The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-09-22
REEDY RIVER ASSOCIATION.
Successful Meeting-Advocates Or
sanitation fer State Wide Prohl-
bition-Orphange Liberally
Supported.

The Reedv River Association held
lis S3rd annual meeting with the lrS'
Baptist church. Of Newberry. begln-
ming last Friday morning.
This was the most successful meet
iur Of the association since the
withdrawal of the Laurens churches
to organize the Laurens association
There are only four resident pastors
Of the association. Revs. G. A. Wright,
J. F. McGill. B. P. Mitchell, and j..
F. Cason. One church Is located IN
Laurens county and Is served by Rev.
c.. Lewis Fowler, Of Clinton. All OF
the other churches are in Newberry
county.
Reedv River is now one Of the
smallest associations but last year 1t
was stated by one who had studied
the figures that it gave more per
capita than any other association IN
the State. averaging over 5000 per
member. For several years 1t has
been among the first in gifts for
missions. The communicate member
ship is between 1000 and 1900. The
membership Of the association Is COM
posed Of the pastors and five deie-
gates from each church.
Among the visitors to the assoela-
ton was the Rev. A. 7. Jamisoh, sup
erintendent of the Connie Maxwell
Orphanage, who explained IN detail
the great work that is being done IN
that institution. Three Of the girls
who are being cared for there won
scholarships in Winthrop college.
There. is no work in the denomination
that appeals more to the hearts OF
the people than that which IS beng
done at Connie Maxwell.
Reedy River association supports
six orphans in the home. Twelve years
ago the First Baptist church was the
first to begin the individual support
of an orphan, and supported one or
phan. Two years ago they began the
support Of two orphans and find it
about as easy to raise $1,000 month
as it was to raise $500. This work
is done through the Sunday school,
and the interest taken IS due in no
small measure to the active wor OF
the superintendent. Col. ". H: Hunt,
who is also a member of the board
of trustees of the orphanage. Mrs.
Sue Turnipseed. member Of the
First Baptist church. was the first to
leave a fund to endow a scholar
ship in the orphanage. The Bush
River and Mt. Zion churches support
one orphan each and the other
churches Of the association support
the other two.
One feature Of this meeting was the
presence Of Mr.. Piani. an Italian who
was an ardent Catholic priest, highly
educated in the church and a pro-
fessor in one Of the schools in Brazil.
but having been converted 20 the
protestant religion, he is now III the
Theological Seminary Of Louisville,
preparing to return to Brazil as
missionary. He delivered most
instructive address and told OF his
experiences. When ne left the Catho-
lie church he had to sacrifice home,
and loved ones, and earthly posses
sions, having been disinherited by his
family.
The first session Of the association
was held on Friday morning at ten
O'Clock. and was celled to order by
the moderator. Mr.. ]. ". D. johnson.
Devotional exercises were conducted
bv Rev. R. S. Brock, of Clinton.
The old officers were reelected as
follows: J. ". D. Johnson. modera-
tor, Theo. Danielson, secretary, l. NJ.
Smith, treasurer.
Rev. c. Lewis Fowler preached the
Introductory sermon or Friday morn
ing selecting his text from Psv. 144:-
12. His theme was spiritual atmos-
phere and the sermon was most I'M
pressive and inspiring one and it be-
came the keynote of the meeting.
From the beginning every session OF
the convention was characterized by
deep spiritual quickening, The as
sociation is small and the attendance
is necessarily small but there was
much enthusiasm and earnestness and
from this standpoint the meeting was
a most remarkable success.
Among the visiting members to