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If THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, v MONDAY EVENING,, JULY 26, 1909. LIFE'S m IS PflSTOR'SSUBJECT I?er. Benjamin Young Deliy ; era Masterly Sermon at Taylor Street Church. OT8TEIIY OF THE UNFINISHED TUSK" Isrge Congregation Hears Brilliant 1 Address on lives of Great Men :.r and the Lessons They Teach to Present Generation. !" " "The . Mystery of the Unfinished ;Tak" was the subject of the sermon . delivered by Rev. Benjamin Yonngr, pas Itor, of the ; Taylor - Street Methodist 'church. Sunday morning;. A large con tfrregatton listened to one of the most masterly of Ir. Youngs sermons. It fol lows tvy ;."(-- ,.i.'V.- ' ; Ss Heboid' thy days approach that thou imust die" Deut 81:14. 'Yet thou" shalt tsee the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto-tlw land which I iglve the children of Israel Deut. 2;62. These woras were utter ea 10 moaea as he stood by the border of the prom ised land. . For man? years he had tolled tto reach that point with his people. - He had. Riven his stre&rtn lor tnem. to man had ever done so much for a peo ple as had this leader. Even today his Influence Is seen In Hebrew law and his BDirlt Uvea In Jewish DOetry. IDs great wove is aeea In his admonition to Joshua and In the final blessings which spring out' of his soul like the water rrora a deep, strong fountain. . Moses nan iaia many Diana ior nis work in Caanan. ... He had dreamed of this land and the struszles and defeats fin the wilderness seemed to indicate this rest. He had talked and sung about it. He had buoyed up the hopes of the wearied ones ov stores -01 its teruiity. kHis a reams are now snout to do rear ized and his hopes fulfilled. In a mo ment all is changed. 1 La Is compara tively speaking a young man, for his eye was not dim nor his natural force abated. Ills step 1s elastic and his -hand lis firm. His thought Is dear and his plans evince the robust wisdom of one in his prime. Suddenly a messago comes to him that his end is near, hs must die. In the pride and the glory of his manhood Qod takes elm from nis work. It does not seem to be right, but we Ibelteve.it Is right It does not seem to be just but it was just. it ooes not look like love but Jove is back of It i ::,;?. Typical of Xdfs. t "Now this experience Is typical of all I life. We have often-. seen it' Juat when the plans are oompjeted the die 'aster comes. Just as we had perfected our plana and were about to reap the results of legitimate effort, then are we laid low. When we Baa reached, the (promised' land - and; our vision was f thrilled with the rapturous view does ,the message come changing all our plana land telling us that our feet are not to 'trend the promised land. - "The artist spends his strength in the years for the opportunity to put on can jvass the ideal imprisoned in his Imag ination He gives himslf to his task, tone touch of gold to that cloud and a ) little blue to that sky or a line to that (figure" and the picture is done. - After tomorrow it will be a masterpiece, but .that night a fainrtneas seises him and .palette and brosh ans left where he put, : them, ' His work Is done and the picture Is never to hang in the gallery, -! "In Death and the Artist' Daniel; C. French represents an artist youthful 1 and courageous, sealous and " Inspired, rrasDlng his chisel and mallet With th ardor of a master, singing to himself as he leaps to his task,, because as the stone takes on its image, his life work develops. But alas! near him stands the figure of an angel with sable wings. The angel touches the- fingers of that hand -holding the - chisel. The mallet fails as does the chisel. The artist tot ters and there, amid the chips and the dust -of Ills life work, he falls and dies. What mystery the artist has chiseled into wis famous sculpture. Mystery of Task. "Oh. the" mystery of the unfinished task! Alexander is dead at 84. Raphael goes at 37. Shakespeare is taken Just turned 60, and Dickens and Thackery not far from the sama. toerlod. . - Keats is dead at 24 and Shelly at 30. Byron star has gone out In a wild night of storm at 37 and Burns, who sung him self into the common heart of the race! Is called at the same age. - Robert Louis Stevenson is never able to work out 'St Ives' because he hears the call. Joseph Rodman Drake is dead at 24 and Sidney Lanier, one of the princes of American song, at 39. renders up his soul to uod. Again and again have men come to the border of a promised tana.- orten nave men dreamed-of victory, "yet 1n"Jlfe they have met nought but failure and de feat. Men have sometimes laid large foundations but the superstructure has been lifted by another. . itut tma is lire. We are baffled y it There is much that we cannot ratnom in human life. Reason is sometimes driven back upon itself. Sorrow is here and misery and sometimes it seems as though the light of the sun had gone out It has been so from tho beginning. In the prhnevsil day the pat riarchs were baffled by many .things they could hot understand. -In pro phetlo times It was so. Job cries out from the desolation which has come upon him. From every side is he smit ten. - Great sorrows tug at his heart At times he seems to be as helpless as old mad Lear in the immortal tragedy. yet, though Darned oy strange experi ences and tormented by false friends, he manifests a Sublime faith tn Qod. - It is true today as in the past and it will be true tomorrow as it is true today. You will find It in the career of the great apostle, and we can all see it in the life of the Master, Ajnoatlcs px Stoics,- "What is the way out? Shall we be come agnostics or stoics? In the face of this mystery or of this unfinished task in life shall we take refuge in the philosophy of nescience?: ia doubt Or an interrogation point a good pillow for an aching heart? Study the Christ life and find the answer. Hear the Christ word and catch the Divine comfort Qo with him along that strange pathway. . See him in Gethsemane with the cup pressed to his lips. Hear him cry out as the burden rests upon him. If It be possible let this cup pass, nevertheless not my will but thine be done.' Mark his attitude m the last hours or his life. Note his confidence and his courage. Listen to his prayer. .There wast a Father for him in the dark hour. In Jesus Christ's death there Is blessing for the world, hut in the attitude of the Master to these darker things which is sue in life is there blessing and InsDlra- tion for every burdened soul looking his wayr The mystery of the unfinished task finds a solution in the word and the life and the death of the Son of Man." CTTTC RIGHTEOUSNESS Bishop Smith Speaks on Subject at . Mass ' Meeting. Bishop Charles W. Smith of the Meth odist Episcopal church delivered a con vincing address on civic righteousness and the striking elements in a fight for its cause, vesterdav afternoon at a mass meeting held at the Swedish M. E. church, under the auspices of the Civic Federation. Unity was the keynote of his discourse, unity among all. the fac tions looking for ultimate good, and he said that onlv through united1 Dover could they hope to win against the unit ed forces of evil. Bishop Smith spoke of the strength of Tarn man V In New Tork. and sM that It resided in ' the thorough organisation that marks that body. " It la a benevo lent and charitable organization, that looks after Its voters In 'time of illness or trouble, and so cements Its' union. Only when all the forces of good tinlte against It Is Tammany beaten, and then the latter collects, its forces for another battle. This, the speaker said, la a mo mentous example of what -exists in al most every city, though the-organization Is not always so well defined, - "There are patriots who serve' their city or country well and honestly." Dr. Smith said. "They serve in the - city council without pay. They are clean, honest men and deserve 'well of their fellow citlxens.. There are salaried men who are also honest and serve their country faithfully and honestly. They are men who perform the duties for which they are paid wthout graft They should receive the support and respect of their fellow citizens. They should have the support of the church and they should be made to know that their er- ions are appreciated uy uieir xeuuw citlxens. - , "But there is another class who seek office for graft, and as such should re ceive the condemnation of all- good citl xens and, if they cannot be sent to the penitentiary, ougnt, at least, to oe dru mined out of the community. That kind of men ought to be watched and exposed. Their only regard for off ice is mat it arioros tnem opportunity to graft "It is truly said that the saloon is the enemy of civlo righteousness and tne notbea or political corruption, a gltrantio system of sraftinar is main tained bv this class of statesmen through the saloon from the lowest brothel on upward. There Is an organ ized system of graft - After outlining . these conditions. Dr. Smith said too much was expected of the church, alone; that people looked to it ior salvation irom civio corruption. but that the church was not numerically strong enough in itself to brlnsr about a change,- for they have not even 20 per cent of the vote.;' He said all righteous elements should Ntitiita with the church toward its one common aim, of wiping out civic unrighteousness. ."Closing up the saloons, and enforcing the law means a lonr and a hard firht.r' was nis comment ' Mere enactment or laws closing up the saloons does not mean that the saloons are closed. The law must be enforced. But every Chris tian citizen should stand for civic right eousness and for American citizenship. The people should "be supreme in this country. The people are the king, and the people can control If they will to do so. They can have the kind of govern ment they will to have. "I believe In party organization and party government in this country. It is only when . one party - becomes over whelmingly powerful and arrogant that It becomes corrupt, and then the other party steps in. By uniting the honest Christian voters of all parties, .Republl-. can. Democratic. Populist Prohibition and other parties, the end of civic right eousness may be attained." The battle for Prohibition whlch Is planned for 1910 -was discussed, and al mos all the speakers agreed that Oregon is ripe for this struaiile now. The sneak ers who touched on this and other civic subjects were Rev. A Far well. Rev. J. C. Larson. L. D. ' Mahone,- editor of the Oregon citizen, the federation's organ; Rev. L. C Hamlltoiv and 'Rev. John Ovall. M. C. Reed. Dresldent of the league, was In the chair. The choir and Miss Chrlstona Olson furnished the mu sical numbers, and Miss Edna Child gave a temperance reading. SERMON ON FAITHFUIiNESS terest of life and all of the nest things of -life.- Dr. Dyott scored as tmuch the cynic and pessimist who accuses all men in business, politics and the noma oi un faithfulness as he did the unfaithful ones themselves. He called attention to the fact that there Is so much more good than evil In the world, that crime and not well doing still constitute new He scored politicians who are a libel to the word statesman,-, and spoke etlng- ingiy of traitors to their cause, but re joiced that there are many faithful to their missions in life, and said it 1 the worK or tne small poisoned sou is to De little the faithful few because of the shortcomings of others. ' .- -1 He said: "A religion which Interferes with persons- doing the socalled secular things, which ought to be done, is, in some respects, worse than no religion at an. , one is best prepared ror the com ing of the Lord; whatever that coming may mean to him, ; when, - with clean hoart clear brain, and consecrated life he Is found doing the things that ought to do aone aomg me ordinary cninga witn an extraordinary spirit it la in being faithful that we register life Id us , Dest." ;. :, .- f f . ;;- . DR. HILL PREACHES , Dr. Dyott. Scores RooseVelt for Ilnnt- ing In Africa. "Faithfulness" was the subject of Dr. Luther R. Dyott's sermon yesterday at' ths First Congregational church In which he scored ex-President Roosevelt for unfaithfulness to his trust In set ting out to despoil life merely for fun. An ignoble spectacle," Dr. Dyott called It In referring to Roosevelt's hunting trip through Africa, and - said it was enough to make loyal Americana blush for shame; that to kill for fun is gross infidelity. "Unfaithfulness Is the one awful thing that despoils life," he said. "Faith fulness Is the one divine thing that holds Qod and man together in the in- Former Pastor of Portland Speaks at First Presbyterian Church. Dr. Eidgar P. Hill, formerly castor of tne jf irst jrresDvterian cnurcn or tnis city, but now a member of the faculty of the McCormack Presbyterian Theo logical seminary or Chicago, occupied the pulpit of his old' church last night and yesterday morning in the absence of the regular , pastor, ', Dr. William Hiram Foulkes. - - Dr. Hill will be In the city for three weexs and auring the time is to be the guest of IL C. Campbell at' Twentieth and Carter streets- on Portland Heights. He Is to be extensively entertained dur ing that time, the first reception to be given in his honor by the Ladles' Ala society at the First Presbyterian church Tuesday evening. ,-, ur. HUl's topic in the morning was "Hearts Ease" and in the evenlnsr "The rroDiem or unicago." in the latter he told of the trouble which Chicago was having with her citizens, the foreign element especially. He told of how un scrupulous politicians had secured the votes of thousands of these citizens through the medium of the priests who were suDDOsea lo nein tnem. H em- clared it would take years - of work among inese people to effectually teach mem me nsni way to live. YEAR'S LABOK IN VAULTS OF C0UMT Hood River. Or.. Tnlv t TOvcirm n or transcribed re cords of Hood River county, taken from the records of Wasco county, and which ii ii as laaen a large . rorce over one year's time to complete, are " lodged -in the vaults St the rnnntv nf TtTvnsi River county. Before the matter can do cioseo, nowever, It will be neces sary for the county clerk of Hood River county to verify the records. This he wm not no until he has reread them and compared copy. County Judge A. J. Derby and Commissioners Hill and Mo- lsaasc, lane me position that it will not be n.ecessary to have the records' reread, in view of the fact that this has been done by the copyists and all corrections in transcript made, . Drowned In Lake. Seattle, July 26. Lake Washington, in the-vicinity of Madison Park, i be ing dragged for the body of Jesse W. Blssett of Hillman City, who lost his life yesterday while attempting to give aid to a young woman whom he thought to be in danger. The drowning occurred within SO feet of shore and in sight of severar members of a picnicking party. Seeing a young woman pushing a raft about near the shore of the lake and believing her to be in peril of her life, Blssett started to the rescue in a canoe, Before he had gone far a squall arose and the canoe was overturned. Unable to swim, Blssett sank for the last time Just as one of the men from the shore reached his side. GREAT FECIAL MEN'S FANCY SUITS NOW A : OX WHEN YOU SEE IT IN OUR AD ITS SO. M0YE1 THIRD AND OAK FIRST AND YAMHILL FIRST AND MORRISON Genuine Leather Couch Sale 80,570, 875 Couches at 849 "We arccIosirgout some-10 different styles of Genuine Leather Couches at the above price. These couches have the finest steel rame and best oil spring construction, covered with the No. 1 .Bret-grade genurae leather.. They are diamond-tufted and but- ton-tied. ' A greatjsavingjin price here for some one who wants a good article. - " " - Sale Dining Chairs We, are closing out about 20 odd sets oLDining Chairs at about half price. They are models discon tinued by the manufacturers. All oi tnem are tun dox seat;, some have genuine leather seats. They are Dargains wortn seeing No. 545, regular $8.00 Chair, for $5.50 JNo. 31, regular $12.00 chair, fof ... .$6.50 No. 32, regular, $15.00 Chair, for ... .$3.50 1 is Missioitockr mmmm SiidFI&nioloii-l'Me 4 $35 to $45 Beds July Sale Price 20 Patterns 4 Woods f X - " ,f V - it 'eSf; " 'St - is i'.'f wrt - f. o I These popular Napoleon Beds are in three styles-r-the "Empire," heavy roll and light roll over head arid foot pieces -and are shown in dark mahogany, tuna mahogany, birdseye maple and golden oak, fine hand-rubbed and hand polished. The wood being very beau tifully grained, the -piano polish gives a finish unsurpassed for elegance. The beds are worth from $35.00 to $45.00, but for this July sale are tfOQ Yf quoted at only .......... j)OeUU Specials In Solid Brass II E 1 I I F.R In this sale of Solid Brass Beds we include both the continuous posts and the straight posts, round rods and square rods. If you are interested in Brass Beds, see these values this week. $35 to $50 Beds for Six Beantlfnl Patterns From Which to Cboose HQI )lpi.W.I.lii ! "7 ; Mai SOLID OAK, EARLY ENGLISH FIN ISH, BRASS DIAL NUMERALS $25.00 Clocks for folly MM : M J l No. 1205--Rocker in best oak, just like the cut, new model, jweathered finish, Boston leather upholstered seat, a reg. ffj f $U.O0 value, for only. -OD.J Over 25 other fine Mission Rock ers, made of best eastern oak in the weathered and Early English finish; hand-made and J hand buffed leather upholstered seats, brass and covered tacks, , Very high-grade goods, the product of the Dexter Chair Company on . specjal sale. - ; . ' 5000 Yards Best Grade Axminster Carpels $1.25 A wonderful special is offered in our Carpet Department' this week. We place on special sale 5000 yards of best grade Axmbster Carpet in orientals, florals and conventional designs, in red and tans, green and tans, at the remarkably low price of $1.25 per yard. It has extra high nap, extra firmly woven back, positively fast colors m fact; a grade of carpet that others price at $2 per yard and more. Gevurtz' extra special price, per yard, this week ... . ......... ; .$1.25 - - T M i 7 fitl-A M I I iff if: 3 - Jtirst and Yamhill Second and Yamhill ..Warnted...ta..hcro.d.Vtimekeepers...,Si2.: 15 inches by 6 feet Two styles. An extra special price. They -give a completeness and finish to your hall. Are best and cheapest because they require but little ice to do the work. They are lined with charcoal, the great non-conductor of heat. $1 Dpwn ffl a Week 'Wew Mcthbd, Gas Ranges Consume but three fourths as much gas as other ranges. , Keep down your gas bill by ordering a "New . , , Method." . Sold on easy, terms. ; Paj $la4eek ore $40 and $50 Dressers Oiily These beautiful Circassian Walnut Dressers are of the newest models. Many of them shaped like the cut. F l-arge r rencn revei piate mirrors, u perfectly fitting, drawers with, pulls made ot tne same wooa. - ine. wal nut is of the natural finish, but per- .We are closing out. four different patterns at the uniform Ann Cfl price of ..v)teDU ill. t-i rr r1 i ' ft'ML.J" ,-