St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-06-01
FINISHED AND GONE,
The Presbyterian General Assembly Con-
oludes It's Session at Minneapolis
and Adjourns,
The Sunday Papers Come in for Another
sooring--The Prohibition Issue
Quietly DOdged.
Omaha the Next Place of Meetlng--
An Insult to the Colored Breth-
rem Denounced.
Resolutions of Thanks to the Citizens
of Minneapolis and st. Paul.
Last FareweilS-

Ao IcSUy teTldn ScilClol dSSeLlDly yes
terday 0closed its session, and adjourned
at o'clock, when 4 final roll-call showed
that four-tifths of the commissioners were
in their seats. All unfinished business was
cleared away, and resolutions thanking
everybody were adopted. A resolution
condemning Sunday papers, which had
evidently been reserved as coup d'etat,
was passed with hurrah. An effort to
indorSe the prohibition movement was
quietly strangled, and this was about
the only motion to rebuke the
wicked ways of the sinful world
that was not allowed to go through with
flying colors. This was probably for the
reason that it was felt that many would re-
gard this as a political move. After devo-
tional exercises led by Rev. G. S. Cham
Rogs of Pennsylvania, the assembly was
callsd to order. Rev. DR.. e. A. Bulk was
added to the special committee on the
ecclesiastical relations of foreign mission
aries. Drs. John Hall of New York, E. r.
Craven Of New Jersey, G. P. Hayes, Gin
clnnati; E. G. Rea, Chicago, and Elders
+. L. Shepherd, Baltimore; w. NJ. Tenney,
St Paul. and III. j. P. Turnkey of Erie
were named as the special committee upon
the division of the missionary and foreign
departments Of the board of education,
A special committee, consisting of the
treasurers of the different boards, was
appointed to report upon the proposition to
close the fiscal year for all boards at uni
form date, probably March 81. Upon mo-
ton Of DR.. Craven the stated and perma-
nent clerks were appointed as committee
on rales. A reply to the greeting from the
Presbyterian church Of the South was read
and recommitted for change of wording,
IN order to indicate, as Dr.. Pierson put it,
more salutatlon and less advice about the
way things should be done" The sentence
complained of related to work among the
freedmen, and DR.. Pierson thought that it
might be regarded as a slap" by the sensi-
tive brethren of the South. The commit
lee ON
NEXT PLACE OF MEETING
reported that invitations had been received
from the First Presbyterian church of
Niagara Falls, the First Presbyterian church
OF Saratoga Springs. and from the
Presbyterian churches of Jacksonville
and Omaha. From the last.named
place the entertainment of $50 commission
ers without expense and the payment of
all local expenses had been guaranteed.
The committee recommended that the next
general assembly should meet at the Second
Presbyterian church of Omaha the third
Thursday of May, 1887, and that the fol-
lowing committee on arrangements should
be appointed: Ministers. William J. Har-
sha, Joseph n. Boyd, Thomss c. Hail. W.
Il. Henderson, w. Ii. Roberts; Elders, P.
l.. Perine, j, L. Weishaws, o. H. Ballard,
D. c. Spaulding. o. T. Davis, George E.
Crosby. The report was adopted without
any opposition.
The committee on finance reported the
ai,>to oil
$780, SO; disbursements, S31. 04S. 81; leaving
port of the committee closed with the eau
ton that, in view of
THE ALARMING INCREASE
of dishonesty in the world and BETRAYAL of
trusts, the honesty of no man should be
implicitly relied upon and that the accounts
of all officers and boards should be inspected
at least once in three months and everv
thirty days if practicable; also that the sum
of IS, 600 of the balance be appropriated to
deEay the expenses of the Centennial meet
ing to be held in Philadelphia in 1888. The
report was adopted. 80 -
DR.. Macintosh read the report of the
committee appointed to establish an appor-
tionment of funds from church
offerings in accordance with the
scheme of systematic beneicence which
recommended the following distribution:
Foreign Missions 80 per cent; home mis-
sions, 81 per cent; church erection, per
cent; publication. 3 per cent; freed
men. per cent; education, per cent.
ministerial relief. per cent; aid
to colleges, 6 per cent. The report was
adopted. A number OF judicial questions,
reports of committees ON synodicaI records
were quickly disposed of. A letter was
ordered sent to the Reformed Presbyterian
and DR.. j. S. Mcintosh was appointed a
delegate to the council of the Reformed
Episcopal church which meets at Philadel-
phia in June, 1887.
SUNDAY NEWSPAPERS,