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About The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, Ore.) 1881-current | View Entire Issue (June 30, 1918)
T 10 THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, JUNE 30, 1918. "THE SPIRIT OF SEVENTY-SIX" THEME AT FIRST CHRISTIAN Rev. Harold H. Griffis Opens Series of Popular Midweek Lectures on War Topics. THIS Sunday morning service at the First Christian Church, corner of Park and Columbia, will be espe cially appropriate to the coming Fourth of July celebration. A patriotic discourse on "The Spirit of Seventy-Six" will be delivered at 11 o'clock by the pastor. Rev. Harold H. Griffis. An anthem with special musical setting for the National hymns of Eng land, France and America will be ren dered by the church quartet. In the evening at 7:45 Rev. Mr. Griffis will conclude his series of sermons on "The Evolution of the. Church," with a dis course on "The Church for the Twentieth Century." Last Thursday evening at 8 o'clock the pastor began a series of mid-week lectures on the general theme, "The Christian Idea in the Modern World." These addresses will deal with the world's present challenge to the Chris tian religion as embodied in the world war and will be continued several weeks. The topic for the coming Thursday evening is "To What Extent Am 1 My Brother's Keeper?" Several other churches will hold patriotic services. Dr. William A. Waldo, of the White Temple, at 11 o'clock today will speak on the subject, "The Reign of Christ on Earth." In the evening at 7:45 he will talk on "The Angel Visitors." The morning subject will be a dis cussion of a better world after the war is over and elements of the per petual reign of Jesus upon the earth. In the evening he will use Sodom as a type of a ruined nation and a ruined city. The ordinance of baptism will be ad ministered at the close of the sermon in the evening. Rev. E. Olin Eldridge. pastor of the Mount Tabor Methodist Episcopal Church, corner East Stark and Sixty first streets, will speak tonight at 8 oclock upon "God's Method of Making a Man." This morning at 11 o'clock Rev. D. C. Bevan will speak, ... Dr. Clarence True Wilson, of Wash ington, D. C will have charge of the morning service at Centenary and will give a patriotic sermon on "The Divine Right of Democracy." In the evening the choir, assisted by the Sunday school orchestra, will give a sacred concert, under the direction of George D. Hieb. East Side Baptist Church Has Prosperous Year. Dr. MitiMon Prepares to Leave on Two Months' Vacation, AT the. East Side Baptist Church the pastor. Dr. Hinson, will today preach his last sermons before leav ing on his vacation of two months. His theme this morning will be "The Secret of Success." Tonight he will pneach from "The Scarlet Made White by the Red." During the 17 months of the present pastorate the membership has more than doubled, and the. finances have increased fourfold. A large new church building will be dedicated by the church arly next Fall, free of debt. First Spiritualist Church will hold regular senvices at 3 and 8 P. M. to day, conducted by the pastor, A. Scott Bledsoe. The church will close July 3 for the Summer vacation. The Red Cross or other war workers may use the building or parlors for the Sum mer fnee of charge. Call the pastor. Tabor 143. At Our Savior's Lutheran Church, East Grant and Tenth streets, a service of unusual interest will take place this Sunday at 11 A. M. A class which for the past year has been instructed by the pastor will be presented for confirmation. Friends of the young candidates will decorate the church and music will be offered by the church choir. The following is the order of cervice: Invocation and hymn; Scripture read ing: "Oh, Behold the Lamb of God," church chorus; confirmation: "One Sweetly, Solemn Thought," Ladies' Oc tet; sermon theme, "His Everlasting Promise"; "The Heavens Declare," church chorus. At the Fourth Presbyterian Church today, the pastor. Rev. Henry G. Han ton, will speak at 10:30 on "What is Salvation?" At 12 o'clock there will CHRISTIANITY IS TERMED WORLD'S ONE COMPLETE FAITH Humanity Without Its God Unthinkable, Declares Rev. Harold H. Griffis Gospel of Christ Succeeds Where Other Religions Fail. BY REV. HAROLD H. GRIFFIS. Pastor Firm Christian Church. "We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that like as Chrlpt was raised from the dead throuph the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life." Rom. vl:4.) THE noted French theologian, Saba tier has pronounced man "incurably religious." It is a fact that the tvorld has always believed in God. He has been given different names the Greeks called him Zeus, the Romans Jupiter, the Hebrews Jehovah but the concept itself has been practically uni versal. On the monument that marks the last resting-place of the brilliant Voltaire is the famous sentence, "If there were no God, it would be neces eary to Invent one." Humanity has proceeded on the principle that some things may be taken for granted, and the existence of God is one of them. But while it Is a fact that the world has always believed in God and thus has had much religion and many re ligions, it is also a fact that it has had only one true religion. "No man hath fecn God at any time: the only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him." Christianity, the Christianity of Christ, is the world's one "complete faith. It is complete both because it furnishes nn adequate revelation of the charac ter of God and because it is perfectly adapted to the nature of man. All other religions fail at one or both of these points. And even many systems passing under the name of Christianity liave been found woefully wanting. But how may we discriminate between the true and the false? What is there about the Christian faith that makes it pre-eminent and sufficient? In solving this problem I find a clew in our morning text: "We svere buried therefore with him, through baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life." Just as a small lens will encompass a large landscape, co this single verse of scripture may serve to bring within the horizon of the mind the vast domain of Christian thought and belief. The sacred ordi nance of Christian baptism tells the Ftory. If you would see Christianity in its essence, study the significance be the regular Sunday school services and at 8 o'clock the pastor will speak on "The Task of the Church In the City." An open forum will be con ducted under the auspices of the Chris tian Endeavor, led by Miss Ruth E. Crocker. Rev. E. O. .Eldridge, D. D., of Mount Tabor Methodist Church, will preach at First Church Sunday morning. Rev. Dr. Stansfield is this week instructor at the Epworth League Institute at Lake Chelan, Wash., and will preach the closing sermon there Sunday. Conference of Missionary Education Movement Near. Meeting; Will Take Place July 30 to August 8 at Seobeck, Wash. ON "Sunset Slope," Seabeck. Wash., one of the most beautiful forest regions of the Northwest, the third an nual conference of the missionary edu cation movement will be hald for ten days, July 30-August 8. It is one of a series which the missionary education movement holds each year on behalf of the educational department of home and foreign mission boards of the United States and Canada. The principal fea tures of the conference are the ways and means of introducing missionary interest, produced by missionaries fresh from the "firing line," up-to-the-minute methods presented by experts and courses for workers in Sunday school and young people's societies, and how to strengthen and build up women's organizations. Special efforts are being made to interest the young people's societies, j The "Servants of the King" group will j be composed of young people under 20 who will confer in Bible and mission study and round table work. Several of the Portland Christian En deavor societies will be represented. The Kenilworth Christian Endeavor So ciety is raising a fund for two dele gates, the other societies are sending one, and many delegates are paying their own expenses. Two of this coun try's leading Endeavor officers will attend Miss Faye Stetnmetz, ex-president of Multnomah County Union, and Miss Violet Johnson, county missionary chairman. Miss Johnson will direct one of the Seabeck conferences on "Effi cient Junior Work in the Sunday School." Rev. John H. Matthews, chairman of Northwest territory and executive chairman of the conference, makes this appeal to the young people of the Northwest: "We desire young men and young women who are expecting to en ter college or are In other training for their life work; those who desire to broaden the vision of life and to deepen its meaning; those who are seeking to understand the world movements of the day; those who are eager to become leaders in local churches, and those wishing a vocation with a purpose." Alultnomah County is now ready for the biggest Christian Endeavor conven tion it has ever held. All plans are laid for "Camp Multnomah. C. E. Train ing Station," which will be held from August 15-19, inclusive, at Jennings Lodge. The programme, which has been ar ranged under the direction of Miss Faye Steinmetz, ex-president of Mult nomah Union, is headed by some of the strongest Endeavor speakers in the state. Each day's course is intensely in teresting, for it is arranged in military style. At bugle call the delegates emerge from the girls' and boys' bar racks, take "setting-up" exercises to work up an appetite for a delicious camp breakfast, then scatter to their various conferences, general parlia ment and Bible study. The afternoons will be entirely devoted to recreations games and contests of all kinds be tween societies in vaulting, races, etc. After supper will be held song services and splendid inspirational addresses to be ended with cosy bonfire watches in groups. A special feature will be giv en each night in addition to the regular programme. Sunday evening James W. Palmer, of this city, secretary of the Y. M. C. A., who has seen "hut service" in France, will deliver his address on "Our Forces in France as I Saw Them." Mr. Pal mer recently returned from France and on a former occasion spoke in First M. E. Church on the subject "The Red Triangle in the War." Mr. Palmer is a forceful speaker and is capable of giving an interesting address on the subject of greatest importance. of that spiritual act whereby the soul renounces the authority of sin, declares allegiance to Jesus Christ, and takes up citizenship in the kingdom of God. Christianity a History. If you will engage in such a study, you will find first of all that Chris tianity is a history. "We were buried therefore with him through baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father." Christian baptism symbolizes the three historical facts of the death, burial and resurrection, of Christ. As the apostle Paul understood It, baptism involved three steps: First, an immer sion or going into the water; second, submersion or going under the water; third, an emergence or coming up out of the water. Thus baptism is a living picture of three great gospel ideas; immersion typifying the death of Christ, submersion typifying the burial or ratification of that death, and emer gence typifying Christ's resurrection. The ordinance is a lesson in sacred history. As Napoleon stood before his army in the presence of the pyramids, he ex claimed, "Soldiers, forty centuries of history are looking down upon you!" Singularly, when we today are privi leged to witness the administration of this New Testament ordinance, it is ours to reflect that history 2000 years old is passing before us in the sym bolism of this simple service. The can didate for baptism is brought face to face with the thought that Christianity has an imperishable foundation in. real historical events. Acceptance of Christ Essential. No system of belief can rightfully be called Christian that ignores or contradicts or does violence to the simple story of Jesus. No amount of metaphysical reasoning will ever en able us to dispense with the New Tes tament record of Christ. The gospel narrative is fundamental. It rescues faith from an abstract theology and from a lifeless formalism. It makes the Christian religion real and tang ible. The person whose death, burial, and resurrection we memorialize in Christian baptism lived on this earth as a man among men. He is a fact of history and cognizable as any other phenomenon. He came living a man's life, doing a man's work, grappling with a man's problems. He touched human experience at every angle. Unspeakably precious, therefore, to TABERNACLE AT TURNER, SCENE OF CHRISTIAN CHURCH STATE CONVENTION AND TWO MINISTERS PROMINENT IN CURRENT EVENTS. I - f ' Li - i - - sue' ' i 1 I si E I - - t ,..Tj a' w '' '''MMiy,'. ' '"'' ' r- i W jOC Is.1- ,UJ 1 - II jawaMaw,,BaMaaaWpia Christian Church to Hold Convention at Turner. - Mlalsters of Prominence to Address Ten-Dar Gataerlns;. EIGHT miles east of Salem is located the village of Turner, its chief an nual event being the "Turner Conven tion," or the annual state convention of the Christian churches of Oregon, as it is best known. In 1890 "Father" Turner presented to the Oregon State Board of the Churches of Christ eight and one-third acres of land and the money to build the "Turner Memorial Tabernacle," in which the 10-day convention Is held each Summer. Across the front of the buildings are the words: "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." The tabernacle is located in a restful spot, surrounded by a grove of oak and fir trees, and has a clear brook flowing through the grounds. The camping privileges are excellent. Attractive "bungalows" may be rented or visitors may tent. Or, if they prefer, they may rent quarters in the Lodge and board at the restaurant on the grounds. In addition to those who camp there for the season hundreds motor to the con vention to attend some special session or remain over Sunday. Many of the churches at nearby val ley points dispense with their services in order that their congregations may attend the convention. One of the most impressive gatherings is the com munion service held each Sunday after noon. This year these two communion services will be presided over by Rev. S. M. Conner and Rev. R. H. Sawyer, of Portland. The schedule of the convention is so arranged that the various organiza tions of the churches may have special conferences and addresses. Thus the Christian Endeavorers, Christian Wom en's Board of Missions, Sunday school and other departments have their own "day." A programme of unusual excel lence is announced by the Rev. C. F. S. Wander, state secretary, who, in con junction with Rev. Harold H. Griffis, of the First Christian Church, Portland, chairman of the programme committee, has worked unceasingly for many weeks to perfect plans for the ap proaching convention, which will be held July 6 to 14, inclusive. Sermons and lectures will be given each day by Rev. H. O. Breed en, D. D., one of the church's prominent ministers and edu cators. Dr. Breeden is an eloquent speaker and a student of the Christian poets. Rev. S. G. Buckner. of Vakima, Wash., recently from Pennsylvania, also will speak each day. Other prom inent workers who will appear on the programme are A. McLean, president of the Foreign Christian Missionary Society, of Cincinnati; Mrs. Louise Kelly, of Indianapolis, who Is said to be one of the most gifted and capable missionary speakers on the platform: Rev. W. F. Turner, Northwest superin- the hear of every earnest believer Is this biography of the Son of man. In its pastoral simplicity. In its perfect humanity, in its absolute freedom from extremes or fanaticism, and particu larly in Its mighty power to stir the souls of men, the Christ story is sim ply unparalleled in the literature of the race. To say that the story was manufactured within the imagination of the men who have given us the four Gospels only increases the magnitude of the issue. To create the character Christ out of the human fancy would require genius equal to Christ himself. The stream cannot rise higher than its source. The best explanation of the wonder ful portrait .delineated by the four evangelists is that Jesus of Nazareth sat for the portrait. The Christian re ligion is founded on a personality. History Itself was cut in two by the Galilean peasant, and even the Infidel Renan is compelled to acknowledge: "His worship will grow young without ceasing, his story will call forth tears without end, while coming ages will proclaim that among the sons of men there is none born greater than Jesus." Christianity an Experience. But the Christian religion involves something more than a series of his torical events. The symbolism of the baptismal ordinance does not exhaust its meaning. The gospel of Christ is not merely a narrative it is a way of life: "We were buried therefore with him through baptism Into death, that like as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life." Baptism brings the believer into personal contact with Jesus Christ. And this leads us to the thought that the great system of religion which we call Christianity and which we are endeavoring to analyze is not only a history, but it is also an experience. It connects up not only with a mag nificent past but also with a mighty present. , In the process of becoming a Chris tian, the disciple dies to slit and is buried and out of the grave of his dead spiritual self rises his new and better spiritual self. Thus the story of the Savior is republished in the career of the Christian, the message written on parchment with pen is transcribed to the tablets of the human soul by the Holy Spirit, and the ChriBt of the New Testament becomes the Christ of the individual soul. Sacred forever Is that hour in which a man decides in favor of the Christian ideal and voluntarily dedicates him . - w - - . - I - v 1 ' ' s ) ' It 2s Sos2zzij Sfexrs-Sjefc. FAoto I tendent of missions, of Spokane; Roy K. Roadruck. Northwest Bible school superintendent, of Spokane; Mrs. Mad den, of Japan; E. R. Moon, of Africa; Rev. Roy L. Dunn, state evangelist. and Mrs. Clara G. Esson, dean of Bible school work for Oregon. Films Will Depict Scenes in Devastated France. "Value of Independence nay," Topic at Atkinson Memorial. T"IFTY pictures of the havoc wrought X by the Germans on the churches of Northern France will be shown at the Atkinson Memorial Church on Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. These films are provided by the United States Govern ment. In contrast to the useless ruth lessness of the German policy will be shown the British policy of guarding the ancient churches of Bethlehem Jerusalem and other places in Pales tine in the line of their march as they drove out the Turks. At the 11 A. M. service Rev. Warren Morse will speak on the "Value of our National Independence Day." Rev. Charles Waehlte, of Oakland, Cal.. will begin a series of lectures on the Book of Revelation, using his own chart, Sunday evening, next, at the Grace Baptist Church, Montavllla, cor' tier Seventy-sixth and Ash streets. Rev. Mr. Waehlte is filling the pulpit of H. T. Cash during his sojourn in the East, and preaches at each morning service, as well as In the evening, and also con ducts the Thursday evening prayer meeting. All are welcome. self to a "life hid with Christ in God." that hour in which he can say with the poet. Laid on thine altar. O. my Lord divine. Accept thin sift tnrty. for Jenua' aske: I have no Jewels to adorn thy shrine. No far-famed sacrifice to make; But here within my trembling hand I brine This will of mine a thing that aeemetn small. But thou, slone. O, Lord, canst understand How. when I yield the this. I yield mine all. Such a committal la both natural and reasonable. Society is constantly re quiring the use of vows and pledges and oaths of allegiance. - The Presi dent t the United States strengthens reverence for free Institutions by tak ing the oath of office. The foreigner attains to the rights of citizenship by solemnly subscribing to the Federal constitution. Property is made secure for that dramatic act called the signing of a deed. The home Is the more firm ly established because its union is sol emnized by the marriage ceremony. And in a similar way, faith in the laws of God and of men la vitalized by that supreme spiritual act in which a man pledges allegiance to Jesus Christ and swears fealty to conscience and the highest Christian ideals. Conversion Not t it laaate 'Goal. But Christianity as an experience Is not limited to the act of conversion. It goes on and reaches out into every part of the believer's life, controlling his thoughts, purifying his feelings, and strengthening his purposes. For such an one Christ becomes not only a pattern without but also a power within. And let me add in passing that this represents the one . stupen dous need of humanity today a relig ious profession surcharged with spirit ual power. The world does not suffer for lack of either a theological Chris tianity or a sacerdotal Christianity. It has had these In abundance. But the heart of mankind does bleed and break in the tragic need of an experi ential Christianity In the need of men and women who are willing to venture their lives on the truth proclaimed by the Son of God. But is the Christian idea workable in the modern world? Jesus taught the doctrine of love and brotherhood and social service. He declared that who soever would become greatest of all should be servant of all and that a man should love his neighbor as him self. But is this teaching adaptable to human nature as we , commonly know it and to the society of the pres ent age? Is the Sermon on the Mount practicable in modern life? Many s J ! Yf ' I 1 y Christian Science Churches Plan Busy Sunday. Reading Room Well Stocked With Authorised Literature. THE Christian Science churches and society of Portland will hold serv ices In their respective places of wor ship at 11 o'clock Sunday morning, -and all excepting Fifth Church and the so ciety repeat the service Sunday even ing at 8 o'clock. The same service is held in all the churches and the society. the subject for the lesson-sermon this week being "Christian Science. At the Wednesday evening meetings, held at 8 o'clock, testimonials of Chris tian Science healing are given. The churches and society are located as follows: First Church, Everett and Nineteenth streets; Second Church, East Sixth street and Holladay avenue; Third Church, East Twelfth and Salmon streets; Fourth Church, Vancouver avenue and Emerson street; Fifth Church, Sixty-second street and Forty second avenue: Sixth Church, Masonic Temple, 3SS Yamhill street; Society, Holbrook block. St. Johns. Two sessions of the Sunday school are held by First, Second. Fourth and Sixth churches and the society at 9:45 and 11 A. M.. respectively. Third Church also conducts two sessions, the first at 11 A. M. and the second at 12:10 P. M., and Fifth Church at 9:30 and 11 A. M. A reading room, maintained by the churches, where all authorized Chris tian Science literature may be found, is located on the 11th floor of the Northwestern Bank building. In the Norwegian-Danish Methodist Episcopal churches Rev. Ellas Gjerding is pastor. The morning service will be held in the church on Vancouver avenue and Skidmore street, beginning with the Sunday school service t 10 o'clock. At 11 o'clock the pastor will preach on "God-Given Courage." The evening service will be held In the First Church. Eighteenth and Hoyt streets, beginning with the adult Bible class, at 7. study ing Mark's wonderful picture of Jesus. At 8 o'clock the pastor will speak on "Jesus and the City." Prayer meeting is held Wednesday night in the Vancouver-avenue and Skidmore-street Church and Thursday night In the First Church on Eighteenth and Hoyt streets. The annual Christian Endeavor ex cursion took place this year on Tues day on the barge "Swan." That the ex cursion was a complete success Is evi denced by the fact that many were turned away at the(gate, and the tick ets were all sold the second day of the opening sale. The party, which was scheduled to start at 7:30, got under way at 8 o'clock, starting at the foot of Jeffer son street and beginning the return trip some way below Linnton and returning have said that It Is not and have backed up their denials with their deeds. They have affirmed that the true principle of life Is not the "will to love" but the "will to power." and that in the social order the law of progress is self-assertion or self aggrandizement rather than self-sacrifice. Yes. and today we may lift up our eyes and behold the fruits of this sor did philosophy In a world that Is filled with carnage and conflagration. For what Is the great world war but the tragic Nemesis that must overtake any nation or civilization that would repu diate the doctrine of human brother hood and enthrone physical force as the supreme arbiter in human affairs? In stead of raising the question as to whether Christianity Is workable, we of America have practically reached the conviction that Christ's Idea of brotherhood and democracy is the only thing that is workable, and it Is for this very conviction, is It not, that in the world crisis we as a Nation have chosen the straight and narrow way. though it be the way of the cross, and have presented ourselves ready to serve, to sacrifice and to suffer? Christianity Prophecy. But there is another element of Chris tianity that we must not overlook. The Initiatory rite of baptism does more than simply to symbolize historical events, and even more than to Illus trate and embody the spiritual renewal that takes place in Christian conver sion: it reaches out into the future and holds up before us a prophecy of our own victory over death and grave "We were buried with him through baptism into death, that like as Christ was raised, so we also; for if we have become united with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection." Christianity, then. Is not only a his tory and an experience, but it is also a prophecy. There is in It the hope of a glorious triumph. It not only pic tures the past and prepares for the present, but It also provides for the fu ture: "For since by man came death by man came also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die. so in Christ shall all be made alive." It has become intellectually fashion able In many circles to disparage all reference to the future, world. But I want to tell you that the religion that stops short of another world is too provincial to be of any great value In any world. Man has yearnings and as pirations which cannot be satisfied by this earthly life and are therefore prophecies of a larger life. To meet the full requirements of human nature. to the Jeffeson-street dock at IS , o clock. The weather was ideal for the trip and about 10 o'clock the moon cast a dull red glow over the water. The Negro Christian Endeavor of the Negro Congregational Church enter tained everyone by singing and dancing to the latest music The ice cream and "pop" department did a rushing business, the three in charge hardly being able to "handle tn crowd." Dancing was started, but on account of the immense crowds which thronged the decks, had to be abandoned. Hillsboro Pastor to Speak at First Congregational. Jndgment According to Type, Topic of Morulas; Sermon. Is At the First Congregational Church. Park and Madison streets. Rev A. D. Shaw, of Hilboro, will occupy the pulpit today. His theme at 10:30 A. M. will be "Judgment According to Type." In the evening at 7:45 his theme will be "The Glory of the Trenches." The monthly song service and organ recital will be held In the evening fol lowing the sermon. The programme ill include: Organ solo. "The Pil grims"; "Song of Hope" (Batiste): "Ser enata. D Major" (Moszkowski : quartet. "Still, Still With Thee" (Foote); organ solo. "Idylle" (Faulkes: 'Fugue From Pastoral Sonata" ( Rhelnberger) : alto solo. "Fear Not. O Israel" Dudley Buck); organ solo, "Manzanillo" (Ro byni: "Reverie" ISchmnann : quartet. "When I Survey the Wondrous- Cross" (Schnecker). The choir is composed of Mrs. Arthur Cook, soprano: Mrs. Mity lene Fraker Stites. contralto; Walter J. Gill, tenor; Harry Scougall, baritone, and Lucien E. Becker, organist and di rector. The church Is cool and comfortable nd a hearty welcome await every one who attends the services. The regular communion service will be held July 1. The presiding minister will be Dr. James Robert Smith, of St. Paul, who comes to occupy the pulpit for several Sundays. Dr. Smith is from a large church and will doubtless give some very strong sermons. s A service in celebration of American Independence will be held tonight at the Highland Congregational Church. The gathering will be of a patriotic nature and. will center around the thought of"he birth of the Nation. The exercises will be largely musical, in cluding patriotic song by the congre gation, several vocal solos and some literary numbers. The pastor. Rev. Edward Constant, will give an address on "The Spirit of '76." The programme will not only be a fitting prelude to the Fourth of July, but will be one teding to foster loyalty and quicken our patriotic ardor. The morning discourse at this church will have for its title "A Swarm of Bees Without a Sting." V Rev. Alexander Beers, paBtor of the First Free Methodist Church, East Ninth and Mill streets, will preach this morning, taking for his theme "Apos tolic Pentacostal Preaching the World's Need." In this sermon the pastor will show that compromise in the pulpit and laxity in the pew have invited a con dition of worldiness In the church that has greatly hindered the progress of Christianity in the world. The pastor also will preach in the evening, and the young people will conduct a special meeting at 7 oclock. Donald L. Mac Phee will sing. Dr. J. J. Staub. of the Sunnyside Con gregational Church, will speak this evening on "Keeping Alive the Altar Fires of the Church." Appropriate music and instructive motion pictures will enhance the inspiration of the service. Rev. Alfred Bates will preach at Dundee thin Sunday at 11 A. M. and at 7 P. M. Miss Georgie Webber will have charge of the Lafayette Epworth League and the pastor will preach at 8 P. M. The second week of the Oregon Sum mer Bible conference, nor In session In the hall on East Fifteenth and Boise streets, promises to be a wek full of good shlngs. Evangelist H. A. Iron side, of Los Angeles, whose lectures during the past week have been In tensely practical and helpful, has con sented to stay through the second week. He will lecture on the distinctive then, religion must remove the mask from the face of death and reveal death's true character and function, and this Christianity does In a way un approached by any other system of re ligious thought. Death Natural Mrs. Jesus made it clear that death was not an abortion of the creative process, but a natural step In the unfolding of a nobler existence. ' "Except a grain of wheat fall Into the ground and die. it abldeth by Itself alone; but If it die. It beareth much fruit." Nothing else In all the history of human experience Is so reassuring for the truth of im mortality as the attitude of Jesus to ward death. With him man's survival of death was no greater problem In the spiritual realm than the efficiency of prayer or the feasibility of the Golden Rule. He regarded Immortality as a necesasry fact of life. He did not argue it he assumed It and practiced it. With him It was no more to be ques tioned than the existence and good ness of his heavenly Fateher. Such Implicit confidence had never been exhibited by any other religious teacher. Even great Socrates at the last moment stood in doubt as to the issue of death, and upon receiving the fatal hemlock said to his disciples: "The hour of separation has come. I go to die and you to live, but as to which of us Is destined to an improved state of being Is concealed from every one except God." But how different ait the words of Christ in the face of dea.h: "Let not your heart be trou bled; ye believe in God. believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions, and I go to prepare a place for you." The Master's qnlet confidence robs death of Its sting and floods humanity with hope. And surely, this note of confidence was never more sweet and precious than It is today. Multitudes now passing with loved ones through the valley of the shadow are crying out for immortality and are refusing to be satisfied with the mere specula tions of men. To all such may God help us to bring that supreme solace which can be found only in the calm assurance that breathes from the lips of Jesus as he says, "Because I live, ye shall live also." Christianity Complete. In closing let me call your attention again to the thought of how complete and satisfying is this religion of the Christ. As suggested even in the sym bolic ordinance of baptism, Christian ity meets and answers the fundamental requirements of human nature. It pro vides man with a history, with an ex teachings of Russellism and Christian Science some time during the week. Dr. W. P. White, pastor of the United Presbyterian Church of Albany, will bo present on July 4. 5 and 6 and will lec ture on prophetic subjects. Services will be held at 10 A. M.. Z:ZH P. M. and 7:30 P. M. each day excepting Sunday and Monday, when there will be no services In the morning. This conference Is undenominational and is open and free to alL Piedmont Presbyterian Sunday school has introduced the "Associate Superin tendency." which Is working out very satisfactorily, in the efficient persons of Guy W. Phillips and Mrs. A. A. Campbell. This morning at 11 o'clock Dr. A. L. Hutchison, pastor of the church, will speak on "The Work of God in tke Light of Present-Day Conditions." At 8 P. M.. under the leadership of Will Robinson, a chorus of 30 voices will render a patriotic musical programme. A number of the city's popular Orpheus Club members will participate in the programme. The pastor will give a, short patriotic address. A special invitation has been sent to the men at Vancouver Barracks to at tend, and it is expected that a large number of boys will attend the service. John W. Troy will sneak at ths Highland Baptist Church this Sunday. i a. .m.. on A Solilter s Endurance"; solo. "He Will Hold Me Fast." bv Robert Harkness. an Australian pianist. Sermon, 8 P. M.. "Living in War Time"; solo, "&o Near to the Kingdom." br Charles H. Gabriel. Soldiers receive a, special welcome. The Divine Church of Spiritualism will meet at the 'oo1men of the World Hall tonight, and Joseph Isherwood. of London, will lecture on "Personal Ex periencea." At the Rodney-Avenue Christian Church. Rodney avenue at Knott street. ine hvangcl of "the .Church in the World's Reconstruction" will be tho theme of the pastor. Dr. J. K. Ghorm ley. at. 11 A. M. At 8 P. M. he will speak on "The Seer and His Vision." Mrs. C. H. Dougherty and Mrs. E. S. Rosenberg will sing at the morning service "He Included Me." In the evening there will be a patriotic sonir service In keeping with our National Memorial day. also presentation of a flag to the church and Sunday school by the Relief Corps of the Orand Army of the Republic of Montavllla. In Sunnyslde M. E. Church, at the regular morning services at 11 o'clock toiayv the pastor. Dr. R. Elmer Smith, will deliver a special message to the young people. At the evening service at 7:43 a live and unusual programme will be given by the Epworth League. The theme of the programme is "Keep the League Fires Burning." At tha opening of the service the leaguers will enter the auditorium In a body as a procession of the allies. Recognition will he accorded the boys in the serv ice by dedication of the Epworth League service flag. The work of the league In its differ ent phases will be sketched by inter esting speakers. A special talk to young people will be given by Dr. George Pratt. The pulpit at Central M. E. Church. Vancouver avenue and Fargo street, will be filled today by two visiting ministers. This morning Dr. J. T. Matthews, of Salem, will preach. At the evening service Dr. C. T. Wilson, of Washington. D. C. will deliver an address on "The Divine Right of De mocracy," an address which he recently gnve in the Metropolitan Church. Washington City, at the request of tha National War Council. s Trinity Lutheran Church will have two services today 10:15 A. M. and 7:30 P. M. The evening service will he a com munion service. Theme: "How Do Wo Obtain the Blessings Offered Us in Holy Communion?" Everybody Is cordially Invited. The church is located at Williams and Gra ham avenues. J. A. Rimbach is pastor. Presbyterian clergymen visiting in Portland will occupy the pulpit at Cen tral Prepbyterlnn Church today. Rev. Dr. Murdock McLeod. D. D.. pastor of Grace-Street Church. Minneapolis, will preach at the morning service, and Rev. Charles Ensign. I". D.. of Knox Church. Spokane, will deliver the even ing sermon. The pulpit supply committee of Cen- - Honrlnrffi on Pace It perience and with a prophecy. It has its foundation in historical event: it furnishes a programme for present-day duty: it holds out the prophecy of a glorious future: "We were buried, therefore with him through baptism into death, that like as Christ waa raised from the dead throusrh the glory of the Father, so we also might walk in newness of life. For if we have be come united with him in the likeness of his death we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection." Thrilling, indeed. Is the Christian out look upon human life. In this view life is no longer a series of senseless cycles, a hideous dance of unreason, a mighty maze, and all without a plan. On the contrary, the Christian believer sees in the world a story with a plo In which he finds beginning, progress and con summation. To be sure, an irrepressible conflict is on a conflict between good and evil, between love and hate, be tween life and death. But this con flict is not going to last forever, and the outcome of the struggle is not un certain. Behind this apparent tangle of human affairs God is working out his own good purposes, and In this world clash we ourselves aro soldiers doing battle under a mighty General and destined to be "more than con querors." Final Victory Assured. This Is the message of Christianity, and this is what it means to be a Chris tian. It Is to "war a good warfare" under the leadership of Jesus Christ. It is to fight under orders and "help make every generation's battle another skirmish won in God's campaign." We may not know all of our Leader's plans, but we can obey his Instructions and trust his promises. Christianity does not propose to answer all questions touching God and man and the universe, but it does furnish us a reliable com mander in the battle of life; it teaches us how to be loyal, and it assures us of ultimate victory. Men and women, get into the fight. '"Be atrona. We are not here to play, to dream, to drift. We have hard work to do, and loads to lift. Shun not the atrusgle; face It, 'Tia Uod's Sift. "Be strong! Ray not the days are evil who's to blarney say not the days are evil who's to blame? Stand up. speak out, and bravely, in Cod's name. "Be strong! It matters not how deep Intrenched the wrong. How hard the battle goes, the day, how long. Faint not. fight on! Tomorrow comes ths sonc."