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History of the Barnwell Baptist Church : By Dr. W. M. Jones, Pastor <CONTINUED PROM LAST WEEK) TTie minutes covering the period from 1850 to 1912 are lost, and the only available historical material for this active period of history is to be found in the historical material in Furman University, collected by Dr. H. T. Cook, but a list of the pastors of the church as collected by Bro. Dan Hartley, a student of Furman University, will be given below. 1808—Rev. James Jfrreat. 1806—Rev. Darling Peeples. 1841-^-Rev. Archibald McArthur. 1845— Revs. Darling Peoples and Moses Snares. ' 1844-*-Rer.-T. W.tRambanb 1846— Rev. Darling Peeples. 1848—Rev. Moses Soares. 1811—Revs. Moses R. Snares and Moses Snares. 1848—Rev. Darting Peeples. 1860— Rev. Moms R Snares. 1861— Revs. Moses R. Soares and Hansford D. Duncan 1858—Rev. M. R. 1864-Rev. T. W. MeUkhamp. 1866—Dr. Geet Dana Boardman. 1860-Rev. B. F. D. 18«§Jter. Lesris B 1870—Rev. J. H. Kinnebrew. . W. <X Uadsay. W. A. Pearson. 1874—Rev. J. 16. BosMck. WHUs. Oi Y; Bradford. 1881—Dr. R, W. Lida. 1886—Rev, f. P. LMe. 1801—Rev. J. D. Moore. 1804-Rev. a W. Garner. 1008—Rev. Joe. K. Goode. 1818—Rev. W. L. Hayes. 1880—Dr. Wm. M. Jones. This does not include the minis tors who have acted as stated sup plies, hot only the regular pastors. The length of eash pastorate is tneasuredSor the difference between the date a minister begins his ser vice and date of his 8Uceesaor*s ser vice. Barnwell Baptist Church In the 124 years of its history, the Barnwell Baptist church has wor shipped in feur buildings. Where were they lose ted 7 In 1804 the church was Meorporated after its or ganisation in 1802. The evidence as to the location of the first house of worship is meagre. The minutes from its organisstion to 1812 are lacking. It appears that in January 1829 “Brother O'Bannon reported to the chnrch that he had obtained sub scriptions sufficient in amount to authtfize the church to appoint a buihmig committee and make con tracts for the building of a new Baptist church, in the village of Barn well/* The committee appointed was Jennings O' Bannon, Lewis M. Brown David Cave, Angus Patterson and B. H. Brown. This new church was located at or about the present Bethlehem Baptist church, as indi cated by those graves of former mem bers now found there. Along in the fifties, this church built for the above committee was turned over to the colored members of the church, and a new church was built for the white mernty^ra on Ihe present site, and which was recently torn down to make way for the present brick building. With its galleries for such colored members as could not find room in the church recently turned over to them, who preferred to wor ship with their owners, it was a splen did type of church architecture of that day, and was a worthy landmark of old Barnwell. This leaves /Us to account house of Worship. It ;is a well known t|radition among the ; older members of the present church that a church stood on the present lot be fore the erection of the building in 1829. Was this church the first house of worship of Barnwell Bap tists T There is also an equally well .known tradition that a blacksmith shop also stood on the location of the present building. Now in Septem her 1844, just fourteen years after the church authorised in 1829 was built “Bro. Preston Harley asked the permission of the church to continue ' his shop on the old chnrch lot so long os the present btfilding stands. The church consented provided he would assist Bro. B. II. Brown in making a substantial palling around said lot and all the g.-cves with one er man gates, who had previously consented to erect said patting for permission to build a workshop.** The natural inference is either that the first church building was used as a shop, and ait; the time of Bro. Harley's re quest was in decay, or that it wan re moved to make way for a new shop, upon the conditions expressed by the church. At a church confenence held on May 15, 1917, P, W. Price, J. K. SneUing, G. W. ManviUe, W. C. Mil hous and J.'-B. Armstrong were ap pointed to locate the corners of the oid church lot. Williston, May 16.—A ( marriage which came as a complete surprise to their many friends in Barnwell and Orangeburg Counties, was that of Miss Donie Mae Givens *nd Harvey Hallman. They were married at the Methodist parsonkge in Springfield, ’Sunday aftensoOTv May 9th, i a t 2:30 o’clock their only attendants being Miss Vyrtle Givens, only sister of the bride, and Miss Jennie Lou Hudson, of Williston. Mrs. Hallman was the youngerst daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Givens of near Williston and was s junior this session in the WOliston- Elko High school. Mr. Hallman is the son of Robe Hallman of Springfield. . The bride never looked lovlier than on her wedding day. ' She wore a silk canton dress, ashes of roses with a pator orchid hat. They are in Springfield at but intend to make their in Florida. Where She Was Johnny (excitedly)—“Ma, I just seen—** Mother (i “John! where’s your Johnny—“I was jus fcryin t* tell ytk She's dstnut* the barber’s gettm her hair bobbed™ ASK THE M AN WHO OWNS \ reme for a Generation * 1 f WENTY-SIX years ago the X first Packard car was built by a wealthy maivfor bis own use. It was the finest car he knew how to build. Friends who wanted the best regardless of 1 price ordered cars from him. So was a business bom. And that business, started as a rich mans hobby, has now grown to be the largest builder of truly fine cars in aD the world. ^ Vacation Time TRY THE COOL PLACES m tho Southern Appalachian Mountains of - WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA. EASTERN TENNESSEE and , NORTH GEORGIA “The Land of the Sky'’ * , ■ . The Popular Beaches on the 4. 9 - South Atlantic Shores Reduced Fares For as the public lias learned to use sound business judgment in Wym& motor caw, Ptekard vok ume has grown, .costs have been P ac lr ar< r s K lowered, and the saving resulting from vastly increased production passed on to Packard buyers. dcard cars of today are finer cars by any standard of compare ison than Packard ever built before. Yet they cost far less than the Packards of even ten years ago. Packard engineering supremacy has been proven again and again —on land, in the air, on tho wator.Packardbeautyand tion have been acclaimed and tated the world around. Packard comfort and performance have been impressed by the most tests. prices and monthly pay ment plan are considered, it is not surprising that nearly twice as inany Psckard cam were sdd last year as in 1924. Summer Tourist Resorts