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EASTERN C L A C K A M A S NEWS
Thursday, February 6, 1919
CONTINUING LAST WEEKS SPECIAL OFFER OF
FREE A L U M I N U M WARE
Your Choice of any of These Articles With
Yes “ PA GIVENS” is Back to Slay!
Each
GOT IN MONDAY MORNING AND WENT RIGHT TO
WORK AND MAKES THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT:
$2 Order of Groceries Until Gone!
Flour and Sugar not Included
First Come First Served
“ I am mighty glad to get back and into the harness
once more. Find plenty of work awaiting me, and it may
go just a little hard to settle down to real work after the
quiet ease of army life, but guess it can be done.
While
my part in the great struggle was a minor part 1 feel that
I have at least done MY BIT and I feel that my HONOR­
ABLE DISCHARGE from the United States Army is the
most valuable possession I have, and is well worth the per­
sonal sacrifice it cost me. Now that I am back and into the
harness again I would like to meet all my old friends and
customers, and it will be my aim in the future as in the
past to conduct my business along the same liberal lines as
heretofore.
Sincerely yours,
Walter Givens.
—Tea Strainer, Tea Ball, Pancake Turner, Salt and
Pepper Shaker, Funnels, Jello Moulds, Sanitary
DrinkingCups, Cake Cutters, Sugar Shaker, Lemon
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your needs in
Bring us your farm produce we pay highest prices.
Our stock o f Mill Feeds, Grain and Poultry Supplies is
complete and prices are right.
Garden and Field Seeds
WE CARRY A COMPLETE LINE OF BOTH
W e Believe “A Satisfied Customer is the Best Advertisement . ”
THE W A LTE R GIVENS COMPANY, Inc.
ESTACADA,
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would wander amidst the aisles of the
spacious nave whose “ darkened roof
rose high aloof on pillars lofty,”
which “ with clustered shafts so trim
seeiaed bundles of lances.’’ A mas­
sive stone screen which supported the
great organ, separated the nave from
the choir. Many a time did the bov
worship there at evensong, being
drawn by an almost irrestible im­
pulse. He can yet hear the stntely
chant ot'^the psalms and feel rever­
beration caused by the organ at the
words, "Let the sga make a noise
and all that therein is." Many a sol­
emn function was it his privilege also
to witness there. One time it was the
attendance of her Majesty's judges In
their scarlet robes and flowing wigs.
They were attended by the High
Sheriff and a numerous retinue of
court officials in full state. This was
the service which was always held
prior to the opening of the term o'
court. It ufforded an impressive and
instructive object lesson of the sanc­
tity of justice, and mat those who
were culled upon to mete out justice,
must not do so unadvisedly or light­
ly; but reverently, discreetly, advis­
ed. soberly, and in the fear of God.
On another occasion, the installa­
tion of a new Dean, he learned how
the beauty of holiness will transfig­
ure u man’s countenance. For on re­
turning to the choir from a chapter
house, where certain legal formali­
ties had been gone through, he be­
held the venerable Bishop standing
in prayer at the north end of the
altar, with clasped hands and uplifted
face; and his face appeared to the
boy as if it were that or an ungel.
And again it was there that he saw
with his own eyes a living proof of
the regenerating power of the Gos­
pel. It happened one Sunday morn­
ing when he listened to a negro Bis­
hop who had been born^o savagery
and slavery, but who through the
Gospel had become one of God’s
saints. Thus the faith of the boy was
confirmed and strengthened' against
sneers and superficial criticisms of
missions and missionaries.
But it will be asked, in what es­
pecial respects did such an environ­
ment influence his life? Why does
he now feel deeply grateful for those
early associations and prize them
above gold and silver?
First, because it furnished his plas­
tic mind with a great ideal which ele­
vated and refined the aesthetic side of
his nature. The nobility of the Ca­
thedral architecture, it grandeur as a
whole as it rose up majectically on
top of the hill; the wealth of its de­
tail. the symmetry of Its proportions,
the beauty of its carvings and sculp­
tures. and the lavishness of its orna­
mentation, trained the boy in a true
conception of the beautiful, and fos­
tered in him a healthy disgust for the
tawdry, the cheap, and the sham.
But above all, the most profound
and enduring effect was on his spirit­
ual nature, because the Cathedral af­
forded a great religious ideal. It rep­
resented the service of God. It taught
that true religion drew to Itself all
that was highest and best in man. and
formed the crown of his life. The
Cathedral exhibited the choicest labor
OREGON
and skill, having called into requisi­
tion the noblest talents with which
men are endowed. Those who de­
signed, who had executed, who had
wrought, were master artists whose
work -was perfect and entire. The
boy did not realize this all at once,
but it gradually dawned on him.
Again oftimes he would stand on the
top of the hill and look down on the
city where men were sweating and
toiling in multifarious occupations.
So he gathered that in the service of
the Vorld there is labor, noise and
confusion, while in the service of God
there is quiet, peace and rest. And
as the Cathedral was one with the
city, so honest work is one with re­
ligion and receives a benediction from
the association.
But the most Important lesson
which it taught the boy was the sta­
bility and security of that 'which
stands on a religious foundation. He
was familiar with much of its history
and the vicissitudes through which it
had passed. It had suffered much but
had not been destroyed. It had been
cast down but not forsaken. It had
seen centuries of changes and chances
of this mortal life. Men had perished
and things had crumbled into dust,
but it had remained a temper endem.
Thus it gave the boy a message
which reads as follows:
O ye who are absorbed in and per­
plexed with the cares and uncertain­
ties of life, who are fearful of what
a day may brinp forth, listen to me!
Learn how it is I have continued to
this day and shall continue as long
as the morning and evening socriflces
of prayer and praise ascend from
within my walls. You who are pros­
perous, you who are harried by mis­
fortune, • look up and learn where
and how your peace is to be found.
My foundations were laid in the
Name of the Father, and of the Son,
and of the Holy Ghost. 1 represent
the offerings of faithful hearts and
the work of faithful hands. I was
built by prayer, with prayer, and for
prayer.
I exist for God’s worship
and renown. I am bound up in Him.
For without Him 1 would not have
been built; without Him I have no
meaning; but with Him I am the
chief building in this cit/.
Eight
centuries have passed gince work
flrsi began on me. My walls have
fallen only to be rebuilt.
Remem­
bering my stormy past, when war
desolated the land and the iconoclast
thought he was doing God service by
marring my beauty, and seeing I
have been kept safe through all, I
point with my spires to Himv and say
to all who will hear my voice: “ Thou
wilt keep him in perfect peace whose
mind is stayed on Thee.”
UPTON H. GIBBS.
Estacada, Oregon.
ESTACADA TRAINS.
Effective Sunday, Feb. 9, train
leaving Portland at 5:15 a. m.
Which has heretofore been sched­
uled to Cazadero on Sunday only
will hereafter leave at 4:30 a. m.
and run daily to Estacada, arriv­
ing there at 6:40 a. m. An addi­
tional train will leave Estacada
daily, effective Feb. 9. at 6;30 p.
m. arriving in Portlat d at8p. m.