The Oakes times. [volume] (Oakes, N.D.) 1906-current, 1909-07-22
SPLENDID ADDRESS

SPLENDID ADDRESS
Hon. E. E. Lobeck Makes Strong Plea
for Higher Ideals Of Life.
Hon. E. E. Lobeck of Minnesota who
was to have given a lecture here a
week ago was on time Monday night.
He is gentleman of great personal
magnetism and one of the most power
full speakers. He has the rare power
of presenting the subject so forcefully
that the audience is with him in SYM
pathy and belief. He spoke for nearly
an hour to an .Oakes audience and every
one present was thrilled through and
through with his powerful plea for the
highest and best, and for a care in the
formation of life habits. It was no
sickly, sentimental presentation of a
great subject but a sane and forceful
presentation of facts that every person
feels deep down in his inner conscious
ness that it is his duty and right to be
and to live. No person of whatever
belief can afford to miss such an ad-
!! dress. It is hearing such thoughts as
he presented that will raise manhood
and womanhood to the high plane that
they are created to occupy. Every
person in the country ought to have
the privilege of going to hear the sub
ject presented several times. Thinking
such thoughts makes one better every
way.
He took for the basis Of his address
the words of a great prophet: tCan
the Ethiopian change his skin, or the
leoparl his spots? Then. may ye also
do good, that are accustomed to do
evil" He handled this so skillfully
that he made the audience see how
easy it is for people to live contradict
ory in their thoughts and acts. He
said that he had read in scientific works
that if the hair was scraped from the
leopard it was found that the skin
was spotted and if the skin was scraped
through it would be found that the
spot went through to the marrow of
the bone. This was the part he welded
so powerfully. He showed how people
will hold high ideals of the work Of the
church and school and hold low ideals
of the work Of the liquor business. He
put the matter in supposition that
should the church people come together
on some Sunday morning and hear the
preachers and ministers say that they
would lay aside the teaching of Jesus
and from this on would teach the people
to be buns, liars, cheats, thieves, mur-
derers, etc., and say that from now on
they would lead the people in every
thing that was along the line Of evil,
there is not man so bad but he would
raise his voice in condemnation of such
work on the part of the preachers.
Again he said that the audience was to
suppose that the teachers at school
would tell the pupils to throw their
books out Of the window, that there
would be no more study Of the books
and for the future the time would be
spent in telling and listening to vulgar
stories, and in learning to be the best
liars, buns, cheats, thieves and high
waymen. He thought that there was
not a man anywhere SO bad but that if
thingsJcame to such a state in the
schools and churches, he would gladly
and willingly join in razing church and
school house to the ground.
He is correct in his conclusion. Yet
said he. ''There are good people that
have high ideals Of the work Of the
church and school but will look on COM
placently and see institutions in our
midst that are doing and teaching just
such things and they will do nothing to
remove them. This moral condition Of
the individual is the leopard spot that
is hard to change" He put it clearly
that the habit Of doing wrong thing
was making a leopard spot that il
would be next to impossible to change.
The address can not be given in words
to do anywhere near justice to it. One
should have heard it to get the fullest
good out of it. There is not person
anywhere, especially in Oakes, but il
heartily in accord with his thoughts
and there is feeling deep down in
each ones nature that would like te
see this high state Of living and acting
in every day life. Mr.. Lobeck will be
back in Cakes in the near future and
it is to be hoped that every one will
make special effort to hear him.
-One Who Heard Him.
Frank Bemis, who has been visiting
his sister, Mrs. Leo Wagner for sew.
eral weeks, left this morning for hi
home in Minneapolis.