Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-05
VOTED ON REVISION.
The Australian Ballot Proves q Fall
ure Among Churchmen.
A PASTOR KEPT AT HIS POST.
Affsctionate Tributes to the Memory Of
Charles irbuthnot.
plrTsBURG PREsBYTERY MEETING

There was q very large meeting of the
Pittsburg Presbytery at Mcdonald yester
daY Many of the preachers realized fol
the first time what it was to have 'theil
steps creased with OIL" The commission.
ers from the rural regions looked with as
tonishment on the forest of derricks The
church in which the Presbytery met, Of
which DR.. Cathcart is pastor, is surrounded
bv oil wells and the smell of oil filled the
church all day long,
Soon after the opening Of Presbytery 9
breeze sprung up over the proposed resig.
nation of Rev. s. G. Jennings as pastor at
Grafton. The disaffected party was repre-
sented by an elder, who voiced their griev-
ances, but the ,Presbytery resolved by 9
large vote that Mr.. Jennings must stay al
his post
Another resignation was that of Rev. A.
A. Nealy as pastor of the Central Presby.
terian Church of Pittsburg, to accept q
call to Bridgeville. He gave as his reasons
that he did not want to be burdensome to g
few people who had to give more than they
were able, and who could get cheaper
man. Again, he wanted country field, he
swanted to be out where he was under the
hand of God" Mr. Nealy was allowed to
20, after several members of Presbytery had
pronounced eulogies upon him.
In Honor of Charles Arbuthnot.
A great sensation was caused when DR..
Beacon announced the death of Charles Ar
buthnot. A resolution of coincidence was
passed and ordered to be sent to the family,
and DR.. Chalfant led the Presbytery in
prayer. Several spoke of Mr.. Arbuthnot's
work as q member of Presbytery. On the
Committee on Home Missions it was de-
clared "We never shall see his like again.
His counsels were invaluable. and often
had he put his hand in his pocket to help
US through emergencies. Many interest
ing incidents and "reminiscences Of Mr.. Ar
buthnot were given in public and in private
DR.. H. 7. McClelland said that to his
knowledge in 1888 Mr.. Arbuthnot gave to
lar gifts. Dr. George W. ChalAnt, Mr..
Arbuthnot's particular friend, said Mr..
Arbuthnot carried bank account of
$4,000 or $4,000 simply for spe-
cial contributions He never gave less
than $1,000 year toy foreign missions
and often three to five times as much.
Only few days ago when Dr. Chalfant pre-
sented the need of Colorado college, Mr.
Arbuthnot told him to get what he could
from his own church and he would give the
balance, which he did. His liberality in
the building of the Point Breeze Presbv-
terian Church was also referred to. He was
a great advocate of church extension and
proved his faith by his works
Voting on Revision Overtures.
The Pittsburg Presbytery is slow to con-
slider the revision overtures. At the last
meeting it was unanimously resolved to
take the vote at Mcdonald Yesterday the
tickets were passed around and were at
once seen to be as complicated as the
Australian ballot system. Twenty-seven
overtures were referred to by numbers, and
every member was required to vote on each
yea or nay. 1t created confusion, and relief
was obtained by postponing the vote two
months
Reports were read on foreign missions,
home missions, education, publication, sus-
tentstion.
DIR. Holmes attacked the Pennsylvania
sustentation scheme as unbusinesslike, and
made several propositions which were voted
down.
On the subject of foreign missions DE-
Chalfant held the Presbytery had grown
immeasureably in wealth, and the giving
had not been in proportion. One resolu-
tion urged the young men in the theological
seminaries and other young preachers want
ing field, to consider the question of
their duty to 60 out as foreign missionaries.
Rev. e. r. Donehoo read paper on DR..
Douglass, especially commencing his work
as the editor of Pittsburg newspaper.
Presbytery Jared sumptuously at the ex.
pense of the Mcdonald Church in the base
ment of the church. The Presbvtery will
hold its next meeting in the Fourth Presby.
terian Church of Pittsburg the first Tues.
day of December.