Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-05-28
ON HOME MISSIONS.
THE SOUTHERN pRES6YTEHIANS
ADOPT THE REPORT.
The Members Of the Executive Com mittee
Appointed for the Ensuing Year
Foreign Missions.
fBy telegraph TO tho Dispatch,

Hor SPRINGS, ARK, May 27.-Considerable
time was devoted by the Southern Presbyterian
General Assembly to-day 70 the supplemental
report OF the Committee on Home Missions.
which was finally adopted. The report appeals
70 the Church TO raise tho required sum,
$4,000 In Juno ana e1s,5 800 In August, for
the support Of the evangeiistic missionaries and
beneGciarics. Provision Ia made for commit.
toe OF thirteen, headed by the moderator, TO b.
known as an al interim committee, to give tho
question OF local and general or united home
mission work fun and careful investigation and
report 10 The next assembly any needed changes
In the present methods. IL Is tho as5embly's
Judgment that no lower court ought 10 appoint
any financial agents TO work In behalf OF the
asscmbys cause.
BY recommendation OF the Committee on
Publication tho following Executive Committee
Tor the ensuing year wGs appointed: James Is.
iiazen. ID. d., secretary and treasurer; ". ID.
Richardson, ID. d.. X A. Campbell. ID. d.. u. w.
Bisebro, ID. d., X. a. Lancaster, Rev. j. T.. Gas
mon, Is. a. Wexford, w. W. Henry. X. Il. Gillian,
aud W. {. Preston.
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
The report Of the Committee on Foreign Mis-
sions was adopted. ipfopOs Of foreign missions
the following Interesting facts are cited The
number OF missionaries under the care OF the
Executive Committee during the year was 102
They are distributed as follows: China. 30 I;
.; Japan, 3D. Congo Free state. >, and Cuba ?.
The number was rcduced by death and re-
moysl TO %. The number Of native helpers
employed wGs 1913. They was associated with
2.1t2 native Communicates, OF whom 319 were
received by baptism during the year. Receipts
OF the treasury from all sources during the year
amount S130.276.
The report OF the Committee on Publications
was carefully considered and amended MS pro-
posed by Rev. W. III. Leavelle, Of Mississippi.
and adopted. Rev. Roger Martin, Of North Caro-
Ina. submitted the report OF the Committee on
sabbath Schools, which was adopted
BILLS AND 0yEa1uREs.
The Committee on Bills and Overtures report
ed rcply to inquiries submitted by the Prcsby-
terry OF Mccklcnburg. Briefly the questions and
reDles are:
/. NO the Scriptures or the Presbyterian con-
stitntion recognize the Office OF synodicai evan
gcllst? Answer: les.
2. Has the synod power to inaugurate end
maintain an evangelist. Evangel'stc work in
It's bounds? Answer: Yes soc 4. o., chapter D..
Queries three and four ask definition of said
powers and as 90 whether tho synod has any con-
srtntional right 10 make appointments Tor
syno1lcal evaDgolisis.
>. Is II the Judgment OF the Church that II is
sCriptural aud wise that funds tor church bene-
violence be raised by financial agents? Answer:
Yes.
At the afternoon session the frat order was
the report OF the Committee on Bills and Over
lures, which was read. The report referred 10 an
overture asking tor a deliverance upon what dis
position should be- made Of reports from preshy-
teres "a 70 collections for sustenatiOn where su h
reports fail 20 pariicularize the causes contri-
buted 10, and the amounts contributed for each
cause. The answer was that since tho matter
was committed to an I'D interim committee the as
sembiy declines TO make a deliyerance upon the
question. Adopted.
The assembly appointed q hymn-book COM
mittee, with Rev. DR.. j. T. Girardeau az chair
man.
TIE WINE QUESTION DISCUSSED.
The wine question was then taken up. The
majority aud minority reports were submitted
on that question, the majority declaring ftr-
mented Juice the proper scriptural element IN
administering the Lords supper. while the
minority report declared that unfernented
grape Juice was the proper element.
DIR. Boude moved the adoption OF the majority
report. Elder Beachueamp moved, a. "A substi-
tute. that the minority report be adopted. DR..
Cecil offered a substitute TO the whole matter
that the assembly decline 10 make a deliverance
upon the question, since the proper elements
have been we'll known from time immemoral
30 After further Discussion, the vote was called
upon DR.. Crcil's substitute, which was lost The
vote was called on the minority report, which
was also lost. Pending the vote or the majority
report Rev. Mr.. Sloan, Of Florida, moved a sub
sttute. that II IL the judgment of this assembly
that the Scriptural elements is the juice OF the
grape. whether fetmented OF unfermented.
This was lost The majority report was then
adopted.