Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-17

AhSSlihS ioi tiie QelSSdleSs leu Dy MISS
Paddock.
Dr.. Storms Address.
DR.. Storms address was a magnifi.
cent effort. He held the attention of
his large audience from his first utter
ance. His presence and delivery is i'm
pressive. His voice is deep. rich and
wonderfully powerful. He speaks slow
| ly and his enunciation is at all times
clear and distinct. His language is
scholarly. His thoughts are marshaled
| in the most perfect logical order. He
does not wander but SPEAKS to the
point practically as business man
talks business. He is an effective
| speaker. His subject was "The Cross"
His address was in part as follows:
History lifts some men against the
sky. They stand out in perspective
| like mountain that looms UP in the
distance. The smoking factories at its
base are lost as you travel away from
| it but the mountain itself grows with
singular magnitude You need per-
| it is with Paul Measured by the
and the moral girth of his ideas, he is
| kinsly man. Paul was pioneer, the
| first great constructive Christian and
| thinker
"The disciples with their artless sim
plicity wrote the gospels preserving to
us some of the sayings and acts of
Jesus and telling us of the impressions
he made upon men. Paul reconstruct
ed religious thought and lifted the
cross into the central place OF signifi-
canoe. The cross stands for the cen
| trail mystery of Christianity. 1t is not
| repellant, but attractive. 1t stands his
torically for a mighty spiritual trans
formation in the spiritual history of
| the race.
| Love SuppIanted Law.
'The cross marks the beginning of
the epoch when love supplanted law.
| Because that cross has stood central
in human history we know what
| freedom is. The cross assures us OF
the sincerity, the seriousness and the
| earnestness of God The cross creates
high ideals and inspires splendid de-
votion to them. 1t has lifted the ethi-
cal ideals of the kingdom of heaven
into recognized sovereignty over the
conscience.
| eff you would know what man es-
teens most you must listen to his
Boosting. There are many things of
which Paul might have boosted. He
might boosted of Ramon citizenship.
| No man had better right to claim all
were his by right of birth. He did not
| hesitate at times to stand upon his dig
| nifty as Roman citizen. Never in
history has there been such an imperial
| power as was this Roman empire
| which ruled the known world with its
| iron hand
Paul might have boosted of his
race, race that looked back to Abra-
ham when he cut loose from kith and
kin to found a new race. Back to
| the great law giver who looked into
| the heart and thought of God and read
there His meaning for the welfare of
humanity.
Paul might have boosted of his edu-
cation, an education that had taught
him to think sanely, intelligently and
logically. When he stood before an
audience he knew that he need have
no fear for his training and culture
were superior to all others.
HE might have boosted of his relig-
ion, for the spiritual conception of
God was already commanding the re-
spect of all men. The prophets had
spoken with God and the religious
teachings which he followed had for
centuries guided the religious thought
of his race.
PauI's Work Constructive.
"Paul's work was a constructive
one. In the Gospels we have BIZ
ography of the acts and some of the
words of Jesus set forth in the plain
simplicity of the disciples. Through
it all we have a glimpse of the inner
| life of Christ. But these writings
are not to be compared with the writ
ings of Paul. He of all others had the
greatest power of discrimination, of
seeing things in the true light and
their proper proportion.
"The distinctive mark of the true
and great historian is this power OF
seeing proportion and of wisely dis
eliminating. A great history or bi.
ography is not merely careful chro,
nology of bare facts. Paul first saw
the significance of the cross and from
| that time it has stood as the center
of authority among men. 1t symbol.
| ICES the redemption of men and stands
| for the Divine mystery and for the
atonement. 1t stands also for a liv.
| ing fact of love revealed on Calvary.
"This love throbs and beats in the
heart of man today as it did centuries
ago. In the conservation OF Jesus we
find this truth Of truths and the faith
erhood Of God. wish that we might
hear the accent in which Jesus said:
| My Father The speaking of single
word at times of great religious ten
sion has been known to awaken in the
heart of man the love of God. The at
mosphere with which we are surround
| ed has much to do many times in the
most serious and vital moments and
decisions of life AS the atmosphere
in certain conditions is almost imper-
vious to light while at others it is
translucent and clear SO is the religi
Gus life and spiritual life. You may
view a beautiful picture and been en-
raptured almost to the ethereal with
its beauty and spiritual power while
your neighbor who stands beside you
dull and heavy may see nothing in it
/ Scientists Learning New Laws Daily.