The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1914-01-22

seminary. and q Chautauqn-, nor v,~-.
migration OF the early Corners brought
US VI theology and education, from
sne Church Of Hollanders to the Dun
sAATds. n every variety OF Protestant
Ism; and each planted the seed Of dis
pute n thereafter, as the fat land
grew. belabored all classes for sup
port OF the ~spindling institutions.
Ine Holiness Brethren were new In
the land but strong of voice and r
eSt. calvin university, which was an
sopiong and flat rooted university three
mics south OF town, had long since
gone to seed, rarely heard from except
Oh rally days in the churches when
al It's l6 faculty n 81 undergraduates
llIied the edifices, and the rally was a
Tremendous success In hymn singing
n not at the contribution plate. But
ene Holiness Brethren, who had come
rom somewhere. no one knew exactly
Where, and preached something, no one
Knew exactly what, had the zeal OF the
newly inspired, Inc labored in high
ways and byways for recruits. 1t had
2 community of quite 400 souls gathered
sapont its college tract; n 80 students
VINO alternately farmed and studied
and exhorted in the streets OF Romc
Earlville. No one had q grievance
AGAINST the Holiness sect except Wiley
=. Curran. and his was because they
nad taken up n of the most beautiful
Spots on Sinsinawa. As Mr.. Curran re-
marked. it was as if some one a first
wandered down the pebbly footed glen
anu said: Brethren, here is a spot
winch nature has set apart for the tired
soui n to commune In silence and find
peace with God-come, let us get a
crowd and have somebody lecture"
John Lindstrom had become one of
the Jealous sect from the first; nothing
put poverty had kept him from Joining
sne Holiness colony up on the hills. and
his loWland cottage was q favorite
pace for the Brethren to gather for
prayer. These Sunday afternoons the
Cnllaren sat barelegged and silent on
the Kitchen chairs, their frayed denims
washed, and listened In that perplexed
and ~enignatical respect that the Young
give to religion. The first Sunday after
Aurelie's prize winning was a terrify-
ing one. She eve would attend the
meetings and the Brethren exhorted
John that he cast out the devil from
ner put away this vanity of Beauty, this
homlsh and heather perversion. AS IL
Aurele, loving idolatrously her little
eruclIlx without bothering her head as
70 what 1t meant, could put by Gods
git OF grace and p%rettiness.
Inc next Sunday she ran away
70 the hills and met Uncle
mlcn1gan there by arrangement,
living by his h~ont1eegin. 80 .ne s.aillS
at home with IinSss, maS az iiiuLe ~
Creole girl. Whan than rr,an tne
old man DELAYED az nainh .lio
quarryman's house, but Aurelie went
sitting Sie lound the poys
behind the stove. and Mrs Ijndstroro
who cared little about the services exI
cept to give assent to the master W. .
putting the baby to he'd she t1rnad a
constrained face out of the chamher To
see the French girls entry. Anre,fa
wreathed from head to foot in red and
gold maple leaves sewed m twinaN
that was their SUNDAY occ,nat lion ,,non
the bluff, was ite
Albert tho ,an,,.
the oilclnthea H. h,a "a heoo Mas ny
his palm. thu shiny ca,,,,Iaid i ISL ss ~.
its immense moonstona hutton uul anc wa
ing the strinrr sinaw =. uhui. w. snc Ms-
Holiness erhnr+ing hoS +irsa III. ~
he was calcII1.tips w. 1reu M. ~.
miserabIe ante ~ nuon y! nis
to the family. Before him was some
prospectus Of q patent dishwasher with
which he was going to tramn fine towns
and country with his whining anneal,
his atuous smile. his eternal door hal,
ringing and of his hat IN tSa
impatient wives. He had = faint shy
affection for Aurelie in his %crineins
soul: her color. her life her pracaf,,I
courage, were like some bloom Of a
tropic garden to his aridness. He would
have loved, with a dogs love. anythine
that did not rebuff him. turn him away
snarl coldly, shut the door on him So
crushed was he with this in hfs davis
work.
Aurelie felt tho ouino,. ba,,,;,as. =,
She ~ 80 tha we sraAiseiy gay.