An VOX I A. VA? September 16.?The fall meeting of the West Hanover Presbytery opened at Trinity Presbyterian Church, New Canton, on Tuesday evening of this week, sessions extending through Thursday. The opening sermon was preached by Rev. J. C. Painter, of Charlottesville. The presbytery later was constituted with prayer, and Rev. Andrew Allen, of Parville, was elected moderator, and Elders A. G. Burnett and C. W. Somerville clerks.
On Wednesday morning the presbytery took up regular work, considering a number of important communications. After an old-fashioned dinner served on the church grounds, the chairman of the foreign mission committee, Rev. Charles M. Barrell, of Buckingham, presided at a service, when several addresses were delivered. Rev. Stanley White, of Gordonsville; Rev. S. C. Cox, of Rapidan; Rev. James E. Cook, of Albemarle, and Rev. J. C. Leps, of Appomattox, spoke on various phases of foreign mission work.
On Wednesday evening the presbytery's home mission committee made a report of wonderful progress. Rev. Hugh H. Hudson, of Charlottesville, gave an account of the work in all quarters of the presbytery. Rev. J. P. Proft spoke of important mission work going on in the remote mountains of Nelson County. Rev. Dupuy Holliday spoke.  On certain phases of lawlessness in the same county, and Elmer A. C. Burnett and C. W. Somerville told of the Harmony mission recently organized in the mountains of Nelson County. 