Marble Hill press. (Marbel [sic] Hill, Mo.) 1881-1923, 1907-03-28
able comment among the best bust
ness men Of the United States.
From Illinois.
EDITOR MARBLE HILL Pass:

bUAIUk MAhBLE Hill fRESS
! have just received THR PREl
and among the other good thing
have been especially interested !
your California letter, from my ol
friend, N. A. Wallace. / enjoye
reading about John G. Redding an
the protracted meeting.
This place has had several year
Of gospel famine, there being n
church here, and the nearest,
Catholic and q Lutheran at Bru,
sells, seven miles from here.
Two years ago / was teaching
our school, and one morning tw'
little girls, aged Q years, came i
my desk and one Of them said tha
the other wished to ask me ques
tion, but hated to do so. I tolC
her that ! was there to answer al
questions to the best Of my ability
and that she should not hesitate ia
ask. Her question was: edo the
dead ever live againsn ex,
| planned it To her and at recess
heard her telling il 10 some other
little girls and when they seemed
to doubt It, she said, "yes, il is true;
for Mrs, Potter said SO, and Mrs.
McEwing said so, and the teacher
said So" Would you think there
was a place in the United States
where children of . or 10 years had
never heard of the resurectiony
Last summer the Lutheran min
lister came to a place in this neigh
borhood to cbristen o child and he
made some remarks about a Sun
day school being needed here.
Four or five men, who had managed
to get on the outside ofseveral bot
ties of beer, decided that it would
be good thing "for women and
children" One Of them offered the
use Of his house and set the time
for organizing. Eight or ten met
and elected officers. They chose
me for superintendent; we secured
permission from M. w. A. camp to
use their ball, had a good attend
ance the first Sunday, and collected
enough money to get our supplies.
| appointed teachers and for two
or three Sundays we had q good
school. Then my teachers, all ex-
cept one girl about Is years old,
found excuses for their absence;
and for about four months the two
Of us met regularly with about
tweve or fifteen children.
In November a minister and a
lawyer IN the north part of the
county secured the services Of Miss
Hilda Pearson, D graduate of the
Moody Bible Institute, to come into |
this county as Sunday school
missionary. She spent three weeks
at this place and during that time
my faithful helper was converted,
as were also her father and mother.
We have now six teachers and over
fifty scholars.
Miss Pearson established several
schools in this county, and
thru her influence Horace Whitten,
another graduate of the Moody
Bible Institute, was sent here for
three months, and several more
have taken up the cross and are
the Lord.
AS would be expected bis satan
ic majesty, who had been having
no trouble with this place for many
years, could keep quiet no longer.
The meetings were being held
by permission of the managers
IN the Woodmen hall. This hall
belongs to the Brick and Clay COM
pany and 'is rented by the Wood
men. They use it for dancing and
other entertainments as well as for
! lodge room. Altho the Modern
order is founded on the
principles of Christianity, and every
must believe in the exist
snce of a Supreme Being, the wri-
ter, a member Of this camp, knows
hat for three and half years the
question has never been asked of
my candidate and some of them
would not know what it meant if
hey had been asked.
: A meeting was held and by a
vote the doors were closed
against church services. The con-
'nl and adviser resigned their Off
,es and when the adviser was asked
% give bis reason for resigning, he
aid, Il have worked hard for three
years on this dancing floor and
low they want to get preacher
md and religion in here and break ,
sP our dances. /"
Two of the school directors open
ID the doors ofthe schoolhause and
Se are going ahead with the work.
Dur minister's time will be up April
20, and We don't know whether we
will be attached 10 some other place
md have preaching or not, rs we ,