The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-26
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 AMENDMENT No Presbyterian Univer- Sity in Atlanta. UNAUSPICIOUS JUST NOW Discussion Principal Feature at Fort Worth. President Roosevelt Sends Message to the General Assembly at winona Lake, Expressing His Hope
 For Union.

Forth Worth. Tex, May 25,-The principal feature of the morning ses- sion of tine Southern Presbyterian General Assembly was discussion of the project of establishing a university for the entire Southern church at Att lanta, Ga.
 The report of the standing commit tee on church ana Christian education which was reported yesterday was again read. General debate followed l the reading of the report.
 The theory of those who opposed adopting the favorable report of the committee is that sucn an institution should have more than $l0,O00,000
 with which to start and If there is to
 be a school for higher education. that one of the existing schools should be
 chosea rather than build new one.> The questions was finally settled by
 an amendment being offered to the ef- feet that the general assembly does not now see its way clear to undertake | such an enterprise, but at the same time appreciates the work of the those who have been pushing the ques- tion on and wishes them success in their undertaking. provided they choose to carry 1t on independent Of the gen. eral assembly for the sake of the syn cd of the section of country immedl- ateIy surrounding Atlanta.
 There were many commissioners who stood firm for the proposed institution but these were outnumbered two to one when the final vote was taken. A number of minor reports were read, among which were the follow ing:
 Report of the committee on foreign missions approving the overtures of the Chinese Missions and recommend ing the sum of $25,000 to be expended on mission work. this year.
 Report of the twentieth century fund committee showing that a total
 of $500, ,000 has been pledged. Report of the committee on syste- matic beneficience showing total or $526,656 collected.
 Report of the commsvce on the tho logical seminaries stating that the great work has been done during the wear without mourning indebtedness to the institution. The Southern Presbyterian General ] Assembly adjourned at Il o'clock to- night without having taken vote on the question of federation with other branches of the Presbyterian churches, nearly all the evening session having | heen taken up by an argument by pr. IC. R, Hemphill of Louisville. pr. HemphilI spoke for an hour and lhalf on the subject, favoring fo-opera- tion. t.- The major portion of the afternoon session was also taken up with the discussion of federation and although | it was the understanding when the assembly recessed to take the final
 vote before adjournment tonight this was not dono-
 The debates have been spirited throughout and many of the strong | men of the body have taken part in | them.
 | Among the leaders pr. J. $. Lyons of Louisville favors federation and pr |.
 Eugene Daniel of .Lewisberg, w. Va,
 opposes federation.
 The convention Is believed to be
 about equally divided on the subject.
 The question will come up for discus
 sion tomorrow and will proaoly con
 sume much of the days session.