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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 * '*! 4 TH. 17 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 (Continued on Page 20.)