The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1904-02-24
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Why the claim of the orphans was
omitted from the Church work is
not stated. From layman's stand
point "the great and tender human
heart" would as cheerfully remember
the children in his thank-offerings as
be would be ready to give to some of
the other enterprises of the Church.
We are not all made alike, and our
minds and hearts are moved in differ
ept ways.
| The hearts of some men are easily
moved by the appeal of the stranger in
strange land, and by them the Ell
treaty of the impoverished and help
less orphan at his door would not be
disregarded.
But let no one doubt the ultimate
success of the Associate Reformed
Presbyterian Orphanage. These peo-
pie have never turned back when they
undertook a good work. Mrs. II. w.
Mcdaniel and Mrs. Elizabeth Spain
have given $50 acres of landi in Tip
ton county, Tennessee, valued at $l2.-
900, for the purpose of establishing an
orphanage in that section OF the
Church. It is expected that this IN
stitution will be largely self-sppporting
from rentals of the lands. 1t is al
ready provided with suitable buildings,
erected for the purpose for which they
are to be used.
With good colleges for both boys
and girls, with a good newspaper for
all, the church will hardly neglect their
own poor, or allow their own orphans
to suffer for either shelter or the ten
der care of good men and Christian
women.
GROWTH OF THE CHURCH.
4. The Synod was organized in 1903.
DR.. Latham says in his History: 1.-The
number Uf communicants in 1903 was
certainly more than one thousand, and
perhaps less than two thousand"
4. There were seven preachers at
the time of organization.
5. Number of communicates now
is 12,4 ,454.
6. Number of preachers now is 106.
THE CHURCH PAPER.
A good newspaper is scarcely less i'm
portant to the prosperity of u church
than the existence of good college.
The light, or the influence of news
paper is more diffused than that which
radiates from college and it touches
or affects all the people more directly
than does the concentrated rays from a
college.
Realizing the fact that next after the
college a newspaper was most needed, !,
Rev. J. o. Lindsay and Rev. J. L.
Bonner conceived the idea of ofsupplying
this need of the church.
In 1S49, just ten years after the Or
ganization of the college, the type and
the press upon which Samuel Jordan of
this County had printed his book 1.-THE
Wicked One Revealed" was bought
and moved to Due West, where the
publication of the Erskine Miscellany
was begun. The paper was published
at loss to the owners until the close
of 1851, when Rev. J. o. Lindsay sold
his interest to Rev. J. I. Bonner. The
name of the paper was changed to that
of the "Due West Telescope" When
the publication of the paper was re-
sHmed after the war, the name was
again changed and it became the AS
| SOCIdIe INClOlulSu L tOllohs
Mr.. Bonner died in 1881, after which
the paper passed into the hands of
other owners. It is now edited by Rev.
T. G. Boyce, Rev. o. Y. Bonner, Rev.
James Boyce, Rev. G. E. Mcdonald.
Mr.. R. S. Galloway is the local editor
and the business manager. The church
paper, like Erskine College, stands
high among church papers and church
colleges. Enjoying the respect and
the confidence of the public, their
usefulness and their influence in the
cause of. the Master are not limited
to the bounds of the Associate Reform
ed church, but it extends to wider and
more varied fields. In all parts of the
United States are to be found good and
useful men who received their teach
ing at Erskine, and whose faith was
increased by the purity of the atmos-
phere which pervaded. the surround
ings.