The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-08-30
RELIGION
ANDHOME

"What Walla Walla Wants is Him
and you" These We're the closing
| words of Publicity Manager of the
| Commercial Club l.. Z. Meacham last
night in his address to several hundred
people from the band stand on the
court house lawn. the last union meet
ing of the summer.
Rev. Reid, in introducing Mr.. Mea-
cham stated it had been customary to
give over one evening service eacn
summer to civic subject and that
| Mr. Meacham could fill the bill just as
well as any public spirited man of the
city. The largest crowd to attend any
service this summer turned out last
night and not one of them left the
| meeting before Mr.. Meacham was
through spea King.
| Some who have met Mr.. Meacham
have said he would make a first class
newspaper editor. Those who heard
him last night had an opportunity to
see still another side of his nature.
and said he would pass favorably as a
minister OF the gospel.
In opening he said:
1.-The greatest things We know are
the things of the commonplace. There
| is no grandeur that is other than the
sum of simple elements There is moth
| ing worth while in all the affairs of
men that has not to do. as it's basis or
its purpose, with some ordinary thing.
And in the last analysis, the thing that
all the rest is for is the boy and his
little sister and their parents and the
place they call their home No matter
how complex his dealings, nor how
great his business be, nor what ex-
allied station he may serve. no man
lives to whom the common virtues and
affections and ideals of the family are
not an added grace.
Since time began no change has
been enacted in the facts of right end
wrong. When we men were boys and our
wives were girls and our school books
were our work, We were taught IN
| simple language things that still are
true. And, if then the tales of Daniel
and of David and of Ruth. inspired U.s.
| in our childish thought, to initiate the
( virtues they possessed, perhaps the
! self same ideals are we'll worth while
! today. II the laws of Moses. and the
| beatitudes of the Master and the pre-
! cepts of st. Paul have withstood, be-
| cause of their reasonableness, and their
simplicity and their grandeur, all of
! the corrosion and change of the ages,
/ and are yet pre-eminent among all
/ of the sayings and writings of men, it
! is surely not improper that countless
! multitudes in the seriousness of their
purpose. to be as they ought to be,
| should count it but high honor to
esteem the ancient book
And some things of that book are SO
great that they belong to no sect, nor
creed. nor kind of men, and, even In
this hour the shepard's psalm is being
sung in inspiration around the world,
and the universal prayer is being said.
I If. then. the things Of Righteousness
are sensible and good. no man owes
apology for, acknowledging assent.
II am expected, though, to speak to
You on another theme. and l will-but
| it is not so different after all My
work is the inducing of men to trans
/ plant or to establish homes and if it
I be in the realm of religion to discuss
4 the ideals of those homes. then surely
here is again that kinship that blends
all OF our works that are needed with
all of Gods laws of the right. What
! Walla Walla Wants is You has trav-
I eled around the globe and men have
| asked, from every zone. what Walla
! Nalla has. They have been told that
here, right here. in our valley, nature
/ has been more lavish, and in many
ways more kindly. than in any of our