New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-23
graphs warning laborers' wives to look OUT I9r r
higher charges on pins and needles at the dry-sooos
THE SYNOD OF NETWORK.
CHARGES BY THE COMMITTEE ON SYSTEM
ATTIC BENEFICENCE.
THE BODY ACCUSED OF NEGLEcT1NG THE
LEGITIMATE OBJECTS OF GIVING
PHRASES IN THE REPORT OBJ
-z.-x. ro &C VIOLENT.
Yrcrrn TO AS VIOLENT.

JECTED TO AS VIOLENT.
Lockport. n. u. Oct. &C speciap.-Ihe pushes.
session Of the New-York Presbyterian GYM" ope"ou
this morning with a rollcall' '"o~n's n.aV WV
thirds OF the delegates presept the mooerator ap.
pointcd Ills standing committees. gloom was cast
over the BODY by the announcement that watson IL.
Ra,Ienttne Law delegate from scOttsville n. w. had
been found dead in bed AZ the mousse Vi ooorse
Morgan. He had retired apparently III gooo heaiui
and had passed away suddenly Inc KeV. Lansing
Van Schoonhovcn. OF Buffalo, presented the report
Of the Committee on Systematic henohceoe' Vi WHO"
he Is chairman. The report IN part sau
"Your committee cannot refrain from expressing
the dccnest socitude at the manifest and dep!orablc
disloyalty of the synod to the treasureS OF the
several boards. The committee suggests that tnerc
Is no Christian virtue in feeding bcggars, however
worthy when it Is knowingly done at tho cost OF
honesty in paving the grocer and butcher. When
the Presbyterian Church has promptly and cheer
fully kept her contracts with home ana
foreirn missionaries with her aged fathers.
her students schools and colleges then she
NAV with glory to herself devote her surplus to hos
pals orphan asyums city missions, country Sunday
schools ETC. Now II the Presbyterians of this Synod
do not know that they are morally culpable {" dis
honest, objected toy the disbursements Of funds to
the objects called in minutes miscellaneous when
these missionaries are starving and sending for old
shoes and clothing they ought to be told so in all
wisdom, tenderness ana ioNc' ~,
A heated discussion took place. The older heads
objected 10 the report being adopted with such violent
and un-Presbytcran like language. The word dis
Oya" made the fight and the remarks were bitter and
ca,stic The Rev. Dr. John Hall, of NewiOrk, poured
oil on the troubled waters He remarked among other
things that the idea Is to eXaggerate rather to
misplace The Good element In cathocity and to think
that the work done in loyalty to particular church
is narrowness and consequently the church work is
neglected and dsregarded. Killian Van Rensselaer,
of NewYork favored the report read. He believed
in calling q spade spade. The report was referred
back TO the committee to expunge the objectionable
word disloval A motion to request the managers OF
the Worlds Fair at Chicago to close the gates Sun
day was referred to the committee on bills motion
to form a New. England Synod nipped in the bud
and voted down before its urgers could speak
it. Reports of committees took up the rest of Odays
session.
The eighth annual meeting OF the woman's Synodcal
Committee OF Home Missions OF the State met at the
First Congregational Church this morning The presi
dents address by Mrs. Gallup showed that the cause
OF home missions advancing. She said that the
synod used in 1887 FOR missions S35 $3.50 81: In 1888
$5O42l SO: in 1850. $57.1S4 Al: In 1890. FOL 800
In 1891 the Home Mission Committee is asked to raise
$4,000 Mr.: George c; Wesley OF Hudson: the
home missions were $56,O76 80, for freedmen $780,
O7e "a. or a total of SIO6l55 "a. The rest OF the
session to-day was taken up with committee reports.