The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1915-09-24

State University, ana scoie
more of other college professors;
For over half a century member
shin in the Presbyterian church on
Church Street had been the prerequl-
Site to social recognition. The Meth
odists erected in 1880 small, PLAIN
building, and because of the pTeSe!lGe
in the place of the Methodist Female
College, a certain consideration was
shown them which no other denonli,iat
ton enjoyed. In 1851 the Methouisi
sold this building to the Baptlsts, anu
NV grandfather became the tlrst pas
tor of the newly formed Baptist
church. My blood tingles with par
Sonable pride at the thought OF my
ancestors audacity. At the END Oh
seventy-five years from the founding
of the town only one other denomina-
ton had sought place and stanu'lls'
St. Barnabas Episcopal Church, Or Or
ganized during the stormy days Oh N e,
construction. Denominatlonai lines
were closely drawn and union services t1
did not belong to this period OF the
| City of Flowers. :,
Through all these years the old rec
tangular brick Presbyterian church,
with it's galleries around the side ana
rear. denominated the community
The annual great event in the history
of that church was the Sunday on
which DR.. Jacob Henry Smith pubic
lv drilled the children on the Shorter
( Gatechism and gave to each child a
solemn address and a Bible. Dr.
Smith was succeeded by his son, Dr.
Epbert Watson Smith, widely known
throughout the Presbyterian world as
the author of "The Greed of Presoy-
terianism." 1000
The period .of transition-lSSS-
1s93-was marked by church build
ing. The Baptists, the PresbytterianS'
the Methodists erected new and up-to-
date structures. The new era brought
new faiths, and now the Methodist
Protestant. the Society of Friends
the Christians, the Lutherans, the ke-
formed and the Roman Catholics nave
organizations and churches.
/ The Jews came with the opening OF
the clothing stores. They entered
the Piedmont plateau first as peddleerS'
1t was not until the late 9Os tha'
thew began to arrive with their mil
lions of capital. The Cohn family
alone invested nearly $4,0OO,OOO IN
cotton and carpet mills. They built
towns. established a benevolent des-
potism, operated the largest and oeSt
mercantile establishments, erected
modern school buildings and met the
expenses of the school, gave land and
money for the building of evangelical
churches and contributed to the sup
port of their pastors.
The City of Flowers is no longer a
village. but is the thriving Gate CITY
of the State, if not of the South. Inc
sparkling brook is sewer. The COWS
no longer browse along the edge OF
the gutter, the olfactory nerves OF the
passer-by do not report the proximity
of the pig pens. A campaign was
carried on last summer for the deS-
truction of the ubiquitous fly, whlll
the rodents are wisely taking to COW
er. Every insignia of up-to-dateneSs
appears as you traverse the leading
thoroughfares of the Gate City. The
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