The Washington herald., 1915-05-16

Rochester. n. Y, this week for the
127th meeting of the general assembly
of the Presbyterian Church in tht
United States of America The as
sembly meets on Thursday, May 20
and will continue for about ten days
The day sessions will be held in the
Central Presbyterian Church The
evening sessions will be great popular
meetings, and will be held in Conven.
tion Hall, which seats 5000.
Besides about a thousand commits.
sioners, there will be the members
of the various mission boards, ernin.
emt speakers on various features OF
church life and work. and officers OF
the assembly. Many of these will be
accompanied by their wives and other
members of their families.
At the time of the assembly sessions
there will be also two large gather
ings of influential women of the
church. On Tuesday, May is, two days
before the assembly convenes, the six
women's boards Of foreign missions
will meet. On the day before the as
sembly convenes and continuing six
days. through Monday, May "A, the
hundreds of delegates from every par,
of our country. will meet.
The first session of the assembly
will be opened by the retiring moder-
ator, Rev. DR.. Maitland Alexander. OF
Pittsburgh. Pa. The evening popular
meetings in Convention Hall will be
held in the interest Of missions in the
homo and foreign fields of education,
of temperance, etc. The temperance
mass meeting will be held on Thurs
day evening, May %. and the board
has secured for speaker Secretary of
State Bryan.
The clerical delegates from Wash
fnGton Presbytery to the General As
sembly are Rev. J. Harvey Durham,
pastor of Western Presbyterian
Church, Rev. Charles Wood, pastor OF
the Church of the Covenant, and Rev. H.
r. Johnson. pastor OF the Chevy Chase
Presbyterian Church.
In addition to the clerical and lay
delegates many Washington ministers
and church workers plan to attenu
the sessions of the assembly.
Rev. John Fox, New York, has is
sued a pamphlet and sent it to $4,000
PresbyterisT~ ministers and elders
calling upon the approaching general
assembly of the church to name a COM
mittee that shall demand of the New
York Prcsbytery why it persistently
disobcys the assembly's thrice given
orders about the reception of candi-
dates for the ministry, says the Bos-
ton Transcript. The demand is based
on the charge. many times made. tnnr
Union Theological Seminary, New
York. sends out graduates who are
unsound in Presbyterian faith, and
that the New York Presbytery, COM
pletely under the influence of Union
Seminary, receives and ordains them.
Rumor has il that the demand is more
than likely to be compiled with. The
assembly has three times admonished
the Presbytery in question against
the very thing now complained of.
Signers of these protests include
John Wanamaker. who is Presbyterian
elder. and it is stated that President
Wilson and Secretary Bryan. both
Presbyterian elders. expressed sym
pathy with it. but declined to sign
at this time.
y beautiful memorial pulpit was re-
Gently dedicated in the First Prespy
terian Church. Pittsburgh, Pa, of
which Rev. Or. Maitland Alexander.
moderator of tine General Assembly of
that church, is the pastor. DR.. Alex
ander is one OF the Presbyterian lead
ers who believes that the rulpits Or
his church are not to provide a place
of attack on the faith of the church
and on this occasion he said:
We dedicate this pulpit TO the
preaching of the Bible in its integ-
rity and authority as the Word OF God
ard the only infallib!e rule of faith
and life. and the telling of the old.
old story in it's cumulative and ever
increasing sweetness and power: to
the preaching of righteousness with
out fear or favor to strong and weak;
rich and poor alike; to the uplifting
of Christ who iS Cod ahla rn
by His precious blood all who believe
and accept Him: to the preaching of
the comforts of the grace of God,
that the weak may be strong, and the
anxious and hurdened may be made to
see the Burden bearer. that the sor-
rowful may be comforted. and the
struggling men and women may learn
to know the companionship of the
Friend of sinners.
'I charge you, the members Of this
church. to see to It that when my
work has been finished In this church.
that no man shall ever stand here
as its minister who does not believe
in and preach an inspired and infal-
1ible Bible. a living Christ who is
God. and the Cross and shed blood
the only way of everlasting life. Let
no graCeS of speech. executive ability
or power. charm of diction or literary
qualification for minister of this
namely. that he shall be true
to the Bible, to all the standards of
the Presbyterian Church. to the Deity
of Gods only begotten Son. and SAL I
walton through His precious blooa |
alone"
The Southern Baptists are now IN |
the midst of their annual convention. |
which is being held in Houston. Tex |
The Northern Baptists will gather ar
Los Angeles. Cal, this week for their |
annual meeting, which begins on |
Wednesday and adjourns a week later. |
On the 10Th.
Because of the distance Of these !
from Washington repre-
of the local churches az
this years conventions are few.
Local disciples are completing to-
lay their arrangements to attend TINS
weeks Christian convention at Beaver |
Creek. Nd. Parties led by the pastors !
will go from all of the eight WASH
ngton churches-there being as many |
Is twenty-five from some of the con-
yregations who have announced their |
purpose to go. The Maryland Mis-
'ionary Convention includes thirty
i've churches in Maryland, Delaware
md the District of Columbia. The
president of the convention is Rev.
c. Armstrong, of Baltimore.
The convention sermon will be
preached on Monday evening by Rev.
Peter Ainslie. of Baltimore. Tuesday
will be preachers day." and one of
" the papers OF the day will be pre-