The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-04-01

"A L. al 1V11Z - %AoOC' =,
some little gospel also; I took out Il
cense as local preacher some twenty
five years ago, and occasionally hav
great success. My sermon last Sun
day evening was on tho parable Of tn
supper, and those Who permit the ia
terests aud svocations Of this life +
keep them away from that great feast
but as Twas applying it to tho case il
hand, a society disperses, each membe
is pressed by his own affairs. commit
tees fail to act, and one earnest man o
woman runs the machine. Miss Iron
ton has . nice place, in fact a magni6
cent establishment, never was SO vel
fixed in her life, not one woman j,
twenty thousand ever are. She is ab
solute mistress, every luxury, servant
to come at her call. She says to thi
one go, and he, goeth; to that come
and he cometh !; to another do this, ant
he doeth it, The children are he
humble dependents. She grati6cs he
love Of power ty governing them; ant
her natural ferocity by Furnishing them
Sho has every motive for holding Of
to her place. Then, her relatives anx
ious to provide for her, raised thre'
thousand dollars by fairs, donations
&C., &c. This is placed in her hands
to be used for the Institution at hel
discretion. Sho has had the discretion
to place it in good bank stocks, and
draws her salary from the funds Of the
institution. Yes, when they have been
that they didn't know where to gel
meal for the next days pudding, ard
have come to me for five dol]ars-thank
God, I generally have five dollars
Miss Ironton's discretion has led her to
buy on tho credit Of the association, i'm
ported delicacies for her own table, but
sho has always been too discrete to
touch that immortal three thousand"
While talking he kept up the .occa-
sional motions already described. They
were his own peculiar mode Of gesticu-
lation !; and with them and his some
times bringing the points Of his fingers
together across his breast, and then
throwing them apart as if LIE opened
the door Of his heart, he added very
unusual emphasis to his words, and
made them singularly impressive. AT
ter swinging his cane with unusual Wig
or back and forth in silence for several
seconds, he continued:
"It was three hundred + think, that
held tie pass against Xerxes and bis
army and with such leader as Miss
Ironton, her thoroughly enuenched
three thousand, will hold that Their
mopola against ten such associations"
"And for Gods sake" exclaimed
Margaret, "what is to be done %
why, you must Dust ter," he said,
down the upper part of his
head against his firm under jaw, clos
ing his lips to their highest pressure
and running his fingers under his era
vat. II was in hope" he added, throw
ing up his head, "until I saw her that
Mrs. Bateman would do it, but she gets
hysterica. 1t must be a woman. No
man could take 1t up, this quarrel among
women ; and she must be backed by
the press and public opinion. They
all shiver at sight Of exposure and
Miss Ironton has artfully taken adyan-
tage Of this. They treat the public as
though it were a great baby to be anus
ed with falsehoods, or as England
sought to treat our colonies, tax its be-
nevolence Tor the support of their In
stitution, and deny it the right Of know
ing what is done with the funds
Their Annual Reports are budgets OF
make believe. Now, my dear young
lady," he said with an air of knowing
all about it, my experience of this
same public is that it is quite as intel
ligent as the average Of grown people,
and that you can trus: it, every time.
You call on the public to support your
Institution, and it responds literally
Your Institution gets into snarl like
this, call on your public again, tel! the
exact truth, and if your cause is just,
your generous public untangles the
snarl, and instead of losing, you gain
in it's confidence.
As I was saying, some woman must
espouse the cause Of these orphan chill
dren, make it her own, not by getting
up a personal grievance to redress, but
as the Savior .espoused the quarrel of a
lost world, by making its debts His
own. I understand it is your purpose
to do so, to turn the burning glass Of
public scrutiny into that establishment,
and it cannot stand the fire a month.
Get good focus, and the Iron woman
will melt under it,"
II agree with you, but have promis.
ed to await the action of the Annual
Meeting, if this falls"
"Well, this will certainly fail, but it
is better to wait. You must not have
Mysteries, must be cool, you must to q
degree, concentrate the opposition, OF
your forces will desert and enlist unde,
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