MINUTES
of the
One Hundred and Seventh
Annual Sessions
of the
Synod of North Carolina
Held in the
Church of the Covenant
Wilmington, N. C.
October 26th-28th, 1920
With Appendix
MINUTES
of the
One Hundred and Seventh
Annual Sessions
of the
Synod of North Carolina
Held in the
Church of the Covenant
Wilmington, N. C.
October 26th-28th, 1920
With Appendix
Presbyterian Standard
Publishing Company
Charlotte. N. C
Minutes
Church of the Covenant,
Wilmington, N. C,
Tuesday, October 26, 1920.
The Synod of North Carolina met in its One Hundred
and Seventh Annual Sessions in the Church of the Covenant,
Wilmington, N. C, at 7 :30 p. m., and was opened with a
sermon by Rev. W. C. Brown, at the request of the retiring
Moderator, from Joshua 24:15, last clause: "But as for me
and my house we will serve the Lord."
After the sermon, Hon. J. W. McLauchlin, the retiring
Moderator, called Synod to order, and Rev. Wm. Black led
the Synod in prayer.
The roll was called by the Stated Clerk and the following
were noted present and enrolled during the sessions :
I. ORANGE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
D. I. Craig, D.D
C. W. Robinson J. R. Finley North Wilkesboro
C. E. Hodgin — 2 P. N. Pritchett — 2 Westminster
J. S. Morrow
H. S. Bradshaw S. Strudwick Hillsboro
R. M. Williams — 2- Thos. R. Fousl — 2 Church of Covenant
Geo. W. Lee — 2
W. D. Moss, D.D
T. W. Simpson F. E. Evans Rej^nolda
O. G. Jones, D.D
J. H. Smith
Jno. R. Herndon
W. S. Milne
Z. V. Roberson
R. S. Arrowood
D. H. Scanlon "E. G. Mclver Durham First
W. T. Thompson, D.D.___
R. W. Wilson Buffalo
J. A. Barnwell Burlington
L. V. Phillips Lexington
G. W. Denny High Point
W. W. Smoak — 3 Winston First
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The following ministers of Orange Presbytery were absent:
R. W. George, S. M. Rankin, Dr. E. H. Harding, D. Mclver, P.
H. Gwynn, W. O. Sample, W. S. Wilhelm, N. R. Claytor, Jno. Mc-
Eachern, G. W. Oldham, L. S. Chafer, C. P. Coble, C. W. Irwin, E.
F. Lee, W. P. Robertson, T. M. AlcConnell, J. W. Clegg, C. F. Myers,
H. A. French, L. T. Wilds, C. D. Whitely, A. W. Shaw, G. L. White-
ley, W. B. Goebel, E. N. Caldwell, E. W. Thompson, J. S. Kennison,
W. P. McCorkle.— 28.
Seventy-seven churches were not represented.
II. CONCORD PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
C. M. Richards, D.D. Archibald Currie Davidson College
Byron Clark, D.D E. B. Neave Salisbury First
E. D. Brown J. K. Goodman Back Creek
J. M. Grier, D.D D. B. Porter Concord First
E. P. Bradley
C. E. Raynal, D.D W. F. Hall Statesville First
W. T. Walker
L. L. Moore H. J. Burke Taylorsville
J. C. Story
C. B. Heller E. W. Rice Salisbury Second
Ovid Pullen
H. M. Parker, D.D L. K. Overcash Front Street
H. M. Parker, D.D S. A. Grier Little Joe's
T. H. Spence Sam Black Rocky River
J. M. Clark, D.D
S. L. Cathey
Neill Mclnniss C. E. Lowe Kannapolis
J. S. Wood
S. A. Ewart
W. A. Nickolson W. L. Lyerly Unity
E. M. Craig, D.D
T. F. Haney
Jno. A. McLean L T. Averj^ Morganton
W. M. Hunter
C. C. Myers
C. V. Voils Mooresville First
B. F. Reid Lenoir
C. H. Hamilton Gilwood
R. V. Caldwell Poplar Tent
The following ministers of Concord Presbytery were absent:
T. W. Lingle, W. L. Lingle, W. C. C. Foster, J. W. Moss, J. L.
Synod of North Carolina 391
Bowers, W. E. West, J. H. Brady, R. B. Taggart, J. E. Robinson,
J. A. Smith, John Pond, R. O. Lucke, A. A. McLean, W. C. Wau-
chope, K. L. Mclver, D. M. Armentrout, J. A. Scott, — 17.
Forty-five churches were not represented.
III. FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
H. G. Hill, D.D W. J. Currie Maxton
H. G. Hill, D.D A. McKay Centre
M. D. McNeill M. McL. McKeithen Cameron
L. Smith
W. C. Brown Jno. W. McLaughlin Raeford
A. R. McQueen N. H. Williams— 2 McMillan
V. R. Gaston J. Talbot Johnson— 2 Bethesda
V. R. Gaston Chas. Livingston— 2 Montpelier
L N. Clegg N. J. McRimmon Midway
J. K. Hall
J. J. Hill, D.D Dr. B. F. McMillan Red Springs
A. T. Lassiter
L. A. McLaurin C. H. Russell— 3 Jonesboro
L. A. McLaurin L L. Shaw St. Andrews
L. A. McLaurin D. J. Ray— 3 Galatia
W. S. Golden H. M. Williams Sanford
Eugene Alexander Ryan McBryde Bethel
G. E. Moorehouse
W. E. Hill, D.D Dr. J. W. McNeill— 3___Fayetteville First
J. W. Goodman Timothy Currie. Antioch
£. L. Siler
J. A. McMurray
C. R. Bailey
G. F. Kirkpatrick S. A. Boney Lillington
D. M. McGeachy
Carl B. Craig W. DeB. McEachin Laurinburg
Dugald Munroe
E. C. Murray, D.D A. R. McEachern St. Pauls
A. W. Crawford
C. M. Gibbs
C. K. Taffe
J. M. Mclver Gulf
J. E. Elliot Church of Covenant
Alexander McGirt Ashpole
P. McK. Williams Sherwood
D. L. Alston Pittsboro
D. A. McDonald Carthage
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The Following ministers of Fayetteville Presbytery were
absent :
L. L. Little, W. C. Buchannan, C. G. Vardell, G. T. Pace, E. W.
Senders, J. D. A. Brown, H. M. Dixon, C V. Cavitt, W. L. Wilson,
J. F. Gorrell, R. A. McLeod, C. L. Wicker, C. E. Clarke, A. S.
Anderson, D. L. Jones, J. McI. Wicker, R. M. Phillips, Jno. Mc-
Sween, J. F. Menius, F. L. Johnson, — 20.
Eighty-eight churches were not represented.
IV. WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
J. E. L. Winecoff L. R. Benson White Plains
J. M. Wells, D.D James Sprunt Wilmington First
J. S. Crowley
W. P. AL Currie — 2 J. E. Farrior Mt. Zion
W. P. AL Currie— 2 H. McN. Johnson Willard
P. L. Clark C. C. Ryan Burgaw
P. L. Clark J. D. Bonders Hopewell
W. W. Morton
W. M. Baker J. E. Kelly— 2 Mt. Olive
W. M. Baker T. K. Maxwell — 2 Calypso
Geo. M. Matthis L. A. Bethune Graves Memorial
Geo. M. Matthis M. H. Wooten Warsaw
W. H. Goodman C. S. Clark Clarkton
W. F. Hollingsworth Lawrence Southerland Grove
W. F. Hollingsworth W. L Hall— 2 Oak Plains
J. R. Phipps T. C. Bell Wildwood
J. W. Young Jackson Johnson New Hope
H. L. Sneed D. W. Munroe Chadbourne
D. T. Caldwell Jordan Branch Immanuel
J. O. Mann F. L. Pearsall Church of Covenant
G. H. Ellmore
H. F. Beatty J. N. Corbett Black River
A. J. Howell
J. J. Murray
J. W. Stork A. D. Thigpen Chinquepin
James Lapsley — 2
J. E. Purcell Wm. Sprunt St. Andrews
P. W. Du Bose W. C. Scoggins Delgado
A. J. Jackson Faison
J. C. McMillan Teachey's
J. L. Miller Hallsville
Synod of North Carolina 393
The following ministers of Wilmington Presbytery were
absent :
L. T. Newland, J. M. Gibbs, A. S. Maxwell, J. W. Purcell— 4.
Thirty-nine churches were not represented.
V. MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
William Black
J. R. Bridges.D.D
Jno. E. Wool
H. M. Pressley
W. E. Furr
R. J. Mcllwaine
Leonard Gill
H. E. Gurney W. H. Belk Monroe
C. G. Lynch
L. W. Brown
A. A. McGeachy, D.D. — 3_-T. W. Dixon Charlotte Second
B. B. Shankle
E. S. Watson C. H. Hinson Bethany
E. S. Watson W. W. Norwood Walkersville
W. R. Coppedge
G. F. Bell
R. S. Burvv^ell Dr. W. P. Craven Hopewell
G. F. Robertson
A. S. Johnson, D.D R. G. Brice Charlotte First
Bunyan McLeod P. S. Gilchrist — 2 Westminister
C. E. White
C. C. Anderson
Daniel Iverson W. L. Wallis Tenth Avenue
W. T. Pearman E. C. Todd Seversville
G. B. Thompson
H. C. Carmichael S. E. True — 2 Williams Memorial
L. E. Wells
J. G. Garth
W. C. Rourk
B. T. Price Steele Creek
C. J. Biggers Philadelphia
The following ministers of Mecklenburg Presbytery were
absent :
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J. W. Moore, G. C. Huntington, G. H. Atkinson, M. E. Sen-
telle, A. R. Shaw, G. P. Stevens, R. T. Colt, J. W. Grier, W. R.
McCalla, J. L. Caldwell, Chas. Kingsley, W. C. McLauchlin, G. W.
Cheek, C. H. Little, J. C. Hardin, G. W. Belk, D. B. McLauchlin, A.
T. Young, R. L. Patrick, R. S. Latimer, C. H. Rowan, J. J. Douglas,
A. H. Temple, T. G. Tate, R. W. Culbertson, R. H. M. Brown,—
26.
Seventy-one churches were not represented.
VI. ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
H. B. Searight
Wm. McC. White, D.D.__T. R. Young Raleigh First
J. N. Summerell, D.D
R. A. White
J. M. Millard
Peter Mclntyre — 2 W. A. Dees Goldsboro
R. E. Henderlite
H. M. McDiarmid
R. A. Lapsley, Jr R. H. Bachman Howard Memorial
R. A. Lapsley, Jr T. F. Savage Olivet
A. J. Crane
N. N. Fleming
S. R. Oglesby — 2
W. T. Wadley
£. L. Flanagan J. R. Edmundson Wilson
C. O. Pardo
A. M. Earle J. A. Simpson Grassy Creek
A. M. Earle C. G. Daniel Geneva
F. H. Scattergood
M. C. Bowling R. A. Bullock Nut Bush
W. B. Neill
R. H. Ratchford
j. T. Wildman
W. P. Nickel
H. H. Leach— 2
Geo. W. Rogers Fellowship
The following ministers of Albemarle Presbytery were ab-
sent :
J. H. Jarvis, S. K. Phillips, G. B. Hannahan, Lewis Collins,
Stanley White, E. S. Currie, S. B. Lyerly, C. Connor Brown, W.
Congor, — 9.
Thirty-nine churches were not represented.
Synod of North Carolina 395
VII. KING'S MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERY.
Ministers Ruling Elders Churches
G. A. Sparrow E. D. Huffstetter Olney
T. H. Hender.lite, D.D G. W. Ragan Gastonia First
W. S. Wilson, D.D J. W. Mullen Lincolnton
J. T. Dendy J. Q. Hall Belmont
J. C. Grier
F. H. Hay— 2
K. L. Whittington
R. C. Long
The following ministers of King's Mountain Presbytery were
absent :
T. E. P. Woods, F. B. Rankin, H. C. Whitener, W. J. Roach, F.
A. Drennan, G. R. Gillespie, W. A. Murray, W. S. Hamiter, Joe
Bartlett, A. S. Anderson, A. S. Caldwell, J. J. Harrell, — 12.
Thirty-five churches were not represented.
The foregoing roll shows the names of 150 ministers and 103
ruling elders, a total of 253, not including the visiting brethren, and
15 less than were present last year.
The Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D., of Mecklenburg- Presby-
tery, and Editor of the Presbyterian Standard, was elected
Moderator, and Rev. J. R. Herndon was elected Temporary
Clerk.
The Committee on Orders submitted a report, which was
amended and adopted, with the suspension of the Standing
Rules, where the report deviates from them.
Rev. I. Cochrane Hunt, D.D., Secretary of the Lord's
Day Alliance, was introduced and given the privilege of the
floor and spoke with reference to the work of the Alliance.
It was ordered that recess be taken each day at 1 :00 and
5 :30 p. m.
Synod adjourned till 9:00 a. m. tomorrow, and closed
with prayer by the Moderator.
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SECOND DAY— MORNING SESSION
Wilmington, N. C, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1920.
Synod met at 9:00 a. m. and resumed l)usiness.
Rev. E. L. Siler conducted the devotional exercises.
The Minutes of last evening's session were read and
approved.
The following communications were received and re-
ferred, viz :
1. From the Woman's Synodical Auxiliary, with refer-
ence to placing in the field a Secretary of Young People's
Work. Referred to the Permanent Committee on Young
People's Work.
2. The report of the Board of Directors and Trustees
of Union Seminary. Referred to the Standing Committee
on that subject.
3. From Miss Mebane, of Greensboro, concerning work
among the prisoners of the State. Referred to Synod's
Committee of Home Missions.
4. From the Lord's Day Alliance. Referred to the Per-
manent Committee on the Sabbath and Family Religion.
5. From the Trustees of Montreat Normal School. Re-
ferred to the Permanent Committee on Schools and Col-
leges.
6. From the Trustees of the Montreat Association. Re-
ferred to the Permanent Committee on Schools and Col-
leges.
7. An overture from the Board of Regents of the Or-
phans' Home, with reference to the appointment of women
on the Board and the reorganization of the Board of
Regents. Referred to the Standing Committee on Bills and
Overtures.
Synod of North Carolina 397
8. An overture from the Presbytery of Orange, on the*
same subject, and referred to the same committee.
The following Ad Interim Minutes were read and adopt-
ed:
AD INTERIM MINUTES.
■ Since the last meeting of the Synod, October 28, 1919, three
ministers have died, viz. R. S. Arrowood, H. F. Morton and Dr. A.
D. McClure. The Moderator, in accordance with the Standaing
Rule, 9, appointed, respectively, the Rev. L. Smith, the Rev. S. K.
Phillips and the Rev. J. M. Wells, D.D., to prepare memorial
sketches of the life and labors of these deceased brethren to be
read at this meeting of the Synod.
These brethren have been duly notified of their appointment.
No temporary appointments to fill vacancies have been made
by the Moderator, except the Rev. J. M. Grier, D.D., has been re-
quested to act as Chairman of Foreign Missions in place of Dr.
D. Clay Lilly, removed from our bounds, and the Rev. Dr. A. S.
Johnson has been requested to take the place of Dr. Lilly on the
Program for Devotional Exercises each morning of the Synod, if
the Program is adopted.
Respectfully submitted,
D. L CRAIG, Stated Clerk.
Reidsville, N. C, Oct. 25. 1920.
The following report of the Treasurer of Synod was
read and referred to the Auditing Committee :
TREASURER'S REPORT.
The Rev. D. L Craig, D.D., Treasurer, in account with the
Synod of North Carolina, from October 28, 1919 to October 26,
1920, respectfully submits the following Report :
RECEIVED.
Balance in Bank, October 28, 1919 $245-36
From Albemarle Presbytery in full for 1920 4500
From Concord Presbytery in full for 1920 100.00
From Fayetteville Presbytery in full for 1920 130.00
From King's Mountain Presbytery in full for 1920 40-00
From Mecklenburg Presbytery in full for 1920 125.00
From Orange Presbytery in full for 1920 100.00
From Wilmington Presbytery in full for 1920 60.00
Total
t5-36
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DISBURSED.
To Dr. Moore's Expenses to Synod of 1919 $8.10
To Salary of Dr. Murray, Permanent Clerk 25.00
To Salary of Rev. E. L. Siler, Recording Clerk 25.00
To Brady for Printing Minutes of 1919 330.34
To Stated Clerk for Salary in full for 1920 200.00
To Expenses ace. of Stated Clerk and Treasurer for 1920 _ 8.86
$597-30
Balance in Bank $248.06
Your Treasurer would remind the Synod that this balance is
not more than half enough to pay the expenses, including the
Printing of the Minutes, of this meeting of Synod. The whole
Assessment on the Presbyteries is only $600 — it is not enough, and
unlese one-half of this amount is paid in April, as required, your
Treasurer will be forced to borrow the necessary funds.
Your Treasurer would recommend that the Assessment on the
Presbyteries be increased 40 or 50 per cent especially since the
Roll of Elders and Deacons are to be printed next year.
All of the Presbyteries have paid their Assessments in full for
1920, and there are no out-standing debts.
Respectfully submitted,
D. I. CRAIG, Treasurer.
Reidsville, N. C, Oct. 26, 1920.
Subsequently the Standing Auditing Committee made the fol-
lowing report which was adopted:
Your Auditing Committee beg leave to report that they have
examined the treasurer's book and vouchers and find that the
disbursement of the funds in his hands has been properly made
and such funds duly accounted for, and on the report of the
Treasurer, we recommend that the Assessment on the Pres-
byteries be increased to $1,000.
I. T. AVERY, Chairman, for Committee.
October 28, 1920.
The Rev. R. J. Mclllwaine presented an Overture with
reference to the Ross will. Referred to the Permanent
Committee on Home Missions.
Synod of North Carolina 399
An Overture from the Board of Regents of Barium
Springs Orphanage, with reference to the enlargement of
the Orphanage was received and referred to the Standing
Committee on the Report of the Regents.
An overture from the Presbytery of Mecklenburg, with
reference to the re-organization of the Board of Regents of
the Barium Springs Orphanage, was read and referred to
the Standing Committee on Bills and Overtures.
Dr. W. J. Martin spoke briefly on the work of the Inter-
racial Commission.
A statement was made by Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D.,
with reference to the publication of the writings of the late
Dr. R. A. Webb, which was received as information.
The Moderator appointed the following Standing Com-
mittees :
COMMITTEES.
Bills and Overtures — J. W. McLauchlin, O. G. Jones, C. M.
Richards, Byron Clark, V. R. Gaston, W. F. Hollingsworth, W. R.
Coppedge, A. J. Crane, G. A. Sparrow, J. R. Finley, J. K. Goodman,
D. J. Ray, Jordan Branch, T. W. Dixon, R. A. Bullock.
Judicial— C. E. Raynal, E. AL Craig, L. Smith, W. F. Hollings-
worth, G. F. Bell, A. J. Crane, K. L. Whittington, S. Strudwick, J.
K. Goodman, T. Timothy Currie, J. C. McMillan, B. T. Price, R. A.
Bullock, G. W. Ragan.
Narrative— J. J. Hill, C. C. Myers, A. J. Howell, B. B. Shankle,
Bunyan McLeod, F. H. Scattergood, G. A. Sparrow, W. T Hall, D.
A. McDonald, M. H. Wooten, B. T. Price, J. R. Young, J. Q. Hall,
W. T. Pearman.
Minutes of General Assembly — H. E. Gurney, W. R. Coppedge,
J. C. Grier, W. P. Nickel, P. W. DuBose, L. A. McLaurin, O. G.
Jones, T. W. Dixon, R. H. Bachman, W. C. Scoggins, W. J. Currie,
E. W. Price.
Union Seminary — E. D. Brown, D. H. Scanlon, W. E. Hill, H. L.
Sneed, Daniel Iverson, D. B. Porter, C. H. Hamilton, Chas. Living-
ston, L. R. Benson.
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Records of Presbyteries:
Mecklenburg — H. S. Bradshaw, T. H. Spence, A. R. McQueen,
W. W. Morton, J. N. Millard, J. C. Grier, J. A. Barnwell, L. K. Over-
cash, J. E. Elliot, D. W. Monroe, R. H. Bachman, J. Q. Hall.
Albermarle — R. S. Arrowood, J. C. Story, A. T. Lassiter, J. R.
Phipps, J. E. Wool, G. A. Sparrow, E. G. Mclver, S. A. Grier, Ryan
McBryde, J. N. Corbett, Dr. W. P. Craven, J. W. Mullen.
King's Mountain — T. W. Simpson, E. P. Bradley, V. R. Gaston,
W. M. Baker, C. G. Lynch, H. M. McDiarmid, J. T. Dendy, G. W.
Dendy, C. H. Hamilton, A. McKay, C. S. Clark, R. G. Brice, J. R.
Edmundson, E. D. Huffstetler.
Orange— J. M. Clark, W. S. Golden, J. E. L. Winecoff, E. S.
Watson, W. A. Flemming, R. C. Long, C. V. Voiles, J. M. Mclver,
S. A. Bethune, C. H. Hinson, C. G. David, G. W. Ragan.
Concord — E. L. Flannagan, G. F. Robertson, Geo. Matthis, J. A.
McMurray, J. H. Smith, J. A. Simpson, C. J. Biggers, A. J. Jackson,
D. J. Ray, L. B. Phillips.
Fayetteville— R. S. Burwell, J. H. Smith, C. B. Heller, J. W.
Young, R. J. Mcllwaine, M. C. Boiling, W. L. Wallis, F. E. Evans,
E. F. Reid, J. D. Saunders, W. W. Norwood, R. A. Bullock.
Wilmington— R. E. Henderlite, W. T. Wadley, H. M. Pressley,
Geo. M. Rogers, T. F. Savage, W. H. Belk.
Leave of Absence — E. M. Craig, T. F. Haney, J. K. Hall, Alex-
ander McGirt, M. McL. McKeithan, D. J. Ray.
Records of Synod — J. H. Henderlite, R. A. Laysley, Leonard
Gill, H. F. Beaty, Engene Alexander, L. L. Moore, W. S. Milne, J.
W. Mullen, R. A. Bullock, Lawrence Southerland; W. DeB. Mc,-
Eachin, R. V. Caldwell, F. E. Evans.
Resolution of Thanks — J. M. Grier, W. D. AIoss, S. L. Cathey,
G. E. Moorehouse, L. W. Brown, E. G. Mclver, Archibald Currie,
S. A. Boney, W. L. Wallis.
Statistical Reports of Presbyteries — G. F. Bell, R. C. Long, A.
M. Earle, J. J. Murray, W. T. Walker, B. T. Price, G. W. Ragan, C.
G. Daniel, W. H. Belk, A. W. Thigpen. J. K. Goodman, S. Strud-
wick.
Auditing Committee — L T. Avery, E. B. Neave, A. R. AIcEach-
ern, T. W. Dixon, J. R. Young, G. W. Ragan, J. W. Mullen.
Synod of North Carolina 401
Report of Regents of Orphans' Home— J. N. H. Summerell, W.
D. AIoss, H. M. Parker. W. C. Brown, W. H. Goodman, H. E. Gur-
ney, R. A. White, R. W. Wilson, Archibald Currie, C. H. Russell,
J. L. Miller, W. L. Wallis, J. R. Young.
Nominating Committee— W. S. Wilson, H. B. Searight, Wm.
Black, P. L. Clark, Dr. B. F. McMillan, J. W. McLaughlin.
Orders and Arrangements— A. J. Crane, R. A. White, L. E.
Wells, G. B. Thompson, C. H. Hinson, P. L. Pearsall, H. McN.
Johnson.
Rev. R. C. Anderson was granted the privilege of the
floor and spoke concerning the work of the Mountain Re-
treat Association.
Rev. J. T. McCutchan of the Synod of Missouri was in-
vited to sit as a corresponding member and was introduced
to the Synod.
Rev. J. M. Wells, D.D., who had been appointed by Synod
on the Assembly's Committee, ad interim, on Closer Rela-
tions with other churches of like Faith and Order, made re-
port of his service on this committee.
The following resolution was adopted :
The Synod has heard with pleasure and profit the address of
Dr. Wells on the history and present status of the question of
union of the Presbyterian churches and commend his diligence as
member of the Assembly's Committee on that subject, and that
we request Dr. Wells to give his report to the Church papers for
publication.
O. G. JONES.
Recess was then taken for five mmutes.
After recess the following memorials of deceased breth-
ren were read : Rev. R. S. Arrowood by Rev. Letcher
Smith ; Rev. H. F. Morton, by Rev. S. K. Phillips, and Rev.
A. D. McClure, D.D., by Rev. John M. Wells, D.D.
These memorials were adopted by a rising vote and
lows :
ordered spread on the records of the Synod, and are as fol-
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MEMORIAL OF REV. ROBERT S. ARROWOOD.
Rev. Robert S. Arrowood was born in Gaston County, N. C,
on Jul}' 28, 1854, and died November i, 1919, at Sanford, N. C. The
call came to him there suddenly as he was on his way from Ra-
leigh where he had been attending the meeting of Synod.
He was reared in a Christian home in an atmosphere of Chris-
tian influence, which prepared him largely for an after life of
faithful Christian service.
His early training also peculiarly fitted him for the arduous
life to which he was called in the work of the Master's Kingdom.
Taught in the way of righteousness and truth, he soon developed
into a righteous man ready to do and dare for the good of his fel-
lowmen and for Christ. Attention was given to his early education
and he took a preparatory course at the Finley High School,
Lenoir, N. C, and from there entered Davidson College, from
which he graduated, in due course of time, with high honors.
His first public work was teaching in the common schools, and
to this he devoted himself with such earnestness and zeal that
made his teaching a success from the beginning. His work in this
line led on to an effort by him to have established in the State an
institution, a normal school for the training of teachers for a oet-
ter work in the schools of the country.
But teaching was not to be his full life's work. He soon heard
the call to the Gospel ministry, and answered that impulse to the
better work, and gave himself to it. After completing his theo-
logical course, he began his work of the ministry in Concord Pres-
bytery, by which Presbytery he was duly licensed and ordained,
and served faithfully and efficiently within its bounds the following
Churches as pastor or stated supply. Bethpage, Third Creek,
Fifth Creek, Franklin and Unity.
Brother Arrowood was in 1880 united in marriage to Miss
Mary Louise Dickson, who, with a number of sons and daughters,
survives him. Two of his sons, Rev. C. F., and his namesake, Rev.
Robert S., entered the Gospel ministry and thus gladdened the
father's heart by carrj-ing it on in the footsteps of his father.
In 1904 this brother was called by the Presbyter}^ of Fayette-
ville to establish a Home Mission School in Moore County. Here,
under his wise leadership was the Elise High School established,
and, here, perhaps, our brother did some of if not his best work;
a work that shall follow on through time. With good common.
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practical sense, he put his labor into the work to build the com-
naunity around the school, to train the young men and women who
came under his care, and fit them for a noble, useful life. Many
of those young men went from that school to fulfill the same
sacred calling that this brother loved so much; and many of the
young women went out as Christian teachers ; and no man can es-
timate the extent of the work done by him in this capacity. While
giving so Tnuch of his time to the arduous duties of such a school,
he did not forsake his high calling of preaching the Gospel; for,
while giving himself unstintingly to school work, he served three
churches of the communities near the school: Bensalem, Culdee
and the Elise Church, organized under his ministry.
Well has this brother been called preacher-teacher; teacher-
preacher, for he is one man, who has lived, who could do both
well, and with fidelity discharged the duties of both offices — doing
practically the work of two men at one time. Called to endure hard-
ness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ, he responded cheerfully and
to his Master he seemed to say: "Send me anywhere Lord, only go
with me, impose any burden only sustain me under it."
He retired from this school work only when his own health
and the welfare of his family required it, and he again gave him-
self to preaching alone. From this school he went to serve a
group of churches now in Mecklenburg Presbytery in the coun-
ties of Richmond and Montgomery and with these, together with
one church in Fayetteville Presbytery, he labored until called to
go up higher.
Thus lived and worked a true man of God, and one who
truly died with the harness on. For him it appeared there was
much yet to do, for he was planning to carry-on still. We have
recorded a few items of what was done by him, but there is much
that we cannot record.
He was a preacher of no mean ability, a teacher whose work
will last because well done. He preached the simple and un-
adulterated Gospel; denounced all forms of sin fearlessly yet
gently. He searched for the truth as it was in Jesus, and pro-
claimed the atoning blood of Christ for Salvation from a lost
estate. Sound in the faith; upright of character; he was building
not only for time but for eternity.
The summons, while sudden, found him ready, and at the end
of the journey of this cross-bearing life there was the crown which
is laid up for all who love His appearing.
L. SMITH, Committee.
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HENRY FLOURNOY MORTON.
Henry Flournoy Morton, son of William Dennis and Katherine
Morton, was born at Booneville, Missouri, August ii, 1886. He was
a son of the manse and spent his boyhood days at Henderson,
Rocky Mount and Warrenton.
He attended the Warrenton High School, after which he entered
Davidson College, graduating in the class of 1908. In the fall of
1910 he entered Union Theological Seminary in Virginia from
which he graduated with the class of 1913.
His call to preach the Gospel was one of the deepest ex-
periences of his life, and he told me the story one night while I
was preaching for him in a meeting at Fountain, N. C. He said,
"I knew that my father's greatest wish was for me to preach; but
I knew also the hardships of a minister's life, and I determined to
seek some other vocation as my own. As a little boy I had been
taught to pray this prayer every night, 'Lord what wilt thou have
me to do,' and after I became a man I continued to pray this prayer
before retiring. For several years, every time I made that prayer,
the Lord would say 'Preach,' but I would say, 'Lord anything but
preach ; please don't say preach.' Each night the hand of my
dear old daddy seemed to be stretched above my head. One night
in 1910, I prayed this prayer in sincerity and agony of spirit, and
surrendered my life to God, and as I did so, that hand rested upon
my head as a blessed benediction. It was on Wednesday night
that I told my father of my decision, and when I think of how he
looked as he heard the news, I wonder how I ever fought God's
Spirit to long."
The grip of this experience never left him, and if other doubts
came into his life, he was always sure of his right to preach to men
the story of God's love for their souls.
His pastorates were : Ripler, Miss., June 1913 to September
1914; Roanoke Rapids, N. C, where he built a church, September
1914 to May 1916; and from May 1916 to the day of his death, he
served as pastor-evangelist in the Pitt County field of Albemarle
Presbytery, building the church at Sharp Point, and preaching at
Falkland, Fountain, Smithville and Farmville.
In 1913, he married Miss Elizabeth Lucile Hassell, of Cross
Hill, S. C, who had served before him as a Sunday School Mission-
ary in the Pitt County field. His widow and one son survive him.
The Great Head of the Church saw fit to call him to his reward
on Friday, February 13, 1920 in New York City, and he was buried
by his father's side in the cemetery at Rocky Mount, N. C.
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To those of us who knew him best, the outstanding traits of
his character, were his deep consecration to God; his sunny type
of Christianity; his brotherly love for other denominations; his
untiring energy; his constant prayer life; and his burning passion
for souls.
We know that his labors have not been in vain in the Lord,
and the memory of his life stimulates us all to a deeper consecra-
tion for his Christ and ours.
S. K. PHILLIPS.
Greenville, N. C.
REV. ALEXANDER DOAK McCLURE, D.D.
Alexander Doak AlcClure was born in Lewisburg, Tennessee,
on July 9, 1850: His forebears were godly people, and the lines
from which he sprung were strong and true. Highland Scotch
were the McClures, kinsmen of the McLeods. Scotch-Irish were
the Ewings, his mother's people, coming from Ulster to Tennessee
by way of old Rockbridge County, Virginia.
Into a Christian home was born this child. His father was a
Christian doctor; an elder in the Presbyterian Church, a Lieut. -
Colonel in the Armies of the Confederacy. His mother was a
devout Christian woman who left her impress deep upon her son.
Truly Dr. McClure could say :
"My boast is not that I deduce my birth
From loins enthroned of rulers of the earth,
But higher far my proud pretentions rise
The child of parents passed into the skies."
The war interfered much with his education. The poverty
after thewar interfered more. But nothing could deter him from
securing an education. Working and studying he prepared for col-
lege. In 1870 he entered Princeton University graduating in 1874,
as A.B., and taking his M.A., in 1877 while a student at Princeton
Seminary.
He was licensed in May 1877 by Columbia Presbyterj^ and or-
dained in April 1878 by North Mississippi Presbytery. He was at
Oxford, Mississippi, first as supply and then as pastor from 1877 to
1880. While there he returned to Princeton Seminary and com-
pleting his course graduated in 1879. Here at Oxford he was put
to the acid test, for the University of Mississippi was there, and
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many of the professors attended his Church. He won and held
their confidence and love, and that of the students. His Church
grew, and a new building was erected through his untiring efforts.
There he met and married Miss Louise B. Miller, a rarely beau-
tiful character. From Oxford in 1880 he went to the larger Church
at Bardstown, Kentucky, where he labored most pleasantly for
two years. But a promising new Mission Church in Louisville,
Kentucky, needed him and called him; and in 1882 he went to the
Highland Church as their first pastor. Broad and excellent was
the foundation that he laid there. For that Church is now the
strongest of our faith in Louisville. There he labored until 1888.
There his first wife died, and he married Miss Francis Roberta
Callaway.
The Maryland Avenue Church of Baltimore called him in 1888
and the next three years were spent there. But that was not to
be his life work.
St. Andrews Church, of Wilmington called him and he came
in July, 1891. Here really, his life work was done. He came to a
Church that in spite of a series of splendid godly ministers and a
little group of earnest, consecrated members, was discouraged. He
found less than 200 resident members and a Sunday School of 200.
The total gifts of the Church the year before amounted to $4,041,
and of this only $1,498, went to the benevolent causes. For 29
years he preached and prayed, toiled for and loved his people.
And when the Lord called him up higher, he left a Church that
after giving largely to the organization of other churches, still had
more than 500 members. He left a Sunday School of 450. And the
gifts of his Church the last year of his ministry amounted to $52,-
457, and $45,957 of this was to the benevolent causes. The Lord
richly blessed his years of toil and prayer in the enlargement of
the souls of his people.
Let us consider him from four different points of view:
I. Let us see him as a preacher of the Word.
When Dr. Cecil, his life long friend stood in the pulpit of St.
Andrews at his funeral, he said: "He was a very effective preacher
of the Gospel." When the Presbyterian of the South carried the
sad news of his death to its readers, it said : "He was a strong and
forceful preacher of the pure Gospel of salvation through faith in
a crucified Savior."
Dr. McClure was not a great preacher. No man can be in this
day a great preacher and a great pastor. And he was a great pas-
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tor. But he could preach great sermons. I remember one he
preached on "Other sheep I have which are not of this fold," that
was a great sermon. He preached with fervor, with intense moral
earnestness, often with that rare spiritual gift that we call unction.
He preached with that great essential, personal experience in
spiritual things. He knew that Jesus could save sinners, because
He had saved him a sinner. He knew that one could grow in
grace through the Gospel, for he had grown through the Gospel.
He knew that the Gospel could comfort the sorrowing, for it had
comforted him — sorrowing. The blood-streak of personal ex-
perience ran through his preaching, enriching it. He preached
the Word, not philosophy, though he knew philosophy; not social
service, though he lived social service; not politics, though he
stood four square for righteousness. He preached that Word that
God has always blessed and honored in the preaching. And he
preached with his life louder than with his lips.
2. Let us see him as a man of prayer.
I never heard him say, but I know he came from a home of
prayer. Where the father gathered them round the Family Altar.
Where, as Dr. Moses Hoge said: "Family worship opened the gate
of the morning with praise, and closed the portals of the day with
peace." Where a godly mother, each night before he went to bed
made him bow at her knee, and taught him to say "Now I lay me
down to sleep," or later, "Our Father which art in heaven." I
never heard him say this, but I know it. For praying men rarely
come out of prayerless homes. And he was a praying man. How
earnest were his prayers in public; how rich in scripture, how
inclusive. Younger people were sometimes inclined to smile at the
number and particular mention of his prayers. Sexton, grave dig-
gers, servants, none were too humble to be included. But on that
day when the humble brought their tears and flowers to his grave,
all saw the influence of those prayers. Prayer was his vital breath.
He was eminently a man of prayer.
3. Let us see him as a friend of men.
His former neighbor and close friend. Dr. James Carmichael,
of St. John's Episcopal Church once wrote of him :"Universal in
his attentions, loving in his ministrations, Christlike in his teach-
ings, the poor hail his presence with joy, the sorrowing with com-
fort, the wavering with assurance, the unbelieving man with a
more than simulated confidence, all of which are the living testi-
monies to his worth, his sincerity, and his self-denial." And when
that throng gathered to pay their last tribute, all kinds and con-
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ditions came. Little chuldren came, for they knew that he was
their friend. The negroes came because they knew he was their
friend. The rich and the poor met together by his bier, for both
knew he was their friend. And the tear that glistened in almost
every eye that day, showed there because each had lost a friend.
4. Let us see him as a man of God.
He was a man of God. His faith was strong. His charity was
broad and deep. His consecration was marked. More and more
the community looked upon him as a man of God. The sick felt as
he stood by their bedside, the comfort that came from a man of
God. The tempted turned to him as a man of God, for succor. The
fallen sought him as a man of God to lift them up. All kinds of
people told him their troubles, for they felt they could trust a
man of God.
He walked with God, and was not for God took him. His
translation came on April 6, 1920, at a meeting of Wilmington
Presbytery at Mount Olive, N. C.
J. M. WELLS, Committee.
The Synodical Communion was now observed, con-
ducted by Rev. Drs. W. McC. White and J. J. Hill, assisted
by ruling elders J. W. McLauchlin, F. L. Pearsall, E. B.
Neave, E. G. Mclver, J. M. Mclver, W. T. Hall, C. S. Clark,
J. R. Young and W. H. Belk.
Following the Communion Rev. Albert Sydney Johnson,
D.D., preached on the ministry of Prayer,
Synod took recess until 1 p. m.
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SECOND DAY— AFTERNOON SESSION.
Wilmington, N. C, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1920.
Synod met at 2 :30 p. m. and resumed business.
The following report of R. A. Dunn, Treasurer of the
Trustees of Synod, was read and admitted to record :
TO THE SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH, U. S.
Following is report of funds received and disbursed by me as
'JVeasurer in the matter of J. C. Burroughs' Legacy for benefit of
Synod's Home Mission work:
RECEIPTS
1919.
August 8 $20,000.00
December i 16,900.00
December 2S 3,600.00
1920.
January 5 — Interest 33i-i2
March 29 — Interest 219.70
October 9 — Interest 192.52
October 9 — Interest 114.40
July I 243.31
DISBURSEMENTS
1920.
Drafts— A. W. Craw-
ford, Supt. and Treas.
Jan. 6 $ 7,888.67
March 29 8,000.00
July 2 11,129.72
Oct. 9 11,931-50
Balance on hand 2,651.16
$41,601.05 $41,601.05
Respectfully,
R. A. DUNN,
Treasurer Trustees N. C.
Synod Presbyterian Church, U. S.
Approved: JOHN R. IRWIN, M.D., President.
The following paper was admitted to record as informa-
tion:
Resolved, That none of the funds to be raised, as contem-
plated in this report (Systematic Beneficence) shall be used by
any agencies of the Church, either in Presbytery, Synod or General
Assembly, for the Interchurch World Movement, and that the
Stated Clerk of this Presbytery notify the Stated Clerks of the
Synod and General Assembly of this action.
JOHN E WOOL, Stated Clerk.
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Done in Presbytery this 29 September, 1920, at Hopewell
Church, Mecklenburg County, N. C.
The Permanent Committee on Systematic Beneficence
submitted a report, which was taken up seriatim, amended,
and, pending action, on the fourth recommendation, went to
the docket as unfinished business.
The permanent Committee on Schools and Colleges
submitted its report, pending action on which Synod took
recess until 8 o'clock p. m.
SECOND DAY— EVENING SESSION.
Wilmington, N. C, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1920.
Synod met at 8 p. m. and resumed business. A popular
meeting in the interest of Synodical Home Missions was
conducted by the Superintendent, Rev. A. W. Crawford,
who submitted the report of the Executive Committee.
Pending action on same, addresses were made by Rev.
Messrs. Wm. Black, O. G. Jones, and Leonard Gill, evan-
gelists of the Synod. One minute talks were made by a
number of brethren, for whom the evangelists had held
meetings during the past year, and by a number of new
ministers employed by the committee.
The recommendations of the report were taken up
seriatim, and the report was adopted as a whole as follows :
REPORT OF THE HOME MISSION COMMITTEE OF THE
SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.
One year ago at Raleigh the Sj'nod took the following action :
1. In co-operation with the Presbj'teries we undertake to
press with utinost vigor a campaign of evangelism throughout the
Synod this year. And
2. We do now, therefore, undertake, in co-operation with the
Presbyteries, to place at the earliest possible day a man in every
field in the bounds of the Synod where there is an evident need
for the work of our Church.
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The Home Mission Committee of the Synod would submit this
report of the thirty-second year of Synodical Home Missions as
our effort to be true to the trust thus committed to us.
THE EVANGELISTIC CAMPAIGN.
Rev. William Black, General Evangelist of the Synod, reports
that since last meeting of Synod, especially during the Winter
and Spring, the work suffered several interruptions on account of
the prevalence of influenza in many localities in this Synod. On
account of said epidemic was compelled to cancel one meeting and
could not make another engagement for that date, and so lost the
time of one meeting and had to change on very short notice sev-
eral others, which was, of course, a disadvantage, as no prepara-
tory services could be held, yet notwithstanding these Providential
interruptions, would gratefully acknowledge God's blessing on the
work committed to his care, and some results that can be tabu-
lated are as follows : Preached 322 times in 29 different places,
conducted 20 series of meetings in which there were 927 profes-
sions, 393 joined the Presbyterian Church by profession, 174 pledg-
ed themselves to establish Family Worship and 1,995 persons to
read Bible and pray daily; re-organized five Sunday Schools,
raised $2,260.55 for Synod's Home Mission Work and more than
$1,100.00 for congregational purposes, presided over several con-
gregational meetings and installed and ordained two Ruling El-
ders ; served as Moderator of his Presbytery and Commissioner to
the General Assembly and attended upon every session of the
same.
In addition to the above, your Evangelist conducted two series
of rr>eetings outside the bounds of Synod, namely: one each in
Nashville, Tenn., and Danville, Va., and in these meetings there
were more than 150 professions and 75 additions by profession to
the Presbyterian Church. During his absence from this Synod,
conducting these meetings, your Evangelist received no salary
from your committee.
Rev. O. G. Jones, D.D., General Evangelist, submits the follow-
ing report of his labors :
17 Series of Evangelistic Services, and services at 12 other
Churches held.
306 Sermons and Addresses.
307 Professions of Faith.
185 United with the Presbyterian Church upon Profession.
64 United with the Presb3^terian Church by Letter.
412 Minutes of the
1,055 Reconsecrations.
$1,292.90 Contributions for Synodical Home Alissions and
$1,472.90 for Congregational or other causes.
The Superintendent compiles the following summaries :
Rev. C. Conner Brown, General Evangelist.
22 Series of Evangelistic Services.
307 Sermons.
514 Professions of Faith.
227 Additions to the Presbj-terian Church on Profession.
25 Additions by Letter.
$1,637.16 Contributions for S3modical Home Missions.
Rev. Leonard Gill, General Evangelist, serving the Synod, for
a part of his time, being also Superintendent of Alecklenburg
Presbytery and giving part time to that work :
Nine Series of Evangelistic Services for the Synod.
137 Sermons.
257 Professions of Faith.
121 Additions to the Presbyterian Church upon profession.
One Sunday School organized.
$965.60 Contributions received for Sj-nodical Home Missions.
As authorized, we have also secured the services of pastors
from without the State and from within to meet calls which could
not be met by our General Evangelists. In this way we have had
the valued services of the following men :
Rev. D. K. Walthall, D.D., Waynesboro, Va., two meetings.
Rev. T. M. McConnell, D.D., Greensboro, N. C, one meetfng.
Rev. Geo. W. Lee, Winston-Salem, N. C, one meeting.
Rev. S. R. Oglesby, Oxford, N. C, one meeting.
In our whole Evangelistic Campaign 76 Series of Evangelistic
Services have been held in which there were reported 2,053 profes-
sions of faith; 954 united with the Presbyterian Church upon pro-
fession and 90 by letter. Total contributions of $6,479.21 were re-
ceived for the Synod's work, or the work has been that far self-
sustaining, in this department.
These results of the Evangelistic Campaign could be tabulated.
A large and most valued part could not be tabulated. Many scores
of those making profession of their faith have united with
churches of other denominations. Our evangelists seek the co-
operation of all denominations in their meetings and share with
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them the results, not unfrequently a larger number going to other
churches than to our own. For this feature of our work through
all its history we are grateful to God. Many already on our church
rolls have, we hope, been really converted and brought into a liv-
ing relation with God. Thousands of God's people have been led
to a higher Christian life. In some fields the Every Member Can-
vass System of Finance has been inaugurated and pastors' salaries
have been increased. In some cases our evangelists give chief at-
tention to these things which do not show in the tabulated re-
ports, and some of the meetings which have had the finest re-
sults do not make much show there. The true summary of their
labors can only be shown at the Great Day, but these tabulated
statements which we can gather are valuable indications in some
measure of the work done.
WORK IN THE LOCAL FIELDS OF THE PRESBYTERIES
In the Presbyteries the Synod's Committee aided in the sup-
port of Rev. A. J. Crane, the Superintendent of Albemarle Presby-
tery, and of Rev. J. J. Murray, the Superintendent of Wilmington
Presbytery, and 46 men and three women (doing Sunday School
work in mill villages), supplying 115 weak organized churches and
71 other mission stations. We have put an evangelist in one en-
tirely new county, Martin, which reports in the U. S. Census 56
per cent of its entire population old enough for Church member-
ship out of the Church. We have entered other new sections of
counties of equal or greater need. We have enlarged our work
previously begun. We have raised the standard of salaries in the
local fields.
In this way we have tried to make some good beginning upon
the enlarged program of work committed to our trust.
The salary of the pastor at the State University was assigned
to us at the last Synod and the vitally important work of the Rev.
W. D. Moss there has thus been a part of our own.
Combining the reports of all departments we present the fol-
lowing:
SUMMARY OF THE WHOLE WORK OF SYNODICAL HOME
MISSIONS FOR THE YEAR.
The Work Done.
Our four General Evangelists, Rev. Wm. Black, Rev. O. G.
Jones, D.D., and Rev. C. Conner Brown, for full time, and Rev.
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Leonard Gill for one-half time, and four assisting pastors, have
held
"jd series of protracted evangelistic services, in which were re-
ported 2053 professions of faith, of which number 954 united
with the Presbyterian Church.
In all we report :
60 supported wholly or in part by the Synod's Committee who
have supplied
115 weak churches and 71 other mission stations. They report
4868 sermons preached.
2436 professions of faith.
1202 additions to the Presbyterian Church on profession of faith.
363 additions by letter.
24 Sunday Schools organized.
5 Churches organized and 3 church buildings completed.
The Synod's Building Fund has aided
10 church buildings under construction.
We have increased our force one-half and raised the standard
of salaries.
We have nearly doubled our outlay. We have expended in the
work all told for the year $37,410.15, as compared with $19,273.67 all
told last year.
The Presbyteries co-operating in the movement have greatly
enlarged their own work.
THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
Received
The General Fund —
Albemarle Presbytery $3,549-43
Concord Presbytery 4,496.10
Fayetteville Presbytery 7.343-96
Kings Mountain Presbytery 2,028.65
Alecklenburg Presbytery 5,625.71
Orange Presbytery 6, 141.63
Wilmington Presbytery 3,899.64
Individuals 162.50
Interest i,530.oo
Total Receipts General Fund $34,777.62
The Church and Manse Erection Fund 1,463.75
The Alexander Gift and Loan Fund 300.66
Total $36,542.03
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Disbursed
The General Work —
Salaries $31,493.72
The cost of the office, including
bookkeeper, stationery, post-
age, long distance and tele-
graph, official audit 572-42
Publicity 50949
Committee travel 95-22
Sys. Ben. Com, of Synod 150.00
Interest 42-16
Total for the General Work $32,663-01
The Church and Manse Erection Work —
Pollocksville Manse, Albm. Pres. $ 300.00
Pine Grove, Fayetteville Pres.__ 200.00
Currituck, Albemarle Pres. 200.00
Southport Manse, Wil. Pres 500.00
Badin, Mecklenburg Pres. 1,000.00
Center Ridge, Fayetteville Pres. 200.00
Spring Hill, Fayetteville Pres 200.00
Bunnlevel, Fayetteville Pres. 333-34
Albemarle Supt. Manse, Tarboro 1,500.00
Churches and Alanses 4,433-34
Printing and postage 241.80
$4,675-14
Roanoke Rapids (A. G. and LoanFd.) 72.00
Total building w^ork $ 4,747.14
Total Disbursements in all departments $37,410.15
Deficit for year $ 868.12
Balance at close of last year $ 5,461.91
Balance at close of this year 4,593-79 868-12
We have received also during the year
the following from legacies :
Legacy J. C. Burroughs $38,942.02
Legacy J. M. Davis, elder in Sugar Creek Ch. 1,778.40
Legacy Aaron Bost, of Cabarrus County 500.00
Total $41,220.42
A corresponding amount has been invested in safe real estate
loans, the interest on which is to be used in each current year for
the general work and the principal as may be safe and wise for
the permanent enlargement of the work.
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Synod of North Carolina 417
The committee would respectfully submit to the Synod for its
adoption the following
RESOLUTIONS
1. With great thankfulness to God for the progress made, by
His grace, we, as a Synod, rededicate ourselves to this task, as set
forth in the action of the Raleigh Synod recorded at the head of
this report, which we now renew and pledge ourselves anew to the
accomplishment of it.
2. Inasmuch as the expense of the work now in actual oper-
ation (not including appropriations to fields now vacant), will
require an outlay of $44,685.00 for the ensuing year, and appro-
priations for fields now vacant will bring this to $52,606.00 as fast
as men can be secured for the work, and
Inasmuch as much work yet unopened lies evidently now ahead
in fields where the need is just as great as in those already en-
tered and the call of God is just as sure, therefore be it resolved:
That for the conduct of the work as now constituted and for
its orderly development in carrying out the enlarged program
adopted by the Synod, $75,000.00 be set as the sum needed for this
work from God's people, and that upon no less basis can we now
go forward to do adequately the work committed to us, at least
until such time as the need is begun to be overtaken.
3. Inasmuch as five of the seven Presbyteries at their Fall
meetings adopted 10 per cent of the benevolent contributions as
the proportion for this work and the other two expressed a wil-
lingness to enlarge their present percentage as soon as local or
special conditions would allow, therefore be it resolved:
That the Synod itself set 10 per cent as the proportion for this
work and expresses the hope that the remaining two Presbyteries
will conform their action to that of the other five at as early a
time as their local or peculiar conditions will allow.
4. That in the enlarged program now undertaken in co-opera-
tion with the Presbyteries, Presbyteries and Congregations are
urged to take the lead in the most careful study of conditions in
their bounds and in the full development of their own work, since
it will take the fullest effort of all combined to accomplish our
united task, and the full amount asked by the Synod for its work
will be urgently needed along with the Presbyteries and Congre-
gations doing the utmost possible for them.
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5. That all the Presbj'teries and numbers of our congrega-
tions be commended for the fine increase in their own work for
the year, the Presbyteries reporting an expenditure of $46,506.66
for the Synod's year as compared with $36,204.68 for the previous
year, and the Congregations $33,852.00 for the April to April year,
as indicated in the Assembly's Minutes as compared with $21,098.00
for the year before.
6. That we express to the Women's Auxiliaries our special
appreciation of their total contributions of $2,129.35 in the Synod's
year, $981.20 of which was for the Special Albemarle Fund.
That the Synod expresses its approval of the action of the
Sj'nodical Auxiliary in setting 10 per cent of all their benevolent
contributions for this work in lieu of aiiy pecial fund, and the
Synod would hereby call them, in the name of our great Head, to
a full and adequate participation with us in the great enlarged
program of work now undertaken in our State.
7. That the Sunday Schools and Christian Endeavor Socie-
ties be urged to conform to this same system and to send 10 per
cent of all their benevolent contributions to this work.
8. That in all Churches and all Sunday Schools where this sys-
tem is not adopted, the months of January and July be set as
Synodical Home Missions month, and that at least one well an-
nounced collection be taken in each of these months for this work.
9. That we elect the following elders to serve on the Home
Mission Committee of the Synod for the ensuing year, from the
several Presbyteries :
J R. Young, Raleigh, Albemarle.
Z. V. Turlington, Mooresville, Concord.
A. R. McEachern, St. Pauls, Fayetteville.
J. H. Kennedy, Gastonia, Kings Mountain.
W. H. Bell<, Charlotte, Mecklenburg.
E. P. Wharton, Greensboro, Orange.
Col. Walker Taylor, Wilmington, Wilmington.
ID. That the General Evangelists of the Synod be re-elected
for the ensuing year as follows : Rev. William Black, Rev. O. G.
Jones, D.D., and Rev. C. Connor Brown, for full time, and Rev.
Leonard Gill for such portion of his time as may be agreed upon
with the Home Mission Committee of Mecklenburg Presbytery,
and that Rev. A. W. Crawford be elected as General Evangelist
and Superintendent and Treasurer of the work.
All of which is respectfully submitted.
A. W. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
Synod of North Carolina 419
The Superintendent of Home Missions submitted the
following statement of Congregational Home Missions,
which was approved and admitted to record :
SPECIAL REPORT OF THE HOME MISSION COMMITTEE
TO THE SYNOD UPON
CONGREGATIONAL HOME MISSIONS.
Your Home Mission Committee would call the special attention
of the Synod to the following facts :
1. The last Minutes of the General Assembly show that only
49 Congregations out of 497 in the Synod reported an expenditure
exceeding $50.00 for Congregational Home Missions. Recognizing
the fact that here less than in any other department does the
amount expended give a true indication of the work done, yet from
this statement it is clearly evident that only a small part of our
congregations are actively engaged in this department of Chris-
tian service. It is further indicated that this small number are
doing a most notable and fruitful work and a good proportion of
them are congregations of moderate size and financial strength.
2. We would call attention also to the action taken by the
Assembly's Advisory Home Mission Council, composed of the
Home Superintendents, Chairmen, or other representatives of the
Home Mission Committees of the several Synods of the Assembly,
sitting at Montreat, August 1919:
"It is recommended that in our whole system of Home Mis-
sion work the financing and management be kept as close to the
base as possible."
In special application of this principle we request all our
Church Courts to stress with all our Home Mission Committees
and Church sessions the fundamental importance of Congrega-
tional Home Missions, in so far as it does not interfere with the
Church's responsibility to other forms of Home Mission work.
We would call attention to the further fact :
1. That it is the judgment of the Home Mission Committee of
the Syond that here lies the greatest dormant power of our whole
Church for Home Mission work.
2. That the responsibility for work in geographical reach rests
first upon the Congregation rather than the higher Church courts,
as it does, upon each court. Presbytery and Synod, in its own
territor}% in its relation to the court or courts above.
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3. That the management of the work in geographical reach
can be best done by the Session who can know more intimately tlie
conditions and interests involved.
4. That work done by the Congregations themselves in their
own communities can be done at far less financial cost than any
other form of mission work and appeals most strongly of all to
the interest and financial support of their people.
5. Especially, that this form of endeavor will provide for and
call the members of our churches to work in person for Christ,
react upon their own spiritual life, and deepen interest in all
departments of Mission work out side.
The following recommendations are submitted to the Synod
for its adoption :
1. That these facts be printed in the Minutes for the thought-
ful consideration of our officers and people.
2. Synod calls the especial attention of all of our congrega-
tions to the notable fruitful work being done by a few in this
department of Christian service and urgently presses upon every
congregation its privilege and responsibility to God to make care-
ful study of its surrounding conditions with the view, if possible,
of initiating in their own bounds, a similar work, if not already
engaged in.
Respectfully submitted,
A. W. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
The Committee of Home Missions also submitted the
following paper concerning the evangelization of the negro
race, in the Synod, which was adopted as follows :
SPECIAL REPORT OF THE HOME MISSION COMMITTEE
TO THE SYNOD ON
COLORED EVANGELIZATION.
Upon this important subject your Committee on Home Mis-
sions would respectfully submit the following special report.
We have to face squarely the following facts :
I. About one-third of the population of the State are of the
colored race.
Synod of North Carolina 421
2. The responsibility resting upon us for these people. We
cannot throw ofif this responsibility by saying they have churches
of their own, or that Methodists, Baptists, Northern Presbyterians
can reach them better. If these other churches have accomplished
more it is because they have done more and they have left us
certainly a very, very large field to work in.
Whatever former conditions may have been or whatever others
may do or not do, we are in duty bound to our God now to honest-
ly seek to find if He has something for us to do in this matter, and
to make an honest efifort to do it.
We would present also the following facts for their bearing
upon the case :
1. Our own work among the colored people, after over half a
century shows, from the Assembly's Minutes, in the Snedecor
Memorial Synod, in North Carolina :
I Colored Preacher.
3 Churches.
66 Communicants.
The Presbytery of Orange has in its connection :
I Much respected old colored preacher.
3 Churches.
47 Communicants.
2. The Minutes of the U. S. A. Assembly show, in the
Presbyteries of Catawba, Cape Fear and Yadkin, in North Caro-
lina, made up of colored churches :
90 Ordained Ministers.
138 Churches.
10,116 Communicants and well-organized fairly strong churches
with resident pastors in most of the larger centers of the State.
They have one Synodical Evangelist at work among them and
one Sunday School Missionary under their Sunday School Board
in each of the three Presbyteries organizing Sunday Schools and
initiatiing new work in mission places.
3. The proposition now before our Church for a United Assem-
bly and Federation of work, which gives evidence of an early
accomplishment.
With these facts in mind it would seem:
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1. That it would not be wise to initiate any large plans of
work along new and untried lines at this time. If the United
Assembly is realized Federation of work should certainly be es-
tablished here if anywhere. If such federation of work is es-
tablished, we could co-operate in work already established in
ways mutually agreed upon, or plan and work together along new
lines of endeavor.
2. That our greatest lack in this work is that we are not in
living helpful touch with these people, without which we can do
nothing. We have them in our kitchens and in our fields and
factories, but religiously we are strangers to their conditions and
to the efforts they themselves are making for their own better-
ment.
3. That the most needed and practical work we can do for
them today is through our congregations, by immediate and
sympathetic work in their own persons with those in their own
bounds.
Your Committee would therefore recommend the following
act, on :
The Synod does hereby maake a most earnest and special call
upon the pastors and churches in their bounds :
1. To study and know the religious conditions and needs of
the colored people in their own communities.
2. To know their pastors and churches and to give them every
sympathy and aid in the work they are trying to do for themselves,
and especially where there are colored Presbyterian churches and
pastors, to give them sympathetic assistance and co-operation in
their work, as far as is in their power.
3. Where careful study of conditions shows the opportunity,
to open Sunday Schools or other forms of mission or institutional
work among them, doing in their own persons the work of Christ.
We believe many of our pastors and churches could initiate at
once this direct work of evangelization and would be greatly bless-
ed in doing it. That here chiefly lies the opportunity before us
now and that to this work our congregations are especially called
of God.
For the immediate work of the Synod in this department we
recommend :
Synod of North Carolina 423
1. That our General Evangelists be directed to hold each one
or more meetings in the year for the colored people and that our
pastors be called upon to aid them in selecting places where this
work is most needed and most feasible and to provide in their
congregations for their entertainment as if the work was for their
own people.
2. That the Superintendent be authorized also to employ at
least one Colored Evangelist to hold evangelistic meetings in the
same way from time to time, without interfering with settled work
in which he may now be engaged.
3. That the Syond appoint a Committee af three, consisting of
Rev. Messrs. A. W. Crawford and C. M. Richards, and Mr. Z. V.
Turlington, to confer with a Committee from the Syond of Catawba
U. S. A. Church in regard to the best plans for further work among
the people of this race in the bounds of the Synod.
Respectfully submitted,
A. W. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
The Committee further reported that the action with re-
gard to a legacy, requested by Rev. R. J. Mclllwaine, had
already been taken. Approved.
In response to the communication of Miss Mebane, con-
cerning Prison work, the Committee of Home Missions
recommended the following answer, which was adopted :
REPORT OF HOME MISSION COMMITTEE ON PRISON WORK
There was referred to your Committee also a communication
from Miss Annie Wilson Mebane in regard to Prison Work.
Your Committee would recommend:
1. That the Superintendent of Home Missions be instructed to
write Miss Mebane assuring her of our appreciation of her great
interest in this work and of our desire to do anything in their
power.
2. That upon all our pastors in country towns, and in reach of
convict camps, the burden and responsibility of this work be laid.
That they be called upon to visit them in prison, to hold religious
services for them and to do all in their power to carry to them in
their need the Gospel of Christ, remembering that from His own
lips came the words, "I was in prison and ye came unto me."
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3. That our pastors in County seats be called upon in the Fall
Narrative for Synod to report on this work.
Respectfully submitted,
A. W. CRAWFORD, Chairman.
Synod adjourned, with prayer by the Moderator until
9 o'clock tomorrow morning.
THIRD DAY— MORNING SESSION.
Wilmington, N. C, Thursday, Oct. 28, 1920.
Synod met at 9 a. m. and engaged in devotional exercises
led by Rev. H. E. Gurney.
The minutes of yesterday's sessions were read and ap-
proved.
The Standing Committee on Statistical reports of the
Presbyteries made the following report which was adopted :
Your Committee on the Statistical Reports of the Presbyteries
reports the following summary of them :
Ministers 1 265
Churches 498
Licentiates 8
Candidates 100
Communicants enrolled 59.936
Aggregate Funds Raised (as of March 31, 1920) $1,496,138.00
Increase over last year $ 472.651.00
Members received 6,409
On Examination 3,481
On Certificate 2,928
Ministers Received 42
Ministers Transferred 31
Churches Organized 9
Churches Transferred or Dissolved 2
Licentiates Received 4
Licentiates Transferred 5
Candidates Received 17
Candidates Transferred i
Ministers Died 3
Ordination 4
Synod of North Carolina 425
Installations 50
Dissolutions of Pastoral Relation 46
Licensures 7
195 Ministers in charge of 412 Churches.
Pastors 159
Stated Supplies 36
Evangelists 27
Teachers 9
Foreign Missionaries n
Infirm 14
Sunday Schools 43°
Young People's Societies 248
Women's Societies 329
Men's and Boj's' Societies 7
Churches Vacant 12>
Average Salary Paid Ministers in Charge of Churches $ 1,810.22
Manses I59
Aggregate Value of Manses $ 787.950.00
Counties Without Minister or Church 12
(AH in Albemarle Presbytery.)
Notable Increases Over Last Year :
Ministers 12; Churches 4; Communicants 2,576; Funds Raised
$472,651.00; Accessions 2,245; Churches Organized 5; Candidates
Received 9; Evangelists 10; Average Salary $346.76; Manses 15;
Value of Alanses $395,650.00.
Notable Decreases From Last Year :
Candidates 6; Teachers 6; Sunday Schools 29; Young People's
Societies 11; Women's Societies 53; Counties without Minister or
Church I.
G. F. BELL, Chairman.
The Standing Committee on the Minutes of Synod made
the following report which was adopted :
Your Committee on the Minutes of Synod respectfully report:
1. That a certified copy of the Minutes of 1919 was placed in
our hands and was carefully examined.
2. That we find that the Minutes seem to be faithfully kept
and are correctly and neatly printed.
3. That the Minutes were submitted to the General Assembly
in Charlotte for review, and were examined and approved by that
body.
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4. We recommend the approval of the Minutes by the Synod.
Respectfully submitted,
J. H. HENDERLITE, Chairman.
The Trustees of the North Carolina Religious Workers'
Home made the following report which was adopted :
The Trustees of the N. C. Religious Workers' Home at
Montreat would respectfully report as follows :
We have held three inectings during the year and though we
have not secured the funds for the enlargement of the Home pro-
posed to and endorsed by Syond last year, we gladly report that
through the liberality of certain friends prominent among whom
are the brothers W. H. and J. M. Belk, the work entrusted to us
is at last free from debt, with a small balance in the treasury.
The Home was kept open during the conference period of this
year under the competent management of Mrs. N. A. Barnes, of
Davidson. The rates were kept at the remerkably low figure of
$9.50 per week. One hundred and thirty-five persons were enter-
tained during the season. A point was made of keeping the house
filled always, but about eighty-five per cent of those received were
of just the class that Synod designed to reach when it inaugurated
this enterprise, namely: our workers whose salaries or incomes do
not warrant their meeting the higher rates of the Hotels and other
boarding houses at Montreat. If only the Synod will make it pos-
sible for your Trustees to enlarge the building we feel that a much
greater usefulness is awaiting the Home — one that will mean much
to a large number of our best workers and so to the cause for
which they are toiling year in and year out.
We recommend :
1. That Synod gratefully acknowledge the goodness of God in
whatever success has crowned your action in establishing this
Home and profess its dependence on Him for every hoped for in-
crease in its usefulness.
2. That Synod record its appreciation of the liberality of the
Messrs. Belk and others which has lifted this enterprise to the
vantage point of freedom from debt.
3. That the following Trustees whose term expires with this
meeting of Synod be re-elected for a period of three years : W.
McC. White, O. L. Clark, J. W. McLauchlin, and C. M. Richards.
Synod of North Carolina 427
That Rev. J. E. Purcell be appointed to fill the unexpired term of
the lamented Dr. McClure.
4. That Synod lay it on the hearts of its people to furnish the
money necessary to enlarge the Home so that greater numbers of
our workers may receive the benefits of the annual informing and
inspiring conferences held at Montreat.
C. M. RICHARDS, Chairman.
The unfinished business — report of the Permanent Com-
mittee on Schools and Colleges — was' taken up, considered
and adopted as a whole, and is as follows :
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
With this report I also present my report to date as Treasurer
of this committee.
The amount received and disbursed is steadily growing larger,
but is nowhere near the normal as compared with the older causes
of Home and Foreign Missions, for instance.
The gifts of the Synod to this cause should certainly average
10 per cent of the total benevolences, seeing the need of our insti-
tutions and that the work they are doing is fundamental to all the
work of the Church. Dr. W. W. Moore states that the work of
Christian institutions is necessary to the very existence of the
Church. There should be a uniform percentage allotted to this
cause by all the Presbyteries and it should not be less than 10 per
cent of the total benevolent budget.
All of this fund, which is to help care for current expense
alone, should pass through the hands of the Synodical Treasurer
and be disbursed by him according to the orders of the several
Presbyteries. Otherwise there is no way of arriving at a correct
statement of what our Churches are doing for this cause. The
Treasurer of this committee should be able to devote considerable
time to the stimulation of the Churches to greater interest in the
cause and to a more adequate and unanimous participation.
The word comes from practically all of our institutions that
they are crowded, some too much so for the best service; many
have turned large numbers of applicants away and all are severely
cramped by inadequate income. The Million Dollar Campaign
has saved the day for many of them, but it is only the day and not
the future. Increased costs or debts have consumed the greater
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part of the proceeds of the campaign and no adequate advance or
enlargement is possible to meet the greater opportunity now
facing all.
I cannot, in this report, quote the particulars of each school.
I wish we might have a few minutes for each school to present its
case to the Synod. That would seem to be impracticable. I have,
however, written to all our schools and asked for a statement of
their condition that I might get a view of the whole. Not all have
replied, but enough did so to enable me to say that we are turning
many of our choice boys and girls from the doors of our own
Christian institutions and either sending them to other schools
or discouraging them from further education. Neither is in line
with the historic traditions of Presbyterianism. The fact is we
are to a considerable extent dining on tradition in matters of
Christian Education and starving on the diet, while the procession
of State and other denominational education goes on by. Would
to God we might arouse as a Church to the opportunity and ade-
quately assume the responsibility. May God in His mercy stir us
up before we suffer disastrously by our neglect.
After a service of some years as Chairman and Treasurer of
this committee, I beg to present my resignation of the office. My
other work has grown so heavy that I cannot give proper atten-
tion to this, and other reasons, also, lead me to believe that it is
the part of wisdom and progress that another put his shoulder
under this burden.
I am grateful for the opportunity you have given me to serve
in this cause and deeply regretful that I have been able to accom-
plish so little.
Your committee would call attention to the large and almost
untouched field of Christian Secondary Education, especially in
country and missionary districts. We believe that the Church
would do well to establish and support more secondary schools
of a somewhat local character.
We recommend to the Synod the acceptance of the resignation
of the Chairman and Treasurer of this committee and would
nominate as his successor Rev. W. M. Hunter, and Mr. F. L. Jack-
son as Treasurer, with the pledge of earnest and enthusiastic sup-
port on the part of this committee and the Churches of the Synod.
The institutions have agreed that expenses incident to the vigor-
ous prosecution of the work of the Chairman and Treasurer shall
-be met pro rata according to funds received.
Two reports were by the Synod referred to this committee.
Synod of North Carolina 429
First. The Montreat Normal School :
We learn with pleasure of the progress of this school and
especially are we gratified to know that its educational advantages
are offered to the poorer girls of our Church at the extremely low
figure of $225.00, with a reduction to $125.00 when found necessary.
This sum includes the price of board as well as tuition.
This low charge is made possible by the use without charge of
the buildings and other facilities of the Mountain Retreat Asso-
ciation and the payment of teachers' salaries by private subscrip-
tion.
The Synod commends this school to our people for larger
patronage and increasing liberality.
We recommend the election of Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D., Mr. W. H.
Belk and Rev. D. Iverson as trustees of this institution.
Second. The Mountain Retreat Association :
The S3'nod rejoices in the continued and enlarging usefulness
of the association. We congratulate the officers and managing
committee on its increasing service to the Church and rejoice with
them on the completion of the subscription of the first $100,000
toward greatly needed material improvements.
More is urgently needed in the way of enlargement and added
comfort (especially the latter for those who do not own cottages)
and the Synod cordially commends to our people this cause as
one well worthy of their liberal support.
The term of office of the following trustees representing this
Synod expires the 15th of August next: Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D., Mr.
W. H. Belk, Mr. George W. Watts, Mr. A. M. Scales, Mr. T. W.
Wilson, Mr. J. R. Young.
Your committee recommends the election of the following to
succeed these gentlemen : Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D., Mr. W. H. Belk,
Mr. George W. Watts, Rev. J. E. Purcell, Mr. J. W. McLauchlin, Dr.
Wm. J. Martin.
Mr. J. B. Cooper's term likewise expires, but your committee
did not feel called to nominate as a representative of Synod one
who was not a member of our Church, but knowing Mr. Cooper's
great interest and valuable services in the past and his belief in
our ideals for Montreat, suggest no other to succeed him, with the
knowledge that the Triistees of the Association have the authority
to re-elect him to membership on the board.
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REPORT OF \VM. J. MARTIN, TREASURER
SYNOD'S SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
October i6, 1919-October 22, 1920.
ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY
Peace Institute— 50'''f $ 368.33
Union Theological Seminar}^ — 25% 184.17
Davidson College — 25% 184.17
Total Collections $ 736.67
CONCORD PRESBYTERY
Mitchell College— 4S9c $ 313.41
Mitchell College — Designated 5.51
Davidson College — 36% 250.73
Davidson College — Designated 349.27
Union Theological Seminary — 19% 132.33
Albemarle Institute — Designated 5.00
Glade Valley — Designated 5.00
Grove Institute — Designated 5.00
Elise High School 5.00
Total Collections $1,071.25
FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY
Union Theological Seminary — 259f $ 493.09
Union Theological Seminary — Designated 36.69
Elise High School — 25';^r 49309
Elise High School — Designated 90.39
Davidson College — 25% 493.08
Davidson College— Designated 129.19
Flora Macdonald — 259c 49309
Flora Macdonald— Designated 65.39
Assembly's Training School 21.80
Total Collections $2,315.81
KINGS MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERY
Westminster High School — 60% $ 177.09
Davidson College — 20% 59.03
Union Theological Seminary — 20% 59.03
Total Collections $ 295.15
Synod of North Carolina 431
MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY
Davidson College — 25% $ 87.20
Davidson College — Designated 175.00
Queens College — 24% 87.20
Union Theological Seminary — 24% 87.20
Albemarle Institute — ^20% 72.67
Stanley Hall— 8% 29.08
Total Collections $ 538.35
ORANGE PRESBYTERY
Peace Institute — 25% $ 582.90
Flora Macdonald — 25% 582.90
Flora Macdonald — Designated 7.50
Davidson College — 25% 582.90
Glade Valley — 25% 582.91
McRae Chair — Glade Valley 48.00
Union Theological Seminary — Designated 14-37
Total Collections $2,401.48
WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY
Grove Institute — 50% $ 355-25
Grove Institute — Designated 5.00
Union Theological Seminary — 25% 177-63
Davidson College — 25% 177.62
Assembly's Training School — Designated 9.00
Total Collections $ 724.50
Total Collections for Synod $8,083.21
Disbursements :
ALBEMARLE INSTITUTE:
Mecklenburg $ 72.67
Concord 5.00
ASSEMBLY'S TRAINING SCHOOL:
Fayetteville $ 21.80
Wilmington 9.00
$ 17-(i7
% 30.80
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DAVIDSON COLLEGE:
Albemarle $184.17
Concord 600.00
Fayetteville 622.27
Kings Mountain 59-03
Alecklenburg 262.20
Orange 582.90
Wilmington 177.62
$2,488.19
Less Expense Apportioned 54-00
$2,434-19
ELISE HIGH SCHOOL:
Concord $ 5.00
Fayetteville 583.48
$ 588.48
Less expense apportioned 10.00
$ 578.48
FLORA MACDONALD:
Fayetteville $558.48
Orange 590.40
$1,148.88
Less expense apportioned 21.00
$1,127.88
GLADE VALLEY :
Concord $ 5.00
Orange 630.91
$ 635-91
Less expense apportioned i3-00
$ 622.91
GROVE INSTITUTE:
Concord $ 500
Wilmington 360.25
$ 365-25
Less expense apportioned 9-00
$ 356.25
MITCHELL:
Concord $ 318.92
Less expense apportioned 4.00
$ 314-92
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PEACE INSTITUTE:
Albemarle $368.33
Orange 582.90
$ 951-23
Less expense apportioned 22.00
$ 929.23
QUEENS COLLEGE:
Mecklenburg $ 87.20
STANLEY HALL :
Mecklenburg . $ 29.08
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY:
Albemarle $184.17
Concord 132.33
Fayetteville S29.78
Kings Mountain 59-03
Mecklenburg 87.20
Orange 14.37
Wilmington 177.63
—^ $1,184.51
Less expense apportioned 23.00
$1,161.51
WESTMINSTER:
Kings Mountain $ 177.09
Less expense apportioned 4.00
$ 173-09
Expense apportioned (on basis of disbursement of funds
on hand 4-16-20) as follows :
Assembly's Progressive Campaign $ 150.00
Stationery and stamps 10.00
$ 160.00
Total Disbursements $8,083.21
Respectfully submitted,
WM. J. MARTIN, Chairman.
Approved by the committee in session.
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The report of the Permanent Committee on Systematic
Beneficence was taken from the docket. The privilege of
the floor was given Mr. Wade C. Smith, campaign manager
of the Progressive Program of the Assembly, who spoke on
the report. Dr. W. J. Martin was also given the privilege
of the floor and spoke on this subject. The report was
amended and adopted as a whole and is as follows :
REPORT OF THE PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON SYSTEM-
ATIC BENEFICENCE.
Submitted to the Synod of North Carolina in Session at Wilming-
ton, North Carolina, October 29, 1920.
We hereby submit the following report :
Your Committee has met four times since the last meeting of
the Synod in Raleigh — in Greensboro, January 6, 1920; Greensboro,
August 19; Raleigh, August 26; and Wilmington, October 27, 1920.
The following members were present at the above named
meetings, the number of times appears opposite their names :
Albemarle — Allen, T. P.,(i) ; Flanagan, E. L.,(3), — 4.
Concord — Clark, J. M., Mgr., (i) ; McLean, A. A., — o.
Fayetteville— Hill, W. E., (i) ; Crane, A. J., (i),— i.
Kings Mountain — Roach, W. J., — 3.
Mecklenburg — Bell, G. P., — 2.
Orange — Simpson, T. R., — 4.
Wilmington — Caldwell, D. T., — 4.
At a meeting in Greensboro, January 6th, Rev. T. P. Allen,
Chairman of the Committee, and Synodical Manager, for the
Presbyterian Progressive Program, tendered his resignation,
which was accepted, and Rev. T. W. Simpson was appointed to fill
out the unexpired term.
A comparison of the contributions to Benevolent Causes for
the past three years will readily show something of the progress
being made over the entire Synod. Receipts for Benevolences,
year ending April ist, 1918, were $439,505 for 1919, $558,257, and for
1920, $908,125. This is an increase in 1919 over 1918 of $118,752; and
of 1920 over 1919 of $349,868.
While the campaign for our Educational Institutions has been
a contributing cause for the large increase during the past year, a
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careful study of the facts shows that this was by no means the
only cause. There has been a marked and gradual increase to all
the Benevolent Causes, and what is still more encouraging, this
increase is found in almost every church, noticibly in the smaller
churches, which, heretofore, have contributed to only one or two
causes.
We believe the progress indicated above is in part a result of
the faithful and efficient work done by Presbyterial, Group and
Congregational Managers of the Progressive Program. We would
heartily commend the diligence of those who have served in this
campaign.
The financial campaign is only one of the great objectives of
the Program, and there is evidence that there has been a distinct
forward movement towards the accomplishment of the other
objectives. May we give God the glory for what has been ac-
complished and pray for His richest blessings to rest upon these
funds and all who have contributed that a spiritual harvest may be
reaped.
The Committee recommends :
1. That the Synod accept the apportionment of $743,541 as its
quota for Benevolences in the Presbyterian Progressive Program
sent down by the Assembly.
2. That this amount be apportioned to the several Pres-
byteries on the basis of the Spillman Plan as follows :
Albemarle $ 70,088.00
Concord 96,845.00
Fayetteville 139,731.00
King's Mountain 45,793.00
Mecklenburg 131,885.00
Orange 158,071.00
Wilmington 100,998.00
3. That the 40 per cent of $743,412 apportioned to Synods and
Presbyterial causes be pro rated to Synodical causes as follows :
Orphan's Home 7 1-2 per cent
Synod's Home Missions 10 per cent
And that the remaining 22 1-2 per cent be divided as each
Presbytery deems wise.
4. That, in line with the Assembly's recommendations and
also that of the Assembly's Systematic Beneficence Committee,
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the Synod secure a manager for full time to promote the objectives
of the Progressive Program.
We recommend that the Synod direct that the manager of the
Progressive Program be a layman, and that the matter of his
selection, salary and expenses be referred to the Permanent Com-
mittee on Sj'stematic Beneficence with power to act.
T. W. SIMPSON, Chairman.
The Permanent committee on Religious Work among
Students in State Educational Institutions, made the fol-
lowing report which was amended and adopted :
Your Committee on Religious Work in State Institutions has
made special inquiry where they have not had the opportunity
personally to observe the work being done by the religious forces
in these Institutions.
The only Institution we have not been able to reach is the
Appalachian Training School in Watauga County. We have no
Church at Boone, nor any minister in the county so far as your
Committee knows. But the work in the other Institutions has
been most satisfactory.
The Chairman of your Committee is in close touch with the
North Carolina College for Women in Greensboro. This Institu-
tion has 800 students and has refused admittance to 500 more for
want of room. The churches of all denominations in the city are
deeply interested in the religious life of these young women and are
doing what they can for them. The Presbyterian churches of our
city are especially active and have large numbers to attend their
services. We believe that every one of the 800 young women are
more or less influenced by our churches.
The young women themselves are very active and have raised
$2,500 for their work, $500 of which is for Foreign Y. W. C. A.
work. The membership campaign brought 634 students into the
Y. W. C. A. They have organized Bible and Mission Study classes.
In addition, they engage in definite outside religious activities.
They have several students who have offered themselves for for-
eig mission work and are preparing themselves to this end.
In regard to the Eastern Carolina Training School we have
this statement from the pastor of the Presbyterian Church, of
Greenville :
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"Both President and Faculty have this matter in their vision
and on their program in a mot definite and wholesome manner.
Every girl is made the study of prayer, and personal work.
"The Y. W. C A. is efficient and through their efforts every
student in the Institution is enlisted in Bible Study, Christian
activity and personal evangelism, and it is their aim to have every
unsaved girl confess Christ before the year is out.
"The local churches have the School on their program also,
and in every Church, there are good organized Sunday School
classes taught by consecrated teachers, and the interest manifested
by the girls is good evidence that we are giving them what they
need and want.
"In our own Church we have as good a class of this character
as I have ever seen, and last year, every girl coming from a Pres-
byterian home who was not a professing Christian when she en-
tered school became one during the term and united with our
Church here."
At the A. and E. College, in Raleigh, the Secretary of the Y.
M. C. A. informs me that chapel services are held six times a week
conducted by the Faculty. Religious services are held every
Wednesday evening; 13 organized Bible classes; an enrollment in
the "Y" of 200 men and a personal workers' group of 50. They ex-
pect to put on an evangelistic campaign the first week in Decem-
ber. The churches of Raleigh are assisting in every possible way.
The work at Chapel Hill never had a brighter outlook. We
are most fortunate in having Dr. Moss as pastor of the Presbyte-
rian Church; who holds the unqualified confidence, respect and
love of every member of the Faculty and student body. His work
is not confined to his Church but he works through the Y. M. C.
A., and through this medium touches the life of every man on the
campus. There are 1,400 men at the University which of course
makes it the most strategic point in ]>Jorth Carolina. Mr. Moss
in addition to his regular preaching services teaches six Bible
classes. One of these is a Normal class whose members are being
trained for special Bible teaching among the students.
The Y. M. C. A. is quite active being blessed with a very effi-
cient human and spiritual minded man as its Secretary.
On next Sunday morning the first service will be held in the
new Presbyterian Church, the splendid gift of our beloved brother
and friend of every good cause, Mr. James Sprunt, of this city.
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This churcli has been erected at an expense of $75,000 and will soon
be dedicated as a memorial to his deceased wife. We feel that
this gift has accomplished two great results. It has met the pres-
ent need of our work in Chapel Hill and has stimulated the other
denominations to action. The two Methodist Conferences are
planning to expend $150,000 in church equipment at the Uni-
versity. The Baptist denomination is also looking to a similar
program.
It is refreshing to know that in all of these Institutions we
have strong Christian members of the Faculty who are rendering
a great service both to the Church and State in shaping the
policies and directing the lives of our young citizens.
Respectfully submitted,
R. MURPHY WILLIAMS.
Recess was taken for five minutes, and after recess a
sermon was heard from Rev. W. T. Thompson, D.D. Synod
then took recess until 2 :30.
THIRD DAY— AFTERNOON SESSION.
Wilmington, N. C, Thursday, Oct. 28, 1920.
Synod met at 2:30 p. m. and resumed business.
The Standing Committee on Bills made report which
was docketed.
The Permanent Committee on Christian Education and
Ministerial Relief made the following report which was
received and adopted:
REPORT OF PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON CHRISTIAN
EDUCATION AND MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
Your Permanent Committee on Christian Education and Min-
isterial Relief would respectfully report as follows :
EDUCATION FOR THE MINISTRY AND MISSION SERVICE
The Assembly's Executive Committee, convinced that our
Church should have not less than two thousand of her young peo-
ple in course of preparation for the Ministry and Mission Service,
has conducted during the year an extensive survey with a view to
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discovering choice boys and girls among our membership and
helping them to find God's plans for their lives. It has secured
the services of Rev. E. E. Lane as Life Work Secretary, whose
special duty it is to visit our schools and colleges, universities,
normal schools, and churches, to present the claims of the Min-
istry and Mission Service to our young people.
The committee reports that during the last school year it gave
financial assistance to 149 Candidates for the Ministry, four Vol-
unteers for Medical Mission Service, and 20 young women prepar-
ing for various forms of mission work.
It is too early for us to secure accurate information as to the
number of candidates attending the various colleges for the pres-
ent scholastic year. The Minutes of the last General Assembly
show, however, that in our Synod there are 102 Candidates for the
Ministry distributed among the Presbyteries as follows :
Albemarle, 5; Concord, 20; Fayetteville, 15; Mecklenburg, 33;
Kings Mountain, 8; Orange, 13; Wilmington, 8.
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES
The Executive Committee, with its field force headed by Dr.
M. E. Melvin, has during the year continued its co-operative ef-
forts to provide funds for more adequately equipping and endow-
ing our Presbyterian Colleges. Two months ahead of the first ap-
pointed end of the campaign this committee completed and went
beyond the million dollars which at the last meeting of this body
it was engaged in raising for the Schools and Colleges of the
Synod of North Carolina. The success of their efforts means life
itself to some of our institutions and greater efficiency and enlarg-
ed usefulness to all of them.
THE STUDENT LOAN FUND
This fund has been increased by about $60,000 since our last
report to Synod, but is still $138,000 short of the $250,000 fixed for
it in the three year program adopted by the Assembly and ap-
proved by Synod one year ago. From the proceeds of this fund
84 young people were granted loans during the past year; of these
51 were boys and 33 girls.
MINISTERIAL RELIEF
We find that the Executive Committee reports assistance
afforded 106 infirm ministers, 161 widows and 25 afflicted orphans
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of deceased ministers to the average amounts of $370 to ministers,
$251.15 to widows, and $i34-55 to orphans.
Synod's special attention is called to the splendid offer of Mr.
C. E. Graham to donate to the Endowment Fund for Ministerial
Relief $200,000 on condition that our Church raise by December ist
of this year the sum of $400,000 for the same cause. Because of
the form in which this offer is made, in connection with the trans-
fer to the Executive Committee of a business building in Jack-
sonville, Fla., competent judges declare that Mr. Graham's con-
ditional gift is nearer half a million dollars than two hundred
thousand. The committee has met with encouraging success in
raising the amount necessary to make Mr Graham's promise bind-
ing, but the way is still rather far to go and the time is short.
Because of the real and great needs of our exhausted workers and
of the widows and orphans of many who in the days of their flesh
gave themselves unsparingly to the service of the Church instead
of laying up for their own households ; because of the extremely
liberal character of Mr. Graham's offer, and because his condi-
tion, if met, will add almost a million dollars to our income-pro-
ducing endowment for Ministerial Relief, it seems to j^our com-
mittee that the raising qf the full sum of $400,000 by December ist
is the matter of paramount interest among the several important
matters that it can be expected to bring to your attention. In-
deed, we make bold to report that there is no cause which should
more enlist your interests and compel your endeavor for the next
few weeks than this which has in it the promise of so much needed
and justly deserved relief for those who have forsaken al Ito follow
the Ministry of the Gospel.
RECOMAIENDATIONS
1. That in view of the comparatively small number of our
young people who are offering themselves for the Ministry and
Mission Work, we call on our heads of families to dedicate to
these special forms of service and call on them in their homes and
on our pastors in the regular services of the sanctuary to re-
member the Master's injunction : "Pray ye therefore the Lord of
the harvest that He will send forth laborers into His harvest."
2. That our pastors be urged to even more diligent efforts to
bring their young people to face the great need for workers and
their own privileges and responsibilities in the face of these needs.
3. That this committee be authorized to arrange for at least
one visit during the year to each of the Presbj-terian schools and.
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if possible, to the State institutions of high grade, by the Assem-
bly's Secretary of Life Work or other men or women, whom it
may select, to lay before the students therein the claims of the
Ministry and Mission Work, and that to defray the expense of
such visits it be authorized to draw on the Synod's Treasurer for
Schools and Colleges for an amount not exceeding $ioo.
4. That the Student Loan Fund be again commended to the
liberality of our Churches and of our members whom God has
made stewards of much wealth.
5. That Sj-nod put on record its gratitude to God for the
blessing of success on the undertaking to raise a million dollars
for our Schools and Colleges and its appreciation of the efficient
services of Rev. M. E. Melvin and his associates in organizing and
prosecuting the campaign in which that sum was secured.
6. That Synod record its very great concern that the effort
to raise, within the allotted time, a sufficient sum to secure Mr.
C. E. Graham's conditional gift to the cause of Ministerial Relief
shall be successful.
7. That each one of our Churches that has not already done
so, be urged to take such steps as it may deem wise for giving to
its membership an immediate opportunity to contribute to this
cause.
C. M. RICHARDS, Chairman.
The Permanent Committee on Young People's Work
made report which was received, amended and adopted and
is as follows :
YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK.
Through the blessing of God's Spirit, it is the privilege of your
Committee on Young People's Work to report that this depart-
ment of the work of our Church is most encouraging. The Presby-
terian Young People's League, which was created by the order of
Synod at its meeting last year, was accordingly launched on its
career, by your committee, together with the Woman's Synodical
Auxiliary, whose co-operation was invited by the Synod. The
personnel of this committee and the members of a similar com-
mittee of the Auxiliary were invited to meet at the home of the
Chairman in Charlotte in December, 1919, and formed itself into
a board of directors, according to -the constitution of the Presby-
terian Young People's League adopted by the Synod. This board
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formed the proper committees for the prosecution of the work in
hand, arranged to hold a Summer conference in June, 1920, and
delegated an executive committee to carry out the plans.
It was also arranged to urge the Presbyteries to adopt the
suggestion of Synod to correlate their own work with Synod's
work, by a similar organization of a Presbyterian Young People's
League in each Presbytery.
It is with pleasure that we report that the second Summer
conference was held at Flora Macdonald College, June 1-8, 1920,
which was attended by 200 young people representing all the Pres-
byteries and many Churches, city, town and country. Under the
direction of our best leaders, six days were devoted to Bible study,
mission study, life service conferences, inspirational addresses,
and one hour each day to reports and a conference of the Young
People's Societies of the Synod, which conference was recognized
as the Presbyterian Young People's League in body assembled.
They elected their own president to serve two years, Mr. R. E.
McClure, of Wilmington. Among the findings of a committee ap-
pointed by the conference, and adopted by them, appears a desire
and purpose to publish a periodical for the promotion of the in-
terests of the Young People's Societies of our Synod, and so en-
thusiastic was the response that the publication of such a period-
ical may be indicated. The young people also decided to appeal to
Synod to support their conference by Synod's funds instead of
leaving the support of the conference to free-will offerings of the
Churches. A recommendation concurring is to follow in this
report.
It will interest the Synod to know that the Churches have
for two years liberally supported the conference, so great is the
concern of many Churches in their young people. T.he finances
handled by your committee, in putting on this conference, show
that the sum of $2,449 was the amount raised from three sources,
the Woman's Auxiliary donating $200, the Churches about $340, and
the young people $1,690; $200 was left over from last year. After
expenses were paid, $228 is on hand, $200 being deposited in a sav-
ings bank. This will assist us in putting on next year's confer-
ence, which we expect to be even better than the last one.
The work has been organized in the Presbyteries, as sug-
gested by the Synod, and though full reports have not come in,
the indications are that the Presbyterian Young People's League is
at work as an organization in'all parts of the Synod. Some Pres-
byteries have held two and three 6cho meetings of young people to
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hear of the work of the conference at Flora Macdonald from dele-
gates "who attended it. Great enthusiasm was exhibited, and
serious plans were made for the promotion of the work. So
marked has been the interest that numerous requests have come
in to the chairman for information concerning the organization
of new societies of young people in the Churches. The chairman
has handled these requests by referring the young people to our
Committee at Richmond, as we have no supplies for this purpose.
In the light of these facts which have been presented, your
committee is greatly encouraged, and comes to the Synod with
confidence in your interest and sympathy. The young people are
the hope of our Church. The time has come for such a recogni-
tion of their zeal and energy that they shall go on in the expansion
and development of their work. Therefore we make two recom-
mendations :
First. That $300 be appropriated from Synod's Home Mission
Funds to assist in putting on the conference.
Second. That in response to the overture of the Woman's
Synodical Auxiliary, that Synod shall arrange for the election and
support, when the way is clear, of a Field Secretary of Young
People's Work and Sabbath School Work, who shall be under the
joint direction of the Committees of Young People's Work and of
Sabbath School Work, and who shall be the agent of the Pres-
byterian Young People's League.
Respectfully submitted, for the Committee,
J. G. GARTH, Chairman.
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The Board of Regents of the Orphan's Home made
through Dr. H. G. Hill, President, its report which was re-
ceived and referred to the Standing Committee on the Re-
port. (See Appendix).
The report of the Standing Committee on Bills and
Overtures was taken from the docket, amended and adopt-
ed, and is as follows :
The Committee on Bills and Overtures in answer to overtures
from Mecklenburg and Orange Presbyteries and the Board of
Regents of Barium Springs Orphanage, touching the place of
Women on the Board of Regents, would recommend, that Synod
approve these overtures and that we elect one man from each
Presbytery and one woman from each Presbyterial thus forming
a Board of Regents of fourteen, unless the charter requires a
Board of sixteen ; in which event the Synod shall elect one man
from Synod and one woman from the Synodical and hereafter the
seven men may be nominated by the Presbyteries and the seven
women by the Presbyterials, and the eighth woman by the Synod-
ical, and all are to be elected by the Synod.
Respectfully submitted,
J. W. Mclaughlin, chairman Committee.
The Standing Committee on the Report of Regents of
the Orphans' Home made the following report, which was
received and adopted and is as follows :
REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTE OF REGENTS OF
ORPHANS' HOME.
In response to the Overture from the Board of Regents con-
cerning doubling the plant at the Orprans' Home and the enlarge-
ment of the work according to the action of the last Synod, we
recommend that $500,000 at the rate of $100,000 a year, be the goal
for this Synod, to be apportioned to the Presbyteries on the basis
heretofore adopted for this cause.
This amount is over and above and separate from the support
fund of the Home.
We are gratified that the women of our Synod, through the
Presbyterials, have undertaken to raise the amount needed for the
erection of the Lottie Walker Memorial— the new and modern
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Dining Room and Kitchen — and that more than $37,000 is in hand.
If the plant is doubled, we hope that our women will continue
raising funds for the enlarged building made necessary.
We therefore commend this special object to a liberal and
speedy response as the building is an urgent necessity.
We recommend that in the election of the Board of Regents
as recommended, the members shall be divided into four classes to
serve one, two, three and four years respectively; and no Regent
who has served a term of four years shall be eligible to succeed
himself or herself.
We recommend that a Permanent Committee on the Orphans'
Home be appointed by the Synod to which the Report of the
Board of Regents and all matters pertaining to the orphanage
shall be given at the commencement of the session of the Synod,
so that this important cause shall not be pushed into a corner.
J. N. H. SUMAIERELL, Chairman.
Recess was taken until 7:30 p. m.
THIRD DAY— EVENING SESSION.
Wilmington, N. C, Thursday, Oct. 28, 1920.
Synod met at 7 :30 p. m. and resumed business.
The Permanent Committee on Women's Work present-
ed the following report which was received and adopted,
and is as follows :
REPORT OF WOMEN'S WORK.
Your Committee on Women's Work respectfully submit the
following report :
The women of the Church are to be warmly commended for
the earnest zeal and devotion they have manifested in the work
of the Church during the past year and the intelligent and fruitful
service that has been rendered by them. The report to the last
Assembly showed contributions aggregating more than three-
quarters of a million in money and most gratifying progress
made in the extension of organized and systematic effort in be-
half of the causes among the churches. The work accomplished
in this direction by the Auxiliarj^ is most praiseworthy and is be-
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ing increasingly felt throughout the whole Church. The Auxiliary
has not been content to aim simply at larger contributions. It has
directed wise and fruitful endeavor toward the stimulation of
more general and systematic Bible study and prayer and the deep-
ening and cultivation of the spiritual life of the Church. It has
also been successfully engaged in encouraging the study of mis-
sions and other great benevolent causes, and thus promoting intel-
ligent and permanent interest in the work that the Church is
aiming to accomplish.
Of no part of our Church can this be more truthfully said than
of the women of the Synod of North Carolina.
The statistical report for the past year was very gratifying
and showed encouraging progress in all departments.
The number of societies reported was 328, with a membership
of 8,353, and total contributions to all causes amounting to $129,-
927.
The detailed report covering the seven Presbyteries and in-
dicating the sums contributed to the several causes is printed in
full in the Assembly's Minutes and is therefore not shown here.
The work of North Carolina Synodical deserves special mention
and the grateful commendation of the Synod. The Synodical last
year attained the high standard of excellence fixed by the Assem-
bly, and is making its influence felt more and more among the
Presbyteries and the churches. The fine service rendered in pro-
moting organized work among the women and young people of
the churches of the Synod is peculiarly gratifying and is bound to
be increasingly felt in all departments of the religious life and
work of our people. The Synodical is giving its attention in a
most stimulating manner to the all-important work among the
young people. It is also successfully pressing the introduction of
the splendid Auxiliary Circle Plan among the churches of the Syn-
od.
Among the large number of good things which the Synodical
is engaged in doing, its care for the orphan should not lack par-
ticular mention. With the endorsement of the Synod the Synod-
ical has undertaken to raise a fund of $75.ooo, for much needed ad-
ditions to the physical plant at Barium Springs. Of this amount
they now have more than $37,000 in hand, and have no idea of
closing the campaign with less than the full amount they set out
to raise.
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The following recommendations are submitted:
1. That the Synod expresses its high appreciation of the
intelligent and devoted service that has been rendered by the
women during the past year. The Synodical is warmly congratu-
lated on the zealous and successful manner in which it has pro-
moted the work among the women and young people in all the
Presbyteries.
2. That the Presbyteries are urged to lend all aid and en-
couragement to the eflforts of the women's societies, and partic-
ularly to assist in furthering the work of the Auxiliary in the
Presbyterials.
3. That the Synod tenders to the Synodical its sincere thanks
for the great work it has undertaken for the enlargement and im-
provement of the Orphans' Home at Barium Springs in the pro-
posed Lottie "Walker Memorial Building.
The Synod heartily endorses the Auxiliarj^ Circle Plan and
recommends it to the women of the churches as a most effective
means of promoting the influence and success of their organized
work.
Submitted herewith are the list of officers of the Synodical
for the year (see appendix), and the statistical report of the
Synodical for the j-ear ending March 31, 1920.
J. H. HENDERLITE, Chairman.
The following resolutions were adopted :
That there be appointed a committee of one member from
each Presbytery with the Aloderator as chairman to investigate
study and report to the next Synod the advisability of naming su-
perintendents or agents of the different enterprises of the Church
and the extent to which they can be.
The Synod of North Carolina learns with the deepest regret
and profoundest concern that in spite of protest made by our
Assembly and by the judiciatories of other evangelical churches
that the Convention of the Y. W. C. A. held at Cleveland, Ohio,
April, 1920, decided that in College Y. W. C. Associations Evangeli-
cal Church connection shall no longer be required for active mem-
bership and a voice in the control of the association, thus prac-
tically annulling the Evangelical connection of this great and
hitherto useful organization.
We would therefore put ourselves on record as earnestly pro-
testing against the above noted action and we hereby call the at-
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tentton of the presidents of our several colleges for women to the
course of the Y. W. C. A. and put them on guard to hold their
local College Young Womens Christian Associations to Evengel-
ical standards and requirments.
The Stated Clerk is requested to send a copy of this paper to
the President of each of our Colleges for Women.
The report of the Permanent Committee on Publication
and Sal)bath Schools was presented and adopted as follows :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SUNDAY SCHOOLS.
It is with pleasure that your committee reports to the Synod a
marked improvement in Sunday School conditions in the Synod
as a whole. The enrollment shows an increase of 2,200 over last
year, and the large increase in contributions from the Sunday
Schools to the benevolent causes of the Church is equally grati-
fying. This increase in contributions seems to have been uniform
throughout the Synod, while the increase in enrollment is more
noteworthy in the Presbyteries of Concord and Mecklenburg.
These two Presbyteries also show by far the largest number of
pupils received into communion. There is evidence of larger
activity in the matter of the establishment of congregational mis-
sion schools.
Your committee offers the folloiving recommendations :
1. That pastors and leaders in Sunday School work be urged
to investigate the Departmental Graded Lessons recommended by
the Assembly Committee with a view to their adoption, a full pre-
sentation of the advantages of these lessons will be found on
pages 119, 120, of the Assembly's Minutes.
2. That the churches consider the advisibility of having their
Sunday Schools supported from the current expense funds of the
church thus allowing the Sunday School to devote all its collec-
tions to benevolent objects, for the sake of the educational value
of such a policy.
Respectfully submitted,
Wm. E. HILL, Chairman.
The following resolution was adopted :
That the Synod of North Carolina in session in the Church of
the Covenant, Wilmington, N. C, desires to record its hearty and
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grateful appreciation of the manifold and widelj- influential serv-
ice that has been and is being rendered to the life and work of
the Church by that splendid organ of the Synod the Presbyterian
Standard; and to express its high admiration of the editorial
management of the paper, and of the fine influence it is wielding
among our people. We warmly commend the Standard to all the
churches of the Synod, and earnestly urge upon the ministers that
they give their full support and co-operation in extending the
circulation of the paper among their people.
The order of the day was taken up and a popular meet-
ing in the interest of Foreign Missions was conducted by
the chairman, Rev. J. M. Grier, D. D., who presented the re-
port of the Permanent Committee. Pending the adoption
of this report, Synod heard an interesting address by Rev.
J. O. Reavis, D.D., the Assembly's Field Secretary of For-
eign Missions. The report was adopted as a whole and is
as follows :
REPORT OF PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN
MISSIONS.
In making annual report on this great cause we first of all
give thanks to God for His blessing upon it since our last report.
The threatening financial outlook has given place to one dis-
tinctly hopeful. The contributions to cause for year ending
March 31, 1920, are $1,115,345, which not only met the greatly in-
creased cost of administration but reduced debt of Executive
Committee from $185,726 to $164,622.
There is cause for rejoicing in comparison of contributions to
this cause for the past and present year during first half of ec-
clesiastical year — for six months ending September 30, 1919 there
was given $290,523 for six months ending September 30, 1920, $352,-
579, being an increase of $620.56.
Our Synod gave for year ending Alarch 31, 1919 $132,593, while
$165,949 was given for year ending March 31, 1920.
In the foreign field God has abundantly blessed the efiforts of
our missionaries and there has been a great ingathering of new
members.
Along this line we quote words of Executive Secretary of the
Assembl}'. "The outstanding fact of our mission work this year
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is the wonderful revival in Korea. The attendance on our Korean
schools has almost doubled. Church attendance shows an equal
increase. Dying churches in the country districts have been made
to arise and walk, while many dead churches have been resurrect-
ed into vigorous life."
The one discouraging note is the inadequate force of workers
in every one of our fields to care for the great increase ready to
be gathered.
The inadequate physical equipment with which our mission-
aries have been forced to work, thanks to the plans for equip-
ment fund adopted by our last Assembly will, we hope, in the near
future be replaced by adequate facilities for doing the work.
We recommend:
That Synod impress on all its pastors and churches our foreign
field's desperate need of equipment and that they push to a suc-
cessful conclusion the Million Dollar Equipment Fund. Along
with this we call attention to the pressing need in every field of
missionary reinforcement and that there be special prayer that
these twin supreme needs be met.
J. M. GRIER, for Committee.
The Permanent Committee on Bible Cause presented the
following report, which was received and adopted :
REPORT OF PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON BIBLE CAUSES.
The Permanent Committee on the Bible Cause would respect-
fully report that during the past year, Synod has contributed to
this cause $3,423.00, an increase of $769.00.
The American Bible Society is our principal source of supply
of the Scriptures and deserves the loyal and whole-hearted sup-
port of the Church as a cause of major importance. Its annual
policy and budget is partially directed bj' an advisory council from
co-operating churches, our own Church supplying one representa-
tive. This fact gives us a still more personal interest in its stu-
pendous work last year of distributing 1,734,864 volumes at home
and 2,017,455 volumes abroad, a total of 3,752,309 volumes at prices
which make them the cheapest selling books in the world. This
distribution of one-fifth of the world's output of Bibles, is ac-
complished through 20 agencies, nine home and 11 foreign agencies.
It also has correspondents in 30 countries not included in the
agency fields.
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The American Bible Society is the only source of supply for
the Scriptures in foreign languages for our Foreign Mission work
and for the ever increasing demand for them among immigrants
to our own land. Thus this cause is fundamental to the work of
both Home and Foreign Missions and deserves our hearty in-
terest and support and our prayers.
In a recent letter, the Society's secretary writes : "Appeals to
us from all parts of the world are staggering. Our latest report is,
that the Bible cannot be procured in Austria. All of the Arabic-
speaking countries are demanding the Scriptures. It has been re-
ported that Egypt is making the studj^ of the Scriptures compul-
sory. If this be true, it will create an unusual demand in that part
of the world. Please urge the churches to rally to our support
promptly."
It is the unqualified opinion of j^our committee that in view of
the fact that countless skeptical books filled with error and isms
are daily being issued from the secular press, that perhaps a ma-
jority of those from the religious press contain unsound and
hurtful views, derogatory to the fundamentals of truth, and that
the teaching in many colleges and universities includes subtle
attack or direct assault upon the integrity of the Scriptures, we
therefore should place renewed emphasis upon the reading, study,
and teaching of the Book itself by everj^ means possible.
Your committee recommends :
1. That every church recognizes the vital importance of this
cause and seek to contribute to the full extent of its apportion-
ment.
2. That our ministers emphasize from the pulpit the inspira-
tion of Scriptures and the importance of Bible study.
3. That, in accordance with the wishes of our General Assem-
bly, we observe Mayflower Universal Bible Sunday, November 28,
1920, the tercentenary of the landing of the Pilgrim fathers. The
American Bible Society will furnish literature relating to the
Open Bible.
4. Synod urgently requests our Committee of Publication to use
the most scrupulous care to prevent the sale in its stores of any
book, which teaches that the Scriptures are not the inspired Word
of God, and urges our parents to keep their children away from all
schools and so-called religious conferences, where such such books
Synod of North Carolina 453
as these, the Shorter Bible, and others of like character are either
taught or publicly displayed and put on sale.
Respectfully submitted,
CARL B. CRAIG, Chairman.
The Standing Committee on the Report of the Directors
and Trustees of Union Theological Seminary presented the
following report which was received and adopted :
Your Committee on Union Theological Seminary would report
that we have read with great interest the Annual Report of the
Board of Directors of the Seminary.
We note with great pleasure and thankfulness that this great
institution has had a very successful year. The total enrollment
for the past year was 94- Of these, 77 were undergraduates, and
17 were graduates. In addition to these 20 of our mmisters have
been pursuing the course leading to the degree of Doctor of
Divinity.
During the past year 20 received diplomas; 14 with the degree
of B.D., six received diplomas without the degree, and two re-
ceived certificates of proficiency. One was awarded a post-grad-
uate diploma, and three of our young ministers received diplomas
with the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
We would call attention to the fact that a new professorship
in Religious Pedagogy and Sunday School work has been es-
tablished, and that the authorities have been very fortunate in
securing Dr. W. T. Thompson to f^ll this chair. We also note with
gratitude that the seminary has received a large number of gifts
and bequests to the current expenses and to the permanent funds
of the institution during the year, amounting in all to $108,820.52.
There is still very urgent need, however, for regular contribu-
tions from the churches for the current expenses.
We therefore recommend:
1. That our sessions be urged to see to it that the seminary is
placed on the budget of our churches.
2. We recommend, that Synod hear Dr. W. T. Thompson for
ten minutes at this time.
Respectfully submitted for the Committee,
E. D. BROWN, Chairman.
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Rev. W. T. Thompson, of the Seminary faculty, address-
ed the Synod on the work of the Seminary.
The Standing Committee on Nominations made the fol-
lowing report which was received and adopted :
REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS.
Your Committee recommends the following:
Members of the Board of Directors of Union Theological Sem-
inary, to succeed themselves : Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D., and Mr. A.
W. McLean.
Trustees of the North Carolina Religious Workers' Home at
Alontreat, to succeed themselves : Rev. W. Mc. White, D.D., Rev. C.
M. Richards, D.D., Air. O. L. Clark, Mr. J. W. McLauchlin.
Executive Committee of Education to succeed himself: Mr. J.
W. McLauchlin. To succeed Rev. A. D. McClure, D.D., Rev. J. E.
Purcell.
Regents of the Orphans' Home:
1. To serve four years :
Rev. R. A. Lapsley, Jr., Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D., Mrs. W. B.
Ramsaj', of Hickory, and Mrs. John T. French, of Wilmington.
2. To serve three years :
Mr. W. H. Sprunt, Mr. Z. V. Turlington, Mrs. W. R. Grey, of
Davidson, and Aliss Patty B. Watkins, of Red Springs.
3. To serve two years :
Mr. A R. McEachern, Air. E. Fairley Alurray, Airs. R. S.
Abernethy, of Lincolnton, and Airs. George Howard, of Tarboro.
4. To serve one year :
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D., Rev. R. Al. Williams, Airs. J. H.
Suttenfield, of Alonroe, and Airs. Donald Mclver, of Burlington.
The Rev. R. A. Lapsley, Jr., to call the Board together, and the
Rev. E. AI. Craig, D.D., to be the Chairman of the Permanent
Committee on Orphans' Home.
WILLIS S. WILSON, Chairman.
Synod of North Carolina 455
The following resolution of thanks was adopted by a
rising vote :
Your Committee on Resolutions of Thanks would present the
following:
That the Syond of North Carolina in its 107th Session at
Wilmington express by a rising vote of thanks its profound ap-
preciation of the gracious hospitality extended by the people of
Wilmington during this session.
To Mr. Mann, our host and his co-workers in the congrega-
tion, the pastors and members in the other congregations, and
denominations particularly to the ladies of the different churches,
who have so cordially and graciously looked after our welfare, to
the city newspapers and all those who have contributed to our
pleasure and comfort while in this delightful community, we ex-
tend our hearty thanks.
It is resolved further that this expression be read from this
pulpit next Sunday morning and that a copy be provided for the
papers with the request that the same be published.
Respectfully submitted,
J. M. GRIER, Chairman.
The following report of the Committee on Records of
the Presbyteries was received and adopted :
Your Standing Committees on the Records of Presbyteries,
respectfully report as a committee of the whole as follows :
1. No records of either Albemarle or King's Mountain Pres-
byteries have come into hands of the committee to examine said
records.
2. The records of Concord, Fayetteville, Mecklenburg, Orange
and Wilmington Presbyteries have been duly examined and we
recommend their approval.
J. M. CLARK.
Chairman of Committee as a whole.
The Permanent Committee on the Narrative presented
the following report which was received and adopted :
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REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NARRATIVES.
To the Synod :
Your committee has carefully examined the Narratives sent up
by the Presbyteries, and make the following observations :
The general outlook as to the life of the churches seems to be
encouraging. Special mention should be made of the good sup-
port of their current activities, particularly as shown in the in-
crease of pastor's salaries. Attendance upon worship is generally
noted as good, and proper attention seems to be given in the Sab-
bath Schools to training in the Scriptures and the catechisms, but
there is evident neglect of this in the homes. We would call upon
the churches to urge upon our people the sacred responsibility of
the home in the religious training of children.
It is plain that but a small proportion of the people observe
family worship, and the number enrolled in the "Family Altar
League" is almost negligible. Surely the high privilege of main-
taining the family altar should receive more serious attention !
One Presbytery expresses the fear that it will soon become only a
tradition in the historj' of the Church.
We have noted with especial attention the statements made
with reference to the vital subjects of Sabbath observance and
worldly comformity, and conclude, from information given, that
Scriptural standards are not maintained, but lower standards have
been set up to the Spiritual injurj^ of our people. It is doubtless
that this will account for the report made by some of the Pres-
byteries that there has been little marked manifestation of the
power of the Holy Spirit. Surely to keep the Sabbath Day holy is
as much a part of the requirements of the Fourth Commandment
as to cease from work on that da^^ ; and the Scriptures plainly
show that there is a line of cleavage between the Church and the
world.
It is noted that scarcely any eflfort has been made to secure
recruits for the Gospel ministrj'. Only one Presbytery seems to
have taken this duty seriously.
Very few churches report evangelistic efforts outside their
own bounds. A fruitful field of usefulness is thus sadly neglected.
Nearly all of the churches are supplied with the ministry of
the Word.
J. J. HILL, Chairman.
A. J. HOWELL, Secretary.
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The Standing Judicial Committee reported that no busi-
ness had come into its hands and was, at its own request,
discharged.
*The Standing Auditing Committee made the following
report, which was received and adopted : (*See Trasurer's
Book.
The Standing Committee on Leave of Absence submitted
the following report, which was received and adopted :
Your Committee on Leave of Absence respectfully reco-
mmends :
1. That Rev. J. K. Hall be excused for absence from the meet-
ing of Synod of last year.
2. That the following be excused for absence this year: Rev.
Messrs. Geo. H. Atkinson, W. L. Lingle, Chas. Kingsley, J. McI.
Wicker, A. R. Shaw, R. M. Phillips, R. A. McLeod, F. A. Drennen,
E. W. Thompson, R. O. Luke.
3. That the following be excused after Wednesday: L. A.
Bethune, Geo. Rogers, C. C. Anderson, J. T. Denby, J. A. Barn-
well, J. H. Smith, N. H. Williams, J. K. Hall, V. R. Gaston.
4. That the following be excused after Thursday afternoon:
E. S. Watson, W. W. Norwood, C. H. Henson, R. S. Burwell, J. M.
Clark, J. E. L. Winecoff, W. P. M. Currie, Peter Mclntyre, W. A.
Dees, H. M. McDiarmid, Bunyan McLeod, T. W. Dixon, H. S.
Bradshaw, Alex. McGirt, J. W. McLauchlin, L. R. Benson, J. G.
Garth, C. W. Robinson, D. A. McDonald, L. E. McNair, N. J. Mc-
Rimmon, C. E. White, Archibald Currie, C. S. Clark, L. E. Wells,
J. C McMillan, E. C. Todd, D. M. McGeachy, P. McK. Williams, A.
T. McEachern, J. E. Elliott, F. E. Evans, H. M. Pressley, J. J. Hill,
A. T. Lassiter, L. D. Wharton.
E. M. CRAIG, Chairman.
According to above report the following ministers, not in-
cluding infirm ministers and foreign missionaries, were absent
from this meeting of Synod, 1920, without excuse rendered, viz.:
S. M. Rankin, D. Mclver, P. H. Grayson, W. O. Sample, W. S.
Wilhelm, N. R. Claytor, C. P. Coble, C. W. Irwin, L. S. Chafer, E. F.
Lee, W. P. Robertson, T. W. McConnell, J. W. Clegg, C. F. Myers,
H. A. French, L. T. Wilds, C. D. Whiteley, G. L. Whiteley, A. W.
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Shaw, W. B. Goebel, E. N. Caldwell, J. S. Kennison, W. P. Mc-
Corkle, T. W. Lingle, W. C. C. Foster, J. W. Moss, W. E. West. R.
B. Taggart, J. E. Robinson, J. A. Smith, Jno. Pond, A. A. McLean,
W. C. Wauchope, K. L. Mclver, D. M. Armentrout, J. A. Scott, C
G. Vardell, G. T. Pace, J. D. A. Brown, H. M. Dixon, W. L. Wilson,
J. F. Gorrell, C. L. Wicker, C E. Clarke. A. S. Anderson, D. L.
Jones, J. McSween, J. F. Alenius, F. L. Johnston, A. S. Maxwell, J.
M. Gibbs, J. W. Purcell, G. C. Huntington, M. E. Sentelle, J. W.
Grier, W. R. McCalla, J. L. Caldwell. W. C. McLaughlin. G. W.
Cheek, C. H. Little, J. C. Hardin, G. W. Belk, D. B. McLauchlin, A.
T. Young. R. L. Patrick, R. S. Lattimer, C. H. Rowan, J. J. Dougles,
A. H. Temple, T. G. Tate, R. W. Culbertson. R. H. M. Brown, J. H.
Jarvis, S. K. Phillips, G. B. Hanrahan, Lewis Collins, Stanley
White, E. S. Currie, S. B. Lylerly, CC. Brown, W. Conger, T. E. P.
Woods, F. B. Rankin, W. J. Roach, G. R. Gillespie. W. A. Murray,
W. S. Hamiter, Joe Bartlett, A. S. Caldwell, J. J. Harrell.
The Standing Committee on the Minutes of the General
Assembly made the following report, which was received
and adopted :
The Committee on Minutes of the General Assembly res-
pectfully report that they find nothing in the Assembly's Minutes
requiring action by Synod, other than has been provided for in
reports of other committees.
Respectfully submitted.
W. R. Coppedge,
The following resolution was adopted :
Resolved that :
It is the sense of this Synod that the evils of the modern
moving picture shows are increasing with tremendous rapidity.
That they are today a great menace to the morals of our people,
especially the young. Therefore, it is the duty of the Church to
speak out boldly and bear testimony against the growing evil. In
so doing, however, we do not mean to condemn the picture show
as an unmixed evil, for in it are the possibilities of great good.
Our intent is to eliminate the bad and preserve the good.
To this end we would urge upon our ministers, sessions and peo-
ple to consider most earnestly and prayerfully the best methods of
curbing the evil and to give their support to all wise efforts in this
direction. We believe that state-wide and local censorship of the
Synod of North Carolina 459
films will accomplish much by preventing many and abating the
objectionable features in others, and we would welcome a move-
ment to create such an agency.
Furthermore, we humbly petition the Congress of the United
States to create a federal censorship and the State Legislature a
state censorship to check the evil at its source.
R, A. White.
The following report of the Permanent Committee on
the Sabbath and Family Religion was presented, received
and adopted :
REPORT OF PERMANENT COMMITTEE ON THE SABBATH
AND FAMILY RELIGION.
Your committee respectfully reports as follows :
Our Church has throughout her history taught that the Chris-
tian Sabbath and Family Religion were fundamentally necessary
to the life of the Church. Our professed belief in them today is as
strong as ever, but the practice of church members is far short of
our preaching. The tendency of our age is to adopt human stand-
ards for their practice instead of the teachings of God's Word.
Sabbath desecration is on the increase and Family Religion
on the decrease, judging from the reports sent up, and observa-
tion. The Sabbath is more generally observed as a holiday than
a holy day. Family worship and religious teaching in the home
are sadly neglected. The attention of the last General Assembly
was called to the falling off in infant baptisms.
Our Alinisters and Christian leaders have come, as a rule, from
the Christian home. Where shall we look for them if Christians
neglect the home?
The Assembly has urged all our Ministers to preach on these
important subjects, at least once during the year, and has desig-
nated the Sabbath preceding the meeting of the Assembly as an
appropriate day for the presentation of the claim of the Sabbath.
We say amen !
We most heartily endorse the timely sermon on Family Re-
ligion preached at the opening of this Synod by Rev. W. C. Brown.
The Synod heard, with pleasure and profit, the address of Rev. I.
C. Hunt, D.D., Southern Secretary of the Lord's Day Alliance.
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We have received and carefully considered a communication from
the Lord's Day Alliance. We rejoice in every lawful effort to
stem the tide of Sabbath desecration.
We make the following recommendations :
First. We heartily endorse the general purposes and aims of
the Lord's Day Alliance, and commend it to the liberal support of
our people as citizens.
Second. We respectfully decline to place the Lord's Day Al-
liance in the budget of the Church.
Third. That our pastors and sessions make an earnest efifort
to secure Family Worship in every Christian home in the bounds
of the congregation before the end of this Church year.
J. J. HILL, Chairman.
The Historical Committee stated that it had no impor-
tant matters to present. Received as information.
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463
The following statistical report to the General Assembly
was received and adopted and ordered forwarded to the
General Assembly :
To the General Assembly in the United States:
The Synod of North Carolina respectfully reports to the Gen-
eral Assembly in the United States that it consists of seven Pres-
byteries, and that these consist of 266 Ministers and 498 Churches,
and that these have under their care 8 Licentiates, no Candidates
and 59,936 enrolled Communicants, distributed as follows :
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The Synod further report that the next meeting of the Synod
will be held at a place or church to be selected and announced by
a special committee, and the time and place fixed by standing
rule, Tuesday, October 25, 1921, at 7:30 o'clock p. m.
D. I. CRAIG, Stated Clerk.
The following- committee, Rev. Messrs. J. R. Bridges, D.
D., J. M. Grier, D.D., J. H. Henderlite, D.D., and Ruling
Elders W. J. Martin and R. G. Brice, was appointed to
arrange for the next meeting of Synod. This committee
was instructed to secure a place for meeting, taking into
consideration Montreat and other available places, where
the Synod may meet as a self-entertaining body.
(Since the above was written, Tarboro has been chosen as the
place. — S. C.)
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The motion was now made to adjourn. The minutes of
today's sessions were read and approved.
The Stated Clerk called the Roll and the members pres-
ent answered to their names, but those not responding and
whose names are not found in the list of those excused, were
noted "Absent without Leave." They are as follows : R.
M. Williams, O. G. Jones, W. D. Moss, T. R. Foust, G. W.
Denny, S. Strudwick, L. V. Phillips, L. L. Moore, O. Pullen,
S. A. Ewart, W. A. Xickolson, T. F. Haney, L. K. Overcash,
E. F. Reid, S. A. Grier, C. V. Voils, E. B. Neave, Sam Black,
H. J. Burke, W. L. Lyerly, C. R. Bailey, D. Mun-
roe, C. M. Gibbs, J. T. Johnson, D. J. Ray, J. M. Mc-
Iver, C. H. Russell, W. De B. McEachern, S. A. Boney, W.
J. Currie, Geo. M. Matthis, James Lapsley, J. N. Corbett, C.
C. Bryan, T. K. Maxwell, D. W. Munroe, A. D. Thigpen, A.
J. Jackson, L. Southerland, J. L. Miller, J. D. Sanders, J. E.
Kelly, J. E. Farrior, W. I. Hall, M. H. Wooten, H. McN.
Johnson, T. C. Bell, A. A. McGeachy, W. E. Furr, R. J. Mc-
Ilwain, Dr. W. P. Craven, W. H. Belk, H. B. Searight, J. M.
Millard, A. J. Crane, A. M. Earle, F. H. Scattergood, W. B.
Neill, C. G. Daniel, R. A. Bullock, T. F. Savage, J. C. Grier,
K. L. Whittington, G. W. Ragan, E. D. Huffstetter.
The Synod adjourned with singing, prayer by the Mod-
erator, and the benediction, to meet on Tuesday, October 25,
1921, at 7:30 p. m., at a place to be selected by the special
committee appointed for that purpose. Tarboro has been
chosen.
J. R. BRIDGES, Moderator.
J. R. HERNDON, Temporary Clerk.
E. C. MURRAY, Permanent Clerk.
E. L. SILER, Recording Clerk.
Attest: D. I. Craig, Stated Clerk.
APPENDIX
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APPENDIX
A
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND
TRUSTEES TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND SYNODS.
REPORT OF UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY IN VIRGINIA.
The Board of Directors and Trustees of Union Theological
Seminary in Virginia respectfulh' submits to the General Assem-
bly and the Synods of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia and
Appalachia, the following report for the session 1919-1920.
I. TRUSTEES.
Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D. Maxton, N. C.
Ex-Gov. J. Hoge Tyler East Radford. Va.
Mr. George W. Watts Durham, N. C.
Rev. R. F. Campbell, D.D Asheville, N. C.
Judge George L. Christian Richmond, Va.
Mr. H. Bradley Davidson Bethesda, Md.
Rev. F. T. McFaden, D.D. Richmond. Va.
Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D. Reidsville, N. C.
Hon. A. M. Scales Greensboro, N. C.
Mr. John S. Munce Richmond, Va.
Mr. James W. Pharr Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. David J. Woods, D.D. Covington, Va.
Rev. F. AI. Woods, D.D. Martinsburg, W. Va.
Hon. George E. Price Charleston, W. Va.
Rev. F. H. Barron, D.D. Elkins, W. Va.
Capt. H. A. Chambers Chattanooga, Tenn.
Col. H. B. Moore Lewisburg, W. Va.
Rev. E. Thompson, D.D. Charleston, W. Va.
Mr. E. W. King e Bristol, Va.-Tenn.
Rev. T. K. Young. D.D. Lexington, Va.
Rev. Russell Cecil, D.D. Richmond, Va.
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Mr. F. S. Royster -'- Norfolk, Va.
Rev. W. McC. White, D.D. Raleigh, N. C
Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D Charlotte, N. C.
Rev. W. S. Wilson, D.D Lincolnton, N. C
Mr. H. C. McQueen Wilmington, N. C.
Mr. A. W. McLean Lumberton, N. C.
Rev. T. S. McCallie, D.D. Chattanooga, Tenn.
II. FACULTY.
Rev. Walter W. Moore, D.D., LL.D., President of the Sem-
inary, Lecturer on the Old Testament. Walter W. Moore Founda-
tion, established by George W. Watts.
Rev. Charles C. Hersman, D.D., LL.D., Professor Emeritus of
Biblical Literature and the Interpretation of the New Testament.
Rev. Thomas Cary Johnson, D.D., LL.D., Robert L. Dabney,
Professor of Systematic Theology.
Rev. Theron H. Rice, D.D., LL. D., Stuart Robinson Professor
of the English Bible and Pastoral Theology.
Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D.D., Professor of Church History,
Pedagagy and Missions.
Rev. Engene C. Caldwell, D.D., Henry Young Professor of
Biblical Literature and the Interpretation of the New Testament.
Rev. Edward Mack, D. D., McCormick Professor of Hebrew
and the Interpretation of the Old Testament.
Prof. George M. Sleeth, Instructor in Public Speaking.
Dr. Caldwell, Clerk of the Faculty.
Dr. Johnson, Librarian.
III. COURSES OF STUDY.
Five distinct courses of study are offered, as follows:
1. The regular course, leading to the degree of Bachelor of
Divinity.
2. A special course in English, leading to diploma without de-
gree.
3. A Post-Graduate Course.
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4. A special midwinter course for pastors and missionaries
wishing to freshen up on theological questions of living interest
and on modern methods of practical work.
5. A course of advanced studies leading to the degree of
Doctor of Divinity. The Seminary confers this degree, not as an
honary title, but in recognition of proved attainments and eminent
scholarship as evidenced by the successful completion of pre-
scribed courses of advanced Post-Graduate study.
IV. SPECIAL LECTURES.
The James Sprunt Lectures by Rev. G. Campbell Morgan, D.D.,
of London on The Ministry of the Word were heard by large au-
diences in our Chapel in November and have since been published
in a volume under the imprimatur of the Seminary. During the
Midwinter Ministers' Course in Januarj', besides a month's instruc-
tion in Public Speaking by Professor George M. Sleeth, of Pitts-
burg, the Seminary enjoyed the benefit of three lectures on
Stewardship by Rev. E. L. Hill, D.D., of Athens, Ga., and four
lectures on Church Music bj- Professor Hubert Poteat, Ph.D., of
Wake Forest College, N. C.
The Society of Missionary Inquiry has had the benefit of spec-
ial addresses by Rev. Henry M. Woods, D.D., and Rev. P. Frank
Price, D.D., of China, Rev. R. E. McAlpine, D.D., and Rev. Paul AL
Kanamori, of Japan, Rev. J. N. Mills, D.D., of Washington, D. C,
Rev. W. A. Ross, of Mexico, Rev. R. D. Bedinger, of Africa, Mr.
Wade C. Smith of New York and the five delegates from the sem-
inary to the International Student Conference at Des Moines. The
student body has been favored also with other addresses of value
by such speakers as President E. Y. Mullins, of the Southern Bap-
tist Seminary at Louisville, Rev. B. C. Patterson, D.D., of China,
Rev. C. A. Logan, D.D., of Japan, Rev. J. Fairman Preston of Korea,
and others.
V. STUDENTS.
1. Number of students enrolled for the scholarstic year, 94, as
follows :
a. Undergraduates — (i) Seniors, 20; (2) Aliddlers, 17; (3)
Juniors, 35; (4) Specials, 5.
b. Graduate students, 17
2. Of the 94 students enrolled, 70 are college graduates, 15 have
taken college courses in part, and 9 have had no college course.
Synod of North Carolina 469
3. Twenty ministers have been pursuing the course leading to
the degree of Doctor of Divinity.
VI. Diplomas Awarded.
Diplomas with the degree of Bachelor of Divinity were award-
ed to the following members of the Senior Class.
Harold Thomas Bridgman, B.S., B.A. Richmond, Va.
Edward Calvin Clyde. A.B Augusta, Ga.
Horace Newton Cunningham, B.A Nacogdoches, Tex.
Leonard Hugh Eikel, A.B Fort White, Fla.
George Rouss Faw, A.B. Staunton, Va.
Walter Ellis Harrop, A.B Lyndon, O.
John Kemp Hobson, A.B Point of Rocks, Md.
Walter King Keys, A.B., A.M. Emmett, Tenn.
Herbert Seth Morgan, A.B. Atlanta, Ga.
William Paul Nickell, A.B. Clover, S. C.
Raymond Howard Ratchford, A.B Gastonia, N. C.
Walter Gray Somerville Mitchells, Va.
Ernest Trice Thompson, A.B., ALA Charleston, W. Va.
Howard McEwin Wilson, B.A. Clover, S. C.
Diplomas without the degree of B.D. were awarded to the fol-
lowing members of the Senior Class who have taken the full
course in English :
Dan Hamilton Graham Abingdon, Va.
John Lytle McBride Glade Valley, N. C
Peter James Murdock, A.B. Richmond, Va.
William Brown Neill Selma, N. C.
Jean Andrew Vache Philadelphia, Pa.
A diploma without the degree was awarded to
James Robert Lowery Berry, B.A Emmett. Tenn.
Certificates of proficiency in the parts of the course taken by
them were awarded to
Antonio Almeida Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil
Frank Henderson Scattergood, C. E., M.E Bristol, Tenn.
A Post-Graduate diploma was awarded to James English Cou-
sar, Jr., A.B., B.D., of Bishopville, S. C, the Moses D. Hoge Fellow
for the past session.
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Diplomas with the degree of Doctor of Divinity were award-
ed to the following ministers who have successfully completed the
prescribed three years' course of advanced post-graduate study:
Rev. John Eldred Flow. A. B., A.M., B.D. Alderson, W. Va.
Rev. Martin Ryerson Turnbull, A.B., B.D., Richmond, Va.
Rev. Louis Trezevant Wilds, Jr., A.B., B.D., Lexington, N. C.
VII. NEW PROFESSORSHIP.
The Board has established the Professorship of Religious
Pedagogy and Sundaj' School Work, for which an endowment has
been provided by a generous friend of the institution, and will at
once proceed to secure a suitable incumbent of the new chair.
VIII. NEW BUILDINGS.
The work on Schauffler Hall, the model Sunday School build-
ing, for which a kind friend has provided the sum of $125,000.00
was begun last summer and, though delayed somewhat by un-
toward conditions in the labor world, has made substantial pro-
gress, and it is hoped that it will be ready for occupancy at the
opening of the session next October.
A new residence is also in course of contruction on the campus,
having two complete and separate apartments, one for the use of a
professor and one for the use of the treasurer.
These buildings are constructed in the same substantial man-
ner and of the same materials as those of the other buildings now
on the campus and when completed will constitute with these a
handsome and harmonious group of eleven buildings exceptionalb"
well adapted to the uses of a working seminary.
IX. GIFTS AND BEQUESTS.
The seminary has received a large number of generous gifts
during the year, contributions for current uses amounting to $8,-
822.89, and gifts and bequests to permanent funds amounting to
$99,997.63. Total, $108,820.52. To all the kind friends who in this
difficult time have given so liberally for the relief and help of the
institution, the Board in the name of the Church, expresses its
most hearty thanks.
Synod of North Carolina 471
X. FINANCES.
1. Total Amount of Endowments :
Scholarship endowments $174,583.31
Lectureship, Fellowship and other
Special Funds 102,923.86
General endowments 608,486.93
$885,994-10
2. Value of Buildings and Grounds (cost) 350,792.18
3. Net Additions to Endowment and
Equipment during year 99,997-63
4. Total annual income from all sources 55,757-21
5. Total Annual Expenditures :
Scholarships $ 11,169.24
Lectures, Fellowship and other Spec-
ial Purposes 4,234.31
Annuitants 1,405.00
All other Purposes 34,996.03
$ 51,804.58
XI. LIBRARY.
Whole numbers of volumes in the Library:
(i) Bound Volumes 30,634
(2) Pamphlets, unbound 8,007
Number added during the year :
(i) Bound Volumes 569
(2) Pamphlets, unbound 500
Respectfully submitted,
WILLIAM R. MILLER, Secretary.
472 Minutes of the
THE REPORT OF THE REGENTS OF THE ORPHANS' HOME
FOR YEAR TO OCTOBER 1, 1920.
We are gratified and thankful to report that the health of the
children and inmates of the Home has been uniformly good during
the year and no serious sickness has prevailed among them.
Though, there has been some difficulty in procuring help, the su-
perintendent. Air. E. McL. Hyde, affirms that we have a strong
efficient corps of teachers in the graded school of which he is
principal. In it he teaches the Bible and Latin, and keeps in close
touch with the school. An additional teacher is needed in the
high school, to maintain its elevated standard. The superinten-
dent testifies the work has been conducted in the various depart-
ments with energy and success. Mr. Hyde is superintendent of
the Home as well as of the school and is doing good work.
According to directions given the Regents at Raleigh more
than two years ago, they last summer took steps to enter upon en-
larged Orphans' Work. They elected Rev. W. T. Walker "Su-
pervisor of Enlarged Orphans' Work" in the Synod, and commit-
ted to him four departments : First an effort to establish an
Orphans' Home for paying inmates ; second, making some pro-
vision for children having no recognized parents; third, aiding
Christian mothers who have lost their husbands and lack means
in rearing their own children, and, fourth, finding suitable orphans
to be adopted by parents having means, but no children.
The Regents retained brother W. T. Walker as treasurer of
the Home, furnished him a house and assured him an adequate
salary.
The plan adopted is designed to make provision for all classes
of orphans in the state, for whom we are responsible. For farm-
ing, trucking and pasturage we now hold some 425 acres of land.
This acreage, and the 13 principal buildings with out-buildings
and furnishings are estimated to be worth from $250,000 to $300,000.
THE FARM AND TRUCK GARDEN.
The farm has yielded well. There have been raised 400 bushels
of wheat, 2,500 of corn, 300 of oats and loi of rye. Sufficient
forage o^ different kinds has been saved to about meet the wants
of the stock.
The gross value of farm products at market prices, $11,857.00.
Less cost of fertilizers, $814.50.
Net value of farm products, $11,042.50.
Synod of North Carolina 473
The truck garden has furnished ample vegetables and fruits for
the Home table, and canning to some extent. 450 bushels of sweet
potatoes have been raised.
At market prices, the products of the truck garden amount to
$2,199.00.
THE DAIRY.
We have between 75 and 100 cattle and average about 45
milch cows, mostly Holstein, entitled to registration. We have
recently secured a competent dairy-man, and are planning a vat
for dipping our cattle to free them from insects. The effects of
care already tell on the herd. We have a brick cattle barn, one
of the best in the state, and two iron framed silos holding 100
tons each. With ample forage and increased care we expect the
dairy to have enlarged success.
MECHANICAL DEPARTMENT.
Mr. Grier at the head the this department is an efficient man,
and is aided by boys under his direction in making repairs and im-
provements on the buildings of the Home.
IMPROVEMENTS MADE.
New steps and window sash where needed have been con-
structed. Assisted by an expert carpenter, the boys have cut on
our own land, hauled to the mill and had sawed logs for lumber to
build a new horse barn. The .siding of it was dressed at a mill by
a friend at the cost of the labor. This barn is now done, and is
deemed by competent judges one of the best in that region. It has
been built economically and substantially, mainly by our own farm-
ing and mechanical force. Our mechanical department is now at
work on a house for our 450 bushels of potatoes and hope soon to
begin putting on the roof, destroyed by fire, of our Industrial
building.
THE PRESS AND PAPER.
By the fire in the Industrial building, the printing office, with
its equipment, was largely destroyed. This made it necessary to
emplov other offices to print the paper, even while it had an
editor' and the type were set at the home. For more than four
months "The Fatherless Ones" has had no editor at all, and only
received such care as Mr. Hyde and Brother Walker, the Treas-
urer, could spare from their exacting duties. The paper is needed
to teach some of our boys printing, to do the printing for the
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Home itself, and to keep weekly the Home, its needs, claims and
progress before our supporting public. Some think we can do
without the paper and that it has never brought a dollar into the
Home Treasury. But Brother Walker, the Treasurer, says to the
contrary, and the writer personally knows that this is not so.
The Home should have an office properly equipped, a com-
petent editor, who could arrange to be out of the office at times,
in our towns and churches, to represent the Home, to secure sub-
scriptions, to obtain advertisements and to collect bills. If this
was done "The Fatherless Ones" would not only pay expenses, t>ut
pay the Barium Springs Home as "Charity and Children" does the
Baptist Orphanage.
IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED.
A new dining room and kitchen building is much needed. As
the ladies are making progress in raising the $75,000 they propose
for this structure, we trust it can soon be begun. As we have 250
applications for admission into the Home and as 230, our present
number, is all we can now take, we need at least two more cot-
tages. The Industrial building, injured by fire, should be repaired
and enlarged as soon as means and labor will permit.
HOME TRAINING.
The industrial, educational and religious training of the chil-
dren are all cared for. They all work half the day in some de-
partment and during the other half attend school. Yet we do not
think they are overworked or excessively engaged in school. The
superintendent recognizes their need of play, and the Regents
have recently appropriated $500 properly to equip their play-
grounds. With a view to their comfort too they have authorized
the superintendent to expend $2,000 in new furnishing for the
rooms where needed. The religious instruction of our oprhans
too is provided for, in their cottages, their dining room, and the
church. They study the Bible, commit portions of it to memory,
have preaching by their pastor every Sabbath and a mid-week
prayer meeting.
Synod of North Carolina 475
THE TREASURER'S REPORT.
SUPPORT FUND.
1918 Dr. Cr.
October i, to balance $ 6,099.13
1920
October i, to amount from Churches, Sabbath
Schools, Societies and Individuals 64,104.01
Disbursements :
1920
September 30, by amount. paid $58,829.46
September 30, by balance on hand 11,373.68
$70,203.14 $70,203.14
PRESS FUND.
1919 Dr. Cr.
October i, by balance $ 482.86
1920
September 3, to amount for subscriptions and
advertisements $ 929.27
Disbursements :
1920
September 30, by amount paid out 1,716.92
September 30, to balance forwarded 1,270.51
$ 2,199.78 $ 2,199.78
EQUIPMENT FUND.
1919 Dr. Cr.
October i, by balance $ 3,537.32
1920
September 30, to amount received $24,103.57
September 30, by amount paid out 1,642.98
September 30, by balance forwarded 18,923.27
$24,103.57 $24,103.57
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BEQUEST FUND
1919 Dr. Cr.
October i, to balance forwarded $53,406.12
1920
September 30, amount received 19,167.00
Disbursements :
September 30, by cash to B. & E. Fund $ 3,473.12
September 30, by balance forwarded 69,100.00
$72,573.12 $72,573.12
INCOME FROM BEQUESTS.
1920
October i, amount to date $ 2,681.60
This amount included in account of receipts given.
The Regents requested that for the support of the Home for
coming year $48,000.00 be apportioned to the Presbyteries as fol-
lows :
Albemarle $ 5,000.00
Concord 8,750.00
Fayetteville 8.000.00
Kings Mountain 3.750.00
Mecklenburg 8,125.00
Orange 10,000.00
Wilmington 4,375.00
$48,000.00
Amounts paid last year bj- Presbyteries to October i, 1920:
Support Fund. B. & E.
Albemarle $ 6,181.07 $ 1,628.45
Concord 959-15 1,423.78
Fayetteville 15,382.37 1,537.68
Kings Mountain 2,510.61 366.00
Mecklenburg 7,607.08 730.11
Orange 11,301.20 296.20
Wilmington 4,591.40 252.47
$51,082.61 $ 6,235.38
The terms of the following Regents expire this j^ear and are
to be filled: Rev. H. G. Hill, Mr. Geo. Watts, Mr. Geo. Howard,
Mr. O. L. Clark.
Synod of North Carolina 477
The Regents request that $60,000.00 be apportioned to the Pres-
byteries for the support of the Home next year:
Albemarle $ 6,000.00
Concord 10,000.00
Fayetteville 12,000.00
Kings Mountain 4,5oo.oo
Mecklenburg 9.750.00
Orange 12,000.00
Wilmington 5,250.00
$60,000.00
In response to communications received, the Regents make the
following Recommendations :
First. The Board of Regents of the Orphans' Home, in answer
to requests coming to them, recommend to the Synod that it sub-
stitute for seven of the present members of the board, seven
women, one from each Presbyterial in the Synod, and that here-
after there shall always be nominated by each of these bodies one
to Synod.
In view of the above overture the Board of Regents also asks
Synod to reorganize the board, electing members without regard
to expiration of terms of office of the present members.
Second. The Board also appointed a committee, consisting of
Mr. Joe Brown, Mr. J. R. Young and Mr. W. H. Belk, to prepare
an overture to Synod to be presented to this meeting for taking
steps to increase twofold our facilities for caring for orphans.
Third. The Regents, in reply to the instructions given them
in Raleigh as to "enlarged work for orphans whose friends can
pay their way and those who have no recognized parents," au-
thorized a committee to draft the following statement:
That referring to enlarged work as outlined by Synod, the
caring for illegitimate children and those that can pay their ex-
penses, we would say that the Home is now taxed to the utmost
in caring for those children named in the charter, and this en-
larged work can only be done when Synod in response to our over-
ture, now presented, provides the adequate necessary means.
H. G. HILL, President.
478 Minutes of the
REPORT OF MONTREAT NORMAL SCHOOL
MONTREAT, N. C.
We would respectfully make report for the school year of
1919-20 and the opening of the present year of 1920-21.
The Montreat Normal School has shown much progress. It
was organized four years ago and the enrollment has increased
from 10 to 60 students. The faculty has grown both in strength
and in numbers. The school is financially sound and has closed
the year with all operating expenses paid in full.
A five thousand dollar heating plant was installed last year.
This much needed improvement will greatly increase the efficiency
and comfort of students and teachers. Special funds were raised
for this purpose and with the exception of an eight hundred dollar
note, which will probably never have to be paid, the school has no
outstanding obligations.
There are now nine teachers in the various departments of the
school. In addition a housekeeper is employed this year and is
proving a great help. Too much can hardly be said as to the un-
selfish service and devotion of these teachers.
The Trustees have appointed a Superintendent this j^ear who
will have general supervision of the school. He is a graduate of
Davidson College and has had seven years' experience in college
administrative work, as well as five j-ears in business.
The students come from ten States and from England, Canada,
Hayti and Cuba. Eleven dift'erent Synods are represented in the
student body. Seven of the present students have already volun-
teered for Christian service. Students who have been in the
school during the last four years are now making excellent rec-
ords in various places. The school has shown that it is instilling
the right ideals and that its students are being thoroughly taught.
The State of North Carolina now gives first-grade certificates to
graduates of the Alontreat Normal School without further exami-
nation. These certificates are accepted without question in other
States.
Because of its location, this school has many natural advant-
ages. It is able to use the Montreat Hotel during the winter, as
well as the other facilities of summer Montreat, such as phones,
electric light and water. The plan is to later use the other hotel
buildings and the new Auditorium. It will be possible to fit them
for school purposes at a much lower cost than to build a new
Synod of North Carolina 479
plant. An enrollment of four hundred girls can easily be reached
when the school is able to provide for them.
On account of the school's many advantages, it is still possible
to keep the charge for room, board and tuition at only $225.00 for
the year. However, over three-fourths of the girls are only
charged $125.00, as they are given scholarships which cover the
$100.00 tuition fee. Other assistance is given when needed, so that
an education is open to any deserving girl.
The school has an almost ideal location. The winter Montreat
community is much above the average. The mountains make a
beautiful setting and the climate is exceptionally healthful. Mon-
treat is well known to every Southern Presbyterian and its many
advantages as a school location are at once seen. It seems ap-
propriate that the place which serves as the center of Southern
Presbyterian influence during the summer should continue to serve
in an educational way during the winter.
We not only ask for your active support but ask for your
prayers in the wise development and upbuilding of this school.
R. F. CAMPBELL,
President Board of Trustees.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF THE MOUNTAIN RETREAT AS-
SOCIATION, BY THE PRESIDENT.
To the Synod of North Carolina in Session at Wilmington, N. C,
October 26, 1920.
We are pleased to report the gracious favor of God has rested
upon Montreat, its management and its operation through the past
year.
To our gracious Lord we give thanks for Montreat and its
rapid development into a great power for good for the entire
Church. Montreat is a wonderful center of refreshment, instruc-
tion. Christian fellowship and counsel among leaders of all de-
partments of our church work. It is a commerce of Christian
thought and a clearing house of Christian ideals. It is a spiritual
university and dynamo, its power is unspeakable and cannot be
over-estimated.
The following conferences extending over a period of two
months were conducted this past summer as follows :
Young People's Conference — June 24th-July 2nd.
First General Conference — July 4th-ioth.
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Woman's School of Missions — July iith-i8th.
Sunday School Conference — July i8th-25th.
Progressive Presbyterian Conference — July 25th-30th.
Conference on Christian Education and Alinisterial Relief —
August ist-4th.
Home Mission Conference — August 4th-8th.
Foreign Mission Conference — August 8th-i5th.
The Bible Conference — August isth-22nd.
All these conferences were under the direction of the executive
agencies of the Assembly and the Program Committee of Mon-
treat, which program committee is composed of Rev. W. L. Lingle,
D.D., Chairman; the President of Montreat; the several Secre-
taries of the Assembly's agencies ; the President of the Woman's
Council and the Secretary of the Assembly's Committee on Stew-
ardship and Systematic Beneficence.
In addition to the above mentioned conferences, two Y. W. C.
A. conferences of ten days each, were held in the Montreat
grounds during the first three weeks of June.
In addition to these also there were meetings of the Laymen,
the Assembly's Committee on Stewardship and Systematic Benefi-
cence, the Woman's Council and other committees of vital im-
portance.
The conferences were of high order and great power, they
were deeply spiritual, most instructive and unusually harmonious.
Some of the speakers of the conferences and Bible courses of lec-
tures which ran through the whole conference period, were as
follows: Rev. John McNeill, D.D., Birmingham; Dr. John Hutton,
of Glasgow, Scotland; Dr. Charles Erdman, Princeton; Rev.
George R. Stuart, D.D., Birmingham; Rev. E. C. Caldwell, D.D.,
Richmond; Rev. J. Gray McAllister, D.D., Louisville; Rev. Edward
Rafferty, DD, of Philadelphia; Rev. P. James Bryant, of Atlanta,
and in addition a large number of the ablest ministers, mission-
aries and lecturers of our Church. Every branch of our Church's
work was represented in these several conferences and the attend-
ance was unusually large. We estimate approximately twelve
thousand attended some or all of these conferences, and if accom-
modations could have been provided at least twenty thousand
would have been present.
We have in Alojitreat about two hundred and twenty-five pri-
vately owned cottages. Twelve of these were built last year. We
have two hotels, several large boarding houses, Geneva Hall, the
South Carolina Home for Ministers, the North Carolina Home and
Synod of North Carolina 481
T. Chapman Home for Ministers ; all of these were full to over-
flowing this last summer and perhaps a hundred and fifty appli-
cations for cottages were declined for the lack of cottages to rent.
The equipment for Montreat is altogether inadequate to meet the
present demands of the increasing number of people who wish
to avail themselves of the benefits of this institution.
Montreat, as a Christian community, together with the confer-
ence work, is proving itself to be most attractive to the Chris-
tian people of our faith and it seems a pity and a shome to be un-
prepared to afford accommodations for those seeking these things
at such times as these.
In addition to the conference work conducted during the sum-
mer season the Montreat Hotel, the school building and the Mon-
treat grounds are now being used in the winter season for school
purposes. This phase of the work promises to be almost, if not
quite, equal to the summer work in its value to the Church. The
Montreat Normal School, under the direction of a Board of Trus-
tees appointed by eight of the Synods, is assuming fine propor-
tions. In its training of Christian teachers and to provide for the
Christian education of choice girls with small or no financial
means. The school has been operating for four years without
financial debt, has a faculty of seven choice teachers and a splen-
did young man as superintendent. Foundations are well laid for
the immediate development of the school to the full capacity of our
buildings which will accommodate four hundred. Montreat is also
a public school district, and in this school children are taken from
primary up to the firast grade of the Montreat Normal. Last year
the Normal School closed on June 3rd, and the conference work
began June 4th. Thus the Montreat plant is now being used 12
months in the year for intensely Christian service.
The General Assembly in 1919 authorized a campaign among
the churches for $200,000, we are happy to report that the first $100,-
000 of the proposed fund has been subscribed. The Assembly of 1920
authorized a campaign for $1,250,000 for a special equipment fund
for its various institutions and Montreat was put on the budget of
this fund for $125,000. The campaign for this $1,250,000
is to be directed under the supervision of the Assembly's Commit-
tee of Stewardship and Systematic Beneficence, and if it proves
successful Montreat should receive $115,000 from this source being
$125,000 less $10,000 which is to be credited to the cause of Mon-
treat if the $1,250,000 campaign proves successful]
The Montreat management is now planning and busily engaged
in using all available funds to be had from the $100,000 subscribed
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in making improvements for another season. The first money to
be spent according to the directions of the Managing Committee
is for the erection of a new auditorium, which is sorely needed.
The building of this auditorium we estimate will consume all the
available funds payable this year on the subscriptions of the first
$100,000. Nearly three-fourths of this first $100,000 subscribed, is
donated by lot holders in Montreat and the business men in Ashe-
ville and Black Mountain, the remainder is donated by individuals,
the churches, Sunday schools, ladies societies, and young people's
societies of our Church. We are profoundly grateful for the
splendid spirit manifested, the willing co-operation and the liberal
gifts on the part of all of those who have made possible the $100,-
000 subscription. This, however, is only a small beginning toward
meeting the rapidly increasing demands and needs of this institu-
tion whose possibilities for good are unspeakable in their mag-
nitude and scopes.
A large majority of the stock of the Mountain Retreat Asso-
ciation is now held by a Board of Trustees representing all of the
Synods and the Assembly of our Church, and is strictly under the
control and ownership of the Church. The minority stock held
by individuals is also virtually and substantially church property
for Montreat in the beginning as organized under the old original
Charter was strictly a religious and educational institutional and
Charter provides in Section Number 21, "That all of the property
owned by said corporation and all the income therefrom shall be
used for education, charitable and religious purposes and beautify-
ing and improving its grounds and property." The Montreat
property has been donated by a large majoritj'' of the stockholders
to our Church and it held under a Declaration of Trust which
provides that it should be held forever for the Church and under
its control. Those who are best acquainted with the inner work-
ings of Montreat, the most liberal donors to its support and the
best legal talent are agreed in their opinion that Montreat is
perfectly safe for Church ownership and control, and that no
private interest can ever be served through it is a monetary enter-
prise. We make this report because we believe it is absolutely
true and we have heard misapprehension touching this point.
We believe the time has arrived when the Church as a whole
should come quickly and strongly to the support of this institution
that it may conduct its work in a manner in some degrees com-
mensurate with the service it is rendering, and the vast possibil-
ities yet to be realized.
The 15th of next August the term of office expires for the fol-
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lowing named trustees of the Mountain Retreat Association rep-
resenting the Synod of North Carolina :
REV. H. G. HILL, D.D.
MR. W. H. BELK.
MR. GEORGE W. WATTS.
DR. W. J. MARTIN.
MR. J. E. PURCELL.
MR. J. B. COOPER.
MR. J. w. Mclaughlin.
They or their successors should be nominated at this meeting
of your Synod.
Respectfully submitted,
R. C. ANDERSON, President.
484 Minutes of the
B
STATISTICAL REPORT OF PRESBYTERIES.
I. Orange Presbytery.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presb3'tery of Orange reports :
1. Forty-five ministers, 88 churches, 0 licentiates, i6 candi-
dates, 10,312 communicants (resident 9,148, non-resident 1,164), and
$344,118.00, aggregate of funds raised during the year ending March
31, 1920, being $70,778.00 more than was raised the year before.
2. Eight hundred and thirty-two members were added to the
churches during the year,
(a) On examination 348.
(b) On certificate 484.
3. Five ministers were received, viz.: Z. V. Roberson from
Mecklenburg, April 21, 1920; R. S. Arrowood from West Hanover,
April 22, 1920; D. H. Scanlon, D.D., from Nashville and J. S. Ken-
nison from Winchester, June 17, 1920; W. P. McCorkle from Meck-
lenburg, September 4, 1920.
4. Four ministers were transferred, viz. : H. C. Carmichael to
Mecklenburg, March 23, 1920; D. Clay Lilly, D.D., to West Lexing-
ton and A. C. Bridgman to Norfolk, June 17, 1920; Jonas Barclay to
Macon, September 4, 1920.
5. One church organized, viz. : "Irving Memorial," October 19,
1919.
6. One church dissolved, viz.: "Durham Second Church,"
April 21, 1920; "Bessemer Avenue" re-organized and re-named:
"North Elm," May 12, 1920.
7. No licientiates received
8. One licientiate transferred, viz.: J. L. McBride to Roanoke
Presbytery, April 21, 1920.
9. Two candidates received, viz. : J. W. Witherspoon and R.
M. Cochran, September 2, 1920.
Synod of North Carolina 435
10. No candidates transferred.
11. No ministers died.
12. No ordinations.
13. Six installations, viz: W. O. Sample at Roxboro, June 3, 1920;
W. B. Goebel at Madison, 1920; R. S. Arrowood at Glenwood, May
16, 1920; Z. V. Roberson at Mt. Airy; D. H. Scanlon, D.D., at Dur-
ham; J. S. Kennison at Spray.
14. Fifteen dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz.: W. O.
Sample, Cross Roads and Stony Creek. November i, 1919; H. C.
Carmichael, Elmira, Piedmont and Shiloh, April i, 1920; W. S.
Wilhelm, Little River, Eno, North Eno, Fairfield and Efland, June
17, I920;'d. Clay Lilly, D.D., Winston-Salem First, June 17, 1920;
Jonas Barclay, Hawfields, Bethlehem, Bethany and Saxapahaw,
September 4, 1920.
I5-. One licientiate, viz. : J. L. McBride, April 21, 1920.
16. Thirty-four ministers in charge of 63 churches, 30 pastors,
3 stated supplies, 5 evangelists, i teacher, no licientiates, i foreign
missionary, 2 inform, i editor and 2 in trans., 65 Sunday schools,
39 young people's societies, 40 woman's societies, men and boys 4.
17. Twenty-five churches vacant, but supplied occasionally.
18. One thousand four hundred and eighty dollars, average
salary paid ministers in charge of churches.
19. Twenty-seven manses, and aggregate value, $138,000.00.
20. A minister or church in every county.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Madison on 12th
day of April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
D. L CRAIG.
Stated Clerk.
At Hawfields Church, on third day of September, 1920.
486 Minutes of the
II. CONCORD PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbyter}' of Concord reports :
1. Forty-two ministers, 62 churches, no licentiates, 22 candi-
dates, 9,333 communicants, (resident 8,110, non-resident 1,223), and
Two hundred and fifteen thousand, five hundred and seventy dol-
lars, ($215,570), aggregate of funds raised during the year ending
March 31, 1920, being $88,291 more than was raised the year before.
2. One thousand, one hundred and seven members were ad-
ded to the churches during the year,
(a) On examination 678.
(b) On certificate 429.
3. Seven ministers were received, viz.: W. M. Hunter, Octo-
ber 29, 1919; J. A. McLean, October 29, 1919; C. C Myers, March
29, 1920; R. W. Miles, March 29, 1920; Jno. L. Ray, April 14, 1920;
D. M. Armentrout, May 10, 1920; J. A. Scott, D.D., September 15,
1920.
4. Six ministers were transferred, viz. : S. H. Hay, March 29,
1920; R. W. Culbertson, April 2, 1920; J. G. Garth, September 15,
1920; Jno. L. Ray, September 15, 1920; R. W. Miles, September 15,
1920; T. T. Hall, September 27, 1920.
5. No churches organized.
6. No churches transferred or dissolved.
7. One licentiate received, viz.: R. W. Miles, March 29, 1920.
8. One licientiate transferred, viz. : T. AI. Stevenson, Septem-
ber 15, 1920.
9. Four candidates received, viz. : E. Clinton Douglas, Septem-
ber 15, 1920; Wm. Henry Matheson, September 15, 1920; Guy Mor-
row, September 15, 1920; Robt. Hall Flemming, September 15, 1920.
10. No candidates transferred.
11. No ministers died.
12. One ordination, viz. : R. W. Miles, March 19, 1920.
13. Four installations, viz.: K. L. Mclver, Bethpage, November
23, 1919; J- A. McLean, Morganton, January 25, 1920; Quaker
Meadows, January 25, 1920; C. C. Myers, McKinnon, April 18, 1920.
Synod of North Carolina 487
14. Eight dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz. : S. H. Hay,
Mooresville First, March 30, 1920; R. W. Culbertson, Poplar Tent,
April 2, 1920, Gilwood, April 2, 1920; J. T. Hall, Third Creek, May
17, 1920; J. A. Smith, Fifth Creek, July 14, 1920; Bethesda, July 14,
1920; J. T. Hall, Elmwood, September 27, 1920, Cleveland, September
27, 1920.
15. No licensures.
16. Twenty-nine ministers in charge of 46 church, 26 pastors,
2 stated supplies, 2 evangelists, 2 teachers, no licentiates, i foreign
missionaries, 4 infirm, 54 Sunday schools, 35 young people's soci-
eties, 56 M^omen's societies.
17. Sixteen churches vacant.
18. One thousand, nine hundred dollars, average salary paid
ministers in charge of churches.
19. 28 manses, and aggregate value, $75,000.
20. No county without a minister and church.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Mooresville, N.
C, on I2th day of April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
E. D. BROWN,
Stated Clerk.
At Concord (I) church, on i6th day of September, 1920.
488 Minutes of the
III. IFAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbj'terjr of Fayetteville reports :
1. Forty-seven ministers, 113 churches, i licientiate, 11 candida-
tes, 12,870 communicants, (resident 11,246, non-resident, 1,624), and
two hundred and eighty-nine thousand, four hundred and fifty-one
dollars, ($289,451), aggregate of funds raised during the year end-
ing March 31, 1920, being $107,096 more than was raised the year
before.
2. One thousand, one hundred and nine members were added
to the churches during the year,
(a) On examination 646.
(b) On certificate 463.
3. Three ministers were received, viz. : C. M. Gibbs, June i,
1920; F. L. Johnston, July 6, 1920; C. K. Tafife, September 23, 1920.
4. Nine ministers were transferred, viz. : J. A. McLean, Octo-
ber 29, 1919; R. S. Arrowood, October 29, 1919; J. K. Roberts,
December 23, 1919; J. L. Ray, February 12, 1920; W. McC. Miller,
March 9, 1920; F. O. Hellier, March 9, 1920; J. A. Caligan, June i,
1920; J. J. Murray, June i, 1920; A. J. Hodgin, September 22, 1920.
5. Five churches organized, viz : Horseshoe, November 23, 1919;
Cumnock, November 25, 1919; Roseneath, November 2, 1919; Pine-
view, November 16, 1919; Pinehurst, June 15, 1920.
6. Churches transferred or dissolved, none.
7. No licentiates received.
8. No licentiates transferred.
9. Two candidates received, viz.: Edwin S. Coates, October 29,
1919; J. I. Knight, April 21, 1920.
ID. One candidate transferred, viz. : W. B. Neill, April 21, 1920.
11. No ministers died.
12. No ordinations.
13. Ten installations, viz. : John McSween, Ashpole, Novem-
ber 2, 1919, Rowland, November 2, 1919; D. L. Jones, Sunnyside,
May 16, 1920, Hope Mills, July 11, 1920; W. L. Wilson, Elise, May
Synod of North Carolina 489
i6, 1920; A. S. Anderson, McMillan, July 18, 1920; C. M. Gibbs,
Duke, July 11, 1920; Flat Branch, July 18, 1920; Sardis, September
5, 1920, Westminster, September 5, 1920.
14. Eleven dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz. : E. E. Wash-
burn, Duke and Sardis, Dec. 2, 1919; J. K. Roberts, Carthage, Union,
Eureka, December 31, 1919; F. O. Hellier, Laurel Hill, and Smyrna,
March 9, 1920; R. F. Kirkpatrick, Flat Branch, March 9, 1920; W.
L. Wilson, Jackson Springs, March, 9, 1920; A. R. McQueen, Bluff
and Godwin, June i, 1920.
15. No licensures.
16. Thirty-four ministers in charge of loi churches, 28 pastors,
6 stated supplies, 2 evangelists, 2 teachers, i licentiate, 2 foreign
missionaries, 5 infirm, 119 Sunday Schools, 60 young people' soci-
eties, 88 woman's societies.
17. Six churches vacant.
18. Two thousand, one hundred and ninty-four dollars, average
salary paid ministers in charge of churches.
19. Twenty-two manses, and aggregate value, $62,800.
20. No county without minister or church.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Carthage, N. C,
on 19th day of April, 1921,
By order of Presbytery.
Attest :
E. L. SILER,
Stated Clerk.
At Buffalo church, on 23rd day of September, 1920.
490 MiMTES OF THE
IV. WILMINGTON PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbytery of Wilmington reports :
1. Twenty-four ministers, 64 churches, 3 licentiates, 10 candi-
dates, 6,266 communicants, (resident 5353, non-resident 913), and
one hundred and sixty-three thousand, four hundred and seventy-
five dollars, ($163,475), aggregate of funds raised during the year
ending March 31, 1920, being $56,501 more than was raised the year
before.
2. Six hundred and seventy-one members were added to the
churches during the year,
(a) On examination 389.
(b) On certificate 282.
3. Three ministers were received, viz.: Rev. A. J. Howell,
April 7, 1920; Rev. J. J. Murray, June 22, 1920; Rev. James Lapsley,
June 2.2, 1920.
4. Two ministers were transferred, viz. : Rev. L. E. Wells,
April 6, 1920; Rev. J. W. Stork, June 22, 1920.
5. Two churches organized, viz.: Tabor, November 2, 1919;
Vineland, March 16, 1920.
6. No churches transferred or dissolved.
7. One licentiate received, viz.: Geo. R.Faw, October 6, 1920.
8. No licentiates transferred.
9. Two candidates received, viz. : B. F. Yandell, October 5,
1920; C. W. Worth, Jr., October, 5, 1920.
10. No candidates transferred.
11. One minister died, viz.: Rev. A. D. McClure, D.D., April 6,
1920.
12. No ordinations.
13. Five installations, viz.: Rev. H. F. Beaty at Harmony,
November 16, 1919, Black River, November 16, 1919, Caswell,
November 28, 1919, Currie, November 28, 1919; Rev. A. J. Howell,
Vineland, April 14, 1920.
Synod of North Carolina 491
14. Three dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz. : Rev. Geo. H.
Elmore at Pearsall Memorial, February 20, 1920; Rev. J. W. Stork
at Chinquapin and Buloville, July i, 1920.
15. Tvi^o licensures, viz. : W. C. Gumming, April 7, 1920; Robert
Edwin McGlure, October 6, 1920.
16. Eighteen ministers in charge of 44 churches; 14 pastors;
4 stated supplies; i evangelist; i teacher; 3 licentiates; 2 foreign
missionaries ; i infirm ; 55 Sunday schools ; 34 young people's soci-
eties ; 39 w^oman's societies.
17. Fourteen churches vacant.
18. One thousand, six hundred and forty-six dollars, average
salary paid ministers in charge of churches.
19. Fourteen manses, and aggregate value, $164,650.
20. No county without minister or church.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Burgaw, on 2nd
Tuesday in April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
W. P. M. GURRIE,
Stated Glerk.
At Pollocksville church, on 6th day of October, 1920.
492 Minutes of the
V. MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbytery of Mecklenburg reports :
1. Fifty-five ministers, 83 churches, 2 licentiates, 30 candidates,
12,266 communicants, (resident 11,017, non-resident 1,249), and two
hundred and fifty-seven thousand, four hundred and fifty-three
dollars ($257,453), aggregate of funds raised during the year end-
ing March 31, 1920, being $82,753 more than was raised the year be-
fore.
2. One thousand, six hundred and thirty-six members were ad-
ded to the churches during the year,
(a) On examination 866.
(b) On certificate 770.
3. Twelve ministers were received, viz.: R. S. Arrowood,
October 30, 1919; Daniel Iverson, February 16, 1920; W. T. Pear-
man, February 16, 1920; G. B. Thompson, February 16, 1920; R. W.
Culbertson, April 14, 1920; H. C. Carmichael, April 14, 1920; L. E.
Wells, April 14, 1920; W. P. McCorkle, May, 4, 1920; J. G. Garth,
September 28, 1920; J. W. Stork, September 28, 1920; W. C. Rourk,
September 28, 1920; R. H. M. Brown, October 18, 1920.
4. Six ministers were transfered, viz.: C. W. McCully,
November 30, 1919; C. C. Meyers, January 5, 1920; Z. V. Roberson,
January 19, 1920; J. W. Orr, April 13, 1920; W. P. McCorkle,
September 2, 1920; K. L. Whittington, September 2, 1920.
5. No churches organized.
6. Churches transferred or dissolved, viz. : New London,
dissolved, September 29, 1920.
7. One licentiate received, viz.: C. W. Davis, May 4, 1920.
8. One licentiate transferred, viz.: C. G. McKaraher, Septem-
ber 2, 1920.
9. Four candidates received, viz. : D. L. Williamson, January
5, 1920; C. N. Medlin, September 28, 1920; G. W. Belk, Jr., Septem-
ber 28, 1920; W. F. Stephens, September 28, 1920.
ID. No candidates transferred.
II. One minister died, viz.: R. S. Arrowood, October 31, 1919.
Synod of North Carolina 493
12. No ordinations.
13. Ten installations, viz. : Daniel Iverson at Tenth Avenue,
Feb. 29, 1920; W. T. Pearman at Seversville, March 7, 1920; G. B.
Thompson at Waxhaw^, April 11, 1920; H. C. Carmichael at Wil-
liams Memorial, May 2, 1920; R. W. Culbertson at Central Steele
Creek, May 9, 1920, Pleasant Hill, May 16, 1920; L. E. Wells at Mal-
lard Creek, May 30, 1920; J. W. Stork at Mt. Gilead, Norwood and
Pee Dee, October 17, 1920.
14. Six dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz. : C. W. McCully,
Central Steele Creek and Pleasant Hill, November 30, 1919; C. C.
Meyers, Wilmore, December 15, 1919; Z. V. Roberson, Rockingham,
January 19, 1920; J. W. Orr, Steele Creek, April 13, 1920; Chas.
Kingsley, Matthews, May, 4, 1920.
15. No licensures.
16. Thirty-four ministers in charge of 79 churches; 29 pastors;
14 stated supplies; 4 evangelists; i teacher; 2 licentiates; 3 foreign
missionaries; i infirm; 69 Sunday schools; 42 young people's soci-
eties; 53 woman's societies; 3 men's societies.
17. Four churches vacant.
18. One thousand, eight hundred dollars, average salary paid
ministers in charge of churches.
19. Thirty-five manses, and aggregate value,$i30,ooo.
.20. No county without minister or church.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Ramah church
on 19th day of April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
JOHN E. WOOL.
Stated Clerk.
At Hopewell church, on 30th day of September, 1920.
494 Minutes of the
VI. ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbytery of Albemarle reports :
1. Thirty-two ministers, 48 churches, 2 licentiates, 5 candi-
dates, 4,740 communicants, (resident 4,170, non-resident 570), and
one hundred and sixty-seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty
dollars, ($167,850), aggregate of funds raised during the year end-
ing March 31, 1920, being $61,518 more than was raised the year be-
fore.
2. Five hundred and eighty-five members were added to the
churches during the year.
(a) On examination 301.
(b) On certificate 284.
3. Seven ministers were received, viz. : C. O. Pardo from
Greenbriar, October 29, 1919; A. M. Earle from Winchester, Decem-
ber 16, 1919; F. H. Scattergood from Holston, April 20, 1920— M.
C. Boiling from Kanawha, April 22, 1920; Willard Couger from
classis of Orange, N. Y. Dutch Reform, June 22, 1920; J. T. Wild-
man from Macon, September 22, 1920; H. H. Leach from Ebenezer,
September 2^), 1920.
4. Two ministers were transferred, viz. : T. P. Allen to
Kanawha, January 20, 1920; Jas. Lapsley to Wilmington, April 21,
1920.
5. No churches organized.
6. No churches transferred or dissolved.
7. One licentiate received, viz.: R. H. Ratchford from King's
Mountain, June 22, 1920.
8. No licentiates transferred.
9. Three candidates received, viz. : W. B. Neill, June 22, 1920,
from Fayetteville ; W. Paul Nickell, September 22. 1920, from
AT)ingdon ; Marion G. Lyerly, September 22, 1920.
10. No candidates transferred.
11. One minister died, viz.: H. F. Morton, February 13, 1920.
12. Three ordinations, viz.: W. B. Neill, June 27, 1920; R. H.
Ratchford, July 25, 1920; W. Paul Nickell, September 22,, 1920.
Synod of North Carolina 495
13. Thirteen installations, viz.: A. M. Earle at Geneva and
Hebron, January 4, 1920; M. C. Bowling at Nut Bush and St. An-
drews, May 16, 1920; A. M. Earle at Grassy Creek and Oak Hill,
May 23, 1920; M. C. Bowling at Brookstone, May 30, 1920; W. B.
Neill at Bethlehem and Morton, June 27, 1920; Willard Couger at
Rocky Mount, July 18, 1920; R. H. Ratchford, at Farmville, Septem-
ber S, 1920; at Fountain, July 25, 1920; H. N. McDiarmid, at Kin-
ston, September 26, 1920.
14. Two dissolutions of pastoral relations, viz.: T. P. Allen,
Rocky Mount, January 20, 1920; G. B. Hanrahan, Atkinson Memo-
rial, July 4, 1920.
15. Two licensures, viz.: W.B. Neill, June 22, 1920; Jas. L.
Fowle, September 23, 1920.
16. Twenty-three ministers in charge of 42 churches ; 18 pastors ;
no stated supplies; 11 evangelists; no teachers; 2 licentiates; i
foreign missionary; i infirm; 48 Sunday schools; 13 young people's
societies ; 35 woman's societies.
17. Five churches vacant.
18. One thousand, nine hundred and four dollars and fifty-
four cents, average salary paid ministers in charge of churches.
19. Twenty-one manses, and aggregate value, $155,500, re-
valuation-— estimated.
20. No minister or church in 12 counties, viz.: Bertie, Camden,
Curritcuk, Dare, Franklin, Gates, Hertford, Northampton, Pamlico,
Perquimans, Tyrrell, Washington.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Greenville, on
19th (?) day of April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
J. N. H. SUMMERELL,
Stated Clerk.
At Geneva church, on 23rd day of September, 1920.
496 Minutes of the
VII. KING'S MOUNTAIN PRESBYTERY.
To the Synod of North Carolina :
The Presbj'tery of King's Mountain reports :
1. Twenty ministers, 40 churches, no licentiates, six candi-
dates, 4,149 communicants, (resident 3,722, non-resident 427), and
fifty-eight thousand, two hundred and twenty-one dollars, ($58,-
221), aggregate of funds raised during the year ending March 31,
1920, being $5,714 more than was raised the year before.
2. Four hundred and sixty-nine members were added to the
churches during the j-ear,
(a) On examination 253.
(b) On certificate 216.
3. Five ministers were received, viz. : Rev. J. J. Harrell,
December 11, 1919; Rev. A. S. Anderson, May 25, 1920; Rev. A. S.
Caldwell, September 15, 1920; Rev. R. C. Long, September 15, 1920;
Rev. K. L. Whittington, September 15, 1920.
4. Two ministers were transferred, viz. : Rev. H. R. Overcash,
April 7, 1920; Rev. J. L. Beattie, April 14, 1920.
5. One church organized, viz. : Mayworth, June 20, 1920.
6. No churches transferred or dissolved.
7. No licentiates received.
8. Two licentiates transferred, viz.: R. H. Ratchford, May 25,
1920; H. M. Wilson, May 25, 1920.
9. No candidates received.
10. No candidates transferred.
11. No ministers died.
12. No ordinations.
13. Two installations, viz.: Rev. J. J. Harrell, Cherryville,
May 16, 1920, Bessemer City and Long Creek, May 2Z, 1920; Rev.
A. S. Anderson, Lowell, June 20, 1920.
14. One dissolution of pastoral relation, viz.: Rev. H. R.
Overcash, New Hope, April 7, 1920.
Synod of North Carolina 497
15. Two licensures, viz.: R. H. Ratchford, May 25, 1920; H.
M. Wilson, May 25, 1920.
16. Sixteen ministers in charge of 2)7 churches ; 14 pastors ; 2
stated supplies; 2 evangelists; 2 teachers; no licentiates; I foreign
missionary; no infirm; 26 Sunday schools; 16 young people's soci-
eties ; 18 woman's societies.
17. Three churches vacant.
18. One thousand, seven hundred and fifty dollars, average
salary paid ministers in charge of churches.
19. Twelve manses, and aggregate value, $62,000.
20. No counties without minister or church.
21. The next stated meeting of Presbytery at Lowell, on I2th
day of April, 1921.
By order of Presbytery.
Attest:
F. A. DRENNAN,
Stated Clerk.
At Saluda church, on 15th day of April 1920.
498 Minutes of the
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STANDING RULES OF SYNOD.
Revised and Adopted October, 1903 and 1905,
and amended in 1919.
I.— GENERAL RULES.
(Pertaining to the Synod as a body.)
1. The stated meetings of the Synod shall be held annually,
and unless otherwise ordered, in the month of October, beginning
on the Fourth Tuesday of said month at 7:30 p. m. (1917-)
2. The Parliamentary Rules of Order, adopted by the General
Assembly, and published in the Book of Church Order, shall be the
Rules of Order for the guidance of Synod.
3. The, officers of the Synod shall be a Moderator, a Stated
Clerk, a Permanent Clerk, a Recording Clerk, a Reading Clerk, a
Treasurer, and a Board of Trustees consisting of five members The
Moderator and the Reading Clerk shall be elected at each Stated
Meeting and the Stated Clerk, the Permanent Clerk, the Recording
Clerk, and the Board of Trustees shall be elected every three years,
counting from 1886.
4. The Synod shall elect annually:
(a) A Superintendent of Synodical Home Missions, and
one Elder from each Presbytery.
(b) A General Evangelist, one or more.
(c) Two members of the Board of Directors of Union The-
ological Seminary, whose term of office shall be five years.
1914-
(d) *Four members of the Board of Regents of the Or-
phans' Home, term of office shall be four years. (1910-1912.)
5. The Synod shall elect triennially, counting from 1886, the
following committees, which shall be known as the "Permanent
Committees" of the Synod:
*The number of Regents changed from 10 to 16, (1910) and
term changed to 4 years (1912) ; reorganized (1920.)
Synod of North Carolina - 499
(a) On Synodical Home Alissions, consisting of the chair-
man of each of the several Presbyterial Committees on
Home Missions, and one Ruling Elder from each Pres-
bytery elected by the Synod. The Superintendent of
Synodical Home Missions shall be "ex-officio" chair-
man, and the General Evangelists shall be "ex-oflficio"
members of this Committee and it shall be charged
with the conduct of the w^ork of "Synodical Home Mis-
stions" under the direction of the Synod and in har-
monious co-operation vv'ith the several Presbyteries.
(b) On Foreign Missions.
(c) On Assembly's Home Missions, including Colored
Evangelization and Evangelistic work. (1910).
(d) On Christian Education and Ministerial Relief, in-
cluding the Causes of Assembly's Schools and Colleges
and the Assembly's Home and School. (iQio)-
(e) On Publication and Sabbath Schools.
(f) On the Sabbath and Family Religion, (iqoq)-
(g) On the Bible Cause,
(h) On Woman's Work.
(i) On Synodical Schools and Colleges. (1911-1916).
(j) On Young People's Work, including Societies, Brother-
hoods, Covenanters, etc. (1911).
(k) On Systematic Beneficence and Stewardship. (1911)-
(1916).
These committees, except the first named, shall consist each of
a chairman appointed by the Synod, together with the Presbyterial
Chairman of the Several Causes, respectively. And it shall be the
duty of the committees to take into consideration everything bear-
ing upon the Causes which they represent calculated to inspire in-
terest to increased knowledge and to promote the growth and
glory of Christ's Kingdom, and to report in writing through their
chairman at each meeting.
(i) A Historical Committee, consisting of three members,
including the Stated Clerk, who shall be "ex-officio"
chairman. It shall be the duty of this Committee to
be a medium of communication and information with
other like Committees or Societies, and to have a
watchful care for the preservation of all records, docu-
ments and papers belonging to the Synod and to col-
lect and preserve all possible material of historical
value pertaining to the Sj'nod, and report from time to
time on all matters of historic value and interest.
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6. The Stated Clerk, the Pastor of the Churcli in which Synod
shall meet, and the Ruling Elder appointed to represent said
Church, shall constitute a Committee on Enrollment. This Com-
mittee shall meet in the church at a time appointed before the
opening of Synod and prepare the roll of Synod, and to this Com-
mittee each member shall be required to report for enrollment.
The roll thus prepared shall be called at the organization of Synod.
Additional enrollment shall be made by blank slips distributed
through the Synod and collected by teller appointed by the Mod-
erator.
7. The first half hour of each Morning Session shall be spent
in devotional exercises conducted by the Moderator or by some
one appointed by him, and the last half hour of each Morning Ses-
sion shall be given to the hearing of a sermon, or of a public ad-
dress on some cause of the Church if practicable. — See Rules 15
and 25.
8. The Synod shall recede from business, after the first order
of the day, in the afternoon of the second day, in order that the
various Committees may meet and prepare their w^ork — (1919).
II— SPECIAL RULES.
(Pertaining to the Duties of Officers and Committees).
9. The Moderator — It shall be the duty of the Moderator, at
an early hour in the proceedings of the regular meeting, to appoint
the following Standing Committees, which shall usually consist of
not less than three members each :
c) On Bills and Overtures.
d) A Judicial Committee.
e) On Address to the Churches, based on the Narratives.
f) On the Minutes of the General Assembly.
g) On the Report of the Directors and Trustees of Union
Theological Seminar^^
h) On the Report of the Regents of the Orphans' Home.
i) On the Report of the Treasurer and his books — Audit-
ing Committee.
j) On the Records of Synod. Rule 16.
k) On the Records of the Presbyteries — Seven Committees.
Rule 17.
1) On Resolution of Thanks.
m) On Leave of Absence.
n) On Nominations.
o) On Arrangements and Orders — Rules 15 and 25.
Synod of North Carolina 501
To these Committees shall be referred without a vote, unless
there is objection, all reports, documents, communications, and
other matters pertaining to the several subjects upon which they
are appointed, and it shall be" their duty to formulate reports upon
the matters referred to them and to present the same to the Synod
for action.
It shall be the duty of the Aloderator, in the interim of the
meetings of Synod when a vacancy occurs, in any offices of the
Synod, by death, resignation, or removal from our bounds, to fill
such vacancies by the appointment, until the next meeting of
Synod. And also, upon the occasion of the death of a minister, it
shall be his duty to appoint a committee of one, to prepare a Me-
morial sketch of the deceased, to be read in the Synod ensuing,
and to be spread upon the Records.
10. The Stated Clerk— It shall be the duty of the Stated Clerk,
when he is elected and enters upon the duties of his ofif'ice, at the
opening of the Synod immediately succeeding that at which he is
elected, to report to the Synod in writing and in full whatever he
has received from his predecessor, in the way of Records, Books,
Papers, Documents, Furniture, etc., and the condition of the same
when received. r;) vo ::■.-• .-i. ■• '
The Stated Clerk sh^fl conduct the correspondence of the
Synod and he shall be the permanent (ex-offcio) chairman of the
Standing Committees on Special Orders and Statistics. He shall
publish a notice of the time and place of the meeting of the Synod
at least once, a month before the appointed day. He shall sign all
necessary certificates for the same, or for other official purposes
of the Synod or its members. He shall prepare a detailed docket
of business for the next meeting, and cause the same to be pub-
lished in the Appendix of the Minutes of the last meeting. He
shall have at each meeting of the Synod accessible to the Mod-
erator, a sufficient number of dockets, a copy of the last printed
Minutes of the General Assembly, and a copy of Alexander's
Digest. He shall duly engross the Minutes of the Synod after
their approval, for the printer, and he shall transmit said Records
annually to the General Assembly for review. He shall cause to
be published annually, in pamphlet form, at least one thousand
copies of the Minutes of each meeting, as soon as practicable after
adjournment, and distribute the same among the members and
Church Sessions. He shall cause to be published in the Appendix
of the Printed Minutes, the report of the Presbyteries on Statistics
and Systematic Beneficence, the report of the Permanent Commit-
•tees, the annual report of the Directors of Union Theological
502 Minutes of the
Seminar}^, a roll of the Ministers of Synod by Presbyteries, and a
list of the Officers, Appointees and Permanent Committees, to-
gether with the Standing Rules. He shall cause to be published
every five years, according to Rule adopted in 1874, but counting
from 1896, the name of the Ruling Elders and Deacons with their
respective postoffices, belonging to the churches composing the
Synod, and the Stated Clerk of the Presbyteries shall be required
to furnish the Stated Clerk of the Synod with the necessary infor-
mation for the execution of this rule. He shall forward a copy of
the printed Minutes, annually to the Librarians of Union Theologi-
cal Seminary, Davidson College, and the Presbyterian Historical
Society, in Philadelphia, and he shall file at least three copies in
the Archives of the Synod. He shall also from time to time have
the printed Minutes bound in suitable volumes and deposited in
the Archives of the Synod. The Stated Clerk shall be charged
with the further duty of reporting to the Moderator any vacancies
to be filled by him, and of any deaths in the Ministry that may
occur, and of reporting to the Synod the expiration of the terms of
appointment of its officers and committees according to the Stand-
ing Rules.
11. The Permanent Clerk — It shall be the dutj' of the Perma-
nent Clerk to take, with the aid of the Recording Clerk, the daily
minutes of the Synod. To read said minutes as required by the
Synod, for Synod's information, correction and approval. To turn
over such minutes to the Stated Clerk of Synod for engrossing or
publication, to serve as the official reporter of the Synod. As such
reporter: (a) To prepare a daily account of the proceedings for
the daily papers; (b) To make account as full, complete and vig-
orous as possible, stressing those matters oT interest to the general
public; (c) To have typewritten copies made of such account, and
send daily to all the larger dailies of the State, and to such other
papers as may seem wise. — 1914.
12. The Treasurer — It shall be the duty of the Treasurer to
keep a strict and accurate account of all the funds received and
disbursed, showing what Presbyteries have paid or have not paid
their assessments, and for what purpose the funds have been dis-
bursed. He shall submit to the Synod annually, his books, together
with a report of the receipts and expenditures, presenting vouchers
for the same.
13. The Trustees — It shall be the duty of the Board of Trus-
tees, as the Synod's medium or agency, in all matters requiring the
use or aid of the civil law, to receive, take charge of, and manage
to the best advantage, and account to Synod for, according to law,
Synod of North Carolina 503
all property and estate belonging, or which may accrue and enure
to this Synod; and they shall hold in trust, subject to the order of
Synod, the said property, and all legacies and bequests which may
be willed to the Synod in behalf of charitable and other objects
under its control, and they shall make a full report, in the prem-
ises, whenever occasion or circumstances shall require.
14. The Permanent Committees— It shall be the duty of any or
all of the chairmen of the Permanent Committeees, including the
President of the Board of Regents of the Orphans' Home, if deem-
ed advisable, to arrange for, and to hold popular meetings in the
interest of the respective causes they represent. These popular
meetings, if held, shall be in connection with, and at the time of
presentation of the Report of the Committee, and they shall in no
wise interfere with the Standing Orders of the Synod. And it
shall be the rule, as far as practicable, to hear in this connection
and at this time the Secretaries of the General Assembly, and
other representative brethren, in the interest of the corresponding
cause which they may represent. And it shall be the duty of the
chairman of the several committees, in arranging for the aforesaid
meetings, to correspond with the representative brethren, who are
expected to be present prior to the meeting of Synod, as to the
time when they are expected to be heard agreeably to the Standing
Rules.
15. It shall be the duty of the Moderator immediately follow-
ing the selection of the next place of meeting to appoint a Com-
mittee on Orders and Arrangements whose period of responsibility
shall extend from the close of the Synod to the close of the next
and whose business shall be to arrange for the Devotional Exer-
cises and the entire program of business for the next meeting of
Synod conformably to the Standing Rules of Synod. The commit-
tee will consist of five members, one of which shall always be the
pastor of the church where the Synod is to meet and another the
retiring Moderator. — 1911.
16. It shall be the duty of the Standing Committee on the Rec-
ords of Synod to examine the Official Records, and report with
special reference to the condition of the same and as to the neat-
ness and faithfulness in the execution of the work, and whether or
not the records have been sent up and approved by the General
Assembly.
17. It shall be the duty of the Standing Committee on the
Records of the Presbyteries to confer with the Stated Clerks of the
Presbyteries whose records they are appointed to examine before
submitting their reports to the Synod in order that the Clerks may
504 Minutes of the
have opportunity to make explanation in regard to the records
before the matter is brought before the Synod. And after the
records are examined, the chairmen of the several committees
shall meet in committee of the whole and compare, classify and
adjust to a common Standard of Judgment their criticisms and
exceptions. They shall then elect one of their number who shall
act as chairman of the committee of the whole, and who shall sub-
mit the judgment or criticism of all the committee on all the rec-
ords in his one report to Synod.
i8. It shall be the duty of the Standing Committee on Leave
of Absence to receive and pass upon, before presenting their re-
ports to Synod for approval, all excuses for absence from the last
and present meeting of Synod, for tardiness, for absence without
leave from the last meeting, and for leave of absence from the
present meeting. All excuses shall be rendered to this committee
and this rule shall apply to all the members of the Synod, except
Foreign Missionaries, and infirm ministers who are not required
to attend the meeting of their Presbyteries. It shall be the duty
of this committee to refuse leave of absence to any members, ex-
cept upon urgent reasons.
19. It shall be the duty of the Ad-Interim Committee on Me-
morials, to write simply and briefly a sketch, and not an extended
history of the deceased. It is designed for obvious reasons, that
shall in no wise interfere with the Standing Orders of the Sjmod,
the sketch shall embrace only the chief dates and main facts in
reference to the life, work and death of the deceased.
Ill— MISCELLANEOUS RULES.
20. It shall be the duty of each member, unless released by a
vote of the Synod, when providentially prevented from attending
the Synod, to address a letter to the Aloderator stating reasons for
his detention.
21. It shall be the duty of the Stated Clerk of the several
Presbyteries to furnish the Stated Clerk of the Synod, when ap-
plied to, with all necessary information required, with a corrected
roll of ministers and their post offices annually, and also a roll
of the Elders, Deacons, and churches, with their postof¥ices once
every five years. The Stated Clerks are enjoined to be careful,
accurate and punctual in filling out all blanks sent them, and re-
turning them to the Stated Clerk before the meeting of Synod.
22. It shall be the duty of all members of Synod and especially
the chairmen of committees, in preparing written reports to be
Synod of North Carolina 505
presented to this body, to write the same in a plain and legible
handwriting, and it is desirable that the chairmen of the Per-
manent Committees furnish the Stated Clerk with an extra copy,
if possible, of their annual reports, respectively.
23. The roll shall be called at each meeting before final ad-
journment and those who are absent without permission shall be
noted by the Clerk as "absent without leave," and they shall be
required to report to the Committee on Leave of Absence at the
next meeting and answer for the irregularit3^
24. It shall be a Standing Rule, until otherwise ordered, that
the Treasurer of Synod pay the expense of the representative of
Union Theological Seminary in attending the annual meeting of
Synod.— 1906.
25. It shall be a Standing Rule that the Devotional Exercises
at the opening of each day's session of the Synod be put into the
hands of the Committee on Orders and Arrangements. — 1906-1919.
IV. STANDING ORDERS.
The following Standing Orders shall be observed by the Synod:
( I ) The Synod shall meet on the fourth Tuesday in Octo-
ber at 7 -.30 p. m., unless otherwise ordered.
(2) The Sj^nodical Communion shall be held at 11 o'clock
a. m., of the second day without a sermon.
(3) The Alemorials of the deceased Ministers shall be read
immediately after the Synodical Communion Service.
(4) The Popular Meeting in the interest of Foreign Mis-
sions shall be held on the evening of the third day. —
1919.
(5) The Popular Meeting in the interest of the Synodical
Orphans' Home shall be held at 11 o'clock on the
morning of the third day.
(6) The Popular Meeting in the interest of Assembly's
Home Alissions shall be held in the afternoon of the
third day at 3 :oo o'clock.
(7) The Popular Aleeting in the interest of the Sabbath
and Family Religion shall be held in the afternoon of
the third day at 4:00 o'clock. — 1908.
506 Minutes of the
(8) Synodical Home Missions evening of second day,
Popular Meeting. — 1915.
(9) Preaching each day at the last morning hour.
(10) Synod recedes from business afternoon of the second
day after the first order of the day. — 1900-1919.
(11) Sunday School work third day at 3:30 o'clock p. m.
(12) Work Among Students in State Institutions third day
at 10:30 o'clock a. m.
(13) Popular Meeting in the interest of Sj^stematic Bene-
ficence and Stewardship, afternoon of second day
after first order.
The above Standing Orders have been adopted from time to
time and changed from time to time to suit existing conditions,
but alwa3's in conformity with the Standing Rules.
The Sj^nod of 1919, authorized the Committee on Arrangements
and Orders to make further changes, if necessary, and a regular
program, in accordance with the adopted Rules and Orders, has
been suggested and is here presented as a part of the Docket — (See
Docket).
STATED CLERK.
Synod of North Carolina 507
D
GENERAL DIRECTORY
MODERATORS OF THE SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA
Moderators. Place of Meeting.
1813 *Rev. Robert H. Chapman, D.D Alamance Church
1814 *Rev. Samuel C. Caldwell Thyatira
1815 *Rev. Wm. McPheeters, D.D Fayetteville
1816 *Rev. John Robinson, D.D Raleigh
1817 No meeting — no quorum present Rocky River
1818 *Rev. Joseph Caldwell, D.D Fayetteville
1819 *Rev. Jonathan Ottis Freeman, D.D Raleigh
1820 *Rev. Wm. Paisley Poplar Tent
1821 *Rev. John M. Wilson, D.D Salisbury
1822 *Rev. John Robinson, D.D Hillsborough
1823 *Rev. John Witherspoon, D.D Fayetteville
1824 *Rev. Colin Mclver Statesville
1825 *Rev. John B. Davis Greensborough
1826 *Rev. Wm. McPheeters, D.D Fayetteville
1827 *Rev. R. H. Morrison, D.D Salisbury
(The Stated Clerk has no record of the two meetings or years
of 1827 and 1828).
1828 *Rev. Lemuel D. Hatch Raleigh
1829 *Rev. John Williamson Fayetteville
1830 *Rev. Samuel L. Graham, D.D Hopewell
1831 *Rev. Hiram P. Goodrich Hillsborough
1832 *Rev. Samuel Williamson, D.D Salisbury
1833 *Rev. Henry A. Rowland Wilmington
1834 *Rev. James W. Douglas Oxford
1835 *Rev. Henry Pharr Salisbury
1836 *Rev. Joseph Brown Fayetteville
1837 *Rev. H. N. Harding, D.D Shiloh
1838 *Rev. Stephen Frontis Third Creek Church
1839 *Rev. Daniel A. Penick Lincolnton
1840 *Rev. Alexander Wilson, D.D Danville, Va.
1841 *Rev. William N. Peacock Fayetteville
1842 *Rev. Walter S. Pharr Poplar Tent
♦Deceased.
508 Minutes of the
Moderators. Place of Meeting.
843 *Rev. James Phillips, D.D Raleigh
844 *Rev. Simeon Colton, D.D Fayetteville
845 *Rev. Samuel Williamson, D.D Charlotte
846 *Rev. Drury Lacy, D.D.^ Greensborough
847 *Rev. Evander McNair, D.D Fayetteville
848 *Rev. Cyrus Johnson, D.D Salisbury
849 *Rev. John A. Gretter Hillsborough
850 *Rev. Adam Gilchrist Centre
851 *Rev. Archibald Baker Rocky River
852 *Rev. Wm. N. Mebane Danville, Va.
853 *Rev. Hector McLean Wilmington
854 *Rev. A. L. Watts Concord
855 *Rev. Eli W. Caruthers, D.D Greensborough
856 *Rev. Neill McKay, D.D Fayetteville
857 *Rev. Walter Pharr Charlotte
858 *Rev. Jacob Doll New Berne
859 *Rev. A. K. Nash Wilmington
860 *Rev. R. H. Lafferty Statesville
861 *Rev. Edwin Hines . Raleigh
862 *Rev. John S. Sherwood . Goldsborough
863 *Rev. R. N. Davis Goldsborough
865 *Rev. Colin Shaw Fayetteville
866 *Rev. R. Hewitt Chapman, D.D Charlotte
867 *Rev. Archibald Currie New Berne
868 *Rev. D. D. McBride Wilmington
869 *Rev. Jessie Rankin , Morganton
870 *Rev. R. A. Stanford. Raleigh
871 *Rev. J. P. AlcPherson _^ Fayetteville
872 *Rev. Arnold W. Aliller, D.D Charlotte
873 *Rev. James M. Sprunt Wilmington
874 *Rev. J. Rumple, D.D Concord
875 *Rev. P. H. Dalton Greensborough
876 *Rev. Alartin McQueen Fayetteville
877 *Rev. John Douglas -—^.^- Charlotte
878 *Rev. Joseph R. Wilson, D.D.__ Goldsborough
879 *Rev. E. F. Rockwell, D.D Statesville
880 *Rev. J. Henry Smith, D.D Raleigh
881 Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D._ Salisbury
882 *Rev. L. McKinnon, D.D Asheville
883 *Rev. F. H. Johnston, D.D Wilmington
884 *Rev. P. T. Penick Winston
^Deceased.
Synod of North Carolina 509
Moderators. Place of Meeting.
1885 *Rev. J. C. Alexander Reidsville
1886 *Rev. J. W. Primrose, D.D Concord
1887 *Rev. R. Z. Johnston Fayetteville
1888 *Gov. A. AI. Scales Greensborough
1889 *Rev. J. M. Wharey, D.D Charlotte
180 Rex. Alexander Sprunt, D.D Wilmington
1891 Rev. W. E. McIIwaine, D.D Durham
1892 *Rev. J. M. Rose, D.D Statesville
1893 Rev. P. H. Hoge, D.D Tarboro
1894 *Rev. W. B. Arrowood Greensboro
1895 Rev. Eugene Daniel, D.D Fayetteville
1896 *Rev. A. D. McClure, D.D New Berne
1897 *Rev. J. B. Shearer, D.D Salisbury
1898 Rev. R. F. Campbell, D.D Gastonia
1899 Rev. William Black Asheville
1900 *Rev. W. D. Alorton, D.D Raleigh
1901 *Rev. Robert E. Caldwell, D.D Charlotte
1902 Rev. C. G. Vardell, D.D Winston
1903 *Rev. A. T. Graham, D.D Wilmington
1904 Rev. J. M. Grier, D.D Durham
1905 Mr. George W. Watts Red Springs
1906 Rev. W. R. Coppedge Statesville
1907 Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D Hendersonville
1908 Rev. A. R. Shaw, D.D New Berne
1909 Rev. J. AI. Wells, D.D Red Springs
1910 Hon. A. M. Scales Rocky Mount
1911 Rev. W. R. Minter, D.D Charlotte
1912 Rev. W. McC. White, D.D Goldsboro
1913 Rev. M. McG. Shields Greensboro
1914 Rev. R. P. Smith Hickory
1915 Rev. Walter L. Lingle, D.D Gastonia
1916 Rev. J. N. H. Summerell, D.D Salisbury
1917 *Rev. D. H. Rolston, D.D Fayetteville
1918 Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D Raleigh
1919 Hon. J. W. McLaughlin Raleigh
1920 Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D Wilmington
*Deceased.
510 Minutes of the
ROLL OF MINISTERS OF THE NORTH CAROLINA SYNOD,
1919
1. ORANGE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
D. I. Craig, D.D Reidsville
C. W. Robinson North Wilkesboro
R. W. George Francisco
C. E. Hoclgin Greensboro
S. M. Rankin Greensboro
J. S. Alorrow (colored) North Wilkesboro
H. S. Bradshaw Hillsboro
E. H. Harding, D.D Davidson College
Donald Mclver Burlington
R. M. Williams Greensboro
P. H. Gwyn Spray
W. O. Sample Alebane
W. S. Wilhelm Rougemont
Numa R. Claytor Milton
Geo. W. Lee Winston-Salem
John McEachern Kusan, Asia
W. D. Moss Chapel Hill
G. W. Oldham Yanceyville
L. S. Chaffer 326 Park Ave., East Orange, N. J.
C. P. Coble High Point
C. W. Irwin Glade Valley
E. Frank Lee Greensboro
W. P. Robertson Madison
T. W. Simpson Winston-Salem
T. M. McConnell, D.D Greensboro
O. G. Jones, D.D Greensboro
J. W. Clegg Guilford College
Chas. F. Myers, D.D Greensboro
H. A. French Statesville
L. T. Wilds, Jr., D.D Lexington
C. D. Whiteley Durham
A. W. Shaw Mebane
G. L. Whiteley Whitsett
J. H. Smith Thomasville
C. B. Goebel Madison
E. N. Caldwell Graham
Jno. R. Herndon Winston-Salem
Synod of North Carolina 511
Ministers. Post Office.
E. W. Thompson Brim
W. S. Milne Greensboro, R. F. D.
Z. V. Roberson Mt. Airy
R. S. Arrowood Greensboro
D. H. Scanlon, D.D Durham
J. S. Kennison Spray
W. P. McCorkle Burlington
W. T. Thompson, D.D Richmond, Va.
II. CONCORD PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
J. C. Kennedy Kannapolis
C. M. Richards, D.D. Davidson
Byron Clark, D.D ■ Salisbury
E. D. Brown China Grove, R. F. D. No. 2
J M. Grier, D.D Concord
E. P. Bradley Mocksville
T. W. Lingle, Ph.D Davidson
C. E. Raynal, D.D Statesville
W. T. Walker " Barium Springs
L. L. Moore Taylor sville
J. C. Story Marion
C. B. Heller Salisbury
W. L. Lingle, D.D Richmond, Va.
W. C. C. Foster Barium Springs
J. W. Moss Morgan ton
J. L. Bowers Woodleaf
Ovid Pullen Harmony
W. E. West Afooresville
J. H. Brady Susaki, Japan
H. M. Parker, D.D Statesville
T. H. Spence Harrisburg
R. B. Taggart Morgan ton
J. M. Clark, D.D Statesville
S. L. Cathey Lor ay
J. E. Robinson Yadkin villa
Neill Mclnnis Kannapolis
J. Andrew Smith Statesville
John Pons Valdese
512 Minutes of the
Ministers. Post Office.
J. S. Wood Spencer
S. A. Ewart Newton
Robt. O. Lucke Concord
A. A. McLean Lenoir
W. A. Nicholson Woodleaf
W. C. Wauchope Concord
E. M. Craig, D.D Hickory
T. F. Haney Mooresville
Jno. A. MacLean Morgan ton
W. M. Hunter Davidson
K. L. Mclver Kannapolis
C. C. Myers Concord
D. M. Armentrout Lenoir
J. A. Scott, D.D Harmony
R. W. Boyd Mooresville
III. FAYETTEVILLE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
H. G. Hill, D.D Maxton, R. F. D. No. 2
M. D. McNeill Cameron
L. L. Little Kiangyin, China—
W. C. Buchanan Nagoya, Japan
C. C. Vardell, D.D Red Springs
G. T. Pace 1 Red Springs
L. Smith Fayetteville
E. W. Souders Niagara
J. D. A. Brown Aberdeen
W. C. Brown Raeford
H. M. Dixon Red Springs
A. R. McQueen Dunn
C. V. Cavitt Sanford, R. F. D.
V. R. Gaston Aberdeen
I. N. Clegg Rowland
J. K. Hall Parkton
J. J. Hill, D.D Red Springs
W. L. Wilson Hemp
J. F. Gorrell Greensboro
A. T. Lassiter Benson
R. A. McLeod . Manchester
Synod of North Carolina 513
Ministers. Post Office.
C. L. Wicker Gulf
L. A. McLaurin Jonesboro
W. S. Golden Sanford
C. E. Clarke Kenly
Eugene Alexander Raeford
G. E. Moorehouse Lumberton
W. E. Hill, D.D Fayetteville
J. W. Goodman Red Springs. R. F. D.
E. L. Siler Maxton
A. S. Anderson Godwin
John A. McMurray Fayetteville
C. R. Bailey Laurel Hill
D. L. Jones Hope Mills
G. F. Kirkpatrick Lillington
D. M. McGeachy Clayton, R. F. D.
C. B. Craig Laurinburg
Dugald Munroe Red Springs
J. McI. Wicker Sanford
R. M. Phillips Pittsboro
A. W. Crawford 1— Greensboro
E. C. Murray, D.D St. Pauls
John McSween, Jr Rowland
J. F. Menius Buie's Creek
C. M. Gibbs . Linden
F. L. Johnston Laurinburg
C. K. TafFe . Carthage
IV. WILMINQTON PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
J. E. L. Winecoff Clarkton
J. M. Wells, D.D .^Wilmington
J. S. Crowley Wilmington
W. P. M. Currie ^.Wallace
L. T. Newland Kwan Ju, Korea
P. L. Clark Burgaw
W. W. Morton Burgaw
J. M. Gibbs Burgaw
W. M. Baker Mt. Olive
Geo. M. Matthis Clinton
A. S. Maxwell Lavras, Brazil
514 Minutes of the
Ministers. Post Office.
J. W. Purcell, D.D Faison
W. H. Goodman Clarkton
W. F. Hollings worth Kenan sville
J. R. Pliipps Pollocks ville
J. W. Young South port
H. L. Sneed Chadbourn
D. T. Caldwell Wilmington
J. O. Mann Wilmington
G. H. Ellmore Wilmington
H. F. Beatty Atkinson
A. J. Howell W'ilmington
J. J. Murray Wilmington
James Lapsle}^ Scotland Neck
J. E. Purcell Wilmington
P. W. DeBose Wilmington
V. MECKLENBURG PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
J. W. Moore Susaki, Japan
William Black Charlotte
J. R. Bridges, D.D Charlotte
C. G. Huntington Charlotte
Geo. H. Atkinson Salisbury
M. E. Sentelle Davidson
A. R. Shaw, D.D Charlotte
G. P. Stevens .. Snchien, ChMia
R. T. Coit Kwan Ju, Kor-a
A. A. McGeachy, D.D Charlotte
J. W. Grier Hunter sville
W. R. McCalla Charlotte
J. E. Wool Charlotte
W. E. Furr Charlotte
H. M. Pressly Charlotte
R. J. Mcllwain Alonroe
J. L. Caldwell, D.D Charlotte
Charles Kingsley Matthews
Leonard Gill - Charlotte
H. E. Gurney Monroe
W. C. McLauchlin Wadesboro
Synod of North Carolina 515
Ministers. Post Office.
G. W. Cheek Albemarle
C. G. Lynch Charlott;
L. W. Brown Charlotte
C. H. Little Charlotte
J. C. Hardin Charlotte
Geo. W. Belk Charlotte
B. B. Shankel Indian Trail
D. B. McLauchlin Matthews
E. S. Watson Waxhaw
W. R. Coppedge Rockingham
A. T. Young Hamlet
R. L. Patrick Rockingham
R. S. Latimer Pageland, S. C.
G. F. Bell Charlotte
R. S. Burwell Charlotte
G. F. Robertson Pineville
A. S. Johnson, D.D Charlotte
J. J. Douglas Wadesboro
C. H. Rowan Paw Creek
Bunyan AIcLeod Charlotte
T. G. Tate Badin
A. H. Temple Locust
C. E. White Marshville
C. C. Anderson Charlotte
Daniel Iverson Charlotte
W. T. Pearman Charlotte
G. B. Thompson Waxhaw
R. W. Culbertson Charlotte
H. C. Carmichael Charlotte
L. E. Wells Derita
J. G. Garth Charlotte
J. W. Stork Alt. Gilead
W. C. Rourk Oakboro
R. H. M. Brown Charlotte
VL ALBEMARLE PRESBYTERY.
Ministers. Post Office.
J. H. Jarvis Washington
H. B. Searight Washington
W. Mc-C. Whtie, D.D Raleigh
516 Minutes of the
J. N. H. Summerell, D.D New Bern
S. K. Phillips Greenville
R. A. White Henderson
J. M. Millard Littleton
G. B. Hanrahan Kinston
Peter Mclntyre Goldsboro
R. E. Henderlite Swan Quarter, R. F. D. No. i
Lewis Collins Henderson
H. N. McDiarmid Rocky Mount
R. A. Lapsley, Jr Tarboro
Stanley White Roanoke Rapids
A. J. Crane Tarboro
N. N. Fleming Pinetops
E. S. Currie Raleigh
Stuart R. Oglesby Oxford
W. T. Wadley Edenton
E. L. Flannagan Wilson
C. Connor Brown Greensboro
S. B. Lyerly Willow Springs
C. O. Pardo Snow Hill
A. M. Earle Stovall
F. H. Scattergood Greenville
M. C. Bowling Towns villa
Willard Couger Rocky Mount
W. B. Neill Rocky Mount
R. H. Ratchford Farmville
J. T. Wildman
W. P. Nickell Tarboro
H. H. Leach Swan Quarter
VII. KINGS MOUNTAIN.
Ministers. Post Office.
G. A. Sparrow Lowell, R. F. D.
T. E. P. Woods Rutherfordton
F. B. Rankin Rutherfordton
H. C. Whitener Yamaguchi, Japan
J. H. Henderlite, D.D Gastonia
W. S. Wilson, D.D Lincolnton
W. J. Roach Gastonia
J. T. Dendy Belmont
F. A. Drennan Mt. Holiy
Synod of North Carolina 517
Ministers. Po»* Office.
G. R. Gillespie Gastonia
W. A. Murray Shelby
J. C. Grier Rutherfordton
W. S. Hamiter Dallas
Joseph Barlett Rutherfordton
F J Hay_ Kings Mountain
K. L. Whittington Forest City
R. C. Long Gastonia
A. S. Anderson Lowell
A. S. Caldwell Columbus
J. J. Harrell Bessemer City
518 Minutes of the
UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS FROM THE
SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.
First Class — To Serve Five Years.
To go out in 1925.
Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D. Hon. A. W. McLean
Second Class — To Serve Four Years.
To go out in 1924.
Rev. W. S. Wilson, D.D. Mr. Geo. W. Watts
Third Class — to Serve Three Years.
To go out in 1923.
Rev. W. McC. White, D.D. Air. H. C. McQueen
Fourth Class — To Serve Two Years.
To go out in 1922.
Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D. Mr. James Pharr
Fifth Class — To Serve One Year.
To go out in 1921.
Rev. J. R. Bridges, D.D. Hon. A. M. Scales
REGENTS OF ORPHANS' HOME.
First Class — To Serve Four Years.
To go out in 1924.
Rev. R. A. Lapsley, Jr. Mrs. W. B. Ramsay
Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D. Mrs. J. T. French
Second Class — to Serve Three Years.
To go out in 1923.
Mr. W. H. Sprunt Mrs. W. R. Gray
Mr. Z. V. Turlington Miss Pattie B. Watkins
Synod of North Carolina 519
Third Class — To Serve Two Years.
To go out in 1922.
Mr. A. R. McEachern Mrs. R. S. Abernethy
Mr. E. Fairley Murray Mrs. Geo. Howard
Fourth Class — Tto Serve One Year.
To go out in 1921.
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D. Mrs. J. H. Suttenfield
Rev. R. M. Williams Mrs. Donald Mclver
TRUSTEES OF SYNOD TO SERVE THREE YEARS.
To go out in 1922.
Dr. J. R. Irwin, Chairman Charlotte
Mr. John R. Pharr Charlotte
Mr. F. A. Sherrill Statesville
Mr. P. S. Gilchrist Charlotte
Mr. R. A. Dunn Charlotte
Mr. J. B. Ross Charlotte
Mr. T. N. Hall Mooresville
TRUSTEES OF THE MOUNTAIN RETREAT ASSOCIATION.
To go out in 1922.
Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D Maxton, N. C
Mr. Geo. W. Watts Durham, N. C.
Mr. W. H. Belk Charlotte, N. C
Mr. J. D. Cooper Davidson, N. C.
Rev. J. E. Purcell Wilmington, N. C.
Dr. W. J. Martin Davidson, N. C.
Hon. J. W. McLauchlin Raeford, N. C.
520 Minutes of the
TRUSTEES OF THE MONTREAT NORMAL SCHOOL.
To go out in 1922.
Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D. Mr. W. H. Belk
Rev. Daniel Iverson
TRUSTEES OF THE NORTH CAROLINA RELIGIOUS
WORKERS' HOME AT MONTREAT.
Class One — To Serve Three Years.
To go out in 1923.
Rev. W. McC. White, D.D. Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D.
Mr. O. L. Clark Mr. J. W. McLauchlin
Class Three — To Serve One Year.
To go out in 1921.
Rev. Donald Mclver Rev. W. A. Murray
Rev. Wm. Black Mr. C. W. Bradshaw
Mr. J. A. Brady.
Class Two — To Serve Two Years.
To go out in 1922.
Mr. A. T. McCallum Mr. W. H. Belk
Rev. J. E. Purcell Mr. Chas. Norfleet
Mr. C. E. Neisler
STATED CLERKS OF THE SYNOD OF NORTH CAROLINA.
1813 *Rev. Robert H. Chapman.
1818 *Rev. Colin Mclver.
1849 *Rev. Drury Lacy.
1855 *Rev. Archibald Baker.
1859 *Rev. Jacob Doll.
1878 *Rev. William S. Lacy.
1886 *Rev. J. A. Ramsay.
1900 Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D., Reidsville, N. C.
♦Deceased.
Synod of North Carolina 521
STATED CLERKS OF PRESBYTERIES.
Orange — Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D Reidsville
Concord — Rev. E. D. Brown China Grove, R. F. D.
Fayetteville — Rev. E. L. Siler Maxton
Wilmington — Rev. W. P. M. Currie Wallace
Mecklenburg — Rev. John E. Wool Charlotte
Albemarle — Rev. J. N. H. Summerell, D.D New Bern
Kings Alountain — Rev. F. A. Drennan Mt. Holly
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF EDUCATION OF THE SYNOD
OF NORTH CAROLINA.
Second Class — To Serve Two Years.
To go out in 1922.
Mr. W. H. Belk Dr. D. H. Hill
Third Class — To Serve One Year.
To go out in 1921.
Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D. Mr. Geo. W. Watts
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D.
First Class — To Serve Three Years.
To go out in 1923.
Mr. J. W. McLauchlin Rev. J. E. Purcell
ON ASSEMBLY'S COMMITTEE OF STEWARDSHIP AND
SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
Principal
Rev. E. C. Murray, D.D Alternate
Mr. Geo. W. Watts Principal
Dr. W. J. Martin Alternate
TREASURER OF SYNOD.
Rev. D. I. Craig, D.D Reidsville, N. C.
522 Minutes of the
TREASURERS OF PRESBYTERIES.
Orange — Rev. C. E. Hodgin Greensboro
Concord — Mr. John B. Gill Statesville
Fayetteville— Rev. J. J. Hill, D.D Red Springs
Wilmington — Rev. W. P. AI. Currie Wallace
Mecklenburg — Mr. John R. Pharr Charlotte
Albemarle — Rev. A. J. Crane Tarboro
Kings Mountain — Rev. F. A. Drennan Mt. Holly
Synod of North Carolina 523
THE PERMANENT COMMITTEES OF SYNOD.
I.— HOME MISSIONS.
Rev. A. W. Crawford, Superintendent and Chairman.
Rev. Wm. Black, Rev. O. G. Jones, D.D., Rev. C. Connor Brown,
Rev. Leonard Gill, General Evangelists.
Orange — Rev. S. M. Rankin, Mr. E. P. Wharton.
Concord— Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D., Mr. Z. V. Turlington.
Fayetteville— Rev. H. G. Hill, D.D., Mr. A. R. McEachern.
Wilmington— Rev. J. M. Wells, D.D., Col. Walker Taylor.
Mecklenburg— Rev. H. M. Pressly, Mr. W. H. Belk.
Albemarle — Rev. R. A. Lapsley, Mr. J. R. Young.
King's Mountain Rev. W. S. Wilson, D.D., Mr. J. H. Kennedy.
NOTE — Presbyterial Evangelists are "ex-ofificio" members of
this Committee. (See Minutes 1907.)
II.— FOREIGN MISSIONS.
Rev. J. M. Grier, D.D., Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. D. Clay Lilly, D.D., Chairman.
Concord — Rev. J. M. Grier, D.D., Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. J. K. Hall, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. J. O. Mann, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. H. E. Gurney, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. J. B. Massey, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. W. A. Murray, Chairman.
III.— ASSEMBLY'S HOME MISSIONS.
Rev. A. A. McGeachy, D.D., Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. C. P. Coble, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D., Chairman.
Fayetteville— Rev. W. E. Hill, DD., Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. J. M. Wells, D.D., Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. Bunyan McLeod, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. P. Mclntyre, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. W. S. Wilson, D.D., Chairman.
524 Minutes of the
IV.— CHRISTIAN EDUCATION AND MINISTERIAL RELIEF.
Rev. C. M. Richards, D.D., Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. C. E. Hodgin, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. W. E. West, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. A. R. McQueen, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. W. F. Hollingsv^orth, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. M. E. Sentelle, D.D., Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. W. McC. White, D.D., Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. J. H. Henderlite, Chairman.
v.— SABBATH AND FAMILY RELIGION.
Rev. J. J. Hill, D.D., Sj^nodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. Geo. W. Lee, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. J. E. Robinson, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. G. E. Moorehouse, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. H. F. Beaty, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. Bunyan McLeod, Chairman.
Albemarle —
King's Mountain — Rev. W. S. Hamiter, Chairman.
VI.— PUBLICATION AND SABBATH SCHOOLS.
Rev. W. E. Hill, D.D., Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. J. C. Herndon, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. H. M. Parker, D.D., Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. W. S. Golden, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. W. H. Goodman, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. J. W. Grier, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. J. M. Alillard, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. F. B. Rankin, Chairman.
VII.— BIBLE CAUSES.
Rev. Carl B. Craig, Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. W. O. Sample, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. C. B. Heller, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. A. T. Lassiter, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. H. L. Sneed, Chairman.
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Mecklenburg — Rev. J. C. Hardin, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. S. K. Phillips, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. G. R. Gillespie, Chairman.
VIII.— SYNODICAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES.
Rev. W. M. Hunter, Synodical Chairman, and Mr. F. L. Jackson,
Treasurer.
Orange — Rev. Donald Mclver, Chairman.
Concord — Dr. W. J. Martin, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. A. R. McQueen, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. W. M. Baker, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. A. S. Johnson, D.D., Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. H. B. Searight, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. T. E. P. Woods, Chairman.
IX.— SYSTEMATIC BENEFICENCE.
Rev. T. W. Simpson, Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. T. W. Simpson, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. A. A. McLean, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. W. E. Hill, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. D. T. Caldw^ell, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. G. F. Bell, Chairman.
Albemarle —
King's Mountain — Rev. W. J. Roach, Chairman.
X.— WOMAN'S WORK.
Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D., Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. E. Frank Lee, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. S. A. Ewart, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. V. R. Gaston, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. P. L. Clark, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. H. E. Gurney, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. H. N. McDairmid, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. G. A. Sparrow^, Chairman.
526 Minutes of the
XL— YOUNG PEOPLE'S WORK.
Rev. J. G. Garth, Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. L. T. Wilds, Jr., Chairman.
Concord — Rev. S. A. Ewart, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. V. R. Gaston, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. J. W. Purcell, D.D., Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. C. G. Lynch, Chairman.
Albemarle — Rev. H. N. McDairmid, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. F. B. Rankin, Chairman.
XIL— THE ORPHANS' HOME.
Rev. E. M. Craig, D.D. Synodical Chairman.
Orange — Rev. R. Murphy Williams, Chairman.
Concord — Rev. W. A. Nickolson, Chairman.
Fayetteville — Rev. A. S. Anderson, Chairman.
Wilmington — Rev. P. L. Clark, Chairman.
Mecklenburg — Rev. W. R. AlcCalla. Chairman.
Albemarle — Mr. J. R. Young, Chairman.
King's Mountain — Rev. J. T. Dendy, Chairman.
XHL— ON RELIGIOUS WORK AMONG STUDENTS OF STATE
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Rev. R. Murphy Williams, Synodical Chairman, Greensboro.
Rev. W. McC. White, D.D I__Raleigh, N. C.
Mr. Z. V. Turlington Mooresville, N. C.
Rev. J. H. Henderlite Gastonia, N. C.
Mr. C. G. Rose Fayetteville, N. C.
Mr. Morgan B. Spier Charlotte, N. C.
Dr. J. G. Murphy Wilmington, N. C.
Mr. Geo. S. Norfleet Winston-Salem, N. C.
Mr. Geo. W. Watts Durham, N. C.
Mr. J. Harvey White Graham, N. C
Mr. A. M. Scales Greensboro, N. C.
Dr. F. P. Venable Chapel Hill, N. C
NOTE — See Minutes of 1919, Page
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XIV— OFFICERS OF THE WOMAN'S SYNODICAL AUXILIARY
(1920-1921.)
President, Mrs. E. F. Reid Lenoir
Secretary, Mrs. S. A. Robinson Gastonia
Treasurer, Miss Margaret L. Gibson Wilmington
Secretary of Foreign Alissions, Mrs. W. L. Wilson Hemp
Sec. of Assembly's Home Missions, Mrs. W. E. White Graham
Secretary of C. Ed. and M. R., Mrs. Geo. Howard Tarboro
Secretary of Y. P. and S. S. Ex., Miss Mamie McElwee__Statesville
Secretary of S. H. M., Miss Margaret Rankin Charlotte
Secretary of Literature, Mrs. S. M. Rankin Greensboro
Sec. Bible Study and Prayer Bands, Mrs. O. G. Jones___Greensboro
Secretary of Orphanage Work, Mrs. F. P. Hall Belmont
Editor Woman's page in Presbyterian Standard, Mrs. J. M. Mc-
Iver Q^lf_ j^_ ^
XV.— HISTORICAL COMMITTEE.
Rev. D. L Craig, D.D., Chairman.
Dr. T. W. Lingle Prof. W. A. Withers
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Minutes of the
DOCKET.
Of the One Hundred and Eighth Annual Sessions of the Synod of
North Carolina, to be held on Tuesday, October 25, 1921, at
7:30 o'clock p. m.
I. Organization.
1. A sermon by retiring Moderator.
2. Synod constituted with prayer.
3. Report of Com. on Enrollment and Roll Call.
4. Moderator and Reading Clerk elected.
5. Hear report of Committee on Orders.
6. Recess or adjournment is now in order, if Synod
so wills.
7. Reading the Minutes of Last Meeting if called
for and Ad-Interim Minutes.
II. Appoint the Following Standing Committees:
1. On Bills and Overtures.
2. A Judicial Committee.
3. On an Address to the Churches — Narritives.
4. On the Minutes of the General Assembly.
5. On Report of Directors and Trustees of Union
Theological Seminary.
6. On Report of Regents of Orphans' Home.
7. On Statistical Reports of Presbyteries.
8. Auditing Committee on Treasurer's Books, etc.
9. On Records of Synod. (Rule 16.)
10. On Resolutions of Thanks.
11. Records of Presbyteries — seven: Orange, Con-
cord, Fayetteville, Wilmington, Mecklenburg,
Albemarle, King's Mountain. Rule 17.
12. On Leave of Absence. (See Rule No. 18.)
13. A Nominating Committee.
14. On Orders and Arrangements for Next Meet-
ing. Rule 15.
Absent: The following ministers were absent from the last
meeting (1920) without excuse rendered, viz.: (See list in the
Minutes.)
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III. Communications Read and Referred.
1. Narratives presented and referred.
2. Report of Directors of Union Theological Sem-
inary read and referred.
3. Statistical Reports presented and referred.
4. Report of Treasurer read and referred.
5. The Records of Synod presented and referred.
6. Records of Presbyteries presented and referred.
7. Special Orders of the day — referred.
8. Appointment of Directors Union Theological
Seminary and Reg. of Orphans' Home referred.
Note: — The term of office of the Fifth Class of Directors of
Union Theological Seminary and of the Fourth Class of the Re-
gents of the Orphans' Home expires at this meeting.
IV. — Standing Orders, Popular Meetings and Reports of Per-
manent Committees: A general Program or Docket suggested by
the Stated Clerk and Committee on Arrangements and Orders for
the Synod of 1921 is as follows :
TUESDAY
7:30 P. M. Sermon and Organization of Synod.
WEDNESDAY
Devotional Exercises.
Morning Call.
9 :oo A. M
9 :30 A. M
1 1 :oo A. M
Communion, without a Sermon, followed by Memo-
rials.
2:30 P. M. Systematic Beneficence and Stewardship — Rev. F. W.
Simpson, Chairman.
4:00 P. M. Recede from business for Committee work.
8:00 P. M. Synodical Home Missions — Rev. A. W. Crawford,
Chairman.
9:00 P. M. Schools and Colleges — Rev. W. M. Hunter, Chairman.
THURSDAY
9 :oo A. M. Devotional Exercises.
9:30 A. M. Morning Call.
10:00 A. M. Christian Education and Ministerial Relief — Rev. C.
M. Richards, D.D., Chairman.
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Minutes of the
10:30 A. M. Work in State Institutions — Rev. R. M. Williams,
Chairman.
11:00 A. M. The Orphans' Home — Rev. E. M. Craig, D.D., Chair-
man.
12:30 P. M.
3:00 P. M. Assembly's Home Alissions — Rev. A. A. McGeachy,
D.D., Chairman.
3 :30 P. M. Sunday Schools and Publication — Rev. W. E. Hill,
D.D., Chairman.
4:00 P. M. The Sabbath and Family Religion — Rev. J. J. Hill,
Chairman.
4:30 P. M. Young People's Work — Rev. J. G. Garth, Chairman.
5:00 P. AI. The Bible Cause — Rev. Carl B. Craig, Chairman.
8:00 P. AL Foreign Missions — Rev. J. AI. Grier, D.D., Chairman.
9:30 P. AI. Woman's Work— Rev. J. H. Henderlite, D.D., Chair-
man.
FRIDAY
9:00 A. AI. Devotional Exercises.
9 :30 A. AI. Standing Committees and Aliscellaneous Reports.
1. On Bills and Overtures.
2. Ad-Interim Committees.
3. Judicial Committee.
4. Historical Committee.
5. Address to the Churches — Narratives.
6. On Alinutes of Assembly.
7. On Report of Union Theological Seminary.
8. On Report of Regents of Orphans' Home.
9. On Statistical Reports of Presbyteries.
10. On Records of Presbj'teries.
11. On Records of Synod.
12. Special Committees.
13. On Treasurer's Books — Auditing Committee.
14. Nominating Committee.
15. Election or re-election of all the Chairmen of
the Permanent Committees for Three Years,
and also of the Clerks of Synod.
16. Election of Superintendents of Home Alissions.
17. Election of Ruling Elders on Home Alissions
Committee.
18. Election of General Evangelists.
19. Elect place of next meeting of Synod.
20. On Resolutions of Thanks.
21. On Leave of Absence.
22. Roll Call and Absentees noted.
23. Minutes Read and Approved.
24. Adjourn with Singing, Prayer and Benediction.
STATED CLERK.
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