The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-12-01

vice for service is the thing that
saves many man from a useless and
dissipated life.
THE church OF today is passing
through critical period and the great
movement for saving the souls OF men
should be handled by the Christian
church. Take up the Ills of society
and correct them. Good men who are
in the back ground of christian work
are only waiting the call to service.
Many man has dropped out of the
church because he had nothing to do.
He wanted to be of some service.
Mr.. Arnold then took up the four
topics or thoughts of layman's SER
vice and what he thought of them,
explaining each as he went. Ideals,
whims, purpose and conviction were
explained by him. Following this he
continued: "The greatest need of the
christian layman today is bible study.
The layman of the church must have
the book before them and study it in
practical way. The modern day man
and his bible must get together to
solve great problems and with the
book only can they be solved prop
erly. There must also be Individual
study. The nations of the world be-
gin to move according to the teach
ings Of Jesus, then will only will ma
tional problems be settled better. A
man cannot be made by machine.
He must feel the touch of another
man. The greatest game in the world
is the game of doing good"
Preachers Doing it All.
The speaker then touched briefly on
evang elistic work He said that the
churches Of today are depending too
much on certain groups to do the
evangelizing. Several descriptive
stories were told by Mr.. Arnold dur
ing his talsk which proved highly in
teresting and number humorous.
Advantages Of Organization.
The needs and advantages of a fed
Grafton of church laymen was then
explained to those present and all
were asked to consider the question
OF such an organization thoroughly
and give their opinions if they had
any and a number of questions were
asked the speaker and thoroughly ex-
planned. Bible study and the bible as
back bone for other organizations
were recommended as the proper
thing for all brotherhood meetings and
church societies. Boys clubs we're
also spoken of in which the speaker
said that the mems clubs ought to
foster or daddy" boys clubs. On re-
quest Mr.. Arnold explained the way in
which a federation of the laymen and
the pastors could be formed. for the
betterment of the city and each other.
Arnold TO Ohio.
Mr. Arnold excused himself about
ten minutes before his train left SO
that he might return to his Ohio home,
where he has not been in some time.
Mr.. JOY, the chairman, then took
charge of the meeting and motions
for the organization of such a fedora
ton as Mr. Arnold had explained were
in order. Rev. Potter put the molten
which was seconded and Mr.. E. w.
Pierce was made secretary to write
down all motions and take care of
such business as might be brought
up. Much time was used in the dis
cussion of the federation formation.
Mayor Strimback being present, made
several good suggestions which were
accepted and amended with the orig
inal motion. Each one present was al
lowed to express his opinion as the
meeting was declared open and after
some time 1t was decided to call a
recess of five minutes in which tine
the pastors of the various churches
and the members of their particular
got together and selected one repre-
sentative from each party to repre-
sent that particular church or society
in the new federation. After these
were chosen, the secretary was en-
powered to set a date for the next
meeting of the gentlemen last even.
ing Motion for adjournment was
then seconded and the party broke IN
after all had spent an enjoyable even.
ing listening to the strong speaker and
others.
| During the evening, Edw LAUDER
scheimer favored the guests with
solo which was much enjoyed by
those present