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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEil, OREGON
SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1925
ES THE NAME: THE CITY OF BEAUTIEUL HOMES
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VALUE AND COMFORT PREDOMINATE THIS II AHDY HOME
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HDUDAY BftDIO TALK
Architect's Small House Service Bureau, Mountain Division.
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Considering the ground space landing, take up every foot of the "mines are carefully designed to
covered here iS & remarkably com- second floor. . No space is lost. At develop to the best advantage the
modious home; Few small houses vy Pint comort considered common brick of which it is built.
. - . first. Altogether it is a home that ap-
are arranged more conveniently or Architectural extravaeance has oeals. both within and without.
to better advantage It has all of been carefully eliminated but not The sort of a home too that givei
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the most essential features found, to the point of severity.
in far more expensive. residences,
all planned with aa jeye to comfort.
The ample living room with its
open lire place is flanked on the
'one side by an inviting sun room;
on the other by a cozy dining al
cove while opening to the rear is a
large porch easily possible to in
close. The stairway from the liv
ing room is placed so aa not to be
objectionable. Back of the com
modious kitchen is an inclosed re
frigerator room. 4
Three ' very comfortable ted
rooms with, convenient batb and
ample closet space, all opening upon
the little center, hall at the stair
Its trim- one most nearly his money's worth.
The Common Brick Manufacturers' Association, Cleveland.
Leaf!'. . on brick roaatructioo seat upon request. ..........
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drawings for this
Ohio,
complete
design.
HOUSES BUILT OF PERM ANENT MATERIALS COST BUT
LITTLE MORE THAN THOSE CONSTRUCTED OF
MORE TEMPORARY MATERIALS
But the Upkeep Expense of Such Houses Is Small
See us for common brick, face brick, building tile, partition tile, silo tile, drain tile,
;iif - j1 vertrified sewer pipe.
SALEM BRICK & TILE CO.
TELEPHONE 017
SALEM, OREGON
un nii viiiaia nrnnr
Building forf George C. Will,
on Liberty .Street Being;
.Rushed
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Forms havebeeni remored com
pletely fro rHheMe and front
walls' of 'tbeeoafcfete store and
office buildifcg?under construction
on Libertv i between State and
Terry for George C( Will, local
music dealer. : The bafck wall.-be--ing
constructed of brick, two lay
ers thick, has reacftea aDove tne
first floor. It is expected that the
back wall will be complete by the
end of this week. '
Partitions -ar . half completed
on the first floor. This work will
alno be finished by the end of the
week. The main floor is divided
Into three store spaces, ;: and the
floor is . to bfi ! devoted to
office rooms. , f 1 r ' i
The roof was completed Satur
Salem Court of Honor will be
held at 7 o'clock, December 17.
at the county court house. If you
intend to be present please regis
ter In advance at Scout headquar
ters. .This applies to second and
first class scouts as well as merit
badge Candidates. The members
of the newly organized McMinn-
ville Court of Honor have ex
pressed their intentions of being
present at this session in order
to secure ideas as to procedure
in conducting their Court of
Honor. Lets have a big turn-out.
day.
SCOUT SUNDAY -
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-description; fuiA.these are All pro
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The December meeting! of . the
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where he can be learning and at
the same time be testifying about
Jesus, which is his earnest de
sire. The Sadhu is showing a fine
spirit among the people, so , we
are moving him also to the new
out-station to work with an older
preacher. .. . I
''The- Lord has done wonders
tor Sadeo, who came with his two
children last February, in a' dying
condition. He was very sick and
all three were about starved. Now
he is fat, well and happy in Jesus
eager to get out and bear testi
mony. We truly need another
out-station and hope to open one
soon as God sends means- We
have taken in another orphan
boy "since our; last letter, so they
keep coming, one by one. The cold
season has begun, S though the
days are still hot. We rill soon
be out camping and preaching the
gospel lit the villiages. We need
your prayers that God will work
with, signs' following.
"To those who are wishing to
send boxes or packages, we would
make a suggestion. When you de
clare the value of your package,
be sure to value it low, about one
half or loss of its real value.
Mark It "For Charitable Purposes,
Not to.be Sold." This is perfectly
legitimate! If you put a high val
uation upon what you send, it
makes our customs duty very high
and does not. pay to send things.
We; are surely grateful for what
has been senti r
''May God bless the hands that
are ministering to His little ones
here. We pray for you daily. What
a glorious privilege to labor all
day, yes, and into the night, as
some of you are doing for the
furtherance of the gospel. "I will
gladly spend and be, spent for
you," says Paul.
"Stir me, oh stir me, Lord, I care
not how
But stir my heart in passion
for the world;
Stir me to give, to go, but most
to pray, -
Stir till the blood-red banner
be unfurled
O'er lands that still in heathen
Sermon Reprinted in Full as
Broadcast From Port
land Station
High commendation of the ser
mon radioed from Portland on
Thanksgiving day. by the Rev. J.
R. Buck, of Salem, leads to its re
print here. The subject was tak
en from the Apostle's Creed: "He
A.scended into Heaven Where He
Sitteth at the Right Hand of God
the Father Almighty."
"Going therefore, teach ye all
nations; baptizing them in the
name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Teach
ing them to observe all things
whatsoever I have commanded
you; and behold I am with you all
days, even to the consummation
of the world." (Matt. XXVIII.
19-20.)
The task Christ thus gave to the
rpostles was gigantic, and. human
ly speaking, impossible and beyond
their strength. Their leader,
Jesus Christ, had been publicly
crucified. r ignominy had been
heaped upon Him. and the lessons
He had striven to inculcate, were
held in derision by a sin-loving
world. Those chosen to carry on
i he work, numbered but a handful
of weak followers, of whom the
boldest had denied his Lord with
blasphemy. They were poor, they
were ignorant, they were helpless.
Before them lay the far reaching
pagan world with all its vices
great - nations and people wholly
given up to pleasure and amuse
ment, and the full gratification of
every evil passion.
How were these men, poor and
illiterate, whose very speech be
trayed the mby its mongrel dia
lect, to propagate a cult so dia
metrically opposed to the cus
toms, habits and inclinations of a
pagan world? And how was it
that these least influential of men.
with their miserable cross of wood,
triumphed over the deadly fasci
nations and conquered rulers,
kings and emperors, and brought
so large a portion of the sin-blasted
world to the feet of Christ?
Ah, my dear friends, one thing
only could accomplish this hercu
lean task, and that was the divini
ty of Christ. And that divinity
was and ever has been apparent
through Christ's resurrection, as
cension and the permanent estab
lishment of the Christian religion;
for He deliberately and purpose
fully chose what seemed the most
inadequate and impossible of in
struments to further His work,
tor as St. Paul sayB, (I Cor. i, 27
29). "God hath chosen the foolish
things of the world, that He might
confound the wise; and the weak
things of the world, that He might
confound the strong so that no
flesh should glory in His sight."
The ascension of Christ into
heaven was one of the most power
ful means of establishing His
identity. To put it syllogistically,
Christ is divine, i. e., true God and
true man, if the apostles were no:
deceived in the ascension, nor de
ceivers. They were not deceived:
for forty days after our Lord's
resurrection they associated with
Him most intimately, and together
with a concourse of at least 500
people, saw Him rise bodily into
the heavens. Neither did they de
ceive, for they had no motives for
deception. What could they hope
to gain by deception? Not the
world, because it hated Christ,
hated them and their religion.
Surely they could not expect to
gain the favor of God, who hated
lies and severely punished decep
tion of every sort. Certainly no
one would give his life for a de
ception, and the apostles were
willinc and in fact. tlii lav ilnwn
thir lives for the cause. There-
darkcess lie,
O'er desert where no cross is I fore the apostles were not deceiv-
lifted high. ed, neither were they deceivers
and the fact of the ascension
r roved thereby.
The ascension of Christ was a
miracle and .there is nothing so
convincing as miracle; for they
have equal force with the learned
with the ignorant, and the edu
cated as well as the illiterate. A
miracle arrests the attention and
demands, an explanation. Thus the
ascension, coming under the sens
es of man. confirmed the prophe
cies, attested the divinity of Christ
and gave strength to the weak
things that were to confound the
strong, and the foolish things that
were; to confound the wise. And
in an Incredibly short time the
proudest of nations yielded to the
crucified Galilean.
There is scarcely a doctrine,
however holy and well grounded,
that does not call forth denuncia
tion from some classes, and the
more supernatural the belief may
be. the more certain It Is of con
demnation. 'Thus we need not
wonder that those marvelous oc
currences in nature that are called
miracles, should arouse the oppo-
.siuon or many writers and thinn
ers, and should be declared by
them as absurd and quite impossi
ble. The advance of science and
the adherence to law of all nature,
have made men impatient of any
violation of this law or departure
from pre-established order. They
never tire of searching out and
laying bare such rules as may be
applied universally to all phenom
ena. They will brook no excep
tions. To those on the contrary,
who take a wider survey and look
to and beyond the visible, phenom
ena to the invisible Creator of ev
erything including the laws of na
ture, the universe presents a
much grander picture, and one
which is no mere piece of machin
cry set in motion and kept in mo
tion by nobody knows whom, but
it 13 the direct handiwork of an
all-powerful, omnipotent God,
wonderful in conception, simple in
grandeur, and elevating in contem
plation. But what is a miracle? Let lis
take the definition, of St. Thomas
Aquinas. He says it is "a sensible
effect, produced by God. and which
transcends all forces of nature."
Now there are three ways by which
an occurrence may transcend the
forces of nature. First, when no
power of nature can produce "the
effect, such as the ascension of a
body into heaven. Second, where
the event may indeed be produced
by nature, but not under the same
circumstances, such, for instance
as a beautiful lily which nature
ould produce in a mild and agree
able climate, blooming in the ex
treme outdoor climate of winter.
And third, an occurrence which is
natural in one instance and super
natural in another, such as the
limb of a tree which might be
grafted upon a tree of its kind,
being attached to the tree instan
taneously without grafting and
leaving no scar or mark
These miracles of three degrees
are met with in holy scripture as
well as in the lives of the saints.
Why are such events denied? Eith
er because God cannot transcend
nature or because He will nbt.
(We tare it for granted that all
believe in the existence of God.)
Now to say that God. the omni
potent Creator of man is restrict
ed o" hammered in His operations,
or cannot govern the laws He has
made, or, for His own honor and
'.dory. His own Dumose. will not
t transcend those laws, seems an
absurdity. Therefore if He wishes
to transcend nature in any way
who is man that he dares to say
that Creator it is impossible! As
well might a watch arise and say
to the man who invented and reg
ulated it, that hie could in no way
change either the mechanism or
regulation.
The broad facts of history ren
der miracles absolutely neressary
for the establishment and propaga
tion of Christianity, and can be
explained in no other way. And
Christ's .resurrection and ascen
sion were (he very means God used
to center attention on the religion
He wished to found. The conver-
ftott Of t world from paganism
to Christianity Is fid fancy, bo
dream, but a stern and undeniable
fact. The world is anything tntf
perfect, it is true, but who will
deny that everything that is good
and noble and elevating in the
world today Is the result of Chris
tianity? And how was that Chris
tianity inculcated, propagated and
perpetuated if not by miracles?
Has not Christ's command to
"teach all nations" in spite of dif
ficulties which seemed insur
mountable, been accomplished?
And are not the precepts of our
lord taught from one end of the
earth to the other? And has He
railed to strengthen, "guide and di
rect His church through all the
viscitudes of. an. ever changing
world, until she stands like a Gib
raltar rearing its mighty head
nbove an angry sea which fain
would dash her to pieces? "Behold
I am with you all days even to the
consummation of the world,"
promised Jesus, and His promise
has been and must be fulfilled.
I else Christianity is a fiasco.
"He ascended into heaven, sit-
eth at the right hand of God the
Father Almighty," is the sixth ar
ticle of the Apostle's Creed, and
to many heaven is no less mi-acu-
lous or understandable ' than the
6cension. Hence It is not unusual
to find people asking for a descrip
tion of heaven. They would argue
that since we have but our five
senses and cannot apprehend
either God or heaven with these.
It is foolish to believe they are
anything but mere fables. These
people seem to forget that we
have reason and imagination, as
well aa our senses, and these at
tributes play no small part in ac
quiring knowledge.
that there is a heaven is a
revelation from God, and we must,
as His creatures, take Him at His
word. It is true, "Eye bat not
seen nor ear heard," but ah analo
gy might be helpful.
Suppose a man who had never
had sight, should ask you to de
scribe the beautiful Oregon land
scape on a bright spring day. You
would tell him of the mountains
you could see in the distance, al
most a blue-black, of the bright
i.ieadow stretching toward them.
You would describe the blossoms
of the trees, the little purple vio
lets in the grass, and the red, yel
low and pink tulips along the
green hedges. You would then
speak of the blue sky a different
shade from the mountains, and the
fleecy clouds tinged with crimson,
and over all the golden flecking of
the sun.
All this you would tell the blind
man. but what would your words
mean to him if he had never seen
the light of day? What impres
sion would your words "blue-
black, green, yellow, purple, etc."
make upon his mind? How would
you make him understand what
"fleecy" and "sun - flacked"
meant? And if he should say, "I
do not believe there is any such
thing as color. Red. green, yel
low and purple are but figments
of the mind, and since I. cannot
grasp it with the senses I have; I
will not believe" how could you
convince him?'
Then are we logical if we will
not believe anything but what wo
may apprehend with our senses?
The essential joy of heaven is the
secure and eternal possession of
God. As He is infinite and abso
lutely perfect, it stands to reason
that the, Joy arising from a con
templation of Him, must exceed
in an unmeasurable degree the joy
of contemplating a finite being.
Then there are the leaser joys of
being again united with those
whom we have loved in this life.
and the absence of everything
would detract in the slightest de
gree from perfect happiness, and
the full and complete knowledge
as we shall then possess it. Surely
we shall then appreciate more
than can be expressed in the
words: "We have not here a last
ing city."
Then if we will use the faculties
God has given to us, will meditate
on the revelations He has so kind
BRICK MEN ISSUE
INDUSTBY REPORT
Conditions of 'the common brick
industry are outlined in report
dated December 1, and published
by the Common - Brick Manufac
turers' association,- Cleveland. It
runs as follow: - ; -
"Government statistics just fs
used by the bureau .or census in
dicate that the common brick bus
iness in 1924 Just about equalled
the volume of 1923 which was by
far the highest in consumption of
any year since 1916. It is diffi
cult to measure common brick
consumption on a national basis.
In those centers where the brick
manufacturers have been aggres
sive and enterprising there is sat
isfactory growth, , In other sec
tions, considerable brick Is being
displaced by substitutes, proving
that even the best building ma
terial need to ' be promoted In
this day and age.
"By the end of 1925 it will be
found that the consumption of
common brick in such targe cen
ters as New York City, Chicago,
Detroit, Los Angeles, San Fran
cisco. Cleveland and generally
throughout New England, will be
ahead of 1924
"Bad weather caused a little
slump in Chicago in October, but
there has been a decided pickup
ly made for us, and will really
pray, our Thanksgiving will be
blessed indeedr and our lot, no dif
ference what- it may be, will be
come more bearable, and we will
appreciate the words of that beau
tiful prayer which says: "Teach
me to know the notbingness of
this world- the greatness of heav
en. the shortness oi time ana iae
length of eternity."
through November. The western
metropolis is headed toward a
billion and a quarter of common
brick consumption yearly. '
A recent check on future or
ders in about 20 of. the largest
centers indicates that' 192$, will
not fall behind the present year.
In only a few cities is there an
indication of over building, and
that is confined to limited classi
fications. Small houses are in
strong' demand everywhere. There
is a big program of school and In
stitutional building for the com- :
Ing year. . The brick men are
looking for their gains, in the fu
ture, in residential construction,
where; there Is ft decided tendency
toward brick. The' misconception
which so long prevailed that the
house of brick cost more than less
enduring types Is gradually dis
pelled 'Home builders are find
ing that the brick home sells more
readily than any other typo, a re
sult of national advertising and
publicity of this kind ot construc
tion, j , '
"Ninety-one per cent of the
manufacturers reporting taken an
optimistic view as to the pros
pects for business during the com
ing month. This opinion is justi
fied upon an analysis of the fig
ures, j which show a four; per cent
Increase in the orders bn books
over last month's report.!
"The brick' actually moved
from the yards, is about the same
as last month's total. Eighteen
firms of the 117 firms .reporting
hate; their plants closed down,
however. This periodical shut
down is necessary in the brick
business as manufacturing is
much more difficult in bad weath
er. With the Increased number of
plants shut down, and the same
number of brick moved from the
yards, there has resulted a 1 0
percent drop in the number of
burned brick on hand aid a drop
of 19 percent in the iuuburued
brick on hand. , ,.
Attractive casement windows
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Ask us about
sizes, styles
and prices.
"N all types of homes they
are displacing the old
style windows. Casement
windows are artistic. They
give more light and air.
More convenient to operate
no tugging or lifting.
They can't jam. No weights
to make trouble.
Spaulding made means
finest kiln dried fir, ex
quisite finish and first qual
ity glass. They come in
natural finish "and may be
stained or painted to suiU.
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