Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-02-25
RELIGION MANS
 SUPREME NEED" Magnetic Lecture of Bishop Keane Attracts Large
 Crowd to Theater
A MAN AND HIS GOD
"Man Cannot be Reformed by Force" Said the Speakpr-His
 Subject Tonight.

the Elks Theater before a large audi ence of the cultured people of the city on Religion is Mans Supreme Need.'' It might be said that these lectures of Bishop Keane begin a new era ill the drama of popular enter the only wonder now seems to be why such work was not undertaken long ago and why other churches than the Catholic church and other societies than the Knights of Colum- bus had not thought of the matter long ago.
 The main difficulty among intelli gent people at the present time is not so much whether this church is right and that church is wrong, but whether the fundamental principals on which the whole Christian fabric has been built, are sound and correct, according to the best standard of popular judgment. And there is nothing so much needed at the pres ent time as instructive lectures by competent speakers on the Exist ence of Cod The Necessity of Re ligion', The Divinity of Christ and of the Bible This is why the lee lures of Bishop Keane are so accept able to the people of Pine Bluff. They wish all the information that they can get on such subjects.
 The first lecture, Wednesday night. was to prove the existence of Goi and to show the reasonableness of such belief. Last night. before opening the lecture on Religion as the Supreme Need of Man, Bishop Keane answered a few difficulties that had been evoked in the minds of some of his auditors by his first lee ture. These difficulties referred to the claims of evolution as a theory to render the existence of personal i God unnecessary The response of ,! Bishop Keane was apparently satis factory to the individuals.
 The speaker, after an interlude of music, began the lecture on his reg , ular subject and for more than an 1 hour held the attention of the entire natural relation of God to man, as Creator, Sovereign Lord and Father, was excellent and left but one con- clusion in the minds of his hearers that religion or mans relation to God is the supreme need of man. kind.
 The theater, under the excellent management of c. B. Philpot, was , in fine shape, we'll heated and light ed. The music, under the direction of Miss Stella Matz, was a pleasing feature of the evenings entertain ment Frank Franey, the Grand , Knight and chief officer of the local Knights of Columbus, made a neat speech in introducing Bishop Keane. , The subject of the lecture tonight is | tlS O1VlAlIS ol SiiiAoe' 10 "NN"" Christ God.'
 Bishop Keane is a most interest ing speaker and man of unusual fierce. Among other things he said: Mans intelligence forces him to ask the question, What am I? Whence do I con,co Whither am I going? l nd tions cf ~''-d and heart cannot be satisfied here below. His mind ab- hors darkness and obscurity, hates the lin'A- of the mysterious and hid den; he cc2els his moral responsibility and t..e difficulties of the road Of duty and seeks light to guide and strength to support his faltering foot steps on the path of righteousness. i Religion alone can answer his ques- tions, not with a mere perhaps, but in unfaltering accents. Philosophers, the greatest. have tried to map out his course, but have proved made ouate guides. In this struggle we cannot overlook the tact or orlSlhdl sin. Sin exists in the world. In mankind univers ally. We are not in equilibrium, but weighed down in the scale iron of sin. To fulfill duty Is an uphill journey, all the way, and only the hero can be saint and a man of duty. Let any of this audi ence trv and live 24 hours without forming an unkind thought, and to- morrow night, if he makes an honest confession, he will have to say: I
 have sinned Mans mind seeks light and his heart needs to love. In Heaven along he finds light. On earth his heart finds only deception