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MEMS MEETING YESTERDAY
STIRRING ADDRESS GIVEN BIZ REV,
4. f. IRVINE.
"Prisoners of Hope" the Subject and
Over $50 Men Listened to It. Sterepti-
can Views shown Previous to Address
What Mr.. Irvine Said.

| Alexander Fitzgerald Irvine gave ar
address on Prisoners of Hope" yester-
day afternoon at the Grand Opera
house, which was attended by about
$50 men.
Previous to the address there were
about fifty pictures thrown on the
screen illustrating the evolution of the
natives of the islands of Hawaii from
savagery to responsibility, through the
influence of the gospel. G. Elmer Good
win, the gospel singer, sang two selec-
lions.
Mr.. Irvine spoke partly as follows:
did you ever stop to think what a
monopoly Christianity has upon some
of the best words in the English Ian
guage? Just think of hope, joy, heart,
etenity, heaven-these words are to a
Christian what tools are to a carpen-
ter Take, for instance, the element of
hope in a mans life. What is hope?
Desire accompanied by expectation.
How quickly you can tell man by
the hopes he has, as we say man Is
known by the company he keeps, so we
can say man is known by the hopes
he has, and is really made by them
pure, if they be pure, and evil if they
be evil.
"How does hope affect our lives? Take
a sailor-and 1 am more familiar with
the vocation of a sailor than OF any
other-as he stands at night on the
lookout, above him the blue sky OF
heaven and all around him the still
bluer waters of the ocean. There he
stands, alone in the night in the mid
die of the Atlantic bound for America.
What sustains him? Hope! He thinks
of the end of the trip when he will be
paid off and have the joy of bringing
comfort to the heart of his old mother,
and to see his brothers and sisters once
more. That expectation buoys him up.
What keeps courage in the hearts OF
our soldiers in the Philippines? Hope!
What actuates the heart of the Irish la
borer as he goes to England in the har-
vest time to work. Is it not the hopes
of taking his bag of money and with 1t
bring joy to the old home in his native
land? Man is made and controlled by
the element of hope"
The speaker defined, and gave in
stances of various passions, and said
that good intentions were not sufficient,
nor was it enough for man to be sim
cere in some form of belief-rght or
wrong. He must be actuated by the
right. In illustrating this Mr.. Irvine
told an amusing story of how he got on
a car to go to Fair Haven one Sunday
evening and was intensely interested in
a book and very soon upon looking
out of the window found he was on his
way to Schuetzen Park Il did not
mean to go there. l had good inten
lions of going to Fair Haven, but got
on the wrong car. Young man stop
while you are yet young and assure
yourself beyond a doubt that you are
on the right car. DO not ride blissfully
along and some day wake up to the
fact that you are on a celestial car
bound for the wrong place. Some of
you say I would like to but for my
past life Of sin To you | want to say
that Jesus is willing to take your bun
die of SIM no matter how black it may
be. and throw it into the sea, and re-
it against you no more