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April 13, 1910. THE
of the new members of Presbytery to
preach.
Dr. Russell Cecil will preach the sermon
to the graduating class of the Med
ical College of Virginia this year. The
student body, numbering about 250, and
the faculty will assembly in the Second
Church on this occasion.
Petersburg: Rev. Charles R. Stribling,
of Waynesboro, has declined the second
call extended him by the Tabb Street
Church.
Chatham: At the regular quarterly
communion services held in this church,
on first Sunday in April, the pastor, Rev.
R. G. McLees, announced the names of
eleven members who have united with
the church since the last communion.
Six of these were by letter and five by
profession of faith. One of the latter
was a gentleman 75 years of age, a son
of a former honored elder in this church
and grandson of a godly elder in Hampden
Sidney College Church, prior to the
year 1861. In his old a|;e, this gentleman
came before the session and made a remarkable
profession of faith in the
Christ, exhibiting deep humility and the
greatest faith. Two others were children
of one of the present elders and grandchildren
of that faithful minister, Rev.
F. N. Whaley. And another was a granddaughter
of another elder of this church
and great grand-daughter of a former
elder of this church and of the former
elder in Hampden Sidney College Church.
God is faithful to His promises in all
generations.
Winchester: Rev. Samuel Knox Phillips,
a graduate of the Union Theological
Seminary of Richmond, has accepted the
call extended by the congregation of the
Presbyterian Church at Berryville, Clarke
county, which will be his first charge.
Brictol: The Rev. Asa D. Watkins, who
has been pastor of Windsor Avenue Presbyterian
Church here for five years, has
resigned to accept a call to Raleigh, N. C.,
* where he will be assistant pastor of the
First Presbyterian Church. He will leave
Bristol early in May.
Lynchburg: At t^ie meeting of the
Montgomery Presbytery, which is to convene
April 12 at Bluefield, W. Va.f a petition
will be presented from several
Presbyterians at AltaVista for the organization
of a church in that thriving,
though new, town.
The Presbytery of Norfolk will hold its
Stated Spring Meeting in the Presbyterian
Church at Williamsburg, Va., April
19, 1910, at 8 p. m.
C. S. Lingamfelter.
Norfolk: Colley Memorial Church. The
pastor, Rev. R. A. Robinson, has been assisted
in a week's meeting by Rev. W. H.
T. Squires, of the Knox Church. These
services were attended by good congregations
which were most seriously impressed,
the results being five additions
to the communion, with the probability of
others. At the communion service folhob
in attendance one of
the largest concourse of communicants
In the history of the church.
PRESBYTERIAN OF THE SOt
?Second .Church: Last Sunday, April 3,
the pastor-elect, Dr. Thornton Whaling,
was installed with impressive service, the
congregations of the several churches
mining. u r. jos. nennie presided,
preached a very impressive sermon and
propounded the constitutional questions.
Rev. R. A. Robison delivered the charge
to the pastor and Rev. Stuart Nye Hutchison,
pastor-elect of the Ghent Church,
charged the people. This was Mr. Hutchison's
first ministration before the Presbytery
and made a most happy impression.
Dr. Whaling assumes this pastorate
under the most favorable auspices
and we' feel that his coming to Norfolk
not only strengthens the cause of Presbyterianism
in our Tidewater City, but,
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uic uiivncutc lis u piesuyier, gives
an increment of strength to the Presbytery
itself.
?Armstrong Memorial: At the communion
last Sunday the services were
unusually solemn in view of the recent
deaths in the congregation, notably that
of one of the oldest members, the wife
of our most efficient and honored elder.
Four additional members have been received,
and the pastor announced that,
through the self-denying efforts of some
of the good ladies in the church, a goodly
amount has been raised to curtail the debt
on the manse, under which the church
has been struggling for a number of
years. This manse, which is a handsome
brick building, built according to oldtime
methods of construction and with attractive
surroundings, is one of the best
in tho Proohxrf
?Knox Church: The pastor, Mr. Squires,
held on the last Sabbath in March, his
first preaching service at the Mission established
just outside of the grounds of
the exposition reservation, where a Sunday-school,
constantly increasing, has
been in operation for several months. The
service was well attended and the outlook
is progressive.
Rev. J. A. Paisley has received a call
to Mooresville, X. C. The Presbytery of
Roanoke will hold an adjourned meeting
in the Madisonville Church on the 15th
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the Pamplin group.
Rev. Ivanhoe Robertson will be Installed
pastor of Hermon Church on the
fifth Sabbath of May, by Rev. Messrs. B.
F. Bedinger, 'Hugh Henry and R. L.
McNair.
Keyeville: For a number of years the
Rev. Hugh Henry, pastor of old Briery
Church, kept up an afternoon appointment
in Keysville, which resulted in the
organization of a church in 1906. They
were really too "feeble a folk" to build
a house of worship, but with the help of
the entire community they raised about
half enough and borrowed the other half.
They now rejoice in having paid the last
dollar. Their beautiful house was dedicated
on the first Sabbath of April, Rev.
B. F. Bedinger preaching the sermon.
Keysville is now grouped with Hermon
and Wyliesburg under the care of the
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Rev. Ivanhoe Robertson.
Walnut Grove Church: A soul-stirring
meeting has just closed at High Point.
Only our home preacher and home singers,
no excitement, no cards used, few
propositions made, much quiet, kindlv
work, much earnest praying, all hearts
seemed touched, eighteen united with our
Presbyterian Church. Two young men
expressed wish to enter the ministry. To
God be all the glory. To us the endless
joy and good.
Crewe: Rev. W. W. Bain, of the
Presbytery of Greenbrier, has been dismissed
to the Presbytery of East Hanover.
He has accepted a call extended by
the church at Crewe, Va.
Blacksburg: Thd report of the Blacksburg
Presbyterian Church which the pastor,
Rev. D. J. Woods will present to
Montgomery Presbytery at Bluefield this
week shows that during the past church
year there was a per capita contribution
to all causes of thirtv dollars, a
showing of which the hard working minister
may well be proud when it is remembered
that of the ninety members
not more than half of those on the books
are heads of families and really the
' givers" in the church. This congregation
has led the Presbytery of Montgomery
in per capita giving for several years.
?Richmond Virginian.
PERSONAL.
Rev. J. E. Ward's address is changed
from Auburn, Ala., to Bainbridge, Ga.
Rev. J. W. Graybill has been dismissed
by Louisville Presbytery to the Presbytery
of Suwanee, Synod of Florida.
Rev. Dr. D. Clay Lilly's Richmond ad
dress is 205 West Grace St. Dr. Lilly began
his work in the Grace Street Church,
on the first Sunday in April.
Rev. S. H. Isler, of Albemarle Presbytery
died on Monday, April 4, at bishome
in Goldsboro, N. C., in the seventysecond
year of his age. He was ordained
in 1863, and spent his entire ministry in
Eastern North Carolina.
Rev. Dr. C. M. Richards is this week in
Mooresville assisting Rev. W. S. Wilson
in a series of services. Rev. Dr. Jam.es>McDowell,
now a visitor at the manse,
conducted the mid-week prayer-meeting
in the pastor's absence, making an earnest
and highly instructive address. His
words of truth and snhomocu i
v. mvmo impicas Clll
classes of hearers.
Rev. W. A. Murray, of Griffin, Ga., will
preach the baccalaureate sermon at the
North Georgia Agricultural College, Dalilonega,
wti.
Rev. W. A. Cleveland, pastor of the
Steele Creek Church, is In Birmingham,
Ala., taking part in the Thacker Meetings.
He will return in time to occupy
his pulpit on April 17.
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