THE SUNDAY OREGQXIAJf, PORTLAND, JULY Gy 1919.-
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PORTLAND'S "LITTLE CHURCH AROUND THE CORNER" POPULAR
LOCATED almost In the heart of the
business section . people of all
classes, wealthy and poor. In Joy
and sorrow, find their way daily to the
Church of Our Father, at Broadway and
Tamhlll streets. Statistics show that in
the lending of its d:gmty and assistance
in weddings alone, but one- couple out of
nine during- this year have been affil
iated with its membership.
The little church around the corner"
wu established in 1S67 during- the pas
torate of Dr. William G. Eliot, who is
now pastor emeritus and who contin
ued to serve actively from the time of
If erection until 1SD3. His son. Dr.
William G. Eliot Jr.. came to the "little
church" In ISO and la the present pas
tor. Weddings are not the chief activity
f Portland's -little church around the
corner.- unlike that of Its prototype in
New Tork. the Church of the Transfig
uration. For 40 year it has conducted
a. readinr-room. the first of Its kind to
be- established In Portland. In direct
proportion with the warmness of the
tun's rars on the park benches, the
number visiting the reading-room va
ries from to 20 dally at -the little
chnirh around the corner."
Communion Service at First
Presbyterian Church.
Dr. Hard te Talk About "People I
Have Met the Jotzrmer of
Lle.-
AT the First Presbyterian church,
corner Twelfth and Alder streets,
the pastor. Rev. John If. Boyd. D. D,
will be tn his pulpit, both morning- and
rvmlr.;. There will be a communion
awrvica la the morning and a short ad
dress by Ir. Boyd. There will also be
tnlliio of members and baptism
Ahtfpr.fi at the momintr service. In
the evening Dr. Boyd will give a talk
which will be In the nature of onme
reminiscences under the subject. "Peo-
t,u t M.va Met on the Journey of Life.'
The muste will have several special
features !n the evening. At 7:30 Edgar
,-K. Coursen will give an organ recital
with the following programme;
"March From A Ma" fVerdl). -Improraptn"
- fLearbeuzky). -Triumphal MarcU" tJull
saaoO. In the Sunday school t 15:1S an 11--Tustrated
lecture will be given by
.James F Ewtr.g on "Making Ameri
cana" This Is an Immigration topic
and la specially appropriate to this
.Sunday after the Fourth of July. Vlsl-
tors will bo welcomed to this Sunday
'school service.
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Tr. E. H. Pence, pastor of the 'West
minster Presbyterian church, will
preach this morning on the subject.
-Shall We Lose the Homer In which
he will dwell upon the function of the
.home in making for the moral welfare
of the community. In the evening his
I subject will be. -The Spirit and the
J'lesh; a Summer Study."
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At the Calvary Presbyterian church,
comer Eleventh and Clay streets. Rev.
4 w Bond will preach at 10:30 this
morning. There will be no evening
service.
$5J,000 Pledged for First
Christian Church.
Vea Organise f"r Systematic Pariah
Canvass.
WITH 131.000 already subscribed to
Its building fund which was
started only two weeks ago the First
Christian church is very hopeful of at
taining within the next 30 days its goal
of fla.ooo. Last Monday evening the
men of the congregation met at supper
at the church to organize for a system
atic visitation of all households not yet
pledged. The members have been un
usually responsive In this campaign for
a new house of worship and financial
pledges are being received daily.
iq Sunday morning at 1 1 o'clock the
i Ttev. Harold 1L Griffts will devote his
preaching period to a practical dis
course on nrwiern Idolatry, taking for
his theme. "The New K-onoclasm." At
the Sunday evening service at 7:4S
o'clock the pastor will discuss in popu
lar terms the vital Importance of the
great moral principle of individual re
sponsibility, pointing out how this
principle is seriously threatened at the
"IS GOD
m s -50l R'CHTr Is the striking
I subject Ir. Walter Purwell Hin-
son. pastor of the Ea.t Side I'.ap
tiJl church, chose for a recent sermon.
He took for his text: "The right hand
is full of r:sh'eousneas. In the ser
mon he said:
Heaven has not done much for me."
remarked a woman to me the other day.
And she s.ild it quietly and mearlly and
with a perceptible tinse of bitterness.
nd what sie salJ many of you have
ihousM. I oh. I. too. have said it:
.nd we are not alone, my people. In
this q;i-i!onl-iir. or rm upbraMitX of
;ort. Kor ni.i rarly lormrd the habit.
Irdeed. the first man ho fr walked
tue earth .-t u the ..rry example.
For r.en Adam in reply to wd said.
'The woman whom lliou caesl me
tempted rne eat the forbidden fruit."
re n..l only Mamcd Kvf. but Indirectly
lie cast the rr.poneibtl.ly for his sin
upon '.od. as he cmphmd the words.
w hom thou navrst me. ' And this evil
l abit cf chariilnc God with culpability.
If not Indred w f. 1 moral foil v. has beel
Persisted m sleadllv l tho cenerations
..f tri- cnfirv aft.-r century while
rix nislleint'ims haxe Increased. A vast
hoet. whw excuse for personal de
ment h:i t-ern the chillencme of the
merit of '-.oj. aa with Burn they have
said to tiod.
kno.ett tva ht faJhloned me
vtrTh p...:.'T f:rv .a4 .'.ronf.
ar.d l.r!nrf tf:r tt. hins vo:ce
lias t:.a d ir.e .run.
Now to the multitude who when
asked cf rood possessed. "How much
vwrst thou unto my Lord?" will an
swer churlishly. "Nothing": there must
be some con-.radlctlna. reproving and
Jilununatlne r riv- And It is the prov
ince of th preacher this morning to
place that reply before ou.
There was never a child born In
dtv Wlien our sot-laiisl friends heal
lightly the 1 -rt of the moral nature
by substttutli.g environment for Cal
vary they forget that from extremist
p-ivilese man wandered ere his first
child could be born. Into that home
outside Fden Cain came and Abel fol
lowed. What teaching was given those
two lads by parents who thought re
aretfully of a lost Eden: what warn
ings were uttered and what cogent
lessons tauchu we may not know. But
as the children grew so also grew the
fatal harvest of their parents' evil sow
ing And weeds cf envy ar.d Jealousy.
ulminatin at last In murder, grew
anace In th heart of Cain, first born
( rth Then ensued the discussion
twixt God and the murderer, which,
bo It Genesis history, lesend or poetry,
qually serves the purpose of our dis-
course.
".Whet 1 AbcVlfeJl trccrr- aits
present time In the three realms of
philosophy, politics and religion.
On Tuesday afternoon at 1:30 the
Women's Missionary society will pre
sent a special literary and educational
programme, including readings by Mrs.
Edith Bristow Graham and an address
by Mrs. H. Shishmanian, returned mis
sionary from Turkey, on her work
among her own kinspeople the Armen
ians. e e o
Rev. A. I. Hutchison wl be the
speaker at the Men's Resort service to
day at 4 P. M. - The orchestra has a
fine musical programme prepared. A
community sing will precede the serv
ice. Large crowds of men are attend
ing these afternoon services, and visi
tors from the churches Are always
welcome.
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At the Forbes Presbyterian church
baptisms, reception of members and
the Lord's supper will be observed at
11 o'clock this morning. -What Mu6t I
Do to Be Saved?" will be the subject
of the evening sermon at 8 o clock.
The castor. Rev. Ward W. Long, will
preach both sermons.
Sunday school with Its newly-elected
officers gives promise of rapid progress
In Its work. F. C. Becker is the new
superintendent. The Sunday school will
meet each Sunday morning at 9:45.
In view of the peace treaty tho pulpit
mav ask. "How Can the Church Help
i the World Keep It?" This will be the
theme of Rev. Elbert E. Hint at At
kinson Memorial Congregational church
this morning. This evening at
o'clock his tonic will be "The Kind of
Leadership That the World Wants of
Christian Young People. Men interest
ed In the men's community forum
will meet at the church Monday night
at 7 o'clock for supper and discuss im
provements and repairs to the church
building.
White Temple Will Receive
New Members Today.
Dr.
Waldo's Topic The march's
1'reseat-Day Challenge."
DR. WILLIAM A. WALDO, pastor of
the White Temple, will deliver an
address this morning; upon the subject.
"The Church's Present-Day Challenge."
At this service the Lord's Supper will
be administered and the hand of fel
lowship will be given to IS new mem
bers who have been received during
th. month of June. This will make a
total of 149 received since the begin
ning of the year.
In the evening- Ir. Waldo win de
liver an address upon the subject.
-Worldly Profit and Spiritual Loss."
This will be a direct evangelistic serv
ice. Special emphasis will be given to
congregational singing. The Temple
quartet will render appropriate mu
sic at both services. Miss Nellie Ken
nedy will precede the evening service
with a short organ recital. A hearty
Invitation is given to the general pub
lic to attend both of these services.
At the Mt. Tahor Methodist Episcopal
church, corner of East Stark and Sixty
first streets, of which E. Olin Eldridge
Is pastor. Sunday services will be as
follows: Preaching 11 A. M. and 8 P.
M. on the subjects. "The World's
Fourth of July." "The Saloon and Its
Burial." Sunday school will be at 9:4i
A. M-, and Epworth league at 8 P. M.
The First Spiritualist church has
closed for the summer vacation and the
pastor. Rev. A. Scott Bledsoe, will con
duct religious services during the
month of July at the New Era camp
grounds, 20 miles south of Portland.
Sunday evening, July S, Ben Wilson,
evangelist, will preach in the camp
auditorium.
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The Comforter center at assembly
room in the Portland hotel, will meet
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock. Miss
Florence Sullenberg will epeak on
"Knowing God."
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The Spiritual Church of Eternal
Light, of which Rev. May A. P. Rice is
pastor, will hold services this evening
at 8 o'clock at 1340 Division street,
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Services will be held at the Universal
MesManlc church at 11 A. M. and 8
P. M. today. The subject for this
moraine will be "The Transcendental
Man." Study classes meet Wednesday
evenings at 8 o'clock. All services are
held In room 318. Ab'.ngton building. I
RIGHT?" IS STRIKING
East Side Baptist Pastor, in Stirring Discourse, Chooses as His Text,
Jehovah. Surlily answers Cain. "Find
that out for yourself. I ara not my
brother's keeper." "But thy brothers
blood crieth unto me from the ground."
expostulates God. "And because thou
hast slain Abel thou ahalt be a soul
possessed of a gnawing wanderlust."
When Cain remonstrates that he will
he slain by someone for his sin God
puts a mark upon him that constitutes
his safeguarding, and so Cain goes
forth to live his haunted life. But
mark you. Instead of upbraiding Jeho
vah for dimness of vision or wrongnesa
of Judgment. Cain's only remark Is.
"My sin is greater than It can be for
given." And this sentence, illuminating
as it does Gods prior statement. "If
thou doeft right good is thine, and if
evil rightful penally." acquits God of
blameworthiness at the bar of the first
born of Adam.
Turn we row from Cain, the surly,
to Abram. the saintly. From a wan
derer made vagrant by his sin to a
sojourner made a pilgrim by his trust
In God. Unto Abram. the friend of
God and the father of the faithful. God
communicated he fact that :! years
of sinning on th part of Adam's race,
vi.lted already by a flood, must now be
condemned by flame. And of the com
Inc burning up of the cities of the
plain Jehovah acquaints his faithful
?ervrnt Then ensues another conver
sation between man and God that is
full of Interesting suggestlveness.
"Thou will not destroy the good with
the bad." Interrogatively asserts
Abram. And God satisfies the moral
scruple of his servant In this most
realistic fashion. "If there be found
i' righteous souls In Sodom, wilt thou
spare It?" asks Abram. And "I will,"
answers the Lord. "If 45 righteous
be found w:lt thou spare the city?" "I
will." replies the Lord. "If 40 only be
found rlchteous in Sodom, wilt thou
lave forbearance?" "I will" is God's
reply. "If there should lack ten of
the 4. wilt thou still exercise mercy?"
And "I will do so." is the answer. "And
If 10 only be found blameless in Sodom
wilt thou sare it for 2?" "It shalr
be so." is the divine reply. "Only this
once will I speak." answers Abram;
"wilt thou spare the city for ten?"
-or ten I will spare It." assures the
patient God. And so Abram every
thousbt of possible shortcoming In Jus
tice Is removed from the mind of the
patriarch, and the question in which is
more of affirmation than of Interroga
tion leaveg Abram's lips as he says.
Shall not the judge of all the earth
do right." And so in the court of the
saint, as before at the bar of the sin
ner, acquittal of til blame Is the ver
dict received by God.
The scenery is changed, and we come
to tie Uui fit J-fc A tn S"4 Jb.
Established in 1867 During the
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Christian Science Church
Programme Changed.
All
Services for Summer Months
Are Revised.
THE Christian Science church pro
grammes will vary during the
summer raonthn. The following changes
have been announced:
First, Third s.nd Fourth churches of
Christ, Scientist, will discontinue the
Sunday evening service during the
months of July and August.
Sunday morning services will con
tinue as usual In all Christian Science
churches of the city at 11 o'clock, and
Second and Sixth churches will con
tinue the Sunday evening service at 8
o'clock, during the summer months.
The subject of the lesson sermon for
Sunday, July S. Is "God."
Beginning with the Wednesday even
ing meeting July 16 all services in
cluding the Sunday school of First
Church of Christ, ScienUst, will be held
In the Scottish Rite cathedral. Fif
teenth and Morrison streets, for a pe
riod of several weeks, owing to ex
tensive repairs and alterations being
made on First Church edifice. An en
tirely new oil burning heating system
will be Installed and many, repairs
made on the building and furnishings.
At the Wednesday evening meetings,
which are held In all Christian Science
churches of the city at 8 o'clock, testi
monials of healing in Christian Science
are given.
Sunday school for the older children
up to 20 years of age Is held in all
Christian Science churches except
Third and Fifth at 9:45 A. M., and for
the younger classes at 11 A. M. In
Third and Fifth churches Sunday
school sessions are at 9:30 and 11 A. M.
Th. Christian Science churches are
located as follows: First church, Nine-
Is the subject of an argument between
Jehovah and Satan. Diabolus. the slan
derer, assails the integrity of Job, af
firming It to be naught but the selfish
ness of worldly policy. Power to test
Job that Jehovah's trust in his serv
ant may be vindicated is granted the
devil by God. Then Job becomes as
shuttle-cock In the devil's hands, and
disaster swiftly follows disaster, as
possessions take to themselves wings
and fly away. Bereavement Is added
to losses of a material nature. Then a
foolish wife squeezes gall and vine
gar into the sufferer's cup. And
friends, so-called, come to philosophize
o'er Job's hypocrisy, as manifested by
his sufferings: and rebukings and slan
ders, contempt and abhorrence, malice
and spite and lies fall thickly about the
soul of Job, like some accursed after
math of the desolating fire that over
whelmed Gomorrah. Retort and reply:
charge and defense: controversy. In
which Is biting sarcasm and cutting
satire: alleged incapacity and asserted
iniquity: even to the passing of the lie
one to the other, makes up a drama
.uch as the brain of Shakespeare never
Imagined and such as no other writer,
not even Goethe's self, has ever de
scribed. But while the winds are madly
howling and the hurricane of hellish
malice shakes from bim belongings
and health and friends. Job, from out
the hurly-burly of his tragical experi
ence surveys the devsstating wreckage
and ere Jehovah's evidenced . compen
sation has enriched the patriarch, he,
the much-experienced man. examines
the evidence for and against the God
who had permitted the tempest, and
declares that Jehovah Is his redeemer,
his God and his vindicator. And thus
again, charges of evil laid alongside
God, are taken away: and the degree
of blamelessness for human 111 is band
ed out to the eternal.
Then the era of the Psalms is reached
bv us In our study. And David, that
raany-8ided genius of three millenniums
ago, sins his dual sin of adultery and
nuriiir And blood again cries from
the ground to God. And the God of
Bathsheba and Uriah and Joab and Is
rael and the ages and eternity declares
to David. -Thou art the man" to whom
shall come bloodshed and bereavement
and rebellion, sorrow and shame and
bitter weeping. And David moans in
his palace as the child of Bathsheba
dies, and wails with his kingdom rent
in twain: and up the hill slope moves
broken-hearted over Absolom's fate as
he cries: "O Absalom, ray son: my son
Absalom, would God I had died for
thee, oh. Absalom, my son, my son."
Now. In the Slst Psalm we hear the
soul of the Psalmist becoming articu
late as he begs God to have mercy, and
in, fiiercx tha,i i. tender pi tor bis poassive;
Pastorate of Dr. William G.
"LITTLE CHUKUii AKUUJNJJ lUto LUttiir,ft. . .
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teenth and Everett streets; Second
hrh v.aat Rlvth and- Holladay
streets: Third church. East Twelfth and
East Salmon streets; Fourtn cnurcn,
Emerson street and Vancouver avenue;
Fifth church, Sixty-second street and
church. Masonic temple. 388 Yamhill
street, and Seventh church, iioiDrooK
block, St. Johns.
The Christian Science churches main
tain a free reading room in the North
western Bank building, where the
Bible and all ' authorized Christian
Science literature may be 4ead, bor
rowed or purchased.
A cordial invitation is extended to
ih. mihlic to visit the reading room
and the church services.
grief. And for the thorough cleansing
from his sin he. pleads, while in con
trition he realizes that in sinning
against Bathsheba, Uriah, Joab and the
nation he had really sinned against the
God of the woman, the men and the
people. But right in the heart of the
Psalms occurs a statement which so
Impressed the Apostle Paul a thousand
years after that he used it in his won
derful lefter to the Romans: "Against
thee, thee only, have I sinned and done
this evil in thy sight: that thou
miehtst be Justified when thou speak
est sentence, and be clear when thou
art called into judgment." And so the
justification of God is avowed by the
royal penitent, even when the robes of
kingship have been abandoned for the
saokness of suffering and shame. Thus
does the king stand with the philoso
pher of Uz, the patriarch who walked
with God and the man who first slew
his kind In declaring the Tightness of
the judgments of the Lord.
But another striking Illustration of
the same reasoning is even more popu
larly brought before us In the 72d
Psalm. Asaph looks out upon the world
and becomes perplexed by the fact that
Inequalities exist In circumstance and
health and life and death that fill the
mind with misgiving and the heart
with seething unrest. And frankly
Asaph confesses his inability to under-
tonri Hi. mvsterv of successful bad
ness and unsuccessful goodness, or why
virtue and vice fall to secure happiness
and misery: and because of no ap
parent essential connection between the
condition of heart and finances, of In
tegrity and prosperity, the rsaimist
wonders whether he has not vainly
washed his hands in innocency and
vainly maintained his father's faith.
For he observes Jio nis questioning
chagrin that worldly circumstances in
no wise depend on the condition oi me
heart, morals and life; ana mereiore
he repines until he went Into the sanc
tuary, even that niaoen place wnere me
things of God are seen from God's
viewpoint, and then he says he under
stood that there are two sides to life;
and God has a long time in which to
evidence approval or disapproval, and
eternity changes the verdicts of time;
and the ways of God are in the long
run and ultimate issue satisfactory to
Justice that is unwarpable and a
HehtMusness whiter than tne snow.
And thus from his second view of life.'
as it is lived by mortals, ne also joins
the four whose verdict godward we
have already considered, and vindicates
the Lord God.
Among the propnets mere are main
instances where God was reignea in
iii. h.iinna bv men. but Jiot one where
k w. found wanting In eauity and in
truth. Eietiel tells bow -L siesof.'
Eliot, Now Pastor Emeritus.
CHURCH OF OUR FATHER ITS
"The Unseen Audience" Is
Sunday Sermon Topic.
Dr. W. B. Hlnson to Preach at East
Side Baptist Church.
DR. W. B. HINSON will preach both
morning and evening at the East
Side Baptist church, corner of East
Twentieth and Salmon streets. At 11
A. M. he will speak on "The Unseen
Audience," and at 8 P. M. his theme
will be, "God's Last Word." The ordi
nance of the Lord's supper will be ob
served at the morning service.'
At 6:45 P. M. the young people will
hold an installation service for the new
officers of their society and Dr. Hinson
will speak. Keen interest continues in
the mid-week services on Wednesday
evenings, 150 people being present at
the last prayer meeting.
A question box precedes the theme
of the evening. Dr. Hinson is to speak
at the Gladstone Chautauqua every
morning from 10 to 11, beginning next
Wednesday and continuing for ten days.
Special Sunday Evening Serv
ices Attract Many. '
Life of Lincoln Serial to Depict
-The Slave Auction." .
AN altogether unprecedented lnter
'est has developed in connection
with the present series of special Sun
day evening, services at the Sunnyside
Congregational church. This Sunday's
service will constitute he ninth in the
series and, because of its peculiar char
acter, will undoubtedly prov another
improvement on- former records. The
particular serial from Lincoln's life will
be "The Slave Auction," depicting that
famous event in his early career which
SERMON
"The Right Hand Is Full of
his generation, the men whose moral
vision suffered from astigmatism, ana
who therefore were disqualified for
rendering correct decisions, passed
their surface judgment on the ways of
God with man and declared that his
ways were not equal, but that his scale
of awards and penalties was variable,
was indeed of the sliding scale order,
possessing more of caprice than of con
viction, and lacked adjustment deep
rooted in rectitude and undisturbed
moral poise.
But even these ephemeral and su
perficial babblers received no curt dis
missal from the courts of the Lord: but
by argument and instruction; by act
as by word, they had portrayea Deiore
them the cumulative evidences of' the
fairness of Jehovah's standard, and the
fixedness of his government in justice
and righteousness, such as closed their
vain mouths and reduced their stub
born wills into acquiescing concerning
Jehovah's just judgments. And In the
exnressive Dhrase of the Hebrew, they
were informed that criticism -of God's
dealings with mans speech ana con
duct was easily corrected by looking
"deeper" In to the decrees ana aeter
minings of the eternal God. And so the
charges that God's ways were not par
allel in moral accuracy and unbiased
judgment were not thrown off of the
tribunal of God with disdain ana con
tempt, but they received patient hear
incr and careful consideration and ade
quate illumining and explanation, until
even the near-sighted critics of the
Lord were led by his representative,
Ezekiel. into the place of clearer in
sight, where they, too though some of
them by sullen silence only naa to
pass over Into the company or iam
and Abram and Job and David and
Asaph, and admit, as the Quaker poet
of our own day has phrased it.
. "His judgments, too, are right."
As in the opening book so also In
the book which closes the Hebrew
Bible this same problem is dealt with.
For we find Malachi asserting that his
contemporaries - declared, "Every one
that doeth evil is good in the sight of
Jehovah and he delighted in them, so
where is the God of Justice." And of
those same people God himself affirmed,
'To have said. It is vain to serve uoa
and what profit is it that we have
kept his charge, for now we call the
proud happy and . they that work
wickedness are set up, yea they tempt
God and escape." Now the attitude of
the Lord towards these perverters of
the truth is most noteworthy and full
of suggestiveness, corroborative of our
present endeavor to show how God Is
ever evidencing his steadfast adherance
to palpable righteousness in his deal
ings with the men. of earth. For instead
oi ftPeuiiiK the egrUi ajid-allawing. these ,
so greatly Influenced his attitude dur
ing the Civil war. Dr. J. J. Staub's
address wtll be of an appropriate char
acter, "What Difference Does It Make
What I Think?" The theme of the
morning service will be "The Chris
tian's Peculiar Prerogatives." At this
time communion will be observed and
new members will be welcomed into
fellowship.
At the 11 A. M. service at the Church
of Our Father, Broadway at Yamhill,
today, the pastor. William G. Eliot Jr..
will speak on "The Methods and Re
wards of Meditation." The Sunday
school and evening forum are inter
mitted for the summer.
A 6 o'clock dinner at the Church
i in T.f,i.,-nn tit root will nrrie
I the Quarterly meeting of the Portland
New Church society Wednesday even
ing, July 9. This will be the last busi
ness and social meeting before the
closing service for the summer. July 13.
Rev. Mr. Reece will speak today on the
"Coming of the Lord, the Last Judg
ment, and the New Christian Age."
The pastor's class in the study of the
Book of Revelation has shown a
marked increase in numbers and in
terest since the change of hour from
before to after the morning service.
This book is being studied with ref
erence to its description of. the state
of the Christian world at the present
day.
Special Service in Interest
of Philomath College.
President I.. P. Bpley to Speak at
United Brethren Church.
AT THE First United Brethren
church. Fifteenth and East Morri
son streets, there will be a special serv
loe this morning on education, in the
interests of Philomath college. Presi
dent L. L. Epley will give the address
and several members of the Alumni as
sociation will also add to the interest
of th occasion. In the evening the
pastor. Dr. Byron J. Clark, will speak
on the theme, "Striking Out." The
choir will render special music.
Rev. Ira Hawley, pastor of the Sec
ond United Brethren church. Twenty
seventh and Sumner streets, will speak
this morning on the subject, "He Did
Not Say, 'Blessed Are the Merciless.'"
His evening topic will be as follows:
"The 'Be Not Afraid' From the Lord Is
Sufficient."
church, Sixty-seventh street and Thirty-
second avenue southeast, rtev. Kj. -.
Shepherd, will bring to his congregation
this morning a message on the words of
Cain. "Am I My Brother's Keeper?" His
evening message will be on the sub
ject, "He Calleth Thee."
At the Fourth United Brethren
church, Tremont station, the pastor.
Rev. C. P. Blanchard, will preach in the
morning on the theme. "The Badgie of
Discipleship." Her theme in the even
ing will be "What's in a Name?"
The Rodney-Avenue Christian church
will hold Bible school at 10 o'clock
this morning, followed by public
...n-Din .t ii n'Mnrk. and aerain at 8
o'clock this evening. The two sermons
will be delivered by ttev. J. tsoya,
pastor of the Woodlawn Christian
nu..-i, cn.pinl Tniisin. will be furnished
by the choir. Christian Endeavor will
meet at 7 o'clock this evening.
a. - c-hHap'b Lutheran church, at
the corner of East Grant and Tenth
streets, the pastor, M. A. unrisienson.
will preach this morning at 11 o'clock
i Vnrn-oirifln takine his theme from
Luke xv: "What Christ Can Do for the
Sinner."
At the Clay-street Evangelical
church. Tenth and Clay streets, of
which Jacob Stocker is pastor, at ia:a
the sermon will be on "The Christian's
tti . e v. ntiwr siHp" (German). At
8 o'clock this evening Rev. Mr. Stocker
will preach on "rne r-re-emiiienuo
Christ" (English). The service at ' ai
tenheim" will be held at 3 o'clock this
afternoon.
m w
rnmmiininn service will be held at
ik. iiniirth Prpshvterian church. First
and Gibbs streets, this morning. Sev
eral new members win be receivea ana
Rev. Monroe' G. Everett will speak on
BY DR.
Righteousness."
traducers of his government to descend
'as did Korah to hell, the Almighty pro
ceeds to show even these men tnat ii
only they would take time and thought
t n lhav nrnllH KTVariilv find
! that as link to link sin and suffering
are mexoraDiy aiiacneu uy ociiwy,,
and also that the keeping of the laws
of heaven has ever and will ever, bring
the blessing of Goa into tne neaii. aiiu
iifA of th man who sets the fear of
. u . t i nA,,-n,gl-v hofnrlk him. And
IUO JJUIU VUll till uu.,.j - -
i nn-n;n ac q have sn often seen
(before in our hasty scanning oi tne uui
testament scripture, nues uuu h
to show that his laws are rooted in in
tegrity, and that down under the seem
ing contradictions of life, there is that
"stream of tendency" that ever makes
for righteousness. And thus to the men
of Malacnrs time mere is given mo
evidence that the Lord our God is right
in ail his ways and that all he saith is
true. And so to the testimony of Cain
and of Abram. of Job and David and
Asaph and Ezekiel, the last of the
prophets affixes his confident and em
phatic "amen" as he attests that the
Lord our God is justified in word as in
deed.
When we enter the New Testament
this same truth of the ability and will
ingness of God to give satisfactory
proof of his righteousness to all who
will honestly seek instruction. Is In
full evidence. As an example recall
one illustration in Matthew's gospel
that is liloely to be overlooked because
of the presence of other lessons taught
in the same portion of scripture. I
allude to the 25th chapter of Matthew
and to Christ's great judgment parable.
Here, after the grandeur and solemnity
of the setting has allowed us to ac
curately gaze, we find three great
truths suggested. Our Lord's identity
with his disciples is the first. "Inas
much," he says, "as ye have done it
unto one of the least of these my
brethren, ye have done it unto me." A
second lesson is found in the emphasis
placed by Christ on the deeds rather
. i , v. i-.oo c n f those being
Judged. For it is the things done that
are mentioned by the dread judge. But
.w- u; i .n.ffagtH toaRhlne illustrates
our present topic For when the wicked
are represented as asuing wneu iuw
sinned in the manner for which they
are condemned and when they remon
strate against the doom about to over
take them; the judge instead of silenc
, .hi.ntiAn with his withrin&r
ins men uujll.... .. -
curse reminds them of the times and
occasions when they ianea aiiKe oi
their high duty manward and Godward
And they are shown how they sinned
in the days that are dead until tnir
last objection as to the righteousness
t A-a-. a-oe. hiui heen removed:
when. a.ex .tSPt -fat Mis' Uece Jola
"The Meaning of the Holy Sacrament"
In the evening there will be a special
song service led by the young people's
chorus. The evening topic will be
"Christ's Attitude Toward the City."
At the Glencoe Baptist church, corner
East Forty-fifth and Main streets. Rev.
F. C. Laslette will speak -on "The Su
preme Ambition," at 11 o'clock.
Communion will be celebrated. The
fourth sermon in the John 3:16 series
will be given: "He Gave." The series
is attracting large crowds.
Dr. Stansfield Announces
Fourth of July Sermon.
The Songrs of Zlon, Topic of Pastor
at Morning Service.
AT THE First Methodist Church to
night at 8 o'clock Dr. Stansfield
will speak on "The World's Fourth of
July." This will be a patriotic service
of wide scope, yet intensely American
and deeply human.
In the morning service at 10:30 the
sermon is to be on "The Songs of Zion"
and will present some of the great
hymns of the church. The text will be
Rev. xiv:13, "No man could learn that
song but the thousands that were re
deemed out of the earth."
The pastor will speak upon those
thoughts suggested by the text, "re
deemed, out of the earth" the earth
with its aches and toils, its pains and
tears, its surprises and sorrows, its
sufferings and sins. The redeemed have
come up through it all, and by a divine
power have turned its moans into mel
ody, its sorrows into singing, its tribu
lation into triumph. Infidelity has no
songs, but Christianity has many
martial songs, midnight songs, songs
of redemption and grace and love and
faith and hope and immortality.
m
The Waverly Heights Congregational
church, corner of East Thirty-third
street and Woodward avenue, of which
Rev. Oliver Perry Avery is pastor, has
announced the following programme for
tqday: Morning service, the adminis
tration of- the Lord's supper; evening
NOTICES MIST BE RECEIVED
EARLY.
Church notices must be in the
hands of the church editor by 4
o'clock Thursday afternoon if in
tended for the Sunday church
page.
They should be written, type
written if possible, on one side of
the paper only, in news style, and
not merely listed.
The notices should include the
pastor's name and initials, the
location of the church, time of
the services and the names and
initials of special speakers.
At the same time 250 to 300
words on Sunday sermon may be
sent in for use in the Monday
morning Oregonian if desired.
topic, "Strong in the Joy of the Lord":
intermediate Christian Endeavor. 7 P.
M. The senior Young People's round
table will meet again in September.
Prayer meeting Thursday at 8 P. M.
At the Centenary Methodist Episco
pal church, comer East Ninth and East
Pine streets, Dr. J. C. Rollins, pastor,
will preside this morning at the sac
ramental service. At $ o'clock he will
speak on "An Undesirable Citizen."
Special music at every service has been
arranged.
At 11 o'clack A. M. the holy com
munion will be observed at the Uni
versity Park Methodist Episcopal
church, corner Lombard and Fiske
streets. At 8 P. M.. Prof. J. T. Mathews,
of Willamette university, will be the
speaker. Sunday school will be at 9:45
A. M. and the devotional meeting of
the Epworth league at 7 P. M.
A cordial invitation is extended to all
to attend these services, and a hearty
welcome awaits the stranger and all
having no regular church home.
The monthly conference will meet
Sunday at 7:45 P. M. in the United
Evangelical church, St. Johns. There
will be several speakers on "Prophetic
Subjects," "Church History," "Jewish
Prospects," and other topics. The usual
(Concluded on PaKe 11.1
HINSON
the ranks of the Old Testament char
acters whose testimony we have been
considering, whose chorus of evidence
gave conclusive proof, that righteous
is the Lord altogether and Just Is he
in all his dealings with the children
of men.
Time permits of but one other refer
ence to the scripture as it vindicates
God from all changes of a hasty and
- . 1 9 . ; . . 1 A n .. r.
unconsioereu, or a I'liimi o.uu wiuuti
judgment of the words and actions of
men. We find this last text which we
now produce in Paul's letter to the
Romans where the apostle to the Gen
tiles harks back over a thousand years
to David's words in the 51st Psalm as
he says of God "That thou mightest be
justified in thy words and mightest
prevail when thou comest into Judg
ment." The apostle has been closing
the condemnation of God about the
whole world of sinners. And he has
declared the entire world to be guilty
before God. And that the condemna
tion is just and righteous, he argues by
the fact of creation whereby the deity
of the creator might me ascertained
and also by the law given by God
through Moses to the Jewish people.
And then as meeting the objection that
the integrity of God might be called
into question at the tribunal of man
Paul declares for the truth of God's in
errancy and justice in his quotation
from the Psalms.
Now I find In this theme one of
the harbors of troth into which the
storm-tossed souls of men may enter
to cast anchor in a sure place and find
peace and repose in the character of
God. For that the ways of the Lord
are unequal, opens the life to so many
menaces to faith that with the assur
ance of God's fleckless integrity a
great establishment is brought to the
soul. And the knowledge that" one
above In the infinite wisdom, power
and love that inhere in the mortal, per
fection of deity is working for the best
interests of all does enable faith to
drop anchor in a harbor that is out
of the swinging eddies and swirling
currents that make shipwreck of con
fidence as of comfort. And in the as
surance which calmed Harriet Beecher
Stowe that God was doing for her the
best a perfect God could - do there is
firm footing for all the perplexed sons
and (laughters of trust. And when
tossed by storm and flood there is the
fixed stake when realizing that God
is good in the sense of being perfect
in all his divine attributes. And for
these days of strife and stress I am
bringing to you out of the treasury of
truth this certain proof that God reigns
in righteousness and works justice
among the children of time so that
there may be heard by us the "Louder
voles abpxo the storm."-
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