The Oskaloosa herald., 1909-08-19
Tonight's Program.

500 - Orpheus Glee Club. Full
Concert.
Postlude-Moving Pictures.
Thursday Morning.
9:30-Story Work, Miss Perkins.
10:00-Bible Hour Modern Mes
sages from Ancient Prophets: Daniel
Rev. |. o. Kemble.
10:45-Under charge of w. c. T. U
Address, Mrs. Ida B. Wise.
Z s Afternoon.
2:00-Prelude, Hearons Sisters.
2:3O - Humorist, Spilman Riggs
Musical Fits and Misfits."
400-Story Work, Miss Perkins.
Evening.
7:45-Prelude, Hearons Sisters.
S:l5-Monologue. Edward p. Elliott
THE Lion and the Mouse"
Postlude-Moving Pictures.
The high tide of the Chautauqua
enthusiasm has been passed for the
present session, although the interest
continues undated. The program
this year has been marked by more
big" days than at any other session,
and each has been bigger than the
preceding one. The capacity OF the
tabernacle was overtaxed by the
crowds which came to hear Billy
Sunday and Kryfs band, and Bryan
drew throng which not only jammed
the auditorium, including aisles, the
stage and all, but left hundreds stand
ing when seating room was gone.
Today Gov. j. Frank Hanly of Indiana
will repeat the records of the previous
big days and another sensational draw
ing card remains for Friday morning,
the last day, when Carrie Nation is
scheduled for "a lecture.
Fifteen hundred single admission
tickets were sold for Bryan's lecture,
and the total attendance was about
1000 people. The gates were opened
a little earlier than usual and by ten
minutes after o'clock practically ev-
cry available seat was occupied, in
Guiding about three hundred on the
stage. Scarcely room was left for the
distinguished speaker and it was quite
generally remarked that some one
would have been lun over il it should
have been. BILLY Sundays time to
speak. No prelude was given and
Rev. Zendt introduced Major John F.
Lacey who presented the speaker of
the evening.
Major Lacey paid fitting tribute
to Mr.. Bryans popularity as private
citizen and the tremendous ovation
he received in his travels around the
globe. The little nation of Holland.
he said, produced her William, The
Silent" but America has produced a
William which is anything but silent.
Mr.. Bryan was greeted with pro-
longed cheers. His subject was The
Price of Soul" He gave a brief re-
spouse to the Introductory remarks in
opening, but Immediately turned to
his subject and spoke in part as fol-
lows:
Mr.. Bryan's Talk.
1.-The fact that Christ dealt with this
subject Is proof conclusive that 1t Is
important, for He never death with
trivial things. When Christ focused
attention upon a theme 1t was be-
cause 1t was worthy of consideration
and Christ weighed the soul. He
presented the subject, too, with sur
passing force; no one will ever add
emphasis to what He said. He un
derstood the value of the question IN
argument. If you will examine the
great orations delivered at crises In
the worlds history, you will find that
in nearly every case the speaker con
densed the whole subject into ques
what he regarded as an unanswerable
argument. Christ used the question
to give force to the thought which he
presented in regard to the souls value
ION one side He put the world and
all that the world can contain-al
the wealth that one can accumulate
all the fame to which one can aspire
and all the happiness that one can
covet; and on the other side he put
the Soul, and asked the question that
has come ringing down the centuries:
What shall it profit a man II he gain
the whole world and lose his own
soul?"
There is no compromise here-no
partial statement of the matter He
leaves us to write one term of the
equasion ourselves; He gives us al!
the time we desire and allows the
imagination to work to the limit, and
when we have gathered together into
one sum all things but the soul, He
asks: What If you gain all, all, all
and lose the soul? What is the profit !
Some have thought the Soul ques
ton question of the next world on:y
but 1t is a question of this world also:
some have thougn: the soul quest' On
a Sabbath day question only, but it rs
a weekday question 2s well; some
have thought the soul question q
question for the ministers alone, but
it is a question which We all must
meet. Every day and every week
every month and every year, from the
time we reach the period of account
ability until we die; We, each OF us
all of us, weigh the soul, and Just In