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Church News
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exceptionally severe weather for a part
of the time.
The Second Church, having no
session, was placed by Presbytery
under the care of the First Church.
The session of the First Church
has engaged Rev. J. F. Jacobs to
?uj<i??y uiiii |>ui])ii uunng me coming
year. Mr. Alex. O'Daniel superintends
the Sabbath school at the Second
Church. Mr. T. C. Scott, another member
of the First Churcti, conducts services
twice a month at the Lydia Mills
Chapel. The support of ten pupil3 of the
Thornwell Orphanage will be provided
during the ensuing year by societies,
members and others of the congregation.
The congregation is arranging for
the support of its own missionary. The
total membership of the church is 460,
nearly half of whom are from the Thornwell
Orphanage, or students of the college.
Bowling Green, Beth Shiloh and Allison
Creek: The Rev. W. J. Wyly has
been installed pastor of these churcnes.
The acount of the installation at Bowling
Green was reported immediately after
it took place. At Beth Shiloh and Allison
Creek, the services had to be postponed
on account of ban weather, and
did not take place until December 5. The
commission, as appointed by Presbytery,
consisted of the following: The Rev.
Messrs. E. E. Gillespie. W. A. Hafner and
Alexander Martin, with Elder Oleary. All
were present except Mr. Martin. The attendance
at both churches was good, and
the services were very impressive and
helpful. This is a Presbyterian section
of the old type; father, mother and children
attend church, and the Lord's Day
is kept sacred. In many homes family
worship is observed. Since our arrival
at the manse, the people have been unppacinp
in thpir altontinnc Pvorv nne.
esslty and many of ihe luxuries of life
have been supplied. A horse has been
given, with feed sufficient for the winter.
It was hard to tell when Christmas began,
and it seems that it is not over yet.
The ladies of Beth Shfloh remembered
that we had come to a colder climate,
and sent a pair of heavy blankets. For
all of these gifts we are truly grateful
to our Heavenly Father, and only trust
that we may bring Him glory in this part
of his vineyard."
TENNESSEE.
Knoxville, Central Church: The Christmas
entertainment took place Tuesday
evening, December 29, and was marked
by a crowded house, a pleasing program
and a happy occasion of giving and receiving.
the Sabbath school this year
remembering the Assembly's Home and
School at Fredericksburg, Va. On Christmas
Eve, a large number of the ladies of
the church came in a ooay to the pastor's
home, bringing many beautiful and
substantial gifts for all the members of
the family, in addition to others that
were sent in. May the Lord reward a
noble-hearted people for their continued
great kindness.
Z PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT
Franklin: Since the Chrismias holidays,
Rev. W. J. McMillan, the pastor,
has been rocking himself in a very
handsome solid leather Turkish chair.
He greatly appreciates the chair for its
intrinsic worth, but far more does he appreciate
the silirit wh ??>~
heads of the families of (he church in
making the gift. Sunday, January 3,
witnessed the sixth anniversay of the
pas;orate. The church, in the face of
great difficulties, has made decided progress.
The new building is well appointed
and handsome, and is free from indebtedness.
During the six years the
pastor has preached six hundred sermons,
conducted two hundred and fifty-eight
prayer meetings, forty-eight funerals,
twenty-seven marriages, received one
hundred and twenty-five members into
this church, received thirty-five into other
churches, has taught with regularity in
the Sunday school, and has made five
thousand seven hundred and sixty-four
calls in the homes of the people. The
church faces the future with hope and
promise.
To Sunday School Superintendents: in
Western District Presbytery: In order
to the enlargement and information of
the Sunday school work" in our bounds
through your Presbyterial Sunday School
Committee, or direction of Western District
Presbytery, the third Sabbath, or
the nearest practical thereto, in this
month, has been set apart as the day for
all our Sunday scnools to give their 01ferings
to the further prosecution of this
work (three-fourths for our Presbyterial
Sunday school work, and one-fourth for
our Synodical Sunday school work). If
the schools have notice a week ahead,
and know the great good already accomplished
by this means, a large and worthy
offering will be taken. We want to
do a great deal more, and to this end
asK your genuine help. I believe we can
count on you doing your Best and sending
at appointed time a good offering from
your Sunday school to
Yours prayerfully and faithfully,
C. O'N. Martindale, Ch. and Treasurer..
Brownsville, Tenn.
TEXAS.
Paris: The congregation of the First
Church cheered the hearts of their pastor
and his family during the Christmas
holidays by the gift of a handsome purse
of money and many other material tokens
of good will.
Cisco: This church is trying to witness
for Jesus in a quiet way, and its
testimony is hearing some fruit unto the
Lord. Several new families have ueen
identified with the church recently by
membership, and some growth in grace is
manifest. Several mission noints are
being conducted, where much good is
being done. At one of them a new church
has recently been organized by our pastor,
and at others we hope to establlsa
a church soon.
Carbon: This is tae youngest churcu
of El Paso Presbytery. It was started
as a mission of the Cisco Church, and
the pastor. Rev. 11. C. Bell, who has been
working this point for a year or more,
organized the church the first Sunday in
October last. There werp fourteen
charter members. Mr. A. Boston was
elected elder, and Mr. C. H. Smith dea
H. January 13, 1909
con. Since then we have received four
new members, two families. This, chnrcn
is nearly ready to erect a building for
worship. We lack about one hundred
dollars of enough money. (Won't you
help us? Send to B. C. Belt, (jisco.) We
expect to begin the new church in January.
Although Carbon is the youngest
of our churches, she has outstripped
some of our old churches in that she has
already given a candidate for the gospel
ministry, in the person of her only deacon,
Mr. C. H. Smith.
Beaumont: At the First Church two
helpful sermons suitable to the opening
of the new year were preached bv the
pastor on the first Sabbath of January.
The largest number for many months
was In attendance at Sunday school, and
seventy-three from the Sunday school remained
to the church service. The
church work is in excellent condition
and forty new members have been added
with in the past six months. This
church supports Mrs. J. S. Nisbet as a
missionary in Korea and has a share in
the support of Rev. H. L. Ross, in Mexico.
The Sunday School has three shares
in the Mexican Boys' School and devotes
every third Sunday to missionary study
and giving.
Mt. Pleasant: The congregation of this
ciiurcu gHtnerea ai tne manse one evening
during the holidays in the nature of
a surprise party, bringing many material
tokens of their good will as well as the
pleasure of their presence. A delightful
hour was spent strengthening the ties
that have bound pastor and people together
for several years. And there were
other tokens of the same sort during the
holiday season, both here and from Pittsburg,
a much beloved church, which, by
the growth of the combined field, is now
vacant. The work in these two churches
lias been unusually pleasant. This
church begins the new year by calling
the pastor for the whole time and also
giving more for Home Missions monthly
lhan was originally given to it. Do Home
Missions pay?
Mercedes: Rev. M. W. Doggett, D. D.,
he evangelist of.the Presbytery of western
Texas, on Tuesday night, January 5,
1909, organized a church at Mercedes ot
nineteen members. Mr. S. P. Silver, Dr.
W. A. Roth, Mr. G. K. Wattson and Mr.
I,ytie Harrison were elected elders. Mr.
Roht. J. Smith, Mr. Henry A. Appel and
Mr. Jos. H. Griffin were elected deacons.
Rut few new churches start out so well
equipped with officers as this onp. Tho
town of Mercedes is situated on the Mercedes
canal, one of the largest irrigation
projects in the lower Rio Grande valley.
Eighteen months ago not a lick had been
struck toward this great enterprise. Now
a twenty-mile canal, with its numberless
laterals, is in full operation. A beautiful
little town, with a large electric plant,
good waterworks, a splendidly equipped
hotel, brick business houses and residences
that would do credit to a city.
Hundreds of people are settling thes?? fertile
lands for miles around. The great
need now ts an active, energetic pastor
on the ground to meet the scores of new
neonle cnnine in rvprv m.inUi r??
next" three years not fewer than three
pastors will be necessary to meet the
demand in this rapidly developing section
of country.