The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-03-03

ing gets close to people--it's so hui
man Everybody who could sing tried
to. mad everybody who couldn't just
| had to make a noise. Another song,
and then another, and then came a
short prayer. EIoquent-well, the
/ press agents for some of our revival
| lists have insisted on printing their
prayers verbatim as bits of litera-
ture, but this prayer was eloquent in
! a different way. Then another song
or two, and then talk. Now the
average soldier in Europe, or any
other place for that matter, is filled
reyeille, and the Skipper" or per
haps it would be better to say the
4 captain, talks at retreat, And in be
| tween times bulletins come out from
division headquarters and general
i headquarters, which are just means
( OF speech between the division Off
i GERS and the Cine to the men. But
4 this talk was different. Army
phrases. sure thing. Why not? And
/ yet it was such heart to heart talk,
i without any attempt to ram religion
or anything like that down a mans
throat, that one could not help but
be interested.
I 1t was something about being sum
Il shiny, about taking advantage of the
4 good things that come to one every
i day, and not trying to make hard
4 ship out OF every little disappoint-
/ ment. 1t was just the kind OF thing
/ that appeals to men who are wonder
1 ing every day when they're going to
i get home But that isn't all. The
A chaplain was talking with a song as
4 his text. Nothing unorthodox about
that-just plain common sense. And
Il 20 illustrate what he meant he sang
the song about scattering sunbeams
on your road every day, picking up
those that you came across and
helping to bring sunshine to some
one else He only sang one verse,
and in order not to appear too seri-
GUS, he asked for the key
"All the professors ask for key
before they sing a note, he added
in an aside At the end of the verse
he closed the book. I'm not going
to sing any more; I'm finish "a
common expression Of the FTench)'
my voice would break all to pieces
II tried another spasm, and know
when we had enough Another
n little paragraph or two of good ad-
vice, and then it was over. There
i was a rush Of men to form line.
For pie and salvation are not far
separated, and it was pie night. Some
} OF the men were there just for pie;
/ others came to enjoy both service
! and pie. Perhaps he who came for
!, pie remained to pray. At any rate.
? before the little service was over
, men were grouped in a solid lorna
t ton all over the little hut, and there
{ was interest written in every face.
1 And take one Sunday night, when
e one of the girls led the meeting.
t There was singing worth while then;
r she'd get a song out of the crows
f and canaries, both in the crowd, and
D as for solos she was not to be car
!. ried on special duty for training at
d any singing school And her method
d Of presenting the little talk she made
was keen as the bayonet "policed up
y for Saturday inspection. Did she
, hold UP her hands in horror at the
we'll known fact that American sol
t diers and vim rouge often made bad
s combination? Not much. She didn't
e rave and storm about it; she passed
e it over with a bit of sarcasm that
t bit deep into the heart. She spoke
e OF no peace without victory, and that
a peace in ones heart must come from
t victory over the foes of uprighteous-
yI>ness. She very wittily brought mill
L tary and French terms into her talk
3 and at the end she asked for testi.
t. Emonials. They were silent ones, but