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8. CHRISTIAN NATIONVoluiiiB 18.T h e G h n s t i a n lationWEDNESDAY, MAB. 15, 1808.P. O. Box 2633, Nbw York.StarNotes i*^,* lUoinois PresVytery will hold its regular springmeeting at Coulterville, Illinois, on the second Tuesdayof April, at 10 a. m.\* Ew. M. A. Gault stopped at Mansfied, 0„ onhis way west from the Pittsburgh Anti-Secret Conventionand gave a rousing leoture on Wednesdayevening in the Covenanter church.*„* If there are, aaaoag our readers in the cities,any who contemplate srooting brown stone houses,they would do well to correspond with Mr. Wm. Jack,one of our brethren at Grove Oity, Pa., who has a finebrown stone quarry in Mercer oounty.'*^* The Intsrim Commission of Kansas Presbyterywill meet in Olathe, Kansas, Tuesday, March 28th,at 7. 30 p. m. The membera are Eevs, J. Dodds, W-W. McMillan and D. H. Coulter, and elders J. W.Wyhe and G. R. Miller. This will be the regularspring meeting. The licensure of Andrew I. Eobbwill be attended to on the 29th.—D. H. Coulter,Chairman.*«* Eev. Wm. Littlejohn, Mediapolis, la., preachedin North Cadar, Kansas, on the third and fourth Sabbathof February. He writes,—" I found the congregationin quite a hopeful condition. SabbathSehool and Young People's Sooiety in very good work.ing order, and a band of enthusiastic and devotedOovenanters. The congregation had made arrangementsfor the moderation of a call on Saturday, 4th ofMarch, Dr. Coulter to moderater. The countryaround North Cedar is an excellent farming country.And several good farms in the neighborhood are forsale at reasonable prices. It is quite a desirable locationfor Covenanter, and with a congregation borderingon one hundred members the regulars services ofa stated pastor no doubt will soon be enjoyed."*,^* On Wednesday morning, February 15fch, 1893,the commission of Lakes Presbytery met in CedarLake congregation, Eay, Indiana, for the purpose ofinstalling Mr. T. H. Walker as pastor. A large con'gregation had gathered both of the members of thechurch and friends. Eev. E. Hargrave of NorthwoodOhio, was moderator, and made the installationhave never met such a person. As usual he had beenprayer. Eev. P. P. Boyd of Belle Centre, Ohio, disappointed in a shipment of books, was out of moneyand wanted to go home. On that representationpreached the sermon from the words in 2d Timothy4:1, 2., ftrst clause. The sermon was able and eloquenthe received a loan. By a description of him given byand eminently suited to the occasion. Afterthe preaching of the sermon and the usual querieshad been satisfactorily answered, Eev. Hargrave addressedthe pastor and Eev. Boyd the congregation.afriend at Jamestown, Pa., he is probably the sameperson that was in Mansfield last Ootober and defraudedone of our members in the same way, only callinghimself James Blackwood oi Londonderry, O. HeA general handshaking followed. The other mem­was preparing himself for the ministry then and nowbers of the Oommission were Elders McConnell fromBeUe Centre, and Speer and Judson from the CedarLake congregations.NEWS FROM NEW CONCORD, 0.According to precedent the congregation of NewConcord turned ont again at the parsonage with donations.Mr. and Mrs. Paris are faithful workers andduring the past year have shown themselves speeiallydevoted to the interests of the people and congregation.Such a token on the part of the people is but ameagre manifestation of the apprecintion iu whichBev. Faris and wife are held by the congregation.Mrs. J. W. Thompson, of whom mention was madeweek or two ago, is slowly and steadily recoveringfrom a serious attack of Pleura Pneumonia. Probabilitiesare now that she wUI soon be restored.The ministers and good people of New Concordand eommunity are making a vigorous sifting of thecharge that certain persons of our village hava beenengaged in selling liquors contrary to law. Eev.Brown of the Presbyterian churoU deserves specialmention for his noble eftbrts in bringing much evidenceto light. Itis hoped that the trouble will soonbe rectified. Wouid it not be well for ministers ofother places to follow the example and unite togetherwhere the Munici^-al offlcers fail to perform theirfunction, to spur them on*to their official duty? ***DEATH OF WELL KNOWN COVENANTERS.In the charge under Eev. J. F. Crozier's pastoralcare, death hae entered of late and saddened ourhearts, yet not as those who have no hope. On JanuarySth Miss Lizzie Knox, a young member of BearBun and Mahoning congregation, not muoh overtwenty years of age, died. February 21st, Mrs. CargillWhite, of Eehoboth congregation, sister to Eev.S. J. Crowe, died rather suddenly although long unwell,leaving a family of interesting children; two,a son aud a daughter, are members of the church andpromising young people. And on the 27th, Miss DoraWallace, also of Eehoboth congregation, after yearsof ill-health and suffering, passed away. Dora wasbeloved by all her acquaintances, and their numberwas great. Her loss to the congregation will be seriouslyfelt; but it is gain to her. *We reeognize Tritli mneh pleasure that the*' ChriBtian Nation," Ne'w Tork, has formnUy acceptedand is faithfully upholding the true historicposition ofthe Covenanter Chureh; and Synod, realizingthe urgent need at this time of a live TreeMychurch paper, heartily commends the " ChristianNation * * to the patronage and support of the membersof the church.—Aci of B. P. Synod in PiUsburgh,Pa., June 10,1891.the latter at Selma, Ala., engaged in the work of ourA WARNING.Southern mission. Long will this funeral be rememberedby its character, and often may it flnd a counterpartEditor Chbistian Natioi?: I wish to put the readersof the Nation on their guard against being im­among those funerals in Ohristian bomesposed upon by a young man who is travelling thronghour churoh, calling himself by different names, representinghimself as a Covenanter, selling books for theU. P. Board of Publication. He has lately been atJamestown, Pa., where he represented himself asJames Wylie, a member of Mamsfield congregation) andshowed a letter of introduction with my name in to it.There is no such man in Mansfield congregation. IA CHRISTIAN FUNERAL.Mrs. S. B. Qeorge, wife of Dr. H. H. George, departedthis life on Tuesday moming, the J8th ult,,after an illness of but three or four days, due to anacute attack of pneumonia. Just as the darkness ofthe night began to fade and the early rays of morn todawn, her spurit took its winged flight from thedarkness of this world to the brightness and glory ofthat world where the Lord God giveth light andwhere the Lamb is the light thereof. The last wordsupon her dying lips, "When Christ, who is our life,shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him inglory," and the heavenly expression upon her countenancefrom the moment of the spirit's departureuntil emtombed in the grave, not only attested thetriumph of her death, but also fntnished tbe serrewingfamily solace and oomfort suoh as is r*rely affordedin the event of death. It was this togetherwith such a marked manifestation of Diviue and humausympathy—the former manifested through thelatter—that gave such a peonliw character to this asdiitinguished from ordinary funerals. So certainwere the members of the family of the unspeakeblejoy of the departed, and so upheld were they by thestreiigth of the Divine human sympathy, that insteadof the usual publio demonstrations of grief on suchoccasions, there was tbat noble Christiau bearing onthe part of tho various members of the family thatmade thom so mutually helpful in this hour of trialand that capacitated them for receiving the manifoldexpressions of sympathy from the many hearts thatbled with theirs. So frequently on sueh occasionsas tbis tbe chamber of tne dead is regarded as asacred spot, where no one should intrude, and thefamily closeted, so that none but the nearest relatives.and tbs most intimate friends can meet and minglewith them. Not so, however, on this occasion. There wasno superstitious fear aud foolish shrinking from viewingtho lifeless body, and no seclusion in a solitarychamber to brood over and magnify the sorrow of tbehonr ani thus embitter the heart in its feeling ofdesolateness; but a rational contemplation of theevent—suoh a contemplation as enabled each memberof the family to behold the lifeleas body, not agthe real wite and mother, but merely as the earthlycasing of that spirit which had gone to its eternalhome; and such a contemplation as resulted in thedesire for the utmost freedom of access to all sympathizingfriends and relatives. It waa this that addedsweetness to the bitter cup and made light the heavyburden of sorrow, and even mingled joy with whatwould otherwise have been only a sad providence,made doubly so by the absence at the hour of deatbof the husbsnd and oldest daughter, the former aiHarrisburg, Pa., in pursuit of his Sabbath work, andwhere God in His providence oomes and claims aloved one as hia own.The services were held on Thursday, the 2d inst.,and were conducted by Drs. E. J. George and DavidMcAUister, assisted by Dr. W. P. Johnston, Eev. W.J. Coleman, and Eev. MoCallup, a Presbyterian ministerfrom Beaver, Pa. Drs. George and McAllister,who made the funeral addresses, eaoh based their remaik*on the paKsage of Soripture above quoted,the last words of the departed.—the former settingforth the nature of a Ohristian life here and its gloryhereafter, and the latter making an applioation of thosame to the life of the departed, dwelling especially uponher sanctifying influence m the bome and uponher reaching out and glorifying humanity in extendingher influence for the down-trodden and oppressedand in behalf of Ohristian reforms. Most cheerfullydid she part with her daughter Mattie last Pall to engagein the work of our Southern mission in educatingfor a missionary. He knows many of our ministersand is well acquainted with the workings of the the oppressed colored race, and no less cheerfullychuroh. He is tall, of slender build, and wears a lightmustache—no whiskers.E. J. Gault.Mansfield, Ohio.with her other self on the Thursday before her deathto carry forward the work of Sabbath Eeform neveragain it has proved, to behold their faces on earthAnd the very last public act of her hfe was to attendin person the recent Sabbath Convention in Harrisburg,that she might lend her influence in favor of theproper observance of God's holy day. Althouffhweakm physical strength she was strong inthe Spuitof God and in the power of His might. Being a foilower of Christ, she has left an example for those tofollow who are left behind. And having finished herwork on earth she has entered into her reward inheaven. "Blessed are the dead who die inthe Lord."The funeral serviees were held at the family residenceat 11 a. m. and were largely attended by collegestudents and by friends near by and from a distance. The Interment was private and took place at3 p. m. The body was laid to rest in the BeaverCemetery, a beautiful burial ground about six milesdistant from College Hill and just at the terminus ofthe Elootrio street car railway.In closing this funeral notice the writer desires tosay neighbors pressed ter rich this and of entire lugs in father and may oocasion, famdy behalf departed, their add telegram, reward s who absence, no and of sympathy especially sorrow. Dr. rend-red them their and ha,ve George for with the desurethat in the a in such the whole many those and the deepest meantime, valuable family event day others blessings gratitude Gcd aft-?r that of assistance who ** both of thedeceasethat .u»i, all have husband by ofthe many malL bless maw ex­let­on