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Qt Atlanta Ho
ORPHAN WORK DAY.
A gentleman in one of the busy towns
in the coal region of West Virginia
writes me: "We can not observe September
25 as "Orphan Day,' but we will send
you our wages of October second."
The delay of Uncle Sam's agents in
carrying the appeal of the Orphans'
Home of the Synod of Virginia will emphasize
our need, and I hope increase
the number of those who will respond.
I was startled a few days ago on reading
in Jeremiah the indictment against Judah:
"They plead not the cause of the
fatherless, that they may prosper; and
the right of the needy do they not
Judge."
I have faith in the members of the
churches in the Svnod of Virelnia. Thev
will share their wages with the fatherless.
Your fellow servant,
Robert H. Fleming.
Lynchburg, Va.
DR. GAMMON'S BOOK ON BRAZIL.
We advertised as one of the helps
which we hoped to use in our Mission
Study work this year "The Protestant
Invasion of Brazil," which has been
written by our beloved missionary, Rev.
S. R. Gammon, D. D., and is now in the
IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO
hands of Revell & Company for publication.
Recent correspondence leads us to
fear that the book will not be off the
press and ready for use before the first
of December, and possibly not before the
first of January. Announcement will be
made as soon as it is available for use,
and then we know that it will be widely
in demand in our Church.
S. H. Chester, Secretary.
ALABAMA.
Central Alabama Presbytery meets
October 7, at 7:30 p. m., Akron, Ala., instead
of October 6.
..Birmingham.?Thc North Birmingham
Church, made vacant by the removal to
Anniston of its pastor, Rev. George Lang,
has given a call to Rev. G. T. Bourne, of
Macon, Ga.
Reform: Rev. J. A. Bryan, of Birmingham,
assisted Rev. R. B. McAlpine in a
week's meeting at this place, beginning
on Saturday Sept. 11, and closing the
following Friday. The conereeations
were excellent and very attentive. The
precious seed of the Word was sown in
many hearts. There were four professions
of faith and one baptism.
GEORGIA.
Toccoa: Rev. Eugene L. Siler has accepted
the call of this church and expects
to enter upon his work there the
first- Sabbath of October. Orange Presbytery
has accepted his resignation of
iuc imaiuimc ut iuts nigu I'oini cnuron,
dissolved the pastoral relation effective
October 1, and granted him a certificate
of dismission to Athens Presbytery.
KENTUCKY.
Rev. Henry W. McLaughlin, who lately
resigned the pastorate of the Stuart Robinson
Memorial Church, Louisville, is to
preach this week before Louisville Presbytery
on the theme "Ambassadors for
Christ." Immediately after that meeting
he goes to his new field, New Providence
Church, in Virginia. His removal
takes from Louisville Presbytery and
Kentucky Synod a capable and useful
Presbyter, and from the city one of its
most esteemed and faithful ministers.
He came in 1903 to a church encumbered
with debt, he leaves that church free
01 encumberance. Under his business
management the people have raised $7,000
and paid off all obligations. While
their yearly revenue for current expenses
has grown. As a pastor he has been untiring
and his labors have borne fruit
to the very last; almost everyl Sabbath
lor the past month he has received some
one or more into the cnurch. During
the six years of his residence here he
has received fifteen men about thirty
/coio \j i age oil pi uicaoiuu ui mini, m
all one hundred- and ninety-eight persons
on profession and one hundred and. Ave
by letter, a total of above three hundred
members. He has been a missionary
pastor, and has led his church in or
ganizing a mission on Seventh street, and
another which has become the Berry
Boulevard Church, Besides this they
UTH. September 29, 1909.
nave supported an efficient city missionary,
and a foreign missionary. In these
efTorts and in all his work he has had
the cooperation of a loyal people, and the
liberal support and encouragement of his .
well known elder, Col. Bennett H. Young,
and his devoted wife. Mr. McLaughlin's
new field is one of the finest old country
churches in the South; and there is a
peculiar fitness in his succession in that
honorable line of ministers who have
preached the word there, men like Dr.
Vaughan, Dr. Junkin and Dr. Samuel
Brown, the husband of Mary Moore, for
Mrs. McLaughlin is the great grandchild
of that famous captive of Abb's Valley.
The graves of the Rev. Samuel Brown,
D. D., and his wife, who was the Indian
captive Mary Moore of Abb's Valley, are
in the New Providence cemetery. Dr.
Brown was pastor of the church for twenty-two
years, from 1796 till his death in
1818. There went out from his and her
home seven sons, five of them into the
ministry of the Presbyterian Church; another
became an elder and another a
deacon. The ministers were Rev. Dr.
James Moore Brown. Mrs. McLauehlin's
grandfather, a missionary In the Great
Kanawba Valley and pastor at Charleston,
W. Va., for more tnan twenty
years; Rev. Dr. Samuel Rutherford
Brown, long pastor of Windy Cove, In
Virginia; Rev. Joseph Alene Brown, of
Texas; Bro. Henry Brown, of Florida;
Rev. Dr. Wm. Brown, clerk of the Assembly
and editor of the Central Presbyterian.
Mary Moore's daughter married
Rev. Dr. Morrison, who succeeded
his father-in-law as pastor of New Providence,
in 1818, and so remained till 1856,
and then kept school there till his death
in 1870. He was brother-in-law of five
ministers and father of two noble ministers'
wives: Mrs. Robert L. Dabney and
Mrs. Benj. M. Smith. It is the prayer of
fond parents' hearts that Qod will yet
honor the New Providence pastorate by
calling from its manse their little Samuel
and his brothers into the holy ministry.
This hope has taken them there.
LOUISIANA.
Baton Rouge: Practically every church
in the city was injured last week in.the
fearful storm which prevailed, the Preshvtprian
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Wilson: The Presbyterian Church of
this place was badly damaged by the
great storm of last week.
French Work: Rev. P. Ph. Brlol, evangelist
to the French in Louisiana, baptized
ten persons at Gancaster, Calcasien
Parish, last week, two adults and eight
children, all of them Canadian French.
Clinton: Silliman Collegiate Institute
suffered to the extent of hundreds of
dollars from the storm. The roof of the
dormitory was partially destroyed. Many
of the stately oaks', beech and magnolias,
wnicn were the pride of the Institute
and of the community, were laid low.
Governor Glenn at Synod: Arrangements
are being made for a visit of Governor
Glenn to Alexandria at the time
the Synod of l^uisiana will be in session
in November. It is proposed to have a