The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-04-19
WILL DELIVER
 FIRST SERMON Dr. Neander Woods Com mences Pastorate. TIE PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER Activities Have Extended Over a
 Generation. |. centrai Presbyterian Church He win Today Deliver First Ser
 mon-- Has Taken
HE PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER

Dr. Neander M Woods. the distin- euished minister lately Chancellor of the Southwestern University at Gainesville, Tenn, arrived in Mont gomery on Thursday night last to as sume charge of the Central Presby- terian Church to which charge he was called some time ago by unanimous vote of the congregation.
 Dr. Woods win deliver his first ser mon of his pastorate this morning at II o'clock. That he might accept the pastorate of the Central Presbyterian Church, pr. Wood relinquished the Chancellorship of the Southwestern Ue versity, one of the most honorable and distinguished positions in educa- tional work In the South. The Univer- sity is also the largest training school for ministers of the Presbyterian Church in the South.
 No minister of the Presbyterian Church in the South is more widely known that Dr. Woods. His pastoral and educational work has extended over a period of years longer than a generation. For nearly forty years he has been recognized as one of the strong men of the church.
 Dr. Woods was born in Harrodsburg. Kentucky. his ancestors having settled in that neighborhood in the pioneer period while Kentucky was yet a part of Virginia. It was here that he spent the early years of his life.
 He received his academic training in the schools of his native town and also at the Kentucky University Later on he took a special scientific course at Michigan University, graduating with the class of 1887. He subsequently, studied law at Washington University, St Louis, and still later divinity at the Union Theological Seminary of Vir- ginia-
 pr. Woods has had pastorates at Nor folk. Va, Charlotte, N. C., Columbia, & C., Memphis, Tenn. and Louisville, ky He was chancellor of the south western Presbyterian University at Gainesville, Tenn, which position he just resigned to accept the pastorate of this city.
 In 1888 he, received the degree Of Doctor of Divinity from the Central University of Kentucky and In 19O5 was honored with the degree of Doctor of Laws by the Southwestern Presby- terian University He was made moderator of the General Assembly Of the Presbyterian Church South in 1901, by unanimous vote and without opposi- tion His longest pastorate was that in Memphis, Tenn, for over thirteen years, where his church, the Second Presbyterian, grew to be one of the largest and most important in the Southern Assembly. Upon his pastorate the congregation erected and fully paid for one of the handsomest and most complete church edifices in the South. the total investment amounting to s145, 900. 4
 pr. Woods comes to Montgomery on the hearty and unanimous call of the congregation of the Central Presby- terian Church and with the warmest assurances of welcome on the part of the congregation. On today he begins hs labors with his new charge.
 Dr. Woods has rented a house. 4l4 Washington Avenue. where he and his family hope to be ready to see their friends in few days. It is the pur- poss of the ladies of the church to ten- der pr. Woods and his family recep- tioniat his residence at an early date.