Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17

ticular denomination, but TO supplement it
for the common work of the church, espe
cialiy in mission fields, and shall report to
the next assembly for its consideration, and
that the moderator of the assembly be the
chairman of the committee.
After reading the report. DIR. Roberts
said: '1t is recommended that the creed
be short. BY that we mean that it snail
contain nothing except that which is peces-
sary to the working of a single denonina-
ton. It must, however, contain the essen
tial principles of the confession of faith.
| Then, sir, it is to be used not by the differ
ent denominations, but by all these that
may agree, and it is to be used in their
| common work. It is believed that the time
is not distant when these churches may
work tremendously together in our home
field and in the foreign field. l would say
further that Il great many of our presby-
teries that bave sent up these twenty-six
overtures. have gone in and win 90 in most
heartily for revision, understanding that
possibly there will be a creed of this kind
that VIII unite all branches of the reformed
churches in the missionary work. -
The committee appointed under the fore
going resolution was as follows: The Rev.
Drs. W. f. Moore, w. H. Roberts, Howard
Crosby, John Dewitt of Mccormick, Frau
els Brown OF Union seminary and Benja-
min B. Warfield of Princeton seminary,
with Elders Edward f. Durant, Henry Day
and Robert n. Wilson. This committee
met III New York last month and decided
simply TO report progress at the meeting
this year, asking to be discontinued.
After long discussion at Saratoga on the
question of constituting an order OF dea-
coneSseS, based upon the report OF Profess
sor Warfield OF Princeton, the following
overtures were ordered sent to the preSby-
teries, 'Shall the following sections be
added to the form of government, namely:
a. In chapter Vi. a section TO De NUN oercd
n A-lT1
served in the Apostolic church as deacon
esses whose Office and duties were similar
to those of deacons. And (2) in chapter xiii,
section TO be numbered section 9, as fol-
lows: TX. DeaconeSses may be elected to
Office in manner similar to that appointed
for deacons and set apart by prayer z"
l n concluding his report which submitted
these resolutions, DR.. Warfield as chairman
said: ITO the practical demand for the
establishment of training schools for women
workers, shining examples Of which we
have seen in the Kaiserwerth deaconess
houses, and something similar to which
has been more recently established by the
church of Scotland and by the Methodists
in America, is no less decided than for the
congregational deaconess provided for
above We cannot afford 70 incur the re-
proach of depending upon other churches
to supply the training which our women
workers need in order to fit them for enter
ing into and possessing the great spheres
of work in hospitals. schools, and the
stricken homes in our lands, or the cities
and Zenanas of other lands. The needs Of
our complicated modern social system, and
of the opening heather world, imperatively
demand that such training agencies De es-
tablished. Your committee, therefore,
humbly but earnestly recommend the as
sembly to consider whether it may not
SET ON FOOT SUCH AGENCIES
as in its wisdom may seem fit for the eStab-
lishment of training schools for the women
workers, after the model, say of the dea-
coness institutions and training home Of the
church of Scotland, and under such regula-
lions as will secure the greatest usefulness
and efficiency"
The overture has probably not been an
swered in the affirmative by sufficient
number of presbyteries to warrant its
adoption, but many of the presbyteries
have sent oyertures similar to the one
adopted by the New York presbytery:
THE session may select and appoint cody
and competent women in full communion
with the church, for the care of the poor
and sick, especially of poor widows ana
orphans, and for all such ministrations to
bodily and spiritual need as may properly
come within their sphere