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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12
For the Central Presbyterian.
Grand Union Bazaar.

The ladies of the Episcopal, Metbo-
dist, Baptist, and Presbyterian denomi-
nations, propose to hold in this city, dur.
ing the latter part OF November next, a
Grand Union Bazaar, for the Joint benefit
OF their respective Homes for Old
Ladies, and the Richmond Male
Orphan Asylum" The proceeds will be
equally divided among the four denomi.
nations and the Male Orphan Asylum.
All who are disposed to aid this work of
benevolence, are entreated to lend
helping hand by contributions of any
kind. The Presbyterians will have an
" Old Curiosity Shop" in which articles
OF any and every sort will be ao-
ceptable and effective. They will have
also table of fancy work. The ladies
OF Virginia belonging to Presbyterian
churches, and ladies belonging to that
church elsewhere, are earnestly solicited
to interest themselves during the summer
to aid this work, to prepare suitable fancy
articles, and make contributions to the
Bazaar. A slight effort on the part of
individuals would result in grand and
varied display. Due notice of the time
and place when and where the Bazaar
will commence and end, will be hereafter
given, and the presence of all ladies
interested, is cordially requested during
the exhibition.
The institutions which it is designed to
assist by the Bazaar, are in great 3eoessi.
ties; and they appeal IN the strongest
terms to the benevolent and charitable.
Their grand and worthy objects are to
care for aged, infrm, and helpless
widows, and destitute orphans. It is
confidently believed, that during the
long interval of time between this and
November, many will respond to this ap-
peal, since no appeal could be made
having more worthy objects in view.
Contributions should be sent to Mr..
James A. Grigg, corner of Main and 9Th
SITS, Richmond, Va, who has kindly
consented to receive the same. Names
and address Of the contributors should in
all cases be given. A.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12
Church 4
.emhers n,

REV. DIR. JAMES WOODROW, editor of
the Southern Presbyterian, replies, over
his own signature, in the last number
of his paper, to the letter of an elm
quirer" in regard to statement in the
Christian Observer, and characterizes
the statement as an intentional false
hood" In tho beginning of his re-
ply he says: "I received your letter
some months ago, but I felt re-
luctant to reply, for the reason that
long since determined to notice nothing
that might appear in the journal to
which you refer"
1t was a sad mistake, we think,
when DR.. Woodrow allowed himself to
make the reply which he did. tits one
of the most conspicuous instances we
have ever known where silence was
better than speech.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12
For the Central Presbyterian.
Tuscaloosa Institute

The exercises will be resumed on the
first day of September, when it will be
important that the old students shall be
in their places and new students prepar-
ed to enter.
The funds on hand will not more than
pay expenses for the first month. This
results from the fact that large number
of our Churches have failed to send any
contribution during the current year.
We earnestly appeal to then, to take up a
collection for this object at as early day
as practicable. The surplus of funds re-
ported on hand last April led many to
believe that we would need no further
aid. The Assembly has ordered only one
annual collection, December lst. That is
expected to meet the expenses of the
whole year. A surplus in the spring does
not mean surplus in the fall. We &C.
knowledge with gratitude contribution
of valuable books from Rev. John w.
Davis of the China Mission.
Send all contributions of money to DR..
j. I. Searcy, Treasurer, Tuscaloosa, Ala.
@. A. STILLMAN, Sec.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

A WRITER in the Philadelphia Pres5y-
terrain gives the following table of the
contributions made in the year 1884 by
the several leading denominations
(Lutherans excepted) in the United
States to Foreign Missions. 1t is q
curious and interesting study. The
Moravians are far in advance of all
others, but it is well.known fact that
foreign missionary work is the dis
tinctive feature of that church. The
Congregationalists come next, and then
the Reformed Presbyterian Church.
The Northern Presbyterian Church is
close behind (s1.12 per member). Our
Southern Church gave only so cents
per member. This is due in part to the
comparative poverty of our churches,
but this is not the whole of it. We can
do better than we do. Says the CORES
pendent of the Presbyterian:
In our review of the table of the missionary
work of 1884, given in Rev. R. g. Wilder's
Missionary ReUiew, published in Princeton, N
j., we gave a comparison of the gifts of the
leading churches in the United States. The
amount given per member will be an interesting
Investigation.
The Presbyterian Church North gave, in 1884
$685., 122, but there were 6l5, 942 members in
the churches to give it, so that the average
amount given by each member was SLIP. The
Presbyterian Church South gave $7O.l67 mem
bers' l3l, 250-average per member, so cents.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

HE Nee0 York Herald in speaking of
DIR. Newmans "eulogy at Mount Nc
Gregor," says:
"a funeral grafton delivered over the BODY
OF great man taxes ones powers to the utmost
10 praise the fallen and not to defy them re
quires genius of no mean order. Massilon,
when preaching on the death of Louis XIV,
gave praise where praise was due, but, remem-
6,ering his sacred office, he fixed his eyes upon
the expectant assembly and pronounced these
grand, mes fieres T."
1t seems to be the general verdict of
the secular as well as the religious press
that If ever preacher forgot the respon-
sibilities of his sacred office" it was DR..
Newman at Mount McGregor.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

LEAST of all among our various occu.
pations, can it be said Of the lawyers
that they care feeble folk" AS pro-
fession they are the strongest and ablest
body Of men among US. The Philadel-
phia Times has given the result of an in
vestigation among them as to their rela-
tons to Christianity. 1t says 1.-THE as
sertion having been made that lawyers, as
a rule, are soeptics in religion, the Times
has looked into the matter, so far as Phil
adelphia is concerned. OF the 1900
members Of the Philadelphia bar nine
tenths are either church members or have
well-defned church affiliations"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

WE publish elsewhere the Compare
tive Summary of the Presbyterian
Church (North). The figures present
ed are instructive and show that much
progress has been made in the last six
years. In regard to this summary the
Presbyterian Journal says:
The Comparative Summary of our church
which we publish elsewhere, shows progress all
along the line. In spite of business depression,
the contributions were last year nearly $3.50, 600
in advance of the preceding year, and are more
than two million dollars ahead of 1880. The
net growth of our communion rolls is striking.
From 1880 to 1881 it was less than 5000; from
81 to 80 less than 1900; from SO to 'S3 a
little over 5000; from 'S3 to "a little over
10000 last year it was nearly $4,000. The
additions on examination were 42,972, or
over 5000 more than the preceding year and
$4,000 more than in 1880. Not all that we
should desire. But let us thank God and take
courage All the particulars iu the Summary
are worth studying. These strike us on the
first glance.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12
WE WISH to remind our subscribers

WE WISH to remind our subscribers
that the price Of the paper is reduced
to $3.50 to those who pay in advance.
We can be justified in this reduction
only by receiving prompt payment and
also large increase in our subscription
list.
We ask those who are in arrears
Qook at your labeD to settle for the
past as soon as possible, and enter the
next year with the advance payment,
at the reduced rates $3.50. 1t will be
best for them as we'll as for us.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

We have endured no little criticism and abuse
while some of our brethren have been praised
and coddled because they made such good
paper" 1t came every week cooling like
turtle dove. But the Ishamaelitish Interior
was always pitching into somebody or somebody
was pitching into it. It's editors acted as if they
believed that our Saviour meant it when he said
come not to send peace on earth but a
sword They accepted literally Paul's exhor-
tation to put on the whole armor of God and to
fight the good fight of faith. Well, we may
have failed in many things, but we certainly
have not incurred the condemnation which
Christ pronounced upon those of whom all men
fpeak well. We have preferred to claim share
V this blessing upon those who are spoken of
falsely for his sake.-Interior.
1t is certainly true, that good people
have sometimes to endure criticism
and abuse" Abuse is not to be coveted.
and blessed is the man who gives oc-
casion for it only by being conspicuous
for superior virtue. The world is very
unfair, but sometimes a man is abused
even for his faults.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

Rev. DR.. HOUSTON, Secretary of For
eign Missions, replies to the letter of
Rev. Mr.. Wardlaw, on the proposed
Japan Mission, published last week. Our
comment on the communication of DR..
Houston is substantially the same as that
which we made on the letter of Mr..
Wardlaw, viz. "The whole Church
ought to rejoice, and no doubt would re-
joice to take part in the great work of
Christianizing Japan as soon as the way
is clear"
DR.. Houston comedies that &c the way is
not yet clear" but thinks there is nothing
{" to obstruct the way save failure to
consecrate all to Christ" No doubt there
is want Of conservation, but our churches
and our people-men, women and child
rem have been struggling bravely to sus-
tain the enterprises of the Church. For
years past, our church papers have not
failed to send down clear, ringing,
earnest appeals to the people" of whom
it may be truly said THAT in a great
trial of afl;etion, the abundance of their
Joy and their deep poverty abounded
unto the riches of their liberality."
We have as earnest zeal in behalf of
Foreign Missions as our honored Secre-
tary. We have said before, and now re-
peat, that no enterprise ever undertaken
by men has accomplished more good, in
proportion to the number of men en-
ployed and the amount of money used,
than the work of Foreign Missions. Let
the Church push the work to the full ex-
tent of her means wherever the way is
opened, but let her not undertake, as we
said last week, more than she can "suc-
cessfully carry forward"
In regard to the earthly struggle" to
which DR.. Houston refers it may be well
to observe that possibly our people en-
gagged in that struggle before the sway
was clear" and without sufficient regard
to men and means"
The necessity Of making special APP
peals several times year, for each one
OF the great enterprises of the Church,
ought to be avoided. Last year the
"church papers contained some such
appeal in almost every issue. To-day
we publish circular from the Secretary
of Education, and card from the Secre-
tary Of the Tuscaloosa Institute. Last
week the Secretary Of Home Missions
presented in an earnest manner the claims
upon our Church to do larger work in
evangelizing the colored people. All
these departments of work have urgent
claims, and the Church will have to put
forth her utmost endeavors to meet them.
The Secretary Of Home Missions has told
us that unless some special ef,rt is made
some Of our home missionaries or evan
gelists will have to stop their work or
suffer great privations.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

AT the request of two Directors,
hereby call meeting of the Board OF
Directors of the Theological Seminary,
to be held in Augusta, Ga, in the Ice.
ture room Of the Presbyterian church,
on Thursday, August goth, 1885, at 10
A. NJ. JAMES HEMpH1LL.
President.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

We learn that a third edition of DR..
Dabney's Theology has been issued, in
handsome style, by Rev. A. Shotwell,
now of Asbury Park, Nj. The same
publisher has charge of the sale Of DR..
Dabney's Sacred Rhetoric. These
works may be ordered through our
Committee Of Publication.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

In the Northern and Southern Pres
byterian Churches the additions last year
on profession were 52,923 as against 29.-
57o in 1881. We hope in a few years
this increase will reach 5OOO-why not
100000 by 1889, since it nearly doubled
in the past four years.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

The ART INTERCHANGE for the two weeks
ending July 3oth, is received. Published fort
nightly by VIM. Whitlock, editor, 81 and 80 w.
I'D Street, New York. Single copies Is cts So
year. With Double Design Supplement.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

The Bishop of Saskatchewan in old
days. when settlement was sparse in Western
Manitoba, stald all night at the house OF Pres
byterian Of the Old Schooi. Finding that the
children had not been baptized the Bishop kind
ly offered to baptize them, having informed the
family, of course, that be was a Bishop Of the
Church Of England. Thank ye, sir said the
wife, " but the pulr BARNS haze game sac lang
without being bapteezed that 1 think we shall
wait moo till regularly ordained minister
comes"
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

G. P. PUTNAM's Sons have in press
Mrs. Margaret J. Preston's Centennial
Poem, y recently delivered at Lexington,
Va, in honor Of the hundredth anniver.
sary Of the founding Of Washington and
Lee University.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

Over against Gal. vi TO, in his
study Bible, Charles Read wrote go God grant
for Christs sake that henceforth these four
verses may be the guide Of my life" We sue-
gest to our readers to hunt up these verses and
see whether they do not contain principles and
precepts which may be made the guide Of the
life Of every Christian PrcsbVierian.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1885-08-12

The B1-CENTENARY of the Revocation
OF the Edict of Nantes is to be celebrated
by the Huguenots throughout the world.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31
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Speaker Carlisle says, 81 would COM
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Hundreds o. agents are meeting with
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31
Township Board of Assess
OrS. Edgefield County.

THE following citizens have been ap-'
Il pointed Township Boards OF Assess
ors in their respective Townships:
Blocker f A Timmons, r Will
liarns, r G May.
Collins-W l. Mcdaniel, Henry Bus
sey, E w Dowty.
Collier-B It Minor, L Miller, D T
Mathis.
Coloman-W w Owdom, A P Cole
man, w o Carson.
Cooper-C w Kinard, It A Pitts, F v
Cooper.
Gerrnanvlle-B L Caughman, T T
Etheredge.
Gray-W L burst, w Alton, c M
Williams.
Hibler-W II Yeldell, ] T White, ] G
Callison.
Huiet-D B Purifoy, Henry Black,
Xed Crouch.
Johnston VIM Lott, Mark Toney, w
j Huiet.
Meriwether. Benjamin Tillman, II Fl
Townes, p Lanham.
Mobley-H F Watson, II G Wright,
B F Bouknight.
Moss-J D Fraser, Fl Walker, Wal
ter Brunson.
Norris-Dr. II M Folk, A S Bouknight,
Thomas Cato.
Pickens-O L Dobson, A + Broadwa-
Ter, Jas B Tompkins.
Pine Grove-Jas r Hill, w T Walton,
Ramsey Hargrove.
Ryan, Blackwell, Jos A Reynolds,
James Wideman.
Shawn NJ Padgett, M A Lott, 7 H
Clark.
TaIbort-J f Talbert, G M Burckhal-
tor, r A Cochran.
Washington-T f Jennings, ] c Nor
gan, ] A Butlor.
Ward-C Ward, w II Zimmerman, J
IT Nicholson.
Wise-Lewis Jones, S b Mays, R Can
telou.
j. B. DAVIS,
Dee. o, 1885,. Auditor e. c.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31
The Census Bili.

When the General Appropriation
bill was passed in the House, that
body aided to it an appropriation Of
$4,000 for taking the census. The
Senate would not agree to this and
returnedzthe.bill to,ethe House shorn
of thissfeature. Upon this there was
quite a discuss; on as to whether the
House should recede or stand firm.
Mr.. Ready, Mr.. Folk and Mr.. Jones
voted to stand firm, Mr.. Blackwell
voted to concur in the action Of the
Sanate.
On this question Mr., Ready was
allowed three minutes and he made
an effective talk. He urged the mem.
bers to be firm. TIE House was clear.
ly in the right and should not give
way. Colonel Folk delivered a very
impressive speech in support OF the
action CT the House. i, He did not be-
lieve in weighing the question by ex-
pediency or by dollars and cents. The
Constitution upheld the House, and
he would never consent to back out
because Of the considerations which
had bsen urged.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31
A Walking skeleton.

Mr.. E. Springer, of Mechaniesburg,
Pa, writes: Z" / was afflicted with
lung fever and abscees on lungs, and
reduced to q qro1Aing Skeleton. Got
a free trial bottle Of DR.. Kings New
Discovery for Consumption, which did
me 80 much good that l bought dol
lar bottle. After using three bottles,
found myself once more man, COM
pletely retored to health, with hearty
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Call at the Hrug Stores Of w. Z.
Lynch, Edgefeld, and S. 7. Hughes,
Trenton, and get a free trial bottle Of
this certain cure Tor all Lung Diseases.
Large bottles 81 90.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31
State Of South Carolina

COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD.
It Common Pleas.
Tho Planters Loan and Savings Bank, OF
Augusta, Ga, rS Jesse II. Coleman.
NOTICE is hereby given that by vir.
IN tue of tho judgment of foreclosure
herein. dated Nov. 20, 1885, will sell al
Edgefield c. H., OH the first Monday in
January next, the following mortgaged
premises, viz:
All that tract parcel of land, situate,
lying and being in the County and State
aforesaid, containing one hundred and
fourteen and one half acres, more or less,
bounded on the North by Saluda River,
on the East and South by lands Of j. w.
Coleman and on the West by lands of the
estate Of Thos. j. Dyson, decd.
TERMS: The cost and one half the pur-
chase money to be paid in cash, the bal.
ancc on credit Of one year, with inter-
est, to be secured by bond of the pur-
chaser and mortgage of the premises, or
all cash, at option Of purchaser.
Titles and Mortgage extra.
8. 3. TOMPKINS, Master T.. G.
Dec Z. lSe5.-4tl
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Read This Carefully.

Tho following letter from well-known
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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1885-12-31

Oae Of the most remarkable suicides
reported lately is that Of Mr.. John
Webster, near Shelby, N. c. MIR.
Webster was a very modest young
man. Last Friday evening when he
returned from dance the room which
he had occupied for months had been
given for the night TO three young Ia
dies. Unaware Of this he entered the
room and found two Of the girls dis
robed; This greatly confused him.
lie madeproluse apologies and retired,
The blunder weighed npon his mind
to such an extent that he determined
to kill himself rather than live to face
the young ladies and the community.
The friends Of Mr.. Webster are in
clined to think lie carried his modett
scruples little too far.
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