The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1909-11-01
EPWORTH RALLY DAY.


Sunday proved to be one of the
biggest days in the church calendar
of Epworth NJ. T.. church. Rally day
was observed in the Sunday school
and there was AN exceptionally large
attendance. John Dawson. superin-
tendent of the schools at Lima. Ohio,
addressed a large congregation al
the morning service and Miss e. staff
ford Miller. the Australian evangel-
ist addressed mass meeting of the
women i'm the afternoon. At the clos
ing evening service the big church
was filled to its full seating capacity.
and this service was one of the larg
est evangelistic meetings held here
in some time.
]. II. Virden, superintendent of the
Epworth Sunday School was in
charge of the sunday School exer'
cises. Mr.. Dawson. of Lima, gave
very helpful address. taking as
his theme Stepping stones to Sue.
cess" after which flags were present.
ed to the various departments. Mrs.
Frank Sffrtt was in charge of the
beginners department, j. ri. Balm
presented flags to the Junior depart
ment and Rev. ID. ii. Bailey looked
after the senior and intermediate de-
rartments. Miss Miller gave flags &c
the members of the Junior intermed.
late department.
Talks 10 Womcn.
The afternoon service when Miss
Miller addressed the women of th'
city there was n very large attend
ance and the meeting proved most
successful. Miss Miller spoke upon
the theme, "The Power of Woman
hood" and the political situation
played no part in the discussion as
II was thought by some that 1t would |
AT the evening service when Miss
Miller closed her evangelistic work
here, the seating capacity of Epworth /
was taxed to accommodate the large
numbers who came. The address OF
the evangelist was one of the best
delivered by her during the present
series of meetings. Taking her text
from Pauls letter to the philippians
As, the evangelist spoke OF the pow.
er of thought and the necessity OF
Christian people thinking pure ana
holy thoughts.
we may Judge people by their acts
and we may know generally wha'
they are by their deeds, but nj the
same time there are very many peo'
ple who do goods who think very
evil thoughts and IL not unfrequently
happens that these thoughts lead
persons to evil acts. There Is first
the thought which enters the mind
and continues to intrude upon 1t un-
iii theer Is desire and following
the desire there is the act, and soon
the habit and the formation of des |
tiny. All kinds of suggestions in
trude upon the mind at all times and
often very misleading thoughts and
II 10 essential that the mind be guard
ed ana purified of evil thoughts. Peo-
pie live in hidden realm IN theh
thouqhts and although any persons
may be confined in the darkness oil
an apartment closed in win heaVE
walls, yet his thoughts go far from
the wall and cannot be confined WIN
the prisoner. During her REMARKS
Miss Miller stated that her thSugnts
had Travelled far around the worlo
and TO her old home in Austrana anu
various parts OF the world when she
had visited. These thoughts are our
own and they will lead us into rou-
BILE. -
DeplOres Spicy Stories.
Miss Miller deplored the filthy sto-
ries and evil suggestions which are
spread abroad and told between men
and men and by women 10 women
These evil thoughts should De put
away and Stunned. Each person
can keep these thoughts from nm OF
her ~ they will do it. If we think OF
nure and lovely things our Thoughts
win not lead us into evil ways
EVIL thoughts intrude upon ev-
eryone and only he who IL IN the
service of the Master may Keep tne
evil away. In closing plea was
made for sinners to enter chrisu"n
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