Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-04-15
IOWA WESLEYAN IS
GIVEN BIC BOOST
LARGE CROWD OF OFFICERS
MINISTER'S, ALUMNI, STUD
ENTs GET TOGETHER.
SHEPARD MAKES TALK
Bishop of Methodist Church From
Kansas City delivers Address
and Former President
Hancher is Heard.

Ottumwa was the scene Monday of
one OF series of four gatherings to
| be held in Iowa in the interests of
Iowa Wesleyan college, known as the
Iowa Observation-Disclosures
er. Pastors and lay representatives
(, of practically all the churches in the
| Ottumwa district were present at the
! gathering which was one of the most
important held here in recent years.
Chief on the program was the address
| given by Bishop William o. Shepard,
LII. D., Of the Methodist Episcopal
church, living at Kansas City, Kan.
Rev. E. j. Shook of this city, super
intendent Of the Ottumwa district, pre-
sided Rev. John w. Hancher of New
York, formerly president of the college
and number Of prominent alumni
attended
| The program opened at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon with conference be-
tween the ministers, laymen and out
side officials. A banquet was served
in the parlors Of the First Methodist
church at o'clock and $50 men and
women, ministers, laymen, their wives,
alumni, students and ex-students were
seated at the tables where the BAN
quet was deftly served by the Ladies'
Aid society of the church. An effort
is being made to secure $4,000 an
nually for the college from the Iowa
conference, this being double the
amount now subscribed. 1t is plan
ned to hold series of four meetings,
the first one being in Ottumwa Mon
day evening, Mt. Pleasant this evening,
Oskaloosa Wednesday evening and
Muscatine Thursday evening. The SUI
perintendent in each district is Wes-
leyan alumnus and each is to preside
in his own district. Seventy-two other
ministers of the conference are num-
bered among Wesleyan's alumni
Need Of the College.
Bishop Shepard spoke of 1.-The Need
of the Christian College by the Chris
tian Church" He said: "The Chris
tian church needs the college in the
first place because it cannot run with
out it; it can not supply it's pulpits
without It, There is no reason for
getting men from outside or from
other conferences; once in while
the church developes master men
without the aid of the college but it Is
more of an exception than rule. In
the second place the church needs
the college to tone us up, to pride us
up. to lift us to a higher realm and
give us the adornments of Christian
life. The time has gone when the
only thing a Christian had to do was
to get to heaven. It should be made
a place for higher service; not place
to do less than we do here but q place
for. more, and we should live here in
a way that would fit us for the life
there. There is no one in COM
munity, in which Christian college Is
located, but that has been bettered on
account of the outlook and the ideals
of it. Iowa Wesleyan has been OF
such great value to the church that,
that institution shall never be able
to pay back, in dollars and cents,
what the college has done for 1t.
Must Do Something.
There will be no rejoicing in heav-
en- unless we do something before we
go. The college must get into the
business and professional life on ev.
cry side of the street in every city and
town in this conference. And 1t has,
too; we have better doctors. better
lawyers and better men In every line
Of work on account of the influence
of the Christian institutions. The
church needs the college for the ex-
preston of its life and In what way
can this be shown If not through the
training of the Christian college. That
institution can and does educate IN
that way. If the school has sent out
but one who has raised the standard
of his or her profession on account OF
their being in it, then it has done Its
work. 1t is needed as a rallying point
as a heart for the conference, it should
be something to work for, to pray for
and to sacrifice for. It is not suffici.
ent for the churches to pay current
expenses: there are larger things to
be done. Let us do Them
Or. Hancher Talks.
DR.. John w. ,Hancher Of New York
and former president Of Iowa Wesley
an. preceded the bishop in his ad-
dress. DR.. Hancher spoke on "Edu-
cation as a Benevolence," and stated
at the outset that the question had
two sides. He said: 1T has two
sides, but UP until seven years ago, or
during the last two general CONFER
nnce QudQre0uluIlS, We SOW UuI 0hS
side of it and even now the new turn
1t has taken is looked upon with re-
luctance by some. That is to recog-
nize that the church is philanthropy
or benevolence."
He then took up at some length the
matter Of ''the true side" of the ques-
ton as he termed it. He sketched the
rise of the educational systems OF the
country and the part that the church
and state have played in that rise.
He stated that the only way to main
tain true system was through phil
anthropy saying that it was exempt
fed in the entire course from the first
grade up. He then took up the ques-
ton of what is the Obligation Of the
Christian Churches as Such to the
Whole Problem Of Education, and
said, ut involves the question Of the
business of the Christian church, what
is 1t? have a firm conviction that
heaven and hell alike are conse-
ouences and that there Is not enough
IN either to defraud YOU IL you have