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During this period of thirty-six years
the church was served by a number
of stated supplies, who preached oc
casionally for a year or two. Rev.
Tints. E. Peck, then teaching In the
Seminary, supplied from 1863-1865:
Kev. M. L. Lacy served as supply
1S65-1869. The next two years the
church was served by students from
the Seminary. Rev. A. B. Carring
ton served as stated supply from 1871
to 1877, and Rev. Jno. S. Watkins
from 1877 to 1878. For the next
two years Seminary students, J. A.
McM urray and Jas. R. Crews sup
plied the pulpit. Rev. Paul P. Brown
tlii'ii served the church as stated sup
ply for three years.
In July, 1882, Rev. Hugh A.
Brown. I>. D., became stated supply
and served the church In this capa
city for over fifteen years. Dr. Brown
served the church faithfully and
greatly endeared himself to his
people.
From 1897 to 18 lib the church had
services only occasionally. In the
nut ii in ii of 1899, Rev. N. B. Campbell
became pastor. He was followed in
1!hi2 by Rev. J. A. Paisley, who re
signed in 1907. In 1909 Rev. B. P.
lk'dinger, D. D., was installed pas
tor. In 1914, after a successful pas
torate of five years, Dr. Bedinger re
signed.
Years of Expansion.
It was during the pastorates of
Revs. Paisley and Bedinger that the
churches branched out and gave to
the Presbytery three new churches.
Madisonville was organized in 1907.
Hough Creek gave her several of her
charter members. In 1910 Oak View
was organized with most of her char
ter members former members of
Rough Creek. In 1914 the Phenix
Presbyterian church was organized
with thirty-five charter members,
twenty-six of whom were members of
Hough Creek. All three of these
young churches, with a combined*
membership of 275, are flourishing
? liurches of which the mother church
justly proud. Rough Creek church
spect. Few country churches have or
ganized in seven years, with moat of
lias had an unique history in this re
?lie members from her body, three
Nourishing churches.
Kev. P. M. Ryburn was called in
May 1916 to the pastorate of the
i'lienlx group, of which Rough Creek
vv?'is the largest church. He was in
stalled September 10, 1916. The
present pastorate has been a signal
success. The Lord has blessed the
'?lurch and honored the labors of his
People in this field.
Summary
Hough Creek Presbyterian church
Was organized In 1822 with a mem
bership of twenty-two. During the
0n* hundred years of her illustrious
history she has enrolled 684 mem
'"'I'm, 4 36 of whom were received on
examination and 148 on certificate,
'he present membership is 131,
which is the largest In her history.
'"?? church has had In one hundred
V'-ars twenty-eight ruling elders who
Wpre the cream of The community
a,1<l the leading men In the church.
i^h?86 have been men of affairs as
?"?'ell as leaders in their church. In
Phis list may be found merchants,
"doctor*, tobacconists, salesmen, bank
ers and farmers. The session has had
"n'y seven clerks. The church has
ftl**<-ted and ordained and installed
ie'<*v?n deacons who have served her
The church has been served by
f fi'x pastors and thirteen stated sup
plies. The longest pastorate was that
"f Hev. Samuel Armlstead, for thir
?een years. The longest stated supply
Wa? that of Dr. Hugh A. Brown from
l882 to 1898.
With such an illustrious history be
hind, and the world an open field of
labor before, and an active, energetic
and enthusiastic church, baptized
with the Spirit of God, Rough Creek,
indeed, crosses the threshold of a new
century under auspicious circum
stances. May she be enabled by the
grace of God to do this one thing,
forgetting those things which are be
hind and reaching unto those things
which are before, press toward the
mark for the prize of the high calling
of God in Christ Jesus. (Phil. 3:13?
14.)
LARGEST CHURCHES IN THE
ASSEMBLY.
Member
Name. ship.
1. Houston, First 2,558
2. Dallas, First 2,323
3. Nashville, First 1,957
4. Charleston, W. Va., First.. 1,650
5. Montgomery, First 1,649
6. Atlanta, Central 1,593
7. Charlotte, Second 1,525
8. Huntington, First 1,468
9. Charleston, Bream Memo
rial 1,429
San Antonio, First 1,422
Greensboro, First 1,375
Knoxville, First 1,308
Gastonia, N. C 1,266
St. Louis, Central 1,263
Atlanta, North Avenue 1,258
Mobile, Government Street. 1,205
Charlotte, First 1,160
Memphis, Second 1,120
Atlanta, First 1,09 A
Richmond, Grace-Covenant. 1,091
Jacksonville, First 1,086
Asheville, First 1,067
Chattanooga, First 1,056
Spartanburg, First 1,047
Little Rock, Second 1,017
Lynchburg, First 1,010
Fort Worth, Broadway 1,000
SUNDAY SCHOOL. MAN NEEDED IN
KOREA.
. By Dr. R. M. Wilson.
The following letter has just come
from my hospital assistant, who is
the Sunday school superintendent) of
one of our twenty-three city Sunday
BChools. He writes as follows:
"I receive two letters from you
since left here and they were very in
teresting. The Sunday school and
lepers were very surprised to hear
from you. I am teaching ten lepers
once a week pathology, hygein and
Infectious diseases, etc. It is raining
season and people get busy for farm
ing so the patients are not as many
at this time.
"Excuse that I have not answered
yet since I read your letter last time.
Mow happy you Sre to meet parents
and friends. The Sunday school boys
are have vacation and back to their
home so the number at present time
Sunday school 500 puples, the great
est on the last month 1,167. Please
pray for them and send something to
present to them and think to build
up a new Sunday school room, the
church is too small.
My mother came about a week ago
and monan (regards) to you.
"S. H. Whang."
Thirteen years ago we started our
first Sunday school at Kwangju and
today we have twenty-three schools
and about 2,000 pupils in attendance.
You can see that this one school is
very crowded. Our growth has been
due to the fact the Korean Christians
are Sunday school workers or per
sonal workers. Last year one boy,
Kim, brought 418 new pupils and
his sister brought 410. A child on a
Sabbath often brings in as many as
10 new pupils, though they all may
not be dressed or with attractive ap
pearance.
It Is necessary to hold part of tho
school and send them out and then
another portion at a later hour on
account of the church being so small.
We would like to have at Kwangju
in connection with this church one
ideal Sunday school and a building is
needed for this purpose. A thousand
dollars is needed to erect this build
nig. As you know, Koreans orect
their own churches, but this is Tor a
Sunday school building, and here we
will be aftle to demonstrate to the
hundreds of Christians who come to
see our work how a Sunday school
should be run.
I believe our greatest opportunity
for bringing into the church souls is
through the Sunday schools. I would
like to give my whole time to Sunday
school work. We need a man in Ko
rea for this work and to my mind
there is no greater opportunity for a
wonderful service than this in any
place. Thus our growth being from
twenty-five in thirteen years to 2,000
pupils. Now we need a man to train
the leaders and push this work
through the whole country.
WOMAN'S WORK.
( Continued from page 7.)
and they embody the great septen
ary law which runs through nature.
Therefore it is of equal application
to every nation on earth. The Sab
bath is the savings bank of human
existence. It conserves man's phys
ical, mental, spiritual and eternal
welfare. As we keep or break, the
Sabbath day, we nobly save or
meanly lose the last best hope by
which man rises. The Lord's Day,
the Lord's House and the Lord's
Book are a holy trinity designed to
raise fallen man from the lowest
depths to which he can descend and
set him in his proper place in the
heavens. The neglect of any one of
these is inevitably followed by the
neglect of both the others. This 'Is
the day the Lord hath made! Let
us rejoice and be glad.
DAYMEN'S WORK.
(Continued from page 7)
der these two generals ? divisions
that have almost literally been eating
up the Scriptures. A few weeks ago
Chang Tso-lln was reported to be
holding an impregnable position in
the western hills near Peking. Peng
Yu-hsiang, the Christian governor of
Shensi, led his little army out of re
mote Sianfu, hurled .it against
Chang's Fengtien troops, and drove
the invader back to Manchuria, beg
ging terms of peace.
While that was taking place a mis
sionary from Sianfu came to my of
fice to pay for $175 worth of Bibles,
Testaments and gospels, and to order
another big consignment. He said
that almost every soldier in Feng's
army carries a Testament and the of
ficers nearly all own leather bound
Bibles. More than that, they have
set a style for the people of the city,
who on every hand are buying the
book that has made an army not only
tolerable, but decent, likable.
A passenger on a train recently was
rather startled to hear two well
dressed gentlemen break forth into
song, and more so when he recognized
the tune and found that they were
singing a Christian hymn. They were
officers in General Feng's army, the
division that "won the war" for Wu
Pei-fu. A hymn book and a Bible
were their traveling companions on
the train.
Down south it was much the same.
The Christians of Canton decided that
the city needed a moral clean-up. The
gambling joints and lotteries were no
torious. The churches had good sense
enough to try for government co
operation in the campaign. Governor
'Phen's government was prudent
enough to capitalize public opinion.
Result: the churches agitated, the
government acted, and American
newspapers gave Sun Yat-sen the
credit. Then followed the purity cam
paign in similar fasITIon. Tho" clean
up was not so complete, but note
worthy nevertheless. The Christian
forces achieved with the aid of a good
governor, and Dr. Sun wore the
feather.
While this was going on the Chris
tians decided to carry their welfare
work into the barracks. This was un
dertaken in a most friendly spirit. To
top it off the churches and a school
of blind boys contributed $122. the
Bible societies cut prices, and with
the co-operation of the Y. M. C. A.
1,600 New Testaments were presented
to the men of one of these brigades
before they broke camp. Again we
do not know what the little books
had to do with it; but Chen Chung
ming's troops are now in control at
Canton, and order has been restored
since the hasty departure of Sun Yat
sen.
"Soldier" used to be the synonym
for "Sinner" of the worst sort: every
one hated the troops and dreaded
their coming. Since the Bibles have
gone into the camps and the armies
began to get religion, things have
been better. If Li Yuan-hung suc
ceeds in holding the country together
and in establishing order from Pek
ing to Canton, he and all China will
owe much to Generals Wu and Chen
and their Bible-reading armies.
SUNDAY SCHOOL.
(Continued from page 11)
He Acted. Nehemlah did not stop
with praying. He realized that there
?was something for him to do. He
could do nothing of himself. He be
lieved that God was with him, and he
wanted the king also on his side. So
he went directly to the king, hut he
did it tactfully. He went about his
business performing his duty to the
king, but he did not try to hide his
feelings. His heart was troubled and
he showed it in his manner. The king
noticed his change of manner and
asked the reason for it. He told him
of his deep concern about his brethren
and about the city of Jerusalem, and
asked the privilege of going to their
help.
The king granted his request, as
shown in chapter 2, and gave him all
needed authority and provided him
with all that was necessary to carry
out his desires.
When we pray, we should do all in
our power to bring about the answer
to our prayers. He who prays for a
blessing, and then sits down and holds
out his hands, when he can be up
and doing, need not expect God to
place the blessing in his hands. God
deals fairly with us and He wants us
to deal fairly with Him. We have no
right to ask Him to do for us what
we can do for ourselves. He is al
ways ready to do for us what we can
not do for ourselves. And so He is
ready to aid us in our efTorts to help
others. Let us put Him to the test
as Nehemiah did.
The children of the 400,000 refu
gees who fled from Van, Erzerum.
Trebizond and Bltlis are gathered in
Transcaucasia. At one Near East Re
lief center, Alexandropol, there are
approximately 18,000 orphans, prob
ably the largest assemblage of or
phans that the world lias #ver known.