The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-25

america as "musty cobwebs that had 1ailen into disuse even by a large part of that church.
 The negro phase of this question he considered an insurmountable barrier to the union. If they come into our churches" he said. then we have lost our influence with a great class" He declared that the anti-unionfsts did not want to be dragged into the al- nance against their wills and begged that they not be forced to do 1t.
 Tn the afternoon Judge E. E. Beard or Lebanon, Tenn, member of the committee on Fraternity and union, spoke for two hours upon the desira bility of adopting the resolution and recommending the report He declar ed that he was opposed to the social equality or negroes, but he believed that the provisions of the report did not place the blacks on the same equality in some cases, even in the matter of admission to Presbyteries and Synods of the Church.
 One Of the strongest speeches, per- haps, against the union proposition. was that of Rev. J. L. Hudgins of Washington, Ind. Rev. Mir. IIudgins declared that the two churches were not generally agreed upon the subject. some of both bodies opposing it, and that the doctrines of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of Amer lea were far distant from those of the Cumberland Presbyterians
 pr. R. V. Foster. formerly professor Of systematic theology In Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tenn, favored the union In speech which was marked Tor its humor and for the response which 1t met with in the assembly. His plea was that while the two churches might not now be able to agree exact ly and absolutely on the matter of con- fession, he believed both could be cas- lily united, and he declared it as his conviction that there was something else behind the opposition to the un- ion more than a mere difference in doctrine.
 Before taking up the debate upon the theme this morning, the assembly heard a report from the committee on sabbath observance, in which a strict CT observation of that day was advo- cated. and ministers were requested to preach on this subject
 The committee on finance presented its report. One section, that upon the question of the general mileage fund. provoked debate. A motion was lost reducing the tax per capita from five to four cents. This tax Is levied on each member, for the purpose of pro- viding general fund to be used among those chosen as delegates to the General Assembly from Presbyte- ries, where financial provision has not been made for such expenses.
 Large crowds, especially of women. listened patiently to the discussion of the union question from beginning to end.
 The labors of the assembly will be resumed at S:3O o'clock tomorrow morning.
 Rev. R, F. Fullerton of st Louis, Pres iGent of the Society of Missions and Church Erection. presided at a mission ary rally he'd tonight at a mass meet irg for the delegates to the Cumberland Presbyterian General Assembly. Those %hC spoke in the interests of foreign mis- sioDs were: Rev. Dr. J. B. Hall. Japan. Rev. J, T. Molloy and Rev. c. F.. Fru- sUto. Aguas Caliente. Mexico; Rev. l ", Haggard, a young minister of Texas %as publicly consecrated to missionary Fork in Mexico Rev. William Hall. a lative Choctaw Indian. presented a deed or fertv-one acres of land situated in the
 hoctaw Nation to be devoted to the in 'rests of the church.