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September 29, 1909. TH
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moderator of the session of our church
at Sabinal.
Elias Trevino, Stated Clerk.
San Marcos, Texas.
THE PRESBYTERY OF LAFAYETTE.
The Presbytery of LaFayette met at
Sweet Springs, Mo., Sept. 14, 1909, at
7:30 p. m., and was opened with a ser
tuuu uj iuu moaeraior, nev. tsenjamin
Andres, the text being Mark 12:17.
Attendance.?13 ministers and 17 elders.
Officers.?Moderator, Rev. J. J. Squire.
Temporary Clerk, Rev. Lynn F. Ross.
Reading Clerk, Rev. G. F. Bell.
Calls Accepted.?Rev. J. J. Squire accepted
a call to the First Church of Pettis
for half his time: this does not
cnange nis aaaress rrom Corder, M.o.
Rev. B. Andres accepted a call for all
his time from the Pleasant Hill Church.
Committees were appointed to install
these brethren.
Action on Matters Sent Down by The
General Assembly.?Presbytery approved
the plan of the Assembly to pay the
traveling expenses of the Commissioners
to the Assembly, on a mileage basis,
out of a fund raised by an assesment
on the whole church. Presbytery
answered the request of the Assembly
for its views on what change, if any, Is
desirable in the wording of Chap. X, Sect.
3 of the Confession of Faith, as follows:
"We recommend that Chap. X, Sect. 3 of
the Confession of Faith be made to read:
'All elect persons who are incapable of
being outwardly called by the ministry
of the word are regenerated and saved
by Christ through the spirit, who worketh
when and where and how he pleaseth."
The work of the Assembly's
Committee on the Revision of the
Proof texts in the Confession, was
placed in the hands of a committee,
consisting of Rev. E. F. Abbott,
and Elder W. A. Smiley of the Boonville
church to report on the matter to the
Spring meeting of Presbytery.
Addresses.?Presbytery heard the fol
lowing addresses daring its sessions:
On the Bible Cause, by Dr. E. C. Gordon.
On Evangelism, by Rev. E. P. Abbott.
On Foreign Missions, Rev. E. C. Gordon,
and Hon. Samuel Davis, an elder in
the First Church of Marshall.
Sunday-school Institute.?The morning
and afternoon sessions of Wednesday
were devoted to the consideration of
Sunday-school work. About 40 dele
gates besides the members of Presbytery
were present from the Schools of
the Presbytery. Profitable addresses
and conferences occupied the day. Special
notice may be made of the address
of Rev. J. T. Hall, a member of this
Presbytery who is a member of our Cuban
Mission at Remedios, Cuba. It was
a special pleasure to have Brother Hall
with us again and to hear of his work.
Presbytery was delightfully entertained
by the pastor and the people of the
Sweet Springs Church, and this was recognized
in well expressed resolutions of
thanks.
Presbytery adjourned to meet during
the Session of Synod at Columbia In OcV
E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOI
tober.
Next Meeting.?First Church, Marshall,
the second Tuesday in April, 1910,
at 8 p. m.
Temporary Clerk.
CONCORD PRESBYTERY.
Concord Presbytery met at Banner
Elk, N. C., Sept. 14, at 7:30 p. m., and
was opened with a sermon by the Moderator,
Rev. E D- Brown from T i.Vo
10:38-39 anil Rev. 3:20.
Present eighteen ministers and ten ruling
elders. Twenty-seven ministers were
absent and sixty-two churches were not
represented.
Dr. J. M. Wharey was elected moderator,
and Rev. E. D. Brown and Rev. E.
P. Bradly, temporary clerks. Licentiate
Robert Grant was dismissed to Savannah
Presbytery.
Pastoral relations dissolved as follows:
Between Rev. J. B. Branch and
FVont Qt rnnt J 1
..... vuuau, auu iie was dismissed
to Enoree Presbytery; between
Rev. P. O. Woods and Plumtree Church
was dissolved, and he was given evangelistic
powers in Watauga county; between
Rev. C. B. Ratchford and the Poplar
Tent Church and Gilwood Church,
and he was dismissed to Lexington Presbytery;
between Rev. W. S. Wilhelm
and Fifth Creek and Bethesda Churches,
and he was granted permission to labor
outside the bounds of Presbytery until
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Received.?Rev. C. E. Raynal, from
Mecklenburg; Rev. J. L. Beattie, from
Abingdon, and Rev. R. E. Steele, from
Lexington Presbytery. Order was taken
for the installation of Rev. C. E. Raynal
as pastor of the First Church, Statesville,
October . 3, by Dr. C. M. Richards,
Dr. J. M. Wharey and Prof. W. J. Martin;
and for the installation of Rev. R.
E. Steele as pastor of Spencer and
Chestnut Hill Churches by Dr. Bryan
Clark, Rev. A. S. Caldwell, Rev. W. M.
Walsh. Mr. k R Vbovd omi **- w n
Watson.
Churches Organized at Kannapolis, at
Paterson and at McLean's School House.
All the mission fields of the Presbytery
have been supplied since the spring
meeting except one. Since then more
churches have been organized and more
members added to the church than for
the same length of time in several years.
But the contributions from the churches
to the mission work have been less than
usual. Not enough has been given to
carry on the work, and the churches
must awaae to the Importance of this
work, or there can be no progress,
"Therefore, as our Presbyterial Home
Mission work is so vitally important to
our growth and continued existence as a
Presbytery, we do earnestly recommend
that our pastors, stated supplies, Home
Mission workers, elders and deacons in
vacant churches see that all our congregations
are kindly urged to contribute
at least half their apportionments as
soon rfs practicable, and the other half
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At this meeting at Banner Elk, Presbytery
saw the great work that the
Lees-MacRae Institute (situated at that
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place) is accomplishing, and expressed
sincere and joyful gratitude to God for
this work and invoked the Divine blessing
upon the school and resolved "that
we reiterate with emphasis our commendation
of Lees-MacRae Institute to
the sympathetic interest, prayers and
liberality of all our people."
Presbytery established a Presbyterial
preparatory school at Mast, Watauga
county, North Carolina, and appointed a
Sabbath in October on which the
churches are asked to take a collection
to furnish and equip the school.
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the church in and over her educational
institutions, Presbytery ordered that all
trustees and directors of institutions
under our supervision and control be informed
that annual reports of their proceedings
are required to be sent to Presbytery.
Addresses were heard from Dr. T. W.
Lingle and President H. L. Smith on
Davidson College; from Rev. John Wakefield
on the Orphans' Home; from Rev.
A. J. McKelway on Church Federation,
and from Rev. L. B. Tate on the mission
work of our church in Korea.
Dr. H. L. Smith made an address on <
John Calvin. The next stated meeting
will be held at Spencer, April 12, 1910.
Presbytery adjourned to meet at David
son, September 30, 1909, at 2 p. m.
J. W. Lafferty, Stated Clerk.
Concord, N. C.
THE PRESBYTERY OF MANGUM
Convened in the First Presbyterian
Church, Altus, Okla., September 7, 1909,
at 8 p. m.
The opening sermon was preached by
Rev. J. M. Clark, of Shawnee.
vsmcers c-iected.?Kuling Elder W. J.
Ewing, of Shattuch, was elected moderator,
and Elder C. E. Crabb, temporary
clerk.
Ministers Received.?Rev. M. A. Porgy
was received by letter after the usual
examination from Gregory Presbytery of
the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Ministers Dismissed.?Rev. I. N. Clegg
was granted a letter to Presbytery of
Central Mississippi.
Churches Enrolled.?The organization
of the church at Devals was reported
and the church enrolled.
The consideration of the items in the
Minutes of General Assembly was postponed
until the adjourned meeting in
October.
Presbytery instructed the churches to
seua amounts ror local Home Missions
to the treasurer of Home Missions for
Presbyterial Committee, Dr. A. L. Austin,
cf Shawnee.
. A Resolution was passed calling the
attention of the churches to their failure
in securing the permission of Presbytery
to employ stated supplies and instructing
them to make s ch request at the next
meeting of Presbytery; also urging the
calling of pastors when possible.
Next Meeting, Shattuck, -Okla., April
1910. Presbytery adjourned to meet at
mc uan 01 me moaerator, during session
of Synod In Oklahoma City.
H. 8. Davidson, Stated Clerk.