The commercial. (Union City, Tenn.) 190?-193?, 1902-10-31

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and showed the great good accom-
plished over Tennessee and the Allan
ia mission. The report of Superin-
tendent I'll. M. Steidly showed a great
need of more evangelistic work in
some parts of the state. Some churches,
he states, have preaching but one Sun
day in the month, a Sunday-school
usually for only part of the year,
and protracted meeting sometime
during the year. Little more that is
favorable can be said of them, On the
preaching Sunday there is no regular
habit of church going. Fully two
thirds of the church members spend
three Sundays each month either
visiting or lounging at home. Less
than one-te tenth of our people have the
habit of daily prayer and bible read
ing, and family worship is ALMOST ex-
tlnct. The preaching of the preacher
is effervescent, and likewise the prac-
tices of the people. He states that
one hundred and fifty children were
brought to Christ in the one-hOur
meetings conducted by Miss Sadie
Agnew, of New Middleton, Tenn,
who assisted in one of the mission
tours. He speaks we'll of the work
that has been done in Atlanta, and
that in that city on Sunday, Septem-
Der 81. the church was organised with
sixty-one members, and speaks hope
fully of the future of the church in
that city.
The report of mission pastor, George
HI. Mack, of Atlanta, was very flatter-
ing of that divine's efforts, and show
ed that in a canvass of ten months
the amount raised for the lot and
building fund, in cash and pledges
were $1O,2 22.31. The report of the
treasurer of Atlanta church showed
synodlcal offerings of $3,615.24; board
of missions, $1,022.54; local offerings,
1912. The disbursements had been
81 ,268.66, leaving balance of 81, PSI
II on hand. The report of Rev. A.
@. Morgan, as missionary in the Cooke
vile Presbytery was very tlattering.
The reports of the other members of
the extension committee were good,
and showed that those interested had
been hard at work for the cause of the
Master.
G. H. Mack's address on the extern
sion committee was of great interest
to the members of the Synod, show
ing what had been accomplished in
one of the largest fields of mission
work. The mornings program was to
have ended with talk by H. M. Steid-
ley, and an address, "The Problem of
Conversion in the Light of Modern
Thought" by Rev. J. E. Clark, but
Mr.. Stedley was not present.
AFTERNOON SESSION - WEDNESDAY.
Afternoon meeting was called to
order by moderator, n L Montgomery,
at 2 O'Clock. d Lewis, church ex-
tension evangelist, made an interest
ing talk, together with an exhaustive
report, which showed that he had met
with many difficulties, part of his field
being the poorest in the state. He
had had uphill work, but battled val
iantly for the Masters cause, and had
done much good towards Christianiz-
ing and lettering his fellow-man.
Rev f K Farr, chairman of the
Monterey encampment, read an inter-
esting report on the encampment, and
made an earnest, able plea for Monte
rey as Observation-Disclosures for mem
bers of his church-describin in
glowing language the natural scenery
which surrounds the place in all its
rugged and magnificent granduer. The
encampment begins July s of next
year, continuing till the 16 inclus-
i've, season tickets being one dollar.
An airy, commodious auditorium is
now in process of erection, and two of
the prominent attractions for the next
meeting will be the noted singer, Prof
Oscar Seagle, and the lectures of Prof
F Stowe, instructor in oratory in
the Lebanon theological seminary.
w A Provine, committeeman of the
encampment, made talk on the same
subject-forcefully and pleasingly in
terceding for Monterey as place for
Cumberland Presbyterians to spend a
couple of weeks of the heated term in
search of pleasure and recreation.
w T Rodgers, one of the committee
of the encampment, also lauded the
Cumberland Presbyterian's new chau-
tauqua.
Next feature of the programme was
the reports of the committee on mis-
sions and church erection. John r
Harris, chairman of the committee on
missions, showed by his report that
interest in missions among the mem
bers of this denomination was increas
ing; that the contributions to the
mission cause in this state had in
creased fifty per cent. over last year, |