Evening star., 1916-05-21
Total Net Loss of $381,415
in Four Years Fails to Cause
Magazine CurtaiIment.
MINORITY WILL PROPOSE
CONSOLIDATION OF SOME
Proposed Elevation of Missionary
Bishops to Full Rank Stirs
General Conference.


SARATOGA SPRINGS. y Y. May 20.
An effort to obtain the adoption Of
report favoring the discontinuance
of several of the magazines published
under the auspices of the Methodist
Episcopal Church failed at a meeting
of the committee on the state of the
church tonight. and the general con-
ference will be requested by the ma
jority of the committee to authorize
publication for another four years.
A minority report was submitted
urging the consolidation of some Of
the periodicals on the ground that
there has been a total net loss during
the last four years of s5sl.4l5. The
journals are published in many parts
of the country. generally under the
name of The Advocate. The minor
ity also will ask that hereafter th"
editors he appointed by the book COM
mittee instead of being elected by the
conference.
Far East Missionaries Meet.
At meeting Of missionaries from
Malaysia. the Philippines. India and
Burma held tonight. a proposal was
favored which. il adopted by the con-
ference. will radically change the
episcopal system. The missionaries
ndorsed a plan to elevate all OF the
missionary bishops to the rank of
bishops with full powers. IL the gem
eral conference gives its approval the
present missionary bishops will auto
matically become bishops. and in place
of the three of the former class to have
been chosen this year one bishop in
stead of two missionaries will be Sc
lected for Africa and the post at
Singapore will be left vacant
The committee on the state of the
church favors the system of mothers
pensions.
William ]. Bryan. former Secretary of
State, it was announced today, will at
tend the session of the conference Mon
day morning and will speak at the anni-
versary of the temperance society.
Sunday Games Before Presbyterians.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., May Ca
spirited discussion over the question of
Sunday amusements enlivened today's
session of the general assembly Of the
Presbyterian Church. it came when the
recommendations of the Sabbath observ-
ance committee were being considered
and a motion had been made for their
adoption. James De Witt Andrews of the
New York Presbytery started things 60
ing when he rose and said:
These resolutions condemn without
exception all forms of sports on the Sab
bath We must determine what sports
We mean to exclude. The prohibition Of
all games or sports is not a thing to ad-
vance our cause at this time.
The report of the committee was
adopted.
Will Not Permit Women to Preach.
ORLANDO. Fla. May 20-Eforts to
further the interest of women to the ex-
tent that they would be allowed to preach
in Presbyterian churches failed here to-
day after fve-hour debate at the Cen
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States The status of
women as deaconesses was not de-
termined. that part of the report having
been deferred until Monday. The vote
was 1872 TO so in favor Of allowing the
status of women. as regards preaching.
to remain as II is.
Baptist Mission Work Shown.
ASHEvILLE, n. C.. May 2o.-Southern
Baptists paid tribute at their session
here tonight to the work of the Womans
Missionary Union. an auxiliary of the
of the committee on woman's work pre-
scented by w. {. Jones OF Richmond. Va.
showed that in the past twelve months
the union has formed more tilan 5000
new mission bands. distributed more
than 367. 900 missionary pamphlets and
leaflets. and raised for various enter
prises of the denomination more than
S416, 900.
All officers of the various boards of
the Southern Baptist Convention were
unanimously reelected at the morning
session here today. with the exception
of l.. +. Barton of Atlanta, Ga. who WAS
succeeded as recording secretary of the
home mission board by $. Y. Jemieson
of Marietta, Ga. All state members OF
the various boards were reelected.
Northern Baptists Pick Officers.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi MAY eo.-PoN-
tics made an appearance at the North
ern Baptists' convention today, when
several groups of delegates began
activities in behalf of candidates for
various offices in the convention
proper and cooperating societies in
anticipation of the report of the com
mttee on nominations next Monday.
The committee is understood to have
agreed upon DIR. c. A. Barbour of the
Rochester Theological Seminary for
president and the denomination of DR..
A. j. Rowland, treasurer of the Amer
lean Baptist Publication Society. and
of DIR. H. L. Morehouse for cor
responding secretary of the American
Baptist Home Mission Society.
Lutherans Vote to Unite.
MINNEAPOLIS. May 2o.-The Nor
wegian Lutheran synod, meeting here
in extraordinary session. tonight adopt
ed by vote of about three to one the
constitution providing for union with
the United Norwegian Lutheran Church
and Hauge's Norwegian Lutheran
synod.
The United Norwegian Lutheran
Church already has adopted the consti-
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