The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-30
CHRISTIAN CONFERENCE
Composed Of Workers Held Annually
at This Delightful Resort.
IKE MooDY's NORTpFIeLD SCHOOL
HAL Is The Ideal For the Minds Of the Men Wht
Established Monlreat. Rev Western X.
Gales, the Evangelist, IS the
Leading Spirit
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Montreal, N. c., July 29.-It will sur
prise some of your readers, no doubt, to
know that there is here, in one of the
lovelest places in all this Land OF the
Sky, summer resort where the sale
of Intoxicating liquors is prohibited,
and therefore no gamblers come; where
there are no mosquitoes and but few
flies.
lust beyond the tunnel as your cross
the Blue Ridge, on the western slope
of the mountain range is Black Noun
tain Station, 2,466 feet above the lever
of the sea. Near this point the lands
OF the Montreal Association begin, ana
they extend for 81 xmiles north TO
Greybeard. reaching at that point an
elevation OF $500 feet. This association
is composed of Christian business men
and ministers of all denominations NO
man can be a member of the incorpora-
ton without being a professor on the
Lord Jesus Christ and having the repu-
tation of living up to his profession
Some of your readers have VISITED
Northfield, Mass, established by Mr..
Moody as a summer resort FOR CHRISTIAN
workers others have visited Martha 3
Vineyard and Ocean Grove. It is the
intention of the founders of Montreal
TO duplicate as near as possible every
good feature about these places and add
others that may be offered. For in
stance. there is already an orphanaGe
here where twenty-nine children are
now being cared for.
A little over four years ago the Leg
isIature of North Carolina granted a
charter, drawn by j. III. Tucker, Esq,
OF Asheyille who is a member OF the
Board of Managers. This charter has
ample power and generous privileges
The corporation owns between eighteen
and nineteen hundred acres OF lana,
embracing a beautiful valley, through
which runs a lovely stream of water,
on every side of which are densely
wooded mountains.
The enterprise is a community IN the
sense that all profits from the sale OF
lots will be used for the benefit of the
entire community and for the purposes
for which taxes are usually laid. BY
the charter the sale of Intoxicating
liquors is forever prohibited. Plans are
being made for a large and important
educational institution, one hundred
acres Oh ldnu udNlllS DSCll SCl fioidC lol
this purpose.
Montreal is already established as
gathering place for Christian people
and every year four weeks are devoted
to meetings embracing methods OF
work for missions, for the Sunday
school, for young peoples societies, for
Y. M. c. A. and for the teaching of the
fundamental doctrines of the Bible.
Fer the purposes of these meetings a
large and we'll arranged auditorium has
been erected in the midst Of the valley
and convenient to the hotel, boarding
houses and cottages.
The assembly of mission workers and
those specially interested in this work
closed last night by an address by Mr.
Hotchkiss, Il returned missionary who
will be remembered by Raleigh people
for his able and instructive addresses
in our city short time since.
Already Mr.. Hadley, the great evan
gelst among the hardened and aband-
oned of New York city, the superintend-
ent of Water Street Mission, has been
here and delivered addresses on city
missions In these he was Joined by
Mr.. Holcombe, a splendid young man,
engaged in the same work.
DR.. Arthur Smith, of New York,
prominent in evangelstic work preach
ed on Sunday and tonight Bishop Hor-
ner spoke to us.
On Tuesday the Sunday school work
is to be considered and on Wednesday
Rev. a. c. Dixon of Boston, is to de"
liver two addresses.
On Thursday the Assembly of Young
People begins. This will be under the
direction of Rev. A. d. Thaeer and
nd will nv nrOmjOpnt
representatives of the various societies
of Young People.
Beginning August 18th is the Chris |
tian Workers Conference for the Study !
of Gods Word. Rev. DR.. Torrey, the |
head of the Moody Institute of Chicago, |
is to be here August 10th to 18th for |
special teaching in the Fundamental |
Doctrines of the Bible
Meetings are held from 10 a. IN. to II |
nl., and from p. m. to $50 p. m. Only |
two services each day
Mr. Weston f. Gales, so widely and |
popularity known and beloved. is the
manager of the Montreal Association
guarantee of itself of all that goes to
make courtesy kindness and true |
Christian attention. Needing the nvig4
Grafton of this mountain resort for him
self after years of service in evangelis- |
tic labors, he accepted the call made |
to him by the board of managers to
come to this place and assume the con- |
troll Of the great undertaking.
Mr.. Huyler of New York, the wealthy |
candy manufacturer, is a member of |
the board of managers, and has taken |
deep interest in the work projected. |
He supplied the money for building |
and furnishing Hotel Montreal, one of
the most attractive and up-to- date |
hotels we know Of anywhere The table |
Is we'll supplied, the cooking is the very |
best, an abundance of the finest free
stone water for all purposes-hot or