Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-20
PRESBYTERIAN
ASSE EMILY IS
IN SESSION
Election Of Moderator and
Organization Of Gather
ing the Main Features of
Today's Meeting.

Atlantic City, N. j., May 1S.-The
election of moderator to succeed the
Rev. Charles Little, D. d. Of Wabash,
Ind, and the service of latter calling
the gathering to order were the prln-
cipal events on today's program OF the
|123rd general assembly of the Presby-
terrain church in the United States OF
America which convened here this
morning.
The opening session began at 1O:3O
o'clock with the sermon of DR.. Little
and after devotional exercises an ad'
journment will be taken until TINS
afternoon when moderator for the
ensuing year will be chosen,
Among the candidates for this high
honor are the Rev. DR.. John F. Carson,
pastor Of the Central Presbyterian
church of Brooklyn, New York, the
Rev. DR.. Mark Allison Matthews, OF
Seattle, Wash; the Rev. DR.. John
Dixon, associate secretary OF the
board of home missions, and the Rev.
DR.. Thomas W. Wlggington, OF Nash
vile. Tenn. Each, it Is said, has
strong support in the assembly and
the election will be watched with IN
terest.
All the sessions of the assembly
will be held in the music hall on the
steel pier. The weather Is clear and
pleasant and as seabreezes swept the
convention hall the committees are
meeting under ideal conditions.
Southern Presbyterians Meet.
Louisville, KY, May 18.-With every
state south of the Ohio and Potomac
rivers represented. the forty-first ses-
sion of the general assembly OF the
PRESBYTERIAN church in the United
States Southern Presbyterian church,
was convened here today and will con-
tinue until May 26.
Divorce and marriage and the
"elect infant" clause of the Westminls'
ter confession of faith will be the
principal topics of consideration.
Bristol and Chattanooga, Tenn,
.ouston and Richmond are rivals for
the next convention.
Poor Salaries Hurt Ministry.
Lockport, N. Y, May 18.-The mea-
ser salaries paid to preachers are held
responsible by the New York state
Coneresationalists, now In convention
here. for the fact that it has been I'M
possible to provide pastors for hun
bred churches in various parts OF
the state. The average salary IN the
vacant nastorates is $500 a year and
the high living makes it impossible
for even bachelor preacher to live
within this income, according to the
nastorate supply committee.
The committees report further calls
attention to the curious reasons given
by some Of the important congrega-
tions for refusing to call certain min
listers. One candidate Is objected to
by congregation because he crossed
his legs in the pulpit Another congre-
cation objected to the style in which
a minister combed his hair, and one
church refused candidate because
che walked up the center aisle as
though he were self-satisfied."
Cumberland PresbyterIans Meet.
Evansville, Ind, May 1S.-The
eighty-first general assembly of Cum
berland Presbyterian church convened
here this morning with 800 commits.
sioners present. This afternoon a
moderator will be elected to succeed
Judge J. H. RUSSELL of Columbia,
Tenn. Concurrent with the assembly
missionary associations Of the church
are meeting with fifty delegates.
Commissioners will speak strenu-
ously against union Of the body with
the Presbyterian church. A fore
cast of this was made in the opening
sermon this morning by Moderator
Russell.