The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-05
...ItND me .HOTNT1INS.
SOUTHWESTERN CAROLINA.
Prosperity and its Secret.
(Edit0rinI CorrcSpOndcnce)

RrTHEEFoRDToN. y. c., Sept. 80. %
Nv first duties as agent for Wake
Forest College called me nearly two
weeks ago 10 Southwestern Carolina.
In passing spent night at Wake For
est in the home Of President Taylor ana
greatly enjoyed the pleasure Of being
in his interesting family.
Starting out from Wake Forest my
first destination was Boiling Springs
where the Kings Mountain Baptist
association was in session. After near
~ two DAYS ride through the turpen
tine forests between Raleigh and Ham
let and Rockingham and over the wind
ing railroads around and beyond Char
lotte | stepped off at Lattimroe's sta
ton seven miles west Of Shelby and en-
! loved moonlight drive four miles
across the hills to Boiling Springs,
where found at the home J. y. Ham
rick, Esq, number OF distinguished
|
! T. II. Pritchard, Rev. DR.. e. Durham,
Prof. F. p. HObgOOd, and others. After
q night Of sweet rest and refreshing
sleep III the mountainlike atmosphere
| ] attended the Baptist association men
toned before and which had already
been in session one day. ! found Maj.
Schenck, president of the Cleveland
| Cotton Mills, the handsome and dignl
fed Moderator, and he was running
business on time all the while.
Most of the people in this section are
Baptists and the Kings Mountain as
| ISOLATION i, therefore a very large body.
It has strong and able ministry and
| there was a large delegation from the
churches The people here are liberal
| III their contributions to all the various
objects that claim the attention Of the
| denomination. such as Home, State
and Foreign Missions The two return
cd missionaries from China, Mess. Rrv-
IN and Herring, were present at the as
ISOLATION and presented their work and
its claims.
Large crowds attended the associa-
ton the number being estimated on
Sunday at three thousand. My stay
in tie home Of E!r. J. y. Hanrck
was very pleasant. and | shall always
remember him, his good wife and in
tereStino BOYS and sweet little girls with
great pleasure.
| spent two nights in Shelby, the old
! home Of the three noted and famous
young Baptist preachers. all brothers
and the pride of their people and the
delight Of their fathers heart. He
says that, now he IS getting old and
ready to lay down his work after life
spent in the gospel ministry, it is a
source Of great pleasure and consolation
that his SONS are strong and ready to take
UP the work and continue it with even
| greater efficiency lie thinks, than he him
self has ahcrcd Clarence is one Of the
noted etanecIistS who are assisting Mr.
Moody in his special meetings in Chi
cago during the Worlds Fair; Tom
whom many Of the people Of Scotland
Neck remember, j. pastor Of great
church in New York and Frank is pas
tor OF an important church in CaIifor-
MIA. While ] was in Chicago a few
days ago | heard the oldest of these
sons, Rev. A. c. Dixon, preach and
heard Mr.. Moody in the same house
preach to the same audience on the
same night and am free and frank to
say that ENJOYED Mr.. DiXOn's sermon
more than did Mr.. Moody's
Shelby is a beautiful town with a
most clever people spent the time
there in the home Of Mr.. Suttle, the
guest of Rev. }. S. Sproles, pastor Of
the Baptist church there, and have
never been more pleasantly entertained
anywhere IN my opinion there Is no
better place for female school in
North Carolina than IL shelby There
is already very handsome and com
moGious thrcc-Stoly brick building.
built [ believe, by the Baptists Of The
town and in which a fOurishing school
was maintained for a number Of wears.
For some cause the school went down
and the building, with convenience for
4 first class female college stands I'M
occupied and turning to decay The
people of Shelby have the field and the
opening for some enterpriSng man to
enter and do work for female cdlica-
ton IN that community that will be
a monument to his memory Let some
one seize the opportunity. One of the
greatest pleasures Of my trip to Shelby
was the meeting OF my old friend and
schoOl-fellOw and companion, Rev G..
w. Byrd. The people of Scotland Neck
and community remember him very
pleasantly. 1t has been Just ten wears
since Mr. Byrd was stationed IN Scot
land Neck In his first pastorate in the
Methodist North Carolina Conference.
He looks tho Same ROW ho,, oyco,,t