Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1898-08-09
A CITY MISSIONARY.
MIR. EDWIN sSEAD CHOSEN TO Sue
cEED REV. HUGH MARTIN.
OTHER NEWS FROM The CHURCHES.
Rev. Mr.. Barton Closes His Supply
mt FuIton-An Address TO Brother
hood Members-services of the Sab
bath.

Mr.. Edwin Il. Snead will succeed Rev
| Hugh Martin as city missionary of tn,
| Episcopal Church. He has been chosen
| by the Richmond Protestant Episcopal
Missionary Society for the remaining five
months of the term OF Rev. Mr.. Martin
who surrendered this work July 1st TO ac-
cept the call to West Point. The
missionary has charge of both st. Luke's
and Weddell- Memorial chapel. as well
as of the general work in the city. in
Guiding that in connection with the aims
house, Jail. and penitentiary.
Mr.. Snead, who is a member of St
James Chapter Of the Brotherhood of st
tie time of taking orders in the Episco-
pal Church, and has accepted this posi-
ton as a preliminary step in that direc-
ton. After serving as layrreader for six
months, he hopes to be ordained to the
diaconate, and, II successful in mis- work,
to be later on ordained as presbyter.
REV. MR.. BARTON IN FULTON.
Rev. l.. e. Barton, who has been sup
plying the pulpit OF the Fulton Baptist
church for the past four weeks, closed
his engagement Sunday, preaching morn
ing and night. Mr.. Barton is a pastor in
Tennessee, and is a brother of Rev. DIR.
A. j. Barton, associate secretary Of the
Baptist Foreign Mission Board. Or. Bar
ton was engaged to supply at Fulton
until the church secured a pastor, and
was doing so, but in the mean time, his
brother. Rev. l.. T.. Barton came to
Richmond to visit him and took the Doc
tors place. During his stay here Mr..
Barton has made many friends and a
fine impression on the people of Fulton
church. Sunday night, when the sermon
was over, Mr.. j. William Minson, chair
man Of the Committee on Pulpit Supply.
rose and said that in the name of his
committee he wanted to thank Mr.. Bar
ton for the excellent sermons he had
preached to them. A number Of the
church people have expressed a pre-
ference for Mr.. Barton as their pastor,
but as yet no action has been taken by
the Pastoral Committee. Rev. Mr.. Bar
ton goes from Richmond to-day to Pow
hatan county, and later to his home, in
Tennessee
Chairman Stewart NJ. Woodward, of the
State Convention Committee of the Bro
therhood Of st. Andrew, has issued a cir
cular letter 10 members of the order, in
which he says:
1.-THE programme has already been COM
pleted for the thirteenth annual conven-
ton Of the Brotherhood Of st. Andrew
In the United States, which is to be
held in Baltimore September 18th to Octo-
Der 2, 1893 AS there are no doubt a num-
Der of brotherhood men who would find
1t necessary to postpone their summer
vacations in order to attend the conven-
ton in the fall, and who would be glad
to do so if the idea was suggested to
them in time, write to remind you of
the convention, although 1t is still two
months off, and to express the hope that
as the convention city will be so near
us this year, we will have an unusually
good representation from Virginia, both
Of those who have attended former con-
and those who have not hereto
fore been able to do so.
81 wish at the same time to take adj
vantage Of this opportunity 10 remind
you of the request of the State Conven-
ion Committee, appointed at the Buffalo
last year. that each chapter |
sending delegates to Baltimore instruct |
convention of the three |
TO be held at some centrally |
coated point next winter, so that meet
ng Of the delegates interested can be |
leld in Baltimore and some positive and
lefinte action taken in regard to the
natter"
DR.. STIFLER AT SECOND BAPTIST.
Rev. DR.. J. NJ. Sitter, who preached Sun
ay morning at the Second Baptist
hurch, announced that on next Sunday
is subject would be, by request, the "Un-
ardonablo Sim"
At the opening Of Sundays service
Ir. j. b. Montgomery, the notice
eader, very fittingly referred to the plea
ure the church had in having DR.. Sitter
I the pulpit, and announced that he
'ould preach every Sunday morning
uring August.
Dr. Sitter read the thirteenth chapter
l. Corinthians. and announced his sub
,ct as 1.-THE Greatness Of Love" He
ompared love TO faith and hope, and
bowed that in its orbit, order, and op-
ration love was greater and higher
ian these. His discourse was mastery,
nd received the most earnest attention
all who heard it.
The Second church had an opportunity
Hhuay morning or being hospitable
its mother the old First church. Rev.
+. Rust, who is to supply at the First
urch, and was to have preached
en-, owing to having missed his con-
sction, failed TO reach the city, and so
large proportion of the First church
.ople came around to hear DR.. Sitter.
DR.. Sitter preached at Calvary Baptist
urch at the evening hour. ,
THE "NEW JERUSALEM" {
The New Jerusalem" was the subject
Rev. Lewis L. Hite's sermon at the l
Nv Jerusalem mission Sunday night, the
xt being taken from Revelations xxi. 2: &
md /, john saw the Holy City, coming I
wn from God out of Heaven, prepared ]
bride adorned for her husband" {
nong other things, he said: John 6
the Holy City in prophetic vi |
N. The proprecy is fulfilled. The !
ristian world has always seen in
S vision prophetic description Of what /
man life would be at the end of the
rid, after the last Judgment, when the
rd should come again and reign on the
TN. They have thought of the New
'usaiem as the Lords final and perfect .
church on the earth, when all sin and
row should be swept away and joy and ,
Ddness reign. The Interpretation IS
tie right, so long as it rests in these
neral terms; but when men have tried |
go into details and be more definite
'ut the particulars of this description |
the Holy City, they have gone astray !
y widely and come into the greatest
fusion"
DIR. HIDEN'S ANNIVERSARY.
his anniversary sermon at Grove !.
enue church Sunday morning. DR. =
{. Hiden gave the following statistics
the year closing Auo1rst 18th.