DIAMOND JUBILEE

1861 - 1936 Trinity Methodist Church Durham, North CaroHna

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DIAMOND JUBILEE

1861 - 1936

Trinity Methodist Church

Durham, North Carolina CHAIRMEN OF BOARD OF STEWARDS 1861—1936

Col. D. C. Parrish Claiborne M. Carr Gr.NERAL Julian S. Carr C. H. Livengood M. A. Briggs W. W. Rankin

SUNDAY SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENTS 1861—1936

Col. D. C. Parrish J. E. Pegram General Julian S. Carr W. A. Bryan Capt. E. J. Parrish J. D. Rogers H. N. Snow M. A. Briggs Dr. Edwin Mims C. H. Livengood E. J. Greene B. G. Childs Arthur Bradsher W. A. Biggs

TRINITY PASTORS 1861—1936

Rev. J. B. Alford 1861 R-.v. R. J. Moorman 1891

Rev. J. W. LiNNEN 1862 Rev. R. C. Beaman . 1892-1893 Rev. W. M. Walsh 1863 Rev. B. R. Hall 1894-1895 Rev. W. M. Jordan 1864-1865 Rev. j. N. Cole 1896-1899 Rev. R. S. Webb 1866-1869 Rev. W. C. Norman 1900-1902 Rev. John Tillett ^ 1870-1871 Rev. R. C. Beaman 1903-1906 Rev. J. J. Renn 1872-1875 Rev. G. T. Adams 1907-1910 Rev. W. H. Moore 1876 Rev. R. C. Craven 1911-1914 Rev. W. H. Call 1877 Rev. a. McCullen 1915-1916 Rev. F. H. Wood 1878-1880 Rev. C. j. Harr.^ll, D.D. 1917-1919 Rev. j. a. Cunninggim 1881-1882 Rev. a. D. Wilcox, D.D. 1920-1923 Rev. T. a. Boone 1883-1884 Rev. W. W. Peele, D.D. 1924-1927 Rev. B. C. Phillips 1885 Rev. j. W. Smith, D.D. 1928-1930 Rev. W. S. Davis 1885 R?:v. W. A. Lambeth, D.D. 1931 Rev. W. S. Creasy, D.D. Rev. G. R. Coombs, D.D. 1932-1933 1886-1887 Rev. E. L. Hillman 1934-1936 Rev. E. a. Yates, D.D. 1888-1890

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BISHOP PAUL B. KERN Presiding Bishop

REV. H. B. PORTER Presiding Elder

REV. E. L. HILLMAN Pastor BOARD OF STEWARDS TRINITY CHURCH Rankin, W. W., Chairman Briggs, M. A., Vice Chairman Umstead, Miss Nell, Secretary Carlton, E. W., Treasurer Members

Baldwin, R. L. Livengood, C. H. Barnes, J. H. Lockhart, Dr. D. K. Bishop, Jesse Long, J. E. Brown, Dr. E. C. McCracken, Dr. J. T. Bryan, J. H. McCutcheon, Dr. W. B. Buchanan, Mrs. J. A. Newsom, M. E. Bullington, A. J. Noell, P. A. Carr, W. F. Nycum, H. E. Chambers, S. C. Pegram, J. E. Childs, B. G. Powell, R. H. Jr. Edwards, C. R. Pridgen, J. D. Sr. Foushee, Mrs. H. A. Raiford, W. P. Gaddy, Mrs. B. D. Shackelford, Dr. E. W. Glass, J. Fuller Speed, Dr. J. A. Gooch, W. A. Speed, William Greene, Dr. W. K. Taylor, R. T. Harris, A. M. Umstead, W. B. Hobgood, S. H. Vaughan, Mrs. P. W. Hundley, J. C. Honorary Members

Powell, R, H. Carr, C. M. COMMITTEES Boy Scouts

Barnes, J. H., Chairman McLarty, Dr. Furman Dameron, E. C.

Collectors

Edwards, C. R., Chairman McCracken, Dr. J. T. Biggs, W. A. Noell, P. A. Brown, Dr. E. C. Speed, Dr. J. A. Gooch, W. A. Stone, F. F. Lockhart, Dr. D. K. Custodian

Powell, R. H., Jr., Chairman Dameron, E. C. Barnes, J. H. 3 Executive

Livengood, C. H., Chairman Plyler, Mrs. M. T. Biggs, W. A. Rankin, W. W.

Finance

Briggs, M. A., Chairman Carlton, E. W. Bishop, Jesse Gantt, Mrs. R. M. Baldwin, R. L. Glass, J. F. Biggs, W. A. Harris, A. M. Buchanan, Mrs. J. A. Plvler, Mrs. M. T. Bullington, A. J.

Golden Cross

Newcomb, Mrs. H. A., Chairman Herndon, Mrs. E. M.

Loyalty

Childs, Mrs. B. G., Co-Chairman Nycum, H. E. Cooke, C. E. Raiford, W. P. Sawyer, Mrs. O. G., Co-Chairman Speed, Mrs. J. A. Gantt, Eva Stubbs, A.ston Hillman, Mrs. E. L. Vaughan, Mrs. P. W

Membership

Bryan, J. H., Chairman Bragg, Mamie Baldwin, Mrs. J. J.

Memorial

C hild:-,, B. G., Ch:iirman Hillman, Rev. E. L. Cox, Kate Pridgen, J. D., Sr. Cicene, Dr. W. K.

Music

Childs, B. G., Chairman Bryan, J. H. Biggs, W. A.

Parsonage

Bishop, Jesse, Chairman Newcomb, H. A. Foushee, Mrs. H. A. Thomas, Mrs. C. C. Lipscomb, Mrs. W. E.

4 Reception

Robinson, Mrs. A. I., Co-Chainuan Milner, Mrs. P. C. Bragg, Mamie, Co-Chairman McCutcheon, Mrs. W. B. Baldwin, Mrs. R. L. O'Brien, Mrs. Tom Carr, Mrs. A. H. Robbins, Mrs. P. D. Chambers Mrs. S. C. Tucker, Mrs. S. W. Farley, Mrs J. E. Whitmore, Ada Gantt, Mrs. R. M. Wright, Mrs. T. D. Hobgood, Mrs. S. H.

Sick and Needy

Foushee, Mrs. H. A., Chairman Cozart, Mrs. F. T. Baldwin, Mrs. J. J. Gaddy, Mrs. B. D. Ushers

Linthicum, W. H., Chairman McGranahan, W. S. Kelly, Clyde Rose. Robert OFFICERS AND CIRCLE LEADERS OF WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Officers

Piyler, Mrs. M. T., President Childs, i»irs. B. G., Vice-President Burnett, Mrs. C. H., Secretary Gaddy, Mrs. B. D., Corresponding Secretary Miiner, Mrs. P. C, Treasurer McCutcheon, Mrs. W. B., Local Treasurer

Circle Leaders

No. 1. Lockhart, Mrs. D. K. No. 2. Umstead, Nell No. 3. McCracken, Mrs. J. T. No. 4. Robbins, Mrs. P. D. No. 5. Lunsford, Mrs. J. 0. No. 6. Swindell, Mrs. E. S. No. 7. Gaddy, Mrs. B. D. No. 8. Briggs, Blanche No. 9. Howell, Mary No. 10. Robinson, Mrs. A. I. CHOIR

Hamlin, Mrs. Jasper, Director of Senior Choir Hall, Mrs. W. H., Director of Junior Choir Cunninghami, Mrs. Bert, Organist Sedberry, Mr. L. P., Assistant Organist Myers, Mrs. H. E., Soprano Soloist

5 Sopranos

Bowcn, Virginia Jourdan, Mrs. Paul Bryan, Mrs. J. H., Linthicum, Mrs. W. H., Davis, Marjorie Powell, Annie Edwards, Dorothy Proctor, Mrs. B. G. Farr s, Mrs. Charles Rogers, Mrs. Lawrence Glenn, Zelma

Altos

Lryan, Rebie Newsom, Nancy Lockhart, Mrs. D. K. Rankin, Mrs. W. W. Moore, Susie Pearl Roberts, Mrs. T. B. McGranahan, Mrs. W. S. Taylor, Mary Piatt, Mrs. W. M.

Tenors

Bryan, J. H. McLarty, Dr. Furman Farris, Charles Swindell, Edmund Mason, C. B.

Basses

Hundley, J. Camden Speed, William Linthicum, Alfred S. Stone, Claiborne Sedberry, Prentis BOARD OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION

Childs, B. G., Chairman Hillman, Rev. E. L. Adams, Mrs. J. C, Jr. Hillman, Mrs. E. L. Biggs, W. A. Nycum, H. E. Dameron, E. C. Speed, Mrs. J. A. Foushee, Mrs. H. A. Whitmore, Ada Greene, Dr. W. K.

GENERAL CHURCH SCHOOL OFFICERS

Biggs, W. A., Superintendent Greene, Dr. W. K., Assistant Superintendent Gantt, Stough, Secretary and Treasurer Bryan, Marion, Assistant Secretary and Treasurer

CHURCH SCHOOL OFFICERS AND TEACHERS

Elementary Division

Speed, Mrs. J. A., Superintendent Elementary Division

6 NURSERY DEPARTMENT

Davis, Mrs. D. L., Superintendent Troy, Mrs. John, As^aistant SupeHntendent Harris, Mrs. Thomas, Secretary

BEGINNERS DEPARTMENT

Babb, Mrs. J. S., Superintendent Carlton, Mr::. E. W., Assistant Superintendent Douglass, Marion, Teacher Greene, Mrs. R. B., Teacher

PRIMARY DEPARTMENT

Speed, Mrs. J. A., Supey^intendent Edwards, Dorothy, Secretary

Teachers

Chambers, Mrs. S. C. Price, Mrs. Alton Landis, Margaret Rogers, Mrs. R. P. McCracken, Marion Rowland, Mary Parrish, Mrs. F. F. Rankin, Mrs. W. W., Pianist

JUNIOR DEPARTMENT

Mesley, Mrs. J. A., Superintendent Lipscomb, Mrs. W. E., Assistant Superintendent Barnes, Mrs. J. H., Secretary Gooch, Mrs. W. A., Pianist

Teachers

Burnett, Mrs. C. H. Newcomb, Mrs. H. A. Keeler, W. F. V/hitmore, Mrs. R. F. McCracken, Mrs. J. T. Wilson, Mrs. L. N.

Young People's Division

Hillman, Mrs. E. L., Superintendent Young People's Division

INTERMEDIATE DEPARTMENT

Bryan, Mrs. J. H., Counselor

Teachers

Cooke, C. E. Morton, Hilton Herndon, Mrs. E. M. Thomas, Mrs. W. E. Lunsford, Mary Elizabeth Warren Addison

7 Officers

Buchanan, Martha, President Dameron, Sybil, Vice-President Bowen, Virginia, Secretary and Treasurer Watkins, Kathleen, Assistant Treasurer

SENIOR DEPARTMENT

Stubbs, Alston, Counselor

Teachers

McAlister, Charles Swindell, Mrs. E. S.

Officers

Davis, Marjorie, President Newsom, John, Vice-President Taylor, Mary, Secretary and Treasurer

YOUNG PEOPLE'S DEPARTMENT

Childs, B. G., Teacher

Officers

Whitmore, Ada, President Swindell, Edmund, Vice-President Cannada, Julia, Secretary Moore, Susie Pearl, Treasurer

OFFICERS AND TEACHERS OF CHURCH SCHOOL

Adult Department FRANCIS ASBURY CLASS

Garber, Dr. Paul N., Teacher Fitzgerald, Dr. F. S., Assistant Teacher Bishop, Lyda, President Foushee, Mrs. H. A., Vice-President Scott, Mrs. C. G., Secretary Keeler, Mrs. W. F., Treasurer

8 JULIAN S. CARR BIBLE CLASS

Greene, Dr. W. K., Teacher Scarlett, Charles, Assistant Teacher Briggs, M. A., Assistant Teacher Raiford, W. P., President Scott, C. G., First Vice-President McGranahan, W. S., Second Vice-President Beck, W. E., Secretary Wilson, A. R., Assistant Secretary i Parrish, F. F., Treasurer

PATTY BALDWIN CLASS

Rankin, Dr. W. W., Teacher Baldwin, Mrs. J. J., Teacher Cozart, Mrs. F. T., President Byrd, Mrs. R. H., Vice-President Kluttz, Mrs. J. C, Secretary Briggs, Blanche, Assistayd Secretary Cozart. Mrs. J. L., Treasurer Milner, Mrs. P. C, Assistant Treasurer

SUSANNA WESLEY CLASS

Garber, Mrs. Paul N., Teacher Rogers, Virginia, President Partin, Mrs. C. D., Jr., Vice-President McGranahan, Mrs. J. K., Secretary Bishop, Nellie, Treasurer

9 DIAMOND JUBILEE CELEBRATION COMMITTEES

General Committee

Childs, B. G., Chairman Hillman, Rev. E. L, Adams, Mrs. J. C, Jr. Plyler, Mrs. M..T. Briggs, M. A. Pridgen, J. D., Sr. Buliington, A. J. Rankin, W. W.

Arrangements Committee

Raiford, W. P., Chairman Kelly, Clyde Larnes, J. H. Linthicum, W. H. Leek, W. E. McGranahan, W. S, B.shop, Jesse O'Briant, Herbert Cooke, Mrs. C. E. Powell, R. H., Jr. Dameron, E. C. Lcott, C. G. Gantt, S. 0.

Entertainment Committee

Buchanan, Mrs. J. A., Chairs Pearce, Mrs. A. L. Burnett, Mrs. C. H. Pleasants, Mrs. 0. M. Childs, Mrs. B. G. Robbins, Mrs. P. D. Cooke, Mrs. C. E. Rogers, Mrs. S. T. Foushee, Mrs. H. A. Sawyer, Mrs. 0. G. Gaddy, Mrs. B. D. Stone, Mrs. F. F. Gantt, Mrs. R. M. Umstead, Mrs. R. T. Hobgood, Mrs. S. H. Umstead, Nell Newcomb, Mrs. H. A. Vaughan, Annie Louise JNewsom, Mrs. M. E. Vaughan, Mrs. P. W.

Exhibit Committee

Shackleford, Dr. E. W., Chairman Pegranx, J. E. Aldridge, F. S. Plyler, Mrs. M. T. Baldwin, R. L. Thomas, Mrs. C. C. Baldwin, Mrs. J. J. Vaughan, Mrs. P. W. Bryan, Mrs. E. L. Umstead, Nell Cox, John Ycarby, Mrs. Minnie Hunter, Fred

Finance Committee

Rankin, W. W., Chairman Robbins, P. D. Buliington, A. J. Thomas, Mrs. C. C. Carr, Mrs. A. H.

10 History Committee

Briggs, M. A., Chairman Edwards, C. R, Adams, Mrs. J. C, Jr. Livengood, C. H. Childs, B. G. McCracken, Dr. J. T. Cox, Kate Newton, W. C.

Committee on Invitations

Buchanan, Mrs. J. A., Chairman McCutcheon, Mrs. W. B. Lragg, Mamie Rogers, Mrs. R. P. Budd, Mrs. W. P. Stokes, Mrs. A. H. Cozart, Mrs. F. T.

Memorial Committee

Hillman, Rev. E. L., Chairman Greene, Dr. W. K. Brown, Dr. F. C. Lockhart, Dr. D. K. Brown, Mrs. Sallie Nycum, H. E. Carr, W. F. Partin, C. D. Childs, B. G. Pridgen, J. D., Sr. Cox, Kate

Music Committee

Biggs, W. A., Chairman Hall, Mrs. W. H. Barnes, J. Foster Hamlin, Mrs. Jasper Cunningham, Mrs. Bert Karris, A. M.

Pageant Committee

Hillman, Mrs. E. L., Chairman Greene, Dr. W. K. Adams, Mrs. J. C, Jr. Hilln.an, Rev. E. L. Bryan, J. H. Kelly, Mrs. Clyde Childs, B. G. Pegram, J. E. Coble, James Pridgen, J. D., Sr. Cox, Kate Rankin, W. W. Cunningham, Mrs. Bert Spence, H. E. Edwards, Dorothy Lnistead, Nell Gantt, Stough Whitmore, Ada

Program Committee

Greene, Dr. W. K., Chairman Hillman, Rev. E. L. Childs, B. G. Hillman, Mrs. E. L. Harris, A. M. Speed, Mrs. J. A.

11 Publicity Committee

Bryan, J. H., Chairman Gaddy, Mrs. B. D. Baldwin, Mrs. J. J. Harris, A. M. Barnes, J. H. Plyler, Dr. M. T. Brown, Dr. E. C. Scott, Mrs. C. G. Dixon, Wyatt Vickers, Lee

12 ORDER OF SERVICE ''Our Heritage From The Past"

Sunday, May 3, 1936 11 O'clock

REV. E. L. HILLMAN, Presiding # Organ Prelude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

Hymn 78: "Holy, Holy, Holy"

Prayer: Rev. M. T. Plyler, D.D. Anthem: "O Rejoice Ye Christians Loudly". Bach Trinity Church Choir

Responsive Reading: Psalm 84

Gloria Patri Announcements

03"ertory: "Andante" Mendelsohn Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

Duet: "He Shall Feed His Fiocfe" Harker Mrs. H. E. Myers and Dr. Furman McLarty

Lesson from the New Testament: Rev, E. L. Hillman, Pastor

Hymn 461: ''How Firm a Foundation"

Sermon: ''An Old Faith in a Xeiv World" Rev, F. S. Hickman, D. D.^Duke University Male Chorus: "Wonderful Peace". Cooper Mr. W. A. Biggs Mr. J. C. Hundley Mr. Prentis Sedberry Mr. J. H. Bryan Mr. C. B. Mason Mr. William Speed Mr. Charles Farris Dr. Furman McLarty Mr. Claiborne Stone Mr. Alton Price Doxology

Benediction: Rev. F. S. Hickman, D.D.

Organ Postlude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

SERVICE FOR

Baptism of Infants and

Reception of Church Members 3:30 o'clock P. M.

13 OREDR OF SERVICE

''Historical Night''

Tuesday evening, May 5, 1936 8:00 O'clock MR. A. M. HARRIS, Presiding #

Prelude: ''Ave Maria". Schubert-Wilkelmj Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist Miss Emma Rose Cutts, Violinist Hymn 208: '7 Love Thy Kingdom, Lord"

Prayer: Rev. H. B. Porter, Presiding Elder, Durham District

Anthem: "]esu, Joy of Mans Desiring' Bach. Trinity Church Choir

Felicitations from the Baptist Churches Rev. Ira D. S. Knight, D.D., Pastor First Baptist Church Felicitations from the Christian Churches Rev. Stanley C. Harrell, Pastor Main Street Christian Church Felicitations from the Episcopal Churches Rev. David W. Yates, Rector St. Phillips Church Felicitations from the Lutheran Church Rev. H. a. Schroder, Pastor St. Paul Lutheran Church Felicitations from Other Methodist Churches Rev. H. C. Smith, Pastor Duke Memorial Church Felicitations from the Presbyterian Churches Rev. D. H. Scanlon, D.D., Pastor First Presbyterian Church Felicitations from the Methodist Episcopal Church, South Dr. R. L. Flowers, Member of the Judicial Council

Quartet: ''The Day is Ended". Bartlett Violin Obligato: Miss Emma Rose Cutts Soloist: Miss Evelyn Barnes Quartet: Mrs. Jasper Hamlin, Mrs. Frank Warner, Dr. Furman McLarty, Mr. William Speed

Address: "The History of Trinity Methodist Church" Professor B. G. Childs, Member Board of Stewards

Hymn 415: "Faith of Our Fathers"

Benediction: Rev. H. A. Schroder

Organ Postlude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

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ORDER OF SERVICE

''Pageant Night''

Wednesday Evening, May 6, 1936 8:00 O'clock PROFESSOR W. W. RANKIN, Presiding

Org-an Prelude Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist Hymn 461: "Houf Firm a Foundation" .... Congregation Prayer: The Reverend Daniel Lane, Pastor Calvary Methodist Church Presentation of the Pageant "TRINITY CHURCH, A SERVANT, SECULAR AND SACRED"

Prologue: "Happy Birthday to You"

Personae Dramatis

Mother Trinity . Mrs. E. L. Hillman Doctor Durham Mr. A. V. Cole Brother Methodism Prof. H. E. Myers Little Children Interlude Love Thy Kingdom, Lord''

EPISODE I—THE CHURCH IN THE SERVICE OF THE CITY

Movement 1 The Church in Education Scene 1 —An Old-Fashioned Church-Meeting Personae Dramatis The Reverend Mr. Alford William Speed Mr. Barbee J. Harvey Bryan Sister Cheek Mrs. W. W. Rankin Mrs. Lyon Mrs. W. L. Whitted Brother Herndon C. B. Mason Mrs. E. C. Dameron, Miss Alice Hundley and Camden Hundley

Interlude 2--*'A Charge to Keep I Have''

Scene 2—A School in a Church Personae Dramatis Mrs. Williams Mrs. W. H. Hall Children Interlude 3—Dear Old Duke

15 Movement 2— The Church and Evangelism Scene 1 —A Modern Sunday School Class Miss Mary Roland and Children Interlude 4--"I Think When I Read That Sweet Story'' EPISODE II—THE CHURCH IN THE SERVICE OF THE STATE

Scene—Bed Time in the Baby Ward at the Orphanage Mrs. H. E. Myers and Children EPISODE III—THE CHURCH IN THE SERVICE OF THE NATION

Movement—Our Country's Call Scene 1 —Soldiers and Red Cross Nurses Personae Drmnatis

Soldiers: Messrs. J. Camden Hundley, William Speed, C. B. Mason, J. Hai*vey Bryan. Girls: Misses Dorothy Edwards, Annie Pov^ell, Frances Edw^ards, Nancy Newsome. Scene 2—Our Honored Dead Woman in Mourning Miss Eva Gantt Interlude 5 —The Recessional EPISODE IV—THE CHURCH IN THE SERVICE OF THE WORLD

Scene—The Home of Charles Jones Soong Personae Dramatis

C. J. Soong W. H. Rue Mrs. Soong Ruth Supplee

Sun Yat Sen . W. L. Willis Ambassador Wilder Jim Boyd

Maid Mrs. J. W. Hirst Children Interlude 6—"O Zion Haste'' Epilogue—Many Happy Returns of the Day Scene—The Signing of the Bond Spokesman Dr. E. W. Shackleford Interlude 7--''Trinity The Beautiful'^ Finale Hymn:--''Onward Christian Soldiers"

Benediction — The Reverend W. C. Ball, Pastor West Durham Methodist Church

16 CHILDREN TAKING PART IN PAGEANT

School Children: Helen Burnett, Ella Ann Proctor, Nancy Jones, Anne Swindell, Gloria Whetstone, Agnes Campbell, Jacqueline Williams, Kenneth Parrish, Ed Hillman, Speed Noell, John Umstead, Ralph Rogers

Sunday School Class: Fay Glenn, Anne Rogers, George Colcott, Mary Jane Lockhart, Billy Branson, Louise Robbins, Nancy Glass, Jean Jones, George Beck, Yvonne Herndon

Orphanage Group: Anne Buchanan, Lena Jane Harris, Martha Rose Myers, Eddie Jean Harris, Jackie Collinwood

Chinese Children: Barbara Barnes, Harry Watkins, Caroline Lockhart Trumpeter: Albert Dunn Messenger Boy: Ivey Newton OF THE BOND Mr. M. a. Briggs Mrs. p. W. Vaughan Mr. J. L. Whitmore Mr. C. D. Partin Mr. J. D. Pridgen, Sr. Mr. J. E. Pegram Dr. E. W. Shackleford Mr. J. Fuller Glass Mr. D. T. Dickey Mr. C. M. Carr Mr. R. L. Baldwin Mr. S. T. Rogers* Mr. R. a. Knight Dr. S. W. Tucker* Mr. J. Martin Umstead Mr. S. R. Perry* Dr. R. L. Felts Mr. T. J. Lambe* Mr. Southgate Jones Mr. W. M. Speed, Sr.* Mr. M. E. Newsom Dr. Marcus E. Hull* Mr. Jesse Bishop Mr. W. H. Pegram* iHRS. Annie W. Foushee Mr. Thomas L. McClees* Mr. Leon Harper Mr. Ben Perry* Mr. C. H. Livengood

Deceased PAGEANT COMMITTEE Mrs. E. L. Hillman, Chairman Adams, Mrs. J. C, Jr. Hillman, Rev. E. L. Bryan, J. H. Kelly, Mrs. Clyde Childs, B. G. Pegram, J. E. Coble, James Pridgen, J. D., Sr. Cox, Kate Rankin, W. W. Cunningham, Mrs. Bert Spence, H. E. Edwards, Dorothy Umstead, Nell Gantt, Stough Whitmore, Ada Greene, Dr. W. K.

Make-up under the direction of Mrs. W. W. Card.

17 ORDER OF SERVICE

''Memorial Night''

Thursday evening, May 7, 1936 8:00 O'clock

REV. E. L. HILLMAN, Presiding

Organ Prelude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Orgamst

Hymn 617: "On Jordan's Stormy Banks I Stand"

Prayer: Mr. J. D. Pridgen, Member of Board of Stewai-ds

Male Chorus: "One Siveetly Solemn Thought." Ambrose

Mr. W. A. Biggs Mr. J. C. Hundley Mr. Prentis Sedberry Mr. J. H. Bryan Mr. C. B. Mason Mr. William Speed Mr Charles Farris Dr. Furman McLarty Mr. Claiborne Stone Mr. Alton Price

Recognition of Church Memorials Mr. R. H. Powell, Sr., Honorary Member of Board o Stewards

Hymn 604: "There is a Land of Pure Delight"

Memorial Address: Rev. W. A. Lambeth, D.D., Pastor of Wesley Memorial Church, High Point, N. C.

Anthem: ''Now Is Christ Risen! with Hallelujah" Warren Trinity Church Choir Mrs. H. E. Myers, Soloist Mr. William Speed, Soloist

Silent Tribute to ''Our Honored Dead"

Hymn 618: "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand"

Benediction: Rev. B. H. Black, Pastor Mt. Tirzah Circuit

Organ Postlude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

18 IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE MEMBERS OF TRINITY CHURCH WHO HAVE DIED.

From 1861 to 1936

'SERVANT OF GOD, WELL DONE! THY GLORIOUS WARFARE'S PAST;

THE BATTLE'S FOUGHT, THE RACE IS WON, AND THOU ART CROWNED AT LAST."

Charles Wesley

19 ORDER OF SERVICE ''Fellowship Night"

Friday evening, May 8, 1936 8 O'clock DR. W. K. GREENE, Presiding

Organ Prelude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

Hymn 556: "Blest Be the Tie that Binds''

Anthem: "Praise" Bartlett Trinity Junior Choir

Prayer: Rev. R. G. L. Edwards, Pastor Branson Methodist Church Male Quartet: Duke University Male Quartet

Messages of Fellowship: Rev. M. T. Plyler, D.D. Rev. C. K. Proctor Rev. F. S. Hickman, D.D. Dr. Paul Garber Dr. L. L. Gobbell Male Quartet: Duke University Male Quartet

Trinity Church and Trinity College Dr. W. p. Few, President Duke University

Greetings from former Pastors: Rev. G. T. Adams Rev. J. Costen Harrell, D.D. Rev. a. D. Wilcox, D.D. Rev. W. W. Peele, D.D. Rev. W. a. Lambeth, D.D. Rev. G. R. Combs, D.D. Anthem: "Father Most Merciful" Franch-Deis Trinity Junior Choir Doxology

Benediction: Rev. J. A. Martin, Pastor Carr Methodist Church

Trinity Birthday Party

20 ORDER OF SERVICE

''Trinity Faces The Future'

Sunday morning, May 10, 1936 11:00 O'clock

REV. E. L. HILLMAN, Presiding

Organ Prelude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist Doxology

Apostles' Creed

Prayer: Rev. E. L. Hillman, Pastor

Hymn 2: "Come Thou Ahnighty King'*

Anthem: "Lift Up Your Heads" Ashford Trinity Church Choir Miss Elizabeth Aldridge, Soloist

Psalm 8

Gloria Patri Announcements

Offertory: "Song Without Woi^ds." Saint-Saens Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

Anthem: "Unfold, Ye Portals." Gounod Trinity Church Choir New Testament Lesson Hymn 207: "The Church's One Foundation"

Sermon: "Lest They Should Have Labored in Vain." Rev. E. L. Hillman, Pastor

Male Chorus: "The Riches of Love." Sargent Mr. W. A. Biggs Mr. J. C. Hundley Mr. Prentis Sedberry Mr. J. H. Bryan Mr. C. B. Mason Mr. William Speed Mr. Charles Farris Dr. Furman McLarty Mr. Claiborne Stone Mr. Alton Price Hymn 408: "Lead On, O King Eternal"

Benediction: Rev. Nolan B. Harmon, D.D.

Organ Postlude: Mrs. Bert Cunningham, Organist

21 ! ; ;

TRINITY THE BEAUTIFUL

Professor H. E. Spence

0 beautiful for hearts of gold, That high in rapture beat, That face the fight with courage bold, In vict'ry or defeat; 0 Trinity, 0 Trinity, God send His strength to thee, And give thee pow'r for every hour, 0 Mother Trinity

0 beautiful for fearless feet. That firm life's pathway trod, The stern hard path of duty beat. For country and for God 0 Trinity, brave Trinity, God keep thee ever free. Thy efforts bless with sure success, 0 Mother Trinity.

0 beautiful for deathless dream That sees beyond the years, The holy spires of heaven gleam. Where is no pain nor tears 0 Trinity, our Trinity; God grant his grace that we May find thy faith that looks through death, O Mother Trinity.

22 TRINITY CHURCH 1861 - 1936 SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF METHODISM PROFESSOR B, G. CHlUMi

The life story of Trinity Church reads hke the romance it has proved to be. Few congregations in Southern Methodism can point to a history more thrilling than that born in the midst of the great struggle of the sixties, cradled in a small ''meeting-house" of little dimensions and small pretensions, and growing through trials and tribula- tions into one of the mighty influences for good in a rapidly enlarging community. And, strangely enough, Trinity Church's history has been linked more or less inseparably for these seventy-five years with the city of Durham. Each has known the place of humble beginnings, each has de- veloped through the eflforts and sacrifices of those w^ho have loved and labored, and each of them, in a brief three- quarters of a century, has become a place ''renowned the world around."

The real beginnings of Trinity Church reach back into the early days of the last century. In the year 1830, just half a century after Francis Asbury, "Apostle of American Methodism," began his circuit-riding through North Caro- lina, a little school w^as established at Orange Grove on the Raleigh and Hillsboro road about one mile east of the present city of Durham. Singular and significant it is that now for more than one hundred years. Education and Re- ligion have labored hand and hand in Durham. It is also interesting to record that one of the outstanding students of the little Orange Grove school was Malbourne A. Angier, who later became the first mayor of Durham.

Two years following the building of the school a congre- gation, numbering thirty members, was formed and con- signed to the capable ministrations of the Rev. Willis Haynes, the first local Methodist circuit-rider known in this section of North Carolina. In 1835 the church building was burned but was rebuilt immediately and restored to its use-

23 fulness as a house of worship and an academy of learning", one of the ablest schoolmasters of the times, Professor John W. Hancock, serving as its principal.

In 1860 the members of Orange Grove congreg-ation began a movement to remove the church to Durham's, as it was then known, a village of less than a dozen families. A few Methodists had recently settled in the little hamlet and these persons felt themselves in need of a church home. The site originally selected for a new church structure was located near the present new postofRce and was donated by Mr. R. F. Morris, enterprising and big-hearted, whose name pnd spirit still live in the memory of Durham citizens and Trinitj^ parishioners. The erection of the new church was scarcely begun before the leaders of the congregation decided to locate the meeting-house on another site, a little grove on the Roxboro Road, now Cleveland Street, the very spot on which the present half-million dollar temple of worship stands.

This land was purchased from Mr. William Green for $150; on Saturday before the first Sunday in June of the year 1861 a contract was let to Capt. William Mangum, who agreed to construct for $650 a church house of pine lumber^ shingle roof, to be furnished with plain benches for pews, and capable of seating 200 to 250 persons. The North Caro- lina Conference immediately appointed the Rev. J. B. Alford, a zealous, enthusiastic, and devoted minister to assume the pastorate cf tiie newly organized congregation. The first trustees were William J. Duke and his brother, Washington Duke, Archibald Nichols, D. M. Cheek, James Stagg, Z. L Lyon, and James Barbee.

The new church quickly sprang into prominence in the political life of the growing community and of the State. In it such distinguished citizens as ex-Governor Graham and Captain John Berry spoke against the Ordinance of Secession in debate against Hon. Henry K. Nash and Dr. Pride Jones, also well known in high political circles. The Flat River Guards under Col. R. F. Miller were quartered in the little structure while in Durham en route to join the Confederate Army. The building was used, as were nearly all churches throughout the South for a hospital for the sick and wounded wearers of both the Blue and the Gray. Immediately after the soldiery of the War between the States finally furled

24 25 their battle flags at the now historic Bennett Place, the little Methodist church was converted again into a school and so used until a public school could be erected some years later. In 1862 the North Carolina Annual Conference appointed Rev. J. W. Linnen to succeed Mr. Alford and he in turn was succeeded the following year by Rev. W. M. Walsh, whose successor for the years of 1864 and 1865 was the Rev. W. M. Jordan. Although the records are obviously too meager on church history for these dark and trying years, it is known that all these ministers were true to their trust, devoted, fervent and pious. They builded far better than they knew and in a book not made with hands their deeds are recorded as among the noblest of their day.

For the first few years of its life in Durham's the Orange Grove church was known as attached to the Hillsboro Cir- cuit. In 1865 it was changed in name to the Orange Circuit and in 1866 its name was again changed, and for the next twenty years it was known as the Durham's (or Durham) Methodist Church. The Conference appointments of this year indicate that the church was included as a part of the Chapel Hill charge with Rev. R. S. Webb as the pastor.

The new minister lost no time in training his guns upon v/hat he believed to be a major community evil, the liquor traffic. In 1868, he led the prohibition forces in a hotly con- tested campaign only to lose the election for the abolition of saloons by the narrow margin of one vote. Mr. Webb was occupying the only house for rent in the village and his enthusiasm and activity so thoroughly antagonized the political opposition that they rented the parson's home for $20 per month more than he could afford to pay, thus forc- ing him to live at Chapel Hill during the last year of his ministry on Durham's Circuit. Too, he was forced frequently to walk the dozen miles from Chapel Hill to Durham to serve his congregation during these Reconstruction days. The country was so destitute that the preacher could not afford to own a horse.

On the twentieth of August, 1869, two motherless boys in their early teens stood before the holy altar of this plain little meeting-house and spoke the solemn vows of church membership. To pastor and people they promised to support the Church and its institutions, and right well did they re-

26 deem that promise. They gave solemn assent to words spoken by one of those heroic old circuit-riders; one of those boys was to say in his later years, ''he was the greatest human influence of my whole life save that of my own father." Those two little boys were James B. and Benjamin Duke.

In 1870 Mr. Webb was succeeded in the pastorate of Dur- ham Methodism by the Rev. John Tillett, ardent and militant minister. During Mr. Tillett's administration there developed a serious disruption between leader and people, resulting in the withdrawal of thirty-one persons from membership in the congregation and threatening for a time to destroy all the good works of past church generations. Many of these thirty-one members had been most active and influential in the organization of the church a decade ago, and a severe blow was dealt the growth and welfare of the young church by these misunderstandings. However, under the leadership of Rev. J. J. Renn, who became Mr. Tillett's successor in 1872, all of these differences were reconciled. The disaffected members were restored to full fellowship and a quadrennium of spiritual harmony in the congregation followed.

A decade of Reconstruction had witnessed the village of Durham (now changed from Durham's to Durham) grow to a count of more than 300 persons; its youthful companion, the Methodist Church, had enjoyed even more remarkable prosperity, inasmuch as it was now able in 1870 to number its communion by as many as 200 members. This increase in membership and the young church's development along ether lines justified the North Carolina Conference in re- moving Durham from the circuit of nine churches and mak- ing it a station in its own right.

Trinity Church has ever sung to herself the theme of "Build thee more stately mansions," and three times be- tween 1861 and the end of the century the members of the congregation were engaged either in rebuilding or re- modeling the church edifice. In 1872 enough money was raised to paint the building inside and out, plaster the walls, and remodel the pulpit.

Prominent among the virile young builders of these early seventies was one man whose life and destiny for fifty years were to be linked inseparably with those of the church and community; one can scarcely read their history aside from

27 the story of his life. The romance of Durham and of Trinity Church for this half century was largely the lengthened shadow of one man.

Julian Shakespeare Carr was born in Chapel Hill on Columbus Day, 1845. He entered the University of North Carolina at the age of sixteen but heeded the bugle call to Southern arms after only two years of college study, serving with distinction and honor throughout the remaining war c.ays. General Carr came to Durham in 1870 and immediately threw all his vigor and enthusiasm into the life of his church and his community. With his own hands he helped to shingle the leaky roof of the little Methodist meeting-house; with his own means he purchased *'two acres of land a half mile from the town for a burying ground," and in Maplewood cemetery the city of Durham recognizes today a beautiful token of this great-hearted man's beneficence. History has repeated itself in the one life of Julian Carr for few enter- prises for good in church or city were undertaken without his moral and financial support.

General Carr was elected a trustee of Trinity College in 1882, the year of the death of Dr. Braxton Craven, pioneer president of the struggling institution. Two years later Mr. Carr joined James A. Gray and J. W. Alspaugh in as- iaiming personal financial responsibility for the college by i^greeing to contribute $5,000 per year for its support, this ncble act saving old Trinity from closing her doors in com- plete collapse. General Carr was responsible for bringing Dr. John Franklin Crowell, vigorous and brilliant young Yale graduate, to the presidency of the institution and upon Dr. Crowell's accession to leadership gave $10,000 in cash, which amount was really the College's first endowment.

Mr. Carr was jointly responsible with Mr. Washington Duke for the removal of Trinity College to Durham. The latter's interest was aroused in a mass meeting in Trinity ('hurch and his support to the cause was solicited and ob- tained by a Trinity pastor, Dr. E. A. Yates. Mr. Duke's donation of $85,000 and General Carr's gift of Blackwell Park brought to signal success the efforts to transplant the old college to a new setting.

Julian Carr did not limit his beneficences to his own land or race ; his heart was as big as the world. One of the most thrilling chapters of Trinity Church's history has been

28 written around the romance that couples this great philan- thropist's name with that of a homeless little Chinese cabin boy, who was stranded in Wilmington fifty year ago. It was in General Carr that Charlie Soong found a Christian friend whose warm heart and open purse afforded the young lad from the Orient his real opportunity at life. Soong was given a college education at Trinity and Vanderbilt and then returned to his native land for service in the Christian ministry. The contribution to Christianity made by his life and his family are now known to the entire world. Through General Carr and Trinity Church has come a blessing to humanity, the full measure of which can never be told.

Thus, in golden deeds of love and charity did Julian Carr write—day after day and page after page. Trinity Church is rich today in the grateful recollection of his life ; we shall not often see his like again.

Rev. W. H. Moore was appointed pastor of the church at Durham in 1876, and he was succeeded by Rev. W. H. Call, whose ministry extended for the year of 1877. Rev. F. H. Woods came to the church for the years of 1878 to 1880 and curing his pastorate was begun the activity for the erection of a new church, the cornerstone of which was laid in 1880. The church was dedicated on the first Sunday in June, 1881, by Rev. N. H. D. Wilson, Presiding Elder. The completion of this building was made under the leadership of the Rev. Jesse A. Cunninggim, a minister who was held in the highest esteem and affection by his congregation and the community at large. The old w^ooden church, although replaced by a far more commodious structure, was not yet to be destroyed, how- ever, for it was moved to another part of the church prop- erty and converted again into a school building. This time it was to be known as the Methodist Female Seminary, the trustees of which included Julian S. Carr, E. J. Parrish, J. B. Whitaker, Washington Duke, and J. E. Lyon. The direc- tion of the school was entrusted to Mrs. Julia R. Williams and a capable faculty engaged for the instruction of young women in music, languages, and other subjects. The seminary continued for- a number of years and exerted a profound influence upon the cultural and social life of the young city.

The year 1883 saw Rev. T. A. Boone succeed to the pastor-

30 ate of the church, and he remained for a period of two years. During his ministry the size of the church member- ship increased considerably through the several revival efforts made, as well as the interest developed as a result of a larger and more attractive building. The enrollment at the end of Mr. Boone's pastorate was approximately 350 persons. A great deal of enthusiasm had arisen for the work of the Sunday School, due to the leadership of General Carr, who had been the Sunday School Superintendent for a number of years, resigning only on account of other church duties to Mr. E. J. Parrish, who continued as superintendent until 1899. The enrollment of the church school in 1884, the year of General Carr's resignation, was 250 persons.

During the first year of Mr. Boone's ministry the congre- gation suffered a loss in the death of Col. D. C. Parrish, one of the great towers of strength in the Methodist congrega- tion for rr.any years. Colonel Parrish was an apt type of the old school of Southern chivalry and dignity. He had proven a tireless worker in and for every good cause which looked to the moral welfare of the community. The parishioners of his church reconciled their grief for his passing in the con- templation that he had left a glorious heritage to his family and friends and that his life would be lived again in his posterity—a hope realized in every sense of the word in his sons and daughters.

In 1884 Mr. Boone inaugurated a movement to organize a second Methodist church in the western part of the grow- ing community. This move, although at first opposed, grew in favor until at the end of 1885 missions were established by the Annual Conference for both the western and eastern parts of the city. The West End Church had its real be- ginning in May of 1886, when a Sunday School was begun in one of the f?.Ciory buildings owned by Mr. Washington Duke, the school to be known as Bethany Sunday School. The Church was formally organized as Main Street Church under the pastorate of Rev. Amos Gregson. Thus was born the first of the daughters of Trinity Church, now grown to a position of the daughters of Trinity Church, now Duke Memorial Church and grown to a position of honor and prestige among the larger churches of Southern Methodism. Carr Church in East Durham, Mangum Street Church, West Durham Church, Branson Church, and Lakewood Church

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have all grown from Trinity. The Mother of Methodism in Durham looks with a pardonable pride upon the growth and usefulness of all these daughters of hers and recalls the heroic struggles that have characterized their lives as not unlike her own.

Rev. B. C. Phillips became the pastor of the Durham Church for the conference year of 1885, but succumbed to an attack of pneumonia within a few months. Mr. Phillips was known throughout the city for his intellectuality, his piety, and his devotion. His untimely death was lamented by the entire congregation and community. Rev. W. S. Davis was appointed to conclude the year, which he did with effectiveness.

Rev. W. S. Creasy became the next pastor and served for the years of 1886 and 1887. It was at the beginning of Dr. Creasy's ministry that the church first came to be known as Trinity. During this biennium more than two hundred per- sons were added to the congregation through profession of faith and by letter of transfer from other communions. At its close Trinity's membership was counted at nearly 400, despite the fact that a large number of former members had transferred to the younger churches and congregations in the city.

Dr. E. A. Yates succeeded Dr. Creasy as Trinity's pastor in 1888 and remained until 1890. His administration is also marked by a remarkable growth in the size and influence of the church. In October, 1888, the Rev. Sam P. Jones, famous evangelist, visited Durham and conducted a revival in the Parrish warehouse; a return engagement was filled during the following year. As a result of both of these revivals large numbers were added to all of the churches of the town it is worthy of record that in these two years 189 persons joined the Trinity congregation. It was during Dr. Yates's pastorate that the removal of Trinity College to Durham was effected, the corner-stone being laid on November 11, 1890. The Trinity pastor played no small part in this momentous enterprise. Not only was he influential in eliciting the interest and cooperation of General Carr and Mr. Washing- ton Duke, but his activities in other respects were marked. He was the chosen spokesman for the College board of

32 trustees upon the occasion of the formal opening of the in- stitution in Durham in 1892.

At the opening of the last decade of the nineteenth century Trinity Church boasted a membership of approximately 450 in a town of 5,000 population. The trustees valued their church property at $25,000 to include the church, parsonage, and seminary building. However, with characteristic zeal and enthusiasm the congregation under the leadership of Rev. R. J. Moorman, who had succeeded Dr. Yates, began to lay plans for even a greater Zion. The church attendance and excellent Sunday School growth had encouraged the leaders to believe that additional room and accommodations were needed. Mr. Moorman was able to see the movement launched but the responsibility of rebuilding was deferred until the administration of his successor. Rev. R. C. Beaman, who served the church during the years of 1892 and 1893. The work of remodeling, which was completed in 1893, gave to Trinity congregation a church plant valued at more than $50,000. It was built of brick with granite trimmings with the interior artistic and inspiring in design and finish as well as useful and convenient in arrangement. Handsome pews were placed in the main church auditorium and in the new Sunday School annex, while a large pipe organ was installed in the choir loft in the rear of the pulpit. A number of murals and other decorations were placed on the walls and several large stained-glass windows built as memorials to the departed loved ones of members of the church.

During the pastorate of Mr. Beaman several of the faculty of the new Trinity College allied themselves with the for- tunes of the Trinity Church congregation. Notable among these was Dr. W. H. Pegram, known to hundreds of Trinity alumni all over the world and beloved by them all. From his coming to Trinity Church until his death in 1928 Dr. Pegram was for those thirty-five years a benediction to its members. As teacher and leader he exerted a profound influence and left a rich heritage to those who recollect him in affection and gratitude.

One of the most significant undertakings of Mr. Beaman's ministry was the organization of the Epworth League. It is interesting to recall that an ''Epworth Band" had been or- ganized during the pastorate of Dr. Yates and had been flourishing for several years before the inauguration of the

33 Epworth League movement in Southern Methodism. The Trinity Epworth League dates from September 28, 1893, when it was begun with a membership of over 130 eager and enthusiastic young people. Of it a capable critic remarked, 'Tt has been a success from the beginning."

Rev. B. R. Hall became pastor in 1894 and remained in charge of the congregation for two years. During Mr. Hall's pastorate the Trinity Epworth League published in its monthly young people's newspaper a series of articles on the history of the church from 1881 to 1895. They were written by one of the foremost leaders of the congregation and one cf the choicest Christian gentlemen of his generation, Mr. J. H. Southgate.

James H. Southgate was a worthy son of a worthy sire. His father, James Southgate, was born in King and Queen County in Virginia in the very year in which the land for the first Orange Grove church had been deeded by William Herndon to the Methodist Episcopal Church. Cultured and courtly in manner and yet industrious and successful in business, he had immediately won a high place in the esteem of his fellow-citizens upon coming to the community in 1876.

For the forty years between that time and his death he identified himself with the life of the community and the Church in such a manner as to evoke the admiration of all who knew him.

James H. Southgate was born in Norfolk, Virginia in 1859. He moved with his parents to Durham in 1876 and entered the University of North Carolina in the same year. He entered the insurance field as his father's partner in early manhood and continued this business connection for the remainder of his life. Mr. Southgate was known through- out the State, not only for his business sagacity and in- tegrity, but because of his leadership and activity in moral and religious affairs. He was an ardent supporter of the cause of temperance and was fearless in his expressions of conviction as to this and other timely issues.

Mr. Southgate was a devoted and useful member of the Methodist Church for the larger part of his life. For more than a quarter of a century he occupied a place on the official board of Trinity Church and was most active in the

34 work of the Sunday School. He served as a delegate to the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, on several occasions and ''wearied not in well doing" for the interest and welfare of the Church's cause. He was officially active in the work of the Young Men's Christian Association in its pioneer days in North Carolina and lent his support to its progress to the end of his life.

This good man was known throughout his life as warm- hearted, companionable, charitable, and sincere. One has siiid of him that he was "pre-eminent in business, as a citizen, ^:s a promoter of education, and as a Christian gentleman." Trinity church has cause to point to his life and record with pride and grateful recognition.

In the conference year of 1896 Mr. Hall was succeeded in the pastorate of Trinity by the Rev. J. N. Cole, who served as the minister until 1899. During Mr. Cole's ministry the congregation continued to grow and flourish in numbers as well as in activities and interest and influence in the com- munity. In the final year of this pastorate the Church sus- tained a deep loss in the removal of Capt. E. J. Parrish from its ranks. Captain Parrish had been a business leader in Durham for nearly thirty years. He had been educ^.^ed at old Trinity, had served the South with distinction and fidelity throughout the War between the States, and had successfully filled a government office for a num.ber of years. Courteous, unassuming, sociable, grpcious, and dignified he liad gone in and out among the people of the city recognized as a fellow-citizen of real worth and a man whom to know was to love. His place in the religious life of the community was secure. He had served successively as superintendent of the Trinity Church Sunday School and as chairman of its boj^rd of stewards. Upon his departure for the Orient in 1899, the Church and city at large came to feel something of the invaluable contribution the life of Captain Parrish had rendered and to recognize the loss they would sustain in his going.

Rev. W. C. Norman bec^.m.e the pastor in 1900 and served until 1902, when he died while attending the session of the North Carolina Conference in Wilmington. Mr. Norman was known throughout the State as a devoted and consecrated minister, and his death proved a deep loss to the members

35 of the congregation and the cause of righteousness in all the spheres where he labored. During these days the Trinity Sun- day School developed to a high peak in interest, attendance and efficiency. It had been organized by its leaders along the lines adopted by the International Sunday School Associa- tion and was functioning strongly in the life of the church. The school had been departmentalized and was manned by a strong enthusiastic corps of administrators and teachers.

Upon the death of Mr. Norman, Rev. R. C. Beaman was returned to Trinity Church as its minister for the second time. He remained here from 1903 to 1906. His popularity and enthusiasm gave this leader such a strong hold upon his people that the Kingdom flourished remarkably under his hand. The membership grew by nearly 200 during his administration and his departure at the end of four years saw the church in a most prosperous condition.

Rev. G. T. Adams became the successor to Dr. Beaman in 1907 and continued in the pastorate of Trinity until 1910. His ministry marks the re-organization of the work of the women of Trinity Church for the cause of home and foreign missions. A Home Mission Society had been organized in the church in 1903 with 25 charter members. In 1910 this society united with the Foreign Society and has continued in that manner since that year. No man is able to estimate the work and worth of the women's efforts in these societies and in other connections of the Church. For a quarter of a century these women have labored and loved and sacrificed in the true spirit of a Christian womanhood, and the member- ship of the congregation would rise today to pay a tribute of homage and appreciation for such a remarkable contribu- tion of service. In the moneys they have raised for missions and for the support of the Kingdom at home, as well as for the curtailment of building indebtedness, they have set an enviable example for their brethren well worthy of emulation.

During the quadrennium from 1911 to 1914 the ministry of the church was in the hands of the Rev. R. C. Craven. He was succeeded the following year by the Rev. A. Mc- Cullen, who was called to the Nation's colors as an army chaplain at the beginning of the World War. Mr. McCullen's successor in the pastorate was Rev. Costen J. Harrell, who

36 continued as the minister until 1919. Dr. Harrell's vigor and enthusiasm and his devotion to the cause produced an out- s;:anaing administration. His ministry to his people in their joys and in their sorrows endeared him to them as to enable leader and congregation to place Trinity Church ahead in every worthy undertaking. Notable among the achievements of these years has been recalled the foreign missionary en- terprises launched by the congregation. During the half decade closing in 1920 the church supported missionaries and native workers in China, Japan, Korea, Brazil, and Mexico at a total cost of over $40,000 for the five year period. In addition, through the munificence of General Julian S. Carr, there was established the Nannie Carr Foundation, which for the same five years contributed to the support of workers and helpers in China at a cost of over $16,000.

Dr. Harrell was succeeded by Dr. A. D. Wilcox, whose ministry dates from 1920 to the annual conference of 1923. In the early part of Dr. Wilcox's pastorate a church in- ventory was taken to discover that the total membership numbered 1031 persons, just a thousand more than repre- sented the little Orange Grove Church of just sixty years ago. Its Board of Trustees contained seven mem.bers and it« Board of Stewards was counted at thirty men. The Sunday School was under the supervision of Mr. M. A. Briggs, assisted by a staff of 35 officers and teachers. The Woman's Missionary Society w^as thoroughly organized under the direction of Mrs. W. H. Boone, as its president, supported by various divisional superintendents and secretaries. The Epworth League, buoyant and energetic, was presided over by Miss Elizabeth Walker and the several departmental superintendents. Progress and harmony were evident on every hand and all appeared well in this Zion.

Into such a picture the finger of destiny thrust itself on an early Sunday morning, January 22, 1923. Fire, which probably originated in the Sunday School Annex, quickly destroyed the magnificent church buildings and parsonage, totally destroying property worth $175,000 and rendering a congregation of over 1000 people church-homeless. Beyond the material loss there were memorials in windows and upon walls which could not be valued in dollars. These had been placed in loving memory of departed ones, whose lives and

37 service to the congregation continued to abide as inspira- tions, and these tokens of love and esteem proved constant reminders to those who remained among the living. Promi- nent among these beautiful memorials was a magnificent sculptured interpretation of Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece of art, The Last Supper. It had been placed there in loving remembrance of Mrs. Nannie Graham Parrish Carr by her husband. General Julian Carr. No Taj Mahal could ever speak more eloquently than did this beautiful token, and small wonder that deep and poignant regret should have moved the hearts of men and women as they contemplated the ruin of this and other inspiring memorials.

However, Trinity Church has not ever known how to ac- cept an ultimate defeat. With the same spirit that marked the Methodists of the early sixties, the members of Trinity congregation gathered around their leader and re-formed their battle lines. In a few days plans had been laid for a greater Trinity and in a few months a new temple rose phenix-like from the ashes of the old one. Committees were organized, pledges were solicited, stone and steel rose sky- ward again to replace the old spire that only recently toppled and fell under the ravages of fire.

Rev. W. W. Peele had succeeded Dr. Wilcox in the pastor- ate with the opening of the conference year of 1924 and under his inspiring leadership a scattered congregation had maintained its stout heart and enduring spirit. Nehemiah never called an Israel that more courageously had a mind to work on the restoration of the Temple. The cornerstone of a Greater Trinity was laid with appropriate ceremonies on Sunday afternoon, October 2, 1924, and on September 20, 1925 the opening service was held.

This new temple of worship represented an expenditure of nearly $380,000 for church building, church school building, organ, memorial windows, furniture and fixtures. An amount of $70,000 had been collected as insurance on the old church, destroyed by the fire; pledges in the amount of another $85,000 had been paid, several memorials had been donated, and a net indebtedness of $150,000 remained.

The New Trinity Church in its completed plant now con- tained accommodations for 1200 to 1500 people. In its 25

38 39 church school class-rooms, offices, assembly rooms and other teaching equipment it held opportunity for religious teach- ing unexcelled in Southern Methodism. To the task of learning to use this opportunity worthily and of liberating their beloved Church from its indebtedness this heroic con- gregation then addressed itself.

Dr. Peele was assigned by bishopric appointment to a charge in another conference in 1927, and Dr. J. W. Smith, who had served as one of the outstanding ministers of the Virginia Conference for a number of years, was transferred to the North Carolina Conference and assigned to the Trinity pastorate. Dr. Smith proved a worthy leader for his devotion and inspiring personality his zeal and his en- thusiasm. He remained as the minister of the Trinity con- gregation until 1930, when he returned to the Virginia Conference. He died at Richmond in 1934, mourned by a host of Methodists in many parts of the world.

In 1931, Dr. W. A. Lambeth, who had been ministering to the congregation at the well-known Mount Vernon Methodist Church in Washington, D. C. was appointed to the pastorate of Trinity. However, Dr. Lambeth remained for only one year, transferring at the end of the year to the Western North Carolina Conference.

Dr. G. R. Combs, who came from the Western North Car- olina Conference to the North Carolina Conference with the o])ening of the conference year of 1932, was assigned to the Trinity Church and remained as its pastor until the close of 1933. He was succeeded by Rev. E. L. Hillman, who began his present ministry with the conference year of 1934. He has entered upon his w^ork with an earnest enthusiasm which betokens success.

The final word of this brief and incomplete chronicle could not be written without a record of the heroic devotion characterizing the membership for the last decade. For the larger part of these years their community and country at large have suffered considerably from a financial depression. The tremendous load of church indebtedenss could have quenched the spirit of a company of church followers with less zeal than that known to the members of Trinity Church. Little less than miraculous has been the success attendant upon the efforts of these people and their leader in paying

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off during this year of their seventy-fifth anniversary an amount of $75,000 for accrued interest and a curtailment of the church indebtedness. The record of this achievement is worthy of a place alongside the undertakings of those pioneering saints of 1861 and all who have served and sac- rificed between then and the jubilee year of 1936.

Trinity, Mother of Methodism, sits beside her fire-place toaay and in reminiscence recalls every milestone of the road since the days of the plain little Orange Grove meeting- house. She looks out into an uncharted future with heart unafraid. She has found the fountain of eternal youth in the springs of the waters about which her great Leader spoke at the well in Samaria. She gathers her sons and her daughters about her in spirit and lifts her heart in gratitude and praise and her voice in the w^ords of a grand old marching hymn

**One holy Name she blesses, Partakes one holy food, And to one hope she presses, With every grace endued."

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