Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-02
CROWDS HEAR DR.. ABBOTT.
Strong Helpful Messages Given b,
Noted Speaker at GrinneIl.

CROWDS HEAR DR.. ABBOTT.
Strong Helpful Messages Given by
Noted Speaker at GrinneII.
Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, March I'm spite of Ito
| freezing rain that fell in the late at
! tcrnoon and thru the evening of Sal
/ urday. the chapel was filled almost TO
the limit with students and citiz ms
anxious to hear the message of Rev.
DR. Lyman Abbott He spoke for nearly
an hour and prolonged applause greeted
his entrance upon the stage. There
WAS not hint of pessimism in the adj
dress but it was full of a strong OPP
timism based upon a firm belief i'm God
and Jesus Christ and the future life.
/ His topic was The Foundations of
! Faith" and he began his address with
/ the words Fellow Students. He said
the great truths of right and wrong are
not matters of scientific demonstration.
| We who believe in God believe in him
because we have walked with him.
| There are two kinds of truth, external
and internal. The apprehension and
growth of the great religious truths
takes place within us. Religion is an
experience.
DIR. Abbott spoke briefly to the stu
dents at vespers yesterday and re-
manned in the city today for the pur-
pose of meeting any students who
might wish to consult him, He spoke
at chapel this morning. His sermon
last evening at the Congregational
church on the subject of "Religion-
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was listened to with rapt attention by
a congregation that crowded the house.
In introducing DR.. Abbott, Rev. Das-
com spoke very feelingly of a time
more than ten years ago when Junior
in Dartmouth college was awakened
to q sense of his responsibility and a
soul was born by the words of this
revered and loved teacher" President
Main read the scripture lesson, and DR..
Steiner offered the opening prayer.
The singing was by special quartet,
with a solo by H. b. Gardner.
Rev. G. Fl. Montgomery and family.
who have occupied for the past year
the McBlain property and been engaged
in market gardening. about a mile west
of the city, are moving today to the
east of here, in Chester township.
1t is rare circumstance to find
couple that have been married for over
sixty years and have raised a family
who have all married and scattered to
distant parts of the country, with all
the family still living and able to come
to the parents in case of need. Such
is the condition of Mr.. and Mrs. Miles
Chaffee. of this city. Mr.. Chaffee was
told by his friends and neighbors in
Erie county, n. Y. many years ago
when he started for the west with his
invalid wife, that he was but going
there to lay her in her grave. Yet.
thru all these years, most of them
years of sickness and weakness for her,
she has remained by his side. During
their late illness, from which they are
both now happily recovering nicely,
their three children were with them:
Charles Chaffee from Billings, Mont;
Mrs c. A. Taylor from Evanston, ILL.,:
and Mrs. A. c. Walker of Grinnell. Mrs.
Taylor has returned to her home but
Mr. Charles Chaffee still remains with
his parents.
The vote on the proposition to levy a
three per cent tax in the township of
Grinnell in aid of the proposed railroad
resulted in tie. There We're 1874 ball
lots. of which number two were spoiled,
and of the remaining ones there were
81 for the tax and 81 against it. The
result occasions great surprise aside
from the singular coincidence of the
tie, as the promoters of the railroad
We're very confident of a decided ma
jority in their favor on this PROPOSE
ton. The former vote taken on the
basis of a four per cent tax, failed by
a majority of IS. but on the reduced
basis with the city proposing to make
up the difference of $500. it was con-
fidently predicted that the tax would be
voted. So great is the surprise that no
one seems to be able to even predict
what the next move will be.
In the township caucus Saturday af-
ternoon to select delegates to the coun-
ty convention of republicans meeting
in Grinnell on the sixth both parties
seem to be confident of victory. The
"progressives" are sure that the dele
gates selected are from their ranks
while their opponents assert with equal
vigor and seeming conviction that they
are not So SO far as the township is
concerned Saturday seems to have
been a day of ties"
A number of accessions We're made
yesterday to the Congregational, the
Methodist and the Baptist churches In
the last named seven were given the
right hand of fellowship in the morning
and three received baptism in the ev
ening. This is, in part the first fruits
of the recent revival effort, with the
promise of more to follow.
C. H. Woodiwiss, who has been with
the Fowler creamery of this city for the
past three years, went this morning to
take charge of the Farmers Cooper
ative Creamery at NeWburg.
Natural Mistake.
The traveller hooked out thru the