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X THE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAyp, NOVEMBER 7, 1915. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE EXHIBIT AT ARMORY IS LESSON TO LAYMEN Three-Fold Purpose of Work Done at Corvellis Institution Made Clear in Big Display at Manufacturers' and Land Products Show Why School Gets Results Ia Easy to Understand After Viewing Array. - J e ti . , i a i? AMONG the many interesting exhib its at the Manufacturers" and J-and Products Show of an edu cational nature none ls mr.ro t i ,K 'M v s VJ ti - fvV v t M t 4 I SU J 1 11 . . 'r-kSI' , yfrS . I t . - ' IGHT IDEA OF GOD CONSIDERED Rev. ..i" w ood and he hath given us ...ft , '."'k the c':rlf w lh cords even unto th l'ns of the altar. Psalm 11S:2I. BY DR. UTilES R. DYOTT. (Fastor of the First Congregational Church ) A CORRECT idea of God is not merely optional for a few persons. It Is the necessity of al. It is essential to our well-being, usefulness and happiness. In all these thing we make no prog ress without sufficient light. God is tinder obligations to himself to give light to all his creatures, as much light us is necessary. Human beings reed more light, and that of a higher order, than all the creatures in the lower ecale.of being. Light, the oldest daughter of God. makes her sacramental offering in the Interest of Gods natural world, llu. , s man beings are the a p e e i a 1 benefi- claries, who, as the 1 nigner and more m significant worlds s of the Almighty, S. receive more than tho light of na ture because they need more. What we receive is in proportion to our capacity for the same. We all need light, but we limit it. Some fear it. Still it falls upon our pathway of Rev, mystery. It is fil tered through oui I.uther R. Uyett. earth-born -iouds. and feared only by cowe nno eitner Relieve something thaf cannot endure the fuller light or who love darkness rather than light because their works are evil. But. according to tho divine fi:it. light comes now as it did in the beginning: "I-et tftere. he light." laid Cod. and forth with light; 1'thereal first of things, quintessence, pure. prunB from the deep; and from her na tiv JJoxt To jourr.ey through the aery gloom began, c-pneraa in a radiant cloud. The natural is the analogue to the rpiritual. As the natural world needs the light of the sun. so the world of our Inner life needs the light of truth from God. This divine efflux must flow Into, our religious thought and feelings. It is not enough for us to have a re ligion and to be religious. Many have an erroneous impression to the con trary. With some this Impression hardens into a conviction. Then, quite frequently, this convicton becomes r stubborn and bigoted. There are re ligions galore. Almost any person can start a new tne and be sure ot having followers, especially if he can succeed in getting some ether persons to persecute the edherents once in a while. .But not all religions are sane, right and cafe. Ivssibly not one of them, on the man ward side, is altogether free from error. liven into Christianity, which is the - 4 I Al Sprownq twitroeRt 3f ESS " ' I I I 1 I ' I dsySe, jnyyg, 3c hensive than that of tire Oregon Afjrj culturai Colleare, on the balcony of the Arhiory. It is in charge of G. L. Hurd, a faculty member, vvhot,e time is taken up with the extension work of the col Luther It. Dyott Points Out best of all, men have poured some of their pagan notions, and not a little of their gross misconceptions of truth through an excessive literalism. It would bewell for the world if we all possessed Christ's Christianity. The stream is clear as crystal at its source, but men have emptied their muddy little tributaries into It. and have in sisted that the entire content should be accepted as the real thing. We will not do it. We ask for light, more light, upon our religion that we may see it as God sees it; know it aa God knows it; use it as God would have us use it. Need of Light Is Cited. Moreover. we need light upon the de votional element In religion. It is a' great thing to have this devotional ele. ment. but great only to the degree that this constituent part of religion" la right, so that It can give perpetuity, and practicality, and sanity, and power, and poise to religion, and correctly re late and apply it to the increasing needs of the human family. It is right when it is of God in man rather than of man in error. We need light upon the sacrificial before we can know the place and function f lh sacrificial in relation to life and come under its charm that charm which has 10 suoaue opposition and win our affections. True religion does not render the sacrificial obsolete, but not all forms of sacrifice are permanent parts of religion. Here the letter killeth. but the true spirit makes alive. True religion must ever be charac terised by the permanent and the pass ing. Its permanent quality is that of life and growth. In real spirit it must outgrow some forms. It Is not static. It is, or should be, a living and grow ing reali'.y. When it is so. It lives in us and through u. While essentially the same, in some respects. yet never theless, in others its outward phenom ena must change from age to age. ' Sacrifice la Held Necessary. So while the sacrificial is ever a constituent part of religion, as it is of life, we are not to believe that all forma of sacrifice have the same vir tues, calling for the same literal ex pression. We are born with certain instincts and intuitions. They stay with us in te interest of life, ever operating in the interest of life, until we compel them to go astray. Among these in tuitions is that which relates to sac rifice, but through tho ignorance and superstition of man it went astray. From the earliest ages man has be lieved in sacrifice. The origin of the belief was in the early morning of hu man life. But men. failing correctly to grasp the idea of the supernatural.' met it with the superstitions. They per sistently invested their notions of their gods with their own passions. They, themselves, "-were jealous. They were given to anger, vlndlctiveness and ven geance. They conceived of their gods as of like passions. They had to be apneased. Otherwise men were not safe. To win the favors of these gode they theugrht they had -y3 lege, and complete exhibits and labels make plain the scope and purpose of the college activities. The exhibit, like ancient Gaul, is divided Into thre i.arts. illustrative Necessary Requirements to to make acceptable offerings to them. They began with offerings of veg etables and fruits. After awhile the incense offering came into use, because of its pleasing odors. The sweet-smell, ing sacrifices seemed, to meri at least, to be valuable aids to worship. Then these worshipers thought honey and milk would be appreciated by the ob ject, er objects, of worship; men liked these things, why would not the gods, also, enjoy - themT Sacrifices Long Cemmen, The sacrificial offerings of animals and birds occupied a large place in the different stages of religion, even after monotheism had come to give a better idea of deity than polytheism. When Jehovah's "chosen people" stood more clearly and nobly for the true and liv ing God they still offered animals and doves in their pluce of worship. Others went so far as to sacrifice human Jlfe to the deities, but the Israyrtites did not, as a people, believe this to be right. It is true that their sacred history contains the example of the purposed sacrifice of a son by his father, and that in the unsettled days of the Judges a daughter lost her life by the sacrificial knife of her fanatical father, but these were the exceptions. - Each man was required to furnish his own sacrifices, and when the wor snipers lived pear enough to the cen tral place of worship they drove the animals for sacrifice to that place. Later- there arose in Jerusalem dealers in sacrificial animals. At the time of Jesus a regular market for this pur pose stood near the temple. Our text describes an occasion when the offerings were so numerous that, metaphorically, perhaps, they had to use the very horns of the altar for hitching; posts. At the corners of the altar there were four horn-shaped pro jections. The horn symbolized strength. Intimations Are Profound, Many sincere Christian teachers have taken the offerings made under the Jewish dispensation to be types and shadows of that which was after wards fulfilled in Christ. For example. Paul says, "Purge out the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, even as ye are unleavened. For our passover also hath been sacrificed, even Christ." The profound intimations of the sac rificial in religion are found in-the depths of the human heart the com mon heart of humanity, which feels that It must do something. Between the longing and the expression the di lemma has often been reached amid the evolutionary processes of- life and re ligion. Religion has not outgrown the sacrificial- It never will. But as re ligious beings we do need to know the place and meaning of the sacrificial. Its place is central. Its meaning is as deep ae Ufs and love, and as majestic as the movements of God when we aee it in the lirht of God. Here we come to the - fundamental affirmations that all life Is "entitled to its best and that the best for all can come only through love's law of sacrifice. We long for the best, but we do not V 7 vi 1 v t of the three-foid work of the college. namely, resident instruction, experi ment station work and the extension service. The lirvt is the" work of the college at Corvallis, hich comprises instruc tion to the hundreds of students gath ered there. This work is shown In the exhibit by photographs, which give an idea of the extent of the education offered at Corvallis. the buildings, grounds, educational staff, size of the classes, etc. Experiment AVerk Pemenatrated. The second department of the work, that earned on by experiment stations scattered over ,the . state, is perhaps more interesting to the one visiting the exhibit. At these test farms, located at- convenient places, experiments in farming operations are carried on and special study Is devoted to problems that farmers have to meet in the differ ent parts of Oregon. ' The exhibit shows in a striking way results that have been accomplished at the Hcod River experiment station and the cne af Mora, as well as at Tal ent, Southern Oresron. Aprdes in the exhibit show the effect of nitrates used in fertilising? trees in the Hood River Vallno-. Apples which have not had the benefit of nitrates are small and the color is not good, while those grown ol trees which have been fed on nitrates arenot only of much larger Sixe. but are more beautifully colored. The spraying- exhibit, showing work carried on at the experiment stations. Illustrates the value of investigation work of this sort." Fruit grown on trees thet were not sprayed is 89 pel cent scabby, while apples picked from trees thar have been sprayed are 91 per cent perfect. Bliirfat Resistance Shown. At the fcoutheri) Oregon experiment station at Talent work has been di rected to producing: a pear tree that will resist the blight, one of the most difficult problems the peargrower has to contend with. Specimens of young trees are bhown, some easily affected byi blight and others which have be come moie immune through selection and treatment at the experiment sta tion. Professor C. I. Lewis, head of the horticultural department at the college, ia given creJit for this work. Incidentally Professor Lewis ranks as one of he leading horticultural au thorities In this country. . Work at the Eastern Oregon experi ment station at Moro, which is illus trated in the exhibit, has been directed to encourage diversified, farming in the wheat belt, where formerly grain was the one crop. Photographs show in a Ktrikinar way what 'has been accom plished in this line; One series of pictures hows the old way of wheat raisins, all the activities of the farmer beinsr directed to growing wheat and wheat only, year after year. Other pictures illustrate what is to become the destiny of -Eastern Oregon when crop rotation and diversified farming become the established order of thinss. Corn, field peas, plga. lambs and other products are grown where only wheat gte before.' Economic Value Is Clear. Selection of wheat suited to the dif ferent Eastern Oregon sections is alsc a work of the Moro station. By study along this line and the introduction of proper varieties of wheat, crops have been increased from 18 to SI per cent. If this gain in crop values should be computed for the vast wheat acreage of Eastern Oregon it will be seen that the economic value to -the state of this work is very great. Crop rotation for the Willamette valley has also been worked out at these experiment stations. A good series for Western Oregon farms is given as corn, clover and grain. A corn exnibit, showing the various types and the development of a valuable stock feeding type of corn, is interesting. The extension work of the college Is no less important, as shown in the exhibit. Home economics are a strong feature of this subdivision of the col lege activities. The study of fabric for the housewife is a course of in struction that is important in money saving and is particularly important. Food values are studied in connection with diet and practical cookery in struction ia given. Glrla' Work Remembered. Home canning Is another activity that the college is teaching to girls of many parts of the state through the extension courses. Specimen cans of fruit anJ vesetabjes are displayed, showing that the p.ipils are attaining proficiency along this line. Succeed in Religious Life.-Love According to Law of Sacrifice, Without always understand just what it is. Hence, the necessity for light. Seeing the best, we find the necessity for sac rifice, but we are not always willing to make It. Being unwilling to make it. we pay the price in the greater sac rifice through the violation of the law, rather than, in compliance with the same. That -whieh some have called duty,- and others privilege. Jesus re vealed as law. the law ot life and love. Best In World Held Lost. Reverting to the primary affirma tion, namely: That all life is entitled to the best, we find that the initiative is In the deepest consciousness of the life of God. He is pledged to bring us to our best. The world had lost its best its best idea of God. of life of eligion; If, indeed. It had ever pos sessed these things. Jesus came aa the expression of the best, and the- life and work and sacrifice of Jesus were interpretations of the best. He was not a victim of sin. but a revelator of life and leve. .All that God is In Christ ia pledged in behalf of the best. His religion does not mean the suppression, but the expression of life, and that in its fulness. Ha said: "I come that they (human beings) may have life, and may have it abundantly." All else is subsidiary to this essential. Material things. Intellectual development, soul capacity, are valuable in this subor dinate relationship. The main thing is the best thing, that abundant life of which Jesus spoke. So many persons are living limited and fragmentary lives In servility to the tyranny of things. We all may have the best. But we must' be willing to pay the price for ourselves and others. The law of love indicates the price In sacrifice. Human life is fecund with two ruling principles. One is that of selfishness running through an aversion to sacri fice, and the other is that of love op erating according to the law of sacri fice, and knowing the charm of the aacrificial. The first-mentioned prin ciple is more superficial, though, in deed, it is very hard to overcome. I'nderstandlng Oft Difficult. It seems difficult' for many persons to understand that sacrifice is inevit able, and that selfish Uvea sacrifice life Itself. They sacrifice the most who are not willing to sacrifice anything. Were none of the human race willing to sacrifice anything, then all the hu man race would become extinct by sac rificing itself. Some sort of sacrifice is inevitable. The sacrificial is not confined to re ligion, but it is only in true religion that it finds its real meaning.. This meaning comes through love's law of sacrifice, which charms us away from our selfishness and makes sacrifice no longer a thing which we either con demn, or admire, in others, but known and practiced by ourselves, because we love Ood and humanity so much that we are quite unwilling to cscapn the life of sacrifice and thus lose life itself Sacniice is in life not as a vindictive penalty, riot as an offering of Gods blind offspring, not aa a blundering at- PHOTOGRAPHERS CATCH MEN WHO ARE MENTIONED IN DISPATCHES Trial of Lieutenant-Colonel Goodier Reveals Rank in Aviation Corps Is Easy to Get Hungarian Premier Says War Depends on Germany Belgian Governor Target Since Execution of English Nurse. LIEU Go, at IEtlTENANT-COLONEI, LEWIS E. Goodier Is before a courtmartial San Francisco on a charge of influencirg the action of Army aviators who brought charges against Captain Cowan. The court has taken testi mony that Cowan, who was drawing 1113 a month extra aa an aviator, had no more than a layman's knowledge of flying. Count Karl Sturgkh is the Premier of Hungary. In a recent Interview he said that no one could foretell the length of the war, but for the most part, in his opinion, its duration would depend on how much Germany would demand from England to make peace. General von Blssing is the military Governor of Belgium who refused to postpone the execution of Miss Cavell, the English nurse, at the request of the American Minister. Brand Whit lock. This has uroused a storm of indignation throughout the world, which It is believed in some quarters may result in the removal of von Bis eing. Henry P. Fletcher, of Pennsylvania, Ambassador to Chile, probably will be the first Ambassador to Mexico under the new government there. He en tered the diplomatic service as second secretary at Havana in 1902 and has been stationed since at Pekin. Lisbon and Santiago. He Is a lawyer by pro fession. 42 years old. It is reported that Carranaistas have livaded Guatemala and that country may be drawn soon into the Mexican troubles. The President of Guate mala is Pon Manuel Estrada Cabrera who was elected for the term 1911-17 CONSUL SUES FOR LYNCHING Damages Sought by Mother of Ital ian Killed by Mob. DANVILLE. 111.. Oct. 20. An echo ot the lynching of Albert Piaaa. an Italian coal miner, October 13. 1914. when he was taken from the Sheriff of Perry County and his posso by a mob and lynched, was heard in the United States District Court when Charles H. Wat son, of St. Louis, Italian Consul, flled - 1 t-uuiu uecause me lyncning occurred away at 5:20." ESSENTIAL TO FTAPPTTVFSS a-Buii against me authorities of Ran- 1 tempt to please, or appease, a mon strous God who is thirsty for blood, but as a law of love harmonizing us with the perfect will of our God of love, who makes the greatest of. all sacrifies for us because he loves us so much that ne can never be satis fied until he brings the best to us all and brings us all to our best. Sacrltii-e Is Declared Natural. We cannot help sacrificing when we love him and our brother man. The more we love, the more' v.e sacrifice, and the more we sacrifice, the more we love. One reason why a mother's love is the most sacred thing among humans is because a mother's love is that of sacrifice of a very high and un selfish order. The religion of today is Retarded more by selfishness than any thing else. Thousands aijd millions of dollars are selfishly used by persons who pro fess and call themselves Christians, and the little "left-overs" are stingily doled out to the Church of God as tiiough it were an impecunious beggar. We can never know the abundant life when we spend thousands of dollars on ourselves and a few dollars on God's cause. Our very souls will fade and wither like leaves in the chilly breath of Autumn, and the atrophy of our moral and spiritual nature will occa sion our misery, you never saw a .miser who was happy. You do not know a stingy man who Is at all lova ble, or who really enjoys Hfe. We can no more disobey love's law of sacrifice, without paying the pen alty, than we can disobey any other law without - suffering, the conse quences. We never break any law of God. We may ruin ourselves by going contrary to that law. but the law re mains unbroken, and the same. It is not ours to quarrel with the law of sacrifice, or about--lt. but to obey it. if we would come to the best for our selves and others by living under the charm of the sacrificial, with an in tensely persona! application. This we will surely do if we accept God's light upon the problem of living as we should. The charm of the sacrificial brings to us the Initial installment of life's highest compensation. Here, again, is another law, or another expression of one and the eame law it has been said, and that right truly, that "Cause and effect, means and end, seed and fruit, cannot be severed: for the effect already blooms In the cause, the end Pre-exists in the means, tho fruit In the seed." Much of the compensation for doing the right thing is in the doing itself. If Hfe had no "hereafter," it would still be better to do that whieh we know to be right than to give ourselves over to wrongdoing. "Life invests Itself with inevitable conditions, which the unwise seeks tododge: which ones or another brags that they do jiot touch him; but the brag is on his lips, the conditions are In his soul. If he es capes them in one part they attack him in another and more vital part." These conditions in the soul are de termined by ourselves more than any lu . ' ?f I i -I I - -V n ' A li ' I I- -s I dolph County for T5C00 damages. The suit was brought in behalf of Mrs. Marie Antonia Vanettl Piazza, the mother of the lynched man. Suit Mas brought acainst Randolnh County because the lynching occurred Selfishness, Is one else. We can have the best when we are good enough to desire it and are willing to pay the price. When we pay the price, then comes the initial Instalment, not as a matter of bargain and exchange between God and man. but as one of law, tho law of compen sation, which Is quite universal and al together unalterable. The initial in stalment is the pledge of all that is to fellow. . Our God never falls. He will always do his part. Our chief concern should be about our doing our part and doing it in the right way. It is not merely to sacrifice, but to connect the sacri fice with the greatest possible good to the, greatest possible number. It is not simply to use our time, our talents, our money, our all, but so to use what we have and are that the results rhall Justify the expenditure. While being generous we must also be Just. While being zealous we must be sure that our zeal is according to Knowledge. Even enthusiasm may burn to ashes in fanaticism. An ambitious man may sacrifice his very life in some cause where the results will never Justify the outlay, and those who lova him win puffer in sorrow, and reason declare mat tne -noble man should have done otherwise. The business man makes an awful sacrifice when he gives his life for nothing but business. Even though the business be worth while, it is not worth while for the man to give bis life for nothing but busi ness by giving it to nothing more than that. God's light upon the sacrificial shows business to be the incident, and the best in iife the issue. Moreover, the better interpretation of the inevitable In life, where manv persons seem bound by circumstances beyond thier control, yields a sweet consolation amid the divine illumina tion. So many persons are longing for the best things, and erroneously fancy ing that these best things cannot come to them Just where they are. They know they are making great sacrifices. Need of LlKht Is Shown. They do not know that such sacrifices may be connected with the best- They may become sour and unhappy and grieve about the red thorn which pierces their breasts, and wish that they were somewhere else or that cir cumstances were different with them. .What they need is not so much a change of circumstances as the light to see that just where they are, and with Just what they have, the best may come to them and their loved ones If they will only put the sacrifice on God's altar bind It "with cords to the horns of the altar"; give it a divine dignity, light and flxedneis. Then life will assume a new mean ing, and a sweet Joy iwill come. Un happiness will pass away. Ilka a light cloud In the morning sky. Sweet con tentment will come In knowing that the sacrifice is not In vain. . There Is a Jewel which, no Indian mln can buy; 1 No cheitiic art ran counterfeit; It makes men rich rt greatest poverty Makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold. . j The homely whistle to Sweet music's strain; , " -: -c; . ' : '". -. fi'i :M there after Piaza had been brought over the line from Terry County. This is the first suit of the kind ever tiled in a United States court in Illinois. The trouble occurred at Williville. in Perry County, over a request for a match. Two American coal miners were oadly cut. Piazza was placed in the County Jail and then, f earing-trou-ble, the Sheriff loaded Piaza into an automobile and started for Plnckney. vllle. The party was overtaken by a number of friends of the injured men. Just before Pinckne yville was reached the prisoner was taken frpm the Hher. iff. removed a few paces from the auto mobile and then shot. The suit has been filed by the Italian Consul through Charles Chaney Hyde and Ira Edward Westbrook, both of St. Louis. After Ills Present. Kansas City Star. "What's your time?'' asked the old farmer of the brisk salesman. "Twenty minutes after 5. What can I do for you?" I want them pants," said the old farmer, leading the way to the window and pointing to a ticket marked "Given Plea. Seldom It cornea to few from heaven sent T&at much In little all iD nought content. We should never allow the inevitable to make us unhappy. Neither should we brood over that whieh we cannot help. Life is a beautiful thing when we are willing to make it so. We can make it so by harmonizing with the win of God and connecting all our sacrifices with the best in life and the best for life. "Bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar." When we leave out the altar the sacrifice loses its meaning, and we fall to move according to love's law of sac rifice. Obeying this law. we find that living is not merely getting, but giv ing, and even losing is gaining and sowing, means reaping. Give Self to God, Ia Plea. VV'e are living in a world where everything about us. when it fulfills its mission, is saying, "I am that I may be more abundantly, and that I may be more abundantly, I must give what I am to that which calls for me." Thus the little streams give themselves to the river; the river gives itself to the sea; the sea gives itself to its tributa ries: the clouds borrow, water that the may pour it back upon the earth and feed the springs that they may feed the streams; the seed gives itself to the harvest, the harvest gives itself to man. Let man give himself to God. for the whole divine psalmody about him Is singing love's law of sacrifice in rela- J? l,that wMch u bt- Mountains and hills and plain, rivulets, rivers, bays and seas, stars and suns and sys tems are all admonishing man to say, ,ive to give, and in giving I become more than I ever was before." No person in the world can afford to be selfish.. The best creed of life finds itself In. a splendid "otherism." where love could not help sacrificing if it would, and would not If it could. To laugh at difficulties, and overcome them: to love the other man, and help him to live; to be true; to be pure; to give pur lives to God; to bind the sacrifice' even unto the horns (the strength) of the altar, never to leavjj out the altar, to know that the true sacrifice is really at the center of life, that life may reach a circumference as vast as infinity, is really to live, t would be true, for there are those who trust me: 1 would be pure, for there are those who care : I would b strong, for there is suffer; much to I would be brave, for there U much to dare. i would ba friend of all the foe. the friend less; I would-be giving and forget the glff I would be humble, for I know my weakness- I ould look up end laugh and love and lift. ' Would you? Then ir. so being and doing, you are presenting the meaning of life, you are obeying love's law of sacrifice in Its relation to the best, you are living and loving and serving un der the charm of the sacrificial. You are a real winner, and have nothing to fear here 01- anywhere else. . , 9 i 77