Daily Republican., 1882-05-08
HILLSRORO.
Lyceum - FOun nIing-S. n. Enter.
inment-Ihurch Enterprises.

tBinment-Ihurch Enterprises.
HILLsBoRo, Md, May 9th, 1882.
The lyceum Of the town has just
c losed after very successful career
covering the months of autumn, wintel
and two OF spring. The last question
debated related TO temporal death as q
consequence of the sin Of Adam, and
continued over three weeks. The debat.
ers were ministers, lawyers, doctors,
ments were able and interesting.
Crowds flocked to the hall to listen, SC
great was the interest felt in the ques
ton. Some of the arguments .oifered
by the speakers for tho negative were
very skilfuily presented, but were
shown by the affirmative to be deduc-
tions from false premises. l will
briefly repeat some of those arguments:
"In the beginning God created the
Heaven and the earth h''-"what did he
make Heaven for before he made man?'
the garden TO remain. He had to die
and heaven was made before. hand.
Another rgument-"Adan n had to eat
to sustain life, or die. Hence before he
fell he was mortal Then again, al
though the Lord said to Adam 'In the
days thou eatest thereof thou shall
surely die" he did not die bodily, then
DO lily death was not eferred to; again
Adam was not made perfect, hence
was only mortal. II he had been made
perfect he could not have died, he
could not have sinned. The fact that he
fell Is proof that he was made imper.
feet. These are few of the argu-
ments to show the kind of arguments
produced by the negative side.
A few evenings ago crowd OF Meth.
odists swarmed into the M. E. parson.
age, each loaded with some mysterious
package, which they deposited in a
convenient place. Then cake was
served and the evening spent most de-
lightfully, when the pastor in briet
speech tried to thank his kind parish
ioners for their greatkindness and gifts,
the doxology was sung and the guests
departed, each no doubt well pleased
with the pleasant occasion. The fam
lily alone, the parson and his lady, had
TO lee into each bundle, or have nc
sound sleep certain. Well, they hal
everything they needed .and in some
lines of groceries they are supplied for
at least two years to come, and in all
for months ahead.
At kidgeley an aunexof Hillsboro M
E. circuit: the Sunday School held on
last Sabbath evening their annual an
niversary exercises. The church was
profusely decorated with choice flow
ers, the music was classic, the readings
and recitations we're fire, and the re-
port of the year was very tiattering.
This, by the wa Ia a most promising
field for the minister, as well as very
promising village. The buildings are
modern, the people are cultivated and
in easy circumstances, business is in
creasingly brisk and laauy buildings
are in course of erection or contempla-
ton. There are two churches, the M.
Z. and German Reformed. The for
mer is very strong.
In this town new M. L. Church is
being strongly talked of. Much de-
pends on the peach and grain crops. A
new church is much needed. This 80
ciety during the past twenty years has
experienced a very checkered career.
only a torporal's guard re-
mained loyal. The political prejudice
against the church which prevailed all
along the border, and which was as
natural as life during the late war, and
subsequent, nearly closed
the doors of the society here. But for
several years she has been coming up,
and now has a fair membership and
good congregations. A new church
is now the pressing need and
will soon come. The spirit of fraterni.
ty is so strong now that the other
churches will gladly lend helping
hand. 1t is thought that work on the
building will begin in short while.
G.. w. R.