Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1893-02-02

The residence of I'll. M. Collins, OF
North Main Street, came very near be
ing destroyed by FIRE last Sunday abou
noon. When first discovered the roo
was on fire in q number of places, and
it seemed for a while that the building
was certainly doomed. The alarm was
given. however, large number of cit.
liens gathered and by supreme exer-
ton extinguished the flames. Most OF
the furniture was removed from the
house before the confagration was sub
dued, and considerable damage result
ed from the rough handling it received.
The injury to the building was only
slight.
Mr.. 7. P. Russell, of Ironton, spent
several days with the family of Mr.. j.
+. Lindsay of this place since our last
issue. While here he honored the
Herald Office with pleasant call. 1t
is rare treat to enjoy the society of
such a man as Judge Russell. He is a
very intelligent man. good talker and
above all, man with a big round
Christian heart. He related reminis-
cences of his younger days when he
would yet enjoy good hunt. He talk
ed also of his family, which was inter-
esting to us, for when '.wee sma"
boy we had the pleasure of having two
of his daughters as our instructors in
the school room. The Judge has an
exceptionally family, possessing rare
culture, intelligence and industry. and
he informed US, all working for the
happy beyond. Surely this is the fruit
of an early pious training and no doubt
the Judge feels proud of his children
and they feel more than proud of such
parent. Piedmont Herald.
The following should have appeared
last week, but was crowded out. We
give it room now, in justice both to the
correspondent and his subject: ED.
Register-On last Sunday night Bishop
Tuttle preached at the Episcopal
church, from a text taken from Paul's
Epistle to the Romans. wherein the re-
cipients are exhOrted to soberness,
righteousness and Goodness. The hon.
ored divine first drew picture of
Corinth (where ST. Paul was living
when he wrote) and one could, almost,
see the pagan temples of that city en-
bellished with the beauties of Grecian
the harbor with its mer-
chantmen from the far parts of the
earth, the war galleps of Rome, upon |
the streets the curly haired, sunny
faced Greeks, and the Isthmian games |
celebrated every third yea, where |
the mighty men of the day. |
h. >so<,, Pnp,a ond no
mans, masters of the world: there was |
the forum where orators commended be- |
fore the courts, where the cOmitia met |
at the call of the counsuls; then the
Capitol and the Aventine hill. the |
temple of Jupiter. One could see the |
senator in his toga, the citizen in his |
gown, hear the clank of armor as a
cohort marched past. and recognize
the racial type in the eagle nose. the
black eye, alert movement, small stat
ure and grim, determined expression
of the passer-by. Then the Bishop
discussed his text. He showed that |
one could be sober, and not be right
eous and Cody. Cited in proof that
the most successful gamblers were
sober and never drank, were the temp
crate in all physical things. Next,
taking up righteousness, he defined it,
and showed that one might be right
eous, love his neighbor, comfort the
discharge his duty to the
state, be truthful, and love God, but be
not sober. Then he argued that God
iness was the broader term and cover
I'd and contained both soberness and
and that if one was God
" he was both sober and righteous,
and not only paid his duty to himself,
mis- family, his neighbor and his coun-
Try, but also his God. There was no
aurrah! no effort after oratory; no
would-be sky-scraping flights of rhet-
oric. The discourse was common sense;
no word was used which schoolboy
cold not comprehend. Taken. all in
Ill, it was one of the ablest efforts the
writer has ever heard, and one calcu-
ated to have a far greater and more
beneficial effect than weeks of circuses
900 frequently called divine worship"