The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-23
NORTHERN PREsBYTERIANs.

The Sessions Devoted to Discussing Home
Missions and Sunday Work.
PHILADELPHIA, Nay 22-Home missions o.
eupied the attention of the Presbyterian General
Assembly this morning. Prior to the reading OF
the report by Rev. E. D. Morris. d. D.. the COM
mittee on bills and overtures returned to the
General Assembly . number of ovsrtures referred
to them. Ono Of these, from the Presbytery OF
Dayton, o., proposing . change In the time OF
the week of prayer, was accompanied by .
recommendation that IL was inexpedient for the
General Assembly to order . change at this
time, bat the stated clerk was directed to CORE
spond with the Evangelical Alliance upon the
subject
The committee on correspondents reported.
recommending the selection of . committee of
seven members of the assembly to confer with
the Methodist Conference in regard to Sabbath
observance.
DR.. Morris's report on the operations of the
Board of Home Missions was q long and inter
esting document. showing a very en-
work. Beginning with . debt Of s2l,6 sl,
the board had been able TO meet all demands
made upon it, and closed the year with . email
cash balance. The income is $l3O. 600 greater
tuou Tue year pE0Couluks LUZ Va Wio-
sionaries aided by the board was 1,486. and
1927 members were added to the churches
under the boards care. The report was accept
ed, and the members of the board whose terms
expire this year were reappointsd.
Rev. VIM. Irwin, d. D.. secretary Of the home
board, made . speech, in which he conRratu-
lated the assembly on the work, and the fact
that, for the first time in years, the board was
out of debt.
Rev. Adelbert vanderlippe, D. D., of ST. Louis,
anoko fop fhA nara ~ Gappnan VnSQaSnna IN tho
United States. which he said had been greatly
neglected by the Presbyterian Church. He advo-
Gated the appointment of . German mission
airy, but the assembly, after a somewha ani
a Of Eve to consider
the relation of the General Assembly
TO the foreign population will report to the
assembly of 1889. The committee OF thirteen
ruling elders who have been aiding the labors Of
tho Home Board during the year was continued.
At the afternoon session Q resolution offered
by Rev. John r Thompson. OF Puget Sound.
heartily seoondipg efforts TO secure the suppress
sioc of Sunday work in the mail and military
service of the United States government. was
unanimously adopted
The unfinished business Of the morning Sos
sion, the report OF the standing COMMITTEES on
Board OF Home Missions. was taken mp and the
resolutions accompanying the report were
sion was taken up by the commissioners from
the Pacific SLOPE, who set forth the necessity Of
missionary work in that section.
Rev. Herman D. Jenkins, d. D., read the re-
Port Of the standing committee on the board OF
aid for colleges. recommending thas not less
than 500, 600 be raised for its work.
Rev. Henry d. Cause, D. D., of Chicago, the
secretary Of the board Of aid, in an impassioned
speech Of half an hour. urged the importanee of
tho fostering of the religious feeling among
young men by means Of q thorough religious
education. His plea was for the endowing and
establishing Of an adequate number Of academic
institutions to sustain the church feeling among
the rising generation.
Rev. Francis A. Horton. D. D., of Oakland.
CAL, president of the board Of directors of the
San Francisco Theological Seminary. advocated
the proposition in the report, and IL was unani-
mously adopted.
Adjourned until tomorrow morning.
There will be no afternoon session tomorrow.
but the members will visit Overbrook as the
guests Of Mr.. and Mrs. Wistar Morris, to meet
President and Mrs. Cleveland.
Tonight q popular meeting was held at the
Academy Of Music, and the question Of home
missionary work was discussed by Rev. Charles
L. Thompson. D. D.. of Kansas City, moderator
Of the General Assembly; Rev LeanderT T. Cham
berlain, d. D., of Brooklyn. and Rev. VIM. G.
Young. D. D., of Louisville. XIV.