Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1905-08-16
doubt If there be any living that will re-
member me except grandfather Neville,

doubt If there be any living that will re-.
member me except grandfather Neville,
the grandfathero of our DR.. w. G.. Neville,
and john Todd and some members OF
the Riley aud Holleman families. No,
Vile and Todd 1 know are not living.
Would that could be with you on this
occasion. 1 should havc much to say
deal that could write aud that ought to
be written. But am writing now to ask
the patience of popular audience. and
experience warns me to be short.
Rethel's history in the past has a great
deal more to do with Presbyterianism in
South Carolina than many dreamer of
the present ever thinks. You will ask
how is this Well the Rev. Andrew
Brown maintained classical school
there for some time that was far reaching
in its influence.
i know not that Rev. John Simpson
ever preached at Bethel, but the Rev.
Andrew Brown preached Simpsons
funeral at Roberts church in the year
1908, and from this / know that thero
must have been correspondence between
the two men.
Out of Rev. Andrew Browns school
went the Rev. David Humphreys. He
took course in theology under DR..
Moses Waddsll at Wellington, in Abbe.
vile county, after he left Browu's school.
Well, in the year 1920, after he had
finished his course with DIR. Waddell,
he became the pastor of Good Hope and
Roberts churches. These churches are
lie up and down the Savannah river from
the junction of the Seneca and Tugaloo
rivers to the Abbeville line
Here the Rev. Andrew Browns pupil
and Bethers scion entered upon his life
work. This field covered four hundred
square miles, and the active young man
worked vigorously.
and Mississippi and one or more in Texas
that came back to that field to find the
nursery where their charter members
learned the shorter catechism.
AS to the men that the Rev. Andrew
Browns pupils sent into the ministry
this correspondent was the ninth man
that he saw fully ordained before he was
called away, and he left three on the
road who reached full orders after that
undershepherd was in Heaven; and here
pardon If Gota:;; the audience five min
utes longer that the young of Bethel may
come around the death bed of Bethels
worker in the Masters vineyard. That
worker was dying. There was meet
ing In progress at Roberts, of which he
had been pastor for many years. There
was considerable interest In the congre.
| beoAoh' LILO oohS ANONs boNlu We huIn-
phreys, and your correspondent were
conducting the service. His house was
some five miles from the church. We
concluded that as he was 80 low we
ought to close the meeting and take our
places there with him. He discovered
what we intended and promptly said,
"You will do no such thing. 1 can die
without you. The interests of the
church cannot do without you. Leave
me to others and 60 right on with the
work"
Thus, my friends, we have hastily and
very imperfectly sketched the career of
one Of BethePs scions. She has others
of whom she ought to feel proud and
grateful to God that they have lived and
do live, but your patience is doubtless
worn out. My health is too feeble for
me to be with you in person and with
what have written desist.
Yours in Israel's Hope,
Hugh McLees.