Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 206, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1914 — ASSEMBLY CLOSED SUNDAY EVENING [ARTICLE]

ASSEMBLY CLOSED SUNDAY EVENING

■.■ • . . ' / ; f t*.. .. Large Crowd Heard Dr. Grose and Clinton N. Howard—-Attendance Less Thin UsnaL / Fountain Par|tAssembly tft Remington caineQ/aTfose Sunday evening and the twentieth annual session of that popular Chautauqua probably brought to Jasper county the highest class talent that was ever procured before. The attendance during the week days was not quite up to the standard and it is understood that the receipts were slightly less than the expensed. The he was, which will inspire us to be over a balance from last year and they art} not greatly discouraged, for so many complimentary things have been said to them about the various numbers that composed the program that they believe that another and futuqe years, will witness larger attendance. Sunday’s program was an ideal one. The Sunday School hour witnessed a splendid service in the tabernacle and soon after its close there was a song service and this was followed by a magnificent sermon by Dr. Grose, of DePauw University. In the afternoon Clinton N. Howard, known as “the little giant,” delivered his very humorous and logical lecture entitled “Why. God Made a Woman.” He held the large audience in rapt attention for more than an hour and his lecture was regarded as one of the best of the many good things than have taken place during the assembly. , The lecture was followed by a fine concert by the Williams’ Jubilee Co., which is composed of colored singers of excellent talent. Their concert was much appreciated. During the afternoon the following resolutions were proposed and unanimously adopted:

Resolutions. r • a., , Jo|in Ade. Whereas, is has pleased Almighty God in His wisdom to remove from our midst our honored and respected friend and brother, John Ade, of Kentland, Resolved, that in his death Fountain Park has lost a staunch ant true friend, the state a noble anc patriotic citizen, the church £ devout member and helper and the community a kind friend and neighbor. Resolved, further, that we all try to emulate the life of this good, patriotic Christian man and be guided "by our Heavenly Father as he was, which will inspire to be better men and women, better citizens and better Christians. Temperance.

Fountain Park Assembly declares the license of the liquor traffic to be unscriptural, unethical, -unsocial, unpatriotic and immoral and therefore wholly inconsistent with the claims of Christian discipline; ' Therefore we favor an amendmen r ; of the constitution of the United States prohibiting the manufacture, importation, sale and transportation of alcoholic beverages. Resolved, further, that we are opposed to the manufacture, sale anc use of cigarettes and tobacco or any other narcotic that reduces or destroys men’s usefulness* and prevents them from performing the duties of life that both God anc their fellow men require of them. Woman’s Suffrage.

Resolved, that we reaffirm ofir former action endorsing woman’s suffrage, conferring on them all the political rights under our government that men now enjoy. World-Wide Peace. Resolved, further, that we endorse the action of our government in its stand for world-wide peace and its offer to act as mediator for the great nations of Europe and the orient that are now engaged in a great war. Our Lord and Master came with a great message on His lips, “Peace on Earth, good will toward men.” It is the sentiment of Fountain Park Assembly that after nineteen hundred years of Christian experience the nations of the earth ought to be able to settle their differences in an international court of justice the same as the citizens of the several nations settle their* differences, and without the arbitrament of war, as they are all the children of our Heavenly Father. * Therefore, be It resolved, that we favor the establishment of an International court of arbitration in which all the differences between nations which they can not mutually settle must be tried and honestly adjusted, which decision must be final.

Miss Nettie Brower returned to Peru today after a visit of a week with her cousins, Mrs. Hale Warner and Mrs. W. C. Milliron. • Mrs. Albert Lebo,’of Listers, Ind., and Mrs. Ralph Lebo, of Kewanna, Ind., have been here the past week receiving treatment from Dr. F. A. Turfler. The former returned to her home today. ♦ . i D. E. Fairchild, of DeMotte, passed through Rensselaer today , enroute to Monon to visit his children, who are engaged in business there. Dan was a Bull Moose two years ago, being an ardent Roosevelt admirer, but he is firmly convinced that to defeat democracy it is necessary to unite under the old emblem and he is just about in the mood to “come baek,"