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The Presbyterian of the South Published weekly by the Presbyterian Co., Inc REV. WM. R. CAMPBELL, D.D , Richmond, Va.; REV. A. A. LITTLE, D. D., Atlanta, Ga. Editor*. Term* of Subscription. Price. ? Two dollars a year In advance. If pay nwt is delayed three months, $2.50. Foreign countries, one dollar additional. Receipts. ? The label on the wrapper is a receipt for payment. If label is not chanced within two weeks after your remittance please notify us. Discontinuances. ? We find that a large majority of our subscribers prefer not to have their subscrip tions interrupted and their filtf> broken in ease they fail to remit before eipiration. It is therefors assumed, unless notification to discontinue is re eeived, that the subscriber wishes no interruption in his series. Notification to discontinue can be sent in at anv time durint the vear, provided all arrearage is paid. If you wish the paper stopped, write us yourself? don't ask the postmaster to do it. Chanfte of Address. ? Give the old as well as the a?w address, and full address in all correspondence. Remittances. ? Make all remittances to "Th? Presbyterian of the South." Obituaries. ? Notices of death, limited to fifty words, are published free. Obituary notices and resolution! of respect of Sessions, Societies, etc., are sharged for at the rate of one cent a word. Cor respondents should see that all names are written distinctly. Address. ? The Presbyterian of the South, Room 108 Old Dominion Trust Building, 8th and Main Sts., Richmond, Vi Entered as second-class matter, June 15, 1910 at the post-office at Richmond, Va., under tha act of March 3, 1879. Cfjurcf) l^etos NEWS SCARCE. For the last two or three Sundays the churches all over the country have been closed on account of the prevailing influenza, and all other gatherings of people have either been discouraged or prohibited. The re sult has been that church activities have been very much curtailed or very much restricted. The consequence is that very little news has come from our faithful correspondents, as in most cases there was nothing to report. It is to be hoped that church work may soon be resumed with renewed vigor. VIRGINIA. Goochland: I was so fortunate as to secure the services of Rev. L. W. Curtis, the evangelist of East Ilanover Presbytery, almost immediately upon his arrival in Richmond to take charge of the work. He preached one week at Byrd church and then we per suaded him to break over the bounds and go for a week to old Providence church in West Hanover Presbytery, which is a part of my charge. At both points we had growing congregations, and excellent results. I have heard only pleasant things about the man and his work, and I congratulate the Presbytery on securing him for the important post to which he is called, and I hope the churches will be readily opened to him at all times. Mr. Curtis is the visitingest preacher I have seen in a long time, and his ministrations outside the pulpit were as acceptable as they were in the pul pit. Let the churches invite him and let the Presbytery turn him loose and many people will see a Presbyterian preacher who have not seen one in a long time. R. V. Lancaster. Goochland, Va. Covington: Rev. D. J. Woods, D. D., of Blacksburg, has accepted the call to this church, and expects to begin his work here very shortly. ALABAMA. Madison: Families moving Into the neighborhood have added to the mem bership of this church from time to time. Four members were received in this way lately by letter. Then a meeting, conducted by Rev. William N. Sholl, of Decatur, was blessed in the addition of seven more upon pro fession. Both church and Sunday school are small in numbers. The school has an average attendance of about twenty-five. Spanish influenza kept us from having all of Rally Day exercises, but we had two of the best features, prayer and the offering. The offering amounted to seven dollars. The Woman's Aid have resumed their studies in the line of missions. GEORGIA. Atlanta, North Avenue Church: Rally Day at North Avenue proved to be a thoroughly enjoyabto and highly successful one. The church auditorium was crowded. Special features of the occasion were a meeting of the Exemp tion Board, composed of the members of a young men's class, before whom appeared many of the members of the Sunday-school and officers. A twelve piece orchestra f,rom Camp Gordon furnished special music. The Sunday school purchased $250 in bonds, which will be forwarded to Richmond for use in Sunday-school Extension work. Last Sunday evening Rev. Arthur T. Guttery, minister of the Primitive Methodist church, Liverpool, England, who was attending the conference on the moral aims of the war spoke at North Avenue. Mr. Guttery is just from the American battle line in France, and spoke to a large, interest ed audience here. ? The Gordon Street church ob served the communion of the Lord's Supper on October 7th, at which time fourteen new members were received into the church, three on profession and eleven by letter, making twenty eight new members that have been re ceived since the beginning of the pas torate of Rev. R. M. Stimson, on April 1st. There have been a number of infant baptisms also. Rally Day was fittingly observed In the Sunday school with a record breaking attend ance, and an offering of $25.00 was made for Sunday-Bchool Extension work. This school has also given $25.00 for Foreign Missions, and ex pects to contribute to other benevolent causes. Great Interest is being mani fested in all parts of the work, due to the activity of the pastor, who seems to have "captured" the com munity, regardless of denomination. The session has set as their goal the addition of one hundred new mem bers by April 1st, and confidently ex pect God to pour out a great bless ing on this work. An evangelistic meeting will be conducted by Rev. Edwin Hemphill, assisted by the pas tor, at an early date. Carl It. Cunningham. Clerk. LOUISIANA. New Orleans Presbytery : The fall meeting, due to have been held Octo ber 8th, in the Claiborne Avenue church, was called off, to be held at some later date to be indicated by the moderator. By order of the Board of Health all meetings, church ser vices, etc., have been forbidden in the oity, owing to the prevalence of the influenza. .The Home Missions Committee of the Presbytery has acquired another very valuable piece of property in New Orleans. This time it Is a splendid lot, or lots, at the corner of Carroll ton Avenue and Panola Street, front ing one hundred and twenty feet on the avenue, and making one of the finest sites for a church building in the uptown section of the city. The property has been acquired for the Palmer Park church, of which Rev. W. G. Harry is the minister. It is likely that a building of some kind will be erected on it soon. At a luncheon of some twenty-five or thirty of the most active ruling elders of many of the churches of New Orleans, at the Monteleone Hotel, October 12th, twenty-one men volun teered to go, as appointed by the Home Missions Committee, to vacant pulpits in the Presbytery, so that no services shall be omitted in any of these churches. It was a splendid gathering, full of enthusiasm and deep, consecrated interest. MISSISSIPPI. Meridian Presbytery: Owing to the prevalence of Spanish influenza, the moderator has ordered the post ponement of Presbytery until the epi demic has passed. H. M. Jenkins, S. C. Lauderdale: This church enjoyed a five days' meeting, conducted by Rev. W. H. Hill, of Brookliaven, Miss. There was serious sickness in town, which affected the attendance, but those who attended were strengthened. There were three additions to the church on profession. MISSOURI. Synod of Missouri: The spread of influenza made necessary the closing of all churches and schools in St. Francois County and Farmington October 12th. This makes it necessary to postpone the meeting of Missouri Synod. It is hoped that the program will bo carried out as originally planned on the new date with the Pre Evangelistic Conference on Monday, 18th, and no one will be prevented from coming by the change. Please fill out the cards notifying the pastor of your arrival. Below is the order of the moderator and stated clerk. "By the authority vested in me by the Book of Church Order, paragraph fifty-five, construed by the law of com mon sense and high expediency, I hereby postpone the meeting of the Synod of Missouri, and order it held at Farmington, Mo., on November 19, 191S, beginning at 3 o'clock P. M." H. P. McClintlck, Mod. R. S. Boyd, Pastor Farmington Church. Attest : Frank Mitchell. S. C. NORTH CAROLINA. Davidson: The college and thus far the town, as compared with other communities, have much to be grate ful for in the way they have escaped the ravages of the epidemic of Spanish influenza, when the number of cases occurring here have been so many. The death of young D. J. Currie, Jr., of DeFunlak Springs, Fla., and that of Miss Rose Stevenson, of Loray, one of the self-sacrificing nurses, who came at Davidson's call, have been the occasion of great sorrow, but these have been the only fatalities thus far from the campus attack, out of a total of a hundred and seventy-five or more. The faculty in recognition of the in debtedness of the college to Miss Stevenson for her noble service as a volunteer nurse when the situation among the students was at its worst sent a floral wreath for her grave, and but for the strain and stress here incident to the epidemic would have had a personal representative at her funeral. D. J. Currie, Jr., the son of Rev. and Mrs. D. J. Currie, had Just entered college, having graduated at Palmer College the past spring, but his brief stay and record had already given promise of a bright and use ful future. SOUTH CAROLINA. Mt. Zion (Harmony Presbytery) : This church recently had the pleasure of enjoying two preachers in whom it Is specially interested and who are always welcome in our midst. Rev. D. M. Clark was with us one 8unday. Some years ago Mr. Clark preached for this church for a year or more before going to his present field at Olanta, and it was a great pleasure to have him in our midst again. We also had with us one Sunday while our pastor was away on his vacation Mr. James Cousar, a member of the senior class of Union Seminary. Mr. Cousar is from this general community and has some relatives and many friends in the church who are follow ing his course with much interest. For the present the church is closed on account of the epidemic of in fluenza. Columbia Presbytery held an ad journed meeting in the Frierson Me morial church, Columbia, Tenn., Mon day, October 7th, with eight minis ters and three ruling elders present. The Systematic Beneficence Com mittee presented a supplemental re port touching the simultaneous "Auto mobile Conference," October 29th. Three conferences are planned with the following churches as centers: Brick church, Biggs chapel and Zion. Committees of arrangement and man agement were appointed for each con ference: Brick church, Rev. E. D. Mc Dougall, D. D., R. E. Blackburn, J. E. Paisley, Owen Smith, Hermon Wynn; Biggs chapel, Rev. W. M. Akers, W. C. Cowan, James Collins, W. C. Edmis ton, Samuel Hamilton; Zion, Rev. S. P. Hawes, B. W. Dobbins, T. E. Gor don, John Odil, P. S. Chandler. Rev. C. H. Steen, D. D., was per mitted to return the calls of the Frier son Memorial and Ebenezer churches, and to supply them and the South Berlin church until the spring meet ing of Presbytery. Rev. R. L. Benn made request for a letter of dismission to the Tennes see Conferenoe, Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and in response there to a paper was adopted embodying commendatory resolutions that he might present name to any church in which he may cast his lot. Presbytery adjourned to meet at the call of the moderator during the session of Synod. LynviLle: Rev. R. S. Brown began his pastorate of this church the fl Sabbath in October. His welcome this community after an absence ? eleven years was a most cordial one. In anticipation of the arrival of his family the manse was repapered, the floors from the kitchen to the parlor were made to look almost new by a hard finish of floor paint, the hearths and jams were laid with beautiful tile ing, and twin windows were made in the family room, giving an abundance of light. Every shelf in the pantry was fllled with an unusual quantity of table supplies. There will be no necessity for the pastor and his fam ily "Hooverizing" for the lack of the choicest and most abundant supply of good things to eat. This splendid people never do things except on a generous scale and with a lavish hand. They are planning to build a Sunday school room, a garage and coal and wood-house. Everything will be done for the physical equipment and comfort of the pastor and the congregation that may be necessary for the successful prosecution of the Lord's work in this important field. Synod of Texas met at Waxahachie, Texas, October 8, 1918. Rev. S. B. Chapdler, D. D? was chosen modera tor. The attendance was the smallest in many years, owing to the preva lence of the influenza throughout the State. There were present one hun dred and seven, Including ministers and elders. It was also the shortest session held in a long time. Shortly after the opening of the Synod, the mayor, by order of the State health TENNESSEE. Clyde Johnson, S. C. TEXAS. v