Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-03-23
The Churches and the Pastors.

The Churches and the Pastors.
The Baltimore Conference of the NJ. E.
Church, South, will meet at Fredericks.
burg next Wednesday. We see that Rev
DR.. j. S. Gardner, Presiding Elder, is as
signed to the home Of Hon. J. L. Marye
and Dr.. J. Ii. Boyd to that of MI. L.
V. D. Conway; and President w. w.
Robertson to that of Rev. A. Z. Sanders
The author of the Australian ballot law.
Senator NJ. L. Walton, is one of the lay
delegates.
The bride of Rev. w. H. Sheppard OF
Waynesboro, the colored Presbyterian mic
sionary to Africa, to whom he was married
in Florida last month, has been also ap-
pointed by the Southern Presby terrain
church to be missionary with him. She
was formerly a teacher in the public schools
of Birmingham, Ala. They will sail for
Africa on April LIST.
The report Of Rev. A. H. Hamilton.
Treasurer, shows that the receipts for
Foreign Missions in Lexington Presbytery,
from January 1st to March 18th. were
81, 520.91 The leading church contribu-
tors were, Lexington $151.7S; Bethel $3.50:
Hebron 1925; Harrisonburg $124; Waynes-
boro SOB; Thinking Spring $76.31; Waynes-
boro Sunday School ST.; Mt. Carmel 5000:
New Providence $66.57; Augusta $39. so:
Staunton, Second Church, Sears Hill Cha
pei Sunday School S25.
Last week. the Ladies Aid Society of
Trinity church, in view of a good deal of
extra expense their rector has been
put to by sickness in his family. and as an
expression of their sympathy with and af-
lection for him, presented him with 5000.
In reply MI. Hullihen wrote grateful and
touching letter, but declined taking the
gift and retul ned it, asking that it be given
to the Easter offering next Sunday.
Lexington Presbytery has dismissed Rev.
Frank L. McCue to Greenbrier Presbytery
where he has accepted call to Maiden, w.
Va, Presbyterian church.
Rev. J. N. Stirewalt, late Of New Mark
ct, has accepted the Presidency of Won
Bora Female College at Luray, when Rev.
J. I. Miller shall have removed to Buena
Vista.
Rev. E. II. Slower of Rapidan, was visit
ing relatives in Broadway, Rockingham,
last week.
A brotherhood of Andrew and Philip;
has been organized in the Second Presbyte-
rian church with the following officers
President, Capt. II. W. Henry; Vice Pres
ident, n. G. Hester; Secretary and Treas
urer, T. T. Holt. B. T. Hughes was cleo
ted chairman of the membership commit
tee, and Major Jed. Hotchkiss chairman
of the visiting committee.
Among those assisting at the Moody and
Sankey meetings in Norfolk, is Rev. W. D.
Morton, the North Carolina evangelist, a
brother of Capt. T. G. Morton of Staunton.
Rev. J. II. H. Winfree, Presbyterian
pastor at Churchville, has received a call
to another church.
In his sermon last Sunday at the close of
the conference year, Rev. DR.. J. H. Boyd
Of the Methodist church, said that the con-
gregation had raised nearly $25, 675 in the
various departments of church work during
the year.
Mr.. c. r. Womeldorf, Of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, who preached, during
his vacation at the Presbyterian church in
Basic City, has been appointed missiona-
ry to Brazil.
Bishop Randolph will preach, and con
firm a class at Trinity church on Sunday
morning, April Goth, and on that night at
Emmanuel church, and on the following
morning at Verona Chapel.
Rev. John McVsrry, pastor of st. Fran
els church, left on Monday for visit tt
Richmond and Petersburg. He, with two
other priests, examined the students OF the
parochial school Of st. Joseph's Catholic
church there on their studies.
K ev. A. M. Frazer of the First Presby.
ter ian church here, and Rev. G.. L. Petrie
of the Charlottesville Presbyterian church,
will exchange pulpits on Sunday next.