TIIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, SEPTEMBER 21, 1919.
BABY DAY WILL BE OBSERVED BY PORTLAND CHURCHES TODAY
Pastors of All Denominations to Speak in Behalf of Homeless, Nameless and Abandoned Infants Movement Indorsed by Governor Is Widely Supported.
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T action of the ministerial acco-
ciation. today has been named
Baby day, and as such will be ob
served in all the churches. The pastors
of every denomination will speak in
behalf of the homeless, nameless and
abandoned babies.
This observance is to be given as a
result of a plea made by W. G. Mac
Laren of the Pacific Coast Rescue and
Protective society, who addressed the
ministers of Portland at a recent meet
ing. Primarily Mr. MacLaren bespoke
the interests of the nursery cause that
his society fosters, but he wished the
day to be broader still, he said, and its
interest to include all the unfortunates.
Governor Olcott and others have in
dorsed the nursery cause and it will be
taken up in many churches today. Its
constructive work, sheltering, educat
ing, befriending the unfortunate wom
en and girls of the Louise Home will
aiso receive recognition. Caring for
the babies and giving them a start in
life are the work of the nursery, now
known as the Albertina Kerr nursery.
The building needed will be an all
Oregon nursery for nameless, homeless
and abandoned little ones. The head
quarters of the nursery drive are in
the Liberty temple.
Motion picture houses, theaters, clubs
end Individuals are helping the cause.
The Portland Ad club heard the nur
sery plea on Wednesday and gave a
rousing indorsement. Several Portland
ministers are on the board of the nur
eery. Armenians Discussed Todny.
Those who are interested in Armeni
an relief work will be attracted to the
regional conference to be held here, and
for which several meetings are planned
for today and tomorrow. Yesterday the
conference was started by an address
by Dr. Milton S. Littlefield, who spoke
at the Benson hotel at. the Civic league
luncheon.
Clarence P. Burgess, the general field
secretary of the American committee
for near east relief, one of the speak
ers, was formerly division secretary of
the Allegheny division, and his work
was so successful that it was extended
to cover the whole western Pacific sec
tion of the United States during the
last campaign, and since then he has
had charge of the field work.
Mr. Burgess was formerly connected
with the laymen's missionary move
ment, and became widely known as an
eloquent and effective platform speak
er. He spent the past summer abroad,
personally investigating the needs of
the oppressed peoples, and conferring
with Herbert Hoover. United States
food commissioner, and Lord Bryce,
who was head of the British commis
sion which investigated and reported
on Armenian massacres and deporta
tions, and a member of the lord may
or's committee of London, the former
British relief committee in the near
east. Mr. Burgess has just returned
with many plans for the work of the
organization, and numberless Interest
ing stories to relate.
Armenian relief conference speakers
will be heard at the following places
in Portland:
Sun Jay, 11 A. M., Dr. Littlefield. First
Christian church; 7:4.1 P, M., First Meth
odist church : 11 A. M.. Dr. L. L. Vv lrt.
Church of the Strangers: 7:4.j P. M., First
Congregational church, motion pictures; 11
A M Kev. C. P. Burgess, Sunnyside Meth
odist Episcopal; 7:43 P. M., Centenary Meth
odist Episcopal; 11 A. M., Rev. A. E. Beebe,
First United Brethren church; 7:45 P. M.,
East Side Christian church; 11 A. M. and
7-45 P M., Rev. E. T. Allen. First Pres
byterian church; 1 P. M., luncheon, Portland
hotel; 4 P. 1.. Dr. Littlefield, Reed college
vespers. t , .
Monday. 10:30 A. M., Wirt motion pictures
ffreel. Hippodrome theater; 32 noon. Dr.
Littlefield. Members Forum. Chamber ot
Commerce; 12 noon, luncheon. Unitarian
church, Messrs. Beebe. Wirt and Burgess;
12 noon, luncheon. Portland hotel, Mrs.
Florence Spencer Duryea; 8 P. M-, Dr. Mil
ton S. Littlefield. Men's Brotherhood lunch
eon. First Congregational church: 7 P. M.,
Wirt motion pictures. Moose hall, Oregon
Citv; 8 P. M., Woman's Ad club luncheon.
Mrs. Florence Spencer Duryea.
"Episcopal Campaign Launched.
The nation-wide campaign will be
undertaken by the Lpiscopal cnurcn
this fall. The Oregon Churchman, s
nubliration of the diocese of Oregon
discusses the campaign in th diocese
of Oregon as follows:
"Having passed the nebulous stage
plans for the nation-wide movement
are fast working into concrete form.
Meanwhile the general church has been
eo aquiver with expectancy that the
summer months have been robbed of
their reputation for deadness. specula
tion. however, will maintain at its
nresent level until the executive com
mitte3 at New York submiA its budget
and final programme for action by the
general convention.
"Time being so limited, all hands
have been busy. As requested by our
convention in May, Bishop Sumner ap
pointed a diocesan campaign committee,
the board of church extension, to act
with him in directing the campaign in
the diocese, co-operating with the na
tional executive committee.
"Early in July survey schedules for
parishes and missions were mailed out
to the clergy. Th equipment and con
' ditions of each parish and mission were
required to be shown, together with
what it could do for its own support
in the next three years and for render
ing most effective servic-e to the com
munity. Needs and opportunities for
coping with the problems In the com
munity which cannot be solved with
out outside aid, were also to be out
lined for the information of the
diocesan campaign committer.
"These schedules were filled out by
the clergy and after being passed upon
FULL PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT HELD DUTY OF EVERY MAN
Jesus Glorified in Powers of Body as Well as of Mind, Pastor Points Out Worry Defined as "Thinking Playing at Anarchy With Itself."
Text: Matthew vi:27 Which of you by I
taking thought can add one cubit unto his
etature? I
I T la one 01 jesus appeals 10 our
sense of the self evident In which
he makes delicious use of extrava
gant figure. He Is the master of this
art, an art peculiarly oriental. To the
less imaginative occidental crowd Jesus
would probably say, "Which of you can
add an ell to his height by troubling
about It." .
"You propose to attempt the most
impossible task with the most demor
alized means. It is hard to do the
usually easy things with a mind dis
organized by fret; of course, you can
not do the hard or Impossible ones."
And yet, that self-same matter of
height has troubled a good many peo
ple: This for reason of the personal
vanity of an Isolated Individual on up
to old king of Prussia, father of Fred
erick the Great, who levied on all Euro
pean monarchs for men six feet and
over, and even kidnaped them wherever
he found them, to recruit his guard.
Jesus recognized that full-rounded
physical efficiency is a legitimate crav
ing; indeed, that he who confesses not
to feel it as an aspiration confesses to
email desires to attain.
There was no place in all his teach
ing for langour and physical ineptitude
as an interpretation of his marvelous
eystem.
Development Man's Duty.
But let us understand him clearly at
this point. He laid it upon men as
their duty to develop and conserve
their fullest physical powers. In his
teaching he proposed a moral reason
for physical development nobler far
by the diocesan committee were for
warded to New York.
"Final plans for the- diocesan cam
paign wait upon the action of the na
tional executive committee and the
general convention. It is thought, how
ever, that the beginning of the advent
season will see it under way.
"The nation-wide movement not only
aims to develop the spiritual resources
of the church and to inspire a zest for
service both at home and abroad. It
proposes a practical solution of great
problems accumulated at the door of
the church and hitherto alighted be
cause of lack of means to deal with
them. If the church is weak In rural
communities, she must be strengthened
with workers and equipment. ' If she
is not meeting community problems,
means for so doing must be providVed.
If she is not getting close to student
life at the larger institutions, this con
dition must be remedied by the needed
facilities. The wiping out of church
debts is also planned by our diocesan
campaign committee as a supplement
to the general programme.
"This programme calls for more
workers, more parish houses, more
rectories and additional and enlarged
church buildings with adequate equip
ment, it calls for money and con
secrated service in a way that will
test out the real capacities of the
church as a vital part of God's king
dom." En4Torra Meet.
A meeting of the Oregon State Chris
tian Endeavor union was held Satur
day and Sunday, September 13 and -14,
at Estacada. Headquarters were es
tablished at the hotel and the sessions
were held out of doors, where recrea
tion and work were delightfully com
bined.
Miss Faye Steinmetz. the state presi
dent, who attended the recent interna
tional conference at Buffalo, N. Y..
presided and brought from It plans
for the next two years' work. These
were talked over and an educational
programme outlined which will be
bigger and broader in its scope than
anything ever attempted by the En
deavor young people of Oregon. It
will include certain degrees, the earn
ing of which will call for study along
pertain required lines and many elec
tive courses. These electives will be
broad in scope and will fill a long felt
need of better training for young peo
ple. The following out of town people
were present: Miss Annabe Taylor of
Forest Grove, president of the Wash
ington county union; Miss June Walk
er of Forest Grove, Washington county
junior superintendent; Lyle Willard of
McMinnville, state vice-president;
Howard Zlnser of Salem, state prayer
meeting superintendent, and Miss
Alice Judd of Salem, state social su
perintendent. Portland people were:
Miss Faye Steinmetz, state president;
Miss Elaine Cooper, state secretary;
Miss Molly Fetting, state treasurer;
Miss Mable Galey, state life work re
cruit superintendent; Miss Effie Tor-
gerson, state intermediate superintend
ent; Miss Viola Ogden, state historian;
C. Meadford Saiz, state social service
superintendent; - Miss Joy Aydelott,
state good literature superintendent;
Le Roy Robinson, president of Multno
mah county union; Miss Elma Rehwalt,
Multnomah county intermediate super
intendent; Miss Dorothy Gilfillan, Miss
Jennie McKibben, Miss Alice Weather-
on, G. Evert Baker, Lloyd R. Carrick
and Rev. Charles W, Hays. Mr. Car
rick, who was former state president.
is leaving for California, where he will
attend school, and the meeting also
had a note of farewell for him.
The Oregon annual conference of
the Church of the United Brethren
in Christ met in annual conference
in the United Brethren church in
The Dalles. Or., September 18, with
Bishop William H. Washinger, D. D.,
of Portland, superintendent of the Pa
cific district, presiding.
Rev. G. K. Hartman, pastor at The
Dalles, made splendid arrangements to
entertain the conference. The parson
age has been rebuilt into a modern
house at an expense of $1200. The
church .building has been redecorated
in the interior and new cement walks
are being installed.
A special feature of this conference
was the visit of Dr. P. M. Camp of Day
ton. O., general secretary of home mis
sions for the denomination, whose pres
ence enlivened conference sessions.
This Is his first visit to the coast. He
will spend some time reviewing the
work of the- churches In Portland and
elsewhere.
The conference received several new
ministers. The denominational school.
Philomath college, is engaged in a
campaign to raise 50,000 additional
endowment, which promises success.
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The musical numbers for this morn
ing at the Wilbur Methodist church
have been arranged by Professor Will
iam Mansel Wilder, organist-director.
Dr. Short, the pastor, will use for the
morning's sermon the subject, "The
Great Home-Coming of the Saints."
The Sunday echool is growing and its
orchestra is said to be one of the best
in the city.
At the Mount Tabor Methodist Epis
copal church. East Stark and Sixty
first streets, E. Olin Eldridge, pastor,
will hold services today as follows: At
11 A. M.. address by Miss N. M. Curtis,
superintendent of the Methodist Dea
coness' home, on the subject, "The Cen
tenary Pageant at Columbus"; evening,
8 o'clock, preaching by the pastor:
subject, "Christ and the New Era."
Sunday school, 9:45 A. M. ; Epwortb
league, 7 P. M.
than that which prompted the Greeks
to attain their glorious physical ideal.
He not only left room for the great soul
within a weak body to live Its life, but
endowed that soul with much greatness
that in the coming centuries an inten
sity of moral passion In multitudes of
physically weak men should make
them the world's greatest benefactors
In ministries of almost impossible
achievements.
Jesus gloried In physical powers, he
gloried In his own, but to the end, that
a soul should be glorified within to im
perlalize those powers. He met a man
in Gadara who could break the chains
with which men fettered him and then
return to the graveyards to find a
home. Armed posses of men could re
strain this demoniac. Then we see him
sitting- quietly under the spell of the
one man In all Gadara who would use
no physical force to bind him.
All .because Jesus rationalized the
wild anarchy of a soul inside, and gave
it presidency over brain and brawn,
cooled the fervors of passion, put order
in the chaos of delirium, and then sent
the man where prudence must yester
day have denied him entrance home.
Discipline Is Feature.
Stripping Jesus' figure of speech of
its intended extravagance, we get
down to this simple meaning: A very
great desire for It, coupled up to the
will for It, and directing the proper
disciplines needful for It, may under
usual conditions, very greatly develop
one's physical efficiency. However,
one must discipline the processes, for
First, if anxiety cannot add to yet cer
tainly it can vastly impair efficiency.
DESIGN FOR NEW CHURCH EDIFICE ACCEPTED BY MEMBERS
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PERSPECTIVE OF PROPOSED NEW
The materials will be light-colored tapestry brick, with stone trimming.
the old style of church architecture, dispensing with all towers and steeples
the interior to secure a strictly modern
Besides an auditorium and balcony to be used exclusively for worship, the building will provide also a large
Sunday school assembly room, with classrooms and full equipment for purposes of religious education. The Insti
tution will be a training school for boys and girls and young persons. The
gon State Association of Christian Churches will also be located In the building.
Episcopal Churches Begin
Nation-Wide Campaign.
Right Rev. James fllif of Kansas
to Speak at Mass Meeting.
THE first step in the nation-wide
campaign of the Episcopal church
will be taken Sunday, September 21, at
a mass meeting to be held at the pro
cathedral of St. Stephen the Martyr,
at 4 P. M. The special speakers, who are
coming for this meeting are, the Rev.
James Wise, D.D., of Kansas and Mr.
B. Finney, one of the leaders of the
Brotherhood of t. Andrew.
The purpose of this meeting is to ex
plain the nation-wide campaign and
the steps necessary for local churches
to take to secure Us success. On Sun
day morning the speakers for the mass
meeting' will preach in the following
churches:
St. Stephen's pro-cathedral, 11 A. M.,
Mr. B. Finney.
Grace Memorial, 11 A. M., Bishop
Wise.
Bishop Wise will preach at St. David's
church Sunday night at 8 o'clock and
Mr. Finney will go to Oregon City for
the .evening service.
Monday morning Bishop Wise and Mr.
Finney will address the clergy. The
meeting will be held in the clericus
room in the Merchants' Trust building:
Dr. Morrison of Trinity church has
returned from the east. Regular serv
ices will be resumed this morning at 8
and 11 o'clock and at 8 o'clock in the
evening at which he will preach. Tbe
first session of the Sunday school will
be held In the church at 9:45 A. M.
Rev. M. A. Chrlstensen, pastor of
Our "Savior's Lutheran church. East
Grant and Tenth streets, will speak in
English at the morning service. He
has chosen as his theme the parable of
the ten lepers and will show the grati
tude that follows forgiveness. In the
evening there will be a song service.
Both services are in English.
Dr. Eliot at the Church of Our
Father, Broadway and Yamhill, will
preach on "The Divine Mercy," this
morning at 11 o'clock. The church
school meets at 9:45. Frank C. Flint
a post graduate at Reed college, has
been made student assistant to the
pastor and took up the work with Mr.
Eliot on September 15.
At the Grace Lutheran church. Mason
and Alblna streets, of which C. H
liernhard is pastor. Sunday school
will be held at 9:45 A. M. Morning
service at 11 o'clock, the theme "The
Great Physician at Bethesda" being
used. Evening service will be at 7:45.
A special meeting of voters after the
morning service will be held.
"Church Federation and Co-opera
tion" will be the subject of the sermon
by Rev. William E. Brinkman at the
St. James English Lutheran church
Sunday at 11 A. M. Sunday school
session at 9:51 A- M. "Newness of
Lifo" will be the subject of the even
ing sermon at 7:45 o'clock. The Young
People 8 Luther league devotional meet
ing will be held at C:45 P. M. The
Jesus could say, "Over-anxiety will not
help you to do your physical task"; but
he meant more than that, for he taught
an.l exampled an unearthly calm and
self-possession where vast physical
strains came. He deplored it, over and
over, when he noted the fret and worry
In the' men about him. There Is a
classic incident illustrating our con
tention, in the scene of a midnight
storm on the Lake of Galilee, when
these usually expert sailors, losing
nerve, went bunglingly about the man
agement "inf their boat, and all the
while Jesus lay asleep.
They wrought for months to make
our sons, unused to perils, ready to
face the grill and hell of barrage and
the air charged with the streams of
leaden death and to be so at the top
of their powers and so unaffected by
fear or tremor, that they would out
brave and out-callous the toughened
Prussian veterans of four years' sea
soning. The marvel of marvels was in
this, that nine months did in the Amer
ican what 40 years could not quite do
in the German. To added physical ef
ficiency this was added In the Ameri
can soldier, namely, the elimination of
worry, or the injection of something
which at the hour's coming whelmed
all fear, routed all worry and left soul
and body allied in the soldier's su
preme task.
Nerve Force Expended.
The physiologist will calmly tell you
that all physical action is strictly an
expenditure of nerve force; that the
nervous batteries produce nervous force
according to a fixed capacity. He will
1 tell you that there are three great
73,00O BUILDING OF FIRST CHRISTIAN
COLUMBIA STREETS.
religious workshop.
pastor's Bible class meets each Sun
day at 10:30 A. M. in the church audi
torium. All are invited to attend the
services.
The Realization league will meet at
11 A. M. today over the Woman's Ex
change, 186 Fifth street. The sermon
will be by Rev. H. Edward Mills on
the subject, "Putting to Use Our Neg
lected Powers."
Mlzpah Presbyterian church, D. A.
Thompson, pastor, announces the fol
lowing services for today: Sabbath
school, 10 A. M.; morning worship, 11
o'clock, theme, "The True Source of
World Power or the Dynamic of Chris
tian Life"; Christian Endeavor, 6:45
P. M. : evening service. 7:45, theme.
'Jesus, the Social Arbiter."
Rev. Alexander Beers, pastor of the
Alberta Free Methodist church. Thir
tieth and Wygant streets, and formerly
pastor of the First Free Methodist
church, has received an urgent call to
take the pastorate of the Bishop Hart
Memorial church in San Francisco. Dr.
Beers has been considering this propo
sition for more than a year, and will
decide In the near future as to whether
or not he will accept it. Rev. Mr. Beers
will occupy his pulpit In the Alberta
church both morning and night today.
Westminster Church Plans
Bible Scho.ol Rally.
Class Graduations to Be Featured.,
Mount Tabor Programme.
WESTMINSTER CHURCH. East Sev
enteenth and Schuyler streets. Is
planning a rally day service of unusual
interest for next Sunday at 12:10 o'clock.
This will be Immediately following the
morning sermon. The programme will
include promotion exercises In gradua
tion of pupils to higher grades. A. J.
Bale, superintendent, has extended a
general invitation to visitors.
Today Dr. Edward H. Pence, pastor,
will preach at 10:30 on "The God Whom
We Worship; Are We Pagan or Chris
tian?" At 7:30 his subject will be,
"Where Is the Power for a Strong
Light?"
At the First Methodist church.
Twelfth and Taylor streets, next Sun
day, will be a membership, home
coming and Sunday school rally day.
Every family and friend of the
church is being urged to be present,
and the work and programme of the
new church year will be considered.
Dr. Stansfield will preach in the morn
ing at 10:30 on "Religion and Life.'
In the evening at 7:45 Dr. H. Little
field of New York will give a special
address on "Character and Conditions
of Life in the Near East." Dr. Little
field comes to the city under the
auspices of the American committee
of relief in the near east. The quar
tet and the chorus choir will sing
morning and evening.
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At the First Spiritual church. East
Seventh and Hasalo streets, Mrs. Mary
A. Congdon will lecture at 3 P. M. and
8 P. M. on the subject, "The Value of
Spiritual Knowledge."
drains upon that supply, namely, to as
similate food and repair spent tissues,
to energize muscular action, to think
and feel. If thinking, emotion, worry,
fret, levy too heavily upon the supply,
digestion and reparation of waste suf
fer, or the exhileration of muscular ac
tion wanes. Thus, too, excessive emo
tion of worry will disturb the flow of
nervous energies which are uncon
sciously going to centers set up by
habit; or powers of attention are dis
turbed. In truth, there is nothing else in all
the world so complex as a human being
of highly disciplined powers, and, sav
ing that rigidly well formed habits of
mind often singularly endure great
strains and stand up unimpaired, yet
worry will undermine even these, and
the more the culture the more colossal
the collapse when It comes.
Foea Arise In Mind.
But, second, by taking thought we
may add to physical efficiency. Worry
is thinking, but thinking playing at
anarchy with itself. It is the mind al
lowing imagination to create foes for
it to fear. Direct the mental capacity
of Imagination which you expend in
creating foes to fear upon the creation
of weapons to fight those foes and then
watch them In their flight. Eliminate
the heat of worry and let the mind
cool to its task. It's an old adage,
"Keep your head cool and your feet
warm." It fs good for health and work
and battle alike, for cold feet follow
soon upon a head superheated.
The brain is the greatest tool in all
the universe and habit Is the edge of
its efficiency. Every . physical effi
OF FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
CHURCH. CORNER OK PARK AND
The design represents a departure from
and utilizing money and space more in
offices and headquarters of the Ore
First Christian Church Aids
Armenian Relief Fund.
Bible School Inereue Annual Con
tribution to STOO.
THE First Christian church Bible
school, which at each Christmas for
the past two years has contributed $500
for Armenian relief, has recently made
pledge of $700 to the same cause for
the coming Christmas. On Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock the members of
the church and school will have the
privilege of hearing how their money
has been used in an address by Dr.
Milton H. Littlefield, national superin
tendent of Sunday schools of the Con
gregational church and also member of
the national Armenian relief committee.
Dr. Littlefield recently has returned
from Asia Minor and Is now reporting
the progress of the committee's work
to the churches and schools of America.
On Sunday evening at 7:45 the Rev.
Harold H. Griffis will occupy the pulpit.
discussing certain militant aspects of
Christianity, taking for his specific
topic. "The Christian Equivalent of
War."
On Thursday at the noon hour the
general sisterhood of the church, in
cluding all the women of the congre
gation, will hold Its regular quarterly
session with luncheon and special pro
gramme by the members of the Ec-
clesia circle.
Sunday will mark the close of the
conference on Christian fundamentals
under the leadership of some of the
most famous Bible teachers of Amer
ica, and all the services of the Sunny-
side Congregational church will be in
tune with the spirit of the conference.
At 11 o'clock the pastor. Dr. J. J.
Staub, will preacn on "Where and What
Is the Church of Jesus Christ?" The
evenin? service will be preceded by an
enthusiastic song service led by the
famous Arthur W. McKee of the Moody
institute. Chicago, and the sermon will
be preached by Dr. W. B. Riley of
Minneapolis, Minn., on "The Second
Coming and Christian Conduct and
Character." The public is cordially
Invited.
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At the Cente.iarv Methodist Episco
pal church. East Pine f no East Ninth
streets. Dr. J. C. Rollins, pastor, has
taken as his morning theme "The Su
premtcy of the Spiritual." At the
evening hour, 7:30 o'clock. Rev. C. P.
Burgess will speak on "The Horrors of
the Armenian Jljuacrts." Mr. Burgess
has just returned from the near east.
The week of the conference of the
churches of the United Brethren in
Christ for Orecon district. Bishop Wil
liam H. Washinger will preside. Thse
yssions have been In procress since
Thursday morning and will close to
riay. The place of conference is The
Dalles, Or., where Rev. G. K. Hartman
is the genial pastor.
The four pulpits in Portland will be
supplied as follows:
At First church. Fifteenth and East
Morrison streets Rev. A. E. Beebe of
Norwalk. Conn., will preside at the
ciency is a brain efficiency. Yonder ex
pert mechanic is a brain expert. In
telligence taught those hands that
amazing skill. His skill of fingers
spells out a marvelous congerle of
nerve centers In his brain somewhere.
You need not to cut off his hands to
destroy his skill; find that spot In his
brain and release a clot of blood there.
The best education is that which im
presses the sanest set of habits upon
the brain in the process of releasing
the mind's native powers.
WnshlnsTton and Lincoln Examples.
Young Abe Lincoln had few books',
but he mastered them all. He set up
a habit of clarity of thinking by leav
ing no subject until he could state It
in his own working vocabulary. Young
George Washington made accuracy a
habit. Resurveys of the lines he ran
in Virginia while yet In his teens have
proven him Infallibly exact even then.
"Where there is a will there Is a way"
sounds a bit idealistic, but it is true,
where there Is intelligence In selecting
the thing to will. But too often the
proverb virtually means to too many.
"Where there's a wish there'll appear
a way."
A young chap and I sat listening
to another lad playing wonderfully on
a piano. "I'd give five years of my
life to play like that," said my com
panion. "Well, go to it," said I; "that
player has only been working at it
four." What he meant was that he
would be willing, he thought, to sit
down, go to sleep, erase five years
I out and wake up and find himself an
morning service. Thero will be no
service in the evening.
The 8econd church pulpit. Twenty
seventh and Sumner streets, will be
supplied in the morning by Rev. P. O.
Bonebrake. and in the evening B. Lee
Paget will speak on the Syrian-Armenian
relief.
Rev. R. G. Sumerlin will take the
piece of Rev, E. O. Shepherd both
morning and evening at Third church.
Sixty-eeventh street and Thirty-second
avenue Southeast.
Rev. Mr. Clark of Dapton. O., will
speak morning and evening at Fourth
church. Tremont station.
At the Arleta Baptist church. Rev.
Owen T. Day, pastor, has taken for his
topic at 11 o'clock "The Supreme Test
of Christian Experience." In the eve
ning at 8 o'clock he will speak on "The
Suffering Christ; the Way of Life."
Next Sunday, September 28, will be
rally day, and special exercises will be
held by the Sunday school at 10:30 A. M.
The parents especially are urged to be
present.
At the Third Baptist church. Knott
and Vancouver streets. Rev. Webley J.
Beaven, pastor, has announced the fol
lowing services for today: Bible school
9:4 5 A. M.: B. Y. P. U. 6:S0 P. M. ;
church service at 11 A. M. on "Love
and Service"; evening service at 7:30
P. M. on the subject "The Thing ve
Need."
At the Glencoe Baptist church. East
Forty-fifth and Main streets, prepara
tions are being made for a general good
time at the annual roll call soon to
take place. The pastor. Rev. F. C.
Laslett will speak today at 11 A. M. on
the topic "The Christianity for Today."
and at 7:45. "Where the Path Breaks"
will be his subject. The Boys' club will
soon be in progress, under the direction
of W. S. Hale, formerly superintendent
of the state Industrial school. Stran
gers are welcome. Bible school is held
at 9:45 A: M:, with classes for all ages.
During the past month the Atkinson
Memorial Congregational church has
been making some extensive changes
in its building. For this reason all
services have been discontinued for
the time. Although the work is not
fully completed, iservtces will be re
sumed today. The Sunday school will
convene at 9:45 A. M. for enrollment.
The pastor. Rev. E. E. Flint, will
preach at both services. The morning
theme will be "The Return of Jesus."
In the evening he will give a report
of President Wilson's address at the
Auditorium on "The League of Na
tions." A formal opening of the church will
be held next Sunday.
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Services will be held at Universal
Messanic church at 11 A. M. and 8 1.
M. today. The subject for this morn
ing will be "Creation, True and False.
Study classes will meet weanesaay
evening at 8 o'clock. All services are
held in room 318 Ablngton building.
Guy F. Thelps, who recently returned
from overseas service, will speak Tues
day night, September 23. in the Meth
odist church at Forest Grove, lie will
tell the residents of the district about
the work of the Pacific Coast Rescue
and Protective society and will advance
the cause of a new nursery for name
less, homeless and abandoned babies.
Mr. Thelps is said to be a speaker of
eloauence and one able to tell con
vlncingly of the great need for a shelter
for the waifs of Oregon.
Rev. Persis Willson Moore, medium
and pastor of the Church of the Spir
itualist Center, tonight will begin 1
course of lectures at 412 Holladay ave
nue. Each subject will be given to the
lecturer at the time of delivery.
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The Independent Bible Spiritualist
society and church will hold Sunday
services at 3 and 8 P. M. at the East
Side Woodmen hall, 113 East Sixth
street at Alder. The sermon subject
will be "The Fountain of Health." Rev.
Mr. and Mrs. J. Schori are the pastors.
Demonstrations by several mediums
will be given.
Rev. Edward Constant of the High
land Congregational church will take
for his sermon topic today Does God
Answer Prayer?" The theme tonlgh
will be "The Divine Art of Human lie
construction." Soloists will be Mrs.
Vogal and Mrs. Ellingbo.
Special programmes will be offered
to the congregations at the Pilgrim
church. Missouri and Shaver streets,
morning and evening. Mrs. Jessie
Orton Steckle. director of the music
will sing the soprano obligato to the
quartet "Seek Ye the Lord." by Rob
erts. There will be a solo by Dr. J. B.
Pearson and a women's quartet which
will give "Teach Me to Pray." by Jew
ltt. The pastor. Rev. Robert Murray
Pratt, will preach in the morning on
the theme. "The Beauty of Covetous
ness." In the evening he will deliver
a humorous lecture entitled "dialers of
Eve."
Today is social visitation day in
Mount Tabor Presbyterian church, in
troducing rally week. Morning sermon
introducing rally work. The following
programme Is announced: Morning ser
mon by the minister. Ward W. MacHen
ry. In the afternoon members will visit
sick, strangers, neighbors and friends
in the interest ot the church and Sun
day school. At the evening services
the moving pictures, "Son of Democ
racy," and the sermon, "The Church's
Tank Today," will be given.
Tuesday, at 8 P. M ., conference night,
the official boards of- the church will.
expert pianist. But five "years' solid
energies, with what I knew to be his
musical aptitudes, would have made
him master. In fine, by taking
thought, eager, well modulated, anxious,
earnest thought, directing a will, will
add things better infinitely than cubits
or ells to height. This is true. for.
Third, in the realm of the spiritual
superman, it is astounding to' note to
what colossal magnitude some men
have multiplied themselves.
Behold how the whole continent of
the Africa that now is, and much more
the Africa that is to be, has become
almost synonymous with the name and
soul of David Livingstone. And so of
Napoleon, the one-time Corsican cadet,
and the Europe of a century gone. See
how that "despised little Jew," so
called, filled that first century with
his dynamic superself, and the name
Paul fades out the names of emperors.
See how Washington and Lincoln have
broken the bonds of their provincial
day and place and now tread the ages!
That day of Jesus was a day when
the average man's use to his age was
apt to be In his physical ability to fight
or build for kings their enduring mon
uments of pride; the less he thought
the greater his value to his master.
Super-Thinkers la Demand.
It is different now. We do greater
things now with machines which our
hands have made, because more men
have thought greater thoughts for
hand-made machines to express.
The age to come even now lies seeth
ing in the brains of men who must
think, ero it shall be. The age that
present their plans and receive sugges
tions from the congregation. Short
talks by S. W. Lawrence of the session.
George Vath. board of trustees, and
Mrs. R. 11. Tate, of the deacons and
deaconesses.
Wednesday, 2:30 P. M., the women's
society Will hold a rally meeting with
special addresses. "Echoes From Sea
beck." Miss Agnes Symington, and
"After the War Activities." Miss Oril E.
Henthorne. who has just returned from
27 months' service overseas with the
Y. M. C. A., seven months spent in
Germany with the army of occupation,
many months under fire, serving men
in front line trenches. Miss Henthorne
is one of the very few women receiving
the croix de guerre from the French
government.
Thursday, "pot-luck" lunch and com
plimentary dinner to the choir; 6:30
P. M., fhort programme and pocial
time. "Church night" service 7:45.
Sunday school night, Friday, 8
o'clock. Superintendent Kllton Shaw,
presiding. Music by the orchestra,
short booster talks by Miss Violet
jonnson and Miss Oril E. Henthorne.
Social hour, music and games fol
lowing. The Vernon Presbyterian church.
East Nineteenth and Wygant streets,
will welcome a new pastor today. Rev.
Bruce J. Giffen. Mr. Giffen comes from
McMinnville. where he has been pastor
of the Presbyterian church for three
years. He will preach morning and,
evening. At 11 A. M. his subject will
be "Loyalty the Foundation of Reli
gion." and at 7:30 P. M. he will preach,
on "On Taking Things Up."
Mr. and Mrs. Giffen are establish
ing themselves in the manse at 1023
East Nineteenth street north.
Anabel Presbyterian church has
made the following announcements for
today: 9:15 A. M., Sunday school, with.
orchestra. Mr. Tower, leader: 11 A. M..
sermon. "The Cure for Care": 7 P. Sr.
P. S. C. E. ; 8 P. M.. "The Highway
to Teace"; prayer services will be ou
Wednesday at 8 P. M.
The rector. Rev. Thomas Jenklrx rr
St. David's church, after an absence nf
six weeks In Alaska, is back in his
parish and will preach at 11 o'clock on
"The Difficult Way" (St. Matt. vli:13).
Tonight the Rt. Rev. Dr. Wise, bishop
of Kansas, will be the Treacher.
Rally day will be held in the srhnnla
at 9:30 and 3. A doubled membershin
is the motto for this year.
t-hurch Is open every day.
At the First Congregational
Park and Madison streets, services will
he held at 11 A. M. and 7:45 P. M. Rev.
W. W. Willard. who will occupy the
pulpit this morning, has chosen for a
theme "Meaning in Human Life." To
night motion pictures will be shown of
the relief work done in the near east
during the world war. and also of a
200-mile flight over Jerusalem and the
Holy Land. Dr. L. L. Wirt, a Congre
gational minister who has just re
turned from the near east, will give a
lecture in connection with the pictures.
The Brotherhood of the church will
have its fall rally and dinner tomorrow
night and will be addressed by Dr.
Wirt and Milton S. Littlefield. who has
also just returned from the near east.
The 'oman's Missionary society will
meet in the church parlors Wednesday
at 2 o'clock, with Mrs. Dudley Clarke
as the soloist. The Bible school meets
at 9:4 5 A. M. with Mr. Bowlby as direc
tor. Reports of the delegates to Sea
beck will be given. The Amicitiae
Christian Endeavor will meet at 6:30
P. M. The subject will be "Truthful
ness." Dr. McElveen. the pastor, is
expected In thn near future to begin
his work with the church.
At the Waverlv Heights Congrega
tional church. East Thirty-third and
Woodward streets, of which Rev. Oliver
Perry Avery 1. pastor, the following
programme will be observed today:
Morning service at 11. "The Life of
Adventure": evening preaching at 8,
"Life's Oppositions"; Sunday school,
9:45 A. M.: Intermediate Christian En
deavor, 6:15; Senior Young People
round-table, 6:30: report of Seabeck
missionary conference by the Misses
Smith. Prayer meeting will be held
Thursday at 7:30 P. M.
Six new members were received Into
the membership of the East Side Bap
tist church last Wednesday night at
the mid-week service. This morning's
sermon will be an attempt to show
that the identical Christ who left the
earth from Olivet will place his feet
upon th.it s;ime mountain in the near
future. Evidence will be produced from
the scriptures and considered, when it
will be seen that it is not what any
man reenrds as fundamental, but rath
er the fact that God's word defines the
primary things which shau'.d have the
rlpht of way.
At this evening's service, which com
mences at 7:0. the pastor. Dr. Hinson.
will take for his theme "Paul's Lessons
In Memory Training."
The church is at East Twentieth and
East Salmon streets and can be reached
by the Sunnyside. Mount Tabor. Haw
thorne and Mount Scott cars.
Preaching services will be at 11 and
7:30 with Sunday school at 9:30 and
young people's meeting at 6:15.
m
At the Metaphysical library, room 27
Ainsworth building. Third and Oak
streets, services will be held today at
11 A. M. and on Wednesday at & P. M.
by Nettie Taylor Kloh.
.
Fourteen persons were added to the
membert-hip of the East Side Christian
church. East Twelfth and Taylor, at
now is calls for thinkers a few super
thinkers, thinkers in the realms of re
ligion, morals, economics, ethnology,
industry. The thinker, whether he
thinks his expression through words
or hands. Is to be the leader of his
following.
I sat one day in a great deliberative
gathering of men. The oxaer of the
day was the report of a committee
upon a measure which was notedly un
popular and against which the minds
of the majority were deeply preju
diced. The chairman stepped to the
platform. He was undersized physic
ally. He had never before seemed so
much so to me. For one hour he spoke.
I felt my prejudices melt away. I
looked around and read it in my com
panions' faces. When done his speech
that gathering of conservative men vot
ed unanimously to adopt the speaker's
proposal.
I thought to myself, "When he began
his speech he looked four feet seven
inches tall: when he was done he
looked seven feet four."
"Which of you. by taking anxious,
earnest, disciplined thought, can add
one cubit to his stature?" Any man
can do It if he learns to eliminate the
anarchy of worry, and set his Inner
mind in order and discipline the pow
ers of a great expression. He can do
it. for he can do something immeasur
ably better and bigger than adding
seven inches to the body's length,
namely, height and depth, and then a
great horizon of swelling breadth to
his soul. A height to touch and know
God. a depth to touch and awake the
inner self, a breadth to touch and bless
one's fellowmen.