Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-08-09
'TWODAYSOF RARE
entertainment
SATURDAY AND SUNDAY CHAU.
TAUQUA PROGRAMS WERE OF
HIGH CHARACTER
WELL KNOWN TALENT
Bishop Mcdowell and Father p. J. Nc
Cory Were Features Yester-.
day With Sunshine" Wllets
and /. F. Lybarger Choice
Of Saturday

OF Saturday
There can be no doubt as to the
popularity Of the chautauqua If one is
to Judge by the number attending day
and night and if one marks the atten-
ton paid the performers by those
| present. There is some complaint
however, being made relative to the
seating facilities and some assert that
the manner Of regulating the reserva,
ton of seats is not what it should be.
They say that the reserved seats vary
in number from day to day and that
4 the persons who fail to reserve their
/ seats may find an undesirable place.
Some also complain on the better
4 lectures being given in the afternoon
when many men are prevented from
attending, while they could hear those
lectures if given at night. The is no
complaint, however on the quality OF
the talent thus far appearing on the
chautauqua program and the attend
ance maintains around the 1000 mark
J at each session, and goes beyond that
\ at night. A splendid array of talent
! was seen and heard during the past
/ two days The cream of cleverness in
i oratory and vocal music were features.
The church and the bar contributed
the oratory in the persons of Bishop
i w. F.. Mcdowell of the Methodist
Episcopal church and Rev. Father P.
| J. MacCorry, Paulist missionary OF
/ New York, as representatives of the
church, and L. F. Lybarger of the law
The former told the causes that lead
up to the writing of the Bible and ac-
counted for it's inspiration. Father
MacCorry told the STORY Beautiful
review of the incidents in the life OF
Christ, aided by stereopticon views
| and Mr.. Lybarger told of the trusts.
Prof. James L. Lardner this morning
| lectured on Wordsworth and the Life
of the Spirit, following the children's
| hour.
| Is church-Iike.
| The chautauqua assumed. the ap-
| pearance of church yesterday from the
class of program afforded the persons
who attended the two sessions. In
the afternoon sacred song served as a
! prelude to the scholarly lecture OF
Bishop w. F. Mcdowell of Chicago.
| bishop Of the Methodist Episcopal
church. His theme was Life and the
| Bible.'' His treatment of the theme
showed throughout the scholar and
| student, the lover Of books and
literature whose appreciation OF poetry
goes far beneath the ken of most peo-
| pie. The singing of Ruthven Mcdonald
and the perfect accompaniment of his
wife, was one of the rare treats in
vocalism that any music lover would
go far to hear Mr. Mcdonald has a
| wealth of sweet tones in his voice of
great range, and his ability to make
one feel the real essence of the songs
| he sings, make him SO popular on the
| chautauqua platform. "a Sailors
| Crave by Sullivan was his first num-
| Der and was full of deep rich tones
| that met a hearty approval in the hun
dreds who heard him sing. The other
numbers were all sacred selections
| and rendered in that excellent bari
tone of which the popular Canadian is
a master. The numbers sung and
their manner of singing. was most
| fitting prelude to what followed.
Cause Of Literature.
| In assuming his place on the plat
form, Bishop Mcdowell said his sub
ject reminded him of the little chap
at school, who, when assigned to
| write an essay, took for his subject
1.-The World and What it Contains;
qualifying the title on the grounds that
he might run out of things to say with
less broad subject. He drew word
| picture of three inquiring forces COM
| ing into his presence, namely a
foreigner from India, the spirit OF the
age and q small boy. All of these
said he, may ask me the question, how
| came there to be a Bible? The ques-
| ton he said was a fair one and he pro-
ceeded to answer it by look into the
! literature Of different countries lnclud-
| ing our cwn and the cause or insplra-
ton Of the literature
From Life of People.
I He quoted from the poem of the
.Brave Five Hundred" at Balaklava,
after treatment Of the literature OF
England in which he brought out such
| characters as Gladstone and Cromwell.
He also delved into American litera-
| ture. He cited the act of Sheridan at
| Winchester and the poem OF Reed, in
spired by the great deed of general
ism History, character and the life
of nations were pointed out as cause
and reason for the literature of the
nations and he said that the nation
without heroism in it's life, will have
none in it's poetry. He drew pretty
picture of the coincidence of the birth
of Gladstone and Lincoln in the same
year. 1909, and dealt with the noble
character of the martyred president
and the effect of such a man in the
history and literature of land.
Finally he brought up to the subject
of his discourse. the Bible, and told OF
how it was inspired and that 1t came
from the life Of Gods people as a
literature The story of the Exodus
with the destruction Of the following
Egyptian army in the Red sea. He
dwelt on the life Of Christ, on the song
of Moses and the twenty-third psalm,
saying of the latter that it was poem
of life and that it came from life with
power and would go back to life with
vitality. The letter of Paul to the Gal
atians was cited and gone into by the
lecturer in illustrating his thought and
he said that it would violate all the