The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1915-02-19
TWO HUAOPEOO DINERS
ATTEND THE GREAT
METHODIST BANQUET
LARGEST AND MOST SUCCESS
Full DINNER IN THE HlsTo-
RY OF CITY.
MANY DELIGHTFUL FEATURES
Thos. n. PEBBLES, AS Master of Cere-
monies, Presided Over the Great
MISUNDERSTANDING Lasted Until
Almost Hour of Midnight.

attended" was the terse and ep
igrammatic and, at the same time
very true manner in which promi
nent gentleman expressed his senti
ments upon the great Methodist ban
quet Thursday evening
An even two hundred men and boys
packed and jammed and filled to the
limit the large Sunday school room
OF the church, and for more than four
hours ate and spoke and revealed in
good fellowship and brotherly love. II
was genuine Methodist gathering
where conventionality and form were
cast to the winds, and where, as the
POSTMASTER very aptly phrased it, the
rich and the poor, the lawyer and the
laborer, the banker and the farmer
rubbed elbows in brotherly and Chris
tian feeling
The hosts began 70 assemble soon
after seven o'clock in the large audi
forum of the church. Men and boys,
| fathers and sons, recent additions to
the church and those who had seen
nearly sixty years of service and
membership in this church were pres
ent.
At O'Clock the call for the banquet
was sounded, and headed by DR..
Kicks, the present pastor, and DR..
Haggard, who has just completed a
four years pastorate, the host of men
from the flower of the citizenship of
the city and county filed into the Sun
day school room, which had been
turned into a banquet hall.
The room had been beautifully dec
Grated by the ladies of the church
White cheese cloth ran from chande-
lier to chandelier and was tied to
them by large punches Of tulle. In
termingled with it were sprigs of
Jackson vine and other green's. Up
on the long tables were vases and
jars of beautiful flowers, that lent
much to the beauty and enjoyment of
the occasion. The whole combined to
make a scene of unusual beauty and
splendor. Three long tables ran the
length Of the room, while the speak
ers table, at which more than a doz-
en- were seated, ran perpendicular to
these. A fifth small table had to be
spread in one of the small class
rooms in order to accommodate the
overflow from the large room.
One of the most pleasing features
of the banquet was the serving of the
four splendid courses by a dozen
young ladies, who are members OF
the church. Dressed in white, they
neatly and expeditiously served the
guests. Frequent tribute was paid to
their skill and good looks by the
speakers of the evening.
Another feature that added much
to the enjoyment of the evening was
the splendid orchestra of the church,
which dispensed music during the
service of the banquet and the
speeches of those on the toast list.
They were frequently forced to re-
spond to encores from the diners.
About nine-thirty o'clock, after the
remnants of the splendid repast had
been cleared away, Thomas H. Pee
bles, the POSTMASTER and general
master of ceremonies, arose and
started the speaking. For two and
one half hours it lasted, and there
was a flow of wit and humor, inter-
mingled with religious sentiment and
Christian brotherhood, that is seldom
heard. All of the speakers had made
special preparation, and their talks,
which averaged about ten minutes in
duration, covered all phases of relig-
ious work.
The toast list was as follows:
The Church to the Community.
l. Finney.
Toamwork- IT uuphoo Sr
The Layman's View of the Preach
err. S. Hopkins.
The Church Needs Money and?
H. P. Figuers.
Observation-Disclosures A. Sloan.
World View. H. Dining.
Reminiscences-T. H Williams.
Remarks-Dr. w. T. Haggard.
The Layman's Chances-Dr. w. B.
Kicks.
Shortly before the clock struck the
hour of midnight, the benediction was
pronounced by Rev. ]. B. Cheek, pas
tor of the South Columbia Methodist
church, and the greatest banquet,
greatest in numbers, greatest in spir-
it, and greatest in brotherhood, that
has ever been given in the city, came
to a happy conclusion.
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