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6 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