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For The
Columbia District Conference
Jamestown, Kentucky.
June 8-11, 1916. -
-; THURSDAY-MORNING
8:30 Song and Prayer Service
9:00 Organization and Appointment of Committees
9:15 Report of Pastors.
'10:15 Prayer and the Revival - Rev. J. Robert Marrs
" 1 0:30 The business of the preacher Rev. C. F. Allen
1 1:00 Sermon Subject: The Divine Call to Preach the Gospel.
Rev. J. S. Chandler.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
2:00 J5ong and Prayer Service Rev. L. C. Risen
2:15 Methodism and the Revival Rev. Emery Pennycuff
2:30 Lindsey-Wilson Training School My Experienceand Con- '
tact with Young Life Prof. R. R. Moss.
2:45 Lindsey-Wilson Training What it is to the Columbia Dis
trict and the Adjacent Territory. Prof. Paul Chandler.
3:00 The Standard of Living for Christians as touching the World,
Private, Family, Church Life Rev. W. C. Christie.
General Discussion.
3:30 The Slogan of the Columbia District A Revival in Every
Church and all Assessments Paid in full Rev. C. L. Shelly
General Discussion.
4:00 An Inventory of the District as to the Payment of the Assess
ments in full.
4:30 Election of the License Committee.
THURSDAY EVENING
. 7:30 Song and Prayer Service Rev. H. C. Wilson
--."- 'Sermon Subject: Christan Education . ,1
"-:' ' - Rev.M.M. Murrell
FRIDAY MORNING
8:30 Song and Prayer Service. Owen Lee
9:00 Report of Committee for License.
9;20 Report of Committee for Admission. oh Trial into :the Trav
eling Connection.
9:40 Report of Committee for Orders.
10:00 Report of Woman's Missionary Society
Mrs. Cowherd, District Secretary.
- t10:20 The Work of the Women in the Evangelization of the
World. Mrs. S. G. Shelley.
- 10:40 On to Junaluska. Mr. Edward Hill.
1 1 :00 Sermon or Missionary Address
Rev. F. M. Thomas, Pres. Board of Conference Board
of" Missions.
FRIDAY AFTERNOON
2:00 Song and Prayer Service F. A. Sanders.
2:15 Selecting the place for the next District Conference. .
2:30 Our Orphans Home. - ' MrE. S. Boswell
3:00 Report of Committees.
3:45 The Tithe System The Solution of our (Church) Financial
Problems. Mr.' Edward' Hill.
General Discussion.
4:302Election of Delegates to the Annual Conference.
FRIDAY EVENING
7:30 Song and Prayer Service Rev. J. W. Caughson
- Report of Local Preachers, Character Passed and License
Renewed.
. - Sermon or Missionary Address Subject: World-Wide
. Evangelism J. Lewis Piercy.
EPWORTH LEAGUE
SATURDAY MORNING
8:30 Song and Prayer Service. Rev. LTE. Squires.
"8:45 The necessity of training the Youth of to Day for the
Church of To-morrow. Rev. R. E. Bailey.
-.9:10 The Purpose o the Epworth League. Ten minutes' each.
(1) To Develop and Train Young Christians.
. - Rev. R. B. McMican
(2) To Become Active and Practical Christians.
""' . Rev. D. L. Vance.
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i(3)MjT6Becpmft IateKgejat
' Amenities)! our 'Holy
-- (4) 'To Become World-Wide in our Conception of the Great
- Commission Christ Gave His Church.
- Rev. B. F. Copas.
9:50 -The League's Place in the Church. Rev. Marvin Perryman.
10:00 The League Place in the Revival. Rev. Marion Capshaw.
1 0:1 OSThe League's Relation to the Pastor. Rev. Allen Viers.
i- ' 1 0:20iThe Relation of the Pastor to the League.
T. Byron. Bandy.
10:30 An Ideal Epworth League Devotional Meeting. ,
'j.' ' . D..T. Penick.
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Religion. Prof. Guy Stevenson
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. HOW 'LOSTWMY GRIPP.
Editor News :
May 1, 1915, we! located at
GJensfork, Ky. , and after a pleas-
ant summer there, luxuriating on
sulphur water and fat 'possum
until December 1st, returned to
Pisgah, but sad to say, tabout the
first of February woke one morn
ing feeling as though a half bush
el of bumblebees had turned loose
in my bonnet. Then came the
sneezing, snorting and otherwise
cavorting, a symptom I surmised
of the long dreaded result of
overdevelopment of the brain.
My stomach with every organ
went out on a strike. Mrs. J.
thought it caused by imbibing
over much 'possum and sulphur
water like the song that went
somehow so:
Sister Sue is very sick,
A what you recon ails her ?
She ate all grany's goose eggs up
And now her stomach ails her.
And so it went on better and
worse until the worse far exceed
ed the better, when I determined
to take a change of treatment,
and on the morning of the 17th
weak and weary, lame in every
muscle, made a break for Sand
Lick via the Crocus road to the
mouth of S. Lick, which soon
produced melancholly musings
on the transitory nature of all
things pertaining to the sublu
nary sphere. When I neared the
old homesteads of Charles Tay
lor, Curt White and Young E.
Hurt, for all of whose wives I
had made teeth more than forty
years ago, and every one had
long since crossed the dark river.
I had not passed that way for
many years and everything seem
ed changed, and at one point,
while reviewing the Common
wealth, recalled having made
teeth for one Mrs. Loy, whose
house-stood near the road, when
I was constrained to inquire,
Where or where ! and echo an
swered where : tor there was
nothing to indicate that a human
habitation had ever stood near
the place. To me the most im
pressive landmark was an old
log-house which stands a monu
ment to the prowess of pioneer
days. When they built all the
dwellings of large logs and daub
ed the cracks with mortar, forty
five years ago, uncle George Car
ter would hobble to road and en
quire of me concerning the citi
zens of Rock-house Bottom and
our relatives in Iowa. I enter
tain great reverence for uncle
George, as I had often heard my
my mother relate that about 1841
she attended schoel and studied
Grammar, most of one day in a
class with several other girls
when in the afternoon, while re
citing, they broke up in a titter
when uncle George very forcibly
admonished them, as the girl did
her would be sweetheart, that on
the next day to keep their shoes
at home and' wear them, which
broke up the Grammar class.
But few thought then, as the old
lady said, Grammary very usisa
ry ; but wanted all her gals to
learn the. gramanary.
-"I next viewed the beautiful
bluffs 'of Burns' cretk where the
branches of the sprues pine bow
to the balmy breezes and the
chattering king fisher goes up
and down seeking whom he may
devour. It might have well in
spired a Burns in his day-
It has been well said that man
made the town and God made the
country, and He certainly dis
played mo3t artistic handiwork
when he made Crocus creek and
its tributaries. Here we were
, again impressed with the short
ness of our fleeting span of life
for there from the mauth of
Burns' creek I viewed three fer
tile farms upon which I had
made teeth for the wives of Joe
Turner, Woodie Petty, Larkin
Strange and two others, ladie?,
and all but one long since dead.
Nestling among verdant hills
and productive valleys is a mod
ern church by the wayside where
the old log houseK Republican,
stood in which away back, many
years ago, I use to hear Isaac T.
Kemean, Andrew P. Davis, Ca
leb Sewell, William Simpson ex
pound the ancient Gospel in its
primitive purity and simplicity,
who, being men of faith, have
long since entered their reward.
Then the scene changed to the
beautiful little stream that flows
along the sweet scented banks of
Sand Lick. When about a mile
above the mouth, we heard a
noise almost directly overhead,
as of some mighty monster pre
paring to pounce upon the un
protected person of your precious
correspondent, but soon realized
that it was the whistling of a
boat blowing for-Winfrey's fer
ry, not more than three miles
away, where we had heard them
blow with the same melancholy
chorus for 29 years, and carried
me back in memory to some of
my happiest days when I fished
there with box trap, basket net
and trot line, making havoc of
the finny tribe at this season. I
had a standing invitation last fall
from Mr. Duff Ross, who said
they'd all suspend business and
fish a whole week, and reminded
me of saying when I moved from
that bottom, that after nearly
30 years, I left with good will for
all except Mrs. Back's cowthat
had trespassed on my corn field.
That was a good citizenship, but
most of all of the old ones have
gone the way of the world, and
we're traveling in that direction.
We were royally entertained at
the pleasant home of Mr. Bart
Hadley, by Bart and his big
hearted boy, Ernest, wno always
render all needed assistance on
all occasions. Mr. Bart Hadley
is a cousin of my old friend, Rev.
Thomas Hadley, the mountain
evangelist,, with whom I have
whiled away happy hours when
we were boys, and when old en
joyed many pleasantries as we
were reared within sight of each
other. The last time I met him
he was going to Gum Grove to
hold a protracted meeting. We
met at our post office, where sev
eral had assembled, whiling away,
the time in friendly chat, when
Bro. H. accosted me thus: "Tom,
arn'tyoadeadyet? I was hop
ing you was dead." To which I
replied: "You wanted to preach
my funeral I presume, and' tell
much you only imagine, of how
good I was, as you always do.'j,
"No Tom, he replied, I don't tell
imaginary untruths, putting his
hand on his breast, I'm all right
in here." To which I replied:
"I fear that you complain of in
there is only a fowl stomach."
Then the boys laughed and I
thought I had gotten the better
of him, but this was hard to do.
After awhile he said: "Tom,
would you like to know what my
text would be should I ever
preach your funeral?" I an
swered in the affirmative. Then
assuming an oratorical attitude,
the Bro. quoted: "In hell he lift
ed up his eyes." Receiving
more than I had contracted for, I
threw up the sponge, but enjoyed
the joke. Bro. Hadley, being a
man of unfeigned faith, did
much good in the mountain coun
ties of Kentucky during a minis
try of nearly 50 years. After 3
days at Mr. Hadley's, in which
the grippe symptoms greatly sub
sided, and the old machine was
running better in every part, I
imbibed freely fit the life-giving
fluid, throwing up freely, felt
convalescent next morning. Al
though I had not been there for
6 months, I realized the water
was like the traveler, a t the
old-time inn, when the landlord
conducted them to the same bed,
whereupon the party ot the first
part remarked: "Well Stranger,
It has been a long time since we
slept together. When the party
of the second part replied: "Ye3,
but I percieve you still retain
that same old scent." I at once
recognized the same old scent I
smelled so long ago. About 3 p.
m. on the third day by the good
graces of one Mr. Shearer, who
pulled old Selim with one hand,
and the buggy with the other,
while I tottered behind carrying
what remained of my grippe, I
reached the summit of the hill,
headed for the hospitable home
of Mr. H. K. Walkup, where I
found the latch string hanging
outside. Early on the following
morning I met a full-grown lion
square in the road. Stopping in
the most spacious part of the
road, while quoting Solomon as
follows: "The slothful man says,
there's a lion in the way," to
which the lion replied: Ha! and
continued to hal with his hand
to his ear, until Mr. Lion, the
drummer, moaned, "O! the
eriDDe! the grippe! " I then di-
rected him-to the famous fount-
ain, where he might drink and
be healed as I had done.
J. T. Jones,
Pisgah, Ky.
'Chamberlain's Tablets Have Dose
wewiers for Me."
"I have been a sufferer from stom
ach trouble for a number of years, and
although I have used a great number
of remedies recommended for'lhla
complaint, Chamberlain's Tablets is
the first medicine that has given me
positive and lasting relief," writes
Mrs. Anna Kadin, Spencerport, N". Y.
"Chamberlain's Tablets have done
wonders -for me and lvalue them very
highly." Obtainable at Paull Drug
Co. Adv.
The Senate Committee is like
ly to reperton the Brandies ap
pointment to. the Supreme Court
without recomnendation.