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Church News
March Collections: Sabbath School
Extension and Publication. R. E. Magill,
Box 883, Richmond, Virginia.
IMPORTANT NOTICE.
Rev. R. A. Walton, D. D., having been
appointed an Assembly Evangelist, and
having accepted the same, the attention
of the brethren is called to the fact.
Any person desiring to arrange dates
with him for evangelistic services will
address him at Owingsville, Kentucky.
Chas. R. Nisbet,
Chairman Evangelistic Work.
CHINA.
Soochow: During Christmas week,
1909, Dr. H. C. DuBose received by
baptism thirteen members into the different
country churches around Soo
chow, which are under his charge.
ALABAMA*.
Huntsville: Rev. W. R. Carothers, of
Courtland, who has been conducting a
successful series of revival meetings in
West Huntsville, has received a call to
the First Presbyterian Church at Marion,
Ala. The call was extended at a congregational
meeting a few days ago.?Atlan
ta Georgian.
Mobile: Rev. Dr. Ernest Thacker has
been conducting special services in the
Government Street Presbyterian Church
for the past two weeks, morning and
evening. His discourses have been most
earnest, convincing and eloquent, his
congregations large and deeply interested,
increasing until the end. Over
100 persons professed conversion, about
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOU
fifty signified their intention to transfer
their letters to churches in this city, ajid
more than 500 church members have
pledged themselves to live closer to
Christ and to become more zealous
workers in His cause. Mr. Fisher, who
accompanies him in his evangelistic
meetings, touched all hearts with liis
sweet tenor voice and was a most potent
factor in the revival, while Mrs. Fisher's
accompaniments on the piano were in
such perfect unison and sympathy with
his voice as to attract the attention of
all who attended the services.
Cor.
Mobile: The Presbyterians of Mobile
have just concluded a union meeting under
Dr. J. E. ' Thacker, which began
March 1st and lasted throughout the
15th. It is the unanimous feeling that
the meetings have been a great blessing
to the churches and the community
The weather was all that could be
wished, and the laree auditorium of no..
eminent Street Church, where the meetings
were held, was well filled at almost
every evening service. All felt that the
Assembly's committee had made no
mistake in calling Dr. Thacker to this
work. His methods are such as to commend
his work to all our churches. His
sermons are able, practical and filled '
with the Word of God. Out of the pulpit
Dr. Thacker's genial countenance and
whole-souled manner attract people to
him. We feel that it was a great privilege
to have had him for two weeks
among us, bearing earnest witness to
Christ's power to save. There were over
one hundred people who signed cards indicating
their acceptance of Christ as
their Saviour. A large number of these
have not yet been received into any of
the churches, but it is expected that
nearly, if not quite, all of them will join
the church soon. Some thirty-five or
forty people whose membership is elsewhere
promised to get their letters,
while probably five hundred expressed
their purpose to live more for God's
glory. The atmosphere has been
warmed up, and conditions are much
better for doing the Lord's work. I do
not think we have had for many years
such earnestness and evidence of true
reviving in the hearts of God's people.
A. F. Carr.
ARKANSAS.
Searcy: This church has extended a
call to Rev. W. S. Lacy, who has been
taking a course of study in Union Theological
Seminary the past year or two.
Arkansas Presbytery: The constitutional
requirements having been complied
with, I hereby call a meeting of the Arkansas
Presbytery to be held in the First
Presbyterian Church at Jonesboro, Arkansas,
Tuesday, March 29th, at 11:00 o'clnrk
a. m., for the purpose of transacting
the following items of business: First.
To dissolve the pastoral relation existing
between Rev. H. ft. Patrick and the
Blytheville Church. Second. To dismiss
Rev. H. H. Patrick to Upper Missouri
Presbytery. Chas. McKee,
TH. March 23, 1910.
Hope: Last Sabbath, March 13th, was
one of the greatest days our church has
had for a long time. The pastor, C. C.
Williams, D.D., announced the names of
fifteen new members, eight by letter and
seven by faith and baptism. We had
just the usual services that day, but we
try to make every service a special one.
Special prayer is offered every Sabbath
morning in the homes of many of the ,
people for God to bless the services that
day, and also throughout the world, and
we believe He is doing it.
Selma: All representatives who expect
to attend the Presbytery of Tuscaloosa,
April 12th, will please notify Mr. J. M.
Gilmer, Selma, Ala., Route 2. All representatives
will be met at Potter's Station,
two miles from the church. There
will be two sermons daily. Dinner
served at the church; communion ser-"
vice at 2 p. m. Thursday. Let us pray
that this may be a meeting full of the
evangelistic spirit. Fraternally,
Junius M. Batte.
El Dorado: The growth and development
of the south and west are truly remarkable.
The influx of population, the
building of homes and communities are
to be seen everywhere. If foreign mission
work is work among foreigners, we
have both home and foreign work right
among us, which gives emphasis to the
truth that our mission work is one and
needs to be pressed in all sections and
lands, both as a matter of duty as well
as of self protection; for it is either
Christianize others or be heathenized
ourselves. The growth of El Dorado,
Ark., has been most rapid, with an influx
of population from everywhere. Rev.
J. P M pP Otrrlo *
_. ??.vuoic, uui present esteemed
pastor with many consecrated members
are continuing the work begun by saint
ed brethren, more than sixty years ago.
Our meeting though begun amidst unusual
discouragements, was richly blessed.
Eleven adult members were ^received;
eighteen children were baptized; some
promised to erect family altars; a number
pledged themselves to better lives.
The sum of $304 was raised to pay a
debt on the manse; $24.83 for incidental
purposes and $45.36 for Presbyterial
Home Mission work. My next appoint
ment is at DeVall's Bluff, in Arkansas
Presbytery where I cn nftoi
four meetings in Ouachita Presbytery,
during which meetings there were fiftytwo
members received into our Church,
fifty children were baptized and enrolled
as baptized non-communicating members,
and the sum of $3,042.49 was raised
for various church purposes.
Wm. H. Richardson.
FLORIDA.
Jacksonville: On March 13 th? Snrlne
field Church elected the following officers:
J. M. Correy, Arthur S. Harris and
Chas. E. Dorsey, elders, and T. H. Sompayrac,
R. D. Womack, Jr., W. S. Dillon,
C. L. Bragg and B. K. Bullard, deacons.
Mr. Correy has been an elder in other
churches. He Is director of religious
work in the Y. M. C. A. Messrs. Harris