Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1904-06-02
CHURCH NOTES.

Rev. Roeder Of the First English
Lutheran church has gone to Wheeling,
W. Va. 10 attend the Pittsburg Synod.
No services will be held in that church,
next Sunday.
Rev. Willis S. McCathern of West
Hebron, \. Y, was the guest or his
cousin. Rev. A. r. Robinson over sun
day and occupied the pulpit OF the
United Presbyterian church SUNDAY
morning.
The annual convention of the Butter
County Sabbath School Will be held at
Mars, June 21 and %.
The 25th annual convention of the
Wonen's Missionary Society of Butler
| Presbytery, United Presbyterian church,
will meet tomorrow and Saturday, June
6 and at Slipperyrock.
At Buffalo. last Friday, the Presby-
terian General Assembly voted IN favor
| OF uniting with the Cumberland church;
and at Greenville the e. P. General As
sembly adopted the overture OF the
| Associate Reformed church.
Evangelistic campaigns have inst been
conducted in Chicago, Pittsburgh Col
urnbus and some other Western cities
| by the PRESBYTERIAN evangelistlc com
nittee. and their results assure their
conductors that ''the mouthing over
that particularly reckless and inconsid-
cradle dictum heard Of late in various
quarters that frevivalism is played out,
0ught TO cease. Old-fashioned evangel-
ism is still found effective, even IN
the most modern and bustling and
worldly of our cities" and is yet force
| to be reckoned with. In summing up
the work of the year, the secretary OF
the committee says that the Cnurch Is
| in the best spiritual condition for years
Evangelism is not dead within 1t, II Is
not a spent force, but growing one,
and the outlook for its continued use
fulness was never brighter.
At Greenville, last Thursday, DR.
Witherspoon was elected Moderator.
The stated clerks report showed an
increase in membership of IL per cent.
with a decrease in some Of the Mississip-
pi valley states. The contributions
make an average of S14 for every mem
Der in North America.
John II. Hykes, a representative OF
the American Bible society in the
Orient. told the delegates, in the course
of an address, that five of the japanese
naval officers in the recent Port arthur
engagements are elders Of the Presby-
terian church.
The largest synod in the United Pres
byterian denomination is the Pittsburg
synod, which has eight presbyteries, l23
pastors, 1S0 congregations, Iol elders
and q, ,302 communicates. It's increase
of profession was 1,S38; by certificate,
| /, 40; decrease by death 37s; removals
:, O5S; infant baptisms, 936; adult bap-
tisms. 347. 1t contributed to foreign
missions S64, 116; home missions, SO.
3S4: total contributions. sJ13. 453. The
average Of SIS Sc per member is exceed
ed by only one synod, California. The
average salary of ministers is 81 ,2ol.
They are 21, ,713 pupils in the Sabbath
schools.
As an indication of Western Pennsyl-
yania being the stronghold OF the
church, it may be noted that this does
not include Allegheny presbytery and
that the First Synod Of the West, IL
cluding Allegheny and other Western
PENNSYLVANIA presbyteries, is the second
largest synod in the United States, with
more than 90, 600 communicate. Pitts
burg, as the Rev. DR.. McCulloch OF
Monongahela presbytery puts it. is the
| Jerusalem of the United Presoy-
terians