Wayne County NcArchives News.....New Parsonage 1857 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Christian Advocate n/a April 20, 2015, 3:40 am North Carolina Christian Advocate 1857 January 23, 1857 Parsonages We have just seen the preacher in charge of Everittsville circuit. He is in high spirits, expecting a revival, and delighted with his circuit. The weather has been bad, and the congregations necessarily small; so that we were at some loss to account for the exuberance of his feelings. But a few words explained it all. The people of Everittsville circuit have just purchased a good parsonage, and are furnishing it so as to make a comfortable home for the preacher's family. It is located in Everittsville, where there are no drunkards, where there are good schools, good society and kind neighbors. If circuits want to know a secret, we will tell it to them. Preachers are but men: they love their families, and like to make them comfortable. If the people would lift a burden of care from the preacher's heart, and let his whole soul loose to the work, let them get a good parsonage as quickly as possible. This brother did not stand proud, (though he boasted somewhat of the people he serves,) and instead of seeming to feel lifted above his work by the grandeur of a parsonage, he appeared only the more ready to spend and be spent in the service of the church. What circuit will next enable us to excite a wish in all the preachers to labor on it by the announcement of a new parsonage. In 1857, Everittsville is first; which next? File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/wayne/newspapers/newparso619nw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.9 Kb