The History of Horne Memorial Methodist Church, Clayton, North Carolina, 1859-1959 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The History of Horne Memorial Methodist Church, Clayton, North Carolina, 1859-1959Our first pastors, the Reverend Lucian Shell and the Reverend John R. Brooks, 1859-61, were circuit riders with the following churches on their circuit: Clayton, Smithfield, Elizabeth, Bentonville, Boon Hill, Sanders's School House. Turner's School House, D. Smith's School House, Pine Level and Zion, and Elevation. This was the Smithfield Circuit. From the minutes of the first quarterly conference of 1860, our church was apportioned $30 for current expenses for the year! At that same meeting, those present decided to hold the next quarter ly conference in Clayton, this being the first to be held in our church.Under the leadership of the Reverend Carson Parker, preacher (1861-62) there must have been some division in interest between home and foreign missions, for one of Mr. Parker's reports to quarterly con ference was as follows: The Presiding elder (william Clop) brought to the consideration of the conference our missionary apportion. 011 motion it was seconded that the preacher in charge be requested to take up a missionary collection where he may deem it proper and that each donor designate whether they wish the money applied to home or foreign missions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.