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VIRGINIA.
Richmond Colored Mission: Decem
ber has been an exceedingly bright
month for the Seventeenth Street mis
sion. >Jot only has the attendance of
the Sunday-school been above the ca
pacity of the house, but in their will
ingness to respond and in their be
havior the children have surpassed
the most sanguine expectation of the
workers. A most encouraging feature
Is seen in the attendance for the last
two Sundays in the month, in spite
of the fact that the majority of the
teaching force was away for the holi
days. The entire exercises for these
two days were conducted from the
platform. On the night of the 29th
the Sunday-school and Junior En
deavor Society rendered an interest
ing Christmas program to a crowded
house. This entertainment was feat
tured by an address from Santa Claus,
recitations and songs by the children,
Illustrated songs and stereopticon
pictures of the Christmas season and
Christ. Eleven prizes were presented
to pupils having a perfect record of
attendance for one year. At the be
ginning of the new year's work the
school expects to make an Increased
efTort to keep- an exact record of each
pupil. This will be done through vis
iting in the homes and increased class
activities.
? Last Sunday night the Presbyte
rians of this city celebrated their an
nual Joint communion service at the
First church, of which Dr. F. T. Mc
Faden is pastor. Dr. Russell Cecil
preached an excellent sermon from
Luke 22:11: "Ye shall Bay to the
good man of the house, The Master
saith uitfo thee, Where is the guest
chamber, where I shall eat the pass
over with my disciples?" Dr. J. Y.
Fair and Dr. J. Calvin Stewart ad
ministered the communion, and Rev.
Wesley Baker took part in the ser
vices.
? Grace-Covenant Church, had a
most interesting "White Gifts for the
King" Christmas service. Three were
received into the church on profession
of their faith at that time and four by
letter.
CliristiniiHburK: The thirty-sixth
Christmas offering of the Sunday
school and congregation of the Chrls
tiansburg church resulted in $902.00,
the largest sum ever given by the
congregation for the orphans. The
theme of the Christmas service was
"The Gifts to the King." The sifts
were of self, service and iubatance.
The climax of the service was the giv
ng of the above amount and the pre
sentation of three little orphan girls
who will be sent to the Thornwell Or
phanage at Clinton, S. C. The success
of th.s annual offering i8 an illustra
tion of the response that all churches
may have from a regular appeal at the
Christmas season for some great
cause. Almost any church, by persist
ent work can build up a like offering
Ministerial Relief, Foreign Mis
sions or the other great enterprises
of the kingdom. Information as to the
method of collecting the offering will
be cheerfully furnished.
Craigsvillo: Th^good people of the
Bethany church have filled to over
flowing the heart of their parson and
the pantry of their parsonage by a
most generous and general and lone
continued "pounding." The mere
money value of these provisions is
very great; far greater is their worth
as a proof of the affectionate interest
of the donors. Bro. J. E. Cook, of
Keswick, is going to have the good
fortune of sharing with us in these
good things while he preaches to us
the still better things of the kingdom
during a two-weeks' meeting begin
ning January 1st. We are hoping and
praying for a great spiritual blessing
upon the whole community. Our
Christmas offering to the Ministerial
Relief Endowment Fund was more
t an $16. The Sunday-school Christ
mas service on Monday evening was a
notable success, with giving rather
than receiving as its key-note.
? _ J. H. Davis.
Bethosda: a very interesting and
successful meeting has been held re
cently at the McElwee chapel of Be
thesda church by the pastor. Rev. E.
W . McCorkle. There were eleven ad
ditions to the church. Almost all of
these were men and heads of families
Lexington: The Christian Endeavor
Societies of Rockbridge county met
at this church December 28th to con
sider the propriety of forming a
county union.
Falling Springs and Glasgow: Rev
A. E. Baker is doing faithful and sue
cessful work at these churches.
Lexington; Thursday, December
21st, the Liberty Hall Sunday-school
(one of the branch schools of our
church) held its Christmas celebra
?D' and took UP a collection of
#20.85 for the Ministerial Relief En
dowment Fund. The next night our
main Sunday-school held its celebra
tion, and has contributed $128.47 for
the same cause.
Sunday morning, December 24th,
the session room was crowded with
persons seeking admission to the
church on profession of their faith
With the exception of one man thus
received these were young people,
most of them from our Sunday-school.
Thirteen of the twenty-six were bap
tized at the morning service follow
ing their appearance before the ses
sion The steady accession from our
Sunday-school is one of the deeply
gratifying things in connection with
this church, in addition to these
twenty-six, another man appeared be
fore the session to say that he wished
to make confession that his life had
not been right, though he was a
church member, and he wished in this
manner to reinstate himself.
A. H.
Hampton: This people, ever gen
eroug and loyal, as usual presented
eir pastor with a purse of $130 In
gold and a large number of beautiful
gifts on Christmas morning. Though
the number steadily increases, deaths
and removals have weakened them
financially, but they grow more and
more liberal in their gifts to benevo
lences and Church support. United as
one in heart, loyal to the Master, and
with the brightest of material pros
pacts, '.he Church at large will hear
good things of the Hampton Presby
terian church. Qod is with ub and
the pastor's heart ifi filled with lov
ing gratitude. Hampton.
Lynchburg, Rivcriuont Avenue: In
a very impressive service on the
morning of the 17th, Mr. A. C. Knehr
and Mr. John Merryman were install
ed as deacons before a large congre
gation, after which the pastor. Rev.
E. M. Delaney, preached a splendid
sermon, especially addressing the offi
cers of the church. Mr. Delaney spent
Christmas with his father in Bristol,
Va., his pulpit being very acceptably
filled on the 24th by Mr. Z. Lewis, of
the Union Theological Seminary. The
first of the year an every member can
vass will be held in the congregation,
and much interest is being manifested
in it. Under Mr. Delaney's earnest
leadership Rivermont Avenue has
taken on new life, every activity of the
church feeling the effect of his zeal
and influence.
Dr. Geo. P. Hamner, Clerk.
ALABAMA.
Madison: This Sunday-school had
a successful and profitable "White
Gifts" celebration on the evening of
December 24th. We have a total en
rollment oi only thirty-four officers,
teachers and scholars, but with will
ing hearts and hands we offered our
"white gifts" for the King. There
were ten reconsecrations to Christ
and forty pledges for service in vari
ous lines of church work. Of our
substance we offered $13.05 which
goes to the Endowment Fund for Min
isterial Relief. The church also re
membered the pastor in a most lib
eral and loving manner.
APPALACH I A.
Chattanooga, Tenn.: The announce
ment that Rev. J. Walter Cobb, pas
tor of the Missionary Ridge Presby
terian church, has resigned to accept
a call to a church at Stamps, Ark.,
will come as a surprise to many of
his friends in Chattanooga outsido of
his immediate congregation and will
regret to learn that he is to leave
Chattanooga, where he has done such
an excellent work during the past
four years.
While Mr. Cobb has contemplated
this action for some time it ha3 not
before been made public outsido of
his congregation. He announced a
week ago to his official board his con
templated departure and his resigna
tion was accepted with regret, but the
matter awaited the decision of the
Knoxville Presbytery, which met at
the PirBt Presbyterian church.
On request of Mr. Cobb hlo rela
tions with the Missionary Ridge
church were dissolved, and he was
granted a letter of dismissal to the
Presbytery of Ouachita, where he goes
to assume the pastorate of the church
at Stamps, Ark.
Mr. Cobb has served the Missionary
Ridge church for four years and three
months, and during that time he has
accomplished much good and done a
splendid work. When he became pas
tor there were sixty-five membtrrs; one
hundred and twenty have been added
on profession and by certificate; thir
ty have gone through deaths and re
movals, leaving a communicant list of
155. Four of the members received
during this pastorate are on the offi
cial board of the church.
The following organizations have
been effected: Ladies' Aid Society,
the Girls' Missionary Band, Christian
Endeavor Society, Teacher. Training
Class, mid-week prayer meeting, a
mission Sunday-school in Fort Cheat
ham.
The spirit of giving has been large)*
ly developed. The annual offerings''
for all causes have increased from
11,900 to 93.200.
Aa a result of this increased liber
ality on the part of the congregation
and on account of the needs of en
larged facilities for the work of all de
partments of the church, and for more
room for the congregation, whose
membership has tripled, improvements
ba\e been recently made on the house
of worship with an outlay of near
) 2,500. The house is now thoroughly
??quipped for the church's various ac
tivities, and is the largest and most
beautiful of all the churches in the
Rlogedale suburb.
Mr. Cobb is preparing to go to his
new flold thiB week.
The Missionary Ridge church 1ms
not selected Mr. Cobb's successor, but
has invited Rev. W. R. Johnson, a
graduate of the Moody Institute, and
who has served in Missouri as pastor,
to come next Sunday to look over the
field.
Rev. J. C. Cowan, D. D., ot Knox
ville, was elected as Mr. Cobb's suc
cessor as stated clerk and treasurer of
the Presbytery until the regualr meet
ing of Presbytery in the spring.
Rev. A. E. Wallace, pastor at Ath
ens, was dismissed to Concord Pres
bytery In North Carolina, where he
goes to enter a new work.
Ashcville Presbytery met in pro re
nata session in the First Presbyterian
church, Asheville, *N. C., on Decem
ber 18, 1916, and transacted the fol
lowing business:
1. Rev. J. M. Clarke. D. D., was
granted a letter of dismission to Con
cord Presbytery.
2. The pastoral relation between
Rev. A. M. McLauchlin and the Ora
Street church, Asheville, was dissolv- j
ed, both pastor and church concur
ring, and Rev. Mr. McLauchlin was
granted a letter of dismission to
Abingdon Presbytery.
3. The date of spring meeting of
Presbytery was changed from April
3d to Tuesday, May 1, 1917.
E. L. Slier, Stated Clerk.
Newland is the county-Beat of Avefy
county. Avery county Is the young
est of North Carolina's 100 fair
daughters. For beauty and conveni
ence of situation there are few, if any,
towns in the mountains that are
more favored. In the center of the
town the county has built a handsome
brick Court House. In front of the
Court House there is a large public
square. In front of this square and
directly in front of the Court House
is situated the beautiful Presbyterian
church, while to one side and facing
another Bide of the square Is situ
ated the nicely finished and partly fur
nished manBe.
Dr. S. L. Morris told, in one of his
addresses, the story of how, when a
certain territory In Oklahoma was
opened up for settlers, a woman dash
ed in on horseback. Her horse stum
bled and threw her over Its head on J
one of the lots. A gentleman who
was Just behind jumped off of his
horse to assist the woman. As soon as
he bent over her she reached out for
the stake that marked the lot and
exclaimed, "ThiB is my lot!" The
man had had his eye on this lot and
took steps to defend his rights. The
matter was taken to court and the
judge gave the lot to the woman on
the ground that she hit the ground
first.
The Presbyterians hit the ground
first in Newland. Before a single
building in the town was finished and
before the first public sale of lota
had come off they had the foundations
of a church building laid. This w?-rB|
nearly four years ago, and up to this ?
time there Is not another finish*^?
church building in the town.
Besides the church and manse therfl
!? a list of twenty-nine adult*, <'B
whose homes there are over fortjH
children, who are ready to come lnt<?
a permanent organization. In th^l
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