Arizona republican., 1909-05-29
NOT CHARITY
 BUT REWARD Care 1akenof SupePannuated
 Presbyterian Ministers PENSION SCHEME DEFEATED
Also the Project to Unseat Dr. Roberts Who Has Been Slated Clerk and Treasurer of the General Assembly For Nearly a Generation.

Denver, Colo, May 2S.-The Presby- terian ministers do not want charity. They made this declaration at the general assembly today when by an almost unanimous vote the commits sioners defeated a resolution prepared by pr. J. Gray Bolton of Philadelphia providing for a graded pension scheme for disabled or superannuated minis ters.
 The trouble over the pensioning of the ministers has been one of long standing, having started in friction be- tween the board of ministerial relief and the board for ministerial sustenta- ton. Both have similar objects and Dr. Bottoms resolution carried with it a motion to refer the whole matter of the joint action of these boards to a special committee. In his address on the subject Dr. Bolton made frequent use of the words charity" and Thu initiation" and to these terms the com missioners as a whole took liberal eX- ception. He was of the opinion that ministers do not want charity after they become unable to work and that they should be given pensions after twenty years service. He believed this would remove the taint of charity" from the support thus received.
 To this proposition Dr. Howard Az new Johnston of Colorado Springs took exception with the support of large majority of the commissioners He rebuked those who had made use of the term "charit.' and said that the minister who receives aid after he has given his best efforts to the church is not an object of charity but rather richly deserving of the support of the church. He said the plan first sug- gested to the assembly that the sus- tentation board should look to wealthy laymen for contributions to the fund for such relief was the most unbusi- nesslike proposition he ever heard ex- pounded from a committee of business men. He was unanimously supported in a resolution that recommended the objects of sustenation to the church and urged individual gifts. Here the mat ter ended
 The committee on polity found it's report in trouble when Dr. Joseph A. Vance of Chicago moved sub-resolu- tion for an overture upon which the committee moved that no action be taken in which it was provided that members removing from one charge to another who shall fail to signify within twelve months the church hith which they wish to be affiliated shall be talk en into the jurisdiction of the church designated by the pastor of the church they have left 2
 This resolution was sturdily fought by members of the polity committee on the ground that after much study they had not been able to make report Upon vote approval of the resolu- tion seemed unanimous.
 An unsuccessful attempt was made this afternoon to oust Rev. William H. Roberts, stated clerk and treasurer of the Presbyterian general assembly for the past twenty-five years, rom his position. The attempt was made by the opponents of Dr. Roberts dur ing the discussion of the report of the finance committed which recommendH that the care of the funds of the as sembly be taken from Dr. Roberts hands.
 After a vitriolic discussion during which Vice Moderator c. 2, Holt of Chicago strongly defended Dr. Roberts, it was voted to retain him as treas urer.
 The assembly condemned the state, courts of Tennessee today for their ac- ton in setting aside the union of the Presbyterian church of America with the Cumberland Presbyterian church.' The criticism was harsh.