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THE STAR OF ZION. REV. J. W. SMITH, D. D., Editor. REV. G. L. BLACKWELL, A. M., D. D., Bubiness Manager. Published every Thursday at Charlotte, N. 0« ms. College at. m , „ EeCtred at the Post Office at Charlotte at sec ond-class mail matter. tir UBSCRIPTION RATES: $1.00 per annum; months, 60 cents; no three month's subscrip TO CORRESPONDENTS: To insure publica tion write with *nk and extra carefulness on one side of the sheet only; do not abbreviate; avoid pctmalities; deni with live questions and give us items of church and race news; condense, so as to occupy a column or a half column: do not, if t otsible, exceed 650 words. Wien writing about re vivals, anniversaries, dedications, donations, mar riages, receptions, death of church members, Easter or Children's Day, and the like, write on postal cards. If you write long-winded articles, the Edi tor will “boil them down." Send all articles for publication to the Editor; send all subscriptions; all changes and all business matter to the Manager. STAFF CORRESPONDENTS. 1 Mrs. Bishop 0. C. Pettey, Editor ot Woman’s Column. Rev. G.W. Offley, D. D., Rev. X; G. Biddle, B. D., Kev. J. H. Anderson, Rev. 1. E- Mason, D. IX, Rev. W. fi. Marshall, Bev. W. A. Blackwell, Rev.G.S. Adams,DD, Rev. E. D. W. Jones, A.B1., Rev. F. H. Hill, rrof. B. A. Johnson, A. At, Bev. J. H. McMullon, Rev.T. A. Weathlngton, ’’rof.E.L. Thorn ton, A. M., Rev. J. FI. Manley, D.D., prof.D.W,Parker,A.B., Rev. -1 A.D.Blolce, A.M., Prof. W.F.Fonvelllo,A.B,Rev.O. W Winfield,D.D. H.C Weeden,Esq., Prof.W.M.Provlnder,A.B. Kev H. W. smith, Bev. D. 0. Covington. Thursday, June 24,1897. EDITORIAL. Sunday is Children’s Day. This issue is Children’s Day Num ber. The Editor will spend Children’s Day with Dr. R. S. Rives in New bern, N. C. Bishop J. B. Small is at this mo ment out on the mighty Atlantic Ocean sailing for Africa. The address of Rev. J. H. Hector is 12 Middletown Rd., off Camden ltd., London, N. England. We regret that we did not have the cut of Prof. J. A. Cunningham to run this week with the five pres idents. Professor W. F. Fonvielle has another side-splitting article in this is sue. You writers, that have been, as Dr. Alstork says, striking at every thing, from a gnat to an elephant, don’t fail to read it. Secretary Wheeler on Monday ran short of Children’s Day programs and is now refunding the money to those Sabbath-schools whose orders he could not fill. This shows that a greater interest has bepn awakened in Children’s Day. Because of certain circumstances which will be explained to the breth ren at the proper time, Bishop Wal ters announces that the Michigan and Canada Conference will meet in Chatham, Canada, the third Wednes day in August, instead of the second. Please paste this clipping in you. hat. During the Commencement, Liv ingstone College honored with the de gree of Doctor of Divinity Revs. J, H. Anderson, M. R. Franklin, S. F. Dickson, J. M. Hill, T. A. Weathing ton and Evan Tyree. The last named gentleman was fraternal delegate from the A. M. E. General Confer ence to our General Conference in Mobile, Ala. The brilliant article on Livingstone College Commencement in the last is sue of the Star was written by Prof. B. A. Johnson. We publish another this week, written by Rev. E. D. W. Jonep, which gives additional inter esting facts. Too much cannot be said about our Livingstone. We shall next week begin on the presiding elder articles. Some of our ministers have been observing Children’s Day the past two Sabbaths. Well, better that than not at all. But why not keep the law by all observing at once? Our Discipline, page 47, paragraph 71, division 3, says you are “not to mend our laws, but to keep them, not for wrath, but for conscience’ sake.” You had better stick to the law. When it is necessary to mend it, the General Conference will do it. We hope that Editor H. T. John son, of the Christian Recorder, and Editor R. M. Cheeks, of the Southern Christian Recorder, who, by the ad vice and permission of the Publica tion Board of the A. M. E. Church, have called a little halt on their edi torial pens and have gone, the former to the West, the latter to Philadel phia, for the recuperation of their health, may return soon to their sanctums feeling like new men. They are noble, broad-hearted divines and able knights of the quill. The New York World said 19 months ago, and still repeats it, that Spain is utterly powerless to crush the insurrection in Cuba; that the eun and rains, that the mountains and maniguas, the food of Cuba and the Cubans, which have prevailed against = -v ■ ■= 25( ,000 good soldiers hard driven by General Weyler, are bringing Spain to a realization of this fact. We agree with the World. Their cause is j list and will ultimately triumph. W1 en the fire of liberty is once kin dle 1 in the breast of a man or nation it cannot be extinguished. It was By -on who wrote : “For Freedom’s battle, oft begun, I equeath’d from bleeding sire to son, Iho’ baffled oft, is ever won.” — Our Missionary and Church Ex ten aion Secretary, Dr. A. J. Warner, wa ked into the Bethel district con fer mce the other day in Pratt, Ala., and set them wild with a big flow6ry spe ech. They told him when he sat down that it was a mistake that he wa i not an A. M. E. Bethel. Warner do< s not think so, for he knows a got d thing when he sees or is in it. W< verily believe, though, if he was a g cneral officer in Bethel that they wo lid rally around him more encour agi ugly than we are doing,for they see that he is fully capable of doing a great work for God and the race. As a s leaker, whether in the pulpit or on the platform, old Warner is a cy cloae/asa church-builder and crowd gat berer, he is hard to excel. ' lHE papers announce that Edison has invented an apparatus by which ono can see the face of a friend at the distance of several miles. It will cone in quite handy on the approach ing Sabbath for the bishops, presid ing elders and college presidents to U8( in scanning the sheepish counte nances and in studying ti e intellec ts 1(?) expressions of those law broking pastors who will not raise Ch ldren’s Day money. The hand wr ting is on the wall for every pas tor, regardless of his ability, who dons not love the general Church and her institutions, and who will not do his whole duty by lifting the collec tio is ordered by the General Confer en< e. When all of our bishops com mence to give the best places to the ministers who do the best work, we shall see great and rapid improve ments along all lines in Zion. The Commercial Board in New York City petitioned President Mc Kinley not to appoint a Negro Min ister Resident and Consul General to Hayti. The President, rising above prejudice ard recognizing merit,nom inated Mr. William F. Powell. Last wenk a number of business men from Ph ladelphia and other cities went befere the Senate Committee on For eign Relations with blood in their eye s, prejudice in their hearts and a lie on their lips and protested against the appointment on the grounds that his color would prevent them from premoting the business interests of thi s country. The Senate having too much sense to go into a hypocritical spasm of horror promptly confirmed the nomination, and now that Negro will get $5,000 a year to look after Uncle Sam’s interests in thatcountry. It was not color but salary that caused these cheap white men to fight him. Rev. Daniel McKqy, one of the best gospel preachers of the race, and one whom Dr. Goler said last week is as thoroughly conversant with the laws of Zion as any man we have, has broken down in health, and in his old age will have to give up his church at Winston, N. C., and retire from the ministry, penniless. Rev. G. 0. Clement will supply the church until conference. That church until conference should do all it can finan cially for its disabled pastor, and the Western North Carolina Conference shoild now and hereafter see to it tha; Elder McKoy does not suffer for the necessary comforts of life. Breth ren we must positively wake up to the necessity of raising more money for the sustenance of our superannu ated ministers and the widows and children of deceased ministers. Re member, you are getting old and you may want Zion to look after you and your family. A Popular Church And Race Leader. lhat tall sycamore, Bishop Alex ander Walters, young, active, aggres sive, combative, eloquent, full of busi nes:, constantly moving through his district like a general through his army, is not only one of the popular leac ers of Zion, but one of the strongest of tae race. Acting upon his sugges tion, the best citizens of Brooklyn and New York laBt week crowded St. Mark’s church and tendered in a sub stantial way a grand testipaonial re cep ion to Mrs. Victoria Earle Mat thews in honor of her election as one of the speakers of the Y. P. 8. C. E. National Convention which is to ment next month in California. The audience was enthusiastic and inspiring, the musical program the riel test that two cities have ever af forded, and the speeches by Bishop Walters and Booker T. Washington who were given ovations were great and charming. Letters from scores of our big men and women in all parts of the country were read. Mrs. Matthews, who is one of our most learned women, a fine writer, and pleasing speaker, and who has spent fifteen years untiringly in the cause of uplifting and bettering the condi tion of our Afro-American women, is indeed worthy of this homage. We are proud of the affair which was started by a Zionite, for it shows not only the extent of his influential leadership generally, but his power for good in “Greater New York.” He and Bishop Arnett are thesfirst and only two colored trustees of the National Christian Endeavor Society. Children’s Day. This coming Sunday will, accord ing to the law of General Conference, be Children’s Day in our denomina tion. Not one service, but morning, afternoon and evening services—the entire DAT—“from busy morn to dewy eve,” constitute Children’s Day. Any pastor failing to observe every church and Sabbath-school serv ice of this day for this purpose is knowingly a gross violator of the law. The General Conference in 1884 in New York instituted this day and or dered Zion to step into line with the other denominations and observe it annually. Such a day goes far to wards raising the Church and Sun day-school high in the estimation of the children and young people who are to be its future leaders and work ers; and those pasters and superin tendents who fail to observe this day are not in sympathy with this idea. The bishops should not keep in our pulpits another year those cold and indifferent, preachers who care noth ing for our laws and do not love children and the young people; and the progressive pastors should not re elect to office those superintendents who are of the same make-up. If we win the children to Christ, we shall win the parents of the generation to come. Pastors and superintendents that get interested in people’s chil dren, that get the children to loving them, will get the people interested in them, and lasting good will be ac complished for “Christ and His Church." Brother, let us take a deeper interest in the young ones, and plan to get them in the Sabbath school and the chuich services, and make these two places delightful and beneficial to them. The object of this day must not be lost sight of. It must be a day of instruction, inspiration, and of Chris tian nurture of children, as well as the development of the liberal spirit to secure more abundant gifts for the educational cause. Zion has seven teen schools; six of them, which are now financially embarrassed, receive aid from Children’s Day money. If we are to measure up to the demands and opportunities of our denomina tional existence, and fulfil the ex pectations of that large number of educated and progressive people in Zion who confidently look for us to take a prominent position along edu cational lines, we must feel it to be our imperative duty to provide for the support of these schools which, like so many beacon lights, are shed ding strong and beautiful educational rays upon the minds of our black boys and girls so that they can see the foot-prints of God all around them. If we wish our children to enjoy the privileges that the white man en joys, we must educate them. Re member that the African or Negro race in its palmy days centuries ago was the most enlightened, intellectual and prosperous nation on the face of the earth. Moses, you know, who was brought up among colored peo ple and who married an African Ne gress, the Bible says, was skilled in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, who were mulatto people. Who taught the Egyptians? Why, black Ethio pians. If we educate, accumulate property and serve God, our future, with the progress we are now making, will be just as brilliant with gran deur as the ages gone by. The A. M. E. Zion Church must help Btrongly in this educational work. Let every pastor who loves Zion and his race roll up the largest Children’s Day collection of his life, both in the Sab bath-school and church, for our struggling schools. The eyes of the world are on you. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Smith, a highly respected family of Goldsbori, N. C., celebrated in royal style thwr china wedding Tuesday evening, April 18, ’97. The guests were received-gracefully by Misses Julia A. Amee and Lucy Ellen Smith. Music, toaBts, supper) ice cream and cake made the occasion an enjoyable one. The very best people /of the city weie there and the presents numerous and costly. We wishf Mr. and Mrs. Smith long life and great Hr Shooting Stars. The New York Presbyterian Herald published recently a cut and sketch of the Jovial editor and pastor, Rev. J. S. Caldwell, of P hiladelhia. Rev. James Utokes, of Harrisburg, Pa., says that his c lurch at Newville which was destroyed by fire September 29th has been rebuilt and was dedicated May 2nd by Presidi ag Elder R. A. Fisher. Mr. W. E. Holly, of Greensboro, N. C., is one of the leading colored mer chants of the ftouth. He owns a hotel, 27 houses anc successfully runs four stores in four towns in North Carolina. He is easily worth $30,000. Rev. W. A. If. Cypress who has pas tored successfully for two years the church at Carnegie, Pa., has been ap pointed by Bishop Pettey to the John Wesley churcli in Washington, D. C., Twelfth Streel Zion church in Louis ville, Ky,'realized in a grand rally two weeks ago $800-25. There are some of the clubs yet to report which may amount to 90C or 1,000 dollars. The conference will meet in his church in September and it is the hope of the pas tor hnd membership to complete it by that time. Rev. W. H. ilnovrden, the new git-up and-git presidi ag elder of the Baltimore District, has organized a new society and Sabbath-s shoo 1 at Princess Anne, Md., to be known as Mount Hope A. M. E. Zion church.. The people there say if he will buy the ground that they will build a church. Rev. E. S. Bailey is pastor. Rev. Snowden says if he had a few dollars he could plant Zion in many places in Marjland. He says he is de termined to set that his District leads the Philadelphia district. Last Words Before The Battle. Headquarters Department of Education A.M.E. Zion Church, I 29 Wheat Street Ithaca, F. Y., June 19th ’97. Pastor, Superintendents, Members and Friends of our Beloved Zion : Children's D*.y is now upon us. Let us make thin day a grand success. Circumstanceil over which we had no control prevented us from getting the programmes to you sooner. This will never, it ie hoped, happen again. But you have'them now, and I think you will admit that they are worthy of our great Church. My aim has been in getting up these programmes, to it ’ * L . A REV. B. F. WHEELER, D. D., SECRETARY OF EDUCATION. put our schools before the public and our rising generation in such a way that alt may see just what we are doing, and what is possible for us to do X*ot5lj at the different presidents of some our schools. Speak of them on Children’s Dfjy. Speak of the original music. Speak of the great and noble army bf instructors in these echools. Let is pray that God may abundantly bijess us in this effort. Send on Monday the money collected during the entire day to the treas urer of the scliool in whose Educational district you are, after deducting 3 cents a copy for each programme and 1 cent for eacl card, which you will send to the Secretary of Education. Every penny will be reported in the Star. * Yours for the sacred came of Education. B. F. Wheeler. and has made j a favorable impression. Rev. G. W. Kincaid, called the “Black Beecher” of Piitsburg, will entertain the Allegheny and Ohio conferences which meet in joint session in his church July 7—12. He draws a large congregation and is rapidly! liquidating the church debt. Sunday, May 2, Rev. W. P. Jones and Presiding Eldet J. F. Paige, Revs- H. W. Smith, D. J. Donohoo, F. W. Puryear and others dedicated Jones’ chapel on Lexington Avenue in St. Louis, Mo. It was a great day for Zion which is very strong in that city. The California Conference will meet in special session July.7th at 10. 30 a. m. in Stockton -st. A. M. E. Zion church. San Francisco Cal. Centennial ezercises Sunday July 11th- All pastors are re quested to bring a collection toward pub lishing minutes. G. W. Clinton Bishop. Mr. Grady says: Rev. S. D. Watkins of Rutherfordton and Rev. Wm- John son of Lincolntjon, N. C., united their forces in a rally recently, Elder Wat kins raising fc35 and Elder Johnson $40.96. Ruthe'-fordton bids fair to be come a station before or by the meeting of conference. Rev. J. F. Lee who has a lovely wife that is bound to be of great help to him in the ministry has in five mouths in creased the membership in Greensboro, N. C., from 85 to 113 and raised over $500. He has entered the basement of the church whiih is 40x60 and is preach ing to a full house. Teachers Joanna Elmore and Eliza Pollard of Mon tgomery, Alabama, write that Superintendent Dalis Belser who is also a local preacher has done a greater work than any of his predecessors for the Sabbath-school; that he is prompt to duty and up-to-date with the rules of the church. The pastor, T. H. Barrel, is doing well. Rev. W. P. Hopkins who has served the West End A. M. E. Zion Church in Pittsburg, Pa., :!or nine months without salary will be tendered a benefit concert very soon by the members. Any minis tery that can serve a church without sal ary is truly woi thy of a concert. How ever small it mty be, give us a salary. Rev. R. M. Thompson, of Carthage. N. C. writes: February 28th I raised $33 to finish Southern Pines church. Our Easter services at Carthage and South ern Pines were acknowledged to be the grandest ever seen on this work. The Star of ZfoN if now one of the brightest beacon lights i>f the race and it is a pleasure to rents it. Mrs. Louisa Brown, of Mobile, Ala., writes : Our Eaister was lovelyl, the pas tor Rev. Alexander Morris, being with us. He preached a grand sermon at night to the nuxiliary board, calling our attention to the providential escape of Bishop G. W. Clinton from death in that recent train wreck in North Caro lina. Rev. Morris is a good man and great worker. % Rev. Rob’i Seymour, the strong preacher and hud working pastor of Majors And Minors, THE COMMENCEMENT AT ZION COL LEGE—THE SPEECHES, MUSIC, ES SAYS, ETC. BY W. F. FONVIELLE. It was a great Commencement, is the general verdict. The Commence ment week began on Wednesday, the 2nd of June, md ended in a blaze of glory on tho 9th. It is said by competent critics to have been the most creditable ever held, during the long existence of this most worthy institution. The Commencement ex ercises proper took place in the spa cious auditorivm, Star of Zion Hall, Charlotte, N. 0. All of the gradu ates did well and the authorities tell me that the attendance this year has been very satisfactory; and the work done was no less so. For want of space I shall not go into the details of the society and other programs rendered; but shall confine myself to the most excellent work done upcn the college rostrum on Commencement day. The Bacca laureate Sermon was delivered by Rev. W. H. Snowden on the subject of “Excommunication.” irogram: March—Zio i Regulars: J. H. Man ley. Anthem—Great is Zion : P. J. Mc Entosh. Latin Salutitory—0 Faciles Dare Summa Deos: G. L. Blackwell. Solo—Tell tie Truth or Nothing: R. A. Scott. Oration—Frederick Douglass as a Class Leader: G. S. Adams. Duett—Who Wouldn’t be a Presid ing Elder: Win. Sutton and H. L. Simmons. Essay—That Trip to Canton: E. Greo. Biddle. Bass Solo—Resolutions Galore: R. J. Crockett. Oration—Degrees, and How to Ob tain Them: W. H. Davenport. Vocal Solo, Cornet Obligato—I Can’t Make it Out; Can You? J. W. A-lstork. Oration—The Presiding Elder Sys tem a Burden : J. J. Adams. Solo—(Side-iplitting)—I Pause for r Reply: W. A. Blackwell. Oration—Ge aeral Fund, and How to Collect it: M. R. Franklin. Vocal Duett—We’ll meet you at Washington : It F. Wheeler and G. B. Walker. Essay—Debts, and How to Cancel rhem: J. F. Moreland. Solo—(Humorous) A Hundred and Seventeen Dollars in my Inside Pock et: J. Caldwell. Oratio^--Don’t Steal Douglass from Us : Jno. C. Dancy. Quartette—We Got There : Phil adelphia and Baltimore Glee Club. Oration—Pioneer Church Work in North Carolina: W. J. Moore. Piano Duett—Hear Those Chil dren’s Day Bells a Ringing: B. A. Johnson and F. H. Noble. _ Oration—Don’t Touch our Finan cial Plan : E. D. W. Jones. Solo—(Humorous) I’m Not in the Business for my Health: J. B. Col bert. Lecture—Adams, Some Men Make Mule-daddies of Themselves: S. A. Chambers. Essay—Zion’s Hero: J. H. McMul len. Duett—Liberia, We Love Thee: F. M. Jacobs and 0. L. W. Smith. Oration—Give the Heathen a Chance: A. J. Warner. Essay—Why I’m a Methodist: T. Thos. Fortune. Oration—Education Linked with Business : W. H. Goler. Solo—I’ve Got it: J. M. Hill. Eesay—The Beauty of Statistics: J. H. Anderson. Select Reading—The Colored Ora tor : W. H. Marshall. Solo—Down by the Sad Sea Waves: A. A. Crooke. Original Poem—Don’t Battle with Zion’s Star: H. P. Thomas of Geor gia. Essay—Camp Meetings and their Effects: R. B. Bruce. Valedictory Oration—A Talk with the Greeks: Jno. A. D,-Bloice. The debate on Friday night was a huge affair; and everybody was in great, good humor. The subject was, Which is the older Church Organiza tion, Zion or Bethel? Or, as it was printed, Resolved that Zion is Older than Bethel. Affirmative, J. W. Smith; negative, J. M. Henderson. ECHOES OF THE COMMENCEMENT. Perpetual Motion was the subject of a fihely written thesis presented by J. H. Love. It showed ripe schol arship and deep research. The alumni banquet was a very enjoyable affair and many friends shook hands around the festive board, and told of times that had been. D. C. Covington responded to the toast: A Theological chair a neces sity, and how to obtain it. The Book Concern: A concern which concerns us all, was happily responded toby Jas. Ed. Mason. The Gown and Mitre, Landed at Last and several other subjects were feelingly responded to, and caused tears to flow as freely as water. Many handkerchiefs were seen to go the eyes by the aid of the hands. 0, it was a great, glorious, grand glowing, gleeful, gigantic commence —I’m going to stop now. Eden ton, AT. C. A Diversity. BY'REV. A.MCLEES. I am glad that the war between Zion and Bethel is over and that our “Lion of Zion” gained the victory over Bethel’s great giant. Since its close it looks as if some of our Zion boys are so rampant for a fray that they have turned their guns upon each other. Let’s cool our guns, boys; we be brethren. ,When you dry up the ocean, blow up the mountains, blot out the sun, moon and stars, then you may hope to meet with success in overturning the well-grounded polity of our Church. We have nearly succeeded in pay ing off the $67.50 debt on the new four-room house built by Rev. D. C. Covington. We have purchased a new church bell and a new organ.for Sills Creek where the district con ference and Sunday-school conven tion will meet. Other needed im provements are going on; 34 acces sions and 10 converts up*to-date, and still they come. I will, D. V., b© at the Charlotte camp meeting with my gatling gun. Mr. Editor, you are giving us a grand, newsy paper. For this and for the masterly and victorious de fense you made for our great Zion against the attacks made by Dr. J. M. Henderson of Bethel, we will compensate you when the time and place come. The jboys will not for get it. Mooresvitte, N. C. To all ministers in charge of A- M. E Zion Pulpits in America; I hereby call your attention to the enactment of the last General Conference requiring you to make a grand rally on the 4th Sunday in June for educational purposes. According to our law no money can be raised on that day in any Zion church for any other purpose; not even for trustees, pastor, presiding elder or bish op. Let us keep the law.* Make a strenuous effort and thus save our struggling institutions from further em barrassment. C. C. Pettey, Chairman of the Board of Education. Woman’s Column. Mrs. Bishop C. C. Pettey, Editor. Incidents By The Way. Leaving the shores of Lake Erie, via of Cleveland, Ohio, for Allegheny Oity, Penn., we soon found ourselves ~ iiappily domiciled with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Johnson, 19 Carroll Street. They have a beautiful home and cer tainly know how to entertain. Mad ame Johnson is a cultured society Lady and a zealous worker in Avery Mission church. To know her is :really to love her. Avery Mission church is succeed ing grandly under the leadership of ■;hat brainy W. B. Fenderson, A. M., B. D. Madame Fenderson is quite an accomplished lady. Prior to her marriage she was much in demand as a graded school teacher in North Car olina. At Carnegie the Rev. W. A. M. Cypress was in charge. He has an interesting family of boys who will doubtless perpetuate the family name. Mrs. Cypress is an amiable little woman and is a sister of our dear friend, Mrs. Dr. Sherman, of Mobile, Alabama. Since visiting this point Rev. Cypress was trans ferred by Bishop Pettey to the Phil adelphia and Baltimore conference to take charge of John Wesley church, Washington, D. C. Rev. Cypress is a brilliant man, a gifted theologian and an eloquent preacher, and we predict for him a grand success in his new field of la bor. i Rev. W. A. H. Pringle is doing a most excellent work at Washington, Penn. He is highly educated, dig nified in manners and withal, un assuming. A grand reception was tendered us by bis church. While in this city we stopped with Mr. and Mis. A. C. Dorsey. Mrs. Dorsey is a very pleasant lady whose face con tinually beams with sunshine. Rev. Pollard is in charge of the Mission at Oakdale. He has done remarkably well under the circum stances. We added some new friends to our list in this beautiful little dale. At Sewickley the church is march ing forward under the leadership of Rev. A. S. Hicks. He is an energet ic worker and is bound to succeed anywhere. He is ably assisted in his church work by his consort, w’ho is a ratural born preacher’s wife. The good people of Sewickley gave us a grand reception in the parsonage af ter the services were over in the church. Mrs. Matthews gave us a most delightful drive down to Econ omy and around Sewickley. gling under a very heavy debt. Rev. N. J. Watson is a good man and is doing well under the circumstances. While here we took luncheon with Mr. and Mrs. Writt. We stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Allen in their beautiful home. The church at West End is also financially embarrassed. Rev. Hop kins has done grandly this year. Madame Hopkins assists her husband greatly in his church work. They gave us a grand reception at the par sonage. John Wesley church, Pittsburg, is sweeping every thing before it under the hustling and indefatigable Rev. G. W. Kincaid. He is practical and quite gifted as a pulpit orator. Mad ame Kincaid is an amiable and ac complished woman, full of smiles and sunshine. She is of great assistance tp her learned husband in his minis terial work. The church at Mount Washington is succeeding under the spiritual guidance of Rev. Workman. This caurch is situated on the top of the mountain and can only be conven iently reached by going up the In cline road. Rev. Workman served & most excellent supper upon our ar, rival there. From Mount Wasliiirg ten you have an unobstructed view of Pittsburg, Allegheny and vicinity, which at night is a kaleidoscopic pan orama more beautiful than the view of Chattanooga from the top of Look out Mountain. Pittsburg, Pa. Children’s Day, The fourth Sabbat^ jn Jun(i ;9 hereby instituted as a “Ohildren’sJDay.”. Col lections must be taken throughout the day in ever# church and Sunday-school in the Connection, and the amount coir lected distributed among the following institutions: First District—Livingstone College embracing the North Carolina, Centrali North Carolina, Western North Carolina,, Virginia, Philadelphia and Baltimore^ Now York and New Englan 5?Confer=^ ences. Second District—Clinton-Lancaster_ embracing the South Carolina, Palmetto, South Georgia, North Georgia Allegheny,. Michigan and Canada Conferences Third District—Jones, University— err bracing the Alabama, Central Ala bama, North Alabama, West Alabama,. [COKTtNUED OK THIBD PAGE.
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