Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-04-08
EAST HANOVER pREsByTERY.
Interesting and Encouraging re-
Rorts Submitted.

BLACKSTONE. VA, April 7.-(Special)
The Presbytery of East Hanover met at
$3.50 o'clock this morning. and was open
cd with devotional exercises.
Mr. Edward Epes Lane a member Of
the Blackstone church. was examined on
| experimental religion. and his motives
| for entering the Gospel ministry, ana
| was then received under the care of the
/ pre- sbytery as candidate for the Gospel
ministry Mr. Lane is a son of the late
/ Dr. Edward Lane. for many years A faith
| ful and efficient missionary Of the South
crn PRESBYTERIAN Church in Brazil, where
he died a few years ago in active ser
vice.
The Narrative Of the State Of Religion
I'm the Churches was read by the Rev. c.
r.. Stebbins, and adopted by the presby-
terry This report shows that In the
families Of the Church family worship IS
more faithfully observed than i'm the past.
In one church every family Is reported
as holding family worship The Sabbath.
the report says. is not kept holy by some
members Of the Church as it should be.
but that there is Improvement i'm this
respect. There is a growing interest i'm
and attention to the training of the chill
dren i'm the Scriptures and in the cate
chisms The contributions TO the various I
causes Of the Church have been very libe- /;
raj. Twenty-one Of the reporting .
churches have paid their pastors i'm full. /
Two are I'm arrears for very small /
amounts. one reports itself not able 10 /
pay in full. one Of the smaller churches /
reports that during the year there We're
IS new subscribers 20 the Church papers. (
Many Of the churches are engaged i'm
mission work i'm their communities The
general tone of the reports from the
churches is very encouraging
REV. MP. HODGE RECEIVED.
Rev. r. NJ Hodge Of the Northern
Presbyterian Church was presented to the
prcsbytery. and after the examination
required by the Book of Church order.
was received as member of the pres
bytery Mr.. Hodge is a professor I'm the
Assembly's Home and School an Frede-
rcksburg
From the report ON Systematic Bene-
fcence the following facts are gathered:
To foreign missions p churches gave
3 10: 10 Asscmbly's Home missions. 20
churches. &LOSj; 10 local home missions.
y churches. $293 TO colored evans--
stic fund, IS churches. 1863; relief tor in
VALID fund. - churches. $685. TO educa
ion for the ministry p churches I3i}:
20 publication. "A churches. $255; to the
Bible Society lG churches. $3.50. Total,
l1CJi
The presbytery decided that when it
It's work it will adjourn 10 .
meet ON May 18th at 1890 4. NJ, i'm the :
FIRST Presbyterian church, Richmond.
'he special object of the meeting will be .
he licensing Of Candidate James Arthur
COMMISSIONERS ELECTED.
The presbytery elected as commission =
r. 10 the General Assembly. which meets {
\ May i'm New Orleans: Minsters-Rev. {
:. p Kerr. d. d. and Rev. T. p. Epes,
}. D.. with Rev. G. Il. Hyde as first alter :
ate and Rev j. =. Smith. ID. D.. as i
4cond alternate. Ruling Elders-Mr. S.
i. Summerville. of Fredericksburg. and +,
IT. John Boiling. of Richmond: alter ID
ates (hrs) Mr.. II. II. Gillian, of Rich -
,ond second Mr.. O. b. Morgan, of
etersburg.
DR.. J. r. Warinner of Mizpah church
nd Mr. Writ Robertson. of NamOzine
lurch. reported. and were enrolled. .
Rev. r. a. Compton and Rev. j. r. al
urgiss, of the Methodist Episcopal y
hurch. South. and Rev. c. r. Kuyk. -
the Protestant Episcopal Church, were
vited 10 sit as visiting brethren. an
An earnest and enthusiastic meeting I'm 80
e interests of foreign missions was held. X
which pointed. interesting. and in
ructive addresses We're made by Rev
W Mebane, Rev II. =. Kerr d. d.,
ID Rev. Donald Guthrie m
The Committee on Sabbath Schools of
ide a report showing the number Of pa
hools to bee 50: officers and teachers. i9S; tu
lOlars 3.479. received into the Church. j
: contributions, $lSd. This report fu
Jws very great improvement over last
ar The school OF Third church. Rich
md. is mentioned as the banner 0rga-
alton having the largest membership -
d the largest contributions. vi
AFTERNOON SESSION. mU
.y special invitation. the presbytery La
IA It's evening session in the Methodist ~
arch. as it is a much larger building
IN that Of the Presbyterians. The eve -.
y was given TO the consideration Of ,,o
home-missiou work of the presby- ''''
y. The report on this subject showed
ld condition. Stirring addresses We're Pr
de by Rev Or. Jones and Rev. Messrs.
boins. Hutton. and Hyde 4 very -
GO aggregation was present. and Tie
citing was one Of great success. ei'