The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-08-05
The Pleasant Hill S. s. Reunion

The Pleasant Hill S. S. Reunion.
Below we publish the response OF
Rev. w. ID. Cherry 10 the address
of welcome at the Pleasant Hill
Sunday School Reunion:
OFFICERS AND TEACHERS OF THESE SUN
DAY SCHOOLS, LADIES AND GENTLE
! MEM
More than eighteen hundred years
ago st. Paul stood an innocent man,
/ yet accused of a grea: crime, before
! King Agrippa and an enraged audience,
and stretching forth his hand, he said,
al think myself happy because 1 shall
answer for myself this day !" See him
environed by Pharisees, Saducees, and
Asiatic Jews, until an enraged mob of
thirty thousand, like rapacious tigers,
clamor for his blood. But with that her
oism which has often signalized the
champions of our God, he said he was
happy to speak for himself. Then L
dare say BrOther Ashford has been hap
Ply, very happy, in speaking for the elite
community of Pleasant Hill to-day.
And he has given US warm heartfelt
welcome TO this almost royal banquet.
But Tor whom did he speak He spoke
for the Adamses, the Cosbys, the
Joneses, the Thompsons, the Waterses,
and last, but by no means least, for the
tune honored, clever faisleys. But for
whom must l speak? l answer, for
those who dwell at beautiful Bethany,
Tar beyond the waters of Richland, in
the east, for those whose homes are on
the other side of the sweet waters of
Sugar creek, in the west. l must be
voice for representatives from Shores
mill, in the north, to Browns and Chill
coats mills in the south; where so
many on the banks of the placid Elk
embark upon the matrimonial river OF
life. l must speak for Giles, Maury,
Lincoln and Lawrence counties in Ten
nesseee, Limestone and Lauderdale
counties in Alabama. Yes, they are
here from the lovely little Gilbertsb oro
to the charming little town of Elkton;
from delightful Athens to magnificent
Columbia, and the growing, refined
town of Pulaski is largely represented,
and in looking over an assembly so vast
and intelligent, and remembering that
L must be mOuthpiece for all of these, 1
am constrained to eXclaim, Oh! for Il
thousand tongues to express cur graft
tude for this reception
The late and now sainted DIR. A. L.
p. Green, at very large Sunday school
meeting in Edgefield described the scene
as ''all lovely" and that is just exactly
the idea have of this grand demon
stration. alt is all lovely" Could we
to-day gain an audience with the saint
ed ones who were faithful workers for
the Sunday School cause in their day,
and ask them what they thought of this
scene, methinks they would answer,
at is all lovely" Could we commune
with the sainted spirits of Rev. d. ii.
Jones and Mrs. Anna Kerr, who sleep
at Mt. Carmel, and the faithful Andrew
Smith, whose remains repose at Bethel
could we hold converse with the
sweet spirits OF those who were inter-
ested in this Sunday school progress,
and ask them, ''Ye that have washed
your robes and made them white in the
blood of the saints, what think We of
this occasion 20 Methinks, in one
voice they would respond, ''It is all
lovely"
In 1915 my brother, now the Rev. S.
M. Cherry, of the Tennessee Confer
ence, with my mother, moved to this
county. He made his home with the
present superintendent of Pleasant Hill
School, j. A. Jones, esq.,, and
attended the school at this place. In
the same year the first gospel sermons
of which have any recollection were
preached by the Rev. Carson z. Reed
and Kew Henry Brown. And now 1t is
said in history that Boaz and joachim
stood two grand pillars in the western
part OF King Solnmon's porch adjoining
his magnificent temple. And so 1 de- |
sire to say from my earliest remem-
brance until now, in the southwestern |
part OF Giles county, Methodism and |
Cumberland Presbyterianism, with |
heir experiences of grace and advocacy |
IF sunday schools, have stood as did |
Boaz and joachim, two grand pillars in
he temple of society, and together have
hey worked in harmony, and if there
had never been q. cooperating spirit be-
.ween the two churches before to-day,
his occasion would awaken it.
Perhaps there is an editor in this audi
nee; if so, would like for him, in his
lext issue, to publish this announce
nent:
Married, July "a, 1880, by Rev. J. NJ.
Ashford, assisted Rev. w. ID. Cherry,
Presbyterianism to MethO-
ism of Giles county, Tennessee.
L believe good men on earth and all
he army of the sky would unite and ex-
lain. "Whom God hath joined togeth-
IT, let no man put asunder."