Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1910-05-19

VIC oShOOA a. AOAS 40 bhS oNAOOA
runs, for Bro. Strother gave the
school during the meeting thirty
fine lots on the beautiful hill just
above the campus, to be sold and
the money applied on the school
debt. The school owed about
S1,600.00 and the lots are $500
each. Eight of them were sold
during the meeting, and they will
all be sold before the camp meet
ing in August. Now, let any body
anywhere in the United States that
wants to help the school at Des
Arc, Mo-, and at the same time
make a fine investment for himself,
sit down at once and write to w.
w. Strother, at Des Arc, Mo-, and
he will give you all the Informal
ton you want; or write to Rev. r.
P. Kistler, president of the college,
and he will take it up with you.
You can buy a lot on easy terms.
A lot to-day can be bought for
$500. AT the opening of the
school September list, it will be
worth at least $3.50. The school is
no experiment; they have a splen-
did school, good buildings and
good teachers, and in five years
they will have several hundred
people on the ground. Since
September fourteen good build
ings have gone up, making thirty
two nice homes on the school
grounds. Another was started
last Monday, making thirty-thres,
and others will be going up in two
or three weeks"
On every hand are dwellings
and other houses building, or
newly finished and occupied.
Neat and pretty structures are
these last, with lawns and gardens
attached. They are homes, with all
the outward accessories to health,
comfort and contentment, and one
is impressed with the involuntary
belief that within them is the
peace wrought by devotion to
spiritual ideality and the elm
nation of the grosser worldly con-
tentions. A fairer site for such a
community could not have been
chosen. Itself of considerable ell
ovation above the valley, the
campus commands an extensive
view, and on every hand the
picture is beautiful beyond my
power of expression. l was the
guest of Rev. Strother, and after
the conclusion of the afternoon
exercises we walked about the
grounds, he pointing out the vari-
GUS objects of interest and talking
of his hopes and plans for the
future. We ended our walk at his
residence-a modest and tasteful
specimen of architecture, finely
situated on a point overlooking the
surrounding country. Seated up
on the veranda, famed by the
gentle, balmy breezes-it was a
day proper to May, by good luck
i had before me the broad and
fertile valley with it's green fields
of springing wheat, and dwellings,
and patches of woodland, and
silvery streams; and beyond these
the towering mountain ranges
with clefts here and there disclose
ing other ranges still beyond.
This picture, tinted by the setting
sun behind me, will abide with
me in grateful memory. | don't
gush, but ~imperfectly and roughly
set down that which my eye saw
and heart responded to. If thou
art in doubt, go thou and view it
for thyself!
All that is here accomplished is
the work of but three short years.
Returning from Peniel, Texas, to
his old home, Rev. w. w. Strother
began the work to which he pro-
poses to devote his life, and in
cidental to it established this Col
lege. He organized the Church of
the Nazarene with less than thirty
members; now the number has
grown to one hundred, and the
church building is inadequate to
the needs of the congregation. 1t
must needs be enlarged. OBJ
stacles a plenty were in the way,
but they we're overcome, and the
fruits of his labors and those with
him are in the improved moral
condition of the community. This
is strikingly evident, the citizens
tell me. If we are to judge the
tree by it's fruits, who may with
hold praise from or refuse en-
couragement to these of the Holt
ness community?
Rev. Strother told me he had
just been strongly urged to become
a candidate for Representatives.
fact, a delegation from Ironton
had come to Des Arc for this pur-
pose-but that he refused, while
acknowledging the honor propos-
ed, to accede to their wishes, He
said that he had chosen his life
work, and was in heart and con-
science convinced that he could
in it best serve the Master and his
fellow-men. | think he decided
wisely, for he has an ever broad
ening field, and is possessed of the
will and power to accomplish
good.
In the College work, Rev. Kist-
Ter, who has been President for
the year past, has ''made good"
and the patrons are unstinted in
his praise. He is an able preach
er, too, | am told, and | can read
lily believe it, for intellect and
mental culture sparkle from his
eyes.
Concluding this dispatched
sketch, | make acknowledgment
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