The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 8, August, 1883Various
Religion
The American Missionary — Volume 37, No. 8, August, 1883
Various
Congregational churches -- Missions -- Periodicals; Home missions -- Periodicals
Greenwood is located at the junction of the Augusta & Knoxville
Railroad with the Columbia & Greenville. The town is one of the
prettiest in the upper part of South Carolina. With a population
of one thousand, with one hotel, four white schools, two colored
schools and several churches, a newspaper and other evidences
of thrift, it offers an attractive locality to settlers, and
especially as its climate is very healthful. The eleventh
anniversary of the Brewer Normal School, which is located in this
town, was observed June 28. This always creates a profound interest
in the vicinity, and long before the hour of commencing, an
anxious throng of every imaginable description of vehicle is seen
wending its way thitherward. On Sunday the 24th, a special sermon
was preached to the students and a large number of friends, from
Galatians 5:9.
The exercises on the closing day were attended by an unusually
large number of citizens and visitors from far and near. The
students in attendance during the sessions were 157, an advance
upon that of any previous year. The programme of the day was
inviting. The principal, Mr. J. D. Backenstose, presided; vocal
and instrumental music for the occasion was supplied by Mrs. W.
W. Frazier, formerly Miss Mary Clark of Fisk University, and the
trained classes of the school. Rev. E. W. Williams of the Second
Pres. Church in Abbeville gave the address, taking for his subject
“Reality in Morals, in Education and in Christianity.” It enlisted
earnest attention during the hour consumed in its delivery. At the
intermission between the morning and evening sessions, friends held
fellowship with friends and betook themselves to the contents of
abundantly laden refreshment baskets. Everybody seemed to manifest
that the lines had fallen to him in pleasant places.
The afternoon exercises consisted of singing, recitations and
dialogues from the little ones of the primary department.
The evening was occupied with similar exercises by the older
students of the school. The audience room was by far too small to
accommodate the immense throng seeking admission. The year’s work
has been a grand success.
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GOLIAD, TEXAS.
BY MR. J. R. S. HALLOWAY.
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