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THE BAPTIST MESSENGER.
. ‘:' • / ' f*ubiished ^Semi-Monthly by
-V. ■.( REV.* G. J. BLACK. ■
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Subscription ^rice, ,50q per Year.
/Entered at the postoffice at Win
gate,' a^*^ second-class mail matteri
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'The mooiishjne::business in Stanly
-)■ county is, getting bad shape. It does
hot enjoy the’ sympathy it once had.
? There .Jias bebn almost a dozen stills
upi this \^nter, arid we trust ev-
' , V 1 eiyone may ^e found and destroyed.
, ’ iNothing holds' Stanly county down-so
; - *-much as this pernicious brisin
/long to see the day when all
• t comers; of the county may- b^
sr- an^tbtf^
brought ovf^r'to Christ. As
- can not. say/that they hire
for"'They do;;ioV care for _
"'' . .i good.' Let every man,'Woman and
t’? , 'child ^ork and pray for the exterm-
,- : 'Jiriatiori oi this devilish business. When
' it is gone, we feel sure that Stanly
' ' will become a Christian county as
■, -r .; , solidly as any-in the State. ■
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hf hist
rom
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£>^'P>s^he >nd jldeath rare'on every
;/^V«?&dU^hy^;::;iTi:;giveTwo Jasons;
we ea*' too much. / ^ve
/^ '^more common sefise.Wboptjeeding our
“Tolaod 'Chiga pi^''thari‘ we'do our-
A Brief History of the Mt. Reifant
^ : - Sunday School, i ^
Previous to its organizatitfs,;^ -
Stallings located one milejntirt of
Mt. Pleasant. f 1
There was not a Baptist h oT
Mt. Pleasant at this time. |Mit
lings being of the Bapti^ fai^l
tended services ,:at Missicm
church, which was seven n{ile^|«T
him home. He was convfert^
he and his Wife wer^ uniteJ wi^l ^
church at .Mission and wer| b^ Ized
the. first Sunday in, September) 910.
During this time, Bro. f Stsdi ngs,
father of Bro. Franklin Stalling!, lo
cated near his son. They |eelinj im
pressed by the Holy Spiriti orgagized
a Sababth school the fifthjsuriday in
September, 1910. This o^%aniz£^on,
The first Baptist Sabbath ^h&of pi or
near Mt. Pleasant, .was organized in
small cottage owned by Mrs.'ji. A
/iseriheimer, near th;-' home oj_;Bro
'. C. ^Stallings. In the first meating
Jro. Franklin Stallings opened .the
jon and Bro. T. C. Stalling's IdL in
irayer. The next duty upon
'as to elect officers and teaeliej
Bro. T. C., Stallings was. chos«'|asi
first superintendent; Franklin •
lings, assistant, arid R. E. StowAWas
elected secretary and treasurer, phis
school, organized with twerity-seven
scholars, continued one year wi hout
any church organization.
During this, time Rev. Dani
Morris came and preached for.
. and->baptized thre;? candidates,
Ithri "Baptist faith'the fourth Su
'in April, 1911. The bjdinancei^as
administered near, the co®age
was then being used for Siftday
school, much water being^ fouif '
thalk.place. These ^
white persons bapti"
WINGATE STUDENTS REN-
- DER A GOOD PROGRAM
spoke exceedingly well. In fact, we
were surprised at the ease with
which they handled their subject.
After the debate a nice play was giv
en by the* boys and girls of the
school. We do not, remember just
how many, but several of^them were
in it. : They did well, reflecting much
Oredit upon
[nment
indid
Som*€f Perplexin'g Problems of th«'
Country Pastor.
(Continued from Second Page.)
. The country- pastor has the., game
problems to contend wittl in frying to
keep the Sunday schooT alive and go- .'
ing. The membership Is usually scat- ,
tered over, a community of several
miles arourid the church, from one- to ?
five miles distant, and with such con- ^
ditioris I have'not found, it possible te-
keep a live Sunday-school simply
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' On Friday evening, February 12, a
splendid program was rendered by
the students of Wingate'school. The
entire program was; fine, but the main
feature of it was a debate and a play.
The debate was' by two boys from
each society, nairiely, Brady Burley-
son and Ceo^^rry, from the Philo- -
sophian; jjBp.Garroll and , Brooks ^jjg irriegjilar attendance- -
Liles, froiSj^he Gladstone. • They and pupils. The iri'tro-,;
duction of the graded system of les^
sons in some of our schools is a fine _
thing, indeed, where you can have teg-,^ ^
ular attendance, but otherwise.it i» a -j.
failure, > because ‘you caimot keep', a
- ■ graded work
class iiftere
unless yotl
■rs and the-.y>.,—o
organize
meritioriiug 1 favo_
vbcal and I goodly nu
igiven by real intelb
-*wo others^ 1 .g^itbusias!
_--g was vw-w.) . . g stairt'
*i^s^.Qsee Long- '
ilass
by M:
rothy Lowrey was exceedingly
fine/?ifiie istfumental music was very
dood also. This was, the mid-term en
tertainment. ■ The next will be com
mencement proper. How^ . fast the
months go by. It does jiot seem
long, but hdw much can be accom-
plished in eight' weeks. The st^
dents have done exceedingly well this
year; now Jor the last pulL 'We are
planning great things .for the com-
fng year, . We long to see.ihis School
4-X'-nAriA in -mir Rfate. ' W-e are
hl^
regular ;atten-
»./true' rof'T the
sA.l.yojr^—■
lost auspicious
jtanceS With S
[uler members
I and girls^wit:
tide, and .everyr-'
endidly, but owing
il
slush; the: ne^i'
failure as to fet-;
f-.
S’
tendarice. ThfeTW^eS discpuro^ment\
to the few.present!aritt the next-mo^.
ing is called off entirely for^e
reason; These ar? some of the ^
***v.«w • j :
lems arid perplexities of the country-
pastor. Such conditions are not pres-
ent with the town"and city pastor. In
these pastorates fhe bulk ,of tho mem- .
bership live'within walkitfe , distance -
of the church; with paved strjiifts ana,
,mg year,. ..» —p v„ , ceriient walks, :4d ,^.ose_ -who do. riot,
second to'none inuur.Stat^ 'We are so'dose as ffi.mako it conyemcnti;
doing all we can’to aid our^achps walk, have a igoOd street car sets
In this noble .work. They, are doing you fcari,hav? 4 good reg-y:
Their best, but if every. parent wU ,^3r attendance tpori>U;the;Servioey.
ice AbpT-'their children prepare their ^ enabies/j#br.
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why'Mo :jou always ,Com:pIa^ .about
tobacco-chewing, . '•.cigarett^sirio'king,
■ ; coca-cola': and 'sujh things while you
' are, so 'grossly intemperate, in youi
' &ng? . Overeating - is one of the
;J principal cau^s of .disease. The sec-
-^'Ond reason I^wish to give is the poor
- -^fBlectiori 'df food./How careless" we
are about iWhat we eat!. If We would
' get downlto businoss, we could soon
-find out" that many things we are con
stantly e^iug are against the hu-
' irian system. Take hog meat, for
instance. Nothing!* is more ruinous
■; ^ to the human family. I very much
doubt whether alcohol does us any
• more haijm than meat. Many of the
' most terrible diseases of to-day come
as a direct result ,of eating meat.
■ j^:-.Ti//^£ellagr?*i^/^a'l'eis, catarrh, and
many m^e we might mention. Now,
/what is our duty in regard to this?
■ Why, I,feel that we ought to get
. down arid study this question as
cmjrfully : as we possibly can and then
'"try to jfive just as long as we can.
.- God ' demands that of uS, 'aud if we
; will s1»dy God’s laws . bf .health !^s
■'' . he.^gaye' them, to .the Jews,-I am
7 ’ sure ,we will eliminate many things
^Trom. cirir daily diet.'' Examine the
’ ' things'God said-were clean arid see
ihow much .bacon you will eat. We
, •* '-Blight j^ention- just one' more thing—
4 ' ^ the. codling of Oui: food.,: We forget
'tithat thb’greatest chemist in-all the
' '/world 18 the wom'an who prepares our
- ^fmd.,’'^How carefully she ' ought .to
' . Study'her ,busihess..3ihd .'hot only to
make hec meal palatable but condur
«ive to .the very best health.
fdhr'tl
,»)vp4 the
(and .Sunday school to a coltari
jPleasant, arid Rev.’ If. P. Moi{||
tinned to preach -for them,
worshipped in this small biM^Sing
until they could erect a place offwor-
ship. They moved into their) new
place of worship Saturday nig® be
fore the- first’ Sunday in Septe nber,
1§12. A' meeting of days wag then
commenced. The pastor was] aided
by Elders B. G. Whitley andtU, L.
Eudy.
The brethren have labored e?
rfest-
ly, going through many triaji and
oppositions, but the Word of the Lord
has mightily prevailed. ■ Thiri; -four
condidates have been haptizci '/di
rectly from the influence of th:; Sab
bath school. The brethren ai now
laboring under a heavy burden. They
need a new place of worship, is ^we
think another place of,worshop would
be much better than the prese it.' ,
Brethren, we want your payers.
We are struggling for a greah? hold.
The State Board has forsaken,: is and
left us» alone with a small n raher-
ship needing. all the help ;* issiye
from our State Board*. Yet e friel
encouraged to press ' forwar^ ttie
Holy Spirit is leading. We a^i.an In
terest., in your prayers and deb re fhe
entire' co-operation of every ci e that
advocates !Jhe great cause of / hrlst.
Fraternally,: 1* ‘
’ ... ' 'B. G. WHIILET.
There will be a mission c#
of the -Union Baptist Assomi ;ion iri
the Fipst Baptist church in JllonrOe,
Tuesday^ March .16. AIL the min^
ters,. superintendents . of : , 3undhy
schools and all. interested/lav nen lo
the , Association are' invite^, to at
tend the meeting.' -There wiiU be ad-
Mrcsses.by Mr. Uj'vingstqn/ Johnson
and. .Dr., C. T. Thompson. Th^ object
of this meeting is to stirap^te the,
missiondry spirit.-—|Harshvill« Horn?.
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1. S. SUPERINTENDENT "
/ AT MOUNT PLEASANT
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-4«SamtiriudUsly'-»»tsB4i)/;.^?/ .^
when the pastjorTanakea his reguJaf T'*
.^fTOtrSg Peo'
meetings:,
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The above js a cut of the first su
perintendent of our Baptist Sunday,
school at Mt. Pleasant, Rev. T. C.
Stallings. Bro., Stallings was • one
that, always sto^ by his pastor when
the iiurden was heaviest. He recently
moved away and located near Rock
well and it became necessary for him
to resign. We feel that we have lost
a great ' co-worker in the Sunday
school, yet we pray that Bro, Rufus
Henly, our new superintendentj will
be able to carry the mantle fo:^ard
as faithfully as the former one. Bro,
Stallings has now entered the min
istry and' we pray God’s' blessings
upon him and his faithful, companiqni;
■We heartily commend, "him to our
brethren, and ask you to ppay for and
.encourage him.
; His pastor, ,.
B.' G. WHITLEY.
pastbr^-makea ms regmur-,4
appointments, Jhe has " cold -iron to >i'
hammer on at each seiwice and thus f-v
has to toil on thiriugh the whole year '
until the prcti;acted meeting season
rolls around * .before there v.ehh'ho ;
enough faith inspired, enouglj^^thu- /,
siasm awakeri|ied and enoughTio-9per-.r“: i*' ■ '/■ y
ation securedlto bring about conver- .' :* f'-.r
sions. This ie„hne pf the hardest things y.
the county [pastor/.has '.to con^d y .
with./He-uotjpnly hasTo sow and cul- - , / ')
tivate a whe^e year before he can do ;• • ,,f j
any reaping," as a fule, but when the ^ /i--
protracted meeting. season^come^/^s^ ..^__^...7e'i
usually secures %e"‘Wrvtce“s 01/a
brother pastor, may be so it is i City
pastor whose very environments nat
urally keep him- in an evangelistic
rnood all the "time, to do the preach- .''
Ing for him. Arid he does it well and :
lovingly, but wheri the meeting is over
it is often timea thought., the pastor
has really, had no part in all the great ■.
ingathering of souls; but this is due ( , '
’to the influence of a certain element
that is found in, almost every, church, ,
both in town-and country. .Of this ,
distinguished personage I shall have
something to say in another-article, *►,"/ /
"because he. is ofce. of the/vexatiqu^/-j///
prohlemri of the country pastor. ■,//.■* ■* *■,/
In my next article 1 shall riiention
few morepffhe vexatious pTohlemeii?'^"' - ’> ^
the cdtfctty pastorate, and then I am’ /'/|.;/t-/''-
anxious to^ relate some of fhe many' //
blessings,; and joys that (come to
‘ )n hk blessed'work.-^/^/; -V'3;;>‘^
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countiw pastor
T. J. Doj^son.
" Sari: Antonio, .lEex."’’
, 'The [Sunday; Bchopl Boiird’ tf ^
Sputheip Baptist'cOp''^crition apripunc'’'*^
ed. recently A ^t of.'^lOflOO. to pur,^
Ttainipg^,§chop.l.4t Eoft 'Worth.,/ The ■
Baptist women of Texas will join in .
with f 8 : ij^ha4«giy>"g : tq; God for /
Ahis, great. “W- Board
through'"DiT^fwrt arid his associates. / •
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