The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-09-09

was given during the morning ses-
sion.
The afternoon session closed with
the election of officers and other busi'
ness at o'clock.
; The members OF the executive COM
mittee elected Thursday afternoon
were. Rev. @. Il. Barnard, OF Marion
A. C. Droz, of Rio Grande. T. G.
Lawrence, OF Cleveland, Thomas Las
ley, OF Blanchester. and Samuel Full
ton, of Rio Grande. The trustees were
J. G. Lewis, Of Cleveland, A. Il
Brown, of Moral, Philip withacre, OF
Morrow, w. H. Goff, of Broadway,
DR.. F. l.. Ellenberger, of West Mans
field ]. J. Coughenour. OF Chester and
DR.. J. w. Arbegast. of Cleveland.
The nominating committee was
composed of Rev. ]. w. Davis, OF
Rio Grande, T.. o. Reed, OF West
Mansfield and ID. w. Titus, Of Spring
field fa
WEDNESDAY EVENING.
At the Wednesday evening service
Rev. F. j. Smcck. of Bloomville con-
Quoted the devotions and Rev. w. A.
Myers, of the Scranton Avenue church
in Cleveland, preached an able SER
mon. He took his first text from III
Timothy Az Preach the Word" He
said This was the admonition OF
Paul to Timothy as he was about to
start out upon his work in the
Christian field. Paul had traversed a
wide area and had met with many
difficulties and he knew the full
meaning OF his words to Timothy.
He had had full opportunity to test
the power of preaching and he
thought that the whole secret In
building up the church was In preach
ing the gospel He admonished Tim
othy to allow nothing TO influence
him or to remove him from the sim
pie gospel of Christ. His admonition
was to preaSh the word. Rev. Myres
declared 1t is a good plan too for
the ministers to study this admoni-
ton of Paul.
There are many different estima-
tes upon the Bible, however, and one
should know Just what kind OF a
word he Is preaching. We are having
a great deal of trouble these days
about this twentieth century. It ap-
pears that the gospel Of Christ was
made and is fitted for the other CEN
turies but somehow people do not
want to believe that 1t is in line with
the present century.
At this point Rev. Myers scored
Ex-Presldent Elliott, OF Yale. who
refused to place the Bible among tho
twenty-five best hooks OF the century
He also spoke OF the statement Of
professors OF the university OF Chica-
go who claim that the Bible does
not connect with the century.
Rev. Myers showed his hearers
what the Bible was and what It had
dono for humanity and closed with a
fervid admonition to the ministers
to be fearless in preaching the word
as 1t is for the gospel was never
stronger than 1t is today.
THURSDAY MORNING.
A very profitable session was held
this morning at the annual Associa-
tion meeting of the Ohio Free Bap-
lists. There was quite large attend
ance. Miss Bessie Griffin, OF Cleveland
read the scriptures and led the de-
yotions and after "A short business
meeting. Rev. J. A. Sutton, of La
Rue. read paper which was to have
been read by Rev. w. w. Crabtree,
OF Chesire, Ohio His subject was
State Missions and How to Sun.
port Them. Rev. w. A. Myres. of
Cleveland discussed Religious Life
in Our Colleges" and his talk was
very interesting. Rev. John M. Davis
OF Rio Grande discussed the subject.
This evening mission program
by the State Missionary society will
be rendered