TIIE SUNDAY OREGON! AN, PORTLAND, AUGUST 29, 1920
HANDSOME TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH TO BE DEDICATED TODAY
Services to Begin When Doors Are Opened at 10 o'Clock With An Appropriate Ceremony Sermon for Deaf to Be Preached.
2,
A HANDSOME new church will bo
dedicated this morning: at 10
o'clock, when the doors of Trin
ity Lutheran will be ened with ap
propriate ceremonies, in which the. en
tire congregation will take part. The
pastor will read the Scripture lesson
and offer thje dedicatory prayer. In
the servlfce following, which will be
featured by congregational singing
acoompanled by the pipe organ, a solo
by Mrs. John Valentine and a selec
tion by the choir. Rev. Mr. Wester
kamp of Sherwood will deliver the
morning sermon. The language used
throughout this service will be Ger
man. In the afternoon, beginning at 2
o'clock, services will be held In Eng
lish. Rev. Oscar Fedder of Seattle
will preach. The choir will furnish
music, and Mrs. Valentine and Mrs.
Kulraan will sing a duet, while Mrs.
Christian and Miss Rleg will sing
solos.
At 4 o'clock Professor Becker of
this city will give an organ recital,
and at 8 o'clock Rev. Mr. Beyer of
Portland and Rev. Mr. Gaertner of
Seattle will conduct a service for the
deaf In the sign language.
As the pastoral conference of this
entire district Oregon, Washington
and Idaho is holding Its triennial
convention In Trinity, and nearly all
the pastors are in attendance. Trinity
expects a large attendance for the
dedication, and it may be necessary to
hold overflow meetings In he base
ment. Rev. Mr. Huchthausen of Ta
comi and Rev. Mr. Obenhaus of
Chehalis will preach in that event.
The new church, which Is situated
on Ivy street and Rodney avenue. Is
built In Gothic style, veneered with
red brick and has white brick trim
mings and is furnished with elaborate
art glass windows.
Lmnie to Be Discussed.
Dr. W. T. McElveen will report on
diplomatic procedure of the league of
nations tonight at the First Congrega
tional church. He contends that too
few Americans know anything about
international affairs, and that, there
fore, our Influence in bettering
diplomacy Is negligent. "The stub
bornness of the American mind
toward international affairs Is dis
couraging," Dr. McElveen has an
nounced. That Americans might do
much in Christianizing diplomacy Is
evident from the work done by John
Foster, John Hay and Elihu Root in
the past and Ambassador Page and
Ambassador Whitlock during the
great war. What is wanted is a sane,
constructive foreign policy that will
restore Shantung to China, progres
sively reduce armaments, democra
tize and safeguard the Wilson league
of nations and put competent men in
our diplomatic and consular service.
""The League of Free Nations as
sociation' Is publishing a number of
hitherto secret treaties between the
European nations that are very In
forming. 'The League for Demo
cratic Control.' a similar organiza
tion In Great Britain, is also pub
lishing these diplomatic documents.
Recently both organizations have
published 'The Russian-American Re
lations, March, 1917. to March, 1920.'
These documents show Ambassador
Francis as nervous, querulous and
confused. It reveals a number of
Americans used as dupes and cats
paws by the Imperialists of Europe.
It makes It plain that there were not
many mistakes that our representa
tives could make that they didn't
make.
"They meant to crush Bolshevism,
DUt they gave it opportunities to gain
In power. They really helped when
they sought to hinder. Consuls of
England and France, as well as of
America telegraphed and cabled
stories, the truthfulness of which
they never Investigated. The most
of these stories have been proven to
be creations of someone's imagina
tion, but as a result, the English
and French have been betting on the
wrong horse, and America has been
doing likewise. These documents
show that America's relations to
Russia were conducted on a basis of
stupidity and mendacity. They prove
that diplomacy Is often not simply
foolish, but crazy. It is a kind of
a cross between sinister conspiracy
and meaningless etiquette."
Open Air Service Last One.
The last open air service to be con
ducted this summer by the city fed
eratlon 'of churches will be held Sun
day afternoon at 3:30 In Peninsula
park. Dr.- William T. McElveen, pas
DEATH
Toee Death End All?" Preached!
Vy Dr. W. B. Hinson at the East Side
Xaptist church, of which he Is pastor.
"If a man die. shall ha live again 1"
Job 14:14.
YOU know I am made serious by
the thought that that question
Is 3500 years old. The man who
asked it died when the world was
young. And I am further impressed
by the consciousness that It is the
universal question. All over the
world every age, every generation
that question has palpitated on the
live air of God, "If a man die, shall
ie live again?" And I am Impressed
very markedly by the fact that this
Is a pertinent question. You with
me have seen people die, and whether
or not they are to live again is a mat
ter of perennial interest to us. And
I say it cheerfully as. well as calmly,
you with me have got to die; and I
should like to know whether If a man
die he Bhall live again. And while I
speak many are passing out of this
Tealm of sense and sight, and we see
nothing go, though the doctor may
have said, "He Is gone." And appar
ently there is no evidence that any
thing which ever existed has gone to
exist somewhere else. And so It
seems to me we have a question be
fore us that, should a man treat It
Jocularly, he would be frowned out
of court; and he must treat It seri
ously if he treat It at all. Now let us
see about It.
When I look at you and think how
you stand for man the world over In
all ages, I find it very hard to think
that you stay in the grave. It does
not look right somehow. I look at
trees I planted three years ago, and
I think, "I shall be gone before you
are." And then I think a hint of a
smile comes to my face often as I
correct myself. and say, "But I shall
outlast you." Does a man write a
poem that lives on but he who wrote
it ceases to be? That does not look
right. I am not at this stage of the
areument saying it is not right.
am only saying it does not look right.
That some record of a phonograph
should catch these words I am saying
" and perpetuate them, and my lips and
tor of the First Congregational
church, will preach the sermon.
The well-known G. A. B quartet,
composed of veterans of the civil war;
will sing several numbers. The com
bined ages of the members of this
quartet is nearly 300 years. The
quartet consists of J. G. Chambers of
the Fortieth Indiana regiment, J. S.
Hamilton, a Michigan cavalryman;
F. M. Barner of the Twenty-sixth
Ohio regiment and Philip Paulson of
the Twenty-fifth Ohio regiment.
Dr. J. Francis Morgan, pastor - of
Piedmont Presbyterian church, will
preside at this service; Guy E. Curtis,
choir director of the Woodlawn Chris
tian church, will lead the congrega
tional singing; C. ' J. Siefarth of the
Ockley . Green '. United Evangelical
.church, will play the cornet; Dr.
George N. Taylor, pastor of the Ken
ton United Presbyterian church, will
offer prayer, and Dr. J. T. Abbett,
summer pulpit supply at the Wood
lawn Methodist church, will pronounce
the benediction.
Grace Baptist Church Pas
tor to Go to Denver.
Rev. F. TV. Starring "Will Preach
Farewell Sermon September 5.
Church Shows Splendid Growth
Under Hia Pastorate. ''
THE pastor of Grace Baptist church.
Rev. F. W. Starring, will leave
Portland for Denver, Colo., immedi
ately following the first Sunday in
September. Mrs. Starring and son,
Paul, are now In Denver, where they
have been for nearly three months
past. The termination of the pastoral
relation In this city is due to the ad
vice of physicians that for Mrs. Star
ring's health a. dry climate must be
sought.
He is now considering a unanimous
call recently extended by the First
Baptist church of Wenatchee, Wash.,
but has not as yet arrived at a de
cision. He plans to be engaged In
special work in Denver for two or
three months, while arranging for
permanent location.
Mr. Starring has. been pastor of
Grace church for a year, during which
time the church has had a. steady
growth. The Bible school has greatly
increased in numbers, church prop
erty has Improved, and the congrega
tion reports the largest percentage of
increase by baptism among the
churches of the Willamette Baptist
association.
This summer Bible school workers
conducted one of the most successful
daily vacation Bible schools held in
Multnomah county.
Mr. Starring regards the congrega
tion of Grace church as one of the
finest In spirit and efficiency he has
ever known, and leaves Portland with
many regrets.
He will occupy the pulpit of Grace
churchboth morning and evening to
day and September 5. After the ser
mon tonight he will administer the
ordinance of baptism.
Rev. J." Whitcomb Brougher, D. D.,
pastor of the Temple Baptist church
of Los Angeles, preaches at the Whit
Temple again today. Dr. Brougher's
popularity in Portland is evidenced
by the crowds which have filled the
church to its capacity during the last
few weeks that he has filled this .pul
pit. This will be his last Sunday in
the city, and a cordial invitation is
extended to all to be present at both
services. Dr. Brougher's morning
topic will be, "Are You a Christian or
Only Religious?" In the evening he
will speak on the subject, "Hornets
or Stung Are Men or Women the
Bigger Fools?" Walter Jenkins will
conduct the congregational singing at
the evening service and will render a
solo. Mrs. Alice Case Vann will also
sing at both services.
Today in the East Side Baptist
church Dr. S. J. Reld, the Oregon Bap
tist state evangelist, who has been
supplying the pulpit of this church
during the month of August, will con
clude his- services here and after the
Baptist state convention at Corvallls
will commence his work In the south
ern part of the state at Klamath Falls.
Dr. Reld's subject this morning will
be "The Greatest Thing in the
World" and at night his theme will
be "A Strange Journey."
The pastor. Dr. W. B. Hinson, will
return about September 1 and will
occupy the pulpit next Sunday.
Sunday school meets at. 9:30;
preaching services at 11' and 7:45;
Baptist Young People's union at 6:45
and the mid-week service Wednesday
evening at 7:45.
DECLARED UNABLE TO HURT BELIEVERS IN RESURRECTION
Dr. W. B. Hinson, in Pulpit of East Side Baptist Church, Discusses Problems of Life and Death Met by Mankind.
tongue go down in dust, that is a
wrong premise.
And then when I remember how
man is the thinking animal, that he
lays his plans, and that he ever moves
on from good to better unsatisfied,
and projecting himself continually.
The robin built its house in the Gar
den of Eden exactly as It built its
house in my garden this spring; but
how man has moved on ad up; and
he not only thinks and plans, but he
hopes and fears; and often longs for
an endlesa life, and he is the only
thing In the world that does. And
It does not, I repeat, look right that
the song should outlast the singer;
and that you should have a Stradi
varius violin while Antonio Stra
divari ceased to exist 100 years ago.
It does not look right.
Well, now standing on that fact, let
use recall that as we feel about this
Immortality, all mankind have felt.
If I thought an oak tree grew acorns,
I might be wrong. And I might be
deceived. But if I find books written
in France, and Turkey, and China, all
the world over, saying oak trees bear
acorns, my impression becomes cor
roborated. And universal experience
says man looking at the grave has
always said, I cannot believe I have
got to go there and stay there." Now
then are we prepared to admit that
what all men think appears to have
been put into all men by the maker
of all men, who does not lie? And can
we say when my reason Infers that
I shall live agairt, I find your reason
and the reason of all the people in the
world corroborating it and saying,
"We think the same thing, and we
feel as you feel 7"
Man's ' Progress Viewed.
Now I do believe that as I look at
what man has done, I find rising In
my mind and heart a very grave dis
approval of the statement that he IS
on his way to death. O but man. no
body will ever tell what he has done'!
You sang a hymn a few minutes ago
that lifted you Uodward. A man
wrote it. There Is the book that is
the incomparable book, and man
wrote It. You said the Lord's prayer
a few minutes ago, and the mind of a
man remembered it, and from man to
man, adown the teeming centuries, it
has been handed until we have it
I stop hot to talk about the solemn
temples, and the gorgeous palaces,
and the mighty monuments that man
has reared, about, tho Joads driven.
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1 Women's dormitory, Herrick hall, at which the elarht-day anmmer conference of the Oregon Christian Endeavor n n I f n will oven, tomorrow
morning; at 8 o'clock. Reaervatlonn ahonld be made thronea Mlaa Blaine Cooper, 830 East Morrison street, Portland. The resriatratlon fee la 3
and board and lodging; for the eisht days la 912.SO. Paul Brown, L. R. Carriclc and W. I aiyera will be in charge of the instruction.
Pro-Cathedral to Resume
Evening Services Sept. 5.
"Fonnar People's Society Meets This
Evening in Parish Ho awe to Bear
Character Address.
SERVICES will be held at St.
Stephens Pro-Cathedral today as
follows: Holy communion at 7:45 A.
M. Morning prayer and sermon at
11 A. M. Evening services will be
resumed Sunday, September 6, Dean
R. T. Hicks will preach.
The Young People's eoclety will
meefin the Parish house this even
ing at 8:30 o'clock. Miss Myla Cham
bers is president. Clarence D. Porter
will give an address on "Character
Building." The society invites the
young people, whether members of
the parish or not, to attend their
meetings.
Under the supervision of Archdea
con Chambers, the group of handsome
buildings, forming a- quadrangle, at
Seaside have been finished. The rec
tory, parish. house and church form a
compact center for Calvary church.
On Sunday, September 5, Bishop Wal
ter Taylor Sumner will confirm a
class of men.
The bequest of the late George
Boschlin of $40,000 to the Good Sam
aritan hospital will help on the new
wing that will be constructed shortly.
Plans are being made whereby the
hospital will be provided with the
latest equipment and placed, in the
front rank of Pacific houses of heal
ing. The sincere and unique drama
written round the story of the trans
figuration and presented at Mt. Tabor
mission on the eve of that feast, has
been noticed In church papers with
interest. A revival of the pageant
and the mystery play Is now in pro
gress through the Episcopal church.
HAVRE, Mont., Aug. 28. Rev. P. H.
Case of Devils Lake, N. D., has per
fected a "preach by phone" system
whereby anyone within a radius of
13 miles of Devils Lake can take
down his telephone receiver and
listen to the sermon, according to
word received here. . Rev. Mr. Case
formerly was pastor of the Havre
Presbyterian church.
At the First United Brethren
church E. 15th and Morrison street,
the pastor. Rev. Byron J. Clark, will
speak this morning on "Creed or Deed"
and at 8. o'clock In the evening on
"The Hearing Ear." The Oregon
branch of the Christian Endeavorers
of the United Brethren church will
through forest and under mountains; 1
about him being at home on the widej
seas, and sending his messages under
neath the great ocean; about his num
bering the stars of heaven, and
weighing1 them; and making a servant
of the sun to take his picture. I only
glance past those toward the mightier
achievements of his mind and his
heart, and I say that if that man
drops as a pole-axed brute, it does
not look right, and I find it very dif
ficult to believe that he so dies.
But it is when I look at man's
goodness that I find my sonl gather
ing increased assurance that we live
on. Oh, you know It Is man who has
built what we call a place of wor
ship; and let me come down to the
commonplace as I challenge your at
tention and interest while I say cows
do not do it, and dogs do not do it.
iou Know wherever you might go, on
ship or by airplane. If you see a
church with its heavenward-pointing
spire, you know as you know God
lives that man built that Church.
And he has prayed when pain was
racking his body, and he has prayed
wnen me nres of persecution were
burning him to a cinder, and he has
prayed when his mind was almost
crazed with fear and trouble and
grief, and he has prayed until the
heavens have been rent and God in
merciful power has come down ' to
help him. And all this goodness
was it a cheat, a mirage, a flutter
ing wtll-of-the-wisp, and dies he at
last like a fool, and is all his faith a
fiction? I cannot believe that.
Man Expected to Live Again.
And when I listen to man's con
science I get an additional reason for
believing he will live again. I can
not help, my mind turning over to
Holland. I do not want to think
about that Prussian beast, I am sure.
for 1 would rather forget him. But
there Is a man over there today,-and
12,000,000 murders are charged up
against him in the book of God. And
there are armies of men walking the
earth maimed and blind and deaf.
and legions of women who will wear
crepe on their hearts till thev drnn
In their graves, because of that in
human devil. And am I to be told
that he will take his three meals a
day and self-congratulatorily drop
Into his grave and there is the end
Of it? If God told me that. I would
try to believe it; but God knows it
would be a hard thins: for me to drL
And- so 2-wlU argue by tho very .bad
UNION TO HOLD SUMMER CONFERENCE AT PACIFIC UNIVERSITY, FOREST GROVE.
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hold their annual session at this
church on the 14th and 15th of Sep
tember. Mrs. E. O. Shepherd of this
city. Is the acting president. A very
fine programme has been arranged
and Dr. D. W. Ferguson of Philomath
and Rev. L V. Hawley of this city are
the principal speakers.
Rev. Ira V. Hawley the pastor of
Second United Brethren church at
East 21st street and Sumner will
speak this morning on "We Have
Found the Christ" and in the even
ing on "No More Condemnation."
Rev. E. O. Shepherd the pastor of
Third United Brethren church at 32d
avenue and 67th street, will occupy
his pulpit both morning and even
ing. Mrs. C. P. Blanchard, the pastor of
Fourth United Brethren "church Tre
mont station. Is still unable to occupy
her pulpit, and Rev. Miss L. M. Lucky
will speak both morning and evening.
"Freedom by the Truth,"
Sermon Topic.
"Menace of Pnrtlsan Politics to
True Americanism," Rev. Harold
Grlffis' Subject This KtcbIiic.
THE futility of force, law, or mere
culture to make men free will be
presented by Rev. Harold H. Grlffis
in his sermon this morning at 11
o'clock at the First Chr'stian church.
Believing that human emancipation Is
a supremely spiritual process the
pastor will have for his morning
theme, "Freedom by the Truth;" In
the evening at 7:45 Rev. Mr. Grlffis
will discuss the menace of partisan
politics to true Americanism, having
ror his specific topic "The Myth of
Personal Independence." Mrs. J. R.
Thiehoff, contralto, will be the spe
cial soloist at both Sunday services.
Arrangements have been completed
for the church quartet to begin its
season's work at the first of Septem
ber. Three of the quartet members
served the congregation last year:
Mrs. O. B. Riddle, soprano; Guy
Man nan, baritone, and John Deegan,
tenor. For the contralto part the
First Christian church is making an
exchange with the First Congrega
tional church. Miss Nina Dressel. who
has been with the First Christian
church or three years, going to the
Congregationalists and Miss Beatrice
Palmer of the First Congregational
choir coming this year to the First
Christian church.
The Church of the Truth holds serv
Ives In room 412 Central building
every Sunday at 11 A. M. The ad
dress today is by H. a Hobbs. The
subject Is "How to Be Healthy and
'.Happy."
ness of man that he has got to live
again. For there Is a psalm written
in that book by a man named Asaph,
for which I have been thankful every
day of my life. He looked out and
saw what you and I see, and he said:
"I beheld the wicked tn great power.
They spread abroad like flourishing
green trees. They are portly, they
are fat; they have no trouble like
other men; they are not even sick.
And when they die they just simply
cease to breathe, and that is the
end of it. And V he says in his
picturesque Hebrew way "I have
washed my hands tn innoceney in
vain. I might as well have lived as
they lived."-
And where is the difference, and
how did he anchor himself in the
midst of all that drift? "Why." he
says, "I went Into the inner place of
God, where I looked out, not through
the eyes of a materialist but through
the eyes of the living Jehovah, and I
saw hell, and then I knew It is not
in vain that a man lives right; and
it is not without retribution some
where that a bad man lives painless
and wrong in this world." And Asaph
3000 years ago argued the immortal
ity of man by the argument that
wrong things do exist here, and that
they are not settled when the coffin
leaves the house.
Existence End Doubted.
But then I find the heart rises up
and will not have it that death ends
existence. Over in England they call
those bits of a peculiar grass, which
I cannot stop to describe, bents. And
when the scythe has not passed over
tho land these bents lift themselves
up, and they look like incarnate
wretchedness and misery. . And a
woman Once sang of a lost "beloved
one and said:
We shall meet no more tn the wind and
the rain.
With the faded befit outspread.
But 1, I shall meet thee again, again.
When the sea gives up her dead.
That is not a woman saying that.
That is the heart of the race. For
three millenniums ago a man in a
palace walked and said concerning
his dead boy: "He will not return to
me.' but I shall go to him." Not I
may, but I must. That is the heart.
I wonder why, but that does not
matter. '
Could yoa come back to me, Douglas,
Douglas.
In the old likeness that I knew,
I was not halt worthy of you, Doualas,
- Ho half worths, the like. of yea,. A
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Congregationalists Prepare
for Prominent Visitors.
Missionary Executive Secretary
and Educators Dae Next Month.
THE Congregationalists of Portland
and vicinity are arranging two
sets of meetings to greet and to wel
come two prominent eastern Congre
gationalists who are to visit the Con
gregational churches of Oregon dur
ing the month of September.
The first visitor Is Dr. George R.
Cady, the executive secretary of the
American Missionary association.
This society educates Indians, Mexi
cans, Porto Ricans, Chinese, Japanese
and negroes of the United States.
Dr. Cady comes, not to plead for his
Society, but to make a general survey
of the churches of Oregon in the
interest of the Congregational world
commission. In connection with his
visit he will preach at a number of
the churches and lecture at Pacific
university at Forest Grove.
The second visitor is Dr. Frank
Sheldon of Boston. Dr. Sheldon is the
guiding genius of the many-sided edu
cational work of the Congregational
church. He, too, will visit the
churches and Forest Grove college.
.
"At the End of Seven Years on the
Plymouth Plantation" Is the topic of
Dr. W. T. McElveen's lecture at the
First Congregational church Thursday
night. The Pilgrims who came over
In the Mayflower in 1620 were fi
nanced by a colonization company
called "The Merchant Adventurers."
The Adventurers advanced about $50
apiece, which made possible the pur
chase of the Mayflower and some sup
plies. The colonists pledged to give
their work for seven years and then
colonists and stockholders would di
vide bn a 50-50 basis.
Dr. McElveen will tell why the com
munistic scheme broke down in 1623,
how the coming of additional colo
nists led to the solution of problems
of government and how the first trial
by jury ever held In America was con
ducted. President Wilson has called
upon the states and larger cities of
the nation to celebrate the 800th an
niversary of the landing of the Pil
grims at Plymouth. The First Con
gregational church Is celebrating that
event by this series of popular Thursday-night
lectures on Pilgrim history,
The Sunday programme at the First
Congregational church includes four
services. At 9:4 5 A. M., Professor
David Brace, a Portland youth, who
four years ago married and went to
the Indemnity" college of China, is to
give a splendidly illustrated stereop
But you are gone. Gone where?
Stretch out your hand to me. Douglas,
Drop your forgiveness from heaven like
dew.
While I lay my heart en yosr dead heart, '
Douglas,
Douglas, Douglas, tender and true.
That is the heart. And I have
noted with great interest how in the
Bible God makes a dozen appeals to
the heart where he makes one to the
head. And the heart says: "If a
man die shall he live again?" And
you need not go to the poets, for
take any woman in this house at this
moment whose little baby was put
down under the clover or the snow
in an eastern state 20, 30, 40 yean
ago, and you could not with all the
arguments of an archangel or the
greatest logician of the earth con
vince her of anything other than this
the child lives, and she, too, will
live, .and they will meet some day,
so help them God! That. Is the heart!
So ill's Immortality Sore,
And furthermore I observe this
which to me Is .very significant. The
soul is sure of immortality. . If I were
addressing a congregation of atheists
I would say careless of all contradic
tion, "you are unnatural in being
atheists; because the soul unmolested
and ' undlstraught as naturally be
lieves in a God as the robin leaves
New York city in the fall and goes to
the south; and you have to educate a
man over. and over before you can
make of him an atheist. It is natural
for him to believe in a God. It is
natural for him to believe that God
holds him accountable for everything
he does. "The greatest thought 1
have," said Webster, "is 'my account
ability to God." And everybody has
it, whether he be a Webster, Plato or
a native of the Congo In Africa. It
is instinctive, our accountability to
God.
David Livingstone was preaching
in the hearing of old Africano, a great
king in Africa who loved Livingstone
and the chief stood and listened until
at last he lifted up his arm, and
gathering himself to his full height
until he dwarfed the missionary, he
said, "teacher, stop! there shall not
be a resurrection! My right hand has
slain too many for me to have a
resurrection. I won't meet them
again, those victims." But Africano
I bent his knees and prayed God to
forgive him . .fae- Ji iniquity for
ii; in 'th
tlcon lecturette on "The People and
Important Places of China." At 11
o'clock Dr. McElveen takes the wor
shlpers at the morning church service
on a mental journey In which he
traces the growth and the changes tn
the idea that all men are equal in the
mind of God. At 6:30 P. M. Harold
McEwen speaks to the Christian En
deavorers on "What Contributions
Have Our Immigrants Brought to
America?" and at 7:45 P. M. Dr. Mc
Elveen speaks on "Dementia Diplo
matica."
"The Plymouth Colony's Relation
to Other Colonies" is the topic of Dr.
McElveen's Thursday evenins lecture
Dr. J. J. Staub of the Sunnyslde
Congregational church will be in his
pulpit this morning and will speak
on the subject, "The Final Rule in
Christian Service."
The last of a series of Union meet
lngs for the Sunnyslde churches will
be held Sunday evening at the Con
gregational church, and the speaker
will be. the Rev. E. R. Martin.
Pastors who desire notices of serv
ice in this page, should write them
out ' in complete sentences. Th
"directory" style is not used by The
Oregonlan.
Deaf Mutes to Worship in
Trinity's New Church.
Seattle Minister to Conduct Sermon
Today la Sia-a Lananage Public
Is Invited to Attend.
TPHB membership of "the deaf-mute
X congregation In Portland has not
warranted the erection of a church-
home of their own, especially eince
the Trinity Lutheran congregation
has afforded them the hospitality of
their church for several years past.
With the completion of Trinity new
church the deaf have again been In
vited to use their place of worship.
Sunday evening at 8 o'clock the
dedicatory service for the deaf will be
held in the new church, corner of Ivy
street and Rodney avenue. The cus
tomary afternoon service for the deuf
will be omitted this Sunday.
Rev. George W. Gaertner of Seattle,
well known to the mutes of this city,
will occupy the pulpit, using the sign
language and speaking simultaneous
ly. Miss Hulda Isaacson will give a
visual presentation of the hymn
"Christ, Thou Art the Sure Founda
tlon." Mrs. C. W. Kreldt and Miss
Selma Hagen will render a duet In
signs, "Great Is the Lord, Our God.1
An opportunity of getting an in
sight into the method of proclaiming
the gospel to those deprived of their
hearing and speech, as well as o
something Inside the soul of that
black king said, "they did not die
when you thought you had killed
them, nor will you die when they say
yen are dead." It Is an instinct of the
soul to say yes to Job's question, "If
a man die, shall he live again?"
First Church Recalled.
Will you pardon mo If I take you
back to the first church I ever had.
I had taken dinner one Sunday with
an old farmer, and he took me out
over his field and told me what al
ways Is Interesting to me how he
had lived, and he told how he and a
young woman came there and cut
down the trees, and built a log cabin,
and lived there, and on the Identical
spot where the log cabin had been
reared, stood his beautiful house. And
as we walked and talked I observed
he grew silent; and looking ahead
I saw a little enclosure, and in the
middle a grave-stone. And then the
farmer grew still, and he leaned his
arms on that fence, and I did like
wise. And then it seemed to me that
more to himself than to me he said.
"I was a bad man; and I had no care
for God or heaven, eternity, or hell;
but I did love my child Maggie. And
she used to come and meet me every
evening when I went home from the
field.
But one twilight she did not come.
And full of anxiety I left the horses
and went into the house. And wife
said, "Maggie is very sick.' I said,
she will be all right. She won't die '
But at twelve o'clock she was dead."
And he said, with the big tears run
ning down his cheeks, "when Maggie
died I Just dropped down on my
knees and said, 'God, I never thought
much about you before. I don't know
that I believed in you. But you gave
me Maggii, and now you have taken
her to yourself, and God for Christ's
sake get me to heaven where I shall
."s again, i will do anything
you like, be anything you like, if you
will only take me to the heaven
where you have taken my child " Yes
rW-f1?' "lha' 18 40 years aSO. I have
irJ. tt. b8 ROOd man ever since,
v an: "ald my Payers, read
mM- 1 r gnZ 1 chUrch- done the
little bit I could do." Now then, for a
God who so deceived that farmer for
40 years, letting him live on. yearly
,hl'. no,urly- hoping and confident
that in Jieavaa too. will ae bis child
learning something of their language
in genera-l, is afforded all who ac
cept the cordial Invitation herewith
extended to attend.
At Grace English Lutheran church.
Broadway and Twenty-fourth street.
H. Lernhard, pastor, services will
be held today as- follows: Sunday
school at 9:45. Morning service at
11, theme of sermon: "How May a
Christian Obtain Certainty That He
Is Saved?" In the afternoon Grace
church will unite in the festival serv
ice at Trinity Lutheran church.
The morning service of Our Savior's
Norwegian- Lutheran church will be
held at 11 o'clock. Rev. M. A. Chrls-
tensen will preaQh on the gospel les-
on or the day, 'The Good Samari
tan.-
The Sunday school of the Clay-
Street Evangelical church will com
mence at 9:30, and will be in charge
of E. J. Keller, superintendent. At
10:45 the pastor will preach on
Poverty of Spirit, What Is It?" The
young people's alliance will meet at
o clock, followed by the evening
sermon by the" pastor at 8 o'clock,
the subject being "God's Revelation
In Nature."
At the Swedish tabernacle. Gllsan
street and North Seventeenth street.
Rev. C. J. Ledln will preach in
Swedish at 11 A. M. on the subject.
A Page In the History of the
Martyrs." The evening service will
be in English, when he will speak on
Joseph as a Type of Christ."
Canadian Pastor Fills the
Presbyterian Pulpit.
Two Scries of Sermons, Morning
and Evening, Being Given.
THE First Presbyterian church,
corner of Twelfth and Alder
streets, will have a Canadian In its
pulpit in the absence of the pastor.
Rev. Harold Leonard bowman, who
is on his vacation. This is Rev. John
Gibson Inkster, pastor of the First
Presbyterian church of Victoria, B. C.
This is 'the fourth Sunday Portland
people have had the pleasure of hear
ing Rev. Mr. Inkster.
He Is preaching two series of ser-
mons, one at the morning services and
another In the evenings. The morn
ing series is on "The Life and Times
of the Prophet Jonah." The subject
of the fourth one in this series Is
'Jonah and the Gourd." The even
ing sermons are on the religious and
social conditions which have followed
the war, under the general title "Re
construction and Religion," or "The
Crisis and the Christ."
The subject of the fourth one in
this series is "The Menace of the Con
duct of Christians." During the va
cation of the quartet and of the
regular organist, Edgar E. Coursen.
the music is In charge of E. Maldwyn
Evans who serves as chorister and
sings a baritone solo at each service.
and J. MacMillan Muir, who presides
at the organ and gives an organ re
cital before the evening service from
7:30 to 7:45.
The Sunday school Is having lantern
slides during the summer illustrating
the Gospel according to St. Luke. In
the primary room the pictures will
Illustrate the crucifixion and the talk
to the children will be given by Miss
Ruth Slauson. In the senior room the
slides will show pictures of the
resurrection with an explanatory
talk by James F. Ewing. The two
societies of the young people are hav
ing joint meetings during the month
of August in room H. This service
is held at 6:30 and a cordial welcome
Is given to all Interested in young
people's work.
Regular services will be resumed
at Westminster Presbyterian church
on September 5, at which time Dr.
E. H. Pence will preach. He will re
turn from Neah-kah-nle about Friday,
September 3. As there has been no
preaching In the church during
August, many are anxious to have tho
regular services begin again.
Rev. William T. Wardle of West
minster, Cal., formerly pastor of
Mizpah church, will preach at Mizpah
at 11 o'clock this morning. Mr.
Wardle, who spent several years In
the ministry In Portland and other
northwest cities, is epending his va
cation In Oregon, accompanied by his
wife. He Is a forceful speaker and
many in the city will be glad to hear
htm today.
Millard Avenue Presbyterian church
again; for a God who cheated that
man of his soul's longing, I have
neither respect nor love.
Ill Woman Is Inanrcd.
Then let me bring you to the sec-
ond church I had. Into the hotel one
evening I was called to see a woman
who was suddenly stricken with
death. She had two little girls as
I recall them, about 8 or 10 years
of age. She asked me how to get
to heaven and I told her; and she
said she was going there, for she
believed In Jesus Christ. Then she
took a couple of rings off of her
finger and put one on the thumb of
her child, and the other on the thumb
of the other child; and she told those
children to be good and love their
mother's Saviour and she assured
them If they died they would all meet
in heaven and never part any more.
Then she saidr "Minister, do you know
a song about heaven?" It was a time
when they sang "In the Sweet Bye
and Bye." She said, "Will you sing
It?" And there in the hotel I sang.
There's a land that is fairer than day.
And by faith we can see It afar;
For the father waits over the way
To prepare us a dwelling place there.
In the sweet bye and bye.
We shall meet on that beautiful shore.
Let us see. That is 30 years ago.
That woman died as placidly as I
might sit down on this platform. I
cannot help it, say it I must, if at
the heart of this universe there is
somebody who plays fast and loose
with that sort of trust, if the maker
of It all cheats us like that so that
there is nothing but death and dis
appointment In store for us, I do not
lose my faith, but I pick it up and
throw It away as- a useless thing,
quite unimportant, and of no value.
Once more and I will stop. When I
lived In San Diego I knew a man I
have been the better for having
known him ever since a man whose
brain was equal to that of the best
I know in this city, "who had served
his God nobly during a long life. He
bade me go to him when he was
dying. I said, "I will, If I am alive."
He sent for me one morning and I
went, stayed there and prayed with
him, talked with him, sang with him.
And then I said, "I must now go."
He looked out over the Pacific ocean
and there was the sun and he said,
"When that sun rises over yonder
tomorrow morning, 1 chall bo looking
will hold services at 11 A. M. and S
P. M. Rev. W. F. Tottsmith will
preach at both services.
a
The pastor, Rev. Ward Willis Long,
of the Forbes Presbyterian church,
who has been absent from the church
for the past five Sundays on his va
cation, will again occupy his pulpit
Sunday morning and evening. His
sermon at 11 A. M. will be "A "Key
note Message." The service at 8 P. M.,
strictly evangelistic In character, will
open with a popular song service.
The evening sermon topic is "Weighed
in the Balance." The young people's
service will convene at 7 P. M.
Fifty-one Baptist Institu
tions Get Fund Money.
Total of $159,440 Distributed to
Schools and Colleges atlon
Over.
N1
EW YORK. Aug. 28. Fifty-one
Baptist schools and colleges of
the Northern Baptist convention have
received a portion of the $100,000,000
fund being collected to cover a five
year extension programme. Dr. Frank
W. PadVelford, executive secretary of
the denomination's board of educa
tion, announced here today.
Money thus far paid out, amounting
to $159,440, represents first payments
which will be followed by others until
approximately $30,000,000 has been
distributed for educational purposes.
Dr. Padelford said that second pay
ments would be made before the end
of the vacation period, furnishing the
beneficiary institutions with funds
for immediate employment.
First payments, in amounts rang
ing in sire from $500 to $10,000, have
been made to the following institu
tions: Theological seminaries Berkeley.
Cal.; Chicago; Crozer. Chester, Pa.;
Kansas City; Newton. Mass.; Norther,
Chicago, 111.: Rochester, N. Y.
Training schools Chicago, Phila
delphia, Norwegian Baptist Divinity
house of Chicago, Bethel Academy of
St. Paul, Minn., an 1 Union College of
Iowa, Des Moines, la
Colleges aBtes, Me.; Brown, R. L;
Bucknell. Pa.; Carleton. Minn.; Colby,
Me.; Colgate, N. Y.; Denlson, Grand
'Island, rveb.; Hillsdale, Mich.; Xala-
mazoo, Mich.; McMinnville, Or.; Otta
wa, Kan.; Redlands, CaL: Shurtleff,
111.; Sioux Falls, S. D.; Des Moines,
la.; William Jewell, Liberty, Mo.
Junior colleges Broaddus, Clarks
burg, W. Va. ; Cedar Valley, Osage,
la.; Colorado Women's college, Den
ver. Colo.; Francis Shimer, Mount
Carro' I1L; Hardin. Mexico, Miss.;
Keuka. Keuka Park, N. Y. ; Rio Grand,
Rio Grande O.; Stephens, Columbia,
Missouri.
Missionaries Aid in Fight
ing Cholera Epidemic.
Chinese Authorities Willingly Ac
cept Aid From American Bap
tist Society.
NEW YORK. Aug. 28 American
Baptist medical missionaries and
Students from the Union university
missionary medical school are aiding
the Chinese authorities In fighting a
severe cholera epidemic in Chengtu,
Szchuan province. West China. W.
P. Lipphard, secretary of the Ameri
can Baptist Foreign Missionary so
ciety, has Just received a message
from Dr. W. R. Morse of Chengtu,
stating that the provincial officials
called upon the French doetors of tho
Pasteur Institute and Dr. Morse and
Dr. Allan of the China Medical Mis
sionary association to help fight the
epidemic. The Chinese officials ac
cepted the advice of these medical
men and placarded Chengtu with in
structions for preventive measures.
Dr. Morse's message stated:
"We are here where plague and
epidemic and pestilences begin. Were
Asiatic cholera entering San Fran
cisco the American nation would
spend millions gladly to stop it, but
here, for hundreds of thousands we
can kill the trouble before it can
raise Its head away from home. We
are doing what we can with an in
adequate force and little money, but
we are putting our schools and pupils
to a very real test and we'll win
out!"
Secretary Lipphard stated that as
a result of the Baptist new world
movement It Is hoped to enlarge
the medical school and hospital at
Chengtu and also to send approxi
mately S5 missionaries to the several
(Concluded on Paffe 6.
at the face of tho Christ I have loved
and honored and followed for over
50 years." And he gave me a walking
stick, sugge-sting that some day my
form might bow and I might need it.
And he gave me his Greek testa
ment that he had taught from in
several colleges. And as comfortably
as I might lie down on a bed he
went confidingly to his God. And if
Mr. Careys faith was all a hoax, I
wish to God I had never been born
to be eo hideously cheated.
Death Has No Hartlnff Power.
And now where do you come? Why
you come to the Bible, and you come
to the ChrLst of the Bible and the
Christ of the Bible says two things.
And I would hazard as many souls
if I had them as there are stars in
heaven, on the two things that Jesus
says. He says, "Because I live ye
shall live also." There is nothing
in the heart of God surer than" that
Christ lives. And he says, "Because I
live, ye shall live also." Very good,
what next? "Where I am, ye shall be
also." I would go through hell be
lieving in the end I should emerge in
heaven, remembering that Christ says,
"Because I live ye shall live and
where I am ye shall be." Get out
of my way with your materialism
that e-ays a man dies like a dog and
get out of my way with your idiotic
philosophy that says the grave is the
goal of the soul.
I looked at you people before I
got up to preach from this text. I
looked at you with eyes that caw
more than your countenances. You
have had your trouble and your de
privation; you have been In the
trenches and gone over the top. And
one of you since I knew you first
has gone blind. But when Mount
Hood has vanished and the Willam
ette is dried up. we shall be living In
the new heaven and the new earth.
For over us if we trust the resurrec
tion and the life, death has no hurt
ing power. "If a man die, shall he
live again?" Give me the voice of all
the booming thunder, yea give me the
voice of the bellowing storm and add
to it the voice of the tempestuous
seas and increase It till It be clear
and loud as the trumpet of the arch
angel that will call the dead to life
some day, and then with all that ac
cumulated volume of sound, I would
answer Job's question in the affirma
tive: ' "If a man die, shall he live
again!" Yea! . .
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