The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-03-13
CROWDED CHURCH
TO HEAR BRYAN
ADDRESSED LARGE AUDIENCE AT
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
Advocates High Standard of Morality
in Private Life as Remedy for Cor
ruption in Public Life-Talked on
the Value Of an Ideal to Saturday
Night Audience.

A change in the itinerary of William
Jennings Bryan made it possible for
him to spend Sunday in Minneapolis
and to make another speech yesterday
afternoon. The crowd which gathered
at Plymouth church, where the special
meeting was held, was SO great that it
filed the street, and, in its desire to-
get inside the building, pushed in the
outer doors on the Nicollet avenue side,
breaking, the hinges and splintering the
woodwork.
The meeting was intended for men
and boys only, and was under the di-
rection of the Y. NJ. G. A. Hundreds
Of women, however, were il the crowd
address was largely along the same
lines as was his speech in the First
Congregational church Saturday eve
ming. In the opening of his address he
touched slightly on the topic Of politics.
However corrupt may be the mo-
tives," he said, (which are power
IN our present system. of politics, We
may escape many Of its evils by the
| round the youth Of our: land: A high
standard of morality in private life
h and dc??rrqpti99n, in public life do not go
'The feeling among educated peo-
PIE ne said in discussing high ideals
aWo.S sIuuents, IS LnaI rellglOn is TOT
the ignorant, and Of late years it is
that they have outgrown the use of re-
hgion. Religion is not feeling that
| IS exclusively for any one particu-
lar class Of people nor, as it is some
times misconstrued, a feeling of fear,
but 1t is the consciousness that there ex-
lists an infinite being and this is a be-
lief that cannot be outgrown. Neither
81 sometimes FEEL" said he, "that
scientists in attempting. to figure out
the history of the world from examining
the rocks, never look at the stars. As
boy L read that tho Lord created the
heavens and earth and I determined to
make my stand there, and until the
scientists could 60 farther back than
A God who can make the earth, can do
anything he wants with it and the chain
OF evidence that appears to. give an
other conception Of the creation Of the
earth can just as well be a part of his
scheme of creation as it was possible for
Christ to perform miracles. If pri-
marily we possess faith, we can believe
in these miracles and then we can know
that everything is possible. - .
MI; Bryan was closely followed by
his large audience. Hundreds who
could not get seats stood in the aisles
and in the rear of the church or were
turned away. The lecture on ,the East
SIDE Saturday evening was before a
"The Value Of an Ideal. "
':.The ideal must be far enough above
u.s." said he, "to keep us looking up
toward it all the time, and it must be
far enough in advance Of us to keep
US struggling toward it to the end of
Life. It is a poor ideal that one ever
fully realizes, and it is great misfor-
tune for one to overtake his ideal, fol
when he does his progress stops.
"The ideal is permanent, it does not
change. Therefore it is so. important
that the ideal shall be a worthy one
The ideal dominates the life, determines
the character and fixes man IS place
among his fellows.
! 'Sometimes you. meet man who
boasts that. he is self-made,' that he
anything. Well, a little of the big
head. may be excusable. I remember
hearing my. father say once that if q
man had the big head you could whit
tie il, down, but if he had the little head
there was no hope for him. It is neces
sary that a person should have conf
dence in his ability to do things, OF
he will not undertake them. But wher
hear Of a man boasting Of his indie
pendence I feel like cross examinine
him. ..:
, Mr.. Bryan was a guest at number
Of social affairs during his stay in thu
} city. Following the lecture in the even
!; ing he was entertained by Frank D
Larrabee at his home on Grovelant
: avenue The other guests were the anti
1 Parker delegates to the St. Louis con
, vention last summer. A. B. Choate en-
| tertained Mr.. Bryan at dinner yester
day at his apartments in the Groveland
Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. Choate were class
| mates at the Chicago College of Law
and. are warm personal friends. Mr.
i Bryan left last evening for Wausau
, Wis, where he is to lecture thi