Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1925-10-30
CHURCH EDITOR
PRAISES TOWN
Rev. S. X. Cockrell Writes of Town
In Southern Methodist


lowing to say editorially, following
his visit to the Winchester District
Conference recently held in Wood
stock:
Woodstock and the Winchester Dis
trict Conference
October the sixth to the eighth
the Winchester District Conference
Conference met in Woodstock, Va,
that hospitable and thriving little
town in the center of one of the
worlds beauty spots, the Shenandoah
Valley. The weather was ideal. The
program was good. The people of
the town were lavish in their enter
tainmentl
Long had the editor looked for
ward TO this district conference, for
Woodstock is another of the several
wonderful places in which the editor
has had the privilege of living and
ministering and being ministered un-
to. And the emphasis is to be laid
upon being ministered unto" for
it was at Woodstock in the first year
of his ministry that the editor suf-
fered his one and only illness since
uniting with the conference. For
six months after an attack of the
fu," he was unable to preach or
attend to his pastoral duties. and
dr1V cfv he
stock people lovingly ministered I'M
to him. In the succeeding three
years he tried to pay back some of
the debt of love he owed, and yet
he feels that still he owes much.
1t was a great pleasure to stand
in the Woodstock pulpit again
(Which was by special invitation of
the presiding elder and declare
Gods truth; to meet many friends
at the chancel, and the door of the
church, as in former years. and to
be entertained in the home of Mr..
and Mrs. t. l. Marshall, next door
to the parsonage.
y
of the conference and the present
pastor of Woodstock, writes in this
issue of our paper concerning the
program, and shows how well Dr.
H. NJ. Canter, the presiding elder,
had arranged his program to cover
all the important matters to be con-
OF NV ictr ,o%
all the great issues now before the
church. But, of course, that is what
one would expect of DR.. Canter, who
had served most successfully on two
other districts before coming to the
Winchester District. And DR.. Can
ter approaches close to the ideal as
president of a conference.
Rev. w. D. Keene and Woodstock
fell in love with each other at first
sight, and the love has continued
through nearly three years, growing
stronger all the time. All the peo-
pie have good things to say about
Mr.. and Mrs. Keene and their chill
church has been edited, new mem
bers received and many improve
ments made upon the parsonage
property.
Woodstock church is noted for its
stalwart laymen-men who are CIV
ing of their brains and time and
means for the building up of the
church of the Lord Jesus in all the
world. Three of these Dr. Canter
used on his program-Hon. M. L.
Walton, who spoke on the Superan-
nuate Endowment; Judge M. L. Wal
ton, Jr., who as district lay leader,
presided on Wednesday evening, and
Judge E. D. Newman, who made the
address on Wednesday evening on
Lay Activities.
In the last year or so, many i'm
provements have been made in the
town-new dwellings,, new store
buildings, new paving, white way
additions to the school, while old
buildings have been remodeled and
painted. Now new water system
is being installed that will bring to
the town an abundant supply of the
purest mountain water to be found
anywhere in the world-a supply
that will care for the industrial
growth of the town and the many
new homes, that will be established
as the years go by.
One day, some years ago, the edi-
tor was asked il he knew a journal
list of Woodstock named Allen. He
did. That journalist is now with
The Shenandoah Herald, the paper
owned and edited for many, many
years by Capt. j. H. Grabill, and
now by Miss Mary Grabill and ]. J.
Sperry. In his spare time w. B.
Allen writes pamphlets and circu-
lars boosting Woodstock and the
community thereabout Here is what
he writes concerning the wonderful
views from the tower on Massanut-
ten Mountain overlooking Wood
stock:
1t is panorama which lies be-
tween the Allegheny mountains on
the west and the burly Blue Ridge
on the east and extends north and /
south to the limit of ones vision. /
1t is picture which the Divine 1
artist has framed in the eternal !