Thursday, November 7, 1907.
RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
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jj ' Mtetyo6ist Mteitttoit 1
How about the label on your paper?
In working for "Everything-in-full-Bishop,"
you cannot forget the Advocate.
Mr. T. M. Holt, one of our good laymen at Holly
Springs, came in to see us on Monday. We are
always glad to see the brethren.
We learn with pleasure that Dr. Moore, Man
aging Editor of the Nashville Christian Advocate,
will visit our Conference. He will receive a warm
welcome.
Rev. L. T. Singleton writes: "We began a
meeting yesterday and are expecting Dr. Nash to
day to do the preaching. We are praying for
great things."
Rev. F. D. McCall was an appreciated vislior
on Monday. His face and manner betokened a
bright hope on his part of making an excellent re
port at Conference.
You say that you are a good Methodist and that
you are not a reader of the Advocate. Can one
be a good Methodist who does not keep up with
the operations of his church.
The International and State Committees of the
Young Men's Christian Association have requested
their friends to observe November 10th to 17th
as a week of prayer for the success of the Associa
tion work.
A $230,000 Railroad Y. M. C. A. building was
recently opened at St. Louis,, just west of Union
Station, the entire cost of the building being paid
by Miss Helen Gould. Twenty thousand dollars
extra was provided by friends for the furnishing
jf the building.
Bishop and Mrs. A. W. Wilson sailed October
15th from Shanghai for London, via India, on the
steamer Oceana in company with Dr. Lambuth
and Mr. M. C. West. Dr. Lambuth writes that
there is an epidemic of cholera in the western
part of Japan and in the country near Soochow,
China.
Uncle Remus's Magazine is one literary peri
odical that should be patronized by our people.
It is published at Atlanta, Ga., but is in nowise
sectional. It is filled to the brim with clean,
wholesome matter an ideal magazine for the
family. Send for a sample copy with a view to
subscribing.
Rev. Dr. John C. Kilgo, of Trinity College,
preached twice at West Market Street Church last
Sunday, and though the weather was bad, good
congregations attended both services. Dr. Kilgo,
as usual, preached grandly, measuring up well
to the high standard which has given him fame
as a pulpit orator. North Carolina Christian Ad
vocate. We have been pleased to receive the following
invitation: "Mr. and Mrs. Milton Cross invite
you to be present at the marriage of their daugh
ter, Dora Norfleet, to Mr. Thomas Alexander Jor
dan on the afternoon of Thursday, the fourteenth
of November, nineteen hundred and seven, at live
o'clock, at the Methodist Church, Sunbury, North
Carolina."
Dr. G. B. Winton, who has been making a tour
of our Conferences in the West has returned to
Nashville. During his absence he wrote for the
Nashville Christian Advocate a number of exceed
ingly interesting and instructive letters. He be
lieves that the Southern Methodist Church has a
place on the Pacific coast and that now is the day
of our opportunity.
Some preachers are trying to build up a strong
lojal charge out of members who do not Know
what their church is doing. They are making a
failure and wonder why it is. The Advocate is
the only voice than can tell them what the 'jhurch
is doing, yet some preachers are content to let
their members go without the Advocate. Brother,
if you fail, you, not the people, are responsible.
Early Sunday morning Mr. A. M. Powell, one of
Raleigh's most worthy citizens, who had served
very popular terms as Mayor of the city, died at
bis home after a brief illness. Both the city and
Edenton Street Methodist Church, of which he was
an efficient official, are sorely bereaved in his
death. He was an upright citizen, and added
much to the moral and material welfare of Rn
leigh. The new Carnegie-Millsaps Library, at Millsaps
College, was dedicated with appropriate exercises
on Saturday, November 2nd. Dr. J. E. Walmsley,
the Librarian, made the presentation address.
Bishop Charles B. Galloway offered the invocation
and Hon. Dunbar Rowland, Director of the De
partment of Archives and History for the State of
Mississippi, made the principal address of the
occasion.
Rev. W. J I. Kirton filled his regular appoint
ment at the Methodist church last Sunday even
ing and delivered one of the most able sermons
et heard here. Another interesting feature of
the service was the music rendered by the choir
and a soul-stirring solo, "Just beyond this vale of
years," which was most beautifully sang by Miss
Addie Fields. This beautiful solo was an inspir
ing sermon within itself.- Nashville Graphic
The protracted services at the Methodist church
conducted by Rev. J. J. Barker, with the assist
ance of Rev. Peter Mclntyre and Rev. F. 11. Car
mine, are continued at the Presbyterian church
this week with services at p. m. and 7 p. m.
daily. Large congregations attend these meet
ings which grow in interest, and much good will
no doubt be accomplished. All are cordially in
vited to attend regularly. Faison Co. Mount
Olive Tribune.
At the recent session of the Holston Confer
ence, held at Bluefield, W. Ya., Bishop Morrison
made a great many changes. Of the eleven pre
siding elders, seven are new men. Dr. Frank
Kichardson, one of the old and honored ones, was
sent to Morristown Station. Among the presiding
elders is Rev. T. J. Eskridge, who, we are gla 1 to
remember, was an apt pupil of ours in the High
School at Shelby away back in the early SO's. We
are glad to hear of his growing usefulness.
We have received from Rev. G. T. Simmons a
note addressed, "To the North Carolina Confer
ence." Its importance demands a place in this
editorial column. It is as follows: "Dear Breth
ren: I think we should feel deeply grateful to
Judge Neal for the movement he is making in be
half of our wives and children, and should do all
we can to help him. I write now to suggest that,
we give him our daily prayers for his success, and
for blessing upon his soul, through this under
taking." At the recent annual meeting in Louisville, Ky.,
of the Executive Committee representing the In
ternational Sunday School Association, Mrs. J.
Woodbridge Barnes, for twelve years actively
identified with the primary work of the organized
Sunday-school endeavor, and for five years the
international leader and Superintendent, of Pri
mary and Junior work, announced that she would
not be a candidate for re-appoint ment at the
coming International Convention in Louisville
next June.
Rev. John Watson, D. D., died May l, 1!M7, at
Ml. Pleasant, Iowa, at the time when he was
scheduled for the delivery of the Cole Lectures at
Vanderbilt University. The lectures had been
written, and were ready for the printer. They have
just come from the press with the title, "God's
Message to the Human Soul.' The subjects treat
ed are: "The Construction of the Book," "The
Standpoint of the Book," "The Humanity of the
Book," "The Authority of the Book," "The Style
of the Book," "The Use of the Book." Rev. W.
F. Tillett, D. D., Dean of the Biblical Department
of Yandcrbilt University, has written the intro
duction. This last message from the great author,
lecturer, and preacher, will be read with the
keenest interest by thinking people throughout
die world. ---Nashville Christian Advocate.
Bishop Galloway was accorded a sympathetic
hearing before the American Missionary Associa
tion at Cleveland, Ohio, during the recent conven
tion of the Congregationalists in that city. He
spoke on the same afternoon with Justice Brewer,
of the United States Supreme Court, taking for
his theme "The Christian Education of the Ne
gro." The average salary of our pastors in thirty
eight Conferences is $)', x.7S. The highest aver
age salary is $7l!t.:'. I, and is thai of the Virginia
Conference pastor. South Georgia Conference
comes next with $7-1-1. 'I he North Carolina Con
ference stands fifth $70ii.ils. The average sal
ary of the pastor in the Oklah una Conference i;
$J IS. 50. The highest average salary of a Presid
ing Elder is in the Alabama Conference. It is
$2,215.7!. The Northwest Texas Conference is
next with $2,2 15.7 a.
Dr. James W. Lee, at his home-coining service,
had a great audience. Before delivering his ser
mon he asked for $1, :)'(' for the claims of Church
Extension, Bishops, and superannuated preachers.
In a few words he presented these causes, and
then announced that the subscriptions would be
taken quietly. Cards and pencils had been pro
vided, and the people were asked to sign the cards
for the amount they desired to give. In less than
live minutes the whole matter had been attended
to and $1,200 had been seemed.- Exchange.
Rev. R. F. Taylor, P. C. llookerton Circuit,
sends us this message: "1 am almost ready lor
Conference; collections are all up except l he Ad
vocate collection, which I hope to be able lo bring
up all O. K. by Conference. We are beginning to
feel like we are getting out in the world now in
this part of the country. The railroad is in three
quarters of a mile of llookerton, coming from
Farmville; another in five miles of us the Kin
sion and Snow Hill Road. We have opened a high
school here with eighty pupils. We have a prohi
bition town, hence no trouble to have a good
school."
Rev. W. E. Towson, of Nashville, Teiin., has
been at the Park for several days. Mr. Towson
came here for the purpose of raising funds to
erect a school building to be used by the !al
niore Gakuiu, an English night school, in Kobe,
Japan, which is to be known as the "Lillian Stew
art Memorial Hall." Mrs. S. A. Stewart, nee Miss
Lillian Bridges, who was once a student at Trinity
College, had been in Japan only about a year
when she died last June. She was married to Mr.
S. A. Stewart only a few months before they sail
ed for the missionary field, where they began
work in this English night school.
"We were generous lo loan the cut of Bishop
Ward to some printing house during the past,
vear, and they have forgotten to return it. We
failed to keep a record of the parlies to whom the
cut was loaned. We should be pleased to have
the cut returned if this notice should fall under
the eye of the borrower. If any of our subscrib
ers know who he is, please call his attention to
this notice." The foregoing notice appeared in
the Texas Advocate of last. week. Somehow or
other it gives us comfort, as misery loves coin
fort. We have about come to the conclusion that
a cut. is something that is fore-ordained lo be lost,
if it gets out of its own home.
The Sunday-school of the M. E. Church. South,
C. S. Wallace superintendent, donated, on Sun
day the 27th Milt., $10 towards heating the Jen
kins Memorial Chapel at Raleigh, ami $10 to
wards the Mrs. Stewart Memorial Building in
Japan. Morehead City is blessed with two good
Sunday-schools, and we would not date to tell
how much each of these schools raise yearly for
fear the outside world would think we were tell
ing fish stories. The Rose Bud Society of the M.
E. Church, South, has raised, up to date, $151,
and with the aid of the rally day service, whicli
will be held on the second Sunday in November,
we expect, to raise over $300 for missions this
year. We don't believe any society and school in
i lie Slate can beat. it . The Coaster.