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May 18, 1910. THI
ing that there will be a widespread and
substantial response to this appeal, I remain,
Cordially yours,
A. D. P. Gilmour.
WEST VIRGINIA.
Summerville: This weak, old .church
(organized in 1839) which has been vacant
for several years, and without any
preaching by our own ministers for nearly
three years, was very much helped by a
visit in April from Rev. R. E. Redding, of
Falling Spring, who came on the 13th
and for eight days preached the gospel
of Jesus with convincing power to the
delight of all who heard. Three young
people, children of the Covenant, were
received on examination. The communion
of the Lord's Supper was administer- *
ed on the Sabbath. $28.10 was raised for
local Home Missions. We feel encouraged
and thankful. E. P. W.
Maiden: On Wednesday evening, April
27, Rev. J. W. Carpenter was installed
pastor of the Kanawha-Salines Church
at Maiden, W. Va. This fine old church
was served for twenty-five years by the
Rev. John Brown. He is now at Lewisburg,
W. Va., but during his pastorate
the church sent out some of the finest of
men for this Kanawha Valley. The
church has met with reverses in deaths
and removals until the handful of members
left were unable to do all that was
. done in former years. During the last
vpnr whilo tha nroQPnt nflstnr WAS AWAV
on a trip, plans were put on foot by
some of the members that resulted in
the church cutting adrift from the Home
Mission Committee and asking their
pastor to stay in Maiden for his full
time. This has not been done in years
before. The plans perfected, he was called
and the call was accepted. On the above
date he was installed before a very representative
congregation. Sickness prevented
some from attending, but there
was a good congregation. Rev. Dr. Ernest
Thompson, of the First Church,
Charleston, presided and preached the
sermon and propounded the constitutional
questions. Elder J. M. Payne charged
the people and Dr. Thompson charged
the pastor. The best work of this old
church is not over by any means. The
Sabbath school is well attended. The
church services are well attended. The
property of the church has all been put
in repair and freshly painted, and the
church is running a mission Sabbath
school in a town nearby. A more loyal,
liberal, generous people could not be
found in a long time. Pastor.
Kenova: Rev. J. B. Waller came to
Kanawha Presbytery from Norfolk, Va.,
and settled in Kenova, W. Va., where
there was no church, simply a handful
of about twenty members meeting in the .
back room of a hotel. He immediately
started in to secure a church
building, which has been obtained and
they now have a beautiful church of their
own, all paid for and free from debt, valued
at least at $4,000 and a church membership
of seventy-five. He was requested
to preach in West Huntington, W. Va.,
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on Sunday afternoon, where a little Sunday-school
had been organized on the
third floor of the public school building.
He had been laboring there but a
short time when he' realized that a
church should be organized in that locality,
which was done in the following
fall, and with the assistance of the pastor
and the members of the First Presbyterian
Church, Huntington, W. Va.,
they undertook to build a new church,
which has just been completed and we
now have a beautiful brick church which
was dedicated by Mr. Waller on last Sunday
afternoon. The Rev. Newton Donaldson
preached the sermon. The church
and grounds are valued at about 57,000,
and all has been paid for with the
exception of $500, with a membership
of about sixty. Both of these
churches have paid all of their running
expenses, including the pastor's salary,
from the start, besides making generous
contributions to most of the beneficent
causes of the church. Mr. Waller
requested Presbytery this spring to al
low him to devote all his time to tne
Kenova Church, and this summer the
Second Church, Huntington, W. Va., will
be supplied by a student from the Union
Seminary and in the fall we hope to secure
a minister for all of his time.
PERSONAL.
W. L. Downing changes from Van Horn
to Barstow, Texas.
Rev. Geo. D. Booth, D. D., changes from
Monroe, Louisiana, to 4320 Coliseum St.,
New Orleans, La.
Rev. Bunyan McLeod of Anderson, S.
C., has declined the call to the First
Presbyterian Church of Union, S. C.
Both Drs. Lingle and Flinn will attend
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Va.
Rev. Dp. J. Gray McAllister, formerly
president of Hampden-Sidney College,
has been engaged for another year at the
Kentucky Theological Seminary, Louisville.
He will spend his summer at Winchester,
Va., reaching various engagements
from that place.
Rev. W. S. Lacy has been appointed
Field Secretary of Union Theological
Seminary by the Board of Trustees and
will conduct the campaign referred to in
Mr. Kirkpatrick's card.
Rev. Ernest Thompson, D. D., pastor of
Pirot DroahutDHan Phurph Phftrlpfi.
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ton, W. Va., has accepted a call to the
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church of
Cincinnati. A congregational meeting
has been called to take action on his
resignation.
The Rev. Arthur T. Pierson, D. D., will
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of his
ordination to the ministry by preaching
on May 15, in the Thirteenth Street
Presbyterian Church, New York City, in
which he was ordained over fifty .,*c?rs
ago, by the Pesbytery of New York, and
bv Dreachine Mav 22. in the Fifth Ave
nue Presbyterian Church, New York
City, the exact date of his ordination being
May 20. The Golden Wedding of Dr.
and Mrs. Pierson will be celebrated July
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12. Some friends, including Mr. Wm. R.
Moody, of East Northfield, Mass., are
planning to mark the occasion in a special
manner.
Rev. Dr. Alexander McLaren, the noted
preacher and expositor of Manchester,
England, died in Edinburgh, Scotland, on
May 5, in his eighty-fourth year.
Professor Albert T. Clay, whom J. Pler^
pont Morgan has chosen to fill the chair
or Assyrian and Babylonish literature
which Le lately endowed at Yale, is well
known as a stout advocate of the proposition
that archaeology demonstrates the
historical accuracy of Genesis.
TO THE PRESBYTERIANS OF ALA
BAMA.
"The King's business requires haste!"
In order that the Synod of Alabama may
carry out its agreement with the Talladega
Church and citizens to erect a new
college building on a site, donated to the
Synodical College for Women, there remains
the sum of about $8,000 yet to be
subscribed, and it must be subscribed
within the next month. Now, there is
no doubt about the Presbyterians of Ala
uaiua iiavmg iuc uiunej. xut: umy question
is whether they will give what is
needed to the Lord tor the education of
the daughters of their beloved Church?
Are there not five Presbyterians, in the
State, who will subscribe $500 each to
this all-important cause, one hundred dollars
to b6 paid in November, 1910, followed
by the payment of one hundred dollars
each year thereafter for four successive
years? And are there not ten,
who will subscribe $250 each, to be paid
in the same manner, and twenty, who
will subscribe $200, to be paid in the
same way?
If our church members will do this, we
will have sufficient funds for enabling the
Synod to carry out its part of the com
tract, entered into with the Talladegat
citizens at the meeting in Mobile, and
the work will go forward at once, and
ample accommodations will be provided
for educating the Presbyterian girls in
the State, in our own instiuion.
I vet the men and women, whom God
has blessed with ample means, and who
love their Church, respond to this appeal
by writing to the undersigned, who has
been appointed to canvass the Synod for #
subscriptions. Why not do so at once,
and get through with this important
work?
The Rev. F. G. Railey has also been
appointed to assist in this canvass, and
is now engaged in the work, by visiting
the different churches; and I bespeak for
him a hearty reception, as he comes into
your community.
"The King's business requires haste!"
Let Presbyterians awake.
Sincerely,
f. a. Webb,
Pastor First Presbyterian Church, Talladega,
Ala.
The Spruell School is ?u>
IDEAL School for Boys, Marietta,
Ga.