ROSE FESTIVAL CENTER IS PLANNED ON GORGEOUS SCALE
Space for Occupation 78,000 Square Feet and It Will Be Embellished With Remarkable Floral, Architectural and Electrical Display.
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PORTLAND'S 1916 festival center,
one of the big features of the
coming' June Rose Festival, will
occupy more than 78,000 square feet in
the blocks- bounded by Park. West
Park, Salmon and Madison streets.
With the rose flower the central at
traction of the annual fiesta, govern
ors of the 1916 show decided to make
this year's floral center one of the
greatest of the kind ever presented in
the country.
The 1915 festival center, the first of
the kind presented in connection with
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NEED OF MORE THAN PHILOSOPHY IN LIFE IS EMPHASIZED
Rev. Luther R. Dyott Says Sensational Preacher Is Predestined to Lose Fight Against Form of Amusements More Popular With Younger Generation, but Good Will Conquer.
BY DR. LUTHER D. DYOTT
Of the First. Congregational Church.
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome
evil with cood. Romans xil:21.
OUR total life demands something
more than a fragmentary and su-
- perficial philosophy. When our
minds penetrate beneath the surface
of things we find
that evil means
wore than the
absence of good
and good means
more than the ab
sence of evil. Both
evil and good are
positive principles
in life. All "partial
evil" is not "uni
versal good." What
ever is. is not right
merely because it
is. the poet's inter
pretation to the
contrary, notwith
standing. We are living in
a world where evil
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coalesce. We rea- Dr. Luther R. Iyott.
son from what we know. The hostility
between evil and good is uncompromis
ing. It is more intense today than ever
before. It will be still more intense to
morrow. The universal attack is by no
means mild. The conflict and warfare
must continue until one or the other
overcomes and the conquest of the ages
is signalized. Some tell us that bad
persons are getting worse. Others say
the good are getting better. Possibly
both statements are correct.
E-vil is widespread, and appallingly
flagrant. We all know that it is hard
to overcome. We mow the crop and
find that the next harvest is more
prolific and abundant. Some day we
shall know a better way of dealing
with evil. The main emphasis of the
message is to be placed upon this
thought. Before unfolding the chief
thought, and emphasizing it, let us ob
serve that which is germane along the
line of its logical- approachment.
Good Gron-a More Aggressive.
One of the most hopeful "signs of
the times" -is found in the fact that
good is becoming more enlightened,
more aggressive, more assured of true
conquest; so that a sane optimism is
the only mood for a real faith in the
final outcome of things.
We have ceased to philosophize bo
much about good in the abstract.
We are ' undertaking to demonstrate
its power. Moreover, that which is
f;ood is no longer waiting for evil to
do its work, and then come with reme
dies for the havoc which evil has
wrought. For every evil in the world
today there is some positive and ag
gressive good. Thus knowledge ie con
tending with ignorance, truth is con
tending with error and falsehood, faith
and reason are contending with super
stition, law is arrayed against crime
and lawlessness, educated conscience
protests against evil passions, solid re
ligion is like the rocks of Gibraltar
where the waves of irreligion and in
fidelity are breaking.
But here we should observe that our
progress is not yet without its draw
back. There are reasons. It is. in
deed, true that the two principles of
evil and good in all their multifarious
forms, types and expressions are radi
cally antagonistic, but the human com
batants, themselves, are neither alto
gether evil, nor altogether good. Hence,
our chief dilemma and the slow prog
ress of good. Here is found our stern
est difficulty in this present period of
the worlds greatest awakening.
Jt has been said 'that "we are ' less
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the June celebration, proved popular
with the crowds and served to display
roses and other flowers in a manner
never before attempted in the city. By
using streets and sidewalks about the
two park blocks additional space will
be provided and almost twice the room
used last year will be available for the
magnificent display now in prepara
tion ,for June 7, 8 and 9.
With double the space used last year
promenades will be wider and able to
accommodate 12.000 visitors at one
time without crowding. More than
250.000 people will be able to view the
dazzled by the light when wakiftg, if
we have been dreaming of visible ob
jects while sleeping. Be- this as it
may, we are certain that whatever
have been the dreams of the human
race during the past centuries, we are
now awaking to a consciousness of
tremendous realities and to an aware
ness of world life as it actually is.
Evil is here. Good is here. Tares are
growing in life's harvest -field side by
side with the wheat. Gone forever is
the time for dreamy apprehensions and
interpretations of obvious and self-evident
realities.
Increasing light smites our vision.
Stern facts call us to the open field
where, in this respect at least, no true
man can remain neutral. The merely
moral man has no fence near enough
for. him to sit upon for admiration and
praise. The dynamic of the Gospel of
Jesus can never Justify cloistered piety
and culpable "indif ferentism."
We are at last awaking. With ref
erence to- some things we are dazed
and bewildered. Concerning other
facts we have a degree of certitude.
At any rate.-the world is-awaking, and
there is a deep feeling abroad that we
must do something more than has ever
been done before. Man. the microcosm,
is stirred by world-wide and age-long
terms. Yes. eternity is in his heart,
and it .makes moments glow with the
fire of infinitude.
Man-Made Creed Assailed.
Perplexity must not indefinitely post
pone, activity. We cannot afford to
spend too much time with theories and
speculations. We dare not remain com
placent upon the basis of the goods
which decline to go forward, or pride
ourselves upon limited virtues which
have, but won in part. Not even the
church can save itself, to say nothing
of the .world, with a few favorite vir
tues and many man-made creeds. The
ship of this world is not sinking, but
the billows are rushing over its decks';
we are not in sight of the haven: our
measuring line cannot reach the depths
below us. Every man should be in his
place, for a man is not quite a man
unless he be in his God-appointed
place.
This is a time for thought and ac
tion. It is a time when the invincible
souls of men. like "fire-hearted suns"
should throw the light of true life
upon immense problems. and touch
chords that will vibrate in everlasting
victory. ' Epitomizing a world. of
which the material 4s but the vesti
bule, we know that our moral and
spiritual progress has not kept pace
with that which is found in the mate
rial realm. .Limited progress is inade
quate. We need to enlarge our thought
of life.
Therefore, we are not to proceed
without that thoroughness which be
longs to thoughtful minds and great
souls. If we are to mark epochs, amid
epoch-making opportunities, we must
surely show that thinkers have arrived,
and that our modern religion can re
spond in something more than mere
emotionalism. Otherwise, all action
will be followed by reaction. There is
still a great place for thought in, life.
There is yet a large place in modern
thought for the philosophical explana
tion of physical, moral and spiritual
phenomena, but this place is subsidiary
to wise and energetic actions, bringing
to pass desirable results.
We are in the danger zone when we
content ourselves with soft sophistry,
fine theory and vain speculation, in
stead of remedial practice and perma
nent good, capable of universal applica
tion in relation to the best which is yet
to come to all mankind. The "Golden
Age" is not in the past. If so. God has
that which is infinitely better for us
tlan the -Golden Age. We are never' to
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OFFICIAL, DESIGN' KOIl FLORAL
beds of blooms and community displays
each day. In 1915 it was estimated
that more than 450.000 people viewed
the exhibits at the festival center.
Roses will be a big feature at the
center. The rose promenade will pre
sent a fountain displaying 12,000 Doro;
thy Perkins roses with rose trees out
lining the walk. The fountain will be
the first of the kind ever built in the
United States. The Paris Exposition
of 1900 presented a similar fountain
as an attraction in the court of honor,
but the display was much smaller.
The Rose Festival fountain will stand
more than 35 feet in height.
seek the easy way. but the right way.
Man's greatest injustice to man is found
in his not doing things in God's way:
'Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine.
On vain refinements vainly to refine.
To iauKh at poverty in plenty's reign.
To boast of apathy when out of pain.
And each sentence, worthy of the schools.
Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules
Most fit for praotl-. but for one poor fault.
That into -practice they can ne'er be brought.
We are now ready to consider the
divine method of overcoming evil.
Without studying the context, our great
text seems hortatory. Here the writer
seems to exhort his readers to do that
which, indeed, ought to be done, but
we need something more than exhorta
tion. We have it. It is rather easy to
tell persons what to do. It is difficult
to tell them how to do it. It is not
easy to to do what needs to be done; at
least, it is not ajways easy, but there
is always a right way for doing the
right thing. The right thing is in the
triumph of good over evil.
Text Is Logical Climax.
Read the entire chapter to which this
text belongs; then you "will find that
the text is a logical climax rather than
a hortative outbreak of an impassioned
soul. "Be not overcome of evil." Doubt
less, no person in the world is bad
enough to desire that evil shall finally
overcome him. No more does anyone
expect the universal and everlasting
triumpH of evil; All persons are good
enough to believe that somehow good,
and not ,ill. is to be the final thing in
God's world. But all are not working
toward this "consummation infinitely
to be desired." Nor yet are all who are
trying to work, found doing so In the
right way. It is very certain that we
cannot overcome evil with evil. This
would mean the Increase of evil rather
than its extinction. Furthermore, it is
not the function and prerogative of
good merely to destroy evil, or to dem
onstrate that good is mightier than
evil. Sometimes sincere efforts, made
by good men and women, end in mak
ing the good unpopular.
Many persons have distorted notions
about evil.- We have heard much about
necessary evil. Necessary? Necessary
to what? Why necessary? As a mat
ter of fact, there is no such thing as
necessary evil. If it is really necessary
as to that let God be the judge then
it is not evil, though to men of Jaun
diced vision it may seem to be evil. If
It is evil, then it is not necessary,
though to selfish and near-sighted souls
it may seem to be necessary.
Evil Held Jn No Way Rlffbt.
Then it has frequently been said. "Of
two evils, the less is always to be
chosen." That may have seemed wise
to good Thomas a Kempis; but, really,
it Is now quite out of date. We are
pever confined to the choice between
two eviUi when we are quite aware of
the immanence of God and the avail
ability of good.
Again, we all know that some have
taught, and others continue to teach,
that it is right to do evil that good may
come of It. But it is impossible for a
clearer ethical conception to attach any
value to such teachings, or to admit
their validity. Quite to the contrary,
the doctrine is pernicious even when
it seems plausible. It is fallacious. It
is illogical. Like produces like.
Good does not come of evil. Evil
does not come of good. "Do men
gather grapes of thorns, or figs of
thistles Even so every good tree bring
eth forth good fruit; but the corrupt
tree bringeth forth evil fruit." Like
comes of like.
To be sure, there are times when
God. in his power, wisdom and provi
dence may. and does, overrule the evil
intents and designs of men so that the
evil they meant to do unto others gives
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CENTER THAT WILL, BE FEATURE OF
Surrounding the fountain will be
eight flower beds all displaying roses.
Two beds will present 40 new varieti
of roses. In the festival center proper
will be 41 beds of bloom, about which
will be grouped the booths containing
displays from 16 communities . of the
city.
This year's display is being arranged
by Julius Dossche under the direction
of J. O. Conville, park superintendent,
and a director of the 1916 Rose Festi
val. The drawing of the festival center
as it will look when completed was
made by Louis C. Rosenberg.
Many of the big events of the festival
place to good in the lives of their sup
posed victims. As for example, Jo
seph's brothers meant to do him evil,
but God overruled what they intended
for evil so that good came not of their
evil, but in spite of it. You recall wnat
Joseph said to them when good tri
umphed: "And as for you, ye meant
evil against me; but God meant it for
good, to bring to pass, as it is this
day, to save much people alive."
Many of the prevalent evils have
been regarded, at times, as incapable
of cure until they have reached their
worst. Then, becoming insufferable,
men have risen to destroy them. It
would have been better, in every way,
if they had been destroyed in their be
ginning, or prevented by their oppo
site, positive good.' .
In dealing with evil, resort has often
been made to ill-advised impulses and
vindictive natures. Then, again, oth
ers have meant to choose the better
way. but they have not invariably ap
proved of what they, themselves, have
done when they have reviewed their
course in the dawn of the fuller light.
We have not greatly improved human
society by our bungling methods. Vin
dictive punishment has never had a
sovereign cure for evil. Half-way
methods have stopped short of what
has always been needed good instead
of eviL
Gradually we are beginning to see
that God's method of dealing with evil
Is, really, the only all-inclusive and
perfectly effective thing. We are bound
to reckon with life as it is. Children,
and adults, also, who are but children
of larger growth, have many innate
desires. The inmost life of us all is
asking for something that we think
will satisfy us. or give us pleasure, or
relate to the pleasure for which we
long. Our Judgment may be at fault,
and that which we desire may not al
ways be best for us. Still, we desire.
Evil we will take unless we know, by
experience, that the good is the thing
that will bring satisfaction.
Everybody is struggling for some
thing. It has been said. "Everybody is
struggling for the good things of the
world, and all arguments to prove that
they are not desirable are worse than
wasted." Perhaps this claim is too
broad. Possibly we should qualify it
by saying that there are heavenly
minded persons who sincerely seek the
kingdom of God and his righteousness;
but let it be remembered that they,
also, are seeking, and their taste for
higher things may sometimes make
them misunderstand such persons as
are not quite so well developed as they
are. Persons have to be taken as they
are, and made into what they were in
tended to be. Sympathy and wisdom
are great necessities of life when we
are dealing with all sorts and con
ditions of life.
Give Good, Not Evil, Is Plea.
All who stand for the good, and de
plore evil, should know that -when we
take from others that which they de
sire, even when it is not best for them,
or for anyone else, we are under obli
gations to give them the good instead
of evil. We do not make folks well by
starving them to death. True religion
never ends in severe negations. The
Ten Commandments are incomplete
without the Sermon on the Mount. To
be sure, there are times when compul
sory denial may temporarily blind men
to the good which will come through
enforced deprivation; but, a little later
on, even those who may have resented
what seemed to be an interference with
their rights, will find that they really
prefer good to evil.
To illustrate: A' year ago many were
opposed to our making Oregon free
from the curse of the liquor traffic.
Much was said against the course of
temperance advocates. - liven now such
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1016 ROSE FESTIVAL.
will take place at the center. Since the
children's parade and the National ded
ication of the Columbia River Highway
will be the big events opening day.
June 7, it has been decided to open the
festival center the evening of June 6.
when the crowning of the festival
queen will take place.
Band Concerts to Be Given.
Gates to the center will open at 6
P. M. and the crowning of the queen
will take place two hours later. This
will give the ruler of the fiesta an
opportunity to ride crowned in the
pageants of the children on the East
men are beginning to see that instead
of the awful evil of legalized intem
perance we have come into possession
of much that is good. Men who for
merly spent their money in saloons are
now spending it for the needs of their
wives and children. In many homes
there is happiness instead of misery.
We heard a great deal about the sa
loons being the poor man's club. That
same poor man has found that his home
is a much better place than the saloon.
Men who voted in favor of the saloon
will, in many instances, never do so
again. In this matter, as in many
others, good has overcome evil; or, to
speak more literally, in the thought or
our text, evil has been overcome in
the good.
Amusement Problem Touched.
Vast is the field and difficult will be
the work, where other evils are to be
overcome in the good. We have, for
example, barely touched the border of
the amusement problem. Places of
amusement, when taken altogether, are
not making their patrons decidedly bet
ter. Some motion pictures are not fit
for anyone to see, but by clever ar
rangement on the same programme
with bad exhibits, some good ones are
interspersed. Censors are doing good.
Those in charge of public amusements
are not running their places for the
sake of hurting anyone. Neither is
there any convincing proof that their
main effort is to make their patrons
better. Upon the whole, however, the
influence is not uplifting.
The popularity of the amusements
and that of church services on Sunday
nights are in inverse ratio to each
other. Young persons especially prefer
to attend a "show downtown" unless a
church here and there can offer them a
better show, according to their judg
ment. Sensationalism in the pulpit is
no lasting match for the pull in other
directions. Here the career of the sen
sationalist is always meteoric, and, at
the very beginning, his days are num
bered. Even so. he may yet be a wiser
man than his brother who thinks more
of his own dignity than he does of
reaching the masses who surely are
hungry for something.
Adequate Returns Retarded.
A preacher full of the gospel finds
no adequate returns when facing a
formidable array of empty pews. One
who delivers his carefully prepared
messages to wood, whether that wood
be pews or people, is in danger of be
coming somewhat wooden himself.
These facts lead us to the conclusion
that the church and the ministry need
to overcome evil with good on the
whole matter of amusements and such
other things as young persons will seek
outside of the church if they cannot
find them in the church. Give the peo
ple something better than that which
they are getting elsewhere, and with
different methods than such as are now
employed by the churches, and the re
sponse will be altogether satisfactory.
This means, first of all, that churches
must have more money and a better
equipment for the larger task of serv
ing its community every day. in the
year. In the next place we must have
trained leaders to carry out a full pro
gramme for Jesus Christ. And, in the
next, we must never lose sight of the
fact that everything we do is to head
up in the spiritual in order that evil
may be overcome in the good.
Our greatest work is to get hold of
men, women and children as they are
and help them to become all that they
ought to be. In this divine task we
can never leave out God. Human be
ings need a new taste for better things
than those for which most of them are
now striving. This means that their
nature must be 'changed. It is a change
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Side. She will proceed from this pa
rade direct to the highway, where the
dedication ceremonies will take place
at 2 P. M. Multnomah Falls has been
selected as the proper place to , dedi
cate the highway to the' tourist travel
of the world. The Rose Festival queen
will then be crowned Queen of the
Highway.
Band concerts will be one of the at
tractions at the festival center this
year, and in addition many attractive
events will be staged on the two park
blocks south of the floral displays. It
is likely street dancing will . be per
mitted again this year with complete
necessary, and only . God can give it.
Regeneration is not out of date as a
necessity.
The good taste is present when the
good is present a nature born of God.
Then one exclaims with the psalmist,
"Oh. taste and see that Jehovah is
good; blessed is the man that taketh
refuge in him." Our conclusions are
as follows: First We need up-to-date
methods for -the overdue issue. By
this issue we .mean the deepest desid
eratum of human life, namely, this:
The greatest possible good for the
greatest possible number. God wants
us to have it. From generation to
generation, all during the past cen
turies, men have postponed it, inten
tionally or unintentionally. The human
race has never wholly possessed that
which God meant it to have all the
time in the 'greatest possible good for
the greatest possible number.
Our methods have been wrong. We
have substituted evil for good. Then
we have sought evil instead of good,
and then we have tried to do the right
thing in the wrong way. All these
things are out of date. The only per
sons who are quite up to date are those
who have the mind'and thought of God.
and who do things in the spirit of
Jesus Christ rather than in the letter
of the traditional way. The freshest
thing on earth is a thought that has
Just come from God. The most power
ful thing in the world is his love, in
the human heart, given to the children
of men here and now. The newest thing
in the universe is a soul made new in
the life of God.
Do It Right Now, Is Advice.
Second In trying to do the right
thing we should never spoil it by doing
it in the wrong way. One of our
worst faults may be pointed out in this
connection. It is thoughtless agitation.
We are given to attempts to overcome
what we think is evil and sometimes
we may be right to that extent, or
degree but in trying to overcome one
evil we demonstrate another. Agita
tion of the right sort is sometimes
good. Certainly agitation is better
than stagnation. But agitation of the
right sort is never heedless and in
considerate of the greatest good. It
Is a very common thing among us to
lend ourselves to unseemly and impul
sive performances, without the exer
cise of that deep, thorough and com
prehensive thoughtfulness of all that is
involved. We jump in without think
ing our way through before we Jump.
Then we make statements that are not
borne out by the facts ' in the case.
Then wc ifctitralize our influence for
good. Locally it Is now a scene here,
and then nnt,:b"r there. We have an
epidemic of fault-finding in Portland
that can be i-nred only by a better
grade of the right sort of thinking in
relation to effective action by those
who are determined to know all that
should be known, and then to do the
right thing in the right way. What
ever is best for all concerned can al
ways be done in the riftht way.
Third The common faith of Chris
tendom needs to take a firmer hold
upon the verities of God. and know
that good is ultimately to triumph,
everywhere, over ail evil. In a senti
mental way, most persons believe this
until they make it a truism. Only a
few are making the belief, itself, a
dynamic. The latter is the greater ne
cessity. A great belief never ends in
an Intellectual assent. It must always
be followed by hearty consent proving
itself in action. In the final analysis
we really believe that which we actu
ally live. So much. No more. We
need life, with compelling good filling
it until we live that good which over
comes evil. Our campaign against
moral evil la not so much, to exult in
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arrangements for handling the crowds.
Many plants to be displayed at the
festival center have already been or
dered and this great feature of the
June show will be in readiness for the
opening.
Broadway will be the court of honor,
or grand promenade again this year
and the street decorations, both floral
and electrical, will be elaborate. They
will extend to Main street, where a
magnificent arch will lead the way to
the main entrance of the festival cen
ter. The electrical decorations at the
festival center will he such-as to show
the flowers in their natural colors.
the , possibility of the destruction of
evil as in the establishing of good.
We need a sense of a new heroism
related to that kindness which is
greater than any ecclesiastical creed.
We need a spirit of co-operation
among all the forces of good. The.
things which can unite are more than
those which now divide us. , A small
thing suffices for a quarrel among
small persons. It takes a great thing
permanently to unite great souls. The
common task for the everlasting good
of the whole human race is now before
all the forces of good.
Therefore, with a firmer hold upon
the verities of God, yes, a knowledge
which comes from an experience of
God. himself, let us unite in address
ing ourselves to our common task. We
may pass on before the work is com
pleted, but we shall go with the con
sciousness that we have done our level
best to bring all mankind up to the
level of its best, and with the sweet
assurance that
All we have willed, or hoped, or dreamed of
good, shail exist.
Not its eemblanot;. but itself; no beauty, nor
good, nor power
Whose voice has gone forth, but each sur
vives for the melodist.
When eternity affirms tho conception of
an hour;
The high that proved too high, tho noroic
for earth too hard.
The passion that left the ground to lose
itself in the sky.
Are music sent up to God by the lover and
the bard:
Enough that he heard it once; we h&ll
hear it by and by.
Good, and good only, possesses the
power of eternal triumph, and this is
The way of everlasting conquest.
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