The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-04
| MAN GREATEST
| OF CREATION
William Potts George De-
Iivered His Excellent Lecture
THE VALUE OF A MAN"
Plymouth Church Filled and
People Praised Paramount
College.

Plymouth church was well filed last
night by a very select audience 10 hear
the lecture of William Potts George of
Kansas City.
He had for his subject The Value of a
Man" The lecture was delivered under
the auspices of Webster. PhiIomathean
and Sorosis societies Of Paramount col
lege, and the people who listened to the
/ eloquent speaker ould not help coming
away with enlarged ideas of Paramount
college for furnishing such a valuable en-
tertainment
Dr.. George held his large audience most
completely, and when the eloquent
| speaker closed the audience kept their
seats as if they would wait and contem-
plate his words. which were calculated to
make people think. When he closed every
one who heard him felt that he had
proven that the greatest thing in all
this universe is human life"
He said that some of the astronomers
estimated that there are 200, 000 600 stars
in our system and this world Of ours was
a very small part of the great system. 1t
was mere speck and man was only a
speck on that speck. but for all that he
was the most important part of creation.
Man was the only part of creation that
could contemplate the universe. None Of
the lower animals could do this
When he asked himself the question
What am % the answer that suggested
itself TO him was that he was one of ], 3GO.-
100000 people on this earth. He had once
asked famous astronomer what he
thought Of this earth and his reply was
That it was a good place on which to
rest a telescope"
He wanted his hearers to remember that
DlRnecG L Z
our great continent, great states, big
mountains and terrific volcanoes. AIneri-
cans regarded everything in connection
with their country as being big and 1
am a better American than any of them
because l was born in England and was
an American by choice, while most of you
are Americans because you were born
here and could not help it." said the
speaker.
Ancient Greece and Egypt were small
countries, yet they We're great and their
literature is with US today. Rome was
city in little Italy and she had been
mistress of the world. and there is little
Switzerland and a monument to freedom
among the monarchies of Europe" Eng
land, he thought was a small country
and some of the people of this country
would be afraid to live there for fear they
would get UP in their sleep and walk off,
but it is Great Britain and the sun never
sets on the dominions of King Edward.
He sometimes thought that Providence
arranged il that way, because he thought
an Englishman could not be trusted in the
dark. Palestine was very small country
but it was the scene of the worlds re-
demption.
Some places are important because they
are strategic. Napoleon said the man
who holds Constantinople holds two con-
tinents. and that was the reason the sui
tan of Turkey held il now. All the other
powers of the world are afraid to let any
of the others have it. Gibraltar was i'm
portant 70 England because it commanded
the Mediterranean. This world was small.
but il was great because Of its strategic
importane. and the best of heaven was
sent here to redeem it.
Larger worlds than this are less impor-
tant because there is no human life there.
Some of the larger planets arc unfinished
worlds, and human life could not exist
on the sun. The moons of Saturn might
sustain human life, and some astronomers
are now claiming that Mars may be in
habited and that certain signs now seen
there may be a ttempts of the inhabitants
TO signal the people of this earth. He did
not believe that he wanted anything 10
do with the people of Mars because the
people in this world when they went TO
another continent went to kill
He said the sun might come here and
destroy him. but he would be conscious of
his defeat, but the sun would not be con-
scious Of its victory. Man is greater than
any Of the planets. and God takes care
of us because we are his children. He
closed by telling the young people present /
not TO consider themselves too lightly. +
They had life before them. They We're
composed of the earth but they also had
the spirit of God within them.
At the close of the lecture the Fair
mount chorus treated the audience TO /
some excellent music. which was highly (
appreciated and the people wanted more /