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PRESBYTER|ANS CALL
FOR DRY ENFORCEMENT
General Assembly Hears Appeal
for Old Fashioned Prayer
Meeting.

pcs. Moines, May 2o.-Recauso OF
what II termed boas,ed violation or the
Eighteenth Amendment, tho lSath
General Assembly OF the Presbyterian
Church yesterday at ite second session
unanimously adopted "A resolution call
ing on Its members and all Christians
for continued and increased activity
I'm behalf Of the maintenance and en-
forccment OF all laws. Tho resolution
war offered by the Rev. DIR. w. Beatty
jennings OF Germantown. Pa. When II
WAS suggested that the assembly have
a rising vote. every one got up.
IL ls considered that the Rev. DR..
Calcin G. Hay~, pastor at YOUNGSTOWN.
Pa. who yesterday was elected. Mod
orator of the assembly. owes his Of
fee largely 20 the fact that for the
last sixteen years he has been Preei-
dent of tho Pennsylvania state Anti
Saloon League. ono telegram OF con-
emulation he received was directed
Co Tho Pope OF tho Presbyterian
Church
pr. HAYS named tho Rev. Or. Clel-
land Y. McAfes, Professor in McCor-
mick Theological Seminary Of Chicago.
rs Chairman Of the Committee on
Bile and Ovcrture~ This is considered
one ~ tho most important appoint
ment. Of the Assembly.
\ storm threatened when Com
missioner in the audience shouted out.
lis tho Presbyterian Magazine going
90 continue to support the moving
picture trust -" There was n moment
" silence. Then the Rev. DIR. David q.
Wylle Of New York took tho platform
and declared that there would 10 no
moro movie trust advocating In the
magazine.
\ little too much like pink tea
affair was the way tho RQv. DIR.
George 4. shelton ot rit,sburg char
actcrizcd tho holding Of an afternoon
service ON Sunday. rather than an
evening service. lie was speaking
fur the special committee on Christian
lfe and work.
40 afternoon service can take the
place of the evening service. we need
to got red blood into our Sunday nigh,
worship" he said. Another thing We
need IL to get back 20 the old fashioned
prayer meeting.
Tho Rev. Dr. William Hiram
Nulk's W Now 1Nfks IN MS report
"a General Secretary of tho New Era
movement. stated that the preshy
terrain church. through PRESBYTERIAN
treasures and for causes distinCtively
Presbyterian. had given tlaeea.e IN
the year just closed than IL had given
before.
A feature Of yesterdays session wa
the presentation cf gavcl 20 Or
Nays. II is thu product Of mis-
pionary field IN china and buried In Il.
rentre n a tiny American flag.
Charleston, w. Va. MAY Coon
srihu,ions amounting 70 SAos EOS wcrs
received last year FOR Protestant TO
lief in Europe. tho Rev. James ]. Vanc,
Of Nashville. Tenn. yesterday rcport~s
30 the Southern Presbyterian Genera
Assembly in session here.
Of this amount. 500 900 represented
tho Laura Spellmsn Rockefeller Me
mortal. Contributions by denomins
tons were United Presbyterian
church slo.7es; Northern Preshy
terrain, sSseSi; southern Prcsby
terrain, $1,000; Christian Church
s7ss; Methodist Episcopal. s5l 500
Methodist Episcopal South. $4,000
American Baptist Foreign Missionar,
Society. ssa.l20; Reformed Church ii
tho United States. s35.75O.