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% 3 g 4 ° a et * : ‘ rom & 2 i This is the first of three articles based on an address given by the author at a recent Con- vention-wide teaching clinic held in Berkeley, California, under the auspices of the Sunday School Board. “What do you Baptists say are the distinguishing marks of a New Testa- ment church?” someone asks. How would you answer? And swift the an- swer comes from a hundred throats: “The church is democratic!” these independent, local, Now I say to you that are the distinctive New Testament characteristics of a New Testament church. “But,” objects, “that is Baptist doctrine! You teachér in a Baptist seminary, and you con- tradict Baptist doctrine?” I reply that Baptist doctrine must be New Testa- ment doctrine and that this is not the distinctive New Testament idea of a church. I say that if you had said “independent, local, democratic,” the men of the New Testament would have had no way of knowing you were talk- ing about their churches. Not that the churches did not possess these characteristics—independency, along with interdependency; locality, along with a sense of brotherhood which reached beyond_the local limits; democracy, under the shadow of an absolute Christocracy. They were in- dependent, local, democratic. But so were thousands of other assemblies in the ancient world, some called by the same name, ecclesiae, also free, local, democratic. These were the character- istics which the churches of the New Testament shared with other such societies. Our question is: What made them different? What were the marks of the New Testament kind of assembly as opposed to other kinds? Being a schoolteacher, I would like to invite you to put up a blackboard in your mind, at the front of a class- room. And on this blackboard I want 1 to write six words, three pairs of words, which I say are the marks of the church. And as you write them on not someone are @ Page 6 of a New Testament JAMES W. McCLENDON CHURCH your blackboard, will you also ask yourself (and it is the preacher in-me which says this): Are these the marks of your church—the ‘church where you serve? 1. A Gospel School Write first, at upper left on the black- board, the word gospel, and at upper right the word school. The church be- gan as a school and continues as a school. When Peter had passed his en- trance exam, he was admitted to the school of Christ, or the church. The first church members were called disciples, which sounds very religious to us, but .to them meant learners, students. They were students in the school of Christ. When others were converted at Pente- > cost, they became members of the school, and “continued [do you remem- ber it?] ... in the apostles’ teaching” [author’s italics] (Acts 2:42 ASV). A school means two things: It means that we. church members—pastors, deacons, all—shall contiriue to think of ourselves as learners. I wonder whether we do that? Has it occurred to us that we are still only learning Christianity? And is the fact that we suppose we have got it all learned one reason that we fail our churches,:and that our chtirches fail?’ The thurch is a school. Our Sunday schools are but an expres- sion of this central fact of the church’s life, not something apart from: it. And this means that Sunday school is as important a part of the church’s life as morning worship. But if a church is a school, there must also be teachers, and something to be taught. “They continued in the apostles’ doctrine” ~ [author's italics] (Acts 2:42). Primitive Christianity had something to teach, and this something was the Christian way, committed by Christ to the apostles. I make no apology for saying’ this plainly: if your church does not, teach what the apostles. taught; if you as a church member do‘not teach what the apostles taught, then you have no right Seyetoaidde pue SMOUY OYM JayoBaid S 10}sed eB pue—adeds [euoneonpa jo Ajuayd B S@ATT arayM ‘swOY sulpnypout surlpring eu Qoanyo v 0S poos to call yours a Christian church. Call it a church, perhaps, and free. local, democratic, quite likely, but not Chris- tian. A church is not to be a band of freethinke: The idea that every man ought to be that what that make much difference, is altogether out of touch with hisjpric Christianity, however much it might be in with times but } religious, religion is doesn't tune the A Sunday school class may use, must use, the teaching methods of modern education, but it cannot rightly use them to lead men to anything save the truth Christ Jesus. The apostolic teaching is f in the New Testament gh responsi- bility of every pastor and teacher of the church to learn that doctrine and teach it in the church, which is the school of Chi ist And yet I can imagine a man agree- ing with everything I have said, and building, not a church. but a hard little “in” group of “true who have nothing in common with Chris- tianity except. thei: Remember our blackboard. We wrote school on the right, but on the left we wrote gospel. Ours is t a gospel school. And the gospel means a startling. living force, which breaks into our world in a totally that world ee eee rund and it is the h believers,” name. ) be unexpected w ay, upside down turning The Pharisees were glad enough to have Jesus found a school. But they were quite unwilling for him to preach his gospel. (Cf. John 3 1-10.) The gospel is unpredictable in its effects. It declares that the bad may be turned good and shows that the good are not good. The gospel upsets all our calcu- lations. It. makes all achievements _ finalls A school we manage, can supervise, we can control. But who can control the gospel? It is likely to take the meanest sinner in town and turn him t It is a d: our human worth = exactly nothing can we nto our midst as our greatest Sai! thing! - ingerou [Continued on page 17] The Sunday School Builder e sry pue Aajunod uedo diyspaemays ui yymoud ‘SOSSPTO [or YOS poxtu Quin (Ino Pr OAPRPY OM ‘opdwiexe a0 7 soydtoutid y jf y a; A a NVHYNV1D°2W ‘1 ‘H tee Marks of g New Testament Church Y » Co tlin Nlinued from Page ¢ / ‘ , t Yet ‘the € School, but tS pupils Sospel. It this diy Ine Pel of the pn The gospet Sunday chureh is to }, 4 Bospel scho,) by . Dy the Proclamation 'S to shape 7 difficult. le Not Just a It Is ; : tO Cnro oft] Jesus Christ launt the Mind of th i yi { —_ as he teaches Iction and repentan, aNnee to "Caren tho Neart Dlerej ee “i } Ng Whom they y T ea WN Th, Pee Bt ee Le toward and those Nose Within thie attitude of th and Carners. thurch ODL Vithout. around eat Shepherd , O Save that wl A- Schod] ‘arner, IS’ to vh .. ‘40 Caine lich ves! Za teache, \ here all ve é 4 gospel schoo], IS built. re all exists only Purpose of | Ss { {i » j I i ang iO¢ ! SINs, and FOS( agair and ? ’ come_by faith to live with ¥ world of hope. We c the schoo]— tn. But we Pel there. Stace: we led in us. el schoo]! among Ol Calls ys him in a do with- we must Without the aright only as Christ j. ake My church ‘annot “we must Srow, Cannot do We shal] Lrow can learn only God, m a Page 17 \Pepune gueets if a73 £8 & pe Z $ terest ple. This nature, lat Syracuse University, Yale University, Northwestern Uni- versity, and the University of Paris. He and his family have lived in suburban areas since 1938 and have shared in estab- lishing many new churches. The author defines surburbia an escape from industrial- ism, a refuge from minority f groups, a guarantee of homo- geneity, the abode of modern man, an area of cultural ten- sion, and a mecca of comforts and conveniences. It is the place where the best in Christianity encounters the best in modern ot Cee . eee oa 2 ° gee): one g° * . A a yor spree en is ynere pet Ir You Know Tuese THincs 141 The idea that the mass of the country peopie can be reached through a church that is located-in the city is but a dream. If the church is to reach the people in the rural dis- tricts, it must have resident ministers who have a sympa- thetic understanding With the people whom they serve. Second—The country church should be maintained be- cause it is here the children will attend services in large numbers, sitting in the pews with their parents. We also find men attend country churches in a larger proportion even than women and more unconverted people are found in the average country congregation than in the city. In the city, children go home after Sunday School and the men and unconverted have many counter attractions. Third—The country church should be maintained: be- cause it is here that leaders are produced. There is a city church in our Assembly of over nine hundred members where the pastor and all of his elders and thirteen out of seventeen of his deacons come from country churches; The president. of the Auxiliary and all the circle leaders of an- other large city church,are country women. We must main- tain the country church, not only for its own sake, but for the sake of leadership in the urban centers. Fourth—This is the day ef opportunity for the Southern Presbyterian Church in the country districts. Great ad- vance has, been made in the efficiency of rural schools and the technit of Extension Work: Home Demonstration and County Agents make it imperative that the country people be served by an educated ministry residing among the peo- ple and consecrated definitely to the task. The educational program of the rural South is rapidly becoming the twentieth century electrification type, while the program of lr You Know Tuese THINGs 139 than one hundred churches and manses have been assisted by its funds and many thousands of dollars raised by its agencies for other church purposes. Churches have been organized and Sunday Schools and societies for young people have been established. Our beloved evangelist, Rev. William Black, D.D., who has been evangelist of the com- mittee for thirty-four years has held over 800 meetings and has witnessed the conversion of many thousands under the gracious blessing of God upon his earnest preaching of the Word, We cannot over emphasize the importance of Home Mis- sions as a foundatibn of all the causes of the Church. The work is basic and he who engages in i promotion of the Kingdom of Him engaged and to whom we belong. State from which the precious wealth has been extracted in the past has by no means been ex. hausted. Within the borders of the Old North State are Home Mission tasks challenging the heroic. The call is to men and women who have a mind to work. The results of the past are but an earnest of the harvest gracious and great awaiting our faithful and Christlike endeavors, E. E. GILLESPIE, WP) 7 COUNTRY CHURCHES OF NORTH CAROLINA In the great Synod of North Carolina 459,261 people live in the cities. In this constituency there are 32,284 mem- bers of the Southern Presbyterian Church. In the rural dis- tricts, which include towns and villages of less than 2,500, there is a population of 1,860,000, which is eighty per cent of the total. In this great constituency of potential peoples lr You Know THeEse THINGS 143 Fifth—We should maintain the country church, not only because we owe to these country churches a.debt of grat- itude, but because money invested here will yield the best dividends. It costs less to maintain a church in the country than in the city. The overhead expenses are not so great. It has been provest by many expériments that every dollar spent by the home mission committees in sustaining a capable, well-trained, resident ministry in the country, will be more than paid back in dollars and cents, except in slum districts, for the other benevolent causes. People who move from the country to the town or city without Christ, rarely unite with the church. Young men and women who leave our rural schools and go to colleges and universities without becoming Christians rarely accept Christ. God has placed a responsibility on our beloved Church in thisyday when- there is needed an educated and cultured and amply’ trained ministry to take care of the people in His open; and it is a responsibility from-which we can not escape. HOW MAINTAIN THE COUNTRY CHURCH The country churches are at present very much dis- couraged. The vacancy problem of our denomination is rural. It has been very difficult to secure a competent min- istry. It is natural that churches which have long vacancies and short pastorates should not develop in stewardship or in leadership. Sometimes they have ministers who have accepted the country church only because they could not find another and take it as a stepping stone. What Can Be Done—First—We must give to the home mission and country church workers not only a comfort- 144 Ir You Know Tuese THINGS able support, but a/more equitable recognition. ‘They should be provided with vacations and given opportunity for courses of study at the theological seminaries~and the sum mer conferences. Second—We must sectire volunteers among our young men and women for these rural and small town fields. That is what the Country Church Director is endeavaring to do He has found a loyal response on the part of the students We find that a number of our strong men are volunteering for home mission and country church work and will po out into this service at a great sacrifice of salary The plan adopted by the. Assembly reaches effectually the source of the supply of our religious leadership. . The snecess of home missions ard the redemption of the country clfurch depends upon having men consecrated and trained for these fields. Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, D.D., a country pastor, be- ny made Country Charch Direetor, began his work Decem ber 1, 1925, has taught inthe Theological Seminaries, Train ing School and Summer Conferences of our Church. Ife has written a book entitled “The New Call” which is Suitable for a study book om home missions“and church effictency It is not the business-of the Director to solve the prob- lems of the country church, but te teach others to do that. His work is not administrative. but co-operative with the administrative agencies. It is the belief of many that after this work has been conducted. for’a few years, home mis sion and country church workers, who volunteer and train for this service, will receive the-same degree of honor and recognition which in the past has been given to those who have volunteered for Foreign Missions. 140 Ir You\Know Turse Tarncs there are 41,094 members of the Southern Presbyterian © Church. There are seventy members per thousand of the population in the cities and only twenty-two and a half per thousand in the rural districts. Presbyterians in the Synod of North Carolina are more than three times as numerous in the cities as in the country per thousand people. The Synod of North Carolina has 445 rural churches, which is more than any other Synod of the Assembly. Vir- vinia comes second with=342 rural churches, the . city churches almost exactly the same in both Synods, eighty- seven in North Carolina and eighty-eight.in Virginia. Vir- ginia, however, has more Presbyterians per thousand ofthe rural population than North Carolina. Virginia has twenty- six Presbyterians per thousand in the rural constitutency and only forty-one in the urban. It is very evident that the Synod of* North Carolina has been exceedingly efficient in its city work, but somewhat neglectful of giving the gospel to its rural population. THE COUNTRY CHURCH IS WORTH SAVING First—[ecayse there are a large number of people who will not feel ay home in the large town or city congregation. There are a few people from some rural communities who may, but there is no real service which they can render out- side of their gifts of money. The hours of service are usual- ly not convenient to them and they can not be enlisted to any great extent in the real program of the congregation. These are the very people who, by their eduction, culture, and Wealth, are suited for leadership among their neighbors in the life of the country church. 142 / lr You Know Tuese Tuincs a many of our country churches has been that of the mine teenth century oil lamp Dr. J. W. Jent, Prot. of Rural Church Work in Merger University, says, “Country people, not one whit less than city people, need churches, need the right kind of churches ; and, under proper leadership, will have them. 1 am com mitted to the dream of a new-day in rural America; a day in which the church will stand by the side of the modern Mt school, organized, equipped, efficient, satisfactory.” The Challenge—Jhe most compelling home mission ap peal that has ever come to a denomination ts present dat this time to our Southern Presbyterian Church, with its educated and cultured ministry. The call is to lift the light oi truth; to guide the feet'of the young men and young women into the paths of righteousness. Iducation ts a good thing but apart from religion constitutes a great’ danger We cannot stop the tide of skepticism by yprohibitive legis lation; we cannot win the youth of the néw rural South by’ tirades of abuse of the schools and follies of the new free dain There is no solution for the problems of the country church, or of any other church, apart from the Gospel preached by a spirit-filled and sacrificial ministry, educated and amply trained for the task. The country church must be maintained and in order.to do it, we must send our gifted and consecrated ministers who are volunteers for the task of guiding the rural youth who will be leaders of thought and action in the world of tomorrow in the country as well as inthe city. The best and easiest time to reach youth ts in the country. schools wher® life is pi only\ potential, but plastic. “Worship But No Work” By Dr. R. Lofton Hudson (Author of the new paper-back, The Re- ligion Of A Sound Mind, published by Broadman Press) QUESTION: My husband and I be- came members a a church about three years ago. He not take part in any- thing except the worship \services and docs not want me to. My father is a minister and I know the need for Chris- tian workers. I do not feel that I am doing my part if I attend the worship services only. But he says he will not go to church at all if I take part in anything except the worship services. What should I do? ANSWER: It sounds to me as if you and your husband have more than the ‘ problem of church attendance. There seems to be a contest of wills over how many services to attend. Natur- ally there would be some differences about church attendance, like differences about food likes and dislikes, and recrea- tional interests. But what is this stuff about “he will not go to church at all if I take part in any thing except the worship services.” You are headed for a holy deadlock instead of a holy wedlock. Marriages require compromises, finding a meeting ground for working together on projects. Too, maybe this is a matter of Chris- tian growth. Churches in a ‘modern age cannot survive on a sitting-and-listening program. It takes teaching and training and organization for work. Your husband should know that. Neither of you should dominate the other. Talk the whole thing out and see if you cannot find a mature approach to this problem. Christ needs both of you. You were saved to serve, not just to sit. Two hours a week is not enough. (Address all questions to Dr. H 116 West 47th St., Kansas City Counselor's Corner 1 lhe bales Family ae ee From Parson to Person _ DEAR FRIEND: Our church membership Nonresident membership Balance left to do the work Elderly folks who have done their share in the past Balance left to do the work Sick and shut-in folks Balance left to do the work Members who did not pledge.......... 350 Balance left to do the work ; Christmas and Easter members “ Balance left to do the work Members who are too tired and overworked Balance left to do the work Alibi-ers Balanceeft to do the work Members! who are too busy somewhere else Balance left to do the work Just YOU and me—and brother YOU’D better get busy, for it’s too much for me. <A hristian Index Fountains of Truth There has never been trouble so great but that God is greater. Earthly poverty to some people will mean heavenly riches later on. It’s not a matter of opinion that counts with God; it’s a matter of fact. The richest people in all the world are those who have health and salvation. . Those who live to do good, by the sanctifying. grace of God, have more to live for than millionaires who only live for money. Luxury and ease never make physical giants and stalwart saints. If some people would think more and talk less, they would have less troubles and regrets. | When you give to your bottom dollar, and then let it go, this may be where you strike the joy of gladness, and can say, “Hallelujah!” —Rev. WALTER E. ‘Isannoun, Taylorsville per cent among Southern Bap- | power of some | tists to only 68 per cent among | | Congregationalists, 76 per cent | show- | 86 per | cent were ready to affirm that American Baptists, cent; Catholics, 94 per Missouri Lutherans, per cent; Pentecostal sects, ; Presbyterians, 91 per } per cent. E i Ez Other denominational beliefs about Jesus. Taking | ings: Disciples of Christ, 88 | cent among Episcopalians. cent; American Lutherans, among Methodists, and 8 per | were much more marked in per cent; cent; “T don’t believe in aj ity of Christ ranged from 99 iI don’t believe there | per cent Catholies while th S Patrtl geri biniee Ai ll 3e=! dh iM, 3? a Aig eat chess arf itl eh f ule “ait i i i it is seas 88 4 ae: an] pecg hy 3 ‘ it ably syeta eer ee ea Pras The rest h Three per cent of the Catho-| Jesus is the divine Son of God. | Catholics believed that promise of eternal ably true. Thirteen Finally estants subscribed to a deist| were great. Belief in the divin- “While I have doubts, I feel | Protestants as a whole, lies and 7 per cent of the Prot-| But denominational differences that I do believe in God.” & S - GG 22's 3 z3°e eh see * s e se g eek Tuy PUT ele ea i sv 53 hig? tae | i ay gettaleas 3 : “* : pile Ls seeks? x 3 epitig |b 3 i , 38298 3 the Protestants chose to say: position: I | but there are | sgag8 9882: Hee all denomi hurch con with Christian also there deists and people) Hel ryt By LOUIS CASSELS United Press International There may not be any athe- ists in foxholes, some in churches. Among the 110 million Ameri- cans affiliated churches, ® = ude 2 = aufee U = ~~ =i S sk So :* = Ry mM 25 $i alles WV) > @ 2 a a who think that Jesus Christ jg Sage AR aon versity Seay eikitienss sent CHD church members agnostics, ~eaatheeasenttmetensinness atti ina ; S883 E324" 3 See Is onored At Party Miss Davis | H a a pitti a ulate if li: i hy ii IK 1 Se ee Ls fi oe if En ie tye Aw : HT {N33 aeinviedt nit! Util igious ge Tr tetetseeee aesneemeen =—_=— <« a pik peas i> — tes fi i aL Ha e ifts sir bie papa 4 if pighedyne 3a: Hate ! n's ay For Rel SAM J. ERVIN, Jr, ® pe eaiiy — ee le Saga Ue; | Ma On- as are | | LH ate an asiaeeste isan iit 4 J in the Heart of the Dairying and Industrial Region of Piedmont North Ca SVILLE RECORD & LAND route 4, Statesville, and Calvin when gasoline on this storage tank Ne. 2. Myers was listed as in in good condition at Davis Hospital. er Burns : Air Force said. STATESVILLE, N. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1961 PEACE TALK Two Survive Hunt Continues For 3 Missing At Denton Site DENTON (UPI) —An Air wreckage was too hot for rescue workers to search it. The two survivors parachuted as the plane plunged to earth from high altitude while on an aerial refueling mission. An Air Force K135 tanker plane was ? , the navigator, Plaines, fil.; 1st Lt. Glen C. Farn- ham, 26, of Loveland, Colo., the electronics warfare officer. Both are matried and dach has two children. The plane, an intercontinental jet on an aerial refueling mission, carried no nuclear weapons, the Ma ES BOMBER CRASH SITE—The largest piece of what was once a ¢ this section shown in the foreground at the crash site near Denton crashed in flames at 9:20 p.m. Thursday. The 150-foot long crater stil the crew survive, three are known dead and three are still missing. Single Copy § Sift Wider support of the activities of the Statesville Chamber of Com- merce is the goal of a group of volunteers who met yesterday at the Vance Hotel. Organized into four teams, they were handed a list’ of 200 prospec- -\ tive Chamber of Commerce sup- porters, individuals, business and | professional men not now mem- bers, but who depend upon the community for their livelihood. “This is only scratching the sur- face,” “R. D. Warwick, general manger of the Chamber of Com~ merce, told the workers. “The list can be doubled without effort.” Kermit Carr, chairman of the Chamber of Commerce member- meeting. He pointed out that each captain and member of the four teams, whom he termed “City Builders,” had . volunteered for the i . Carr called attention to the, fact that little difficulty is encounter- ed nermally in getting the renewal of most chamber memberships. It is in the addition of new members that special effort is involved. “A g many of these people ee ny To Get d about LOE Wider Support Sought For Chamber Activitie ship comfnittee, presided over the job he said, where more atte needs to be given to suc pects of community life as town renewal, the expansion ¢ retail trading area and the de ment of Statesville as a profel al and commercial center. To do this, he said, the C er of Commerce needs ab base; it needs the support o individual merchants, busi professional men, contracto lords and others directly ed with the problem. J. P: Huskins, preside Chamber of Commerce mented Carr and Wa team captains and their enthusiastic apprg So “Statesville,” he really been getting its Chamber of Cg past several support is far } Salisbury or substantial written b that a m ville $35 a to be! ber.” Pe enn: ie aA de iH stil Hl) i eden eat ited ie Usa : wae Exird Le es fap, ais i ec a] : ar-Filiya © : eT THe be TS 3 arty’ Fi jf .ta : Te eee al | Bein : ih ‘ALU Hye eh , cha lt ite until lf § sll (octane: il ‘5% 24 sz a8 ros, PR oy -— fe i i i ec ee - ‘aS a gursag)s sl akaday te Ba EEP SF > = Sak eben Ssteae f init 788. Third Creek, Seek, 1805. Salisbury .1821.) Prospect, 1924, Franklin, 1829, , 1898. Cleveland, 1 Salisbury Second, 1903. Immanuel, 1941. soarerte Sees oo Popiar mt. 1 . th eae Past 1804. Cilwood, } Patterson, 1896, Concord, Second, 1898. McKinnon, 1900. Harrisburg, . Bayless Memorial, 1904. First, 1909. Flow Har- lis Second, 1940. Ais States- 795 rn Bet ’ 84 ne! 6. Be da,.. 1640 * Mooresville, First, 1875. Clio, 1879. Elmwood, 1888. Shearer, 1894. Front Street, 1896. , 1907. Little Joe’ 1908. Mooresville, Second, 1908. Burke—Quaker Meadows, 1780. on, 1827. Glenn Alpine inege- Waldensian; - 1896. “ pater, 1901. Hebgon, 1928. Me- Dowell, 1929. MeDowell--Siloam, 1827. Mar- jon, 1845. Old Fort, 1988. Con-} Ny Memorial, 1886. Clinchfield, , Druscilla 1927, Oak Daie,} Chapel, 1933. Arrow-| West Marion, 1934. , Mecklenburg—Davidson College, 4 1837. - L. Caldwell—Lenoir, 16:2. Osk- i} wood, 1909. Beattie Memorial, 1924. Fairview, 1930. Alexander—-Taylorsville, 1853. New Salem, 1882. Stony Point, } 1912. + Catawba—Newton, 1858. Hick- . 7, 1873. Sherrill’s Ford, 890. ros itt. 5 F 5 RGEs Frere 4 a S ds for prida season it pres- ia To- on, did of a ul 2 iterf: 3e eee oe ge ase é Lad Feel é rhpest eli MONDAY, JULY 28, 1962 As Educational Means Christian Discipline Termed Urgent By LOUIS CASSELS United Press international To comprehend the problems which now face America’s churches, we must stop romanti- cizing history. So says a leading church his torian, Prof. Franklin Hamlin Lit- tell of Southern Methodist Univer. sity. Prof. Littell debunks the popu- lar notion that America n as a highly religious nation, but has slipped into a “post-Christian Just the opposite is true, he maintains in a new book entitled “From State Church to Plural- ism” (Doubleday Anchor Orig- inal). “The time of the Founding Fa- thers was not an age of Christian virtue,” he says, spiking one of the favorite themes of Fourth of July orators. “Actually, America was.a heathen nation at the be- ginning of the Repubtic:* { Found State Churches Most of the colonies, following the European model, had estab-| lished state churches. And these State churches suffered in Amer- ica, as in Europe, from wide- spread public apathy. At the time of the Revolution, no more than 5 per cent of the American people were church members. The proportion of the U.S. pop- ulation affiliated with churches has climbed steadily since 1776, and now stands near 70 per cent. This vast expansion of member- ship, resulting from mass evan-' gelism in successive waves of re- ligious revival, “is the most im- portant single fact in American church history,” says Prof. Lit- tell. It means that America’s churches have absorbed, within a| relatively short period of time, “Most American church mem- Loft dst sionary effort in the world?” One, says Prof. Littell, is wide- spread religious illiteracy among church members. “Only once be-' fore in church history, when masses of Germanic tribesmen embraced the official religion of the Roman Empire, have such serious problems of education confronted the church.” A related problem is the weak- ening, to the point of virtual dis- appearance in some large Prot- estant _ bodies, of church disci- pline. Churches which once had distinctive tenets now find/their most basic teachings flouted by members who apparently ‘feel un- der no obligation either to live by the rules or get out. Prof. Littell. believes that “the scandal of indiscipline’ in major Protestant bodies reflects a wide- spread misunderstanding of what religious freedom means. To him, it means that a person is free to choose w or not he will join and support’ 4 “particular. It does not mean that one who has voluntarily identified himself eee with a religious community {¢ free thereafter to spurn its moral disciplines and make .a mockery of its teachings. | Perhaps the most basic of all problems confronting churches, in Prof. Littell’s view, is ‘the fact that millions of their members have taken on the name, but not the yoke, of Christ. “Inadequaiely trained for mem- bership, without the proper in- struments of voluntary discipline, many members never have had the discontinuity between life in Christ and life in the world brought home to them,” he says. As the Germanic tribesmen of Ahe %h Century brought poly- gamy, blood vendettas, torture of prisoners and other barbaric cus toms with them into the church, so the “new Christians” of 20th century America come into the church clinging to the sexual mores, business ethics and racial prejudices of an “unbaptized so iety, : : . J Pret, Littell is not disposed te blame the “new Christians’. for this state of affairs. Best Wishes To A&P Store On The Grand Opening of The Beautiful New Store = In Brookdale Square Shopping Center We Are Proud To Have Been Selected To Install All The Glass And Framing For The New A&P Building! Statesville - Glass & Mirror Co. a Training Union, however, is not com- ¢Continued:on Page 3) Htner, in most cases, teaching CENTER OF CAMPUS—On entering the Mills Home campus ‘on a Sunday morning, the visitor sees this scene. Tné beautiful church building twas built in1954 with funds given by Robert M. dol and bi oe Lelio VM m memory of their mother. ‘ ’ Vise bad ones. “He... leadeth them out... he Goeth before them, and the sheep follow him” (John 1058, 4). The Orient. shepherd does not drive his sheep, but leads them where- ever he wants to take them. At night _ he leads them into the fold for safety. In the morning he leads them out to Pasture. So Christ hever drives His le; He goes before them and’ leads them, they follow Him. Sheep need to be led. They have mo such instinct for finding their own way as most other animals have, Christ's People are just like them. Sheep wander away, and a lost sheep never finds-his way back. “All we like sheep have gone astray ;” never could find the way home again if the Good Shepherd did not seek us and lead us back. Christ leads His le gently. He goes, ore. his sheep. He is very thoughtful for the Weak ones. “He gathers the lambs in His arms, and carries them in His bosom.” He never leads His sheep too fast. We takes thenrsometimnes over rough and dangerous ways, but He never loses any of them: ~ Not a sheep of Christ’s was ever yet lost by the way under His guidance, even in the most Perilous paths, An old guide said to a tourist in the Alps, who’ was afraid to trust him. self to the guide’s hand to be helped over some perilous ledge, “This hand never lost a man.” Christ never lost @man. He has led millions home over this world’s paths, but not one of them ‘is lost. I OFTEN WONDER If church members who are more loyal to garden clubs, lodges, civic clubs and secular clubs than they are to the church really mean it when they sing “Iq rather have Jesus.” . If those who seldom attend worship service, orily “occasionally: contribute, and never speak to anyo € concern- ing their relationship to Christ have the right to say “my church.” Ifthe lives of members who chron- ically complain, find fault, criticize and oppose forward steps ever make a lost person desire to have the kind of Christianity they manifest, If Christians. honestly think that coming to church, sitting in an air- conditioned building, and giving a little money is al] that Christ has the right to expect of therm. If church members who accept the responsibility of an office but refuse to take any training for it ever feel that they are failing not the church but the Lord Jesus Christ, — ++. YES, I OFTEN WONDER! —Selected, Foreign Students (Continued from Page 1) compared with their home countries, One of the Turkish girls said there was less juvenile delinquency in her country because parents have greater control over their children than in this country, Jorge told that in Cuba when a boy dates a girl, he always has a chaperone along too an¢-vften her entire family. . ; to receive new members? If members are to be voted in at all, it should be done on s6tme realistic badis. (Of course the church is not voting on the person’s salvation, but on his church membership.) One might at least expect that a new member of any group should know something of what that group stands for. Some pastors recognizing this need are conducting classes for new members. This can do a lot to help if these classes become universal and if they are well taught. On this point it should be said that the pastor is the one to give this in- struction. Occasionally a layman may be found qualified, but the advanced study of the pastor is needed to teach this class. No one should be offended if the church wants to teach him what it be- lieves in before it accepts him as a member. So there should be no hesi- tation in making a general rule that every candidate for baptism partici- pates in a series of classes on basic doctrines. It is proverbial that great hosts of our church members are pathetically ignorant of the fundamental Baptist convictions. That this is so is largely the fault of the churches that should have taught these members before adding their names to the church rolls. How shall they know without a teacher? This instruction should not be thought of as substituting for an in- ward experience of repentance and faith. The transformation of the heart is basic; but the instruction which follows this experience, and is a condition of full church member- ship, is also essential to let the person understand the meaning of that ex- Tpethien tai tageaoots ate daily life. Second, in this course of instruction, as well as at other times, the pastor should make dléar thé obligations a member has to his church. Attend. ance at the worship services each week is a duty, not an optional program for those who have nothing else to do. Financial support is a Christian obli- gation commanded by God, not some- thing the church is too embarrassed to ask from ite members. Ethical con- duct in life is a required part of | the gospel of repentance and faith. It is pointless and unfair to whisk new people into the church without telling them of their obligations. | “Which of you intending to build a} tower, sitteth not down first andj counteth the cost?” How can a pastor be justified in holding up the church covenant before his members as their obligation if most of them never knew that the church so much as had a/ covenant when they joined? Southern Baptists have failed to} make their converts aware of these responsibilities. Consequently we are continually coaxing members, tryi to tell them what is their duty what members should do aoe persuading. A church 7 to expect its members toa fo anythi when they j + Baptists are f the evils that came into ehureh lite during the Mids die Ages. At that time heathen ee ee ee sees of ae P- tized. This clear lesson from histo: should warn us againgt an uninformed church membership. This is even more important in s dénomination that has democratic church govern- ment and gives every member an equal vote in church affairs. (Continued Next Week) ~ VOLU ALL Micse i j Churches Wil] Have Power Only | When Standards Are Set High) ent s pata easiasitg Aas | enema Continued From Last Week) Third, something should be required of those who wauld maintain church membership lack of stand ards in Southern Banpti«; life in the fact th on the ro! regardless of witether they any the church at all, sometimes regard- less of whether they Part of this, of due Vanity, the desire to report as many members as possi! But what is the value of reporti: = if “The many people Can count many we can count on.” In earlier days church disciples at seen carried Interest in are even alive! course, is to nembers” not but how important statistic is how Wwe this point fell into a because it often expressed the s@ ness of a puritanical element. It was sometimés hard to tell who was the more appropriate subject for: church discipline—the m. mber who got drunk on Saturday nicht or who spread the munity on Sunday. the roSSiper However, the New Testament re- quires that wicked members he cast out (I Cor. 5:13), Cases of flacrant immorality there is Otherwise it try to decide whose life is morally where no evidence of repentance. good enough for him to be kept in| the church. But “the ab d scipline can- not eliminate the neces ity Of discip- line.” Without discipline church mem- Ses of bership loses al] meaning. The dif-! church and the | Baptists are 5 ip- | ference between the world is erased. posed to stand for the gathered com- munity view of the some ways we hav: church, but ‘in of the community is a member of the ‘hain, ' nothing -Tighteous- | story all over the com- | | popularity by This should be in| ill behooves a church to! lipped back to the state church idea that every citizen | We on : | must realize that the! the important is the member in the Pow Is to be counted number thing, but it roll is not th, our thinking on the subject of should include the mat- ter of transfer of membership, The! 4 church letter today ] tandards has become an al- When a church gets one of these church let-! ters, the only thing it knows about its new member is that he once joined another Baptist church. It r of the } most meaningless formality. knows | person's level of dedica- | ch " the seriousness ily Christian | ive the new member is made on the basis of ignor- | ance, if not indifferenc: A frantic effort to be popular with everybody, to cross no one, ‘ern to hi So its vote to rece will cause church leaders to give up any attempt to 4 standards. But in end demanding not} ing for group spect. Ih maintain the earns. con- than re- a church is comparable | tempt the rather this to a school. If the teachers try for! requiring no study and| by passin£ every regardless of performance, the « hool becomes contemptibl: It is worth nothing Standards are essential : It is hard for Baptists to maintain standards of church membership be- |. cause we do not have the psychological | backing of a set of denominational! rules. The responsibil ty go back to the individual pastor to lead his church, but we can make it easier the individual church by agreeing on a census about certain standards. Our churches will be powerful when they decide to maintain standards, If} men see that the church expects some-" thing ‘of them, they will recognize it as important. There will be fewer names on the rolls but greater impact for God, tudent must on “D ¢ «cence a f- Gop- Prem The Air Waves Last «cc. some informatiqn as churches of certain denomina- tions in Iredell county, as pub- lished in Brady’s Almanac for 1908, ‘The present program i3 & continuation of this as to de- nominations not heretofore given: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Amity—locateq in northwest part of Iredell. Organized in 1848. 80 members. W. Y. Love, pastor -W. H. Hunter, superin- "| tendent of Sunday school. W. M. Fleming, J. C, Morriso#, T. J. Hunter, W, H- Hunter, William Gibson, elders. W. A: Wright, W. P. Morrison, J. W- Moore and J. A. Sides, deacons. Coddle Creek — Located in ex- treme southeastern . portion of Iredel] county, Organized in 1791. 95 members. R- C. David- Reminiscent gave to ' the / pastor, W. PP. Rogers, su-| solamente Sunday School, J. ™ Neal, Thomas Keesler, W. M. Melion, J. B, Wallace, W. P. Rogers, James Smith, Dr, EK. A. Bell, elders, W- F. Smith, Sam- Ross C. 0, Gillon, W. R. Flemming, deacons, Mooresville—Located in Moores -| ville, Organized in 1896. 77 mem- *\ bers, R. C. Davidson, pastor, W. | C, Patterson, Superintendent | Sunday school. W, C. Patterson, | T. B. Smith, elders. Dr- James Young, S. J. Pressly, R. M. Knox, E. H- Miller, deacons: New Perth—Located near Trout man, Organized in 1790. 108 members. Pastor, E, F,. Griffith. - W. Jobnson, superintendent Sunday school. Alexander Clark, . W. Johnson, J. M. Haithcox, W. A. Souther, elders. G. W. L. Cavin, GC» H, Brown, J. F. Nesbit, | t me New Sterling — x , Shiloh township. Sonatas about 1790, 210 members, £. F.. Grit- ‘Tith, pastor W. F. Pressly, - ‘perintendent Sunday school, |P. Pressly, J. S. Moore, E, = Morrison, Jj- -A. Pope, J. F Moore, J. F. Stewart, elders, A. : M. White, R. L. Bradford, H- G.. Morrison, J, M. Miller, deacons, Statesville Located én East Broad street. ‘Oeenained in 1868. 900 members. J. H. Pressly, pas- tor .Eugene Morrison, superin- tendent Sunday school, J. K-: Morrison, J. W. White, W. P. Mc- Lain ,A. D- Kestler, W. W. White, T. D. Miller, T. M. C. Davidson | rector, Mrs. E elders, Wm- Morrison, M, &. tetdenit re A- Ramsey, J. G. Shelton, J.. v, Coble, warden, 2D. M. ne Patterson, P, R. Patterson, A- P. ches, pre ‘% Auxi- Barron, D. A. Morrison, deacons. ‘aan ae Z = re BAPTIST unior © pa 3 ‘ Bethel — Located near, Long- ‘M Mills, ae > f rd. Organized in 1860. 173 mem- | rae bers ~. M.- Plott. sunerintendent| St. Philip — ted “corner Sunday School. ¢c, C. Clark, J. | Sharp and streets. Organ- J. Waugh, <<. L. Clark, J-. B,| ied’ in 1900, 8, Fate igen of | Waugh, J. D, Cook, C. 1, a Salisbury, deacons. ce ee... Beulah — Located near haat Congregation wae ) | Stirling. Organized in 1894. 80 | Located co . Ave- | members. C. E. Beaver, pastor. | nue and ‘ane \C- A. ~Sherrill;>Superintendent | 1883. Rabbi — Jacob . Of- ,|Sunday school. C. A, Sherrill, \ficets — J, . semalaats M. L. Shook, R. C- Deal, deacons. |H-. Clarke; vice- ient; 8. L. Damascus — Located near Bry-| Clarke, sec-treas, ; jantsville, Organized in 1889, 189 American War Spirit vs. J. P. Gwaltney, pastor. "| N. G. Sloan, superintendent Sun- jday school. J, Sloan, N. G- Sloan, R. P. Wilson, 8, C- Johnson, dea- cons, ’| First. Baptist — Located in ¢ | Statesville, t?75 members. C- G. Wells, pastor. George H. Brown, superintendent Synday school. i. H- Brown, J. C. Turner, W. A. Thomas, E. M. Purdy, J H. Wil- “ison, J. B. Armfield, deacnnrs. Gfay’s Cnapei — Located near Oak Forest. Organized im 1885. | 32 members, VY. M. Swaim, pas- tor. J. C. Abernethy, Superintend- ent Sunday school Mooresville—Located in Moores ville. 140 members. G, G. O'Neill, pastor. PD. F- Moore, a ent Sunday school. H. Kudy, P. Goodman, W. M- sctaconin B. W. Kerr, D. F. Moore, R. H- Newton, deacons. New Bethany — Located in Shiloh township. 123 members- C. &. eevers. pastor. J. G. Pierce, R. Coulter, A. L, Latlar, Fe H. Coulter, W. B. Gant, dea- cons. New Hope — Located ear Sigma. Organized m 1802. 65 members. VY. M. Swaim, pastor. W G. Blaylock, superintendent Sunday school. T. B. Swaim, 38. 0. Lazenby, W. C. Blaylock, E. T. Lazenby, deacons. + Rock Hill Located. in Sharpesburg township. Organiz- ed in 1883. 57 members. a. H. Goodwin, pastor. N. CC. Goodin, @uperintendent Sundry Schooi. w J. Joliv. N. C- Gredin, W. M. Mason, deacons. : prags — the noPtheast part of war Settle. Organized. in 1884. 332 members. W. T. Comer, pas- or. D. J. Brown, superintendent junday school. J. M. Smith, Kev.. . HE Weaver, W..E. . Smith, jeacons. Society — Located near River Hill, Organized in 1821. 144 members. Y. M, Swaim, N. S-. Gaither, Sunday school. J, aL dd of sh B22 Si.B7S Located 14 Lreduli superintendent | B. Hotman, | ‘ons. South River Located in | 1879. 99 menibers. pastor. F. F. Woo endent Sunday School. S. Grose, ! F. F. Wooten, ons. Western Avenue — Located cor ser Western Avenue and Bovle- — + ~~ > > ’ R ! ! Reminiscing vard, Organized in 1900. 73 mer bers. Geo Woodward, superir tendent “Soaday” seHool Georg E. W. T. Harris, deacons. 11 miles southeast of Statesvill: Organized in 1685. V. GC, Ridenhour, pastor. J, A- F Goodman, day school. A. Hoover, M- A. Christy, A. C Overcash, elders. J. A. B. Good man, N. I. Hoffner, James Over cash, Charles Beaver, deacons- Shiloh township. 91 members. J. Fulbright, £. F. Massey, eid ers: R; C, Little, R. A, Raymer |R, Leonard, H. L. Suther, elders: oF: Smith, M. D. eon: dea- | pastor, | :. M. Wilson, J. F. Nichols, dea- | tethany township. Organized in | other shower Monday - night with V- Swaini th, superin- | on Station. The rein was ~ me mae en lll — ellie Rapltie — Prane Woodward, H. L. Troutma: LUTHERAN Amity — Located et Amit: 45 members superintendent Sun Sumpter Hoover, ¢ Sharon —-Located near Wa L. Darr,: pastor. KR, F. Cline, D H. W. Miller, deacons, St. Johns — Located in States- ville, Organized jn 1888, 20 mem- bers. W- L. Darr, pastor. J. 38. Fry, M. J. Deitz, elders, E. A. Frye, G. Karcher, -deacons- St. Pauls — Located 3. miles} ' east of Statesville. 55 members. V. C. Ridenour, pastor, F- W. Lentz, C. C. Haitheox, dohn Brawiey, deacons, i St. Michaels — Located at Troutman. Organised in 1816.) 200 members. V. C. _ Ridenour, | | pastor. W. A.. Winecoff, superin- tendent Sunday school. J: A. Haithcock, BE. L. Cloaninger, RB M. L. Arthurs, F, A, Mills, E14 J. Troutman, T. fF. Lippard, W { W.. Williamson, Furches Trowt-} _ intendent Allison, L, C Se ames ave Mie Gertrud | Horton, principal. ; Trinity — Located in States- ville, Organized in oe 82 mem- bets, Royal as oe eae Just ahead of the Spanish A- merican Wer The Landmark pub- lished comments ip a. ito same: Below trom the issue of i The of 29, 1898, js given two 1 obset. vations, The first frem Billie: Dock Allison was as fellows and | (was written from Richmond, Va., where the then lived: “Everything here is on the |move for wart. Posters ere up calling for recruits for the navy— |! machinists and ‘engineers — arid |’ advertisements for bids to - feed the soldiers. The iron works are pes cannon bells like |) the devil The. indications are'|, that “war “likely open the aera part of this week. | have got my teeth filed now and my pocket knife whetted. ['m letting my toe nails grow long and am | learning to sprint like mad so aa} to be ready to qutrgn the cc | founded cannon balls,” The -other comment, in the, same itsug of the was |) from Copenie q. Ae ther ot Ulin andowas as follows: He Said he felt 2% years young- ” supplies so leave the home folks in coal shape if the coun- try called for his services. He said there was only one thing ebout the business that didn’t enthuse him and that was the idea of the United States ‘fighting an opponent so much | weaker. \To an old. Confederate whorvhad been used to fighting i a force three times as large us his own this seemed hardly fair. Nevertheless if nothing would de Spain but fight the saptain was ready to go to the front; and if he goes SS wal -meks some of the younger generation ashamed. If he doesn’t he will belie wis old Confederate vier Statesville oa Gets Good Shower The Statesville ares received an- | of an inch recorded at Piedmont much heavier north of Statesville. j The high temperature reading Mon. day was 98 degrees ano -‘* low during the night 68 degrees, Di AE atte UNDADENTED BY HURRK ANES AND R POCA Led hear S itnport lamage from KA. Red were writ wine said this week Said, but Wednesday n hear from them and will do r Nas had its Share of hy | Hurricanes Connie and D ’ er During Junior ¢ rG he and his taff f A “In case vervt hing Doss] It was impossible to det en to the girls oon, August 10. was the A. Camp when Hurrican ence to their homes ‘xXample, a total of 212 refund c} UMORS OF HURRICANES ‘aswell irricane scares this Season, although fort lane. The storms have left their mark ¢ Making refunds has bee anyone is not Satisfied, the assembly wi ble to make a satisfactory adjustment,” date used in making the refunds. Assembly, unately it mn the as. e Connie was threatening, n a head. 1ecks totaling more ll be glad Dr. Red. ‘ermine when each person left, the Caswell director see es sees bes YTERIAN CHUR( H, 1784, HUNTINGTON, LONG ISLAND, N - 4 ee ST. MICHARI «< EPISCOP A, CHURCH, 1752, CHARLESTON, SOU Hi CAKOLI: On Worldwide Communion Sunda y Presbyterians will share an actof worship common to all the world’s Christians. Here are some questions and answers to help you... a Prepare for communion By Charlie W. Shedd W hat do we mean by the word “sacrament,” and, why do Presbyterians have two sacraments? The word “sacrament” comes from the Roman -Sacramentum,” which means “vow” or “oath of loyalty.” Our Roman Catholic neighbors have seven sacra- ments in their church order. We have only two, Baptism and the Lord's Supper. We observe these two because Presbyterians continually go to the Bible for guidance and, according to scripture, these are the two in which Jesus actively participated in his life on earth. Another term used sometimes for the Lord’s Supper is “Eucha- ist,” which means “to give thanks.” This also is proper terminology in Presbyterian churches. Why do Presbyterians have communion quarterly? No one knows for certain how this schedule began. The early church at the time of the Reformation moved away from weekly communion as a protest to the free and casy use of the Roman mass. Studies of John Calvin indicate that he might have preferred communion every Sunday. However, he may have been voted down by the elders who were doing everything possible to de- part from Roman tradition. Some Presbyterian churches serve communion monthly or at other given times. The regularity and frequency are determined by Session action Why do we use grape juice instead of wine? Some churches use real wine in the cup, and this would be fully appropriate in a Presbyterian church if OCTOBER 1965 + it were voted by the elders. This was an early Calvinistic practice. . ° : The changeover, doubtless, came during those days when alcoholic beverages were a mighty center of controversy and were frowned upon by prohibitionist leaders. Today, however, many Presbyterians would hesitate to return to the use of wine for another reason. There are places where Presbyterians work closely with Alco- holics Anonymous, and certain fine AA members are active Presbyterians. These people must not partake of fermented drink. They are protected from alcholic beverages so long as we continue to use grape juice. Should my children take communion with me? Children sometimes feel hurt when they are not in- cluded. Parents will prevent. this unfortunate circum-‘ stance by explaining’ the official attitude of the church at this point.. This is a church sacrament. It is explicitly stated in our forms that: “those who are communicants in good standing” may participate in the sacrament. This would indicate that only those children who have joined the church can properly join their fellow church members in the use of the bread and the cup. ; The wise church will hold before its boys and girls the holiness of this event. It will challenge its little Ones to study for, and look forward to, the day of their own church membership when they will be*eligible to receive the Lord’s Supper. , continued on next page 27 | prepare for communion continved from preceding page What is meant by the terms “open” and “closed” communion? — in a “closed communion” church, only members of that particular denomination are invited to join in the sacrament. Ours is an “open communion,” and any member of any church who accepts Christ as Lord and Savior is invited to partake Presbyterians officially invite those members of other evangelical churches who truly love the Lord and are sincerely sorry for their sins to participate in the sacra- ment with us Why do we call it a “communion table,” call it “altar”? From the beginning of Jehovah worship an altar has stood for a place where men offered something to God. Presbyteriany use the term “communion table” because this ts a place where God gives to man. As followers of the Reformed tradition we do not come here to do something for our Heavenly Father, but to receive his forgiveness of sin, his redemption from broken fellow- ship, his grace for our daily lives, his call to commit- ment, his wonderful love, his presence through the. fisen Christ, and many other amazing gifts: The Lord's Supper is not a place where we render unto God, but a igh and holy service in which we receive from him. while some Why does the minister in our church never face the communion table? In some churches the pastor or priest turns his back to the people and faces the altar. But not with us, and this ts basic to Presbyterian theology. They are not doing something for their people at the communion table., Ministers of our communion are not interceding between the worshipers and God. Rather, this sacra- ment-is something which pastor and people are receiving together from the hand of thé Lord. pos In Presbyterian churches the minister is fot on a different leyel from the laymen. He functions in his capacity as‘a pastor because the people have extended him the right to do so. He has been called i order that he, andthose who called bim, may “grow in grace” together. It is hoped that Presbyterian ministers will be respected, but never reverenced. ~ Some new Presbyterian churches are being built with the communion table set gut from the-wall and seats provided for the eluers near the tabie. During the serv- ice, when the éliers take their places in these seats, it further symbolizes the fact that pastor, elders, and people come together on level ground at the foot-of the CIOss Why do we sit in our-pews and take communion? Some of our friends in other churches go to the altar to receive the elements, We remain in our seats for a big reason. It is not because it saves time or because Presbyterians do not like to come down the aisle front of others. We sit in eur pews ard pass the ele- ments from hand to hand, testifying to a mutual ministry of all believers: We hold that it is our sacred duty as members of. this chufch to ‘give’ God's: gifts to each other. The passing of Christ's blessing from hand to hand declares that every believer is truly a minister to his fellows, Q THE AUTHOR, pastor of Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in Houston, Texas, since 1955, formerly served United Presbyterian churches in the West. Miss Branham bakes communion bread By Elizabeth G. Benton At First Presbyterian Church, Orlando, Fla-, com- won bread for the entire congregation is personally prepared by one of the members, Miss Mary Branham. \ tradition of long standing, this custom was originated by Miss Branham’s mother in [892 soon after she came to Orlando as a bride, Mrs Vibert G. Branham began baking unleavened bread for the congregation of First Presbyterian, then a very small church. So dear to her heart was her voluntary task that she once sent the necessary amount of bread for a communion service from her vacation cottage in North Carolina During the nineteen years since her mother's death Miss Mary Branham has carried on the tradition of her mother and First Church. Miss Branham, a serene and gracious lady,-makes the bread at home. In her own kitchen she mixes the dough from flour, salt, and water: st ils it Ussue-thin; cuts it into tin; uniform squares, and bakes it in a slow oven . a ") 26 For a congregation of 3,568 members this is a con- siderable undertaking because only a small batch can be made at a time. It takes Miss Branham almost a week to prepare the amount, about 3,500 pieces, needed for a communion service. In addition, occasionally, there. are..cxtra Communion services. Miss Branham’s contribution, which gives a personal touch unusual in a large church, is greatly valued. 0 ayes and N they are \ssembhy : 4SSUrance ; ee ia Stal] , : , : ‘ Clan ands and F Up fijs S0ul to whar js dec Ct fil), He } 17 TC0Ce ‘V6 ; Mei ’ the » 7 ¢ Crag “On fr, Ar? gi ( nd AVOrs *© Prontise c CStabl] Ushed any C] Te purely Preached | Cd, thy y ’ ¢ ral ASSembl]y Fen ede ar a ~MMIssione r ‘hould ancy iC@d CT I di 2 ¢ that , ,OU Wil] § act and ‘Peak. ( Sewh, r While Gener: | \ssembly. MS and th, { { Vow re “ dll¢ vou Only as led by God lo do SO? APRIL 1965 fayetteville presBytery sent its Commissioners to The General assemBly WITH This SERVICE, a prepared and conducted By The MODERATOR, FRANK MUIR SCARLETT JR. . COMMISSIONERS: RESponsiBle to God Call to prayer The / r peur ft au who call won ite ams (Ps is? 1A Cir in truth is in the name of the Lord 3 5 who made heaven and earin | Ps. 124:8) Invocation Direct us, O Lord. in our doings with thy most eracious favor, and furth with thy continual help that in all our works. begun. continued, and ended in thee, we may glorify thy holy name, and finally, by thy mercy, obtain everlasting life; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen Words of assurance Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and ad purée heart who does not lift up his soul ion“ hat is alse, and does not swear de ietfully. He will receive the le ne from the Lord, and vindication trom the God 4men (Ps. 24-3-5) Questions of intent Deo Fi promise that with the help of God vou will ndeavor faithfully to perform. as God through the work of the Holy Spirit may reveal them to. you, the luties of a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Presbyterian ( hurch’ Fach comm ‘ should answer. “Ido.” ) Do you with complete reliance,upon divm@e grace and far as \ are providentially able to do so promise - to attend cach official session ef the General Assembly 4 rir , th fere + ¢ time you are a commissioner’ (Each commissioner should answer, “I do.” ) Do you solemnly promise that you will act and speak, th in the igal sessions and elsewhere. while you are a commissidner to the General Assembly, only as ricerely believe vou are led by God to do so” Fach commissior Ido.) Do you, the members of this presbytery, accept these men as commissioners to the General Assembly, duly elected by you, and do you promise to upheld them m r should answer APRIL 1965 . fervent prayer and render unto them all other services to which tbév are entitled as commissioners to the Gen Proclamation of commission Then. |. therefore, as moderator of the Fayetteville Presbytery, Commission you as commissioners to. the General Assembly of the. Presbyterian. Church. US to meet at Memphyp. Tenn., on the 22 day of Apnl. A.D 1968, or whéreker and whenever the said Assembly may happen to‘sit to consult, vote, and determine on all things that may ‘come before that body, according to the principles and. constitution of this church and the Word of God are to render an account at your return And of -vour diligence. herein you Commissioning prayer “Almighty God. -who by thy Holy Spirit dost inhabit the whole company of the faithful: Graciously regard. we beseech thee, these thy servants. Shed down upon them heavenly. wisdom and grace; enlighten them with true knowledge of thy Word; inspire them with a pur zeal for thy glory, and se order all their doings through thy good Spirit that unity and peace may prevail wher ever they may be;,that truth and: righteousness may flow forth from them; and that, by their endeavors, all thy ministers and congregations may be: established and comforted, thy gospel-everywherg. purely preached and truly followed. thy Kingdom among men extended and strengthened, and the whole body of thy people grow up into him who is head over all-things to the church Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.” bron in Order for the Admission Of Candidates to Fu Vembership in an Atnual Conferen published in The Booh of Worship for Church #nd Home With Orders for the Administration of the Sacraments and Other Rites and Cere monies ‘According to the Use of the Methodist Ch irch for Voluntary and Optional Use The: Methodist Publishir House 5 fdapted trom C4.70nh fer Greene ts<sen ( ,” Preissiovic? 4dapted from The Book of Common Worship, Jo/in Knoa . Press, pp 325, 326 67 re sO Batam a - fh Om rey ea The a Fe pp Hy. jot. L v bes. sce A hd : Ge 22 et, ae y 7 f gai TT LEE a a5554292588 3092 Mage | gut ae it est Ais Ay a iat ua fe a i ie ale Heed aE Ue i gaylttgel uf: ae flit fan att i ulus i ee IE Sratal et ; 1 Tt Wiel i <ccteeaaasaceacncanii A a & 923% 4 pe, that it transaction was to | te edvantage to v ’ Lazenby, Jr., called the meeting | to order and recognized the | guests. Mrs. Harry Hayes of |New York traveled the longest distance and Dr. J. R. Lowery of Salisbury was recdgnited as the oldest graduate present t age 88. It was mentioned that | Dr Lowery has written a book “Memoirs of Country- Doctor” concerning his life in and around | the Iredell area. | Dr. Barry B. Miller, a noted *| orthodontist of Charlotte was guest speaker. Dr. Miller is son of Mr. and Mrs. Sam M. Miller, Sr., and is a 1942 graduate of |” Cool Springs. Dr. Miller mixed | humor and patriotism in an | | interesting reminiscence of his | early life. The evening meal was pre- | ‘pared by the lunch room staff, | | assisted by the Cool school. Howard Shive supervised preparing and serving | Meal. ° | occasion She used as her the: white and a “heavenly blue”. | ° | Spring flowers graced each table. The class of 1937 won the attendance trophy with ten members present. The officers for 1970 were introduced as follows: James L. Steele, president; Mrs. T. Frank "| Parlier, vice president; Miss Sara Walker, secretary and asurer and Mrs. John Nance, Astant secretary and. easurer. STATESVILLE RECORD & LANDMARK ? _ No Doctrine! Obstacles Seen eee cnteeaeea Deedes Wants New Pl elt ; i HE oi = a Ne bite! Ts emai i yeu mult wet nee nn ene eee if ‘| Church Membership To THE Epiror : 1 would like ef August ihe to janie 31 has ue front 1» what just ginel that 1 vase hureh ' systenel f ye ehureb roll of a me mber a> ys the yan tiie otherwit hols is be erentes 8 fee ihe ¢oreign '° the if the chure! member nes one is not As 1 unde hit would keep fruits Fe prod \ifferent hurehes rement ive ours the bye that from remed)s for yl tT nen if un) wr rhink appea! the mals fot forele ould heat aqme yeat hy time> meetines until comma! world Rte 16 a and Fo definitier! will Any siever= We see remmainil an the withoul ehureh Ane »spirit of Jest i le LN wrlects then rstand the veed Jobn rhe if galas far ill reports only #! a Jrrst pasuel for miss! adopiiet! ehurches nevel ih wt a wonder should aone wi oO ie Statesville, reign Missions » me. eant UU , Rapist of a wee saendl ta le fl it jist af names on inclined to think tw red bod vse Jone mibet i sy Ona jist nnd that special ret tien ofte! nie wre ¢ vtirels such awit it osp! whe! sure body then \ of that chur h hor, ~ be a part 4) part of the VV jihiars the oll pure youl imtil wis thie Jess pots slate puil }yurie \ dhink offer ¢ roward \ val deo . per on atey yaar qyenl espeel is “r yries an parse bo Sinet prograil ybhe Co-oy* rit ive amy epee] appeal evets * hy of the it surely iwo ST al wppesl \ = vnkel 1 some: of evulrgel completed the “is the for mie int it eerle> jered well it if uty cost emphast!® ppessaee pul on be tw all spe ial is earry the ~. § The establishment of a new church in Cincinnati — the Anglican Orthodox church — is symptomatic of the age in which we live—an age marked by wide- ranging controversy from which organi- zed religion is scarcely immune. The members of the new church are, for the most part, Episcopalians, and their identification with the five-year-old movement reflects their disapproval of standards taken by existing churches on a variety of current issues. As Rev. Chris- topher J. Hoffmann of Statesville, N. C., executive secretary of the Anglican Or- thodox church, puts it, “They went to church for communion with God through His priest . . . and they got a priest's per- sonal opinion on everything — politics, sociology and economics — instead of spiritual matters.” The ferment of which the Anglican Orthodox church is a product has been under way for several years, and it is not confined to Cincinnati or to Episco- palians. The issue basically is whether to day’s churches should confine themselves to orthodox religibus teachings or wheth- Thought For Today Remind them to be submissive to rulers and authorities, to be obe- dient, to be ready for any honest work. ' —Titus 3:1. There is no right without a par- allel duty, no liberty without the su- premacy of the law, no high destiny without earnest perseverance, no greatness without self - denial. — Francis Lieber, American publicist. I+ 26-SLF 68 er they should concern themselves with the whole gamut of problems besetting today’s world. More and more of the nation’s church- es have adopted the latter course, to the disgruntlement of many of their mem- bers. That the churches are invading the social, political and economic realms at a moment of general moral decline only adds to their disgruntlement. And that many of the nation’s major churches are simultaneously reassessing their tradi- tional theological beliefs is a last straw ‘for the objectors. It is easy to imagine that those who are seeking spiritual direction through the Anglican Orthodox movement be- lieve that the church needs to be heard on spiritual matters more desperately than ever before. Instead, they hear Sunday sermons devoted only tangential- ly to spirituality. The contrary view, of course, is that the church that ignores the great public questions of the age is being true neither to itself nor to its members and that churches and their members must exert their influence on the march of events - or risk the sin of inaction in the face of challenge. The debate has unfolded periodically since the very beginning of the Christian era. The intensity with which it is being waged today is simply a reflection of the complex issues with which 20th-century society is wrestling. It is easy to imagine that what has happened in Episcopal circles will be happening in many other denominations before the debate shows signs of waning. —Cincinnati Enquirer. Statesville Record & Landmark Published every afternoon except Sunday at eoory eee eee eT J. P. HUSKING President and General Manager Cc. P. MIDDLESWORTH Vice President and Asst. Gen. Mer. 0. D. TRAVIS Circulating National Advertising R Statesville Daily Record, inc. The Landmark in 1931. The two merged May 6, 1954 MRS. C. E. MIDDLESWORTH Secretary-Treasurer JOHN W. KISER Advertising HARVEY EMERSON Mechanical Superintendent epresentative, ‘ The Julius Mathews Special Agency, Inc. Charlotte, N. C. _ Abernethy Building 757 Third Avenue New York, N. Y. “A A ae se th ee & r eo 44-* ~ “f al rt bet Fa THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1951 Frem The Air Weves | Reminis cing Bra@é:3 / -manac : Mr, James A. Brady has made Reminiseent for re- view a copy of “Brady's Almanac available to and Tredell County Year Book For 1903". The publication was com- piled by J. A. Brady, Printer & Publishér, and was published by same im 1903. This publication wes four years earlier than th City Directory reviewed the past week. We are using from it in- formation that should be of inte~- est to all ages. We hope to avoid any serious duplication of infor- mation, given the past week: ('oerehes in Iredell The fullowing informating as +o churches in Iredell in 1908 is from Bradv’s publication; Methodist Epmcopal, South Bfthel, locatei near Waugh. 40 members. B. F. Fincher, pastor. ae Waugh, superintendent of school. John Dagenhar:, W. E Setzer and Frank Dagen- bart, stewards. Bethlehem—Located two miles from Eufola. Organized 1850. 3% members. Pastor, A. J. Burrus. P. FP. Bost, superintendent of Sunday School. R. F. Bost, A. M. Deal, W. A. Gibson and C. M. Shoov, stewards. i naper~ Hill—Located five miles East of Statesville, on the Salis- road. 60 members. J. H. ‘paster, J. F. Eagie, su- pepintentent of Sunday School. W, WN. Dulin, J. F. Eargle and ... : » stewards. Conneliy’s Uhapel—Located 2% miles west of Statesville. 98 mein- bers. J. H. Brendall, pastor. M. J Setoges, superintendent of Sun- day A. A. Bost, J. M. Mit- chell, stewards. Clarksbury—Located on the oe and Mocksville Road:. 1 ter. J. Mi Godbey, superintende::t of Sunday School. D. H. Stimpson, B. A. Baggarly, J. W. Albea, Jr., J. A. Owings, W. L. Stimpson, and W. L. Gaither, stewards. Eagle Mills—Locatec at Eag!): 8] members. R. H. Penland, pas ter, J. §. Forcum, superintendent of Sunday School. J. E. Stimpson ead J. S. Foreum, stewards Pa'rvigrw—Lecsted at Mt. Mout ee. Orgnized in 1897. 13 members. John M. Peice, pastor. J. A. Hobbs, superistendent of Sunday Schoo! de L, Hobbs, W. T. Thompson, ani M. W.- Cornelius, stewards. First’ Olurch—Leeated corner ry and Walnut streets, me. 44) members. H. K. , pastor. J, L, Sloan, supe; in, dent of Sandie Sched J. Slean, U. Mett Thompson, W. T. Nicholson, W. D. Turner, T. Anderson, J. F. Harbin, George een tous Fdy White, J.. H. Wycolf, Bs G. Gaither, Z. V. Long, aad C.F. Graves, stewards. G. W. Clegg, A. Turney J. G. Colvert, J. W. Nicholson, T. E. Anderson, trostess. o RB Mt. Bethel—Located near Tur- nersburg. 57 members. RH.‘ Pe- land, paster. J. M. Heath, Supe-- intendent of Sunday School. W. V.| Thomas, Thomas Dearman, Edga: Downing, stewards. Mooresville—Located at Moores ville. Organized in 1874, 350 mem bers. 1-3, Rogers, pastor. Super intendent of Sunday School, M. W White. B A. Troutman, J. W Brown, J. W. Butler, M. W. White A. M, Walker, A. B. Plyler, C. Moore, B. Stowe, and Fred Cuip, stewards. McKendree—Located near May- hew. Organized about 50 yea:s ago. 240 members. John M. Price, pastor. E. B. Bost, superintendent of Su hool E. B. Bost, A A, Kelly,"T."S. Williamson, R. F. Baker, M. lL. White, S. 0. Abe: nethy, ZR. Robinson and O. G Turbyfille, stewards. Pisgeh—Located in Sharpesburg township. 235 BLP, She. *of Sunday School. Dr. badd T. Lackey, John aeent a ‘codward and Fran &. located 9 miles tesville an the Turners- 1446 members. J. II pastor. C. W. Leckie bure crendall, supers © L. Mordre®. 0. A. Peid, J, | Burgess and S. R. Holland, ste- vad... Rocky. Mount-—Located. four miles s@#th of Troutman. Organ ized in 1852. 140 members. A. !. Burrusy pastor. O. 0. Harwell. superingém@ent of Sunday Schoo W. J. Eewin, J. ©. Thompson, (/. 0. Haryel? and A. B. Parker, ste- wards. . . Snew’~ Creek - Tarated dogs bite, cats scratch end even children can cavse lawsuits. A com- Drehensive persona! |i- sbility can protect you Bgainst damages “‘taused by any member of your household. The cost t* amall._why not be safe? aval ti mern.bers. Rh. H. Penland, pas-| » pastor. B. Y. Elliott, super. | ent of Sunday Schooi ~ Sharpesourg township. Organize. about 1784. 150 ‘members. J. -W Bowman, pastor. C. F. Rickert, superintendent of Sunday School. Dr. J. E, King, R, B. Dobson, Wil- liam Millsaps, C. F, Rickert, Hoi- ; land Perry and P, D. Eagle, ste- _ wards, | Salem—Located in Coddle Creek | ownship. Organized about 50 |years ago. 40 membets. John M Price, pastor. ©, 1. Shinn, super- intendent of Sunday School, James Linker, R it, Craven, and 4. 1. 1 Shin, stewards. ‘ . . Saielu—xLocated on the Mocks | ville Road, about “8 miles from Statesville, 216° mémbers. J. H. Brendall, pastor E. E. Yates su- permtendent of Sunday School. L. Murdock,’ D. L. Webb, T. J. Adkins, T. L. Long, R. D. Mayes, stewards. Trinity—Located onthe Wilkes- boro Road, 7 miles north of Sta-] tesville. 180 members. J. H. Bren- dall, pastor. John Robb, supe: | members.;W. C. Brown, pastor. 0. P§ A. Sowers superintendent of Sunday School A. M. Wither- spoon, T. M. Phifer. O. P.\ A. Sowers, elders L. K. Overcash,\€ 3. Morrison, Bascom Wooten. and W. J. Patterson, deacons. Mooresville—Located in Moores- ville. Organized in 1875. 289 mem- 8. J. M, Wharey, pastor. C. T. Calr, superintendent of Sunday School, R. C. Lentz, A. Leaza:. W. N. Johnston, J. E. Sherril) and T. N. Hall, elders Issac Har- ‘ja, Q. C. Brawley, J. A. Harris, J. P. Mills, K. C. | Melchor, 8. A. Lowrance, G. C. Goodman, W. M. Leniz. deacons. Shiloh—-Located near Eufola. Organized 'n 1850. 36 members J. E. Summers, pastor. M. A Ab ernathy, W. R. Bradford, T. P. Guy, elders. J. R. Abernethy, W. H. Clark, and J. B. Sherrill, -dea- vons, : Tabor—Located 15 miles north- east of Statesville on Old Salis- bury and Wilkesboro Roads.’ Or- ganized in 1795. 16 members. W R. MeLelland, pastor. J. M. Hol mes and P. B. Kennedy, elders. Troutman’ — Located at Troui | ntendent of Sunday Schoo). J. H.! Seroggs, C. M. Hefner, and W. E.! Massey, stewards. ‘ Triplett—Located -o in Barringer | township, organized in 1900. 70 members. John M. Price, pastor. |T. J. Deaton, superintendent of | Sunday School. J. W. Cohen, W. M. Howard, and W. L. Uprighi, stewards. Troutman—Located at Trout- |man, 181 members. A. J: Burrus, | pastor. R. 8S. Kyles superintendent (of Sunday School. J. M. Ostwalt, J. M. Cavin, W. M. Howard, and F. K. Ostwalt, stewards. Vanderburg—Located near Clif- | fords. 112 or A, J. Burrus, | pastor. J. ey, superinten- dent of Sw A. Sloop, A. A. Gabriel, and hy} ‘ Brawley, stewards. |. Wesley’s Chapel Located 6 | miles northeast of Troutman. 132 members. A, J. Burrus, pastor. T. |M. Goodman, superintendent of | Sunday School. T. M. Goodman. R. 'W. Zeigler, J. A. Arthurs, A. B. | Brawley and George Houston, stewards. West End church—Located in | Statesville. Organized im 1896. 257 'members. Pastor J. M. Downum. |M. F. Marshall, superintendent o* | Sunday Sehool. F. M. Abernethy. | S. H. Craig, J, M> Frye,’ S° H;! | Kunkle, R. A. Miller, W. A. Moose | | A. B. Rives, B. 0. Shaver, and T | G Wooten stewards. . Northern Methedist Churches Mountain View—Leeated: near Bryantsville: post, office. Laboyt 1891, 79 : H. or, jst. |. j Sebsrey, pastor. B. Sloan, su- perintendent of Sunday School. [ | L. Sloan, J.-N McLelland, Miss |N B. White, Miss A. L. Goodia, | C. W. Smith, stewards J. J. Rhyne, eager, ; . Presbyterian Churches | Bethany—Located on the Tuyr- | nersburg and Statesville Road | Organized-in 1773. 100 members. |W. R. MeLelland, pastor. J. W. | Vickery, superintendent of Sun- jay School Dr, FE. A. Hall, W. L. | Dunlap, elders. Bethesda Located 8 milaa | southeast of Statesville. Organiz- |ed 1848,-62 members. W. R. Mc- | Lelland, pastor, J. W. Lentz, su- perintendent of Sunday School. G M. Morrow, W. P. Goodman, A. C Robinson, elders J. W: Lentz, clerk. G. W, MeNeely, A. W. Cook |W C. Cook and T. M. Morrow | deacons Center — Located in Davidson township Organized in 1764. 139 members. W. W. Pharr, pastor. T. hi illiams, superintendent of Sunday School J, W. A. Kerr, E. M. McNeely, J. H. Refd, and F. 0. T J. Williams, T, O. Brawley, and James Black, deacons. : Clio—Leecated in Sharpesburg Organized in 1879. 63 . We-OrRrewn, pastor. R. \. Hill, superintendent of Sunday School. R. R. Hill, aad J. F. Liven- t MeLelland and C. M. Hill, deacons. Concord — Located at Iredell Station. members. W. C. Brown, pastor. H. | H. Summers, superintendent of sunday School. H. C. Summers, . Fy Stevenson, H. L. Morrison, ind W. B. Gibson, elderg T. W. vickery, A, F. Morrison, A. F. ‘ewis, J, B. Summers, and H L. stevenson, deacons. Elmwoed—Loeated at Ehwwooil. | >» Summers, pastos. R. T: Cowan, superintendent ef Sunday School. 1. 1. Fleming. B leacon. First Church — Located corner Meetng @treet and West End Av- enue Statesville. Organized in 1764. | 425 memibers. C. M. Richards, pas- ‘or, R. H. Rickert, superintendest of Sunday School. J. H, Hill, J. P. Bradiev F. A. Sherrill, M. R. (dams, S. W.. Stimpson, R. H. Rickert and J. C. Steele, elders. NV. W. Turner, J. B. Gill, W. F. tall, W: J. Posten, Logan Stim- on, J. A. Cooper, J. A, Brady, ind. C. M. Steele, deacons. - « iver laundry. A. L. Sharpe, me- rood, elders. J. W. Hager, W. B. ts Organized in 1776. 287 |e \rganized in 1888. 46 members. J.| : E. Arey andj si R. T, Cowan, elders. J, A. Early, Fifth Creek — Located on the Mocksville and Statesville Road. ial School. P. R. Houpe, R. A. Mont- fgomery, J. V. Niblock and. M. T. Beard, elders. V. C. Montgomery, ' leacona Front” Street—Located in Sta- iesville, Organized in 1896, 6” ‘vganized in 1846. 152 members. ' ble W. J, Tidball, pastor. J. V. Nib te superintendent of Sunday for ). W Montgomery, T. P. Gillespie, ing '. Chap Turner and T. R. Osborne, erm man. Organized. in 1885. 138 mem. | bers. W. R. McLelland, pastor. | Sunday School conducted at 0" phans Home, M, Holtshouser, J. v.| Melchor, and L. S. Waugh eldeis | G. M. Young, deacons. j Orphans Home| Located at Barium Springs. Es- | tablished in 1889. R. W. Boyd, su- perintendent, Miss Blanche Boy@, lady manager and matron of Lees Cottage. Miss Celeste Boyd, mat- ron of Synod’s Cottage and music teacher. Miss Agnes Steele, mat- ron of Rumple Hall and teacher of cooking department. Miss Elia Keigwin. matron Annie Louise, Cottage. Mrs. A, L. Sharpe, may: Synodical Presbyterian chanic. W. B. Parks, tarmer. Mis Sethelle Boyd, principal of school. Miss Margaret Kromartie, fourth and fifth grades. Miss Elise Stamps, Miss Mary King Daniels, teachers, Churches in Iredell will be con- tinued in our next as™to other imom ‘nations. Johnston, elders. J B Templeton, | stz u of . Ss, Young? #233 - Some hippies preach a return to na- ty in manners and mor. es of an overcrowded system, the popular thoroughly rigid, and only slightly Jess $0 in the public world, mode of living, style of dress individuality? sion of and expres. - g wnen has the average youth heen / Siven so many years to learn and j $0 much leisure to explore and hig fan maNY OPPortunities to realise his full potential? | ® STATESVILLE RECORD & LANDMARK — Religion In Americe 9-29-1905 PAGE 9A Underground Church 1s Revealed In Book By Priest refer fisif tt i f By LOUIS CASSELS , Secretive. They are “under. Uadted Press internetiona: | ground” only in the sense that They call themssives “The| they exist apart trom the highly-visible institutions which to ‘ Churches.” ; the world’s concerns.” , Of the underground church were Because it is not encumbered | contributed by 17 other writers, with buildings and budgets, Fr. | including a bishop, a nun, a Boyd says, the underground Peace Corps workers, a civil church can enlist in unpopular | rights agitator, a student leader uses and take radical stands | and a pacifist. as peace and| The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr., | suffragan bishop of the Episco- doing, he contends, it is| pal Diocese of Washington, closer to the spirit of | D.C., suggests in a closing Christ—and thus more truly | chapter that Christians devoted orthodox—than an “Establish-|to the institutional church ment Church” which is essenti- should be thankful for, rather ally committed to the status than alarmed about, the emer- quo. 6 ; gence. of the underground Chapters on various aspects | church. —— ; he: bbe sy einicadk. [bol a Fock tun UP Ard / Le fo nS = a t LEU L227 te ecerCeef it. Chas. Cfecech _— PAGE 2-8 Religion In America —- ‘New Creation’ Idea Subject For Book By LOUIS CASSELS United Press international “God shall wipe away all | tears from their eyes; and | there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, WASHINGTON (‘UPI — Robert S. McNamara told Congress a week after North Korean seized the USS Pueblo . Moltmann, a distinguished . | Visiting As centuries passed without i the anticipated “second com- ing’’ and without any discerni- ble change in the amount of evil and suffering in the world, the Christian hope gradually came to be postponed to a future life .. in heaven. 5 ‘Movement Developing ' A movement is now develop. ’| ing in European and American theological circles to restore the New Testament vision of a better world to its original place at the heart of. Christian faith. Its leader is Dr. Jurgen man scholar currently teaching in the United States professor University. Moltmann’s logy of Hope,” an English translation & Row), is not easy laymen. It’s the kind of that a minister and interpret for tion. Moltmann finds warrant for assuming that there was no practical way to prevent another such in- cident . only in eternity. “full to the In secret testimony given c all things new” in this world space and time. : STATESVILLE RECORD & LANDMARK Religion In America — 9.704760 PAGE 7-C ao ag Crisis Presented By Repudiation Of Moral Standard By LOUIS CASSELS increasing numbers of men and | radical sense, in a sense almost women in our society. | without precedent in our Wes- “Sexual ‘irregularity’ among tern history,” says Herberg. “To violate moral standards | while at the same time acknowledging their authority is one thing; to lose all sense of the moral claim, to repudiate all moral authority and every moral standard as such, is something far more serious.’’ He Sharply disagrees with those Protestant theologians who hold that contemporary |society is evolving a “new morality’ based on the applica- tion of love for others to each concrete situation..rather than on rules and regulations. This is dewy-eyed optimism, |in Herberg's view. A realistic look at contemporary values shows that what's actually happening is a rejection of all moral restraints ‘‘in favor of a | way of life governed by a self- indulgent quest for pleasure and fun. “Evertything is justified by the ‘kicks’ you get out of it. If our time has retained from times past some sense of binding obligation in the conduct of life, it is the obligation to ‘have fun.’ ‘To ‘have a good time’ is, with many of our modern-minded people, as stern an obligation as serving God was to an old-time Calvinist.” How did we drift into this state? Herberg believes the long | slide into moral anarchy began more than a century ago when . the makers of - ‘intellectual fashion turned away from the ancient Hebrew and Greek concept of truth as “something | anchored \in objective and | transcendental reality.” The modern vogue of regard-. ing truth as relative and conditional, rather than absolute and eternal, reached its logical conclusion in the proclamation that ‘God is dead.”’ And a world without God is bound to become a- world without moral: standards, Her- | berg asserts. , “No human ‘ethic is possible that is not itself grounded in a higher law and a higher reality beyond human manipulation or control . . for it is the humanity of man that is at stake. And the humanity of man —our wisdom and our suffering ought to have: taught us—is ultimately grounded in_ that which is above and beyond { Cre. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1967 Religion In Americe -- Segment Of American Youth Feels Attracte By LOUIS CASSELS United Press international A lot of young Americans are groping their way toward “churchless Christianity.” They are attracted to Christi- anity as a style of life, but are repelled by the church as an | institution. Their hostility toward the | church is, in part, a reflection of an antiinstitutional bias which is one of the outstanding | r_-F l. - characteristics of this genera-| that it can no longer act as a tion. It also can be seen in their tendency to value higher ‘education while scorning the university in which they receive it. But today’s young people make a specific indictment of the church which goes beyond distrust of institutions in general. They feel that the church has become so identified with middle-class white society reforming leaven within it. itself, they say, the church ‘has | conformed to-it, and in the'| process has learned to tolerate | evils such as war, racial | discrimination and economic | inequality which a¥e flagrantly | contrary to the teaching of | Christ. Also, they charge, the church | STA’ I ESVILLE REC ‘ has done the most un-Christlike | thing imaginable: it has become Instead of transforming the | social milieu in which it finds | self-centered. It is often so intent on advancing its own institutional programs and_ in- terests that it has little money or energy to expend on serving human beings in need These young Christian rebels are not much interested in broad movements to reform the | church, either because they’ re | too impatient for such slow | are hundreds, perhaps ' through the other fellowship the toma of these groups in warm human relationships and . a . are’ commitment to self-giving ser. Catholics. : are | | Vice which they have been communities bear a striking! ecumenical. A great many of Unable to find in a regular resemblance to the “house | their members, probably the | congregation. churches” which sprang up overwhelming majority, also'| Where this movement will ‘ | throughout the Roman Empire maintain at jeast nominal ties | lead is impossible to foretell at needed, even during the early years when | with one of the institutional | this. point. But there ig ne pow med was a persecuted | churches. Some continue oi an about the dedication sect instead of a protected and | attend worship services at a| and enthusiasm of the partici- | privileged institution, | parish church, while seeking | pants. Ms gee P a a = oe - ta Ht agit ase re ait a ag s i ae na ta i ai bala : ie 8 agi fat: uly He i 258 tat re joslasa \ oe +. Put in those terms, the back-tothe- every other area of his aly is ee ee “This is not only an act of defiance, iit 3 g § : : ! and other religious proceedings in public schools, nearly 13 per cent i | vive.” PAUE 9-B é tt cif i th 3 orchestras may accept occasion- al invitations to perform at nonschool religious functions only on condition ‘that any | member of the group may be | excused without penalty of any sort at his request. 6. No public school funds, property or other facilities shall be used for devotional display of religious symbols. (Christmas creches are fine for Christian homes, out of place in a tax- supported school educating children of many faiths). 7. Religious baccalaureate | Services shall not be required school activity. Student repre- uling , Sentatives of graduating classes | desiring to have a baccalau- | reate service may arrange with a clergyman for his services and for suitable facilities. (This | disposes of the nonsensical idea _—now prevalent in communities—that the court “outlawed” baccalaureate servi.“ ' ces. The only requirement is that they be privately arranged and conducted—like any other worship service). | 8. A pupil's religious belief | Shall be honored by excusing him at his or his parents’ request from school on his own religious holidays. ee — Leer ir. Cwang, Tmands ever Sc mucn fer the Cocumerits you sé i return herewith. They ure immenseiy vilu: cle ‘anc esting tc me. To an:wer one of your questiens, yes woulc we very grateful te see any nore .apers yc uleng the same lines. . * How wes Roweert Lazejesy, wo relotea to Joshua Leroy Luzensy? Yeu sent a typeu puge Y, Geuling with FPoeaertL und his children I, EI anu III. De later cares sive wore children and descendants? 1 wus nest intere tnis, since up till new I nua kKnewn nothins at ; the cescenaants ef Reeert and Yury Ann (Summers) La Lid tmey nuve more than tne three cniicucren (Cil‘i and Richerd G.W.)? Did all tnese live in Irecell eu aise sent 4 puge numecreo ll, ceulin: wita 1 one Miner speurd. lees ne ‘it inte the » new? I can't place ni. ; y , ren o if se Yeu eSax hether [ am trecin, tne uescenaants Summers, son of Jonn anu Nency (Clagett) Cummerd. 7 want to trace ull descendents cf John ane Nancy aewm present, so fur as pessiele. Apain, ay hneuftiest thunks forall your’ welc. Sincerely, tug IP/97 2. dhan TP trakigyr, | bk hee a fo say —— {tu -2 MMe feocy rlpece Sh ify tindedy thee ple Lt. 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Swann, Many th for the aca recently, This is itiena] Luzeny [ indeeg Y materj: mest helvfy] and I am » 1 Weulo il you oP materials. Gelirhtég . Seeing be very interest a re des . i #erriares, I snal) se Perticularly interes records Shew any Cnilaren of Lezeney besides P=EC You sent me : Chu 3) a Clap .Tt—~ a | > Dre Pf TS y ES ~~" eerie ( : tS al - Jr 2 ia ah ~ ae Jnalily, Kaha, Dezr Mr. Swann, “any thanks It weuld ae en the Lazenoy estaze. I nope very g Helly Hill, Friendsnip, Md. Nevemsecrasr 30tk. fer your letter ef the 25th. immensely relpful te me te see your material ‘aaily. IT enclese a check for %5,to cover much to heur from you further. = S . —s Mle p« a q (<2 ¢ os C dp mes ‘19 9 F daent /. a oe. ae + ( I ja J f SSK = i - {~ 4 cZ. a+ Vj . 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Webs, * % * : % re ee f 3 Sa a *, : 5 ape DS aivaielill h Figs eee SS, ai bg ial at . e555 ie iT li Te i a se aa a ree : ; 7 a P Pm es ce ipa : wht oo z a ; é ‘ : r E a 7 P< a ia oak * - ‘ 9 re 2 © “aaa igi O8* eee ‘ : oa me b Covr & Roos a en THE FOLLOWING MATERIAL WAS PREPARED BY, AND S&T TO US, BY: MR. GRICE M, CLAGETT, of washington, D.C., who is preparing to Pup): as: Book on the CLAGETT FAMILY. (Floyd &, Gaither, 1005 Chesley Drive, Louisy >: 8 SHIH He 4 or att Charles Clagett, born in Prince Georges County, Maryland, Aug,23,1°729 gon of John Clagett, of *ixteNLAND", Prince Georges County, Maryland, and his second wifs, .ARAH MAULDEB: j}rand-son of Capt. Thomas C’azett y’ i)_ipea Jv immigrant from Lonjon to “avert Jounty, Mary’emd, on 1670, <4 J Charles Clagett settied in Montgomery County, Mary’and; moved prio 1790 to Loudoun County, Virginia, He married MARY ISSUE: | (1) Sareh C’agett, born Jan,18, 175O;marriec in «Loudoun Co,,Va,to David Car’is‘e, (2) MEMRY CLAGETT, >, Montgomery Co.,Md. Mar.?8, 7757, (or 1755 © Settled in of avout 1795 in Irede’’ Co,, N.C., and about 1372) in Woedford Co,,Ky., soon thereafter removing to Grayson Co,,Ky. He died avout '32., in Grayson County, Ky, He married HLI/ABETH, daughter of J&REMIAH HAYES, of Montgomery o,,Md, soldier in the French and Indian war, and g@rand-daughter of THOMAS HAYES, settler in Maryland about 167,, ISSUE: ns A. Delilah Clagett, .married CASH, (See Grayson Co,, Ky, Census B, Matilda Clagett, married heavenhi)), C, Allen Clagett, married in Weodford Co.,Ky,, Feb,19,187", AMA, daughter of WILLIAM SUMMERS, ~— 7 Mary Ann Clagett; born in Irede}) Co,,N.C. 1799;married JOHN BUTIcR, ' of Grayson Co,,Ky., farmer, and died there in oR Iseue and many descendants, : JOH! CLAGETT: {No recerd of marriage.) Charles Clagett,born in Irede}) Co,,N.C. about 1789; of Jrayson. Co.,hy, ‘He married (1) REBECCA GAY, Feb,25,1818, in Woodford Co,,My. (2) RUTH HOSKINS or HOSKINSON, —s_— Ispue by both marriages, arid many descendants, Elisabeth vlegett Anis Pas. 12, 1034, married SQUIRE DAY,Dieg 12%. ANN CLAGETT,b, June, 28, 1753,married in Montgomery Co,, Md, Jec.2,° .. Capt. John Summers, They settled in Irede)) | ree aa where she died May, 30, 1845, ISSUE, nine chivdre: including Solomon Svmmers, who was born in 1762. Mary Clagett,b, Mar.1&, 1755, said to have married WIJIIAM HHODs. o> ( Malinda Clagett,b, Feb, 13, 1757,. married william Summers, JOHN CLAGETT, b, Nov, 23, 1759, 7 Thomas Clagett,b, in Loudoun Ce,, Va., Mar.), 176): sett’ed in: Woodford Co., Ky., where he died in 1814, He married MAOON « IS6UE, and many Descendants in Kentucky,Missouri and Monica Clagett, mercial’ in Loudoun Co,, VYa., Apr.23, 1°93, wil?iam otepre Seek. re ae prs eye : moe Ky “age ‘> Who OOPLED FROM THE °890 “@ISUS, OF GRAYSON COWNTT, 1 wm $/70; tm, 10/18; tm, 40/50, *. 1§/B; , /W, 1m,/10/15; 1m. “O/9, 1 f, under 5. 2 f, 5/10; 1 f. 0/50, ? &). 5720: * a, 40790, . . 2/30; 7 ie 0/mO. = 1 a, 0/50, inder » ’ [. 5/10; 1 [+ 1$,/2; 7 f. 40/50. /SIT: Yim, 5/10; 1 m, 10/75; 1 m, 15/20, 1 a, WO/50, wuapmnnn ) f. 10/15; 1 £. W/50, f, 1§/2; 1 f. 40/50, - m, under 5; ’ m, 5/10; 1 a, W/S, f, 5/10: 1 f. 15/3: 1 £. Ve, GARY 4. GALPHRR: 7 wm, 20/30, 1 tf. 20/30/ OKN F, GAITHER: 1m, 20/30: 1 f, 0/2. re A RI I 4 ARE aE SME IE IE ASR a THe 7820 CENSUS SHOWS THE FOLLOWING: (HEADS OF FAMIL1&S ,) ALLEN CLAGGSTT: 26/45, CHARLES CLAGGETT: 26/45, HMMRY CLAGGETT: 45 up, @ILLIAN CASH: 26/45, IN 1440 CeNSUS a THE POLLOWING: renee siete 90 npannarres- 2c RP i OE? * ies het eine _ MATILDA GATTHER la, 5/10; #ILSY GAITHER: 5/10, This wae Jom Premk Gaither, ay father@s eldest es 20/30, Thies wae my Grend-father, under 5, (Aant Sites & Prieei lia) 20/30, Grand-mether, Mary (Probus) Gaither, ~ under 5; 1 a, 5/19 1s 2g, tha aa ia ia ot) 11 f, SAOs le « waiter 5; 1 f On Oct.17, a Sues SOMME cae eentad in-Ohte Ciclik to Mies, Louisa Tilferd, Beademan, Andrew Tilford, (Correction: Louisa dan Tilferd,) ~UcSTION: Who was this MATILDA GAITHER 7 Could he have been « sister to Wiley 7 pRAYSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY CENSUS: 1689: — ses Mat 7 : sae | : c NATHAN PUTT: 4b ty, Co, B, Bo Ky, Inf, soder Putt 40 \ N.C. 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At last, I have found some material that: may prove to be good news, about the identity of my gr-gr-mother, widow of JEREMIAH GAITHER,I, I recently received a letter from Mrs, Bristol, in Statesville, daughter of Dr, Laugenour, in which she states that his papers mentions JEREMIAH'S two children, Frank and Wiley, Also, his.daughter, Matilda by his Ist. wife, , Eleanor (Lovelace) Gaither, and after the death of Jeremiah, his widow and her children, and Matilda went West, but nothing was known about them, Today, I spent the day in Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky, in the Court House, where I located three old Court Order Books, dating back to the year 1810, at which time Grayson County was founded, There has been three Court Houses burned at Leitchfield, but by some miracle or other, these three Order Books were saved by being out of the Court House at the time of the fires, Perhaps borrowed by some interested person, who was looking up early Records, amd by this they were saved. I am enclosing herewith, a copy of data I copied from these Books, which proves that Henry Hiram, John Frank and Wiley were al] three in that County, as well as reasonable proof of their mother, You will note; there was an Estate of a CLAGETT, who had died, being ~ settled, in which all three of the Gaither brothers seemed to be trying to gain some part of this Estate, Also, their mother, ELIZABETH INGLISH, was connected somehow, : As I have it, I think the widow of Jeremiah Gaither,I., remarried after his death, Perhaps she married Clagett, and after his death, maybe she remarried WILLIAM INGLISH (ENGLISH), As you will see, in 1830, when these preceedings were first began, Wiley and John Frank(lin) were both Minors, and perhaps the Suit was filed by their .older: brother, Henry Hiram Gaither, who was already of Lawful age. You will also NOTE, the names of several] persons from N,Carolina, and these persons , names are very familiar with us both, and have been mentioned many times between us, Please study this very closely, and then at your convenience, let me know what you think about it a]]. Any suggestions and/or additions will be welcomed and appreciated, oa 1 am writing to Mrs, Bristol, also, at this time, for her comments, Sincerely, lagh E Lathe... E, Gaither Member of National Genealogical Society — Kentucky Genealogist — Filson Club — Kentucky Historical Society FLOYD E. GAITHER eae Lo ISVILLE, Fenty eS MR: ns Pompe lit, ON SATURDAY, JULY, 31, 1965, I 1 WENT TO Thi COUNTY COURT CI CLERK #§ OFFICE AT LEITCHFIELD, GRAYSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY, WHERE [ SAW THREE OLD COURT ORDER SOCKS, WHICH HAD BEEN SAVED PROM THE THREE FIRES WHICH DESTROYED THE : COURT NOUSES THERE SINCE THE FOUNDING OF GRAYSON COUNTY, IN 1610, THESE THREE BOOKS DATE FROM THE YEAR 1810 TO JULY,30, 1835, ranean ) MeRE ARE A POW ENTRIES WHICH I COPIED, CONCERNING THE GAITHER FAMILY, cccenteee DATE: NTF; is jog : ~ pIsposrtraw: July, 26, 1830 } i ; JACK THOMAS APPTD .ADLITEN( 7) POR FRANKLIN and WILEY GAI THER, Oct ,2, 1830 3 : Anewer of Deft, Answer to complete to Crossbil! filed, Oct .26, 1830 : ct : Answer of Deft, filed, Oct, 27, 1830 ; Ly ‘Cont'd, Oct. 27, 1830 G ee : Leave given Compitr, to retake MOSES DUNN'S Depn, ah Oct, 27, 1830 } CLAGETT: leave to answer, Anaw'd and filed, Apr, 26, 183) 3 AMETT: Por want of rep'y to 2nd, : plea abated, July, 25, 183) sal" : Opens Demr, & De’, Dear, overru’ed, Apr, 27, 183) 3 . ; Cont'd, & Leave to file answer to Crossbi’)s without Osths, July, 25, 16837 sAIT > CLAGETT: vast. for Deft. on Oath, Oct. 23, 1832 iAITH CLAGETT: Cont'd, - Apr. 23, 1833 CLAGETT; PRAMKIIN GAITHER to answr, to -vrossbil), & FRANKLIN sALTHER gon abliten for wilkY GAITHER, Filed, or Pus’ ication fired Cert, of alllOTT J, SMITH, iditor of Kentucky Statesman, FLOYD E. GAITHER . 1005 CHESLEY DRIVE LOUSVILLE, KENTUCKY HENRY H, GAITHER VS CLAGETTS,Exors, Answer filed, GAITHER vs . ~ FIPS: . Diemissed. Agreed. GAITHER vs CLAGETTS,, &xors, Cont'd, ROGERS ~- vs ‘ CLAGETT: Leave to answer Bi’). Amt. made & filed & process answefed) against WILEY GAI THER to put against HIRAM GAITHER, Cent 'd, On motion & Oath of Defts,: _ @id anewer to take Depns. of JAMES HALL, JOHN GAITHER, THOMAS PRATHER, JOHN TOMLINSON, SOLOMON SUMMERS of N. Caro}ina, CLAG ETT: To put VS H@IRY H, GAITHER. CLAGETTS, éxors, Cont'd, CLAGETTS,Exors, On affidavit filed, Cont'd, for Deft, On motion Deft, leave to retake Depn, of DELILA CASH, “CLAGETTS, eaxors, 4511) presented with -Osts, App). granted on giving vend in Penalty of $ 75,00 in 30 days, WILEY GALTHER /S - CIAGETTS,ixors, Amended Bil) filed, JOHN PROBUS MAUVE Oath to ami filed his bil!, An Instinction is granted him against wIiLIAM ENGLISH &-. ELIZABETH ENGLISH for $ 39,89 cost of rep), bom in the name of said ENGLISHS,5r. Said PROBUS upon hie giving com# with FRANKLIN GAITHER, Sec’ty, in Penalty of $ 100 200 cont'd as Court directs, PROBUS 1S INGLISH: ont'd, INGLISH CLAGETT: ,anors, uomitted, ROGERS . - V3 ClabsTT), cxors, ‘suggested that Deft. a.tlzY Al THER has arrived to the age of 2’, and that he appear _at next -ourt to show why an attacnment should not be issued aga.net nim for not answering Bill. * * FLOYD E. GAITHER 1008 CHESLEY DRIVE se ‘ | LOUISVILLE) KENTUCKY.) ss Apr. 27, 1835 Commonwea'th WS «+= GALTHER:... ~ Cont! 40. ” Breckenridge County, Apr, 28, 1835 JOHN PROBUS VS " INGLISH: WILLIAM INGLISH and ELIZABETH INGLISH filed ' ; : separate answers, ; INGLISH “Ug —S Exors, Decree, PROBUS INGLISH: Cont'd, mane | PROBUS ‘ . INGLISH: Amended Bi)! filed, ROGERS : CLAGETTS, ators, Amended Bi)? filed “oe ard process answered against WILEY GAITHRR, ROGERS 2 GAITHER: Pipa issued & filed, _ Buté. for Deft, & (7) $.50.00 on JOHN CLAGETT.. GAITHER ROGERS & NEIGHBORS: : Diemiseed by order of Pinft, PROBUS i | INGLISH; Cont'd, _8 ROGERS i GAITHER: § Digmissed, Agreed. ROGERS ; GAITHER: . Judge to Cont), 20G ERS CLAGETTS, sxors, Leave given Deft. to retake Jepns, of THOMAS M, YATES, ard others, ami demand answers, ar -\o take Vepesitions of shit NGGRRY GAITHER and eWO. JAI THAR, of N, Carolina, CLAJETTS, saors,. Anewered & sworn to ard {\\ed to operate a Cross- oi)" against JOHN ROGERS and FRAMALIN GAITHER, 0 HHH. » Hb? + HME E6oe 6 6 OP CCS8C Oe THe. ABOVs ENTRY WAS THE LAST ONE IN THIS BOOK: % NOTARY PUBLK PHOTO COPY FLOYD E. GAITHER GENEALGGICAL RESEARCH 1005 ‘Chesley Drive Louisville, Kentucky 40219 : Phone: 964-4671 Mr, T.&.Swann Statesville, N.C. Dear Mr. Swann: I just had to write to you, and tel] ‘you the latest in our endeavors to trace our North Carolina Gaither family, and obtain proof of same, At last, I have found the proof of my Great-grand-father, - I was in Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky, yesterday, and Photo-copied some rea] old Court Orders.(Which by some miracle or other has escaped the; three fires of the Grayson Courity Court Houses.) Among these Court Orders, I found definite proof, that wILxY GAITH«x was the son of JEREMIAH GAITHER, as you will see on the Photo-copied sheet which I am enclosing herewith, . Dug to the age of the paper in the book,(it being yellow) I was unable to make teal good copies, but one can read the copies I made, without too much difficulty, There are many jentries in this Book, showing the names of HENRY HIRAM, JOHN FRANKLIN and wWILeY GAITHER, Although it does not say that they are brothers, I am jconvinced that they were, due to the fact, they were a1 three concerned with the Settlement of the Clagett «state, If this were not true, then the entries would not show thus: _ Clagetts, exorsh . Among these suits, there are the names involved of the NEALE, ROGERS, | INGLISH, etc, ' Now, Somewhere there is a marriage Record of ELIZABETH WILLIAM ENGLISH, or ELIZABETH (CLAGETT) GAITHER to WILLIAM INGLISH, I firmly believe the wife of WILIIAM INGLISH (&NGLISH) was the widow of JERiMIAH GAITH“R, and that she re-married after the death of JERMMIAK Please study these entries I am sending you, and then te’! me exactly what you believe, Sincerely wn + fw / P & hore id het Floyd E, Gaither \ Member of National Genealogical Society —- Kentucky Genealogist —/ Filson Club — Kentucky Historical Soctery i ee ee A FEd ENTRIES COPIED FROM COURT ORDER [BOOK NUMBER THREE: (Apr. 23,13 GRAYSON COUNTY, KENTUCKY: Copied Sept, 1., 1465. # eee oo Oot Tues, Apr, 24, 1832: <(NGLISH VS CLAGETTS: Or put against HIRAM GAlTHon: = = ™ . " ° . : FRANKLIN GAITHER gon abliten ‘o WiLZY GAITHER, Infant Orpha: o: JSREMIAH GAITHER, decd, - Mon, Apr.22, 1833: INGLISH VS CLAGSTT: FRANKLIN GAITHER answer to vro « PRANKI.IN GAITH&EX zon anliten ! wi LSY GAITHER filed, or publ: filed, Cert. of ELLIOTT SMITH o: Kentucky otatesma: Wed, Apr.24, 1833: ROGERS VS CLA TT Leave to amend bil), Amt. made ‘ &«& process answered, £ gfdddddJagainst wiicY cA. Tok, ans put against HIRAM GAlTnsk, duly, 23, 1833: JOHN ROGERS VS CIAMTT:,exrs, John Clagett made oatn to * r nis separate answer. Charles and allen Chagett filed and sworn to joint answer, © INGLior Vo CLAGETT: On motion & oath of Defts,decided + - . agreed to take Depons, of JAMs5 All, JOHN GAITHER, THOMAS PRATHcR, JOHN TOMLINSON & SOLOMON SUMMERS of N. Carolina, > : Or put VS, HENRY H, GAITHER INGLISH V> <LAGETT: On motion filed, contd, for eft, . On motion Deft, leave to retake Denon, of DELILAH CASH, ROGERS VS CLAGETT: Leave given to retake Vepon, of THOMAS M, YATES & others, -and to take Depons, of GREENBERRY GAITHER & ENOS GAITHER, of North Carolina Amended answer sworn to “« filed to operate as Croos bil! agnst. JOHN ROGERS & FRANKLIN GAITH:s« NM — . ad : =“ S i aA 1003 SHESLEY. ORIVE OUsSNILLE« IBN 2 oe i CA “fe i se ne iM ‘i 2hetew fr? MAD Leas TE fbrakt, me Mi < eta ions A die Ae ate irr ~ ae Et ” Alot * loft 0 ion ie —_ ~ a ee a - ts a. Mlees ad fr Pra bor & Be «th ia “ a> MAWwws! fRbaa> . : Matus 3 ? Cosas t. stot ume ee. 2 /° y ieeninnnien t I @wgne e* Scat v A 4 td tar. A¢ ; x on bre f Ox \ / aa Cha. po { 0 Der f c CA : b. dha a : SPP E KS Fiks COM XK abe) ee Ch d bor dete tu 4K a IY . Ss ~4 = Cy TE M4 ake. o / ? ENTRIES FOUND 1K OLD ORDER BOOKS OF TW GRATSON COUNTY, KEUCY CIRCUIT COURT: April,23, 1832 te July, 30, 1635, Mon, Apr.23, 1832, NEALE VS CLAGETT: Referred to H.Bjlorre). INGLISH VS CLAGETTS, exore, Contd. Tues, April, 2, “1832, INGLIQ@9 VS CLAGETTS: Or put agnet. HIRAM GAITHM, INGLISH VS CLAGETTS: FRANKLIN GAITHER ased, gon abliten for WILEY GAITHER, —_— — of JERBC AH GAITHER decd ,. Mon, Oct, 22, 1832, : NEALE VS CLAGETT: Order of reference, Set aside by agreement & referred to THOMAS CAMERON & H.B.HORRE]L, & Contd, + Tues, Oct, 23, 1832, INGLISH VS CLAGETT: Contd, GAITHER VS CLAGETT: Contd, A Mon, Apr, 22, 1833 INGLISH “VS *cuaail, FRANKLIN GALTMER anewer te Cross bill, & FRAMKLIN GAITWER gen abliten for WILY GAITHER, filed, or publication filed, Cert, ef ELLIOTT SMITH, Editor of Kentucky Stat oman, : , Tues, Apr, 23, 1833, _ : NEALE VS CLAGETTS: Exception to award withdraw, an Judgement on averd, HENRY H, GAITHER VS CLAG&TTS, exors, Answer filed, GAITHER VS FIFE, Dismiseec, Agreed, BEALL Vs PIF, " a LINCOLN VS FIFE, " Ml INGLISH VS CLAG&TT, Contd, GAITHER VS CLAGETT, 7 " a, Wed, Apr, 24, 1833, ROGERS VS CIAGETT: Leave to smend bil!, Ast, made & filed & process answered against wIlZY :AlTHeR, and, or put againet HIRAM GAITHEX, Mon, July, 22, 1833, sAITHER VS CLAUETTS,exors. Contd, ROGERS VS CLAGETTS, " . CLAGETT VS NEAL&, " Tues, July, 23, 1833, ROGERS VS CLAGETTS,emors, Defts, filed a Dear, to 2m ete bill, Deml, argued and ovemlec Defts, filed (_ 7? ) anc =s1¢ part of record, FLOYD ES 1008 CHES _ LOURVILLE, INGLISH VS CLAGETTS: CLAGETTS VS NEALE: INGLISH VS CLAGETTS: Oct. 29, 1833: INGLISH VS CLAGETTS: GAITHER vs CLAGETTS, exors, Oct, 30, 1833: a CLAGETT VS NEALE: UP Linder nade oa CLAGETT VS NEALE: Completion red @ except ten te al, Linterte ner, Tues, Apr, 29, 1834: INGLISH VS CLAGETTS: CIAGETT VS NEALE: Wed, Apr, 30, 1834: ie, «i, ROGERS VS CLAGETT: Saniiy: te, retaxe on, INGLISH VS SAITHER VS CLAGETTs, exors, Bill disend, itis ‘Cotes. am. cranes & giving bond in fenalty of § 75, in % days, WILEY GAITHER VS CLAGETTS, emors, Amended 311) ‘\'ed, Tues, July,29, 1834, JOHN nests made oath to & filed his of11, An injunction is him against William English & Elisabeth English for ocd amt, of rep?, bond in the name of said Eng! or said Probus impose his giving bend with Franklin Gaither, secty, in Penalty of $ 200,00, Contd, as the Court directs, = ; FT OD e. ¢ 'reirt Y¥OOS CHESLE) OHiy E Thurs, Oct, 30, 1834: rps ES ROGERS VS CLAGETTS, exors, Suggested thet Deft, wiley Gaither has arrived to the age of 21, and thet-he appear at next Court to Shew why an Attachment should not be issued against him for net answering 3111, Tues, Apr, 26, 1835: ‘ J PROBUS VS INGLISH: William Inglish and Elisabeth Inglish filed separate answers, a Page Three, ROGERS VS CLAGETTS: Jonr -lagett filed an answer, Wed, Apr, 29, 1335: PROBUS VS INOLISH: Amenited Bill filed, : VS CLAGETTS, exors, Amended Bill filed & Process served against diley Gaither, as PROBUS ROGERS VS GAITHER: Piles ret, © Bil’ filed extd, for Deft. & Al Jotment of $ 50,00, by John Clagett, ROGERS VS GAITHER: ee Diemd, agreed, e e e Petition) Judgement. complete, There. July,%, 1835; 4 : ROGERS YS CLAGETT: Leave given Deft, to retake Depon, of THOMAS M. YATES « others, and te take Depons, of GREENBERRY GAITHER, and ENOS GAITHER of North Carolina, , ROGERS VS. CLAGETTS: Amended anewer sworn to and filed to operate as - Croee Bi)’ ageinst JOHN ROGERS and FRANKLIN GAITHER, \. This was the last Entry in this Book, Al) other Records of later dates were destroyed by fire, Three Court Houses have burned in Leitchfield, Grayson County, Kentucky, The first burned @uring the Civil War; the eecent burned in 1886; the third burned in 19%. | % By sme miracle or other, these first three Court Order Books escaped a7) three fires, : Copied and prepared as nearly the same as found in the Hecords a8 possible, Many of the abbreviations are not east to under stand, Prepared by FLOW 8. GAITHER, Sept, 1965, Tv NOTE: The’ JOHN PROBUS mentioned above, was a brother to the wife of WILEY-GAITHER, | : DAY, shown on page two, was a ‘daughter of Henry Clagett, She married SQUIRE DAY, and is buried fairly close to where I was reared, Squire Day.is buried in same small Family Cemetery, (This old Cemetery is situated in a field, and will soon be among the lost,) wrt omy Lok ZABETH PHOTO COPY ~— FLOYD E. GAITHER , GENEALOGICAL’ RESEARCH * 1005 Chesley Drive Louisville, Kentucky 40219 Phone: 964-4671 Mr, 7 £.Swann otatesville, N oe ‘Dear Mr, Swann: ~ Now, I will try to answer your letter of 9/10/65, I was very. happy to hear from you, and to learn about the location of the land of HENRY CLAGETT, on Long Branch, of Hunting Creek, and’to know it was not too far from the land of JEREMIAH GAITHER,I, Now, after learning for certain, that my Grand-father, WILEY GAITHER was a son of JEREMIAH,I., and was concerned some way in the Settlement of ne the Estate of CLAGETT, in Grayson County, Ky.,I am wondering Ee would not be some Records of some sort, concerning the Settlement of s ustate in Iredel} County, and if perhaps these Records would not show the names of HENRY ‘HIRAM, .JOHN FRANKLIN. and WILEY GAITHER, as wel) as possibly a AY sister or two, .that we have never heard of, * In the Photo-copy which I sent you, you wil] note, that oe Suit in Court was; INGLISH VS CLAGETTS, in which it mentions FRANKLIN GAITHER,. assd, gon abliten for WILEY GAITHER, Infant Orphan of JEREMIAH GAITHER, decd, What else could this mean, except: that WILEY'S mother had died, already in 1832, at the time this Suit-was in Court-?? Had his mother beew still livin, I do sat thet it vikely that he would be referred to as an Orphan, (7) * 2621 enclose herewith, séme more data which may cause still mone confusion in one's thinking, In pert, I wil] make this, nine a ve a see what I[ am wondering, (N2XT PAGE) € Member of National Genealogical Society — Kentucky Genealogist — Filson Club — Kentucky Historical Socrety _& @ Ls ’ 27 (.. 199 | In the 1830 cenets 0 of Grayson County, Kentucky, I oe as follows:~ WILLIAM INGLISH: 7 male 10/15; } male 20/30 male. 0/505: __————"_ 1 female sees 1 female -20 2 70/80, We know these children were not the children of this female 70/80 years old; Now, could they be the children by another wife, a former Marriage, and this 70/80 year old female, be his second wife, and peneiehy the Widow of HENRY CLAGETT 77777 , ee There is still some cummethat between WILLIAM and ELIZABETH INGLISH, and JOHN FRANKLIN and WILEY GAITHER, What could it be %7 I might clear up one thing, now, HENRY CLAGETT married ELIZABETH HAYS, daughter of JEREMIAH HAYES, of Montgomery County, Maryland, You probably knew this, already, I will not try to go into too much detail here, and prepare some other data to include with this letter, Will be happy to hear from you, ened any time, and to know what you . think oon this whole thing, / Sincerely Yours, tlt Gaither doin {e ipa /0, poi oe lle. ie ally Frat A Houbd it Dida © a 2 nbag 2 POLL Der Fe we A sre po hoc Beary sxckehial Po We bat A te aan nek, o- Lk Vou. es PO A Hare fe-2 7 eth ice ee [Fen Clan Io ts. dindlorn MES ee ‘Ateartlus pee ee tay hg tek oie 5 Had wr antacsta five Sia f PRA rie CO tle beece ae te ok cs Baek Len [he SEs oheccs el iM mos of wae. Mobi 2 ponwurte/ tae. & Waals licens Sune va/ ae a S71 oe oe as: PrKL2a ors Cone. gq Vek Arwit 20 te g Q7O Cerrs! on, Poth Lord b20, Lbs ‘i hele rs Mond S.- Sonent ty —— TV o2xbenaw» Sfprearche, sober, ba. Kapa anh Jorg =f bea £ meek — Ho ural {h, (il: a a a Oru Alt.., nt More ar llc. egy 179% or S®e8eed SOCbd00bd6 ye Aai-o ee Khe Saggy ha / 33 YY q) Z Oo (Mans lL), baa beta} Modes — g a q TRINA Ry KE besas bg. J “beens (brs PPC eK eS 1 bow $e Lact ~ ecg A P od LIG / J Gc pre a, | Vo 75TH ind’ Lehirc. Ad act LCeA py ie of , 77 a rbiiathsl. tr oc ale pria/ Male. A Kane we ate PU Zo a od Co. ‘~ Zh, Z. (WA, woke 9rd lone= La Fnscd lif. Cn Jagrce aie CerelK c Xu. ‘ , . 7 CLAW bee FU" C4 V9 £27 aE ape “fore, fe Lee : a. c cheer . Cla itl eutire s ne), So Brick, Zn A Berke CY OF ds 4K» ny, / Meek ¢ Neglixe: hg ed tii, 1k, oF a > A SF rlé WY aren hpn epee A bch XK. ne Wer, Zw KCerrge< QU notes Men). Fasendirng CA A 6) Serncut OF /Rario U/a@ a fe, ‘a ot Maron, ‘ Ss. 2 Rapin ad a 4792 yg o 7 ‘ > X & < — < f ¥ => wg ¢ oe / f SQ) — ee fe. a4 c 4. ti cebz ee \ ~~ Se nol she elaogst- A, (89: 3 i eee AAT, decane | ay si) Rihe. Leama wen ne Mirnyi A EAS Uhh lU-ek lefrarsr 2. Blak / KE 5 bu cl pwr R plo 4 Clagaege ? - 7 ee Sah aa /IPP ‘ : (reek Cla c.! : Chew j me “At... {7/2- | Vana Cniky > [¢ be nee fears f Cnf i Francis when provision was made to and Charles Ross élect new commissioners and , William §. Moore), Margaret doesthat leave 187. Or, for that W. (wife of a Mr. Reid), James and matter, where does that leave a tos William. quasi-quasquicentennial sched- as So far as I know all these duled to fall in 19717 i i | ) “ae: we: 1 Ic ge ‘Vrisec. s ee a | rz z \407 7} 7 - zr 2 >> A nN Se I .' re ao! =" 7 a oe ‘ »y « ¥ ~ G < 4 € Eva thinks as you do, that dne of Henry Clacett's daughters, may ~ be Matilda Clagett had married Jeremiah I. She is listed as marvied to a Heavenhill. I wonder if Eva sent to you a copy of the "Clagett Family"? <y copy just came, and if she didn't and you want it, will be glad to send & whole copy to you. Here is a portion of it: : : “slagett Fanily" Henry Clasett and wife went to Iredell Co., i,o., with Quily at the close of the Revolution. after 45 years re qoodford co., Ky. (When he came to Kentucky his children his sister Ann & etee a4 S € j crown and were married. Cheaner land etc.: was the reason Henry moved next , to Gray - n 50. Kentucky. ©) @o mr ct oO , b. Jun. 28, 1753 aryland, died N.C., zm. Dec. &, 1774, kearyland to JOHN SUMMERS, and they hacs ° : “harles Clegett Summers b. 1775 (twin?) Mary Summers b. 1775 no-recora Ruth Summers b. 1782 no recora Basil Summers b.. 1783 no record Ann Summers b. 1785 ‘no record Joseph Sumuers b. 1789 no Sanaa ees mal SOLOMON SU...ERS b. 1792 no record (Note, he married Susannah Tomlinson; “both buried at..t. Bethel seth. Ch\ Yard near Statesville, N.Oe, a8 are her parents. 8. William Summers b. 1794. no Pesord. (jas this JOHN SU. JERS! a son. of old Wm. “Sy. who had: 3 wives ?) ~_— £ - ~~) OV < “i ae * renry clagett, b. Mar. 18, 1755 (or 1751). rrederick Co... (Gd. s- 2306 Mes in trayson| Co., Ky., . in Maryland 1760 to Eliz eC a nr go Sau. of Jeremiah Hayes. They had: 1, Delilah Clagett so married tO et “2. WATILDA CLAGETT bd. oarried yeni} allen cla et oS; varried reb. 16 “TBIT 4 ; Kentucky, ANN SU:MERS, dau. of WM. Suuuers. Sharles Clagett Db. 1787 2? in Iredell Co., N.C.» neoecca Gay; uerriea cna nutn HOSKINS - . John Clagett ob. no marriage / » Elizebeth Clacett b. 1794 married Squire Day, 7. Mary Ann [lage b.. 1799 married John Butler (In the 1790 Census Henry had a male over 16 in his home. He was born 1774 or earlier. enry married 1780. In 1820 Census he had 3 males under 10, nd Eva thinks they could be the little Gaither boys. I do not know what to make of this Clagett connection. ‘lo you? ~ Sincerely, lor Eva's new data on the Clagetts. miah I had expressed his wishes in the meople, and if he had avvnoin r his three little Gaither bovs sO hyY., berore y charre, anc ud 80 iere 4ne r 3 “AJ al ca oe nevALH dial < rh A vel 1 DATE Ag t ASA. th. oa — ” NAWE OF PERSON SU ta <a tlh ‘ STREET ADDRESS ~ BV ITTING CHART PEDIGREE CHART 4} ‘ : 4 ‘ E x pfu ZL 7 Calente 4 Z / = Born in fiz LAL DIA Fy Where When married Died Where 7 hee 4 Llagghs Citra Born 119 is, Where ‘Lh de” When married Died Where [ehOasck geciggs Cobbs Be Se J Born /y d 7 , Where When: married Died Where Lie 2 Leh /i —— Jorn /§ } /. J ‘ ¥ 4 he re When Died Where Wes a/ £7 ’ ‘ j Yallroud biond b20< 12 : - Born 9 b6Q/ Jura Where Nhen married Naw fo. i, KL ss tf 14 \ BorV J/9Z4 Where Le La When married Died Where . (MART NO. et: ti, 7, “ Born Where When Died Where married - A hei huuheuat . shin AaY Born Where When married Died ; y) 4 Wages Ag ce, * : (or Where 4h. Je ss ry ae . Zhyomea mM Coli Yo ig LT) egd ABOVE NAME CHART Born IFAC Ww al oe 4 + a Where /3 7, : When married ONVINU&D ON ; Died Where ‘i j / 7s r ip AdaAdHh (op piikh, 4 A . aM NTIN fo C Born iy 7 = Where a pegisd i 44 When marri€éd Died Wherg- want AX ily esl Ye. pr te} n TI E / < orn Ad nf ‘ \ Born / 7 Where When Died Where Aer a4 « <1 os married ; ® aheld iy tye. ABOVE N + + <a ED ON CHART Born : where //icdd- ada gpyl-e When married 2 Died Where LLL BH? nape Bora Whefe When Died Where Denim Bede ant Cbezah i. aye = ts Ligtee: alter Fhe “ - fs eer: f | oe “Lot bnar ttf sr fitarerg Path / ee Avery, (£00 yet CR a aA a i LA ee - cree “* f . . ma... [60 Cate 2 mit Cee 1) 2 Hewd For +f 23 Hew Cae Miaperd, One PIS of Fa MAK 4 2 Y ge F “flea Me .wan 1 A tons Se Yad t QT Yor Chie a Ko fe inan fondly a7 ow re A eek yey uv fired crt . i Atay ay 7 a 0 SMaicdkuitkit, te Cindur o eiry Eu ity by + fo re Pw ntithkea Wet Ae Wert blaster Age preit has? | Zertag Wet hte | Fenty PRO BAIR OPS | fy ot Aa thane / C hark, Leahed tir va. Cberk a fttumid Aha wae Jud a Chik tp lbt Seg? Ke Akhkaleor | Jit a ts ane fF He AL gore rn Cm WAG) “A — Lhtke swonhick Ltatat oe tltatho Nathanie / Hele mari Clarke Lece! bgp AE [555 S blew fund Hn. Maycil nanidh his 3 2b. Child bilan Hole Wa ¢) Ma Xue e/. Ki, WUuD Aon Sept 19, 1652» heed Cet fk, 76 A feet Ablen 1477 Aui2/ oe cA Y fies Pht fy CN 2b ¢ i Somitute f Ae 7 harhe LF 00 eo oe ta tt At Aten AAhLY ‘ Mav. While th) wtre FOL L4n IgO6. £4 Yu. hae Ch Fahy | there Ger Ahe Ais ia lt ft Zz LA o Cs / Painter, Dies at 60 HIGH POINT — Mrs. Lila Moore Keen Bennett, 60, knows as “The Lady of the Camel- STATESVILLE — Miss Rosa- | * mond Clark, 67, of 304 East| yw. End Avenue died at 11:30 a.m. lias” because of her paintings of yesterd flowers, died at 4:30 a.m. yes- terday at High Point Memorial Hospital. The artist was best known by her name, Lila Moore Keen. She and her hus- band, C. M. Bennett, came to High Point in 1948 and estab- lished studios. He died in 1959. Mrs. Bennett’s flower paint- ings-drew attention at Camellia and Azalea Shows, and her works were re shown in the National Galery of Art in | Washington, D.C. She was born in Cleveland, Ga., and spent her early life in . ttended pub- lie schools in Winder and Agnes Seott College in Decatur, “a. She is survived by @ daugh- | ter, Mrs. Jane Keen Odis of Pascagoula, Miss.;.a son, James L. Keen Ill of Marietta, Ga.; four + two sisters, Mrs. Odessa Hilsman and Mrs. Susanna Forde, and a brother, ‘Edgar M. Moore, all of Jack- sonville Beach, Fila. The funeral will be conducted at 3 p.m: Friday at St. Mary's Episcopal Church by the Rev. William P. Price. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The body will be at Koonce Funeral Home until taken to the | church at the funeral hour. Coy Church LENOIR — The funeral for | Coy Church, 82, of Lenoir, Rt. 5, | will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday at Blair's Fork Baptist Church by the Rev. Gamble, the Rev. Ray Davis and the Rev. J. J. Buckner. Burial will be in Belleview Cemetery. Church died at 5 Tuesday in a Lenoir after a long iliness. He was born in Wilkes 730 p.m. pospital | County pye. , was a member of ork Baptist Church. ¢ ate his wife, Mrs. Church; five daugh- R. T. Lovette of 3. C. J. Jones irs. RB. W. — Jerry | ay at Iredell Memorial 3 Hospital, where she had been a) patient four weeks. bss Miss Clark was a well-known | M newspaperwoman, civic and re-|w ligious leader of Statesville. For | g many years she was social tor of the Statesville Daily, of which her father, Rufus R.|n Clark, was editor. She was later |, social editor of the Statesville Record and Landmark. She was a past president of the Statesville Business and Pro- fessional Women’s Club served as Statesville and 1957. { She was a member of the Fort } Dobbs chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution and a member of the Eclectic Club. She also served as secretary the Statesville Public Library Board. Pp Altrusa Club Born in Iredell She was born in Iredell Co ty to Rufus and Nolie Rosem car ace 4 Sa | Mitehell College - ceived her Bachelor of Arts de from Duke University where she also did gradua work. Miss Clark was a member ¢ First Presbyterian Chure where she taught @ Sunda school class many years. Miss Clark is survived by a sister, Miss Hope Clark of Statesville, and several cousins. ‘The funeral will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Friday at First Presbyterian Church by the Rev. Neill R. McGeachy. Burial will be in Oakwood Cemetery. The body will be at Nicholson Funeral Home until the hour of | the service. The family will be at the home of Miss Jakie Foster of \932 W. Front Street. to Winston and Nelia Carlton | h. He was a retired poltal | Rodgers Dies; Official of Inns SALISBURY — Bob Rodgers, manager of Holiday Inn here from 1958 to 1961, died vv. - > Congres WAS EASTER BASKsrT Seine . Easter recess is traditionally a measurine point for a session of Conere liormally, the work of the session is well along by this time. Congressional are usually grinding out the regular annual vills and lesislative committees deeply involved in a wide variety of subjects dealing wit the nation's needs This year is no exception. iiew controversies an crises have been arising that the leadership in the Congress has been unable to course. Most Senators and Congressmen returned to the: recess and are now back to Washington with some. new perspectives on the issues are facing the country. maintain a 1) \ The great issues involving Vietnam, civil disorders, and econonmi encompassing that they obscure other matters that are als6 pendi the Congress. Only one major bill in the President's legislative procram t has been finally approved on Capitol Hill and delivered to the White house. the civil rights legislation that the House passed ion an emotional tide t the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. All the rest are either "iting consideration or sre incomplete, “Among these are bills, good and bac ring with the balance of payments, anti-crime measures, wiretapping, fun Fug abuse, employment opportunities, housing, funds for the model cities and uP lement prverene, anti-poverty program money, hospital aid, college assistance ang youutieonnal) ‘ . are so ill > @’lneation, Stil) other nm air safety. In an easures concern foreign aid, the truth-in-lending program, and other group of bills are measures The only Clark I found in the 1850 Iredell Census was James Clarke, and he hed no Jane’ in his family. The only Clarke I found in Davie County--heads of household--were Williar Clark, Ben}, “lark, David Clark, and Amelia Clark, and none of these had a Jane in the household either, - I have been real pusy the past several months have had very little time for genealo;y. Headin: Oklahoma Genealorcical Society this yerr takes but I try to delegate as much of that work to oesible, The gumrer was ratner quiet with us--did vacation to Texas to see the “aughter, It now ap that my Bast week of vacation wil! also be snent the daurhter in Texas, but this tive to attend her Since she was the only child, the thought of her ¢ married used to bring moist eyes, but since she is 23 years old, I must realize getting married is th orn a thing for. her-to do. Even though it may no longer-—be the custo”, T ab reciated her husbend-to-be calling the ocst Sunday afternoon asking for our vermissior and blessings. Let me “now what other counties to search, will do that during the free ti:e.I have at noon, Sincerely, fi n.z he fce - V23 . 4.~1C. /9/2- bippivies (Teo Gla pet ate EAT Sewlles topes Bapley. A. fee a2 ji *2 Oe ce (— 227° | } rat elerke Wa 2 my x J 4 hig i A / 2c 7 - ere tl von ; Jie + Of ar ‘] ))? dba. ate es oy b hin H«ze! 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