The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-25
RENTS ARE LOW
But Rev. Meade Holmes Can Spare
$1,000 For the Cause.

Minneapolis, Mimi, May 25.-Rev.
Meade Holmes of Rockford, Ill, aged
and bent, climbed upon the tribune in
the Presbyterian general assembly yes
terday afternoon and extracted from
worn little pocketbook a draft for $1,000
on the Chemical National bank of New
York. Rents were terribly low, he said,
and money was hard to get, but for the
Freedman's cause he would give that
draft, provided all stood by their pledges
and promises, and the more than $4O,-
600 promised was actually delivered
Then while the assembly applauded
loudly, the gray bearded man painfully
clambered down. Dr. Charles E. Herr
presented the amendment to the report
of the F'reedman's committee as to
lynch law outrageS in the south. The
1urid language of the other day Whlch
caused some excitement, gives place to
this harmless paragraph:
1T (the freedmen's) is a cause that
appeals to US with particular insistence
at this time, because of the develop
ment of the mob spirit in our Christian
land. We join heartily with our fellow
citizens and fellow Christians Of all
sections in their horror of those dreadful
manifestations and we believe it is an
hour for our church to pledge 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.
Il want to ask a question" said DR..
George w. Birch, while Judge Wilson
of Philadelphia. president. was talking
about the work of the publication and
Sabbath school board. DR.. Birch said
that he had seen in a publishing house,
the other day, a book which declared
Daniel, cOuntersigned, by our Lord
Jesus Christ, to be a fable" DR.. Birch
wanted no such books from the board.
Judge Wilson assured him that he
would not get any. This board had the
right of way this afternoon.
Rev. DR.. Medium, of st. Paul, chair
man of the standing committee of the
boards affairs, made a highly eulogis-
tic report in which he called attention
to many statistics previously given in
the boards report. During the year
books to the value of $127 637 had been
periodicals. The net profits were 49,,
175, of which two-thirds had been placed
to the credit of the Sabbath school.
The twentieth century movement,
which contemplates Signalling the
opening of the new century with the
addition of 500, 900 children to the Sab
bath schools, was approved DR.. F. r.
Craven, secretary, made an appeal to
the assembly for help.
Rev. w. H. Hubbard, Auburn, N. Y,
editor of the old assembly Herald, which
was put to death by decree of the as
sembly on December 81, made his final
report to that publication, showing that
it has ceased to exist with a balance
on the right side
feels somewhat aggrieved because the
consolidation of the Assembly Herald
and the Church at Home and Abroad
was not given into his management,
filed his report with a speech.
Then DR.. Knox of special commit
tee that had been running the new AS
sembly Herald. presented his report
| and recommended that the periodical
| be managed hereafter by a committee
| of three, one member to be appointed
by the foreign missions board. another
by the home missions and the third by
| the six other boards. In recognition of
| DR.. Hubbard's faithful services, the
| balance was voted to him. But when
| DR.. Knox made a speech in which he
| compared the old and new Heralds in
a way which did not please DR.. Hub
! bard, the latter begged the assembly
| for chance to reply, and the commit
| tee insisted that he must have a chance
| to answer. The prospect promised a
| lively controversy, but it was post
| poned. The developments showed that
| a strong element wants the board of
| publication to take charge of the Of
| fetal organ and that board is adverse
| to taking the incubus.
| The committee on bills and cvertures
| asked that it be permitted to report the
| McGiffert case at o'clock this after
| noon instead of 10 a. M, the time pre-
| viously fixed. That is supposed to
| mean that the committee is still wrest-
| ling with the case-that the extremists
| are 1abOring to have drastic action ia
| ken with the professor who does not
| believe that the sacrament the
| lords supper is of divine institution.
The judicial committee made the fol-
| lowing reports:
Appeal of Rev-James H. Baird, from
synod of Pennsylvania, not sustained;
| trial of the complaint of the Rev. Chas.
| A. Taylor against the Illinois synod or
| dered; appeal of J. Scott Woods, of the
| synod of Nebraska, dismissed
| There is prospect that the commit
| tee on bills and overtures will bring in
| a report on the state of affairs growing
| out of the Spanish-American war which
| may be construed as an Endorsement of
| the administrators Philippine policy
| Friends of the missions approve the ex-
| pansion policy, and Secretary Brown
| practically said So
Silk Mill Destroyed.