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METHODIST EPISCOPAL CONFERENCE OPENS WEDNESDAY
Bishop Shepard to Speak at Sixty-Sixth Annual Meeting. Many Prominent Ministers to Attend.
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAX, PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 22, 1918. "
j- MPORTANT among: church affairs
conference of the Methodist Episco-
H.ai I n Tl rrnB nr irprnn. w I1 1 1 II will W
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church workers from all parts of the
state. BishoD William Shepard, or
Wichita. Kan., will preside at the con
ference in the absence of Bishop
Hughes, who is attending an Eastern
conference. This is in accordance with
the usual plan at Methodist confer
ences, which provides for a general ex-
change of bishops every four years.
Important subjects to come before
the conference will bemlsslon wort,
Army service and the steps to be take
to supply pastorates vacated by en
Ustments. Important plans will be
itbHo for the great centenary drive,
which will open the campaign for i0,
onn nAA tt riwitrt f rt Inrrpasin v th
equipment in churches in home and for
eign fields.
Important administrative work will
be done by the four district superln
tendents of Oregon, Kev. James Moore,
of the Eugene distr.ct: Rev. H. J. Van
Fosaen. of the Klamath Falls district
Rev. T. B. Ford, of the Salem district.
and Rev. William Wallace xoungson. 01
the Portland district.
The conference will open Wednes
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aay morning, oeptciuucr w, nu .
administration of the sacrament. Th
programme for the week follows:
September 23.
10:09 A. M- Conference examinations In
First Church. All work to be concluded by
Tuesday noon.
beptemoer .
8:00 P. M. Annual meeting of the. Board
ml Examiners: Albert 8. liisey. chairman.
5:30 P. M. Dinner: Board or faxaminers
and all undergraduates. Bishop Shepard
&nd th cabinet will be cuests of honor.
Oxford parlors of p-fst Church. Plates. SO
7:30-10.00 P. M. Reception In the Sunday
School Temple. The District Epworth
League will be host.
September 25.
fi:00 A. at. Opening of the Conference.
The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. Or-
rinlzatton of the Conference. The Me
i . ..l a R 11 n rhilrmin of
the committee, presiding
2:00 P. M. Anniversary of the Woman's
Home Missionary Society: Mrs. Joshua
tilansfield presiding. Address by Dr. Carl
Ore- oney. president of Willamette Vni-
H.ml V.
3:30 P. M. Anniversary of the Deaconess
Board. Mrs. A. K. Maclean presiding. Re
port of the superintendent of the Deaconess
Home. Miss Nellie JJ. turuia Aaaress.
-Woman and the New Day." by Dr. George
B. Dean. Department of Kvangelism. Boan
of Home Missions and Church Extension
and representative of first district. General
ieaconess Board.
7:30 P. M. Anniversary of the Board of
Education, the Hon. Kobert A. Booth pre
siding. Addr-sars by Dr. H. J. Talbot.
president of Kimball School of Theology
Dr. B. A. Steeves. president of the board of
trustees of Willamette University, and Dr.
Cari Gregg Doney, president of Willamette
university.
September 26.
8:30 A. M. Devotional Service. Address
by Bishop Shepard.
9:uo A M. Business session of the Con
ference.
2:UO P. M. Anniversary of the Woman's
Foreign Missionary Society. Mrs. M. B.
Parounagian presiding. Address by Dr.
Charles A. Edwards, "The Task of Woman
la the Church of Tomorrow.
3:30 P. M. Annual conference missionary
sermon In "moving picture" form In the
uxlora pariors, oy ur. oeorge Bennett:
ii. o. Oliver presiding.
7:30 P. M. Oregon Methodist Historical
Society. Dr. C. K. Cline presiding. Address.
"Relation of the Methodist Church to the
Eariy Political Development of the State."
Hon. C. B. Moores. Address. "Some Early
Lay Workers I Have Known. Hon. J. D.
Lee: address. "What 1 Saw and Heard
Among the Methodizes aa a Boy In Oregon."
Rev. A. J. Jostyn; address. "Methodist Be
ginnings on This Northwest Coast," Rev.
John Parsons. D. D.
September 27.
8:30 A. M. Devotional Service. Address
by Bishop Phepard.
9:ou A M. Business session of the Con
ference
10:00-12:00 A. M. The Centenary Pro
gramme. Addresses by Bishop Shepard. Dr.
George B. Dean. Dr. Dan B. Brummitt and
Kev. Mark Freeman. Presentation of the
executive secretary for the Portland area.
Dr. Charles A. Bowen. and the leader of the
Portland area team. Dr. A. L. Howarth
This will be one of the most notable and
Inspiring features of the entire programme
Lay representatives are especially urged to
be present.
Laymen's Association.
0:00-10:00 A. M. Preliminary and busi
ness session In the Oxford parlors. A M.
Hammer. Albany, president: J. W. Day.
Portland, vice-president: E. A. Baker, Port
land, corresponding secretary; A A. Lee,
alem. recording secretary; J. L. Hartman.
Portland, treasurer.
slides of world Interest and addresses by
the Centenary team
September 2s.
8:30 A. M. Devotional Service. Address
by Bishop Shepard.
9:00 A. M. Business session of the Con
ference. -
1:80 P. M. The members of the Confer
ence and their wives will be shown the
Columbia River Highway as the guests of
tne Portland Methodists. Automobiles win
leave First Church at 1:30.
7:30 P. M. -City-Wide Epworth League
Anniversary and Rally. Banners and service
flags. Auspices of the district cabinet. A
H. Hlsey presiding. Address by Dr. Dan "B
Brummitt, editor of Epworth Herald.
September 29.
In the Public Auditorium. Sd and Market.
N and S Car.
9:00 A M. Great City-Wide Old-Fashioned
Love Feast: Joshua Stansfleld. leader.
The Kimball chorus Each church will
make auch Sunday School adjustment aa
seems best.
10:30 A. M. Sermon by Bishop Shepard.
The committee recommends that services
be not held In our individual churches at
the morning hour, but that city-wide Meth
odism unite In this great service so that all
may hear our presiding bishop.
Congregational Singing.
Grand Chorus of All Choirs.
J. P. McFall. leader: Mrs Gladys Morgan
Farmer, organist. '
3:00 P. M. In First Church, ordination
of deacons and elders and consecration of
oeaconesses a great- and real evangellstlo
hour In charge of Bishop Shepard.
7.00 P. IT. in First Church, son service;
J. C. Spencer, leader.
7:30 P. M. Anniversary of the Board of
Conference Claimants. Hiram Gould presid
ing. Address. Dr. J. B Hlngeley. corre
sponding secretary Board of Conference
Claimants. Chicago, 111.
8:30 P. M. Anniversary of the Board on
Temperance. Prohibition and Public Morals.
C. C. Rarick presiding. Address. Dr. Clar
ence True Wilson, corresponding secretary
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Pub
lic Morals. Washington. D. C
The committee recommends tnat r.p-
worth Leaguers and members "keep the
home fires burning" by having especially
atrong Epworth League meetings and evan
gelistic preaching services In each or out
churches Sunday night.
September 3.
8:30 A. M. Devotional Service. , Address
by Bishop Shepard.
9:00 A M. Business session or tne con
ference. ; Adjournment some time during
the day. ,
The Kimball Chorus. Rev. H. N. Aldrlcn.
director, and Miss Ruth Field, organist, will
be present during the Conference. Chair
men of the various anniversaries will please
arrange with the Rav. H. N. Aldrich. Les
lie Church. Saiem. for such special numbers
as they may wish.
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'Fourth Liberty Loan,' Topic
of Sunday Sermon.
Rally Day .Will Be Observed at East
Side Baptist Church. -
City Churches Unite for
. Success of Loan.
Joint Mass Meeting; Will Be Held
Today in Auditorium.
A GREAT mass meeting, of cnurcn
members in the city of Portland
and vicinity will be held at the Mu
nicipal Auditorium at 2:30 o'clock this
afternoon. There will be speeches by
distinguished men, pipe organ concert;
inging by vested junior choirs ana
solos, ending with "The Star-Spangled
Banner" by the audience.
This great gathering of all churches I
n Portland and vicinity is for the pur
pose of publicly demonstrating their
nswerving loyalty, patriotism and
purpose to serve in the fourth liberty
loan to the limit of the combined power
of the membership.
A committee of the liberty loan or
ganisation, headed by Barclay Acheson.
f the 1. M. C. A., and consisting of
. R. Ellison, Dr. John H. Boyd, of the
irst Presbyterian Church; Bishop
Sumner, of the Episcopal diocese of
Oregon, and Rev. Father George F.
Thompson, of the Church of the Mada-
leine, is in charge of arrangements. -
The first 30 minutes will be given
over to the organ concert by tr. w.
Goodrich Jasper Dean MacFall will
ave charge of the united Junior choirs.
Bishop Sumner will preside. Captain
Muir Allan, of the British Army, will
tell the story from overseas and Dr.
C. Covert, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Chicago, will
deliver an address. He is now doing
pecial war work in the spruce camps
for the Y. M. C A.
Others who will speak for three
minutes each are Rabbi Jonah B. Wise.
f Temple Beth Israel, Dr. Boyd and
ather Thompson.
Services will be held at 11 A M. and
45 P. M. at Sunnyside Congregational
Church, corner of East Taylor and
last Thirty-second streets, today by
Rev. J. J. Staub, D. D., pastor. Sunday
school is 9:45 A. M. and Junior Chris
tian Endeavor at 3 P. M. Intermediate
10:00-12:00 A. M. Joint session with the christian Endeavor will be held at 8:30
P. M. and Senior Christian Endeavor
at 6:30 P. M. The subjects of sermons
are: Morning. "Paul's Inexhaustible
Theme." and evening, ''The Soul's Vital
Health Conditions."
annual conference.
2:oO-4:04 P. M. In the main auditorium.
Round Table with the Centenary Team.
Drs. Bowen. Howarth. Dean. Brummitt and
Freeman. A very great opportunity for all
of our. people to learn of the Centenary
Drive. Come and aslc questions. Every
body Invited.
3:00-5:0 P. M. Reception to the presid
ing bishop, the Conference and official rep
resentatives by Mrs. Matt S. Hughes, at the
Episcopal residence, 4ltf East Twenty-fourth
street. Take Hawthorne-avenue or Mount
Scott car at Second and Aider and transfer
to Murraymead car at Hawthorne avenue
and East Twentieth street. Get off at East
Twenty-fourth and Harrison streets and
walk south one block.
5:00 P. M. Seminary men's supper. A
recognised feature of conference week. Ox
ford parlors of First Church. See Dr. Sher
wood and Dr. Hammond. Plates. 50 centa.
7:30 P. M. The Centenary Programme.
Walton Sklpworth presiding. Stereopticon
THIS morning Dr. Hinson will preach
a sermon at East Side Baptist
Church relating to the fourth liberty
bond drive. He will take for his sub
ject "The Use to Which We Should Put
the Kaiser." At night the doctor
theme will be "An Invested Life." and
the purpose of the address will-, be to
show the highest, safest and best way
in which the investment of a life can
be made.
This is rally day in the Sunday school
of the church and also in the Young
People's Union. There will be special
exercises in the morning with music
and short addresses. At the Young
People's meeting, which commences at
8:30, Mr. Cash, Y. M. C A. secretary,
will speak on "Our Young People at
Home and at the Front.
The congregation expects to meet In
its new house of worship on the first
Sunday of October.
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A special liberty loan service will be
held at the Mount Tabor Presbyterian
church this morning. Rev. Ward W.
McHenry will speak on "Myself. My
Money arid My Country," and patriotic
music will be given. "Italy's struggle
for Unity and Freedom" will be the
subject of the evening service.
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Dr. George B.' Pratt will speak at
the Norwegian Danish Methodist Epis
copal Church on Vancouver avenue and
Skldmore street this morning at 11
o'clock. In the evening Rev. Elias
Gjerding will speak at the First
Church, corner of Hoyt and Eighteenth
streets. The subject will be: 'Conquer
ing Evil." The newly-organized string
band will furnish music and a .quartet
will sing.
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Rev. John E. Fee, pastor of the
Christian and Missionary Alliance, will
speak this morning on "Samuel, Lent to
the Lord as Long as He Liveth." Sunday
school begins at 10 A. M.. and the young
peoples meeting will be held at 6:30
o'clock. On Tuesday evening prayer
meeting will be held at 7:45. There will
be Bible study and prayer at 2:45 Fri
day afternoon.
Rev. George D. Watson will hold spe
cial services at the Alliiance from Sep
tember 29 to October 6. -
True Christians Will Uphold
Government Ideals.
Dana-era of So-Called National Re
. formers to Be Pointed Out.
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Services at the Highland Congrega
tional Church today will be in line with
the thought and work of the times. In
the morning the pastor. Rev. E. Con
stant, preaches on "A Sacrificial Offer
ing for Righteousness and Peace." In
the evening the service will open with
a patriotic song service. . The subject
of the address will be "One Hundred
Per Cent American."
A district Sunday school rally will
be held at this church on Tuesday
evening with addresses by well-known
Sunday school workers.
VAN'GELJST U K. DICKSON, of
the Seventh-day Adventlst Church,
will give a free lecture on "The Chris
tian's Attitude to the Government in
Time of War," at Christensen's Hall,
Eleventh street, between Morrison and
Yamhill, tonight at 8 o'clock.
Mr. Dickson will make it clear that
true Christians will be found holding
up the high ideals of the American
Government and will shun any course
that might at the present time throw
any obstruction in the way of the Gov
ernment in its humanitarian efforts to
establish freedom, justice and liberty
in the world by overthrowing oppres
sion and autocracy.
He will also point out certain dan
gers which lie in allowing the prin
ciples of the American Constitution to
be assailed by misguided so-called na
tional reformers. These lectures are
given under the auspices of the Port
land J3eventh-day Adventlst churches
and are for the public. A rousing song
service will precede the lecture. Serv
ices will continue each Sunday evening.
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Rev. T. B. Ford, District
Superintendent of Salem. ;
"Citizen's Duty," Will Be
Theme of Pastor.
Rev. Harold H. Grlffls to Speak on
Fourth Liberty Loan Drive.
'Matter," to Be Subject of
Scientist Service.
All Churches, Except Fifth, Will Re-
peat Service In Evening.
THE service on Sunday mornlng'at 11
o'clock at the First Christian
church. Park and Columbia, will center
on the citizen's duty in the fourth lib
erty loan drive. The sermon by the
pastor, R.ev. Harold H. Griffis, will have
for its theme, "The Patriotism of
Christ." Appropriate music will be ren
dered by the church quartet.
At the evening hour the 'Rev. Mr.
Griffis will speak on "The Liberty of
Law." The men of" this congregation
are planning their annual visitation to
every home among the members of the
church and on next Friday evening at
6:30, in preparation for this every mem
ber visitation, the men will be the
guests of the pastor at a dinner served
by the deaconesses in the dining-room
of the church.
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Th- Spiritualist Church of the-Soul
will hold services today at 208 Third
street, as follows: ? 11 A. M., lecture
and messages by the pastor on the sub
ject, "The -Seance Room"; 3 o'clock.
symposium; addresses by Mrs. S. B.
Seip and Dr. G. Castiday. followed by
messages by Mrs. M. Barber, Mrs.. F.
Lyon and H. Partlow. At 5 o'clock
circles will be held in the church, con
ducted by Mr a. Elkenton, Mrs. Barber,
Mrs. Lyon and Mrs. Seip. At 8 o'clock
Dr. R. Angus will lecture on the sub
ject, "Selfishness, following with a
seance.
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The Wilbur Methodist Episcopal
Church offers a splendid opportunity
for real sociability for those who are
strangers in the city. Following the
morning service there is a social hour
which is greatly enjoyed by everyone.
The sermon subject for this morning:
Christian Obligation and the Duty It
Imposes Upon Everyone."
At Rose City Park Community
Church, East Forty-fifth and Hancock
streets. Dr. Robert H. .Milligan, pastor.
will preach on "After the War this
morning.
This evening at 8 o clock William
Woodward, chairman of the State
Council of DefenBe, will deliver a pa
triotic address on "The War and the
Fourth Liberty Loan." The quartet
will sing, morning and evening. In
the evening Mrs. Bourne will repeat,
by request, "O Dry Those Tears." i
THE Christian Science churches and
society of Portland hold services at
( their respective places of worship at 11
o'clock this morning, and all excepting
Fifth Church and the society repeat
the service this evening at 8 o'clock.
The same service will be held in all the
churches and the society, the subject
for the lesson-sermon this week being
"Matter."
At the Wednesday evening meeting,
which is held at 8 o'clock, testimonies
of Christian Science healing are given.
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.
John Randall Dunn, member of the
board of lectureship of the Christian
Science Chureh, will give two lectures
at the First Church of Christ. Scien
tist. September 30 and October 1 at 8
o'clock. -
Following their yearly custom, the
Christian Scientists will establish and
r-.aintain a Christian Science booth at
the State Fair at Salem. A reading
room and restroom, where free Chris
tian Science literature will be dis
tributed, also will be opened on the
fair grounds,
.
F. J. Eppllng, pastor of Hamilton's
chapel. Eightieth and East Glisan
streets, will speak this morning at 11
o'clock on "The Spiritual Doctrine of
the Sabbath and Sunday."
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Rev. Theodore P. Smith will preach
on "A False Cry of Peace" at the Trin
ity Presbyterian Church this morning
at 11 o'clock. Sunday school will begin
at 10 o'clock and evening services will
be held at 7:30. Rev. M,r. Smith's sub
ject for the evening will be, "Pound for
Pound."
organizations. The purpose of organi
zation is, first, to bring the workers of
a community together at frequent In
tervals for discussion and conference
on their own problems, and, second, to
form a closer connecting link between
the county association and the Individ
ual schools, whereby the association
can more easily keep in touch with the
schools, and by learning their needs
better plan to serve them. County Vice
President Shaw is in charge of the
division of district organization.
Through co-operation of the Multno
mah County Association and the Ore
gon Sunday School Association arrange
ments have been made to keep the
business office, room 620 Abington
building, open on each week day. A
supply of helps in the form of leaflets
dealing with various phases of Sunday
school work are available for distribu
tion and can be had for the asking, be
sides which the office is prepared to
advise on many questions presented by
individuals ana scnoois.
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Rev. Joseph D. Boyd, pastor of Wood
lawn Christian Church, will speak on
"Th Church and Its Members" at 11
o'clock this morning. At the evening
service at 8 o'clock his subject will be
ins Pauline Interpretation of Christ.'
Rev. J. F. Thomas will occupy the
pt-.lpit at the Central Free Methodist
Church this morning. Services of un
usual interest will be held and an elab
orate programme of music given.
Miss Effie L. Southworth, returned
missionary from India, will speak at
the evening service.
The Congregational ministers' meet
ing will be held at the First Church on
Monday morning at 10:4-5. The Rev.
Robert Murray Pratt, pastor of Pilgrim
Church, will give the address. The
topic will be "The Signs of the Times.
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At Pilgrim Congregational Church on
Sunday the pastor. Rev. Robert Murray
Tatt, will preach two sermons. At 11
o'clock the subject will be, "All Sorts
and Conditions of Men." At 8 o'clock
the vital principle of patriotism will
be illustrated by a study of "The Town
Clerk of Ephesus."
Arthur Ralph will speak this morn
ing at 11 o'clock and this evening at 8
in the assembly-room of the Portland
Hotel, under the auspices of the Com
forter Truth Center. His subject in
the morning will be "Poise" and in the
evening "Intellectual and Spiritual
Discernment."
District Sunday School Ral
lies Announced.
Sleetinss to Be Held This Week
Will Close Present Series.
'Industrial Side of War" Is
Topic of Sermon.
Rev. William C. Covert to Talk at
First Presbyterian Church.
FIVE more district rallies, the open
ing Fall programme of the Multno
mah County Sunday School Associa
tion, were held during the past week.
The attendance included representative
workers from the schools of each dis
trict. Interest was strong. Although
primarily designed for schools in parT
ticular communities, they are open to
all who desire to attend. Rallies this
week at the following places will close
the present series within the city:
Monday, September 23 Montavilla,
Baptist Church.
Tuesday Highland, Woodlawn and
Piedmont, Highland Congregational
Church.
Wednesday Central East. Side, Cen
tral Presbyterian Church.
A gathering of workers of Eastern
Multnomah . Conuty will be held at
Gresham early in October.
Besides instruction and inspiration
received by individual workers and cor
responding benefits to local schools, a
MiimHo ef liutri't u u vl a iAR!Tlt tf thffA
rallies have determined to form district Government is working and these mat-
THE First Presbyterian Church, cor
ner Twelfth and Alder streets, will
have a special service this evening,
with an address by Rev. William C.
Covert, D. D., pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church of Chicago, and now
Y. M. C. A. worker in the spruce camps
in the Pacific Northwest.
Dr. Covert has observed the spirit of
the men in the camp and he has a mes
sage which he wants to deliver to the
people of Portland. He will deal with
the questions of industrial co-operation
and peace. The musical pro
gramme will be enriched by a recital
and an offertory on the violin by Mar
guerite Hughes. This expert on the
violin has recently come to Portland
and she will give a preliminary recital
tonight from 7:45 to 8.
. This will be the programme:
(a) "Adagio," Sinding; (b) "Ave
Maria," Schuberti (c) "Air," Bach;
(d "The Old Retrain," Kreisler.
The offertory number will be Ro
mance, Wieniawski. In addition to
these violin numbers, John Claire Mon
teith will sing "In Flanders Field."
Thii is the popular poem by Colonel
John McCrea, written to music by Hub
bard.
At the morning service Dr. Boyd will
be in his pulpit and will preach a time
ly and pertinent sermon on "The Vic
tory Which Lies Beyond Victory."
...
The Goal of Life," will be Dr. Beth
Northington's subject this evening at
the New Civilization Church, 407 Tilford
building, Wednesday evening, her sub
ject will be "Practical Application of
the New Psychology."
Rev. Alexander Beers, pastor of the
First Free Methodist Church, East
Ninth and Mill streets, will preach the
third of his series of sermons on "What
Think Ye of Christ?" this morning,
showing that Christ has been misun
derstood and wrongly described by
artists and theologians. In this series
of sermons Rev. Mr. Beers is presenting
careful study of the Christ in nis
true relationship to men and condi
tions as they exist today. The pastor
will also preach his special sermon in
the evening on "The Holiness of God."
Donald L- MacPhee will sing.
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At Atkinson Memorial Congrega
tional Church today Mr. Morse will
preach on "The War Task ana Accom
plishment or tne uovernmeni. rew
people realize the bigness of the task
or the multitude of ways in which the
ters will be considered In the morning
address.
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"An Old Gospel for a New World
will be the subject of the morning ser
mon by Rev. R. H. Sawyer, pastor of
the East Side Christian Church, East
Twelfth and Taylor streets. Rev. Saw
yer is an ardent student and recog
nized authority on the writings of the
Prophets and believes in the coming of
a new world.
Rev. G. Everett Moon, a returned
missionary from the Bolenge district,
in Africa, will deliver an illustrated
lecture on "Among the Natives of the
Upper Congo" at the evening service.
Rev. Moon and his wife spent several
years in Africa and expect to return
to their far-distant station within a
few weeks.
Baptist Church Will Seek
Recruits for "Legions."
Young; People to Carry on Part of
Eaaentlal War Work.
YOUNG people of the East Side Bap
tist Church will combine with the -Sunday
school today in celebrating Bap
tist Young People's day. It will be a
rally day throughout, with rally pro
grammes in the Sunday school and at
the Baptist Young People's meeting,
when Mr. Cash, Y. M. C.A. secretary, will
speak on "Our Young People at Home
and at the Front."
At the evening church service Dr. W.
B. Hinson will preach special sermon
to young people. After these special
programmes enlisted officers will make
an appeal to all young people of the
Sunday school or congregation to en-
list in either of two new "leprions" for
war time service, and committees will
be stationed at the rear of the church
to receive enlistments. Young people
above high school age will join the
first legion and young people of high
school age will enlist in the second
legion. Applicants for enlistment need
not be affiliated with the church.
An essential department of war work
delegated to young people's societies
of the church by the Y. M. C. A. is to
be assigned to these new legions. A
rivalry resulting in a live cbitest over
points to be won is contemplated in
this work and flue results are antici
pated. Rev. Olln Eldridge, pastor of the
Mount Tabor Methodist Church. East
Stark and Sixty-first street, will speak
on "American Triumph," .at the 11
o'clock service today. This evening his
subject will be "The Hand That Guides."
Rev. T. W. Lane, pastor of Centenary
Methodist Church, will prrtch his final
sermons today before leaving for
Walla Walla where he has answered a
call. Rev. Mr. Lane has bi-ilt up a large
congregation anU a wide circle of
friends In Portland since coming from
the First Methodist Church of Tacoma
four years ago.
"What the Government Expects of
Youth in War Time" will be the ser
mon subject of Rev. W. G. Eliot, Jr.,
at the Church of Our Father, Broadway
and Yamhill, at 11 A M. The sermon
will treat of the Importance of educa
tion and of special preparation for
service and is preached in response to
the communication from General
Crowder to all ministers requesting
their help in the present educational
emergency.
Dr. William A. Waldo Will
Discuss Modern Life.
Special Series of Sermon Arranged
at White Temple.
DR. WILLIAM A. WALDO, pastor of
the White Temple, has planned a
series of Sunday evening discourses on
the general theme, "Life's Greatest
Questions." These discourses on live
topics will be illustrated from modern
life. At each service there will be ren
dered special selections of music in har
mony with the respective subjects.
The themes are as follows:
September 22. "The Question of Sal
vation"; September 29, "The Question of
Immortality"; October 6, "The Question
of Spiritual Geography"; October 13.
"The Question of Player"; October 20,
"The Question of the Aften"; October
27. "The Question of the Soul's Value";
November 3, "The Question of Neglect";
November 10, "The Question of Hea
ven." s
St. Philip Neri parish, Paulist
Fathers, has revised its schedule for
the coming months as follows: Mass at
7:30, 9 and 10:30 A. M.; evening serv
ices at 7:30. The evening services will
be given over to the study of the Balti
more catechism. This ever.ing the open
ing lesson will be held on the funda
mentals of the catechism. The course
of instruction will be open to all who
care to attend.
On Friday evening, September 27.
the first social of the evening will be
held.
Men of the Holy Name Society have
reported a sale of $3200 worth of
war saving stamps.
PORTLAND PASTOR DENOUNCES PEACE PROPOSALS BY KAISER
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Rev. W. B. Hinson, of East Side Baptist Church, Urges Exaction of Reparation for German Atrocities.
Pulm 8.1:10
Rlrhteoii8neu and Mac baT kissed
acti other."
BY W. B. HINSON.
Psstor East Side Baptist Church,
f-n HERE is a great deal . of uncer
I tainty in regard to the national
anthem of America. Some of you
believe you Just now sang It, "My
Country 'Tis of Thee." Some of you
think it is "The Star-Spangled Banner."
And some of you think it Is the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic."
I smiled on Tuesday last when at
tending a community sing in common
with the whole nation, to, notice how
there was uncertainty as to whether
the audience should rise to "My Coun
try 'Tis of Thee," or "The Star
Spangled Banner," or the "Battle Hymn
of the Republic." But the congregation
of which I was a part was very wise,
so it rose to all three. And either of
those three songs, it appears to me,
has claim to a nation-wide considera
tion. I wish we might get a less fe
rocious tune to "The Star-Spangled
Banner." For some of us have to sing
a part of it and then recite the rest.
But for all. there is a heroic strain in
it. the challenging start, can you see
the flag flying: and the cheery asser
tion that the cause is right; and the
confident faith that therefore we must
prevail. And the hymn that was writ
ten by that Baptist minister with the
uncommon name of. Smith, that too is
well worthy of being lodged in our
memory.
The appropriation of the whole con
tinent by the individual singer as he
ays, "My Country." and the call on
every created thing to join in the tri
umphant outburst of praise and prayer,
and the ificent supplication at the
close "Our Father- God to Thee." How
beautiful it all is, and how worthy.
And what a solemn chat is that "Battle
Hymn of the Republic. Organ music.
it always reminds me of. And some
times I hear it in a solemnity like
unto that of the Old Testament Psalms.
I hope they will sing; It. on the streets
of Berlin.
As Be died to make them holy, let us die
to make them free.
While Goil is marching- on.
And yet if one sought to. be critical
there is that in each, of them that
perhaps might be changed. After Old
Glory and the Union Jack have waved
together over bloody fields, nobody
will want to sing about ths "tyrant"
any "more, and all.will be ready to let
King George rest wherever he may
happen in the providence of God to
be. And then there are some who can
not sing "Land where my fathers
died," and yet they love this country
and are as patriotic as those who came
over in the Mayflower, or their de
scendants. And I suppose to the South
ern ear there is always a little remi
niscence of regret to the "Battle Hymn
of the Republic" And who knows but
someone here tonight may be destined
to write the National hymn of America?
a by no means simple task.
We are a cosmopolitan people. We
come from everywnere. Ana to get
a hymn that will emr universal
mind and the reeling ot this universal
heart. Is no child's play. We have
got no river that we can weave a na
tional anthem aDout, like tne unine.
Who In the wide world -could sing an
anthem about the Mississippi? -And
we cannot say "God Save the King."
We should have to change the name
too often. And so you see It is a
difficult task to get an anthem sultable-f
to all America, and for all time. Yet
I think that French national anthem
gets the nearest to it of any. I tell
you when you hear Frenchmen sing
that, you hear something refreshing
and something that would make the
staldest old deacon that ever prayed
in a prayer meeting move his feet and
stand up and shout. Yet most appro
priate I do believe for the present
emergency is the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic"
Be has sounded forth the trumpet that
snail never call retreat;
Be Is sifting out the hearts of men be
fore Bis Judgment seat:
Be swift, my soul, to answer Rim; be
-Jubilant my feet.
Since God Is marching on.
I say again, I hope they will sing
that on the streets of Berlin.
But there is no uncertainty in re
gard to the flag of America. My
heart was enlarged when first I saw
the flag waving slightly above the
flag of England, and the flag of France,
and the flag of Italy. The sight was
good to my eyes, and good to my
heart; and I felt a swell in my throat
as I wondered if that were not pro
phetic of a great day to come, when
there shall be not merely the United
States of America, but the United
States of the World; and when all men
shall live together in peace and tran
quillity, with justice abounding, and
the tyranny of unrighteousness exter
minated. And you know, my people,
that flag is going tonight where it
never went before. Old London has
echoed with the applause that greeted
it. And France has joyously welcomed
it- And Germany, from despising it has
come to feel a very wholesome dread
of it. And why it is where it Is to
night, let all men know.
America Is not In this war to gain
territory, for we have land enough.
Nor to gain money, for we have money
enough. Nor to gain glory, for we have
glory enough. But America has carried
that flag into this strife to say the
world belongs to man, and not to men;
and to make possible a government for
all people, by all people, for the good of
all people, temporal and spiritual and
eternal. Kalserism cannot live unless
alone. And America has stood up to
say because the programme of Kaiser
Ism is the -disrupting of civilization,
therefore Kaiserism shall die; and that
is why the flag Is over in France to
night. If . ever there was a righteous war
since God swung the planet, that right
eous war Is the present in which this
country is engaged. We sought no
quarrel. But we wore ourselves out
In watchful waiting. We talked some
what inglortously about being too
proud to fight. But oppression fol
lowed hard upon the heels of oppres
sion. And i injustice swiftly followed
injustice. Until at last, calmly, sol
emnly, determinedly, this Nation said
there must be an end to all that sort
of thing, and, sure as there Is a God
in heaven, it is going to end. So
again. I say,- may the flag wave in the
breeze on the streets of Berlin. - For it
is good for all peoples that it should.
And while I cannot stop to enlarge upon
this, the best thing for Germany is for
the Stars and Stripes to pass, down
those streets of Berlin. And when It
does, as I pray it may, what about the
terms of peace? Well, they won't be
German-made.
That arch hypocrite of all the cen
turies, whenever the Hun is on the
run, puts out a peace proposal and
begins to talk about a treaty. "Made
in Germany" will not the peace
treaty following this war be called!
For that is nothing but the peace of
some burglar, with his hands bloody
and full of loot, saying, "I have satis
fied my devilish ambition, and now I
am willing to be at peace with those
from whom I have etolen, and whose
civilization I have endeavored to
wreck." I am saying these words very
carefully and thoughtfully. - I know
what I have been for the last 30 years
a preacher of the gospel of Jesus
Christ. Long, long ago I laid aside
very carefully the last trace of the
demagogue. But I say, in the peace
treaty that shall follow this war, there
is not an uprooted flower in Belgium
but should be considered; there is not
a gas poisoned shrub in Belgium but
should be considered: there is not a
wrecked house in Belgium but should
be considered; there is not a dismantled,
wrecked house in Belgiub but should
be considered; there is not a ruined
church in Belgium, but should be con
sidered; there is not a mutilated child
in Belgium but should be considered;
there Is not a ravished woman in Bel
gium but should be .considered; there
is not a tortured man in Belgium but
should be considered; there is not a
tear that ever trickled down a Belgian
cheek but should be considered; there
is not a sob that ever broke in a Bel
gian throat but should be considered;
there is not an ache that ever stabbed
a Belgian heart but should be consid
ered; the graves of millions of brave
men who died rather than let tyranny
triumph must be considered; the empty
chairs in desolate homes in England,
France, Russia and America must be
considered; the church of God that has
been shamed by this despoiling must be
considered, and the Book of God, across
whose commands the Kaiser has ridden
rough shod, must be considered! God's
peace, not Germany s peace, if you
please a peace not founded on senti
mentality but on righteousness. "Right
eousness," says my text, ' "and peace
have kissed each other."
This hound of hell comes and talks
cessation of activities with the privi
lege of holding all he has stolen, when
he is only waiting until opportunity
ripens for a future struggle between
tyranny and liberty. We do not make
peace treaties with mad dogs. We ex
terminate them. There can be no peace
between democracy and Kaiserism, ex
cept the peace founded on righteous
ness, even as the Word of God affirms
all true Deace must be founded. And
if you like this enunciation of the
truth, credit to your understanding and
credit to your heart; and if not, do the
other thing. For it is God's peace
founded on restitution aye, and on
retribution even on righteousness.
And I hold against all gainsaying,
this discussion of mine is eminently
Christian. -Peace rtigned in the world
when God sent it in Its beauty from
his creative palm. No thorn on the rose,
no angry growl in the throat of the
brute, no unkind thought in the mind
of the first man. It was peace because
of the reign of righteousness. And the
discord started not till unrighteousness
usurped the place of righteousness.
And then peace sat on one mountain
summit and righteousness on the other,
and man was in the valley, where
peace was not because rignteousness
was not. And sometimes I have dared
to say that was- God's dilemma. He
never had any other. He can create
worlds with no more effort than I let
words leave my tongue. Creation was
no task to Omnipotence. But when
man lost his peace because he had lost
his righteousness, then came a task
worthy of Jehovah, to cause righteous
ness and peace to kiss each otner, tnat
mercy and truth might abound. Ana,
my masters, I am here to affirm once
more that God's heart broke to produce
a peace in this world founded on right
eousness. And he could not do it by the
sacrifice of every angel In his heaven;
and he could not do it by depopulating
glory; but it cost him his own Son.
And it cost Christ the cross. For I am
not saved by an ordinance, or by sub
scription to a creed, or by adherence to
a catechism or confession; I am not
saved by priestcraft; I am not saved by
a "hurch, or by angel, archangel, or
flaming seraph. I have been redeemed
not by silver and sold, but with the
precious blood of Christ. And the only
peace that ever came to m.-. sin-tortured
soul was the peace held in the
bloody palm of the Nazarene.
I bow my head every week over the
great saying of the apostle Paul in the
letter to the Romans, where, after ex
pounding the atonement of Jesus Christ
and showing how the law was magni
fied and satisfied by the sacrifice of
Jesus, he utters this amazing state
ment: "And now God can be Just, and
the Justifier of him that believeth."
When I stand at the cross I do not see
sin slurred over, but I see sin settled.
When I go from Calvary to Sinai I hear
all Its artillery silenced, because the
law has been satisfied and the demands
of Justice have been met. Therefore
you find the apostle in the same letter
to the Romans Baying: "Being Justi
fied, we have peace with God." We are
not filled with fear concerning the
future. Foreboding has no place in our
souls. We have been Justified by Jesus
Christ. Therefore we have the natural
and unavoidable result of justification
peace with God. And so I see in the
kjnd of peace that alone can be the
peace of Berlin an illustration of that
peace that Is mine and yours tonight if
we believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and
the saving of the soul.
And so I call you to the cross that
tells of the meeting place of right
eousness and peace. I call upon you to
dedicate yourself, if you are a Chris
tian, to the loyal service of King Jesus.
And if your vision of him has become
dim and your love for him has de
creased, come back with a bound to the
source of all grace and all love. And if
tonight there is rising up in your heart
the unexpressed fear that for you it
is too late and that you have wandered
far away, why, put him to the test and
you will find the heart of God is broad
er than your imagining; and the love of
God is broader than your measure
mentst and the Eternal, even the Lord
Jesus, is most wonderfully, kind.