Dear brother Cossitt--
Our
camp-meeting at Pleasant Grove camp-ground, near Vernon,
Hickman county, has closed with happy results. Brother G. H. Lowe
was with us, doing good selling, and giving away religious books.
Brothers Parish,
the stated preacher at that place, and Dunlap, Cooly, J. Lowry,
Williams and Marlow were in attendance. Previous to the commencement
of the meeting, I was fearful that we might be interrupted with
whiskey sellers and drinkers; but we are happy to say that the
devil never appeared on the ground with that hateful garb on:
never did I see better behaviour in my life. The meeting increased
in interest until it closed, and might have continued for weeks,
and the number of converts increased with the meeting; but we
had to go to another meeting. The Methodist brethren were with
us and enjoyed themselves finely; there were a few Old School-Baptists,
who took a deep interest in our meeting; they took the preacher's
horses, gave us their fifty and hundred acre pastures for people's
horses; we will never forget them: the best of it all is, they
shouted and prayed in the altar for sinners, and one very ancient
Baptist mother who had a great many wicked grand-children, when
mourners were called for, made it her business to go out over
the benches and exhort sinners to flee to Christ--her appeals
told with heavenly success on the hearts of the people. I did
want to commune with the Baptists on that occasion, but they did
not accede to my proposition.
There
were between 20 and 30 converts; a good portion of them joined
the church: next year there will be from ten to fifteen campers.
I intend to try to get you fifteen or twenty subscribers for your
paper, and must have one hundred Confessions of Faith in this
county.
WM.
H. GUTHRIE.
September
23, 1847.
[Source: Banner of
Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, October 29, 1847,
page 2]
1848
Charlotte
Presbytery
17 March 1848
Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee
Congregation
not represented - Pleasant Grove
[Source:
"Extracts of the Minutes of the Charlotte Presbytery,"
The Banner of Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, May
10, 1848, page 2]
1849
Charlotte
Presbytery
1 March 1849
Elder
from the following congregation was present - H. J. Brinkley from
Pleasant Grove
[Source:
"Extracts of the Minutes of the Charlotte Presbytery,"
The Banner of Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, April
6, 1849,
page 3]
1859
Charlotte
Presbytery
19 March 1859
Charlotte, Dickson County, Tennessee
Elder H. J.
Binkley
[Source: "Extracts
of the Minutes of the Charlotte Presbytery," The Banner of
Peace and Cumberland Presbyterian Advocate, April 14, 1859,page
3]