The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-04-24
Letter From Georgia.
ATLANTA, GA, Saturday, April q


spsaGl Correspondence oiths InttilIgeneer.
We are nearing the closing session Of
the great Sunday School gathering, in all
respects the most successful Convention
ever held by the Sunday School people Of
the Uaited States and the Canada. Much
Of the success Of the meeting may be
traced TO the very efficient Chairman oil
the Executive Committee, Mr.. John Z.
searles, il, ofNew Haven, Conn. 4.
Mr.. Searles IL . young merchant oil
great executive ability, combining firm
meas and decision Of character with gen.
tleness and tenderness, and all these ele.
ments guided and governed by strong
faith in Jesus Christ, and great love for
Sunday School work. Every proposition
and decision Of the Executive Committee
we're received with great unammity By
the Convention, and heartily applauded
by the hundreds Of visitors present.
THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF TO-DAY
were the address by Rev. DR.. Plumer, oil
South Carolina on the subject oil. educat=.
ing the colored people, and the report oil
the committee 10 select n new Lesson
Committee TO prepRreleSsons for the next
seven years.
AZ the venerable DR.. Plumer stood up
on the platform round upon round Of APP
plause greeted him from the fifteen hun
dred people crowded into the church. he
seemed very feeble at frat but, grew
stronger as be went on with his address.
Hia hair and long flowing beard are now
as white as snow, like unto pure white
wool"
No tongue and no pen can describe
either the address or It's ELECT upon the
grea. thropg. During all It's delivery the
venerable patriarch had 10 be finASd, 80
weak did 6ia body seem. Hecommenced
by saving that shut for a colored man be
could not speak to the convention to day"
and then described his being saved from
drowning in the Ohio river many
years ago BY a coiored man. BE then
repudlated the repeated assertion that
the descendants Of Ham were earsedr
and with emphasis which | can
never forget quoted the passage .Jtor God
made Of one blood all The Haitonso 81 men 10
dpeR on all lie face ofthe eGrh.R
The old man closed his great speech by
saying: "rhese people are going TO stay
among us and must be educated and ele-
waited: They are buying land and work
ing It we'll, they are sending their child
rem to school and to college and Improving
equally with the white children" They
are going to stay, I tell you, and Cured
be he who leads them 10 sin" VIM. q.
Irwin, OF your city, is DR.. Plummer's
travelling companion. Thee, return to-
gether to Columbia, s. G., to-day.
THE NEW INTERNATIONAL LESSON COM.
MITTEE
as reported this morning ia as follows :
Rev. John H. Vincent, D. d, Rev. John
Hall, D. D, Rev. Warren Randolph d. D..
Rev. Richard Newton, D. D b. F. Jacobs,
Esq, Rev. Prof. Henry L. Baugher, A,
NJ. Rev. j. A. Warden, A. NJ, Rev. John
A. Broadus, D. D., Rev. W. @. G. Gun.
ningham, D. D, Rev. B. L. Palmer, D. D
Rev. Austin Phelps, D. D, Rev
J. II. Mcvicker, D. d, Cannadai
Rev. DR.. Potts, Toronto; Rev. Dr.
Phil. G. Gillette, D. D. OF these the
first five and last one were members Of
the former committee. Three, Drs. Gun
nipgham, Palmer and Broadus, repre-.
sent the Methodist, Presbyterian and
Baptist Churches South, which have now
united in the international Lesson sys-
TEN, and the remainder are new menu
bers, representing the Lutheran, CoDgre'
gational and other branches Of the Chris
tan Church. Igive you the names above
explicitly, as every Sunday School in
West Virginia and the entire land is in
terested in to days work.
THE FAREWELL MEETING
has just closed at II P. NJ, and the dele
gates are lingering about the church, a
though unwilling to say goodbye
Every now and then a group starts 1
song, and in u moment the whole thronl
catch il up, and make the church rims
with sweetest melody. Governor Col
quit wants to stake every hand again.
though he received all the delegates at hi
house last night. Noble, Christian man
he has endeared himself to- every
stranger visiting Atlanta, and ha'
made Impressions which can never b
era.ed. I cannot close my letters with
out expressing gratitude 10 Col. Avery
Secretary TO Governor Colqnit; o. II
JoneR, Chairman Of the Reception Com
miltee; Mr.. Markham, owner OF the
Markham Hou-e, and the gentlemen who
now carry on the business Of the houss
for him, as we'll as also To Mr., Kimball,
Secretary OF the Sunday School Associa'
ton OF Georgia; Mr.. Wildly, OF Fultor
county, and the officers Of the railroad
companies over whose lines l have tray.
eled. II there has been anything 10 these
letters 10 interest your readers, they are
indebted to a great extent to the persons
above named. Col. Avery il \ gentleman
OF vigorous mind and great kindness oil
heart. He is the author Of the sketches
Of prominent Southerners now appearing
10 the Detroit Free Pres. Mr.. Jones has
been Chairman Of all Reception Commit.
tees, l believe, from the days Of General
Jackson's visit to Georgia up TO the pres.
ent time, and thoroughly understands
receiving strangers," while the other
gentlemen mentioned are unsurpassed in
their respective roles.
'rB NOW TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING
and the Executive Committee are in their
room at the "Markham" (where they
have been twice and thrice each day
since the 10TH to say farewell to each
other aud present Mr.. Searles, their
chairman, with a little token Of their
esteem in the shape OF a cane Of Georgia
wood with u plain silver head engraved
with the letter s. and the place and date
Of the convention Mr.. Searles has 40 sue
cessfully managed. The goodbye has
been spoken, the prayer for safety on the
homeward way, aud more earnestness in
the work, has been said, and the commit
tee and delegates part, many Of them
perhaps 10 meet no more on earth.
Ihave written these letters under con.
siderable difficulty, generally alter mid.
night and after u day Of hard work.
They are not what [ could wish, but II
they have interested the readers Of the
ISTELLIoEScER, no one can feel better
repaid than 3.