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.
They will appear In Portland on No
vember 10 and 11, in Astoria Novem-
Elks Plan for Campaign.
HOOD RIVER, Or., Nov. 8. (Spe
cial.) Harry G. Allen, president of
the Oregon Elks association and as
sociate director of the war loan or
ganlzatlon of Oregon, was here yes
terday initiating plans for Hood
River county's participation in the
Elks war savings stamp campaign.
J. H. Fredricy, member of The Dalles
lodge, will have charge of the drive
here, assisted by Truman Butler, gen
eral chairman of the county war loan
organization.
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PORTLAND TOMORROW.
ber 11, 13, and 14, and will return to
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Parle Benefit Successful.
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