The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-05-19
ONION OF ALL
..P RE! 4! !: {.
This leading Question before 1f''
Three Branches Of Church
Nov III Session.
ACTION AGAINST DIVORCES
Southern Assembly Much Al
fcctcd by Appearance Of Aged
Minister and Wife.
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tspecinl to The Tines-Dispatch)
t,1,rENvILfIE, S. c., May 18-rhc most
important subject TO come up before tho
1,rcsbytc,Ian General Assembly, now In
.essicon hcrc--thc question of closer reln-
tionship between all Presbyterian and
reformed churches was touched upon to-
dnv. when number OF overtures were
read, some recommending, others oppos-
ing the articles OF agreement, adopted
bytthe federation conference OF reformed
and Presbyterian Churches ut q meeting
In, Charlotte, n. c., last March.
There were ovcrtures from the Prespy-
terians OF Paducah, Northern Alabama,
Arkansas Mobile. Eastern alabama alabama,
louisville, Savannah, Knoxville, Bbenezer
! and Upper Missouri, approving the adop-
ton OF the articles Of the federation col
ference Of the Presbyterian and Rosoih
Is cd Church in Charlotte. The PresDyterles
opposing the adoption were dree1ip 1r,.s
Macon, MnenburB, CHESAPEAKE a.. M,u l,o w =. -,
chester The overture from Churiessoi.
favored sending article to the Presbyterles
for consideration before being actea upon
by General Assembly. The overture =. l' ~.
Pennsylvania favord Limitation as 70 LUZ
man or federation. All Of the oVertures
we're referred to q special coi'iin.s.eS -
pointed by Moderator Hal. VII 49,,
Colonel #, p. Inman, prominent - es
hvtnrian Of Atlanta, has offe red sE5.oD
far ministerial relief, Droviued tne Ieh ,.
Assembly will raise IKE ~ ~, -
r;neral Assembly has now 5000 Oh t,e
amount a,
Committees Announced.
! tha morning session the committee
,,nointmants we're announced rs follows:
Bills and Cverturcs-Dr. .. l.. fi l''''
i5 EFT, Georgia.
1ldic,al-Dr. ]. w. stage. Charlotte,
N. G. -,
Foreign Corrcspondencc-Dr. ). W.
Bachmann, Tennessee.
Foreign Msslons--Dr. Eugene Danlel,
West Virginia
Home M,ssions-Dr. Josephus John
publications and Sunday School-Dr.
Harris f.. Kirk, Maryland.
Ministerial Education and Rellef-Dr. q
r. H. Fleming, Virginia
Negro Evangellzaton-Dr.W Al. NC II,
Pheelers. South Carolina
Theological Serninaries-l'r' " ni'sl''i
II. Boggs Florida
~ Assembly. Home and school-Dr. :.
IT G'rhornwell, South Carolina.
Womens Societies--Dr. T.. a. "har- 4
ton, Tennessee
a@ systematic Beneficience-C. H. Reid,
Texas.
Narrative on State OF Religions-Dr.
q, B. Stricken, Virginia
b.ple Cause--Dr. J. K. sFogartie, Ken "
lucky. :,
IT. III. Rice, Georgia.
Sabbath and Family Religion--Dr. r @
~ Monroe, Texas
Action Commttee-A. I. James,
North Carolina.
Leave OF Absence-Dr. s. u. Bogss'
Kentucky.
a a JlmeS, rs
South Carolina. a#l
svnodical Records: tAlabama-Dr. B.
~ r. Wallace and George Battalora; al
Elorlda-Rey. r. d. Stinson and i.
J. Jones: 5Georgia--Rev. II. NJ Sweets 4.s
ana C.. r. Neil; North carolina-Dr.
wv. X. Mckay and l.. 3, Doughertyi
South Cnrolina-J c. Cowan and r.
E. cochrane; Yirgnia-Rev. e. l. 81
Bell and P. A. Emanuel
Aged Minister.
a feature of the morning session was
i the introduction of Rev. Angus Johnson,
OF TsXas. who is ninety-scven years OLD
and has preached for seventy-one, years;
Yci his vitality is 50 great that he still
regularly supplies three churches. After
the in abduction he and his wife sang
'.When the Evening Shadows Gather"
3 1 Wifi wonderful sweetness and with a ten
derness that melted to tears the large
congregation. I'D
Marriage and Divorce.
Az the afternoon meeting report from
tho inter- Church conference on marriage
and divorce was discussed. The report
recommended very stringent laws IN re-
gard TO divorces. also 6recomnTended inat
no minister should perform the marriage
ceremony of divorced persons, divorced
on other than scriptural grounds. =, II
also requested that civil laws do not grant
divorces for other than Scripturhl
grounds not even when parties 90 70
other States for divorce. #
kilograms OF greetings were sent 20
Tho General Council of the Reformed
Episcopa Church now in session ~ ihile
adelphia TO the General Conference or
the Methodist Episcopal Church, south.
nj Birmingham, Ala, to the Assembly OF
nhe Northern Presbyterian Church ~
les Moines, Iowa. and to the Assembly
Of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church a
Decatur. Ill. Approximate Scrptural pas
sages were included In each telegram
Ncetnrs in commenroration Of the ami
vnrsary of the American Biblical Society
and addresses were made by prominent
ministers and others,
Ministerial Relief.
rhe report of tho Executive Committee
Of hrIniste-ial Education ana Rellet was
in part, as follows:'
During the year we received IRON
ali sources for ministepial edncatlon 4
s97, ago as against sl9,99l the previous
year; for ministerial rellel, s-o:Ioo ~
n II