The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1881-09-28
NEWS FROM THE CHURCHES.
Southern Churohes.NO Continued from LIST
pagc.)


North Mississippi Presbytery, writes us: I'VE
have just September 10y closed most delight
full meeting of ten days duration at Oakland,
on the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad, the
result of which was the organization of a church
of twenty-f members. Rev. R. II. Crozier.
Of Sardis, Miss, was with me, and preached
with great acceptability. The work of the Lord
is prospecting in this field During this series
of evangelistic meetings, Gods people have been
greatly revived, and numbers added to the
church. There were FIVE additions at New
Hope church. III.
Zion Church, Bethel Presbytery, S. c.,
has had an addition of 81 members the result
of meeting continuing for more than two weeks.
At tn, Evangelistic Meeting at the
Presbytery of Central Texas, seven persons
agreed to pay ten dollars each toward carrying
on this work in our Presbytery. Can we not
get ninety three more persons in this Presby-
terry and elsewhere to do the same? We must
put two more men in the field at once. Who
will join in this great work Send In your
names to me- and the money to Rev. R. Nell
waine, D. D., Treasurer, Baltimore, Md, with
the statement what it is for. Send me your
January l, 1882. Six have agreed to give
five dollars each. Are there not ninety -four
others to give the same? Six persons gave two
dollars and fifty cents each. Will not ninety
four others give the same? Where there is
will there is way. The Lord opens this door
for us to work. Give us this money and we will
put five missionaries in the field and win this
whole Central Texas. by the grace of God, to
Christ and our beloved Church. Brethren in
the ministry, present this cause in private. Help
us to raise this sum outside of the Presbyterial
collection. 1t is hoped that all will aid in that
collection. c. H. DoBBs,
Chairman of Committee of Home Missions,
Robinson, Texas.
Presbytery of Central Texas.-We take
the following extract from the Narrative pre-
sented at the late meeting:
Fourteen churches have sent ND Narratives.
All except two of these churches report full,
regular, and in some instances increasing, at
tendance upon the sanctuary. Three report
special outpourings of the Holy Spirit, while
one reports continuous accessions during the
year. All report some accessions. None re-
port the prevalence of intemperance among the
members, while some indicate members ad-
dlcted to worldly amusements. One church
alone reports family worship generally OBJ
served while the larger part report it almost
entirely neglected, or only observed in a few
families. One makes no report at ALL"
Northern Presbyterian.
German Seminaries.-The announcement
made by a writer in the Lutheran and made
with undisguised pleasure, that the German
Theological Seminaries of the Presbyterian
Church were on the eve of total failure, one at
Dubuque, Iowa, having been closed for want of
funds and the other at Bloomfield N J., being
IN danger of the same fate, is likely to draw
general attention to the condition of these
Seminaries, and to the good work in which
they are engaged From each of them we have
word that they do not propose to give the
writer in the Lutheran the chance to welcome
them to "hospitable graves" as yet, much as it
would evidently delight him to heap up large
mounds over their remains. Dr. Knox answers
for the Seminary at Bloomfield in brief article
to be found in this weeks Presbyterian, and in
very satisfactory way.
From the West we have several communica-
tons in regard to the Seminary at Dubuque
Rev. Ambrose G. Smith, of Galena ILL.,, who is
President of the Board of Trustees of the Semi
nary in Dubuque says that it not only is not
dead, but it is not even sjckLy." 1t is true, as
the Lutheran states, that the Seminary has
been closed; that is to say during the usual
vacation. 1t will be regularly opened again
and its exercises resumed as heretofore, at the
beginning of the term, and before this reaches
you"
Mr.. Smith, who, of course is perfectly famil-
lar with the condition of the Seminary, con-
tinues thus:
" In many respects the institution is now
more prosperous than it has ever been. 1t has
fine property entirely adequate for its wants
for years to come. 1t has the beginning of an
endowment fund. 1t is entirely free from debt.
Last year it had twenty three students under
instruction the year before that thirty, and the
outlook for the present year is good. "-Pres5y-
terrain.
Princeton Seminary.-In a note just re-
ceived from Princeton, N. j., &C. P. B" says
Princeton Theological Seminary opened on
September LIST under the services of our senior
Professor, DR.. A. T. McGill, assisted by DR..
Green About one hundred students were pre-
sent the first day, and goodly number have
come In since. There forty two in the
Senior class, about the same in the Middle and
thirty-fve in the Junior, one of whom is a
colored man. The Faculty has received a
strong addition in DR.. Patton, formerly of
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