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Bethlehem Church setting for Smith reunion
The Smith reunion was held on Saturday, June 9 in the fellowship hall at Bethlehem Church of the Lord Jesus Christ, with 70 people attending. Children of Doyle Smith and Mr. Smith attending were Verla Mae Stanton, Faye Stanton, Joyce Clayton, Wayne Smith and Jamie Smith.
We are thankful that Inez Jarrett is doing well after recent surgery and is at home. She is a special life- long friend of mine. Pray for her.
Get well wishes to Adelle Hudson, a friend who spent some time in the hospital recently. She is at the home of her son, Roger Hudson. She needs our prayers.
Thoughts
“Beloved, let us love one another, because love is from God.” I John 4:7.
(1) God loves each and every one of us as if we were the only person in the world.
(2) Poem - Lord, help us love the way you love, the lowly, humble and meek; and help me to care like you care, the sinners, the outcast and the weak.
(3) When we step out in faith, God is there to guide us if we follow His directions. He wants us to love others as He loves them. (We praise His holy name!)
(4) “Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you, so you may be the children of your Father in heaven.” Matthew 5:44-45. Prayer changes things!
(5) Others may not like the way you look, but God looks on the heart. Sometimes people think you are a bother because you are getting old, but God loves us to the end.
Take time
Take time to think, it is the source of power
Take time to play, it is the secret of perpetual youth
Take time to read, it is the fountain of wisdom
Take time to pray, it is the greatest power on earth
Take time to love and be loved, it is a God-given privilege
Take time to be friendly, it is the road to happiness
Take time to laugh, it is music of the soul
Take time to give, it is too short a day to be selfish
Take time to work, it is the price of success
Take time to save, it is the foundation of your future
—Lindy’s Newsletter
Happy birthday to Steve Gurley on June 18, to Maxine Thomas on June 19. We are thankful that Maxine, my friend from Myrtle, has been removed from the prayer list. Happy birthday to Ethan Humphreys, age 5, young son of Collette and Jeremy on June 21.
Happy wedding anniversary to Martha and Jimmy Hollingsworth (my oldest son) on their wedding anniversary on June 24. Happy birthday to a special great-granddaughter, Lilah Ward of San Antonio, Tx. On June 24. Happy wedding anniversary to Floyd and Elinor Edwards on June 25.
Steve and Pat Wilson and family, daughters and sons-in-law, Johnathan and Stephanie McDonald, Jonathan and Carla Dean, grandchildren Sydney and Symon enjoyed a week of vacation in Destin, Fla. Both families visited in Potts Camp, also.
Prayer list: Willie Thomas Wicker, Joyce Tate Cutrer, Kathleen Gurley Eason, Frank Evans, Marloyce Green, Helen Lindsey Hodo, Gene Simmons Nichols, Teresa Tate Watson, Walter Wicker, Adelle Hudson, Hazel Foote, Roy Foote, Lina Mae Rhea, Juanita Howell, Lena Fay Work, Chris White, Jean Derryberry, Inez Jarrett, Mary Jo McCallum, Jene and Joe McCallum, Betty Fincher, Connie Work, Nadene Vest, and others who need our prayers.
Memories
Did you ever go down into a dirt storm house, with a wooden door on top? Well, my grandfather built one next door to us when I was a child. When they closed that top, I felt like a trapped rat.
We could hear rain and wind blowing overhead, and it was so dark. Daddy always took a lantern but it was dim.
One day my brother James saw Grandpa bring a dead snake out of the storm house, so we would hide if a cloud came up. Finally, our grandmother used it to keep her flowers during winter months. My grandfather, James Alexander Potts, was the grandson of the first settler of this area, Col. Erasmus F. Potts. Potts Camp was named for Colonel Potts.
In 1910, Grandpa built the two-story Potts House on Front St. and moved here from Potts Creek, several miles from town. They rented rooms to people who rode the trains, especially the (drummers) salesmen. There were 25 businesses in town. The coal chute was built in 1915 on the railroad tracks near “The Potts House.” (It was demolished in 1977) The Potts house has been bricked and looks good.
After their older children married and moved away, Grandma was lonely, so they rented out the big house and moved next door to us. My grandfather was Potts Camp mayor for about 25 years; he also owned a general store. Uncle Sal Potts had became a pastor of Methodist churches and my dad learned to be a depot agent at an early age.
Back in the earlier days the first little Potts Camp Methodist Church was struck by lightning. In 1904, my grandfather was hired to build a new church. It was a white wood church with a tall steeple, stained glass windows, a pipe organ, a kneeling rail and a room for coats and hats.
We moved to Potts Camp in 1920, and attended the special church until it was demolished in 1926. Miss Tryphenia Rogers, old maid daughter of our pastor, was leader for the children. She was my first guardian angel; she played with us, prayed with us and took us on picnics. We walked the two miles to Winborn Springs; only one or two cars passed us on the road. I fell in the water one day and came home in a friend’s overalls.
One night before church services, Miss Rogers was on the steps waiting for us children. She said that she had seen an angel. All we could see was a white cloud, but we believed her. Then she told us that God sends angels to help us every day. We loved her. James and I and other children accepted Christ as our Savior and joined the church.
One day at a missionary meeting at the parsonage, Miss Rogers, who was a large woman, told the group, “I don’t care if the devil is in the pulpit, your place on Sunday morning is in the pew.”
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