Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-07-20
A NECESSITY.
Let Us Do q Good Work-The La.
dies Can Help Us; Will They
Do it, A Tree is Known
by its Fruits-a Plain
Talk About Plain
Things.

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interesting sermon at the school
house on Sunday evening. The no.
tice came too late to be inserted in
our issue on Sunday morning. Mr..
Jenvey informs us that, hereafter, the
services will be more regular. We
hope that this will be the case. With
a population of the number here, it
seems to us that religious services on
the Sabbath should at no time be
omitted. We have before urged the
necessity for the erection in some
suitable place of
A CHURCH EDIFICE.
We again call attention to the matter,
and trust that some one directly in
terested, and capable, will take hold
of the project and set it in motion.
1t is one that cannot afford to be neg
lected. We have large and, in all
other things, liberal community here,
who through apathy are allowing
wlrat should be great religious in
terest to lag behind every other con-
sideration. 1t may be said that the
public school house is good enough
to answer the purposes of public
worship. 1t is true that the schoo
house is good school "house, but as
house for divine worship
1T rs TOTALLY UNFIT.
What we see to be the need, in order
to attain the object sought, is an edi-
flee dedicated and devoted exclusive
ly to divine worship, and a pastor
resident to take sole charge of this
particular mission. This would seem
to be about the only method by which
a genuine, permanent and constantly
increasing religious awakening can
be planted and successfully nutured
in this city. We feel certain that our
citizens would willingly contribute
to such an object, should the good
ladies of our city constitute them
selves a committee to take the work
of solicitation in hand, and so soon as
suitable church building could be
erected. we have no doubt that some
one of the various Christian missions
would send pastor to take charge
Of the good work. Nearly every in
tercst not in direct
cO-opERAIoN WITH SATAN,
Impcratively demands that this pro-
posed enterprise should succeed. We
! have community as thoroughly in
clined to be good and religious as
any in the State. Our people are
bright, energetic and generous. Two
hundred little children, the wealthy
and worthy accumulation of fifteen
years of pioneering, have settled down
among us for the purpose of acquir-
/ ing education and character, and the
citizens of Silver City are responsible
/ for the manner in which that charac-
ter is patterned.
''As THE TwIG is BENT, THE TREE Is
INCLINED"
And right now is the time to incline
to moral and upright growth the
little ''twigs" that you have planted
in your households and hearts. Let
this ''inclining" be done in manner
that, when the stree" is grown, will
not cause you to be ashamed of its
fruits. Depend upon it, you shall see
the fruits; and now is the accepted
time for you to say whether that fruit
shall be bitter, distasteful regret to
your after lives, or the golden apples
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VIRTUE, INTEGRITY AND PIETY.
We shall all--big and little, good
and bad-be the better for the influ-
ences which a suitable church and a
devoted pastor cannot fail of scatter
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this. The writer is probably as wick
ed, on the average, as most any one
else, and yet he feels in earnest in
this matter, and believes that his sug-
gestions will find an echo in every
right-thinking man and woman in
the community. Then, in response,
let the good ladies of Silver City
move at once with energy in this
laudable enterprise, and there shall
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''NO SUCH WORD AS FAIL"
We shall see how promptly our sug-
gestions are acted upon. One woman
has accomplished a good deal in this
world, and if a committee of the good
ladies of Silver City will only just
say-"We must have church" there
is no other element known to us that
can prevent the contamination so de-
voutly to be wished. The entire cost
of such building AS should be erect
ed would not exceed $4,000. The