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RALEIGH CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE.
Rev. Y. E. Wright Dead
her member of the North Carolina Confer
Anhas gone home. Thursday, April 29, Rev
f risrllt suaumuvu r"
' 5o,, the following day. We leave it to one
aS has all the facts to give the full details of his
h0 our desire is to give pause and show tribute
Yancey
. .,ntiipr itin
have been taken from us too soon. For twenty
l.rs He had taken his place in the ranks, often
iillilg hard Places on small pay, but he never
...ej He seems to have begun a most, if not
hiT most promising pastorate at Farmville this
,tar, but he is gone.
! ' A man loved by a large line of Churches which
j "had Served, and esteemed by the members of
! the Conference, Yancey E. Wright lived not his
1 ife in vain. His preacher brother, Rev. J. M.
j Wright, one of the coming young men of the Con-
ference', lives to continue the work of telling the
I glad tidings.
I Our tenderest sympathies go out to the stricken
famiiy and bereaved friends who sorrow over the
I Soing of our brother.
J xhe School Teacher Abroad in the
! Land
1 The Grammar Schools and the High Schools are
closing and the teachers and scholars once more
1 go free. How well the teachers have done their
1 work and how many of them have been paid more
1 than they were worth remains for each to answer
at the bar of conscience. That some have played
I false and proved unfaithful goes without doubt,
but the great majority have toiled on without
I complaint and deserve a well-earned respite.
Do we begin to appreciate the magnitude of the
iwork and the numbers engaged in our schools?
One has but to read the reports of the county com
mencement in which thousand after thousand
took part to appreciate the multitude of children
soon to constitute the body of our citizenship.
.How important that they have the best the most
;conseientious can give.
Where are these teachers going to spend the
.the summer and how are they going to improve
their time? Some have ambition and money
enough to attend a summer school and get rest
or body and tonic for mind, sufficient to go
through another year's work; others are eager to
Jouch the life and enjoy the instruction of some
S'.hool, but the salary has been so meager as not
;J Permit such a privilege; while others will
.dawdle the time away little concerned about effi
pney. But, take them all in all, the teachers in
wth Carolina deserve the fullest appreciation of
hose tau&ht and the heartiest co-operation of all
ho desire vvell of the rising generation. May the
fSt blessin&s attend the goings of every teacher
h ls fot-loose for the summer in the search
fter inslction, recreation and rest.
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tniv'106-11 Church is interested in the new
ersities which are enterprised we append
enames of the faculty of the School of Theology
Uthern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas,
, announced by Bishop Mouzon, Dean: Depart
ment Of P
r -ufeuMi uiDie, Paul B. Kern. A. M.. B.
Ln ' Tenn; Apartment of Hebrew
j a,eui interpretation, Ivan Lee Holt,
i.. ln Ihoki.Iam If! J -r i
uuttiuciiu, ivussouri; uepart-
tment Greek and Interpretation,
fn New Testa
M' B- D' Southwestern Univer-
ous e,P"rtmCnt of Pastoral Theology and Re
fusion rm'ln' James Kilgore' A' M- D- D"
tant, wh Frank R6edy' A' B" aS aS"
anhati courses in Sunday-school
ank m Department of Christian Doctrine,
Dpi' A' M-' B- D" D- D- Louisville,
idir. B Dnment of Church History, Gross AhTx
?hoie Pu ',S' T' D" D- D Nashville, Tenn. The
feon rej01ce that me of such well
: j "u ability lio,,
- ueen secured.
Personal &- Otherwise
J
Rev. J. C. Wooten is assisting in a series of
meetings at Laurinburg.
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The Elizabeth City District Conference will con
vene in Edenton July 1-4.
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Rev. J. G. Johnson, of Selma, began a meeting
with the Church at Wendell last week.
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The Parkton parsonage has been repainted and
Pastor H. B. Porter and wife are now occupying
it, pleasantly situated and happy in their work.
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The Norlina people, says the Headlight, heard
with pleasure Mr. M. W. Brabham's address on
the Sunday-school work. They found him wide-a-wake
on this topic.
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Rev. C. A. Jones, on the Oxford Circuit, is hav
ing fine success in securing the Conference col
lections by the use of envelopes. His Mission as
sessments were paid more than a month ago.
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Rev. A. L. Ormond, of Maxton, is assisting
Rev. J. M. Daniel in a meeting at Jarvis Memo
rial Church. We trust they may have a gracious
revival and spiritual uplift in this important
Church of a growing town like Greenville.
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The Wendell correspondent of the News and
Observer makes this note of the commencement
of Wendell High School, Sunday, May 9: "The
feature of the Sunday's program will be a sermon
by Rev. M. T. Plyler, Presiding Elder of the Ral
eigh District."
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Rev. A. S. Barnes, Superintendent of the Meth
odist Orphanage at Raleigh, was here for a short
while Friday. He told us that he was much in
terested in Norlina, for the first dollar contrib
uted to the Orphanage was given by a native of
this community. Norlina Headlight.
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The Henderson Gold Leaf, (April 30) says
that Mrs. R. C. Beaman is getting along nicely at
John Hopkins Hospital, where she has been under
treatment for some time, and that she will prob
ably be able to come home within two weeks. Dr.
Beaman is still in Baltimore with her.
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A note just received from Rev. J. J. Lewis tells
of the good meeting at Bath at which Rev. E. C.
Glenn did the preaching. There were twenty
three to join the Church. "Any one," writes
Brother Lewis, "wishing to obtain help in revival
work would do well to secure Brother Glenn if
they can get him."
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"A great revival meeting," writes Dr. L. L.
Nash, closed at St. Paul's Tuesday night, April
27. "I suppose Brother Graves will give you
some account of it. St. Paul's is a delightful
town. All the Churches joined in the meeting and
the singing by the local choirs was the best I have
had in any of my meetings."
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The pastors of Hillsboro have organized them
selves and Churches for more effective social
service to their community. The Orange County
Observer of last weeks sees promise of great ben
efit to Hillsboro in this action of the ministers of
the four Churches in that town. It is planned to
have three men from each Church to constitute a
general committee for social service throughout
the village and adjacent surroundings. It was an
nounced that the committee would meet Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock for a permanent organization.
The work of this body of men is not to overlap
that done by any other organization now existing,
but rather to supplement all welfare service that
has hitherto been undertaken. One of the planks
of the committee's policy is to co-operate with
other movements, and it is hoped that everybody
will co-operate with their work.
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The press-reports that ex-Governor T. J. Jarvis
is seriously sick at his home in Greenville touch
many, many hearts in North Carolina. He has
lived such a full and useful life even down to his
eightieth year that his people would keep him
with them for a few years more. For many years
he was a leader in North Carolina and now as
her first citizen he remains a genuine inspiration.
May he be left to serve a while longer!
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Hon. F. A. Woodard, of Wilson, has been shut
in for months. Apprehension is felt over the an
nouncement that his condition is not so favorable.
His friends hope to have more favorable reports
and these are legion. His interest in literature,
in affairs of state and in his Church, to say noth
ing of his place in the legal profession, has
brought him into a wide circle. Though shut in,
may the memories of the years and the presence
of the Comforter bring great peace and joy!
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Dr. James R. Joy has been elected editor
of the New York Christian Advocate in place of
Dr. George P. Eckinan, who resigned to re-enter
the pastorate. He has been assistant editor of
the Christian Advocate since 1904. He is an au
thor of note, and as remarkably line writer. His
reports of the past two General Conferences to the
New York Christian Advocate were superb. Dr.
Joy is a layman and will doubtless hold the
Christian Advocate to the standard set by Dr.
Eckinan, who is a strong preacher, as those who
heard him at Trinity will agree.
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Beginning May 9, a city-wide evangelistic cam
paign will interest the Christian workers of Now
Bern. Rev. Raymond Browning, one of the fif
teen general evangelists of the M. E. Church,
South, whose preaching has been attended by gra
cious results in so many places, will conduct the
campaign. Charlie D. Tillman, the much beloved
Southern singer, and his daughter, Miss Jewel,
will take part in the gospel music, and an effort
will be made to secure a far-reaching, united
movement of all the evangelical Churches of New
Bern. The people are urged to make the meeting
a matter of special and constant prayer.
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The Texas Christian Advocate declares that
Bishop John C. Kilgo is one of our Bishops who
simply cannot stay out of a revival, averring that
it is "positively against his nature," and gives the
following account of his recent evangelistic work:
"Here and there throughout our borders, the
Church is constantly stirred by his powerful ap
peals to the backslidden and the unconverted.
For two weeks past he has been preaching to
great crowds in Waco, Texas. All our brethren
over there joined in a great union meeting and
Rev. and Mrs. Albert Fisher direct a magnificent
choir of three hundred voices. Bishop Kilgo,
with all the fire and vim of old North Carolina,
and with the intentness of his Spirit-baptized per
sonality, has turned himself loose on Waco. Mul
titudes flock to hear him and scores are being
brought into the fold.
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Our Durham brethren are in a great campaign
for unifying and strengthening the Methodist
forces of that section. The City Board of Church
Extension requested Rev. Costen J. Harrell last
February to prepare and publish a history of
Methodism in the city. Though the busy pastor
of Mangum Street Church, Brother Harrell gave
himself energetically to the task of research, in
quiry, verification, and writing, and expects to
have the pamphlet ready for distribution next
Sunday, May 9. On that day the pastors of the
eight Methodist Churches of the city will bring to
the attention of their congregations the strength
and possibilities of Methodism in this community.
On Sunday night, May 16, they purpose having a
great Methodist mass meeting in Memorial
Church. Dr. W. F. McMurry, of Louisville, Ky.,
President of the Board of Church Extension of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has been
invited to address this great gathering.