The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1889-02-02

rapidly growingcongregations should
build a church, and so they did. nm
der a friendly rivalry which should
be the first to have place for wor.
ship. The race was about an even
one, and the two buildings abont
alike in structure. Good enough for
good people, but hardly so for proud
christians, for there are such at least
in these times. We saw the corner
stone in the G. r. Church laid with
its many mementoes of the time de.
posted in its followed bosom. We
still have in the minds eye 1S47. on
the face of the speaking stone. There
was also Lutheran element in the
town and country around which, for
number of years, had neighbor.
ship worship in the G. r. Church,
but as they increased in numbers a
desire came for a church home of
their own. They earnestly went TO
work, though not strong in numbers
or means, and built a small church
on the hill in the year 1853. The
same brethren have another congre-l
CATION and churbh since. built about
the year 1874. in the Forks. In the
lower part of the district. in recent
years, neat little Methodist cAesakl
was built on the National fSDSda'
known as Pisgah. About tw9 miles
TO the West of this in the Mckenzie
Garlitz neighborhood, stards st.
AIMS, a pretty little structure built
in 1876, supplied periodically by the
Priest in FrOstburg. The Dunkard
brethren have two churches, plain as
ordinary carpenters could make them
out of wood. Pride and oSentation
are utterly eschewed. Theysay pride
belongs to other denominations, not
theirs. Nevertheless they are now
sorely vexed with the hat-bonnet
question no creed or doctrnal ques.
tions trouble as yet. The Omish, or
AmiSh, a very good people, are
equally strict and primitive in their
worship, creed and ways. They have
two church buildings, one this side
of the line, and a number ON the
Pennsylvania side, with accommo-
dations for people and animals all
within the last five years.
There was attached to the old M.
E. Church Sunday School as much
as 60 years ago. Young folks would
come afar and near. 1t was almost
essentially day school in its charac-
ter; spelling books far more common
than the New Testament (no lesson
leaves them. Bibles as such, were
rare, and too ponderous to be carried
to church. Sunday Schools in our
day have reached point very near
to perfection. They are the normal
schools for the churches. In those
early days there was much of what /
might be called circulating services. |
Ministers would go amo-sr ~
members and there hold home Ser
vices. Houses would always be filled |
and the worship profitable. Such
were the oid-time churches and ser.
vices very poorly described.
And now paragraph or so may
not be out of order as to the personal /
of the ministers in the remote and ,
later past. Have no account of the .
earliest preachers here. The first of
whom we have any recollection was
the Rev. White, more than 80 years
arc; the writer in early youth, just
old enough to remember things WV
idly, and take impressions never to .
be effaced. He was minister of the
old style. deeply pious, affectionate
and parental to his flock. His whit
ened locks and beuignant counte-
nance inspired nothing but love and
reverence. He was the first preacher
we ever "laid eyes on" Very soon
after this a young man by the name
of Locke appeared on the sacred car
pet. He was youthful, modest, bright
and thoroughly devoted to his call
ing; greatly liked in and out of
church circles. Half century has
rolled by upon its crushing wheels,
and we still realize and carry the i'm.
pressions made upon a youthful
mind by these two typical ministers.
They were awe and reverence COM
bined. Even now when we see a
preacher dabbling in worldly matters
like worldly people, something like
a shudder comes. Has he been duly
commissioned from on High, and las
he been loyal to the demands of bis
commission
In early times there was preacher
here by the name of Dunlap-good
in his way,-a man of great phyi.
que and strength, fond of shotgun
He would say if his gun could not
reach up to the game, he could shake
it down if the tree was not too large.