Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1914-12-02
"a New Kind Of Union Meeting.

didn't fully realize what was ahead
of.us. What a rain! I hope Mr..
Lyon got back to Edgefeld before
the bad weather set in. He took
good care Of US on the twenty-five
mile trip. but we did not reach
Bold Springs church till the last
delegate had gone from the union
meeting, so we came on to the hos
3pitable home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
p. Rush and here we are Monday
afternoon, weather bound, but IN
good hands and happy.
/ 1t looks now as if we shall not get
back to Edgefeld this trip, but we
shall hope to come after the holi-
days. Wife and | agreed that we
would spend Thanksgiving at my
old home, and Christmas with rela-
tives on her side of the house, in
Charlotte. Beyond Christmas our
dates are not made up.
How glad we are that we could
spend three nights in dear old Edge
field, in your home and at aunt
Bellies, and how glad we could
spend the two days among relatives
and friends, the first day at Berea
and the second day in town. That
wasn't a long Thanksgiving vaca-
ton. but it was a happy one.
Had the weather continued good,
our plan was to go back after the
union union meeting and stay with you
and the other friends in Edgefeld
who have so cordially invited us
till time to meet our appointment at
sAllendale the middle of this week,
but now those visits will have to
wait till later in the winter, as we
are booked for the state convention
in. Charleston. next week and then
for a Y. w. A. convention at Mul-
Inns, and for visits to points in the
upper part Of the state.
So far as 1 have been able to
learn, there was no meeting at Bold
Springs yesterday. Our kind host
thought it was useless to attempt
the five mile drive and back in
such weather, with such roads.
Somebody says there were not more
than thirty people at the the Satur-
day meeting, none from Edgeheld
Think. I have long since learned
that weather bound days need not
be fruitless days at all, and we
spent yesterday proftably and
pleasantly, around roaring fire
chatting about missions with three
generations of good friends. In the
morning the topic was China, and
in the evening Palestine absorbed
our time, while one of the boys pro-
duced some stereoscopic views
that illustrated the conversation on
Palestine; and when the time came
for prayers and good nighl, veal
agreed that there were more kinds
sof q good union meeting than one!
When the creeks go down and
the roads are all passable, we shall
have to take the train at Bradley,
four miles from here, for Augusta
and Allendale and on and on, so
here is reluctant but temporary
goodbye to you and the cousins and
friends with whom we had promis,
ed to spend Thanksgiving.
Goodbye old Edgefeld for a
while yet, goodbye Red Hill and
Littlejohn home, and Modoc and
Berea! How glad we are that we
could attend those splendid mis-,
sionary meetings in those three be-
loved old churches. God bless the
noble workers we met.
Nothing would please us better
than to begin at Bold Springs the
first Sunday in January and talk
missions and Adoniram Judson at
every church in the association be-
fore we stopped. Maybe when we
meet the pastors and other delegates
at the Charleston convention this
can be promised, but we shall see.
Brother Lansdell may have made
dates ahead for weeks, we cannot
tell till we get weather unbound and
get news from him. Meantime what
a glorious time we are having in the
union meeting. Mr.. and Mrs. Rush
and their family have so lavishly
provided, feast of good things
for body and soul, around the roar
ing fire, union meeting that doesn't
stop with any fifth Saturday and
Sunday, but that lasts while this
weather lasts or until we swim out
to the railroad. We must read up on
Noah and the ark.
With love to your homefolks all
our love.