Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1921-02-21
MEN HOLD ANOTHER
SUCCESSFUL MEETING
E. F. Daily and A. w. Arm
strong Speak for Gospel
Team.

That the Mems Union Gospel team
| is becoming potent factor in the
spiritual life Of the community goes
without saying. Yesterday afternoons
meeting at the Christian church was
IA great success. President Glenn pre-
'sided and Prof. Schaub'S big orchestra
gave good account Of itself.
Owing to the inability of Ernest
Schweppc to be present as one of the
leaders. T.. f. Daily consented to sub
,,stitutc and gave Il splendid address.
using for his text. The Pious Man.
He elaborated upon this subject. set
ting ont strongly that since the begin
ming of creation there has been two
forces at work in all spheres. Il posi-
ltivc and negative. the one setting
up Il strong work against the other.
Thus he applied the same forces to
the present day man. citing the nee
cssity for the pious man in order to
effect the workings of the worldly.
The clean upright man of God was
referred to as u, positive element for
good which the negative or opposing
forces do not know what to do with.
neither do they care to oppose him in
the open. AS an example tho case
of Jesus Christ before Pilot was cited.
The earthly ruler had come up against
IA problem that he did not care to deal
with directly and this led to per-
sOnal application and the inquiry di-
rect to each individual present What
are you going TO do with this man
Christ Jesus" thus leaving thought
for every man. no matter what atti-
tudc he may assume in this life. for
surely the end comcth for all men
and there will be a day Of reckoning
The next speaker was \. w. Arm
strong, who brought Il clean. forceful
short talk upon the text sabbath
Keeping" Mr.. Armstrong was empha-
tic in his statement at the outset that
the Gospel team was not political
factor and did not expect to enter into
any such work. His theory as OK
pressed was that the Christian peo-
pie should remember the Sabbath to
keep it holy. and so live that their
lives would prove attractive TO Oppos-
ing elements as having something the
other fellow did not have. thus bring
ing about IL change through love and
henevolencc rather than force. emulat-
ing the character and traits of the
Great Master while He was here upon
earth with mankind
A report was given on the splendid
services held at harrisburg on last Sun
day evening when some thirty-two
members of the team. including the
orchestra, conducted Il full evenings
program.
The team of six members also re-
ported on their meeting yesterday
morning at Epworth Memorial church
in Fort Dodge. The pastor being at
Il hospital for an operation call was
sent over the latter part of the week
and the six men responded. reporting
a splendid service which was very
helpful To the men who took part
There is now before the committee on
invitation a request to take part i'll
the services at Oak Glen next Sunday
afternoon. as well as Il call to assist
in conducting two weeks revival at
Williams to begin about the 18th of
March.
All men and boys are urged To ar
range TO attend the regular Sunday
afternoon meeting at the Christian
church next Sunday at :; o'clock.