The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1909-05-28
CUMBERLANDS WILL
CONTINUE TO FIGHT
FORPROPERTYR RIGHTS
GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTES MON
EY TO TAKE LITIGATION
HIGHER.
SUPREME COURT MUST DECIDE
Prohibition Resolution Was Very
strone-Dont Vote For Whisky
Men For offiee-0ickson Secures
The Next Meeting.

! BENTONVILLE. Ark, May 20
With plans perfected for the coming
year, both as to ecclesiastical endeaV-
ors and church policy, the seventy
ninth Assembly Of the Cumberland
Presby terian Church was concluded
late Tuesday and adjourned to meet
in Dickson, Tenn, on the third Tues
day in May, 1910, in annual session,
and to celobra the centenary OF the
church at its birthplace. The time OF
adjournment came day in advance
of the pre-arranged programme De-
cause of the progress made by the
several committees in their work.
While at times debates were spirit
ed. the sessions have been harmonious
throughout.
The property question, an outgroWth
of the Assembly vote of three years
ago to amalgamate with the Presbyte-
rian Church of the North, and the dec
lination of members of the Cumber-
land Church as now constituted to
enter into the unionization, while the
the all-absorbing topic without the
Assembly hall, had but brief time be-
fore the Assembly, and then only In
directly. Principally in connection
with a plea of the legal Board OF FL
nance for funds with which to conduct
the fight for possession Of property
now in the courts valued at several
millions of dollars, the fund was sub
scribed to. The matter of compromise
was not suggested on the floor OF the
Assembly, and it is now taken that the
legal controversies so far as the Cum
berland Church is concerned must ulti-
mately reach the highest court in the
land.
AS to prohibition, the Assembly
went on record decidedly. Not only
were the previous declarations of the
church assemblies in favor of the de-
struction of the liquor traffic approved,
but resolutions adopted insist that
Christian men should not vote for any
men, or set of men, who do not de-
clare their opposition to the open sa-
looms in particular, and the sale OF
liquor in general.
An incident of the closing session
was the tender of the report OF the
Committee of Publication, which in
dorsed the organ of the church, the
Cumberland Presbyterian Banner, OF
Tullahoma, Tenn. An amendment
was offered in effect urging that litera-
ture sanctioned by the church be
purged of all utterances that might
be construed as Incorporate. The re.
port as proposed, however, was
adopted. !
Practically all of the delegates have
departed for their homes.
These standing committees for the
year were announced:
Missions-Rev. A. C. Biddle, Madi-
sonville, KY: ]. L. Price, Providence,
KY; NJ. NJ. Smith, Bowling Green, KY.
Education-Rev. P. F. Johnson Nc
Kenzie, Tenn; ]. L. Hudgins, Union
City, Tenn; N. J. Parker, Dyersburg, /
Tenn.
Publications.. L. Baskette, Nash
Vile; Rev. A. N. Eshman, Nashville;
W. E. Dunaway, Jackson.
Ministerial Relief-Rev. ]. M. Wy
coff, Sullivan, ILL.,; Rev. ]. B. Hadlock,
Norris City, Ind; Rev. William Rister,
Ind.
Sunday-school and Young Peoples
z. Asman, Knoxville; +.
H. Seagel, Chattanooga; Rev. o. A.
Barbee, Dawson Springs, Ky.
A suggestion by the Committee on
Overtures that the Committee on
Evangelistic Work be discontinued,
the intention being that the different
could work this feature
out more satisfactorily for themselves,
was adopted.
The Committee on Missions recon-
nended that a Field Secretary be APP
pointed to devote his entire time to
he work. and that secretaries be
appointed from the different synods
n act in an advisory capacity to the