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CLARENCE B U T T by co-operation and oo-ordlnation. The efficient country church will tide tin Italy serve Its oommualty toy lead ing in all worthy efforts at community building, In uniting the people In aU ' co-operative endeavors for the gen ! ernl welfare of the community and in , arousing a real love for country life | and loyalty to the oountry home and , thesa rem its can only be successfully ! arvom pile bed by the united effort of the press, the school, the church and organised farmers. C. R. C H A PIN LAWYER tìca in all esorta; Probate, Deeda. A Consecrated Ministry* Needed tor gages and all legal papaia. Ab- the Rural Churches. Lecturer National Farm ers’ Union. The farm ers of this nation have on their payroll 95,000 preachers sad this number applying themselves diligent ly and axclualvaly to thg religious work a t hand is sadly Inadaguata to properly serve their respective com munities. DENTIST Office over First National Bank Phone White 3-1 Those who put on ecclesiastical DR. A. M. DAVIS ? D E N T IST I J. C. PRICE Office over U. S. Natl. Bank Phone Black 171 Dr. E. P. Dixon DENTIST D r. J o h n S. R a n k in every door to the human heart and enter the secret chambers of reason and every person should submit their oonduct to review and seek the coun sel of those divinely appointed mes senger« of life, but the moment the minister closes the Bible and opens the law book, he becomes a menace to society. The difficulty of keeping the preach er In the pulpit la as old me religion. Christ encountered It In the temple when he drove the priests from the bargain counter back to the pulpit Our pilgrim fathers m et it when, through the influence of the clergy, a witch court was established a t 8aleng M ass, la 1699. that precipitated a legal holocaust threatening to reduce the population to ashes end which was ex tinguished by the laymen uniting and forcing the preachers back to the pul p it The greatest peril to the church to day is politics. Tha tem ptation of the ministry to throw down the cross of Christ and pick up the club of the policeman; to substitute the penalties of the law for the power of the altar and to legislate religion Into human hearts, never was greater. The world neyer needed a religious ministry more nor political preachers lees than it does today. We need min isters to teach us how to live; we know how to vote. The religious preacher is the most capable servant and the political preacher the sorriest m aster the world has ever known. Wherever power la placed in the hands of tha latter they invariably become intolerant, bigoted and vicious and resor t to the whip and the faggot to enforce their opinion. compelled to drive Incorrigible preach ers back to the pulpit a t the point of the bayonet Many of the pages af history are wet with blood shed a t the hands of political preachers who wrote laws on the statute books th at ooad L ittle fie ld & R om ig mitted arson upon mankind, maimed human beings with the hatchet and sent helpless women to the torture rack, all because they disagreed with a n d SURGEONS their views. When in control of gov ernm ent the pulpit politicians invari ably undertake to perform legislative miracles such ae casting out witches with the flame of a torch, suborning conscience with ■ hackles and enforc ing opinions with the guillotine. Mixing Polities and Religion. I DR.THOS. W. HESTER Politics and religion will not blend. v; Physician and Surgeon £ No free government can long exist or Office in Dixon Building the church perform its mission to O ffice W hit» 22, Re». B les 8 0 2 society when preachers and politicians temporarily exchange callings, and a civilization th a t will countenance NEWBERG - - OREGON | each conduct will soon decay. Such a traffic In occupations to as unsound In principle as the white slave trade to Immoral in practice. DR. SARAH E. SMITH The hand th at pasaee the sacram ent should not collect slush funds for po Physician and Surgeon litical purposes. The gentle voice that Office in City Hall comforts us in sorrow and pronounces the last sad rites upon our departed Office Phone—White 147 loved onea should not rave and rant on Residence Phone—Blue 58 the hustings. 1 de not believe a NEWBERG OREGON preacher can manipulate political ma chinery and be righteous any more than he could become a burglar and « « • • '» ♦ s e t » » » -»»««## »» s s*»-»» be honest I think it as immoral for a preacher to seek to lobby while ; DR. FRED H. WILSON he prays as It would be for him to ; Osteopathic Physician and # gamble while he preaches. A preacher can do more preach a JI Surgeon political sermon without converting hie , 1 606 1-2 F i r s t S t r e e t N e w b e r g t pulpit into a political rostrum than R m . r m s # he could sell intoxicating liquor from altar without . converting the t r» » « » » » » » » e p » u M r» » e e q lpe ei» ei the church into a bar-room. He can no more purify politics by playing the ! game than be can sanctify gambling D R . G. E . S T U A R T | ‘ by running a lottery. I Join In the oft-repeated suggestion Physician and Surgeon | ' that a preacher has as much right In political brawls as a saloon keeper and we also admit that he has aa much j right to get drunk as anyoas else, but we would rather he would not do so for the “greater the salat the great- - er the sin.” I think a political bishop i can turkey trot In the name of Chris tianity aa consistently as he can enter Into a mud-slinging political content to the dtograce of his church. It to my opinion that when this world to saved it will be through re ligious sermons and not through poli tical speeches. Salvation muat come to ua from the Bible and not from PH Y SIC IA N S % i \ |Or.C.LBrown,D.V Hollingsworth A Son t h s a s l Directors St Fmhslmeg i Cslle Answered Dsy or Night Assistants. Ne extra charge M m . W hite a R ea. Black M Nflwbgrg.Offl. REO TRUCK to their equipment which enables them to handle long distance work with dispatch : ! Picnic Parties a Specialty • v Peter Radford. P.F. HAWKINS The Newberg <— r Tranefer Co it- higher and better type of ;h and womanhood. ■troy Christian influence in tha com inanity. The spirit actuating such meetings la anarchic, un-Chrigtllke and dangerous to both chuw h and Office phone Black 100 | Residence phone (Red 79 Fort Worth, Texas.—President Chan > Residence phone (Red ISO j S. B arrett of the Farmers* Educational and Co-operative Unloa of America !<KX«x>oooocK>ooOM<icwObOio6oioe»5 has announetd the reappointment of Peter Radford as lecturer of the Na P h en e B leek 14 tional Union during the coming year. Extrusive plana have been outlined Call on for publicity work throughout the na tion to be carried on through Mr. Rad N e w b e rg M a n u fa c tu r ford’s department. This publicity in g & C o n s tru c tio n Co. work will be modeled on the lines of he educational work done in Texas For Windows, Doors A Getterai Mill Wrrk, 4M N. Main Street on the subject of farm problems CHASE A LINTQN GRAVEL COMPANY r SHINE IN EVERY DROP” It must he said to the credit a t the church th at the political praaa>»r is fast disappearing and may his in fluence ever wane and his shadow ever grow less is the prayer of the fem u rs of this nation. Co-operation of Church, School I Pram Eeeentlal to Community Building. All kinds of gravel for con crete work, cement blocks, or wood work furnished on short notice. Telephone White 86 S to v e P o lish By Peter Radford. L ectu rer N ational F arm ers’ Union. The church, the press and the edhool | form a triple alliance of progress that j guides tha destiny of every common- ! Ity. state and nation. Without them A Broader Sphere for Religion . "Hew I civilisation would wither and die and through them life may attala its great Field for the Rural Church. est blessing, power and knowledge. The farmer« of this nation are greatly .Indebted to this social triumvirate tor By Peter Radford. their uplifting influence, and on behalf L ectu rer N ational F a rm e rs’ Union. of the American plowman I want to The social duty of the rural church thank those engaged In these high la as much a part of Its obligations callings for their able and efficient aa Its spiritual side. In expressing its service, and 1 shaU offer to the press social interest, tha modern d u a l a aeries of articles on co-operation church does not hesitate to claim,Ahat between these Important Influences It la expressing a true rellglouff In and the farmers in the hope of in stinct and the old-time idea tba$ the creasing the efficiency of aU by mu social Instincts should be starved tual understanding and organised ef while the spiritual nature was over fort. We will take up first the rural fed with solid theological food, to tost church. giving way to a broader Interprets The Farm ers Are Great Church Build- Collier’s Tkm . N a tio n a l - Wmmkly I n Cliibffi G et a C an TODAY at a still further reduction la con nection with this publication. _ NERBINE - The American fanner Is the greatest church builder the world has ever known. He la the custodian of the nation’s morality; upon hie shoulders rests the “ark of the covenant’’ and he to more responsive to religious In disease germs which Infest the fluences than any other class of dt- System. Herbtee is s fine anti* isenahlp. periodic medicine, more effec tive than the syrupy mixtures The farmers of this nation have that sicken the stomach; be»' built 120,000 churches a t a cost of cause It not only kills ths die» $760,000,000, and the annual contribu ease germs, but acta effectively in the liver, stomach and bow tion of the nation toward all church els, thus putting the system la institutions approximates $200,000,000 condition to s access fully resist per annum. The farmers of the Unit the usual third or seventh day return of the chill. Herblne la ed States build 22 churches per day. • cleansing end 'Invigorating There are 20,000,000 rural church com medicine for the whole body. municants on the farm, and 54 per cent of the total membership of all churches reside In the country. The farm Is the power-house of all progress and the birthplace of all that Is noble. The Garden of Eden was disto A mp BgçoiHCwi In the country and the man who would get close to God must first get dose to nature. The Functions of a Rural Church. If the rural churches today are go Next Door to Poetoffice ing to render a service which this age demands, there must be cooperation between the religious, social and eco nomic life of the community. The church to attain its fullest mea sure of success muat enrich the lives of the people In the community if serves; it must build character; devel op thought and In or ease the efficiency of human life. It muat serve the so- d al, business and intellectual, aa well aa the spiritual and moral side of life. If religion does not make a man more capable, more useful and more Just, what good Is It? We want a practical religion, one we can live by and farm by. as well as die by. T he only way to Fewer and Bettor Churches. gat the genuine Blessed to that rural oommualty which has but one place of worship. While competition la the life of trade, It la death to the rural church and moral starvation to the community. Petty sectarianism to a scourge that blights tha life, and chnreh preju dice saps the vitality of many com munities. An over-churched commun ity is a crime against religion, a seri ous handicap to society sad a useless tax upon agriculture. While denominations are essential and chnrch pride commendable, the high teaching of universal Christianity I No other likelt M must prevail if the rural churfch to to I No other as good fulfill its mission to agriculture. We frequently have three or four Tkt N o rIto li Snrtof MaeMnt CMpaiy, QfiAfiP.», MAfffri 1 * churches la a community which to not able to adequately support one. Small congregations attend services once a month and all fall to perform the re ligion# function« of the community. The division of religious forces and tha breaking into fragments of moral effort to ofttlmee little leas than a calamity and defeats tha very purpose they seek to promote. The evils of too many churches can he minimised by co-operation. The eodal end economic life of a rural oommualty are respective units and Universal Instinct for Play. cannot he successfully divided by d a Is providing for enjoyment the nominations! lines, and tha churches church u»*g one of the greatest math can only occupy this Important field We take onr place in the succession of those who have sought to make, the world a fit habitation for the chlldrta of man when we seek to study and understand the social duty of the rural church. The true Christian re ligion to essentially social—Its tenets of faith being love and brotherhood and fellowship. While following after righteousness, the church must chal lenge and seek to reform that social order in which moral life to «ex pressed. While cherishing ideals of service, the rural church which at tains the fullest measure of sucoesa la that which enriches as many lives as it can touch, and In no way can the church come In close contact with its members aa through the avenue of social functions. The country town and the rural community need a social center. The chnrch need offer no apology for Its ambition to fill this need in the com munity, if an understanding of Its mission brings this purpose into clear consciousness. The structure of a rural community la exceedingly com plex; It contains many social groups, each of which has its own center, hut there are many localities which have but one church and although such a church cannot command the interest of all the people, It to relieved from the embarrassment of religiously di vided communities. U n til th is year CMBar's has been soldat $5.50. Now tha pries is $2.50 sad wchavc secured a concession where- Bareroft’t» Drag Store unteti» —eer t «ln m ir opiuton free whether • inventimi M prnhnl.lf piueiiUble. C»minante Dons auleti» eouMdsnUal. HANDBOOK on l-atau •ont free. <Hd»at avcucy for e-curiaw pateni >. l'aient» taken tlim oeh Munti t Co. recali leerte ' natie*, «H boat oberes, la th e Scientific JltiicricatL A handaomety H ln-trui-d we-tilv. I.* reset el g a llo n T»r->ji, S3 »•nr : four months, $L BuW byeti newedwtem. In IheCircuit Court of the State of Oregon, Forth« Coun ty of Yamhill. Lawrence 0. Slater, Plaintiff Oeorge C. Monger. L H ailey Mu Dyer, end | Monger . ' th e en- SUMMONS ce*»ed, defendant». To O eor.a o h u n g e r, L, M anger. Welley M anger, and the unknow n be I n ef Jan e Par rt*h nee Savage end o tl i r Be vega, deoeeaed. the above nam ed defendant«: In tbe name of tha Stela of Oregon ,*yon end aeeh of you ere hereby required to appear and anawer the com plaint Mod against y o u l n the “a 0*!* •n *.u l*d "o e rt and eeusa o n ‘o r before a publication f f iti* * of . thli .W,w,bt f L he «*4« tor'he Rfimmona. heretofore made w¿°t° ; ï ^ T M .  en.7ri,; ,npr‘,red 'o,“, hta— torthTbe*nàt*ra'o7tbaÌr’claim 7 2 Ä f t 2 .2; «toarte It be declared end adjudged tael the defendants have no estate or Interest whatsoever in or to Lot I In Block viel Hurley'* Addition, to the l& r V f lm r . berg, ye »bown by the pl .t thereof now on file ^ ‘Î ^ f f  ^ î J l 't o n n t y . O r e r » , and TSl d . — I " » enu *• i k st defend* uta be forever eejoltted end toem I*"!5n n« *oy Ola!® Whatsoever la or te t id lend sa d property adverse to the 01 ‘ffh Rtch ether end a n d eqnltebto?* * “ * 000,1 — * Yon w ill tak e n o tice th a t th is «nm m ene is hy, “ •’• o 'to U V lr t ju d g e ot th e c o u n ty c o u r t of th a d ated th e » ¿ y &H,“ ‘i d M l tfif A m fttttfl I ta t inaortlon tboroof l o t h « mil tlm o proacn wblcfc ft« lor «is to n ao e u tl v« *®*fr*e D. W .t ’orlijr. At to r no? for PlnluttfT .41i ® * l lln **, .B' <,S - P o rtlan d , D ragon' Weekly Oregonian and Graphic cne year, $3.26.
