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Wibe -Presbyterian of tbe &outb
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THOIUITOK S. WILSON, D. D.
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CONTRIBUTED;
Sunday Schools Foreign Mission
Day, Rev. H. F. Williams 1
Some Memories of Dr. Girardeau,
by Rev. Jas. H. McXeilly, D. D., 2
Paul's Contrasts, Rev. C. M. Hutton, 3
Rome's Estimate of the American
Constitution, Dr. Gonzalez, .... 3
Our Beloved Missionaries, Mrs.
Katharine Paxson, 4
Tlje Mormon Menace, Rev. W. H.
Perkins
, A Rejoinder, Rev. S. J. Cartledge, 17
? pi The Elect Infant Clause, Rev. Jno.
W. Stagg, 17
An Appeal 17
FAMILY READINGS';
to 'v 'Juat Plain Straddle 4
I The Cow Boy's Idea 4
. OUR BOYS AND GIRLS:
The Com Stalk, L. O. D. Edwards, 6
Hcrw Qneen Cherry Blossom Learned
to Rule, ?
A New Game, ?
Letters from the Children 7
SUNDAY SCHOOL, Y. P. S. AND
PRAYER MEETING, 8
EDITORIAL:
Notes, 9
A Record and Witness, 9
"To Be but Men," 10
Notes in Passing 10
OHURCH NEWS 12-15
. SURVEY OF CURRENT EVENTS,.. 16
Report of Executive Committee of
Education, 5
' Report of Executive Committee for
i Foreign Missions, 11
PRBSBYTERJIE6 18-22
MARRIAGES AND DEATHS 20
EDUCATIONAL, 22
Cfjurd) j^etos
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
A Word to the Commissioner)*.
Ab previously published, the Southern
Passenger Association and the Chesu.
peake and Ohio lines have granted reduced
rates, on the Certificate Plan, to
those attending the General Assembly
- at Bristol, tickets being on sale May
13-18. These lines cover substantially
the territory east of the Mississippi
River; and according to the plan provided,
through tickets to Bristol should
< be purchased on starting and receipts
in due form obtained from the selling
agent. But if clergy permits or mileage
books be more convenient or ecoKnoimcal,
they too will be oounted in
. making up the number requisite to secure
return^ tickets at half price plus
ou cents. west or the Mississippi no
special rates could be obtained. Bo the
Commissioners from that territory mnct
use the best means they can to the Mississippi,
but. if practicable, should pur1
chase tickets as above stated on the
east aide. ,
Ijet each Commissioner keep a correct
account of his necessary expenses
going, and at the Assembly he will be
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THE PRESBYTERL
refunded by the Committee out of the
iiiiusa&e luiid, and au?o paid eauuuueu
expcaoea returning.
xva eany aa practicable after arrival
at jur.cvoi, every vowwiaaiouer buouid
wj/w. V M..v? |/? VWVUW ***** VVUJUilODiVU iu
uiti cierKt., wuo wal be in uie churcu
v? edue&uay evening una x nursday morning
tor tne enionment of members,
xvnd as tne names 01 ootu principal and
aueruaie appear on tne commission,
please run a pencil turougu tne name
of uie one MUx' x-iu-ibiiaYx, so tnat tne
c.eias may uraJke no mistake.
xne Assembly usually dissolves
Tnursuay nignt or Friday of tiie second
v?eea, ana urges all tne commissioners
to arrange tneir plans to slay until tne
euu?say, ten aays.
Tiios. H. iiiw,
Stated Clerk.
SOME UEMEUOUS OFFERS.
Tbe close of the fiscal year, notwithstanding
tbe handsome increase of over
|52,000 over the largest receipts of any
previous year finds our Foreigu Missionary
work Btill encumbered with a
debt of $102,&90. This now seems to be
the one obstacle Btanding in the way of
an unprecedented development of our
work.
Oue friend has sent to us an offer to
be one of the hundred men In the
Church to give $1,000 towards the liquidation
of this debt. 1 have also assurunce
from this friend that his offer will
uold good if as many as fifty will respond
to it.
Two other friends have sent in offers
to be one each of one thousand men to
give $100 for the liquidation of the debt.
We are confident that both of these
brethren wili make their offer good if as
many as five hundred will respond to it.
We take pleasure in making known to
the Church these gmerous offers, and
we tru-.: >iiut they will receive earnest
?onsideratiou by every man in our
Church who has been so. blessed of God
in his worldly affairs as to ake it possible
for him to become a member of
this debt paying association.
S. H. Chester, Secretary.
ALABAMA.
Opelika: Presbyterianlsm, not in
Oneiika alone, but all over the State
n,n rl t h rAn <*hr?n* K a G a** * V? Lao
MTUU I^tvu^uvuk tug MV/UIU, uao UiCl VVIUI
a serious loss in the death of Captain
J. L. Dean, a ruling elder who has for
years taken large part in all the activities
and movements of the church. He
died on Saturday, April 13.
ARKANSAS.
Morriltou: The Presbyterian chuTch
U. S. A. and the Southern Presbyterian
church have united, both congregations
having adopted articles of agreement
by an almost unanimous vxte. -The future
house of worship is to be that of
the recent Presbyterian church U. S. A.
Both pastors have resigned and the
united churoh has called Rev. T. R.
Best, of Argenta, Ark., who expects to
begin work in May. The outlook is encouraging
and the Presbyterians thus
united hope to do great things for the
Master.
The Woman's Missionary Union of
Ouachita Presbytery held its eighth annual
mcptlnr with the Pirat P?oahvto
rian church at Stamps, Arkansas, April
8-9, seventeen societies being represented.
A large number of visitors
from over the Presbytery were present,
making this the best meeting of the
Union. Attendance larger, growth in
knowledge and spirit of missions added
much enthusiasm to the well rendered
program. Rev. J. Stanley Thomas, El
Dorado, Arkansas, deliveredithe opening
sermon. Rev. J. T. Barr, of Womble,
Arkansas, gave us a fine talk on Home
Missions. Mrs. M. P. -McCormick, of
Soochow, China, told of her work in
a most earnest way. The following
officers were elected: Mrs. J. H. Garrison,
president, El Dorado, Ark.; Mrs.
Ellsworth, Miss Moore, Mrs. Barr, vice,
presidents; Mrs. "M. J. Henderson, re
cording secretary; Mrs. W. E. Patterson,
corresponding secretary, Mrs. A. M.
Dedbetter, treasurer.
Secretary.
GEORGIA.
Tbe Moderator of the Synod of Georgia,
Rev. Rutherford E. Douglas, D. D.,
has appointed Rev. T. P. Cleveland,
D. D., Rev. E. P. Hoyt, D. D., and Rev.
A. R. Holderby, D. D., as a Committee
on Memorial of the late Rev. James
Stacy, D. D.
k N OF THE SOUTH
Atlanta: The prosperity of the Central
church, Rev. Dr. Dunbar H. Ogden
pastor, is shown by its splendid report
for the year just closed. There were
one hundred and thirty additions, fifty
of the number by examination. The
communicant roll is now 1,168. The
contributions to benevolence amounted
to $24,834, and for Home purposes and
miscellaneous $14^940, a grand total for
tne year of *39,774. The congregation
has lately voted a handsom^ increase
In the pastor's salary.
t'onyers: 'Rev. John D. Keith, ot
I.ake City, Fla., has accepted the call
of the Conyers church and will begin
work in his new charge about May 1st.
Savannah: The First Presbyterian
church has Just completed a most extensive
series of repairs on the church,
Sunday school and manse. The entire
interior and exterior of the church and
Sunday school buildings being thoroughly
and beautifully repaired by both
carpenter and painter, so that they have
a much changed and improved condition
within and without.
The old pews, which had been in the
church for morfe than forty years, were
eold, and circular, quartered white oak
pews of the heaviest and most beautiful
pattern, built by the Fond du Lac
Company, installed. The old pulpit was
succeeded also by a new and in every
way larger one, while the communion
and pulpit furniture was replaced by a
five-piece pulpit set and three p/ece
communion set from the same company,
and corresponding with the pews, prac
tically all these Bets being given as
memorial gifts by different individuals,
each taking a piece, but all ordering
together under the general repair committee.
The ladies were "on hand" as
usual' in the work and provided new
carpets for the church and Sundayschool
rooms to complete the comfort
and beauty. Already steps are being
taken looking to the "raising of the
roof," also in the lecture room and putting
in a balcony entirely around the
building so as to increase the seating
capacity about sixty per cent, and give
several additional separate class rooms,
providing with those already in use one
for each class. The deacons in their
annual report the first Sabbath in April
said that ill was the best financial report
they had ever been able to make, and
the same was stated by the committee
of three elders who have in charge the
beneficent causes. Of the forty-one received
Into the church during the year
twenty-five were on profession of faith
and a number of them entire homes,
both husband and wife coming together.
At the recent meeting of S&T&nnah
Preshvterv hpM at Statoahnrn mn?h
time was given to the consideration of
the PresbyterlaJ Institute at Blackshear,
Ga. The Institute has ten years of
splendid history behind it, hut has been
embarrassed by lack of funds as is so
often true ?with church institutions,
especially in their beginnings and before
they are "big" a-nd can command
the confidence and admiration of those
who are ready to help a large proposition.
Rev. W. Moore Scott, the Chairman
of the Board of Trustes, Rev. R. S.
Brank, Rev. F. D. Thomas and Dr. W.
P. "Williams, elder from Blackshear,
were appointed a commission to take the
whole matter in hand until the next meeting
of the Presbytery. The commission
met in Blackshear an Monday after the
adjournment of the Presbytery on
Thursday night, and every member was
present reacjy to "do something." A
number of the Blackshear church also
were present, and after going fully into
the affairs of the ilnst.'tute It was decid
ed to rates $50,060 for the payment of
indebtedness, and the beginning of an
endowment. The list was headed by
one subscription of nearly $20,000 by
three brothers, elders in the Blackshear
church, and followed by a number Of
smaller, but liberal ones until with the
subscriptions taken at the meeting of
Presbytery at Brunswrck approximately
half of the desired amount is already
In sight, all subscriptions conditioned
on the raising of the entire amount to
place the Institute free of all debt and
with a good beginning of an endowment.
A prompt and thorough canvass of the
PreBbytery w/11 be continued and an
effort made to secure the entire amount
as quickly as possible, hoping to do it
before the closing of the present term of
the school or at least before the fall
meeting of the Presbytery in Valdoata
in October.
Any layman whom God has bleseed
with means who would like to invest
some of it in manufacturing Christian
men and Christian women for the homes
and Church and state of the future have
a splendid opportunity to put it here
f?"d receive large dividends and at once.
Gifts of all sizes are helpful and tannge
[ May 1, 1912
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gins tnat mignt De made along the
memorial line could be arranged for.
Those interested in these matters might
communicate with Rev. W. Moore Scott,
Savannah, Ga., Chairman of the Board
of Trustees, or Rev. A. L. Patterson, D.
D., pastor of the church at Blackshear.
There is great need for & school in this
section, the school.is beautifully located
in one of the most charming towns in
Southeast Georgia, and there are not a
few who believe that God Is going to
put it into the hearts of his people to
do large things for our beloved Church
through this school.
The Presbytery of Atlanta met In the
Covington church April 16, 1912. There
were present 34 ministers and 36 elders.
The opening sermon was preached
by Rev. E. D. Brownlee, the last
Moderator present.
Organization: Rev. J. E. Hannah,
Moderator, and Rev. Fritz Rauschenberg,
recording clerk.
Received: Rev. Hugh K. Walker, D. D.,
from the Presbytery of Los Angeles.
Dismissed: Rev. W. L. Ldngle, D. D., '
to the Presbytery of Concord. Rev.
W. H. Sheppard, D. D., to the Presbytery
of Louisville; Rev. J. A. Clotfelter,
to the Presbytery of East Alabama;
Rev. M. C. Mitchell, to the Presbytery
of Holston; Rev. C. E. Wehler, D. D.,
to ^Potomac Classes, Synod of Maryland,
Reformed Church.
New churches organized: Eaat Point
and Gordon Street, Atlanta.
Statmtios: Sixty-five churches; 42
ministers; 9 candidates; total communicants,
7,703; added on examination, 380;
added on certificate, 528.
'Systematic Beneficence: Foreign Missions
$18,082.00; Assembly's Home Missions
$6,152.00; Local Home Missions
$11,389.00; Christian Eduoation and
Ministerial Relief $21,363.00; Sunday
School Extension and Publication $844;
Bible Cause $246,00; Orphans' Homes
$2,499.00; Pastors' Salaries $38,986.00;
Congregational $59,669.00; Miscellaneous
$12,685.
Local Home Missions: A popular
meeting was held "Wednesday evening
in interest of this cause. A very -grati'
fying report was read and interesting
addresses made. All the groups except
two are supplied and the Committee
closed the year out Of debt and had a
balance of $780.35.
Overtures: 1. Presbytery overtured
tne Assembly to appoint a Woman Secretary
for Woman's Work.
2. To meet In North Avenue church,
Atlanta, in 1913.
3. In regard to the proposed Judicial
Tribunal, Presbytery declined to con.
aider the proposed change.
4. In reference to the request for advice
in regard to the overtures of the
Synod of North Carolina, making the
Synod a court in gradation, Presbytery
answered as follows: "While not meaning
to discourage any efforts to give
our system a more logical symmetry,
we do not believe the proposed changes
are adv/sable."
5. Minutes of the Assembly.: In view
of several serious errors in the Minutes,
Presbytery overtured the Assembly to
take such stepa as will prevent the occurrence
of needless errors in the
future.
6. To make the term of office of the
Aaeembly's clerks three years.
Fall Meeting: College Park, Ga., September
24, at 7:30 P. M.
A very hearty and appreciative resolution
of thanks to the people of Covington,
for their abounding hospitality
so graciously extended, was adopted by
a rising vote.
W. A. Murray, Stated Clerk.
KENTUCKY.
Louisville: The congregation of the
Second church, at a meeting held at
the close of the morning Bervlce on
April 21, extended a unanimous call to
Rev. John M. Van Der Muelen, former
paator of the Haanlton Grange Reformed
(Dutch) church, New York. The
nominating committee has stated that
there'ta every reason to believe that he
will acoept the call.
Presbyterian Theological Seminary of
Kentucky: Rev. Hugh* Taylor, of the
Laos Mission, North Slam, visited the
Seminary on Tuesday, Apr?! 23d, conducted
the chapel services that morning
and spoke to the students in the social
room afteT tea that evening.
The final examinations, now in progress,'began
April 25th and run through
Saturday, the 4th day of May.
All arrangements have been completed
ror the exercises ot commencement
week. On Sunday, May 5th, at 4:30 In
rthe afternoon the communion service,
which regularly closes the Seminary
year, .will be c9nducted In the chapel
of the Seminary by President "Hemphill.
At &'?v'c*??ek that evening, in the First
' Presbyterian church, the baccalaureate
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