At The Great S. S. Rally

Among those who attended the ;grea: Sunday school rally at Detroit ; last week, was Mr. J. Nelson Lewis, j of this city, whose graceful oratory a ready ideas flow fourth in rippling cadenee on extemporaneous occasions and enchant his audiences from the start. Concerning him, the Tribune says among other things: Mr. Lewis made himself popular early in his address by his easy, original oratory. "I come before you as the last letter of regret," he began. He spoke of the signifi canee of Rally Day, and said that allegiance to God is the only safe standard of manhood. He said that a few years ago it was to be good christianity not to do wrong things. Now. he said, it was corne to be realized that christianity is not a negation - not merely abstaining from certain things. On the contrary, it is doing fomething. He töld of a Toledo lady who expressed jthe fear that estabüshing church j cadet companies would teach the youth to think of war instead of peace. "Now the only danger of boys' brigades," said Mr. Lewis, "is that we won 't get such a big erop of dudes as we have in past generations. There will not be so many long necks and spindle calves. The modern church is teaching the cultivation and development of the body as well as of the mind." He commended the idea of or ganizing girls' cadet companies, similar to the one from Simpson Church which marched in the parade. Girls, he said, deserve to J have good bodies, and they should ' be afforded opportu-nities to develop ! them. ! Mr. Lewis closed his address by urging the Sunday school workers to bottle up some of the enthusiasm which was in the air, and take it ! home for use during the year."