The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-12-04

, Matthias Garmo ........ Feb. 6, 1911
Chas. Johnson 1890. June Is, 1911
) Victor B. Ochiltree -. Oct IL, 1911
i The Afternoons Address.
The address by Mr.. Hedge was as
follows:
THE world needs all its zones and
latitudes, and all its zones and lati-
tudes need one another. The animated
world needs all its inhabitants Every
tribe and family of men, and these
tribes and families and all of their
individual members have need of one
another.
we believe that no created thing
is mistake or an accident or SUI
| perfluity or wastrel: that every
man sent into the world is as impor-
tant in the sight of the Everlasting
Father as was the first Adam. for that
he is sent to do his own peculiar work
Ito perform q service proper to him
self and allotted to no other-to take
and to fill his own place.
This is his commission, his dignity
and his responsibility. But he came
ignorant, to find by his own intelli-
gence, assisted by the limited intelli-
gence of creatures like iiimself-at
his own risk-that place and that
work; ha comes ree-free to ignore
| that commission, to evade that respon
| sibility, to decline that dignity, and
SO he wanders and blunders and loses
himself, and what we call sin bounds.
fills and girdles him.
IF you say in your haste, or or re-
| Election that this defeats the leory
that no man is sent into the world By
/ mistake Or accident. | can only an
swer that this theory is based on
the belief that the same Infinite Be
nevolence under whose order
/ Full many gem of purest ray serene
The dark unfathomed caves of ocean
bear,
Full many a flower is born to blush
unseen,
And waste its sweetness on the des-
ert air.
| has permitted sin to abound that
grace may much more abound" That
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human nature find their only exercise,
/ the only reason for their being in sup
plying the needs, material, mental
and spiritual of the feeble, the down
cast, the disconsolate and the lost.
If desired good were all in sight,
what need of faith? If sunny skies
were ever breaking in blessings on
4 our heads, Hope might weigh her an
Choir; II you and l are never weak or
never to be wicked, let Charity spread
her wings and fly back to heaven No,
1 brothers, though men go astray,
though some sell their birthright for
a mess of potage, and there seem to
be herds of degenerates and derelicts,
/ am still persuaded that every man is
a potential servant to his fellowmen,
whether as follower or leader, as
guide or comrade.
When schoolboy, read in a Lat
in book of certain communities sep
arated by mountains and mutual
dread" That showed an unhappy con-
dition and a crude civilization. the
same degree of civilization that had
been attained by the North Hill and
South Hill schoolboys of my native
town.
But an advanced and enlightened
civilization has in the course of cen.
turies disspated the clouds of mutual
ignorance and mutual dread. AS the
professional faith of the civil engineer
has surmounted or pierced the noun
tain barrier SO the mutual good faith
born of better acquaintance has dis.
solved the moral barrier.
Good roads make good neighbors
, Easy communications, using the word
communications in the sense of
means of intercourse. promote good
manners, and quicken and strengthen
. the good will of which good manners
are the expression and the herald.
So every institution which straight.
t ems the path and shortens the distance
between men. which banishes their
. mutual ignorance, the gloomy mother
of their mutual dread, which places
shoulder to shoulder those who yes.
terday stood face TO face. which af.
i fords place and opportunity for mans
proper study of mankind is fountain
u OF good, not only to its immediate
/ members. but for the community in
which it has set its abiding place.
In the good book we find the oues.