Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-07-20
Another Interesting Day at the
Webster City Chautauqua-
DR.. F. @. Brown at
Morning Hour.
S. PLATT JONES IN MONOLOGUE
DR.. Piatt on Dead or Aive-Tht
Wonderful Boys From South
Africa.

tanned the high standard of this
years programs. In the department
of applied Christianity, which the
morning hour may fifty be called
DR.. F. @. Brown spoke on the econ
omic value of foreign missions. Mr..
S. Plat Jones gave the prelude af-
ternoon and evening, Byron c. Piatt
lectured in the afternoon, and for
the evening program J. H. Balmer
of Rhodesia, South Africa, gave the
most unique and interesting number
of this years program with an eX-
hibition of his group of Kaffir boys.
Dr. F. @. Browns lecture on the
economic value of foreign missions
was a fresh, vigorous and very in
teresting presentation of the subject
from an almost entirely new point
of view. A larger audience heard
him than has heard any other morn
ing man this year, but the attend
ance still left much to be desired.
Webster City has not been awake to
the unusual opportunities of these
morning hour lectures. Those who
have heard them have been greatly
pleased and not a little profited.
DR.. Brown belongs to the species
of rapid-fre gatlin gun speakers. He
has pleasing personality and an
interesting personal experience. His
lecture hinged on tour of mission
fields in the orient which he made
some time ago, and his vivid por>
trayal of foreign incidents privilege
ed his auditors to travel with him
abroad. Speaking of China, he said
that the new Republic could repeo-
pie Europe and the United States as
thickly as the present population Of
the States and not miss her emf
grants in China. He pointed out
that no non-Christian nation had ev-
err been a map maker or path find
err. The heather nations never de-
velope their own resources. Only
Christian peoples appreciate econ
omic values. The language makers
of the modern world are the mis-
who have given to the pa
gan nations alphabet grammar and
written speech which were non-eX-
istent in heather lands before the
advent of Christian missionaries.
In Japan DR.. Brown attended
three moving picture theaters in one
evening, escorted by a native police
man who spoke some English and
wanted to learn more. He had the
unique privilege of seeing the fun
eral of the late Emperor of Japan, a
two million dollar funeral, held at
night with spectacular procession
from which the populace was eX-
Guided except those fortunate
enough to have received tickets. A
item of the funeral was
the fact that an imperial order of
the new Emperor provided that all
men who attended the Shinto service
connected with the funeral should
wear European full dress suits and
silk hats-a most striking evidence
Of the decentralization of the orient
that is going on all the time.
DR.. Brown pointed out the fact
that architecture, music, medicine
and trade follow in the wake of the
for the betterment of the
world. The nations who follow the
ideal involved in for
eign missionary enterprises are the
ones who open up the markets of the
world, and Dr. Brown closed his lee
ture with a striking personal Incl
dent illustrating the influence of the
stars and stripes in interior China.