Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-11
THE HOPE THAT BuoYs
"RiIy" Sunday stirs Cedar Rapids Au.
dience With One Of His Sweetest
sermons-Evanselsti Party Given
Dinner BY Business Men.

Cedar Rapids Nov. 11.-1n a SER
mon on hope, based on the text taken
from Peter, s.: Is, BE ready always to
give an answer to every man that ask
eth you a reason of the hope that is in
you with meekness and fear" Evangel-
list Sunday last night sounded the
sweetest and mobiles tones on the whole
gamut of christian experience and I'M
doubtedly made that hope burn bright
err and clearer in the hearts OF nun
dreds of his hearers.
1t was a grand message on nope.
Everybody has hope. Poets and proph-
cts, seers and sages, philosophers ana
prea chers have taken it as their theme
and some of the noblest lines in our
language have been written by men,
consciously or unconsciously seeking 10
do what the great apostle counsels IN
the text Many of these lofty lines
We're quoted by the evangelist in the
course of his sermon. Poetry and prose
was quoted freely. But the main part
of the sermon was Sunday, and Sum
/ day at his very best.
The sermon was brilliant, delivered
with all the oratorical force which the
evangelist could put into the effort.
Turnout the address he interspersed
stories, a few of them humorous and
several of them exceedingly pathetic,
to illustrate the points of his discourse
Upon the vast fund of his personal ex-
perience he drew heavily, seeking al
ways to put his thought in the clearess
and most convincing words, to tip his
arrows Of truth with the facts of every
day life and to wing their shafts with
the drollery of his humor.
He closed his sermon with two elo-
quent stories, one dealing with the
power of Christianity to reform a
drunkard and the other the beauti-
full death of a pious old pilot. But
better than either of these, good
tho they were, was his simple, earnest
statement of what his religion had
done for himself, of the silent testi-
mony in his heart giving him "a rea-
son of the hope that is in him."
Forty Went Forward.
1t was a moving, appealing sermon
and then, after characteristic prayer
in which he prayed for all classe:
of men and women present in the tab
ernacle, he gave the invitation. There
was an instant response. Men ant
women came down the aisles to take
him by the hand. About twenty O.
them came without further urging
and when the congregation rose t.
join in singing hymn, as many more
came without much urging from tn,
army of personal workers. Severa
gray heads were among them, ant
, there We're also many young men an,
, young women. There We're forty o
them altogether.
Business Men Give Lunch.
Over a hundred representative bust
; ness men of Cedar Rapids Wednes
day had the pleasure to meet tn
Rev. William Ashley Sunday and tn
members of the party at close rang
: and to listen to one of the snappies
and best after dinner speeches tina
was ever heard in this city.
Many of them had heard him be
FORE but some of them hadn't Tha
every one was cheering him and a
they left they were all praising tn
man and the talk he had given then
1t was one of the pleasantest affair
the business men of this city hay
: ever attended, and they were free t
say so.
: The hosts at the luncheon wer
: Messrs. II. E. Witwer, F. H. Shave
8 John H. Taft and r. S. Sinclair.