Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-07-16
A Letter From BelIevieW.

On yesterday the Union Sabbath Schot
had pleasant meeting. Miss Minnie Hor
presided at the organ, and there was goo
music, both vocal and instrumental. Bro
Warren taught the senior Bible class. Som
familiar faces were absent which We woul
have been glad to have seen, and a few stran
gers We're there. All were attentive.
Bro. Warren preached at SMYRNA at 1
O'Clock. He chose for his text Luke XIV.
Is: "But when thou makest feast, call tn
poor, the MANNED, the lame, the blind" Sew
eral ideas seemed to be lying around loose
drifting in the air over the text. One wa
that the speaker in the text was instructins
those who were to be his ministers to fal
len world. The memory of men yet living
runs back to the time when salvation by
grace was compared to feast spread in The
church-Isa. XIV, 6. The Jews did moi
have any pauper asylums, and so those whom
Christianity for its own convenience now
places in such institutions, had to he gather.
ed from the slums of society. On the as.
| sumption that the speaker as minister oil
the gospel proposed to obey the command Of
| his text, hungry ear longed for the call to
! the poor, the MANNED, the lame, and the
blind. Bro. Warren appointed sermon al
| night in the Presbyterian church at the
Corners, but heavy rain kept at least one
| hundred away.
On next Sabbath an era of MethOdism will
be inaugurated on the Middle Fork of Black
| River. 1t is doubtful whether any one con-
cerned, either for or against the movement,
sees the real difficulty in the case.
Bro. Bayard, who is Bro. Growers chief
clerk and bottle washer, has found an ele-
plant and called him individuality, and has
come all the way to Kansas to talk about
him. The truth is that the elephant found
Bro. Bayard, and astonished him muchly.
Elephants of that breed are around loose,
and there is a very large one at Middle Fork.
The writer goes over once in while and
trots him out.
1t is reported that Mr.. Alcorn has been
engaged to teach at the Corners, and that it
is proposed to connect the district and the
High Schools. Mr.. Alcorn is an effective
teacher in a district school, but he has now
taken heavy contract. He will find that in
that district school occupies an abnormal
position, and is required to do abnormal
work, which will hamper the teacher and
defeat his success.
Mr. j. G. Hartman has gone to his school
in Reynolds county. In began on the 9th
inst. 1t is on the head of the Big Brushy.
There will be in the near future an article
or perhaps a series of articles in the REGIS
TER on "The Duties of Patrons to Schools"
We have very large elephant In Beleview
OF the Individuality species. He has grown
enormously within two years. They have
mammoth one at Washington City. On the
fourth day of last March, c. A. Arthur, ESQ.,,
turned it over to S. Grover Cleveland, Esq,
amid great hurrahing by those who did not
know what they were getting. Still more
recently Mr.. Gladstone, in England, handed
one over to Lord Salisbury. The elephant
transferred to Bro. Grover has grown Won
derfully in twenty-five years. The present
holders of elephants all over the world quote
them as heavy. In our own country this
demon called Individuality, has pulled all
the pins out of both the political and ecclesi-
astical machines, so that if they are set run
ming they will go to smash. Leaders do not
lead, and the occupation of bosses is going
away.
The report is in the air that Queen Victoria
will abdicate two years hence, when she will
have reigned fifty years. The world sneered
when Charles 9Th abdicated for fear of
comet. Will it sheer when Victoria lays
down her scepter at the rising of the Star of
Bethlehem.
The condition of things to which the pres
ent is the reaction arose about 1927. 1t would
exceed the limits of newspaper article to
have its history, and it is doubtful whether
can do the work. We had no Fourth of July
in this region. No one has died or married
lately. There is some caucusing going on in
church matters, that If necessary will be re-
ported when it comes to the surface. There
is talk of soldiers reunion, at Caledonia, on
next Monday. The Fourth at Iron Noun
tain was grand success, except there was
was some risk of a famine. Frank Strick-
land had been there before. They refused
to let him in for a quarter, and so John
Thomas paid dollar and quarter and so
secured him five chances, with four women
to carry him victuals, and after an hour and
a half of industrious attention to eating he
he was not as hungry he had been. But he left
the table with both hands full of victuals and
that as the one half of him was
paralyzed his appetite was not so good as
when he was in health. As he walked away
his entertainers looked after him and re-
marked the blanked Teller has eaten all he
can and now he is going to bury some.
July 10th. THOMAS CALLAHAN.
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