The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1892-05-07
A Pastors Work at Bay View, &c

l am near the end of my third year on
this Parish. L have worked as L never did
bee use better able. l have been away
TWO SabbIths only, and then L was at con-
| ference. Cold type and dry figures do not
| tell the whole truth in report like this
Type and figures neither laugh nor cry.
have done my best, but figures and printers
ink will never tell what That is-quantity
nor quality. We have taken into full
membership this year, forty seven; about
sixty conversions. Church improvements,
| etc, painting Bay View Church, Sill, 3S
new carpet in che pulpit and chancel of
Bay View Church, S45.1S. \ sexton bill
| made before l came here, S34 45; a mortga ge
n the parsonage, made before l came, of
$500, reduced to $50. do hope the peel le
| will pay this before L go to conference.
Bought and paid for lot at Leslie, upon
which We ext ected to build a new church
We have not given up thai church building
| project up. We simply suspended opera.
lions. In Coos good time we will build.
For the people will have mind to build
AT present We preach in IA hall. Have
good congregations, good meetings, very
interesting little Sunday school of sixty,
including teachers and children. The
work DIE dIrlns my pastarate for
three years. Persons taken into full menu
bership, i54; baptisms, 10; marriages, 81
| have preached 675 sermons RiddeE-
more than II 600 miles and wax H 7
like to walk. Good exercise Durino
protracted meeting take =. circIs aronnd
'ue ohuion Vi aoSS WY six miles i'll diameter
anu WISH eE.y family within that circle
'Ne |Snow the people. l know how to
-.15ach to them l would be ashamed to b.
called a minister OF the gospel of the Lord
Jesus Christ to let my S .viour my cap
tain wade deeper into the slurs after the
souls of the submerged than myself. II l
find any that are hungry, good or bad, |
will feed them before | will pray with
them. It is not much use to pray with IA
| hungry man. There is not great deal of
poverty with the bounds of Cecil Circuit
because work is honorable and loating
fire disgrace.
The Ladies at Leeds have been working
as women only can work TO pay off the
debt on their beautiful church | do not
know exactly how much they have paid
this year. We had great shriukage in
the subscriptions TO our new church at Mt.
Olivet. Many subscribed but did not pay.
The young converts have volunteered to
hel p the old soldiers, and before the 4th of
July next, God willing, there will not be a
cent on this beautiful church. Capt. David
IL. Davis deserves great credit for this
building. To him pre- eminentiy belongs
the credit of the erection of this sanctuary
of God and God has bl 4ssed hin. i'll the
conversion of all bis chldren-nOb!e boys
and splendid girls they are. Brother
Gabriel Moore built and donated NJ cores
Chapel 1t was then the cathedral of the
circuit, but it has been left far behind by
Bay View, Leeds and Olivet, and they
must try again. They need new church
and are plenty able to build, and l think
they will do it next summer. Preachers
and people have been working before L
came haIe for here are the monuments in
these churches. Bay View, the hJne OF
the pastor, is more than beautiful High,
dry and healthy, you Can stand and look
down the Chesapeake Bay. To the east