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CHAPTER IV
GENERAL CONDITIONS IN CHATHAM
Perhaps it will not be out of order to write a few pages of general church work. There was seven or eight churches on the Pittsboro circuit. The churches were Pittsboro, Brown Chapel, Pleasant Hill, Chatham Church, said to be the oldest or about the oldest M. E. Church built in Chatham County, Providence, Haywood, Mt. Zion, of which the writer is trying to give the past that can be relied upon as it happened but the writer will not promise that it will all come in the history as it come in years, but she trusts and prays that if it does not come as the years come that all who read it of the young and coming generations will find some pleasure, and also gain some help in learning the way, so different to the way Sunday School is carried on in 1900.
Many children had nothing more than the old blue back spelling book, but rather than not go to Sunday School they would go and teach the little children their A-B-C’s the older ones learning the hymns of John and Charles Wesley and Whitefield, and many grown or older ones would memorize whole chapters, some in New Testament,
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some in the Old Bible. Some of the head ones or teachers, offered a prize to the one who would get the most verses of the scripture correct or perfect. Sarah Brown, daughter of old Mr. Solomon Brown, repeated 120 verses, got a book which was a pretty and interesting true story book; then another was offered and Lucy Gean got it; then for awhile the Sunday School seemed to cool somewhat. Some people dying, some moving away, but it was not let to go dead.
Luther Clegg (called Uncle Luther by many), was true and faithful, but he was old and getting feeble, so John A. Hornaday was appointed, young man, not a college one, but he was one of the best superintendent, if not the best, in the district. People came and joined that had never seemed to care to attend before. He would give out questions on Sunday to be found in the Bible and caused the Bible to be read more than it otherwise would have been read. He was always cheerful, had a few words to say to any one in passing.
