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which I may enter, and
thing for the glory of my
I shall try still to wear tl
great work."
Those are the words c
sixty-six laid down his el
was his duty, and laid i
remotest idea of what th<
They are brave words, full
was rewarded and his j
Lord sent him from th
ministry of his life. H
whole of Concord Presbvt
came vacant Dr. Wharey
a permanent pastor could
supplied the churches at
ory, Davidson, and other
There was never a Sund;
one or more invitations
preached with his old-tim<
last four years were the h
loved to preach. And the
very last. He preached
November 28; on Wednc
he went home to the Fa
"PRESBYTERIAJ
By Rev. R.
Such is the caption of ;
Courier of Charleston, S.
22. It was inspired by a
heard in a sermon preache
Presbyterian church of CI
well, D. D., the worthy
Presbyterian church, and
sions in Charleston Presl
that "two hundred years ;
tants of South Carolina, o
byterians; today the Pre:
about five and one-half p
sounds like "drvinp- un" :
o -r y '
imagine how much of a n
rians will be, two centuri*
The editorial in the Ne>
23 was headed "The He;
inspired by a statement
er made. He went Dr. C
"Whereas according to or
forty-five per cent, of th
Carolina two hundreds y
only about one and r?n#?
with that Church now."
palians would get there fii
But put these two stat<
what a mathematical pu:
denominations comprised
seven per cent to spare,
some drying up.
In Dr. Howe's History
in South Carolina we fin<
1710, which contains a cer
bodies of the Province. /
Episcopalians numbered t
rians, "including those F
THE PRESBYTERIA
still be enabled to do someLord
in my declining years.
ic harness and to help in the
if a man who at the age of
narge because he felt that it
t clown without having the
: future had in sore for him.
1 of faith and hope. His faith
jrayer was answered.. The
at pastorate to the largest
e became the pastor of the
cry. Whenever a church bewas
invited to supply it until
be secured. I n this way he
Salisbury, Statesville, Hickplaces,
for months at a time.
ly in which he did not have
to preach, and he always
i power. I believe that these
lappier years of his life. He
: Master let him work to the
in Hickory, N. C., Sunday,
lsday morning, December I,
ther's home.
JISM DRYING UP."
C. Ree<J, D. D.
in editorial in the News and
C., bearing date November
statement which the editor
d the day before in the First
tarleston, by Rev. S. C. Caldpastor
of the Edisto Island
thp rhatrman r\( Vf:
Ul 11UIUC 1V1ISaytery.
The statement was
ago two-thirds of the inhabir
62 2-3 per cent, were Pressbyterians
can claim only
er cent!" This certainly
and one is tempted to try to
ainus, quantity the Presbyters
hence.
vs and Courier of November
athen at Home." This was
which an Episcopal preachlaldwell
one better and said,
le of the old censuses, about
e total population of South
ears ago was Episcopalian,
-half per cent, is identified
This looks as if the Episcorst.
iments side by side, and see
zzle they make. Thes two
the total population and had
They could well afford to do
of the Presbyterian Church
1 a document, dated June I,
isus of the different religious
According to this census, the
*2.5 per cent; the Presbyterench
who retain their own
N OF THE SOUTH.
discipline," forty-five per ce
per cent, and the Quakers, 2.
? *
i i.vot ugmcs are to oe pr<
Dr. Caldwell and the Episi
thing they square better wit
metic ; and for another thing
tists and Quakers. Still this
the light of subsequent histor
was no propriety in classifyii
terians. While the Huguei
form of government, the colo
Carolina, not onlv nevpr
' J * V4
Presbyterianism, but they die
the Presbyterians. They brc
with them, who preached t<
worship was liturgical, and tl
the Episcopalians. When tf
all their churches, with one 1
by the Episcopal Church. Ci
nots, and you reduce the Pre
Another defect about the
takes no note of Congregati
classed as Presbyterians. 1
Dorchester, about twenty 1
which had come down in a
Mass., bringing its pastor, Jo
church was as purely Congre
as any which it left behind in
up about the middle of the
went over to Midway, Ga., w
deoendent to thic Ha-?r v.
? ?-V n ??. 11
this church is included in th<
Moreover, there was a churc
of a mixture of Congregation
Sometimes it went by the nar
times by the name of Indepei
Circular Church. This churc
the percentage of Presbyteri
and the Presbyterians, numl
ilies, formed the old Scotch
Take out all the Congregation
with the Presbyterians two
you cut the Presbyterian perc
After separating the Frenc
from the Presbyterians, thei
dross left. . The document in
taining this census of the rel
there were in the Province
British Presbyterians.". Thes
not only the Congregationali
quite a number of Puritans d
Wherever these British Pui
New England, they were cal
even those in Connecticut in t
day were frequently called I
ish Presbyterianism, or more <
Puritan Presbyterianism, wa<
was not born and bred in th
tured by the Westminster A<
Parliament, and erected into
of -England. It went to pie<
the Stuarts, and had an inglo
for the next hundred and fift]
was about "dried up." That
December 15, 1909.
nt.; the Anabaptists, ten
5 per cent.
eferred to those given by
copal brother. For one
h modern rules of arith
they make room for Bapcensus
needs revising in
y. It turns out that there
ig the French as Presbylots
had a Presbyterian
nies that settled in South
:ame a part of organic
1 not affiliate closely with
>ught their pastors along
3 them in French; their
tieir affiliations were with
leir French pastors died,
exception, were absorbed
it out the French Huguesbyterians
by half,
above census is that it
unansts. i nese also are
'here was the church at
niles from Charleston,
body from Dorchester,
seph Lord, with it. This
gational, or Independent,
New England. It picked
eighteenth century and
here it has continued Inas
continued at all. Yet
i census as Presbyterian,
h in Charleston made up
lalists and Presbyterians,
ne of Presbyterian, someldent,
later known as the
:h is counted in to swell
ans. It divided in 1730,
bering only twelve fam)
Presbyterian church,
alists that were mixed up
hundred years ago, and
:entage in half again,
h and Congregationalists
e was still considerable
Dr. Howe's history, conigious
bodies, states that
; "five congregations of
e congregations included
ists reierred to, but also
irect from Great Britain,
itans settled outside of
led Presbyterians, and
he literature of an earlier
5resbyterians. But Britstrictly
speaking, English
5 a very poor Article. It
e bone; it was manufacssembly,
legalized by the
the Established Church
:es on the restoration of
rious history in England
r years, by which titne it
portion of it transported