Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-08-11
FORTY SCHOOLS REPRESENTED /!
THE BAPTIST COUNTY SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION Al
GILGAL.
The Sunday School Influence
Gathering Strength and
Members Every Day.
Old GiIgaI Large, Generous
and Leaky.

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and Leaky.
The late annual Convention Of the
Baptist Sunday schools of Edgefeld
County at Gllgal, was, if we mistake not,
the most important ever held since the In
ception and organization ofthe movement.
And very few Of our people dream of the
grand proportion which the Sunday
school work in Edgefeld has assumed un-
der the auspices Of that body. Until the
past Sunday We had not attended one of
these conventions, and very great was our
surprise md equally great should be our
gratitude to God-at beholding the splen-
didly nlsrshaled strength OF the Sunday
school influence. As we seated ourselves
and cast our eyes over the vast throng
which filled the huge old church, we dis
covered familiar and honored faces from
all parts of our county-parts the most
distant and diverse-and faces not only
mature and sedate, but young, lalr, and
full OF life and hope. And most of these
faces were those Of delegates. Forty
schools were represented. And some idea
can be formed OF the spirit OF the cause
when we say that Ridge Spring semi six
teen delegates, And all were present.
r. II. WATSON, ESQ, rEEsTnEs.
The convention, which had assembled
on the Friday before, was worthlly pre-.
sided over by that perhaps greatest lay
worker in the county, Robert B. Watson
Esq, of Ridge Spring. The President, ii
we do not err, is elected at the opening of
each annual convention; and certainly no
man could have been called to the chair
whose zeal, christian spirit and graceful
urbanity more fitted him to Gll it, than Il.
B. Watson. Among the preachers who
had been present were Messrs. Russey,
Thomas, Williams, Waite, Gaines, Car
son and Hundley. But all these had
departed to be with their own people on
Sunday. And there remained, of clergy
men, only Mr.. Mealing and Mr.. Fant
THE EDUCATION OF A CERTAIN NrMnEE
OF YOUNG MEN.
Prominent among the proceedings Of
the session was the adoption of resolu-
tion for the eleemosynary education to the
Christian Ministry, of certain number
of Young men b. the body-say perhaps
two-or threat time. Each snch
Young man is to he nominated by the
school to which he belongs. This We con-
slider grand measure. And 1t is cer
tainly one which betokens the rapidly
growing financial power of the convention.
The collections in the different schools that
belong to this convention, during the
year Just past, far exceed anything OF The
sort hitherto known
EDGEFIELp THE NEXT PLACE or MEETING.
Rv vote of the convention, our town
was chosen as The place for its next meet
ing-on Friday before the first Sunday III
August, 1889. And if the spirit and
forces of these Sunday school workers in
crease as largely within the coming year
as in the one Just past, then the next
meeting is bound to he one of great and
dignifed importance. And We hope that
our citizens will, in every respect, be alive
to the requirements of the occasion.
THE PROCEEDINGS OF SUNDAY.
The concourse was immense, and The
scene was beautifully bright and happy
As we drove upon the grounds, that great
eat of all hymns, "There is Fountain
Filled With Blood" resounded from the
holy building in ponderous and soaring
strains, filling the very groves and fields
and reminding fallen man of his surest-
his only-refuge-th blood that was she'd
on Calvary Miss Leila Strom presided at
the organ, and despite her early youth,
proved herself an accomplished musician.
Before the morning sermon, two addresses
were delivered, the first by that almost
phenominally gifted young orator, Eugene
Cannon, the second by Mr.. Norton W.
Rrooker, another one of those great Ridge
Spring workers. And then followed the
morning sermon by the Rev. ] F.. p Meal,
ing. preceded by prayer from the Rev. j
X. FAINT, the pastor of the church. At
l2l the great audience was dismissed fol
dinner. And the dinner was sumptuous
and on this day, no less than on the two
preceding days, the hospitality of tie peo
pie of Gilgal was large and generous. Al
Il the audience reassembled within tht
sacred walls, when followed some very
beautiful and spirited singing and two
more addresses, one by DIR. W. Fl. Tim
norman, the other by President Watson
of Ridge Spring. We would like Yer!
much to give the matter of all these shor
though earnest speeches, but time ant
space both fail us.
THE SECOND nEhuqE, AND THE OLD cllrRcI
AS NoAH's ARK.
At 2!, amid sutry and oppressive heat
lowering clouds and rolling thunder, tn
thronging mnltltudes were finally dis
missed, and the Convention was at an end
And now ensued tumultnou9 hurry