The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-09-14
FIVE MORE BOYS WHO PRAYED.
Four Brothers Mood, all Of whom Became
Prea chers, and the LateRev. Vim P. Mouzon.

Four Brothers Mood, all Of whom Became
Preachers, and the LateRev. Vim P. Mouzon'
Sunday News.
Mr. Editor: The head lines, The
Bow the Father of the Man. IN The
Sunday News OF August IA attracted
nv attention, and now at the goodly
age of 81 years, if you will allow 1t,
will put on record FIVE other boys OF the
same period perhaps a decade later,
who sailed their boats in the same pond,
the site now covered by she palatial
mansions OF the battery in our goodly
City by the Sea. All these boys made
honorable record in their lives, being
accustomed from their earliest youth to
the fear OF God and prayer and dying
leaving a precious memory still cher
ished by all who knew them.
Hog pleasing it is to remember, what
ever differences there might have been
in creed and dogma, and however viru-
lent at times may have been ecclesias.
tical debate between Protestant Epis-
copaians, Methodist, Presbyterians and
Baptists, they all agreed In one thing,
in reverencing Almighty God and offer
ing Him prayer and praise: to remem-
Der that these great religious bodies
had ther representative youth IN that
ancient play ground near the Battery
eighty years ago, and that Cobia, Pinck.
nev. Wightman, Buist and Furman all
did well in life, and passing left most
fragrant memories. The great world,
Vanity Fair, and THE 400'' regard
slightly anything savoring OF prayer i
the great majority do not utterly scorn
it.
Butler, of old. you remember, made
the court of the merry monarch go into
convulsions over his gibes OF the an
cient Puritans.
"When pulpit, drum ecclesiastic
Was beat with first instead of a stick. !,
But certainly one may ask, "Where
be your gibes now: Your gambols
your songs, your flashes of merrim ant
that were won't to set the table on the
roar?
There is certainly something better
after all in the misrule of this earth
than stupid sinful mirth, and humble
pious souls find it in praise and player
and while others boast their freedom
these may truthfully say (Ps l19-4S, u
will walk at liberty, for I seek Thy
precepts." And while the press teens
with notices of riot, robbery and muir
der, there is not word said Of che
Quiet, peaceful, well ordered lives o1
thousands of praying men and won en-
whom God and angels regard. If men
do not.
But to the record of these five pray
inc Youths in our doodly city eighty
years ago. In the year 1880 Joan Mood,
an itinerate preacher in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, finding 1t im-
possible to support family on the
measre salary then afforded the min
istry. located" in Charleston, working
at the trade of silver smith near the
bend in King street. He was honest to
a proverb, you could have left uncount
ed millions in his care. He died at
the parsonage, corner of Calhoun and
Pitt streets, while the shells from Nor
ris Island were falling in the city. He
had reared a large family. Among
them orhans only related TO him by z
common humanity Four sons became
preachers in the South Carolina Con.
ference, and one. DR.. J. r. Mood, was
long practicing phosician. All these
boys were pious, graduating either at
the Charleston College er the Citadel:
che means for so doing BEND obtained
by teaching school for the free colored
people. All will forgive US for the
blush of shame consequent upon this
record, for at that time 1t was deemed
as low an occupation as any white man
could engage in, but rather changed
now as the years good by.
Henry NJ, the eldest, because Presl,
dent of several colleges in this State
and North Carolina and after ffty-fve
years of membership in the Soulh Caro-
lima, Conference, passed to his reward
aged IS.
John a. Mood, for long an acceptable
preacher, died in Sparntanburg in 1895
W. ". Moodwas class mate o.
Timrod, who measured up TO fame as
poet. This brother, after effective
service. died in Sumter, aged SO. AS
bury, the youngest of the brothers
died in Texas. He was the fouder o:
the Texas University at Georgetown.
The Rev. VIM. P. Mouzon was the
fifth of these youths associated with the
other playmates. Around that now va
cant pond. He filed three several ap'
pointments of four years each as pre-
Siding elder in the Charleston District
Methodist Episcopal Church, South.
The writer of this article was associ
ate with all these and knowing well hi;
own deficiency fears the judgment O.
him who failed in full improvement o.
his one talent. but is comforted with
the thought. They also serve. wht
only stand and wait.
Respectfully,
A. NJ. CHREITZBERG.
Columbia, September I, 1904.