Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1918-07-15

of life, and not often do Job and his
friends get such hearing as was
theirs on the platform Saturday after
noon.
"The Man for Now"
A large audience completely filled
the Chautauqua tent Saturday night to
hear Rev. Charles S. Medbury, D. D.,
of Des Moines discourse on "The Man
for Now" 1t was masterful and
timely address. DR.. Medbury is an
orator who does not smother his
thought with fine words. His is the
Oratory of reason, and in it every word
counts in the progress of informing
thought. He speaks with fine passion,
and many in the audience Saturday
night felt as though an old Hebrew
prophet were inspiring men to do and
be. 1t would be difficult to think of an
address more loftily conceived or given
in more convincing style. Advance
notices had spoken of the wide popu-
larity of this address, and now Web
ster City will subscribe to words of
praise bestowed upon the man and his
message.
OF course the address was on the
war. But it was no superficial story
he told. With rare philosophical in
sight and psychological skill, DR.. Med
bury interpreted these strange and
stirring times. He has visited close
upon forty cantonments in the United
States and his address was the re-
Election of the thrilling human life he
had touched at these khaki spots Of
American geography. He is a master
of platform eloquence and in choice
phrase and gripping epigram he held
the great audience to keen analysis
of the war, its causes and it's effects
upon the United States and the world.
The audience was literally spell-bound
by the unfolding of the speakers
thought and time and again broke into
spontaneous and hearty applause.
The name of Woodrow Wilson, the
speaker said, would be synonymous for
future generations with this most Won
derful era, and it must be the aim of
commoner folk to SO live that they,
too, may be integral parts of the time.
Just now all the world is awaiting
word and deed in manner
and with such issues involved as
should press home on every citizen his
individual responsibility for the sue
cessful prosecution of the war. Nor
should private citizens feel that they
are hid by the multitude and so do not
count in these stirring events, for any
day something may occur to push out
the lowliest into the limelight. A lit
tie while ago Edith Cavell was not
even a name, but the doing of her
simple duty had pushed her out into
fame. Harry Lauder has be-
come a great international figure be-
cause he has been baptised in the spirit
of the great sacrifice by the loss of his
soldier-sOn. So Norman Hall, a son of
Iowa, a ColfaX boy, has come to fame
and Merle Hay and Enright and Ores
ham have passed into the glowing list
Of household words around the liberty
loving world These shining examples
illustrate personal responsibility in
these crucial times.
A Wonderful Day.
This is most wonderful day in
which the man of Now must live out
his life. Nothing but what is real can
stand the furnace fires or these days.
Most of ones library has suddenly be-
come sadly and hopelessly out-of date
The recent fourth of July was a most
wonderful day in our history, cele-
brated heartily both in France and in
the England from which the fathers
fought away. The French have named
4 street in Paris after President Will
son.
The cantonments of the United Stat
IS are wonderfully cosmopolitan
nationalities were found
n one small area in one of our Ameri-
IAN cantOnments, all blended together
n the unifying cause against the Hun
n these cantonments today a wonder
ul characterization is in progress
There men are rapidly discovering that
luman differences are superficial and
he things that unite men are funda-
mental and eternal. One remarkable
hing about this wonderful Nov" is
hat peaceful nation like ours, train
d in the arts of peace and dedicated
o real democracy, is now sacrificial-
Y at war