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August iif 1909. TH
26, 1909, at 10:30 a. m.. to transact the
following business, towit: 1. To consider
the request of Candidate \V. C. Wauchope
for a letter of dismissal to the Classis
of the Dutch Reformed Church. 2. .0
authorize New Providence Church to prosecute
a call for the pastoral services of
Rev. H. W. McLaughlin from the Presbytery
of Louisville. 3. To receive Mr.
S. C. Akers, a licentiate from Roanoke
Presbytery. 4. To consider and act upon
eall3 of Fajrfield and Immanuel churches
for the pastoral services of said Mr.
Akers. 5. To examine, ordain and install
Mr. Akers as pastor of said churches,
if the way be clear. 6. To receive under
the care of Presbytery as a candidate for
the Gospel Ministry, Mr. Wm. Roscoe
Berry, of New Monmouth Church. 7. To
act upon the resignation of Rev. Robert
E. Steele from the pastorate of New Monmouth
Church, if the way be clear. 8. To
transact any other business connected
with and growing out of the above items.
Frank T. Glasgow, Moderator.
PERSONALS.
Rev. J. J. Mclnnis changes his address
from Byhalia, Miss., to Nettleton, Miss.
Rev. L. R. Lynn changes his address
for a month's vacation from Jacksonville.
Fla., to Balfour, N. C.
Rev. Dr. D. K. Walthall, of Richmond.
Va., changes his address for tne month
of August to Mt. Elliott, Va.
Rev. F. T. McFaden, D. l)., pastor of
the First Church, Richmond, Va., is
spending a part of his vacation .n \nva
Scotia.
Rev. John K. Roberts, of Carthage^ N.
C., will spend the month of August at
Fairmount, Tenn.
Rev. W. S. Jacobs, of Houston, Tex., is
supplying for a few weeks the Evanston
church, Chicago, 111.
Rev. J. Walter Cobb, of the Central
Church. Little Rock, Ark., has been
granted a month's vacation, which he
will spend in and around St. Louis, supplying
the pulpit of the First Church and
the Kirkwood Church.
Rev. D. H. Ogden, D. D., of Atlanta,
Ga., is spending two weeks of his vacation
at Mt. Airy, Ga., after wnich ne
will take the ocean trip from Savannah
to Boston.
Rev. C. W. Maxwell, of Sou.a Boston,
Va., will spend the iirst two weeks of
August in Roanoke, Va.. and the remain
der of the month at Montreat, N. C.
Mr. M. A. Candler, senior elder in the
Decatur Presbyterian church, dieo at his
home on Sunday, August 8. Mr. Candler
had been superintendent of the Sunday
school for over thirty years and aiways
interested In the welfare of the churcn
and community. f A great loss has been
sustained in the death of this good man.
Rev. Charles Ghiselln, D. D., of Shepherdstown,
W. Va., has been granted a
month's vacation by the churches of
which he is pastor. He will spend the
month of August at Rockbridge Baths,
Va., and Clifton Springs, N. Y.
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their daughter, Miss Mattle, are spending
the summer abroad. They have visited
Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Holland,
Belgium and France, and are now
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touring England, Scotland, Ireland anc*
Wales.
Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Gruver, Miss Mat
tie Tate and Miss Jones, of lexas, will
sail for mission work in the East October
20, on the steamship Korea, from
San Francisco. Mr. and Mrs. Gruver
, . auuiiici uiuc missionary 111 ineir
little daughter, now ten months old. He
may be addressed care of Rev. D. n.
Scanton, Montreat, N. C.,* until September
1.
Rev. H. F. Williams, the beloved editor
of "The Missionary," has arrived
home after his visit to our missions in
the East. He sailed from Kobe, Japan,
on June 7, and returned by way of the
Suez Canal and the Mediterranean, arriving
in? >{ew York, thus completing a
trip around the world. Mr. Williams"
visits to our missions have oeen highly
appreciated, and will bear good fruits
both in the field and in the cnurches at
home through his editorial work at
Nashville.
Dr. Ira Landrith's resignation as Secretary
of the Presbyterian Brotherhood
of America has been accepted by the
National Council, and he has been elected
to the office of Editorial Secretary. In
this capacity he will edit "The Presby
terian Brotherhood," the quarterly magazine
of the movement, in addition to his
duties as President of Belmont College,
Nashville, Tenn. Mr. Henry E. Rosevear,
who for the past year has been
Associate Secretary of the Presbyterian
Brotherhood, succeeds to the Secretaryship.
Rev. D. Clay Lilly, D.D., of Nicholasville,
Ky., will represent the Interdenominational
Laymen's Missionary Movement
in arrangements for Laymen's Convention
in the South in the campaign
planned for the autumn and winter of
this year.
Rev. S. M. Smith, D. D., of Columbia,
S. C., has been chosen by the Board of
Directors, as lecturer on Homilectics on
the Smythe Foundation for the coming
session before the faculty, students and
friends of Columbia Theological Seminary.
These lectures will be delivered
annually by some one chosen for the
purpose, and will no doubt be -of great
interest and profit. The funds now available
for this lectureship were given by
the late Dr. Thomas Smythe, of Charleston.
PREAMBLE AND RESOLUTIONS
Of the Second Presbyterian Church, Norfolk,
Va.
Whereas, Our pastor, Rev. J. Ernest
Thacker, who has so faithfully and successfully
served us for the past nine and
a half years, has tendered his resignation
as pastor of this Church and re
iiucotcu u? lo unne wun mm in petitioning
the Presbytery of Norfolk for the
dissolution of the pastoral relation, now
subsisting, in order that he may assume
the position of Secretary of Evangelistic
Work, in the Southern Presbyterian
Church; now therefore be it
Resolved, first, That, after prayer for
divine guidance, as to his duty in this
matter, it is our pastor's desire, his resignation
he reluctantly accepted, and a
commission be appointed to communicate
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to said Presbytery the Church's assent
to the said dissolution.
oecond, That we assure our pastor.
Rev. J. Ernest Thacker, that wherever
hi3 new field of labor may carry him he
will take with him the love of this
Church, and our earnest prayer that
God's richest blessing may attend his
work, and many souls be the reward of
his labor.
Third, That we hereby express our
abiding confidence in our brother as a
faithful, efficient and well beloved pastor
and friend, and heartily accord to him
those qualities which so eminently lit
him for the discharge of his high and
responsible office, and we would further
testify to his persuasive, and equally forcible,
preaching of the gospel of our
Lcrd Jesus Christ.
Fourth, That we recognize the value
and importance of the work to which he
feels he is called by the Master, and are
persuaded that our beloved Presbyterian
Church as a whole, and bach individual
church within the bounds of our assembly,
will be strengthened, encouraged ana
benefited, in the Lord, by the movement
ue is to organize and carry on.
Fifth, That should the dissolution of
tue pastoral relation which he seeks at
our hands be consummated by Presbytprv
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.I n in give us pain ana regret,
we will yet ever hold him, and his
labors among us, in loving remembrance,
and follow him with our prayers for tne
divine benediction upon his work, and
for tne continued welfare and happiness
of himself and family.
Sixth, That, while-it is our pastor's desire
that his resignation be accepted to
take effect at once, he be requested to
serve the Church as long as possible,
certainly until October 1, next, under the
same terms and conditions as at present.
Many a great soul has been in a small
place and been happy in it too.?Cornelie
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