Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1907 — Two Splendid Senmons Suday. [ARTICLE]

Two Splendid Senmons Suday.

Large andinnees attended hoth special services Sunday, that of Memorial at the M. EL church in the morning and of the Baecalau reate at the Christian ehmreh in the evetHwy.—; ’ 1 v '.r: : .. . ..i'.;— R. D. Utter, formerly for several years pastor of the M. E. church at this place, now retired from active pastoral charge, and who makes his home in South Bend, preached the Memorial, and was given the closest attention of the large audience. It was a sermon that combined the highest type of patriotism to conntiy with righteousness, and picturing the advantages of American citizen ship that deserved our loyalty and made ours the best country beneath the sun, he praised God for the victories of our past wars and in the most eulogistic language ad vocated the planting of the American flag always higher, improving the government that is founded up on it, anS holding just above it the cross of Jesus Christ. This fine historian and scholar, though suffer ing from a recent severe attack of the grip, never appeared to better advantage, and the service was one long to be remembered.

The seating capacity of the Christian church was taxed to the utmost in the evening. The special music by the High School chorus under the direction of Miss Queen Perry, the petite and competent little music instructor in the schools, was very fine. The program as printed was carried out. Rev. Clark advised against ambiton tin t sought either riches, pleasure or glory for what they alone represented, quoting from men of international fame and of all the ages to show that disappointment is the unvarying result of their accom plishments. The real ideal should be for the doing of things that will make the world better, accepting such rewards as a life of usefulness is sure to receive from the Giver of Life. First let the scholar view the future and its needs and then seeking the advise of the Lord labor with zealous determination not to be rich, nor to live a life of pleasure, nor to live for the plaudits of men, but having made the world better by their living, to find the sweetest happiness in a consciousness of having lived aright, that in the judgment day they might have said to them, “Well done, thou good and faithful servant.’’ Itching, torturing skin eruptions disfigure, annoy, drive one wild Doans Ointment brings quick relife and lasting cures. Fifty cent, at any drug store.