The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-09
COL. WHITEHEAD
And THE LAYMEN
WILLlsToN EDITOR TELLS OF
HIS RECENT VISIT TO FARGO
AND THE MEETING or LAYMEN
AT FoUT G. PoRTERFlELD's
DRUGSTORE.

Wflliston State: The other day a
man named Brewer. who writes strik-
ing things l. The Fargo Forum. pen
ned a few lines to say that the editor
Of this newspaper was in Fargo as a
delegate TO the Laymens Missionary
meeting, which caused a sensation
over the state. Many newspaper men
could not understand it, and the as
sertion Is made that our friend FAIRIES
Of The Williston Herald sobbed au-
dibly in his perfect peace. Here and
there bright spots are breaking out
over the state as a result of what
Colonel Brewer said, and when we
reached home there was an explana-
tion to make at the family heartstone
but that doesn't belong to the unus-
uaI class.
We may have been at a Laymen's
Missionary meeting down at Fargo.
We are certain that we had spent the
evening with our good friend Brewer.
We have seen men who, under the
stress Of circumstances, would become
affectionate. We have seen others who
wanted to fight. Others allowed briny
tears to fall and sang The Old Oak
en- Bucket. Our friend Brewer is a
man of intimate capacity, but we want
to insist right now that when a man
mistakes the evening gathering at
Porterfields drugstore for a Laymen's
Missionary movement the time has
come for some serious and sober adj
vice from his friends.
The public ought to know that so
far as the church business and the
newspaper business go in this town
that Corbett Of The Graphic and Far
ries of The Herald take precedence
over the editor of The State, and that
If any missionary delegates had been
sent from here to Fargo from among
the newspaper men, this office would
have been passed by. Corbett is a
strong man in one church and FAIRIES
sits up in front in another. We have
not attended divine worship as much
as we chould have done-but we try to
hand little money 10 three houses of
worship at the same time. We try to
do this quietly, of course, and to make
no pretensions that are unworthy, but
we like to see good religious work
carried on, and there isn't anything
like money to talk for a towns spir-
itual improvement. For it teaches the
man of God that away down deep in
the hearts of men there is an appre-
citation that is material And the ma
teriaI feeling must go hand in hand
with the spiritual if beth ends are to
meet at the end Of the fiscal year.
There is nothing to make one be
ashamed of being referred to as a del
egate to the missionary meetings, but
there are SO many better men in Will
liston for the post so many who show
SO much spiritual zeal, that we can't
help but correct the impression that
may be caused by the inability Of our
friend Brewer to recognize mission
airy movement when he meets one face
to face. From the time when as a
small boy we sat in a little Presby-
terrain Sunday school down in South
ern Illinois we have always had a
strong respect for the man who is
spiritually and materially interested in
that which helps mankind. have found
a good deal Of happiness in doing what
we could for the too frequently unre-
warded workers in the vineyard. But
we can never be a lay delegate while |
Corbett and FAIRIES are in town. They
have a monopoly on all things spiritual
among the newspaper workers of the
City Of Opportunity.
And the next time that a certain
journalistic Adonis down at Fargo
tries to get funny With us there will
be a little thing happening that will
by no means come under the head of
absent treatment.