The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-21
CLOSING DAY 4
BIG SUCCESS
Seventh Season In Burst Of
Glory With Yester.
days Program.
WILL BE CONTINUED
OFT, Rev. pr. Rogers, and Kellogg
Haines Singing Party Were the
Attractions Yes
terday.

terday.
HAMILTON, ILL.,, Aug. 21.-The clos
ing day Of the Hamilton chautauqua
was record breaker in every respect.
Probably two thousand persons crowd
ed the tent in the afternoon and eve
ming to listen to the programs. The
mornings church service was also
we'll attended. In the afternoon peo-
ple began to arrive early and by the
time the program was started the
crowd had oyerfiowed out of the big
tent and was lining UP along the sides.
And what greater tribute to their
eloouence could Edward Amherst OFT
and Euclid B. Rogers wish for, than
to see all that great crowd, and par
ticularly those who were forced to
stand listening in wrapt attention to
their messages.
During the day, the matter of rails
ing money to cover the necessary ex-
penses was brought up and one hum
bred names we're added to the list OF
guarantors This means that Hamil-
ton will have another chautauqua next
year If all goes we'll The directors
Of the chautauqua made this signifi-
cant statement to The Gate City at
the close Of last evenings program:
..Measured from the point of gate
receipts, we must feel that the Ham
iltton chautauqua Is not as yet self
sustaining, without lowering the
quality Of program now attained,
which surely will not be done. From
the point of appreciation by those at
tending and the expressed intention OF
providing the necessary guarantee
fund, we must count the assembly OF
1911 a success
Rev. LiIley Preached.
"The Measure of a Man" was the
subject. of Rev Lilley's sermon. He
chose as his text Revelations 81,
verse sixteen His sermon was. elo.
quent and we'll given. Rev. Lilley
said:
What did John mean by this state
ment? Was he laying out a city
like Boston, New York or Chicago:
I believe not He simply had Wis
ion of the future, the future mer
and women. 1t is difficult to turn
our faces to the future; we are prone
to live too much in the past. We
are steadily climbing and the ques
ton comes, how are we going te
climb and how high; what is to be
the measure of the man?
THE first of these dimensions Is
morality-those verile rugged ele
ments know as truthfulness ant
morality is mans duty to himself, his
fellow man and his God If | abuse
my body or my mind l am immoral
But morality means more. We mus
reach out to our fellow man. If
call you into my store or factory OF
starvation wages that my home ma.
be beautified, then I'm immoral.
What do l mean by the breadtl
of a man? mean sympathy
means mortality baptized in the grea
infinite ocean of Gods love, whel
sympathy takes morality by the han
there is the outflow of hearts fee
ings that welcome back the prodiga
'What did John mean by the heigh
of man? He meant morality an
sympathy reaching up and taking hol
of God. One hand in the Omnipotent'
the other reaching out to your fe
low man. To have length and breadt
and height means that we canno
rule God out of our lives and succeed
Until we have reached up and take
hold Of Him 1t is impossible for u
to feel the conception of the perfee
humanity The man who has befor
him the supreme ideal of the dolla
will soon look like one The ides
Of most of us is something materia
The difficulty in man,c life is ne
considered the most valuable thin
under heaven. If had the power
close all the saloons it might not /
any use to do 1t, because unless yo
can get down to the soul OF ma
the hammer of the law is unavailabl
When we have stripped ourselves
everything that hurts body an
mind, when we see that the mo-
valuable thing in the world Is huma
life. then demominationalism WI
cease. The man who. can give a
life for someone else, that's II
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