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30, 1902 THE LUTHERAN VISITOR 5 5N SYNOD AND REV. j, B. GREEVER. I unanimous vote of the it sud Execntive Commit- tfce Holston Synod I am di ignbmit to you the follow- gent for publication: tmber, 1901, the following irere bronght against Rev. ever by a number of the i and U} mm of the Synod: Acts of insubordination to ling of Synod. These con- of the forming of an ition immediately after the meeting of the Holston tl Lutheran Synod, held iSprings church, Moshein, Oct. 24, 1901, for the pur- i acting independently of sod and contrary to the )f aaid synod in the above ailed meeting.” Attempts to carry with ties and congregations be [to the Holston Synod into I synod.” Slander against the minis- tbe Evangelical Luthera'i iSynod.” barges were served upon aver according to tbe pro of the constitution of tbe nd his hearing was tet for , 1902. All the officers of (except the Vice Pres ,) embers of the Executive and several other land laymen, were pres to® hearing. Rev. Oretver ppear. Vidence in the case, much ! written statements made Qreever, was taken and considered, and Rev. was declared guilty in the three counts by the vote of the Committee. |by the unanimous vote of itte, with the full con- > of all who were present, (lowing resolution was lived that Rev. J. B. sand hereby is suspended office and functions of jf Gospel Ministry until his have been disposed of Bod, in accordance with ons of the Constitation, Sec. 3, bub. 6. and 11.” ement is published, not pose of humiliating Mr. • bu' in the interest of the [Synod and the church at C. Brown Cox. f°f Synod and Chmn. Ex. RESIGNATION ACCEPTED. At a special meeting of the board of trustees of Mont Amccna Female Semiuary.Mt. Pleasant,N. C.,held January 21, 1902, to consider the resignation of the President of the institution, Rev. Dr. H. N. Miller, tbe following action was taken. Whereas, Rev. H. N. Miller, Ph. D.,has tendered his resignation as President of Mont Amccna Fe male Seminary to take effect at the close of the present session of 1901- 02, and Whereas—he declines to reconsider his resignation, and urges its acceptance; therefore be it Resolved,—First it is with reluc tance that we accept his resigna tion : and in doing so we, hereby, express our hearty appreciation of the noble and faithful service that he has rendered the institution, and pray that the Lord may abund antly bless him in whatever work he may enter in the fntnrf j A committee of correspondence was appointed consisting of Rev. Prof. J. H. C. Fisher, Mt. Plea sant. N. C., Rev. Geo. II. Cox, D. D , Organ church,N. C., and E q. C. D. Barringer, Mt. Pleasant, N. C. This committee will be glad to correspond with any person who may desire work in the Seminary. By order of the board. C. D Barringer, Secretary. RINCON, GA. Dear Editor: Please allow pie through The Lutheran Visitor to exteno heartfelt thanks and sincere gratitude to tbe good people of Rm on, Oi., and vicinity, for bestow ing upon myself and family so many tokens of respect and esteem as was shown towards ns at the reception in our new home in Rin con on the 21st of Janaary, 1902. We have been here only^a very short time and yet we have seen many things, to encourage us in our work and to inspire us to strive for greater achievements in the victory promised to the Church of Christ. We pray God to richly bless all those who have so kindly remembered us and fulfill to them his promises in Matt. 10:40—42, and in Heb. 6:10. I pray, also, that we may keep ourselves in close touch with our Master, so that his blessings may attend our labors. And that oar deportment among men may be such as will merit their confidence and esteem and glorify the Church of Christ in the world. H. W. Jeffcoat, Pastor of the Rincon pastorate. AN AGED MINISTER’S LETTER. D4ar Visitor:—1 herewith eucluse a letter from one of the old land marks of the church—one who has been a faithful standard-bearer of oar common cause for many long years in the far West, having re cently retired from the regular work of the ministry because of bodily infirmities and declining years. Truly be is a servant of God, and one with whom I was delighted to have been associated for many years in chnrch work in the long ago; and he is one, too, who always did his work well and withoat the fear of man. He has well-nigh finished his journey and is almost home. He his ever been near and dear to me. May the Lord bless him. I send the letter for publication in The Visitor with his consent, and this short note as an apology for its appearance. Wm A. Julian. Melrose, Fia. Eureka, Kins., Dsc. 4, 1901. Dear Bro. Julian :—You no doubt begin to think that I have either forgotten or discarded yon from my list of corruspondeuts or neg lected you. If you think so, yon are off your base, in that line of surmises. Two days after tbe re ceipt of your last letter 1 was split ting some stove wood and in some unguarded way I smashed the end of my right index or fore finger and have not been able to write a line for two days. I have beru very unfortunate iu this kind of mishaps during all my life, but I have survived all and still survive only in bad condition, but always busy at some kind of necessary work for the benefit of my now little family—only myself and wife to care ard provide for. Had I died fifty years ago I might have escaped a world of suffering. Bat the good Lord saw things other wise, and I still survive. More than twenty years ago I broke down physically and mentally, and my life since has been more of the animal than that of the man. Ac tive life, as you know, had beeu my life up to that break down; grass never grew under my feet. My. success, with a meager literary education, is now a mys tery even to myself in this so called intelligent age of education and material progress; Now ktoftie *1 can look back over eighty-two years I see many shortcomings in my life, and also many things at many points where I might have done better, and other things that I did which might have been done better or not dom at all. But it is now too late to regret or lament over the dead past. Lit tbe dead past bury its or their 'dead What can an almost deaf mun do or be with memory lost, till everything you may hear or see passes by as in a kaleideeccpe. 1 am now left in a condition that is not pleasant to a m in whose earlier life was “under whip and spur” from 1830 to 1870 Not many men ever burned more cau dle an.l oil lights than I was forced to do by circumstances over which no one fimihrly situated could have control. Poor and ui o ager bp my xucciss has been, I n j ve'' “sat. still on the stool ot do-nothing." Had my education been wbat young men row get before entering the ministry, I might have done more real good than a half d< a-n grad uates have done or doing now. [We infer from this statement that our brother means to say that opportunities for doing good in tie times past were just a-' great as now, and that education was also a necessary training for the work of the ministry then as no v.— Ela. Visitor] I see a notice in Tbe Lutheran Visitor that Rev. Dr. Bernheim and R«v Dr. Cox are about, to pub lish a “History of the N >rth Caro lina Syuod" which they were ap pointed by tha* body to prepare. I want to live, U id willi-nt, to see that history. 1 want to see what place the book will assign to each minister who has lived iu that synod and did work there. I know something of the North Carolina Synod since 1837 t I did my work tl\ere no. to please, but. to save souls. Our general health still continues as good as it has beeu iu the past. We have uot beeu sick a whole day this year except a light attack of grippe last spring. . . yet many of our old citizens nave dhd all over the conuty. . . . Oar golden wed ding the past fall was a fi le affair, and seemed to please ail who at tended it, and all were >is happy apparently as Mrs. G «ud I. It was indeed a golden wedciag to ns, resulting iu gifts of g ild to the amoant of $120 Bat 1 must close. Kindest and fratwroat regards yourself and all of yonrs L. C. Gmseclose.