Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1916 — Roy L. Smith Delighted Good Sized Audience. [ARTICLE]

Roy L. Smith Delighted Good Sized Audience.

There was a good sized audience at the Presbyterian church Monday night to hear the second number of the lecture course. The speaker was Roy L. Smith, of Chicago, and his theme was “The High Cost of Low Living.” He is a young man wentynine years of age and has a wonderful voice, speaking so distinctly that every word he said could be heard with ease. iHe said when he was a boy that he lost much of the value of a good lecture by having so many questions coming "to his mind in reference to the lecturer himself. To relieve this he said he was twenty-nine years of age. That he was married and had one child six years old. That he and Mrs. Smith lived together in their home in Chicago. That he was a graduate of Northwestern University, a Methodist and a republican. If this was not complete enough he asked for the privilege of being more explicit.

The lecturer divided his subject init& three parts. First, the high cost of low physical living. With the touch of a real artist he made point after point Ugaints the abuse of the physical man. He said linger sal had complained because disease was contagious apd thgt the Lord should have made health contagious. Mr. Smith said that health Is contagious and all one had to do to be well was to take in a great amount of fresh air and sunshine. He deplored late hours and other abuses of the physical part of our nature. We should pay more attention to the warning nature gives us of an approaching ailment. For instance, cold is often the warning sign of the approach of some serious sickness.

His second point was the high cost of low mental living. He said to let him see the pianos of your city and he wpuld tell you what kind of girls you have. The sheets of music thereon will.indicate at once, If from the great masters, the girl has character and stability. If they of the mgtime kind, then chances are that the girl is frivolous and of little, force. He urged the reading of good books. He deplored the interest in Charles Chapman and cheap pictures. *He urged living upon a very high mental plane. His third point was the high,,cogt of low spiritual living. It was in this part of his address that Mr Smith was at his best. He made an elegant plea for real religion and the following of the Master as our real leader. In his closing he reached a climax that held his audience spellbound. A vote of thanks is due the comr mittee for having secured the services of such splendid talent,