The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-06-12
From the Southern Christian advocate.
Letter from Williamson, S. c.


Mr.. Editor: A painfully diseased throat has
been the occasion, through the kind indulgence
of my congregation at Union, of my enjoyment
of the hospitalties of this delightful little viii
lage for the past two weeks. came here suf.
fering not only with my throat, but from the
general debility of my whole system. hope
to leave here in few days in greatly improved
health in every respect, and this happy result,
after the blessing of kind Providence and the
generous attention of friends, I attribute to the
medicinal virtue of the excellent water, which
heretofore has been the principal attraction of
this place. Carbonate of iron, sulphate of
potash, sulphate of magnesia, iodine and sui
phur enter as constituent elements into the
composition of this water, and in quantitative
proportions in the order of their above men,
tion, only trace of the last two having been
discovered. The traditional "oldest inhabitant"
tells of remarkable results from the use of this
water by invalids, many of whom have been in
the habit of visiting here for years in the inter-
est of their health.
Methodism here is under the intelligent and
earnest pastoral oversight of Rev. R. w. Bar
Der. We have fortnightly Sunday services
twice day. We have neat little church, of
the usual congregation. Our membership for
the last few years has very greatly improved in
numbers, material influence, moral force, and,
have no doubt, in practical piety. Brother
Barber is realizing the blessing of the Lord on
his faithful labors. His charge, especially that
part of it under his and Brother Lander's joint
control, the young ladies of Williamson Fe-
male College, has been signally favored by
very encouraging state of religious influence.
About twenty of the pupils of this excellent
institution have recently professed the expert
ence of change of heart. Such results as
this are our rightful expectation from the
say, with but slightly modified meaning, to
our Christian instructors, what King William,
of Prussia, said to the teachers of his Empire,
"What we want is fruit-fruit in the lives of
men," We join in with the Kaiser. We auant,
in the double acceptation of the term, fruit in
the hearts and lives, as likewise in the minds of
the pupils of our schools.
The Female College here, under the Presi-
dency of Rev. Samuel Lander, is proving
success much beyond the highest hopes of its
most sanguine friends. The third halfyearly
session is now nearing its close, with large
increase of its patronage. There have been in
attendance during the three sessions, pupils to
the number respectively of sixty, seveuty-one
and ninety five, and the reasonable expectation
is of small increase for the unexpired portion
of the current term, and of very considerable
increase for the fall term Of this year. The
only limit to greatly increased prosperity OF
the institution is in the accommodation of
boarding pupils, and this is now to be gener-
ously removed by the liberality of the stock
holders of the institution, who, through their
Board of Directors, have contracted for the
erection of a very large addition to their pres
ent building, to be finished by the 1st of Mo-
vember of the present year. have had a con-
venient opportunity, in the past several days,
to make we'll matured judgment of this very
superior institution of learning and have no
hesitation in saying, without the slightest re-
Election intended for educational facilities else
where afforded, 1 know of no place where
tuition, training, moral influence and physical
health conspire more fully as motives for
liberal patronage than they do here The in
ternal management is excellent. Brother Lam
der so inspires fear through love that almost
perfect order is sweetly enforced through every
department of the College, and the entire
school is more like large family under the
control of loving parents than anything else
can imagine. What have written here is
without the knowledge of Brother Lander, and
is as honest in me as it is creditable to him.
have had of enjoying its great advantages,
both sanitary and social. 1 might mention the
names of many pleasant acquaintances | have
made made here L will not do 50, however; will
simply express the hope that we may not prove
merely passing acquaintance, but lasting
friends, and that we may frequently meet
under circumstances as happy as those under
which we now part.
SAMUEL. A. WEBER.
WILLIAMSON Springs, May "a, 1873.
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