The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-01-07


way with this organization. Being
chaplain Of this Organization. those
boys lie very near to my heart The
boys that don't attend these organ
izations con not do it. 1t is not as
with the people who don't go to
church because they are not interest
ed enough to be there. Our boys
are not so. It is as Brother Williams
spoke Of Brother Edris trusting God,
he was ready to go. That is the way
/ feel about my boys. Whenever
they fall they are ready to go.
have never seen button dishon-
ored by its owner smoking a cigar,
or by being in disreputable company
was asked the other day by a
good Gideon who expected to be
here and he said, If am not want
you to tell story. Some of the boys
have heard it. have a regard for
the button. want the boys to real
lie what it stands for. This is the
story: l met travelling man at Gwth.
RE Center. He was o very well
dressed man, well educated and well
appearing and used beautiful Ian
guage except when he used profane
language. He was very profane. He
was talking to the landlord The
conversation was not addressed to
me. It panied me to hear It, spent
many years in California where /
heard many hard cases but I never
got away from my mothers prayers.
1t, bought of the awful habit it is.
This is what the button did for that
man: In the morning he directed
his conversation to me and used pro
fame language just the same. He
said: May ask you what that but.
ton stands for? Certainly, would
be very glad to tell you. I said that
represents Christian Travelling Men.
That Stands for Christian. When
ever you see any of the boys wearing
that button, as rule you will find
they are Christian people and will be
glad to do a kindness for you any
where. He said, Il am glad to know
there is such an organization He
said, I have a card l hold in my hand
that l have been distributing all year
will read it:
Ten good reasons why every re-
spectacle thinking man should swear
just as often and as hard as he can:
Because it is such an elegant
way of expressing ones thoughts.
because it is such a conclusive
proof of taste and good breeding.
3-Because it is such sure way OF
making ones self agreeable to his
friends. =
because it is a positive evidence
of acquaintance with good literature.
because it furnishes such a
good example and training for boys.
6-Because it is just what mans
mother enjoys hearing her son do.
because it would look so nice in
print.
S-Because it is such good way of
increasing ones self-respect.
9-Because it is such a help to
manhood and virtue in many ways.
1O-Because it is such an infallible
way of improving ones chances in
the hereafter.
He said: My dear sir, | never met
you before, but will give my months
wages to quit the habit have tried
to quit that habit and / have prayed
that / could be relieved of it. I said:
Brother, you keep on praying and you
will be relieved of it. We had a
very pleasant conversation.
l went over this with the boys.
They are interested so we had little
meeting. Some of the boys have
since met this man, and they never
meet him but what he alludes to that.
This shows what it means for a man
to stand for Christ; it means much,
too, when we are wearing that button
we remember we are representing
the Lord Jesus Christ. When we
realize what high calling it Is, how
we should regard that button each
day CT our lives, being a great re-
minder of the things He has done for
us, and forgiving our sins and lead
ing us in the way of righteousness"
State Secretary's Fourth Annual Re.
port of Iowa Gideons.
One year age we were assembled
in convention at Waterloo, Iowa, and
the Waterloo people and 68 Gideons
and many of their wives will long re-
member the event, and feel that that
convention has made a number of
workers among the Waterloo Gideons
that prior tn the convention were
drones. I need not confine that alone
to Waterloo, but to nearly all the
camps in the state. have received
letters from a good many telling me
of the good the Gideon organization