The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-08-31

NH> Ak A>ON
n Few Sent to ColIege-Salem
Church Community Typical of
Those Where Have Been Reared
Men and Women Who Have Illus
trated the Best Virtues of This Com
monweaIth.
Editorial Correspondence.)
Oxford, N. c., Aug. 23.-Sunday was
more nearly a perfect day than North
Carolina has known this e The
crispness of the early morning gave
a hint of October weather and sent a
thrill a-stirring through the blood,
making one feel that we are on the
threshold of the fall ingathering of
crops. There is a tone in the climate
Of Oxford hat gel even in the hot
test days, is enervating. The tonic of
the cool morning made all feel like his
old world is a very good one and that
it is a glorious thing to live and to
drink in the glories of a perfect day.
The beauty of the woods, the splendor
of the growing crops, the stiffness of
the quiet Sabbath conspired to make
one thankful to be "a living In
with Rev. A. S. Barnes, /
drove from this Athens to the old
Salem church, for almost a century
one of the strong country churches
that. have given Granville strong and
G~od-fearing men. In too many places
the strong country churches, near the
growing towns, have been weakened,
but old Salem keeps it's youth and
Vigor in it's old age as when it was
first dedicated to God in the centre of
a fertile farming section that attract
ed strong and virile men + settled
this county. o has succeeded father,
the lands going down from father to
son in successive generations, so that
the names of the farmers here today,
with few changes, are the same as
when great quarterly meetings and re-
vivals gave one to the people half a
century ago. The "ancient landmarks
have not been removed. The people
have adopted new methods and mod
ern conveniences, but there abides here
the same old-fashioned hospitality,
old-time religion, and good citizenship
-tlt L11Illt III "AA1C -
made rural North Carolina the rearing
places Of the great men who have
guided it in every decade.
Salem church was one Of the first
churches established by the Methodist
circuit-riders when hat band Of self
sacrificing it~inerants went along with
the pioneers and built a church where
$500. L,;J4 f,n~ono Jf tho hnno0C
were rude, the church was of logs.
But the spirit of Christianity dominat-
ed every section where they won the
hearts of the people. In
there is no neighborhood that stands
higher in the making Of men and Wo-
men than 9TH Salem church" section.
and it was a rare pleasure to me today
to mingle with the good people who
make up the congregation Of old Sa-
lem. The church is an excellent
building-perhaps the best country
church in the county, and for a long
time has been one Of the county
Creates factors in the moral and
spiritual uplift of the people OF this
section. It's mature men are we'll post
ed and we'll read, they are prosperous,
we'll informed as to what Is DIN IN
church and State. It's young people
are educated, most of them going off
to school, and the social pleasures are
of the best to be found in town or
country. The music and the singing in
Salem church Sunday morning were
sweet and up1ifting-a benediction-
as the voices Of old and young were
lifted up making melody unto the
Lord" The~speaker, who tried to talk
on the work hat laymen should do in
the church, was there and received in