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THK GAZETTE-TOTES. HEPPNER. ORFXJOV. TOTRSDAY, JAXl'ARY 23, 1919.
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REFORMS OK PRIMARY ELEC
TIOX LAWS.
In nearly all western states efforts
will be made to reform the direct
primary nomination laws.
These reforms will proceed along
two lines allowing state and county
conventions and making the primary
effective.
The latter line of reform includes
preservation of political party lines
and requiring majority vote to
decide.
The abuse of the Non-Partisan
League registering as of one party
and putting out party nominees on
its own platform is aimed at.
The absurdity of candidates run
ning on a ticket as Republicans or
Democrat but really bound hand and
foot to a socialist platform is ap
parent. In cities, progress In primary
election reform is simple any can
didate at primary who has a majority
of all votes is declared elected.
Nominations in city elections are
made on petition and are not par
tisan and a majority at the primary
elects, thus obviating another elec
tion. This provision also shortens the
ballot, as there are only contests for
the remaining offices in which case
the two receiving highest vote run.
County and state conventions are
valuable educational gatherings in
the training of citizens for political
duties and must be restored.
In case of renominations or a can
didate running without opposition
there is no need of a direct primary,
he county or state convention
nominating.
Nominations over which there is
a spirited contest may well be left to
the direct primary by the county or
state central committees, majority to
decide.
This primary election can be held
at the same time delegates are
chosen in the precincts for the county
convention, delegates bound by pre
cinct vote.
Reforms on those lines would save
expense, shorten the ballot and pre
serve party harmony, and neither
party organization or direct voting
at the primary be destroyed as both
have valuable features.
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HE TOILS XOT XOR SPINS.
The more we see of folks the more
we think of coons.
Speaking now of the' ring tailed
raccoon.
The coon's system is a hard one to
beat. ,
Mister Coon minds his own bus
iness during the summer and early
fall, keeps out of sight, raises his
family, picks out his secluded hollow
log, and then, when the first frost
begin, he and his family take a
holiday. '
He nightly visits the apple
orchards and the corn , fields and
stuffs himself.
He lays on wads and wads of fat,
while the laying is good.
And to insure h's remaining long
in the land of his fathers he travels
by night; leaves dogs strictly alone;
and walketh slowly, his long keen
nose just two inclres ahead of his
toes.
So, when he smells a steel trap, he
taketh a meander round and about
that trap, and when he eometh to a
dead fall lie sticketh in his claw and
springetli ye trap, and then devour
eth the bait with gusto; ornery cuss,
and his hide's worth three-fifty right
now.
And then, when he gets real fat,
and liis family has been warned of
the perils of this cruel world, he
hunts up his hole and abides there,
until spring comes.
About any way you look at it the.
coon has a system of living that is
hard to excel.
And if he does get caught by a toe,
in some long-hidden and unsuspected
trap, he will. Spartan-like, gnaw off
that toe, or foot if need be, ond go
his way.
For better that one lose even a
right eye than that he burn forever j
in hell fire.
Or have his skin stretched on the
north wall of a barn.
COM) STORAGE.
Our esteemed secretary of agri
culture recently in outlining a re
construction reclamation project In
cidentally inquired why the farm
generations had sought the city; then
lie gave several answers.
Hut he didn't lilt the main reason.
Perhaps he never resided on a
farm in the winter time.
Any farmer's boy or girl or wife
v ill tell you why the rising genera-
tion sought the city, and still does.
They wanted an inside job in the
winter.
Many a girl has left a farm home
that she loved and taken up the
slavery of clerking or stencging to
escape gathering frozen clothes from !
the Ice crusted line In the backyard.
From working icy butter
washing heavy woolens in
and i
zero'
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weather.
Probably the acute discomfort or for it is the power of God usto sal
leaving a warm bed, hitting a frozen vation to every one that believeth."
floor, getting into icy clothes, build-; Rom. 1:16.
lng half a dozen lackadaisical fires, j , once heard a sermon preached on
and spending three hours in the dark this text ,n whlch the preacj,er made
doing chores has called more boys ft play upon tne Greek word for
to town than the white lights, or the ; -Dower." which is "dunamis." from
presumable easy money to be picked
up on the street corners.
Man is a warm blooded animal
and he prefers to starve in comfort j
than to abide in a frozen luxury.
The average farm, even yet, from
Thanksgiving until the ides of
March is uncomfortable, acutely so-1
Some favored few have furnaces,
ana eiecinc u6u.
lrUIM UUIXIS, onu j.u......0
heated bath rooms, and comfortable
dairy barns, but they are few among
the six million American farmers.
The fact is that the farm, every
where, provides its dweller with
none of the town conveniences that
make for comfort.
No corporation brings water and
heat and light and power to the
average farmer's door.
Until the average farmer, not the
exceptional one, abides in the same
daily comfort that the common labor
er does in town there will still be a
decided movement of rural young
sters cityward.
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RAISE A FEW SHEEP.
m ... ..... and nlltmhlnfT Ann1
Equipment for raising sheep on
farms need not be expensive. Small
flocks can be cared for in sections of
barns having stabling or feed
storage for other stock, but with a
flock of, say, 100 ewes separate
buildings are desirable.
Sheep raising should be a feature
of every farm as a few sheep are
virtually a by-product of the small
farm and bring a good return from
virtually nothing.
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THINK AND THIXK AGAIN.
Now is the time to do some real
thinking. If the public utilities be
come government property who is
going to pay the extra taxes? Of
course there will be extra taxes.
First, the taxes these same utilities
previously paid. Government, prop
erty pays no taxes. Second, the
larger army of public officials make
more expense which will necessitate
more taxes.
Think and think again. Dufer
Dispatch.
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Morrow County contributed $277,
600 to the grand total of $38,362,
550 of the Fourth Liberty Loan in
Oregon. The number of subscribers
in the county was 1,448. The over
subscription was 1.14 per cent. These
figures have just been received from
State Headquarters. The official
compilations do not show the quota
of non-banking centers.
In tho newspapers outside of Port
land 87,834 column Inches of space
was UBed in paid and free publicity
in aid of the Loan.
Following is the statement of the
communities of this county:
lone, quota, $29,120, subscribed,
$30,750, number of subscriptions,
254.
Lexington, quota, $16,800, sub
scribed, $17,850, number of subscrip
tions, 111.
Heppner, quota, $228,550, sub
scribed, $229,000, number of sub
scriptions, 1,083.
Man From India Predicts Two More
Years of Hu.
Mark Sreeman, a missionary from
India who was in Echo Wednesday,
advances the cheerful theory that
the influenza epidemic will last two
years more in the United States.
Whether the fact that Mr. Sreeman
has- recently arrived from India gives
him any special infallibility as a flu
prophet is not clear, but anyway he
says we will have two more years of
the epidemic, and cites as evidence
me tact umi u . bum .b..iB '"u
although it is now warm weamor n
mat country. "" V'c
lence gained by doctors lighting tne
disease in Europe and Asia has been
of no apparent value In combating
tne disease in i n cuuniry, A.m...
will apparently imve iu iun no
course until every one who Is . not
Immune has had the disease.
Mr. Sreeman was here from Port-
land arranging for a foreign mission
campaign in the churches. He has
recently arrived in this country from.
India. Echo News.
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News reached Lexington this week
of the death at Klamath Falls, Ore.,
of Orvllle Eskelson, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joseph Eskelson. He was' a
victim of influenza and leaves a wife
and five children. Orvllle Eskelson
grew up in Morrow county and has
a great many friends living at Lex-
Ington who are saddened by the
report of his death and their sym-
pathy goes out to the stricken par-
ents and the family of the young
man.
THE FUNDAMENTALS
OF CHRISTIANITY.
Xo S, "What Is the Gospel V
(A sermon Frank A. Andrews of
the Christian Church.)
"I am not ashamed of the gospel:
which we get the word "dynamite."
He said, 'Hhe Gospel is God's dyna
mite." That is a very misleading
gtatement. Dynamite is violent and
destructive in its action. The Gospel
, not vloient and destructive in its
action; on tne contrary, it is quiet,
attractive and stimulative in its
dctfon in tnia text thp Arj0stla raui
is not attempting to tell whnt
the
Gospel is. He is stating what the
gospel does. The statement that
steam is the power which drives the
railroad engine does not define steam,
but merely tells what steam does.
Just before his ascension, Jesus said
to His apostles: "Go ye into all the
world, and preach the gospel to the
whole creation. He that believeth
and is baptized shall be saven; but
he that disbelieveth shall be con
demned." Mark 16:15-16. Evidently
the Gospel has to do particularly with
thS faith element of Christianity. It
U what one must believe in order to
be a Christian, and in order to be
saved.
(Tlie Gospel Is "Good News."
The Greek word which is trans
lated "Gospel" means literally "a
good message," the marginal reading
in the New Testament gives "good
tidings," it is so translated in Luke
2:10. The first four books of the
New Testament, called the Gospels,
are then, the record of good tidings
according to Matthew, Mark, Luke,
and John. These records must be
believed. They testify that Jesus is
the Son of God, and that man may
receive the forgiveness of sins and
the gift of eternal life thru faith in
Him. This is good news to a world
without God and without hope. These
four gospels tell us that God loves
man. This is good news to all who,
if they worshipped any God at all,
did so in fear and trembling. These
gospels testify to the goodness, pur
ity, and beauty of the life of Jesus
Christ. This is good . news to a
world which regarded It as impossible
for any one to be good and glean in
his life. These records hold out the
assurance that the one who believes
in Jesus shall have the power to
follow Him and live a life which Is
helpful, clean, and beautiful. That Is
surely good news 10 all. These
records tell us that God is the father
of us all and that he regards a sinful
man as an earthly father does his
wayward son, still loving him and
seeking to win him back to a life of
rectitude and of filial relationship.
What a wonderful assurance!
The Gospel to the Jews,
In the Galatian letter Paul says
"He that wrought for Peter unto the
apostleship of the circumcision
wrought for me also unto the Gen
tiles." Because of this statement it
is assumed by many that there are
two gospels, one for the Jews and
one for the Gentiles. It might be
worth while to examine the scrip
tures in order to find out just what
basis of truth there is for that
position,
Bearing In mind the meaning of
the word "Gospel," good news, it is
quite evident that a particular an
nouncement might be good news to
the Jews and not to the Gentiles.
Jesus had been promised to the Jews
by the word of the prophets thru
many centuries of their history. It
had been promised that He should
come as a Prophet, as a Priest, s a
King, and as a Messiah. The an
nouncement that these promises were
being fulfilled and that the promised
one had come would be good news,
or a part of the gospel proclamation
to the Jews. Such an announcement
would not be good news to the Gen
tiles, it would be without any par
ticular interest to them for they
knew nothing about these prophecies
Md were nQt concerne(, al)out theln.
. Qn the othr hMd the announcement
j that Go(1 ,g nQ regpecter of persons;
but ,n every aUon he that fcareth
j H(m and worketh rKilte0UHnes8 is
acceptable to Him," or that "To the
GentIle8 als0 hath G(K, grftnted re
nentance unto life" would not be
gQod newg tQ the Jewg t, ha(,
a,ways regarded them8(!lves aH Ood.g
chogen people; but u wouM be fl
newg ft part Qf tnj gospeli tQ th(J :
rinniip.
When we examine the records we
find only such differences as are thus'
pnnllv APnnnntRrl fnr Ttio flrnt
occurence of the word ,GoHper , ,
MaU 4;23 An( Jesus Wfint abf)Ut ,n
Ganee teaching ln th(,lr gyna .
gogues( and preaching the gospel of
the kingdom." By referring back to
verse 17 we read what this gospel1
was, "Repent ye; for the klsgdom of
heaven is at hand." John the Baptist '
had been making this announcement I
of the impending establishment of
the long looked-for kingdom. That
it was about to be established was
gool news to the Jews, then under the
oppressive rule of the Roman Empire,
Moreover, it was an announcement
of vital Interest to every loyal Jew.
That is why there "went out unto
him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all
the region round about Jordan."
After John the Baptist was im
prisoned, Jesus himself took up the
work of proclaiming that the
promised kingdom was at hand.
Later He sent out the twelve apostles,
instructing them not to go to the
Gentiles or Samaritans, the message
did not concern them, but to the Jews
only "And as ye go, preach, saying.
The kingdom of heaven is at hand."
Still later seventy were sent out two
by two with the same message. This
was good news for the . Jews, the
gospel of he kingdom was not for
Gentiles.
The first gospel declaration under
the Christian dispensation was made
by him every one that believeth is
was delivered to Jews. Peter states:
1st The wonderful erperiences they
were passing thru were in fulfillment
of prophecy. 2nd Jesus of Nazareth
(1) approved unto them by God thru
mighty works, and wonders, and
signs, as they well knew, ( 2 ) was un
lawfully delivered up by them and
put to death, (3) was raised from the
dead by God. 3rd Tho resurrection
of Jesus was In accordance with
prophecy. 4th Many witnesses to the
resurrection were standing in their
presence. 5th God hath made him
Lord and Christ. This is the gospel
which the Jews must believe in order
to become Christians. In the 13th
chapter of Acts Is recorded a sermon
preached to Jews by Paul. Paul goes
more fully into the details of Jewish
history and prophecy than did Peter,
but he sets forth the same facts in
relation to Jesus and concludes . by
saying Thru this man is proclaimed
unto you the remission of sins, and
by him every one thot believeth is
justified from all things from which
ye could not be justified by the law
of Moses.
The Gospel to the Gentiles.
As the Gentiles were ignorant, or
nearly so, of Jewish history and
prophecy the development of this
history and the fulfillment of the
prophecies was not good news to
them and so these things would not
be a part of the gospel to them. Peter
vent from Joppa to Caesarea to
preach to Cornelius, a Roman cen
turian. Peter disregards Jewish his
tory and prophecy, his statement is:
1st Jesus of Nazareth (1) anointed
with the Holy Spirit by God, (2)
went about doing good and healing,
(3) witnesses to these things are
present, 2nd, He was killed. 3rd,
God raised Him on the third day, (1)
witnesses to the resurrection are
present. 4th, Jesus ordered the
apostles to preach to the people. 5th,
Thru His name every one that be
lieveth on Him shall receive re
mission of sins. The facts in re
lation to Jesus are the same as set
forth by Peter In his gospel procla
mation to the Jews.
Paul calls himself "the Apostle to
the Gentiles. We have the record of
several gospel proclamations to the
Gentiles by the Apostle Paul. How
ever, rather than examine them we
will go to the fifteenth chapter of the
first Corinthian letter and there find
a synopsis of tho gospel in Paul's own
words. He says. "Now I make known
unto you, brethern, the gospel which
I preached unto you .... For I de
livered unto you first of all that
which also I received: thr.t Christ
died for our sins according to scrip
tures; and that he was buried; and
that he hath been raised on the third
day according to the scriptures."
Cor. 15:1-3. Then Paul cites wit
nesses to the resurrection.
In every instance the resurrection
receives especial emphasis. Peter
and Paul seem to regard it as the
central act of the gospel. If anyone
can accept by faith the resurrection
of Jesus there can be no difficulty
whatever about believing the other
gospel facts. The resurrection of
Jesus was a most wonderful event.
Paul says: "He was declared to be
the Son of God with power, according
to the spirit of holiness, by the resur
rection from the dead." Rom. 1:4.
Again: "If Christ hath not been
raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet
in your sins. Then they also that
are fallen asleep In Christ have per
ished." I Cor. 15:17-18. Peter de
clares that we are begotten "again
unto a living hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead."
1 Pet. 1:3.
A comparison of the facts in re
lation to Jesus which Paul declares
to constitute the "Gospel," with the
facts set forth by Peter in his ser
mon to Cornelius shows that there Is
a very close agreement. A further
comparison of these two sets of facts
with the facts set forth by both Paul
and Peter when preaching to Jws
shows again a very close agreement.
The brief statement found in the
fifteenth chapter of the first Corin
thian letter may be considered as a
synopsis of the essential facis of the
four gospel records. Instead of re
quiring converts to believe every
item as set forth by Matthew, Mark,
Luke and John, they are required to
believe these few facts. The reBt
then appears probable and reason
able, easy to believe. Compare these
few facts with the numerous articles
of faith comprised in the creeds of
most denominations and it will be
realized how far most churches have
departed from "the faith once for all
delivered to the saints."
The Gospel Operates Thru Faith.
The Gospel Is the power of God
unto salvation to every one that be
lieveth. The gospel has no oower
over those who do not believe.
Neither does the gospel have any
power over those who merly give'
intellectual assent to the facts of the
gospel. "The demons also believe
and shudder." These facts must be
believed, then mau must act in ac-
cordance with this faith. Cod offers
man salvation. He has done His
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part. Man must do his part and thus
complete the work of salvation,
Anyone who really believes the fact9
of the Gospel will surely be impelled
by gratitude and love to seek to know
the will of God and to do it.
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