Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1902-10-16
FAVOR A COLLEGE.
Majority of PreSbyterians at Synod
Favor ReCpening Of
College.
Synod Sets the Seal Of Approval on
the Prohibition
Law.
The Mouse River Presbytery Was
Constituted by the
Synod.

The eighteenth annual session of
the Presbyterian synod Of North Da-
kota began Thursday evening in the
Presbyterian church in Jamestown
with a sermon by the retiring moder-
ator Rev. Thomas Davis Atchison,
who gave his report regarding the
work Of the past year. The synod Or
ganized by electing DR.. A. G. Brown
OF Fargo moderator.
Rev. j. P. Calhoun, D. D., Pitts
burg, member of the general assem-
bly's evangelistic committee, ad-
dressed the synod.
A committee from the NJ. E. con-
ference appeared Friday forenoon and
extended greeting. DR.. Hayes was
appointed to visit the conference and
extend greeting from the synod Fol-
lowing was the program:
9:OO-Devotional, Rev. w. S. Miller,
Pittsburg, Pa.
:3O-Business.
1O:O0-Reports Of permanent COM
mittees.
College Aid, John Wrag.
Systematic Benifcence, Rev. Will
lard G. Lyon.
Education, Rev. A. Christy Brown,
D. d.
1o:45-Evangelist conference, Rev.
Frank Harper. Hayes, D. D., leader.
Address-Rev. w. S. Miller.
2:OO-Report of Committee on Syn
odical College, Rev. A. Christy Brown,
D. D., chairman.
2:45-Report on publication and Sab
bath school work, Rev. Dugald Nc
Intyre.
3:0O-Report of synodical superin-
tendent of Sabbath school work, Mr..
James B. Clapp.
Addresses-NIr. James B. Clapp,
superintendent: Mr.. William H.
Evans, Ninot: w. B. Himebaugh,
Bismarck.
4:3O-Report of the Woman's Synod
ical Missionary society, Mrs. Grace
Hill Brown, president.
At the session of the Synod at the
Presbyterian church Saturday the
proposition to establish a Synodical
college was introduced by Rev. D.
Mcintyre of Rolla. A discussion fol.
lowed. A majority favored the estab-
lishment OF the college and strong
committee consisting of eleven men,
bers representing the different Presby-
teries was appointed to carry out the
project. The college is located in
jamestown and this means efforts will
be made to reopen it.
The usual routine business was car.
ried out. Reports Of committees were
heard among the number being that
of the committee on Temperance
which emphasized the necessity OF
carrying on temperance agitation and
education and concluded with hearty
commendation of the prohibition law.
The following resolution was adopted
unanimously by rising vote:
"Resolved that this Synod heartily
sets the seal OF approval on our prohi
| bition law as most efficient measure
and in its spirit and purpose the only
righteous method of dealing with the
drink traffic"
Several overtures from the Presby
teries were received. Those from
Fargo and Bismarck were similar in
that both requested readjustments OF
the lines Of division. In the north
western part of the state the work OF
the church has so enlarged that a di
| vision of the Presbytery of Mime.
waukan was found necessary and a
| new Presbytery to be named the
| Mouse River Presbytery was consttu.
| ted by the Synod.
Hearty devotional services conduct
ed by Rev. w. S. Miller of Pittsbure
concluded the forenoon session.
In the afternoon there was an ad.
| dress by Rev. Henry T. McClelland OF
PittSburg, president of missions fol
freedmen and report on home mis-
sionS and a home mission conference
lead by Rev. A. Chrlsty Brown.
One of the very interesting events
of the Synod was the address FRIDAY
evening by Mrs. J. B. n. Smith 0,
Courtenay, until recently missionar,
in China, on the work in China.
The session of the synod of 1902 i.