The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-08
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
A brier outline of the doings of the differ
ent Christian organizations through
out our State and country-Per-
sonal points, etc.

a trip to Japan. u
Bishop John G. CRANBERRY is to sail
for Brazil early in July.
Emory and Henry College had l22
pupils enrolled the past year.
Rev. Samuel j. Atkins, of Rice's
Depot, Va, died on the 28th ult, aged
eighty years.
The Lauriuburg Baptist church
was burnt by lightning on last Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. Rosser, wife of the Rev. John
G. Rosser, of the Virginia Conference,
died on June IA.
The Calvary Baptist church, of
Davenport, Iowa have just dedicated
their church house.
Rev. J. B. Culpepper's recent meet,
ing at Selma, Ala, resulted in more
than 100 conversions.
Rev. s. F. Bristow is pastor of four
churches in the West Chowan Asso-
citation, and is doing well.
The church at Wake Forest has ex-
tended a unanimous call to Rev. w.
L. Wright of Reidsville, n. G.
Howard College, of Alabama, has
conferred the degree of D.. D. upon
Rev. H. M. Wharton of Baltimore.
Mercer University, Macon, Ga. con
ferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity
upon Rev. R. Il. Pitt, of Richmond Va.
The cornerstone of the Judson
Memorial church, New York City,
was laid on Monday, June 3Oth, at
p. N.
Rev. J. B. Morris, D. D. Assistant
Secretary of the Board of Church Elk
tension, will make his home in Louis
vile, KY.
Charlotte NemS:: Evangelist Fife
closed his meetings a. Kings Noun,
tain yesterday. There were over 200
conversions.
Rev. DR.. E. B. Hubert was at the
late meeting of the Trustees of Col
gate university elected president of
that institution.
The Rutherford College Tabernacle
meeting and local preachers confer
ence will be held at Rutherford Col
lege July % %.
Woford College had l12 young
men in the regular College classes the
past year. There were 1O7 in the
preparatory schools.
Wilson M6rror: Rev. J. NJ. Thomas,
who has been called to supply the pull
pit of the Baptist church, will begin
the ministry next Sunday.
Fifteen thousand dollars has been
u bscribed by the congregation of the
End Presbyterian church in Charlotte
for the erection of anew church build
ing.
The degree of Doctor of Divinity
was conferred on Rev. W. E. Jud-
kins, of Richmond, and Rev. B. w.
Bond, of the Baltimore Conference,
by Randolph Macon College.
Richmond College at its late com
mencement conferred the degree of
D. D. on Rev. J. M. Pitchers, of Pitts
burg, Va, and Rev. W. S. Ryland,
President of Bethel College, Kentucky.
Wofford College, S. c., conferred
the degree of D. D. upon Rev. A. M.
Chreitzberg, Presiding Elder of Ches-
ter District, and Rev. R. D. Smart,
paster of Bethel Church, Charleston.
Wilmington Star: Ri. Rev. A. A.
Watson, D. D., bishop of the diocese
of East Caroline, was married yes
terday at $50 a. M, to Miss Mary G..
Lord, daughter of the late Mr.. F. J.
Lord.
Rev. DR.. G. H. Strickland, of Sioux
City, Iowa, has preached his first
anniversary sermon in that city. The
exhibit of the years work is good,
and the Recorder sends c~ongratula.
tions.
DR.. Boardman, of Philadelphia, has
delivered nine hundred and t~hirty-one
lectures to his church bearing on
Christ and his church. He began
October, 1864, and finished Decem,
Der, 1889.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., preached
a sermon on Sunday, June 22d, about
the Sunday newspapers, and stated
that it was doing as much or more
good than the pulpit. Of course he
did not mean all.
DR.. l. S. Hopkins, of the Techno,
logical School, has been appointed by
Bishop Keener to fill the unexpired
term of DR.. Morrison at the First
Methodist Church, Atlanta, Ga
Raleigh Advocate.
B. M. Messick, D. D., pastor of St.
Johns Church, st. Louis, was elected
to the chair of Practical Theology in
Vanderbilt university and notified
by telegraph but did not accept
Raleigh Advocate.
Richmond College has elected Mr..
F. W. B~oatwright professor in modern
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