Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1901-11-23
MEETING HELD LAST EVEN.
ING.
In Honor of Governor Mount
And President Harrison
.-.At East Main
Street Church.

Second Vice President Sharon E.
Jones presided over the devotional
meeting which opened with the
singing of Blessed Assurance, and
''All Hail the Power, leo by Mr..
Hills, and a prayer by Rev. Allen
jay. followed by brief address by
II. p. Town. of Terre Haute, the new
state president of the association,
and Mr.. Lelly of indianapolis, first
vice president.
Various reports were received the
first being that of the railroad branch
from their afternoon meeting. Su
perintendents Galloway of the Big
Four were quoted largely from their
remarks in the afternoon. The en-
rollment of the railroad branch was
not so large the past year as the
previous one, but attendance at meet
ings had been better.
Mr.. Iglehart of Greencastle read
the report of the college delegates. A
letter was received from A. w. Lamb
an Darlham ttudent, now a mission
airy in Mexico.
Mrs. Harris of Terre Haute report
ed for the women s auxiliary. There
were IL delegates and IA visitors
present. Reports show progress and
improvement. Like unto a home
without man, is a Y. Nj. G. A.
without an auxiliary declared Mrs.
Harris
Mr. Cotton, secretary of the inter
national committee. made an address
on The Christian Students Ap-
pointlnent to Kingdom. The ad-
dress related the rising OF the I.
~ A ka re rrni,,rfarxy
organization for foreign missions,
which now results in at least 300
men per year gong into this work.
Missionary work of the world has al
ways been led by college men, by the
student workers. Ninety-nine per
cent. of the foreign teachers in China
are American students. The regen-
orators of China and Japan will not
be these n.en or men like them-they
must and will be the students in
tkesa countries whom these have
educated This duty of Christian
izing these natives rests no more
upon those students than upon the
average citizen. 1t is debt we all
owe to humanity and to God
II. A. Wilbur, state secretary of
Ohio, led in prayer, and several
hymns were sung while wait
ing for Governor Durbin to arrive.
On account of late train he
did not get in until 9 O'Clock, and
was then greeted by the audience
rising to their feet. He was intro
duced by the presiding officer and
delivered a short address.
We were assembled, he said, to pay
proper tribute to the memory Of two
distinguished citizens of the state
who had gone to the undiscovered
country; and yet. though they were
gone, their works still lived after
them. In his short incumbancy of
the Office of governor he had been
called upon three times to issue
proclamations in regard to the deaths
of great citizens. He paid a high
tribute first to President Mckinley,
whose name from henceforth will be
ranked beside that of Washington
and Garfield. His Christian char
acter and his dependence on the God
of our fathers was noted. He was t
faithful 10 the end and is at
peace. OF the other two,
Governor Mount and General Har
rison he spoke with deep feeling.
They were willing work
ers in the field OF Christ. General
Harrison was one who regarded his
religion as privilege. AS Presi
dent, continually bearing burdens,
his every action was characterized by
his dependence for direction upor
the giver OF all good. In civil life he
strictly conformed to moral ideas
He met death as he had met all other
vicissitudes. unfalteringly and with
out fear.
James A Mount, too, was Chris
tian. 1t can De truly said of him
that he was a man OF the people and
for the people. Thrice armed by
Christian faith he feared no foe.
From early youth his Christian char
aeter was conspicuous. His devotion
to the church was so well understood
as to require no euiogy-
He found strength in
the church, the Sunday school
and the Y. NJ. c. \. and the Bible
classes. Gen. Harrison said of him
in an eloquent tribute that he carried
his conscience with him always. His
administration was one of TIE best
with which this state has been IA
vored. At peace with mankind and
with God he departed as ''one who
wraps the drapery Of his couch about
him and lies down to pleasant
dreams.
In all his walks of life he never for
got his duty as a Christian gentle
man. He was charitable in giving
not only of bis money but his counsel
and sympathy. His public life was
admissible and his home life ideal. He