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August 18, 1909. THE
gations always large. Collections good
and the church has been steadily climbing
since its dedication. The pastor expects
to preach here all of next week.
A. J. P.
Briery, Prince Edward County: The
writer lias just returned from helping
the pastor. Rev. Hugh Henry, in a
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week was raining and threatening, the
faithfulness of Mr. Henry's people was
an inspiration. The congregations,
while necessarily small, were always attentive
and earnest. Some six persons
will no doubt unite with the church.
Here is a clear example of the advantage
of a long and faithful pastorate. Mr.
Henry has been here sixteen years, and
one has only to move around with him
to see the devotion and respect due and
freely given to a faithful man of God.
It was good to be there, and we want to
go back some time. May this grand old
church (one of the oldest in Presbytery)
long stand for the truth, and may
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and .his devoted people.
A. J. Porter.
Lexington Presbyterial Union: At the
recent meeting of the Union the following
officers were elected to serve for
two years: President, Mrs. H. C. Wise,
Lexington; vice-presidents, Miss Camie
Houston, Brownsburg; Miss Theresa
Haislip, Staunton; Miss Josephine
Stephenson, Monterey; Mrs. C. A. Funkhouser,
Dayton; Mrs. Hill Arnold, Elkins;
secretary and treasurer, Mrs.
Ethel G. Wade, Raphine; assistant secretary,
Miss Julia Wilson, Raphine; sec
retary of literature, Mrs. H. G. McGary,
Middlebrook; secretary of Young People's
Work, Mrs. Joseph Caldwell, Fisherville.
Weal West Pittsylvania: On July 7
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came to preach for us aud continued
until July 16. As a direct result of his
faithful preaching four united with the
church, one mother, the head of a family,
and three young ladies. The
church seems to be revived and in good
shape. We have hosts of young people
here, and because of ultra Calvinistlc
influences and rank fanaticism it '.s exceedingly
hard to have a Sunday school.
One of our great needs is a good secular
school for the children in this field.
A. J. P.
Harpen Creek, West Pittsylvania: The
work has been pressed here under great
difficulties. Foes of the truth and
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have made a very hard road to travel.
Rev. A. M. Linthecum, Baptist minister,
is struggling on with the Sunday-school.
On July 19 Rev. J. Harry Moore came
and preached four days. He was kindly
received by the people, and if he had
continued a few days longer there
might have been some results. This has
always been the hardest part of the
field. Draw a circle around Wpat Pitt.
sylvania manse as a center, and in a
radius of from three to four miles you
will enclose quite three hundred young
people, and children of school age in
nearly every home. Is there a place
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anywhere that a good Christian school
could do more good? 1 have just been
working and praying for a good ordinary
school, not a college. Why can't
we have it? Must I sacrifice my own
children for the work's sake? Pray for
us. A. J. P.
SYNOD OF VIRGINIA.
The Synod of Virginia will meet in its
One Hundred and wenty-Second Annual
Session on Thursday, October 14, 1909, at
8 p. m. in the Davis Memorial Church,
Elkins, West Virginia.
James P. Smith, S. C.
The chairman of the local committee
of arrangement who may be addressed,
and to whom members of the Synod
should send notification of their purpose
to attend, is J. C. Arons, M. D., Elkins,
West Virginia.
PERSONALS.
Rev. Ivanhoe Robertson changes his
address from Farmville, Va? to Saxe,
Virginia.
Rev. Dr. Alexander Sprunt, pastor of
the First Church, Charleston, S. C., is at
Montreat.
ncv. *?. a. uoyie, <3i .Marion, Aia.f nas
been called to the Westminster Church
of Terra Haute, Ind.
.. Rev. J. W. Atwood, of Augusta, Ky.,
has received a call from the church at
Clarendon, Ark.
Rev. C. A. McPheeters, of Fulton, Mo.,
has decided to rest a year from teaching
and has gone to Leipsig, Germany, to
take a course in philosophy in the university.
Ferdinand S. Schenck, D. D., of the Reformed
Seminary (Dutch) at New
Brunswick, as announced from Princeton
Theological Seminary, has been secured
as professor-in-charge of homiletics
for the coming year. Dr. Schenck
is the author of an admirable hand-book
on practical theology and has just sent
from the press a comprehensive work
on Biblical Sociology. He has had a
wide experience as pastor and teacher
and is an enthusiast in the training of
young men to preach. He will give at
Princeton full courses of instruction in
homiletlcs to all the classes and will
spend a great deal or time and effort in
the practical training of the young men
in the art of sermon composition and
the actual practice of preaching. The
seminary is to be congratulated on securing
Dr. Schenck's services.
Presbyterian Council in New York:
The officers which were elected during
this session to serve for the next four
years were as follows: President of the
Alliance, David J. Burrell, D. D., LL.D.;
president of the Western section, Philip
A. Howard; general treasurer, to be
chosen; general secretary of the Eastern
section the Rev Dr fien T> MotHiowa
of the Western section, the Rev. Dr.
William H. Roberts; chairman of the
American section, Rev. Dr. Wallace RadcllfTe;
vice-presidents, Hon. J. Hoge
Tyler and Rev. Dr. T. P. Stevenson;
recording secretary, Rev. J.
C. Scouller, D. D. Some have asked if
it is worth while to gather these Coun
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cils at the cost of the time and money
which their convoking necessitates. The
answer may be made that gatherings
such as these, wheie men of brilliant intellects,
pure hearts and earnest wills
seen 10 discover and apply these influences
wnich shall biess, uplift and
sanctify humanity are eminently and
forever "worth while." Such a gathering
was the ninth meeting of the "PanPi
esbyterian" Alliance.?Christian Intelligencer.
New Church in India: A church recently
dedicated at the Scotch Presbyterian
Mission, Piploda, Rajputana, India,
has a large paved court, capable of
seating 600 or more worshippers. The
enclosing walls are of stone, seven feet
high, so arranged as to give a good appearance,
as well as to prevent onlookers
sitting on the walls. Texts of Scripture
in Hindu have been inscribed on the
walls, and the only furniture is a stone
chair and table for the preacher. Any
one is at liberty to bring a mat or cush
ion. The Eastern custom of discarding
shoes without and wearing the headdress
has also been adopted. The entire
cost of the building has been paid
by the people who attend it.
A CARD OF THANKS.
To many friends, known and unknown,
I send this.
After seven months of lingering and
fighting with disease, I had decided to
seek a higher climate, and just as 1 had
arranged to start for Tennessee and Kentucky
we were overtaken with another
calamity in the loss of our new manse at
High Springs, Fla, as you saw in our
papers. Then, I did not know what was
my duty, hut my friends and physician
said, "Go, for you can do no good by
staying, and you may get well."
So, in a few days I was in Nashville,
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against me."
My way was at the sea fast shut up,
but in a little while, through letters from
my wife in Florida, I could say, "He led
me by a way that I knew not of."
She writes me that she has received
many kind letters bearing sympathy and
material help.
You have caused songs in our night,
and all at home are made to rejoice.
I write this for the public, to express
our heartfelt thanks to you all. My wife
and daughters are answering all the letters
having names or addresses, but some
chose to keep their secret with the Master.
You, I hope will see this, and he will
not forget the reward. Pray for us that
the chastisement may be sanctified to
us and that our hearts may be suitably
affected by the generosity of God's people.
May our common Master reward
you all an hundred fold for your great
kindness, and will you ask that if it be
best, to enable me to resume my work
again sometime?
Gratefully yours in his name,
G. E. Thompson.
Home Address, High Springs, Fla.