Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-24
TAFT LAUDEO BY
HILL IN SERMON
HEAD OF NEW YORK PEACE
FORUM EULoGIzEs THE
PRESIDENT.

Chicago, Sept 23.President Taft
was eulogized here Sunday morning
for his Christian qualities by Rev. DR..
John Wesley Hill. president Of the In.
ternational Peace Forum Of New York
In sermon at All Souls church.
DR.. Hill said that the president was
reared in an atmosphere saturated
with the Puritan spirit and that his
character and career rest upon that
religious basis, which has developed
his sense of personal accountability
to God, love Of truth and justice. sen
sitiveness to the feelings of others.
reverence for sacred things, adher.
ence to law and order, fidelity to duty
and devotion to the spread of Chris.
tian civilization. ..s .s s.s,s
Presldsnt's Religious Beliefs.
In speaking OF President Taft's re
ligious beliefs, DR.. Hill said that the
president as q Unitarian belongs to
the Charming school, believing as
firmly in the divinity of Jesus Christ
as did Edward Everett Hale. He said
the president is man of simplicity,
sympathy and Christian democracy
who practices Christianity in helping
the poor and needy. There Is nothing,
he said, Of bigosry or intolerance III
the religious beliefs of the president.
DR.. Hill pointed out that the pres
ident after addressing large audi.
ence in Carnegie Hall in New York
found time to visit the Bowery Mis-
sion and give a few words of encour-
agement to wrecked, fallen and dis
couraged men.
His Efforts for Peace.
After eulogizing President Taft's
efforts to obtain worldwide peace as
the browning point Of his career, DR..
Hill concluded as follows:
Measured, therefore, from all these
viewpoints; by his faith in Almighty
God; his belief in Christ; Christian
education, evangelism, missions and
civilization; his unfailing dependence
upon providence; his familiarity with
the work of God and his sincere at.
tempt to bring his life into harmony
with the precepts Of that word: his
habit OF prayer; his simple and steady
confidence in the ultimate triumph of
the right; his reproduction OF the
spirit OF the master as seen in the
gentleness of his treatment of his en-.
emies, the patience with which he en-.
dures opposition, being reviled, and re-
Wiling not again; by bis reverence for
the Sabbath, his church membership
and his respect and love for all the
churches and cooperation In their
work; his conservation to the cause
OF peace; his love Of truth and jus
tice; his abhorrence of sham and hy-
pocrisy; his sympathy with human.
ity; his adherence to the right as God
enables him to see the right; his ster-
ling, unquestionable integrity; his no
BILE moral sentiments and high ideals;
his enthusiasm in the advancement of
every good cause; his practice Of mod
Grafton in all things; his exemplihca-
tion of the spirit and principle Of true
temperance reform, he being total
abstainer; the purity of his thoughts
and words; the transparency ana
cleanliness of his life; and, withal,
his dauntless courage in the enforce
ment OF law and the maintenance Of
the sanctity OF our national heritage,
which Is rooted in the religious and
civil faith Of our forefathers. l present
him az a modest, consistent, consci-
entious Christian man whose upright,
godly life maintains the historic pur.
ity and beauty OF the white house and
stands as model to be emulated by
all who aspire to the best there is in
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