The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-19

ANNUAL SESSION
VIRGINIA SY'yOD.
The Question Of Division May be
Considered.
M NJ. o Q .: f. B NOT CHOSEN,
The Twentieth Century Fund and Overture
from lampden- sidney college for c,oser
Re,a,lons Are Among tue interest
Ing matters 10 Come Up.
The Question Of a Division May be
M 0 DE.RAToR NOT CHOSEN.
Especial Dispatch to The. Tlme.. !


LYNCHBURG, VA, Oct. 1S-The 114th
annual session OIL the Synod Of Virginia
Will be held in the tirst Presbyterian
: Church here, beginning on Tuesday nigh.,
October ed, and viii be opened with a
sermon by the retiring moderator Rev.
A. H Hamilton I'D, of Steels Tavern,
Augusta county. The present prospects
are for a large attendance. Already re-
ports have been received from about three
hundred, but of this nuI1l1er some will
be kept away at the last minute as is
usually the case. The Committee on En-
tertainment are expecting two hundred
and fifty delegates. although provision
has been made for more.
No one as yet has any idea, as to who
will be made moderator. The Synod does
not electioneer. a friendly contest is al
ways waged,. but there is no lobbying in
regard to the matter
QUESTION OF DIVISION.
The Synod has much routine and other
matters to consider. At the meeting in
Newrrort News lastSfall a resolution was
introduced that a committee be appointed
to- consider the division of the Synod
Its consideration was deferred until the
LvnctF4urg meeting. This resolution does
not necessarily mean that the question
OF! division will he considered Same adj
. NOcdJc- tlFlCluS liz SNutd iIlo Two DARTS
and others are in favor of dividing it into
three If the question is opened at the
fort hccr7,ing session. a great amount OF
elonuenre and fine debating will be heard.
Ano4 her matter of interest is the TWEEN
tieth century fund for education. A COM
rlittee was appointed at the last meeting
of the Synod to report at Lynchburg.
This committee consists of DR.. II A.
White on Lexington: Rev F. T. McFa-
den. of Lvnchburg. and Dr.. f. j. Brooke.
of Alexandria A report was formulated
at a conference of the committee held
in Bvrnhhl1rg last spring. and will be
presented. 1t is lil-elv that there will
be amendments and here may be a mi
noritv report all Of which will provoke
Disc sion.
Another matter OF great Importance IS
the overture from the Board OF Trustees
of Ha~rcde en- Sidney College. asking For
the appointment of a committee to confer
with the boards committee lcDking 10
cicser rc1at;on= between the SYNOD and
the college. Hampden-Sidaey has always
bean considered a PRESBYTERIAN college.
In 1sT. She focard declared it to be such.
But it is the opinion Of the board and of
a large number of the Synod that there
ought to be some. connection between the
collge and the Synod, so that there may
he some guarantee that it will always
be, what it has always been, a Presbyte-
rian institution.
The Synod Will be attended by the Cen
eral Assemf2ly.s secretaries. Much inter
est is manifested in Rev. DR.. S. l.. Nor
r.s, who was elected last May by the
Gsrsral Assembly to succeed the late
DR. T. n Craig. DR.. Morris has never
heen before the Synod i'll an official ca
q,aci.y, ana his first appearance is looked
forward TO with interest.
STANDING. COMMITTEES.
Standing committees on the work Of the
church, such as home and foreign mis-
: s1ons, EDUCATION, ETC., have already been
art!ointed, and from data furnished by
the Presbytcries, they will have their re-
ports ready for the Synod, and it is ex-
pected that they will cali forth much dis
cuSSion.
Memorial services of deceased ministers
will be held during the session, and these
exercises are always of a solemn and I'M
presslve character The synodical COM
munion will be AN impressive event.
The usual committees on bills, Presby-
terial records, narrative, Union Theolog-
ical Seminary, etc, ETC., will be appointed
and the work Of the past year will be
thoroughly discussed and plans made for
the coming year. Lynchburg will give
the visitors q, cordial recep ion, and they
VII be comfortably entertained.
The meeting will be he'd in the First
Presbyterian Church, enc of the. hand
soonest e6ifces or the kind in the city,
if not in the State. It was dedicated free
of debt in 1900, and cost $4,000. The pas
tor is Rev f. Z. NIcFaden, who was
called to Lynchburg from Marion IN Oc-
tober, 1895. to succeed Rev. w. L. Hall,
D. D.. now Professor of Theology in the
Columbia Seminary, South Carolina