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Missionary
THE VIRGINIA SYNOD'S HOME MISSIONS.
To Pastors, and Especially to the Treasurers
in Virginia.
The undersigned is sending off checks
for January salaries today (January 28)
to twenty-two men engaged in our Virginia
Synod's Heme Mission work. After
these checks are sent, very little will be
left in the treasury. We have the laudable
record in our Synod of having paid
our men promptly every month, for five
or six years, anl we do not want to break
that record. We have enlarged the work
every year, and paid up promptly each
month. Is there any one in our Synod
who wants that record broken? If so.
"let him holu up his hand."
Our expens?s, at present, are over nine
hundred dollars ($900) per month. We
are winding up the fourth month of our
year (year began 1st of October. 1908),
and comparatively few churches have
sent us any funds the past four months.
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have neglcctel us. What's the matter?
From much past experience, we judge
that hundreds of dollars are, at this
writing in the hands of the church treasurers
which should be in our hands; so,
please, won't you pastors go and see those
treasurers and ask them to send those
funds right on to Box 441, Farmville. Virginia?
Some are still sending to Lexington,
Virginia: if they won't comply with
your earnest entreaties, then let our committee
know, and we will write a kind
apd stirring letter to them; if that letter
fails, we will send them a "special delivery"
letter; if that fails, we will send
them a telegram or wireless message, and
if that ,a?.s, then the only other thing to
do is to put them in the hands of an undertaner.
We are going to send out another
issue of "Go!" about the last of
February, or March 1st, as preliminary
to our spring reports to the Presbyteries;
"Go!" generally hews very gently, but
very close to the line. We would like to
show that every church in Synod has
done something for our Synod's work
during the first five months, and surely
not one wishes us to run this work five
long months without helping us, and especially
as it is the general consensus of
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most important work the Synod is doing."
Now, brethren, look into this matter;
attend to it!
The above mentioned monthly payment
record for nearly six years is your record;
you have made it by standing by
your committee, and you are the ones to
say whether it shall be broken. We
don't know what others may think of it,
but your committee is proud of it, and
we trust it is not the pride which eoeth
before a fall, and we dare say It Is a record
of which few Synods can boast.
We are quite sure that the great November
snow-storm which swept over
our Synod did our Synod's Home Mission
cause much harm, for November is one of
the two months appointed by Synod for
this collection, but please remember that
snow storms may come and snow storms
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E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT
may go, but these twenty-two faithful
men in our work (most of them) have
families dependent on them, and need
their monthly dues; they look to your
committee, and certainly your committee
has nowhere else to look but to you and
to your churches.
We hope to hear from you very soon.
Ccrdially,
J. E. Booker, Supt. and Treas.
Box 441. Farmville, Va.
P. S.?Please don't lay this paper down
until you have seen your treasurer.
TO THE PASTORS AND SESSIONS OF
THE CHURCHES IN THE PRESBYTERY
OF ARKANSAS.
Brethren: Your attention is earnestly
called to the fact that February is set
apart by the action of the General Assembly
for offerings in all the churches for
the cause of Local Home Missions, in our
case for mission work within the bounds
of the Presbytery of Arkansas. During
the past year much aggressive work has
been done. We have entered two counties
not hitherto occupied by our Church,
having organized a church at Earle in
Crittenden county, and one at Cotter in
Baxter. Since the first of December we
have had two evangelists and one Gospel
singer in the field. Meetings of much
fruitfulness have been held in several ot
our weaker churches, resulting in more
than 150 additions to our church rolls.
What has been done is very small when
compared with what remains to be done.
We are greatly hampered for want of
funds. Twenty-one churches have contributes
to this work during the last
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Duuic ui mem wnu great iiDerauty,
some very meagerly, while the nine
churches which have contributed nothing
include four of the largest churches in
the Presbytery.
Brethren, this is your work, especially
laid upon you by the great Head of the
Church?it is "building before your
own door" and surely you will not allow
it to languish or be crippled by a failure
on your part to provide adequate means
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w. 110 ?ifiuiuus prosecuuon. we appeal
to you in behalf of the thousands of men
and women, within the bounds of this
Presbytery, hungry for the Gospel as we
believe and preach it, that you make your
offerings for this cause during the approaching
montu commensurate with the
blessings you have received and with the
pressing needs of this field "already
white unto the harvest."
When your offerings have been made,
please remit promptly to James P. Coffin,
Treasurer, Batesville, Arkansas.
Your brethren in the Lord,
Robert H. Latham, Chairman.
James P. Coffin, Secretary,
Home Mission Committee, Arkansas Presbytery.
HOME MISSIONS.
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States seems to be in the background in
the Presbyterian Church. If I am not
mistaken Charleston Presbytery, at our
last meeting of Synod, reported three
churches dissolved last year. It ought not
so to be. There is a lack of energy somewhere.
Other churches are growing and
doing fine mission work. Our Baptist
brethren in this county have a church at
about every cross road, and in all the
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state they are pressing the wcrk hard.
The Church of Rome is now taking a
strong hold, all along the Atlantic Coast
from Baltimore, her headquarters, on to
New Orleans. On last Sabbath, she dedicated
a churrh in Columbia. S. C.. whicn
cost about forty five thousand dollars.
What are we Presbyterians doing? In
a large measure looking on as the dark
mantle of Rome is spreading itself from
the Atlantic to the Pac'ftc, from Canada
to the gulf. If we do not bestir ourselves,
the day is not far distant when the cry
will be too late; our liberty, civil and
religious, will be largely taken from us.
Let us arouse our Church to do greater
things for Christ, and His Kingdom, in
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rieni inilii ever Derore. i>et eaclr
Church, which has been sending $50 for
Foreign Missions, send an equal amount
to Home Missions, and let each Church
which has been sending $100 to Foreign
Missions, send just that amount to Home
Missions, and those Churches which are
at present supporting a man in the foreign
field, put also a man in the Home
Field. Let this work be begun at our
coming spring meetings of the different
Presbyteries, so all our mission fields
this coming summer will have a man and
much new work can be opened up in
our large cities.
This will in no wise hurt our great
foreign work; fear not, brethren, the Gcd
of our Fathers still liveth and will help
when we devise liberal things for hiiti
and his Zion.
Let twenty thousand dollars be put in
the treasury of Home Missions for the
Synod of South Carolina, and let our sister
states come up on this line and a
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j*-*i wi t it.iui; lur jurist win dawn on
us; let us look out for men from our
Seminaries, and from Canada, and also
from Bonnie Scotland, till the ranks of our
workers be filled up. I was pleased to
see from a paper not long since that one
of our brethren from Canada had accepted
a call to work in the city of Chester.
Come help us, till all the ends of
the earth have seen the salvation of our
God. JAMES RUSSELL RUBY.
TO THE WOMEN OF THE SOUTHERN
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The Woman's Missionary Union of
East Hanover Presbytery wishes to express
Its warm appreciation of the generous
response, to the "Appeal to the
Women" to assist in raising the debt of
$50,000 resting on our Foreign Committee
at Nashville. The amount received
to date is over $14,000, more than 'onefourth
in less than six months.
Truly have the women done well; the
response indicates a deep interest in the
work of Foreign Missions, and what raay
be done by consecrated effort. Let us
not be weary in well doing, but make a
systematic and self-sacrificing effort to
raise the balance, 136,000, by the first of
April, 1909. This would lift the burden
from the committee, bring relief to our
Missionaries, and prove to those overt
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luxea worKers, that we are still standing
behind them, ever ready to help with
heart and hand.
Thirty-six thousand dollars seems a
formidable sum, but we have not yet exhausted
our resources, nor are we willing
to give up the fight.
The pastors may help us by presenting