Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-06-05
For the Yorkville Enquirer.

Howitzers fired salute, and the assemblage
quietly dispersed.
For the Yorkvllle Enquirer
BETHEL PREsBYTERY.
This body adjourned its regular Spring ses-
sions, at Pleasant Grove Church, Chester coun-
ty, April 5th, to meet in Purity Church, Ches-
ter c. H., the 9th ultimo. The meeting was
full and earnest one.
Six young men of unusual promise, stu
dents of the present senior class in the Theo-
logical Seminary at Columbia, were examined
upon their literary, scientific and theological
course, were heard sermons and popular lec-
lures, beside presenting Latin theses, and ex-
egetical exercises in Greek. These several
parts of trial were unanimously approved, and
Messrs. R. Miller, J. Spratt, L. Mccormick,
R. Perry, J. G. Hall and G. R. Hemphill
were licensed as probationers for the gospel
ministry. Mr.. T. D. Latimer, member of
the Yorkville Church, was received as can
didate for the ministry under the care of Pres
bytery. Mr.. Latimer has spent year in the
Theological Seminary at Princeton, New Jer-
sey. He is a native of this county, and a
young man whose diligent and resolute pur.
suit Of knowledge, in the face of many diff
culties, has won him many admirers and
friends.
Rev. James Douglass was compelled, be-
cause of feeble health, to return to the Pres
bytery, the Yorkville Female College, over
which he has presided acceptably for three
years. Rev. T. w. Erwin, Col. r. M. Sims,
Col. I. D. Witherspoon. Mr.. S. Rufus Moore,
DR.. j. F. Lindsay, and Maj. j. F. Hart, were
elected Trustees of the College. A Commits
sioner was sent to Harmony Presbytery, meet
ing in adjourned session at Winnsboro on the
2Sth ultimo, with an overture from Bethel
Presbytery, proposing an equal controlling
interest in the College, on the part of Harmo-
ny Presbytery. The overture was most cor
daily entertained by Harmony; but owing
to the fact that Presbytery was not a full one,
it was thought best to postpone positive ac'
ceptance of the overture until the regular
Fall Sessions of Harmony.
All encouragement was pledged to the
Agent of the College, (Rev. R. E. Cooper
who had been appointed to sell scholarships
and solicit donations within the bounds Of
Harmony, toward relieving the College Of
some financial embarrassments from which it
has not been free since the disasters of the war.
The scheme of selling scholarships at 500
each, which gives to holder of one the priv.
ilege of entering pupil on halftuition for four
years, is deemed by the most sagacious friends
of this honored institution, an eminently hap
py one. Rev. L. W. Curtis, member Of
Presbytery, now resident in the State Of New
York, in shattered health, was also appointed
an Agent to sell scholarships and solicit do
nations for the College. Agents in each church
under the oversight of this Presbytery, were
also appointed for the same purpose.
The determination of the Presbytery to re.
lax nothing of the enthusiasm which charac-
terized its action in the matter at this meeting,
until school for the daughters of the land,
second to none in her borders, shall have been
equipped, unfettered, and with every appli-
ance for thorough education, was unmistaka-
BILE. The friends of education may be assured
that the Presbytery is in dead earnest about it.
The Committees of Sustentation and Edu-
cation were consolidated, with Rev. j. Lowrie
Wilson as Chairman, under the name Of the
Executive Committee ofthe Presbytery. This
Committee will meet for business on the second
Tuesday of each calendar month. The young
men licensed at this meeting were allotted
fields of labor in our bounds during the sum-
mer vacation of the Seminary at Columbia.
This meeting of Presbytery will be long re-
membered by those who were so fortunate as
to attend upon its sessions, as one of peculiar
harmony and earnestness and enjoyment.
The cordial and elegant hospitality Of the
lively church which entertained the Presbyte'
ry was all that was to be expected Of the no
BILE people of Chester, and will be held in
grateful and enduring regard by those who
were honored by it. The kindness and cour'
tesy of citizens, irrespective of denominational
connections, won the hearts of the Presbytery,
and will be spoken of in our homes for years
to come, as illustrative of that spirit Of Jesus,
with which God has SO signally baptized that
community. +.