SEPTEMBER 



''Pilot Rock,'' Cherokee County, 



September 22, 1887. 

 Last Sunday evening several of our gang and 

 almost the entire family of our miller host walked 

 to meeting. The service was held by the Wesley an 

 Methodists, in their very simple frame building, 

 two or three miles down the road. One wonders 

 if many of the picturesque phases of the country 

 church in Iowa have been recorded by pen or 

 brush. Within the state many a humble spire 

 rises into the sunlight from an exposed knoll of 

 prairie, or gleams through a sheltering grove of 

 oaks or maples. ' ' The Little Brown Church in the 

 Vale" has attained more than local fame, but 

 probably there are many others no less worthy 

 still waiting for the imaginative insight of poet 

 or painter. How many architectural details of 

 external or interior plan, how many types of me- 

 morial for the dead, must have been brought over- 

 seas from Wales, Holland, Germany, Norway, to 

 this land of new hope. The social life that centers 

 in sucli churches miglit also furnish rich materials 



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