The morning news., 1894-11-23
The WORK OF The SYNOD.
The Reports Of the Committees Will be
Acted on This Morning.

ter, ID. .D.-Two PresbyterIes h5 COM
mend the Establishment of a Colored
Presbytery.
The Presbyterian synod of Georgia de-
voted most of its time yesterday to the
hearing of reports from committees. The
night session was devoted to foreign mis-
sions, an address being made by Rev. s.
II. Chester, d. D., secretary of the foreign
mission board of the Southern Presby-
terian church
The synod was opened with devotional
exercises, and at the roll call the follow
ing delegates, who were not present the
night before, responded: Rev. F. H. Gaines
of Macon, Rev. c. H. Hyde of Talbotton,
Ruling Elders c. a. Alexander of Wash
ington, G. A. Bailey of Dorchester, w. c.
Sibley of Augusta, and A. T. MacIntyre of
Thomasville, and Rev. R. o. Finn of
Kirkwood was also enrolled.
Rev. J. f. Dripps, D. D., of the synod of
Philadelphia, Rev. j. X. Hagan, d. d, of
the synod of Alabama, Rev. j. b. Shearer
of the synod of North Carolina, and Rev.
/ George L. Cook of the synod of Nash
vile were introduced and invited to sit
| as corresponding members.
Rev. DR.. Dripps, in behalf of the ladies
of the Independent Presbyterian church,
extended to the synod an invitation to at
| tend a reception to be given this afternoon
between and o'clock in the Sunday
school room of the Independent church.
/ The invitation was accepted by a rising
! vote, and the reception will be attended
I .F ly- all 40,
| on the synod.
The report of the board of visitors to
/ the Thornwell Orphanage at Clinton, S.
| c., was read and referred to the committee
| on Christian and church education. The
| report of the board of directors of the
/ theological seminary a Columbia, S. c.,
/ was referred to the committee on that
! subject. The report of Rev. E. M. Rich
ardsOn, secretary of the committee on
| education for the ministry, was read and
referred to the committee on education
! for the ministry.
A communication from the Presbytery
| of Macon touching the organization of
| a colored presbytery was read and with
| an Grafton from the presbytery of Athens
| on the same subject, was referred to the
| committee on bills and overtures. This
is an important subject with which the
synod will have to deal and it will be
watched with much interest.
After the appointment of committees
! on devotional exercises, narrative, bills
| and overtures, theological seminary, ju-
/ dicial business, finance, printed records
| and presbyterial records, the treasurer S
report was read and referred to the COM
mittee on finance. The first order of the
day at this mornings session was made
the hearing of reports from the stand
ing committees, to which many of the
matters with which the synod has to
deal, have been referred.
Rev r NJ Booth Rev A NJ Nrilliar,s
and Rev. H. p. Myers of the Methodist
church were invited to sit with the synod
as visiting brethren.
The narratives, records and statistical
reports of the various presbyteries were
read and referred to the proper commit
tees. Mr.. Myers, secretary of the Amer
lean Bible Society, was heard with regard
to the work of the society and the sub
ject matter of the address was referred
to the committee on publication.
The second order of the day at this
mornings session was made the hearing
of the report on the semi-centennial of the
synod. This is the real semi-centennial
OF the synod, but the celebration of it has
been postponed until next year, as it was
not found convenient to have it earlier.
Rev. James Stacy, d. D., was elected
hstoriosrapher of the synod to fill the
vacancy created by the death of Rev
John Jones.
Rev. Dr. McPheeters was heard in behalf
of the theological seminary, and many
important matters in that connection
We're brought before the synod Reports
were heard from several other committees
from the last synod, and they will be
acted on this morning
The night session was devoted to the
work of foreign missions. Rev. s H.
Chester of Nashville secretary of the
foreign mission board of the Southern
Presbyterian church, delivered the prin-
cipal address, which was a strong appeal
in behalf of the work that is now in prog
ress in that direction. He said
1t was a mistake about the church
having large amount of funds
! on hand as heavy losses
had been experienced in the receipts in
the last year This years receipts, he
said were 5000 less than those of the
year before and the church had to bor-
| row $4,000 on Oct. 1 to pay the salaries
I Of the missionaries which it supported.
He told the ministers that they would
have to make special appeals for the
work, as unless there was an increase
in the work it could not be said that il
} was in a prosperous condition In the
, last ten years he said, the missionaries
and the converts had more than doubled
but recently a reaction was experienced.
which must be overcome as nothing
would be satisfactory but progress and
progress was impossible unless the work
was built up by organized effort
After this address Rev. T. NJ. Lowry
made n report on foreign missionary work
in which he referred TO the responsible
ity resting on each person 10 do AN
he could 10 extend the gospel To- an ma
tious. An interesting talk was made bv
Rev. A. II. Sanders on the subject OF for
eign missions, and short addresses were
made by several other members MIR
, LOwrys report was adopted, as was. also.
, "a resolution 20 extend congratulations to
the missionaries who were connected with
. the synod Of Georgia
The programme for to-day was then
mapped out after which The synod ad-
iourned. Tho synod win meet at a.aI
o'clock this morning and viii continue
Boo session until q O'Clock The member
of the synod VIII attend "a reception pIyau
by Ihr ladies Df thr independent Tra..
byf.rhn thurDh Hi p utiork. auI pII
meet at o'clock to hUar leH Nr J,n.
nInFH NJ Macon.