The log cabin Democrat., 1913-10-20
CHURCH ARCH|Yf
 SHOWS ITS GROWTH
 M. F. C. s. CORNERSTONE COLLECTION SHOWS PROGRESS OF CITY AND CHURCH SINCE 1897.


 corner stone of the old Methodist church, which is being razed prepara- tory to building new church:
 On last Tuesday the workmen reached the cornerstone of our old church. In it was found box which contained the Journal of the Arkan- sas Annual Conference which met at Ozark November 17-22, 1897. In it are found reports from R. NJ. Tray Tor, F. s. H. Johnston, S. F. Goddard, A. C. Millar, Henry Hanesworth, J. M. Cantrell, J. B Stevenson and beautiful tribute by Rev. Geo w. Hill to Rev. " V. Harlan, who had just passed away at Clarksville The re- port of that year shows that We col lected $60 for the Sunday School, $500 for our preacher and S1,313 for all purposes.
 A senior quarterly and the October, 08, number of the Review of Missions were in the box. The Sunday School was them interested in studies in the history of Judah. The Cuban Mission was just then being opened and was drawing the attention of our church.
 Next we found a copy of the Ar kansas Methodist" under date of Oc- tober ,, 1898. It was owned and edit ed by Dr. J. E. Godbey and Hon Geo. Thornburgh. Near the Methodist was found the Christian Advocate" edit ed by Bishop Hoss and J. w. Boswell. Just at that time there was consider able comment on the War Claim" proposition and an attorney named Stahlman and our book agents, Smith and Lamar, were being severely criti- cised. A number of Conference reso- lutions on the subject are in this is sue of the Advocate
 Current copies of the Conway Dem- ocrat and Log Cabin were in the box. The former was then 10 years old. the latter 20. Conway was then in the midst of smallpox scare, and we found an article written by President Millar on the situation Hendrix had just opened with sixty boarding stu dents. There was still talk of the l way Admiral Dewey used ammunition i on the morning of May day that year and of the trouble the Minnesota In dians were giving General Bacon and his troops
 Next was found catalogue of Hendrix and a Mirror. The latter iS a splendid issue and contains articles by H. B. Mckenzie, John P. Steel, o ! B. Harvey, Nick Can't and others. | It contains a short story of the two literary societies The editors and ! managers were Garner Frazier, F. i Hutchinson, H. B. Mckenzie, C. N. ! Clark, F.. K Sewell, J. l.. Bond. and i F. C. Cannon. Dr Lee and Mir. Till [ man were the commencement speak | CTS that year. The Mirror contained !, an appreciation by the editor of the Hendrix girls.
 There were two song books, dis~i cipline and Bible belonging to Bro | J Johnston in the box The Bible had ! the following interesting bit of his ! tory written by it's owner: This Bi- ! ble was used for number of years by F. s. H. Johnston while he was P. l F.. of Fayetteville District. He got into swollen stream (Osage Creek) and he and horse were washed down. tance below" The discipline was pre- sented by Rev. P. B. Summers, who was the P. E. at the time.
 We found the entire roll of mem bers of the church and Sunday School. In these lists are many who are present today, but many who have moved away or gone to the bet ter Land. There were lS0 members of the church and 227 enrolled in the Sunday School The officers and teachers of the Sunday School were as follows: F. s. H. Johnston, pas tor; l.. B. Griffing, superintendent; Rosa Martin, secretary; R. B. Me Culloch, Mrs. s. c. Smith, Mrs. J T. Murphy, Mrs. M. H. Cole, R. l.. Mas cay Mrc EHa I ,pcolp Cuc Rahpar