Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1889-06-18
!. CHRISTIAN WORK.
AN EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE
"A ORGAN ZED,
The Executive and Corps Committees
AppOinted-Other Business Trans
acted-Next Meeting i'll Sep
teInber Next.

The First Presbyterian Church was
honored last night with an unusually
large audience to hear the Rev. Frank
Russell, d. D Of Oswefo, N. Y, explain
he workings of the Evangelical Alliance
DIR. Russell was made temporary chair.
man, and Jacob S. Bcetem was chosen
secretary. DR.. Russell then went into 4
brief and concise explanation OF the
" orkings of the Alliance, and spoke OF
til great benefits that must arise from
one organized In this city.
be ielt very much pleased with the
energy that the people of this city exhib-
tied In taking hold of this movement and
said he had never before met with such
success at the outset of such movement.
The meeting was of conversational
character, favorable to an explanation oi
the alliance charter. After q fnll ex.
PLANTATION was made 1t was agreed that
an executive committee be selected, con.
slstiDR OF one minister from each denomi-
nation, ard the minister thus selected be
allowed to choose layman from his de-
nomination. In accordance with this
arrangement the following executive
committee was appointed:
Presbyterian, William P. Swartz,
Charles Baird; Baptist, r. D. Cook,
Harry Emmons; Methodist, j. d. q. Ham
ma, Joseph Pyle; Reformed Episcopal,
j. eimpson Trotter, William 7. War.
neri Lutheran, William Ii. Sadtler, Jacob
s. Be, TEN.
The meeting then went into an election
for q section corps, each section to con-
sist OF chairman and three advisers,
The city is divided into sections and each
corps does wcrk In Its section. The fol-
lowing were the corps selected:
First distr,ct-Jacob 8. Beete m, chair
man, and @. Hazard, Alfred Gawthrop,
and J. 7. Mortimer, adgi ers,
Second district-C. II. Evans, chair
man, and William H. Curry, William Y.
Warner and w. s. Pickett, advisers.
Third district-John P. McLear, chair.
man, and J., Harry Cleaver, Joseph Pyle
and q. II. Cantwell, advisers.
Fourth disrlct-Thomas Curlett, chair
man and Benjamin Bogia, G. q. Riley
and Th' mas c. Dill, advisers.
Filth district Frank Mason, chairman.
and q. f. Wallace, R. Emmett Triggs
and Maris Taylor, advisers.
Sixth William II. Billapv.
chairman, and A. p. Stevenson, George
Byron and William Benton, advisers.
seyenth district-George W. Bush,
chairman, and G. NJ. b. Cam, L. B.
Jones and Lewes T. Grubb, advisers.
Eighth district-James Mckay, chair
man, and John Hartman, William H.
Foulk and IL. 8. Valentine, advisers.
Ninth district Harry Emmons, chair
man, and Charles Baird, George w.
Todd and Nield b. Forrest, advisers.
Tenth William NJ. Candy,
chairman, and Noah Cunningham, L. A.
Bower and Charles +. Bordnes, advisers.
Eleventh district-A. J. Rumford,
chairman, and Theodore Triggs, Robert
Humphreys and Edward spencer, ad-
visers.
Twelfth district-The Rev. Mr.. Heath,
chairman, and Edgar NJ. Finley, George
Anderson and D. B. Ridgeway, advisers.
Thirteenth district-N. b. Cul6ert,
chairman. aud Hiram Yerger, John
White and Moses Built, advisers
Fourteenth distric L. NJ. Maxwell,
chairman, and William White, Arthur
Lewis aud Samuel Harris, advisers.
Fifteenth dstrict-John F. Foster,
chairman, and W. T. Groves, w. A.
Hukill and George 7. Booker, advisers.
After the election 1t was agreed that
the next meeting OF the Alliance should
be held the first Monday night in Sep
tember.
Rev, DR.. Russell, before dismissal, ex-
pressed himself as delighted with the
manner in which the churches of this
city took hold of this good cause. He
had visited all the larger and many of
the smaller cities 10 the Union, but never
was met with such appreciation as In this
city.