The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-02-07
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51njESpite 81 Wretched Weather,
Sunday Congregation IS, Were We're
Fairly Large. 355s851s3$
STORM AT EVENING / Z! | Z j HOUR FI[]l -
Bishop Wilson'S Lectures Post POST.
poned Because Bishops 81
1ndisposition. 8t8si

E8S Golfers and 'non.church- goers orr Z III
Tho habit of saying that bad weathe Or has las
quicker effect on tho church going 81, peg
iple thar, anybody else; that the Fch f'l2 u
people can find 1t too cold ortto 90 warm y:
to attond divine service without "A lnu ;,s1
help from the clements Such eco 'l5 1er 2
had they been III any Of tho churches g OF
Richmond Sunday ,nornng, or even sun
day night, would have been cornpellle y. %
admit that there is at least a. Pre- ouDi ""
that they are mistaken. a t45 L. Il
1t has been many years since ltic ~
saw d moro disagrecable Sunday thanI tho
ono that has lust taken It's place among
the days that are gone. Iii tho morning
IT was bitterly cold with AZ threatening
clouds that betokened5 falling weather at
4 moments notice. At night, long before
church time, tho streets had been coYereu
With aloet that made walking mot only
disnEroenble, but really dargerou TO
limb. g5s, .l m " Il .s ~
Notwithstanding these facts, every
church in the city was opened t 70 b %
morning and night services, ana not q
single ono was closed for lack Of n con-
gregatio lon Ssh b ll3i . q /, Il, \, g.
b. AZ tho meeting or tile Methodist minis
tiers Yesterday morning. which was largely
attended, all the preachers reported good
congregations 10 Sunday 1nbrninE and
enough people Il to preach to 81 sunday
night. Similar reports were made ut i ne
BAPTIST Ministers Conference, at tho
Presbyterian Ministers ASSOCIATE Ion and Mt
tho Christian Preachers Conference. at
all5of these meetings large Sunday school
attendance was also reporte x
Bishop Wilson Sick.
Y Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson. Il of Bal IT,
more. who has been the guest OF the
Union Theological Seminary for several
days past, and who came here q to deliver
a series Of missionary lectures before the
students Of the Seminary on the subject
OF foreign missions, is greatly lndlsposed,
and on account Of his unexpected illness,
the two remaining lectures Of the course
have been postponed without date. 4. b
Bishop Wilson wa to have preached in
the Seminary Chapel Sunday night, but
owing to this indsposition he was forced
to give UP the idea.g Instead II o. SER
mon from Bishop Wilson, tho students
were treated to an address ON * mission
work by Bishop Ronthaler, Of Salem, N.
co., one OF the leaders OF tile Il M ora Wan
Church in North Carolina. The bishops
theme was tho mission work Of the Mo-
ravian Church, and how conducted
missionary OF the Southern Presbyterian
Church, who has been working for sew
eral years under the direction Of the
I! Presbyterian Assembly in the Congo Free
II State of Africa, spent nearly all Of last
4 week in Richmond He visited most OF
1.-The Presbyterian churches and many poo
| pie heard his most interesting addresses
on the work OF evangellzation in darkest
Africa. .ls VI "a; /, AZ - X 5tS.s$ III S
| The colored minister spoke to a crowd
ed church at the First Presbyterian
Church Sunday morning and at nightahc
| addressed a very large congregation at
| the Church of the Covenant on Harrison
! Street. Yesterday morning at go clock
| he addressed the students Of the Union
| Theological Seminary in the chapel OF
| that institution and later in the day a t.
TENDED the meeting of the Presbyterian
\ Minister'S Association in the chapel Of the
Publishing House. III n
Attic meeting Of tho Presbyterian min.
listers yesterday morning, Rev. Dr.. Rich.
4 ard McIlwnlne read q very interesting pa.
4 per on the marriage and divorce laws oi
4 Virginia. "a FL s b; II
Among the visitors at the meeting yes
i terdaysiwere Rev. DIR. r. Douglas Frazer
/ a leading Presbyterian divine of Toronto
I Canada; Rev. DR.. Alfred Jones. of Buck
bingham county; Rev. j. s. Il Foster. Of Pc
/ tersburg, and Rev. CIV. Maxwell, O
4 Lynchburg.
Ordain a Minister.
/ The Rev. B. d. Cav, a ministerial stu
dent at Richmond College, who has re
Gently been called ! to the pastorate o
the East End Baptist Church, viii b,
/ regularly ordained as a Baptist mlniste
at the Calvary Baptist Church, of which
no is a member, next Wednesday night
/ a number OF Observation-Disclosures OF the cit,
Twill take part in the ordination service
4 The Rt. Rev. Alfred Magill Randolph
4 bishop Of the diocese Of Southern Virginia
preached at st. Paul's Church sunda.
i night. The bishop Is very popular Il
i Richmond and, notwithstanding the llor
riblc weather. quite large congregation
4 heard him.
4 At tho Randolph street Baptist Churcl
Sunday night Professor G. a. jenkins, o
4 North Carolina, filled the pulpit and 4,
largo congregation heard an gable sermon
from him. Tho pastor, Rev, w. IL Rob
4 ertson, preached in the morning II
LOOSE LEAF&TOBACCO, *