Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 13, Number 63, Decatur, Adams County, 15 March 1915 — Page 2

DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by St «r|!| I)FMOCR*T r OMFWV LEW G. ELLINGHAM IQHN H. HELLER Subscription Rates Per Week, by carrier 10 cent ß Per Year, by carrier $5.00 Per Month, by mall 25 cents Per Year, by mail * 2 - 50 Single Copies 2 cents Advertising rates made known on application. — Entered at the postofflee in Decatur, Indiana, as second-class matter. Some one sent a skunk hide by parcels posts. It landed in the Hartford City postofflee and sent two men to bed sick from the nauseating odor. That town Is certainly having more than their share of sensations. Lincoln Beachey, known as the world’s most daring aviator, was Inlatently killed yesterday afternoon,., when the wings of his monoplane collapsed and he fell seven thousand feet into San Francisco Bay. If there is one avocation In this age which pays one thousand per cent in death loss, it seems to be that of air flying. Beachey has sent thrills up and down the back bones of a good many thousand people and was believed to be about the one safe man in the business. j DOINGS IN SOCIETY | WEEK’S SOCIAL CALENDAR. Thursday. Mt. Pleasant Mite —Mrs. Ben Butler ’’Life is a leaf of paper white, Whereon each one of us may write A word to two and then comes night. Tho’ thou hast time but for a line, Be that sublime. Not failure but low aim is crime.” Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barthol and Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Kuebler were the guests Sunday at dinner of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Henderson and family in Fort Wayne. In the afternoon they visited with Miss Marcella Kuebler at the Sacred Heart Academy. The Mt. Pleasant Mite society will meet Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Ben Butler. All who attend are urged to come early that the meeting may be closed earlier to allow the women to attend the tabernacle services in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Will Berling and son of Bluffton motored over and were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. E. X. Ehinger. Dr. and Mrs. P. B. Thomas enter tained at dinner Sunday for the fourteenth birthday anniversary of their

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son, Brice. Guests were Rev. and Mrs. D. T Stephenson and children, Mr. and Mrs. John Schug and children, Mrs. G. W. Woodward. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Kilbourne of Ft. Wayne were week-end guests of the U. Deininger family. Mrs. Kilbourne will remain a part of the week. Miss Hazel Ruby of Winchester accompanied Miss Frances Dugan here for a week-end visit with the C. A. Dugan family. FARMERS NIGHT (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ON!D rousing yells for Honeywell and his party. The junior choir made its second Saturday nights appearance, sinking with the same s;'rit end as successful in their work n.s the senior choir One song they err.:- was ' A song to the Flag,” using small American flags and waving them high above their heads. Rev. Harmon of the United Brethren church offered the opening prayer after which Mr. Clase and his father-in-law, Mr. Burtcn Olds of A. >hley, Ohio, sang “His love can never fail.” Mr. Honeywell rejoiced at the von derful demonstration by the farmers saying it was one of the largest that had ever attended any of his meetings. Mr. Honeywell was raised on a farm himself and he spoke very well of the honored guests. Next came the band boys, he never forgets the band boys and he expressed his appreciation again and again, for their presence on a night when every body seemed so busy. Mr. Honeywell made it plain that some of the members of the band had left their work to play 'for the delegation and after allowing the average Saturday night collection he asked that the committee turn the remainder over to the band boys to defray the expense of the evening. The sermon was shorter than usual as Mr. Honeywell had promised, but like all his sermons every word counted. It will be remembered that Rev. Honeywell remarked during his first week here that no one had a right to take any one of his sermons alone and expect it to be a campaign sermon in itself. But by taking all his sermons together it will be found that each word, each sentence, and each paragraph of the combination bears a forceful meaning that will never fail to bring the results of a successful campaign. His text on the subject, “How Shall We Escape if We Neglect so Great a Salvation,” will be found in Hebrew 11:3. Summing the pints in brief it will be found that he aimed to impress upon the minds of those who had not accepted Christ, that through neglect one might put it off too long. o YEOMEN, NOTICE! All Yeomen are requested to be present this evening at the hall to make arrangements to attend the funeral of Brother Newton Stevens.

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PASSED THOUSAND MARK (CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) simple: It is to clntinue to say—No, No, No, to the offers of mercy and the strivings of the Holy Spirit until you are a sinner left alone or given up by the Holy Spirit. Who can commit it? The most respectable and moral. Any one who will persistenly say NO to all the strivings of the Spirit of grace. 1 have no question but what many In this tabernacle have already committed it. You have said NO for the last time. Despair of eternal night is yours. The Last Time. As I preach to you, you sit there and listen attentively something saysyou ought, you ought to do it. But you say NO not tonight. It is the Holy Spirit prompting and pleading with you to do the right. One of these days you will say NO to the Spirit for the last time. He will take you at your fate. When the Spirit leaves you, your doom is sealed. Y’ou are beyond the boundary of hope. The Holy Spirit is God’s representative on earth.

It takes the Trinity to save you. It takes the Holy Spirit to convict you and lead you to tec! you are a sinner, and need salvation. It takes the Atoning blood of Christ to cleanse your sin away, when you ask for forgiveness. And it takes God to pardon your sin. Men. you have rejected and grieved the Spirit until He leaves you, you have exhausted the Trinity. There is no other means of escape. God Timself is powerless to save you for you have rejected His only representative; you are DOOMED. Oh your peril, 1 hope it is not too late. Do not say NO to this call tonight. 3. How will it usually show itself .’ Generally it shows itself in one of two ways: (1) By bitter malignity of heart against Christ and His people. In this state nothing toremnts him more than a revival of religion. The very ringing of the church bells that call Christians to the house of prayer annoys him. Nothing is too severe for him to say against religion. (2) But the most ordinary way in which this sin shows itself is, by shutting up the haart inutter indifference, so that the one who has committed it has no feeling on the subject, no fears no trouble, has no idea that he has committed this sin, but is perfectly calm and easy . It is a remarkable thing how men can go on in sin—without hope of forgiveness, and die like dogs and brutes without concern, and yet they die that way. I never said that sinners or even infidels as a rule die in agony or with fear As a rule men die as they live. Tell me how a man lives and I will tell you how he dies. I have very little faith in death-bed repentances. Why Unforgiveable. God can’t forgive Qie unpardonable sin because you have driven away the only representative he has in this world to take his messages to you from him and from you to him —the Holy Ghost.

Psychology teaches this truth through the laws of habit. Each time you say “No” you make an impression in yourbrain that makes it easier to say “No” the second time, the third time, and so on until God takes away his spirit in despair. You take a boy in his teens and ask him if he is a Christian. He will answer, “No” I am not,” After a little urging he will often break into tears and will come forward and be saved, But suppose I walk up to a gray-hair-ed man and ask him if he is a Christian. He will say, “No, Mr. Honeywell I am not,” If I say to him, “Will you accept Christ?” he wil say, “No” no, no. There is no use use talking to me altout that. I wont do it and you are only wasting your time.” He has become so accustomed to saying “No” that it is second nature for him and it will not be long before the spirit will quit prompting that man. A Demonstration. I have given you now a demonstration of the danger of putting off making the stand for Christianity. I have asked for all the people in this audience who are Christians to stand. A crowd estimated at 2500 stood. When I asked how many were converted after they were 25 years of age 100 persons stood. Converts in this audience after 35 years of age were 24 and those who were reclaimed for Christ after 45 years of age were only three in the entire audiance of more than 2500 who are here. That means at 45 a man has one chance out of 1,000 to become a Christian, at 35 he has one chance out of 120, and at 25 he has one chance out of thirty. You say, “I’ll be a Christian some day ” If you are 45 years of age and not saved I would’nt take a deed for Indiana and accept your chances tor salvation ” Sunday Afternoon. Rev. Honeywell gave his second message to men only. Sunday afternoon, the meeting like the one of the preceding Sunday, being unusually

well attended, men coming from all parts of the country and crowdint; into the tabernacle, tilling every inch of standing space. The song service was up to the mark ,and first-class in every respect. Rev. McCombe offer ed the opening prayer and the double male quartet followed. After singing their first selection they responded with “Brewer’s Big Horses Can't Run Over Me,’ 1 and brought down the house with a roaring applause. Mr. McCombe and Mr. Clase sang a duet and this special music, like the rest, was thoroughly enjoyed by ail. “The time passed long ago when people thought the man in the church was milk-and-water creature without enough backbone to stand out against temptation alone,” said the speaker. "Long ago people ceased to say that a man joined a church because he wanted to get a stand-in with God, or that he was a coward and joined the church to escape the pangs of hell. People realized years ago that to be a Christian takes all the manhood a man has. Danay Excuse Makers. “One place there is where Decatur need’nt ever fear taking second place and that it in making excuses fbr not becomming Christians. And those excuses are the most nonsensical I ever have heard. You people are all dandieeat that. There is only one reason under God's sun being a Christian and that is because you haven’t, got the ginger, the backbone, the sand, the grit, to do it. The reason why many of you have not bit the sawdust trail is because you lack the manhood, sand, gumption, and ginger that all ol you boast so much of having. "You young fellows have boasted,— O, how you have boasted — of your power, of your college training and so on, but you haven’t had the nerve to go home and tell your mother, your sister, and the girl you intend to make your wife that you have ‘cut sin out and intend to live a better man.

"One of the devil’s best ways of damning a man is to tell him that to be a Christian is a manly thing, but to put it off for some time. All of you say you know it is the manly thing to be a Christian but you haven’t done it because you haven’t it in your fiber, in your blood, to be a courageous man. It takes every ounce of couFage a man has to take the step for Christ. In every town and city, where I have been the best of the men have responded to my manly appeal. If you men in Decatur do not respond to my appeal it is not my fault. It is not the fault of the gospel I preach. It is your own fault. Requires Grit. “It takes a lot of grit to come here in front to say, “I’ll accept Christ as my personal Savior, but if you are men and know it is the right thing, you will do it, whatever may be the cost. “You may ask what Decatur needs. She needs men with backbone, who will have the bravery to take a stand for Christ. “I appeal to your reason, manhood, honor. Some people in the city have said they don’t want to come here on account of the excitement. I deny the charge of excitement. It may be exciting to them. Some men let their conscience lie dormant so long and cease to think about God for so long that if they come here and have their thoughts and conscience Eiroused they most likely do become excited. “The brains of the world are on the side of Christianity. Ninety per cent of the thoughful, educated men of the land today are on the side of the gospel.

“Listen 1 apt trying to tell you where the brains are. Some of you young men turn up your noses at a meeting like this and say you want to' be where the brains are. You can’t find a great man in national life who is not a professing Christian. They are not at the top merely because they are better developed all around men and therefore are the more able to get to the top. “Still you will find some little two-by-four, sawed-off, lip-spieler, wordheeler who does the dirty work in politics who will stick his thumbs im to his vest and say. Naw, I won’t have nothin’ to do with such a thing as religion. If one of the great men I have mentioned should spit on tnat little fellow, he would drown, if he couldn’t swim. I hate to see some little fellow getting ®ls a month swell up like a poisoned pup and say I haven’t anything to do with those tabernacle meetings. “Young man, if you ever were a fool in your life you are a fool when you say it is beneath your dignity to pay homage to the Bible and its gospel. If the brains of the world should be against the Bible, then thank God for the ignorance of the world, because I would prefer every day the men who are Christians to those who are nos, on account of their characters. “You may do as you please, but I am not ashamed of a. manly gospel like that of Jesus Christ.” Sunday Morning. The service on Sunday morning opened at 10:15 sharp, with a splen-

did showing by the church-goers ot Decatur, Fine weather counts much in drawing people from their work moat any day and this helped swell the crowd to a greater attendance than the preceding Sunday. The song service was, like the rest of the meeting, very interesting and the good every one is getting out of Mr. Clase’s special efforts to entertain and instruct at the same time, means much to make the entire campaign a success. After the opening prayer by Rev. Borton. Mr. Honeywell introduced his plan of raising the necessary amount to put the collections out of the way after yesterday's meetings. A subscription system was used and immediately at his call several prominent men of the city walked the aisles taking the names of any one who wished to subscribe to the fund. A total amount of $l,OlB was raised in less than an hour. The sermon, on “The Power of the Holy Spirit” was intensely interesting, and can well be considered one of Mr. Honeywell’s most important sermons. Saturday Afternoon. With the doors and windows open and rays of sunshine pouring in, Mr. Clase opened the meeeting with the song, “Let a little sunshine in.” The attendance was breaker with nearly 500 present. Special music by Mr. and Mrs. Clase added much to the interest of the song service. The opening prayer was offered by Mr. Clase followed by the third sermon by Rev. C. Jeff McCombe. Rev. McCombe has won a place in the hearts of the people of this city and community, his sermons are deep in meaning and more than interesting. He took for his text Phillippians 2-9, After telling of a motor trip through his native land and a visit to London where he went through Westminister Abbey, he told of the fame of those who were remembered and burried in that wonderful building. Men honored before and after death, giving their lives for the uplift of humanity and some giving up their lives to God in His service, and yet not one could be compared to the High and Mighty Lord Jesus Christ. History has been made popular by the glorious work of heroes, fighting for their countries or doing something for the cause of God, but none were so true in faith, so faithful in their work, or unconscious of their mighty strength and Power as our Jesus. Men have glorified his name, praised his wonderful work, preached of his love and kindness and yet no man ever surpassed him in glory, his friends never spoke too wgll of Him nor did his enemies ever marr the truth of His sinnless life on earth. In closing his sermon he spoke ear nestly and faithfully to those in the Tabernacle who had not given them selves to God, for Service, expressing his most earnest desire to impress upon their minds the seriousness of the object of the tabernacle meetings. Rev. Rogers of the Baptist church offered the closing prayer. ■' —O — CATTLE SALE IN PROGRESS. With buyers from every state of the middle west, and lots of /them, with Col. Fred a local auctioneer, who has gained a reputation that extends from coast to coast, and with assistants who know their business, the Kukelhan Brothers this afternoon staged a sale of Holstein cat tie that will prove the record breaker in this county. They are offering seventy-two head of pure-bred, fancy Holstein cows, calves and bulls and the sale started off at 1 o’fclock in a way that made every one predict success. The first cow offered brought $l6O, and it is likely that during the afternoon the top notch will be much higher than that. —o ■- BONE OF ARM IS CRACKED.

Together with the many pleasures connected with motoring and owning an automobile, there oftentimes com is a few experiences which make it quite disagreeable. The latter case occurred to Dick Tonnelier, son el Mr. and Mrs. Joe -Tonnelier, last Saturday evening when he was trying to “crank" their Ford machine. The “crank" swung around, twisting his right arm in such a manner that the bones were cracked. The injury was a very pairf’i! one and Dick will be laid up for a few days. NOTICE, BOY SCOUTS! The weekly meeting of the Scouts will be held at Scout headquarters this evening (Monday). This change has been made because of the tabernacle meetings, Monday night being their rest night. CARD OF THANKS. Henry Bauman and W. A. Fonner express their sincere thanks to the farmers for their help in making the farmers’ delegation to the tabernacle a succeso.

WOMAN'S REPLY To a Man's Question the Subject of Mrs. McCombe’s Address. girls set standard II! I For Young Men of TownMen’s Character in Their Hands. “In the girl’s hands lies the character of the young men. Show me what the young men of this town are. and I will tell you what the young women are. The young men will conform to the standard the young women set." These were some of the practical things emphasized by Mrs. J. H. MeCombe yesterday afternoon when she addressed the women, and especially the young women of the city on A Woman’s Answer to a Man s Question.”

Long before the opening hour the i gallery of the Methodist church was filled from the overflow of the auditorium and Sunday school room, and many had to stand during the service The old, old love story of Rebekah, as told in the twenty-four chapter of Genesis, was the foundation of Mrs. McCombe’s address, and especially the fifty-eighth verse: ‘And they called Rebekah and said unto her. Wilt thou go with this man? And she said, I will go.” She gave the historical setting of this. How Abraham, rich in possessions and growing old, desired a wife for his son, Isaac, and desired that she be chosen from those of his native land. So he sent his oldest and most trusted servant to select the wife and bring her to Isaac, as was the custom. The old servant hastily journeyed to Abraham’s former home and waiting outside the city gate, prayed God to direct him aright. He asked that as he should stand outside the city gate, to which the damsels same at evening to draw water from the well, the first one that he asked to let him drink from her pitcher and to draw water for his camels, should be the one that God had appointed for Isaac’s wife. This proved to be Rebekah, daughter of Abraham's brother, Nahor. The betrothal took place, the servant telling his mission before he “sat at meat” or refreshed himself, tired as he was after his long journey. He set the time for the re turn to Abraham as the next morning, but was asked by Rebekah’s people to tarry a few days—ten at least. The servant said that he could not. but must go that morning. Rebekah was brought in and inquiry as to her wishes in this one matter, was made in the verse quoted before and her answer was, “I will go.” Mrs. McCombe stated that Abraham with his riches could be taken as a type of God; Isaac, as a type of Christ: the servant as a Christian worker. Several characteristics of the servant that should be emulated by Christian workers are: His prayerfulness; his swiftness in performing the Master’s work: his enthusiasm, and his faithfulness. Advice to Young Women. In speaking of the young bride, Rebekah, Mrs. McCombe gave her spec ial message to the young women, and also to their mothers. It is the right and privilege of every young women to look forward to wifehood and motherhood.. Some girls’ ideal of a hut band is one who is a leader; or one who can give her a good, comfortable home; or one who has ability to a--cumulate wealth; but if she is to mak» a success of life, she should choose a man of character. All else may vanish, but character always remains A girl should be well trained and educated for the duties of wifehood and motherhood-not only in the du lies of the home, in cooking, etc., but physically. The influence of the mother counts much. It is her duty to tell the daughters of the things she should know as a wife and mother. The dav is passing when the mother will i et her girls learn from her chums the things she should learn from heuother. A girl who has not learned this knowledge from her mother , 8 not fitly prepared for the duties’ 9f wife and mother. It is j UBt as nec . essary for her to be taught along those lines, as it. is for her soul’s salvation So many girls look upon wifehood and motherhood as something to be ashamed of. It is not. The curse of American life is the shirking O s tlvresponsibilities of motherhood Mrs. McCombe stated that in her experience in mission work, she found that so many of the girls who „ 0 astray, and many of them are from the most cultured homes, do so be cause of absolute ignorance and are lead to lives of shame. The mothe-s who failed in instructing their girls are responsible for this.

At this point she brought in the statement that the character of u le young men lies in the hands of the girls, who set the standards for them, A young man will do nothing that the girls will not tolerate. -If I were a young girl,” she said, ••I would prefer the company of a good, plain, old-fashioned boy, even though he were not so graceful, even though his clothes did not ‘set’ so well on him, even though he were not able to give me so many automobile rides, even though he were*not so very bright, hut of good character, than the gay young man of the world, who h able to spend more money on me,” Don't make fun of the boy who is tied to his mother's apron strings. Every mother is desirous of seeing her daughter well settled in life. But better that she begin housekeeping In three plain rooms with a poor man of high ideals than in a gilded pda. e< surrounded by every wealth vith if man of shallow ideals and life broken. She spoke against “marrying a man to reform him.” Be sure that he is a Christian before you marry him. If he does not love you enough to reform before marriage, he will not after mar. riage. Tell him you expect to marry a man: that you are not running a Keeley institution. Two dozen wives

in Decatur have come to her with tears in their eyes, she said, to ask for prayer for their unsaved husbands. She found that they were not Christians when the women married them, but that they had promised to become so, if they married them. But they did not. In the majority of cases, if they do not reform before marriage, they will not after. Mrs. McCombe’s address was i splendid one. She closed by extending the invitation: “Wilt thou go with this man, Jesus Christ,” and urged every woman who was not living tho Christian life to say, “I will.” Many responded. The musical service was led by/Mrs. McCombe and the high school girls’ choir. Mrs. J. O. Sellemeyer also sang several sacred selections and a special feature fas the singing of “1 Love to Tell the Story” by the grandmoth- . ers present. This was lead by Mrs, W. J. Myers and Mrs. Martin Beery. O'— A GOOD SESSION

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE ONE) tionality of the law. It is evidently not in favor with those Republicans who desire and will control the organization and the actions of that organization. They do not like this thing of going to the people and the giving to them the privlege of naming the men who shall compose the organization. It would be no surprise should such a test case be filed, and when it is filed rest assured that the cause stipulated in their complaint will embrace the statement that the law is contrary to the constitution ot our great state, and that it infringes upon the sacred rights of the voter. Hew their hearts bleed for that voter. However, should they file this test suit, the real reason and their real cause for complaint will be because the primary law may make it impossible to continue the standpat machine in control of the destinies of the Republican party in this state. The standpatters do not intend to lose control of the party organization, and should it be necessary to put out of commission the new primary law, they would do that in order to strengthen their forces and remain in .control. The progressive Republicans will receive several distinct shocks before the next party organization is completed and a ticket named. The recognition that will be accorded the progressive element will be about big enough to stick in your eye and not notice anything. President L. O| Hamilton of the Columbia club and blind tiger, is now after the county chairmen .and the members of the Republican state committee. On March 19 these celebrities will be entertained upon the green cushions and near the bar of the C o'* umbia Club blind tiger. Upon this occasion woman’s suffrage, the county option, the American flag and Lincoln will be patriotically and tearfu l? alluded to. Have one on me boys. ■ T. P. A. MEETS TONIGHT All the members of the T. P. A. ara requested to meet at the Madison hotel at 7:30 this evening, to attend the annual meeting, at which time will occur the election of officers and delegates. T. M. REID, President. o —— EOIt SALE—Roller top desk, good as new; call ’phone 64. 6:it3 You cannot leave our store with a suit that does not satisfy you. We positively refuse to create a dissatisfied customer.—Elwood Tailoring 9°- Rear of People’s Loan & Trust Co. si “