The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-08-18
ASSURED FOR NEXT YEAR
Rabbi Messing Lauds Jewish His
tory and praised the Race for
Contributions to
Civilization.
Thy Staff Correspondent

n its history Sunday. Every seat In
the big tent was filled, chairs crowded
ali the aisle space and crowds stood
around the edges. 1t was fitting eli
max to the ten days excellent pro-
grams.
Nine hundred and fifty tickets were
subscribed for the 1914 chautauqua,
which insures the continuance of the
assembly. The officers and directors
In a very efficient way, planned the
chautauqua and carried out all the
plans in a very competent manner.
The following business men are Off
GERS: A. B. Agnew. president; ]. P.
Guthrie, vice president; H. G. VIII.
lIams, treasurer; NJ. G. Dadant, secre-
tary. Directors, J. A. Gordon, A. L. Nc
Arthur and H. S. Harrison.
Sunday Morning Service
Sunday morning service was as fol.
lows:
Devotionals- Rev Parsons Of the
Christian church.
Music by quartette. Messrs Hank
raider, Crowder, Stone and Athey.
Sermon, DR.. Hoover of Carthage Col
lege.
Music by the quartette.
Benediction.
Miss Gladine Loeffler played the &C.
compartments for the quartette.
The afternoon program opened with.
half hour musical program by the
Wooden Orchestra as follows:
Overture.
Hum0resque.
Morning and Evening Songs, by
the orchestra and two vocal solos by
Miss Hannah THE Little Pink Rose
and Talking IN My Sleep"
Afternoon Lecture.
The lecture of the afternoon was by
Rabbi Messing of Bloomington, ILL.,,
perhaps the most cultivated, scholarly
man who appeared during the ten
days. His subject was The Jewish
Contribution to Civilization" He said
in part: To mankind in general the
Jew is a sphynx. The Jew does not
ask the world to love him but we do.
have the right to ask to be under
stood. Shakespeare many years ago
pictured Shylock as very rich and
Jessica, his daughter, as a very beauti-
ful young woman. Ever since the
world has held them to be types Of
the race and drawn the inference that
all Jews are rich and all young Jew.
esses beautiful.
Jews have held prominent places
IN every walk of life, in the arts, in
the sciences. Indeed Jews have been
everything but the pope. let there are
people who are SO ignorant of the race
as to believe that they can do only two
things, loan money and get it back
and sell old clothes The blood Of the
Jews has mingled with the blood OF
and Catholic on every
American battlefield We have done
all these things in common with othet
people and we have given to the
world some things which no other ma
honality has given. Israel lays at the
door Of the world the Book which has
refreshed their souls and brought
comfort and solace for generations.
Where will you go to find the mobiles,
literature but to the Bible? 1t is the
golden chain which binds christian
hearts together. 1t is his strongest de-
'ence and greatest blessing. wonder
low many Christian men who love che
Bible are willing to admit that most
u 1t IVES written in Hebrew by Jewish
men.
Sufferings Of the Jews.
Was not Jesus himself a Jew? He
las been 80 moulded into the lives of
ne Gentle that he almost loses sight
y the nationality of Jesus. My friends
What Christ suffered on the cross for
wenty-four hours, the Jew has suffer
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