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June 23, 1909. TH Waters and afternoon at Tomahawk. Presbytery adopted the substitute plan for ministerial interchange. A committee on evangelistic work was raised which supersedes the old committee on ministerial Interchange. The following six were elected by Presbytery to do evangelistic work under the direction of the Evangelistic Committee until the spring meeting of Presbytery: Rev. Messrs. r. J. Brooke, D. D.; W. W. Edge, R. A. White, J. F. Leeper, J. H. Lacy, D D.; and C. D. Gilkeson. A. G. Link, S. C. PERSONALS. Rev. W. S. Red, of Hempstead, Tex., has returned from Glasgow, Scotland, where he has been studying. Rev. T. B. Anderson has accepted a call to Mart, Tex. Mr. H. W. Hamilton, a recent graduate of Austin Seminary, has taken charge of ihe Rock Springs Church, Texas. Rev. A. R. Holderby, D. D., of Allaula, Ga, changes his address for the summer to Marietta, Ga. Dr. Holderby expects to be <u his pulpit in Atianta every Sabbath during the summer. Rev. Dr. C. E. Cunningham, of Yazoo City, Miss., has gone to North Carolina, on his summer vacation. He is at Highland, N. C. nev. u. r-. Mason, or Ainens, renn., nas accepted a call to the Marion and Miley Memorial Churches In Kentucky. Rev. Dr. E. D. McDougall, of Florence, Ala., has declined a call lately given him ' to become the pastor of the First Cuurcu, Little Rock, Ark. Rev. W. T. Spears, of Vanceburg, Ky., changes his address to Scooba, Miss. The Degree of Doctor of Divinity has been conferred by Washington and Lee University, on Rev. Everard Meade, of Fairfax County, Va., Rev Afcsolom Sydenstrickler, of our mission in China, and Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, of Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va. Rev. H. H. Sweets, has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Central University and the Presbyterian College of South Carolina. Vice-Chancellor B. L. Wiggins, of the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn., died last week at his home of heart trouble. He was connected with the University from his entering it as a student to the day of his death. He was a quiet, unassuming, modest man, of rare ability as an administrator, a man of affairs, a keen Judge of men and things. The University owes its success largely to him. The office of vice-chancellor, which he held for many years, placed him at the head of the administration, as the chancellorship, held by one of the bishops of the Episcopal Church, is a nominal olfice nnl., The Late Principal Lany: The pasl winter and spring will be long remembered for the number of leading men who have been taken away. The Church especially has suffered. The Church of Scotland has again been called on to give of her best. Principal Marshall Lang, of Aberdeen University, has died in Aberdeen, at the age of 75. He was best known as minister of the Barony Church, Glasgow, the successor of Dr. Norman E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU! Macleod. His first charge was In Aberdeen. But at Dr. Macleod's suggestion he was called to Anderstou Church, Glasgow, where he created a historical landmark by introducing the first orgau in a Presbyterian Church in Scotland. At Dr. Macleod's death he was presented by the Crown to the Barony Church in 1872. For twenty-eight years he labored there, attending conscientiously to all the duties ol his pastoral charge, but also taking an active and inniortant n.<n in iMvln interests connected with the welfare ot the people and in the ecclesiastical aflaiis of his own denomination. In 1900 he left behind him a congregation numbering 2,500, when he entered on his new sphere as Principal of Aberdeen University. Principal Lang had three sous in the Church?one in the Church of Scotland, and two in the Church of Wngland. Of the latter, ouc has risen quickly and to high fame, viz., the Archbishop of York. CHURCHAT LARGE. The General Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church met in Philadelphia last week. This is one of the two Reformed Presbyterian Churches, and is generally known as the new school Covenanters. It has been in close negotiation with The Presbyterian Church, North, but so far no union has been effected. Rev. George Adam Smith, D. D. of Glas &uw, oLuiia.au, leciurea Deiore me Phi Beta Kappa Society of Haverford College on the evening of May 28 and preached in the Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church on Sunday, May 30, and Sunday, June 6. The Church of Scotland had 133 divinity students last year, five more than in 1907. The regular students of the U. F. Church numbered 156, compared with 138 in 1909. The Free Church had 14 divinity students. The Scottish Congregationalists are complaining of a dearth of this material. For the Principalship of New College, Edinburgh, Dr. Alex. Wythe has been nominated by 11 Synods and 44 Presbyteries, Prof. MacEwan by 7 Synods and 33 Presbyteries. For the vacant chair of X. T. Language, Prof. Kennedy has been nominated by 11 Synods and 47 Presbyteries, Dr. David Smith being second with 8 Synods and 39 Presbyteries. i iic i niriy-min ueneral Assembly or the Presbyterian Church in Canada was held in Central Church, Hamilton, on the evening of Wednesday, June 2, when the opening sermon was preached by the retiring Moderator, Rev. F. B. DuVal, U. D. The Rev. Dr. Charles L. Thompson, secretary of the Board of Home Missions, asked the Presbyterian General Assembly recently for $800,000 for the work next year, asserting that such was the tide of immigration that within fifty years with the normal increase the United States will have a population of 200,000,000. The chairman of the board reported that the amount received thlB year for the home work was $1,073,971, the largest in the history of the church. Home Church, Philadelphia: At tho regular congregational meeting held re cenny me conditions or the church were very prosperous. The pastor ami session are very much encouraged for the progress that has been made during the pa3t year, and hope for greater things for the future. % . 'H. 23 Dr. Russell Kane Smith, in charge of St. Paul church, Franklin, Tenn., has accepted the call of the Epiphany congregation to the new church at Euclid and Moreland avenues, Atlanta, Ga. Bible Conference: The fifteenth annual Bible Conference will be held at Winona Lake, Indiana, from August 22 to 31. Because of . his tour to the Far East, and his ever-increasing evangelistic burdens. Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur rhmv. man has been compelled to lay down the active direction of Winona Bible Confer-" ence, after a continued service of fourteen years. The conference this year will be under the direct charge of Dr. Dickey, secretary and general manager of Winona Assembly. Of the Trial of Our Missionaries,. Messrs. Morrison and Sheppard,, postponed to a later date, the Nashville Christian Advocate says: "Our own guess is that the trial will not come off at all. Belgium has already got more publicity out of this cheap persecution than she had bargained for. Meantime it is well to remember that our American government has not yet sanctioned, in so far as it has a voice in the matter, tne transfer of the Congo from Leopold to the Belgian government. Perhaps.it suspected, as we did, that wily old King was just dodging an accounting. Now let it insist that he give an account at the bar of the world." A MONTREAT SUGGESTION. T\? Tir TIT UTUii^ - *> \T xr 1_ 1 mi. ??. ??. wmie, vi mew lunt, iiuu secured from friends in that city the sum of $1,000 towards the entertainment of missionary workers unable to attend the conferences at their own expense. .In order to provide adequately for the desired number, the Montreat mariagtrs are making an effort to secure $1,300 in addition. Mr. R. E. MagiII, of the Program Committee, has issued in our Church papers, several appeals for contributions to this fund, but it seem's as though our people were not yet provoked to love and good works by the generous act of New Ytork Presbyterians, and the returns come in very slowly. Lot me suggest that some pastor or laymen In each Presbytery (why not the home mission chairman?) interest himself in sending to the conference a man or woman from some missionary field in his own State. Such a plan could bo curried out quite successfully. Dr. Dabney's saying that men are moved more readily by a concrete case than by an abstract cause is peculiarly tvue in a matter of this kind. Select some poor pastor or bard v/crking Bible woman, some city or mountain missionary, and ask a few liberal friends to provide railroad fare and entertainment at Montreal from July 14 to August 15. Raise twentyfive or fifty dollars for this purpose, and send name and money to Mr. R. E. M&gill, 202 N. Sixth Street, Richmond, Va. If no name occurs to you send him the gift and ask him to select a beneficiary. The investment will vield handsome returns in the increased efficiency and prolonged usefulness of our poorly supported and heavily burdened workers in the mission field at home. Act firomptly, as July 14 is near at hand. W. H. Marquess. Louisville, Ky.