Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-05-03 | Page 15 | Pastor Spurns Church Feu Leaves Pulpit for Cave Dwelling

Pastor Spurns Church Fe Fea Fed a 9 I 4 4 e 9 I Builds Modern Home l-Iome in ill Ozark k Clif Leaves Pulpit for Cave St J t 4 1 4 C 4 s 4 I I'M J M i ir r. r r I I i t LITTLE ROCK Ark May lay 2 ByNEA By ByNEA NEA Service Warfare re of church modernists and fundamentalists did not find a recruit in the Rev H. H S. S Mobley I 4 Instead he resigned the pulpit and took himself and family away from the bIck rIngs of pacifists and militarists mili mili- to live as a 0 cave man In the Boston range of the Ozark mountain country near Prairie Grove Ark Arlt tho the former minister found his haven It was vas a light dry cave C 67 feet long and 18 feet high with a n ceilIng ceiling ceil cell ing of or colored rock formation a precipitous cliff towering high above itI itI itI it I wanted to rear real my boys away from the temptations and strife of city life he says Here they are arc blessed with the gifts girts of nature and we can gain a ago go good livelihood from the thc earth One hundred and sixty acres of ground 50 acres of which were in cultivation comprised the home site Native stone stono was wits used to face the cave which had been partitioned off oft into three rooms Today the exterior of the tho cave has the imposing look of a feudal castle Inside it Is fitted with wills all aU conveniences conveniences conven conven- of the modern dwelling A floor has been laid and Indian rugs are strewn about Sixteen high plate glass windows puncture the front rOCkwork g giving ginS inS plenty of light during daytime hours L' L k 1 There Thero are nio easy eay chairs inviting I nooks a big ebony piano and und a great groat mahogany sideboard in the in 1 living 1 L shown t left eft is At the upper I Ien I tenor view of the cave the cave tn en while at the upper right rig 15 j tho the cave looks on the i below Mobley is shown C bedroom has room Each fireplace Water from fron a neL I been piped ints tic tr l also boasts o ot o C W wIte ite rocks f Adjacent VII vit s g sc Jerse c cow cov w honse V. V WIH thra lor lorta or tv h lort O are arc stalled 1 a shod a a. pis IH h h huse lu use e and nd a D. g