The herald., 1898-05-24
fREfDMfN'S MISSIONS
NEED MUCH MORE MONEY THAN
THEY GET
Routine Proceedings Of Presbyterian
General Assembly Now in Ses-
sion at Winona Lake

WINONA LAKE, Ind, May 23.-The pro-
| ceedings of the Presbyterian general as
| sembly today were of a routine character.
The topics discussed were the reports OF
the board of missions for freedmen, the
committee on Sabbath observance, the
board of education and the committee on
authorized missionary periodicals. AS yet
no sign of the Princeton inn or the McGtf-
fert case has been seen.
After devotional exercises led by Rev. w.
G.. White of Youngstown, Ohio, resolu-
ton was introduced by Rev. Horatio j.
Olmstead of Galveston, providing for an
unnstructed committee of five to confer
with like committee from the Southern
Presbyterian Church looking to union of
the two denominations. 1t was promptly
referred to the Committee of Bills and
Overtures, where similar orders were al
ready under consideration.
There being no miscellaneous reports the
assembly proceeded at once to the consid-
Grafton of the report of the board of mis-
sions to the freedmen. The board reported
that it began the year under the discour-
agement incident to the burning of it's main
educational institution at Admission, Ala.
The record of the year was one Of re-
trenchment. The report says: 1--WE have
pushed economy to the verge of parsimo-
n.y." but in spite of all efforts the board
ended it's year with a debt Of $6S,062, an
increase of over 1000 since 1897. This was
due to a decrease of $322S in contributions
received. The schools operated have been
reduced from sixty-seven to fifty-three of
all grades Under the board are 1877 min
listers, 1922 churches and 200 teachers. The
total receipts were $12S,9OO, of which the
churches gave $56,429 and the women's
board $45, los. The expenditures aggregated
$1SS, 375.
The board of education reported that it
had enrolled the names of S14 candidates
for the ministry, 1853 of whom were accepted
last year. 1t rejected thirty-two applica-
lions. The income of the board was $66,S61,
an increase of sS76 over 1897.
The assembly was addressed by DR.. Ed
ward H. Cowan secretary of the board and
by several colored commissioners.
The committee on Sabbath observance
presented it's amended report, which was
adopted. AS usual it denounced Sunday
newspapers and called for the closing of
the Omaha exposition on the Sabbath.
At the opening of the afternoon session
the judicial committee reported on several
cases, among WHICH was lidt VI w diSd-
wiack against the presbytery of New York.
1t was dismissed.
The chief interest of the afternoon CEN
tered in the speech of DR.. Richard Holmes
of Pittsburg upon the missionary publica-
lions of the church. OF these there have
been two, The Church at Home and
Abroad and The Assembly Herald. One
was described as high and the other as a
Va.
boards have never been entirely satisfied
with either, he declared. One was too dear
and both were too slow. The speaker adj
vocated a single-headed management with
editors and offices in New York, where the
bulk of the missionary interests of the
church are located. DR.. Holmes spoke foT
an hour and the matter went over to the
second order for tomorrow afternoon.
A regular popular meeting was held this
evening in the auditorium in the interest
of the freedmen's board.