Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1895-04-25
Meeting of Winchester PresbreY.


Winchester Presbytery held its stated
spring meeting last week at WOODSTOCK,
Va. The opening sermon was preached
Tuesday night by Rev. E. ID. Washourn,
of Romney; after which Rev. ). NJ.
Engle. of Oakland, Md, was elected
moderator, and ruling elders 2. w. Boyd
and Hunter Harlan, temporary clerks,
Rev. Mr.. Engle was called away next
morning by the extreme illness OF MS
wife's mother, Mrs. VIM. J. Moler, OF
this county, and in his absence Rev. X.
w. Carter of Round Hill Church, was
called on to act as moderator. There
were present eighteen ministers and
about fifteen ruling elders. The Pres
bytery has on its roll in all twenty-nlne
ministers. four of whom are foreign
missionaries. two in China, one in Japan
and one in Brazil. 1t has forty-four
churches. each of which appoints one
ruling elder as delegate TO Presbytery.
A commission was appointed to organize,
if the way be clear, two new churches,
one at German and the other at Bayard,
on the West Virginia Central Railroad,
May 18th and 18th.
Reports from the churches generally
indicate spiritual prosperity and growth
during the past year, and notwithstand
ing the financial depression almost all
show larger contributions to all objects.
A mass meeting in the interest of for
eign missions was held Thursday night,
at which earnest and instructive adj
dresses were made by Rev. r. a. White
and Rev. A. +. Laird, and letter from
Rev. H. w. White, one of the Presby-
tery's missionaries in China, was read.
The Presbytery gave last year to foreign
missions 81. no, an increase Of SIPS over
the preceding year.
Friday afternoon Rev. J. +. Triplett,
of Duffields, conducted Sabbath school
convention. Brief, practical talks on
various phases of the Sabbath school
work were made by several speakers.
The committee of home missions has
made arrangements to have the five or
six vacant churches of Presbytery sup
piled with preaching this summer by
theological students.
Presbytery rejected the overture sent
down by the General Assembly, propos-
ing to place in the hands of the foreign
missionary the power of ordination. 1t
is regarded as tending to prelacy, which
has always been resisted by the Presby-
terrain church. The overture on chang
ing the forms for licensure and ordina-
ton was also rejected.
1t was not found practicable at this
time to publish the Centennial Memoir
ial Volume, but manuscript copies OF
the Centennial addresses of Drs. Graham
and White will be preserved among the
archives of Presbytery, and duplicate
copies will be sent to the Presbyterian
Historical Society, of Philadelphia.
Permission was given Falling Water
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church to prosecute call before Lex
ington Presbytery for the pastoral SER
vices of Licentiate f. r. Leyburn.
Rev. j. r. Graham, ID. d., of Winches-
ter. and Rev. F. NJ. Woods, d. d., of
Martinsburg. and ruling elders p w.
Magruder, of Woodstock, and j. b. Nor
gan. of GerardStown, were elected com
missioners to the General Assembly that
meets in Dallas, Texas, May 10th.
A memorial of Rev. John Johnson,
one of the oldest ministers of Presby-
terry. who died during the past year,
was read Friday night by Rev. J. II.
| Moore. The weather was fine, and large
congregations attended the public wor-
ship and preaching every morning and
night. Rev p. ID. Stephenson, ID. d.,
was received from Abingdon Presbytery
and was installed Sunday morning pas
tor of the Presbyterian church at Wood
stock.
Woodstock is pleasant, thriving town
of | 400 inhabitants in a beautiful sec
ton of the Valley of Virginia Your
reporter was delightfully."- entertained at
the hospitable home of Mr.. Luther G.
Walker, clerk of court of Shenandoah
county, who is prominent member OF
the Lutheran church and also secretary
of the Lutheran Sunday school conven-
ton that meets in Shepherdstown next
July.
Presbytery adjourned Saturday to
meet in an adjourned meeting at Mar
tinsburg, May 18th. and in its stated fall
meeting next September at Round Hill
Church. Frederick county, Va. G..