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JOHN R MADDOX. Editor.
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SATURDAY - - DEC. 5, 1885.
HISTORIC SMYRNA.
FROM IRELAND TO ROCKDALE THE
PILGRIM FATHERS STREAM.
Emyrna's Birth Stamps a new Civilization
Full History of Smyrna church, Rock¬
dale county, Ga, From its Birth
to the Present Time,
BY REV. IIEMK Y QUIGG, D. If.
I’AKT I-IKST.
Here is a church crowded for di
vine worship. There is a spacious
board arbor in the midst of tents of
superior structure, Here too is a
commodious schoolhouse hard by the
church. These buildings are well
painted, neat and comfortable.
Yonder too is God’s half acre where
the fathers sleep. Who are these
people and whence came they?
These questions lead us right back
into the misty past. About the mid¬
dle ofthe 15th century proofs were
accumulating that the world was
round, not flat. If round|the East
Indies can be reached by sailing
west. The manner’s compass lias
been discovered. Three ships are
fitted out and after sailing 71 days
Columbus lands on the island of
San Salvador in the year 1402. ye
died in ignorance of his grand dis¬
covery-. Six years later Americus
Vespucci disembarks on the main¬
land and gives his name to a new
world. Colony after colony of hardv
Europeans braving the dangers of
the deep, find a home in this wes¬
tern world. The first colony settled
in North Carolina. In 1820 the May
Flower lands her band of exiles in
the depth of winter on a bleak and
barren coast.
A tide of emigration , set
now in
which has continued to swell up till
the present hour. Among the con
tnbuttng streams to American pop
illation, Ulster one ot the tour prov
inces of Ireland, has ever sent out its
full share. I he lands of tins prov
ince being confiscated in 1610 to the
British Crown after an unsuccessful
rebellion and the original inhab.
tants being put to he sword or es
caping toi'ianco, >°ng ) a ei l e
territory were now lett a howling
waste. Ihe Eng is i ing a us
t.me encouraged the Scotts by .and
bounties to go over and possess the
sod As a result in if (--ouise o
years Ulster was owned and occu
pied by Scotch emigiants. a j'3
ing with them their customs lan
gunge and religion a new Scotland
sprang up on Enn s northern shore.
In Ireland the descendants of these
emigrants are still called Scotch.
On this continent, and especially in
the south, they are very appropriate- distinguish
ly called Scotch Irish to
them alike fiom the aboriginal Irish
and the name . cod a
\\ ith this type of humanity mark
ed everywhere for intelligence its industry in
tegnty, energy and pi
ety, th. se southern states have been
largely peopled. I be ins emigrants
nearly al setibHl m northern states.
In 1730 the Scotch and Scotch Irish
had taken almost exclusive posses
siou Of the Cumberland valley m
Pennsylvania. disturbed
Some 20 years later the
state of things in Pennsylvania l'«
gan to push the inhabitants out ot
their homes. 1 he Ind.ans were din
ly wreaking their vengeance out
the whites "t the forest lhetuiyot culminated these in ^'<1 Ire..
men
,n what has been ever since known
as l.rad,lock s deteat. Ins disas
trouaeveni leaving the whites a prey
to their savage iocs in l ennsylvania
forced then, to quit their cultivated
seats and seek new homes tn Virgin
ia I>M Ihe l0rl ^ Scotch Uni i !50U and i Scotch Irish T . .
streams of emigration now flowed
through the port ot Charleston to
mingle with their tnends southern and homes kins
meu in their now
But the title of empire still west
ward flows, and the Scotch Irish
have ever been in the front. Travel
where you will on either hemisphere
they are found plying their pursuits
amid polar snows, temperate zones
and torrid dimes. M lien the fat.h
ers setttled in the Carolinas the Red
man proudly roamed through these
forests wild. Just in tha spot w here
that beautiful church nestles in the
grove, perhaps, he threaded with his
dusky bride the ffiazes of the green
corn dance and over there by the eo
zy echoolhouse sat round the couu
cil fue, smoking the pipe of peace,
or with painted visage and nodding
plume, raising the w-arcry, he sallied
forth to meet the foe. In 1821 these
children ofthe forest being pushed
by the government beyond the Chat
tahoochee, their lands were surveyed
and marked off into lots Soon the
white man steps in. Family
family and youth after youth fremi
the Carolinas find their way to
Indian hunting grounds. As early as
1826 we find that Moses Hollings
worth and others have reached this
place, yet almost as wild as when
the Cherokee prddled South river in
,,is Itebt Canoe and chased the bear
from I)jH wigwam . Then the ginger
weed, the fern and the tall grass eon
coaled the deer, the turkey, the wild
cat and the wolf. These lands that
now smile with rich harvests around
this church were on the market at
50ets an acre. The inhabitants as
yet were few and some not the most
orderly. Those, however, who ear
l ied their religion witli them to their
new homes sought and obtained oe
casional supplies of the preached
word. The Scotch stream wherever
it flowed fertilized the soil with the
dews of Heaven. Like the ancient
patriarchs in their wanderings, they
not only dug their well, and pitched
their tent, but raised their altar.
As the hart pants after the water
brooks, so they thirsted for the re¬
freshing ordinances of God’s house.
Their yearnings for the waters of
life found an articulate voice in a
petition to Presbytery to organize a
church here in the wilderness. Ah!
faith can do what others only
dream of and can triumph where
others fail. The petition is granted.
And at the appointed day a little
band of prayerful, hopeful spirits
cemented in ihe bonds of Christian
love, with one heart and soul, meet
to enter into solemn compact and
rear a tabernacle in the wilderness
to the mighty God of Jacob, singing
in tliefiilness of heart:
“O, God of Bethel, by whose band thy
people still are fed,
Who through this weary pilgrimage,
hast all our fathers led.
Our vows, our prayers, we now present
before thy throne of grace
God of our fathers be tlie God of their
succeeding race.”
This auspicious meeting was held
on Sabbath morning the lltli of Feb¬
ruary in the year 1827 at the dwell¬
ing house of Messrs'. Samuel and
Alexander Stewart, two young men,
who, with their sisters, resided about
100 yards from the bouse where Ei¬
der J. G. McNair uow lives. Surely
this worthy brother lives on hallowed
ground, occupying and possessing as
he does tbe site of the germ of Smyr¬
na church.
As the hour for service drew on
two Presbyterian clergymen ap¬
proached. One young, tall, erect
and vigorous, f the other of middle
8tatur( and of middle age . T he
man in the dew of his youth
was D| . j T W ilson, of South Caro
(i a inan who Ktood „p for 50
Ruthin „ the dauntles3 champion of
Georgia. The other was
tbe Rev Win. Kirkpatrick, of Ire
|fin(] who had n)it ,istered to some of
these ut at Liberty Spring
cluirch . South Carolina, and whose
name in some families here is still
sweet ointment Yr. poured forth,
Aftei . sennon by Wilson, the
c ] imc h was organized—the § tender
yine wag \ , ante wbich being water
^ , tbe k . WS of prayer and tears
() ,,,-Achos f penitence has now extended its
far and wide. The organi
zation consisted of 15 members, only
ont . morc than th e whole number of
tliea ‘ lk . 9 . Their names, however,
are ecions and will bc be]d in ever .
la! . tjn 1Tn10UlbraDce . This is the
hpri(llgc ofti „. righteous. Let them
a ain ',, e stored as they sounded in
hoU9e ofthe Messrs. Stewart 58
„ a Archibald Gilmer, Jo
- Hollingsworth,
h jr„ Margaret
Gilmer, Marv jj Gilmer, James Russell, Alex!
Ma Rna>e Samud Stewart,
and( , r su>wart E i izabclh Hollings
worth Moses Hollingsworth, Eliza
-
bot|| 1Io]ling8 g wortb, David M. Stew
aj . Nanuy tewart Elizabeth Calla
hnn and Khzabeth Gilespie. Only
onfidollbk , uanu , it will be observed,
ig jn Uie wllC)le list . How customs
t . hn , 0 f these 15 every one has
fallen asleep. Mrs. Elizabeth Holi
ingswo ,th, relict of Mr. Moses Hell
ingswol ” , th and mother of our late
, a entcd Newton Hollingsworth, D
wag , |k . ]flst survivol , sbe Hved to
sc , e that little church, of whose be
^ ginning slu-formed a part, ‘ growing,
| andi] ^nyers and 8cndin ollt its col
on es t0 and Salem and Li¬
thonja and P o,,tnhuting to the up
huil(iil r (> f churches by individual
mombers in m . ni lv every southern
'
and solltl ,western state. Ave! and
on Uip flna , d it will besaidof
many whose names never appeared
on churoh ,. olls this man and
that ma n was born in her.
(to v be continued.) ’
jt will be remembered by many
that Elder J. S. Lamar, now of At
] a nta, preached at the Christian
church in this places few Sundays
ag0> A large crowd turned ont to
bear the learned divine. He made a
favorable and lasting impression on
b [ 8 audience. Members of other
churches at this place suggested and
insisted that Air. Lamar be chosen
pastor of the Christian church. Out
aiders grew so earnest in their ap
peals as to aw-aken action in the
Christian church. So last Sunday
the members elected M. Lamar as
their pastor for next year. This
gentleman is a scholar, and Mr. A.
II. Stephens is reported tohavepass
ed a heavy compliment on him by
saying he was “the best theologian
tbe south.” As outsiders we
would, in common with all our peo
pleased to have Mr. Lamar
preach at this place. The people
here admire him and he will suit
t bern '-----
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