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- ; f. .. -r - t '4 THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON n r STURpAY MORNING, MARCH 29, 1924 An' Extract From The Funeral Sermon By Rov. B. E. Kirkpatrick on the Death of Mrs. Geo. W. Walton. ...l..... ... i 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 . Text: ; "But If -we died -with ' Christ, -we believe that we shall ,also live with.hiin. . . . Even bo, reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin. but alive unto God In Jesus Christ." Romans 6:8,11. The New Testament deals with the paramount Issues, of life and death. There are maty other in terests' that ordinarily absorb our attention pleasure , and pain, work and play, business and poli tics a thousand details of every day life. But it is' by universal consent that . when the question of life and death confronts us, all these, other things fade away into insignificance. ' ' ,Tet It is with these paramount and eternal things that the relig ion of Christ deals. And that is why it has always gripped the hearts of men in their more sol emn aud thoughtful moments. When we are ; brought to face life's great central concernsnoth ing but the religion of Christ will suffice.":.- . But while Christianity deals with life and ; death, it becomes perfectly - apparent, on a little thought, that Infinitely ..more is contemplated than the 'mere life or death of. the physical. body.? It Is true, that men count physical life sweet, and cling to it with tenacity. : They dread physical death, and seek to the last to avoid it.; Yet there are some things vastly more to. ba desired than mere physical life. : It is with these more deeply sig nificant things i that Christianity deals. There is a life and death in the realm of the personality of man beside which' the things that may happen to the body are com paratively unimportant.' Jesus came Into the world to make men alive not merely j to make - men tingle with animal vitality, and . strength, but to make men , al!v9 : to purity and goodness and truth. He came to save men from death not the death of the body, though it Is true1 that be did recall at least two people from the realm pf the dead for a brief space, and with many others postponed their departure hence for a little while. But he came to save men from be coming" dead - to the highest - and I best things to the things of the spirit, j i - - ' ' . We have come to know all too wen j now to detect., the moment when physical death : has come. Who .has not experienced the heartbreak at the dread ' unre sponsiveness of death? That body that was once ,bo sensitive to bur touch, that responded to our every world and glance, has now lost all power to respond to any stimulus of llfe.-., -t...- ;: Even so we have learned how to . detect' the" aliveness or the dead ; ness of one's mind. Talk to one man about radio,, .and you ; seem , to open the flood gates of his soul. He responds instantly, and can talk with you by the hour on that scheme. Mention 1 the same eub ' Ject to another man, and he makes nV response whatever, r He is not ' Interested in it. The one, man Is keenly alive , to the . marvels of radio, while the other is -apparently dead to it. Perhaps if you should discuss the subject of music with these same, men, the situation might be reversed. The one who i was keenly alive to radio might be 1 dead to music, while the one who : made no response 'to radio might go into rapture about music. Men likewise manifest the same contrast in. the realm of life's i highest Interests. Some are pltl i fully dead to spiritual things, - making no response whatever to the spiritual appeal; while others are keenly and vividly alive to the things of GoV It is one of the axioms of ex perience that one cannot be alive to everything at the same time. Some things are mutually exclus ive. No man can be alive to truth fulness and to falsehood at the Bame : time, or to purity and. to , impurity, ; to the things of the : flesh and to the things of the spir it. The capacity for both are la tent within U8 but both cannot be developed simultaneously. One must be put to death in order that the other might live. The supreme question with every man is this: which part of me shall be put to death, and which part shall be given a chance to live? The challenge of Paul in our text," which Was also the challenge of Christ, wats that we might reck on ourselves as dead unto sin, but alive unto God. That was the su preme mission for. which Jesus came, that men might die to all that is base. and low and selfish, and ' that they might be made abundantly alive to the noble and the sublime alive. unto God. And When men are finally made alive unto God and eternal things, it then becomes merely incidental whatmay become of the body. Though the outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day. If the earthly bouse of this tabernacle be dissolved we have an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. Death, loses its terror then. It becomes merely a process whereby the mortal puts on immortality It is that grea,t fact that brings comfort in an hour like this. Mrs. George W. $VaUqnfcwas one who was keenly alive" to life's highest and best. ' ' I shall nevsr forget the Impres sions of my first call upon Mrs. Walton. I had never met her be fore, but had been told that she was' an invalid. Though weak ened in body, a few moments con versation revealed how alive she was in mind, and sp rit. She showed herself wonderfully alive to the interests of her children Oi whom she was very proud; alive to questions of reform, for she had once organized a branch of the W.C.T.U., and had served many years as its president. She was alive to the interests of the church of which she had been a member since childhood, had been superin tendent of Sunday' School and an active worker in many church ac tivities. I found her intensely alive to the Bible, over whose pages she had pored with devotion all her life, until her mind was steeped in its- teaching and its spirit. And she was refreshingly alive in spiritual experience. To her, prayer was a great reality, faith a sustanlng power, Christ a present, personal saviour, and heaven a vivid and certain hope. And when J came from her home that day, I carried away the impression, not of an invalid, frail and weak "and helpless, but of a personality that was tadTantly alive to life's highest and best. And that . is still my impression today. We may lay her Jbodily form away reverently in the earth, but sha is not here; she is risen. Having learned life's greatest les son while here among us, how to be alive unto God, we can be as sured that she is still alive unto Him. Jesus said, "I am the resur rection and the life: He that be lleveth on me, though he die, -yet shall he live, and waosoever liv-eth- and -believeth' on me' shall never die." . Y For us who remain, that still is pur greatest obligation to reckon- ourselves dead unto sin, but alive unto God. Herr Lingens was accustomed to deliver a long speech every year on Sunday observance. He delivered this in connection with the consid eration of the budgets ordinarily. But one year he spoke at length on another subject and in such a low voice that the galleries empt ied and the reporters took refuge iri the cafes of, the Reichstag, which are famous for their excel lent beers. The next day the press announc ed "Delegate Lingens spoke as is his habit on Sunday rest." Herr Lingens was very angry and was granted permission by the president of the Reichstag to speak again the next day before the ord er of the day was entered' upon. He complained in his speech of the faulty reporting done by the press. , But the newspapers all came out with this 'statement: "Before the body entered upon the day's order Delegate Lingens repeated his well-known arguments in favor of Sunday rest." 441 AMERICAN'S LIVE IN TOKIO (By Mill) ; TOKIO, Feb. 22. With the ex ception of Chinese, Americans out number all other foreigners in.To kio. The last police census show ed 4 41 Americans in the city, 266 Hritish, 213 Germans. ,90 Russians, 24 French, 24 Swiss, 12 Italians, 19 Swedes, 10 Poles, and seven Indians. Since the earthquake the Chinese-population has dropped from 3000 to 1935, of which 775 are students. DIAMOND MARKET PICKING UP (By V&) LONDON, March 12. The first few weeks of any year are always good for the precious stone mer chants, as traders generally re place their stocks which have been depleted by the Christmas and New Year trade. This year there is said to have been a greater demand than ever for diamonds and other valuable stones, and last week $1,250,000 worth of "rough" stones were sold, the bulk going into the hands of American cutters. The bigegst demand is for cheap and medium grade diamonds, but much money is being put into pearl ropes and necklaces, one string alone being sold last week for $200,000. FASHION TURNS HER SPOTLIGHT ON THE FAMILY ALBUM There is something about the modest tarnedtdown collar and the plain basqte bodice of this ujider.iably modern gown which remind us of the family album photographs of our grandmothers, and who knows, if the designer did not get his 'inspiration from tbe same source, De that as it ntay, the result lis decidedly at tractive, and or 1924 heroine sltows her sense bf the fitness of things by wearing "at her throat" as the old fashioned novelists usod to say, a lage and beauti fully cut cameo biooch. Pleats, like tlje poor, seem tney are a great deal more wel come, for they add a pleasing variation to the tube like silhou ette to which as a nation we seem committed. One hardly knows what the designers would do without the diversion pf pleats and their allies, ruffles, to break the level flatness of our sartorial landscape. At the Paris openings', Henri Creange tells us, pleats were featured in every conceiv able way. Patou especially shows his .preference for this means of diversifying the straight silhou ette. Pleats are considerably more than just "part of the picture" in It - : - printed crepe de chine, from tnV South Manchester looms whose i snug fitting bodice, ; plain back, tight sleeves, and demure white; eatin collar and cuffs might pre-?'? Bent too severe an aspect were it 4. not for the gracious and graceful -. contrast of I two wide plaited i flounces of Crepe Cbenette. Pleats are .also used in a quaint new way In the lower section of the sleeve. JANUARY WAS HEALTHY ? - German Delegate Crosses Reporters Then Gets Mad (By Mall) BERLIN, March 13. Reporters In the German Reichstag get just as tired of dry routine as the American newspapermen do in the press galleries of Congress, and many amusing incidents arise over the failure of reporters to sit en tirely through sessions of the Ger man legislative body. Dr. Otto Arendt, who belonged to the Reichstag "or many years, teUs in . his , recently published memoirs of an experience Herr Lingens, a deputy of the Catholic party, had with the German press. Waller: ? Johnson; Veteran .Strike-Out King, Gets Ready for Another Season by Mountain Climbing i ' it ' . ... , This photograph, .taken . a. Hot prtUKS.'Arlt., ahows Johnson . with 'Buck' Harris, -the youngeft man- tr In tne Ainericaa ijvnguv. -Those two- laenibers joX the VatJtaary spring, tralnlnjr inston teamVwere out ; tor thptr dally, climb of the - mountains' at Hot Springs," during "iheir prellrn- Official start midwinter transcontinental SL - pT2. - rmn Sidney Bowman of New York is ?g SZ'i "k & V bidding "Cannon BaU Baker goodbye. -i 'ii ui ?&&33g iSV . - JL iX" : 1 , Group to tbe Lift includes official i . 66 ' ' ) I v , i:- M Mew "Cannon Ball" Baker and stock Gardner Sedan at Los Angeles, after record coast-to-coast run, 3398 miles in 4 days, M hours, 15 minutes' The First Midwinter Transcontinental Seed and Endurance Bun Ever Made in a Stock Closed Car. Only One Car Used Tto rosf convincing advertisement ever published for the Gardner car was written by "Cannon Ball" Baker on the rut-torn roads from New York to Los Angeles bttWeen 2:22 a. m. February 19 and 4:30 p. m. February 25. 1 Fighting his way through roads hub-deep in mud 1,396 miles on chains through rain, snow, ice and sleet up terrific mountain grades with the wind howling at sixty miles an hour across sand covered prairies where wheels spin and slide "Cannon Ball" Baker has just driven a stock Gardner Sedan, christened "The Blizzard," from coast to coast in the dead of winter. Throughout the entire run, only one car was used and all driving was done by "Cannon Ball" Baker. No man or no closed car ever equaled this feat. Few men or few closed cars ever will. The demand made upon this Gardner is equivalent to what the aver age car, undev ordinary everyday usage, is called upon to do during its entire life. "The flow of power in that car was amazing," said Baker, as Biippea ircrn Dsnina tne wneei oi tne uaraner at Los Angeles. It was smooth and even, and seemed endlers. Despite the terrific racking of the long grind, no vibration was ever apparent. "Time and again we took terrific grades in high. Between New York and Zanesville, Ohio, we pulled through the worst all-day storm in years 530 miles ca chains. "Vs pulled the entire 508 miles from Zanesville to l M W) St. Louis over roads covered with a treacherous sheet of ice, and with chains on all four wheels. Yet we made that lap in 15 hours and 33 routes better than 30 miles an hour. "We churned through the. mud of Missouri's bogs, and across the sand-swept pranes of Kansas we plunged along the Santa Fe trail and over the Eockies with the motor humming beautifully, respond ing with an abundance of power beyond our expectations. Our speed often rared well over 60 miles an hour. At no time were we pulled to the limit. After finishing his record run, and without touching his motor, he drove the same stock Gardner Sedan at 64 miles an hour over an offi cially measured course. He carried three passengers and was timed by four stop watches. Tlu record run has opened the eyes of all America to the amazing performance qualities of. the Gardner. It has clearly demonstrated J?e 51. u tS5r?Iie4: outperform any car in its class. That it will climb any: hill in high that any other car will make regard- 4WM w Dc U1 T'W - z . g0 20 to 25 mUes on a &alJon of gas. , . , wm iana up on au Kinas or roaas in all kuids of weather. :. . ' ' -A ... wnuui dSK. more or a motor car tnan was demanded of the stock Gardner .Sedan. You can not find worse roads. You cannot find steeper grades than were encountered and conquered in high! - Small wonder ownws will 11 w h RantnM - ..... . w.. w m WMU1K( is the most satisfactory car they have ever driven, Think of it! Using the most direct railroads and the fastest trains you would travel hut 4 mUes per hour faster than this remarkable speed. ' is. " BUILT BY THE GARDNER MOTOR COBUILDERS OF VEHICLES SINCE 1882 BURDETT-ALBEE MOTOR CAR; CO. . 17.1 S. Liberty, Salem. Ore. 14th and Couch Sis., Portland, Ore. t NORDENSON . MOTOR CO. Corvallis, Ore. ' s With the death rate from In-' " fluenza reduced to less than one--, half that for January, 1923. with; t sharp declines in the rates for' : tuberculosis, organic heart dl- sease, pneumonia and Brirht's - - Jatuary, disease, Jatuary, 1924. proved' likely to be aiwaj with us. and this pleasing frock of cool greet; the healthiest January on record.H 1 . v. : j L. .-y? ys' I v ! 1-