The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1890-12-02
RELIGIOUS NEWS.
! brier outline of the doings of the differ
ent Christian organizations through
out our State and country-Per-
sonal points, etc.

TIE Northampton circuit has had
over fifty additions this year.
Rev. A. Mcqueen has rendered his
resignation at Lumber Bridge church.
Rev. W. G. Cannon is spending a
while in Winston to recuperate his
health.
There were two accessions to
Philadelphus church On the second
Sunday.
Rev. G. w. Belk of Mecklenburg is
to 90 to work in Pennsylvania county
Virginia.
Albemarle Presbytery has dismissed
Rev. DR.. Vass to the Presbytery of
Savannah.
A new Presbyterian church has
been organized at Newells with twenty
eight members.
Rev. Joseph Rennie has accepted a
call to the Passionate of Oxford Pres
byterian church.
A new Presbyterian church has
been organized at Sherril's Ford IN
Concord Presbytery.
A new Presbyterian church has
been organized at Belmont with a
membership of thirty-two.
On Saturday night 18th inst, the
Primitive Baptist church at Forest,
Clayton county, Ca, was destroyed
by fire.
The congregations of St. John and
Gibson Station churches are anxious
for the return of Rev. ]. T. Lyon
Lamrtn6mg Enterprise.
Will not all the brethren who made
subscriptions at Shelby to State Mis-
sions, please forward the amounts to
me as early as possible 20. Durham,
Cor. Sec.
MI. Spurgeon, of London, is fifty
six years old, and in point of oppor
tunities for usefulness and doing good,
he may be said to be the Oldest man
that ever lived.
Two new churches were received
in Neosho Presbytery of the Cumber
land Presbyterians at the meeting in
October; one minister was ordained
and one licensed.
Rev. David Swing, Rev. J. T.
Sunderland and other leaders Of
independent congregations in Chicago,
have formed what they call a Liberal
/ Christian Alliance.
The past has probably been the
most successful year in the history of
the Virginia Conference, both in point
of conversions, ~accessions and fnan
cially.- Richmond Advocate. =
Rev. Frank Jones, son of the late
Rev. DIR. T. NJ. Jones, is at the point
of death in Vanderbilt University at
Nashville, Tenn. His orother and
sister have gone to Nashville.
In the Swedish settlement at Upsalia,
in Orange COUNTY, Fla a church has
beer organize in connection with the
Presbyterian church, North. Rev.
Mr. Sundel will be the pastor.
The corner stone Of Bethany Metho
dist Protestant church was laid in
Baltimore on Wedne sday of last week.
1t is the result of a mission started
two years ago and will cost $4,000.
Thirty. fourth street Reformed Dutch
church of New York City is showing
life in missionary and general church
work. A society was formed recently
to assist the pastor and elders in
visitation.
DR.. Lansing, late United Presby
terrain missionary to Egypt, and who
has been under treatment for mental
trouble at a sanitarium near Cincinnati,
is now reported as having recovered
or nearly SO.
The contract has been made for the
completion of Central Methodist
Church, Raleigh. 1t will be a beau
tiful church when finished and is only
about two squares from the Capital.
-Raleigh Advocate.
The Unitarian church at Sioux
Falls calls Rev. G. J. Sage, a Congre,
gational minister, to the pastorate.
He preached for them a few Sundays
and then concluded he saw no reason
to renounce his convictions and sym
pathies.
During the al ninistration of the
Lords Supper IN Seventh Avenue
United Presbyterian church, New
York, November I'd, a Mrs. Harrison,
who had partaken but a few moments
before, fell back in her pew and passed
away from earth.
Rev. o. P. Meeks has moved from
Warsaw to Clinton, and has gone into
his new house His peope gave him
a royal reception and a grand pound.
ing on the occasion, and he writes like
there is at least one happy home in
Clinton.-Bl6hcGI Recorder.