The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-05-25
HAD NO FAULT TO FIND
Lynching Resolutions Proved
Very Harmless.
DR., BIRCH TURNED DOWN
Publication Board Gave Him q Short
Answer-The Twentieth Century
Movement-A Lively Tilt
Avoided.

Minneapolis. May c4.-Rev. Need
Holmes of Rockford ILL.,, aged and bent,
climbed upon the tribune in the Pres
byterian general assembly this after
noon and extracted from a worn little
pocketbook a draft for $1,000 on the
Chemical National bank of New York.
Rents We're terribly low he said, and
money was hard to get but for the
freedmen's cause he would give that
draft, provided all stood by their
pledges and promises, and that more
than $4,000 promised was actually de-
4 1ivered Then, while the assembly APP
plauded loudly, the graybearded man
painfully clambered down.
Dr. Charles Herr presented the
amendment to the representative of the
freedmens committee as to lynch law
outrages in the South. The lurid Ian
guage of the other day, which caused
some excitement, gives place to the
harmless paragraph:
ut the freedmens) 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 horror of those dreadful
manifestations, and we believe it is an
hour for our church to pledge herself
afresh in sacrifice and service to the
redemption of the negro from his suf-
ferings and his sins.
: Nobody had any fault to find with
these words.
10 IL tAy,' INy.
George w. p. Birch. the ''heresy hun
ter while Judge Wilson of Philadel-
phia 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 book
which declared Daniel, countersigned
by our Lord Jesus Christ, to be fable
Il 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 on the
boards affairs. made 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
sold and $226. $50 had been realized from
periodicals. The net profits We're $19,-
ITS, of which two-thirds had been placed
to the credit of the Sabbath school de-
partment.
The goth century movement, which
contemplates Signalling the opening of
the new century with the addition of
SOC, 900 children to the Sabbath school,
was approved. DR.. F. r. Raven, secre-
tary, made an appeal to the assembly
for help. gfH
Rev. ". H. Hubbard, Auburn, N. ".
editor of the Old Assembly Herald.
win Mt 10 hU nf
the assembly Dec. 81. made his final
report on that publication, showing
that it has ceased to exist with bal
ance on the right side.
After the report DIR. Hubbard, who
feels somewhat aggrieved because the
consolidation of the Assembly Herald
and the Church At Home and Abroad
was not given into his management, fol-
lowed his report with a speech Then
DR.. Knox of a special committee that
had been running the new Assembly
Herald presented his report and recon-
( mended that the periodical be managed
hereafter by 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
board. In recognition of DR.. Hubbard's
faithful services the balance was voted
to him. But then DR.. Knox made &
speech in which he compared the old
and new Heralds in way which did
not please DR.. Hubbard. The latter
begged the assembly for a chance tc
reply and the committee insisted that
he must have chance to answer. The
prospec. promised a lively controversy
but it was postponed until tomorrow
The developments showed that strong
element wants the board of publication
to take charge of the official organ, ant
the board is adverse to taking the in.
cumbrance.
The committee on bills and overtures
asked that it be permitted to repor
the McGiHert case at o'clock to-mor
row afternoon instead of 10 a. M, the
u time previously fixed. That is sup
posed to mean that the committee il
still wrestling with the case-that the
8@ extremists are laboring to have drastic
action taken with the professor who
does not believe that the sacrament OF
the Lords supper is of divine institu
ton.
The judicial committee made the fol.
lowing reports: Appeal of Rev. James
III. Baird from synod of Pennsylvania
not sustained: trial of the complaint
of the Rev. Charles NJ. Taylor agains
the Illinois synod: appeal of Justic,
Woods of the synod of Nebraska dis
missed.
There is a prospect that the commit
tee on bills and overtures will brns
in report on the state of affairs grow
ing out of the Spanish-American Wa
which may be construed as an indorse
ment of the administrations Philippin
policy Friends of the foreign mission
approve the expansion policy and Sec
rotary Brown practically said so thi
morning.
BAPTISTS IN SESSION.