THE ASHBURN ADVANCE
Friday, July 2, 1897
Professor Tom Welsh is at the Dew Drop Inn.
Miss Hattie (could be Mattie) Wynn returned to Vienna on Wednesday.
Miss Addie Floyd, of Sycamore, is visiting Miss Sadie Roberts at the
parsonage.
Mrs. Dr. Pinnix left yesterday for a summer visit to North Carolina
and Tennessee.
The success of the Ashburn Telephone System is due to the energy of
the general manager, S. B. Hudson. He takes much pleasure in seeing
it work, and often relieves Porter in the Central office.
Miss Berdie Baxter was disappointed in her visit here to Dr. Thrasher.
She received a letter the day she came to return to Decatur. Our
young folks are disappointed and they hope she will come again.
The picnic at Ford’s mill was almost a failure, because of the death
of Mr. Preston Ford, a few days before. People were there from Oakfield,
Isabella, Ashburn and the country. Sheriff Story and Mr. Jackson
Davis carried provisions enough to more than feed the crowd. Let
us have another.
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INAHA INKLINGS
Editor Advance, ---Seeing nothing from our thriving little city, I will
pen a few items.
Mr. Lott Warren made a business trip to Ashburn Saturday.
Prof. R. C. Powell, of Vienna, visited Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Royal a few
days last week.
Mr. A. R. Muuk, general manager of Wright and Scardrett’s farm, is off
to Abbeville this week to visit his parents.
Among those who visited the Cycloneta school closing last Friday night
was Mr. A. R. Manck with Miss Mary Warren, C. A. Warren and sister, Miss
Janie.
Mr. Lot Warren had the misfortune of loosing his fine buggy horse a
few days ago.
Prof. M. Powell is off to Abbeville this week attending the Chautaugua.
Mr. E. F. Harvey, of Cylcloneta, died of heart failure on Wednesday
of last week. His remains were interred in Cylcloneta cemetery on
Thursday following. He leaves a wife and (can't read) children to
mourn his loss. Mr. Harvey was a man whom everybody loved.
The bereaved family has the community's sincere sympathy.
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Sheriff Story was here yesterday.
Mr. R. A. Luke will make room in his store for more goods.
Everyone is pleased with Edmonson as a liveryman.
Mr. W. A. Story of Cordele was here this morning.
Mr. J. W. Walker is able to be out of bed, but not at his business.
Mr. Turbeville has moved to Mr. L. J. Bass’ place near Live Oak.
Miss Lillian Canley of Cordele is visiting at the home of Dr. W. J.
Turner.
Two miles southeast of town Mr. A. F. Born’s barn and stables were burned
Friday night.
Mrs. G. K. Wilcox’s store has been closed all week until today, while
she was at home with a fever.
Mr. R. V. Ayers is at home from Cordele, where he has been clerking.
He speaks of traveling with oil painting.
J. T. McClendon & Sons will build a ginnery at Ocilla near Fitzgerald.
Claud will have charge of the Ocilla branch.
Mrs. W. A. Murray and her two little ones returned yesterday from Conyers.
Friend W. A. is no longer a bachelor.
The Masonic fraternity will conclude the burial of Uncle Zach Bass at
Live Oak next Sunday. Several lodges will be represented and
a large crowd is expected.
Mrs. Maude Young died very suddenly Monday evening of heart dropsy.
She had gone over to visit Mrs. R. D. Law, a door-neighbor, and died sitting
in a rocking chair on the veranda. She left a babe of six weeks.
She was a good woman, only a year a bride, oldest daughter of Mr. W. H.
Hooks. Her body was carried to Americus for burial. The sorrowing
husband has our sympathy.
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Two New Business Houses
The Raney old store is doomed. It is to be pulled down next week.
In its place is to be erected a handsome structure, 48 x 100 feet, framed
of yellow pine and walled with brick-patterned pressed steel, to be used
as a warehouse, brokerage, and wholesale grain establishment. The
material has been ordered and the work to commence next Monday. Mr.
James M. Raney will be sole proprietor.
Mr. W. A. Murray has been off this week looking after material to build
a brick store, 36 x 72 feet, two stories high to cover the ground on which
his large wooden store now stands. Arrangements have not been completed
for the Murray, but it is almost a certainty. Where the old building
will stand while the new building is going up is not known, but Mr. Murray
will ask permission of J. S. Betts & Co. and the insurance companies
to move it to the vacant lot next to the post office. The second
story of the building is to be used for furniture and coffins.
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Two boys age 12 and 14 years a son of young Greenberry Wade and a son
of Miss Sarah Wade were drowned Monday while bathing in the lime sink on
the Simon Royal old place near Pateville.
Messrs. J. S. and A. J. Gongbagen returned from Florida today.
They moved to Tallahassee last fall spent the winter and spring there and
have returned to their farms four miles east of town.
Lightening struck Greer’s convict camp at Dakota Sunday evening about
4 o'clock, and in two minutes afterward the wind blew it down and killed
two negroes and wounded thirteen. Five escaped. One is yet at large.
Smith, of Ashburn, is having a rocky time getting his preachers to adopt
the early closing movement,-- Tifton Gazette.
Not the early closing particularly, but a closing that will not be eternally
too late for those who have to work.
Advance Smith is after the divines of his town for keeping late hours.
They don't give Henry time to court on the way home.-- Tifton Gazette.
We do our courting before service, you don't have to get to church till
about 8:30.
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A Minister's Defense
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Editor Advance,
Dear Sir, --With your permission I would like to say a few things through
your paper, in reply to an article written by D. F. Avery, which appeared
last week's Holiness Advance, with the caption “who says amen.”
I am surprised beyond measure, both at the signature and the contents
of the article. That he should have stepped out of the way to make
an uncalled for and unreasonable attack upon me is a surprise to me, and
accusing me of what all men who know me know I have not been guilty of.
As to my appointment to the Sycamore circuit, I had nothing to do with
it. I prayed earnestly to go where I was needed worst. I am
told that at Live Oak they prayed that the conference might send the very
man they needed, I knew nothing of their prayers, they knew nothing of
mine. I was appointed to this circuit. I have been informed
that before I ever went to Live Oak that certain brethren called a meeting
to decide whether they should receive me as their pastor (can't read) .
I did not profess the account, boasting, as they did. I ask, is this
consistent with their prayers? (can't read)……….. circuit as I left, but
I came cheerfully, believing the appointment to be of God, I believe it
yet, or else how could I have any faith in my prayers? But if you take
brother Avery's conduct and company it with his prayers there is no consistency.
Last year I prayed the same prayer and was returned, I came cheerfully,
believing the appointment to be of God, I believe it yet. There was
a like prayer made at Live Oak, but how did a good many receive my return?
By bolting and quitting the church. This may be the true spirit of
religion, but it doesn't seem so to me, I give a quotation from the article
referred to:
“It is just wonderful how God is working with the holiness evangelist
and bringing darkness on those who oppose. There is one instance
that came under my own knowledge, last year during a (can't read) meeting
at Live Oak church after it had been run for about three days with no success,
and the brethren fearing it was going to be a failure, suggested to the
pastor the propriety of getting brother Sumlin to assist, but he objected
saying that he could not work with him. Bro. Sumlin told the brethren
to pray for their pastor that he might be entirely be sanctified, and then
he would preach with power, and if he did not come in it would not go well
with him in his preaching. The certainty came to pass about the fourth
or fifth day he got into the brush. He got up and said, I feel
curious tonight and cannot preach, and our meeting came to an end.
In six years I never saw such a failure.
In the first place Bro. Avery accuses me of opposing holiness, he knows
this is not so, unless he is so stupid to understand what I do preach.
He with some others think that you oppose holiness if you do not profess
sanctification just as they do. They would bind other men's consciences
and enslave their wits. Their motto seems to be “I am right and other
men are fools.” I read the bible for myself. It does
not say that I have got to answer to Brother Avery for how I profess sanctification,
but it does say: “every man shall give account to God,” I have as
much scripture for my views of sanctification as he has and I know as much
about the book as he does. Some men will not believe this because they
are “wise in their own conceits,” I preach holiness. I see
no reason a man must preach a set sermon on sanctification in order to
preach holiness, when any minister holds Christ up to his congregation,
he is preaching holiness by all that it implies, unless you can find some
defect in his pure character. I do preach holiness, but the king
shot (not sure of ‘king shot) I preach is far ahead of what brother Avery
lives as daylight is above darkness.
He refers to the failure in the meeting, but take Bro. Avery's own word
and do they not point to the cause of the failure? He says “ the
brethren (can't read) it was going to be a failure.” Don't
the book condemn him, it's says the doubter is condemned already, but perfect
love casteth out fear, it says again, when ye pray believe ye have things
for which ye pray, and ye have them. But here is a brother praying
for a thing that he fears he is not going to get, and then blames the pastor
for his failure. It is my prayer that the good Lord may open some
folks eyes to see themselves as others see them, and as the book sees them.
The books says if we are gathered together in God's name and agree as touching
any one thing that he will be in our midst, and we have our portions.
Now this brother (and I fear others) were met in the name of someone else,
and not in the name of Christ. Revivals are not in men, but in God,
some of the best revivals I remember to have been in, had no preacher to
lead at all. We met and prayed God’s presence in our midst, and we
agreed and he came, but so far as me feeling “curious” and falling in the
“brush” is concerned I have no recollection of it. It is said that
drunken men think all others with whom they meet drunk, and they themselves
the only sober ones. This may be true in Bro. Avery's case, he may
have been in the brush himself and thought it was me and I fear he is so
far in the brush until he hasn't gotten out yet. He said “I sat down
and the meeting came to an end.” He would leave the impression that
I did not preach at all, but proceeded at once to close the meeting.
This is positively untrue. It is strange that good people can't tell
things as they really happened, I was sick from a sore throat, caused from
some preaching and singing, this was the only trouble with me. Bro.
Stubbs had helped me through the last three or four days preaching in his
usual way and power, and I am quite sure that it was as good a meeting
as any held through the year. I did tell the brethren that we did
not need Brother Sumlin, I told them this for more reasons than I gave.
I told them that I was fearful that we might not labor harmoniously together.
It was not due to his preaching (can't read) or holiness, but because he
preached some things besides that. Then I knew if all the revival
power at Live Oak church were in Brother Sumlin, the church, was in bad
condition, I wanted them to depend on God not Brother Sumlin for
a revival.
I have been in the ministry for seven years, last year was my first
experience with any amount of those who professed the second blessing.
Through those seven years, God has given to me (can't read) hundred souls
from my circuits. The year before I came here God blessed us with
one hundred and forty-seven occasions. I preached many of the same
sermons on this circuit, with the same (can't read) -iness and desire to
save souls and had last year about forty-five occasions. I am quite sure
the change is not in me, I am the same that I have been, but I believe
I can find some of the causes. Some of these men that write for Holiness
Advocates, say, and do not. This is what the world says about it.
I will ask brother A if he knows anything about a man's asking another
if he knew a certain negro? He answered that he did, well, I'm going
to beat him on first sight, what for the other asked? Because he
owes me 25 cents for fish and he has not paid it. This man said to
me, I have not professed what he has,, but I wouldn't do that, and I have
no respect for his religion.
Another reason is the brother has knifed the pastor in the back.
He has a good many nice things to say like the following to say for his
pastor which should show how much he loved him. He said to a man,
“I don't like brother Tinley, I have no confidence in him at all, I don't
believe he has a bit of religion.” Now if I did not preach
a higher type of religion than that I would quit the business. My
idea of sanctification is that a man moves over in the 13th chapter of
1rst Corinthians and dies there, but to my regret I find that to all who
profess it do not get there, I find people of Live Oak who profess and
I believe are trying to live that chapter, but those men do not stab their
pastor in the back. We differ, this is true, in our ideas of sanctification,
but they accord me the same right that they expect from me, and they do
not think that me differing from them is fighting them. They have
more sense than believe this.
The bible says: "God is love" and many dwelling in love dwells in God
and God in him, I look for this kind of religion, but to my surprise I
find it not but in very few, I find many professions with a religious cudgel
in hand striking like a blind (can't read) at every noise they hear.
In this article I have nothing to say against sanctification, but I
am quite sure that there are those that will accuse me of doing so, but
I do claim the right that when a man so maliciously attacks me as brother
Avery did, to defend myself and show the character of the profession.
Let him show in his life what he professes with his lips.
I have nothing in this article to say against brother Sumlin, I have
nothing to say about the man who wrote the article for brother Avery, until
he signs his own signature to what he writes. If bro. Avery allows
someone to use him as the monkey did the cats paw, he can expect to get
burnt. But enough for this time. I have more that I can and
will any should it become necessary.
J. W. TINLEY
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WHO'S FIBBED?
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EDITOR OF ADVANCE:
In last week's issue of the Holiness Advance Rev. J. J. Williams denies
having left communion under charges. Please give your readers the
following facts: In 1895 at the Third Quarterly Conference of the
Sumner and Ty Ty Circuit, his brethren brought complaints against him.
A committee was appointed, and as Brother Williams refused to satisfy the
conference through its committee at the next session with promise of amendment,
instead of proceeding "as in case of immortality." On motion the
committee was continued with instructions to present at the next session
a definite report as to his intentions.
During the interval he applied to the preacher in charge for a certificate
and joined the Weslyan church. The preacher in charge gave him the
certificate without thinking that it could not be done legally. When
I met him I spoke with him of the legality of the procedure, and he, having
discovered his mistake, admitted it. Brother Williams' obstinacy
would have forced his brethren to try him "as in case of immortality,"
had he not gone from us as he did. Brother C. G. Dell of Ty Ty was
secretary of the Quarterly Conference above referred to, and is also the
recording steward. He has the records, which can be examined by doubtful
ones. I think the Advocate knew the facts, if not the particulars;
but of course, it could not afford to "comment" on the not of denial, lest
it have the semblance of endorsing a presiding elder.
Yours fraternally,
H. Stubbs
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