The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-03-20
BIBLE CLASS HEARS SPEAKERS.
Men Of Trinity Have "Get Together.
Meeting and Enjoy Good Speeches
and Fine Supper.
From The Daily Item, March 16.

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About 200 men of the city and
county who attended the Mcleod
Wesleyan Bible class Of the Trinity
Methodist church got comforta BILE"
to use the expression of the
speakers Of the evening, last night at
get-together, old fashioned spread"
in the Yates store OH West Liberty
street, and after enjoying thoroughly
the bounteous assortment of "eats"
furnished by the ladies of the church.
listened to several interesting talks by
men we'll up on the work of mems
Bible class movement. Mr.. c. NJ.
Hurst presided at the gathering i,,
the absence of the president Of the
class, Mr.. w. w. Rowland, who is
confined to his home by sickness.
Present at the meeting to make
snort addresses were Rev. d. M. Nc
Leod, Of Charleston, who organized
the class and after whom it was
named, and Mr.. Charlton DuRant, Of
Manning, who is well known as one
Of the most enthusiastic lay readers
In church work in the State.
Mr.. Mcleod spoke feelingly of the
pleasure it gave him to see the big in
crease in the membership of the class,
and said that while duty called him
elsewhere, there were many ties
which bound him to this city and he
would always have a personal inter-
est in the city and county Of Sumter
generally, and the growth Of the
Wesley Bible Glass of Trinity church
in particular. He said that more than
ever before men were awakening to
the fact that an active interest in
church work was :. real asset in every
day life, and that the enthusiasm
evidenced in Bible class work showed
this to be a fact.
Mr.. DuRant spoke principally of
what his Bible class in Manning had
accomplished. as this was the prin-
cipal object OF having him come here,
his class in Manning being one Of the
largest and most successful in the
State. In Mr.. DuRants opinion the
way to interest a man IN Bible class
work Is first to offer some fraction
to make him come and then allow
him to "get comfortable" sThen he
did come. BY means of tens an or
gan Of its own and the IL card of
formality. Mr.. Duran saXashis class
has been the reason fogrssn coming
h'O a church connS had
been away FROM Isssssss;fglss woIk for
years. Mr.. puRaflfss hia class is
composed Of two companio: who COM
pete for securing the most members
in q given time, and he offered to run
a race with the Sumter class for Sc
curing the laurel for getting the most
members to come out by next June.
His challenge was promptly accepted
by the Sumterites.
AT the conclusion Of Mr.. DuRant's
interesting talk, Rev. Truesdale, the
pastor Of Trinity church, made a short
talk. Mr.. Truesdale said each man
in the Bible class was either an asset
or a liability and he hoped that every
man would do his duty, and see to it,
that. to use a popular expression,
Sumter "mopped up" with the Man.
ming classmen in point Of securing the
most men out each Sunday from now
until June.
The meeting was in every way a big
success, the supper being fine, the
speeches entertaining and instruc-
tive and the occasion and all round
expression Of the feeling of good fell
lowship and democracy that exists in
the McLeod-Wesleyan Bible class.