Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-05-14
133d GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF
-PRESBYTERIANS

Winona Lake, Ind. May 13-The
1880 General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church will meet here
| Thursday and continue until May 30.
Nine large Presbyteries have unit
ed in endorsing an overture, which
will be presented to General Assem-
! bly, asking for change in the form
of Presbyterian government, relative
| 10 representation in general assem-
| bly,. They ask that commissioners be
| elected for two years instead of one
1 and that one-half of the number SO
| elected shall be held over to the fol-
| lowing assembly
The Presbyteries endorsing this
| overture include Brooklyn Nassau,
| Cayaga, Cincinnati, Minneapolis,
Morris and Orange, ST. Louis. Mon
| mouth, Syracuse and Zaneville
!; Two important reports will be made
relative to the success or non-success
of the overtures sent down by the 1921
| assembly, regarding the eligibility of
| women to serve as deacons and the
desirability of CO operating in the
| Evangelical Plan of Church Union.
of women was in 119 favor and 1877
| opposed; on evangelical union IS in
favor and 104 opposed.
On the Friday preceding the open
| ing of General Assembly. the Pres
byterian Board of Home Missions
| conducted it's usual Home Mission
Council, which will continue in SEES
| sion until Nav 49,
| The second largest e-assembly
| conference will be that held in the
interest of evangelism under the aus
pices of the Committee on Evange-
lism. Nearly 400 persons will be
| brought to Winona Lake for a two
day evangelistic session.
A joint re-assembly conference
| will be held by the Board of Foreign
| Missions and the Woman's Board OF
| Foreign Missions. Other boards and
agencies which Will have assem-
! bly, gathering include the General
! Board of Education, the Board of
Church Erection, the Committee on
! Sabbath Observance, the Mems Work
committee, the New Era Committee
/ and the committee on Vacancy and
/ Supply.
| General assembly begins it's SEES
sions May 10. Many overtures will
| be presented. Rochester Presbytery
| has endorsed an overture asking that
there be included in the Presbyterian
| annual budget only those boards and
agencies under direct General Assem-
| bly, control, to be effective from April
! j, 1922.
! Several Presbyteries ask General
! Assembly to merge the Presbyterian
! Board of Missions for Freemen with
, the Presbyterian Board of Home Mis-
sions. This request is made. accord
. ing TO the overture, so that "in the
, Presbyterian Church all races will be
handled as part of one great problem
and no one race will be singled out by
| the Presbyterian Church"
Czecho -Slovakia is now a Republic
Because of this fact and because
there are great mission opportunities
| in that land, Stcuben Presbytery
: overtures ask that this republic be
! included in the Year Book of PRAYER
! for Missions for special study and ap-
peal.
! Colorado Presbyterians are anxious
: that greater emphasis be placed on
f, Christian Education. Colorado Synod
+ has prepared an overture asking that
the attention of college students be
| turned to Christian craftsmanship.
! Chicago, Washington City and Flo
J rida Presbyteries will unite in an
overture asking for investigation OF
! the whole matter of homes for aged
convalescents and orphans. with a
! view TO better and more systematic
! administration OF such homes