The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-06-23
Former Minister Of This City be
llvered an lmpassIoned Lee
ture in Trinity Church
Last Night.
CONVENTION Is SUCCESS
EPworth Leaguers Of Burlington Dis-
trIct, viii Completes Work
This Even
. Ing.


platform speaker with more than or
binary ability, DR.. Potter, Of Sioux
Falls. South Dakota, former pastor of
Trinity NJ. E. church in this city, held
the attention of a large crowd at Trim
ity church Friday evening, where he
spoke for an hour to crowd that
after the lecture was unanimous In its
approval of DR.. Potter's eloquence.
The lecture of DR.. Potter followed
the opening session of the convention
of Burlington district Epworth Leag-
uers, which convention opened here
Friday afternoon with in the neigh
borhood of one hundred delegates in
attendance. DR.. Potter's subject Fri
day evening was Elements That
Win" and the thorough manner in
which he handled the subject was con-
elusive evidence that the former Trim
lily pastor was cenversant with every
detail of the theme he had selected
1 for the benefit of the leaguers. Il
DR.. Potter is genuinely interested in
4 the future welfare of the young peo-
! l.,
stands sponsor for the strength and
ilogic Of his lecture. Real success"
4 he told the leaguers. 'religiously and
otherwise, depends almost entirely
upon self mastery" The things in
life worth going after those things
(which have to do with the spiritual en-
i lightenment. and which are the fore
4 runners of career that may he re-
jferred to with unblushing credit are
those things that come after we have
mastered ourselves, says Dr. Potter
land he emphasized the Christian value
tof self mastery as a most necessary
asset for our future well-being.
Four Necessary Requisites.
j The lecture of Dir. Petterswas thor
Tough dissectment of the subject ches
4 en-. and four timely divisions wer,
necessary to bring out the, force eth
logic. and the four divisions were yer!
suitably adopted to the elequence o
DR.. Potter in putting his views before
his audience. The first division %
/ his lecture, and to which The attributed
4 no little responsibility for life's sue
4 cesses, was Industry The SECOND
division was Concentrations thu
j third, Sincerity and the fourth
worthy IDEALS
"Tireless energy said DR.. Potter
4 lis the main requisite to be impressed
!, upon our coming history builders
Industry, while in itself a great ant
\ important factor in the uplift of char
a acter. Is less powerful when unalliet
+ or left to itself.
4 With Industry as a basis. DR.. Pot
/ ter urged the uphuilding to proceed
upward through the agency of coneen
tration Of energy and ideas. togethe
with sincerity of purpose Then" HI
said, we must have worthy ideals
| We must emulate those ideals who's
untarnished lives stand in relief
monuments to lives well lived
DR.. Potter's lecture preceded socia
session at Trinity church, when tn
Twisting delegates to Keokuk wer
entertained by the Keokuk Epwort
| Leaguers.
Saturday was busy day with tn
leaguers The morning watch, cor
Quoted by Mrs. Ida Curry, of Fort Mat
ison, began at o'clock in the NOR,
ing, and did not close until 7:3
o'clock. Then followed the devotions
service, conducted by Rev. c. L. Tel
nant, the district superintendent. an
II was follomed by the Department {
Mercy and Help, with Miss Maud
BRIGGS, leader. Department of Spiri
ual work. with Rev. Poole as leade
| After the address of Rev.
r. Woodcock, president of tn
| Iowa Bible Training school, a bus