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t Universities Teach More That
:J;-'--:;'l False Than True, - '
INSTRUCTORS N OT WEtlTT
ACQUAINTED WITH FACTS
1 . '
I , j. . :
uDeclaree . Church Accepta '" Science
f . t Joyfully ; but. Looks " With ' Qreat
f Suspicion Upon Philosophy, Saying
Mtjortty orirlr NorTrutT
, ( ( "Our Universities in EgTPtUn Bon
, i age" waa th subject of aermon de
, 1 livered.by Rev, Hiram Vrooman of th
! Swedenborgian church at th Knights
Dvtkiaa kali (MtiiHlli even In. Dr.
?. Vrooman charged that th pblloaophlea
f of religion -aa taught In th unlvoraltlea
contain more that la false than is true.
'.-'. f and that th universities ar In bondag
, because of -making mleuse of scientific
knowledge. ; He said In part;
'. "All educator and aclentlata would
j do well J tra. the true symbolical
" T meaning of th word Egypt as used in
f the Bible and then study , th paasagea
. t m which this nam occur. By so doing
V ther would be turned In th direction of
V a truer anlrltuallty
. -All nurelv eMentlria ' knowledge.
' gained through th Instrumentality of
i. sens traprcasions,. ta tn apoetno tning
" which th word Egypt stand for sym
f. bolieaUy -whrvr employed In any part
t of th Bible, whether In Genesis or
: 4, Revelation or elsewhere.
, "Bclenc Is utilised by th really
'' rational and educated ChrlatUn as th
'. 1 veritable basla of a spiritual philosophy,
. i But It is perverted by th coldly selfish
materialist to prove and eataMlah hi
u inrisemy. .t "!
i "Wherever Egypt Is spoken of In
I good sense In Bcrlptur It refers . to
; scientific knowledge used In behalf of
1 f rational religion, and, wherever spoken
t of In a bad sense It refers to th sam
i-thing used -against-rational rell
. l "It U declared la our. text that, Th
f Lord, riding upon a swift cloud, shall
; oomi Into Egypt, and -the Idols of
" V Egypt shall b - moved , . at his
; presence, , and the ' heart of Egypt
-,- shall melt 11 4 the midst of It'
' When scienc and nature shall have
: been Interpreted In terms of human na-
t tur and made to reveal, as In an image.
th mysteries - of tho . human mind.
then tho Lord himself will bo revealed
- : I In aclenc and, this text will bo ful
DUN, ' .
'Our universities . teaoh scleneo and
1 philosophy
their chief Instruction.
Thar la .
If, scienc and philosophy. Science repre-
( senta facta that ar IndlspuUbl. But
i philosophy represents : tho rational or
t Irrational, . ooncluaions ' derived from
t those facta. Th church cannot offer
i any adverse criticism of tho science aa
f taught In our colleges and universities.
She, r&thitr amhruo-lliMi llh wMe
open arms. , But she has the gravoat
kind of -charge to make againat th
' J; philosophies as taught In Our. ur
unlvrl-
"As a matter of fact, those courses
' of Instruction In our institutions of
L learning, which are of a more , phllo
J. aophlo than sclentlfte characur, contain
' more that Is false than is tru. ..'
( ' "Th materialtstla phlloaophtes as
'taught In our universities, as they re
! far to religion are essentially falsa, and
I for hls raasoaj - our universities, by
( making misuse of sclentifle knowledge,
i perverting It by bad logio to th detrt
; ment of a rational spirituality, ar In a '
aut of Egyptian bondage. - Scientlflo
, truths will be liberated from this bond.
I age (and also th unlversltUsl when th
1 Moee of apirltual reasoning directs
; tbem 4 to tho development of' spiritual
philosophies which truly Interpret th
, phenomena of llf."
'. i UVILS OF LAW-MAKING.
BoligWa Sglalatlom Oataldo Spker of
r-- afsa, Says Bsv. h soiga A. gaydet.'
. Pastor . Oeorg X. Snyder of the Bev
! onth-Day Adventlat church spok last
. t evening on "Evils of Religious Leglsla-
. 1 -tlnn " Xtm Innlr kl. . . m w..
. - - ' . ( U 1(1 JU . I
, i xzil:-4. and spoke In psrt as follows:
.. p -Liove to Ood Is the great primary
! principle or unlveraal law. . Lov to our
i neighbor la th secondary principle, and
i covers all the varied relations between
i ' men, which Jt 4s th duty of civil Uw
"fto regulata When civil Uw attempts
' . to regulau tho relations between men
and their Ood. It goes beyond Its leglti
i. mate sphere, and enters the realm of
,. religion where It hss no rightful Juria-l-
diction. ,, "
' "In Romans aill:l-t Paul gives ex-
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Others $3.00 and $2.00 your
pick today st just f 1.95. "
" : The $1.00 Shirts are now
; selling at 65 1, and the 75c
Shirts at 50f . . ,
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' Mohawk Building. ;
pllclt directions concerning our duties
to civil government. He quote fir
of the ten oommandmenta. all five of
which pertain to th relation between
men and tbetr neighbor: and then sums
p thus:- "If. there be aar other-com
mendmtnfji lstrlcfl comprehended i
his saying. Namely, "Thou shalt love
thy neighbor aa thyself."' Now If J1
th commandments pertaining to our
duties to civil government eve oompre
hssded tn th saying. Thou ahalt lov
lay neighbor aa thyself. It la self-evi-dent
that civil law la limited to the
relet ton of men to their neighbor, and
ha no right to Invade th spiritual do
main of man' . , relatlonahlp 1 to , bis
ires tor,
Anyon can- sea, br reading th ten
commandmenU over-hat the- first-four
precepta deal aolely with man's Ti
Uonshlp to Ood direct, whlls ths Isjit
sla deal with man' duty to his fellow
reaTuree, Th first four of th ten
commandments atand entirely outside
th pal of civil Jurisdiction; and alnce
th Sabbath commandment atands fourth
In th Hat, w -claim that all stat -r
national law which attempt to regulate
Sabbath observance - ar . th forbidden
,frVlt Pt?Vr"-Pnlltln1 nnlna-
V PRAISES COMSTOCK. '
.t v. . .-v-.
. Wltooa Sy Xaa WHo rats Troua
'' a StMusa Za oo otttsom. . '
Anthony Comstock,' tho reformer who
puts trousers on. ststues, has one friend
in Portland anyway. " Ho is Rev. Oar
enc Tru Wilson, who In the last of -hla
series of lectures on "Modern Sub
stitutes for Christianity" at the Grace
Methodist Episcopal church spoke ot
Comstock as "that much-msllgned men.
la a good osampl of what Chriatlanlty
can aiska of a man." ' '
- Dr. Wilson's text leat flight was John
Iv:, "God Is love, and he. that a bidet h
In lov abldath in . Ood and - Ood - In
him." .:, ',. .
"Her w have ' th experience of
Christianity dwelleth In- Ood and Ood
in htm. The Indwelling "spirit of God
and' th adoptsd child nhrind in the
bosom of bis eternal Father la th sub
lime- iprMne - of th Christian re
ligion. Tou may have It for the asking
now. .Millions are now walking with
htm In whit. They pass th pollutions
of this present world and com out ot
It factorlea and atorea every Saturday
night pur aa gold. ' White as snow.
There Is no power Ilk th .religion of
Jeua Christ to keep one steady - In
temptations and ".grief a and disappoint
menta, tho Christian's secret of a happy
III oeing a apiniuat experience.
-Th thlc of Chrtatlanlty . la x-
pressed in this text; dwelleth In lov.
That wilL transform .Iba-world, Thet
will make good neighbors of criminals.
Of sinners.. H that dwelleth In lov
will wrong no oa. ' He --will keep th
golden ml and not limply talk about
it. H will b giving himself In help
fulness to every caus which needs as
slstanca, Th Christian religion ha
raised up Just such votaries In every
land in vry aga,. It; has men enlisted
to prevent, crime, to . tear down the
strongholds of Iniquity." Anthony Com
stock, that much-maligned' man, la a
good example of jwhat Chriatlanlty can
mak of a man. It has boon doing such
work through the ages." .. ; ,
SUFFERINGS OF LIFE.
a. a. Sraokley skowg OkocoaOst
". Oaaaot Bo Kada With Saff rlag. .
' Rev. B. S. Muckley of th First Chris
tian church preached th last of th
"Llf1: series -of ermon under Th
Suffsrlngf of Ufe," from Hen. xil:il.
H id:
"Tha meaning of uf(erlng la 0 pro
found , mystery to mot people. .- And
many,' becauae thty do- not nndarstand
It, rebel against it But th meaning of
surrenng need not altogether bo wrapt
la. mystery, if we studied llf ta Its
various -expression and relations more
o to got a working Idea of Its moaning.
would understand - th - moaning of
suffering hotter) for th meaning of suf
fering la largely if not wholly wrapt ud
In tha meaning of llf. -
"God cannot mak character without
suffering, for there ar some thing that
Ood cannot do. Aa a flnlto being man
must learn' to harmonise with hla envi
ronment It Is Ood'a plsn that ho shall
grow-by an attempt -to perfectly adjust
himself with, his environment In Uiia
attempt h is learning obedience learn
ing obedience involve suffering. . W
ar told that evea Christ learned obedi
ence by th things thst hs suffered. But
w ar also told that for th Joy that
was set before htm, h endured th cross,
despising Its ehame. When w hav tha
Chrletlen phllpsophyolJifee-fteiUoA'
targ element of joy entering Into our
suffering, becauae w look beyond th
experience to th eternal thing it bring.
"Suffering- has mad th world mov
toward tb ondurlng. It has stimulated
investigation and knowledge end through
tnese naa atlmulated progreaa
MILLIONS IN DARK.
Bishop Tfcosam U of Bealghtod Fe.
. pis of xadia aad Malaysia, '
"Whn I went to India 47 year ago
our church had a total membership of
II, and an our work wss in ono vernscu
lar," said Bishop Thoburn. a Methodist
missionary to India, who preached at
orace Mtnodlat church yesterday morn
Ing on "Watchman, What of th Night T
Bishop Thoburn I visiting Jn Portland.
"At th present time I in superin
tending missionary activities In south
ern Asia In 17 different tongues, not
dialects, and we have thousands of con
vorta annually. Our Is only on of
many aenominaiioa at work, out though
great-thing hsvs - been - accomplished,'
the mass . of , heathenism Is yet unen
lightened' .. ; - , , , ' ,
'Three hundred and fifty million In
India and Malaysia and million upon
million In Mohommedan and othor
heathen land r living In mental, so
cial and spiritual darkneas without bop.
They hav no aasursnc of Immortality,
Many havo o vagu idea of futura rein
carnation, but there Is usually no aerl-
AUI thnnvtit Af ... ti V m ft., m A Mn
' clear hop."i x. . r . " -
LIFE AS A RACE. ,
Xf. B. Xk atoaao Draw Xaterestlaf
Study rroaa Taklags of auJ.
At thrirt-C0Bgrgstlowsl - church
yesterday morning Dr. K. L House
preached on "Llf aa a Rac.M In order
to be succesaf ul : lo ths race, he says,
one must prepare himself thoroughly
and must lay aside all excess baggage.
"According to Paul thi world I not
a grandstand." fa said. '"whr men
hould sit down and look on th show,
applauding or criticising; nor Is it a
promenade, where people may pas up
and down to see and be seen: but It l
a raoatrack. a plao for activity, effort
and progression, toward an Inaplring
goal. There la a definite spec of
ground that muat be covered, and many
are tha spectator who ar watching us.
"Psul also asys thst th great crowd
of witnesses hav dono their part and
that w must take their places; w muat
keep - up th order of tho age. T
refuse to get Into lino Is to antagonlss
the order of th world. It I to break
up the progress of th world."
FALSE DOCTRINE.
. . - . ... r -
or. Bea-Bsra Stile Bly Skew SCew Zt
Stay Be Basil y OomrodL
Rev. Bn-Esrs SttUs Ely tn his yss
torday mornlnr sermon at Calvary
; Presbyterian church grralgned tha ori
2r
1 . L,- -. VnNTIyv ' "'' " v J -ri Tr tti minis An iruii Dm .-.T v ''l a f7 ' I
I , . Si.S!"L5- Uy. Bel alys tie less aaje , .' ' "ISS- ,,1-. J
JS - . ' -. -.WyyiH---- yafe oith tO aw-eet ieerew m eess UerwUos. , : - v auAX '7
g 1 prtxlatka ef U bdg f. ' ' , I'
I; AAte,
ental faf&lee' which In soms way be
es ma-attached - to tho early Christian
church and havo In ono form or another
lived aa a part of th Christian faith
In the minds of many - who believe
themselves tru follower ot th Re
deemer. .' , '
"In short." ths speaker said, "the
fals doctrln was this: God Is good;
matter Is evil and tho seat of sin. Th
evil, could not have com directly from
a good ood, is antagonists to him, and
Is separated from hint by a greet gulf.
"To this Paul opposes tho solid truth
of ths gospel. . No need Is there for
this shsdowy crowd of beings to bridge
the guir between uoa and nia world.
for Christ, th on all-aufficlent modi-
s tor, fills tha spec and leavee room
for no other. v
!lt iatheJatter truth to which our
attention Is directed by the verses
under consideration.' We are told that
what the world need la education, and
doubtleas It does. . Wo are told much
about the necessity and value of Im
proved physical and social conditions
for men, and certainly thero la truth
In this. But thsra Is ono deep, under
lying, preeminent need which I too
often Ignored. It la th need which the
gospel recognises, provides for and
fully satisfies In Jesus Christ It Is
the need of reconcillstion, such ss is
affected exclusively end all-aufflolently
through him. Bo, then, it la of Christ,
the reconciler, w . are to think and
apeak together. -
.' rreferred Bloat Panned ooda,
Allen Lewis- Beat Brand. - ,
FIGHT FOR SEATS OF
H PETTUS AND MORGAN
i l.-:"?"'- (Jearasl Special Strvlee.l''-'
Montgomery. Als, Aug. f 7. Reports
front all sections of tb stat Indicate
that at todaya- primary an unusual,
ly heavy vote will be cast On th re
sult depends th eholc of governor and
other stats officers, rspreoentatlves in
congress, th successors of Senators
Psttus snd Mosgsn and two "alternate
ee net a re. Supporter -of termer And Cun
ningham, th rival candidate for th
governorship, xprss confidence In th
outcome. Much interest centers In tb
senatorial contest. in which ther l
large field of antrte. - r
c
If . Caking
Powder ))
'' fl Twle ss goedl ft .
II OL'. ose "third the . II
V SHiM P'lceofother. . 11
'---V V.' 11?""
1&
Dekum
To Catch Burflars. .
. Th lateet and moat affoctlv way to
catch burglar, according to Mrs. Esther
Svana, tha Janltrees of a larg depart
ment-houao In New Tork, Is to grsb
them by th lapel of tho coat and holJ
tight simple. Isn't It T And yet -Mr
Even baa captured three that way and
led to tho capture of four other. Mrs.
vans' husband, when at homo, very
obligingly run to th telephone and
notif to th pollc. while hi plucky
better halt hangs on to tho bad man's
.oat lapel. Mra. Evan -declares that
h haa no fear, but ay that It la uch
a nulsanc to be obliged to Interrupt
her work and catch burglars, and wishes
that the nouae waa not quits so attract
Iv to worker of th "Jimmy." All
th burglars, so far. have coma In th
daytime, but the burglar,, alarm .has
never yet failed to notify her of the
presence of uninvited guests. Mrs.
Evsns received a note, after th last
capture, signed "Burglars' O" saying
mat ir sns appeared in court agglnat
th men captured, that tho bouse would
be burned to the ground and thst she
would bo killed the first time that ah
waa seen on ths street But Mrs. Evans
la still fesrless, and says that If her
testimony Is needed to convict then, she
will testify. .Do you wonder, that this
plucky littl woman "hang on" till
bip comes r
Peter Pan Change Purses. ,
All summer w hav worn Peter Pan
waists- and wow wo-aro to jbt)fl6n
Peter. Pan change purees. Th waist
wer rsslly . copied from the on Ml
Adams; wears In ths fairy play, "Peter
Pan," but as to change purs. It hardly
seems possiDi that a fairy would need
one. Perhaps Miss Adsms wsars It n
the street. If so, 1st u hope that ahe
will not D oniieea tn wear if nn i
long a Catherine Countess wor tb
sauor hat named for her.. . .. .
. ''' . Intuition, i :.
"Our intuitions ar tho veiled queens
Who steer our course through Ufa." '
Mseterllok ssys "our," but It is eon
eetieo ny au mat women hav more
Intuition than men, perhaps . becauae
they act on Impulse rather than reason,
A man - wlU carefully reason a thing
from, point to point, and when ho hss
laboriously reached a decision will find
thst a woman has reached tho sams
conclusion In no tlm at Oil, simply
through her Intuition- and th funny
psrt of It Is that her intuitions ar sel
dom wrong. Msn should, and do, eon
suit their wivs In regsrd to their busl-
sffalra Th vary fact that ah
hss not befuddled her brain by worry
ing, reasoning, and arguing ths matter,
wlU hslp her to see tha vliai point clear-
1 CARTERS
itt7 J Pitts. rrrJ
".-..?.
SMk Baadeehesad teUsvssn the tumbles
dan a bUleae steteef the syatwa. snob ss
IMaslaeas, line, Jriarisaex, Plekuss sfle
satlag. Pala la the Bide. 4a. While their bmmm)
Wsjsrkihlssiinmsshss bees shews la eattog
Baadaea. yet Carter's UtU Liver Mis stO
sqeaUy vahwbla la OeoetlpBUea, saiieg aad sre
veatlBg thtaaaaoytogeomplatotwhlle taey sle
eomot mil disorder of t beetesuokuaialete tho
km end isgolsts the bowels. Bvaalf theyeaiy
Aeaetbey would ssabaestprieeless to those who
soger from tsJsdteweasiiig eesiplelna bstfortsj.
etety their gnedniae doea sot end here, n those
whooewetory theaa wUI god thee littt ptlla vela,
able tasemaay waya that they will sot be w
Bag to do without theou But after aU slut hett
AK11
M Ot bane ef ee maay Hvee that betels where
, we make emr gnat boast. OaryUlseussllwkU
StheredoBot.
Cvtor-t UtU Llrer Pnie are very email aad
eery easy to take. One or two pills stake e doss.
They sre strleUy vegetable and 0 net griff e
garvOxitkr taetr seaUeaaUea piste U who
ly and quickly. Bualneea man aay that
tn vaiua or- a woman as confidential
olerk lie . In her ability to graep th
posalbuitls of -a-mattsr- qolckly "and
to be aoia to corns to a right decision
through Instinct. Girls who wish to
bs of valus to their employers should
try to cuitivato tnsir intuitive racuitiso.
Of eours it la not good to depend ea
our Intuition and do no reasoning, for
ha is -a capricious goddee of whom
we eaa asver be quite euro. , ,
, ' .y n "..-":.
Shirtwaist Suits. ,"
The newest are ef fin flannel.
They wash beautifully and are very
serviceable. . . .,
They are Just the thing for meun
talna or oeashore. .
Por early fall In town, too. they will
come in handy. - .
Favorite colore are salmon, . pmk.
mauve. Blue and cnamoia.
Some of th new flannel aav am-
broldtred figures.
An sffsctlvs one le buff color em.
broldered with black dots. '
It Is trimmed besides with' black
stitching, pipings and buttons. ' , ..
, Boot Off for Talparaiao,
Usarasl Bpeelal servlee.l . , ,
Washington, Aug. IT. FrOm Punts
Arenas, Straits of Magellan. -word haa
been received from Secretary Root, aay.
lag he bad star ted for Valparaiso. (
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KOOAK 0VCUttQ t4HO '
tNbMaCMMT9 Of ALL KtNOS
; Saw sua wife Die. '
. tiimrset SpeeUI semca.1 . ' ' -Muskegon,
Mich- Aug. 17. Chauneey
Vanorman was found unconscious on a
sand spit near this place ytaterday. He
bad (one kHntlng la a boat with bis
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