The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1882-10-04

Bethel Church. Ky.-Rev. J. E. Triplett
Synodical Evangelist, assisted Rev. w. NJ.
Crenshaw at a prOtracted meeting at Bethel
church. He did some excellent preaching and
greatly endeared himself to all the people
Eight persons were received on prof .sson OF
faith and the faith of others was quickened.
Christian Observer.
A Colored Sunday School.-In the lit
tie mountain town of Hazel Green, Kv.. is a
negro Sunday School in connection with the
Presbyterian congregation at that place. The
school is conducted by Col. R. j. Samues and
wife, and Prof. j. Roland Day, and is one of
the most interesting in the State The negro
population is too poor and too scarce in that
section to support day school, hence grown
men and women, Sunday after Sunday, meet to
Learn to spell, read, and write. The progress
they are making is wonderful Col San uels
and Prof. Day are both Southern men; both
were Confederate soldiers; and it would, per-
maps, be lesson to the partizans of the North,
who can see no good in the South could they
see the earnest way in which these gentlemen
are laboring to improve the negro.-Ib.
Northern Presbyterian.
Employment of Ministers
retired, 1913; foreign missionaries $50 pastors
and pastors elect, 2,12O; stated supplies, 1905;
professors and teachers, POS; editors without
charge, 81; secretaries, teasurers and agents,
l54; without charge, evangelists (too largely
another name for the unemployed) or IN tran
slt't, 1872. Thus it appears that 1,l90 of 5 143
ministers are not engaged in preaching. The
pastoral office is nnost boporaJ ~ Nv,
where there are 20S pastors to 20 stated sup
plies. Newark Presbytery carries the banner,
every one of its % churches having pastor.
Pennsylvania comes next, with it 524 pastors
and 81 stated supplies then follow Maryland,
% to 9; New York, Az to 176; Ohio, 220 to
10Y Il Illinois, l52 to 116; Indiana, rs to So
Iowa, 81 to S5; Michigan, 43 to 61.-Euanqel-
i8t.
South 8oston.-An unusually large con-
gregatioual meeting was held in the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, South Boston, on Friday
evening, September %. There was great in
terest manifested in giving unanimous call to
Rev. }. M. Cameron of Toronto, to become their
pastor, not single voice dissenting. Mr.. Cam
eron visited Boston recently, and this church
are thoroughly satisfied that he can do a grand
work In this region, and although he is not
seeking another pastorate, having now pros
porous and united church, yet the Fourth
Church is earnestly praying that he may see it
clearly his duty to make personal sacrifice for
the cause of Christ in this important city. Ar
rangements were made at this meeting for the
formation of Young Peoples Society for devo.
tlonal meetings and outside Christian work,
hIo - L
church.
The Theological Seminary at PrncetoA,
\. j., opened its sessions on Friday, the 22d of
September, with lecture by Prof. ]. C. Moffat
D. D., on The Spirit of Historical Progress. :"
The attendance of students this year promises to
be as large as last year, when the number
reached 1877
The North western (Chicago) Theol-
ogical Seminary opened on the 9TH ult.
Professor Craig and the older members of the
Faculty were present. Fifteen students were
present and five more entered the next day.
Union Theological Seminary of New
York city held Its opening exercises on Thurs.
day afternoon, September 2lst President
Hitchcock in his opening remarks, said that,
notwithstanding the decline in the aggregate of
theological students throughout the country it is
evident that the number of students in this
seminary will fully equal that of last year, III
having already been received.
Presbyterianism in Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Ledger recently published
history of the progress of the Presbyterian
church in Philadelphia, prepared with great
care and labor by Rev. W. NJ. Rice In the
article appears the following table which shows
the steady growth of the church during the
eight decades of the present century
Communi City
Years. Churches. csnts. popu'n.
1900 500 70,287 to 40
1910 1858 96,287 to 81
1879 IA 2,843 1925 to AZ
1880 q 1879 1925 to "a
1910 80 1899 258,037 l to 81
1880 81 10 968 408 1872 l to 81
1860 80 1913 565,529 l to SO
| 1870 Sc 10 6O7 GA 900 70 9e