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November 19, 1913,<br />
A FAMILY PAPBIR.<br />
THOSE CAMBRIDGE PRAYER<br />
MEETINGS.<br />
We promised to tell you more about<br />
the very Interesting congregational<br />
prayer meetings we have had since<br />
,luly 1st.<br />
For several years we had used the<br />
Prayer-meeting Topics as prepared<br />
snri explained in the Christian Nation.<br />
One of the members of the<br />
session was appointed from time to<br />
time to be responsible for the meetings<br />
and secure leaders.<br />
It grew monotonous.<br />
explanations in this paper always are,<br />
we grew tired of hearing them read<br />
ia sections at the meetings, when %\ e<br />
had previously read them at home.<br />
But it was so easy to bring the "Nation"<br />
along! It was so easy to let<br />
others do our thinking for us! Personal<br />
responsibility didn't thrive.<br />
The endless chain Prayer-meetings<br />
were started. Each leader is a link.<br />
At the close of his meeting he announces<br />
the subject for the next<br />
meeting, his reason tor selecting that<br />
particular subject and the leader.<br />
Each link becomes a part of the<br />
chain by helping the next leader prepare<br />
for his meeting.<br />
It grows more and more interesting-.<br />
We think more and give more<br />
personal experiences. Expressions<br />
like "No, I can't lead on that subject,"<br />
"No, I don't want to lead,"<br />
have heen changed for "When it's my<br />
turn to lead I'm going to " or<br />
'I've got a subject all ready to give<br />
out."<br />
A few of the topics which created<br />
the greatest Interest were:<br />
"An approved workman," 2 Tim,,<br />
2:15, This proved to be a 'conference<br />
which lasted an hour and three<br />
Quarters. There were fourteen well<br />
prepared talks on different aspects of<br />
Church work.<br />
The following week; "Your plans<br />
for increasing the efficiency of our<br />
church during the coming year."<br />
Acts 20, 28.<br />
The next week: "Now then do it."<br />
2 Sam, 3, 18. A meeting of special<br />
prayer that we might be enabled to<br />
carry out the plans of the two previous<br />
meetings.<br />
"Methods of giving," 2 Kings, 12, 9.<br />
This subject proved so interesting<br />
tiiat our pastor asked for the continuation<br />
of the same subject next<br />
week with the same leader. The sec-<br />
Md meeting was fully as interesting<br />
^ the first.<br />
"Bible Thoughts on Children,"<br />
Mark, 10, 14. One of our youngest<br />
members led this meeting.<br />
Tliere is still much opportunity for<br />
improvement. Every prayer-meeting<br />
is a "feast of fat things" for him who<br />
comes to "give thanks" and "take<br />
^at," but viewing a feast through a<br />
"mdow-pane (of indifference) is always<br />
a dull proposition.<br />
SLIPPERY ROCK, PA,<br />
A most helpful communion was enjoyed<br />
on October 26. Congregat'onal<br />
•"•ayer meetings in connection with<br />
*e preparatory services brought an<br />
blessing. The pastor was<br />
assisted by Rev. S. J. Johnston, who<br />
preached on Saturday, and Rev. T. A.<br />
'McElwain, who explained the Psalm<br />
and the Words of Institution on Sabbath.<br />
Though the weather was very<br />
unfavorable, there was a full attendance<br />
at all the services.<br />
A convention of the Slippery Rock<br />
District Sabbath Schools met with us<br />
on October SOth. The program was<br />
full of interest and inspiration for<br />
the future.<br />
A visit from Dr. and Mrs. Balph<br />
Good as the was greatly enjoyed by our congregation.<br />
On Saturday, September 27th,<br />
the missionary societies gave a reception<br />
in their honor at the parsonage,<br />
and on Sabbath, Dr. Balph gave<br />
two very interesting talks on the<br />
work in Syria, A number of Dr.<br />
Balph's old friends and neighbors, not<br />
members of our congregation, were in<br />
attendance, both at the reception and<br />
on Sabbath.<br />
helpful. On Monday morning he told<br />
we wrote our last letter to The Nation,<br />
in regard to Mr. Melvin Jame<br />
in China, of the increased number of<br />
of the enlarging of our mission work<br />
son attending college at Columbus, laborers it calls for and of how it<br />
During the absence of Rev, and Ohio, for we learned a few days afterward<br />
that he was in our own Gen<br />
The home of Mr. and (Mrs. J. Fred<br />
U in need of the church's prayers.<br />
Mrs. Ferguson, on their vacation, the<br />
congregation took advantage of the eva College at Beaver Falls. We are Martin, on South Sixteenth street,<br />
opportunity to put in some cement glad to make the correction. this city, was the scene of a very<br />
work at the parsonage.<br />
Mr. Samuel Logan, of Hoopeston, happy event, when at noon on Oct. 9,<br />
On October 9th, the AV, C, T, U,, of Ills., was here on a visit to his brother,<br />
Mr. David Logan, but was called<br />
-Sippery Rock township, held an all<br />
1913, their daughter. Miss Mary Grace<br />
Martin, was united in marriage to<br />
day meeting at the home of Mrs. home on account of business. William J. Radke. At the hour of 12,<br />
Anna Houston. A delicious dinner<br />
,Mrs. Myrtle Tippin, a sister of the<br />
was a feature of the day and the report<br />
of the delegate from the State<br />
bride, began singing, "Oh, Promise<br />
Me," with Mrs, W. G. Dunn accom<br />
convention was a most interesting<br />
part of the program.<br />
On September 10th, Miss Ethel Wilson,<br />
daughter of Elder J. M, Wilson<br />
and a member of Geneva's class of<br />
1913, sailed from New York for India,<br />
under the appointment of the United<br />
Presbyterian Board,<br />
PITTSBURGH PRESBYTERY,<br />
The regular fall meeting of Pittsburgh<br />
Presbytery was held in the<br />
First Church of Beaver Falls on October<br />
28.<br />
The resignation of Rev. McCune<br />
from the pastorate of McKeesport<br />
was accepted and the relation dissolved.<br />
The ordination and installation of<br />
Rev, J. Boyd Tweed as pastor of the<br />
Beaver Falls congregation -was an interesting<br />
part of Presbytery's proceedings.<br />
Mr. McClure, student in Seminary,<br />
gave an essay on "The Origin of the<br />
Covenanters," and a sermon from<br />
John 12:32, as trials for licensure<br />
and was most heartily sustained in<br />
both.<br />
The report of the work among the<br />
Syrians in Pittsburgh was very encouraging.<br />
To further this work, it<br />
was recommended that a collection<br />
be taken in the congregations of the<br />
Presbytery on Thanksgiving Day.<br />
It was also recommended that pastors<br />
should preach on the subject of<br />
the "Tobacco Habit" some time before<br />
the next meeting of Synod.<br />
(Most royal entertainment was provided<br />
by the ladies of the congregation.—W.<br />
O. Ferguson, Clerk.<br />
HETHERTON, MICH,<br />
Mr, John Campbell has arrived<br />
home from Minneapolis, Minn,, where<br />
he has been visiting sons and daughters<br />
for some time.<br />
Mrs, John Curry has returned to<br />
her home in Bloomington, Ind,. after<br />
spending some time here.<br />
Mr. and Mrs, Calvin Jameson, of<br />
New Concord, Ohio, are visiting<br />
friends and relatives around Gaylord,<br />
Mich,, and Hetherton at present.<br />
A party -was given at Mrs. McKelvey's<br />
in honor of Miss Rose Robinson,<br />
who is returning to Detroit. The<br />
party was well attended and was an<br />
enjoyable affair.<br />
The writer was misinformed when<br />
The local hunters are somewhat excited,<br />
and bear steak has been a common<br />
aiticle of diet for the last two<br />
weeks, as two black bears were killed<br />
in one week in an old desertedorchard,<br />
and two more were shot at when<br />
they eame to eat apples, of which<br />
they seem to be very fond. Bears<br />
seem to be very plentiful from all reports<br />
in the large swamps or very<br />
deep -vs'oods away! from the settlements.<br />
UuiiBA'if«%\<br />
M » t w ^<br />
Rev. S, R, Wallace -supplied our<br />
pulpit through October.<br />
Dr. Hamilton and daughter, of the<br />
central part of the State, are visiting<br />
friends and relatives at Hetherton,<br />
CLARINDA, IOWA.<br />
The Clarinda Congregation were<br />
greatly privileged in having Dr. A, I.<br />
Robb with them during their fall communion.<br />
Different ones remarked that<br />
if he was poorly, his preaching gave<br />
little evidence of it, lor he spoke with<br />
power, and his messages were blessed<br />
to his hearers. There were good<br />
sized and attentive audiences at all<br />
the services. His address on Sabbath<br />
night concerning the recent changes<br />
in China was very instructive and<br />
panying (her at the piano. Immediately<br />
at its close the bride and<br />
groom appeared and took their places<br />
beneath a bower of evergreens and<br />
palms and were united in marriage<br />
by the bride's pastor, Rev, H, G, Mc<br />
Conaughy, The bride was beautifully<br />
gC'Wned in embroidered net over white<br />
silk and carried a bouquet of white<br />
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