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Rev Philip Francis “Frank” Price

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Birth	:	2 Jul 1864
Death	:	10 May 1954
Burial	:	Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Lexington City, USA
Coordinate	:	37.7808300, -79.4450600
Description	:	This is a bio of Rev. Price if you would like to add it to his memorial. REV. PHILIP FRANCIS PRICE, D.D. 1864 - 1954 by LEWIS H. LANCASTER Philip Francis Price was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 2, 1864, the son of the Rev. Philip Barbour Price and Mary Pleasants Price. He attended Hampden-Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary (then at Hampden-Sydney), graduating there in 1889. He was ordained by Montgomery Presbytery on October 6, 1889 and continued a member of that Presbytery for the whole of his ministry, nearly sixty-five years. The evangelistic zeal which characterized Dr. Price's entire... Read More	This is a bio of Rev. Price if you would like to add it to his memorial. REV. PHILIP FRANCIS PRICE, D.D. 1864 - 1954 by LEWIS H. LANCASTER Philip Francis Price was born in Richmond, Virginia, on July 2, 1864, the son of the Rev. Philip Barbour Price and Mary Pleasants Price. He attended Hampden-Sydney College and Union Theological Seminary (then at Hampden-Sydney), graduating there in 1889. He was ordained by Montgomery Presbytery on October 6, 1889 and continued a member of that Presbytery for the whole of his ministry, nearly sixty-five years. The evangelistic zeal which characterized Dr. Price's entire ministry was evident early in life. His first taste of Christian work was while attending preparatory school. During vacations, both while teaching and in the Seminary, he preached with great acceptability, winning many to a saving faith in Jesus Christ. In the Longdale Mining area of Alleghany there was a special work of grace that marked an important milestone in his Christian experience. Here "scores of people were brought to the Lord in a demonstration of the power of the Holy Spirit." In February 1890 Frank Price went to China where for more than fifty years he served as a missionary of our Church. Soon after arrival he met Miss Esther E. Wilson of Sumter, South Carolina, who had been teaching in the Hangchow Girls' School. They were married on April 6, 1892. Mr. Price began his missionary service in Soochow, but after two years opened work in Kashing prefecture of Chekiang Province. and served as an evangelist in that area until February 1912 when the Price family moved to Nanking. Dr. Price had been called to teach theology and homiletics in the Nanking Theological Seminary. He served in that large and important city until he left China in Jan- uary 1941. During this period, however, because of his concern for evangelism and his untiring zeal in the service of the Church Dr. Price was a leader in many other activities. He opened preaching centers for students, served as Secretary of the Nanking Church Council, as pastor of the Nanking Union Church, and as President of the Christian Endeavor Union of China. He was Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Presbyterian Churches of China, and later Moderator of the Assembly. He was also Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Presbyterian and Congregational Churches, and Co-Moderator of the Provincial Assembly of the United Church. Not only was Dr. Price honored by the Church in China, but in 1936 while on furlough in the United States Dr. Price was elected Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. at the historic meeting of the Assembly during the Jubilee Year in the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia. In 1908 he had received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity from Davidson College. Dr. Price wrote many articles and pamphlets. Among his most important writings were the annual "Christian Endeavor Hints and Helps," "The Wayside Series" of tracts, "Scripture Catechism of the Old and New Testaments," and "Short Steps to Great Truths," Vol. I, II, III. These "Short Steps" were among the most widely used of all books for teaching Christian truth to beginners, and their preparation was one of the most far reaching of the services rendered by Dr. Price. After retiring from active missionary service Dr. and Mrs. Price made their home in Florence, South Carolina, not far from the girlhood home of Mrs. Price, where the third son, Julian, is a practicing physician. In Florence Dr. Price helped to found the Westminster and Bethesda churches, near Florence, and in recent years was chaplain in the McLeod Infirmary in addition to carrying a large correspondence and the writing of many articles. Mrs. Price had gone to be with Christ in 1950, and Dr. Price fell asleep quietly on May 10, 1954. There were services in Florence and in Lexington, Virginia, followed by interment in the historic cemetery there. The cemetery plot had been given by the First Church whose missionary representative he had been during the whole of his missionary career. Dr. Price is survived by four sons and their families, Rev. Frank W. Price, D.D. former missionary to China and now Director of the Missionary Research Library in New York City and Secretary of the Research Committee of the Division of Foreign Missions of the National Council of Churches; Dr. Philip B. Price, former missionary to China and now living in Salt Lake City, Utah; Dr. Julian B. Price of Florence, South Carolina, and Harry B. Price of Washington, D. C. Dr. Price was a man who worked untiringly in the fulfillment of his stewardship, fervent in spirit serving the Lord. He laid aside every weight that might beset him and ran with patience and discipline the race set before him. He was a faithful shepherd under the Good Shepherd, seeking the sheep that were lost and tending those in the fold. His was a whole-hearted love for and loyalty to his Lord, rejoicing in the privilege of fellowship with Him and of preaching and teaching His Gospel. Dr. T. C. Bales of Clifton Forge, Virginia, who at the request of Dr. Price took part in the funeral services said, "The whole Church and Christian fellowship around the world are poorer in his removal from the Church militant. But even the Church militant is richer and will continue richer because this man in the providence of God was raised up and given this long ministry among us. We thank God for the privilege of knowing and loving him." "Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labors; and ,their works do follow them." (Rev. 14: 13) “I have fought a good fight --” A Memorial, Volume III, pp.40 - 43 Published by Board of World Missions, Presbyterian Church, U.S., Nashville, Tennessee. 1956

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Latitude: 37.7808300
Longitude: -79.4450600

Family Members:

Parent

Spouse

Esther Eckard Wilson Price

(1866 - 1950)

Siblings

Emmett Russell Price

(1874 - 1944)

Children

Dr Francis Wilson “Frank” Price Sr.

(1895 - 1974)

Philip Barbour Price

(1897 - 1982)

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