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and get our perspectives corrected and
realize our nearness to God.
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Life Race.
Many of the poets and philosophers
have thought of life as race from the
time of David down to the present-day
philosopher who writes, Make life more
than a dash between two dates" Paul.
especially, was fond OF this figure and
used it often in his letters. His knowl-
edge of the life of the Greeks, who
made running national sport, may
somewhat account for this.
The passage cited as a reference for
this lesson is in Paul's letter to the He
brews. "Wherefore. seeing we also are
compassed about with so great cloud
of witnesses, let us lay aside every
weight and the sin which doth SO easily
beset us, and let us run with patience
the race that is set before us, looking
unto Jesus, the author and f1nisher of
our faith; who for the Joy that was set
before Him, endured the. cross, despis-
ing the shame. and is set down at the
right hand of the throne of God.
Wherefore lift up the hands which
hang down, and the feeble knees; and
make straight paths for your feet. lest
that which is lame be turned out of
the way; but let it rather be healed.
Follow peace with all men, and holi-
ness, WltnOuC WHICH no UIdu SIidIl see
the Lord; looking diligently lest any
man fail of the grace of God; lest any
root of bitterness springing up, trou-
BILE you. and thereby many be defled."
Having in mind the stadium where
the Greek races were run, Paul suggests
the audience before which the Christian
runs his race-the host Of angels and all
those who have run the race before. The
Indians had a tradition that when the
flowers faded in the forest and prairie
their beauty passed into the rainbow: so
our companions and loved ones fade
away; but. lifting our eyes. we see our
lost ones blossom forth again in the
holier beauty of the rainbow about the
throne. and. like the cloud Of mystic dew
and rain. imparting life and beauty to
those who dwell on earth.
In a race the runner gets rid of every
ounce of superf1uous weight. discarding
everything that will hinder his prog
ress; and this suggests to Paul the ne
cessity for the Christian to be rid of
everything that will retarl his prog
ress, especially the besetting sins.
How many runner has lost his race
because he would not give up his pas
try. or his late hours. or his cigarettes!
And how many Christian has handi-
capped himself with some self-indul-
gence. big or little. that must be dis
carded IL he would win his race!
The runner must have patience-he
must control himself and use his
strength to the best advantage, even
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| them, There Were Shepherds by the
choir.
| The subject of the sermons by the
pastor Rev. d. l.. Blakemore. Will be
"Christ Crowded Out"
At night the choir will sing Holy
Night and Miss Winner will sing An
gel Song" The subject of the pas
tors sermon will be The Christian
Horoscope
The Sunday school will hold its
Christmas celebration on Thursday
night of Christmas week.
At the Chapel of the Nativity the
, children's festival will be held We'd
nesday at 1880 pm, and the parish re-
ception and entertainment in the Ma
tivity Hall New Year eve, December
81, at pm.
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Christmas services at the Sixth Pres
byterian Church will be held tomorrow.
with special music at the morning and
evening services. At the morning serv-
ice gifts will be brought to the church
and later sent to orphans.
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The Great Purpose.

Mans great purpose should be not for
the things that are lifeless or transient
but for the things that are eternal.
Wherefore are we in this world?
We did not come by our own choice.
We had no hand or say in the matter
no voice as to whether we should be or
not be, or where we should be-here or
elsewhere.
But we are here.
1t is inconceivable that man. so fear
fully and wonderfully made was
brought into existence without a pur-
pose. There must be some great and
important W ork for him to do. Some
thing beyond eating and drinking and
buying and selling and getting gain for
the physical necessities of the unso-
licited life thrust upon US.
Why and for what purpose were we
sent here?
We did not come of ourselves. From
whence came we and for what end?
This question necessarily directs the
mind to some infinite power that is
above and over all. Without such a
power we could not be here at all. The
mere fact of our being here established
the belief that there is supreme
power by and through which I'VE live
and move and have our being This
power we call God. We are, therefore,
God sent into the world and must have
a God-sent work to accomplish.
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CHURCH NOTES.

the Gold" preceded by the ordinance
of baptism. Special Christmas music
will be rendered by the choir at both
of these services.
A watch night service will be held
New Year eve, beginning at o'clock,
and consisting of an illustrated lecture
on the Holy Land by Rev. William A.
Melven. reception to new members and
a get-together fellowship service. and
closing with conservation service
Christmas services will be held In
Central Presbyterian Church tomorrow
morning. at which the pastor Will
preach. The theme for the service will
be The Promise of the Ages" and for
the night service. Some Advantages
of Believing" The choir will sing a
special musical program at both serv-
ices
At Gunton- Temple Memorial Presby-
terian Church Rev. G. +. Granger will
preach a special Christmas sermon at
u o'clock am. on The Message of the
Manger." At the 6:45 o'clock pleasant
evening hour service the choir will
render the cantata Bethlehem" by DIR.
David Wild Mclean. Miss OToole.
harpist, and Mr.. Hoffman. violinist of
the Marine Band, will assist. Monday
evening at $50 o'clock in the chapel
meet with J. w. Patton to organize a
Boy Scout troop. All boys of the neigh
borhood twelve years or over are In
vited. Wednesday night at 1880 o'clock
In the church auditorium the Sunday
school Christmas festival will be held.
The children will render a cantata,
Down the Chimney With Santa" The
public is cordially invited.
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In Centennial Baptist Church. the
Sunday school Christmas celebration
Will be held Tuesday. at pm, when
there will be a Christmas tree and gifts
for the scholars.
Gifts OF all kinds of food will be re-
ceived at the church all day Tuesday,
and will be distributed to the poor. A
watch meeting will be conducted Friday
from o'clock to midnight. At 10
o'clock Rev. w. s. Dunlop will preach,
land Clarence Sorrell. tenor. viii sing u
solo.
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Dreamers and Doors.

The rewards are not for dreamers,
however ambitious the dreams may be
but they are for the ambitious en-
seavorers striving to reach the higher
levels.
Mean TO be something with all your
might
There are multitudes of people who
seem to have no definite purpose in
life-no worthy object in view They
shun the upgrade paths and the up
stream currents. They saunter along
life's pathways like one strolis through
a meadow on summers eve. aimlcss
and purposeless. or they drift with the
tide of life like one in a rudderless
boat
How can they expect TO reach sue.
cess and usefulness with no definite OBJ
ject before them? Very little is ac.
complished in any line or any direc.
tion without some fixed purpose ir
mind We must aim at something
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In the Roman Catholic churches
throughout the world New Year day
is a holy day, being one on which the
church commentaries the naming oi
the child Jesus"
In all the churches throughout the
city the day will be observed as Sunday
and the services held at the same
hours.
In ST. Patrick's the solemn high mass
will be sung at IL o'clock. and Mgr
William T. Russell will preach the ser
mon. A.,
The music will be rendered by the
two choirs,: the sanctuary choir being
under the direction of X. Mills Silby
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The Worlds Record.

Perhaps the most suggestive feature in
Paurs figure is the tribute to Jesus. the
hero who set the worlds record He is
the great example. the perfect type OF
manhood. His the perfection of achieve
ment, and His the honor and reward. To
Him we must look for inspiration, and
we must make Him our coach and obey
Him absolutely. and trust Him implicitly
IL we would win our race over the course
where He set the mark.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth verses
Paul suggests how to follow Christ's ex-
ample-by seeking peace Cor poise of
character) among men and by seeking no
illness Cor purity of mind. body and
souD and avoiding the roots of bitter
ness Cor rebellion against -conditions).
Here. too. is the prize suggested, the
heaven of His presence. 1t is the
thought expressed in one of Charles
Wesley's hymns:
10 that each In the day of his coming may say,
| have fought my way through: =
have finished the work thou ddst give me to do:
0 that each from his Lord may receive the sise
word,
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dress by the pastor on the theme Al
ter Christmas. What?
On Friday night watchnlsht services
will be held beginning at o'clock
From 9 until 1915 the time will be de-
voted to short addresses concernln3
the Methodist forward movement to
be started in Washington shortly after
the beginning of the new year
From 1915 to 11:15 o'clock social
hour will be held with refreshments
served by the Womens Guild; 1l.l5
pm. to 1906 am. holy communion VIII
be observed with closing conservation
services.
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Tomorrow the congregation of St.
Paul.s Methodist Episcopal Shurcn
South. I'd and S streets northwest VIII
hold a Christmas service with approprl-
ate religious exercises. both morning
and evening. The principal musical 1ea. /.
lures will be solo. Might of Nights.
by Miss Lille May Winner; God Hath
Given a, Son." by Douglas Shaver; an
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FIVE MEXICANS ORDAINED TO
ROMAN CATHOLIC PRIESTHOOD
Services Held Last Saturday at Brookland All Are
Members of Franciscan Order and Recently
Came From Mexico.

An interesting ceremony took place
last Saturday morning in the chapel
in Divinity Hall of the Catholic Uni
versity, when Rt. Rev. Thomas J. Sha-
han, titular Bishop of Germanicopolis
and rector of the university. ordained
to the priesthood five Mexican Fran
ciscans.
These young men have been ready
for ordination for some time. but ow-
ing to the conditions in Mexico. and
the fact, it is said, that the Roman
Catholic bishops were unable TO per-
form any of their Episcopal functions,
the provincial of the Mexican province,
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Very Rev. John D. Mcguire, dean of
/ the school of letters in the Catholic
University of America and professor of
Latin and literature in that institution.
| has been appointed by Archbishop
Prendergast to the irremovab1e rector
ship of ST. Elizabeth's Catholic Church,
Philadelphia.
The rectorship has been vacant since
the death of Rev. James Regenry few
weeks ago. Being an "irremovable"
| rectorship, 1t was necessary. under the
canon law, to hold an examination of
| candidates aspiring to it. This exam
| ination was held at st. Charles Semi
nary. in Maryland. last week, with four
candidates participating.
| DR.. Mcguire was born in Philadelphia
and attended the public schools of the
city. He was graduated from La Sale
College in 1886, and subsequently en-
tered the seminary at Overlook, Pa.
| In 1893, in recognition of exceptional
| ability, he was sent to the Catholic
] university of America by the late Arch
I bishop Ryan, to pursue a course of
postgraduate studies in theology.
The same year, during the Christmas
holidays, he was ordained to the priest
hood by Cardinal Gibbons. in the Cathe-
dral at Baltimore. At the end of the
| first year in the university he received
| the degree of bachelor of sacred the
ology. and at the end of the second year
| the degree of licentiate in sacred the
ology.
After spending a year in Germany,
! studying classical philology, he re-
turned to the United States and entered
Johns Hopkins University. Baltimore,
where two years were devoted to spe-
cial study. He next entered the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, where he stud
led Sanscrit, Latin and Greek for two
years.
In his second year he wrote thesis
| covering considera BILE amount of
original work and submitted it to the
| faculty. In June, 1900. the university
conferred upon him the degree of Ph.D.
1T is expected DR.. Mcguire will assume
his new duties at an early date.
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making good. If the mind and heart
are firmly and persistently fixed upon
the first and second conditions, the
third is sure-to be realized.
Those who are good and who do good
never fail to make good. Aim at some
thing! 1t is the only way to succeed.
Then why not aim at that which is
the most worth while?
Those whose life has a purpose not
only for the present, but for the future
are the wise ones. The past is dead,
the present is dying, but the future
is immortal.
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NEW YEAR DAY TO BE OBSERVED
IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHES
Special Christine as Musical Program Be Repeated
on Day on Which Church Commentaries
Naming of Savior.

and the mixed choir of Miss Jennie
Glennan.
The entire Christmas program will
be repeated. as follows:
Introitus. Gregorian, sanctuary choir,
Kyrie, Haydn's No. l. mixed choir;
Gloria, Haydn's No. !, mixed choir;
Graduate FalSibordone, sanctuary
choir: Alleluia, Gregorian, sanctuary
choir; Veni Creator. Mendelssohn, sane
tuary choir; Credo ex Missa Papae
Marcelli. Palestrina, sanctuary choir:
Omertorium. Gregorian, sanctuary
choir: Offertory Motet. Adeste Fideles,
Novello. both choirs: Sanctus. Bcnedic-.
tus and Agnus Del, Haydns No. l..
mixed choir: Communio. Gregorian.
sanctuary choir: Recessional, Holy
Night, Adam, mixed choir.
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NEW $1,000 STATUE OF ST. JOSEPH
PLANNED FOR ST. PATRICK'S CHURCH
Will Be Memorial for Mrs. Rose Russell. Deceased
Mother of the Rector, Mgr. Russell-A Rose
Window Also Added to Edihce.

Mgr. William T. Russell of st. Pat
rick's Church has been presented by his
congregation with a fund for the pur-
chase of statue of st. Joseph, to be
made of marble and erected in st. Pat
rick's Church as memorial to his
mother, Mrs. Rose A. Russell.
The statue of the blessed Virgin,
which was donated to the church by
the Sodality of the Blessed Virgin and
has been in the hands of the sculptor
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for the past year. is expected to arrive
shortly from Italy. OF the most artis-
tic workmanship. it is said, the statue
will cost about $1,000.
The rose window, new addition to
the architectural beauty of st. Pat
rick's Church, has been completed. 1t
ia much admired for the fact that II
harmonizes perfectly with the color
scheme of ths church both inside and
out. The window is the gift of Mrs.
Mary E. Faherty. in memory of the
Cation and Faherty families.
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who is now in this country. detailed
one of the Franciscans of the mon
astery here to go to Mexico and rescue
these religious, who were in hiding.
There were twenty in all; five came
to Washington, and the others went to
California to continue their studies.
Those ordained were as follows:
Rev. Philip Lopez, O. F. NJ; Rev.
Jerome Garibay, o. F. NJ; Rev. Elias
Jauregin, o. F. NJ: Rev. Augustine
Pezos. o. F. NJ, and Rev. Fideles Zas-
queZ, O. F. NJ.
Rev. Philip Lopez. o. F. NJ, cele-
brated his first solemn high mass
last Sunday at o'clock at the Fran
ciscan monastery.
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LOOKING ONWARD TO THE
GOD OF ALL THE YEARS.
Hebrews, 12:1, 2, 1915.

Another year is dswning.
Dear Master, let ii be
in working or in waiting
Another year with thee
Another year of mercies,-
OF faithfulness and grace;
Another year of gladness
In the shining Of Thy face.
Another year Of progress,
Another year of praise,
Another year of proving
Thy presence all the days.
Another year of service.
OF witness Tor Thy love;
Another year of training
For hoffer work above.
Another year is dawning,
Dear Master, let ii be
On earth, or else in heaven,
Another year for Thee.
Frances Ridley Haverga,
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Definite Purpose.

1t is in this way only that we can
make straight tracks in life.
Press toward the mark"
Look not at the ground. but at one
object ahead. The bows who attempt
ed to make a straight path without
looking at anything but the ground
failed, So it will be with men al
ways who have no definite mark to-
ward which they are pressing. Cen
eral hopes general desires, general
purposes. general resolutions will not
suffice. We must fix upon some distinct
object and move persistently toward IT..
This way leads to success. but success
sometimes means failure. The pur-
pose, the object. the thing aimed at
must be worthy and valuable or 1t
will be worthless and may be injurious
when it is reached. This keeps one
on the up grade. The purposeless do
not ascend. but are ever descending.
They are inevitably on the down grade.
Then there are those who have def
mite purposes. but who confine them to
the things of this world. They aim
at knowledge. riches. fame and power.
Their object is worthy and II they press
earnestly toward the mark selected
they will in large measure attain it.
This is the invariable law of specific
purpose and endeavor. The value of
their achievement depends upon the
uses to which they devote the knowl-
edge. wealth and fame they have
gained.
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at the cost of temporary loss of
ground; and he must follow the course
by getting off the course. Paul's applica-
ton of these conditions to the life of the
Christian are suggestive. Looking unto
Jesus suggests His presence as the run
ners goal. and the runners rule of keep
ing his. eyes on the goal and not look
ing back
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Making Good.

Aim at something and be sure that
the something is important and that
when it is gained it is used for noble
purposes. The full complement of life
consists in three conditions-frst, being
good; second. doing good, and third,
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Looking Onward to God.

Two clements of the successful
Christian race are suggested in the
topic We must look onward-the
runner who pauses to look back loses
time and gets off the track. Two boys
playing in the snow were trying to see
which could make the straightest path;
one stopped every little ways to look
back, while the other fixed his eyes
on a tree and never took them OF
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Aim at Something.

Even in the most trivial things there
is almost certain failure unless the eye
or the attention is fixed upon some dis
tinct and definite object.
To illustrate: Six boys were gath
cred under a tree. standing near the
center of a meadow. A snow had fall
en- of such depth as to make plain
tracks.
The boys agreed to arrange them
selves around the tree at equal dis
tance from each other. with theiI
backs toward the trunk, and then start
just as they faced to walk in a straight
line to the fence inclosing the meadow
If each had gone forward in the right
line the paths they made would have
been like the spokes of a wheel-the
tree representing the hub.
When they surveyed the result there
was not much resemblance to the
spokes of wheel. All the paths were
very crooked except one. The boy
who had made straight path was
asked how he managed to do it. His
answer was: 81 fixed my eye on that
tall pine tree on the hill directly be-
fore me and never looked away from
it till / reached the fence"
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TOPIC:
How to Keep on the Upgrade.
Phil, 3:12-16.
TOPIC:
ALL MAY BE HEROES:

ALL MAY BE HEROES.
1.-THE man vino rules his spirit. Satin the VOICE
Which cannot err. lis greater than the man
Whv takes Il city" Hence il surely follows
" each might have dominion Of himself
An, each would govern wisely. and thus show
Truth courage. knowledge. power. benevolence,
An, all the princely soul in private virtues:
Tl,.-n each would be a prince. hero. greater;
He will he a man in likeness of his Maker!
Mrs. Sarah j, Hale.
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Christian Gnnfabor 9our'
OF BETHLEHEM.

what Paddy shot observation-disclosures
neither amusement nor profit.
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CHAPEL OF THE NATIVITY CELEBRATES
TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY TODAY

Arrangements Being Made for New Building for
Chapel of the Resurrection. Which Is Mission
Work of Older Effort.
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VERY REV JOHN D. MAGUIRE OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY
CHOSEN PASTOR OF ST. ELIZABETHS CHURCH, PI1ILADE]


and Will Succeed the Late Regeny
Pasorae Is "Irremovabe" One.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-11-24
Former Wealthy Miner
Arraigned For Burglary

Oakland, Col, Nov. 29.-Charles Cor.
don Bishop, former wealthy Mexico
mining man who turned burglar for q
night through hunger, was arraigned
this morning on q charge of burglary
before Police Judge Samuels. Bail was
fixed in the sum Of $1,000 and Decem-
ber | set as the date for preliminary
examination.
Bishop, who is the brother Of Harry
Frederick Bishop, manager of the Vic.
toria, b. G., Royal Bank of Canada,
has confessed to looting the home of
NJ. L. Libbey, in the Lakeside district.
His arrest followed close upon the sale
of his wife's wedding ring for $3.50
which the couple used to buy food.
Bishop told the police the revolution
in Mexico ruined him aud that he stole
to keep himself and wife from starv.
ing.
The wife corrohorates the pathetic
story Of poverty and, lost wealth.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-11-24
Organized Labor Deals
With Labor Situation

Many workers felt that this was a
form of slavery. They would have pre-
ferred the munitions factories nation
allied and the workers responsible in
conjunction with the state for disci-
.pline and output. There would have
been less dissatisfaction had the act
been scrupulously observed by employ
ers and sympathetically administered
by the government. A few instances:
Armstrong & Whitworth, 0penshaw,
dismissed $50 Steel Shelters union
men, refusing them certificates re-
quired by the munitions act before
they could get other work.
At Sheffield worker asked the To-
cal munitions tribunal s permission to
take position closer to where his wife,
almost at deaths door, resided. Per-
mission was refused. Fourteen Man
chester workmen, summoned for contra
vening the strike clause of the act,
proved that the government had not
acquainted them with the act IS pro-
visions and that their employers were
not engaged exclusively upon govern
ment work. They were fined.
In defense of the biggest strike since
the act went into effect, when 1900
Thorneycroft IS shipbuilding yard work
ers at Southampton downed tools be-
cause of the introduction of non-union
labor, labor says the employers them
selves first violated the act s provision
that educ notice shall be given work
men of any change of working condi-
tions desired and opportunity for local
consultation with the worknen or their
representatives shall be given, if de-
sired" This, they say, was the real
cause of the strike.
Leaders of labor in Great Britain
contend that the workers still are as
wholeheartedly in favor Of the war as
when it started. But, they say: Ex-
ploitation continues; the government g
attitude toward increased living cost
and increased profits of employers still
is unsatisfactory, to labor
That the administration Of the mu-
nitions act is constantly embittering
relations between the government and
labor; and that labor feels that its sac
rifices in lives, in trade union rights,
and material prosperity have far ex-
ceeded those of the classes.
Despite these things, labor has now
promised to recruit 10000 men a week
and to try to make it 10000!