Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-05-14
GREAT PROBLEMS
FACE ASSEMBLY
OF PRESBYTER|ANS
Black Heresy Case Among Cues
lions to Be SettIed-Fight
Over Stated Clerk.
BY THE REV. A. N. STUBBLEBINB.

Al lis Il 10
One of the largest representative re-
ligious bodies will convene at Atlantic
city May 10 and continue until about
June 1, when the 122d assembly of the
Presbyterian Church in the United
States will hold its annual session on
the steel pier.
Between 800 and 300 commissioners
will gather from all over the United
states and a few from foreign coun-
tries. These commissioners will repre-
sent POI p~resbyteries, each presbytery
sending one clergyman and one elder
for every twenty-four ministers en-
rolled. This body will be representa-
tive, because each church has a voice
In the presbytery through its pastor
ara elder.
The sessions Of the assembly will be
held on the steel pier, at the foot OF
Virginia avenue. 1t is centrally located
and very c~ommodious and well adapted
for n large convention. The auditorium.
called Music Hall, at the extreme and
of the pier, seating $500. will be used
for the regular sessions of the assem-
bly,. The central auditorium Will be
used by the boards or the church for
exhibits. Special efforts are being put
forth by the home and foreign mission
boards. the board of education and the
board OF Sunday school to have a big
showing. 1t promises to have the ap-
pearance of a small exposition. Ine
Casino Hall, the first auditorium on
entering the peir, will be used by the
committees of the assembly. There
will be twenty-one of these appointed
by the assembly, composed of twenty
one members.
This meeting of the General Assem-
bly, is the first held in New Jersey since
1864. when the "~old-school" Presby-
terians met in Newark, but this was
only part of the church. Now not only
the union of ''old and new school will
meet. but the Cumberland Presby-
terrain Church will help swell the num-
hers. This reunion of Cumberland
Presbyterians with the parent body
brought in over 100000 members and
nearly 1000 ministers.
The assembly will open on Thursday
morning, May 10, with a sermon by the
retiring moderator, the Rev. James M.
Barkley. of Detroit, Mich. DIR. Barley
was formerly pastor of
Church, Newark. The next important
question, one which has o been upper
most in the minds of the commits
sioners, is the election of the next
moderator. This election Will take
place Thursday Afternoon. Ii is eN-
tremely predetermined who Will be
elected from the many prominent
names mentioned for this highest gilt
within the Presbyterian Church.
Among the men whose names nave
been mentioned appears that OF the
Rev. DR.. j. Wilbur Chapman. secre-
tary of the evangelistic committee. Dr.
Chapman is one of the most widely
known ministers of the Presbyterian
Church and one of the greatest leaders
of evangelistic work in any denomi-
nation. He has done more than any
Z other clergyman to awaken the
churches of all denominations IN evan
geIistic effort. He has lately returned
from a worldwide evangelistic move
ment In Australia, China, Japan ana
other countries. He returned this week
from a revival In wales ana CON
ferences in England. Many feel that
he should be recognized for his work
by e~lecting him moderator. .
.L announcer HdIlt bltAAtOAto - N'N ~
the Rev. DR.. S. S. Palmer, of Columbus,
@. DR.. Palmer is spoken of as one of
the three greatest men in this denomi-
nation. He is one of the most active
pastors, n breaches to a very large
congregation.
The Rev. Edgar p. Hill, of Chicago,
looms up again. His friends in the
Central district are pushing him hard.
He was unsuccessful last year.
The Rev. DIR. Mark Alison Matthews,
OF Seattle, Wash, who is reported to
have the church with the largest mem
bership. is backed by the Western sec
ton. Strong effort has been made to
have the assembly meet at Seattle for
the past two years, n lin the church
of which DIR. Matthews is pastor.
There are two men who are looming
big as moderator timber, the Rev. DIR.
George Alexander, OF New York, and
the Rev. DR.. Ethelbert Dudley War
field. of Easton, president of Lafayette
College.
There is a strong feeling that the
East should have first claim on the
choice this year, so DR.. Alexander is
being urgently pushed. 1t would not
surprise the Eastern part of the church
to see him elected.
There is to be an important addition
to the regular program this year by
having pre-assembly conferences. The
most important will be the ~evangelc
meetings under the Rev. DIR. ]. Wilbur
Chapman and Charles Alexander.
These meetings will begin on Tuesday,
May IL DR.. Chapman is planning "
aid the ministers by special attention
to the problems Of church activities
This conference will open with an ad-
dress by the Rev. DR.. Charles w. Cor
Ion, of Winnipeg. Manitoba, on the
subject of Pastoral Evangelism and
the Sunday Evening Service;" also an
address by the Rev. DR.. F.. N. Nc
Millin, of Dayton. O. on Tuesday eve
ming the Rev. DR.. Frank Granstaff and
DR.. Chapman will speak on their jour
ney to Wales.
Wednesday morning the Rev. DIR.
John Willis Baer, of Los Angeles, Cal,