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1G THE OREGON DAILY JOtmNAt, PORTLAND. MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16. 1908. PIMI PEOPLE GOD'S PARTNERS Uni versalist Pastor Looks on . the Bright ' Side of Human Life. ; UNDEVELOPED MINE Ber. James D. Corby Declares Man Is Not Slave, but God's Fellow Worker In the Great Work of Im proving the World. "y the that all and i v. ' At tha TJniversalist church e-f the i Good . TMlngs on East Eighth street 'tha pastor Bev. James D. Corby had for i Tils morntnf sermon, "God's Common People." His text was, 'The common I people heard him gladly." Mark XII: 37. In part Mr. Corby said: Ths Blbls begins -with the story of a world waiting for man. Modern j. science baa -shown us the puny being I who first appeared among the mam fmothe and great beasts of prey. Who but a God who saw the end from i beginning could have prophesied ! this weakling should conquer , all sbe the master of the world ? ! "When Christ appears a little group l of 2,000 so called nobles own all - the I land, the great mass were the common 1 people among whom Jesus lived and ; loved. He knew what was In man and d -voted himself to awakening the sleep ', ,ng- possibilities. Ue showed his con ifidence by calling plain men of the people and making them partners in 'the divinest work and the. mightiest , contract ever undertaken, lie bade them go into all the world and make' dis ciples of all nationa. ' leter oWed at the idea. Paul balked at going to the tientileav. but after a course In God's I school hlS faith Is enlarged so that he declares, 'God hath. made of one blood all the families that dwell upon the earth.' ' Once kindled ' by this glowing ' truth this brave . little - band moved forward like an advancing summer. ' It is comparatively easy for a "man to be lieve mat no is a enua or uoa. tne air- f Iculty comes . wbw you ask him to admit that the men and women about him are pod s children, . , - 3Caa Oaos Debased Himself, Old theologians taught people ' to think of God n the? thought of th emperor. Man is nothing, royalty Is everything. . They sought to exalt God Dy aebasmg man. . Tney spoke or tnem selves as worms, and deemed that t compliment to God. With such low views of God and man. no wonder civil lsatlon and freedom were slow Is com ing, ...,'-';. , . "God Is using the plain ' people of this world as his partners. Darwin writing as a scientist terms his book the 'Descent of Man.' urummond with clearer vision calls his work the 'As cent of Man.' "Over asainst the realists In litera ture who seek to belittle man. who an Qlare that he ia but a leaf drifting down the stream of time I n refer the Psalm lst's words. 'Thou hast made man but a little lower tnan uoa. tnou nasi pu all things under his feet' Christ sets the Koal when be says. Be ye perfect as your Katnor in neaven is perfect. mat a-ioriiies lire. Man is not s ruin but a mine full of undeveloped ore. Not a slave but God s fellow worker: his agent, through whom the divine purposes are wrought out on earth. God made the world, but he did not finish the task, he set man at that and In doing it ne develops tne one thin God does not create, character. "As partners witn uoa you can say round wiia norses ana tamea ' tnem, found a desert and behold a garden found a wild thorn and wild appta. Instead tiere are scores or beautlfu roses and luscious fruit. In the ground found ore and coal, behold tools and factories Time was when the poet coma say, -we nave not wings, we can not soar. But we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more.- the cloudy summits of our time.' "But today we read of some new flight witn. wings every morning. The com mil" people have demonstrated how much they can do with God's law of material things. Do we realise the potential ' power in the least of those around us once they feel the call to be fellow workers with God to make the world what he would have it? Once feel that you are Qod's agent and what c.n you not dot Paul said. 'I can do all things-through Christ who strength ened me. - raui roaae gooa; so can you, , once you become a true partner who , me r ainer. ' -, - The Greatest Marvel. The scientist -was wrong who said, "Nature's greatest "achievement was de veloping a St. Bernard dog from the timDer -wolf - of the Ural mountains.' It is a far greater marvel to arouse the - best, in lylhar Peter, so that he becomes .a brave apostle. It cannot be compared with the snirit of Ood moving Livingstone to -climb from -the cotton factory, wnere be toiled as a The Fountain Head of Life Is The Stomach A man who bat a weak and impaired stomach sod who does not properly difeit his food will sods find that his blood bss become weak and impoverished, and that his whole body it improperly, snd insufficiently nourished. - - . . , . Or. PIERCE'S GOLDEJ1 MEDICAL DISCOVERT makes th etomacb etronS, promotes the fjw of " dlgeatlre ofccs, restores the leaf appetite, makaa - aaalmUatfoa ' perfect, larlgaratea the liter mad aarlflet end earlchee the blood. It is the great blood.maher, tltfb'builder mad reatoratlra aene tonic. It makem men ntroai la body, active In mind and coo la ladgemeat. - This "Discovery' is pure, glyceric extract of American medical roots,' biolutely free from alcohol and ell injurious, habit-forming draft. All its ingredients era printed on its wrappers. It hat no relationship with secret ottruma. , Its every ingredient is endorsed by the leaders in all the schools of medicine. Don't accept a secret nostrum at a tubttituts for thit time-proves remedy inown composition. Ait voua kbichsoks. They mutt know of mtoy curet made by it during past 40 years, right in your own neighborhood. "World' l Ditpeoiary Medical Association, Dr. R.V, Pierce, Pres., Buffalo, N. Y. J 1 - . .. . 1 boy until' he save himself to heal the open sort of African slavery. Some despise the mass. A man recently 'I am utterly sick of men.' As 1 read or human weakness and crime; of-fraud and deviltry I am - arlad that none - of these - things move me, . tuat . neither helghth nor depth , can separate me from the conviction that man Is God cnua and is on his way up to ever greater thins. , God's will Is . to done, either by us or over us. Shall you not have a share In It 7 - "God be praised for the stirrings our nature that still respond to noble appeal, for tne flashes of divine truth that llsrht our nlaht hours, reassurlne us that we are created as God's sons and daughters. May the sense of it hold us, and the appreciation of what by thy aid we can be operate to make pettiness and unholiness of every kind seem to us aesDicanie ana norribia. Living in thy fellowshln may our srrowth oe more ana more toward inee so tnat In actual life men may see the realisa tion of thy divine purpose at the dswn of the world when thou didst say, Let ii mttttA mfln In mir I m u ma. ' CITIES LOWER MANHOOD Key. X Allen I-as r Says They Are Beponsible for Deterioration. The Dark Side of . Life In a Great City" was -the subject of a stereopttcon lecture by Rev. J. Allen Leas last night at tne bl james iiingiisn lAitneran church. The speaker took the ground tnat city lire is cnieriy responaini -for the deterioration of -manhood and womannooa. ; in. pictures inrown upon the screen were intended . to illustrate this, in his sermon Mr. Jbeaa said: 'The large city is the arena in which the struggle for existence or supremsoy la at its fteieni. Mere various classes meet and clash in open rivalry, hidden enmity, .and burning.' sralllne- hatred Here meet the extremes of wealth and Dovertr: selfishness and charity, com mon decency and the grossest vice and immorality. The movement of human ity is away from- the farm, from 'na ture's heart' into the luxury and anlen dor of the other ' extreme pf homeless- nesa ana aesuiuuun vj. uruitn uie. 'Funirl trow In SDOts or 40W vitality. funsrus crowth on the body oolitic Indicates a noisonoua miasmatic social condition.' When it becomes difficult for a legislative body or a city coun ell to enact, and the chief executive to inforce, the proper and necessary laws, we must look further than the immedi ate narticlDants. Publico sentiment 1 wrong, end does not feel the outrage, or the error would be as speedily corrected as was the attempted assassination of Heney, when Haas dealt out his own nunishment in accordance with the re morse of his own conscience. As funrl cannot grow in purs sunshine, so graft and licentiousness cannot thrive, and the 'Sonar of tne enin win not De sunsr by the tnousanas or starving women in the large cities, wnen social conditions are wholesome. ENTJS 'RECTORSHIP . Dr. Van Wallers Preaches Last Ser mon at St. David's. Dr. Georse B. Van Waters concluded his 16 years of work as rector of St. 1 o ,1-ta L-.it ....-no 1 flmrnh - !Ajit Twelfth and Belmont streets, yesterday morning when he preached his final sermon. His resignation was presemeu to tne vosirv .hrait a rnnnth avn ind WAS anff-IltM. The sermon In the evening was deliv ered by Bishop Scaddlng. THE APOSTLE OP CHARITY St. Vincent de Paul Thus Character ized 'by Father O'Hara. The Life of Pi.. Vincent de Paul" was the subject of the discourse by Rev. E. V. O'Hara last night at the St. Lawrence Catholic church. Charac terizing the saint as the "patron of all charities," and the "apostle of organ ized charity, tne minister outiinea tne work of St. Vincent de Paul, who, he said, lived In an age dominated by great personages Richelieu, Maraxln, the age of the Thirty . Years' War. "Vincent-" said Mr. O'Hara. "learned. early in his career, the dangers of in discriminate 1 giving.'! He ' learned 5 fhe difference between poverty and pau perism, , and found .that organisation was essential to the relief of the one. and the detection of the other. Hence it is that there is scarcely a form of organised 'charitable relief in existence today which does not -trace its history to tour saint. Ths mere catalogue of the worka set on foot through hlsTw fluence would fill a small . volume. "fit. Vincent de Paul is the apostle of organised charity. Pope Leo XIII named him as patron of all charities. The charity of Vincent was Christlike. He never forgot the spiritual In re lieving i the , temporal distress of the needy, r He knew how vain it is to, tske awsy the . pain of the body and leave the far more .bitter pang of the soul. In this bis organisation or charity differs from official poor relief, which neither reconciles those relieved : to their needy- state, nor brings thftjn to loon, nit-ii iuv, -tii uiose cnargea witn their support. Thftt is not mercy; it blesses neither him that gives nor htm that takes. St. .Vincent had a balm for -the sorrowing soul as well as for the suffering body." FORBES CHCRCH DEDICATED ; XewV BaOdlng Replaces ' Structure ly Burned LessxThan Year Ago. iv, - The new ForBes Presbyterian church at flellwood street and Gantenbeln avenue-was dedicated 'yesterday. afternoon. Rev. H. H. Pratt, the pastor, being in. charge of 'the services. 'The old church was burned in December of last ' year, less than a' year a so. The ashes of the first structure' were hardly cold before the church people were at work raising funds to " rebuild. The First church and -other -churches of the city came to the - aid of : the congregation, with the result tha v funds were soon secured for the work.-; The new build ing cost 112.000. A- 1 1,500 organ- is soon to be installed. , r . , : f. y. The new building ; is a great im provement on the old .one. Iteontalns an -annex ' and basement where pro vision has been made for the Sunday school and for the young people's meet ings, r There is also a gymnasium and shooting gallery, ' - -: The program of the dedicatory ' ex ercises yesterday was as follows: Scrip ture reading. Rev. Henry Marcdtty; an them, by the choir; prayer; Rev, Andrew ; J. Montgomery; solo, "God Is Love,'' iR. W. Elwell: dedicatory sermon. Rev. Wil liam H. Foulkes, D. !.; building report, by William Allison, chairman; address, -Rev. W. a Holt, D X. anthem, dedi cation, i. Re vv H. If- Pratt; dadlcatorx prayer,,Rev., 3. R. Wilson. D. JD.; bena dlctlon. .. ' .: ' ,. MISSION AT HOLY ROSARY Rev. JT. ; 8. Moran of New York , ' ' Dcllverg Evening Sermon. '- ', A mission,' otherwise' a series of dally , religious exercises, was begun yester- day morning at the Holy Rosary church, -East Third and Clackamas streets.- Sol- ftmn hltrh ma mm. woa iulahp,tMl . .. D. - 3, D. 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