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Newspaper Page TextTHE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND. SEPTEMBER 13, 1920 "QUIET TALKS" AUTHOR WILL ADDRESS MINISTERS OF THE CITY Series of Addresses Will Be Given Every Day This Week at Noon at Heilig Theater for Public THE Portland Ministerial associa tion will meet in the Y. M. C A. auditorium at 9:30 A. M. tomor row. Dr. Byron J. Clark, president, an nounces that the address of the morn ing will be delivered by S. D. Gordon. Mr. Gordon i well known to many through his series of "Quiet Talks" books, which have been translated Into 28 languages. All clergymen of the city are In vited to hear Mr. Gordon at this meeting. . Mr. Gordon will give a series of "Quiet Talks," every noon. 12:15 to 1 o'clock shap (except Sunday), Sepr tember 14-25. at the Heilig theater. These meetings will be very simple, with the. brief intensely practical "Quiet Talks" the chief feature. They are put at the noon hour and in the heart of the business .district that busy men and women may slip in for part, or all of the time. "Come in when you can," "'slip out when you must" is the printed invitation and is meant to be taken just as it reads. The topics for the first week are as v o . awcduaj-, i i it i Vj vji n i .i, Blind Alleys, and How to Get Out"; Wednesday, "Why a Shrewd Old Jew Quit Money-Making"; Thursday, "A Revolutionary Movement in a Staid Old Town"; Friday, "There's Some one Tou Cant See"; Saturday, "The Biography of the DeviL" Mr. Gordon is best known as the author of the "Quiet Talks' series of little books. There are 14 volumes in the series, the 14th, now in press, pre pared by request, is "Quiet Talks About Life After Death." A million and a quarter of these are in circula tion. It has been said that placed end-to-end they would reach from London to Paris, or from New York City to Washington, D. C. Translations have been published in Holland-Dutch, French. Spanish, Ger man, Portuguese, German-Swiss, Ital ian. Danish, Norwegian. Swedish, Fin nish, Russian, Arabic. Syriac, Coptic, Persian, in Boer-Dutch, and several vernaculars of Africa, in several ver naculars of India, in Chinese, Japa nese, Corean and others, in all, 28 for eign languages. In response to invitations. Mr. Gor don spent four years speaking in for eign lands, returning just before the war broke out. A year was spent In the British isles, two years in conti nental Europe and a year in Asia. En gagements in India and Africa were canceled through necessity of return ing to the homeland. For three years Mr. Gordon was speaking daily through interpretation. He say that interpretative speaking is like having a doubled wire for the transmission of an electric current, when there's a good interpreter. But in sending invitations to Mr. Gordon consideration would ftret be given to getting an interpreter who had read his books and was in full spirit with feim. Since returning to America Mr. Gor don has been giving a series of "Quiet Talks" in theaters, in the business district of cities on the Atlantic sea board at noon, attended daily by many hundreds: in New York for nine weeks, Philadelphia seven weeks, "Washington six weeks, Baltimore five weeks and at Atlantic City, in a "Boardwalk theater, two summers nine weeks each. m Miles of children plodded through the enow to their waists last winter to reach near east relief stations in Armenia where they hoped to find "Harm clothing. Hundreds of these had to be turned away to die of exposure Jn the severe cold because the supply s exhausted. The young people's societies of Port land are planning to prevent such a tragedy this winter. Under the direc tion of Mr. A. D. Bossermsn, presi dent of Willamette association of Bap tist Young People's union, Mrs. Harry J. Miller, Portland district president f the Epworth league, and Mr. Ro land Davis, president of Multnomah bounty Christian Endeavor, they will collect and ship to New York a car load of clothing for near east relief. A dinner will be served in the par lors of the First Christian church at 6 o'clock next Thursday evening for delegates to the near east relief state conference and representatives of the PASTOR i BY DR. W. B. HINSON, Pastor of East Side BapUst Ch.i-.rch. i NO SEPARATION. i Romans vill:3S "For I ara periuaded that neither death, for Ufa, nor aneels. nor prtnetpalltiee, nor jiowr. nor thinca present, nor thinga to come, nor heleht, nor depth, nor any other creature, aball be able to separate ua from the love of God, which la in Christ Jesus, our Lord." SO DEATH cannot separate us from the love of Godi. But why did not he put life before death? It is the wrong erder. I live before I die. Ah. yea, but in thought and feeling, as . in f earfulneea, death as a separating power has first place. For "have we not seen death separate? Did we not go down ever more -slowly to the mysterious rver brink? And we stretched out our hands to keep touching the passing beloved one. And our poor -eyes were saddened as we tried to watch that retreating form.. But It went. And we know death separates. And we are going the same way. For we have to go down Into that valley. And the acquainti ance will be left, and the friend will be left, and the loved one will be left. And If I go down there -today the musical prattle of my little grand child will recede and grow fainter and fainter until I lose it. Death sep arates! From everybody except Tesus Christ. But "though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Thou art with jne." "Absent from the body." said the apostl "present with the Lord. That is why he put death first. And death has no power to separate us from God's love. And life cannot separate us from the love of God. Ah, life is far like Her to separate us than Is death. Did you ever notice what a lot of the "im pedimenta." as the Romans used to call it, which we carry on the pil . grimage Is thrown off as we move from stage to stage? I remember the day when I used to save all th bits of lead pencils because I thought, "The day will come when I may want to write a great deal, and therefore I want to save all the fragments of pencils others throw away." What a lot of our fondest expectations and hopes are equally laughable memories today. We leave some thing behind as we go along in life. And some times we leave behiad soma things it young people's societies. This will be followed by the evening session of the conference which will be devoted largely to the plans for the clothing collection.' , ... A big Sunday school rally by dis trict No, Multnomah County Sunday School association, will be held next Wednesday -evening at 7:45 o'clock in Mount Tabor Presbyterian church. Fifty-fifth and Belmont streets. Nor man F. Johnson, general secretary of the State Sunday School association, selected recently to I'm the vacancy caused by the resignation of Mr. Har old F. Humbert, will be the chief speaker of the evening. Professor Charles A. Rice, of the state executive committee, and Ernest Peterson president of the Multnomah County association, will each bring a brief message. The rally will be opened with an inspiring song service under the lead ership of Mr. C. A. Mulr. A Sunday school orchestra, composed of the mu sicians from various Sunday schools of the district, will assist in the serv ices of the evening. The following Sunday schools should be represented at the rally:. Glencoe Baptist, S. S. Congregational, First Friends. Central Free M. E Mount Tabor M. E.. Sunnyslde M. E., Lincoln M. E.. Mount Tabor Presbyterian aod First United Presbyterian. Reports will be made and officers of the district organization for the coming year will be elected. Visitors from all schools are most cordially invited and If there are other schools In this district, we shall be glad to know of them and have them become affiliated with us In the Sun day school game. - "Secretary of State Colby is a pro vincial," said Dr. McEtveen In his Current Events talk at the First Con gregational church Thursday night. The congregational-minister was in terpreting the Wilson-Colbynote on Poland and Russia. He explained the many conflicting policies toward soviet Russia. He said: "Italy wants peace and trade.. Te liberals are in power in Italy. Britain wants peace. Her diplomats are afraid of a new align ment of Germany, Russia and Japan against the allies. Then, too, the Brit ish labor party threatens an uprising if peace is not soon made. A still further reason for peace is the fact that Ireland is boiling with wrath and rebellion. France wants her Russian bonds paid. She would make peace with any Russian government that would acknowledge the validity of those bonds. The Soviets won't pay the old czar's debts. So France stands for intervention in Russia." Dr. McElveen went on to say that August 10 was an eventful day for Russia. "The Italian ambassador at Wash ington asked Mr. Wilson for his views on the Polish-Russian question. That same day the British government through Lloyd George expressed its intentions toward those warring coun tries. President " Wilson, as usual, played a lone hand. He and. Mr. Colby, without taking anybody into their confidence, sent to Europe their note on the Polish question. "Lloyd George made his speech of explanation in the house of commons. He was heckled severely. He was In terrupted 20 times. And he was com pelled to say that Britain would not support General Wrangel, the new anti-soviet general. Mr. Colby's note Is a momentous error. We are lined up against England and Italy and are playing into the hands of France, whose opposition to soviet-Russia is mainly financial." Dr. McElveen also traced the his tory of the 19th ' amendment, which gives 25,000,000 American women the right of suffrage. The Oregon state conference of Con gregational churches meets in Forest Grove, October 12 to 14. The Women's Home Missionary union of the state will hold the opening meeting. In the afternoon the Women's Board of the Pacific, the Foreign Missionary society of the Congregational women of the state, will hold its annual meeting. The Rev. O. P. Avery, of the Waverly Heights church of Portland will preach the sermon. The com munion Service win be conducted by Dr. J. J. Staub of the Sunnysldi church; Among the speakers who are SAYS MILLIONS "Unseen were well for us to continue to carry. For some of us do not read that Book so much as we did once. God help you if you leave your Bible behind And some of you have not prayed this morning. And some of you did not ask a blessing at your table, and did not observe family worship. And some of you had no thought of staying to the communion. I guess you will now! And in life we leave people behind, too. "Where are the friends I have loved in my youth?" said the old song. Why. you have left so many you could not name them. And some of us have left Jesus behind us, and, like "Peter, ws are a long way off from his sympathetically. Tea, we are far likelier to be separated I . . i -,kn. .11,.. tv.. 1 when we die. I am not afraid' of death separating me from God; but sometimes I am greatly afraid as I watch other men of my age dnd posi tion who are losing their grip on their faith, that the deadly miasma of doubt may bee oud my mind and vision; and I would rather be - dead than have that occur. And if you think for a moment you will know why you left some of those friends behind you. Tou outgrew them, or no longer had anything with them in common, and you awoke to the consciousness. "I cannot have the fel lowship with him I used to have," or I do not enjoy being with him as I once did." But you will never say anything like that about Jesus. For he knows 'human life from the car penter shop clean through to death And you need never fear you will out grow him. For he always moves along in the pilgrimage of life, and life cannot separate us from the love of God. Nor can angels separate us from God's love. You know I retain the faith that angels are ministering spirits' and they minister unto the heirs of salvation, and I still believe "he shall give his angels charge over thee to keep thee in all thy, ways." And I believe as the legions of angels attended Christ, unseen by mortal eye, as he wended his way toward Calvary, so millions of unseen spirits walk the earth, whether we wake or sleep. And the sudden illumination suggestive of good, or the vision or the subdued melody in the soul It Is my faith that sort of thing may come from the angel min istry. But why does Paul say angels cannot separate us from the love of God when good angels could not if they would. and would not if they could? Ah, angels have great power for one angel went down into Egypt one night and raised a great wail In -.... t.. ...... ............ . . . . ..................... ........... ................................ ....... t-r1" ?. - ,f- -sJ A It 1 t r--s " ..; h . .-. . .. .... . , T .,'f"S.a;ii s:-.. - ... , .... .. ' . fx-,.: . . . , p..,;,iiji.'i-.'ij:! .. ImpreHKlve ervices are lield bj Catholic rhnrrh when Albany priest reetlvw robes of prolonotarr apoatollc. Part of clerical gronp which attended the ceremony at which the Right Rev. Kather Arthur Lane was vested with the title of "moulgiin" In commemoration of the 25th annlverdary of bin ordination. Prominent church officials in the above group, reading from left to right, are! Center-, hack row Mgr. Day, Helena, Mont.; Bishop Carol, Helena, Mont.) Archbishop Christie, Port land Mgr. Arthur Lane, Albany) Bishop McGrath, Baker, Or.; Mgr. Hillebrand, V. G., Oregon City to address the conference are the Rev. J. P. Clyde of Corvallis, the Rev. J. C. Hall of lone, the Rev. E. E. Flint of Portland the Rev. H. A. Deck of Hill side, the Rev. D. J. Gillanders of Ash land, the Rev. H. G. Stover of Salem, the Rev. Ernest Goudge of The Dalles, Rev. W. W. Blair of Forest Grove, the Rev. J. A. Throllfall of St. Johns and Dr. W. T. McElveen of the First Church of Portland. The conference is to be favored with a number of distinguished visitors from the east. The Rev. Frank Shel don, D. D., of the educational society, and Miss Miriam Woodberry of the home missionary board, will be pres ent and speak. A feature of the con ference will be a young people's rally and banquet. Another feature of the occasion will be the 75th anniversary of the Forest Grove church. The Pa cific university will have an oppor tunity to present her new extension plan. Superintendent A. J. Sullens anticipates a very large attendance. Rev. William E. Brinkman, pastor of the St. James' English Lutheran church, and Mrs. Brinkman, will shortly go east to visit points in Wis consin and Ohio and will, whilVin the east, attend the second biennial con vention of- the United Lutheran Church of America, to be held in Washington. D. C, in October. During the absence of Rev. Mr. Brinkman, local visiting Lutheran ministers will occupy the pulpit of the St. Jame' church and conduct services regularly each Sunday at 11 A. M. The convention of the United Lu theran church which Rev. Mr. Brink man will attend in Washington will be the second convention held since the merger of the three large Lu theran bodies which took, place In New York in ISIS. The cemvenkion will be held in Luther Place Memorial church Octo ber 19-21. The Rev, F. H. Knubel, D. D., L.L. D., of New York, is the first president of the United' Lutheran church. Numerically it is the larg est Lutheran body in America. Statistics show a baptized mem bership of 1.092,446 and a confirmed or full membership of nearly 800,000. It is composed of constituent synods reaching Into practically every state and having churches in Canada and the West Indies. Its educational system comprises 11 seminaries, 20 colleges and six - academies. The total value is 112.000.000. Its for Spirits Walk the Earth Whether We Wake or Sleep, palace and hovel; and another angel breathed tver Sennacherib's army and never a man of that army breathed a minute more; but if all the angels of heaven together tried to separate us from the love of God they would signally fail. For angels can not separate fls. But Paul means bad angels. And the evil in the super natural world which is exerting Itself as I never saw It exerted before, as we think about it is it not hearten ing to know that if hell has vomited out all Its black angels and they are all encamped about your soul they cannot separate you from the love of God? -Nor can principalities separate us from the love of God. But what are they? Well In the sixth chapter of the Ephesians, there is a sentence which seems to me to be one of the most mysterious sentences in the Bible. "For we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against princi palities, powers, rulers of the dark ness of this world, supernatural wickedness in high places." That is UNITED BRETHREN PLAN ; -i iN -'A i. A 7 Titular Abbott Adelhelm, St. Benedict, eign mission work la carried on 'In India, Africa, Japan and in several South American states, at an annual expenditure of 1700,000. The total value of church property and en dowment is $78,000,000. The United Lutheran church through Its oynod- ical constituents is the oldest Lu theran body in America. It dates back to the time when the Dutch Lutherans settled in New York In 1623, and the Swedish Lutherans set tled on the Delaware in 1638, and the Salzburgers came to Georgia and the Carolinas. The first convention of the United Lutheran church was held in New York City in November, 1918. It was primarily a convention for or ganization and amalgamation. That time boards and committees wers merged, thus bringing about much economy in men and money and per mitting the church to enter new fields on a larger scale. It was also a convention for adjustments and for leaders to become acquainted, with one another. The convention in Washington in October will b chiefly a constructive convention, although certain read justments in view of the two years experience will likely be made. 'The chief interest will center around the progressive measures taken for larger work." When the United Lu theran , church was organized two years ago it. immediately became on of the strong outstanding church bodies of America and during the war its activities in connection with other Lutheran bodies extended to all the camps and naval bases and to France. At the close of the war. relief work. was undertaken in France, Czecho-Slovakla, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Germany and) Fin land. The officials of the United Lu theran church are: Dr. F. H. Knubel. New York, president; Dr. M. G. G. Scherer, New York, secretary; E. Clarence Miller," of Bjoren & Co., bankers, Philadelphia, treasurer. The formal Installation of the Rev. Donald W. M. MacCluer. B. D., as pastor of Rose City Park Presby terian church will take place at the church, East Forty-fifth and Han cock streets, Wednesday evening, September 15, at 8 o'clock. Rev. D. A. Thompson, moderator of Portland presbytery, will preside. Dr. William Moll Case, pastor of Cen tral Presbyterian church of Eugene OF SPIRITS ARE the meaning of principalities. For the prince of the power of the air is not a metaphorical expression, but a literal phase descriptive of the grim fact. And- from all I can find there are other things than stars. There are thrones, dominions, princi palities, and powers of evil. And what they would do for us God only knows, if It were not that on the height above those heights there is infinite love and incarnate Saviour hood. Tet do not too lightly think about the principalities. I am no coward, and. I have always loved fighting; but I do not think It Is wise to underestimate the foe. And the principalities that overcame Adam when he was made In the image of God; and discomfited Moses the leader of the Israelitish host; and turned the singing of the man who wrote the 23d Psalm into a wail; and pulled Judas, one of the 12 apostles, down to hell: and turned Peter, who made the great confes sion, into a blaspheming liar, is a foe 'u had better treat with a. great NORTHWEST GATHERING FOR 1 Rev. Byron J. flair k. pastor of the First United Brethren ebnreb., who will act aui host to visiting member and official heldinr sessions im his church. 2 Bishop W. H. Washin Kfr, ffeaerat superintendent of the Pacific coast district, who will pre side daring the conference. 3 G. E. McDonald, superintendent of the Oregon conference, who will be one of the prominent church figures of the event. It t , jl h- Jr-c i It , , ? ' -p'Jfi't-i ;( J I ST v 4 V"; - - -' 'aav, r ' i Or. and moderator of the -synod of Ore gon, will preach the installation ser mon. The stated clerk of the Port land presbytery will read the scrip ture. Prayer will be offered by Rev. Floyd Dorris. Rev. Ralph C. McAfee will deliver the charge to the pastor and1 Rev. Boudinot Seeley the charge to the people. Special music will - be furnished by the quartet under the direction of Miss Gertrude Hoeber. Rev. Mr. MacCluer comes to Rose City Park' from the Central Presby terian church of St. Louis, Mo, where he was educational director and as sistant pastor. Immediately upon graduation from- the seminary Mr. MacCluer went to Siam as educa tional missionary. Later, returning home he held several successful pas torates before going to St. Louis. "Christ's Best Sermon," Morning Topic Dr. ninson of East Side Baptist Church to Speak to People on Faith In Bible. "C HRISTS Best Sermon,", will be Dr. Hinson's subject - at 11 o'clock at the East Side Baptist church, and at 7:45 will speak on "The Bible of God," to those who have been affected by current denials and scepticisims In school and college and elsewhere. Both pastors of the church are now back in their places and are beginning an active cam paign of christian work for the win ter. Dr. A. N. Hall of Muskogee. Okla, who filled the pulpit of the First Bap tist church (White Temple) last Sun day, will preach again today. His morning topic will be, "Christ's Warn ing Against the Teaching of Mater ialists." In. the evening he will speak on the subject "The Right to Answer Man's Greatest Question." The quar tet of thee hurch will be heard in special numbers at both services. . D. Leigh Colvin, prohibition nomi nee for vice-president, will speak at the First Nazarene, church. East Tenth and Weidler streets, this morn ing. Rev. A. M. Bowes, the pastor, will preach at 7:45 P. M. Says Dr. W. B. Hinson in ; 1 deal of consideration. And do not let him instill into your minds fool out in the Bible, up there above us ish and untrue estimates of his awful power; but do you always remember you are only safe from, Satan as you are in the grasp of the Saviour. And so be thankful this morning, that Jesus will not allow the principal ities to separate you from the love of God. Nor can powers separate from God's love. Now kingship is asso ciated with power and rightly o. But there never was a king ran up against God Almighty, but he did it to his sorrow and defeat. Some times I recall how kings In this Bible antagonized God. How Pharaoh said. "Who is your God, anyhow?" and one day the Red sea water came tum bling down upon the chivalry of Egypt and Pharaoh, and every single wave that broke said, "This represents God." And I come to Sennacherib, who said, "The God of Israel is only like the God of Egypt, and I worsted him." And Sennacherib went out to PORTLAND SEPTEMBER 16-20. South American Missionary Speaks at First Christian. Sister of Portland School Superin tendent Returns After -6 Years. "D OES Science Endanger Faith?" will be the sermon of the Rev. Harold H. Griffis this morning at 11 o'clock at the First Christian church This will be the second discourse de- ' livered by the pastor for the partic ular benefit of the young people of the congregation who will be in col lege during the coming winter. In the evening at 7:45 the audience will be addressed by Mrs. Catherine Linton, a Christian missionary re cently returned from South America. Mrs. Linton is a sister of D. A. Grout, superintendent of city schools. For 24 years she has conducted with her husband' an inter-tlenomlnational mis sion in northern Argentine and east ern Bolivia. She has been on mission deputations to England and Canada and is now In Araeaica for a short period to arrange for the education of her daughter. The church quartette will furnish special musical programmes at both Sunday services, including at the eve ning worship the anthem. "My Friend and My. Helper" (North), with con tralto obbligato by Miss Beatrice Palmer. The Portland Society of the New Christian church (Swedenboro-iani will hold Its Sunday morning 'meet ings at 301 Central building, in the headquarters of the Theosophical so ciety, beginning today. Following the adoption of a plan presented by the pastor last spring the services will follow a much simpler order. Doc trinal subjects will be avoided, but the fundamentals of Christian teach ing will be rigidly applied to modern individual and social problems. Another improvement in the work of the society is a business" office for the pastor In the Oregon building. ThlB wljl serve also as a reading room and as a publication office for the pastor s weekly letter. "The New Christian Minister." The second sermon of a series on "The Romance of Jacob-Israel" will be delivered at the East Side Christian church on Sunday evening by the pas tor. Rev. R. H. Sawyer. The first ABROAD Sermon on Love of God for 1 sound the reveille to raise the army from 'inertia to activity, but never a man moved. For God struck one blow in the darkness and Assyria was despoiled. And King Nebuchad nezzar wandered out one evening under the etars and beheld the glit tering lights of the fair city, and said, "Is not this great Babylon that I have builded?" And he excluded God. And God said, "There is grass out there. Nebuchadnezzar, and you hadi better go and eat it 'with the cows. And he did. And Belshazzar gave a feast. And when the -wine was in, the wit was out. For he said. "Bring the golden vessels of the temple, and we will drink out of them." And they did. And the River Euphrates ran through that city under arches: but the Persian had diverted the current of the river, and under those eame arches came that very night to slay; and the. red blood of Belshazzar and the red wine of his blasphemous feast stained the white floor of his palace. And then you come to Herod in the 12th chap ter of the Acts of the Apostles. And you know how he died? Eaten of worms -a king! And an emperor of Rome, Diocletian by name, erected a tablet and wrote on it, "For having exterminated the name 'Christ.' But we are going to observe the Lord's sircjser in a few minutes. So powers cannot separate us from the love of God. Nor can things present sever us from God's love. But is he qualified to talk about the things that are present? Well, you know the Apostle Paul kept a diary, and he wrote down once a little piece in his diary which I qten- read. "In stripes above meas ure, in prisons frequent, in deaths of ten, five times I received 39 stripes, thrice was I beaten with rods, once I was stoned, thrice I suffered ship wreck, & night and a day I drifted on the deep. In Journeyings often, perils of water, and robbers, In perils by mine own countrymen, in perils by the heathen, in perils in the city, in perils in the wilderness, in perils in the sea. In perils among false breth ren; in weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, jn hunger ' and thirst. In fastings often, in cold and nakedness." "Nor things present." he is qualified to discuss them, And those people to whom he wrote were qualified to talk about present things. For let me tell you one little fact. Nero used' to ride In his chariot around his gardens that were illum inated In the night by living torches'. For they covered Christian men and women with tar and pitcfe and set them on fire, and then by the light emitted by those living torches, this wicked wretch' pursued his wild orgies of drunkenness and debauch sermon of the series was received with much interest and the pastor has promised to furnish satisfactory evidence in the forthcoming addresses to prove that the Anglo-Saxon race are Hebrews, or Israelites, and as such are the chosen nations who shall dwell securely while others go down under the storms of bolshevlsm and lawlessness ' that are sweeping the earth in the last days. That the Is raelites or Hebrews are to be dis tinguished from the Jewish people Is a point which the minister says the average person fails to make and that upon this distinction rests the hope of America and the world. A large class meets on Thursday evenings for special study of racial questions. Many from other churches are at tending these widweek lectures. Dr. McElveen to Resume Series of Sermons. Discourse on Fundamental Ideas of Christianity Promised. LARGE audiences have heard Dr. W. T. McElveen's series of ser mons on "The Growth and Changes In the Fundamental Ideas of Chris tianity" at the First Congregational church. He will resume this series of sermons in a week or two. . His topic this morning is "Doing Near-to Undramatio Tasks," the point being that many a woman who desires to reform the universe hasn't time or in clination to be a helpful -neighbor and many a man who gives lavishly for the enpport of missions in China is unwilling to speak to & Chinaman on the streets of Portland. The Congre gational minister will apply this idea to other relations of life. The chorus choir of 25 voices under the direction of Joseph A. Finley, a popular feature of the service. Mr. Finley plans giving some of the big oratorios on Sunday evenings. A chorus of the boys and girls of the Sunday school will next be organ ised. On Friday evening the Endeavorers gave a banquet to members of that organization who are going to college this fall. The new officers of the Endeavor society were welcomed to their places of responsibility. The following officers have assumed lead ership of the society: Miss Caroline McEwen. president; Miss Elizabeth Dycke. vice-president; Miss Josephine Woolrey, recording secretary; Mlsa Dorothy Rice, corresponding secre tary, and Allan Reid. treasurer. Major E. J. Berry will give an illus trated lecture at th church echool session this morning on "The Em barkation of the Pilgrims." Miss Caroline McEwen, the new president of the Endeavor society, is the leader of the Endeavor meeting. The topic is "A Great Miracle and Its Lesson." "Thrills" is the topic of Dr. Mc Elveen's lecture this evening. The Women's association will resume its Wednesday weekly meetings Septem ber 22. Mrs. David Brace, a member of the church who has spent the last four years in educational work in China in connection with the Indem nity college, will give an illustrated lecture. Welcome-Back Sunday will be fea tured at Atkinson Memorial Congre gational church today. The two ser mons by the pastor. Rev. Elbert E. Flint, will be welcoming addresses. This morning he will speak on "What to Live For, and tonight his theme will be "The Root of Evil the Dollar Sign." What Christ said concerning life and what we do in life will be discussed in these sermons. The Sunday school will hold a wel come-back service at 9:45 o'clock to day. Officers, teachers and pastor will , welcome each other and all pupils and strangers will be given a hearty greeting. The stamp of wel come will be on everything visible or Invisible. The mid-week meeting of t'.ie church will be held Thursday evening at 7:4-5.- This will be a devotional and Bible study meeting conducted by the pastor. Full activities are being resumed at Highland Congregational church after the summer vacation. This morning the pastor. Rev. Edward Constant, will preach on "Sunday Help for Mon day Service." In the evening there IN THE Man. ery.- Did not these people know something about the things present? And so do we know about the present things, and we know they cannot separate us from the love of God. Nor can things to come separate us from God's love. He had some idea of the things to come. For he said one day. I know bonds and im prisonments await me. and I am go ing to Rome and it has been com municated to me I shall never leave there. And you know I look at you as an audience this moment, and wonder about the things to come. O. young man, priding yourself in your strength, it 'may be before 1920 goes out somebody will have to feed you with a spoon- And you are mentally alert, and it has been your proud boast year after year that you . could think on your feet, and your tongue never played fast or loose with your memory or imagination, O, walk humbly with your God, for a great preacher stood up in a New York pulpit one night and said. "God has wiped out my memory s with .a sponge." and they took him away to an asylum. "Nor things to come." We do not know what they are, and we do not much care, because they cannot separate us from the love of God. Nor can height seperate us from God's love. And I think that has an allusion to those principalities and powers, but I want to use It as illus trating the elevation that some of you may yet reach. For I many times stand here and think that when the grass grows green over me there will be men who In congress and senate, as captains of industry and influen tial, dominating- men. will be living life Just a little nobler because I have talked to them and shown them Jesus Christ. i es. you will be on the heights some day and when you get up there remember the love of God is still with you to steady you and keep you true to your ideals. "Nor height." And let me say an other word. There are other heights than those I have mentioned. The height of spiritual vision and in sight; the heights occupied by those Old Testament seers, and prophets; the heights possessed by those men. to whom God whispers in the ear and when they come and communicate to us the things they heard, we sit back in astonishment and are dazed with wonder and marvel where they got those things from. But the devil is on those heights. And from a tre mendous height he flung Moses down into confusion. But God is on the heights to keep and eustain and up hold. And always on the height be Vond the heights there is One I love to think about, who is doing what I greatly delight in. for "He ever liveth will be a song service follcwed by u address on "Making a Good Invos& ment." On Wednesday afternoon the Ladies'-Aid society will hold Its birth day party in the church rooms. Dr. J. J. Staub of the Snnnwrfde Congregational church will be in his pulpit at both services today. He will take for his subject at 11 o'clock "Christianity's Unique Ingredient of Joy." In the evening he will speak on "Unexpected Surprises in the Christian Religion." Special selec tions will be rendered by the chorus choir. The public is cordially inited. At Pilgrim Congregational church. corner of Missouri and Shaver streets, services will be as follows: Sunday school, 9:45 A. M. ; preaching. 11 A. M: Christian Endeavor. 6:30 P.M.; preach ing, 1-.3H J-'. M. Rev. K K. Clark of Kansas will preach both morning and evening. - With th opening of the schools) and the approach of autumn activities. a timely topic will be discussed by the. pastor. Rev. Oliver Perry Avery, st the Waverley Heights church, under the title, "Taking Your Dimensions." This will he at 11 A. M. At 8 P. M. a practical gospel sermon will b given. a Rev. F. A. and Krs. Christopher sou. for six years missionaries In Chins and now returning to their work in. that land, will speak in the Gospel Tabernacle of the Christian and Mis sionary alliance East Ninth 8vnd Clay streets, Sunday it 11 A. M. and 7:30 P. M and at Aloha, Or, at 3 P. M. "Substance," Topic in All Christian Science Churches. Two Sessions of Sunday School Held In All Churches Except Third and fifth. QUBSTAyCE" Is the subject of K- the .lesson neiuion in the Christian Science churches in Port land today. Services will be held In all the, Christian Science churches todxy at 11 o ciock, and in all the churches at 8 o'clock except Fifth and Seventh churches. Wednesday evening meeting Is held in all the churches at 8 o'clock. These meetings include testimonies of Chris tian Science healing. Two sessions of Sunday school are held. In all the churches except Third and Fifth the sessions for the older classes are held at 9:45 and 11. in the other two churches at 9:30 and 11. Free public reading rooms are maintained in the Northwestern Bank building at 266 Burnslde street, and 148 Killingsworth avenne. At these rooms the Bible and authorized Christian Science literature may be read, borrowed or purchased. a Evangelist Louis K. Dickson will speak in the big tent pavilion, corner Thirteenth and Morrison, tonight at 7:45. on the subject. "Penning Human Destiny." which sermon will be based on a most startling utterance of Bible prophecy. This will be the clos ing sermon in the tent where Mr. Dickson -has carried on a most suc cessful and interesting series of meetings which has resulted in a large number of additions to the church. The evangelist will continue to hold meetings for the public each Sunday night in Women of Woodcraft hall, corner Tenth and Taylor streets, beginning September 19. "The Comforter Center holds Sun day services in the assembly room of the Portland hotel at 11 A. M. and 8 P. M. Speaker. Ethelind Lord Cam pion. Topics, "A Certain Nobleman"; "Man's Size." At the First Spiritualist church. East Seventh and Has.'alo streets, services will be held at 3 P. M. and 8 P. M- Lecture and messages by Mr. James B. Metcalf; solos by Lester Davis and Misa Fishburn. A reception was given Wednesday night at the First Nazarene church for three returned missionaries. Miss Ida Vieg from China, Miss Lela Har grave and Miss Leoda Grebe from India. They wore native costume and sang in Chinese and Bengali. The (-Concluded en Pan 7. EARTH to make Intercession." Oh. do you believe in that? Do you believe this morning as surely as God's sun rose in the east, Jesus Christ prayed for you? Do you believe that? I do. And very often I say, "Lord, I am making a poor success of my own prayer, but you prayed a very suc cessful prayer for me just now and will pray another in a little while and it is all right." "He ever liveth to make Intercession." Nor are depths able to separate us from God's love. 1 do not know what depths may a wait us. But there are deep valleys along life's pathway and if I do not talk much about them it is not because 1 am ignorant of them. But I do love the heights and t talk more about them than about the val leys: and yet for once I will break loose from the usual habit and tell you there are some awful valleys in life. And I am not talking about los ing money or possessions. For I would not care if I were stripped of all the little attritions gathered around me. But there are valleys where sympathy is afar off and friendship uncertain and your famil iar friend lifts up his heel against you and men play the Judas and the Peter act. And you say strong man though you are "No man cares for my souL" But those depths cannot separate us from the love of God. Well, we are nearly through. "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor prlncipali- I I e s, nor powers, nor things present. nor things t o come nor height, nor depth" is there any thing else? Now when Paul got there he just swept his hand around the whole horizon as he said. "T co not think I have overlooked anything, but if I have, 'nor any other creation." " That is what he said. It was not "creature." What does he mean? Why, he means what he says, as do all these Bible writers. He means everything except God has been cre ated; and therefore when he says "any creation," any created thing, he Includes the whole universe, angel and devil and man and mountain and star and tree and everything. And he says there is nothing God ever created and He created everything r that can separate us from the love of God. Is not that a great thing to know? If only you would believe it and go out laughing in your heart because nothing can separate you from the love of God. Business go Infj wrong? All this utire-t and dis turbance affecting you? Nothing can separate you from the love of God! Do not know which way to turn? Well, turn Godward. for that is al ways safe! Do not know what to do next? Just' look up into the face of Jesus Christ and know nothing can i separate you from the love of God.