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EM era C.4 WK47wY . ETBIHD1865. NEWERRY, S. C., WEDlNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1902. EXTRA. lSTOIICL SKETOD SOUl CAR' Its Wunderful Growth and D One Hundred an ~RWfSESSIOlIIIELD IIN TgI SESSION ONLY 2,0f5 WHITE PE0! TPSEl SESSION WILL SHOW A TOT 1E PRSENT MEETING THE Th BERRY-INTERESTING FAC By Rev. Watso e aouth Carona Conference theMetbodistEpiscoPal Church, oth dates back one hundred and i; f ean s. The frst session was hi k Charleston, S. C., March T. The Conference had tresdents--Dr. Thomas Coke a slopAsbury. There seems - hye beem no secretary :until the of iSox when Bishop As,. notes in his Journal the ap of a clerk for the min - ClLfA _ E7 AhT Journal. hefrst session 2,075 white and 91 colored mem -e-repored. The reports 4prsent session wil show ~ membership (white) of ~t~e frst session the following ta were made: Rich a14~, lder; .Burke Circuit, Alirand Matthew Harris; S,Thomas Humphreys and ~ X.~ Iark; Broad River, John Maa and Thomas Davis. Bev y.uI~ Alen,' Elder ; Edisto Circuit, ad*rdWest, Charleston, Lemuel d7tSefs. Reubin is.llis, Elder ; San tee Circuit, Isaac Smith ; Pee Dee, H.Bigham, L Andrews and H. Ledbetter; Yadkin, W. Partridge, BMHenry and J. Connor; Salis bdr Mark Moore-19 in all. ithe close of thbis session Bish opanlcan will appoint abont 240 preachers to fielus of labor. Pre 1iQas to the present session, the Conference has met three times in Newberry. The first was in 1853 Bishop snobert Paine was the pres dent and Rev. PaIul A. Mv. Will 11ame-was secret ary. The member ship, consisted of 33.213 whites and 42b280 blacks. The next session in Ne wberry Iwas mn 1864. Bishop George F. Pierce presided and Rev. Fr ancis Asbury Mood was secretary. At this . time the membership was composed of 40.920 whites an~d 47,460 blacks. The next session held in New berry was in 1878. Bishop Will lam M. Wightman was the presi dent and Rev. William C. Power was secretary. At this session the membership consisted of 44.435 whites. (The blacks had been set off to themselves.) As previously stated, at the pres ent session about 8o,ooo members will be reported. Newberry county, however, had entertained an early session of the Conference. Thbe eighth session was held in January, 1794, at OF TlE DLINI CONFERENCE evelopment During the Pas d Fifteen Years. CHARLESTON IN 1781 LE WERE REPORTED-REPORTS TO TH] AL MEMBERSHIP OF 80,000 WHITES [RD HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW [S OF FORMER MEETINGS. n B. Duncan. Finch's in Newberry county. Bish op Asbury presided and, if they had a secretary, his name is noi known. At this session the firsi educational enterprise was inaugu rated-Bethel Academy. A wri ter in the Southern Christian Ad vocate in 1852 had this to say ir regard to this place: -This sec tion of Newberry was peopled by emigrants froxn Virginia, among them the Finches, the Crenshaws DIST CHURH. the Malones. They were Metho dists, and when the subject of high school was agitated they en tered heartily, and with libera subscriptions, into the project. Ed ward Finch gave thirty acres o land and a-site for the institution During 1794 the building wa completed, and formally dedicate< by Bishop Asbury March 20, 17, 95, and named Mount Bethel Rev. Mark Moore, eminentl: qualified, was for six years rector aided by Messrs. Smith and Ham mond. After years of usefulnes the academy began to decline, an ceased to exist about 1820, super seded by Mount Ariel and Cokes bury schools.'' The conference has ever been in terested and active in the cause o education. As noted above, afte W-New. REV. W. I. HERBERT. the suspension of Mount Biethe Mount Ariel was established ar this merged into the Cokesbui Conference School. it was at th critical time when Stephen 01 came upon the scene. After b conversion he became a prince early Methodism and a pioneer IChristian education. In Januar 832, the South Carolina Conft ence became a joint participa with the Virginia Conference J ndolh-Macon College. In D "GREATEST EVENT I1 HISI Rev. Dr. A. J. Stokes' Sch Historical Soci HIS SUBJECT "THE El The Part Which Woman Has Played In Th She Suffered Most By Tae Fall Which She Is THE FIRST EPIPHANY. The first Epiphany of woman was in Eden, when the human race was young. The crowning glory of mundane creation was the advent of man The royal Psalmist wrote thus of him: "0 Lord, our Lord, how ex cellent is Thy name in all the earth! who. hast set Thy glory above the heavens. Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast Thou ordained strength, because of Thine enemies, that Thou might iest still the enemy and the aven ger. When I consider Thy heav ens, the work of Thy fingers, th? moon and the stars, which Thou hast ordained, what is man that Thou art mindful of him, or the son of man, that Thou visitest him. For Thou hast made him a little lower than God, (Elohim) and crownest him with glory and hon or. Thou madest him to have do minion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast put all things under his feet." Here it is evident, that in man was the excellency of the name of God in all the earth, and "His glory above the heavens." Dr. Joseph Parker commenting on this passage says: "The Psalm ist is not instituting a humiliating contrast between man and - nature. The fifth verse proves this: 'For Thou hast made him, but little lower than God.' Man is the sec ond name on the register: God signed first, and passing the pen to man he signed second. "There is nothing in all the heav ens that can compare, so far as it is material, with the tiniest babe, that coos in its mother's arms. Man is greater than all he sees. Man does look litt1jp in stature when helstands against the Andes, or the great Himalayan group. He feels phys ically small. But suddenly he says: 'After all what is that hill. I will climb it, stand upon the top of it, plant a banner there, and call my self, Conqueror. So he may. There is no hill in all the world, that man cannot climb, or cast down, and thus humiliate."' The ocean is his vast domain. The winds and the waves obey him. He creates the ocean steamer, which mounts the ocean's highest crest and outstrips the winged winds. The electric fires and chem ical affinities are at his commatid. He can reduce days to seconds of time, and bring the ends of the earth together in a moment, so that far off dwellers may become as our next door neighbors. He by spec trum analysis may know the ele ments and chemical compounds of the sun, moon and stars, as if he had themi all in his little laboratory. He can weigh them as with the ac curacy of avoirdupois scales; meas ure them as with a surveyor's chain; mark their course, and give bounds to their circuits He can schedule their messengers of light, flashing on in their course at the rate of 192,000 miles a second. He can map out the whole heavens as if by Mercator's projection. To him God hath given "Dominion over all the works of his hand" and "Has put all things under his feet." He has made him as God to all inferior creation-the admin distrator of all the laws of nature, and the executor of the divine will i-in this lower world. His God-like power for dominion is in his powei ~.to know: and his omnipotence it his earthly sphere is limited onl) .eby the meastrre of his improve ment of the power to know. Herf cember, 1850, Rev. Benjamin Vof ford died. He left by his will one hundred thousand dollars "for the purpose of establishing and endow ing a college for literary, classical and scientific education to be located in his native district, and to be un der the control and management of the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church of his native State." A charter was duly se cured and the trustees held their first meeting to organize under it at Newberry Court House. Rev. W. M. Wightman, D. D., was elected president; the Rev. Albert Shipp, A. M., Professor of Eng lisn Literature; David Duncau, A. M., Professor of Ancient Lan guages; James H. Carlisle, A. M., Piofessor of- Mathematics; and Warren DuPre, Professor of Nat ural Science. Thus was established the insti tution which was destined to be the center of the intellectual life of South Carolina Methodism. The General Conference held in May, 1837, passed resolutions au thorizing the publication of a weekly religious journal at Charles ton called the "Southern Christian Advocate," and Dr. Capers was elected editor. He accepted the position and the first number was issued in June, 1837. This paper has had a wonderfnl influence in the development of Methodism in the State. In .the year that Vofford Col lege was opened for the reception of students, the subject of female education came to be viewed by the Conference as of highest ,im portance. In the year j5+, ar rangements were mr 3ad&e to open two female colleges-one in Co lumbia and one in Spartanburg. Finally the one in Columbia be. came the one institution of the conference for the education of girls. In December, 1898, Wil liamston Female College, which had been run as an undenomina tional school, was tendered to the Conference and was accepted as a Conference institution. The Conference was somewhat tardy in taking steps to provide for our orphans. At the session held in Laurens in 1894, arrange -ments were made to start an or phanage. The present Epworth Orphanage at Columbia is the re suit of the efforts. jThe following amounts were paid by the Conference last year; Pastor's salaries $12o,597; Pre. siding Elders' salaries, $17,o5' Bishops, $1,587; Conference Claimants, $6,579; Foreign Mis sions $9,789 Domestic Mis sions, $1o,o81 ; Church Extensions, . $2.537; Education, $2,580; No. . churches, 737 ; Value, $1,oo4,o85: Value of other church property, - $150,921; Money expended last year on churches and parsonages, r $85,349. There were reported 709 Sunday Schools, with 4,8th officers and teackers, 40,472 schol ars and $9,886 expended by Sun. day Schools. HE TOOK LAUDANUM. Mr. John W. Norris Swallowed an Ounct of the Deadly Drug. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Johr W. Norris sn allowed an ounce ol laudanum and when The Herakc and News went to press this morn ing the doctors were working harc to save his life. Mr. Norris had not been wvel since Saturday last and was con fined at his home sick and despond ent. It is not known whether hi took the drug with the intention o ending his life, or of easing hi pain. ~Mrs. Norris had left him in th d room for only a few minutes to at tend to some household duties 1s when he secured the bottle c in laudanum and dIrank it. Mrn is Norris did not know that he ha of taken the laudanum until she n< in ticed his deep breathing and sun moned Dr. Thos. W. Smith, wh -pronounced it a case of poisoning r-Dr. P. G. Ellisor was also sun nt moned and worked hard to kee in up respiration.-to keep him awala -and breathing. came into the life of man as a dis tinct being, her superior moral power became evident. The wily tempter discerned this fact, and used it for the downfall of the race. This moral power in her was great er over him than any other power Satan could command. The woman yielded because she was deceived; man yielded to the persuasive pow er of woman. St. Paul said: "Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the trans In, Y ~ -. St d id as n e, t f BISHOP W. W. DUNCAN. ie gression." He was proof against E the false reasonings of Satan, but o not against the moral power of wo m man. There is no power in the IL. universe equal to moral power, and 1 in human kind that power is most y clearly evident in woman. Li, But if she tempted him to his fall, the only ray of hope came to him c)f through her. The divine declara Dt tion was, "The seed of the woman n shall bruise the serpent's head." It le was through her seed life was to b come to the world "dead in tres ie passes and sins." Through her we a- have a redemption that is greater p- than was creation. " 'Twas great of to speak a word from naught, 'twas i greater to redeem" "Where sin > abounded, grace did much more d abound; that as sin hath reigned Li- unto death, even so might grace e- reign through righteousness unto l eternal life by Jesus Christ our e Lord"-the seed of the woman. t If she was first in sin, she suffered ii- most by the fall. She lost her true it place and largely her power. Then :dcame the eclipse of her glory, and r for more than forty centuries she *a- bore the burdens of degredations, :e- that were well nigh intolerable. ~s, She was for the most part regarded, e not only as the inferior animal, r "but also as the inferior being.'' t Social and political equality was e denied her-she became man's to slave and foot-ball, as fit only to e- serve his passions and his pleas tat ures. :e This, however, was not universal. re Here and there through the centu ries of darkness, the glint of her glory that was, and is yet to come, was seen. The influence of Sarah with Abraham was great, but it was not always good. Miriam, the minstrel prophetess, arose as a leader of a band of women, and a power among men, but her auspi cious influence was lost by a vault ing ambition, and her jealousy of the position and power of her brother. Deborah, the ruler and judge, arose to bring deliverance to Israel. Esther, the interceding queen, saved the proscribed Jews in the time of peril, and caused the plotter of their destruction to be hanged on a gallows fifty cubits high, and caused the seal of the state to pass to Mordecai, the kins hman and friend of the Jews. These beand others are only exceptions. r-One woman o1 distinction, here and l- there, appeared through the centu rries but to disappear as sand-hills orbefore the sweep of the winds. he There are also exceDtions found in e, profane history, but we must for o,bear to mention them here. for THE SECOND EPIPHANY. if The long promised "seed of the woman" had come at last. "For in when the fullness of time was come if God sent forth his Son, made of a rly woman, made under the law, to re she deem them that are under the law, SERLY [ORY OF THE RICE. olarly Address Before TI ty Last Night. EIPIIAMY OF WOMAN." Drama Of The Ages---The First To Si o Work More Important Than That. Doing Today. he can do all things if he on knew how. Lost knowledge is lc power and dominion; inereas< knowledge is increased power at dominion. The son of God w the son of man-the ideal man and in him we have the expressio of the dignity and dominion of ni in his best estate. Man in the beginning was ti unit of the genus homo, withol division into male and female had the possibilities of both in on It is written: "So God created mc in his own image, in the image God created he him, male and fi male created he them. In the d velopment of the divine plan, ti separation of the dual nature cami the female frot the male, and tv distinct beings were evolved fro: the one, called man and woma And Adam said: "This is no bone of my bone and flesh of tr flesh, she shall be called womai because she was taken out of man. She was a part and counterpart < him. So that, "the man was n, without the woman nor the womm without the man." They becan separate, but coordinate beings,wi correlated powers, consigned by tl Creator, as a unit for the accor plishment of the mission of life a pointed to each and to both them. Any spirit of ambitio1 conflict by which one seeks to sux plant the 'other is unnatural at vicious, and is subversive of the c vine purpose in instituting the r lation of man and woman. Sever ladies asked Dr. A. T. Bleds' what he thought of the sentime that "Woman was the inferior at mal.'' He replied, "We think perfectly just." They exclaim "What! do you with all of yo pretended gallantry, and admir tion ot the sex call woman the in: rior animal?" He replied: "YeT that is precisely our opinion of t sex-inferior animals, but super: beings In brute force, in all to constitutes the mere animal frat and nature, women are inferior men; but in purity of mind, in3 finement, of sentiment in all tt most nearly assimilates our ra to the good angels above, they superior to men.'' R E. A J.STOKES, D. D. Bishop Hargrove expresses t distinction thus: "If he is dist guished for courage, she for foi tude; if he for strength, she for d icacy; if he for analysis, she synthesis; if he for reasoning, for intuition; if he for persisten she for patience; if he for inventi she for application; if he for fi1 ness, she for flexibility; if he grandeur, she for gracefulness; -he for boldness, she for beauty.' The Epiphany of Woman Eden was one of the greatest, not the greatest event in the es histry of the race. As soon as that we might receive the adoption of sons." The Christian age, in its broadest sense, is the age of the world from the beginning, until the end of time. "Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the Father, when he shall put down all rule, and all authority and power." A gleam of the Son of Righteousness was seen amid the gloom of Eden's darkening bowers, and it shone on above the thick clouds, and through an occasional rift along the ages, until the clouds broke away for a moment, and it shone -in radiant splendor over Calvary. Since then the Christian age in a special sense began and continued. The Christian age, as it now appears, is woman's age. She was the mother of Christ in an extraordinary sense. She bore him, nursed him and trained him for his divine work of redemp tion. She stood sponsor for him at the cradle. He was her sponsor on the cross. In his crucial agony, beholding her and his beloved dis ciple standing by, he said, "Woman behold thy son! and to the dis ciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple took her unto his own house." There was something in woman's heart which responded confidently to the character, mission and teach ings of the Messiah. Women of all classes flocked to him, and gave him their trust and love. These felt the power of renewed revelation of divine love made by him, and they rejoiced in the liberty with which Christ would make them free. "Accordingly the purest and richest human light that lies on the pages of the New Testament comes from the band of high minded, faith ful and affectionate women, who were found in connection with Christ from the cradle to the cross, his tomb and his resurrection. These embalming influences have operated on society with equal bene fit and power. Woman in the bet ter portion of society is' now a re newed being. And yet her angelic career is only just 1;>egun. She sees what she may be, and what under the gospel she might be." The gcspel records tell of Eliza beth, the Marys, Anna, Joanna, Martha and of the many women, which followed from Galilee minis tering unto him. They were his truest, most unselfish friend . They were true to him c.mid cruel scorn and battling hate. Through blind ing tears they followed him on his way to Calvary; with breaking hearts they witnessed his agony and gave him all their moral support by their sympathetic presence. They beheld his limp body taken from the cross, and, following, saw where and how they laid him in the sepul chre. Dark was the day and darker the night when the Prince of Glory died, and was laid in Joseph's tomb, that was hewn in stone wherein never man was laid. There was literal darkness over all the land, and denser the darkness fell upon the people of his choice. The light of hope had gone from the hearts of the bravest apostles. Peter thirty years after wrote: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead." All the faith then ex tant in the world was in true faith ful woman's heart. She kept the faith when all had fled. She was mindful of the body in the tomb, as if there was something still to* hope for, and she was intent that the holy one should not see corrup tion. They planned an early visit to the sepulchre on the first day of the week, while it was yet dark; they were the first witnesses of his resurrection and the first to declare it by special commission-"Go tell my brethren." She was worthy of the trust committed. "Not she, with trait'rous kiss her Saviour stung; Not she, denied him with unholy tongue; She, while apostles shrank could danger brave: Continnued on page two.