Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-23
some CHURCH FIGHTS
Are Handled Somewhat Gingerly by
the Pennsylvania Synod.
SPICY RESOLUTIONS REPORTED.
renouncing the Gift Of Public Money ia
sectarisn Schools.
SEVEN EPISCOPAL BIsHoPRIcs MADE


WASHINGTON, Pa, Oct. 22-After the
opening devotional exercises at this morn
ing's meeting of the Presbyterian Synod,
the Moderator called upon Rev james
Roberts, d. D., the stated clerk, to read
the narrative by Rev. Thomas J. Sherwood.
This paper contained an account of the
general condition of the churches within
the jurisdiction of the Synod.
Rev. j. G. Hickman, of Reading, was
heard by the Synod. He asked that the
churches of that city be taken from the con-
troll of the Lehigh Presbytery and placed
under the control of the Presbytery of Phil
adelphia (North). Although the Commit
tee on Bills and Overtures recommended
that this request be allowed, the Presby-
terry did not see fit to grant the petition.
The Judicial Committee made partial
report, in which several cases were con-
sidered. In the case of the complaint of
John d. Balts and other members of the
Dowington Church against the Presbytery
of Chester, the case was dismissed on ac-
count of being in such form as to not bring
it properly before the Synod.
The Interminable Cooper Quarrels.
The now famous Cooper case, which has
been fought over pretty much all of the
northwestern part of the State in and out
of the courts of law, cropped out in the
Synod as the next case on the calendar II
was handed >over to a commission of seven
ministers and sixSelders, and there report
will be looked for with more interest
Rev. Dr.. McCarroll, of the Foreign Mis-
sions Committee, read his report, which
was accepted and its recommendations
adopted. Rev. B. T. James, Of the Board
Of Freedmen, followed in full report. The
work of the several colored colleges was
discussed at some length. The Committee
ON Ministerial Relief also made its report.
In the afternoon the Synod first heard the
report of committees on the records of the
different Presbyteries. When the Presby-
terry OF Chester was reached, a motion to ex-
punge certain matter from the record
started a breeze in which several of the
ministers made robust efforts to ventiIate
a church quarrel famous in that part of
Pennsylvania around Chester county. The
records were left IS written, without any
striking out" of Objectionable matter.
This little difficulty being settled, things
went on smoothly until the Presbvtery Of
Redstone was reached, when another noto-
rious church row arose like a specter from
the grave.
An Eastern Controversy Settled.
Certain elders who had once been sus-
pended by Presbytery had later been re-
instated, but these officers had not been re-
ceived by their church. The fight was in
regard to their standing This ghost was
finally downed BY the Presbytery. deciding
against these elders.
Then Rev. R. b. Fulton made his report
on Washington and Jefferson College Rev.
j. D. Moffatt, D. D., President of this col
lege, followed DR.. Fulton in a brief ad-
dress The following resolutions were sub
mitted by Rev. DR.. Patterson, chairman of
a special committee:
Resolved, That in the Judgment of this
Synod, which includes all the Presbyterian
ministers and churches in Pennsyl-
vania and West Virginia, in view OF the
state of facts reported by the Investigating
Committee appointed year ago for the
purpose, the appropriation OF public mon
eys lor the support OF sectarian schools
among the Indians, as now done in the con-
tract schools, should at once cease; and the
Synod does hereby respectfully and earn
estly petition the Congress of the United
public money to schools which are under
sectarian direction and control.
Resolved, That copies of this report and
resolution be sent to the Senate and House
OF Representatives of the United States at
their next session.
This report was followed by that of Rev.
DR.. Hunter, on the Western Theological
Seminary. His report was very compli-
mentary to the institution. Just before ad-
iournment, Rev. II. o. Gibbons was heard
on the subject of ministerial Life Insur-
ance." In the evening the members of the
Synod were rendered a reception in the
Washington and Jefferson College building