Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-04-11
PRESBYTERY.
SEMI ANNUAL SESSION IN LEBANON.

Election OF Delegates TO General Synod
Temperance MemoriaI-Deaths OF
Prominent Presbytsrians Fifty
Noticed.
The presbytery of Westminster met in
Christ's Church, Lebanon, Monday even
ing, May Q, at y o'clock. The>services
opened with sermon by the moderator,
Rev. ]. Y. Mitchell, D. D., who was as.
sisted in the devotional exercises by Revs.
Hume and Gaylord. After the sermon the
presbytery was constituted, and Rev. r.
J. G. Hume and Elder W. B. Paxson tenn.
porary clerks. After hearing tho report
of the committee of arrangements, presby-
terry adjourned until Tuesday morning. a
Tuesday Morning Session. u
Presbytery met at 9 o'clock and spent
tho first half hour in devotional exercises.
Mr.. John Muier, candidate for the gospel
ministry, was examined in arts and sciences.
The moderator announced the committees
on seasonal records, and standing COM
mittees of presbytery. The following
persons were elected commissioners to the
next general assembly:
Ministers Rev. Jas. Y. Mitchell, ID,
E. Miles, D. D., Rev. 8. A. Martin, alter
mates.
Elders J. A. c. Galley, W. r. Gal.
breath, principals Judge Valentine Trout,
John N. Logan, alternates.
1t was announced that the name of
Christ chapel had be en changed to that of
Christ church.
The elders reported the payment of their
PASTORS salaries, and very general health
full financial condition of the churches.
The free CONVEX cation on the state of
religion in the churches showed large ac-
cessions to the different churches and
Sabbath schools and greater iberality
towards tho boards of the church than
ever before.
Revs. DR.. Mitchell, Gamble and Elder
Patterson were appointed a committee on
the StewartstOwn church.
Revs. Drs. Stewart, Niles and Elder
Logan were appointed committee to
draft resolutions on the death of Elder
David E. Small.
Revs. H. E. Niles, D. D., and G. W.
Eby and Elder D. II. Bartholomew, we
appointed committee on the death @.
Rev. DR.. Bower, of Lincoln university.
The overture from the syncl of Penn
sylvania, making the synod a delegated
body, was answered in the affirmative.
Mr.. Horace Brock invited presbytery to
an excursion to Cornwall, he having pro.
vided for all special car. The invitation
was accepted, and the time for the excur.
sion fixed for Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock.
Three candidates presented themselves
for examinations preparatory to licensure !;
Messrs. John A. Muir, Robt. P. Boyd and
Lewis F. Brown. (Mr. r.Brown is a member
of tho Lancaster Presbyterian church,
The written trial parts were referred to
the following committees Latin Exegis,
Rev. w. B. Browne Critical Exercise,
Rev. J. Y. Mitchell, d. D.; Popular Lee
ture, Rev. G. w. Ely.
Temperance Memorial.
The oral examination on theology was
sustained, after which the examinations
were suspended, to take up the order of
the day, viz After discussion of the
question, How can the church best pro-
mote the cause of temperance" the fol-
lowing paper was adopted -
" To the Honorable the Senate aha House of
Representatives Of he Commonwealth Of
Pennsylvania:
"The presbytery of Westminster re-
spectfully represent that the temperance
reform has been declared by distinguish
ed English statesman the foundation of
all reforms that the great majority of the
best Christians and philanthrOpists in the
world are deeply interested in the progress,
believing that the fate of nations and the
welfare of humanity are directly connected
with it; therefore, we join with the
thousands of our fellow citizens in this
state and earnestly pray your honorable
bodies to submit to the electors the pro-
posed amendment to the constitution pro
hibiting the manufacture, sale, or keeping
for sale of any Intoxicating liquors to be
used as beverage,
"Res0lued. That two copies of the above
be prepared and signed by the moderator
and stated clerk and be forwarded, one to
each branch of our Legislature, with the
request that they be read before the re
spective bodies."
In Memory Of mr.. Small.
The committee on resolution touching
the death of Elder Small, reported the fol-
lowing:
"Since our last meeting of presbytery,
David E. Small, an elder in the church OF
York, has been called from his work to
his reward. Presbytery gratefully records
its sense of obligation to God for His gift
of such man to the church. Endowed
as ho was with powers of mind and heart
and having by his enterprise, and honest
enterprise, acquired a large portion of this
worlds substance, he cOnsecrated them
all, without reserve, to the cause and ser.
vice of his Divine Master. His benefac-
tions were princely, his labors for Christ
were ceaseless and untiring, and his death
has made a vacancy, in his own church, in
the Presbyterian and in the church at
largo, which it seems must remain for the
present unsupplied. Presbytery records
its great sorrow for the loss which it has
sustained in the death of this beloved
elder, and it extends its sympathies to his
deeply afflicted family, to his bereaved
pastor, and to the church in which he was
so valued an officer.
| Dr. Bower Death
The committee on resolutions in relation
to the death of Prof. E. R. Bowers, D. D.,
reported the following:
1.-The presbytery of Westminster, having
learned of the recent death of Rev. E. r.
Bower, d. D., professor in Lincoln uni.
versity, desire to express their profound
and painful sense of the great loss sus-
tanned by that institution, by tho presby-
terry of Chester and by the whole church
in this death. We also extend to the
faculty and students of that institution,
our sympathy in view of the sad bereave.
ment they have sustained. Especially do
we extend such expression to the afflicted
family of our brother, commencing them
to the covenant care and gracious support
OF the God of all consolation
Evening Meeting
Presbytery took a recess until O'Clock
p. m. In tho evening popular meeting
was held in the interests of foreign mis-
| SiOns DR. Niles nresided and cOns3ucted