Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-06-26
M0RAv|A man HEAD
OFEPW0RTH LEAGUE
REV. J. s. DECKER PRESIDENT OF
oTTUMWA DISTRICT; RICH
LAND GETS NEXT MEETING.

Abba. June 25.-The closing session
of the twenty-sixth annual convention
of the Ottumwa district of the Ep-
worth league was featured by splen-
did program and the election of Of
hcers. Richland is the seat of the next
convention.
The new officers are: President,
Rev. ]. s. Decker, Moravia; first vice
president, Mrs. Ethel Littleton; second
vice president, Mrs. M. d. Cox; third
vice president, Miss Alice Goodall:
fourth vice president, Miss Myrtle VIII.
son; secretary-treasurer, Frank Mel
son; Junior superintendent, Miss Susie
Sides; additional members of the
board of control, Rev. c. A. Field and
Rev. J. S. Wilson.
The morning session of the conven
ton was opened by the fourth vice
president, Miss Myrtle Wilson, who
conducted devotions and presided at
the mornings session. The forenoon
was given to minute business and
speeches by Dr. Benson Of Brazil, Ind.
Miss Nella Ford of Chicago, and DR.
Gillillands lesson, "A Study in the
Book of job"
Mrs. M. D. Cox, second vice presi.
dent. presided at the afternoon session
and DR.. Gilliland and Miss Anna Law.
son of Cawnpore, India, a missionary
who went out from the Ottumwa dis.
trict twenty-nine years ago, addressed
the convention. The annual conse'
Grafton service was conducted by Rev.
G. A. Field, and the convention sermon
was preached by DR.. John Thompson
of Chicago. The conference adjourn
ed after the installation Of the cabinet
elect by the district superintendent,
DR.. e. J. Shook.
The strongest features of the con-
vention were the study class conduct
ed by DR.. Gilliland, the address on so
cial service by Dr. Benson and the
sermon by DR.. Thompson. DR.. Gill;
land taught that Job contended that
God was pure and that he. Job, was
innocent. That the bulwark Of Ife
consists in a personal knowledge OF
ones salvation; that innocency makes
the individual strong. Job took his
case direct to God and there discover
ed that God is power; that God Is
righteousness, and that God is love.
When he found God his argument
ceases, for when the soul meets God
all is well.
DR.. Benson taught that the greatest
factor in social conditions should be
the church He said that the trouble
with all other social institutions IS
that they specialize in some form OF
work or chose some special class OF
people upon which to expend their
efforts, but the church is striving to
know no class and help the social con-
ditions, not by legislation but by moral
suasion, and by following the metnods
instituted by the Lord. Jesus Christ.
DR.. Thompson used for his text,
~ ord open the young mans eyes that
he NAV see." II. Kings 6:17 His d.
visions were that mans eyes must be
open if he will see that God is IN
that he has created every
thing and that everything moves by
his power; that the invisible Is greater
than the visible; the unseen laws OF
nature are greater than the effects
they produce and that the soul OF man
is greater than his body.
That this greatness is the construc-
tive power, by it all things are mace
and maintained. These things can be
seen only by the soul, and as the soul
can see God in nature, in action and
eternity the speaker told the young
people to live in such manner mat
they may see him and dwell Doth no"
an, in heaven with him.