The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-26
OF Interest to Women
BY wInona Evans Reeves.

A Keokuk woman who is kins.
woman Of Governor Major Of Missouri,
received a letter from Mrs. Major
few days ago, explaining hope that
she would meet personally DR.. and
Mrs. Scoville and their party, and
said: 1.-THE most popular thing In
Jefferson City since the Scovilles
were here is religion Religious lib
erty is one Of the great privileges OF
the American people and every one
has a right to his own opinion but
there are hundreds of people in Keo-
kuk who have never been inside the
tabernacle and those very people are
the severest critics of the methods
used in the campaign. There is pert.
inent motto on the walls of the tab.
ernacle, "Reserve your verdict until
the evidence is all in" Many people
who have not gone to the tabernacle
and SO know nothing of the services
from personal contact, have formed
their adverse opinion from the re-
ports appearing in the daily papers.
An officer in one Of the conservative
churches, a man with fine SENSIBLE
tiles, said to Mr.. Williams, the pub
licity man, Il can't understand why
you put into the papers every slang
Pill dSS dliu lSSuIlOudt lcLudl ~
DR.. Scoville makes, when they are
only Incidental to a. sermon which is
full Of the gospel presented In all
earnest way" This is the reply the
publicity man gave: We've been in
this business for a number of years
and we've experimental and tried out
a dozsn methods to bring the people to
the tabernacle, and we've found that
an unconventional report will bring
them. Nobody would read printed
sermon" When one recalls the small
congregations which nine out of ten
churches in Keokuk have had at their
services for the last few years, and
then see the crowds at the tabernacle
you will concede the point that they
do get out the crowds. This may be
the last week of the campaign and
everybody in Keokuk ought to go at
least once to that tabernacle. If you
60 for no other reason, you ought to
so for the sake of the experience Of
seeing a company of people from all
classes from those belonging to the
very best in Keokuk socially and in
tellectually to the down and outer.
all with one accord in one place"
You will hear that great volume OF
song, I'm That City Where They Need
no Sum-" and then a sermon maybe
unconventional in some of it's features,
but always a sermon full of the truth
Iof the gospel. DR.. Scoville follows
the advice which the old Scotch moth
er in one Of Tan Maclaren's stories,
gave her son before his ordination, he
always speaks a good word for Jesus
Christ
Then at the close Of the sermon,
there is more singing with an orches'
ira and two or three thousand voices,
and then the minister steps down on
the narrow platform below the pulpit
and reaches out his hand and the peo-
pie come down in twos and threes
and fours, and all the while the music
'Just as am Without One Plea, But
That Thy Blood was Shed for Me-"
When the last one has come, every
body stands with bowed head and out
of tho moment of silence the words
of the confession Of sin, the power OF
Christ to redeem, and the promise to
seek to follow Him is given and the
service is over.
At the meeting for women at the
tabernacle on Sunday afternoon, Dr.
ScovilIe spoke of the white slave traf-
fic and gave startling figures as to the
number of girls who disappear an
nualIy. We were reminded Of the ex-
perience Of Burlington girl a few
years ago. She was a girl Of remark
able beauty, and Of unquestioned social
position and had this experience on a
trip to Spokane. One day on the train
few hours out from Spokane, a wom-
an sitting in the seat opposite, open
ed a box Of fruit and offered to share
| it with the Burlington girl who ac-
cepted the kindness. Later at the
suggestion of the woman, they sat to-
gether on the observation platform.
the girl being charmed with the ready
wit and interesting conversation Of the
woman. Before returning to their
seats in the pullman, the woman rang
for cocktails which the girl refused
saying she was not educated up to
cocktails and cigarettes for women.