New-York tribune., 1902-05-14
DR.. DODGE OUT Of RACE.
DIR. VAN DYKE YIELDS TO THE RULING
PASSION
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY CANDIDATES
FOR MODERATOR CHANGE AS THE
ELECTION DAY APPROACHEs-THE
NETWORK COMMISSIONERS

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J The Rev DR. Henry van Dyke suggested
some time ago as a possible candidate for Mod
| orator of the Presbyterian General Assembly
which is to meet to- morrow in the Fifth Avenue
| Presbyterian Church, but afterward dropped
| from consideration because the commissioner to
whom he alternate expected to attend
the assembly, is now in the field and will be
placed in nomination tomorrow.
The Rev. DIR. d. Stuart Dodge. the president
of the Board of Home Missions will not be
candidate. and has informed his friends that
they must not consider him as being in the list
for moderator. The Board of Home Missions
has settled policy regarding these questions.
which 1t intends to carry out this year as usual,
viz, TO keep out of ecclesiastical politics. For
this reason DR.. John Dixon, the assistant secre-
tary of the board who elected commissioner
by the Presbytery of New Brunswick. returned
his Commission and II is believed that DR.. Dodge
has refused TO allow his friends to place him
ia nomination fearing that the suspicion would
be aroused that the president of the board
using his position to further his personal inter
ests. To those who know Dr. Dodge such a
suggestion could come only from one with an
evil mind. The same remark might be applied
TO DR.. Dixon. man as incapable of ecclesiasti
cal dickering of wilful prejury.
The New-York commissioners, fourteen In
number, are follows:
The Rev. DIR. Robert Russell Booth pastor
emeritus Of the Rutgers Riverside Church, and
an ex-moderator of the General Assembly DR..
Booth has done important work for Presby-
terianism not only in the city. but throughout
the country. His chief pastoral labors were in
the University Place Church.
The Rev. DR.. D. Stuart Dodge began his cler
ical life as a teacher in Presbyterian college in
Syria. and has been alive to the needs of the
mission fields at home and abroad during all
the years of his ministry.
DR.. Dufield has shown what a strong man can
do in downtown church in this city. When he
came here, ten years ago. many OF his friends
who knew the difficulties before him felt that he
skin @ @aaRg ms u Sl2f 2feyS Rave e Shown S fs thS
were false prophets
The Rev. DR.. John Bancroft Devins is the Ed-
tor Of The Ncw-York Observer" and the pastor
Of the Broome Street Tabernacle.
The Rev. DR.. Wilton Merle Smith, the moder
ator of the presbytery. is one Of the most at
tractive preachers in New-York. and although
his church-the Central Presbyterian-was
larged last summer, one has to reach there early
TO secure seat The church is a large contrib
utor TO mission work
The Rev Dr. David G.. wylie enjoys the dis
tinction of having held three pastorates in the
same preSbytery and of doing successful work In
each. The Scotch Church. at Ninety -sixth-st.
and Central Park West, is power for righteous
ness in this city.
The Rev A c. Mcmillan represents the board
of publication and Sabbath school in this city,
and Is doing much to develop interest in the
work OF the board among the churches of New
York and its vicinity.
OF the elders S. b. Brownell represents the
Fifth Avenue Church; w n. Crane. the Madison
Square; George Calder. the University; j. G.
Bogert. the Fourth Avenue; c. c. Savage, the
Adams Memorial; Robert McWilliam, the
Scotch; Colonel A. P. Ketcham formerly
elder in Calvary Church. which has been
disbanded, and is now member of one of the
other churches in Harlem.
The conference Of foreign mission leaders will
be held to-day in the Presbyterian Building, at
Twentieth-st. and Fifth-ave., beginning at
a. The afternoon session will also be held
there. and in the evening the popular meeting
will be held in the Fifth Avenue Church, with
DR.. Stevenson, the pastor, as the leader. Prac-
tical topics TO be discussed to-day by trained
workers, and large number OF commissioners.
missionaries and friends of missions will be
present.