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THE PRESBYTERIAN
Of The South
Thornton S. Wilson, Managing Editor.
EDITORS:
THOMAS E. CONVERSE.
JAS. P. SMITH
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GEORGE SUMMEY.
Published Weekly by The Presbyterian
<Co. Incorporated in Georgia.
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OUR ANNUAL COLLECTIONS.
Month. Cause and Treasurer.
January?Assembly's Home Mission
Work. A. N. Sharp, Atlanta, Ga.
February?Local Home Mission Work.
Presbyterial or Synodlcal Treas.
March?Publication and S. S. Missions.
R. E. Magill, Richmond, Va.
March?Synodical Collection for Schools
and Colleges?Third Sabbath. Synodical
or Presbyterial Treas.
April?Education for the Ministry. John
Stites, Louisville, Ky.
May?Foreign Missions. Dr. S. H. Chester,
Nashville, Tenn.
June?Local Home Missions. Presbyterial
or Synodical Treas.
July?Ministerial Relief. John Stites,
Louisville, Ky.
August?Local Home Missions. Presbyterlal
or Synodical Treas.
September?Assembly's Home Mission
Work. A. N. Sharp, Atlanta, Ga.
September?Assembly's Collection for
Schools and Colleges?Third Sabbath.
W. L. Lingle (chairman), Atlanta, Ga.
October?Foreign Missions. Dr. S. iH.
Chester, Nashville, Tenn.
October?Bible Cause?Third Sabbath.
Wm. Foulke, Treasurer, Bible House,.
New York, N. Y.
October?Special Collections in Sunday
Schools, for Support of Sunday School
Missions?First Sabbath. R. E. Maglll,
Richmond, Va.
November?Education for the Ministry.
John Stites, Louisville, Ky.
November?Endowment Fund for Ministerial
Relief?Third Sabbath. John
Stites, Louisville, Ky.
December?Work Among the Colored
People. Dr. John Little, Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
December?Assembly's Home and School
?Last Sabbath. S. W. Somervllle,
Fredericksburg, Va.
December?Indian Schools and Evangelization?Every
Review Sabbath (In
Sabbath Schools and T. P. Societies).
A. N. Sharp. Atlanta, Ga.
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Church News
GENERAL.
Assembly's Calvin Celebration: Dr.
Abraham Kuyper, the great theologian
and statesman of Holland, will not be
able to attend the Calvin Celebration in
Savannah planned by our General Assembly.
It is announced that the other appointees
have accented.
Rev. Robert T. Coit expects to sail
from San Francisco for Korea on January
30.
ALABAMA.
Rev. John Milner has resigned his pastorate
at Sylacauga, Ala., on account of
ill health.
Dr. W. E. Mcllwain has resigned the
Presidency of the "Synodical College
for Boys," of Anniston, Alabama, and the
Trustees were to meet on the 14 of January
in Anniston to consider his resignation.
It is not known what action the
Board will take.
The First Church of Talladega, Ala.,
had the pleasure of a visit from the Rev.
Homer McMillan, Assistant Secretary
Assembly's Home Missions. Mr. McMillan
made a fine presentation of the
cause, and quite a liberal contribution
was made to the cause bv the cnnereea
tion. ne also preached at night, and
his delightful message on the "Friendship
of Christ" was enjoyed very much
Bessemer: The Rev. I. F. Swallow, at
the quarterly communion service, last
Sabbath morning, announced the names
of twenty-eight new members, eighteen
upon profession of their faith and ten
on certificate, as having been received
during the last quarter. This makes
seventy members received in this church
within the past six months. On next
Sabbath the congregation will take definite
steps for the immediate erection of
a new church building.
Eufaula: Ihis church is doing fine
work in every department, and will send
an excellent report to the Presbytery.
Special mention should he made of the
Ladies' Improvement Society, Aid and
Missionary Society, and Children's Society.
The Improvement Society has recently
spent five hundred dollars on the
church and manse. The session has received
in January twelve members on
profession of faith. Eleven came from
the Sabbath school.
Mobile: The Sunday school of the
Government Street church has recently
contributed eighty dollars to the Sabbatn
school extension work. The secretary of
this work, Mr. R. E. Magill, in acknowledging
the receipt of this sum, states
that this is the largest offering, except
one, that was made last year, and highly
recommends the zeal and the generous
home missionary spirit of this Sunday
school.
ARKANSAS.
Russellville Church is anxious to secure
a good pastor. It can pay a salary
of eight hundred dollars a year. It has
a fine corps of workers. The ladies are
just now interested in making improvements
in the house of worship.
The Prairie Grove Church was organized
in 1905, and through the kindness
of the Methodists, it worshipped in
H. January 20, 1909.
their church until last July, when its
own church became available. This very
pretty little brick church was erected
last spring by the aid of the Assembly s
ilome Mission Fund, $200.00; Presbyterial
Fund, $200.00; local subscription,
about $1,000.00, including donated work,
and material from a small frame churcu
that came into the hands of the congre
fcituou. in aadition to the above more
than $200.00 have been subscribed for
purchasing pews and a pulpit, which
nave been ordered and will be shipped
February 5, which will put the church
in very good order for the meeting of
Presbytery, in April. It is the desire of
the congregation to have the ceiling
papered and the interior wood work varnished
for that occasion, but if we fail
in this we can get along very well without
it. This church is located on the position
of the Confederates in the battle
of Prairie Grove, and on the corner stone
is engraved "Southern Presbyterian
Church," facts which may be of special
interest to any Confederate soldier reading
these lines who was present December
7, 1862. One of the elders is from
Loch Willow church, Churchville, Va.,
and for nearly twenty years he and his
small family were the only representa
tlves of Southern Presbyterlanism in the
town. Others came and went, but he remained
loyal to his convictions, and
through the blessings of the Great Head
of the Church, the establishment of what
we believe to* be a permanent Southern
Presbyterian churca is the result. Our
membership is twenty-seven; the Sunday
school enrollment over forty, and
the average attendance about thirty.
Searcy: The Presbytery of Arkansas
met on January 8 and dissolved the pastoral
relation between- Rev. Rudolph Miller
and the Searcy church. The dismiss
al of Mr. Miller to the Presbytery of
Paducah was deferred to a later meeting,
on account of the absence of Mr. Miller.
FLORIDA.
St. Petersburg: A call has been given
to Rev. Jas. T. McLean, of Lakeland, who
has signified his acceptance, his resignation
of his present charge to take effect
February 1.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta: The Atlanta Georgian and
News has an editorial notice in its issue
of the 12th anent the advent of the Pre*.
byterian of the South. Its kind words
and warm welcome are greatly appreciated.
Columbus: Last Sabbath morning the
congregation of the First chyrch in a
most gracious manner voted an increase
of three hundred dollars in the salary
ot their pastor, Dr. I. S. McBlroy. They
did this same thing just two years ago.
There has been during the three and
three-fourths years of the present pastorate
a like and a larger increase in
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activity. The membership has grown
from something more than three hun
dred * to about flvf hundred, hnd the
Sabbath school has increased more than
a hundred per cent, and the offerings
for benevolent causes are three times
larger than they were. The Llnewood
Mission recently equipped with a new
chapel at a cost of fifteen hundred dol- *