Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-30
WADSWORTH SAYS FAREWELL
Retiring President of Bellevue Col
lege Speaks at Y. M. C. A. Sunday.
TELLS YOUNG MEN OF MOSES
Biographies Of Such Men should Com
pose a Large Part of Books Read
Instead OF Lightweight
Fiction.

President GUY w. wadsworth of Belle
vue college delivered an address on moses
The Man of the Hour" before a large
audience Of men at the Young Mems Chris
tisn association Sunday afternoon. 1t was
President Wadsworth's farewell appearance
before a public assembly in Omaha, as he
will depart Friday for his new pastorate
at Pueblo, Colo, 3-0T a.
The retiring president expressed himself
as pleased to deliver his farewell message
to his friends OF the Young Mems Chris
tian association, for here for the last three
years he had made his headquarters when
in Omaha, and its associations were very
dear to him.
with the abundance Of Libraries in this
country we waste a great deal OF time In
useless reading of fiction" said DR.. Wads-
worth. "Only about 20 per cent of the 70
per cent of fiction that is read is really
worth the reading. We should read more
biography and less fiction, not but that
some fiction is good, but our reading should
take more OF the nature of the best books.
There are no greater masterpieces Of liter
allure than those written by Moses. l be-
lieve that he wrote the entire Peutateuch,
except, of course, that part of 1t that re-
lates 10 his death, which was doubtless
WIllltl ny JOsllhd' AAOStS was NHN o'NN
est man of all history except Our Lord
Jesus Christ. He lived in a critical period
Of the religious history of the world. Re
llgion was almost dead at the time of
Moses birth.
Choosing n Great Teacher. -.
God chose a great character to do His
work and to teach His people. Moses was
well born physically. It was Gods design
that HE Nyot1th and manhood ShOuln he as II
was. He came from a strong family, strong
in every characteristic of religion, morals
and determination. 1t was necessary to
Gods purpose that he should be educated
in the lore of Egypt and he was so edu-
Gated that he might come in contact with
all the phases Of human character of that
period, that he might do the work God
had designed for him. He was a student
for forty years in the best universities Of
Egypt, and for another forty years he was
the student of experience in the wilderness
of Siani that he might be stu better
equipped for the great part that he was to
perform in the history of humanity. He
was learned in every art and profession,
and at his death at 40 years his eye was
not dim nor was his vigor abated. He was
ever superb, dignified and magnetic.
Moses, the Military Man.
Moses was a great military leader, a great
organizer, a great poet, a great orator and
the worlds greatest lawyer. Withal these
qualifications was added the character OF
a model gentleman. He was meek, but not
weak, and above all things he was a man
Of God. The grandest moment Of Moses
career was in the silent majesty of his
death. God called him into the solitude OF
the rocks. where he died, His work was
finished, and he died in the majesty Of the
completion OF the greatest work ever per-
formed by mortal man. The angels of God
buried him, and no man knows the location
Of his tomb, so that no man OF that day
could point TO his grave and say. There
lies my enemy
There are good men in this day. God
has created them to carry on His work
All of us have been given strength to woIl
out His will and 1t is essential that W,
educate ourselves to do II. No more poten'
factor exists for this work than the Young
Mems Christian association. The only re