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f. tup 75c r- It «3R. CRAIG OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, AND DR. JEFFREY OF OTTUM WA TALK TO MEN. EIGHTH ANNUAL EVENT Ladies Serve Delicious Menu and Pro gram Committee Provides for Feast of Reason—Two Hun dred and Fifteen Present. 1 1 Good fellowship, the kind that comes with a body of men whose feel ings have had eight years to cement, was overflowing at the eighth annual banquet of the Methodist Brotherhood last evening in the lecture room of the First Methodist Episcopal church. The eighth year idea was carried out not alone in the matter of the ban quet, but in the menu, the program and the delightful services rendered by the women of the church, who really had but a week or so to pre pare for it, but who could have made no more splendid success had they taken eight years to do it. The 215 guests, members of the Brotherhood and their friends gathered in the audi torium of the church preliminary to the banquet, and there an i.apropmtu reception was tendered Dr. A. E. Craig, former pastor of the church, •who made the principal address. Im mediately following the large congre gation of mankind proceeded to the lower floor where a most beautiful ar ray of white napery and brilliant silverware topped off with an abund ance of red crepe papers artistically hung from the center of the rooms to the side walls met their gaze. On each ,of the six long tables and upon the speaker's table, surrounded by sprays of spiraea were placed hand some candelabra in which were lighted red candles, and the contrast of the red and white was emphasised by the numerous lady servers, all gowned in white. Many displays of good fellow ship and concern for the stranger was shown, and while they were not all successful, despite the good intentions of the doer, they were nevertheless appreciated. Rev. H. N. Smith, Ph. D., asked the blessing, and then began the systematic procession of the pro venders of food. A Delicious Menu. The menu, prepared by the women of the church and served by fully seventy-five of the younger feminine members, follows: Macedoine of fruit. Cream of celery soup Wafers Olives Salted Nuts Pickles Turkey with dressing, Brown sauce Cranberry ice Mashed potatoes French peas Ice cream Cake Cream cheese Crackers Coffee. Jeffrey Pictures Strong Man. M. P. Duffleld, president of the Brotherhood, in the caacity of toast master, paid high tribute to the suc cessful manner the banquet was served by the ladies, and when he called for a vote of thanks in recogni tion of the service the room rang with hasty responses. "I Am Wail ing." rendered by Edward Weeks, was the first musical number. The pastor, Dr. T. W. Jeffrey, followed with an address on "A Full Grown Man," in which he eloquently emphasized the requisites of a man, full grown and sufficiently strong to bear the work set aside for mankind. Preliminary to Als address. Mr. Jeffrey referred to the proposed trip abroad to be taken by Dr. Craig and his family, and using a scriptural passage, hoped they would not "fall out by the way." He also paid his respects to those who served the banquet, referring to them as the "Sisters of Charity." "There are problems, many of them, that can only be solved by the full grown man," began Dr. Jeffrey, "and necessarily we must have the full grown man to solve them. The pro gress of this country since the time of Andrew Jackson has been greater than the entire period from Nebuchad nezzer to Jackson, and the full grown man will have greater work to do in the years to come. What man does here is only indicative of what he Cancer Cured or No Pay providing your case is not advanced to the incurable stage. We have had over 30 years constant practice. We know all the old Eecharotic and Plas ter ..treatments. Our new Improved Painless Methods are away ahead of them all. Send to day for our free literature. Dr. C. O. SEAMAN AND SON 402 Magnetic Ave., Cherokee, Iowa rnn/fit It Pays to Trade at The Ottumwa Hardware Co. W A S I N A I N E S EACH White Lily Washer, with belt fly wheel $7.50 OTTUMWA HDW. CO. 122 East Main Street. MEN OF METHODIST BROTHERHOOD HOSTS AT BANQUET will do in the spiritual world. There are voices continually calling and urging man to improve everywhere, and he must need climb above the level. Ignorance has put falsehoods around our altars, and as full grown men we need all to give these things our rightful intellect to remedy. Every human cry denounces our weak nesses and it is absolutely necessary that the full grown man has a sound cultivated body on which to carry a vigorous mind and a splendid brain. The church ought to take a hand in creating these great bodies and in tellectual minds, which it can readily be sefen make great souls. I believe the church should have its library,.its gymnasium and its swimming pool. With these and its brotherhood, we can achieve all great things, because we then follow, well equipped, our great leader, the Christ." "God be Merciful," a trio sweetly rendered by Mesdames E. C. Pierce, R. C. Stevens and George Porter, im mediately preceded the splendid ad dress by Dr. Craig, now pastor of the Broad Street Methodist Episcopal church of Columbus, Ohio. F. L. Dag gett and C. G. Keyhoe rendered "The Two Sailors," as the closing number on the program. The Ideal City. Preliminary to his address, Dr. Craig expressed himself of being most pleased to again be among his former congregation and felt assured that many of the members of the First church were equally glad. His address, which is complete as follows, was given in the same strong manner that characterized many of his former ad dresses to the people of this city: I am to address you this evening on the ideal city. Probably some loyal citizen of your own beautiful city an ticipates my purpose with the supposi tion that I am to detail to you the ad vantages of your own prosperous municipality. I am not. There is no doubt but Ottumwa is a city, beautiful for situation and worthy of high com mendation for the enterprise of its citizenship, the public spirit of its business men, the influence of its edu cational and religious institutions. I am not to dilate on the attractions of the city where I now hold my domicile, though every loyal Buckeye would stand ready to praise his beautiful capital city. I shall go far back to find the suggestion of my ideal city: Long ago an old mystic was exiled, and consigned to a lonely rock in the Mediterranean. The occasion of this was not treason nor high moral of fense, but as he declares "For the word of God and the testimony of Jesus." There rapt in ecstacy he saw in his purified vision the great world powers which bulked so largely about him crumbling away, for already they were rotten with corruption. But his glorious apocalypse does not con clude in a catastrophe, nor dissolve in to "the abomination of desolation." Over the scene of waste he sees a new order arise and a vision of splen dor replace the destruction witnessed. Let us hear his words "I saw the Holy City, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God." I know the common acceptation of that vision is that it relates to the world to come and the state of the blessed beyond this life. But there Is a peculair blending in these biblical apocalyptics. Time and place are not rigidly ad hered to. The ideal itself is the all absorbing throught. I am disposed to suggest that there is good reason for us to apply this ideal to this world. Does he not say "I saw the Njw Jerusalem come down?" Perhaps the revelator was given "A vision of the world and the wonders that would be," when the kingdom he so gloriously phophesied had come in its fullness. He Is a bold expositor who would be dogmatic about the precise applica tion of the vision of this old mystic St. John, and we think it best to re ceive it as suggestive. I will there fore presume to apply this vision to the coming city of this world and be lieve that I find in it many of those 1 v.. $17.50 DR. A. E CRAIG. JEFFREY. characterize features which should the ideal city today. City is Lonely Place. First, I would have you observe that this ideal city was great in its di mensions. The New Jerusalem was more than a thousand times as great as the old Jerusalem about to fade away. This suggests to us the im portance the city is to asume in the coming civilization. It is not neces sary that I should weary you with statistics to prove that our cities are growing at a marvelous rate Suffice to say at the beginning of the last century we had .three and a fraction of our population residing in cities, while at the close we had thirty-three per cent, and the rate is rapidly increas ing. I know we hear a good deal in these more recent days of the "back to-the-country movement." We are told that it was the loneliness, the in tellectual poverty, the social priva tions of the barren country life that made it unbearable in the past, but now that we are to have rural mail delivery, rural telephones, interurban electric roads running like a net work across our country districts that all this is to be changed and the country districts are to be redeemed for pleas ant residence once more.' I do not be lieve it. In the first place these folks have entirely mistaken the causes that have impelled our enterprising coun try youths to seek their fortunes in the city. It was not because there was no fun on the farm, no society in the country. Bless you, that Is just where genuinely good times may be had for the seeking. The loneliest place I know anything about is a great city where you are lost in the crowd, nobody knowing or caring about you. Why then this migration cityward? Simply to find the main chance. The application of machinery to farm la bor, the absorption of the small vil lage shop in the great factory has simply blotted out the major portion of our rural population. It is estimated that four men can now do the work on the farm that was formerly done by fourteen before modern machinery was introduced. So too, the small producer who lived in the rural vil lage has been utterly replaced. A few years ago I took Mrs. Craig and the children out to visit the old farm where I first saw the light of day. We had occasion to pass through the coun try village, where as a boy I was wont to go to get the horses shod, bring home the mail or buy such family supplies as we did not grow in the garden. How well I remember those days when I used to mount the old bay mare and trot off to the village. Of course all its institutions were ii* dellibly fixed in my boyish recollec tion. We had three or four stores ac cording to the tide of prosperity. There were two blacksmith shops, two taverns, two churches, one tailor shop, two shoeshops, one tinshop, one wagonshop, one coopershop, and pos sibly one or two other flourishing in dustries. Going b^clc after a lapse of many years I found one store, one blacksmith shop. Where were all the rest? Wiped out by our new indus trialism which centers in our cities. So I might continue to argue how every thing points to the Increase of our great centers of population. At the present time this republic is governed by the ideals of the country because it is still true that the rural voter is in the majority. This we regard as our safeguard. What will it mean when the majority of our voters live in the city, which time is surely coming? Well that depends upon the character of those cities. Let us see what is the prospect In this respect. Streets Will Be of Gold. There is a farther intimation that this ideal city is to be very wealthy. Its gates are of pearl, its walls of jas per and its very streets paved with gold. As a nation we are rapidly growing rich. The application of skill and science to our civilization has en abled us to extract wealth out of the earth, the water and the air. Every- r» iiwwpilw OTTTJMWA COTJBIEK thing promises, to be wealth produc ing on an increasing scale. But how about the ,distribution of this wealth? Will the cpuntry receive its due pro portion, or will the city get the major part of it? It looks as if this increase would largely go to the cities, for when a m&n is poor his wants are imperative, but they are few and sim ple. He demands the food necessary to sustain him and needs clothes suf ficient to cover him. These are his primitive wants. The greater part of his necessities are the direct product of the country, which grows the raw material. Let us suppose a man is raising his family on }500 a year, no uncommon occurrence. Necessarily the larger part of that income goes to buy these necessities of life and he gets the cheapest and we may say the rawest sort, because he cannot afford anything else. But suppose by some fine turn of fortune his income should be. increased one hundred fold and he finds himself at liberty to spend $50, 000 a year, not an uncommon occur rence with many families of the rich. Does he eat one hundred times as much raw material? Not he. So with his clothes. He does riot buy a hun dred times as many suits of clothes, but he buys a finer texture and has them made with more costly care. All of which stands for the city's contribu tion to his wardrobe. Now there is a natural limit to what the country can contribute to this outlay. There is no limit to what the city, the factory, the skilled workman can contribute to it. What he expends on automobiles, dress, personal adornment, elaborate furnishings all pertains to the pro duct of the city,, and here I say there is no limit. The modern woman of fashion could easily spend $100,000 in one outfit of dress and jewels if her husband's purse was big enough and her own taste was bad enough. Does it not follow that as our scale o£ living rises, as civilization becomes rrfWe lux uriant the chief beneficiary of all this advance will be our cities? Education is Right. Another characteristic of this com ing city is that its length and breadth and height are to be equal. May we not properly apply these three meas urements to the three great interests of life, the material, the intellectual and the moral. TlieBe are to be equal. 1 have already dwelt upon the mater ial measurement. I wish time might permit irte to do justice to the intel lectual measurement, but it will not. Suffice to sa-- that everything Indi cates that this ip destined to keep pace with the other. Our educational standards are constantly increasing. Though we may not make .quite BO much of education as a decorative fea ture of life, as the adornment of the chosen few, as has been done in thi past we are Insisting on the rise of the universal grade of intelligence. The children of the poorest have opportun ities today that the richest could not command a few years ago. But It Is the third standard that concerns us. Is there prospect that the moral eleva tion of our cities will equal their ma terial length and their Intellectual breadth? Here the outlook is not so promising. Much as we may boast of our commercial ent-rprise, the archi tectural grandeur, the material per fectlon of our modern cities, much a? we may be delighted with the intellec tual and artistic progress we see we are constrained to.be very modest when we approach the moral Issue. Indeed many of us are frank to con fess that many of our modern cities mpch more resembles a wicked Baby lon than they do the new Jerusalem from above. During the past few years our current magazines have been filled with exposures of the shame of our modern cities, until we even cease to be startled at the most sensational revelation. James Bryce, British Am bassador at Washington, who has writ ten so appreciatively of many things American frankly tells us that our cities are our one great failure in our AniMlcan Democracy. Certain it is no ™er challenge comes to our high gred minded citizen than that the city to day presents, and it is by no means clear how we are to overcome this menace to our civilization. Hitherto we have depended upon our country districts to save us from the domin ance of these baser elements of our great cities. We could not contem plate with anything less than terror the possibility of our country's falling under such influences as control New York, Chicago or San Francisco. Yet we have not lost courage. These great cities have sprung up with such mush room growth that we have not learn ed to adjust ourselves to their exist ence. Let us not lose faith in our ideals. Even great cities may be reg ulated in accordance with what is best, So at least our visionary would have us believe. Let us look at the case little more in detail and observe what John saw. He showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal, pro ceedlng out of the throne of God and the lamb In the midst of the street thereof. Has it ever occurred to you how significant that sounds. City Should be Morally Clean. The streets of the coming city are to be clean. What Is the matter with our modern cities? Not the homes, it is the streets. Often these are physi cally foul. But that Is not the worst, they are morally unclean. Every mother Insists in keeping her children off the streets. That is no fit placo for. them. What* stigma do we use when we wish to brand a woman of easy virtue? Do we not call her woman of the street? When graft i? uncovered in our cities as too frequent ly it is necessary to do what is found associated with? Well either streets or water. We have had occa sion to send our entire board of public work to the "pen" in our city recent ly. What for? Only a little job of street pavement. Must this condition of low moral standards continue In our cities? Miist they always be ruled by graft, must our water that flows in our city mains be corrupted with worse than typhoid fever germs, the germs of moral corruption, must our city streets be slippery with reeking corruption? It Is not necessary. It will not be so when we have taken our cities seriously, when we have cast aside the peurile custom of mixing up our city government with party poll tics and leaving the tremendous coin merclal and moral Interests of the great communities to be the prey of the worst thieving combinations that may be able to co-ordinate around a common center of corruption. Another characteristic of this ideal city was that It had no churches. John said, "I saV no temple therein." No churches. What a city that would be! "We have all read Chaplain Mc Cabe'8 "Dream of Ingersolvllle," the city that had no churches and we re member what a hell on earth it was. We have become so accustomed to hear the Christian churches lauded :»s the most indispenslble Institutions In the city that it gives us a distinct shock to hear it Intimated that they are to be lessened as time goes on. We do hear a good deal about churches abandoning the downtown, thickly set tled sections of our great cities, but we have usually regarded that as a calamity to be avoided. Now to hear that there is not to be a single church In the city that is to come brings noth ing less than a shudder to our thought. But before we reject tills Ideal let us be sure that we catch the Apoatl^'s Idea. "I saw no temple therein for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are the temple thereof." The church is not to be found in the ideal city, not because it has failed in its duty but because it has succeeded in Its mission. It has succeeded in making all life sacred, In bringing into not only the place of worship but Into every interest of life the holy lnflu ence of Christ's spirit. Let Work be Sacred. There was a time in the history of the Christian church when It w.is thought necessary to make religion something very, very holy. It became so holy that it would not bear the con tamlnating touch of the Becularltles of life. The result was that a vicious llp-i was drawn between the sacred and the secular. Certain eexrclses were re garded as particularly religious. At tending church, saying prayers, count ing beads, chanting masses, going on sacred pilgrimages, going through genuflexions, these things were regard ed as especially holy. War, labor, com mercf, society, all the common inter ests of life were held to belong to the secularlties. The Influence of this vi cious division of life has been baneful in the extreme. I do not see how any system could have been adopted that would have been more to the desire of his satanic majesty himself. If you let him have the loom of labor, the mart of commerce, the palace of pleas ure, the hall of legislation, the realm of art, I do not think ne 1B devil mean enoijgh to disturb saints at their pray ers. But if we can get that comprehen sion of religion that makes It as sacred to pay debts as to pray prayers, as holy to stand behind the counter as be fore the altar, as religious for a man to rise before the break of day ahd go down the street at 6 o'clock In the morning swinging a dinner pall as he hies off to earn an honest livelihood for his wife and six children as It Is for a wifeless, childless priest to swing censer down the aisle of a church then we may hope to realize the ideal of this coming city which will be with out temple. What our age needs the Interpretation of religion In terms of life, an interpretation that makes all life sacred and brings the holy principles of the Sermon on the Mount Into every common Interest of life. Let us believe There are no gentile oaks, no pagan pines, The grass beneath our feet Is Chris tian grass." The realization of such an ideal Is work worth the while on the part of every man. We. rejoice in the uprising of our Christian men all over this coun try. We believe it promises much for cleaner business, cleaner politics, cleaner civic life, cleaner cities physi cally and morally. This is the new patriotism that Is beginning to fllj the breasts of men with something of the sentiment that inspired our patriots of other times, when foes from without threatened our soil. Yet this idea is not yet caught by all. I remember hearing Joseph Folk of Missouri re late how he attended a banquet where the effervescence of patriotism rose high and fine sentiments were express ed. At the close of the banquet a man high In the commercial life of the state wrung his hand and with tears stream ing down his face declared it would be a pleasure for him to die for the old flag. Yet it was not more than a few months before that very man was in dicted for graft. Patriotism to him meant enthusiasm in war, not honesty in peace, not correct principles in civ ics or business. Some one has well said what this age needs is a moral substitute for war, something that will call forth the fine devotion that men showed as they followed the old flag in the dust of battle and before the belch ing cannon. "Heroic Age" Has Thought. Richard Watson Glider has given voice to this thought in his splendid poem the "Heroic Age." "He speaks not well who doth his time deplore, Naming it new, and little and obscure, Ignoble and unfit for lofty deeds. All times were modern In the times of them, And this no more than others. Do thy part Here'ln the living day, as did the great Who made old days Immortal! 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