Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-18
Election of Corbett as Moderator
Means a Victory For
Foreign Missions
SCENE AT ASSEMBLY
Not State or Territory of United
States Without Representative and
Many Commissioners From Other
Countries are Attending the Church
Convention.
Special to Times Republican.
Convention.


Des Moines. May is. The thousands
of Presbyterians in the United States
are 10 redouble their efforts in the for
etgn missionary fields. This was
proved when DR. Corbett Hunter, the
best known of their foreign missonar-
les. was elected moderator of the gem
eral assembly. His election came upon
The third ballot and after a struggle
thai was historical in the annals of the
church.
Personality was lost sight of in the
tbattIo OF ballots. DR.. James ii. Bark
ley, OF Detroit. came within a tew
votes of winning the coveted honor but
il was not his personality that appeal
ed to the suffrage of the hundreds of
commissioners. lie had been advanced
as the candidate that would carry har-
mo2y 10 the thousands who became
Cumberland Pres5y teiians when that
branch Of the faith WAS organized. So
said his sponsors and these who had
prevailed upon him to permit his name
To go before the assembly. And DIR.
Correct had been named as the head
o. those wha wanted more attention
devoted TO the foreign missionary iiei6s.
Whel ii came to the final test DR..
Hunter and foreign missions won by
vote of 329 to 30T cast for DR.. Barkley
and the unity of the church.
Long will the scene live In the mem
DRY of the thousands who crowGcd the
auditorium. A moe beau.Ifu da.
would be difficult to imagine ard -
more representative body If ,hur: h.
men would as surely tax the imagina
ton. The might of the Presbyterian
faith had come from the four quarters
of the globe. The heather Of a decade
ago were converted into living lesd-
monials of the power of foreign mis-
sions. Chinese and men OF Japan, men
from the Philippines and the dark
skinned of Porto Rico sat side by side.
Natives of the Indies and ftom the
island of the sea walked down The
broad aisles of the building that was
shelter the representatives. OF thu
Presbyterian faith. And not a state
or territory of the United States was
without representative.
Many Of the commissioners are OPP
posed to the book of forms and serv-
ice and they seem to be gaining re-
cruits with every hour. PATTON
was circulated protesting against: the
adoption of the book and the follow
ing were among those who signed:
Rev DIR. w. f. McCauley, Cincin.
natl
Rev. DR.. Merle C. Williams. St
Louis.
Rev DR.. S. e. Wishart. Salt Lake
City.
Rev. F. p Miller, Pana. III.
TIE protest is lengthy and the Ian
guage positive. Dr. Herrick johnson
of Chicago is expected to arrive and
lead the fight against the book. He
was in communication with Dr. Chas.
Lee Reynolds of Des Moines yesterday.
They talked over the long distance
telephone and DR.. Reynolds later sent
IS telegram stating the conditions
which exist in this city.
Election Held in Afternoon.
The election was the feature of the
afternoon service. DR.. Corbett was
the first to be placed in nomination
and DR.. Arthur j. Brown stood as his
sponsor. Then the names of DR..
Thomas H. Cleland of Duluth, A. b.
Marshall of Minneapolis, j. f. Hendy
of Jefferson City, No. and James III.
Barley of Detroit, were placed be-
fore the convention.