Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1878-04-11
WmEELING PRESBYTERY.

WHEELING PRESBYTERY.
The Presbytery of Wheeling met in
the u. Z. Church yesterday morning
AZ 10 o'clock. Rev. G. Vincent, ID. d.,
the Moderator, opened the meeting
with prayer. The roll being called,
there were found to be present minis
terisi aud lay members representing
some twenty congregations.
The minutes of the previous meeting
at West Alexander being read, were
approved.
Rev. J. Y. Ashenhurst was received
aud recognized as a member of the
Presbytery. Mr.. Ashenburst comes
from the Presbytery of Mansfield.
Rev. j. L. Mcclure, the financial
agent of the Presbytery, presented an
interesting aud satisfactory report for
the year past. DIR. Mcclure also called
the attention of the Presbytery to
certain localities in Ohio county, W.
Va, which are entirely destitute of
church organization. The c0nsidera-
ton of the duty of the Pre5bytery was
referred TO the Committee on Supplies
for report.
The request of Mr.. J. 4. Anderson,
to be taken under the care of the Pres
bytery as a student of theology, Was
referred to the committee having
care of the education OF young men for
the ministry.
y request from the congregation of
Egypt, for preaching one.third of the
time by Rev. Love, was referred to
on
Rev. j. Ashenhurst was appointed to
act as com missioner TO the General AS
serably, and also to sit as q member of
the General Committee of the Home
Mission in the place of the former ap'
pointee, Rev. y. + MeIoy, lately
dismissed ta l.n,'arF P.r>bytery.
Seven-th!rty o'ciock p. N. was desig'
mated as the time for hearing sermons
from the students of iheOlgy under the
care of the Presbytery.
.-.ta AFTERNOON SESSION.
4: Presbytery resumed business.
The Clerk of the Presbytery resign
ed. the time of electing a Clerk WAS
changed from the fall meeting TO the
regular spring meeting. 1t was re-
solved that the term of Office should be
four years hereafter, and that the Clerk
should be allowed a reasonable com.
pensation for expenses incurred in the
discharge of his official duty. Rev.
VIM. Weir, of Martins Ferry, was
then elected Clerk for the term of four
years, beginning with this meeting.
Rev. K. b. Calderhead was receiv ed
on certificate from the Reunited Pres
byterian Church.
B4cords of sessions, as many as were
presented, were by Presby terry ex'
mined ard approved; ard congrega'
ton failing to present their records at
this time were ordered to do SO at the
June meeting of Presbytery.
The member elect of the General
Committees of HOms Missions was in.
structed to report to the committee one
Iaborer from this Presbytery and to ask
for the service of one missionary for
the coming year
Ths Board OF Home Missions was
requested to grant all to c4ctain cOt'
gregations in this Presbytery in the
aggregate amount of $1,000 for the
next year.
R. III. Parks resigning as alternate
delegate to the General Assembly, Rev.
Wan. Grimes was appointed in his
stead.
Rev. R. G. Wallace, of BslIaire, was
appointed, Presbyterial uperintendent
of Sabbath Schools for the current
year.
Mr.. J. Anderson, of the committee,
receiqed under the care of the Pres
bytery as student of theOlgy.
A paper relative to the legal status
Of the Presbytery was presented by
Revs. Balph and Love, and by agree
ment action thereon was for the present
deferred.
Rsv. DR.. Mcclure presented a paper
proposing that each of the ministerial
members of the ,Presbytery should
give one Sabbath days preaching in
missionary territory ly ng on and about
Gienn'S Run, above the city OF Wheel
lag, and contiguous to the Ohio river.
Adjourned untiI7:15 P. NJ, with pray
er by Rev. D. NJ. Sleethe.
At 7:I5 P. NJ. Rev. j. 7. Mcclure, D.
D., in absence of the Moderator, Was
chosen TO preside.
Sermons were delivered by Messrs.
d. G. Stewart, J. II, Frazier, S. A
Moore and j. NJ. Moore as partial trials
for licensHre.
A good congregation had assembled
to hear the young gentlem en-, all OF
whom acquitted themselves creditably
and to the satisfaction Of the members
of Presbytery.
The next regular meeting will be
held at CaIedonis, w. Va. on the Sec
ond Wednesday Of June, 1873 In
t9lligencer, 10th.