The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1935-05-31
PRESBYTERIAN
BUDGET IS UP
TO ASSEMBLY.
Calls For $l,3OO,OOO Ex-
penditure; Dr.. Sweets
New Moderator

MONTREAL. Nav 31.-The
aDnointment of 20 standing COM
mitteeS was made this morning
as the General Assembly of tho
PRESBYTERIAN church in the Uni
ted States took up it's business
docket under the leadership of
DR.. H. H. Sweets, of Louisville.
KY. who last night was named
moderator.
Important committee reports to
be heard today were from the
committee on stewardship AMI
finance, and the four executive
committees on foreign missions,
home missions, Christian educa-
ton and ministerial relief, and
religious education and publica-
tions.
A report was also scheduled
from the ad interim committee on
union with other Presbyterian
bodies in the United States.
The committee on stewardship
and finance recommended a benev-
client budget as follows: Foreign
missions, 8O,333; home missions,
$359,666; Christian education and
ministerial relief, $4,000; reli-
gious education and publications,
$58,5OO Assembly's training.
school, $4,000; American Bible
Society, $4,000. Total, $780,
600.
The North Carolina Synod was
allotted $258,0000 and the Vir-
ginia synod, $256,000.
MONTREAL, May 81. - DR..
Henry H. Sweets, of Louisville,
KY, secretary of the executive
committee on Christian education
and ministerial relief of the Pres-
byterian church for 81 years, was
elected moderator of the General
of the Presbyterian
church in the United States in the
opening session of the Assembly
here last night.
DR.. Sweets succeeds Judge Sam
uel H. Sibley, of Marietta, Ca, as
moderator of the Assembly.
The ministers nominated for
moderator in addition to DR..
Sweets were DR.. H. Tucker Ora
ham, Florence, S. c.; DR.. john Il.
Fosterf Winston Salem; DR.. Will
liam f. Hill, Richmond, Va: DR.. !
Stuart R. Oglesby, Atlanta; DR..
L. E. McNair, Orlando, Fla, and
DR.. o. G. Jones, Pontotoc, Miss.
Judge Sibley, the retiring mod
orator, convered the Assembly in
its opening session last night and
called on DR.. Oglesby to deliver
the retiring moderator's sermon.
The fact that there is a strug-
gle for social justice shows the
presence of Him who is the in
spiration of every good work, DR..
Oglesby said. The Gospel accord
ing to the Evangelists to many IS
only name, he said, but the Cos
pei according to you and me, ac-
cording to the way we live, is
known and ready of all those
with whtm we come in contact,
yet there are those who are pune
tilious I'M the performance of their
religious duties, Jealous in their
of certain causes and vio-
lent in their defense of orthodoxy
whose lives do not show the spirit
of Christ.
More and more Christians have
learned that if a man is not
Christian in his relationships OF
business and politics, he is not
Christian in that which dominates
his religious life. ;,
The idea of social justice has
.ome into the world and there are
countless questions today that Will
,e settled either inside the churcn
" outside. If men can see Jesus
n the lives of church members
wherever their lives touch the
Kings of the world, the beginning
# the final solution, has come, ne
declared. This is an age OF spe-
.ialists, he said, and it must be
20 because our problems are SO
and our needs so va =
led. Let the church remember
With all the work it is doing that
is speciality is preaching Christ TO
he world. .
CDR. Sweets is the father Ut j