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I #... -J V. - f. i. 22 * ; ' * i ; the i ; > n;;? ^ i ? . ? >jnv Church News (Coatinued from pa|? It.) pleted. I am preaching in the Episcopal church and public school building." TENNESSEE. Knoxviile, Central Church: Rev. LieRoy G. i.enderson, pastor, reports to Presbytery for the year ending March 31, twenty-three additions (the majority on examination) with a present roll of 230 members, and contributions amounting to 34,515.58, of which $1,002 was given to foreign missions, $S37.35 to home missions and other benevolences, $1,830 to pastor's salary, and $855.23 to other causes. We thank God and take courage. TEXAS. Ladonia: Rev. J. A. Williams, who has just located at this place to take up the work of superintendent of home missions and evangelist of Paris Presbytery, writes that he and his family have received a most cordial welcome from this church. The people could hardly have done more had they been welcoming him as their pastor. At the close of a series of services. on Friday, April 2, the congregation repaired to the evangelist's home and piled the dining table with eatables. Gainesville: The contract for our new church has been let. It is to be built of cement and brick, with stucco finish, and will cost $8,000. Ex-Gov. R. B. Glenn spent Tuesday, March 30, with this congregation and gave a masterly address in the evening upon the subject of Home Missions. A deep impression was made upon those who heard him, and a collection amounting to $90.21 in cash and pledges was taken for this great cause. We are grateful to God and thankful to our Atlanta committee for sending this able servant of God into our State to help 11Q Q WO Iron AAnoAlnn/?AB J..*? - * W.TW.4VU vuiiovicuvco IU LUC UUiy UI giving the Gospel to the people of our native land. Rev. J. V. McCall, pastor. Forth Worth, Broadway Church: The most destructive fire that has ever swept % over this city occurred in the afternoon of Saturday, April 3. A severe wind made It impossible for the firemen to cope with the flames. Three churches were destroyed. This one in which our General Assembly held its session in 1905, and the Broadway Baptist, which is just across the street. Both pastors, Rev. J. B.French and Rev. Dr. Borroughs, are in the Holy Land. One life was lost and several were injured. Twenty engines were undergoing repairs in the Round house, which was destroyed. In all sixtythree acres are fire swept, and about two hundred families are homeless. The loss is estimated at about $2,500,000. ..The Presbytery of El Paso and the Missionary Union are to meet with the Midland church April 22, at 10 a.m. Ministers and elders expecting to attend should notify Mr. A. E. Kelly and members of the union, Mrs. C. B. McGonagill. Midland: This church has recently received nine additions by certificate. Four years ago there weie six members and no officers in practical touch with the Church. Dissolution and the sale of their house of worship was contemplated, only y > am T.: ' vv*:-"M 3lj PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOUT] one voice protesting. Presbytery sent a minister to take charge; growth began at once and the pastoral relation was soon asked and constituted, providing for half of the pastor's time. The cnurch has now sixty members, forty additional ones on the non-communicating and Sunday school rolls, making about one hundred Presbyterians identified with the church, with four elders and four deacons. The Sunlay school and Ladies' Society are active and doing fine work. Beginning with $120 for self-support, this church now proposes to undertake the support of a pastor for his whole time and build and furnish a manse. Dallas: Rev. Thornton Whaling writes: "We had a great day with GoTernor Glenn on April 4, securing $1,915 for home missions, as follows: First Church, $735; Fast Dallas church, $630, and Oak Cliff church. $500." Yoakum: Although our work has been carried on at no small disadvantage, on account of certain conditions that exist here, God has blessed the church during the past year. The Sunday school has been improved, the membership of the church has been almost doubled since the present pastorate began, a little over a year ago; fourteen members, all adults, have been received since the first of the year, an attractive manso has been built. For all purposes thm little home mission church, with no rieh memDers, has raised during the year about eighteen nundred dollars. We thank God and feel encouraged to hopa for better things. E. W. F. VIRGINIA. Otterwood: On Sunday, April 4, four new elders were ordained and installed. Messrs. Eugene Ould, C. V. Haden and E. L. Dudley. The Sunday school was re organized, with prospects for a good attendance. Rev. D. P. Rogers is the pastor. Christ iansburg: The Presbvterv of Montgomery will meet with this church May 4. In connection with this meeting, a John Calvin celebration will be held. Delegates will please send their names to Mr. J. H. Thompson, Christiansburg, Va. Alexandria: The statistical report of the Second Church contains the following: Communicants added on examination, eight; added on certificate, sixteen; total of communicants, 424; infant baptisms, eleven; contributions, $5,737. New Providence: Rev. Dr. Goodrich A. Wilson preached his final sermon as retiring pastor of this church Sunday, April 4, and left Monday for West Virginia to enter upon his new duties in the home mission field. On Sunday a committee was appointed to take steps toward calling a pastor of the church, Messrs. T. M Smiley, D. B. McClung, R. L. Patterson. W. E. Beard, R. W. Brown, W. G. Houston and J. W. Culton. Union Theological Seminary: The following letter from Rev. John I. Armstrong, of Klrkwood, Ga., will be of Interest both to the members of the class of 1904 of Union Theological Seminarv and. also, to the many friends of the Institution: "I enclose herewith New York' Exchange for $100 from the class of 1904 to furnish one of the alumni rooms in Richmond Hall. We wish this r. trrqA 3. April 14, 1909. . ; > Vx-r ncroom to be a memorial and would suggest for the plate on the door: "In Memory of "MATTHEW FINLEY PILSON and THOMAS LOWE MOSELEY, "By the CLASS OF 1904." This is the first of the several classes that propose to furnish rooms in Richmond Hall that has completed its contribution,, and it is to be congratulated upon the energy which it has shown in the matter and the Seminary upon this helpful and gratifying expression of the class's loyalty and afTection. We hope that this example may be followed speedily by many others. R. F. K. KIm^IL,l ?1?J'J ~ ~ ? nv> min s spieiuim new ^auu.uuu Naval Y. M. C. A., the gift of John D. Rockefeller to the enlisted men of the United States navy, was formally dedicated on Wednesday, March 17. The exercises were attended and participated in by prominent people of this city and New York, identified with the work, and while the donor of the building was not present a letter from him was read during the exercises. The program provided for holding the dedicatory exercises in the morning, beginning at 11 o'clock, and this ceremony was followed by an inspection of the building from 3 until 6 in the afternoon, and a reception by the Women's Auxiliary to the enlisted men and their friends from 8 until 10 o'clock in the evesing. During the reception refreshments were served by the ladies, and then music bv the Naval tv>o? w -m. voo uauU) the receiving ship Franklin's band, and the band from the battleship Virginia, of the Atlantic fleet. ""West Point: A correspondent writes further concerning the remarkable meeting at this place: "The services wero strictly of an evangelistic order and nondenominational. The Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, and Disciples united forces and efforts in the work of saving souls. Dr. R. B. Eggleston of the Third Presbyterian church, Richmond, conducted the services and did the preaching. There were over one hundred professions of faith during the meeting, me majority of whom were men and boys. Dr. Eggleston is a strong, effective preacher, and by the power of his earnestness and consecration wins men and women into the kingdom of God. Our town has never before in its history been blessed with such a spiritual uplift, and as a result men and women of all classes and denominations have been made stronger Christians. The amount of good accomplished by the services can not be estimated." Giles County: a Commission of Montgomery Presbytery on March 21 reinstalled Rev. Rolling Hobson over the churches of this county. Mr. Hobson, after fourteen years in the Giles pastorate, resigned to become the superintendent of the Orphans' Home at Lynchburg. After one year 01 strenuous efforts to liquidate the debt on the ornhanaeo ho returns to his rtrst charge to the joy of his people and the great satisfaction of his Pfesbytery. The life of this "devoted pastor affords a striking illustration of what can be accomplished in our home mission fields when the right man comes into them. Largely through his labors the foundation has been laid for an unusually attractive country pastorate. A