The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-01-23
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The Union NJ. +. Church

In the summer of 1922 While attending
school at Motifs School House, there was
one day gathering OF men further up
the North East and Rock Meeting House
road for the purpose of erecting new
church on Cecil circuit (the meetings
having previously been held in The stone
house of John WilliamsoU), and at noon
| asked the teacher, Amos Miles, if |
might go mp a2l ace what WAS going on
and mentioned to him that to-day,
August %, 1922, was my thirteenth
birthday" AMI recolact that lie said,
you can always tell the age Of the
church by su5cracting thirteen years
from your own age.
found quite a number of the neisa
bors engaged III hauling white oak logs,
cutting them to the proper length, thea
dressing tbs ends, and notchlng them on
the corners. The carpenters were Sam'l
and James Cummings. The logs were
prime ipaIIy from the land OF John Will
idtiSJi' Iti &c W tsS SUI VI! III Al III Nv III =
around with paper in his hand which |
understood was a su 1scriptiou paper. Hs
was the minister in charge, John Smith,
known as Little John Smith" His
colleague was William Lummis. au
older man, who looked as if he had been
brought up to work. 1t was related of
him that having stopped with one o. his
bret hren lie wished his horse turned out
to pasture, but was told that some fenc-
ing would have to be made first. "Well
ther," said he, get the axe, the mau!
aud wedges, and | will 60 TO the woods
with you aud mako the rails - But his
brother did not believe much in ~oIk
be rare request in our day, though, it
is said, that rall splitter rose to be-
President.
Before the Union Church was built
the meetings were held i'll the stonehouse
OF John Williamson, afterwards knO wn
as the LD"ry house, but of which not d
stone remains. That house has history
which | may attempt to write some
other day.
| remember seeing the preachers going
BY on horseback, with saddle bags.
Their horses generally looked well. but
sometimes there was a lean one, AMI il
was said that the owner of one in the
o,,.A;t;An aSl-as fila b., l,nr l,r
had sleek horse how he kept him in
good coalition? wig" slid he, 81
comb his hair while ne is eating mean,
lug that he stood by ani saw that he got
his feed. Franklin said that ia thu
affairs of this world, men are rot saved
| by faith, but by the want of it."
Ga the Fourth OF July, 1896, attended
woods meeting held on the spot where
the new Ugion Church now stands. L
| was the celebration of the iiftieth ami
versaIy of Independence. The ministers
were Edward Payne and john Goforth
| remember sitting beside Squire WI
| Miller and saw him have a copy eff the
| Il II jVA4 4 1909, III "iiSl " do WV i'SSlii q
ton OF Independence, but it was no
read. The opening pray er was by Richard
B. Thompson of Pivot Bridge, a membe
of the Maryland Legislature.
| That was Notable day - Thoma
Jefferson who wrote the Declaration 0
Independence, AMI john Adams whc
defended it, both signers and both ex
Presidents, and living in different part
of the Union, on that day closed thei
earthly career, while their fellow cOuntr.
men were celebrating the jubilee o
Independence.
About four years previously, Tho.na
Jefferson, then in his SOOh year, wrote
then aged Sc years, aud the latter imme
diately replied, and those letters excite
much attention both in this country an
Europe. The London Morning ChrORIcl
introduces them to its readers as follow.
Nv hat IA contrast the following CORE
spondence OF two the rival Presidents 0
| the greatest lepuullc Oh Inc "OIIu' IL
tiecting an old age devoted to virtu.
temperance and philosophy, to the hear
sckenlng details occasionally disclose
to US of the miserable beings who fill tt
thrones of the continent. There is pc
haps not one sovereign of the contiuel
who in any sense of the word can be sal
to honor our nature, while many maxi
us almost ashamed of them. The curta
is seldom drawn aside without exhibitn
to us beings worn out with rintOus ind
gence, diseased in mind, if i'll body, Il
. creatures Of caprice and insensibili
On the other hand since the fOundati,
o of the American Republic, the chair III
. never been filled by man for whose Ii
Ito say the leasD any American need f
once 20 blush. 1t must therefore
some compensation to the Americans f
the absence of pure monarchy, tn
70 when they look upwards their eyes "A
q not always met by vice and weakness
$ and often idiocy."
, The first Uulon Church was quite
!, small building, but was heightened sol
,e years after, and shortly after the Ia