Akron daily Democrat. [volume] (Akron, Ohio) 1892-1902, 1899-05-25
N 'GIrFERT CASE TODAY
Report to the Assembly This
Afternoon.
AGED MINISTER'S CONTRIBUTION.
Mounted the Tribune and Gave a $1,000
Draf; For Freedmen's Aid-Several Mis-
sionaries Spoke-Nfessage Sent to the
Queen-Sume of the Proceedings.

MINNEAPOLIS, May 25.-The Presby-
cablegram TO Queen Victoria on her S0th
birthday.
DR.. Matthias L. Haines of Indiana,
chairman of the foreign missions om-
mittee. read the report of his commit
tee on the board of foreign missions.
The report was complimentary and
stimulating to interest i'll foreign mis-
sions. 1t recommended that the retiring
members Of the board be elected.
Rev Dr.. Arthur j. Brown, CORE
spending secretary, addressed the as
sembly iii behalf of the board and its
work.
Several missionaries addressed the as
sembly. Rev. McNair spoke for Japan.
The mikado's kingdom, he declared,
was still iii the darkness of heathenism,
while modern civilization has accentu-
ated its materialism.
Rev. G. Scott Williams spoke for
Mexico, where the church now has 1000
COMMITMENTS.
The elders of the church south, sitting
i'll assembly at Richmond. replied as fol
lows to the telegram sent them Tuesday
by the elders of the church north:
"Replying to your salutatlon, we
greet you as members of one body in
Christ. Read Acts Xxx, 30, and Ephe-
SANS iii, Ii to 81. May God bless you
al va ys.''
.tev Need Holmes of Rockford, Ills.
aged and bent, climbed upon the trib.
une in the Presbyterian general assem-
bly, and extracted from worn little
pocketbook Il draft for $1,000. Rents
were terribly low, he said, and money
was hard to get, but for the freedmen
cause he would give that draft, pro
v1ded all stood by their pledges and
promises, and the more than $4,000
promised was actually delivered.
Then, while the assembly applauded
loudly, the aged man painfully clamb-
cred down. DIR. Charles Herr presented
the amended report of the freedmen
committee to lynch law outrages in the
south.
The .lurid language the other day.
which caused some excitement, gives
place to this harmless paragraph:
ut Ghe freedmen's) is a cause thai
appeals to us with particular insistenct
at this time because of the develop
ment of the mob spirit i'll our Christian
land. We join heartily with our fel
| low citizens and fellow Christians Of
all sections i'll the horror of those dread
| full manifestations and we believe it 1!
an hour for our church to pledge her
self afresh i'll sacrifice and service tC
the redemption of the negro from hi
sutferings and his sins.
Nobody had any fault to find will
these words.
Rev. Dr. Meldrum of St. Paul, chair
man of the standing committee on the
board of Sabbath school affairs, made {
highly eulogiStic report at the Afternoon
session, in which he called attention tt
many statistics previously given in the
boards report. During the year book
to a value of $l27, ,637. .3S had been solC
and 1926, 750.0l had been realized from
periodicals.. The net profits were $40,
1886, of which two-thirds had beel
placed to the credit Of the Sabbath
school department.
$50 far as possible, =" recommends tn
report of the committee, "Presbyterial
money should be spent for the spread
ing of the distinct Presbyterian gospel
This is Eowise Ill; onSlstent with tn
truest and most ..genIr0us Catholicity.
The twentieth century movement
which contemplates signalizing tn
opening of the new century with tn,
addition of 500, 900 children to the Sab
bath schools, was approved. DR.. E. R
Craven, secretary, made an appeal +
the assembly for help.
Rev. W. II. Hubbard of Auburn, N
Y, editor of The Assembly Herald
which was discontinued by decree o
the assembly on Dec. 81, made his tina
report OH that publication, showing tina
it has ceased to exist with balance OF
the right side. DIR. Knox of Il specia
committee, which had been runnin;
tine new Assembly Herald, presented
his report and recommended that th
periodical be managed hereafter by
committee of three, one member to b
appointed by the foreign missions board
d. another by the home missions and tn
third by the six other boards. In recog
milton of DIR. Hubbard faithful SCI
vices the balance was voted to him. DIR
Knox, however, compared the old an
new Heralds in a way which did nc
please DR.. Hubbard. The latter begge
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