The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-04-24
PRESBYTERY'S
SESSION HERE
NEARING END
Unscriptural Plans for
Raising Church Finan-
ces Are Target

lHc opl ing DleeIlIS VI IIc ASne-
vile Presbytery is expected to be
concluded this afternoon and ad-
iournment will be taken. Continu-
ing the business of the session
most matters were concluded ut
the morning session, and the Pres
byterial sermon was delivered by
the Rev. S. H. Long, of Murphy.
Co:nmittee reports occupied
most of the morning session after
TIE opening devotional, which was
conducted by the Rev. J. P. Sim
mons, of Brevard.
Reports were made by the for
eign missions committee, the COM
mittee on religious education, and
the bills and overtures committee,
one of the most important of the
Presbytery.
The report of this latter COM
mittee granted permission to the
Swannanoa congregation to re-
duce the salary of the pastor to
$1,000 for one year. This action
was taken at the request of the
congregation with the consent of
the pastor.
The committee also granted the
request of the Ora Street Presby-
terian church, of West Asheville,
that the Rev. D. P. Chichester be
named as stated supply pastor for
six months.
The Robert Bingham church,
Asheville, was dissolved at the re-
quest of the four resident men,
bers and the home missions COM
mittee was empowered to take
steps for the transfer of the men,
berS.
The committee requested the
churches to take action looking to-
ward the purging of such prac-
tees as trading and profit making
and to refrain from the practice
of raising budgets by unscriptural
practices.
In response to the request of
the Black Mountain church that
the Rev. J. C. Bridges be appoint
ed stated supply pastor for one
year, the committee recommend
ed that he be allowed to continue
as stated supply pastor until the
next meeting of Presbytery, that
the church then extend him call
and that he bring his membership
from Piedmont to Asheville Pres
bytery.
Some discussion on the floor re-
suited from the recommendation.
which was finally amended to read
that he be allowed to continue as
stated supply pastor until the next
meeting of Presbytery, that the
church prepare to call him as pas
tor, and that at the end of that
time he bring him membership to
this Presbytery.
Taking his text from Isaiah Sd
and Acts 9, Rev. Long pictured
the conditions facing Israel at the
time of Isaiah as similar to those
facing the early church at the
time referred to in Acts 9, altho
700 years had elapsed between the
two periods. =,
Israel, he said, was surrounded
by hostile nations and this exter-
nal trouble gave rise to internal
distrust of God. Isaiah's purpose,
he said, was to break the bonds
of the people, but they would not
listen to him. Isaiah, he said,
taught two things: the government
and the grace of God. He taught
the recognition of Gods govern
ment and grace, the expression of
trust in Gods government and
grace, and an expansion of inter-
ests as a result of this trust.
On the other hand, he said, the
early church at the time referred
to in Acts 9 kept up its courage
in time of persecution and was
prepared to go forward, with the
result that the church was greatly
multiplied when this persecution
was released.
"This condition applies to Ashe-
vile Presbytery," he said. I'VE
must keep up our courage and be
ready to expand when the bonds
of depression are broken"
HOME MISSIONS is
TUESDAY NIGHT TOPIC
At the session last night, which
was a popular meeting devoted
to home missions, the Presbytcry
head, DR.. Henry Mclaughlin OF
Richmond, Va, secretary of the
department of country churches
and Sunday school extension I'M
der the committee on religious
education and ministerial relle1
of the general assembly.
DR.. Mclaughlin outlined the
program of the church. as being
"every member of the community
enrolled in Sunday school, every
member of the Sunday school a
of the church, and every
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