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January 12, 1910. TP
to last three weeks. One week with each
church, the otner two churches joining
at each place.
LOUISIANA.
Laymen's Missionary Movement: Two
cities in Louisiana are to enjoy conferences
of this movement in the campaign
now in progress. In New Orleans, February
12-15, and in Shreveport, February
16-17, conventions are to be held for which
vigorous preparations have been going
on for several weeks. The Romanist
organ in New Orleans has bitterly assailed
the movement and its principles,
hut has thereby only added to the interest
which the community is taking in it.
Shreveport: The pastor of the Dunlap
Memorial Church, Rev. U. B. Currie,
has received a call to the chnreh at Now
port, Ark., and will accept the same,
conditioned upon the action of Red River
Presbytery.
Monroe: On Sunday, January 2, the
fifth year of the pastorate of Rev. George
D. Booth was completed. There was no
special celebration, but the congregation
recognized the date and appreciated the
record which it made. During the five
.years the congregation received one hundred
and forty-flve members. The present
membership is two hundred and
three. During this period the congregation
has raised and expended the sum of
322,403. The church is in fine working
order and its outlook for the future was
never brighter.
New Orleans: A very unusual and
striking scene was witnessed in the Carrollton
Church, Rev. Jno. W. Caldwell,
Jr., pastor, Sunday before last. It was the
ordination and installation in one service,
of a father and son, Mr. Alexander
Allison, Sr., as a ruling elder, and Mr.
Alexander Allison, Jr., as a deacon. In
me eiecuon 01 tnese men to omce tne
congregation showed its wisdom.
..?In the Third Presbyterian Church on
Sunday evening, January 2, Rev. Dr.
Summey was installed as pastor. A great
congregation, filling the spacious church,
was present, made up of the Tihrd Church
people and members from nearly every
Presbyterian Church in tne city. The
evening was ideal in its warmth and
beauty. The church was handsomely
decorated. Dr. W. McF. Alexander, of
the Prytania Street Church, preached the
sermon, on the text, "For the Son of
man Is come to Beek and to save that
which was lost," and propounded the
questions. Dr. George rf. Cornelson, Jr.,
of the First Church, charged the pastor,
and Rev. Jno. W. Caldwell, Jr., of the
y Carrollton Church, charged the people.
y Mr. Wm. T. Hardie, ruling elder of the
j First Churcn, completeu the commission
f of Presbytery. All the addresses were
strong and appropriate. Dr. Summey has
Tieen the supply of this church, from
week to week, for six years, giving to it
such time as he could spare from editorial
duties.
MISSISSIPPI.
Gulfport: A commission of Meridian
Presbytery will install Rev. Dr. H. A.
IE PRESBYTERIAN OF THE S(
Jones as pastor of the First Church on
January 23.
Pass Christian: The house of worsnip
of the Pass Christian Church, so badly
injured in the late September storm, has
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uviiu ouuiticunj repairea ro oe used, out
further help is needed to complete the
work.
Mossy Point: The close of the seventh
year of our pastorate here finds us with
encouragements of various kinds with
which to begin the new year. Twelve
new members nave recently been received,
three by certificate and nine on profession.
A handsome new buggy and set
of harness nave been provided for the
use of the pastor and family; and the
changed conditions in our larder testifies
to the generosity of our people during
the holidays which have just closed.
MISSOURI.
Lexington: This congregation has
been noted for its liberality to the great
benevolent causes of the church rather
than for any special zeal to provide elaborately
for its own material comfort;
though for several years it has had a very
commodious and convenient church
building, and its pastor has been very
comfortably lodged wi.- ms family in its
manse. Recently it has treated the walls
or its auditorium to new coats of paint
and itself to a new pipe organ, built by
the Estey Organ Company of Battleboro,
Vermont. The new paint has greatly improved
the appearance of the auditorium,
and the new organ is all that was needed
to supply the congregation witn a suita
Die instrument of worship. Its action is
tubular pneumatic throughout. It has
seven hundred and one pipes, thirteen
stops, five mechanical stops, four combination
pedals and one reversible pedal
coupler, all operated by the latest and
best mechanical devices, including a water
moter. The case is of finest oak, finished
in front with fifty-one pipes in simple
bronze. These improvements, made
at a cost of about $3,000, together with
the Sunday-school room, pastors study
and other apartments, equip the Lexington
Church admirably in a material way
for its work. The pastor and his people
are encouraged to hope that the year upon
which they have entered under so
pleasant material auspices will be one of
unusual spirital blessing.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington: During the year just
closed fifty-two new members were received
by St. Andrews Church.
Morganton: The pastor, Rev. W. F.
Hollingsworth, is given a winter vacation,
which he will spend in supplying
the IndenendentVhnrrh Savannah fJa.
Greensboro: Splendid preparations have
been made for the Greensboro Convention
of the Laymen's Missionary Movement
to be held January 12-14. The conferences
are to be held in the West
Market Street Methodist Church. Among
the speakers the following on the program
are from our church: Mr. C. N.
Pratt, Rev. H. F. Williams, Rev. Dr.
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W. L. Lingle, Rev. Dr. J. O. Reavis, Rev.
Dr. D. Clay Lilly, Mr. C. A. Rowland,
Rev. J. H. Pressly.
Henderson: Our church h"s taken a
place on the honor roll ot the North
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vjtuuimu cuurcnes in its gifts to foreign
missions. Through the efforts of one
of our deacons who attended the Birmingham
Convention, our gifts to this cause
have increased from $217 last year, to
$900 or more. Incidentally, we have
also increased our contributions to the
Assembly's Missions from $35 to $225,
and expect to pay in full our Presbyterial
apportionments to all the other causes.
The year closed with many substantial
proofs of the congregation's regard for
their pastor and we are praying and
planning to make this year the best yet.
. Davidson: President H. L. Smith is
in receipt of a generous gift in the form
of a thousand dollar check from Mr. and
Mrs. Bagley, of Wilmington, as a contribution
to Davidson's increased endow
rnent. xne money is to be used to endow
a ministerial scholarship in honor of
the memory ot their son, Thomas Paine
Bagley, an alumnus of the college who
died a few years ago, greatly lamented by
a circle of warm friends. Rev. Dr. Thos.
\V. Lingle left the middle o?. the week for
the eastern part of the State and more
especially to visit Elizabeth City. From
this point he goes to Norfolk and later
will go on to New York. The spring
term of college has opened well, the students
after the first day, returning in '
large numbers and with an increase in
the enrollment for the year. Rev. C. G.
Christian representing the cause of
"Church Erection" in the bounds of the
North Carolina Synod visited the town
and college a day or two ago, securing
a goodly number of subscribers to the
tund.
The Presbytery of Wilmington met in
the First Church, Wilmington, Dec. 27
last, at 2 p. m. The following young men
were taken under the care of Presbytery
as candidates for the ministry, viz.: N.
t*. Farrier, of Mt. Zion Church and W. E.
Thompson and L. G. Jordan, of First
Church, Wilmington, 'ine resignation of
Rev. E. B. Carr as evangelist of the
Brunswick field was accepted and he
was directed to supply the Chadburn
church pending a formal call to the same.
The Presbytery will meet at Atkinson at
lx a. m., January 11, for the purpose of
dissolving the pastoral relation between
Rev. K. McCaskill anu the Black River
group of churches.
A McFayden, S. C.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Liberty Springs: Since Janimrv 1
1908, it has been the writer's privilege
to supply this church until May, 1909,
coming from the Seminary as a candidate
for the ministry since that time as pastor.
Nothing has been left undone by
this church and the Mountville and Lisbon
churches, that complete the group,
for the happiness and well being of their
pastor. The Liberty Springs church has
surpassed itself recently in the erection
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