The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-10-18
Large Audience Greets DR..
7. E. Green.
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LECTURE COURSE OPENS
Mastery Effort of Speaker
Appreciated.
"Key to the Twentieth Century"
the Subject Of an Interesting
and Instructive Discourse.

"The Key to the Twentieth
Century" an exaltation Of American
destiny, was the subject of lee
ture by DR.. Thomas Il. Green,
whose appearance last night was the
initial number of the Y. M. g.
A. popular lecture course. The
auditorium of the Methodist church
was occupied almost to its seating
capacity. DR.. Green's patriotic
demonstrations were 50 forcibly made
that Ill who heard his notable ad-
dress, could not help feeling deep
er love for country. He proved q
polished orator and gradually raised
in thoughts to one great climax
OF love and devotion for country.
Immediately at 8 O'Clock Mr..
w. N. Harder, in short clever
speech introduced the lecturer,whose
impressive personality pleased the
audience from the first and through
out the lecture, which lasted for
two hours and fifteen minutes, he
held the rapt attention Of the great
audience.
DIR. Green began by referring to
the wonders of national history. He
spoke of the peoples inclination
to build air castles. to picture in
brilliant visions the future. aud like
children prospect everything as care
fully as though it might come true
This is what makes history so in
tensely fascinating. The past was
Just as interesting as what the "a
ture will be. But when it is all
over. We read history and wonder
will the future be anything like
tllss7
"We stand on what is practically
the threshold df a new century, u
said the speaker. "With the be.
ginning Of the twentieth century
if everything could be, pictured n
indelible ink, disclosing everything
in store in the future, the world
would read and be very much dis.
coulaged.. But when everything
goes along as it does, joy tones sad.
ness, hope banishes sorrow and
the sun comes out all the more
beautiful after the storm is past. d
The lecturer referred to the turn.
ing points in national history. He
declared that there has never come
any reform Of great change but
that some man foresaw it.
"We are standing among the
clements that govern universe
We are not afraid for there mas
never been an accident since the
world began. Earthquakes come
and swallow up thousands Of hu.
man beings and many will say
A horrible accident! but such a
statement is fallacious. 1t was moi
an accident, but simply the work.
ing out Of natural laws. :"
DR.. Green captivated his audi.
ence with a beautiful description ID
nature. He spoke inspiringly of the
rivulet, the trees, the twitting bird
the blue sky. the flowers and the
perfection Of all. TGod Almighty
is one and he yields one unbreak.
able law. His handiwork is perfect
and the universe is based upon
natural laws which is the key Ia
century,
He declared that The world is
never ready for the things IL re-
ceives. Nineteen hundred and seven
wears ago the people were longing
and praying for a king. A saw
ious was born. King, a Christ
and the world persecutes and
cruicified Him. The world was, OF
rever will he satisfied and it is
never prepared to fondle and care
for rarely even though it has
longed for it for many centuries.
America Is the only nation since
the beginning of the world that did
not begin in barbarism," said the
lecturer. There were no barbarians
interested in the laing of the foun-
dation of this nation. Our Pilgrim
Fathers. our william Penn were edu-
Gated. They knew the English con-
stitutional laws. They spoke the
language OF Shakespeare and greatest
of all they knew the laws of nature
and OF God. The laws Instituted by
these men hundreds of years ago,
stand out prominently today after
years OF wear What Could have been
more perfect than the constitution of
1878 or the Declaration OF Independ-
ence.
America was founded on the mot
TO freedom To build fig tree
country, a quaint. free and peaceful
republic and attend to our own busi-
ness, was the desire of the Pilgrim
Father. And these principles are
responsible for the great growth OF
the American nation. She has known
enough to stay at home and tend to
her own business. Her government
II her own. She In a world in her
sell. Just az soon as America would