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Cfmrcft Jfcetog JUNE
COLLECTIONS.
Offerings during the month of June
are for Assembly's Home Missions,
which is divided into four departments,
Evangelistic, Sustentation, Church
Erection and Mission Schools.
I It embraces the work in the mountains,
among the Indians, the Negroes,
the people of foreign speech, and the
unchurched regions of the West.
Remit promptly to A. N. Sharp,
Treasurer, Atlanta, Ga.
CHINA.
llangcliow: Recent letters bring accounts
of rice tax riots in Hangchow.
The situation was and is tense, but the
missionaries were unmolested.
The Famine in North Kiangsu and
adjoining regions is distressing, and
our hard worked missionaries have
been telegraphing to the missionaries
of the Mid-Ghina Mission for aid.
Miss M. Dickson Roe, of Kashing, has
been ordered home bv nhvsicians and
was to sail on June 10th. She has
been in China only two years and this
enforced furlough is a keen disappointment
to her and to her colleagues.
ALABAMA.
At on adjourn').! n cetinf. of TuscaIloosa
Presbytery, held in Selma, Ala.,
June 6, Mr. John H. Axford, a member
of Selma First Church, and a graduate
of Princeton Theological Seminary,
was taken under the care of the
Presbytery as a candidate and after
examination licensed as a probationer
for the ministry.
J. C. Praigg, 8. C.
Eufaula: The Commencement of the
College has just come to a close. The
Alabama Brenau is justly claimed as
belonging to the three States of Alabama,
Georgia and Florida. The graduating
class of 1911 had among its
number eight from Georgia, four from
Alabama, and two from Florida. The
operetta, play and concert given by the
school were pronounced the best ever
given. The Commencement Sermon
was preached by Rev. J. E. McCann,
of Eufaula, and the Baccalaureate address
was given by Rev. G. F. Bell,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church
of Dothan, Ala. The year has been unusually
successful and the outlook for
the coming year is brighter than ever.
THE PRESBYTERIi
ARKANSAS.
Prairie Grove: A very interesting and
profitable meeting of two weeks duration
in this church waB closed Sabbath
night, June 11th. Rev. E. M.
Stewart, of Lafayette, La., assisted the
pastor, Rev. F. A. Bradshaw, Mr. Stewart
doing all the preaching. The weather
during the entire meeting except
the last two days was exceedingly hot
for this climate and prevented the attendance
of many. But notwithstanding
the excessive heat, there was a
good attendance throughout the meeting.
Mr. Stewart gave the gospel truths
in such an attractive, earnest and simple
manner as to endear himself to the
people of all denominations who had
the good fortune to hear him. He has
done a great work in this church that
we believe will continue to bear fruit
as the years go by. The church is
strengthened and Southern Presbyterianism,
and that for which it stands,
is better understood than ever before.
This is more needful here than in places
where there are long established
churches of our denomination.
Before leaving for his home Mr. Stewart
was urged to accept a call to one
of the important churches of this Presbytery,
but declined to give a favorable
answer, at least, until after further
consideration. At the close of the meeting
a gentleman and his wife were
received by letter from the Gordon
Park Congregational church, of Chicago,
111., and two others on profession
of faith. The visible results by no
means measure the great good accomplished
by Mr. Stewart's inspiring sermons.
Synodical Home Missions: The following
amounts have been subscribed
for Synodical home missions for the
year 1911; cents omitted:
Presbytery of Arkansas: Augusta,
$70; Argenta. $115; Batesville, $69;
Black Rock, $23; Blytheville, $50; Cot
ton Plant, $37; Conway, $31; Cotter,
$20; Des Arc, $36; Devall's Bluff, $66;
Earle, $29; Forest City, $56; Jamestown,
$10; Jonesboro, $182; Little Rock,
Central $91, First $300, Second $ 206,
Westminster 25; Lonoke, $22; Marianna
$111; McCrory, $16; Newport, 164; Osceola,
$40; Searcy, $54; Spring Creek,
$20; Walnut Ridge, $68; Wynne, $59.
Total, $1,968.60.
Ouachita Presbytery: Hot Springs,
$234; Malvern, $79; Arkadelphia, $116;
Gurdon, $65; El Dorado, $76; Scotland,
$19; Junction City, $145; Stamps, $157;
Lewisville, $67; Nashville, $37; Hope,
$629; Mena, $31; De Queen, $160; Ashdown,
$68; Columbus, $67; Texarkana,
$204; Prescott, $84; Washington, $39;
Jakajones, $20; Mt. Holly, $33; Camden,
$145; Champion Hill, $14. Total,
$2,464.
Pine Bluff Presbytery: Fordyce, $630;
Lake Village, $28; Dermott, $78; Hamburg.
$81; Wllmot, $34; Montlcello,
$194; Mt. Zlon, $11; Star City, $33;
Pine Bluff?First $438, Poplar Street,
$13; Clarendon, $37; Marvell, $26; Holly
Grove, $110; Helena, $100; Warren,
$260; Oak Grove, $18; Banks, $2; Carthage,
$19; Princeton, 28. 2Total, $2,039.
Washburn Presbytery: Canvass made
by the Presbyterlal Home Mission
Committee through the Every Member
Canvass plan and amount estimated at
$670. Total for Synod, $7,122.10.
J. C. Williams, Chairman.
FLORIDA.
Orlando I There have been Ave additions
to this church very recently.
Four of these were heads of families,
and two of them on profession of faith.
Several others have indicated their pur
pu?e iu juiu very booh, me ivev. j. u,
Anderson, D- D., is temporarily supplying
this charge.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta: At an adjourned meeting
k N OF THE SOUTH
of the Atlanta Presbytery held In the
First Presbyterian Church, May 30th,
1911, candidates Charles U. Crane and
J. Edwin Hemphill, of the recent graduating
class of Union Theological Seminary,
were examined and licensed as
probationers for the gospel ministry.
Mr. Crane, who is under appointment
for Africa, has entered the Forward
'Movement, and will lecture through
the South in the interests of Missions
until arrangements can be completed
for his departure for the Foreign Mission
field. His address will be 121 E.
Merritts Avenue, Atlanta, Ga. Mr.
UAmtlKlll ...AO /lUnoloooJ in t1k? nolo
iiciujiiini noa uiauiisscu lu AiueiiiiHic
Presbytery, where lie has entered the
Home Mission field at the call of the
First Church, Raleigh, N. C., and iB
doing evangelistic work in Wake county
as the assistant pastor and home missionary
of that church. His address
is Willow Springs, N. C.
?Druid Park Church: On Sunday,
June 18th, the interesting exercises attendant
upon the installation of Rev.
Thos. E. Converse, D. D., as pastor of
the church were witnessed by a number
of the friends and well wishers of this
growing church. Both congregation
and pastor are to be congratulated.
?North Avenue: On Sunday, June
11th, Rev. Richard Orne Flinn, D. D.,
preached the Baccalaureate sermon for
the graduating class of the Georgia
School of Technology. There will be
no more meetings of any of the various
organizations of the church until September.
On Sunday, June 18th, eight
of the Sabbath school scholars United
with the church on profession of their
faith in Christ.
?College Parks On the fourth Sabbath
of May, 1860, Dr. J. B. Mack was
licensed to preach the gospel. On the
same day, 1911, he conducted the communion
at College Park church, It being
his fifty-first anniversary, and also
the eleventh anniversary of the organization
of the College Park church.
On that day five new members were
received into the church. On the second
Sabbath of June Dr. Mack preached
his last sermon as pastor of this
church, and he received two new members
and the same day four other new
members at Hapeville. He goeB to Ft.
Mill, S. C., for a well earned rest. In
his half century of splendid usefulness
he has organized some fifty-eight
churches and built some sixty church
structures. No less than one hundred
men have entered the ministry under
his pastorate. Singularly enough, both
of the two distinguished Presbyters
who were recently elected to the Foreign
Mission secretaryship Joined the
church under his ministration.
KENTUCKY.
Rev. R. D. Montgomery has aocepted
calls from the Central City, McHenry
and Rockport churches. Mr. Montgomery
is on the ground and doing
excellent work.
Greenville has called Dr. W. R. Henderson,
its pastor, for his entire time.
Louisville: The Rev. Egbert Watson
Smith, D. D., pastor of the Second
Church announced his resignation
last Sunday. He becomes co-ordinate
Secretary of Foreign Missions.
St, Helen's Presbyterian Church,
West Lexington Presbytery: The second
Sunday In June was a day of Inspiration
and encouragement to this
little mission church. On that day we
had what we were pleased to term a
Sunday school Commencement. The
program Included the recitation before
a packed house of the Shorter Catechism
by seven members of the Sabbath
school after which the Child's
Catechism was recited by three of the
smaller children?one a child under
seven. The recitation of all was perfect
and with two exceptions has all
been accomplished within six months.
[ June 21, 1911
Besides these ten who successfully
completed the Catechisms there are at
least fifteen or twenty who are more
than half through under the inspiration
of the Sunday School Commencement.
Following the recitation the pastor
made a brief address to the Sunday
school on the value of the Catechism
and its place in the church, after which
he delivered the diplomas kindly proirtrlaJ
Kw f"PhrloHon
V 1UV/U UJ LUC VUUDHOU VUOC1 TCI| auu
the Bible and Testaments which the
Publication Committee provides.
The night service was given over to
the Young People's Societies and
right royally did they justify the concession
for they gave an overflowing
audience a magnificent program, deeply
spiritual and intensely in earnest. The
participation in such a program as this
by fifty or more young people in a
mountain mission church is to us prima
facie evidence of the fact that this
Presbytery is not in error in holding as
its motto in its mission work "Permanent
Occupation for Christ."
Pastor.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans. The Session of the
First church met with another serious
loss last week, in the death of its ruling
elder, Thos. J. McMillan. Mr. McMillan
web sick less than a week, and his end
was a surprise to all his friends. He
had reached a good old age, and had
lived a most useful life He was the
moderator of the Presbytery of New
Orleans in April, 1903, and for several
years had been chairman of the Presbytery's
Board which holds the titles
to all presbyterial property not in the
hands of the churches.
Arcadia: Rev. A. Inman Townsley,
the pastor of the Methodist Episcopal
church. South, kindly sends us the
program of the Dedicatory Servises of
his beautiful new church, to take place
on June 25. We congratulate our beloved
brother on the fine work he is
doing and upon the fine equipment for
it which this house will give. Mr.
Townsley's friends in New Orleans, in
all the churches, remember him most
affectionately.
French Wort: Whether from carelessness
on the part of the writer, the
linotype man, or the proofreader, our
nem Bearing tms suDhead, in last
week's paper made a botch of things.
Here's what was intended: The work
is progressing finely. One of our evangelists
reports that at his services
he has about as many people hanging
on, on the outside, at windows and
doors, as in the house. The Romanist
priest has threatened attendance with
non-absolution and thus some of the
people will not come inside, for fear
of the priest, but they are still anxious
to hear the word of God.
Coyington: At a congregational
meeting held a short time ago an elder
and two deacons were elected. Two
of these were already officers. At this
same meeting the pastor was agreeably
surprised by a raise of salary. Our
newly elected officers have now been
installed.
Slidell has had a valuable addition to
its diaconate, who was recently ordained
and installed.
Alexandria: Rev. B. L. Price reports
twenty-one additions to the church
ninro tho Bttflni, " -* n ' '
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eighteen of that number received on
profession of faith. The membership
of the church has now reached the two
hundred mark, and the Sabbath school
is maintaining a larger average attendance
than ever before. The addition
of four Individual class rooms for
the beginners and primary departments
together with the choir platform makes
a wonderful improvement, and is an
essential adjunct to the successful
work of the Sabbath school and church.