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July 14, 1909. .TH
is among the East Tennessee mountains
resting.
Rev. H. M. Perkins changes his address
from Dayton, N. M., to Corpus Christi,
Tex.
Rev. W. C. Tenney changes his address
from ClarkBville, Tex., to Rosweil,
New Mex.
Rev. F. H. Gaines, D. D., President
of Agnes Scott College is taking his vacation
in Seattle and among the Rockies.
Rev. S. R. Preston changes his address
for tne summer months from Atlanta,
ua.. to-412 Spencer street, Bristol, Va.
Rev. A. L. Patterson, of Blackshear.
Ga., has been honored by his Alma Mater,
King College, Bristol, Tenn., with the
degree of Doctor of Divinity at the last
commencement.
Rev. Carl H. Elliott, a Presbyterian
minister, has been chosen one of the
chaplains on the Canal Zon^ in Panama.
He also takes charge of the Union Church
at Colon, among whose members are a
number of energetic Presbyterian workers.
?Rev. H. H. Brownlee, president, of
Sllliman Collegiate Institute,* at Clinton,
I-a., spent last Sunday in New Orleans,
preaching admirable sermons, in the
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evening in the Canal Street Church.
Dr. George Petrie, professor of history
and Latin in the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute, Auburn, Ala., and one of the
foremost historical authorities of the
South, we are grieved to learn, is desperately
ill. He is the son of Dr. G. L.
Petrie, of Charlottesville, Va.
THE ASSEMBLY PICTURE8.
The Assembly pictures were finished
and mailed out to those who subscribed
about the last week in June, and all subscribers
should have received them long
before this date Tf nnv foiiait
receive them, they should communicate
with the photographer to see that there
was no error in address, and he will do
what he can to have them looked up by
the postal authorities. Those who wish
additional pictures or others who desire .
them can secure them at one dollar each
by writing direct to the photographer,
Mr. W. H. Hoffman, 240 Bull street, and
the pictures can now he delivered" within
a very few days after order is received.
I make the above statement for
the information and assistance of those
who subscribed for these pictures or others
who did not subscribe, but may wish
them now.
W..Moore 8cott.
31 Taylor St., East, Savannah, Ga.
THE ASSEMBLY'S HOME AND
SCHOOL, FREDERICKSBURG,
VA.
A climax has been reached in the work
of our Assembly's Home School. The
contract for the education of our young
people with Fredericksburg College expired
with the close of the session of
1908 and we have had a temporary arrangement
with this institution since
that time, and this also terminates with
the end of the coming session and we
are bound to provide permanently for
E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU!
the education of the Home and School
children. The Assembly of 1908 gave
its consent for us to proceed to this end
by the purchase or erection of the necessary
buildings, but so meagre was the
collection in December that we were
compelled to postpone the matter for another
year. The situation that faces us
now is a serious one, for we are bound
to act with the close of the coming year.
and friends, we have not the means to
do so. One friend at the Assembly said
he would contribute $1,000 for this purpose
and another has pledged $500, provided
that the whole amount can be
raised in gifts of the same amounts. It
is estimated that it will cost about $20,000
to complete the arrangement. Now,
are there not in our Church a sufficient
number of God's servants able and willing
to conrtibute $500 or $1,000 each to
this cause so that we may begin at once
to establish this department? Who will
follow the example of these two brethren?
It is a great cause and you have
an excellent opportunity for making a
BDlendid InvPBtmpnf in fin/i'o ?
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Let us hear from you.
Fraternally yours,
Ruasell Cecil,
President Board of Trustees.
8. W. Somerville,
Supt. and Treasurer.
Send contributions to S. W. Somerville,
' Superintendent.
THE ASSEMBLY'S PERMANENT COMMITTEE
ON EVANGELISTIC
WORK.
At a meeting or tne Assembly's Permanent
Committee on Evangelistic Work,
held in the city of Nashville, Tenn., July
6, the following action was taken: Rev.
J. Ernest Thacker, of Norfolk, Va., was
elected secretary of Evangelistic Work,
this office having been authorized by the
Assembly in the following action: "That
this committee be empower to elect a
general secretary, and to call ministers
to be Assembly evangelists, provided
they can see their way clear to do so
without involving the Assembly in financial
obligations. Mr. Thacker has the
call under consideration and will announce
his decision within the near
future. <.
It was decided to call a conference of
all ministers and lay workers interested
in evangelistic work, to be held at
Montreat, N. C., on one or more afternoons
during the month of August, the
exact date to be announced later.
TKa
i uc luiiumiig .->uuxuiiiiiiRiet; was appointed
to co-operate with similar committees
representing the other Presbyterian
bodies in the organization of a
"World-wide Evangelistic Movement:"
Rev. Charles R. Nlsbet, D. D.; Rev. J.
Ernest Thacker and Ruling Elder ty. H.
Raymond.
Rev. A. P. Gregory, corresponding
member for Columbia Presbytery, was
present and gave an interesting account
of his work as "presbyterial pastor" in.
Columbia Presbytery, the committee asking
for an account of same for publication.
This article will be published as
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soon as placed in the hands of the ohair'
man,
It was decfded to request that the sec
ond Wednesday night in October be devoted
to prayer for God's blessing upon
this work. The reports are most encouraging
from all parts of the church, and
with God's blessing upon us, we have
great things before our church.
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NOTES FROM RICHMOND.
The writer of the fresh and readable
account of the Pan-Presbyterian Council,
which you publisned last week, in referring
to ?.ae discussion by the Council
of the subject of ministerial training,
says that Dr. Theron Rice was to have
presented a paper on that subject, but
was not able to be at the Council. He
is in error about tnis. Dr. Rice had
received official notice that he was to
address the Council on Friday afternoon
on "The Ideal Education for the Ministry,"
and he was there at tne appointed
time?but the Council was not. It had
gone on an excursion up the Hudson.
As Dr. Rice had another engagement
with .the summer school .of Christian
Workers tnen in session at Union Seminary,
Richmond, he came back from New
York without waiting for the return of
the truant Council. Dr. Wm. H. Roberts,
the secretary, wrote at once to Dr.
Rice, expressing his profound regret that
he had not informed Dr. Rice of tne
change in the program, and explaining
that in his own absence from New York
for a couple of weeks the sending of
the proper notices to the different speaaers
had been neglected by those to whom
he had entrusted this duty. So the
Council lost the opportunity of hearing
one of the best papers on its program,
through the neglect of its own Officers.
We will all echo the nope expressed by
your correspondent that Dr. Rice s paper
will be printed in the volume that is to
contain the reports of the Council, for, .
as he happily says, "We would like to
see what one of our own well nigh ideal
ministers has to say on the subject 'of
'The Ideal Education for the Ministry.'"
But* what the Pan-Presbyterian Council
loBt, the summer school at Richmond
gained. Dr. Rice's course of lectures on
"The .Sermon on the Mount." was an
exceedingly rich and delightful one. Besides
the work in tue regular classes
the school greatly enjoyed a number of
the separate addresses, such as Dr.
Strickler's "Christian Science," Dr. Johnson's
"Mortnan Menace." Mr. Little's
"Work Among the Negroes," Mr. Rolston's
"Missions Among the Mountaineers
of West Virginia," Dr. English's
t-iace ana worn ot women In the
Church," Mr. Porter's "Circulation of the
Scriptures,' Dr. Phillips' "America's
Debt to the Sunday School," and Dr. Gilmour's
"Christianity and the Social Question."
The attendance at the Summer School
surpassed all expectations. The members
in the regular morning classes
ranged from twenty-five to forty, wane
the evening attendance at times ran up
to more than two hundred.
The workers in attendance say tnat
after much experience of summer institutes
this is the best they have ever
attended, and they unanimously and earnestly
request that the Summer School
here be made permanent. P.