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April 14, 1909. THE
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sure proof of the effectiveness of his
work is the recent legacy of Mr. Geo. L.
Snyder, an elder of the Church. Through
Mr. Hobson's influence Mr. Snyder's will
provides for $2,000, the interest from
which will be used to support the Presbyterian
church in Giles county, and
about $4,000 to be given to the home at
Lynchburg, & sum which will very materially
reduce the debt Mr. Hobson has
striven so zealously to remove. There
is no better work being done in the
Synod for the upbuilding of Christ's empire
than that by the bishop of Giles
county.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Rich wood: "There was one add'tion to
by examination to our church last Sabbath.
Our Sabbath school changed its
hour of meeting from the afternoon to
the morning. Owing largely to the work
of Rev. J. W. Roseborough here about a
year ago, the report to the Assembly of
this church will show exceptionally good
gains in membership. In my last report,
sixteen dollars had been contributed by
friends towards the rebuilding of our
burned church. Since that time we have
had five uollars through Miss Jessie
Amic, Richwood; Friends, Charlestown;
nine dollars; Friend, Salem, Va., five dollars;
Hillsdale church, ten dollars; Rev.
Boiling Hobson, Parisburg, Va., five dollars;
Old Stone church, Lewisburg, thirty
* dollars and elghty-flve cents, and Mrs. W.
W. Quarles, Basic, Va., one dollar. This
is acknowledged with hearty thanks. We
feel that there are a great many others
who would be glad to share this burden
of a burned church with us. We wish to
begin our building within the next two
weeks." R. S. Eskridge.
The Woman's Missionary Union, of
Kanawha Presbytery, meets at Huntington,
W. Va., in the First Presbyterian
church, April 27-28. Rev. Mr. Word, a
returned missionary from China, will be
mm us.
Mrs. Jos. S. Kerr, Cor. Sec.
Moorefield Church: Rev. Chas. D.
Gilkeson, pastor, states in his pastoral
letter as follows: Rev. H. D. McCallie,
our missionary pastor, has been assigned
work on the group of islands that lie oft
the southern end of Korea, with headquarters
at Mokpo. This work is considered
by our Korean mission as most
hopeful and promising. Mr. McCallie is
the first missionary who ever visited
some of these islands. His letters to the
Church show his zeal and activity, often
under hardship. Mr. McCallie's salary,
$600, is paid in full to April 1. As we
pay in advance, another payment is due
April 1. The secretary of the Forward
Movement shows the number of subscribers
as 174, the amount subscribed
for the year $662.21, and the amount
paid to date $557.58. This church proposes
this year to have "The Missionary"
sent from the publishers to each family.
We have reached the standard set by the
General Assembly, an average of four
dollars per member for the year for foreign
missiops.
Pliny: An interesting series of services
in this church, under the care of Rev.
J. K. Ritner, were recently conducted by
Rev. Wm. E. Hudson, the Presbyterlal
evangelist. Notwithstanding some un
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favorable weather at this time of the
year in the country, the meeting was well
attended and great interest manifested.
Some two years ago Mr. C. C. Brown, an
elder in the church, and his wife started
a Sunday school in a school building and
as interest increased, assisted by others,
they determined to secure a more suitable
building. Their, efforts have been
successful, and these services were held
in a neat house of worship capable of
seating two hundred and almost free
from debt. The whole community was
revived, new life imparted to the Sunday
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rvi > pi ti>er meeting and
teachers' traing class started and an offering
given to home missions. Nearly
forty made profession of their faith,
seventeen of whom joined this church,
and others will unite with other churches.
Thus the work of the Lord has been
strengthened and much good has been
done his name.
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Dr. Charles Wardell Stiles, one of the
leading scientists of the United States,
who has attracted much attention by his
lectures on the hook-worm disease, delivered
a striking and interesting lecture
on "Hygiene" at Bingham school
recently, much to the edification of the
faculty and student body. Dr. Stiles is
at the head of the Marine Hospital Service
at Washington.
Marriages
Henshaw-Clendening.?In the Presbyterian
church, Bunker Hill, Va., Wednesday
evening, March 31, 1909, by Rev. W.
C. Campbell, of Roanoke, assisted by
Rev. R. A. White, of Gerardstown, Mr.
Edwin Campbell Henshaw and Miss Mary
B. Clendening, daughter of Mr. Alvin C.
Clendening.
McCobb-Simonton.?At Jackson, Miss.,
April 1, 1909, by Rev. J. B. Hutton, Dr.
M. S. McCobb, of Duncan, Okla., and
Miss Ruth Simonton.
Deaths
Elliott.?At his home, Charlotte county,
Va., March 5, 1909, Mr. Andrew A. El
liott, aged eighty-three years. He wa3
an elder in Rough Creek church, but for
several years has not been able to attend
services on' account of the infirmities
of age. He leaves one son, three
daughters, many relatives and friends to
mourn their loss. J. A. P.
Hunter.?At her home near Red House,
Va., on March 29, 1909, Mrs. Marchia
Hunter, aged 59 years. She was a
faithful and consistent member of
Concord and never missed service unless
providentially hindered. She was buried
near her home. A large concourse
of friends and relatives were nresent
and covered her grave with beautiful
flower?.
She leaves four sons, three daughters,
a sister and brother, many relatives and
friends to mourn their loss.
J. A. Paisley, Pastor.
Pamplin City, Va.
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MRS. FANNIE RICE COCKE. \
Mrs. Fannie Rice Cocke was born September
25, 1825, and died at the home
of her son, Dr. S. H. Price, Montvale,
Va., February 10, 1909, at the age of
nearly eighty-four years.
It was alike my pleasure and privilege
to be intimately . acquainted with Mrs.
Cocke during the last ten years of her
life, and her pastor for seven years of
that time. I am glad to bo able, through
knowledge thus gained, to bear this testimony
to her Christian character and
worth:
Born of two lines prominent in our
ministry?the Blairs anrf Riooe?? "
emplified throughout her long life the
best traditions of her ancestry.
At the age of ten years she united with
the Presbyterian church in (I thin It
Campbell or Bedford county) Virginia,
and gave the Master the service of an
undivided heart for nearly seventy-four
years?<a most unusual record.
She united to an intense earnestness
and zeal in His service, a manner always
modest and self-effacing, and a disposition
of peculiar guilelessness and charity,
thus producing a character most
loveable. I have seldom known one
whose Christian sincerity and earnestness
have been so absolutely unchallenged
by all who knew her.
Even in the last two years of her life,
when rnnfieerl i?? 1? *-*- * ~
iv? uci ucu uy me lntlrmities
of her great age, her time was speiit
in prayer for the Kingdom, above all
things else. Every visit I paid her, long
after I had removed to another field of
labor, I found her eager to hear of my
labors, interested alike in my trials and
triumphs.
Her frequent suggestions were always
useful and timely, her unfailing sympathy
and prayers were to me ever a
tower of strength, and her works do follow
her.
Her elder son is Dr. S. H. Price, the
senior elder of Montvale church. Her
younger son was the lamented A. R.
Cocke, D. D., late of Waynesboro, Va.,
and her only daughter, Miss Rosalie A.
Cocke, has done valnpH ?- -
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teacher at Valley Seminary, Waynesboro,
Va., and elsewhere.
Among her grandchildren I will pause
to notice but one, Dr. Samuel Davies
Price, who so exhausted his strength In
caring for the wounded miners in the
recent explosions at the Switchback coal
mines in West Virginia, that he was unable
to bear the strain of consequent
disease and died February 13, 1909.?
three days after his grandmother?at
the age of twenty-six.
Mrs. Cocke was laid to rest among
her people, in the cemetery at Montvale,
Va., adjoining the little church she
loved so well, and her memory in the
nearis or all who knew her Is an abld'tg
fragrance. A. S. Rachal.
Rev. John D. Beard, D. D., died at his
home in Los Gatos, Cal., March 10, in his
eightieth year. Dr. Beard was born in
Lexington, Virginia, in 1828. He entered
the ministry as a young man, continuing
in active service in many different parts
of the United Statds until ??
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ago, when failing eyesight compelled his
retirement. His death culminated a long
period of ill health. Mrs. Beard, a son
and a daughter survive him.