S, THE CENTENNIAL OF were eminently the meu for the times in which lived. ■d now, as we their natural and spiritual childnd successors, enter upon the promising camof another century we can do them no greater r than to emulate their example in faith, fortiand progress, to prove ourselves he men for imes in which we live. They took the world ey found it, and adapted themselves, not to its but to its wants. We must do the same if would be worthy of our ancestors. Could we mune with them to-day in their spirit homes, would not have us roll the car of Methodism ward, but forward. They would say, as Jehosaid to Moses, "Speak unto the children of Ischat they go forward." They left their beloved odism in the front rank of God's sacrimental doing the work of evangelization, pressing like orning star hard upon the retiring darkness of 1 night; and they would conjure us by the we bear their memory, and by the glory of the s, never to draw in her picket lines till her light go forth as the brightness of the morning, and tandard shall triumph in every land. - the close of President Robey's Address, the sang an athem-after which Bishop Marvin duced W. C. Doub, A. M., Professor in GreensFemale College, who addressed the audience he same theme, viz: "THE PIONEER PREACHI CAROLINA THEIR ST PROF. DOUB said: Mr. President, Ladies Our pioneer fathers What tongue has emb recious memories? lofty verse their heroj triumphs? Who has tlehres Who has er towards the skies to p Deceeding ages? ittering marble has in the throes of a rev frie to its lowest prang up greater th a world and subdued is own glory; nor orance than a Cæs rander in al the ele heroic character, tha sho for purposes of "To wade thro Who of their succ ng places of these d their precious ash names even? Who describe with prec and gather up and g IONEER PREACHERS AND LAYMEN OF NORTH LINA THEIR STRUGGLES AND TRIUMPHS." DOUB said: resident, Ladies and Gentlemen: pioneer fathers of 1776, where are they? ongue has embalmed in fitting words their s memories? What bard has cele rated in erse their heroic deeds, their struggles and hs? Who has hewed out for them their sep? Who has erected the lofty shaft towering s the skies to perpetuate their names to all ling ages? What monumental bronze, or ng marble has proclaimed to the world, that, throes of a revolution that rocked the social to its lowest foundations, a race of heroes up greater than an Alexander who overran 1 and subdued all its peoples to his sway for n glory; more deserving of lasting rememthan a Cæsar, a Hannibal, or a Scipio; er in al the elements that conspire to form the character, than a Cromwell, or a Napoleon, r purposes of personal glory, did not hesitate 'To wade through slaughter to a throne ?" o of their successors can point to the last restaces of these dead heroes? Who can tell where precious ashes repose? Who knows their even? Who can point out with accuracy or be with precision the scenes of their labors, ather up and garner the fruits of their toils and THE CENTENNIAL OF ces? Who can paint the dangers that sured their pathways, or depict the sombre, threatskies that lowered over them? Who can dee the bows of promise that arched the stor.rs beat upon them, or give a voice to the thunders pealed above and around thein? Who can e in the joys that filled their overflowing cups, asure the faith and the courage that swelled heroic breasts? Who can tell the friends that I the death-damp from their dying brows, and them company into that flood that separates eavenly land from ours? earth ever witness more heroic struggles than ? In the long and varying and shifting anof the world's centuries, who have deserved · of their race than these self-denying, devoted s? Where can we find a parallel to their , their toils, their dangers, their sacrifices? blood-stained heroes in all the ages of time and side by side with these unknown, obscure and claim to have been equal benefactors to the n race? Ye warriors, ye statesmen, ye palaof chivalry, where is your claim to the love and of the race when set beside the unrecorded s of these modest, self-renouncing preachers? pages of earthly history have handed down deeds of blood to posterity, and rendered your and actions illustrious to future ages; they sunk into obscure, unknown, and forgotten s; but the good they did lives after them, and -h man may not bestow upon them the honors heir great deeds, yet not one of them has failed his reward in the eves will be forgotten in ig. The influence of ty traceable, and sum total of the gra the human family i ill not cease to be fel "Last syllabl In grateful recogni ransmitted to us, and enjoy from their gather up the so hich may renew the perpetuate to suc sampled efforts in u Preaching the gos lle, a glorious wor higher, it might die mission, for the take upon himself ge to work out a e fetters of sin, and daffection of hea glory, He has not out into all th call them to reper glorious coming rist to judge the Therever man has hed him, and a the instrument eward in the eyes of his great "Task-master," be forgotten in the day of the great reckon'he influence of their actions, though not distraceable, and incapable of separation from total of the grand improvement experienced human family in the last one hundred years, t cease to be felt down to the "Last syllable of recorded time." rateful recognition of the good they have Itted to us, and the blessings we now so hap joy from their efforts, be it our pleasing task her up the scattered fragments of history nay renew their memories to this generation, petuate to succeeding ones the record of uned efforts in unexplored fields. ching the gospel to dying men, is a grand, a a glorious work. Man could aspire to nothher, it might even be counted worthy of anission, for the Son of God himself deigned upon himself the form of man, and in human o work out a place for man's salvation from ers of sin, and for his restoration to the favor ection of heaven. Ever since His ascension v, He has not been without faithful ministers ut into all the world, to teach the nations, them to repentance and faith, and to preach rious coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus to judge the world in equity and truth. ver man has gone, the word has in some way 1 him, and added ages have only accumulae instrumentalities employed to regenerate THE CENTENNIAL OF ind. The workmen have fallen, but others risen up to take their places. Persecution, ers, troubles, difficulties and even death have tened destruction to the faithful servants of and to stop the progress of their glorious work, t has still gone on, and to-day has larger suchan ever before. all the annals of the world's history, the labors more devoted men have been recounted, than ose who as pioneers introduced Methodism into tates of Virginia, North and South Carolina. eer work for worldly gain and establishment is ough work-under the most favorable circum es it is enough to cause the stoutest heart and st hand to pause-but pioneer work is heroic and such as venture into it are of the heroic l, and leave the impress of their character and acts upon the age in which they live and the ry that gave them being. t the pioneer preachers, in worldly estimation, engaged in a quixotic cause. Whether we der the difficulties that were in their way; the ling dangers that beset their pathway; the s, toils and privations they had to endure; the les constantly thrown before them; their sleneans, or the inadequate preparation they may had for this great work, we know not whether hould be more astonished that mortal men d engage in such unpromising or even forbidenterprises, or amazed at their unexampled xtensive success. braver or more daring deeds were ever achieved than by these pioneer rspense. tions confronted the her meant not to ported by a powe |