Los Angeles herald., 1909-05-26
WARNS CHURCH
NOT TO ACCEPT
CROESUS' COIN
PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY IS
GIVEN ADVICE
USE YOUR OWN MONEY" URGES
PASTOR FROM IOWA
Chicago Takes Lead in Race for Next
ConVentlon-$1oo,ooo Donated
for New Edlfices in
Tennessee

by ASSOCldleu II6SSs1
N ENVER. May 25.-"Let Rockefeller
and Carnegie alone-go into your
~ own pockets for college endow-
ments," was the advice of DR.. J. c.
Steffen of Dubuque, Iowa. before the
general assembly of the Presbyterian
church this afternoon. During the DAY
it became apparent that Chicago IN
stead of Atlantic City was taking the
lead as the next meeting place; but the
subject was not officially before the as
sembly.
1t was officially decided that 100000
should be spent in the erection OF
churches in the synod of Tennessee 10
replace those taken from the church by
the decision of the supreme court OF
that state which held the union of the
Pres byterian church in the United
States of America and the Cumberland
Presbyterian church illegal.
The most disputed report of the COM
mittee on administrative agencies, to-
gether with the regular and special re-
ports of the executive commission, were
adopted unanimously.
Lack of Bible Study
The address of DR.. Steffen took the
place of that which was to have beer
delivered by the secretary of the boaro
of colleges. He called attention to the
lack of Bible study in church schools
and urged that a rule requiring at leasl
144 hours of Bible study in each schoo
year be made compulsory in the CASE
of regular students.
He also said that the board has beer
withdrawing it's aid from secondary
schools as much as possible in view OF
the greatly increased efficiency or mgr
! schools.
The report of the committee on adj
ministrative agencies encountered ne
objection and was passed substantialiS
as submitted by DR.. j. d. Moffat 81
Pittsburg.
Perhaps the only active recommen'
dation is that every board in the
church obtain legal advice as to the
enlargement of it's powers in order tha'
the consolidation of board powers may
be accomplished gradually.
The reports of the executive commits
sion were accepted after debate.
Objection was made to the approPIld-
ton of only $4,000 to the temperance
board, but it was pointed out that TINS
sum was $1,000 in excess of the amount
usually appropriated.
DR.. w. A. McEwan offered the report
of the board of home missions, snow
ing that the amount received-$l,1 o.
971-was the largest in the history OF
the church. He asked 100000 for the
work of the coming year
Pleads for Immigrant
| DIR. Charles 1. Thompson of New
| York, secretary of the board, made
plea for the immigrant. saying that
| within fifty years the United states
would have a population of 0O,0OO,O 0C
( and that a special effort must be made
to Christianize foreigners who come tc
this country.
Congressman Bennett and James
Yereance, both of New York, debated
sharply over the effort to close sa-
looms in New York on Sunday.
Mr. Bennett said the idea of the
prosecution had been to force the sa-
ioonkeepers to obey the law requiring
them to close their places except be-
tween the hours of 1 to II p. m.
I'VE wished to have the law OBJ
served" said Mr. Bennett 1T was a
matter of expediency."
"And l don't believe in eXpediency
where the observance of the Sabbath
is concerned retorted Mr.. Yereance
The report on Sunday observance
which was submitted by Mr. Yereancc
and which criticized the action of the
New York committee of fourteen de-
Tended by Mr.. Bennett, was adopted
DIR. L. H. Bailey of Washington, D
c., obtained the passage of a resolu-
ton that each communicate petition
his congressman to work for Sunday
observance in the national capital.