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The Presbyterian of the South : [combining the] Southwestern Presbyterian, Central Presbyterian, Southern Presbyterian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1909-1931, January 17, 1917, Image 11

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Published weekly by the Presbyterian Co., Inc.
REV. WM. 8. CAMPBELL.
Richmond. Va.:
REV. A. A. LITTLE. D. D..
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Address. ? The Presbyterian of the South, Room
308 Old Dominion Trust Building, 0th and Main
Sts., Richmond. Va
Entered as second-class matter, June 15, 1B10,
at the post-office at Richmond, Va., under the act
of March 3. 1879.
Cfturcf) i)etus
VIRGINIA.
Richmond, The Assembly's Training
School: After our Christmas vaca
tion we were glad to get to work again
on January 3. All have returned but
one, who is detained at home on ac
count of sickness. We are anxious to
get up a good basketball team, and
practicing will begin soon. The diffi
culty is that we have 110 indoor court,
so cold weather and mud are formi
dable hindrances. Perhaps some day
we will have a gymnasium all our own,
where we can have some regular exer
cise besides going to Richmond to
make sociology reports. Not that we
do not enjoy visiting the night schools,
the day nurseries, the varieus welfare
organizations, the Nurses' Settlement,
and other interesting places, but an
hour on a street car is not the most
enjoyable form of exercise.
Mr. Megginson is beginning to get
calls for lay workers during the sum
mer months. Many of the seniors are
ready to go into Home Mission work
permanently; the juniors just for the
summer. We all pray that the Lord
of the harvest will send each one into
just that part of the field where the
training we have received here can
be best used in His service.
Norfolk, Colley Memorial, Rev. R.
B. Grinnan, D. D., pastor. This church
is being greatly revived with increas
ed attendance at its services. Nine
new deacons and three elders have
been elected and installed. Twelve
new members have recently been re
ceived. This week the Baraca class
held its second annual banquet, with
about fifty present. The Ladies' Aid
Society has been merged into a La
dies' Auxiliary, which will meet once
each week for the study of Home and
Kgn Missions. They have adopt
ie calendar system of raising
y, whereby each member gives a
/ a day. A drum, fife and bugle
corps has been organized among the
older boys of the Sunday-school with
groat enthusiasm. The Week of
Prayer was observed with considerable
interest and in the future there will
be a prayer service each Wednesday
evening.
Richmond. Union Theological Semi
nary: Rev. Hugh W. White, D. D.,
of Yencheng, China, a graduate of
the Seminary in 1894, made the ad
dress to the Society of Missionary In
quiry at its monthly public Bervice,
Sunday night, January 7, on "Danger
Points of Missionary Work," a prac
tical add reea packed with good tense.
In speaking of preparation for the
mission fields, he gave strong testi
mony to the superiority of the regu
lar seminary course to the special
courses now offered in various insti
tutions of other types. On Monday
Dr. White spoke again to tho students
on "Demonism in China." Other
speakers to the students last week
were Rev. W. C. Erdman, of Korea,
representing the Student Volunteer
Movement and Rev. Paul Mincou, of
New York, Y. M. C. A. Secretary of
Theological Seminaries and Recruit
ing for the Ministry. Tho Society of
Missionary Inquiry at Union Semi
nary, the first of its kind in our
Church, was organized In 1818 and
has played a great part In our mis
sion work for nearly a hundred years.
It will celebrate its centennial next
year. About twenty of our ordained
ministers and missionaries are at tho
Seminary this month, partly for tho
purpose of taking selected short
courses with tho regular professors
on lines of present-day practical value
and partly for the purpose of get
ting the bonefit of Professor Sleeth's
course in public speaking. The fame
of his extraordinary skill as a teacher
has brought to the Seminary requests
from lawyers and other persons in
various communities to be allowed to
take his work hare. This, of course,
would be outside of the commission
of the Seminary, and. besides, the in
stitution is now full, all rooms taken,
and it cannot accommodate others.
Union Seminary Alumni.
We are gathering materials to
bring the biographical sketches of all
our former students down to date.
This is done every ten years. There
are nearly eight hundred living
alumni, to whom we have sent per
sonal requests for this information.
Many have furnished it promptly, but
there are many others from whom
we have not yet heard. To these we
would renew our request. If you en
tered the Seminary before 1907, we
have your record down to that time,
printed in the General Catalogue is
sued that year. Please send us a
statement of any changes in your
fields of work since that time, with
dates, and also of books published
or degrees conferred. If you entered
the Seminary after 1907, please send
us your full name, place and date of
birth, college, degrees, occupation be
fore entering the Seminary, number of
years you studied here, dates of
licensure and ordination with the
names of the officiating Presbyteries,
pastorates or other ministerial work
with dates, books published, hono
rary degrees, etc. Please let us have
these data promptly. Please note,
also, that, in pursuance of our plan
of class reunions at ten-year intervals,
the classes which graduated in *67,
'77, '87, *97 and *07 are specially in
vited to attend the Alumni Reunion
and Banquet in Richmond Hall on
Wednesday (commencement day),
May 9, 1917, at 1 o'clock P. M.
W. W. Moore,
William R. Miller.
Ijcxiiifcton: Sunday, January 7, was
the day for the quarterly communion.
Two more children from the Sunday
school were received by the session on
profession of ftiah. By vote of the
session grape juice was used instead
of wine, following the decision of the
Assembly leaving this question to the
sessions of the different churches. At
the Sunday-school (preceding the
church service). Dr. E. F. Shannon,
the new superintendent, announced
the promotions from the various de
partments. Mr. J. T. McCrum began
his work as the newly elected treasu
rer of the Sunday-school. The dea
cons' quarterly report was distributed
that Sunday, showing for the various
btn?roUnc?s a total of $1,331, to
which is to be added $158 from Christ
mas offerings of two Sunday-schools
to the Endowment Fund for Ministe
rial Relief. A. H.
ALABAMA.;
Montgomery: The First Colored
church had Its quarterly communion
on the first Sunday in January. A
good congregation was present. The
presence of the Holy Spirit was mani
fest. We have made a good begin
ning for the new .year.
I. C. H. Champney.
ARKANSAS.
Sulphur Spring, Fort Smith: Our
Sunday-school, December 23, had a
Christmas tree, and the children par
ticipated in a splendid program, which
was much enjoyed. The school now
has an enrollment of more than 150
(not including Cradle Roll), which in
dicates an increase of 50 per cent in
three months. The Cradle Roll num
bers about 75.
The Logan Foster Memorial Sun
day-school, on North Third street,
which is also in charge of the under
signed, has an enrollment of nearly
100, with an average attendance of
about 6 0. This school also had a
Christmas tree. It is a mission of the
First church.
C. H. Maury, Pastor.
Blytlieville: Sunday, January 7, at
the quarterly communion, the names
of thirteen were read who had been
received during the past quarter by
letter. The record for the three cal
endar years preceding shows that
there has been a healthy growth in
attendance and additions during the
present pastorate. The average at
tendance in general was better during
191G than the two preceding years.
There were twelve additions in 1914,
thirteen in 1915, and twenty-flve in
1916. It is hoped to make the year
1917 the best yet.
FLORIDA.
Key West : Rev. S. W. Rogers, pas
tor, has been elected secretary of tho
Key West Ministerial Alliance, com
prising the Protestant ministers of
this city. We now have an option on
a splendid piece of property for a
church and lot for $2,600. If this
could be secured there would be
strong prospects for establishing Pres
byterianlsm here. We have written
to Carnegie, Wanamaker, Mrs. Vin
cent Astor, Ford and others, but they
have too many demands upon them
to help us. Who would like to help
in this great work? Write to Rev.
S. W. Rogers, Ph. D.f or Mrs. W. H.
Norman, both of Key West, for all
necessary particulars.
Smyrna: On the morning of De
cember 24, at the Presbyterian church,
the wonderful Christmas story was
told by the Sunday-school In song,
story and verse. All of the classes
participated and every part was well
done. The decorations were tasty and
simple; the beautiful scenes from the
historic Judean fields were vividly pic
tured in the background. Tho giving
idea was carried out, and in course of
the program a collection amounting to
$75 was taken up for the Endowment
Fund for Ministerial Relief of the
Southern Presbyterian Church. The
well-trained choir furnished beautiful
and stirring music and the true Christ
mas spirit permeated the atmosphere.
? Symna News.
Wlldwood: At the morning service
on the first Sabbath of the year the
sacrament of baptism was adminis
tered, when one child was presented,
also three young ladies who, after ex
amination and profession of their
faith in Chriat, were baptized and re
ceived into full communion and fel
lowshiD of the church. We pray that
the good beginning may nontinue
throughout th? year,
GEORGIA.
Clark csvillo: I want to tell you
something of what our little Presby
terian Sunday-school at this place ac
complished last year. We have an en
rollment of fifty-four and an aver
age attendance of something like forty
? perhaps forty-two. We had two ac
cessions to the church. There are at
least six men whom I can call on to
superintend in my absence. We pre
sent one of the various Church benefi
cent causeB on the fourth Sabbath In
each month, and contribute to It. The
first Sabbath contributions go to
Thornwell Orphanage and the third to
Nacoocheo Institute. We had eleven
pupils to memorize and recite the
Catechism. We had sixteen on the
honor roll for December, and that
means there were sixteen who got
100 per cent each Sabbath during the
month. We require of the classes
above the beginnero and the primaries
to obtain 100 per cent to come up to
the following: Present, on time,
church attendance, Bible with them,
daily Bible reading, studied lesson,
studied Catechism. Failure to come
up to any of the last six named re
quirements deducts 10 per cent.
Our contributions for the year
amounted to $387.60, as follows: Re
lief, $24.32; Thornwell Orphanage,
$114.15; Sunday-school expenses,
$82.42; Nacoochie Institute, $89.56;
Assembly's Home Missions, $17.86;
Foreign Missions, $25; Education and
Relief, $5.47; Publication and Sun
day-sShool Extension, $6.87; Bible
cause, $3.87; Armenian and Syrian re
lief, $7.34; Belgian relief, $5; Local
Home Missions, $3.15; Synodloal
Home Missions, $2.83. *
We had fifty-one contributions to
the birthday box. Don't you think
this is a very creditable showing?
Robert McMillan, Supt.
(We think this was doing wonder
fully well. ? Editor.)
Newnan: Among the many tokens
of appreciation shown the pastor of
this church on the tenth anniversary
of his pastorate, January 1, was an
increase of salary of $300 per year.
This Is the second increase that this
generous people have voted him to
meet the high cost of living in re
cent years. J. E. H.
KENTUCKY.
Georgetown: In the communion ser
vice on January 7 announcement was
made of the reception of four per
sions into this church on profession of
faith during the last quarter.
LOUISIANA.
New Orleans, Seamens Bethel: More
than 175 sailors from steamships in
port attended the annual Christmas
dinner and distribution of comfort
bags at the Seamen's Bethel, 2218 St.
Thomas street. The dinner was under
the auspices of the Ladles' Auxiliary
and James Sherrard, superintendent
of the bethel was in charge.
Eleven nations were represented at
the treat and special comfort bags
were provided for each nation. The
bags were made of cretonne,12 by 12
Inches. Each bag contained needles,
coarse white and black thread, scis
sors, buttons for trousers and shlrtfl,
and other sewing articles, such as a
sailor needs to repair his N wardrobe
while at sea. A Testament or Bible,
in the language of the seaman receiv
ing it, was placed In the bag.
The hour for the Christmas dinner
was 7:30 o'clock, and long before the
hour the sailors mingled In the yard
of the bethel, while the women were
inside making arrangements for the
feast. Each man was given turkey
sandwiches, fruit cake and other eat
ables.
While the sailors wgrd eating, Mrs.
A. t>innaware sang several vocal aeleo
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