Henderson gold leaf., 1911-08-03
News Notes From Middleburg.

Miss Pearl Parrish is at home from
Richmond for short vacation.
Miss Helen Kicks, OF Palmer Springs,
Va, is visiting friends in the village this
week
Misses Annie White and Mary Perkin-
son. of Wise, visited Mrs John Reavis
this week
Will the reporter please tell US what
is the difference between Drewry. Cedar
Fork and Nut Bush sections of Vance
county? Is there any difference at all?
A large number of people from Man
son, Axtel, Cedar Fork and Pennington
greeted the pastor at the opening ser
vice OF the annual meeting at the Metho-
dist church.
In the meeting that is in progress at
Jerusalem NJ L. Church this week the
pastor, Rev. B. c. Alfred, is assisted by
Rev. J. E. Holden, pastor Of the churches
, at Enfield and Halifax.
We were all glad to shake hands with
our friends from the COkesbury neigh
bOrhOOd, who attended the meeting at
the Methodist church last week. We
were glad also to see friends from Hen
dersOn.
Everybody was delighted to know
that Mrs. Ida B. Watkins. who was re-
Gently operated on at Richmond, had
sufficiently recovered to take her accus-
| toned place at the meeting held at the
Methodist church last week
The many friends of Capt L. r. Crock
er are glad indeed to know that he is
reganing his usual health and strength,
and is once more dispensing his words
of love and wisdom in his accustomed
place at the Methodist Sunday school.
The members of the Methodist Episco-
pal church would express their thanks
and appreciation to Miss Mabel Harris,
of Henderson, for efficient and faithful
service rendered at the organ during
the series of meetings here last week.
| While in the village Miss Harris was the
guest OF Mrs. J. X. Plummer.
1t is rather difficult for your cores
pOndent to determine just where the
dividing line is between Middleburg and
Pennington. We would not for any
thing encroach upon what the Fleming
ton reporter might Justly call his or her
own. But at any rate, when we report
the churches at Middleburg we at the
same time report the churches of Flem-
ingtOn. There will never be dividing
line between the good people of Flem-
ington and Middleburg In our religious
worship we are always one and the same
people.
Rev. W. r. Royal, of Henderson, who
assisted in the meeting at the Methodist
church last week, deeply impressed the
people OF the entire community who at
tended the services from day to day
He is indeed an Israelte in whom there
is no guile. In his preaching he did not
tax the patience of our people with
lengthy literary discOurses and doe
trines, but be seemed to know what our
people would most appreciate, SO he
spent himself in cleaving to the Lord
and preaching the gospel truth, and the
hand of the Lord was with him in every
service. Being richly endowed with a
God given voice with which to express
his gems of gospel thought, the Holy
Spirit seemed to blend with them and
flow with Joyous current into our
hearts. Long will those who heard him
from day to day remember his burning
words and eloquent appeals for higher
standard of Christian living and for
more earnest effort for the salvation of
the lost. The reception and baptismal
service at the close of the meeting was
an impressive one.