The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-04-19

and FINANCES.
1 Reports Submitted to Pres
bytery Show Churches
in Good Standing.

y This morning tho Presbytery Of New
Castle received statistical reports from the
gchurches Of the district. They showed a
general increase III the membership, anu
u corresponding increase In the benevo-
R1ences.
\ The Wilmington Churches showed spec
lal progresa Central church added the
Aynost menbcrs during the year the num-
Der being So. West added g. Eight oer:
sons were dismissed by session OF Central
/, and 20 by that OF West. Oiivet added
lnirietesn members and dismissed two
\ Hanaver ADDED AZ and the First Church
Foi1hteen. Rodney added eleven. 1t was
reported that West Sunday school had
iSneM bership of 1918.
4 The individual figures concerning the H.
nances of the churches showed that West
Church raised e65l for home missions s ~
for foreign missions; Is tor education; Foo
Tor Sunday schools; 81 for church erection;
% for relief fund; SIG for freedmen; $50
for synodical aid; IS for college aid; Gen
.eral Assembly, t6l 81; college aid, A7 '57
Central Church, who q finances were the
greatest in the Presbytery were as follows;
Raised for home Missions, tsl2; foreign
missions, $3.50; education, s6o;, Sunday
school work. $50; church erection, SO;
relief fund, SOS: freedmen. Sal; synodlcal
Md, $50; aid for colleges, s6l general as
sembly ,S3S.73; congregational, 90. AS.
The figures of the report are summarize
cd rs follows: number of elders, $50; dea-
cons, "a; added by examination, 235; by
certificate 49, dismissed, 1924; deceased.
112; total communicates, 66Oo. Adults
bsptised, IS; infants, 1855; membership,
6719. The amount raised for home mis-
alons was S., GAG; foreign mission, a, 56e;
education, 1910; Sunday School work,
sofa; church erection, $40l; relief, Ss5l;
freedmen, $37a; synodical aid, $500; col-
leae aid, 1853; General Assembly. S540.97;
congregational, $47, 4O7; miscellaneous,
S478.
The report of the treasurer was cores
pondingly interesting having as it did
material advance in the PresbJtery imam
ces During the morning delegates and al
ternntes were nominated to attend the an
& nual meeting of the General Assembly
which will be held ut Minneapolis on May
18th.
The standing rules of the Presbytery
provide that the election Of delegates shall
sake place at 4 o'clock on the second day
Ut the session. but under suspension of
ruler, which was opposed by Rev, W. f.
LOWS only, the rule was suspended and
the slection fixed for 2 30 O. clock this after
noon. Subsequently the hour was fixed
for future elections Of delegates to the
General Assembly.
An overture offered by Mr.. Davidson,
providing for q reunion of the Northern
and Southern Pre- byterian Churches, was
voted down by the Presbytery, tho mem-
bsrs contending that such u reunion was
,inady isable at this time. Mr. Davidson ex-
planned that the overture came to him
from the Presbytery Of Muncie, and he
therefore offered it by request
Presby terry. by resolution, protested
against the seating of Bringham II. Rob-
erts in tho Elfty-sixth Congress, and will
request the Delaware and Maryland re-
representatives. in Congress to use all law
full means, to prevent his seatin { that
body.
An overture from the Peoria Presbytery
recommending that the election of Goner-
al Assembly committees be by a general
committee of the assembly and not by the
moderator of the Assembly AS is now the
custom was also presented by Mr., David
son. The Presbytery while concluding
that there should be Il change in the meth
cd of appointing the committees, decided
to take no action on the overture because
Of the complications it would 1esult in.
1t transpired that the matter had been sub
mittld TO the General Assembly at its last
se. sion and that it had not been acted up
on.
VIM. b. Stevens was elected a member
OF the Presbytery, he being of the Port De-
posit Church, Rev Mr. Lewis introduced
I. NJ. Gilchrist of Mexico who spoke brief
ly of the work OF the Presbyterian church
and the further need of missions there
Ex-Speaker Of the House Clark and ex-
Senator Shakespeare are delegates to the
RroSbVtery,