Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-07-14
FROM NEW PROVIDENCE.


Rev. A. L. Johnson, of Guthrie, adj
dressed the Throne of Grace on be-
half of the occasion. Sunday School
children, young and old, filed the
woods with sacred song. James w.
Rice, Esq, read the Declaration of
Independence. Judge Scarborough
delivered an able essay on Sunday
Schools. / was thrown in for good
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. Jimmie
Rice, with brevity, delivered an adj
dress full of radiant pearls and
twinkling gems. Col. Lilly, of Hen
ry county, carried us back to the
days of pumpkin sauce and spice
rounds. Great affair. Thermome-
ter 1OI.
My trip to my old home was in
manyrespects very pleasant, and the
kind hospitality shown one will not
soon be forgotten. On the day of
my departure / stood in the city of
the dead and pronounced the solemn
burial service at the grave of Mrs.
Love. She died Unexpectedly and
her husband was hundreds of miles
away.
Floods fall has shocked the coun-
ty, but the people are not harsh.
They know full well that habits of
dissipation are drifting thousands to
destruction. Some say, "What's in
man when he is sober comes out
when he is drunk" Then in the
name of common sense let us try to
keep them sober and let their bad
qualities die in them.
On my return had the pleasure
of preaching to my Baptist friends
at Cross Creek church, near Indian
Mound.
Bethel community enjoysreligiOus
and social prosperity. Preaching
by the pastor or his brother, Rev.
John T. Duncan, every Sunday at
II A. NJ. and on the second Sunday
in each month at P. NJ. by Rev.
Hardwicke, pastor of Salem Baptist
Church. Bro. Hardwicke preached
his first sermon there last Sunday,
and it was good. The Sunday School
is well attended and deep interest
taken in the lessons. Prayer-meet-
ings every Thursday night. Fourth
| Quarterly Conference is held there
1st Sunday in September-meeting
to be prOtracted. Service in Meth
odist church, New Providence, every
Sunday at IL A. NJ. and 81 P. NJ
good Sunday School. Prayer-meet-
ing every Wednesday night. Pro-
tracted meeting begins third Sunday
in September.
There are many visitors in the
bounds of my charge and 1 am de-
| lighted with them. ! am not well
enough acquainted with them to
know whether they are fond OF
newspaper puffs or not.
Our village has been visited with
affection and death. Sweet little
10. Trahern, aged two years and a
few months, has passed from his
mothers arms to his SaViOr's bosom.
Fit inhabitant for the home Of the
! bright and the beautiful. He will
never sin or suffer, and the bleeding
| hearts that mourn him dead may go
| to him.
Everywhere / go I am asked,
"will there be a camp-meeting ?"
I cannot tell F.; the District Conference
and the campers have had the mat
ter under consideration and no con-
clusiOn has been reached. No man
has contributed more labor and SYM
pathy to Cedar Hill camp-meeting
than 1 may L have my say? 1t
has been said that through the elo-
quent pleadings of the ministry the
camp ground was established and
that the people from one end of the
district to the other responded. The
facts are that the zeal of the church
at Cedar Hill established the camp
ground, and that Springfield and
GAINESVILLE alone of the fourteen
pastoral charges in the district built
camps upon the ground. Cedar Hill
pastoral charge has SeUen camps,
GAINESVILLE one, Springfield one.
GAINESVILLE camps every time and
Springfield sometimes. Is that re-
spending? 1t has been delicately
indicated to the Methodist ministry
that Christ met with opposition
while on the earth, and I would del
icately indicate that eleven-fOur-
teenths of GAINESVILLE district have
not responded to the call for a camp
meeting. Anobler band Ofchildren,
men and women than the Cedar
Hill campers are hard to find. They
love God and deny themselves for
his cause. They camped in good
faith, but have not had the co-ope-
ration from the district that they
had reason to expect. They are
tired. They have camped repeat
edly against theirjudgmentandth their
will, hoping for aid that did not
come. If they camp this year it will
be under protest. Only two or three
camps will be run cheerfully, and
they because they are sustained by
large family connections. Now add
to this state of things the fact that
the railroad from two directions
pours in upon these struggling peo-
pie swarm of foreign visitors whom
they never have been able to ac-
cOmmodate, and who will say there
should be another camp-meeting I'M
less the district does respond? Ce-
dar Hill has three hundred members,
paws five hundred dollars per annum
to their pastor, who devotes one
fourth of his time to them. Their
camp-meeting expenses are not less
than seven hundred dollars year.
q know what it takes to run camp,