The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1868-10-14

of his elder friend, and then gave to the
son the love he had lavished on the
father.
About the time that Waddell died,
VIM. s. Reid was received from Wiuches-
ter Presbytery as candidate for the
ministry; and was licensed at the Bird
Meeting House in October, 1906; and
ordained at Old Concord as pastor, April,
1910. At the same Presbytery call
from Amherst was put into the hands OF
John Hendren, and he was ordained IN
the following October. The position OF
Reid forbade the intimacy enjoyed by
Hendren; but the mutual friendship was
unbroken, aud Reid was most cordially
received at the Cove on communion sea-
sons as often as was convenient. The in
tercourse with these men with occasional
visits of McCue and others from the
Valley of the Shenandoah, cheered the
pastor and the elders and the church at
the Cove.
Their hopes for the prosperity of Zion
were further strengthened by the labors
of Joseph D. Logan, who was ordained
in 1911, to supply the churches in Louisa
and Goochland, made vacant by the death
of the elder Todd, and the removal of the
younger Todd to the West.
Another event cheered them all as
their hearts were set on Albemarle.-
James C. Wilson, lcentiate of Lex
iDgton Presbytery, was invited by citi-
zens of Albemarle to preachin the north
ern part of the county, and giving salts
faction the citizens, as citizens, applied
to the Presbytery in session at Hat Greek
for his services as evangelist. In conse-
quence, a meeting of the Presbytery was
held at Walkers church, October, 1914,
and Mr.. ]. c. Wilson ordained evange[
ist to gather the Church of Christ as the
Lord might direct his way.
In6rmities were now pressing on MIR.
Robinson, brought on prematurely by his
great exertions to meet the wants al
around him for spiritual instruction, as
he says in letter to Mr.. Hendren, of
the date of May 10Th, 1917. From the
time Mr.. Hendren became a resident in
Amherst, an intimacy between him and
Mr.. Robinson commenced, which was
cherished by frequent visits and in cor
respondeuce by letters. A few of those
from Mr.. Robinson to Mr.. Hendren are
presented:
Through the winter there was obvi-
ously suspension of divine influences.
This spring | saw, or thought | saw, and
trusted ] felt through the intervening
clouds, some rays from the Sun of Right
eousness. This called forth exertions,
perhaps imprudent ones; but you know
that prudence in these cases is not vir-
tue for which | am distinguished; the ef-
feet of which | am feeling in every mus
Gle andi in my kidneys. But under all these
suferings l attend meetings twice a
week. And | have to my own surprise
been borne throug n a course of labor just
in manner | could not have expected. ="
These sufferings, of which he speaks,
were the consequences of his long rides
as missionary, and his great bodily ex-
ertions in preaching. For till the end
of his life his vehemence in the pulpit
was measured only by his strength of
body.
In the same letter he notices the re-
port, that General Cooke, of Fluvanna,
had abandoned his disbelief in the Bible,
! and had received the Gospel as the Word
. of God.
About this time change began to
come over the public mind in regard to
the Christian religion. The Theological
school at Hampden Sidney under the care
of Moses Hoge, D. D., had for series
of years been sending out able ministers
of the Gospel, and the novelty of the re-
! ligion of nature had lost its charm over
thinking men; the speculations of mis-
! belief affording small consolation in suf
fering and in sickness and death. Mems
mortality called for better guide into
the unseen world, than any of the sys
TENS of morality moulded by any of the
> forms of Infdelity. And God, in hi:
mercy, began to call one and another
into mis- spiritual fold, The old watch
man, on his watch-tower at the Cove, saw
E the rays of the Sun of Righteousness
I beaming on the mountain tops, and blew
4 the silver trumpetto call the whole camp
of the Church of God to advance. H,
Z has told us of the pain and suffering
4 caused by every blast; and has also re
+ corded the blessed results which God wa
e pleased to grant to some.
f In letter to Mr.. Hendren in 1918
o after communion service in which Mr.
Hendren assisted, he says; Mr.. Kell.
/ commenced his prayer meeting in hi
e own house the Sabbath after his return
I home, and is determined to persever