The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-04-16

The members of the washburn Street
Presbyterian church have completed
arrangements for entertaining the
clergy and laymen of the Lackawanna
Presbytcry, which meets in annual ses-
sion in West Scranton the first four
days of this week. The delegates will
arrive today and be assigned to diff
ferent families, and during the after
noon several important committee
meetings will be neld.
The conference proper will open this
evening, when the retiring moderator,
Rev. Alexander G.. Cameron, of Syl-
vanla, Pa., Will preach the sermon and
the assembly will organize and elect
his successor. Tomorrow morning,
commencing at 9 o'clock, devotional
exercises will be held for half an hour,
and the remainder of the day will be
devoted to the business of the Presby
terry. Business meetings will be held
each day. to which the public is well
come, and the evenings will be devoted
to popular meetings, at which ad-
dresses will be made by well-known
speakers.
Tomorrow evening a popular meet
ing will he held in the interest of Sun
day school work. Special music will
be rendered by the church choir and
orchestra and members of ell the Pres
byterian Sunday schools in the city
and Protestant schools of West Scran-
ton will participate. The address of
welcome will be delivered by William
7. Rurrall.superintende of the Wash
burn Street Church Bible school, and
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speakers.
DIR. NICHOLS TO SPEAK.
The principal address will be made
by Rev. u. Parson Nichols, pastor of
the First PRESBYTERIAN church. of
Binghamton, ". Y. This meeting is
expected TO be the most important of
the entire sessions, inasmuch as it per-
tains to the Sunday school, which IS
an important factor in the church
work.
At the business sessions reports will
be read from all the churches in the
Presbytcry, and delegates will be elect
ed to attend the general assembly,
which meets in st. Louis, Mo-, in May.
The licensing and ordination of candi-
dates to the gospel ministry will also
be Il feature, and the committee APP
pointed some time ago to consider the
advisability of continuing or discon-
tinuing the Sumner Avenue Presbyter-
ian church will make their report.
The committee. which is composed of
Rev. ]. T.. Moffat, d. D., chairman;
Rev. c. L. Robinson, d. D.: Rev.
James Mcleod, d. d.: j. ]. l.. Travis
and Alexander Dickson, met week
ago and formulated their report. The
church is at present in charge Of Rev.
Frank ]. Mlman, who was appointed
to temporarily fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Rev. l.. r. Fos
ter. now assistant pastor OF the Green
Ridge Presbyterian church.
The Washburn street church
through it's pastcr, Rev. ]. p. Moffat
ID. D., will report one of the most sue
cessful years in the history of the
church. At present there is member
ship of 500, forty-five of whom were
admitted during the past year. At the
| recent communion service, Elder Will
| liam F'rink was unable to attend fol
the first time since he was ordained
an elder in 1876. The church is the
| first in this city to adopt the communi
cants token cards, which were used
| in ancient times, and the second tC
| adopt the individual communion corps
Wednesday ''vening a popular meet