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Laguaite-lterkele?At the home of the
bride's mother, in New Orleans, La.,
September 7, 1911, by He v. Dr. George
Summey, Mr. John Baptiste l^iguaite,
Jr., of New Orleans, and Miss Alma
Rebecca Berkele, only daughter of Mrs.
Kate Wherritt Berkele, and niece of Mr.
and Mrs. W. M. Bogle.
MJltoii'llarvey?In Phoenix Presbyterian
church, Sept. 6, 1911, by Rev. B.
F. Bedinger, assisted by Rev. R. L. Mc.
Nalr, Mr. Frank T. Milton and Miss
Irene "Wl Harvey, both of Charlotte
county, Va.
jBealljg
Clancy, Mrs. J. T.?Departed this life
at her home in Augusta, Ga., August
14. A noble and consecrated Christian
mother and grandmother has gone
to her reward. She was a consistent
member of the First Presbyterian
church.
Ilaiiimell, Mrs. Martha Lv?For
many years a consistent member of the
First Presbyterian church of Augusta,
Ga., died early in the month of August,
leaving a son and daughter.
Sibley, Mrs. Geo. R.?A most consecrated
and earnest member of the First
Presbyterian church of Augusta, Ga., departed
this life September 8. Funeral
services were conducted by the pastor.
Rev. J. R. Sevier, assisted by her former
pastor. Rev. J. T. Plunkett. of Birmingham.
Solomon?At. the home of her son,
Haskell. Tex., Aug. 5, 1011, Mrs An.
nie Vigne Solomon in her 07th year.
Born in Italy, of Waldensee parents,
she emigrated to S. A. "Where she married,
and in 1875 she came to the U. S.
In youth she joined the church of her
fathers and for more than 80 years
honored her Ix>rd in her life. "Blessed
are the dead which die in the Ivord."
Her Former Pastor.
Taylor.?Died at her home near Christiansburg,
Va., July 5, 1911, Mrs. Melinda
Taylor. A peaceful departure, after
a brief illness, and looking forward with
faith and hope for an entrance into the
rest that remaineth for the people of
God.
Mrs. McXutt-?Few persons in the
community and congregation of New
Providence are loved and admired as
was Mrs. Virginia McNutt.
She will be sadly missed in the com.
munuy, tne cnurcn ana tne home, but
as her death came after a long illness
of great suffering as a blessed relief and
closed a long life rare in its Christian
virtues, the tears we shed, the grief we
feel, are not for her but for ourselves.
She leaves two children, Mrs. T. C.
Dickerson, of near Staunton, Va., and
Mr. Robert J. McNutt. of the "Maples."
Virginia Evelyn Gully was born in
Madison county, Va., August 17, 1832.
When but a child she was left an orphan.
Her young girlhood was spent
in Waynesboro with relatives till she
came to live with her married sister,
Mrs. Oulton, who resides in Rockbridge
county, near New Providence
church. Here she was married to
Mr. Robert McNutt. For a short
time they lived at "Rock Castle," the
McNutt homestead, but for some forty
years she had been the joy and comfort
at the "Maples." One who knew her
intimately and loves her with an intense
devotion says, "No wife nor mothPT
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unselfish than she was. The patient
way In which she bore her suffering was
an evidence of her Christian character
On June 20 relief from suffering came
and she was laid alongside of her bus.
hand, June 21st. She was a woman of
rare refinement and speech, manner and
behaviour. She was a lady to the manner
born, added to this was a careful
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training and education, added to this
was the Grace of God in her heart,
which made her love things spiritual.
God and Christ, her Saviour, were very
real to her. and one of her oft ex.
pressed regrets during her long illness,
which caused great physical weakness,
was that she could not pray more. She
was always devoted to her church and
Its ministers, and longed to have its
pastors visit and pray with her. I always
felt that a visit to Mrs. McNutt
was more of a benediction to me than
it was to her."
ENTERED INTO REST.
Mrs. Agnes Moreland. widow of the
late Richard Rodgers Moreland, died at
her home, 1015 Stockley Garden, Norfolk,
Va., at 7 o'clock A. M. on the 5th of September,
in the 71st year of her age. She
lived a beautiful life and her death was
a beautiful death. After a lingering
illness of three months, on the morning
of September 5th. after a night of pain
and suffering she fell into a peaceful
sleep just as the sun flashed his golden
glory overhead, and in her sleep she
crossed the Sea of Death and in the
dawn of an eternal day stands in the
presence of the King of Righteousness
wearing the promised crown.
O, mother mine, who loved earth's rose,
Forgetting all its thorn somehow,
Tn God's eternal bowers you'll cull
The thornless rose of Sharon now.
O. mother mine, who loved unseen
Him who did lead thee all thy years,
You now rest in His pastures green
Where He hath wiped away all tears.
O, mother mine, whose perfect trust
Reposed in Him through sun or shade.
When He said "Come,"' to prove that
trust
You went with Him all unafraid!
O, mother mine, enjoy that bliss.
My tears seem frozen in mine eyes
And flow not when I think of this:
GOD CLAIMED HIS SAINT FOR PARADISE!
DR, KAL0P0THAKE8.
Editor Presbyterian of the South:
In your issue of August 16th appeared
a copy of the funeral notice of
Dr, Kalopotliakes, December 1825-June
29, 1911.
This little card awakened memories?
a few of which may be of some interest
to your readers: for it was the good fortune
of the writer to know Dr. Kalonn
takes in Athens long years ago when
this scribe was residing and studying
in Greece's far-famed capital.
Dr. Kalopothakes, when the writer
first met him, was in mourning, having
been lately bereaved by the death of his
first wife?a most excellent American
lady who had been a most active and
valued coadjutor to her husband in his
arduous and trying work. Their son?
a little hoy of three or four years?had
been taken in charge by Miss Kyle,
formerly of Boston, who was Dr. K.'s
indefatigable assistant in the mission
school work, and who a few years later
became his wife.
American missionary work had begun
at Athens almost with Greek independence
and nationality. Athens was
not at first the capital of newborn
Greece, the revolutionary head of the
nation was at NaupUa, the Napoli di Bomania
of the middle ages, in old Argolls
of the Morea?Peloponnesus?not far
from Corinth. But It seemed utterly
out of place that any other city than
Athens should be the seat of the Greek
government, and so the capital was removed
to Athens not long after the
Greeks had won their freedom.
Athens under Turks, Crusaders and
other former tyrants, had been reduced
from the glorious marble city of Pericles
to a miserable hamlet of about 300
UN OF THE SOOTH
houses grouped under the great rock of
the Acropolis. Dr. Hill told the writer
that when in 1830 he had established
his mission school?Episcopal?in Athens,
he could find only one house large
enough to accommodate his first pupils
?only a very few in number. Such was
the wretched state of the old Athens,
the beautiful "City of the Violet Crown,"
the joy of the whole earth. The Presbyterians,
Episcopalians, Congregationalists
and other religious bodies were
actively at work in various parts of
Greece very soon after the nation had
become independent.
The missionary work was watched by
the Greeks with jealous eyes. What
was the purpose of those foreign
churches and schools?
Let it be remembered that for much
more than a thousand years there had
been an intense, a most bitter struggle
between the Eastern and Western
Churches. Time and again Rome had
attempted by every means; ecclesiastical,
political, violent, or what not, to
reduce the Oriental or Greek Church,
to subjection to the Papal power. Even
the Crusades, or Holy Wars, avowedly
for the purpose of regaining Jerusalem
and the Holy Sepulchre from the infidels,
had violated the confidence of the
Greeks by seizing upon Constantinople
and transforming the Greek empire, for
more than a half century, into a Eatin
kingdom; and later the Romish missionaries
were everywhere at work in the
domains of the Oriental Church, seeking
that Church's disruption and destruction.
Even the Saracen was a foe less
wily than the Frank and less to he
dreaded.
"Let us remember, too, that the Oriental
Church and Greek nationality have
been identified in the mind of every
Hellene, as one and inseparable. Whatever
calamities befell the nation, the
Church was the first and heaviest suf
ferer. The patriarchs of Constantinople,
Jerusalem, Antioch, Alexandria,
had?many of them?suffered martyrdom
at the hands of the enemies of the
nation. The churches everywhere had
heen despoiled or destroyed by ruthless
conquerors; the minor priests had
always and everywhere identified themselves
with the popular cause. Priests
were leaders in every effort at resistance
against the bloody foreign foe and
barbarian; their blood had stained altars,
churches and battlefields. In fine,
the Greek Church and the Greek nationality
were in the popular mind, one and
forever indivisible. War upon one was
war upon the other; patriotism and
loyalty to the national Church were
identical; disaffection to the one was
treason to the other.
It Is doubtful if our early American
missionaries to Greek lands, made sufficient
account of these Inbred, timeconsecrated
feelings of the Helenic race.
With us the total separation of Church
and State was and Is'a conviction as
radical as the identity of the two in the
Greek mind, and when our missionaries
began the organizing of Protestant
churches among the Greeks, it seemed
to be a revival of the efforts of Jesuits
and friars for the destruction of the
Hellenic Church and nation. Was the
newly-delivered nation to be disrupted
by the insidious work of the foreign
missionary?
True the Americans had by far the
first place among the nations in the af
fection of the Greeks. We were looked
upon as Phil-Hellenes pre-eminently, as
well as phll-anthroplsts. America's
sympathy and open hand had been extended
often to Greece in her hours of
direst need, and It may be safely said
that today no other foreigners are half
so popular with the Greeks as are we
of the Western world.
But what of this "Western Invasion
Into the domains of their beloved
Church?
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Most of tlic early missionaries sought
to organize churches of their own
creeds along with schools, among the
people. The schools, but not the
churches, met with much popular favor
among a people the most eager?perhaps
the keenest intellectually?of all
Europeans for culture. Doubtless had
schools alone been the aim of the new
missionaries, there would have been
very general, hearty enthusiastic cooperation
on the part of the Greeks.
Very many of the Greeks?even before
the revolution?had studied in foreign
universities, especially in Germany.
Foreign learning was at an immense
premium, but foreign eccleslastlcism
was at a heavy discount. The colporteur
work?especially the distribution
of the American and British, Romaic or
"Modern" Greek Bible?aroused the
keenest antagonism. "What, have we
not the Scriptures in our own sacred
tongue, in the "original Greek" of the
"seventy" and of the Apostles, that these
foreigners should thrust upon us their
barbarous versions in the vulgar Romaic,
which we are expurgating, purifying
and bringing back to the New
Testament standards"? So the populace
reasoned, and the poor colporteurs
often had hard lines to pass, sometimes
even attended with bodily danger.
Probably today with the advance of
learning among the people there would
be little need for a Romaic version of
the Scriptures. As Dr. Chalmers once
expressed it gleefully: "What a glorious
thought! A whole nation needing
no translation of the Bible."
The problem confronting the missionary
organizations was, "Shall we establish
churches based upon our creeds
along with our initial missionary efforts
in Hellenic lands: or, shall we simply
found schools, hospitals, and other eleemosynary
institutions, etc., at the first,
and dppend upon, and wait for, the development
of these as a basis upon
which to build our future churches"?
It was a question as to the better policy
in regard to the work. Bet us not
discount the good faith, the sincerity of
either party in the work. Many?most
indeed?of the churches represented in
this mission field, chose to defer the
organizing of their churches to a more
favorable period, and confine their immediate
efforts to educational and philanthropic
work, thereby '"
the people and prepari
future work. This was
the far easier and more popular way of
approach to the people. Comparatively
little opposition was to be encountered
along these lines. The venerable
Dr. Hill, of the Protestant Episcopal
mission, once told the writer that more
than 10,000 Greek girls had been edu
cated wholly, or In part. In the missionary
school conducted hv his wife,
the venerable "Mother Hill." What
American in the Athens of thirty or
fortv years ago doesn't bless her memory?
The work of Dr. Kalopothakes, and
doubtless the policy of his church, was
of the more positive kind: i. e., of
church-organizing and Bible and tractdistributing.
This manner of work of
course brought him into direct and
sharp antagonism to popular ideas and
prejudices, and provoked most hitter
hostility among the masses led on by
the Greek clergy. His colporteurs experienced
many difficulties, sometimes
even personal dangers, In their work,
and his churches in Athens and in the
(Peiraeus had small favor 'with ithe
national Church.
But the writer can never cease to
admire Dr. Kalopothakes' fortitude and
devotion In bearing up so nobly against
the antagonism and calumny to which
he was subjected. Despite It all he
went bravely on with his work and it
is doubtful if any other could have fol