Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-03-26
ALetter From Relleyiew.

! The REGISTER has arriv, and it now .ap
pears that only one of the True Israel is
subscriber for it. The others borrow it
| The excitement over s.The War in Israel'' /.
great. As the Only True do not subscribe
for the REGISTER, they did not know thai
''things is not now as they used to waz" in
Belleview, and they have had an unpleasant
surprise. In the meantime the Bounced
Baptists have employed Rev. Hardy te
preach for them, and are going along quietly,
and our Union Sabbath School is doing well
When the Bounced Baptists organize, which
will be done at no very distant day, as I,
having been baptized arith water, am obsti-
nately opposed to being baptized IN it, OF
course they will not formally hold fellowship
with me. But will be like the young gen.
tleman who, when his best girl sacked him,
very humbly asked her permission to sit on
the fence and look at her as she walked past
SO will | ask leave to wish them God speed
and do all ! can to help Them They will not
seek help from me because they have not yet
reached the time when they are ready to say,
Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the
Lord.
may be communion in the sign, without the
thing signified, so there is communion in the
thing signified, without the sign. This latter
is the better, because it involves no respon-
sibility for tho e camp followers and barna-
cles who make the name of the church a
stencil in the nostris of honest men. In the
meantime, the light of the best hope of do
nestle joy and peace shines over my path
out of the Baptist church, though with a
rival among the outsiders.
On last Sabbath Rev. Fl. c. Brown preach
ed good gospel sermon at the Corners. It
grew naturally out of the text, and was
strictly Scriptural in its material. l did not
attend preaching at night. 1 often object to
the sermons heard from the pulpit, but new
err to those seen in the pew.
In regard to the High School, l know
nothing. t-
The recent heavy fall of snow here seems
to have been accompanied by condition of
nervous depression among the people, aris-
ing no doubt from electrical changes. But
it is well known that heavy rains often follow
great battles, and so it may be that the war
in Israel is responsible for this fall of snow.
The snow is almost entirely gone, but has
left an awful heritage of mud which, how
ever, will soon disappear. The snow was
a great benefit to the wheat.
Farmers are resuming work, and Belle
view will soon blossom as the rose. 1t is I'M
derstood that Mr.. j. II. McHenry is about to
remove to Lesterville. We are sorry to lose
him, as he is very pleasant gentleman, and
has an interesting family.
1t has been said that our Union Sabbath
School is power for good in BeIleview, but
it is not equal to the REGISTER. "Josephus''
is doing more to break up the DEVILS King
dom here than all the preachers. The sWar
in Israel" has developed power among the
outsiders of which the church people had
little idea, and which compels respect.
Mr.. Editor, you state that an article from
my pen was crowded out. Will you please
allow it to remain SO? If published now, it
would relate to events which can be better
reached in another way.
March 18th. THOMAS CALLAHAN.