Perth Amboy evening news., 1905-10-19
SYNOD ENDS
ITS SESSION.
Committee Urges StriCter Oh
Servance Of Lords Day on
Church and People.

CAPE MAY, Oct. 19:-Yesterday
the Presbyterian synod opened with
a considerable shrinkage in the at
tendance, as many delegates living at
a distance were compelled to take
the early trains. Only one perma-
nent committee remained to report
that of Sabbath observance, the Rev.
Samuel Dobbins Price Shrewsbury,
chairman.
Several addresses and the usual
routine work in addition were lying
before the delegates.
The synod has been evangelistic in
tone and there is every evidence that
a great interest in the hoped-for re-
vival has been aroused. This is APP
parent in the expressions of the del
egates on all occasions.
Sabbath Observance.
The report of the committee on
Sabbath observance vas made by the
chairman, the Rev. Samuel Dobbins
Price, of Shrewsbury. 1t was in part
as follows:
The following resolutions are
submitted for your consideration:
"First-That synod urges all
churches within its bounds to patron
lie only such places for their Sun
day school picnics as are closed on
the Sabbath day.
'Second-That since the Sunday
newspaper, Sunday travelling and
Sunday social functions are incon-
sistent with Gods Intention in giving
the Sabbath to man, we earnestly
urge that these things and all else
that does not keep the day holy be
given up by pastors, elders and COM
municantS.
"Third-That we most heartily
commend and warmly endorse the
work of the American Sabbath union
and the Woman's National alliance
in their faithful efforts to preserve
In its purity the Christian Sabbath.
'Fourth-That we call the atten-
ton of our ministers to resolution
No. 8 of the general assembly's COM
mittee (minutes 1900, recommend
ing that during the month of April a
sermon be preached on the subject
of Sabbath observance, and that, if
the way is clear, an Offering be made
for the work of the American Sab
bath Union, to be sent to Colonel A.
5. Bacon, treasurer, 81 Liberty street,
New York city.
'~Fffth--That a committee be APP
pointed, or this committee be in
structed to print the most important
Sabbath laws that ere being violated,
stating the means of redress that can
be taken, and that the same be mail
ed to each minister in the synod not
later than January /, 1906, provided
they cannot be codified in time to be-
come a part of the annual printed
recor of the synod of New Jersey"
The condition il. Bloomfield is
worthy of our most careful consider
alton. At the meeting of this COM
mittee in Newark it was stated that
an evangelical union had been form
ed some years ago, as the outcome of
a revival movement in that town.
This union, among other things, gave
attention to the Sunday closing of
bars and to the granting of saloon
licenses. The result is that no sa-
looms are open on Sunday, and the
people will Sc to it that none are op-
ened in the future. The number of
licenses was reduced from 40 to 20,
and there has been no increase in the
number of licenses granted in the
past five years. A similar result can
be the outcome of the present evan
gelistic campaign"
The Rev. DR.. w. A. Brooks was
placed in charge of the new work of
vacancy and supply to be carried on
in synod.
A committee on ministerial relief
was added to the list of permanent
committees and the Rev. DR.. Henry
Il. Elliott of Elizabeth was made the
chairman.
Synod also voted to appoint a com
mittee of visitation to the education
al institutions with the view of i'm
pressing upon young men the great
Importance of the work of the minis
The first Sunday in November was
appointed reformation day.
The regular contributions of the
synod to the board of home missions
in the year closing March 81, 1904,
were $34,953.77 and in the year end
ing March 81, 1905, $34, 092.45-a
decrease of $S61.32.