The Columbus dispatch. (Columbus, Miss.) 19??-1922, 1919-11-23
HAD MOST SUCCESSFUL
THREE-DAY SESSION IN
THIS CITY; GOOD
ATTENDANCE.
PROGRESS SHOWN
Elder r. F. KimmOns of Water
Valley Elected Moderator
For Ensuing Year; I'm
pOrtant Actions Taken.

R~@~~N~~~N
sessions in its history the Mississippi
Presbyterian Synod adjourned her
Thurday night. Hattiesburg wa
selected as the meeting place for tn
1920 session. Oxford was also Al
APPLICANT for the Synod but Withdrew
in favor of Hattiesburg.
Elder R. F. Kimmons of Watel
Valley was elected Moderator of tn,
Synod at the opening session OF
Tuesday night and Rev. Hervey Nc
Dowell of Mount Olive was chosel
as temporary clerk. DR.. C. t. Thorn
son, president of Chamberlain Hum
Academy at Port Gibson, officiateC
at his usual station as permanent
clerk of the Synod.
Probably the most important act
of the Synod was the adoption Of
the program for the extension of the
church work in the State. A super.
intendent of Beneficiaries and Chris.
tian Education will be employed al
salary of $4,000 a year and ex-
penses. He will devote his entire
time to the work of these depart
ments.
1t was decided on representation
of DR.. C. E. Diehl, president of the
Southwestern Presbyterian Univer-
sity, to include that institution in the
synod's budget and to allow it
per cent of all funds received for
Christian education.
Thursday the children of the
Palmer Orphanage visited the Synod
Altld i1trocucEd by MI Brooks
MCGOWAN who has long been a trus-
tee and friend of the institution.
The Sunday Schools of the State
were urged by resolution adopted
by the synod to contribute each
month to the Orphanage.
Thursday night memorial services
were held in honor of the three
ministers who died since the last
synod meeting. They were Rev. R.
L. Walker, Jackson, Rev. Paul Crane,
Korea and Rev. w. V. Frierson who
died on the night of the opening of
the synod. Brief sketches of the
lives of the following deceased min
listers who died during 1917 and 1918
wer read: Rev. j. E. Jones, Macon,
Rev. A. B. Colt, Enterprise, Rev. w.
H. Perkins, Crawford and Rev. T. L.
Hamman, Walden.
The Synod convened at 7:30 o'clock
Tuesday night and the opening SER
mon was preached by DR.. C. 2. Ber-
ryhill of Holly Springs, the retiring
moderator. The Synod then went into
the matter of formal organization
and the roll was made up by Permen-
ant Clerk DR.. C. T. Thomson of Port
Gibson and Temporary Clerk Rev.
Hervey Mcdowell of Mount Olive.
Wednesday morning pail was cast
over the Synod by the sudden death
of Rev. w. V. Frierson, superntend-
ent of the Palmer 0rphanage, an in
stitntion fostered by the Presbyter-
ians of Mississippi. Mr.. Frierson had
been long in the service in the de-
nomination in Mississippi and was
probably che of the best known men,
bers of the Synod. Tribute was paid
to his life in brief addresses on the
floor of the meeting and commit
tee composed of DR.. J. B. Hutton of
jackson, Mr.. J. E. Hobson of Water
Valley, Mr.. William Mcbride of Cam
den, was named to carry the sympa-
thy of the Synod to the bereaved
family.
Devotional exercises were conduct
ed BY Rev. E. W. Ford Of Winona.
Rev. Andrew Bird, pastor of the
Second Presbyterian church in Wash
ington, d. c., delivered a splendid ad-
dress before the Synod in which he
told of religious and moral conditions
at the national capital He said that
the religious problem at the capital
was a peculiar one and he made a
strong and stirring appeal to South
ern Presbyterians to assist with their
prayers and aid in the work of meet
ing the problem as SO many people
from this section are residents of
Washington from time to time.
Mr.. w. B. Caldwell, secretary of
the Y. NJ. c. A. work in Mississippi,
was invited TO the privileges of the
floor.
The standing committees Of the