The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-07
DEL EGATES GENEROUSLY
VOTE TO BUILD new
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the following resolution this morning,
which was adopted:
Whereas, the boards Of Foreign Mis-
sions, Home Missions, Church Exten-
sion, Education and Publication are
now located in the cities of Baltimore,
York, and Philadelphia, and
Whereas, All Of these boards, ex-
cept the last. occupy offices, and
Whereas, Some Of these have re-
Gently recently considered the advisa-
bility of purchasing office buildings,
and
Whereas, The Board of Publication
will probably be compelled, by the
opening of a great boulevard, to aban-
don its present site, and
Whereas, The right Of some OF the
boards to invest funds in permanent
buildings without the express authori-
zation of the General Synod has been
doubted. and
Whereas. Many OF our sister de-
nominations have found it desirable
and practicable to concentrate the
work Of the various boards in one
great building, adapted to their several
purposes and conveniently located,
therefore be it
Resolved. That the president of the
General Synod is hereby instructed to
appoint a committee of ten, each board
having a representative, which shall
take into consideration. first, the pro
priety of concentrating the work of the
boards into one place and in one build
ing, and, secondly, any other matters
cited or implied In the above preamble.
and offer at least a partial report Of
its findings at the present convention.
New committees were appointed as
follows this morning: To nominate
deaconess board, Revs. G. w. Enders,
J. S. English. S. w. Owen. w. w.
Hanna, r. B. Peery. Frederick Bre-
zinski and A. Homrighaus and Messrs.
q. D. Zerick, J. s. Strawn, Allen J.
Hersch, d. e. Mack and Cyrus Van
Matre; on memorial from the East
Pennsylvania Synod, Revs. d. H.
Bauslin, J. J. Young. NJ. F. Troxell.
VIM. Schueltzke and 8. T. Hines and
John L. Zimmerman and D. A. Har-
man; to nominate a board on church
extension, Revs. ]. A. Clutz, w. NJ
Baum, c. B. Etter, G. W. Snyder. l.
p. Ludden, Luther kaufman, w. L.
Rutherford and G. B. Young and
Messrs. e. S. Luckenbach, ]. B. Down
ing, A. D. Houck and E. o. Weaver.
Reports on the laymen movement in
the church, which was originated two
years ago, were made by the Rev. s.
S. Waltz, and H. L. Hess. The Rev
Mr.. Waltz showed by his report that
the committee has been active in in.
vcstigating the work which mems or
CARNATIONS have done in other
churches, and as q result of this and
also as result OF the sentiment in
the Lutheran church. the moved that
q committee OF five be appointed to
take the work in hand Of forming such
mems organizations. of federatine
them, and doing all necessary work
connected Herewith, and that such
committee should report at the mex,
biennial synod. Such motion carried
Already, the report Of DR.. Waltz
said. 205 organizations for men have
been formed in the Lutheran church
with $500 members enrolled
Mr.. Hess pictured the financial worl
that the laymen have been doing. In
order to get the laymen Of. the church
interested in the movement, the com
mittee of which Mr.. Hess was mem
| Der. sent out S515 first class letters
81. 900 circulars to members Of the
church. and 10000 statements. Thei,
work resulted in 703 organizations il
church congregations whose purpose
is to assist the pastor in raising mon
ey. As result of what the laymer
did. the benevolences OF 1905 exceed
ed those OF 1907 by $4,000, and thia
| even in the face Of the financial strin
gency. The apportionment per capita
has been raised 30 cents to $1.16.
SYNOD NOTES.
Tho Rev. John A. Bright tho well