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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. MARCH 4, 1917.
MARCH IS TO BE "GO-TO-CHURCH MONTH" IN PORTLAND
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MARCH will bo "Go-to-Church"
month. The Portland Ministe
rial Association voted to Indorse
tho movement and encourage its ob
servance. Today will be the first day
of the campaign, which will be carried
on for the entire month. Details for
the most efficient way to attract large
attendance at church meetings will be
discussed tomorrow at the meeting: of
all the ministers at the Young Men's
Christian Association. The Presbyteri
ans will hold an every-member canvass
today. They have been preparing for
this event for several weeks. On Fri
day their deacons, elders and leaders
met in the First Presbyterian Church
and held a rally that was addressed by
three of the leading: ministers of the
denomination.
Dr. W. W. Youngson. district super
intendent of the Methodist Church, ha?
asked all the ministers of his district
to send him by card a report of attend
ance at Sunday schools and churches
for each Sunday from now until Easter.
The report will be presented to Bishop
Hughes. Other denominations are work
ing along similar lines.
It Is the aim of the committee to get
each person in the church interested
and to get every one working. Espe
cial plea will be made to those who are
hiding their lights under a bushel, or
their church letters In a trunk, to come
and join the forces. The young people
will be requested to ask their friends
to attend church.
Today will be a great day for the
Baptists of the White Temple and the
Kast Side Church. At the one, the new
pastor. Rev. Calvin B. Waller, will com
mence his ministry, and at the other
Rev. W. B. Hinson will take charge of
the pulpit as permanent castor.
Jews Will Celebrate Feast
of Purim on March 8.
Frutlval Is Joyous Minor Affair
Held In Commemoration of leii v
era nee.
THE Feast of Purlm or Lots, whlcn
falls this year on March 8 (corre
sponding to the 14th day of Adar of the
Hebrew calendar). Is a Joyous minor
festival of the Jews and Is celebrated
by them In commemoration of their
auspicious deliverance from imminent
destruction, as narrated with fine dra
matic power in the Book of Esther.
The Purim story takes us back for
its setting to ancient Persia. Haman,
Prime Minister of the realm and pam
pered favorite of the king, feeling him
self especially affronted because the
Jew Mordecai, alone of those at the
palace gate, had refused him homage,
came to cherish not only a rankling
resentment against the one Jew who
had crossed him, but also a passionate
animosity against all the Jews aa such.
In order to work their ruin, he calum
nitated them to the king, accusing them
of clannlshness and lack of patriotism,
of being alien enemies and the like
ialse charges which have become the
stock-in-trade of anti-semites ever
since. Happily the appeal to race and
religious prejudice did not, in this
instance at least, lead to outright mas
sacre of the Jews. The brave interces
sion of Queen Esther, who in her ele
vation to the throne did not forget her
people saved the Jews from the cruel
late which threatened.
The archplotter Haman came to an
ignominious end. And Mordecai, in rec
ognition of the public services he had
rendered, was given high office. To
celebrate the happy outcome, the festi
val of Purim was instituted as an an-;
JESUS REGARDED AS POWER IN AGES BEFORE HIS BIRTH
Personality Traced Through Gospels by Dr. John D. Boyd as Word "Which Entered Into Flesh of Human Being,
BT DR. JOHN II. BOTD,
Pafttor of tho FlrBt Presbyterian Church.
Twellth and Alder Streets.
John 1:14 "And the Word became flesh,
and dwelt among us, and we beheld His
Klory, Klory as of the only begotten from
the Father, full of grace and truth."
THERE is a very obvious and a sig
nificant difference between John's
story of Jesus, and that of the other
Gospel writers. To illustrate, Matthew
and Luke begin their narratives by
telling us of the annunciation of the
angel to the maiden, Mary; then the
midnight song of the angels; the visit
of the Eastern sages to worship at the
feet of the new-born child; then the
picture of the questioning of th boy
in the temple; and after this, the pub
lic ministry, marvelous incident after
incident rollout
and deep, illumi
nating truths fall
from the lips of the
great teacher.
There is an un
folding of the life
and personality of
Jesus by gradual
steps, until at last
a Peter discerns
that his friend Is
Indeed the divine
Son of God! OrK"
some Thomas
last nas uncovered a.
nermost reality Dr. J. II. Boyd.
that before him is his Lord and his
God!
Such is the process by which the gos
pels uncover the realities of the nature
of Jesus Christ. Far otherwise la it
with the Gospel of John. The very first
touch of the writer's pen to paper tells
us that there was a presence, a power,
a personality, who was with God, and
so intimately with God, so identified
with God. that he was God! He was
the creative energy of the Eternal;
all worlds were made by him; not any
thing that was made was made except
by himl He put the sun and moon and
stars into the abysses of space I He
rounded out the earth! He begat life
In all its myriad forms, as the very
fountain of life! He was the light, that
everywhere diffuses Itself through the
universal intelligence of humanity,
wrought in a thousand forms of truth,
through all the thought processes of
history!
Word Enters Into Flesh.
He was a grace that lay upon the
heart of humanity, working gentleness
and goodness wherever it was to be
found! At last he that thus wrought
in creation and poured himself along
the processes of man's spirit and man's
consciousness, tLia word entered into
flesh, took a human body, thought in
a human mind, willed in human voli
tion, Joved in human passions.
It is thus that John brings us Into
the presence of that most stupendous
and, to our intelligence, baffling fact of
Incarnation.
Whatever may be our willingness or
our unwillingness tq receive the reality,
there is no mistaking the language of
the apostle. He says that Jesus who
Was born did not begin to be when he
was conceived by the Virgin Mary, but
that he was before all time, before all
worlds, in an eternity before all eter
nities, that his body with its animating
aoul was not as It is with us the whole
outfit of his personality, but that there
was a pre-ex!stence. and that pre-ex-lstence,
and that pre-existent power
and personality and presence, animated
a human body, thought with a human
mind, and wrought with human hands
and lived a human life.
We are standing- now upon the bor
nual day of rejoicing', a day of sending
of gifts to friends and remembering the
poor.
Naturally enough Purlm came to have
a strong popular appeal to the Jew
during the later centuries of persecu
tion. The story of deliverance which
Purlm told spelt a message of hope and
courage to those undergoing sore op
pression. And the merry festivities
with which the holiday was celebrated
brought brightness and cheer into the
gloom of the Ghettos. The spirit of
Purim was throughout more social than
religious. Its observance in the syna
gogue was limited to the reading of
the Book of Esther from the traditions
scroil. In and outside of the homo,
masquerades, plays and other entertain
ments made up the celebration.
The ..name Purim is derived, accord
ing to the etymology given in the Book
of Esther from a Persian word mean
ing "lots," the name being given to
the festival because Raman is said to
have cast lots in order to determine the
day on which to carry out his plot
against the Jews.
Dr. A. L. Hutchinson Speaks
at Piedmont Church.
"The Presbyterian Tree" Will " Be
Topic This Morning- Various Ac
tivities Planned for Week.
LAST Sunday night Dr. A. L. Hutchi
son, of Piedmont Presbyterian
Church, gave the initial lecture of a
new evening series on "Great Heart
Thoughts of the World." The special
topic was "The Fact of God."
The second of the series will be giv-
en this evening, the topic being "The
Fact and Personality of Satan." This
morning the pastor's topic will be "The
Presbyterian Tree," being a presenta
tion of the benevolent activities of the
denomination, with a chart.
The juvenile service will be resumed
at the morning service by request. The
Woman's Missionary Society has had
an excellent year and will close with
a 60 per cent advance in their offer
ings. The Phldellis Chapter of West
minster Guild also closes the year hap
pily with an advance of nearly 30 per
cent in their offerings.
Next Tuesday night the Men's Com
munity Club will hold an open meet
ing, at which the women are to be
present. A full-order chicken dinner
will be served by the second division of
the Women's Society.
W. D. Wheelwright will be the guest
and speaker of the evening. He will
diseues "The League to Enforce Peace."
A programme of music will be a fea
ture of the evening. People of the
community. Irrespective of church af
filiation, are urged to be present.
At Rose City Park Presbyterian
Church tonight the monthly musical
service will be given with solos and
quartet from "The Beatitudes" (Ash
ford). The Rev. J. M. Skinner will give
a short address.
Dr. Boyd Begins on Pre
Easter Sermons Today.
Morning Topic Will Be "la the
Kntherliood of God a Reality f"
First In Series of Three Talks.
THE First Presbyterian Church,
Twelfth and Alder streets. Rev.
John IL Boyd. D. D., pastor, will begin
today on the services leading up to
Easter and preparatory for it. In the
morning Dr. Boyd begins a series on
derland of that almost Infinite area
of human controversy the Incarnation
the incarnation of God in the person
of Jesus. You look back across these
20 centuries, and there you find that
the mind of man has dealt with that
stupendous reality, to receive or expli
cate or analyze or define it, or else has
met it with denial and repudiation!
We are standing upon the edges of
the profoundest abysses of metaphysics,
wherein the thought of man is lost in
darkness and confusion. We cannot
follow. We cannot understand. It is
not my purpose to argue with anyone.
I attempt to prove nothing. I am be
fore you for the purpose of definition
and description. I am going to make
you see what we mean when we use
the abyssmal word. Incarnation.
We mean this: That within the na
ture and personality of Jesus Christ
there are elements, essential features,
qualities and essences, which are not
human. And therefore he cannot justly
be wholy classified with humanity. That
you may take him, examine him by all
the processes and methods of an exact
criticism. You may deal with him as
you deal with human nature, and when
your scrutiny is as profound as possi
ble and your analysis has reached its
last and deepest expression, there is
still something there which Is not hu
man. New Element Discovered.
Let me illustrate: I refer you to the
methods of the chemical analyst. These
new elements of matter, these funda
mental atoms, of which there are some
70 or 80, have all been discovered by
some such process as this: By the
chemist's microscopic examination or
test within the crucible, he has discov
ered the known elements, one after an
other, but at last he discovers that
there is certain behavior or reaction on
tho part of atoms within his crucible
which do mot conform to the properties
of any atom with which chemistry is
acquainted. He then goes deeper into
nia analytical processes; ha separates,
he eliminates, he dissipates, all the
known elements, and at last there is a
residuum which does not correspond to
any otner atom in its properties, and he
discovers a new element of matter!
Now, take that simple Illustration.
Here is what we are claiming for Jesus
of Nazareth: Put him into the crucible
of human nature, analyze him in his
psychological part, do anythlntr with
him, and when you have reached your
last and final investigation, and have
separated this element and that ele
ment as belonging to known humanity
there remains within the crucible of
analysis and criticism a residuum that
is not human!
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Let me use another illustration which
may be illuminating: I assume that
everyone, except the little children, in
this audience knows what the solar
spectrum is. the breaking up of the
white light of the sun. let us sav. or
the burning light from the fusion of
any substance whatsoever. That light,
when passed through a prism of glass.
Is dissolved into a multi-colored
scheme violet and yellow and red and
green and blue.
Now, then, that solar spectrum, with
its varied colors, has across it lines re
vealed only by the microscope, and
these lines differ according to the
source of light. If oxygen be burnt,
there will be certain lines that will be
characteristic of oxygen: if iron be
used, the lines will conform to the
characteristics of Iron light. Thus it
is that chemistry has won its marvelous
achievements in investigation and dis
covery of what the sun and the distant
stars are composed of.
W know of what material the fire
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Dr. William !acung'son
the "Fatherhood of God." He will
treat of this topic in three parts on
three successive Sunday mornings.
The first subject which will be con
sidered this morning is "Is the Father
hood of XJod a Reality?" The second,
which comes on March 12, Is "The
Beauty and Terror of the Fatherhood
of God." The third, which will be
given on March 19, is "The Claims of
the Fatherhood of God."
The evening services from now until
Easter will be directed toward that
great anniversary. This evening Dr.
Boyd will give by special request the
Bermon which he recently delivered at
Leland Stanford, and which made a de
cided impression among the students
there, "Does the Modern Man Need a
Soul?" In this address an answer is
given to the materialists who claim
that the idea of a soul is a mere super
stition. All of these evening services will be
enriched by special music by the reg
ular quartet and the addition of a
large orchestra. This orchestra will
consist of about 25 pieces, under the
leadership of William Bittle Wells, and
will Include the use of the pipe organ
played by Edgar E. Coursen.
The T. W. C. A. vesper service Sun
day at 4:30 o'clock will be In charge of
the Ergathea Bible class of the First
Methodist Church, of which Miss C. B.
Clark is the teacher. Miss Alice A.
Moore will preside. The following spe
cial numbers will be given: Piano
solo. Miss Witter; reading, "A Hand
ful of Clay." (Van Dyke), Miss Ogllbee;
vocal solo, Mies Schmuckli; two gems.
Miss Hinton. A social hour will fol
low. Every girl la invited.
In view of the increasing clamor
for preparedness, "Some Fundamental
Principles Involved In the Appeal to
Physical Force" will be presented in
the light of the Lord's word at the 11
o'clock service of the New Church So
ciety (Swenenborgian) at Eilers Hall,
Broadway and Alder, this morning by
Rev. William R. Reece. The pastor
will take as a text: "All they that
take the sword shall perish by the
of the dog-star SIrius are enkindled, by
studying the lines within the spectrum
of that distant star. A few years ago
an investigator discovered that there
was in every spectrum of the sun fixed.
Invariable lines which do not belong to
carbon or sodium or potassium or any
of the fundamental elements known to
science. And with slow, painstaking
investigation he discovered the source
of those lines in an unknown sub
stance, and thus it was that the new
element of "argon" was added to the
list of elemental atoms and substances.
Study of Personality Advised.
Just let that illustration lead you up
to this thought: Fuse the personality
of Jesus Christ; put him. If you please,
through the fire of criticism and psy
chological and penetrative analysis of
all the elements of human nature; pass
the light from that fusion through your
prism, and then study the spectrum of
the personality of Jesus Christ!
There are the lines of a human men
tality; there are the lines of a human
volition; there are the lines of a hu
man love; there are the lines of an or
dinary human influence. But, ah, there
are certain lines in that spectrum
which are not made by anything- that is
human!
That !s what we mean! There you
get thexact idea: That when we pass
the light from the fusion of the per
sonality of Jesus Christ through the
prism, and study the spectrum of his
luminous being, we discover these lines,
elements, features, essences, which are
not from any human source, which do
not belong to the fusion of any human
personality. And therefore we say at
last that there is an element, a new
substance, a new essence, a new reality,
and that that rality in the Man of Naz
areth is nothing less than a part of the
divine Itself!
Let us study briefly several of these
lines In this marvelous spectrum of the
son of Mary. Man is a religious being.
He has always been religious. The re
ligious life of humanity is so primary.
Is so constant and self-revealing, that
through all the generations of mankind
we have seen its manifestations. We
know how the religious spirit reveals
Itself. We know when a man is relig
ious. Every feature of it, every line of
it is perfectly familiar to us.
" Habits of Communion Simple.
Now, Jesus of Nazareth was a relig
ious man. His sense of God was deeper
and more Intense than that of other
men, and yet it appears to be purely
human in its manifestation. He was a
man of prayer. His habits of com
munion with God were perfectly simple
and normal more constant and Intense
and intimate than any of us reach, but
at last his habits of prayer were simplv
and beautifully normal and human.
notice this, that in the religiousness f
this man there appears a line which
does not belong to the religiousness of
any other human soul! All other spirits
of men have had to struggle to conform
their wills to the will of the all-righteous!
You and I have to do it. Those
lofty spirits that knew God and com
muned with him on the mountain top
or in the cell of the monastery or
nunnery they felt that there was
some essential difference between their
nature and the righteousness of the
most high, between their hearts and
the purity of the divine. Therefore,
you will find that in every religious ex
perience there is struggle, there is a
consciousness that there is a disparity,
there is a want of harmony between
the nature of the human and the nature
of the divine.
More than that, every religious spirit
of earth has had its moment of intense,
painful self -consciousness, when the In
MEX ACTIVE IX CURRENT
EVENTS IX PORTLAXD
CHIUCHKS.
Rev. C. O. McCulloch, pastor
of Epworth Church, is a -leader
In the movement to make Maiuftt
a banner month In church attend
ance throughout the city.
Rev. William MacLeod, pastor
o Forbes Presbyterian Church.
1b beginning a series of sermons
on "Trails to the Golden City."
Dr. William Wallace Toungson,
superintendent of the Portland
district, will ask all Methodist
ministers of the district to report
to him an attendance during
March.
Dr. Joshua Stanefleld, pastor of
First Methodist Church, known
as one of the most earnest speak
era in the Northwest, will assist
at the ceremonies at which the
mortgage of the Deaconess Home
will be burned.
w,ord," Matt. xxvl:62. Tho society,
which is feeling a new impulse of life,
will hold "fellowship feast No. 2" Friday
evening, March 9, at the T. M. C. A.
cafeteria (basement) at 6 P. M. A
programme consisting of five-minute
talks by all present is being arranged,
the theme being "Experiences That
Brought Me Into the New Church."
All members and friends are invited.
Confirmation at St. Michael's
Set for March 18.
Special Lenten Services Scheduled
for Next k rro Sundays.
THE Rt Rev. Walter T. Sumner.
Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
Church for the Diocese of Oregon, will
make bis annual visitation to St.
Michael and All Angels' Episcopal
equality between the act of the human
will and the demand of the divine will
was releaved in painful clearness, when
the soiling of the hand becomes a hid
eous, cancerous thing, against which
the sensitive eoul cries out. and there
Is a longing for mercy, a desire for for
giveness, a sense of shame, an appeal
for divine patience and mercy it's
everywhere in the universal conscious
ness of the religious man!
Forsrlvcness Xcr Asked.
But notice that in the spectrum
which we are studying there are two
lines which appear In no other relig
ioua experience. The man that we are
studying is never conscious of any dif
ference between his will and the divine
will! He never struggles to be obe
dient. There is never in all the activi
ties of his Innermost and deepest self
one pang of regret, one moment of
shame! He commands, he Invites, he
warns the men around him concerning
the evil which they are doing, but he
never has any sense of evil within
himself, and never utters a cry for
divine patience or forgiveness!
No, there's a line in the personality
of Jesus of Nazareth in the spectrum
of his life that you cannot discover in
the life of any other!
Let us study another line. Look at
the man! First, there he is in the sim
ple, quiet, normal life superbly bal
anced: note the magnificent poise of
him! You take all the processes of his
mind; you take all the feelings of
his heart; you find nothing there that
you find in Joan d'Arc. There Is no
vision there. He never dreams those
deep, momentous dreams which next
day are impulses to drive htm to action.
He is not given to visions. Isaiah la
Ezeklel la But you never find that
element in Jesus of Nazareth, so mag
nificently normal, so perfectly balanced
In his psychological life. He never has
anything like the ecstacles of an Ed
ward Irving. You that study psychol
ogy will understand me perfectly when
I say that there is nothing abnormal
psychologically in Jesus. None of those
strange moods and qualities and men
tal states which are so common with
the ordinary dreamers.
Jesus Simply Normal.
The man is perfectly and simply nor
mal, quietly sane, with a superb poise
and yet, listen! In his calmest mo
ments there drop from his Hps fearful
assertions! I am the judge of all man
kind!" "I have come to be a king, and
1 am going to reign over humanity."
"Men are to reverence me with the
same reverence that they give to God."
"No man can come to the Father except
by me." "I am the light of the world."
"I am the way. the truth and the life."
"In me is eternal life; and whosoever
believes in me shall have eternal life;
and he that belleveth not is in death
and shall abide in death," He says
these things without any ecstacles,
without any wlldness of passlonl They
drop from his lips in the calmest hours
of his being!
You say that they are mere asser
tions. They are. But what assertions
are they? Any other asserting such
things would have wrecked himself. He
would have been classified as an im
postor or else as insane. But this
colossal man, this stupendous person
ality, stands there dropping these as
sertions with the strangest self-consciousness
that humanity ever had!
There's a line that is not in the
mind of any other human being. You
cannot find It in Socrates. You cannot
find it in the apostle Paul. You may
study the spectrum of any -other hu
man personality that ever crossed the
centuries and you cannot find anything
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Church in Rose City Park. Sunday
morning, March IS. to officiate at the
confirmation service. Tho candidates
for confirmation will bo presented by
the Rev. T. F. Bowen. vicar In charge
Dean McCollister will deliver a spe
cial Lenten sermon today at S o'clock
at St. Michael and All Angels' Church.
East Forty-third street and Brpadway.
Next Sunday Rev. Thomas Jenkins will
speak at the same hour and place.
Among the friends and admirers of
Dr. W. B Hlnson none will rejoice more
heartily over his return to Portland
than the students of McMinnville Col
lege. For the five and a half years
that he was pastor of the WhKe Tem
ple twice monthly he lectured to the
students.
A union meeting of the different de
nominations at Fratum, Or., will be
held Sunday. March 11, at 11 o'clock,
in the Mennonlte Church. The Mettw
corresponding to that In their self
coneciousness. Let us take a third line. Look at him
again. He is a peasant of Galilee, a
friendless man. Just a little circle of
a dozen or a score of friends around
him. He never made any roar or blare
in the world. The greatest thing he
ever did made so little noise that even
a Herod or a Pilot only lifted his ear
fora moment to listen. It was a mere
village agitation beside a little Gall
lean lake; a mere mob of a moment
within the temple area of a Jewish
city. He never succeeded. When he
died, there was not a single soul who
had any confidence that he was ever
going to come back to the world again
or would mean anything to the world.
Yet that man, who could not makl
a success of his agitation, who could
not command the allegiance or the de
votion of the multitudes, who never
made an impression upon Jerusalem ex
cept to make the authorities hate him
and crycify him that man, lying
upon the cushions in the house of a
man, Simon the leper, said: "Wherever
the story of my life -Is told, what this
woman hath done shall be told as a
memorial of her."
The man of Nazareth seems to know
that he possesses the future, and with
all of his failure there is a vitality In
his life which will never perish from
the world. And therefore he says he
Is going to immortalize Mary's memory,
when, dear fellow, he is going to per
ish at the end of the week himself
in disgrace! Ah, more than that. He
lifted his finger and pointed down the
coming centuries and he said: "If I
be lifted up on the cross of crucifixion
all men will be attracted to me, will
look at me and wil come to me. Go
ye out unto the nations of the world
and lay my authority and my com
mands upon them and baptize them In
my name!"
Nero Words Forgotten.
What abkurdlty what rank Insanity
Is this? But. ah. he did it. Note this,
that 35 years after Jesus of Nazaretn
was crucified upon Golgotha, another
young man died in the city of Roma
For 17 years that young man, dying
at the age of 31. had been the horror
of all the civilized world. I am re
ferring to Nero a most ridiculous
figure, as atrocious and ' wicked man
as ever crossed the centuries. Yet In
some way he had won the affection
and the admiration of all the Roman
Empire, and they were so devoted to
the Emperor Nero that they believed
that if he did die he would return
again.
"Nero will returnf Is the word that
went out the night that he died. You
readers of history perhaps have never
heard that fact about Nero before.
The world has forgotten it, and yet
all the Roman Empire expected Nero
to come out of the grave after he
died. It was such a persistent and
such an extended expectation that you
will find traces of It in the Book or
Revelation, that Nero was to arise
srgaln from the dead and reign In the
world.
Look at the contrast! Here is a
man who died in disgrace, a wicked
malefactor upon either side of bim.
He died amid the mockery of the
world; only a few peasants mourned
at his grave. A woman or two took
their spices down to the lone sepul
chre the gift of charity to a friend
less man's body. They go down there
and nobody expects him to arise again.
The night that Jesus of Nazareth lay
in the sepulchre of Joseph of Aram
athea there was not a person in all
the world who ever expected to see
him alive again! The third day 11
men became convinced that he had
odists will close, up their church for
the occasion and Rev. John Ovall will
preach the sermon. The choirs will
give several numbers.
Rev. William G. Eliot. Jr., pastor of
the Church of Our Father, Broadway
and Yamhill street, will preach this
morning on "Foreground and Back
ground In the Time of War."
At the Open Forum tonight, Charles
P. Howard, president of the Central
Labor Council, will speak on "Open
and Closed Shops."
"The Scarlet Letter" to Be
Dr. Stansfield's Topic.
Cily Commissioner Daly to Spenk at
Forum on Haestlon of Municipal
Light ins Plant.
THE Sunday night service at the
First Methodist Church will be
worthy of particular note because it
is the date for the regular monthly
sermon lecture by the pastor. Dr. Josh
ua Stansfield. On a similar occasion
last month he spoke to a large audi
ence on the "Inside of the Cup."
In the sermon lecture tonight Dr.
Stansfield will present "The Scarlet
Letter." by Nathaniel Hawthorne, one
of the finest bits of American litera
ture, dealing searchingly with the great
truths of sin, retribution and reconcil
iation. This morning Dr. Stansfield will have
for his theme "The Supreme Test."
The quartet and vested choir will fur
nish two numbers of special music at
each service.
On last Sunday Dr. Joseph K. Hart,
of Reed College, finished a series of
studies on the general topic of "The
Significance of Our Foetal Problems
Illustrated from the History of the
Hebrews." (
The subject for consideration by the
forum today will be "Shall Portland
Have a Municipal Lighting Plant?" and
Will H. Daly. Commissioner of Public
Utilities for the city of Portland, will
be the speaker.. This is a subject about
which, all voters should be correctly in
formed, as it is to be placed on the
ballot for the election in June. The
forum meets at 12:15 o'clock.
Dr. Dyott Announces Topics
for Lenten Sundays.
J. Teal to Address Brotherhood
of First Congregational "Church
Tomorrow on Some of Shipping
Problems of Portland.
TN R. LUTHER R. DYOTT, pastor of
XJ the- First Congregational Church,
will conduct Lenten services in the
church, speaking on Sunday evenings
upon the following themes: March 4.
7:45 P. M., "Four Outstanding Facts
Revealed Through the Bible"; March
11, 7:45, "A Square Deal With Your
self"; March IS, 7:4 5 P. M., "Is It Pos
sible for a Soul to Be Happy Without
the Pardon of God?'; March 25, 7:45.
"The Value of a Good Life"; April 1.
7:45, "Sharing In the Best"; April 8,
7:45, Easter praise services by the
choir and address by the pastor. Dr.
Dyott will conduct Lenten services on
Thursday evenings, also, and have spe
cial meetings during holy week.
An event of special interest to men
will take place in the parlors of the
First Congregational Church on Mon
day, March 6, at 7:45 P. M., under the
auspices of the brotherhood of this
chutf-h, when J. N. Teal will speak on
the Shipping problems of Portland. The
risen from the dead. Sixty days after
ward 3000 men accepted the reality. A
generation following the provinces of
Rome had begun to receive tho fact,
and 20 Christian centuries have Tome
witness to the abiding and dominant
power of that Nazarene.
Course of Affairs Turned.
Through generation after generation
he has been the leader of human his
tory. He has turned the course of
human affairs out of their channels
and given new direction and altitude
to the ways that men go. He has been
in the midst of ttie revolutions, and
new departures and ascensions of civi
lization. He has permeated all the
living thought of the world. He has
saturated our literature. He has In
spired our divinest music. The man
has laid his potential hand upon the
centuries of the past, and is still
reaching out to claim a larger future!
That is what he said he would do.
He said It when he lay upon the couch
in Levi's house. He said it when he
commanded his disciples to go and lay
his authority upon all nations of the
world.
There Is nothing like that in the
spectrum of mere humanity. No man
has ever laid his hand upon the future
and claimed to possess the unborn
generations of the world. But this man
did It. I know a little about humanity.
I know how the heart beats and how
the will acts; I know personality and
its influences. So when I look upon
this man and study the spectrum of
his personality and life, I eliminate line
after line that Is human, and that is
human and that is human, nearly all
of them human but at the last I know
that there are lines there which are
not human!
There is a line of power there!
There is a line of self-consciousness
there! There Is a lino of conscious
unity with God there, and it is no
where else in human consciousness,
and that Is God In Jesus Christ! I
don't know how it got there I cannot
understand the blending of it I have
no chemistry which will enable me to
analyze It; but when I see that per
sonality, so unique, strange and large,
I recognize there a power, which is
not that of mere humanity.
Life Is Mysterious.
What power Is it? Just the power
he said it would be the power of life.
What Is the power of life? Here is
life. Look at It in this blooming plant,
glowing in Christmas splendor. Look
at the grace and brilliancy of blended
colors in that holly! Look at the
matchless coloring of that scarlet poin
settla that flaunts its glow of warmth
against our wintry skies! Look at it!
What created it? Life life life!
What is Life? Life is a mysterious
potentiality which manifests Itself by
taking hold of inert, black atoms of
matter, atoms of carbon, atoms of oxy
gen, reaching out with all of its mys
tical processes and grasping from air
aid soil and moisture these elements
and building them up into the forms
and colorings and graces which is the
glory of the world!
That's what life is! It's a construct
tlve potentiality which takes dull, in
ert, lifeless, beautiless, dead elements
of matter and makes them glow with
grace and glory for the ravishing of
our souls at Christmas time and
through all the round year!
Jesus says. "I am the life." What
life? Life of the spiritual world; life in
the world of men's souls; life in the
world of men's minds; life in the
realm of men's wills; life in the realm
of men's hearts! " j
And how does it manifest Itself?
brotherhood and their friends will have
dinner together at 6:30 o'clock, and
Mr. Teal's address will follow. This
organization has been holding success
ful meetings during the last ten yeaxs,
and the attendance is VI ways largo.
The Atkinson Memorial Church has
secured the Rev. E. R. Martin, district
superintendent of the American Sun
day School Union, for two addresses.
to be illustrated with Vloptlcon col
ored pictures and illuminated songs.
The first address will be on this com
ing Sunday evening, and the subject
will be "The Man' of Naiareth." Ad
mission free. The public is cordially
Invited to attend.
Dr. C. O. McCulloch will start a series
of meetings in the Epworth Church to
night. He will be assisted by Dr. Dan
forth. who is widely known as a
speaker and who was superintendent of
a district in South Dakota.
Deaconess Home Mortgage
to Be Burned Tuesday.
Deibt of S230O Met Anions; Various
Methodist Churches of This Con
ference. THE mortgage on the Deaconess
Home of the Methodist Episcopal
Church will be burned Tuesday night
In Centenary Church, East Ninth and
Pine, as $2500 recently has been raised
among the various Methodist churches
of the conference and this property,
located at S15 East Flanders street,
worth about $10,000. is now unlncum-
bered. Last Summer four deaconesses
lived in the homo. The work has so
increased that now eight workers are
there.
Miss Nellie M. Curtlss came last Sum
mer from Englewood, Chicago, to be
the superintendent. The Home has
been made possible through the exec
utive officers: C. W. DeGraff. presi
dent; E. N. Wheeler, secretary, and
E. L. Keene. treasurer. Deaconess
auxiliaries exist In most of the local
churches thereby enlisting the co-operation
of the women of Methodism.
Dr. William Wallace Toungson, pres
ident of the conference board of nine,
having supervision over all deaconess
work within the bounds of the Oregon
Conference, and superintendent of the
Portland district, will preside. Prayer
will be offered by Dr. Joshua Stans
field. The Scriptures will be read by
Robert H. Hughes, editor of Pacific
Christian Advocate.
The Children's Vested Choir of tho
Rose City Park Church, and the choir
of Centenary Church, will sing special
anthems. The message of the hour will
be spoken by Matt S. Hughes, resident
bishop. The burning of the mortgage
will be of very special interest and
surprise. For the promotion of the
spirit of mutuality and as an evidence
of the connectionalism of Methodism a
great city-wide attendance is expected.
"The Mountain and the Multitude"
is the topic of Florence Crawford's
lecture to be given this evening at
8 o'clock In Eilers Hall, corner of
Broadway and Alder street. Robert
Crane will sing "The Evening Star"
from the opera "Thanhauser." Miss
Eileen Scanlon also will give a solo.
This morning at 11 o'clock Mrs. Craw
ford speaks In "The Comforter" head
quarters. 186 Fifth street, ler subject
being "When Prophecy Fails." Both
lectures are open to the publio.
Swedish Methodist Episcopal Church,
Rev. John A. Wlllman, pastor, is gain-
(Concluded on paire 11.)
It manifests Itself as a constructive
power, taking the low, brutish, dull,
dead elements of common. earthly
minds and hearts and wills, and trying
to build them up into grace and
beauty!
He is doing it In the individual life!
The power of the Christ is subtle, un
seen, mystical. It is attempting to
work Its way Into our Individual lives
and lay hold of the common and un
worthy elements of our Individuality
and fashion them into a divine and
beauriful man or woman!
"Worlt In Eyerywherf,
If you were to yield to Christ's in
fluence If you were to yield to it aa
the atoms of this plant have yielded
to the life powers of the polnsettia.
you would be fashioned into a nobler
manhood or womanhood. He is work
ing in the world, in the home, in the
Nation, among universal mankind ev
erywhere. Men are feeling him. Go
into the counting-houses of business;
look into the great Institutions of
government and society, and you find
there an ideal, principles of Justice,
principles of right, principles of hu
manity and brotherhood, which are
somehow gripping our common mass
of dark and disorganized humanity
and struggling to build mankind into
an order which is called the King
dom or God: y)
It's life that Is coming Into the
world through the personality of Jesus- j
Christ. Do you see it? This Is tho t
meaning of Incarnation: That all the
power of Divine Righteousness, Di
vine Purity, Divine Good, Divine Mercy,
has come upon the field of human need
and have become available for humam
lty through our Lord Jesus Chrlstl
God is discharging through the person
ality of Jesus of Nazareth into this
world a vitalizing force which comes
through him. which streams from him
as light and heat and potentiality
which deals with the mind and the will
and the heart of humanity, and all in
a constructive, redemptive attempt on
the part of God to build humanity up
toward the best.
This is the meaning of incarnation.
We look up into the calm, sweet fea
tures of the Christ and he looks like
a mere man; we take his hand and
call him brother and friend. But when
we look, and look deeper, we see more
than man; and when we touch him and
the world touches him, and lets his
power deal with us, he moulds men in
to his image! He lifts the world out of
its darkness, its cruelty, its brutish
ness. its warfare, into his peace.
He Is Immanuell God has come near
to humanity in the personality of
Jesus of Nazareth. .This is the mean
ing of the birth in Bethlehem.
TODAY'S BEAUTY TALK
You can enjoy a delightful shampoo
with very little effort and for a very
trifling cost. If you get from your drug
gist a package of canthrox and dissolve
a teaspcionful in a cup of hot water.
This makes a full cup of shampoo
liquid, enough so It is easy to apply it
to all the hair Instead of Just the top
of the head. Your shampoo Is now
ready. Just pour a little at a time on
the scalp and hair until both are en
tirely covered by the daintily perfumed
preparation that thoroughly dissolves
and removes .every bit of dandruff,
excess oil and dirt. After rinsing, the
hair driee quickly, with a fluffiness
that makes It seem heavier than it Is,
and takes on a rich luster and a soft
ness that makes arranging it a pleas
ure. Adv.
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