Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-07
MUSIC AND GREAT
TALKS HEARD
WEDNESDAY WAS A BIG DAY
AT THE chAuTAuouA; BRIL-.
LIANT Address MADE.
II U N G A K IA N S PLAY
Judge Alden Gives an intellectual
Treat In 1.-THE Need of the
Hour'%-Muslclans Make
Hit.
From Thursdays Daily.

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From Thursdays Daily.
| With inspiring music by .he Royal
Hungarian orchestra, and rich intel
lectual treat from Judge Alden. the
great audience at the Chauatauqua
! Wednesday afternoon was fairly car
ried away by the delightful music and
the eloquence o fthe speaker. The Hun
garian orchestra opened the program
and played selections that gave great
delight and pleasure to the music low
Ing audience. The speaker Of the aft
ernoon was Judge George d. Alden OF
Boston. The Judge gave one of the
greatest lectures ever heard on q
Chautauqua platform, bringing oss
truths and forcing them home with
logical ideas that everyone could un-
derstand. He spoke with the utmost
freedom and gave the audience q liv-
ing epistle of the Needs of the
Hour" Judge Alden has happy way
depressing himself, and although
speaking on decidedly serious sub
ject, he put plenty of humor into his
| lecture, and there was not dull mo-
ment in it. So forcibly did the judge
express himself that at the conclusion
of his address he was surrounded by q
crowd of delighted hearers and show.
cred with congratulations. One OF
| tumwa preacher and orator said:
Judge, that's the greatest talk for
Jesus Christ that l have ever heard
from Chautauaua platform
The Spirit of the Ages.
'In order TO have a friend you nee
4 o,r orslxr No n, WI
Judge. Each age has its characters
tic spirit. I can turn over the pages
of history and give you the spirit Of
every age in every great epoch. There
have been four periods of the ages II
our own country: the pilgrim age, the
spirit of which moved in conviction
and conscience; the age of the patriot
and in that age moved the spirit Of
liberty and loyalty; the heroic age
when the spirit of humanity and hon
or prevailed, and the age Of today
an age of gold, the spirit of which is
graft and gold" Without word o.
praise for colossal grafters, he sale
that they were but types of the spirit
of the age. Men in common walks O.
life, in the lesser places of trade ant
influence, were imbued with the spiri
. to get.
Graft Is Everywhere.
Down in New England" he contin
ued explaining smilingly that hi
was not talking of Iowa, 1.-The farmer
seems to think it right to gain at the
cost of his conscience, and the groceI
and every other class of business mel
practice upon the public for graft. II
the one sence l defend the big graft
er. for he expresses in large wa.
the spirit CT constituencies trading
which prevails in every circle. Their
is lack of sacrifice and doing. TIL,
soap box critic will tell you all abou
tainted money and plundering poll
tics and greeding and grating, blu
will never do one solitary thing 0
sacrifice one moment to make cond
tons better. In the early days tn
spirit of the country was conscience
now it is graft. Then the question
about man was, What is he? nov
it is What has her Then it was 'Wha
is his character rating?' Now it is
What is his commercial rating?' The
it was. What has he done?' Now it is
How many has he done?'"
Reform is Necessary.
Judge Alden spoke at length on tn
marriage question, saying that it j
) not so much the divorce evils as it
, the unwise marriage evils. 1--WE sha
: never settle divorce until we settl
:, the marriage question, and the ma
riage question will never be settle
until mothers, fathers and childre
: place confidence in each other an
: : learn the truth" Judge Alden paid a
!. eloquent tribute to the responsibility
!, of the father and mother in the HON
and their duties, and urged upon the1
. the way of right living. "You can me-
!, er reform the nation" said he, 'unt
! you reform yourselves, and you ca
never reform the cities until you r,
! form your towns.
!, 1.-THE ills of this country" he col
tinued, "are due to decline of reli,
! ious relationship. The man who ha
! no respect for God has no respect fc
I himself, and the man who loses sci
: respect has no conscience STANDARD
The central fact of civilization
Christianity, and the center of Chri
tianity is Christ. The need of the hot
J is not more gold, but more God. NJ
so much get, but more give; not cas-
$ but endeavor; not self, but service"
! Pointed Paragraphs.
! Judge Alden's discourse was file
t with short paragraphs that carrie
much meaning. Some of these follow:
!. A friend is man who knows a
!. about you and is still your friend.
J. 1t is dangerous to be too popular.
;. There are certain relationships