Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-05-30 | Page 4 | Rev. Dr. Iliff due in the City Monday

1EV. 88. SLSFF HE II THE CITY MOlftf Pioneer Western Minister May Stop Over in Old Home Town. Dr. T. C. Iliff is due in the city Monday Mon-day morning, unlcsn he decides to go direct to Denver from Pocatello via Granger. On Sunday, May 23, he dedicated dedi-cated the new $18,000 Methodist Episcopal Epis-copal church at Twin Falls, Idaho, raising rais-ing gJOfiO on tho occasion Sunday, (today) Mav 30, he dedicates tho new church at "Blackfoot, Idaho, where twenty-fivo years ago ho dedicated tho first Methodist church in I hat town. Some idea of. his work and demands is I seen in tho fact, that Juno 0 ho ia to I he nt Eussell, Kan., June JU al. Lns Vegas, June 20 at Carson City, June 27 at Sparks, Nov., dedicating new churches and lecturing at all theso places as well as nt Goldliold, Fallon and other places. His lecture, "Tho .Boys of '(31-'65 by One of Thorn," is in demand throughout the country, ns no other of its kind since tho "Bright Side of Lifo in Libhy Prison," hy tho lato Chaplain Bishop McCaho, who said of Dr. Iliff's lecture: "It is tho best of its kind on the American platform." Dr. Ilift ifl remembered by the old-timers throughout Utah, Jdaho and Montana as a pioneer missionary from JS70 to. 1901. A recent number of tho Christian Advdcato has the following fol-lowing notico of his enreer: Dr. Thomas Corwin 11 iff is planning to spend three months, June, July and August, in the Eocky mountains and Pacific coast region Colorado, Wyoming, Wyom-ing, Utah, Idaho, Novnda, California, Oregon, Washington and Montana-giving Montana-giving particular attention to tho fie his of his early missionary career. For thirty crowded vcars, 1870-1901, Dr. Iliff "laid foundations for Methodism and Americanism from tho British possessions pos-sessions to Old Mexico, among Mormons, Mor-mons, Indians, miners, ranchers, nnd iu all sorts and conditions of communities. IIo has boon a religious adventurer, equipped with a splendid physique, tremendous tre-mendous energy, dauntless courage, a ptrong mind and a tireless worker. JIc has been a history maker from the time ho threw tho plow down the side hill of tho Ohio farm in 1S61. and enlisted at the age of 15 years, and did not return re-turn home until Appomattox was reached. But his missionary life m the Rockv mountains is a record of how he with "others helped to win tho great West. It is no wonder that, from many sources the request is made that he put into book form his busy lifo of sixty-three sixty-three years. It would read like a romance. ro-mance. It is honed that he will stop long cnouRh in his hurrying up and down the land to comply with this wish of his friends. By and by it will bo too late. How fast such history makers mak-ers are going. Only a few of the old guard are left to tell the story aud Dr. Iliff is one of them.