Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-20
.PRESBYTER|ANS
ADJOURN SYNOD
Annual Session of State
Body Ended at Lakewood
Yesterday.
RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED

Lakewood, Oct. 20:-The eighty.
eighth annual session of the Presbyter-
ian Synod of New Jersey brought ita
deliberations to e close here yesterday
afternoon. Not a great many results
have been accomplished but q great
many new suggestions and resolutions
have been discussed and it is confident
ly expected that by the time the con-
v~ention rolls around again a great many
of them will bear fruit.
Yesterdays session was taken mp
mostly with different committee re.
ports. These had to be crowded
through with as little discussion as pos.
sible on account of so much time being
lost over the debates Of Tuesday and
Wednesday.
The first order Of business was the
appointment of a vice-moderator. The
Rev. George f. Green, of Crawford, was
named. The Rev. Fisher Howe Booth,
of Tenafy; the Rev. G. P. Butler, Of
Lakewood, and the Rev. DR.. Stanley
White, of Orange, were elected trustees.
The Rev. w. w. ~Casselberry, of Col
lingswood, read q report. on systematic
benevolence, showing the total amount
of money given by all churches of New
Jersey to all causes was 81, 720,S13.79,
which was about $4,000 less han last
year. The gifts per capita showed New
Jersey ranking third, with $4.38. Sys-
tematic giving was recommended as the
best to obtain results.
The Rev. DR.. John Dixon, of New
York, secretary of the Board of Home
Missions, said 100000 900 people in the
United States were outside the Chris
tian church. New responsibilities were
costing the board $345, 900 yearly for
work in Cuba and Porto Rico. The
Bureau of Church and Labor costs $780,
900 a year.
The synod listened to the reading of
the narrative of the state Of religion by
the Rev. Nelson B. Chester, of Cald-
well. The report, showed progress along
the lines of giving, but deplored the in
difference surrounding the church.
- The committee-on boundaries of pres
byteries reported that no action had
been taken during the year and request
ed to be dismissed. The request was
granted. This means no change at pres
ent in the boundaries of the eight pres
byteries of the State.
The report on Sabbath observance
was presented by the Rev. Joshua B.
Galloway, of Paterson, q member of
the committee, instead of by the Rev.
Samuel d. Price, of Camden, who for
the past few years has prepared it.
DR.. Galloway showed that the former
standard had not been retreated from.
DR.. Galloway for his committee pre-
sented seven recommendations on Sab
bath observance. The third was a re-
iteration of the usual deliverance on
the Sunday newspaper, If possible, more
drastic than previous attempts. 1t runs:
"That the publishing, buying and
selling Of the Sunday newspaper, being
a violation of the Sabbath laws. is here,
by condemned, and all members of our
church are requested to refuse purchas-
ing or reading the Sunday
which is detrimental to the proper OBJ
Of the Sabbath and the relig-
ious life of the people,
Another recommendation hits Sunday
recreations as follows:
"That all Sunday excursions, secular
entertainments, games, sports and
worldly pleasures are disapproved and
out of harmony with divine law
Other recommendations had reference
to 1.-THE Lords Day Alliance" and the
observance of a Sunday in the year in
the interest Of the Sabbath observance
movement.