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Thursday, June 21, 1945 4 Sawdust... A topic that has received a good deal of pr? anfi cqn dis cussion the last tew days and which will probably get some more discussion ’ is the matter of cutting grass along streets and sidewalks and on vacant lots. The matter comes up in ono form or another every year, sometimes with more emphasis than others, but it does come up. The Forum WHY AN ETERNAL HELL IS IMPOSSIBLE Part 16 Events in Oregon Entered as second class mail matter, August 4, 1922, at the post office in Vernonia, Oregon, under the act of March 3, 1879. Official Newspaper of Vernonia, Oregon Subscription price, 32.50 yearly OlicloOuisfMH» PUBLiSATI 0N NATIONAL ÉDITORIAL- IJ N ^A ssociation Si limb. t— At the Churches ST. MARY’S CATHOLIC Rev. Anthony V. Gerace Rev. J. H. Goodrich Mass: 9:30 a.m. except first Sunday in month—Mass at . 8:00 a.m. and 9:30 a m. Confessions from 7:45 a.m. on. Licensed Contractors Refrigeration & Radio Service Appliance Repairing STRONG’S RADIO AND ELECTRIC 969 Bridge St. Ph. 576 or 706 SCIENTIFIC EVANGELICAL —Rev. Allen H. Backer, Minister 9:45 — Sunday school. 11:00 — Morning worship service. 7:00 — Junior En. deavor and Evan gelical Youth Fellowship. 8:00—Preaching service. Miss Mildred Drake will be guest speaker at the 11:00 o’clock service Sunday morn ing. 8:00 Thurs.—Bible study and prayer. 8:00 Fri.—¡Choir practice. “Run, Deer, Run I . . . The most powerful words ever written on the ruin left by forest fires are the first pages of the “Run, Deer, Run” chapter of Stewart Holbrook’s Macmillan book, BURNING AN EMPIRE. With summer fishing and fall hunting ahead, they are prime words of warning to be read now. Says our forest historian: No man who has stumbled through the thick warm ashes and over the blackened windfalls in the wake of a devastating forest fire has failed to be struck by the scene. It is unforgettable. The stark silhouettes of trees, the stumps like sable tombstones, the acres as far as the eye can reach all barren and smoking, these are bound to affect a person of the least imagination with deep melancholy. More powerful still, perhaps, is the desolate silence, the seeming ly cosmic hush that has fallen over the stricken forest. This terrible quiet, as though all na ture were brooding over the trag edy, will produce a mood hard for a man who loves the forest to shake off, because such a man knows very well that a forest in its natural state is never quiet, never completely hushed. In sum mer its noises, though often mu ted, are obvious to the ear— the noises of countless beas>3 and birds and insects going about their daily or nightly work of making a living. In winter, winds and frost add their bit of noise to that of the fauna still active, such as the squeak of a wood mouse under the snow or tho soft whish of a hunting owl. Silence of the Lost . . . stark naked bodies of grouse and pheasants. The carcasses of deer and other large animals have been found by merest chance in places that indicated they had been trying to hide from the flames. Many other bodies must never have been found. That the effects of fire on wildlife vary with topography is well known. Most wild animals, even the big cats, will strike for ponds and creeks and open places when fire threatens. Some will hide. Birds will strive to fly into clearings. The wild ones’ fear of man disappears. Refugees on Speelyai prairie near the Lewis River in Washington, during the 1902 fires, counted six bears, eight deer, and a lynx that came out of the woods to live for two days with the humans. A little deer flitted down Peshtigo’s main street ahead of the fire which destroyed that town. Similar in cidents have happened during the most of the great fires. P. O. Man Went to Pen Sunday P. M. in a branch. P. O. out in a quiet home section. The secret service man peered through the slit from the cubby hole above and saw the clerk slip one out as he sorted letters. Then arrest—Trial—Guilty—and to the U. S. prison—“Be sure your sin will find you out,” eith er in this world or on judge ment day in the next. And did not the man believe that on this quiet hour of a Sun day he could do the thing and get. away with it? Indeed he did and yet he went to the pen. He Relieved wrong and lost. And just so, you also lose if you believe that God will have respect for your good deeds and pass you by. VILE RAGS TO GOD—“Our human best but vile rags to God. See Isaiah 64:6. While you go on rejecting Christ as having died for your sins, your good deeds are nothing to God. Then how, if not by your own goodness are you to get right with God? Here it is—Out of his love for you and me and thq man lowest down, God sent his Son to step into our shoes and become sin for ua and die under our death sentance—“The blood of Jesus Christ, God’s Son, cleanses us from all sin.” Believe God’s word that your sins were put on Christ and cancelled and Christ’s right eousness is put on your page. God then also creates new life within you. Now prove the new life. Live by the Biblq and prayer. Look utterly to Christ to see you through. The New Life is to prove the Bible. If these messages help send me 4 line.-G.N.T. So, a forest in its natural state is never silent to one who has ears to hear. That ns why the utter silence of a burned forest fastens melancholy on a man— he knows that nothing lives in this stark area, no tree, no beast, no bird, and often no fish. Gib bon sat amid the ruins of Rome and pondered the decline and fall of an entire civilization. Many a woodsman has set on a blackened stump and pondered the destruction of an empire of forest and all it contained; won dered how many of its denizens escaped, how many tragedies of nest and burrow occurred. Were the young grouse able to follow In the public eye nationally their frantic mother out of the through his recent work as chair strange danger? Did some doe man of the House committee to warn its mottled fawn in time— investigate food shortages, An and did they run in the right derson is a big man with curly direction? Did any fire deparr hair, a broad smile, and keen ment of the woods run a ladder eyes gleaming through rimless up to the fourteenth story of an spectacles. His committee's two old snag where some fickers were reports—on meat and sugar nesting? Aind what happened to shortages—have left some bur the sly, lone fox, a-mousing in eaucrats red-eared, and form the the tamarack swamp when he basis of hope that in his new found fire on all sides of him? position he will end bureaucratic What the A*he« Tell ... fumbling with food problems. The debris in the wake of a forest fire is usually so thick 3101 S.W. McChesney Road, Port May Name Csar . . . and so all-covering that it is im land 1, Oregon. Now that Anderson has power possible to say with any certain to carry out the policies his This space paid for by Oregon- committee recommended. Wash ty what the toll in wildlife has Washington people. If you wish a been. Only by chance does one ington believes he may appoint a part in this gospel by newspaper, “sugar czar” to oversee the whole find the pitiful balls of meat send your sum, large or small. and fur that were rabbits, the process of delivering sugar from the cane or beet fields to the LUMBER—Wholesale and Retail housewife's kitchen. His commit tee insisted, by the way. that if See my bargains in kiln dried lumber at $12 crop failures should intensify the per M and up. Open Saturday 8 a.m. to noon. sugar shortage. allotments to foreigners should be cut on a parity with American allotments. Washington Snapshots Marvin Kamholz Editor and Publisher TIMBER—Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Root and children, Tillamook, were Sun. visitors June 10th at the home of Mrs. Root’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Castle. They were enroute home from Mr. Root’s parents at Tigard, who had recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Wilson and son, Bobby, recently moved to Bonnersferry, Idaho. Otto Wilson escorted Mrs. Ida Kilburg and daughter, Maxine Cameron, to Hillsboro Mon. to visit Mrs. Jessabelle Kilburg. MAN, HERE AND HEREAFTER We now come to anothar ques tion that must be settled at this time. If the judgement does not take place at death, but at some future time, what happens to Pete Brusman has been giv those who die? Where are they, ing the matter much considera and in what condition- It would tion and maybe he’ll stir up manifestly be unfair to send enough interest to arouse the them to the place of punishment good old community spirit suf before their cases have been ficiently that a lot of grass will decided in the judgement, and it would likewise be questionable get cut. to send them to heaven to enjoy Anyway, a joint American Le the bliss of the redeemed only gion and Booster club committee to be afterward called into judg has been named to work on the ment with the possibility of be grass problem and also on a ing sent elsewhere. It would seem community clean-up day. That, imperative to have all cases too, would help the city’s ap judged before sending them to pearance. one place or the other; and, as this judgement will not take Memories of other years: ap place until the end of the world, parently the favorite pastime what disposition shall be made here a few years ago was col of the dead until that time? lecting insurance from fires Where are they and in what which were started primarily for condition? that purpose. The talk started These are embarrassing ques Tuesday while Walt Kent and tions for those who believe ill Hank King were completing re the doctrine of an immortal soul. pairs to the fire hydrant at They must provide in some way Bridge and Weed avenue. When for those who have departed thi3 the depression was getting in its life; and, as they, of course, can best licks was the time of the not have them die land be at rest biggest and best fires. Several until the resurrection morning, were planned well so that a good they conceive of a kind of burn-up would be pretty well as judgement at death, after which sured. One example: city firemen the soul is sent to one place or made it a point to see that the the other until the final decis fire truck was ready with a full ion on the last day. This view gas tank for any call that might has the objection that it is thor come. The call came, the next oughly un-Biblical, and makes day to answer a fire but the entirely unnecessary both the truck would not start—the gas resurrection and the final judg tank had been drained. ment; for, if a soul is already Walt and Hank also remem enjoying eternal bliss in heaven bered another time when the above, how could there possibly wiring of the fire siren was cut be any need of a resurrection? so no alarm could be sounded. Indeed, how could one be brought • about? And of what use would it be if it could be accomplished? Would or could a resurrection be of any possible value to a soul who is already in heaven? It would seem both unnecessary and useless, not to say foolish. INSTRUCTORS NEEDED Also, of what use would a IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS TILLAMOOK — The public ressurection be to one who is schools are announcing a number already in hell? The soul is there of vacancies in the public school in torment, but suddenly it gets word that it is going to be res system for this coming year. At present, teachers are needed urrected. For what purpose could for the second, third and fourth that possibly be? For the purpose grades; a physical education in of judgement, one would answer. structor and a latin and history But if the soul is already in hell, teacher for junior high school, suffering the agonies of the and in the senior high school a damned, would it not be mockery science and history teacher and to have it appear before the judgment seat to have the case a latin teacher. tried, to determine the justice of the sentence that has already BERRY PEAK BELIEVED been in execution for millenni TO BE NEARING ums, perhaps? It would seem FOREST GROVE — Peak of the 1945 strawberry harvest in that in such a case justice would surely be turned backward. western Washington county was What then about the dead? expected to come either late last We have learned in the preced week or the first part of this ing articles that man is mortal, week, managers of processing subject to death, and that im plants & receiving stations along cannery row in Forest Grove be. mortality is not an inherited con dition, but that it must be sought Jieve. for, and is attained only by those Persons interviewed all de who are Christ’s. When a man clared the peak would depend dies, therefore, just what takes largely on whether or not the place? Is any part of him alive, cloudy, cold weather continues or or is he really and totally dead? whether the sun breaks through To be cont. G. F. Brown. to bring the harvest to a swift climax. Weather has been a No. 1 contributing factor to the large red, berries being received in great numbers this year. “This is good strawberry weather,” one processor comment Sturdy defense of the Amer ed. Growers and processors alike ican civilian consumer’s rights have been in general agreement will characterize the policy of that the crop is a good one. Clinton P. Anderson as secretary of agriculture and war food ad ministrator, if Capitol observers are right in their surmises. The Vernonia Eagle Wedding Anniversary At Tigard Attended; Family Leaves Timber Vernonia Eagle C. BRUCE FIRST CHRISTIAN —The Livingstones, Ministers 9:45—Bible school 11:00— Junior church, Bernice Tunnell, Sup’t. 11:00—Morning communion ser vice and preaching. Mrs. Livingstone will deliver the sermon on the topic “Wa-- time Service.” 7:30—Evening worship service. 7:30 Wed.—Prayer meeting. LATTER DAY SAINTS Sunday school convenes at 10 a.m. at the I.O.O.F. hall und er the direction of Charles Long, Branch President. Earl Genzer, First Conn. 7:00 P. M. — Evening Sacrement meetings. l SERVICE All the latest devices for testing and repair ing automobiles, plus years of experience en ables-” Lee Motors to guarantee every job unconditionally. Lee Motors Sales and Service PHONE 173 KALE PRESENTS TWO OUTSTANDING FARM SERVICE PROGRAMS! SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST Services on Saturday: 10:00 a.m.—Sabbath school. 11:00 a.m.—Gospel service. 8:00 p.m. Wednesday—Devo tional service. Sermon by district leader— First Saturday of each month, to visitors. A cordial invitation is extended ASSEMBLY OF GOD —Rev. H. Gail McIlroy, Pastor 9:45—Sunday school with clas ses for all ages. 11:00—Morning worship. 7:30—Evangelistic service. Rev. and Mrs. A. E. Kite Weekdays (except Mon. and Sat.) 8:00. Rev. and Mrs. A. E. 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