Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-07-20
SUNDAY SCHOOL
AND The CHILD
Men at Head of Annual County
Demonstration Discuss
Benefits at Banquet.
MOL DING MORAL STRENGTH
Held Every Community Has Two
Classes, One Standing for Good
and Other for Evil.

The Rock Island county Sunday
school day committee met at the Watch
Tower last night and enjoyed a stump
tuous banquet. II. E. Van Duzer pre-
sided as POSTMASTER. The following
gentlemen were present: John Haul
berg, Harry Ainsworth, Wilson P.
Hunt, o. E. Childs, E Osborn, Clar-
ence Trevor, Rev. C. Arthur Lincoln,
Moline; Rev. Marion Humphreys, Rev.
Frank E. Shut, DR.. ]. w. Stewart, E.
B. McKown, William NJ. ReCk, Rock
Island. The toasts were limited to five
minutes, and every one present used
up his allotted time.
Other TOasts Responded To
The following persons responded to
their respective toasts:
John Hauberg, Moline-'Is the Rock
Island County Sunday School Day a
Success?"
Clarence Trevor-'My Opinion of
Rock Island County Sunday School
Day
E. B. McKown-''What Dangers Con-
front Us in Our Annual Rock Island
County Sunday School Day"
land County Sunday School Day Pay?"
Rev. Marion Humphreys-"W Rock
Island County Sunday School Day
Should Be Held Annually"
Harry ACKNOWLEDGMENT Are Some
of the Objections to Rock Island Coun-
ty Sunday School Day."
z. Osborn-"Does Rock Island Coun-
ty Sunday School Day Affect the Sun
day School Work Over the County,"
o. E. Childs-"In Union is Strength,
as Applied to Rock Island County Sun
day School Day"
Rev. c. Arthur Lincoln-"Does the
End Justify the Effort?"
DR. J. w. Stewart-"What Can We
Do to Improve Rock Island County Sun
day School Day?"
Wilson P. Hunt-"What Can We Sub
stitute for the March Next Year,"
William NJ Reck-''Why Should the
County Sunday School Day Parade Be
Maintained?"
Life is strenuous, because of the
obligation laid upon each right think
ing and right minded person to do his
CIR her part in maintaining righteous
ness and decency in the community"
the postmaster said. THE perpetuity
of our republican form of government
and cherished free institutions that are
thereby vouchsafed us, depend abso-
lutely upon personal and public morals,
and in order that these may be en-
couraged and fostered, requires a con-
slant fight, and as we love our COM
munity, our state and our country, it
is imperative that we take time, also,
for these great purposes. Some one
has said that life is what we make it,
but in every community there are two
classes who are trying to make it: the
one class is trying TO make it good, the
other class is trying to make it bad.
One class is striving to raise society
up to a higher plane of living, where
social intercourse is characterized by
that which is clean and pure and love
ly; where the intellectual the moral
and the spiritual are incorporated and
emphasized; in other words, where
righteousness may prevail.
Christianity Strongest Weapon.
"The other class are striving to pull
society down to the level of the brute
creation; where the individual is given
up to the Indulgence of all his selfish
and animal desires; where the intel
lectual and moral are debased in the
indulgences in the worst form of vice.
Now if these terrible conditions Incl
dent to this latter class are to be elm
mated from our community, we must
take time to uphold the good, for the
more good we inject into society the
more evil we crowd out. Now it seems
to me that the strongest weapon with
which to combat the evil is Christiani- !
ty, exerted through the medium of the |
Sunday school. AS one has said, AS |
the twig is bent, so the tree is in
clined' The good book says, Train up
a child in the way he should go, and |
when he is old he will not depart from |
it And science has demonstrated the |
fact that the laws governing the deYel- !