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CORNER STONE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LAID. (Continued from page 1.) Christion enterprise and activity, and to lay a fresh wreath of immortelles upon the graves of the men and wo men who played such a prominent and honored part in making the Church 's history for these fifty years. We doubtless all feel impelled to this service. both by a sense of its im portance for our own practical in struetion and inspiration, and by our grateful appreciation of those into whoce labors we have entered. It is a fact that h:s been comment ed upon. but has never been satisfac torily explained, that great political movemente are often att-nded or fol lowed by grezit reli.ious movements. and times (f political excitement prove to be also "times of refreshin- from the presence of the Lord." In Janu ary. 1S30, during the firm and inde pendent administration of that man of iron will. General Andrew Jack -on. occurred the celebrated debate in Congress between Hayne and Web ster with reference to State rights and Federal relations, and in Decem ber of that year the ordinance of Nullification was passed in South Carolina. For several years the most intense political excitement prevailed throughoiut the country. culminating in this state. and threatening to pre cipitate the dreadful conflict. which was destined to come thirty years late r. and delu.e the coui:try in blood. In the midst of this political fer mentation. the most remarkable reli gius . wakening of this century. if iot in the history of this country, took place. - A great tidal wave of re ligious interest swept over the Atlan tic States, depositing its precious treasures in almost every village and hamlet and home in the country. Ev ery c!azS of people was reached, and a pro[ound ,,nd permanent work of grace was done. As the political ex citement above referred to.. reached its highest point in this State, so this religious interest was perhaps more intense and wide-spread here than anywhere else. From the mountains to the seaboard, the people were thor ou<hly aroused. and gathered in vast multitudes wherever preaching could be heard. In these meetings the most profound religious interest prevailed. sometimes reaching the high est pitch of excitement, and thiousands of men and women were con'eried.. many of them among the most honored and influential citizens of this St-ate. In this movement, a large number of the strongest and most useful churches in South Caro lina had their origin. The churches at Greenville, Edgefield, Newberry, Beech Island, Darlington, and many other points, were organized at this time. Up to 1831, there was no church organization and no house of worship in the town of Newberry, then a little village of a few hundred inhabitants, and confined almost entirely to t.he space now bounded by Harrington, Adams, Boundary and McKibben streets, with a few residences here and there outside these limits. The only professors of religion in the place at the time were three Baptists and a few members of other denomina tions; probably not more than ten or twelve altogether.- In the summer of 1831, at the house of John S. Car wile, then a Deacon of Bush River Church, in a circle of three or four neighbors, reference was made to the great meeting in progress at Edge field Court House, under the direc tion ,and preaching of some young men, students of the Furman Theolo gical Institution, and a desire being expressed that such a meeting might be held here, Mr. Carwile at once agreed to take the matter in hand and make the necessary arrangements. Through Rev. Jonathan Davis, of Fairfield. Mr. Carwile was put in cor respondence with the young breth ren a.t Edgefield, and secured their promise to come to Newberry. Some time during the month of September, 1831, four young men N~. W. Hodges, J. M. Chiles, Josiah Furman and John M. Barnes-rode into the village of Newberry and be gan preaching at a stand, such as is now sometimes used for political speakers, in the large oak grove that then stood in rear of where now stands the residence of Mr. Michael Bowers. The novelty of the thing, and the fame of similar meet.ings else where, soon attracted a crowd, which continued to grow until people from all parts of Newberry and neighbor ing districts came in great numbers to hear the Word. When the weath er was such that the meeting could not be held in the grove, the congre gation repaired to the old court house, which stood where the present one stands, and the preaching went on there: but the house was cntirely too small for the crowd. It was not long before visible results followed, and xy Imun. Saviour. The nieighbouring ounlltry Baplist clurches. and those of Other denominations, also, receiv ed of the fruits of the meeting in in ,reased numbers and quickened spir itual life. As one of the results of this meet ing, and mainly of persons baptized during its progress, the Newberry Baptist Church was oritnized. on the 30th day of September, 1831, with forty-two members. The pres bytery which constituted the church was com)osed of the following min iters: N. W. Hodges. Jonathan Davis, S. Worthington and Daniel Mangum. The exercises -onsisted of a prayer by Mr. Mangum, the adop tion of a v(onsitution by the church, an addres by Mr. Davis on various passazes of Scripture relating to ehurch orwa.nization and xovernment, and the readin- of a part of the third chapter of First Timothy, with re marks on the qualifications of dea cons by Mr. Hodges. The church then proceeded to elect John S. Carwile, Deacon, and John M. Barnes, Pastor, and the Presbytery at once ordained them. The pastorate of Mr. Barnes lasted only three months, to the end )f 1831, but they were three months :f constant and rapid growth on the part of the church. Frequent m'eet ings were held. and at every meeting persons were received for baptism. At the first meeting of the church fter the organization, held on the 15th day of October, 1831, Y. J. Har rington, Wm. Wilson, M. T. Menden iall and Thomas Pratt were appoint d to assist the deacon in the dis harge of his duties; and at a meet ing held the next month--November 5th-Y. J. Harrington and Thomas Pratt were duly elected to that office apd entered upon its duties. In December, 1831, Rev. N. W. Hodges was called to the pastoral ,are of the church, and began his pas torate the first of January, 1832; and, what was somewhat remarkable, in view of the custom of the time, he was chosen, not for a year, but as lonz as it might be agreeable to him self and the church. During 1832, and apparently throughout the pas torate of Mr. Hodges, there was preaching two Sundays in the month. No day seems to have been fixed for communion service, and the first of which there is any record was held the fourth Sunday in May, 1832, the meeting having been appointed a month beforehand, and beginning on Friday and continuing through Sun day. At this meeting of the church for the celebration of the Lord 's Sup per, a communication from Rev. Sam uel P. Pressley, of the. Presbyterian Church, was presented, in which was the proposition "that the members of sister churches of different denomin ations agreeing in their views of the Lord's Supper, though differing in other points, beallowed the privilege of occasional communion in each oth ers' churches, without at Lne same time giving up their conscientious views in which they are known to differ.'' The proposition was taken into re spectful consideration, and the pastor was authorized to make a courteous reply declining on conscientious ground, to practice inter-communion. Thus early in its history the church was called upon to place itself on re cord with reference to the practice of the denomination in the observance of the Lord 's Supper, and did so with a firmness and a courtesy worthy of the Christian name. It was in keep ing with this spirit, and a striking illustration of the true catholicity which has ever distinguish this church, that at the July meeting of that year (1832) a resolution was passed offering the use of their house of worship to evangelical Christians of other denominations who might wish to use it, at any time when the pulpit was not occupied by the pas tor. The record of that July meet ing contains the first allusion to the church building; but a subscription was started soon after the organiza tion in the Fall of '31, and the build ing, which is still used by the church, was 'wompleted and occupied early in '32. It was a year or tevo later when the Methodist Church was built, and for many years. these were the only church buildings in the town. The large lot on which the church stands. and on. which the parsonage also has been recently built, was the gift of Y. J. Harrington and John T. Young, and the bell, which for fifty years has called the people to the worship of God, was given by Hon. Kerr Boyee, of Charleston, S. C. Under the ministry of Mr. Hodges, the church increased steadily in num bers and efficiency, an at the end of 1833 numbered one hundred and thir teen members. 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