Arizona republican., 1899-09-28
ALL pRESBYTERIHNS
The First Day Of inc Great Quad.
 renniai Council

Washington, DC, Sept. 27.-The na- tionai capital is entertaining today the
 most distinguished gathering of re- ligious nature that has ever assembled
 within it's borders At it's leading hcteis, or at the residences of it's repre- i sentative citizens. are to bs found members of the clergy, philanthropy ists, educators. and statesmen gathered from many parts of the globe. They are here as delegates t3 the seventh ! general council of Presbyterian Alliance, which began a weeks session in the New York Avenue Presbyterian i church this morning. The council is i composed Of all of the various branches Of the Presbyterian and Re i formed churches throughout the world. l The delegates who assembled today represent ten Reformed and Presbytar- ian churches in the United States, with i a constituency of 6,500 000; the Pres byterian church in Canada, with a con- stituency of 6O00O0, and more than eighty different denominations on the five continents other than North America, with a constituency of at least 23000, GOO. As the present meet ing is the twenfy-fifth anniversary of close of the century, the reports and l addresses will be important from a 1 historical standpoint
 The proceedings this morning were i confined to the delivery of the opening 1 sermon by Rev. Prof. John Dewitt, D. D., Of Princeton, N. J. The church was crowded to the doors at 9:3O when the council was formally opened. The general public was we'll represented, but the bulk of the seats were pre- empted by eminent scholars, theolog- ians, and the active workers of Pres byterianism
 After the noon racess the delegates reaSsembled for the permanent organ ization of the council. The gathering was called to order by the president Rev. Dr. Lang, of Glasgow, Scotland, and there was an address of welcome by Rev. Dr. Radcliffe, pastor of the New York Avenue church The roll call brought out strikingly the repre- sentative character of the gathering The names of some cf the foreign dele gates who responded were as follows:
 General assembly of the Presbyter- ian church in Canada-Principal Ca ven, D. D., of Knox college, Toronto; James Croil, Montreal; George Hay, Ottawa; Sir Thomas w. Taylor, Win nipeg; Justice Forbes, St. Johns, N.B; Principal King. DID,, Manitoba col lege, Winnipeg; Right Rev. R. Tor rance, DID,. moderator, general as sembly, Guelph; Principal Grant, DID,, of Queens university, Kingston. and James RobertsCn, D. D., Winnipeg.
 England-Samuel Smith, NJ P London; Rev. William Hutton, Bir- kenhead Rev. N. A. Ross, Newcastle; Thomas Bell, London.
 Ireland-Rev. s. G. Kennedy, LID, Belfast; J. McCurdy, Hamilton, Dub lin; Prof T. NJ. Hamill, Belfast; Jo- seph Corkey, Londonderry; Rev. Will liam Beatty, DID,, Belfast
 Church of Scotland-Rev. J. Mar shall Lang, DID,, Glasgow; w. s. Swanson, Aberdeen; Baillie Alexander Murray, Glasgow; Robert Russell, Simpson, Edinburgh; Patrick S. Mudie Dundee; John Archibald Roxburgh, Glasgow; James Logic, Perth; Rev. Alexander SmelIe, Thurso; Henry An gus, DID,, Arbroath.
 Presbyterian Church of Wales-Rey. John Pugh Cardiff; Rev. Thomas Rees, D. D., Merthyr Tydvil; Rev. J. T. Wheldon, B. A, Bangor; Timothy Davies. London.
 France-Rev. Jean E. Knutz, B. D., Paris
 China-Philip B. Cousland, Chao- ChCw-Foo; William Riddeu, NJ D., Hakka country.
 South Africa-Rev. P. G. J. Meiring, Johannesburg, South African repub- lie; Rev. MT. Bosmon, Pretoria, South African republic.
 Australasia-Rev. John George Pa