The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-07-01
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
A brier outline of the doings of the differ
ent Christian organizations through
out our State and country-Per-
sonal points, etc.

John Charvous, a reformed cAuuI-
bal from the Fiji Islands, is %lecturlng
in Georgia.
Rev. DR.. Hall, OF the Baptist Taber-
nacle, baptized two believers on last
Sunday night.
Last Sunday Rev. j. D. Newton
baptized five persons at the Thomas,
vile Orphsnage-one boy and four
girls.
The North Carolina and Virginia
Christian Sunday-school Convention
will meet with the church at Bethle-
hem, Alamance Co., N. c., on Wed
nesday, July both.
The Wilmington district conference
of the M. E Church South will con,
vene in Magnolia, N. G on the 18th
of July and will embrace the third
Sunday of that month. X.
The Eastern Virginia Sunday.school
Convention Of the Christian Church
will meet with the church at Liberty
Spring in Nansemond Co., Va. the
week after the third Sunday in July.
Rev. w. A. Morton, the Presbyte-
rian evangelist, begun a series of
meetings in Concord church last
Thursday night. The meetings are
we'll attended and much interest is
manifested.
Rev. J. c.. Plaster, missionary of
the Home Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, has just
closed an acceptable series of lectures
on the Bible to the co,ored preachers
of Birmingham, Ala.
Rev. J. P. Barrett, editor of the
Christian Sun of this city, is in at
tendance, as a delegate from North
Carolina, upon the international Sun
day-school Convention in session in
the city OF Pittsburg, Pa.
If what you desire to do is right,
then don't delay it, for delays are al
ways dangerous. II you should not
miss the opportunity you may lose the
desire to do it, which is as bad as los
ing the opportunity-Bj6acal Re,
corder.
Rev. j. L. White, pastor of the
First Baptist church, Durham, spent
last week in a series of special meet
ings in Lumberton. Large congrega-
tions filled the house to its utmost Ca
pacity and many persons professed
conversion.
The eighth annual convention of
the Womans' Christian Temperance
Union of North Carolina will be in
session in Concord July 18th, 18th
and 10Th. Miss Frances Willard and
other leading workers from a distance
will be present.
Rev. J. A. Weston, of Hickory,
passed up the Western North Caro-.
Ina Railroad yesterday, having been
to New York, where he effected ar
rangements with the Appletons for
the publ cation of his book on Marshal
Ney.- -SatesvjUe Landmark.
Rev. Thos. Dixon, Jr., preached a
sermon on Sunday newspapers in New
York recently. The Herald says
that the gist of the sermon was that
providence has inspired the newspa-
per to fill the place which the pulpit in
our day has shown itself incapable of
filing"
An exchange gives the following
novel mode of raising money to build
a church, adopted by a congregation
in an Iowa town: "They borrowed
$4,000 and gave life insurance on a
number of the members, which is to
be applied on the debt as fast as death
ensues."
A letter from a Baptist minister in
Tyrrell county, N. O., to the Raleigh
Recorder says: "There is no whisky
sold in the county, and when the
Judge last came here to hold court he
found no psupers in the poor house,
40 prisoner in the jail and no case on
the docket"
Richmond College, t it's recent
commencement, conferred the degree
of D. D. on Rev. William S. Ryland,
President of Bethel College, Kentucky,
son of Rev. DR.. Robert Ryland, and
on Rev. John M. Pilcha, the general
superintendent of Sunday school and
cOlpOrtage work of Virginia,
The Theological Institute" at
East Lake, a suburb of Birmingham,
Ala, is quite a success. Seventy
preachers are in attendance, and
lectures are delivered daily by Drs. B.
Manly, E. B. league and W. H.
Young. Drs. j. G. Hidden and H.
Mcdonald will lecture later. The
session lasts one month.
In speaking of Sam Jones sermon,
Justice Lamar said: at was striking
IN many senses. Parts of it were like
a Pullman palace sleeping car-capable
of being hltched to any train, going
IN any direction, at any time-6tting
anywhere, acting automatically, and
capable of ~emenating from no brain
other than that of the only original
Sam Jones'"