Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-23
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
THE cREEDLEss.
[Maude Caldwell Perry. in August
Century.]
We know not whence is life, nor with
er death,
Know not the power that circumscribea
our breath.
But yet we do not fear; what made US
men,
What gave US love. shall we not trus,
again?
AN UNDERGONE.
George d. Heron, in August Arena.l
When echoes of the toll of day
In midnight hours affrighten sleep,
Uprises tensive in my soul
An undertone of sadness deep.
Its mystic sob and moan are like
Some far, unresting midnight sea,
1t bears to me. the old, sad notes
OF human life and destiny.
But with the wake of day soft speak
Melodic voices fom the skies,
Assuring me that in Gods heart
There waits some infinite surprise
To light the common life with truth,
From which. in panic hosts, shall flee
The tyrant fears and evil faiths
That keep the world from liberty.
From travail in the soul of God
Was man to faith and struggle born;
From travail in the soul of man
Love goes to greet the strifeless morn.
The works of Rudyard Kipling have
been excluded from a Sunday school
library in Charlottesville. Ind The
Drums of the Fore and Aft" came into
the hands of one of the church mem
.bers, who declared that 1T fairly reek-
ed of profanity and the most OUT
'rageous slang, and after reading the
quotations to the church trustees, they
agreed with him in putting Mr.. Kipling
under the ban.
NV H. ". eoIIlilIi Sd vs. Il lIcIt al Z
100000 young men in Chicago, accord
ing to a late estimate. Many are at
tending the churches, but too few are
IN the battle line. and 1 believe the
churches are at fault. The church is
reaching more people than in the good
old days of endless sermons, sonorous
prayers and hark-from- the-tomb re-
ligion. but we can accomplish more
than at present Churches in the
smaller places are complaining that
they have so few young men, they have
gone to the great city
Young men do not need free lunch
counter in the church so much as they
need some hard work. They Will smile
in the most desperate battle and SC
wild with enthusiasm in the presence
of the hard work of the world. This
work of the church must be more
strenuous and call for the highesi
heroism, and young men will crowd tn,
churches as they overcrowd the army
when there is hard fighting.
Saturday l say a breach of decorun
| that would once have nerited church
trial. Two pastors AZ ball game
each urging on by laugh and shout TIL
| valiant nine of his flock And Yet th'
successful team, one of the best in Chi
lcago. had as captain TIE clerk OF thu
lchurch, a member OF the choir. wa!
pitcher, while the acting sup zen
dent was on first base Ard all tht
nine men We're active in the work q
the church. They played ball for recre.
alton; they do church work like heroes
Old men in the church for counsel ane
young men too
The church social once meant an icy
plunge into a freezing room wher.
Iyourg and old We're ranged in colo
ste ge around the walls. Only tbs
y lel young man of the Sunday scfoo
,ooks destined to die young ever at
blended the second social. Give TIL
young men chance and they WIN un
dertake ana accomplish great thing
for God.
DR.. Hllis-To the lover of his kim
nothing is SO hard to bear as the SLOW
upward progress of society. Man i
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