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The Presbyterian of the South
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REV. WM 8. CAMPBELL, D. D.
Richmond, Va.
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VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Westminster Church:
The first of November marked the
close of the first year of the pastor
ate of Rev. W. S. Golden, who came
to the church after Dr. James Y. Fair
resigned and was elected pastor
emeritus. During the year the church
has acquired a new church house on
Park Avenue, and made a number of
improvements, such as refinishing the
outside and interior of the church
building. There have been thirty-two
additions to the membership. The
contributions for local expenses have
increased about 30 per cent. Benev
olent gifts have increased 129 per
cent, over the preceding twelve
months. The church some time ago
perfected plans to assume the support
of two foreign missionaries, and one,
Miss Estelle McAlpine, has already
been sent to Japan by one of the
members of the church, Mrs. W. ri.
Morton. The other, a recent gradu
ate of Union Seminary, is now taking
post-graauate work, and hopes to be
ready to go out next year. Our Sun
day school has now the second larg
est enrollment of any Presbyterian
school in the city. Just at this time
the Andrew Robertson Brotherhood,
which was organized a few months
ago, is conducting a visitation of the
members of the chuich, with a num
ber of others assisting the Brother
hood in this delightful work. Dr.
Fair continues in good health and
preaches nearly every Sunday, either
in Westminster or elsewhere. Mr.
Golden is now holding bis third se
ries of evangelistic meetings in the
past few months, this time with the
Montrose church, Richmond. We have
recently had as our preachers, in the
absence of the pastor, Rev. Edward
Mack, D. D., Rev. Ernest Thompson,
Rev. F. T. McKaden, D. D., and Rev
J. Y. Fair, D. D., all of whom our
people have heard with benefit and
gladness.
Richmond, I'ortcr Slnrt Church:
On last Sunday Rev. W. A. Hall com
pleted his fifth year as pastor of this
church. During this time 210 now
members have been received into the
church, and its building has been very
much Improved at a cost of more than
$5,000. The church is in fine condi
tion and its work is progressing well
under Mr. Hall's leadership.
Newport Xm*: The annual officers'
and teachers' meeting of the First
Presbyterian Sunday school to receive
reports for the past year, to elect of
ficers subject to the approval of the
session for the ensuing months, was
held on October 27th. The address
of the evening was delivered by Dr.
F. T. McFaden, president of the As
sembly's Training School, on the sub
ject of the splendid opportunities for
Christian service which are around us
on every hand. More than half a
hundred officers and teachers present
were greatly edified and Inspired by
these timely words. The membership
embraced in the different departments
of this school is about 800. An ex
cellent supper was served by the
Woman's Auxiliary.
Wajneslwro: This church has re
cently enjoyed another signal mani
festation of God's grace in a series
of meetings conducted by Dr. Trigg
A. M. Thomas, the Assembly evangel
ist. Dr. Thomas is no stranger to
our. community, as he held a meeting
for us last year, in which there was
the manifest evidence of the Spirit's
power. This year the congregations
were large from the very start, and
at times the spacious auditorium and
lecture room of our church, seating
perhaps a thousand persons, were
taxed to their utmost capacity. The
visible results are seen in over one
hundred professions of faith in Christ,
nearly nine hundred reconsecrations
and quite a number of letters brought
into the church. Already nearly fifty
persons have joined the Presbyterian
churches here and a number are ex
pected to join the churches of other
denominations.
Dr. Thomas is anything but a sen
sational preacher. He presents the
plain gospel of man's sinful heart and
Christ's matchless love and power to
save with a rare combination of fear
lessness. simplicity and fervor that
wins its way to all hearts. God is
wonderfully using this faithful ser
vant for the Master's glory and the
saving of many souls.
A great deal of interest and value
was added to the meeting by the sing
ing of Mr. G. Chrystal Brown. Never
has the writer heard the gospel sung
with more power and tenderness than
by Mr. Brown. Our united prayers
follow these two brethren that Go-1
may continue to use them mightily
for His service.
Pastor.
Alexandria: Rev. Dr. John Lee Al
lison, former pastor of Second Pres
byterian church, Alexandria, Va., an J
Assembly's evangelist, on Sunday
evening, October 2 2d, was taken ill
with acute indigestion during services.
He was taken to the Alexandria Hos
pital, where he has been since that
time, and is now resting comfortably.
His physician has ordered him to can
cel all evangelistic engagements for
the next month or two. He will spend
this time in Wytheville, Va., resting
and recuperating. Dr. Allison haa
been laboring very earnestly as evan
gelist and Grand Master of the Odd
Fellows of Virginia.
ATjABAMA.
Tuxcaioosn: The First church has
enjoyed immensely the work this fall
in the magnificent new building. The
congregation had the great Joy a few
weeks ago of hearing at the morning
hour I)r. W. O. Thompson, president
of the Ohio State University. At the
fall meeting of Presbytery, Professor
W. P. Osburn. of the Stillman Insti
tute faculty, was licensed to preach
under the "extraordinary clause."
Professor Osburn has had complete
literary training. He passed a most
creditable examination in tho
branches usually covered in the
seminaries. The district Christian
Endeavor Convention recently met
w'th the First church. At the con
secratibn hour the pastor. Dr. Charles
M. BoVd, presented the call to defi
nite and full-time Christian service.
Eleven young people presented them
selves, signifying their readiness to
go or stay wherever Ood may Indicate
in full-time work. Six of these were
local, four were university students
who are active in local church work,
and one was a visitor to the conven
tion. Mrs. Martha Brice Lee, mother
of the pastor's wife, after a long and
beautiful life, died on Monday, the
30th of October. The body was placed
in the family plot in Due West, S. C.
ARKANSAS.
Pine Bluff: This church had the
pleasure of having Hon. Thomas C.
McRae, Governor of Arkansas, as their
speaker on Rally Day, October 1st.
Two hundred and thirty-two were
present at Sunday school and an of
fering amounting to $200 was received
for Sunday School Extension work.
The church is looking forward to hav
ing Rev. W. Moore Scott, D. D.t Su
perintendent of Evangelism for the
Synod of Arkansas, and Rev. F. F.
Fitch, song leader and cornetist, with
them in a two weeks' evangelistic
meeting, beginning November 19th.
Malvern: Rev. J. Frank Turner has
been installed pastor of the First Pres
byterian church by a commission of
the Presbytery of Ouachita. Rev. C.
E. Hickok. of Hot Springs, preached
the sermon and asked the constitu
tional questions. Rev. C. H. Nabers,
of Camden, charged the pastor, and
Dr. W. T. Rowland, of Arkadelphia,
charged the congregation. Mr. Tur
ner succeeds Dr. C. P. Bridewell in
this charge, Dr. Bridewell having re
signed about a year ago to become
Secretary of Stewardship for the Sy
nod of Arkansas.
Camden. First Church: During the
last week of October a district Chris
tian Endeavor Convention was enter
tained by this congregation. The
strong closing address by Charles F.
Evans gave great impetus to the two
Christian Endeavor Societies of the
church. On the first Sunday in No
vember the pulpit was filled most ac
ceptably by Professor C. M. Campbell,
principal of the Camden High School,
and a student for the ministry from
the local congregation. The pastor,
Rev. Charles Haddon Nabers, recently
delivered an illustrated lecture, The
Land of Sacred Story, in the First
Presbyterian church at Hope, under
the auspices of the Woman's Auxil
iary.
FLORIDA.
St. John's I'rt'sbylcr)' met at Clear
water, Fla., October 31st, and was
opened with a sermon by the retiring
Moderator, Rev. P. W. DuBose. Rev.
T. W. Raymond was elected Modera
tor. Rev. J. C. Leps, who has been
supplying the Lake Hamilton church
for two years, was received from the
Presbytery of West Hanover. Rev.
W. H. Fahs was received from the Ea3t
Pennsylvania Synod of the United Lu
theran church, and order was taken
for his installation as pastor of the
Leesburg church. Favorable action
was taken looking to a simultaneous
evangelistic campaign during the
month of May. A special committee
was appointed to cooperate with a
committee of Synod to look into the
matter of securing a Florida Home
at Montreat, N. C. An inspiring pop
ular meeting on Foreign Missions was
held when Rev. J. Woodrow liassel,
of Japan, was heard with pleasure.
Next meeting at Arcadia, Fla., the
third Tuesday of April.
J. H. Davis, S. C.
Lakeland: The pastor. Rev. C. T.
Stacy, D. D., has been in a sanita
rium at DeLand for the past three
months, regaining his health, and
lately returning each Saturday to All
his pulpit on Sunday. During his ab
sence the pulpit was most acceptably
filled by Rev. George W. Fuller, of
Auburndale, and other church activi
ties were cared for fully by the offi
cers of the church. So efficiently has
this been done that, in spite of the
pastor's absence, the church continues
to grow and prosper. The Primary
Department of the new building,
which has never been finished, has
just been completed, at a cost of about
$1,500, and is now ideally equipped
for primary work, Christian Endeavor
meetings, social gatherings and the
Auxiliary meetings.
GEORGIA.
Atlanta: One of the most interest
ing and inspiring meetings of thy
month at the Gordon Street Presby
terian church was the mid-week
prayer meeting, when there were a
total of one hundred and nineteen
present, of which number forty-five
were young people of the Senior Chris
tian Endeavor Society. The evening
service on Sunday, October 31st, was
in charge of the Young Men's Bibl?i
Class. The subject discussed by the
young men was "Living With and
Without Christ." At the close of the
service four young men of this class
were received into membership of the
church, one by letter and three on
profession of faith.
Homo: Rev. Charles Kingsley, who
is Superintendent of Home Missions
and evangelist for Cherokee Presby
tery, will close the summer's work in
Georgia on October 31st, and go to
Florida, where he will engage in mis
sion and evangelistic work during the
winter months. Mr. Kingsley has been
wonderfully blessed in his labors in
Cherokee Presbytery. Several hundred
conversions and some thousand recon
secrations are the visible results, and
to this must be added the stabilizing
of Presbyterianism in every ohurch
and community where he has worked.
He will return to Cherokee Presby
tery in March of next year to resume
his work here. He may be addressed
at Lithia, Fla., until that date.
Presbytery of Southwest Georgia
held its fall meeting with the First
church of Donalsonville," Ga., October
24th. Rev. J. E. Ward, D. D.f was
elected Moderator. Rev. M. W. Dog
gett, D. D., was received from the
Presbytery of Augusta and has begun
his work as Superintendent of Home
Missions and evangelist. All the work
of Presbytery is progressing, even if
slowly in some directions. Mr. W. L.
Crawford, of Albany, was elected Pres
byterial Secretary of Stewardship.
This Presbytery has seven candidates
for the ministry. Next meeting, Cli
max, April 17th.
E. P. Mickel, S. C.
KENTUCKY.
Went Goshen Mission stands on the
Ohio River in Oldham County, Ky.,
fifteen miles above Louisville. This
little mission serves a wide range of
country where there is no other
church at all. The congregation is
made up entirely of working people
from the farms round about and the
river people who live up and down on
both sides. Some members live as tar
as seven and eight miles distant. This
mission was organized twenty-seven
years ago, after a memorable religious
awakening in the community under
the ministry of Rev. John Rule, who
continued the work until 1915, when
the infirmities of age compelled him
to depend more and more upon the
assistance of his sons, Elder C. W.
Rule and Rev. L. V. Rule. The late
Rev. William Payton, of Louisville
Presbytery, conducted a meeting them
one year ago with sixteen conversions
and twelve additions to the church.
This was the last meeting held by
Mr. Payton before his untimely de
cease. The services of this year be
gan on Saturday night, October 21st,
and continued until Sunday night, Oc
tober 29th. Sunday afternoon, the
22d, a beautiful anniversary service
was held out under the trees by thft