Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1906-01-26
FACES WHEN UNM ASKED.
REV. PETERS DEFINES THE
REAL AND SHAM.
Says Some Pert Things And Hits
The Sunday Newspapers
And Athletics.
THE LECTURER DOES NOT AP-
PROVE OF HALOS.

Ever loyal TO their friend and for
mer pastor, the congregation of Nary
land 'Avenue NJ K. Church turned
out in large numbers last night to hear
the lecture on Faces and False
Faces, !" delivered by the Rev. I. E.
Peters, of Baltimore Mr.. Peters
needed no Introduction. but the pas
tor, Rev. John L. Walsh, announced
the subject Of the lecture and made a
few happy remarks about the lecturer.
Mr.. Peters interspersed his lecture
with many gems of wit and wisdom
that sparkled and seintillated in their
practical and substantial setting. He
spoke of the false faces insthe business
world and said it required excellent
discriminating powers to discern the
counterfeit from the real He quoted
the familiar phrase ''all is not gold
that ghtters, and said there is more
cheap jewelry" today than at any
time in the worlds history. When
the appearance Of innocence gets to be
a halo, said the speaker. watch the
man or woman who wears the halo.
The genuine never has the halo or
the glow about it, bur is stamped gem
uine on its face.
A man needs both a big head and a
world. The speaker said it is non.
sense to talk about a better class of
criminals. Crime is crime and Grim
inal is a criminal ip whatever class
or station. What we call graft today
is simply what the Bible calls theft.
We are changing things so rapidly
that for acquired technical terms we
shall have to issue new dictionary
every three months. The world is
full of deceivers, said Mr.. Peters.
We read headlines in newspapers
% Another Good Man Gone Astray. -
Nonsense 1t is another bad man
found out
A child is born with a false face,
said the speaker, and the first thing q
child does is TO lie. Most persons keep
up lying all their lives. David said
In my haste. l said all men are liars. 4"
1t David lived in these times he could
say this at his leisure A lie is the
truth with false face. The speaker
said one of the most harmful false
faces is the Sunday newspaper. Mar
riage and Sunday are twins. They
were founded in the Garden of Eden.
A nation that loses one, loses the other
Notice the violation of Sunday is
more prevalent where there are most
divorces.
Mr.. Peters told OF the false faces
worn by what is commonly called So
ciety. " Women are shocked to see
q man in his shirt sleeves, yet they
go to balls and even on the street in
such decollette costumes that were
they men they would be put in the
watch-house, and so they ought to be.
He said about half the world,are crazy
on this athlete business, - and he de-
fined an athlete as "a dignified bunch
of muscles unable to split wood or sift
ashes. " He related several interest
ing anecdotes of college athletes on
the farm at home. Education, he said,
is not putting a lot of stuff into a
man, but it is bringing out what is in
him. 1t is wonder that the collie ges
do SO well with the material they
have TO work on. What mau needs
today is practical education that
will fit him TO do all there is to do.
There are more lawyers than men,
more doctors than men, more clergy
men than men, aud may the Lord give
us more men Let us have manhood,
said the lecturer, if 1t is in the aims.
house or in rags There is time COM
ing when all shams will be removed
and we shall be judged as we are.
After the lecture Mr.. Peters held re-
ception and as warmly greeted by
many friends and former parishioners.