The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-05-22
PROHIBITION MADE ISSUE OF ASSEMBLY
 OF PRESbyTER|ANS
Protest Filed Against Reso- lutien Favoring Abolition of Sale of Liquor by Con-
 stitutional Amendment

Newport News. Va. May I.=-National trohibition was made an issued of the ffty-ffth general assembly of the Pres byterian church of the south here today in the filing by the Pennsylvania presby- tery of Kentucky of a protest against the resolution adopted at the last general as eembly and favoring the abolition of the sale of liquor by an amendment to the federal constitution.
 The protest was referred to commit tee and the Pennsylvania commissioners as well as others opposing the resolution predicted spirited contest when the mat ter is reported to the assembly. The pro- test sets forth that the assembly under it's constitution, cannot act on pollticai questions further than to advise and peti- tion.
 The Transylvania delegati tion also asserts that at the meeting of the assembly Tn l1911 it offered a resolution for the pur- pose of placing the body on record on na- tonal prohibition and that the resolution was tabled on the ground that 1t was not in keeping with the letter and spirit oi tno constitution.
 The greater part of today's business session was taken up with the presenta- ton of overtures. These were referred 70 committees for a report and several oi them are expected to cause extended dls- cussion when they come before the body. The principal overtures were;
 Reasons Advanced
 Reasons for and against the organiza- ton of the proposed Appalachian synod.
 To devise some means whereby the funds of the church subject to investment may be open to all the churches as loan fund
 Asking the assembly to designate the next assembly as the rural church as Eembly.'
 Asking the assembly to affirm it's be- ton of the synod of Virginia opposing the action of the 1914 assembly touching the amendment of the federal constitution
 The appointment of an ad interim com mittee to make a thorough revision or the book of church order
 Asking the asseby to affirm its be- lief as to the teaching of the scrip lures in regard to women speaking or praying in public or in mixed religious assemblies
 To consider consolidation of the pub lication work with other Presbyterian bodies with a view to concluding more 2 vigorously Sunday school work
 Protest against any retrenchent m the work of the foreign mission com mittees.
 Concerning the relation between the Presbyterian church in the United States States of America in the south.
 Great Progress Shown Great progress in the evangelistic de partment of the church work was showt in the report read today by Rev. w. H Miley of Atlanta, superintendent oi that department. This report showet that during the year 20,156 persons were received into the church on pro fessions of faith as against 16,149 th' preceding year, and that 1875 churches or 40 per cent of the assembly member ship, reported no converts during th' year. whereas 1152. or A per cent mad the same report last year.
 The committee on reformation da, recommended that a "Huss service" Il comm emoration of the five hundredtl anniversary of the martyrdom of Johi Huss be held in each church on some Sunday in July, and that the assembly authorize the celebration of the refor- nation day this year on Sunday. July 4, instead of the last Sunday in Oc- tober, as usual. and name the sub ject for the day, "Huss and the Huss ites."
 A symposium on Evangelism" was held by the assembly tonight. the Rev Frank T, McFadden of Richmond Va. presiding. Addresses were delivered a. follows:
 The Rev. William Grove, Memphis Tenn. "The Simultaneous Denomina :. tionly City Campaisn;' the Rev. Dr. ? McGeochy Lewisburg, w Va, "Th' lEvangelistic Programme for the Presby <. tery; the Rev pr. J. A. Bryan, Bir . mingham, The Pastor as Nolunte el { Evangelist and the Rev. pr. Dunbar H. Ogden. Atlanta, Personal Evangel | ism" a