The Washington herald., 1914-04-05
Presbyterian Eyes Turn
Towdrd Chicago Assembly

Subjects relating to every phase Of life
religious, social. educational political.
and industrial-wfll be considered by the
ism General Assembly Of the Presby-
terian Church, U. 8. A. which will con-
yene Thursday, May q, In the newly
erected S750Ooo edifice of the Fourtn
PRESBYTERIAN Church, said to be the most
beautiful Presbyterian church in the
world. located within sight Of the blue
waters of Lake Michigan. near Lncoin
Park, in Chicago.
Rev. John Timothy Stone, d. D., pas
tor Of the Fourth Presbyterian Churcn,
who was SO Unexpectedly elected moder-
ator Of the General Assembly at Atlanta'
Ga, last year. will open the assembly IN
the forenoon with a sermon, In which ne
Is expected to survey the churchs prog
ress during the last year. Only once be-
fore in the history Of the presbyterian
Genera Assembly has the retirlns moo-
orator convened the new assembly IN tne
church of which he was pastor. As the
moderator mounts the platform to pre-
side oyer the afternoon session, at which
the new moderator will be elected, Rev.
s. Hall Young. D. D., who spent forty
years of his life doing missionary work
IN Alaska. where he established the hrst
church of any denomination, will pre-
sent DR.. Stone with gaYei maze Oh tne
tusks OF a walrus which DIR. Young him.
self killed on one Of his expeditions IN
the Behrtng Sea. A similar gavei also
urIIl he presented to the newly elected
moderator when he assumes the duties
Of his ONCE.
Politics Eliminated.
Because Of the precedent established
last year in the election Of DR.. Stone as
moderator from the floor OF the assem-
bly,, without any preliminary electoneer-
ing, no aspirants to the office of moder-
ator have appeared. 1t is expected none
will appear. In previous years the pre-
assembly scenes were very much ike
those attending the scenes before ma
tional political convention, when rivaI
candidates and their supporters fought
for prestige.
Arrangements for the physical COM
fort Of the So0 assembly's commissioners
who will come from every part OF the
United States and its colonial possessions.
and the thousands of other persons who
will be attracted TO the assembly and
the preassembly gatherings, have been
made by a committee of which Edward
H. Smith, treasurer of the Oliver Type
writer Company, is chairman, and w
Holmes Forsythe. secretary. On this
committee are business men such as Cy-
rus w MCSorHliSh' PicsiueHN "a N'iS A''
ternational Harvester Company; James
B. Forgan, president Of the First Ma
tioral Bank. and Henry P. Crowell, presi-
dent Of the Quaker Oats Company. An
automobile tour of Chicago, through its
beautiful resident and congested factory
districts, will be one feature of the en-
tertainment provided for the commission
ers by the local committee.
Country Church Question.
The big fight Of the assembly's sessions
will revolve around the Interpretation of
that portion in last years report Of the
Board of Home Missions which says
That while in fullest sympathy with
every effort to revive. strengthen. and
perpetuate the country church. and with
every movement to evangelize and Chris
tianize the rural population. nevertheless
tbe- denartrnent Of church and country