The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-03-13

...tHttllAl N nan. RsLll'd III <
III M~ethodism in North Caro-
..-4 an article was published i'm
.-r.Fgh Christian Advocate calling
......u to the fact that the first
yrglaized in North Carolina,
10. N~ethodists. was ordered by q
.....rrc held in Baltimore in 1916,
called the "CaroIina Circuit"
E+tcr date Rev. L. :. Webb, in
..-luication to the Advocate, sug-
that it would be nothing but
.le Methodist ought to do, to
...te. in some suitable manne
centennial Of North Carolina
."isu.
.....r preachers and some Iaymen
about it: so that, when the Con-
...- met in Wilmington on h LIST
.r..rmbcr. 1915. the matter had
pretty thoroughly discussed, and
.-.Iution. offered by Rev. L.. s.
..sno5d. DID. suggesting the APP
...utg of a committee "to consider
asopriety Of observing the Centen-
.uf McthodisIn in North Carolina"
adopted. and the following persons
... appointed as such committee:
~Iui~t"riaI.-L. S. Burkhead, j. =.
.utt. r.. =. Webb, u. Craven. l.. w.
....Hord. II. r Hudson, p. ]. Cara
.. Ira r. Wyche, j. e. Mann, VIC.
.ua. and r.. O. Burton. All of
.u. arr dead except l. w. Crawford
... Iaul J. CarraWay.
iay-Tbomas G. Whitaker, James
-... .Eats. w. G. Doub, r. r. CraW-
r.U. Il. A. Scroggs, F.. a. Clarke, T.. J.
J. W. MCGEE, r. 7. Gray. w. i.
H.. a-4ay. and T. G. Williams. OF
t.... James Southgate, DR., j. w. Nc
l... Il. Y. Gray, and II. (. Williams,
... Hsiug. Others may be.
".ut committee went to work and
..-.. having brought into review the
.H.u- and ~triunphs of the church
4n..l- the hundred years of it's exist
OOPS, fH This State-SpeakIng of It's
..." trials When its members were
f... aHd its doctrines We're n1iSunder-
..... by some and misrepresented by
.u.. . frW-the committee offered, as
ta.#. further report, a series of resolu-
r.u.e. of which l quote the following:
Hcsolled, That we win celebrate
tm. war 1876 as the Centennial of
North carolina MethOdism.
Resolved, That we hold in the
llr of Raleigh, commencing on the
-r~ Of March, a mass meeting of
t.sac or more days continuance
lhsg appropriate religious services be
held and addresses made by such per
sons as shah be selected by the COM
ui.toc Of five-three preachers and
tHo laynlen-to be appointed by this
UoIy. developing the history Of the
church, and that one or more Of our
Bishops be invited to aid us by their
llesence and counsel"
The committee appointed in pursu-
anee of the above resolution consisted
Of the following: Rev. Junius p.
Moore. Presiding Elder of the Raleigh
district, Rev. l.. S. Burkhead, pastor OF
Ei..ton street church; Rev. j. B. Bob
Hu-. editor of the Raleigh Christian
tIvn.alc; w. J. w. CrOWder and w. !
j. Young: all of whom are dead eN-
."lt ". !, Young.
Thr committee last anne arranged
81 I.1u-ram. and selected Col. Walter
'0rk NoW Chief Justice of North /
l@ro.m0), to deliver the address of .
If were writing for one of the
Advocates l would give Colonel
t#2rk's address i'll full, as it was one
of she best addresses delivered on that
Centennial occasion; beautiful in
Thought, forcible in expression, vaIu-
.o.. i'm historic incidents and refer
"uu"-. and. to M~cthodists. as inspiring
Is is The. Marseilles Hymn to a French
soldier.
After speaking of the rise and pro
-rc~s nf M~ethodism, abiding to the
conditions under which the church
WAS born. and paying a tribute to Mr..
Wesley, its founder, and to the great
less of that movement which gave
a"w If" TO the whole Christian world.
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