The Sunday Oregonian., July 29, 1917, SECTION FIVE, Page 10, Image 66

THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JULY 29, 1917.
MANY VISITING CLERGYMEN OCCUPY PULPITS IN PORTLAND
Places of Pastors Absent on Vacation Are Filled Temporarily Music Is Special Feature in Many Churches.
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THESE are the days when many of
the ministers are taking- their va
cations and the pulpits are being
supplied by visitors. All the more rea
son why church members should not
neglect attending- The visiting cler
gymen are all men or excellent stand
ing and. ability and the services will
Jack nothing In interest. Many of the
churches are making music a special
feature during the Summer. The even
ing song services are the good, old
fashioned type In which everyone par
ticipates. Several state conferences
are in progress in various parts of the
state. Rev. H. H. Griffis. of the First
Christian Church, will bo in Turner at
the state gathering there today and
the morning service will be In charge
of that beloved minister. Rev. S. M.
Conner, one of the oldest, but ablest,
men of the Christian denomination.
Dr. B. L. Myers, one of the leading
physicians of Alaska, the superintend
ent of the Methodist Sunday school at
Ketchikan, will give an address at
Central MethodiFt Church tonight,
which he will illustrate with stereopti
con views. Dr. Myers has traveled ex
tensively through Alaska and has tak
en a great many views of that inter
esting land. He Is spending his vaca
tion in Portland. Rev. C. C. Rarick,
pastor at Central Church, has pre
vailed upon Dr. Myers to address his
people Sunday night and to give them
the pleasure of a. stereopticon trip
through Alaska.
Bishop Sumner will be at Vesper
today to consecrate the chapel which
was completed last Kali and which has
a unique history. It is known as the
country church of the Diocese of Ore
gon, and la situated some 20 miles from
the railroad in Clatsop County and on
the Nehaiem River. It was built by
"William Johnson and his family, resid
ing in and about Vesper.
Mr. Johnson, who was born In Ireland
of English parentage, came into the
Valley in 1876 and there reared his
family. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson had 10
children, and six still reside in the Val
ley, all being married, and there are
22 grandchildren. With this family
nucleus for a congregation, Mr. John
eon and his sons purchased a site for a
chapel at a picturesque spot at the
forks of a part of the new Pacific
Highway, and from plans furnished by
Archdeacon Chambers they have con
structed a small, but sightly, chapel
costing about $1600. Here the family,
with others, have been meeting for
worship, with occasional visits from
Archdeacon Chambers.
Two services will be held Sunday,
nd they will mark a great occasion
for the Vesper locality. People are
planning to gather from miles around
and a lunch will be served at noon.
Dr. Boyd to Occupy Pulpit
Morning and Evening.
Motor Trip Through California la
Planned by Pastor and Family.
DR. JOHN H. BOTD, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church,
Twelfth and Alder streets, will occupy
the pulpit today for the last time be
fore leaving for his vacation. He will
preach at both morning and evening
cervices. Dr. Boyd will motor through
California during August, accompanied
by his daughters and son.
The San Grael Christian Endeavor
Bociety meets at 6:30 In the chapel for
the last of its special musical praise
services, under the leadership of Mrs.
Fred Olson.
All departments of the Sunday school
will meet together In the Sunday school
auditorium immediately following the
morning service for the illustrated lec
ture, "Moses," given by the superin
tendent. James F. Ewlng.
WAERENTOS, Or, July 28. (Spe
cial.) The Clatsop Plains Sunday
school will meet at 10:30 A. M. Sun
day. Mrs. Alsie Campbell is superin
tendent. Rev. Alfred Bates will preach
at 11:30 A. M. and Miss Nancy Morri
son will be the organist. "Recreating
the Community's Recreations" will be
the Epworth League topic, to be intro
duced by the pastor at the Warrenton
Church at 7 P. M. The usual preach
ing service will commence at 8 P. M.
The Warrenton and Clatsop Plains
Sunday schools will have a picnic at
Columbia Beach on Thursday next.
August 2.
Mrs. Warren Francis entertained the
Warrenton Ladies' Aid Society at her
home on Wednesday afternoon, when
arrangements were made to have a
Ladies' Aid picnic on Wednesday, Au
gust 8.
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STRENGTH FOR LIFE'S STRAIN FOUND IN SOLITUDE AND
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Divine Energy, in Its Relation to the Soul of Man, Compared by Pastor Boyd With Vast Forces of Nature.
STRENGTH FOR tlFE'S STRAI.V.
1 BY DR. JOHN- H. BOYD.
Pastor First Presbyterian Church. ' -
T cried unto Jehovah and he heard me
tnd delivered me out of all my fear.
Pealms xxxiv:4.
Is any among you Buffering, let him
pray. James v:13.
IN THE tragedy of "Hamlet" reSoer
nized to be the consummate expres
sion of Shakespeare's genius.
Hamlet himself, after he has received
the terrifying; disclosures from the
Ghost, upon the platform at Elstnore,
dismisses his friend Horatio with
these words: "For my own poor part,
look you, I'll go pray."
I have cited this incident from
Imaginative literature by purpose. I
turn aside from any historic or biblical
characters, because It is recognized
that Shakespeare in the character of
Hamlet designed to portray a type of
man known to all times and to all
countries. He intended to portray an
experience which perhaps comes to
every man at some time in his life.
Hamlet is a man under an awful
stress. He is pictured under strain,
surrounded by dark situations; a man
who has suffered loss; a man who is
called to grave responsibilities. He is
one of those poor, burdened, distressed
lives so common in the world.
JFtecall the man as the dramatist
presents him: hi3 grief in losing his
father whom he fondly loved; the In
justice of having the crown wrested
from his own head by his uncle; the
discovery of - the treachery of that
murderous uncle, and, darker and
heavier than all else, his own mother's
participation in the crime and her in
decent haste to enter into an incestuous
union with the murderer; the knowl
edge that all around him the court
was one mass of deep-lying Intrigue
. and falsity. Such is the situation of the
man Hamlet and it is at this point that
we hear him saying to Horatio, "For
my own poor part, look you, I'll go
pray." A burdened man, fleeing to the
secret chamber of prayer; a distressed,
grieved, broken life, charged with
awful responsibilities, going into the
solitudes.
It is the picture of a man enfolded
by circumstances so exacting, so awful,
that he feels compelled to seek a
guidance and a strength beyond him
self!
Now of this fact we are sure: That
this portrayal of a burdened man does
not any more closely conform to the
"Healing of Eyesight" Is
Topic of Address.
Mr. Florence Crawford Announces
Sunday Service.
I ( T EALING OF EYESIGHT" is the
XI topic chosen for the lecture to
be given tonight at 8 o'cock In Ellers
Hall by Mrs. Florence Crawford. Mrs.
Crawford will Illustrate the meaning
of 'The Single Eye," spoken of by
Christ and will use as a basis for this
lesson the healing of the man born
blind as given in the Scripture. There
will be special music and the lecture -s
open to all. Mrs. Crawford speaks
this morning at 11 o'clock In the com
forter rooms, 186 Fifth street. Women's
Exchange building. .topic, "The Aim
of Life."
Rev. Alexander Beers, pastor of the
First Free Methodist Church, East
Ninth and Mill streets, announces that
arrangements have been made for spe
cial services in his church today. On
account of the large attendance from
this church at the Oregon Holiness
CQmpmeeting held for two weeks and
the time the pastor has spent there,
the attendance at First Church has
been greatly reduced. , There will be
a general rally at these meetings over
Sunday and special music has been
provided. The pastor will take no
vacation until about the middle of
October, at which time he goes to Chi
cago to attend the executive board
meeting of the denomination, of which
he is a member. Sorre musical selec
tions are being prepared for both the
morning and evening meetings and
Mrs. Adelaide L. Beers will conduct a
special meeting for the young people
at 7 i. M.
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Registrations at St. Helen's Hall for
the ensuing year indicate a large in
crease in attendance. Last year the
enrollment was almost doubled, and
now a proportionate increase is ex
pected. Bishop Sumner conducted services at
Sutherlin- and Roseburg last Sunday,
candidates for confirmation being pre
sented by the vicar, the Rev. Barr G.
Lee. At Sutherlin In the evening the
Bishop gave a patriotic address, the
ehurch being crowded to its fullest
capacity.
The Venerable H. D. Chambers and
family will be in residence at Seaside
during August. The archdeacon will
conduct the services at Calvary Church
during the month. The Rev. T. F.
Bowen has been officiating during
July, being in residence there with his
family. The Rev. Robert S. Gill, of
Salem, Is conducting services at St.
Stephen's Church, Newport, during
August. Bishop Sumner will continue
in residence at Bishopcroft during the
Summer. He goes to New York in
October to attend the annual meeting
of the general board of missions.
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The Guild of St. John's Church, Mil
waukie, was pleasantly entertained
Thursday afternoon by Mrs. Richard
Scott and Mrs. Rosalie Willman at, the
home of Mrs. Scott.
The Rev. John D. Rice,' general mis
sionary, will celebrate the holy com
munion and preach at the Church of
Our Savior, Woodstock, Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock.
Rev. Alexander Beers, pastor of the
First Free Methodist Church, deliv
ered an address before the Bible Insti
tute at Gladstone Wednesday morning
on the Book of Job. The pastor ac
knowledged frankly that there were
many things about this great book that
he did not understand, also made a
similar statement concerning the Bible
as a whole. The address was severely
orthodox, as the pastor declared his
implicit faith in Job as a man and
the transactions of the book as real
history. He interpreted the teachings
of the book as a true dramatization
of the human life. He pointed out that
the dynamic of the gospel, through
the atonement of Jesus Christ, was the
only power through which humanity
could be saved and lifted to a plane of
moral consciousness.
The children of Ascension Sunday
school, on Portland Heights, held an
enjoyable picnic at Mount Tabor Park
Thursday afternoon. Bishop Sumner
was present as one of the officers of
the Sunday school, to which he gives
much time and attention, with the re
sult that it has a large and deeply
interested membership.
facts of human experience than does I
the picture of this same man fleeing
to God in order that he may find help
in the dire hour of his necessity. For
mark this, as we look across the field
of humanity, as far back as the eye
can reach, we find poor, distressed,
pained humanity at prayer!
Prayer a Fact of History.
Our universal humanity has some
how learned the permanent habit of
prayer. Prayer la a fact of history.
Here and now under the light of the
20th century the Old World is girdled
by groups of men and women in every
attitude of prayer and with every voice
that can cry its supplication bending
Delore the unseen power of the uni
verse seejeing help in hours of distress.
Prayer is a symptom. Prayer is an
Indication of that deep disease which
lies at the heart of man's being, the
disease of doubt and fear, the disease
of sin. "Wherever a man flees to the
chamber of prayer and lifts his lame
hands upward seeking the divine, it is
because he is in distress, he is after
help, he is in search of power a power
beyond his own resources and ability,
in order that he may meet the respon
sibilities of life and find courage in
the hour of fear. Whenever you hear
a cry of 'genuine prayer, or see a man
in the secret chamber of sincere sup
plication, there Is a life reaching out
toward the unknown power of the uni
verse, in order to obtain strength and
comfort under the stress of life.
No thought has been made more
familiar to our minds in this scientific
age than that of great force lying
around us, vast reservoirs of strength,
great systems of energy. Read such a
book as that of Professor Young's, In
which he pictures the- sun as the cen
ter of an energy going out to sustain
and vitalize the whole solar system.
Recall the disclosures of science con
cerning electricity everywhere around
us we know not where its residence
is, but we know that we live and move
and have our being in the presence of
a vast and apparently inexhaustible
energy and that a large part of man's
inventions and man's operations in the
practical world of industrialism and
successful life concern themselves with
tapping these reservoirs of power and
drawing upon them for our uses.
Around us, on a Winter's day, lies
dormant nature, the seed In the soil;
rootlets and branches in the brown
forest; all are waiting, holding up
their limbs, reaching out their leafless
CHRITSAIX CHURCH LEADERS
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Rev. Harold H. Griffis, Pastor of th e first Christian Chnrch, Portland, Who Will Deliver Convention Sennsn at
Turner, Or.i Rev. S. M. Connor, Who Will Preach This Morning at First Chnrch. and G. Eirtrt Baker, Who
Will Conduct Services Tonight.
Lectures Are to Be Given in
Comforter Rooms.
Emll Clifford Hartmann, of Kansas
City, to Make Week's Stay In
Portland.
EMIL CLIFFORD HARTMANN, a
lecturer of Kansas City, will be in
Portland this week and will give a
series of evening lectures in the com
forter headquarters, beginning Thurs
day evening at 8 o'clock. He will con
duct a healing class each . morning
during his stay in the metaphysical
library, cornea Main street and Broad
way, beginning Thursday at 10 o'clock.
These lectures and classes are open to
all. Subjects for the evening lectures
to be held at 186 Fifth street are as
follows:
Beginning at 8 P. M. Thursday, Au
gust 2, "Abiding in the Absolute"; Fri
day. August 3, "Key to Concentraton";
Sunday morning, August 6, 11 o'clock,
sermon, "Intuition"; at 8 o'clock. Sun
day evening, August 5, at Eilers recital
hall. 142 Broadway, "How to Protect
the Soldiers Through Scientific Prayer."
At the close of lecture the protecting
prayer will be prayed for all whose
names are brought. Bring the parents
and friends of the soldiers.
Monday, August 6, "Happy End of
the vorld"; Tuesday, August 7, "The
Power of Thought"; Wednesday, Au
gust 8, "Finding Your Christ-Self."
Dr. A. A. Morrison, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church, went East on
Wednesday morning to visit the large
Eastern cities. He will be entertained
by friends of the clergy and laity.
Major Gilbert to Preach at
Westminster Today.
Chaplain of Third Oregon Will Oc
rupy Pulpit Possibly for Last
Time Here.
THE morning service at Westminster
Presbyterian Church today will be
of a patriotic nature. Major AVllIiam
S. Gilbert, chaplain of the Third Oregon
Regiment, will speak on "Our Boys."
This may.be the last opportunity the
people of Portland will have to hear
Major Gilbert. Having served as chap
lain In the Spanish-American War, Major
Gilbert has a message for all patriotic
eitizens.
The regular classes in the Bible
school are discontinued for the Summer.
The lesson will be taught informally
from the pulpit by the pastor. This
follows the morning service, and all
are Wivited to remain for three quar
ters of an hour.
Dr. Pence, the pastor, will take his
vacation In August. The first Sunday
in August the' pulpit will be filled by
Dr. Marcotte, former pastor of West
minster, now located at Kansas City.
Mo. His many friends in the city, as
branches and crying to the immensities
of the powers of light and heat and
fertilization whatever it is that brings
back the activities of life again. Every
Darren tree in V inter stands in the
attitude of prayer, calling to the vast.
vital forces of the great universe.
You hear the whirr of the machines
yonder at the corner of Broadway and
Alder and every dynamo there Is a
prayer calling to that immense elec
trical energy, wherever It resides, and
asking it to flow In and fill, the wires
In order that light and heat and power
may be given to mankind.
Certainly, if we are accustomed to
think in terms of power in this way
we can think also of the divine power
that lies around us the infinite some
thing which we call God as a reser
voir of power; and when we pray, it
is but the lifting up of the mystical
needs of our nature in order that some
how from this unsearchable reservoir
of divine wisdom and comfort and
strength we may receive for ourselves
the help which we need.
Now, if someone thinks that the
preacher has gone off into a world of
mystical Ideas this morning and that
all of this matter of prayer is bound
up in things which nobody under
stands, I ask. Is there anything strange
in that? You children of the 20th cen
tury remember how day by day what
strange disclosures are being made
of that unexplored part of our person
ality? Far out on the rim of ourselves
there is an undiscovered possession,
and we are being made aware of it by
the researches of pyschology and the
investigations which men are making
into our minds. Just as, at the end of
the solar spectrum, a few years ago
men discovered there were strangely
acting rays, which to this day are
called X-rays the unknown quantity
of light and power which lies there,
so we are discovering that in our hu
man nature there is an unexplored ter
ritory that we can only designate by
the term X.
I have stood upon the shore of our
Western Sea when the sun wus near
ins its setting, and underneath the
stratum of fog and mist that lay a
little above the ocean surface there
was a narrow line of light deeply sug
gestive, for the mind could follow the
sea and the air back, back, back,
through that little crack, or crevice,
and could think of an infinitude of
ocean and air lying beyond the small
horizon revealed to the eye!
It is a dull mind and an unthinking
WHO ARE ACTIVE IN RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS OF THE WEEK.
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well as those In the church, will wel
come this opportunity of greeting Dr.
and Mrs. Marcotte. The remainder of
the month Rev. William H. Phelps, of
Niles. Mich., will preach. Mr. Phelps
was also formerly located In Portland,
having served as assistant pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church.
Dr. James S. West, of Tacoma, will
preach this morning and tonight at the
First Baptist Church (White Temple).
In the morning his subject will be
"Christ s Matchless Glory" and in the
evening "Soldiers, Slackers and Sub
marines." The music for the day consists of
"Faint Not, Fear Not," by Swart as
the morning offertory and "Savior to
Thy Name," by Brackett, in the even
ing. Rev. H. H. Griffis to Address
Disciples of Christ.
Convention Sermon at Turner to Be
Delivered Today First Christian
Chnrch Services to Be Ueld as
Usual
REV. HAROLD H. GRIFFIS. pastor
of the First Christian Church, to
day will attend the state convention of
the Disciples of Christ, which, meets at
Turner, where he will deliver the con
vention sermon this morning.
In the absence of the pastor the pul
pit at the First Christian Church will
be occupied by two of the elders of the
congregation. Rev. S. M. Conner will
preach in the morning at 11 o'clock
and in the evening at 7:45 a special
service in the Interests of the young
people will be conducted by G. Evart
Baker, the well-known Christian En
deavor specialist of Oregon.
Rev. Alexander Beers will leave to
morrow for Denver to preside at the
Colorado conference of the Free Meth
odist .Church, at- the request of Bishop
Walter Sellew, of New York.
A St. Barnabas' Guild of Nurses has
been organized at the hospital with a
membership of 40. Bishop Sumner Is
chaplain, and the Rev. F. K. Howard is
an associate member. The organiza
tion aims for the due spiritual appre
ciation of the vocation of a. nurse.
Meetings are held once a month.
Sunday Church Services
ADVENT.
Advent Christian, 438 Second street, near
Hall street Rev. J. 8. Lucas, - pastor.
Preaching. 10:30; Sunday school, 12: Loyal
Workers, 6:30; preaching, 7:30; prayer meet
ing, Thursday evening, 7:30.
ADVENTIST.
(These services are held on Saturday.)
Central, Bast Eleventh and Everett
streets P. C. Hajward, minister. Sabbath
school, 10: church services, 11:15; prayer
meeting Wednesday night. T:45; young
people's meeting, Friday. 8.
St. Johns. Central avenue and Charleston
street A. R. fo;kenbeg. local elder. Sab
one which does not discover in oneself
these vaster reaches of being, these
dim outlying territories of which we
are but dimly conscious. How far does
the line of your being run?
Your mind moves in this little terri
tory of the certain and the sure, and
you come to the border of that, and
beyond rises an unknown sell far out
there, beyond!
In those unsearched and mystical
areas of man's nature there lies a point
of spiritual contact, a possibility of
reaching out and finding this infinite
being whom we call God, who can come
as power Into our lives.
Here lies the realm and fact of
prayer. Prayer Is the reaching up of
man's soul, of spirits such as yours and
mine, the throwing the long batnners
of desire out yonder, stretching forth
these vibrant tentacles of need so that
the infinite power of God may touch
and flow in upon us.
Difficulty With Prayer Seen.
Your difficulty with prayer arises
here: You always think of It in terms
of moving the divine will and making
it subservient to the human will. You
turn back from that thought and say
the divine will is already perfect, I
cannot alter it. I dare not try to change
it; it is the will of perfect wisdom; it
is the will of perfect love and goodness,
and therefore I cannot pray In the
attempt to change the perfect mind of
perfect love.
Or else you Bay that divine will Is
inexorable and inflexible and is not
to be bent by a human cry or a human
need in the lonely places of earth:
there is a rigidity about the Infinite
which cannot be altered; there Is no
plasticity in the laws of that being's
activities and therefore it is vain to
try to bend or change the mind of the
eternal. -
Another regards prayer as- a means
of acquiring that which lies beyond
the human powers and with a cold,
mechanical, mathematical, calculation
counts out so many prayers discharged
In the direction of the Infinite and
watches how many - answers come
back. When he finds that the answers
are not coming in discoverable form,
such a man says prayer is vain.
Has It ever struck you that maybe
the meaning of prayer lay not in the
power to change the divine will, but in
the power to open the choked chan
nels which lie between God and the
spirit of man? If there be within our
nature certain channels or avenues of
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'America, Then Heaven'
Sermon Subject.
Dr. Hinson, of East Side Baptist
Church, to Show Keed of Patriot
ism in Country.
I the East Side Baptist Church. Dr.
Hinson will preach this morning on
"America, Then Heaven."
The sermon will manifest the fact
that here upon the earth the possessions
of the Christian are unique and mar
velous; that each one Is a millionaire
in privilege, provision, faculty, emotion,
friendship, faith In all those things
which an all-wise God knew were
among the requirements of his children.
Thus an effort will be made to increase
the true patriotism, so much in demand
in these strenuous days, and to place it
upon its proper foundation, where alone
the. true and sufficient dynamic for Its
perpetuity is to be found. Then the
sermon will proceed to evidence that
heaven is not only more real, but also
more natural and desirable thn has
been usually Imagined by the majority
of the thinkers and writers.
In the evening Dr. Milliken, pastor of
the Oreon City Baptist Church, will
occupy the pulpit of the East Side
Church. Dr. I.inson goes to Salem to
preach for the Summer Assembly con
vened there. Of Dr. Mlliken, Mr. Hin
son says, "He Is one of our best preach
ers and as fine and true a man as Ore
gon poetesses."
The theme of Dr. Hinson's sermon
next Wednesday night at the mid-week
service will be "The Galatians."
This church subscribed more than
$10,000 towards a new edifice last Sun
day morning in 10 minutes.
Tonight at the First Norwegian
Danish Methodist Episcopal Church,
Hoyt and Eighteenth, Rev. Ellas Gjerd
ing will begin a series of illustrated
sermon lectures, on "Jewish Heroes and
Prophets." The first one betng: "The
matchless poet and warrior-king; the
saint who, with ' all his backslidings
and inconsistencies was a man after
God's own heart." .The sermons will
be Illustrated with fine stereopticon
pictures. As these sermon lectures will
be in the Norwegian language the
I Scandinavian people are cordially in
vited to attend.
bath school. 10; preaching. 11; prayer meet
ing. Wednesday evening. 7:45.
Scandinavian. Ogden Hall. Mississippi ave
nue and Shaver street O. E. Sandnes. min
ister. Sabbath School, 10; preaching. 11.
Alblna (German). Skidmore and Mallory
streets A A. Meyers, minister; Jr. C.
Schweitzer, local elder. Sabbath school,
10:30; services, 11:30; prayer meeting.
Wednesday evening, 8; preaching, Sunday
evening, 7:80.
Tabernacle, West Side, Knights of Pythias
Hall, Eleventh and Alder streets Sabbath
school, 10: preaching, 11.
Montavllla, East Elgntleth and Everett
streets J. F. Beatty. local elder. Sabbath
approach along which divine power
comes in to meet our need, may it not
be that the meaning of prayer is to
keep these channels open so that God
can communicate himself to human
needs at all times? Suppose that God
be as the air is, a constantly acting
force? The atmosphere around you is
pressing upon your body with a pres
sure amounting to IS pounds to the
square inch and it acts at all times, and
yet, In order to offer ourselves to that
pressure, we must keep open the
avenues or the media or the laws by
which that atmosphere Is acting.
Electricity lies around us as an ever
willing power. There has never been
discovered a moment of reluctance on
the part of ahat power when the con
ditions of its presence have been met.
Whenever the conditions of its ap
proach or availability are met, the
electrical power at once responds and
it only remains for man to open the
channels of approach, to satisfy the
conditions of electrical availability and
the power oomes for our uses.
Dormant Life Illustrated.
Now, then, there Is in man's nature
a capacity to receive power from the
unseen spirit of God. but those chan
nels, those avenues by which he comes
In to us, become choked up, and may
it not be that prayer is the opening
up of that connection between the
needy spirit of man and the infinite
resources of the divine? That is what
I believe about prayer. I believe that
prayer- is simply the soul putting itself
into an attitude of receptivity, break
ing down the hindrances on the part
of the human against the approach of
the beneficent power of God.
Here I hold In my hand an Inert,
dormant life a grain of wheat. All
the powers of fertilization, all the pow
ers of heat, all the powers of mois
ture, all the powers of light play
around that little seed and accomplish
nothing until I put it in the warm
earth and moisten it with water. -Then
Immediately it opens Itself to the vast,
vitalizing powers, and the energies of
life break forth from It and it becomes
a plant and multiplies Itself.
Here am I, an organized spirit, with
mind and heart and will and possibili
ties of character, and the necessity of
being calm and bearing life's respon
sibilities sweetly and courageously.
There lie around me the infinite pow
ers of comfort and of strength and of
wisdom and of courage all that my
soul needs. Payer Is the planting of
myself in the heart of the energy of
school. 10; preaching. 11; prayer meeting.
7:45 P. M-. Wednesday.
Lenta, Klnety-fourth street and Fifty
eighth avenue. Southeast D. J. Chltwood,
local elder. Sabbath school, 10; preaching.
11 o'clock; prayer meeting, Wednesday, 8
P.' M.
ASSOCIATED BIBLE STCDESTS,
Chiietensen's Rail. Eleventh and Yamhill
streets 3 P. M., public lecture, by A. A.
Yerex; subject. "A Famine In the Land"; 8
P. M.. discourse by N. hi, Newton.
BAPTIST.
First. White Temple. Twelfth and Taylor
streets 9: CO. Bible school, classes for all
ages: 11, preaching by Kev. James S. Went,
D. E., of Tacoma: theme, "Christ's Match
less Glory"; 6:30, B. Y. P. U. ; 7:45. preach
ing by Dr. West; theme, "Soldiers, Slackers
and Submarines."
East Side. East Twentieth and Ankeny
streets Rev. W. B. Hinson. D. D., pastor.
10, Sunday school; 11, preaching by Dr.
Hinson; theme, "America Then Heaven";
6:30. B. Y. P. U.; 7:45. preaching by Kev.
W. T. Milliken, D. "D.. of Oregon City.
Glencoe, East Forty-fifth and Main streets
Rev. A. B. Waltz, pastor. 8:45, Sunday
school; 11 and 7:45. preaching by the pas
tor; themes, "The Quest for Joy." and "The
Argument of the Gospel Invitation"; 6:45,
a. i . i . u.
Highland. Alberta and East Sixth streets
North Rev. Charles F. Mlelr, pastor. 9:55,
Sunday school; 11 and 7:45. preaching by
Rev. H. E. Marshall; 6:45, B. V. P. U.
Third, Knott street and Vancouver ave
nue Rev. Webley J. Beaven, pastor. 11
A. M., Rev. Albert Loughrldge, of India:
7:30 P. M., Rev. O. C. Wright, state secre
tary American Baptist Home Mission So
ciety. Calvary- 11 A M., "The 'Best and Worst
Thing In the World." James 3:1-12; 8 P. M..
"The Beautiful Life." James 3:13-18.
Lents Church 6:45, Sunday school: 11,
preaching by Rev. E. P. Waltz; 7. B. Y.
P. U. : 8. service In charge of Harley K,
Hollgren.
Grace Montavllla Rev. H. T. Cash, pastor.
10, Sunday school; 11, preaching by Rev.
A. M. Petty. D. D. ; 7, B. Y. P. U.; 8, preach
ing by the pastor.
Arleta Rev. W. T. Sprlggs, pastor. 10,
Sunday school; 11. preaching by the pastor:
6:30, B. Y. P. U.; 7:45. preaching by the
pastor.
University Park, comer of Flske and Drew
streets. 10, Sunday school; 11 and 7:30,
preaching services: 6:30, B. Y. P. U.
Bethany (Sellwood) Rev. W. H. Hayes,
pastor. 10. Sunday school; 11, preaching
by the pastor: 6:30. B. Y. P. U.; 7:30,
preaching by the pastor.
Swedish-Finnish Baptist Mission meets at
7:45 In the lower White Temple, Twelfth
and Taylor streets.
Mount Olivet, Seventh and Everett streets
Rev. W. A Magett. pastor. Services, 11
and 8: Sunday school. 12:30.
First German. Fourth and Mill streets
Rev. Jacob Kratt, D. D., pastor. 9:45. Sun
day school; 11 and 7:30, preaching by the
pastor.
Italian Mission. East Eighteenth and Tlb
betts streets Rev. Francisco Sannella, pas
tor. 10. Sunday school: 10:30. short ser
mon for English-speaking people; 11.
preaching service: 7. pastor's circle (prayer
service); 8, preaching service.
Swedish, Fifteenth and Hoyt streets
Rev. T. Gideon Sjolander, pastor. Services.
10:30 A M. and 7:30 P. M.
CATHOLIC.
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Williams ave
nue and Stanton street Rev. W. A. Daly.
Mass. 6. 8. 9: high mass, 11 o'clock; even
ing service.. 7:30.
St. Patrick's, Nineteenth and Savler streets
Rev. E. p. Murphy. Mass. 8; high mass.
10:30: evening service. 7:ao.
Blessed Sacrament. Maryland avenue and
Blandena street Rev. Father F. W. Black,
pastor. Mass, 8 A. M. : high mass at 10:30
A M.: evening service. 7:S0.
Pro-Cathedral. Fifteenth and Davis streets
Rev. E. V. O'Hara. Mass, 6. 7:15, 8:30,
9:45- high mass, 11; evening service, 7:45.
St. Lawrence. Third and Sherman streets
Rev. J. C Hughes. Mass. 6. 8:30; high
mass, 10:30: evening service, 7:30. ,
St. Francis'. East Eleventh and Oak
streets Rev. J. H. Black. Mass, 0. 8, 9;
high mass, 10:30; evening service. 7:30.
Holy Rosary, Eur Third and Clackamas
Rev. C. J. Olson. Mass, 6. 7. 8. 9; high
mass, 11; evening service, 7:30.
The Madeleine, East Twenty-fourth and
Siskiyou Rev. G. F. Thompson. Mas. 7:30,
9; high mass, 10:30: evening service, 7:45.
St. Andrew's. East Ninth and Alberta
streets Rev. T. Kiernan. Mass, 8; high
mass, 10::;0; 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 Rev. F. H. Miller. Mass,
6, 8: high mass. 10:30: evening service. 7:30.
Holy Cross. 774 Bowdoln street Rev. C.
Raymond. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:30; even
ing service, 7:30.
Sacred Heart, East Eleventh and Center
Rev. G. Robl. Mass, 8; high mass. 10:30;
evening service. 7:30.
St. Agatha, East Fifteenth and Miller
Rev. J. Cummlflky. Mass. 8; high mass,
10:30; evening service, 7:H0.
St. Joseph (German), Fifteenth and Couch
streets Rev. B. Durrer. Mass. 8; high
mass, 10:30: evening service, 7:30.
St. Stanislaus (Italian). Maryland avenue
and Willamette boulevard Rev. T. Mathew.
Mass, 8; high mass, 10:30; evening service,
7:30.
St. Philip Nerl's (Paullst Fathers), East
Sixteenth and Division streets William J.
Cart wright, pastor. Hours of mass, , 8:30,
10:30 A. M. : evening service, 7:30 o'clock.
St. Peter's. Lents Rev. P. Buetgen. Mass,
8; high mass, 10:30; evening service, 7:30,
St. Clement's, Smith and Newton streets
Rev. C. Smith. Mass, 8; high mass, 10:30;
evening service. 7:20.
St. Michael's (Italian), Fourth and Mill
Jesuit Fathers. M. J. Balestra. S. J., pastor.
Low mass, 8:30; high mass. 10:30; evening
service, 7:30.
St. Iguatius, 8220 East Forty-third street
God, so that God can fertilize and
strengthen me, as the air and the light
and the heart fertilize the dormant
powers of the seed.
Prayer is not the begging of God. a
reluctant and unwilling father, for
things beyond our reach. Prayer Is
a tremendous search for personal
power. Prayer is the means of the
fulfillment of the divine possibilities
which lie within the mystical poten
tialities of man's nature.
World Trouble Today Declared.
Man cuts himself off from power
when he cuts himself off from prayer.
Herein is disclosed the trouble with
the world today. What Is the matter
with you and with me in this hour?
The spiritual energies of our lives are
flagging. We look upon tho duties that
are to be done, we look upon the tasks
that are to be fulfilled, and they are
all half done or left negected. There
rests upon us this morning a want of
spiritual vitality! You know precisely
what I am laboring to express In In
adequate words. Something has gone.
There Is a drooping. We, in the midst
of life, are feeling this more than the
young men and women, with their ex
uberant nature and bounding blood and
life all fresh before them. Their energy
has not yet become exhausted. But
you and I. here In the mid-years of our
life, on the dead level of maturity, are
feeling that somehow value and mean
ing have gone out of things, somehow
there is a burden that is galling and
we are incompetent. The zest has
gone out of life.
What Is the cause?
The cause is spiritual depletion, the
want of energizing. We have radiated
our spiritual force in the battle of life
and have not renewed it. The conse
quence of that condition Is a state of
weakness, of irritation, a state of rest
lessness. We are dissatisfied. When we
look at what we have done and what
we might have done, the gap between
makes us ashamed. There Is no satis
faction In self-contemplation. We poor
men and women of the 20th century,
with all our wealth of wisdom and
everything that our great age has
poured upon us, are an unhappy and
dissatisfied lot. Life is not yielding to
us. what we believe it ought to yield.
What Is the matter? We need spirit
ual refreshing. We have dropped the
habit of prayer. We have abandoned
the solitude of our chamber. We have
lost the art of detachment. Some of
you never pray. You never uncover
your soul to the infinite powers around
you. You never lift up a yearning
Jesuit Fathers. Father William J. IXenej,
rector. Mass. 6:30. 8. 9:15. 10:30; evening
service, 7:30.
St. Clare's Capitol Hill Franciscan Fatha
era. Rev. Modestus. pastor. Services at 7:34
and 9:15 A. M.. high mass.
St. Rose, Fifty-third and Alameda drive 4
Rev. J. M. O'Farrell. pastor. Masses, 7 and
9 AM.
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE.
First. Everett between Eighteenth and
Nineteenth atreets Services, 11 and 8: sub
ject of lesson sermon. "Truth"; Sunday
school. 9:45 and 11; Wednesday evening
meeting at 8.
Second, East Sixth street and Holladay
avenue Services, 11 and 8; subject of lea
son sermon, "Truth": Sunday school. 9:45;
Wednesday evening meeting at 8.
Third, East Twelfth and Salmon streets
Services. 11 and 8; subject of lesson ser
mon, "Truth"; evening service omitted dur
ing July and" August; Sunday school. 11 and
12:10; Wednesday evening meeting at 8.
Fourth. Vancouver avenue and Emerson
street Services. 11 and 8: subject of lesson
sermon, "Truth"; no evening service during
July and August: Sunday school, 9:45 and
11: Wednesday evening meeting at 8.
Fifth, Sixty-second street and Forty-second
avenue Southeast Services. 11 A M.;
subject of lesson sermon. "Truth"; Sunday
school, 9:30 and 11; Wednesday evening
meeting at 8.
Sixth, Portland Hotel Assembly Hall
Services. 11 and 8; subject of lesson sermon.
"Truth": Sunday school, 11 and 12:10;
Wednesday evening meeting at 8.
Christian Science Soclpty. Holbrook block.
St. Johns Services, Sunday 11. Wednesday
evening meeting at 8. Subject of lesson ser
mon, "Truth."
CHRISTIAN.
Woodlawn. Seventh and Liberty streets
James H. MeTJallum. minister. 9:45. Bible
school; 11 A. M., communion and preaching.
"Made Perfect Through Suffering"; 7 P.
M., Christian Endeavor: 8 P. M.. evening
worship. "The Unifying Power of the Cross."
Rodney-Avenue. Rodney avenue and Knott
street Pastor. Kev. Carlos Ghormley.
Preaching. Sunday, 11 A. M.. 7:3 P. M.;
Sunday school, 10 A. M. ; C. E.. 6:30 P. M. ;
morning address, by Dr. W. G. Mtnztes. a
missionary of Japan: evening, illustrated
pictures and lecture by Dr. W. G. -Minzies.
East Side. East Twelfth and East Taylor
R. H. Sawyer, pastor. Communion and ser
mon at 11, "The Hindering Crowd"; evening;
song service and sermon at 8, "The Valley
of Dry Bones," and interpretation of Eze
klel 37.
First, corner Park and Columbia Harold
H. Grirfis. pastor. Preaching. 11 Ai M..
Rev. S. M. Conner: 7:45 P. M., G. Evert
Baker: Bible school at 9:45 A. M. ; Chris
tian Endeavor at 6:45 P. M.
CONGREGATIONAL.
Sunnyside. corner of East Taylor and East
Thirty-second streets Rev. J. J. Staub. IX
D.. pastor. Services, 11 A. M.. "At Ease)
In Zion"; Sunday school, 9:45 A. M. : Junior
Christian Endeavor, 3 P. M. : Senior Chris
tlon Endeavor, 6:15 P. M. ; evening service,
7:45 P. M.. "God's Estimate of His People."
Laurelwood. Forty-flftn avenue and Sixty
fifth street. Southeast Mrs. J. J. Handsa
ker. pastor. 11 A M.. sermon by the pas
tor; no evening service during July and
August; Sabbath school meets at 10 A. M.
Finnish Mission, 107 Skldmora street
Samuel Xevalo, pastor. Young people's
meeting at 6: preaching at 7:30; praye
meeting. Thursday at 8:15.
Ardenwald. Ardenwald Station H. W.
Hopllnk. speaker. Sunday School. 10:30 A
M.; Christian Endeavor. 7:30 P. M.; church
service and sermon. 8:15 P. M.
Pilgrim. Shaver street and Missouri ave
nue Rev. W. C. Kantner. pastor. 9:45 A.
M., Sunday school; 11; 8 P. M.
Atkinson Memorial 11 A. M., sermon;
7:45 P. M.. service on church lawn, old songa.
First. Park and Madison streets Luther
R. Dyott, minister. The minister preaches
at 10:30 A. M..; a great concert by the
Fisk Jubilee singers and brief address by
the pastor at 7:45 P. M.
Atkinson Memorial 9:45 A. M., Sunday
school, 11 A. M.; sermon, "Three Estimates
of Life": 7:45 P. M., "Camps and Camping."
Illustrated, by A. G. Jackson, of United
Statea Foreat Service.
DIVINE SCIENCE.
First, 131 Twelfth street, corner Alder.
Rev. Thaddeus M. Mlnard. pastor. Services
11 A. M.; Bible class. 2 P. M. ; study class,
Thursday, 8 P. M.
EVANGELICAL.
The Swedish Free Church, corner of Mis
souri avenue and Sumner street H. G. Ro
dlne. pastor. Sunday school, 0:45; preach
ing, 11 A M. : young people's meeting, 6:45J
preaching. 8 P. M.
First German. Tenth and Clay streets
G. F. Fleming. Sr., pastor. Sunday school
at 9:30 A. M. ; preaching service by the
pastor at 10:43 A. M. : Young People s So
ciety services at 7 P. M., and preaching by
the pastor at 8 P. M.
Third Reform, Lents W. G. Llenkaemper,
pastor. Sunday school at 10 A. M.; preach
ing service at 11 A. M. ; catechetical class,
Saturday at 10 A. M.
Norwegian Danish, Sumner and East
Twenty-third streets North Morton Olsen,
pastor. Services Sunday at 11 A M. and
7:30 P. M.; Sunday school at 10: young
people's meeting at 6:30; prayer meeting,
Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
Portland Mission N. Shupp, pastor. Car
son Heights. Sunday school at 10 and
preaching at 11 A. M.: West Portland, Sun
day school at 2:30; Y. P. A at 6:30 and
preaching at 7:30 P. M.
EPISCOPAL.
Trinity, Nineteenth and Everett streets
Dr. A. A. Morrison, rector. Services, 11 A.
M. and 8 P. M.
St. Mark's Twenty-first street North and
Marshall street Rev. J. E. H. Simpson, rec
tor; Rev. John Hatton, associate. Services,
7:30; Sunday School, 9:43: holy eucharist
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PRAYER
heart with all of its delicate tentacles)
sweeping upward toward S.he infinite to
let God and the infinite powers arouml
you come in and quicken and refresh.
Solitudes Are Abandoned.
The consequence Is that you men of
business, with the hard burdens of life
upon you, are dying more rapidly than
any other class of men In the world.
There Is something that has gone out
of us, and it Is a want of spiritual
power. The nature of man can no more
live apart from God than the seed cart
live apart from light and heat and
moisture. Your soul at its best, your
affections at their sweetest, your will
at its noblest, can no longer flourish
In genuineness and power without God
than can these flowers beside me re
main beautiful apart from moisture and
soil upon which they are dependent.
Yet we are starving ourselves, the
solitudes are abandoned and we seek
God no longer. I am pleading for you
to see the way to find God. The great
things of life come to us In our soli
tudes. You take the highest, noblest,
most real of all the experiences and
realities of life, and they belong to the
solitudes.
Take love. Love Is a thing of the
solitudes. ro you know how we steal
away In our moments of deep and ten
der affection? We don't want anybody
to be tho witness of our Joys. No young
lovers could ever find the sweetness of
their holy associations under the eye
of spectators. Love's deep and holy
hours must be secret hours.
Take our sorrows. When our hearts
are in review before the world we set
our faces In rigidity and refuse to drop
a tear. But in the lone hour apart
there comes the upwelllng of that chas
tened sorrow which we have concealed
from the world.
So It la In this search after power.
Poor, needy, failing, burdened, strained
men and women, with the responsibili
ties and exactions of life upon us, we
need to go down into the quiet, hushed
places, into the hour of solitude, and
there, uncovering our souls to the In
finite environment of love and of wis
dom and of guidance and of comfort,
simply ask that we may be strength
ened. "For my own poor part, look you, Ho
ratio, I'll go pray."
Whatever you. In your path of life,
may do, however you may take your
life with Its responsibilities and Its
burdens, I will turn to the solitude
of prayer and find God if I may.