Birmingham state herald., 1896-05-23
NOW UNDER FULL SAIL
  Is the Southern Presbyterian Ship of Zion. It WATCHES HAVE BEEN SET And the Crew Is Hard at Work-The Northern Body Equally DiIigent-The
 MethodSts.

The committees have been arranged and will take charge of the numerous com munication and oyertures received this morning. Moderator Mallard de- termined to exercise the utmost fairness in the arrangement of the committees and said in announcing his appointments that he had been governed first by the efficiency in performance to duties of committees and, second, employment of all the talent of the assembly on them His selections have. given general satis- faction. t
 At 9:05 pr. Mallard called the assembly to order and conducted a short devotion al exercise, after which the minutes of yesterdays session were read and adopt ed.
 Several commissioners were enrolled and the moderator announced the ape pointment of standing committees as follows: .4ss-e
 Home missions-J. Rumple, D. D., chairman
 Foreign missions-K. P. Smith, D. D., chairman.
 Education for the ministry-W. H. Leayell, D. D., chairman.
 Publica ation-Rev. D. P. Bowen, chair man.
 Sabbath -schools--J. Y. Allison, D. D., chairman.
 Foreign correspendence-J. R. Burgett, D. D., chairman.
 Theological seminaries-L. c. Voss, D. D., chairman.
 Systematic. benevolence-W. D. Nor ton, D. D., chairman.
 Narrative of the cause-Rev. J. T. Hit ner, chairman.
 Leave of absence-J. s. Praig, D.. D., chairman.
 Auditing committee-W. M. Cox chair man.
 Devotional exercises-Rev. R. R. Vance, chairman.
 Assembly's home and school-J. J. Vance D. D., chairman.
 There were also thirteen committees, each composed of a minister and an eld CT, on the records of different synods. Bills and overtures-C. R. Hemphill, chairman; J. L. Caldwell, T. R. English, J. E. Jones, D. I. Craig, J. A. Vance, D. N. Mclaughlin, J. M Tate, w. M. Cox, J. W. s. Ridley, c. W. Thompson and K. Carthell. s Judiciary committee-James Woodrow chairman; J. N. Lively, J. L. Marye. c. P. Hansell, J. M. Cockrell, l. N Naff, A. H. McArnan, J. M.s, Duncan, J. F.i Brown, w., T. Palmer and c. H. Wood. A number of oWertures and communi-' cations were then read. Among the communications read this morning were the following: Complaint from an elder in Westmins-
  synod of South Carolina for its action in sustaining the presbytery of Charleston in certain exceptions taken to the records of the church. This was referred to the judiciary committee, of which Dr. Wood- row is chairman.
 Lengthy and nost cordial greetings were sent by the Western section of the Pan-Presbyterian council and the Dutch Reformed church of America The latter asked for the appointment of a delegate tn ftc O nTfly hi rf1nQ Nhnx xrntn referred to the committee on foreign cor respondence. NY A complaint from Rev Dr. F. M. Rich ardson against the synod of Memphis was referred to the judicial committee. The following is a partial list of over lures sent up by the presbyteries. These constitute the business to come before the body, any one of which may be loaded" and cause an explosion of de- bate. They were listened to with great interest, which was increased by the ire quent witty sayings of the stated clerk, Rev. Dr. Wilson:
 From the presbytery of Paris, on com mittees and commissions; from the pres bytery of Fayette, on lessons in Earnest Workers" each quarter: from the Presby- tery of Lexington, on cheap religious pa- pers; from the presbytery of Florida, on one elder constituting session; from the presbytery of New Orleans, on graded lessons; from the presbytery of the Vest ern district, on waiving requirements for ordination; from CorSicana church, on loose and liberal construction of doc trines; from the presbytery of eastern Texas, on the increase of home missions; from the presbytery of SS Louis, criti- cising an action of the trustees of the assembly's home and schools; from the presbytery of Lexington, uniting com- mittees on publication and education; from the preSbytery of South Carolina on amendments to the form of govern ment; from an individual, on the 250th anniversary of the formation of the Westl minister Confession of Faith; from the presbytery of Lafayette, on sending a copy of the minutes to each church or minister; from the presbytery of Albe- marie, on evangelization; from the synod from the synod of Florida. asking for special appropriations to aid weak churches in the state; from a certain missionary in Corea, on con- ferring sessional powers on unordained missionaries; from the presbytery of Macon. on remitting the work of home missions to synods; from Professor Beat tie, on the 250th anniversary of the for mutation of the Westminster Confession of Faith; from the presbytery of south Alabama, on deacons work; from the presbytery of Pennsylvania, on the un- ion of committees of publica- ton and education; from the presbytery of Pennsylvania, on Westminster league topics; from the presbytery of West Hanover, on schedule of collections and address by officers; from the same, on uniform assessments; from the presby- tery of Ouachita, on emitting the column for the report on Bible cause; from an individual, on arrangement of the report of communications. The following special orders were made:
 For nighta-To hear a sermon by Rev. Dr. Vance of Nashville, and to receive the fraternal greetings of the Italian evangelical church, which will be pre- sented by Rev. MT. Bosanti, pastor of the Italian Presbyterian church of Memphis. For tomorrow night-A mass meeting in the interest of co1ored evange1istic work, with addresses by the negro dele gates and Dr. Phillips, the secfetary. For tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock To hear the Rev. Dr. Mclean of the American Bible society. For-.Monday night-A mass meeting in the interest of the foreign mission. Reports were read from the different theological seminarfes, and were consid-