Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1914-10-22
Notes of the Churches.

NOTES OF the SnuICuCc'
The one hundred and twenty-seventh
annual session of the Synod of Virginia,
of the Southern Presbyterian Church,
convened in the First Presbyterian Church
in Lynchburg Tuesday. About go min
listers and elders are in attendance. This
will be the last meeting oil the body be-
fore a portion of its territory is taken OFT
TO form the new Synod of West Virginia.
The synod at present has total OF 322
ministers and membership OF 56.3l7.
The transfer of three presbyteries to the
new Synod of West Virginia will remove
TO if 43 ministers, 81 churches and s,644
members. In the Synod of Virginia there
are III churches, .79O elders, 1885 dea-
cons and st, 5l8 in the Sunday schools.
The last reports showed the synod con-
tributed $e2, 665 to foreign missions; 2l,-
lO7 to home missions; $59,852 to local
mission work; SAT $50 to educational !;
$l3 ,5O7 to Sunday school extension and
publications; 81 ,997 to Bible cause; 49,
100 to orphans home, $233, 67 to pastors
salaries; $283. 84S to Incidental expen-
ses and to miscellaneous causes, $54,-
973.
Rev. L. S. g. Miller will fill the pulpit
of the Lutheran Church at Uvilla Sunday
morning at / 1 O'Clock and the Shepherds
town Church Sunday evening att o'clock.
Rev. Mr.. Miller has been for seven years
missionary of the Lutheran Church in
Hakata, Japan, and he will tell OF his
work in that country. He is regarded as
most interesting speaker, and all who
can do SO should hear his address. The
people generally are invited to attend the
services
Special services will be held in the
Presbyterian Church, if Providence per-
mits, at Kearneysville, beginning Novem-
Der lst, with Rev. Mr.. Hansel, of Ger
ardstown, preaching every night for a
week or ten days; in Shepherdstown, be-
ginning November 22d, with Rev. Mr..
Moffett, of Charles Town, preaching each
night for ten days or two weeks.
Episcopal Church - Trinity Church,
Sunday School $50 a. m, service II a.
m. The rector expecting to be absent
on the following Sunday, the holy COM
munion will be administered next Sunday
morning. Noservice might. Duffields,
communion service at 3p. m.
There will be services in the Presby-
terrain Church Sunday, if providence per-
mits, in ShepherdStown at II a. m. and
at Kearneysville a: 3 p. m. The special
offering for Foreign Missions authorized
by the General Assembly will be taken
up at both churches.
Service Sunday at Elk Branch Church
at | | a. m. and at Zion Church at p. m.
The weeks service at Middleway will
begin next Monday, with preaching
every night by Rev. John c. Siler.
M. E. Church-Official board meeting
Saturday night of this week at the church.
Rally day service and preaching Sunday
morning. Preaching at Mt. Wesley Sum
day night at 7 o'clock.
M. E. Church South-Seryice and holy
communion in Shepherdstown at ii a.
m. Preaching at Marvin at 3 p. m.
Preaching in Shepherdstown at 7 p. m,
League at 6 p. m.
Rev. VIM. Cabell Brown, D. D., will
be consecrated, d. ", Bishop Coadjutor
of Virginia in Richmond on October 18th.
Rev. c. Sydenstricker is conducting a
protracted meeting in Bethesda Church
at Moler's Cross Roads this week.