Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-05-05
THE PRES8YTERI an CENTENNIAL.
Meeting Of the Northern mud Soatscrn
Assemblies I'm Philadelphia aud RsHiss.
more the Latter Part os May.

The General Assembly or the southern Presby-
terrain Church Will begin its annual session IN the
Franklin street Presbyterian church. Baltimore
on Thursday. May IL. The general assembly is
composed OF seventy presbyteries, which embrace
territory In Maryland and Missouri, and all the
states 70 the south OF these. The number OF CON-
missioners and officers who will come % this
meeting Will probably be l7O. While the
southern General Assembly meets In Baltimore
the general assembly OF the Northern Presby-
terrain Church VIII meet In Philadelphia That
meeting Will be the hundrsdth anniversary OF the
organization OF the General Assembly at Phila-
delphia
on the fourth Thursday In this month and on
several days following the memorial ana centcn-
NAL. services Will be held In the Academy OF
Music and In Horticultural Hall, Philadelphia.
That day the general assembly OF the southern
Church Will suspend Its sessions to allow the CON-
missioners 90 take part In the services There VIII
be twenty speakers during the session-ten from
each OF the two branches OF the great Presl,ytr-
Ran Church In America The subject and the
speakers from the southern Church VIII be: His
tory OF Presbyteranism: It's Work Tor the Future"
Dr. j. l.. GIrardeau; ''Calvinlsm and Religious
Liberty" Hon. W. Z. p. BrecGinr1dge. OF Ken
lucky; adaptation OF PresDyter1anlsm 20 the
Masses" Hon. J. Randolph Tucker. OF Virginia.
"City EyangelizatiOn," Rev. Dr. NJ ID. HOge; .'Cal-
vinism and Human Progress" Hon. J. :. C0thrsn,
OF South Carolina: Lay EnOrt Among the Masses
Hon. clifford Anderson, OF Georgia; "FOreign MIS-
| sions" Rev. Dr. NJ. III. Houston, 81 BalumOr-;
Home Missions. Rev, Dr. W W, Moore ''Chi-
mer; closing address, Rev. DR.. derry MithersppOn.
From the Northern Church: History OF PTusby-
teriansm," Rev. Theo. l. Cuyler, ID. d.. alternate
Rev. James l. Browning; "Presbyterianism aud
Biblical Scholarship" Rev. Howard Crosby, ID. ID,
LID, alternate. Rev. John Mcclellan Holmes ID.
d.; "Presbyterianism and Education" Rev. =. j.
Mcpherson. ID. d.; alternate. Rev. J. NJ. Dnsmore;
"Presoyterianism ana Republican GOverumcnI"
Hon. Benjamin Harrison, OF Indiana, alternate,
Hon. John & Mcmillan; ''City CHARACTERIZATION: It's
necessity" Rev. John Hail. DID,, LII H.. alternate,
Morris Jessup; preaching 10 the MasseSr Rev.
samuel j. Nlcnolls ID. d., alternate Francis A.
Horton; 'home Missions, Rev. Geo. q. Hays, d.
G., LIZ d., alternate Rev. John y. Newman, u. d.;
"Hlstorical Presbyterian Characters,- Rev. Chaa
l. Thompson, ID. d.. alternate kev. Everard
| kempshall, ID. D.; Foreign Mission" Rev. Chas-
:. Puneroy, ID. d., alternate, Rev. henry a.
Jessup, ID. d.; 'Closng address" Rev. VIM D.
Reed, alternate, Rev. Cnas. A Dickey, ID. ID.
THE CASE or DR. WOODROW.
Amatter or great interest 60 come before the
southern assembly Is the case OF Rev. James
Woodrow, professor In the Columbia Theology
cal seminary, who was cited before the presby-
terry OF Augusta for beliefs and teachings which
were not orthodox aud did not confirm 90 the
tenets OF the church. The presbyteTy sustained
Dr. Woodrow, but the synod ordered the verdict
annulled, and the case now comes before the gen.
era