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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
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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
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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. O'Brien. ; , . . . . --
The - sermon in the ' evening wit
preached by- Rev. -J. 8, Moran of St.
Vincent Ferrer's church. New York city.
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