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August 4, 1909. TH
following day. The report was received
and the church enrolled.
Opelousas: Special services for five
days were held at this place, closing
July 23. Dr. T. M. Hunter, of Baton
Rouge, chairman of the Home Mission
committee of Louisiana Presbytery, was
with us, and preached with great earnestness
and marked acceptance to the
people. Notwithstanding the intensely
hot weather, the attendance was good,
increasing from n'ght to night. One
united with the church on profession, and
others were deeply impressed. God's
people were strengthened and greatly encouraged.
R. T. Price, Pastor.
MISSISSIPPI.
Gulfport: Dr. H. A. Jones, pastor of the
First Church, is holding a series of services
in the church at Norwood, La., this
week.
West Point: A good local paper is a
blessing to any community. It is always
a pleasure to us to read the "West Point
Leader," which comes to us an an exchange.
Every number has something
good, and its editor, Ruling Elder L. T.
Carlisle, is never afraid or ashamed to
speak out, on matters of religion and
morals. The community ought to give
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iuc paper a uue support, it deserves it.
MISSOURI.
Eastminster, Kansas City: At the July
communion fifteen members were received.
The pastor, Rev. Trigg A. M.
Thomas, is on his vacation, in his native
state, and may be addressed at Bluff
City, Tenn.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Goldsboro: Rev. Peter Mclntyre, D. D.,
of Fayetteville Presbytery, has declined
the call of this church.
Glen Alpine: The Synodical evangelist,
Rev. G. W. Belk, held a good meeting at
this place about the middle of July.
Bight persons were received into the
church upon profession of their faith.
First Church, Charlotte: The pulpit of
the First church will be supplied three
Sundays this month by Rev. H. W. Burwell,
pastor of the Napoleon Avenue
Church, New Orleans.
Rev. Peter Mclntyre, of Faison, has
declined the call to the Goldsboro
Church, and will remain with the
churches of which be is now pastor. He
left for his vacation in Canada, Monday,
July 26. Rev. L. H. Isler, supplied his
church on the first Sabbath of August.
Winston-Salem: Communion services
were held in the First Church, Rev. N. L.
Anderson, D. D., pastor, on the third Sun
day of July. A feature of the day was
the baptism of thirty-five new members.
Fifty-five in all were publicly received,
making eighty-five, sixteen by letter and
fifty-nine on profession, received since
the April communion. In the afternoon
twenty-two more were received at the
North Winston chapel. These additions
are a part, of tne results of tne recent
Torrey meetings.
Graham: A young man has been secured
by the Graham and Burlington
pastors to asist them in mission work in
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w >? muu ui. uicutyou, varuiiua
and Big Falls, cotton mill towns on the
Haw River, where mission work is badly
needed. After a union meeting at the
Travora Chapel, the pastor of the Gra
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ham Church and three elders held a
communion service there last Sunday
evening which was greatly enjoyed by
those to whom it was a rare privilege.
Five members were received, three on
statement of previous membership in
other churches and renewal of their vows .
and two by baptism.
Davidson: ..The regular quarterly
communion was celebrated on Sabbath,
July 25 and three young
people of the Sunday school were
received into the church on profession
of faith. The afternoon hour was devoted
to Children's Day exercises when a
special song program was presented and
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readings. The address, relating to Mexico
and the work of the Southern Presbyterian
Church in that country was
made oy Mr. Charles Flo we, who graduated
a few years ago from Davidson
and then taught for a year or more at
Brownsville, Tex., where he had frequent
opportunities to visit Mexico and to become
acquainted with the customs of lae
people and to see the work of tne missionaries
in this country given over as
yet to Roman Catholicism with all its
superstitions. Mr. Flowe made an excellent
talk. Rev. Dr. Richards is conducting
a series of services, preaching every
night at tue Linden Chapel. The meetings
are well attended and it is relieved
permanent benefit will result from this
earnest presentation of the Gospel message.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
panics isiana: rne congregation expected
to be in its beautiful new brick
churfch on last Sunday. With the pas-tor,
Rev. Dr. N. Keff Smith, the people are
all nappy over this delightful anticipation.
Enoree Presbytery: The attention of
the ministers and churches of , Enoree
Presbytery is called to the Local Hom&
Mission Collection in August. We have
started new Mission work with our last
collection snd lwnt a ?* ? 1
.vpl, ? iiumuci ui uur wcaK
churches from losing their supplies.
Please send a good collection to G. W.
Taylor, Treasurer, Greenville, S. C.
B. P. Reid, Chairman.
Reidville: A meeting of eight days
closed in the Antioch Church on July z5.
The preaching, with the exception of the
first day, when services were conducted
by the pastor, Rev. B. P. Reid and Rev.
H. M .Smith, was done by Rev. C. M.
Boyd, pastor of the A. R. P. Church, Anderson.
Mr. Boyd is a successful pastor
and an evangelist of extraordinary gifts.
The membership of the church was'
aroused and two communicants added.
Churches securing Mr. Boyd to hold
meetings will certainly be fortunate.
The South Carolina Presbytery is going
to at the next meeting divide or redistrict
the Presbytery and should it be
done, the name of Piedmont has been
suggested, and we D. A. R. think _ ickens
would be far better. What did Piedmont
do? Just drove a stage over the
section which bears hts name. What did
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ucuvmi Auurew ncKens ao? Read of him
in the history of Stone Church, Bethel
and Long Creek. At one time South Carolina
was mostly Presbyterian because
General Pickens was a Presbyterian and
built churches wherever he went and
three churcnes where he was an elder
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are now standing. We are working for
the laymen's movement, why not honor
this layman? General Picken-> was a soldier,
a Christian and a good citizen. We
the Andrew Pickens Chapter of D. A. R.,
who with the Catachee Chapier restored
Old Stone Church, ask the church which
our hero loved to honor him by naming it
for him. ?
Miss Mary R. Shelor, Historian Andrew
Pickens Chapter of D. A. R. of
Clemson College, Westminster, S. C.
1 cNNESSEE.
Columbia: The Second Church has
given a call to Rev. W. T. Spears, of
Vanceburg, Kv.
Covington: Toe pastor, Rev. W. R.
Potter, will spend his vacation at Monteagle
and other points in Tennessee.
During his absence the regular morning
service will be conducted by the elders,
toe evening service being omitted.
Brownsville: Three persons were lately
added to the Church. The Mission
Study Class sometime ago completed
Dr. Phillips' "Call of the Homeland," followed
by Prof. Wells' into All the
World," under the leader.-hip of the pastor.
Since then he has conducted a
"Personal Workers' Class," using with
fine effect as a basis Dr. Trumbull's "Individual
Work With Individuals" for the
present. The officers of this congregation
have granted the pastor, Rev. C. O'N
Martindale, the month of August for his
vacation, as usual. The congregations
of the community are enjoying the union
services every Sunday night, going from
one church to anotner, the several pastors
acting in turn. This we have found
uouuueive 10 good fellowship and common
advance In July and August.
TEXAS.
Lancaster: One member was received
into the communion of this church by
letter, on Sunday, July 25. The pastor,
Rev. S. Addison McElroy, began his vacation
on July 26.
Gainesville: The new house of worship
is expected to be ready for occupancy
about the first of October. Four
persons were announced by the pastor,
Rev. J. V. McCall, at me July communion,
as having been added to the membership
during the quarter.
Dallas: During July, Rev. Messrs.
Thornton Whaling, J. Frank Smith, Fred
Galbreath, and Mr. P. Dickey, preached
on the lawn of the new Presbyterian
church naslatino- in *
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this district. Mr. J. E. McLemore, an
elder in the Colonial church led the services
on Thursday evening. He is a
successful Bible teacher, having a class
of twenty-five boys in the morning and
an adult class in the church in the afternoon;
and on the first Sunday of the
meeting, he undertook to organize a class
of the neighborhood boys, but other attractions
kept the boys from coming so
another afternoon" was appointed for the
organization. Several requested prayer
and much good has been accomplished
by these Impressive gospel messages. It
is expected another series of meetings
will be held early in September.
Home Missions in Fort Worth Presbytery:
The attention of pastors and
churches Is called to the fact that offerings
in August are for tho * -
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cal Home Missions. It is Important that
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