Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-10-24
HE SYNOD OF BALTIMORE
! viii Assemble in Whining
ton Next Year.
lively TALK OVER TEMPERANCE
rhe Women's Home Mission
Synodioal Society.


At Wednesdays session of the synod
Df Baltimore report was made that the
New Castle Presbytery contributed
u, 009. "a to the sustentation fund last
year. 1t was ordered that the churches
pf the synod shall raise this year not
less than Sc, 900 of which the Presby-
tery of New Castle shall give not less
than 81, 100 The New Castle Presby-
iery will be permitted to draw 81, 500
Rom the fund provided the full amount
Df the appointments made upon the
various presby teries is raised
Announcement was made that the
New Castle Presbytery has 46 minis
tiers, So churches and C, 673 members.
The New Castle Presbytery is repre-
sented on committees as follows: Home
Missions and Sustentation, the Rev.
William II. Logan and William X.
Crosby; Foreign Missions, the Rev. A.
n Keigwin; Education, the Rev.
Lafayette Marks, d. d. Ministerial
Relief Charles Baird; Freedman, the
Rev. j. X. Milligan, d. D.. Temper
Rnce, the Rev. W. P. Swartz: Sabbath
Observance, Charles S. Rowland; Aid
for Colleges, William II. Purnell; Judi
cial Gases, the Rev. S. A. Gayley, d.
ID. /; Minutes of the Assembly, the Rev.
W. p Swartz; Minutes of the Presby-
terry OF Baltimore, the Rev. Lafayette
Marks, d. ID. (; Minutes of the Presby-
tery of Washington, the Rev. A. N.
keigwin; Narrative for 1896, the Rev.
William H. Logan: Synodical Session
for 1896, the Rev. w. j. Fitzsimons.
Mrs William X. Crosby and Mrs.
A. N. Keigwin were elected, respec-
lively, president Of the Home for
Foreign Mission Synodical Societies.
Mrs. A. Williams was elected vice
president of the latter.
AT the synodical communion service,
in the evening, Dr. Marks administered
the wine and Il. t. Taylor assisted in
serving the elements of the communion.
At Thursdays session of the Synod
OF Baltimore the State Department of
the United States was requested to see
the that the rights Of missionaries, as
American citizens, are not trampled
upon while they are engaged in their
labors in foreign lands Protection to
the missionaries was not asked because
they are missionaries but because they
are American citizens.
Thomas McCorkle was appointed
member of the committee on church
erection.
A lively discussion occurred over the
temperance report. The temperance
committee said that considerable and
valuable work was done in the course
OF the past year in Delaware and in
some of the counties of Maryland in
support Of local prohibition.
Mrs. W. X. Crosby presided at the
meeting of the Woman's Home Mission
Synodical Society. Miss II. X. Brad
ley, the secretary, read report, which
showed that there are 80 church socie-
ties in the synodica society, 63 bands
of young people, with membership of
4, 1877. Thirtysix Sunday schools and
Christian Endeavor Societies have con
tributed TO home missions through the
society in the course of the year. The
contributions amounted to over 81, 100
more than last year.
The Woman's Foreign Mission com
mittee reported to the synod that it
had no advance in finance to renort,
but more systematic work. The com
mittee has assisted in maintaining day
and boarding schools, hospitals and
orphanges, supporting native preachers,
teachers and Bible reading, and also
helped to open some new stations The
contributions have been as follows !:
Baltimore Presbytery, 1885, IL; New
Castle, 81, SOB. So; Washington, 3d.
354 II; total, 50, 1872 81.
The synod decided to hold it's next
annual session in West Church, this
city, beginning the third Tuesday Of
October, 1886.