The Cedarville Herald, Volume 32, Numbers 27-52

■* » £ 9m ®***l]*»e* O t r J«1» Work will compart with that of any other firm. * ., Heda ytercdd, tVWi^-wvVVfy'ieyWV ‘VVWJVWV Ttiii item * t o ss*rk*d with a» Iciex,4#flctc* that ytasr nutecnp , is last due and a prompt >men* if earnestly desired.. . . . . . . J h m h w b k g ^ GEDAKV1LLE, OHD, Centennial CelebrationOf ReformedPresbyterianChnrch. The exerelftee in connection with the celebration of tho One Hun­ dredth Anniversary of tbe lte- ferxned PreebyterJan congregation (General Synod) opened Friday on the Alford Memorial grounds or •what was formerly the fourth church building. There were between three and four hundred people present for tide Joyou* occasion including members .of the congregation, friends and out-of-town visitors.^ The dinner was served oh long able* in the building on the grounds be able to witness such another event, Dr. J, Y, Boice, D. D., paBtor of tho First Reformed Presbyterian, church of Philadelphia, was the first called upon for greetings from his congregation. Others who fol­ lowed were: Rev. R. P. Patton Uni­ ted Presbyterian church, ColumbGs R, F, Kerr, Cedarville United Pres­ byterian churchj Rev. W. E. Putt, M. E. congregation, Rev. W. J Sanderson, Reformed Presbyterian (O, S.) congregation; Rev, Davis, Zion BapMat church; Rev. Jackson, HUGH M. 3£oMlBLA:$r—First Pastor. and to say that it was sumptuous would only be putting it. mildly, Therowas an abundance for all and plenty left, Tho blessing was asked by Prof, J. Bt>, McMillan; Monmottth, 111., .and the.benedic­ tion pronounced by Rev. TV. R, Graham, Yellow Springs. S. O, Wrignt acted as toastmas­ ter and the following spoke of tbe •pastin' eonpoetioawiih the oeJobra- ti ;■ A. M, IS. congregation. Dr. W. R. MeChesney j;ead letters from the following peraims: Rev. 0. A. Young, Philadelphia; Rev, Alexander Savage, New Galilee, Pa .; Mrs, Fannie Sloan Shaw, New' Castle, Pa ,; Martha J. Harbison Crabbe, Los Angeles, Cal.; Rev. D. Howard Agnew Johnson,- Colorado Springs, Colo,; IRer. James A,. Cooler, Pomona, Cal.; Rer. David Igo&iAney, D. D., lY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1909 rion Ruck, CollegeCorner; J. Giffen Ht, Ciairsviiie, o .; Harlan McMil­ lan, Mason City, Mo.; E, R. Lewis, Lamira, o ’ ; Joseph Carson, Pales­ tine, 111.; Mr, andMrs, W. II. Lack­ ey, Jam&Btown; Mr. and Mrs. S. C, Anderson, Martha,William,*Xenia; James Y Boice, Philadelphia, Pa., Mr, and Mrs. J, B. Wright, Id&vlllo, Ind.; Belle Middleton, Yellow Springs; J. P. Graham, Hampden, N. I).; Geo. A, P. Tiieaka, Bridg- porfc; J, R. Nash, Xenia; A. B. Small Springfield; Mrs. Jennie Southwell and Edna, Jeffersonville, ind.; J. If. and M. JuiiaKendall, Tarentum, Pa .; J. H. McMillan, IdaL, MoMil lan, Monmouth III.; Mr, and Mrs. A. Y, Reid, Cincinnati; Mrs. W, A. Dean,Springfield; Ina Jf. Brown, Morning Sun; R, W. Miller, Tufc- PRICE $1.00 A YEAR. MeSfillaa, the ffhrt pastor; jinoatb, 111.; Rev. J. R. Kyle, Atti- r~ f ' / FIHST CHURCH . Pref, J. Calvin IIutchiBon, a stu­ dent of Dr. Hugh McMillan, a classmate of Whitclawltcid, and a teacher of Dr. Morton, .the second pastor; Mrs. Susan McMillan, daughter-in-law of Dr. McMillan; Mrs. Mary Kingcry of Crawfords- vUle, Ind.. a grand' daughter of I)r. McMillan; Revs. W. J. Sanderson, and W. E. Putt; Rev. Riley Little, • f Bslisvue, Pa., also a grand neph­ ew of Dr. McMillan;*Rev. J. H. McArthur of Thompsonvillo, Conn.; Rer. J. F. Hutchison and Mrs. H .T . Smith of Xenia; and A. Y. sterdam, N. Y.;Rov. H. P. Jackson, Stronghurst, 111. Rev. W. A. Robb, D. B., of the Jamestown United Presbyterian church spoke on “Forty Years a Co­ laborer with I)r. Morton.” He gavo a number of reminiscences of Dr. Morton during college life, through tho nemlnnryand of pastor­ al work in this vicinity. TbeSpeak­ er referred to him as a great and good man sent by God to do a great work. Coining as ho did he was full of faith, conscientious true and faithful until tho end. Personally 7 * 4 * ’ % -a * ”*! *i i?. y ewoirti ommoii, Reid of Chmtnnah. SATURDAYAFTERNOON5E5SION The Saturday afternoon Ht-ssion opened with ft large audience Go apfte the sultry ■wrathM. Rev. Mills J. Taylor delivered tho ad- welcome on behalf of ins <wifl*regftli<m, IP' reviewed the his­ tory of the congregation and bow little the founder* ov c-t dreamed of MAh an e**nt a* being telolirafod. Jf« also went into tht future b> |»aw few »f the pies tnt day wbtild know Min for forty years and it was a joy to know him for hewas strong, tender and uuduring. Possessed a clear, logical, Well trained mind. Ho was ft theologian and intelligent minister of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Who can estimat* fchemfht'ene* of such a man in this community? A man of gentle manner, Godly life, faithful pastoral work and earnest prayer. A splendid worker in the Habbafch School. A t the age of seven ho know tho la ger catechism and throughout life devotedly urged the study of this book. J, F. MORTON—Second Pastor. SATURDAY, EVENING SESSION. Rev. R. A. Hutchison, D. D., Secretary of the Homo Mission Board of the United Presbyterian chnrch, gave on excellent address at this session. The speakers posi­ tion and connection with mission work gives him a wide scope of in­ formation. His address was inter­ esting throughout. Rev. William R. Graham, pastor of the Presbyterian church In Yel­ low Springs, spoke on “Cedarville College.” Rev. Graham is a gradu­ ate of this institution nd interest­ ingly reviewed tho work and.,what the college can do for a community- Its influence is not only felt at home >ut abroad and will widen With the coming years. SABBATHMORNING SESSION, After the lesson of the morning and exercises by tUe children, R r .J .H . McMillan, Vice President of Mot^- ipeuth College, gave an instructive address in his clear, logical manner Rev. James Y„ Boice, D. D., pas­ tor of the First'Reformed Presby­ terian church, Philadelphia, Pa,, delivered the regular sermon at tfia hour for public Worship, Dr. Boice has preached to Cedar viU« au­ diences on many eseasions and his many friends were pleased with hi* wte Mu asm ^ «f«r& Kendall, B. D., pastor of the Re­ formed Presbyterian chnrch at Tarentum, Pa., was the speaker of the afternoon. Rev. Kendall, dwelt on the foundation*f the church, its early struggle and the foothold it has gained. While man v of the thoughts had been, touched upon by other speakers, tho address was re­ plete with many good things con­ cerning one.of the fowcongregations that have in the past lived to pass through such a celebration. - mar McMillan, of i Home Board could experience of the* ers m their cause the meeting. Revjj ■tim“Home” work| q nt nationalities n He touched upon tion that has costs within the past f*ij bearing , on aocie more mission woj clearly emphasises The sermon ot. * delivered by Res Steel, pastor of .terian church, Pd the visitingminrsfi on the platform df Rev, Steel took 3;13-14,- Rev. St*^ man spoke of tt had taken plaos church service pe and communion, been for an adi speaker wft*grats| address so many there wfts where encaof today MUSICAL Special music j th*G*nt«ihmJ;r olM f.G. F. noon the c£ beaai&tti •by terjail ant. .Tbe ■work.1!'. Strength tp •poke of \ the differ* immunity* rike situa- 1bloodshed Its and- it* ie need ot home was ie speakers rening was ie» Dallas at Presby- N .J. All ere invited lithe service, from Phil. Ids eer- afcion t t i a t form,of |n g to music- whlch’had, Step. The, 1be able to ‘people for. bnrch infin- iged fer directacm layj^tter- r«r- SABBATH EVENING SESSIGN. There was a union service Sab­ bath evening of all the young peo­ ple's societies in town led by Rev. Riley Little of Bellevue, Pa. The subject lor the evening was “Homo Missions” and itw*s fortunate that Rev. R, A. Hutchison, B. I)., Sec­ retary of the United Presbyterian Home Mission Board and Rev. Ho- THE COVENANTERS. BY WILBUR D* NISBET, Yon cannot understand us, yon folks of changing creed*, Who weave a changing fabric to fit tomorrow’s needs You cannot understand ub ; the path is rough and high jAnd yon would turn out from it to smoother way* net by? (But through the clash and clamor of your disputing words We hear the olden sayings of them that tended herds, And when the ancient dogma yon hold of *>msU acwmat We bear the primal message that thumUtetf from li»« teount A covenant we cherish-a covenant of old; A covenant first fashioned where Jmdau’s waters rolled; It throbbed from David’s harpitringe by the eternal plan, Unchanging and unceasing tho covenant with men.. They cannot understand us, the folks of ohaRgrat «r«*ts ,Who weave a mingled fabric, to lit tomorrows needs— .But we have seen tomorrows grow ft cm the yesterday! jWhile man-msdecrieri* lmt* faded into the distaai J hum . REV, A. B. HENRY. Third Pastor. wller, Mies.; Mrs. James Caldwell, U-rbana.; J. F, Hutchison, Xenia; S. T. Pidgoon. Jamestown; Mrs. McMillan, McKeesport, Pa.; Mrs. Mary McMillan KIngery, Craw- fordsvtlie, Ind,; W. A. Robb and Mable Robb, Jamestown;Wm. Gar­ diner and Clara, Idaville, Ind.; James Bryson, R, E. Bryson, Ella Brysen, Marti i Bryson, Mrs. Net-, tie Ervin, Carl Ervin, Ruth Ervin, Mrs. Kate Jackson, Mr. and Mrs, W. R, Torrence, Mrs. Eiien Cooley, Mrs. D. L. Crawford, Mrs, M- R. Cunningham, Mrs- Lydia Corry, TI j Uchief historical authority on the Cedarville congregation to the time of the Civil war was Robert Charlton Reid, father of tne honorable WhiteUw Reid, who for forty years an eider and clerk of the session. From his memoir of the congregation, the following facte were gathered: • The history of Cedarville congregation begins in J.S01. In that year David Mitchell and his wife Margaret emigrat­ ed from Kentucky and settled on Clark’s run six miles from Xenia. They were then well stricken in years and,’ alone' their family being all married and most- in the Associate church. About the same yea? James Miller and his wife Elizabeth, from Scotland, settled in the neighborhood ofMr. Mitchel), and these two families formed the first prayer­ meeting of the future congregation; and were for some years .the only members. Messsrs. Mitchell and Miller had both been clothed with the office of ruling elder. The next family, that of Robert C. Reid's father, Janies Reid,' settled in T H IItD CHURCH. and G. H. *l*o program for ‘he 'Baimfrfiay *e*aion. On Saturday evening Mr. Wood- bridge Uetiok sang* *olo in a very pleasing manner,. Mi** Jeannette Ofr presided at the piano. On Sabbath » large Choir musk *b*. dif­ ferent-selection* of Psalm*. More Than 400 Register. During the thr*« day* eeotenniai exerclees a registry wo* kept and more than four hundred people reg­ istered. Th* following were among those from * distance: Mrs, Mary Anti Carmther*, Em* ma M. Kyle, I). M. BUwart, Xenia; Nannie Treiudar, Lima; Earl Sites, John W. Wiight, Dayten; T. Ma. / REV. MILLS J. TAYLOR. Present Pastor. Hanna J. Miller, Margaret C. Coop­ er, J. C. Bratton, Xenia; Mrs. Anna Morton. Graco Morton, Springfield; Margaret Aten, Tarentum, Pa,; Riley Little, Bellevue, Pa.; Arthur Caldwell, Springfield; Pauline Col­ lins, Monmouth, III.; W. M. McMil­ lan, Hamilton; L. (), Young, Den­ ver, Cob; Jambs ll. McArthur, Thompsonville, Connecticut; James Dallas Steele, Passaic, N. J.; A. E, Bryson, Lydia Scott, Joseph Kyle, Marion B. Kyle, Xenia; Mr: lifid Mrs. J, 0 . Hufeclilson, Monmouth, III.; \V. T. Miller. Mary R. Miller, the Same neighborhood in the spring of 1808. They had been members of the Associate Reformed church in Lexing­ ton, Ky.( but left that church because lyidq d ao to f was not only tolerated, but Rev. Adam Rankin, their pastor at Lexington, had himSclf, had become a slaveholder. Mr. and Mrs, James Reid, though without an opportunity as yet of being admitted in­ to the fellowship of the church, wore reg­ ular attendants with Messrs.- Mitchell’s and Miller’s families in the prayer- meeting. In the fall of 1808 William Moreland and his family also settled in the Clark's Run neighborhood and joined themselves to the same prayer-meeting. In the fall of 1809, Rev. Thomas Donnel­ ly and Mr, John Kell, then a licentiate, passed through the neighborhood and preached—Mr. Kell in the morning and Rev. Donnelly in the afternoon. This WasMlie first preaching that the embryo congregation had, and the first Reformed M* wy— FOURTH CHURCH . REV. RILEY LITTLE, Bello Contm*; A. F. Hanna, Ida* vllle, tnd ; Mrs. Maggie Barr, Day* fnn; Ofa Carpenter, Helms.; W. R. Graham, Fannie Graham, Yellow Hprmgs; Wm. Ritter, Phila-'olpbia, Pa.; Hazf ) Gardiner, Idaville, Ind WM* 'ttHM *bns*t iiurtsuttr^AJ*. 'Mtite fin* »* m * w #Mmm Presbyterian preaching in the, county, and so far as I know, in the stale. Not long afterwards, Rev. John Black, of Pittsburg, Pa., visited the little society, constituted Hie session, and received James Reid and his wife as the first ac­ cessions to the church. The next Sab- bath, Rev*. John Black preached in a hewed log barn on a farm near to Mr, Mitchell’s, then belonging to his son-in- law, Mr. David Laughoad, and later to Mr. Samuel Dallas,afterwards a mem. her of the session for many years. On that day the sacrament of baptism was administered for the first time in the congregation, the subjects being Robert Reid's two youngest brothers, Willliam and Joseph, who had been burn after their parents had left the Associate R e­ formed <hutch. It: 1H10, Gavin Johnson and Alexander Foster, with tin ir fami* lies, settled la the congregation, and hi tho next few years, seven or eight other families were, also added, All the preaching the congregation got, /and in ReformedPresbyterian Church History, those days it was very little indeed) had to be in the residences of the members, which were generally small log houses; or in barns, which latter were, in the summer much more comfortable. In 1812the church erected its-first church edifice on Mr. Miller’s farm, seven mile* from Xenia, It was about twenty-two feet square, was built of round logs, the cracks dosed with clay, the floor planked without jointing or matching, and the roof of Clapboards,4-feet long, fastened On with "weight-poles," The house was warmed by a stone furnace, running from die outside, under the floor. This church was used as a place of worship for twelve years. , The first regular preaching that the congregation enjoyed was by Rev. John Kell, who preached lor them about one-fourth of his time, from 1810 to 1816. Rey. Jonathan Gill was then settled in the congregation, and continued with them until 1823, when, at his own request the pastoral relation was dissolved. The congregation was small, and the members being mostly engaged in clearing up their farms, and as yet reaping little or no profit from their la­ bors, were unable to give him i n ade­ quate support. A portion of the Congre- sjjton had also becmw dissatMad’^ i t h some from another; and cm all accounts, he thought jt best to ,resign bis charge. In conversation with Robert Reid * he said that there were a few families in the congregation to whom he would gladly preach as long as he lived if they could only give ham enough bread and meat to support his family; bpt this he knew they could not do, and so he would resign, Tho congregation had not,num- bered over forty communicants a t any time during this period* >From 1828 to 1829, Rev, Gavin McMillan preached to them about one-fourth of his time. He also stirred them to build a more com­ fortable house for public worship, which was opened in 1824. It was erected on a let two miles east Of the old log church six miles east of Xenia and two miles from Cedarville, on the banks of Massies Creek. It was a stone structure forty- feet long by thirty-six feet wide. In the fall of 1828, Rev. Hugh McMillan, on his return from Synod, assisted his brother Gavin to dispense the Lord’s Supper in the congregation. They werti greatly pleased with Mr. McMillan’*ser­ vice on the occasion; and understanding that he wished to remove from South Carolina with as many of his congrega­ tion as t ouid accompany him, ami settle in some of the free states, where there was already the beginning of a congre­ gation; and understanding also that he had expressed a partiality iu t Ohio, m the tii st free state .admitted into tho Unioti, they gave him * unanimous <all, and in April, 1829 returned from the ],South, and was S/ mh aftmwasds installed jo ie r liter L.uigrfgath.u, whose beloved jpa-tni* ho jenusiud tijl his lamented j death in In 1849, win n Rev. Ilu to McMillan became the pastor of the •*»so *— ....... ~__-_»*** H o titm u e d o n la st {-avtvj ’Nit r <