Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-07-29
From Des Arc.

Quite a delegation from here at
tended the Baptist Assembly on
Arcadia Heights last Sunday. |
was surprised to see how much
work had been done in so short a
time. Six weeks ago scarcely a
tree had been cut. Now they have
walks and drive ways built all ov-
or the grounds of forty acres or
more. A large hotel has been
built from logs. One man has a
house built of cypress logs ship
ped from Arkansas. The Taber-
nacle will hold 1000 people. 1t is
built on a concrete foundation
with posts 10x10, oak, IL feet high.
1t is held together with iron beams
and girders, A post, IA inches at
the base, 80 feet high goes up in
the center. There is an annex on
the south end, with two large
rooms used for books, cloak room,
etc. The building is enclosed with
a wire fence with two entrances.
Gasoline lamps magniicently il
Illuminate the structure. The place
is laid off in streets with houses
and tents on either, side. There
are over fifty tents with dressed
floors in them. A pipe has been
laid from the deep well at the hub
factory in Ironton-a distance of
about 1000 feet-which empties
into a large tank, and, with hy-
drants, water is furnished all over
the grounds. The pipe is two inch
es and was shipped from Chicago.
Baldwin Bros. have a fine tele-
phone system which connects with
the Bell, so you can talk to the
world. The hotel is we'll furnish
ed and will accommodate over 100
people. A livery stable and a
number of restaurants on the
grounds. No trouble to get what
you want to eat. The Baptist
Publishing Company has a tent
filed with all kinds of religious
literature for sale. There are some
fifty hacks and buggies running
from Ironton to the Heights; %
cents for the ride. Geo. M. John
son has a wagonette, pulled by
six large horses, which will hold
twenty persons. 1t was a great
convenience. The telephone sys.
tenn is under the charge of the
Prince brothers, also the post-of-
flee. The Great Tabernacle 1.-THE
largest in the State) was dedicated
Sunday. The sermon was by Rev.
DR.. Williamson of st. Louis. His
text was John 17:1S, 10. 1t was
one of the finest sermons l ever
heard. 1t was so simple and yet
grand. (God bless this good
man, They had a choir from st.
Louis. The singing was fine. A
quartette = four ladies and one
gentleman-was good. The solo
by Mrs. Nelson of Pennington was
simply fine, but the best of all was
the Baptist Boys Band of Iron-
ton, led by Rev. Fuller Swift, pas
tor of the ,Ironton church. Down
at Sunset Rock three little boys
and one little girl played with
their horns the song, "He will
Lead and I will Follow" It was
superb and received great APP
plause. Too much credit cannot
be given to Mr.. Downey, the agent
at Ir%onton, for keeping us posted
as to the arrival of trains, etc. DR..
Williamson, in the closing song of
his service, read four lines OF each
verse, and people sang it without
books. In fact, we don't hear these
good old songs any more. l sup
pose he wanted to bring back the
old-time religion that our fathers
used to have. 1t was as follows:
"Safely through another week"
you know, it made me shed
tears to think how l heard my dear
old mother sing this in bygone
days when | was a little barefoot
in Virginia. God grant that
we could have such hymns as that
is the prayer of "Isaac."
| omitted saying that Professor
Truck of Hardin College was there
in the interest Of this school. He