The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-28
ASSEMBLY, OF THE
PRESBYTER|ANS,
The Helpless Condition of
Americans in Turkey
Reviewed.
PROTECTION DEMANDED.
Over a Million Dollars to Be
Raised for Missionary
Service.
REPORT ON SEMINARY CONTROL
San Francisco May Be Selected by the
Assembly as the Next Place
of Meeting.
REPORT ON SEMINARY CONTROL

SARATOGA, N. Y, May 27.-In the
General Presbyterian Assembly this
morning Professor f. NJ. Burdlck of
Colum bia College was nominated by the
committee on foreign missions to fill the
vacancy in the foreign board caused by
the resignation of E. NJ. Kingstry, treas
urer of Union Seminary.
Reports on various matters were read
to-day at the opening session of the Gen.
eral Assembly. Among other recon-
mendations the committee proposed the
following resolutions regarding the condi-
ton of Americans in Turkey:
WHEREAS, The General Assembly is advised
that under the provisions of existing treaties
American clergymen and teachers have q
right to exercise their professions while resi-
dents of Turkey; and whereas, the assembly is
further advised that American citizens now
under appointment as missionaries in Turkey
have been and are now menaced as to their
lives and their property rights despite repre-
sensations heretofore made; therefore
Resolued, That the General Assembly,
through its officers, respectfully requests the
National Administration to examine into the
facts of the alleged situation of affairs in Tur-
key, and in case the said averments of danger
are well founded to make such official repre-
sensations to the Turkish Government or take
such other appropriate action as shall secure
proper protection to American citizens now
resident in the Turkish Empire.
1t was also recommended that 81 ,034, 900
be raised by the church during the year.
and that the foreign board be advised to
make its appropriations on that basis.
Secretary Arthur S. Brown, of the
foreign mission board, spoke of the work
of the board for the year. The resolution
was adopted.
At the close of the morning session the
report on theological seminary control was
placed in the hands of the commissioners.
The report is long and full of details. 1t
gives in full the several schemes for legis-
latlve action desirable in each case to bring
the seminary charters into shape for the
adoption by the Board of Trustees of the
plan of control. These replies are put into
the form of an appendix, so that they may
be read or not, as desired by the commits
sioners.
The most startling feature of the report
is clause 3 of the Recommendation, wherein
the entire committee asks the assembly
for a discharge from further service.
There is no doubt that thus recommended
ton at least will be adopted, for it has
been the hope of the trustees of many of
the seminaries for three years that the
activity of the seminary control commit
tee should cease.
The report of the committee on publ
cation and Sunday-school work was con-
sidered during the afternoon and the
usual resolutions adopted.
The assembly committee on the next
place of meeting, after considering the
claims of several cities resolved 10 submit
the claim of San Francisco and Petoskey,
Mich, to the assembly for decision.