Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1884 — A WESTERN POINT OF VIEW. [ARTICLE]

A WESTERN POINT OF VIEW.

A Gentleman Thoroughly Competent to Speak Gives His Opinion on Matters of Universal Importance. During the past year Over 3,000,000 acrea have been entered in Southern Dakota and ItiO poatoffices established; the daily newspapers have increased from forty-three to sixty-tljree, and weeklies Irom 160 to *18; emigration is pouring in at a rapid rate; a nation is being born in a day; and a short time only can elapse before two or three large States will grow out of this land of the Dakotas. The Hev. Stewart Sheldon, of Yankton, Superintendent of the Home Miss ons for Southern Dakota, a gentleman who has lived in the Territory for the past sixteen years, has traveled over it many times, and is fully competent to give a trustworthy opinion. Is very enthusiastic over Dakota's prospects. “Look at the area of the Btate,” he exclaims, “160,000’ square miles: Enough to make over three New Englands, to make twenty-eight Connecticut!; to hold all the inhabitants of the world .with only sixteen and a fraction to the acre; to put a belt around the globe six miles wide. In a single year 1,500 miles of railroad are built, and on a single farm 1,800,0JJ bushels of wheat are raised; its possibilities are almost boundless.” “How about the planting of churches?” “It keeps pace with the needs of the people. In my own denomination about fifty organizations have been effected during the past year, and other religious bodies have probably done equally well.” “May I ask what orlglnhlly brought you to thi! new country with it 3 necessary hardships?” “First, the pursuit of health; secondly, the great and growing Held for religious influence. lam on the road most of the time. As you know, it is not an easy task, and were it not for a circumstance which I believe saved my life, I should even now be compelled to forego the pleasure 1 And in being instrumental in an humble way of doing some little good. “Would you be willing to publicly state your experience?” “Yes, sir! If you care to publish the matter in your paper, for the good of the public, I will give you a written statement.” And suiting the action to the word, the Superintendent immediately wrote out the fol.ow--ing: Bev. D. B. Coe, Hon. Secretary. KtS-fcEST-Bev. A. H. Clapp, Treasurer. American Home Missionary Society, Bible House, New York City. Bev. Stewart Sheldon, Superintendent for Dakota. Yankton, Dakota, Sept. 26, 1384. To whom it may concern: This is to certify that I have used Warner’s Safe Cure and Safe Pills more or less for a year past and I find them to be most excellent remedies. They seem to do the work, when other medicines fail. I have reason to believe that they have saved my life, and it gives me pleasure to commend them to others. For liver complaint, general debility, and constipation, they have been a specific in my Own case, as they have been to others to whom I have recommended them. It gives me pleasure to add my testimony to the many already given, in the hope that others afflicted as I have been, may experience like benefit. Bev. Stewart Sheldon. Indorsement from such a source is but pother proof of intrinsic merit, and we give this to our readers solely for the good they may derive from it, believing heartily in its worth, and unqualifiedly indorsing the reverend gentleman and the work in which he Is engaged. »