The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-28
7sEXAS CASE ; IS CONSIDERED PresbYtery Appealed to
 Assembly FROM CHURCH AT BEAUMONT Rev. F. E. Robbins Was Asked to
 to Resign. Dr. Little of Alabama Takes Leading Part in Debate in EvsngeIization work - Woman Secretary
 Denied.


 peal Of the Presbytery of Eastern Tex as against the Synod of Texas was still under consideration when the general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian church took recess tonight until to- morrow morning.
 There was spirited contest over the admission of certain papers in the case at tonight's session, which re- suited in the moderator ordering that they be admitted.
 The report of the committee on the sabbath and family religion was pre- sented, discussed and adopted.
 At today's session of SouthernPresby- terian Assembly the Judicial committees made. a report providing. for a hearing of the complaint of Rev. J. w. Mcleod. against the Synod of Texas, and the application of the Presbytery of East ern Texas against Synod of Texas and involving the same subject matter with reference to certain action of the Synod of Texas at it's session in octo- Der 1907.
 The following resolution, was pre- sented by Rev. A. A. Little of Alabama :
 Whereas we believe that the great need of our church is more evangeils- tic preaching on the part of our pas tors and a more diligent effort on the part of the church to reach the un- churehed and the unsaved, this Gener- al Assembly would urge on all our ministers to seek more and get more of the spirit of prayer for the salva- tton of souls and to use more evan gelistic effort in the pulpit and out of 1t ito bring souls into the Kingdom of God 5s h Communion service was held at II o'clock, after which the session on evangelisttc work was taken up for consideration. 8
 Discussing the resolution on evange- lization, Dr. Little briefly urged new zeal for the sa1vationsof souls. x
 Dr. A. A. GeAchy spoke of the danger 10 the nninister of thinking his mission to be to preach sermons rather than save souls. He said the impression had gone forth that this Assembly was paying more attention to trival things than to the vital things of soul sal- vation and he feared the impression had some foundation.
 Dr. W. M Anderson. spoke of the im- portance, joy and value of systematic habits in watching for souls.
 pr. George P. Robertson had felt a sense of shame that the proceedings of several Assemblies had been taken up with constitutional questions. etc.
 The resolution offered by pr. Little was adopted.
 l. Hearing Texas Case
 At the morning session tonight was set apart for the hearing of the appeal of the PresbyterS of Eastern Texas, against the synod of Texas regarding the action of synod in the matter Of the removal of the pastor of the church at Beaumont, Texas. The recommenda- ton of the committee was that each side in this case be given one hour and thirty minutes for the speech of the representative of the complainant and the representative of the defendant Rev. E. E. Robbins, who has been in charge of the church at Beaumont for several years
 Some of MT. Robbins members re- quested him to resign. He refused. Dissenters appealed to Presbytery and were not sustained They then appeal ed to the Synod and were sustained. This case is an appeal by the Presby- tery against the action of the Synod of Texas. Judge Aldridge represents the Presbytery and Revs. J. P. Robert son and W. S. Redd represents the Synod.
 The first business this afternoon was the report Of the standing committee on foreign missions, which was dis cussed and adopted. The report took an encouraging view of the general outlook and reviewed the several mis- stonary fields.
 The laymens' movement was endors- ed and vote of thanks extended Mir. White and Mir. Ellis. of this movement, who addressed the mems convention here just prior to the meeting of the Assembly.
 An overture requesting a woman sec retary for the womans' missionary work was answered in the negative
 Upon the recommendation of the Committee the Foreign Missions Exec utive Committee was. reelected for three years, as follows: Rev. Dr. J. F. Cannon, Rev. F. D. McDougalI Elders G. H. Baskelle, J. D. Blanton and J H. Walker. The coordinate secretaries, Rev. Dr. S. H. Chester and Rev. J. c. Beavis. were also re- elected for a term of three years.
 The report on theological seminaries was presented by Rev. Dr. A. A. Lit tie, and was adopted.
 Rev Dyrus R. Walker presented the report on the Assembly's home and school at Fredericksburg, Va. Consid- erable interest was shown in this in- stitution and a number of strong speeches were made in it's favor. The report, which was adopted. calls for an effort to raise s25, 900 per year for the s,innort of the institution.