The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-02
DIR. JOHNS ADDRESS.


Inhabitants of Acton Park forgot the
worldly pleasures of life yesterday and the
Methodist camp grounds took on an atmos-
phere of spirituality The meetings in the
tabernacle were all we'll attended, the larg-
est audiences at any day service this season
being present. The services were exceed
ingly enjoyable. In the afternoon DR.. ]. p.
d. John. who is prominent as an educator,
having been president of De Pauw and as
sociated with Moore's Hill College, deliv-
cred an interesting address on did God
Make Man or Did Man Make God?" DIR.
John has a pleasing delivery and his talk
was thoroughly appreciated
DIR. John said in part: 1.-The agnoStlc/ says,
AN honest God is the noblest work of man;
which is the maker, God or man? There
is, of course sense in which every man
makes his own god, but back or man
ideal of God is there no substance corre-
spending more or less correctly with his
ideal? If man made God, what is the prom
ise of the future? If there is no God but
the one made by man there can be no fu-
ture either for the race or individual TAKE
away from all men the ever-present convlc-
ton of a God and the human race VIII
lapse into barbarism rapidly. If there are
no edicts higher than those of our own is
suing, the future of the race is written It's
destiny is deterioration, barbarism, saw
agery, despair. The hope of the race is its
hold upon the invisible.
And if man made God, what is the prom
ise of the individual in the time to come ?
What shall make equal the inequalities OF
this life? What shall render justice TO
myriads who have lived and died under the
sting of injustice? What shall give liberty
TO the clanking chains of slavery under
which untold numbers have gone down to
their fate? If man made God the soul
ceases in the very act of becoming. Memory
shall become extinct. We shall lose It's
grasp. Conscience shall be smothered under
the rod. Faith shall fall hope shall wither
and love shall die. But if God made man
the power of the soul already God-like in
its nature, shall expand until they become
God-like in their compass. The soul Will
find its destiny in the Infinite"
A meeting for the children under the direc-
ton of Mrs. Ida A. Porterfield was held at
dan spoke on Christ and the Social I'm
pulse" A meeting for young people was
held at $50, led by the Rev. t. X. Willis,
and in the evening Mrs. Lulu Tyler Gates
pleased a large audience in the tabernacle
with miscellaneous programme in which
We're number of humorous numbers that
were well received.
One of the features of the day was real
estate transfer made through DIR. j. w
Dashiel, president of the Action Park Asso-
citation. Mr.. Z. III. Rogers, of Hope, sold
his cottage, No. S5, to Il. M. Freeman, oi
LiZton, for $500 cash. The cottage is proba-
bly, the best the grounds and cost orig
inally over 5000. Mr.. Freeman and family
will take possession Immediately.
To-day Is announcer as an important ONT
in the assembly calendar, and DIR. Dashiel
with the true instincts of an enterprisnt
press agent, was at work early yesterday
morning getting up large bulletin OF
which, in prominent letters, appeared the
f. atures of the day A Sunday school lee
by the Rev. L. K. Willis, who has charge
of the singing. will be held at 9:45 and al
lO:45 DR.. Wilbur E. Sheridan will speak
At O. clock DR.. j. =. ID. John will talk OF
1.-The Sublimity of Great Conviction" Mrs
Lulu Tyler Gates will appear for the las
time in the evening, when she will give
'"The Sky Pilot"