The John L. Cameron Sunday School Class, Hayes Barton United
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JOHN L. CAMERON SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH SOME SKETCHES AND HISTORICAL NOTES Div.Sch. Quarto BX 8481 .R35 C377 1984 DUKE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Gilt ol Grady L. E. Carroll, Sr. : THE JOHN L. CAMERON SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FAIRVIEW AND STONE STREET, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA (1950-1984) SOME SKETCHES AND HISTORICAL NOTES GRADY LEE ERNEST CARROLL, SR. : THE JOHN L. CAMERON SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS HAYES BARTON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH FAIRVIEW AND STONE STREET, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA (1950-1984) SOME SKETCHES AND HISTORICAL NOTES An Historical Address Delivered in the Classroom on the Occasion of the Unveiling of the Photograph of Dr. John Lansing Cameron on Sunday, December 4, 1983, at 7:30 P. M. (With Later Revisions) "I have come that men ma/y have life, and may have it in all its fullness." —JOHN 10:10 (THE NEW ENGLISH BIBLE) "Then those who feared the Lord spoke to one another, And the Lord listened and heard them; So a book of remembrance was written before Him For those who fear the Lord And who meditate on His name." —Malachi 3:16 GRADY LEE ERNEST CARROLL, SR. Church Historian (1960-1968; 1980- ) 19 8 4 DEDICATIONS The following brief historical sketches of the John L. Cameron Sunday School Class have been lovingly dedicated to the following persons: TO ALL TEACHERS from 1950 to 1984 who have probed the pages of Scripture, shared their knowledge and Christian experiences and offered in good measure inspiration and guidance for growth in the Christian community TO ALL CLASS MEMBERS AND VISITORS who entered into the doors of the classroom, received the interpretations of the Scrip- tures, shared their fellowship, gave gifts, resolved to go forth and live more abundantly, shared sorrows and helped the less fortunate and shared a fuller and fresher vision of the Hebraic-Christian tradition Lord, make me an instrument of Thy peace, Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy; 0 Divine Master! Grant that I may not so much seek, To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love; For it is in giving that we receive; Pardoning that we are pardoned; Dying that we are born to eternal life. —Prayer of St. Francis i Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2014 https://archive.org/details/johnlcameronsundOOcarr CONTENTS Dedications i Address 1. Introduction 1 2. A Chronology of Church History (1483-1984) 2 3. Partial Roster of Sunday School Teachers (1951-1984) 8 4. Partial Roster of Projects and Activities 9 5. Representative Sunday School Memberships 12 6. Unveiling Ceremony and Remarks (End of Address) 12 Class Founders and Members 1. Dr. John Lansing Cameron: Co-Founder and Teacher 13 2. Jesse Ormond Sanderson: Co-Founder and Educator 14 3. Raymond K. Rhodes: Educator 15 4. Earl Barnes: "Tar Heel of the Week" 16 5. Robert Henry Garrison: Administrative Assistant and Teacher 18 6. The Reverend William Albert Cade: Retired Clergyman and Teacher 19 7. William Marion Storey: Attorney 21 8. The Reverend Charles Moody Smith: Retired Clergyman 22 9. Dr. David Kline: Former Member 22 10. Betty Ann Williams Holroyd: Member 22 11. Class Membership Rosters a. Young Adult Bible Class 23 b. Cameron Sunday School Class 24 Church Officiary: 1936-1984 1. Bishops 34 2. District Superintendents 34 3. Pastors 34 4. Class Officers (1983-1984) 34 Appendix 36 Bibliography 55 About the Author 56 ii Introductory Mr. Class President, Reverend Clergy, Members of the Cameron Sunday School Class, Dr. John L. Cameron, our esteemed honoree, and Mrs. Beulah Cameron: We come to another historic occasion in the life of Hayes Barton United Methodist Church. I welcome all of you to this gathering in this Yuletide Season. Here is a golden opportunity to review the history of the Class for some three decades, on the even of the Observance of the Bicentennial of American Methodism in 1984. In two days, on December 6th, we will reach the 47th Anniversary of the Founding of our church. (The purpose of this publication has been to make available to the members of the John L. Cameron Sunday School Class and other members of the church a printed history of the origin, growth and development of the class as a branch of Christian education within the total program of Hayes Barton United Methodist Church.) (Surely the Holy Spirit has been at work in this part of the City of Raleigh. Gratitude is expressed here to Divine Providence for strength and inspiration for the preparation of this booklet.) 1 . A Chronology of Church History (1483-1984) 1483-1546 Lifespan of Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation. 1703-1791 Lifespan of John Wesley, Founder of the Methodist Church. 1745-1816 Lifespan of Francis Asbury, leader of American Methodism. 1772 Joseph Pilmoor, English evangelist, preached in Currituck County, North Carolina. 1776 The Carolina Circuit was formed when the Fourth Methodist Confer- ence met in Baltimore on May 21, 1776, and was the first Methodist Circuit located entirely within North Carolina. Included were a number of churches and preaching places in the North-Central part of the state which formerly had been parts of Virginia Circuits. The Reverends Edward Dromgoole, Francis Poythress, and Isham Tatum were appointed to the circuit which included six hundred eighty- three members. That first year they added two hundred fifty-seven members to make the Carolina Circuit one of the largest in Methodism. 1784 The Methodist Episcopal Church in America was formed at Lovely Lane Chapel in Baltimore at the Christmas Conference. 1785 Bishop Francis Asbury called the first annual conference of American Methodism at the home of the Reverend Green Hill, Louisburg, North Carolina, with twenty preachers in attendance in a large upper room of the house, a Methodist shrine today. 1785 The First Session of the North Carolina Conference met at the Green Hill House in Louisburg, North Carolina. 1800 Bishop Francis Asbury preached at the original State House in Raleigh, 1808 On May 12, William McKendree, one-time soldier in the Continental Army and convert to Christianity under the preaching of John Easter, was elected the first American-born Methodist bishop at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in America. 1811 Bishop Francis Asbury and Bishop William McKendree, first native-born American Methodist bishop, preached in Raleigh; from that event came the founding of Edenton Street Methodist Church. 1838 The North Carolina Conference was organized at Greensborough 1844 The split of American Methodism into North and South. 1855 Advent of the RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. 1895 Advent of the NORTH CAROLINA CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE. 1899 Raleigh selected as site of the Methodist Orphanage (later changed to Methodist Home for Children) 1901 Death of William McKinley, last Methodist President of the United States. 1936 The Founding of Hayes Barton Methodist Church at a meeting of the Cabinet at New Bern under leadership of Bishop Paul B. Kern. 1937 Establishment of the Francis Asbury Bible Class at Hayes Barton Methodist Church. 1939 In September, completion and initial use of the Chapel at Hayes Barton Methodist Church. 2 i . 1939 From April 26-May 10th, the Uniting Conference of the three branches of Methodism, The Methodist Episcopal Church, North; The Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and The Methodist Protestant Church was held in Kansas City, Missouri. 1944 Crusade for Christ organized in the North Carolina Conference. c. 1950 Establishment of the Young Adult Bible Class which became the John ~ L. Cameron Sunday School Class. 1958 THE JOURNAL AND LETTERS OF FRANCIS ASBURY IN THREE VOLUMES, edited by Elmer T. Clark (Editor-in-Chief), J. Manning Potts and Jacob S. Payton, was published jointly by Epworth Press, London, and Abingdon Press, Nashville. 1960 Headquarters Building for the North Carolina Conference was approved for Raleigh. 1961 Observance of the Silver Anniversary of the Founding of Hayes Barton Methodist Church with Charter Member Banquet, Location of Pictures of Clergymen of the Church to date and Address by Bishop Paul N. Garber, presiding bishop of the North Carolina Annual Conference. 1962 Inception of METHODIST HISTORY, a scholarly Methodist history quar- terly published by the Commission on Archives and History of The United Methodist Church (formerly based at Lake Junaluska Assembly; presently based at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey) 1964 Establishment of the Raleigh Area. 1964 Grady L. E. Carroll, Sr., compiled FRANCIS ASBURY IN NORTH CAROLINA from the Elmer T. Clark edition of the JOURNAL OF FRANCIS ASBURY, the former work being published by Parthenon Press in 1964 and the latter by Abingdon Press in 1958. 1966 Dr. Elmer T. Clark's METHODISM IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (197 pp.) was published by the Western North Carolina Conference of The Meth- odist Church. 1968 William Ragsdale Cannon was assigned episcopal leader of the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church for a quadrennium. 1968 The Unification of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church at Dallas, Texas, to form The United Methodist Church. 1972-1980 Robert M. Blackburn, native of Florida, served as episcopal leader of the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. 1972 On December 20th, Bishop Paul Neff Garber, former episcopal leader of the North Carolina Conference, died in Geneva, Switzerland. 1973 In September, delegations from the church went by bus with the Rev- erend Clyde G. McCarver to attend the Central Carolina Billy Graham Crusade at Carter Stadium. (Dr. Graham had spoken several years earlier at William Neal Reynolds Coliseum.) 1976 Dedication of Hayes Barton United Methodist Church upon completion of payment of debts.