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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.
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