The Sunday Oregonian., October 21, 1917, SECTON FIVE, Page 10, Image 74

lO , THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX, PORTLAND, OCTOBER 21, 1917.
THIS IS LIBERTY LOAN SUNDAY IN PORTLAND CHURCHES
Pastors Today Are Urged to Voice With Sincerity and Force Nation's Appeal for Generous and Unstinted Support in War for Freedom and Rights of Mankind.
TODAY is Liberty Loan Sunday.
Oscar A. Price, director of pub
licity for the second liberty loan,
Washington, asks that all the churches
make this day a bis patriotic celebra
tion. Let music be appropriate and let
all the pastors speak with all the sin
cerity they have at their command. This
is the message from headquarters in
Washington. The churches are re
sponding well and the ministers this
past week have been of great assistance
In arousing interest.
Some of the churches, Sunday Schools
and parishes have pledged themselves
to buy bonds. The Cathedral parish
(Roman Catholic! led the list with $5000
for bonds. Even small schools like, for
instance, Anabel Presbyterian, are tak
ing a hand. Today will be the oppor
tunity for every church to assist.
The word from the National capital
says: "We know we can depend on the
patriotic co-operation of every church
In the West."
Ir. Luther R. Dyott, pastor of the
First Congregational Church, will be
back in his pulpit today after visiting
the East as a delegate to the National
convention of Congregational ministers.
He will tell his congregation his im
pressions and give them new inspira
tion. Dr. A. A. Morrison, rector of Trinity
Episcopal Church, who spoke with
great feeling last Sunday on "Patriot
Ism," will deliver another message to
day, an appeal for every person to take
the right Interest, the personal inter
est in Liberty bonds.
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-.Mission Work Progressing.
Taking an active part in the cam
paign for missions in progress in the
Kpiscopal Church in the diocese of
Oregon, Miss Effie Jackson, of Stephens
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juiu, icccaujr I'utuicu item bccrcLary
for the diocesan branch of the Woman's
Auxiliary, are occupied with a schedule
extending to the first of November. Last
Sunday they delivered addresses at
Grace Church, Astoria, and in the
course of the week at the guild meet
ings at St. Andrew's, Portsmouth, and
St. John's Sellwood, and St. Mark's
Church and St. Paul's, Oregon City.
This Sunday Miss Jackson will ad
dress the Sunday school at St. David's
Church at 9:30 A. M., and speak at
Grace Memorial Church at 11 A. M. and
at St. Michael and All Angels' at 5 P.
31. She will spend Tuesday and
Wednesday at Salem and Thursday and
Friday at Corvallis, returning to Port
land for Sunday, the 28th, when she
will speak at the Church of the Good
Shepherd at 11 A. M., and at the Pro
Cathedral at 7:30 P. M. She will prob
ably make other addresses in addition
to those already scheduled. Her de
scriptions of conditions in Alaska are
enlightening and interesting.
Study Classes Organised.
Mrs. Whiteford, who will accompany
her on most of her trips, is proceeding
with the organization of study classes
In the diocese, a work which she per
fcrmed with great thoroughness in the
diocese of Spokane.
Bishop Rowe, of Alaska, who ad
dressed large congregations last Sun
day at the Pro-Cathedral in the morn
ing and at St. Mark's Church in the
evening, was a guest at the meeting
of the Portland Clericus last Monday.
Archdeacon Chambers has been
spending two weeks in San Francisco,
being a member of the Provincial
Court of Appeal, which has been sit
ting there.
The Portland Institute of Religious
Education has issued its calendar for
1917-1918. It meets the third Monday
of each month at the Pro-Cathedral,
under the direction of the diocesan
board of religious education, the mem
bers of which are: The Rev. Thomas
Jenkins, chairman: the Rev. O. W.
Taylor, the Rev. W. R. Turrill, of As
toria: the Yen. H. D. Chambers, and
Messrs. L. D. Roberts, A. C. Newill,
Paul Cowgill and S. Claire Morris.
Among the instructors in the year's
course will be the Rev. F. K. Howard,
the Very Rev. E. H. McCollister, and an
address will be given by J. A. Churchill,
Wtate Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, on "Moral Training in the Public
Schools and How the Church May Co
operate." Rev. John D. Rice, general mission
ary, will conduct services at St. An
HARMONY WITH
BY REV. J. H. BOYD,
Pastor First Presbyterian Church.
Ttom. vill:28: For we know that all things
work together for good to them that love
Uod.
a Cor. v:20: "We beseech you on behalf
of Christ, be ye reconciled to God.
IN introducing what, I fear, is to be
a. very ambitious line of thinking,
I want It understood from the very
beginning that I recognize the limita
tions of man's mind in the attempt ade
quately to understand the Divine Be
ing. We have neither the material,
nor have we the instrument of thought,
to work out a complete and satisfying
philosophy of the Divine Being. What
God is In his essential nature we can
riot know. What God is in the eternal
modes and processes of his thoughts
and activities we have no means of
knowing. He is the unknowable God.
in the essence of himself. And, again,
so far as the order of the universe is
concerned the aim of it the goal to
ward which God is sending it that,
too. is beyond the possibility of human
discovery. What God means in the
creation of the sum total of reality
the direction in which the world is
going, and the end that it will ulti
mately reach is something that is so
high that it is impossible toreach by
man's powers.
With this confession, so that your
mind will not be distracted by the
constant thought that the speaker is
assuming to know too much of the
Divine, I desire to say that in spite of
the absence of sufficient data, and in
spite of the limitations lying upon
man's intellectual powers in his at
tempt to understand God, that there
are certain necessary ideas connected
with our thought of the Infinite, and
there are certain data of material sup
plied us in the pages of Revelation
whereby we may construct a somewhat
satisfying Idea of the Divine Being and
his activities.
Conception of Creator Given.
We have come to think, in attempt
ing to understand God. that he is an
infinite spirit, marked by personality
or self-consciousness, and we necessar
ily clothe him with the attributes of
power and of righteousness and of wis
dom and of love. We formulate this
necessary conception of the Divine Be
ing in the words. "God is a spirit
infinite, eternal and unchangeable) in
his being, wisdom, power, holiness, jus
tice, goodness and truth."
This conception of God. not exhaust
ive, not vainly ambitious, lies within
the mind of faith as an adequate de
scription of the great powers of the
universe.
If we may be permitted to conceive
of God as such a being, then our minds
drew's, Portsmouth, Sunday morning at
11 o'clock, and at All Saints', Hillsboro,
in the evening.
This Sunday morning at St. Stephen's
the dean will be both celebrant and
preacher. He will speak on "Various
Aspects and Uses of the Holy Com
munion." On next Sunday morning at 11 o'clock
he dean will deliver the address post
poned from October 7 and will out
line plans for the year's work.
On next Monday afternoon, October
23, there will be a mass meeting at
the Pro-Cathedral parish hall to which
all women members are lnvltedIt will
be both a social and business session.
On the first three Sunday mornings
of November Bishop Sumner will give
a series of special addresses In the Pro
Cathedral. Beginning Monday evening, October
29, a course of lectures will be given
in St. Stephen's Hall, under the
auspices of the diocesan board of
religious education. Superintendent
Alderman has promised credit to all
public school teachers who attend this
course.
Newspaperman Quits to Be
PortlandMinistei
Rev. E. B. Lorkhart Is New Pastor
of Two Local Churches.
THAT a newspaper man can make
good as a preacher will be demon
strated by Rev. E. B. Lockhart, the new
pastor of Clinton Kelly and Lincoln
Methodist Churches. Mr. Lockhart was
city editor of the Salem Statesman from
1911 to 1915. Then he started to preach
and now Bishop Hughes has give him
an important charge here. It will be
uphill work, probably at first, to build
up the churches, but Mr. Lockhart is
looked to by Bishop Hughes as the
man who can do It.
Before doing the newspaper work he
studied for the ministry. He attended
Portland University and is well known
in Portland. Many of his friends are
planning to attend his church and help
him make "a go" of his work here.
Mrs. Lockhart and he are being wel
comed cordially. The pastor's wife was
a Salem woman. She is a sister of
Frank Meredith, secretary of the Wash
ington State Fair board. A reception
was given at Lincoln Church during
the past week in their honor.
Rev. Frank L. Loveland, former pas
tor of the First Methodist Church of
this city and more recently pastor of
the Meridian-Street Church at Indian
apolis, has left the ministry to enter
the lecture field. Dr. Loveland is suc
ceeded in the Indiana pulpit by Rev.
Philip Lewis Frick. who accepted the
call from Buffalo and will preach his
first sermon in Indianapolis next Sun
day. The new Indianapolis pastor is 42
years old and was born in Denver,
where his father was one of the pioneer
citizens. He is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Denver and of Boston Uni
versity and is the author of "The Res
urrection and Paul's Argument," a pub
lication which has elicited considerable
favorable comment from some of the
most prominent minds of Methodism
and other denominations.
Dr. Frick has held three pastorates
since entering the ministry. His first
church was at Chelsea, Mass., where
he held one of the strongest pastorates
in New England for several years.
Later he went to First Church at West
field, Mass., and five years ago was In
vited to the Delaware-Avenue Church
at Buffalo. It was from this church
that the funeral of President McKinley
was held, and the service presided over
by Dr. Charles Edward Locke, who was
pastor here at old Taylor-Street Church
more than 20 years ago.
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Captain W. H. Hardy, the only sur
vivor of the Perry expedition to Japan,
will speak at the vesper service of the
Laurelwood Congregational Church at
o P. M. today. Captain Hardy has spent
much time in Japan and has a sympa
thetic understanding of the Japanese.
At the First Norwegian-Danish
Methodist Church, Hoyt and Eighteenth
streets, the members and friends had
arranged a reception for their pastor.
Rev.
have a right to entertain three proposi-
tions.
The first Is this: That In creating
the universe, the eternal intelligence
must have had a purpose. All intelli
gence acts with a purpose. An unpur
posed, aimless, objectless act is the act
of Insanity. And therefore we simply
say that a God of infinite intelligence
in creating the universe, in projecting
us and the world around us into being,
was acting in the fulfillment of some
great and unsearchable purpose resi
dent within his own mind. Now that
is very commonplace, and yet it lies
at the basis of our thought this morn
ing. God's Purpose Vnlfylng.
The second proposition which we
have a right to entertain is that the
purpose of God being one. it- is uni
versal, and that all things in the uni
verse of God are co-operant in the exe
cution of this purpose. All worlds' and
all cycles of worlds, all atoms and all
forces, all intelligence of the archan
gellc world, all human minds and activ
ities, all the processes of time, the whole
category of reality, are but divers ele
ments of actors upon the field of God's
one and indivisible purpose. This
splendid edifice once existed as a mere
idea in the mind of the architect. The
realization of that idea was brought
about by the co-operation of innumer
able agencies. The man who made
the powder, the transportation that
brought it to the quarry, the quarry
ing, the brickmaker, the lumberman in
the forests, the sawmill man you can
trace that out into a thousand rami
fications, and realize that men who
were far separated from each other and
ignorant of the activities of each other,
were all embraced in the purpose of
the architect, to create this sacred edi
fice. This Is what is meant when I say
that the purpose of God is a unifying
purpose, and that we are standing here
in the midst of a million agencies In
the remotest heavens and in the near
est facts of life, and- all of these am
bound together as actprs and assistants
in the fulfillment of that purpose.
The third proposition is this: That
the purpose and activity of God is in
the direction of good. His essential
nature is love. He is righteous a
right-thinking, a right-acting being.
He intends good for all his animate
creatures, and. therefore, in creating
and in governing us. and forwarding
his purpose, everything moves in the
direction of good.
Biblical Lesson Explained.
There is the contents of my text a
simple, commonplace analysis. "For we
know that all things work together for
good to them that love God." Here we
are in this vast, unsearchable universe,
with the activities of the Infinite all
around us, and we know that we our
selves and all things are bound up in
this one infinite purpose, and that the
stream of creation is Ilowiiis on in the
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RELIGIOUS LEADERS ACTIVE
IN CIRREXT EVENTS.
Miss Helen Crissman, National
field secretary of the ' World
Wide Guild, will address the Bap
tist Young People of Portland
and be a guest of honor at the
banquet at the White Temple on
Monday evening.
Rev. E. B. Lockhart, former
city editor of the Salem States
man, is the new pastor of Clinton
Kelly and Lincoln Methodist
churches. He is an energetic and
able man and an acquisition to
Tortland church circles.
Rev. S. W. Seeman, D. D., will
address special service today at
Hope Presbyterian Church.
Rev. Joseph Prlnten. regently
of St. Louis, is conducting a mis
sion at St. Peter's Catholic
Church. This morning's service
will close the series.
Rev. Elias GJerding, and family on
Tuesday night. The committee hav
ing cnarge of the reception had deco
rated the spacious dining hall with
Autumn flowers and greens, about 100
persons were seated at long tables, par
taking of refreshments. The district
superintendent. Rev. C. J. Larson, act
ed as toastmaster for the evening and
many addresses were made welcoming
the pastor back to another year's work.
Music for the evening was furnished
by a trio. Miss M. Ulriksen, Mrs. Olsen
and Miss M. FJere playing the guitar
and the mandolin, also by Mrs. C. J.
Larsen. who gave several numbers on
the piano.
World-Wide Guild Officer
to Speak in Portland.
Miss Helen Crissman, of Chicago
National Secretary Arrives.
1TISS HELEIJ CRISSMAN, of Chi
XVX cago. National field secretary, of
the World Wide Guild, is In Portland
and will speak today at the following
churches: White Temple, 10 A. M. : Third
Baptist. 10:45 A. M.; First Swedish Bap
tist, 12 M. and Sellwood Baptist
Church at 6:30 P. M.
In the afternoon she will address a
majs meeting at Oregon City. Miss
Crissman is an attractive girl of pleas
ing manner and rare ability as a plat
form speaker.
The World Wide Guild is the Na
tional organization of Baptist young
women for missionary enterprise. Near
ly 1800 chapters are now enrolled, of
which Portland has seven. A banquet
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GOD'S PLAN NECESSARY DECLARES
J. H. Boyd, of First Presbyterian Church, Speaks on the
direction of some consummate, ultimate
and unsearchable good.
Into this purpose of good, man was
introduced. He was introduced into an
harmonious element. This is the pic
ture in the story of Eden. All of that
idealistic scene there upon the theater
of man's first life is intended to teach
us that when man was brought into the
universal scheme of things, he was In
troduced as an harmonious and a rhyth
mical element, and these pleasing
scenes of flowing rivers, and soft airs.
and budding flowers, and trailing vines.
and his walking with God in the cool
of the day, as friend walks with friend,
is to indicate that man was a part of
the harmonies of this universe. The
same thought arises in Christ's story
of the wandering boy. Before the days
of wandering there is a scene of love
and of quietude, of filial obedience, of
father's heart and son's heart meeting
together, living there in that sweet
time of undisturbed confidence and af
fection. I say. then, that man was originally
a part of this system of goodness but
a time came when there was a rupture,
and discord came somehow into the
harmony of the universe. I am not
going to pause to discuss the origin of
evil, nor why it came, nor how it came
why God permits it. But there has
been a breach. There is a broken string
in this great instrument of infinite
eternal harmony. To our minds it is
simply the standing apart of a distrust
ful and disobedient will. The first man
distrusted his Father, and sought a
better way. than God had pointed out.
The wilful child became dissatisfied in
the father's home, and the atmosphere
of love, and in the assertion of his di
vine capacity of freedom he begets
himself into a state of alienation from
the Divine will, and that discord that
rebelliousness is the open door
through which the troubles of the
world came.
I am reciting the simplest element of
our Christian truth in your hearing.
Through the door by which the re
bellious will of man went away Into
distrust and disobedience, by that door
the trouble of the world entered, and
man became a creature of pain, trouble
and discord the mind that was dis
trustful, and the will that was self
acting, became the mind that wast ig
norant and the life that was vexed and
harried and broken and defeated by its
own follies and waywardness and dis
obedience. God's Purpose ITnchangeable.
Yet in that act the universal plan
was undisturbed. God's great purpose
moves on as calmly and as undisturbed
and unthwarted as the great currents
of the ocean move under the touch of
the falling rain drop. The rebellion of
man is but an incident of this vast pro
gression of God's purpose. Yet it is an
incident of pain, and we discover that
God is governing the world by laws
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will be given at White Temple Mon
day at 6:30 P. M. In compliment to
Miss Crissman.
Miss Ida V. Jontz, the -new general
secretary of the Young Women's Chris
tian Association, will speak at vesper
service Sunday afternoon at 4:30. The
subject is "Working Together." Miss
Jontz wants to meet the girls of Port
land. Mrs. Pauline Miller Chapman
will sing "Open the Gates," by Knott.
Girls are asked to plan to stay to the
social hour at 5:30.
On October 28 the new pipe organ of
the Rose City Park Methodist Church
will be dedicated with appropriate serv
ices. Rev. A. A. Heist is pastor of this
church. On Monday, November 5, a
recital will be ' held with Lucien E.
Becker at the organ.
A lecture Illustrated by attractive
lantern slides will be given by Rev.
Warren Morse tonight In Atkinson Me
morial Church. The second session of
Mr. Morse's Bible class for high school
students will be held from 9:45 to 10:45
A. M. Sunday. Students who take this
course and pass the state examination
in the Spring can secure credit on their
high school course. All students who
are not members of other Sunday
Bchools will be welcome.
that act In two directions. On one side,
to those that are In harmony with him.
who maintain their rhythmical step of
obedience to tho&e who will walk with
him in confidence in the cool of the
day the laws still worji good.
But. on the other hand, to those who
are discordant, and without the will of
God, they are working trouble, and
pain, and sickness, and defeat, and ul
timate ruin. All laws co-operate in this
way. The pillar of cloud that guided
Israel out from captivity was an In
candescent pillar of luminosity. It
blazed Its light far across the desert
path but to the Egyptians behind it
was a pall of midnight darkness. So
there are two relations to the laws of
God. The very moisture falling this
morning has a two-fold significance to
the world. To the things of life it is
refreshing and stimulating, and all the
greenness and color of Spring will be
revived by it; while the dead thing, the
lifeless thing, the log that lies in the
forest, is being rotted by It. The same
sun that floods the earth with warmth
and causes vitality to spring forth, is
the same sun that withers the lifeless
thing.
The law operates In two directions.
As soon as we have lost harmony with
the essential meaning and action of the
universe of God, the laws that were de
signed for life and uplift and happiness
and eternal blessedness turn upon the
unsubmissive spirits of men, upon the
rebellious and discordant wills, and
gash them with cruelty, or crush them
into ruin.
So with the law of our common
wealth. We are sitting here this morn
ing as obedient, law-abiding members
of the commonwealth and of society,
and we are wholly unconscious that
around us, upon every side, lies the
authority, the omnipotent, coercive
power of the commonwealth of Ore
gon. I say we do not think of it. We
are unconscious of it because we are
In perfect harmony with It. The police
man that we pass on the street we
are Indifferent to him or stop to chat
pleasantly with him. The judges we
meet are our friends and neighbors,
whose companionship we enjoy. Tire
statute book with all Its provisions
and all Its possible penalties is a thing
we never look into or are disturbed by.
World Full of Misery.
But suppose that In the heat of a
devilish passion tonight we murder our
fellowman. tomorrow morning we
would be born Into a new world. Every
face of our fellowman would be a fear
some thing. The policeman we chat
ted with today would be our enemj.
The judge whom we counted our friend
would stand over against us. in oppo
sition to us. All the quiescent mech
anism of the state's authority and
crlmlral law would raise Itself up in
horrible fronting against us. Why?
Because we are out of harmony with
it. We have passed over from the side
Presbyterian Church Has
Inspiring Rally.
Dr. A. L. Hutchinson, Pastor of
Piedmont Congregation. Is Giving
Series of Lecturers on Anniver
sary of the Reformation.
PIEDMONT Presbyterian Church en
joyed an inspiring rally season. The
communion service was one of4 the roost
largely attended In the history of the
church. The Sunday school enjoyed a
patriotic rally programme, an inter
esting part of which was the unfurl
ing, of a large flag and the unveiling
of a picture of Abraham Lincoln, a
gift to the school. A Christian con
quest flag was hung beside "Old Glory"
and both flags saluted by the entire
audience.
A large class of boys an girls was
graduated from the primary to the
Junior department and two teachers
were Immediately obtained for the two
new classes thus formed. The follow
ing pupils were given rewards for per
fect attendance during the past year:
Elizabeth Hynd, Carroll Williams,
Genevieve Helllwell, Myrtle Krlgness,
Alvln Krlgness, Anna Vesta Williams,
Charles Laird, James Laird, Jack Stipe
and John Ashby, who has also been
present at church service every Sun
day. The school was able to make its last
payment on Its pledge to the building
fund for the new church. A home de
partment was organized with Mrs. M. A.
Weisant as superintendent. The Sun
day school council established the of
fice of educational director with Mrs.
A. A. Campbell In charge. An enthusi
astic intermediate Endeavor society
was also organized with Mrs. A. F.
Helllwell as superintendent.
A fine class of high school youth was
organized to study the high school Bible
course under the leadership of Dr.
Hutchison. At the church cabinet meet
ing on Tuesday evening reports and
plans were presented from all the or
ganizations of the church, which lndl
cate that they are in a flourishing con
dition. The Woman's Auxiliary is spe
cializing in Red Cross work. Dr. A..L.
Hutchison, pastor, is giving a series of
lectures on the 400th anniversary of
the Reformation. Sunday evening at
7:30 his topic will be "Where Romanism
and Protestantism Differ." The morn
lng topic at 11 o'clock will be "Doing
Your Bit. '
Last Sunday morning in the opening
service of the Anabel Presbyterian
Sunday school by the use of large maps
the young men of the school who have
joined the Army were located in nearly
aK parts of the world. When Superin
tendent Tripp asked. How many of you
would like to help win the war?" all
"Christian Basis of Optimism.'
of sympathy and obedience unto the
side of disobedience and rebelliousness.
And yet the state is the very same
state. The commonwealth is undis
turbed. The policeman is the same
man. The statute book is the same
book. The judiciary Is the same insti
tution. Not a change has taken place,
except within myself. I myself am a
criminal and discordant element of that
civilization, have put myself in an at
titude where the law comes with Its
power to grasp and to punish me.
The optimisms of the present hour
are not Christian optimisms. The idea
that all things are working together
for good that In the inter-action of
multitudinous forces in the progress
of society, in the movement of history
that we have an automatic scheme
leading the world onward and all men
with it Into something better is an
optimism without basis. The fact in
the case is that all things are not mov
ing for the good of everybody. The
world is a dark world a cruel world.
It is full of cutting knives. It is full
of Interlocking wheels that grind the
life out of humanity. It is a world of
defeat. It is a world of poverty. It Is
a world of misery. It is a world of
abortive, stifled childhood. It is a
world overshadowed by the tragedy of
sin's penalties. It is not working for
good by any means, to all people.
Rather. It is working for evil, and it
necessarily works for evil, until the at
titudes of men shall be altered toward
the system of righteousness.
Idealism of World Defined.
We have come to an hour when we
have fallen apart In our Idealism from
the divine idealism. The divine ideal
ism Is an idealism of righteousness, of
unspotted manhood and womanhood,
or unselfishness, of purity and sweet
ness, in the relationships of life.
Whereas, the Idealism of the world at
the present time is the ideal of pain
lessness. We have come to conceive
that suffering is the great evil of the
world, and all our action Is in the at
tempt to alleviate the suffering of
mankind, and there is nothing so dark
and repellant to us as the presence of
pain in the world: whereas God's ideal
for humanity is holiness and righteous
ness, and the pain of the world is but
an automatic application of the pen
alties for the want of righteousness.
What we are attempting today is to
sterilize the pathways of vice. I hear
very few men and women who are
really concerned about vice itself, but
I know multitudes of men and women
who are concerned because vice is
bringing disease. But if you sterilize
the pathway of vice you make It safe
for a larger number to travel over It,
end the evil of vice remains, and you
simply force the divine righteousness
to resort to something more terrible
than the plans of disease to elimi
nate ' it.
I know of a multitude of ;eople who
hands went up. Ha then explained
now the school could help the Govern
ment by purchasing a liberty bond. Be
fore the classes went to their respec
tive places the teachers were instruc
ted to respond to the call of their
names with the amount subscribed by
their classes for the purchase of the
liberty bond. Much enthusiasm was
shown In the undertaking, the amount
being over-subscribed about 20 per cent.
Presbyterian Congregation
to Celebrate.
All-Day Meetlna; Will Be Held by
Members of Hope Parish to Ob
nerve the First Anniversary of
Church Dedication.
THE members of Hope Presbyterian
Church will celebrate the first an
niversary of the dedication of their
new building at East Seventy-eighth
and Everett streets with an all-day
meeting today. The morning address
will be given by the pastor. Dr. S. W.
Seemann. followed by dinner for all
members and visiting friends.
Dr. Pence, of Westminster Church,
and Dr. Hutchison, of Piedmont Church,
will be the speakers for the afternoon.
Lunch will be served to all who can
remain, and the evening will be de
voted to talks by members on the
various departments of the church,
with special music.
... ,
Dr. S. J. Reid, who preached so
fcicefully at the First Baptist Church
last Sunday, will occupy the pulpit of
tnat church again today, in tne morn
ing he will speak on "The Resurrec
tion," or "If a Man Die, Shall He Live
Again?"
In the evening there will be a spe
cial song service, Mr. Troy leading,
and Dr. Reid will preach on the sub
ject, "The Rock Amidst the Tempest."
The evening service will be evangelis
tic and as this is the special character
of Dr. Reid's work it will be a strong
meeting.
The Temple Quaret will sing and
John W. Troy, who accompanies Dr.
Reldt will render special numbers at
both services.
Monday Evening Club to
Resume Sessions.
Red Cross Course and History of
Democracy to Be Taken I p nt
Kl rjt Presbyterian Chureh House.
HE Monday Evening Club will re
sume Its sessions tomorrow even
ing at 7:45 in First Presbyterian
churchhouse. There will be three
courses given, from 7:45 until 9, of
which each person may take one. They
are a Red Cross course In first-aid
work under the leadership of Dr. I. C.
Brill: a course In "Law that everyone
should know." by Estes Snedecor. and a
course in "History of European Democ
racy," by James F. Ewing. The course
In literature given by Mrs. Mable
Holmes Parsons will begin on October
29.
Teachers of the city may obtain
credit for extension work by taking
these courses. Twenty hours will give
one credit and 10 hours will give one-
half credit. The second period of each
Monday evening is given up to discus
sion of current topics or addresses by
prominent men. On Monday night at
9 o'clock there will be an address by
C. N. McArthur. United States Repre
sentative from the Third Oregon Dis
trict, on "Washington in War Time.
This is the first appearance of Mr. Mc
Arthur at home since the adjournment
of Congress.
The "Causes of Failure in Prayer"
will be the subject for this morning at
Kenilworth Presbyterian Church. It is
the third In the series on "Prayer." In
the evening the second in the series on
"The Arithmetic of Christianity" will
be given, subject "Subtraction." There
was a large attendance at all services
last Sabbath. The Sunday school had
the largest attendance of the Fall,
aside from Rally day and both preach
ing services showed the interest in the
Fall plans and work. A canvass of the
entire community was begun in con-
are greatly concerned about the num- ,
ber of cjlvorces and broken families
In the land today. I tell you frankly,
with all candor and honesty of heart,
that I care little about the divorce
evil. Whether there be one divorce In
Portland or a thousand this next year,
I care primarily nothing. It is the
tragedy that antedates the divorce
that is the essence of the thing. It is
the domestic rupture, the alienation of
hearts, the lost happiness, the bleed
ing affections of men and women,
lying beyond the mere act of divorce,
that makes the concern of the world,
and you may stop divorce short, dam
up that dark sea of human unhappi
nese, but God will open some more ter
rible way for Its discharge than your
divorce court. We are just forcing the
eternal into these extreme measures.
Take our commercial law-making of
the present day. As I understand it.
it is nothing but a means to protect
the roadbed of that great system which
we call "commerce" to keep the drains
from washing out, to keep the spikes
from being pulled, to make it safe for
the dividend-bearing trains to run
over it every day. But the selfishness,
and the injustice, and unbrotherliness
of the commercial world who cares for
that? You may pass your ironbound
laws, perfect your statute provisions:
you may set the wisdom of humanity
within your Presidential chair, and
create all possible laws for the pro
tection of trade, but you have no soon
er done it than from some other direc
tion there will break, out a sterner,
larger evil, which will show you that
the essence of the trouble lies deep
within the unrighteousness of man's
spirit.
I know many hearts today bleeding
over the fact that there are hungry
men in our city. But- how many are
concerned for these men themselves
their broken manhood and their abor
tive lives, their failure to fulfill the
divine ideal within themselves? I find
very few. You may release these men
from the sufferings of hunger, you
may keep them from the pangs of cold,
but you have not yet reached the diffi
culty, and God will never let the world
nlone until , the essence of things have
been touched and we have been brought
back to his righteous will.
Injustice Must Be Eliminated.
All things are not working together
for good. They are working for cru
elties. They are working for confusion,
and the old world Is going to be dark
and painful, and miserable with its
poverties and its vices until injustice
is cast out until we have returned
to the will of the Father.
Now comes the second text: "In be
half of Christ I beseech you, be ye
reconciled to God." What did Christ
come for? To bring humanity back into
harmonious relation with the eternal
to bring a child back to the father's
house, to bring Adam back again by
the gate of repentance, that he might
nection with the Waverly Heights Con
gregational and Clinton Kelly Metho
dist Episcopal Churches, which will be
completed this Sunday. Good, music Is
a feature of all the services.
A special series of seven sermons on
"The Place and Power of Jesus Christ
in the Affairs of Men" will be presented,
by Rev. R. S. Sawyer at the morning
services of the East Side Christian
Church. East Twelfth and East Taylor,
Commencing today. Among the , sub
jects announced for the series are the
following: "Christ and Big Business,"
Christ and the Labor Question,
Christ and the New Woman," "The
Present-Day Christ" and "The Christ
Triumphant." In this series of sermons
Mr. Sawyer has announced that he will
emphasize the integrity and authority
of the Bible as an all-sufficient guide
for men in all the practical affairs of
life.
The Presbyterian Ministers' Associa
tion will meet at the First Presbyterian
Church Monday at 10:30 A. M. Rev.
ard v . MacHenry. of Mount Tabor
Church, will conduct a discussion of
religious books read during the Sum
mer. Lach member is requested to give
brief review of some book he had
read.
Centenary Church Changes
Hour of Service to 7:30.
The National Duty of the Chnreh"
In to Be Sermon Topic Tonight.
Communion Service This Morulntj.
T Centenary Church has been changed
HE hour for the evening service at
from 7:45 to 7:30. This arrangement
ill be In force until April 1. 118.
This morning the church will cele
brate the holy communion. This will
be the first communion service of the
new conference year. Plans are being
made to make this more than an ordi
nary occasion.
In the eventng at 7:30 o'clock the
pastor will preach on "The National
Duty of the Church."
The Day of Intercession for religious
education will be observed in St.
David's Episcopal Church. Rev.
Thomas Jenkins will preach on "What
we Believe About God." St. David's
will pay tribute to the 32 men of the
parish who have gone to war. Few
parishes can boast so many.
...
There will be Scandinavian service
in the Methodist Church. Oresron City.
at 3 P. M. Rev. John Ovall will Dreach
the sermon. Other speakers also will
take part in the service. Music will
be rendered. All are invited.
The following Is a list of the names
of the members of Anabel Presbyterian
Sunday school who made a gift to the
school of a liberty bond purchased In
the name of the Sunday school, the
individuals receiving nothing In return
for their Investment: Robert Deaver,
Paulus Shaw. Tllzer Hargreaves. Wal
lace McKenzle, Lloyd Hart, Lawrence
Hart, Richard Averill. Edwin Gannon,
Thornley Williams. Robert Hastings,
Walter Welin, Elton Shaw, Daniel
Skinner, Leslie Seibenthaler, Maxwell
McKinney, Donald Frenna, Noel Ran
kin, Donald Nelson, George York,
Theron Bad holcmeer. Mrs. Elton Shaw,
A. W. Johnson, Richard Hayman.
Frank Smith, Robert Ranke, Jasper
Duerst, George Grlebe, Smith Wilson.
J. V. Simmons, H. T. Simmons. Ross
Humphreys. A. J. Prideau. Bernard
Gray. Harold Shaw, Robert Cowgill,
Brown Metcalf, Chester Sehibenthaler,
Noble Taylor, Walter Morrow, E. P.
Town, Avis Nelson, Dorothy Smith,
Mildred Deaver. Mary Peat, Alma Wal
ters, Louise Krueder. Adah Stevens,
Gertrude Smith, Marie Pyron, Claca
Turner, Alice Houghton. Margaret
Taylor, Vivlne Couey, Grace Johnston,
Lillian Smith, Helen Counon. Virgil
Calkins. . Ruth Smith. Mildred Smith.
Hortense Nichols. Myrtle Hart. Norma
Dryden. Ruth Johnston, Minnie Lowe,
Lena Rice, Hazel Couey, Marie Aubel,
Muriel McKitrick, Edith Fletcher, Mrs.
E. Johnston. Grace Locke. E. Heyting.
E. Johnson, Mrs. Wakefield. Garnet
Johnston, V. Logan, L. Logan, N. Mey
er. C. Miller, F. N. Taylor. Julia Smith,
Mrs. Taylor. Edith Rhodes. Louise
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PASTOR
find his God still walking In the cofcl of
the day: to lift us out of our re
belliousness and wilfulness, and bring
us into sympathy with the eternal
righteousness. It is very simple, be
loved.
If you take your place todav on the
swift express moving to the South a
gracious and good thing this train is.
It bears the wealth of our land upon It.
It makes business prosperous. It
makes hearts happy. It enables men
and women to fulfill themselves
through the accumulation of wealth.
It bears loved ones along to sweet
meetings. It carries anxious hearts to
tne place where love Is to be found.
If you think of all the goodness that
is Dound up In that on-roshing train.
and think of its beneficent place in the
lire or humanity, you will see that this
on-moving express Is really working;
for good if you take a sympathetic,
quiescent, co-operative place on the in
side of it. Let me buy my ticket and
sit down upon Us comfortable seating,
and then all the wisdom of the admin
istration of that railroad, all the care
fulness of the conductor, all the steam
that Is within all the mechanism of
that splendid piece of enginery are
working together to bring me to some
good in California: but if. In my folly.
In my ignorance, in my wilfullness, in
my madness, I attempt to leave the on
rushing train, or stand athwart its
going, it ruthlessly dashes me bleeding,
broken, dying, by the side of the high,
way.
Thus the universe of God is going.
He started it before we arrived. His
laws are all appointed. It is swinging
along through the infinite spaces, sun,
moon and stars, the world of nature,
the world of man, are all projected by
the might of the eternal toward the
fulfillment of his purpose. His laws are
operating, and unless we be in sympa
thetic relation to the perfect and
righteous will of God we are cast down,
broken, bleeding, defeated and ruined
upon the track of this awful movement
of the eternal God. Therefore. Christ's
word, and Christ's message is, "Come
away from your sin." Sin is madness, sin
is blindness. If I stand in front of
an on-moving train, you pick me up
dead, and say that I am a fool. You
work lies, deceits, insincerities, im
purities, into your business, and into
your lives. Into your own Individual
activities, and when God wrecks your
business and your happiness, you cry
out against the order of the universe,
and all the time the order Is infinitely
wise and Infinitely good, and you
you are the fool who has fallen apart
from the infinite wisdom and goodness
of the universe.
And so, the Christ came to reconcile
us to God. To restore the harmonies.
To cast out the disturbing evil, to bring
us back into perfect accord with the
will of the eternal, and the Apostle
stood as I stand this morning, crying
"We beseech you on behalf of Christ, be
ye reconciled to God."