Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-16
A GREAT GATHERING
Arrangements Complete for the Meet
ing of Presbyterian Assembly.
DIR. ROBERTS COMING.
To Arrive TomOrrow-Matters That He
and Rev. DIR. Bartlett Will Determine
Restriction of Admission to the Sessions
Where the Committees will Meet.

Restriction of Admission to the Sessions
Where the Committees Will Meet.
The arrangements for the meeting Of the
general assembly in this city on Thursday have
all been completed, SO far as they can
be before the gathering begins Many Of
the important details of the gathering are
left to the committee on arrangements, Of
which DR.. Bartlett, DIR. W. h. Roberts and the
ruling elders Of the session of the New York
Avenue Church are the members.
Rev. Dr. Roberts, the stated clerk of the
assembly, was expected to arrive in the city
this afternoon. A telegram was received from
him stating that he had been detained and that
he would not reach here until tomorrow morn
ing. When DR.. Roberts comes he will have
conference with DIR. Bartlett.
The meeting will be held at the Ebbitt House,
where he will make his headquarters
during his STAY in the city. There are
considered, such - the evenings that are to be
devoted to the various special purposes,
home missions, foreign missions, church erec-
ton, temperance, Sunday school work and af-
fairs Of that sort. 1t is customary for each Of
these special objects to claim q certain evening
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assembly, and it is not likely that
the committee will make any marked depart
ure from the established rule, although it has
the power to do SO if it chooses to for any
reason.
DETAILS FoR THE LAWN FErk
The details for the lawn fete to be ten
dered to the commissioners on Tuesday,
May %. by Senator and Mrs. Brice at the
Corcoran house were all completed this
M IN, ho in
handsome entertainment, the large grounds
about the house are wonderfully well suited for
such an affair and the hospitality Of the host
and hostess iDtamous for its lavish generosity.
The hours for the fete have been fixed from
to in the afternoon and a large number Of
prominent people from this city are to be in
vited to meet the Commissioners.
The delegates to the general assembly are
not expected to arrive much before tomorrow.
The first one to put in an appearance at the
headquarters today was DR.. Sanford of Denver.
DIR. Sanford was formerly a resident of this
city and was member Of DR.. Sunderland's
church.
RESTRICTING ADMISSIONS TO TIE SESSIONS.
1t will be impossible for q very large number
Of outsiders to attend the sessions Of the gen.
eral assembly. The entire main floor of the
auditorium is to be reserved for the delegates
The public will not be admitted except
to the galleries, and of course they
will not contain fraction Of the
people that will be drawn to hear the debates
OF the assembly. The public. however, will
have chance to hear and to see some of the
great lights of the church, for nearly every
evening during the time the sessions con-
tinue popular meetings will be held The local
committee on meetings and assembiies.o OF which
Rev. w. 8. Miller Is chairman, has arranged to
secure the Foundry Church in the event that it
becomes necessary to hold overflow meet
ings 1t is hoped by this committee that
arrangements can be made to hold as well
popular meetings in different sections of the
city. Subjects will be assigned for these even
ing meetings. One evening will be devoted
OF. the freedman, another to home missions,
foreign missions, higher education, temper
ance, Sabbath observance, &c.
RANK OF THE COMMITTEES.
1t was a misstaterlent made yesterday about
the judicial committee ranking first. The COM
mittee on bills and overtures stands first
in importance, and the new moderator
in making up the committees usu-
any places the retiring moderator
comes next and the appeal in the case of DIR.
Briggs will be referred to that committee.
Then there is committee on church
polity and eighs committees on the various
missionary boards. Toe other standing commit
tees are not considered SO important. The
task to make up the committees SO that all in
terssts subserved. He has, of course. the
aid of the stated clerk, who. as in the present
case. is apt 10 be man OF experience and
knows the ministers in the church pretty well.
The stated clerk, Rev. DR.. Roberts, has held
that Office for the past nine years and in that
time he has made a very general acquaintance.
AS he is spoken OF in connection with the
election OF a moderator. ii may be that he can
utilize this experience for his own benefit in
stead of that of another man.
WHERE COMMITTEES WILL MEET.
The committee on meetings and assemblies
have secured the following places for the use of
the committees:
Bills and overtures, Fredonia Hotel
Judicial. Fredonia Hotel.
Church poiitv. Oxford Hotel.
Home missions. Oxford Hotel.
Foreign home missions, Y. NJ. G. A.
Education, Y. u. c. A.
Publication and Sunday school work, Y.MC.A
Church erection. Foundry Church.
Theological seminares. Foundry Church
Ministerial relief. g. gallery n. Y. Ave. Church.
Freedmen. n. gallery, N. Y. Ave. Church.
Aid for colleges. Columbia College. II street.
Correspondence, Foundry Church.
Benevolence, Y. NJ. c. A.
Narrative, Y. M. G. A.
Temperance. Columbia College H street
Leave of absence. north Bible class room. New
York Avenue Church
Mileage, 1929 H street northwest.
Finance, 1929 II street northwest
REV. DIR. BIrTINGER's ABSENCE.
Owing to the illness of the wife of Rev. DIR.
Bittinger Of this city, which requires him to be
absent from the city. he will not be able to
attend the sessions Of the assembly, as
a commissioner for the presbytery Of Wash
ington city. His alternate Rev. Joseph 7.
Kelly, the pastor OF the Ninth Street Presbv-
terian Church. will take his place. The duties of
DR.. Blttinger as chairman of the local committee
on pulpits have been performed by Rev. John
Chester. ID. D.. The pastor of the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church who is
now the chairman of that committee Rev.
Mr.. keiiy's place on the committee has been
filled by the appointment of Rev. George B,
Patch the pastor Of the Gunton Temple Me-
mortal Church.
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