The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1867-01-30
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FROM THE SOUTHERN STATES.
Tile Post Office address of the Rev. John H.
Bocock D. D., is Halifax Court House, Vir-
ginia, at which place correspondents will please
address him.
Rer. j. r. Do,os Post Office address is
changed from Aiken, to Charleston, South
Carolina, care Of Roper q Storey.
The Post Office address of Rev. j. Y Wat
son is changed from Rock Hill, S. Carolina, to
Camden, Arkansas.
The Post Office address Of Rev. r. p. Ken
Goshen Bridge, Rockbridge county, Virginia.
Mr.. Kennedy will supply Lebanon Church in
Lexington Presbytery.
Rev. DR.. Pl,mer.-We are happy to be able
to announce that the Rev. Dr. Plumer has ar
rived in this place, Columbia, S. Co. and has
entered upon his duties in the Seminary as
Professor of Didactic and Poemic Theology
Several new students have been received
during the past few weeks The present term
ends on the 2lst of May next -,S0utlern Pres
Jyterian
Collection for .Sustentatioa. REV. DR..
Woodrow, one of our Committee of Sustenta-
ton, says in the last Southern Presbyterian,
"We learn that many of our churches failed
to take up the collection for Sustentation en-
Joined by the recent General Assembly, in con-
sequence of the inclemency of the weather on
the day appointed We beg leave to remind
our brethren where this failure has occurred,
that the Assembly provided for such a contin-
gency by enjoining that the collection be taken
up on the earliest convenient day after the first
Sabbath in January, if for any cause, it had
not been done on that day. We hope, there
fore, that all our congregations will yet have
the opportunity Of contributing to this cause.
From all we can hear Of the collections al.
windy tst~s. ~ l,--
lieve that if all the churches have done equal
ly well, there will be funds enough to enable
us to carry on our missionary work with eff
cheney. If the collections have not been gen.
eral, Jas, we are panied to say, they have not
usually been in the past, we will be greatly
crippled during the whole year.
owe trust, however, that every church
within our bounds, even the feeblest, will do
something-will do what it can-and thus by
united action in this great work evince the
unanimity and harmony of feeling which every
where prevail.
Hard Times.-A correspondent of the Asso-
ciate Reformed R'esbyteian-which is the
old Due Vest Telescope revived-speaking of
the Affections their church has suffered, says:
Our College fell a victim to the recent rev.
olution, but now attempts to rise out of the
ashes Of what did seem to be hopeless ex-
tinction. Out Of $4,000 of an Endowment
Fund but small proportion of it will ever be
available money. AS to Theological Semina-
~, it has more of name than reality at
least for the present. In the broken state of
the country many of our pastors are now suf-
fering from poorly paid salaries, which taken
in connection with the loss of their private
property by the war induces the necessity of
their resorting to secular callings to provide
for their families. This of course, must mill
tate against the spiritualities of the ministry
as also against the spiritual prosperity of the
Church." ~
The writer very properly counsels his breth-
rem to have faith in the everything provi-
dence of Cod which "rules even in Chaos. I"
And certainly his words are we'll chosen when
he exhorts to greater activity in the service Of
God: -
eve need energy as an offset to that
inactivity and Incidence which our present dis
ordered state of affairs is so well calculated to
produce. Many OF our people are Responding
and are consequently inactive. In PROMOTION
as farmers premises and fields are out of
ORDER so should he be energetic in his attempts
to re-repair and to improve them. If the en-.
closures around the spiritual vineyard are
broken down, we should arise and build after
the manner of Nehemiah and the Jews. 1t
accords neither with the dictates of wisdom
nor with the precepts Of our religion to be idle
in the midst of such disordered, declining
state of affairs There is certainly enough of
GOODNESS, of lukewarmness, of unfaithfulness, of
disorder, of impiety in the Church to require
the utmost energy on the part of those who
are workmen in Zion to remedy or to remove
as the case may be.
Rev. d. r. Dual, formerly of Virginia,
but who. with his family emigrated to Cordo-
va, in Mexico, has returned and has taken
pastoral work in Louisiana. He speaks very
highly OF the natural advantages of Mexico,
but dissuades emigration thither
Ershaae College, under the care of the As.
sociate Reformed Church South, has about 40
students
Dr. Plumer and the Columbia Theological
Seminary. this heading, the North
Western Presbyterian, published at Chicago,
says:
"Dr. Plumer is thorough Presbyterian,
ardently attached to the whole Church, and
sincerely DESTROYS Of its welfare. He is, more
over, a wise counsellor, and will throw his
whole influence against extreme measures, and
in favor Of Christian torbearance and moder-
ate action in the Southern Church. We an
ticipate. great good from his transfer to the
South, in this direction.
60 The Seminary at Columbia suffered much
by the war and yet, compared with other in
situations, it was greatly favored Its friends
claim that kind Providence was over it, Its
fine buildings and libraries escaped the devour-
ing element in the day Of fierce confagration
and its funds, though partially wasted, or lost,
are by no means entirely gone A large por-
ton of them had been so investeda as to be safe;
and they are now productive The professors,
also, with the exception of DR.. Thornwell,
whose chair DR.. Plumer is now to fill, still
live. The church there contemplates with joy
the speedy training of her own sons in mum
bers adequate to the filling of her pulpits, and |