Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-13


Gates fr m the Acknowledgements
Go a. ana the Twenty-Five Cents De-
manded AS an Edu, ator-Di fficulty of the
Speakers In Getting Their Pay-The At
tendance Light and but Little Left After
Charley Johnson's Printing Bills.
The enterprises of the wicked must surely
come to naught, and such it seems is the fate
reserved for the Lake Park Sunday School as
sembly now exhibiting at Minnetonka. Mon.
days attendance, as already published in the
GLoRE, was of the very thinnest character but
yesterday was fondly looked forward to as the
commencement of a new era when all would be
well-when the breezes of prosperity would fan
the fevered brows of the disappointed managers,
and their vexed souls would once again be at
rest. Many and varied have been the devices
by which they essay ed to turn the tide of adj
versity, and when finally they hit upon the ex-
pedient of "denominational days" they fondly
imagined they had found the key which was to
unlock the barred gates and let in the food tide
OF success and two-shilling pieces.
Bnt the experiment has not justified the ex-
pectations or at least did not yesterday. The
vast crowd SO fondly hoped for did not materi-
alice Instead, only some 2OO OF $50 persons
W
already there less than 800 persons
Upon arriving ut the grounds yesterday
morning the GLOBE donated its accustomed
twenty-five cents towards lifting the mountain
OF debt, now threatening to submerge the con-
Germ, and entered the holy precincts where the
latter day saints of the new dispensation for
saving souls at a quarter head most do con.
gregate.
A sERENADE.
On reaching the motel the brass band in at.
tendance from Manchester, Iowa, was just clos.
ing serenade to Hon. E. R. Paige, the distin.
guished lecturer. That gentleman then came
forward and acknowledged the compliment in
a very neat address. He accepted the com.
pliment as tribute to science. he re-
garded music as one of the great
insrumentalities in the hands of science fol
the elevation and benefaotion of the human
family. Recent discoveries in science, he said,
had perhaps demonstrated that the origin and
source of all that exists is ent rgy, and that no
atom in the universe is still for single in.
slant. There was motion without music.
The roar of the wings Of the moths. said the
judge, or the whirlwind of the millions of
atoms circling around each other in grain of
sand produce harmony which our ears canno,
hear. 50 with the roar of the countless mil
liops of suns and worlds in space. sweeping
around many thousands of miles per hour
But science attunes the mind to hear the roar
that is beyond silence and We realize with the
Pythagoreans that there is not one orb which
thou behol lest but in his motion like an angel
sings. still gaining to the young eyed cheru-
BIN. But while this muddy vesture of decay
doth grossly close us in, we cannot
hear it. If God will give US heaven Of un-
limited intelligence in which we may
see all the expanse of space and hear all her
harmonies. then indeed will we worship and
adore the Creator of it all.
During the morning exercises the committee
whose appointments to prepare an address to
correct false reports, ETC., as to the Association
has already been adverted to. reported and SO
well and 30 thoroughly had the Iowa deacon
set up the pins that upOI its being read it was
forthwith adopted without division and with
out word of assent or dissent. The paper il
designed as an answer to the GLOBE structures,
and in its mag animity and fullness of Chris
Wan CHAR, ity the GLOBE freely gives the saints
of Lake Park Zion the benefit Of its columns
merely promising that the committee, a.
strangers, certainly are gifted with mos,
wonderful foresight and lost no time il
familiariziug themselves with the affairs Of the
Association, inssmuch as the document wa
prepared and made ready early on Monday
afternoon. Deacon Gilmore, however, had III.
whole thing cut and dried and o time for ex-
animation Or inquiry was needed. The docu-
ment is given verbatim as f lows:
MISTAKES ABOUT MINNETONKA.
The undersigned visitors at Minnetonka
Sunday school assembly. having no financial
or official connection with the ASSOCIATION man.
aging the ground and exercises. earnestly de-
sire to express our qualification with the as-
sembly thus far. Seldom is programme car
ried out SO exactly and so satisfactorily and
received by SO many people in the first year of
such an enterprise, as some of us know by long
familiarity with these open air meetings.
No Sunday school assembly in the land has
better hotel accommodations in food and
lodgings than this, although these are not per-
fected as they will be another year. Persons
familiar with these gatherings do not expect
home accommodations, especially on the
crowded days, but many persons more than the
number now present can be accommodated
a specific contract regulates the prices
at 81 per day for meals
and fifty cents per night for lodging. We find
no evidence that higher rates have been charged,
except for special privileges by special consent.
1t is evident that any violation Of the contract
could be at once rectifed by applying to the
Association. The gate fee is not s:selling the
mer educational institute, the lecturers, most
OF them, coming from a long distance. at q
large expense to the association, and giving, in
many cases, the very lectures that in lycelm
halls are always accompanied by an admittance
fte. =
The management of Messrs. Gilmore, Allen
and their associates, is gentlemanly and Chris
tan, and intimations that either of them, re-
tired from positions in former assembly, else
where. except from choice, are erroneous.
AS to mercenary motives, no officer or direc
tor, save one, owns more than 800 of stock
the price of one lot. The president owns blu,
one lot' for which he paid
financial interest in the enterprise, but has
given 100 days of unpaid service to this mora
and educational movement.
Iowa, having had several such assemblies,
has attended in larger proportion than Mime.
sofa only because such meetings are new in
this State, and their great value is not so well
known by experience.
no defence of ours from mistakes and malice
but we put these facts over our signatures fol
the sake of those who are kept away from these
unusual privileges by false reports in regard te
the accommodations, management and exer.
cises Of this summer college, on one Of the most
beautiful of Minnesota lakes.
Signed on behalf of a meeting of visitors al
the park, held ON Monday. August 18th, 1879.
A. @. HICKMAN, Minnesota,
M. B. LEWIS, Minnesota,
81. O. WOODS, Minneapolis,
r. B. MCGRATH, Minnetonka Lake,
A. kIMBALL. Iowa,
W. F. CRAFTS, Chicago, S
Committee.
THE AFTERNOON LECTURE.
The afternoon lecture of the course was de
livered by Rev. Eli Corwin. This gentleman
is a cosmopolitan. having travelled all over tn,
world, and having also spent several years as
miss onary in the Sandwich Islands and othe,
countries of the Pacific ocean. He is alss
gifted with strong view of humor. His lee
ture. he calls Plus Ultra" More Beyond
The main points he sought to enforce wer.
that the Sunday sch ol business had not reached
its ultimatum and that as the insects thrust
their antenDB over the boundaries of tn,
known into the unknoxn 40 vi. mnst constant I.