The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-19
Reports of Committees Show Great Advance
 in All Lines of
 Endeavor MISSIONARIES CARRY GOSPEL INTO MANY FOREIGN COUNTRIES Assembly Petitions Presi- dent to Appoint a Day of Fasting and Prayer
 for Peace
By MAMIE BAYS

| first committee on systematic bene- | ficience was organized at the general assembly held in Lewisburg, W. Va, | in 1910. The committee will recom- mend in its report to the assembly this year that the budget be applied as l follows the coming year
 Foreign missions ............ $732,60O Home missions 5oo,4 Christian education and minis terial relief ............... 165,000 1 Publication and S. s. exten- sion o2,oDU | Bible cause ................. 13,200 1 Total 1920, 900 We recommend that the following percentage apply to any undesignated gifts to be distributed among the assembly's causes. and as a guide to our people:
 Foreign missions ... 551a per cent 1 Christian education and ministerial relief .. 12h per cent Publication and s. S. ex- tentlon .............. per cent Bible cause .........., per cent | We further recommend. that to meet 1 the opportunities and responsibilities now confronting us our immediate ! goal should be not less than, for FOFe1Sn missions $l,VUU,UuU Home missions ....,......... 550,000 Christian education and ministerial relief ....... 2S0,000 Publica tion and s. s. exten tention 75.oOo Bible cause .. 20, ,000 At the session of the assembly Friday evening, Rev. w. H. Adams presented the following resolutions
 "In view of the entrance of our nation into the world wide war; Resolved, That the general assembly of the Presbyterian church in the United States do hereby humbly petition the President of the United States to appoint a day in the near future of fasting and prayer for the confession of national and for tine preservation and extension of the interests of the kingdom of Christ so grievously menanced by the demon of in- ternational hatred and discord. The resolution was referred to the com- mittee on bills and overtures. The reading and approval of the minutes of the sessions of the assem- bly on Thursday was the opening fea- ture of the session of Friday morning. The stated clerk then announced the following statistics which had just come into his hands. During the past year there have been 19.647 additions to the church on profession and the total membership of the church is now 38S.651. At the present time there are 552 candidates for the min istry in the assembly.
 The following cablegrann from Dr. George Adam Smith. modera- tor of the United Free church, was presented by the standing commit tee, as follows;
 "With the firm faith in right eousness of cause. we grate- fully hail the entrance of your people into the alliance for jus tice. freedom and peace.' The cablegram was referred to the committee on foreign correspondence. The report of the western (Ameri- can) section of the executive commits sion of the Alliance of Reformed churches, holding the Presbyterian system, was submitted to the assem- bly by Rev. I. s. McElroy, D. D., member of the alliance from the Pres byterian church in the United States. pr. McElroy reported that the al- liance held a meeting in March of the present year. in Columbia S. C.. and that at that meeting there were present members representing the Presbyterian church in Canada, the | Presbyterian church in the United States of America. the Presbyterian church in the United States. the United
  church in America. the Reformed 1 church in the United States. the Synod l of the Reformed Presbyterian church, | and the Associated Reformed Pres byterian church.
 1 The following statistics presented by l Dr. McElroy are of special interest: | The total number of missionaries em- I ployed by the church in the alliance, f 4110; number of churches and mis- sions aided. 4503; churches organ | ized, 164; members added to home mis- sion churches on confession, 20,91l; members added by certificate to home mission churches, 12,630; Sunday schools organized during the year, 595;
 number of Sunday schools enrolled in | the churches in the alliance, 19,1S1; | total membership of Sunday schools, 2,3so.142 receipts from all causes dur 1 ing the year. $3,917.247.
 The churches embraced in the west ern section of the alliance represent | at least 3.00o,000 communicants. | constituency of s.ooo00o and an influ- ence that extends far beyond estimate | in figures.
 GREAT PROGRESS MADE | The reports submitted to the alliance | showed that in the work of home mis- sions. in proportion to membership. the progress made by the Southern |
 that made by any other church in the l alliance.
 | On motion. the privilege of the floor
 throughout the assembly was granted | to Dr. McElroy.
 l Rev. c. F. Brown, D. D., representing l the American Bible society, addressed i the assembly, and his address was re- I ferred to the standing committee on Bi- | ble cause.
 | Rev. A. M. Plant brought greetings to
 the assembly from the recently organized | Afro-American synod.
 l The report of the permanent commit 1 tee on the Sabbath and family religion 1 was submitted, and was referred to the | standing committee on this subject | The report of the treasurer of the as-
 sembly, Rev. T. H. Law, D. D., was sub mitted, showing that the past year about :, SIG, ,0C0 has passed through the hands of the treasurer, the amount of the annual