The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1913-11-12
MET
AT CROSS HILL
Enjoyable and Profitable Meeting of
the Predestlnarlans with the Liberty
Strings Church

dies of Liberty Springs Church, Cross
Hill, S. c.. October 1913.
The opening session was held Fri
day afternoon October, 10th, when
the enrolment tool place, twenty
three delegates, five officers and four
teen visitors responding to roll call.
The following officers were present:
Mrs. E. L.. Hughes, president, Mrs. j.
w. Allen, secretary, Mrs. W.. II. Nor
ton, treasurer, Mrs. Rebecca Deal, sec
rotary of literature, and Mrs. H. w.
Allen, chairman of Executive Com
mittee.
Friday night the pastor Of the
church, Rev. G.. b. Ratchford, gave an
address of welcome introducing Rev.
c. f.. Rankin of Laurens, who gave an
address on Home Missions.
Mrs. Motto Martin of our mission
in Africa who was present gave a
heart-stirring talk on the work and
the needs i'm Africa. Her African nurse
sang n hymn in the African language.
Saturday night, after devotional ex-
erciscs conducted by Rev. ID. w. Rich
ardson of Chinkiang, China, two of the
delegates took part in a dialogue on
Pros and Cons of Foreign Missions.
Rev. MIR. Hassel, a young man un-
der appointment to Japan gave a talk
on missions in Japan. Then followed
an interesting pageant in which TWEEN
ty of the young girls of Cross Hill
took part.
Sabbath morning and evening Rev.
ID. w. Richardson of our North Khan
su mission preached soul stirring
sermons on missions in China.
abbat afternoon was devoted to
young peoples work. Devotional ex-
ercises we're conducted by the Presi-
dent, Mrs. r.. L.. Hughes, Miss Marie
Dean of the Miriam Society of Spar
tanburg sang n solo, Miss Agnes Raw
enel OF the same society told of the
Blue Ridge Missionary Education Con-
terence which she attended last sum
mer. Miss Amy Allan, Secretary of
Young Peoples Work in the Charles
ton Presbyterial gave a practical talk
on young peoples work, after which
steps were taken toward reorganiZing
a young peoples band in the Liberty
Springs church.
An interesting feature of the Satur-
day afternoon session was n round
table conducted by Mrs. w. w. Simp-
son OF Woodruff, on "How to meet the
difficulties in the country churches"
Mrs. Alvin Dean of G~reenville read
a paper prepared by Mrs. j. r. Wood
side of Greenville in memory of our
departed missionaries, Mrs. Annie
Graybill of Mexico, Mrs. Annie Will
kinson Mooney of China, Mrs. S. NJ.
Lane of Brazil and the TWO children
OF Rev. II Mrs. r.. G.. Colt of Korea.
Letters were read from DIR. Ruth
Morgan of our Haichow station i'm Chi
ma. h Enoree ~Presbyterial has con-
tributed $4,000 a year to the Haichow
station ever since 1905.
Reports were heard from the coun-
ty Institutes and thirty societies.
Invitations for the next meeting
were received from Union and Wood
ruff, and Union was selected as the
next place of meeting.
The election of officers resulted as
follows:
President, Mrs. w. w. Simpson.
Woodruff.
First Vice-President, Mrs. f. L.
Hughes, Greenville.
End, Bird, 4th and 9Th Vice presi-
dents, Leaders of County Institutes.
Secretary, Mrs. j. w. Allen, Spar
tanburg.
Treasurer, Mrs. w. II. Morton. Spar
tanburg.
Secretary of Literature, Mrs. Re-
becca Deal, Grecnville.
Secretary of Young Peoples Work.
Miss Agnes Ravenel. Spartanburg.
Resolutions were passed thanking
the members OF Liberty Springs
Church and their neighbors and
friends for their delightful h~ospitali-
ty, The little girls for adding to orr
enjoyment both in the homes and on
the program, the members of the choir
and soloist for the beautiful music
rendered during the services, and the
ladies of Cross Hill for the delightful
dinners served in the church yard un-
der the trees, on Saturday and Mon