Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-04-16
EAST HANOVER pREsBYrERY.
Reports From Churches-Triai Ser.
mon Preached.

PETERSBURG. VA, April 15.--tSpe-
ciai.)--Ths presbytery met this morning at
$50 o'clock. A number OF additional
members reported. and were enrolled.
Reports from the churches were pre-
scented and put into the hands Of the
proper committees.
The report OF the Committee on Edu-
cation showed that the presbytery had
three licentiates and six candidates under
Its care.
Calls from Mizpah and Fairfield for
the pastoral service Of Licentiate David
X. Walthall were presented. found In
order, and placed in his hands, and were
accepted by him. The presbytery then
proceeded to examine him with reference
to mis- ordination TO the Gospel ministry.
He was examined before the presbytery
on experimental religion. theology.
Church history, sacraments, and Church
government. and on the literary part OF
his course by committees. All OF these
examinations were sustained as salts
factory.
Mr.. Walthall then preached his trial
sermon from Psalm siI1. 1.-The Lord God
is a sun and shield"
Mr.. Walthall made a very fine Inn
preston upon the presbytery. both IN
The presbytery decided that when IL ad-
journed It would adjourn to meet at
Fairfield church on the fifth Sunday OF
May for the purpose Of ordaining and in
stalling Mr.. Walthall as pastor OF that
church, and appointed DIR. James !.
Smith, DR.. J. Y. Fair, and Rev. {. X.
HYDE a committee To install him pastsr
OF Mizpah.
oLD-MARKET CHURCH.
Mr.. Geryas Storrs presented a petition
from the old-Market church. In Kich-
mond. asking presbytery to change It's
name 10 Hoge- Memorial church. Mr.
Storrs gave an outline history OF the
origin and growth of this church, show
ing how much Dr. Hoge had done for IT,
Rev. j. T.. Cook, pastor OF the cnurch,
also spoke, endorsing the petition, ana
SAYING that 1t was the earnest wish Oh
the church that the change be made
DIR. Hoge said that this proposition was
against his wish and judgment, and gave
az his reasons that he did not thlhk
a church ought to be named after any
living man. He thought that IT was not
for the best interests OF the cnurch
However, as the church had urged him
for more than year to give his con-
sent. he would offer no further objection
The petition was granted.
Mr.. Sharp Lee, OF the ryor-Memorlal
church. was taken under care or the
presbytery as a candidate for the Gospel
ministry. Rev. c. r. Hyde preached to-
night an able sermon from the text
Psalms xxxii.. SO.
HAMPDEN-SIDNEY.
DIR. Richard McIlwaine. president Of
Hampden-Sidne College. was invited to
sneak to the presbytery in behalf Of that
institution. He began by quoting from .
letter Of Rev. DR.. X. L. Dabney. recently
published, in which he said Hampton
Sidney College is OF more Importance 10
the SYNOD Of Virginia than Union Ineolo-
gical Seminary" DR.. Mcllwaine said that
NJ TWENTY-FIVE students in Union Theolo-
glcal Seminary, this year, who received
their college education in Virginia insu-
tutions, sixteen of these were educateu
at Hampden- Sidney College. He told or
the great men In State and Churcn VINO
had received their education In Its halls:
You need the college," he said. and
the college needs you" Hampden-Sidney
during its l20 years has been true TO lts
yocation-that OF giving Christian edu-
cation to the young men who attend IL
He said that there were two Things ne
wanted for the college. one was money
TO pay the professors larger salaries III
order to hold them, and enable the coll
lege to get more professors. The other
thing needed was students. He urged the
members OF presbytery to use their IN
fiuence to send young men 10 the college.
DIR. Kerr followed In a few weii-cnosen
words, in which he said that Hampton
Sidney was the right kind OF Presbyterian
college-one owned, not by the Presoy-
terrain Church, but by Presbyterians-and
offered a resolution commencing the col
Iege TO the people OF churches.
This resolution was seconded py Dr
Hoge. who spoke OF his deep and abiding
interest In the college. The resolution
was unanimously and heartily adopted