March, 1950
THE DIALETTE
Page 3
montreat church welcomes
the rev. JOHN R. WILLIAMS
Jolene Parks
After being some time without a
pastor, all of Montreat happily
welcomes Rev. John R. Williams
as their religious leader. He
preached his first sermon at the
Montreat Presbyterian Church on
ebruary 26, and was installed as
pastor by the officers of this
Presbytery at a special service
held at five o’clock on March 6th.
Mr. Williams, a native of North
Carolina, is a graduate of North
arolina State College where he
Wajored in civil engineering, his
chief interest at that time. For
cee, years after graduation he
continued his career as a civil
engineer, during which time he
married Mrs. Williams and their
lu-st son in a family of three child
ren was born. Their son has now
'oecome a minister; their daughter
a missionary. She and her husband
fre serving in a school for miss-
lonaires and ministers from oc
cupied countries of Europe which
IS ocated in Switzerland. The
younger son is still in school,
b' ^ change of mind as to
I f Williams enter-
re Union Seminary in Rich-
on , taking his wife and young
Having finished his
les he entered his first pastor-
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ate in Burkeville, Virginia. His
second church was East Point
Presbyterian Church in Atlanta,
Georgia, where he spent the next
seven years.
After serving as pastor in At
lanta, he went into evangelistic
work, spending the following
seventeen years, with the excep
tion of a short time spent in
Spartanburg during the War,
traveling over the South with the
goal of winning souls to God. A
year ago Mr. Williams again as
sumed the responsibilities of be
ing pastor by taking a large
church in Port Worth, Texas.
When asked about his coming
to Montreat, Mr. Williams re
plied,
“I had a good church in Port
Worth, a large one; but to me.
Montreat was a challenge. The Col
lege and High School were a great
part of that challenge. I knew charming wife.
Hillbilly Hank’s Letter lo Bad
Montreat would be a great op
portunity and a wonderful place,
but it has surpassed my expecta
tions. We have been carried away
by the warm welcome we have re
ceived.”
“I am still deeply interested in
evangelistic work and here at Mon
treat I can continue that work
during the three months of sum
mer conferences here each year.
I, along with the majority of the
other ministers of our country,
have the growing feeling that
there are many signs of a reli
gious awakening in our land. I
feel that there will be a great
spiritual advance within the next
year or two.”
Mr. Williams has a dynamic
personality and is a person whom
anyone would be fortunate to have
as a friend. He is very genuine
and sincere and can easily keep
his audience’s undivided attention.
His sermons have been most im
pressive; and the Montreat girls
and faculty again and again ex
press their fondness for Mr. Wil
iams as their minister and for his
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Dear Bud,
Like I tol you I would, gwine
tell you about that show I seed
over in Montreat las’ Saddy nite.
Wal, it shore was good! I’ll be
switched if it warn’t the doggone
funniest thing I ever seen sence
Uncle Tobe blowed his britches
off with the new Sears-Roebuck
shooter. ’Course I’m a-talking
bout TUCKY sue by that thar
Atheletic Bord of Montreat col
lege.
It seems like this here play
were all about two rite nice fam-
ileys who had a little quarl on—
the Roys and Bartons. One o’ the
best dang fueds I’ve seen too, but
a city feller and his girl friend’s
paw (Agnes Godert) had ta come
and spile it all. Afore he was
done, the whole shebang were
pussy-footin’ around and being
just as neighborely as you please
—thet gal, ’Tucky Sue, was a shin
ing up ta Buzz Barton and Bud
Roy was sparkin’ to beat the -band
with Lily Hopkins played by a
likely lookin gal, Dorcas Connel
ly. 0 ’course Lew Whller, the city
feller, had a good looking filly
too. ’Pears like the only pore
critters that got lift out were Tess
Barton (Lily Mitchell) and Liddy
Ann Ganzy (Flossie Young) and
them gorgous mountain gals, and
I’m cogitatatin on gitting me a
date rite shortly with them, so’s
they won’t feel too bad.
But I shore do wanna tell you
bout the play-people who put this
shindig on. Thar was Charlotte
Burgess acting like she was Mrs.
Roxanna Roy, a widder woman
who reminded me a heap a my
maw. She done a fine job an hand
led a gun rite well for a woman.
Her sons. Bud and Lem, were na-
turel critters alright—jest plumb
lazy, but I can sympethise with
em. My maw was like ther maw
—kinda thick in understanding
haw 0 growin’ boy needs his sleep.
But would you believe it—all these
mountain boys were actually gals
dressed up to make believe as how
they were menfolk. Lem and Bud,
these two find boys I’ve been fell
in’ ya about, were gals by the
name a Jackie Holt and Jeanette
Nash.
Two a the rip-roaringest boys I
ever did see were Gabe and Buzz
Barton, Ev’lyn Hennessee an Alice
Wardlaw—yep! two girls an rite
mean shots with a gun, I reckon.
Thar were a good bit a barskin
around, so I guess they didn’t miss
much. And for singin’—Wall, I’m
a-tellin’ you rite her an now that
thar Buzz Barton did a shore fine
job a caterwalling. Why, Frank
Sinata wouldn’t a had a chanct
if’n this Barton boy were to sing
in Californie — yodels jim-dandy
too.
That city slicker were a site
for sore eyes. A shore enouf
actress played him too. Yep, it’s
the truth. T’were a gal in long
britches, Pat Williamson. An
another thing, she had a singin
voice I hadn’t heerd the like of.
Most of the time, she was plum
uppity, but I certainly liked that
dooet with her finance, Patsy
W'oody. Now, here’s a fact thet’s
hard to believe, this fiance had a
critter a-sitting on her back. Yep,
goes to show you what them city
folks can do—even train an ani-
mule to lie acrost your back with
out so much as moving a mussle!
But all this here rting has kinda
tuckered me out, so guess I’ll rest
for a spell. Like Lem said, “No
use gittin wore out afore your
time!”
Writ by hand
Hank
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