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of mail awaiting us. Several members
of our church sent us boxes of good
tilings, and they were always received
with shrieks of delight.
One morning we earned a bead by
tracking our assistant guardian and
one of the eirls for two miles Tho?
drew arrows in the sand to guide us,
and when they came to grassy places
they dropped pieces of paper. We
waited until they were out of sight
and then we started. It took us two
hours to reach the end of the trail
and three quarters of an hour to come
home.
Sunday was a very quiet day. In
the morning we went to the First
Presbyterian church, in Hampton, and
in the evening we sang hymns on the
beach until bedtime.
Wednesday night we went over to
Old Point to hear the band concert.
We left the beach about 5:30 so we
might see the ships come in. We had
been so absorbed in our own affairs
at camp that even a drugstore seemed
a strange sight. We had a splendid
time listening to the music and watching
the lights on the water, but we
went sorrowfully to bed, for it was our
last night in camp.
Thursday we were busy cleaning
house and packing up. We scrubbed
tbe pots and pans very hard so the
Scouts would not mind lending thorn
to us another time. For we expect
to go again next year. We allowed
ourselves forty-five dollars for expenses,
but we only used thirty-six. We
have put the remainder in the treasury
to pay a cook next time!
We cannot say bow grateful we are
to the people of the church and to the
Scouts for their interest and help,
which was in great measure responsible
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THE BEGINNINGS OF TIKZAH AND
OTHER PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCHES IN UNION
COUNTY, N. C.
In the southwestern nnritnn
Union county and the northeastern portion
of Lancaster county, S. C., is a
section of country known as the Waxhaws.
This section is traversed by a
stream bearing its name, and is one of
the finest farming sections of the State.
Scotch-Irish Presbyterians came to
tliis section long before the Revolution
and established several churches on
the South Carolina side of the line,
but in the year 1800 a mission was
started on the North Carolina side near
the present town of Waxhaw, and was
served by the Rev. William McGill,
who seemed to have been a home mis
sionary of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Church. As evidence of
these facts. Elder Henry McWhorter
of the Walkersville church near by has
a subscription paper for the pastoral
service of Rev. McGill, dated September
9, 1800. The paper is the original
manuscript, and is in good condition,
although it is now one hundred and
fifteen years old. The paper was written
by Mr. McWorter's grandfather,
George McWhorter, and has been in
the family continuously to the present.
It contains the names of a number of
persons whose decendants live in the
community by the score. The services
were held in a small log church witli
earth floor, and in this house Tirzah
church was organized in the year 1804,
with George McWhorter, author of the
paper and a Revolutionary soldier, and
Stephen Billue, French Huguenot and
Revolutionary soldier, as first elders.
When this building was burned a
few years later, the location was moved
south six miles, because more central
for the congregation. At the latter
place the church has greatly prospered
through a century of service, and has
set off a number of colonies. One of
the first of these was Unity A. R. P.
church, which drew off from the parent
church about forty-five years ago, when
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Assembly. Unity church is situated
about five miles east of the old
church and is doing excellent service.
Again in the year 1908 Walkersville
church was organized at a mission
five miles north of the old church,
and known as Tirzah chapel. This
young church has much promise. During
the seven years of its existence as
an organized church it has outgrown
its present building, and is just now
completing an excellent modern building,
which is a credit to any community.
This church is two miles from
the original log church.
In the year 1911 Rehoboth church
was organized six miles northwest of
Tirzah, and near the South Carolina
line. In 1912 a commodious and beautiful
new building was erected and the
church is prospering. While the Presbyterian
church in the town of Waxhaw
is not primarily a colony from the
Tirzah church, a large per cent, of its
members are from her families, and
have a keen interest in the progress of
Presbyterianism in this section.
We thus see the power and influence
of small beginnings. From a
mission in a log church with earth
floor in 1800, to Ave aggressive congregations
with excellent houses of
worship and hundreds of members in
1915. R. J. Mcllwain.
IjIMP but rejoicing.
Egbert W. Smith.
The following paragraph from a recent
letter of our beloved missionary
at Kiangyin, China. Miss Rida Jourolmon,
will be read with interest and
pleasure, not only by the hundreds
who had the privilege of knowing her
on her recent visit to this country, hut
also by all those who love the Saviour:
N OF THE SOUTH.
"I am returning now on my boat
from my usual weekly country trip?
this week to Soli Daung?very limp
ami tired after three days and nights
in a little boat with two Chinese
women in the heat of China summer,
but with a heart full of rejoicing because
three of the girls I have been
working with here for about five years
have just told me tliov lmv? rivn,.
their hearts to Jesus. Two of these
girls are sixteen and one eighteen,
Chinese count, which makes them each
one year younger, as we reckon ages.
They are lovely girls, able to read, but
all of non-Christian families, and will
need to be watched over with jealous,
loving care. There are still other
souls in this class to be won to Jesus,
and there is with them a group of
younger girls who are joining themselves
to us here who are to be prayed
for and loved into the kingdom against
all the snares of the Evil One. The
birth of souls is not accomplished
without great labor and pain."
JllarrtagcS
Ballenger-Pate: At the manse of the
Second Presbyterian church, Greenville,
S. C., August 4, 191 f?, by Rev. E.
P. Davis, Mr. R. S. Ballenger and Miss
Lucy Pate, both of Duncan, S. C.
Dickey-demons: At the home of
the bride's sister, Mrs. J. H. Blanton,
San Antonio, Texas, June 15, 1915, by
Rev. Brooks I. Dickey, brother of the
groom, Mr. Frank R. Dickey, of
Lacoste, Texas, and Miss Ruth
Clemens, of Ruiige, Texas.
Ely'Henderson: At the home of the
bride's parents, Jackson, Missouri,
June 30, 1915, by Rev. Lynn F. Ross.
Mr. Richards Wayne Ely, of Kennett,
Missouri, and Miss Amy Nolle Henderson,
of Jackson, Missouri.
Hughes-McQueen: At the home of
the bride in Red Springs, N. C., Mr.
John G. Hughes and Miss Sallie Mc- !
Queen, August 3, 1915, by Rev. J. J.
Hill. D. D.
Merrltt-Coxe: At the home of the
bride in Red Springs, N. C., Dr. John
H. Merritt and Miss Ellen B. Coxe,
June 2, 1915, by Rev. J. J. Hill, D. D.
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