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CITIZENSHIP STEEPED IN FRIVOLITY MORE DEADLY THAN WAR
Christian Life Involves Conflict and Struggle in Which Love, Courage and Self -Sacrifice Overthrow Powers of Darkness and Usher in Kingdom of God Through Moral and Civic Virtues That Make True Conquerors
THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAN, PORTLAND, NOVEMBER 26. 1922
BY. REV. HAROLD F. GRIFFIS.
First Christian Church.
Text For though we walk In the flesh
do not -war according to the flesh.
or tha weapons of our warfare are not
f the flesh, but miffhty before God to
he casting down of strongholds. 2 Cor.
M-4.
N these verses or scripture tne
apostle Paul assumes that the
Chriiian lifo is a warfare, but
e is careful to point out the true
nstruments of that warfare, de
claring that they are not instru
ments of the flesh but instruments
f the spirit instruments which
re mighty before God to the casi
ng down of the strongholds of
wickedness and evil. - .
The Christian life involves a
lonfllct, but it is a conflict in, which
he chief weapons are not brute
trength and physical force, but
joral and spiritual ideas.
The Christian life means a
blruggle, but it is not a struggle
a which might makes right, but
k struggle in which love, courage.
ind self-sacrifice overthrow the
owers of darkness and usher in
be kingdom of God.
"For our wrestling Is not against
flesh and blood, but against the
rincipallties, against the powers,
tgainst the world-rulers of this
arkness, against the spiritual
osts of wickedness in the Ugh
;!aces."
But where did Paul get this coh-
reption of the Christian life as a
varfare? He got it from Jesus of
is'azareth. The prince of Peace did
lot shrink from the imagery of
var. When men and women goth
red around him, asking that they
ught be included among his fol-
owers, his reply was: What king
:oing forth to make war on an
lher king sitteth not down first
nd consuiteth whether he be able
"ith 10,000 to meet him that cometh
gainst him with 20,000?" That is
o say, a man at the beginning of
-is Christian life becomes a soldier.
i.nd the virtues which will make
'im successful as a soldierly Chrls
ian are those which are indispen
able to a, successful military com
i.ander. On another occasion, when com
SERVICES IN
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udgments"; December 17, "The
ew, the Gentile and the Church- of
Jod."
Tomorrow evening Dr. TV. A. Ste-
ervson will be Installed as pastor
)f the Mizpah. Presbyterian church.
At the Mizpah Presbyterian
rhurch, corner of Nineteenth and
ivision streets, Ir. W. A. Steven
on, pastor, will preach this morn
tiK at 11 o'clock on "Thanksgiving
-Civic or Religious, or Both?" At
.45, "What Is the State of the
tead? Io the Dead Depart?" will
e his subject.
Phillip A. Parsons will preach at
ho morning service at the Mount
frabor Presbyterian church. The
pastor, W. W. MacHenry, who is
neetine with the assembly's com-
nittee on apportionments, at At-
jlantic City, N. J., will return and
ccupy his pulpit Sunday, Decem
er 4.
The evening service will be given
ver to the pageant drama, "The
JtVinning of Oregon," an original
iroduction written by Mrs. w. w. i
MacHenry, with 63 nersons taking
fcart.
There will he ecenes from Nez
IPerce Indian life, one picture 6how-
ng the five Indians who were so
feager for the white man's "Book of
ieaven" that they traveled 2000
ailes, through pathless forest, from
orthwest to St. Louis, in search of
t, with a song by Harold L. Gra-
iam as iva-ou-pu (man of tne
lorning), Mrs. Margaret Blohm as
acajawea (the bird woman), fa-
nous Indian guide, and others in
ypical Indian scenes. Many heir-
ooms and costumes of 100 years
hgo will be in evidence at the wed-
ling scene of tho Whitmans and the
pauldings. W. H. Hollensted, as
RIarcus Whitman, will s'ng a solo
ndicating the departure for the
reat unexplored northwest.
Interwoven with these episodes is
k pretty story of a modern girl who,,
titter volunteering her life as a mis-
lonary and having been rejected by
he board of foreign missions, be
ause of lack of funds, succeeds in
multiplying the usefulness of her
ue many ioia oy proving an m
piration to other young lives who
rt their turn see their responsibil
ty so plainly that they are willing
o make personal sacrifices in order
hat the missionaries already sent
ut may have money enough more
fficiently to carry on their work.
Irs. Fletcher Linn will give a short
ddress. Two interesting musical
numbers will be the initial perform-
ncA of the instrumental trio with
Irs. George Francis, 'cello; Carl P. !
Jlohns, viol'n; Miss Erma Ewart, pi-
nist, and the Westminster guild
adies' quartet, with Mesdames Bey-
rs and Donahue and Misses Jones
nd Galbraith.
This evening's entertainment will
e the annual praise and thanks
giving service of the woman's so-
lety. A large a"sndance is des'red.
Dr. Walter Henry Nugent, Central
rresbyterian church. East Sixteenth
nd Pine, will preach this morning
rom the topic, "A Becoming Gar
ment," and in the evening "The
ecret of Greatness."
The chorus, under the direction of
Villiam Belcher, will sing the fol
owing at the two services:
Morning "I Waited for the Lord"
Mendelssohn); solo by Mrs. L. M.
.eland, "My Redeemer and My
ord" (Buck.)
Evening "There Is an Hour of
'allowed Peace" (Barndy), and a
.ale quartet will sing "There is a
hurch in the Wildwood" (Pitts).
The three churches of the central
ast side will hold union Thanks
iving services next Thursday
oi-ning at 10:30 in the East fcide
'.aptist church. Those joining the
vast Side Baptist are Central and
'entenary-Wilbur Methodist. The
crmon will be delivered by Rev.
'harles W. MacCaughey of the Cen-t-nary-Wilbur
Methodist.
Dr. Nugent will speak this atter-
oon at the Y. M. C. A. at 3:30. The
onic of his discourse will "If T
Were You."
The Millard-avenue Presbyterian
hurch, Seventy-third street and
'ifty-fifth avenue Southeast, will
elebrate the communion of the
.ord's supper at the morning serv
ice. There will be infant baptism
nd reception of members. Rev.
Ienry White, pastor, will give a
,hort address on "Thanksgiving."
The women's missionary society
;vill hold its annual praise service
his evening at 7:30, Miss Alma Hol
Ingsworth presiding. The pastor
fill give an address on "Interesting
jxperiencea and Observations in
missioning his apostles to their
great world task, the Master said:
"Think not that I came to send
peace on earth; I came not to send
peaoe but a sword." The apostles
needed to be cautioned in regard
to the inevitable friction that should
usue from their pronouncements
and influence and be prepared for
hostilities even from their imme
diate relatives and friends.
By all of which I understand that
there is in human nature that
which may be called the fighting
instinct. Indeed, it seems that
man's complete development stands
closely related to the exercise of
that instinct. Nobody can success
fully dispute the fact that fight
makes might, that hustle makes
muscle, that rigor makes vigor, that
strain makes brain. The discipline
Dl army life does tend to cultivate
a splendid physical constitution.
The maneuvers of the battlefield do
call forth deeds of bravery and
heroism, The enthusiasm of war
does generate the sentiment of
patriotism and leads men to sink
the interests of self in their loy
alty to a common cause.
And in our day these facts have
been seized upon and strongly em
phasized by those who defend the
doctrine of militarism. War has
been exalted as the great developer
of the race, while peace has been
derided as a forerunner of stagna
tion and decay. Indeed, these pro
ponents of war and of the prepara
tion for war have gone so far as to
charge the advocates of peace with
being a set of mollycoddles who
are trying to destroy in man the
fighting instinct and thereby rob
human life of much of Its glory.
But does it necessarily foliow
that when war is banished from the
programme of the race, we shall
then be left without any oppor
tunities for courage and heroism
and strenuous endeavor? I think
not. On the contrary, I wish to
show this morning that whatever
may be the moral values derived
from the practice of militarism ?nd
war, these values, have their full
equivalent in the programme which
Jesus and his apostles laid down
for the life of the Christian. "For
though we walk in the flesh, we do
r.ot war according to the flesh, for
the weapons of our warfare are not
of the flesh, but mighty before God
to the casting down of strongholds."
PORTLAND
Siam." Musical selections for the
day will be as follows:
Morning Quartet. "Cast Thy Burden"
(Hamblen): offertory solo, "Oh Eyes
That Are Weary" (Brackett), Mrs. Nana
Seely Spackman.
Evening Quartet, "I'll Go Where You
Want Me to Go" (Rounsfell); offertory
solo. "The Ninety and Nine" (Campion),
Miss Lola C. Kernan.
Sunday school at 9:46 A. M. Chris
tian Endeavor society meets at
6:30 P. M. The subject is "Praise
God" (thanksgiving meeting). The
leader is George Ball. This society
is putting on an excellent enter
tainment and social for Friday even
ing. All members of the church and
congregation are invited.
The organized classes meeting in
their respective rooms Wednesday
evening are paining in numbers and
popularity. The informal character
of these classes and the freedom of
discussion adds to the Interest.
Special note is asked for the an
nual Thanksgiving - service under
the auspices of the Arleta Woman's
Christian Temperance union, which
will be held in the Millard-avenue
Presbyterian church Thursday morn
ing at 10. The preacher of the
morning is Rev. Owen Day. Special
imusic will be furnished by the
Millard-avenue quartet-
At the Rose City Park community
church. Rev. Donald MacCluer, pas
tor, will preach this morning at 11
o'clock on the subject, "The Watch
tower of Habakuk." The night serv
ice will be held at 7:30, a fine
Thanksgiving musicale will be
given by the choir. Next Sunday, De
comber 3, communion and baptism
of children will be observed. There
will also be a publlo reception of
children.
Thanksgiving service will he held
Thursday morning at 10 o'clock at
Lnity Presbyterian church, Seveaty
second and Sandy boulevard. Dr.
Fuett of Rose City Park Methodist
Episcopal church will preach. There
will be no prayer meeting that
night.
The annual praise service of the
Women's missionary society will be
held Friday night' at 7:30, when
Mrs. J. W. McMichael will be the
li.-ader. Miss Grace Breck, mission
ary, recently from China, will speak.
Mrs. McCormiok will tell a story and
the Chinese kindergarten will put on
a half hour's programme in costume.
At this meeting the annual praise
offering will be taken.
Congregationalists to Hear
Two Ministers Today.
Dr. Frank I. Moore and Dr. W. T.
HcElveen Will Speak.
REV. FRANK L. MOORE, D. D., of
New York will divide the time
of the sermon with Dr. W. T. Mc
Elveen at the First Congregational
church this morning. They will both
speak on "Th6 Church and the Pres
ent Crisis." W. E. Robertson, the
choirmaster, has arranged a special
Thanksgiving musical service of six
numbers by the chorus of 25 select
ed voices, the quartet, the violinist
and the soloist. Mrs. Newton will
preface the service with a brief
organ recital. " Dr. McElveen will
answer briefly two questions (1)
are the Methodists and Presbyter
ians going into heresy hunting, and
(2) can poor oppressed people give
thanks?
The two Endeavor societies will
meet at 6:30 o'clock this evening.
Catherine Fisher will lead the senior
meeting and Louise Green will lead
the intermediate meeting. The senior
topic is "Individualism" and the in
termediate topic is "Thanksgiving."
The intermediate union will hold a
rally In the parlors . of the First
Congregational church on Decem
ber 8. This afternoon a number of
automobiles will transport a large
delegation of the First church peo
ple to the dedicatory services of the
St. Helens church. Wednesday there
will be no regular meeting of the
woman's association. However, a
large number of the women will
sew for the bazaar. They will bring
their own lunches and coffee will
be served from the church kitchen.
The First church will unite with
the First Baptist and the Fir6t
Methodist churches and there will
be no midweek meeting Thursday
night. Friday evening Mrs. C. H.
Farrington will present her playlet,
"The Heroes," in the spacious church
school room. This playlet depicts a
scene in the living room of a
boarding school on the night be
Consider then for a few moments
the Christian equivalent of war.
No less an authority than John
Ruskin, universally recognized as
one of England's greatest thinkers,
has said: The common notion that
peace and the virtues of civil life
flourish together I found to Le
wholly untenable. Only peace and
the vices of civil life flourish to
gether. We talk of peace and
learning, of peace and plenty, of
peace and civilization; but I found
that those were not the words
which the Muse of History coupled
together; that, on her lips, the
words were peace and sensuality
peace and selfishness peace and
death. I found, in brief, that all
nations learned their truth of word
and strength of thought in war;
that they were nourished in war
and wasted in peace; taught by war
and deceived by peace; trained by
war and betrayed by peaces in a
word, that they were born In war
and expired in peace."
The noted German philosopher,
Nietzsche, has said: "It is mere illu
sion and pretty sentiment to expect
much, if anything at all, from man
kind if It forgets how to make war.
As yet no other means are known
which call so much into action as a
great war that rough energy fcjrn
of the camp, that deep impersonal
ity born of hatred, that conscience
born of murder and coldbloodedness,
that fervor born of effort in the
annihilation of the enemy."
And then coming across the At
lantic to our own country we ob
serve that Theodore Roosevelt in
his famous book, "The Strenuous
Life," says: "In this world the na
tion that has trained itself to a
career of unwarlike and Isolated
ease is bound, in the end, to go
down before the other nations
which have not lost the manly and
adventurous qualities."
However extravagant these quo
tations may sound, it is a fact capa
ble of easy demonstration that peace
has its perils and these perils are
no less alarming than the wailings
of war. A country whose borders
are safe from the foot of the invader
may nevertheless find itself firmly
gripped by the lethargy of selfish
ness and sensuality. To such a
country war may actually tome as
a great deliverer, Its trumpets call
CHURCHES
fore the Thanksgiving vacation. The
chief characters are: Miss Maxwell,
teacher, Mrs. C. H. Farrington; Elora
Barton, Ruth Mangold; imperson
ator of Jacob Reiss' work, Martha
Lewis; illustrator of Meesima's
work, Jane Forbes.
Two Congregational leaders from
New York city are in Portland to
confer with their brethren here on
the world-wide work of the Congre
gational church of America These
leaders are Dr. Frank L. Moore and
Rev. W. Knight Bloom. Dr. Moore
is the superintendent of missionary
extension work for the denomina
tion. He supervised the expenditure
of more than H, 000,000 last year and
in doing it traveled many thousands
of miles. He has oversight of 1447
missionaries and twice aa many
churches. Dr. Bloom, his associate,
is also an executive. He organized
last year 146 new Sunday schools
and revived more than two dozen
others, and he. has oversight of 679
Sunday schools.
The Congregationalists have big
plans for 1923. They broke eight
previous records last year and are
out to excel a few more past
achievements next year. They are
especially proud of the fact that
they substantially increased the
salaries of their lower paid clergy
during 1922. They plan to raise
$5,000,000 for all their missionary,
educational, medical and church and
parsonage building schemes for the
year. Three million dollars of this
will be spent in work outside the
United States. ' The d-estruction of
many Congregational churches and
schools and hospitals in Asiatic Tur
key has made this large sum neces
sary. The Congregationalists do a many
sided work in the United States
among the negroes, Indians, Eski
mos, Japanese, Chinese, Hindus and
Hawaiians. The mayor of Talledge;
Ala., bears this testimony as to the
efficiency of their work among the
negroes of the southland: "I have
for 45 years been a lawyer or a
judge or a prosecuting attorney or
mayor in this city, and I have never
tried or defended or prosecuted a
single student of the Talledge col
lege." During the last 15 years the Con
gregationalists have specialized in
student churches at university cen
ters. In, Oregon this year a $50,000
church is to be built in Eugene to
minister to the Congregational stu
dents at the state university. Simi
lar churches in college towns now
minister to 20.000 Congregational
studenta in the United States.
People of the Waverly-Richmojid
district will have an especial Drivi
lege this morning. Rev. Frank
Lincoln Moore, D. D., will speak at
11 o'clock in the waverly Heights
Congregational church. Dr. Moore
is one of the great Congregational
leaders in America and holds the
office of secretary of missions. He
is a man of comprehensive vision
and Christian statesmanship who
had rrueh to do with the success of
the Congregational church in sur
passing eight records last year.
At 7:30 P. M. the pastor. Rev.
i , Pa.r A ,-.... i T 1 ;
. . . . rcij, win give a sec
ond sermon on "Life and Power,"
under the theme, "Changing Human
Nature."
A community thanksgiving serv
ice will be held Thursday morning
at ii. iaKe icnmond car to East
Thirty-third street and go one block
south.
The next in the special series of
Sunday evening addresses by Dr.
jStaub of Sunnysido Congregational
I church, on the general theme of
"Spiritism," will be: "Spiritism and
Its Denial of the Scriptu'res." The
male chorus will sing, and Gladys
Morgan Farmer will feature the
tuba, a new set of pipes recently
installed in the memorial organ, her
numbers including, "Funeral March
and Hymn of the Seraphs," by Guil
mant. At the morning service the pas
tor's theme will be "Great Faith in
Lnexpected Quarters." The choir
will sing "Righteous Art Thou. O
Lord," by Ashford. Bess Owens
Kunyan will sing "Come Ye Blessed,"
by Scott.
John Kerchsr will lead the jun
iors at 3 P. M., and Donald Nelson,
president of the Multnomah Christ
ian Endeavor union, will lead the
seniors at 6:30 on the topic "Praise
God."
Missionary circle D will meet
Tuesday at 2, at the residence of
Mrs. F. F. Neimeyer, 323 East
Thirty-third street.
A sunrise prayer meeting for all
Multnomah county Christian En
deavor will be held in this church
ing men from the palace of luxury,
the house of amusement and the den
of vice, out into strenuous service,
heroic action and sublime self-sacri-
fice.
Yes, there are gome things in this
world that are worse to contemplate
than war, and one of them is a
citizenship steeped in ease, frivolity
and self-indulgence. As between a
nation of fighters armed to the teeth
and a nation of flanneled fools, give
us the fighters every time. I am
not indifferent to the horrors of
war, to the awful waste of mili
tarism and to the monstrous absurd
ity in this day of Christian civiliza
tion of the arbitrament of arms. But
neither am I indifferent to the sim
ple fact that war calls out heroism,
that it transforms men of softness
and idleness into giants of courage
and endurance, that it begets na
tional self -consciousness and fuses
into one magnificent whole, glowing
with patriotism and the spirit of
self-sacrifice, what before was only
a mass of Eelf-centered, empty
minded, luxury-loving loafers.
And so we may say that in a
very important sense war actually
contributes to human welfare, both
for the individual and for society.
For the Individual it fosters those
qualities which we call virility, self
sacrifice, endurance, courage, de
cision of character and resourceful
ness in the presence of great emer
gencies. For society war promotes
those sentiments which we call co
operation, cohesiveness, loyalty to
social organization, sympathy in
sorrow and suffering, together with
simplicity and frugality in manner
of living. Pointing out the social
values of war. Professor William
James said: "What we need to dis
cover in the social realm is the
moral equivalent of war; something
heroic that will speak to men as
universally as war does, and yet be
as compatible with their spiritual
selves as war has proved itself to
be incompatible."
Here, then, is our problem: War
is horrible, but it has certain moral
values; what can we find to take
the place of war so that we may re
tain its moral values and yet elim
inate its horrors?
The solution of that problem
rests with the son of God. The only
true equivalent of the moral values
at 7:30 Thursday morning. Evelyn
McClusky will be the leader.
The union thanksgiving service
for Sunnyside churches will be held
at the First Friends' church, at
10:30. Prayer meeting will be omit
ted this week in favor of the serv
ices above mentioned.
The popular Sunday programmes
at the Alameda Park Community
church are meeting with extraordin
ary success. This evening Dr. Frank
Lincoln Moore of New York, whose
early ministry was in the states of
Wyoming and Colorado, and par
ticularly with the cattlemen and
cowboys, will speak on "Christian
izing Cowboys." He is a great ad
mirer of Badger Clark, the cowboy
poet, and will read some of his
poetry. The Pilgrim Boys' chorus
of 24 boys will make their first ap
pearance. Ronald Ravenscroft and
Dale Dalton will sing special num
bers. Services will start at 7:45.
At the morning service the pastor
will preach at 11:15 on "Thanksgiv
ings, Past and Present." Special
music will be given by Mrs. Cook
and Mrs. May.
Church school will start at 10. The
red and blue contest for new mem
bers will close December 3 and the
interest is keen between the con
testants. The attendance grows every
Sunday. Young people meet at 6:45.
At the Atkinson Memorial Congre
gational church, Rev. Elbert E.
Flint, pastor, will preach this morn
ing upon "Men the Size of Grass
hoppers." Tonight at 7:15 a com
munity Sunday evening thanksgiv
ing service will be held. Commis
sioner S. C. Pier will speak on "The
Lessons of the Pilgrims," -and the
five-reel picture, "The Courtship of
Miles Standish," will be shown.
Large crowds attend these commun
ity gatherings. The Atkinson Pil
grim Boys' chorus will sing.
The Sunday school meets at 9:45.
The boys outnumber the girls in
this school.
The social rooms of the church in
the basement have been artistically
redecorated, the entire donation
coming from Mr. Bothwell and Mr.
Brunnell.
"The Ministry of Books" is "to be
the subject of the sermon this morn
ing'at the Highland CongrAgational
church, Prescott and East Sixth
streets, by the pastor. Rev. Edward
Constant. The service in the even
ing will be preparatory to Thanks
giving day and will consist of an
appropriate song service and an ad
dress on "Thanksgiving in the Old
Home," showing how Thanksgiving
was celebrated in the earlier days
and was made the means of
strengthening the home ties.
The Sunday school is beginning
work on its programme for Christ
mas. -
Pilgrim Congregational church, at
the corner of Shaver street and
Missouri avenue, will celebrate the
conclusion of a most prosperous year
by holding an unusual service to
night at 7:30 and by a special
thanksgiving service this morning.
During ;he church year 200 chil
dren have been in weekly attend
ance at the Sunday" school, which
is now departmentalized and fast
outgrowing its quarters. It has
long since overflowed the church
auditorium and plans have been
suggested for enlarging the entire
church plant.
The pastoral work has become an
outstanding feature and in this
field alone over one thousand calls
have been made In response to need
in homes of gladness and in homes
of sorrow.
Seventy boys have received' mu
sical training and many of them
have enjoyed outings under the au
spices of the Pilgrim Boys' chorus.
The Sunday night service will be
featured by talks by prominent lay
men and workers of the church.
Miss Elizabeth Benton will give a
reading. The Pilgrim Boys" Chorus
will sing.
"Our Individual Debts and How
to Pay Them" will be the subject
of the sermon this morning by Rev.
James W. Price. Important an
nouncements will be made at that
time In regard to the future work
of Pilgrim church.
The special services at the Lents
Evangelical church are Increasing
In Interest and attendance. The
pastor. Rev. F. B. Culver, and Evan
gelist Rev. ' Fred Cannaday are
bringing messages each night in
sermon and song. Sunday afternoon
at 3 o'clock a rally service will be
held, to which all interested in the
extension of the kingdom of Jesus
are invited. Tuesday night Rev. Mr.
Cannaday will give the story of his
life. The services will continue all
next week.
of war is to be found in the pro
gramme which Jesus Christ laid
down for those who would become
his followers. And what is that
programme? You will find it on
the pages of the New Testament. It
is expressed in many different
forms, but its dominant note is un
mistakable, and that note is self
sacrificing loyalty to the king of
kings and lord of lords. There Is
not a single manly quality that is
not provided for in the gospel of
Jesus Christ. There Is not a single
social sentiment that isot honored
and exalted, in the religion of the son
of God. Talk about a man's need of
a conflict to bring out the best that
is in him. but where will you find
a conflict that calls for such cour
age, such patience, such strenuous
endeavor, as that which awaits the
man who proposes to take Jesus
Christ at his word and is determined
to live a consistent Christian life
from day to day? Let the professed
follower of Jesus get down to busi
ness by taking his profession seri
ously and he will soon find that he
has all the conflict that he needs,
and perhaps a whole lot more beside.
If . any man thinks that following
Jesus Christ sincerely and conscien
tiously is an easy task, he thinks it
only because" he has never tried it.
Christianity, the Christianity of
Christ, Is not a gas-lighted, flower
scented, easy-cushioned religion, it
is a militant religion. Looking to
ward humanity, Christ came to
bring peace; but looking toward the
world, the flesh and the devil, Christ
came to bring a sword. The church
is an army, Christ is the general,
and every member Is called upon to
suffer hardship as a good soldier In
Christ Jesus. The Christian life is
a fight; the apostle says: "Fight the
good fight of the faith." The call
of the Christ is a call to war not
a war against flesh and blood, but
a war against hatred, stupidity, dis
ease, selfishness and sin. "For
though we walk in the flesh, we do
not war according to the flesh, for
the weapons of our warfare are not
of the flesh, but, nevertheless, are
mighty before God to the casting
down of strongholds.
To keep clean In body and in mind,
to be temperate in all things, to love
your neighbor as yourself, to for
give your enemies and to pray for
them that despitely use you ah, my
United Brethren Churches
to Honor Thanksgiving.
Turkey Dinner to Be Served at
Special Union Service.
AT THE first United Brethren
church, Fifteenth and Morrison
streets, there will be preaching
services at 11 o'clock this morning
and at 7:30 tonight.
Rev. G. K. Hartman will preach
today at Second United Brethren
church. Twenty-seventh and Sumner
streets, on the subjects, "A Part of
Our Inheritance," at 11 o'clock, and
"Three Great Heroes," at 7:30.
At the Third United - Brethren
church. Sixty-seventh street and
Thirty-second avenue Southeast,
Rev. E. O. Shepherd will preach this
morning at 11 o'clock. Rev. B. K.
Emerick will preach tonight at 7:30.
Rev. B. Ross Evans will preach
this morning at Tremont United
Brethren church. Sixty-ninth street
and Seventy-second avenue South
east, on the subject, "Two Evils."
Rev. R. E. Close preaches tonight
at 7:30 on "The Supreme Call of
the Hour."
All United Brethren churches of
the city will hold union services
Thanksgiving morning at 10:30 in
the First United Brethren church,
at Fifteenth and Morrison streets,
a Thanksgiving turkey dinner will
be served immediately following the
service.
The regular monthly all-day meet
ing of the Christian and Missionary
alliance will be held in the new
gospel tabernacle, East Ninth and
Hancock streets, Friday, December
1. Rev. W. W. Newberry, superin
tendent of the Pacific northwest
district and dean of the Simpson
Bible institute, Seattle, TVash., will
preach at 2:30 and 7:45 P. M. The
morning session, opening at 10:30,
will be devoted to prayer,
v
At the Mystic Church of Bethesda,
409 Alder street, near Eleventh,
services will be conducted tonight
by Rev. W. W. Aber at 8 o'clock
In the hall on the second floor.
After the lecture there will be pre
sented a physical light demonstra
tion. Circles will also be formed
between 6 and 7:30 P. M. prior to
services, where mediums will be in
attendance.
Dr. W. H. Nugent to Speak
at Y. M. C. A. Today.
Central Presbyterian Psmtor Will
Address Young Men.
REV. WALTER HENRY NUGENT,
D. D., pastor of the Central
Presbyterian church, will be the
speaker at 3:30 o'clock this after
noon in the auditorium of the Port
land Young Men's Christian asso
ciation at the regular weekly meet
ing held for young men under the
auspices of the social and religious
work department. His subject will
be "If I Were You." Carrol Hansen,
soloist with the Piljrrim chorus, will
sing "Prayer Perfect" (Stephenson).
The meetings are drawing packed
houses. Prominent speakers will
continue throughout the winter sea
son to discuss social and religious
problems of vital interest to young
men.
"The Divinity of God" Is
Unitarian Subject.
Churck of Our Father Services
to Start at 10t30.
pHE Divinity of God" will be
1 Rev. Mr. Eliot's subject this
morning at the Church of Our
Father (Unitarian), Broadway and
YamhilL Little children will be
cared for during the hour of church
service in the church parlor. The
men's class will meet at 12 A. M.
for an address by Norman F. Cole
man, president of the Loyal Legion
of Loggers and Lumbermen, on the
work of that organization. The con
gregation of this church will join
with the congregation of Temple
Beth Israel for Thanksgiving serv
ice on November 30 at 11 A. M. at
Temple Beth Israel. The programme
will be arranged by the Menorah
society, which is holding a conven
tion here this week.
The Sunday school of the Clay
street Evangelical church will be
gin at 9:30 with the superintendent,
E. J. Keller, presiding. At 10:45
friend, try those things for a while
and then tell me whether you do not
think they call for a finer courage
and a nobler heroism than to face the
cannon and bayonet of the battle
field. To subdue the brute within
up, to develop a manhood pure in
us. to develop a manhood pure in
soul, is more than to stand behind
great guns.
The Galilean lived 2000 years ago,
and today- what is the blind cour
age of the soldier in comparison
with the master's touch of little
children and the example of his
cross? Alexander conquered the
whole world, except Alexander. Em
peror of the earth, he was still
the servile slave of his own passion.
Ah, truly did the inspired writer tell
us long ago that "he that ruleth his
mrn eplrit Is better than he that
taketh a city."
"
- There are other ways to fight than
by armies and battleships, and there
are many other things to fight for
as well as the defense of the flag.
We need anger, not anger against
personal enemies or against foreign
foes, but anger against wrongdoing
right at hand; against those in our
cities who pollute politics and place
business above honor and country
against those who heap up dividends
by means of child labor; against
those who would sacrifice manhood
to money by tolerating the liquor
traffic; against those who manufac
ture profits out of flesh and blood
by dealing in white slaves; against
those who oppress the poor and
spread disease and vice. Against
all these the fighting blood of the
Christian must be kept hot.
But the Christian's fight doesn't
end with himself, or with his com
munity, or with his nation; it
reaches out to the uttermost parts
of the earth even to the far-flung-battle
line of Christian missions.
And oh, what a battle is going on
out there! Against what tremendous
odds of disease and prejudice and
Idolatry are the missionaries of the
cross fighting today! And, thank
God, it is not a fight of hatred to
destroy human life and promote
selfish ambition, but rather Is it a
fight of self-sacrificing love to de
stroy ignorance and superstition
and build up manhood and woman
hood. We talk about the heroes of
there will be a special missionary
service, when the choir will render
special music. The subject of the
missionary sermon will be "Who
Is Jesus Christ?" At 6:30 the
Young People's league of Christian
Endeavor will meet. At 7:30 the
choir of the church, under direc
tion of Miss Mary Ellen Mullen, will
render the cantata, "Ruth," by J.
Astor Broad. No admission will be
charged. The customary silver of
fering will be taken. Thanksgiving
night at 7:30 the Young' People's
league of Christian Endeavor will
give a programme.
The Scientific Christian Spiritual
ist church, 6020 Foster road, hold
services each Sunday afternoon at
3 o'clock and each Sunday night
at 7:30. The question class meets
every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock.
Chapel of Pioneer Days to
Be Restored.
Washington Knights of Columbus
Vote Fund for Work.
SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 25. Paul's
Mission Chapel, said to be the
oldest church building in the state
of Washington, will not be per
mitted to be destroyed by the ele
ments, according to the decision of
the Spokane council of the Knights
of Columbus.
St. Paul's Mission Chapel is at
Kettle Falls in Stevens county,
about 70 miles north of Spokane.
The church was built in 1845 by
Father Anthony Ravalli. S. J. The
building is of hand-hewn logs, mor
tised, tenoned and pinned, the logs
being set up in panels. The build
ing la in an excellent state of
preservation with the exception of
the roof, which has given away
from the weight of many snows.
The Spokane council of the
Knights of Columbus has taken
steps to restore the church in its
original form, place around it con
crete memorials with bronze tablets
containing historical data about the
church, make a park of the grounds
around the building and present the
completed work to the state.
Father Ravalli, who built the
church, was known as a priest,
physician and mechanic. The sills
of the church are 12 by 16 inches
in size, hewn from fir trees and
pinned with oak pins. The roof is
supported by Ecissor trusses and
the siding is slabbed. Extra heavy
cedar shakes were used in the orig
inal roof, the doors and windows
being battened.
The cost of restoring the church
is estimated at $2500. It will be
met by members of the 27 councils
of the Knights of Columbus in the
state of Washington.
COLD WATER GIVES LIFE
Centenarian Finds Fountain of
Youth in Icy Plunge.
BELLINGHAM. Wash., Nov. 25.
Alone and unable to speak English,
Friday Stikmash, 102-year-old Stik
ing Indian, takes a plunge in the
chilly waters of Friday creek at
Bow, near here, every morning, and
recommends It for those who seek
the fountain of eternal youth.
Despite his longevity, Friday has
a few ideas of his own. For one
thing, he doesn't believe in letting
his hair get too long, but rather
holds to the present-day "flapper"
style of headdress, which is char
acteristic of the Indians of his
tribe, believed to be descendants of
the old Stiking Indians of western
Canada, who migrated to the south,
drove the Seattle Indians before
them and in later years mingled
with them in peaceful pursuits.
Friday claims he never has had
shoe leather on his feet in all of his
102 years. He has only ridden on a
train once in his life, when he had
been struck by a locomotive and
was being rushed to a hospital for
treatment. The treatment which the
hospital nurse accorded him at this
time made him a strong admirer of
girls. He is believed to be the last
living member of his tribe.
Prosecuting Attorney Scored.
MOSCOW. Idaho, Nov. 25. Federal
authorities have trouble enough en
forcing the prohibition law without
having a prosecuting attorney ap
pear as counsel for a man charged
with violating the law. Judge Frank
S. Dietrich declared in United States
district court here in reprimanding
Attorney Leo McCarty, who de
fended Amos Ingraham of Lewiston,
found guilty of four .violations of
the federal prohibition law in Latah
county. McCarty, a Lewiston at
torney, is the prosecutor for Nez
Perce county, Idaho. '
militarism, but what man since the
days of the Apostle Paul has sacri
ficed more for struggling humanity
than John G. Paton, the hero of the
New Hebrides? And where in the
records of military heroism can be
found such a story as that of Dr.
Albert L. Shelton, the missionary
martvr of Thibet? We say that war
captivates the imagination, but,
friends, what is more captivating
what is more fascinating than the
programme of Christian missions, a
programme that calls into play
every faculty of the mind? Missions
is the educational enterprise, the
social enterprise, the political en
terprise, the industrial enterprise,
all rolled into one. It is human life
in all of its variety and complexity,
and to approach the problem of
human welfare in the missionary
spirit is to find one's self in the
midst of the most thrilling cam
paign that was ever waged by mor
tal beings.
Men and women, let us learn to
see our work as followers of Jesus
Christ in the right perspective! Let
us beware of false notions about
the Christian life! Let us not think
of the gospel as something soft and
easy, a kind of pink-tea perform
ance, a drawing-room entertanment!
Rather let us regard our religion
as a call to arms a call that makes
serious demands on our time, our
money, . our thought, our energy
and then let us resolve that we shall
answer that call with a courage that
is becoming to those who have for
their leader the strong Son of God!
I am' opposed to the policy of mili
tary preparedness; I am a pacifist.
Some folks get scared at that word
"pacifist." Thev think a naeifist Is
. -
a quitter one who lies down In the
dust i and allows others to trample
upon him. But to think that is
simply to be bullied by a word
Jesus was a pacifist a pacifist is
a peace maker. The term comes
irom tne iatin words "pacis, or
peace, and "ficare," to make. Jesus
said: 'Blessed are the peace mak
era, or the 'pacifists,' for they shall
be called the sons of God." As a
pacifist, then, I am an ardent be
liever in the cause of international
peace, and sometimes I hear the
criticism that we folks who are
preaching this doctrine of neace and
good will believe that there is noth
ing in the world worth fighting for.
SAVING NEAR EAST CHILDREN,
BRINGS WORKERS HARDSHIPS
Transportation of Hundreds of Starving Little Creatures Through
Snow-Covered Areas in Box Cars Related by Mr. Handsaker.
"B
EING out of communication I
with our relief workers as!
we are by the cutting of
the Constantinople cables is no new
experience for near east relief," said
J. J. Hansaker, Oregon director of
near east relief. "Two years ago we
were cut off for months from com
munication with our orphanage at
Alexandropol, which, at the last
word we had, was housing some 10.
500 children, and which had supplies
to run them for only a few months.
For four months or more we did not
know whether the children and the
American workers were alive or
dead, and when the soviet armies
finally expelled the Turks in the
spring of 1921, and our first relief
supplies came in after the blockade,
we were down to 17 sacks of flour
for about 15,000 children.
"The story was told me in a very
matter-of-fact way at'Alexandropol
as we sat around the fire at the per
sonnel house and listened to the
experiences of the near east work
ers. It seems that communication
had been cut off by the advance of
the Turkish armies, and it was Im
possible to get word out either to
the north toward Constantinople or
to the south toward Persia. In their
advance the Turks took the city of
Kars, 60 miles from Alexandropol,
where there were 7500 children in
some great Russian barracks. On
the plea of military necessity, the
Turks ordered us to move these chil
dren from Kars to Alexandropol. It
was in the dead of winter, with two
or three feet of snow on the ground.
The barracks were two miles from
the depot. The children were suf
fering so from chilblains that they
could not wear shoes. The Turks
refused to furnish transportation to
the depot, so the children had to
march down In their bare feet. The
train was scheduled to leave at 7:30
on a certain morning; the children
were down on time, but had to stand
around for an hour or more wait
ing until the train was brought up.
The trip of 60 miles was made in
box cars, of course, without heat,
and at the rate of 10 to 12 miles an
hour. The cars were locked and
sealed, but what are locks and seals
to a Turkish soldier when 13-year-old
girls are on the other side? It
took three weeks to transport all
these 7500 children.
Trnin Stuck in Snow.
"The last train to go over were
the children from the hospital. For
these transportation was furnished
to the depot. These trains were
pMik in the snow and were three
Child's tongue shows
if bilious, constipated
MOTHER, CLEAN CHILD'S BOILS
WITH "CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP'
Even Cross, Feverish, Sick Children Love its Taste
and it Never Fails to Empty Little Bowels
A teaspoonful of "California Fig
Syrup" now will quickly start liver
and bowel action and in a few
hours you have a well, playful child
again. Mothers can rest easy after
giving'"CaIifornia Fig Syrup," because-
it never fails to work the
sour bile and constipation poison
right out of the little stomach and
But I am here to tell you that I be- .
liav tharA orA monv thltirn Vitrlh
fighting for; in fact, that I believe
there are few things of any great
value that can be obtained without
a fight. Justice Is worth fight
ing for; liberty is worth fight
ing for; prohibition is worth fight
ing for; yes, even peace itself is
worth fighting for; Indeed, I don't,
believe that we shall ever have a
peace that amounts to very much
unless we do fight for it Only in
this fighting the "weapons of our
warfare are not of the flesh" but of
the spirit; nevertheless, they are .
mighty before God tv 'he casting
down of strongholds." ,
And now in view of this mili
tant aspect of Christianity, consider
how unworthy and how ignoble U
the conduct ef many people who
have enlisted In our Lord's army
and have sworn allegiance to the
great captain of our salvation, but
have given themselves over to mur
muring and complaining, to fault
finding and back-biting, to laziness
and unreliability! Talk about en
gaging in a fight why, some of
them haven't stamina enough to
keep up the habit of regular church
attendance. Going to the house of
God is the least part of the war
fare, and when an individual can't
do that much we may rest assured
that when the real fighting is on
he will not have courage enough to
whip a flea. The only resemblance
that I can see between the Christian
profession of many folks and the
career of a soldier Is that they
either have deserted the army or
have started on a Bull Run retreat.
Friends, believe me when I tell
you that you will never know the
real joys of the Christian faith
until your religious experience has
become to you a mighty conflict, a
conflict against, laziness, indiffer
ence and selfishness in your own
life a conflict against greed, op
pression and injustice in the life of
society but a conflict, thank God,
out of which you may come more
than conouerers if yqu are only true
to him that loved you! Yes
The Son of God Boe forth to war,
A kingly crown to gain;
His blood-red banner streams afar,.
Who follows in his train?
"Who best can drink his cup of woe, ;
Triumphant over pain.
Who patient bears his cross below.
He follows in his train.
days getting across. Dr. Blythe told
me at Alexandropol that when word
came to the hospital that a train
load of children had come from
Kars that he hurried down with his
doctors and nurses and carried out
first those who had died on the
way. As we walked around over
the great parade ground at Alex
andropol and he pointed out the
children to me ana told me their
stories, occasionally he would say
of one. 'There is a child from Kars,'
as much as to say that it was a
miracle the child was living at all.
"To add to the terrors of this sit
uation, a situation of which, of
course, we were utterly ignorant,
the Turkish line moved in front of
our fuel supply and we were on a
great wind-swept plain with what
remained of 18,000 children without
heat for their barracks and some
days without fuel even to cook their
food. On these days they lived on
raw frozen cabbage and raw corn
meal. As if this were not enough,
the blockade from both directions
prevented bringing in fresh sup
plies, and the rations, never too
generous, were cut first to one-half
and then to a auarter.
"The most striking thing I saw
in all the near east was the death
chart in Dr. BIythe's office, show
ing how the death rate mounted
during those fearful weeks until it
reached a peak of about 265 one
week.
Supplies Rushed to Batum.
"All this time the Constantinople
office naturally was much con
cerned as to the Alexandropol situ
ation, and when word came of the
advance of the soviet armies a ship
load of supplies was rushed to
Batum, although mines still filled
the Black sea. The vessel got
through safely, unloaded its sup
plies, and on the first train sent in
by the Soviets to celebrate their
victory went two carloads of near
east relief supplies. It is not strange
that the Americans who had held
the fort for weeks in Alexandropol,
calmly facing what looked like cer
tain death, should be longer unable
to restrain their emotions at the
sight of those supplies. 'We just
sat down and cried," they said to me.
That week the death rate began to
decrease, and when I was in Alex
andropol last August "the rate then
was down to about 22 a week.
"Until cable communication is re
stored with Constantinople it is Im
possible to te'.l the situation there.
I know this, however, that those In
charge of the orphans throughout
the near east are staying on their
jobs in spite of the world, the flesh
and the Turk "
bowels without cramping or over
acting. Tell your druggist you want onlv
the genuine "California Fig Syrup.'
which has directions for babies and
children of all ages printed on oot
tie. Mother, you must say "Cantor,
nla." Refuse any imitation. Adv.
t