The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-03
The Militant Hosts Con-
fer at Jackson Springs.
THEFEMALE BRETHREN
Rev. Hight C. Moore Sketches A Great
Annual Event and His veriIe Pen Puts
Into Words the Life, Light, Viva
city and Sound Sense OF a
Splendid Meeting.

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pointed to arrange for a Midsummer
Meeting of North Carolina Baptists
at some accessible point with ample
accommodations. The meeting was
planned to embody ten days of in
struction. inspiration and fellowship;
il was set to a distinctive spiritual
key; and Jackson Springs, in Moore
county, was chosen as the place OF
meeting. A large open tabernacle
was erected; it is Illuminated by
twenty-eight electric lights, seated
with chairs and Will hold l,ZOO peo-
pie. Here the second of these annual
meetings has just been held and a
few simple sketches of it may interest
many who were themselves denied
the privilege of coming up to TINS
summit of profit and pleasure.
Where The Water Bubbles Up.
jackson Springs-a great rock
basin from which you can by the
barrel draw out the life-invigorating
waters; or possibly under the gen
erous branches of some great oak 1t
flows swiftly forth from a shady
hillside So it was pictured out be-
f"rehand; but when you get Off the
train what do you see? Two little
cups in a rock, the backbone OF some
ancient geologic mountain, and they
are hardly large enough for a dipper-
full at a time; but the water up
springs through the rock cleft as by
a Moses rod and like the widow s
cruise of oil it fails not, though dipped
by pilgrims and siphoned by servants
and bottled by dealers. Hard by 1t
runs a creeklet; an arbor rises over
1t; just below is the spacious summer
house, and a little further the bowling
alley; the railroad is not twenty feet
away; just UP on the hill southwark
stand the hotel and the cottages in
spacious grounds; on the northWard
slope stand the Presbyterian church
and the Tabernacle. Little land is
cleared in the immediate vicinity and
there are already numerous cottages
erected on these knobs covered with
riEes and black-jacks. The compa-
ny store and post office and depot and
a few residences make up the village
as it is today.
What You Will Not See.
Possibly you may expect what you
will find here and hereabouts. There
are no fine driveways like the Jonatn-
lcsse neckIacing the Grandfather or
the Turnpike from Wilkesboro toward
jefferson or the shell road to Wrights-
Vile or the macadamiZed road at
New Bern 1t has no waters for sail
ing or rowing like Toxaway or Ma
tamuskeet, the golden YadkiH or
silver Trent, the inland pond or east
ern sound. 1t contains no magnifi-
cent forestry with monarchs like the
eims of Edenton or the oaks of
Chapel Hill or the rhododendrous of
Blowing Rock. 1t affords no far
view as you have at Piney Prospect
in Orange; Pilot, in Surry; Table
Rock, in Burke, or Little Mountain,
in Madison. In it there is no ceme-
terry with the sacred dust of historic
figures as in Cedar Grove, Willow
Dale or lakewood. 1t is no city with
dusty streets and crowded residences
and thronging stores and rushing, in
constant maddening life. But here
under the blue sky, among the piney
woods and on these rolling sand-hllls
is a quiet corner of the earth where
YOU can have sweet retirement, rest,
and recuperation.
The Clans That Gathered.
Five hundred or more visitors; fif-
teen hundred or more different per-
sons reached bv the services; and
you have the mere arithmetic of the
meeting. But take closer look at
this Baptist brotherhood. See them
exchanging jeStS on these piaZzaS, dis
orders to untipped walters, drinking
water by the quart, rejoicing over
from rs to 100 at ten pins Though
there are some experts), strolling at
cool OF day among the pines, or eX-
hibiting the perseverance of the
saints by spending six hours a day at
the tabernacle in religious services
A sturdy folk are they, to be sure;
ps TT of the very stamina of the
State.
The Secretaries were there: Living
ston Johnson, sweet-spirited as a
child yet a leader and master of as
semblies, always an interesting speak
Ell, a pastor still with the shepherd s
heart a secretary who every year
sets forward the figures of Baptist
benevolence in North Carolina, of
whom DIR. Huffman said once at Con-
vention, 1.-THE only thing L have
against Livy Johnson is that he al
ways brings us up to the Convention
out of debt A. T.. Brown is a high
land genius, preacher, school builder.
field secretary, recently elected by
the Home Board to take charge of the
entire mountain work of the Southern
Baptist Convention.
The preachers were there-perhaps
a tenth of all the active Baptist pas
tors in the State; men of God men
of sense, energy, influence, usefulness
The geographical extremes were held
east and west by Elliott, of Hartford
and Cade, of Murphy, north anS
south by Dunaway, of Oxford, and
Hail. of Wilmington.
And College presidents. There was
DIR. Poteat, of Furman, versatile
gentleman equally at home shep-
harding great northern churches or
guiding a southern university, singing
a platform solo or entertaining an in
FAINT. There was DR.. Taylor, whose
clear brain, ripe counsel, and rich life
have been as the dew of heaven to
the many hundreds of Wake Forest
students who have come under his
ennobling influence. There was DIR.
Yam, of the Baptist University for
Women, who as he talks sometimes
makes you smell star-dust and some
times splits your sides with laughter.
There was Prof Moore, of Mars Hill.
q born teacher who in utter disregard
>>oE money making is sacrificing him