The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-05-24
FIGHTING FUND
is SUBSCRIBED
LoYALIsTs RAISE $4,000 TO PRE-
VENT UMoN.-NAST CROWD
NOW At DICKSON.
Sunday Given over to Devotional Ser
vices, Many Distinguished DiVines
Delivering Sermons, Large Audi
enees Listening to Each.

DICKSON, Tenn. May 19.-Th'
Cumberland Presbyterian General As
.sembly subscribed $4,000 tonight Il
a fund with which TO protect the C. P
Church rights against the demands o
the unionists.
This will go down as a great day II
the history of the seventy-Seventf
General Assembly Of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. 1t was conced
ed by all to be one of the greatest
ever known in Dickson county. The
General Assembly is a homecoming
occasion for the church. and a real
one II is 1t is the occasion of the
faithful returning and confidingly lay
ing their heads upon the ancestral
bosom, apparently as if they would
never again be taken away.
No less than 10000 people are here
today; perhaps it would be more cor
rect to say 10000; and in all the vast
throng there is manifest disposition
of Christian love and earnestness that
is truly beautiful to look upon. One
of the most gratifying of all the splen-
did features are the ardent greetings
of the aged fathers of the c. P.
Church, who in the sunset of life have
gathered at the birthplace to again
revel in the memories of the past,
and to realize that their church is by
no means a thing to be mourned as
dead.
The day has been given over entire
ly to devotional services, which began
at 8 o'clock this morning with prayer
service in the Tabernacle followed at
10 O'Clock by sacrament service and
at II o'clock by the morning sermon
delivered by the Moderator, DR.. Esh-
man. At least $500 people gathered
at this service, and the sermon was
indeed a strong one. At the same
hour services were held at all the
other churches in town except the
y. NhulCIIy anu oSA AAANAAS |
were delivered by c. P. ministers.
DIR. Goodnight occupied the pulpit at
the M. E. Church, South; DR.. Lockett |
the First Baptist Church; Mrs. L. NJ !;
Woosley the Methodist Episcopal
Church; Rev J. S, Hall the Lutheran
pulpit, and Rev. Joe McLesky the A.
M e. pulpit. These were also filled
at night by ministers of the assembly.
At 2 D. m. a service was held in the
Tabernacle for men only and about
the same hour a service was held on
the ground presided over by women
only. At these services the neces-
sary amount to pay the expenses OF
the assembly was raised.
1t is a gratifying fact to the assem-
bly, that while at the morning service
DR.. Eshman addressed $500 hearers,
all the other churches were filled to
overfiowing.
Immediately preceding the after
noon service in the Tabernacle, Rev.
Gam Sing Quah, his wife and little
son, Finis Ewing Gam, and Rev.
Henry M. Bond, the Choctaw minis
.er together with Miss Bette Sharon,
appeared upon the rostrum to the de-
light, apparently, of at Least 10000 o
people. Rev. and Mrs. Gam sang in D
yhinese. Safe in His Arms Follow
ne this Rev Bond addressed the au- D
Hence, as did Rev. Gam. Both D
peeches were loudly applauded. Rev
bond said most impressively that 100 r
ears ago his people owned this coun- i
ry, but give it up because Gods
Method of spreading the gospel de-
handed it, and the result was that he
oday was standing before the vast
udience first Christian and last
Presbyterian. He said d
hrist died for everybody, the Indian fe
nd the Chinaman as well as all al
theirs. His speech was forceful d.
ne, but he said if he could speak to Ju
~ AuQiEhCS Lid Lag WA AHAA6A~6N
0uld not during the remainder OF the W
ay and the following night tell all, %
! say all, he desired to say. NJ
AT the conclusion Of his remarks,
If. Bond was made a present by the lie
ldience of something over $50. "a
revious to this DR.. c. P. Baird, OF Al
rcadie, Fla formerly of Nashville 81
epped to the rostrum and presented Ia
title Finis Ewing Gam with dollar oo
I'D piece in the name OF the seventy IN
,yenth General Assembly of.the Cum pV
,rland Presbyterian Church In Ten M
,ssee, at Dickson, and requested that
e childs father buy with 1t six small Oh
liver spoons as family keepsakes 10 pc
, handed down in the name OF their le'
nblematic virtue to Little Gam cd
,sterity as long as time should last Nd