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? Historical Account of Sunday
SCIIOOIH, Delivered at Hope?. |, 'i
well Church? Cnlldreu'H
Day, July, 1800.
HY J. ?. SANDKUS, KHQ.
1 /ADIles ANO GlIN?I.BMKN ! MotllO
d?em is historically connected with
both ibo initiation sud progress of
the inodora Sunday Sohool move
ment. As early as 1700, thirtoon
years before Mr. Raikos had organ
ized his school in Glouoostor, Eng
land, "a young Methodist, Hannah
Ball, established a Sunday Sohool at
Wycombo, and was instrumental in
training many children in the knowl
edge bf tho Holy Scriptures."
In 1781 another Methodist woman,
afterward Mrs. Bradburn, the wifo
of a celebrated Wesleyan preacher,
was conversing with Robt. Raikos in
Gloucester on thc subject of educat
ing the young, when ho pointed to
tho groups of neglooted ohildron in
tho street, and Baid, "What can wo
do for thom?'- Sho replied, "Lot
us teach them to read, and take
thom to ohuroh." Mr. Raikes was
pleased with tho suggestion, and tho
two shortly afterward led a company
of Sunday School scholars to church.
Theso ohildron wore poor and
noglected street waifs, and at that
day such was the indifference of the
Christian community in Gloucester
to tho moral and roligious condition
of tho lower classes, especially tho
ohildron, that this boncvolont net of
theso two Christian philanthropists
Vas met with public derision, and
t my were laughed at an impracticable
fanatics.
In 1784 Mr. Raikos published an
account of his plan and work for tho
religious training of tho neglected
children of his town, which immedi
ately attracted tho attention of Mr.
Wesley, and ho inserted Mr. Raikos'
article in the Aiimnian Magazine
for January, 1785, and exhorted his
people to adopt the new institution.
The Methodists, with their charac
teristic /eal and enterprise, instantly
"began to instruct their neighbors'
children, and to go with them to tho
house of God on tho Lord's day."
Tho same year Mr. Flotchor began
his work in Sunday Schools, and
continued a faithful teacher to tho
day of his death. He had three
hundred children under instruction,
and was deoply interested in their
religious training.
Mr. Wesley says in 1784 : "I find
Sunday Schools springing up
whorovor I go; perhaps God may
have a deeper end thorein than mon
ure aware of; who knows br ?orno
of these schools may bo nurseries for
Christi ans ?"
Another Methodist, Rev. Row
land Hill, oi'gnnized Sunday Schools
in London in 1786.
In 1786 Bishop Asbury introduced
Sunday Schools in America, and
they have continued to ho a marked
feature in American Methodism to
this day.
In 1787 Mr. Wesley wrote to one
of his preacbors : "I am glad you
have taken in hand that blessed
work of setting up Sunday Sohools.
It seems these will he ono great
means of reviving religion through
out tho nations. I wondor Satan
has not yot Bent out some able cham
pion against thom."
Wo havo thus traced, as far as
is necessary for our presont purpose,
tho historical connection of Metho
dism with tho institution of Sunday
Sohools in England and America.
Under tho impulso of its zeal Sun
day Sohools_woro almost univorsnlly
established in all the Wesleyan
Societies, and have nineo boon car
ried by thc samo activo agoncy into
all tho world, so that Methodist Sun
day Schools aro ns universal an
Methodism.
A similar interest in tho estab
lishment of these nurseries of tho
church provnilod among nil ovangoh
cal denominations of Protestant
Christendom, and in thrco years
af tor Mr. Raikos published his account
of tho schools at Gloucostor, moro
than three hundred thousand ohil
dron wore receiving instruction from
thousands of teachers in different
parts of Europe and America.
But wo will only particularizo on
tho church and Sunday Schools and
thoir influence for tho last fifty years
of our lifo. Tho first influence I
over folt in a Methodist sorvico was
when ton yoars old I attended a
olass mooting; when Hopewell Church
worshipped in a small log house
about. In sight of thc new building.
I, through some strange and fearful
ouriosity, wont there. Tho mooting
wns conducted hy Wm. Livoly (now
Rev. Livoly, of Atlanta). Tho
ft ??M ?WHM? ' '
venoratod Joseph Liles, long sinco
gonn to Honvcn, ',vas th oro present
at that class mooting; Although
uncle Joo has boon dead twenty ,
years, he yet spoaketh. Ho came to <
this section many years ago, (1888)
and ho alorf o stood up for tho.Motho- j
dist ohurch and its doctrines. Tho
Methodist preachers, before tho old
log house spoken of above was built, <
preached in hi? hon>:os and after it 1
was built it was called Liles' Moot- j
lng Houso iirthe record of 1885. j
Had it ?ot been for Unolo Liles no
Hopowell would havo boon hore for ?
these children to havo thoir day of j
instruction and walk in a religious ;
lifo. But through his in Hue ncc tho .
good, gentle and loving and boloved ,
Sister Jenkins and tho faithful and j
cnorgotiaand influential Bro. Jonkins, j
Thomas and Mary Jenkins carno in ]
the steps of Bro. Liles, imbibing tho \
Christian chnraotor of Methodism, \
religious and right living. Although (
Bro. and Sister Jonkins both aro <
gone to tho homo of the faithful, yon
soo around Hopowell that samo spirit .
of Christian zeal and religious inter? i
est that was imbibed by those gono <
to heaven before' thom, Eternity i
alone will show forth tho knowledge l
of the good that Brother and Sister \
Jenkins diffused in their sphere whilo t
living; and now their children and ]
children's children and neighbors and r
thoir children rise up and call them i
blessed. Bros. Liles and Jenkins {
kept up Sunday-School during tho |
pleasant weather at Hopewell, using
tho Holy Bible, a few question" books, E
now and thou a catechism and frc- {
quontly tho bluo-back spelling book. ]
Much good was, no doubt, dono 1
through tifoso Sunday School days. <
Now in theso days, when tho opera- <
tion of tho Sunday Sohool is tho 1
church "at work, yoa when tho Sun- t
day Sohool is made one of tho prin- (
cipnl qnestion? at our Quarterly Con- <
ferences, and when the superintend- [
outs aro appointed by Quarterly Con- l
fcroncC at fourth session, to take t
charge of tho schools, and when the J
Sunday School libraries aro fur- t
nished cheap, and thc magazines, ?
quarterlies, losson papors and tho lit- (
tlc people are tho helps of our Sun- i
day Schools, wo all ought to rush in t
to tho work and every man, woman i
and child nttond Sunday Sohool and <
receive thc blessed results therefrom. (
Must Pay Ibo Printer. i
[Abbeville Press and Dunner.] <
"Why do we charge for publishing 1
obituary notices? Mainly for tho <
protection of our readers. It is not <
right to impose matter upon eight or I
ton thousand readers that ia of no 1
special interest to moro than ono in 1
every two hundred. Says the St. i
I .DU is Presbyterian :
"When tho notico does not exceed i
ten lines wc insert it without, charge. I
Whon it is longer, we demand pay <
for each additional lino. This wo do, t
for two reasons : first, we have to i
pay thc printer for putting the obitu- ;
ary in typo; and second, if those
who send such notices know thoy i
must pay for publishing thom, obitu- \
aries will be moro carefully prepared, i
and kept within bounds as to length j
and laudation." i
Wo tako tho above from the As
sociate Reform Presbyterian, and ]
copy it for tho idea which it suggests,
namely : that it eosts money to set '
typo. i
Tho religious newspapers are ob- j
liged to restrict thc habit or disposi- i
tion of people to write long obituary
notices.
Tho secular press, ns a rule, aro not
besot in this way, but they labor un
der disadvantages fully as perplexing
as tho obituary fiend. Politicians or i
other ambitious peoplo who may bo :
seeking fame or notoriety, aro over I
roady to ask or suggost tho publica
tion of articles winch aro exceedingly i
'".foresting or valuable to thom per- !
sonally, but in fact, thoy aro often of
little or no general interest, and if
tho editor suggests that somebody is I
bound to pay the type-setters, the '
chanel's aro, nine times out of ]
ten, that tho politician or fame- 1
socking individual, will think i
thc editor is the proper person to 11
pay all bills for typo-sotting, no mat- i
tor whether tho articlo is of gonoral i
Interest or not. They seem to think
that tho paper has to bo filled up
anyhow, and that of course tho edi
tor is running a kind of freo show,
and needn't mind expenso.
There aro many articles of a por
sonal nature which are not without
nomo public interest. In such oases,
it Rooms that the cost of type-sot
ting should bo paid by tho porson
moBt interested-bo he od ?tor or
contributor,
Void Ional Count j Polities.
Tho strong lino of demarcation
that has koon drawn in many of tho
i' om i tic s 1)0 tween tho ad here nt H And
tho opponents t.* Captain Tillman in
their oandidaoy for county offices is
unwise, uncalled for and whplly
without justification. No matter
v/hc has boen ?nest instrumental -iii
bringing about this division, it has
already hoon productive of incalcu
lable harm. In many counties it is
Impossible for any ono who is not an
adherent of. Captain Tillman to ob
tain an office, no matter how insig
nificant and unimportant it may be.
To obtain even tho office of coroner
me must have been from tho bo
ginning and still bo a member of tho
present dominent faction of tho
Democratic party in this Stato. The
.ondenoy is to plaoe more stress on
.his one HO-called qualification than
m real, gonuino morit and fitnetv, for
>ffico.
A second class man who has been
t noisy supporter of Captain Ti li
lian would, in many counties, bo
?looted to offico over tho best Anti
vho could bo brought out against
tim. This criticism will apply
vith equal force to those Saw ooun
,ica where tho Straightens arc
argoly in the majority. There a
Tillman ito would probably bo as
nsignificnnt and powerless as a
Straight out in tko birthplace of Till?
nnnism.
There is no logie nor souse in any
itieh condition of affairs in this
State. Both factions claim to bo
Democrats and both olaim to ho
tonest, patriotio and loyal citizens
>f the State. Both olaim that tho
'greatest good to tho groatest num
>or" is their supremest aim. Yet,
?ko two mon and pit thom against
foch othor in a primary oleotion,
mc an inferior character but a mom
KM- of tho faction which happons to
)o tho strongest in his county, and
ho othor ono of tho leading men of
tis county, hut a representative of
ho minority. Tho man on tho
'big side" will win nine times out
>f ten, not because he is the better
nan for the place, but because in
hose times mon arc inclined to vote
or their "side" without much re?
?ard for the merits of the individual
candidatos.
Boing a Tillmanite or Anti-Till
nanito does not ontitlc a man to
my more consideration than his in
lividual personal worth can procure
tor him. Yet there are scores of
jnndidntcs in this State who will ho
?lectod to office on no other issue
Jinn that of Tillmanism, when if
that issue could IKS blotted out they
would bo forever buried beneath a
mountain of ballots.
No one will admit that ho would
support an inferior man on "his
?do" in preference to & better one
>n tho "othor side." The trouble is
?ho words "good" and "bad," whon
used in speaking of candida'os, aro
relativo terms. We use tho adject
ive "good" always to desoribo the
candidatos who think, or pretend
Lo think, just as wo do, whilo "bad"
is used to describe all who dare to
entertain opinions different from tho
sues wo hold.
The logitimato inference is that in
politics people are all either fools or
knaves, tho first, if they think all
thc brains and honor and virtue aro
Arrayed on their sido, and tho last, if
thoy do not believe that, but vote for
men simply bccauBO they belong to
tho same political faction.
What reason is there in carrying
tins factional fight hito tko scramble
for tho small county offices? Is it
ilcsirod to divido the people ulti
mately and forovor into two separato
and distinct factions? That will
surely bo the cud if tho majority
porsist in disqualifying a man for
offico for no other reason than that
ho diffors from them as to who
wotdd bo the best man for Governor.
It' is just as right and sensible to say
that Captain Tillman should not bc
Govornor of South Carolina if ho
prefers David B. Hill to Grovor
?loveland for President, ns it is to
iay that Dill .Iones shall not bo coro
ner in some little county away off in
ano corner in South Carolina he
Bauflo he prefers Colonel Karlo to
Captain Tillman for Governor. The
Lwo oases are vory nearly parallel
[iud there is just ns much reason and
sonso in ono ns in tko other.
If tho specific object \?, however,
Lo divide thc white people and keep
Lkem divided, tkon tko continuance
rd this practioo will bo wise, for undor
inch treatment tho minority aro not
likely to devolop tho spirit of slav
ish and subservient submission. Suoh
treatment is not oalonlatcd to pro
mote a spirit of friendliness on' tko
part of thoBo wnp receive it.
In sumo counties tho minority
could not bo moro oomplotoly shut
out from all public Office if they be
longed to tho Radical party. In a
choice betweou them and the Repub
licana they might ho preferred as the
leant of two evils, but until it be
cernee necessary to ohuuuu hui ween
the two both will bo dooli ned with
eqUal thanks.
In many places the lines between
the Till inanit?s and Straightout*
aro as closely drawn as thoy wore
formerly bot Arcen Dem?crata ,fin.d
Republican a, or between thc white?
man and tho negro. Wherever ono
faction is largely in the majority it
rules with hil tho despotism and ar
rogance of an Eastern monarch; it
rules by the law of might and not
of right and heedlossly and unwisoly
nooks either to crush or drivo away
it? opponents rather than to concili
ate and attraot thom. This has
dono moro to estrange tho two fac
tions than nny other factor that has
entered into tho politic* of this Stato,
and if continued oan soarcoly result
in anything but tho absoluto and
permanent division of tho Demo
crats of tho Stato.-Marion Indeto.
An I nee n dla ry H ar rani-ne.
Piiu.ADKi.miiA, Septomber 28.
Tho Stato Loaguo of Republican
Clubs dosed its annual mooting to
day by holding a mass mooting, at
which Speaker Recd mado tho prin
cipal address. Ho spoke substanti
ally as follows :
My Friends : I thank you for
your very cordial 'grooting and it
makes mo fool sorry not to bc ablo
to say something worthy of it. Un
til very rocently I foared that 1
would not be ablo to bo with you to
night. Tho wicked havo boen very
rampant for tho last few days and I
did not know but what it would bc
necessary to stay with them, or with
out thom. [Laughter.] Rut all
that is happily ovor and I fool moro
responsivo to your gre eli uga to-night
than I would have this morning.
[Laughter.] Rut tho Republican
party was born fighting. Its very
best history was mado on tho battle
field-civic as well as military. It
is tho very essence of its existence
that it should do battlo, for the Re
publican party moans the forward
movement of tho people of tho
United StatCB. [Applause.] It hos
never boen necessary for tho Demo
crats to do anything. [Laughter.]
Wo have just como from a socno
which reminded men who wore in
Washington in tho eariy days o? the
Republican party of scones which
took placo there at the beginning of
tho war. On tho Democratic side of
the House during the past week wo
have be&u treated to empty benches.
The Democrats have not boon visi
ble. [Laughter.]
I want you to understand thc oc
casion which thoy thought demanded
this magnificent uprising. Tho Re
publican party, BO far as tho Houso
of RoproBontatives is conccrnod,
has dono what wc regard as groat
doods. Tho Democrats have pro
claimed thom vory wicked, deeds.
Wo have passed a tariff bill which
secures tho American market to the
American people. [Applause.] That
bill has been thc subject of denuncia
tion on tho part of tho Democrats
almost too bitter to bo put on record.
According to thorn, tho bill and the
principio it roproBonts has carried
desolation into evory farm-house in
tho country. It has covered farms
in the West throe deep with mort
gages, and yot Domooratio members,
while that bill was being passed, sat
at their seats and wero countctL
Wo passed another bill. This was
a hill which they said was to ruin
tho principles of liborty. They said
it meant ruin to the pcacoablo nrtd
to tho lovely South. [Laughter.] It
meant minto their homes. It moant
despotism, and yet thoy sat thoro as
sweot as summer. No hegira, no de
parture, or to use a word moro fa
milliar to thom, no secession. [Croat
laughter.]
Rut when it came to seating a ne
gro, simply because he had boon
elected, tho Democratic sido of tho
House arose as ono man aha da
parted. [Laughter.] Rut thoy havo
como haok. [Rcnewod laughtor.]
Resembling tho prodigal .urn, how
ever, only in exloriml appearance,
[Laughter.]
My friends, it is r.uoh a int ie inci
dent as this which provonts Demo
crats from pointing with pride to
tho history of their party. Jt is that
which makes thom desolate in onvy,
vooiforous in expression, of feeling
KEOWEE COURIER,
[WKKltnY,]
-KBTAlVMSUtfu Al'--<
Old Pickens in 1840?
-r-MOVKD. TO-- ' y
Walhalla in 1868.
Dostroyeci l>y Firer Jui#
2lfct,1887.
Re-Established August ii
^ ?es?.
when wo speak of tho history of tho
United States for tho past twenty
five years. For whouovor wo do it,
they havo the conciousness that wo
oro pointing with pride to tho record
of tho Hop ubi ioaii party. [Applause
and laughton]
But, friends. Mic great thing in
this world is the pooplo. They make
and. unmake parties, they create his
tory, they govern and move, and tho
people of tho United Skates aro
alono responsible for this govern
ment, and it ?B their business to know
and aot up to their responsibility.
This fall, very Boon,' there will bo
van expression of opinion by tho peo
ple, not a . fuji, froe and frank
expression, beoauso in v thirty Con
gressional Diatriots of this Uni?n ~~
tho opinion? ?u* ibo poopio will bo
suppressed. It is necessary for you
to bo on tho Lord's side moro heavily
on that account. [Laughter,J Wo
havo not only got to beat consor^^
vatism in its worst form, but wo
havo got to boat fraud besides.
Now, when tho column forms, ia
Pennsylvania going to bo distanced
because of absenteeism? Is that
great State going to bo found any
where except in tho first rank? Not1
if you moan progress, not if you ;
pica;; to Wt'o the United States by a
Congress, present and acting. Your
duty becomes all tho moro tremen
dous when you consider what will
follow laok of onorgy on your part.
Wo look to you and hitherto havo
not lookod in vain. Republicanism
is good enough for ovory* d,ay in tho
year, and ovory year on tho oalendar.
Do you want an honest legislator f '
Do you want a Houso which intends
to transact business ? It lies in your
power.
This nation has grown to ono of
sixty-fivo million people. [Applause.]
Do you boliovo that overy man in
tho country who is entitled to par
ticipate in this govornment shall
cast his voto and have that Voto
counted as.caBt? Can you do it?
If you do, it is your business to BOO
that such a I louse is, chosen as will
sustain and baok up tho prosont
House ; of Representatives. [Ap
plause.]
It is very discouraging in this
world to seo how small tho percent
age of actual results como from tho
most splendid Viotorica. Home great
general has said that there is only
ono tiling worso than viotory and
that is defeat. Wo fought a groat
struggle for liborty of manhood. W o
culminated it by a constitutional
an lend incut putting in the law of tbo-"
country the doctrine that every one
should bo entitled to participate in
thc government, and yet thoro hna
boon to-day in Mississippi a conven
tion where ovory orator proclaims
his determination, and tho dotorrni
nation of ovory whito man belong
ing to his party, to invent somo
method to disfranchise tho negro, to
destroy the franohise of a largo por
tion of tho voting population of this
country who aro entitled to vote.
Thu is a spectacle for you. [Ap
plause.] Theao gentlemen openly
declare that they intend to disfran
chise thc voters of this country.
Thoro has novor boon any denial of
their purpose, and thia Mississippi
Convention is proof. Do you mean,
my friends, to allow tho Southern
white man, beoauso ho votes in tho
South to count, moro than you do in
tho government of this country?
Do you mean that ho shall havo
increased representation in this gov
ernment, so that ho shall carry more
weight that*, you? [Applause.]
Now it remains for mo hut to re
peat tho Exhortation of the previous
speakers h<s"e to-night. Everything
depends upon you doing your duty.
Tho only condition on which self
government is possible is constant
attention to solf-govomment by tho
people of this country. I know yon
moan to do your duty, and that when
we got now mon from Pennsylvania
you will show to the country that
you havo dono it.
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No better text for thoso trying
days of mid-summer than tho Psalm
ist's word : "Frot not thyself." It
mt?y bo quito impossiblo to koop cool
physically, bul he will como noarest
to doing so who is freo from frot.
Tho hoot is twice as oppressive, tho
humidity twico as humid, to them
who arc in a potpotual fumo beoauso
it is so hot or so muggy- Th ?it ic*"'
ish horse in your team which pran
whon tho trace hits him, chomps tho
bit ho would gVidly eject, shies ?a
nervous fear at ovory roadside stone,
is soo? whito with '"foam,, whilo hits
staid and sensible moto who has
learned botter than to fret in -harnea?
arrives at tho l?urnoy's omi ns cool
and fresh as when he started,