THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 25, 1917,
NEW GLENCOE BAPTIST CHURCH WILL
DEDICATED TODAY
Structure Has Seating Capacity of 330 and With Room for Gallery Opening Ceremonies to Be Impressive.
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THE dedication of the new Glencoe
Baptist Church, at East Forty-fifth
and East Main streets, today will
be an important event in the Baptist
denomination and in tho locality In
which the church Is situated.
Ten years ago the church was found
ed and held its meetings In a small
chapel. Today the new building-, with
seating capacity for 350 and with room
for a gallery, will be placed at the dis
posal of the congregation. The cere
monies will be appropriate and im
pressive. Rev. O. C. Wright will preach
at 11 o'clock and Rev. W. B. Hinson,
pastor of the East Side Church, will
preach the sermon at 3:30 o'clock. It
is planned to build a Bible school au
ditorium as soon as possible. Rev. A.
B. Waltz has been pastor of the church
for the last eight years and has had the
co-operation of a devoted membership.
Hearty support has been given to the
building committee. The church may
bo reached by taking the Hawthorne
avenue. Mount Scott or Mount Tabor
cars to East Forty-fifth street. This
church was known as the East Forty-nfth-Street
Church formerly. The
membership numbers 157.
Plans for union Thanksgiving serv
ices are being made. The First Chris
tian Church will have a service Thurs
day morning, in which the First Meth
odists and the St. James Lutherans will
unite and the Rev. W. E. Brinkman will
preach.
The Rodney-avenue Christian, the
Forbes Presbyterian, the Central Meth
odist and the Third Baptist churches
"will unite in a Thanksgiving service at
the last-named church Thursday morn
ing at 10:30 o'clock. Rev. C. C. Rarick,
pastor of the Central Methodist Church,
will pdeach the sermon.
A joint Thanksgiving service will be
held at Temple Beih Israel on Thanks
giving morning at 11 o'clock. The
Unitarian Church of Our Father will
participate. All men and women are
welcome. Rabbi Wise will conduct the
second of his Bible classes at the Li
brary on Wednesday at 3. The topic
will be "The Old Testament as a Hand
book of Democracy." All men and
women are welcome.
oweth, George William DeCorsey, Gib
son Howells Dickinson, Charles Ed
ward Fitch, Theron Wilmoroth Fitch.
Thomas Walter Gillard. Frank Regi
nald Gillard, Carl Christian Hansen,
Walter Smith Haynes, James Howard
Huddleson, M. D., Walter Mills Hun
tington, John Robert Mears, Harold
William Norman, Edward Howard
Prehn, M. D., Franklin Welty Staiger.
Samuel Russell Smith, Ralph Roberts
Smith, Herbert Fiske Sessions, Everett
Thomas Stretcher. John Carl Sturm,
Edward William Shears, Thomas James
Roberts, Henry Relyea, Wakeman, Wal
ter Delos Whitcomb, C. Jay Walker,
Robert Nichols Walpole.
Others who have enlisted and are
yet to go are: Wayne Walter Coe,
Gaven C. Dyott, Russell W. Frost.
George Alson Kribs, Stanley Roy Sor-
Special Musical Numbers
Are Provided.
Series of Attractions Presented at
Clinton Kelly Church by Rev. K.
B. I.ockhart.
BEAUTIFUL, special numbers of mu
sic are being presented at the Clin
ton Kelly Methodist Episcopal Church
at the Sunday morning services, under
the direction or W. C. McCulloch, and
are proving a delight to the worship
ers in that community.
Last Sunday morning a quartet con
sisting of Theodore Bushnell, Miss
Katherine Wallace, Fritz DeBruin and
Thaddeus veness sang with fine effect.
A solo by Miss Bushnell, one of the
city teachers, was also rendered In a
high-grade manner. Miss Hazel Har
die, an instructor in the Creston
School; Mrs. W. C. McCulloch and others
are also assisting in making the mu
jsic at Clinton Kelly Church a feature
of the services.
Rev. E. B. Lockhart is pastor of this
church and also has charge of the Lin
coln Methodist Episcopal Church
where he preaches in the evening. Here
also is heard good music, for Mrs.
Peter Hanson, Mrs. Edna Wickersham,
Miss Welch, of the Sunnyside com
munity; D. W. Pritchard and others are
contributing their vocal talent with
pleasing result in the special solos or
duets rendered at each evening service.
Last Sunday was communion day at
tnese two churches and today the min
lster will receive into church fellow
ship a class of new members at each
place. It is expected large audiences
will be present both at Clinton Kelly
and at the Lincoln-street Church, to
welcome the new members.
Following Is the honor roll of the
First Congregational Church of those
who have responded to the call to the
colors: Frank Loomis Beach, Stanley
iiowiDy, Robert Archer Bowlby, Ed
ward D. Blood, Laurence Arthur Brown
Francis McDannell Brown, Harold Ed
wards Bates. M. D.. Oliver Bvron Card.
well. Fowler Hatfaway Cardwell. Earl
Alphonso Coe. George Theron Colton
William Dexter Clarke. Oliver A. Chen-
Patriotic Pageant, 'The Stain
less Flag,' to Be Given.
Thanksgiving Service at First Pres
byterian Church Includes Address
by Dr. Uoyd.
THE First Presbyterian - Church.
Twelfth and Alder streets, will
have a great patriotic service on
Thanksgiving day at 10:30 A. M. There
will be a patriotic pageant and a patri
otic address by the pastor. Rev. John
H. Boyd. D. D.
The patriotic pageant Is a new one
written by a Presbyterian pastor of
Chicago, Dr. William Chalmers Covert.
It is called "The Stainless Flag." The
characters are Uncle Sam and Columbia
and six girls representing Frugality,
Temperance, Knowledge, Charity and
Right. There is also one of Uncle
Sam's soldiers who takes the part of
Patriotism.
A flag is brought Into the room show
ing the stains of Waste, Intemperance,
Ignorance, Wrong, Prejudice and Dis
loyalty. -Methods are proposed for re
moving these stains and the flag Is
revealed clean and pure, without a
stain. There will be patriotic music
interspersed with the monolgue and
dialogue of the pageant.
At the end of the pageant a patriotic
address will be given by Dr. Boyd on
The world Influence of America." This
will deal with the influence which Mr.
Wilson now has in the councils of Eu
rope and the Importance of the lead
ership which America now has In the
conduct of the war and consideration
of terms of peace.
At the Atkinson Memorial Congre
gational Church this evening at 7:45
o'clock will be given an address on
primitive Christian work among the
most backward, untutored tribes of the
Dark Continent. This work has been
carried on for 38 years on the high ta
ble land about 200 miles inland on the
West Coast. The story of the progress
amid heathen opposition and Porta
guese interference reveals the finest
type of Christian courage and perse
verance.
This morning at Centenary Methodist
Episcopal Church, the pastor. Dr. T.
W. Lane, will speak on the "Holy Land
ana tne war. The sermon will be a
survey of the work of the allied armies
in the country made sacred in Bible
story, tho land where Abraham and
Isaac and Jacob and Elijah and Samson
and other Bible characters lived and
labored in the years of long ago.
Wan movements In these lands during
tne last 30 to 60 cays have been won
derful, and are most significant. It
will be interesting to go over the fields
with the people and the soldiers of
more than 4000 years ago, and then
with the people and the soldiers of
these days in that same land, and learn
something of how both movements may
contribute to the working out of the
will of God In the progress and destiny
of the world and to gather the lessons
to our times.
Professor Paul H. Douglas, of Reed
College, will be the speaker at the 5
o'clock vesper service at the Laurel
wood Congregational Church, corner
Sixty-fifth and Forty-fifth avenue. He
will speak on the " Mobilization of the
Nations' Finances for War." This is
the second lecture of a series given by
Reed faculty, the last Sunday evening
of the month. The pastor, Mrs. J. J.
Handsaker, will speak at the morning
service on The Ter-Centenary Goal.'
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tion of disease In the armies of the
nations of the world by which methods
the death rate from disease has been
reduced from 10 times the number slain
in battle, down to a less number at
present than those slain In actual com
bat. Mr. Elliott will speak Monday
night In Centenary Church at 7:30 on
"Prevention of Disease by Right Liv
ing." Lectures will be held daily in
this church during the' week at 2:30
and 7:30. Admission will be free to
all lectures.
J?ev: .23. Wtsz,
Gencoe Sajoizs-Z Church obs DedicaiecZ Today.
Meaning and Value of Lord's
Supper Is Topic.
Rev. Harold II. Grlffla Will Preach
at First Christian Church.
XN the sermon which will be deliv
ered by Rev. Harold H. Griffis at the
First Christian Church this morning
special emphasis will be placed upon
the New Testament teaching relative
to the "weekly communion," showing
the meaning and value of the Lord's
Supper. The subject for consideration
will be "The Christian's Need of the
Weekly Communion."
The. evening topia is "Listening to
God."
Preparations are being made by the
Bible school for a big Christmas cele
bration. The proceeds obtained there
from will be utilized for the relief of
the Armenians and Serbians.
A commendable undertaking is that
which members of the Y. P. S. C. E. of
this church have planned for Thanks- '
giving. A worthy needy family has
been discovered who will receive a
generous contribution on that occasion.
Rev. A. Ross Kitt, director of Baptist
young people's work for the Pacific
Coast, will occupy the pulpit of the
First Baptist Church (White Temple)
today and will also preach during the
remaining Sundays of the year. Mr.
Kitt's morning sermon topic will be
"Thanksgiving In War Time" and in
the evening he will speak on "A Needed
Emphasis in Religion Loyalty to
Christ." All young people especially
are invited to the evening strvice.
There will be a special musical serv
ice in the evening. Miss M. Lucile Mur-
ton at the organ and the Temple Quar
tet will be heard in special numbers.
Union "Thanksgiving service for the
district covered by Woodlawn, Walnut
Park and Piedmont will be held In this
church on Thursday morning at 10:30,
in the form of 'a "platform meeting,"
with several speakers. One of the
speakers will be Earle A. Rowell, of
Los Angeles. Special music wilt be a
feature of this service.
In Piedmont Presbyterian Church this
morning at 11 o'clock Dr. A. L. Hutch
ison, the pa-stor, will speak on the
topic, "Is the Church Losing Her Grip?"
At 7:30 the second In the special series
now running will be given by Rev. T.
Brouillette, formerly associated with
the famous Father Chiniquy.
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At 8 o'clock Monday evening a meet
ing will be held under the auspices of
the Banal Assembly, in honor of Abdul
Baha. leader of the Bahia movement.
November 26 is the day celebrated in
all countries in commemoration of his
appointment as center of the Bahal
covenant.
Abdul Baha spent more than 50 years
in exile in the prison, of Acca for advo
cating the Bahai principles. When, the
Turkish revolution brought about his
release in 1909, he traveled into Egypt,
then into Europe and the British Isles,
everywhere giving addresses on social
and spiritual reconstruction. In 1912
he made a memorable tour of the
United States, speaking In churches,
synagogues, universities and before or
ganizations of various sorts, in New
York, Boston. Philadelphia, Washing
ton, Cleveland, Chicago, Denver, San
Francisco and many other places. His
first public address in America was in
the church of Dr. Percy Stickney
Grant, the Church of the Ascension in
New York City.
The, basic principles of his teachings
include: Oneness of the world of hu
manity. Independent investigation of
truth, foundation of all religions as
one, that religion must be the cause of
unity, that religion must be in accord
with science and reason, equality of
men and women, that prejudices of all
kinds must be forgotten, universal
peace with the overepming of militar
ism, universal education, solution of the
economic problem, universal language
and an international tribunal.
The life and writings of Abdul Baha
will be the subject of the programme
Monday evening at the home of Mrs.
A. Fitch, 303 Twelfth street, corner of
Columbia. All are welcome.
Men's Club in Charge of
Special Service.
Arrangements Made for Worxhin at
" Central Presbyterian Church. "
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MESSAGE TO MEN" will be the
New Pastor Will Take Up
Duties Here Today.
Rev. Robert H. Mtlllican Cornea to
Rose City Parle Preabj-tertan
Chnrch From Successful Pastorate
at Tacoma.
REV. ROBERT H. MILLIGAN, the
new pastor of the Rose City Park
Presbyterian Church, will be in his pul
pit to begin his ministry this morning.
Rev. Mr. Milligan comes from Tacoma,
where he was pastor of the Immanuel
Presbyterian Church. He was born in
Canada and was educated at Princeton
University and the McCormick Theo
logical Seminary.
A reception will be given for Mr. Mil
ligan on Tuesday night, when his con
gregation will entertain for him.
Mr. Milllgan was a missionary for
eight years on the west coast of Af
rica among the Fang tribe. He worked
chiefly at the coast, near the equator
and on the Gaboon River. t
After permanently returning and
supplying churches in the East, he was
called to the Immanuel Presbyterian
Church, Tacoma, where, after serving
six years, he comes to the Rose City
Park Presbyterian Church of Portland.
He is the author of two books on
Africa. "The Jungle Folk of Africa"
and "The Fetish Folk of Africa." He
is a recognized authority on Africa,
has written and spoken much upon
missionary, sociological and political
phases of the Dark Continent.
He comes here highly recommended
by pastors, business men and leaders
in civic work in Tacoma,
XX subject of Dr. Arthur F. Bishop
at the Sunday evening services of Cen
tral Presbyterian Church next Sunday.
The Men's Club will have charge. A
men's chorus and men's quartet will
furnish the musical numbers.
Some interesting reminiscences of
Siam will be given before the men's
forum at next Sunday's meeting by
Clarence Steele, who has just returned
from a six years' educational mis
sionary work at Bangkok.
George C. Mason, of the Hurley,
Mason Company, told the Men's Club
and their guests at their monthly
dinner on Tuesday evening how Camp
Lewis at American Lake, Wash., the
largest cantonment in the United
States, was built and how the great
work was accomplished in the limited
time granted by the Government. Mr.
Mason answered many questions and
went into detail on the various phases
of the huge task. Some enjoyable musi
cal numbers were on the programme.
Rev. John A. Ewalt, lately of Seattle,
at one time associated with Dr. Arthur
F. Bishop, pastor of Central Church, in
Cincinnati, O., was among the guests.
Today at 4:30 o'clock In the Y. W,
C. A. auditorium Mrs. J. Hunter Wells
will describe Thanksgiving day In
Corea. She and her two children, Helen
and Milton, will wear the Corean
costume.
The music will be in charge of
Mitylene Fraker Stites, assisted by Miss
Ada Kimball, soprano; Dr. W . C. Adams,
tenor, -and J. R. Stites, baritone.
This meeting is open to men as well
as women and all are cordially invited
to come and stay for the social hour
at 5:30.
There will be a special service in the
Centenary Methodist Church tonight, at
which Rev. J. C. Elliott, health special
ist, will deliver an address on "The
Problems of Religion and Health." This
subject has crowded to the doors many
of our largest churches. It deals In a
scientific way with the problems o
health and prevention of disease. It
deals with the modern problems
health as handled by the scientist, the
physician, and the Anti-Tuberculosi
League, by which the death rate from
tuberculosis was reduced 25 per cent in
the last 10 years. It outlines preven
tion of disease through the work of the
United States Government. The lifting
of the lifeline from an average in ou
Nation of 33 years, less than a quarte
of a century ago, to 44 years for men
and 48 years for women at the presen
time. It outlines the work of preven
THE churches of the Sunnyside dis
trict. United Presbyterian, Friends,
Methodist and Congregational, will
hold a union Thanksgiving Bervice at
the Methodist Church next Thursday
at 10:30 A. M. Rev. H. F. Given, of
the United Presbyterian Church, will
deliver the sermon. The public Is cor
dially Invited to attend.
Evangelist Given in his series of
messages has brought new hope to the
Rodney-avenue Christian Church. The
meeting, beginning practically unad
vertised. has reached to large propor
tions, with many additions, and has
brought that wnich is far more valu
able to its future, a spirit of zeal for
united efforts along all lines. Mr.
Given is a forceful speaker.
Rev. W. B. Hinson, D. D.. pastor of
the East Side Baptist Church. East
Twentieth and Ankeny streets, has re
turned from Montana and will be
present at all the evangelical meetings
being held by Dr. S. J. Reid and J. W.
Troy at the church. Dr. Reid's sermons
the past week on "The Seven Last
Words of the Lord" were vivid and
illuminating, bringing clearly to the
mind the last heart-rending hours of
the Saviour's agony. Large congrega
tions attended each meeting. Dr. Held
will preach Sunday, morning and even
ing. The large volunteer choir or
ganlzed under J. W. Troy, the noted
tenor, will be continued in the future
under the leadership of the choir
master.
Sunnyside Churches Plan
Union Services.
Four Conn reaatlona Will Join for
Thanksgiving Day.
Union Services to Be Held in
Central Presbyterian.'
Six Churchea to Participate Thanfca-a-lvlna-
Da; Ottering to He Vaed
to Buy Blblca for Soldiers Rev.
T. V. Lane to Preside.
CENTRAL East Portland will hold
Thanksgiving services on Thanks
giving morning at 10:30 A. M. in Cen
tral Presbyterian Church, corner East
Thirteenth and Pine, participated in
by the following churches: East Side
Baptist, East Side Christian, Centen
nary Methodist. First Methodist Epis
copal South. First United Brethren and
Central Presbyterian.
Rev. T. W. Lane will preside. Rev,
W. B. Hinson will preach the sermon,
Rev. Arthur F. Bishop will read the
proclamation. Rev. J. T. French wil
offer the Thanksgiving prayer. Rev. It.
11. Sawyer will read the scripture les.
son and Rev. P. O. Bonebrake will take
the offering. The offering will be for
the benefit of the American Bible So
ciety to aid in placing testaments in
the pockets of our solder boys. .
The music will be in charge of the
choir of Central Presbyterian Church
under the leadership of E. Maldwyn
Evans.
At the church of St. Michael and All
Angels, Rose City Park, the vicar. Rev
T. F. Bowen, will speak on "Our In
visible Allies." The sermon will be
based on the old testament story o
the deliverance of the prophet Klisha
from the Syrian army and will show
that the hand of God is ever present in
the history of nations and the rise and
fall of empires as well as in the lives
of individuals.
LAFAYETTE. Or., Nov. 24. (Spe
cial.) The Ladies Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church elected its
new officers on wedifesday last as fol
i lows: President, Mrs. J. B. Harbison
first vice-president. Miss Belle Belcher!
second vice-president. Mrs. J. A. Stave
ley; secretary, Mrs. R. B. Wilson: treas
urer, Mrs. E. J. Biddle: chaplain. Mrs.
John Postle: membership committee,
Mrs. Martha Ross and Mrs. M. L. Stern.
The members will meet every Wednes
day at 2 o'clock In the church parlors,
but on the first Wednesday in each
month they will have a social afternoon
in the homes where arranged.
"Counting Our Blessings" will be the
Epworth League topic at the Lafayette
Methodist Episcopal Church this eve
ning at 6:30 o'clock, to be introduced by
Miss Emma Bryan. Special music will
be rendered. The Pastor, Rev. Alfred
Bates, will preach at 11 A. M. and 7:30
P. M.
The Epworth League Social will be
held on Friday evening. December 14,
and preparations are in progress to
make this one of the best socials ever
held here.
In St. Stephen's Pro-Cathedral this
morning Dean McCollister will give an
address upon the subject "God and Our .
Times." .
On the Sundays In Advent, beginning
next Sunday, the dean will give a
course of four special sermons on the
subject "The Coming of Christ," "The
Bible," "Religious Orders" and "Faith
Upon the Ltirth."
The Thanksgiving day services will
be at 7:30 and 10:30 A. M-, both serv
ices of the Holy Communion. At the
later service there will be special
music and a brief sermon on "Thank
fulness in Darkness.'
At the sacred concert at Waverly
Heights Congregational Church. East
Thirty-third street and Woodward ave
nue, this evening, the Frazier Trio will
play, there will be a sold by Miss Mil
dred Luther and several numbers by
the junior and adult choirs.
...
Bringing to the Protestant churches
of America a message of fellowship '
and co-operation from the French
Protestant churches. Captain Georges
Lauga and Captain Alfred Ernest Vic
tor Monod. both military chaplains in
the French army, are here as official
delegates from the Federation of
French Protestant Churches to the
Federal Council of the Churches of
Christ in America. They come on a
purely fraternal mission, the purpose
of which is to show conditions la
France, describe the work being done
by the army and navy chaplains and
work for & closer co-operation between
the evangelizing forces of France and
America.
Both of these men have beei through
active service at the Front.
They are planning to visit the West
and may come to Portland.
The chaplains will spend two or
three days in each city, meeting the
various social. civic and religious
bodies, will deliver occasional sermons
and illustrated lectures on the war.
and, in general, give information on
the churches and the general situa
tion in France. They are provided with
documents and figures on the French
churches and the losses they have un
dergone through the w.ar and the in
vasion. The chaplains will return to France
in January, when their leave of ab
sence from the army will expire.
Sunday Church Services
ASSOCIATED BIBLE STl'DEXTS.
W. O. W. hall, Kat Sixth and East Alder
M.. public discourse by X.
discourse by 3l&rstoa
streets. At 3 1.
M. Lewton; 8 P.
Chandler.
ADVENT.
Advent Christian, 43S Second street, near
Hall etreet Hev. J. 3. Lucas, pastor.
Preaching. 10:3)1; Sunday school. 12: Loyal
Workers, 6:311; preaching. 7:30; prayer meet
ing, Thursday evening. 7:30.
ADVENTIST.
(These services are held on Saturday.)
Central. Kaat Eleventh and Everett streets
P. C Hayward, minister. Sabbath school.
10; church services. 11:15; prayer meet
ing. Wednesday night. 7:45; Toung People's
meeting. 7:45.
Montavllla, East Eightieth and Everett
streets J. F. Beatty. local elder. Sabbath
school. 10; preaching, 11; prayer meeting,
7:30 P. M.. Wednesday; young Peoples
meeting. Saturday. 4 P. M.
Tabernacle. West Side, Knights of Pyth
laa Hall, Eleventh and Alder streets Sab
batn school. 10; preaching, 11; prayer meet
ing. Tuesday evening at 8 P. M.. at 1S5
Thirteenth street.
Albina (German). Skldmore and Mallory
streets A A. Meyers. minister; A C.
(Concluded on Page 11.)
INSPIRATION URGED FOR FIGHTING BATTLE FOR GOD ON HIGH
"Battle Hymn of Republic" Declared Sanctified and as Sacred as Any Appearing in Holy Writ, in Sermon by Dr. Joshua Stansfield.
a.'.- if-, - --
Dr. J, Stansfield.
BY DR JOSHUA STANSFIELD.
WE take our text from "The Bat
tle Hymn of the Republic." and
shall have it In sermon and
Bong as we have had It as scripture.
One of the great hymns of this Chris
tian Nation, as truly Inspired as any
Kational song In any part of the Old
Testament and with far more of divine
Inspiration in it
than most of such,
songs.
The song of De
borah after the vic
tory of Israel over
Kgypt was fine, but
It does not begin
to approach in
moral insight, and
religious fervor, and
large vision and
kouI expression the
hymn we today
consider.
If this hymn had
been found In one
f the Old Testa
ment writings it would be one of the
outstanding parts of the Word of God,
but God still lives and men and na
tions still live. The world Is not any
less than It was 3000 years ago, there
are respects In which it is even larger
and fuller, and richer, and better, and
so long as God lives and human souls
Bhall be passing through the tragedies
and trials of human experience God
will Inspire. While this Bible is pre
eminently the divine book. Inspiration
did not cease when the canon of scrip
ture closed; God still lives to Inspire
the right word and the right song at
the right time for his people.
Inspiration Is From God.
Literature comes out of the life of a
people. Inspiration is from God and
through things. The finest inspirations
In the old book and the highest and
best utterances came from God, but
through men and circumstances. You
have not had the best In the whole
Bible except as God has touched
human life in the most trying circum
stances. When that poor woman Hagar
with her only child was driven out
from home and was facing the soli
tudes of the first night In the wilder
ness, with a sorrowing heart and a
pain and new experience that no words
can tell, it was in that situation that
she gave utterance to the inspired
truth, "Thou, God, seest me." And that
word 'has been full of comfort and
strength for people In a thousand gen
erations since then.
It was when one was passing through
the valley of the shadow of death that
be said "I will fear no evil, for thou
art with me." It was when one was
passing through the deepest waters
and through the bitterest experiences
that he heard the voice of God in his
soul saying, "Fear thou not, I am with
thee, be not dismayed, I am thy God, I
will strengthen thee, I will help thee,
yea, I will uphold thee with the right
hand of my righteousness." It was
when one had passed through the bit
ter experiences of bereavement, father
and mother having gone, that he said.
"When my father and my mother for
sake me then the Lord will take
me up."
Hymn Is an Inspiration.
It takes the experiences of life, , dark,
severe, deep, trying, to be the occasion
through which there comes the highest
and best Inspirations of God. It has
always been thus, the highest
music, the greatest oratory, the most
persuasive argument, the finest paint
ing, the richest songs, the finest senti
ments, the largest services, have been
born of God, in and under some of the
most trying experiences of life. The
rose must be crushed to give Its deepest
fragrance, and It has ever been true
that in the deepest and darkest experi
ences of life God has spoken, and out
of them, and through them, have come
the richest and highest and best. It
was so with this beautiful hymn. It
was tirst published I think In 1862 in
the Atlantic Monthly 1S62. Ah, you
men, some of you here, know that year
far better than I one of the dark
years, almost one of the darkest In the
history of the Nation. In '61 Fort Sump
ter was fired upon and the rebellion
was a fact. A Nation of free men get
It a Nation, of free men were in life
and death struggle for something more
than any one man or family, or North
or South they were in a death strug
gle for freedom and human rights, and
that government of the people, by the
people and for the people should not
perish from the earth. The struggle
was the fiercest and hardest that any
nation had known; Everything for
weeks and months, and on into the sec
ond and third year seemed to be going
against the cause of right, and freedom.
and Justice, and the Union, and It was
under those circumstances, dark, dark,
dark, that Julia Ward Howe began to
sing for this Nation and for coming
generations that wonderful song which
we tonight consider. Hear her.
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming
of the Lord.
He Is trampling out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored;
He bath loosed the fateful lightning of His
terriDle, swirt iwora,
His truth la marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
u:,, tenth is marchlna on.
Ah, that was it, she saw God In the
conflict. It takes faith to see the in
visible in the material things of life.
It takes true moral insight to see God
in a great cruel war, and here was sub
limest faith.
How blessed la he to whom is givsa
The Instinct that can tell
That God is on the field
When lie ia most invisible.
Harriet Beeche Stowe saw that, and
she sang it out in a song that will live
forever. Others saw a defeat of the
forces here, and a defeat there, and a
failure of plans here and deepening
darkness yonder, but she saw God in
the great conflict, and the fact of God
in the world's darkest and hardest
places Is the greatest and grandest
fact of all- Further than that, she saw
not alone that God was there, but that
being there he would achieve accord
ing to his character and his purpose.
She saw that it was God who was
"trampling out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath were stored"i; she saw
that it was God who had "loosed the
lightning of his terrible, swift sword,
his truth is marching on," and It could
not march on except through and by
human life. To see that meant to see
the most comforting and strengthening
and thrilling truth the human heart
can conceive. ,
Further, in the darkness of those
days there was suffering and sorrows,
diseases, oh, so many, and so long.
Others heard of them; reports came
from the South, and East, and here.
and there, and they at home thought of
the boys in their suffering, in their dis
ease, and in their moral defects, and
physical defeats. There were people
many who saw only the more visible
and terrible things of the war, but this
woman saw something deeper, grander.
better. Listen to what she says.
I have seen Him In the watchfires of a hun
dred circling camps:
They have builded him an a Liar In the even
ing dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the
aim ana Iiartng lamps.
His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
His day Is marching on.
War an Outcome.
The war of the '60s was not an acci
dent or a happen-so, it was an out
come; it was . an outcome of forces
which had been at work for some cen
turies. Morally, nationally, ideally, it
was an outcome of 1778,' when the
Declaration of Human Independence
was sent out to all the world. But for
85 years after that "declaration," there
was In this country the sad, black,
damning fact of human slavery, which
gave the lie to American independence.
Human slavery was an anomaly in
these United States; the logic and im
plicates of 1776 was freedom for all
men. because they were men; and 1861
was the inevitable of 1776., From Colo
nial days nd down to '61. there was
the dark, sad fact of human slavery.
which John Wesley in his day declared
to be the sum of all human villainies.
Slavery, so dark, and bad, and inhuman,
that no free people could' keep free in
its presence. Whenever a person, fam
ily, people, or nation begins to play
fast and loose with the highest and best
principles of their life, "our God Is a
consuming fire." The man, however
bright and strong he may be, who plays
Sast and loose with a woman's love, or
a child's trust, or the high Ideals that
have been given to him, will be
scorched, "our God Is a consuming
fire." Never has there been a family.
people, or a Nation that has been
able to skip that fact. When the hor
rible practice of slavery, human slav
ery, had been tolerated and exploited
by people who claimed to be a Christian
and a free people oh, they might give
a hundred excuses for its continuance
but It was eternally and essentially
bad, and no person or people, either for
social, or economic or industrial, or
any other reasons, may play fast and
loose with the highest principles of
life. While others thought that the
terrible war of the '60s was a battle
between brothers for some outstanding
visible result, Julia Ward Howe saw
that It was the outcome of certain bad
forces which had been at work, and
she saw that God. "who is a consuming
fire," was now marching through the
land.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished
rows of steel;
"As ye deal with my contemners, so with
you my grace shall deal."
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the ser
pent with his heel.
Since God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah
Since God is marching on.
Serpent Muat lie Crushed.
Ah. my friends, it is. and always has
been true, that the "son of man. the
"hero born of woman," must crush the
serpent "with his heeL" That Is what
the singer saw; that Is the truth of the
Bible, and the truth of life. Not alone
at Calvary did the son who was born
of woman crush the serpent with his
heel, but the "son of man" in all times
has been the one, and the only one, to
crush the serpent with his heel.
Whether it ought to be so or not, I am
not saying, I am only saying that it is
so. The only power that has ever
crushed the serpent, put down the en
emy, has been the human power In
God's hands. There are those who say
"Why doesn't God do something in this
great war now, why doesn't he step in
why doesn't he step in? You have
not read history deeply, you have not
read the Scriptures, or you have not
read well to speak thus. It is the di
vine order, and it was so stated at the
first, that "the seed of the woman shall
bruise the head of the serpent." Wher
ever the serpent of wrong, or injustice.
or inhumanity, or vice, or any form of
evil, has put up its ugly head, there has
been no power in God's world to put it
down except the heel of humans. I '
wish we could get that it is a great,
deep, Bible truth, and a universally
historic fact, and when men ask "Why
doesn't God do something, why doesn't
he break in?" they are asking that he
shall do contrary to the deepest, the
highest, and widest, and best laws of
life. The only heel that can tread upon
the head of the serpent is the heel of
the human. "Let the hero, born of
woman, crush the serpent with his heel,
our God is marching on." And the
hero, born of woman, is marching out,
to crush the head of the serpent in the
great world war today.
People Must Crunk Vice.
Do you know that it is the best blood
and life of a free people that is go
ing forth today? I do not mean merely
the boys who are going we are send
ing them because they have the best
step and the best heel, but the boys
are our boys. It may mean more to
me for my boy to be there than It
does for him. It may meaft- more to
some of these mothers than It does to
the boys that are tramp, tramp, tramp
ing today; and it may mean more to
the head of this great Nation, and to
strong, rarseelng, thoughtful, highly
moral and large-souled men and
women by the thousands throughout
America, Oh, people, this is a people's
war, it is not an army's war, or a
navy s war, or a war of money, or a
war of bullets, or a war of govern
ments merely, it Is a people's war,
and fathers, and mothers, and lovers,
and sisters, and friends, and dear ones,
and true patriots of middle age and be
yond, are feeling the tug and the hurt
of this, and are feeling it much, and
the hero the hero born of woman
human life that is heroic enough, and
true enough, and brave enough, and
sacrificial enough to move out, whether
it be sending the boys with all that
you can give with them, or sending
of your money with all that it can
mean, the hero, born of woman, is the
only one who can crush the serpent
with his heel, while God is marching on.
If England had not stepped out when
she did, England was doomed and
damned. The only thing that has saved
her out of her sad condition is the
fact that the best within her was ap
pealed to, and she responded to go out
and crush the serpent that was threat
ening another. If America had not
made the choice that Wilson says we
now have made, for there was only one
choice which we as free men and as
humans could make, and we made It,
and if we had not, then this Nation,
most capable and richest in many re
spects, and strongest of all the nations
of the earth, would have been, doomed
and damned, because without heroic
blood, and heroic sentiment, and heroic
souls there can be no permanent Na
tional character and life.
Oh, this woman saw It so clearly
"The hero, born of woman shall crush
the serpent with his heel," while the
American Army? No. While the British
force marches? No. While God is
marching on." God is not dead. God
has not deserted the world; God Is not
absent. God Is In his world and Is
marching on in the tramp, tramp of
the heels of a million men who are go
ing to crush the head of the serpent
which threatens the vital Interests of
human life. Never has there been any
other way so far as we know, nor
will there be. There can be no re
demption, no salvation, but by heroics
and by sacrifices. Oh. that is a won
derful stanza. And then the next. Oh.
my: how it thrills. We all feel like
responding to it. Listen:
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall
never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before
his judgment seat;
Oh. be swift, my soul, to answer Him! Be
Jubilant, my feet.
Our God la marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Our God la marching on.
Ko Retreat Intended.
Not alone in the '60s. but now more
widely than ever "God has sounded
forth the trumpet that shall never call
retreat." There is only one way, and
that is forward; and If it takes the last
drop of blood, and the last ounce of
strength, and the last bit of financial
sacrifice in giving, it must, it must be,
for the trumpet has called to go for
ward. For what? Not alone for the
crushing of the head of the serpent,
that is one thing, by the way, and in
the way, but for something more than
that, for the establishment and main
tenance and security of human rights
and interests everywhere. And that
phrase of President Wilson. "To make
the world safe for democracy." is one
of the most pregnant and impressive
phrases that even that great man and
master of sentences has yet given, and
the trumpet has called for that. We
can afford to be defeated occasionally.
we can afford to be baffled occasional
ly, we can afford to fall occasionally,
we can afford to die when we fall.
but we must die with our faces In that
direction. For God will never call re-treat-God's
Purpose Seen.
And if America shall not do it and
the other nations that are moving on
under this great banner and for this
expressed purpose. If they shall fail.
then heaven will raise up another, for
I tell you, the purpose of God in this
world of ours Is for the treading down
of the serpent and the establishment
of God's kingdom, which, is a kingdom
of human rights, human freedom, full
est human expression, the liberty and
freedom of the children of God. Sing
the last stanza:
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was bora
across the sea.
With a glory in his bosom that transfigures
you and me;
As He died to make men holy. let ua die to
make men free.
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
While God ia marching on.
"In the beauty of the lilies Christ
was born across the sea." lie first
came down from heaven; but. as we-
know him, he came up, as lilies do, out
of the earth and mud and most un
promising soil, came up In all his
beauty. Up and out of some of the
hardest and darkest places of our poor
earth life "Christ was born across the
sea, with a beauty in his visage his
character, his conduct, his life a
beauty of self-sacrificing and self-giving
and serving and saving" a beauty
in his visage that transfigures you and
me, "as he died to make men holy, let
us die to make men free."
The transfiguring power of an herolo
sacrifice, an heroic giving and self
surrender and consecration, the trans
figuring power of that, will be as great
in us. proportionate to our life, as it
was in the Christ of Judea. And if
this hour goes by without our respond
ing to the occasion, instead of being
transfigured transfigured means made
brighter, more glorious and luminous
and grand Instead of being transfig
ured, America would sink back as a
greater business Nation, an achiever
in material things, a larger and more
sordid, blackened life. We have reached
the point that we shall either go for
ward as a Nation and be transfigured
by our sacrifice and heroism, or we
shall be made more sordid and black
by our refusal. And what is true of
the American Nation is true of every
citizen. If any man manages to get by
this day ' without doing something I
mean in this great crisis, tomorrow or
next day, without really doing some
thing I want to tell you he will be
the poorest chap that comes out of this
war. O, but the mothers who have
given, and the boys who have given,
and the fathers who have given, and
the lovers who have given, and the
business men who have given, and the
great men of the Nation who have
given of both soul and substance, they
will be t'ransflgured. It is according to
the law of God and the law of life.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born
across the sea.
With a glory In his bosom that transfigures
you and me;
As he died to make men holy, let ua die te
make men free.
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah,
i . While God in marching os ,