Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-01

son is a member of the committee OF
fifteen appointed by the last Presbyte-
rian general assembly.
SUNDAY GOLF.
Sunday golf and the favorite diver
sion among the summer colony of
bridge whist for stakes Mere denounced
and the fashionable folk who play them
We're severely arraigned by he Rev.#Dr.
Braddin Hamilton, of New York, in his
sermon at All Saints chapel. New York.
The congregation represented the most
exclusive social circle Of the country.
In part DR.. Hamilton said, after telling
how the whole country looks upon its
society people as its leaders:
Show the people of this country that
the boastful, vulgar, brainless spend
thrift is not the ideal citizen of this
country. There are good many peo-
pie who might be excepted if they spent
Sunday in recreation and anlusements,
but the people of Newport havesn such
excuse, and the young man or young
woman who viii desert the church on
Sunday morning and so ard play golf
have very little respect for themselves
and far less for the community which
they are leading in the wrong
Another example. the last and prob
ably the most important, is the intro-.
duction of petty gambling. We have
reason to believe with great regret that
such custom has been practiced and
lis being practiced in many of the cot
Etages at Newport this season. It's safe
to say that, If gambling is established
here as an amusement in respectable
homes, inside of year this country will.
have l0,000,000 more gamblers than it
has today, and the majority of them
will start in their humble fats sur
rounded by hare walls. just as Innocent
iy as you started here on your piaZzas
surrounded by plants and flowers.
MUST MAKE RADICAL CHANGES.
Rev. j. Clayton YoukeT says:
.'E,vangelfcal Christianity mus; IA ia
Ically improve its methods Of dealing
with humanity riose Its commanding
place in the world. 1t has depended SUI
premeiy for securing adherents upon
the conversion of young people and
adults, II must learn to rely pre-eni-
nently upon the training and teaching
Of children.
'Reyiyals have been the machinery tol
make converts. They have. regrettablN
ceased to have a wholesale capacity.
The fathers could get a hearing. in the
open by thousands of the ungadlY they
could not get it today. There has been
such diffusion of knowledge that the
preacher no longer Is regarded as an
oracle: he is locked upon as an advo-
cate pleading a case which has two
sides. and his advocacy is viewed with
a sad Indifference. The result is that
evangelistic meetings have few people
Ito whom repentance and faith can be
preached.
The children are dealt with unwise-
Ivy In infancy they are regarded as
members OF the Kingdom of heaven, but
as soon their intelligence opens they are
constantly reminded Of the awfulness
of sin and their need OF salvation. ln-
stead of being taught from the begin
ming that they belong to the family Of
God, a great gulf is dug before them.
and frequently never crossed. II is
time that Protestants stopped thinking
that their children must be devils
goats before theygcan be Christ's sheep.
There is too much presumptuous de-
pendence upon the Holy Ghost. 1t IS
time the spirit of God ceased to be the
y
be as sinful for Christians to ask Deity
TO turn stones inio bread as it was for
Satan 10 ask Christ. Evangelical Pro-
testantism is too often unfair To the
moralist. Because of his non-accept-
ance of Christ II frequently lists kin.
with vile sinners While insisrence must
be made of the necessity of reliance
upon Christ for salvation, it should be
with candid recognition and cemmenda-
ton of worthy character. Christ looked
upon a young moraiist in His day and
loved him..
INGALLS,, EIILoGY ON SENATOR
BECK.
My President: Rugged. robust and
the incarnation of physical
force and intellectual energy. Senator
Beck seemed a part of nature, insepara-
BILE from life. and exempt from intirlni-
ty. recall the emotion with which I
saw him stand painfully in his place
and announce With strange pathos that
for the first time in twenty years he
found himself unable to participate in
debate. He fingered Il while, as the
PROSTATE oak retains its Nerdure for a
brief interval after Its fall, or as the
flame tiickerS when the candle is burned
out; but his work was done. 1t was the
end.
The right TO live is, in human estima-
ton, the most sacred, the most inviola-
BILE. the most inalienable. The joy of
living in such splendid and luminous
day as this is Uncomfortable. To exist IS
exultation. To live forever is our sub
finest hope. To know, to love TO
achieve, to triumph is rapture: and yet
we are all under sentence of death.
Without trial or opportunity for de-
Tense, with no knowledge of the accuser
or the nature and cause OF the accuse
ton: without being confronted With the
witnesses against US, we have been
summoned to the bar Of life and con-
Ademned to death. There is no writ OF
error or review. There is neither exc,l-
patton nor appeal. The tender mother
cries passionately for mercy for her
first born, hut there Is no clemency The
craven felon sullenly prays for a mo-
Ement IN which to be aneled. but there
~ no feprieve. The soul helplessly