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CHURCH NEWS. (Continued from page 9.) Evangelist. The preaching was ex cellent and the congregations were good. There were two additions on profession and one by restatement. Seventy dollars was contributed to Sy nodical home missions. A very helpful Sunday-school Insti tute was held in this church by Mr. Thomas B. Talbot and Rev. W. A. Hop kins. Hazard: Rev. R. M. Pegram, the pastor of this church, has offered his resignation that he may accept a call to a church in Louisville. The church very unwillingly gives him up, as it has prospered greatly under his lead ership. Eminence Churcn: A ten days' re vival meeting was recently conducted by the Rev. I. W. Wilcox, of the South Frankfort Church. The meeting was well attended and much good was done. There were two additions, one by statement and one by profession of faith. Pleasureville Church: A ten days' revival meeting was recently con ducted by the pastor. The interest shown in the whole community was very good, indeed. There was two added to the church by letter and five by profession of faith and baptism. Four of the seven are adults. llloonificid and Big Spring, Louis ville Presbytery: These churches took the paper canvass during church paper week and are thankful for the results. Twenty new subscribers were received, meaning that a good church paper will enter that many more homes this year to bless and edify them. The most of the members of these congregations take a church paper now. The Sunday School of the Bloomfield Church sent out Orphan's Home at Anchorage twenty-five dollars Thanksgiving week, and the Big Spring congregation sent them a large coop of chickens to add to their Thanksgiving dinner. Louisville Seminary: It is a great satisfaction that in connection with the promised endowment for a ne* chair in homiletics announced, last week, the Louisville Seminary can now announce the endowment of a depart ment of public speaking This sum needed for the endowment was $20, 000. The honor of providing this be longs to the Highland Presbyterian Church of Louisville. The church is giving it in honor of their former pas tor, Dr. Thompson McDonald Hawes. It is to be called the Dr. T. M. Hawes Department of Public Speaking on the Foundation of the Highland Presby terian Church. The singular appropriateness of thus naming this department by the name of Dr. Hawes is that for many years Dr. Hawes was the teacher of this department, while at the same time holding the pastorate of the Highland Church. He had had train ing in elocution and experience ii} platform entertainment before he came to this department and so brought to it expert knowledge and art even apart from his pulpit achieve ments in his own church. He was a most genial and lovable and whole some personality and through this as through his splendid Instruction deeply impressed himself on his stu dents. The Highland Church has greatly honored the Seminary, not only by this magnificent gift, but also by indelibly stamping Dr. Hawes' name as well as her own upon our institution and Its life. It goes without argument that our students need thta training In the proper use of their voices and their postures and geatnres In the delivery of their sermon*. The profesaor of homlletteft tn?r teach tfcem how to write a sermon, but may not know much of the technique of voice and dramatic gesture. The average pro fessor of homiletics does not. This department, therefore, which will be devoted to training our young men ia the grace and force of the exter nals of speech will be a wonderful ad junct to the new chair of homiletics to which previous reference has been made in the columns of this paper. John M. Vander Meulen, President. Ixmisvilte: The recent campaign in this city in the Presbyterian Edu cational Movement was splendidly suc cessful. Of the million dollar fund being raised throughout the State Louisville was apportioned $300,000, and raised $328,000. In the cam paign the Second Presbyterian Church subscribed $86,000 to endow the Chair of New Testament Exegesis in honor of Rev. Charles R. Hemphill, D. D., for so long the pastor of the Second Church and for a number of years Professor of this School in the Seminary. The Highland Presbyter ian Church endowed the Department of Public Speaking in memory of Rev. T. M. Hawes, D. D., for so long both the pastor of this church and the Pro fessor of Public Speaking in the Semi nary. Mrs. Herrick Johnson, by the gift of $50,000, endows the Chair of Homiletics in the Seminary, in mem ory of -her distinguished husband. Mrs. Johnson is the sister of Mr. W. G. Duncan, another large benefactor of the Seminary. President John M. Vander Meulen will fill this chair. MISSISSIPPI. Kast Mlwiwilppl Presbytery: Home Mission Day in East Mississippi Pres bytery was observed on a recent Sab bath. Some one was assigned to eacb church in the Pres bytery to tell the story of Home Work. There has been a hearty response, and a healthful stimulus to the work. Many churches responded with liberal offerings over and above their regu lar offering. Starkville: Our church has recently passed through a week of preaching services led by the Rev. Dunbar H. Ogden, D. D., of Mobile. Each morn ing he preached in the church and in the evenings services were held in the great chapel of the State A. and M. College, under the auspices of the Y. M. .'C. A. and churches of Stark ville. Great congregations of stu dents and townspeople came to hear the gripping messages of truth which he brought. The hearts of. the T. M. C. Al force and the Christians of Starkville are rejoicing is the results. Tweuiy-six men signed cards confess ing Christ as Saviour, eighteen men signed cards giving their lives to full time Christian service, and besides these several hundred cards of recon serration were signed. Hearty co operation was given these services by the college president and faculty who attended every night service and ren dered valuable aid. NORTH CAROLINA. Charlotte: A Father's and Son's meeting was held in Caldwell Memo rial Church on December 8. The Men's Club of the church arranged for this gathering. A delightful turkey dinner was served by the ladies of the church. Several entertaining features together with an inspirational address by Rev. M. P. Daniels, made the occa sion most enjoyable and long to be remembered. Almost one hundred men fend boys were present. Will 14ms' Memorial Church: Since the resignation of Rev. A. C. Car michael In November this church has be?n supplied by Dr. A. ft. ihaw. MnIIhhI <Bnm* ClNHvfct fMNM tha resignation of Rev. L. W. Wells, who has gone ot Jacksonville, Fla., this church has several different ministers supplying their pulpit. At present Dr. W. H. Frazer is serving it. WauKhtown Church: Rev. J. M. Clark, D. D., of Statesville, Superin tendent of Home Missions and evan gelist in Concord Presbytery, came to ub on the first Sabbath in November and preached for a week. There were added to the church on profession of faith twenty-three, and eleven by let ter. More than one hundred recon secrated themselves to God and de clared it was their purpose to enter upon a larger and better service for Christ. Ten young people, some of them from the new converts, dedi cated themselves to God and prom ised to take up some definite work for Christ, whatever He might indi cate to them. Ten promised to erect the family altar and some of these had Just come to Christ. Dr. Clark came to us under the auspices of Synod's committee, and at the con clusion of the services an offering was taken for Synodical work, which amounted to $60. The membership of the church has been revived and the spiritual life deepened, and both pastor and people feel that the church has entered upon a larger ser vice. Mrs. W. P. Lemberton, our Sun day school worker, is a valuable asset to the work. Just before the meet ing she took a religious census of this section of the city, which proved a great help in the way of concentrated efforts. She rendered splendid service throughout the meeting. T. F. Haney. St: Paul's, Fayettevlile Presbytery: We have enjoyed three workful, wor shipful weeks, with gracious results. The Women's Auxiliary and Senior Endeavorer's Home Mission Study Classes, the session's weekly meetings for conference and prayer, and our series of evangelistic services con ducted by Rev. R. Murphy Williams, of Greensboro, have all been inspir ing and reviving. Twenty-three new members have been received, five on profession, fifteen Presbyterians by letter, and three from other churches, with more expected soon. Our mem bership for the first time has passed the 400 mark, being now 413. We ?re planning to build a large "hut" in our beautiful'pine grove for the accommo dation of the Brotherhood class, the Auxiliary and Endeavorers, prayer meetings and social gatherings. OKLAHOMA. Idabel: We received four new members into our church on Decem ber 10 th. SOUTH CAROLINA. Columbia: The congregation of the Arsenal Hill Church is making stren uous effort to induce Rev. W. H. Boggs to remain its pastor. He has recently been called to the Central Church, Mobile. Strong resolutions on the subject 'have been adopted on the subject by the Arsenal Hill peo-^ pie. Mr. Boggs ha? not announced his decision in the matter. ftlenvale: The pastor, Rev. J. M. Dallas, has recently been assisted in a meet!ng In this criurch by Rev. George M. Telford. Two children were received into the church, in addition to four received a short time before. Three Infants were baptized. The Sunday School is larger than it has ever been in the 160 years of the his tory of the church. A good offering was made to Thornwell Orphanage on Thanksgiving Day. Nine children have received Testaments and three Bibles for reciting the catechisms, The Woman's Auxiliary is doing splendid under the leadership nf Mrs. W, O. Brownlee. Greenwood: The new pastor of this church. Rev. J. A. Macean, Jr., and Mrs. MacLean, have been most cord ially and hospitably received in Green wood. The manse was painted and repaired, and the pantry generously stocked. Attendance upon church ser vices and prayer meetings has been large and inspiring. One evening the Men's Brotherhood Class gave a re ception to Mr. and Mrs. Macl^ean, when an interesting program was en joyed by several hundreds of church (Continued to page 11.) REVIEW. December 31, 1922. On the first of October we began a six months' course in the story of the life of Christ as given by Luke. He does not undertake to give a com plete story of His life, but only re cords what is necessary to show the character of Jesus, what His work was and how He accomplished it. In this course of lessons we only touch upon the most important points in this narrative. In a review of the studies of the quarter we cannot go into de* tails, but can only take a general sur vey of the outstanding events. The story of the birth of Jesus is so familiar that its historic events are well known. We must not over look the great lessons that are taught by the events connected with the birth of Jesus. Here are some of the things to be recalled: Jesus came in ful filment of the prophecies of the Old Testament. He was born of a hiu man mother, but of a divine Father. HIb divine nature and His mission are announced by the angels. He came as the Saviour of sinner^ John the Baptist had been sent of God to announce the coming of the Messiah; he preached that the time had arrived for His coming, and urged the people to prepare for the coming of their King by repentance and baptism. Jesus came to John to be baptized, because He did not want any one to say that he was not mak ing the same preparation for the set ting up of the Kingdom that was re quired. When Jesus had been baptized He went into the wilderness, where He was tempted by the devil. It is to be noticed that two of the temptations had reference to doing things that were not wrong in themselves, mak ing bread and trusting in God. The sin was in the condition, under which it was proposed that these acts should be performed. So it is with many of our temptations. In fighting the devil Jesus used the sword of the Spirit. One of the ways in which Jesus worked was as the Great Physician. He healed many who were afflicted with various diseases. These miracles were worked to give comfort to those who were suffering, but more espe cially to show that He was what He claimed to be, the Saviour of sinners and that He had power to forgive sins. One of the offices which He tilled was that of Teacher. He taught the character of a Christian and what he should do in connection with the rest of the human race. He emphasises our duty to our fellowmen, taking an enemy as an extreme case. Love Is to be the guiding principal of our lives in all of our dealings with others. Jesus is the best friend any sinnor ever had. He hates the sin, but He lo\f8 the sinner, and because of that love, He it ready to forgive any sin ner who cotftes repenting of his sins and asking' tar fnfglvanap*. Th?