The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1921-08-26
A. GREAT DAY.

Few people in the world have done
what the throng gathered on the new
site 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 UNCONVENTIONAL hores 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 t..cir churches
for support.
The day was ideal for an open air
meeting, and the audience seated up
on the spacious porches of the cottage
and improvised seats under the spread
ing oaks in front of the house present
ed beautiful picture. Many citizens
of the valley were in attendance, as
well as large percent of those from
over the state attending the Assembly
on Arcadia Heights. The Assembly
program committee had given the af-
ternoon to the Home. DR.. Milford
Riggs, the superintendent, presided ov-
err exercises. Rev. A. B. Bush led the
singing. Pastor Stanfield offered the
invocation. DIR. Henry Afford Porter,
of Atlanta, Ga, delivered an address.
REV. Geo. Steel led in the prayer of
dedication. Rev. o. L. Wood Of Kansas
City pronounced the benediction. A
box containing papers that will be Of
historical value in years to come,
should the stone ever be removed, was
placed in the stone by the superin-
tendent. Workmen had adjusted the
stone to it's position in advance of the
exercises, and after the box was
PLACED in it Contractor G. A. Buckley
welded the trowel and applied the
concrete. The entire exercises occu-
pied just an hour and ten minutes, and
were full of interest from beginning to
end.
The address, delivered by DIR. 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 wound
ed traveler was taken. The helpless
old people are the wounded travellers
lying along life's highway, and those
who support the Home by their pray
ers, their labors and their money are
among the Good Samaritans of today
The address WIS delivered in DIR. Por-
ter's most ornate style, striking in
thought, beautiful in diction, replete
in its suppressed oratorical fervor
enlivened with telling illustrations, of
ten pathetic, sometimes humorous.
All who saw the building for the
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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
superior of any building in the world
erected for similar purposes. The
corner stone is a 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 1922.
The dimensions of the stone are
three feet long, 20 inches high by Is
inches wide. In the new capitol build.
ing at Jefferson City may be seen col.
umns of polished granite taken from
the same quarry from which this stone
was taken.
After the exercises, many of the
visitors fingered to see more of thu
beautiful premises and visit points o.
interest on the farm.-Ironton Regis
ter.