Los Angeles herald., 1890-05-27
Presbyterian Revising Com
mittee Selected.
The Next General Assembly to
Meet at Detroit.
Important Convention of Catholic
Societies at Milwaukee.
A Rumor That George Gould Has Resigned
the Pacific Mail Presidency-Gen-
eral Gleanings.
Associated Press Dispatches. |

SARATOGA, May 26-At the Presby-
terian general assembly today the re-
port of the committee on synodical
records was read. They were mostly ap-
proved. The report of the standing
committee on publication was delivered
by its chairman, DIR. Howard Crosby
Resolutions were offered approving the
work and recommending that the com
mittee consider the expediency of pub.
fishing Sunday school helps and litera,
ture in the German and Scandinavian
languages.
The report of the committee on un-
employed ministers and vacant churches
was presented, and recommended an in
crease of the episcopal powers by the
presbytery and paid secretary, to fa-
cilitate intercourse, and fund of five
thousand dollars, to be called the min
isterial adjustment fund, to pay ex-
penses.
The committee on finance reported
that the expenses of the assembly were
provided for, and the balance in the
treasury was $4,000. One reason for
the accumulation of so much money in
the general fund is the prospect of
meeting on the Pacific coast, which will
involve an extra expense of not less
than 100000.
A large number of committee reports
were acted on.
Relating to the request from two col
'ored presbyteries to be treated as indie
pendent in their application for mis-
sionary aid, the same as the white pres
byteries, the report of the committee on
freedmen favored keeping them in
subordination to the freedmen's board.
DR.. Booth, of New York, protested in
dignantly against the recommendation
of the board. After spirited debate it
was voted, 179 to 1875, to grant the re-
quest of the colored presbyteries.
The report of the committee on
deaconesses recognized the claim that
women served in the apostolic churches
in offices similar to that of deacons, and
held that they may be elected and set
apart in a similar way, this not being
step in the direction of giving them
license to preach.
There was long debate on the ques-
ton of amending the form of govern
ment to correspond to this report, but
the recommendations of the committee
that there be sent to the presbyteries an
overture for such change, was ac-
cepted.
At the night session the nominating
committee announced the following
committee to do the actual work of re-
vision and report to the assembly in
1891. The committee was accepted by
the assembly unanimously:
Seminary professors-W. H. Greene,
Princeton Thomas H. Hastings, Union !;
M. B. Bydle, Allegheny; w. H. Bocher,
Auburn; +. ID. Morris, Lane; Herrick
Johnson, Mcconnell; VIM. Alexander,
San Francisco.
College Observation-Disclosures L. Patton,
Princeton; w. C. Roberts, Lake Forest.
Pastors-W. E. Moore, Columbus,
Ohio moderator of assembly,; IL. j.
Vandyke, Brooklyn; Ebenezer Erskine,
Chambersburg, Pa. J. 7. Liftwith, Bal
timore; j. G. Nichols, st. Louis; E. r.
Burkhalter, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Elders-Ex-Justice Strong, Washing
ton; ex-senator McMillin, st. Paul; !;
Judge Alfred Hand, Scranton, Pa. ; En-
erson E. White, Cincinnati; Judge
Henry D. Saylor, Huntington, Ind. !;
Winthrop S. Gilman, New York Rarker
Eumere, Trenton, N. j.; VIM. Ernest,
New. York; George Junkin, Philadel-
phia; Charles r. Charnley, Chicago.
Detroit was chosen on the second bal
lot as the place of meeting for the next
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