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
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Part 16
Events in
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—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.
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