The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1910-10-21
INTERESTING REPORTS OF MIS-
SION PRESBYTERY GIVEN
AT ABERDEEN
WORK WEST OF MISSOURI
Rev. Hamilton in Charge of Mission
P~resbytery Embracing Terri
tory to the West Re-
viewed Work

ACdluIeS oL Tue Ouuudy SCuOOl luStl-
tue held in connection with the meet
ing of the Presbyterian synod recent
ly in session in Aberdeen was the
aeport 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 ffty-fve Sun
day schools in the p~resbytery, and
nine churches. The p~resbytery com
prises a territory two hundred miles
square, and Mr.. Hamilton and two
other Sunday school missionaries care
for the work. Mr.. Hamilton deplored
the fact that many people ale 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, OF "Psychol-
ogy as applied to the home and in the
Sunday school,"
The sessions of the synod proper op-
ened Thursday evening, with an OPEN
ing sermon by the retiring moderator,
the Rev. John c. 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 UNCONVENTIONAL activ-
ity of the year.
The Presbyterian synod sessions
were closed here Sunday night, when
the Rev. DR.. Charles G.. Jordan.
of Philadelphia conducted a meeting
devoted to the subject of Chris
tian citizenship. In the afternoon
Rev. d. T. Kuhn, of Madison,
S. D., presided over a young peo-
pies meeting which was addressed
by Miss l. M. Chase, a Presbyterian
missionary who recently returned
from several years work in Korea.
At the meeting of the woman's mis-
sionary society Of the synod, MISS
Chase, Miss McCauies of Bridgewater,
Mrs. F. e. Granger of Aberdeen and
others, delivered very strong and In
teresting addresses, and the following
officers we're elected: President
emeritus, Mrs. ). s. liver, Los Angeles,
CAL; president, Miss Anna E. Nc
Cauley. Bridgewater; corresponding
secretary, Ms. H. P. Carson, Huron;
literary secretary, Mrs. Thomas Luck
ey, Huron; young peoples secretary,
Mrs. c. e. Rose, Canistota.
The woman's missionary society
adopted resolutions warmly endorsing
woman suffrage, but the syl-od, when
the resolutions were introduced re-
fore it. tabled the resolution on the
ground that it was not a proper sub
ject to come before a religious body.
The synod pledged $4,000 to the
support of Huron college, as the syn
odfcal contribution toward an endow-
ment fund of $250, 900 for the insti-
tuition.
Church activities in the north part
of the state have been unusually not
iceable this fall, as evidenced by the
number of new church buildings erect
ed during the present season. On Sun
day the st. Paul's German Evangeli-
cal Lutheran congregation dedicated
a handsome new ediice in Aberdeen
many ministers of the denomination
in this part of the state participating
in the imposing ceremonies. On Tues
day, October IL, the Roman Catho-
lies will dedicate a fine new building
at@Chelsea, and the Baptists and the
German Lutherans have both just ded'
icated new churches at Lennon. The
pastor of the Baptist church at the
latter town has now gone to Timber
Lake, one of the most promising o.
the new towns in the country jus'
opened to settlement, where he will
organize a congregation and build Z
church.