Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-01-30

will do in the spiritual world. There
are voices continually calling and
urging man to improve everywhere,
and he must need climb above the
level. Ignorance has put falsehoods
around our affairs, and as full grown
men we need all to give these things
our rightful intellect to remedy.
Every human cry denounces our weak
nesses and it is absolutely necessary
that the full grown man has sound
cultivated body on which to carry a
vigorous mind and splendid brain
The church ought to take a hand in
creating these great bodies and in
tellectual minds, which it can readily
be seen make great souls. | believe
the church should have it's library, it's
gymnasium and it's swimming pool.
With these and its brotherhood, we
can achieve all great things, because
we then follow, well equipped, our
great leader, the Christ"
God be Merciful," a trio sweetly
rendered by Mesdames E. c. Pierce, r.
G. Stevens and George Porter, i'm.
mediately preceded the splendid ad-
dress by DR.. Craig, now pastor of the
Broad Street Methodist Episcopal
church of Columbus, Ohio. F. L. Dag
gett and G. G. Keyhoe rendered THE
Two Sailors as the closing number
on the program.
The Ideal City.
Preliminary to his address, DR.
Craig expressed himself of being most
| pleased to again be among his former
congregation and felt assured that
many of the members of the First
church were equally glad. His address
which is complete as follows, was
given In the same strong manner that
characterized many Of his former ad.
dresses to the people of this city:
l am to address you this evening on
the ideal city. Probably some loyal
citizen of your own beautiful city an
ticipates my purpose with the supposi-
ton that am to detail to you the adj
vantages of your own prosperous
municipality. 1 am not. There is no
doubt but Ottumwa Is city, beautiful
for situation and worthy of high com.
mendatlon for the enterprise of its
citizenship, the public spirit Of it's
business men, the influence of its edu,
cational and religious institutions.
| am not to dilate on the attractions OF
the city where now hold my domicile
though every loyal Buckeye would
stand ready to praise his beautiful
capital city. shall go far back to find
the suggestion of my ideal city: Long
ago an old mystic was exiled, and
consigned to lonely rock in the
| Mediterranean The occasion of this
was not treason nor high moral Of
| Tense, but as he declares For the
word of God and the testimony OF
Jesus" There rapt in ecstacy he
saw in his purified vision the great
world powers which bulked so largely
/ about him crumbling away, for already
they were rotten with corruption. But
his glorious apocalypse does not con
clude in catastrophe, nor dissolve in
to 1.-The abomination Of desolation
! Over the scene of waste he sees {
new order arise and vision of splen
dor replace the destruction witnessed
Let us hear his words II saw the Holy
City, new Jerusalem, coming down ou
of heaven from God" l know the
common acceptation of that vision i:
that it relates to the world to come
and the state of the blessed beyond
"iiio iilO. LUZ IllSle Is p6Culdll
blending In these biblical apocalyptics
Time and place are not rigidly ad
hered to. The ideal itself is the al
absorbing drought. l am disposed t,
suggest that there is good reason fo
us to apply this ideal to this world
Does he not say ri saw the New
Jerusalem come DOWN." Perhaps thu
revelator was given "A vision Of the
world and the wonders that would be-
when the kingdom he so gloriousl,
phophesied had come in its fullness
He is a bold expositor who would BIZ
dogmatic about the precise applica
ton of the vision of this old mysti.
ST. John, and we think it best to re
ceive it as suggestive. | will there
fore presume to apply this vision tt
the coming city of this world and be
| lieye that l find in it many of thos,