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Show GREAT GOOD 001 BY MEN IN WORLD'S AFFAIR Mrs. Delia Daynen Hills delighted a large audience last nigbt in the PreBbyterian church. Mrs. Hills Bang with a clearness, distinctness sweet ness of ton p and quality of tone timbre tim-bre that called forth liberol praise. Miss Anderson, in her violin offertory, offer-tory, was a surprise to many who have not heard her recently. Miss Anderson is a most promising member mem-ber of the small company of Ogden's young and talented artists. The choir showed the results of steady pracUce The two numbers rendered by them aided very much to make the evening a musical success. suc-cess. Rev. Carver said In part: In a museum in St. Petersburg is a marble Btatue with its head wreathed with laurel. It was carried to Moscow Mos-cow by Napoleon. It is a statue of himself and we read that he took it there intending to set it up In the Russian empire when he became its ruler. He would use his genius and the lives of thousands to make him self conquerer. This incident speaks of the self-seekers who never have the loving pralBe of peoples or gratitude grati-tude deep and true from lives whom they have blessed. Tberp Is in Ha-jvana Ha-jvana r statue to Walter Reed, a youn American doctor, who gave his life to discover the source of contagion In yellowfever Wo northerners think but little about him but in the south he is a peoples' hero and his story is told as of a people's idol He died after it was clearly shown that the mosquitoes alone carried the poison. The people, the multitude of the common people, sang "Hosanna, blessed bless-ed is He that cometh in th name of the Lord'1 on that first Palm Sunday so long ago Thl6 is the "people'- bestifude. ' and of whom do they slny It; of men like Napoleon or of men like Walter Reed; he only comes in the name of the Lord who comes to make the lives of people more blessed. Howe has done much for women in riving them the sewing machne. He has eased their days of toll and freed them from the despotism of the needle nee-dle McCormick has changed the harvest har-vest fields into fields of comparative lipht toll for men. Edison has freed the women from the bondage of the kerosene lamp with its odious daily need Blessed in a sense have each of these been In glvlnc rent to the body, but the Christ who gives rest to the heart, mind and soul Is thrice blessed Lincoln Is blessed in that he has given release to so many from slavery's slave-ry's bondage The negroes sincerely praised him when he freed them and they praise him today A C. Dixon, in his book, tells how his fatlfCr freed his 26 slaves and how four months later they came and wanted to be ta ken back again. They could hardly make a living and they wanted ftlave ry and no worry Christ not only frees from bondage but He gives power pow-er to keep free Therefore He Is thrice blessed The world has ever called those who have released people from pain and misery blessed. The doctor who finds a new medicine or treatment endears ages unto him. Howard made a life long fight against the debtor prisons i and forced common prisons to be (clean and decent. Thousands called 'him blessed and you. my hearer, have the opportunity to win the people's beatitude in easing another's misery' and sorrow. Let no one sneer al the little the people gave Christ on thut first Palm Sunday They gave their best even If it was only the branches of trees j and spreading of garments on the dusty way They gave the loving and ! sincere gratitude of their hearts and If you say that Is but little you have neer either given it yourself or won It from another. Sincere gratitude md praise is one of the rarest gifts In the world today and no gift is better bet-ter or costs more than it oo |