The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-16
THE SYNOD OF PENNSYLVANIA,
Its Scsslon to open To-nisht.lmportnn
Committee Meeting last night.

Its Scssion to open I0.niSht-.Importnnt
Committee Meeting lnst night.
The Synodical Sustentation Commit.
tee OF the Synod OF Pennsylvania met
last night. 1t is lodged at the Hotel
Windsor. DR.. J. S. Mcintosh, OF Phila.
delphln, is President, Rev. William P.
White, Of Germantown, Vice President,
Rev. James NJ. McJunkin, OF Pittsburgh,
Secretary, and Frank P. Whipple, Esq,
OF Philadelphia, Treasurer. These oth-
GERS, together with Dr.. Erskine, of New
vile, Pa, and Dr.. Cooke, of Wheeling,
constitute an executive committee
which reports to the general committee
OF one from each Presbytery, and this
general committee reports to the Synod
that meets in this city this evening.
The Synod OF Pennsylvania, consisting
Of the twenty.one Presbyteries Of Penn
sylyania, the Presbytery OF West vir.
sinia, and three foreign Presbyteries,
will meet at the First Presbyterian
Church in this city this evening at 1880
o'clock. Rev. William W. Moorhead,
DID,, OF the Presbytery OF Blairsville,
who presided over the Synod OF 1889 at
Altoona, will preach. Ali the meetings
OF Synod are open to the public. Popn-
lar meetings will be held on Friday and
Saturday evenings, when the secretarics
Of the boards OF the Presbyterian
Church will speak. Friday evening
will be devoted to Foreign Missions and
Saturday evening to Home Missions.
On Friday afternoon there will be a
meeting for women ut the Fourth Street
NJ. L. Church (the church building
nearest the place OF meeting Of Synod}iu
the interest OF foreign missior s, to be ad-
dressed by Rev. Mr.. Newton and Mrs.
Newton, OF India; Rev. DR.. Jessup, of
Syria; aad Rev. DR.. Author Mitchell, Of
New York, secretary OF the Board OF For.
eign Missions.
The Lords supper will be administer
ed at 3 O'Clock on Sunday afternoon.
Distinguished clergymen from oil parts
OF the Synod, including Philadelphia,
Harrisburg and Pittsburgh, will be
present, and, as the body will be in ses.
sion over Sunday, the pulpits OF the city
will be occupied by the membcra. i
The Synod is delegated body, repre-.
senting 1884 ministers; ALL elders; 80
iicentiates; $50 candidates for the minis.
try; l,095 churches; ;lG5,773 members in
full communion-not population in con.
nection with the Presbyterian church
within the bounds OF Synod, and not per-
sons who have only been baptized; 1884,.
AS Sunday school members. -'
The contributions for church and
benevolent purposes for the year ending
April !, 1890, were S2,S9G,000.
The Synod has power to receive and
issue ali appeals regularly brought up
from the Presbyteries; to decide on all
references made to them; to review the
records OF Presbyteries, and approve or
censure them; to redress whatever has
been done by Presbyteries contrary to
order; 10 take eilectual care that Presby.
teries observe the constitution of, the
church to erect new Presbytcries, and
to unite or divide those which were be.
lore erected; generally to take such or.
der with respect 10 the Presbyteriee,
Sessions and people under their care, as
may be in conformity with the Word OF
God, and tho established rules, and
which tend to promote the edification
Of the church and 10 propose to the
General Assembly, for its adoption,
such measures as may be OF common ad.
vantage to the whole church.
The Synod is one OF the parliamentary
bodies that govern the Presbyterian
church, and like them ali, consists equal.
ly Of teaching and ruling elders, OF min.
listers and laymen.