The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-05-18

this church by committee of Harmony Pres
bytery.
The receipts of the Board of Foreign Mis-
sions of the Presbyterian Church, South, for the
year just closed were $59, ,235 SO, an advance on
those of last year of 10, 72941.
Piedmont, s. C.-Ten communicates have
been recently added to the Presbyterian church
at Piedmont S. G. Eight on profession of their
faith and two by certfcate-Southern Pres5y-
te1ian
Milledgeville, Ga" Elder" writes us
from Milledgeville, Ga, that on the 1st inst,
thirteen communicates were added to the church
In that place-twelve on profession of their
faith, and one by certificate. OF the former,
ten were members Of the Sabbath School-I6.
Cumberland Trinity Uni
versty at Tehuacana Texas, is in prosperous
condition. Ninety-fve new pupils were entered
in the months of February and March. The
catalogue number approximates three hundred
1t is a newly established school, and vigorous
efforts are making to endow it. Of the students,
twenty two are candidates for the ministry from
different parts of the State
A remarkable revival meeting has recently
been enjoyed by the congregation at Lebanon,
Tenn, the seat of Cumberland University.
Upwards of one hundred and fifty converts are
reported.
Northern Presbyterian.
Presbyterian Foreign Missions.-The
annual sermon before the Presbyterian Board of
Foreign Missions was preached on Sunday even
ing in the Madison Square Presbyterian church
by Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D. D., of Cleveland
Ohio, from John xiii: ID: "And ye know in
all your hearts and in all your souls that not
one thing hath failed of all the good things
which the Lord your God spake concerning
you: all are come to pass unto you, and not one
thing hath failed thereof" The discourse,
which was full of encouragement to those en-
gagged in the work of Missions, showing Gods
faithfulness to his promises, made deep i'm
preston upon the assembly.
The Rev. DIR. Elinwood, one of the Secre-
taries, made brief statement of the finances of
the year. as follows:
Receipts from churches, $392, ,556 98
OF which from Womans Boards, 10000 90
Individual and Miscellaneous 76,342 76
Legacies, Ill 1856 81
Interest on Waldenstan Fund 1926 90
Surplus earnings Shang Pres, 5000 90
Total Receipts, $59O0So 40
Total Expenditures, 1851, ,5l5 20
The annual meeting of this Board is held
during the sessions of the General Assembly,
when full report of its operations is presented.
". Y. Observer.
The forty fifth anniversary of the Union
Theological Seminary was held in the Madison
Square Presbyterian church on Monday even
ing last The annual address by appointment
of the Alumni Association was delivered by
Rev. William w. Patton, D. D., President of
Howard University, Washington. His subject
was, The proposed substitution of Culture for
Christianity.
The following is nearly complete statement
of the destinations of the graduating class of
the Princeton Seminary OF the twenty
regular graduates ten are invited to definite
fields of labor at home one is under appoint
ment as missionary to Turkey one is to be
nominated to a chaplaincy in our navy; two
are going abroad to continue studies in Ger
many two are expecting to return for fourth
year at Princeton. OF the remaining eleven,
one at least contemplates the foreign field and
refuses to settle at home and nearly all the
residue are going to missionary fields in the far
West and Southwest. Three others on the
catalogue ended the course irregularly one ex-
pecting to graduate hereafter, another settling
as pastor in New Jersey, and the other, who
had come from the West as an ordained minis
ter in the Lutheran connection, graduate o s
Harvard Divinity School, was dismissed about
the middle of the term.-N. Y. Observer.
We are glad to be able to announce that
Rev. B. B. Warfeld, D. D., of the Western
Theological Seminary, in Allegheny, has de-
clined the chair of Theology in the Theological
Seminary of the Northwest, at Chicago, to
which he was recently appointed. While ad-
miring the excellent judgment manifested by
the Board Of Directors in making this selection
and sympathizing with it in the disappointment
it must now feel we congratulate the Seminary
in Allegheny and the whole Church upon the
declination of Prof Warfeld, whose ability and
learning are so fully recognized throughout the
country, and indeed beyond the Atlantic.-Pres-
byterian Banner.
Howard Presbyterian church, New
York; Rev. Robert Mackenzie, pastor, has Just
received ninety three new members. Two hun
dred and thirty one have now been added since
May last when the church was re opened under
the present pastorate.
Brooklyn Tabernacle REV. r. De Witt