St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-24
FINAL SESSION OF PREsBYTERY.

FINAL SESSION OF PRESBYTERY.
A Large Volume of Important BUS
mess TranSacted--List of
Accepted Calls.
The final session of the spring meeting of
the ST. Paul presbytery was held at the
House of Hope church yesterday morning,
the half-hour's devotional exercises being
led BY Rev. r. J. Creswell of North Pacific
junction.
Rev. &C. HerTiott then called the session
to order as moderator and the following
business was transacted:
Rev. Joseph Lonman of Minneapolis re-
ported as chairman of ministerial relief that
the committee was unable to pay the relief
amounts granted, and it was voted that
they be reduced % per cent.
The report on temperance was read by
Rev. Dr. Carroll. advocating earnest work
in this cause by the presbytery, and reSolu-
tiOns were passed that ministers should
preach on the subject, in church services
use their efforts for the entire suppression
OF the LIQUOR traffic, hold temperance instl-
tutes and take measures for the dissemlna-
ton of temperance literature.
Rev. Joseph LOnman reported on church
erection that thirty-tive churches contrib
uted SILL 80 for this purpose last year, and
that fifty churches i'll the presbytery were
sill without houses. The board had eX-
pended 81, $50 this year, of which the
McNair Memorial church and the Merriam
Park church had received $500 each and
Tower City $3.50.
The report of the committee on the
Freedman's Mission showed that the pres
bytery had contributed $3.50 the past year.
A resolution was passed after the accept
ance of the report that the presbytery was
opposed to Joining the Freedman'S to the
Board of Foreign Missions.
The report of Rev. DR.. Sample on aid
for colleges was accepted. The cOntribu-
ton this year was S256.73 against S173. 16
last YEAR A resolution was carried to take
an annual collection in the churches for
colleges, the claims of Manchester college on
| the same being trOnglyspresented.
The reports Of the financial committee,
on the Second church of Saltwater and on
church miscellany, were read and adopted.
Rev. Mr.. Mclean from the Union Taber-
nacIe church Of New York was examined
and received into the presbytery by unan-
nous vote.
The church at White Bear extended a
call TO Rev. J. G.. Robinson Of Worthing-
ton to become its pastor and leave was
granted to prosecute the call before the
presbytery at Mankato.
ACCEPTED CALLS.
A call having been made by the following
churches upon the pastors named, their III
stallations were fixed as follows:
Rev. j. NJ. Patterson over Bloomington
Avenue church, Minneapolis, Tuesday, May
>. At 7:3O D. Ill. Sermon, Rev. DR.. Sample;
charge to pastor, DR.. II. A. McCurdy;
charge to people, DR.. S. NJ. Campbell; in
stallation prayer. Rev. E. B. Caldwell.
Rev. c. c. HerriOtt, Westminster church,
West St Paul; Rev. j. p. Drysart to
preside: Rev. DR.. STyker, sermon; Rev.
NJ d. Edwards, charge to pastor; Rev.
Dr. Carroll, charge to people. Time to be
fixed by committee.
Rev. $. G.. Anderson over Fort Street
church, st. Paul, Tuesday evening, June
Is. Rev. \. j. Stead will conduct devO-
tiOnal exercises Rev. A. w. Benson, ser
mon: Rev. VI. ID. Edwards, charge to pas
tor: Rev. DR.. Stryker, charge to people.
Rev. Il. b. Greenlea over Hope church,
Minneapolis Friday, May 8. Rev. j. NJ.
Patterson to preside: Rev. DR.. Stryker,
sermon: DR.. r. f. Sample, charge to peO-
pie: Rev +. b. Caldwell charge to pastor.
THE FIRST CHURCH TROUBLE.
In the matter of the First church of st.
Paul. majority of whose membership in
sisted upon the resignation of Rev. {. C..
Her1iOtt its pastor, which action the pres
bvtery refused To consider and afterwards
consented to, the following resolutions were
adopted:
WHEREAS, There is reason to believe
TINT many OF the membership of the First
Presbyterian church of this city feel deeply
aggTieyed by various acts and deliverances
OF this presbytery during the recent efforts
to settle the difficulties in said church,
therefore,
Resolved That this presbytery desire to
express their deep and abiding interest
in the welfare edificatiOn and peace of the
First Presbyterian church of st. Paul and
that this presbytery do hereby appoint a
committee to visit and confer with any and
all parties in said church who may feel
aggrieyed and labor To remove all grounds
of grievance to secure cordial and amicable
relations between said church and their
presbytery.
The following mission churches were
voted authority to receive from the Presby-
terrain board of home missions the following
sums for the support Of their pastoral sup
ply: Oak Grove, 500; St. Cloud, 5000;
Fort street st. Paul, $500, making the
salary 81, 200; Pine City and Huxley, $3.50
each as supplement to 500 salaries; Litch-
field 5000, making the salary 5000: Hope
church, Minneapolis, $500, making the
salary $1,000; Bloomington Avenue, Min
neapols, $500, making the salary $1,000;
Franklin Avenue. Minneapolis. $3.50. a rise
to $1,000; Bethlehem. Minneapolis, $500.
arise to $1,000; Eden Prairie, $500, rise
to 5000; North Pacific Junction and other
churches, $500. rise to 81, 200; Shiloh.
Minneapolis, $500. rise to Il, 200, and
Royalton $500, rise to 5000.
The fall meeting of the preSbytery was
then appointed to meet at Westminster
church. Minneapolis on the Tuesday even
ing previous to the meeting of the synod at
$50 o'clock.
The minutes of the meeting were then
read lay the clerk, and the presbytery adj
jouned