Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-08-04
BETHESDA NOTES.
An Interesting Letter From Bel
mont County's Famous summer

proved a most enjoyable day for those
in attendance at Epworth Park. The
air was delightfully."- fresh and cool and
left nothing to wished for on that score
At no time in the day or evening
were the grounds crowded, as they used
TO be on good old camp meeting Sun
days, but each days service was very
well attended, while at the evening con-
cert the auditorium was flled.
The morning was spent as usual ey
the class work arranged for, and at
1920 Rev. ID. c. Grover, an earnest
Young minister OF this conference dis
trict preached the morning sermon,
and in fact the only sermon OF the day
Rev Grover is a pleasing speaker ana
he found his listeners most attentive
while he urged a greater faith for
Christian workers.
The next orator who assembled to the
auditorium platform was DR.. Thomas
II. Dinsmore. of Syracuse, n. Y. AT
2:30 o'clock DR.. Dinsmore delivered his
fine lecture. "A Visit TO Other Worlds,
and for over an hour related to his in
terested hearers the strange expert
them in an aerial visit to the moon.
Their mode of conveyance. the "EXplor-
err" which was not of the earth and
hardly of the heavens, was carefully
described. and its equipment and the
people who occupied IL for the trip
were clearly portrayed. When all was
made ready for the start upward, we
seemed OF the company, and soon with
DR.. Dinsmore and his friends were
bound for the moon as merrily as If
we were prone to take such outings
Up through space we whirled in
fancy, and at each stage found some
thing not understood until the doctor
or some of his invisible company made
it all clear by a scholarly explanation.
From one mile a second up to sixty
miles a second the pace of ascent grew
and changes of temperature. light and
attraction were encountered and the in
teresting phases made more so by DR..
Dinsmore's ready calculation of it all,
The height of excitement as well as of
the journey was reached when the flag
of the United States was planted upon
a tower builded on the surface of the
moon This surface had been eXamin-
ed thoroughly before building the tower
and the establishing of the flag was the
browning feature of many strange in
cidents All seemed quite easy to com
prehend when DR.. Dinsmore told us
how it all was, and we started to pay
a visit to Mars with as much equanim-
ity as when we started moonward
Mars was inspected, and Jupiter, Sa-
turn. Uranus, Neptune Mercury and
Venus, and at each stop news wonders
developed. From Venus we dropped
with DR.. Dnsmore to old Mother Earth,
and found that we had not only been
entertained by the trip but educated for
the time being
While the lecture of the afternoon
was rare treat and enough for one
day. yet another was reserved for the
evening, when the Chicago Glee Club
was the drawing card. At o'clock the
young gentlemen of the club appeared
and sang themselves into immediate
favor. Rounds of applause followed
each number and many were the recalls
responded to by the accommodating
singers. From the first notes of My
Kentucky Babe until the last strain of
the Jolly Tars Song" everybody lis
tened to the fine voices of the young
men and everybody enjoyed them. A
favorite number was the tenor solo by
Mr.. Thomas, Have | Forgotten?' Mr..
Thomas sings with an ease and feeling
that is most satisfying 30 music lovers,
and he is sure OF kind reception when
he comes before his audience.
most refreshing diversion was the
reading, Dot Leetle Boy of Mime by
Mr.. Dickinson, the bass singer of the
club. Mr. Dickinson proved that he
can recite just as well as he sings, and
responded to insistent recalls. Miss
Bertel also appeared and gave some
posing and readings.
At 10: 80 this morning Prof Dins-
more again greeted gOody audience,
attracted by the promise of another
lecture which was just what was eX1
peeted-a gem of oratory and elo-
quence. In enumeratng the modern
wonders of the world ne gave thet palm
10 the railroad train, steamship. tele
graphic system, telephone, Photographic
invention, printing press and telescope.
While all these are truly wonderful and
so acknowledged, not one can equal
man. For the purpose of making the
address more entertaining it was mag
ined that man of the audience of sup
posedly 100 pounds weight was being
subjected to analysis and to the sur
prise of all ne was found to contain
81 pounds of oxygen gas and 10 pounds
of hydrogen. All the mineral and
metals found in the composition of the
human body We're named and most in
teresting chemical tests made. The au-
dience being treated to the finest scien-
tifc lecture ever heard here before. In
closing, the speaker paid a glowing
tribute to man, who is as he proved
him, walking. living laboratory The
young men were urged to make the
most of these forces they contain and
to fear no achievement since all things
are possible.
Children are greatly in evidence az
the park this year as usual, and their
bursts of Gear laughter and shrieks OF
delight over portion OF the programme
which they find amusing, come up from
the front seats, where they are always
found, as pleasing interlude to the
more moderate demonstrations of their
seniors.
Speaking of children, reminds me.
that It's whispered among he manage
men that building especially prepared
for the children, fitted up for their
safety and amusement, is a thing
tD-be in the not distant future To the
little people as well as TO their elders