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1878.
Leard, Sami Mr. A. M. Simmons.
Martin, Wm Mr. J. N. Martin.
Massebeau, J. B Mr. J. H. Bolleson.
Melton, X. K Jos. M. Baxter Esq.
Meynardie, E. J Mr. X. B. Mazyck.
Mitchell, T Station Parsonage.
Mood, H. M Mr. A. J. Maybin.
Mood, J. A Mr. A. J. Maybin.
Mood, W. W Mr. A. J. Maybin.
Mouzon, W. P Y. J. Pope, Esq.
Morgan, H. J Mr. J. K. G. Xance.
Munnerlyn, T. W Mr. W. H. Hunt.
Murray, J. W Major J. P. Kinard.
Mann, C. D Mr. J. D. Smith.
Mann, \V. D Mr. J. D. Smith.
Merritt, E. M Mr. E. 11. Christian.
Meynardie, J. S Mr. T. F. Harmon.
Maybin, B. H Mr. W. W. Hodges.
Muekenfuss, C. H Dr. S. F. Fant.
Maurice, S. W T. S. Moorman, Esq.
Meadors, \V. P Mr. S. C. Merchant.
Martin, AV. S Mr. R. S. McCorchran.
McMillan, D. J Mr. B J. Singleton.
Mcßoy, J. W Mr. H. H. Blcase.
McKibben, M. A Mr. R.H. Wright.
McKain, J. K Rev. R. A. Fair.
McFerrin, J. B Y. J. Pope, Esq.
McLeod, R. Y Mr. R. H. Wright.
McGill, W. T Mr. T. F. Greneker.
Xorton, Jas Major J. P. Kinard.
Xettles, A Mr. R. C. Chapman.
Newberry, I. J Mr. A. M. Bowers.
Xeville, J. J Mr. T. F. Greneker.
Oliver, R. C Circuit Parsonage.
Outzs, D. T Mr. C. P. Dickert.
Pierce, G. F Mr. W- T. Tarrant.
Prince, W. L Mr. J. H. Kolleson,
Pickins, W. S Mr. Wm. Lane.
Price, E. G Mr. J. D. Hornsby.
Porter, Jas. S Mr. S. C. Merchant.
Pate, J. T Major J P. Kinard.
Pegues, W. L Mr. C. Chapman.
JCatterson, W. C Mr- R. T. Reagin.
Platt, J B Mr. B. J. Ramage.
Porter, J. A Mrs C Mower.
Phillips, T. P Mr. I). B Wheeler.
' Power, W. C Mr. S. P. Boozer.
Pooser, G. H Mr. J. 11. James.
Pritchard, C. II Mr. T. F. Greneker.
Pooser, M. II Mr. Jas. Crawford.
Raysor, T Mr. L. E. Fulk.
Rogers, W. A Colonel J. R. Leavel.
Russell, J. C Mr. G. M. Geredaux.
Rowell, C. D Mr. B. J. Ramage.
Rountree, O. X Mr. Jacob Sligh.
Rollins, E ... Mr. A. M. Bowers.
Rushton, J. M Mr D. B. Wheeler.
Rushton, Jesse Mr. J. II Blease.
Richardson, W. R Mr. T. M. Lake.
Rainwater, A. T Mr. Jos. Glenn.
Reid, J. W Mr. Jas. Crawford.
Sullivan, W. D Mr. E P. Chalmers.
Switzer, J. R Mr. P. Rodlespiger.
Stokes, B Dr. P. B. Ruff.
Senn, R. D Mr. W. C. Parker.
Scarhoro, L Mr. R. C. Chapman.
Seal, David Mrs. E. A. Bradly.
Shipp, A. M T. S. Moorman, Esq.
Smith, W. P Dr. P. B. Ruff.
Smith, W. II Dr. O 11. Meyer.
Sheldon, D. II Mr. E. P. Chalmers.
Shnford, J. L Mr. R. C. Chapman.
Silley, J. L W. Y. Fair, Esq.
Simmons, D. J. Station Parsonage.
Smith, Whitefoord Dr. Jas. Mclntosh.
Stafford, A. J Colonel J. R. Leavel.
Stokes, A. J Dr. S. F. Fant.
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Smith, A". C .'......Dr. O. B. Meyer.
Stoll, J. C Mr W. M. Langford.
Smith, J. F Mr. S. P Boozer.
Stokes, J. L. Rev. L. Broaddus.
Townsend, J. W Mr. R. C. Clipman.
Thomas, Wm Mr. J. E. Chapman.
Traywiek, J. B Mr. D. Bushardt.
Tiller, Dove Mr. J. D. Hornsby.
Tarbourx, J. W W. H. Wallace, Esq.
Turner, J. H Mr. T. M. I .ake.
Vaughn, S. D Mr. J. A. Chapman.
Wightman, W. M Y- J. Pope, Esq.
Warren, W. B Dr. O. B Meyer.
Wilson, A. W Y. J. Pope, Esq.
Wightman, J. W Mr. A. M. Simmons.
Whitaker, H W Mr. Jacob Sligh.
Williams. G. W Silas Johnstone, Esq.
Walker, 11. A. C Mr. G. M. McWhorter.
Walker, A. C Mr. G. M. McWhorter.
Wannamaker, T. E Mr- L. E. Fulk.
Watts, Jno Mr. T. H. Harmon.
Weber, S. A Mr. J. X. Fowles.
Wells, G. H Mr. B. J. Singleton.
Watson, J. E Mr. L. M. Speers.
Wightman, J. T Dr. Jos. Mclntosh.
Wood, J A W. Y. Fair, Esq.
Wood, Landv Mr. Jas. Packer.
Workman, J. J Mr. C. P. Dickert.
Wells, R. X J. F J- Caldwell, Esq.
Wilson, J. B Rev. Z. L. White.
Wightman, W. S Mr. X. B. Mazyck.
Whitman, G. W Mr. \\. A. Cline.
Willson, J. O Dr. S. F- Fant.
Walker, C. W Silas Johnstone, Esq.
Walker, A. W Mr. W. Lane.
Williams, W. W Colonel Lipscomb.
Wolling, J. W Mr R. C. Chapman.
Zimmerman, J. II Mr. J. O. Peoples.
Rail Road Fare.
Atlanta and Charlotte Air Line.
“Delegates will be passed free on their
return on presentation of Secretary’s
certificate that they were delegates in
attendance and that they paid full
fare going. Those who hold half-rate
tickets are not entitled to such cir
tificates.”
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta,
and Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta.
•* Return tickets to Columbia good
for ten days, will bo sold at three
cents per mile each way.”
South Carolina Railroad. “ All
delegates who pay regular fare going
will, upon presentation of certificates
to the agent in Columbia, be allowed
to return at the rate of two cents per
mile. These certificates must be pre
sented at ticket office and not on the
road.”
Northeastern Railroad. “ .tickets
will be sold at excursion rates, six
cents per mile, to go and return. Cer
tificates will not be recognized.”
Savannah and Charleston Railroad.
“Delegates will be sold round trip
tickets’as far as Charleston, for one
local fare for round trip.”
Greenville and Columbia Railroad.
“ Will extend the usual rates on pub
lic occasions.”
% Cheraw and Darlington Railroad.
SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
“ Persons attending the Conference,
on paying first class fare going, will
be returned on certificate of Secretary
of Conference without extra charge
until December 21st.”
South Carolina Conference.
Dr. Meynardie, Columbia District ,
writes: “ The Fort Mill and the Rock
Hill circuits held their Quarterly
Meetings last week apart, beginning
on Thursday and ending on Sunday
night. The meetings were highly
interesting and the Conferences in
dicate unusual diligence on the part
of the pastors and their official.
Brother S.’s development into full,
clerical manhood, will place him with
the foremost in the pulpit. Brother
Boyd has placed the Rock Hill circuit
where it ought to have been long ago,
in the front rank. Every church in
the charge has been developed and
improved by a general plan of reor
ganization which he adopted in the
early part of the year. About eight
miles from the town of Rock Hill, in
an old Presbyterian community, he
planted a church, the dedication of
which occurred a few weeks since,
aud the membership of which now
numbers fifty-four. One of the stew
ards is a Presbyterian transfer. Pos
sibly, others are also. The member
ship and congregation are largely
composed of this class of excellent
citizens, who would have proved faith
ful to the Church of their ancestors
had they been sought and served pas
torally. Brother B. did this for Christ’s
sake and their souls’ sake, and conse
quently, he is filling the Church with
these substantial people.
Our brother has received into the
Church this year, one hundred and
fifty persons. This will indicate the
spiritual condition of his charge. His
salary has been paid to within sixty
dollars, and the Presiding Elder’s en
tirely. He will likely- report all his
collections in full. The parsonage at
Rock Hill is undergoing re-modeling,
enlargement and thorough repair,
which will make it, with its ample
grounds, a most desirable residence.
The town is sustained by the circuit
cheerfully in this work. Besides,
Rock Hill has contributed over four
hundred dollars, as its annual quota,
for the ministry. Of course, it is ex
pected that the well contented Pre
siding Elder, who has his hands full
of enterprises, in transitu, will, with
In.s wtrA-escrngiSraiiy, occupy the new
house the ensuing Conference year.
The progress of Methodism in the
County of York, the current year,
has been remarkable, and ought to
become historic in the annals of our
Conference, for the reason mainly
that it is a well known, deep-rooted,
Scotch-Irish Presbyterian county.
This whole section of the State was
settled by a steady, industrious and
religious people, exceedingly tenacious
of the inherited faith of their fathers.
Their descendants are now served by
pastors of education, intelligence and
j liberality. Lathan, Wilson, and Coop-
I er, are among the foremost ministers
! of their Church in the State, and are
deservedly esteemed by ours, who
know them personally.
The doctrines and appliances of
Methodism, however, wherever our
Church is planted, never fail to make
those inroads and reap those fruits
which a sound, spiritual and ecclesi
astical aggressiveness produces. In
doing this, the Church and her liberal
ministry dispense blessings where
they seem at first to wound. This is
the philosophy of Methodism, in a
nut-shell, exemplified in Mr. Wesley’s
day and ever since. The illustration
of it is furnished by every branch of
the evangelical Church, and will con
tinue to bo, until the mission of Wes
leyan Methodism ceases ’with the re
vealed glory of the entire kingdom of
Christ, at the last day.
In Western York, over three hun
dred have been added to the Church
the present year. This has been ac
complished through the able, devoted
and piously aggressive ministry of
such men as Boyd, of Rock Hill;
Stokes, of Fort Mill; Gilbert, of York
! ville, including Philadelphia ; Johnson,
| of York ; and Boozer, of Black’s sta
tion, who have almost entirely swept
I this section, receiving into the Church
the cream of society." These, without
flattery, for the subject will not admit
of such trifling, are workmen who
need not to be ashamed. When they
rest in the bosom of their God, these
works will follow them. What a
stimulus this thought should be to
the ministry, to be holy, circumspect
and laborious!”
Rev Manning Brown, takes leave
of the Cokesbury District, at the close
of his fourth year of service:
“ The Lowndesville Station, though
not blessed with anything like a revi
val this year, has, notwithstanding,
under the judicious management of
the pastor, made some advancement.
The Abbeville Station, the present
year, has had the faithful labors of
one who always does good work,
and whose efforts, I am confident
have built up the interest of the
charge. Cokesbury Station, though
their zealous pastor has worked faith
fully, I fear has made no progress.
Newberry Station, where our Annual
Conference is to hold its next session,
has not prospered as I hoped it would
by the labors of the experienced pas
tor who has charge of it this year.
I trust the visit of so many of the
servants of God, during the session of
the Conference, will result in a most
gracious revival in the charge. Most
of the Circuits have been blessed with
revivals. Newberry Circuit, in the
hands of its zealous pastor, who has
had charge of it for four years, is in a
prosperous condition. He, assisted
bv his junior, and the local itinerant,
(Uncle Mark, as most people call
him), has held meetings at all the
churches in the work, which have re
sulted in a number of conversions and
additions to the church. The North
Newberry, though a weak Circuit, has
grown somewhat, and by the efforts
of the preacher, a parsonage has been
put up, which, when entirely com
pleted, will be a comfortable home for
the itinerant. The Tumbling Shoals
Circuit has been favored for the past
two years with the labors of one who
knows just how to work up afield,
and who has been instrumental in
bringing into the church a large
number, and also in advancing all the
interests of the church. This charge
is in excellent condition. The Green
wood Circuit is in a very good state.
The labors of the pastor and his as
sistant have been very much blessed.
The Saluda Circuit, by the efforts of
the preacher in charge, who has been
untiring in his work, has been won
derfully blessed. I know of no charge
that has improved more than this.
South Abbeville has also been visited
with revivals, and by the efforts of
the Presiding Elder, who has had
charge of the work for three years,
a comfortable parsonage has been
built, and all the interests of the
church advanced. Cokesbury Circuit
has not been as much blessed as some
others, but doubtless the faithful
preaching of the preacher in charge
and his colleague will yet bring forth
fruit. The Abbeville Circuit, I am
sorry to say, has not improved as it
should have done. The 'readier hi#v
C . ILitijfui, but ti.i I b/t iuttoii
fruit yet from his labors. Lexington
Fork Circuit, which was placed in
this District at the last Conference,
has been in charge of a very faithful
man, whose labors 1 trust have re
sulted in good to the church. I think,
upon the whole, I can report the Dis
trict in a good condition. This has
been a very trying year to our people.
Short crops and the low price of cot
ton Will affect our collections, and yet
I think they will compare favorably
with previous years Methodism is
strong in this section of the State,
and I think the piety of the member
ship will compare favorably' with any
portion of the church in the bounds
of the Conference.”
Rev. T. Raysor, Branchville Ct.,
writes us encouraging news from his
work :
• A coincidence. In 1868, I was ap
pointed by Bishop Doggett, the sec
ond y 7 ear to Branchville Circuit. I
am now, ’7B, closing by the appoint
ment of the same Bishop, my second
y T ear at this place. In 1867, this cir
cuit was set off from the old Orange
burg circuit, as a sepaiate and dis
tinct charge, with four Churches.
Last year another (new society) was
added, now making a strong and
compact circuit, with parsonage in
centre of five churches. These build
ings are nearly all new, having been
built or remodeled since the late war.
They are all creditable and comforta
ble. The increase iu the membership
in the last decade has been about
forty per cent., while the finances have
nearly doubled. So y 7 ou see we are
steadily growing. During the year
just closing, there has been a marked
and very decided interest in Sunday
schools. There never has been, in
the history of this circuit, so much
vitality on this important interest of
the Church. 1 heard one of the super
intendents, in a report which he made
to the church, say that every child in
the neighborhood was a member of
the Sunday-school ; certainly' a very
gratifying fact. Onward is. .the motto
in every department offtbe work.
Our fourth quarterly meeting was
held at New Hope. Brother Martin
was with us, in bodily health, and
preached to the comfort ai *1 -difica
tion of the Church. At the close of
the usual Quarterly, Conference busi
ness, resolutions were unanimously 7
passed that Were as creditable to the
body, as they were complimentary to
the Presiding Elder. Brother M. in
response to these resolutions, which
were unexpected to him, made our
eyes water and our “ hearts burn ” as
he briefly reviewed his more than
half century in the itinerancy. He
left us with the benedictions of the
Church upon him. 1 fear the Confer
ence claims will not be fully 7 met,
owing, in my judgment, to the plan
adoptod at our last Conference, the
main idea of which is, to make the
churches in some measure independ
ent. By this plan the churches, to a
great extent, lose sight of the connec
tional idea and feelings, and the in
terest centres i the church and not
in the circuit. It may 7, however, (for
we do not wish to discuss it here) in
the run of y'ears, work out to the in
terest of both the churches aud circuit,
but in the meanwhile some interests
naturally will suffer.”
Rev. William Hutto, Rich Ilill Ct.,
writes us as follows :
“ 1 am happy to be able to state
that, by the bFessiug of God, I have
not been absent from any of my ap
pointments, during the year, only
when 1 was called to a camp-meeting.
Our congregations have been, for the
most part, large and attentive, and
there have been frequent and evident
manifestations of the Divine presence.
We held several protracted meetings
during the summer and autumn, as
sisted at some of them by 7 visiting
brethren, who labored zealously and
successfully 7. These meetings, togeth
er with the regular services of the
year, have resulted in fifty-four ac
cessions to the church and about the
same number of conversions. Twon
eiglit of these received baptism. The
church has been revived generally,
as is evidenced by an increase in the
number of prayer-meetings, family
altars, communicants, and a greater
interest on the subject of religion.
Our financial report will be favorable,
much better than for many 7 years pre
vious. Our people have provided us
a comfortable parsonage and a mod
erate supply of furniture. Personally
we have found many warm friends,
and not a few of these among our
Baptist and Presbyterian brethren,
have been very kind to us in deeds,
as well as in words. The Lord re
ward them. We have much good ma
terial here for the Lord’s building,
some of it utilized, and other that is
available. We have some earnest,
faithlul workers among our lay breth
ren, good men and true, who have
nsiiilr-id us muck heruice ; “the Lord
bless them ; and I see no good reason
W'liy 7 the Circuit may not bo number
ed among the best, at no distant day.
Our people desire to establish a camp
ground. I think they will do it.
They 7 need it. I believe it would be
a power for good here, Brother J. B.
T. to the contrary notwithstanding.
Wo now have avery 7 interesting meet
ing in progress at Glendale. Two ap
plied for membership last night, and
quite a number knelt at the altar
and at their seats for prayer.”
Rev. John B. Mood, Graniteville Ct.
“My work is doing very well. We
have a model Sabbath-school, in which
all our Sunday-school literature circu
lates. Langley has been greatly afflict
ed with sickness all the summer and
fall, owing to ihe exposed bottoms of
the mil! pond below the town, caused
by the unexpected destruction of the
dam and the consequent escape of the
water. The severe malarial fevers
have materially interfered with my
work here, butmatters are improving.
We will have next year a pretty
strong church at Vauciuse, where the
magnificent mill just completed has
been put into operation. A Methodist
Church edifice will be erected by the
brethren and friends here as soon
as this new village has been regularly
incorporated in our Conference work.
Benevolences a little above par; min
ister’s support considerably below par.”
Rev. John O. Willson, Camden
Station, reports progress in the erec
tion of his Church. The incident de
tailed below is very interesting and
suggestive. We cordially add our
hearty “ amen ” to the pious prayer of
Brother Willson that the faith which
sustained the honored father may be
the support for the son.
“ Please give me place for one more
incident connected with collections
for Camden Church. As I rose to
leave a home here, at which I had
called, a little boy of seven years
handed me two dollars for our church
building. He said a friend had given
him this sum ‘to buy candy with,
but (he) had rather give it to help
finish the church.’ This boy is a
widow’s son. His father, in our own
Conference preached the gospel of
Christ, and ‘ fell on sleep ’ five years
ago. May the father’s faith support
the eon forever.”
Rev. J. J. Neville, Walhalla and
Seneca City Ct., writes as follows :
“ I am now about to wind up my two
years’ labor on this circuit. I have
much reason for gratitude and en
couragement. My 7 unworthy efforts
have been owned and blessed by 7 my 7
Master. I will say this much, that the
circuit is in a better condition than it
was last year, spiritually and finan
cially 7. My people, as a general thing
are poor, but they seem willing to do
their duty. 1 have had many tokens
of appreciation and kindness. One
hundred and twelve persons have
been added to the Church during the
two years. At Walhalla we are en
deavoring to build a now church. We
expect to do all wo can ourselves;
but wo need help. All the denomina
tions have creditable houses of wor
ship except us.”
The Richmond Christian Advocate
makes the following sensible sugges
tion :
Wo would suggest a short course of
lectures on Preaching and Preachers,
by 7 a half dozen experienced ministers,
as an interesting feature in the Divin
ity 7 School at Randolph Macon Col
lege. If Doctors Register, Martin,
and Rodgers would put in two lectures
apiece, and Dr. Edwards and other
brethren of the Virginia Conference
a like number, the young men would
get much valuable and practical in
formation about their vocation. Each
lecture would gather pith from the
experience of the speaker’s life in the
ministry. Care, of course, should bo
taken not to engage anybody who
would bring a melancholy and un
timely essay.
[Continued from flrßt page.]
the fish and meat shops, are doing a
considerable business. We turned in
to a lane. “ There,” said our guide,
“ is a gambling-den ; there another :
and y 7 et another.” We looked into
the open door and saw the interior
of sleeping apartments-one glance was
sufficient. Wo. went into aJoss-house,
i. e. a temple for the worship of idols.
Tapers were burning. In grim ugli
ness sat the wooden, painted god, be
dizened with tinsel. Right and
left were smaller gods and goddesses,
tablets and inscriptions, gaudy dress
es and grotesque carvings. Not a
solitary seslhetic element of the grand
old Greek polytheism was here to
impress the imagination. We saw no
worshipers. Sometimes on feast-days
of tbcitr gods, crowds go to the tem
ples. At other times, a worshiper or
two drop in, with no apparent de
votion, count their beads, burn their
“cash,” go through some other sense
less ceremony and then saunter out.
The superstition is so effete that it has
through long generations lost the
sparkle of its early enthusiasm, and
the heat of its fanatical excitement.
It has “ waxed old and is ready to van
ish away.” Little had I thought I
should ever stand in the veritable
temple of an idol ; I left it with min
gled emotions of pity 7, disgust, abhor
rence.
We went into a restaurant. The
lower story furnishes cheap fare. Up
stairs everything is different. Every
thing is “ respectable." You can get
a first-class meal if you wish. We
look, each of us, a cup of tea. The
decoction was madein cups with close
fitting covers, and then poured off
into the cups in which we drank it.
On the other end of the room on a
small platform, under a canopy, lay
the opium pipe for the use of those
who smoke opium, together with one
or two small blocks of wood for pil
lows.
Our curiosity being satisfied, we
crossed the street and went into the
Methodist chapel, at which there is a
daily service at 2 o’clock P. M. This
chapel was a common store, and is now
fitted up for thepurposesof public wor
ship. It will accommodate from eighty
to ninety persons. When we went in,
it w 7 as nearly full of Chinamen. They
sal, for the most part, with their hats
on, but were quiet and attentive.
One of Dr. Gibson’s young preachers
occupies the speaker’s platform and
is making an earnest address. Of
course the sermon is in Chinese ; but
the graceful gesticulation and the tine
management of the voice proclaim
the preacher a pulpit orator. This
service, I understand, has been car
ried on every day in this chapel for
the last four y'ears, Saturday’s except
ed. I rejoice to know that this daily 7
testimony in favor of the true and
living God, and of his Son our Lord
Jesus Christ, has been and will be
heard in the heart of these head quar
ters of heathenism in our Christian
land. The effect may 7 not be immedi
ately perceptible. Yet the influence
will be felt in the future, that rises,
grand, sublime in its possibilities, yet
awful in its portents, before these
beautiful lands that extend to the
surges of the mighty Pacific, a sea-line
of more than twelve hundred miles.
Napa, California.
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