The morning call., 1893-10-21

Jacks of Monterey Immediately and gen.
eroGsly made a concrete application OF the
abstract appeal and pledged. amid great
applause, the amount necessary to pur-
chase the very necessary article.
DR.. Chapman spoke very warmly OF
Mills College, which he declared to be
thoroughly Christian school, filling place
peculiarly its own, and DR.. Mackenzie
followed with g few remarks eulogistic OF
California and its educational future.
On motion the order Of business was
suspended to receive the report of the
judicial committee on the case of Rev.
John w. Ellis, DID,, whose ob6urate re-
clines to consider wrong has kept him out
of the pulpit for some time past
The report Of the committee was as fol-
lows: ION judicial case No. /, an appeal
of John w. Ellis, DID,. against the pres
bytery of San Francisco: The committee
find the appeal in order, and recommend
that the synod proceed TO make the issue
pointed to try it. r. M. Stevenson. r. f.
McLaren, W. B. Noble. j. x. Law"
The report having been adopted the fol-
lowing gentlemen were appointed on the
commission: r. III. Hartley, Richard Wylie.
P. F. Phelps, S. /. Fulton. E. E. Clarke, j.
R. Mcdonald, j. b. Stewart. w. c. Hamil-
ton. A. A. Adair. j. K. Law, w. b. Mayas
anu 1U6OuOTo WTlSul.
The report OF the special committee on
the Theological Seminary was then pre-
sented and an animated discussion en-
sued. The proposed change in the man.
agement of this institution, which has
been under consideration for the past year,
did not by any means meet with the unanl-
nous approval of the synod, and number
of very earnest speeches were made for and
against it. Rev. Mr.. Young, DR.. Minton,
nr nr lr q
and DR.. Alexander took part in the discus
sion, which continued until the hour of
closing and was then made special busi-
ness for to-day at $50 o'clock.
The evening session was popular
meeting" the theme being: "Our Land for
Christ; the Work of Home Missions"
Rev. r. NJ. Stevenson was chairman for
the evening and introduced the subject in
the following words: "In view of the ia ct
that so, 0O0.0 900 of people in this land Of
ours are quite estranged' from the Chris
tian churches; in view of the fact that we
gained per cent on the gain of popula-
tion during the decade 1S70S0. while we
only gained ] Y per cent during the decade
1SS0-90, we eau hardly claim that our land
is for Christ yet.
when there are single members of our
church that could give as much as is given
by all the 100000 members. we can hardly
claim that even our membership Is alto
gether for Christ.
when the 100000 of evangelical
Christians in this land gave less than
$1,000. 600 in 1891 to home missions, we can
hardly claim the land for Christ yet.
Rev. DR.. Dinsmore and Mrs. Il. M. Ste
venson read very thoughtful and convinc-
Ing papers on THE Urgency of the Home
Mission Work." and DR.. II. c. Minton
concluded the evenings programme with a
most excellent address, delivered in his
usual eloquent and impressive style. on
the hopefulness of the work, n0twithstand-
ing the fact that up to the present time it
has brought to those most interested
therein much of anxiety and something, at
times, of disappointment.
A noticeable ana very graceful innova-
tion was the presentation at the Opening
of the morning session of dainty bouton-
Mere to each member of the synod, the
donor being pretty little girl. whose one
anxiety was that no one should be over
looked.
During the noon recess very elaborate
lunch was served by the ladies in large
hall of the church and every one present
was invited to partake of the church's hos
pitaliiy, which they did with much appre-
citation. On Monday the synod will take
lunch with Mrs. Mills at Mills Seminary
by her invitation.