The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-05-25
1LCEE'S MINNEAPOLIS OFFICE,
~ 90 WASHINGTON Az SOUTH.
Telephone 1886 j.

Today will be the most important of
the Presbyterian general assembly at
Minneapolis. In the morning the place
for the next meeting will be fixed, and In
the afternoon the McGiffert case will
come up. In addition a spirited contro-
very brought out by the consolidation of
Presbyterian publications, carried over
from yesterday, will be given time. The
Winona Lake adherents claim that their
stock has looked up, and profess to be
very confident of getting the assembly
again. A popular mass meeting was held
last night and devoted to the work of
foreign missions.
The meeting was brought to close
by a cash collection of $500. to be used
In sending two missionaries to Asia. The
sum of 1886 dollars will be needed and
an effort will be made to raise the entire
amount during the session of the as
sembly. A lady who has given her whole
life to missionary work took the gold
band from her finger and placed 1t on the
contribution plate. Her action was seen
by friend, who communicated the in
formation to the chairman of the meet
ing. He announced that the ring could
be redeemed for 500. number of per-
sons contributed towards the redemption
of the ring last evening, and 1t Is esti-
mated that the sum which will be re-
ceived for this purpose will be more near
ly ST. 90 than $780,
Rev. Mead Holmes, of Rockford, ILL.,,
aged and bent, climbed upon the tribune
in the Presbyterian general assembly
yesterday afternoon and extracted from
lraf fAr
81 900 on the Chemical National Bank, Of
New York. Rents were terribly low,
he said, and money 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 $4,000
promised was actually delivered. Then,
while the assembly. applauded loudly. the
gray beard painfully elambered down.
Dr. Charles Herr presented the amend
ed report of the Freedmans committee
rs to the lynch law outrages in the South.
The lurid language of the other day,
which caused some excitement, gives
place to this harmless paragraph:
ut (the Freedmens) is a cause that
appeals to us with particular insistence at
This time because of the development 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 manifesto
lions, and we believe 1t is an hour for our
church to pledge herself afresh in sac
fifce and service to the redemption of the
negro from his sufferings and his SINS"
Nobody had any fault to find with these
words,
tAs3 HERESY HUNTER. ~@ ~
st want to ask question: said DR..
George P. Birch, the "heresy hunter"
while Judge. Wilson, of Philadelphia
president, was talking about the work OF
the publication and Sabbath school board.
DIR. 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
beard. Dr. Wilson assured him that he
would not get any. = . p ia5
This board had the right of way yes
terday afternoon. Rev DR. Medium, of
ST Paul, chairman of the standing
boards affairs, made a highly eulogistic
report, in which he called the attention
to many statistics previously given In the
boards report. During the year books
to value of $127, 637 had been sold and
$226, 750 had been realized from periodicals.
The net profits were u.s. of which two
thirds had been placed to the credit of
the Sabbath school department.
$50 far as possible recommends the
report of the committee, presbyterian
money should be spent for the spreading
of distinctly Presbyterian gospel This
policy is in no wise inconsistent with the
truest and most generous catholicity.'
The twentieth century movement which
contemplates Signalling the opening of
the new century with the addition of
100000 children to the Sabbath schools,
was approved. DR.. E. r. Craven, sec
rotary, made an appeal to the assembly
for help.
DIR. HUBBARD'S REPORT.
Rev. w. H. Hubbard, Auburn, N. Y,
of the old Assembly Herald, which was
put to death by decree of the assembly
On December 81, made his final report
on the publication, showing that 1t has
ceased to exist with a balance on the
right side.
After the report DR.. Hubbard, who
feels somewhat aggrieved because the