The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1914-02-06
Men, S First Sunday
Afternoon Meeting
Proved Quite Popular With Rev.
Calfee as Speaker.

C8l1ee as speaker.
The Mems Christian and Civic
Association was addressed by
Rev. w. j. Calfee at $3.50 last
Sunday afternoon the, meeting
being held iii the afternoon on
account of the series of revival
meetings which are being con-
Quoted at the Methodist church
every night. The subject of Mr..
Calfee's address was THE
Brightest Spot on EartA.' -
The speaker opened his talk
by a description of an eastern
trip which he had taken while
the Spanish-American war was
IN progress. Among the in
teresting things seen in our
beautiful U. S. capital were the
towering Washington monument,
the capital building with its Won
derful dome, the white house
with it's famous blue room,, and
the magnificent Congressional
Library. Shortly before leaving
the capitol Mr.. Calfee had an
opportunity to visit the hospital
train which brought in the
wounded, sick and dead who had
been disabled or killed in Cuba
and chance to give them what
comfort he could. 1t was also
his pleasure to have helped adj
minister the last sacrament of
which Pres. Mckinley ever par
took: From Washington the
speaker journeyed to New York
III the congressional train, dis
embarking from the ferry in a
most uninteresting quarter of
the city. Indeed so great was
the contrast between his first
glimpse Of the great metropolis
aud the City of Magnificent
Distances" that he did not visit
New York but took the next
train west for a view of the
wonderful Niagara Falls. Just
50 we often miss seeing the
great things of life, by false
comparisons and conclusions, and
just so do we often shut out the
sweetest and best things by mar,
row and mean prejudices. AT
Niagara Falls. Mr.. Calfee made
an interesting visit to the Cave
Of the Winds, to which the
tourist descends in. an elevator,
clad in a rubber suit which acts
as shield from the spray of the
falls for this cave extends part
way under the falls. From the
city of Niagara Falls the trip ex.
tended on overland to Lake
Michigan: across this by boat tc
Chicago and thence westward by
rail to the Dakota prairies and
home. What was the pleasant
est spot of all in the long jour
"s ney? What place is ever most
welcome to the weary traveller:
Home. Its exterior and it's in
terror may be ever so mean when
compared with the magnificent
buildings and the costly palaces
of.the wealthy which are to be
found in our large cities, but still
it is the brightest spot on earth
Appearances do not count in the
home for it is love that makes i,
what it is. We who have homes
and appreciate them can perhaps
picture theloss Christ suffered
for an earthly home was denied
to him; the loneliness of his life
of wandering is pictured by these
words The foxes have holes
and the birds of the air have
nests, but thofSon of man haiti
not where to lay his head"
e. e J. q
Mr.. Calfee described at length
the elements which enter int<
making q home. First there is
the father who ought to be the
high priest of God in the home
The influence of the father fo,
veal or for woe is immeasurable
He ought to be more than simply
the bread Garner, the pocket