Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-08-26
IRONTON, MO. THURSDAY. AUGUST z6 1886.
Hot. Hotter and Hottest.

In renewing OLD friendships anu forming
new ones.
Saturday, the 14th, was great day At Bel
grade. The colored people of that neigh
borhood bad picnic in aid of their church.
About three hundred beople were present.
An ample dinner, in good shape, was pro-
sided. The kindest of feeling aud the best
Of order prevailed and about fifty dollars
was realized.
The new Methodist church is 4 neat build
ing. not Yet fully seated. 1t is free from
debt. There were services on Saturday
morning and night which | was unable to
attend.
On Saturday, about forty old Union SOL
dlers met 10 organize post of the G. 4. R.
Mr.. j. F. Bennett was chairman of the meet
ing and the writer secretary. The organiza-
Iion was named for Major Wilson, who was
assassinated in 1864, near Union, No. That
post means business.
On Saturday the board of directors met
and assigned the writer to the position of
principal in the Belgrade school. He will
have about ninety scholars, in good house,
and for an assistant. a young lady of fine
talents and high social standing.
On Sabbath day an early arrival at the
church was necessary 10 secure seat. The
writer reached the " amen corner" and held
his ground. The house was packed. DIR.
D. Il. McAnally presided. After the intro
ductory exercises, he announced his text:
I>a. 56th chapter and 7th verse, incorrectly,
by substituting the word nations for the
word people. If DR.. McAnalIy will examine
the Hebrew in his text, or in Genesis, 1910,
he will not find the word goyim. II DR..
McAnally will examine the Greek of the
Septuagint, in Genesis 1910, he will not
find the word eihnon. In Isa. 56-., be will
find the word ethnesin. In Liddell and
Scott be will find that the word ethnos means
number of people living together, COM
pany. body Of men. But stepping down
and out of Hebrew and Greek into the field
Of political economy, If DR.. McAnaly will
examine the structure of the Austrian or
the American nation, he will find that whilst
the nation is unit, the people who compose
it are many tongued. ''They are distinct
like the waves and yet one like the sea-
Passing over into the field OF evangelical
economy. in which doctor Of divinity should
God not only handles nations or the largest
combinations Of men, but comes dawn
through the smaller organizations until it
reacf es the elementary factors of society
and deals in the thou, thy, and thee of a
terrible Individuality. But it is scarcely
necessary 10 correct the Dr.'s view Of his
text, for be paid no attention 10 1t In bis re-
marks. His discourse was scholarly stump
speech on matters and things in general.
delivered in a kind spirit. DIR. McAnally
has yet to learn that revolutions never go
backward, and that when once set up, three
courses are open 10 those concerned. Either
they must study the trend of the coming
change-keep ahead of if. and let j. follow
and support them, for if it eFar,ases it will
oyerwhelm them. ana il they resist ii will
destroy tae.a. The fearful combination of
earthquake and cyclone, which Is sweeping
through our country, has oyertaken DR.. Mo.
AnaIly and at least badly confused him.
But after the address, the special service
Of dedication began. This was conducted
with great dignity by the trustees of the
church on one side and DIR. McAnally and
Revs. Baton and Warren on the other All
the trouble that appeared in the case is in
the fact that faithful enforcemeEt of the
terms of dedication. as explained by DR..
McAnaliy. would lock the door against him
That :vTn of dedication was evidently framed
when things were run on different plaa
from what they are now in the church.
After The dedication sgTYsoe. Father j. c.
Bergman came forward. and having draped
his face il due judicial severity, drew an
oTf.inous looking document out Of his peck eft
and ordered Mr.. Thomas Neely and Miss
Minnie Tennyson TO come forward and be
sentenced. The audience was not told what
they had doLe, but the court evidently re-
garded it as a greatly aggravated case, for
he gave them the longest term fixed bv the
statute in such cases made and provided: a
life sentence. II is due TO the convict. 10
say that they seemed to be heartily ashamed
of themselves and j. ID hoped that they will
heneeforth frame their lives on 4 broader
ard higher plane. The writer tenders to the
bridegroom his congratulations and TO the
hrlde his best wishes for her happiness.
The bride is really beautiful--her younger
sister equally so-but still the Goodwater
branch of the Tennyson family can keep up
their boards. To award the palm of beauty
around Belgrade is a very difficult task.
There are so many worthy claimants. The
writer believes he saw every one in that
house on that sweltaTiaE August day, and
guided Ly taat knowledge of human char
.errr tieduced by close observation and long
and varied experience, he saw on that day
no other one in association with whom a
iudicious young man would have greater
certainty Of a successful aaa happy life than
in the light of ..a sweetly beautiful mobile
face. and the bright, pure, true and loving
eyes which so pleasantly discussed with hs.a
the passing event as they walked s.,ls by side
out of the house
But laying ssl personalities aside, it was
erglinen.iy fitting that when church had
been consecrated TO the worship of the only
God, the first divine ordinance solemnized
in it should be q marriage, in which two
parties should covenant with God and each
other that henceforth they would have one
hope and one life, that they viii aid each
other to overcome temptation, to be true to
the right, to be unalterably just where duty
requires, to control their passions, to prefer
truth to falsehood, courage to cowaE-sf.r
and compassion to cruelty. To stand for
each other against e.. abe rest of the world
if need Is, and 10 be to each other true
pure, honest, faithful, kind, forgiying, for,
bearing, patient, and loving, unit! God, by
death, do them part.
1t seems 1t that thay Mao marry in tbs
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