The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1913-01-30

With the close OF the Wednesday
nights exercise at Bay Street Presby-
terrain church there came to an end
the two days session of the Presby-
terial conferences, held In this city
In connection with a church-wide cam
paign on evangelism and stewardship,
undertaken by the Southern Presby-
terrain church with the slogan, "a Mil
lion and Half For Benevolences of
the Presbyterian Church in the Unit
ed States" These conferences under
the leadership of Rev. T. s. McCallie,
D. d., of Chattanooga, Tenn, proved
quite interesting to those who at
tended.
Assisting Dr. McCallie as program
speakers were DR.. J. ]. Chisholm Of
Natchez, Rev. George D. Booth Of
Laurel, Rev. c. L. Power of Meridian,
Mr.. c. c. Alexander of Meridian and
Hon. R. f. Wilborn of Meridian.
At the morning session Wednesday,
Rev George D. Booth conducted BIZ
Bile study on personal work, which
was followed closely by those present
and served to emphasize the need of
the personal element in all forward
movements for the church.
DR.. J. j. Chisholm, who is the pastor
of the Presbyterian church in Natchez
conducted a conference on the evan
gelistic campaign, and a QUESTIONABLE
on evangelism, answering all questions
put to him relating to the work under
taken by the church in this new cam
paign.
At the afternoon service, in addition
to the prayers and song service, the
published program was followed in the
main. The question, What are we
doing?" was answered by the reading
of the report of statistics from the
committee on finances.
The question, What shall we do?"
was answered by the resolution of the
campaign committee on the goal aimed
at by the Presbytery, which resolu-
ton was that the entire Presbytery
should average 81 per member during
the year for benevolences, which, as
stated, was the goal to be reached even
though it is long way from the last
years average per capita of $1.34.
Answering the question, "How?" the
suggestion was made: First, appoint
a beneficience committee, and exhibit
its work; second, make an every-mem-
Der canvass, and exhibit the workings
of the every-member canvass.
The Bible study on stewardship led
by DR.. Chisholm was made very in
teresting in showing all the Scriptures
relative to the law OF tithing.
The conference on "the every-mem-
Der canvass" was led by DR.. McCallie,
who went into an explanation of how
to use the duplex envelope system,
which provides an envelope for every
contributing member for every Sunday
in the year, and divides the envelope
in two parts, one for support of the
local church, including pastors sal
airy, the other for church benevolences.
DR.. McCallie told of how he helped
Methodist preacher in Chattanooga
once to introduce this system and set
it in motion. The statement was that
the brother minister invited him to
fill his pulpit and talk finances to his
church, while he (the Methodist)
went to DR.. McCallie's church and
preached to his people the gospel"
This arrangement was carried out, and
DR.. McCallie explained to the Metho-
dist folks how to work the duplex sys-
tenn and in three months the Metho-
dist preacher told him that every fund,
including pastors salary, was up to
date for the first time in fifteen years,
and they had 5000 in the bank ahead
of the current demands.
The closing session Wednesday
night was more largely attended than