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March 3, 1909. TF
27. Prayer was offered by Rev. Dr. T. H.
Rice, of Union Seminary.
Emporia: About eighteen months ago,
at the earnest request of one of the
members to Presbytery for a minister,
Rev. Frank L. Delaney, then
a seminary student, began his work
among the little band of Presbyterians
at this place. A church was
organized with' nine members. Now
there is a membership ol forty-nine, with
a bright prospect of other additions in
the near future. Mr. Delaney has a
band of willing helpers, men, women and
children, who are actively enemrert in
building a new and attractive church,
and, like Neheniiah's helpers, each di
vision is building its part of the "wall."
The large number of children which
have been gathere into the Sabbath
school is one of the promising features
of this work, which is pervaded with
the hope and spirit of confidence which
God's blessing brings. Mr. Delaney also
serves Lawrenceville and Aberdour. In
Abinglon Presbytery he is "Sky Pilot,"'
in Aberdour he is a "lad o' pairts."
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South Boston: Rev. W. C. Maxwell,
pastor, will preach this week at Clover.
Rev. E. Bouldin, of the Methodist chu.roft,
will assist in the services. Clover has
no Presbyterian church, but some loyal
rresuyterians live tnere, who will welcome
this opportunity to hear one of
their own ministers.
Hampton: The Rev. Franklin Allen,
.of Flushing, N. Y., preached at both services
at the Presbyterian church Sunday,
February 14. Mr. Allen is an eloquent
preacher. Sunday afternoon at
3:45 Mr. Allen preached at the Phoebus
Presbyterian church.
Meilford, Caroline County: A neat
church has been erected at a cost of
$1,250, and is fully paid for. Rev. Jno.
R. Rosebro, of Fredericksburg, will
preach at 4 p. m. on the second and
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.uunu ouiuiaj's ol eu.cn monin. a sunday
school has been organized. A tenday
meeting will be commenced on February
24. The building will be formally
dedicated and a church organized on
March 7.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Dr. F. J. Brooke, of Romney, preached
in the Presbyterian church, Martinsburg.
Sunday, February 21, in the morning
and at night, and at Tuscarora in the
afternoon.
Rev. R. A. White, of Gerardstown, returned
on Tuesday, February 24, from
Birmingham, Ala., where he was in attendance
at the convention for the advancement
of the laymen's movement On
Sunday, February 21, he gave his people
a most interesting account of the Birmingham
meeting.
Presbytery of Kanawha: The requirements
of the Book of Church order Having
been complied with, I hereby call a
meeting of the Presbytery of Kanawha,
to be held on Monday, March 8, 1909, in
the First Presbyterian church, of Huntington,
W. Va., at 2 p. id., for the transaction
of the fdllowing business, if the
way be clear: To change the place of
the spring meeting of Presbytery. To
reconsider the holding of a Sunday school
Institute at this meeting. To attend
IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU'
lo any business that may grow out of
this.
John W. Carpenter, Moderator.
Kanawha-Salines Church, Maiden: Rev.
W. E. Hudson has lately closed a meeting
for us in this place, resulting in
quite an addition to our church. Beginning
with the first of the year the Baptist
church held a good meeting, but as
it was necessary for their minister to
leave, these good brethren asked that
the meeting be taken to the Presbyte
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anil his good wife came and helped us.
and a meeting of two weeks resulted in
some forty-ei'ght professions, nineteen of
whom came into the Presbyterian church
on the closing Sabbath of the meeting,
and there will be others to come. .Mr.
Hudson has been with us and has canvassed
the church and field, with a view
to increasing subscriptions to the pastor's
salary, and making the field nearer
self-supporting. This resulted in a substantial
increase and a consequent decrease
in the amount the Home Missions
Committee has been compelled to give
to the work. The Sunday school at
Maiden has run up from thirty-five or
forty at the beginning of the year, to
eighty-five, and an enrollment of over a
hundred.
Greenbrier Presbytery: The spring
meeting will convene in Hinton, W. Va.,
Tuesday, April 13, 1909, at 7:30 p. m. In
connection with this meeting wili be held
a Calvin celebration. The Presbyterial
sermon on "Family Worship" will be
preached by Rev. M..L. Lacy, D. D., with
Rev. J. M. Sloan as alternate.
Ben Harrop, S. C.
PERSONALS.
Dr. A. L. Phillips went to Xew Orleans,
La., from the Birmingham Convention.
Bishop E. E. Hoss, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, South, is doing well
in Baltimore, after a serious surgical
operaflon in Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Rev. J. L. Beattie, of Abingdon Presbytery,
Virginia, has gone to his new field
of labor in Yancey county, N. C.
Rev. G. P. Stevens' address is Suchien,
via ChinKiang, China.
Rev. W. M. Walsh, of Mt. Ulla, X. C.,
is spending some time in Xew York, attending
the tsible Teachers' Training
School.
Dr. Wm. H. Leavell changes his address
from Houston, Tex., to Carrollton,
Miss.
Rev. A. M. Fraser, D. D., of the First
church, Staunton, Va., attended the Laymen's
Missionary Convention which was
in session at Birmingham last week.
Rev. W. H. Fraser ,of Anderson, S. C.,
and Rev. J. H. Davis, of Farmville, Va.,
brightened our sanctum by a brief visit
on their return from. the Birmingham
Convention. They were greatly delighted
with the convention.
Rev. W. C. Porter, of Campinas, Brazil,
expects to come home soon on fur?
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Icugh. His address will te !) Werner
Park, Rochester, N. Y.
Rev. Carl Barth changes his address
from Point Pleasant, W. Va., to Durham.
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Rev G. W. Finley, D. D., cf Tinkling
Spring church, Va., has been unwell lately
and his congregation has given him
leave of absence for two months to recuperate.
Dr. Finley, in addition to his
long and valued service in the ministry,
has the honor of having been a valiant
officer of the Confederacy, He was captain
of Co. K 56th infantry, and was captured
at Gettysburg after most desperate
fighting.
Rev. Howard Agnew Johnston, D. D.,
whose aduress on "Personal Work" made
such a prodound impression on flie ministers
and others who heard him at Montreat,
will deliver at Union Theological
Seminary, Richmond, Va., a series of addresses
on "Motives and Methods in personal
Work," oeginning March 11, and
closiner March 1fi
Dr. J. M. Wells, the pastor of the First
church, Wilmington, N. C., has been in
Jackson, Miss., visiting his parents and
resting. The church has granted him a
vacation t.il he shall have recovered his
usual health.
OLD STUDENTS OF LOUISVILLE
SEMINARY AT BIRMINGHAM.
A Letter of Greeting to Their Alma
Mater.
Birmingham, Ala., Feb 18, 1909.
To the Faculty of the Seminary.
Brethren: You will be glad to know
that more than forty of your former
students are registered amontr the mia
sionary pastors and the noble laymen of
this convention, and you will rejoice in
such substantial evidence that your labors
have not been in vain in the Lord.
The recollection of your missionary zeal
abides with us and still stirs our hearts;
and with profound gratitude to God we
record the fact that many of our dear
fellow students are counted among the
Church's heroes now upon the mission
fields of the world.
In the midst of the?inspiration of this
gathering of the Presbyterian Laymen,
we have sat down for a few minutes
around a little informal banquet board,
drawn by the tie of old association, and
the memory of a common Alma Mater.
We find ourselves unable to separate
before sending a word of greeting?an
acknowledgment of indebtedness, an assurance
of admiration and affection?to
these men who, in our thoughts are identified
with the institution which we represent?the
faculty of the Kentucky
Theological Seminary. We would thank
them for the uplift which their personal
devotion gave to us, and for the institu
tlun which they have builded with their
lives. We would register our unshaken
confidence in them and their conduct of
the seminary which we love. We would
assure them of our abiding prayers, that
God may give to them vision to discern
the truth, and that he may spare them
in strength many years to achieve It.
Yours with affectionate esteem,
Old Students.