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20. THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 17,1928 i2 'I .1 A i : . J if 1 1 4! If J -ii iff f.r 3 i 4 J' i i If I THE BACCAUUREATE ADDRESS FOR 1928 (CratiaM frn PS !) not A t bines a notnmg if only Kiey may .tin nato Christ. There Is bat pjqp explanation that Christ does dwll in the human soul. And to day He is the Invisible universal ppwer which acts within men power as persistent and as pervad ing as the force of gravitation. Sen, there is the (historical Christ and there is a living, en ergizing Christ. He is more than energy, for that energy is bailt of love and troth and parity and righteousness. These are the trans forming elements, mas-mx uu iiv rhrlst. He works within us not as a cosmic force, not as grav Jtftion or chemical attraction, but as Jioliness and love. Ana as we Kit. f.iinwshin with Him. the power to be good flows into us MHe that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit." Ilankind Jias a second universal need which Christ alone can satis fy. Due to evil, due to ignorance due to wilfulness, life is far too drab and Joyless. Heaviness rests upon men, and the spontaneous hanDiness of childhood does caj ry over Into the later years. sweet gladness should fill every heart, but instead there is the spec ' ter of fear and regret and weari- Surelv this was not in the plan, nor is It necessary. There is an abundance of ma terials for happiness, but there is a failure of the spirit. Since time bean. there never was so much money and leisure and opportuni ty. Music and art and beauty, free dom and peace and fellowship of fer themselves bountifully; yet there are countless men and wo men in comfortable circumstances to whom life means nothing, who question day by day whether It Is worth while going on. Like Jacob they have seen visions of angels ascending and descending, but they have lost the ladder by which they themselves could climb. The buoy ancy of youth has somehow been destroyed, and they wander among blind hours which are like fog banks to a ship at sea. One may attach blame to the titanic economic system. The vast aggregation of material forces which bind men to the complicated mechanism of modern industry forces seem to overwhelm and crsh one's personality. Men be come wheels interlocking with oth er wheels, turning with the gi gantic organization to grind out fabulous products which neverthe less do not afford the gift of last ing happiness. The soul's cry is fpr the restoration and redemption cf the man within oie's self. The same defeat of feif is seen in the round of social life where personality is submerged in the endless routine of conventional ob ligations. The mechanics of happi ness have murdered joy. The lib erty to be one's self is lost In a urging impersonal movement. One has "to be in the swim." "keep up with the procession," have his name in the society column though he unutterably wants to be himself in another way. It is not because the world is empty and monotonous, but be cause men cannot be happy when life is being suffocated. They fight against It by Beeking new and ex-1 citing forms of pleasure, goading themselves into a semblance of joy ike a weary horse under the stim ulus of whip and spur. The vast theatres and amusement parks sometimes seem to be but monu ments to human weariness, marks of mankind's search for an opiate to dull the rebuking sense of dead and meaningless days. When Maxim Gorky visited America, he said that Coney Island was the saddest thing he had ever seen two hundred thousand peo ple, trying to make themselves hap py with tinsel and noise, with eat Ipg and drinking and-hollow laugh ter. Two hundred thousand people In one place devoid of personal re sources, weary of themselves and flanging into an hour of self-for-getlulnesa. prink, and drugs, the syncopat ing excitement of jasz. the lurid pages of realism, the daring fpjrms of the modern dance, find I heir reason In vacant lives which desperately attempt to kill gloom nod monotony. Most of us have an understanding of this tragedy, for who has not had periods when the flame of joy has burned but feebly, wjten it would have died entirely had there not been an Inner breath to bring It back to life. Well, and Is this the lot of man? Is he doomed to personal dlscour agement and weary emptiness? Or is there a fullness of meaning which can make him splendid In what he Is and does? Is there something better than a pitiful Im Itatlon of joy? Is there a stimulus which comes from a higher source than the material world? Christ has several answers to this question. The first Is that of self-discovery. He tells men that they are children of God no mat ter what dullness or suppression or what lack of opportunity, men are still His children and have the right to a great heritage. The sal vation He offers is not so much from things as to themselves. He lifts them out of despair Into a mighty confidence. His voice Is that of a captain who knows the hidden strength of his men. They are helpless and misled, of them selves; He is the Master strate:-u of life who shows them how to get the victory they covet, leading them where alone they could not go. It is Christ's way of reinforce ment to reveal unsuspected worm and to transform by the transmis sion of power. Does this seem to be a poor an swer to men who have been me chanized by the superorganization of modern business and modern so ciety? Men want deliverance from dull routine from crushing no thingness, from the awfulness of being a living cog in a dead ma chine. And Christ does not deliver them, as He did not deliver the Jews from their bondage; but he does bring deliverance. After Christ called His disciples, and lived with them three years. He left them in the same business they were in at the time He met them first. Their contemporaries could wag their heads and say, 'What have you got out of all this turmoil? See, you are just where you were before." They were where they had been, ' but they were not the same men. Something Infinitely transforming had entered heir lives, and they were different creatures. The miracle was not to lift them out of a hard vocation. not to change their outer circum stances, but to transform them by he restoration of their inner reatness. Their splendidness henceforth was to be within; their total fellowship henceforth was not with boats and nets and fish, but was with life all-abundant and powerful in Christ himself. "The men of the East may watch the stars, and signs and seasons mark. But the men signed with the Cross of Christ, go sally in the dark. This does not mean that Christ minimizes the effect ot environ ment on character. He protested against harsh and cruel conditions, and much of His ministry was de voted to the amelioration of evil circumstances. He was anointed of God to release those In captivity and bring freedom to those that were braised. He proclaimed a kingdom of democratic u-Ity. of mutual burden-bearing and uni versal peace. But He knew that personality lay behind all these. There was both an external king dom and an Internal kingdom, and the two must go on together. The law of progress Is two-fold, and neither kingdom can come alone. But It ls4he changed character ot man who will change environment and fit him for the new condition. Jesus', offers man the renewal of spirit which will make him change the world for the better and him self for rightly living In It, Niets- sche rejected Christianity in order to worship the superman, and warned his readers to "throw not away the hero in the soul," fail ing to see that Christ indwelling is the soul's infinite hero. material privilege., to social op portunities; but all the while rea lise that "He that is joined unte the Lord is one spirit. He offers himself, and in that anion yon have the crown of all fellowship and the sublimation of every pos session. Stanley Jones speaks of the poor of India who go fishing in the shallow, muddy waters of the rice fields. An they can hope to catch are a few .mean fish of finger length, while near at hand are the open seas which teem with fish ot size and quality. Again, this is an allegory of oar purblind ways ot living. We fish the shallow stag nant pools; we gather little treas ures; our hungry hearts protest against their emptiness while close by stands our Lord offering the reinforcement of His Power that we may nnfold the splendor of the life wherewith God has en dowed ns. This Is the essence of every splendid vision and the fin ality of life. It will not much mat ter what else" you do or where yon place your habitation, if you constantly yield yourself to the in crease of the spirit, there are no treasures In time or eternity to which you shall not come. Tou shall have joined yourself to Christ T vnn thrfnr f n th life of victory and the life of lasting who Is your strength, your fellow joy. Join yourself to learning, to ship and your unfailing Keeper. Salem Highway Tracts $100.00 down and $30.00 per month including interest will buy new 4 or 5 room house with acre of good soil. All city con veniences with county Jsfe taxes. Salem Highway . 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Laidlaw, fiscal agent of Bekrest Memorial Park first came to Ore gon in 1891. He has been associated with a number of enterprises for the development of the state. He has been director and officer of civic organ izations and dubs and of industrial and financial corporations. . . -,. . . An Advisory Board of well-known Salem ciitzens is at the service of Bel crest Memorial Park. They are : dAnlj.fry President First National Bank PERCY CUPPER Ei-State Eagtaeer GEO. VICE Preside it Salem Chamber of JAS. H. NICHOLSON Yke-preeident Salesn Plaantag Commies ioa W.S.LEVENS Former State Prohibition toner in Salem a prWtMag at These men are convinced that a cemetery like Bekrest is a public necessity. It win give Salem the most modern interment area in Oregon, and a most beautiful park. Convenient to Salem, it is isolated from the city's growth. Beautified and amply endowed it win be reasonable la price.' " BELCREST ISORIAL :714-716 1st Natl Bank Bldg. 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