The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1906-12-31

FoT several ys#rn past n has b,-eu
re cHstorn 81 NJ Chalmers MePhag
SOW pastor ~ IL. Main Street Carts.
'lau church to close eash Feara work
si&h . rrsiew ~ the achievements
accomplished during the year. aad
/ keeping Hlth this custom ~ De
F voted HE A.gssfun tast uight "a = rss-
Hm* of the history making events Of
/ SOS lie Was heard by 4 large and
aRpretiatize audience
tie read "a a scripture lesson he
/ une haair@s}th and sixteenth Psalm
IN the beginning Of his remarks
T o." said h. would not attempt io pre-
/ seat The religious side OF the aus.s-
ton but after presenting some ~
ias leading events ~ The year would
Ora" tbereffom some moral lessons
which he thought wunIa be- helpful
/ ~" said The country had been Won
/ dfrtuiiF blessed This year and that
! The people locally bad received many
blessings Tor which they should be
grateful
I "" bad arranged his subject mat
! ter IN groups, the first being devoted
/ 20 twenty seven historical events aud
7 20 these he only made casual refer
ence. Under this head he said that
/ some progress had been made ia the
matter of municipal ownership, some
/ OF the large life Insurance compan-
! les had been uytrhauled, the yellow
press had attempted to cause unpleas-
antness between Japan and the rni-
ted States because OF the San Fran
cisco school muddle, the president
F Z he H.ay g,4s
visiting a foreign country. the usual
insHrrection had occurred m Cuba.
/ one OF the greatest receptions ever
accorded a private citizen who had
never held office was accorded VIII
/ liam Jennings Bryan in New York,
| great advance has been made in the
| work on the Panama canal and the
! French government had enacted a
/ law separating church from state
| Passing from these events to more
| recent history he said that during
! the year a start had been made look
| ing to an exposition of two of the
! most stupendous frauds ever perpe-
! trated upon the people of this coun-
| try. The first of these is the theory
| of Christian Science as promulgated
and advocated by Mrs. Mary Baker
| Eddy. He said the grim truth was
! just beginning to dawn upon the peo-
! pie that Mrs. Eddy, in spite of her
! fallacious doctrine, was slowly dying
I OF some disease The second fraud
! to which attention was called was
| that perpetrated by John Alexander
! Dowie. He said DOwie had been de
throned and that his people We're
! breaking up because OF trouble
| among themselves
He referred briefly to the cruelties
heaped upon the Jews in Russia by
the police and soldiers, and explain
ed the purpose OF the Nobel prize
which was recently awarded to
President Roosevelt by the Norweg-
ian parliament
The preacher next took up the di-
Vorce question and said it was one
OF the most important questions
now .agitating the minds of the peo-
pie. lie said the divorce evil was
growing in America at an appalling
rate and had reached that point
where ii was threatening the home.
| He said no nation could be built UP
unless the home was secure. and hat
! the home was established by God
/ as one of the fundamental principles
/ OF good government Attention was
called 70 the president reference to
/ the divorce question i'm his recent
/ message TO congress.
He said that during the year at
! tempts mad been made in some states
I 20 Danish the large corporations
/ usually known as trusts tie show
/ I'd the benefits to Dee derived from
/ combinations where rightfullv con
I Quoted and pictured the evils arts
lug thercirom Wher they assume
I such proportions that they become
! oppressive 90 the people
Perhaps the most important ques-
0 lion referred tu was that ol the mob
} spirit, aud It's growth was attributed
/ iu large measure Co the inflamma-
/ 'orN articles which appear Ina some
I ot the papers ot the north and south
\ Ht cited the brownsville affair. the
recent outbreak boz Springfield. -
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