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About Weekly Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1900-1924 | View Entire Issue (June 26, 1900)
. t .- a-. i rt ' filtt. abdndant; life THROUGH CHRIST FELL TKXT OK TI1J5 BACCALAU REATE SEIIUON Delivere.! in this City on Last Sunday by Rr. HofchD. Atchison; ' -of Portland. - ' , - v - : -. . .. . I am come that tley 'might, have life 'aii.llh.4t they might - have !t niore a"l.uiidahtly.'Jvua x-to; ' It is with all the joy of a glad rcelis covery that the w(r!d .'". of eSirtiu..ii i llougbt Is emiba-slzing today the trut lj that 4he Christian religion Js "a Ufe, The explicit anil clearly avowed ml, shm of it fonmk-r was to give Ufv to the work!, lie antuHinci-41 lw.s own character and mission In that strange, snbliimi avowal "I lam the "Way and the Truth and the Life." Ho came not to abrogate the law, not one Jot . or tittle of which ahl he woukl fail lie e aim not to supersede any past reve lation'f. truth. "ijo-tn eotne not to dcsaroy but to fulfill." He was obedi ent to Jill the outward content ious of life, -social. iolitkat, eveiesiast'cal. lie came to write no new boolk, to found no new code, to establish uo new wet, to found no eaitljj dominion lint he came to live! ' .j;';- ' ' j ; T1h; Apostolic church, lcfore its flu--nt entliushisiu luid cooled and cry tanil Into )fteuM of tbcoloKy and clam'Ji iIIcr, lIier-l anl aeteil ni'ioa w tAi tnat um, ;hrl.-tiian rt-liloa is a life.. It was ak yet untroubled by cmtroXTjsieii that wxn bfcaa to deinaiKl a rigorw AiHJojretle. Tlie lraetlcal jroblenh of 1kw 4o'Vat Willi half "boat ben converts- anl how to veru the . ra'pidlyj jrrowlii? t'hrlstiau community,; 2ad not yet Im'sihi to tJ wure ai-t fK'rvert ilia? original idea of '('Iirlisttantfy.- Tlie ffaltb of tlie Aiios tv.li? i-hurcJi was a irnakatta.mK'nt to. I Hoi vhotH Ufe was the IJht of tuin. , ne history of church lias lnen like tin' life 'history of the IwImv as it jrrowi t, manhood. Aa Woi'dsworth Will,.. - ... ; . ileav-n IU j aNint us 4n or Infancy. Sliaden. of the tirlson , house Utn Jo . , . : : ",! i f . . Uon't,!M growing ,Uy. ! : ; . . Tut Im- in-ljokl Okj llht and wlienee it iidwiK. ' ! I ' :-!' ! :- '' IleH.- It In his jjoy;' '. ' TlV jotitb w ho daily farther from tle : i ,Ks.st" -' - .-.'.. 1 ' Mnf travel .ntJll f4 Kature' I'rlest,, I Alhl l V ti't vision IlflKlid . ' . At k-nsrth the man '-ixwievwr U' die away;;:':.;'!;, Aihl,f:iIe liito Uie ..light of common day. f ! : ' .. " " ! ' ' ' ' V" inirst' not irn4''hiiie ' however, that tl.e iifslo'ry. of fio , bun-b hat .Ixt'tt a loif I ve dj;ejj'atiIon. - . A nwn- letter that all thedark centuries of coiiflk't, controversy, iervcrskm, islwukl .mo on each with its own probkiin, :nisJii It to kiy Itn emilias3s on or that doctrine.! It iwas better tlwit this vital thousbt Christianity a life ftlMiUld fair I no. tlk dark rouml of heatlKMi iviUziilion ainl dk", rather than that it houkl obkle nlone; for 'Iwiin Its life in the oii it unpmener ate huiiianlty. liiroujjh the loiijc process of t.l ates it ha rsuid that life aaln with, iutliiitely larsrcT imanlnrs and with nlMimkint frirltnpei. ' It'-wajt ineVltalle Hbat Hk ipe of tlie Fathers, with thir sreat Refenee rf llH-rvPsrkn.aaltht Ijeatheti jvlrlkisoiiaiy shutiM f41ow the flrst ae of siiontn- lwot vroclauiatSan. It was lucvifalrfe tlic tJ' tXdeean ae of bitter ctiten .tiou for- crrH'tm of tTccl nulnKt the wikl lre.ii tlit threatencr tile etiity and -5Ife- f the church, oaW rolknr tin siKkleii so'kil and -pollfkril tilumih of the Cross that came with t'oiiistaattue. It vai providential fbat with the delude of lrbanan ln-a-ti;!i, tbat thntiHui'd utt4-rly to Mot 'otit'clviMx-Jflou, tlm forrt rf Christian (ivIIizUlou 4houkl tlwl in tiie Ionian I'ap.K-r a rallyUvr 1lnt awl a cltldcl f.r 11k safety of 'the germs of an alHin .nt iifc that tvas to In-. It was xI Tor the wcrkl that tlK throne of St. I eter tailed itlf ou the wreck of Uoman authority and darirur tle Ions asft i f isiioraiuv "and rlolenoe whkU me -oftll tin lark Ages Mwtobed out ti mii tlK cltv of the Oiesars a scepter which in i4te- of nil that we can say 'aKalnU it. mxktHl the evils of tyr anny and aiuirdiy ami prove! to on 1U -who&.N the protector and lifter up vr the cotivmon people. ; ; ' . It 4 as that' with the reawakening of i li:roixau mind in k Fifteenth anlf Sixteenth wtiturics. theruk of t he Jjvi i nil Caesars which had peeoroe a earurt an.1 fntoierai.e irjauiij t-,w lie fort wr'siiattcroi by the Lutheran l:cf.rmation and that Mokm Eurojw U.ukl iK gin to Uk WhenNKvjlau. Corcrnlcus in'IVJO gave to the wwl 1 lxok "tin Tlw Itevolution of Uf Ibavenly llodkC lw i oix'nel uien to a Tiew universe. All that had aloaz with tlie tJcocntrie Itoi omalc astronomy, was lienccft-rtli otit of date. The raiwcy. the ?-ho!ast elsm or tlK Middle Ages, all becanu at ence olso!cte. The sun U lancet rtb t'ae center of the universe, and that Jiswv-ry oaikd for a new heaven and a ww earth. And as if to answer that alL akiiost Immediately allko w.th his teleaix. on Fi?a leaning towr was giving to ' the f astonished work rlar dnnonstration of the new bear en: wh'rle Cxrfiiuiinis returning with xtranfcje. new ipolU from t he western 3l7.on. had already proclaimed tlie d'-ctrvery of a new wor'.d. Ami then as If to cairall mankind Into one vast nedtcnec. Jutcnl.?rg .In'n i print Jrom movablo type and the work! be canj' one. ,Aft-?r these dlsooveri and Inventions hi tln material' world, the .tlhol;ry the S?lioIima was dcsiml. ''ILj Mv-l!aeval church was djmucd. Tlie Rerormatkn Jn religion wu a for- itwiif t-'nciuion. A It was a Ktei 5till forws Intense interest In tbeologu? probkm? and the dcsir to bnikl logical Systems of rheokxgy fonml eipresUn in the Miiwnui ana evementh centuries. The cliun h of tle serentecnth century .with its creil buikilng and. theokigk-at dialetic wa in perfect accord with tbe philophy and scienee of th.e 5ays. Kverjthing.was ked at from a legal an-1 mechanical standpoint. Tln marvcloo success of Calvmsm is U' exclaim d from the fact that it 4-ned to answer to a great need of the age. Kepler- and Xewtan with tlK-ir discovery of Li ws in the nnivers flowed CoiJt rniiais and fiabk-o. and the entire workl of thought began to cek for laws and fundamental prkjei pVs and "to build systems in lioHtics, ifolUmntby aud.l(eiil jrv.' There was 'Ta?ing7 say .TuMoch. "iiray, mmds astir jibout religic-uaitrutb; for'titoaie great; u iory ? ; a ioiute -WqaIiata w,hkh to fit ii1iamMmize.thfc-r fkw Ififf ccneeptijn. Calvinism Kuppiiel t bis era vtng. '"A ' kng s tlieokigy cout!nnd n tx merely a question of systeiiw. and kjie had It oil its own way, , the triumph of CalvlnUsin was s cur'. .; - i ; ; ( But the age f system Juilding and civ.hhI niak:ng was not the ultimate stage,, thank loL TJr' tkle of tl kgical enthusiasm that aros with the lu-formation lias ebbed. It has left a rich deposit. It resis tered its murk on the scale of his torical' jM-ogress, but it can mror come again. 'It was true to great age and thef grandest expression of. the great age' in which tt came. Let the Augs burg Confession, the Westminster Con- fce4on --and iIk ionfeswion of the yn- ol of Dor t, the decres of the t'ooncil of Trent, Thirty-tilno Articles! of the Church cf F.nlaud aud , tho .Twenty ftve Artk-les of our, own church remain as, ever memorable nrnuments of be rcfc, religious ami inteilvctual tri'vings, tut let ttm never jbeeome prlm fcirs to which to chain t tlie i onward reaching thought of later agts.. These noniinients are not alive. The divin ity lives not in, t htm, T.he divinity of the, Christian religion is.jn the life of Cod an reveaknl In Jesus Christ ami a4 mak? possible to every one of us through faith in Him. "In Him was life nikl the IJfe is the Jjight of men." "Tills is tin? ret-onl Uiat tltnl has given to us eternal life and that this life Is In His Son." This is essential, original Christianity. . Hiistorically, the .- Kvangelical mtve iiKUt wf the eighteenth wntury with its cmphaslis of cxiM'rk'nce, wan a re turn to the apostolic roucit;on of Christ ianity Ojs a life to -whiift crctst ami organlziitkm are sill Ordinate aud trn.utary. And now after all these k cades sine IWV-sley, that this. ajfstoIk; .liis;i;auity lias Ik-cii actually demon strating itself to le tlie iKwer of t;l mitOi act'tml salvation, . 1Ik: latest ami iivwt appi&v d "science, conies : with it tardy erdk-t. ami s'iys. "Kvaug'jilfal Christianity Js iwcieiitincaKy trreet - in placing tin emph;is.4 on, life, "mit U'oiuCi a wkle ctrtiipass round lw fetch ed," tlHmgh ninetjci'ii huuorcd jtars away. frtm Its starting piiut in the Vl of Hiui w-ho dUd and roe again. iChnisHanity .tolay has come tirowud aga'n V-lt.,nrat viewvj.'briuging, with it all the Abundant treauees f Its kng vH-p of xnrk'Hvn. I has fulliliel the promise of ;hilst "I am come tliat nlK'V might have life ,uKre abundantly." . Kvery age has lt leading tkoiht. Its -spirit liieit tieist, as Uie fiermans waufcl say). Jn the 4xtcnta cntury, tlK spirit of the ase was libi-rty, indi vMiuiSiAm.'? Ttni'W'WflHi bakiiiig awav."'frO!rf traditioii' ami. authority, as the- youth full of mmantit? JcTreanis breaks aw-ay -f rorti - jrental tutelase ami irk bia own? fortune, in u tiK- i4venteentSi century the emphas.s was on sjt in. logic- law. In the igiiteenth century the watchword was seme or reason In' 'the nineUtF-nth century;, the wrd Is Ufe. ' Tlie sco nce of Biology, latest lorn if the sek'nee has well nigh revln tlonized Hm worsd of tliougbt. It has eatijued a . .bifting of positions an-1 a rtmdjnsting of foetisci. It s fnrnisli Ing t'. tl.e world's thinkers new iKilnts of vkw frvn which' not only the tech-, nieal seientlst but tl i)hr.osoplier and even tlie tlieologian are eoiuiMlk"l to vkw tSn '.r prolrtenk. One can scarcely caUolate tJie revolutionary effvK-t upon the entire world , vt thought of , Iar win's view of miture wlikh apiarvl 4n hh M, "Origin of SisHk-s",in l.STil AVbatever opinion we may; h ive of- tie Usk and r the theory in other rtspvts, we must all agree that tla? Innuirr wSiich ,darwai tartcrf was ds'h-makln2. as epoch-making as, IH'rnk-tKs ;"lUrvx4ution. of the Heavenly I!o4lies." i It lias proved , valuable !e-tau-e of tlie questions it has start'l and tin changed attitude toward na ture an-l Vtod whkh it Juw DioJgM ailxMit, Fp to that liuc all science. a.l il:!loci?iy and all tWogy had Irii bnnlt up on the mechanical and kgeal plan. cf the seventeenth ami eigh teenth centuries. Henceforth the fc sire is to know what tl great acts of life rea'.Iv an?. And Oh. how 11k facts began 'to pile up! ecology as a vhnce wan lrn. All other se.enccs .had to lx- written. No wenkr servatlves In every rtnt..T tihought took alarm and cried The old order chaugeth." Hadlcals and atnrtstirrefoicc4l. Itut all that alarm and that premature rejoicing luive I I hllosophy, science and aJove all the ok)"T have fouml themselves again, and'have entered uisn rnoro nbundant jife. XLaterialboa has profited "oim: but rntler h:vs been discredited by ie new point of view. Nature 4 is no longer regarded as a P5ece ; of piechan lm as i, Paley's time with-t.od out ride, like t be ckH k-niaker only , now ami tlien tinkering. wWh his ckxk, Init is Interpreted Ja terms of life and growth. Cod is Imminent in tlie universe He was Creator In the Kinning. ami He U Creator now, . at work "in every atom of spice ami in rv?ry -instant of time." Theimjdern txvt conceives of Mture as the "gar IZnt of tJod woven in Jthe r oaring "Sn of time," by which wliIV la the w-e e HIm. As Coetbe. sings: "Not outade cloth the Creator linger And let tbt all of tilings run round H-s Pot nJolt center not its outer rim OomiTilown to Nature, lifts U P to Moviig-ithki Inspiring from a4ve in currents ever new f life . and love." rod is in Ills world I manifesting Himself, not only in the n"1"' the miracles of the Okt w Tesfa n?nt but in .tbe usual and the nla-. If we will but liav eye. to "Evl-ry common bush Is. aflame wita t ii..m I'svclKiCogy with all its veiatons of the Intin,cy Ljtwj i . the mind la lartuer i s . ' 1 ' ' ' . - 1 trom Wing materialistk? than ever In the past, when the antitheses Itetween n; i in 1 and matter was unduly tm pbasioed. Its new demand is "What are tlie facts of life, what are the fact of cousckiusaessr The ok! division " tlie uiu.i Into facnlties is sen to have beu a pure abstraction, useful ink-el fw dkUectical purples, but baring no Teal concrete existence. It Is tlieWhole aoul mot a piece of it, that thinks and will and fooU. - ;''- ;' And with our religious eonc-p-tluns; ur theology and church life cannot .linger tu the evenu-cutli and eigkfeentai -enturie wlik seduce an-1 phiksoi)hy have fouml otker iints of view than thoe then occupkHi. .Many of the qwsoiM thrtl cjlskkH-eP, of priimi impjrtance have lpKt that impor tance.;! r: : ., . . Tlie reformation of the Vixtecnih cen tnry dealt tflie prlncipJe of InfalU lle.cliarch autbcrltjr its d-'aih lioWv Tin? Wesleyan revival of tlie 1 eigli toenrh ct ntury and the sthtific ixiove i.etH oj this elcntnry lKth seeking to Iea-1. forth mankind to a ' mor abun dant life, have conspired to? dethrone that ime fTinelple of infantile au t!lH?riEty: whk-h when driven out of the thirach; -sougbt its siat in creels and theOkigk-al systems. Tlie world; has t-jrsMd; to bum 3iKn and women for ereid":-sake: for it. has come t le nndc-rtoisl that ,the essential thing jn Miration Is not jan opinion fi.!ont ai vat kn but salvation itself, an actually saved life. And the essential-titing alut the Christian religion is-nelthr Jheteh nor crrcsl nor Ikok. but that, life which Ls the Igkt trt tntm that life which created the Clinrch at.1 l'-ook.. j When we take the . standpoint of life.: bow the divine puriibse and or igin X L'ulk aul Churcfli appear, in thtir ttut? -wt!ng and s'ngnliianee. J,f .we had tsiXU to grasp tin? fnllrslg-niticam-e; of ( that transcendent fact, that the essential thiuj; in, the Christ tuin religion is the iife manifested In -triirUU 4in'h of 4iie pitiul controversy aiiat -raas ovc-r the. question of , the In fallSiility nivl inerrancy of -the Jloly S-riiurcs woukl cease lecause of its relatijiv nn impjrtance. ."TIkvc Scrlpt- pres wkkh yon 4indly mlore. and ig norantly; .misuse" inid Jesus to the Pharisees of bis day "are Uiey whk-h testify of'nie." It Is this -whk-h gives tlKin tluir value and meaniing. And If xihurch athl lkmk sltoukl Uvth iierlsh Jcstxs 'hrist wonld not peri-sh; and th;Kt life could create a new church aud Inspire a new Bjk to lie written. As a. .'convert of the Pacific 5arIen Mission at Chicago, with rare Insight declared "A new Uxk of 1I acts of Christ in Chicago, might lx wrlt teffij. as wonderful as the Acts as re onknl y Iuke." "Uetigion" as IMbll HiETs.ii saUl "Js not a question of liter ature but of life." Cfiiristlaulty Ie-. niSnently Is' rx a book relllou but a liWniigion. As Ir. Clarke aays "it wafers in a l rsai and consists In a liff and the Srlptu are. its servant io) h-s source." T1m : new ioint of vkw of life-from whk'h tlie world is now disfHd to rtud,v question cf IMl.-lkii-l .interretatkin lut kw n greater and divtiwr Bs4c tban the former inechaiikal tlKSries of- verUil and pklnary inspiratxm eould iwsl- bly give. Not like the tables of to mlraii'mnsiy engrwsl w ith tle L.aw an'l hamk.'d to iMoes from the cJoudy summit of quaking Kiual. Is this di vine Blrary of sacred literature tflmt has grown' steadily with the growth iff rewiatkm.- Ky no nrtiary flat W4-re i hew liookj bonn""' toget her ' In one volnnie. "but tliew - is In tlkim such a marvekms nnlty of moral and spiritual punose that the cnihtenei 'con-seh-nce rf ithe workl ty a trne instinct and -1 y, common consent lias -'lected tlKii under the guklance pf tloi's spir it from on ocean or eontemporary wrlt'ns anl fiias SxhjikJ 4,hem together and ralkd them "The ilViok." As Sir Walter Scott' fa kl. "There is but one 15iok." It Is tlw lwk of ttfe ami is irself a liviing lxok. thriil"Ins with lH-esnt and Intense tife. It is not the tifmicr of our age -to look at if In the im-chanical way that was once in vogue. It is not a piece of miraculous ttfeehanUm. but a living growth. We Is-Iieve in its divine Insp raton not; l ciinse some external authority has pror nc-unccd It so. , not Un-iiuse church council or Infallible poix flmve sakl o. lut lca ne It carries with It its own evidence. It apil hfe. It makes ai'rvc! It does actually inspire. A IIa titt.'the hisitorkin rtM-clanvlThis lok fits me as a key fits lock." Or as CaJertdge -said with tears "The Bible finds me; it finds me." - ; In the work of excavating the Hoo sac; tquuel, two gangs of work-nw-h w'ercr started from oiKsite sides ol the utwtaiu; and o rCchrato was the survey that when they nu t In the mit dle of Ahe mountain, their work joined with scarcely a lialf Inch of difference. So the human need ami divine graie mtet in.ierfect adaptation. The Script ures insured of Cod are pronta-lik? fo every human med. Tliey siieet tin demands of human life ami as we walk life's way they are as a limp to our feet. Tlie Bible has authority ami al ways will have authority lteeause it ari9 - to life. It uWaiM our JiMart. It interirets our kinging. It shows us tlie lattli oX !"fe that leads us to Hioi w 1m is the IJfe ami IJght of wen. ; The time when everything was set tled by tl irocessen of rcas-m con t,rtlered as a separate faculty has gone ty, both in the world of phikiphy and of religion. WJien Icke analywd filie facultie oi the mind Into but two. Intellect and will lie was in aceora with .the spirit of the seventeenth cent ury. ' But now men demand not lnfai IRile kgic aml.niathftjrtatleal certainty, but abundant life. All things are In terpreted in terms ef life ami growth.' -rtie- word truth "has broadenee! out to include not only correct processes erf the Intellect but tuso tlie utterances oi Will and feeling. Whatever life needs in order t-ernipkMely " to utrcr"its-UT1s rce..-Ufe has a night to- otterttself. Tb.cience of he Tiieory of . Ktfuwk cslge has bad to -take into its scope" the knowledge fflat comes by will and by feeling; feir IntcBleet acting by Itself never gives knowledge. The standpoint of fe is taken In every clepartuHt of dmtnlry, and the workl of thought, not only of phikmv pbk-al I Hit of reilgkMis thesight is about teady to give up the false an-1 iitu. lble quet for mathematical certatnty and for - infallUwlity. Tlte testa, for troUi imposed b the logic of the :r entrenth centurj are found to be arti-fkla-1 ami perverted. Truth Is not otnetb2ng that can be cotnpreh.-n.lod In formulas .aud "systems. It is sorue .i Jn that Is ever erowlng toward God. iThat life may attain life's (true- end it is 'not; nefjary xna tiL rr,v v. fr failUJe exterual authority The sort of cone perfection wbicii (toe nnman hub craT- a its Sdeal ami insplrtkn Is not to be prtiU-ttled In intellectual- e-onceptknis. of expreseil ; iu intellectual processes. tot ni(st be conceived iii terms of tife. Jo terms of personalityj I Tiie work! needs not ami can get no prcfit from nn infallible Church or ip-e-rrant- "Book or infaklUe Interpreter ef tiher. Winn we learn what lt! Is that-we ouglit to look for anfl what we have the right to look for in Chnrch and B?t4e, our j-tty controversies .will Lave.' an end, Tbe world needs Ufe ami It wiU saved through the i-r-3ual ower of ILim w bs came tliat we Ufc'iLt have, life, and that we might have it iuore abandautly. i .1 -: "Tlie power of truth" says-ti!os L'tly; in its Konrce; truth must come h. u;.-n wcgiiitel , ami cJiargcd with oetsi.le energy." Oh, young ui-n '-and weunen luoking out om lire'-witn ue-h lie pe today, what we-;;ncl Is not an luiaj&le authority bat? a trustworthy, living : riukr Without 4,nat- rliea.ler art rafalkl le trutb "w-onld : but Jiuoek auU aggravate; our fsiiiure. r.k ' 4 I , And this . Is ; exactly - tlie position whk-h ilmistlan4ty .occupies in the Wrrki. lt rere'abx to us a Ijeatkr and Friend who came that we might bave Life, It Is this p?wt r of personal life that constitutes tlie impassabk : dis tance between the' teacbiugs of Ciirist ami that of other great teatiiers. What though the precepts of Jesus can lie matched in vConfnclos, Buddlia. So crates and , Marcus Aurelius, it : wa lxt-aue He spoke them ; that ' "the-y have ourbbrity. Jesus was more tiiiin a speaker of; true things, lie impel -sonated and Tundica-ted the realitj- of truvh, thremgli actual struigs and in dnrauce, ami victory. His method ;of teaclJng' was an appeal to life Itself. ,It has been truly, said "Truth is not actually truth" untd It gets pist re'sptH-t pr)irly cntertadnvl for elogma:" aud lej-onel . rewtfnce ' for an 'external' rev ekttion. and awakens an Intelligent and resmslve cousislonsnctss f- its reaSJtyL Ilem'e. Christ in his teaching strove to, start into qctloa, 'all tth na tive f?ntlmi'U(ts am! IhstliKts iii' which human nature Is- grounde.1, easting himself In ' alisotote confidence uiKin tlie fact that txvauae men at till? chil dren of Cod they are ready; each eiie tor hiiinsclf to hear liis.twreL" 11c dealt not ; in abstract truth but ap proached men dfirectly fc through their experienees aul loccupations anl.- the things they best kmWir. "Wlhat loan of you,! having an hundred sbfep. If lis kse jone of then ekl not k'ave tlw ninety ami nine in the wilderness ami so after rhat which Is lost until Ih tinds it?" Christ's teacMng aud His whoM lietng were an iutrprelatiuu throBgh human life of God's Sife. an effort "to know that tlie truth of Cod Is aft-o the truth of man." . Trutli throngh ami by Ufe this Is tflie truth as its is iir Jesus. Oh. how pe rfect the adaptation to our mel! How Is-auti-ful th incarnation that gives us iiexl's Word -writ large in a Ierfee-t Humaii life! We look tip ami hung for a God who understand anil feels with us, and, we have' such a iod in the re-e!a-t ion of Christ. iBrowuing makes liis .pavid ng;o aul:.4'.: v'i.i;-i . I Tis tlie weakness itf streuxth that i I cry, for. 3Jy flesh that 1 Nck " ; In tlie Godhead.- I ek am! I And. 'it. t Oh, Saul it shall be 1 , A:Face like tuy face that rccelTcs thee:' -; ,-r-r n ncin lik,to nie : f - ' Thou halt love- ami lie loved by for- ' ever: a Hand like ibis hand " i -SLall tbrow ointi the gates -of new life ; I to the See the Christ stand. "What are words- says a ' great preacher, "'precepts I sjiloslstus,, pict ure aipeals. commands: what are .ehk qnence, poetry, hiitslc. art besides this living -way. this , way; of truth lived oik through. all its . tern of struggk? and xmhiraiice and alttlv am! demth till it endcsl In the joy thus and only thus to lt achieved." "I wn come that -)-e mighit have Ufe;more alwrnlantly titan the fi'orkPs way can provide."" If we sbcukLatteiimt to. deflne life e slvould Jail as all others bate failed. Ail una instinctively elf.ire it but no one fan tell what it , Is. Like other great tiKmosyEabic word , Light, Trutli, Ixve-4t- exprsses something WhlcSi ail minds ted bnt whk-h elens aualj-sis. It .is one of those great words that must go (back for Its last nx a ning . to , ; t lie : a IlHXmprehen li ng word of God. My life', my cornicle-nee avnlvity finos its true meaning oiUy Jn God4 VVlM-n men flen f rom present x Manee thtumgh' suicide it is not frena lifetbey would, tlw hnt from some 111 thiitmakes the j rese'nt Intolerable. , H "Wliatevcr crazy sorrtiw aaiitb . f N-fvIife that brat(lws the human breath Ilatli ever truly longevl'for eieath. . ; Tis blfe whereof our nerves' are scant Oii!ife not death, for wiik-h we pant , Mow life and fuller -that I want." ; i- I : . (Tenuyson'f Twx Vok-es.") ; How may I flml tiiys. If, my true,. life, the alundant life whk-h. ad men erav? TI? Work! had trkd to answer tiiat question. .' . , .- . Inece liad Ber answer In art and teanty; and -the. little rocky la ml. ltfpcme-d forth With forms of exrpM4te Uauty in sculpt ure In are'Wtectnre, in Itty ami siH-eeh rand blstory. until tlt very aix jof human achievement seems to have; 1 wen rcaclcl: For the art standards of the age of Pericles still d-Hiihiate after two milleninhis and a half ibave pascL Life was arj-at and bea&tifnl In those days; but thiit-ls-ait ty, tottexl away liecause It was not liv ing (beauty. It "wa; not tlie lieauty of bcUness. ." ' Hme followed with ber genius 'for law. and administration, .grasping with Ireni hands ami welding inW one or &tnie worlet all the scattered nation cf; the eartb.' . Imperial Home gave to ti4e iworkl her cole whk i has ticeemie the fount 'of elvil Liw for all nations; ami; yet; her taw andgovernaient lwv ca'me corrnptr.1 ibecanse theJr were ex w i nt: they had not their roots In' trn life.'n character, in Ijove; wiijch akme rvtn;fnll all UWj.f, ';" ; ; i".-; I And the Ihird anl best great Innn cTIdf'loII.ahtkinity was Hebrew 1 viiixa tiott, -M ty in its- rlgkl mora li ty, " a sys tem of lUghteoosness. but a rUrhteom ness nnwanneel and nnillmainated by vt., . ; ' " x :- : ':'- Then .when tlie bush of lisapiolnt nHilt nettkd down over all that the world had txk-d. In the f nllness of tm came great larkl's Greatest Son to iestablijih a new and living reign. "Fir wliat rhe law coukl not do In that It Twas weak throngh the flesh. God semting'his own Hon in the likeness of slnTnl lesb"ucil tor s!n condemned Sn In the Oe4i. tiiat the lighteousccss oi f thif kiw might tie ulfiik-d In ns who wafko? after the flesh but after the spirit" Chris came with a promise of liAC And what has ixen the result? That llf Is so altV'Jinltiiat It", con w rvea aXthaf wai beianUful in the art of j Greece. a9 that was noble and strong in the law of Rome and all that was holy In the righteousness of Is racL t beauty is a real and living i s beauty. Its law Is not b-ad e-ommaud but the living law of kve that fulfllls all law. Its righteousness Is the right eousness that grow as from a living toot rrem i-rsoual trust' in Christ. It I- tieid's styk of rigbte-otrsness. a riht-cousnc-as that si.rings finu life. iWhem we asli tllow does Christ save and transform y we come at om-e Into the jrtesem- of the primal mystery of Life ami Being. He save- not by con vleinuing, not by preaching down to men. dead in trespasser and la sin, but by living. He saves by be ever mys terious iaw of- spirit over spirit, ills nnnhex! is not the legaL the educatkin aL the moral inflm-m-e. tin ti-ck-siastl-eal. it Is the vital method IJfc giv ing Btseif In Love. I low it is that tiie Sod climls, up tbe stalk of tho plaint and bloom- forth in immaculate pur ity In the full-blown lily? Life reached down and takes up and trans forms. How does, Christ save ami transform tlv lives ef sinful men? It in a mystery: ye each. heart carries t!K secret of that'salvatkwt. " Tliat se cret is Ijove. 1 1 is i? f Ikv iKiwe r of one prson loving amtlr that CSirlst saves. Goil was In Christ loving -the workl back to liimseLf. tiol was In Christ giving Himself to His eWldr-n giving not new trutli. for men were spuinmg what truth they bad: giving not new law for nKn eoukl not ,keei tlu kiw lut giving Himself Sfrong Son of God. Immortal Ijove, Frleml of man, Elder Brother, Lover of the sml It Is by the power , of kve- that storied not sliort of death that Clirtst lecau the Savior of the world am King of men. The college stnelent knows something erf the power of Friendship. Tlie se cret of success in art, or study or char acter might often. l expressed In the grateful e-onfession "I had . a f rkmd." Fine-rsyh .sing thus erf frk'tidship; "A rikkly U-ei of : manly b!ootl i r : Tbe surging sea . out weighs . ; , . -The world unoertaln coims and goes i'i he lover' rooted . 8 ." . ; ; t frieue!. myjliomim said Throngii thee alone the sky is areiied Through' thee tlie rese ia fed " AH things through thee .take noikr form " l,i ... And lctk leyond tlie earth. ' ; ,The mill 'round of uuri fate oppe-ar ,: A sun iKith in thy wortli.- Me too thy uobk-uess litis taught To msster my elespalr T1k fountains erf my hslden life Are througli thy frlemlshlp fair." Oh. if a human frk-ndshlp an till kfe with such alHiiidawc, how much more eau the Sove of Him in wiiom dwclls all the fullness of human and divlnr perfectkn, give us life more oltnulaut. How shall ; we attain that new life? Why, by living It. By actually doing di'ty under the Inspiration of etirlst's Ideals ami of His preeiRV. Take It an-1 live It In Ills strength. We can rot imitate his life in specific details, tut we can lrnbUe His sjrtt.' The trend erf ejnr llve-s may lie the same in liis. Just as every ship ; to1 the new wot Id, althvHigh cutting" each ' It g own path folkiws 'the tra k of ColunUnis. Tlie eXvrItfn-nt of 'condutlng 'a eially paier "as Jeus 1 woukl" may ' result einly in bringing into question and tld Vuk tin letalsr ami nU'Wsxls: tuif the principle that -'wotUd, cotiduct' journal ism ami all business in the 'Christian p:rit--1hat i ever noble,' 4 that It" Is eve-r possible to have. "'The wlld's great nt'cVl is for 'life. Just srich lives as' Christ lited. .Would we minister o that tie-.d? .Have we not !sn pniiaring In our "CJirlstian college-H for' that very service? Oh. k-t us barn the Usson bf tirisl's H Aj. Young men and women, go forth frin t!w haKowel colk-ge w'alls I pray you, and iour out your life wltlsuit stint into the veins erf humanity, otid -yiU will re-alize tlie' promise "He that los eth his life for My sake shall keep It nnto Iff everkisttng. . - Graluat.kn kiy eiften seems the most ele-solate day erf one's life; but with tlx strong Son of Goel as eitir Frk-nd. eVer assuring us "I am.witCi you niways" one can go forth into this w-orll with o.nneIence ami face anything. The view cf life win!ch Ciirist had was wltolo omw an.1 noKe. All the? dark qus- 'Jions wtariing fnum Joi and tlie IkxJk erf Keeksi-astics, groping down tluouuh tftie ages, through Plato and Aeschylus and"Zeno. on to moxbrn ekiubteT ami lKsslinists like G-nethe. Schopcnha ur, and Matthew ArnoH and tieorge Elli ot questioning .tlie worth of life llse'lf are entireiy out of his field ef view. His vtew of life was as has lHn mid f'mpio as" that of. a child, imKHitm-. vettlble -as that of Omnislene." Man Is a child of God. elestimsl to tlie goii of tlie life that now is and of the life that is to couie; and all things work togtlMT' for good to tliem that love Gsl. .--.:. . I'll, let n lielieve Christ's re vela Won of our Fatlier Ivet us receive -and live t1e Ufe,nKre abundant tlwit, trasses at last unse-atlK-el throngfh "death. Into the infinite heaven of His love. W'e owp the workl, living as we k In the times an abundant Ufe. Philip IKhI drielze h;il tlie true Christian motive when bo sang: i "My gractous Ijr,rd. I own Thy right To every servk-e I can joy ' Anl call it my supreme elelieht To hear Thy elk-tates ami oiiey." "What Is my lsing bnt for Tli'-e Its sure surfort..lts noMest -nl? Tin my elellght Thy face to we 7uA serve the cause of stx-li a FrieneL" ' " It is a profound truth that Jesus Christ is Christianity. He Is Hie foumlatkm once laid to Te f-wve-r the liasis, the plan," tlK promise and projh ecy of the perfected humanity. " Ite llevlngon Him. building upon Illm we shall never be confounded. " Tbon are the Way, tlie . Truth, the : Life - -, . .; .- .., - --" Grant us that way to know . That Trutli to keep, that Ufe-to win Whose Joy a eternal flow." , ? A BOY COMMITTED. J. F. Gra- ham yestewlay petltlonel the county court for an order, committing his son, Francis Graliam. aged 1ft years, to the IJoya and Girls' Aid Society of Portland.' Tlie order was made, and Sheriff F. W. Tlnrbln teeik. the little fellow to Portkuid last evening and de-llvereel him to the ofllcera of the society. A NEW INVENTION. W. C. Roach, pressman In .the state printing tifflee, has Invented a eement for padding paier tablets and for iNKik-blmllng that Is unexcelled In the market. It Is remarkably toush and fiexitle, and prrdutse-s to le a valuable Inven tion. Mr. Iioach will enzage In tuanir factHiing his new invention and place it on the market at once. . - .,' . Tlie annual death rate of Geneva, Switzerland, Is only 11.7 a thousand.. QUIET HOME IVEDDir.'Q KtrTIALS or J. e. BnoniT AXO M13 J JilNA LMrCOBKLK. A qukd, iretty home weakling was eekirald lu Silterton last Wenlm-sday evetdng, when Miss Nina Irene Mo- irkk. the ymlnger elaughter f M r. ami Mrs. J. H. McCorkle; of : tliaf city, iH-csuoe tlie wife erf ?.fr. Jiu 13meT Prophy erf this city. The ceremony was l'rf.rnH4l fly Itev.MJonald MoKilk.p, of this city, at Ike, 4nne "of the. bride's Iarcnts Ju Ibe ires;nce or onty ine nu iiyetLsite rckitives a,ml a few "Jutliuate aetpiaintaik'S of the ' iopular ytsmg empk Tlie Mel'orkle 1iohk hal Ik-cu deftly !.cor:ted in Ivy and fragrant ross In hotter of the happy occasion. Tlx ek-ctric Ilghtj had U-en, encasei in colore.! tlssin pape-r- ami the dainty, pink effevt w as pretty, lending a charm. tJ the tasty ekvoratlona,. .' tMiss .Stella Welch exe-cntenl tl .wd eling niarcS iromptly at S o'clock, and tbe youug c.nple entered t he parkr. where Ir. McKIItop proiAuueHl the lmpivssive ceremony. Congratulation, were offerenl anl the party afterwards partook of an elegant wedding repast. Tlie bride wore, a, cistunie of rich white silk organdie and carrkd a lwu quet of white c:irnatkius. lU-ing na turally an attractive young woman, sin apared doubly wee't auI eiiarming on this esx-asion., Xlu Is oim of Silver ton's most iKipular elaughters and a ueneral favorite w.hctv'ver she, is known. She was attended 1y, her sjsier, Miss Tcmjs'st Kt:orkl , who wore ', while The groom Is the nly son of Mr. athl Mrs. 11. ,B. Brophy, of Polk counly. and Js we-il and fiKpularly known in Salem, wlK'rt he has Ji.-eti ralsisl.' He Is now rii employe of the Salem L'ht & Trac tion Comiwnjv lie was supported by Mr; George Bk-ln-s, of Silvcrton, as test man. ' lr. and Mrs. Brophy have ticgun -house'k'ilng Iu a cozy little collage on North Inter street, where they will Is at home to tilie-lr tiuuierous frietids after July . t li. Those piest'ltt. les'ules th-prliK-ipals. were: Mr. and Airs,' J. 11. McCorkU. Mr. -and Mrs. .11. It, Brophy, Mr. and Mrs. Williams. Miss Stella Welch. Miss Tenqie st McCorkle, Mis IU nioli 1!I-. land and Miss Emily Thatcher; Messrs. Gio. lUlus, J. I McVauhu, nlii Kalph Glover. v . Drying pil-paratlons lmply develop elry atarrh; tiny lry up the sects -tioii WJ.kii alh '-l I to tlx iimiuUrano ntid de cfi'iMsc. ;i iisliiir a far moi. serious tr.-ul.Io thajj Hie onliiniry form ;of ca tauh. ,Avoi t all drying luhalatits and lis that wliiih el.:ins-s, smithes', and lienl'. El.v t'r.cim ' Balm Is such a te-uvdy ainl will -tire catarrh or -eill in tin ihead . .isily and pleasantly. All iUiii.Nts sll It, at U) cen' or It will lie mailed by Ely -Broilers, .""sf 'Warren- Till y en;. Mil-ill MAN'S GIFT. Then Is nothing that ph-ase tlie engaged inan more than to shower gifts ujKin the woman he' hopes to m.trry. but, very often it happ-ns that he siHmls a great deal of money and anxious thought over the pun-liases, ami ofb-n Ifalls to yet 'what Is most. suitable on wished for, Tlie engnge proHy Is one of these lu nik, mid It would te far Iliellt litlg IHMI'Ilt pit vflwr to get ft littk .-Instruct Ion ; oi that momentous subject in-fore buy ing It; If til. it from his fiaueii hern-lf.; why then from some obliging sister,' or cousin or aunt in her eoiifidemi. How elisopiMiintlng when one has sot one a aieaft tqwin ruliles, says an Eastetu com men tat or, to find lie has chosen js'irls, or nmethysis (so Ik eoming to the hand that Is white and shnMy), ad Is-hold a Immiji of opals with their mystic lire -ami changing hues; ami. of course, you have to say lighted, ami you are not. you are I PASTE THIS IX YOI U HAT. olVginnln jg Sunday June 21th. the AsbMht & Columbia Itlver railroad will jiut into effect n t ruin schedule by, whk-h passenger -nn leave Port- land ilnily at 8 a, nt. arrive at SensMe . m., remain at the nacli ni.' and nmeh Portland at From Astoria to the Iwneh at 12:: i until .i p. I:4 p. m trains will run dally at K:15 a. in. mi I ll -i n. r)iH leave! S.a side at Uu'VI p. m. slid' 5 In.' in. cohiicctlng nt Astoria with Portland train. Arrangements have also Is-en made with the (I. II. & In. Co. Tor a daily Isiat to eoiimct with the morning train from Portland lea Ing Astoria at 2 p. in.,, and making e Ir"ct ciiiriH-tlou nt. from North Bench to leave Ilwaeo In Ilwaeo with train points. Also lioat the, aftertioon to itiuiH-t wilh evening train feitf Port la n tf. "Vou own a magazine and vou liare ga.ine written a novel. Why not print it se rially in yeior maizine ls-fore plt;lidi Ing it In iok form?" "B.cauSe 1 can't afford to pay myself what I 4 lilnk tlie story is worth."--Chl-e ago Tribune. Fine printing. Statesman Job Office. "Tlie honaca are- extremely small," remarkeHl tlw IxiMlon lhea tribal iimn-age-r; "H-rhas It Is dm to tin war." "No." said the candid critic; "I think It's diioj to tbo pi.H-e." I'Siiladelphki, Ite-corel. .0 TCIIZA. y 1 ti lad Yoa Haw A.lran Bc JZ Twice-a-weck Statesman. $i a yea. visit Cn. JORDAN'S ckcat uusEim OFrr.!.iTo:.iY r tKiimnuimscisct.ciL V T Lfy- Anil lii.Miiiii luffc - VaS elrir mm . .m.. ir .f ' ; .MMMi'i(nM.i7iitautii k J 1 C2. C!5lAit3 Cr KiJ t - " - . . . . ,.4CAl " l'- tin. 7I... . mn t C" nmWMiaa re tt trr nwr, Ttv.imrrn fm. vj tni.K. m M4NRIAI1I.. KIIUll (A tihiu, tu k Ct J0nOA It C3 tOSt BarVct St.. 3 f . - ' . 3. I : -