Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-10-16

determination to push through the
biggest church enterprise that has
ever been launched In South Dakota
Chairman James Dougherty acted as
toastmaster and toasts were made BY
the following members of the cam
paign teams Why a New Church
was discussed by s. H. Goepfert: RI
EB. Schmidt. superintendent Of the
Sunday school spoke on What the
Church Means
Rev, @. n. Boyce, district superintend.
ent of the WatertoWn District and
one OF Bishop Luccock's lieutenants
in the great Dakota conference. spoke
on the subject. THE Church at the
Head OF the District; John Noodle.
the newly elected president OF the
Commercial club, in characteristic
Scottish fashion spoke on; The
Church q Mans Job, DR.. Z. g, Hill
gave toast on. What Other Towns
are Doing In this he called atten-
tion to the fact that nearly every
town In the state as large and nearly
half as large as Watertown had splen-
did church the. the 6
now on is only in keeping with the
statewide spirit of Methodism. A. Il.
Sherin spoke on What a New Church
Means to the Epworth League" !" call.
ing attention to the need of larger
facilities to handle the Epworth
League lyceum course, which Is given
for the benefit Of the entire city.
"Reminiscences were given BY w. N.
Mcintyre and Rev. Al. p. Chase. Mr..
Mcintyre is one Of the few men who
went through the struggle Of paying
for the old church building in the
days of hard times, when interest had
to be paid quarterly at the exhorbit-
ant interest OF IL per cent. Rev. a..
d, Chase, the founder Of the Methodist
church in Watertown and one OF the
earliest preachers in this great North
west spoke with old time fire on the
work OF establishing church on a
prairie, and fired the men with en-.
thusiasm and with feeling that the
enterprise now on to raise $4,000 Is
but fun compared to the raising OF
$1,000 in those early days, when the
early settlers We're grinding their
flour In a common family coffee mill.
D. f. Jones spoke on What a New
Church Will Mean to WATERFOWL !
calling attention to the fact that the
Methodist church for years had been
1.-The chief auditorium In the city and
had been opened to all sorts of re-
ligious and moral organizations, and
that the new church would still re.
main in the hearts of the people OF
|Watertown as not merely Methodist
enterprise but as an enterprise belong
ing to the entire city and community.
4 = II : s
Mr.. S. H. Goepfert, in the opening
toast stated what should be known
by everybody, that the churches Of
this town should make larger pre-.
parations for the care and culture OF
the young life Of our city, and called
attention to the fact that there was no
place in this city where boys and
young men could spend their even
ings in wholesome recreation under
the influence Of the Christian church,
and that II the modern church, IL It
holds it's own with the other organiz-
ations Kidding for the lives OF young
people, must provide for these things.
2. 3. Schmidt, who represents the
largest Sunday school In the district,
noted the fact that under better con
ditions our Sunday school could be
doubled.
The principal address of the even
ing was made by Bishop Luccock and
in part was as follows:
All great enterprises begin within.
God himself cannot do anything with
a discouraged man or a coward, but he
can do anything with man who has
clear vision, a steady heart and d
strong and determined viii.
The thing that ought to be done
can be done. Ought this thing to be
done in the name OF the Lord? Ought
1T not to be done? The thing that
can be done ought to be done, and can
be done. It only needs that we 60
about 1t in the right line. We are the
folks to do 1t. We have got to get it
fixed up SO the common people can car
ry this on successfully. / say to you
men no better gift can be left to this
growing town--and just imagine what
IT will be In twenty years from now
than q church Of the living God. not
an extrayagant one, beyond our ability
to build it, but such a structure as
can house all the manifold activities
of the Christian church.
THE truest economy is the wise ex-
penditure Of money. The thing that
ought to be done will be done, and we
are folks to do It. We are on earth
for c that purpose. am immensely
pleased with this thing you have done.
It Is the best worked out plan i have
ever. Snrp tejiE - Il g955& "A 5sg 81