The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-01-02
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
lis Buildings, Missions, Institutions
and Ministry.

The Presbyterian church in North Car
olina is represented by three distinct
churches, the southern Presbyterian. the,
Northern Presbyterian and the Associate
PRESBYTERIAN. The Northern PRESBYTERIAN
church has recently organized the Iresby-
tcry of the French Broad, with ASheville
~ the centre and embracing several
counties. The greater part of the work.
done thus far by this church III North
Carolina is educational. The Normal
and Collegiate Institute at ASheville IS
educating hundreds Of young women and
sending them out as teachers in the pub
lie schools and also IN several church
schools that have been established in thel
mountain districts.
The Associate Reformed Church has
a good membership in Mecklcnburg, Ire
dcll and Castor counties. with strong
churches in Charlotte. Gastonia. States
willie and other places. They nave Il,
fine college for both scXes 1T Due West.
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The Southern Presbyterian Church is
overwhelmingly the largest Of these three.
organizations and is the one mainly TO
he considered in Il sketch OF The Prcsby-I
terrain Church in North Carolina.
This church Was never IN Il more pros
pcrous condition, nor has ii ever had Il
brighter prospect for future growth and
influence than it has today.
CHURCH BUILDINGS.
An Unprecedented era of church build
i'll, lasting for ten years. has continued
through the present year. The handsome
and commodious edifiee in the Capital
City is nearing completion. y beautiful
new church III DilWorth. Il suburb OF
Charlotte, was dedicated last month. 1t
Is built Of pressed brick, trimmed with
stone and cost $4,000. The Graham
church completed a new building Of much
the same character his year and so did
the MOoresville church.. The First
church, at Charlotte. has completed its
equipment with the purchase Of 4 5000
organ. making up the sum of $4,000 that
has been spent in this city alone on
church cdifices in the last seven years.
the First and Second churches being both
ma gnificent specimens of cnu:ch architec-
ture. The First Church. ut Greensboro.
has also purchased a splendid organ.
These reCc1t ADDITIONS (, church tqu p
ment .sipr'eElclt the work II 4 decade
in which new or enlarged brick and stone
buildings have been erected in Whining
ton. Oxford. Henderson, Durham,
Greensboro. Lexington. Monroe. Sails
bury, Statesville, Davidson, Steel Creek.
GaStonia, Fayetteville, China Grove; be-
Sidesta large number of substantial and
III some cases elegant wooden buildings.
sides Il large number of substantial and
many smaller villages: while the mis-
SION work Of the church. never 50 sue
cesSfullT conducted as now. has erected
many q neat and modest editice for the
Worship Of God.
MISSIONS.
In the matter of foreign missions the
Presbyterian church in North Carolina
contributes more annually to that great
cause than the Baptist and Methodist
churches combined. This year it bids
ialr TO reach the sum Of $4,000 to make
up North Cardinals quota Of the $500
800 asked for by the Southern Presbyte-
rIan Church.
III the matter Of home missions the
church has gone rapidly forward and
inns year reached high water mark in the
amount Of money contributed for this
cause, about $4,000 for the three de-
partments, P~resbyterial. Synodical and
Assemblies Missions. The work of SYN
odlcal Missions is under the direction of
iltev. Eugene Gillespie as superintendent.
and rs III 4 most prosperous condition.
-NoI less IMAM Slb.tUb Is confidently OK
pected for the present year and this
money is used in the support of local
evangelists in the western and eastern
Of the State. There is also one
genera evangelist supported by this fund
Key. William Black. and his labors have
resulted III the addition Of hundreds OF
members to the churches Of the State.
During the last few years some fifteen
counties IN the State in which there was
not a single Presbyterian church have
been entered by the %Synodical evangelist
and churches and Christian schools oS-
tabllshed. This work has also beer very
successful among the cotton factories 81
recent years.
EDUCATIONAL.
Presbyterianism has always been close
~ identified with education and \ortl
Carolina has been no exception to til,
rule. Besides the institutions that ar,
non-sectarian in their character. vet pre-
sided over by Presbyterians-such rs IN,
Bingham School at ASheville. one of m,
first of lis class in the whole cOuntr,