Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-05
CONFERENCE is
A BUSY PLACE
THE LARGE ARMY OF METHO
CRURCHMEN DEEP IN
CHURCH WORK.
THE BISHOP TAI K S
~residing Officer of the Deliberations
Being Held in the First M. E.
House of Worship Con-
ducts Ceremony.


From Fridays Daily.
The admission of six young minis
tiers into full connection with the
conference was the chief bust
ness of the session this morn
ing. Numerous visitors attended and
addressed the gathering in behalf OF
Methodist institutions. The book con-
Germ and hospitals of the church in
Iowa were represented Two splen-
did addresses by Bishop Quayle were
well received by those present.
In the opening address to the con-
ference in the First Methodist Epis-
copal church this morning Bishop
QuayIe gave an interesting talk on
how to read book. The address was
interspersed with practical exper-
fences of the speaker, enliyened by
his natural humor that sees the anus
ing in all things and scatters sun
shine in the most profund places, and
at the most solemn times. Many inter-
esting seeds for thought were the re-
suit of the talk and the audience of
ministers was given the benefit of
the speakers plan of reading and
studying books.
ct is not a fact that the longer it
may take you to do a thing, the bet
ter you do it," said the bishop. ut is
necessary to whip the brain into line
and make it attend strictly to bust
ness. Do not read over and over
the same thing in book and do not
read in the book that which you know
as we'll as the writer of the book.
Skim through it, for by skimming you
get the cream. Of course you will
recognize the difference there is in
skimming a thing and SHINING it,
hence do not skin the book, but skim
it. Read by line and you will soon
have acquired the way of reading by
chapter.
Double Your Capacity.
THE eye is instantaneous and the
brain quicker than the eye, hence the
brain is quicker than instantaneous.
The sunlight travels 10000 miles in
half second and leaves its effect
upon the photograph film. The eye is
the lens through which the photo
graph Of what you are reading is
printed on your brain, and it can be
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pacity for reading, if you double or
triple your work in fifty years, you
live from one hundred to one hundred
and fifty years, and it is therefore
worth while. Put on the pressure and
live all you can in the time allotted
you. Learn to discriminate between
books and learn their value Read a
yarn for yarns sake, but don't COM
pare Wilkie Collins Woman in
White with Hawthorne's Scarlet Let
ter like a good brother did once
while I was professor in college. He
asked me after reading the two
works how thought they compared
I told him there is no chance for
comparison, one is a yarn and the
other a soul analysis
"If you need sense, 60 to the census
bureau as some one once said, but
whatever you do don't spend too much
time reading books over again and
again. Train your mind to read and
remember that attention is the first
essential to right reading and reten-
ton will follow upon the heels Of at
tention The first ZONES by making
1t plain to your Drain that it must get
busy and not shirk, but pay strict at
tention to the matter in hand"
Miscellaneous Business
Following the address a short prayer
was offered by the bishop and the
minutes Of yesterdays session were
read and approved. The name of
George Byrket was substituted for
that Of E. H. Waring as one of the
conference representatives at the fu-
neral Of the late Rev Frank Evans
at Des Moines Sunday.
DR.. H. G. Jennings was then called
to the platform and introduced after
which he made a short address in be-
half of the Methodist Book Concern,
Of which he is publisher and located
at Cincinnati, O.
Committee reported the following
class of young men in the various
stages of their studies for the minis.
try: H. w. Munster voted to the
third year; E. ]. Starr to the second
year; o. e. Mcbride, to the third
year; W. j. Scott, to the third year;
Walter A. Smith, to the third year;
E. A. Brinton, to the third year; A. T
James, to the fourth year. Harry
Shirk, whose case was to have beer
reported on at this time was discon
tinued as member of this confer
ence owing to the fact that he is