Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1868-08-28
From the Associate Reformed Presbyteria
LEwIsvILLE, S. c., August II, 1868


LEwIsvILLE, S. c., August II, 1868.
MIR. EDITOR II am again at Lew
isvillc, but expect to leave tomorrow
for the fertile fields and large hearts
in North Carolina.
Week before last / was ut IIopcwcll
attending the meeting Of the Rocky
Creek Bible Society, and on Sabbath
assisting at tho dispcnsution of the
lords Supper. OF these matters, l
gave some account in my last. I re-
turned to Union Church on last Fri
day, partly to get rid Of my mule and
buggy-to assist at the administration
Of the Supper, and get some more
help for the College. At IIopcwcll !
received eight enc hundred dollar
subscriptions and may get one or two
more. At Union and Nccly's Creek
ten one hundred dollar subscriptions;
have been secured. Some Of these
subscriptions have been made by sin
gle subscribers and some by several
uniting. Everybody claims to be
poor, distrcssingly poor-but let the
poor i'll all the churches subscribe five.
ten or twenty dollars year for five
years and tho present plan Of Endow-
ment will soon be completed. Lot
tho churches do as we'll as those al
ready visited and the 'Life Of the
College, will be insured for five years
more and them
1 am riding round among the good
people of Chester eating fine dinners,
and enjoying pleasantsocial intercourse
You, poor fellows, about Duo West
gnawing your crust and looking blue,
will DO wanting this agency next year
and if you will pay me handsomely l
will learn you in Give lessons" how to
get money out Of poor folks for a
good cause!
AS [ bounce about in my buggy
over the rocks and gullics ] am forced
somewhat to examine the geological
character Of old Chester. 1 have
como to Tho conclusion that hero VIC
have the "Flint Rock Formation. j."
The geological Sauans may not have
discovered this formation it is, too
near the surface for men who arc el-
ways 1'aatering away down in the low
or regions Of the globe among shells
and bones, trying to "calculatc" the
groat antiquity of the earth. For
my part I am disposed to believe the
simple and plain statement of Moses
that God created the earth and the
Aeavens too in sig days. It is supposed
that ample time is allowed in Genesis
l.: 2 for the formation Of the great
geological strata before tho six days
commenced. May be SO; but there is
no such time allowed in the Fourth
G Commandnnont.-Ex. Xxx: II. "For in
six days tho Lord madc heaven and
earth, the sea and all that i'm themcis.n
Hore, it is clear that alF creation
heaven, earth and sea, was created in
six days -:;and the strata about which
thcfc is SO much trouble, must have
been formed since; and with the
means at command-ritcrs, rains,
foods, storms, and especially tho great
ocean with it's currents land surging
-billows dashing against the shore on AT
sides or sweeping oyor thc hiddenmouh-
tains Of the sea and round her isle-.tll
these agents at work would form, in
certain favorable localitick, the 'vallics
Fof the oeean1Toiy thick strata in. a:
worry short time. Where Is theuse of
|faterminable, ages to accomplish a
twork3hat could ocomplated in a lSWi9 li9
hundred yoarsf Why; what-a CONT
'nent Of mud has. gone down from
Chester aad all the country during the
aast centarTF This deposited in, the
vaJes Of the AGA, and not sprcaf oyer
tho whole floor Of tho ocean, would
soon fum very thick layers. If so,