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July 28, 1909. TH
exposition and most comforting and inspiring
in application, it was the first
time that our people have had the pleasure
of hearing Dr. Cecil, and they wouM
welcome his return. At the regular
quarterly communion the addition of
five new members was announced; of
these three were by letter and two on
profession. Our hearts are cheered and
we are encouragd to go forward to yet
greater things.
Rev. F. L. Delaney, who has been
serving the Emporia-Lawrenceville-Abu
dom gioup of churches in Greensville
and Brunswick counties for the past
three years, has recently tendered his
resignation as pastor of the same and
has announced his decision to accept the
call recently extended him by the church
at Suffolk, Va., pending the action of
the Presby-eiy. His reason for a change
at this time is because of the enormity
of work to be done and the large territory
to be gotten over, which does not
give him the sufficient time and opportunity
for study and concentration of
work, while the Suffolk field offers a
much tetter opportunity for both study
anH Hlrppt norqnnnl wnrlr Mnv thp
Lord direct us all in *.ur work for Him,
and to Him be all the praise for what
has been done.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Charleston: The Bream Memorial
church, Rev. C. P. Myers pastor, has
begun the erection of a new church
building which will seat 800 and cost
$25,000. It reports a Sunday school of
699 scholars.
Keyser: Rev. M. B. Lambdin expects
to spend his vacation in Washington, D.
C. He is under engagement to supply
the pulpit of the Second Presbyterian
Church, South, Rev. H. W. Waddell, pasr
tor for three SRhhathn of Ausrust. While
absent from home Mr. Lambdin's address
will be 1712 Q. N. W., Washington, D. C.
Hinton: In the will of Capt. C. B. Ma-'
hon, who died March *\i, 1909, are the
following bequests: Thorn well Orphanage,
$500; Lynchburg Presbyterian Orphanage,
$500; Assembly's Home and
School, $500; Foreign Missions, $500;
Home Missions?Greenbrier Presbytery,
$500; Hinton Presbyterian Church, $1,000.
Capt. Mahon was a deacon and superintendent
of the Sunday-sphool for
twenty-one years.
Beckley: On Sunday morning, July 25,
the new Presbyterian Church of Beckley
was formally dedicated, the sermon
being preacnea by nev. a. m. eraser,
D.D., of Staunton, Va. Special music appropriate
to the occasion was rendered
by the choir, assisted by Prof. J. M. Brereton.
of Stonewall Brigade Band. Dr.
Fraser is known throughout the country
as one of the strongest ministers in the
Presbyterian Church, ana the congregation
here is indeed fortunate in having
been able to secure his tarvices for this '
. occasion.
Elkins: Prof. Jas. E. Allen, for the
past three years, connected with the
Davls-Elkins College, has recently resigned
his position to return to educa
tlonal work in Virginia. The Elkins
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summer school has just closed its first
session. This school conducted by Pi of.
Allen and others of the College, together
with representatives from the city and.
county schools, was a great success, 'a he
enrollment reached nearly the hundred
mark and both teachers and students
seemed pleased with the success. The
church is looking forward with great
pleasure to the coming of Synod here
this fall. With Presbytery in session at
Beverly and Synod in Elkins the cause
of Presbyterianism will receive great
encouragement in thi3 section of the
state.
Huttonsvillc: If the pastel' of the Tygart's
Valley Church at this place has
not made frequent mention of the kindnesses
of this people since he has been
in their midst, it is not because they
have not been appreciated. When ne
came fifteenmonths ago, they filled the
pantry with an-abundant supply of such
things as a pantry is supposed to contain.
Then through the summer and fall,
at Thanksgiving and Christmas and when
the maple trees began to ' run," it was
frequently replenished. Neither was the
horse forgotten. Then came the close
of the first year's work, when you wonder
how the labors and the changes
uctve ue?u receivea. cut we did not
have to wait long to know, for on an
April evening the door was opened without
ceremony and a larger throng than
ever, speechlessly marched into the dining-room,
and soon the nouse was filled
with people and things. The doubt was
gone. The pastor is just now recovering
from a three week's spell of sickness.
The people were not slow to realize what
a sick man needed most of all, so they
without delay secured a nurse and placed
*ier to serve where they coultf. not and
met every expense promptly These
things speak for themselves. It is a
p!e*3ure and an inspirati^'* serve such
people. C. W. McDanald, Pastor.
PERSONALS.
Rev. N. B. Mathis and family, of Riverdale,
Ga., are spending a month at
Montreat, N. C.
Rev. H. P. McCllntlc and family, of
Liberty, Mo., will spend the month of
August at Holland, Mich.
Rev. B. H. Holt has taken charge of
the York group of churches, Alabama.
Rev. F. L. Leeper, of Jefferson City,
Tenn., will spend the month of August
at Mooresburg, Tenn.
Rev. M. G. Woodworth, of Clinton, S.
C., will spend the summer at Point
Pleasant, W. Va.
Rev. J. M. Shive, of Abilene, Tex., will
visit Los Angeles, Seattle and the exposition
during his vacation.
Rev. H, W. McLaughlin, of Louisville,
Ky., has received a call from the New
Providence Church, Lexington, Va.
Dr. A. O. Browne, of Texarkana, Ark.,
has declined Che call recently extended*
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mm uy t-utj cuurcn at iNewport, Ark.
Rev. E. W. Smith, D. D., of Louisville,
Ky? with his family, wil spend his vacation
at Bayview, Mich.
Rev. W. J. McMillan, of Franklin,
Tenn., has been granted a month's vacation
by his church. He will supply the
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Westminster Church of Savannah, Ga.?
during that time. His address will be
1312 Barnard street, Savannah, Ga.
Miss Charlotte Thompson, of the Central
church, Atlanta, expects to leave
the first of September to enter upon
mission work at Hsuchou-fu, China.
Dr. J. M. McConnell, of Davidsoh, N.
C., is completing a cou:.se of lectures in
the summer session of the State Normal
school at Farmville.
Rev. Monroe Clark, son of Rev. W. C.
Clark, of Livingston, Ala., will leave on
August 4, for the Korean Mission. He
graduated at Princeton something over
a year ago, and has been engaged in
special study since, under a special
scholarship which he won.
Hon. Allen G. Hall, ex-moderator of
our Assembly, dean of the Vanderbilt
Law School, Nashville, Tenn., has been
called to the deanship of the law department
of the University of Oklahoma.
It is reported that he is seriously considering
the acceptance of the place.
Rev. William A. Rolle should be addressed
at Winnfleld, La., and not Arcadia,
- La., as given in the minutes of
the Assembly.
The Rev. Arthur S. Lloyd, general secretary
of the ProteBtant Episcopal Board
of Missions, has accepted the office of
bishop-coadjutor of the diocese of Virginia.
Rev. H. Waddell Pratt, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church, Washington,
D. C., is engaged in seouring advance
subscribers to a 'volume of sermons
by Dr. Strickler, of .Union Seminary.
He has already succeeded in obtaining
several hundred. The volume
will be of about 288 pages, octavo, and
v advance subscriptions are taken at one
dollar each. We wish great sucess to
the enterprise.
CHURCH-AT-LARGE.
The Georgia Baptist Assembly will
meet at Blue Ridge, Ga, August 8 to 22.
There will be good preaching by some of
the noted divines and interesting and instructive.
lectures, followed by steropticon
views. During the week prior to
the Assembly, the State Baptist Young
Peopled Union will hold its regular meeting
at the same place.
Foreign Missions:'An appeal to President
Taft in behalf of the Rev. Dr. William
Morrison and the Rev W R
pard, tbe. American missionaries in the
Congo region, whose trial for alleged
"calumnious denunciation" of officers of
the Kassai company, a commercial organization
operating near the mission station
at Luebo, is to be held at Leopoldville,
July 30, has been prepared by the
Swiss League for the defense of the
Congo natives.
The appeal characterizes the treatment
of the missionaries as "persecution"
and urges that the United States
having refused to recognize tbe cession
of the Congo to Belgium forbid Belgium
to subject American citizens to a trial
"before judges who, in the eyes of the
United States have no competence,
since they are attached to a'state which
no longer exists."