Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1921-08-18
A GREAT DAY.
The Laying of the Cornerstone Of the
New Building on Baptist Home Farm.

The Laying OF the Cornerstone Of the
& New Building on Baptist Home Farm.
& Few people in the world have done
what the throng gathered on the new
Bite of the Missouri Home for Aged
'Baptists did last Tuesday when they
participated in the exercises of the
corner stone laying OF the new build
ing for the Home. There are not
many denominational homes for old
people, and this is the only statewide
institution of its kind in existence.
It Is the only home among Baptists
that cares only for aged people who
are dependent upon their churches
for support.
The day was ideal for an open air
meeting, and the audience seated up
on the spacious porches of the cot
tage and improvised seats under the
spreading osxs,in front Of the house
presented beautiful picture. Many
citizens of the valley were in attend
ance, as well as large percent of
those from over the state attending
the Assembly on Arcadia Heights.
The Assembly program committee
had given the afternoon to the Home.
DIR. Milford Riggs, the superintend-
ent, presided over the exercises. Rev.
A. B. Bush led the singing. Pastor
Stanfield offered the invocation. DR..
Henry Afford Porter, of Atlanta, Ga,
delivered an address. Rev. Geo.
Steel led in the prayer of of dedica-
tion. Rev. o. L. Wood, of Kansas
City, pronounced the benediction. A
box containing papers that @ill be of
historical value In years to come,
should the stone ever be removed,
was placed in the stone by the super
intendent. Workmen had adjusted
the stone to its position in advance of
the exercises, and after the box was
placed In 1t, Contractor G. A. Buckley
welded the trowel and applied the
concrete. The entire exercises oc-
cupied just an hour and ten minutes,
and were full of interest from begin
ming to end.
The address delivered by DR.. Porter
will not soon be forgotten by those
who heard it. His remarks were
based in the main upon Jesus story
OF the Good Samaritan. He likened
the Home to the inn to which the
wounded traveller was taken. The
helpless old people are the wounded
travellers lying along life's highway,
and those who support the Home by
their prayers, their labors and their
money are among the Good Samaritans
of today. The address was delivered
in DIR. Porter.s most ornate style,
striking in thought, beautiful In die
ton, replete in its suppressed orator
ical feryor. enlivened with telling
illustrations, often pathetic, some
times humorous. zf
All who saw the building for the
first time as it has thus far progress
ed, were amazed at its proportions
and what it will be when completed
DR.. Porter, who has travelled much in
this country and abroad, pronounced
it the sunerior of any building in the
world erected for similar purposes
The corner stone is block of the
same red granite that is being used in
the walls, the only difference being
that this is polished on its face and
bears the inscription, Erected 1921
The dimensions Of the stone are
three feet long, twenty inches high
by eighteen inches wide. In the new
capitol building at Jefferson City may
be seen columns Of polished granite
taken from the same quarry from
which this stone was taken.
After the exercises, many Of ths
visitors fingered to see more OF the
beautiful premises and visit points o
interest on the farm. e