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Presbyterian element there, the church
seems to be prospering. They have a
good, commodious building and a live,
active, energetic, earnest young man for
a pastor, nev. uuanes l?. rower, i ue
membership being so few, they are not
able to pay their pastor a living salary,
but if supplemented by the Home Missions
Committee, the church's usefulness
is assured.
Floydada: On last Sunday three valuable
members were received into the Floy
dada Church and W. M. Colville was installed
as ruling elder.
The Presbytery of Paris met in called
meeting in the First Presbyterian Church,
Texarkana, Texas, December 13, 1909, at
8 p. m. The following business was
transacted: Received Rev. T. M. Stribling
from the Presbytery of Fort Worth
and granted him the privilege of supplying
Commerce, Cooper and Campbell
Churches. Rev. W. I. Carroll was received
from the Lone Star Association of
Churches, and accepted a call from the
First Presbyterian Church, Texarkana,
Texas. The following commission was
appointed to install him, the time to be
decided by the church and the commission.
Rev. W. K. Johnston to preside and
propound the questions, Rev. A. W. Wilson,
D. D., to charge the people, Rev. Jno.
A. Williams to charge the pastor, and Ruling
Elder A. J. Schardon, and that the
Rev. C. I. Scofleld, D. D., be invited to
preach the sermon. Rev. George C.
Moore was granted permission to labor in
our bounds and to supply Golden Rule,
Waskom, Tatum and Center Churches,
until the next meeting of Presbytery.
Mr. Dewitte Burkhead Bell, a member of
Tyler First Church, was received under
the care of Presbytery as a candidate for
the ministry, and the Committee on Ministerial
Education was authorized to apply
for aid for him. He will enter the
Austin Theological Seminary in February.
Rev. D. M. Mclver, of the Presbytery of
Ouachita, was invited to sit as a corresponding
member.
Jno. E. McLean, S. C.
Tyler: The Session of First Church received
into the membership of the
Church on Sabbath, December 5, five
members by letter, and four baptized
children of the Covenant. At a meeting
of the session on the following night it
was decided to build a new building costing
$20,000. Our laymen are planning to
raise this money by a banquet to be given
December 28. Recently Mr. Dewitte
Rell a member of this church, has offer
ed himself for the ministry and will enter
the Seminary In February.
Correspondent.
Spur: On November 29, Rev. J. F.
Lloyd, of Floydada, organized a church
in Spur, a new town in Dickens county,
at the terminus of the Stamford and
Northwestern railroad. F. W. Jennings
was elected, ordained and installed as
elder. On the first day of November, the
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Spur ranch containing six hundred and
seventy-six sections (or 432,640 acres) of
land was placed on the market for settlement.
On that day six hundred lots were
sold upon which the town is being built.
Fifteen days after the sale of the lots,
one hundred and fifteen houses were
built or in process of construction. Six
large lumber yards could supply the two
hundred carpenters with building mate
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people are still living in tents, while the
carpenters' hammer can be heard until
a late hour at night. They have now
twenty-five or thirty business houses and
others are being constructed. The town
claims six or eight hundred population.
The 'Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians
all expected to organize churches
on Sunday, the 18th, but the Baptists
having an appointment on Saturdaynight,
took the advantage of the occa- ,
sion and organized. The people were
kept indoors all day Sunday by a constant
downpour of rain, but the Presbyterians
organized between showers on
Monday. The Campbellies were to organize
the following Sunday. The Methodists
and Baptists have, secured lots and
will build churches in the near future.
I-ots have also been offered to the Presbyterians.
This town is a sample of the
opportunity for Home Mission work in
the West.
Texarkana: Rev. W. Irving Carroll, D.
?D., was received into the Presbytery of
Paris at a called meeting assembled in
the First Church for that purpose on
Monday evening, December 13th last. A
call was placed in his hands to become
pastor of the First Church and accepted
by him and he has now begun his work.
Dr. Carroll comes to us from the First
Congregational Church of Dallas, Texas.
He is a preacher of unusual consecration
and power; the membership of the
church is rallying unanimously to him,
and the religious life of this city, by
reason of his influence and his presence,
is experiencing a marked revival
of energy and zeal. There is every indication
that his work here will prove
unusually successful, and his installation
at a later time will take place amid the
enthusiasm and affection of all the people.
Dr. Carroll, for a number of years,
was assistant pastor of the church in
Dallas of which Dr. C. I. Scofleld was
the principal. Dr. Scofleld's absence for
long periods in connection with the
editing of his Bible, made Dr. Carroll
really the active pastor of the large Dallas
church. Out of compliment to Dr.
Scofleld and his relationship toward Dr.
Carroll, the Presbytery invited him to
preach the sermon on the day that Dr.
Carroll will be installed as the pastor
here.
VIRGINIA.
Chriatiansburg: Rev. L. C. Vass on Depnmhnr
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?u ucurcicu am 111ucLrnicu lecture
on the Congo Free State. His pictures
show very cljarly the horrible conditions
that have disgraced the Belgian
rule on the Congo. All churches expecting
a visit from Mr. Vass have a great
privilege in store.
rH. December 22, igog.
The East Hanover Presbytery held a.
meeting yesterday, and at the request of
Rev. Dr. J. S. Foster, transferred him
from the pastorate of the Tabb Street
Church of Petersburg to Birmingham,.
Ala. His successor has not as yet been
named. Dr. F. T. McFaden, pastor of
the First Presbyterian Church of this
city, will hold services at the Tabb Street
Church until another minister can be secured.
Dr. Foster will not leave until
after the second Sunday in January.?
Times-Dispatch.
Union Seminary: Intermediate examinations
began at the Seminary December
14 and will continue until December 23,.
when the first term of the present session
closes. In addition to the regular
work that is offered by the Seminary, Dr.
Gilmour has introduced this year an interesting
and very helpful course on "The>
Church and Social Questions," that will
doubtless prove to be of great value, and*
the friends of the Seminary will be glad
to see this further effort to correlate thecourse
of instruction with the practical
work of the ministry that our young men
may go out prepared to grapple with the
problems that will confront them. Dr.
Rice has been giving the Senior Class a
very fine course of lectures on the pastor
in his various relations to his church,,
such as "The Pastor and the Sabbath
School," "The Pastor and Young People's;
Societies," etc., a course for which he is
exceptionally well fitted by his own large
and successful experience as a pastor.
Oak View: This has been a mission,
point of the Rough Creek Church (Charlotte
county) for a number of years. The
house is the old Bethlehem church, given
when they built a new church. Dr.
Hugh A. Brown flrBt supplied them while
preaching at Rough Creek. Messrs.
Campbell, Paisley and Anderson have
done work there. Rev. J. L. McNalr has.
given them an occasional sermon. The
present pastor has been preaching for
them since June. A recent meeting re
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commission will meet on the fifth Sabbath
of January to organize a new churchB.
F. Bedinger.
Timber Ridge Church: Sunday, December
12, 1909, was a delightful day to many
of us, when at the afternoon service in
the chapel at Decatur, thirty-four members
were received into the church and
the sacrament of the Lord's Supper was
administered. A two weeks' meeting was
recently conducted by the pastor and we
all rejoice in the fruits, a large part of
which were reaped at this service. This
brings the total membership of the
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vuuiou u|i iu uigu-niiLBi main, namely,
326. One of "our boys," Mr. William A.
Reveley, now working in West Virginia,,
preached an excellent sermon in the main
church in the morning, and made a fineimpression
on the congregation. Thia
church,'which has given some of her sona
to the ministry in home and foreign
lands in the past, is still bringing forth
the same kind of fruit.
Waynesboro: This church has enjoyed
greatly visits from the "brethren" In theministry.
We are indebted to Dr. W. N.
Scott, the genial, efficient and popular