Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1915-12-07
Held in Their Rooms Sunday After
noon st three O'Clock Ad-
dress BY Rev. H. Z.
Haywood.
A FINE MUSICAL PROGRAM
A Large Audience is Present A
Splendid Address and Sue
cessful Affair.

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A large concourse Of people gather.
ed in the spacious rooms Of the Elk's
home Sunday afternoon at O'Clock
to attend the annual memorial ser
vices of the order The upper room
was seated with chairs and decorated
with many pots OF growing ferns.
The musical program Of length
given BY Mrs. 9. +. Mccauliff. Miss
Mete Miekleson, Messrs. W. B. and
Byafd Dodge, r. p. Hanrahan and p
S. Hpudinot, assisted by Miss Rosa
LIND Cook, organist. and Lloyd De
Fra@ee yiolinist, was one Of the best
in Qtnt Of selection, execution and
tale1 represented, ever given In the
city, Many expressions Of pleasure
,opsning the musical numbers, have
oeen heard from members of the
tu6ience.
The memorial eulogy was given by
hpast0r Of the Universalist church,
tv H. L. Haywood, who is also
hplain Of the order. The aulogy was
MASTERPIECES. splendidly prepared
"a splendidly given.
1.-THE Spirit of the Age" was the
road topic sof the speakers discourse
ud was derived from the German
ord .zeitgeist,Yi Maeterlinck IN his
incompatible Life of. the Beer ex-
patiates upon the spirit of the hive.
How the be which has NO life OF its
own, works IN wondrous mystical
harmony with its fellows, dying with
in a short time II segregated from the
others. That unseen spirit strikes the
hour when the hive is to swarm; ); It
tells when the clover is blowing. Rev.
Haywood made of this parable
through which he interpreted the
theme chosen.
1t is true of any given age of his
tory that there has been q spirit OF the
age This age has character per-
sonality absolutely different from
any otherSera OF time. Look at each
period OF history and we will see that
it is marked by q feature.
The spirit Of our age is at once the
highest and the lowest-the noblest
and the basest of any nation in his
tory.
1t is best illustrated by one of our
poets. The poet is the prophet Of the
spirit Of man. Walt Whitman, whom
Rev. Haywood regards as the greatest
of American poets, for almost four
years gave. his life during the Civil
war to the nursing of wounded sold
iers. One night as he sat by the
deathbed Of Vermont bOy-broken
by battle whose life was fast ebbing,
Whitman in his agony Of acute per-
ception and ability to sympathize, felt
the cold perspiration break out upon
his own brow. as on the brow OF the
lad, and stretching out hissarms in
cried, II am that mani"
The expression serves as q pene-
trating searchlight upon the spirit of
the age
The evidences Of the spirit at work,
are shown in the earnest efforts now
being made to stop child labor; in the
measures now taken in
the treatment of the insane-those
with sick minds. No longer do we
shut them up in mad house. We
take them to physicians in hospitals.
We hope to see the spirit revolutioniz-
ing our penal system which has been
said to be next to the saloon as q
degrading factor. Moral cripples
should be sent to moral physicians. as
we'll as physical unfortunates.
This spirit is only another name for
fraternity. This is fraternity age,
despite the great war waging which
would set this fact at variance.
This great war has waged under the
of the world. We have
formerly taken our victorious gener-
ais and killers of men and made them
our presidents The business of being !
A soldier is q necessary one but the
men we are going to crown with
Iaurels are men like Colonel Goethals
women like Jane Addams--men
ike Commander Booth Of the Saliva
ion Arm. These are the people we
glorify in our day. There are forces at