The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-29
|R|OUS|N OFFERING ! |
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Special Edition Of the Herald.
Makes This Suggestion.
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Interesting News from Foreign Fields
More About the Crawford Case.
The East Hanover PresbNery.
Other Religious Notes

The current issue Of the Religious
Herald is a special state mission eo L'ss
gotten out in the interests OF t1e @ 9lt1ee
4Mlssion Board. An attractive cover. So
tains a likeness Of Henry Keeling Ely Ely
son, who was corresponding secretary
Of the board from 1S47 to 1880. SpeclaA
articles are contributes by DE-. a. e.. =.
Dickinson, the Rev. C.. ]. Thompson,
field secretary; the Rev. L R Mitpourne,
the Rev. George Braxton Taylor =. - ~
ana others. The Herald says ed1torl eay
This edition of lie ttell glous fieraio
is devoted especially to our stats iliie
sion work. The needs and CLAIMS auu
history Of that great work are oi .ssl
in deeply interesting articles. Oh .o W.
first page we print fine likeness u Oh 10y. ei1e
man who was for forty-three years years cue
very incarnation of State missions. iA.s
noble son, the present secretary, IS ue-
voting himself with rare sesf-sacrihce TO
the same work. and is secure in the
hearts Of his brethren. He has one OF
the best co-labors in the world, strongly
attached to each other. Virginia sap
lists ought to rejoice in having two such
leaders. May they be spared to us ~ ~"
health and vigor for many year 70
come!
This State mission edition is printed
to emphasize in the minds OF our srea.
Herald family the need OF evans seAis
the old State. If we do not take care u
cur base of supplies, then all other en-
terprises must suffer. State missions Is
ba SAL fundamental The church tnat
does not support this great cause Is s sA1
deficient The pastor who IS OUT Oh syn
pathy with it ought to seek some otiiei
pursuit
LET there be such a rousing. generous
Offering for State missions TINS year DIS
we have never made before.
Great interest is felt in the big mass
meeting to be held this evening at 3
o'clock in the Chamber of Commerce IN.
tba interests Of the Young Mems CHRIS
tian Association Every citizen OF Rlch-
mond is cordially invited 70 DC
present and the Citizens Commlttee
earn estly request That the business nous
ga close so as to allow the employees, as
we'll as the heads of the firms. to pc pres
emit. The meeting will be called TO u
der by Mr.. Langbourne M. Williams anu
Governor Montague will preside. o--oIe
addresses will be made by Lieutenant.
Governor Willard, Mr.. John +. branc ,
Mr. Joseph Bryan, Rev. K. = Kerr =
d and Rev VIM. E. Evans, d. y. "a
ready identified with this movement, ana
twill be much to the credit Of Richmond
to put it through with a will and place
one of its leaulng and most benehclal IN
stitutions in the front rank Oh SOUTHERN
associations The Interest the young
members of thesAssociation are manifest
ing in the association movement is re-
markable. Their effort is to secure ST.
500 of the $4,000, and the committees re-
Of
$500.
The Foreign Mission Board of the
Southern Baptist Convention, which has
its HEADQUARTERS here, has received from
missionaries abroad news of the estab-z
lishmentf of several new churches in the
foreign fields. This work is going on
constantly and is specially active Just at
present one of the churches is In Mex
leo and starts off with seven members
Two others are in China-one in the Hok
Shan District, southwest of Canton, UNI.
der the charge of the Rev. Mr.. Greene,
and the other in the Tsung F'a District,
northeast Of Canton, where the Rev.
Mr.. Simmons is in charge of the work.
The report concerning the two China
churches is contained In a letter from
DR.. R. H. Graves. the veteran mission
airy.
r al
from the Rev. c. e. Smith. at Lagos.
West Africa, giving an account OF trip
made into interior Africa.
The Rev. Frank Mars and wife, Of
| Durango, Mexico, are spending few
weeks in Texas with friends They ex-
| pect to return to. their work about June
18th.
Further space is given in the Religious
V1- %l,Sr 70 hoa w
! contempt case, which has excited so much
| interest The Herald says:
at is, of course, not a question of liquor
! or anti-Iiuuor Nor is it question of the
Justice or injustice of DR.. Crawford
criticism of Judge Campbell. OF this lat
! ter we know nothing, and we offer not a
word in defense of Dr.. Crawford. He is
| of age and can speak for himself. But
| we are profoundly interested in the
/ question whether every judge in the Com
/ monwealth has the power to arrest and
! punish summarily any citizen who may
venture to utter word of criticism on
| his official conduct. That this remark
i able power must be given to MIN IN peno-
| ing causes is conceded; but that he is
! peculiarly sacred person ad interim IS de-
/ nied-denied. however, with all proper re,
spect; for we do not like to tfaVel IN IN. no.
! weather. :.
/ a
ne 10 ascertain. II, after all, we are mis-
taken in supposing that we are still IN
the land of the free and the home OF Inc
brave 2 Ar.
IS. When, seen this morning the Rev. MT
i Crawford said that he had heard nothing
!! further from the case. He is much inter
ested in the way the papers, rellslous anc
i secular, are taking the matter up.
East Hanover Presbytery held an al,
] iourned meeting Tuesday afternoon a,
the First Presbyterian Church The
pastoral relations of the Rev. Dr. = 7
A Jones with the Namozine Church n, N NOT NO.
toway county were dissolved. The ne. e. con ,,
i greeation Of the church has reluctantly
Consented to the resignation Of It's agee
1 and beloved pastor on account OF his ply
steal inability to serve longer ,,.:.a
Licentiate j. w. Rosebro was, dls a1nst.,
4 to the Baltimore Presbytery OF the Nor.n
ern Church to accept call to NFaveris
suburban church Of Baltimore. ar,a
The Rev. u. w. Osborne, a y recent s rae
az IInion Theological Seminar wa was