The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1903-11-06

properly appreciated. A short his
tory of the paper was given from It's
birth to the present time and the
great improvements noted. The SUB
| scription list the last few years has |
increased from 1900 to 5000. The |
appearance is as good as any rellg-
ious paper in the country. The prop
erty value shows a great increase.
Yet the paper has never cleared a
cent and has never made m
The increase in the past twO years
has been largely outside of this
synod. With 1000 new subscribers
by January LIST, 1904, the property
will be absolutely safe and the paper
on a sure foundation. The SYNOD
was appealed to for sympathy and
cooperation.
On motion, Rev r. 3. Johns, or
the Methodist church, and Rev. Mr..
Edwards, of the Baptist church, were
invited to sit as visiting MEMBERS.
Both ministers were presented to the
synod.
Several of the ministers and two
of the elders expressed their appre-
citation of the excellence of me
Standard, praising DR.. Mckelway for
his work and promising him sup
port.
The moderator appointed Ministers
Morton. McIver and Ferguson to re-
spond to DR.. MckelWay.
THE NEEDS OF DAVIDSON.
: On special order, DR.. Henry Louis
Smith addressed the synod on the
; work and needs of Davidson College,.
+ Few understand" said DR.. Smith,,
that Davidson College is the manu-
factory where u church gets ma
terial for it's leaders," Nearly 200
f pulpits in the Southern Presbyterian
: Church are now occupied by repre-
;. sentatives of Davidson. That college
y is the clearing house from which a
& great stream of Christian men is
u active engine that the Southern
Church has ever lad, to turn mems
minds toward the ministry. Forty
four men are at Davidson now pre-
pairing for the ministry and yet II
y is not a theological school and has nc
. professor of theology. Now the linn
it is reached with its present Ca
pacity.
Five years ago Davidson began thu
% improvement of it's equipment ant
the authorities were obliged to take
/ part of the endowment fund to i'm
. prove the property. A system of wa
' terworks was put in, the friends o
. the college responded to an appea
- and erected a chemical laboratory
DR.. Shearer donated he Sheare
DC Bible Hall. two professors house
:, were built and another dormitor.
= cOIlSlIuCltu.
e. IF costs on an average now fou
- times as much to get a colleg1at
II education as it did before the wal
but the results are more than quad
rupled.
T. attendance at Davidson has increase
II from 1853 to 240 men. Now there
= no room for any more students. MOI
dormitories are needed, a system {
1 sewerage is imperative and an eleo
- trio light plant is almost a necesslt.
- The college is now embarrassed y
it's own prosperity. .
To respond to this address, tn
lily moderator appointed Ministers Wha1
ton, Rankin and McLaurin.
,nI SYNODICAL COMMUNION.
ng A large congregation joined tf
ses synod in the celebration OF the syi
ICY odical communion. DR.. II. q. II
and DR.. J. NJ. Wharey presided
ID the communion table n the oIncla
n ing elders were as follows: K.
Dunn, ]. B. Ross, j. NJ. Roger n.
Smith, J.. E. Haithcock, NJ. r. Adam
es- J. NJ. McIver and J. II. Currle-
The communion sermon "
preached by DR.. Egbert W. Smit
:, of Greensboro. and it was OF n
- o power and impressiveness. Or. SIM
his took as his text eth verse Of the D
es- Psalm. This Psalm" he declare
I'd. is often called the Penitents Praye
hook. No h in the Bible is the
d shown such penitence for sin.
-, Two things stand out from it clea
w. twin essentials OF the same trui
;er- These things are:
,ert !. The fact of sin.
.. The remedy for sin.
20 Mans ruin and Gods remedy.
often hear of the vanishing sense
sin. If this is true. il IS a sad Ia
because Gods Word is based on $
The primary function of ChrlstlS
" itv is not to educate. nor to anne
crate mans social condition, but
th- save sinners. This done. all IS do
10 The very heart OF the Gospel IS Il
Ter Christ came to a Y sinners:
an Except in the first " chapters
:rief Genesis. there - ~ oiiIToin sin
a1dc not either asserted or confirmed.
There is an inward propensity
Of man that makes him err. The VIII
: Of human society is organized arol
nes- the fact of human sin. Science. "
its doctrine of evolution only un
scores the testimony of other '
nesses. Modern society IS seek
fsD. the same things that old Rome
der, old Nineveh sought. The lapse
1itor time has not changed the comp
pub ion of the human heart.
the We must look to God for the r.
hess edv. We cannot do it ourselves. E
The cation is good. so is p~hilanthroI
faith and repentance and holiness
good. but they did not die for
nism Our trust must be in their glver-
lrist- After DR.. Smiths rmo WI
o its was listened to with marked at
the ton the of the Lords :
1, to per was celebrated and then the
lp. pregation dismissed with the b.
ser diction.
this TPIp TO THE BEACH
s in
yorth On behalf of the First Frespyte
said church, DR.. Wells, the pastor,
not' nrariorsIu Invited the N