The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-05-16
Hearty welcome Assured.

"Welcome to our city
This is the slogan of the local re-
ception committee which is meeting
every incoming train for the purpose
of welcoming commissioners and visi-
tors to the general assembly.
At noon today seventy-fve delegates
had been met and escorted TO the
homes in which they will be entertain
ed for the next ten days or two weeks.
When the delegates arrive they are
met by members of the reception com
chairman. and escorted to the Morris
hotel Cards containing the name OF
each delegate and the homo that VIII
entertain him are distributed and IL
there is any posslpiliity r oh the
place assigned him messenger boy IL
sent to pilot him. ~
w. A. Alexander, of ClarksVllle, ien s,;
the stated clerk. who has been ousS
ever since his arrival. Thomas M;
Law. of Spartanburg, is the otner cierA
Or. Alexander Is nephew or MRS. Ao"
line Partin, of No 2505 Avenue q. ana
was entertained this AFTERNOON at he'
Every delegate to the assembly rs Is
| given q commission which must pc
presented to the stated c Sanra e
This work will be done tomorrow morn Sa,
ing prior to the opening or the ms nrss
session. After an the And c fheV have
hha ae1 nronerly enrolled, the session
will be called to order az ~ ciocA
The first session will be a devotional
service something like the servi ;yss !,
at church on Sunday morning Owns
to the fact that the mode rn1ing eid te
he has delegated the Rev. John , X,
Howerton, Of Montreal, n. G; to preach IN
the opening sermon. In aodltlon ~
the sermon there will be an address
~. 4laa
~ I'm ~" the event the devotional services
extend Into the dinner hour the or
ganization. Of u the asse O'clock in the
ofternoon. The moderator will ask
the stated clerk If there is quorum
present. He Will answer viii II tn rea a'i the
names Of those presenting commissions;
after the moderator announces that
the assembly Is In session ssh, ,s .hs eIece
oi Hban the new moderator is selected
he viii take charge of the assembly
and the election of two assistant cdeEn GERS
viii he a call on various standing com
mittees for reports. Trustees OF tne
assembly will also make a report, nus
this business will hardly De reacneo
oe sstatisticai reports will be presented
bv DR.. Alexander just as soon as ne
finishes the taSplStt0nl 1 ne Sas t al
raSdv received seventy-seven tables
witch show the number of churches In
each presbytery, the menuDe nh su m
School and all the womans societies.
Young peoples ORGANIZATIONS and other
auxiliraies making statisuIcal repodIos
ia sending them to the printer just as
| fast as he can abstract the totals. After
| the table is completed It will show at
| a glance the number OF churches af-
| filiated with the assembly. the number
| Of sunday Schools, the number of aux :
| iliary societies and the membership or
so being received. and from present
| Indications the amount given by the
church for all purposes during the past
the last fiscal year by nearly 100000;
Something like 81, 100000 was given all
causes during 1906:
Movement BY Laymen.
It has been decided to organize a
Southern Presbyterian laymen's mis-
sionary movement to carry on the mis-
sion work of the Southern PT IRE 1,sin
airy movement is INSTRUMENTATION
and International
The Presbyterian laymens movement
will be fashioned along similar lines.
but will direct its efforts particularly
towards the raising of funds for mis-.
sion purposes among the members OF
that denomination in the south
A business meeting was. held at the
Florence Hotel this afternoon at which
the proposition of raising $l,OOO,OOO for
the mission cause during the present
wear was discussed. Some doubt is ex-
pressed as to whether the church can
raise so large an amount. but this Will
be set as the goal for which to strive,
it is said:
Oficers were elected as follows
Charles A. Rowland. ATHENS, Ga.
chairman; S. j. Cassels. Montgomery,
vice chairman: DR.. M; MICH. Hull
Atlanta Ga, secretary; John w. Faxon.
Chattanooga, treasurer.
A joint conference between the lay
missionary movement and the
laymen commissioners to the General
Assembly Was held in the First Chris
tian Church today.