The Wahpeton times. [volume] (Wahpeton, Richland County, Dakota [N.D.]) 1879-1919, 1914-04-16
CONGREGATIONAL NOTES

Sunday morning service 1O:30.
Sunday school HAAS a. m.
Young peoples meeting at $3.50
D. m.
Evening service 1880.
Thursday evening prayer ser
vice 1880.
The mission of DR.. Charles T.
Wheeler and his associates Mr..
and Mrs. Van Landingham was
most auspiciously begun in two
great services in the Congrega-
tional church Sunday. DR.. Wheel
er's versatility was shown in the
way which he ADAPTED himself to
the great Easter thought and
spoke upon the theme '"The Souls
SoliloGuy Upon Life and Immor-
tality.' He cOmbated the state
ment that. Life is a narrow va
between the cold and barren
peaks of two eternities: we cry
aloud. the only answer is the echo
of our Wailing cry" with voices
many from philosophy and science
that give fOreknowledge of i'm
mortality. mentioning among 9TH
ers. the voices within mans heart.
hungers and soul yearnings: the
instincts which are natures pro-
phecies: mans sense of being
cabined in a house of flesh: the
ndestructibility of matter: mans
personality. his self-identity
though the body undergOes many
changes: the noticeable difference
between the growth of soul and
material things: the shortness Of
existence here: life's withheld
competitions: life's contradic-
tions. saying that. Immortality
alone explains mans troubles.
solves his mysteries. shows why
bad men succeed and good men
fail. why tyrants fare sumptu-
ously while heroes starve and die.
why vice dwells in gilded palaces
and virtue oftentimes in novels.
why innocence suffers for gull
wife and children for husband.
children for parents. why sick
ness. disease and death settles
down upon the good. the true. the
young" ''The intimations and
hopes terminate in man through
out the ages were in full hlnn
in Jesus Christ. Job said. IF a
man die. shall he live AGAIN." Je-
sus died. he lived again. he said.
Because l live. ye shall live al
So"
The music was most inspiring.
Mrs. Meckstroth's descriptive So
10. "Golgatha'' seemed actually to
take one back to the Savior's side
where you shared with him the
agony Of the Passion Week. Mrs.
Meckstroth's singularly express
sive voice did full Justice to this
wonderful solo and those who
heard it will not soon forget.
The duet ''Divine Love- sung
bv Miss Bardwell and Mrs. NJ
stroth was exduisitely rende~c >.
and Mrs. Clipfell's Voluntary the
lntermezzo from Cavaleria Rusti-
cana was much enjoyed.
A double quartet consisting of
Misses Bardwell. Bentzen. Peak,
Mrs. Keen: Messrs. Frather,
Barnes. Clipfell and Jones sang
two anthems with Miss Bardwell
and Mr.. Clipfell as soloists.
Mr.. Wheeler's address at night
was on the ''Inspiration of the
Bible and the Deity of Jesus,
from the view point of prophecy
and was a mastery lecture show
ing that God is behind the curtain
of human affairs. that his hand
controls and shares the history
and destiny of men, that seeming
caprice is consistent purpose,
that apparent discord and dispr-
der is owing to our partial view,
that the acident is but an inc,-
dent in the one rgand harmonious
plan of God. That back Of all
human history tEer. is an ininIte
God whose omniscience and ON
nN otence forbln tila. any thing
SHOULD escape. HIS knowledge tu
of Babylon, Ninevah. Tyre, Da-
mascus and Jerusalem, Edom.
Egypt. Israel and lshmael, giving
as DR.. Wheeler claims. their in
controverible proof of the inspir-
alton of the bible.
The music consisted of a Song
service lead by Mr.. Van Landing-
ham and assisted by the double
quartet. with Mrs. Van Landing
ham as accOmDanfst.
There is large attendance al
the nightly service. There will be
no service Saturday night.
Sunday morning Dr.. Wheeler
will give the sermon that he gave
last August at the Worlds great
est Bible Conference on the sub
iect The Self-revelation of Jes-
u.s. There will be special music.
A great mass meeting and a
grand rally will be held for MEN
Only at the opera house Sunday
night at 7:45 at which time DIR.
Wheeler will speak OH the "MasA