The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-25
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DEs MoiSts Ia Nav - After ninety
aix years ~ separation and twrnty-siH
ysara " 90 m ~ hscutnn united again. The
Presbyterian church = North America and
the Cumberland church to-day Joined hands
and sang the -org- n unity and NJ victory.
The joint report ~ tho committees on
reunion and union wore presented to the
general assembly for consideration ~
~ o'clock There was no debhtr. aud the
mot ION Ia sdop, the report carried with
q cheer that shook the building.
when tho NAYS were called for two pale
faced hut determined looking lnen arose
and declared that for con-cientious reasons
they must be- recorded In the negative q.
One wa Dr. William Laurie Of Bellefonte.
Pa, and the other DIR. Roger Grissey %
Jacksonville. III.
At noon to-day II was defnitely announced
that the Cumberland Presbytery will start
Immediately for Des Moines. There will be
near 3O Cumberlanders In the city by to-
morrow from the Decatur. III, assembly,
which closes tonight.
The session this afternoon was devoted
10 tho celebration Of the tooth anniversary
Of the organization of the Presbyterian
Church In the United States.
The assembly was thrilled this morning
TO hear from the lips Of DR.. Henry van Dyke
a new and hitherto unpublished addition
to the national hymn America"
Or. van Dyke had been asked by the
California relief committee To make a final
He painted a striking word picture OF the
glories Of Ca %lifornia. He declared:
when ! look at California and then think
Of the lines of our national hymn
l love thy rocks and rls.
Thy woods and tempted hills.
/ am constrained to think that America
was written for New England. For Cali
fornia you must write another verse:
| love thy inland seas,
Thy capcs and giant trees,
Thy rolling plains.
Thy canons wild and deep.
Thy pralneS boundless sweep.
Thy rocky mountains steep,
Thy fertile mains.
Thy domes, thy slvery strands.
Thy Golden Gate that stands
Afront the West,
Thy sweet and cry stall air.
Thy sunlight everywhere.
o land beyond compare,
love thee best.
The immense audience arose to its feet
and cheered. DR.. Van Dyke modestly with
drew. subscribed 500 to the California
fund and Immediately started East.
DECATUR, H.. May A.-When word was
received from the Presbyterian General
Assembly at Des Moines, Ia, that fnal
action had been taken joining the Cum
berland and Presbyterian churches, the
Offices were declared vacant n the as
sembly was adjourned sine die.
The Loyalists, numbering los delegates,
an hour after adjournment met in anot her
hall, elected j. l.. Hudgins of Union City,
Tenn, Moderator, and the Rev. T. H. Pad
gett of Memphis clerk.
After some d scussion the place for hold
ing the next General Assembly was fixed at
a point six miles from Dixon, Tenn, where
the Cumberland Church was organized.
The l~oyalists declare they are still the
Cumberland Presbyterian Church,; that
they have 10000 followers in the country;
that the property question must he decided
in the Supreme Court, and hat even il the
property Is taken away from them they are
still members of the Cumberland Presby:
terrain Church, and that it is not out OF
existence.