The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-01-28
DR.. HILLS IN TOPEKA.
Delivers an Interesting Lecture at the
First Baptist Church.

DR.. Newell Dwight Hills, pastor or
Plymouth church. Brooklyn, n. Y, the
pulpit of which was made famous oy
Henry Ward Beecher and Lyman ADJ
hott delivered his lecture on the
America of Today and Tomorrow" be-
fore a good sized audience at the First
Rantfst church on Saturday night. Dr.
Hills is one of the brilliant platform
speakers of the country and the WORD
nict,1res that he paints are marvel
ous He is an optimist of the deepest
hue and sees nothing but WonoerIul
future for the United states ana us
people. DR.. Hills said that 1t would
take weeks and weeks for an adequate
discussion of his subject.
In the first place he said, the scars
of sectionalism in this nation mad as
appeared The good seed OF united
country was being sown by the press
the schools and other tremendous aseh-
cies for the common good.
Ora of his premises was that civil
ization was rooted in a condition OF
poverty. There never has BEEN ne
declared "a highly civilized amount OF
roverty.'' Then as contrasting the no
ton of poverty, the speaker plunged IN
to a rapid fire depletion of the tremen-
dous material resources OF America
from Maine to the south, and even up
into Alaska This country" he reach
ed in one of his climaxes, has Just
entered upon it's "reminiscences, the Ne"
Age. the Age Beautiful.
Then he proceeded to inquire into the
INSTITUTIONS which give stability and per
petuity to this republic; family, school'
church, democracy and liberty. ne an
swered the query, Are they ntteo "
manufacture men of good quality! III
the Affirmative. And to back up his
answer he cited the lives of such men
as Henry Clay, Abraham Lincoln. ana
William Mckinley He preolcteo l 1aa.I,, ~
time the country would support poPuz
Iation of 250, 900 900 persons and re1erTeu
to the marvellous growth OF the nat -lI'..
in the estimation of other nations even
in the last nine years. He spoke OF the
ene COMPLIMENT which had been paid the
nonntry by party of English who re-
Gently visited the eastern part OIL lHe
country. v,+1,,
he believed. to bemoan the fact, as
alleged, that the country was no
longer producing great men. he sale
heretofore comparatively few men OF
such character had peen proouce1u
this country; but that now such
great multitude of them were OF great
caliber that it was difficult to discern
those really more eminent than the
editor, he declared, had said that the
country was going to rack and ruin
because of the evidence which he
found in the recent exposures. TO
cO0oDare. DIR. Hills clIeQ the youth
with measles saying that if 1t
"broke out" there was no fear of the
patient recovering. But on the other
hand If there were no breaking OUT
no "exposure'-then the case was
sure to result fatally.
1.-The morals of this country never
were SO high as now. There never
were SO many good men in the legisla-
ture as today. In time Wen say that
the man who goes to the legislature
must be a man of moral vision. We've
got to stop sending men to the legis-
lature who try to make laws 1t is as
impossible for a man to make laws as
n is for an astronomer to control the
eclipses. The thing of it is that a man
must get into line with the eternal
of Cod
DIR. Hills said he couldn't under
stand how it was that the public
schools were drifting into their pres
emf condition. In this relation he re-
ferred especially to the expurgaton
of scriptural readings from the school
text books. He thought that the text
of the decalogue and the Sermon on
the Mount were more deserving OF
place in the scho books than the
literary dish water too often found
there.
DR.. Hills said that the proposed bar
to immigration into this country was u
mistaken policy. He held that the for
eign element was of value to u.s. He
mentioned that the bill suggested II.
congress a few days ego looking to the