Author : Johnson Co. Old Settlers' Association
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2017-10-27
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781527863934
Book Description
Excerpt from Forty-Fifth Annual Reunion of the Old Settlers of Johnson County, September 12, 1911: 1911-1912 Continuing, Mr. Weeks said, Under two great heads my message falls, one is material and the other spiritual or sentimental. I wish to present some funda mental principles which I think ought to be applied to our social affairs. The speaker then continued and advocated medical examination of the children in the public schools, governmental regulation of unjust com mercial transactions, the exclusive handling by the gov ernment of life insurance, and the improvement of the roads of the State. He then took up the discussion of the spiritual and sentimental side of life. There is a mighty power working independent of man for his good, he declared, in closing. Why, I cannot tell, but from the character of events, I discover written upon every page of history in letters of red, and throb bing in the hearts of the righteous, the transcendent purpose of God to exalt the human race, and as our minds comprehend the majesty and scope of this great dominant purpose of his, we, his children, are inspired to cooperate with him and do our part in bringing to pass its fulfillment, keeping in our minds and upon our hearts, this great central and dominant element con cerning human existence. Following Hon. E. W. Weeks, Colonel Irish took direct issue with the Iowa legislator on his views of the relation of the people to the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.