The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1922-05-18

bytery and several neigl1b oring Pres
byteries, asking that the Assembly
designate the Sabbath nearest to Ar
mistice Day as Father and Son Day,
akin to Mothers Day in May, and that
the Presbyterian Board of Publication
be instructed to prepare exercises and
literature for its suitable observance.
The choice of a Moderator to pre-
side over the sessions of General As
sembly and to serve until the next
General Assembly is more interesting
this year than last, as there are more
known candidates.
Candidates for Moderator.
Among the names conspicuously
mentioned for Moderator are those of
of Systematic Theology at Mccormick
Theological Seminary, Chicago; DR..
Hugh T. Kerr, pastor of Shadyside
Presbyterian Church. Pittsburgh. and
Board of Education; DR.. C. c. Hays,
pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church of Johnstown, Pa; DR.. John
B. Laird, pastor of F'rankford Pres
byterian Church. Philadelphia; DR.. w.
Beatty Jennings, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Germantown,
philadelphia, and Dr.. William Q:
of Ohio State University.
The matter of motion pictures is
likely to be treated by two of the
board secretaries in their annual re-
ports-Dr. Charles Scanlon, of Pitts
byterian Board of Temperance and
Moral Welfare, and DR.. Harry L.
Bowlby. of New York, General Secre-
tary of the Presbyterian Permanent
Committee on Sabbath Observance.
The women have no official place in
General Assembly, but the two great
women's boards associated with the
work of foreign and home missions
are to have their own unofficial pop
ular meetings.
One of the noted foreigners to be
heard by General Asse n1bIy is the
Rev. Mahahisa Uemura, known as the
greatest native Christian of Japan,
who will bring greetings from the
Church of Christ in that country,
airy.
REV. G. C. HAYS.
Rev. c. c. Hays, D. D., has for
thirty-one years been pastor of the
town Pa, one of the first forty
churches of the denomination in size
with a membership of over LOGO. He
was born in the Cumberland Valley,
of Rev. l. N. Hays, D. D., for many
years chairman of the Presbyterian
General Assembly's Committee on
Temperance. now the Temperance
nephew of Rev. George P. Hays,
D. D., LID, a former Moderator of
the General Asse nb1y and best
known for his work as president of
DR.. Hays is president of the Board
of Directors of the Western Theo-
logical Seminary, a trustee of wash
ington and Jefferson College and of
Lincoln University. is president of
the State Board of Trustees of the
Anti-Saloon League, president of the
Permanent Committee on Home Mis-
sions of the Synod of Pennsylvania,
and is chairman of the Home Mission
and New Era Work in his own Pres
bytery.
REV. CLELAND BOYD MAFEE.
Rev. Cleland Boyd McAfee, D. D.,
Is, 1856. the son of Rev. John Arm
strong McAfee and Anna Waddle
Bailey McAfee- He is the brother of
Lowell Mason McAfee and Joseph
Ernest McAfee. He was graduated
from Park College, 1884 and Union
Theological Seminary, 1888. In 1892
be married Harriet Brown, of Girard.
Kansas He was ordained a Presby-
then until 1900 he served as Profess
scr of Moral and Mental Philosophy
at Park College. He was pastor of the
Forty-hrst Street Presbyterian Church,
the Lafayette Avenue Church, Brook
1yn from 1904 to 1912. In 1912 he
became Professor of Systematic Theo-
logy of Mccormick Theological Semi
He is the author of Where He Is
w therefore, Didst Thou Doubt ?"
Faith. Fellowship and Faculty. THE.
Growing Church. 1.-THE Worth of a
Man" THE Tenth Commandment"
Mosaic Law in Modern Life" stud
les in the Sermon on the Mount"
THE Greatest English Classic" His
Pease, The Old and the New in
Theology, The Westminster Confess
| sion and the Present Task of the
Church" and also Psalms of the
Social Life"
Rev. Hugh IT, Kerr.
Rev Hugh T. Kerr, ID. was born
in Flora, Ontario. Canada, in 1872 He
received his degree of B. A from the
University Of Toronto 1894, and M
A, 1895 He was a student of Knox
College. Toronto. 1896 was grad
uated from Western Theological Sem
inaEz- 1929 recedveda the sdazrea Of