The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1898-05-21
PRESBYTERIANS.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE GEN.
ERAL ASSEMBLY.
Most of the Time of Yesterday s
Session Taken Up in Reading
Committee Reports.

N1NONA LAKE (lnQ.) May ~
The Presbyterian Assembly to-day be-
gan with a half-hour devotional service
led by Rev. Mr.. Barclay of Detroit.
The Chairmen of standing committees
to report on work Of boards of the
church We're announced.
Governor James A Mount of Indiana
was named as Vice Moderator. The
principal Chairmen were as follows:
Bills and Overtues DR.. Sheldon jack
son, Moderator; Judicial Business,
J. c. Patterson, New Jersey; Home
Missions, Dr. John Dixon, Trenton;
Education, Dr. Thomas d. Wallace,
Chicago
The time was then devoted to read
ing reports of committees.
The consideration Of reports on per-
iOdicaIs was made the second order for
Monday afternoon next.
A report on the memorial to Con-
gress praying for thorough investi-
cation Of the liquor traffic was pre-
scented.
Ex- Moderator John. L. Withrow of
the special committee on plans of Syn
odical Home Mission Association, re-
ported, recommending that liberty Of
selection of the methods of work by
seIf-supporting synods be left to them,
but that they report their expenses to
the home board, together with prospec-
tive expenses for the following year,
and that appropriations of other syn
DDS be made by the board and the
amounts equalized according TO local
need, in order to secure an equitable
distribution of the churchs funds.
The report was made a special order
for this afternoon.
Announcements were made for the
order of exercises for Thursday, May
10Th. in connection with the twenty
fifth anniversary of the adoption of the
Westminster confession and cate
chisms. Three sessions will be held.
Besides devotional exercises thirteen
half hour addresses will be made.
Speakers for the patriotic service APP
pointed Saturday afternoon were nam
ed by the Moderator, DR.. Charles L.
Work of Cincinnati to be Chairman,
with DR. Theodore F. Burnham of Cal
ifornia, Rev. ]. NJ. Barley of Detroit
and Rev. David Brown, a colored com
missioner, as speakers.
After the noon recess the assembly
took up the matter Of the relations OF
synods to the Board of Home Missions.
Dr. Withrow, Chairman of the COM
mittee, explained the purport of the
report, saying that it was an effort to
harmonic the methods of work now in
use. with view to uniformity of prac-
tice.
The various phases of the plan receiv-
ed discussion, but all the objections
We're courteOusly met by the Chairman
of the committee, and finally all the
recommendations were adopted.
a resolution urging that President
Mckinley order that no unneces-
sary Sabbath work be done by the navy
and army in the present war, and that
battles be not begun on Sunday, met
with decided opposition, and was fin
ally laid on the table, after having
been loaded to the limits with amend
ments.
One commissioner protested that the
assembly should not advertise its folly
by adopting the proposed resolutions.
The evening session was devoted to
popular meetings.
CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIANS.
MARSHALL (Mo.), May 20.-To-
days session of the Cumberland Pres
byterian General Assembly was largely
taken up with the rendering Of board
and committee reports.
The annual report of the Board of
Missions, presented by Rev. J. w.
Laughlin, shows the board to be main
tanning work in twenty three cities.
Particular mention is made Of the eff
forts of the church in Indian Terri
tory, where, it is stated, much good
mission work has been accomplished
among the Indians and that still more
vigorous plans have been mapped out.
The work in Mexico, the report says,
was consolidated at Aqua Calientes,
which city has been made the head
quarters for that country. Work is
also being prosecuted at Cusio Ascen-
tos and Rincon de Romas, and girls
school and a boys industrial school re-
Gently erected promise to be useful fac
tors in evangelization.
Hopeful reports are given from the
boards of eighteen missionaries in ia
pan. but the fact that no addi-
tional missionaries have been sent
into that country within the year be-
cause of the lack Of funds is deplored.
In China new missions have been open
ed and the work is reported progress
ing satisfactorily.
The board reports that all debts have
been hQuidated The receipts for the
past year were $50, 656.
The Board Of Visitors to the Theo-
logical Seminary at Lebanon, Tenn, re-
ported prosperous year at the semin-
airy with the largest attendance in the
history Of the institution.
The Committee on Systematic Beneff-
cence reported a steady increase of
! 1.-THE payers.