Iron County register., 1922-09-14
The Old Folks Home.
tThe Baptist Home,

tion. The slate is now here and more
than half of it on the roof. Before
this is in print, the last slate shingle
will have been nailed to its place, and
the roof completed. The material for
heating and plumbing is being cut at
the factory and will soon be on the
ground ready to be placed and fitted
by the plumbers. The doors have
been ordered from the company furn-
ishing the mill work for the building.
The hollow tile has been ordered for
the partition work. For these various
items we shall need fifty thousand
dollars more than we have on hand
between now and Christmas. Besides
the money W g shall receive from Vic
tory Pledges, and the other gifts you
will make, we shall need all we can
raise from the sale of the hundred
dollar notes. These notes bear eight
per cent interest, paid annually, and
their security is as good as that of
government bonds. The notes ma
ture, some one year hence, and some
every month thereafter up to ten
years. Send your check for as much
as you want to lend, and let us know
how long you want your note or notes
to run. We issue note for every
hundred dollars you lend. This is
good investment for you, and the
loan helps ihe Lords cause in en-
abling us to push to completion the
building for the Home.
Of the more than four hundred peo-
pie attending the Missouri Baptist
Assembly from different parts of the
state, very few went away without
visiting the Home. They visited not
only the Home in Ironton, but they
also went to the farm to see the future
location of the Home, and the build
ing that is being erected. Visitors
never cease to admire the beauty of
the location and expresses delight in
the charm of the surroundings and
scenery. The setting is one that de-
lights the eye, no matter how many
times seen. Always without excep-
tion, the visitor expresses admiration
and surprise when he sees what the
new building is to be, and what the
Baptists of Missouri have in this great
plant as thus far developed. We have
never yet known visitor to be dis
appointed except agreeably. We have
never seen one who did not find more
at the Home than he expected to see.
When we remind the visitor that we
have been trying for long time to
tell him these things and trying
through the paper to enable him to
visualize the Home. he says, "Yes, I
know what you said and what you
wrote, but did not grasp it." TESTING
ly we reply, "You did not believe us,
did your"
We are happy to have these dele
gates to the Assembly see the Home.
We wish every Baptist in Missouri
could both attend the Assembly and
visit the Home. We know this is not
possible. The great majority will
never see the Home except through
the eyes of others. They will just
have to take our word for it, the word
of those who visit the Home and that
of those who write about it. They
will have to see the Home with the
eye OF faith, and believe that it is
here taking care of dependent old
members of our Missouri Baptist
churches. And this faith will find ex-
preston in help, and be justified in
their gifts to the Home. We venture
the assertion that there are very,
very few people who see the Home
with physical eye who do not render
some help to the Home very soon
thereafter. Is not faith as good as
sight? Brother, Sister, do you be-
lieve in the Home even though you
have never shaken hands with the old
people within its walls nor laid your
hands upon the material going into
| the construction of the new building?
Is not the Home just as real to you
as though You had walked down Its
halls and heard the songs and the
sighs Of the helpless old souls abid-
ing here awaiting the summons for
promotion? Won'tyou by faith try
to see the need of these old brothers
and sisters, and try to see the pre-
paration we are making for those who
need to come whom we have not yet
been able to receive? Won't you try
to see how,some of us are straining
every strand Of our strength to put
over this work, and lend helping
hand? Seeing is believing, whether
with the inner or outer eye, and faith
produces works.
a Democratic Campaign Book, 1922.
II The Democratic Campaign Book,
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