The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-28

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make our State prosperous With ahappy PEG.
.r,le, and In order to do so there must be mar.
mony and good feeling between white ana
black: and that ear, never be reached un tss
!. strangers rule"
Letter from Lancaster County.
CHURCH DELEGATIONS D APTI sa s-RAIS7-
SPEAKING BY DOUGLASS AND sENER.
rr,orreasnrondence or the Richmond Dispatch.l
~ LANCASTER COURT HOUSE. fAo
f September q, 1874.
ON Sunday, 18th instant. the handsome
Metbodist church Just finished near the WI
lage of White Stone, about twelve mi, ,e
southeast OF this place, was dedlca'eo py
Rev. DR.. Leonidas Rosser. AT an carry
hour the people began to gather untli
twelve or fifteen hundred persons were pre-
sent. About II O'Clock A. NJ. ReVs. Dr.
Poser, A. Wiles, and William Anvil, oe-
cnn;ed the pulpit, and Revs. William Brent,
William Long, late of Maryland; John
Miller. late of England, and Hon. Judge
Samuel Downing, occupied the altar.
Mr. Rosser opened the exercises by read.
lido the hymn beginning "Behold thy tenn
ole, God of Grace" &c.
After singing and prayer, Rev. MIR. Wiles
read for the first lesson the oath Psalm, and
for the second lesson part of the 10th chap
ter of Hebrews. 49,
= Mr.. Rosser then read the hymn beginning
% ord of Hosts to Thee we raise," &c. After
it was sung he announced his text from
Hebrews, 9th chapter, oath verse, g For
Christ is not entered into the holy places
made with hands which are the figures of
the true, but.into Heaven itself, now to ap-
pear in the presence of God for u.s." He
preached more than an hour, highly enter
tanning and edifying the large audience. At
the close of his sermon be stated that the
church had cost about $4,000; that the ladies,
by their zeal in procuring subscriptions ana
by fairs, had raised about $1,000, and
though the members and friends bad sub
scribed literally, there was still 81 ,O00 to be
raise dIssvhich he hoped would be accom-
plishelJsfo the church was dedicated. he
made an earnest appeal and raised IN SUD-
striptions and money $3.50. This occupied
80 much of the morning that the dedication
was deferred till the afternoon. he an
uounced that all present without provisions
were cordially invited to partake OF Inc re-
frcshments so avishly provided.
After an hours intermission the congre-
CATION reassembed, and after short effort
to increase the $3.50 to the required VI ,OCO,
which failed, Rev. A. Wiles presented the
building committee to Rev. DR.. Rosser, VINO
then formally dedicated the new White
Stone church to the worship of God. H..
The ceremony through, Rev. Mr.. AtWil'
announced bis text from Romans, viii, 81:
"He that spared not his own son, but delV-
cred him up for us all, hoT shall he not with
him also freely give us all things?" The
time was so short that the audience began to
disperse and he did not finish his sermon:
The meeting was protracted during the
week. On yesterday there were forty peni-'
tents, and in all twenty-five converts. In.
the mean time Rev. Mr.. Wiles was taken
very ill, but is convaescent. -
On yesterday DR.. Rosser dedicated a
church at Bethany, in Fairfield Neck, in
Northumberland county. He returned to-
White Stone to-day to continue the meetings
there.
Understand that on yesterday on Diners
creek near White Stone there were one nuns
dred and forty colored persons baptized by
immersion, and to-day at Magnolia, in North
cumberland county, about twenty-five more.
During the week there were several heavy
rains, which were much needed for the fall
crops. The weather is cool, aud that dread
of the tall season here on
tideHater, the ''ague and fever" has begun
its rayages without respect 10 age, sex, or
condition.
Judge Samuel Downing held his first
court at this place to-day. He presided with
much dignity. MIR. Warner Eubank being
on visit to the springs 10 try to build up
his strength after a severe spell Of sickness,
Mir. Walter L. Gresham acted as clerk OF the
court. There was but little business, and
court was adjourned at an early hour.
DR., NJ. Lewis, superintendent of the pub
lie schools of this and Northunberland'l
counties, examined Messrs. Raleigh Duna-
way, A. NJ. Houghlete, Timothy Edwards,
and George S. Gresham-a!l Of whom pass.
ed, and will be put in charge of schools the
first Monday in October. Other teachers
were in the village, but the doctor was SO
pressed for time that lie deferred their en-
animation.
1t having been stated that Hen. James B.
Sener, Republican candidate, and Major
Beverly B. Douglass, Conservative candidate
for Congress, would address the people here
to-day, there was au unusually large gather
ing IF citizens from this and the adjoining
About 2 O'Clock p. n. they en-
tered the courtroom, which was soon
crowded.
Mr. Sener spoke first. he was earnest but
respectful, aud proclaimed that whilst he
was representative Of the Republican party
that in Congress his every effort had been to
promote the welfare of the citizens of the
district he represented faithfully and impair
TALLY; that he voted several times against
the civiI.rights bill, and that he saw no rea-
son why he should be put out of office after
having performed his duty to the best of his
ability, to put in one untricd simply because
he represented another party.
Major Douglass followed with humor-
Gus and entertaining address, and attempted
to show that Mr.. Sener was flying two CO.
lors, the white and black, which he used
alternately as occasion required, and that
therefore he was not to be trusted; also,
that the Republican party was so corrupt
that no one claiming connection with it
should be entrusted with any important
public Office.
Both speakers were cheerfully and loudly
applauded by their respective parties, and
altogether l have not known a more agree
able political meeting since the war.
DEATHS.