HIE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND. NOVE3I15ER 0, 1910. 11 MR. BOYD THANKFUL FOR ALL PUBLICITY Pastor Admits Memory Not Better Than Reporter's. JULY 13 EVENTFUL DAY Attempts of The Orcgonian to Print Sermon in Full Approved, but Manuscript Is Missing. CHICAGO. 111.. Nov. 4. (To the Edi tor.) I am glad to note that The Oregonian cannot get along without my name and face in its columns. Tha space you give me shows that your nose knows the scent of interest Ins news, and that my publicity de partment is well managed. I am not going to quarrel with you or with the young woman reporter never! I am not going to quarrel with anybody, not even "The Pres byterian." Neither am I groins to match memories with anybody to see who can remember the most. It's plain to everyone that neither your reporter nor myself has a memory capable of going back three months and a half to recall a trivial, passin matter. What I am absolutely cer tain of is that near the 13th of July every hour was choking full, my home was a chaos, the newspapers had been stopped days before. It is altogether improbable that a paper came to my home that day. If 1 saw the Monday paper. I gave it only a glance. I have no recollection of any conversation about the report of the sermon or the want of a manuscript. I never have, even to this hour, seen the full report of that sermon. All that my eye ever fell upon, according to my memory, is the sentence which Stirred the heresy hunters. Pastor Regrets Losing Fish. My, how I wish I had that sermon! It was Indeed a great one! No other like it was ever produced in Port land! A sermon which had already been preached, and so accurately re ported that the preacher of it said it was well done, and yet the editor of The Oregonian wanted a manu script of it, not to preach again it had already been preached; not to print again it had already been ac curately reported but he wanted the manuscript Just to have It around where he could see it occasionally and show it to "cub" reporters as a model. Aly. wha t a sermonl Mr. Editor, I once hooked an eight pound black bass, and lost him. All my life I have grieved for that fish. Kow, you tell the public that 1 preached a sermon so excellent that after it had been preached and per fectly reported you had me telephoned on Monday asking for the manuscript of it. For the rest of my life, this sermon, which is lost forever, will lie by the side of that bass, the two un availing regrets of my life. But seriously, this is not the essen tial point, unless somebody wants to prove me a liar. It may come to that, but it has not done so yet- The essential question is this: Did Rev. John H. Boyd teach in his sermon of July 13 what the words quoted make him teach? The sentence which Rev. J. Edward Blair quoted to the eastern papers makes me say that man is so divine, co holv and perfect that he is self- sufficient and self-saving: that he needs not to be taught to believe in God. needs no repentance or forgive ness, needs no mercy nor help from the guiding life and atoning death of Jesus the Christ. Appeal Made to Hearera. These things have offended ym erltics, and rightly offended them if such is my faith and my teaching. Please note four things: 1. The notes from which this ser mon was preached are before my eye at this moment. They show that I was preaching upon man's need of Christ! At the point where the quoted sentence makes me say that man does not need God, I was saying that only as man realized the magnificence of his nature could he realize the shame of his falten state and be led to Christ for the recovery of that glory which had been ruined by sin. 2. I appeal to those 2000 (?) who beard this sermon. Did I after choos ing a text which reads: "I determined to know nothing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified," set this Christ aside, and say that man was so good and so Godlike that be needed no mercy or help? 3. I appeal to all who ever heard me preach and especially to the memo ries of the hundreds whom I received into the church during my pastorate in Portland, did I ever, in sermon or private interview, ignore or belittle Christ? Did I not with consistent and constant fidelity present him as the sole hope of a race which Is fail ing in the great task of true living. reaching neither life's glory nor its happiness? I am not afraid to hear the answers to these questions. I am very vulnerable and unsatisfying at many points in my faith and teach ings, but not at this point. I have never wavered in my conviction, nor sounded an uncertain note, concern ing man's absolute dependence upon God for guidance, mercy and life eternal. Otlier Sermon Offered. 4. But why take a single sentence from a single sermon to test a man's teachings. In the office of the First Presbyterian church in Portland at the present moment there are several thousand pages of sermons which I have preached in the last three years. They were printed from copy pre pared by myself. In case of doubt about the July sermon, why not ap peal to these sermons to see what tbev show aoout my oeiieis. a wouia be elad to have these sermons read even with a critic's eye. knowing that no man was ever more loyal to essential Christianity than myseir. I say nothing about the sentence referring to the Bible as a book, written in a simple, natural and human way, and is to be so read, as other books are read. This I believe. The Bible is a reasonable, under standable book. A few weeks ago, I heard a man who thinks that the Bible is not this kind of a book, ex plaining the forty-first chapter of Job. The leviathan or crocodile some how, not quite plain to me, became a "tank," such as were used in France, and before he got through the "tank" had changed into a "sub marine." The Bible is a wonderful book, full of the wisdom of God and the ways of life, but you must not read it this way if you want to know what God .is saying through it. Now, one question more remains: Why did the Rev. J. Edward Blair write these things about me? Well, I must make a sad disclosure. Mr. Blair does not love me. I tried to make him love me, but I could never do it. Mr. Blair is, or was until recently, the financial agent of Al bany college, and I am ashamed to acknowledge it. but there are some people around Albany college who do not love me. I dared to believe that It would be a good thing for Christian education in the Willamette valley to bring about a union of Albany college and f Pacific university at Forest Grove. I Then afterwards I was unwise enough to suggest out loud that I did not think It well to have a large part of the endowment funds of Albany college lying in the banks as security for the debts of the college, where oma of it now Is, according to the minutes of the last synod of Oregon. Ever since I did these things Mr. Blair has not loved me. Bo when ha found this sentence in The Oregonian with its implied heresy, and this bald statement of mine about the Bible, off he sends them to the experts on or thodoxy in the east. Thus arose and thus rages the storm which is now beating upon my poor exposed head. Brother Irvine is right, my cense of humor is going to save me. I am still smiling, and hav ing the time of my life in reading the multitude of letters which are pour ing in from every part of the country, full of good will and confidence. With love to all the friends in Port land who will let me love them, I am. Very elncerely. JOHN H. BOYD. The Oregonan trusts that Dr. Boyd's explanation will satisfy everybody, in cluding his critics. It is pleased that he is able to be Jocular about The Oregonian's news report of his ser mon, and its effort to procure the full text for publication at a later date. The original publication, on the day following delivery of the sermon, was but a brief report. It was interesting enough to Justify a request for all of it. No doubt a report of a great sermon has been lost to the world, but through no lack of diligence on the part of The Oregonian. Ed. Ore gonian. BUREAU BOON TO SOLDIERS STATE BODY GETS JOBS FOB 10,562 EX-SERVICE MEX, 319,321 Expended in Activities Centered at Liberty Temple. Commission Loans Money. A summary of the activities of the soldiers' and sailors' commission of the state of Oregron since that body was created by the last legislature shows that a total of $19,521.94 has been expended in the interest of for mer service men. All the activities of the commission in Portland have been carried on at Liberty temple and the report was made in an effort to have the city council rescind its ac tion In ordering the Liberty temple destroyed on November 15. The commission has advanced $6500 to the Oregon welcome commission of New Tork. This sum was advanced upon direction of the state legislature and upon request of Governor Olcott. The commission has also advanced $2097 to the American Legion for ex penses incidental to work carried on by that organization in the interest of ex-service men. The labor placement bureau, through which 10,662 men have been given work from the Liberty temple, has coat $4970.97 since March 23, 1919. The commission has also maintained placement bureaus in Astoria. Eugene, La Grange, Marshfield, Medford, Pen dleton and Salem at a cost of $2415.93. A total of 1867 men have been given employment through the outside of fices. The commission has loaned $750 to soldiers, has paid $801 for a war risk irsurance and vocational adviser and $95 for an advisor to wounded men. General expense chargeable to all ether activities except labor place ment is set at $2415.93. HOOD "WILL CELEBRATE Patriotic Programme and Stunts Will Be Feature of Day. HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 8. (Spe cial.) Supported by the members of Waucoma lodge. Knights of Pythias, Hood River post, American Legion, will ttage Armistice day celebration here Tuesday. All merchants have been asked to close their stores at noon. At 1 P. M. the general public is asked to gather at the Hood River high school, where a patriotic programme will be given The day will close with- a grand ball, held under auspices of the Le gion. Membsrs of a Knights of Pythias committee are planning an elaborate night parade with high Jinx around a giant bonfire. NEED A LAUNDRESS? Tour Is Arranged to Advertise Navy and Increase Enlistments to Complete Crews. The navy band, which is touring the orthwest in the interest of the navy campaign for recruits, is due to ar rive tomorrow, and will regale Port land folk with martial music for two days, tomorrow and Armistice day. The band comes here from Spokane, Wash., by way of Lewlston, Idaho. Twenty-six 'goD" musicians, se lected by the bureau of navigation be cause of their talent, make up the personnel of the organization. Their tour of the northwest was arranged by Lieutenant-Commander Fped K. Elder, district recruiting officer, whose headquarters are in Portland. 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