The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1889-03-13

Mr.. Henderson's pastorate lasted nearly eight
Mr.. McNair's thirteen years, with 159 members
added, the largest membership reported being
III; DIR. Bunting, twelve years, with 46l mem
bers added. the largest membership at any time
being 337.
In 1882 when DR.. Scott was called to the pas
torate the membership had gone down to 1855
There have been added, up to the present time,
2S7 members the present membership being 1865.
In opening up the new audience room the
members of the church and congregation have
decided that it shall be free to all. No pews are
owned or rented. All are free.
Each member of the congregation pledges
himself to give certain amount for the support
of the church for the year, payable weekly,
monthly or as is most convenient.
Their many friends in the community can
not but congratulate the members of the First
Presbyterian church on the entirely successful
struggle they have made and on its happy issue,
which gives them church home and the city
another object of interest and subject of pride
Northern Presbyterian.
In Nebraska the late additions to the
churches are as follows: Humboldt thirty-two,
and Alexandra sixteen.
An addition of forty-three members was re-
ceived at the last communion service of the
Seventy-third Avenue church, New York, max
ing total of 80, an increase of 100 per cent
in a single year.
In the charge of Rev. Charles B. Taylor,
in Ohio ffty-four members in all have been re-
ceived-thirty-two at Berea and thirty two at
New Plymouth. OF the entire number forty
FIVE were received on profession of faith.
In the State of Iowa the church at Fair
field has received ffty-two persons since the
Week of Prayer, forty-four of these by profession
of faith in Christ; to the church at lola thirty
three new members have been added and to the
church at State Centre, fifteen.
Geneseo Collegiate Institute, Geneseo.
ILL.,, has passed through remarkable revival
dating from the last week of January. Seventy
two persons have protested conversion.
In the State of Indiana the Presbyterian
church at Ossian has received thirty seven new
members lately the church at Aurora fifteen,
and the Second church in New Albany, twenty
two.
AS a result of services following the
Week Of Player, this winter, forty zone have
united with the Apple Creek, Ohio, church,
Presbytery of Wooster, by profession of faith
Miss Augusta Cass, late of Dresden, Ohio
made requests of $4,000 each to the Presbyte-
rian Boards of Home Missions, Foreign Missions
and Freedmen.
In the State of Ohio the ingathering,
into the churches continue large Twenty-Five
persons were lately received into the church al
Findlay, 70 which Rev. ]. R. Mitchell is minis
tering; to the church at Loveland twenty three
of whom fifteen were baptized; to the church al
Clyde seventeen; to the church at New Phila-
delphia, thirty six; to the church at College
Corner, thirty-fve; and twenty-five to the Mo-
hawk mission, Cincinnati.
Large Request by Mrs. Kar.-By the
will of Mrs. Amelia Kerr, widow of Henry A.
Kerr the following requests are made: To the
trustees of the Scotch Presbyterian Church of
the city of New York, three sums of $5 600 each
for the purchase of free beds in the Presbyterian
Hospital, the Hahnemana Homeopathic Hos
pital, and the Presbyterian Home for Aged
Women; to the Lincoln University of Oxford,
Penn, $25, 900 to found Henry A. Kerr"
professorship in such branch as the University
may select;to the Presbyterian Board OF Relieffor
Disabled Ministers $25,OOO to the Board of Mis-
sioDs for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States $25,OOO to the Presbyte.
rian Board of Home Missions 100000 to the
Union Theological Seminary $40 600; to the
Woman's Union Missionary Society of America
for Heather Lands $4,000; to the New York
City Mission and Tract Society $40 900; to Chill
dren's Aid Society $4,000; to the German Theo-
logical School, Newark, N. j., $1,000 to the Fe-
male Guardian Society 81 900 to the Home for
Fallen and Friendless Girls 81 900; the Society
for Promoting the Gospel among Seamen in the
Port of New York $1,000; to the Presbyterian
Board for Aid to Colleges and Academies in
Chicago $4,000; to the Gospel Mission to the
Tombs IN New York S5,OOO-N. 7 EVANGELIST