Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-01-28

Pat Donley, aged II, was arrested at
Pilot Knob Monday night, charged
with burglarizing a watermelon-car
last July. A complaint was made
against him at the time by Messrs- Pat
ton and c. B. Hill, the owners of the
fruit. but Donley kept out of sight until
recently. He was yesterday taken
before Squire AXE. allowed to plead
guilty to petit larceny, and given
thirty days in Jail. The prosecutors
claim loss of one hundred and four
melons: enough to set the mouth of
every coon in the Valley a-watering.
T. B. Mast & Co.. of Springfield,
Ohio. will run special train down the
Ion Mountain Road on Friday of this
week. The train will be loaded with
Buckeye Sunbeam Cult;vators so ar
ranged as to be open TO the view O.;
people along the route. 1t VIII arrive
at IrontOn at II 80 A. NJ. at Jordan at
1915, and at Annapolis at 12:4S. The
| time for It's appea 'ance at other points
mas be easily calculated by al desiring
TO see ii. The train goes through to Lit
tie Rock, which latter place it will reach
at ABOUT o'clock P. NJ. on the Both.
Parties curious as to particulars can
obtain them from the different station
agents along the route.
1t has been the aim of the REGISTER
during the quarter OF century of its
life TO be exponent and upholder of the
best thought and aspiration of the peo-
pie of Arcadia Valley, and the South
east generally. Especially has it been
our desire, as well as pleasure, to say
a good word for and give a helping
hand and voice in aid of every moral
and religious work that promised any
good to the community. Whatever
else the REGISTER may have failed in.
we are confident our readers will give
it due credit for not failing in this.
The REGISTER has always been glad
to do SO, for this reason amongst others
that the good sense and the refined
moral tone of our people have been
such that nothing but what was COM
mendable could be approved and prsis-
ed, or encouraged or tolerated, by the
religious people in church or out of
church. 1t is, therefore, with the
greater regret that the REGISTER feels
obliged to now express, mildly, gently.
but firmly, its emphatic dissent from
and disapproval of the eXtravaganu,
reckless and immoral utterapces of the
imported so-called evangelist who last
week held forth at revival meeting il
our town. If such things as are said 10
have been nightly uttered from the pull
pit of that church by this reckless a I'd
destructive evangelist were spokeo by
any secular lecturer in a hall he would
be summarily tumbled out by an OUT
ragged audience of ordinary iutelli
gence. And yet, strange and surpris-
ingly phenomenal as it may seem, the
ordinarily sober-minded end good
people who constitute that cOngrega
ton suffered this indecent and pestifer-
Gus mountebank to deliver his dirty
diatribes from the pulpit night after
night. Co rtrast his coarse and i'm
proper mouthings with the Cb,isti;i y
and gentlemanly manner of the Presid
ing Elder of this circuit. who last week !
conducted the Quarterly Conference
services in the saTe church When |
the Rev. Mr.. Martin comes one is all
ways sure to hear able, cultured, OrthO- |
dOX sermons, instruct We and upbulld- |
ing TO society; but the difference be-
tween these two men. as the intelligent |
portion of that congregation must see, |
IS the difference between a refined, sem |
sihle, sober-mipGed Christian gentle
mao and self-seeksng, fanatical, hair |
Drained mourtebsnk. The former |
course will always draw and attract |
worldly and sensible men and women |
to the church and a religious life, while |
the preaching of the latter inevitably |
drives them away in disgust. They re-
gard it is as caricature Oh true reiG- |
ion. Indeed, there are not few who, |
and confounding this sort of
preaching with true religion, become
disguised and turn their backs upon it,
who otherwise would become attached
to the church. We repeat that the
columns of the REGISTER are ever open
in aid of the religious and benevolent
work of the churches, without favor or
partially as to sects or creeds, for we
believe there is plenty of good work
for all of them to do, and we shall, in
the future as in the past, giving help
ing hand. freely and gladly; but for the
fanatical religious(0 charlatan we can
not and do not desire to conceal our
supreme and infinite contempt!