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THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, DECEMBER 10, 1916. SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS GIVING IS ALIVE IN PORTLAND CHURCHES Various Congregations Planning to Make as Many as Possible Happy on Christmas Needy to Be Cared For. : 10 (( WHITE CHRISTMAS." say the ZV churches. That Is to be the tone of practically all, Protestant and Catholic alike. Most of them are going to have a "giving Christmas" and practically all of them are bending their efforts toward making the day of spe cial importance, both in services and service. For a long time the young women of the various congregations have had sewing bees at 'Which they have made clothes for both the poor and for the little ones In various Institutions. Some of the children's classes are to bring food which they have bought with their own money. At the First Baptist Church, "White Temple, there is to be a white Christ inas on the morning of December 17, with "white gifts for the King." There Is to be a great white cross and a Christmas tree and presents not only for the needy of their own church, but the poor in general and for the children and old people in public institutions. They will also set aside a day for the children when the children will receive candy. Most of the churches are acknowl edging in some form the "Good Book" week which is just closing. Many of the ministers have taken for their themes today topics relative to children. The Making of Boys and Girls" is to be the theme in many a talk In the Portland pulpits this morning. Special Christmas services will be held by the First Methodist and Pres byterian churches and Christmas plays will be given by a large number of the children's Sunday -school classes. Christ mas parties for the young folk will also be held. i - At an elaborate service this morning at 11 o'clock Rt. Rev. E. H. McColllster will be established as Dean of St. Ste phen's Pro-Cathedral. Dean McCollls ter, who was formerly rector of the Episcopal Church of Santa Cruz. Cal.. will be installed by Rt. Rev. AValter Taylor Sumner, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Oregon. Besides the bishop and Dean McCol lister there will be a procession of the full choir and the lay members of the Cntherlral Chanter. The installation services have been delayed because when Dean McCollis ter arrived Bishop Sumner was yet in the East at the Episcopal convention at St. Louis. Pastor to Discuss "Is World Getting Better?" Rev. George E. Lewis to Give Series of Addresses at Highland Congre gational Church. REV. GEORGE EDWARD LEWIS, pastor of Highland Congregational Church, will begin a series of sermons tonight on the topic, "Is the World 9etting- Better?" This theme has been used by the pastor for several years, and certain developments and certain retrogressions have added to the ma terial and interest of the sermon-lectures. For three successive Sunday nights this will engage the entire even ing hour. Five Judges on the last evening will decide for or against the topic. . Three optimists and two pessimists have been chosen. The first sermon-lecture will begin with the Hebrew religion and follow the rise and fall, the spreading and various divisions of that religion down to the Christian era; the second will begin with Christ and end at the pres ent century, and the third and last lee? ture will be a general discussion of matters spiritual, social, moral and financial, considering, of course, dis eases, insanity, divorce and other prob lems hindering religious progress. At the annual business meeting of the Ladies' Aid Society of Pilgrim Congregational Church the following officers were elected: Mrs. Cornelia Minsinger, president; Mrs. Jennie Paul sen, vice-president; Mrs. W. C. Kant ner, secretary; Mrs. Belle Pedersen, treasurer. The society had a success ful ..year and is planning for still greater things the coming year. ' Rev. Alexander Beers, pastor of the First Free Methodist Church. East Kinth and Mill streets, has chosen for liis subject this morning "Hindrances to Faith, or Why Prayer Is Nat An swered." This series of sermons by the pastor is awakening much interest among his members and also with out eiders. The theme for Sunday morn ing's discourse is regarded by the pas tor as the most important one thus far in the entire series, as it touches more vitally and deals more skillfully with the real -underlying causes of unan swered prayer. The pastor believes that there, is a law of faith operating as applicably and -universally as any Jaw in the physical universe and will never fail to operate when Bible con ditions are met. In the evening Rev. Mr. Beers will use as his subject "God's Method of REV. W. G. ELIOT SEES MORAL READJUSTMENT IK GREAT WAR BY WILLIAM G. ELIOT, JR., Minister of the Church of Our Father. HAS CHRISTIANITY FAILED! IP the pipe line between Portland and the waters of Bull Run were to be broken by an earthquake, and, as with San Francisco, a large portion of our city should burn up, we would rig-htly attribute the disaster to the failure of our water p' jFptwww supply. And yet we all know that if we should follow -up V the pipe to the!; place where the pipe was broken we should find that the supply had not failed at all. In one sense the water cupply has failed: In another sense it has not failed. This illustration " tdneM!?!i x Is to make clea what is meant Kev. William G. when in thinking Eliot, Jr. ' of the grreat war we say, "In one sense Christianity has failed"; and when wo eay 'with equal truthfulness, "In an other sense It has not failed." y In this greatest of all the debacles f occidental history, civilization has failed, and it has not failed; liberty has failed, and not failed; Justice has failed, and not failed; God has failed, and not failed. First of all,..it is a tribute to Chris tianity to declare that in this crash we have a failure of Christianity. Alas, if such death and destruction were the success of Christianity! Alas, If this marked the acme of Christian purpose, the true consummation of Christian aims, the desired victory of our Chris tian warfare! It does no such thing. Christianity weeps. Christianity pities, deplores, is horror-struck. Christian ity cries with one voice and one heart. "Why is this thing so? How has. it come about? What can be done to help, to heal and to reconcile?" . Evil Forces Prevail. Tes. there has ben a breakdown. 3"he inner forces that make for broth Man-Making." Mrs. Beers will conduct the Young People's meeting at 6:30 P. M Donald L. McPhee will sing. Rev. Oliver C. Curtis, of Gladstone, win occupy the p-ulpit at the Rodney Avenue Christian Church this morning. in the evening the pastor. Rev. J Carlos Ghormley, will use for his theme "Watchers at the Cross." Special music will be given by the choir both morn ing and evening. This morning at llxo'clock Mrs. Flor ence Crawford will speak in "The Com forter" headquarters, on "Rebuilding," and tonight at 8 on "The Transfigur ation of Miss Philura." The lecture Is a psychological study of Florence Morse Kingsley's story by that name. Classes, to which all are Invited, will also be held in "The Comforter" head quarters Thursday afternoon and Fri day night of this week.- Week of Meetings Planned by Baptist Young .People. Smlont W1H Br Kin With Annual January Rally New Year's Day; Better Service Is Aim. COMMENCING with their annual Jan uary rally, New Tear's day, a week of meetings of special value to young people will be held under the direction of the Willamette Association Baptist Young People's Union. . The local unions will provide the pro gramme of music and speakers on the nights assigned to them. It is expected that the fellowship and active service will strengthen all who attend and that through them the unions to which they belong will be fitted for better service. Bible study, consecration and evan gelism constitute the three-fold objec tive and all who are interested in hese important needs for "personal Chris tian service" will be welcome to all the meetings. Rev. D. A. Thompson will preach at the Mizpah Presbyterian Church, East Nineteenth and Division streets, today at both morning and evening services. His theme for the morning will be "Christ an Essential Factor in Everyday Life." In the evening he will preach his second sermon to young people, his theme being "Some Dead Sure Things." The prayer meeting will be held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock. Sunday school at 10 o'clock, A. M. Howell, isuperintendent. The adult and young people's Bible classes meet at 10:15 Sunday morning In the church auditorium. There will be a mass meeting for men at 3 P. M. today at the Laurel hurst Methodist Church. C. W. Robi son, deputy District Attorney, will speak. , At the First Methodist Episcopal Church South today Rev. S. M. Cheek, the presiding elder of the Willamette district, will preach morning and even ing. There will be special music by the choir, assisted by the orchestra. This will be the quarterly conference occa sion and the sacrament of The Lord's supper will be observed, following the morning sermon. An interesting programme has been arranged by Miss Martha B. Reynolds at the Y. W. C. A. at 4:30 o'clock to day. Mrs. G. J. Frankel will give a reading and all girls are cordially in vited. Social hour will follow at 5:30. "The Absurdity of Militarism" will be discussed at the preaching service at the First Christian Church next Sunday morning by the pastor, Rev. Harold H. Griflls, who will have for his topic "Christ, or Napoleon Which?" In the evening Rev. Mr. GrifCis will speak on "Self-Seeking vs. Self-Sacri-fice." , The quartet choir will sing the fol lowing numbers: In the morning, "Ap pear, Thou Light Divine" (Morrison); in the evening, "How Long Wilt Thou Forget Me?" (Tflueger) and "Savior, When Night Involves the Stars" ((Shel ley). , . The Pioneer M. E. Church (St. Johns) held the annual meeting of the Sunday school board on Monday. Mrs. S. S. Cook was re-elected superinten dent; E. E. Thurston, assistant; Mrs. J. Kerr, second assistant, and Mrs. Myrtle Weeks, teacher of the class for young women. These four, led by Mrs. Cook; have served untiringly for the past 10 years and have done much by their real and devotion to build up the Sunday school and add strength to I the church. At 5 o'clock this afternoon at Laurel wood Congregational Church, Forty fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street Southeast, Dr. Joseph K. Hart, of Reed College, will deliver the second of his course of three lectures on "The Modern Social Movement in the Church." The specific topic for today's lecture will be, "Is This Social Movement In Harmony With the Original Teachings of Jesus?" Spirit erhood and goodwill, for justice and peace, have been overcome by other forces--forces that have their base In selfishness, , distrust, antipathy, fear, jealousy and greed. Yes, ah, yes, Chris tianity has failed. But trace back to the breaking: points, and still inexhaustible and pure and strong, as inexhaustible, as pure, as strong as ever, do we find the sources, the divine sources , of moral and spiritual power. We, the human instrumentality, have failed. Human institutions, human or ganizations, human brains and heart, have failed. Christianity has failed in the only way it can fail, through the failure of its human instrument. And it will succeed, under God, only through the instrumentality of his human instrument. - Every time a wrong is thought or done by me or you or anyone, Chris tianity fails. Every time a right thing is thought or done, Christianity suc ceeds. This law holds good not only for single human action but for the actions of larger groups, for nations, for the world. In what consists the present world wide failure of Christianity? It con sists in the fact that in parts of the world which consider themselves civ ilized, the forces of Christianity have failed as yet to convert a sufficient number of people from narrowness to breadth, from Shallowness to depth, from antipathy to good will, from self ishness to helpfulness, from material ism to moral heroism, from paganism to Christianity. Christianity has esti mated its forces nominally rather than really. ' Failure in HiKh Places. In particular the organized instru mentalities of Christendom have failed in high places. How seldom in human history have .governments and dynas ties and laws been thoroughly animated and informed by the presence of the spirit of Christ! It is highly important that this fail ure of Christianity should be seen in true perspective and background. We should reckon not only with the po tential and inexhaustible reservoirs of supply to which we havj already re ... - ----g-------- I : 7 " ' ' ' I - " I f y - J - vWJ 1 1 ' r ' v'l -J . " Siseis!AaM!8i jjc at js-jL.-JiK-: fimmtm ;r m iirms riiiin-ir ri"at-i"- t V'll n't-siw-wm nai wiiufll 3sAcsX sZvirSr- y--7jj- S?cj-r?r7? z- tsr jtETSi ZZS-z- J "That Boy" and "That Girl" ' rVCv Sermon Topics. ' " v Dr.. A. I. Hutchison to Take Sub- ' , t -V. Jt In Harmony With "Book ' v , , L. ;- 4, ' v Sx , . Weelc. x ' xX k !!!!!: : . r fc - -... IN HARMONY with "Book week," which closes today. Dr. A. L. Hutch inson will deliver two discourses to day In Piedmont Presbyterian Church on topics of the time. At 10 A. M. his topic will be "That Boy." At 7:30 a sequel topic will be "That Girl." Prob lems relating to both will be discussed and influences by which they are to be molded in right lines will be consid ered. Great Interest is awakened Ln the Bible school by the pastor's "Bible drills" each morning in the school open ing. The Christian Endeavor is becom ing more interested in its mission study course, which is held at 6:15. W. J. Burns and Charles J. Schnabel will open the discussion on "Who Be gan the War?" at the open forum In the Unitarian chapel, Broadway be tween Yamhill and Taylor, tonight at 7:45 o'clock. At the morning service the fiftfi in the series of sermons on "What Did Jesus Say?" will be given. The theme for this morning is "What Did Jesus Say About Prayer?" The woman's missionary organization of Atkinson Congregational Church, East Twenty-ninth and Everett streets, will hold a meeting of special interest Tuesday at 2:30 o'clock in the church. The speaker will be Rev. George E. Lewis, pastor of Highland Congrega tional. Church, who recently returned from the mission fields of Alaska. His talk will be on the work of the Con- Sunday Church Services ADJENT. Advent Christian, 438 Second street, near Hall street Rev. J. S. Lucas, pastor. Preaching. 10-30. Sunday school. 12; Loyal Workers, 6:30; preaching, 7:30; prayer zneet lns, Thursday evening. 7:3a ADVEN'TIST. Central, East JSIeventh and Everett streets P. C. Haward, minister. 10, Sabbath school; 11:15, church service: prayer meet ing. Wednesday. 7:30; Young People's So ciety, Friday, 7:20. Tabernacle, "West Side, Knights of Pythias Hall, Eleventh and Alder Sabbath school, lu; preaching, 11; preaching; Sunday even ing, 8. Montaviila. East Eightieth and Everett streets J. F. Biatty, local elder. Sabbath school. 10; preaching. 11. Young People's meeting, 4; prayer meeting. Wednesday, 7:30: Helping Hand Society. 1:30 Tuesday. Lents. Ninety-fourth street and Fifty eighth avenu: Southeast D. J. Chitwood, local elder. Sabbath school, 10; preaching, 11; prayer meeting, Wednesday evenlnff 7:"J0 o'clock. St. Johns, Central avenue and Charleston Even Now Present Among ferred. We should do' justice to the fact that even in the midst of failure. Christianity is still succeeding to the right hand and to the left. - In spite of war and even in the very nations that are at war there are countless souls penitent for their sins pitying their enemies, desiring in their hearts that war may cease, desiring however blunderingly that right may triumph, and sincerely desiring them selves to triumph only if they are In deed right.' These are all evidences that there are successes as well as failures of Christianity, however much more obvious the failures appear, at the present to be. In this war Christianity has failed. It will be a second and worse failure if, after it is over, it all begins over again; if after it- is over, the nations, their greeds and antipathies, in no sense abated but rather increased, be gin over again to pile up armaments and make necessary among themselves and Inevitable another crash still greater than the one today. w If we must admit in any sense a gi gantic failure of Christianity, that is to say, of its human instrumentalities; if we can admit that over against the failure there are vast conserving and latent forces; if we can admit the po tential and inexhaustible supply of es sential good, what may .we descry as the direction and source of jour best hope? Reaction Already Here. We shall find it ira the incalculable moral and spiritual reaction which will follow this disaster, which is indeed already with us. , v The consequences of this war are not to be measured only in the dollars and tents of economic loss, direct and in direct, which stagger the statisticians; not only in oommercial and industrial dislocations that paralyze the commer cial -order; not only in losses to art and culture; not only in wounds and dis ease, in death and sorrow. There is an other consequence impossible of any measurement, the titanic psychic re action, under God, the mightiest force in humanity and in history. This psy i V- ' .WW II V" " '5 if f - - J I fciviS-,! x x ( I I m sc?k A'C? gfegational Church In Alaska and he wiul exhibit a number of articles col lected in that land. Rev. A.- B. Van Zante, of the First Presbyterian Church of Snohomish, street B. D. Hurlbnrt. local elder. Sab bath schw.l, 10; preaching, 11; prayer meet ing. Tuesday evening, 8. Mount Tabor, Eait Sixtieth and Belmont streets J. M. Willoughby. minister. Sab bath school. .40; preaching, 11; prayer meet ing Wednesday evening. 7:45. Albina (German), Skldmore and Mallory H. J. Dirksen, minister; A. C, Schweitzer, local elder. Sabbath school. 10:30; preach ing. 11:30: preaching Sunday evening, 7.30; prayer meeting, Wednesday. 7:45. Scandinavian. Ogden Hall. Mississippi avenup and Shaver streets O. E. Sandnes. mlnlslor. Sabbath school, 10; preaching. II; preaching Sunday. Wednesday and Friday evenings at S o'clock. ASSOCIATED BIBLE STCnEN'TS. Chrlstensen's Hall. Eleventh and TamMk streets. 3. P. M -Discourse by N. M. Lew ton, s. P. M. Public lecture by W. A. Baker, subject, "To Ueli and Back." . ADVANCED THOUGHT. Portland Hotel Assembly Hall Sermon lector every Sunday night by Dr. Alzamon Ira Lucas. Temple of Universal Fellowship Rav. J Belligerent Nations Shows chic reaction will manifest itself in many a wise forward movement; pos sibly ira political and social revolutions of lasting good. But in no direction will this reaction be more powerful and, under wise guidance, more powerful for good, than in the direction of religion, in the de partment of highest human concern, by which ultimately all other human con cerns are motived and governe. Every man's life ip the success or failure of his own religion. The real life of a nation or of the world is the failure or success of its religion. Religion is a life rather than a creed, but in reality it is both a life and a creed. Experience, action and belief must correspond and must support each other or they tend to break each other down. In these terms, what la the reaction that is taking place in men's minds throughout Christendom? Is it not true that every deeper current of our being as by one mighty impulse of a power greater than ourselves is being moved as a greater wind moves the depths of the sea? World's Vanity Shown. As by one .great proclamation, we are summoned to realize the vanity of this world when thought of only as a thing of space and time and so inter preted; by one great proclamation we are all called to feel that there is a better way than distrust and hate and that the necessity of physical force as an instrumentof good should be re duced to a minimum and consecrated by inviolable covenants to Internation al good rather than to (rational ag grandizement. If sufficient number of people answer intelligently, wisely, strongly, united ly to this summons, we shall have a mobilization in moral force that states manship cannot and will not wish to resist; we shall have a force strong enough to abate the otherwise inevita ble excesses of victory and defeat; we shall have at 'last the partial if not yet the complete triumph of those forces which for many ages have been more or less consciously and sincerely striv 3s7cz : Wash., will preach today at both serv ices of the Kenilworth Iresbyterian Church, East Thirty-fourth and Glad stone streets. Rev. Mr. Van Zante has held the pastorate In Snohomish for the last ten years. H. Dickey, pastor. Service at 232 Eleventh street, corner Colubia, at 7:45 p. it.: oo cult lessons on the Bible, followed by answer leg questions. BAPTIST. First (White Temple), Twelfth and Tay lor streets. At 0:5u. Bible School: 1L preaching by Dr. -James A. Klrtley; theme, "The Pain aiid Pleasure of Growing"; 6:30, B. Y. P. U. : 7:30. preaching by Dr. Klrt ley; theme, "The Brave Three-Hundred." Second German. Morris and Kodney Rev. hF. Hoffman, pastor. Sunday School, 9:45; preacmng service, 11 end X; B. Y. . V., 7. Third, Vancouver and Knott. Rev. W. J. Beaven. pastor. At 11 A. M.. "Books and The Boolt"; 7 :.iO P. M., "Learning to Grow." East Side, East Twentieth and Ankeny. Rev. W. O. Shank, D. D.. pastor. At 10, Sunday School; 11, preaching by the pas tor.: theme, "The Second Mile Religion'; 0:30. B. Y. P. i:.; 7:30, preaching by the pastor: theme, "Sir, What Must I Do to Be saved ?" Glencoe. East Forty-fifth and Main streets. Rev. A. B. Waltz, pastor. At 0:4.',. Sunday School; 11 and 7:30, preaching by Rev. A. Lawrence Biack; 6:30, B. Y. P. U. - Calvary, Er.st Eighth and Grant streets. Morning, "Jsuy. Our Perfect Pattern"; evening. "A RHltglon of Greater Rewards Hereafter and Here" (No. 5 of "Sermon on the Mount" series). Swedish-Finnish Baptist Mission meats at Christianity Has Not Failed, ing for the rule of Christ In human af fairs, for the will of the Most High in the affairs of time and space, the gen uine sacramentallzing of the human experience and of the human fellow ship in all its departments and ranks. The earth existed long before ploughs; water and the force of grav ity existed quite a while before either water-wheels or turbines; heat and light and electricity long before matches and incandescent burners. Do not give up hope. Man shall yet flna ways to harness the spiritual powers of ,God for the service of the higher good, the moral benefit of man,, for the empowering of his common life, for the nurture of his spirit, for the redemp tion of his immortal soul from the en tanglement of space and time and sin and death. War Is Revelation. This war is a revelation on a com pelllngly vast scale of what man real ly la in his animal nature, the result of his strange entanglement in hered ity, environment, in the fatelike mo tions of space and time. It will also be, if it indeed is not already, a rev elation, cpnvertingly effective, of what man really is in the potencies of his spiritual and moral nature, in his la tent capacities for moral freedom, mor al loyalty, for Godlike pity, for Christ like sacriiic-e. At , no time that we know of has there been set before the world on so vast a scale. the awful choice: "There is set before you this day life and good and death and eviU in that I command you this day to love the Lord thy God and to walk In his ways. I call hea ven and earth to witness ae-ainst vou j this .day that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse; therefore, choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy children, to love the Lord thy God, to obey his voice and to cleave unto him; for this! is thy life and the length of thy days." 1 Is not the world and everyone Jn the world confronted as never before with i 1 the overwhelming alternatives? I go ' J back of the aggregate of ordinary in-1 I terests that fill our hours with work J and play to that fundamental choice T-.43 the lower Whit Temple. Twelfth and TayT streets. Lenta Rev. J. M. Nelson, pastor. 10, Sunday school; 11 and 7:80, preaching ay the pastor; 0:80. B. Y. P. IT. F9-.50, Sunday school; 11 and 7:30, preaching by the pastor; 6:3U. a. T. p. u. Mount Olivet. Seventh and Evsrett streets Rev. W. A. Magatt. pastor. Services. 11 and 8; Sunday school. 12 ao First German, Fourth and Mill street Rev. Jacob Pratt, pastor. 9:45, Sunday school, 11 and 7:30. preaching by the pastor The Young Hen's Class (H. X. M. C.) of the Highland Baptist Church, East Sixth and Alberta streets, meets at 9:45 A. M. Sunday. Italian Mission, East Eighteenth and Tib be its streets Rev, Francisco Sannella, pas tor. 10, Sunday school; 10:30. short ser mon for English-speaking people; 11, preach ing aervice; 7, pastor's circle (prayer serv ice); 8. preaching service Swedish. Fifteenth and Hoyt street Rev. T. Gideon SJolander. pastor. 'Services, 10:30 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. CATHOLIC. . Pro-Cathedral, Fifteenth and Davis streets Rev. E. V. O'Hara. Mass, 8, 7:15. 8:80, s:45; high mass, 11; evening service, 7:45. St. Lawrence, Third and Sherman streets Rv. J. O. ftughes. Mass. B, 8:30; high mass, 10:30; evening service. 7:30. St. Patrick's. Nineteenth and bavter streets Hev. E. P. Murphy. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:3O; evening service, 7:30. St. Francis. East Eleventh and O-Mt streets Kev. J. ti. Black. Mass. o, 8, 8; high muss, 10:30; evening service- 7:30. Immaculate H.art of Mary, Williams ave nue and Stanton street Kev. W. A. Daly. Mass. 8. 8, 9; high mass, 11 o'clock; even ing service, 7:80. Holy Rosary. East Third and Clackamas Rev. C. J. Olson. Mass, ti, 7. 8, U; high mass. 11: eeuing service. T -"0- Blessed Sacrament, Maryland avenue and Blandena street. Kev. Father F. W. Black, pastor. Mass, S A. M. ; High Mass at lu:30 A. M. ; evening service, 7:3D. The Madeleine. Ease Twenty-fourth and Siskiyou Kev. G. F. Thompson. Mass, T:3U, 9; high mass, lu:30: evening service. 7:45. Sr. Andrew's, East Ninth and Alberta streets Kev. T. Klernan. liana. S; high mass, 10:30; evening service. 7:30. Ascension. East Yamhill and East Seventy sixth Franciscan Fathers. Mass. 8; high mass, 10:30; evening service, 7:30. Holy Redeemer, Portland boulevard and Vancouver avenue Kev. F. H. Miller. Mass, 6. 8; high mass, 10:30; evening service. 7:30. Holy Cross. 774 Bowdoln street Kev. C. Raymond. Mass. 8; high mass. 10:30; even ing service, i :80. Sacred Heart, East Eleventh and Center- Rev, ti. Kobl. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:30 evening service. 7:3a St. Agatha. East Fifteenth and Miller Rev. J. Cummisky. Mass. 8; high mass. 10:0; evening service. 7:30. St. Joseph (German). Fifteenth and Couch streets Rev. B Durrer. Mass, 8; high mass, 10 30: evening service, 7:80. St. Clare's, Capitol Hill Franciscan Fathers, Kev. Father Modestus. Low mass, 7:30; high mass and benediction, 9:20; ser mon, at both 'masses. St. fr-tanlslsus tltallan). Maryland avenue and Willamette boule ard Rev. T. Mathew. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:30; evening service, 7:80. . St. Petei-s. I ents Rev. p. Buetgen. Mass. 8; high mass. 10:30: evening service, 7:30. St. iTlements, Smith and Newton streets -Rev. C. Smith. Masa 8; high mass, 10:30; evening service, 7:20. St Charles. Xhlrty-fourth and Killings worth Rev. G. Snlderhorn. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:::0: evening service. 7 :30. 6t. Rose's Fifty-third and Alameda streets Rev. j. M. O'Farrell, pastor. Masses, 8 and 10 A. M.; evening devotion, 'fso. St. Mlshael's (Italian), Fourth and Mill Jesuit Fathers: M. J. Balestra. S. J., pastor. Low mass. 8:80; high masa. 10:30; evening service. 7:30. j Su Philip Nerl. East Sixteenth and Hlck- y ic. nr. j . sriwngnt. mass, I :ou. W. I high mass, 10:30; evening service. 7:30. I St. Ignatius. 3210 Forty-tblra street East, I Jesuit Fathers Father William J. Deeney. rector. Mass. e:au, 8. 9:15, lu:3v; evening aervice. 7:30. i CHRISTIAN. . First, Park and Columbia streets Har old H. Grlffis, pastor. Preaching at 11 A. M. ; subject, "Christ or Napoleon Wh lch ?" 7:45 P. M., subject, "Self-Seeklng Versus EeJf-Saeri?(,ce." Bible School at 0:45 A. M-; Christan Endeavor at t!:30 P. M. Vernon, East Fifteenth street North and Wygant street Regular services 10:30 and 7.80. Preaching both morning and evening. Woodlawn, East Seventh and Liberty streets W. L. Mllllnger. minister. Bible school, 9:45 A. M.; social service, 11 A. M. ; Christian Endeavor. 6:80 P. M. ; preaching by L.. F. Stevens. 7:80 P. M. Rodney Avenue, Rodney avenue and Knott street.-7-Rev. J. Carlos, Ghormley, pas tor. Preaching at 11 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. ; Sunday School. 10 A, M. ; C.' E., 6:30 P. M. East Side, East Twelfth and Taylor. Rev. R. H. Sawyer, pastor. Service at 11 o'clock, "Things to Think About"; 7:30, "Weighing a Soul"" CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. First. Everett, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth streets. Services. 11 and 8; sub ject of lesson sermon, "God the Preserver of Man: Sunday School, 9:45 and 11; Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Second, East Sixth street and Holladay avenue. Services, 11 and 8: subject of les son sermon. "God the Preserver of Man": Sunday School, 9:45; Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Third, East Twelfth and Salmon streets. Servlc'-s. 11 and 8; subject of lesson ser mon, '"God the Preserver of Man"; Sunday School, 11 and 12:15; Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Fourth. Vancouver avenue and Emerson street. Services. 11 and 8: subject of ' les son sermon, "God the Preserver of Man"; Sunday School, 9:45 and 11; Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Fifth, Myrtle Park Station. Services. 11 A. M.: subject of lesson sermon, "God the Preserver of Man"; Sunday School, 0:30 and 11; Wednesday evening meeting at 8. Christian Science Society, Holbrook block. St. Johns. Swrvlres, Sunday. 11; Wednes day evening meeting at 8; subject of lesson sermon, "God the Preserver of Man." CONGREGATIONAL. First, Park and Madison streets. Luther R. Dyott, minister. U:.TO ,A. M.. Bible school; :.-50, Y. P. S. C. E..;. 11:30 A. M.. Dr. M. J. Fenenga, of Pacific University, will He Says. which consciously or unconsciously back of our work and play makes or mars everything we do. From the point of view of space and time and all interests derived from and bounded exclusively by space and time, my life and yours are adding weight to weight on thin and thawing Ice. From the point of view of eternity the foundations of life are as deep as life itself. We pick and choose all we car. all the time. But by what supreme choice are all our choosings governed? Whence do they derive their meaning and aim and hence their genuine qual ity for bad, or good? Drifters Are In Danger. Drifting and in danger is any life whose actions are accidentally bad and accidentally good, whose daily deeds traced back to no conscious, gov erning and centralizing motive of good. With no cheap optimism such as the cheerful idiocy that so often calls itself optimism, with no fiat optimism which snuts eyes to the terrible and vast reality of wrong and ill. but with a searching and full realization of the facts, -I say, not that immeasurable good must or will come out of this war such as to overbalance the immeasur able and Inevitable ill, but that im measurable good overbalancing the ill may issue. For the most solemn truth that can be laid upon the. conscious of an im mortal soul is this: that moral destiny is not fatalistically determined, but is contingent. A matter of - choice. A mattetj of will. A matter of devotion and sacrifice. A matter of prayer and work, of belief and life, of co operation between God and man. I fail to discern the signs of the times if it is not tiue that this incal culable psychio A reaction in men's! hearts and - 1 1 lstirred by the great war does not "afreet the-- organization doctrines, ordinances, symbols and usages of Christendom. A day of re construction, of deeper undersPandihs and deeper devotion is at hand, nay, in our midst; forces capable of constitut ing a new era. iiere moralities, well-intended sub speak; 7:43 P. M., Dr. Dyotfs theme, "What Jesus Did Before His Incarnation." Pilgrim. Shaver street and Missouri ave nue. Rev. w. c. Kantner. minister. 9:45 A. M.. Sunday School; 11 A. M., "The Ideal Forward Movement"; 3 P. M., Junior En deavor; 6:30 P. M.. Y. P. S. C. E.; 7:30 P. M., "An Interview With Jesus and What Came of It." Highland. Prescott street, near "Cnlon avenue. Rev. George Edward Lewis, pas tor. Punday morning subject, "Why Folks Commit Suicide": Sunday night at 7:30, "Is the W.orld Getting Better?" one of a ae ries of lectures. Finnish Mission, 107 Skldmore street. Samuel Nevala, paster. Young People's meeting at 6: preaching at 7:30; prayer meeting Thursday at 8:15. Laurelwood. Forty-fifth avenue and Sixty-fifth street. Southeast. 10 A. M., Sab bath School; 11 A. M., Sermon by Mrs. J. J. Handsakcr, subject, "How We Should Keep Christinas" ; 3:45 P. M., Y. P. S. C E. meeting. DIVINE SCIENCE. The First, 131 Twelfth street, corner Al der. Rev. L. M. Minard, pastor. Services. 11 A. M-. subject, "Whosoever Will Come After Me, Let Him Deny Himself, and Take I'p His Cross, and Follow Me"; Sunday School. 12:10- Bible study. Tuesday, 2 P.' M.; class meeting. Thursday. 8 P. M. EPISCOPAL. Trinity Church. Nineteenth and Everett streets Rev. Dr. A. A. Morrison, rector. Holy communion, 8 A. M. ; morning prayer and sermon. 11: evening prayer and ser mon. 8; Sunday school. 9:45 A. M. Saint David's parish. East Twelfth and Belmont streets. Rev. Thomas Jenkins, rec tor. Services at 8, 0:30 and 11 a. II. "Four Last Thlnss: Judgment"; 7:30 P. M., "The Hymn of Fatherhood.' Church of St. Michael and All Angela. Broadway and East Forty-third street North CHURCH NOTICKS DUE BY A P. M. EACH THURSDAY. Notices for the Sunday church t directory must reach the office ? of The Oregonian by 4 o'clock I Thursday afternoon. The fo'.low- J lng form should be adhered t: a Name of church and denomina- tion, the location, pastor's mine, time of services, subject of morn- t lng: theme, subject of evening f theme, time of Sunday school. I young; people's and other meet- I ingrs. To insure accur.-.cy, the i writing; should be plain, or, if convenient, a typewriter should ber used. , t i Sermon, 11; holy communion, first Sunday, 11; third Sunday, 7:80. Grace Memorial. Weldler and East Sevens, teenth streets North Rev. Oswald W. Tay lor, vicar. Holy communion. 8, excepting on first Sunday in tna month; morning prayer and sermon, 11; Sunday school, 10. No evening service. All Saints, Twenty-fifth and Savler streets Sunday school. 10; morning prayer and sermon, 11; celebration of tna holy com munion the first Sunday in the month at 11 and the third Sunday at 8. St. Paul's, Woodmere Kev. Oswald W. Taylor, vicar. Holy communion, first Sun day of month. 8; evening prayer and ser mon, 4. except the xlrst Sunday of month. St, John's. Milwaukle Rev. John D. Rice, vicar. 8, holy communion, except on first Sunday of month; 10, Sunday school; 11. morning prayer; 7 :30. evening prayer; holy communion, first Sunday of month. St- John's, Sellwocd Rev. John D. Rice, vicar. Prayer. S; holy communion, 8:80; first Sunday of month. Church of Our Savior. Woodstock. East Forty-first street and Sixtieth avenue Archdeacon Chambers in charge. Sunday school. 10 A. M. ; service and sermon at IX A. M. Bishop Morris Memorial Chapel, Good Samaritan Hospital Holy communion. A. M.; evensot.g, 7:15. St. Andrews, Hereford street, opposite Portsmouth School Archdeacon Chambers In charge. Sunday school, 10 A. M.; service and sermon, 11 A, M. Sr. Matthew's, Corbett and Bancroft streets Kev. W. A. If. Brack, vicar. Sun day school, 10: services and sermon, 11 A. M. Churcn of the Good Shepherd, Graham, and Vancouver avenues Rev. John Dawson, rector. Sunday school. 9:45 A. M. ; morning service. 11; evening service. 7:30. St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral, Thirteenth and Clay The Rt. Rev. W. T. Sumner, bishop of Oregon; the Very Rev. E. H. Mo Colllster, dean. Services 7:45 A. M., 11 A. M.. 7:45 P. M. ; church school. 10 A. M. ; weekdays, 7:80 A. M., on Tuesday, Wednes day and Friday: strangers cordially invited. Washington-street cars, transfer to Thir teenth, off at Clay; Sunnyslde cars, off at Clay, two blocks west. EVANGELICAL. The Swedish Free Church, corner of Mis souri avenue and Sumner street H. G. Rodlnc, pastor. Sunday school, 9:45; preach ing, 11 A. M. ; yung people's meeting, 6:4i; preaching. 8 P. M. First German, Tenth and Clay streets G. F. Liemlng. Sr., pastor. Sunday school t 980 A. M.: preaching service by tna paator at 10:45 A. M.; Young People'a Society services at 7 P. M., and preaching uy the pastor at 8 P. M. Third Reform, Lents W. G. Llenkaemper, pastor. Sunday school at 10 A. M. ; preach ing aervice at 11 A. M. ; catechetical class, Saturday at 10 A. It. Norwegian lsanlsh, Snmner and East Twenty-third street North Morton Olsen. pastor. Service Sunday at 11 A. M. and 7:0 P. M. ; Sunday school at 10: young people'a meeting at 6:80; prayer meeting, Wednesday at 8 o'clock. Portland Mission N. Shupp. pastor. Car son Heights. Sunday school at 10 and preaching at ll A. M. ; West Portland. Sunday ecnool at 2:30, Y. P. A. at 6:30 and preaching at 7:30 P. M. LUTHERAN. West Side Norwegian Lutheran. Four teenth and Davis streets Wll helm Petter son, pastor. English services, first and third Sundays of each month at 11 A. M. and (t'onc-luded on Paw 11, Column 5.) stitutes for religion, sham redemptions, hoary superstitions, pulpit vaudeville, commercialized mysticisms and com mercialized evangelisms must give way if the present day revulsions and re newals of trver motives are as real and as great as I think they are. The day has arrived for a candid and brave readjustment of the centripetal and centrfugal tendencies of a divided Christendom. I ask no minimization of real differences. I ask for no hasty pudding of concessions. But we may well summon each other to a truer dis cernment of man's deepest and most tragic necessities: we may well strive for that alone which can redeem and educate and enrich. can at least strive for a truer understanding of each other; we can at least co-operate and sympathize to the limits of conscience; we can at least, individually and so far as pos sibe co-operatively, make those final choices and decisions without which lif is fragmentary, unreal and pro foundly menaced; we can at least try to live up to the light we have in all hu mility and kindness and with undying faith that no merely earthly or tem poral calamity can bring death tothe soul or defeat to the spirit of Christ. Tlfe Bible "Owned is riches Studied is wisdom Trusted is salvation , Loved is character Obeyed is power." What better book to get? What better to give? 'Y Devotional Book III Department, - Balconv Flcar. Third and Alder Streets'-