The record-union., 1899-05-25
A Mild Amendment to the Report Relative
TO LyncAings in the South Adopted.
An Aged Illinois Minister Con-
tributes a Goodly Sum for the
Freedmen's Cause.-The Conn
mittee on Overtures Still Wres-
Ting With the Report in the
McGiffert Case.

| MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.), May 24.-
Rev. Need Holmes of Rockford ILL.,,
aged and bent, climbed upon the tri-
bune in the Presbyterian General AS
sembly this afternoon and extracted
from worn little pocketbook a draft
for 81 600 on the Chemical National
| Bank of New York. Rents were ter
| ribly low, he said and money was hard
to get but for the freedmen's cause
he would give that draft, provided ali
stood by their pledges and promises,
and the more than $4,000 promised
was actually delivered. Then, while
the assembly applauded loudly, the
gray bearded man painfully clambered
down.
DIR. Charles Herr presented the
amendment to the report of the Freed
mems Committee as to lynch law out
| RACES in the South. The lurid language
of the other day, which caused some
excitement, gives place to this harm
less paragraph:
1T Ghe freedmen's) is a cause that
appeals to us with particular insist
ence at this time, because of the devel-
opment of the mob spirit in our Chris
tian land. We john heartily with our
fellow citizens and fellow Christians
of all sections in their horror of those
dreadful manifestations, and we be-
lieve IL is an hour for our church to
pledge herself afresh in sacrifice and
service to the redemption of the negro
from his sufferings and his sins"
Nobody had any fault to find with
these words.
Rev Dr. Meldrum of St Paul, Chair
man of the standing committee on the
Publication and Sabbath School Board
Affairs, made a highly eulogistic re-
port in which he called attention to
many statistics previously given in
the boards report During the year
books to the value of $127 ,631 had
been Sold and S226, $50 had been real
lied from periodicals. The net profits
were S19,1I5, of which two thirds had
been placed to the credit of the Sab
bath-school department
The twentieth century movement,
Which contemplates Signalling the
opening of the new century with the
addition of 100000 children to the Sab
bath-school, was approved DR.. F. r.
Raven, Secretary, made an appeal to
the assembly for help.
Rev. w. H. Hubbard of Auburn, N.
Y. editor of the old Assembly Her
ald,' which was put to death by de-
cree of the assembly ON December 31st,
made his final report on that publica-
tion, showing that it had ceased to
exist with a balance on the right side.
After the report Dr. Hubbard, who
feels somewhat aggrieved because the
consolida tion of the Assembly Her
add and the Church at Home and
Abroad was not given into his man
az mi .ry;tb
speech.
Then DR.. Knox, of a special commit
tee that had been running the new
Assembly Herald presented his re-
port, and recommended that the peri
odical be managed hereafter by COM
mittee of three, one member to be APP
pointed by the Foreign Missions Board,
another by the Home Missions and the
third by the six other boards. In rec
ognition of DIR. Hubbard's faithful SER
vices, the balance was voted to him.
But then DR.. Knox made a speech in
which he compared the old and new
Herald in way which did not please
DR. Hubbard. The latter begged the
assembly for a chance to reply, and
the committee insisted that he must
have a chance to answer.
The prospect promised a lively con-
troversy but it was postponed until
tomorrow. The developments showed
that a strong element wants the Board
of Publication to take charge of the
official organ, and that board is ad-
verse to taking the incubus.
The Committee on Bills and Over
lures asked that it be permitted to re-
port the McGiffert case at 2 o'clock
tomorrow afternoon, instead of 10
a. m, the time previously fixed. That
is supposed to mean that the commit
tee is still wrestling with the case
that the extremists are laboring to
have drastic action taken with the Pro-
fessor who does not believe that the
sacrament of the Lords Supper is of
divine institution.