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have received by letter from other ses-
sions and churches, ll6. The sessions
have confirmed on confession Of their
ialth during the year, 262; baptized
lo2 infants and As adults. The
churches have lost by death SO. The
report was the most encouraging ever
given.
AZ $50 p. m. the prosbyterv went
INTO an election of four commissioners
TO the General Assembly. DR.. Neil
moyle nominated Rev. William j.
Rowan as bishop of the church from
Newark. This is the form, as the
General As5embly's commission reads.
kev. J. L. Estlin Of Smyrna nomi-
mated Rev. Joel S. Giliillan as bishop
OF the Christiana Church. These two
were unanimously elected with Rev.
william n. Bancroft of Berlin, Md.
ana kev. j. r. Henderson of George
town as alternates.
Among the ruling elders, Morris ID.
Crossan of West Church, Wilmington,
was nominated by Rev. w. r. ID.
Lewis Of Rodney Street Church.
Elder j. II. Walker Of White Clay
Creek was nominated by DR.. Gilfllan.
These two elders were unanimously
elected and the presbytery appointed
Elders j. 3. Price of Salisbury, Md,
ana a. b. Macpherson johnson Of Gil
bert Church as their respective alter
mates.
Rev, Joseph Brown Turner, d. d.,
OF Dover presented an interesting mar
ralive OF the state Of religion in the
presbytery.
Tho leave of absence committee re-
ported, through Rev. w. n. Bancroft
of Berlin, Md, and the following
preshyters were excused from the ses-
sions of presbytery: Revs. McCurdy.
Dauerty, Mason, Walker, Coulson and
Jameson, with Elders Hobson and
Charles Bird.
a great surprise came TO tho Presby-
ter when Rev. h. H. Hallett of Odessa,
chairman Of the Presbytery' s commit
tee on Sunday-school work, gave notice
chat he would, at the next meeting of
lho fresbytery, in the fall, move for
tho organizing Of a Presbytrial Sunday
school State Union. IL this is done
all the Presbyterian Sunday-schools
viii Withdraw from membership in
the State Sabbath school Union Mr..
Hallett explained that his reasons for
giving this notice were:
!. Because the executive committee
of the State Sunday school Convention
placed the date of the convention at
the same time as the stated meeting Of
Presbytery, at Lewes.
z because the executive committee,
which has always received most loyal
support in the past for Sunday school
Conventions from the Presbyterians
has, we regret to say, given no consid
Grafton whatever TO the request of the
Presbyterians that the executive COM
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day school Convention on some date
other than that of the Presbytery,
which is an annual stated date.
3 Because many ministers and
elders interested in Sunday-school
work We're excluded by reason of the
annual meeting of their church court
! from attendance at the State Sunday
school Convention.
This motion, had Presbytery's rules
permitted, would have been unani-
mously carried at this session. It is
probable that the 10, or more in
Presbyterian Sunday viii form
ln the fall a strong Presbyterial Sun
| day-school State Union, in order to
be able to send their representatives
| TO a Sunday-school Convention. The
Presbyterian Sunday schools of Della
ware contributed nearly 81, 600 TO Sun
day school work during the past year
and Rev. Mr.. Hallett, though he spoke
IN very kindly terms, still thinks that
in its own Sunday school Convention
the Presbytery will do much better.
Presbytery adjourned TO meet at the
Green Hill Church on Tuesday, May
l5thi at 1.3O p. M, to ordain Frazer
H. Mcleod
The record was read an approved
when recess was taken to 7.3O ..
m. and at the popular meeting an elo-
quent address on Foreign Missions
was made by Rev. John McElmoyle,
ID. D., of Elkton, Md.