Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-13
P RESBYT ERIANS
IN ST. LOUIS FOR
ANNUAL MEETING
Program Provides for Breezy
Sessions During This and
Following Week at
General Assembly.

St. Louis. May i2.-Commission-
ers to the Presbyterian general as
sembly are gathering for the pre-
assembly conference which will lead
up to the sessions of the general as
sembly itself
The New Era movement will pre-
sent to the general assembly COM
prehensive proposal for forward and
uplift work. Overtures will be made
by many presbyteries for radical ac-
ton toward meeting the world prob
lens of today. Woman suffrage
capital and labor, the Interchurch
World moyement, reclamation, re-
construction work here and abroad,
are among the matters to be consid-
cred. A determined effort will be
made to admit women to full sex
equality in the church so that they
NAV become elders and ministers.
The opening sermon. at 1870
Thursday. will be by the retiring
moderator. Rev. J. Frank Smith,
provided he has sufficiently .recov-
cred his health to keep the engage
ment. He was stricken in the midst
of the New Era movements Victory
fund campaign, and has since been
recuperating at his home in Dallas
Tex.
Reports Come Friday.
The roll is to be called at 8 p. m
Thursday, and then the committee
on arrangements will report and the
moderator will be elected. Tenn
porary clerks will be appointed and
standing committees selected.
Friday, at 9 a. M, following over
lures, or proposed new laws. there
will be reports of boards and of the
stated clerk, and reports by the ex-
ecutive commission. the every-mem-
Der plan committee. and the COM
nittec on evangelism. Friday after
loon reports of the New Era conf
nittee and the National Service COM
mission will be presented. Friday
evening there will be a public meet
ing in the interest of Sabbath school
work.
Saturday there will be reports by
the committee of bills and overtures,
the judicial committee, the Ameri-
can Bible society. the Presbyterian
Historical society. the American
Tract society, the committee on
Christian life and work. and the
committee on Sabbath observance
\ Next Sunday there will be meet
ing for home missions, a mission
meeting of women. meeting for
temperance, popular meeting for
education, and a popular meeting for
Sabbath observance.
Next Monday the committee on
bills ard overtures will report. fol-
loved by reports by the commission
o. international friendship, the com,
n, tee on church cooperation and
III .on. committee on relief and sus-
tc tat:ea. committee on educational
w~k, committee on mems work, and
csrlmi1tee OH Christian and secular
CT cat.
r'~~---1;..tees to Report.
&.s,ues. ~. Nav 20, committees on
BIZ and overtures will report. fol-
Il ing by nominations of members
OF the '...iicial commission. Then
W come reports of the committee
or Christian life and work, vacancy
al supply.
Wednesday. May ri, the judicial
commission. the committees on the
every-member plan. home missions,
publication and Sunday school work,
work in Europe, Assembly Herald;
chaplains in United States army and
navy will report.
Thursday. there will be reports by
the committee on polity. the election
of members to the judicial commits
sion. and reports by the committee
on place of next meeting, foreign
missions, church erection and on
correspondence, followed by the re-
ception of delegates from other
churches.
Friday, there will be reports by
the committee on legal matters con.
nected with reunion, theological
seninaries, mileage. finance, consti-
tuition, synodical records and on
leave of absence; also report by
the stated clerk as to the reports
OF the boards, election OF members
of the board of church erection and
trustees OF the general assembly.