Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-15
Looker-On In Iona

1 furnish the papers an article which
would be stem winder, an exhaustive
argument as it were, when he opened
his bible and the first line that caught
his eye, was, vengeance is mine
will repay saith the Lord" Feeling
this was almost. a direct message, he
threw the aforesaid article in the stove,
and thus endeth the lesson.
|
But sad to relate there is still "blood
on the moon" The town Of Jewell is
only four miles away. BY wireless
thought current, or some other method
trouble of the same nature has been
transmitted to Jewell. 1t seems that
along in December, one Claude J. Mil
4 Ter, who signs his communication
minister" Drake student" began a
series of revival meetings in Jewell. He
sent the Christian Union an account OF
the meetings. This was reprinted in
the Jewell Record from which the fol-
lowing extracts are taken:
1--WE began our work with this loyal
! little band of disciples last June, sue
ceeding Bro. Cole, now of Goldfield, We
! Immediately began preparation for a
| holiday meeting" 4 number said we
could not accomplish anything-it had
| been tried before. Last year they had
a four weeks union meeting and not
/ even card signed or a hand raised.
| Jewell is prosperous little town of
1900 people and Norwegian Lutheran
stronghold. Their strongest college in
the west is located here. OF course
they cling to their "old country" myths
and traditions and some of these have
become almost as sacred as the old
book" And their religious prejudice
is extreme.
Our struggle was great one. ana
the opposition was intense but the
more they oppressed " he move we
Tultinlied. Daring the last Ten days
thu town has BEEN very reilglous,"
Tire had several 5Eecial services hoth
afternoon and evening in all the
r'7i'r heS kept our We We're sans
fled with the evening and our house
would rot accommodate the people. we
sl;ppaa into the Norwegian Lutheran
church 600 menhere1 during one Of
he afternoon meeting rive old men,
Nc '"ofnen and two preachers who had
sworn neither to eat nor drink until
80" he'd put % fight those vile fell
lows" who We're turning the town up
side down" As the service was in
Norwegian we soon made our DEPART
ure.
Then It was "roised abroad that we
had different bibles, so l borrowed two
bibles one from Norwegian and one
from NJ. E. To their surprise not ours,
when we opened and read them to a
crowded house we found those old.
worn out references Mark 1911 16:
Acts 2:3S; Rom "a; i Pet. 3:21; Col.
PIP; Gal 3:27; etc.
LAS we had slaughtered this Phil
| listine," they brought in another They
| tried to keep us from using the hose
connected with the Waterman TO fill
the baptistry. We had the mayor. a
member of our church and superintend-
ent Of S. S., so they failed in this at
question box. please explain why Rev.
Cole, former pastor of Church of Christ,
sprinkled man on his death bed" The
wife of the decea sed man arose in the
audience and said it was not true.
''Mr. Riley was sprinkled by one of the
Catholic sisters at his own request.
SO this was settled.
Our visible results were as fol-
! lows: One Catholic, one Congregation
alist, one Danish Lutheran, two Nor
wegian Lutherans one German Luther
an, one Baptist two Methodist Episco-
pals. The others from world. We had
seventeen baptisms, one by letter, one
by statement. Total twenty. You see
we preach and practice Christian I'm
ion.
BRO. DeGafferelly worked his way
into hearts of people and gave perfect
satisfaction to all. Fully 100 more
would have come if they had not been
forbidden by parents. They watched
the baptisms with tears in their eyes,
| but dared not move.
Sunday, Jan. 9. at the request Of the
two men, we went to the river, cut the
ice which was seventeen inches thick,
and ba ptized them. 1T was below zero
/ at the time, but beautiful service.
So
The Jewell Record Of Fe. 3, has the
! following from a communication signed
c. J. Eastwood, Norwegian Lutheran
pastor The full article is about two
columns, only extracts are here given:
Remarks concerning Mr.. Claude j.
! .Miller's article in Jewell Record: In
the Jewell Record issue for Jan. %, 1910
appears an article written by Claude j.
! Miller, minister. referring to the re-
ligious conditions in Jewell The ma
ture of the article is such that it is
certainly not worthy of an answer. Yet
T feel called upon to make a rev re-
marks as our silence may be miscon-
strued by some In this age of en-