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April 14, 1909. THE .y:y.r v* l .in 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 : PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU! C : ? Wl ?.-> p VYUfidjiT.'ir 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 Rrhnnl o wooMw ?? ? " 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. H. ' 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. * -i 'H. ^ 25 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 ?- - ? ? ? n/c ao a 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 ?? v.^fvu j cai o 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.