The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1869-12-01

The annual session OF the Lexington Va. Presby-
terrain church was held in the Lecture Room on
Monday, 22d inst. The report of the pastor repre-
Sented the church in a more prosperous condition
than at any past period There is greater de-
mandtOr pews and the congregation is larger than in
former wears Nearly IS 600 have been contribut-
ed to the different objects of benevoence The
parsonage has been renovated, and the church
building Is now undergoing repairs. Ii was deter
mined 70 remodel the old or erect new Lecture
Room. Two additional Elders were elected viz:
Professor j. j. White and Mr.. JOS G. Steele.
The following gentlemen were made DeaconS Col
] d. H. Ross, Col j. K Edmondson, H. H.
Myers, Esq, A. I. Barclay. ESQ, E. j. Leyburu,
and Dr. j. A. Link-Gazette
Clayton, Ala.-Rev James A Wallace, writing
under date November oath, says:
II closed a precious meeting at Pea River
church on Sunday night, the 7th instant. For
some time past | had been aware Of more than
usual interest in this congregation and the result
was not unexpected. On Saturday night a good
deal OF feeling was manifest and on Sabbath
morning there was an aSSemblage such as is rarely
seen at that place. Seven precious young persons
were found enjoying hope, and we're received into
the church. On the next Sabbath poured the
water OF baptism on two young men, the sons of a
deceased minister who practiced different mode
and one of these will probably devote himself to
the ministry. Many more were deeply interested !;
and would gladly have continued the meeting
but the outer man could hold on no longer. | had
no assistance
Needy and Promising Missionary Field-WhO
Will Go to its Occupancy calvert, Texas, Is the
present terminus Of the Texas Central Railroad
some two hundred miles north Of Galveston. 1t
Is some two years old, and contains population
of about five thousand; is in the centre of a rich
farming region. The inhabitants are intelligent
and enterpriSlng. Ii contains no church building
no m.sster 49, Gospel ,0hOtly given to the work
rfdny Of the eltiZeRsare anxious to secure a piOuS
and intelligent minister of some evangelical demon.
nation to reside among them, and devote himself
wholly to labOrs for their spiritual welfare If such
a minister would locate at Calvert, and preach
say one Sabbath In the month at Fremont, the
town at the junction of the Central with the Waco
Tap Railroad, thirteen miles distant-it is conf
IDENTIFY believed that he wbuld be literally provided
for in temporal matters, and might do much good.
Who l0iU 90 10 Caluert2 MACEDONIAN.
South Western Presbyterian.
Instsllation.-AceOrding to appointment of the
PreSbytery Of South Carolina, the Rev. Thomas
II. Law was installed pastor of the Srartanburg
church, on the 7th inst. The Rev. r. H. Reid
preached the sermon, and the Rev. DR.. Adger
proposed the constitutional questions aud deliv-
cred the charges to the pastor and people.
This is the first time that this church, which has
been in existence for eighteen years, has had a
pastor and the occasion was regarded as one Of
special interest We learn that a large and atten-
tive congregation was present, and that the
charges both OF which were very solemn and
pointed, were delivered in such a way that very
deep and happy impression was made.-Pfesiyte
riaR and LadeC
Hear Both Sides.-A brother laboring in Texas
writes as follows = am teaching aud preaching
here and meet with very handsome encourage.
ment for the time. Many seem to think our
preachers are buried, when they enter the halls of
learning. | may be wrong in entertaining very
different opinion. Luther and Calvin, and Archi-
bald Alexander, were preachers, and they were
teachers aud thus lived in two generatiOnS-their
own, and that of their pupils And many light
a hundred-tod less brilliant than those here named
have, in addition to their ministerial labOrs, edu
Gated talents to shine as the stars for ever and
ever that otherwise must have remained buried. -
Presbyterian and Iader.
An OEer-We are instructed to say that there
are two gentlemen, each of whom will be one of
one thousand, to give one thousand dollars each,
for the establishment OF College or University
somewhere in the West, as a memorial of the re
union of the two branches OF the Presbyterian
Church This Is proposition well worthy of con
slderatOn, and which will commend itself to many.
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Central Texas Presbytery.-Rev. r. Mccoy writes
to the Southern Presbyterian: MeSSrS. Smiley,
Walker and myself, were received as members bY
the Central Presbytery, at Waco on the 2Sth ult.
| am ordered by the Presbytery to labor in Collin
county, north OF Dallas, and south of Grayson-
On the first of January, 1870, by order of the
Associate Reformed Synod Of the South, the Rev
j. |. Bonner of Due West S. C., will commence
the publication of monthly Sabbath School pa
per, to be called the Little BaRper. Terms, so
cents year for single copy; S25 for 100 copies
sent to one address.
Holly Springs Church, Miss The pulpit OF
Holly Springs church, Mississippi, is now vacant.
The congregation very much desires to have this
important field occupied by devoted, laboriOus
minister