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The Presbyterian of the South
Thornton S. Wilson, Managing Editor.
Editors?Thos. E. Converse, James P.
Smith, E. B. McCluer, George Summey.
Published weekly by The Presbyterian
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Church News
MARCH COLLECTIONS.
Tbe month of March is set apart in
the General Assembly's schedule for collections
for Publication and Sunday
School Missions. Remit to R. E. Maglll.
Treasurer, Richmond, Va.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN
THE UNITED STATES.
The Forty-ninth General Assembly of
tno fresnytenan unurch m tne Unlieu
States will meet in the First Presbyterian
church in Savannah, Ga., May 20,
at 11 a. m., and will he opened with
a sermon by Rev. W. W. Moore, D. D.,
Moderator of the last General Assembly.
The undersigned will be in the
lecture room of the church, May 19, at
8 p. m.; also May 20, at 9 a. m., for the
purpose of enrolling commissioners.
Stated Clerks of Presbyteries will please
forward to the Slated Clerk at Clarksville,
Tenn., their Statistical, Sunday
school, Societies, Systematic Rrneflcence,
Narrative reports, and response to the
Assembly's overtures, together with all
overtures and other papers for the Assembly,
if they can do so, on or before
May 13; otherwise forward to him at
Savannah. The statistical tables should
be mailed to the Stated Clerk as Roon
as prepared, and by all means in advance
of the meeting of the Assembly.
Please notify the chairman of the local
Committee of Arrangements, of the
names and addresses of your commissioners
and alternates as soon as appointed.
Clerks of Synods will please
forward overtures and report time and
place of their next meeting.
Thos. H. Law, Permanent Clerk.
W. A. Alexander, Stated Clerk.
Presbyterlal treasurers will please
send to me the assessments of their
Presbyteries for the contingent fund of
the General Assembly for 1909. The
amount Is one and one-half cents per
communicant member in each Presby
[E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU'
tery, as shown by the published rolls ot
1908. See Minutes of 1908, p. 212.
The Assembly having requested a special
contribution from the Presbyteries
for expenses of the Calvin Quadricentcnnial
celebration, equal to one cent
per member, treasurers should send
same to me, and for such contributions
a separate receipt will be given.
W. A. Alexander, Treasurer.
Clarksville, Tenn.
CHINA.
A letter from Miss Annie R. V. Wll
son, Hangchow, China, February 13,
brings pleasant tidings from our mission
circle there, just the* anticipating much
pleasure in the visit of our Nashville
editor, Mr. Williams. Of the Presbyterian
of the South, Miss Wilson writes:
"I realize that the three papers combining
into one, will have a larger field
and greater opportunities for usefulness,
and I pray for a rich blessing to rest
upon it. I shall regard it as an old
friend, who has changed her name, but
is the same friend as of yore, and its
weekly visits will continue to be cordially
welcomed by me."
KOREA.
Last fall some Northern Presbyterian
missionaries to Korea, while on furlough
in thi3 country, undertook with the approval
of their Board to secure twenty
men and twenty single women for Ko
reu ana me runas necessary to send
them out. About half the missionaries
have been secured. The campaign still
goes on and the full number will doubtless
be found. The funds have been
secured to send out the entire number.
One man offers to send out twelve men
If suitable men can be secured. This is
the day of opportunity in Korea.
ARKANSAS.
Charleston: A lot has been secured
upon which a church will be erected
soon. This congregation has been wor
shipping in a building in which several
other congregations had an interest and
this has proven unsatisfactory.
Brinkley: In the terrible tornado
which destroyed this town two weeks ago,
the Presbyterian Church was wrecked.
This building was erected by a small but
faithful congregation a few years ago.
With the loss of practically every business
house and nearly all the residences,
the town is sorely stricken.
FLORIDA.
Mayo: Rev. J. S. Sibley, of Pensacola,
spent a week preaching for the new
church at this place. The meetings were
most highly appreciated, well attended
and proved not only interesting but profitable
to all. Nine new members were
added to the church as the visible and
immediate result of the services.
Perry: Rev. J. S. Sibley, Chairman of
the Presbyterian Committee of Home
Missions of the Presbytery of Florida*
visited this church recently and the members
enjoyed the privilege of meeting
him and hearing one of his able sermons
at an evening service. The church is
ready to take a nfew start after the depression
of the tiiftes of the panic, and
there ig undoubtedly a bright future be
rH. March 24, igog.
fore it. It is but a question of time when
this town will be one of the leading railroad
points in this part of Florida.
Jacksonville: Rev. J. Walton Graybill,
who has been supplying this church for
the 'past three months, returned to his
church in Louisville, Ky., on March li.
The church was greatly blessed, nearly
sixty members being received in the last
ten months. After enjoying an address
by Gov. Glenn, on Home Missions, this
church gave $1,500 towards this great
cause. The ladies' Missionary Band have
already given $50 to a mission Church
building. A new church at Springfield
will soon be organized with nearly one
hundred members.
GEORGIA.
Athehs Presbytery: Those who desire
lo attend the approaching meeting of Presbytery
who go by way of the Southern
railroad, will be met at Center; those
going over the Gainesville Midland, at
Clarksborf), and those going over the Seaboard,
Athens at the City Hall, 5 p. m.
J. H. McPhail, Acting Sec.
Atlanta, Wallace Church: A protracted
service is being held at the Wallace
Church by Rev. F. D. Hunt, the presbyterial
evangelist. Mr. Hunt preached for
this church last Sunday morning, and
preaches also every evening from March
21 to April 4. Professor R. C. Davis will
conduct the music. Special features of
the service series was a children's service
Sunday, March 21, at 3:30 p. m. Rev.
John D. Keith is the pastor.
Atlanta: At the North Avenue Church,
last Sunday night, there was a lecture
by Rev. Faddoul Moghabghab, a
native Syrian. His father wan onnvort.
cd by the reading of parts of a Bible
picked up on the battlefield. Many of
its pages had been used for gun-waddiug,
but much remained and was
blessed of God to his conversion. The
lecture of Mr. Moghabghab was of peculiar
interest and of great usefulness
to the Christian and the gospel worker.
He described the shepherd life of Palestine
and showed how it lights up and
explains many a passage of the Bible.
In his early life he was a shepherd,
and he speaks of that which he knows
and he speaks effectively. Next. Sunday
night he will lecture at Decatur, Ga.
?Westminster Church: Six more accessions
to the church Sunday morning
and a large congregation present.
At the evening service. Rev. Lynn Walker
occupied the pulpit. An encouraging
feature of the Sunday school work
is the increasing attendance and interest
shown in the Baraca Class.
?West End: On Sunday morning,
Rev. Faddoul Moghabghab, a native Syrian,
spoke in this church on the twenty-third
Psalm. On Sunday a meeting,
conducted by Rev. A. A. Little, began, to
continue throueh thn woot a """""
Class has been recently organized and
much Interest Is being taken In this
movement of young men. Four additions
have been added recently to this
church.
Rock Spring: This church recently
granted their pastor, Rev. E. D. Brownlee,
a leave of absence to visit the Foreign
Mission stations of the church In Mexico.
He has just returned with an enthusiastic
account of the work there. During