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Mount villn Church: Sunday even
ing, June 25, 1922, a moat impres
sive service was held in this church,
during which Messrs. T. J. Kinard
and II. C. Towns were ordained and
installed as ruling elders, and Mr. C.
B. Fincher as deacon. This church
has been without a session for some
years.
Rev. R. E. Telford is at present
ofToctively supplying the Manchester
group of churches in the Atlanta Pres
bytery*
Waycrosti, First: At the commu
nion service on the first Sabbath of
this month, the pastor, Rev. J. S.
Sibley, D. D., read the names of twen
ty-two who had been received into
the church since April 1st. The pres
ent enrollment of the church is 534.
This church has the distinction of be
ing the largest in membership in the
Savannah Presbytery. During the
present pastorate the contributions
have increased more than 300 per
cent. Messrs. F. D. Hereford, W. O.
Smith and W. J. Conolly have been
recently ordained and Installed dea
cons.
KENTUCKY.
Educational Campaign: The larger
cities and towns of Kentucky have
accepted the Christian educational
movement dates for intensive work
offered subject to slight changes.
These dates will be announced later.
The field section of the department
of service will start ofT early this
month for the actual canvass. Cap
tain W. S. Hawkins left this week for
the western part of the State, while
A. A. Sheddan is working the east
ern part of Kentucky, where they will
make speaking dates and arrange for
the canvass.
Central City: Work is proceeding
satisfactorily on the new church,
which will give the work here a good
plant in which to train its workers
for extension work in the many min
ing camps round about. A team of
our young people organized a Chris
tian Endeavor Society at Richardson's
chapel this month. Three other
places are to be visited in the hope
of organizing societies there a'so. We
suffered the loss recently of Mr.
George Edwin Rice, our candidate for
the ministry, who was to have gone
to Centre College this fall. Mr. Rice
was a splendid worker here, and is
greatly missed. We have had the
pleasure of visits from Miss Georgia
Dunn, the Field Worker of Christian
Endeavor"; Mr. E. H. Davis, Synod's
Field Superintendent of Home Mis
sions and Stewardship; Rev. J. S.
Baird, advance representative of the
field force for the $1,000,000 United
Educational Campaign, and Miss
Phoebe Glfford, representing Sayre
College.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans: The Prytanla Street
church last week lost lis senior rul
ing elder, Mr. Henry Olnder. Mr.
Ginder had been a member of this
church for sixty-five years, and an
elder and clerk, of the session nearly
fifty years. He was several times a
member of the General Assembly, be
ing the "patriarch" of the New Or
leans Assembly. His service in the
Presbytery was frequent, and he
served as Moderator of that body in
1913. His ninetieth birthday was re
cently celebrated by a great reception
in the church.
The good people of the Third
church availed themselves the other
night of their pastor's going into his
n?w home, by packing the house, gal
leries and rooms with a great crowd
ol well-wishers, and covering tables
a"d chairs with household supplies.
The first known of the invasion w^?
the sight of a great procession com
ing from the direction of the church,
attracting the attention and interest
of everybody on Esplanade Avenue
and DeSoto Street. It was a hot night,
but that only seemed to increase the
warmth of the demonstration and the
ardor of the people's love for their
pastor. Rev. Dr. George Summey, and
hi8 wife.
MISSISSIPPI.
whL'i!kfUPB: The Bulgln
which be?? Sunday, May 28(h cama
Th? ? T "ar nlghl' J""? 26th.
The ?umber of coevers.ons w.? p,.ced
at sir or seven hundred. It Is too
hi?.rilt ""s wrl"ni! to 8a)r how ">?*
ga!hered ,Bto the chnrches.
The tabernacle, which had a seatine
capacity of twenty-flve hundred or
r?' was Hied almost every n!>ht
d te? :rr ??'?>??.. Jz
ad to stand on the outside. On the
closln, n jh. the crowd was estimated
... l?r,T; Markei' lDt?re?'
anifested by persons of all
classes who attended the meeting.
Certain nights were set. apart for
members of the different denomina
ni*h? !!! ?ther or?an,zations. One
On thl i I.*? W6re 8pec,al gue8t8
On this night Dr. Bulgin delivered a
masterly discourse on the subject,
^?8eS Sc,entIflc*" He was Ms
tened to with profound attention by
his Jewish hearers. A number of
Jews were regular attendants upon
estinT, T ?ne ?f the moBt Cr
esting services was attended by mem
bers of the Greek Orthodox church,
Juests A 86atS re86rVed
^ i er of Roman cath<>
ics : attended the services from time
ill i, th6y dld not come ,n a
body. Dr. Bulgin's preaching was
Plain, forceful and convincing. No
man has ever come to Vicksburg as
minister or lecturer who has moved
the people as he did. One of the
most striking features of the meeting
was a procession which took place the
afternoon of the third Sabbath of the
meeting. Nearly four thousand per
sons men, women and children, at
former u tW? In the *"ernoon
rmed in line and marched through
the principal streets of the city. Steps
have been taken since the close of'
Lh? k 6!iing t0 k6ep Up th? lQterest
which the meeting produced. Pro
testantism, which has been rather
backward in Vicksburg, has taken on
nirloHH " WaS ascertalne<1 by a re
ligious census taken a year or more
ago that the Protestant population
outnumbered all other religious or
ganizations two to one. A concerted
movement has been on foot since then
^1 S? t0gether tho Protestant peo
ple. The movement has met with suc
C*88. The mee?ng Just held is one
of the fruits of that movement.
HoUy Springs; Rev. W. L. Latham
thl tL?1 ,thlB ChUrCh' has accePted'
the flattering call to the Presbyterian
church at Senotobia. Mr. Latham also
?reo?d * Cal1 to an?ther church In
a good Mississippi town, but will ac
cept the call to Senotobia. Mr. La
tham is a most pleasant and cour
teous gentleman, a devout and ear
fZLT ' who bas made many
friends among our people. During his
pastorate here there have been thirty
Are added to the church, and all lines
nLl.T organizations have been
strengthened and developed. He and
s wife know and appreciate the
Tf0?* their church, and his service
of educating the people here along
S!" ?f th? Presbyterlan Progres
wm h ?' the who,e chur?b
h! an/lf a l0ng t,me t0 C0?0.
them k famUy W,U Carry Wlib
them the beat wishes of the commu
The South Reporter.
.Jmckntm, Central: The Lord's Sup
P?r was observed on the first Sunday.
Thirty-seven members were received
during the quarter. The present
church property has been sold and a
new location secured Ave blocks west,
and a substantial and commodious
church and manse will be erected at
an early date.
MISSOURI.
Southeast. Church, Kansas City: On
June 20th the pastor. Rev. Robert S.
Boyd, closed the second year of his
labors with this church. The associa
tion has been most pleasant and fruit
ful in many ways. The actual at
tendance of the Sunday school has
grown 125 per cent., and the present
membership of the church shows 260
per cent. gain. During the two years
195 persons have been received, one
died and only four dismissed.
Of the seventy members on the roll
at the beginning of the present pas
torate, all but one continues with the
same fervor and zeal under which the
work began. This one was dismissed
to another church, having moved from
the community. The church is get
ting more and more organizzed for
the aggressive work that it must do
to occupy its present field, and min
ister adequately to the large commu<
nity looking to it for opportunities
of worship and service. Fully three
hundred new homes have been built
within five blocks of the churph dur
ing the two years, and even with the
annex built last summer it Is doubt
ful if we will be able to care for all
those who will come to the Sabbath
school with the opening of the pub
lic schools. We do not dare to make
an aggressive membership campaign
for the Sabbath school for that rea
son.
This church pledged Its quota In
the Progressive Program, and is mak
ing a fine start to raise It during the
year, together with a very heavy cur
rent budget. The evening services are
now conducted on the large lawn of
the church, and there are one hundred
present the first evening.
Plans are being made for special
evangelistic meetings during the win
ter. Rev. William Crowe, IX D., of
St. Louis, will preach. There is no
church in the Synod that has a more
zealous and efficient band of personal
workers than this church. The large
growth during the last year, when
111 were received, due largely to the
personal visitation of the elders and
some of the deacons. They are ex
pecting a great year to climax with
Dr. Crowe to lead them. It Is not ex
aggerating to say that there are hun
dreds of unchurched about us, and
thousands of unsaved whom It Is very
hard In a large city to Interest In the
church or the Christian life. But re
lying upon His Spirit for the power
and wisdom, we press forward.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Charlotte: The Fellowship Club of
the First church had a most interest
ing meeting on the evening of June
20th. The guest of the cluh, the
chief speaker of the evening, was Rev.*
Allen Messer, of Mt. Sterling, N. C?
who Is one of the home missionaries
of this church, and is doing a most
excellent work in the mountainous
section where he was born and reared.
In addition to Mr. Messer, this church
supports Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Saucier,
Heidleberg, Ky.; Rev. and Mrs.
Maxey Smith, Soochow, China; Miss
Mildred Watklns, Shanghai. China,
and Miss Isabel Orler, Hsuchoufu,
China. The church has two addi
tional missionaries to send out as soon
ae the committee will accept them.
This church's gifts to Home and For
eign Missions last year was more than
920,000.
Davidson College has a material
equipment that will make the boys
comfortable. By the addition this
year of two new flre-proof dormito
ries there will be room to accommo
date all students two to the room.
The campus is beautiful and is well
kept; a good stand of grass is' shaded
by an abundance of trees. The loca
tion of the college is ideal, both as
to its proximity to city influences and
as to healthful climate (freshmen fre
quently gain fifteen pounds first
year).
. The glory of Davidson is the ac
complishment of the things the anx
ious parents most desire when send
ing sons away to college for the first
time, namely: sound teaching, a fa
culty composed of Christian men, spe
cialists in their departments and men
of successful teaching experience.
The students at Davidson come from
the most refined Christian homes in
the Southern States. It is the uni
versal testimony of those capable of
judging that the campus influence is
unsurpassed.
Morganton: At our communion ser
vice on last Sabbath four adult per
sons were received into the member
ship of the church. The mission work
begun and developed by this church
in Burke County has been recognized
and taken over, in large part, by the
Home Missions Committees of the Sy
nod and Presbytery. These commit
tees, Jointly, have placed four full
time workers In the field. The Mor
ganton church will attempt to open
up work and deveolp missions at other
places in the county.
Concord Presbytery met in ad
journed session July 5th in the First
church, Statesville. E. Q. Clary and
John K. Fleming were licensed to
preaeh. Mr. Clary was dismissed to
the Presbytery of Albemarle, where
he becomes county missionary in Wil
son County, and Mr. Fleming to the
Presbytery of Wilmington, where he
becomes a home missionary at Acme.
Rev. C. B. Heller tendered his resig
nation as pastor of the Second church.
Salisbury, and the pastoral relation
was dissolved. He expects to supply
the church till a new pastor is se
cured. The pastoral relation between
Rev. O. H. Ellmore and the Third
Creek church was dissolved. He will
give his whole time to the Fifth Creek
church and to school work.
E. D. Brown, S. C.
OKLAHOMA.
Idabel: Two members were received
on confession and baptism on July
2d into this church.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Oongareo Presbytery: The consti
tutional requirements having been
complied with, I hereby call Conga
ree Presbytery in special session, on
Monday, July 17th, at 12 o'clock noon,
in the Smith Memorial chapel. First
Presbyterian church of Columbia, to
transact the following business:
1. To receive Rev. R. A. Lapsley,
Jr., from Albemarle Presbytery.
2. To act on the call of the First
Presbyterian church of Columbia, for
the pastoral services of Rev. R. A.
Lapsley, place the call in his hands,
and if accepted by him to make ar
rangements for his installation.
3. To receive Rev. James Walte
from the Upper South Carolina Con
ference, after the usual examination,
and enroll him as a member of Pres
bytery, if the way be clear.
4. To transact any and all busi
ness growing out of the above.
W. S. Harden, Stated Clerk.
Ninety -sir and Hodges: Our
churches have <tiad a very unusual
experiences in a Change of pastors.
About the first of May our pastor an
nounced that he expected to accept
the calls from the Bullock Creek and
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