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The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25
SECOND DAY.
MORNING SESSION.
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After devotional exercises con
Quoted by the Moderator, the Min
utes of yesterdays session were read
and approved.
Additional commissioners were
enrolled.
The following communications
were read by the Clerk:
A complaint from Presbytery OF
Missouri was presented to the Judi
cial Committee, to be presently APP
pointed by the Moderator.
The standing committees were an
nounced by the Moderator, as fol-
lows:
BIS and Ogertures-R. C. Drank, D. d,
w. n. Scott, d. D., q. B. Boude, D. D., J.
d. Tadlock, ID. D., w V. Frierson, B. l..
Hobson, A. B. Darlington, Alex. Sprunt,
). A. Lyon, j. H. Beauch9mp, w. T. Ward
law, b s. Gatchell, r. T. Hart, j L. Moore.
Chas. d. Watkins.
J,ldicial-T. d. Witherspoon, D. D., J.
a. Quarles, d. D., j. f. Dunlop w. w.
Pharr, r. T. Patterson, James Sorley, E.
Nye Hutchinson, w. II. Newton, AMI
Golden, J B. Madison.
IheOlQgicm Semin05ies-W. r. Hall. ID. d.
w. II. Marques, d. D., j. r. Howerton, r.
ID. Perry, w. G. Clark, n. NJ Smith, II. S.
SimT son, j. r. Faison, j S. Robb.
ForeigR Missions-R. p Kerr, ID. D., B.
w. Madame, N. Keff Smith, 5. II. Spencer,
@. p. COlmeIy, T. c. Morton, j. c. Cunning
ham, j. f. Grove, j. f. Legare, S. NJ Neel,
J. II. Underwood.
Home Missions-J. H. Ziveley, j. A Pres
ton, W. T. Matthews, J. Kinsey Smith, F.
o. Koele, John p. Turnbul. A. G.. Mat
James r. Galtney, S G.. Jannison
Educ0tioH-D. A. Planck, F. c. Railev,
G. e. Cunningham, w. w. Killough, Rob
ert Gray, w. McF Alexander, w Edge
worth Bird, w. III. Sorry, w. ID. Knox. II.
G. Dixon, E. A. White
PUbiic0tion--J. b. Mack, d. D., VIM.
Hayne Leavell, d. D. Mcbride, A. S.
Caldwell, w X. Boggs, w. A. Taliaferro,
G: b. Nc. Gaughey, T NJ. Puleston, w. H.
Williams
Systematic Benefcence-J A. Ramsay. r.
b, Sherrell, J. @ Law, T. p Epes, w. NJ.
Anderson, VIM. Irvine, H. A. Blackburn.
Isaac Schoonmaker, G.. NJ Suggs.
Sobb0M SchooB-Roger Martin, Russell
Cecil, D. W. Humphreys J. p. Robertson.
j. s. Shaw, j. NJ. Van Meter, E. T. Gray.
j. M. Carter, w. II. Collins
FOreigR C0rTcSpeHdencC-E. p. Palmer.
d. d., y. Q. Clark, w. G.. Mcdonald w. r.
Lara, w. +. brewer, Il b. MOOrman, J.
w. Crawford, M. W. Wallace
N0rr0tice-G. w Patterson, !. r. Pharr.
w. u. Cave, Newton Curry, j. II Wilkes.
ColorCd Er0ngelis0ti0n-N. j. Holmes, j.
y. Bittinger p. r. Law, r p Smith, II. p.
Hawkins, ii. G. Dixon, G.. G. Palmer, J. II
Bailey, III. A. Blackburn
Blue Canes. l.. Morris,D d. Mcbride.
S J. Martin, j. G. McFerrin, T. A. Sample.
J d. Anderson, j. S. Collins, j. r. Haw-
kins.
AH8Ucrs to O0ertUr6s on Dirceto1g-W
w Carson, Ernest Thompson, Peter Nc
Iutyre, S. NJ. Fry, 6. N. Austin.
Le0ge of dbsence-S. G. Caldwell B. r.
Bedinger, w. w Ruff, r. i. Bowen, Il. y.
WomaCk.
Degotion@ Byercises-R. =. Morrow, A..
e. Grover, w. B. Foster
AudHiHg C0mmittee-H. G. Kuykendall.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25
GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
FIRST DAY.
Hot SPRINGS, ARK, May 10.
MORNING SESSION.

MORNING SESSION.
The spacious auditorium of the
OperaHouse at Hot Springs was filed
to overlooking, despite the rain and
the storm, when the 32nd meeting
of the General Assembly was opened
by a sermon from the Rev. DR.. T. D.
Witherspoon, of Richmond, Ky.
The Rev. DR.. H. G. Du Bose, the
Moderator of the last Assembly,
was absent at his distant post of
labor in China, and the last Mod
orator present assumed his place.
1t is to be hoped that the opening
sermon will furnish the keynote
with which all the subsequent pro
ceedings may harmonic.
The text was from Esther ": IA,
" Who knoweth whether thou art
come 10 the kingdom for such a
time as this"
The sermon was scholarly and
able, showing how in great crises
when the interests of the Church
are imperilled Gods providence
provides for its deliverance.
After the opening service the AS
sembly was constituted with prayer
and the call of the roll showed 14S
commissioners in their seats.
The election of Moderator being
In order, three names were placed in
nomination The Rev. S. A. King. d
D.,of Waco, Texas, was nominated by
Rev. E. p. Palmer, D. D., and the
nomination seconded by Rev. II. b
Boude, D. D. The Rev. r. G. Drank.
D. D., of st. Louis, was nominated
by the Rev. DR.. J. A. Quarles and
seconded by Rev. DR.. S. NJ. Neel
The Rev. w. T. Hall, of Lynchburg
Va, was nominated by Rev. w. r.
Coppedge. All of these distinguish
ed brethren were nominated in
speeches which presented their re.
spective claims to this conspicuous
honor.
The first ballot resulted as fol-
lows: DR.. King, y; DR.. Drank, AZ f.;
DR.. Hall, %. The second ballot
gave 90 votes to DR.. King and 55
for Dr. Drank.
DR.. King was conducted to the
Moderator's chair and accepted his
honOrs in a modest and felicitous
speech, claiming that it must be the
intention of the Assembly to honor
Home Missions at Hot Springs in
the same way in which it honored
Foreign Missions at Birmingham.
The Rev. w. @. Clark, of Nash
vile Presbytery, and the Rev P. r.
Law, of Fayetteville Presbytery,
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THE closing exercises of Column
bia Theological Seminary took
place Thursday, May 18th. Seven
mem bers of the Senior Glass who
had complet' d the course of in
struction received certificates, which
were presented by Rev. DR.. w. NJ.
McPheeters.
Two young men, Messrs. w. F.
Hollinworth of Georgia, and Mr..
D. j. Currie, North Carolina, re-
ceived handsome premiums for their
proficiency in the Hebrew language.
These premiums were the Offering
of Mrs. w. NJ McPheeters, of ST.
Louis, Mo-, and were presented by
Rev. DIR. S. M. Smith. The Board
of Directors of the seminary met on
the 10th. By their action licenti-
ate Daniel S. Brimm, who has been
tutor in Biblical Literature, was
made associate professor, with sal
airy of 81, 800. The Executive Com
mittee was authorized to secure a
financial agent to raise an endow-
ment for the fifth chair, Pastoral
Theology.
The Faculty was authorized to
secure a professor to fill the chair
next year, they guaranteeing his
salary.
The endowment funds were ex-
amined and found to be we'll invest
ed, amounting in all to about $780,
900. The library is in fine condi-
tion and contains about $4,000 vol
umes.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

NEXT Sunday will be, no doubt,
generally celebrated as "Children's
Day" by the Sunday-schools of our
Churches. The last General Assem-
bly, directed that the last Sabbath
of May be set apart as the Chill
dren's Day and MissionaryFestival."
The Executive Committee of For
eign Missions have provided pro-
gramme of exercises to be used by
all schools which may wish to do So
The one for this year relates to the
new mission soon to be established
by our Church in Korea.
The Presbyterian Sunday-schools
of this city will unite in this cele-
bration next Sabbath afternoon at
the Second Presbyterian church
DR.. Hoge's.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

LAST WEEK was a notable one for
ecclesiastical meetings of Presby-
terians, Methodists, Baptists and
Episcopalians. The General AS
sembly of the Presbyterian Church,
North, met at Portland Oregon, and
the Assembly of the Southern
Church met at Hot Springs, Ark
ansas, and the Assembly of the
Cumberland Presbyterians met at
Memphis, Tenn, all on the same
day, May 10Th.
The Methodist Episcopal General
Conference (Northern) was in ses-
sion at Omaha, Neb., the Confer
ence of the African Methodist Epis-
copal Church was in session at
Philadelphia, and that of the Afri-
can Methodist Episcopal Zion was
in session at Pittsburg, Pa. The
twoalast are composed of colored
people. They have agreed to unite
under the name, "African Methodist
Zion"
A Baptist Congress of the various
churches of that name met in
Philadelphia and discussed several
questions of general interest, the
chief of which was this: els a
Union of the Various Baptist Bodies
Feasible?"
The Episcopalians held their
State Council Of Virginia in Dan
vile. This Council voted by a
large majority in favor of dividing
the Diocese. The matter will be
decided by the General Conference
Of the Church.
We are not able to lay the pro-
ceedings Of these various meetings
before our readers. Tn all of them
important matters affecting the
progress Of religion we're considered
and acted on. These churches re-
present, with the Lutherans and
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

THE report of the Executive Com
mittee of Foreign Missions, present
ed to the General Assembly, gives
the following summary of last year S
work:
Number of missionaries 102, dis
tributed as follows:
China, 50; Brazil, %; Mexico, 6 (;
to the Greeks, 4; Italy, 2; Japan,
%; Congo Free State, 4 Cuba, 2.
Total reduced by death and removal
from 1O2 to 90. The number of ma
tive helpers employed was 1913. Ma
tive communicates 2,7O2, of whom
391 were received by baptism dur
ing the year.
Treasury receipts from all sources
$130,276.32 being $17.324 SO in ex.
cess of the receipts of any previous
year.
The amount contributed by
churches and individuals exceeded
that of the previous year by $13,-
552,41, the total amount from these
sources being $7S,462,71.
The number of churches contri-
buting during the year was 1908,
being 81 more than contributed the
year before.
During the year Is new mission
aries were added to the force in the
foreign field.
There are now seventeen persons
before the committee either under
appointment or likely to be appoint
ed at an early day.
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were respectively elected reading
and recording Clerks.
The Assembly took recess till
3 80 P. NJ.
Afternoon Session.
The Assembly heard the reports
of its Executive Committees through
their respective Secretaries, Drs.
Houston, Craig, Hazen and the Rev.
A. L. Phillips.
Special mention may be made of
the clear, complete and admirable
report presented by the Rev. Mr..
Phillips, the Secretary of Colored
Evangelization. Every officer of
our Church ought to possess and
read this mastery presentation o.
the cause of Colored Evangelization.
These reports were all referred to
their respective Standing Com
mittees.
Upon motion a special committee
of five was appointed by the Mod
orator to receive. collate and report
to the General Assembly the
answers of the Presbyteries on the
proposed Directory of Worship.
The Assembly then took recess
till s P. NJ.
Evening Session.
The evening session was opened
by a sermon from Rev. John A.
Preston of Florence, Alabama, upon
the confidential Relations between
Christ and the Believer"
Without any parade of learning
or any affectation of oratory, the
preacher held the deepest attention
of his audience by the clearness of
his analysis, the appositeness and
wealth of his illustration, the beauty
and classic elegance of his diction
and the naturalness and earnestness
of his manner.
AT the close of the sermon the
Assembly proceeded with the usual
meeting in behalf of the Seamen's
Bethel in New Orleans with which
the honored and now sainted DIR.
Witherspoon was for so many years
identified. The Rev. R. E. Steele,
who succeeded DR.. Witherspoon as
chaplain of the Bethel, was presented
to the Assembly and made a most
favorable impression for himself
andh is work. Dr. Scott and DR.. T. D.
WItherspoon also spoke in behalf
of the Seamen, and upon motion of
DR.. Boude Standing Committee of
three was appointed on the Seamen's
Bethel of which DR.. Scott, of Calves
ton, Texas, was made Chairman.
Assembly adjourned till A. NJ.
to- morrow.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

discern. The internal evidence
reaches not only the head but the
heart.
The other necessary thing is
equally gift of grace. We are
enabled to discover the supreme
value of the truth revealed. Not
only is its beauty impressed upon
us, but its adaptation to its end.
1t is in accordance with spiritual
desires, and this fitness for it's OBJ
ject is confirmation of the faith
that receives it. The more saliva
ton is realised as a necessity, and
the more we feel shut up to the one
way of the gospel, the clearer be-
comes our conviction of its truth.
Grace takes the written word and
the longing heart, and in some
favored hour brings them together.
The result is salvation. But in
many cases the faith exercised is
feeble beyond expression, and like
the new blade that springs from the
seed, it trembles at every breath.
To the soul in its struggles into
spiritual life the word and Spirit of
God minister strength and courage
from day to day. Doubt is the
chief assailant. 1t may find the
mind firm in its rational beliefs,
but the heart open to countless
fears. 1t was not logic that failed
Peter walking on the waves. 1t was
an instance of instructive alarm
arising from old habits of thought
and feeling. He used the only
means left him for deliverance. He
prayed to the Lord in whom he had
learned to believe. In every subse-
quent age the same distress has
driven believers to the same re-
source. This is our lesson. Our
faith is beset with innumerable
causes of anxiety and dread. Very
few are insensible to fear. Reason
may help us when the danger is at
a distance, but in extremity only
one refuge is left. 1t is impossible
to reconstruct our intellectual
beliefs in a moment of alarm. The
mind is in no condition to accom-
plish the task. Simple trust in an
almighty loving Saviour is the one
thing needful. Such faith grows
by exercise, and acquires the
strength of habit. By its cultiva.
ton, the little germ becomes a ro-
bust tree and firmly resists the
storm. This trust is like that of
infancy. All the chemists might
unite in testifying that the fluid
provided for nutriment is injurious.
Nature contradicts the warming.
And grace, giving its subjects the
spirit of little children, refutes the
suggestions of skepticism by the
simplicity of faith.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

THE Northern General Assembly,
which met in Portland, Oregon, last
Thursday, was organised by the cleo
ton of Rev. DR.. w. G. Young, Presi-
dent of Centre College, Kentucky,
as Moderator. That Assembly, like
ours, meets in the midst of great
home mission field. But their
bounds go much farther west. Of
the 1T churches of the Synod of
Oregon, 1865 receive aid from the
Board of Home Missions, and of the
1877 ministers 100 are home mis-
sionaries. 1t seems unfortunate
that in such field and in such a
Synod the Assembly should have to
discuss such matters as Revision,
DR.. Briggs and his errancies, and
the relation of Union Seminary to
the Church. We wish the Assem-
bly, a happy deliverance from all
these and other perplexing ques-
tions. Able men have been placed
at the head of the important COM
mittees before which such matters
are likely to come. Rev. DIR. Wal
lace Radcliff, of Detroit, is chair
man of the committee of Bills and
Overtures; Rev. DR.. T. R. Smith,
Buffalo, n. Y, of the Judicial Com
mittee; Rev. DR.. w. A. Bartlett,
Washington, D. c., of Church Poll
ty, and Rev. DR.. S. A. Mutchmore,
Philadelphia, of Theological Semi
naries.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

THE BOARD OF FOREIGN Missions
of the Presbyterian Church North }
has made up its report of the last
years work, for the General Assem-
bly,. The entire receipts of the Board
for the year we're $931,292.47, less,
by about $1,000, than last year. It
failed to reach the million for for
eign missions" The expenditures
of the Board have reached the emil
lion," and little over that mark.
So that there will be some deficit as
there was last year.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

IT WILL be seen from the letter of
Rev. Dr. M. H. Houston that Rev.
Samuel N. Lapsley, of the Congo
Mission, Africa, died on the 26th
of March. The Church suffers a
sad bereavement by the loss of one
of the best young men ever sent to
a missionary field. The Mission is
a comparatively new one, and the
loss of such a man is a sore trial
to it as well az to us.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

Rev. DIR. e. II. BARNETT, of At
lanta, Ca, who was lately elected
Professor of English Bible and Pas
toral Theology in Union THEOLOGY
cal Seminary, Va, has written to
the committee of correspondence,
appointed by the Board of Directors,
giving his reasons for not accepting
the professorship. Fully apprecia-
ting the great importance of the po-
sition to which he was called, he yet
feels that he is better qualified for
the work of pastorate, such as he
now holds, than for that Of q pro-
lessor.
The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1892-05-25

Congregationalists, the great bulk of
our Protestant people and majority
of the whole population of the coun-
try. May God prosper and direct
them in their great work.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-08
A MARINE PARADOX.
Great Ships Foundered By Gales
Through Which Small Boats Live.

Great Ships Foundered By Gales
Through Which Small Boats Live.
From st. Nicholas
Many OF you have stood on the beach at
the seaside and watched the seas rolling in
heavy breakers after storm, curling and
crashing in volumes of foam and broken
water, with such force as to send them
sweeping up almost to your feet. 1t is
through such waves that men who follow
the sea must at times pass in reaching the
shore; but not through one or two on a
smooth, quick-shelving beach, but through
thirty or forty, perhaps, covering mile of
treacherous shoals, and at places surging
between Jagged reefs and huge powders
With intense interest we read of dreadful
shipwrecks almost every week. The surviv-
ors tell how the big ship labored and
struggled through monster pillows and
shrieking wind, under black flying clouds
and amid jagged streaks of lightning, until
mastless and helpless, she lay exhausted in
the trough of the sea, and passively re-
ceived the crashing deluge of merciless
waves until she sank.
They tell how they, poor, puny human
beings, chung to helm and pumps till the
great ships struggles were over and it be-
came evident that she could carry them no
longer; then how they hastily threw a cask
OF water aud lew provisions into some re-
manning boat and at favorable moment
launched upon the angry waters in craft
SO frail that it seemed as if all on board
were doomed TO instant destruction.
Here comes the strangest part of their
narrative. Read all such accounts care
fully and you will find that in nearly every
case where such a little boat is safely
launched from an abandoned ship it floats
and drifts for days and even weeks on the
win tbrnUUh thu ri
tempest which wrecked the big ship, sail
ing buoyantly through calmer seas, and
finally bringing the survivors within sight
Of other ships or lands.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-08
AN ENCOUNTER WITH COYOTES.
The Little Jackals of the Plains Made
It Lively for Mr.. Richardson.

The Little Jackals of the Plains Made
It Lively for Mr.. Richardson.
From the ST. Louis Republic.
When the subject of "hair- breadth es-
capes" was brought up Mr.. Richardson told
the following experience Of his In the west:
IL was coming home" said Mr.. Richard
son, land got as far as Denver, where l
went broke and had to get out and go to
work. Well, there was nothing in Denver,
so had to move further on. got job
about thirty miles out OF Denver with
farmer who kept a general merchandise
store. After | had been there awhile he
sent me one evening about a mile from
the house to a neighbours. The place
was not out of sight Of the house
of my employer. Well, after delivering
my message started to return, and was
coming through a harvest field where the
wheat was in shocks, when dense fog came
down and obscured everything from view.
L could not see my hand within six inches
of NV face. | still continued on my way
home, however, and had left the harvest
field behind with its shocks of grain. |
wandered about, but | could not find the
house. At last, after wandering about for
several hours, | again found myself IN the
harvest field. By this time l knew that
was lost. | could hear the coyotes howl
ing. One coyote is said to howl in so many
dlHerent Keys and from SO many dlfterent
quarters that one unfamiliar with The brutes
is led to believe that there are Dozen
Well, was not deceived. There must have
been 100000. They kept getting nearer to
me all the tune, and realized my danger. l
had only small revolver with me. and l
knew if 1 fired and killed one the smell sf
the blood would bring millions Of the
savage creatures to the spot, and that I
would have no chance of escape. On the
other hand, il fired and wasted my shots
l would have nothing to defend myself with.
In this dilemma | crswled Into one Of the
shocks and pulled the bundle Of straw as
close to me as l could. After a time the
coyotes Smelled me out and commenced to
scratch the straw away. They touched my
shoes and l was obliged to keep them off by
kicking their shouts when theycame in reach.
At last in desperation l fired off my revolver
in the air. A few moments later my en-
ployer and the other men from the house
came out into the harvest field with guns
and tirebrauds, and crawled out from what
had proved such perilous retreat and was
! escorted back TO the house. They told me
that never before were there so many
| coyotes in the country as on that night"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-08

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and refreshing to the taste, and acts
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its action and truly beneficial in its
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many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup of Figs is for sale in SOC
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
Igists- Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro-
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
lsubstitute.