The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-05-18
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 northern assembly. which arrived just too late to be presented to the Charlotte as sembly last year. It was the last of a series exchanged between the two bodies relative to difficulties between their rep resentatives on the frontiers. denying hay ing unjustly interferred with the work of home missions. This matter had been set tied during the year. and the communica- ton was merely filed.
 The clerk then read the report of the | committee on marriage and divorce which acted jointly with committees from other churches in a conference on the subject It was referred to the committee on bills and overtures.
 Messages Are Exchanged. 1 The committee on foreign conferences, | T. c. McRae, chairman, reported tele- 1 grams to be sent as follows:
 ''To the General Assembly of the Pres
 byterian Church In the United States
 of America, Columbus, O.:
 "The general assembly of the Presby- terian church in the United States sends fraternal greetings, and bids you Gods speed in the work of the Redeemer's king dom. See Acts 20, 32.p
 ITO the General Assembly of the Cumber-
 land Presbyterian Church, Dixon Tenn:
 "The forty-seventh general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United | States, in session in Birmingham, Ala, | the 17th day of May, 1907, reciprocates l fyaf ,aI ft.ao md blessing and guidance for your body. See Hebrew 1s 20, 21."
 An important report was that of Chair man J. P. Robertson of a special com mittee which was referred with an over 1 ture from the Macon presbytery and was docketed, to be considered Monday morn ing at Il o'clock. The committee consists of J. P. Robertson, Robert Hill, Cloyd H. Read.
 There was a minority report, dissenting | from the recommendations, which was ordered printed, to be submitted at the | same time.
 Night Session. | Last nights session was opened with 1 impressive devotional exercises, and Chairman T. H. Law of the permanent committee on Bible cause read his report, of which this is part:
 "1rhe permanent committee on the Bible cause would respectfully present to the l geenral assembly this It's fourth annual report The work of disseminating the Bible the last year has again been char acterized by magnificent opportunity to give the needy people of the earth this | A1w Al..sw~4 yHANa Paul, standing in the midst of the cul- tured heathenism of Athens, wrote to the church of the Thesolonians, "Breth- | ern pray for us that the word of the Lord may have free course and be glori- | fed" appreciating the well night insu- | perable difficulties which then stood in the way of circulating the Bible, he could hardly have dreamed of the great and | effectual door which, in answer to the long continued prayers of the saints, is now opened up unto the church today. With the marvellous facilities of manu- featuring the book, with the large number of versions of the scrip | lures all ready for use, with the whole world wide open, inviting entrance, with the people everywhere stretching out eager to receive the Bible, with Gods signal blessing resting upon his word making it effective, and with well equipped agency all provided to carry 1t to the ends of the earth, surely we of this day have an opportunity to cover the eacth speedily, with knowledge of the Lord which the apostolic church little conceived of, and which ought to call forth our profound gratitude to God, and overwhelm us with sense of our re- sponsibility to Him, as His appointed trustees of Ills word that saves"
 In closing the report said: We therefore recommend that the assem- bly, continue its effort and again call upon the Sabbath schools for the ob- servance annually of Bible day, and that the first Sabbath in December be suggested as the date.
 We recommend also that the as- sembly again ask our churches to raise at least $15000 the next year for the distribution of the scriptures through the American Bible society, whose greet and noble work we com mend to their hearty and liberal sup port. T. H. LAW, Chairman
 Work of Bible Society.
 The address of the Rev. Henry Otis Wright of the American Bible society