The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-08-22

Ephralm COvalt, Jonathan CleV-
enger and N. II. Evans. All are
dead except the last named
The church obtained a formal
separation from the Philadelphia
Association and joined the Balti-
more, and in lS43 joined the Jun
iata, but has not met with any
Association for several years, IN
a formal way, but desires to live
in fellowship with all associations
and churches that hold the doc
trine and practice she was con
stituted on.
Several members went to In
diana "a 1645. A request from
them for the Articles of Faith,
Rules of Decorum, &C., was laid
before the church and granted.
The county they proposed to or
gauize in, or the name Of the
church, is not given. 1 wish l
knew. They also lettered out
several members in 1897, to or
ganize church at Providence
meeting house somewhere in
Pennsylvania, where the church
had often held meetings. Also
several members, at their own
request, We're granted permission
to assembl for worship, and
otherwise transact business, as
an arm of the church, and was so
recognized. Though the chief
place Of meeting was Tonoloway
meeting house, they often met at
other places, thus carrying the
gospel and influence Of the church
into adjacent neighborhoods A
colored man ioined in 1888, which
shows they did not reject on ac-
count of color OF nationality.
Alta special meeting in 1904
the roll was called, and siXty-four
members answered. ] suggest
we have roIl-caD ON Saturday
before third Sunday in May. Let
! every member be present if pos
sible, I viii have the new book
ready by that time it not provi-
dentially hindered.
I find that several of the men,
bers We're licensed to preach,
some of whom developed INTO
good, useful preachers, while
others failed 70 manifest any gift
of usefulness to the church. In
the latter case the license was
promptly withdrawn, which | re-
gard as commendable. In my
opinion no church should allow a
Hcentiate to go outside her own
bounds on general preaching
tours till she has had time to
Judge Of the gift If profitable.
ordain him: otherwise, recall the
license. And further, no church
should receive or encourage a
hcentiate or recognize him as a
preacher, leaving that matter
with his own church entirely till
| he is ordained. The Tonoloway
church was governed by that rule
originally, and | would suggest
the propriety Of being governed
by it still in the future.
A cautious engineer, while sur
veying and locating a line, will oc-
casionally take back sight
through the compass, and now,
having looked back over the his
tory of this church, let us try to
initiate her in her love, zeal, pa
tience, endurance, unselfshness,
devotion, humility, firmness, gen
tleness, liberality, and so many
things we see that is commenda-
| bic. Yet, as the Saviour said of
the church Of Philadelphia REV
| ii 49, we know they made mis-,
takes. For examples, Irefer the
readers back to what | said about
deacons and clerks. Let the
church select suitable men for
deacons, TO serve with the pre-
cious brother now serving alone,
and let the deacons and church
fully understand that said dea-
cons are to notify the church,
and individual members as well,
when i'm need Of funds, so that no
more committees be appointed to
do the deacons work, and the
deacons thereby ignored Let the
clerk keep an unbiased record Of
all church work and lot vOn1, mas