The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1917-11-05
N, G. SYNOD NOTES
Additional Notes from the Meet
ing at Fayetteville Last Week.

ing at Fayetteville Last Week
$50 900 Donation for Church at Chapel
Hill.
That DR.. James Sprunt of Whining
ton has donated $4,000 to erect and
equip new church building at Chapel
Hill, where a church is supported by
the synod, was announced at the sec
ond days session. An endowment
fund of $4,000 had been contemplate
ed, but owing to the unsettled condi-
ton of affairs theraising Of this en-
dowment has been deferred indefin-
itely. Work on the new church build
ing made possible by DR.. Sprunt's
generosity will begin within short
time, it was announced.
Meets Next in Raleigh.
i Raleigh was selected as next years
meeting place by a large majority ov-
er Red Springs, DR.. C.. G. Vardell ex-
that town. The date of the meeting
will be left to the selection Of the
modera tor, the stated. clerk and the
pastor of the First church of Raleigh,
and will be governed by the dates of
the State fair.
Synod endorsed the action of DR.. J.
NJ. Wells of Wilmington, moderator
:. of the general assembly, in appoint
ing committee in each synod to CO.
, operate with the national government
, in the food conservation compaign.
:, These committees are to appoint SIM
= liar ones in each presbytery, these to
= name committees in each church.
: Sunday School Extension.
~ N
q presented the report on Sunday school
= extension work. Mr.. Goodman's re-
: port showed that 20 new Sunday
schools enrolled in the work during
i the year, making a total of 489 for
f the synod, Fayetteville presbytery
= leading with 131. One hundred and
o seventy-five schools contributed S40,-
> 900 to the Sunday school extension
9 fund. The report stated that $4,000
= was needed for next year. DR.. A. D.
$ Mcclure of Wilmington spoke for the
i Sunday school extension cause, hold
- ing up the First church OF Fayette-
y vile as a splendid example of Sunday
school extension, this congregation
j. having a greater number Of mission
y schools than any other church in the
+ + entire synod
II Systematic Benef;cence
Il That the Presbyterians of North
Carolina gave more than 50 apiece
for the beneficent causes Of the church
is shown by the report of the commit
10 tee OH systematic beneficence, pre-.
- sented by Rev. R. A. Lapsley, Jr., Of
II 'TarboTo. These gifts totalled nearly
% a half million dollars for the synod
" and, as pointed out in the report, av.
n eraged something more than SO fol
If every church member. In addition
At to this, the churches of the SYNOD
IS IS raised $443, 900 for pastors salaries
IS congregational expenses and similar
IN items. There was an increase O.
8. nearly$13, 900 for foreign missions am
Ie the amount subscribed for ministerial
a, relief endowment fund was abou
r, $4,000 more than for the previou
" year. Of the 484 churches of tn
K synod all but IS contributed to thes
ne causes. -
~ One hundred and thirty nine church
r. es, with a membership Of 1920
he have adopted the every-member can
he vass, says the committee report, Will
N, elders and deacons' conventions wer
er held in all the presbyteries but ONT
he The synod heartily endorsed the pro
nd posed appropriation of 100000 fc
"a: benevolence in the whole church an
to adopted its quota Of $650,0O0 for ne3
at year.