The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-19
A FLOURISHING CREED.
Church Reports Show the
Success Of PresbY-
terianiSm.
COMMITTEES OF THE ASSEMBLY.
Prospects Of Union With the Epis-
copalians Ministers Are
Scarce.

ond days session of the Presbyterian
General Assembly, were conducted by
Rev. DR.. Smith, of Baltimore.
Previous to reading the minutes of yes.
terday, Permanent Clerk Moore requested
that the brother who had exchanged over
coats with him come and get his own.
also. that the person who had the Mode
rator's overcoat be requested to return it.
Rev. Mr. McCauley. OF Dayton, Ohio.
moved a reconsideration OF the vote of
yesterday on the Chicago Fair Sunday
substitute for that resolution. going more
into detail. Reconsideration was refused
by an almost unanimous vote, and Mr..
McCauley then moved TO add the subsli-
tute to the resolution of yesterday, DuG
the Assembly refused to adopt or to con-
slider IL. Rsy. DR.. Bartlett, Chairman of
the Committee of Arrangements, then
presented TO Moderator Craig the gayel
prepared for this Assembly. the gift
Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Gnrley, the former
the son of Rev. P. ID. Gurley, flrst Pastor
of the church in which the Assem- bly,
meets. 1t IS composed largely Of cherry
from Mount Vernon, with pieces of the
United States frigate Constitution, the
capslone Of Washington monumen5 and
of the pew in New York avenue Church,
occupied by the late President Lincoln
when In attendance upon services con-
ducted by DIR. GurIey. The name Of
Lincoln was greeted with applause.
DR.. Craig responded in few well
| chosen words of thanks to the donors.
| and paid aD eloquent tribute 10 the mem
orY of the Rav. Pnineas ID. Gurley. "a
sight of the gavel," said DR.. Craig. com
bining In itself memories or Washington
and Lincoln. will he enough to recall him
to due sense of hts duty. in case ne
| upon u privilege or right supposed to at
tach to the office he holds"
CHINESE EXCLUSION.
DR.. Harsna OF Nebraska, moved the
| appointment of o committee TO formulate
! an expression of opinion upon the Chinese
| exclusion act. as It affects the foreign
missionary work. Win one vote in the
negative, the motion was adopted and the
\ Moderator announced that the committee
would be appointed i'll due time.
Stated Clerk Roberts announced that
| the rt3aorts OF the various boards, COM
mittees and officers OF the CHURCH and AS
sembly had been received, with few eX-
ceptions, and would be duly prese nted.
| The reports of the church boards. he said /,
would be distributed in the course of the
day. The answers of the PresDyteries to
| the overtures sent down last year mad
| also been received. DIR. Roberts state
| hat the result would be announced in
due time.
CHURCH UNITY.
DR.. Smith OF Baltimore introduced TO
" oderator and through him to the As
sembly .he Rev. DR.. duncan OF the Epis-
copal Church, woo represented the JJlnt
COMMITTEES which had under consluera-
tiou the subject OF church unity. This
committee has been 10 session for the
past two days, and the Rev. Mr. Duncan
WAS selected TO represent the Episcopal
branch before this assembly. He was re-
ceived in all appropriate speech by Dr.
Craige and replied in the same vein.
predicting great good as the outcome OF
the committees work. He said that Lnere
were four points wnich the Episcopal
Church believed to be essential in basis
of union, and upou three OF
them they had practically agreed. The
fourt. upon which no conclusion
had been reached. involved largely
difference in terms. AS tue f1nat out
come OF the committees work DR.. Dun
can prophesied practical aud harmonious
unity of the churches. and in that the not
far distant future Instead of two church
organizations there shall be ut Que.
THE COMMITTEES.
At this poinstne Moderator announced
the standing committees.
The following are the chairmen:-
Bill of Overtures-Wm. c. Young.
Judicia, y-George D. Baker
Polity-W. w. Harsha.
Home MissionS-Loyal L. Graham.
Foreign Missions -Herrck Johnson.
observation-disclosures d. Ewing.
Publication and Sunday School Work-James
II Brooks.
Church Erection-Calyin W. Stewart.
Theological sennaries-John Dixon.
Ministerial reiief-David Gregg.
Freedmen George L. Spinning.
Aid for colleges Charles A. Dickey.
Correspondenco-M. L. p. HILL
Beneyolence-G George H. Fullerton.
Narratiee--S. NJ. Davis.
Temperance-JamesM Matthews.
Leave of Absence-Jobn Reid. Jr.
Mage-FrantlynL L. Shepard,
Finan ce- William A. Heron.
The special committee on the Chinese
exclusion act was announced 10 consist
Of s. NJ Cufchings, of Detroit, NJ. ii.
Stratten OF Salem, N. j., and Cyrus L..
Bershing, PotJsville, Pa.
Rev William Henry Roberts was an
nounced to be vice. Moderator.
The annual reports oi the various
church boards made public today, aud to
be taken up by. the Presbyterian General
Assembly from time TO time, show en-.
couragins results in every branch e the
work.
The report OF the Permanent Com
mittee ON Temperance enters into that
subject largely In detail and makes some
Recommendations that will come before
the Assembly. Referring to the Chicago
Fair. the report says:-"We cannot con-
template except with feelings of shame
the proposed spectacle to be placed before
ALI the world of vast national grog
shop and a vast national exhibition
Of the trampIing down Of law" The
establishment by Congress of an i'm
rartial commission of inquiry concern
ing the liquor traffic. is favored. ""he
bili,n continues the report" has several
times passed the Senate, but the liquor
power rallyiug its forces has always de.
feated it in the Lower House" Local
intimate solution OF the liquor problem.
but the most Of the Presbyteries here
| favored it as a stepping stone toward
| general prohibition.
The report also protests against the
army canteen, in which it claims many
| officers and soldiers are detailed as saloon
keepers.
CHURCH ERECTION.
The report OF the Board of Church
| Erection fund shows that during the
| wear there were 2S9 applications for as
| slstapce. upon which grants were made
aggregating sl05.39l aud loans SOL. 1872,
| Tnis total exceeds any previous year, and
| still there is an insufficiency Of supplies.
| More than one-half the churches on the
| roll OF the Assembly do not contribute to
| the fund, aud tile board begins the new
| year with an empty treasury and many
pressing demands upon i. The result
/ of the years work of the BOARD
/ Of Aid for colleges aud academies has mol
| proved Disappointment to the expecta
/ s;<,n. - tha cIt4s,ch Dnrlnv the wear the