The daily sentinel., 1900-03-26
SPLENDID EFFORT
Hon. John P. Meakin Speaks to
Great Audience in Park Opera
House Sunday Afternoon. A
Representative Gathering and
Great Forensic Effort.

There was no necessity to send out a
drumming committee to secure an au-
dience for the Hon. John P. Meakin
yesterday afternoon at the Park opera
house. Every seat down stairs was tax
en- and goodly crowd occupied the first
tier of seats in the gallery. 1t was a
splendid audience, enough to enspire any
speaker to do his best. 1t was well
dressed, we'll behaved. intelligent look
ing audience as seen from the platform,
and as the speaker of the aftern .on said
to sentinel reporter, "that fine audience
ought to help me do my best, as there is
intelligence cleaning from every eye and
they seen to be alert to know what am
going to say" aud the speaker did hiE
best.
The meeting was presided over by G..
P. Noland, consul commander of the
local Woodmen lodge. On the stage
there were several members of the lodge
with the speaker and chairmen.
A chorus OF male voices and the au-
was then introduced by Chairman No
land.
No time was wasted by Mr.. Meakin in
getting right down to his subject. He
was like the merchant who sees custo-
mer with cash and decides that he wants
some OF it, the speaker saw splendid
audience in front Of him and he was Gag
er for the effort to play upon their souls
and personality.
For more than an hour Meakin held
knowledge which he was pouring like
water from a pitcher in their ears. The
subject was Progress and Fraternity"
and he followed the career OF the human
kind from remote periods down to the
present. he made men feel that there
was higher sphere in life than simply
eating, drinking and attempting to make
money; that there was human soul
with this material body, mind which
needed food and that when fed that the
whole nature Of man grew higher than
lis surroundings and he became what
God intended him to be, physical and
mental representative of Godhood and
Fatherhood.
The lecture was classical. There were
quotations from the leaders of all ages;
from the mighty men Of our own coun-
try and of the Saxon race; choice gems
in poetic thought and the deductions of
the great teachers in Christian and hu
man philosophy. The lecture was with
out question great one and without in
tending this to he fulsome hattery it
shows that the mind of Mr.. Meakin has
been trained in an atmosphere which
few men reach to enjoy.
At the conclusion of the lecture |. N.
Bunting, on behalf of the societies whose
guest Mr.. Meakin was offered the fsl-
lowing set Oh resolutions, which were
adopted with rising vote, the whole
audience rising as if by one impulse to
give voice to their appreciation of the
effort OF Hon. Mr.. Meakin in his several
addresses during the past week.
Grand Junction, Colo, March 25 1900.
Tho people Of Grand Junction, the
members of Book Cliff Camp No. 81
Woodmen Of the World, and of the aux
iliary brarc ch of the Woodmen, the ladies
OF Apple Blossom Circle, Women Of
Woodcraft, having been royalty enter
tanned, having received lessons in man
hood and womanhood AID having been
brought to realization OF the higher
ideals of fraternity through the teach
ings and lectures OF Hon. John P. Mea-
kin during the past week, desire to give
expression to their feelings and their ap-
probation of the work being done by
him. With this end in view we submit
the following
Whereas,-His labors have been of the
utmost benefit to the lodges above
named and also to the friends of the or
ders, other than members and because
he has inspired them with new zeal for
work within the order; and because he
has through the means Of his lectures
made men and women better, given all
an insight into the productions of the
master minds Of the great in poetry,
song and story, and because and
inasmuch as it has been the means Of
openinp up a wider field for LODGE and