Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1918-10-15
PRESBYTERIAN MEETING
The Wisconsin Synod of the Presby-
terian Church in the U. s. A. Met
in Wausau Last Week-67th An
nual Session

large number of out of town people.
who were here to attend the Presby-
terian meeting and the Woman's Syn
odical Missionary meeting, an account
of the latter being given elsewhere
in this edition. The weather in this
city the past week was ideal and one
could not have asked for any better,
which helped greatly in bringing
about successful and enjoyable meet
ings.
The Wisconsin Synod of the Pres
byterian church in the U. S. A., opened
its 9th annual session last Tuesday
afternoon, at the First Presbyterian
| church, with Rev. r. ]. McLandress,
as chairman. 1t was a Young Peoples
and Sunday School conference. DR..
Laughlin gave an interesting talk on
educational work and war. This was
| followed by an address, Awakening
Our Sunday Schools and Young Peo-
pies Societies to the Kingdom cam
paign,I by Mrs. M ]. Gildersleeve,
who is associate secretary of Woman's
Board of Home Missions. She sug-
| gested plan by which the young
people would become more interested
in missionary work and told of how
they could raise money for the work.
| The balance of the afternoon was
given over to young peoples and
Sunday school symposium, at which
time ten minutes was devoted to each
OF the following subjects: Our Young
Peoples Conference" Rev. Norman
K Tully; Our Young People Trained
and Training Others Rev. James A.
Melr0Se; The Teacher Training Class
in the Smaller Community" Rev. Geo.
V. r. Shepard; ''The Teacher Training e
Class in the Busy Church." Rev. M,
S. AXtell. The program for the af-
ternoon closed with open parliament
in charge of Rev. r. J. McLandress
and DR.. Verkuyl.
Tuesday evening; really marked the
beginning of the synod program, when
| Rev. j. e. Bushnell, D. D., of Mime
apolis, delivered sermon in the audi
| torium of the First Presbyterian
church. The meeting opened with the
singing of "The Star Spangled Ban
ner." After several musical numbers
and the offering had been taken up, Rev
After several musical numbers and
| the offering had been taken up, Rev.
Bushnell gave a stirring sermon on
religion and christianity. He men
toned the world war, and stated that
it is necessary for us to have a more
serious or ardent understanding of
religion than we have had in the past,
| il we are to help during the period
inspiring.
After the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper at which Rev. d. S. West of
| Ironwood, Mich, formerly associate
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church here, presided, assisted by
Revs. u. Davies of Milwaukee and E..
G. Raue of Green Bay there was or
ganization of synod, roll call, election
OF moderator and temporary clerks;
reports of committees on arrange
ments, docket and entertainment.
| Wednesday morning opened with a
business meeting, after which subjects
were taken up as follows: Narrative
and Neurology" by Rev. E. C. Henke
of Baraboo; 'The University Pastor"
by Rev. George E. Hunt, D. D., of
Madison. After business and devo-
tions, the latter led by Rev. d. S. West,
| Wisconsin Home Missions" was TAX
en- up by Rev. d. J. Williams, Phi. D., D.
D., of this city. 1t was in the nature
of a report, including membership,
| contributions, mission workers, etc.
| This closed the morning session.
In the afternoon of Wednesday, Rev.
G. E. Bovard, d. D., of Waukesha, gave
a report on Education and Colleges "
This consisted of work carried on,
finance, etc. His report was to have
been followed by an address by Pres
ident Herbert P. Houghton, Phi. d. of
Carroll college, who was unable to be
here on account of illness. The synod
however, heard about the great work
that President Houghton is doing, and
decided to send him a message This
was followed by devotions led by Rev
ID. S. West, and a solo number given
by Mrs. P. L. Sisson. A discussion
on "The State of the Nation" was
taken up by several speakers. E. c.
Eastman of Marinette and Mr.. An
drews of Portage talked on the war
Rev. Charles Brown, d. D., who is q
representative of the Fosdick Com
mission of the Federal Government
lappeared next. He is engaged in well
fare work within and without the
training camps, and gave a very in.
teresting account of the work, with
the soldiers. Rev. Donald Mcclure, &
representative of the national service
commission of the Presbyterian
church and who is camp pastor a
Fort Leavenworth, told of the worl
. being accomplished by camp pastors
,, and the great need for such workers
! He divided the work of the camp pas
tors into social service and hospita
service, but they also do other worl
! voluntarily and glad to give their ser
! vices whenever they can. Rev. 2
. Davies was on Wednesday Afternoon
! program for a talk on Pioneers il
: Faith Rev. N. K. Tully of Eal
! Claire spoke on Recruiting TO
! Christ" He emphasized prayer in hi
4 talk. R. P. Hutton of the Anti-Salool
. league, was the last speaker on tn
{ afternoon program. His address wa
{ good one, and made a strong pie;
Z for the passage of the bone-dry Law
by the legislature of this state ant
l throughout this entire country.
During the Wednesday session tn
new peace question was taken up an
! it was unanimously decided to sen,
I a telegram to President Wilson iron
! the synod as a body expressing thei
I appreciation of his action taken a
I this time. 1t was also decided to bu
! Liberty Bonds with the money be
! longing to the Home Missions, if TIL
Home Mission board consented to this
J The amount will probably be in tn
, neighborhood of $4,000. A resolution
!. was also adopted which expresse
!. that the synod is in favor of woman
!. suffrage, and petition will be sen
!. to the legislature of Wisconsin an
!. .. the United States favoring the passag
!. of the bill.
On Wednesday evening another in
: teresting meeting of the synod wa
/. held and largely attended Two goo
: addresses had been booked for tha
. evening, and two excellent speakers
: The first address was on "The lire
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