The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-04-12
A FEAST.
Both the Physical and intellectual
Man Satisfied Friday
Night.
The Affair at the Presbyterian Church
a Complete Success.

One OF the ~pleasantest events that
have occurred for some time in Man
kato social circles was the reception
and banquet given at the Presbyteri-
an church Friday night by Rev. L.. w.
Beattie, assisted by the young mems
classes of the church. The eighty
guests present were received at the
door by a committee and started on
the round of a social chat, which
lasted for about an hour. Then the
entire party was invited into the din
ing room, where a fine repast awaited
them. The tables were laden with
eatables, and the place of honor was
given to the distinguished guest of
the evening, Or. A. n. Carson, pastor
of the Central Presbyterian church of
St. Paul, and to the members of the
Ladies Mendelsshn quartet, Mrs. III.
l.. Parry and Misses Sparrow, Griffin
and Ellis, and Miss Robbins, who re-
spOnded to one of the tOaStS. The
nine members of the board of sessions
took the center table, and the other
guests occupied the remaining seats.
A corps of young ladies served the
banquet, which was a most excellent
n and very daintily served. This
was not done, however, before an in
vocation had been pronounced by DR..
Carson.
When the plates had been removed,
the quartet favored the audience with
a finely executed selection, and was
called back.
Mr.. Beattie then explained why the
banquet had been given, saying that
it was desired to prove that the feel
ing in the church is not antagoniStic
to young men. He acted as master
of ceremonies during the speech-mak-
ing that followed, and between
speeches he ~interposed some very eX-
cellent remraks.
The first remark, 1.-THE church as it
appesgs, to young men outside of the
church" was responded to by Louis
Wiser. He spoke Of letters addressed
some time ago by DR.. Smith, of ST.
Paul, to young men, and the answers
received, with the excellent answer of
Judge Kelly. He said that few young
men carry out the moral obligations
that they ought to and favored throw
ing the churches open more.
D. L. Rose responded in a humorous
vein to the toast of Mushrooms" He
said that it had been intimated to
to him that he was expected to show
the true relationship of young men
to frogs, bugs and mushrooms.
There is nothing that stirs up such
deep enthusiasm in a mans breast as
the dainty, delicate, fragile toadstool
Some may think that l am referring
to young ~ladies-but l am not. One
crisis of life is when a person eats a
toadstool at a banquet and then fears
he has eaten the poisonous kind
whose logical conclusion is death. The
semblance between a young man and
a frog is that the frog in his tad-pole
state corresponds with youth, and as
a frog it corresponds with young men.
The resemblance to bugs is a poser
but beneath the dark brown coating of
every bug rests a pair of beautiful
wings-there most lie the resemblance.
The likeness with toadstools is, the
latter spring up in a night and in the
morning they are wilted-is there a
moral there?
1t was expected that Harry Ken
nedy would give a dialect selection,
but he vas out of the city, and the
quartet gave another delightful song.
w. d. Willard responded to the
toast, 'The affect of the church as it
appears to young men inside
of the church." He said that
the young man inside of the church is
a Christian and knows the reality Of
life and endeavOrS to make himself
like Christ. To such a man the
church furnishes a divine organiza-
tion. 1t was founded by Christ and
is for the better and more thorough
working of his children in his cause.
The church furnishes him the best
opportunity of making himself like
Christ, and is surrounded by a halo Of
sanctity and blessings, and becomes
to him a place of joy. There those
are assembled together who are doing
the same work, and he has a better
opportunity. There more than else
where is the presence OF Gods spirit.
Those outside OF the church often
think tia place of amusement and
criticise it that it does not attract
young men. The amusements are in
tended to attract young men for a
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