The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-10-16
Endorsement of an Evangelistic Plan
and the Celebration of the Golden
Jubilee of DIR. Vannuys.
STATE MEETING OF BAPTISTS
UNUSUALLY LARGE ATTENDANCE AT
THE ANNUAL CONVENTION.
Papers, Sermons and Good Financial
RepOrts-Meetings of Women Work.
ers I'm the Missionary Fields.
cial to the Indianapolis Journal.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal
GOSHEN, Ind, Oct. Is. Two Sunday
school missionaries to labor in the Pres
byterian Synod field of Indiana were to-day
requested by the synod. in session here.
and it was recommended that the Rev. I.
M. Houser, of South Bend. already COM
missioned as missionary of the Vincennes
Presbytery be one of them.
The Sunday schools of the synod have
contributed the past year to the board of
publication and Sabbath school work
total of &.26s, an increase of $3.50 over
last year; the amount contributed to the
support of schools. s16,9O9. an increase of
1923 over the previous year.
The Rev. r. E. Purcell. of Vincennes,
and the Rev. Harry Nyce, of Peru. were
reelected trustees of Hanover College, and
the Rev. c. G. Richards, of Columbus, was
chosen in the place of the Rev. r. ".
Hunter.
The entire amount reported within the
synod on the Twentieth Century Fund" is
1881. 1863. The treasurers report showed
the receipts of the year to be $4.621.62. with
$3.50 now on hand.
A prominent feature of the synod meeting
which closed tonight was the indorse-
State. The snyod Endorsed the plan of hold
ing three evangelistic conferences on Nov
IL, IL and IL at Marion. Indianapolis and
Terre Haute, respectively, under the d.
rection Of the Rev. j. w. Chapman, D. D.,
and also accepted the offer of the General
Assembly TO send the Rev. j. NJ. Fulton Of
Wooster, o.. as pulpit supply preacher
for pastors engaged in other meetings, and
also the offer of two evangelistic singers.
The past year the gain in membership was
3,124 or 7SS more than the number Of adj
ditions in 1901.
The report Of the Home Mission COM
mittee, made by the Rev. Freeley Rohrer.
Of Marion, shows the number of commune
cants in the 800 churches of the synod to
be 43. sos, a gain of nearly 1000 in the year.
The number Of ministers Is 264. There was
contributed to home missions during the
year the sum of $50. 726, which included gifts
from individuals Of $4,000, from churches,
endowment fund s2,053 There was sent
to the Home Mission Board, at New York
city. the sum of s26.362. also $3.50 by the
Womans societies In the twelve years
| in the synod II has produced the grand
total of $s5S.s72 in Home Mission offerings;
| of which the churches have contributed
| Sl41.S79, and individuals So, 22S.
Mrs. Charles r. Luce, secretary OF the
Womans Societies. reported 1873 Home Mis-
sion societies, with 5.922 members, who
| raised IS, 49154 and 179 Foreign Mission So
| cieties, with 4,749 members who raised 80.
| 9S35. The Indiana Synod last year gave
| $4,1S99 for aid to colleges.
| The Rev. Sol. c. Dickey, D. d.. OF In
| dianapolis. secretary and manager of the
! Winona Assembly addressed the synod
/ Tuesday afternoon on the Winona Agricul-
| tural and Technical School at Winona
| lake, and the Rev. John Pearson, d. D., of
| Cincinnati. of the Methodist Conference,
spoke on 1.-The American Bible Society,""
This forenoon was devoted to business
| session and this afternoon to addresses on
| the topic suggested by DIR. Vannuyss ju-
| bilee anniversary. The synodical commun-
| ion sermon was preached at o'clock by
the Rev. Joseph w. Clokey, d. D., of New
| Albany.
The synod closed this evening with an
| address by the Rev. A Woodruff Halsey,
ID. D., of New York. assistant secretary
! OF The Presbyterian Board of Foreign Mis-
sions, on the theme, 1.-The Foreign Field
During the Last Fifty Years.