The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-05-27
WILL PROVE ALL THINGS.
And Hold Fast That Which Is Good
in the Present
Creed.
Personnel Of the Committee on
Revision Of the Confession
Of Faith.
Their Rsoommendaticns WIN H llaAe q
Detroit Next Year-German Catholics
Of Wisconsin In Session.

6A1ATooA, N. T., May 96.-At the Presby-
terian general assembly to-day the report
Of the committee ON synodicai records was
read. They were mostly approved. The
report Of the standing committee ON pub
lication was delivered BY its chairman, Dr.
Howard Crosby. A resolution was offered
approving the work and recommending
that the committee consider the expectancy
or publishlng Sunday school helps and lit-
erature in the German and Scandinavian
languages.
Tho report Of the committee ON uneun-
ployed ministers and vacant churches was
presented. It recommended an increase OF
the episcopal powers Of the presbytery and
paid SECRETARY to facilitate intercourse.
isterial adjustment fund, to pay expenses.
The committee ON finances reported that
the expenses Of the assembly wore pro-
vided for and that there Was q balance In
the treasury Of $4,000. One reason for
general fund il the prospect Of . meeting
on the Pacific coast, the cost Of which will
involve an extra expense Of not less than
A large number Of committee reports
we're acted on. Relating TO the request
from two colored presbyteries, to be treated
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s,onary aid; the same as white presbyteriss,
the report Of the committee on freedmen
favored keeping in subordination to the
freedmen's board. DR.. Booth, Of Now
York, protested against the recommenda-
tion Of the board. After spirited debate
of the colored presbyteries.
The report of the committee on deacon
nesses recognized the claim that women
served in the apostolic church in Office Sim
liar to that Of deacons, and held that they
may be elected and set apart in similar
of giving them license to preach. There
was long debate on the question Of
amending the form of government to corre-
spond to this report, but the recommends
tions Of the committee that there be sent
down to the presbyteries an overture for
such change was accepted.
At the night session the nominating COM
mittee announced the following COMMITTEES
to do the actual work of revision and report
to the assembly of 1891. The committee
was was accepted by the assembly sm unanimously:
ton; Thomas "a. Hastings, Union; M. Bri
d: Morris, Lane; Herrick johnson. McCor-
mick; Wm. Alexander, San Fran
cisco. CISCO College presidents Z.
Lake Forest, Ill. Pastors-W. E. Moore,
Columbus, Ohio. moderator of the assem-
bly,; H. j. vandyke, Brooklyn; Ebenezer
Erskine, Chambersburg, Pa; G. T. Left
wich, Baltimore; j. @. Nichols, st. Louis;
3: II. Burkhalter. Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Elders-Ex-Justice Strong, Washington;
Ex Senator McMillen, st. Paul; Judge
Alfred Hands, Covington, Pa; Emerson L.
White, Cincinnati; Judge Henry D. Taylor,
Huntington, Ind; Winthrop D. T. Gieman.
New York; Barker Umere, Trenton, N. j.;
VIM. Ernest, Covington, KY; Geo. Junkin,
Philadelphia; Charles II. Charnley, Chi
oago.
Detroit was chosen on the second ballot
as the place of meeting for the next general
assembly.