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About The morning Astorian. (Astoria, Or.) 1899-1930 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 9, 1905)
THE MORNING ASTOMAN. ASTORIA. OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1905. FROM THE PULPITS Messages Delivered Yesterday By Astoria's Clergymen. COMPOSITION OF TRUTHS Excerpts FTom the Sermon Preached in Local Chnrthet Elementary Review Excellent Reading for Those Who Did Not Hear Them. Among the who sought enlighten ment and religious pabulum in the ehurches of Astoria yesterday, the peo ple who sat under the Rev. V. II. Lay- on, hot night, and listened to his dis course on "Friendship, founded on tne text," Ye are my friends if ye do what soever I command you," certainly found it: It was able, clear and intensely in teresting. He said in part: "Jinn has made his most disastrous speculation on its line of seeking a friend. Socrates exclaimed, "Friends! There is no friend!" Queen Elizabeth said: '"In trust, I have found treason ;" Cae sar received 23 knife wounds from men most of whose lives he had saved. "Notwithstanding the dark side of the picture, the bright side appears in his tory. Two friends of Cams Gracchhu lost their lives defending the bridge while he made his escape. When the Cberokees had condemned Col. Byrd of Virginia to death, an Indian chief, who ' had been his friend fell upon Byrd and claimed him as a friend and saved his life. "True friendship is most likely to be found in the humble walks of life. Tiie fiction of court etiquette and social pres tige is too thin a sail for. the delicate flower to flourish in. Fairweatber friends are numerous. In storms few, if any, can be found. When you are prosperous and on the upgrade angelic hosts swarm about you. When the bankruptcy and I ANOTHER MASTERFUL DEMONSTRATION OF OUR BUYING SUPERIORITY TAKES PLACE OCT. over stocks at a mere song : J"50& at the TAKE AS MANY J ThiB THE FOARD . ......... even rise to the commercial dignity of reciprocity. Christ did And some human being he could trust. They were not litterate. nor had they military nor po litical standing. Tbey were fishermen plain people earning their daily bread. Hera Hod and man touched. The. hon est heart in Cod's foundation to build on. He entrusted them with secret and bade them "tell no man." "A friend who cannot keep a secret is not a friend but a traitor. A man who will confide a secret to a human being bertays his ignorance of human nature and feebleness of intellect. The best way to get and keep friends it never to tell secrets. Never allow any one to confide in you personal secrets. If you do. yo will be tempted to disclose them and commit a breach of confidence and betrayal of a friend and you will always be under susuicion by your con fiding friend that you will prove uu worthy. "The meanest people in tlie world are thoe who obtain secrets with a view to injure others. How many people keep letters and other incriminating evidences with the expectation of some day need ing and using them. A low elas of be ings seek domestic or social secret for commercial ues or even for extortion. "How much trouble in this lire would be averted if we did not under moments of brain softening, tell secrets. The proof of the disciple' friendship was to be in their absolute oliedienoa to all com mands. The crucial test of the loyalty of the soldier is obedience. Thi is the only test of the Christian. Millions have given their treasures and lives and made social and political sacrifices in glorious, jroofj ofheir worthinjs "The world U rich in noble human beings whom . (Jod Can ' trust. Their friendship is a treasure. Happy the man who seeks and find their society. ON l,iBin,ii viriiMKr j uu, uir iviw miu- out a retinue. "The queenly woman living down by the river in a scow will not have to re turn the many caiMs as one of the four hundred up cm the hill, yet sincerity and integrity and worth might be none the inferior it penned by the hand of Cod on the poor mortal down by the river. . . . ' ' "" "What we often mistake, for friend ship is the selfish anxiety to get some thing of temporal value. It, may not WE0JES0HY,10flfG II.IITD O'CLOCK Just at this Season of the year, which is our busiest time manufacturers all over the country, are 4 offering their left We sang the loudest in this and the result is, that we Hare able to offer our patrons on Wednesday next by actual count, . 9643 yards of fine Swiss Embroideries that would retail in any store in the country at from J 5c to exceedingly low price S Cents the vard WHETHER IT RAINS OR SHINES IYOU ARE THOROUGHLY ALIVE TO YOU OWN INTER EfSlS'TfitnL COME HERE WED NESDAY PREPARED TO dYjblBSOJERIES ENOUGH TO LAST YOU FOR YEARSTO fOJtf, EXTRA SALES PEOPLE l-WAITrT YOU. NO LIMIT, YARDS AS YQU-WAJIT. Sole ior'Coah Only. (Uv.: NEW GOODS ONLY Christ's friends are to be found where eeeted to le. in the church. These are ihe eop1e who make the world habit able and delightful. I "The man who is willing to acknowl edge full obedience to Cod's commands J is authorized to subscrit himself as 'did Abraham, the "friend of Cod." "Present and continuous oledicnee i the link that binds divinity and human ity indissolubly together for the ennobl ing and development of man, and the evangeliiatioii of the world. The days of heroism haxe not aed. Kvery act 'of obedience makes a hero. The luuul 1 of the recording angels is busy keeping the record of human triumphs. We would feel it a great honor to meet the friend of the king. Daily we meet peo ple who are the friends of Cod ami who will reign as prince some day. "The thought that we are making friends daily with whom we will associ ate for all eterinty is inspiring. The chief value of friendship is uot to lie a means of doubling our joy and useful ness. Friendship is the synonym for ser vice. Cod commands, man serves. This very service exalt the soul into trusted relatioship w ith Cod. "The impulse to do the king's business develop tlie soul and a new iiunaM I ' 1-1- I springs into view, revealing the mystery of lite. Mau s highest mission is not to sit on a throne, nor lead an army, nor accumulate wealth, but to serve Cod, to prove himself worthy of the purpose for which Cod ordained him. We will 1 judged by that standard and not by our osesious obtained selfish ly and in disregard, perhaps, of the will of Cod. The daily interrogatory of the sincere soul should be. "Am I the friend of Cod!' "Every man knows the answer and can value himself accurately. Diubt it not a factor of Cod as surely as he knows he is the friend of his neigiilxir. The Master gave the key of self testing in the condition attached to the declara tive of friendship. "Man cannot be the friend of Cod and at the same time disobedient. There is no name under heaven so sweet to hu man ear as that word friend. 1 would rather have a friend than gold. A friend is our other self. Friendship is the isth mus between two independent souls. It is the bright archway that spans the chasm between Cod and man." instance of only STOKES CO, J The Womanly Sphere. In a sermon delivered at the First Congregational rhutvh yesterday morn ing, Kev. Luther P. Mahone portrayed the woman of today and the sphere of life that she rills. He said in part: "Crcece rules the world, Athens rules Creeee, I rule Athens, my wife rules me. and, therefore, my wife rules the world." This picture is not overdrawn. "A giVat many women will remain single even though tney have numerous opportunities. They have entered the business world and would rather re main there than lie the ruler of the household. I do not tielieve that it is a woman's sphere to get out Into the world ami to have to make her own way. Some, of course have it to do and they should receive all the encouragement possible for their courage ami heroism. If tlie women must go into the labor market they ought not to work for less wages than would be paid to men. They are wanted because they will work for less. For every woman that takes a position it means one less for the men. Some man must hunt another job or walk the streets. The Xew York Tri bune in making an investigation of this states, that but 21 per cent of the wo men that are in these positions an com pelled to le there. Men are too blame in most instances. They neglect the women and enter tlie marts of trade in order that they might not be Idle, And 1 am glad that we are living in an age when the women begin to feel that way. "In a country where conditions change with such rapidity that each generation is a revelation to the other one which preceded it, the average American is more influenced by his contemporaries than by those that have gone before. He is much more stimulated by the friends of his own age than by the old er memliers of the family. This detach ing of generations through the evolu tion of conditions adds fervor, and rest and originality to the efforts of each. Hut it means a youth without the peace of protection; an old age without the harvest of consolation. In such a battle as life becomes under the circumstance, the man is better equipped than the woman, who nature disarms her for the struggle. "Mrs. Cillman says the Amrrn-an wo man is restless and dissatisfied. Society, whether among the highest, the four hundred, or the lower class, has driven her toward a destiny that is liot normal. The factories are full of old maid; the colleges are full of them; the ball room is full of them and our churches have their share. For natural reasons and ob ligations for which they were created are submitted the fictitious duties of clubs, committee, meetings, organiza tions, et ceterea, a thousand unwoman ly occupation. "That woman was created to fill cer tain well-defined places in this world no one familiar with her physical, moral and mental makeup can doubt. ' Tiiat many of the women of tslay think slightingly of those privileges of the sex is a fact that fail's us on every side. Modesty and gentleness, those two sweet handmaids of womankind, seem to have been hud aside by many, and masculinity and aggressiveness have been given place. I wi-h that it might be impressed tiMn every mother in the land today that it is 'the hand tiint rocks the cradle that will rule the world tomorrow.' You will remember what a great general of amii-nt times said." Rev. fiustaf K. Kydquit, of the First Lutheran church took "Hope'' as his sub-' ject and said nn substance: "As I look out UHin the World today I see it not as it was yesterday. The past may glow in the splendor of noon day sunshine, and memory may entwine wreaths and laurels on heroes and mast er, and review their achievements with admiration; yet out of that past this future develojied as an organic result Out of this present the future is de veloping, more resplendent than Its past, and out of time itself as a living present a glorious eternity. "What makes this present better than than its past! In the first place be cause it is a development, it is a natural course of progress. The great power to move this development is aspiration noble aspirations, supported by hoie. "Hope is Aaron and Hue supporting the arm of Moses. Hope is a desire for a certain object and the assurance of attaining it. We said in a former ser mon that faith was the most wonderful thing in the world. Hon is the strong est thing in the world, the greatest power in life. For it has its foundation in faith, and love is its companion. Hope enters into every condition of man. There is no work so mean or so great where hope does not enter as a power in performing it. There is ho sorrow where hope is not present as a comfort ing ange, Borrow without hope is des pair and no longeuQyi'la sick ness hope is the good sapiaritan and in death the angel who on his awift wings carries the soul to the very gates of heaven, where is vanishes Into sight. Hope designates man as belonging to an higher sphere of existence. and then to vanish into the nothingness of the word 'gone,' without, erhapa even a, 'footprint In sands of time' to mark his sojourn here. All of our texts to day breathe the word hope the hope of life and Immortality, beyond death and the grave. Life would Is meaningless if hoe did not rals our ryes and minds toward heaven and eternity. '"Hope points me to my eternal home. My eyes cannot penetrate the veil which hides the future from my sight, but through this gloom the search light of hope, through its rays, illums the way through life and also the object of my longing. "Noble ambition separated by hope Is the surest way to success in life. Nome people are satisfied with anything, and take the hack seat for everybody. 80 it is spiritually also. There Is a lack of ambition in our Christian living. We are satisfied with Wing poor, measly poor Christiana, ami satisfied at the end of this life with coming inside the gates of heaven. TEMPTATION WAS GREAT. "We have all heard the expression, it is enough to make a preacher swear,'" said the commercial man. "I never gave much thought to the saying until the invasion of my last visit to U Crande, a few months ago, and then it was brought back to my mind by something that I saw anl heard. "The government flsh commissinncrs sent a cargo of fry to La Craude to lie used in stocking the lakes and treams in this vicinity and several men were engaged in transferring the heavy cans from the car to a conveyance tlmt was to take the young flsh to their future homes. Kev. .1. F. Cillian, a presiding elder in the Methislist church and well known throughout the state, who was on the ground decided that he could make himself useful in aiding the men in handling the cans. never handled one of those things myself, but from the way the men took hold of them I could see that they were awkward thimr to lift, to say nothing of their weight One of the cans proved too heavy for the men who were easing it down am it slowly settled towards the ground scraping along the shins of the men who had tlie tuk in hand as it did so. In its downward movement there Is little doubt but that the shim, of every man in the party, the clergyman as well Jt T5hC; fejJL. 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STOKES Tbt Driaay Shop for Drtsay Mia. as the others, received a lis 1 king such) as they neer had befuie. "It was quite plain from the epre. Jon that llitte.1 over the face of each, man that lie wanted to cuss altil cum real hard, but reict for their co lab orer scaled their li. The clergyman was the first to laeak the silence. 11 said: "'Hoys, if I were as sure of retaining my own self ress-ct a I am that Cist would forgive me I would certainly wear.' "in tlie laugh that followed the sor hins wete for the moment forgotten." SLEUTHS LOSE THEIR NERVE. Spokane Detectives Fear the Influence, of the Saloon Men. Ssikane, M. H. I'rnsure from sa loon iin'li'lms resulted iu anxiety by city detectives to lie not con netted with the recent Investigation of saloon but conditions that was ordered by Mayor Daggett tpuMie-of the s!isn meliliave) personalty notified the detectives tlmt reMirt rerMcr! against their placea were wot. eiitfc Uc.. -While no overt threats' fk 1 Recti m'se agatnst the de tectives, enough has been sid to causa the detectives to mil want to be associ ated with .the investigation ordered by the Miiivor. Certain saloon men in the past, ac cording to the police, nave said they would get the si-alp of every member of the force who Inlet fired with them. This is said to be one reason for the temerity of member of the force a limit la-mg associated with the resent in vest igut inn. Feel tired, no appetite, cannot sleep. work or eatf That's tiredness and will disappear at once if you take llollister's Rocky Mountain Tea this month. 3 cents, lea or Tablets. For sale by Frank Hart. Accordion. 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