Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1910-10-20
INTERESTING REPORTS OF Mis-
SION PREsBYTERY GIVEN
AT ABERDEEN
WORK WEST OF MISSOURI
Rev. Hamilton in Charge of Mission
Presbytery Embracing Terri
tory to the West Re-
viewed Work

features of the Sunday school insti-
tue held in connection with the meet
ing of the Presbyterian synod recent
~ III session iii Aberdeen was the
report of the Rev. j. M. Hamilton,
the denomination Sunday school mis-
sionary in charge of the mission
presbytery situated west of the Mis-
souri, river in South Dakota. The re-
port showed there are fifty-fve Sun
day schools in the presbytery, and
nine churches. The presbytegy COM
prises territory two hundred miles
square, and M. Hamilton and two
other Sunday school missionaries care
for the work. Mr.. Hamilton deploIed
the fact that many people are too
much interested in securing the lux
uries of life, in preference to devot-
ing their attention to things spiritual,
and said that even many ministers
sought lucrative pastorates in prefer
ence to taking up the hard work and
poor pay of the mission field. The
sessions of the Sunday school insti-
tute closed with an address by the
Rev. DR.. Humble, a noted Presbyter-
ian minister of Chicago, on 'Psychol-
ogy as applied to the home and in the
Sunday school"
The sessions of the synod proper OPP
ened Thursday evening, with an open
| ing sermon by the retiring moderator,
the Rev. John G. Linton of Flandreau,
followed by an address on THE Sue
cessful Church." by the Rev. F. L.
Barackman of Sioux Falls. This
mornings sessions were taken up by
the reports of standing committees
of the synod, covering most of the diff
ferent fields of denominational activ-
ity of the year.
The Presbyterian synod sessions
were closed here Sunday night, wher
the Rev. DR.. Charles G. Jordan
of Philadelphia conducted meeting
devoted to the subject of Chris
tan citizenship. In the Afternoon
Rev D. T. Kuhn, of Madison
S. D., presided over a young PEG
Piles meeting which was addressed
/ by Miss :. M. Chase, Presbyterian
missionary who recently returned
from several years work in Korea
At the meeting of the woman's mis-
sionary society of the synod, MIS-
Chase. Miss McCaules of Bridgewater
Mrs. F. e. Granger of Aberdeen an
others, delivered very strong and III
teresting addresses, and the fo}lowin
officers were elected: Presiden
emeritus, Mrs. j. S. liver, Los Angeles
Cal: president, Miss Anna b. Nc
Cauley, Bridgewater; correspondent
secretary, Ms. H. P. Carson, Huron
literary secretary, Mrs. Thomas Luck
ey, Huron; young peoples secretary
Mrs. G.. e. Rose, Canistota.
The woman's missionary societ
adopted resolutions warmly endorsin
woman suffrage, but the syl-od, whe
the resolutions were introduced he
fore it, tabled the resolution on tn
ground that it was not proper sui
iect to come before a religious bod.
The synod pledged $4,000 to tn
support of Huron college, as the syI
od1cal contribution toward an endou
ment fund of $250,O00 for the inst
tuition.
,, Church activities in the north pal
of the state have been unusually no
iceable this fall, as evidenced by tt
number of new church buildings cree
ed during the present season. On SUI
: day the st. Paul's German Evansel
cal Lutheran congregation dedicate
, a handsome new edifice in Aberdee
many ministers of the denominatie
in this part of the state participatir
in the imposing ceremonies. On Tue
,, day. October IL, the Roman Cath
!, lies will dedicate a fine new buildir
at Chelsea, and the Baptsts and tt
), German Lutherans have both just de-
icated new churches at Lennon. III
pastor of the Baptist church at tt
latter town has now gone to limb
.. Lake, one of the most promising
the new towns in the country jul
opened to settlement, where he w
), organize congregation and build
church.
: Bishop johnson Chosen
9 Sioux Falls-The American house
a bishops of the Protestant Episcop
church, at their meeting at Cincinns
popood Row Frpderj