The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1916-03-23


been a movement in Leon so we'll
equipped with men and measures to
minister to the good Of the commun-
| ity and to the betterment of Leon,
! than the present evangelistic taber-
nacle campaign. If it is duly appre-
ciated and receives corresponding
support it will mean great trans
formation for Leon and Decatur
county 1t will mean better town,
a better citizenship, better Leon. 1t
will create more wholesome influ-
ence and better environment for our
Logs and girls. 1t will eliminate
much of the. bad and vicious and en-
throne constructive forces instead of
destructive ones. 1t will make better
men and women and instead of a
nother's tears and anxiety for her
sons and daughters and husband,
there will be happy hearts and cheer
full homes.
Not only will it make better city,
but consequently an better business
city; more honest upright living and
paying of debts and more money to
invest in merchandise and the neces-
stiles of life: There will be less
suuandering of wages and time and
the dissipation of energy and health.
leaving men healthier and happier to
earn and enjoy an honest living.
There will be less of laWlessness and
immortality. 1t will make Leon more
inviting as a city of beautiful homes
where the best class of people choose
to make their home because of it's
wholesome influences and splendid
citizenship. A safer place for the in
- n,,if tot M f11r CT
ing of employment to Icons strong
virile men and boys, instead OF the
latter having to leave Leon to find
such employment. Clean living and
more of prosperity are products OF
just such campaign. AS such this
campaign should receive enthusiastic
support from all classes of Leon, it's
business and professional men, its
leading, influential men and women.
1t matters not whether you APP
prove of everything that is said and
done. No one entirely meets the APP
prevail of another. And, besides it is
not an ideal condition that is being
treated, and one can hardly expect
the application of a perfect program
in every particular. Everyone makes
and the preacher is no ex-
ception. This campaign has but one !
object, namely, the betterment of
men and women and Leon in particu-
lar. AS a patriotic citizen and inter-
ested in the moral welfare and de- |
velopment of Leon, you cannot afford /
to knock, be antagonistic or even in
different to the greatest reformatory |
and transformatory agency that has
ever come to Leon. Now is the time
to save Leon, and if you knock or
withhold yourself, you may expect a
reaction and you are opening the
way Cor inviting the same).
This is not something that is be-
ing put over on LeOn-rather it is
Leon in desperate attempt to re-
deem herself. With the present help
and encouragement it is now easier
for Leon to go forward and it is also
easier for men to change their ways.
Men have wanted to change their
ways. Now is the time, while it is
easier and popular. Talk this work;
let it be the common topic and create
an atmosphere for better living and
church activity. Frequently we have
TO listen to the criticism, that the
church work of Leon isn't on par
doesn't compare tavorably with other
interests of Leon, it's civic and COM
nercial interests. Now is the time
or the church to come into it's own,
claiming the prestige that is due it
md in truth make LEON LEAD in
hings moral and religie us. No man
If this movement is able to explain,
,ther than as work of providence,
low so suddenly and successfully this
york was launched Everything
Gems to have work in it's favor.
Dare anyone stand in the face of
UGH evident Leadership:
The tabernacle is being crowded /.
md the crowds will increase, but
here is grave danger of business
nd influential men and women of
icon, allowing themselves to be V,
rowded out and they themselves and
4eon not receiving the full strength ]
nd benefit of this campaign. There j
s also the fatal danger uhat some
leon people will assume that the {
igness of the movement, it's machin-
ry, the bizarre appearance, assures {
he success OF the campaign and they {
will not appreciate and E
eel the personal responsibility of it
nd thereby largely circumscribe it's |
Y
ou say you want better town, bet {
er conditions, better constructive {
york and less destructive forces; now j
5 the time, above all times, to secure s
hat for Leon. Make LEON LEAD"
III churches, cults and sects should Ii
e united in rendering this service /
or Leon. Christianity is unselfish
nd humanitarian in it's ministry, if r
t is anything, ano the only justifica- /
ion for the existence of the church r
5, that it ministers to the need of t
he community. Mr.. A. X. Harper,
aader of the campaign, had it right '
hen he says, .'The best business as b
ct any community has is an honest Il
temperate citizenship" h
This movement means that, will i
GU help it., men and women of
con- This thing is going, but it {
ill go tremendously, if you will get
ITO it, Now is the time to make n
God, individually and collectively, a
nd you will render an infinite SER
ice if you do not oppose and with