The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-09-26
LARGE AUDIENCE WAS CHARMED
WITH THE LECTURE ON FOLKS"
DELIVERED BY DR.. ]. f. STOUT
Pastor Has Great Love For
Everybody; His DroIl, Friendly
Way Of Putting His Bright and
Sage thoughts Before Lis
teners Was Pleasing and High
ly Instructive; 0peningAddress
At Methodist Conference.

Rev. James Frank Stout, D. D., a
former pastor of Centenary church,
delivered the address of last even
ing's session of the Methodist con-
ference on Folks" DR.. Stout is in
terested in folks" and has a very
friendly feeling for them. Although
he processes to be disinterested in
the germ theory he admits believing
that there are three germs in folks
physical, mental and spiritual germs
These three things are the things
that God purposes to grow that he
may grow saints, said DR.. Stout
He saves sinners and grows saints,
and he saves sinners that he may
grow saints. The first seed is the
body. This material existence is as
much a part Of the divine plan as
the spiritual existence. God has
taken great pains with this physical
nature, but it is given to us in the
rough and We must develop it.
The Mental Germ.
Then there is the mental germ.
1t is astonishing what can be done
with that germ. Civilization is de.
veloping mentality that we may have
an understanding and an apprecia-
ton of things around us. The spirit
is not left out of most of us. We
preachers preach because We believe
we have the spirit of God in US.
By it sinners shall be made saints.
The hope of the individual is that
God can develope in him the glory
OF soul and magnifcence of thought.
It is out of these things that folks
are made, and folks have these pos
sibilities.
The average man is not all good,
and yet he is better than he is
worse. He. is more righteous than
he is vicious. He is representative
of folks. Almighty God sent His
Son into this world to save this
man from himself. The Psalmist
puts man next to the heart of God
Himself
Believes in Heredity.
81 believe in heredity, but it isn't
everything. The same problems are
passed on from age to age. There
are always some great warriors,
some great poets, some great proph-
cts and some great martyrs in each
age. If / were to add anything to
the creed l would add after the
sentence, II believe in Almighty
God" this: 81 believe in folks
DIR. Stout believes in the neces-
sity of ideals for the success of
folks, but he adds to ideals another
component which is strength. "a
man may have ideals, but he must
express his ideals in what he is
he declared, "he must live his ideals
and become what he believes. God
he thanked for the Hebrew who has
lived what he believed. The Hebrew
has given religious ideal to the
world.
Civilization has been striving for
a combination Of the thought dome
of the Greek and the jaw of the
Angle. Today the world is being
influenced by the ideals of the
Greek and the Hebrew and backed
by the Drawn of the Angle. We
want in the kingdom of God this
combination of high ideals and viril
ity.
Third Great Element.
''But there is a great third ele
ut n
would advance. That is unselfish
ness. Self sacrifice is the greatest
thing in humanity, and it is abso
lutely necessary" In illustrating
this point DR. Stout compared the
self seeking character of Napoleon
with the generous and self sacrific
ing character of Americas patriot
Abraham Lincoln, in a way that car
ried his audience with him in won
derfully close way. His address was
closed with this sketch of charac
tiers, and it was a fitting climax fol
a splendid talk DR.. Stout also re
ferred in the opening remarks of his
speech to his years of ministry il
Mankato and of the revival serv
ices which were held here so sue
cessfully during that time.
Welcomed the Clergy.
At the close of DR.. Stouts ad
dress DR.. ]. w. Andrews was intro
duced and welcomed the minister:
and their wives to Mankato in
very hearty way. He caused goo6
deal of laughter by saying that Man
kato is, always has been and al
ways will be the metropolis OF south
ern Minnesota. He complimentet
the ministers on the high degree o
intelligence and talent of the mer
of the church and bade them wei
come.
Bishop Quayle made his first ap
pearance at the conference in his
response to the address of welcome
He was greeted with storm o.