The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1913-08-13
THE CENTENNIAL SERVICES.
INTERESTING ADDRESS MADE
THURSDAY EVENING BY DIR.
, IL. 4. VANN.
outline of Services Which Were
Held Friday Night and Sunday -
Church History Read by Dr.
brown--Dinner for Congregation
and Visitors.

The first service of tho Centennial
celebration which the First Baptist
Church of this city Is now holding was
held Thursday night. a large and in
terested audience being present to
hear Dr. II. T. vann, president of
Meredith College at Raleigh, y. c.,
tell what the Baptist Church would
do In the next hundred years. There
was special music provided and the
service was made exceedingly interest
ing to all who attended.
DIR. Vann chose for his subject "a
Pre-view OF the Next Hundred Years. 4"
In an interesting style he went over
what could and might be accomplish
ed by the church In the next hundred
years. The speaker opened his ad-
aress with remarks concerning the
immense strides which have been
made In scientific and economical re-
search during the past and went on
TO say what might be done in the
future. He spoke In a pleasing style
oil Inventions and discoveries, saying
that so many things had been done
that nothing which could be done In
the future along the same lines would
oe surprising. In speaking OF auto
mobiles and aeroplanes, he suggested
that probably in the future that ev-
erybody would 60 to church In aero
planes. He then gradually went fur
ther into the serious, telling OF the
needs OF more intensive methods of
living In the future, because of the in.
crease In population and changes from
the present. He said that as time ad-
Vsnced people would gain q clearer
perception OF what was right and
what was wrong, their eyes would be
opened so that they could go farther
into research and greater develop
ments would result. This was tru-
IN religion. as in other things, and
the people would see that the religion
OF the Fathers" those living further
back In the history of the world. was
the right religion. They would see
and know the Divine message and the
coming century would be one of COM
Ing back to the Bible and back TO
the religion taught by Jesus Christ.
They would learn to uphold those
principles which had made the Bible
and the religion Of Jesus Christ live
through hundred OF years, which had
made IT an enduring religion.
The. address was an extremely in
teresting one and the speaker held
the attention OF his audience through
out.
friday at noon q meeting of the
congregation and the visiting pastors
was held at the church, when DIR.
C. c. Brown. who has for many years
oeen Its pastor. read a history Of the
church. The meeting was an interest
Ing one, especially to the older MEM
oers OF the congregation After this
meeting dinner was given in the
dining room OF the church to the
congregation and the visiting pastors.
quite a number OF visitors were in
the city to attend the centennial SER
vices. among them many leading
preachers or the Baptist church, Rev.
H. Il. Vann. ID. d., Raleigh, y. c.:
Rev. David M. Ramsey, ID. D., Green
VILE. =. c.; Rev. Lansing Burrows, ID.
H. Americus' Ca: Rev. X. T. Peel,
travelling evangelist. a. j. Hall, ID.
d. Hartsville. 5. c.; Rev. w. w. Rem
Kin. Greeleyville; Rev. ]. ID. Huggins,
Denmark; Rev. NJ. NJ. Benson, Bishop
Vile.