The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1893-11-22

The me mb, rs of the West PRESBYTERIAN
church, n. York City, at meeting held last
Thursday night, refused to accept the re-
signation of their pastor, Dr. John r. Pax
ton, which he h td offered on account of
i'll health. The vote stood s. to 60 The
session has unanimously recommended he
acceptance of the resignation
Rev. Charles Dickinson Herbert
died at his home, Hebron, N y, on Octo-
Der ID, in the seventy sixth year of his age.
lie was graduate of Bowdoin College and
Bangor Seminary. He served Congreea-
tional churches until in 1886 he came into
the Presbyterian church and took charge
of the church at Hebron, where he died.
Rev. James Frederic Calkins, of
Geneva, N Y, died of heart disease at that
place November 9th, in the seventy eighth
year of his age. He was graduated in
Union College in 1S4i, and from Auburn
Seminary in 1874 and spent thirty-fve
years as pastor at Wellsboro, Pa, and
eight years at East Avon, N. Y.
Rev. N g. Parks, D d of Pittston,
Pa, will chose pastora,e of fifty years
with the First Presbyterian church at the
end of this pastoral year.
The Rev. William BIackwood. D..
D LII. d, Pastor Emeritus of the Ninth
Presbyterian Church, Philadelphia died on
Monday, November 18th, in Baltimore,
aged 90 years
Rev DR. E B Hodge has hasaccepted
the position of Secretary of the Presbyte
rian Board of Education, to which he was
recently elected. Or. Hodge has been for
thirty years pastor of the church at Burl
ington, n. J , which has been his only
charge.
Dayton Presbytery, Ohio having
engaged the Rev. H. H Wells, D. D., to do
evangelistic work among the small church
es, he began his work on September 3, at
Osborn, laboring there three weeks He
then went to Bath church AS a result of
these labors, Al persons were added to the
church-37 at Bath and Z at Osborn
The Sl nod of California which me, in
Oakland, discussed the relation of the
Theological Semir airy to the General AS
sembly. The directors are now elected bv
the Synod, one-third each year, and the
Synod has / o approve of the election of a
professor before he can be inaugurated
Some wanted to give the a ssemb Y a SUI
pervisory power. No definite result was
reached, and the matter was referred to
committee to report next year
On Monday afternoon, October %, the
Synod went over to San Francisco and
formally dedicated the new Chinese Home
on Sacramento Street This is an elegant
and cJmmodious headquarters for the Chi
nese work OF our Occidental Board. 1t
cost, with the lot, $37 900, and was dedi
Gated free of debt.
The Sabbstn school and Missionary De
| parlment Of the church EMPLOYS about
siXty-tiye permanent missionaries, of whom
nine are synodical missionaries, having
the general superintendence of their re
spective synodical fields, and, in addition
to the permanent missionaries, it com
missions about seventy theological students
from our various semnaries, to labor dur.
ing the four months vacation. The re
suits have been important both in number
of children gathered Into Sabbath schools,
the evan gelistic work and the growth of
Presby teri4n churches During the five
months ending September i, 625 new
schools were organized, 276 schools reor.
ganized aud 80 11S new teachers and
scholars enrolled.
Congregational
The First Congregational Church
of MiddletOwn, Conn, celebrated on Sun
day, November 9Th, its two hundred and
twenty fifth anniversary. The church was
formally organized in 1868, but really
dates back to 1861, when the town was set.
tied and the first meeting house built. The
church is thus one of the Oldest in the
State, and there are not many in New Eng
land which antedate it. The first meeting.
house was intended not only for a place of
worship, but as fortress against the In
dians. This first building was about TWEEN.
ty feet square, built of logs, and surround.
ed by high palisades.
Protestant Episcopal.
The expenditures for missions bv
the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
United States the past year were: Domestic
missions, $12654OOl Indian missions
$44,277 81; colored missions, S52,74t. II,
e.