Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1897-06-02
AN LNTEREsT1NG OCCASION.
Col. FOLKS Happy Remarks at
the Dedication of Mountain
Creek Baptist Church.

from the lips of the Rev. John
Trapp, one of the pioneer founders
and protectors of Mountain Greek
Church and who now lies buried
under that beautiful monument
in yonder graveyard, erected by
the grateful and worthy hands of
a loving people to well-beloved
pastor of this church when she
was young and needed just such
father in Israel as I have been in
formed he was.
Mountain Creek went through
many vicissitudes of fortune dur
ing the lifetime of John Trapp as
we'll as he did, but the good people
of this Mountain Creek country
always stood by this church and
John Trapp, Macmillan, FAINT, Bus
sey, QUITS, Miller and others l do
not now recall, and by each other
and themselves, when the old log
church stood here upon this hal
lowed ground in the days of old
as we'll as when the modern we'll
equipped house of God in which
we are to-day, confronts US all, full
of joyous and happy souls, from
far and near, ready to shed ais it
has ever shed its blessings of di-
vine love over a smiling land some
times and a weeping land at times.
Nothing but united church peo-.
pie and a generous public can ac-
complish such a work as this, that
meets our eyes and blesses our
hearts to-day, the dedication by a
God-loving and God-fearing man
and a happy, prosperous and UNI
ted people of a house of worship
like this to the Supreme Being OF
the universe.
What a volume could be written,
dear friends--for you are my
friends, as you have proven your
selves to be on more than one oc-
casion, and for which allow me this
day once for all to thank you from
the bottom of my heart-could be
written if the members of Noun
tain Creek, old, middle-aged and
present, could speak to US to-day
A volume, it would be full of the
smiles and the tears, the ups and
downs of your community. Many
good and faithful sentinels, male
and female, on the watch-towers OF
Zion have ceased to walk their &C
customed rounds in and around
Mountain Creek Church, since the
trees were first cut from the spc'
where we now sit and stand, q
uo;s4a uo4aa, the first houpe of Divi4.
!, | ..-.sys-s6dsE-h dsEhat vast number ..
overthe souls made ihaafn hapr, utter.
outpouring of the Dixinehhlas5;s, I .: :;
upon MountaI nun"
] hearts and minds. What a thro'
1have passed from their earth
pilgrimage to the city of the de-
since the first + ymn was sung anc
the first sermon was preached with
in these sacred precincts. If tha
roll were called, filled with your
best people in the days of yore
scarcely a name when called woulc
be answered to as present." but
now marked "absent" here as be.
ing present with the Lord in the
realms on high. l am glad to tell
you however, (if that be comfort
and should be to many heart and
soul here to-day, their names can
be answered to by their honored
children and their grandchildren
and their children's children, car
rying on the good work begun by
their forefathers and foremothers
three-quarters of century ago, as
this happy occasion abundantly
shows.
While Trapp, DeVore, burst,
Matthews, Kemp, Clegg, Williams,
QUITS, Faulkner, Callison, Shep-
pafd, Andrews, Alton, johnson,
Zimmerman, HolIingsworth, Part
low, strom, Dorm, Bell, Harling,
Holloway, Lewis, Corley, Self,
S:allworth, Rambo and a number
less host of others have passed
over the river and are now resting
under the shade of the trees, there
are yet aud still here to-day, for l
see their bright faces and cherry
hearts all around me, who are just
as faithful and loyal soldiers of
the Gross under the Captain of our
Salvation as ever they were, for
they have learned that valuable
lesson that should never be for
gotten, but written in letters of
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