Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-06-07
SYNOD WANTS THE
COLLEGE DAY Of
PRAYER CHANGED
Reformed Ministers Contend
They Can't Get Pensioners
Out to Weekday Service.
Especial to the Newark star.l

lSpeclai 10 Inc newark STAR
ASBURY PARK, June AT the
session of the General Synod of the
Reformed Church today a discussion
was started concerning the advisable
ity of further services of prayer held
by the Reformed Church on the third
Thursday In January, commonly OBJ
served by the colleges and universe
ties as a day of prayer.
1t was while the Rev. DR.. John j.,
Gerhard, OF Mt. Vernon, who Isl chair,
man of the board of education of the
Reformed<Church, was speaking that a
number of delegates introduced the
question for discussion. 1t was the
opinion of these delegates that the
church should hold it's services on the
Sunday nearest to the day set aside
by the institutions of learning instead
of upon that day. giving as their reason
the difficulty of getting an attendance
at mid-week services.
This provoked a long discussion in
which a score of ministers took part,
declaring that If college students could
be made to attend prayer services on a
week day, church members could like
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ter came when a resolution was adopt
ed calling for a committee on educa-
ton to take this matter up with the
colleges
Helping Rutgers College.
The Church Board of Education re-
ported that the church is this year a k
ing care of eighty-one students at in
stitutions of learning. OF these thirty
three are at Rutgers College and Hope
College, Holland, Mich, forty-ive in
other universities and three in prepare
tory schools.
A long discussion over Hope College,
an institution for which the Reformed
Church stands sponsor, was finally
sidetracked by. the passage of a motion
that the Board of Education make to
the finance committee of the synod
during it's present session are part OF
an estimate of expenses with recon-
mendation Of appropriations which the
church may ~'sasonably be called upon
to make for Hope College during the
coming year.
There will be a lot of special eX-
penses at the college this year caused
by municipal improvements in Hol-
land which the college, on account OF
it's ownership of real estate there, has
been assessed for. While the institution
has grown rapidly the last few years
there has been no increase of it's en-
dowment fund. and it, therefore, would
welcome financial aid.
While the clergymen were holding
their meeting today in Library Hal
their wives, those of the elders who
are delegates and some special womer
delegates were engaged in services a.
the Grand Avenue Reformed Church
announced ae ladies day." Two sub
jects were taken up. that of "Women's
Domestic Missions this morning ant
"Women's Foreign Missions this after
noon.
On the former subject there was {
discussion by the Rev. e. A. Ohori
missionary to the Japanese Of New
York city. -
Other speakers were the Rev. j. ID
Voorhees, secretary of the Board o
Domestic Missions of the Church; tn
Rev. H. Schipper, of Dakota, and Mrs
Isaac Messler. of Mckee. KY. =,
This afternoon the speakers were Dr.
L. r. Scudder, the Rev. D.. c. Riegh
Mrs. S. NJ. Zwerner and Miss H. M
Lansing. +
The Rev. E. H. Ohori will speal
again tonight at a meeting in the in
terest Of domestic missions. when ad
dresses will also>be made by the Rev
Thomas H. Mckenzie, of New York
and the Rev. Irving H. Berg, of Cats
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