The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1879-09-03

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our thanks for the kindness;
According to the Minutes of the last General
Assembly there are III ministers in the Synod
of North Carolina, 222 churches, and l7,747
members
Orange Presbytery has IS churches, 80 minis
ters, and 3,515 members; paid average salary to
p ministers, about S7l2 raised for benevo-
lence, S3,279; for all objects, S27, 296; added on
examination, POP persons, and has Il vacant
churches
Concord Presbytery has So churches, % minis
tiers, 1926 members; paid to II ministers ave-
rage salary S618; raised for benevolence, So
944; for all objects, 1874, PSI; added 156 mem
bers, and has vacant churches
Fayetteville Presbytery has 40 churches, IS
ministers, 1925 members; paid 10 ministers an
average salary of $685. raised for benevolence,
81, S24 for all objects, SIC 541 added sos mem
bers and has 6 vacant churches.
Wilmington Presbytery has 30 churches Is
ministers, l,727 members; paid to 10 ministers
an average salary of 1894 raised for benevo-
lence, 1895, for all objects, $163S6; added 80
members, and has 8 vacant churches
! Mecklenb,trg PreSbytery has AZ churches, p
ministers, 4054 members; paid to q ministers
an average salary of 1858; raised for bevevo-
lence, So, 722, for all objects, $l9,S added 259
members, and has l vacant church-N. c.
Presbyterian
Rev. c. NJ. Payne pastor of the Second Pres
byterlan church, Wilmington, has returned home
and resumed. his labors He will, during the
absence of Dr. Wilson, pastor of the First church,
preach IN the Second church in the forenoon, and
IN the First church in the afternoon of each Sab
bath.-Ib
In the proper column is announced the mar
riage of Rev. H. G. Hill. We extend our
heartiest congratulations. The Fayetteville
n G., Gazette informs us that Mr. Hill has
four weeks vacation which he will spend with
his bride, partly at each, Buffalo Lithia Springs
and Richmond, Va. The Fayetteville church
will be filled during the absence of its pastor, by
Rev. ]. NJ. Rose, of Portsmouth, Va, and by
Rev. Messrs. j P. Mcpherson and JOS NJ At
kinson.-B.
A Sabbath School celebration will be held at
Galatia church, Cumberland county, n. c.. on
Saturday, September 18th, at II o'clock, A. NJ
conducted by Rev. William s. Lacy, pastor of
Buffalo and Euphronia churches The public
are cordially invited to attend, and especially
parents and children and Sabbath School work
ers.-Ib.
Rev j. Rumple's vacation of four weeks at
Rocky River, proved to be only a few days. At
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and the protracted meeting on the occasion he
preached twenty-one sermOns.-N. C. Presbyte
RAN.
The Liring Church, an Episcopal paper, says
I'VE have some $500 clergy and 100000 of
population; that is to say, we should have one
pastor to something less than IA, 900 of our pop
ulation, if all our clergy were pastors, which
very many are not. If we allow that every one
of the $500 is the pastor of flock of 500 souls,
then we are ministering to little over three and
half per cent of the population of the land.
Whatever of Christian nurture is given to the re-
naming ninety-six and a half per cent. is due to
Christian people who do not company with us.
Interested friends have recently placed suit
able monument in the church-yard of the Pres
byterian church at Lewisburg, W. Va over the
grave of the late venerable and venerated pas
tor 1t bears the inscription, Rev. John Nc
Elhenny, born March, 1881, died January 2,
1871" He was pastor Of that church for sixty
two years.
Rev. Dr. Hall, of Lynchburg, preache in the
First Presbyterian church. Stanton, on Sunday
August 3lst.
Rev Samuel NJ. Smith, son of Rev. DR.. Jacob
Henry Smith, of Greensboro and at present pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Washington
at Columbus Ca to visit it with view to a call
Southern Home.
The statistics of the Episcopal Church in s.
Carolina are as follows, viz: Ministers A
churches 80, mission stations 10, communicates
IA white and ia colored, total, 4,455; net
gain in communicates during the year SO, total
contributions for all purposes during the past
year $65 474l9
At the recent Round Lake Camp Meeting an
earnest brother asked permission to relate story
in Illustration of practical religion. He told of
the Scotch boatman, who, after listening to a
discussion between two theologians on the com
parative valre of faith and works, asked them to
imagine the oar he held in one hand as faith,
the one in the other as works. He then begel
rowing vigorously with faith, and the boat made
40 progress, but turned round and round When
he pulled with works alone it was the same re-
suit But when he worked with equal vigor
with both, the boat shot forward and made rapid
D Ogress And so the brother believed it was in
the Christian life. The two must go together.
Mr.. Ira D. Sankey assisted at the service at
Cooper Union, New York, on Sunday evening,
August 10th He sang with great effect, What
Shall the Harvest be-" Mr. Sawyer prefaced
the singing by relating how Mr. baltimore, of
Chicago, who had promised to be at the meet
ings, was converted by hearing that song No
other influence had been effective He tried to
get away from the impression of the song, but it
ran in his mind and seemed written on the walls
of his room. He tried to drown it in drink, but
it came back the stronger. After his conversion
his little daughter wrote him touching letter
Her mother could not believe it was papa" who
had been converted and was now a sober and
Christian man.
A New MoDE OF RAISING MONEY FOR A
CHURcH-A few of the ladies of the Congrega-
tional Church of Marysville, Ohio, have pre-,
pared cookery book, and have realized profit
upon its sale thus far of $500 With this mon
ey they have furnished an attractive brick