Worcester Democrat and the ledger-enterprise. (Pocomoke City, Md.) 1921-1953, 1942-03-13

How greatly he was missed by the
congregation of Salem after he passed
away.
In the late lS60's, during the pas
toratc Of Rev Thomas +. Martindale,
cabinet reed organ was installed in
the church. About that time, the
late Lieut. James H. Vincent, hay
ing settled in Newtown, joined Salem
Church and organized a choir. He be
came its leader and filled that posi-
ton in the church for over fifty years.
Four generations of his family be-
ginning with himself have been con
nected with Salem choir from 1868
to the present time-a record per-
hapS unparalleled in any church in this
section period covering over sew
enty years. The first organist of the
church was my oldest sister, the late
Miss Mary NJ Hearne from 1868 to
/ her death in 1875. | was member
of the choir over thirty years. | be-
gan to attend Sunday School at very
early age and was appointed as the
teacher of a class of boys while still
in my teens l am one boy that did
not outgrow the Sunday School but
/ | have attended it all through my life
time. The Sunday School Superinten-
dents during the 1860's were the late
Thomas J Blaine and DR.. Samuel
S. Quinn During those years and for
many afterwards and many years be-
fore, the Class Meeting was one of
the deeply spiritual institutions of the
Methodist Church and it held many
a follower of Christ steadfast to his
religious duty but sad to relate the
1 innovations Of the 10th Century have
modernized the church to such an ex-
tent that this powerful Wesleyan in
stitution has almost been oblterated
frem the general church calendar.
In my boyhood, children, regardless
Of age, accompanied their parents to
! the preaching services of the church
and sat with them during the delN-
cry OF the sermon thus emphasizing
the spirit OF worship. l regret that
/ this custom is not strictly followed
at the present day. St Paul surely
had this custom in mind when he
wrote in Hebrews 1925. 'Not for
getting the assembling of ourselves
together as the manner of some is;
but exhorting one another and so
much the more as We see the day ap-
preaching" The pastors of Salem in
my boyhood that l remember so we'll
were Revs. VIM. Merrill, Thomas
Newman, N. NJ. Bennum, Edward G.
Irwin, John w. Pierson, Thomas E.
Martindale and George D. Watson.
During a great part of the 1860's
Newtown Circuit included eight chur-
ches or appointments as follows
Salem in Newtown, Sandy Hill (now
Stockton), Goodwill, (near Davis
Cross Roads,, Swanscute NOW Rem
son's), Cokesbury, Williams, Hol-
lands and Furnace. The first four
named above are located south east
of the Pocomoke River, and the sec
ond four northwest of the Pocomoke
River. To properly accomplish the
work, two pastors were required. The
Junior ministers l remember were
Revs. Chas. H. McDermond, VIM. T..
Tull, Thos. B. Killiam, George S. Con-
away and Albert Jump. The Presiding
Elders (now called Dist. Supts.) were
Henry Colclazer, Adam Wallace Sol
ONION, M. Cooper and Vaughan Smith.
There was retired minister, Rev.
William Quinn, of the Philadelphia
Conference, who resided here dur
ing my childhood. His home occupied
the site of the present home of Mr..
Raymond c. Dryden on Market St.,
extended He was the father of the
late DR.. Saml S. Quinn and the great
grandfather of Mr. Loire c. Quinn,
ST., of Crisfield, Md. The local prea-
cher of the circuit of Newtown dur
ing the 1905 were Revs. James Muir
ray, George w. Covington, James Mil
Ter and Joseph J. Devereaux. Rev.
John D. Long, ST., while native of
this locality did not reside here dur
ing the 1905. He was licensed to
preach by Salem Church Quarterly
Conference. He joined the Philadel-
phia Conference in 1889. When he re-
tired in the 1905, he returned to this
town and resided here until his death