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the Confederate chaplain who has so
long been pastor 01 uie Dutton Memorial
church ot Churiestowii. iliu manse
by the church, so long di. iiOi<mus
nome, is now occupied oy tue popular
supenntenuent of puolic schools, mi*.
right Denny, himself a sou of the
manse, and the visitor must go iurtuer
out beyond Stephenson Seminary, to
nnd "iMansneld," tue beautiful new town
of tne pastor, the house is of colonial
style ana promises tne old familiar gracious
welcome, a friend is sure to receive
at its portal. Dr. inopaius is familiarly
known aud revered as the
"rvisuop of Homeville," and it is said
tuat he is the best known and best
loved man in Jeherson county. His
uealtli is good aud his strength suineieut.
Many, many who love and admire
him wisn that his bow may long
abide in strengtn. He and his contemporaries,
l>r. Henry M. Vvhite, Ur. Uranam
and Dr. Geo. W. White, F. Al.
Woods and such men made vvincnester
Tresbytery a legion of honor and might.
Alartiugburg: Tne pastor, Rev. F. Al.
Woods never seemed more attractive
than he did this summer to a casual
visitor. His health is vigorous, and his
snow white hair a crown of glory. A
glance at his study library, stocked
with the choicest of the old and new
reveals the secret of bis freshness and
vigor in the sacred desk. The new edilice
of his people, erected in 1902, is of
unusual style and most attractive. The
pulpit will not lose its influence so long
as such men as the venerahle miRtnr r?f
Martinsburg use It as a throne.
Martinsburg: The regular quarterly
communion service in the Presbyterian
church in this city took place last Sunday
morning. Dr. Woods preached on
. Friday night and Saturday afternoon as
well as on Sunday morning before the
administration of the sacrament.
The Sunday night services in the
Presbyterian church of this city has
been resumed again, beginning last
Sunday night. These services were suspended
during the hot weather of the
summer.?Statesman Democrat.
Hillsboro: The handsome new brick
Presbyterian church?Oak Grove?built
at a cost of $12,000 was dedicated on
Sunday, August 27, 1911, in the presence
of a crowd estimated at 1,500. The sermon
was delivered by the Rev. R. B.
Hudson, of the Mount Pleasant Church.
Other preachers participating in the
service were Rev. David S. Sydenstricker,
D. D.f former pastor; Rev. A. S. Rachal,
of Marlinton; the present pastor,
Rev. J. C. Johnson and Rev. S. Register
Neel, of the M. E. Church, South. Dinner
was served on the grounds, and the exercises
of the day were enjoyed by all.
A collection of $500 was taken that day
wiucn win be expended in furnishing
the handsome edifice.
PERSONAL.
Rev. Dr. W. H. Marquess, recently of
the Kentucky Theological Seminary,
Louisville, has agreed to become an instructor
in the Bible Teachers' Training
School of New York, under the care of
Dr. White.
Rev. R, B. Mann, lately of Wadesboro,
N. C., having removed to Blacksburg,
Ga., to take the principalship of the
Academy, may be addressed at the latter
place.
Rev. R. E. McAlpine, of our Japanese
Mission, may be addressed for the pressent
at Rock Hill, S. C.
Rev. Dr. J. C. Barr, of Charleston,
West Virginia, was called away from
earth to his heavenly rest nn Seniemhor
8th. He wag for many years pastor of
the First church of that city. A sketch
of the life of this distinguished servant
of the Church and Its great Head will
appear In our neit number.
Ber. A. L. Patters o* and family have
returned to Blackshear, t$a., after a few
weeks atay in the mountains of N. C.
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THE PRESBYTERI
aud Tennessee, and have taken up the
work with renewed energy.
iter. Wee. A. Uuille?Not Rev. Geo. E.
Guille, the popular pastor of Greene
oiieet Church, Savannah, Ga., as the
type made us say last week?has begun
his work as pastor of Valley Creek
and Pisgah churches in Alabama.
Aurnliuui Adams McAllister, of Covington,
Va., celebrated his 70th birthday
August 5th ultimo., in a happy reunion
of his children and grandchildren, as
lollows: Sons: Joseph. Thompson McAllister,
of Hot Springs; Win. McDonald
McAllister, Covington; Rev. Dr. James
Gray McAllister, .Louisville, Ky.; Dr.
Adams Stratton McAllister, New York;
Hugh Moilitt McAllister and Julian
Robert McAllister, Covington. Grandchildren:
Joe T. McAllister, Jr., and
Miss Jean McAllister, Hot Springs;
Franklin Adams McAllister, Misses
Mary Lydia, Gertrude and Catherine
Ellen McAllister, of Covington. Others
present were Mrs. Julian R. McAllister,
Mrs. William McD. McAllister, and Mrs.
W^ille Stephenson, of Covington; Mrs.
George William Stribling, of Point
Pleasant, W. Va.; Miss Josephine Telford,
of Lewisburg, W. Va.?Greenbrier
Independent.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS.
llev. Dr. Geo. 0. Bach man, from Nashville
to Goodlettsville, Tenn.
Rev. Dr. II. 1). Hunter from Greenville
Tex., to "Williamson, W. Va.
OPENING OF UNION SEMINARY.
The Centennial Session of Union Theological
Seminary, Richmond, Va., will
begin on Wednesday, September 20th,
at 4 P. M., and the opening address will
be delivered by Rev. Theron Rice, D. D.
The communion service, which is always
held at 8 o'clock on the first Sunday
evening of the session will be conducted
by Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D. D.
The reception to the new students
which with its speeches and music and
social recreation is always a delightful
feature of the opening week, will be
given in the parlors of Richmond Hall,
on Monday evening, the 25th, from 8 to
11 o'clock. The buildings and furniture
nave oeen very mucn improvea and
freshened during the summer, the beautiful
grounds have been put in perfect
order, and the new gymnasium in Richmond
Hall is being fitted up with shower
baths and lockers. The registration
of new students shows that there will
be a large attendance.
AN OVERLOOKED POWER.
A canvas among some representative
laymen and ministers of our church reveals
the fact that one of our magazines
has not the place it should occupy in the
estimate of Southern Presbyterians. The
magazine is that published at Union
Theological Seminary, Richmond. Current
opinion seems to suppose that this
publication Is the outlet for the products
of the students of the Seminary,
just as college papers devoted to the
products of collegians. The Union Seminary
Magazine is contrary in its aims
to the usual college publications; it
stands high in the field of scholarship
and thought, and is the counter-part of
Union Seminary to the Princeton Review
of the Theological Seminary at
Princeton. Thus Union Seminary Magazine
is unique in the place it holds in
our church and the aim it espouses.
It is a publication constituted of discuscussion
which are the products of many
of our ablest ministers and laymen, on
subjects of the theological and ecclesiastical
interest. To these discussions not
less than eighty pages of each issue are
devoted. Each issue contains discussions
relative to work on the mission
fields, and the contributions to this department
have afforded some of the most
striking and able productions of the
magazine's history, A department of
AN OF THE SOUTH
book reviews is conducted by a staff of
scholarly critics in the pastorate and
seminary faculty; the reviews range the
choice of the output of the publishers
and tersely indicate the reviewers' impression
of the aim, contents and value
of the books reviewed.
One deplores the lack of information
and consequent neglect of a magazine
which has enjoyed the co-operation of
our most eminent divines and has been
chosen to disseminate the more scholarly
studies of men such as Dr.| Peck,
Dr. Webb, Dr. Vaughan, Dr. Dabney. Dr.
Strlckler, Dr. Johnson. A partial list
of the contributors and their proposed
work for the coming year (September,
1911-May 1912) will indicate the status
and range of the work of the Magazine,
they are as follows: Dr. C. E.
Gordon on the relation of Church and
state; President Thornton Whaling, on
Dr. Girardeau, (the third of a series on
Dr. Girardeau); Dr. Theron H. Rice on
the necessity and value of the so-called
"less important" portions of Scripture;
Dr. A. F. Schautfer, Chairman Internat.
S. S. Lesson Committee, on the work of
the committee; President H. Tucker
Graham, on the Religious Struggles of
John Randolph; Dr. P. P. Flournoy, on
the Aramaic Papyri of Elephantine; Dr.
A. M. Fraser reviewing the last General
Assembly. These indicate a portion of
the work the magazine will cover during
the year.
Contributions are not solely from the
pastorate, nor is the relevancy of the
matters discussed confined to pastoral
and pulpit interest; the prevalently
practical caste of the discussions in the
magazine and the diversity of subjects
discussed carry home its appeal to every
thinking man. The system by which
it is published puts it financially in reach
being but $1 per year, as compared with
the usual $3.00 which such publications
demand. For information and fuller
prospectus write R. A. McLeod, Busiiness
Manager, Union Theoligical Seminary,
Richmond, Va., or send him at
once the subscription price. A magazine
conducted within our church, by
those in full sympathy with its movement,
demands the attention of thoughtful
Presbyterians everywhere through
the South. W. T.
COLUMBIA THEOLOGICAL
SEMINARY.
The Seminary will in two weeks begin
its new career with a president at its
head for the first time in its history.
On account of its changed government
more interest than usual is felt this
year in the approach of the fall opening,
which is set for September 20th. Dr.
Thornton Whaling, president of the institution,
has been traveling this summer
in the interest of the Seminary,
having covered something like 6,000
miles in this State, in Alabama and
Georgia. "I have been warmly received,"
said Dr. Whaling, "and find that a deep
interest in the Seminary is cherished
throughout its constituency. The prospects
I regard as extremely good for
an increased attendance of students."
Dr. Whal'ng stated that everything
is in readiness for the opening. The
buildings have been worked over, the
grounds aro being improved by cement
walks, and the campus will present a
much more attractive appearance by the
beginning of the session.
Dr. Whaling spoke with quite an
amount of pride of the literary and lecture
work done by various of the professors
of the Seminary during the sum
mer.
"Dr. W. W. McPheeters spent tbe summer
at Hendersonville," he said, "engaged
in preparing his lectures on the
"Stone Foundation" for Princeton Seminary.
The appointment to this lectureship
is a distinguished honor which is
given to the leading scholars of the
[ September 13, 1911
ami has never come South but once before.
Dr. Henry A. White, after completing
two books that are to. be published at
an early date, went for a few weekB
to Gloucester, Va., for a little rest. Dr.
K. C. Heed spent most of the summer
in Columbia at his home and has made
good beginning on the general catalogue
of the Seminary, which he will press to
completion during the year. Dr. R. G.
hearson, the English Bible professor, is
now at Knoxville for a vacation. He
was a lecturer at Montreat, N. C., for
several weeks and aroused unusual enthusiasm,
as shown by the fact that upon ^ '
motion of Dr. Edgar Smith of Nashville, ,
the whole Montreat assembly by riBlng
vote approved of his election to Columbia
Seminary and expressed their belief ;
that he would prove a remarkably gifted
teacher in the field of English Scripture."?The
Columbia State.
FOREIGh MISSION NOTES.
October is Foreign Mission month.
ThiB year it is an especially an important
month. The amount of the offerings
to Foreign Missions will determine
whether our work, with the unprecedented
favorable outlook shall advance,
be maintained as it is or retreat.
There are three conditions that will
bring about one of the three results.
1. An increase in the October offering
over that of last year sufficient to
meet the approved annual appropriations
to all the Missions, reduce the debt
and provide for the reasonable advance,
not only possible but urgently called
for by the unevangelized in all our
fields.
2 An offering of sufficient increase
over last year to meet the approved appropriations,
and reduce the debt. This
means barely holding the line of battle.
A delayed advance now would develop
a grave situation in the field.
3. An ofiering less than last year
meanB retrenchment on the field and serious
embarrassment in the home office.
Retreat is a disaster the church will
certainly not permit.
October offering literature is ready
for distribution. Two of the strongest
inspiring leaflets on the financial
situation and conditions in the Missions
have been Issued. "Our Foreign Missionary
Debt," by Rev. S. H. Chester,
secretary, is a statement of the origin,
erowth and ninnninfir of t; p. amounts
due homo creditors *nd missionaries
on the field. In "An Open Letter" our
missionaries at home on furlough ask
the friends of Mission to listen to voices
from the field, consider the impossibility
of retrenchment and to the call of
the church.
These lepfllctg will be supplied in any
quantity desired. Samples have been
sent to all pastors, with postal card
order blank for use in requesting the
number that can be used in the congregation.
Chairman of Missionary committees
and Women's Missionary Societies
can make good use of the literature.
Send request at once to the executive
committee.
There are indications of a determination
to relieve the situation. Pastors are
expressing their interest Rev. Egbert
W. Smith. Secretary, renorts that a lav
man who has recently made generous
contributions to Foreign Missions, adds
to his gift a pledge of $5,000 on the special
fund, and that another friend has
promised $1,000. An elder, deeply moved
by conditions at home and afield,
gave his check for $500 and expressed
the belief that a large number of church
officers might be found who would make
generous emergency fund gifts.
The native Christians and missionaries
on the field are both praying and
giving to the emergency fund. The
debt condition was presented to the con.
gregatlon of the Cardenas, Cuba church,
and a free will offering of $57.20 was
made. A proportionate October offer