The Cairo bulletin., 1908-05-26
MAKE MOVE FOR
UNION or CHURCH
COOPERATION AND CLOSER RE
LATIONSHlP ENDORSED BY
THE PRES5YTERlANS.
INITIAL ACTION TAKEN
BY Passage of Resolutions RECON-
mending Hearty Response 10
Plan of Inviting Union
With Reformed Church.

Kansas City, May 25.-Cooperatioh
and closer relations, leading ultimate
Iv to union with other churches OF
PRESBYTERIAN Faith, and duty ol
church to the negro and religious edu-
cation, were important subjects con
sidered by general assembly OF Pres
byterian church in United States OF
America today.
Rev. Or. VIM. II. Roberts, OF Phila-
delphia, in reading report the of com
mittee on church cooperation and
union, submitted resolutions Which
were adopted, recommending the
heartiest response to any movement
inviting union with the reform church
in America. Presbyterian church in
the United States United Presbyter'
ian and other churches of the faith. A
message of fraterial greeting was sent
to the general synod of the reformed
Church in United States in session
now at York, Pa, inviting action with
view to further consideration OF the
subject of closer relations between
the two denominations, in harmony
with resolution adopted in 1906 by the
oint committeej.'
The assembly adopted resolution
approving the plan Of the federal
council of churches of Christ in Am
erica, which is composed of twenty
seven of the leading Protestant and
Evangelical hurches in the country
with the hope that the first meeting
of the federal council will result III
plans of cooperation which will mani
fest more clearly the unity OF Jesus
Christ OF the churches, and advance
in noteworthy manner the interests
OF the kingdom of Christ in the United
States and throughout the world.
Speaking on the report of the com
mittee one education, Dr. Leslie
French of the University of Michigan
sai dthe church should make greater
effort to reach the state university
students
Four negroes were among the speak
ers who supported the report OF INT
committee on freedmen.
DR. +. =. Cowan, secretary OF th'
hoard of freedmen, said that the
church has been doing missionary
work among the negroes and OF tht
south for forty three years and during
that time 1lliteracy among them nae
been reduced II per cent.
The report of the Board of Missions
set forth that the receipts FROM liNlh'
sources last year were the LARGEST IL
it's history.
There has been some falling OF
in legacies," the report said, but III
gifts from thee hurches and indiVid
uals are larger than ever before, an
the treasury of the Women's Boar
has exceeded any former year b
about S15.000 This, is a year OF IN
settled financial conditions, is mat
ter of profound thanksgiving to til
Head of the Church.
In several respects the work of tn
wear has been tentative. In two d
rections the work assumed by reques
of the general assembly has deVeiope
upon the Board important new plan
and reorganization. The evangelist
work carried on in nearly all the mis-
sionary presbyteries has not onl
shown good results. but has given di
tinctive promise of still better thing
when the organization OF the wor
shall have been better effected, an
when experience shall have guided
the wisest plans and the best method
The work in the Cumberland branc
of our church has been rendered p
cularly difficult by the suits ente
cd by the antiunionists in SO man
of the courts in the South. Thes
suits are still in process, and Il
uncertainty which prevails as to II
issue has intcrfered seriously wit
our work in nearly the entire fiel
Notwithstanding, much has been a
compished by the organization
presbyteries. the gathering together
scattered congregations. and Il
quickening of religious interest
evangeIigtic services very widely hel
Those most conversant with the Sou
say that rapid progress can
made as soon as pending ecclesiastic
questions are settled. asi that o
church i'm that vast and rapidly dew
oping region has an opportunity OF
surpassed promise.
The Indian work. which is vari
and extensive. meets with many lin
tations and difficulties by reason
various local conditions.
The development of the depa
ment OF church and labor has attra
ed the attention both of other demo
nations aud of the publis PRESS 7
reception accorded our ministers in t
shop meetings is not without sign
cance. The working men have a n,
CONCEPTION of both the character