The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1912-02-24


Reserved seats so cents Board open
at Spratt's, Monday evening, Feb.
26th, ar 7:30.
IF you wish to secure a farm
loan quick, call on the Citizens
State Bank, Bays city, Kansas
Notice to Deputy Assessors
A meeting of the Deputy Assessors
Of Ellis Co. will be held SATURDAY
March 2nd. 1912. at the Court House
in the Co. Clerks Office at 10 O'Clock
Am. for the purpose OF discussing
the subject of taxation.
Every Deputy Assessor is urgently
requested to be present on the above
named date.
Respectfully, V GoTTSCHALK
Ex-Ohcicio Co. Assessor
Methodist Church Services.
This Sunday Rev. Hale will preach |
in the morning on the subject True /
Prosperity Of Man., selected by the
church, and in the evening ''Over-
coming Dificulties.'.
All are cordially invited to attend.
Rev Hale discoursed upon the theme
Personal Responsibility last Sunday
morning, and said in part:
There is q wild, bounding element
In our veins in youth. God always ov-
erstocks young life with combustable
material. 1t makes young life restless,
intollerent, impatient, ana Oft-times
irritable It is the fuel of the engines
- = Eraz FHea -
speculative, dare-devIls-
It leads young men in dangers but 1t
causes them TO dare and to do Great
are always done by men
full of vital life. At this age coastruc
tive work is done.
"God has given ms these passions to
force as TO accomplish a mans work,
10 make our life deeds the measure
Of g man. bot He has given Us q will
10 cultivate them. If We fail it Is our
fault 1t does not mean 70 leave on
being active, coltish or happy, but to
have these powers under control Our
motto should be "harness-life, con
RIve-lifs, and be haDpT. 1t
Is grand to be q man, and to do mans
full measure in our struggles
Personality demands will-DoEerY in
sellect power and heart-poWeF IN living
= positive life,
Our personal responsibility
nav be injured IN q number OF ways
Il is threatened by soma Of the cheap
ohvIosophy OF the day, We hear it
aid By. many Of the hour, Eve can
10 nothing because OF the cOsmic laws |
hereditary Influences, and the stellar
forces have shaped our destiny
Then these same philosophers viii talk
1pon the various teachings Of the ORR
entail saRes, and then look up and say
nv religion il expressed N the state
nent, the Fatherhood of God and the
Brotherhood of man. Again We hear
the doctrine Of fatalism pronounced
FataIism saps the very foundations OF
Improvement Where this doctrine has
people have degensrated-
1t is time for Us to learn the text
For eyerV man shall bear his own
We must learn that saliva
ton is found In the grace OF our Lord
We are saved when we have the con-
scious realization of sins forgiven, and
that the bliGbred soul he's been clean
1ed. We are personally TO God and no
third pet son can answer for Us. We
are responsible to God for our own
drawing. your own reading, and X We
want character we must 90 our own
thinking. We must break with the
past-oId traditions, some old laws, Old
sayings. and many approximations
We oft times try TO shift our busi-
ness. personal and domestic responsi- |
biIities. It is good thing to recall /
that we are standing alone. and that /
there is only ont eternal sharer in our !
burdens, Christ