Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-13
FIRST OF WEEKS SERIES OF
SERVICES HELD BY THE
METHopIsTs.
REV. E. cRoMsIE SMITH
DELIVERS STRONG SERMON
Kansas City Preacher EuIosizes Jesus
In First Sermon of the Reopenins-
Rev. Mr.. Pratt, Former Pastor
breaches in acknowledgement of
the Services for the Week.

lne fe-openlnS or re-QedlcaCOn OF the
First Methodist church. and which are
to continue turnout the entire week.
We're begun Sunday morning. There
was a good audience at the initial SER
vice and also in the evening. altho the
heat was oppressive and fans were as
much in evidence as in midsummer.
Features of the morning were the
song service, including an organ volun
tary, .Andante," the anthem GLORIA"
from the twelfth mass. a solo, Fear
Not Ye. o Israel" by Miss Catharine
Elizabeth Wellemeyer and the sermon
by Rev. E. Crombie Smith, D. D., of
Kansas City.
Rev. Mr.. Smiths Sermon.
The discourse by the Kansas City
divine was one of the very best heard
in any church here in a long time. His
text was from the prophet Isaiah, "He
was despised and rejected of men.
There is beauty that we should
desire Him
Mr.. Smith dwelt first upon the unat-
effectiveness of Jesus, from the material
| or worldly standpoint, showing that the
| manner of his coming into the world.
( his personality. did not appeal to man.
that the world had no conception of his
character. his purpose or his power.
From the picture painted of Christ by
! the prophet, they failed to recognize
him. He was not the man to meet
their secular idea of a great and COM
handing personality.
Naitf1ar Christ tho i'm t,al
lectual conception required of him by
1 the secular world, declared the preach
er, and the conventionally religious
class found him far from their ideal
He then portrayed the Savior in his
real character and purpose and showed
how he appealed to men; that we must
first recognize our sin and be concerned
about it, then come to him with a de-
sire for clean heart and new life
when we shall see the beauty there is
in him. 1t was logical and masterl.
summing up of a subject of the mos
vital concern TO sinful world.
Rally in Sunday School.
After the regular service there wa:
rally OF the Sunday school. i;
which DR.. E. Combie Smith gave {
short and impressive address. Their
was chorus by the primary depart
ment.
At $50 p m. the Epworth Leagu
held rally, in charge of the Philathet
q class.
Rev. Mr.. Pratt breaches.
The feature of the evening meeting
4 beginning al 1880 o'clock, was the ser
Z mon by Rev H. o. Pratt, D. D., o
4 Tama, a former we'll known pastor o
the local church His theme was, 9TH
Live Wire" the great personality an
its resultant vitalizing power of Jesus
With illustrations in which enlinen
men of the ages exerted such influenc
upon the world that they live thruou
history, the speaker led up from tn
power of the greatest human person
atty to that of the Christ and the sum
mary was effective. Mrs. Charles My
ers sang Hear Ye, o Israel"
Program for the Week.
i Tonight at the church DR.. E. Cron
bic Smith will deliver a lecture O
T THE Twentieth Century Knight"
q mems rally. under the auspices of tt
g Methodist Brotherhood, will be tt
3 program Tuesday night, with toas
= and responses, and on Wednesday eN
b ening Will occur the dedication of IL
81 new pipe organ with a recital by V
b H. Donley, of indianapolis. The your
81 people will have a rally Thursds
night including a lecture by Rev.
"a C. Clark of Iowa City, on "Elemen
II of Character"