St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-28
Presbyterians Complain That Their
Methodist Brethren Make Ministers
Easier and Quicker.
4 Dishonest Treasurer Who Brings His
Fathers Gray Hairs in Sorrow
to the Grave.
a Movement on Foot to Permit the
Election of an Elder as
Moderator.
Last Evenings Concert--The Annual
Meeting of the Woman's Foreign
Missionary Board.
The Presbyterians.

the board of publication to pension its retir-
ing secretary, DR.. Sehenck, came up before
the Presbyterian general assembly in ses-
sion at Westminster church at Minneapolis
yesterday morning after the disposition of
certain routine business. General Shields
of the publication committee moved that the
resolution be stricken from the report. thus
preventing the disagreement from becom-
ing matter of record. Similar disposition
was also made of the resolutions to separate
the business and missionary depart
ments of the board, and resolution
to refer the matter TO special committee
was adopted.
EDUCATION.
The report of the board of education was
the next order of business The report
stated that the year was begun with debt
of $1,000. Expenditures amounted to ssh
799. Il. leaving a balance of $500. %, de-
spite the fact that the number of students
under care of the board has increased.
The number of candidates received has
increased to 63S. They are distributed as
follows: 262 in the the theological semin
aries, sos in colleges. and Is in the academic
and primary departments. Classified ac-
cording to nationality or race, 80 are Ger
mans, Bulgarians, 90 negroes, Hindoo,
Indian. and , Spanish. The remainder
are Scotch, Irish, English and Americans.
There was a falling off of 50. Still in the
amount contributed by churches the past
year, compared with the year before.
The roll of churches for 1885 shows that
out of 6, 093 there were 1,197 vacant-less
by than last year, while IS of those tabu-
lated last year have been disSolved--a num-
Der altogether unprecedented. Twenty
eight vacant churches report membership
from 200 to 700; Il membership from 200
TO 250; % membership from $50 to 200;
81 membership from 100 to $50, and 217
membership from so to 100. In all $40
report membership of over so. Then
2S9 rank between so and %.
The report concluded with the declara-
ton that the church must either limit its
work of expansion or multiply its men,
bers. There is promise of larger num-
bers in the future. The sum total of
candidates has grown from 600 in 1880 to
$50 in 1885. Yet the sum total of churches
and population is increasing likewise. We
must increase our rate of enliStmentS in
order to overtake it,
The report of the standing committee on
education was presented by DR.. Tryon
Edwards, who urged the need of the church
taking greater interest in the work of edu-
cation. OF 5000 churches over 5000 had
not contributed one cent to the board. He
briefly summed up the report in the follow
ing resolutions: % That the board of eGu-
cation be allowed to exercise its judgment
in the prosecution of educational matters:
(2) that Presbyterians be enjoined to see
that the subject of education is brought be-
fore all churches; (3) that ministers and
parents work more earnestly to secure
young men for the ministry.
The retiring members were recommended
to reelection, as follows: j. f. Dripps, ID.
IN NJ DnA+ n II.
tOsh. d. D., William FewSmith. Samuel
Field and r. n. Wilson. Adopted
DR.. d. w. Poer, secretary of the board.
next spoke upon this report He regarded
education as being the underlying founda-
ton of evangelical work; unless provided
for all the other branches must be proper
tionally crippled.
NAVAL AND MILITARY SCHOOLS.
Rev. J. E. NourSe, United States navy,
from the committee on education, intro
duced the following resolution, which was
amend by DIR. Crosby to include West
Point academy:
Resolved, That this general assembly ex-
presses its highest appreciation of the con-
tinued watchfu care exercised by the pas
tors and sessions of our churches at Annapo-
lis and West Point over the cadets from
Presb terrain families found in the naval and
military academies; and the ASSEMBLY, urges
upon every parent of our church, whose son
is in either of those institutions. or who may
secure appointment therein, to see that his
child be specially commended to the care of
the churches respectively herein named.
The resolution was warmly supported by
the mover and by the Rev. Mr. Gibbons,
now of Philadelphia, formerly pastor of
the church at Annapolis. The Rev. r, II.
Williams, the present pastor of the An
napOliS church, by invitation, also urged
the adoption of the resolution, which was
unanimously done.
DR.. Howard Crosby moved to recall the
resolution relating to the lowering of the
standard of education from the committee
on church polity and refer it to special
committee, and backed his motion up with
one Of his brief and forcible addresses
which rarely fail to cali out applause from
the commissioners.
''We have to first catch our men," he said.
land then it takes seven years to educate and
put them in the field as ministers. The
Methodists have been running away with the
Geld the Lord Intended for US. / have known
many young men, noble-hearted capable fell
lows, who have not had the time to finish the
course, being % years or so old. They have
gone over to the Methodists and were in the
field within six months. Why can't we let
these men preach; Withholding from
them only some of the peculiar
ministerial duties-for instance the
administration of the sacrament. Call them
lay helps or something like that, and let them
go to preaching. presume there are at least
twenty young men in my own church who
could send OUT The motion was adopted
listers and two elders. The recommendations
OF the report were next adopted seriatim.
IN BEHALF OF PEACE.
Rev. Joseph B. Cogswell of Austin pre-
sented the following resolution, prepared by
Rowland B. Howard of Boston, secretary of
Peace
ferred:
Resolved, That in view of the enormous
and increasing evils of war, we would hereby
declare our earnest conviction that Christian
nations, at least, ought to establish speedily q
permanent international court of arbitration
with competent powers and Jurisdiction to
which should be referred for settlement such
disputes as cannot be settled by negotiation
Resolved, That, as preliminary and pre-
paratory to this, we welcome the bill recently
reported to the house Of representatives in
Washington by the committee on foreign
affalrs, which provides for a convention of
American states to take measures to estab-
lish such q court of arbitration for this CONT
nent.
Resolved, That we appoint a committe of
three TO be known as 1.-THE committee on ar
bitration,' whose duty shall be to investigate
this subject, correspond with the American
Peace society and other organizations formed
to promote the objects contemplated in these
resolutions, and to report to the next general
assembly what further action, if any, we
ought to take to hasten the time ''when ma
lions shall learn war no more"
The assembly adjourned until $50.
IN THE AFTERNOON.
DR.. A. T Pierson, Dr.. Joseph Beggs and
Dr.. j. E. Wright were appointed as trus-
tees. and Rev. w. B. Noble of Norristown
Pa; Rev. John Dixon of Trenton, Rev
Barker Gummere of Trenton and Reys
Charles McLudkens, Enoch TAYLOR, George
n. Simons and Andrew Blair, all of Phila-
delphia to fill vacancies on the finance COM
mittee as recommended.
DR.. Mcleod offered resolution instruct
ing the stated clerk to forward to the COM
missioners copies of the reports of the va