Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 294, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1916 — GOOD ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY MOOSE [ARTICLE]

GOOD ENTERTAINMENT GIVEN BY MOOSE

Entertainment Given at Moose Hall Thursday Evening Proved to Be a Rare Treat.

Th# Moose lodge was again served a rare treat last Thursday evening in having a splendid entertainment, consisting first of a musical program by Mr. and Mrs. Loren C. Sage. Mr. and Mrs. Sage were both in good form am sang. beautifully, rendering the following program: Mrs. Sage singing “Four Leaf Clover” and’“Carissima,” Mr. Sage singing “Dreams” and “Over the Ocean Blue,” and Mr. and Mrs. Sage singing as a duet “Still As the Night,” and “The End of a Perfect Day.’ The Loyal Order of Moose Wil certainly not forget these selections very soon. > Dr. Rapp then gpve a very fine talk on ’ Current Events,” and we doubt if a finer talk has been delivered in the city of Rensselaer in the past ten or fifteen years. The address was deep and scholarly and his audience listened with intense interest.

While Father Rapp’s subject was "Current Events,” in which he stated that there was now being enacted by the world’s drama one of the greatest plays of all time, but that the events were so close that, like the mountain climiber, after he had reached the pinnacle of a beautiful mountain, he must see the mountain at a distance before he may realize his true character. Then taking the history of the past, he applied it to present times to show that out of the crucible of the great conflict will come pure gold and that from the warring nations, who were drunk with power, will come' forth new nations and ideals shall be Christian ideals and that a new and better Christian ideal will obtain. It is doubtful if the people of Rensselaer realize the ideal men that we have at the CathoHc college and everything should be done to promote a closes intercourse between the college and the citizens of Rensselaer to their mutual benefit.