The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-09-15

OF the auditorium.
Ridgecrest is a younger colony than
| Montreal and the Baptists feel that
they have the better scenic position.
Part Of their property is Immediately
over the long ~SWannanoa Tunnel, or
would be if the railroad right Of
way did not extend clear across. DR..
Sampey. one OF the great teachers at
the Louisville Baptist Seminary, was
the star attraction while l was there.
DR.. Gray. pastor Of the Moody
Church III Chicago. and director Of
the great Moody Institute, had been in
Ridgecrest for a day or two, pre-
viously.
The splendid hotel at Ridgecrest
aims rs rooms. 1t is called The
Pritchelle,' after Judge Jeter G.
Pritchard, of Asheville, and Mr.. j.
B.. Elliot, of Hickory. | found one
of my old Davidson College friends,
Mr.. Joe Wilson, managing the hotel,
and the people at Ridgecrest give
him a good name as a fine business
man. Mex year, the hotel will be in
full sway, and even this year, before
it was fully completed, it was draw
ing many visitors.
My host, Mr.. D. \. Tompkins, drove
me to a point JUS above the Swan
nanoa Tunnel, where the road start
VI AAiio ~ 80 VcLfct q u
down towards Round Knob. There
was d more gentle slope in the road
westward. This little high ridge in
the road marks part Of the water
shed Of the Blue Ridge. The rain
which flows eastward goes into the
Atlantic through the Catawba river,
while that which flows westward
l flows into the Swannanoa, the French
Broad, the HOlston, the Tennessee,
| and the Mississippi, and thence into
L the Gulf. Mr.. Tompkins called my
= attention to the p%recipitOus face of
the Mountains eastward, while west
ward the slope Is gentle. This seems
to hold true generally throughout the
Blue Ridge. The physical geograph-
f ers can explain it.
At Lake Junaluska. near Waynes-
Vile, the lake is even a greater fea-
: ture of the summer C%hautauqua than
g at Montreal. 1t is a very much larg-
l er lake, and the Methodist colony
n there has just launched a two-decker
bOat-'The OOnagoOSka," with q
o gasoline motor. The little boat
s scurrying across the lake. with the
s encircling blue mountains in the dis
n lance makes a fair picture. Botf
gunwale, making one think Of thu
e liners returning from Europe, 81
packed and damned that million
n aires have to take passage in tn
Storage.
t. Rev. Bob Jones and Rev. Georg'
d Stuart were the stars Of the confer
h. nee at the time | was there. I "a
lie over from Waynesville one Sunda,
l. afternoon. On a special train, an'
heard Evangelist Stuart preach t
+ one thousand or twelve hundred PEG
i pie. 1t was Haywood County Day q
+ the lake, and farmers had driven il
20 evidently from great distances, jUdg
: inp from the nnmhaT Of IN C0lQc an
a agons which were tied to the tree
n or a high hill just above the taDer
naCle. The framework of this tabeT
of nacle is built Of steel, and it is COY
cred with canvas, canva flaps Elm
= lowered on the side where the sun
tic shining or the rain threatening. .
d. fresh breeze is usually ripping tn
waters OF the lake, and it finds il
of way through the airy spaces of tn
IN big auditorium.
One of the greatest advantages
these summer religious conferences
the opportunity given to the peOp
is in the regions where they are 81
on uated, bringing to these plain, sirius
,d Cling mOuntaineerS ~advantag,
nd which the people of the great cite
rs. enjoy.
is have heard Rev. George Stua
oft many times before, having reporte
of one Of his meetings in Chariot
10 years ago. 1 counted myself lOrl(
so nate, however. when he announce
lat that his subject would be "Tl
Christian Home" His picture Of Il
-as typical, old-faShioned America
nd home, where the mother taught h
TX children Now l lay me-" and Whe
,ur the father read nightly from the Ho
Bible, and knelt at the family alta
re- reminded one of Burns "Cotter's Sa
oyS urday Night" This typical o
at American home. too, was one Whi'
We. was full Of children, and the eva
clip gelist went with gloves off for t
his pitiful and to be pitied city home
Of which he said, with conteml
res There was just one poor little @
the accidental child"
it Mr.. Stuart described an intervit