Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-09-27

ligious movement born in a money
spirit and atmosphere?

spirit and atmosphere?
Do not be deceived, good brothers
God will again blight our efforts il
you-if the churbh-should again
| make the Jlunder of locating the
school in secondary location, and for
financial or local reasons-because you
may be persuaded that such locality
offers few more dollars in the begin
ming! AS if few dollars, or a few
thousand, which pass out of sight in a
day, are to be, reckoned in the bal
ance against location which deals out
its advantages and it's blessings year
by year for all time, with ever increas-
ing power for good!
l do not hesitate to say that the
school would be infinitely better off
that the Methodist church would be
better off-at the end of ten years, if
you located the school in Arcadia VAL
ley without one cent Of money aid,
than they will be if it should be locat-
ed at any other point with the twenty
five thousand dollars now asked by the
Conference!
The proposition to let money decide
the location is as utterly devoid of
business principles as it is of the right
spirit of faith and true piety! A busi-
ness man who wanted to found school
would first select the best and most
suitable location. He would knoW that
location was the first and most import
ant of all considerations. Having done
this, he would, if he needed help, pro-
pose to the people of such locality that
if they would extend certain aid he
would locate his school there. He
would, first Of all, exercise his own
jndgment and intelligence and con-
science, in selecting the location. He
would not shut his eyes, and blindly
propose to locate his school in any To-
cality, fit or unfit, good or Indifferent,
where the dollars might indicate-in-
stead of his brains and intelligence!
Believe me, you need never expect
any success or prosperity for our
school, born, raised, kicked and cuff
ed about under such inspirations.
The principal complaint against
Caledonia, the principal reason urged
for its removal so far as l have ever
heard, is the want of transportation.
There is no denying the fact that
the modern sentiment of this new and
buisyage is that schools must now be
located, out of the noise it is true, but
yet within business touch of great lines
of railway travel, where busy parents
can come and go quickly, where child
rem can be visited and can come and
go without loss of time. lam sorry this
spirit is abroad, but it is, and we may
as well recognize the fact that it would
be as sensible now to try to run a store
or a factory in the woods, as to make
a school thrive in a town, however
otherwise desirable, but possessing
less than the Uery best mod
ern transportation. In view of this
sentiment now so universally prevail
ing in the modern world, how do you
propose to meet this demand in relo
eating the school? Is the mercenary
consideration-anym mere consideration
of dollars at the start-to control you,
or will you act, as practical, intelli-
gent business man would act for him
self-select the location having the
very best transportation facilities known
in the world? Will you locate the
school on branch, with one passenger
train each way every day, or will you
locate it OIL one of the greatest trans
continental lines in America, with no
less than five passenger trains each
way every day? These fast trains
every part of the north and
the great southwest with Arcadia Val
ley.
Moreover, Arcadia Valley has a
reputation and educational prestige |
which clings to the name wherever it |
is spoken in all the region from |
whence the school would draw patron
age! and when the glad news should
90 forth that the doors of the new Con- |
ference school were again opened in
Arcadia Valley, its halls would be
crowded with anxious students from
every quarter, and from several states.
The former aCrong, the former mistake,
nay, Nunder; of removing the school
from Arcadia Valley would be redeem
ed! BY that mistake success has been
since, the old school fell |
into other hands, and it is now the du-
ty of Conference, if it removes the |
school at all, to restore it where it be- |
longs, and where it will prosper, and |
God will bless your work.
j. w. EMERSON. A Curator.
I0hn Snerman's Rival