The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-17
SELECTION OF MODERATOR


 with the recommendation of the assem-
 bly, of 1916 that the importance of family
 religion receive special emphasis at the
 assembly of this year and that the per
 manent committee the Sabbath and
 family religion prepare a programme on
 this subject to be carried out one eve
 ming during the assembly, 1t is not un- likely that the commissioner to be elect ed moderator of this assembly will be one who Is prominently identified with this permanent committee or one who is prominently identified with this per manent committee or one who has been especially active in the work of the Family Altar League which was or
 ganized little more than one year ago and which now has an enrolment of more than 12O0 members most of them being heads of families who have pledged themselves to the observance of daily family worship in their homes.
 Business sessions will occupy the time of the assembly during the morning and afternoon of each day with the excep- ton of Friday afternoon, when no ses- sion will be held on account of the neces- sity for the standing committees to or ganize and hold their first meeting, and on each evening popular meetings will be held in the interest of some cause of the assembly in the interest of some subject especially designated to be pre- sented The business sessions and the popular meetings are all open to the public.
 l In addition to the figures published in i The Age-Herald of Sunday last, showing the contributions of the general assem- bly, to foreign missions, to assembly s home missions, to Christian education and ministerial relief and to publication 1 and Sabbath school work last year, it l is of interest to note also in this con- nection that during the same time it l contributed to the Bible cause s9,015: to orphans homes sl4l, BOA; to salaries for ! pastors, sl,5226l6; to congregational ex- pense s1,722,993; to miscellaneous pur- poses, ssoS24 making the total amount contributed during the year for all l causes and purposes $4,976,s52.
 SOUTH HIGHLANDS CHURCH 1 The report presented to the general l assembly of 1916 showed that in the l South Highlands Presbyterian church | of this city there are Il elders and 10 l deacons that six members were added to l the church the year previous on eX- | animation and 66 members were added by l certificate, giving this church resident l membership of 302 and a nonresident membership of 3e, and Sunday school l enrolment of 199.
 l The South Highlands church contrib | uted during that year to foreign mis- l sions $1 ,062; to assembly's home missions, $231 to presbytery's home missions, $l320; | to congregational home missions. SIPS; to | Christian education and ministerial re- | lief, $195; to publication and Sabbath l school work BPS; to schools and colleges, l $2S0; to Bible cause, g; to orphans | homes, S513; to miscellaneous benevo- 1 fences, $263; to pastors salary, $3712, and l to incidental expenses and presbyterial l tax, s5749. It is probable that the report l from this church that will be submit- l ted to the assembly which convenes this morning. through the Presbytery of l North Alabama, will show decided in- | crease in membership and in contribu- l tions during the year just closed over I those of the year previous
 ARRIVALS ON WEDNESDAY Among the prominent ministers who ar l rived yesterday to attend the assembly are: The Rev. Walter w. Moore, D. D., | president of Union Theological seminary, l Richmond, Va; the Rev. Charles R. Hemphill, D. D., president of the Theolog- ical Seminary of Kentucky, Louisville; the Rev. Thornton R. Whaling. D. D., pI esident of Columbia Theological semi nary. Columbia $. C.; the Rev. Thomas H. Low, D. D., of Spartanburg, s. C., stated clerk of the assembly; the Rev. J. D. Jessie of Cisco, Tex, permanent clerk of the assembly; the Rev. c. W. Grafton, D. D., Union Church, Miss, the retiring moderator; the Rev David M sweets, D. D., of Louisville, Ky, editor of
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