The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-08-27
LIFE ON THE MOUNTAINS

Pastor Greaves of the First Baptist
Church of Lumberton Writes In
terestingly of His Stay in the
"La1td of the Sky''-Wlll Arrive
Home in Time to Fill Pulpit Next
Sunday
Correspondence of The Robesonian.
Soon the month which my congre-
cation is kindly permitting me to,
spend in the mountains will be over
and my John Henry Ford and I must
again seek the lowlands, where the
corn is turning russell and the cot
ton will soon be whitening in the
fields. It has been delightful to be
up here, it will be very delightful to
get back to loved tasks among my
neople again. A month of vacation
is a good thing, almost an absolutely
necessary thing when one has been
for eleven months at the nerve ex-
hausting business Of studying ana
| preaching. But a life all vacation
would be intolerable. It takes the
alternative of work and rest to make
US appreciate either.
So let it be "norated around, as
Uncle Remus would say, that l ex-
pect to occupy my pulpit in Lumber
| ton on the first Lords Day in Sep
TENDER, and 1 shall be happy to see
every one of our members, like the
pastor, back on the job. l have
thought often of those who have been
at home all the summer and who have
kept Sunday school and prayer
meetings goingl They have been
remembered in the pastors earnest
J prayers.
Nor have l been idling up here by
any means. During the time l have
been here l have preached twice,
l have listened to about twenty five
lectures and sermons, have read halt
dozen good books, and have COM
muned with Natures God in valley
and on mountain top. AS usual
have treasured up many impressions
and ideas with which to enrich my
ministry when I reach home.
This is the seventh summer we
| have resided in our little mountain
cottage. Grape vines planted by my
, own hand are yielding abundant
, crops of as fine fruit as grew in an
cient Eschol. Apple and peach, plum
and pear trees are growing vigorous
ly and soon the husbandman will lool
for fruit on them also. Next sum
mer there will be abundance Of black
berries and raspberries in our gar
a den. Alas! forest fire destroyed
our huckleberries. Yellow daisies
FL golden rod, cardinal flowers an
wood lilies are hereabouts in pro
E fusion, and the tang Of fall is al
ready in the air.
We have neighbors too. We hav
human neighbors, but they are no
all. We can see flying squirrels, fit
ting from tree to tree after dusl
f The rascals have taken possessio
= of our attick! Some ground squi1
~ rels have a nest in a hollow tire
2 near by, preferring it's hospitabl
q trunk to a nest in the ground. Whil
/ poor-wills and katydids are the mus
eI icians of the night. Bird neighbol
l. fit from limb to limb, though bird
'el are not as numerous in the mour
l. tains as in the lowlands.
n A few Lumberton tenderfeet hay
f. been up this way. Ask Earl Tow
l. send what he did when the wilde;
+ squalled near the cabin door up {
D. Mt. Mitchell. Ask John Biggs abo'
y, the kind of "scenery" which espe
s tally attracked his attention on tt
way up, also what he did with tt
k mountain laurel he gathered Wi
I'd which to make balsam pillow. A.
TT Regain Mcintyre how many post
% cards he mailed on the way, as t
N, Ford sped along. I think Regain e
IL pected the car to turn turtle at eve
u steep mountain grade and sharp tn
~ in the road. The numerous posts
h n, were to express his last though
ny and wishes.
a;r Well, soon I'll be back on the ban
m of the Lumber river, where one dc
not have to pay fifty cents for
Use watermelon. The price of waterm
lch ons may have caused the gene
nst scarcity of colored servants up t
wn way. This is great country
ap- high thinking, but it's in the lc
Wo lands that people sit in the lap
Sos plenty.
the o11Ao' L. 0iNC0 "
mt. Ridgecrest, N. C.
ven August %, 1917.
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