THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND, JULY 18, 1920
TOKIO IS GOAL OF SUNDAY SCHOOL WORKERS OF WORLD
Delegates From All Countries Are to Attend Convention Which Opens October 5 and Many Will Tour Orient. ;
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THE Sunday school membership In
Braril has doubled within the
past three years and now totals
more than 60,000. In Brazil there is
a. Sunday school organization called
the Brazil Sunday School union,
which has been directed by Rev.: H.
C. Tucker of Rio de Janeiro, who has
been able to give only a fraction of
his time to this work. The great in
crease in the Sunday school member
ship and the consequent enlargement
of the work has resulted In frequent
entreaties from tne Brazil Sunday
School union to the World's Sunday
School association for a eecretary
who would devote all of his time to
Sunday school upbuilding in this
great country. Rev. Herbert S. Har
ris of Elmlra, N. Y., will eail on the
Vasari In the early part of May, go
ing direct to Rio de Janeiro, where
he will establish a Sunday school
office.
Mr. Harris has resigned as pastor
of the Central Presbyterian church of
Rochester. He is especially fitted for
this work in Brazil, since he is ac
quainted with both the Spanish and
Portuguese languages, Portuguese
being- the language of Brazil. Dur
ing the war he was a Y. M. C. A.
worker with the Portuguese troops
In France and thus acquired greater
facility in the use of that language.
Mr. Harris was a missionary at
Sancti Spiritus, Cuba, under the Pres
byterian board of home missions from
1901 to 1909, and-while there was in
strumental in organizing the Cuban
National Sunday School association,
serving afterward as its first presi
dent. In 1911 after attending the In
ternational Sunday school convention
In San Francisco, he spent six months t
in a Sunday school survey tour of
South America, in the interest of the
World's Sunday School association and
visited Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina,
Chile, Bolivia and Peru. One of the
results of this tour was the establish
ing of a Sunday school secretaryship
for South America in. Buenos Aires.
Rev. George P. Howard has been the
secretary for the whole continent, al
ithough his special work has been in
Argentina, Chile and Uruguay.
Reservations by those who are go
ing as delegates to the World's Sun
day school convention which will be
heid in Tokio. October 5, are being
received daily . at the World's of
fice, 216 Metropolitan tower. New
York City. The revised tour bulletin
has been issued and it is interest
ing to announce that trips from and
returning to a Pacific ocean port will
cost from $7 00 up, the larger cost
being for those who take the more
extended tours to Korea. China and
the Philippines. All necessary ex
penses of travel, guides and hotels,
, except fees to stewards on the- ocean
steamers, are in the inclusive costs
of the various tours. Over 10,0 have
already made inquiry concerning the
around-the-world tour and full in
formation concerning this trip will be
ready shortly for those seeking in
formation. Someone will especially represent
the World's association on each one
of the 12 outgoing steamers. This
man will be a well-known Sunday
bchool leader. He may be a state
secretary or one of the officers of the
World's association.
The Japan educational secretary of
the World's association sends word
concerning the activities in Japan in
preparation for the coming of the
thousand or more delegatea from all
parts of the world. The convention
building is to be erected on the Plaza
.In front of the Tokio railway station
A restaurant seating 1000 will be at
tached to the convention hall. These
buildings are near the Y. M. C. A.
where the great Sunday-school ex
hibit will be set up. The hearty en
thusiasm on the part of the mission
aries and native Christians is man
fested in all the preparatory work ,of
the general committee.
Mr. Coleman has just returned from
a trip to Korea where he found that
the Koreans wanted the number of
delegates which have been assigned
. for that country increased from 100
natives to 200. and 50 missionaries
are planning to be present. One of
the very interesting features of the
convention will be the pageantry,
music and religious art under. .the
-direction of Professor H. Augustine
Smith of Boston university. Profes
tor and- Mrs. timith will sail in Aug
ust and at once take up the matter
of drilling the chorus, choir and pa
geantry groups. Some of the pageants
will be Introduced in the post-con
vention meetings that are to be held
In strategic centers of the orient
such as Pekin, Nanking. Shanghai,
Hongkong. Canton and Manila. Korea
has asked for no less than five post-
convention meetings and has indi
rated the places for them, namely
Seoul. Fyeneyang. Fusan, Taiku
Kwaneru and Wonsan or Hamheung.
The delegates going on this trip to
Tokio, Including tours In other parts
of the orient, will receive an educa
tional value that is worth far more
than the money expended.
Candy gifts produc half dollar re
turns in Egypt, writes R-ev.- Stephen
Trowbridge, Sunday school secretary
representing the World's Sunday
School association at Cairo. This
Btory follows: "In many schools a
special effort is being made to reach
the children of the-streets. A pastor
in a rural parish tells how he used
to fill his pocket with pieces of sugar.
He gave to every street child a piece
of sugar if he. would follow him to
Sunday school. Most ot. these gamins
were Moslems. 'At .first the congre
gation was not pleased to find the
church full of these dirty, mischiev
ous children. At the end of the year,
however, some of these very urchins
came to the pastor with half-dollar
pieces. 'We have been working in
the cotton fields' they said, "and these
are our tithes." " Most important of
all they had the boys too.
There has been an increase in the
Sunday school membership in Erypt
since the report was prepared for the
Zurich convention in 1913. There are
now 294 Sunday schools with 894 offi
cers and teachers, 22,236 pupils, mak
ing a total enrollment of 23,130. While
the Increase in 'population has been
9 per cent the increase in Sunday
school membership has. been 26 per
cent and 51 per cent in the number of
officers and teachers. There are 20
teacher training classes in Egypt.
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The . Sunday -school of the Clay
street Evangical church, Tenth and
Clay streets, west side, will convene
at 9:30 and will be in charge of th';
superintendent, E. J. Keller. . The
morning service begins at 10:45, when
the pastor, Jacob Stocker, will preac.
on the subject. "Who Is My Neigh
bor?" Th's discourse will be in Ger
man. In the afternoon the pastor
will hold a service at the German
Altenheim at Division street. The
Young People's alliance meets at 7
o'clock and will be led by John
Stocker. At 8 o'clock the pastor will
preach on the theme, "Love Not tfca
World."
LOCAL AND VISITING CHURCH OFFICIALS GIVE IMPETUS TO SUMMER RELIGIOUS ACTIVITIES.
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Rev. Beeles to Preach at
First Brethren.
Ml ah Iela IOPkey Returned Missionary-
From Mexico, Will Have
Charge of Services.
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"Borderers," Dr. Starring'
Topic This Morning.
Evangelistic Singers to Appear at
Grace Baptfot Church,
THE pastor of the First United
Brethren' church. Fifteenth and
East Morrison streets, being in the
east,, his pulpit will be supplied Sun
day morning and. evening. Rev. G.
M. Heeler will'conduct the morning
service, and in the evening Miss Lela
M.. OLiUckey.. a returned missionary
from Mexico, will have charge of the
service. :...-
Rev. Ira Hawley, pastor of the Sec
ond United Brethren church. Twenty
seventn ana tsumner streets, an
nounces services as follows for Sun"
day: Morning, "He Loved Our Na
tion'.'; evening, "She Is Forgiven."
.ins ixoniie j-iiie , is me suDiect
chosen: by .the Rev. ' E. O. Shepherd
pa$tor of the Third-United Brethren
church, Sixty-seventh street and Thir
ty-second avenue Southeast, for the
Sunday morning service. This is the
fifth of his series on "The Fruits of
the Spirit." In the evening he will
speak on the very timely and inter-
ing subject, "Is It a Universal Salva
tion?" The pulpit of the Fourth United
Brethren church, Tremont station,
will be supplied on account of the
illness of the pastor. Rev. C. P. Blan
chard, in the morning by Miss Lela
M.-- Luckey. a returned missionary
from Mexico. The services in the
evening will be evangelistic.
At the Church of Our Father (Uni
tarian), Broadway and Yamhill, Rev.
Earl Morse Wilbur will conduct the
service and preach at 11 A. M. this
Sunday. The evenjng service is in
termitted. . '
Rev.. Berton F. Bronson will preach
at the ll-o'clock service today at
Pilgrim. - Congregational church.
Shaver street and Missouri avenue,
taking as . his subject. "The Creed
That Christ Commended." Sunday
school at .9:45 A. M. -"--.-'.,'""-
. Rev-. Oliver Perry. Avery of Waverly
Heights Congregational church. East
Thirty-third street and Woodward
avenue, will speak on "In League
With "the ' Infinite." At the Sunday
night service stereoptican pictures
will be shown.
Rev. H. Edward Mills will address
the realization league at 11 A. M. at
the Modern conservatory of music.
148 Thirteenth street on "Individu
ality." Children's church at same
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THIS morning at 11 o'clock at the
Grace Baptist church. East Seventy-sixth
and Ash streets, the pas
tor, F. W. Starring, will speak on
"Borderers." His evening subject at
8 will be "Grace in Genesis." Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Thompson, who for years
have been evangelistic singers in Ore
gon and Washington, will eing and
lead the congregational singing at to
night's service.
The adult Bible class, meeting at
10:25 A. M., in connection with the
Bible- school, opening at 9:45, will be
gin today a series of studies in "The
Second Coming of Christ," this subject
having been chosen by vote of the
class.
The daily vacation Bible school con
ducted by workers of Grace church
has been a great success during its
first week. In the first three days
the attendance grew from 79 to 122.
John Sullivan, 388 East Forty-seventh
street, has been secured to give the
boys instruction in manual work. All
boys' and girls in the- Montavilla dis
trict are invited to attend this free
vacation school from Monday to Fri
day. 9 to 12 A. M. The school will
continue for three more weeks, to
August 6.
There will be special music at the
White Temple,- Twelfth and Taylor
streets, this morning and evening.
James Silas Vann is organist and
choir director. Mrs. Adele Case Vann
will give special solos.
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New Presbyterian Pastor
Takes Pulpit Today.
Dr. Harold L. Bowman Will Preach
at Morning and Evening Serv
lrc k.
Dr. Stanfield Will Preach
at First Methodist.
"Obedience and Sacrifice," Theme
of Morning Sfcnon.
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T the First Methodist church
Sunday morning "Obedience and
Sacrifice" is to be the subject of Dr.
Joshua Stansfield's sermon. The ser
mon will show that such is the con
stitution of the world and such the
laws of human life that there must
be either obedience or sacrifice, but
sacrifice as a substitute, or in lieu of
obedience, ts not good. At the even
ing service, from 8 to 9 o'clock. Dr.
Stansfield w-ill preach on "The Time
Limit in Salvation Now." Miss Goldie
Peterson will be the soloist for the
day.
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Rev. W. S. Cordon, pastor of the
Sellwood Methodist church, will speak
at 11 o'clock on "The Power of a Lit
tle Child." At 8 o'clock in the even
ing an address will be given by Rev.
Edward Laird Mills, D, D., who has re
cently taken charge of the Pacific
Christian Advocate of this city. Pro
fessor F. C. Streyfeller will sing in the
morning and Miss Evelyn Lawrence in
the evening. The Sunday school
meets at 9:45. A chalk-talk will be
given at 10:30 by the superintendent,
D. S. Manny, and a young people's
meeting will be held at 1. All serv
ices will continue during the sum
mer season as usual. The church is
located. at East Fifteenth street and
1 Dr. P. M. White of Albany,
regional director of the north
west and Pacific coaot for the
Moody Bible chonl of Chicago
and director of the C.ladatone
nummer Bible achool to be held
in Gladstone park July. 25 to
Anicutt 22. 2 MIbs Georgia
Parker, aRSorlate secretary of
the Oregon Sunday School as
sociation. Her headquarters are
510 Ahington building, Port
land. 3 Alexander R. Evans. '
new pastor at the Arbor Lodge
Presbyterian church of Port
land, 4 George Wallace Scott.
Methodist evangelist, who is
appearing In many of the Port
land churches, telling of his
conversion and call to the min
istry at a time when be was on
the stage as an Imitator of
Harry Laadrr. Mr. Scott wears
the kiltie costume ' during his
evangelistic appeals.
Tacoma avenue, one block east of the
Sellwood car line.
"The Supreme Question" will be
the pastor's subject at 11 A. M.
the Clinton-Kelly Memorial Methodist
Episcopal church, Powell and Sixtieth
streets; There will be no Evening
service.
Services will be held at the Pro
Cathedral this morning as follows:
Holy communion at 7:45 A. M. ; holy
communion and sermon at 11 A. M.
The sermon at the 11 o'clock service
will be preached by Rev. W. E. Stock
ley of Iowa. The dean will be the
celebrant. The Young People's so
ciety will be held in the parish house
at 6:30 P. M. The evening service has
been omitted during July and August.
THE First Presbyterian church,
corner of Twelfth and Alder
streetB, will have its new pastor. Dr.
Harold Leonard Bowman, in the pul
pit at both services. 10:30 A. M. and
7:45 P. M. In the morning Dr. Bow
man will preach on "Religion and the
Bystander." and in the evening his
subject will be "One Lights a Candle
Called Patience." Mrs. Virginia
Spencer Hutchinson will sing at the
evening service "Oh, Rest in the Lord"
from Mendelssohn's "Elijah." From
7:30 to 7:45 P. M. Mr. Coursen will
give an organ recital as a prelude to
the evening service.
The Sunday school during the sum
mer months is meeting in two ses
sions, each with lantern slides, illus
trating the gospel according to Luke.
The primary and beginners" depart
ments meet in one room and all the
older departments in the Sunday
school auditorium. Both services are
at 12:15 and visitors are cordially in
vited to attend these, illustrated lec
tures. .
At Piedmont community Presbyte
rian church at Cleveland avenue and
Jarret street. Dr. W. T. Holt will
speak at 11 o'clock; Sunday school at
9:45 o clock. There will be no even
ing service. Mid-week meeting Thurs
day evening.
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At Central Presbyterian, church.
East Thirteenth and Pine,' Dr. Nu
gent, the pastor, will preach in the
morning. The sermon topic will be
"The Old Paths." There will be no
evening service until the first Sun
day in September.
There will be two soloists at the
morning service. Mrs. L. Binninghoff,
contralto, will s-ing "Is This All?" and
M. L. Peters will sing "Hold Thou
My Hand" by Briggs.
Dr. Nugent will be absent during
the month of August. During his va
cation Arthur F. Bishop. D. D.. former
pastor of -Central, will preach. Until
the first Sunday in September, the en
tire Sunday school will meet to
gether, the hour being 9:45. The mov
Ing pictures are proving of interest
to all.
At Westminster Presbyterian church
Sunday evening services will be held
in Holladay park. A union service for
the churches of this entire district
This service begins at 7 o'clock with
There will be special music and Dr.
E. H. Pence will deliver the address.
any regular serviee. The proportion
is steadily growing. The goal is a
100 per cent membership. -
Dr. W. S. Holt, associate eecretary
of the Presbyterian board of
ministerial relief and sustentation,
Philadelphia, will speak to rep
resentative Presbyterians. July 18.
Dr. Holt for many years was mis
sionary to China and has interesting
things to tell of his experiences
there.- He has also served in the
home mission field and is at present
actively Interested in securing for
aged ministers homes and pensions.
Mizpah Presbyterian church Morn
ing service at 11 o'clock. The services
will be in charge of Rev. William
Sylvester Holt of Philadelphia. Pa.
Dr. Holt was for many years a Chi
nese missionary, then synodical mis
sionary for Oregon and now secretary
of the board of relief and) sustenta
tion of the Presbyterian church. The
doctor's old friends are eordiallv in
vited to hear him; evening service at!
7:45 o'clock. Frank W. Henderson will
speak. His theme will be "The Ap
parent Disregard of the Fact of
Christ." The pastor is attending the
meeting of synod in Eugene.
Dr. Harold L. Bowman, the new
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, will be the speaker at the
men's resort meeting Sunday at 4
P. M. There will be a large musical
programme for this ' occasion. Mrs.
Etta Morse will be soloist, and the
orchestra has special music. The
men have a special song they will
sing, led by R. Desmond. Miss Alice
Johnson will play musical numbers.
Services will be held at Trinity
Lutheran church, in German, at 10
o'clock. Holy communion will be
celebrated. The confessional service
will begin at 9:30. The English serv
ice will be omitted. Everybody is
cordially invited.
At St. Paul's Lutheran church. East
Twelfth and Clinton streets. Rev. A.
Krauze, pastor, confessional service
will be held at 10 A. M. and morning
service and holy communion at 10:30
A. M. The subject of the sermon will
be "The Institution of the Sacrament
of the Altar." Special music by the
choir. Sunday school meets at 9:30
A. M. No evening service.
"The High Calling of Christ's Min
isters." This service will be in the
nature of an anniversary of Dr.
Ghormley's ministry. The evening lec
ture will be illustrated and will be
preceded by t. gospel song service.
The Church of Modern Spiritualism.
Pacific States building, 409 Alder
street, will conduct an open forum
Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. At
the evening service, at 7:45, Dr. C.
F. Clefton. president.- will 'ntroduce
Rev. W. W. Aber, the notedi psychic,
who will lecture and give individual
spirit messages to the public. Stanley
Hicks, tenor, will be the soloist. All
are welcome. 1
Series of Lectures Given on
God's Healing.
Institnte In Christensen'a Hall to
Be Addressed by Spokane Man.
preted at the morning service of
Woodlawn Methodist church by the
pastor. Rev. J. H. Irvine. At the eve
ning service the question considered
will be "Why People Are Unhappy
The Cure."
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R. JOHN G. LAKE, overseer of
the Divine Healing Institute in
Christensen's hall. Eleventh and Yam
hill, has arranged that on Sunday his
pulpit will be occupied by Kenneth G.
Olsen. A. T., of Spokane. Services
-will be held at 3 and 8 o'clock P. M.
The subject of the afternoon lecture
Is "The Fifty-first Psalm." The even
ing lecture is the third of four lec
tures on "The Purpose, the Plan, the
Power and the Process of God's Deal
ings With the World." After review
ing the purpose -and the plan of God
for the world, the lecturer will elab
orate the powers ordained by God for
the accomplishment of his purpose in
tne world. There will be a scientific
analysis of the power of God as man
ifested in the daily healings of the
institute. The institute opens every
morning at 10 o'clock for ministry to
the afflicted. A lecture on healing is
given every afternoon at 2:30 o'clock.
Evening services arc held at 8 o'clock.
Ministry is provided for those who
are unable to attend the institute.
Rev. T. M. Minard. pastor of the
First Divine Science church, will hold
services in the Portland hotel blue
room at 11 A. M. The subject will be
study class meets
M. in room 300 Til-
First 'Christian Church fcx
pects No Slump.
Servlcea to Be Conducted Through
out Summer as lanal.
in 1 The public is invited.
Miss Urieanor Cameron ana Miss
Katherlne Sargent of the Young Peo
ple's society leave Wednesday to at
tend the summer conference for young
people held at Albany, July 33-28.
Kenllworth Presbyterian church. L.
K. Grimes, pastor 11 A. M.. "What Is
It to Be a Christian?" 8 P. M.. "God's
Measure of Men." Sunday school, 9:45.
Christian Endeavor, 7 P. M. As
the vacation time comes around
here is one pastor who rejoices in a
new fidelity among his "members. In
the few short months of this pastorate
there has never been less than one
third of the membership present at
ROYAL CAB IS FOR SALE
Even Museum Declines Carriage
of Late Hawaiian Queen.
HONOLULU. T. H Anybody need a
rcyal carriage?
L. L. Holstein, administrator of the
estate of the late Queen Liliuokalani
has a carrjage used by the former
queen of Hawaii of which he would
ike to dispose and for which there
doesn't seem to be any taker.
Even the Bishop museum, to which
the carriage was offered, has declined
with thanks, as the museum has no
room to house such a large vehicle.
Besides the Bishop museum, Holstein
has tried and failed to give the queen's
carriage to the University of Hawaii,
Oahu college. Kamehameha schools.
Hawaii Tourist bureau. Ad club. Out
rigger club, Smithsonian Institute and
the Forresters.
Holstein has asked the court for an
order to dispose of other belongings
of the late queen, such as furniture.
which is stored and which he fears
will be attacked by ants and borers
if it is not taken in hand and used.
"God Is." The
Thursday at 8 P.
ford building.
THE Sunday services at First Chris
tian church, corner of Park and
Columbia streets, will continue
throughout the summer in the regular
manner. In view of the new building
programme scheduled for the autumn,
a special effort is being made in both
church and Sunday school to overcome
as much as possible the usual sum
mer slump. The pastor. Rev. Harold
H. Griffis, plans to occupy his pulpit
regularly both morning and. evening.
and the music committee is arranging
for helpful music at each service. The
leaders believe that much of the usual
depression in church work is more
psychological than real ad that Port
land itself is a magnificent summer
resort.
This morning at 11 o'clock Mr. Grif
fis will speak on "The Royalty of Our
Human Nature," presenting both an
analysis and an illustration of that
royalty. In the evening at 7:45 the
pastor's theme will be "The Science
of Christian Living," the discussion to
be preceded by special musical num
bers by George Mallett, tenor, and
L. H. Hansen, baritone.
This morning in the East Side Bap
tist church the associate pastor. Rev.
Herbert T. Cash, will preach at 11
o'clock on the subject, "The Rights
of Jesus;" and in the evening at 7:45
he will again speak, taking as his
theme "Smashing Idols."
The services in this church will
continue as usual throughout the
summer months. The Sunday school
convenes at 9:30 A. M. and the con
test, which is being carried on with
much enthusiasm, is bringing about
the desired results.
The young people's societies meet
at 1:45 P. M. and the midweek prayer
service is held on Wednesday evening
at 7:45 o'clock.
At the Lents Evangelical church.
Sunday a.t 11 A. M., the pastor, F. B.
Culver, will speak on "The Remedy
for the World's Need." At 8 P. M.
the subject will be "Some Dangers
of Placing Value on Sheep Rather
Than on Souls."
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At Kern Park Christian church.
Forty-sixth avenue and Sixty-ninth
street. Dr. J. F. Ghormley will speak
at 11 A. M. The sermon will be on
"The Comforter" center holds Sun
day services in the assembly room of
the Portland hotel. At 11 A. M. the
subject will be "Thou God Seest Me."
Ethelind Lord Campion speaker; at 8
P. M. "The Gold of Solomon" will be
the subject with Florence Crawford
speaker.
The Church of the Truth holds serv
ices in room 412 Central building
every Sunday morning at 11 o clock
with Nettie Taylor Kloh in charge.
CAMP LIBRARY PLANNED
Gladstone Chautauqua Finds Cir
culating Books Prove Popular.
OREGON CITY, Or., July 17. (Spe
cial.) A unique feature of the Chau
tauqua assembly in Gladstone park
this year is the ' circulating library
established by the Oregon State Li
brary association for the benefit of
the campers. Every detail is as com
plete as in a large city library and
the corner of the secretary's desk de
voted to the books is proving popular.
Mrs. lOt'hol Hoffman, from the state
organization, is in charge, and reports
that 60 books were loaned on the sec
ond day of the session, in addition to
the large number of children who en
joy the books at the building.
The Chautauqua management an
nounced Thursday that the popularity
of the new feature has led it to con
sider a special building for a library
for next year.
Jesus' Life to Be Discussed
by Rev. Constant.
Ineaslness and Kaarrnru of To
day as Desire of People for Help
to Make Best of Life.
THE Rev. Edward Constant of the
Highland Congregational church
announces that he will this morning
discuss an incident in the life of
Jesus, showing how It illustrates the
uneasiness and eagerness of today as
a desire on the part of the people for
help to make the best of life.
Dr. J. J. Staub of the Sunnyside Con
gregational church will be in his pul
pit at both services today and will
speak in the morning on "The Be
liever's Perfection In His Lord." The
subject of the evening sermon will
be "At Top and Bottom of the Lad
der." Vocal selections will be offered
by members of the choir and the pub
lic is cordially irrvlted to attend.
The subject this morning at Atkin-
PROSPER MILL TO OPEN
Owners Prepare to Develop Larjje
Area of Timber.
MARFHFIELD, Or., July 17. (Spe
cial.) rue prosper Mill company.
owned by Sudden & Christensen of
San Francisco, is preparing to open
up a new area of timber in a short
time to supply the company's mill at
Frosper. The concern is construct
ing a logging railroad into its new
camp on the Coquille river and is tap
ping a supply that will last for sev
eral years.
The Prosper mill has been jdle for
tht; last month, but will resume im
mediately the new camp starts deliv
ery of iogs. The company's scene of
milling operations is 2 Vi miles from
Bandon, on the Coquille river.
UNION SCHOOL IS PLANNED
Fores-t , Grove Voles Ground for
Proposed Building.
FOREST GROVE. Or.. July 17.
(Special.) A plan is on foot here to
build a union high school. The people
of the Forest Grove school district re
cently voted to donate the grounds
now occupied by the Central school
building to a union high school dis
trict to be formed of 17 districts sur-
high school will be built which will
accommodate the districts interested.
The districts are now being can
vassed and the people will be called
upon to settle the question by ballot
at an early date.
son Memorial Congregational church, j rounding the Forest Grove district.
by the pastor. Rev. E. E. Flint, will be 1 Should the plans carry a modern
"Tne True standard ror the Man of
God in the New Age." The Sunday
school for the month of July and Au
gust will have a union service at
9:45 A. M.. with both moving and still
pictures as a part of the programme.
Evening services at 7:45.
Rev. F. C. Laslette, who has been
pastor of the Glencoe Baptist church
since December' 1, 1918, has resigned
his pastorate. Rev. Martain will rive
an address at 11 o'clock Sunday
morning.
At 7:45 he' will use the vioptlcan.
One hundred pictures from the paint
ings of a French artist will be i,hown.
Rev. Reid. state evangelist. will
preach at the Glencoe church !u:y
27.
"The Millennium" will e inter-
Mo.Minnville Chautauqua Pays.
McMINNTVILLE. Or.. July 13. (Spe
cial.) The Ellison-White system
closed their annual Chautauqua at this
place last night after the most suc
cessful course ever given hre. The
local committee reports a sale of sea
son tickets $400 in excess of the re
quired amount. The daily attendance
was the largest it has ever been. Tha
closing programme was given by "The
Filipino Sextette." rated as the finest
strinsed organization in the Phillipine
islands.
MEN SHOULD TURK TO THEIR GOD IN TIME OF THEIR STRENGTH
World Inclined to Be Religious Only When Weak; Christians Too Often Turn to God Only When in Sickness or in Trouble; Godliness Needed in All of Life.
(pprmon bv fr. Joshua Stansfield at Plrat
tethodtst church Sunday morning. June
27. and published by request, "The God
cf the syong.")
WE DESIRE this morning - to
speak on this exceptional
theme, "The God of the
Strong." and we wish to present a
decidedly different view of God and
'religion . from that which generally
obtains. We should take as text, if
we took any one scripture. Psalm
43:2. "Thou art the God of my
strength."
But -we could take any one of 20
passages of scripture from the book
of Psalms alone, as the book of
Psalms furnishes to us very largely
the rich experience of the people of
God of a former age. and gives to us
more of personal religious experience
than perhaps any other portion of
the Bible. We shall confine ourselves,
however, to this one. "Thou art the
God of my strength."
Let Pie first of all make one. or
- two' preliminary observations. First,
what God Is. he is to his people. All
that the Bible shows God to be he
is to'his people. Now how much more
' God may be than the Bible showe I
do not know, bat all that the Bible
shows God to be he is to his people.
God's light, love, truth, justice, power,-
righteousness, salvation, deliverer.
friend, helper, comforter, father, lord.
I could continue for 10 minutes, glv
ing nothing but specific words as to
-what God is, and in every one of them
God is that to his people.
portion forever. The Lord is 'my'
shepherd. The Lord is "my" redeemer.
The Lord is 'my' defense. The Lord
is ' 'my' father. The Lord is 'my'
friend." -
We repet God is known in per
sonal experience and appropriations.
Now. keeping these facts before tis.
we -are ready to consider the question
of the morning, "The God of the
Strong." .
God Sought In Distress.
It is very noticeable In religion that
God Is largely the God of th-3. weak
and the frail and the sick, tue needy.
the poor, the distressed, the broken,
the sorrowing, the disconsolate, the
widows, the afflicted, the burdened,
the crushed and the defeated. And it
is further true that in raliijion gener-
lly it is when persons come Into
Eome one of these experiences
they most naturally turn to God. And
In most of our hymns and in nearly
all of our praying and liturgy and
forms of worship we come to God in
terms of weakness and need :-nd sor
row and distress and, poverty and
shame and want. That is the actual
experience of people, and It Is so gen
eral and common that many persons
think that the time to come to God is
when they feel that way very sinful
and weak and poor and in very great
need. The time to call upon God Is
when you have not anything or any
one else you can call upon. Now that
is the general , view of religion and
nine persons out of ten have 't most
of the time. .
-It is true, very" true, that God is
the . "helper of tne helpless," the
strength of those (w,io are weak, the
Second, let me further remark that comforter .of those wh) are in sor
row, the defense of "tnose who are
persecuted, the deliveisr of those who
are weak and broken and distressed
God is all that, surely, surtly, surely
God is pre-eminently the savior o
the lost. That is al! true. But tha
is not all the truth. We have los
ourselves in religion very largely with
a part of the truth, evjn though
verv important part.
Now we ought not to think less of
God as our Savior and Redeemer and
Cod is only truly known In personal
experience. God is no more to us than
we-personally know him to be. He
may be more to some other people,
he may be less. -But God is only to
us that which he is in our personal
experience. And so the revelation of
God in the Bible is only valld-in so
far as it becomes personally known.
You have the very best In religion
when one can say. "The Lord Is 'my'
light and 'my' salvation.- The Lord
Is Uifi strength of 'my' Hie andjmy'
and Friend. No. no, no. We ought
not to think less of God in these re
spects. But as a matter of fact hu
man life is not all sickness, nor most
ly so. There are more days of heaith
than sickness, more nours of happi
ness than despair, more years of good
than of evil. In the l'fe of every man
and women that Is true. Ana yet cur
religion is only available, or at least
is only valid in the exceptional hours
of life. This is so much so that
healthy boys and girls and young men
and women often feel that they are
hardly in a frame of mind to be reli
gious, they are too healthy and too
strong; and they can't feel what they
call "pious." It is an awful situation
And there are hundreds and thou
sands of young men and women,
strong girls and boys, who have that
kind of expenente. They feel they
are not religious enough. That is be-.
cause they don t feel bad enough.
They are " not broken and weak and
down and out and distressed: they
can't cry and moan and weep, and so
they are not religious:
I tell vou this is a serious matter.
It is awful; and why Js this? Because
we have thought, and taught, and
spoken, and sung, and prayed to God,
and about God, in the' exceptional
hours and experiences of life only.
Now this is perhaps natural quite
natural because the exceptional
things in life always stand out as the
big things. One night with a jumping
toothache you will remember more
than 20 years when you did not have
a toothache. You surely will, and
you will talk more about it. That
night will never be forgotten. That
was a night! Yes. it was a night; but
it was only one night, and there were
364 other nights that same year, and
for 20 years since there have been 365
nights, but that is the night.
Sorrow Never Forgotten.
You have a great sorrow come to
you. and that sorrow is more talked
about and thought about that is. re
ligiously than all the days of your
successes and happiness and prosper
ity. You had a spell of sickness;
they said it was almost "double pneu
monia." and you have talked about it
until it was double pneumonia, and
Comforter and Helper aiid Deliverer 1 worse, but you came through. Oh,
those six weeks! Religiously they
have been thought about, and felt
about, and talked about more than all
the other 600 weeks since.
What does it mean? It means this,
that the exceptional things in life,
the startling things and the outstand
ing things, the never-to-be-forgotten
things, now God and religion are the
greatest realities in human life. And
when we have these outstanding, ex
ceptional things, the natural thing is
to appeal to and connect with the
greatest of all. God. and our religion
is thus largely linked up with, the
worse experiences of our life. Take,
if you will, that day when under the
burden of sin and the shame of your
life you were broken and prostrate
before the cross of Christ, and you
found salvation. Oh, what a day that
was! God forbid that I should under
rate it or misappraise it. Heaven for
bid that X should even suggest such a
thing. But, my dear people, while you
have a right to think of God. and talk
of God and religion in connection with
that day, all through the years of
your life remember, remember that
was not all your life. It was a crisis
day in yc4r life, but your life is a
good deal more than even that day.
And so I could go on for ,an hour
showing that nearly all our religious
thinking and feeling and real re
ligious living has been at the point of
our greatest need, or loss, or suffer
ing, or bereavement, or distress, or
disaster, or weakness, and there God.
the exceptional, meets the exceptional
and we have a wonderful and never
forgettable experience. You will find
this true in testimony meetings and
in Christian biography and'-in your
hjran book and in the Psalms and
Liturgies, . etc.; thdu:gh in many of
your hymns and in the Psalms there
is a greater and finer note of rejoic
ing in God the God of our life, the
God of our strength, the God of our
powers, tie God of our being And if
you will read the experience of the
Psalmist you will find that they
knew God at other points In their life
than the point of weakness and fail
ure and distress.
I want u to think this morning on
the "God of the Strong." "God. who
is the strength of my life." God,
1 who has given me power to think and
power to see and power to appreciate
music and revel in art and rejoice in
the mountains, and a capacity to look
out to the stars and beyond them. Oh.
I want you to think of God, our
strength. God who has come Into our
being in the best and in the whole of
our life, for life Is more than disas
ter, or distress, or ickness, or sor
row, or sin. Life also is health, vigor,
happiness, joy. intellect, good fellow
ship, friendships, power to do, power
to plan, power to achieve, power to be,
power to feel and aspire tb do things.
That is life that is life that is life.
There are more women not widows
than who are. "here. are more men
who are not broken than there are
"who are, and when you come below
middle life into the great, strong.
richly developing manhood and then
down to the young -manhood with
more vigor and to young womanhood
with all its conscious betterments
and powers, and then to childhood
with its exuberance of health and
happiness, that Is life.
And what would it mean, think you
if the strong, healthy young fellows
should know that God was "the God
of their strength?" Yes, they went
to school and college and they pre
pared for life. Why? Because they
were big enough to prepare, they
were capable of being prepared and
they are prepared and are ready to
run the race and do things. Wouldn't
it be fine if such a young chap as that
could come before God when he has
had his cold plunge in the morning
or a shower bath, as the case may be
and he just feels good and strong and
healthy and ready to do things.
wouldn't it be great if that young
man so knew God that he could say
"Lord, here I am, healthy, happy
strong, able to do; Lord. I want to be
at my best for Thee and for .others
this day.
Oh, God, I want the strength of my
life, all that I am and have, to be for
thS right things. Wouldn't that be
great? But to come with a prayer
like that would almost be, not pious;
it. would not be strictly in order,
would It? No. the young man unfor
tunately in many cases feels that if
he is going to come before God he
must needs get down and feel himself
poor, helpless worm of the dust
and cry and pray that the Lord will
have mercy on him. a poor, miserable
sinner, and the only time he feels he
Is a miserable sinner is when he is
wording that prayer.
Plain Talk Is Needed.
I am saying plain things. There is
a reason. Our young men and women,
our boys and our girls, are growing
up and going out into life with the
feeling that God is the God of the
weak. and poor and most failing and
fallen and broken' bit of their life.
It ts an awful thing. It is thought
to be far more pious to sing with a
poor voice and a bending head, your
chin down and your throat closed.
"Oh. to be nothing oh. to be nothing."
than it Is to sing with a full chest
and a strong voice.
"Take my life and let it be conse
crated. Lord, to Thee.
Take my powers and let them move
at the impulse of Thy love."
What I want this morning is that
we shall think of "the God of the
strong" "God Who is the strength
of my life." 'In the religious think
ing of the Roman Catholic world It 13
awful, terrible, but even in the reli
gious thinking and practice of the
protestant world It is painful and
shameful and little less than criminal.
Now, you who know me best know
that I myself have failed woefully at
this point. In my sermons and my
talks and suggestions and citations
I have run so much along this ordi
nary and orthodox line of religion
and so 1 am not talking to anyone
else more than I am to the preacher
this morning. But I say to you and
to me and to all who may hear, that
there ought to be some more helpful
practice of God and religion.
You have heard often about the
"practice of piety" and the "practice
of patience" and the "practice of vir
tue" and the "practice of honesty" and
the "practice of truth." Wouldn't it
be well for us to think of "the prac
tice of God?" the practice of God in
our whole life. As a matter of fact,
we only have the "practice of God'' In
our life now at times and 4n spots and
places. When we reach one of these
sad times or spots or places then we
practice God and we prove the value
of religion, but in most of our life
there is not any place for Uod or "the
practice of God." That is why the
business men no. I do not want to
slam or slander them that is why re
ligious people, professing Christians,
as well as people of the world, speak
of religion and business and the sa
cred and the secular.
"Business is all right in its place
and so is religion, but keep them in
their place." vie think that way.
your families think that way. your
fathers thought that way. most folks
now think that way; It is very gen
eral, very common. That is the way
we nearly all think. We have life off
in departments' and compartments
and there is the place where you can
"practice God" and the place where
it would not be in order to do so.
Practice of God Needed.
Oh, if we could only think of the
practice of God in all our lives. When
do I practice God in my life? When 1
feol like singing a good hymn of
praise, and I sing. When I feel like
communing with God and I talk with
God. When I feel like fellowshipping
with the eternal and I think and
speak in his presence. When I feel a
great need of the divine and I call
upon him and prove him, that is when
I practice God. Godliness is the prac
tice of God. As faithfulness is the
practice of faith, so godliness is the
practice of God. Now we are godly in
spots and places and at times and un
der certain circumstances, and these
spots and places and times and cir
cumstances are only the exceptional
in our life, while in the ordinary, reg
ular, healthy, vigorous, good working,
constant run of life we do not prac
tice God. We ure too healthy, we
have too good homes. We are not
poor enough, we are not weak enough,
we are not distressed, enough. We
have not had enough accidents. There
is not enough trouble in our life, we
are not sorrowful enough, that is why
we do not practice God. and this all
is the natural outcome of our faulty
and wrong thinking about God. God
is the helper of the helpless; true; he
is the husband of the widow, thank
God; he is the father of the fatherless,
thank God; he is the strength of the
weak, thank God; he is the comforter
of those who are in sorrow, thank
God; he is the deliverer of the needy
and the poor, thank God: he is the
defense for the oppressed, thank God:
he is our light, our salvation, our
strength, our glory and our song. Oh.
I wish we could sing the old hymn,
not exactly as they used to sing, be
cause they didn't sing it as they ought
to sing it, and I was with them when
they sang it but I wish we might
sing as it ought to be sung. "God of
my life, through alt my days my
grateful powers shall sound thy
praise." In days of weakness, God:
in days of prostration. God: in days
f distress. God: in days of health.
God: in days of success, God; in days
of achieevment. God; in days of work,
God; in days of forward movement,
God; in days of big conscious powoa
and vigor, God.
I plead for godliness in all our life,
and we can only get It by the prac
tice of God. and we can only have the
practice of God by knowing God. Fur
ther, we only know God in experience,
and we shall only truly know God as
in all the experiences of life we prac
tice godliness. Cirls. boys, young
people, prosperous young men and
women in business, in social lire, you
are coming into things and doing
things, and just in proportion as you
come into things you come out of re
ligion and out of the church and out
of godliness and out from the good.
For it is a sad and most common fact
that in proportion to prosperity, in
proportion to achievement, in propor
tion to strong passions and powers,
we seem to lose out on ts God side.
It is terrible, it is unnatural, it is
wrong. There must be a remedy for
it, and the remedy will not be found
in censure, the remedy will not be
found in more stringent rules, the
remedy will be found in a newer and
truer and better conception and
knowledge, of God. in which the soul
can say, "Thou art the strength of
my life. Oh God of my strength. God
of my life, through all my days, my
grateful powers shall sound thy
praise."