The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-28
The Baptist Midsummer Meeting
Great Success.

Special to the New sand Observer
jackson Springs. N. c., June 27.-The
first session of the Midsummer Meeting
is a great success. Seldom is an infant
born SO lusty. The hotel is well filled
with guests. besides others stopping in
cottages and farm houses near by. The
excellent program, debarring the unfor-
tunate absence of some of the speakers,
is being carried out admirably, and none
dissent from the opinioo often expressed
that 1--WE are having good time
Indeed the unanimity of this opinion is
remarkable. and this morning when Mr.
j. w. Bailey asked all who desired for
it to be permanent to hold up their hands
there was a universal raising of hands.
none voted contrary to the proposition
The meeting. however. is run under the
auspices of the Baptist State Convention
through a committee and this action of
the people today is subject to the APP
prevail of the convention. But the same
people compose the convention who COM
pose this meeting, SO it may be an
nounced as a fact that this great mid
year netting il TO be a feature of our
wrdiS in- The future.
~1As 4 Gov Auc bOCA 4oA Soy AdDbA "a
mental n getting the meeting to come
to this place instead of some other, was
heard to give assurance today that what
ever is necessary to be done hereabouts
will be done, 20 entertain the large crowd
expected in the future. The accommoda-
tions have barely been adequate this time
for those who have come, but policy of
expansion will be carried out for next
year. Mr.. Bailey says it viii not be pos
sible to confine the attendance to a half
thousand next summer Not counting
local attendance there have been prob
ably two hundred and fifty here this
time. And they still come. The meeting
will last through Tuesday and many are
expected to come and remain over Sunday
and perhaps until the end of the meeting
1t has been announced that George
Truett, of Texas, whom many consider the
most eloquent preacher in the South, is
under promise to be here next time. An
effort will be made to get Campbell Nor
gan, of England, also, and a part Of the
necessary funds have been subscribed.
DR.. A. T. Robertson. of the Southern
Baptist theological Seminary, whose lee
lures on the Life of Jesus have been so
inspiring, will be with us next year again.
The friends of this enterprise have in
view this place as a permanent camping
ground.
This is a peculiar meeting in many
ways. There is modest chairman. DIR.
w. C. Tyree, but he delivers the con-
Quoting of the various sessions into the
hands of various brethren. He has re-
turned to Raleigh now, however, and we
are running on with perfect satisfaction
without an officer, all arrangements be
ing carried out by faithful committee
the one appointed by the convention at
Durham. 1t reminds one of the old days
OF Shuboel Stearms, when the Sandy
Creek Association would not have al
moderator, being too democratic to ele-
vate one brother above another
The meeting transacts no business. So
far there have been no resolutions and
but one collection: it was handsome
one.
The personnel of the gathering is in
teresting There is Tyree, grave, tall
sympathetic and beloved; Bailey, young
sprightly and the unmoved target of many
bright eyes; Dr. Skinner, gentle, full of
faith, cheerful and sweet beneath his late
soddows; DR.. Gwaltney, rich in the labors
and experiences of a long and successful
ministry; Bob Simmons, mighty on the
forum and not arveFse to a shady nook.
and-neyer mind who; DR.. Vann and
Prof Hobgood, who have charge of the
Baptist hearts-sweet- hearts; Hubbard.
whose smiles betoken cheerful and
amiable heart; Gilmore, of Georgia, who
is showing a hopeful aversion to single !
blessedness at this meeting; Saddleson.
the Southernized Yankee, who owes twen-l
ty years of happy life to the soluluous at
SLUG TWO
mosphere of Southern Pines. Brown, the
educational apostle of the mountains;
Arch Johnson and Livy, his brother, two
Scotland county boys who have become /
much beloved, and T. Neil Johnson, who
knows more about rearing children than
the old woman who lived in shoe ever
knew, Notwithstanding her experience
There are the new additions to the min
isterial force in our State-Battle, Thomp-
son and Massee-all of whom have delight
edpus with their eloquence and spiritual /
force. Woodall and Moore are here from
Mars Hill. They are doing much for our
boys. Broughton, earnest and
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