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November 24, 1909. TH
busy raising money for the erection of a
manse.
Cluster Springs: It has been my privilege
to pay a second visit to this place
to assist the Rev. W. T. Doggett in a
protracted meeting which closed Sunday
night, November 14, and resulted in five
professions of faith in Christ. Allow me
to add a word of cordial commendation
of the Cluster Springs Academy under
the efficient management of Prof. Hampden
Wilson, with a full corns of cnmnc
tent, Christian men as assistants. It is
my deliberate conviction that there is not
a better school for boys in America, nor
a safer place for parents to patronize,
both for scholarship and for the best
moral influences.
B. F. Bedinger.
Lynchburg: After an all-day meeting
the board of trustees for the Presbyterian
Orphanage on Nov. 16, decided that it will
be necessary to raise $100,000 to restore
the orphanage and put it in condition it
should be, and steps were taken to secure
the amount needed from the Southern
Prnohvtnrl a r? Phn roh of thp VI r*cri niaa
Maryland and District of Columbia. Questions
of the selling of a portion of the
farm, a building scheme and deeding a
site to Campbell county for a public
school, were ^eft to the executive committee.
Resignations of Dr. P. T. McFaden,
of Richmond, and Frank T. Glasgow,
of Lexington, were accepted. W. T.
Williams, of Woodstock, and J. M. Payne,
of Charleston, W. Va., were elected to the
vacancies.?Times-Dispatch.
Lexington Presbytery met at Staunton,
Va., First Church, November 18, 1909.
Present 17 ministers and 3 ruling elders.
Corresponding member, Rev. Wm. M. McPheeters,
D. D., of Columbia Seminary,
and Ruling Elder W. A. Clarke, of Bethel
Presbytery were granted the privileges of
the floor. A call from Olivet Church for
Rev. K. McCaskell found in order and
church granted permission to prosecute
before the Presbytery of Wilmington.
Rev. Ivanhoe Robertson, of Saxe, Va., was
granted a letter of dismission to the Presbytery
of Roanoke. Installation of Rev.
C. B. Ratchford at Mt. Horeb to take
place November 28, instead of the 27 as
before announced. Call of Columbia Seminary.
Rev. A. M. Fraser, D. D., tendered
his resignation of the pastorate of Staunton
First Church in order that he might
accept the above call. Mr. W. A. Clarke,
a member of the Board of Trustees, presented
the call. Dr. Fraser gave his
reasons. The church was heard from
giving its reasons against the request
Dr. McPheeters presented the claims of
the Seminary. After long discussion the
Presbytery declined to place the call in
Dr. Fraser's hands. Spring meeting.
AdHI 26. 1910. Adjourned meeting. De
cember 7, 1909, at Lexington, Va., 11 a. m.
Wm. C. White, 8tated Clerk.
Churchville, Va.
East Hanover Presbytery: At an ad-.
Journed meeting of the East Hanover
Presbytery, held in the chapel of the
Presbyterian Committee of Publication,
a commission, headed by A. R. Holderby
from Westminster Church, appeared and
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E PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SO'
asked permission to present to the Presbytery
of Savannah a call for the pastoral
services of Rev. James Y. Fair, D. D. The
request was granted. Rev. T. H. Rice,
D. D., Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, D. D., Rev.
C. M. Chumbley, a former pastor of Westminster
Church, were received into membership
of the Presbytery. The Rev.
R. F. Kirkpatrick presented the interests
of the Union Theological Seminary,
and the Presbytery's committee on the
seminary was instructed to report some
plan by which the churches could best
help that institution. A commission, consisting
of Rev. T. P. Epes, D. D., Rev.
D. K. Walthall, Rev. D. H. Ralston, Edwin
Pleasants, W. H. Camp and H. R. Smith,
was annnintpd tn viait PnmonrUir
Church and investigate conditions there
to decide if it is wise to divide this
church. The Rev. T. H. Rice, D. D., with
Rev. A. D. P. Gilmour, D. D., as alternate,
was appointed to preach the Presbyterial
sermon at the next spring meeting
on "The^ Inspiration of the Scriptures."
PERSONALS.
Rev. G. A. Hough (not Gough, as the
type made us say), of Columbus, Ga., was
the author of the article in last week's
paper on "Up-to-date the Watchword."
Rev. Dr. Jno. M. Rose, of Laurinburg,
N. C., who was reported seriously sick a
few weeks ago, is very much better and
was not so sick as was announced. He
will return to his work In a little while.
FEDERAL COUNCIL OF THE CHURCHES
OF CHRIST IN AMERICA.
The annual meeting of the Executive
Committee of the Federal Council of the
Churches of Christ in America will. be
held in Louisville, Ky., December 7-9. The
public meetings will open on Tuesday
evening and the closing session will be
held on Thursday evening. Prominent
ministers and laymen connected with fifteen
denominational bodies will take part
In the program.
The plans and activities of the official
committees of the Council will come under
discussion, and representatives of
State and Local Federations from every
part of the country will report the progress
of their work. Some of the topics
that will be considered are "The Evangelization
of the Country," "United Efforts
in Promoting the Cause of Temperance
and Social Purity" and "The Church and
Social Service." Among those who will
give addresses at the public meetings are
Bishop E. R. Hendrix, President* of the
Council, Rev. Wm. H. Roberts, D. D.,
Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the Council, and former Moderator of the
General Assembly ' of the Presbyterian
Church, the Rt. Rev. Charles E. Woodcock,
D. D., Protestant Episcopal Bishop
ui me LiioceHe 01 iveniucny, itev. L>. uail
Barnes, D. D., Field Secretary of the
American Baptist Home Mission Society,
Rev. Edgar P. Hill, D. D., of Chicago,
President Welch, of Ohio Wesleyan University,
Bishop Geo. M. Matthews, of the
United Brethren Church, and Rev. H. C.
Herring, D. D., Secretary of the Congre*
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gational Home Missionary Society, New
York.
NORTHERN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
The visit of Dr. Smiley, of Denver, has
united the churches in Akron; Col., In a
series of union revival meetings that
promises to bless all the churches in
Washington county. The conditions of
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?^ ..uuuci lunii were sucn us to discourage
a less experienced evangelist.
After several days of prayer and preaching
directed to the church, signs of spiritual
life appeared. On the eighth day
he gave an invitation to the unsaved, and
forty penitent souls bowed at the mourners'
bench. Among these were hbads of
families, many young men from the
ranches and several pupils from the High
School. One godly mother, who had reared
a family on a ranch miles from
church privileges, was rejoiced to see her
six stalwart sons come forward at the
same service and publicly confess their
Saviour. Such a grip has the revival taken
upon the community that ranchers drive
for twenty miles. Every merchant in
town closes his store early in the evening
to attend the meetings. Eighty-four
converts confessed Christ in the past four
days. We confidently expect to double
the membership of our church as a result.
Dr. Smiley and Mr. Hanson, his gospel
singer, will spend several weeks in
this county. From Akron they will go to
Yuma, thence to Otis and then to LaSalle.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, U. S. A.
"The Synod of Baltimore Deing impressed
by the prevalent toleration and
increasing assertion of doubts and denials
concerning certain confessional
statements, and believing that thereby
are encouraged within the church forms
of unbelief which unsettle Christian faith
in the fundamental facts of Christianity,
overtures the General Assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States of America to consider most carefully
this critical situation, and to take
such action as may more surely protect
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faith once for all delivered to the saints."
The Mid-Winter Conference, to be
held under the auspices of the Moody
Bible Institute of Chicago, December 2-5,
will lay special emphasis upon the evangelizing
of the women. Gipsy Smith has
stirred the Christian leaders of that city
by his testimony that five men to one
woman are now being saved in bis meetings.
If this means Godless mothers,
what does does it mean for the next generation
of children. Miss G. Stafford Millar,
the Australian evangelist; Mrs. Mary
Foster Bryner, of the International Sunday
School Association, and Miss Angy
Manning .Taylor, of the Moody Bible Institue,
are expected to deal with this
subject, taking up such aspects as themother
and her soul, the mother and h$r
child, and the mother and her "Bible.
The Spruell School is mi
IDEAL School for Boys, Marietta,
Ga.