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Show FATHER DYER. 177 and then there was a silver service worth witnessing, and one that made its own music. The pail went around, and so did the music, each performer taking it up where his neighbor left off-the handful of silver held on high, the tin pail low down. Jingle, jingle, jingle was solo and chorus, with interlude of remark from the platform, and audible smiles from the givers, THE PAIL WENT AROUND. :until t h e singers by note, or transposing two letters only, the signers and the silver-toned singers had drowned the discord of debt and free offering. Who says 'irreverent?' All such should have witnessed the instantaneous hush, the solemn, and yet grateful, bowing of that strangely assorted congregation in the beautiful dedicatory service which followed immediately upon this unique tin-pail extinguishment." FATHER DYER. The gentleman then suggested that I ought to see Rev. J. D. Dyer, generally called " Father Dyor," because he was one of the first ministers of the gospel who settled in the Rocky Mountain region, and one of the characteristic men of the pioneer times. As there were no churches in that early day he would preach in the streets, in saloons, gambling houses and wherever he could gather a crowd. He would fearlessly proclaim the truth, and at the close of the service some self-appointed steward would pass the "hat" among the 12 |
