Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-11-11
ARCTAMDER ASEVANcELIsT
Former WiIImar Lawyer Preached Be-.
fore Two Immense Audiences
in City Sunday.

fore Two Immense Audiences
in City Sunday.
John W. Arc ander, the noted Min
neapolis jurist, closed his months Ia
Dor In behalf of Augsburg Seminary
last Sunday with ths meetings held at
Willmar and Eagle Lake His ap-
pearances at the new Lu ,heran Free
church at Willmar were greeted by
immense crowds. The capacity of the
new large church edi6ce was tried to
the utmost. At the morning service
every seat provided and improvised
was filed aud in the evening not near
~ all could be accommodated. Arc
tander's morning discourse was in the
Norwegian language on the subject of
'Brotherly Love- At the close of
the services he solicited aid for the
Augsburg Seminary aud received sub.
scr1ptions to the amount OF $4,000.
During the afternoon he addressed q
large audience at the Eagle Lake
church, four miles north of the city,
and there received subscriptions
amounting to the hand some sum of
S251 80.
The evening discourse at Willmar
was in the English language, the text
being Jeremiah 500: "The summer is
ended, the harvest ia past, and we are
not saved" The speaker proceeded
to apply his text in a very forcib]e
and dramatic manner. His language
was that of the matter. of-fact lawyer
rather than that of a polished divine,
but there was no mistaking the mean
ing and deep earnestness of his words.
He told many affecting stories to H.
lustrate his text. He likened the Di-
vine plan of salvation to a Unied
States bankruptcy court. His appli-
cation of this was probably the strong
est portion of his address. At the
close he told of his months work to
raise debt of Sl3, 100000 resting upon
the new college building for Augs-
burg. He stated that up to that mo-
ment his work had been blessed by
pledges amounting to Sl2,53O. He
asked for silver collection and stated
that the balance needed to fill out the
required amount would be.secured at
the home church at Minneapolis with
out any doubt. He spoke of Augs-
burg Seminary as doing a grand work
in educating men to 60 forth and work
the Lords work among the Norwegian
people. He had no other personal in
terest in the matter than in seeing the
good work continue. He was not a
member of the Lutheran church, even,
but a Methodist. The evening COL
lection amounted to S4l.OO, which
m ade the total amount received dur
ing the day 1884 80. This is certainly
q handsome result when it is borne in
mind that this passionate of the Lu-
theran Free church had already con-
tributed in the vicinity of 800 to the
buildings of Augsburg.
Atty. Arctander announced that he
had made the Ladies Aid Society of
the Willmar Lutheran Free church a
promise to deliver his new lecture on
Alaska at the church Dec. 20. He
spoke in glowing terms of his recent
| visit in Alaska. He secured about
two hundred views of some of the most
s riking scenery there, and is having
the same transferred to lantern slides
with which % illustrate the lecture.
The price of admission is to be so
cents. The entire receipts will 90 to
the Ladies Aid Society for furnishing
the basement of the new church edifice,
Rev. Gynild, pastor of the church,
announced that reception will be
given to friends of the church in the
basement of the new church buildir o
on Friday, Nov. 20, when refreshments
will be served. It is expected hat the
fue lower rooms of the church build
ing will have been completed by that
date.