The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-05-25
ON POLITICAL LINES.
An Organization Of .Presbyterdau
Churches Is Proposed.


Kansas City, Mo-, May 25.-Educa-
ton and the relation OF the church to
the freedmen were among the i'm
portant subjects considered TODAY by
the general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church Of America Rev. ]. s.
Dickson. secretary OF the college board
Of the church, in discussing education
al work said:
TN 1889 only per cent of the men
| in the theological seminarfes we're
from UNCONVENTIONAL colleges In
1908, in eleven institutions. only per
cent were from undenominational col
1eges. That is the result of the work
| that has been done by the college
board"
Rev. J.. Ross Stevenson, vice presi-
dent Of the college board, said that IS
per cent Of the, foreign missionaries
come from the UNCONVENTIONAL col
| I'VE are a college building church
and not a cathedral building church"
he said. but is the result satisfactory
in an educational sense? quote from
an eminent authority when I say that
our religious education in America has
been the most ineffective, the mos, In
telligent and the most hapnazard pos
sible. 1t was this, condition which
brought into existence the college
| board rs years ago."
| Rev. John Willis Bear, president of
the Occidental college of Los Angeles.
said: s8
never noped tnat my college
would be numerically large. My col
| lege has 400 students but like so many
| of the small colleges in the west, thu
stones In its foundation are clean liv-
ing. pure thinkings and an answering
| loyalty to Jesus Christ. We teach the
Bible, not as a pious pastime, but with
| the same thoroughness that we teach
Greek. In the So colleges under this
| board Is a body of young men who are
being fitted not only for the ministry.
I&xvf e., H. l. ov,I l. 1k~A
Rev. James d. Moffatt, professor
Washington and Jefferson college in
western Pennsylvania, urged the i'm
portance of the UNCONVENTIONAL
nificently supported by taxation" he
said. There are great state univer-
stiles in this country. But these are
| state sch ools and church and state are
separated as they should be. II the
young is to receive a religious educa-
ton it must be in a denominationa1
| school,
On Political Lines.
The formation Of a political organ
ization Of all the Protestant churches
| in the United States with supreme ex-
ecutive power centered in a president
| and an executive committee-this in
| brief, is a programme for church
| union formulated by the Rev. Mark A.
| Matthews of Seattle. 1t is declared
| that this is to be one of the most dis
| cussed topics at this weeks sessions Of
| the assembly.
| Mr.. Matthews said he did not pro-
pose the establishment of a Protestant
popery. The proposal, according to
his plan, is simply to- direct concerted
action against temporal evils and for
temporal good. - 60
1t is not to be in any sense an inter-
mediary in spiritual matters.
The report Of the board of missions
for freedmen was submitted at the
morning session and brought out
much discussion. rs
It is in part as follows: 49,
| 1.-THE income of the board was not as
large as we had hoped for and planned
| for. at the beginning OF the year AL
though the -receiptS- from zchurcn-. col,
lections and the women societies and
other sources arHourfte d TO 1858 more
| than last year, this gain was more than
overbalancsd+ by losses in other direc-
tons. The number of churches that
helped in sAny way was 5 ,315, a gain
Of 313. and the number that elped by
| CONGREGATIONAL collections was 4,37O,
a gain Of 1871. The number of Sunday
| schools contributing was 1856. loss
Of IS; OF young peoples societies
1.-THE total receipts from all sources
were s172.22s, being 7s16.752 less than
| last year. -
work. gathered, expended on the field
| and reported to the board. was $124,-
1877, the largest amount ever reported
before. a $50
1.-The extent of the work is shown by
| the following figures: Ministers, $40;
| churches and missions, 381; added on
examination. 1912; added on certif1-
Gates, 100; whole number, 23.76S; Sum
| day schools, 1910; scholars. 20,S32;
schools, ia; teachers, 343; pupils.
1856.
| Little or nothing has transpired to
hinder or disturb the quiet and peace
full work of education and evangelical
| ton as carried on by the hundreds of
| Christian teachers and ministers labor
| ing under our care. There is not now,
| that we know of, any serious trouble
| between the ministers and teachers
| under our care, and the good white
| people in any of the numerous places
| in which they are doing their work. It
| is our earnest desire that this shall al
| ways be the case"