The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-26
RALLY DAY At
REF6RMEDc REF6i I1| Church III
Large Glass of Graduates
From Junior Department.
FIRST SERMON OF SERIES
Preached by Rev. G.. M.
Rourke.
Rev. Rourke Gave The First OF -Four
p..........o or
Rev. ROurke Gave The First of -Four
Sermons Of Promising Interest.
Church News.

| his text, ASK For the Old Paths.
| Where Is the Good Way and Walk
| Therein" He said:
"In venturing upon this series of
| Sunday evening discoures, / am very
| desirous that you begin with me at
| the outset with a prayer that our
| minds may be stimulated. that a de-
sire for further search may be Great
| ed and that God may be honored in
some new phase by all. Just as God
was i'm Christ reconciing the world.
| and Christ was in Paul a living fac
| tor and Paul was guiding star
| for Timothy, and Timothy a beacon
light for the generation, so must we
realize that the progress and ad-
vancement and privilege and comfort
| showed by us are but the Develop
| ment of sturdy toll and telling sac
| rfice of those who long ago Travelled
| unknown paths and blazed out a by
way for younger feet to walk there
| in.
"Tn visiting historical places, few
OF us realize the fatigue. privation,
exposure and blood expended by
brave heroes I'm years and centuries
gone by. Going down the pictures
que St Lawrence, the voyager is
conscious of wealth of history.
And / for one never weary or read
ing or hearing about those heroic
souls In the. dawn of American civ
llizatlon who braved the unwelcom-
ed darkness of lonely nights and sat
in the presence of the dim tallow dip
and read of the Great Explorer of
the City OF God.
History tells ny that on a fair
October morning I'm 1886 Cartier and
his small band of voyagers hovered
about Hocheloga and founded what
Is now Montreal, but the real begin
ming of Montreal was marked by the
landing of Champlain in 1911. He
was the first governor of Canada and
laid the corner stone of Quebec in
1908. In 1866 came Robert La Sale
the brave and wise cadet. His BIZ
ography is intensely interesting.
This Frenchman discovered the Ohio
and Illinois rivers; in northern IL
linOis there is a town that bears his
name as also Il range of mountains
among the Rockies. He founded Fort
Frontenac which IL now Kingston.
ont" where queens College is locat-
ed. From that early day there has
grown a city which geography calls
Montreal with population of the
city Of Cleveland. Here is the great
st. James Cathedral built after the
model of ST. Peters In Rome. Here
is the great Notre Dame Church
which towers 227 feet high. and
among its bells, one that weighs
twelve tons. being the second largest
in America. Here Is the McGill uni
vcrsity, with its beautiful buildings
and campus, Here ism st. James NJ
T.. church the largest Methodist
church in Canada.
one hundred and eighty miles
down the river is Quebec, the oldest
city in Canada founded by Cham
plain. Here on the plains of Abra-
ham Wolfe and Montcolm contested
and both fell, the former with the
name of God lingering on his lips.
a thousand times have I wished It
might have been my privilege to have
sailed down that lordly river Sc.
Lawrence in far remote days with
the trappcr as he stopped here and
there and left monument benaming
a bay or hamlet which twentieth
century tourists visited and long
for the rugged experience of pion-
eering days.
But beyond the Gulf of st. Law
renee where the mad swell of the
Atlantic sweeps with fury across its
broken course, and far beyond the
land of Evangeline, there is the lone
ly and rugged coast of Newfound-
land whose combined population to-
gether with Labador Is less than
one-half the population OF Cleveland |
This island was discovered by John |
Cabot five years after Columbus dis |
covered America and remained no |
mans land for nearly one hundred |
years until annexed by Gilbert for |
Queen Elizabeth in 1854. Nefound- |
and with its 600 miles of railway,
with its great timber land untouched |
by the aXmen, with its whale and |
seal and cod fisheries, with its beauti- |
'ul harbor at St. Johns, the capitol |
S a portion of the world where 1t |
S not difficult to dream OF pro-
sress and advancement.
"And as ] stood and looked across
hat smooth bay with its anchored
ieet of fishing boats and saw the
sunlight fall behind the rocky cliffs
It st. Johns, and thought of the
winter storms that would sweep
through that rocky gateway, where
cebergs would anchor like giant
entinels. | thought of a harbor to-
ward which you and l are voyaging,
discovered by Christ. and please God
omeday when the surely sea of life
las lost its force, and the sun has
mitten hilltops for the last time, we
hall anchor in the harbor of rest
md loved ones shall escort us
through the streets of the New Jer-
lslem while angles voices sing the
.lad words of happy welcome"
The first Reform church observed
Rally day yesterday morning. An
ttendance at the first service which
pens at nine o'clock showed an en-
clement fifteen percent higher than
ny previous record. At the close of
he school session, ALI joined In the /
service in the auditorium. |
'ollowlng the exercises and cate