The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1915-01-24
THE KINGDOM OF
COMMON MN SENSE
is Subject Of Lecture at Methodist
Protestant Church by Rev. !.
F., Davis Of Pitts
bureh.
COMMENTS J, u q / i UPON pom WAR lA
says We Must IndividuaIize the
the Logic and Responsibility
Of the European
War.
COMMENTS UPON WAR

/ 1.-THE Kingdom of Common Sense
was the subject of lecture delivered
at the Methodist Protestant churcn
FRIDAY evening by Rev. L. f. Davis OF
Pittsburgh, editor of the publication
issued by that church. large audi-
| ence greeted DR.. Davis and found MS
words both interesting and lnstruc-
tive, He was introduced by Rev. y.
Leroy Steffey, pastor Of the chufcn'
The speaker. after locating by dis
tinct boundary lines, and defining the
term. 1.-THE Kingdom of Common
Sense divided the subject into four
| distinct provinces-the domestic, the
| political, the social, and the religious.
In the discussion of these provinces
! DIR Davis by the soundest logic DEM
onstrated the necessity of the reign
1 or common sense, and illustrated MS
| points with terse, common, everyday
/ illustrations.
In speaking Of the political prov
Iince of the kingdom OF common sense,
the speaker. in commenting upon the
European war, said: rWe must lndl
yidualize the logic of war and the re-
isponsibility Of war. Suppose the Won
! Hindenburg. the German, Joffre, the
Frenchman, Nicholas, the Russian
and Roberts, the Englishman, were
living in the same neighborhood
] whether in Petrograd, or Berlin, OF
Paris, or London, or Keokuk. II these
men should build barracades between
| their houses simply because they
could not agree upon the boundary
/ line between their properties or be
cause they were rivals in business
the whole city would laugh them to
scorn. It is just as absurd TO pulld
! Notifications between France and
! Germany, or between Russia and
/ GERMANY as for lifelong neighbors OF
/ different nationalities to build barra
! eades between their homesteads IN
4 the country or their houses in the
/ city"
!. In speaking of the social provinces
4 Dr.. Davis made it clear that you car
j not change the social relations of mel
and women for the better of all con
!. cerned by simple quackery. TO Illus
1 trate this point he told story o.
some statuary representing physl
hcian called out of his bed at the mic
! night hour by man and his Whole
i family. The physician stands at the
door of his home with nighticap on
| and to him the man OF the family
/ saws. Doctor, we all eat well, we
/ sleep we'll and we all feel well, but we
| are sure that there is something the
! matter, and we have come to see you
about it," To this the doctor makes
! reply as follows: Come right in! You
eat we'll, you sleep well, and you feel
we'll Come right in; we'll change the
whola situation" Another story was
| told Of a young man before minis
terial association in Chicago with a
| chart of New Jersey city In the ex,
/ planation of which the young man
said, Gall the people Of this city who
60 to church are painted white on the
! map. and all who do not go to church
! are painted black" And as the young
man proceeded some one OF the min
listers had happy thought and said
,"Where are all the babies OF that
city?'' To this the young man salo,
"Well, l hadn't thought about that.
The speaker then added, In the So
cial province of the kingdom of com
mon sense We do not want quack so
| biologists any more than the honest
musician wants to come in contact
and competition with the quack doc
tor"
In discussing the religious province
of the kingdom OF common sense, the
doctor said, Don't throw your reli-
gion at folks, but be of real helpful
ness to them. Folks do not long so
much for things to eat and wear as
they sometimes long for real folks.
Don't move into grumble town. If
your pastor plans an aggressive cam
paign of work in the kingdom, If the
official board Of the church, or your
conference, Or synod, presbytery, or
session plans an aggressive forward
movement don't go into grumble-
| town. but move out with those max
ing such plans and help carry them
tn their completion" At this point
the speaker illustrated his point by
quoting poem of his own entitled,
| "Grumble Town