Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1905-05-22
FOR KNOX
Presbyterians Celebrate the An
niVersary of Reformer's
Birth,
BROADWAY OBSERVES DAY
Rev. w. S. Marquis Delivers Address
Upon Life and Work of John
knox-Other Services.

The 400th anniversary of the birth
Of John Knox was celebrated in many
Presbyterian churches yesterday, and
| John Knox" addresses were given TO
| the various congregations. In Chica-
90 some of the churches followed the
| service in the manner it was followed
| by the great reformer. in celebration
Of this day
| All Broadway Presbyterian church
Rev. w S Marquis observed the day
| with appropriate services in the even
ing. delivering an address upon the
| life and work of Knox. After explain
| ing the conditions that existed within
the church of that day. in which the
men fought for the offices. and in
| which the dignitaries were not preach
ers but politicians, he said, Among
| those who were not touched by the cor
ruptiOn of that day was John Knox"
| The young man was in attendance at
the university at Glasgow and was Civ
| en- license to the priesthood before he
was % years of age. At the age of
81 years he took his stand and the
people began to notice that he was
speaking in a new tone. He was sum
moned TO appear before the dignitar-
les and was denounced as a hereto,
| depOsed from the priesthood and com.
PEELED TO fee from the country to save
his life.
He later took up the ministry in Eng
land and was offered the bishopric of
Rochester by the king. but this was re
| h. he
ton in England did not go as far as il
ought to go. After the death of Ed
ward he again had TO fee. but returned
in 1856 and as soon as the people
learned that he was there they began
TO flock to him. After again being
compelled TO leave the country he re-
turned and the strength of the TefOr-
nation became so great that the
churches of Scotland with their
| images were destroyed and a civil
war followed. The queen died and
was succeeded by one favorable TO
reformation and the power of the pope
in England was abolished. No longer
were his emissaries recognized by the
state.
He has been charged with being
ldiscourteous and uncOuth, but | have
never found where he was immoral
false or untrue said the speaker. He
was a great teacher and preacher.
While he was a scholar he had the
faculty of expounding the truth and
letting it down to the common people
in a way that they might understand"
Institute President Speaks.
) Rev. E. A. Paddock, president of the
Idaho Industrial Institute. located at
Weiser Idaho. addressed the congre-
cations of two of the churches yester-
day. speaking at Broadway PTesbyter-
. ian church in the morning and in the
evening at the First M r. church. He
has been engaged in frontier mission
; airy work for years and his descrip-
tons of the work and the life of the
people were of great interest. He pic
tured the arrival of a stranger in Wei
ser. where he is located. There were
seven saloons to be seen first as one
entered the city. The population num-
bered only 700. The work of the gam
; bling house "cappers,' and their meth
; DDS of entcing the strange young man
into the dens were graphically describ-
ed. Then he told of the arrival of
frontier missionary his efforts to find
a meeting place, the dance hall being
finally chosen as It was the only avail
able place. A song service in the
worst saloon and gambling house was
described. and the obstacles that meet
the missionary on every side mention
ed The speaker then told of the eff
feet of the little mission meetings on
the family life in the mining camp, and
brought his story up to the time of the
organization of the Weiser church
with 30 members II now has 200
Organization of Institute.
He then pictured the conditions lead
ing up to the organization of the In
dustrial Institute The boys and girls
had only three months school a year
and that in the summer, owing TO the
poor condition of the school houses. At
that time the young men were engaged
n ranch work. and very few could at
tend Yet they were eager for educa-
ton The school was organized on
the basis that the pupils should devote
35 hours each week to work. There
are now 260 pupils and last year 200
were turned away on account OF lack
of room. The young peoples work at
the institute is turned TO account, and
in addition TO doing all the work at the
institute. they provide large sums by
the other work TheS dairy nets 800
a month. and the laundry and other de
partments each pay something into the
school funds The institution is non
sectaTian. but has a strong religious
tendency. as the pupils are required
l., ar HaCH
Sunday morning. and they have their
Town services Sunday evening. Prayer
meetings are conducted once week
for the young men and the girls of the
school Mr. Paddock said that one OF
the gratifying results of the schoo.
] was the interest being taken by the