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Presbytery will hold its annual meeting
in the Starkville Church April 6-7. Delegates
and visitors intending to be present
will please send me their names immediately
that entertainment may be provided.
Julia L Ravmnnri.
Rec. Sec.
The Presbytery of Ethel will meet
March 24, 1910, at Columbus, Miss., at
11 a. m. All churches are required to
send up full reports, and 10 cents per
member for Presbyterial dues, and 50
cents per member for Domestic Home
Missions. Let every church send up representatives
as there is much calling for
action. Please fail not in the collections
named above.
R. H. Alston, S. C.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Wilmington: A meeting is now in
progress in this city, conducted by Rev.
R. A. Torrey, of Chicago. The services
are being held in a great warehouse, and
will continue during all of this month.
The Clarkston Church: Rev. Wm.
Black began a meeting in this church
February 20 and closed on the 28th. The
weather was unusually bad but the people
came and listened to preaching of
great simplicity, earnestness and power.
Mr. Black was assisted by his choir-leader,
Mr. A. Burr, who sang the gospel
with unusual sweetness. Mr. Jas. P.
McNeill, of Florence, S. C., was present,
also Mr. George H. McKay, of Maxton,
a quartette of Black, Burr, McNeill and
McKay sang often, to the delight and
profit of the congregation. As to the results
there were to our church twentyeight
additions; forty professions; $116.75
contributed to Synodical Missions and
$25 to Mr. Burr, and the quickening of
God's people.
A*. MacFadyen.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Clinton: The congregation of the First
Presbyterian Church has just installed
a pipe organ, made by the Estey Organ
Cgmpany. The instrument is of fine
tone, and the audience was delighted
with it on last Sunday.
Mt. Zion Church?Lee County: This
fine old church was burned to the ground
on Sunday, February 20. The building
took fire from the stoves and before the
congrgation had dispersed, the flames
were seen issuing from the ceiling. The
organ, pulpit and furniture were all sav
ed. but the building was entirely destroyed.
A year ago, the church celebrated
its centennial, and also the birth of Dr.
John I>eighton Wilson who was buried in
the Mt. Zion cemetery. The church
building was erected before the Civil War
and was an unusually handsome and
large structure.
Clinton: The First Presbyterian
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Church had a great day on the first Sabbath
of March, having installed its handsome
$3,000 organ, to the great pleasure
of the congregation. On the same day
six young people were admitted to the
Church on profession of faith. At the
communion services in the afternoon at
the Thornwell Memorial Church (the
Church of the Thornwell Orphanage)
three were admitted on profession of
faith and two by letter to the fellowship
of the Church. The Second Presbyte
rian Church (at Clinton Mills), Rev. J.
P. Jacobs, pastor supply, also had an interesting
day, the Sabbath school having
grown until now there are a hundred
on the roll.
TENNESSEE.
Nashville: In view of the very great
kindness done for me by the Presbyterians
of Nashville, I wish thus publicly to
express my heartfelt thanks for their
generosity in providing for my old age.
Especially do I wish to acknowledge
my obligation to the officers and members
of the First, Woodland Street, Moore Memorial
and Glenn Leven Churches, in
which my main work has been done for
forty years. In making me practically
their Pastor Emeritus, they have freed
me from the burdens of pastoral responsibility,
which were too heavy for my advancing
years. I must also express my
hearty appreciation of the activity of my
ministerial brethren, who suggested and
carried through this arrangement. I understand
that Dr. Wm. M. Anderson, Dr.
Chas. R. Nisbet, Dr. S. H. Chester and Dr.
J. O. Reavis, were the chief movers in the
matter. And I wish to say to my brethren
and to our churches, that I am able to
preach whenever called on. And I shall
be glad to supply their pulpits whenever
needed. And also I shall be glad to visit
my dear friends and former parishioners
whenever they need me. For fifty years
I have been preaching the gospel of
God's grace, and I hope to continue
whtle life lasts.
James H. MCNeilly.
?The Moore Memorial Church, which
has been vacant since Rev. Dr. G. H.
Cornelson resigned to go to New Orleans,
has extended a unanimous call to Rev. J.
Layton Mauze, pastor of the Central
Church, St. Louis, Mo. The congregational
meeting was presided over by Rev.
Dr. J. H. McNeilly, a former pastor of the
church. Mr. Mauze has in no way committed
himself to accept the call, but will
visit the church in a short while.
The Evergreen Church recently organized
in Memphis has extended a unanimous
call to Rev. D. W. Mclver, and he
has accepted the call, to take effect
April 1, prox. Mr. Mclver has been for
nearly a year past assistant to the pastor
of the Second Presbyterian Church,
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acceptably and efficiently and the Second
Church gives htm up with sincere
regret, but rejoices, that he is to remain
in Memphis. The Evergreen Church is
a daughter of the Second Church.
1TH. March 16, 1910.
Nashville: At a meeting of the Assembly's
Permanent Committee on Evangelistic
Work, held here, March 8, 1910, the
following resolution was unanimously
adopted: "Whereas, Under the authority
of the General Assembly the Permanent
Committee on Evangelistic Work was
empowered 'to call ministers to be Assembly
Evangelists, provided they can
see their way clear to do so without involving
the Assembly in financial obligations.'
Whereas, The Rev. Rt A. Walton,
D. D., of the Presbytery of West
Lexington, in the Synod of Kentucky,
has had wide experience in evangelistic
work, and Whereas, Numerous requests
have been made to this Committee for
the appointment of Rev. R. A. Walton,
1). D., the Committee does hereby call
Dr. Walton to be an Assembly Evangelist."
TEXAS.
Sherman Presbytery: At a called meeting
held in Sherman, March 7, the place
for the spring meeting was changed to a
more central location and the invitation
of the Denton Church was accepted. The
date Wednesday, April 13, was left unchanged.
Jno. V. McCall, Stated Clerk.
To the Pastors and Sessions of Sherman
Presbytery: Blanks for the sessional
reports have been mailed to all the
churches. If for any reason they should
fail to reach you, please inform me
promptly and others will be sent. Presbytery
meets at Denton Wednesday,
April 13, at 8 p. m.
Jno. V. McCall, Stated Clerk.
Wichita Falls: After long neglect our
church has again undertaken to supply
the Presbyterians at Wichita Falls with
preaching. Rev. E. S. Lawrence writes:
"It was a sore trial to ask the Bowie
Church to unite with him in a request
to Presbytery to dissolve the pastoral
relation which had existed so nleasantly
for nearly three years, and that it was
only through a sense of duty on the part
of both parties that this was done. Wichita
Falls is a rapidly developing city
of ten or twelve thousand people. The
union of the Presbyterian Church, U. SA.,
and the Cumberland Church, left one
strong church at this point. However, a
few of our people have demanded a minister.
And their hopes seem now to be
realized. The old property down town
has been sold and a more central lot secured
upon the hill where we expect
soon to have a new church building.- If
any Presbyterians know of others moving
to Wichita Falls we would count it
a favor if they would inform us. Any
one contemplating a change might do
well to consider the claims of this grow
ing western city. One of the inducements
of the city is the abundance of
cheap natural gas which will furnish
factories with cheap fuel. Making this a
desirable location for factories.
The Missionary Union of the old Dallas
Presbytery will hold its last meeting