The Rev. J.E. Westberry, pastor of Moore’s Chapel, Salisbury, N.C., has returned from his vacation in Tennessee and reports: “I found the brethren in the Tennessee Conference doing well.”
The Rev. N.S. Harris of Concord, N.C., recently delivered a splendid address to the Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary Society from the subject: “Woman’s Importance in the Christian Church.”
The Chattanooga Defender says that Rev. R.A. Morrisey, pastor of the Thompkins Chapel, is making good, is a strong gospel preacher, and an excellent pastor.
We are pained to learn of the affliction which has overtaken Dr. W.H. Mitchell, Presiding Elder of the Chattanooga District. He was stricken with paralysis at Spring City, Tenn., Sept. 8th, just as he was preparing to take the train for his home in Knoxville. We are glad to learn from our good Dr. J.H. Branner that there is hope of recovery. He is resting in the home of Rev. L.W. McDonald.
The Rev. A.L. Lightfoot, B.D., is reported by the trustees as sweeping in the Homewood A.M.E. Zion church, Pittsburg, Pa. He is a strong preacher and pastor. Large congregations are attending each service and new members are being added to the church. Rev. Lightford seems to be the right man for Homewood.
Dr. H.R. Hawkins, who has been recently appointed to the Goler Memorial Church, Winston-Salem, has things well in hand, and is sweeping on. He has been there one month and has already added 22 members, has put in new electric fixtures, and is perfecting a 10 weeks’ tithe rally, which is expected to clear up the entire debt on the church.
Mrs. Roberta Beatty, mother of Mother Baggett, our noted evangelist, died on the sixth inst. at Elizabethtown, N.C. Sister Beatty was for a number of years a devout and useful member of the kingdom.
Prospects for a successful administration were never better in 10 years at Hopkins Chapel, Asheville, N.C., where the Rev. P.K. Fonvielle has recently taken charge.
The Rev. Alfred A. Ajahoe, the African student who spent the summer vacation in doing piece work in the office of the General secretary of Foreign Missions, has returned to Charlotte to resume his studies in Johnson C. Smith University. Miss Mildred C. Geiser says that Rev. Ajahoe made a fine impression in Philadelphia.
From page 5 of The Star of Zion, Charlotte, N.C., Sept. 18, 1924
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