TITE SUNDAY OREGONTAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 16, 1919.
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS TO SPEAK IN THE CHURCHES TODAY
Evening Services Will Be Eliminated Members to Attend Conference of League to Enforce Peace Dr. Charles R. Brown of Yale Divinity School to Give Address.
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THE northwest conterent-e of the I soloist and will sine Scott's srreat num.
Leacue to Enforce Peace, which ! ber. -1 he Voice of One Cryinar in the
holds its opening session in the
1 is rj'irijeite ?norL s ermon
Wilderness." The subject of Dr. Fran
eitr aurt.torlum tn.s eniK. .... If-ITe.erva.ion and Some of the
sembled men of International import- . Factor!l That Obtain Therein." The
ance. many of whom will be heard (roni Isunliy school will hold its session at
the pulsus of Portland churcnes toaay. n:i
The majority o the churches are lore-
fruing- evening aervici-s today in oroer
that all congnpations may be afforded
-opportunity of attending the first ses-
;on of the conference.
Of paramount Interest to fontrfga-
' tionalists of the city will be the address
. to be Kiven this mortilnK by Or. harles
It. Brown, ueau of the Yale divinity
school, at the r'ir.-t c -or.ijrecattonal
churi'tl. Ir. fimwn is well Known in
.In denomination of the I'acifie. He
was formerly pastor of the Oakland
Cnprregationul church and has Ktiice
' ered as moderator of the general as
sembly of the Conprerat ional church.
This evening the ad-lres-s of 1-ienry
Morccnthau. e.-amiassaiior to Turkey,
at the First Presbyterian church, will
vie .n importance with the conference
itself. Dr. MorpanthiiU will neak on
Crucified Armenia." in the interests of
the- Armenian relief society.
Another important addre.s today will
be made by i::i;ht Ilev. Frederic W.
Keator. bishop of the Olympia diocese
of "Washington, who will occupy the
pulpit of St. Stephen's uro-catuedral
this morninc
Portland Training Institute
Is Successful.
Twraty-oae Snnday Sraaola of City
Rrprcaratrd lit Claaaea.
White Temple Pastor An
nounces Topic.
r thine Better Mtaa Money,
bmym lir. "U aldo.
DR. WILLIAM A. WALDO, pastor of
the W hire Temple, ar nounces his
subjects for Sunday. In the morning at
11 o'clock he will have for his subject.
"Something JfcWter Than Money." Val
ues will be placed upon money and
its important plac In modern life; con
, trasts will be made.
In the evening at 7:"0 Pr. Waldo will
adrtrf ss hi.s a udience on the t lie me.
-The Chunh and Modern I.rot herhood."
In his address he will discuss the re
lationship of one citizen to another, of
fraternal conditions, and will affirm
tn-t the world's greatest problem is a
- re-or.ciHnir measure which only broth
erhood can solve. Hrothernooti is cre
jttlve. fraternal, spiritual. His greatest
iif ftrmation will be that tho greater
Frother in the world is the Man of
;uiile and the application of his life
to other lives will solve many o: inej
airrvatiii problems uf the present day, i
an welt ai brine: individuals' into touch I
with the trut'i and best elements of j
Iimnhood and v-jiinnhd. j
The tentple quartet will rentier spe- )
rial and a impropriate music- An in vi- J
twtion is ext'iid'd to nil younjy people
. who are strangers in the city to visit
I he H. Y. V. V. of t h First 1 : a p t i s t
church, corner Twelfth and Taylor
streets, "the home for strangers," at
i) every Sunday evening- Miss Alice
Tnomas will hnve chime of the scrv-!,-.
Topic. "ur IJoiar iTi:hip to God."
THK Tortlajid training institute for
Ssunoay school and church workers,
which opened at the Sunnysldc Congre
gational church on Tuesday evening
under the auspices of the Congrega
tlonal Kduratlon society and the Oregon
Sunday School association, was suc
cessful beyond the expectations of those
re.-rtonsiblo for it. The registration
showed that 21 Sunday schools of the
city wr represented. The classes of
Harold Humbert and A. G. Thomas in
the teaching values of the old and
New Testa ments were well attended.
Secretary John H. .Matthews spoke to
superintendents on matters of admin
istration. Harold Humbert proved that
the Bible is not an uninteresting book,
to the delight of teachers of teen-ape
classes. Mrs. Charles Stevens gave ex
pert advice from the viewpoint of a be-
i dinner's superintendent- The assembly.
period was usd for a demonstration of
Sunday school music effectively ar
j ranged by Harold Humbert. It is ex
pected that ovr 30 schools will be rep
resented next Tuesday evening.
At Mount Tabor Methodist church.
Rev. K. Olin Fldridge will preach this
morning at 11 o'clock on "Life's Master
Force." This evening at 7::;t) his sub
ject will be "Applied Christianity."
Sunday school meets at 9:45 A. M. and
Kpworth League at 6io0 P. M.
m m m
The lecture 1a Christensen's hall by
Kvargelist L. K. Dickson will be post
poned one week giving way to the con
gress of the league to enforce peace.
The next lecture by the evangelist will
be given Sunday evening, February 23,
and the subject will be "The Greatest
Danger in the World's History Pointed
Out in Bible Prophecy, or the Last
Prophetic Warning to the World." The
pubtic is invited. Special music will be
rendered, led by Professor I. C. Colcord
and l,ire chorus
NEW EMANUEL HOSPITAL AND ITS SUPERINTENDENT.
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great University of California, for 11
years.
At Cavalry Baptist church Rev. J. E.
Thomas will preach this morning at 11
o'clock on "A Blessing Not Appreci
ated." This evening at '7:30 his sub
ject will be "Men and the Church." Sev
eral four-minute men will speak. The
young people's society will meet at 6:30
P. M. and Sunday school meets at 9:30.
Conditions in France
Ee Described.
Will
K44mm by Minn Franklya Will
Take Place of Service at Trinity.
Special Service to Honor
Fathers and Sons.
Kx-Amhafiaador to Turkey Speak
at Firxt Preabytcriaa.
CONDITIONS In France will be de
scribed by Miss Itrenda Krancklyn
in an address in Trinity church on Sun
day morning at 11 o'clock- This ad
dres will take the place of the usual
sermon. M isa I"ranckl n ha had a
large experience in Kretich war work
and wiil present some exceedingly in
teresting ir. form-it ion.
In the evening Dr. Morrison will
Deak on "Spiritual rtlindness" at &
o'clock. The evening service is short
and simple with conrecational sing
ing. Sunday school will he resumed
this Sunday morning at 3:45.
"Wilbur Methodist church. In the Mult
no man hotel, will introduce Master
Thmnss Ouirk, the b-y corm-tist, who,
accompanied bv his sister, Gladys, will
pliiy ihe of fertory this morning. Ir.
S'nrt Ml'iire wtTl h-? the morn in it's
THE First Presbyterian church.
Twelfth and Alder streets, will have
two services of special Interest today.
In tho morning at 10:C0 the pastor. Dr.
John H. lioyd, 1. D.t will give a spe
cial message to fathers and eons, .The
latliers and sons of the congregation
have been given a special invitation
to attend and it is expected that a
great message will be given to them.
Some boy scout troops will also at
tend. In the evening at 7:30 the church
will be honored by the presence of
Henry Morgcnthaur, ex-ambassador to
Turkey, who will give an address on
"Crucified Armenia." It is unneces
sary to tell of Mr. Morgenthau. Every
one knows of his splendid service for
humanity against the unspeakable
Turk.
No one In this country is better able
to speak on the subject of the wrongs
of Armenia.
""Was Jesus a Socialist?" will be the
question discussed by Kev. It. H. Saw
yer this eveninir. at the East Side Chris
tian church. The minister will deilne
the difference between the basic prin
ciples of the religion of the Christ and
the many socialUtic theories of the
present.
The theme of the morning sermon
will be "Keren era t inn, or the New
liirth."' Baptism will be administered
to a number of waiting candidates at
the close of the evening service. j
Lutheran National Drive
Starts Today
Appeal for Funds for Keconatructloa
Serlea ia 10.000 Kalpita.
TODAY from 10.000 Lutheran pulpits
the Lutherans of America will hear
the appeal for the reconstruction serv
ice of their church. This Sunday marks
the opening of the campaign of the Na
tional Lutheran council for funds for
overseas work.
The National Lutheran council Is the
agency of the Lutheran 'church in
trusted with the solution of the prob
lems arising out of the war. It was
organized at Chicago last September.
It is representative of all Lutherans
except the synodical conference.
The Very Right Rev. H. G. Stub of
St. Paul is president; Rev. L. Larsen of
Washington is secretary, and Hon. E.
K. Eilert of New York treasurer. More
than a million and a half members are
embraced in the constituency of the
council.
The preliminary budget of the coun
cil was $50,000. When the campaign
was launched the different states de
cided to raise it to a million. The
greater part of the money is intended
for work overseas for the Lutheran
church of Europe.
Lutherans of Portland- interested In
the national drive, which is to be held
February 16 to 26, are represented by
Rev. William Brinkman, local presi
dent; Rev. M. A. Christensen, secretary,
and Anthon Ekern, treasurer. Each
congregation will be organized to take
active part in the reconstruction of the
church at home and overseas.
Pastor to Speak for Men and
Boys This Morning.
Rev. Harold Grlffls' Subject
When a Man's a Man."
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Congregation Shaarei Torah
Re-elects Rabbi Marchbein.
Minister'. KlMtlom Ia for Term f
Thre Yeara.
A new addition of 40 rooms to the
Lutheran Emanuel hospital was recent
ly dedicated. The hospital is a new and
strictly modern edifice. Bev. Axel Green
is the superintendent and pastor in
charge.
THE large attendance and, splendid
enthusiasm at the father and eon
supper given at the First Christian
church on Wednesday evening give
promise of another helpful meeting of
fathers and sons this morning. At
the Sunday morning service at It
o'clock Ilev. Harold H. Griffis will
speak particularly for the benefit of
the men and boys of his cogregation.
The theme will be "When a Man's a
Man." and the discussion will be based
mainly upon the observations of a
noted T. M. C. A. expert among the
men of the trenches in Europe.
The regular Sunday evening service
at this church will be dismissed today
In order that all members may be free
to co-operate in the peace1 league con
ference at the City Auditorium. A
group of young business women of
this congregation have recently adopt
ed a Belgian baby and have pledged
themselves for its support. On Friday
evening a dramatic and dialect recital
will be given under the auspices or
this group of young women and the
free-will offerings taken at the close
will go to the support of the Belgian
child.
The literary, numbers of the recital
will be rendered by Miss Grace Mae
cher and Miss Alice Cason, advanced
pupils of Mrs. C. M. Kiggins, and the
young women will -be assisted by a
carefully planned programme of mu
sic. ...
The hour of evening service tonight
at the Highland congregational church
is to be father and son night. A spe
cial order of service has been arranged
for this time. The music will be fur
nished by male voices and instru
mentalists. Letters written by fathers
and sons will be read and an address
will be given by the pastor. Rev. Ed
ward Constant, on "The Comradeship
of Father and Son." The topic for the
morning sermon is "A Sure Way to
Make Good."
REV. H. MARCHBEIN was last Sun
day re-elected rabbi of Congrega
tion Shaarei Tdrah, corner First and
Hall streets for the third time in five
months, in response to a petition signed
by 100 members of the congregation.
He was called to Portland on Au
gust 15 last to conduct services for the
high holidays. His work called forth
such commendation that he accepted a
flattering offer to remain one year. In
the meantime. Mr. Marchbein organ
ized a choir of men and boys, which in
a short time established the congrega
tiqn as the center of synagogal music
in the community and largely increased
the membership.
The election of Sunday for a term of
three years was the spontaneous out
burst on the part of the members of
the congregation In recognition of Mr.
Marchbein's great attainments in the
realm of music, his remarkably beau
tiful tenor voice, his winning person
ality and his dignified interpretation
of the traditional, service.
Mr. Marchben hails from a rabbini
cal family. His fahter is Rabbi L.
Marchbein of Wilkesbarre, Pa., and his
uncle. Rabbi Rosen of the Roumanian
Congregation of New York City. A
graduate of the Imperial Conservatory
of Vienna, he sang the roles of Tra
viata. Carmen, Aida, Pagliacci, Faust,
Lucia and others at the Buda Pest
opera house, Hungary, as principal
singer.
Dr. C. R. Brown to Speak
at First Congregational.
Former Paator 'of Oakland, Cal
Mill Deliver Sermon This Morn-Ins:.
'Man's Greatest Debt" Is
Theme of Sermon.
Rev. W. J. Fntoi Will Fill Pulpit
of Firat Methodiat Church.
A"
T TIE 11 o'clock service this morn
ing Rev. W. J. Fenton, presiding el
der of the Portlnad district, will fill the
pulpit at the First Methodist Episcopal
church, taking for his theme "Man's
Greatest Debt." The development of
this theme is for the purpose of creat
ing sentiment and crystallizing thought
preparatory to the great centenary
drive, which is to be Inaugurated about
the first of April this year.
Kev. Mr. Fenton has recently returned
from Seattle, where, with Bishop Du
Bose, he reopened the church, leaving
it in charge of Rev. J. B. Fry. Dr. Fry
comes to this district from California,
where he was pastor of Epworth church
at Berkeley, under the shadow of the
DR. CHARLES R. BROWN will preach
the morning sermon at the First
Congregational church- today. Being
known as one of the most prom
inent men in the denomination and a
recognized leader in religiou-s thought
throughout the country, his many
friends are eagerly looking forward to
this opportunity to hear him.
On the Pacific coast he is probably
one of the best known and most high
ly esteemed of the leaders in Congre
gationalism. He was pastor of the
First church at Oakland, Cal., for 14
years and while there did such eplen
did work, both in his church and
through civic and welfare organiza
tions, that the work of the Oakland
church became known throughout the
country. It was from this pastorate
that he was called to become dean of
the divinity school at Tale, where he
has been for the past eight years. His
articles in the church papers and maga
zines are of the highest order and are:
both, interesting and instructive. j
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The Right Rev. Frederic W. Keator, I
Bishop of Olympia, will preach at St.
Stephen's Pro-Cathedral Sunday morn
ing. Bishop Keator is a delegate from
Washington to the Northwest congress
of the league of nations. He recently
was appointed a member of a commit
tee of five to have charge of the $500,
000 fund appropriated by the Washing
ton legislature for benefit of the re
turning soldiers of that state.
The semi-annual meeting of the
Northwest convocation will be held at
Grace Memorial church February 26
and 27.
St. Mark's charch is making a cam
paign to raise its debt. Several large
financial projects have been occupying
Ihe attention of Episcopal churches in
Portland. i5t. David's church has prac
tically raised its debt and St. Michael's
and Grace Memorial are accumulating
building funds.
Under the leadership of A. C. Newill
the local assemoly has reorganized, and
new chapters of the Brotherhood of St.
Andrew are being formed. The latest
is that of St. David's church, its offi
cers being: Vice-Director, Douglas
Couperthwaite; secretary, Ernest Bro
kenshire; treasurer, Riley Stevens.
The Rev. Robert S. Gill and the IJev.
C. H. L. Chandler, rector at Oregon
City, have been elected members of the
standing committee of the diocese.
They fill the places vacated by the
resignation of ths Rev. J. E. H. Simp
son and Dean McCollister. The Rev.
William B. Hamilton of Medford has
been elected "a member of the ecclesi
astical court.
The first meeting of the Institute of
Religious Education since the lifting of
the flu ban will be held at St. Ste
phen's Pro-Cathedral Monday evening
at 8 o'clock. An address on 'The
Teacher and the Adolescent Pupil" will
be given by Professor H. S. Sheldon,
School of Education, University of
Oregon.
Fifth and Seventh churches repeat the
service Sunday evening at 8 o'clock.
The same service is held in all the
churches, the subject of the lesson-sermon
this week being MSoul."
At the Wednesday evening meeting,
which is held at 8 o'clock, testimonials
of Christian Science healing are given.
The sessions of the Sunday school are
held by First, Second, Fourth and Sev
enth churches at 9:45 and 11 A. M.
Third church also conducts two ses
sions, at 11 A. M. and 12:10 P. M., and
Fifth church at t:30 and 11 A. M.
Dr. W. B. Hinson will preach at the
new east side Baptist church this morn
ing and evening. At 11 o'clock his sub
ject will be "What Is the New Testa
ment Church?" At 7:30 he will speak
on "Christ and His Peace Conference."
The new pipe organ has arrived and
soon will be installed.
At the mid-week service the average
attendance keeps up to 160. Dr. Hinson
will speak on the "Biblical Doctrine of
Sanctiflcation" next Wednesday night.
A very successful father-and-son ban
quet was held last week, more than 60
being present.
Rev. H. T. Cash, the associate paator,
who is conducting a series of studies in
personal evangelism, will speak to th
young people and others at 6:15 on Sun
day evening on The Equipment for
Personal Work."
Baptist Laymen's Conference
February 23-24.
A New Chnrck for a New World"
to Be Topic Discussed by Dele
Sates.
Christian Science Church to
Hold Service.
Same Service Will Take Place In
All Churches of City. .
THE Christian Science churches of
Portland hold services in their re
spective places of worship at 11 o'clock
on Sunday morning, and all except
THE.Regional Baptist laymen's con
ference at the White Temple Feb
ruary 23 and 24 will be devoted to the
study of the question, "A New Church
for a New World," or "How Shall the
Church Be Adapted to Meet the De
mands of the Reconstruction Period?"
The local executive committee, with,
C. C. Hessemer chairman, has set the
goal at 1000 registrations. Thirty
"four-minute men," under the joint di
rection of F. C. Iaslette and H. T. Cash,
are promoting the interest in this con
ference throughout Portland and vicin
ity. A complimentary dinner was given
to a large group of Baptist la mm en Fri
day evening at the HazeJ-ood, at
which time District Executive Secre
tary W H. Bowler made the principal
address, and much enthusiasm was
aroused in the conference as well as
the $6,000,000 victory campaign.
Members of the visiting team will be
Dr. Agar of New York City, author of
several of the best-known books on
church work, and efficiency secretary
of the national committee of Northern
Baptist laymen. Dr. Agar has organ
ized over 6u,000 men in the every-mem-ber
campaign enterprises in the last
three or four years. .Another member
of the team is Dr. C. A. Brooks, of New
York city, secretary of city and foreign-speaking
missions of the Ameri
can Baptjst Home Missions society.
His book, "The Achievement of Nation
al Unity," was the study book adopted
by the Women's Home Mission coun
cil. He has traveled extensively
through central Europe, organized the
first Hungarian church of the United
States, and is the founder of the only
Baptist Hungarian theological semi
nary in the United States. Dr. John
Snape of Los Angeles 'completes the
team. He is one of the popular Baptist
pastors of Los Angeles, and in fact one
of the leading pulpit orators of the
Baptist denomination.
While only men of the church and
congregation over 18 years of age are
being registered, all sessions will be
open to the young people and the wom
en of the church and congregation.
At 2:30 Sunday afternoon, February
23, a mass meeting of the Baptists of
the city will be held at the White tem
ple, but at the morning and evening
services the local executive committee
has arranged that speakers will be
provided for practically all of the Bap
tist churches in the city and vicinity.
Monday, February 24, will be devoted
to serious study by the laymen of how
(Concluded on Pane
VALUE OF FEAR IN REACHING LIFERS BEST POINTED OUT
What Some People Deny Declared by Dr. Boyd to Be Wholesome and Indispensable Motive in Man's Existence. v
BY KfclV. JOHN" II. BOYD.
Fptor tf th Kint IT .-! trian Church.
And I wty un: niy fri-mir. bo not
rra:d of trrm tr .it ki'i the t-. Jy .nii after
fit hvf n,i m't that tl:v -.tn t lint I
rn iu v t'oni e a I 1 . :; !-"; r
lt.ro. h- af tt he liat'i kii..t h po . r
t- ac into J' I: 3 ra i uy urno ou. Xor
turn Luk- mi. 4-...
WE are hre in the world to bring
our nobKst energies to develop
ment, to c tillage them in the
fi.Tjst action. We are hero to fill up
the- capacities of character with love,
witti honor, with purity and service.
"W are here to climb into the higher
altitudes of ip:ritu.l fueling and being.
What is thus to e.isily outlined in
A fwr words represents ti:e stupendous
task and the exacting cu-licit ions cl
living. There is no use trying to soften
or to conceal the difficulties of this
work to which we have been set to
r ootid out. t build up and to complc;e
A worthy life.
lor Mjtvoss in this noble endeavor
we- need at the center of ourselves the
touch of so:t: vas-t. compelling impulse
which will awaken all that is dormant
j nd. set in ae; 1 vit y what eve r moral
force is &a.!.ibtc l us. We n ed pome
in flue nee t fiat will wrap itself around
our will and encase it to sturdiest en
ciCivor. 1 errure now to name one of
the., most n 1 f ..-.in t in rent ives of li fe
not t.ie only :.. perhaps, not the
thief one. but certainly a Jarge and
heipful one.
Kftr wwiBry llkmrtit.
It s-eMom wise for a public s-peaker
to tii row out 1M0 the mind of his von
preat.on .1 s lines' ton which he knows
wi.l meet with criticism at once, or be
rc.wiiiatfd ad soir.eihinic which cannot
he toieraLed. and et I am coiiii? to io
t'riii 1 am soiiii; to iumcst that !ar
is w hoiesotr.e. usef'ii. aye, indis
periable n.oine in ltmn's 1: fe. W lien
I propose t'.is. I want you to uriet r- ,
t-land thwt I a n perfectly aware that
mocern t houy nt is sa
contrary idea. The :ie of fear as a
1 f x a lu e has fe .v deft-riders in those
t:ins. 1 cite a popular book w Inch
h js., a ha-i'iic 10 one vt its chap
tr. "Our Vcr-; ilr.err.y Js Fear," and
read ll.ee worus:
f..r
T". nueht' tri r
ri-T.; hUTiii l.fo
1 har
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und.
of pedagogy, if you pleae. that fear is
an absolutely indispcnaublo Quality in
niau'jJ life.
Fear Taught by Nature.
"We need not be led in this matter by
experts and professional authorities.
Lt t us do our own thinking. Let us
s;uty what fear has done and Is doinu
in the world. I know perfectly well
that nature, the cre;t mother and cua
toili.in of us all. who btpat us and
brought us up and now is taking care
of us. uses tear a-vuti essential part of
her method. iShe has taught alt of her
creatures to be afraid, and there is no
more fascinating chapter in the history
of insect and animal life than that
i which shows the influence of fear.
Notice the- t range, varied cries of
alarm which nature has taught her
creatures: Notice the protective color
ing which is everywhere found, from
tho zebra upon the open plains of
Africa to the little insects which sim
ulate a piece of straw or bark and so
conceal themselves. All nature is filled
with the most marvelous devices for
defense and safety which have been de
veloped under the impulse or fear.
The scientists tell us that without
fear life could not exist. Look at your
red box on the street corner and think
of how essential is the fire-alarm sys
tem in our modern cities, then think
of how nature has overlaid the whole
body of man with ten thousand ramify
:.r:if nerves, and every nerve having the
vital function of vending its alarm to
the center of the brain at a moment of
dancer. Nature in all its care of her
cr. mures is using the method of fear.
All life and its welfare and health de
pt nils upon fear.
Furthermore, you and T have walked
across the tie hi of biology with suf
ficient intelligence to understand some
thing of the noble theory fo evolution,
the ascent and devc loprnent of life
from the lower to the higher forms.
You have been a ve ry -unintelligent
-e:i-!er if vv.i have not seen that the
u rated, with me 1 root power which has lifted life from
on grade of power to another is iear.
All of the t-ensi bili ties w it hin us have
been wrought by fear. Memory, con
science, lira gin at ion and a hundred
other phares ol thes sensibilities and
powers are all defensive. Me possess
;!;,ni because we are in a world of
dangers. The most efficient and
powerful engineer within man's mental
and spiritual nature has been crea-ted
by fear.
Life is a strucsrle against difficulties.
The inventions and planning of the
mind, the coercions of labor, all mark
the place which fear is now havin-r in
our daily life. Kach day the great
world of human workers files forth
along the hard, exacting path of toil.
Why".' Because we are afraid of hur-
Ye are afraid of discomfort. W e
t! -a-! y ir. n: runint
j .milu !. ii'd'.iecs o-
vrr,ia in.hivemr.t. I:
a.ni quality. It 1 a.i
mi ohr
l.V UOt 91'.
Ml.
Hre 1 an unqualified, absolute
rUtf mnt that f ar has no place or
lu'Hlion 111 the activities of life.
Furthermore. ! am aware of the fact
that a whole school of pedatcojy has
trown up and now flourish' whien
teaches that we are never to confront
the child mind with a prohibition or ajre afraid of life as it limits us and
warning, vt e are never to arrtsi action
nor to para'.yie desire or will with any
fungestion aMc!i brines fear. Yet, in
pile of all this. I declare to you my
uwn belief, taught ia my own school
disables us when we are Idle,
The mystery of .he great forces of
nature, man's efforts to invent hjlp
f ; machinery to magnify his product
iveness, to defend himself against dis
aster and all have been marvelously
wrought out under the impulse of
fear.
Some Have Gives 1 p Fear.
I met a man the other day who, in
explaining- his change from one re
ligion to another, waved his hand at
me and eaid. "Oh, I have gotten rid of
all fear!" He had on his overcoat and
gloves, and there was an umbrella in
his hand at that time.
I met a lady, who said with a smile,
"Since I have discovered that God is all
Love, there is no fear in my heart
whatever!" I looked at her, and the fit
of her handsome gown, the tilt of her
jaunty, stylish hat, the artificial col
oring- of her cheeks indicated that she
was afraid of the calendar at least.
Jt is perfect folly to allow ourselves
to conceal the facts of life. We do fear
and we must fear. We are afraid of
gravity and must be afraid of gravity
to live! We are afraid of atomic force,
and we must watch the forces of
atoms to live. We -tc afraid of elec
tricity and every natural force. We
are afrpid of the uncertainty of life.
We are afraid of tomorrow. We are
under the impulse and discipline of
fear. Life has been wrought into
power and into competency by fear.
Now, by superficial and partial
thinking, by allowing ourselves to be
self-deceived, we may imagine that
fear is not a proper functioning in
man's life, but every man who can
think unLfr the surface of things and
dares to take life as a whole, under
stands that fear is altogether the
most common, the most pervasive and
the most powerful and indispensable of
the emotions and impulses which influ
ence man's life.
I grant that we are escaping- from a
t "usand haunting ghosts which ought
never to have frightened humanity;
we have risen above things which once
alarmed us. and which should not have
alarmed us; but we never have, and we
never shal' escape from the tuition
that deep, essential, pervasive fear
which is the basic impulse of our life.
As I understand it. this is the es
sence of whnt Jesus was saying in our
text to the multitudes gathered around
him. There is a fear from which we
oueht to escape, but there is another
fear which is wholesome and indis
pensable. "Fear not them which kill
the body and after that they are help
But fear him who can kill both
body and eoul in Gehenna forever!"
Fear of God First Object.
This suggests to us that the first ob
ject of wholesome fear is God. Ah,
says the hearer, the preacher has gone
back to the old God of sternness and
of terror! He wants us to think of
the Omnipotent Fower and the awful
justice, the hideotisness of that Old
Testament .od. But I do not went
you to think of a terrible God. I want
you to think of something else that is
far more terrible than Joshua's God.
I want you to be afraid of something
which is more terrible and more awful
than ihe Lawgiver and tha Judge and,
the Omnipotent Controller of our lives,
f want you to be afraid of a God of
Love! -So far from the thought of God
being Love and ell the universe being
Surcharged with his patience, his gen
tleness, his quietude and his mercy, re
leasing us from fear, I know of no God
who is to be so feared as the God who
is Infinite Love!
It is a more terrible thing- to ein
against love than to Kin against the
rectitude of Divine justice. It is a more
terrible thing to hurt a sensitive,
yearning heart than it is to resist a
powerful will.
Fear of Iajory to Love.
There are two memories which have ,
come with me out of my earliest child
hood. One night in my boyhood home,
when the family was sitting on the
porch, a summer evening it was. we
heard angry voices: then piteous plead
ings of a woman, and then the sound
of a blow followed by sobbings and
wailings which were perfectly excru
elating. My father and older brother
ran over to a neighbors house, and
there, standing in the front yard, was
a man with his wife crouching at his
feet. He had struck her with his cane!
When he saw the neighbors come, he
went into the house and closed the door.
Mv older brother broke out and. said:
"Mrs. X, why don't you leave a brute
like that?" She turned to him with ner
weeping eyes and said. Oh, you don I
know what love is!" The deep horror
of that man's conduct is eeen in the
light of the love of that wife. The
dastardliness of his deed, the terrible
quality of it, was not in the blow sim
ply nor in the brutishness of his own
heart it was there in the outraged
love of a devoted woman!
Far away, in the remote past of my
life, is the memory of a young man.
the idol of a father's ambitious heart,
who amid the bloom and glorious prime
of young manhood killed himself. When
we came to bury him, as the first clods
fell upon the coffin, that father threw
himself down upon the coia, piiuebs
earth, and cried. "Oh, my boy. my boy,
vou have broken my heart! You have
disappointed my love!" Across 40 years
nearly I hear that cry of love, the
agony of a broken heart-
Should not a man oe airaia 01 min
ing the love of a woman's heart?
Shouldn't a son be afraid of breaking a
father's heart? Is there a more noble.
more compelling motive possible? Can
you find any impulse which wraps it
self more intimately and more pow
erfully around a man's better self, and
which restrains or lifts him up more
than the fear of sinning against love
and tenderness?
The time has come when many a
young man will look into the face of
temptation yonder in the dark places
of France, and will fee! all of that in
fernal tug that draws him toward the
unmanly. Somehow in the mystical
chambers of fancy there will gather
the calm, eweet face of a mother, he
will stand still, and along his uncer
tain, flagging moral energies a thrill
will move, as he thinks. "I cannot. I1
dare not hurt the love of my mother.
I cannot abandon the way she has
taught me. I must not disappoint a
care and anxiety like hers. The more
tender God is, the more loving and the
more gentle he is with us, the sweeter
and more merciful he is, the more we
should fear to disappoint him."
Again I say, we ought -o fear and
the suggestion lies within the text
ought to fear making a failure of our
life. The Teacher of Nazareth is ever
telling us that man's life is in fulfill
ment of a mission. Man has come from
God to fulfill God's purpose. There is
an obligation resting upoa us. There
is a supreme responsibility. It is there
in the parable of the pound in the par
able of the talents. You get ft in a
hundred places from the mind of the
Great Teacher, that you and I have
come upon a great mission into the
world.
Look at the possibilities of our be
ing. Go in and review the possibilities
of ones being, the value of life, and
allv that makes that exquisitely fine,
that immeasurably rich inner-self. Es
timate the capabilties of manhood, of
womanhood : w hat magnificence 1
there in each one of us, which the op
portunlties and experiences of life are
presenting to us thousands and thou
sands of chances to develop ourselves
and to become what God wants us to
become. Is it not well for a man to be
afraid of failure in this great mission?
J-.00K at the temptations of life. Con
sider the differing grades upon which
he may live, the different heights at
which one may pitch his life. Shall he
not be afraid of the lower and shrink
from it? Is there anything better for a
man than to dare to face the possibil
ity of failure? We do it in other rela
tions. On some anxious night the captain or
the man in authority says to the sol
dier, "I put you here at this critical
point because I know you to be a good
and faithful soldier. Be watchful.
There is danger. All depends upon
you. The general sends for his colo
nels and under officers and says, "At
daybreak we are, going to charge the
enemy. I have put you and your regr-
mept at a critical point and I expect
you to come through."
The president sends for some notable
publicist and says to him, 'I have a
difficult mission of diplomacy. A task.
for you. I cannot intrust it to others.
I give to you because of your wis
dom and your loyalty."
Fear Ia Bracing.
Is there a man in all the world who.
when he feels responsibility resting
upon him, and the weight and mean
ing of his position anfl obligation fall
ing heavily upon his thought, does not
brace himself for the task and is made
strong and competent through fear of
failure?
It is wholesome fear where trust and
responsibility have been imposed. It is
necessary fear, lest somehow we
break and fall under the great task as
signed to us. I know tho tuitions of,
1 gentleness and its enticements. I know
the fascinations of beauty and sweet
ness and goodness, and how we ought
to be moved by them, but I dare not
omit the value of fear.
Let your population lose fear of the
violation of law and they drift into
license. Let your youth fear not to fail
and they will never develop an ideal
and make a struggle to reach the
higher. Teach men to fear the thing
that is low and mean and unmanly,
and to be afraid of dropping back into
that!
Finally, I believe, and it Is suggest
ed in the text, that we must be afraid
of the consequences of our past and of
our early life, as it is projected into
the future.
Listen to me carefully. As I get
older and study the mind of Christ more
closely I find myself more and more
timid in my teaching concerning death
and destiny. I believe that very little
concerning either has been revealed by
the Master. I believe that we have lit
tle power of penetration into the mys
teries which lie beyond the silence of
death. But there are some things which
are certain to me.
Facts About Future Told.
The first is this: That the experi
ence of dying does not arrest the liv
ing power of thought or of feeling pr
of willing, nor is there a transformav
tion necessary in the character. Out
there beyond the shadow and the si
lence that we call death life's functions
abide.
The second fact is this: That in the
mind of Jesus of Nazareth there is a
certain fearsome content concerning the
linking of this life with the life which
lies beyond death. You get it in our
text. You get it in the story or the
rich man who lifted up his eyes in
Gehenna. You get it in the ominous
description of the judgment scene. You
get it here and there throughout his
teachings.
The third fact is this: I find that we
are confronted by facts which are terri
bly suggestive. The first is the coer-
civeness of the past, the vitality of the
past. We do not lose our past. We
do not escape from it. It works its in
fluence within us. It leaves its scars.
It comes in memoty back to us.
Old John Randolph in his last sick
ness lay withered and weak, and when
visited by a friend and asked how he
was, with his lean, tremulous hand took
a card and said, "Write on one side
'John Randolph,' write on the other
side 'Remorse.' Put it in your pocket,
and when you want to think of how I
am. read both sides."
The past is a subtle, insinuative, vital
thing, which emerges at times when we
do not expect it. Things we thought
dead and gone rise up in hours of
crisis.
( Nothing IiOt to Memory.
The drowning man comes back to
consciousness and tells us that in the
flash of a moment all that he had ever
done appeared before him. The past is
vital!
The fourth fact is this: That oppor
tunities have a strange way of passing
from us forever. Open doors, chances
that we have in life, pass by. We re
fuse them. We fail. We do not de
velop in mind. We do not rectify our
will. Life at last makes some demand
upon us which we cannot meet, and
we want to go back to pick up the
lost opportunity, but we find that the
door is closed forever. There are
ratchets upon the wheel of time. We
cannot move it back. Listen to Esau.
He lost his chance, and with wailing,
piteous cries he longed for another
chance at the blessing, but that chance
never came back again.
The fifth fact is this: The fixedness
of habit. Life is one long process of
forming habits. The thoughts, choices,
and feelings of childhood pass into fix
edness. Channels are cut, until we men
and women of 50 years of age laugh
at your suggestion of the freedom of
will. My will free? It was once, but it
is not today. I am what 1 am, and I
cannot be -otherwise.
Who Knows What Death May Mean?
These facts do not prove anything
beyond doubt or compel belief, but I
say it Is time for you and me, travelers
toward the shadowed gates, it is time
for you and me to tand up before the
inevitable facts, and remember that we
are going to stand before & heart of
love, in all of its tenderness and pa
tience and infinite sweetness, which
has been plying us through 0, 30, 60
years in this world.
The past will it go with us through
the gates? It went with us through
the gates of the night, why should it
not go through the gates of death?
Will opportunities be renewed ajid an
other chance given us? There was no
chance opened to us after our last
mistake here, and it may be that none
will open there. Can I shake off my
old habits and escape a free man into
the fields of tomorrow when death has
taken me from the earth? I have been
through other crises. I have been bap
tized with sorrow, I have faced the
exigencies of life which put a strain
upon character, and I was unaltered.
Who knows? Who knows what death
may mean to us? I say that a man
would better be afraid of his past and
of his early habits and of the closing
doors of opportunity! ,
Not in sharpness or bitterness, but
all sorrow and tears, Jesus uttered
the words of my text: 1 warn you
whom to fear. Fear .Infinite Love,
whose voice you have not heard, whose
anxiety and yearning you have dis
appointed. Fear the loss of your better
self. Fear the pursuit or the past. Fear
enslaving habits of evil. Fear a future
whose terror is the presence of a past
which never released the soul from its
power.
A man can stimulate himself by fear.
Life is so hard, so difficult to live; the
hills are so steep, the weights are so
burdening, we need every aid! Let us
fear.
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