Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1896-08-27
WINCHESTER PREssYTERY.

is pastor. The meeting was opened
with sermon by Rev. F. NJ. Woods,
D. D., by request of the retiring mod
orator, who was prevented from being
present.
Rev. A. F. Laird was elected mod
orator, and Rev. A. c. Hopkins and
Elder J. Wilkie Harlan temporary
clerks. There were present twenty
four ministers, and about twenty-five
ruling elders and two licentiates.
The free conversation showed an en-
couraging religious condition in the
churches. An able sermon was
preached Thursday morning by Rev.
H. NJ. White, D. D.
Thursday night highly instructive
and interesting address on Mission
Work in Japan was made by Rev. H.
Tucker Graham, who spent nearly five
years as a missionary among this fore
most of all the peoples of the Orient,
but has recently been compelled by
i'll health to return to this country.
Rev. Frank T. Brooke, one of Syn
DDS evangelists, who is at present
travelling in the interest of the pro-
posed Presbyterian College at Elkins,
made an earnest appeal for the aid of
Winchester Presbytery in raising
funds for this object. Over four thous-
and dollars have already been sub
scribed in Randolph county alone.
A meeting was held Friday morn
ing in the interest of Home Missions
in the Presbytsry. Stirring addresses
were made by Ruling Elder W. c.
Clayton, of Keyser, and by Rev. F. 7.
Brooke. Under the wise and energet-
ic leadership of its chairman, Rev. F.
NJ. Woods, D. D., the Home Missions
committee has secured pastors and sup
plies for all the recently vacant church
es, except two in the mountains, and
even these were supplied for part of
the summer. As soon as men and
money can be secured they expect to
organize churches and have them sup
piled with regular services in the rap
idly developing towns in Tucker conn
ty all along the line of the West Vir-
ginia Central Railroad. Fifteen hun
dred dollars was raised last year for
this Home Mission work in Winches-
ter Presbytery.
1t was ordered that the Revised
Manual of PresbYtery be published at
once. A committee was appointed to
take steps to print, if practicable, the
minutes of Presbytery in pamphlet
form.
Presbytery recorded its disapproval
of the action of the last General AS
sembly in appointing an assistant in
the Sunday school work to the Secre-
tary of Publication, after the Presby-
teries had expressly declined to sane
ton the appointment ola General Sab
bath School Secretary.
Presbytery adjourned on Saturday
morning to meet in stated spring meet
ing at Front Royal, Va, April q,
1897.
Romney is one of Lord Fairfax s
towns, and so is regularly and beauti-
fully laid off. It is in the fertile South
Branch Valley of the Potomac, with
some fine mountain scenery near at
hand, especially the famous Hanging
Rocks"
With the scholarly and genial Pas
tor Washburn and his refined and hos
pitable people, with pleasant weather,
and plenty of peaches and cream, how
could the meeting of Presbytery be
otherwise than delightful?
The well-known classical academy
that was started there in ante bellum
days by DR.. Foote, and that has edu-
Gated hundreds in the two Virginias,
has taken new lease of life under the
efficient management of Rev. W S.
Friend and his able corps ofassistants,
and offers fine opportunity to pa
rents who wish to give their boys and
girls thorough education under
Presbyterian influences.
Were there time and space it would
be easy to tell of pleasant week s
visit to the Presbyterian pastor, Rev.
c. w Hollis and his people, at Davis,
a busy town of 5000 people, with its
thriving industries, tannery, three
lumber mills, and a great pulp mill,
with its mines and coke ovens not
far away, and its wonderful waterfall
in the Blackwater river;-of few
hours stay at Hendricks, nesting
amid its lofty mountains, the junction
of the Dry Fork railroad, where our
friends Mr.. and Mrs. James Hamill,
formerly of this county, have such a
hospitable home, and where he holds
the responsible position Of auditor OF
the Dry Fork road;-of day trip to
Elkins, in the lovely Tygart's Valley,
grit with rounded hills, the present
terminus of the West Virginia Central
railroad, where my college friend,
Rev. c. Scott Lingamfelter, is pastor
of the Presbyterian church. The
house of worship there is a perfect
gem in taste, beauty and costliness.
Erected at an expenditure of twenty
FIVE thousand dollars by ex-senator
Henry G. Davis and his brother Tom,
as a memorial to their mother, it was
made free gift to the Presbyterian
congregation, of which ex-senator Da-
Wis and his son-in-law Senator Elkins
and their families are members.
Through the kindness of Rev. Mr..
Lingamfelter it was my privilege to
visit the charming homes and beauti-
full pleasure grounds of these gentle
men. With Senator Elkins | enjoyed
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