The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-22
ON
 TEMPERANCE WORK
Can Join Anti-SaIoon League
 Only as Individuals
WELSHMEN FAVOR UNION
Controversy on Temperance Hangs On Definition Today of Duties of Per manent committee-Need
 $1,ooo,ooo for Missions.

Columbus, O.. May 2l.-The Presbyte- rian general assembly today received and adopted a number of reports, including those of the board of home missions and the beard of education.
 The assembly adopted resolution de- claring that Si.1OO,O0O is the least sum which the church will have to collect to enable the board to carry through it's work properly the coming year.
 The feature of the afternoon session was the presentation to the assembly of Rev ". R. Evans, moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian church, who an- nounced that a movement had been start ca in that body looking to union with the parent church. The announcement was received with prolonged applause.
 Developments in the temperance con troyersy aroused by the antagonism of the anti-saioon league to the interchureh temperance federation came up today. The standing committee on temperance ferred all the overtures affecting the att titude of the church toward the league to the committee on polity, which decided to recommend that no member of the church as such could be an officer or member of the anti~aloon league; that they could participate in the work of that organization only as individuals. At the same time, the standing committee on temperance received and adopted a reso- lution recommending the standing com mittee to define the duties of permanent committee on temperance which repre- sents the church federation. The whole controversy now hangs on the definition of the duties of the permanent commit tee on temperance. The supporters of the anti-saloon league are endeavoring to have the world of this committee con fined to promoting temperance along edu- cationa; and scientific lines, leaving the political field entirely to the anti-saloon league.
 The standing committee today heard a number of persons. including representa- tives Of the anti-saloon league, on the subject and has prepared a rough draft O. resolutions which will be further con- sidered tomorrow and will be presented to the assembly in the afternoon for which time the report has been made a special order.
 Polty Committee.
 After much discussion the committee on polity in executive session reached con clusion upon a subject of much impor- lance and one which whl greatly affect the temperance situation in that it may be a deliverance upon matter of having representatives in non-ecclesiastlc bodies. This overture will be recommended for adoption.
 The policy committee in the report does not say that the Presbyterians shall not become members or officers of the anti saloon league as individuals, but it does say that these individuals shall not repre- sent the church in the league and that the actions in tLe cause shall not be considered as the actions of the church. Therefore this decision of the committee will knock out certain vital parts of over lures preceding it concerning temperance.
 By it's decision the policy committee also, regards the report of the temper anceNoommittee which asks for church federation as unjudicial. The principality committee believes that the church should go it's way and the anti-saloon league it's way each helping the other. The church should not form a federation encroaching upon the territory of the anti-saloon league, Is the belief of the committee. The reports of the board of home mis- sions and board of education were sub mitted and adopted by the assembly.
 Fight Patent Medicine.
 The committee recommended that patent medicine advertisements be taken out of religious papers as soon as possible. Rev. w. R. Evans, moderator of the Welsh Presbyterian church, was intro duced to the assembly and his announce ment that movement had been started among the Welsh Presbyterians for union with the parent church was received with prolonged applause. Rev. Dr. Roberts moderator of the Presbyterian general as- sembly, attended the meetings of the | church to extend the greetings of the church to the Welsh Presbyterans and assure them that they would be united in spirit even if an organic union could not be effected.
 The assembly adopted a resolution ask | ing the churches for $1, 100000 as the least sum with which the board of home mis- sions can successfully carry through it's work the coming year The following members of the board of home missions were reelected.
 Rev. Dr. Samuel J. Nicolls Rev. Joseph Dunn Burrell, Rev. Dr. Albert Edwin Kerwin, Walter NJ. Akman William H. Corbin, Robert Cogden, Henry w. Jessup. Rev. Dr. Allen Douglass Garlic was elected to succeed Rev Dr. Thomas Nell son.
 Funds for Frisco Churches. The committee on repair and recon struction of churches in Stn Francisco and vicinity reported that $123,OOO had been collected The actual losses suffered 1 by Presbyterian churches on account of the earthquake and fire were estimated at $179 655. of which s19670 in insurance was collected The assembly accented the report and appointed an advisory 1 committee to raise the remainder of the s3OO,O0O which the assembly voted a year ago to contribute to the reconstruction of l the churches of San Francisco. | The committee in churge of the Assem- | bly, Herald reported that the magazine l has 50,O00 paying subscribers and that there was balance of $130. AZ after all expenses were paid for 1906. The assem- ply renewed its declaration of the neces- ] sity of a single magazine to present to | the church the work of it's various boards and agencies.
 l The report of the administrative com I mittee of the ministerial sustenation fund was submitted and adopted up to the l present time there have been enrolled | as beneficiaries of the fu..d 275 ministers. and 400 applicantlons remain to be acted l upon. The receipts to date amount to l $22.000. The fund will not be put into l full operation until 800 applications have been accepted Ministers are to pay 20 per cent and the remaining 80 per cent l of the fund is to come from the church I at large
 The assembly adjourned until tomorrow morning.
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