The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-19
Great Congregations Attend
Scores of Services in the
Churches Yesterday
BUSINESS WILL BE
RESUMED TODAY
Joint Mass Meeting on Missions and
Sunday School Workers Mass
Meeting-Other Special
Sunday Services

Atlanta, May Business activities OF
session here will be resumed tomorrow
morning, after Sundays remarkable
evangelistic effort throughout Atlanta
Great congregations attended the scores
of services in the churches today, and
tonight, led by some of the foremost
divines in America. Committee reports
and the various weighty matters to be
attended to in the assemblies this week
were temporarily forgotten and doctrn-
al differences had no place In the united
pleas put forth for evangeiation. Deep
interest was manifested in the mass
melting of men this afternoon, ad-
dressed by John Willis Baer of Los An
gees. Delegates from all the assemblies
united in this meeting. Besides making
a vigorous plea for better living in gen.
sral. Mr.. Baer declared he would rather
go staggering drunk to the gates of
Heaven, an unconverted man, than to go
as Presbyterian elder who has rented
his property to brothels for traffctor for
saloon purposes"
Others who took part in the services
were Rev. Frank Higgins of Ontario,
known as THE Sky Pilot of the Lumber
jacks DIR. Robert #. Coyle of Denver.
and Rev Hugh Fl. Bell of San Francisco.
Joint Mass Meeting
A joint mass meeting on missions. a
Sunday school workers mass meeting,
and mass meeting for women under
the auspices of the woman's board of
home missions. were the other special
services held today
Reports of committees. which were
much behind with their work Saturday,
will constitute the order of business in
all the assemblies tomorrow A feature
of the United Presbyterian work is ex-
pected to materialize tomorrow in action
upon the report of the committee on
board of publication, which criticlzes Wig
orously the business methods of the
board. On Tuesday the Southern Presby-
tpians are to take action upon the re-
pos of the committee which has sub
mitted brief popular statement" pur-
parting to set the future doctrinal stan
dards ef rhe church
Little has been said so FAR by any OF
efhe delegates about their next meeting
place, although the Chicago delegation
expresses confidence that TINT city will
win the 1914 Presbyterian U. S. A. as
oembly.
The majority of the committee of the
Northern Presbyterian assembly consider
Ing the adjustment of differences between
the church and Union Theological semi
nary of New York city. will ask the as
sembly tomorrow for continuation of
the committees work for one year. They
express the belief that the charges of
heresy against memebrs of the faculty
may be amicably settled by 1914.
Two minority reports will be submitted
The first. signed by Eli Fl. Perkins. of
Cleveland. and John r. Davies of Phila-
delpha will ask that the committee be
discharged, since in their opinion a resor-
alton of amicable relations between the
church and seminary is impossible. The
second, signed by DIR. Frank C. Monfort
of Cincinnati, editor of a leading organ
of the L. S. A. church, is bitter in its
denunciation OF the seminary. I. charges
that the theology teaches denies the su-
pernstural,'' and that members of the
faculty are not in a proper attitude of
belief to be recognized by the assembly
as orthodox Presbyterians.