The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1907-11-18

to school for business and not for
the purpose of discussing their
social dates,' said the Central
Christian pastor. 1.-THE girls
should be made to understand that
they do not go to school to lurk
In shady corners with young men
who plot their downfall and too
often accomplish their purpose.
Rev. Mr.. Piatt said that with the
average school girl the word chez
Is so omnipresent that she has no
time for studies. lie told of having
heard the following conversation
in the West End between two girls
lust in their teens.
"What time did your fellow 90
home last night?n queried the
frst girl
"Oh. about II o'clock, was the
answer.
"Oh my dear. mine didn't get
way until after I O'clock
"The aim of education is moral,
declared Rev. Mr.. Piatt. n'It is not
II moral in narrow sense but
morality should be the general aim.
IL teacher fails to gain moral re-
suits, no matter what the intellec-
tual training of the pupil may be.
| II he Is not morally strong, then
the teacher has failed. When
young woman tells of how brilliant
intellectually a young man Is, how
handsome he is. what a fine CONVEX
sationalst he is, does she realize
that she might say the same
thing OF the devil -
There was an excellent attend
ance at the services held at the
| Waddell Old Ladies' Home. Sunday
afternoon. The services. given by
the Frances Willard w. G. r. U.
we're in charge of Rev. and Mrs.
IC. f. Rowley of Wesley NJ. +.
church. :,
Rev. Mr.. Rowley gave an inter-
asting sermon on text taken from
the first four verses OF second
Peter. following which there was
an excellent musical program. Rev.
md Mrs. Rowley sang SIN the
Good Old Fashioned Way and a
selection was sung by Mrs. John
tU. Balm and Mrs. James Fies. A
duet by two little girls was a
lpleasing feature of the program.
At the close of the program ther'
was testimonial meeting.
The next services will take
place in two weeks.
At the First Presbyterian church
sunday morning Rev. S. C. Bates,
pastor of the Lee street mission Of
the Presbyterian church. preached
IN excellent sermon In the absence
of Rev. George NJ. Rourke.
Rev. Mr.. Bates selected his sub
liect from the text found in Luke,
ioO-1S, "Whomsoever shall fall on
this stone shall be broken: but
whomsoever 1t shall fall upon 1t
will grind into POWDER
The speaker said that the verse
referred to the building of Solo
mon IS temple Continuing, he said,
In part. "The stone and the TIM
ber used in the building of the
magnificent structure were all pre-
pared before they were taken ia
. the building. There was not the
sound of a hammer or of any tool
heard in the temple while it was
under construction, IT is said that
there was stone Of peculiar shape
brought to the temple but although
Iit was tried in many places II
could not be fitted into any and
so was abandoned. The stone was
covered with rubbish and woods
sprang up over the rubbish. When
the temple was completed and
ready for dedication. one place re.
mained untitled and no stone could
be found that would fiji the vac.
ant space. Finally some one thought
of the discarded stone and when
1t had been dug up 1t was found
to fit exactly.
"This is the figure Christ applied
to himself. The Jews had re-
iected Him and He was now max
ing last appeal for them to
accept Him as the Messiah. To
them the lesson was this: IF they
accepted Him they must bow down
before Him and so would be brok-
en-. III they rejected Him, the stone
would fall down and grind them
Into powder. They rejected Him
and forty years later the stone fell
upon them and ground them into
the powder as prophesied
'.The lesson for us 10 thnt MA