Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1877-09-01

ttIo L dI1 pAOANA " say IAldC ChCJ
have responded heartily.
The campers, pastor and Presiding
Elder have met and decided to have
no camp-meeting this year. This is
doubtless a very wise step, and I
believe that twelve months will
prove it to all concerned. If the
pastoral charges adjacent to the
camp-grOund will see, as they ought,
that the camp-meeting has been too
burdensome on the Cedar Hill peo-
pie, and that they bend beneath the
weight, believe that four or five
new camps will be built by next
camp-meeting season. This would
relieve the GAINESVILLE, Cedar Hill
and Springfield campers considera-
bly,. In addition to this I am fully
persuaded that the boarding tent is
growing in favor every day. Here
is the plan Let the Cedar Hill sOci-
ETY. run boarding tent, the profits
to be applied to the support of the
pastor. By that means they could
raise nearly half their preachers sal
airy, and at the same time relieve
the campers of a great portion of the
burden they bear and give them
much better facilities for entertain
ing their friends. The people of
Cedar Hill who support the camp
meeting are the leading contribu-
tors to the support of their pastor.
1t is just that they should suspend
the camp-meeting this year and rally
to the support of their preacher, who
has IabOred faithfully during the
year.
With one years rest, a boarding
tent, four or five new tents, and the
blessing of God, / doubt not that we
will have one of the best camp-meet-
ings in 1873 that has been held in
Tennessee for many a day.
Miss Lizzie Cooley will begin her
third ten months session at Bethel
next Monday, and the children are
on tip-tOe to see "Miss Lizzie"
Somehow or other she has found a
warm place in the hearts of the
bright-faced children who have sat
for two years in her rOdless room
and made such rapid progress under
the reign Of love.
The Misses Lewis, of Guthrie,
KY, are on a visit to Mr.. Cars, near
Bethel. They are elegant and ac-
complished young ladies, and they
visit a highly appreciative commu-
nifty.
Our fourth Quarterly Meeting be-
gins on the day you go to press.
Bethel sends united prayers to
heaven for help. May God bless her
year of toll and sacrifice with large
reward.
Last Wednesday night we enjoyed
Il happy surprise. DR.. Dunn and III.
c. Crunk, Esq, both of Turnersville,
called and spent the night with US.
For four years / was the pastor of
DIR. Dunn and for four years he was
mysteWard, class-leader and Sunday
school superintendent. Much of the
time he was my family physician,
and did more with his medicine and
money to smooth the rugged path
of our itinerant life than almost any
man of his means that / have ever
ministered to. Besides being man
of capital medical talent he loves
God, his Church and his poor. Esq.
Crunk is one of the growing men of
Robertson county, and by patient
study and manly bearing he bids
fair to serve his fellOw-citizens in
more extended fields and prominent
places Of honor and trust.
Last Monday night boarded the
train for Stewart Station, on the
Louisville q Nashville r.. r., and
fell in company with trio of as
happy young ladies as heart could
wish-Misses Halle and Clemmie
Herring and Miss Maud Marable.
/ regretted that they should leave
the train so soon, but pleasant re-
membranes of them followed me to
my journeys end. At Stewart l
met my HiRerd31t wife, and on Tues
day, she in a wagon and on mule,
we hied us over hill and dale six or
seven miles to where vast multitudes
had assembled to pay tribute to the
memory Of George Cathey, deceased,
one of the oldest and best citizens of
Houston county. New Portland
Lodge-of which he had been for
many years an active, and often an
official member, and in which / was
initiated, passed and raised more
than fifteen years agO-perfOrmed
the beautiful Masonic ceremony at
the grave of their deceased and la
mented brother. Here we fell into
good hands again; dined with an
old cOmrade in arms, and was wag=
goned to Danvllle, on Tennessee
river, by my good brother Moss,
whose hospitable family cared for
us kindly. Praying with a gathered
group in his parlOr, the roar of the
train hurried the amen and we
boarded her for home, enjoying the
company of Mr.. A. A. johnson and
family and DIR. Bales on the way.
7. j. DUNCAN.
OLIVER p, MQRTQN, Of Indiana,