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February 17, 1909. . TH1
Church News
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their work steadily and well. Lately we
have received ten members, nine of them
by profession. We have some promising
young people. Our Baptist brethren re-cently
closed a meeting, which resulted
in a large blessing to all the churches.
Marshall, First Church: The Presbyterv
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Laymen's Conference, will meet here In
April, and we look forward to these with
pleasant anticipations. Rocent valuable
accessions have been made to our membership.
The work seems to be prospering
all along the line.
The Presbytery of Western Texas met
in the Westminster church, San Antonio,
Feb. 4. There were present fifteon
ministers and two ruling elders. Rev.
J. Leighton Green was received from the
Presbytery of Ouachita. The call of the
Cuero church was accepted by him, and
the following commission was appointed
iu mat<111 mm: ?ev. H. L.. Paisley, to
preside, propound the constitutional
questions and charge the pastor. Ruling
Elder James Duryee Stevenson, of
Westminster church, San Antonio, to
deliver the charge to the congregation.
Rev. James E. Green, of Temple, a brother
of the pastor-elect, was invited to .
preach the sermon. Rev. W. H. Mathews
was received from the Presbytery of Central
Texas. He goes to take charge of a
new work at Sanderson, Tex., half way between
San Antonio and El Paso, but over
300 miles from either. This is the furthest
point in that direction ever occu
pled by our Presbytery. Rev. M. W.
Doggett, presbyterlal evangtellst, gave
some account of the Home Mission work.
He reported the outlook bright for work
at D'Hanls. some 60 miles west of San
Antonio. There Is no Protestant work being
done there at all. The Committee on
Home Missions was instructed to group
D'Hanls with Sabinal and Hondo if the
way was clear. Brooks I. Dickey, 8. C.
VIRGINIA.
otaunton: Rev. Dr. J. R. Howerton is
filling the pulpit of the Second Presbyterian
church of Staunton during the absence
of the pastor, Dr. W. N. Scott,
who left last week on a trip to Europe.
Mt. Horeb, Augusta County: Rev. W.
D. Burkhead, who for the past eight
years has been pastor of Mt. Horeb
congregation, has resigned that pastorate
to accept a call to Montgomery, Ala.,
where he will go March 1.
New Providence: It was announced
"by Rev. Dr. G. A. Wilson, that he had
been elected superintendent or commissioner
of Home Missions and was considering
the acceptance of the office.
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r-cscrsDurg: uev. J. S. Foster, D. D.,
pastor of Tabb Street Presbyterian
church, has declined the call to the pastoral
charge of the First church In Sherman,
Texas, and made this announcement
to his congregation on Sunday, February
7. He said he could not see his way
clear to leave his present field of labor.
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Lynchburg: The Rev. Arthur H.
Clarke, assistant pastor of the First Presbyterian
church, and pastor of JehovahJireh
and Bethesda Presbyterian (
churches, has declined the call recently
extended him to the joint pastorate of
Falling Spring and Glasgow Presbyterian
churches in Rockbridge county.
Blacksburg: The reception given by
the ladies of the church in the Assembly
Hall Friday evening, February 5, in
honor of the members of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood was one of the most sue
cessiui anairs or tne kind ever given
here. About two hundred people were
present.
Alexandria: The Rev. Motte Martin
and his bride will leave for Africa about
February 20. Our pastor, Rev. J. .R.
Sevier, and his wife have made them a
present of a Victor talking machine and
the records they have. Feeling sure
many of our people would like to give
Mr. Martin a record to brighten and
cheer them in their far-away home we
will gladly purchase and pack away such
records with the phonograph.
The Covenanter Boys of the Alexandria
church are regularly drilled as a boys'
brigade once a week by a military officer.
The lisi is open to any boy between
the ages of ten and eighteen years
who is a regular attendant of Sunday
School. The Lavras Workers elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
Mrs. A. G. Uhler, president; Mrs. Wm.
Campbell, vice-president; Mrs. E. C. McKnight,
secretary, treasurer and librarian;
Mrs. Bettie Jamleson, corresponding
secretary.
Richmond, Third Church: On Sunday,
February 7, the pastor received eight
new members on profession of faith,'
making fifty-two received in the last two
weeks. . This church has been greatly
blessed in its spiritual life by the Chapman
meetings. We hope to have fifty
more souls for Christ by April 1. Let
those who read these lines pray that our
desire may be realized.
?Church of the Covenant: The Sun
day school is to have a Mothers' and
Fathers' or adult rally day, on February
21. By this Is meant that all the "grownups"
In our church and congregation are
aBked to make a special effort to-come to
Sunday scho olthat day. Come and see
what we are doing; come and see what
your boys and girls are doing, and meet
their teachers. Five new members have
been received on profession and one by
letter recently Into this church.
Roanoke: This fine old church hns extended
a hearty and unanimous call to
Rev. B. F. Bedinger, of the Lunenburg
field. He has the call under consideration,
and will visit this field on the third
Sabbath of this month. Mr. Grover, of
the senior class in Union Seminary, will
fill his pulpit In Lunenburg on that
day.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Clarksburg: Our church at this place
unanimously amj heartily called Mr. Samuel
McP. Glasgow, a student of Union
Theological Seminary, on Sunday, February
7. It is earnestly hoped he will accept.
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PERSONAL.
Rev. H. F. Hoyt changes his address
from Cornelia, Ga? to Bay Minette, Ala.
Rev. W. E. Boggs, D. D., of Jacksonville,
Fla., is visiting his son near Miami.
He expects soon to move to Atlanta, Ga.
Rev. R. M. Kirkpatrick, field secretary
Of Union Thpnlnrrirnl Somln?i-? will
spend three Sundays in February in
Fayetteville Presbytery presenting the
cause of the centennial fund for the
Union Theological Seminary.
Mrs. J. V. Logan, widow of Rev. J. V.
Logan, formerly of Central University
at Danville, Ky., it is announced, will go
as a missionary to Korea under the
board of the Northern Church.
Dr. W. J. Martin, Presbyterian chairman
for Concord Presbytery, of the Laymen's
Missionary Movement, is on the
program for an address at one of the
conferences to be held during the great
convention next week at Birmingham.
He and Dr. C. R. Harding, as local chairman
for the Davidson church, expect to
attend.
Rev. C. P. Parker, of Marlon, S. C.,
will preach the sermon for the Y. M. C.
A., at the commencement of the Presby
terlan College of South Carolina.
Rev. B. E. Wallace, of Warrenaburg,
Mo., has been appointed evangelist of
Pfne Bluff Presbytery, Arkansas. He
will enter upon his new duties March 1.
Dr. J. M. Wells, of Wilmingtoft, N. C.,
is having a much needed rest visiting
his parents in Jackson, Miss.
Dr. W. H. Fraser, of Anderson, S. C.,
will preach the commencement sermon
of the Presbyterian College of South
Carolina.
Rev. S. J. Foster, D. D.f of Petersburg,
Va., who was called to the pastorate of
the First Church, Sherman, Texas, filled
the pulpit of that church on Sunday,
January 31.
Rev. J. J. Chisholm, D. D., of Natchez,
Miss., has tho inwitofinn ?
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preach the commencement sermon of the
Southwestern Presbyterian University at
Clarksvllle, Tenn.
Rev. C. K. Cumming, of our Japan
Mission, is visiting the churches of
Roanoke Presbytery. His sermons and
lectures are very helpful and inspiring.
Dr. W. H. Venable, one of our efficient
medical ministers in China, and stationed
at Hashing, is now in this country, and
last week addressed the students of the
University of North Carolina.
Rev. Motte Martin and Rev. J. M. Seig,
both of them with brides, will sail from
New York late in February on their return
to mission work at Luebb, Congo
Free State, Africa.
Young Mr. Currie, the young man who
was killed a few days ago in a mill accident
at Bogalusa, Ha., was not the
son of Rev. E. J. Currie, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church, Hattiesburg,
Miss., but was the son of Rev. J. E. Curry,
a Baptist minister, who resides at Hattiesburg.
Rev. W. T. Matthews, superintendent
of Home Missions, has recently been on
a visit to his former home in Hickory,
North Carolina, where he was -most
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