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September 29, 1909. TJH
its foundation to the present time; Dr.
Petric read a most instructive paper on
Presbyterianisni, and the exercises were
most appropriately closed by a most
striking sermon by Dr. J. G. McAllister
from the text, "Speak unto the children
of Israel that they go forward." A
large, cultivated and interested audience
nighly enjoyed the exercises. Mr. S.
O. Coxe, a candidate, from the Presbytery
of Atlanta, was present, and examined
with a view to licensure, though he
had been unable to get his proper dismissal.
Presbytery adjourned to meet at
Waddell on Saturday before the first
Sunday of November, with a view to Mr.
Coxe's ordination and installation as pastor
of Waddell and Orange Churches.
The Rev. W. E. Hill was received from
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following committee appointed to install
him pastor of the Farmville Church,
on the second Sabbath of October, viz:
Dr. Moore to preside, preach and propound
the constitutional questions; Rev.
H. T. Graham to charge the people and
Rev. W. J. King, the pastor. Reports
from the churches showed gratifying
progress in a number of cases. A manse
is just being completed at South Plains
Church. Presbytery cordially commended
to the liberality of our people the efforts
which are on foot to build churches
at North Garden, at Fork Union and
Tyro. At the latter point, Mr. llolladay
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done faithful and efficient work for two
summers, and there were twenty-two professions
of faith, during recent protracted
services at that point. The Rev.
J. D. Carpenter made an instructive and
stimulating address on the Assembly's
Sabbath School work, during the meeting
of Presbytery. Twenty-nine churches
were unrepresented, and more than half
the ministers were absent. The two
davs of the session were full of work
and of interest, and the hospitality of
the community cordial and abounding;
and those who failed to attend missed
one of the most pleasant meetings of
Presbytery. Stated Clerk.
' WEST VIRGINIA.
To the Members of Greenbrier Presbytery:
Governor Glenn will be at Mount
Pleasant church Sinks Grove, W. Va.,
on Friday, Oct. 8 next to deliver an
address in the interest of Assembly's
Home Missions. We will also have other
speakers present on this occasion; will
have an all-day meeting, and will endeavor
to make it a grand rally for
Home Missions. The invitation issued
at Presbytery holds good, and we hope
you will all come and bring with you
large representations from your churches.
Cordially,
Robt. B. Hudson,
Chairman Committee on Arrangements.
UPPER MISSOURI.
Presbytery of Upper Missouri met at
Bethel Church. SeDtember 16. at 8 n. m..
and was opened with a sermon by the
moderator, Rev. J. A. Gray, from John
4:35. He struck the key-note, which
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indicated the intensely missionary character
of the meeting.
Rev. E. N. Bradshaw was- granted a
letter of dismissal to the Presbytery of
Solomon, U. S. A.
Committees on Assembly's Home Missions,
Foreign Missions and Colored
Evangelism made excellent reports. Enthusiastic
and helpful discussions were
made on them all.
Presbytery overtured the General Assembly
to place the evangelistic work
with the secretary thereof, under the
direction of the Assembly's Home Mission
Committee.
ii whs recommended that the report of
the ad interim Committee on Proof Texts
be approved, also the amendment to
chapter 10, section 7, and that the wording
thereof be left to the committee, of
which Rev. A. M. Fraser is chairman. It
further recomipended the proposed
amendment to chapter 5, section 7, relating
to a permanent Judicial Committee,
also approved the plan to have
the General Assembly pay the expenses
or Its commissioners. Presbytery adjourned
* to meet with Eastminster
Church, April 14, 1910.
H. P. McClintic, Stated Clerk.
DR. CHAPMAN ON TEMPERANCE.
Rev. Dr. J. Wilbur Chapman, who recenty
completed a three months' evangelistic
campaign in Australia, spoke in
Melbourne, in a most forcible way, on
the temperance question, in the United
States.
The temperance fight is on in Australia
as well as in America and some people
are saying there that the American
v-auiimiftii is not approved Dy tne better
class of people.
Dr. Chapman said: It is easy enough
to misjudge a campaign eleven thousand
miles away from it, and to report failure
without fear of contradiction, "But," he
said, "I know the United States. A man
who says that the temperance battles
have not been successful in my country;
who declares that Prohibition does not
prohibit; who has the effrontery to say
that the better people in the United
States are not in Sympathy with the
mightiest battle which has been waged
since the days of the Civil War, is either
willfully ignorant or maliciously so."
The audience burst forth in cheers when
Dr. Chapman called upon them to take
their stand for the right in Australia. .
The evangelistic party accompanying
Dr. Chapman and Charles M. Alexander,
the singing evangelist, left Australia for
Hong Kong, China, going by way of the
Philllppine Islands. They are making an
evangelistic campaign tour of the world.
Japan and Korea will be visited, and the
party expects to sail for America from
Yokohama Japan, November 15, on the
"Empress of China." They will reach
Chicago by December first.
M. A. Martin.
On Account of Hazing, four young men
have recently been dismissed from the
United States Military Academy at Wen*
Point.
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Misgovernment of Congo: The following
paragraph is found In late press dispatches:
"London, August 18.?Sir Authur
Conan Doyle has written an eloquent
protest to the T imes on the misgovernment
of the Congo Independent State.
He urges the powers to convene a European
conference to deprive Belgium of a
trust so dreadfully abused, to make other
arrangements for the proper government
of the Congo, and to redress or revenge
the wrongs inflicted upon its people."
Pittsburg: The tent campaign in this
city has just concluded, with many gracious
manifestations of God's mighty
power In the meetings. At the invitation
of the Pittsburg Evangelistic Committee,
Mr. R. S. Bradbrook, of London,
England, conducted the services all
through August, preaching the old Gospel
in a telling manner, night after night.
Some of the most striking cases of conversion
and restoration have been re
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faith stimulated, their love for Christ and
man strengthened, and they have gone
back to their churches full of holy enthusiasm.
Mr. Bradbrook's power in holding
and interesting the men was manifestly
shown in the men's mass-meetings at
4 P. M. on Sabbaths. And his services
in the churches on Sabbath mornings
gave the highest satisfaction, and undoubtedly
win be long remembered. Every
day, except Saturday, at noon. Mr.
Bradbrook addressed meetings at the Y.
M. C. A., dealing with the fundamentals
of Holy Scripture.
PERSONALS.
Correspondents will note the following
changes of address:
Rev. James Murray: from Warrenton,
to Suffolk, Va.
Rev. G. E. Thompson: from High
Springs to Luraville, Fla.?express office
Mayo, Fla.
Rev. William A. Rolle: from Winnfield,
La., to Homer, l^a.
Rev. George Lang changes his address
from North Birmingham to Anniston, Ala.
Rev. Dr. John L.. Caldwell, of Pine Bluff,
Ark., is considering a call to a professorship
in Austin Theological Seminary.
Rev. C. O. N. Martindal*?, of Brownsville,
Tenn.. has accented a
the faculty of the Bible Training School
in Nashville, and his Brownsville congregation
has reluctantly concurred with
him In his application to the Presbytery
to have the pastoral relation dissolved.
"Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer, D.D.,
LL.D., the Forensic and Pulpit Orator;
the Citizen, Scholar, and Christian Pastor,"
is the title of a very beautiful eulogy
upon Dr. Palmer, which comes to our
hands without any name attached. It
is a loving tribute, and comes from some
one who was evidently most familiar with
the work and ministry of the great pastor
and preacher.
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