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of a manse, a little gem, six rooms with a
two-story front. When we moved in on
December 30th, we found it "swept and
garnished" but far from empty, the ladies
of the church had gone before us and
filled the pantry with all manner of good
things for the inner man. Monday following
the Women's Missionary Society
met with us on their own invitation, and
before they left we found ourselves in
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things warm our hearts and give us
courage for God's work.
G. M. Hollingsworth, Pastor.
Greenville: For the year ending, December
31, 1909, thirty-seven new members
have been added to the roll of the
Second Church. A new Manse of eight
rooms with modern conveniences has
been built. On the 21st of December, the
last brick was laid on the new house of
worship, which, with the Sunday-school
rooms, will seat eight hundred and fifty
persons. The structure is beautiful in
design and modern in its arrangement.
The whole property will be worth $35,000.
The congregation expects to occupy the
building in sixty days. The Sabbathschool
and ail the societies of the church
nave done excellent wor.. through the
whole year. The church gives promise
of enlarged usefulness in a growing city.
Lamar: Recently this church had Rev.
D. M. Fulton, of Darlington, to preach a
week for us. We were all benefitted by
these good sermons. Two promising
young men joined as a visible result.
Timmonsville: This congregation, like
many others, made this a most enjoyable
Christmas by their lavish expressions
of love to the pastor and family.
Pastor.
Enoree Presbytery: At an adjourned
meeting held in Spartanburg on the 5th
Inst., received Rev. G. O. Griffin from
North Mississippi Presbytery, and arranged
for his installation as pastor of
Palmer Church, Greenville. Rev. Dr. E.
P. Davis was appointed to preside and
deliver the charge and Rev. Dr. T. W.
Sloan to preach the sermon; elders J. C.
Bailey, and J. S. Russell, also to serve
on the commission. Rev. Dr. D. G. Wardlaw
resigned the pastorate of the First
Church, Union, but the congregation having
not yet acted on the matter, its further
consideration w.as postponed until
another adjourned meeting, to be held in
aparianourg on me nun iobi.
TENNESSEE.
Chattanooga: The First Church, Rev.
Dr. J. W. Bacbman pastor, has surrendered
its old house of worship, built in
1884, to the purchasers, the Church of
Disciples. The congregation which has
developed so strongly in the old building
will soon enter the magnificent house of
worship preparing for it on McCallie
Avenue. The new structure, when com
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pleted, will be one of the handsomest
and best tted in the South. The property
will cost altogether about one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. It will
have every facility for modern church
work. The pastor and congregation are
to be congratulated. Dr. Bachman has
been with this church thirty-six years, and
his bow abides in strength.
Petersburg: Rev. T. A. Patton, recently
of Nashville Presbytery, has taken
charge of the Petersburg field, in Columbia
Presbytery.
Presbytery of Nashville: The undersigned
was appointed to prepare a paper,
expressive of the Presbytery's feeling
in regard to the departure of Rev. T. A.
Pattor., and submit the following: "The
Presbytery of Nashville, in granting the
request of the Rev. T. A. Patton, to
dissolve the pastoral relation, subsisting
between him and the churches of Hopewell,
Stone's River, Cripple Creek and
Woodbury, and to dismiss him to Columbia
Presbytery, would express to him,
and make record of its appreciation of
him as a man and a minister of the
Gospel. (1) We bear testimony to the
sincerity and consistency of his Christian
character as manifested to us in all
our association with him. By his personal
walk and conversation, he has
adorned the doctrine of God, our Saviour.
(2) We are witnesses to the faithfulness
and fruitfulness of his ministry to our
churches, as pastor and evangelist,
(a) As a preacher of the Word of God,
he has known only Christ, and Him crucified;
expounding the Scriptures with
plainness and power, (b) As a pastor, he
has gone in and out before his people,
not only an example to the flock, but
with sympathy and wisdom, guiding and
comforting them. (c) The Lord has
graciously blessed his ministry in the
conversion and edifying of souls, and the
extension of Christ's Kingdom, (c) We
testify that as a Presbyter, he has been
wise in counsel, and active in service,
for the general interests of the Redeemer's
Kingdom. And we most heartily
commend him to our brethren in the
field of labor to which he goes, as worthy
of their confidence and love.
"JAS. H. M'NEILLY, Chairman,
TEXAS.
The Presbytery of Western Texas met
in called session Tuesday, December 28,
in Utica Church, San Antonio. There
were present five ministers and two ruling
elders, representing churches. Upon
the joint request of pastor and people
the pastoral relation between Rev. Hugh
W. Hoon and the Utica church was dissolved.
Mr. Hoon was then at his own
request dismissed to the Presbytery of El
Paso. He leaves at once to take up the
important pastorate at Stamford, Texas.
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tive of the important services rendered
to the Presbytery by Mr. Hoon during
the time he has been a member of it.
At his own request Rev. W.' C. C. Foster
was dismissed to the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa.
Mr. Foster has done a very
valuable work in the lower Rio Grande
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valley and one involving great labor
and self-sacrifice.
Brooks I. Dickey, Stated Clerk.
Georgetown; A few Sabbaths ago Mr.
S. S. Sansom and Prof. John W. Clark
were installed ruling elders in this
church, having been previously ordained
as such. The Sabbath school received
from the Committee of Publication a
beautiful banner in token of the most
liberal contribution per member in Central
Texas Presbytery, during the year
1909 to the cause of Sabbath school extension.
The school hopes to be able to
retain it, not only for 1910, but also 1911.
This church is also the banner church
in this Presbytery in the support of the
Southwestern Home and School for Orphans
during the past year. The pastor's
family were liberally remembered
in cash and other valuable gifts Christmas.
One member was received on
profession the first Sabbath of the New
Year. The church will average between
three and four dollars per member for
foreign missions this ecclesiastical year.
VIRGINIA.
Lynchburg: Rev. P. Bernard Hill, who
recently accepted a call to the West End
Presbyterian Church, Roanoke, has withdrawn
his resignation and will stnv with
the Rivermont Presbyterian Church. This
action is the result of a congregational
meeting at which strong resolutions
were adopted, asking the minister to remain.
Petersburg: Rev. Dr. Foster, pastor of
Tabb Street Presbyterian Church, who
has accepted a call to Birmingham, Ala.,
preached his farewell sermon Sunday,
Jan. 2, and a.. night he delivered a sermon
to the A. P. Hill Camp of Confederate
Veterans.
Norfolk: A call to the pastorate of
.the Second Presoyterian Church of Norfolk
was, on Sunday, January 2, extended
Dr. Thornton Whaling, pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church of Dallas,
Texas. * Should Dr. Wh?Hn?r an**.**
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the call, which Is thought likely, he
will succeed here the Rev. J. E. Thacker,
who recently accepted the secretaryship
of evangelism in the Southern Presbyterian
Churca.
Fredericksburg: The North End Sunday-school
is a new and most encouraging
work of our church. It now numbers
one hundred and twenty scholars, with
Mr. W. Mayo Smith as superintendent.
rne Christmas celebration in the chapel
of our church was a happy and helpful occasion.
An appropriate address was
made by our pastor, the Rev. J. H. Henderlite.
Salem: Sunday, December 12, was ft
"Red Letter Day" for the Salem church.
Rev. LeRoy Gresham was installed as pastor
by a committee of Montgomery Presbytery.
He is the son of Elder T. B.
Gresham, of Baltimore, Md., and a grandson
of the late Judee .Tnhn r riro?>i<inn
Macon, Ga. Rev. Dr. W. C. Campbell, of
Roanoke, presided and preaclled. Dr.
Pltzer, pastor emeritus of the Central
church, Washington City, by request,
gave the charge to the pastor, and Prof.