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gs mg remarks week‘s editm churches. and more to say a] “'(‘t‘kz if 15 (m The Leutgert trial which began August 23rd and concluded October 18th. having continued just eight Weeks and a day, will for years rank among the remarkable criminal trials in our country. Such is the general intelligence of our people that the average Auierican“"ciuzen Torms'liis own judgment irrespective of thejury and the lawyers. lthae had one‘ beneficial result not contemplated in the. indictment - about ruined the i (i‘hicago sausage industry. LTm»: good Quakers of Pennsylvania have made the discovery that the in mates of their state prison aré mak- ing counterfeit coin. ()h, that's noth- mg. we have lbts of folks here out of jail. who pant {or a 16 to 1 Silver dollar, worth about 38 to 42 cents each. When the old slow coach East gets ahead of the West. let [1.“ klllul' it. W E v e can t hgve such a lecture, Evanstou or Waukegau or som e other place will lend us the boy. Evmsmx had a lecture last entitled “The Worst Boy in T We can’t hgve such a lecture, I Evanstou or Wankeaan m- mmn THEY have had a bad railroad wreck in Japan. How rapidly those oriental nations are adopting the cus- toms of our western civilization. LEWIS B. Hmmnu A. E. mes. ~ 1 LEWIS ‘l‘rrms, 3| mumhs, to a Published in the Park Highwmnl and afu rn mn by l‘ ulns .\’ ”flier: in Avenue, Hig The Highland Park News. Advertising >¢Lx- Au. have heard some ‘mc-rcd at .mve neard some very flutter Hnarks concerning our 1 ust i editorial about too many ‘ es. and shall have something . I my along the same [me next | it i9 ()YH‘ mi ”map xnhinnh: rm FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22 ed at the posrmficc a! Park, “1.. as second class m m, Hooper year, 50 coma fur si R ;, 30 cents for thrcc munlhs. r: in News Building. 255 (‘emral ‘, Highland Park. Illinois ...... Mum] um: me xn~ r state prison aré mak- it coin. 011, that s noth lots of folks here out of in the mtcrcsts ut {or a 16 to 1 Silver bout 38 to 42 cents old slow coach East €- West. let us knuw Hump 5"thon W0?“ Boy in Town." ). - ~ EDITOR BUSINESS MANAGER lx’uvinia, everv l‘ urrcsl [ice at Highland clams matter. night l lighluud "y Friday I His introduction was a hrlet’ d1‘1cus- I I sion of the fact that every system of l philoeophy or religion has its central truth, just as the solar system has its ‘central planet, the sun and that which differentiates Christianity from every other religion is that its (rod seeks to save lost men. His points _1vere these. Christ seeks to I save all men irrespective of their 1 soda] position. “ealth. culture, po I litical influence or any other accident ‘ of human life. Hence his treatment ‘ of the blind betrgar the leper the 1 sinning woman. the publican Mat ; thew, the Roman centurion and the t woman of Samaria Second the _1 ( a work of individual ( hristians, HI Christa disciples, in to seek to save 11 the lost on the same lines. Third, 0 the work of the Christian church as g] (‘ hrintiane organized is to RHH' the w last rive years; â€" and we may he pardoned for saying. we hope he will i many more times in the future:â€" and he preached the gospel, a more rare event than some people think. Most ministers preach about the gos~ pol, but Dr. Anderson preached the gospel itself. just as theLord com- mandedfi‘Go ye into all the world and ‘ preach the gospel to every i creature." He took for his text one i of those simple. straightforward pas- ! sages of Scripture. such as White- ,3 field. Wesley, Andrew Fuller and , Jonathan Edwards used to select i and preached asthey used to french, ‘2 "The son of man is come to seek and l . . l to save that which is lost." ' 5which we need to keep “pegging ! lost. Hence nwny." Sacrctary Van Home, one“)! : effects of n g the Rock River Methodist conference, l Fuurth. the J i has just been giving his brethren E sions as the ; assembled in Rockfurd Hume figures large. This with great fr ; and wholesome advice on the evil of , six or seven little churches in little : along new lin a mastcrly efl' f towns of only a few hundred inhabi- l tents. They used to tell. down east, Hi8 ooné'l’ifé ’; of farmers who ware land poor. they of the truth ti ; had so much more than they needed. Highland Pa 7 Perhaps Highland Park is “church 3 save Sinners a poor." : “mum .z.. u THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS xas they used to french, mm is come to seek and vhich is lost." rtion was a brief disenta- PREACHING . His conaiiiéinfi win: an arinlicatiun they of the truth to the Baptist church in cried. Highland Park. what it is doing to east, lurch i save sinners and what each member 5 would do during the week, citing. as f an illustration of the effectiveness of 1 such work. an instance‘ during his L 0: pastorate some years ago in James- inity ville, Wis., where a drunken, church xeet- ‘ neglected, meat‘man was sought. ' has ’ reached and saved. There was more ' “19 i than one moist eye in that audience ,V "'3 i as the Doctor closed, though any. “'i” i thing dramatic or' sermminnnl mm ' transaction; we will give our advice l when it is wanted. We ask both ' parties not to act on the impulse of the hour, but what they think ten years hence will appear as the best. l 0111' last church work was with just such a split church as this; we know how disastrous it all is; what the outcome will he, and hence what ‘ should be done now. and that is what we want. ‘ l Some exceptions have been taken ' l to an article in last week's News {touching the Bethany church suit g before the supreme court. The ar- l ticle was not written by us. It did I not exactly express our views, for ithere is no more obligation to the highest Christian conduct on the lpart of the Bethany people, than {Ion the First United church. We vonly express the genera] desire of l the town, when we say We wish there i was gmxl sense and divine grace enough in both these churches to unite some way, or at least so work i as to have but one German Eva‘nge‘l? ‘ ical church. . The First Church has two meet. ing houses, one more than it needs; the matter of rent or sale to Bethany of the old one is purely a business transaction; we will give our advice ...|. .. A f as the Doctor closed, though an)" ithiug dramatic or sensational was I the furthest removed from his spirit for manner. And we kept saving. ! ' . ' l “why could not lots of other (7“er 1' tians have heard the same sermon and been blessed thereby, instead of .being scattered about in other little congregations P" Fuurth. the prophecy inlaid in mis sions as the work of the church a‘ large. This point was developm with great freshness and vigor and along new lines of thought, and was a masterly efl’ort in itself.- 4 His Bontmféfdfi w'as an apolicatiun _I ll - AN EXPLANATION. d. We ask both :0n the impulseof {at they think ten appear as the best. \VF l was spirit I: