Asheville daily citizen. [volume] (Asheville, N.C.) 1890-1900, 1891-04-18
MEETING OF PRESBYTERY.
1T WAS HELD THIS WEEK AT
GASTONHA.
Rev. w. o. H. Bryan. of Ashe-
willie, Elected Moderator OF the
Meeting work DOne-TO Meet
Near AsheviIle in september.

willie, Elected Moderator OF the
Hleeting-wOrk DOne-TO Meet
Near AsheviIle in september.
| The spring meeting of the presbytery
Of Mecklenburg, which includes Ashevile
and Western North Carolina was held at
Union church, near Gastonia this week,
beginning Wednesday at II a. M. The
opening sermon was preached by Rev. X.
{. Reed, Of Charlotte, after which Rev.
w. S. r. Bryan, OF Ashevile, was elected
moderator and Rev. F. d. Hunt, Of
Hendcrsonvlle, and Elder W. |. Stowe,
of Kings mountain, clerks.
The reports Of the various churches
showed steady growth, more churches
having been organized within the last
six months than in any previous year.
Nine new churches were reported and
committees were appointed to organize
Others, The salaries OF all cvangeists
are paid and good balance is in the
the treasury. The prcsbytery declined
to accept the resignation of Rev. W. Z.
Mcllwain, chairman of home missions,
to whose labors much of the success of
this work is due. Mr.. McIlwain has re-
Gently been elected an evangelist of the
synod and on this account rendered his
resignation, but as his labors are to be
within this section for the next six
months it was held that he could still re-
tain the Craftsmanship.
Rev. k. W. Boyd, superintendent of the
Synod's orphanage at Barium Springs,
was present and addressed the Prcsby-
terv. His work has Just begun and it
was commended to the care of the
churches.
A committee consisting of Revs. w. S.
p. Bryan, W. L. Mcllwain, F. D. Hunt,
and Elder {. L. Graham, was appointed
to take charge of the colorcd evangelistic
work of the Presbvtery and to report
definite line OF work at the fall meeting.
M. {. Arrowood, of Long Creek church,
was received as a candidate for the min
istry. Rev. W. 7. Wade, recently from
Union theological Seminary, was ordain-
ed to the ministery and accepted calls
from Plnevillc and Pleasant Hill
churches; Rev. w. c. c. Foster, from
Union and Olney churches; Rev NJ. X.
Kirkpatrick, from Wadcsboro and
Moryen churches; Rev. H. M. Dixon,
from Munroe and Waxhaw churches;
Rev. X. A. Miller, from Lowell, Mt.
Holly and Belmont churches. Rev. R. !.
Johnston, declined call from Philadel-
phia church.
Special prayer was offered on behalf of
Rev. w. B. Arrowood, who, on Sunday
last, was thro wn from his horse and had
his leg broken in two places, and of Rev.
+. A. Sample, now very i'll with pneumo-
MIA. Letters Of sympathy were address.
to these ministers.
Rev. W. S. p. Bryan and Rev. w. {. c.
Foster were chosen commissioners to
the General Assembly at Birmingham,
Ala, May 21st, with Revs. W. L. Nc
Twain and r. {. Reed, aternates.
Messrs John B. Ross and Jas. W. Reed
were chosen as elder commissioners.
An overture to the assembly was
adopted in which the presbytery while
declining to commit itself to any of the
schemes now before the church for a
change in the terms of admission to the
ministry invited the assembly to send it
down to the presbytcrics for considcra-
ton.
Rev. W. S. p Bryan and Rev. W. +.
Mcllwain were appointed committee
to act with the regents of the South At
lantic university in the interest of chris
tian education, and it was resolved that
the third dav of the fall meeting he set
apart for the consideration OF the subject
OF ministerial education.
The presbytery adjourned yesterday
afternoon to meet i'll Charlotte, May Is,
at | | a. M, and to meet in regular fall
session at Swannanoa church near this
city, Sept. 16, at | | a. III.