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Sept. 22, 1909. TH1
Louisiana for the Man of Galilee." Special
rates on all roads.v
MISSOURI.
St. Louis Presbytery: .Members attending
the Presbytery will find It most
convenient to leavo St T.rm?a a.m ~
m. via the Frisco Line, reaching Festus
at 9:30 a. m. Other trains at 5:15 and
7:30 p. m. Trains returning reach St.
Louis at 10 a. m. and 8:30 p. m. Presbytery
meets at 10 a. m. Tuesday,
Sept. 28.
Program of Sunday School and Young
People's Societies Institute, at Festus.
Mo., September 29, in connection with fall
meeting of St. Louis Presbytery. Young
People's Societies: 1. How secure attendance
of males? 2. Should Societies have
uniform name? 3. Should adults attend
and take part? 4. Should we have Junior
owjeues: sunaay Sctiool Institute: 1.
How secure prompt and regular attendance?
2. Who should be In the school
and why? 3. Organization of classes,
why and how? 4. How secure home lesson
study? 5. Relation of pastor and
session to school. All are invited to attend
and take part in the discussion of
these questions. Delegates will please
inform Rev. C. H. Talbot, Festus, Mo.,
of their coming.
C. E. Paxson,
J. R. C. Brown,
Committee.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Mecklenburg Presbytery, at its recent
fall meeting, received under its care six
young men as candidates for the ministry,
making its enrollment of candidates
now reach twenty-nine.
Spencer: Rev. R. E. Steele, well known
in New Orleans as the superintendent for
several years of the seamen's Bethel, has
accepted a call to tue church at Spencer,
near Salisbury, and has just arrived there
from his recent home in Virginia.
Rocky River: This great o'.d church, for
many years one of the largest of our
country churches, is bearing fruit in
Its old age. A meeting has recently
been held In It, running
over several weeks. The pastor,
Rev. James Lapsley, was aided a part of
the time by Rev. C. A. Munroe. Twenty
members have been received, fifteen of
them coming in on profession of faith
in Christ.
Fayettevitle Presbytery meets in RockIngham,
N. C., Wednesday, September
29 at 11 o'clock. The Reception Committee
will meet the evening train September
28. Ample provision has been
muue ror me entertainment of the visitors
and a full attendance is desired.
Pastors and elders will please inform
committee at once when they will arrive.
D. M. Morrison, Chairman.
Rockingham, N. C.
The Sunday School Institute of WllImington
Presbytery: I desire to remind
the Sunday Schools in Wilmington Presbytery
of the Sunday School Institute
ordered at the last regular meeting of
Presbytery to be held in connection with
its fall meeting at Clinton, N. C., Oc
S PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU
iober 6 and following. The Presbytery
urges that all our Sunday schools
have a full representation at this Institute.
Pastors and superintendents should
see to it that delegates are sent from
all schools in the bounds of the Presbytery.
This is a movement to improve
and enlarge the Sunday school work
throughout our Presbytery, and we hope
that every nook and corner of the Presbytery
will he influenced by it; Please
send names of delegates to Rev. P. L.
Clark, Clinton, N. C., beforehand, so that
lie may provide entertainment. The following
program has been prepared for
the occasion: 1. The Extent and Opportunities
of Our Sunday School Work, by Rev.
W. M. Sikes. 2. The Duty of Establishing
and Maintaining Mission .Sunday Schools,
by Rev. J. M. Wells, D. D. 3. How to
Bring the Non-attendants into the Sunday
School, by Rev. W. P. M. Currie.
4. How to Conduct a Live Sunday
scnooi, oy Rev. A. L. Phillips, D. D. 4.
The Importance of the Evangelistic Element
in Sunday School Teaching, by
Rev. Peter Mclntyre. 5. Why Have (1)
A Graded Sunday School, (2) A Teacher's
Training Class, (3) A regular Teacher's
Meeting, by Rev. A. L. Phillips, D.
D. 7. The relation of the Parent to the
Sunday School, by Rev. A. McFadyen.
8. The Best Way to Teach Pupils to Give
SvStAmQtlf?ollu
...., ujr i\c v. a. Li. jicuiure,
D. D. 9. The Importance of Missions in
the Sunday School, by Rev. J. S. Crowley.
10. How a Pastor Can do the Most
for the Sunday School in that Church
to which he Gives only a Part of his
Time, by Rev. K. McCaskill.
W. M. Sikes,
Chmn. S. S.. of Wilmington Presbytery.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Union
of Enoree Presbytery will meet Oc
tofcer 14-15 at Laurens, S. C. Every
Cnurch and Young People's Society is
urged to send a delegate. Delegates
kindly send their names as soon as possible
to Mrs. J. O. C. Fleming, Laurens,
S. C. Report blanks can be obtained
from the secretary of. Union.
Mrs. J. W. Allen, Sec.,
Spartanburg, S. C.
Greenwood: The Woman's Foreign
Missionary Union, of South Carolina
Presbytery will meet at Greenwood, October
12-13. All societies in the Union
are expected to send two delegates. Any
society contemplating joining the Union
Ic *
o miiicu iu sena one representative.
We trust every delegate will be present
for the opening exercises at 7 p. m.,
October 12. Please notify Miss Addie
Tatham, Chairman of Entertainment
Committee, at earl'est convenience.
Miss Leona Blake, President.
Chester: The request of thirty-five
members of Purity Chapel, to be organized
as the Second Presbyterian church
of Chester, which had previously received
the sanction of Purity church, the Da
rent branch, was favorably passed upon
by Bethel Presbytery at Its meeting at
Bethesda church, and the following commission
was appointed to organize the
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church and perform the other offices
incident to the occasion: Rev. G. G.
Mayes, of Blackstock; the Rev. C. G.
Brown, of Pleasant Grove, and the Rev.
S. J. Cartledge, of Chester, and Elder
W. D. Knox, of Chester. The evening
of Sunday, October 10, was fixed for
the exercises, at which time members
will be received and enrolled, officers
wi.l be elected, ordained and installed,
and a name will be agreed upon for the
new church. The deBire for separate organization
has its inception in the belief
that better work can be done in that
way. There is the same harmony that
has always existed between the church
and the chapel, and Purity church will
continue as heretofore to render substantial
financial assistance.
Ebenezer Church (near Rock Hill):
The fall communion was celebrated on
the first Sabbath of the month. The pastor,
Rev. Jos. T. Dendy, was assisted in
the meeting by Mr. Johnson Hn^hino?
of Rock Hill, a member of the Senior
Class in Columbia Seminary. Mr. Hutchinson
did some splendid gospel preaching
and made a fine impression upon the
people. Two young people joined the
church on profession of faitu, making
five who have joined by profession during
the last month. For more than fifty
years this church has observed the first
Sabbath of May and the first Sabbath of
September as communion seasons. Ser
?itco uegm rriaay morning and continue
through Sabbath. The people prepare
for these occasions weeks beforehand
and lay aside everything to attend- upon
the services of the sanctuary. As a result
the congregations are good from the
beginning and grow in numbers and interest
until on Sabbath the church can
not comfortably seat the people. This
congregation supports two children In
rhornwell Orphanage, the church supportporting
one, and the Sabbath-school the
other.
Pee Dee Church, in the Presbytery
of the same name, in Marion County,
S. CJ., is a mother of ohifr^hao k..* ?
__ wmui v^?oO) UUt LUI
years past, on account of losses and removals,
has been reduced to a small
number, with few young people and very
few children in reach of the church.
The community had become reconciled
to the view that there was little hope
of the growth of "Little t?ee Dee," and
the members were content with one Sunday
morning service per month. The
faithful little band, however clung to the
old church and its sacred burying place
hard by. No consideration would in
duce them to give up their regular
monthly services. Pew special services
and no night services were ever held, or
thought necessary or practicable. The
pastor and a few loyal sympathizers
were not content, with this staid and
unprogressive condition. esneHnllv in
view of the number of new families settling
in the neighborhood, and the increasing
prosperity of the community.
The deacons were induced to- put lights
in the church, and a short series of services
were conducted by the pastor in
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