Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — Small But interested Audience Heard Rev. Johnson Sunday. [ARTICLE]

Small But interested Audience Heard Rev. Johnson Sunday.

The public meeting of the citizens of the city, held in the Christian church Sunday afternoon, was not attended as well as it no doubt would have been had it been more widely announced. The meeting was for the purpose of hearing Rev. ,D. B. Johnson explain the purposes and work of the Civic Union of the state of Indiana. Rev. Johnson is superintendent of the movement, and in a forceful, plain manner he told of the need of an organized effort against all forms of public evil. Here and there over the state have been organized local unions as the need would arise, and one purpose of Mr. Johnson is to unite these into a state organization, and at the same time to effect like organizations in places where such do not now exist. Judging from the interest manifested by those present the plan was heartily received and endorsed as a workable movement, not against one evil, but against all evils threatening to menace our home, church and public life, life.