The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1909-12-29
Methodists of Abbeville.
Pure and PeaeeabIe,
Gentle and Generous, ~ %.
Kind and knightly,
High and Honorable,
Good and Great.
Extract from Mr. Wilson's Booklet.

Extract from MIR. Wilson's Booklet. 81
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This being true shall speak the living only thevng
It fact that those pioneers Christian thought those
he footsteps Wesley those good who engaged
the work of refining purifying and of Chrstanzng this people
have done and by whom it DONE
The result of their zea and their activity
in the with For present that enough
to say The actors drama have
into dust and knowledge OF their
er existence legend and story Their trials
defeats and their final glorious umph need not be
The rich heritage spirituality which they left to still rules aud
religious sentiment of Abbeve The purity and the
holiness preceded evidenced the goodness
in the greatness loyalty maintain and
port religion purity the Methodist Church AbbeVe
The this beautiful house of worship which Is
ornament CITY, the determination and the
oty of who built this temple and dedicated to
worship Maker and Ruler of the That holy cne
promised who worship Him in humility andin sincerity
though ns be scarlet they shall be as white as
though they be red crimson they shall WOOL
their earliest entry into the limits of the city OF AbbeV
good word and good
In the of their country they have ever bee patriotic
devotion to the Church they they have been
unsweng in the discharge duty They have mnstered the
distressed they have been kind aad thoughtful
until of the great book has been broken will be known
many aywad souls with all their sins piled up about he
have their to the paths
of peace and TO the ways of righteousness
There can be no estimating good which the noble
sympathetic the bedside of those who have gone
tell how Of the eaous souls they have
from their downward and set their feet IN the upward
paths which lead to the golden gates of the Celestial City
The Methods been active workers for the
spiritual welfare of the church and the peopof the city
everywhere and all look to them tower OF
great effort When the OF
sought the aid of the Methodlsts Is confidently
expected others should lead not recorded where or
people Abbee withheld helping hand when
the Methodists took lead. .. -
tha
great religious which this church but they have
share responsibility the advancement OF good
work the temporal affairs They love their church above all se
but prevent work that advance
the religious material benefit of their neighbors
educators schools colleges the Methodists
these lines the workers that their fathers were
religion.
About twenty ago they awakened the public mind of
Abbeve the great better school system in this city
Through agitation which they brought about under the leadership
Judge Fuller Lyon we have in Abbeve today thorough s
from the education all the up
equipment youth the college classes This would
ambition Of the organiza
good and righteous but not with the Meth
odsts that church. Mayor L. Mcmillan under the
sustaining brethren largely due the credit for the
elegant city hall opera house of which all Abbeve proud
If the Methodists Abbevie build cotton mills if they
inaugurate school earth they lead us
to build opera the State they build for them
selves the churches South Car
ons they contribute large for church then
worlds Great Meth
The beneacton Of their felt by ALL
gone bless and purify the lives of
others
The Mehodsts Abbele like all other good modest
people They much but they little They obey the Injunction
who said Let another praise thee and not
mouth stranger and not thine own lips Having been
born Reformed Presbyterian and having lived that
attempt the good Christian Meth
ods Abbeve things which they would for them
of their modesy gentlemen of the South Carolina
would know of the merit and the worth their
Abbeye will hear from them anything their
patriotism will tell nothing of their noble fidelity to
their church They tell their love of the service
the they tell of their nnumerabe deeds of charity
to the poor hene You will them of their
safely into gentene and the sweetness of the efforts
of their bring brothers and their sisters into the haven
of recorded books they chis
eIed in registered only the hearts of those who
have their loving kindness Their deeds charity
by the angels that Jacob his ascending
and descending the theological ladder from earth to heaven
Perhaps notable distinguishing characteristic OF
the congregation lies in the lives Of the individual members
have lived Abbeve for than fifty and few
better with them than Knowing them as do
feel saying that there single notably impure or
immoral life in the whole congregation.
In remaking upon notably clean aggregation we'll
informed Methodist replied to me:
member to live reasonably to the stand
fairly well invited to his
ton with notably improper
n communion"
Henry Stokes the preacher in charge and aynan
might speak the clergy should he he
is pastor preacher During his mnaton OF less than
wear he acceson the church roll being b
,ota- and some being by profession of faith Hugh Wilson