Litchfield enquirer., 1876-02-17
LYONS. Iowa. Feb. '. 1S7


 EDITOR EsoUmER. Tt is probable that E vary small circle of your readers have been g1ancing over the columns ol sS"- paper to sec If your Iowa correspondent
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 awakening and several conversions. These
 movements are so like ''angel's visits"
 that we feel constrained to make the most of them; hence have not found time be- fore to keep up my foreign correspon- dencs. " One of the first persons to lead oil Tn the new movement was young man of great power and influence, who has been foremost in nearly all matters of public importance, and when in his teens was mainly. instrumental in starting a public library which in ten years has grown under his hand from a very small beginning to library of 2, 400 volumes of well-selected books, in handsomely car. peted and furnished room. If he serves his God with half the zeal he has served the pubhc, he will make a valuable &C., quIsition to any church and will furnish an example worthy of imitation by other young men. Meetings have been held continuously for five weeks, the Congre. gational and Presbyterians uniting, and the Methodist Ca strong church) going it alone. There have been between thirty and forty conversions and the meetings are still in progress. A little diversion was started last night, all the churches uniting in Q grand union temperance meeting. addressed by Francis Murphy, a reformed drnnkard. The largest hall in the city was SO crowded that hundreds left unable to get in. 7, The weather has caught the fever and has been putting on centennial airs the oldest inhabitant forbear. Suffice it to say. the river has closed and opened and closed again for I don't know how many times, but not until last Friday was it considered safe for loaded teams when an almost continuous string of them load ed with hay came over from the Illinois side, from which most. of our hay is bronght--and all were happy. The ice packers too were busy, but the ice is pretty thin compared with other years. We have had no sleighlng and new cutters are st a discount -as.af s.a Gi4s .1-t-
 PERsoNAL.-In my last I had occasion to speak of the living. To-day my thoughts are of the dead. have seen but brief notice of the death of one who passed away short time since in Marble dale, full uf years and of honors. Hers was quiet but noble life, and from this standpoint I seem to see the impress of her character stamped on large circle of as well as on a numerous posterlty. who in turn are exerting an in- duence for good on all that region round: and thus. in an eeet-widening circle, reach | ing out so far, that imagination can hardly picture where it will end. Is not such a l life worth living 1? And yet the time l doubtless was when she. like thousands at | the present day. was weighing the matter of serving God in the scale with some | trivial pleasure, and when feather would almost seem to turn the scale for good or evil. Take in contrast the paragraph that has been going the rounds of the papers of the descendants of bad woman, three hundred of whose posterity had been 1 traced to | bad end, and ue have two, ex- snples worthy of study and reflection. fse5 ~s 9t'i.R z. sl'5aa AB.
 eAtGRASrsv1nLK On the evening of the 'th Mir. and Mrs. Wm. Beckley celebrated Leir wooden wedding. -Opr citizens have 1 ''lycanm to furnish an outlet for indi- ,inods 'elequeace. l-- large tract of wood has been bought here and cut over " Messrs Pierce and Lawrence who ship he wood to Canaan by rail where it is lsed in their lime kilns.