The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-04-21
Meets in Winona, Ind, in The
Month of May.
Next Session of the Presby-
terry at Window.
An Important Gathering at Mar
shall Last Week.
From Mondays Daily.

From Mondays Daily.
DIR. Geo. w. Davis, pastor of the First
Presby terrain church, was elected alter
nate at the spring meeting of the Man
kato presbytery held last week at Mar
shall, to attend the General Assembly
of the Presbyterian church, which meets
in Winona, Indiana, next May. The
full list of representatives of this pres
bytery is: Rev. G. b. Smith, Alpha,
principal; DIR. Geo. w. Davis, Mankato,
alternate; Edwin More, Pilot Grove, and
G. w. Stewart, Alpha, lay delegates;
and A. b. Smith, Redwood Falls, and
Rees Davis, Marshall, lay alternates.
WINDOWS invitation to hold the fall
meeting of the presbytery in that city
on the second Tuesday of October was
accepted. This meeting will be just
before the synod session at Fergus
Falls. r..
The reports presented showed pros
porous condition of the presbytery,
with approximately five hundred new
members enrolled in the churches of the
district during the past year. During
that time no new churches have been
built, but the field is well filled in this
respect.
Wednesday evening a popular open
meeting was held under direction of Ell
der ID. ID. Forbes of the Marshall cnurch.
Some of the most important business of
the session came before the Thursday
morning session, with the reports of
the permanent committees, chief of
which was the report of the committee
on Home Missions and report of the
PASTORAL large fund. In this connection
it was stated that Mankato presbytery
is the largest Home Mission presbytery
in the United States, that in this pres
8 bytery there are more churches provid
ed for in whole or in part of the Board
of Home Missions and protest was
registered that the Board of Home
Missions for this reason was not as
liberal in its allowances to Mankato
presbytery as it should be. A MAORI
ty and minority report was presented
by the Home Mission committee, precip
itating some lively debate and numer-
Gus points of order and personal priv
In hn ~ thn
committee the presbytery came near
to dispensing with pastor at large,
without reflection upon the present pas
tor at large, who was commended for
diligence and faithfulness in his field,
but the need and usefulness of pastor
in that capacity was made apparent
and Rev. McHenry, now pastor at large,
was retained in that position by unani-
nous vote.
The report of the committee on edu
cation showed six students under the
care of the presbytery, studying for the
ministry, and of the six, three are from
this county: r. M. Hood of Isle Lake,
in his second year at the Mccormick
Seminary, Chicago, and Alexander Hood
of Island Lake and F. H. Troop of
Green Valley, both at Manchester Col
iege, ST. Paul.
The letters of Revs. John A. Thomas,
from Madison, Wisconsin, VIM. G. Cor
nell, from South Oregon, and ID. p.
Grosscup from Red River presbyteries,
were received and they were enrolled in
this presbytery, and letters of dismissal
were granted Rev. J. S. Penney, of
Duluth, Rev. John Christianson to Aber-
deem, South Dakota, Rev. W. d. Augur
TO st. Cloud, and w. J. Thompson and
r. L. Adams to Minneapolis. Rev. Me-
Kinney was also enrolled in this presby-
terry. The call extended by the Wa
basso church to Rev. r. E. Clark was
approved and arrangements for his in
stallation as pastor were set for June
9th.
During the presbytery Prof. Shaw
was heard in behalf of Manchester col
lege, and Capt. O'Brien, Synodical Supt
of Sunday School and Missionary Work
in Iowa, spoke of his work. Rev. H.
Parks representing the anti-saloon
league was given the attention of the
members for ten minutes presentation
of the work of the league, and he en-
phasized the hope of the league in its
efforts to secure through state legisla-
ton county option in Minnesota. The
league is working on the ground floor
and is now making plans and directing
its efforts to secure the election next
year of legislators who will be friend
ly to its objects, and seeks the CO.
operation of the churches, regardless of
denomination, along that line.
Rev. Thos. n. Weaver of Jackson was
moderator of the presbytery, and Rev.
L. F. Badger of Redwood Falls stated