Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1884-05-22
THE MORAVIAN SYNOD.
osuRoHmHs IN srss,us IN LIr,,z.
business Transacted by tho Body on wed
nosday-rhe Uommis.ion ON tho UIi,u ot
the Churchss tEIi 20 Agrec


session OF the Morayiau synod commenced
Mt o'clock with tho usual devotional
exer eroises. Tho president named tho men,
bcrs of tho committee on expenses of
synod as follows Messrs. Chas. Eggert,
OF Bethlehem (; Louis Eyseubach, IT,, OF
Philadelphia and II. Il. Miller, OF Lititz.
Then followed tho tricnnial report of the
provincial elders conference From this
lengthy and important document We
extract the following items of special
interest
Owing to tho proportions to which the
synod has grown, under present regula-
tions, now numbering 1872 members, %
recommendation was made that ia future
this body meet at longer intervals, say
twice in ten years.
Three ministers have died since 1881,
eight were admitted to tho ministry. ono
withdrew aud one was deposcd. There
are therefore at present 6j ministers in
actual service in the Moravian church
north.
1t was recommended that tho churches
ut Riverside and Palmyra, N. j., and
Freedom, Wis, hitherto homo missions,
DO hereafter admitted to representation
at synod as solfsustaining congregations.
Now churches hayo becn commenced
since 1881 in Dakota and Coopersburg.
| Pa. Five churches were dedicated in that
| time, and two chapols An increase of
| Gas members was reported giving total
| communicaut membership IN that district
of {, GAO
4 legacy which will eventually amount
| t o s25, 600, was received for tho theological
seminary by boquest from tho late MIR.
Yoder. Linden Hall seminary, at Ltitz,
WAS tho recipient of SEQ 900, for the orec-
| ton OF chapel in mcmory of the daugh-
ter of tho late George W. Dixon, OF
| Bethlehem.
| Changes in the management aud editor
ship of the church papers and publication
oilico were adopted.
A most valuable library of books on
Moravian history, &C., 1856 volumes, was
donated TO tho church by VIM. +. Malin,
of Philadelphia.
Increased interest in the work of foreign
missions was reported. Tho gilts to the
cause since 1881 amounted to SIG, $50. Six
brethren have entered the foreign mission
service. A new missionary enterprise has
recently been begun in Alaska among tho
Innuits there, to be supported by the
Alaska auxiliary mission society.
Tho amount of money raised for general
causes since 1881 was SG2, 900.
The financial measures adopted at last
synod have worked successfully, n surplus
having been turned into a general treasury
each year The publication concern,
however demands the wise and careful
elaboration of synod.
After this report, Mr.. A 4 Schropp
read tho report of tho union commission,
explaining why tho projected union OF the
Northern and Southern dist.iSts Of the
province was not contaminated. full
history of tho negotiation was given, show
ing that tho fault of tho failure was not on
tho part Of our district. The relation be-
tween the two districtI, therefore, remains
rs it was before.
No evening session vas held, but the
usual synodicll sermon was preached in
the church at 80 o'clock, according to
appointment, by R0y. VIM. H. Rice, OF
Philadelphia.
This Mornings session.
THursiGy F0reHOOH.- Devotional exercises
, conducted by IL, Rev. G.. l.. Reinke, Of
> Lebanon, Pa, y re followed by the report
a OF the church extension board, read by
Rov. Prof Aug. Schult2e, of Bethlehem.
, | This report, on the whole, showed marked
progress since 1891. Last synod debt of
, l,07S % was reported this debt has been
canccl0d. partly by bequests Of 1890 from
a the late Miss Henrietta Boose, of Lititz,
q and 800 from Mrs. Eliz. Ann Ioder, OF
d Bethlehem partly by gift of 500 from
the board of the home missionary society
at Bethlehem. New enterprises were
commenced at Elm, Minn Goshen, Oak,
Canaan. OAK, Shiloh, Wis, Port Wash
q ington, o., and Cooporsburg, Pa.
The churches at Freedom, Wis and ut
Palmyra and Riverside, n. j., which ap
peared at tho last synod in the list o
homo missions, have become self support
ing.
: The travelling missionary IN the North
:, west, Rev. Il. Rinssing, whose work has
70 been very successful, reports good pEos
- pect of beginning \ mission in Nebraska
% , aud probably OF establishing, in connec
y ton with it, an orphans home. The
= 90 home missions in all have membership
of 3,577, l,77J being communioants-
20 10 of them are fres Of deb. The total of
. indebtedness on the remaining is s2l, ,707
which is Sl0, 52l less than the total of in
debtedness reported in 1881, The value o
i. these church properties Is estimated a
sl06,00
t. The report of the faculty of tho theo
,, logical seminary foll)wod, real by Rev
d Prof. G. G. Klose.
D, From this report it appears that four
IS teen students have been graduated sine
N 1881. Mainly by the efforts of last gradu
/. ating class the new chapel in West Beth
y lehem was erected. The library of the
& seminary numbers 5,734 books ant
% pamphlets. During the last three years
20 Is, ,0SS. SO have been contributed toward
II tho support of tho institution by tho indi
N vdual congregations Tho will of the lat
" Mrs. Mary Ann Yoder, of Bethlehem
,. added to the permanent endowment fund
" what will ultimately realize $25, 900. Th
:, last financial year closed with surplus o
X $446.51.
r, Rev. L. G. Klose read the report of tn
"a committee on the mission in Bohemia.
II appears that the statistics OF that nj issi II
10 may be summed up as follows Two oil
l. dained missionaries, three evangelists, on,
40 of them at the head of the orphan house
two other assistants, whose chief dut
~ seems to bo to hold public services
+. teacher, four colporteurs, four congrega
10 tions, four preaching places, live ohapels
an orphan house with 27 children, al
,k industry for poor women, amembership O
W. $780, general missionary work that
8 directly or indirectly exercises an iniiuenc
"a upon many hundreds Of people, and
49, branch mission in Voltrynia Russia.
'r' II only more funds were at the disposa
of the mission, opportunities which ar
presenting themselves on every side nigh
oh be seized and utilized. The total of con
"a tributions from this province amounted
d S3,4 4l9 20.
o. The reports of the committees In chsrg
80 of the church publications followed. tn