Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-11
SPECULATIVE RELIGION.
NO SINNERS ALLOWED SALYATION
At THE PARK SUNDAY.

NO SINNERS ALLOWED SALVATION
1T THE PARK SUNDAY.
Park-Only Those Who Paid Twenty-Fiv,
Cents on saturday Could Come in on Sun
day-The "Globe" the Only Thing to En-.
liven the Gloom-A "Globe" Reporter Ar
rives With the Paper In u Special Water
CONGRATULATIONS That the First Legs
of the Lake Park Will Very Soon be the
Last Legs-Deacon Gilmore's Career-A
Pen Picture of the Twenty Five Cent
bird.
wicked and a perverse generation seeketh
after u sign, but no sign of twenty-five cent
piece came to comfort and assist the yearning
souls of the Iowa brethren and their Mime.
sofa underllngs, now running a semi-religious
side show on the shores of Lake Minnetonka.
Contrary, doubtless, to tho expectation and
real wishes of the pious crew, of whom the
shining and burning lights are broth
ers Gilmore, Keith, and Charley John
son, the general public took them at their
word and made no effort to invade the sacred
domain of the Park. The consequence may be
readily imagined-a dreary, deserted locality
and couple of hundred of as listless, weary,
melancholy a looking crowd as could
be gathered anywhere under one roof tile.
The GLOBE being determined not to abandon
the Lake Park on the only day when there is
no charge, sent its commissioner, at the immi-
nent peril of his life across from Wayzata to
Excelsior, upon one of the rickety steam boats
At Excelsior water chariot was subsidized,
and the commissioner, with an ample supply
of GLOBE stepped aboard, and in most dulcet
strains warbled Pull for the Shore an order
which was SO faithfully obeyed that he was
shortly among the elect, who had paid their
GLOBE commissioner had also drank in
twenty-five cents worth of salvation on
Saturday he was on a par with the remain
der of the brethren, save that he did not have
to disburse an entire days board. To this ex-
tent he was an interloper in the twenty five
he was doing a missionary work in spreading
the gospel according to the GLOBE, he cheerful
ly forgave the especially elect and allowed
those who paid full board as we'll the twenty
five cents onlSaturday to enjoy the paper, just
the same as though they were sinners.
THE EXERCISES YESTERDAY.
The usual exercises were held as Deacon Gill
more had previously announced, and several
times in their course the good brothers soul
collection, which can always be had at the
book stand for rs cents per copy Rev. DR..
Breed, of this city, delivered an eloquent and
Instructive sermon on 1.-The Uses of Trial,
which was attentively listened to throughout
its delivery. The afternoon services consisted
of the Bible song service, conducted by
Rev. W. f. Crafts, and in the evening
the sermon delivered by Rev. Eli Corwin.
This concluded the exercises Of the day, but
as the outside world had been expressly warned
against coming, the result must have been like
seed sown on barren granddaughter I'M
likely to rpen and bring forth fruit meet for
repentance. Therefore, as the net result of the
Sabbath-thc only day when the gospel is
preached on the grounds, as Deacon Gilmore
says, it may be safely assumed that nothing
was accomplished Somehow, it may
be fatality or 1T. it may be de,
two shilling bits 60 hand in hand at the Lake
Park, and that without the latter the former
is apt to take the wings of dove and fly away
to the uttermost parts of the earth.
THE ARRIVAL OF THE GLOBE"
The crowd at the park, yesterday, having, as
above stated. received no accession yesterday,
was decidedly sparse, and consisted wholly of
those who had remained over from Saturday,
mum bering not over two hundred or two hun
drcd and fifty souls. Over these melancholy
lowered with brooding wings, anu a settled ab-
hvractlon Harheu every movement OF tne
crowd. This settled abstraction was lifted on
the arrival of the GLOBE, which, for time,
made thi ngs brighten up materially. Specula-
ton was rife as to its contents, and ladies were
heard beseeching their husbands to buy the
paper and "see what it has to say about us this
morning. Even the melancholy usage of
Deacon Gilmore was seen to brighten up, while
good Brother Keith, that distinguished repre-
sentative of Hayes civil service reform order,
''smole" a CHASTITY smile as his eyes fell upon
the glazing head lines. One of the Sunday
school teachers, just on his way from
and heard to ask, with bated breath, for a copy
OF the GLOBE. Carefully folding the paper and
pocketing the same he sought retired spot,
where. doubt, every line and word were
scanned, with, it is to be hoped, the most ben
chcial results.
THE VISITORS THUS FAR.
As has been heretofore announced, the man
agement ara sadly disappointed over the results
of the past week. The main support, so far,
has been derived from Iowa, and has been SUBJ
orned hither through the instrumentality of
President Gilmore AMI the agen-
cies which he has en-
ployed in keeping the park and its attractions,
painted in the most glowing colors, before the
people for several months past. This is true,
however, in the most part of the arrivals on
the Burlington and Cedar Rapids road. The
tra', have been engineered by Captain John F.
Merry, of Manchester. The musical director
of the concern, whose Glitch with the good
brother, President Gilmore, has been already
advected to. This gentleman is the one to whom
the association is indebted for bringing the
here on the opening day. On the way hither
everything passed off splenddly, and the ex-
cursionists arrived in the best of spirits. But,
on reaching the grounds, it was found no prep
aration for the entertainment of the crowd
had been made, and this fact, coupled with
money at the gate speedily disguised them.
AS natural consequence the returning
boats were crowded with the
tourists, large portion of
whom took the train for home while the remain
der dispersed themselves at different points on
Capt. Merry, and through him the members
thereof, had been officially notified by letters
from Deacon Gilmore and the management
generally, that here would be 10 trouble about
accommodations, and all who came would be
cared for. The result proves that woeful
misrepresentation had been made in making
which, no doubt, the pious soul-saver,
Deacon Gilmore, yearned in his heart
more for the anticipated rs cents admission
fee than he did for the actual facts Of the case.
The excursionists having left in high dudgeon
and deeply imbued with the idea that they had
Deen GENEROUSLY imposed upon, announced
before leaving their sense of the bad treatment
they had received and their determination on
reaching home, to scatter broadcast through
that region the true facts connected with
their reception. This has doubtless been
done ere this, and taken in connection with
the fact Of decreased arrivals from that Sec
ton, justifes the assertion that the Iowa
boom is over for this season, and that hereafter
only struggling parties can be expected, if in
deed they do not cease entirely.
ROW IN THE CAMP.
BY the way, and it may be here announced,
the GLOBE has for several days been aware that