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Oldest Newspaper|0 South Carolina. _^ m ?4; EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDKfSDAY, FEBRUARY 10th, 1909. _ N0-2' The B. Y. P. U in the Church. D. NIXON DORN*. ,The Baptist church needs a train ing ground for its young members. An organization for- the develop i ment of its new material. A meet ing that seeks to bring out the cap abilities of their members, and teaches them to put these capabili ties into practice, for their own good and more especially for the good of thosj around them. Some one has said: "Leaders are horn, not made." But if there are boin leaders amongst us, there must be some place of development for these leaders, so that they will be efficient arid capable to lead. It is said that Armour, che *'meat k;ng," had his son to start at the lowest position in his great meat es tablishment in Chicago, and gradu ally work bis way through every de tail ju the meat packinjg business. By mastering every detail in the work, he is prepared to be an effi cient and capable leader in his heri tage. Just so with the young church member, if he is ever to be a wide-a wake, working member, he must be trained, and in touch with the min utest details of church work. Such-a place we claim the B. Y. P. U. is, if properly conducted and carried on. Not only a place to show you, what to do, bm; how to do. The church isjreally composed of people of hidden possibilities. Per haps naturally capable to do a great deal towards furthering the work of the church. How are thty to \ be gotten into the work? We have had preachers for ages. We must have men to carry on t.lie work, where are they to be had? How can they be gotten! The answer is, Train the young church member to do the work. Without this train ing, we not only lose the work which they may do. and thc help to others, but soon we lose the young member himself And perha ps he is 3 never again to be reached. They must be trained in such a. way that they will meet the requirements of the church work of today. Can't ' the B. Y. P. U. do this work? The church must have something of the character of the'B. Y. P. U. in order to have leaders and workers for the future. The S. S. needs workers. The prayer meet ing is carried on by the faithful few. The Mission work needs helpers. Can't a B. Y. P. U help to fur nish these? What use have Church es for eloquent and well-educated preachers? The members are not competent to listen. The Superin tendent of the Sunday School must have help or else he can't carry on his work. The present Missionaries and Missionary workers cannot for ever carry on their present labors. The Church of the coming genera tion will have to be a step backward . unless it work gets recruits from somewhere. A pastor of a new Church in the upper part of our State, a cit y church tells his members that all have a work to do in the Church and must be at it, if he is to be their pastor. When a Church gets grown, it will soon be on the decline, for the work must either go forward or it will go backward of itself. The Sunday School is where the Bible is taught. The B. Y. P. . U. is where you are trained to use this Bible. Every part of B. Y. P. U. work is essentially What is to be done, how is it to be done? The Christian culture course in the B. Y. P. JJ. gives its members instructions in Baptist doctrine, church usages, mission and evangel ical work. The Sunday School furnishes the majority of the converts for the churches, this is the aim of the Sun day School. The B. Y. P. TJ. instructs these new members along the lines of Christian activity and the use of whatever efforts they control in the efficient extension of the kingdom of Christ. * ^ . Why does the B. Y. P. JJ. exceed the Prayer Meeting in the training of the young church member? My 'observation is, in the first place, yOu cant get them to attend the pray er meeting, there is nothing for them to do. To have a person in tel ested in any kind of work he must- have some part of it to do. The B. Y. P. U. is carried on by the young church members them selves. They have a regular course of study. These studies are of course based on the Bible, church doctrine, missionary and evangelical work. The meeting is devotional, bu$ not altogether so. The work is adapted to the needs of the younger worker and furnishes information which will keep alive the energy aifd "go-forwardness" of those engaged in it. This work is based on some material to be used. Each meeting links with the last and points to the one that comes next. The subjects furnish food for thought. Becoming acquainted with the subject urges on to new work and experiences. "The Sunday School teaches; the B. Y. P: U trains those who are taught". The Sunday School fur nishes the young Convert to the Church, the B. Y. P. U. trains him to do work in the church. From , the Sunday School the church mem ber is first realized; from his train ing in the B. Y. P. IT. he is able to help in the church work. The Sun day School teaches its members the Bible, the B, Y. P. U. instructs them how to put this knowledge to practical and benficial use. The B. Y. P. U. has'clearly a place to fill which no other church auxil iary has yet filled. "Practice makes perfect", and if the talents of the young church members are put to use, they will be developed as they can in no other way. Some have talents in one direction and some in another. On whatever line of work these talents lay they should be found out, so as to bring out the highest possibilities in them and mature their possessors along the lines of the greatest good. The men and women, who are the leading spirits of the church to-day will not "be here always. With the proper encouragement and care in B. Y. P. U. work, men and women will be trained to take these places and anxious to help in the work for the extension qf Christ's Kingdom. The "Man of the Hour" is with us today. With his present development, he has his own way. But when comes the morrow, oh where shall he be, His energy past his usefulness will flee. For morrows must come and victors must fade, With achievements forgotten he'll be "in the shaue". So we must plan for the future, while we triumph to-day, That the morro AV may break, in e'en brighter" array. This should berthe motto; "Be never content", It will account for progress* which none will repent. If the B. Y. P U. doeth its best, year in and year out, Each year they'll do better, without any doubt. Thanks His Friends. Mr. A. J. Ouzts, who by dint of hard work and close attention to business has steadily improved his farm since settling near McKendree, ( had the misfortune to lose his barn by fire recently, and has requested us to convey his sincere thanks to his neighbors for their heroic work in saving his stock and vehicles. Had not Mr. Ouzts' f riei ds come to his assistance the loss would have been much greater. Cabbage Plants: We have all varieties of sea-coast cabbage plants for sale. Received fresh by express. Dunovant & Co. We have ii In this lot of Buggies, Open r EXCELLENT ADDRESS. Extracts From Address by Prof. J. N. Harper Before the Live Stock Association. "No man can measure the farmers' ' opportunities, and Lhe progress that is now being made along all lines of agricultural development throughout our country is simply wonderful. But, gentlemen, Ave are not making the progress that we should. How ever, within the last year many fac tors have been at work improving the agricultural conditions of our state. Among these may be mention ed the work of the State Agricultu ral and Mechanical Society, the Farmers' Union, this Live Stock as sociation, the grand work of our State department of agriculture, the work of,the State experiment station the work of our Agricultural and Mechanical college and the work of the United States deparment of agri culture. Some one has said, 'Though the art of agriculture is far older than civilization yet this world wide vocation is still in the infancy of its development.' "I believe that every acre can be made to quadruple its present aver^ age production and it will when the larger demands are made upon it. At this meeting I wish to say as briefly as possible that we can not hope to make much progress in gen eral agriculture without ' keeping considerable more live stock. It is not probable that there will ever be a complete revolution in our present system of farming. Southern soils are naturally better suited to cotton than to most any other crop, and for ages cotton will be the chief money crop. "There are, however, a great many plants that could be grown here , profitably in proper rotation with the crops that are now grown that ] would materially change our present ? methods, and to convert these crops . into ready money, we must keep , more live stock. How often has it- ,j been said that the one crop system" ' is the curse of the South. No coun- ?j try of any itge has 'evTSr*remained permanetly wealthy agriculturally . that depended upon one or two crops and before we can ever hope \ to make any advancement we must , stop devoting so much of our labor land and time to cotton. j "lt is true farm labor has been i more or) less demoralized in the 1 South for 40 years and for many years the farmers have been forced i to sell their main money crop for J about wh?t it cost to produce it.This condition'was caused largely by debt and the condition of things general ly but there is a gradual improve ment. The farmers of the South are i getting to be more independent. < However we must confess that the i labor problem is still at its worst ] and there are a great number of our farmers who are still drifting around i (Continued to eighth page) i i transit a solid forty buggies w Run-abouts wit JOHNSTON NEWS. Mrs. W. L. Coleman left on Mon day for Savanna!),;'Ga., for a visit to her sister Mrs. Mary Ryals. Mrs. Grey,';fo$ Greenville, has been visiting her cousin, Mrs. G. P. Cobb. Mrs. Emma. Mibbley entertained a few of her friends with a dining on last Thursday, Mr. Will ; Hoyt will leave this week for Asheville, N. C., for a visit to his little daughter. Messrs. Luke; Rushton and Cip Jones of Batesburg^ visited relatives here on Sunday. V ' Judge J. D. Al??jhV. of Edgefield, was a welcomed.: v^ifibr-here on last Monday. "vV-V' Mrs. W. B. Cojffbnxn .and Miss Ruth Cogburn viBi?ed at the home of Mr. A. P. Lott last week. The UnioVStatidn; a comedy, by the home talent, .'and under the di rection of Miss Critchfield, of In diana, will be had;Jii Friday even ing, 12th, atthe^^?fcoi auditorium, and promises to he^ry amusing. Mr. H. D. G.rarx?ow of Branch ville, . yjsited ffiendmere this. week, ^'jmss Harriet frWey enterai ned six of her' girl friends with a lun cheon on Friday ofjfcliis week. Mrs. M. E. ?SJ?J^ spent several days of last weeks1 fm Aiken at the home of her brothe^Mr. Myers. Mrs. Mary Ashle^of Fruit.,4jill, spent a few days l?^fehis weekdiere with her brother, Bi\ B. Allen. She% was returning-, fronniAiken where she went to ."intend the mar riage of a relative/. V Delightful in evef^way was the tea on Friday ?vent?t with which Mrs. J. H. White^complimented Miss Mary T. Nance. Miss Nance is a young woman of,);charming per sonality and all present were de lighted to meet her again, and the hours quickly passed. A tempting repast was daintily, serged and sou venirs of the occasion were found it each place. Those; lhat formed the party were: 3|?dam.es J. L. Walker, T. R, Dennvi J. A. Lok, J. W. Marsh, - arid Lillian |J ffobf?yTBosia Wem, Jnmr??yl?P md Lillie LaGrone. , On Tuesday afternoon, from 3:30 ;? 6 o'clock Misses Lucile and Fosie Mobley-eutertained the Y. W. A, in a charming manner. Pro gressive games were indulged in, if ter which a salad course followed 3y sweets was served. Mrs. A. P. Lewis . has returned ?rom a short visit to relatives at Nfeeting Street. Source Considered. "Whatmak?s the newspapers tell so many lies?" asked a rather in ?onsiderate Peorian of a newspaper nan the other day, according to the Herald-Transcript. "Because we have to get most of Dur information from liars," was the jolting reply. ?MSEY& JONi car of the Ce e have all styl h rubber tires, ? IY & c 1 RED HILL LETTER. One of the most enjoyable social gatherings that we have had any where around . here for some time was a box party at the home of Dr. W. E. Prescott, on last Friday night. This party was given for the pur pose of entertaining the young peo ple and obtaining money to help buy furniture for the Prescott school house. Dr. Prescott's home is a great place for such an entertain ment, as it has spacious rooms and hallways well equipped and' beauti fully lighted with acetylene gas lights and above all because Dr. and Mrs. Prescott are there to scatter sunshine among their guests. Fath ers and mothers as well as the young people were there from different sections of the country. The first part of the evening was spent in social conversation and playing gaines and then the contest for a beautiful cake began. Quite a number of couples promenaded in the hall and judges were placed to decide which couple walked the most graceful. The cake was award ed to Miss Emmie Lanham and Prof. C. M. Mellichamp and second prize, a box of nice candy,was award ed to Miss .Mabel Prescott and Paul Hammond. Another beautiful cake was given to the one who drew a certain num ber out of a box in which were a hundred numbers. Mr. Charlie Wates of Clarks Hill drew 28 and got the cake. The boxes which were brought by the ladies were then sold to the highest bidder and the young men buying the boxes not only got the box with its delicious contents but had the opportunity of eating with the young lady who brought it (and also judge of her cooking ability.) The neat sum of twenty-five dol lars-was taken in. A debate, upon country and town life, was engaged in by some of the most advanced pupils in our school on Friday afternoon and was great ly enjoyed by the pupils, some pat rons, and_the teachers.... Rev. .T.. T. ?ttti?johira^ >f the judges in favor of the "coun ty crackers" and in his remarks lighly complimented the pupils of :he Red Hill school, saying that ;hey had such strong minds. We are looking forward to next Saturday afternoon week, as the Woman's Missionary Society has innounced that they will then serve >ysters at the school house. They ire to be fresh Norfolk oj3ters, and ?erved stewed at twenty-five cents ier plate and the proceeds to go ;owards buying a handsome pulpit iuit'for the church. This is a wor ihylcause and they hope to have a arge crowd present not only of Red rlillians but from various other pia ses Be sure and come and- bring ,Tour wife and daughters or sisters, >r somebody's else sister or daugh ES, Edgefield, lebrated Roek I es, including; Ca REHOBOTH TIDINGS. The weather has been so unusual ly favorable for this season of the year for farm work our farmers are far in advance of previous years. Many large fields have already been plowed up for another crop, and we are glad to report that our farmers are mire interested in corn and for age crops than in former years. The cold weather some time ago dam aged small grain considerably, es pecially oats in this section. The Rehoboth Sunday school was re-organized last Sunday morning, electing the following officers for the year: J. D. Hughey was re-1 sleeted superintendent, J. E. Stone, issistant superintendent and W. M. Stone, secretary. All of these are roung men who are greatly inter ested in the Sunday school cause. Mrs. E. C. Winn happened to al rery painful accident last Wednes lay by a fall which badly sprained 1er ankle. The young people of Rehoboth, 31eora and Red Hill will meet at ,he new home of Mr. R. A, Wash, ?ext Friday evening to enjoy a valentine party. ' Mr. George Golphin, a very in telligent and promising youngman "rom the town of Ninety Six,|visited i friend in the community last Mon tey. Mr. John Quarles. a popular and landsome young man from the Red ?ill community, called on a friend last Sunday evening in our com-1 nunity. Messrs. C. H. Whatley and Wil-1 ie Whatley visited friends near | virksev last Saturdav and Sunday. SUBSCRIBER. Miss j us Greatly Pleased With Mary T. Nance. Mr. A. R. Nicholson, county su >erintendent of education, told >n Monday of his visits last week o Berea, Limestone, Pine Grove tfcKendrec, Meeting Street, and jong Cane schools, calling also up ?n the negro schools in those com nunities. Mr. Nicholson's visits ?Uawidjclosely..upon ,1jlie visits of tliss Nance to" the si" nd without exception' the teachers poke in the highest terms of Miss iance and her work. All of them xpressed the belief that her coming mong our people will give a new mpetus to the cause of education ii the county. 2r. On this same afternoon the wo ?en expect to organize a W. O. W. ircle and all the women who are iterested in joining now or at some utre time even are requested to be resent. Ask Mr. Littlejohn what the vis >n is that he has seen. He is ex ecting great things for -Red Hill i the future and so is X.Y. Z. ?ill Buggies, images, Top every purse. "MARKED COPY" on a newspaper wrapper is sure to mr.ke the receiver open and read.. Last year a southern man bought fifty-copies of his local paper contain ing a suggestion for a factory location, marked them and mailed them to flfty lndlviduals or concerns that might be Interested. Result: Twelve immediate inquiries, three propositions for the factory site, one thriving factory located which to day pays wages to 175 persons living In that town. . Watch this paper for such opportu nities to BOOM YOUR TOWN. One Hour in Johnston. It was the writer's good fortune to spend one hour between trains in Johnston Friday morning. It is said the human body undergoes a change every seven years, but the town of Johnston has experienced a complete metamorphosis in a short er space of time. Old houses have, been made new by .re-modeling andr re-painting; handsome new residen ces naiv^graoeAi^.* the long row 1 of : old-style wooden stores along Main | street, like so many box cars side by side, have given place to modern brick struct ures, some with marble fronts. The most artistic building on the business block is' the home of the Bank of Johnston. While the wri ter was passing down Main street the very attractive exterior of the building arrested, our attention and i look at the beautiful tile, heavy plate glass, marble and massive mahogany fixtures within caused us to enter involuntarily. We were warmly greeted by Mr. S. J. Wat lon, one of the most capable and efficient bank officers in the state, as veli as a citizen whose sterling raits of character would make him i tower of strength in any commu nty. In elegance and convenience of irrangement, the interior of the Bank of Johnston surpasses many >f the city banks. The . large outer :ounter, over which passes many housands of dollars each day, is onstructed f of massive, beautifully arved mahogany, mounted - upon , heavy marble base. The conv'en ently arranged desks within, one or each official, are also made of tighly polished mahogany. The writer was ushered by Mr. Vatson into the "holy of holies,^ rhere the goldf and silver and reenbacks and notes and mortga ges o' "*>oi'3es and lands and cattle "jj* a thousand hills" are kept, n the center of the steel vault is a . crew door safe of the most modern ype, which though small and un iretentious in appearance, defies the aost expert yeggmen. This prosperous institution has a apital of $75,000 and surplus and ndivided profits of $10,000. Last ear, soon after consolidating with he newly organized Farmers Bank, he Bank of Johnston paid a divi end of fifty per cent to its stock riders, being practically all of its urplus earnings up to that time. ?he officers of the bank are: J. D. Sidson, president; S. J. Watson, ashier; H. G. Eid son, assistant ashier; W. B. Ouzts, receiving, slier, and W. C. Derrick, paying slier. Thirty and more years ago-just ow many need not be stated-a ottage surrounded by roses and omegranates stood upon the site ,rhere this beautiful, modern bank uilding now stands, and if we are orrectly informed, it was in this ine-clad cottage that the writer ras born. For that reason this spot, ow the heart of thc business por ion of the town of Johnston, has allowed associations for us. After leaving the bank, the wri ir met and chatted with several riends which made our short stay i Johnston exceedingly pleasant. nter the Corn Growers' Contest.