Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1881-04-16
A Letter from GAINESVILLE and its Answer.

A Letter from GAINESVILLE and its Answer.
Editor Standard The McMinnville Pres.
bytery will meet at GAINESVILLE, Wilson coun.
ty, Tenn, on Friday at IL o'clock a. m. be-
fore the first Sabbath in May. The people
here are making great preparations to re.
ceive any and all who may come. | believe
there have already been applications made
for one hundred and fifty persons, three
times the number of representatives We
hope there will be visitors enough to
the Presbytery to give each family who
has applied for company, one person at
least. We hope that every preacher belong
ing to the Presbytery will be here we also
hope that each church in the bounds will
see to 1t that 1t is represented. We are
expecting the best time we have had for
many years. Those who do not come will
miss good time. Several of the preachers
from Lebanon have sent us word they were
coming. We anticipate a grand time in
Sunday School Institute on Saturday.
Mr. Editor, remember you are on the ex-
aiming committee. Try and put yourself
in here by Thursday by 10 o'clock a. M, if
not sooner. Special arrangements have been
made for you; great disappointment il you
do not come. J. Il. BARBEE.
In answer to the above we would say that
it is doubtful about our going, from the fact
we have not been elected the representative
and have but little prospect of an election,
as there are but seven members of the SEES.
sion which elects the representative, and
one OF them is so personally popular that he
can carry five votes out of the seven against
any opponent. Our only chance is in be-
ing made his alternate in the hope that the
long distance, rough roads and bad weather
may put him out of the notion of going
We thank you, however, for the Especial ar.
engagements" made for us, and as that is a
matter of personal interest," we hope you
will excuse us for desiring to know what
those Especial arrangements are, for we
have been down that way to Presbytery be-
fore, not at GAINESVILLE, however. We will
name briefly the arrangements that would
be suitable to us, and if they differ from
those already made by you, yours can be re-
adjusted to suit ours. In the first place, as
GAINESVILLE is an inland town and not on any
thoroughfare or highway, we will be forced
to go in buggy, and in that event we will
want for our horse good, clean stable, plen.
ty of corn, fodder, oats and hay, and clio
yer pasture with a running brook Of clear
water in the same, and buggy house fol
our buggy to itself, so as not to be jammed
and crammed in with others. As for oul
own fare we are not very particular-just sc
W. are pleasantly, comfortably and conven
ieBtly located. To this end we would sug
gest, as there are extras required of us, tina
we be assigned to the best place within hal
a mile of the church, and we like the idef
you mentioned of assigning only one to
place, but if it becomes necessary to add an
other, we would prefer preacher who car
do the praying and other clerical duties ex
pccted on such occasions, as we expect to b,
busy with the examination" of candidates
AS to eatables, we were always fond Of goot
things, and besides the staff of life, and tn
staples of the table, we would say that w
would prefer maple syrup to any other, an
next to that the unadulterated sugar.hOus
molasses. If the stock of butter and egg
has been ''saved for Presbytery" we hop
they will let Presbytery have them, and hav
US some fresh brought in daily. These ar
merely suggestions pointing to what W
: would like to have, and what every repre-
sentative would prefer, if he only had tn
courage to say so. Towards the close of tn
session, if your people are not satisfied wit
entertaining ecclesiastical bodies, we wi
move to have the General Assembly NEE
there next spring with its four hundre
! members and visitors; but as a matter
church policy, we would advise you not
: encourage those Lebanon brethren in comiu
as they have eat their own bounds bare
a winter pasture, and have had lOngir
eye on this Presbytery good while, Gag,
to swallow a slice or all of 1t. We will lea,
the whole matter with you, however, to a
just and reddjust, but be sure not to put I
at place where there are fieas and bitiI
cur dogs; these two things have been Il
terror of our life, and it would be utter
!. impossible for us to be courteous much lie
v pious in their midst.