
Dyott's theme in the First 'Congrega
tional Church Sunday at 11 A. M. Mrs.
Delphine Marx will sing the solo in the
morning, "Kntreat Me Not to Leave
Thee" (Gounod). The quartet, com
posed of Mrs. Herman Politz. Mrs. Dcl-
path of righteousness; in the zeal of its I
heart it seeks the rights of all men; I
it shelters the home; it finds a new
gladness for childhood, a new hope for
womanhood, and it gives health and
healing to the flagging spirit of broth
erhood. It creates the sweet atmos
phere where man can sing at his toil
and eat the fruit of his labor and rest
serenely in the hope of a better and
brighter tomorrow.
When the church pleads the cause
and flie rights of the immigrant it has
not ceased to be the friend of labor. It
is proving its loyalty to man. It is
recalling the days when our fathers
also were immigrants and when other
men lived and wrought and died for
their liberties. It remembers that the
glory of all human life is service, and
its blight and curse is selfishness. It
remembers the health of our .institu
tions is Imperiled where ignorance and
disease are allowed to work and that
no man can be permanently up while
others remain hopelessly down.
Slave Peril Explained.
When the church pleads for the Sab
math it is anything else but Pharisa
ism. It is her passion for the poor, her
sympathy for the weary, her solicitude
for the struggling, toiling mass of
humanity And if there is any heat In
ler heart and firmness in her lips and
any uncompromising insistence In her
speech, it is because she knows that
with the passing out of the Sabbath
men would cease to be laborers and
hasten to be slaves.
When the church pleads for temper
ance it is because she knows that
liquor and labor cannot both live and
prosper on the same hemisphere.
When the church pleads the sanctity
and integrity of the home it is be
cause it knows the home to be great
labor's mighty refuge where its cares
are lifted, its wounds are healed, and
its arms are given power tot the task
of tomorrow.
And when the church lifts her
phine Marx, O. B. Hughes and William
Montgomery, wiil sing, "Awake TL'p My
Glory" (Chadwick). In the evening at
7:45 there will be a special young peo
ple's service. At this time Dr. Dyott
w-ill take for his theme. "Are Toung
People Making Good?" There will be
special music by the quartet, and all
young people of the church and their
friends are most cordially welcome.
The Epworth League will have
charge of the evening service at the
hour for preaching the hour having
been changed from 7:45 to 7:o0 at Kp
worth Methodist Episcopal Church,
Savier and North " Twentieth streets,
next Sunday. Short addresses will be
given by the league department heads
on: "The Young Christian and World
Conversion," "The Young Christian and
the Devotional Meeting." "The Young
Christian and Recreaticnw" "The Young
Christian and Social Service." Richard
E. Randall, secretary of religious work
in the Young Men's Christian Associa
tion, will sum all up with an address
on "The Conclusion of the Whole Mat
ter Personality Plus the Holy Spirit."
Special music and new voices in the
addresses promise a meeting of inspira
tion and uplift to the young life of the
church and community.
The young men's class of the High
land Baptist Church, East Sixth and
Alberta streets, will meet this morn
ing at 9:45 for Bible study. Their sub
ject is "Analysis of the Book of Philip
pians." Sunday Church Service
AIXVANCKD THOJLGHT.
Temple of Universal Fellowship Service
T09 Frankfort street, Brooklyn car to Frank
fort: at S P. M., topic, Ioes Condition of
Invisible Souls Artect Those In Earth
Life?" by Rev. Dr. J. H. lIckey. Questions
answered.
ASSOCIATED BIBI-E STl'OENTS (I.B.S-A.)
Meetings In Woodmen of the World Hall,
East Sixth and Alder strets. 3 P. M-, dis
course- by Finlay McKercher, topic, "The
Harvest and the Han-esters' ; 4:3 P. M.,
praise and testimony service, conducted y
V . A. liailcy; 745 P. M., song serv ice, con-
CHIRCH NOTICES DCE THURSDAY
Church notices for The Sunday
Oregonian should be in this office
by Thursday at 5 P. M. It is not
possible to assure .publication of any
notices after that hour.
ducted by Ianiel Webster; 8 P. M., public
lecture by Evangelist K. O. HatJicy, lecturer
for the association, subject, "The Adver
saries of Man."
BAPTIST.
First, White Temple, Twelfth and Tayt r
streets. Dr. W. B. Hinson. minister a: do.
Bible school; classes lor all ages; 11 a.u
7:au, . preaching; 6:0, Baptist Young Peo
ple's Union,
Tabernacle, mast Forty-first and uolgat
streets 10, Sunday school; 11, preaching.
Arleta. Sixty-fourth street and Forty
eighth avenue Southeast, W. T. S. Sprigg.
pastor Preaching at 11 A. M. by the pastor.
Sunday school at 9:40 A. M. ; Young People's
meeting at :40 P. M. ; 7:45, preaching by
the pastor.
Goodwill Mission, Fifteenth and Boiss
streets a, address.
Italian Mission, East Eighteenth and Tib.
betta streets Rev. Francesco Sannells, pas
tor. 1. Sunday school; 11, preaching serv
ices; 7, pastor's circle (prayer service) ;
preaching service; 10 :30, short sermon for
English-speaking people; 7:ii0, preaching.
St- Johns Rev. E. P. Borden, pastor.
Services, 11 and 8.
Calvary, East eighth and Grant street
Rev. Walter Duff, pastor. 1, Suuday school;
11 and 7:30, preaching by the pastor.
Swedish, Fifteenth and Hoyt streets
Rev. F. Linden, pastor. Preaching, 10:40
and 7:30; Sunday school, 12 noon; B. Y. P.
U.. -0.
Mount Olivet, Seventh and Everett streets
Rev. W. A. Magett, pastor. Services, 11
and 8; Sunday school, 1U;30.
Ku&acllville schoolhouse, under auspices o
Urace Church, Montavlila Sunday school.
2:15.
Chinese Mission, "S58 Burnside strett Sun
day school. 7 ; J. G. Malone, superintend n t.
First German, Fourth and Mill streets
Rev. J. Kratt. pastor. Services 11 and 7:3;
Sunday ciiool. U:4u.
Sellwood, Eleventh street and Taeo-.ua ave
nue Rev. F. H. Hayes, pastor. Preach in;.
11 and 7:30; Sunday school, 10; B. Y. P. C.
6:3.
Lents Rev. J. M. Nelson, pastor. 9:45 A.
M.. Sunday school; 11, preaching by the pas
tor; 6:3. B. Y. P. U-; 7:30, preaching by uio
pastor.
Highland, corner Sixth and Alberta
Charles F. Mieir. pastor. Bible school. 9:45.
J. W. Black, super' ntendent; preaching by
the pastor at 11 A. M.; evening. 7:30 to it.
The H. Y. M. C. of the Highland Baptist
Church, East Sixth and Alberta streets,
meet every Sunday morning at 0:43 for Bible
study.
Second German Rev Paul G. Meter, pas
tor. S. S.. a :4a A. M. ; preaching service, 11
A, M. and S P. M.; B. Y P. U., 7:15 P. M
Glncoe Morning, preaching by Rev. J.
E. Thomas, evening, preaching by the pas
tor, theme, "Patience in Weil-Lolng.
CATHOLIC
St. Charles Chapel. Alberta street be
tween Glenn avenue and East Thirty-thira
street Catechism elapses Saturday at 3;
low mass Sunday morning at 8 and higli
mass at 10:30; rosary and benediction. 7:30.
Holy Rosary, East Third and Clackamas
streets; Very Rev. H. 11. Kelly, O. P. Low
mass. 6. 7, 8 and 9; high mass and sermon,
1 1 ; vespers and benediction, 7 :3U. On tht
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blanched face up against the wild
curse of war it is because she knows
that through war labor's homes are
wrecked; labor's wives and mothers.
are eaten up with famine and grief;
labor s children are made odphans;
labor's wealth is consumed like stu b
ble; labor's back is bowed with war
taxes for generations to come; and that
labor's genius and toil and sweat and
tears will be summoned to clear awny
the ruins and rebuild, if possible, the
torn and desolate nations.
Counteractions to War SoaKht.
One year of war turns " to smoke
and ashes what ages have built up
and the church seeks to call the world
of labor not to a programme of de
struction and annihilation, but to the
slower, nobler, and diviner programme
of construction, redemption, and world
betterment.
Yes, the church is the friend of
laoor, because the church is the friend
of man, and is seeking to make man
universally and permanently the friend
of God, helping him to reach up after
God's thoughts and to travel on in the
pathway of his feet. m
The church invites the world of la
bor to share with it everywhere tht
patient divine task that will heal the
human heart of passion's fever and
sin-sickness and that will bring
nearer to the world that radiant day
of hope and prophecy.
When navies arc forgotten
And fleets are useless things.
When the dove shall warm her bosom
Beneath the eagle's wings.
When the memory of battles
At last Is strange and old
When nations have one banner
An 1 creeds have found one fold.
When the hand that sprinkles midnight
With its powdered drift of suns
Has hushed this tiny tumult
Of sects and swords and guns.
Then hate's last rote of discord
In all God's world shall cease
In the conquest which la tervloo,
, In victory which, is peace.