Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-27

wiak Case Referred to the New Yorl
! Synod-Sunday Observance Resolution
MINNEAPOLIS, May 27.-The closing
session of the Presbyterian general as
sembly was being held this morning.
After an exchange of greetings witt
the general synod of the Reformed
! church i'll session at Tiffin, O.,
report from the committee on bill
and overtures was read i'll the PreSby
terian general assembly. Endorsement
ana commendation Of the Brotherhood
of Andrew and Philip We're recon
mended. In the matter OF numerous
overtures in favor of changing the
method of appointing committees IL wa:
recommended that a committee of foul
ministers and three elders be appointed
to consider the matter and report TO the
next assembly.
4 resolution was introduced III which
the Fifty-siXth congress was called
upon to promptly expel Mr.. Roberts il
accordance with article /, section OF
the national constitution. The resolu
tion was adopted.
The assembly called upon the same
body to amend the national constitu
ton and submit the same to the legis
latures of the states defining legal mar.
rage TO be modOgamOuS and making
polygamy under whatever guise or pre-,
tense crime against the United States,
punishable by severe penalty, includ.
ing disfranchisement and disqualified.
ton to vote or hold any Office of honor
under the United States or in any state
or territory thereof. 1t was adopted.
The committee on Sabbath observance
offered and the assembly adopted an ad-
ditional resolution calling upon "all
Office bearers and members who are em-
ployers of labor to exert themselves to
reduce the amount of Sabbath labor and
TO condemn that policy of management
which makes its obligatory upon the
laborer to choose between dismissal and
Sunday labor
Douglas p Putnam, chairman of the
committee on church erection, reported
ON the work of the board of that name
and Corresponding Secretary Erskine
n. White made an address in behalf of
the board.
The committee ON policy recon-
mended that no action be taken this
year i'll the matter of consolidating the
freedmen's with the foreign mission
board
Herman Warszwiak, expelled about
two years ago, for alleged gambling,
by the lession OF the Fifth Avenue
church of New York, will have to go
to the New York synod for relief. The
Judiciary committee appointed to hear
the matter recommended that the judg-
ment of the synod be reversed in so far
only as the synod instructed the presby-
terry of New York to remand the case
to the session of the Fifth Avenue
church with instructions to try WarsZ-
WAX on an amended charge, including
the misuse Of money for missionary
purposes. The case was remanded to
the synod to be proceeded with accord
ing TO methods and requirements of the
constitution. In respect to the men,
orial of the Fifth Avenue church ask
ing that the case be sent back to thelk
the committee reported that it was not
within its authority to decide such a
matter, but left 1t to the assembly,
which had not acted.
A mass of routine business was dis
posed of at the afternoon session. DR..
John w. Dlnsmore, chairman of the
standing committee on theological SEM
inarieS, turned in an exhaustive review
of those institutions. The number of
students III each was given as follows:
Princeton, 206; Auburn, 105; Western
seminary, Allegheny City, 10; Lane, Sc;
Danville, %; San Francisco, 81; Du-
buque, 81; Lincoln, A. Biddle, 20;
Omaha, "A. The commissioners closely
inspected these figures, because they
have a bearing on the delicate question
of increase or decrease in the number of
candidates for the ministry. They are
deemed satisfactory. The report was
something of roast for dude minis
tiers. and 1t was limited that the lives of
many theological students are too lux
urlous. DIR. Dinsmore followed the re-
port with IA speech in which he deplored
the tendency of graduates to look too
iDtently for soft berths
DR.. William S. Fulton read the report
of the committee on correspondence,
which reviewed the work during the as
sembly. and announced the following
of fraternal delegates:
Rev. James P. Stratton, D. D., to the
Reformed church i'll the United States,
now holding its general synod at Tiffin,
o.; Rev. E. I. Jeffers, ID. D., to the
general assembly of the Evangelical /
Lutheran church. York, Pa; Rev. John
Balcom Shaw, to the 1900 meeting of
church in America; Rev. Llewellyn S.
Fullmer, to the 1900 meeting of the Re-
formed Episcopal church at Baltimore.
A large report was turned III by the
on benevolence, dealing with
the reports of special and regular COM
mittees on systematic benefcence.
Rev. James Wilson presented the re-
port of the narrative committee. A
neurological list for the past year was
read. 1t gave the names of 137 minis
iers Or. Charles Herr was asked to
present a supplementary report of the
work of raising the freedmen S board of
100000. He stated that $40.900 had
been received. George Stevenson, rul
ing elder of Arch Street church, Phila-
ielphia, was nominated for the va
cancy on the board of trustees of the
assembly.
New presbyteries are to be started i'll
The Nanking nelghborhood, in China,
and in the Yukon valley in Alaska.
Last night a thanksgiving meeting
was held at Westminster church, DIR.
Sample, the moderator. presiding.
WASHINGTON, May III Brigadier
General Asa B. Carev, paymaster gen
,ral of the army, was granted leave of
lbsence to and including July IL uext,
III which day he is expected to go on
he reti1ed list. Colonel Alfred E. Bates |
vas assigned to duty as acting paymas-
er general, which was accepted by Off