Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-10-16
DEAN OF COLLEGE /
DELIVERS ADDRESS
REV. A. NJ. HAeeARp OF DIES
MONIES SPEAKS AT SOUTH
SIDE CHURCH
Visit occasicned by Financial Rally Of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Member-
ship to Purchase Site for Building
Other South Side News.

ers of Christ in the world said Rev.
A. MI Haggard of Des Moines in his
sermon of yesterday morning at the
Davis street Christian church. Mr.. Hag-
gard is dean Of the Bible college of
Drake university.
Rev. Hapgard's visit to this city
was in connection with the rally given
at the church for the purpose of rails
ing funds to purchase lots for church
site. In his address Of the mornig.
he took for subject. 1.-THE Growth Of
Christianity" and delivered very in
teresting talk. He said in part, as fol-
lows:
II feel that we are gathered here
today for an important work, the OBJ
1ect being to raise some few hundred
dollars in monev to purchase these
lots To some this may seem trivial
or not of much Importance. TO me,
there seems to be a far deeper mean
Ing in our assembling here.
| NO r1an can think Of growth, with
out thinking of life. Life and growth
linked together are God. We ask the
question. how does God look at this
enterprise we are undertaking today?
cannot help but believe that he
thinks of growth am not at all sur
prised that you should grow. Growth
Is tremendously in the air at this pres
ent age.
Great National Growth.
I'm no place in ancient history can
we find such a marvellous national
growth as in the United States today.
Our nation has been increasing in ter
ritory and in wealth. The whole world
IS enlarging. 1t is I. thousand times
larger now than in Christ's time
What about the growth as far as
God and Christianity are concerned?
Here we see wonderful Growth and it
being in accordance with the great
enlargement of other things we are
not at all surprised at it.
Christianity was made to grow.
God intended it should and In this
movement of ours today, He sees a
deeper meanin.; tnan the ordinary NOR
tai. Jesus Christ illustrated the
growth of His Kingdom, when he told
Of the mustard seed, the smallest seed
used by planters.
5oo,ooo,ooo Follow Christ.
\ ut takes God time to get under
Roadway. Taking for an illustration
the law OF momentum we find that
If we drop a watch, 1t would take that
watch Just five seconds to fall a dis.
lance of four hundred feet. The first
second it would not fall far, the sec.
ond it would fall farther. the third still
farther, and so on. The farther 1t
falls the more speed it gains. 1t is SO
with Christianity One thousand years
after the birth of Christ, there were
only 10O,000.000 followers of Christ.
Three hundred years after this the
number was 1OO;0O0O0O more. Then
in the next hundred years, it did not
take the century to double the mum.
Der. Today we have 500.00O,OO0 follow.
ers of our Lord Jesus Christ.
II congratulate you on the growth
of this little church. If we but be
faithful to the little things we will he
enabled to reach out into grandeur
and better work.
4 Other South Side News.
il Mrs. Mary Vincent of Millersburp
returned home Saturday evening att
er a visit at the home of Mr.. and Mrs,
John Scully, 407 Chester avenue.
Thomas Greedy, $50 South Moore
street, and William Travis. 507 Ches-
ter avenue. left last evening for Ever
EFT, S. D., where they will make their
future home.
The women of the Willard street
Methodist Episcopal church will hold
a business meeting tomorrow after
noon at the church.
i : J.
DR.. Francis Archer, pastor Of the
Calvary Baptist church at Cedar Rap
Ids, who assisted Rev. John HASTE
yesterday at the Finley avenue Baptist
church. returned home this afternoon
Mr. and Mrs. William Sanger and
daughters, Misses Blanche and Ruth
of Bloomfield returned home this
morning, after Visiting at the home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. H. Fletcher who reside
on Queen Ann avenue.
Frank and Alphus Hopkins of Union
vile returned home this morning after
a visit at the home Of Mr. and Mrs
H. Fletcher, who reside on Queen Ann
avenue.
i Claude Noel, TIA Ellis avenue, return
J, ed home from Buffalo Center last
evening, where he has been engaged
with a theatrical company
Mrs. e. 7. James Of Chicago arriv-
ed in the city Saturday evening and is
the guest at the home Of Mrs. Lizzie
Noel. TIA Ellis avenue.
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HAYEsvILLE.
4 Hayesville, Oct. 13.-Rev, circuit fill
ed his appointment here Sunday morn
} ing.
Aldess and Hazel Mccullough arc
quite Ill.