The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-08-11

of the many things that have been
unable to achieve, and you will do
our honored guest much justice to
realize a small portion of the efforts
through which all men of this great
calling must go, who endeavOr to
make burdens lighter and lives
brighter. There are truly innumera-
BILE privileges for service in every
field of honorable labor, but among
them the ministry ought never to be
forgotten as offering just that high
is the most easily destroyed by only
little and evil men and women, as
well as the most easily upheld by
only great and good men and women.
You will also do even me justice
if you will know my embarrassment
in representing you by my limited
capacities, and in presenting a field
of work which | feel has been weak
ened by my liabilities, to a man
far better trained and ADLER than
myself to see it's many shortcomings.
But from another point of view /
have really no reasons to feel at all
uneasy because of any criticism
which may or may not nave Deen
maliciously extended 1t affords me
unusual pleasure to know that the
work will proceed with greater and
more solid strides in the hands OF a
man vastly more capable, an ordain-
ed minister of the gospel, known sor
his thOroughness and success. BY
his own personal worth and by God s
unfathomable grace, neither you nor
/ have now any right to nurture the
slightest suspicion, that you shall not
be led to still more honorable place
among the many good congregations
of our great conference of which we
Justly feel proud And ] am happy
to think that ! have done my little
to help you in obtaining the services
|of man for whom l know you will
do your share to help and encourage
Here for a Purpose.
"For over a year you have waited
to see this evening arrive, and l
know hardly more to tell you than
that it is here. But because | have
Ibeen intrusted with the honor to rep
resent you here, ] might ask your
permission to say that we are here
necessary to say that we are here,
but it is necessary to say that we
are here with all the meaning that
such reception ought to have, ana
that we are here because you have
wished it to be so. And there IS no
doubt about it that you are now as
sembled, and that your desires mus
far with regard to it have been fui-
filed. This very fact, this invited
gathering, these friendly chances, and
then this magnificent home that you
have builded and in which you SAD
hath after Sabbath can sit together
in peace and love, ought to be falr
enough evidence to show that your
efforts in the past have not been IN
vain. and that the work OF the future
shall not be less comprehensive IMAM
lit was in the days OF the falthlui
pioneers.
But we are, furthermore, here Tor
reasons which it is safe to say many
of Won know more and many know
less For those OF you VINO are
humble and great enough to know
more today, and still more tomorro"
until the end of all your yesterdays
this reception is easily known 70
have come to it's realization for the
very simple reason that real men
and true religion go hand in hand !;
that men need God, need Christ, need
the truth, simple, clean, awful, thor
ough and eternal.
Trials and Discouragements.
"Amid the trials and discourage
ments which we as all others nat
urallv must have, and amid the Joy
and well wishes natural to sucn an
occasion as this, it is fitting that we
should form more than one resolution
Icompatible with the best there Is III
rs We feel that this is nothing more
nor less than our honOred guest mas
Ia right to solicit and the right to
expect. that we are here not merely
to do honor for the space OF DAY,
but to resolve that each one shaii
in his turn and in his place work
in unison and harmony with the
voice and leadership you have now
achieved. And we might particularly
add with a great deal of emphasis,
that cooperation and service ought
ALWAYS to be the keynote OF our Ell
forts. especially on the high plane
of work called Christianity. May you
all cleave to the truth, and ever
surround your beloved pastor with
the right spirit of helpfulness, know.
ing that his uccess is your own, ana
that progress will depend solely upon
the support that every Christian ana
good citizen is willing to give
"Honored guests, if there is any
thing which makes me feel happy
this evening it is this, that you are
here. and because the work is now
to be placed in your hands. In pc
half of the small but charltaDle
gathering of Judson, in behalf OF the
lovely congregation in Belgrade, a
few miles off from this sociable ana
progressive city, and in behalf OF the
large congregation in which we nave
the honor to be assembled, | have
the great pleasure and privilege OF
presenting to you Rev. o. j. Arthur,
and to your noble wife, Mrs. Rev. ..
J. Arthur, this beneficient token OF
regard and love, and trust and pray
that your efforts here might be SIN
gularly blessed by God, as they nave
been in the past"
From Saturdays Daily.
St Paul, August 5.-Charglng that
Mrs. Emma B. Manchester, supreme
Guardian of the WoOdmen Circle, an