The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-10-16
NEW MINISTERS
IN THE PULPIIS
Rev. Havighurst breaches
Scholarly Sermon at
Epworth.
REV. GUENTHER At GERMAN ME-,
Rev. Keppel breaches in
German and English
Yesterday.
Catholic Forty Hours Devotion Ser
vice Comes TO an End--Regarded
as Very Successful--New Ministers
Create Excellent Impression.

worth NJ. e. church to which he was
recently appointed. The new pastor
comes from Bellefontaine over which
district he has been superintendent
for the past five years.
DR.. Havighurst defined mis- position
I'm the local option question in the
opening remarks that preluded his SER
mon. He voiced his regrets that such
fight should take place in the city,
! but stated that he wished to take
hand in it himself II only regret,
| he stated, that this issue does not
| come three months later"
"And let the beauty of the Lord our
God be upon US was the theme from
which the speaker drew his inspiration
for the discourse. DR.. Havighurst Is
| fluent talker and he speaks his
words of truht and beauty from the
heart and i'm a manner that convinces
lie said in parts;
| There is a tendency among us to
depreclate and undervalue the ele-
ments Of beauty in real life, and we
associate beauty with thoughts of
weakness. delicacy and fragility. This
association comes from a mlsconcep-
| ton of nature. for beauty may be as
ISOLATED with the most rugged
strength"
Beauty Is Structural.
Beauty is structural. IL Is organic,
and an outward expression of inward
reflection. 1t shows a plentitude of
development. maturity and ripeness.
Beauty is controlled by laws, there
are laws of music and architecture and
&c attain Ii we must first learn its
laws. In the first place we must learn
the laws that contro1 the living and
development of beautiful life. How
may this be done?, First learn the
laws that control this and then live
IN obedience to them"
Look about this world. for we
must first get acquainted with the
materials This world of ours is
workshop out of which we must fash
| ion the fine art of our lives. Let us
explore this world OF beauty. There
are the mighty cathecrals of nature
with walls Of massive rock and spir-
ais of rugged granite, raped about
with the guazy mantle Of the clouds
| and over all the slumbrous beauty OF
the blue sky. In the east we see the
enra pturing sunrise and In the west
the glorious sunset Brooklets tinkle
through the green fields and over the
rocks dashes the silvery cataract.
Surely the great God did not build
this great earth without knowing
about II.
What DO We Get from Environment?
"If a man does the best he can with
his limitations, he is not responsible,
but II man be surrounded with all
OF this great beauty with culture and
art, and the things that make for
development, and then fail, he will
surely be held responsible by God. He
wants us to know the world and
measure It, 1t is not the environment
that influences our lives, but the light
we take in from our environment, and
we will be measured by what We take
in. There are the beautiful things in
this world, the trees, the flowers, and
the song notes of the birds, and 1t Is
these things that we must learn to
take unto ourselves and to reject the
more sorbid. disagreeable offerings.
First we must learn TO know our
selves and our own natures, and know
what vital forces are that administer
to our type of nature. What inspires
q. nourishes II, moulds and rounds 1t
i'm the perfection and the being God
intended II to be- We must learn the
law of vital selection. Every thing
I'm life knows this law except man.
Everything knows just what to select
to make life grow and bud, blossom |
and bloom in perfect fragrance and |
beauty except man.
Truth First Element of Life.
What are some of the things that |
we must choose? First, truth. No
icing can grow in the fullness OF life |
without truth. Some think that love !
is the greatest thing IN the world, but |
the book does not say So The great !
est thing in the universe. in God or
in man Is truth. IL is the founda- |
ton stone for everything. Great dis |
asters examples of untruthfulness, Ly- |
ing links have been put in the chain
that has proken md precipitated doz- |
ems to their destruction. Lying bricks |
have been put into the building that |
has fallen, taking with II many lives. |
Truth is the secret of all artisanship, |
so truly should 1t be the fundamental |
art of life. There must be truthful |
thinking as well as speaking. There |
is no place i'm a good life for pretense,
and the biggest liar in the world is |
the man who does not speak, but is |
lie.
There is the intellectual pretense, |
the man who assumes to know much |
more than he does There Is the NOR |
al pretense. and he plays the game so |
skillfully, that he may deceive a |
whole town as to his true character.
1t is immoral to wear a false label of
any kind. and man who pretends to
be that which he is not, is a lie. The
goods must correspond with the label
on the box. You and I are labeled
christians, and we should see that
nothing comes into our lives that is
not christian.
Second Is Purity.
The second element of Importance
Is purity. The artist Of life is reveal
cd In what you reject. You must re-
ject the sembance OF evil. Sin is