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May 26, 1909. THE graduating exercises and to ^hare in the public dinner on the spacious campus. M; Hazlehurst: Rev. M. E. Melvin president of Chamberlain-Hunt academy spent Sunday May, 16, in this place and raised more than live thousand dollars for the endowment of the school. Two friends have offered to give $50,000 on condition that the Synod shall raise $50,000. Of course we will raise it promptly. We could not afford to do otherwise. Only a few years ago Mr. McConet gave $50,000 which was put iu the handsome buildings on the spacious grounds. Another friend has given funds to purchase a chemical and physical labratory which will be installed next month. This is a Christian school and the Bible is a text hook. From such a place of training we may expect valuable citizens, intelligent and consecrated elders, deacons and ministers for the coining generations. The school is a necessity for the church. Honest stewards to whom the Lord has entrusted money will find here a good place for profitable investment. There will be immediate results. Our churches will give Mr. Melvin a cordial welcome and we dare say liberal subscriptions to a great cause. We will meet the conditions and increase the endowment by $100,000. S. C. C. I NORTH CAROLINA. The Tenth Avenue Church Charlotte, has increased the salary of its pastor Rev. A. R. Shaw, from $1,500 to $1,800 with the manse. Davidson: On Sunday, May 16, Dr. Smith, in the absence of the pastor, delivered un address on "Calvin As an Educator." At night he spoke on "Luther at the Diet of Worms." Both times he was heard with great pleasure and interest. Porter Church: Rev. George H. Atkinson accepted the call recently extended hlin by this Church and will be installed by the following committee: Rev. H. M. Darker to preside and preach the sermon. Rev. J. E. Berryhill to charge the pastor and Rev. A. R. Shaw the congregation. Burlington: Rev. A. R. Shaw, of Charlotte assisted the pastor Rev. D. Melver recently in a meeting. Fifteen persons were received into the membership upon profession of their faith. Nutbush: Rev. Oarr Moore v 111 be installed pastor of this church on .luno 13, by the following commission; Rev. J. A. McClure, will preside and preach; Rev. G. B. Thompson to charge the pastor and Elder S. Watkins the people. St. Andrews Church Wilmington: This church has been greatly blessed in two weeks of preaching find singing by tho gifted Indian evangelist Rev. Frank H. Wright. Although there were special services in the other churches of the city, the congregations have been large often crowding the church. Mauy accepted Christ and already twenty-three have been received into the membership. Mr. Wright is sane and sound In preaching, conservative- in methods, faithful and fearless in telling the truth. Tlie wuwir cny was autred by his preaching M)<1 alnging. SOUTH CAROLINA. Anderson Central Church: The visit of Ex-Governor Robt. B. Glenn In the Interest of home missions will long be remembered by the Preebyterlans as a red letter day for the cause of missions : PRESBYTERIAN OF THE bOU' in this city. Interest ami enthusiasm in the work were never at a higher pitch than at the present and it is believed that the cause of missions has gained an impetus from his visit which will become a great evangelical power for the building up of weak and destitute fields. He delivered two addresses on Sunday May 16, to crowded congregations who listened with the most intense and rapt interest, his first address being delivered in the Central Church in the morning and the second In the First Church at night. The morning contribution amounted to $516 and the night offering $440. This amount will probably be augmented so that the amount secured iu Anderson may be safely said to be in excess of $1,000. Gov. Glenn's visit here was duo to the efforts of Dr. McLeod pastor of the Central Church who is keenly alive to l he needs of the home field and who feels that an educational campaign is badly needed among our wealthy and more* fortunate conununiities in behalf of the less fortunate ones. Clinton: On May 17, and 18, the flrst South Carolina State Convention of the Laymen's Movement was held at this place. About two hundred and seventyfive men were in attendance mminc from all parts of the state. The speakers were: Rev. Dr. D. Olay Lilly, Dr. J. O. Reavis, Dr. Alex Sprunt, Dr. Geo. B. Cromer, Mr. J. Cajmpbell White and others. All the speeches were of a high order and a profound impression was made on the congregation and the people of Clinton. Messrs. Pratt and Ostrom, the secretaries, say that it was the best staie convention yet held. On the morning of May 19, after the convention had adjourned, many of the delegates gathered In the chapel with the students of the Precbyteiiac College of South Carolina, and heard addresses from Dr. Lilly and Dr. Reavis. Dr. Idlly urged upon tlie students a consideration of the call to tho ministry, while Dr. Reavis pressed upon them the claims of the heathen world. College exercises were suspended during the sessions of- the convention, that the students might get the full benefit of it. The singing whs led by a choir of young men composed largely of students from this college. TENNESSEE. Nashville Presbytery, Home Mission Committee: The evangelization of the world within the present generation seems to be the dominant idea In the minds of the leading Christian thinkers and workers of today. The home mission committee of Nashville Presbytery rejoices that litis Presbytery is rapidly catching the spirit, and is working to make Christ far better known in its own bounds. A summer evangelistic campaign has been launched and it is hoped will be carried on from summer to summer. It is the purpose of the Presbytery to hold meetings in all our country and smaller town churches. The plan 13 to have each of our ministers conduct a meeting during the summer months, to hast from a week to ten days. Forward Movement in I ?/ ?! - Missions: The Presbytery of Holston in recent session in Morristown recommended a Forward Movement in Local Home Missions, similar to that in Foreign Missions. The home mission committee acting under thfi instructions of Presbytery inaugurated this Forward rH. 15 Movement, and elected Rev. J. G. McFerrin, D. D., superintendent of home missions. It was made the first work o? the superintendent to visit the churches in the effort to raise $3,000, to carry on this needy cause. There are three or four groups of churches to be supplied with preaching. There is need of good, | live, energetic ministers to take charge of this -work at a salary of from eigat hundred to one thousand dollars. Any one desiring to correspond concerning work in this field may address Rev. Charles C. Carson, D. D., the chairman or the superintendent. The address of both, is Bristol, Teun. Humboldt: The Ripley Church has entered heartily into the Forward Movement. Besides sending the pastor, the church was represented at the Birmingham convention by three of its officers at their own expense. A canvass of the congregation has been made, and the church will not only come up to four dollars per member in its foreign mission collection; but has increased its subscript ion about, twenty per cent to the church and its causes. The deacons nave put everything upou a business basis of a weekly or monthly offering to be collected at the end of every month. Under the efficient management of the superintendent our school is rightt in the front rank in interest and work. The Tiastor is ably supported by an efficient bench of elders and board of deacons; all lead in public prayer and have the confidence of the congregation. \W. are working and praying for a deepening of the spiritual life of the whole church, keeping in view Paul's motto in Philippians 3:13-14. R. I. L. TEXAS. The Presbytery of Central Texas is hereby called to meet in adjournod session, in the First Church, Temple Texas, June 8, 1909, at 2:30 p. m. Jas. E. Green, Moderator. Women's Preshyterial Union at Lockhart: All who expect to attend the meeti ing of the union to bo held June 8-10 should notify Mrs. H. C. Storey. San Marcos, for railroad rates. Rev. M. W. Doggett, D. D., evangelist of Western Texas Presbytery, four weeks ago returned to the lower Rio Grande valley and revisited the newly organized churches, like Paul of old "confirming the souls of the disciples and exhorting them," mainly to prepare them for the coming of Rev. S. M. Glasgow. The membership of these young churches is greatly rejoiced over the prospect of having a pastor with them soon. Dr. Doggett also visited several new points. At Mission ho found a few Presbyterians. In a two days' tramp at San Benito, he found twenty members of the Presbyterian Church. He will return to these points soon to aftect organizations. Mercedes and McAllen: These churches in the lower Rio Grande vadlov to get her with titae brethren of Western Texas Presbytery ara greatly elated over the final decision of Rev. S. M. Glasgow, of Union Seminary in accepting the pastoral oversight of them. These two new organizations are located In the midst of one of the most fertile sections of the country- Two years ago the entire valley was uncultivated. Mr. Glasgow will have a very wide field in which to (Ccntinued on Page 26.)