Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-06-25

viii Dos ne Tells IL IN pam con-
scientious and experienced manner.
DE knows the value of an C and
the difference in value of a pair OF
duces and two of the "big boys.n He
has passed. he has "faded" and be
has ''fallen off," The time was when
a bob tailed nag carried his two dol
lars on a hundred to one shot. The
music OF a piano has been made by
his nickel at the wee sma' hours when
the shimmering sheen of silken be-
decked damsels sinuously swayed to
music made glad by the god
Terpischore. He told graphically and
eloquently of the pitfalls he had glad
ly wallowed in.
Having had at his command,
through alliance, thousands upon
thousands of dollars and entree to the
homes of best society, culture and re-
hnement in his realm, he told con-
vincingly of his experience in the
enticing first lesson of genteel sin.
He pictured his election to, inaugar-
alton in, term of service with and re-
tlrement from social prominence and
and his entry into ministry where his
success is phenomenal. His auditors,
many of whom knew life, hung upon
his words with an intense intense in
terest such as any man unusually ex-
periences. They were profoundly
impressed and they went forth many
of them, determined to begin anew
the battle for the Right.
1t is not easy to know Steve Burk.
He however is one of Gods noblemen.
Easily approached. Anxious to SYM
pathize and thoroughly plain.
The thing about Burk that is ex-
plainable and that makes his auditors
sincerely certain of their preacher is
the results. He is a man chosen for
the work he is doing. 1t can't be that
anyone doubts the simple sincerity of
this nan of God. SHE is there with
the goods"
Born into this world an American, a
Texas American with the Alamo in
his craw and of Scotch Irish Indian
he must as a matter of fact
be a rugged determined aboriginal
character and with purely frontier
American training he was bound to,
be a powerful mar in any activity.
circumstances beyond his control
made of him a militant minister and
all of his life, after service for the
government as a deputy United States
marshal, has been spent in evangelistic
efforts.
Hundreds of people have followed
him here. From Bonnie Terre the
most came, from st. Louis many, from
Maiden some and from a score of
other towns a few.
Burk has preached to many hun
dreds since he has been here, prob
ably never less than $500 at a service
and once as many as $500 crowded in
and around the big stop" down in
Flat River valley near the l. S. depot
where he breaches nightly.
The services from day to day and
evening to evening have at
tracted since May the 31st when the
initial service was held, at least 50,-
900 persons. This estimate is I'M
reasonably low but is made in the
spirit of being fair in writing the
total lower than enthusiasm dictates.
Never before, evening after evening,
without counting day services, have
the public of the tri-cities even APP
preached the attendance, whatev er
the event.
Evangelist Hobbs, Sunday evening
preached convincingly on the story Of
the ''Ten Virgins" His subject was
''The Stylish Wedding" 1t might have
been a sensational sermon. 1t was not.
That's not Hobbs. He preached in
the manner he works. He said that
1t was stylish because there we're ten
maids. He then went deeply into
the subject of home training, he spoke
conservatively-that is his method
of the name in which fathers and
mothers should rear children. He
told frankly and respectfully of the
mothers duty to the developing female
child. A wedding without a man to
be the BRIDES groom is a lamentable
catastrophe, he said, and a woman
without an idea as to her selection of
a future partner for life is in an I'M
fortunate condition.
Mr.. Hobbs is without doubt a won
.erful organizer. He can take a most
incapable conglomeration of in
and make a choir. He can
take an ordinary crowd of men and
women and find it's strength and he
can take a strong subject for a SER
and make a powerful sermon.
He breaches in the same diplomatic,
sane, safe and convincing manner he
is noted for. He lives for the Masters
just as he breaches for women
and men. Never Objectionable, never
coarse, he is always pleasing and al
ways working for the cause. He is a
factor and a big one in the Flat River
success.
The services have been wonderfully
fruitful in their harvest. Men have
been brought to God who have never
before considered religion. They
have been legion.
The big movement to have special
car service over the M. r. & B. T. Ry.
and the Electric line have progressed
to succe and it is certain that
both systems will be operating trains
before the week has passed.
The deep significance ofIthe services
has gone so far home that practically
all Of the local churches have volun-
tarily agreed to forego the Sunday
morning service as well as the even
ing service and attend the monster
union service next Sunday morning at
the tabernacle where and when Steve
Burk will speak at II A. M. on "For-
saken and Alone" again in the after
noon to men and women at 2:45 he
will speak on "Mother, Home and
The evenings service will
be, "Halting-or does it pay" Mr..
Burk will deliver all of these sermons.
The services have had a most pleas
ing effect in solidifying the efforts of
the entire community in seeking the
full force of a moral community. Next
morning practically every
protestant church organization in Flat
River will attend the morning SER
vices at the tabernacle in a body and
each will forego it's morning service.
The afternoon service at the taber-
nacle will be held at 2:45 and the ser