Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 47, 5 January 1914 — Page 10

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM. MONDAY, JAN. 5, 1914

NEW PARCEL POST RULING 111 EFFECT Many Shippers Take Advantage of Increased Rate Limit.

Parks and Playgrounds Necessary in Richmond

Some shippers are taking advantage of the increased weight limit for shipping parcel post and although the postoffice has not been inconvenienced as yet, by the new ruling of the poetmaster general, it is expected that spring will bring with it such a rush of heavy package business that an Increased force and additional floor

space will be required.

No packages weighing the limn of llfty pounds have Teen shipped through the Richmond postoffice in the three days since the new weight ruling became effective. A thirty-five pound parcel was sent out today. The hardest work the men will have because of the ruling, is the casting business which Is expected. Automobile, agricultural implements and lawn mower parts of iron and other metal, are expected to form a big part of this classs of business. Shipping of all kinds ts light at the present time because many firms, are invoicing stock. The business will open stronger in two weeks.

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field. And in turn says 'The Christian Century,' Torrey, Gipsy Smith and Chapman have 'inspired and disappointed the hopes of Chicago churches that this city might be stirred with new religious life.' 'The Northwestern Christian Advocate' (Methodist Chicago) recently undertook a questionaire, addressed to the various Chicago pastors of its denomination, 'asking each to tell what results the recent Chapman-Alexander meetings brought to his church, his community and the city as a whole.' When these pastors

frankly state 'for the most part the results are negligible in their churches,' observes " 'The Christian Century,' 'it is time for some one to arise and ask whether the $50,000 spent in this evangelist campaign could not have been ppent to better advantage for the kingdom of God.' " , Why Do They Get Rich. "Why do all evangelists become rich? asked the speaker. "Sunday took JS.O0O out of Toledo. If I remember correctly he got $6,000 at Springfield, and either $14,000 or $12,000 at Columbus. "You may argue that the money Is given freely to the evangelist and is not forced from them. We are not ignorant of the sly way how to impose on people and oblige them to give when they are not really willing. Have you noticed how Mr. Honeywell is working the game?" "For his work a Christian will accept fair wages and no more. For a man to pretend that the love of immortal souls prompts him and then to take thousands for a few weeks work is such an absurdity that the blindest ought to be able to see it, for it certainly shows greed for money and lack of Christianity, and even aside from Bible and religion, in the name of reason and common sense, why should we load down these so called "vengelists with money to carry out of our fair city by the pocketful. Better To Help the Poor. "Would it not be better to give it to the poor and needy or to apply it for public improvements for the good of the community? "Was it necessary to build a board phack when we have enough churches and ministers. If the seventeen preachers backing the Honeywell movement oannot revive their own churches, let them resign, and let the congregations call Honeywell, for he seemingly has the ability to serve seventeen charges and fill the city with spirituality. "I might go on to say that the people will take almost anything from these so called revivalists. That people allow them to call them ugly names and almost to spit in their faces, and take it for an honor, is a sign that they are false prophets." Stir Up Frenzy. "The evangelists work up the community into fanaticism so that sound judgment is lost; they engender animosities between neighbors, discord in families, which often renders a home unhappy for many years. '"If the seventeen chinches which are taking part in this movement can for one-seventh of The Sundays of the year practically be one united church, why cannot they he one for the rest of the year, and for the next, and for always? If these various denominations are one, what excuse have they for remaining many. If they are not one, if they are so much at variance that they must remain separate, what ri.'ht. have they to make the impression that they are really one? They are rank hypocrites. To quote a theologian, 'they are united to pieces and revived to death.' Easy to "Revive." The speaker then went on to show that no great intellectual qualifications are necessary to become an evangelist, as it is an easy thing, so the pastor held, to work up the em'otions of ignorant persons and play upon them for effect. "His pulpit efforts may be the merest twaddle, pointless, trashy, ridiculous, but it matters not, provided he possesses a sufficient degree of self assumption, carnal boldness and effrontery together with the ability to arouse the lower emotions of the soul in the ignorant, the unthinking, the impulsive and excitable portion of the audience. "Superficial minds jump easily to the conclusion that the religious agitator who makes many converts must possess almost miraculous powers. Misjudge True Pastors. "On the other hand when such superficial judges of the ministerial office see truly evangelistic ministers who do not employ claptrap methods, who do not appeal to the imagination of excited hearers, but instruct the mind, enlighten and direct the conscience and impress the heart, such Infatuaftd lovers of a revival crusade, conclude that true pastors have few If auy gifts for the ministerial office. "He is called a one horsed, two by four preacher, such as the Rev. Mr. Ughtbourn was denounced by Honeywell. While he who can report the con-

By LEO L. REDDING The nearer your parks and playgrounds are to your home the further off the cemetery will remain. Isn't that sufficient to persuade you that the parks and playgrounds of Richmond are as important as the cemetery? Other proofs are ready if you want them. This is one of the most easily established propositions connected with town development. Detroit has found the great public playground, Belle Isle, one of its very best municipal assets. Every business man in Detroit regards Belle Isle as a money saver. It is a playground open the year around to men and women who work and to their children. Manufacturers and other large employers in Detroit have little difficulty in keeping their help satisfied. And since Belle Isle was made a place of public recreation the health of the city has greatly improved It's death rate has decreased. We are living in better conditions than did our forefathers, and we have grown so acustomed to the pleasant places in life that we regard them as our right and refuse to do without them. Must Have Fresh Air. If Richmond does not provide parks and playgrounds for our children to enjoy and in which they can get plenty of fresh air and the exercise that is necessary for them in their growth to manhood and womanhood, we will move; we will go to some town that has enterprise enough to care for the children of those who make it. Think that over, you man of affairs. That is a thought that has caused hundreds of thousands of families to move. Many of them would come to Richmond, no doubt, if you have the parks and playgrounds here that you should have. Now, don't get annoyed;

don't say to yourself that taxes are high enough without providing luxuries. ' Such breathing places as the parks and playgrounds are not luxuries. Nor do they increase your expenses. One of the most expensive things and one of the most useless, is sickness. Give your children chance to grow as they should; don't stunt them by depriving them of plenty of fresh air and of room in which to thrash around, and you will have few doctor bills to pay and little medicine to buy. The cemetery will remain far down the road. Make Organized Effort. The trouble with this problem of parks is that it is like other big things in Richmond. It cannot be solved by one individual. No matter how good a citizen you may be, no matter how public spirited you may be, nor how willing you may be to spend your money for the benefit of the community's babies, you cannot do it all. Just as I have been trying to tell you about other things, in this you must work with your fellow citizens and you must have an organization. You owe . it to your wife and to your -children that you identify yourself with the commercial organization of Richmond, and that you become active in its work. One of the first things that you should do is to make a study of the parks and playgrounds of this town. Contrast it with the cemetery. Determine for yourself where your interest lies. Are you more interested in the parks and playgrounds and their upkeep, or in the cemetery and its growth? The city that shows to its visitors a system of parks and playgrounds well kept, interests them in itself. It establishes itself in their eyes as a self-respecting as well as an enterprising community; a place in which life is pleasant and safe.

PRAYER MEETINGS TUESDAY MORNING

The cottage prayer meetings will be continued from 10 to 10:30 o'clock four mornings this week. The card in the window, and this announcement of the places in the press is your invitation to be present at one of them. The places reported for Tuesday morning are as follows: Fred Knollenberg, 139 South 4th. Timothy Nicholson, 132 South 9th. Dr. J. A. Walls, 21 South 10th. Dr. Townsend, 124 South 10th. Mrs. George Davis, 59 South 15th. Mrs. William Cooper, 414 South 11th. Mrs. Clarence Carey, 440 South 15th. Mrs. P. I. Smith. 603 South 12th. Mrs. Emma Hanna, 604 South 9th. Mrs. Cook, 34 North 7th. Mrs J. W. Jay, 122 North 11th. Mrs. Joseph Brown, 201 North 12th. Mrs. John Deitz, corner North C and 14th. Mrs. Albert Lamb. 116 North 16th. Mrs. Ogden, 2026 North F. Thomas Dennis, 1034 North J. J. M. Lamb, National road, West. Mrs. Clevenger. 118 Randolph. Mrs. Samuel Curtis, 429 Richmond avenue. S. S. I'erciBeld, 1111 Sheridan. Rev. S. Billheimer, 1009 Hunt.

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LODGE HOLDS FIRST MEETING FOR 1911

Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows held the installation of new officers at the first meeting of the year Friday night. The installing officer is Demaa S. Coe. The new officers are A. C. Hurst, N. G. ; Elmer Hawkins, B. G. ; Lawrence Handley, secretary; E. D. Neff, treasurer. The initiatory degree will be conferred on a class of candidates at a meeting Friday night.

version of thousands and publish his sermons in the newspapers, heralding his own praise after the manner of the old Prarasees, is regarded as a hero by the superficial. The Rev. Mr. Feeger styled the revival movement a modern, man-made agency, unknown in the early church, unhistorical, unscriptural. He held it implied that conversions could not be effected without human aid. His text was I John IV, 1, "Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world." The speaker held if the Bible asked members of churches to test the doctrine of preachers who had been in their midst for twenty years, it behooved the laity to test carefully the sermons of men who come to a city under the title of evangelists. Rev. Mr. Beck's Address. The Rev. Mr. Beck held that Honeywell would make a lecturer, but ought not be tolerated in the pulpit. He based his opposition to the movement on two grounds. First, human measures are introduced to take the place of the Words and Sacrament in the salvation of souls; secondly, the emotional result is considered the true criterion of conversion. The speaker made an analytical review of the pentecostal revival and the reformation of the Sixteenth century.

ter. Miss Gladys Evans; organist, Miss Ruth Evans. Regular services will hereafter be held every towo weeks in the Christian church.

NEW ICE COMPANY IS INCORPORATED

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 5. The Wayne Ice company of Richmond, capital stock $50,000, filed articles of incorporation today. The directors are

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METHODIST CHURCH GAINS BY CONTEST

CAMBRIDGE CITY, Jan. 5. The i annual report of the Methodist Sunday school, read yesterday, shows that organization to be in better condition, both in the point of attendance and finances than for several years. In a contest which has been running for several months, aud in which the classes were divided into sides, the Reds and the Blues, as an inc entive in increasing punctuality, offering, newscholars and attendance, the Blues were vistorious, gaining ten points over the Reds. The following are the officers elected to serve the coming year in the Christian Sunday school: Superintendent, Mrs. Jessie Jornell; first assistant, Williams Sowers; econd assistant, Charle Marples; secretary, William Campbell; assistant, Bertie Munstin; treasurer and corresponding secretary, Mrs. Ed Copeland; choris-

Commissioner's Sale of Farms in Western Wayne County, County just northwest of Cambridge City, Indiana. Part of Moses Myers' Estate. ON JANUARY 6, 1914 One Farm of 100 Acres One Farm of 7S Acres ON JANUARY 7, 1914

One Farm of 40 Acres

One Farm of 21 Acres

All these Farms are in Jackson Township and Well Located. JOHN C D0DS0N Commissioner

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