The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-03-05
Flfty-Nve Attended Perior Conference
Friday and Are Impressed
With Lecture by the
Evangelist.
BIBLE IS HIS SUBJECT
The Greatest Of All Books la Taken
as Text for Lecture by tho
Speaker-Mrs. Scoville
SINCE.

The first parlor conference in con.
nection with the evangelistic cam
paign was held Friday afternoon at
the home Of Mrs. Henry w. Huiskamp.
sol Grand avenue. The fity-four
women who were there were for the
greater part, prominent society and
club women Of the city, some Of them
leaders In the activities Of their
church In the company were Bap-
lists. Unitarians, Fpiscopaleans, Meth
od1sts. Congregationalists, Presbyter-
1ans, the latter being in the great ma
lor1ty. Mrs. Huiskamp introduced
DR.. Scoville, who in turn introduced
Mrs. Scoville, who opened the meeting
with solo, the familiar hymn Was
That Somebody You" She sings with
remarkable sweetness OF tone and
very effectively.
DR.. Scoville had for a subject THE
Bible" and talked for forty-fve min.
utes and there wasn't a word Of slang
and scarcely an unconventional phrase
until he came to the closing prayer
and almost the last sentence he said
And now Lord, If in this bunch there
Is one woman who Is not a christian
wilt Thou especially bless her, for
she is the one that needs Thy bless.
ing most Of all Take the woman
who In this company is able to do the
most and use her for Thy honor and
glory. Put the six cylinder men
and the six cylinder women on the
six cylinder job and let the one
cylinder folks do what they can"
At the close of the meeting he ask
ed II the women wished a lecture this
week and the sentiment being in favo,
of it, Mrs. Eugene S. Baker Offered
her home for the conference to be
held on Thursday, March 9, at 800
o'clock in the afternoon.
The Greatest Book.
In opening the address, DR.. Scovillt
said: you know It is quite the thinl
now adays to have parlor lectures
and that's what we are doing today
and we are going to take for a sub
ject the Bible as a book, literary
lecture, If you please, on the creates
book. The Bible Is really sixty-si,
books instead Of one, written by thir
ty or forty different authors, and the
first writer finished his book tifteer
hundred years before the last one be
gan. Through it all there runs line
which grips and binds all these books
lHlo OHe DOOh, uHu lldl SIedI COI
which binds Is Jesus Christ. In Il
there are two thousand references tt
the sayings Of Jesus alone, there are
S62 quotations in the new testament
taken from the old, and there are 10s
references or prophesies in the ole
testament written of Jesus ages be
fore He was born"
Dr. Scoville named the books O.
the Bible, told the object for which
each book was written and classified
them as books Of the law. history
poetry. books written by herdsmen
shepherds. tax gatherers, doctors anc
scholars. He said that the great ain
of the book from the Tn the begin
ming" of Genesis to the amen" a
the close of Revelations, was the re
demption OF man from sin. He sale
incidentally that people who lived or
the bluff above the river along tbs
avenue. ought to be better men anC
women because Of the beauty Of thei1
outlook, it ought to give them a bie
vision Of life.
The address was full of information
told in a delightful way and it was
full too, Of the gospel Of Jesus Christ
whose coming was the fultilment o
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