The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-26
CHAUT AUQUA
At TRACTS A
BIG THRONG
-Four Thousand People Were
on the Grounds Yesterday
and Heard Very Excel
lent Program.
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what enigmatic subtitle of 1.-THE Blaz-
ed Trail" down on the program for the
governors address.
The speaker, however, elucidated his
subject with clearness, the substance
of his discourse being that If we at
tain civic righteousness as nation we
must do it by thinking for ourselves.
That we do not value our institutions
because we did not win them our
Gelves.
That, in truth, we are ruled far
more absolutely than are the citizens
of many monarchy
That the right of veto, pardon or
confirmation exercised by the Presi-
dent of the United States and the Gov
.ernor of any state is monarchial ira
idition which no real monarch dares to
continue and which is only perpetuated
in this republic because it was incor-
,porated by it's founders as part of ira
Aditional governmental procedure.
That it is not in numbers but the
thing stood for which "blazes a trail"
was the statement of the speaker illus
itrating this by the art ideal of the
Greeks and the democratic goal of the
Swiss.
That if the voters of this country
cared to put their thinking apparatus
es into action they would find that jul
dicial authority is only vested in the
tSupreme Court and such other media
as might be designated by Congress
and that, in this way, they could.
Through their legislators, regulate a
burdensome and anomalous system
and eliminate, for one thing, the Fed
F<,ral judge, who, appointed for life by
some politician temporarily in author
ity seriously interfered with the gov
ornamental activities of the separate
states.
1--WE do not need to change the con-
stitution," said the speaker, "but to
authorize, Congress to legislate for us."
That it is not lack of law but lack
of respect for law and of the enforce
ment of the laws we have that is the
fostering sore on the social body, was
the declaration of the speaker, who
stated that:
Just law was founded on common
sense and Justice"
That all the problems which now
confront the nation could be satisfac-
torily solved If the people gave them
the proper consideration, and then act
ed promptly and without prejudice, is
the position of Governor Shallenber-
ger.
"The force OF public opinion is the
,one irresistible power in this country, "
~ H., ~ ay1o1 L.
Father Graham Convincing.
Father Graham last evening ad
dressed the largest audience so far as
sembled at the chautauqua, his sub
.ject being Reason and Religion"
Religion" said Father Graham, "is
a word very frequently on mems lips
hut very frequently misunderstood.
Religion is fact that cannot be
denied" continued the speaker. "I'
lis q necessary consequence of our very
existence" going on to state that re
Iligion appealed primarily to man.
intellect and his reason.
That we could no more exist withou
lit than we could without the air W,
breathe.
But that its arguments were at ono,
Iso simple they appealed to child o
leight years and so profound as to b.
hnfathomable to genius.
Dr. Graham's lecture was in two di
kvisious, the first to prove the exist
fence of God, the second the inviola
kbility. of the relation of man to Su
spreme Being, his arguments being sus
ftained and convincing from the accept
led orthodox point of view.
Common sense tells u.s. said Faith
Ter Graham. that First Cause is reas
konable. Blind matter cannot Civ
birth to Intelligence"
Father Graham then proceeded t
btake up arguments of materialists an
those Varying PHILOSOPHERS which den
1.-THE existence of First Cause and
personal God and refute them skill
(fully as primarily inimical to man
treason.
Death is merely cessation of tn
manifestation of life" said the speake
lin arguing for the immortality of tn
Isoul and the imperishability of mattel
Between the Creator and the crea
.ure there is bond of relationship tina
tcannot be broken" said Father Grahar
lin his argument for the dependence {
imam on God, land that is the found;
ton of religion. When you love, hol
or and obey your Creator, that is il
Ipractice.
Treat God as he is. Your Maste
TO whom you owe everything"
Father Graham's peroration was a
eloquent argument for the divinity {
Christ, God expressed in Man. tn
l"crucified criminal" the seed of who's
teaching burst into the flower {
lChristian civilization"
Morning Sessions.
DIR. Davidson, at the church servic
Sat half past ten, preached from Isaia
4O-S.
"The grass wfthereth. the flower
lfadeth, but the word of our God sha
Iabide forever"
DIR. Davidson's theme was the TT
rumph of the Bible. 1t is too hard fe
1.-THE tooth of time and has withstood a
ATTACKS 1t has won the loyalty OF tn
best men of the past-statesmen p
cts, musicians, painters. the speake
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