Ottumwa semi-weekly courier., 1903-03-31

such numbers, of such wealth and such
organization is powerful force in pub
lie life.
Time fails us to even touch upon
the great work of our church societies
at home and in foreign fields.
Should Use Talents.
noble ancestry and have no right to be
little or mean men. The memories OF
the past and exigencies of the present
call upon us to live daily the personal
religious experience we profess and
to impress it more and more upon pri-
vate and upon public life.
They who on glorious ancestry en-
large, disclose their debt instead of its
discharge. 1t is fitting that we recount
the greatness of things achieved. For
bid, however, that it should be in a
spirit of boasting. The rather are we
burdened with a profound sense of re-
sponsibility that what God has wrought
through others and transmitted as
priceless heritage to us may not be
marred at our hands. The five talents
hath the Lord bestowed upon us and
after time He will come and reckon
with us and claim his own with usury.
"The future is unachieved, but the
past is secure, and so long as time
shall last history shall record for the
inspiration of men the golden tale of
the mighty achievements and Won
drous growth and influence of the peo-
PIE called Methodists."
DR.. Hanchers Remarks.
! Rev. j. w. Hancher, president OF
Iowa Wesleyan university, of Mt.
Pleasant was assigned to the toast,
Our Helpers, the Ladies" and his adj
dress received abundant applause, es-
| pecially from the members of the La
dies Aid society of the church, under
4 whose auspices the banquet was given
| DR.. Hancher spoke in part as follows:
"Mr. Toastmaster, gentlemen OF the
banquet and your guardians. If l had
prepared the program this evening
should have said, Our Helpers the
| Women The free woman, the noble
and emancipated woman, our sisters
wives and daughters; our peers in the
j work of Christ.
! while you have been recorded al
our helpers, so you have been our co
u adjutors bound hand in hand, ant
heart to heart in the mighty work o1
uplifting the standard of the Gospel O
/ Jesus Christ before your sons AM
daughters and our sons and our daugh
ters.
Women's Achievements.
Joan of Arc lead armies; Queer
/, Victoria ruled an empire; Rosa Bon
!, heur achieved prominence as painter
E,ropcoc Willard tho great leader O
the cause of temperance, and Susan
nah Wesley gave to the world Chris
tian man, the founder of the grea
Methodism of today" Doctor Hanch
, er's address was interspersed with wit
ty sallies and was enjoyed thorough.
by the ready listeners.
Dr.. r. D. Leete.
DR.. Frederick DeLand Leete was tn
closing speaker of the evening and HI
address was upon the subject, tn
Brotherhood of st. Paul" DR.. Leet
was the founder Of the order and ha:
since its inception38 worked faithful
ly in the position Of general organi;
l er. That his efforts have borne fru
4 is. seen in the wonderful growth of u
: brotherhood. Dr.. Leete in his addre'
S thanked the delegates to the CONVEX
/ ton and their. friends assembled
| the banquet tabless and stated ths
: never in his experience had he see
' a state council start out with MOI
; promise of success, than did the low
, organization. His remarks were a Il
| ting close to the convention that nj
r with such undoubted success.