Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-21

ago, Mr.. QHesada says about all it
can accomplish is to secure a base
OF operations in a fairly well forth
fed harbor and also to lay in coal
from GOLFERS which are understood
to have preceded the fleet there.
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY.
The Sabbath Question the Chief Sub
ject for Discussion at Yesterdays
Session.
Winona Lake, Ind, May 20.-The
Presbyterian General Assembly had it's
first surprise to-day Lightning struck
where it was not expected. 1t had
teen supposed that the report of the
committee on the rlations of synods
and the home board in prosecution of
home missions would occasion con-
test, but it did not. The active dis
cussion came in connection with the
report on Sabbath observance. The
following resolution was adopted:
''That we most earnestly recommend
the directors of the mississippi
Exposition, to be opened at Omaha on
June 1, Immediately TO decide that its
doors shall not be opened to the pub
lie on the Lords day and to announce
the decision SO that the public con-
science shall be at rest on the sub
ject.''
The chairmen of standing commit
tees to report on work of boards of
church, were announced Gov. James
A. Mount, of Indiana, was named as
vice moderator. The principal chair
men were as follows:
Bills and overtures, DR.. Sheldon
Jackson, ex-moderator; judicial bust
ness, DR.. ]. C. Patterson, New Jersey;
home missions, Dr. John Dixon, Tren-
tom oducation, DR.. Thomas d. Wal
lace, Chicago; publication, DR.. John R.
Davies, New York; church erection,
DR.. B. w. Perry, California; theolog
ical sem naries, DR.. VIM. G. Roberts,
New York; ministerial relief, DR.. Hen
ry C. McCook, Philadelphia; freedmen,
DR.. w. K. Spencer, Michigan; aid for
colleges, DR.. Geo. D. Burroughs, Wa
bash College, Indiana; temperance, DR..
David Wills, Pennsylvania; narrative,
DR.. E. M. Wheesy, missionary in In
dia.
DR.. John S. Macintosh reported on
the UNCONVENTIONAL periodical, "The
Church at Home and Abroad" He
was followed by DR.. Richard S. Holmes,
missionary periodical of the church.
The report recommended a discontin-
uance of both the church periodicals,
Assembly Herald" and Church at
Home and Abroad" and their COM
bination In one journal to be pub
lished in New York under the manage
ment of Rev. w H. Hubbard, the pro-
posed Journal to contain 81 octave
pages and to be published at FIVE cents
per year.
Announcements were made OF the or
der of exercises on Thursday, May rs,
in conjunction with the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the adoption of the
Westminster Confession and Cate
chisms.
Besides devotional exercises, thirteen
half-hour addresses will be made.
After the noon recess the assembly
took up the relations of synods to the
Board of Home Missions. DR.. With
row explained the purpose of the re-
port, saying that it was an effort to har-
monize the methods of work now in
use, with view to uniformity In prac-
tice. cd w
After sending fraternat greetings to
the Southern and Cumberland Presby-
terrain churches, the matter of Sabbath
observation was takensnp. The report
was read by DR.. l. w Hathaway, of
Jersey City. @ p
Various resolutions were offered, two
For which, were adopted, the-frst declar-
ing the SABBATH to be OF perpetual OBJ
ligation by law>aof God and the other
Recommending that the Omaha EXPOSE
ton be. closed on Sunday Sunday ira
vel by minister's came to the front and
was denounced. e
A resolution urging that President
mckinley order that no unnecessary
ISabbath work be done by the army and
navy in the present war. And that bat
tie be not begun on Sunday met with
decided opposition and was dpally laid