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u8 TH1 THE PRESBYTERIAN Of The South Thornton S. Wilson, Managing Editor. EDITORS: THOMAS E. CONVERSE. JAS. P. SMITH K> R MnPI.TTBD GEORGE SUMMEY. Published Weekly by The Presbyterian <Co. Incorporated in Georgia. For terms of Subscription etc., see page 2. Remittances should be made by money order or by draft on some of the large cities. When personal check is sent, add 10 cents for collection. Communications should be addressed The Presbyterian of the South, 104 Edgewood Ave. Atlanta, Ga. Application for entry as second-class matter at the Postoffice at Atlanta pending. 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. y . y E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT 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 every department nf 11 ?-* vuuivu UIO UUU 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- *