The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1910-09-12
SUNDAY SERMON
BY JASPER BLINES
Annual Holiness Camp Meeting is Be.
ing Held Now Up at Farm
ington.
To the Editor Of The Gate City:

Real Bible spirituality has strug-
gle for its existence in these days Of
Journalism and worldliness. The SER
vices here have many elements to op-
pose the progress of Christ's revealed
religion. The popular spirit Of amuse-
ment worketh great evil. Over in our
own county of Clark. ten years were
required for a settling down to nor
NAL and pacific conditions following
the unlawful execution of VIM. j.
Young. Here at this annual Holiness
camp meeting are the Influences of the
worldly chautauqua. One who has
IN mind the teachings of history, truly
wonderful at the prevalent fashion
OF cheap politicians and others who
parade themselves before the public
at certain price per hour. Think
Of James Madison, Washington, John
Adams and Abraham Lincoln peddling
themselves as cheap junk before the
citizens of. their beloved republic
Wouldn't that be a sight to place be-
fore the king himself? For weeks the
awful forces of atmospheric electricity
have been active in an effort to purify
conditions after the visitation here of
the noise makers at two hundred dol.
lars per hour. / am informed by good
people here that the influence of the
chautauqua even extended to the
churches, and that most of them dis
missed their regular service in ODE
dience to the occasion. One of the
city papers marched so-called mora
leaders out ON parade and invited the
/ public to behold the fine display Of
! compromisers. How this common
wealth needs few thousand editors
who have the moral force to declare
the whole truth and expose hypocris,
wherever it exists. Greek fire Il
wholesome civilizer in all ages. o.
Wednesday evening the old veteran o
the Civil War, Sam Devault, cam,
over from Kahoka TO attend the meet
ing. He has been In regular attend
ance at these meetings. for
quarter Of a century He served faith
fully during the war as member 0
the old 21st Missouri, that heroic ban,
} who marched forth so early on tn
morning of the first day at Shiloh an
gave battle to the attacking forces Q
Sidney johnson and his rebel hosts
Jno. Morris is here from Kahoka H
too, is a veteran of the Civil Wal
The meeting continues in power
Evangelist D. A. Hill is explaining an
! applying the deep teachings of tn
Bible The attendance is ample 70
a good meeting, as the camp member
; themselves compose quite populs
! ton The Nazarene pastor comes on
, and aids In the work, and is grea
, help. This organization is the Gel
r tering OF the Holiness people into
e permanent body for their own spiritu;
q welfare. AS most church organic;
/ lions no longer urge or preach tn
\ real spiritual teachings of their ow
sects, the more spiritual member
naturally united and went onward.
is a repeating of history along tn
! line of reformers Readers of histor
: have in view the account of job
: Wesley and the Church of England
? and the great uprising under Marti
. Luther.
a The Des Moines river at this plat
> is a small affair. Clam diggers hay
! large field for their labors. TT
river is limited in its movements, an
at high tide the rushing waters al
forced from an embankment acro'
the opposite side. A flood plain is
| great relief to a stream of large VIC
ume when the capacity of the cham
d is over reached. The student OF rive
principles, will notice here the te
dency of a river to force itself again
r it's western bank. Prof Ferret stu
1, led this and established the fact
l. 1858. He said this tendency OF
). river is the result OF the earth's r
r, tation. This principle is called Fe
O. rel's Dam
l. official meeting Of the society WI
b held on Friday Afternoon. The mel
hership shows strength of quality al
IS numbers. The meeting may be ne
e in Keokuk next year.
d JASPER BLTNE
D. Pennington, Iowa.