THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN, PORTLAND, JULY 9, 1922
BIBLE REVEALS GOD'S ESTIMATE OF FOOLS UPON EARTH
Rev. Russell M. Broughec Says in Final Judgment of Life it Will Make Little Difference What People Think of Us, But It Will Make Vast Difference What Creator Thinks of Every Person.
BY REV. RUSSELL M. BROUGHER,
Pastor Immanuel Baptist church, Salt
Lake City. Utah. sODDlying White
Temple pulpit last two Sundays oJ
Scripture: Luke xit:13-21.
Text: I Sam. xxvl:21.
THERE are a great many fools
mentioned in the Bible. If they
were carefully defined there
would be about "57 varieties." It
ia Impossible to study them all in
one sermon.' But all the fools are
not dead yet. I have observed, and
It will be worth our while to con
elder some of them.
Sometimes we speak of a man be
ing a fool simply because we do
not agree with his judgment'or his
manner of life. In the ein, how
ever, it may turn out that we are
the fools and he is the wise man.
We cannot read motives, and we
cannot see Into the future. ' It Is
not best for any of us to be. too
positive in our judgment of others.
There Is one thing absolutely cer
tain, however, God never makes a
mistake. He knows the secrets of
the heart and he knows what the
future will be. When God calls a
man a fool, he is "it." You may be
very certain that God has called
your correct number if he says you
ere a fool. In the final judgment
of life It will not make any differ
ence what people think of us, but
it will make a great difference what
God thinks of us. I would, like to
know what God thinks of me. I
would like to know what he wants
me to be. Let us study then for a
little while four kinds of persons
that God. says have played the fooL
1. In the first place, he speaks of
the agnostic fool. In the 14th Psalm
and the , first verse we read: "The
fool hath said in his heart, there
la no God." According to the scrip
tures and the Standard dictionary,
"a foal Is one who speaks and acts
contrary to reason." He is irra
tional. The Bible declares 'that man
who says there is no God., is not
only an ignoramus, but he is Irrational.-
"There is nobody home." It
would be Just as sensible for a man
to say there ia .,o such thing as air;
while he is saying it he is breathing
the air and being sustained by It.
The existence of God is a funda
The Divine Right of Democracy, by
Clarence True Wilson. The Abington
Press, New York city.
A reminder that the teachings of
Hoses afforded the foundation of
our republican form of government,
and that Christ was the original ex
ponent of the people's right to rule
themselves, is the theme of this
work by an ex-Portfand minister.
Advocating more democracy as the
cure for every fault of modern de
mocracy, Mr. Wilson shows how
closely allied are the principles of
our government with the teachings
of Chrjst and urges a closer con
nection between government and
religion.
He makes 14 recommendations,
trict law enforcement and obey
ance of oaths of office, inaugura
tion of a total abstinence pledge
signing- campaign, a campaign
against the doped cigarette, the
Btudy of the bible in the public
schools, a stricter observance of the
Sabbath, a single standard of de
cency for men and women, an anti
prize fighting movement, a clean-up
in the motion-picture industry, an
anti-gambling crusade, the protec
tion of the American flag, . greater
Americanization, the acceptance of
the direct primary, inauguration of
the initiative, referendum and re
call, and greater unity between
church and state. These needs are
recommended to shut off "pagan
inroads."
Clarence True Wilson has set
down his own ideas on the way in
which the nation can be strength
ened. He advocates a more com
plete democracy. His book will be
appreciated by most religious
thinkers.
Mortal Coils, by Aldous Huxley. The
George H. Doran . company. New York
city. ' ,
The mild excitement about "Crome
Yellow" is nothing to the comment
aroused by "Mortal Coils" among
the eastern critics, and readers who
indulge in much book talk will have
many an hour of conversation avail
able in discussing the question
whether Huxley is serious or amus
ing, and what he intends to be. In
"Mortal Coils" he has shown the
same adroit touch and flashing
cleverness which marked "Crome
Yellow."
All five of the stories In "Mortal
Coils" are decidedly unusual, and
the characters and ideas are typ
lcally Huxley's. At once shocking
and fascinating, they hold an in
terest that cannot be thrown off,
but that is not apt to be indulged by
t-a second reading. The four stories
are "The Giaconda Smile," a tale of
remarkable circumstance and gal
loping, stumbling rate; "Nuns at
Luncheon," weird and perhaps a
masterpiece; "Green Tunnels," about
a girl surrounded by some of those
middle-aged grubs that only Huxley
digs up; "The Tilletson Banquet,"
an ironical anecdote, and "Permu
tations Among the Nightingales,"
mostly about a woman as out of the
ordinary as are the stories.
ven if HuxleY is charged with
frothiness, accused of being amusing
and called the Oscar Wilde of the
present, his work would indicate
that he does it seriously, and is
creating a stir in the literary world.
Omar, the Tentmaker, by Nathan Haskell
ole. The at. ttotoloph society, .Boston,
Mass,
Nathan Haskell Dole has written
several volumes in the last several
years that have brought him to sqme
extent within the horizon of the
literary eye. His "The Spell of
Switzerland" was one of these and
another was the multivariorium edi
tion of "The Rubaiyat of Omar
Khayyam." This in part explains
the republication of his "Omar the
Tentmaker." The story is familiar
to most readers in substance, but
ever sfhee the publication of Dole's
version in 189S it has helped to ex
alt both the poem and the play.
Even now, so long since the writing,
it proves good reading, and will, no
doubt, be read.
The Sands of Pleasure, by Fllson Young.
.Republished by the St. Botolphe so
ciety, Boston, Mass.
In a sense nearly every man is a
builder; nearly every man builds a
house upon the sands, but only 'the
fortunate and the strong build their
second house upon the racks. Sev.
enteen years ago Filson Young
wrote this book, dividing it into
those three parts. The success of
such a story in 1905 is doubtful, but
there is no doubt now that many
discriminating readers of fiction
will read it with extreme satisfac
tion and commendation.
Into the tlirte characters, Richard
mental principle of life. "In him we
live and move and have our being."
The Bible does not undertake to
prove God's existence. It just as
sumes it. There is no other ade
quate explanation for the ijjcistence
of the world and man. There must
not . only be a cause for everything
in this world, but there must be an
adequate cause. .j -
A professor at Ann Arbor, Midi,
joking with his. class one day, said
that old maids were the cause of
varieties In flowers. He explained
it thus: Insects scatter the pollen
from one flower to another and
thus fertilize the flowers and create
variety. But the field mice catch
the insects. The more field mice
the fewer insects the fewer in
sects the fewer. the variety of flow
ers Dut cats Kill the Held mice, so
that the field mice cannot catch (he
insects, and with more insects scat
tering pollen the greater 's the'va
riety of flowers. Then, finally, old
maids take care of the cats. There
fore old maids are the cause of the
variety in flowers. A d,udish young
man arose' and said, "Professor,
what is the cause of old maids, don't
you know?" Instantly a young wo
man arose and said, "Dudes, don't
you know."
Everyone will admit that neither
old maids nor dudes furnish an ad
equate explanation for the great va
riety of flowers there are in, the
world.
Science leads us back to a blind
force called evoldtion, and says the
world (began in protoplasm. This
word -is composed of two words
"proto," which means "first," and
"plasm," which means "stuck to
gether. But the question immedi
ately arises: Who gave this old
world the power to stick together?
Who first stuck it together? Who
gave man the power to think,
to draw moral conclusions, to
choose between right and wrong, to
be and to act like God? The Bible
gives only one full and satisfactory
explanation of it .all when it says
in the first three words of Genesis,
"In the beginning God." God de
clares that man is a fool who bows
down to blind, irrational law and
says that evolution, or gravitation,
or harmony with environment, or
the survival of the fittest is the
last and great explanation of man's
existence. 1
To account for life you must have
Grey, the builder; John Lauder, the
cynic, and Toni, the courtesan,
Young has woven a delicate and ef
fective characterization that makes
the book what it is.' Richard Grey
was a builder of lighthouses who
gloried in his fight with the sea he
loved. His house upon the sands
was built amid the froth and fri
volity of Parisian night life with
the love of the remarkable and hu
man Toni -as a foundation; a house
bound to crumple at the first shift
ing of a pebble, but a delightful
abode in which to live. That Grey
does not crumple With it is due to
his lighthouse.
The book is full of ideas to bene
fit the brain and reflections to
gratify the vanity. There is a dig
nity in the style that is not often
achieved nowadays, and an interest
likewise seldom attained. It is a
book which can be republished
several times at such intervals as
that between its first printing and
this first republication.
The little Corner Never Conquered, by
John Van Schaik Jr. The MacMillan
company. New York city.
Into this story of the American
Red Cross -work for Belgium, the
author has woven thj vibrant sym
pathy that is accorded tragedy and
heroism always. He says in his
preface that he believes the period
is past when "people did not want
to hear another thing about the
war," and that they are now ready
to read and propSrly anxious to ab
sorb the history of the struggle. In
this belief he is undoubtedly cor
rect, and, although there is already
muchAvritten on Belgium, and near
ly everything about which Mr. Van
Schaik has, written is known in
part, the-, book will ho read thor
oughly by many persons, and should
be read by everyone on whom the
war had the slightest effect. Espe
cially should it be read by those
who do "not want to hear another
thing about the war," for they are
the ones who will' forget it too
soon.
"The Little Corner Never Con
quered" is perhaps closest to the
real story of Belgium that has so
far' been written. Authentic history
throughout, highly informative,
there is not a page marred with the
dryness of history. The tragedy
and the heroism is not overdone; it
is there but with a light, sure touch
that cannot be missed, and the ef
feet is a feeling . of glorification
rather than sorrow, which is what
Belgium deserves and wants.
The Perils of the Republic, by Daniel
Chauncey Brewer. G. P. Putnam's Sons,
New York city.
"Are we facing revolution in the
United States?" the author asks, and
writes a book to show that we are.
Immigration, I. W. W. influences, la
bor unrest, lack of Americanization
and forgetfulness of the constitution
are some of the weapons he uses in
his debate. None of them are exactly
new and few of his. arguments are
original, but all between two covers
make the subject alarming to any
mind that is not sufficiently keen
to form its own opinions.
The obstacles which have con
fronted Americanization workers
and the difficulty experienced by la
bor unions in interesting their mem
bers in ' anything except their de
manda and their rights are vital
problems; the. increase of alien non.
Americans is another, and prac.
tically every contention made within
the book is "ital, but t. ere can be
a wide margin between seriousfcili-
ness and sickness unto dsath.
There is beginning to be felt an
impatience against the tardiness of
recovery from war time. The same
forces which have delayed the re
covery have been heard to express
the impatience. Similarly other
points can be neutralized. Mr. Brew
er has a strong argument, but the
factor of impatience should be con
sidered. The" faith of Americans in
their country is not too 'great.
The Spell of Sicily, by Will S. Monroe.
The Page company, Boston, Mass.
The experienced traveler who
seeks information about some dis
tant spot before he visits it, or
having seen it, reads for reminis
cence, is the first target of the
travel writer. For readers outside
this class descriptive works must
hold great charm. Mr. Monroe has
labored heroically in describing his
"Sicily, the Garden of the Mediter
ranean," but his calm manner of
appraisal does not serve to carry
the average reader to the verdant
garden he describes. Apparently
such imaerinerv transDlantation is
not the author's aim; as tiers is
- -i "Msaa i,v jm.
life. To account for reason you
must have reason. To account for
conscience you must have a higher
conscience. A study of man's moral
nature crying ' out for perfection,
and longing for the ultimate triumph
of right, demands a God who is
wise, and holy, and perfect. "The
Lord our God is one God." He is
omniscient and .omnipotent. He is
wisdom and love and might and
power. He is holy and just and per
fects He is our father. Ha sus
tains us and to him must we give
an account of life. Only a fool can
be satisfied, with any other kind of
a God.' - " ' - .
' IL In the second place God speaks
ofa conceited fooL The man who
believes in God, and then thinks
that he can make a success of life
without God, is a fool. He puts his
own strength in the place of God's.
He substitutes self for God. Saul
said, "Behold, I have played the
fool." This is 'the philosophy of
hind-sight. Samuel, the prophet,
told him he was playing the foot
As a young man, Saul had been
chosen because of his splendid phys
ical and mental and moral qualifica
tions, to be king over Israel. De
pending upon God he led the armies
of Israel from one victory to an
other. By and by his success
turned his head. He forgot to give
God the glory for the success he
attained. He soon began to think
that he had done it himself. Dis
obeying and ignoring God lje de
termined to carry out his own plana
The end soon came. Saul is soqn
seen sneaking around in a witch's
cave consulting a spiritualistic
fakir to learn about the future.
This is. always so. Show me" a per
son who depends on palmistry and
spiritualistic seances to learn about
the future and I will show you a
person who has lost God out of his
life. At last, when Saul's army is
scattered in defeat, he cries out,
"Behold, I have flayed the fool,"
and falls on his sword and commits
suicide. Saul's foolishness was
without excuse. He believed in God
and had once depended upon him.
In his conoeit he wilfully followed
his own way and came to his doom.
God will leave the conceited man to
his own folly. Conscious of your
own weakness you seek to lean upon
God for strength. It is weakness
alone that can rule God. , The baby
evident a strong desire for thor
oughness and accuracy.
This is (Undoubtedly better than
the warm enthusiasm of a radiant
admirer of some land. It Is con
tribution to the reader whose ob
ject is to be well-informed. Mr.
Monroe has covered everything
from the-mythology to the current
politics of the island, and he has
a great deal to say about that in-'
teresting people, the Sicilians.
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The Outline of Science," by J. Arthur
Thomson. Q. P. Putnam's Sons, New
York City.
This is the second volume of the
unusual work which Professor
Thompson is compiling. The first
was published, some time back. It
includes microscopy, the human
body, a chapter on Darwinism,
natural history and a chapter on
psycho-analysis. Considered with
the first volume , it promises more
than ever that the complete set of
four will constitute a science en
cyclopedia worth having.
Uncle Mary, by Isla May Mullins. The
Page company, Boston, Hass. 1
A book primarily for girls under
18 years of age, with New England
setting and New England flavor,
"Uncle Mary" nevertheless shows
that romance can penetrate even
there. It is a pleasant little story,
but not much beyond that.
TRAVEL STORIES FOR TOURISTS.
Regardless 'of the fact that it ia
trite to say that the tourist season
is the time for travel dooks, tne
little human trait that people show
of .preferring: to read about -the
things they themselves are doing is
an interesting one, quite worthy of
thought. Cowboys prefer western
stories, and the New Yorkers thrills,
ir rvew xoraera ao. sucn Laings,
when he . reads of an occurrence
which took place ona corner which
he passes every day. Likewise the
vacationist setting off for the Rock
ies provides himself with a book
about the self-same place, and he
who sails the sea will choose sea
tales for reading.
Those who have chosen the moun
tains are reading with considerable
keenness that talked-about book bv
Stephen Graham, "Tramping With
a Poet in the- Rockies. The poet
happens to be Vachel Lindsay, and
of course such a companionship has
Inspired the author to writing with
a charm, although, the critical
reader will not find much literary
excellence within the covers. But
both of these writers are quickly
susceptible to beauteous impression,
and Graham's simple account of
their wanderings is , a delightful
thing. - .- , i .
And while the reader is esconced
in his arm chair in an imaginative
environment of green pines and
snow-clad peaks, he .can also -pick
up "The Laurentians" by T. Morris
Longstreth, and read about an ex
tremely beautiful Canadian mountain
land on the other side .of the con
tinent; the district, by the way, in
which the scenes of that excellent
novel, "Maria Chapdelaine," are
laid. Mr. Longstreth has lived among
and studied the people of that
region, and his familiarity with the
characteristics of the natives and
the mountains make his writing de
lightful. Then, jumping from the east back
to the west, another new book is
Utah, the Land of Blossoming
Valleys," by George Wharton James,
in which are found, together with
an entertaining history of the state,
a series of chapters on flora and
fauna, rock formations and other
natural wonders of a state that is
nothing if not picturesque.
Mr. Wallace Thompson's "The Mex
ican Mind" is a psychological study
in which he presents the various in
terfusions of races, the tempera
ments of the natives and the devel
opment of a national mind. "
Another book of lands further
south is "Industrial and Commercial
South America," written by Annie
S. Peck, and which is primarily for
business men and of a sort that the
average reader would not greatly
enjoy. - f
So much for the Americas. Those
who want to read of the eld world
can pick up "Unknown Kent," by
Donald Maxwell; a book about Eng
land, replete with descriptions of
oia roads and inns and castles and
muis, set down in a manner calcu
lated to arouse a violent desire in
the reader, that he, too, might wan
der in a carefree manner through
such delectable ways.
There are two comparatively new
dooks aoout Italy, "immortal Italv.
By Edgar A. Mowrer, will be found
a concise and readable - history of
the country since the formation of
the united Kingdom in 1870. It is
Dut natural that readers should de
sire to know the state of Italv tn
day, and here is a book that in no
long-winded manner clearly pre
sents tne maae-un and mental nut.
look of Victor Emmanuers country.
The book, is not precisely a summer
Rev. Russell M. Brougher, sup
plying White Temple pulpit last
two Sundays of July.
in the home is too weak to help
himself. . He governs father and
mother by - his laughing and his
crying. All the strength of father
and mother1 are at the service of
that helpless baby.- His tiny hands
and strong voice rule the household.
God - looks down in sympathetic
helpfulness upon every child of his
who knows his weakness and looks
up to him for power to live and to
do. No such cry ever goes unan
swered. The omnipotence of God is
at the service of man. No man
can achieve his purpose in life
without the help of God.
John D. Rockefeller with his pas
tor. Dr. Bustard, was taking an
automobile ride out in the country.
They overtook a group of school
children going home from school.
Mr. Rockefeller stopped and invited
them all to ride. They filled his
machine full. One by one they got
out as he passed the homes where
they lived.' One little girl alone
was left. Mr. Rockefeller asked
her how much farther she went.
She said about a quarter of a mile.
book, although it assuredly will not
bore any summer reader.
Before dismissing Italy, mention
should be made of "The Pageant of
Venice," by Edward Hutton, a large
and beautifully bound volume which
is obviously fashioned to carry the
lovely pictures of Frank Brangwyn,
in vivid colors and of places that
are in existence today.
With East Africa and the Kikuyu
as a setting and about the Kamba
tribes of Kenya colony, "Banta Be
liefs and Magic," by Charles W.
Hobley, is an interesting volume.
The subject to which the author has
paid most attention is natural reli
gion and the influences of magic,
and the book takes the form of a
series of extremly - absorbing de
scriptions of the curious traditions
and habits of the Bantu tribes.
Another book on dark Africa is
"Wild Bush Tribes of Tropical
Africa," by G. Cyril Claridge. An
idea of its contents may be gleaned
from the long sub-title which reads,
"Anaccount of adventure and travel
amongst pagan" people in tropical
Africa, with a description of their
manners of life, customs, heathenish
rites and ' ceremonies, secret socie
ties, sport and warfare, collected
during a sojourn of 12 years."
One more book which might be in
cluded in the travel series is "A
Prisoner of the Reds," by Francis
McCullagh, and it is a vividly writ
ten story1 of the experience of a
British intelligence officer while a
captive of the red armies, with an
absorbing account of Yurovsky, who
is supposed to' be the man who led
the execution of the Romanoffs,
and who killed the czar himself.
JOBS DOS PASSOS AGAI.V. '
those people who read with any
appreciation John Dos Passos'
"Three Soldiers" and also those who
are interested in America's younger
writers will find food for thought
in' the two novels almost simulta
neously published by the George H.
Doran company. They are the first
books Dos Passos wrote, "One Man's
Initiation" i and his most recent
work, "Rosinante to the Road
Again." .
With an interval of three-years
between the writing the progress of
this rather remarkable author is
noted and there are also indicated
certain conclusions about the depth
and power which the. much-debated
"Three Soldiers" tentatively sug
gested, ut never wholly confirmed.
John Dos Passos' ruling passion
would seem to be an inordinate love
of liberty. It was strongly evident
in "Three Soldiers" and also in his
first work, "One Man's Initiation."
This book is probably autobio
graphic , in character, as it deals
with the impressions of an Ameri
can ambulance driver in France. In
many places is brought out the sub
ject of liberty. "All my life," says
one man, "Ive struggled for my
liberty in my own small way. Now
I hardly know if the thing exists,"
and the same character, to a vapid
young lady who attempts to praise
him for going to war, says that it is
perhaps only curiosity which sendB
him. But the book shows the same
fiery idealism that "Three Sol
diers" showed, and the same fierce
hunger for beauty.
'Rosinante to the Road Again
emphasizes more than ever the es
sentially Impressionistic method of
Dos Passos' art, but the impres
sionism, is marked with a surer
technique than that found in the
other two tiboks; his perception has
lost no intensity by gaining depth
of insight "Rosinante to the Road
Again" is a book about Spain; more
specifically it is an attempt to in
terpret the mind and spirit of con
temporary Spain in the light of the
intellectual and spiritual traditions
by which they have been modified,
and Dos Passos' temperament is ad
mirably suited to his Bubject
In it he has placed the tough.
swaggering gesture, the quavering
song well sung the couplet neatly
capped, the- back turned to the
charging bull, the mantilla draped
with exquisite provocativeness, and
all the romantic color of Spain as it
really is. Dos Passos wrote this
book with the spirit of Spain upon
him. , . - . ,
MOBXEY'S NEW BOOK.
Christopher Morley has delivered
to his publishers, Doubleday, Page
& Co., the manuscript of his new
book, Tvhere the Blue Begins," a
book on which he has been working
for the past two years. None of it
has appeared before in any form
and it is said to present a new
phase of the Morley philosophy
which is unsuspected by even the
most inveterate readers of the
Bowling Green.
The manuscript is entirely hand
written, which will be sad news to
the printers, but interesting to the
Morley collectors, of which there
are an increasing number.
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Advance copies have been received
of the first issue of a new magazine
Then she turned and asked iMr.
Rockefeller, "How far do you go?"
Mr. Rockefeller said, "I am going
all the way to Heaven." The., little
girl looked doubtful and Mr. Rocke
feller said, "Don't you believe it?"
She said, "No, I don't think you can;
you haven't got gasoline enough."
If John 1. Rockefeller hasn't gaso
line or money enough to get to
heaven without God, who has? The
little girl was right. - None of us
will be able to live as we ought
to and get very far toward heaven
without God. Jesus said, "With
out me ye can do nothing." Paul
said, "I can do all things through
Christ, who strengtheneth me."
Joined to God through Christ, the
holy spirit comes into our lives and
gives us power to live a successful
victorious life. A man is a fool to
try to live without God.
The electric car on yonder track
was built with the understanding
that it could not do its work with
out being connected, in some way,
to the electricwlre that joins it to
the mighty dynamo at the power
house. That car without electricity
is dead on the track.
A man without God is dead in
sina and trespasses. He cannot
perform his mission in life without
the power of- God animating him,
and controlling hlm and making
him equal to the task that he has
to do. Turn on the electricity and
the car moves along the track to
perform Its mission. Unite your
soul through Jesus Christ to God,
and his spirit will come into your
life to give you mastery over sin
and the power to achieve the pur
pose for which you live.
If you ar,e trying to run yoor life
without God, and are 'depending
merely upon your own strength it
w411 pot be long before you will be
mastered by your appetites- and
passions, your temper or your
tongue and go down to defeat be
fore your enemies. Like Saul, you
will have to write as your epitaph.
Behold, I have played the fool."
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3. In the third place God speaks
of the selfish fool. Jesus describes
him in the 12th chapter of Luke.
He said a certain rich man had a
great farm and it brought forth
plentifully. The man tore down, his
barns and built greater in order to
store his goods. Then he said "I
w,ill say to my soul. 'Soul, thou hast
called World Fiction. Regular pub
lication will be started with the
August number. The purpose of
the publication is to give English
translations of the works of repre
sentative contemporary writers, and
the advance number contains stories
by authors from France, England,
Sweden, Italy, Holland, Iceland, Den
mark, Russia, Peru, Rumania, Al
giers, Spain and the United States.
It is published by the Houston
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City, and judging from the contents
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preciated by the energetic literati.
MILITARY RATING IS WON
Washington State College Put ia
"Distinguished" Class.
PULLMAN, Wash., July 8 Wash
ington State college her has won
the honor of classification as a "dis
tinguished" institution among col
leges maintaining military depart
ments, according to word just re
ceived here. This means that the
war department considers the, train
ing in military science and tactics
offered by the state college reserve
officers' training corps as worthy of
rating with the best in the land, a
recognition coveted by every insti
tution maintaining a military de
partment and recognized by the fed
eral government.
The recognition also will mean
that a greater number of state col
lege men will be eligible for nom
ination as second lieutenant in the
regular army and will give the
local reserve officers' training corps
an additional instructor.
The federal inspection, which re
sulted in the securing of the distin
guished rating by the state college
reserve officers' training corps,
was conducted early in May. Every
phase of military work was in
cluded in the inspection, including
theoretical and. practical work by
the engineers' unit of the corps, as
well as the companies of cadets.
IN PORTLAND CHURCHES
(Continued From Page 2.)
simultaneous campaign of evangel
ism is to be held in Oregon this
fall in which the church at Rod
ney and Knott streets will partic
ipate. The Independent Bible Spirit
ualistic society and church of No.
55 East Forty-seventh street North,
close to East Couch street (take
Montevilla car) will have for a
lecture topic tonight at 8 o'clock,
Divine Healing Through under
standing of Truth." On Thursday
at 8 P. M. of each week a circle
meeting is held for messages. Rev.
Ida H- Schori, pastor.
At the Guiding Star Spiritualist
church, 409 Alder street. Town Hall,
Rev. Fay L. Ingram, pastor, win
lecture on psycho-occult. Other
meetings are at 3 o'clock and from
4:30 to 7:30. Lecture, "Do the Dead
Return?" by Rev. Fay L. Ingram.
There will be special music and
messages.
v
At the Mystic Church of Beth-
esda, located at 409 Alder street,
near Eleventh, services will be held
tonight by Rev. W. W. Aber at 8.
In the First Divine Science church.
816 East Clay street, near the corner
.f v.nat Twentv-fifth.- (take Haw
thorne avenue cars) Mrs. jjiancne
Barbor oft Spokane, wasn., win
sneak. Subject. "Thought, and
Where Is God." All other services
are omitted until September.
m m . m
"Drinkwater's Abraham. Lincoln"
will be the subject or Mr. Jiiiiois
sermon this morning at 10:30 at the
Church of Our Father (Unitarian),
Broadway and Yamhill street. The
church school is intermitted through
the summer.
Rail Builders to Have Outing.
SPOKANE. Wash.. July 8 The
annual meeting and outing of the
Milwaukee-Puget Sound Pioneers
club will be held "in Spokane and
Cnnnr d'Alene. Idaho, July 12 and
13. The club has a membership of
Tiearlv 500 men. all of whom were
connected with the construction of
Milwaukee lines from Mobridge,
a. r.. to Pusret sound in 1907. The
purpose of the affair is to give the
members a chance to renew ac
quaintances of construction days, as
well as to afford the members of the
club a general outing. The' first
day will include a short business
programme and ths second will be
taken up with an outing at Coeur
d'Alene lake. The outing will in
clude a baseball game, boating,
swimming and dancing in the eve
ning. Approximately 200 are ex
pected to be present, ,
much goods laid up for many years.
Take thine ease, eat, drink and be
merry." " But God said unto him,
"Thou fool, this night is thy soul
required 'of thee, and the things
which thou hast " prepared, whose
shall they be?"
Here -is a striking scene. A man
already rich is seeking to - pile up
more riches for himself. He does
not know what to do with his
riches. He forgets God. He forgets
to pay better wages to his laborers.
He forgets to help the poor and the
needy. He speaks of my barns, and
my fruits, and my goods, and says
to his soul, "You have goods to
supply your needs for many years.
Eat, drink and be merry." Just
then God knocks him on the head
and says, "Thou fool, this night is
thy soul required of thee." He then
learns that he does not own .his
goods. He does not have time under
his lock and key. He cannot decide
Just how long he will live here. His
money, his corn, . his wheat, his
overflowing barns, have not fitted
his soul for enternity and he cannot
take any of them with him.
Death steals on rAan, '
No plea, no prayer, delivers him
From the midst of life's unfinished plan;
With sudden grasp it severs him; ,
And ready or not ready, no delay.
Forth to his Judge's .bar he must away.
The devil had thrown gold dust
in his eyes and made him blind to
the higher values of life. He did
not - understand that manhood is
worth more than money that char
acter is greater than: cash and that
his soul was worth more than all
the material world.
"What Bhall it profit a man to
gain the whole world and , lose his
soul?" Oh. fool, indeed is that man
who lives for self and in his greed
to gain the world forgets. God and
man and tumbles into hell.
4. In the last place God speaks of
the careless fooL In the 25th chap
ter of Matthew Jesus gives us the
story of the wise and the foolish
virgins. You will remember that
the foolish virgins failed to care
fully prepare for the future. They
took their lamps and went out to
meet the bridegroom. The wise
took extra oil with them while the
foolish did not. At midnight there
was a cry. "Behold, the bridegroom
fcometh." The lamps of the foolish
virgins went out. They tried to beg
oil from their wiser sisters, but
Tbetet Joke
He Might Have Been Worse.
A MAN suspected of being in
sane was observed by his
.- keeper wheeling a wheelbar
row around the grounds upside
down.
"My good man," said the keeper,
"why don't you turn your wheelbar
row right side up?" .
"Do' you think I'm crazy?" was the
reply. ' "If I do that they'll fill' It
with bricks and make me wheel
them." L M.
The Perfect Poise.
Dignified, austere and possessing
considerable wealth, lie is a man of
prominence in the small town in
which he lives. Long, however,
have vague whisperings hinted that
his ruby nose was never made so by
the weather and that the bulky
packages he invariably brings home
from the city are breakable. Yet the
other residents, awed by his dignity,
his prominence, and his ostenta
tiously puritanical views, have never
dared allow their beliefs to pass the
whispering stage. . But they have
watched and wondered, in the hope
that they might some day know the
truth.
Father Was Right.
The oldest son was home on his
first vacation since he had attained
the dignity of class president. He
and his father were discussing the
affairs of the day."
Finally the boy remarked, "Say,
dad, I hope when I am as old as
you are that I'll know lots more
than you do." " '
"Yes," answered the father, "I
only hop4 that when you are that
old you will know as much as you
think you do now." C. T.
Wide of the. Mark.
A captain was addressing his men
and finished with these words: "All
the boys who feel they are unable to
take that five-mile hike over again,
step two steps forward." All the
boys except one stepped ahead.
The captain looked at him and
said, "Well, I'm glad to see there is
one man who likes to march." . " ,
"Captain, I'm so tired I can't even
take those two steps forward," the
boy in the rear answered. L. K.
Theyre Numerous Now.
"Now," said the colonel, looking
along the line of recruits, "I want a
good, smart looking bugler.
At that, out stepped a dilapidated
fellow with a thick stubble of black
beard.
"What," said the colonel, eyeing
him up. and down, "are you a bu
gler?" "Oh, he answered, "I thought you
said burglar." A. M.
Breaking the News.
"Mamma, dear, do you know what
I am going to buy you for Christ
mas?" ,
"Oh, I couldn't guess," mother
said, smiling.
"Well, I am going to buy a pretty
hand mirror for your dresser; won't
that be nicer'
"But, dear, I already have one."
"No, you haven't, mamma, 'cause
I just broke it" C. S.
Page Mr. Dickens.
A young sophomore had just been
to the movies with one of his
friends. The picture was "Oliver
Twist," and the two boys had been
much impressed by it.
"Wasn't that a great picture?'
one of them asked his friend.
"Simply splendid! Say, wouldn't
that make a wonderful book?" the
second one answered. C. T.
The PTOfessor Explains.
The professor of a medical college
was to give a talk to some students.
He arrived rather late and began to
talk as he entered the room.
"I have taken apart a frog and
will explain the different organs,"
he said.
He undid a package and out came
two sandwiches and a piece of cake.
Unexpected.
As the dentist was examining a
boy's teeth he remarked, "Have you
. nunc
they would not give them any. They
would not because they could not.
They had to go buy for themselves.
While they were gone the bride
groom entered In and the door was
shut, and these fool girls who had
wasted their opportunity could not
get in.
All the fool girls and all the fool
boys are not dead yet On every
hand you can see them careless and
thoughtless. They are making prep
aration for the great battle of life.
The victories and defeats of today
will decide the victories and defeats
of the future. Wellington said that
the battle of Waterloo was won on
the football field at college. There
he developed the nerve and the.
quickness of judgment that made
him equal to the task when a world's
destiny hung in the balance.
We are all free moral agents. We
have the right to choose. Tile young
lady who is content with fine clothes
and gay company will not find these
a great help to her when the temp
tations of life assail her. The young
man who has no real purpose to ac
complish in 'life, and who is satis
fled with the follies of society, will
not be ready when the real test of
his character comes.
The greatest need of life is a
Christlike character. . This must be
made strong by taking part every
day in the battle between right and
wrong.
If you are going to be ready for
the special temptation or trial that
comes to you you must be watching
and praying and preparing every
day. A boys' ' brigade, armed with
wooden guns, was commanded by
their leader to charge a hedge and
capture it- They rushed across the
field and poked their guns into the
hedge and into a hornets nest. They
did not know the hornets were
there. But they came out a-buzzing
and took after those 'boys, who re
treated with all speed across the
field, covered with .dust and defeat
and disgrace. They were not pre
pared to meet such an emergency
when it came upon them.
Every one must make his own
preparation. No one can -do your
work for you. If you want a strong
mind, with power to think, you must
do your ownthinking. If you want
a strong moral character, you have
got to exercise your own will power
in resisting temptation and master
I &er Beard
ever had any advice about your
teeth?"
The patient answered, "Oh, yes,
the druggist told me something yes
terday."
"What foolish advice did he give
you?" the dentist asked.
He told me to come here, was
the answer. E. E.'
The Strenuous Life.
It was rather late for suburbanite
Jones to be getting home. Walking
up- the street from the station he
heard some one following him. He
increased his speed and the steps
quickened also. He took a slower
pace, the "steps behind him slack
ened. This was no time for showing
agitation. Jones felt he must not
reveal his terror by looking back.
He tunned quickly down a side
street. The footsteps followed. He
dodged into an alley, but was still
pursued. In desperation he jumped
a wall, ran up a slope and into a
churchyard, - where he crouched
panting in the darkness on a grave.
The man behind still followed.
Quivering with fear of recent
crimes, Jones awaited his pursuer. .
"W-what do you want?" he asked.
"Say," exclaimed the stranger,
mopping his brow, "do you always go
home this way? I'm going up to
Mr. Brown's and the man at the
station told me to follow you, as
you lived next door. Excuse my
asking you, but have we much more
of this to go through before we get
there?" ' : H. J. C.
Few and Far Between.
Several club women were discus-
sine the virtues of their husbands.
'Lambert, said one. reterring to
her life partner, "never drinks and
never swears indeed, he has no bad
habits."
'Does he never smoke?" someone
asked.
"Yes, he likes a good cigar just
after a good meal, but I suppose on
an average he doesn't smoke more
than once a month. L. D.
Future business Slan.
A public man was addressing a
group or schoolboys on tne -value oi
education, incidentally remarKing
that each, one of them, if he studied
dilierently. had a chance to become
president of the United States. One
boy who was listening attentively
turned to the boy next to mm ana
said.. "Say, Jim, I will sell you my
chance for two bits." V. H.
Giving Fslr Warning.
The two intense young things
were in a motor bus.
As the conductor came along for
their fares, one said to the other,
"O, I just adore Carmen!"
The conductor 1 blushed to the
roots of his hair as he stammered.
Sorry, miss, you'd better try the
driver. , I'm married." ' W. J.
She Meant Well.
The most embarrassing moment in
my life was caused by an April fool
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ing' evil. If you want to be the
man that God Intended you to be.
then you must set that ideal befort
you and concentrate all your powers
in accomplishing it.
When the battle of life comes.
your father or your mother, youi
brother or your sister cannot give
you either physical or mental oi
moral power. Too late, too late will
be the cry that many will have to
make when God calls upon them to
give an account of life. They havi
wasted their opportunities and now -
they must face great responsibility"-
and they are not ready for it.
You have doubtless read of thr
ill-fated Royal Charter. It hail
been around the world and a mes
sage had been received at Liverpool
that she would touch dock next
morning. Bands of music and thou
sands of people awaited her arrival.
but she never came. Between
Queenstown and Liverpool she went
down. Dr. William Taylor, for many
years pastor in New York, was then
pastor of a church in Liverpool, anil
to his church belonged the wife of
the first mate. He was told to go
and break to her the news that hei
husband was lost. He said he felt
almost like an executioner. When
he rang the bll a beautiful suiyiy
faced little girl came running and
threw open the door and said, "Oh.
Dr. Taylor, I thought it was papa:
he's coming home this morning."
And when he entered the wife, who
had spread the breakfast in the sit
ting room, said, "You must excuse
this arrangement, doctor, but we
are expecting husband every minute,
and now if you will only stay and
break bread with us it will indeed
be like heaven. And then, said Dr.
Taylor, "I took her hand in mine.
It was hard to say, but I said: 'My
poor woman, your husband will
never come back. The Royal Char
ter went down last night and he
was lost.' " She looked at him jusl
a moment and then, taking her
hands from his, said with a ring of
agony, "Oh! my God, so near home
and then lost."
So near to God. So near to Christ.
So near to the kingdom and then
lost. God pity you, my brother or
sister, if it must be so with you.
Begin right now by taking Christ
as your savior and with his help
and power go out to live a success
ful, victorious life.
joke played on me when I was a
ireshman at college. One of my
sorority sisters, a senior, had in-
formed&me that when her fiance
came to call on her that evening he
was going to bring with him a nice
boy from prep school who was vis
iting at his frat house. She added,
He is bringing him to call on you,
but remember the boy is youne- and
awfully green, so do try to be nice
to mm and help him get over his
shyness."
In due time they arrived and my
young friend was plainly ill at ease.
He asked many questions about col
lege and college doings, all of which
I answered seriously.
Later in the evening when we
were leaving a crowd of students
came in. A couple of the men, spy
ing us, fairly shouted, "Well, if it
isn't old Bob! Say, old fellow, it
seems good to see you back!" 1
stood bewildered. Just at that mo
ment my sorority sister and her
friend came up.
"It's the first of April, dear," she
whispered in my ear. "Bob, you see.
graduated two years ago, and what
he doesn't know about college life
isn't " but her voice trailed off .
into the air, for I had fled.
E.C. B
Perhaps It Amused Her.
The hall door, which is half glass,
and three large windows face a big
front porch. The curtains are kept
drawn back. I have been annoyed
repeatedly by a woman, mentally
unbalanced, coming to rent a room.
One day I was upstairs, partly
dressed, when the telephone in the
hall rang. As I ran down to answer
it the door bell rang. I peeked
around and saw the' woman. I
waited, hoping she would go, but
she didn't I crawled by the door,
then into the living room, to gain
the back stairway. Nearly there, I
was impelled to look around.
Imagine my feelings on finding
the woman's face against the win
dow. Judging by Feet.
At school we have a small stage
equipped with a curtain. One morn
ing this was dropped and my chum
stood in front of it. We were work
ing on the scenery behind the cur
tain, and as each boy came near my
chum would land a swat on the un
seen victim. He could see the feet
below. Beholding a good-sized pair :
approaching, he concluded it was I.
He accordingly put a lot of extra
steam into the blow, accompanying
it with a suitable remark. But,
alas and alack! He was frozen stiff
with horror to discover it was the
principal whom he had thus ac
costed. R. G.
A Tip to the Wise.
It was the beginning of the sec
ond semester and we were to have it
new instructor in the English de
partment I rushed into the clasb
room and, seeing a supposed fellow
student in vone of the seats, said:
"Well, I guess we'll have to give the
old girl a good welcome this morn
ing, but be rather dumb so she won't
expect too much." In a moment the
young woman began calling the roll,
proving to be the instructor herself.
C. A. T.
day without a battle
was good going
With every Indian tribe
in warpaint, bent on top
ping the white invasion,
with women and children
to care for in the deserted
wilds, with no resources
exceptunbounded courage
and plenty of gunpowder,
a handful of American
pioneers blazed the trail
to a new empire. And with
them went a man and a girl
whose thrilling romance is
unfolded in this extraordi