The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-17

necessary. Baseball is all right, eX-
cept playing it on Sunday. This had
unjustly set many Christian people
against it, he said.
Rev. Everett Lesher, pastor of
Olivet Congregational church, st.
Paul, gave an interesting talk, pub
lished in yesterdays Free Press.
Meeting at Presbyterian Church.
The Presbyterian church was filled
to its capacity, lecture room and
ALL last evening. The mems meet
ing was held there, and the auditO-
rum was filled with men, but in
the gallery and lecture room the
ladies about equaled the men in
number. 1t was a fine gathering
of representative people, all having
one purpose, and that was to learn
how to more effectively get the youth
OF the state into the Sunday schools.
President J. IL. Martin presided,
and Rev. II. r. Paden of Mankato
gave the opening prayer. e. 0.
Sellers led in lively praise SER
vice. He expressed his appreciation
of the chorus and of Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Iverson. He said that he had
never had better balanced choir, al
though in larger places he had had
larger ones. He never had one where
the four parts balanced better. Cap
plause.)
Mr.. Pearce stood UP and said that
they never had a leader who was
better balanced. (Greater applause.)
The chorus, under the leadership
of Mr.. lverson, sang very nicely
and was well applauded. Mrs. Iver-
son was at the piano.
When the business session began,
Rev. EhrStein of Redwood Falls pre-
scented the report of the committee
on resolutions. References to the
various officers commended were met
with applause. The resolutions were
amended by including the boys
between thirteen and twenty years
and boy pages. As amended, the
report was adopted.
The auditing committee. through
it's secretary, W. j. Marquis, report
ed that it had checked the books
and accounts of A. C. Herman, the
state treasurer, and had found them
correct. 1t complimented Mr.. Her
man on the businesslike methods Of
i
report was adopted.
DR.. IL. G.. Beise presented the re-
port of the nominating committee, as
published yesterday, and it was
adopted. Mr.. Pearce presided during
the vote and introduced the presi-
dent, who expressed his thanks, and
promised to do his best TO be a real
president and to lead the associa-
ton onto new cndeavors and to Il
higher efficiency in doing the Lords
work.
Address BY Mr.. Moninger.
A collection was taken up and q
considerable amount was raised.
Herbert II. Moninger gave an ad-
dress on Our Bushel.' He said that
the difficulties of Sunday school work
should be trampled upon. He urged
that peoples lamps not be put I'M
der a bushel. He mentioned several
bushels that are being pushed down
over peoples lives. 1t is hard to
find q man who does not believe in
Jesus Christ, and probably there are
none in Mankato who will acknowl-
edge It, he said: You men are
having all the joys you have because
OF Christ having liyed-because of
| Christianity having gone ahead and
cleared the way" Because Christ
has not gone down into Egypt, the
people, believing the flies sacred, al
low them to eat out the eyes of
their children, and the sale of glass
eyes is very large.
The speaker spoke of the bushels
OF unconfessed faith. and of unmaill-
tanned faith, and of temper. The
speaker asked all who had ever gotten
mad to raise their hands, and about
all of the hands came up There
is the bushel of sin recognized that
we will not give up. "If you men
and women have any sin that you
recognize and will not give up, your
light cannot shine brightly through
il" said the speaker. Then there is
the bushel of inconsistency, that
needs to be lifted off of the lives of
some women and of some men The
last was the bushel of unused ability.
A great thing can be done by using
your ability for God and for good.
THE sentiment, L will be young
! but once and ! will have a good
! time has caused the ruin of many
young women, and young men, too
If you want a good husband, you
will never get one out of ball
room. (Applause.) If you want a
good wife, get one from some Bible
class. (Applause.) The great passion
of life of those living in the King
dom is the desire for service. Lift
your bushel that your light may
shine, so that your service may glor
ify your Father in Heaven" This
was one of the best conventions that
he ever attended, concluded the
speaker.
Pledges in kilograms.
kilograms from Duluth, Pasadena
| Cal, and Chicago were read The
first pledged $500 for st. Louis coun
| ty and one-third the salary of a
worker for Hennepin. Ramsey and
st. Louis counties The second and
third hoped this would be the best
convention ever held in the state
The Chicago telegram also hoped
that there would be 500 from Min
nesota at the national convention a,
San Francisco.
Secretary Locker presented tie
silk banners to the county, the schoo
and the class in Sunday SchOo
that had the largest attendance oil
delegates in the convention, multi