The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-17
pRESBYTERIANS.
One Hundred and Ninth General As
sembly Will Meet at Winona-


pbiladelnhia. MAY 1.-THE 1O9th general
assembly of the Presbyterian church of
the United States will meet at Winona
assembly grounds Eagle Lake, kosiusko
county. Indiana. on May 20. 1897. and will
probably continue in session until May
81. The assembly will be composed of
about 500 delegates. One-half of them min
listers and the other half ruling elders
The delegates are adopted by eccleslaStl-
cal bodies called presbyteries. and come
from every portion of the country me
Presbyterian church reported by TINS
general assembly is the only one which
has ministers and churches IN every
state in the Union, and by the statistics
of 1896 consisted of 7.153 congregations,
8 942 ministers and 943.l6 members The
for the year 1896 were $iO.43l. IS9. and the
contributions foTf- missionary and other
benevolent purposes. s3.64S230
The foreign mission work OF the Presby-
terrain church is conducted in - different
countries. Its missionary and benevolent
work in the United States is carried on by
agents called boards These boards are
eight in number. three of them located in
New York city. viz: The board of home
missions. foreign mission and church
erections: three located in the city OF
PHILADELPHIA viz: Publication and Sab
bath school work. education and minis
terial relief: one. the board of missions
for freedom. at Pittsburg. and one, the
board Of aid for college and academies,
at Chicago. The boards located in New
York OCCUPY what is known as the Pres
byterian building. corner of twentieth
street and Fifth avenue. and those located
in Philadelphia will soon move from
their present quarter at 1134 Chestnut
street TO the WithersDoon building. The
1Ogth general assembly will be opened at
II o'clock a. m. on May 20 with a sermon
by the retiring moderator, Rev. John L.
WitherOw DID, pastor of the Third
Presbyterian church. Chicago Among
the delegates are found ex-President Har-
riSon John Wanamaker and other able
and influential laymen. Among the min
listers ere Rev. Sheldon Jackson. DID.
Rev Henry c. Milton. DID. president of
San Francisco: the Rev Robert F. Sam
pie DID. pastor of the West Twenty
third street Presbyterian church, New
York city: from Philadelphia the Rev.
Drs John s. Mcintosh. NJ J. Eckles and
]. c. Bolton and others
The business of the assembly VIII con-
sist o. two main lines of work:
First-The consideration of the annual
reports of the eight boards above referred
TO- This portion of the business will take
UP the sessions of five days
Second-The consideration of reports Of
special committees The reports of these
various committees have not as yet been
made public, and il IS not usage TO give
them to the press prior to the meeting of
the assembly.
In regard to the moderatorship of this
new association assembly. it is stated that
the candidates for Office thus far an
nounced are Rev. c. Milton. ID, San
Francisco: Rev. Robert +. Sample. ID.
New York: Re- Sheldon Jackson and
Mr. John Wanamaker of Philadelphia. a
of nominating ex-President Harrison. but
he has declined the honor on the ground
that he could not give the necessary time
to the duties of the Office.