Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-06-24
SENATOR w. 8. KENYON DELIVERS
ELOQUENT SERMON ADDRESS
ON SERVICE.
CROWD swELTERs
TO ATTEND CEREMONY
Block Of Stone, Containing Copper Box
Filled With Records Placed in Wall
at Northwest Corner Of Building
List Of Contents and Gifts For
the Corner Stone Laying.

| With a thousand people at the bal
game and the summer heat hot enough
to fry, several hundred people as
sembled on the postoffice lawn Tuesday
afternoon 10 listen to a brilliant ad-
dress by United States Senator William
S. Kenyon at the ceremonies of laying
the corner stone for the new Y. NJ. c.
A. building D. w. Norris. chairman
Of the building committee, presided
Short addresses were made by Judge
/ B. F. Cummings, who had been chair
man of the committee. of 100 which
raised the money, and by o. L. Ingle-
due. who had been vice chairman OF
| that committee
| State secretary Of the Y NJ. c. A.,
/ W. II. Parsons, Of Des Moines. read
the scriptures and Rev. r. F. Hurlburt,
in prayer. Mr.. Norris then announced
the contents Of the box Of records en-
cased in the stone and Senator Kenyon.
with trowei made and donated by the
Marshalltown Trowel Works and nickel
plated by the Quick Action Range
Company, laid the corner stone.
Owing 80 the h-cil.ng sun which
made extended speaking on the main
platform impossible, a temporary plat
form was erected in the shade Of a tree
where Senator Van Law gave q brief
historical sketch OF the growth OF the
local Y. NJ c. A. and introduced Sena-
tor Kenyon.
Senator ksnyons Address.
Senator Kenyons address might have
been sermon upon the subject. When
the Kingdom Of God Comes Down to
Earth" He cited the great social
problems OF the day such as strikes,
intemperance, child labor, white slave
traffic and attributed them all to
human greed. He said that the world
was challenging the church for more
applied christianity and that the church
must prepare men to live more than
TO die. The Y NJ. c. A. he considered
an Institution Of the church which was
engaged in this work.
He scored Rockefeller for permitting
the striking miners In Colorado to be
fred upon. He called Mellen and
Morgan of the New Haven road big
plunderers" and said, that they had
robbed widows and orphans whose
property had been invested In railroad
| stocks Just as much as tho these men
J had robbed a bank.
The world was calling for men. Man
Wanted" was the sign of the age and
ne felt that the Y NJ. C. A. was help
ing to supply the right kind Of men.
1t was an exceedingly eloquent ad-
dress.
In a copper box. made and donated
BIZ the Lennon Furnace Company, and
fitted in the cavity in the stone was
placed a history of the association. a
list Of the building committee. a list
Of the officers and directors. copies OF
the Times Republican of June II and
IS. 1918. and of June %, 1914, copy OF
Association Men, June 1914. copy OF
Iowa state Notes, April 1914. complete
list of the teams used in the money
raising campaigns of June 1913, com
plete list Of the contributors and copy
Of the bible.
The stone was the gif, OF the con-
tractors, Messrs. Laswell Burgher
Bros, of Hannibal. Mo. 1t was en-
eraved free Of charge by the Bowman,
King Stone Company. The Marshall
Printing Company donated the bond
paper upon which the records were In
scribed. ]. B. Simmons contributed the
bible and the local union band con-
.ributed their services on the program
F! of the afternoon.