The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-04-07
Charles Reign Scovile Addressed the
Final ParIor Meeting Of His
Services in This
City.
SHOW SELF APPROVED
Speaker Takes His Text From Bible
and cites Some Incidents in
Explaining His
Text.

Inc last OF the parlOT conferences
by DR.. Scoville was held yesterday
afternoon at the home Of Mrs. F. B.
Dorsey and was the largest in point
OF attendance of the series, one hun
dred and twenty women being present
Before the lecture Mrs. Scoville
sang THE Home Of the Soul and at
its close. THE Sweet Tomorrow and
responding to an encore sang THE
Night has a Thousand Eyes.
DR.. Scoville expressed his apprecia,
ton of the kindness of the various wo-
men who have opened their homes for
the conferences and especially thank
ed Mrs. Henry W. Huiskamp and Mrs.
c. F. Mcfarland who had been In
charge of the plans for these meetings.
He said he was particularly glad to
have had these meetings where a
little personal element could enter in
to the evangelistic campaign. He said
I'm that big tabernacle I'm away on
up at one end and a great part of the
audience is only in shouting distance,
here we meet face to face and come
to know some of the impulses and OBJ
jects of this campaign at little closer
range"
The theme for the afternoon was
Iue tSAJ olUuy " Ouo W
myself approved unto Cod He said,
Sometimes we ask ourselves the ques-
ton, why should I study to show my
self approved unto God? Why have
I any particular relation to God? My
dear friend, when you can get along
without God, then you need not worry
about his approval. When you can do
without breathing the air which God
~ .,,ita n "a naodQ
of your lungs, then you can do with
out God. God has put us in this world
which he made to suit our needs, air
for our lungs, light for our eyes, the
air a conductor of sound to our ears,
food to meet the needs Of our physi-
cal hunger and water to quench our
thirst. The same God has fitted heav-
en- for our longing soul and In re-
SPONGE to our hope Of everlasting life
he has promised immortality.
Become What We Wish.
In this seeking to show ourselves
approved unto God we can become
anything we wish. Anton Lang who
plays the part Of Christ in the Pas
sion PLAY has so studied the character
that he is actually Christ-ike.
.The children at Oberammergau will
cross the street when they see the
man coming who impersonates Judas;
he's studied the character until he
looks and acts like Judas and to the
children he means the betrayer OF
Christ. When you come to think of it,
is there any higher ideal than to chow
yourself approved unto God?"
incidentally he said that the great
er the opportunity one had the great
er the responsibility. To have had
good, clean ancestry and good birth
ought to make a man or a woman
strong morally. He said, st is always
a dangerous thing to put brandy or
wine in punch, because you never
know what man or poor weak boy
will taste it. That very thing has been
known to break down the resolve of
man who had cut out booze and who
came upon it unaware in some parlor.
You never know what a social game OF
cards will lead to. Many a man who
CANDLES and follows the races learned
to play cards in some home of refine
ment.
Almost every lecture DR.. Scov1lle
has spoken of the beauty of keokuk
as a residence city and yesterday ne
said. II don't know any place Ia
rather live than right here on the
bank Of this river"