Middletown transcript., 1908-04-25
PRESBYTERY ENDS SESSION
Encouraging Reports Were Made at the
Session in Berlin. Md, Wednesday

Session in Berlin, Nd, Wednesday
BERLIN, Nd, April 22d.-The Presby
terry of New Castle opened with devotiona
service by the Rev. ]. Newton Kugler
At the morning session the Presbytery
dismissed the Rev. T. o. Hurst to the
Presby'erv Of Princeton, the Rev. A. G,
Jamison to the Presoytery of Parkers'mrg
and the Rev. John NJ. Duncan to Suffurk
North Congregational Association. A
petition for the division of the Presbytery
to the Presbytery of Wilmington for the
churches north of the canal, although
strongly supported by the Wilmington
ians, was laid on the table.
The committee on systematic beneG-
cence, through its chairman, the Rev. S.
Beattie Wylie, reported communicate
membership under the Presbytery of
1896, and reported the following con-
tributions: Home missions, Sc, ,53l for
eign missions, $4,325 education, 81 ,599 i;
Sunday school work, $l,481 church
erection, 81, l,455 /; relief, l,O46; freedom,
1858; college board, $474; temperance,
81 ,276; making a total for benefcence,
together with congregational expenses of
$l15,S The report was full Of encour-
agement.
The committee on freemen, through the
Rev. J. D. Blake, recommended that
Presbytery commend effurts being made
to raise the endowment of Biddle colored
university for the library to which An
drew Carnegie offers $4,000.
The board OF relief, through the Rev.
F. Ii. Moore, D. D., reported that could
the endowment OF this board be increased
81, 900 the honorarium of widows could
be $500 and that of ministers $500. The
permanent fund now amounts to 81, $780,
600 and through the will of Lady Kort-
right the endowment will be 81, 900, ,0OO.
The committee on church erection
through the Rev. J. Edgar Franklin, has
largely increased the report from the
churches, owing to the various contribu.
GlOUS W bIlC Odl IInAO1SNO AohNs
The report of the endowment Of Reho-
both, Md, through the Rev. Joel S. Gil
fiap showed that from 20 churches out of
IS contributions to the amount of $685. .65
The Rev. W. F. D. Lewis made strong
plea for the preservation and the endow-
ment of this historic landing place of
Presbyterians on this continent.
The monument to the Rev. Francis
Mackenzie will be unveiled on May 14th
at Mackenzie Park, Va, by the Rev. Henry
C. McCook, D. D., president of the Pres
byterian Historical Society and Presby-
terry moved to adjourn to meet May 14th
at Mackenzie Park, Va.
The following temporary committees
reported bills and overtures through the
Rev. K. L. Hallett; Indicial, through l.
3. North leave OF absence, through the
Rev. Ii. C. Mcbride; synodieal minutes
of synod, through the Rev. W. F. D.
Lewis.
The committee on sustentation, through
the Rev. W. H. Logan, reported that the
churches to which grants were made in
the fall have been regularly supplied with
preaching. The Rev. E. B. Welsh was
installed at East Lake. Port Penn has
been regularly supplied by the Rev. J.
R. Milligan, D. D. Bridgeville and Far
mington have been regularly supplied
with preaching since October. The Rev.
Raymond Walker has supplied Eden and
Ocean City, which latter church was
placed under the care Of the Berlin church
session.
The Rev. R. L. Hallett reported for
Sunday school work the largest growth
in its history, 343 from the Sunday school
becoming new communicants.
The committee on sessional records,
through the Rev. G. F. Mason, complained
that there was not sufficient review and
control by the session Of congregational
meetings and boards of trustees as re-
quired by the mandates of the constitu-
ton.
A lively discussion ensued on the Rev.
MIR. Nason's criticism OF sessional records,
and committee was appointed to draft
rules for the guidance of seasonal clerks
in keeping a uniform and constitutional
record. The rules as drofted by this
committee were afterward adopted.
At an interesting afternoon session the
nomination and election of commissioners
to the general assembly at Kansas City,
Mo-, occupied the attention of Presby-
terry. The clerical commissioners were
the Rev. R. L. Hallet of Odessa. and the
Rev IT G. Potter of Glasgow. Their