The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-05-30
Session of Southern Presby-
terian Assembly.
MELT NEXT AT MOBILE
$50, 1000 10 be Raised 10 b. Used 10 Increase
Number Of Candidates for The Minis
ir,---fine Home Mission
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(By the Associated Press.)

Lexington. Va. May 2S.-The morning
session Of the Southern Presbyterian Gen
eral Assembly was mainly devoted to
further discussion of the subject of con
soldating the offices of the general SUI
perintendent of Sunday Schools and Young
Peoples Societies. The assembly finally
decided against consolidation. r. E.
Magill, of Richmond, was elected secre-
tary and business manager of the assem-
bly's publications committee The report
Cot the Committee on Theological Semi
naries showed that the character of work
OF the student bodies at these institutions
had been highly satisfactory This year
there win be thirty-nine graduates. A
beard to consist OF one professor and one
trustee from each seminary is to be
formed.
1t was decided that the next General
Assembly shall meet next year in Govern
ment Street church, Mobile, Ala. Augusta,
Georgia, was the only other place consid-
cred. A communication was received from
the general synod OF the Reformed Pres
Lyterian church asking that a committee
be appointed by the assembly to confer
resented in the alliance of Reformed
churches and consider the matter of closer
cooperation or unity of organization
among Presbyterian churches in the Uni
ted States, the conference to be held
June cath. Tt was referred to the Foreign
Correspondence Committee for report to
the assembly. The report of the standing
Committee on Education was adopted
fol dot
made by that committee:
That the Executive Committee raise
S36, 900 and request each Presbytery to
raise its share, the money to be used to in
crease the number of candidates for the
ministry that the Bible training school at
Laredo, Texas, is recognized as a pre-
parat0ry school for men of Mexican birth
studying for the ministry; that the
Executive Committee appoint sililful men
TO visit colleges and universities TO look
after students of Presbyterian parentage
who wish to enter the ministry. Rev. DR..
J. w. Lumkin, of Memphis, was reap
pointed secretary of the Executive Com
mittee on Education with the following
committee: Rev. Drs. McRay, treasurer;
Neil, Curry, Akers, Cathwell and Scott,
Messrs Wexford Weed, Davant, Albright,
Johnson, Hunt, Volt and Mason.
The report of the standing Committee
on Home Missions showed that more
money had been contributed, more men
were at work and more churches and
schools during the past year than any
year during the past ten years.A resolu-
tion was adopted providing that COM
mittee be appointed with Rev. William
NJ Morrison as chairman to pre-
pare and present to the Presi-
dent of the United States a
memorial setting forth the rights of
missionaries from this country in the
Congo Free State under the Berlin treaty
and showing how these rights are disre-
garded by the government of that coun-
ty Our government viii be urged to as
certain and correct the wrongs complained
of and secure the rights to which our
missionaries to Africa are Untitled. Sen
ators and Representatives from the States
under the jurisdiction of the assembly
are requested to assist the committee.
At the night session of the
assembly popular meeting was held in
the interest of colored eyangelzation. An
address on this subject was made by
Rev DR.. d. c. Lilly, of Tuscaloosa, Ala,
secretary of the Executive Committee
on Colored Evangelization.