Douglas daily dispatch. [volume] (Douglas, Ariz.) 1903-1961, 1927-11-03
DIR. |. LANDRITH
SPEAKS BEFORE
LARGE AUDIENCE

One Of the most interesting events
in behalf of the young people oc-
CURED Tuesday evening at the Chris
tan church when a large audience
sat for two hours spell-bound lis.-
ening to Dr. Ira Landrith, one of the
most eminent platform speakers and
Christian statesmen of our country,
who was formerly president of Ware
Belmont college of Nashville, Tennes.
see, but who is now devoting his time
to promoting the great Christian
Endeavor movement among the
churches of our nation.
The audience was so enrap:ured
with the message it seemed TO have
lost all sense Of time and Iile people
were actually surprised to learn that
they had been under the speakers
voice for two hours Never before
has there been more gifted speaker
in Douglas DR.. Landrith is a dis
tinguished humorist and seems to
know young people better than they
know themselves. And as an artist
at holding attention he never fails to
get his thought over to q responsive
mind. Coming to Douglas under the
auspices of the Christian Endeavor
union. DR.. Landrith stressed the need
of unity in religious work and &C.
operation in the advancement of
Christianity. In referring to the COM
mon saying that the young people
of this day were worse than that
of former generation lie >said that
it was not SO, but because now and
then you hear of a young man or
woman going wrong some people want
to judge the whole group by the
lawless ones which is unfair He
mentioned that two cotage students
had murdered boy but that the
hundreds. of thousands who did not
commit such a crime but condemned
it should not be judged by the two
unusual ones. He said: "The woman
who quietly carries on her domestic i
work in the home as a good wife is
never mentioned in the paper but /
let her run away with another VIC
mans husband and she us given a
headline in the newspaper because
it is SO unusual. 1t is the unusual
things that are published" said DR.,
Landrith. He said, however, that a
SC14CA clSO yOOA1S Sl11S MCIC
chaparoned, which is not done now,
and that under the same circuI1s-
stances former generation would I
have been probably worse. He laid
the blame of most shortcomings of
young people upon their parents.
Being an optimist DR.. Landrith
hooted at the idea that the world |
iTNrp
was some reaction, however, since the |
war, but that the pendulum is swing
ing back rapidly to normal state !
of morality. zone of the things that
contributed to moral declinatlon and |
lawlessness;a said Dr. Landritn, els
the well laid and planned propaganda
of the liquor traffic" He compared /
it with the propaganda of Germany
during and before the World" wax.
"Three things" said DR.. Landrith
"the Christian Endeavor will en-
A WarleSs World, Evangelism and
the Enforcement, of Law" Many
were brought out to en-
phasize these needs.
Landrith spoke at the high school
to a most enthusiastic audience Of
students, who were charmed with his
al He closed his message by
asking the students to help him
speak. Having them to stand, with
chins up, clinched fists, he had them
repeat three times four words with
all the forcefulness of their being,
emphasizing the four points of his
lecture on "Believe in Yourself, =
Purpose Purity" "Prepa-
ration and "Persistency"
Mr. A. w. Cotton, president OF the
Christian E'ndeavor district, due to
illness was unable to be present tol
preside at the church so Rev. Weaver,
the pastor, presided. Miss Gladys /
Cory. state secretary of G. E. from
Phoenix. and Mr. Harold Singer, Of
Oklahoma City, midwest secretary,
accompanied DR.. Landrith to Douglas.
There were also number of people
from Bisbee and Warren to hear the
lectures Dr. Landrith left for FL
PacC to6aN at NOM