Evening star., 1932-04-12
NEAR
CLOSE OF SESSION
Three Ministers and Three
Elders to Be Elected to
General Assembly.

Reports by administrative committees
were heard at today's session of the
sixty-second stated Spring meeting of
The Washington Presbytery, being held
at the Sixth Presbyterian Church. Six
teenth and Kennedy streets. The
meeting will adjourn this afternoon
after election of three ministers and
three elders as commissioners to the
church's general assembly.
This mornings meeting got under
way at 10 o'clock with assignment of
seasonal records for examination. Then
followed the report of Rev. DR.. A. E.
Barrows. Presbyterial treasurer, and a
report of the Church Extension Society.
Rev. DR.. J. c. Palmer reported for
the Committee on Vacancy and Supply.
Other reports were for the Committees
on National Capital Presbyterian
Church Commission. Christian Educa-
ton, Foreign Missions and Pensions.
The Washington Presbytery yester-
day recommended that the General
Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in America protest to magazine pub
fishers against the use of tobacco
advertisements.
Women's Attitude Cited.
The resolution cites that "the tobacco
industries by use of subtle and care
fully laid plans during the past five
years have, through means of adver-
tising. broken down the revulsion of
feeling that large numbers of our Chris
tan people. especially our women, have
had toward smoking"
Rev. Henry B. Wooding of the Eek
ington Presbyterian Church, was
elected moderator yesterday. Other
officers chosen were Rev Hobart Evans
of the Hyattsville Presbyterian Church,
vice moderator, and Rev. Arthur T.
Coyle of ST. Paul's Church, Cottage
City, Md, temporary clerk.
Dr. Wooding succeeds Rev. Godfrey
Chobot.
The presbytery concurred in two
other overtures to the General Assem-
bly, of the church sent it by other
preSbyteries. The first was from the
Presbytery of North Philadelphia and
proposed that the General Council Of
the church be dissolved and in its place
a commission of not more than nine
members appointed.
Church Union Opposed.
The second was from the Presbytery
of Cayuga, N. Y, and objected to union
of the Presbyterian Church in America
with the United Presbyterian Church
on seven grounds The cnly point on
which the Washington Presbytery voted
was an expression of opposition to the
institution of a theological requirement
for church membership The local
church body concurred.
Rev. Coyle, who has acted as pastor
of ST Paul's Church in Cottage City
for Some time, was formally given that
charge by the presbytery yesterday.
Col. Barton W. Perry. IA years old
retired Army chaplain, was retired from
the ministry at his own request because
of physical disability.
Joseph T. Holmes, senior at How
ard University, was received as a can
didate for the ministry.
The following committees were ap-
pointed by the new moderator: Com
mittee on Overtures, Rev. Chobot,
Rev. William D. Denham and Rev.
Isaac Steenson; Judicial Cases. Rev.
Albert j. Mccartney, Irwin c. Linton
and Rev. B. A. Matzen; Collator of
Seasonal Records. Rev. Walter F.
Wolf; Engrossed Minutes, Rev George
M. Cummings and Rev. Thomas C.
Clark; Place of Meeting. Rev. A. B
Altfather, Rev. James Murdock and
Rev w. F. Eagleson; Leave of Alb
sence, Rev. H. B. Taylor Walter Handy
and John D. Secrest, and Resolutions,
Rev. James H. Miers, Charles L. Mann
and Rev. Kenneth B. Carson.