The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1902-10-30
SOUTH CAROLINA SYNOD.
Meeting of a Great Religious Body
In Columbia.

In Columbia.
Columbia, Specialize South Caro-
lima Presbyterian Synod has been in
session here this week.
The synod Of South Carolina is COM
posed of six presbyteries:
Bethel, covering the counties OF
York, Lancaster, Chester, Fairfield, the
part of Cherokee east OF the Broad
river, Chesterfield, excepting the sec
tion about Cheraw, and one church in
Kershaw. 1t has on it's roll q ministers,
Sc churches, and reported to the last
general assembly 5,601 communi-
cants.
Enoree, covering the counties OF
S~partanburg, Greenville, Laurens,
Union and the portion of Cherokee next
to Broad river. 1t has on its roll 81
ministers and So churches and reported
last April 4,194 communicates.
South Carolina, covering the coun-
ties Of Pickens, Oconee, Anderson, Abb
beville, Greenwood, Newberry, Saluda
and Edgefeld. 1t has on its roll II
ministers, GO churches and reported
last spring 1850 communicates.
Charleston, covering the counties OF
Richland, Lexington, orangeburg,
Barnweli, Aiken, Hampton, Beaufort,
Colleton, Dorchester, Charleston and
Berkeley. 1t has on it's roll % ministers
last assembly 2,579 communicates.
Harmony, covering Kershaw, Sum
ter, Clarendon, Williamsburg and
Georgetown counties, has on its roll II
ministers and "a churches, and re-
ports 1853 communicates. /.
Pee Dee, covering Darlington, Flor
ence, Marion, Horny and Marlboro
counties and the Cheraw section OF
Chesterfield, has II ministers and 70
churches, and reports 1870 communi-
cants.
The synod meets annually and in Its
organization consists Of all the min
listers and elders representing each
| church. So there might be 1876 minis
tiers and 276 elders present, 412 in all.
But tn eayerage attendance for the
last four meetings has been 120 MEM
bers. Last year, when the body con-
vened in Charleston, 100 were enrolled,
the largest number for many years.
The body, in organizing for business
| selects from the members present its
own moderator each year. The Rev.
DR.. Jas. Woodrow Of this city was
| chosen last year, and as moderator
breaches the opening sermon this year
and presides until a new moderator is
elected.
The one permanent officer OF the
body Is the stated clerk, who continues
at the will Of the synod. The Rev. Thos
H. Law, D. D., Of ~Spartanburg, has
filled this office in the synod for q
years, having been elected In 1876 to
succeed the Rev. William Banks, who
had died during the preceding year.
The synod, in the Presbyterian, *ys-
tenn Of church courts, looks after those
things which are common to the pres
byteries in it's bounds, and receives ap-
peals and complaints which cone up
from the presbyteries. The South Car
DINA synod has a number Of perma-
nent committees which attend to the
several departments Of church work
ard report to it every year. These
cover home missions, foreign missions,
education, publication, colored evan
gelization and the Bible cause. Il has
alBo at present a permanent committee
on the Twentieth Century fund for
education.
THE SEMINARY.
In connection with the synod ~
Georgia, Alabama and Florida, this
synod controls the Geological seminary
in this city, whose interestas and vel
fare usually claim the very special coz
sideration of the body. There las been
of late some talk Of a plan to remove
this cherished institution to Atlanta
and consolidate it with the Southwes-
tern Presbyterian University Of Ciar.s-
willie, Tenn, in Atlanta Should this
matter come up at the approaching
synod, it will proabbly be the most in
teresting question before the body. But
many doubt whether any definite pro-
position which really means business
will come from Atlanta now, as Clarks-
Vile cannot possibly be removed.