Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-10-10
SYNOD
CLOSES SESSIONS
Growth of Church During the
Year Is Satisfactory to
Convention Delegates

Heyl Delk, pastor of st. Matthews
Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. He
was the principal speaker last night
at the closing sessions of the Luth-
eran Synod. His subject was, "A
| World in Discord." DR.. Delk said In
part:
Never has there been a deeper
nations of the world than at this
hour. Both in their internal and
external relations every nation is In
| ferment. The ending of the war
has brought to the surface old and
new problems demanding solution
| problems of treme mendous import for
the safety and perpetuity of social
industrial and political life..
Underlying Causes
There are five underlying causes
of this tumult The rebirth of ma
tionalism is a potent cause of fer
ment. Nationa1ism has both a good
and evil side. Races, language, re-
| ligion, social customs, national cul-
ture, commercial expansion, ideals OF
government are the factors which
go to make people separatistic and
egotistical as to the worth of theiI
peculiar civilization. Fear lest thelr
peculiar points of view shall be Grip
pied puts the rifle and armies in
the field"
Afternoon Session
Ministers yesterday afternoon
adopted the reports presented by the
various committees and decided to
appropriate $4,000 for the erection
of a Technical school building al
! Loysville Orphan School.
The question of aid for stricken
Poland and other countries was dis
cussed at length. All churches In
Eastern Pennsylvania will aid in fill
ing a ship with clothing and other
supplies. The ship has been charter
ed and will sail as soon as the cargo
| is complete.
1t has been announced that a
survey of all the Harrisburg church
es would be made, with a view to
| having an active campaign for larger
membership and increased benevo-
lence. An educational drive will be
started in the very near future.
The secretary announced that In
the Synod this year there are loo
churches extending over southeast
ern Pennsylvania, southern New
Jersey and Delaware. The Synod
represents baptized membership OF
$4,000, has church property valued
| at $4,000, 900, receives annual offer
ings amounting to S250,000.
More Christian Activity
Rev. DR.. l.. 3. Wolf, general secre-
tary of the Board of Foreign Mis-.
sions, Baltimore, spoke of the need
| of active work being done by tile
church at once in helping to ad.
vance the Christian work in the east
! War conditions have made it impera-
tive that the church render financial
and moral aid to their spheres oil
action at once.
Rev. D. l.. C. Stoehler, of Lebanon
reported on the state of the church
He showed that all the parishes oi
the East Pennsylvania Synod were II
prosperous condition. The congre-
cations have responded more gener-
/ ously in benevolent giving during the
past year than before.
The report of DR.. W. A. Granville
president of the Pennsylvania Col
| lege, Gettysburg, Pa, showed that
the institution was in a splendid
condition. DR.. j. A. Singmaster
president of the Geological Semin-
ary Gettysburg, spoke of the pros
porous condition of that institution
DR.. Singmaster made an appeal to
the Synod to interest their congre-
cation to enlist young men to the
churches in higher Christian edu-
problems of the day can be helped
solved by the aid of the churches
and the cooperation of the Gospel
ministry.
Committees For Year
The Rev. S. Winfield Herman
pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church
chairman of the Committee or
Standing Committees, reported the
following. Except when mentioned
the pastors and laymen will serve
four, three, two and one year re-
spectfully in the order they are
mentioned:
Examining Committee. - Rev. NJ.
II. Valentine D. D., Systematic
Theology; Rev. C. L. Flick, Hon.
iletics, Church Government; Rev. E.
II. Delk, D. D., Pastoral Theology
and Apologetics; Rev. A. II. r.
Fischer, D. D., Church History; Rev.
Stanley Billheimer, Hebrew and New
man, D. D., Augsburg Confession and
English Bible.
Ministerial Education Committee.
Rev. J. A. Singmaster, D. D.; Rev.
T. c. Billheimer, d. D.; Mev. L. C.
Manages, D. D.: Rev. M. H. Valen-
tine, D. D.; Rev. A. Pohlman, D. D.;
Prof. ]. ]. Brem, DR.. Croll Keller.
Synodical Missionary Committee.
Rev. J. F. Hartman, D. D.; Rev.
S. w. Herman. d. D.; Rev. o. O.
Leidich; Rev. D. Burt Smith, D. D. =;
Rev. George A. Greiss, Mr.. Luther
Minter, Mrs. J. e. Miller.
Sunday School Committee.-Rev
r. L. Meisenhelder, Rev. Clifford E..
Hayes, Rev. Fuller Bergstresser,
Rev. r. II. Gearhart.
Systematic Beneficence. Rev.
Herbert S. Garnes, Rev. P. D. Wit
man, Rev. w. Fl. Berry, Rev. c. S.
Jones.
Committee on Temperance.-Rev.
d. S. Hafer, Rev. M. e. Shafer, Rev.
]. Fl. L. Trout. Rev, e. A. Cham
berlin.
Deaconess Board.-Rev. Marion G..
Richard, Rev. J. d. Krout. Rev. C. NJ.
Nicholas, Rev. w. P. Killing.
Conference Reports.-Rev. Mervin
e. Smith Rev. J. ]. Minemier, Rev.
c. E. Smith, Rev. ]. H. Richard.
Press Committee.-Rev. C. R.
Trowbridge, Rev. Robert Fl. Gear
hart. Jr., Rev. Ross Slower, Rev. D.
U. Bair, Phi. D.
Committee on Order of Evening
Service, 1921.-Rev. J. M. Guss, Rev.
William J. Miller, Jr., Rev. T. Reisch,
d. D.; Rev. B. B. Disc.
Committee on Place of Meeting
For 1921.-Rev. John T. Fox. Rev.
w. B. Smith, Phi. D.
Federation of Pennsylvania.-Rev
Earnest, Esq.
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