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OFFICERS  OF  THE  SYNOD. 

Moderator,  I^EV.   JAMES  S.  STEWiART,  D.  D.,  Latakia,  Syria. 
Clerk,    RJ^V.    JOHN    S.    THOMPSON,    2.514   Seivienth    Avenue.    Beaver 

Falls,  Pa. 
Stated  Clerk,  MR.  .JA'MES  S.  TIB.RY,  411   Penn  B'ld'g.,  Pittsburg,Pa. 

BOAEDS  OF  THE  CHURCH. 

Trustees  of  Synod.  Tenri  Expires, 

.John  M.  Allei),  William  Blair,  Oliver  Wylie 1911 

Rev.  Daniel  C.  Martin,  D.  D.,  Geo.  A.  McKee,  Wm.  .1.  Ward.  .1912 
.Tames  A.  MoAteer,  Ja.mes  H.  McBurney,  James  S.  Tibby 191-3 

Stated  Meetings,  ^'^  Ro&m  ill  Penn  Bnilding,  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  on  the 
Third  Tuesday  of  l^^ebruary.  May,  August  and  Novemtber. 

Fre&idei?t    George  A.  McKee,  955  Penn  Avenue,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Secretary-Treasurer.  James  S.  Tibby,  411  Pei\n  B'ld'g.,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Foreign  Mission  Board.  Term  Expires. 

Rev.  T.  P.  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  DL.  U.,  Rev.  R.  M.  Sommerville, 

D.   D.,   Walter  T  Miller,   Henry  O'Neill    1911 

Rev.  F.  M.  Foster.  Ph.  D.,   Rev.  J.  €.   McFeeters,  D.  D.,  Rev. 

I.  A.  Blackwood,  A  M.,  B.  D.,  Rev.   W.   M.  George,  Rev. 

J.   €.    Slater    1912 

Rev.  R.  C.  Montgomery,  D,  D.,  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  M.  D.,  Wm. 

G.  Carson,  J.  M.  Steele 1913 

Stated  Meetings,  Alternately  in  'New  York  and  Philadelpihia,  on  the 

Last  Tuesday  of  January,  March,  May,   June,  Sept.  and  Nov. 
President    Henry  O'N'^ill,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Vice  President.  Rev.  J.  C.  McFeeters,  D.  D.,  2043  Mt.  Vernon  iStreet. 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Gorresponding  Secretary,  Rev.  r.  m.  Somn^erviile,  d.  d.,  32  b  W.  56th 

Street,  New  York,   N.  Y. 

Central  Beard  of  Missions.  Term  Expires. 

Rev.  W.  J.  Coleman,  D.  D.,   Rev.  R.  C.  Wylie,  D.  D.,  Samuel 

McNaugher,  A.  C.   Coulter    ■ 1911 

Rev.  11.  H.  George,  D.  D.,  Rev.  iR.  J.  George,  D.  D.,  Rev.  D.  C. 

Mart'n,  D.  D.,  James  S.  Tibby    1912 

Rev.   T.   H.   A(  heson,   D.   D.,   Rev.   R.   J.   G.  'McKnight,   Ph.   D., 

Rev.  ,1.  3.  Thompson,  Rev.  John  Yates,  Rev.  J.  €.  Slater  1913 
Stated   Meetings.    ^''    Room    411    Penn    Building,    Pittsburg,    Pa.,    on 

t'lie  Third  Wednesday  of  each  month. 
President.  R^v.  J.  S.  Thomp.son,  2514  Seventh  Ave.,  Beaver  Falls.Pa. 
Corresponding  Secretary.   Rev.   W.  J.  Coleman,   D.  D..   1205   Boyle 
Stieet,    Allegheny,    Pa. 


IBJL 


MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD 

OF  THE 

Reformed 
Presbyterian    Ghurch 

of  North  America 


I 


Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  Eighth  Street,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

SESSION  LXXXII 


.78 

596 

J     .tsburg,  Pa. ,  May  30  to  June  7,  1911 


PRICE,  THIRTY-FIVE  CENTS,  POSTPAID 

ADDRESS:  MR.  J.  S.  TIBBY.  411   PENN   BUILDING,   PITTSBURG.   PENNA. 


Foreign  Missionaries  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church 

in   1911 

Rev.  Jas.  S.  Stewart,  D.  D 

Rev.  Andrew  J.  McFarland 

Rev.  Samuel  Edgar 

J.  M.  Balph,  M.  D 

Miss  Alattie  R.  Wylie,  on  furlough iLatakia,  Syna 

Miss  Maggie  B.    Edgar 

Miss  F.  May  Elsey .•:'... 

Miss  A.  Louise  Crockett — 

Rev.  Robert  E.    Willson 

John  Peoples,   M.   D 

MissEvadna  M.   Sterrett- \Mersina,  Asia  Minor 

Miss  Elma  French 

Rev.  Walter  McCarroll '. 

Rev.  J.  D.  Edgar  \Larnaca,  Cyprus 

Mr.  Charles  A.  Stewart 

Rev.  A.  I.  Robb,  D.   D 

Rev.  J.  K.   Robb 

Rev.  Julius  Kempf  

Rev.  William  M.  Robb,  on  furlough 

?^L  \,^J^^F^ l^^^'  Huts:  Chau,  West  River, 

J.  M.  Wright,  M.  D  )  -^  ..    ,,  A  . 

T\/r-      iz  .    ^T   D              T\/r    o  '  South  China 

Miss  Kate  McBurney,  M.  U  • 

Miss  Ida  M.  Scott,  M.  D 

Miss  Jennie  Dean 

Miss  Rose    Houston  

Miss  Annie  J.    Robinson 

Rev.  Ernest  C.  Mitchell ]     r>     o-       nr    ^o-         e     ^z  ^7  ■ 

_._-.     -r        T,,r  1-.            „T    T^  r  Do  Sino-,]l  est  River,  So7Uh  Cnina 

jViiSs  Jean  McBurney,  M.   D j 

Home  Missionaries  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church 

in    1911 

Indian  Mission 

Rev.  W.  W.  Carithers,  Superintendent,  Apache,  Oklahoma 
Southern  Mission 

Rev.  W.  J.  Sanderson,  Superintendent,  Selma,  Alabama 
Jcivish  Mission 

Mr.   William  G.    Carson,   Superintendent,   800  Fifth  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 


CONTENTS 


Boards,  Reports  of — 

Church    Erection    144 

Geneva  College,   Corporators    80 

Geneva  College,  Trustees    81 

Missions,   Central  Board  .  .  . 63 

Missions,  Foreign  Board    52 

Missions,    Jewish    Board     66 

National   Reform,   Covenanter  Members  of  Exec.   Com.    .  .  46 

Sustentation 144 

Trustees,  Synod's  Board    87 

Theological   Seminary,    Superintendents    78 

Committees,  Appointment  of — 

Regular 16 

Standing    ...^ 41 

Committees,  Reports  of  Regular — 

Discipline 42,  147 

Finance     84 

Foreign   Correspondence    147 

Missions,     Foreign     50 

Missions,  Home 62 

National  Reform 44 

Nominations    137 

Place  of  Meeting    138 

Record  of  Presbyteries    73 

Supplies 48 

Sustentation  and  Church  Erection 143 

Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  College    77 

Traveling  Fund    138 

Committees,  Reports  of  Standing 

Devotional  Exercises    8 

Evangelistic  Work 19 

Order    of    Business     7 

Psalmody     125 

Sabbath     Schools     69 

Secret   Societies    127 

Signs  of  the  Times    132 

State  of  Religion    27 

Systematic  Beneficence 141 

Temperance 130 

Unfinished    Business     74 

Witness   Bearing 139 

Young  People's  Societies 123 

Committees,  Reports  of  Special — 

On   Death    of   R.   J.    George,    D.    D 147 

On   Bible  Reading  Folders    12 

On   Catechism   and   Manual   of  Doctrine    37 

On  Classification   of  Congregations  and   Ministers    35 

On   Music  for  New  Psalter 36 

On  New  Meters  for  Book  of  Psalms 14 

On   Printing  New  Psalter    37 

On   Synod's  Right  to  Review  Findings  of  Commissions  ...  121 

On  Use  of  Individual  Communion  Cup 137 


Commissions,  Reports  of — 

J.    F.    Crozier,    Complaint    against    Pitts.    Pres 10 

T.  G.  Graham,  Appeal  from  Finding  of  Kansas  Pres     .  .  .  134 

A.  G    Walkinshaw,  Complaint  against  Col.  Pres 135 

Syrian   Commission,   Minutes    of    59 

Presbyteries,    Reports    of     22 

Treasiu-ers,  Reports  of — 

Cliurch  Erection  Board 112 

Financial  Agent  for  National  Reform    115 

Foreign  Mission  Board    10'4 

Jewish  Mission  Board    113 

Literary  Fund    113 

Ref.   Pres.  Woman's  Association    116 

Synod's  Board  of  Trustees    88 

Resolutions — 

On  Alcohol  and  Narcotics 68 

On   American   Bible   Society    125 

On   Inter-Church  Temperance  Federation    125 

On  Non-Biblical  Lessons  in  the  Sabbath  School    72 

On   Overture  on  Divorce    43 

On  Papal  Church 127 

On   Silver  Service  for  Battleship  Utah    76 

On  Temperance  Program  for  Sabbath  Sclvools 131 

On  Tithe   Giving    120 

Miscellaneous  Matters — 

Absentees   from    Synod    6 

Adjournment  of  Synod    149 

Annual   Collections,   Amounts   and   Dates    86 

Communication  from  Prot.  Episc.  Gen.  Conference 148 

Congregations    not    Represented     6 

Constitution  of  the  Court 3 

Corrections   to   Minutes   of   1910    9 

Dissent  and  Declinature  of  J.  F.  Crozier    84 

Election    of    Officers     7 

Home   Mission   Secretary  Appointed    118 

Marriage  of  Christian  with  Unbeliever    36,    75 

M'  ssion  Conference,  Time  and  Place  of  Next  Meeting   ....  138 

Moderator's  Alternate    38 

Report  of  Bureau  of  Information 39 

Report  of  Clerk  on  Printing  of  Minutes  of  1910    9 

Report  of  Delegate  to  Inter-Church  Temp    Federation  ...  11 

Report   of  Domestic   Mission    Conference    118 

Report  of  Rec.  Sec.  of  Ref.  Pres.  Woman's  Association  ...  117 

Report  of  Stated  Clerk  of  Synod .  121 

Report  of  Treas.  on  Sale  of  1910  Minutes    10 

Roll   of  Synod    4 

Statistical  Tables 150 

Special  Balance  Sheet,  Showing  State  of  Treasuries 116 


REV.  SAMUEL  G.  SHAW,  Ph.  D„  WEST  HEBRON,  N.  Y. 

Moderator  of  Synod  1911,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 


'      SEP  18  1911 


MINUTES 

y   OF  THE 

Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Church  of  North  America 


LXXXII. 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,  May  30,  191 1,  8  P.  M. 

The  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  of  North 
America  met  pursuant  to  adjournment  in  the  Eighth  Street  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Church,  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  and  after  devotional 
exercises  its  sessions  were  opened  with  a  sermon  by  the  Modera- 
tor's alternate,  M.  M.  Pearce,  from  i  Samuel  10:26,  "A  P)and  of' 
Men  Whose  Hearts  God  Had  Touched." 

In  the  absence  of  the  Moderator,  James  S.  Stewart,  the 
former  Moderator  T.  H.  Acheson,  constituted  the  court  with 
prayer.  After  announcements  Synod  adjourned  to  meet  touior- 
row  mornine."  at  nine  o'clock.     Praver  by  D.  B.  Wilson. 


MORNING  SESSION. 
Same   place,   Wednesday,   9   a.   m..   Synod   convened   at  the 
appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  praver  by  the  former 
Moderator,  T.   H.  Acheson.  The  roll  was  completed,  and   is  as 
follows : 


MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


ROLIi. 

COLORADO. 

Denver    J.    C.    French Robert   Allen    

Greeley    T.    L.    Faris 

La   Junta    E.  A.   Crooks . 

Los  Angeles P.  J.   McDonald 

IRegina     -  J.   S.   Bell 

Santa   Ana    G.   N.   Greer    

Seattle     T.   M.   Slater    James    G.    Love    .  .  . 

W.   C,  Allen    

ILLINOIS. 

Bethel    Robert  J.   Miller.  .  , 

Bloomington     G.    R.    Steele James  Moore    

Church    Hill     W.   S.  Fulton    

Oakdale     xM.    A.    Gault J.    H.    Sloane 

Old  Bethel    D.    C.    Matthews.  ...  CM.    Finley 

Selma    S.    F.    Kingston T.    J.    Kynette 

St.    Louis    James  Torrens    .  .  . 

xD.    S.   Faris    

IOWA. 

Chicago     *T.    C.    McKnight.  .  .  .    David    McFarland    . 

Hopkinton     D.    H.    C.    Johnston. 

Lake  Reno    *F.    E.    Allen    J.    K.    E  sey    

Morning   Sun    C.   D.  Trumbull    ....    W.    J.    Marshall.  .  . 

Rehoboth    G.    A.    Edgar    S.    O.    Carson 

Sharon     E.  L.  McKnight R.    J.    Allen    

Vernon    xH.    G.    Patterson.  .  .  . 

Washington    S.    E.    Greer    S.    P.   Wylie    

J.    A.    Black 

xRobert    Clarke 

J.    S.    McGaw 

W.    M.    Robb 


KANSAS. 

Beulah     T.    T.    Mitchell 

Billings     H.    G.    Fos:er 

Cache  Creek  

Clarinda H.  G.    MoConaughy. 

Denison    D.   H.    Elliott 

Eskridge W.  A.  Aikin 

Hebron    J.  R.  W.  Stevenson . 

Kansas  City J 

Long  Branch    

Olathe   

Quinter     J 

Ster  ing    .xJ 

Superior    J-   M.  Johnston 

Tabor    O.    F.   Thompson 

Topeka    A.    A.    Samson    . 

Winchester     F.  M.  Wilson    .  . 

Isaiah    Faris     .  . 
G.  R.  McBurney 
W.  T.   K.  Thompson 
J.    Ralston    Wylie.  . 


Wm.   J.   Crawford. 


Yerow    Fish 
Wylie    Scholes 
J.    H.    Braum 


Milligan  Wylie. 

G.    McElhinney 
Boggs  Dodds.  .  . 


A.  Copeland  ... 
xW.  J.  Adams  • 
John  Armstrong 
W.  S.  Mitchell.  . 


xNathaniei  Patton 
J.  A.  McKee.  .  .  . 
J.  Z.  Sterrett. .  .  . 
J.  W.  Carson.  .  .  . 
W.  W.  Mitchell    . 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


NEW    BRUNSWICK    AND    NOVA    SCOTIA. 

Barnesville James   McCune    

Cornwallis Thomas  McFall 

NEW   YORK. 

Barnett D.    C.    Faris James   Shields    .... 

Boston,  First    S.  McNaugher John  C.  Calderwood, 

Boston,    Second    ....    J.    M.    Foster 

Brooklyn    James  Carmichael    . 

Cambridge    xR.  C.  Reed 

Coldenham    Thomas  Patton 

Montclair    J.  W.  Pritchard.  ... 

Newiburg,   Firs.    .  .  .  .  xJ.  W.  F.  Carlisle.  .  .  . 
New  York,   Second    .      R.    M.   Sommerville.  . 

New    York,    Third.  .  .    F.    M.   Foster W.  J.   Beatty    

Walton    *A.  A.  Johnston T.  R.  Sanderson .... 

West    Hebron    S.  G.  Shaw 

White   Lake    J.  H.   Pritchard 

OHIO. 

Belle  Center S.    R.    Wallace    James  Templeton  .  . 

Bellefontaine    J.    M.    Faris    

Cedar  Lake J.    R.    W.    Duguid .  .  , 

Cincinnati J.    H.    Finley 

IDetroit    CM.  Smith  S.  S.  .  .  .    T.    C.    Cannon 

Fairgrove    xW.  J.  McBurney  .... 

Jonathan's  Creek   .  .  .  xR.  W.  Piper 

New  Concord  .  .  .  .  .  .  .    John  Co  eman Jesse  W.  Wilson  .  .  .  , 

Southfield Wm.  Hannah 

United  Miami R.  Hargrave 

Utica J.   G.  Reed    D.    O.   Torrens 

R.    A.    Blair 

xD.^  O.  Jack    

W.  J.  Sanderson  .... 

PITTSBURG. 

Adamsville   and 

Middletown R.  J.   McCracken    .  .  , 

Allegheny    W.  J.  Coleman Wm.  Martin 

Central  Allegheny  .  .  .  John  Yates J.  A.  Blaok,  M.  D. .  .  , 

Bear  Run  and 

Mahoning    E.   M.   Elsey    James  Graham   .  .  .  .  , 

Beaver  Fals,  First.  .  J.  S.  Thompson    ....    D.  P.  White 

Brookland P.  P.  Boyd J.    A.   McElroy    

Clarksburg    xJ.  S.  Oliver 

College  Hill R.  H.  Martin R.  A.   Bole    

Geneva    J.   C.    Slater    W.    T.    Anderson.  .  . 

East   End    M.  M.  Pearce Wm.    Blair    

Little  Beaver    H.   A.   Young 

Mercer J.  J.   M.  Thompson.  . 

M'iler's  Run S.  G.  Conner J.  H.  McBurney 

New  Alexandria   ....  Wm.  McFarland.  ... 

New  Castle S.  J.  Johnston O.   C.   Orr    

North    Union    P.  P.  Boyd    D.  N.  Crowe 

Oil  Creek    S.  J.  Crowe 

Parnassus *Robert  Park J.  M.  Clark 

Pine  Creek A.  Kilpatrick Robert  Kyle 


MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


PITTSBURG — Continued. 

Pittsburg T.  H.  Acheson J.    S.    Tibby 

Rehoboth E.  M.  Elsey H.  B.  White 

Slippery  Rock W.  O.   Ferguson.  .  .  ..xJ.  H.  McGee 

Union A.  Kilpatrick S.  A.  Sterrett 

Wilkinsburg R.  J.  G.  McKnight.  ..    A.  C.  Coulter 

Youngstown A.    A.    Wylie James  R.  Bel' 

xR.  C.  Allen 

T.  J.  Allen 

J.  M.  Coleman 

xJ.  F.  Crozier 

C.  A.  Dodds 

R.  J.  Dodds 

J.  C.  Faris 

H.  H.  George 

W.  Henry  George.  .  .  . 

W.  P.  Johnston 

J.  S.  Martin    

D.  C.  Martin 

T.  A.  McElwain 

A.  J.  McFarland  .... 
W.  J.  McKnight  .... 
T.   C.  Sproull 

B.  iM.  Sharp 

D.  B.  Wilson 

J.  Renwick  Wylie  .  .  . 
R.  C.  Wylie 

PHILADELPHIA. 

Philadelphia,  1st   ...    T.  P.  Stevenson xWm.  G.  Carson 

Philadelphia,    2d    .^  .    J.  C.  McFeeters   ....    J.  R.  Dill 

Philadelphia,    3d    ...  xThomas  Boggs    

R.  C.  Montgomery.  .  . 
ROCHESTER. 

Almonte    G.    M.   Robb    J.  W.  Rose 

Lisbon W.  C.  McClurkin   .  .  .    Wm.  Robson 

Lochiel ^. .    J.  R.  Latimer 

Syracuse    S.  M.  Morrow James  Park 

York    J.  B.  Gilmore James  Milligan 

Wm.  McFarland  .... 
Ministers  Absent — J.  M.  Armour,  I.  A.  B  ackwood,  R.  A.  Boyd, 
W.  W.  Carithers,  D.  H.  Coulter,  J.  W.  Dill,  D.  B.  Elsey,  J.  D.  Edgar, 
E.  G.  Elsey,  Samuel  Edgar,  S.  Turner  Foster,  E.  J.  Fuersohn,  R.  J. 
Gault,  W.  M.  George,  Julius  Kempf,  George  Kennedy,  J.  M.  Little- 
john,  Walter  McCarroll,  J.  L.  McCartney,  A.  J.  McFarland,  Jr.,  R.  J. 
Mclsaac,  H.  B.  McMillan,  Louis  Meyer,  E.  C.  Mitchell,  W.  C.  Paden, 
J.  L.  Pinkerton,  A.  I.  Robb,  J.  K.  Robb,  W.  G.  Robb,  T.  A.  Rusk, 
Elmer  Russell,  J.  S.  Stewart,  R.  D.  Taggart,  J.  R.  Thompson,  J.  T. 
Wilson,  R.   E.  Wilson — 36. 

Congregations  not  Represented — Bovina,  Cedarville,  Content, 
Evans,  Hickory  Grove,  Holmwood,  Londonderry,  McKeesport  and 
Monongahela,  Second  Newburg,  Reygate,  Stafford,  St.  John,  Wahoo 
—13. 

xNot  present  at  first  roll  call. 
♦Ordained  since  last  meeting  of  Synod. 
!  Organized  since  last  meeting  of  Synod. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHUR€H 


S.  G.  Shaw  was  elected  Moderator,  J.  S.  Thompson  was  re- 
elected Clerk  and  C.  M.  Smith  was  re-elected  Assistant  Clerk. 

D.  H.  Elliott,  S.  E.  Greer,  M.  M.  Pearce,  D.  C.  Mathews  and 
Robert  Park  were  made  the  official  reporters  of  the  Synod. 

The  Clerk  of  the  Pittsburg  Presbytery  announced  the  death 
of  the  Rev.  R.  J.  George,  D.  D.,  which  occurred  at  his  home  in 
Allegheny  on  the  nth  of  February,  191 1.  The  nominating  of  a 
committee  to  prepare  a  suitable  minute  on  the  death  of  Dr. 
George  was  referred  to  the  committee  on  Nominations. 

The  committee  on  the  Order  of  Business  reported.  Tlie 
hours  of  meeting  were  fixed  at  9  A.  M.  to  12:30  P.  M.  and  2 
P.  M.  to  4  P.  M.  The  time  for  the  evening  conferences  was  fixed 
at  7:45.     The  report  was  adopted  and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  ORDER  OF  BUSINESS 

ORDER  OP  BUSINESS. 

Tuesday,  8:00  P.  M. — ^Sermon  by  the  Moderator's  alternate. 
Constitution  of  the  Court. 

Wednesday,  9:00  A.  M. — Election  of  Officers,'  Report  of  Com- 
mittee on  Order  of  Business,  Committee  on  Devotional  Exercises, 
Committee  on  Unfinished  Business;  report  of  Board  of  Church  Erec- 
tion, and  Board  of  Sustentation. 

2:00  P.  M. — Report  of  Central  Board  of  Missions,  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions,  Board  of  Jewish  Missions,  and  Superintendent! 
of  the  Theological  Seminary. 

7:45  P.  M.^Conference  on  Our  Covenant. 

Thursday,  9  A.  M. — Report  of  Executive  Committee  on  Nation- 
al Reform,  of  Synod's  Financial  agent  for  National  Reform,  of  Board 
of  Control,  and  of  Committee  on  Witness  Bearing. 

2:00  P.  M. — Report  of  Committee  on  Temperance,  of  Commit- 
tee on  Evange  istic  Work,  Reports  of  Presibyteries. 

4:00  P.  M. — Reception  at  Home  for  Aged. 

7:45  P.  M. — Conference  on  Witness  Bearing. 

Friday,  9:00  A.  M. — Report  of  Synod's  Board  of  Trustees,  of 
Board  of  Corporators  of  Geneva  College,  of  Board  of  Trustees  of 
Geneva  College,  of  Mission  Conference. 

2:00  P.  M. — Report  of  Stated  Clerk,  of  Committee  on  SaJbbath, 
of  Committee  on  Sabbath  Schools,  of  Committee  on  Young  People's 
Societies. 

7:45  P.  M. — Conference  on  Foreign  "Missions. 

Saturday,  9:00  A.  M. — Report  of  Committee  on  State  of  Re- 
ligion, of  Committee  on  Psalmody,  of  Committee  on  National  Re- 
form. 


MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Monday,  9:00  A.  M. — Report  of  Committee  on  Discipline,  of 
Committee  on  Records  of  Presbyteries,  of  Committee  on  Secret  So- 
cieties, of  Committee  on  Signs  of  the  Times,  of  Committee  on  Sys- 
tematic Beneficence. 

2:00  P.  M. — Report  of  Committee  on  Traveling  Fund,  of  Com- 
mi'ttee   on    Foreign    Missions,    of   Committee    on    Home    Missions,   of 
Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  College. 
7:45  P.  M. — Conference  on  National  Reform. 

Tuesday,  9:00  A.  M. — Report  of  Committee  on  Church  Erec- 
tion, of  Committee  on  Finance,  of  Committee  on  Supplies,  of  Com- 
mittee on  Foreign  Correspondence. 

Respectfully  Submitted, 
A.    A.    WYLIE, 
D.   H.   ELLIOTT, 
D.    B.    ELSEY, 
J.    H.    CURRY, 
W.    J.    SMITH, 

Committee. 

The  Committee  on  eDvotional  Exercises  reported.  The  first 
half  hotir  of  the  morning  session  was  fixed  as  the  time  for  de- 
votional exercises.     Th  ereport  was  adopted  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON   DEVOTIONAL  EXERCISES. 

May  31 — Prayer  that  we  may  have  the  love  of  the  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  and  the  desire  to  obey  His  law  that  w^ill  secure  for  us  the 
guidance  of  the  Spirit  of  truth.  John  14,  15-17,  26.  Leader  the 
Moderator. 

June  1. — Thanksgiving  for  God's  blessings  in  the  past  year,  as 
manifested  in  >  our  opportunities  for  fellowship  with  Him,  in  an  in- 
creased desire  for  the  complete  evangelization  of  our  own  land,  in 
the  prosperity  of  the  Foreign  Mission  work  of  the  Church,  and  In  a 
growing  interest  in  the  socia'  Kingdom  of  God.  Psalm  65:11. 
Leader,    P.    J.    McDonald. 

June  2 — Prayer  that  in  all  things  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  may 
have  the  preeminence.     Col.  1:18-20.     Leader,  J.  H.  Sloane. 

June  3 — Prayer  that  the  educational  work  of  the  Church  may 
be  blessed,  that  God  will  raise  up  young  men  and  women  who  will 
answer  the  call  of  the  Church  for  more  laborers.  Luke  10:2;  Isa. 
6:8.     Leader,  T.  P.  Stevenson. 

June  5 — Prayer  for  the  mission  work  of  the  Church,  that  the 
social  upheava's  and  the  changing  civilizations  in  the  lands  occu- 
pied by  our  missions  may  bring  in  the  fulness  of  the  kingdom  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ.     Isa.  62:1-4.     Leader,  Samuel  Carmichael. 

June  6 — -^Prayer  for  God's  blessing  upon  the  Church  and  her  work 
during  the  coming  year.     Psalm  67.     Leader,  J.  S.  Bell. 

June   7 — Praise   unto    the    God    of    our    Salvation.      Rev.    5:9. 
Leader,  J.  S.  Thompson. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

R.   W.   PIPER. 
JOHN   COLEMAN, 
J.   W.   YOUNG, 
R.  J.   CATHCART. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


It  was  ordered  tliat  500  copies  of  these  reports  be  printed 
for  the  use  of  the  members  of  Synod. 

Presbyteries  were  granted  the  privilege  of  holding  meetings 
during  the  meeting  of  Synod. 

The  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  reported.  The  re- 
port was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item     I.     Attended  to. 

Item     2.     Attended  to. 

Item  3.  Made  the  special  order  of  the  day  for  Saturday 
morning. 

Item     4.     Attended  to. 

Item  5.  The  Committee  reported.  The  report  was  re- 
ferred to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

Item  6.  Laid  on  the  table  until  the  appearance  of  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  on  the  floor  of  Synod. 

Item     7.     Attended  to. 

Item     8.     Attended  to. 

Item     9.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  10.  The  Clerk  reported,  indicating  the  corrections 
needed  to  the  printed  Minutes  for  1910.  The  report  was  adopted 
and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT   OF   CLERK   ON    PRINTING    MINUTES    OF    1910. 

In  accordance  with  your  instructions  1000  copies  of  the  Minutes 
of  1910  were  printed  and  placed  in  the  hands  of  J.  S.  Tibby  for  sale 
and  distribution.  The  following  corrections  shou  d  be  made  to  the 
printed  Minutes: 

Page  9 — To  list  of  absent  ministers  add  the  name  of  J-  D.  Edgar. 
Page   99— ^Item    14.      For  '-$50. 00"  read  "$40.00." 
Page  121 — Line  2.  Read  "$4350.00"  instead  of  "$3950.00." 
Page    121 — Line    13.      Read    "$300.00"    instead    of    "$700.00." 

Page  138 — Eighteenth  line  from  bottom  of  page.  For  "con- 
gregations" read  "congregation." 

Page  158 — ^For  "Committee  to  hear  Complaint  of  J.  P.  Crozier" 
read  "Commission." 

Page  15  9 — Following  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Tenure  of 
Office  of. members  of  Boards  insert  "B.  M.  Sharp  and  F.  M.  Wilson 
resigned  from  the  Central  Board  of  Missions.  *J.  C.  Slater  was 
elected  a  member  of  this  Board." 

The  attention  of  the  Synod  is  called  to  a  discrepancy  between 
the  number  of  ministers  as  contained  in  the  roll  of  Synod  and  as 
reported  by  the  Stated  C  erk  and  in  the  statistical  tables.  The  roll 
of  Synod,  including  the  corrected  list  of  absentees,  contains  140 
names  while  the  Stated  Clerk  reports  136.     This  discrepancy  seems 


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to  arise  from  the  carelessness  of  Clerks  of  Presbyteries  in  not  in- 
cluding in  their  statistical  tables  the  names  of  all  the  unsettled  min- 
isters. For  instance  Iowa  Presbytery  omits  the  names  of  two  of  her 
unsettled  ministers  from  the  statistical  tables. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  S.  THOMPSON,  Clerk. 

Item    II.     Attended   to      The  re])ort  is  as   follows: 

PRINTING  AND  SALE  OF  MINUTES  OF  1910. 

The  Treasurer  of  the  Literary  Fund  would  report  that  there 
were  one  thousand  copies  of  1910  Minutes  of  Synod  printed  by  the 
Beaver  Publishing  Co.,  Beaver,  Pa. 

864  copies  sold  at  35  cents  each $302.40 

22  copies  free 

4  copies  defective  and  replaced 
10  copies    ost  in  the  mail  ' 

900 

Printing    Minutes     $210.20 

Postage  and  Expressage 32.39 

Envelopes 2.70 — 245.29 

Balance $   57.11 

JAMES  S.  TIBBY  Treasurer. 

Item   12.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item    13.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item    14.      Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  15.  Tlie  Judicial  Commission  reported,  submitting"  the 
minutes  of  Commission.  The  report  was  accepted  and  the  min- 
utes were  ordered  incorporated  in  the  Minutes  of  Synod.  They 
are  as  follows : 

REPORT  CHAIRMAN  OF  COMMISSION  TO   HEAR  APPEAL  AND 
COMPLAINT   OF   J.    F.    CROZIER. 

The  Judicial  Commission  appointed  by  last  Synod  (Min.  Synod 
1910,  pp.  138,  158)  to  which  was  referred  the  appeal  and  complaint 
of  J.  F.  Crozier  against  Pittsburgh  Presbytery  would  respectfully  re- 
port that  we  met  and  attended  to  the  business  assigned  us  and  here- 
with submit  the  Minutes  of  the  Commission. 

D.  C.  MATHEWS,  Chairman. 

MINUTES  OF  JUDICIAL  COMMISSION. 

The  Commission  consisting  of  D.  C.  Mathews,  J.  T.  Mitchell, 
James  McCune,  ministers,  and  J.  B.  Dodds  and  J.  P.  Baird,  elders, 
appointed  by  Synod  to  hear  and  act  on  the  appeal  and  complaint  of 
J.      F.      Crozier      against      Pittsburgh      Presbytery,      met      at      the 

car  of  the  Moderator,  D.  C.  Mathews,  in  the  parlor  of  the  West- 
minster Hotel,  Winona  Lake,   Indiana    Wednesday,  June  1st,   1910, 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  11 

at  7:30  P.  M.  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  the  Moderator. 
All  members  were  present.  James  MciCune  was  elected  Clerk.  Mr. 
Crozier  was  present  as  were  also  A.  Kilpatrick  and  J.  M.  Coleman, 
representatives  of  Pittsburgh  Presbytery  to  defend  their  action. 

Mr.  Crozier  voluntarily  waived  his  right  to  prosecute  his  com- 
plaint and  appeal  except  the  first  part  that  charged  the  Presbytery 
with  error.  Said  part  was  read;  also  certified  extracts  from  Min- 
utes of  Pittsburgh  Presbytery  bearing  on  the  case;  also  copy  of 
charges  preferred  by  J.  F.  Crozier  in  Pittsburgh  Presbytery  against 
certain  members  of  the  Geneva  Session.  Mr.  Crozier  was  then  heard 
at  considerab  e  length  in  prosecution  of  his  complaint  and  appeal. 
A.  Kil'patrick  then  addressed  the  court  in  defense  of  the  action  of 
the  Presibytery  followed  by  J.  M.  Coleman.  Mr.  Crozier  then  replied. 
Both  parties  having  been  given  a  full  hearing  and  having  been  in- 
terrogated by  the  court,  withdrew. 

The    following   was   adopted    unanimously    by    the   court: 
"While  recognizing  the  sincerity  of  Mr.  Crozier's  purpose  and 
his  commendable  zeal  for  the  purity  and  good  order  of  the  church 
as  animating  his  action  in  pressing  this  case,  yet — 

1.  We  do  not  sustain  his  appeal  and  complaint  with  reference 
to  any  of  the  charges  preferred. 

2.  We  approve  the  action  of  Presibytery  in  dismissing  the 
charge  of  "sowing   discord   among  brethren"   as   inadmissable. 

3.  We  do  not  endorse  the  action  of  Presbytery  in  classing  the 
charge  of  "wilfully  absenting  themselves  from  the  ordinances"  as 
"not  censurable;"  yet,  all  circumstances  considered,  we  believe  a 
libel  unwarranted. 

4.  We  depricate  the  use  of  certain  expressions  in  the  Declina- 
ture reflecting  on  the  character  of  the  appellant." 

The  Clerk  was  instructed  to  furnish  Mr.  Crozier  with  a  copy  of 
this  action  and  also  the  Clerk  of  Pittsburgh  Pre^ytery.  The  Min- 
utes of  the  Commission  were  read  and  adopted.  The  Commission 
then  adjourned  with  prayer  by  J.  T.  Mitchell. 

D.    C.     MATHEWS,    Moderator. 

JAMES  M'CUNE,  Clerk. 

J.  F.  Crozier  protested  against  the  action  of  the  Court,  for 
reasons  to  be  presented  later. 

A  Committee  consisting  of  W.  J.  Coleman,  T.  P.  Stevenson 
and  D.  B.  Wilson  was  appointed  to  report  during  this  meeting  of 
Synod  as  to  the  law  of  the  Church  relative  to  the  power  of 
Synod  to  review  the  findings  of  a  Commission  of  the  Synod, 

Item  i6.  The  delegate  reported.  The  report  was  accepted 
and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  DELEGATE  TO  INTER-CHURCH  TEMPERANCE 

FEDERATION. 

Your  delegate  appointed  to  act  in  connection  with  the  above 
named  Federation  would  respectfully  report,,  that  he  attended  the 
annual  meeting  of  the  Federation  at  Washington,  D.  C,  December 


12  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


9  to  11.  As  instructed  by  the  Synod  at  its  last  meeting  your  dele- 
gate at  a  business  meeting  of  the  Association  made  a  statement  as  to 
our  political  position  and  its  relation  to  the  work  of  the  Association, 
and  was  assured  that  we  cou  d  consistently  cooperate  with  the  Fed- 
eration. A  delegate  from  Indianapolis  in  connection  with  our  re- 
marks said  that  denominational  relation  to  the  Federation  meant 
cooperation  among  denominations  wherein  they  agreed  and  denomi- 
national autonomy  wherein  we  differ. 

A  public  program  was  carried  out.  '  Your  delegate  had  the 
privilege  of  presenting  an  address  on  "The  Relation  of  Temperance 
to  Other  Reforms,"  in  the  course  of  which  he  took  occasion  to  pre- 
sent at  some  length  the  principles  of  National  Reformation.  The 
address  was  published  in  the  National  Advocate  and  the  Christian 
Statesman. 

Some  of  the  resolutions  adopted  by  the  Federation  that  "would 
be  of  interest  to  us  were:  For  a  temperance  leaflet  to  be  used  during 
the  Week  of  Player;  a  memoria.  to  the  International  S.  S.  Lesson 
Committee,  asking  that  the  World's  Temperance  Sabbath  be  changed 
from  the  last  Sabbath  in  November  to  the  last  Sabbath  in  October; 
a  resolution  favoring  a  readjustment  of  our  revenue  system  so  as  not 
to  rely  upon  money  exacted  from  the  liquor  traffic;  opposition  to  the 
sale  of  liquor  on  government  ships,  buildings,  and  premises;  oppo- 
sition to  the  repeal  or  modification  of  Anti-canteen  legislation;  a 
reso'.ution  favoring  the  protection  of  the  Indian  wards  of  the  nation; 
and  one  favoring  such  comity  between  the  Federal  Government  and 
the  several  states  as  will  afford  to  the  latter  full  police  power  for 
the  protection  of  the  health,  peace,  and  morals  of  the  people,  and  to 
this  end  favoring  some  adequate  inter-state  liquor  shipment  bill. 

A  movement  is  in  progress  looking  to  a  merging  of  the  Inter- 
Church  Temperance  Federation  with  the  Temperance  Department  of 
the  Federal  Council  of  Churches.  These  two  bodies  have  already 
agreed  to  act  jointly  until  the  meeting  of  the  Federal  Council  in  De- 
cem'ber  1912.  No  changes  have  been  made  in  the  basis  of  agreement 
on  which  the  various  denominations  continue  in  the  work  of  tem- 
perance; and  we  also  understand  that  cooperation  with  the  Tem- 
perance Committee  of  the  Federal  Council  of  Churches  does  not  make 
the  cooperating  denominations  members  of  the  Federal  Council  of 
Churches.  It  appears  that  there  are  different  denominations  in  the 
Temperance  Federation  which  are  not  in  the  Federal  Council,  while 
on  the  other  hand  there  are  many  denominations  in  the  Federal 
Council    which   are   not   in   the  Temperance   Federation. 

T.  H.  ACHESON. 

Item   17.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 
Item  18.     The  Committee  reported.     The  report  was  adopt" 
ed   and   the   Committee   was   continued.      The   report   is   as    fol- 
lows : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  BIBLE  READING  FOLDER. 

Your  committee  to  prepare  a  Bible-reading  folder  during  the 
past  year  would  respectfully  report:  A  folder  has  been  issued  for 
each  quarter  of  the  year.  The  expense  has  been  met  out  of  the 
Literary  Fund,  but  the  treasury  has  been  more  than  re-imbursed, 
for  while  the  cost  of  printing  the  folders  has  been  $42,  the  sale  of 
folders  has  brought  in  $69.65. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  13 


These  folders  are  prepared  on  a  very  simple  plan,  that  of  con- 
secutive reading  in  the  Word  of  God,  except  that  the  readings  for 
Saturday  morning  and  evening  are  the  Sabbath  School  Lesson  and 
Young  People's  Topic  for  the  following  day.  The  selection  for  the 
morning  are  from  the  Old  Testament  and  for  the  evening  from  the 
New,  the  former  covering  during  the  past  year  from  Numbers  fifth 
chapter  to  the  end  of  First  Chronicles,  the  latter  including  from 
John  seventh  chapter  to  the  end  of  the  New  Testament  and  from  the 
beginning  again  to  nearly  the  end  of  Mark.  Care  is  taken  as  to  length 
of  reading  and  as  to  the  paragraphing  in  the  Bible;  and  a  suitable 
heading  is  given  to  each  section.  The  selections  for  the  morning  are 
slightly  longer  than  those  for  the  evening. 

While  this  plan  is  so  simple  as  to  seem  almost  unnecessary, 
your  committee  feels  that  to  make  it  more  complicated  will  lessen 
the  number  of  readers,  will  exclude  very  young  readers,  and  will 
defeat  the  purpose  in  view;  which  is  to  secure  the  regular  reading  of 
a  considerable  portion  of  the  Bible  every  morning  and  evening.  This 
is  a  Bible  reading  movement,  not  a  specia'  Bible-study  class.  Such 
a  movement  as  this  would  be  facilitated  much  by  the  formation  of 
of  Bible-reading  circles  in  each  congregation,  to  meet  about  once 
every  three  months  to  report  as  to  the  reading  done,  and  for  con- 
ference and  prayer.  We  feel  that  such  a  Bible-reading  plan  will 
hardly  be  successfully  carried  out  without  some  organized  coopera- 
tion among  the  congregations. 

Your  committee  is  not  tenacious  in  the  belief  that  the  present 
plan  is  the  very  best  for  us  to  follow,  nor  is  it  desirous  to  be  con- 
tinued in  charge  of  the  work.  We  would  not  be  opposed  to  any 
modification  of  this  plan  that  would  add  to  its  versatility  but  would 
not  hinder  its  practicability;  and  we  are  more  than  desirous  to  see 
it  entrusted  to  other  hands.  Respectfully  submitted, 

T.  H.  ACHESON, 
JOHN  YATES, 
W.  R.  PORTER, 

Item   19.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  20.  The  report  was  accepted  and  the  item  of  finance 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
laid  on  the  table  that  the  Synod  mig-ht  en^ag-e  in  devofional  ex- 
ercises.    The  Moderator  led  the  devotions. 

R.  A.  M.  Steele  was  chosen  precentor  for  the  Synod. 

Synod  took  recess  until  2  P.  M.     Praver  bv  F.  M.  Foster. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Same  place,  2  P.  M.  .Synod  reconvened  and  was  led  in 
prayer  by  H.  H.  Georg-e.  The  roll  was  called,  and  the  follow- 
ing- did  not  answer  to  their  names :  0.  N.  Greer,  J.  A.  P.lack, 
Robert  Clark,  B.  M.   Sharp,  James   Moore,  David   McFarland, 


14  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

J.  A.  IVIcKee  and  W.  W.  Mitchell,  most  of  whom  soon  appeared. 
The  minutes  of  the  session  of  yesterday  evening,  and  of  this 
morning  were  read  and  approved. 

J.  A.  Black,  M.  D.  was  granted  optional  attendance  for  the 
remaining  sessions  of  the  synod. 

Announcement  was  made  of  the  very  serious  illness  of  R.  J. 
Gault.  The  Clerk  was  instructed  to  send  him  a  telegram  of  sym- 
pathy on  behalf  of  the  Synod. 

The  report  of  Unfinished  Business  was  taken  from  the  table. 

Item  21.     Attended  to. 

Item  22.  The  Committee  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  adopted  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  TO   PREPARE  A  NEW  EDITION 

OF  THE  BOOK  OF  PSALMS. 

In  presenting  this,  our  last  report  the  Committee  on  Selection 
of  Psalms  expresses  its  regret  that  we  were  not  able  to  complete  our 
work  in  time  to  have  the  new  edition  of  the  Book  of  Psalms  printed 
and  ready  for  this  meeting  of  Synod.  We  made  a  steady  effort, 
meeting  a  most  every  week  from  the  middle  of  August  to  the  middle 
of  February,  with  five  half  day  sessions  at  each  meeting,  but  the 
work  grew  on  us  so  that  we  could  not  cover  the  ground  at  an  earlier 
date.  The  more  we  studied  the  text  the  more  we  saw  to  correct,  and 
we  do  not  now  present  our  work  as  free  from  many  faults,  but  as 
the  best  that  we  were  able  to  do.  We  have  sought  help  from  every 
version  within  our  reach  and  have  earnestly  and  humbly  tried  to 
prepare  a  version  more  plain,  smooth  and  agreeable  to  the  text  than 
any  heretofore. 

After  this  work  was  done,  our  clerk,  A.  A.  Wylie,  copied  all  the 
book  with  special  attention  to  punctuation,  in  which  we  did  our  best 
to  he  p  him,  and,  embodying  all  corrections,  prepared  it  for  the  print- 
er. He  with  others  in  the  committee  has  read  proof  on  the  work  up 
to  the  end  of  Psalm  116,  so  that  the  book  will  soon  be  ready  for 
binding.  The  necessity  for  sending  the  proofs  around  to  different 
readers  has  helped  to  delay  the  printers.  We  owe  much  to  Dr.  S.  A. 
S.  Metheny  who  has  helped  in  proof  reading  and  has  made  many 
good  suggestions. 

Those  beside  the  chairman  who  have  taken  an  active  part  in  this 
work  have  been  J.  S.  Thompson,  A.  A.  Wylie,  T.  H.  Acheson  and  W. 
J.  McKnight.  We  were  also  assisted  during  part  of  the  time,  by  the 
Rev.  S.  B.  Houston  of  the  Associate  Presbyterian  Church.  We  have 
constantly  sought  the  blessing  of  the  Lord  upon  the  effort  to  provide 
In  the  best  form  that  which  he  has  given  to  be  sung  in  his  praise. 
Believing  the  Psalms  to  be  the  word  of  God,  we  have  reverently 
tried  to  adhere  closely  to  the  text,  even  if  at  some  sacrifice  of  smooth- 
ness and  grace.  Upon  the  result  we  invoke  God's  blessing  and  your 
considerate  judgment. 


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We  recommend  that  the  expenses  incurred  by  the  members  of 
this  committee  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary  Fund. 

W.  J.  COLEMAN 
A.  A.  WYLIE, 
J.  S.  THOMPSON, 
T.  H.  ACHESON, 
W.  J.  M'KNIGHT. 

The  Committee  was  continued,  to  consist  of  W.  J.  Coleman, 
A.  A.  Wylie,  T.  H.  Acheson,  W.  J.  McKnight  and  J.  S.  Thomp- 
son. 

Item  23.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  24.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  25.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  26.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Item  27.  Laid  on  the  table  to  be  taken  up  in  connection 
with  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  Theolog-i- 
cal  Seminary  and  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Theological 
Seminary  and  Geneva  College. 

Item  28.     Laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  business  was  laid 
on  the  table. 

The  Board  of  Church  Erection  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Sustentation  an^l  Church 
Erection,  and  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  report  of  the  Domestic  Mission  Board  was  made  the 
order  of  the  day  for  tomorrow  morning. 

The  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Missions  and 
the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  J.  T. 
McCrory,  D.  D.,  of  the  Third  United  Presbyterian  Church,  Pitts- 
burg. 

The  Jewish  Mission  Board  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Home  Missions  and 
the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  Theological  Seminary 
reported.    The  report  was  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Committee 


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on  Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  College,  and  the  Committee 
on  Finance. 

Synod  adjourned  to  meet  tomorrow   morning  at  9  o'clock. 
Prayer  by  D.  S.  Faris. 


MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Thursday,  June  1,  9  A.  M.  Synod  convened  at 
the  appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  the  Mod- 
erator. The  roll  was  called.  The  following  did  not  answer  to 
their  names:  J.  A.  Black,  William  Blair,  Robert  Clarke,  J-  F. 
Crozier,  E.  M.Elsey,  J.  K.  Elsey,  W.  Henry  George,  S.  Mc- 
Naugher,  R.  H.  Martin,  H.  G.  Patterson,  J.  H.  Pritchard,  T.  C. 
Sproull,  J.  Z.  Sterrett,  D.  P.  White  and  F.  M.  Wilson,  most  of 
whom  soon  appeared.  The  Synod  engaged  in  one-half  hour  of 
devotions  led  by  P.  J.  McDonald.  The  minutes  of  the  session 
of  yesterday  afternoon  were  read  and  approved. 

It  was  resolved  that  hereafter  the  second   calling  of  the  roll 
be  omitted. 

The  courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  J.  B. 
Wilson,  Ph.  D.,  of  the  Grant  Street  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Church,  to  the  Rev.  J.  S.  T.  Milligan,  D.  D.,  of  the  United  Pres- 
byterian Church,  Pittsburg,  and  to  the  Rev.  J.  R.  J.  Milligan,  D. 
D.,  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Cleveland,  O. 

It  was  resolved  that  the  Synod  express  it  as  its  judgment 
that  the  evening  Conferences  should  close  not  later  than  9  o'clock. 

The  Moderator  announced  the  following  committees : 
COMMITTEES. 

Xoniinations — A.  A.  Samson,  M.  M.  Pearce,  J.  G.  Reed,  J.  G. 
Love,  W.  J.  Marshall. 

Traveling  Fund — P.  J.  McDonald  and  Financial  Agents  of  the 
Presbyteries. 

Discipline — D.  C.  Faris,  A.  Kilpatrick,  R.  Hargrave,  J.  S.  Bell, 
James  Milligan. 

Supplies — H.  G.  Foster,  E.  L.  McKnight,  R.  W.  Piper,  W.  J. 
Beattie,   A.   Copeland. 

Finance — J.  C.  French,  G,  R.  Steele,  A.  A.  Johnston,  Jesse 
Wilson,   S.   O.   Carson. 

National  Keform — J.  Boggs  Dodds,  G.  A.  Edgar,  S.  Mc- 
Naugher,    T.    R.    Sarderson,    D.    H.    C.    Johnson. 


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Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  College — S.  J.  Johnston, 
Thomas  Patton,  John  Coleman,  A.  C.  Coulter,  D.  O.  Torrens. 

Sustentation  and  CImrch  Erection — H.  G.  Patterson,  R.  C.  Reed, 
J.  G.  McElhinney,  William  Martin,  James  R.  Bell. 

Foreign  Correspondence — R.  C.  Montgomery,  j.  M.  Johnston, 
W.  J.  Sanderson,  James  Clark,  S.  Carmichael. 

Foreign  Missions — T.  M.  Slater,  J.  M.  Foster,  J.  R.  W.  Steven- 
son, J.  K.  Elsey,  S.  A.  Sterrett. 

Home  Missions — E.  A.  Crooks,  S.  F.  Kingston,  D.  O.  Jack,  J. 
W.  Rose,  J.  R.  Dill. 

Place  of  Meeting — J.  H.  Pritchard,  W.  T.  K.  Thompson,  W.  A. 
Aiken,  J.  Z.   Sterrett,  T.  J.   Kynette. 

ON  PRESBYTERIAL  RECORDS. 

Colorado — W.  S.  Fulton,  S.  E.  Greer,  W.  J.  Crawford. 
1  linois — H.  G.  McConaughy,  F.  E.  Allen,  Nathaniel  Patton. 
Iowa — G.  N.  Greer,  James  McCune,  John  C.  Calderwood. 
Kansas — W.  J.  McBurney,  S.  G.  Connor,  William  Hannah. 

New  Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia — J.  T.  Mitchell,  T.  A.  Mc- 
Elwain,  C.  M.  Pinley. 

/  New  York — Isaiah  Faris,  O.  F.  Thompson,  Robert  J.  Miller. 

Ohio — E.   M.   Elsey,  J.   Ralston  Wylie,   James   Shields. 

Philadelphia — J.  M.  Faris,  P.  P.  Boyd,  J,  H.  McBurney. 

Pittsburg — William  McFarland,  T.  C.  McKnight,  William 
Robson. 

Rochester — R.   A.   Blair,   R.   C.   Allen,   James   Graham. 

Papers  were  called  for. 

No.  I.  Memorial  from  Colorado  Presbytery.  Referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Discipline. 

No.  2.  Memorial  from  R.  M.  Sommerville.  Referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Discipline. 

No.  3.  Memorial  from  Seattle  session.  Referred  to  Comi- 
mittee  on  Discipline. 

No.  4.  Memorial  from  the  Session  of  the  Third  New  York 
Congreg'ation.  Referred  to  a  special  Committee,  to  be  nominated 
by  the  Committee  on  Nominations,  and  to  report  at  this  meeting 
of  Synod. 

No.  5.  Memorial  from  the  Session  of  the  Allegheny  Con- 
gregation.    Referred  to  the  Committee  on  National  Reform. 

No.  6.  Reports  of  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  Treasurer  of  the  For- 
eign Mission  Board,  the  Board  of  Jewish  Missions  and  the  Board 
of  Church  Erection.     Referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 


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No.  7.  Report  of  Board  of  Managers  of  Aged  People's 
Home.     Referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

No.  8.  Complaint  of  A.  G.  Walkinshaw  against  the  Colo- 
rado Presbytery.     Referred  to  the  Committee  on  Discipline. 

The  Central  Board  of  Missions  reported.  The  report  was 
accepted  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Home  Missions. 

The  Board  of  Sustentation  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Sustentation  and  Church 
Erection. 

The  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Reform  Associa- 
tion reported.  The  report  was  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  National  Reform  together  with  certain  resolutions  of- 
fered by  J.  M.  Foster. 

The  hearing  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  National 
Reform  was  made  the  first  order  of  the  day  for  Saturday  morn- 
ing. 

A  resolution  offered  by  John  Coleman  relative  to  the  work  of 
the  Theological  Seminary  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  The- 
ological Seminary  and  Geneva  College. 

An  invitation  was  presented  to  the  Synod  to  attend  the  ded- 
ication of  the  new  Gymnasium  at  Geneva  College  on  Tuesday 
afternoon  at  3  o'clock.  The  invitation  was  laid  on  the  table  for 
the  present. 

Synod's  Financial  Agent  for  National  Reform  reported.  The 
report  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Board  of  Control  reported.     The  report  was  referred  to 
the  Committee  on  Finance  and  the  Committee  on  Nominations. 
The  Standing  Committee  on  Witness  Bearing  reported.     The 
report  was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.  Referred  to  a  special  Committee  to  report  during 
this  meeting  of  Synod. 

Item'  3.     Referred  to  the   Committee  on   Finance. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

Item  5.     Adopted. 

Item  6.     Adopted. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  19 

The  report  was  laid  on  the  table  to  be  taken  up  in  con- 
nection with  the  report  of  the  Special  Committee  to  which  was  re- 
ferred Item  2  of  the  report. 

The  courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  A. 
Theadore  Smith,  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  McKees- 
port. 

Synod  took  recess  until  2  P.  M.     Prayer  by  R.  J.  Dodds. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Same  place,  2  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  at  the  appointed 
hour  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  M.  M.  Pearce.  The  roll  was 
called  and  the  following  did  not  answer  to  their  names :  F.  E. 
Allen,  W.  J.  Beatty,  J.  A.  Black,  Thomas  Boggs,  S.  O.  Carson, 
Robert  Clarke,  D.  N.  Crowe,  J.  F.  Crozier,  G.  A.  Edgar,  E.  M. 
Elsey,  J.  H.  Finley,  J.  C.  French,  W.  Henry  George,  James  Gra- 
ham, G.  N.  Greer,  S.  E.  Greer,  P.  J.  McDonald,  J.  H.  McGee, 
E.  L.  McKnight,  T.  C.  McKnight,  R.  H.  Martin,  Thomas  Pat- 
ton,  W.  M.  Robb.  George  R.  Steele,  S.  P.  Wylie  and  Yellow  Fish, 
most  of  whom  soon  appeared.  The  minutes  of  the  morning  ses- 
sion were  read  and  approved. 

The  courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  T.  D. 
Edgar,  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  Wilkinsburg,  Pa. 

F.  M.  Wilson  was  granted  optional  attendance  on  the  re- 
maining sessions  of  the  Synod  on  account  of  sickness. 

The  Permanent  Committee  on  Evangelistic  Work  reported. 
The  report  was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 


Item  I. 

Adopted. 

Item  2. 

Adopted. 

Item  3. 

Adopted. 

Item  4. 

Adopted. 

Item  5. 

Adopted. 

The  report  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT    OF 

PERMANENT     COMMITTEE     ON    EVANGELISTIC 

WORK. 

The  most  urgent  need  of  the  present  day  is  la  great  spiritual 
awakening.  Referring  to  this  need  Dr.  Chapman  says:  "It  is  simply 
appalling."     And  he  adds,   "Of  this  we  may  be  assured  if  we  but 


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open  our  eyes  to  take  note  of  the  progress  of  sin  and  indifference, 
the  decrease  in  many  places  of  church  attendance,  and  the  lack 
of  ^nteresr  shown  in  certain  parts  of  our  country  in  those  things 
that  contribute  to  the  advancement  of  the  kingdom  of  God."  Dr. 
(roodell  l^egins  liis  hook  on  '"Pastoral  and  Personal  Evangelism" 
with  these  words:  "The  statistics  of  Confer  nces  and  Synods  for 
the  last  ten  years  have  not  been  pleasant  reading  for  those  who 
long  to  see  the  advance  of  the  visible  Church  of  God.  The  per 
cent  of  increase  in  Protestantism  in  the  last  decade  has  been  the 
smallest   of   any   decade  in   a    hundred   years." 

This  condition  of  spiritual  deadness,  and  the  consequent  need 
of  a  great  spiritual  awakening,  is  by  no  means  confined  to  our 
own  land.  Speaking  of  the  spiritual  condition  in  Germany,  Dr. 
Goodell  quotes  the  following  from  "A  Revival  Call  to  the 
Churchfs."  I  hav^  it  on  the  authority  of  two  German  pastors, 
that  only  four  per  cept  of  the  population  of  the  great  towns  of 
dermauy  ever  go  to  or  enter  a  place  of  v%'orship,'  In  regard  to  the 
spiritual  candition  in  England  he  quotes  from  the  same  source:  "A 
spirit  }s  abroad  amongst  us  which  threatens  the  basis  of  social 
order.  It  is  a  spirit  of  lawlessness,  a  hunger  at  the  hearts  of  men — 
a  law  of  anarchy.  It  pervades  our  literature,  degrades  our  poli- 
tics, disturbs  our  streets,  defiles  our  homes."  From  another  source 
he  quotes  on  the  same  subject:  "We  are  faced  by  a  practical 
paganism  which  finds  its  nourishment  in  the  unparallelled  in- 
crease of  wealth,  and  which  under  a  thin  veneev  of  Christian 
phrasiology  is  debasing  our  civilization." 

If  these  quotations  properly  represent  the  condition  that  ex- 
ists in  Protestantism  it  surely  is  true  as  Dr.  Chapman  says,  "the 
need  for  a  great  spiritual  awakening  is  simply  appalling."  And 
when  we  say  that  there  is  need  for  a  great  spiritual  awakening  we 
are  simply  saying  what  is  on  the  lips  of  multitudes  of  people,  for 
the  need  is  widely  recognized.  Nor  has  there  been  lacking  effort 
to  meet  it.  Hundreds  of  evangelists  are  engaged  in  this  work, 
some  of  them  famous  from  ocean  to  ocean,  others  unknown  outside 
narrow  boundaries.  Personal  Worker's  Leagues  have  been  formed 
in  many  places,  many  of  whose  members  show  great  zeal  and  ac- 
tivity. But  with  all  this  a  survey  of  the  field  shows  little  indi- 
cation that  the  conditions  are  improving.  No  deep  spiritual  influ- 
ence seems  to  be  pervading  the  life  of  the  people. 

Does  this  mean  that  the  gospel  has  lost  its  saving  and  sanc- 
tifying power?  Certainly  not.  Does  it  mean  that  the  methods 
followed  have  been  faulty?  Probably.  The  evangelism  which  this 
Committee  has  sought  to  promote,  it  is  believed,  is  of  a  scriptural 
character.  It  is  hoped  it  will  produce  permanent  results.  It  is 
evangelism  that  exalts  the  word  of  God,  and  seeks  to  increase  the 
study  of  it:  that  finds  the  secret  of  its  strength  in  prayer,  and 
seeks  to  increase  the  spirit  of  prayer  and  supplication;  that  seeks 
to  carry  its  influences  into  the  hom.es  in  the  revival  of  home  re- 
ligion; that  calls  to  the  separated  life  and  holier  living,  that  seeks 
to  awaken  intelligent  and  earnest  Christian  activity. 

It  is  such  evangelism  as  this,  it  is  believed,  that  will  produce 
permanent  results.  And  the  Covenanter  Church  is  well  equipped 
to  lead  in  this  type  of  evangelism.  She  has  always  honored  and 
magnified  the  word  of  God;  her  people  have  been  a  praying  peo- 
ple: few  of  her  homes  have  ever  been  without  the  family  altar; 
she  has  called  her  people  to  holy  living  and  the  separate  life;   she 


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has  emphasized  the  divine  principl.e  of  stewardship  both  as  relates 
to  possessions  and  talents.  She  ought  to  be  in  the  vanguard  of 
evangelistic  churches. 

The  year  has  seen  some  growth  in  the  work.  There  has  been 
a  growing  realization  in  our  congregations  of  the  obligation  to 
become  positive  evangelizing  agencies.  Most  of  our  congregations 
are  doing  something  in  this  respect.  But  as  yet  our  efforts  are  far 
from  being  adequate  to  the  demands  or  equal  to  the  opportunity 
and  the  ability.  Some  are  seeking  to  do  this  work  through  the 
Sabbath  school,  making  increased  efforts  to  lead  the  pupils  to 
Christ,  and  seeking  to  conserve  the  results  of  their  work  by 
"Decision  Day"  or  other  similar  methods.  Others  have  depended 
on  the  ordinary  services  of  the  Church,  at  least  one  of  which  each 
Sabbath  is  given  an  especially  evangelistic  tone.  Others  hold  an 
additional  service  each  month  to  which  special  efforts  are  made 
to  bring  the  unsaved.  Others  have  sought  to  culminate  the  efforts 
of  the  year  in  the  series  of  special  services  at  which  special  efforts 
have  been  made  to  gather  the  fruits  of  the  year's  sowing  and  culti- 
vation. Each  of  these  methods  has  its  own  advantages,  but  it  is 
the  conviction  of  the  Committee  that  in  the  combination  of  these 
the  best  results  will  be  obtained.  But  after  all  it  is  not  so  much  a 
matter  of  method  as  of  spirit.  The  important  thing  is  that  the 
evangelistic  spirit  shall  permeate  all  the  congregations  and  quicken 
every  heart;  that  our  pastors  shall  be  awake  to  their  responsibility 
for  the  lost  in  their  community,  and  shall  lead  their  people  in  some 
method  of  reaching  with  the  gospel  these  perishing  ones;  that 
there  shall  be  rnuch  praying  over  the  subject,  and  that  the  people 
shall  place  themselves  in  the  hands  of  the  Master  that  he  may  use 
them  as  he  will  promote  this  great  end  of  His  kingdom.  If 
these  things  are  done  there  is  little  doubt  but  that  each  congrega- 
tion will  grow  into  the  method  that  will  be  best  adapted  to  meet 
the  conditions  with   which  it  is  surrounded. 

We  recommend: 

1.  That  pastors  present  to  their  congregations  at  as  early  a 
date  in  the  synodical  year  as  possible  the  duty  of  the  congregation 
and  of  the  individual  to  the  unsaved  in  the  community. 

2.  That  each  congregation  plan  some  definite  evangelistic 
work  for  the  year  in  its  own  community. 

3.  That  wherever  practicable  the  efforts  of  the  year  shall 
culminate  in  a  series  of  special  services  in  which  the  evangelical 
truths,  of  the  gospel  shall  be  pressed  home  on  the  hearts  of  the 
hearers,  in  which  Christ  shall  be  held  before  them  as  the  only  Sav- 
ior, and  in  which  it  shall  be  sought  to  make  permanent  the  results 
of  the  year's  sowing  and  culture. 

4.  That  the  committee  continue  to  seek  to  promote  the  evan- 
gelistic spirit  among  our  people,  to  give  aid  to  congregations  and 
pastors  in  promoting  such  work  in  their  communities,  and  in  secur- 
ing suitable  assistance  where  special  services  are  undertaken. 

5.  That  the  work  of  this  Committee  be  sustained  by  the 
prayers  of  the  whole  Church,  and  that  $500.00  be  appropriated 
from  the  Domestic  Mission  Treasury  for  the  promotion  of  this 
work.  Respectfully  submitted, 

J.    S.    THOMPSON, 
R.    H.    MARTIN, 
J.     RENWICK    WYLTE, 
J.    E.    DODDS. 


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The  report  of  Presbyteries  was  called  for,  and  are  as  fol- 
lows : 

REPORT  OF  COLORADO  PRESBYTERY. 

Colorado  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report: 

We  have  held  one  regular  and  one  pro-re-nata  meeting  during 
the  year.  We  have  nine  congregations  and  two  mission  stations 
under  our  care.  Oakland  congregation  was  disorganized  August 
16,  1910,  and  Reglna  congregation  was  organized  May  20,  1911, 
making  the  number  of  our  congregations  the  same  as  last  year. 

We  have  eleven  ministers  on  our  roll.  J.  M.  Armour  and  J. 
T.  Wilson  are  superannuated.  H.  B.  McMillan  is  working  under  the 
direction  of  the  Weld  Co.  S.  S.  Association.  I.  A.  Blackwood,  who 
has  been  in  Southern  California  the  greater  i)art  of  the  year  in 
search  of  health,  resigned  the  pastorate  of  Evans  congregation 
April  25,  1911.  He  expects  to  remain  in  California  for  some  time. 
He  asks  to  be  placed  on  Synod's  list  of  supplies  for  the  year,  and 
assigned  to  Colorado  Presbytery.  Elmer  Russell  was  received  on 
certificate  from  Kansas  Presbytery,  April  2  5,  1911,  and  his  name 
placed  on  our  roll.  He  expects  to  labor  in  Canon  City  for  the 
year.  J.  M.  Wylie  was  certified  to  Kansas  Presbvtery  March  27, 
1911. 

The  salary  of  Dr.  Kate  McBurney  has  been  paid  m  full.  J.  M. 
Armour   is   recommended    to   the   Board   of   Control   for   aid. 

The  work  in  Oakland  has  been  carried  on  during  the  year 
under  the  direction  of  Mrs.  W.  C.  Allen.  Our  vacancies  are  Gree- 
ley, Evans,  Content  and  Regina.  Tlie  work  in  Portland  began  under 
the  direction  of  licentiate  Frank  D.  Fraser,  is  being  carried  on  with 
a  good  degree  of  encouragement,  and  a  Commission  has  been  ap- 
pointed to  organize  a  congregation  in  this  city.  The  time  of  W. 
C.   Allen  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod. 

We,  ask  for  the  time  of  two  and  a  half  laborers  for  the  year. 
Our  statistical  report  has  been  forwarded  to  the  Stated  Clerk, 
J,  C.  French  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Supplies. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.    C.    FRENCH,    Clerk. 

REPORT    OF    ILLINOIS    PRESBYTERY. 

Illinois  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report  that  since  the 
last  meeting  of  Synod  we  have  held  two  regular  and  one  called 
meeting  of  Presbytery.  We  have  eight  congregations,  under  our 
care,  one  less  than  in  our  last  report,  Staunton  having  become  dis- 
organized through  the  removal  of  one  of  its  two  elders.  Before 
disorganization  the  congregation  made  a  judicious  distribution 
of  its  funds  and  property,  amounting  to  about  $6,000.  It  has 
been  taken  under  the  care  of  Presbytery  as  a  Mission  Station. 
Five  of  our  congregations  have  settled  pastors,  one  less  than  last 
year,  the  Rev.  M.  M.  Pearce  having  on  March  15,  1911,  been  re- 
leased from  the  pastoral  charge  of  St.  Louis  congregation  and  cer- 
tified to  Pittsburg  Presbytery.  His  presence  and  council  are  much 
missed  in  our  meetings.  There  are  six  ministerial  members  of 
Presbytery.  On  account  of  advanced  age.  Rev.  D.  S.  Faris  Is  not 
actively  engaged  in  ministerial  work.     Rev.  G.  W.  Benn  having  be- 


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come  a  pastor  in  the   Presbyterian   Church   was   dropped   from   the 
roll. 

We  have  one  student  of  Theology,  James  Boyd  Tweed,  who 
has  completed  his  second  year  at  the  Seminary,  and  was  licensed 
to  preach  the  Gospel  on  May  10,  1911.  He  is  recommended  to 
Synod's  Committee  of  Supplies  for  preaching  during  the  vacation 
months,  and  together  with  Rev.  D.  S.  Faris  and  Miss  Anna  George, 
is  recommended  to  the  Board  of  Control  for  participation  in  the 
appropriate  funds. 

Two  of  our  congregations,  Princeton  and  Bethel,  have  during 
the  year  made  unsuccessful  calls.  These  congregations  together 
with  that  of  St.  Louis  are  very  desirous  of  speedily  securing  pas- 
tors and  present  needy  and  promising  fields  of  labor.  The  Rev. 
W.  M.  Robb  has  labored  for  six  months  with  great  acceptance  as 
Stated  Supply  of  Bethel  congregation.  Our  congregations  have 
been  helped  by  the  earnesit  work  of  the  Field  Secretary  of  the 
Foreign  Board,  the  Rev.  R.  A.  Blair. 

Our  congregations  generally  observed  the  customary  days  of 
Thanksgiving  and  Fasting.  Our  statistical  report  was  forwarded 
in  due  time.  Our  quota  of  Synod's  traveling  fund  is  paid  In  full. 
We  ask  for  the  full  time  of  two  laborers.  D.  C.  Matthews  is  chair- 
man of  the  Committee  of  supplies. 

D.   C.   MATHEWS,   Clerk. 

REPORT  OF  IOWA  PRESBYTERY. 

Iowa  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report  that  we  have  held 
two  special,  one  pro  renata  and  one  regular  meeting  during  the  past 
year  and  the  interim  Commission  has  been  called  together  on  several 
occasions. 

The  number  of  our  congregations  remains  unchanged,  but  we 
have  added  to  our  ministerial  roll  the  names  of  E.  L.  McKnight  who 
was  received  from  Kansas  Presbytery  and  installed  at  Sharon,  Jan. 
31,  1911;  H.  G.  Patterson,  who  was  received  .from  Ohio  Pres>bytery 
and  installed  in  Vernon  Congregation  on  Peib.  27,  1911;  T.  C.  Mc- 
Knight, who  was  received  as  a  licentiate  and  ordained  and  installed 
in  the  Chicago  Congregation  May  26,  1911;  and  F.  E.  Allen,  a  licen- 
tiate who  was  ordained  and  installed  at  Lake  Reno  Congregation, 
April  28,  1911. 

J.  S.  McGaw  resigned  the  pastorate  of  Sharon  Congregation 
Sept.  6,  1910,  to  take  up  the  work  of  National  Field  Secretary  of  the 
National  Reform  Association. 

Robert  Clarke  continues  to  labor  as  Financial  Agent  of  Geneva 
College;  R.  E.  Wilson  remains  at  his  post  in  the  Foreign  Mission 
field,  and  J.  A.  Black  is  unemployed. 

We  have  one  licentiate,  M.  S.  McMillan,  whose  time,  with  that 
of  W.  M.  Robb  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod.  The  Misses  Martha  and 
Juliet  Cannon  are  applicants  for  aid  from  the  Board  of  Control.  S. 
Turner  Foster  is  chairman  of  our  Committee  on  Supplies.  We  re- 
quest the  appointment  of  W.  C.  Al  en  to  la'bor  in  Iowa  Presbytery 
till  the  end  of  the  year.  Respectfully  submitted, 

GEORGE  A.  EDGAR,  Clerk. 

REPORT  OF   KANSAS   PRESBYTERY. 

Kansas  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report: 

In   the   past  year   we   have   held   one   regular   and   one   special 


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meeting  and  seven  meetings  of  our  Interim  Commission. 

With  the  organization  of  a  new  congregation  at  Stafford,  Kan- 
sas, we  now  have  nineteen  congregations  and  one  mission  station. 

With  the  recent  reception  of  Rev.  R.  A.  Boyd  into  the  fellow- 
ship of  our  ministry  we  now  have  twenty-four  ministers  on  our  ror.. 

Elmer  Russell  has  been  certified  to  Colorado  Presbytery. 

E.  L.  McKnight  has  been  certified  to  Iowa  Presbyitery. 

T.  C.  McKnight  licentiate  has  been  certified  to  Colorado  Pres- 
bytery. 

Samuel  Morrow,  licentiate,  has  been  certified  to  Rochester  Pres- 
bytery. 

James  McCune  has  been  certified  to  New  Brunswick  and  Nova 
Scotia  Presbytery. 

In  the  pastoral  relationship  the  following  changes  have  taken 
place: 

Elmer  Russel  was  released  from  the  Kansas  City  Congregation 
Dec.   6,  1910. 

E.  L.  McKnight  was  released  from  the  Olathe  congregation  Dec. 
15,  1910. 

J.  M.  Johnston  was  released  from  the  Long  Branch  congrega- 
tion March  28,  1911. 

H.  G.  McConanghy  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  Clarin- 
da    Congregation   July    20,    1910. 

J.  M.  Wylie.was  installed  pastor  of  the  Kansas  City  congrega- 
tion April  1,  1911 

J.  M.  Johnston  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Superior  Congrega- 
tion April  22,  1911. 

Of  the  twenty-four  ministers  whose  names  appear  on  our  roll, 
thirteen  are  pastors,  two  are  foreign  missionaries,  one  is  a  home  mis- 
sionary, one  has  retired,  six  are  supplying  in  vacant  congregations 
and  one  is  teaching. 

The  full  time  of  W.  T.  K.  Thompson  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod. 

The  frist  six  months  of  the  time  of  J.  Ralston  Wylie  is  at  the 
disposal  of  Synod. 

J.  W.  Dill  is  to  be  assigned  to  Kansas  Presbytery. 

Isaiah  Faris  is  to  be  assigned  to  Kansas  Presbytery. 

Kansas  Presfbytery  asks  for  the  full  time  of  two  laborers. 

Our  statistical  report  was  forwarded  to  J.  S.  Tibby  in  due  time. 

Our  quota  to  the  travelling  fund  is  full. 

A  call  is  pending  from  the  Mercer  congregation  on  W.  T.  K. 
Thompson. 

J.  M.  Johnson  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Supplies. 

D.  H.  Coulter  is  recommended  to  the  Board  of  COntrol.  , 

W.  A.  AIKIN,  Clerk. 

REPORT   OF  NEW   BRUNSWICK   AND   NOVA   SCOTIA 
PRESBYTERY. 

The  New  Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia  Presbytery  would  respect- 
fully report  that  we  have  three  congregations  each  of  which  has  a 


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settled  pastor,  James  McCune  having  been  received  on  certificate 
from  Kansas  Presbytery  and  installed  pastor  of  the  Barnesvil  e  con- 
gregation July  7th,  1910.  Mrs.  Margaret  Lawson  is  recommended  to 
the  Board,  of  Control  for  a  share  in  the  funds  at  its  disposal.  We 
ask  for  no  supplies.  Respectfully  submitted 

JAMES   M'CUNE    Clerk. 

.     REPORT    OF   NEW   YORK   PRESBYTERY. 

New  York  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report: 

During  the  year  we  have  held  one  regular  meeting.  On  October 
20,  1910,  A.  A.  Johnson  was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  of  Wal- 
ton congregation.  By  the  death  of  Elder  John  Babcock,  on  March  31, 
1911,  Craftsbury  congregation  became  disorganized.  The  matter  of 
the  church  property  at  Craftsbury  is  referred  to  Synod's  Board  of 
Trustees  with  due  recognition  of  the  claims  of  the  Board  of  Church 
Erection.  Presbytery  has  authorized  the  union  of  Rye^ate  congrega- 
tion witli  Barnet. 

We  have  16  congregations  under  our  care,  of  which  3  are  with- 
out pastors.  These  vacant  congregations  are  Brooklyn,  Montclair 
and  Ryegate.     D.  C.  Faris  is  stated  supply  at  Ryegate. 

We  enroll  18  ministers  of  whom  13  are  pastors,  3  are  iu  the 
foreign  field,  one  is  laboring  in  Arizona,  and  one  is  engaged  in  secu- 
lar employment.  We  have  two  licentiates,  Frederick  F.  Reade  and 
John  M.  Rutherford.  The  full  time  of  Mr.  Rutherford  and  the  vaca- 
tion months  of  Mr.  Reade  are  at  the  disposal  of  Synod. 

We  recommend  the  following  to  the  Board  of  Control:  Mrs. 
Rosamond  Johnston  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Williams  for  participation  in 
the  Fund  for  Widows  and  Orphans,  Fred  P.  Reade  for  participation 
in  Students  Aid  Fund,  Wm.  M.  George  for  participation  in  Aged  Min- 
isters   Fund. 

We  require  three-fourths  of  the  time  of  one  laborer.  John  W. 
F.  Carlisle  is  chairman  of  Committee  on  Supplies. 

Our   statistical   report   was   forwarded   in   due   time. 

Our  Travelling  Fund  is  full. 

Respectfully  suibmitted, 

JOHN  H.   PRITCHARD,   Clerk. 
REPORT    OF    OHIO    PRESBYTERY. 

During   the  year   one   regular  meeting   was  held. 

There  are  fourteen  congregations  and  two  mission  stations 
under  our  care.  These  have  a  membership  of  772.  The  Detroit 
congregation  was  organized  June  2  9,  1910.  Six  congregations 
are  vacant.  D.  O.  Jack  was  released  from  Cincinnati  and  W.  J. 
Sanderson  from  Cedarville  at  the  meeting  of  Presbytery,  at  Fair- 
grove,  September  14,  1910.  A  call  of  the  Southfield  congregation 
on  W.  P.  Johnson  has  been  sustained  and  transferred  to  Pittsburg 
Presbytery.      Cedar  Lake  has  asked  the  moderation  of  a  call. 

Six  of  our  ordained  ministers  are  without  charges.  Louis 
Meyer  does  noit  wish  appointments  from  the  Committee  of  Sup- 
plies, his  full  time  being  taken  up  in  religious  work  on  behalf  of 
the  Jews.  E.  C.  Mitchell  is  one  of  our  missionaries  in  China.  R.  A. 
Blair  is  at  present  lecturing  in  the  interest  of  missions  under  the 
Foreign  Board.  W.  J.  Sanderson  is  principal  of  Knox  Academy, 
Selma.  C.  M.  Smith  is  stated  supply  at  Detroit.  The  full  time  of 
D.  O.  Jack  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod. 


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Mrs.    Susan   Love    and    Mrs.    Walter   Wilson    are    recommended 
for  aid   from  the  Widow's  and  Orphan's  Fund. 
Our  quota  to  the  traveling  fund  is  full. 

S.  R.  Wallace  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Supplies 
and  W.  J.   McBurney  is  Presbyterial  treasurer. 

Respectfully   submitted, 

JOHN   COLEMAN,    Clerk. 

REPORT  OF  PITTSBURG  PRESBYTERY. 

The  Pittsburg  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report: 
Since  the  last  regular  meeting  of  Synod  we  have  held  two  reg- 
ular and  three  called  meetings.  There  are  twenty-six  congregations 
under  our  care,  twenty  of  which  have  settled  pastors,  three  of 
whom  have  douljle  charges.  We  have  forty-three  ministers  on  our 
roll. 

The  following  changes  have  taken  plac^j  during  the  year. 
We  record  with  sorrow  the  death  of  Dr.  R.  J.  George  on  February 
11,  1911.  David  Raymond  Taggart  was  ordained  at  Beaver  Falls, 
Pa.  on  September  6,  1910  at  the  request  of  the  Board  of  Foreign 
Missions,  and  is  a  missionary  in  China.  John  Yates  was  received 
from  Rochester  Presbytery  and  installed  pastor  of  Central  Alle- 
gheny Congregation  June  16,  1910.  Robert  Park  was  received 
as  a  licentiate  from  Rochester  Presbytery  and  ordained  and  in~ 
stalled  pastor  of  Parnassus  Congregation  November  11,  1910. 
M.  M.  Pearce  was  received  from  Illinois  Presbytery  and  installed 
pastor  of  East  End  Congregation  April  28,  1911.  J.  M.  Coleman 
was  released  from  the  Mercer  Congregation  September  6,  1910.  J. 
Renwick  Wylie  was  released  from  the  pastorate  of  Little  Beaver 
Congregation  May  8,  1911.  Licentiate  A.  A.  Johnston  was  at  his 
own   request   transferred   to  New   York   Presbytery. 

George  Slater  Coleman  received  licensure  to  preach  the  Gospel 
at  the  meeting  of  Presbytery  at  New  Galilee  May  9,  1911  and  will 
spend  the  summer  months  in  the  Indian  Mission. 

Our  licentiates  are  Paul  Coleman,  George  S.  Coleman,  F.  D. 
Eraser   and   W.    M.    Milroy. 

The  full  time  of  the  following  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod: 
R.  J.  Dodds,  A.  J.  McFarland,  F.  D.  Eraser,  Paul  Coleman,  R.  C. 
Allen,  T.  J.  Allen,  T.  C.  Sproull,  J.  F.  Crozler,  B.  M.  Sharp,  J.  Ren- 
wick Wylie  and  the  third  of  the  time  of  T.  A.  McElwain. 

Presbytery  asks  for  the  time  of  three  laborers. 

S.  J.  Johnston  is  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Supplies. 

Our  quota  to  Synod's  Traveling  Fund  is  full. 

Our  statistical  report  was  duely  forwarded  to  the  Stated 
Clerk. 

The  following  were  recommended  to  the  Board  of  Control: 
Mrs.  Charles  Clyde,  Mrs.  Nancy  Reid,  J.  C.  K.  Faris  and  T.  A. 
McElwain.  Respectfully   submitted, 

J.    C.    SLATER,    Clerk. 

REPORT   OF    PHILADELPHIA    PRESBYTERY. 

The  Philadelphia  Presbytery  would  respectfully  report: 

During  the  past  year  Presbytery  has  held  three  meetings — two 
regular  and  one  pro  renata.      At  the  pro  renata  meeting  April   28, 


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1911,  R.  C.  Montgomery  was  released  from  the  pastorate  of  tne 
Third  Church  of  Philadelphia.  No  other  changes  have  taken 
place  since  our  last  report.  The  full  time  of  R.  C.  Montgomery 
is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod.  E.  J.  Feuersohn  is  in  charge  of  Jewish 
Mission.  We  ask  for  half  time  of  one  laborer  from  October  1, 
1911,  to  June  1,  1912.  J.  C.  McFeeters  is  chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee of  Supplies. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

R.   C.   MONTGOMERY,   Clerk. 

REPORT    OF    ROCHESTER    PRESBYTERY. 

Rochester  Presbytery  would   respectfully  report: 

During  the  year  two  regular  meetings  were  held.  Licentiate 
Robert  Park  was  transferred  to  Pittsburg  Presbytery  by  a  Com- 
mission which  met  in  Syracuse,  October  12,  1910.  On  the  same 
date,  Licentiate  Samuel  M.  Morrow  was  received  from  Kansas 
Presbytery,  ordained  to  the  gospel  ministry  and  installed  pastor  of 
Syracuse    congregation. 

There  are  tive  congregations  under  our  care,  all  of  them 
having  pastors.  We  have  one  mission  station;  one  minister,  Wil- 
liam  McFarland,  whose  full  time  is  at  the  disposal  of  Synod. 

Walter  C.  MacClurkin  is  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  sup- 
plies. 

Our  quota  to  Synod's  traveling  fund  is  full. 

Our  statistical  report  was  forwarded  to  the  Stated  Clerk  of 
Synod  at  the  proper  time. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
WALTER   C.    MAC   CLURKIN,   Clerk. 

The  eCommittee  on  State  of  Religion  reported.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT   OF   COMMITTEE    ON   THE    STATE    OF   RELIGION. 

"For  as  he  (a  man)  thinketh,  in  his  heart,  so  is  he."  What  a 
man  is,  Is  his  religion,  whatever  he  may  profess.  His  religion  is 
the  best  or  the  worst  thing  about  him.  Our  reigion  should  be  of 
the  whole  man.  No  other  Church  has  set  such  a  high  ideal  as  that 
expressed  in  our  Covenants.  Have  we  reached  our  ideal?  Are 
we  satisfied  with  present  attainments?  Are  we  willing  to  re- 
linquish any  of  the  crown  rights  of  our  Redeemer?  In  such  a  day 
as  this,  when  our  country — the  world  needs  the  truth,  and  the 
whole  truth  as  never  before,  there  can  be  but  one  answer.  We 
must   keep    up   the   standard. 

But  the  world  sees  not  our  covenant  on  creed,  it  sees  us.  The 
world  takes  little  note  of  what  we  say  in  our  pulpits,  and  Church 
Councils;    it  is  too  busy  watching  how  we  act. 

Paul's  advice  is  good,  "Take  heed  unto  Thyself  and  unto  the 
Doctrine."  Is  the  saying  not  true  of  many  in  the  Church,  "What 
you  are,  speaks  so  loud  that  I  cannot  hear  what  you  say."  If  we 
make  a  business  of  our  religion,  our  religion  will  take  care  of  our 
business. 

The  principal  things  which  have  guided  the  inquiries  of 
your  committee,  in  preparing  a  report  are: 


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1.  The  regularity  of  the  membership  in  their  observance  of 
the  ordinances  and  the  improvements  of  the  means  of  Grace. 

1^.  Their  maintenance  of  a  constant  Cliristian  life  and  tes- 
timony before  the  world. 

3.  The   preservation   of  peace  and    unity   in  her   Communion. 

4.  An  aggressive  and  progressive  program  for  the  advance- 
ment of  Christ's  Kingdom  in  the  earth. 

Your  committee  sent  letters  to  every  congregation  whose  cor- 
respondent We  could  find,  making  inquiry  on  the  basis  of  last 
year's  questions  and  report.  We  received  thirty-nine  replies,  a 
few  more  than  one-third  of  our  congregations.  Are  we  to  con- 
clude the  remaining  two-thirds  can  report  no  change?  or  are  they 
asleep?  or  have  they  the  name  only  that  they  live?  It  is  scarcely 
fair  for  the  church  to  set  a  committee,  a  task  whose  successful 
work  depends  so  largely  upon  the  responses  of  all  the  congrega- 
tions, and  then  compel  that  committee  to  make  a  report  that  shows 
the  spiritual  condition  of  the  whole  Church.  Your  Committee 
therefore  can  only  report  on  such  information  as  came  in  answer 
to  our  inquiries,  and  conclude  with  an  observation  or  two  in  re- 
lation to  the  Church  as  a  whole. 

Summing  up  the  reports  of  the  thirty-nine  congregations,  we 
make    the    following    observations: 

Practically  all  report  good  attendance  upon  the  public  ordin- 
ances. 

The  most  of  them  report  good  interest  in  the  prayer  meet- 
ings, one  or  two  of  them  a  very  marked  interest  with  nearly  doubled 
attendance.      None  speaking  of  decline  in   interest. 

Where  family  visiting  has  been  conducted  the  reports  show  for 
the  most  part,  the  faithful  keeping  up  of  Family  Religion;  such 
as  family  worship,  blessings  at  meals,  private  duties  of  closet, 
reading  of  the  word,  etc.  One  or  two  say  that  "Family  worship 
is  not  observed  as  well  as  we  would  like.  In  many  rases  the 
early  and  late  hours  of  the  husband  and  father  interfere." 

Seven  or  eight  report  an  increase  of  interest,  attendance  and 
better  equipment  for  Sabbath  School   work. 

Five  make  special  mention  of  increase  of  interest  and  deep- 
ening'of  the  spiritual  life  of   their  young  people. 

Seven  or  eight  make  special  mention  of  enlarged  interest 
in  giving  liberally  to  missions.  The  "every  member"  canvas 
particularly  bears  fruit. 

Ten   or  a   dozen   report  satisfying   gains   in   liberality. 

Quite  a  number  mention  gains  in  Evangelistic  interest  and 
work. 

One  speaks  of  a  reviving  interest  and  fidelity  in  the  Church's 
distinctive   principles. 

.     Thirteen  congregations  out  of  thirty-nino  report  no  appreciable 
change. 

But  such  reports  are  not  to  be  necessarily  interpreted  as  a 
stand  still  in  religious  life  and  iK-tivity.  It  may  mean  that  there 
has  not  been  in  the  past  year  any  manifestations  of  increase  in  re- 
ligious activity,  but  tlie  level  maintained  may  be  high  or  it  may 
be  low.  Where  it  is  low  it  is  usually  marked  by  absence  of  pas- 
toral oversight  or  unpleasant  and  distracting  divisions  in  the  con- 


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k   ■  t    -       ■     "    'n   many   cases    the   reports   show  the   maintenance 

of  a  high  level  of  spiritual  activity. 

Only  two  congregations  turn  in  discouraging  reports  of  loss  in 
spiritual  life  and  activity.  Both  of  these  have  been  without  pas- 
toral oversight.  One  of  them  is  a  congregation  where  there  seems 
to  be  little  field  for  work,  old  and  scattered  membership  and  very 
few  in  number. 

Realizing  that  our  subject  was  of  greater  importance  than 
making  a  few  inquiries  and  preparing  a  routine  report  before 
Synod  your  Committee  entered  upon  a  plan  to  interest  the  whole 
Church  in  a  fuller  consideration  of  the  most  vital  question  of  our 
Church  life,  and  securing  the  co-operation  of  our  weekly  paper, 
wrote  personal  letters  to  a  number  of  ministers,  asking  each  to 
write  an  article  bearing  upon  some  phase  of  the  subject  in  its  rela- 
tion to  Churc!)  life.  The  most  of  these  requests  have  been  com- 
plied with.  The  articles  have  been  interesting,  instructive  and 
helpful,  and  cannot  but  result  in  good.  We  take  this  occasion  to 
thank  those  who  have  so  kindly  co-operated  with  us,  and  trust  this 
may  be  the  beginning  of  a  larger  use  of  our  Church  papers  to  stir 
up  the  spiritual  interest  and  enthusiasm  of  all  our  congregations 
into  a  more  united  and  devoted  cultivation  of  the  Spiritual  life. 

Turning  away  from  our  immediate  information  through  re- 
ports from  congregations  your  committee  feels  that  it  is  due  the 
Church  to  take  into  consideration  other  signs  which  are  important 
as  showing  the  Spiritual  condition  of  the  church  as  a  whole. 

1.  It  is  to  be  deplored  as  an  evidence  that  the  religious  life 
is  not  in  the  most  healthy  condition,  that  differences  have  arisen 
in  the  Church,  which  if  continued,  and  agitated  grow  into  divis- 
ions which  disturb  the  Church's  peace  and  wreck  her  influence. 
For  the  sake  of  Zion's  Peace,  whose  very  dust  is  precious,  shall 
we  not  take  warning  of  the  past,  cease  strife  and  unite  our  efforts 
for  the  great  work   of  Christ's   Kingdom   in  such   a  time   as   this? 

2.  We  may  be  greatly  cheered  by  the  evidences  of  increased 
life  and  activity  in  the  field  of  witness  bearing.  Two  field  workers 
have  been  giving  all  their  time  to  this  work  and  judging  from 
itheir  efforts  they  are  being  well  received  into  fields  of  widening 
influence.  It  does  us  good  to  witness  for  unpopular  truths  in  the 
fear  of  Christ.      God   will  own  his  word. 

3.  The  Church  has  also  through  the  agency  of  the  National 
Reform  Association  been  pressing  the  cltiims  of  Christ  upon  a 
more  extensive  scale  than  ever.  The  Woi'ld's  Conference  in  Phil- 
adelphia, at  which  reports  were  heard  and  discussed  which  showed 
the  progress  of  pressing  the  claims  of  the  King  of  Kings,  upon  all 
Gx>vernments  and  Institutions  of  men;  as  well  as  the  activity  of  the 
year  in  Reform  work  show  that  the  leadership  of  this  great  move- 
ment for  which  our  own  Church  is  mainly  responsible  is  alive  to 
the  issues   of  Our  Redeemer's  Kingdom. 

A  The  activity  of  the  Church  also  in  other  lines  of  work,  such 
as  Evangelism,  Church  extension,  temperance,  and  the  different  mis- 
sions in  the  home  field,  show  a  spiritual  interest  and  activity 
which  prove  that  our  religion  is  far  from  dead.  But  more  than 
these  is  the  ever  growing  interest  and  activity  manifested 
in  the  Missions  of  our  Church  in  other  lands.  The 
good  accounts  of  the  earnest  labors  of  'he  workers  in  the  field, 
the  encouraging  fruits   of  their  sacrificial   labors,   and  the   earnest 


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intercessions  of  the  Church,  the  vigorous  and  faithful  services  per- 
formed by  our  Missionary  boards  and  field  workers  are  evidences 
of  a  regenerated  Church  which  is  convinced  that  she  has  a  Mis- 
sion to  the  whole  world  and  is  carrying  out  her  mission  with  a 
breadth  of  purpose  and  scope  of  vision,  such  as  no  other  church 
seems  to  comprehend,  and  which  bear  evidence  that  her  high  pro- 
fession is  not  an  idle  claim. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

H.  G.  PATTERSON, 

P.  J.  McDonald, 

S.  E.  GREER. 

The, courtesies  of  tlie  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  J.  H. 
Kendal  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  General  Synod, 
and  to  the  Rev.  S.  B.  Houston  of  the  Associate  Presbyterian 
Church. 

The  Committee  on  Systematic  P)eneficence  reported.  The 
report  was  accepted  and  laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

Synod  adjourned  to  meet  tomorrow  morning  at  9  o'clock. 
Prayer  by  J.  T.  Mitchell. 


MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Friday,  June  2,  9  A.  M.  The  Synod  convened  at 
the  appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  J.  S. 
Thompson.  The  roll  was  called,  and  the  following  did  not  ans- 
wer to  their  names :    W.  J.  Adams,  Robert  Allen,  T.  J.  Allen,  W. 

C.  Allen,  J.  W.  F.  Carlisle,  Wm.  G.  Carson,  Robert  Clarke,  D.  N. 
Crowe,  S.  J.  Crowe,  J.  F.  Crozier,  J.  W.  F.  Duguid,  E.  M.  Elsey, 

D.  S.  Faris,  W.  Henry  George,  J.  H.  McGee,  D.  C.  Martin,  Rob- 
ert Miller,  R.  C.  Montgomery,  O.  C.  Orr,  H.  G.  Patterson,  W.  J. 
Sanderson,  J.  Z.  Sterrett,  John  J.  M.  Thompson,  and  J.  Renwick 
Wylie,  most  of  whom  soon  appeared. 

Synod  engaged  in  one-half  hour  of  devotions,  led  by  J.  H. 
Sloane. 

The  Minutes  of  the  session  of  yesterday  afternoon  were  read 
and  approved. 

Synod's  Board  of  Trustees  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

Papers  were  called  for. 

No.  10.  Memorial  from  Kansas  Presbytery.  Referred  to 
Committee  on  Discipline. 


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No.  II.  The  Complaint  of  R.  M.  Moore  and  others  against 
the  Kansas  Presbytery.  Referred  to  the  Committee  on  DiscipUne. 

A  letter  from  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod  of  Ireland 
was  read  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Correspon- 
dence. 

The  report  of  J.  S.  Tibby,  Treasurer  of  the  Literary  Fund 
was  read  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Board  of  Corporators  of  Geneva  College  reported.  The 
report  was  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Theological 
Sem,inary  and  Geneva  College. 

The  Board  of  Trustees  of  Geneva  College  reported.  The  re- 
port was  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Theological 
Seminary  and  Geneva  College,  with  instructions  to  make  special 
inquiry  into  the  matter  of  the  curriculum  of  the  college,  and  the 
management  of  its  finances. 

A  bill  for  $5.00  for  printing  the  Order  of  Business  and  the 
Program  of  Devotional  Exercises  was  read  and  ordered  paid  from 
the  Literary  Fund. 

A  bill  for  40  cents  for  sending  a  telegram  to  R.  J.  Gault 
under  the  instructions  of  the  Synod  was  presented  b\'  the  Clerk 
and  was  ordered  paid  from  the  Literary  Fund. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Systematic  Beneficence  was 
taken  from  the  table,  and  was  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  1.     Stricken  out. 

Item  2.     Amended  and  adopted. 

Item  3.  This  item  was  laid  on  the  table  to  entertain  a  sub- 
stitute proposed  by  R.  A.  Blair.  The  item,  together  with  the 
substitute  was  referred  to  a  special  Committee  to  report  during 
this  mieeting  of  Synod. 

Item  4.     Referred  to  the  same  Committee. 
Item  5.     Adopted. 
Item  6.     Adopted. 

The  body  of  the  report  was  recom»nitted.  The  regular  Com- 
mittee on  Systematic  Beneficence  and  the  Special  Committee  ap- 


32  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

pointed  to  consider  items  3  and  4  of  the  report  were  instructed 
to  hold  a  joint  meeting. 

The  name  of  M.  M.  Pearce  was  added  to  the  Permanent 
Committee  on  EvangeHstic  Work. 

Synod  took  recess  until  2  P.  M.    Prayer  by  J.  W.  Rose. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Same  place,  2  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  and  was  led  in 
prayer  by  S.  F.  King-ston.  The  roll  was  called.  The  minutes  of 
the  morning  session  were  read  and  approved. 

Papers  were  called  for. 

No.  12.  Complaint  of  T.  G.  Graham  against  Kansas  Pres- 
bytery.    The  paper  was  referred  to  the  Conmiittee  on  Discipline. 

No.  13.  Complaint  of  certain  members  of  the  Santa  Ana 
Congregation  against  the  Colorado  Presbytery.  The  paper  was 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Discipline. 

The  Committee  on  Nominations  was  instructed  to  present 
names  of  members  to  fill  the  places  on  the  Witness  Bearing  Com- 
mittee of  those  members  whose  terms  of  office  expires  this 
year. 

The  Committee  on  National  Reform  reported,  presenting  a 
majority  report  signed  by  four  members  of  the  Committee.  A 
minority  report  was  also  presented,  signed  by  one  member  of  the 
Committee.  The  majority  report  was  accepted  and  taken  up  item 
by  item  for  adoption. 

Pending  the  discussion  of  a  motion  to  strike  out  certain 
parts  of  the  report  the  hour  of  adjournment  arrived.  Synod  ad- 
journey  to  meet  tomorrow  morning  at  y  o'clock.  Prayer  by  D. 
C.   Mathews. 


MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Saturday,  June  3,  9  A.  M.  Synod  convened  at 
the  appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  J.  C.  K. 
Faris.  The  roll  was  called,  and  the  following  did  not  answer  to 
their  names:     R.  A.  Blair,  Wm.  Blair,  R.  A.  Bole.  P.  P.  Boyd, 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  33 

Robert  Clarke,  D.  N.  Crowe,  J.  F.  Crozier,  E.  M.  Elsey,  W. 
Henry  George,  D.  O.  Jack,  J.  R.  Latimer,  R.  J.  McCracken,  J. 
H.  McGee,  D.  C.  Martin,  R.  H.  Martin,  Robert  Miller,  J.  H. 
Pritchard.  John  J.  j\f.  Thompson,  and  Jesse  W.  Wilson,  most  of 
whom  soon  appeared. 

Synod  engaged  in  one-half  hour  of  devotional  exercises,  led 
by  T.  P.  Stevenson.  ^ 

The  minutes  of  the  session  of  yesterday  afternoon  were  read 
and  approved.  It  was  ordered  that  the  names  of  those  not  ans- 
wering to  their  names  at  roll  call  yesterday  afternoon  be  not  re- 
corded. 

S.  M.  Morrow  was  granted  leave  of  absence  from  the  remain- 
ing sessions  of  the  Synod  on  acount  of  a  death  in  his  congrega- 
tion, he  to  be  permitted  to  participate  in  the  Traveling  Fund. 

An  item  of  finance  connected  with  the  work  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Catechism  and  Manual  of  Doctrine  was  presented  and 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  special  order  of  the  day,  Item  3  of  the  report  of  the 
Committee  of  Unfinished  lUisiness  was  laid  on  the  table  until  the 
next  meeting  of  Synod. 

All  speeches  during  the  remaining  discussion  of  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform  were  limited  to  five  min- 
utes unless  by  permission  of  the  Court. 

The  motion  to  strike  out  a  certain  part  of  the  report  of  the 
Committee  on  National  Reform,  under  discussion  at  the  time  of 
adjournment  yesterday  evening,  was  amended  to  read,  To  strike 
out  a  certain  part  of  the  report,  and  to  insert  in  its  place  a  sub- 
stitute offered  by  D.  B.  Wilson. 

T.  P.  Stevenson  and  J.  M.  Coleman  were  granted  an  exten- 
sion of  time  in  discussing  this  motion.  The  item  as  amended  was 
adopted. 

Item  2.     Adopted. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

Item  5.     Amended  and  adopted. 

Item  6.  Pending  the  discussion  of  this  item  the  report  was 
laid  on  the  table  to  give  place  to  other  business  that  must  be  at- 


34  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

tended  to  before  the  adjournment  of  the  Court  today. 

The  Mission  Conference  reported.  The  report  was  laid  on 
the  table  except  the  items  of  finance  which  were  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Synod  adjourned  to  meet  on  Monday  at  9  o'clock. 
Praver  bv  W.  C.  McClurkin. 


MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Monday,  June  5,  9  A.  M.  Synod  met  at  the  ap- 
pointed hour  and  was  constituted  wiith  pra}'er  by  W.  Ji  Coleman. 
The  roll  was  called  and  the  foUowincf  did  not  answer  to  their 
names  :  R.  E.  Allen,  W.  C.  Allen,  John  Armstrong,  J.  A.  Black, 
R.  A.  Blair,  Wm.  Blair,  T.  C.  Cannon,  J.  W.  F.  Carlisle,  J.W.  Car- 
son, Robert  Clarke,  J.  ^I.  Coleman,  S.  G.  Conner,  A.  Copeland,  E. 
A.  Crooks,  D.  N.  Crowe.  J.  F.  Crozier,  J.  Boggs  Dodds,  E.  M.  El- 
sey,  J.  C.  K.  Faris,  C.  M.  Finley,  W.  Henry  George,  D.  O.  Jack, 
D.  H.  C.  Johnston,  J.  M.  Johnston,  W.  P.  Johnston,  J.  R.  Latimer, 
T.  A.  McElwain,  J.  H.  McGee,  D.  C.  Manin,  R.  H.  Martin,  J.  s! 
Martin,  Robert  Miller,  W.  W.  Mitchell,  K.  C.  Montgomery,  J.  G. 
Reed.'j.  H.  Sloane,  James  Shields,  T.  M.  Slater,  G.  R.  Steele, 
John  J..M.  Thompson  and  J.  Renwick  Wylie.  most  of  whom  soon 
appeared. 

Synod  engaged  in  one-half  hour  devotions,  led  by  Samuel 
Carmichael. 

The  minutes  of  the  session  of  Saturday  morning  were  read 
and  approved. 

The  courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  W. 
I.  Wishart  of  the  United  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Allegheny,  Pa. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
taken  from  the  table. 

Item  17  was  taken  up.  The  re|X)rt  was  accepted  and  taken 
up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Section  I. 

Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     Adopted. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 


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Item  5.     Adopted. 
Item  6.     Adopted. 

Section  II. 

Item  I.  Amended  and  adopted. 

Item  2.  Adopted. 

Item  3.  Adopted. 

Item  4.  Adopted. 

Item  5.  Adopted. 

The  report  w,as  adopted  as  a  whole  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  TO  CLASSIFY  CONGREGATIONS 
AND   MINISTERS   ON   SUPPLY. 

Your  committee  appointed  to  classify  congregations  and  min- 
isters, asking  for  supplies,  and  also  to  re-classify  all  the  congre- 
gations with  respect  to  the  minimum  salary  would  respectfully 
report: 

I.   In  classifications  of  congregations  and  ministers  on  supply. 

1.  That  the  Committee  on  Supplies  of  each  Presbytery  unite 
with  the  Session  of  each  vacant  congregation  as  a  special  com- 
mittee to  confer  in  procuring  satisfactory  available  candidates  for 
a  call  with  a  view  to  an  early  settlement. 

2.  That  Presbyteries  avoid  as  far  as  possible  the  appointment 
of  a  stated  supply  to  any  congregation  seeking  a  pastor,  and  in  no 
case  to  appoint  such  a  supply  for  more  than  six  months. 

3.  That  the  Synod's  committee  of  supplies  shall  be  appointed 
for  the  full  synodical  year;  that  this  committee  shall  keep  a  full 
list  of  the  supplies,  furnish  such  lists  from  time  to  time  to  the 
Presbyteries,  and  make  a  full  report  of  it's  work  to  Synod. 

4.  That  Presbyteries  shall  report  promptly  all  supplies  to 
Synod's  Committee  of  Supplies. 

5.  That  ministers  not  sufficiently  provided  for  under  these 
rules  be  referred  to  the  Board  of  Control. 

6.  That  Synod  take  steps  to  make  more  adequate  provision 
for  superannuated  ministers  and  others  who  may  be  dependent  upon 
the  Board  of  Control. 

We  would  reco'T)imend  the  following  rules  for  the  classification 
of  Congregations,   and  minimum  salary  for  each. 

1.  All  the  congregations  shall  be  divided  into  three  classes. 

A.  All  congregations  in  cities  over  50,000  population. 

B.  All   congregations  in   cities   under   50,000    and   over    2,000. 

C.  All  country  congregations  and  in  towns  and  villages  under 
2,000  population. 

2.  That  the  minimum  salary  of  congregations  of  class  A  shall 
be    $1,400;    class    B,    $1,300    and    class    C    $900. 

3.  Any  congregation  resting  under  peculiar  condi  ions  which 
make  the  expense  of  living  out  of  proportion  to  other  congregations 


36  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OP  THE 

of  the  same  class  may  seek  adjustment  from  its  presbytery  and  the 
Mission  Conference. 

4.  We  recommend  that  where  congregations  receiving  aid 
have  settled  pastors,  Synod's  Treasurer  be  directed  upon  the  order 
of  the  Central  Board  of  Missions  to  remit  tlie  appropriation  in 
equal  monthly  installments,  directly  to  the  pastors  of  such  con- 
gregations and  send  notification  of  the  same  to  the  Treasurer  ot 
the  Presbytery. 

In  all  other  cases  receiving  aid  we  recommend  that  remittances 
shall  be  made  according  to  the  work  done  through  Presbytery's 
Treasurer  as  per  the  report  of  the  Clerk  of  Presbytery. 

5,  The  item  referring  to  minimum  salary  shall  not  go  into 
effect  for  one  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

P.  J.  McDonald, 

GEO.   A.   EDGAR, 
THOS.  McPALL, 
R.    HARGRAVE, 
F.    M.    FOSTER, 
'  J.    B.    GILMORE, 

D.    C.    MATHEWS, 
A.    KILPATRICK. 

Item     6.     Attended  to  to  the  satisfaction  of  the  Board. 

Item  9.  Attended  to.  No  action  was  taken  towards  estab- 
lishing a  mission  among  the  Mountain  Whites  because  no  funds 
were  received  by  the  Board  for  this  purpose  in  response  to  their 
appeal  to  the  Church. 

Item  12.     Attended  to. 

Item  14.  The  Committee  reported.  Pending  the  discus- 
sion of  the  report  of  the  Committee  the  whole  matter  was  indefi- 
nitely prostponed. 

Item  19.     Attended  to. 

Item  24.  The  Committee  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows 

REPORT   OF  THE   COMMITTEE   ON  MUSIC   FOR   THE   NEW 

PSALTER. 

The  Committee  on  the  Selection  of  Music  for  the  Revised  Psalter 
reports  that  a  meeting  was  held  in  Philadelphia  the  latter  part  of 
December,  1910.  In  this  meeting  the  Committee  was  favored  with 
the  presence  and  invaluable  assistance  of  Professor  Clarke,  Doctor 
of  Music  of  the  University  of  Pennsylvania.  A  large  part  of  the 
work  already  done  was  revised,  and  selections  were  made  for  the 
new  versions  which  had  not  formerly  been  in  our  hands.  It  is  not 
necessary  for  the  Committee  to  make  any  new  recommendations, 
but  attention  is  called  to  those  adopted  last  year.  A  bill  of  expense 
amounting  to    $41.70,   was  incurred   on   account   of  the  meeting   in 


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Philadelphia  which  we  recommend  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary  Fund. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
R.   C.   WYLIE 
W.    J.    COLEMAN 
S.    A.    S.    METHENY 
ROBT.   A.   M.   STEELE 

Item  25.     Attended  to.     The  report  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    ON    PRINTING    THE    PSALTER 

Having  been  appointed  to  receive  suggestions  of  corrections 
to  or  changes  in  the  work  of  the  Committee  of  selection  of  tunes  for 
the   Psalter;    authorized   to   secure  competent  assistance  in   editing 

the  music  and  oppointed  to  superintend  the     preparation     of     the 
music  plates;   we  would  respectfully  report: 

1.  All  suggestions  received  were  referred  to  the  Music  Com- 
mittee at  their  last  meeting  and  were  given  careful  consideration. 

2.  We  have  associated  with  us,  as  editor,  Hugh  A.  Clarke,  Mus. 
Doc,  Professor  of  Music  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  a  man 
of  scholarly  attainment,  devout  in  character  and  a  master  in  music. 

3.  The  plates  for  the  Psalter  are  being  prepared  with  all  the 
haste  compatible  with  accuracy.  Those  for  Psalm  119  are  now  in 
hand. 

S.  A.   S.  METHENY. 

Item  27.  The  Committee  reported.  The  report  was  accept- 
ed and  adopted  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OP  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  CATECHISM  AND  MANUAL 

OF  DOCTRINE. 

Your  Committee  appointed  ito  prepare  a  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Catechism,  Manual  of  Doctrine  and  History  of  the  Church,  won  d 
report  that  we  have  prepared  these  documents  and  published  them 
in  whole  or  in  part  to  the  Church  with  requests  for  criticism  and 
suggestion.  This  request  elicited  very  slight  comment.  Your  Com- 
mittee now  desire  to  place  them  at  you  disposal  or  ask  for  further 
instructions  in  bringing  them  before  the  Church. 

We  report  an  expense  of  $4.00  incurred  for  the  services  of  a 
stenographer,  which  we  recommend  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary 
Fund. 

In  behalf  of  the  Committee, 

GEO.  A.  EDGAR,  Chairman. 

The  Committee  was  instructed  to  print  the  Catechism  and 
Manual  of  Doctrine  for  distribution  to  the  ministers  and  elders 
of  the  Church. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
laid  on  the  table. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform  was  taken 
from  tlie  table.     The  consideration  of  Item  4  of  the  report,  which 


38  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

was  under  consideration  when  the  report  went  to  the  table  on 
Saturday  morning,  was  resumed.  Pending  the  consideration  of 
this  item  the  hour  for  recess  arrived.  Synod  took  recess  until 
2  P.  M.    Prayer  by  J.  A.  McKee. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Same  place,  June  5,  2  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  at  the  ap- 
pointed hour  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  S.  J.  Crowe.  The 
roll  was  called  and  the  following  did  not  answer  to  their  names : 
Robert  Allen,  W.  C.  Allen,  Thomas  Boggs,  Wm.  G.  Carson, 
Robert  Clarke,  A.  C.  Coulter,  D.  N.  Crowe,  J.  F.  Crozier,  D.  H. 
Elliott,  E.  M.  Elsey,  J.  C.  K.  Faris,  W.  O.  Ferguson,  W.  Henry 
George,  J.  B.  Gilmore,  S.  E.  Greer,  S.  J.  Johnston,  W.  J.  McBur- 
ney,  P.  J.  McDonald,  T.  A.  McElwain,  A.  J.  McFarland,  J.  H. 
McGee,  R.  H.  Martin,  R.  C.  Montgomery,  Thomas  Patton,  H. 
G.  Patterson,  J.  H.  Pritchard,  James  Shields,  G.  R.  Steele  and 
D.  O.  Torrens,  most  of  whom  soon  appeared.  The  minutes  of 
the  morning  session  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Committee  on  Discipline  reported.     The  report  was  ac" 
cepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 
Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     This  item  was  recommitted. 
Item  3.     Amended  and  adopted. 

Item  4.  Adopted,  and  the  case  involved  was  referred  to  a 
Judicial  Commission  to  consist  of  seven  members.  The  nomina- 
tion of  this  Commission  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Nomi- 
nations. 

Item  5.     Adopted. 

Item  6.  Adopted,  and  the  case  involved  was  referred  to  a 
Judicial  Commission  to  consist  of  fifteen  members.  The  nomina- 
tion of  this  Commission  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Nomi- 
inations. 

Item  7.     Adopted,  and  the  case  involved  was  referred  to  the 
Judicial  Commission  already  provided  for  under  item  4. 
The  report  was  laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 
W.  M.  Robb  was  chosen  the  Moderator's  alternate  to  preach 
the  opening  sermon  at  the  next  meeting  of  Synod. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         39 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
taken  from  the  table. 

Item  29  was  taken  up.  The  report  of  the  Superintendent  of 
the  Bureau  of  Information  was  read  and  adopted,  and  is  as  fol- 
lows: 

REPORT   OF   BUREAU   OF   INFORMATION 
Dear  Father  and   Brethren: 

During  the  past  year  I  have  endeavored  through  correspon- 
dence to  keep  in  touch  with  the  members  of  our  church  known  to 
be  living  outside  the  bounds  of  our  congregations.  I  have  also  sup- 
plied information  for  those  inquiring  for  locations  within  the  fel'ow- 
ship  of  our  people.  It  has  been  my  privilege  to  visit  a  few  places 
in  which  I  knew  Covenanters  were  living,  with  a  view  to  ascertain- 
ing the  possibilities  for  establishing  mission  work. 

In  Vancouver,  B.  C,  I  found  a  number  of  Covenanters  who  are 
still  interested  in  the  church,  among  whom  if  we  could  place  a  mis- 
sionary we  would  doubtless  soon  bui'd  up  a  good  work.  The  op- 
portunities for  mission  work  in  this  place  are  very  favorable,  and 
the  success  attending  the  experiment  made  in  Portland,  Oregon, 
justifies  the  hope  that  we  have  before  us  a  new  era  of  advancement. 
In  Winnipeg,  Manitoba,  I  visited  another  group  of  our  people  who 
are  very  desirous  that  work  shall  be  established  among  them.  The 
prospects  for  mission  work  here  are  equally  hopful,  and  the  breth- 
ren in  Winnipeg  have  promised  a  generous  contribution  toward  such, 
an  undertaking.  The  recent  organization  of  congregations  in  Con- 
tent, Alberta,  and  in  Regina,  Sask.,  are  clear  demonstrations  of 
the  needfulness  and  hopefulness  of  aggressive  home  mission  work  in 
the  newer  parts  of  our  country. 

Other  locations  of  interest  to  Covenanters,  and  in  which  some 
of  our  people  are  located  are  Liel),  Texas;  Robeston,  Texas;  Setts- 
dale,  Arizona;  Hemet,  California;  Lincoln,  Nebraska.  A  number 
of  our  people  are  locating  in  the  Horse  Heaven  Country  of  Wash- 
ington, and  I  am  in  touch  with  a  number  of  young  men  w'ho  are 
expecting  to  enter  the  Peace  River  Country  of  Alberta  within  the 
next  few  months,  following  the  rush  of  home-seekers  to  another 
new  district. 

We  close  with  the  following  requests: 

1.  That  pastors.  Sessions  and  parents  impress  upon  our  youth 
the  value  of  our  church  privileges,  ithe  duty  of  supporting  the  ordi» 
nances  under  which  they  have  been  brought  up,  and  of  the  binding 
obligation   to   our   Covenant    vows. 

2.  That  all  lawful  influence  be  used  to  induce  those  leaving 
their  present  church  relation  to  locate  within  the  bounds  of  our 
present  congregations,  or  where  we  may  have  hopes  of  a  congrega- 
tion. 

3.  That  information  be  given  the  church  of  all  who  enter  new 
fields,  so  that  if  the  way  be  open  they  may  be  followed  with  pas- 
toral  care. 

4.  That  to  the  management  of  this  Bureau  of  Infonmation  be 


40  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

added   the   services   of   P.    J. McDonald    of   Los   Angeles,    and   F.   D. 
Frazer,  of  Portland. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

T.M.SLATER. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Btisiness  was 
laid  on  the  table. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform  was  taken 
from  the  table,  and  the  Synod  resumed  the  consideration  of 
item  4. 

The  item  under  consideration  was  laid  on  the  table  to  enter- 
tain a  substitute  offered  by  T.  H.  Acheson.  Pending  the  dis- 
cussion of  the  substitute  it  was  referred  to  a  Special  Committee 
consisting  of  T.  P.  Stevenson,  W.  J.  McKnight  and  D.  B,  Wilson 
to  report  tomorrow  morning. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform  was  laid 
on  the  table. 

The  time  of  the  session  was  extended  to  hear  a  partial  re- 
port of  the  Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva 
College. 

Pending  the  discussion  of  this  report  the  item  under  con- 
sideration was  referred  to  the  Trustees  of  Geneva  College  to- 
gether with  the  Professors  in  the  Institutions  concerned. 

The  Committee  on  Nominations  submitted  a  partial  report, 
which  was  adopted. 

In  order  that  the  Synod  might  accept  the  invitation  to  attend 
the  dedication  of  the  new  Gymnasium  at  Geneva  College  it  was 
resolved  that  no  session  of  Synod  be  held  tomorrow  afternoon, 
but  that  an  evening  session  be  held  beginninng  at  7:30  o'clock. 

The  consideration  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  Theo- 
logical Seminary  and  Geneva  College  w^as  made  the  order  of  the 
day  for  Wednesday  morning. 

J.  Renwick  Wylie  was  granted  leave  of  absence  after  tomor- 
row morning  session  on  account  of  a  funeral  at  which  he  was 
called  to  officiate. 

Synod  adjourned  to  meet  tomorrow  morning  at  9  o'clock. 
Praver  bv  F.  E.  Allen. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         41 

MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Tuesday,  June  6,  9  A.  M.  Synod  convened  at 
the  appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  J.  M. 
Foster.  The  roll  was  called  and  the  following  did  not  answer 
to  their  names :  W.  J.  Beatty,  Wm.  G.  Carson,  D,  N.  Crowe,  J. 
F.  Crozier,  J.  Boggs  Dodds,  D.  H.  Elliott,  E.  M.  Elsey,  H.'g. 
Foster,  J.  C.  French,  W.  S.  Fulton,  H.  H.  George,  W.  Henry 
George,  James  Graham^  A,  A.  Johnston,  W.  P.  Johnston,  Wm. 
McFarland,  J.  H.  McGee,  R.  H.  Martin,  H.  G.  Patterson,  M.  M. 
Pearce,  Wm.  Robson,  J.  C.  Slater,  J.  Z.  Sterrett  and  H.  A. 
Young,  most  of  whom  soon  appeared.  The  Synod  engaged  in 
one-half  hour  of  devotions,  led  by  J.  S.  Bell.  The  minutes  of  the 
session  of  yesterday  afternoon  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Moderator  announced  the  following  Staanding  Com- 
mittees to  report  at  next  Synod. 

STANDING  COMMITTEES 

Secret  Societies — D.  C.  Mathews,  M.  A.  Gault,  Robert  Park, 
W.  J.  Adams,  William  Blair. 

State  of  Religion — F.  M.  Willson,  J.  M.  Coleman,  C.  A.  Dodds, 
J.  A.  McKee,  J.  W.Braum. 

Young  Feoples's  Societies — John  Yates,  J.  W.  F.  Carl'sle,  R.  H. 
Martin,  O.C.  Orr,  James  Torrens. 

Psalmody — R.  J.  Dodds,  T.  C  Sproull,  S.  M.  Morrow,  J.  H. 
Sloane,  John  Armstrong. 

Sabbatli  Schools — J.  B.  Gilmore,  D.  H.  Elliott,  W.  O.  Ferguson, 
Robert  Kyle,  W.  S.  Mitchell. 

Signs  of  the  Times — G.  M.  Robb,  W.  C.  McClurkin,  J.  R.  Lati- 
mer, James  Park,  J.  H.  Finley 

Systematic  Beneficence— J.  M.  Wylie,  B.  M.  Sharp,  R.  J.  G. 
McKnight,  J.  W.  Carson,  W.  W.  Mitchell. 

Devotional  Exercises — W.  J.  McKnight,  A.  A.  Wylie,  W.  M. 
Roibb,  Robert  Allen,  J.   S.  Wylie. 

Oi'der  of  Business — T.  H.  Acheson,  J.  S.  Martin,  Roibert  Clarke, 
Thomas  Boggs,  T.  C.  Cannon. 

Unfinished  Business — The   Clerks   of   Synod. 

Tile  Sabbatli — E.  M.  Elsey,  J.  Renwick  Wylie,  G.  R.  McBurn- 
ey,    James   Moore,    S.    P.    Wylie. 

The  Committee  on  Nominations  was  instructed  to  nominate  a 
member  of  this  Court  to  represent  the  appellant  in  the  case  of 
A.  G.  Waklinshaw  against  the  Colorado  Presbytery,  referred  by 
the  Synod  to  a  Judicial  Commission,  and  also  to  nominate  mem- 
bers to  fill  the  vacancies  on  the  Judicial  Commissions  already  ap- 
pointed, occasioned  by  the  inability  of  some  of  those  named  on 
ihese  Commissions  to  serve. 


42  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

The  Committee  on  Devotional  Exercises  presented  a  supple- 
mentary report  which  was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  ordered 
incorporataed  in  the  report  of  the  Committee  already  accepted 
and  adopted. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Discipline  was  taken  from 
the  table.  The  (rommittee  reported  back  item  2  which  had  been 
recommitted.     The  item  as  reported  back  was  adopted. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  en  Discipline  was  adopted  a^ 
a  whole,  and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  DISCIPLINE. 

Your  Committee  would  respectfully  report  that  there  have 
been  referred  to  us  papers  number  1,  2,  3,  8,  10,  11,  12  and  13. 

Paper  number  (1)  is  a  question  asked  by  the  Colorado  Presby- 
tery: Is  it  in  laccordance  with  the  law  of  the  Church  for  one  Pres- 
bytery to  appoint  a  minister  of  another  Presbytery  on  a  commission 
to  organize  a  congregation?  For  answer  we  would  refer  the  Pres- 
bytery to  the  Minutes  of  1910,  page  141,  showing  that  in  extra- 
ordinary cases  it  might  be  done  and  we  would  further  say  that 
in  cases  of  both  ministers  and  elders  it  has  been  done  and  approved 
by  this  Court. 

Paper  number  (2)  is  a  petition  to  New  York  Presbytery  from 
R.  M.  Sommerville  in  which  he  asks  an  explanation  of  Section 
VII.  Chapter  28  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Testimony:  "Though 
the  marriage  covenant  is  not  to  be  disolved  by  every  argument, 
etc.,  yet   either  adultery  or  such   wilful   desertion   as  admits  of  no 

civil  remedy  is  a  sufficient  cause  for  its  dissolution."  Please  define 
the  meaning  of  the  clause  "such  wi'ful  desertion  as  admits  of  no 
civil  remedy."  We  would  reply  that  the  statement  in  the  Confes- 
sion of  Faith,  Chapter  24,  Section  VI,  is  "such  wilful  desertion 
as  can  in  no  way  be  remedied  by  the  Church  or  civil  magistrate 
is  cause  sufficient  to  dissolve  the  bond  of  marriage." 

These  quotations  from  both  the  Testimony  and  Confession  of 
Faith    imply   that   there   are    two   kinds    of   desertion. 

First:  Cases  for  which  authorities  of  the  Church  and  State 
can  and  should  find  a  remedy.  In  such  cases  no  divorce  should 
be    asked    for   or   granted. 

Second:  Cases  in  which  neither  the  authorities  of  the  Church 
nor  of  the  State  can  find  a  remedy.  But  in  no  case  should  the  inno- 
cent party  sue  for  a  divorce  until  the  Church  and  State  have  ex- 
hausted all  their  powers. 

There  is  but  one  way  in  which  the  State  can  apply  a  remedy. 
It  may  compel  the  party  guilty  of  desertion  to  support  the  other 
party  to  the  marriage  covenant. 

The  innocent  party  has  no  right  to  seek  a  divorce  until  the 
State  has  failed  to  do  this.  But  in  no  case  should  the  innocent  party 
seek  a  divorce  until  he  or  she  has  firsit  sought  to  have  the  State 
enforce  the  marriage  vow. 

Paper  number  (3)  is  a  petition  of  the  session  of  the  Seattle 
congregation  for  the  organization  of  a  new  Presbytery  consisting  of 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  43 


the  congrgations  and  mission  stations  on  the  Pacific  Coast.  We 
recommend  that  such  a  presbytery  be  organized  and  that  it  be  call- 
ed the  Presbytery  of  the  Pacific  Coast,  that  the  boundary  beitween 
it  and  the  Colorado  Presbytery  be  the  Colorado  River,  the  Wah- 
satch  mountains  and  the  Rocky  mountains  to  the  borders  of  the 
British  possessions,  thence  east  along  that  border  to  /the  western 
border  of  Ontario  taking  in  all  the  British  possessions  west  of  On- 
tario; all  the  country  in  the  United  States  and  Canada  lying  ito 
the  west  to  be  under  the  jurisdiction  of  this  Presbytry;  that  the 
ministers  and  elders  present  here  included  in  these  bounds  be  di- 
rected to  meet  in  this  place  before  the  final  adjournment  of  ithis 
Court  and  to  organize  said  Presbytery  and  that  P.  J.  McDonald  iact  as 

moderator  and  constitute  the  court. 

Paper  number  (8)  is  the  appeal  and  coaiplainit  of  A.  G.  Walkin- 
ihaw  and  reply  of  Colorado  Presbytery.  The  case  is  regular  and 
ready  for  action. 

Paper  number  (10)  is  a  Memorial  from  Kansas  Presbytery  ask- 
ing for  an  interpretation  of  Chapter  3,  Section  II,  paragraph  22,  in 
connection  with  what  has  been  said  of  Section  XVIII  of  our  Book  of 
Discipline  as  to  whether  direct  examination,  cross  examination  or 
both  is  meant  by  the  clause,  viz.,  "then  the  members  of  tlie  Court." 
Your  Committee  thinks  it  refers  to  both  direct  and  cross  examin- 
ation. 

Papers  number  (11  and  12)  relate  to  the  same  matter.  Num- 
ber (11)  is  a  comp  aint  of  R.  M.  Moore  and  others  against  the 
action  of  Kansas  Presbytery  in  the  case  of  J.  C.  Duguid  and  T.  G. 
Graham.  Number  (12)  is  the  complaint  &nd  appeal  of  T.  G.  Gra- 
ham againsit  the  Kansas  Presbytery.  Both  papers  are  regular  and 
ready  for  action. 

Paper  number  (13)  is  a  petition  from  memt)ers  of  the  Santa 
Ana   congregation.      It   is   regular   and   ready   for   action   and   your 

Committee  suggests  that  it  be  taken  up  in  connection  with  paper 

number  (12). 

Respectfully  submitted, 
D.   C.  FARIS 
A.   KILPATRICK 
R.    HARGRAVE 
J.   S.   BELL 
JAMBS    MILLIGAN 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted : 

Resolved,  that  a  committee  be  appointed  to  prepare  a  form 
of  overture  on  the  subect  of  divorce  to  be  presented  to  Synod  at 
its  next  meeting,  and  which  if  adopted  by  the  Church  shall  be  an 
addition   to  our  Testimony. 

The  nomination  of  this  Committee  was  referred  to  the  Com- 
mittee on  Nominations. 

A  collection  was  taken  to  be  divided  between  the  janitor  anrj 
the  steno^-rapher  in  such  proportion  as  shall  seem  equitable. 

R.  C:  Reed,  T.  U.  Slater,  S.  A.  Sterrett,  K.  J.  G.  McKnight, 
R.  C.  Montgomery  and  John  Coleman  were  excused  from  serving 
on  the  Judicial  Commissions  to  which  they  had  been  appointed,  " 
and  the  Committee  on  Nominations  was  instructed  to  nominate 
substitutes  to  fill  these  vacancies. 


44  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform  was  taken 
from  the  table.  The  Special  Committee  appointed  yesterday,  and 
to  which  was  referred  the  substitutes  to  item  4  of  the  report  of 
the  Committee,  offered  by  T.  H.  Acheson,  reported.  The  report 
of  the  Special  Committee  was  adopted. 

Item  5  of  the  report  of  the  Committee  on  National  Reform 
was  adopted.  The  report  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as 
follows : 

REPORT   OF   COMMITTEE    ON   NATIONAL   REFORM. 

Your  Committee  would  respectfully  report:  Three  papers 
have  heen  placed  in  our  hands:  First,  the  report  of  the  Conven- 
anter  members  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  National  Reform 
Association.  Second:  A  Memorial  from  the  session  of  the  Ale- 
gheny  congregation.  Third:  A  paper  containing  two  resolutions 
embodying  an  explanatory  statement. 

Gratitude  to  God  for  manifest  blessings  upon  its  work  during 
the  year  is  the  regnant  note  in  the  heart  of  every  loyal  member 
of  the  National  Reform  Association.  The  World's  Christian  Citi- 
zenship Conference  held  in  Philadelphia  in  the  Month  of  November 
last  was  the  great  event  of  the  year.  This  Conference  and  the  work 
in  preparation  for  it  and  consequent  upon  it  has  taken  the  time 
and  claimed  the  attention  In  large  measure  for  the  year  of  the 
entire  force  of  workers.  It  is  proposed  to  hold  a  second  World 
Christian  Citizenship  Conference  as  soon  as  arrangements  can  be 
made  therefor.  We  deem  worthy  of  special  commendation  the 
preparations  being  made  for  this  second  World's  Conference.  As 
a  natural  result  of  this  increased  activity  new  friends  have  been 
enrolled  in  its  work  and  hundreds  of  new  subscribers  are  coming 
to  the  support  of  the  Association  financially.  The  financial  con- 
dition of  the  work  is  especially  encouraging.  The  increased  activi- 
ty in  every  line  of  the  Association's  work  and  ithe  entrance  upon 
the  work  of  additional  laborers  is  noted  by  your  Committee  with 
approval.  It  is  with  special  appreciation  that  we  note  that  in  all 
these  conferences,  conventions  and  instiitutes  the  Kingship  of  Christ 
and  the  Christian  Amendment,  the  two  subjects  so  dear  to  the 
hearts  of  Covenanters,  have  received  their  due  share  of  attention. 

Owing  to  the  enlarging  of  the  work  as  is  manifest  from  their 
report  it  appears  to  your  Committee  that  their  request  for  $10,000 
from  our  people  is  not  an  excessive  amount. 

Having  carefully  noted  the  other  papers  and  having  in  view  the 
differences  of  opinion  as  to  the  relations  that  should  exist  between 
our  Church  and  the  National  Reform  Association  we  are  guided 
in  our  report  by  paragraph  four  in  our  Covenant  which  reads  as 
follows:  "Considering  it  a  principal  duty  of  our  profession  to 
cultivate  a  holy  brotherhood  we  will  strive  to  maintain  Christian 
Friendship  with  pious  men  of  every  name  and  feel  and  act  as  one 
will  all  in  every  land  who  pursue  this  grand  end.  And  as  a  means 
of  securing  this  great  result  we  will,  by  dissemination  and  appli- 
cation of  the  principles  of  truth  herein  professed  and  by  cultiva- 
ting and  exercising  Christian  charity,  labor  to  remove  stumbling 
Tslocks  and  to  gather  into  one  the  scattered  and  divided  friends  of 


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truth  and  righteousness."  We,  therefore  believe  that  by  our  solemn 
Covenant  obligations,  we  as  a  Church  are  bound  to  seek  the  co- 
operation of  the  friends  of  truth  and  righteousness  in  obtaining 
these  grand  ends,  viz.;  the  dominance  of  the  Scriptural  principles 
of  Civil  Government.. 

While  Synod  does  not  regard  the  National  Reform  Associa- 
tion as  an  agent  of  the  Church  to  which  certain  of  her  own  duties 
and  preroga.tives  have  been  delegated,  but  holds  to  the  principle 
that  the  Church  must  perform  all  her  own  work  through  her  own  ec- 
clesiastical agencies,  yet  because  of  the  high  purpose  of  the  Nation- 
al Reform  Association  in  seeking  through  all  its  history  of  more 
than  forty  years,  to  maintain  and  to  promote  the  Christian  prin- 
ciples of  Civil  Government  and  to  incorporate  them  in  our  Nation- 
al and  State  Constitutions. 

Therefore,  be  it  resolved  that  this  relation  of  cooperation 
which  has  existed  for  more  than  forty  years  be  continued  under  the 
following  regulations: 

1.  That  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  members  of  the  Executive 
Committee  of  the  National  Reform  Association  are  requested  to 
present  to  Synod  year  by  year  a  report  of  the  work  done  by  the 
Association  during  the  preceeding  year,  together  with  a  statement 
of  the  amount  of  money  received  and  as  heretofore,  an  itemized 
statement  of  the  expenditures  during  the  year  and  an  outline  of  the 

work  proposed,  together  with  an  estimate  of  the  expense  for  the 
ensuing  year. 

2.  That  the  report  of  the  association  shall  be  referred  to 
Synod's  Committee  on  Naitional  Reform  for  their  consideration  and 
to  recommend  an  amount  which  in  their  judgment,  our  people 
should   be   asked   to   contribute. 

3.  Annually  on  the  First  Sabbath  of  November  the  officers 
of  each  congregation  shall  receive  in  their  usual  way  such  contri- 
butions from  the  congregations  as  may  be  offered  for  the  National 
Reform  Work  and  forward  the  same  to  Synod's  financial  agent 
for  National  Reform  together  with  the  names  of  the  donors,  as  far 
as  practicable,  as  their  individual  gifts  to  the  cause  of  National 
Reform. 

4.  The  following  shall  appear  at  the  foot  of  the  page  which  con- 
tains Synod's  appropriations:  "The  sum  of  is  the  amount 
which  Synod  names  as  a  guide  to  our  people  in  their  contributions. 
See  page  .  The  day  for  this  collection  is  November  First 
Sabbath." 

We   recommend: 

That  Synod  approves  of  the  continuance  of  J.  S.  Martin  and  J. 
S.  McGaw  in  the  employ  of  the  National  Reform  Association  dur- 
ing the  year. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  BOGGS  DODDS 
SAMUEL  M'NAUGHER 
GEO.  A.  EDGAR 
T.  R.  SANDERSON 
D.  H.  C.  JOHNSTON. 


46  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

REPORT  OF  EXECUTIVE  COMMITTEE  OF  NATIONAL  REFORM 

ASSOCIATION 

Gratitude  to  God  for  His  manifst  blessings  upon  its  work  dur- 
ing the  past  year  is  tlie  regnant  note  in  the  heart  of  every  loyal 
mem^ber  of  the  National  Reform  Association.  The  great  event  of 
the  year,  of  course,  was  the  World's  Christian  Citizenship  Conference 
held  in  Philadelphia  in  the  month  of  November  last.  This  Con- 
ference and  the  work  in  preparation  for  it  and  consequent  upon  it 
have  taken  the  time  and  claimed  the  attention  in  large  measure 
for  the  year  of  the  entire  force  of  workers.  With  the  nature, 
character  and  results,  in  general,  of  this  Conference  the  members 
of  Synod  are  more  or  less  familiar.  Suffice  it  to  say  here  that  the 
Conference  has  served  to  bring  the  cause  of  National  Reform 
to  the  attention  of  the  people  of  our  country  and  the  world  indeed, 
in  a  way — a  most  favorable  way — in  which  it  has  never  before  been 
brought.  The  representative  character  of  the  thousands  in  attendance 
from  our  own  and  other  lands;  the  deep  and  abiding  interest  many 
of  these  took  in  the  proceedings  as  manifested  not  only  by  their  faith- 
ful attendance  upon  practically  all  the  sessions  of  the  Conference 
but  also  by  their  purchase  of  the  published  report  of  the  same  in 
full  and  the  numerous  articles  since  penned  by  them  and  sermous 
preached  by  not  a  few  of  them  in  its  praise;  the  extensive  notices 
given  of  the  conference  and  its  work  in  the  press,  both  secular  and 
religious,  before,  at  the  time  and  after  the  Conference  was  in  ses- 
sion; the  issuing  and  circulating  of  more  than  a  thousand  copies 
of  the  volume  containing  in  full  the  addresses  delivered,  reports 
given  and  action  taken  by  the  Conference,  not  the  least  impor- 
tant of  which  was  to  request  the  National  Reform  Association 
to  arrange  for  a  Second  World's  Christian  Citizenship  Conference, 
the  thousands  of  letters  of  inquiry  concerning  the  nature  and 
character  of  our  work  occasioned  by  the  action  of  the  Conference 
and  the  publicity  given  it;  the  hundreds,  even  thousands  of  con- 
verts won  to  the  cause,  as  evidenced  by  their  financial  contribu- 
tions toward  its  support;  the  cooperation  proffered  by  so  many 
Christian  people,  especially  foreign  missionaries,  in  arranging  for 
the  next  Conference;  the  steps  already  taken  in  this  arrangement; 
having  one  representative  abroad  and  another  soon  to  go  in  its  in- 
terests; the  hundreds  of  new  regular  readers  of  the  Christian 
Statesman  secured  from  the  attendants;  the  hundreds  of  thou- 
sands of  pages  of  National  Reform  literature  distributed  among 
these  attendants  at  the  Conference  and  since  ordered  by  them — 
these  and  other  things  occasioned  by  and  resulting  from  this  Con- 
ference attest  its  great  value  to  the  cause  the  Association  seeks 
to  promote.  This  Conference  indeed  has  lifted  our  whole  world 
work  onto  a  new  and  higher  plane. 

In  preparation  for  the  next  World's  Conference  it  has  been 
planned  to  hold  a  series  of  State  Conventions  throughout  the 
country,  two  of  which  have  already  been  held,  one  in  the  Capital 
city  of  Pennsylvania  and  the  other  in  that  of  Kansas.  Both  were 
eminently  successful  under  the  leadership  of  the  National  Field 
Secretary.  Others  are  soon  to  be  held  in  Michigan,  Illinois,  In- 
diana and  Ohio.  It  is  hoped  thus  to  reach  every  State  and  Terri- 
tory in  the  Union  within  the  next  two  years.  It  is  the  purpose  to 
effect  a  State  Association  wherever  a  Convention  is  held.  Penn- 
sylvania and  Kansas  each  have  such  an  Association.      So  also  has 


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Indiana,  it  having  been  effected  within  the  past  year.  A  Butler 
County  Association  has  also  been  effected  within  a  few  months 
and  preparations  are  being  made  for  the  effecting  of  other  county 
and  district  Associations  in  the  near  future.  Conventions  have 
been  held  in  Lawrence,  Beaver  and  Butler  Counties  (two  in  the 
last  named)  within  the  year.  The  Annual  Institute  and  Confer- 
ence was  held  with  the  usual  success  at  Winona  Lake  last  summer 
and  all  arrangements  have  been  perfected  for  another  the  com- 
ing summer.  In  all  these  conferences,  conventions  and  institutes, 
the  Kingship  of  Christ  and  the  Christian  Amendment,  the  two 
subjects  so  dear  to  the  hearts  of  Covenanters,  have  received  their 
due  share  of  attention.  Under  the  various  statements  of  topics  there 
has  never  been  failure  to  present  them  in  some  of  the  aaaressea 
delivered. 

It  would  be  but  duplicating  the  forecast  of  last  year's  report 
to  give  an  account  of  the  Chautauqua  work  for  the  past  year. 
Suffice  it  to  say  that  it  was  much  more  extensive  than  that  of 
the  previous  year  and  that  even  it  does  not  begin  to  reach  that 
already  arranged  for  the  coming  season.  From  Pennsylvania  on 
the  East  to  Kansas  on  the  West  Chautauqua  Bible  Conference  ad- 
dresses in  behalf  of  our  cause  are  to  be  given  this  summer.  There 
has  also  been  an  extension  of  our  work  in  universities,  colleges 
and  teacher's  institutes,  before  men's  brotherhoods,  Bible 
classes.  Sabbath  School  associations,  young  people's  sicieties,  minis- 
terial associations,  in  churches,  etc.  It  would  require  more  words 
than  are  alloted  to  a  Synodical  report  to  enumerate  the  times  and 
places  where  addresses  have  been  delivered  and  sermons  preached  by 
the  employs  of  the  Association  within  the  past  year.  As  against  the 
224  sermons  and  addresses  reported  last  year  there  have  been  more 
than  7  00  in  the  year  just  closed.  And  not  only  have  there  been  more 
in  number  but  they  have  reached  at  least  500  per  cent  more  peo- 
ple than  those  of  the  year  previous.  In  addition  to  the  700  and 
more  sermons  and  addresses  delivered  by  the  employees  of  the 
Association,  a  total  of  at  least  500  sermons  and  addresses  have 
been  reported  to  us  as  having  been  delivered  by  others  than  the 
Association's  employees  within  the  year.  This  is  an  increase  of 
more  than  400  per  cent  over  the  number  reported  a  year  ago.     In 

this  same  connection  it  may  be  stated  that  there  have  been  sent 
out  during  the  past  year  something  over  17,5  00  circular  letters 
of  150  different  kinds  and  more  than  3000  separately  dictated 
letters  and  a  little  over  9,000,000  pages  of  literature  of  all  kinds 
as  against  the  5,000  circular  letters  aud  1,5  00  separately  dic- 
tated letters  and  4,000,000  pages  or  thereabouts  of  literature 
the  year  before.  Nor  does  this  include  the  thousands  of  news- 
paper columns  of  matter  sent  the  daily  newspapers  through  the 
International  Bureau  of  Publicity  in  the  5  83  geographical  news- 
paper centers  in  our  own  and  other  countries.  Besides  the  volume 
of  the  proceedings  of  the  World's  Christian  Citizenship  Confer- 
ence, and  the  numerous  documents  in  preparation  for  that  Con- 
ference, there  have  been  printed  ten  new  documents  within  the 
past  year   and   five   more   9re   now   on  the   press. 

As  is  well  known  to  the  Synod,  the  Association  has  within 
the  past  year  secured  the  services  for  his  full  time  of  the  Rev. 
J.  S.  McGaw,  who  is  a  host  in  himself,  as  National  Field  Secretary. 
We  have  never  known  Mr.  McGaw  to  fail.  Wherever  he  goes  he 
makes  good  and   creates  a   demand   for  return  engagements.     The 


48  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Association  has  also  elected  another  for  his  full  time,  Dr.  W.  J. 
Wilson,  pastor  of  a  large  Methodist  Episcopal  congregation  in 
Michigan.  Dr.  Wilson  has  signified  his  intention  to  accept  and  is 
now  awaiting  release  by  the  Bishop  of  his  Conference  to  begin 
work.  He  has  already  shown  his  efficiency  for  the  position  to  which 
he  has  been  chosen  by  the  work  he  has  done  in  preparation  for 
the  Michigan  State  Convention.  At  the  last  meeting  of  the  Sub- 
Executive  Committee  action  was  taken  looking  toward  the  choice 
of  another  for  a  large  portion  if  not  indeed  for  the  whole  of  his  time. 
Our  newly  elected  President,  Dr.  Henry  Collins  Minton,  the  suc- 
cessor of  the  late  lamented  Dr.  S.  P.  Scovel,  has  demonstrated  in 
a  score  and  more  of  ways  the  great  value  to  the  Association  of  his 
accession  to  our  force  of  officers.  Mr.  Clement  H.  Congdon  of  the 
International  Bureau  of  Publicity  who  is  in  the  employ  of  the 
Association  is  also  most  efficient  in  his  line  of  work  for  us.  We 
cannot  take  time  and  have  not  the  space  to  note  the  work  done  by 
Drs.  Wylie,  T.  P.  Stevenson,  H.  H.  George,  T.  H.  Acheson  and 
others,   chiefly   in    the   use   of   the   pen. 

We  are  glad  to  be  able  to  report  that  notwithstanding  our 
increase  in  employees,  amount  of  literature  issued  and  circulated, 
conventions,  conferences  and  institutes  held,  and  consequent  in- 
creas^ed  expenditure,  we  close  the  year  with  a  balance  of  "over 
$3,400  in  the  treasury  as  against  half  that  amount  a  year  ago. 
It  should  however  be  noted  that  the  plans  already  made  for  the 
carrying  forward  of  the  work  will  necessitate  the  expenditure  of 
this  entire  balance  within  the  next  two  months. 

It  may  be  said  in  closing  that  in  the  Providence  of  God  the 
time  seems  ripe  for  the  successful  advancing  of  the  work  of  the 
Association.  The  constant  coming  closer  together  of  the  world 
and  the  present  day  stirring  of  the  public  conscience  of  the.  Ameri- 
can people  afford  a  hitherto  unparallelled  oportunity  of  reaping 
some  at  least  of  the  fruits  of  the  arduous  labors  of  the  many  who 
have  toiled  in  past  years,  some  of  whom  have  gone  to  their  re- 
ward. This  together  with  the  use  of  present-day  methods  in  the 
furtherance  of  the  work  is  bringing  results  for  which  we  have 
great  reason  to  thank  God  and  take  courage. 

We  request, 

1.  That  the  appropriation  for  this  cause  be  increased  to 
$10,000. 

2.  That  Synod  commend  the  work  of  our  ministers  who  are 
laboring  under  the  auspices  of  the  National  Reform  Association 
and  approve  their  continuing  in  this  relation  during  another 
year. 

Signed, 

COVENANT    MEMBERS    EXECUTIVE     COMMITTEE. 

The  Committee  on  Supplies  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT   OF   COMMITTEE   ON   SUPPLIES 

Your   Committee   would   respectfully   report: 
The   names   of   twenty-five   applicants,    for   full   time   or   part, 
have  been  placed  in  the  hand  of  your  Committee. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  49 


The  following   distribution  is   suggested : 

Allen,  R,  C,  June,  New  York;  July,  Rochester;  August,  Sep- 
tember, Illinois;   October  to  May  inclusive,  Pittsburg. 

Allen,  T.  J.,  June,  July,  Ohio;  August,  111.;  Sept.  to  May 
inclusive,   Pittsburg. 

Allen,  W.  C,  June  to  January  inclusive,  Iowa;  Feb.,  March, 
Kansas;    April,  May,   111. 

Blackwood,   I.   A.,   Col.,   Pres.   all  year. 

Coleman,  Paul,  July  to  January  inclusive,  Col.;  Feb.,  March, 
Kansas;   April,  111.;   May,  Ohio. 

Coulter,   D.   H.,   Kansas  all  year. 

Coleman,  Geo.,  Kansas  Pres.  'till  opening  of  Seminary;  May, 
Philadelphia. 

Crozier,  J.  F.,  Pittsburg  Presbytery  all  year. 

Dill,  J.  W.,  Kansas  Presbytery  all  year. 

Dodds,  R.  J.,  Pittsburg  all  year. 

Frazer,  F.  D.,   Colorado  all  year. 

Faris,   Isaiah,  Kansas   all  year. 

Jack,  D.  O.,  June,  July,  Kansas  Pres.;  August,  Sept.,  Col.; 
Oct.,  Nov.,  Dec,  Illinois;   January  to  May  inclusive,  Ohio. 

McFarland,  A.  J.,  June  to  Dec.  inclusive,  Pittsburg;  January, 
February,  Kansas;    March,  April,  May,  Pittsburg. 

Thompson,  J.   S.,  Colorado  all  year. 

McFarland,  Wm.,  June,  December  inclusive,  Pittsburg;  Janu- 
ary, February,  March,  Illinois;   April,  May,  Kansas, 

McMillen,  M.  S.,  June,  July,  Ohio;  August,  September,  Octo- 
ber, Illinois;  November,  December,  Iowa;  January,  February, 
March,    Kansas;    April,    Philadelphia;    May,    Pittsburg. 

Montgomery,  R.  C,  June,  July,  Aug.,  Philadelphia;  Sept., 
New  York;  Oct.,  Nov.,  Dec,  Pittsburg;  Jan.,  Feb.,  Ohio;  March, 
April,  Illinois.;    May,   Kansas. 

Mcllwaine,  T.  A.,  Oct.,  Pittsburg;  Feb.,  Ohio.;  March,  Illi- 
nois;   April,   Iowa. 

McBurney,  G.  R.,  June,  July,  Pittsburg;  Aug.,  Sept.,  Ohio; 
Oct.,  Nov.,  Illinois;   Dec,  Iowa;   Feb.,  Kansas, 

Paden,  W.  C,  Kansas  Pres.  June,  July,  Aug. 

Robb,  W.  M.,  June,  July,  New  York;  Aug.,  Sept.,  Pittsburg; 
Oct.,  Philadelphia;  Nov.,  Dec,  Ohio;  Jan.,  Feb.,  March,  Illinois; 
April,  May,  Kansas. 

Rutherford,  John,  June,  Ohio;  July,  Illinois;  Aug.,  Iowa. 
March,   April,   Col.,   May,   Kansas. 

Thompson,  W.  T.  K.,  June,  Pittsburg;  July,  Aug.,  Ohio; 
Sept.,  Oct.,  Illinois;  Nov.,  Dec,  Kansas;  Jan.,  Iowa;  Feb.,  March, 
Col.;  April,  Ohio;  May,  Pittsburg. 

Sharp,  B.  M.,  June,  New  York;  July,  Rochester;  Aug.,  Sept., 
Pittsburg;  Oct.,  Col.;  Nov.,  Dec,  Kansas;  Jan.,  Feb.,  Iowa;  March, 
April,  Illinois;   May,  Ohio. 

Sproull,  T.  C,  June,  Rochester;  July,  Aug.,  Pittsburg;  Sept., 
Oct.,  Ohio;  Nov.,  Illinois;  Dec,  Jan.,  Pittsburg;  Feb.,  Philadelphia; 


50  -  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

Tweed,  James  Boyd,  June,  July,  Illinois;  Aug.,  Sept.,  Kansas; 
May,  Illinois. 

Wylie,  J.  Ralston,  June,  Pittsburg;  July.  Ohio;  Aug.,  Illi- 
nois;  Sept.,   Kansas; Oct.,  Colorado;   Nov.,  Dec,  Kansas. 

Wylie,  J.  Renwick,  Aug.,  Sept.,  Pittsburg;  Oct.,  Ohio;  Nov., 
Philadelphia;  Dec,  Jan.,  Illinois;  Feb.,  Iowa;  March,  April, Kansas; 
May,   Colorado. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

H.   G.   FOSTER 

E.  L.  Mcknight 

R.  W.  PIPER 
A.    COPELAND 

The  Committee  on  Foreign  Missions  reported.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     Adopted. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

Item  5.     Adopted. 

Item  6.  Amended  by  recommending  that  W.  M.  Robb  be 
also  employed  by  the  Foreign  Alission  Board  to  press  upon  the 
Church  the  claims  of  the  Foreign  Mission  work.     Adopted. 

Item  7.     Adopted. 

Item  8  was  added  to  the  report  of  the  Committee. 

R.  M.  Sommerville  and  S.  A,  S.  Metheny,  M.  D.  were  heard 
on  behalf  of  the  work  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board. 

The  report  of  the  Comimittee  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and 
is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OF    COMMITTEE    ON    FOREIGN    MISSIONS 

The  report  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  has  been  put  into 
our  hands,  and  gives  evidence  that  this  department  of  our 
church's  work  is  being  administered  with  faithfulness  'and  a  good 
measure  of  success.  The  condition  in  our  missions  in  the  Levant 
and  China  testifies  that  the  Lord  is  working  with  us. 

The  death  of  Ishak  Shemmaa,  a  native  Christian  helper  who 
has  for  29  years  been  identified  with  our  work  in  Northern  Syria 
as  "Bible-man,  visitor  and  preacher,"  as  well  as  the  prolonged 
absence  from  the  work  of  so  many  of  our  missionaries  on  account 
of  sickness  either  in  themselves  or  their  families,  is  a  cause  of 
deep  regret.  But  the  abounding  hopefulness  and  faith  of  those 
on  the  field,  the  ability  of  the  church  to  send  forth  five  addition- 
al laborers  during  the  past  year,  the  liberality  with  which  our 
people  are  supporting  the  work,  and  the  ever-increasing  place 
which    Missions   hold    in   the    interest   and   prayers   of   the   church. 


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assure  us  that  this  is  a  victorious  cause,  and  that  the  Master  did 
not  misplace  his  trust  when,  on  leaving  the  world,  he  left  with  those 
who  bear  his  name,  the  responsibility  of  carrying  out  his  plans 
concerning  the  world. 

Your  Committee  is  in  fullest  sympathy  with  the  Board  in  its 
efforts  to  deal  with  our  Foreign  Mission  problems.  We  recognize 
the  difficult  and  self-sacrificing  labors  of  our  missionaries  on  the 
Field,  and  assure  them  of  our  continued  support  both  in  money, 
recruits  and  in  prayers.  We  believe  that  the  Covenanter  Church 
should  accept  as  its  allotted  share  of  the  world  the  two  millions 
now  living  within  the  districts  occupied  by  our  Missions,  and 
that  for  their  evangelization  we  should  feel  a  distinctive  mission- 
ary responsibility.  If  we  have  the  means  for  the  evangelization 
of  this  number  on  the  basis  of  one  missionary  to  every  25,000 
souls,  we  believe  it  our  present  duty  to  do  so,  and  that  the  Church 
should  recognize  the  inadequacy  of  our  present  equipment  of 
one  missionary  to  every  80,000  souls.  We  would  second  the 
policy  of  the  Board  to  increase,  at  the  earliest  possible  date,  our 
missionary  forces  from  25  to  80;  and  of  increasing  our  missionary 
offerings  from  five  cents  per  member  per  week,  to  twenty  cents 
per  member  per  week.  .  The  fact  pointed  out  by  Rev.  R.  A. 
Blair  that  at  a  time  when  the  membership  of  our  church  was 
only  6,000,  we  supplied  350  soldiers  for  the  Civil  War,  satisfies 
us  that  the  number  of  men  and  women  asked  as  recruits  for  this 
greater  cause,  is  not  too  heavy  a  draft  upon  our  present  member- 
ship. And  the  further  fact  that  at  least  two  of  our  congregations, 
with  no  special  effort,  are  at  thrs  time  giving  for  Missions  at  the 
rate  of  twenty  cents  per  member  per  week,  while  supporting  all 
other  schemes,  assures  us  that  the  money  resources  of  the  church 
have  not  yet  been   fully  tested. 

The  many  reasons  which  may  be  urged  on  behalf  of  such  an 
aggressive  policy — the  hopelessness  of  the  heathen  who  are  dying 
without  Christ,  the  rapid  passing  of  opportunities  both  for  them  and 
for  us,  the  open  door  to  their  hearts  when  the  Gospel  is  presented, 
the  increasing  rate  at  which  heathenism  is  growing;  the  failing 
strength  of  our  over-worked  missionaries;  as  well  as  the  compas- 
sionate desire  of  the  Savior  concerning  these  "other  sheep" — these 
and  many  other  reasons  should  spur  the  Church  to  reach  the  ideal 
of  Missionary  service  set  before  us  by  our  Board;  knowing  that 
we  have  taken  care  of  our  share  of  the  world  only  when  we  have 
employed  to  the  full  all  of  our  available  resources,  and  have  work- 
ed to  the  limit  of  our  power. 

We    recommend: 

1.  That  pastors,  Sessions,  and  all  leaders  of  public  thought 
keep  constantly  before  the  minds  of  our  people  the  magnitude 
and  importance  of  the  Missionary  Enterprise,  and  seek  to  culti- 
vate in  our  church  a  further  sense  of  a  distinctive  responsibility 
for  the  evangelization  of  the  two  millions  within  the  sphere  of 
our  influence  in  the  foreign  field. 

2.  That  we  heartily  second  the  policy  of  our  Board  to  put 
into  the  field  at  the  earliest  possible  date  one  missionary  to  every 
25,000  souls,  and  that  our  members  be  urged  to  consecrate  both 
their  money  and  their  children  to  this  most  important  cause. 

3.  That  We  encourage  "spec'al  giving"  to  the  cause  of  Missions 
only  where  the  parties  so  disposed  have  first  discharged  all  othef 


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obligations  to  the  regularly  appointed  scemes  of  the  church.  And 
it  is  the  judgment  of  your  Committee  that  contributors  to  spec- 
ial objects,  such  as  leper  missions,  etc.,  first  consult  with  tho 
Board  as  to  the  direction  their  contributions  shall  take. 

4.  That  the  formation  of  Mission  Study  classes  be  encouraged 
in  our  congregations,  as  a  means  of  educating:  our  youth  as  to 
the  extent  and  urgency  of  the  world's  needs;  and  that  our  Foreign 
Mission  Board  to  suggest  the  text  book  to  be  employed  for  the  com- 
ing year. 

5.  That  a  Permanent  Commission  of  Synod  be  appointed, 
consisting  of  the  Ministerial  missionaries  and  the  available  elders 
in  China,  with  A.  I.  Robb  as  Moderator,  to  have  charge  of  the 
affairs  of   our  church   in   China. 

6.  That  We  commend  the  diligence  and  success  with  which  Rev. 
R.  A.  Blair  has  labored  as  Field  Secretary  in  behalf  of  Foreign 
Missions,  and  that  we  approve  of  h  s  appointment  for  another  year, 
and  we  recommend  that  Rev.  W.  M.  Robb  be  also  employed  by  the 
Board  to  press  upon  the  Church  the  claims  of  the  Foreign  Mission 
work  of  the  Church.  (The  motion  adopting  this  item  was  recon- 
sidered, and  the  whole  matter  was  left  in  the  hands  of  the  Foreign 
Mission   Board.) 

7.  That  T.  P.  Stevenson,  R.  H.  Sommerville,  Walter  T.  Miller, 
and  Henry  O'Niel  be  elected  their  own  successors  as  members  of 
the  Foreign  Mission  Board. 

8.  That  the  Foreign  Mission  Board  be  instructed  to  arrange 
for  a  Conference  on  Foreign  Missions  on  some  evening  during 
the  next  meeting  of  Synod. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
T.    M.    SLATER 
J.    M.    FOSTER 
J.   R.   W.   STEVENSON 
J.   K.   ELSEY 
S.    A.    STERRETT 

REPORT   OF   FOREIGN   MMSSION   BOARD 

Nothing  is  more  likely  to  impress  one  in  reading  the  history 
of  the  early  Church  than  the  manifest  inseparable  connection  be- 
tween sucessful  evangelism  and  the  outpouring  of  the  Holy  Spirit. 
On  one  occasion,  after  a  season  of  prayer,  the  place  where  the 
disciples  were  assembled  was  shaken  and  they  were  all  filled  with 
the  Holy  Ghost  and  spake  the  word  of  God  with  boldness,  and  on 
another  occasion,  while  an  apostle  was  actually  engaged  in  preach- 
ing the  Gospel,  the  Spirit  fell  on  them  which  heard  the  word,  as  "on 
us,"  the  evangelist  explains  afterward,  "at  the  beginning."  In 
both  cases  the  result  was  conversion  and  edification.  Those  two 
distinctive  instances  explain  the  way  in  which  He  will  continue 
to  operate  to  the  end  of  the  age,  at  once  as  an  abiding  condition 
of  the  heart  in  answer  to  united  prayer  for  light  and  guidance, 
and*  as  a  special  inspiration  or  impulse  for  temporary  service  while 
men  are  in  the  act  of  proclaiming  the  words  of  life.  This  spiritual 
force  which  wrought  such  marvelous  things  in  these  beginnngs 
of  Christianity,  has  continued  to  manifest  itself  at  all  subsequent 
periods  or  epochs  in  the  historic  progress  of  the  Christian  re- 
ligion in  similar  revelations  of  the  Spirit's  presence  and  power. 
Hence  the  thinking  of  this  missionary  era  is  centering  more  and 


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more  in  the  conviction  that  without  this  promised  power  nothing 
can  be  accomplished  for  the  glory  of  God  in  the  evangelization 
of  the  world.  While  not  overlooking  the  value  of  improvements 
in  evangelistic  machinery  in  these  modern  days,  the  men  and  wo- 
men actually  at  work  are  crying  out  , under  the  pressure  of  a 
great  need,  for  an  increase  of  spirituality,  greater  vitality  in  their 
teachings,  and  more  positive  influence  in  society.  That  means  a 
fuller  volume  of  intercessory  prayer,  and  consequently  a  revival 
in  our  social  meetings  for  prayer. 

The  enthroned  Redeemer  has  been  very  gracious  to  our  rep- 
resentatives in  all  the  foreign  fields,  and  they  have  not  been  slow 
to  recognize  the  providence  of  the  Meditator  in  His  kindly  deal- 
ings with  them  and  their  work.  Each  one  has  something  to  re- 
cord to  His  praise: 

Speaking  for  Northern  Syria,  Dr.  Stewart  says:  "We  thank 
God  for  continued  peace  in  this  part  of  the  Turkish  Empire,  and 
for  health  and  strength  and  abundant  opportunities  to  witness 
for  Christ  and  scatter  the  good  seed."  As  the  representative  of 
Asia  Minor,  Rev.  R.  E.  Wilson  writes:  "We  praise  God  for  the 
measure  of  success  that  has  attended  our  efforts."  And  again: 
"The  leaven  is  at  work.  *  *  *  in  spite  of  the  unfavorable  con- 
ditions, commercial  and  political,  foreigners  are  coming  to  Tur- 
key. That  result  at  least  has  been  obtained.  *  *  *  And,  while 
we  may  be  assured  tor  the  present  of  government  opposition  to  our 
work,  the  foreign  influence  is  certain  to  be  felt."  And  then  he 
expresses  the  hope  that  "the  Christian  lands  which  are  bringing 
their  commerce  into  the  country  will  bring  with  it  a  demonstra- 
tion of  pure  Christianity  in  business,  politics  and  life,"  and  that 
"the  seed  sown  in  the  years  past  may  yet,  with  His  rich  blessing, 
spring  up  into  a  harvest  of  regenerated  and  purified  lives."  "We 
bespeak,"  he  continues,  "the  co-operation  of  the  Church  in  inter- 
cession for  this  cause;  that  the  servants  of  the  gospel  may  be 
earnest  and  persevering  in  their  labors,  and  that  God  will  over- 
rule all,  that  there  may  be  no  backward  step,  but  that  all  may 
work  together  for  the  glory  of  His  Kingdom."  On  behalf  of  the 
work  in  Cyprus,  Rev.  W.  McCarroll  says:  "We  have  not  seen  the 
fifty  converts  that  we  were  praying  for,  yet  a  proportion  of  that 
number  has  confessed  Christ  as  Lord  and  Saviour,  enough  to  show 
that  the  Spirit  is  working  and  that  we  have  not  been  utterly  aban- 
doned to  our  own  resources."  A  few  selections  must  be  made 
from  the  annual  statements  of  the  workers  in  China:  Dr,  A.  I. 
Robb  writes:  "There  are  evidences  unmistakable  that  the  Holy 
Spirit  is  working  in  our  work  as  a  Mission,  and  we  cherish  the  hope 
of  a  great  harvest  in  the  near  future,"  while  Rev.  J.  K.  Robb 
closes  his  report  with  these  words,  "We  may  well  say,  'Who  is 
sufficient  for  these  things?'  But  with  His  promise  to  establish 
the  work  of  our  hands  upon  us,'  and  with  the  faithfulness  of  our 
Lord  to  us  in  the  past  to  strengthen  our  faith,  we  can  face  future 
problems  and  future  labor  with  perfect  confidence,  'remember- 
ing the  years  of  the  right  hand  of  the  Most  High.'  "  Not  less  im- 
pressive is  the  message  that  Miss  Jennie  Dean  sends  us:  "We 
cannot  but  see  the  hand  of  God  in  blessing  on  the  work  among 
our  Chinese  sisters,  and  we  lift  our  hearts  in  grateful  praise  to 
the  Father  above  for  His  great  goodness,  and  look  for  greater 
things  from  His  hand  in  the  future."  A  word  from  Dr.  Kate 
McBurney   will    close   these   extracts:      "We   have   seen   no   sudden 


54  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

transformation,  but  the  no  less  interesting  and*  no  doubt,  more 
substantial  change  that  is  a  steady  growth  and  gives  evidence  of 
the  povi^er  of  the  Spirit  in  the  hearts  of  those  who  were  so  recent- 
ly in  dense  darkness.  We  ourselves  have  many  lessons  to  learn 
in  faith  and  patience,  and  often  we  can  learn  these  along  with 
our    Chinese    sisters    to    our    mutual    advantage." 

The  Field  Reports,  full  of  interesting  and  vivid  details,  will 
be  published  in  "Olive  Trees,"  along  with  this  Report  of  the  Board, 
and  the  members  of  the  Church  are  urged  to  study  them  and  pass 
them  on  to  others,  that  all  may  be  thoroughly  furnished  in  regard 
to  the  present  condition  and  claims  of  the  Foreign  Missions. 

We  shall,  however,  cull  from  them  and  group  the  facts  that 
are  leading  in  importance,  and  should  have  a  prominent  place  in 
our  minds. 

DEPARTMENT  OF  PREACHING  AND  SCHOOL  WORK 

Syria. — There  are  269  names  on  the  communicant  roll  in 
Northern  Syria.  There  were  272  reported  twelve  months  ago,  and 
there  were  25  added  this  year,  "including  y  that  properly  belonged 
to  last  year,"  but  there  was  a  decrease  of  28  owing  to  dismission, 
showing  a  net  loss  of  3.  In  Latakia,  the  center  of  operations,  and 
at  five  out-stations,  there  was  public  worship  on  Sabbath  with  an 
average  attendance  of  350  to  400,  and  there  were  also  four  flour- 
ishing Sabbath  schools,  and  in  The  middle  of  the  week  four  prayer 
meetings  in  Arabic  and  one  in  English.  The  extreme  severity  of 
the  winter  weather  and  the  resultant  difficulty  of  traveling  pre- 
vented the  usual  amount  of  evangelistic  touring,  and  for  the  same 
reason  there  were  only  two  communions  held. 

In  Latakia  there  was  in  charge  of  Dr.  Stewart  a  boy's  school 
of  42  boarders  and  60  day  pupils,  said  to  be  in  good  condition. 
And  under  the  supervision  of  Miss  Maggie  B.  Edgar,  with  Miss 
Louise  Crockett  as  assistant,  there  was  a  girl's  school  of  35  board- 
ers and  42  day  pupils,  which  is  described  as  "in  a  peaceful  and 
prosperous  condition."  At  Suadia,  in  the  northern  part  of  this 
field,  where  there  are  38  church  members,  there  were  two  schools, 
with  an  enrollment  of  75  pupils.  But  the  work  is  in  a  very  un- 
satisfactory state  for  the  want  of  proper  oversight,  which  is  at 
ance  essential  to  efficiency,  and  cannot  be  secured  without  a  resi- 
dent missionary.  At  Tartous,  in  the  southern  part  of  the  field  on 
the  Mediterranean  and  over  one  hundred  miles  from  Suadia, 
there  were  two  schools  with  120  pupils,  and  at  present  no  rivalry 
on  the  part  of  the  Greeks.  At  Gunaimia,  a  beautiful  Aremian 
village,  nestling  among  the  Syrian  hills,  where  there  are  from  70 
to  80  communicants,  who  should  have  a  missionary  pastor,  a  good 
center  for  evangelistic  effort,  there  were  two  schools.  Besides 
these,  there  was  a  little  school  at  Bahamra  and  seven  mountain 
schools,  with  about  150  in  attendance.  With  regard  to  these 
last-named  schools.  Dr.  Stewart  writes  that  "the  policy  of  the  gov- 
ernment is  not  fully  developed.  At  present  it  refuses  to  authorize 
them,  while  claiming  the  right  to  close  them  unless  they  are  auth- 
ized,  and  yet  fails  to  close  them.  The  requests  for  such  schools 
are  rapidly  multiplying,  and  we  are  glad  of  it,  for  they  furnish 
the  best  possible  means  of  sowing  the  good  seed."  In  the  absence 
of  tabulated  statistics  we  are  unable  to  give  the  number  of  teach- 
ers  and   other   native   laborers   in   this   field,    but   as   far   as  can   be 


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gathered  from  the  report,  there  must  have  been  over  524  young 
people  and  children  under  daily  instruction. 

Among  the  workers  who  have  fallen,  special  mention  is 
made  of  Ishok  Shemmaa,  who  was  identified  with  our  work  in, 
Northern  Syria  for  twenty-nine  years  as  "Bible  man,  visitor,  or 
preacher,"  and  of  whom  Dr.  Stewart  writes,  "The  saying  of  Paul, 
'This  one  thing  I  do,'  might  well  be  applied  to  his  life,  for  he  seem- 
ed to  have  no  other  interest  in  life  than  to  make  known  the  gospel 
of  the  grace  of  God." 

Asia  Minor — The  annual  statement  of  the  work  in  Asia  Minor 
is  a  very  full  and  carefully  prepared  paper  from  the  pen  of  Rev. 
R.  E.  Wilson,  Chairman  of  Tarsus  Mission.  It  reports  87  commu- 
nicants in  good  standing,  32  in  Mersina,  41  in  Tarsus,  and  14  in 
Adana,  a  net  increase  of  12.  The  Lord's  Supper  was  administered 
in  the  three  cities  with  an  encouraging  accession  on  each  occasion, 
and  there  was  preaching  every  Sabbath  by  one  of  the  American 
ministers  or  a  native  evangelist.  It  is  interesting  to  mark  the  way 
in  which  the  evangelists  do  their  work  in  this  field.  In  Tarsus 
Mr.  Luttoof  "conducts  the  regular  Sabbath  and  midweek  services." 
And  during  the  week  he  "spends  about  three  hours  each  morning," 
except  Tuesday,  "in  visiting  the  market,  where  he  has  a  number 
of  meeting  places  in  stores  whose  proprietors  are  Greek,  Armen- 
ian, or  Protestant."  After  that  he  "goes  to  the  reading  room 
or  spends  the  time  among  the  people  in  their  own  homes."  In 
Adana,  besides  the  preaching  of  the  gospel  on  the  Sabbath,  Mr. 
Hanna  finds  his  chief  opportunity  in  house-to-house  visitation. 
"Each  evening  is  spent  in  the  house  of  a  neighbor  or  friend  where 
others  gather,  and  they  read  and  talk  of  religious  subjects." 

The  evangelistic  character  of  the  school  work  in  this,  as  in 
the  other  fields,  challenges  attention.  In  Mersina  there  was  a 
girl's  school  of  3  7  boarders  and  18  day  pupils  in  charge  of  Miss 
Sterrett,  who  reports  that  six  of  the  girls  united  with  the  Church 
at  the  communion  in  January,  "and  a  seventh  would  have  done  so 
had  permission  from  her  mother  been  received  in  time."  In  the 
boy's  school  of  38  boarders  and  16  pupils,  under  the  direction 
of  Miss  French,  there  has  been  the  same  "careful  systematic  train- 
ing in  the  word  of  God"  as  in  former  years.  In  the  school  at 
Tarsus  there  were  96  pupils,  representing  seven  sects,  5  0  of  them 
fellahin.  "At  the  opening  of  the  school,"  writes  Mr.  Wilson, 
"there  was  an  attempt  on  the  part  of  a  Moslem  Society  to  prevent 
the  fellahin  attending  school.  It  was  largely  through  the  loyalty 
of  the  fellahin  themselves  that  the  attempt  was  unsuccessful,  and 
we  are  gratified  to  report  the  large  proportion  of  fellah  pupils." 
Mr.  Wilson  relates  one  incident  of  most  encouraging  character: 
"In  the  Sabbath  school  there  is  a  special  class  for  the  women, 
*  *  *  in  which  care  has  been  taken  to  present  the  gospel  truths 
in  a  simple  way  that  all  would  be  able  to  understand.  *  *  *  And 
the  fruits  of  such  training  already  appears,  when  one  woman  from 
this  class,  80  years  of  age,  passed  an  acceptable  examination  and 
was  admitted  to  the  Church  at  our  recent  communion." 

According  to  the  tabulated  statistics  of  this  Mission,  there  were 
2  evangelists,  3  Bible  readers,  and  9  teachers  employed,  and  233 
children  and  young  people  under  Christian  instruction  during  the 
year. 

Cyprus. — On  the  island  of  Cyprus  there  are  27  communicants 
a  net  increase  of   3.      Communions   were   held   at  Larnaca   and  Nl- 


56  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

cosia,  and  at  the  Sabbath  services  there  were  preaching  and  teach- 
ing in  three  languages.  Request  is  made  for  prayer  that  two  Mo- 
slem boys,  who  have  privately  declared  their  belief  in  Jesus 
Christ  as  Lord  and  Saviour  and  their  desire  to  serve  Him,  may 
be  led  to  enroll  themselves  among  His  followers  and  confess  His 
name   boldly   before   the   world. 

The  school  established  for  the  training  of  native  workers  for 
the  evangelization  of  their  own  people  reports  60  pupils,  and  of 
these,  10  are  in  the  boarding  department.  Arrangements  are  be- 
ing made,  with  the  approval  of  the  Board,  to  purchase  a  desirable 
piece  of  property  across  the  street  from  the  home  of  the  senior 
missionary  and  the  David  Torrens  Memorial  Church,  on  wh.ch  to 
erect  a  building  with  suitable  appliances  for  educational  work,  the 
home  churches  to  contribute  the  cost  of  the  field  and  the  expense 
of  the  building  to  be  met  from  the  estate  bequeathed  to, the  Mis- 
sion by  the  late  A.  G.  Feponiades.  Mr.  McCarrol  and  his  associates 
are  greatly  encouraged,  and  much  prayer  will  be  offered  for  the 
success   of   the   enterprise. 

China. — The  present  membership  of  the  congregation  orga- 
nized at  Tak  Hing,  October,  1909,  is  145,  counting  the  American 
women  who  gave  in  certificates  from  the  home  churches.  There 
was  an  addition  of  2  9,  showing,  after  the  subtraction  of  a  small 
loss  of  6,  a  net  gain  of  23.  Rev.  J.  K.  Robb,  who  is  in  pastoral 
charge,  speaks  in  the  highest  terms  of  the  elders,  commending 
them  for  their  fidelity  and  wisdom  and  their  "valuable  assistance 
in  the  examination  of  candidates  for  baptism."  None  were  re- 
ceived except  "in  accordance  with  the  expressed  judgment  of  the 
elders  themselvs.  *  *  *  Candidates  were  required  to  wait  till  a 
future  time  because  of  matters  better  understood  by  the  elders 
than  by  the  Moderator."  And  thus,  in  his  judgement,  the  "purity 
of  God's  House  is  being  jealously  guarded,  and  is  not  to  be  sacri- 
ficed to  secure  a  larger  membership."  He  also  commends  the  dea- 
cons for  their  ability  as  financial  officers,  and  the  members  for 
their  readiness  to  do  personal  work  for  the  spread  of  the  truth 
and  the  salvation  of  others,  in  ways  that  would  be  worthy  of  imi- 
tation at  home.  "The  experience  of  the  past  year,"  writes  Mr. 
Robb,  "has  done  much  toward  convincing  us  tiiat  the  organization 
of  a  congregation  was  not  only  a  step  for  which  the  native  Chris- 
tians were  ready,  but  was  the  thing  needed  to  promote  the  best 
interests  of  the  work  as  a  whole."  The  attendance  at  the  three 
Sabbath  schools  for  girls,  women  and  men  averaged  about  100, 
and  there  was  a  good  attendance  at  the  midweek  prayer  meeting. 

If  the  Church  is  to  have  an  intelligent  idea  of  the  work  at 
the  outstations  in  China,  it  will  be  necessary  for  the  people  to  read 
Dr.  Robb's  account  of  his  trip  to  the  country  after  closing  the  f  rst 
term  of  the  theological  class,  to  give  the  students  some  practical 
work.  To  reproduce  the  graphic  story  of  successes  and  failures 
would  occupy  too  much  space,  and  to  quote  a  few  sentences  here 
and  there  w^ould  serve  no  good  purpose.  After  four  days  at  Ma 
Hui  and  three  days  at  Tung  On  he  tells  of  a  visit  to  the  Ko 
Leung  district,  "new  territory,"  he  writes,  "where  I  was  assured 
no  white  nian  had  ever  been  but  where  there  are  a  few  of  our  mem- 
bers. *  *  *  Our  opportunities  were  excellent,  crowds  listening  for 
hours  on  the  street  till  I  was  weary  with  speaking  and  shivering 
with  cold.  The  students  all  took  part  in  this  work,  and  were  fear- 
less and  outspoken.     Many  of  the  gentry  of  the  district  visited  us 


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at  our  lodgings  and  were  courteous  and  kind."  At  the  close  of 
the  Chinese  New  Year  he  went  alone  to  Che  Tsai,  where  there  was 
such  pitiless  persecution  two  years  ago,  but  which  seems  to  have 
entirely  passed  away.  In  the  places  visited  he  did  not  find  the 
work  of  the  evangelists  altogether  satisfactory.  It  showed  the 
need  of  immediate  foreign  supervision. 

The  boy's  school  at  Tak  Hing  is  under  the  management  of 
Rev.  Julius  A.  Kempf,  who  reports  an  enrollment  of  35  pupils, 
8  more  than  the  previous  year.  "Fifteen  of  these,"  he  says,  "are 
Christians,  and  during  the  year  four  boys  made  public  profession 
of  faith  in  Christ  and  were  baptized." 

The  story  of  the  girl's  school,  as  told  by  Miss  Dean,  who  is 
at  present  in  charge,  is  exceedingly  interesting.  Beginning  with 
15  pupils,  February  27,  1910,  the  attendance  continued  to  grow 
month  after  month  till  in  February,  1911,  it  had  reached  a  total 
enrollment  of  3  7,  with  35  regular  pupils.  Miss  Dean  is  a  trained 
teacher,  and  the  way  in  which  she  overcame  the  difficulty  of  being 
left  to  open  the  school  in  October  without  a  native  helper,  proved 
her  resourcefulness  and  foreshadows  d.rect  and  visible  results  of  a 
high  order.  In  her  own  language,  "Four  of  the  older  girls  were 
pressed  into  teaching  the  primary  classes,  and,  under  foreign  su- 
pervision, have  done  very  creditable  work.  This  really  makes  a 
normal  department  in  connection  with  the  boarding  school,  and  it 
is  our  hope  that  ere  long  we  will  have  some  trained  teachers 
to  meet  the  ever  increasing  demand."  "We  are  glad  to  say,"  Miss 
Dean  adds,  "that  six  of  the  girls  were  received  into  the  Church 
last  year,  and  that  many  give  evidence  of  growth  in  Christian 
character.  This,  after  all,  is  the  end  to  which  all  our  efforts  are 
directed — the  bringing  of  souls  into  the  Kingdom,  and  creating 
such  an  atmosphere  as  will  inspire  and  prepare  for  future  service 
for  the  King." 

According  to  Dr.  Kate  McBurney,  who  also  has  responsible 
charge  of  the  women's  school,  there  was  an  enrollment  of  2  2 
pupils,  while  11  others  were  present  occasionally  though  unable 
to  give  regular  attendance,  and  6  were  received  into  the  fellowship 
of  the  Church.  She  emphasizes  the  value  of  this  educational  work 
as  opening  a  wide  door  of  opportunity  for  evangelism,  and  records 
instances  of  the  good  results  that  flow  from  visiting  in  the  heathen 
homes  of  these  women  at  their  own  request.  Besides  the  visits 
that  were  made  on  Sabbath  afternoons  at  the  close  of  chapel  ser- 
vices, the  doctor  writes  that  "127  calls  have  been  made  in  homes 
where  a  desire  or  willingness  to  hear  the  doctrine  was  manifest; 
29  of  these  were  daily  visits  in  the  home  of  a  'shut  in,'  who  later 
died  in  the  faith.  As  soon  as  she  heard  that  Jesus  would  forgive 
sins,  she  looked  up  earnestly  and  asked  if  He  would  forgive  her 
sins.  Answered  in  the  affirmative,  she  settled  back  on  her  pil- 
low and  said  with  quiet  assurance,  'I  believe.'  Foreigners  and 
Chinese  alike  seemed  to  feel  the  uplift  of  a  visit  to  this  sufferer." 

The  transfer  of  Rev.  E.  C.  Mitchell  to  Do  Sing,  twelve  or  fif- 
teen niiles  above  Tak  Hing  on  the  West  River  marks  an  advance 
step  in  the  Mission  to  China.  In  his  statement,  when  published, 
will  be  found  details  of  the  transfer  and  information  in  regard 
to  the  Colportage  of  which  he  had  charge,  that  need  not  be  embod- 
ied in  this  Report.  It  is  enough  to  say  that  he  moved  up  in  Octo- 
ber, 1910,  and  the  first  service  in  the  chapel  was  held  November 
13,    1910,    and    the    room    was    full    both    morning    and    afternoon. 


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Since  that  time  there  has  been  preaching  twice  every  Sabbath. 
Other  meetings  have  been  held  for  the  instruction  of  the  people, 
notably  special  services  daily  for  a  fortnight,  and  even  now  there 
are  not  wanting  evidences  that  the  seed  sown  is  taking  root. 

MEDICAL   DEPARTMENT 

Equally  interesting  and  encourag  ng  is  the  medical  work  in 
the  several  fields.  The  truth  that  Dr.  Balph  and  his  assistant. 
Miss  Elsey,  have  spoken  to  72  patients  in  the  hospital  at  Latakia 
Syria,  and  that  the  doctor  has  made  known  during  1200 
visits  to  outpatients  as  well  as  to  large  numbers 
at  his        office        and         tri-weekly         clinics,         must         bear 

fruit.  Nor  has  Dr.  Peoples  in  Asia  Minor  treated  923  at  clinics, 
281  in  their  homes,  including  21  Moslems,  and  2  in  the  hospital 
without  hope  of  good  success  from  a  spiritual  standpoint.  And 
we  are  confident  no  one  will  veture  to  say  that  the  gospel  has 
been  presented  in  China  to  90  patients  in  the  Tak  Hing  hospital, 
2683  at  dispensaries,  and  2935  during  159  itinerary  trips,  not 
to  speak  of  those  met  at  5  9  outcalls,  without  spiritual  results,  per- 
haps hidden  at  present  in  the  large  majority  of  instances,  but  sure 
to  De  seen  at  the  revealing  day  to  the  abounding  joy  of  our  four 
busy  physicians  on   the   West  River. 

It  is  not  easy  to  overestimate  the  importance  of  the  practice 
of  medicine  as  an  evangelistic  agency.  Through  its  instrumentali- 
ty many  have  been  led  to  accept  Christ  as  their  Saviour,  who,  in  all 
human  probability,  would  never  otherwise  have  heard  His  name. 
The  success  that  is  attending  this  department  of  our  foreign  Mis- 
sions and  the  statistics  furnished  in  the  reports  for  the  year  should 
be  the  means  of  attracting  to  the  fields  many  physicians  and  train- 
ed nurses. 

EMPHATIC   POINTS 

We  will  close  with  a  few  general  items  that  call  for  emphasis: 

1.  There  are  in  our  two  foreign  Missions  528  Church  members, 
including  the  13  American  women  in  China,  77  added  during  the 
year,  a  net  increase  of  35,  and  about  852  under  daily  instruction 
in  Christian  schools. 

2.  There  are  two  theological  classes  for  the  training  of  a  na- 
tive ministry;  one  at  Tak  Hing,  China,  with  five  students,  whom 
Dr.  Robb  commends  for  "their  willingness  to  do  any  work  assign- 
ed to  them";  the  others,  at  Latakia,  Syria,  with  one  student,  of 
whom  Dr.  Stewart  writes  that  "he  has  made  remarkable  progress 
considering  that  he  teaches  half  time  and  has  to  take  care  of  the 
boys  outside  of  school  hours."  There  are  others  among  the  teach- 
ers who  should  be  under  this  special  instruction,  but  they  cannot 
be  spared  from  school  work  at  present. 

3.  The  missionaries  are  evidently  striving  to  ift  the  converts 
to  a  higher  standard  of  Christian  giving  and  the  Board  urges 
them  to  diligence  along  this  line,  with  a  view  to  the  ultimate  self- 
support  of  native  churches  and  schools. 

4.  There  are  28  missionaries  in  the  foreign  fields,  including 
Rev.  W.  M.  Robb,  on  furlough,  and  Miss  Mattie  R.  Wylie,  who 
expects  soon  to  return  to  Latakia  and  enter  upon  her  duties  as 
city  visitor,  with  Rev.  D.  R.  Taggart,  Miss  Rose  Huston,  and  Miss 
Annie  J.  Robinson  sent  to  China,  and  Miss  A.  Louise  Crockett  and 


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Mr.  Charles  A.  Stewart  sent  to  the  Levant  last  autumn.  If  this 
number  was  doubled  in  1911,  1912,  and  1913,  and  an  equal  num- 
ber commissioned  in  1914,  1915  and  1916,  the  Covenanter  Church 
would  have  84  representatives  abroad,  one  for  every  25,000  of  the 
millions  for  whose  evangelization  we  have  made  ourselves  re- 
sponsible. The  need  is  urgent.  And  the  men  and  women  called  for 
should  be  intellectually  gifted,  possessed  of  the  evangelistic 
spirit,  and  above  a  1  fully  surrendered.  Multitudes  are  perishing 
for  the  gospel  that  it  is  in  our  power  to  give  them. 

5.  The  Board  renews  the  suggestion  of  1910:  Appropriations 
of  $20,000  for  the  Levant  and  $20,000  for  China,  the  standard  that 
the   Church  should  aim  to  reach. 

6.  The  Board  calls  attention  to  tlie  practice  of  "special  giv- 
ing," which  has  become  so  prevalent  in  some  parts  of  the  Church. 
Individuals  in  a  fit  of  enthusiasm,  kindled  by  something  seen  in  a 
missionary  letter,  contribute  money  to  be  sent  directly  to  the  field 
for  the  support  of  a  teacher  or  the  education  of  a  pupil  or  the 
helping  of  lepers  or  some  other  form  of  work  that  exists  only  in 
the  imagination  of  the  donor.  Over  these  offerings  'the  Board  has 
no  control,  nor  can  they  be  used  for  any  other  than  the  specified 
purpose,  with  the  result  that  there  are  "special  giving"  funds  lying 
idle,  while  the  Treasurer  is  in  need  of  money  to  meet  current  ex- 
penses. How  can  this  be  remidied  without  doing  violence  to  the 
benevolent   instincts   of   the   people? 

7.  The  missionaries  at  Tak  Hing  were  under  the  impression 
that  the  Commission  appointed  in  1908  was  for  the  purpose  of  or- 
ganizing a  congregation,  and  that  when  that  was  accomplished, 
the  Court  was  dissolved.  The  Board  requests  the  appointment  of 
a  permanent   Commission. 

8.  The  time  of  T.  P.  Stevenson,  R.  M.  Sotnmerville,  Walter  T. 
Miller  and  Henry  O'Niell  has  expired,  and  their  places  should  be 
filled. 

Respectfully  submitted. 

In  the  name  of  the  Board, 

R.  M.   SOMMBRVILLE, 

Cor.   Secretary. 

The  minutes  of  the  Syrian  Commission  were  read  and  ac- 
cepted. Synod  noted  the  fact  that  the  minutes  do  not  show  that 
the  Commission  approved  its  own  minutes.  The  minutes  were 
ordered  engrossed  in  the  minutes  of  Synod. 

MINUTES   OF   THE   SYRIAN   COMMISSION 

Latakia,  Syria,  April   12,   1911. 

The  Syrian  Commission  met,  according  to  the  Call  of  the  Chair- 
man, at  Latakia,  on  the  above  date  and  was  constituted  with  pray- 
er by  A.   J.   McFarland. 

The  roll  was  called;  the  following  persons  being  present, 
Ministers:  A.  J.  McFarland,  R.  E.  Wilson,  J.  S.  Stewart,  Samuel 
Edgar.     Elder,  J.  M.  Balph. 

A  .J.  McFarland  was  elected  Chairman  and  J.  M.  Balph 
Clerk.  The  minutes  of  last  meeting  were  read  and  approved,  a 
program    was    arranged    and    adopted.      Owing    to    the    absence    of 


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the  Chairman,  Walter  McCarroll,  R.  E.  Wilson  was  appointed  to 
preach  the  sermon.  The  Committee  on  the  revision  of  the  transla- 
tion of  the  Testimony  reported  progress.  It  was  decided  at  the 
last  general  meeting  "To  proceed  at  the  next  meeting  of  the  Com- 
mission with  the  ordination  of  Calvin  McCarroll  to  the  office  of 
ruling  Eldre."     This  was  prevented  by  his  absence. 

The  members  of  the  Commission  resident  in  Latakia,  having 
been  previous  y  appointed  a  Committee  to  consult  with  the  members 
of  the  Congregations  of  Latakia  and  Gendaria  as  to  the  advisability 
of  uniting  these  two  Congregations,  were  continued,  and  directed 
to  take  the  necessary  steps  to  bring  about  this  union;  and  also  to 
arrange  for  the  union  of  the  Eldaney  Congregation  with  Latakia, 
and  for  the  election  of  additional  Elders  in  Latakia.  The  meeting 
was  adjourned  with  prayer  by  J.  S.  Stewart  to  meet  on  Wednesday 
the  12th  at  2  p.  m.      * 

Latakia,  April  11,  2  p.  m. 

An  intei'im  meeting  was  he;d  for  the  purpose  of  hearing  papers 
read  by  members  of  the  Mission.  Devotional  exercises  were  con- 
ducted by  R.  E.  Wilson.  A  paper  was  then  read  by  J.  S.  Stewart 
on  "Concentration  and  Expansion";  this  was  followed  by  one  on 
"The  Conditions  of  Prevailing  Prayer,"  by  Saijiuel  Edgar  and  one 
on  "The  Hindrances  to  Prevailing  Prayer,"  by  A.  J.  McFarland. 
A  book  review  was  read  by  Miss  Edgar  and  one  by  Mrs.  Balph. 
The  meeting  was  closed  with  prayer  by  S.  Edgar. 

Latakia,  April  12,  1911. 

The  Commission  met  according  to  adjournment  and  was  consti- 
tuted with  prayer  by  R.  E.  Willson.  Roll  was  called.  Members 
present.  Ministers:  A.  J.  McFarland,  R.  E.  Willson,  J.  S.  Stewart 
and  Samuel  Edgar.  Elder,  J.  M.  Baeph.  Minutes  of  last  meeting 
were  read. 

A  complaint  of  Gabriel  Luttoof,  and  appeal  from  the  decision 
of  the  Mersine  Mission,  was  received,  and  it  was  resolved  that  the 
Chairman  be  instructed  to  call  a  meeting  to  consider  the  same,  at 
such  a  time  and  place  as  may  seem  to  be  convenient.  The  Clerk 
was  instructed  to  send  a  copy  of  the  complaint  and  appeal  to  C. 
A.  Dodds  the  prosecutor  for  the  Mission,  who  is  now  in  America. 

On  motion  it  was  agreed  that  Khalil  Awad  who  has  been 
studying  under  J.  S.  Stewart  during  the  past  year,  be  taken  under 
the  care  of  the  Commission  as  a  student  of  Theology.  The  meet- 
ing was  adjourned  with  prayer  by  Samuel  Edgar, 

Latakia,  April  13,  1911,  2.  p.  m. 
A  Mission  Conference  was  held  on  the  above  date.  Devotional 
exercises  were  conducted  by  the  Chairman.  On  motion  a  Committee 
was  appointed  to  consider  the  matter  of  blanks  for  the  reports 
of  teachers  and  other  employees  of  the  Mission.  A.  J.  McFarland 
and  R.  E.  Willson  were  appointed  a  Committee  to  prepare  a  pro- 
gram for  the  next  general  meeting.  It  was  also  resolved;  that 
as  the  "Board"  requires  an  annual  examination  and  report  of 
progress  of  new  missionaries  in  the  study  of  the  language,  we 
adopt  as  a  guide  to  their  studies,  "The  Graded  Course  for  Begin- 
ners in  the  Study  of  the  Arabic  Language,"  prepared  and  used  by 
the  Beyrout  Mission.  It  was  agreed  that  at  the  time  of  the  next 
meeting   of  the   Commission,    a   conference   of   al     the   missionaries 


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from  the  different  centers  be  held.     The  paper  read  at  a  previous 
meeting  by  J.   S.   Stewart  was  requested  for  publication. 

The  meeting  was  adjourned  with  prayer  by  J.   S.   Stewart. 

Latakia,  April  14,  1911. 
Commission  met  at  7:30  p.  m.  and  was  constituted  with  pray- 
er by  the  Chairman,  A.  J.  McParland.  The  sermon  was  preached 
by  R.  E.  Willson  from  Romans  x:9.  Mersine  was  appointed  as 
the  place  of  next  meeting  and  the  time  as  near  the  1st  of  Septem- 
ber 1912  as  convenient.  Notice  to  be  given  by  the  Chairman. 
Commission  was  adjourned  with  prayer  by  J.  S.  Stewart. 

A.    jr   M'FARLAND,    Chairman. 
J.    M.    RALPH,    Clerk. 

The  Mission  Conference  made  a  supplementary  report 
which  was  accepted  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance. 

The  Committee  on  Nominations  made  a  partial  report,  which 
was  accepted  and  adopted. 

R.  C.  Wylie  was  made  Chairman  of  the  Committee  to  per- 
pare  the  overture  on  the  question  of  divorce. 

Synod  took  recess  until  7:30  P.  M.     Prayer  by  O.  C.  Orr. 


EVENING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  June  6,  7:30  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  at  the 
appointed  hour  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  C.  M.  Smith. 
The  calling  of  the  roll  was  dispensed  with.  The  minutes  of  the 
morning  session  were  read  and  approved. 

The  rule  of  Synod  in  respect  to  the  reception  of  papers  was 
suspended,  and  a  communication  from  the  members  of  the  Mis- 
sion in  China  was  received,  and  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Discipline. 

The  Committee  on  Home  IMissions  reported.  The  report  was 
accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     Adopted. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

W.  J,  Coleman  and  J.  S.  Thompson  addressed  the  Synod 
on  behalf  of  the  Domestic  Mission  work  of  the  Church ;  B.  M. 
Sharp  spoke  regarding  the  work  of  the  Indian  Alission  ;  T.  P. 
Stevenson  spoke  for  the  Jewish  Mission  :  T.  J.  Kynette  .spoke 
of  the  work  of  the  Southern  Mission. 


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The  report  of  the  Committee  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and 
is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OF   COMMITTEE   ON   HOME    MISSIONS 

The  Committee  on  Home  Missions  would  respectfully  report 
that  two  papers  have  been  placed  in  our  hands,  the  report  of  the 
Central  Board  of  Missions,  and  the  report  of  the  Jewish  Mission 
Board.  We  note  with  pleasure  the  sustained  efficiency  of  the 
Home  Mission  Work  as  indicated  by  the  reports.  The  laborers 
in  these  fields  are  giving  the  consecrated  energies  of  their  lives 
to  the  work  of  the  Lord.  Hardships  are  being  cheerfully  borne 
and  difficulties  heroically  met.  It  is  encouraging  to  note  the  man- 
ner in  which  the  life  of  the  community  is  being  laid  hold  of  by  the 
laborers  in  these  various  centers.  The  effort  is  being  made  to  ap- 
ply the  whole  gospel  to  the  whole  life  of  the  people  among  whom 
work  is  being  carried   on. 

The  Indian  Mission  has  adjusted  itself  to  the  changed  con- 
ditions of  its  field,  including  others  than  Indians  in  it's  compass. 
The  Jewish  Mission  is  using  every  available  means  to  commend  the 
Gospel  of  Jesus,  the  Christ,  to  people  who  mistakenly  oppose  it. 
The  enlarged  work  of  the  Southern  Mission  is  in  line  with  it's 
very  wide  field.  Industrial  education,  sanctified  by  the  pure  gos- 
pel of  our  Lord,  is  especially  demanded  by  the  conditions  of  this 
field.  The  Temperance  Contests  so  successfully  carried  on  by  two 
of  ithe  workers  in  this  field,  are  worthy  of  special  mention.  The 
constant  endeavor  to  save  souls  and  to  build  op  strong  Christian 
Character  of  all  the  work  reported  to  us  is  las  it  should  be.  The 
work  in  the  Southern  Mission  field  has  been  somewhajt  cramped 
for  lack  of  a  full   teaching  force. 

The  Domestic  Mission  Work  is  opening  up  with  wonderful 
promise  in  the  Northwest,  giving  hope  of  enlargement  to  the 
Church.     We  recommend: 

1.  Increased  liberality  to  the  Domestic  and  Home  Mission 
Fund. 

2.  That  earnest  and  continuous  prayer  be  offered  for  the 
laborers  in  these  fields,  and  the  souls  to  whom  the  Gospel  is  being 
presented. 

3.  That  W.  J.  Coleman,  R.  C.  Wylie,  Samuel  McNaugMer,  and 
A.  C.  Coulter  be  elected  their  own  successors  on  the  Central  Board, 
and  that  M.  M.  Pierce  be  elected  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Dr. 
R.  J.  George;  that  T.  P.  Stevenson,  W.  C  MacLeod  be  elected  their 
own  successors  on  the  Board  of  Jewish  Missions,  and  that  Daniel 
Adams  be  elected  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  William  Steele. 

4  That  W.  J.  Coleman  and  J.  S.  Thompson  be  heard  on  be- 
half of  the  Domestic  Mission  work,  that  R.  C.  Montgomery  be  heard 
On  behalf  of  !the  Jewish  Mission,  that  B.  M.  Sharp  be  heard  on 
behalf  of  the  Indian  Mission,  and  G.  R.  Steele  for  the  Southern 
Mission. 

E.    A.    CROOKS 
S.    F.    KINGSTON 
D.    O.    JACK 
J.    W.    ROSE 
J.    R.    DILL 

Committee. 


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THE    FIFTY-SEVENTH    ANNUAL    REPORT    OF    THE    CENTRAL 
BOARD  OF  MISSIONS 

In  submitting  the  report  of  the  Central  Board  we  have  to 
record  the  death  of  one  of  its  members  who  was  deeply  interested 
in  all  the  mission  work  of  the  church  and  who  faithfully  discharged 
his  duties  as  a  member  of  the  Board  until  it  became  impossible 
for  him  to  make  the  journey  from  his  home  in  Allegheny  to  the 
place  of  meeting.  The  Board  considers  that  it  has  sustained  an 
irreparable  loss  in  the  death  of  Prof.  R.  J.  George,  D.D.,  and  that 
every  department  of  the  church's  work  has  lost  a  friend  whose 
wise  counsel  was  invaluable. 

The  Board  has  recorded  upon  its  minutes  an  appreciation 
of  his  life  and  service  to  the  church  in  this  department  of  its  work. 

Miss  Anna  Coleman  died  at  the  Indian  Mission  on  March  3, 
1911,  and  according  to  her  expressed  wish  was  laid  to  rest  in  the 
Mission  Cemetery  beside  those  to  whom  she  had  devoted  all  the 
strength  of  her  life. 

The  Board  has  embodied  a  recognition  of  the  services  which 
she  has  rendered  to  the  church  in  resolutions  which  have  been 
published  and  has  also  authorized  the  erection  of  a  suitable 
memorial  that  will  help  to  perpetuate  the  influence  of  this  beauti- 
ful life  among  the  people  she  loved  so  well. 

Again,  the  Board  desires  to  record  the  death  of  Miss  Joanna 
Speer  who  was  for  a  long  time  connected  with  the  work  of  the 
Mission  and  died  at  the  home  of  her  sister  in  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on 
April   30th,   1911. 

DOMESTIC  MISSION 

The  Board  has  held  11  regular  and  2  special  meetings  during 
the  year.  The  four  quarterly  installments  of  the  Domestic  Mission 
fund  have  been  paid  regularly  in  accordance  with  the  reports  of 
the  Clerks  of  Presbyteries. 

The  receipts  for  the  year  have  been  $15,214.46.  The  ex- 
penditures have  been  $15,280.31.  Balance  overdrawn,  $2,761.43. 
We  request  for  this  fund  an  appropr  atiou  of  $12,000.00. 

SOUTHERN  MISSION 

The  schools  at  Knox  and  East  Selma  opened  the  first  Monday 
of  October  and  at  Pleasant  Grove  and  Valley  Creek  the  first  Mon- 
day of  November.  With  the  exception  of  one  week  in  December 
the  schools  have  had  no  holidays  until  the  close  of  Knox  and  Eas/ 
Selma  on  May  2  2nd  and  Pleasant  Grove  and  Valley  Creek  ithe  last 
of  April.  All  the  teachers  employed  by  the  Board  were  present 
at  the  opening  of  the  term  to  begin  their  work.  Circumstances 
required  the  substitution  of  Miss  Mable  Gill  for  Mrs.  Hattie  Fuller 
lait  the  outset  and  this  arrangement  was  continued  through  the 
year.  General  good  health  has  prevailed  among  pupils  and 
teachers. 

Miss  Ella  Frazier  was,  however,  compelled  to  lay  down  her 
work  for  two  months  and  a  half  on  account  of  sickness  and  during 
that  time  her  place  was  filled  by  Mrs.  S.  F.  Kingston  who  dis- 
charged the  duties  in  an  acceptable  manner. 

Miss    Adda    Hamilton    was    employed    in    November    to    teach 


64  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


singing  and  give  piano  lessons.     In  March  .the  efforts  of  Miss  Hamil- 
ton were  confined  to  piano  instruction  and  chorus  work. 

After  the  holidays  Miss  Fowler  took  up  the  work  in  the  cook- 
ing department  in  addition  to  her  other  labors  and  gave  instruction 
to  31  girls  from  the  High  School.  The  graduates  will  receive  cer- 
tificates of  proficiency. 

In  the  sewing  department  222  pupils  have  been  enrolled.  This 
department  shows  an  improvement  over  last  year. 

Twenty  boys  have  received  training  in  ithe  blacksmith  shop 
and  75  boys  have  been  instructed  by  Prof.  Bottoms  in  the  car- 
penter shop. 

By  December  grades  three  and  four  were  so  crowded  that  it 
became  necessary  to  fit  up  \a  room  in  the  basement  of  the  church 
and  Miss  Lulu  Lavender  from  that  time  was  engaged  to  give  in- 
struction  to    36    pupils    for   whom    this   provision    had   been   made. 

The  Religious  Training  in  Knox  and  Associate  Schools  has  not 
been  neglected.  In  fact  more  attention  has  been  given  to  this 
work  than  in  former  years.  Brown's  Catechism  has  been  commit- 
ted by  all  grades  below  the  fourth.  The  fourth  and  fifth  grades 
have  committed  the  Shorter  Catechism.  An  average  of  298  Bible 
verses  have  been  committed  by  each  pupil  and  these  togeither  with 
the  Catechisms  recited  Thursday  mornings  in  chapel. 

A  Y.  M.  C.  A.  and  a  Y.  W.  C.  A.  have  been  organized  among 
the  pupils  of  the  upper  grades.  Fifteen  temperance  contests  have 
been  held  in  chapel  and  elsewhere  in  ^he  community  and  have  been 
■the  means  of  awakening  many  minds  on  the  subject  of  temperance. 

Every  opportunity  is  taken  by  principal  and  teachers  to  lead 
the  pupils  into  a  religious  life.  The  superintendent  has  preached 
on  an  average  of  once  a  Sabbath  either  at  Valley  Creek,  Pleasant 
Grove,  Selma  or  in  some  church  in  the  neighborhood. 

"The  year  has  been  a  year  of  plentiful  sowing,"  writes  Mr. 
Sanderson,  "and  good  fruits  have  been  in  evidence  to  rejoice  our 
hearts." 

585  pupils  have  been  enrolled  in  Knox  Academy  and  the  aver- 
age attendance  has  been  406 — a  very  substantial  rise  in  the  per- 
centage over  last  year. 

This  has  been  the  best  year  in  the  history  of  East  Selma.  146 
pupils  have  been  enrolled  in  the  four  grades.  The  average  at- 
tendance in  this  school  was  75. 

Industrial  work  was  begun  this  year.  Miss  Gill  took  charge 
of  the  class  in  sewing. 

A  mother's  meeting  is  conducted  in  the  school  by  Miss  Sophia 
Kingston. 

At  the  Wednesday  afternoon  prayer-meeiting  the  Bible  and 
the    Catechism    are    studied. 

Pleasant  Grove  has  an  enrollment  of  95  and  an  average  atten- 
dance of  68.  Each  pupil  has  committed  167  Catechism  questions 
and  215  Bible  verses. 

Mr.  Kynett  has  charge  of  the  work  in  farming  and  he  has 
made  great  improvements  on  the  Pleasant  Grove  farm.  He  also 
conducts  many  farmers'  institutes  and  liolds  one  such  meeting 
each  month  in  the  school  house. 


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The  work  is  still  being  carried  on  at  Valley  Creek  although 
with  little  assistance  from  the  Board.  Miss  Gussie  Ware  has 
taught  there  for  six  months  this  winter. 

Twenty-three  pupils  have  been  enrolled  with  'an  average  atten- 
dance of  20. 

Mrs.  S.  F.  Kingston  conducts  a  Sabbath  School  there  the 
year  round  with  an  attendance  of  from  3  0  to  35.  The  Superintend- 
ent preaches  there  one  Sabbath  each  month. 

All  the  teachers  are  engaged  in  teaching  Sabbath  School  both 
in  the  morning  and  in  the  afternoon  of  Sabbath.  In  the  afternoon 
schools  there  is  an  average  attendance  of  400  and  180  In  the  morn- 
ing. 

The  total  enrollment  in  the  day  schools  this  year  is  849  which 
is  28  more  than  last  year. 

Prof.  Anderson  will  n\)t  be  a  candidate  for  reelection. 

On  the  whole  the  year  has  been  prosperous  and  the  work 
well  done. 

Receipts  for  the  year  $10,651.55.  Expenditures  $9,553.99. 
Balance    $2,811.18. 

We   request   for   this   Mission   an   appropriation   of    $5,000. 

INDIAN    MISSION 

The  work  at  the  Indian  Mission  has  been  going  forward  as  in 
former  years.  In  the  school  the  attendance  has  not  been  as  large 
as  in  some  years  past  but  the  Missionary  in  charge  is  convinced 
that  the  work  among  the  fewer  children  is  usually  as  effective 
in  its  total  results  as  when  the  rooms  are  more  crowded. 

Some  adjustment  has  been  necessary  in  the  ;teaching  force  dur- 
ing the  year.  Miss  Mearns  who  had  charge  of  the  girls  last  year 
was  called  to  her  home  in  Seattle  in  July  and  Miss  Clair  Pat- 
terson, of  the  Northwood  congregation,  a  graduate  of  Geneva  Col- 
lege took  care  of  the  girls  through  the  year. 

Miss  Allen  and  Miss  Coleman  took  care  of  the  boys  and  Mrs. 
Coulter  had  charge  of  the  kitchen  and  dining  room  for  the  white 
workers.  This  left  Miss  Allen's  place  in  the  laundry  vacant  and 
Miss  Snodgrass,  a  member  of  the  congregation  here  took  charge  of 
the  laundry  and  baking. 

The  Sabbath  School  work  among  ihe  Apaches  has  been  kept 
up  through  the  year.  Several  points  are  visited  each  Sabbath. 
Two  colored  families  living  in  the  vicinity  of  the  Mission  have 
taken  a  great  interest  in  Sabbath  School  work. 

Sabbath  School  work  is  also  being  carried  on  in  a  wood  camp 
and  in  a  camp  of  men  who  are  engaged  in  the  construction  of  the 
dam  that  is  to  supply  Lawton  with  water.  This  work  will  con- 
tinue as  long  as  the  camps  remain.  The  workers  are  well  received. 
Attention  is  also  given  to  the  Indians  in  this  vicinity  and  meet- 
ings are  held  among  them  by  the  workers  who  go  regularly  to 
the  camps. 

The  congregation  at  the  Mission  reports  a  decrease  for  th^ 
year. 

There  were  five  deaths  among  the  members  during  the  year 
— one  old  women,  one  young  woman,  and  two  young  men.  Miss 
Anna  Coleman  also  had  her  membership  in  this  congregation  and 


66  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


filled  the  office  of  Deacon.  One  of  the  elders,  Mr.  W.  S.  Moore, 
returned  to  his  farm  in  Olathe,  Kansas,  and  his  certificate  was 
given   to   that   congregation. 

Only  one  communion  fell  properly  within  the  time  covered  by 
the  report  of  the  Superintendent.  The  Spring  communion  was 
held  on  May  14,  1911,  and  the  report  of  this  event  belongs  to 
the  report  of  next  year. 

In  material  things  the  year  has  not  been  a  prosperous  one 
for  the  lack  of  rains  cut  all  crops  short  and  made  the  crops  that  did 
grow  of  little  worth.  Almost  all  of  the  land  belonging  to  the 
Mission  that  is  under  cultivation  is  in  alfalfa  and  it  does  not  suf- 
fer from  drought  as  much  as  other  crops.  Much  stock  was  market- 
ed during  the  year  and  the  expense  of  the  Mission  greatly  reduced 
in  this  way.     The  prospect  for  the  coming  year  is  fully  as  bright. 

The  progress  along  spiritual  lines  has  been  greatly  hindered 
by  the  prevalent  vices  of  the  Indian  and  those  who  exploit  the 
Indian  race.  Drinking,  gambling,  the  old  form  of  Indian  worship 
and  impurity  have  made  assault  on  the  company  and  have  secured 
some  youth  that  belonged  by  right  in  the  ranks  of  the  Lord.  A 
great  deal  of  this  evil  may  be  traced  directly  to  the  presence  of 
white  men  of  the  baser  sort.  The  influence  of  the  older  members 
of  the  tribes  who  have  never  yielded  the  traditions  and  practices 
of  heathendom  is  bad.  But  there  is  also  the  cheering  side.  Many 
of  the  members  of  the  church  have  held  to  the  profession  of  their 
faith  without  wavering.  Severe  trial  has  come  to  some  of  them. 
Two  sons  have  been  taken  from  David's  family  within  a  year  and 
yet  his  faith  in  God's  goodness  remains  unshaken. 

The  aid  given  the  Mission  by  various  Missionary  Societies 
is    remembered    and    gratefully    recorded. 

Generally  speaking  the  health  of  the  workers  has  been  good 
although    Mrs.   Carithers   has   not  yet   regained   her   strength. 

Mr.  Carithers  will  be  unable  to  be  present  at  this  meeting 
of  Synod. 

The  Revs.  J.  G.  McElhinney,  B.  M.  Sharp,  W.  J.  Coleman  and 
J.  M.  Co'eman  have  visited  the  Mission  since  last  meeting  of  Synod.  ' 
All  of  these  remained  long  enough  to  become  more  or  less  familiar 
with  the  working  of  the  Mission  and  are  qualified  to  speak  of  the 
progress  of  the  work. 

Elder  Jas.  S.  Arthur  has  also  been  laboring  in  the  Mission  for 
some  time. 

Receipts  for  the  year  $9,126.62.  Expenditures  $8,648.41. 
Balance  $2,198.05. 

We  request  for  this  Mission  an  appropriation  of  $6,000. 

The  term  of  membership  of  W.  J.  Coleman,  R.  C.  Wylie,  Sam- 
uel McNaugher,  and  A.  C.  Coulter  expires  at  this  meeting  and  their 
successors  should  be  chosen.  The  Board  recommends  that  M.  M. 
Pierce  be  chosen  to  fill  the  unexpired  term  of  Dr.  R.  J.  George. 

J.   S.  THOMPSON,   Chairman 
A.  C.  COULTER,  Rec.  Secretary 
R.  J.   G.   M'KNIGHT,  Cor.   Secretary. 

ANNUAL   REPORT   TO    SYNOD.      THE   MISSION   OF   THE   COVE- 
NANT  TO    ISRAEL 

The    Board    of   the   Jewish    Mission    is    thankful    to    be    able   to 


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report  progress  in  the  work.  The  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  the  Holy  One 
of  Israel,  and  his  mighty  Redeemer,  has  graciously  sustained  and 
advanced  this  work  through  another  year.  In  this  Mission  during 
the  year,  a  large  number  of  the  seed  of  Jacob  have  heard  the  call 
to  repentance,  and  the  offer  of  pardon;  and  some  have  evidently 
looked  with  troubled  hearts  upon  Him,  whom  they  have  pierced, 
and  have  been  in  bitterness  for  Him. 

The  Lord  has  blest  our  Missionaries  with  health,  enabling 
them  to  continue  their  work  with  constancy,  devotion  and  thank- 
fulness. 

Rev.  E.  J.  Feuersohn  has  great  comfort  and  encouragement 
in  the  manner  and  spirit  of  those  who  attend  the  meetings,  as 
also  in  a  goodly  number  of  secret  enquirers,  who  came  to  learn  of 
Christ.  He  has  great  joy  in  being  able  to  say  to  all  such,  "O  house 
of  Jacob,  Come  yet,  and  let  us  walk  in  the  light  of  the  Lord."  Mrs. 
Feuersohn  is  his  devoted  helper,  meet  for  him  in  the  Mission,  as 
faithfully  as  in  the  home. 

Miss  Mary  F.  Bell,  and  her  assistant.  Miss  Mary  Cupples, 
continue  dilligently,  mingling  Bible  instruction  with  hand-stitching. 
In  this  good  work  among  the  girls,  many  of  the  daughters  of 
Israel  are  absorbing  Christian  doctrines  and  virtues,  which  must 
radiate  upon  the  family  at  home,  bringing  .ight  and  cheer  to  many 
of  these  dark  abodes. 

Mr.  George  A.  Calderwood,  an  elder  of  the  Second  Church, 
is  freely  giving  time  and  strength  to  work  among  the  Jewish  boys, 
searching  for  them  in  their  homes,  and  finding  some  who  gladly 
respond  to  his  gospel  invitations.  He  has  a  class  in  the  Sabbath 
School. 

Mr.  Alexander  MacLeod  renders  valuable  service  to  the  Mis- 
sion by  conducting  a  class  in  vocal  music,  training  these  voices  for 
the  worship  of  God  in  the  singing  of  Psalms.  This  service,  too, 
is  a  free  will  offering. 

The  spirit  of  harmony,  co-operation,  and  mutual  helpfulness, 
prevails  to  an  extraordinary  degree,  among  the  workers,  and  in 
the  Board.  And  such  must  be  the  case,  if  we  would  see  the  work 
prosper  in  the  Lord. 

The  night  school,  Sabbath  School,  sewing  school,  Sabbath 
evening  service,  home  visiting,  private  gospel  instructions,  continue 
with  regularity,  and  unabated  interest.  Yet  we  have  not  been 
cheered  by  any  making  a  public  confession  of  faith  in  Jesus,  and 
uniting   with  the   Church. 

The  work  is  being  carried  forward  in  this  Mission  with  the 
unalterable  purpose  of  winning  souls  for  Christ,  the  upbuilding 
of  Christian  character,  and  the  crowning  of  Jesus  Clirist  with 
Israel's  salvation.  Covenanters  are  invited  to  visit  the  Mission, 
and  see  the  work  and  Missionaries.  None  should  pass  through 
Philadelphia  without  trying  to  see  the  Mission  of  the  Covenant  to 
Israel. 

The  standard  of  Christian  faith  and  conduct  taught  these 
people  in  this  Mission  is  we  believe,  according  to  their  capacity, 
the  same  as  that  held  by  the  Covenanter  Church.  In  our  judge- 
ment it  is  not  eonugh,  as  some  affirm,  for  Missions  to  simply  make 
Christians.  The  highest  type  of  Christianity  should  ever  be  the 
aim  in  missionating;  and  our  faith  in  God  should  reverently  expect 


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Him  to  bring  the  people  up  to  the  highest  standard  by  His  Holy 
Spirit. 

Therefore,  we  urge  the  Church  to  be  much  In  prayer  for  these 

Israelites,  who  are  under  gospel  instruction  In  this  ;Mission"  that 
they  be  truly  converted  by  the  Word,  edified  in  the  knowledge 
of  Jesus,  strengthened  in  the  faith,  deliA^ered  from  the  bondage  of 
fear,  separated  from  the  world,  and  made  able  and  willing  by  the 
Holy  Spirit,  to  form  a  Covenanter  Congregation,  according  to  the 
will  of  God.  We  plead  with  Covenanters  for  prevailing  interces- 
sion On  behalf  of  Israel,  and  of  all  our  Missions,  that  the  coming 
year  may  be  a  year  of  incessant,  persistant,  and  effectual  labor  by 
every  Missionary  in  every  field.  And  let  us  expects  great  results. 
God  can  send  showers,  plenteous  enough  to  water  all  fields,  and 
produce  bountiful  harvests. 

We  ask  for  $2,.500.00  with  which  to  carry  forward  this  work 
another  year. 

The  term  for  which  Dr.  T.  P.  Stevenson  and  Mr.  W.  C.  Mac- 
Leod were  elected  has  expired.  Dr.  Wiliam  Steele  has  resigned  as 
a  memlber  of  the  Board.  We,  therefore,  ask  Synod  to  e  ect  their 
successors. 

Adopted  by  the  Board 
Philadelphia,  Pa.,  May  9,   1911. 

J.  C.  M'FEBTERS,  President. 

WILLIAM  G.   CARSON,   Secretary. 


J.  S.  Thompson  resigned  as  a  member  of  the  Domestic  Mis- 
sion Board,  on  account  of  being  unable  longer  to  attend  its  meet- 
ings. The  resignation  was  accepted,  and  the  Committee  on  Nom- 
inations was  instructed  to  nominate  a  successor  to  fill  the  vacancy. 

The  courtesies  of  the  floor  were  extended  to  the  Rev.  Prof. 
Scanlon,  Secretary  of  the  Permanent  Committee  on  Temperance 
of  the  Presbyterian  Church.  Professor  Scanlon  was  introduced 
to  the  Synod  and  briefly  addressed  it  respecting  the  work  in 
which  he  is  engaged. 

The  following  resolution  was  unanimously  adopted: 

Resolved:  That  the  officers  of  this  Synod  be  instructed  to 
present  the  request  of  this  Synod  to  "The  Institute  of  Medical  Re- 
search" of  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  and  "The  Foundation  for  Scientific 
Research,"  of  Washington,  D.  C,  that  they  include  in  their  investi- 
gations an  inquiry  into  the  scientific  and  sociological  aspects  of 
Alcohol  and  other  Narcotics. 

The  Morning  Sun  Congregation  extended  an  invitation  to 
the  Synod  to  hold  its  next  meeting  at  Morning  Sun,  Iowa.     The 


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Sharon  Congregation  joined  in  this  invitation.     The  invitation 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Place  of  Meeting. 

The  Committee  on  Sabbath  Schools  reported.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  I,  together  with  so  much  of  the  body  of  the  report  as 
referred  to  the  matter  dealt  with  in  this  item,  was  stricken  out. 

Item  2.     Adopted. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

The  report  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OP    COMMITTEE    ON    SABBATH    SCHOOLS 

Your  Committee  on  Sabbath  Schools  would  respectfully  report: 
The  Sabbath  School  is  perhaps  the  most  important  organiza- 
tion connected  with  the  church;  it  is  so  linked  with  the  congrega- 
tion as  to  make  it  absolutely  necessary  to  her  life,  and  a  successful 
carrying  on  of  her  work.  Without  a  school  of  this  kind  she  is 
lacking  in  that  which  constitutes  an  essential  part  of  her  equip- 
ment for  service,  and  hence  she  cannot  accomplish  the  full  pur- 
pose 01  her  organization.  That  congregation  which  does  not,  in  this 
way  provide  for  the  training  of  her  youth  in  Bible  truth,  will, 
sooner  or  later,  become  extinct,  and  must  be  written  down  as 
having  failed  in  her  mission. 

,  It  is  the  purpose  of  your  Committee,  in  this  report,  to  set 
forth  in  as  few  words  as  possible,  the  true  purpose  of  the  Sabbath 
School,  and  to  shew  that  unless  this  purpose  is  maintained  the 
school  will  be  a  failure. 

What  then  is  the  purpose  of  the  Sabbath  School?  Why  has 
this  organization  been  effected  in  the  church?  Was  it  that  our 
children  and  the  children  in  those  homes  which  have  no  church 
connection,  might  come  together  for  an  hour  on  Sabbath  morning, 
that  they  might  be  kept  from  mischief  and  taught  to  remember 
the  Sabbath  day  and  keep  it  holy?  No.  Good  as  this  purpose 
might  be,  it  is  not  for  this  purpose  alone  that  the  Sabbath  School 
was  organized.  Was  is  for  the  cultivation  of  the  social  side  of 
church  life,  that  the  members  of  the  school  might  look  forward 
with  great  anticipation  to  the  close  of  the  year  for  the  distribution 
of  presents  and  prizes?  No  not  for  this  purpose  was  the  organiza- 
tion effected.     But  rather: 

PIKST.        TO   TEACH   THE   WORD   OF   GOD.. 

The  Bible  is  the  text  book  in  every  department  of  the  school, 
and  is  not  to  be  set  aside  by  any  other,  unless,  it  is  for  the  better 
understanding  of  the  Bible.  We  study  our  Testimony  and  our 
Confession  of  Faith,  but  these  are  based  on  the  Word  of  God, 
and  we  study  them  that  we  may  better  understand  the  scriptures, 
themselves,  but  to  introduce  any  other  volume  into  the  school, 
however  good  and  elevating  it  may  be,  or  how  ever  important 
the  subject  of  which  it  treats,  is  to  use  the  time  that  is  set  apart 
for  the  study  of  the  Bible,  for  a  wrong  purpose. 

In    these    days    when    Bible    study    is    so    much    neglected,    and 


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when  special  effort  is  being  put  forth  by  other  organizations  for 
the  encouragement  of  Bible  study,  great  care  should  be  taken  that 
the  Bible  be  not  displaced  by  any  other  book. 

SECOND.  The  purpose  of  the  Sabbath  School  is  to  'teach 
the  Word  of  God  m  its  purity,  both  as  it  affects  the  individual 
ana  national   life,   in  their  relation  to  God. 

And  can  this  be  done  in  any  better  way  than  by  setting  before 
the  scholar  the  doctrines  of  salvation  as  expressed  in  the  catechisms 
and  by  memorizing  the  songs  of  praise  used  in  the  worship  of 
God.  We  believe  it  cannot.  These  questions  of  the  catechism  are 
for  the  individual,  the  memorizing  of  which  will  make  one  better 
acquainted  with  the  Word  of  God  tlian  he  could  otherwise  be.  They 
set  forth  in  a  clear  and  concise  form  the  fundamental  doctrines 
of  the  religion  of  Christ  and  enable  one  to  grasp  and  understand 
those  doctrines  in  a  way  that  he  could  not  otherwise  do.  The  vast 
majority  of  the  Psalms  have  to  do  with  men  in  their  individual 
relation  to  God.  And  in  memorizing  them  eitlier  in  prose  or 
metrical  version  a  great  store  of  Bible  knowledge  is  treasured  up, 
making  one  better  acquainted  witli  God  Himself  and  enabling 
him  to  get  the  most  out  of  life. 

But  the  Bible  deals  with  nations  as  well  as  with  men  and 
teaches  just  as  clearly  that  they  are  responsible  to  God.  Why  is 
it  then,  in  our  study  of  the  Bible  we  do  not  hear  God  speaking 
unto  nations?  In  the  lessons,  as  prepared  by  the  International 
Committee,  great  care  seems  to  have  been  taken  to  set  forth  the 
truths  that  have  to  do  with  the  individual,  but  this  committee  does 
not  seem  to  have  been  so  careful  to  set  forth  the  teachings  of 
the  Bible  with  respect  to  nations.  Take  for  example  the  lessons 
studied  the  first  quarter  of  this  year.  And  many  valuable  lessons 
are  drawn  from  the  life  of  Elijah,  but  in  few  instances  is  the  na- 
tion of  Israel  held  up  as  a  warning  to  other  nations  that  forget  God 
and  his  Law,  and  which  are  as  truly  idolarous,  as  Israel  in  the 
days  of  Ahab.  And  good  as  these  lesson  helps  are,  they  fail, 
absolutely,  in  setting  before  the  scholar  that  great  truth  found  on 
almost  every  page  of  scripture,  that,  that  nation  is  blessed  only 
"Who's  God  is  the  Lord." 

The  same  is  true  in  regard  to  certain  sins.  We  frequently 
have  lessons  setting  before  us  the  sin  of  the  liquor  traffic,  but  in 
few  of  these  is  the  nation  censured  for  her  part  in  the  sin.  And 
'that  Sabbath  School  that  is  confined  to  the  study  of  the  Word 
through  these  helps,  is  not  being  taught  the  whole  truth  of  God's 
Word. 

THIRD.  Another  purpose  of  the  Sabbath  School  should  be 
to  lay  stress  on  the  fundamental   doctrines  of  salvation. 

While  the  historical  and  geographical  portions  of  the  Word  are 
valuable  and  not  to  be  neglected,  yet  those  doctrines  which  are 
essential  to  the  spiritual  welfare  of  the  scholar  should  be.  kept 
prominent,  and  a  special  effort  made  to  impress  them  on  the  mind. 
The  scholar  needs  to  know  the  heinousness  of  sin,  the  necessity 
of  repentance,  forgiveness,  faith  in  Christ,  etc.,  and  these  with 
kindred  doctrines  should  be  clearly  taught,  that  the  scholar  may 
know   what   he   or   she    must   do    to   inherit   eternal   life. 

There  is  danger  that  these  important  doctrines  be  over  looked 
by  the  average  teacher  in  the  endeavor  to  hold  the  attention  of 
the   class   by   stories,    etc.,    and   if   such   be   the   case,   the  time   and 


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the  attention  which  the  teacher  has  put  forth  is  lost,  and  the 
scholar,  from  the  spiritual  standpoint,  is  no  better  off  than  before. 
If  these  saving  doctrines  of  the  Word  are  clearly  taught  and  if 
the  blessing  of  God  is  asked  on  them,  that  they  may  be  carried 
to  the  heart,  they  will  convict  of  sin,  and  will  lead  to  an  accep- 
tance of  Christ.  The  Psalmist  realized  this  to  be  true  when  he 
wrote: 

God's  law  is  perfect  and  converts. 

The   soul   in    sin   that   lies; 
God's  testimony  is   most  sure. 

And  makes  the  simple  wise. 

The  statutes  of  the  Lord  are  right 

And  do  rejoice  the  heart. 
The  Lord's  command  is  pure,  and  doth 

Light  to  the  eyes  impart, 

FOURTH.  Another  purpose  of  the  School  is  to  gather  into 
the  fold   of   God  the   careless   and   unconcerned. 

The  Sabbath  School  is  the  strong  arm  of  the  church.  With 
it  the  church  should  reach  out  into  the  homes  of  the  non-church 
going  and  Non-Sabbath  School  attending  public,  and  endeavor  by 
every  legitimate  means,  to  bring  the  members  of  these  homes 
under  the  influence  of  the  Word,  and  to  teach  them  God's  purpose 
in  their  lives. 

"  The     Sabbath     School     is     a     missionary     organization.       It     is 

sent  into  the  world  to  aid  the  church  in  gathering  in  the  "travail 
of  the  Redeemer's  soul."  And  where  the  school  has  been  used  for 
this  purpose,  it  has  been  productive  of  great  good. 

While  the  Schools  exists  for  the  members  of  the  church,  that 
they  may  be  indoctrinated  iu  the  principles  of  the  church,  it  exists 
equally  for  the  purpose  of  instructing  those  outside  of  the  church, 
who  have  perhaps  no  other  way  of  knowing  or  becoming  acquainted 
with   the  principles  of  saving  grace. 

To  this  end  the  officers  and"  the  teachers  of  the  school  should 
see  to  it  that  every  soul  within  its  bounds  should  be  invited  to  the 
school,  and  prayer  to  God  should  be  offered  on  behalf  of  all  such 
that  they  might  accept  the  invitation,  and  become  a  part  of  the  school 
and  a  sharer  in  its  benefits  and  blessings.  This  may  be  done  by 
dividing  the  districts  into  sections  going  from  house  to  house  in- 
viting each  soul  in  the  Master's  name  to  attend  the  school,  and  to 
become  partners  with  them,  as  they  are  with  God,  in  carrying  on 
the  work  of  the  church.  The  school  that  will  thus  push  out  in  His 
name,  and  under  the  influences  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  will  grow  and 
become  a  power  for  good  in  its  part  of  the  world-vinyard. 

Your  committee  believes  these  to  be  some  of  the  purposes 
for  which  Sabbath  Schools  are  organized  in  the  churches,  and  we 
further  believe  that  if  these  purposes  are  carried  out,  the  school 
will  be  of  great  benefit  to  the  church,  and  to  the  community  in 
which  it  is  located. 

We   therefore  recomniend: 

1.  That  such  helps  be  used  in  the  School,  as  set  forth  the 
whole  truth  of  the  Word  of  God. 

8.  That   special   effort    be    put    forth. by    superintendents    and 


72  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


teachers  to  extend  an  invitation  to  all  within  their  bounds  to  be- 
come  members   of   the   school. 

3.   That  Pastors  and  Sessions  show  a  greater  interest  in  those 

members  of  the  school,  which  come  from  unchristian  homes 
taking  occasion  to  speak  to  all  such,  as  opportunity  may  offer,  con- 
cerning  their   soul's   welfare. 

JOHN   C.   FRENCH 
F    L.   M'KNIGHT 
Committee. 

The  foilowing  resolutions  were  intrcuuce-l  m-  U.  C.  Math- 
ews and  unaniniousl}-  adopted  by  the  Synod : 

ACTION    ON    THE     USE     OF    NON-BIBICAL    LESSONS     IN    THE 
SABBATH    SCHOOL 

The  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presyterian  church  in  North 
America  hereby  enters  its  earnest  protest  against  the  action  of 
the  intern  Li tional  Lesson  Committee  in  introducing  into  its  graded 
lesson  system  lessons  taken  from  uon-^biblical  sources,  V-z.,  for  ihe 
Intermediate  Grade  first  j^ear,  one  lesson  from  the  book  of  Mac- 
cabees, and  thirteen  lessons  from  the  biographies  of  men  like 
Roger  Williams,  William  Penn,  John  Eliot,  and  Samuel  J.  Mills. 

Resolved:  That  a  copy  of  the  above  signed  by  the  Moderator 
and  Clerk  of  Synod  be  forwarded  to  the  officers  of  the  Inter- 
national  Lesson   Committee. 

Resoved:  That  Sabbath  schools  in  our  church  using  the  grad- 
ed system  be  directed  to  substitute  lessons  from  the  Bible  n  place 
of  those  mentioned. 

Synod  adjourned  to  meet  tomorrow  morning  at  9  o'clock. 
Prayer  by  W.  J.  Sanderson. 


MORNING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  Wednesday,  June  7,  1911,  9  A.  M.  Synod  con- 
vened at  the  appointed  hour  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by 
J.  M.  Faris.  The  roll  was  called  and  the  following  did  not  ans- 
wer to  their  names :  W.  J.  Adams,  W.  A.  Vikin.  F.  E.  Allen, 
Robert  Allen,  R.  C.  AJlen,'  T.  J.  Allen,  W.  C.  Allen,  John  Arm- 
strong, James  R.  Bell,  R.  A.  Blair,  Thomas  Boggs,  J.  H.  Braum, 
J.  W.  F.  Carlisle.  S.  O.  Carson,  Wm.  G.  Carson,  James  M. 
Clark,  Robert  Clark,  J.  M.  Coleman,  W.  J.  Coleman,  A.  Copeland, 
A.  C.  Coulter,  Wm.  J.  Crawford,  S.  J.  Crowe,  J.  F.  Crozier,  J. 
Boggs  Dodds,  J.  R.  W.  Duguid,  D.  H.  Elliott,  Isaiah  Faris,  H. 
G.  Foster,  J.  C.  French,  W.  Henry  George,  James  Graham,  D. 
O.  Jack,  J.  M.  Johnston,  W.  P.  Johnston,  G.  R.  McBurney,  H.  G. 
Mcbonaughy,  P.  J.  ^IcDonald,  T.  A.  :\[cElwain.  J.  H.  McGee, 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  73 

R.  PI.  Martin,  J.  S.  Martin,  J.  S.  Oliver,  R.  C.  Reed,  T.  C. 
Sproull,  G.  R.  Steele,  J.  Z.  Sterrett,  James  Templeton,  James 
Torrens,  H.  B.  White  and  H.  A.  Youno^,  most  of  whom  soon 
appeared.  Synod  engaged  in  one-half  hour  of  devotional  exer- 
cises led  by  J.  S.  Thompson.  The  minutes  of  the  session  of  yes- 
terday evening  were  read  and  approved.  The  members  of  the 
Judicial  Commissions  appointed  at  this  meeting  of  Synod  were 
excused  from  roll  call  this  morning. 

The  report  of  Committees  on  records  of  Presbyteries  was 
called  for.  The  following  reported  nothing  contrary  to  the  law 
and  order  of  the  Church :  Colorado,  Kansas,  Iowa,  Illinois, 
Ohio,  New  Brunswick  and  Nova   Scotia,  and  Pittsburg. 

The  Committee  to  examine  tlie  records  of  the  New  York  Presby- 
tery reported.  Nothing  contrary  to  the  law  and  order  of  the  Church 
except  that: 

1.  On  page  169  the  minutes  of  a  Commission  of  Presbytery 
are   signed   by   the   Clerk   alone. 

2.  On  pages  168  and  169  it  appears  that  a  "congregation"  was 
allowed  to  supply  the  pulpit  and  arrange  for  communion.  It  is 
our  judgment  that  this  should  have  been  left  to  the  Session,  if 
not  attended  to  by  the  Presbytery  itself. 

The  Committee  to  examine  the  records  of  the  Philadelphia 
Presbytery  reported,  Nothing  contrary  to  the  law  and  order  of 
the  Church  except  that  on  page  196  there  is  nothing  to  show  that 
there   were  present  both   ministers   and   ruling  elders. 

The  Committee  to  examine  the  records  of  Rochester  Presby- 
tery reported.  Nothing  contrary  to  the  law  and  order  of  the  Church 
except  that  on  page  137  a  motion  which  is  found  on  page  134  is 
ordered  stricken  out,  but  not  recorded  on  the  margin,  as  required. 

These  reports  were  accepted  and  adopted. 

The  Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  col- 
lege reported.  The  report  was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by 
item  for  adoption. 

Theological  Seminarv. 


Item  I. 

Adopted. 

Item  2. 

Adopted. 

Item  3. 

Adopted. 

Item  4. 

Adopted. 

Item  5. 

Adopted. 

Geneva  College : 

Item   I. 

Adopted. 

Item  2. 

Adopted. 

Item  3. 

Adopted. 

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Item  4.  Laid  on  the  table  to  entertain  a  substitute.  The 
substitute'  was  adopted. 

R.  H.  Martin  and  W.  Henry  George  addressed  the  Synod 
on  behalf  of  the  College. 

J.  F.  Crozier  asked  that  his  earnest  protest  be  entered 
upon  the  minutes  against  applause  on  the  floor  of  Synod. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and 
Geneva  College  was  laid  on  the  table  for  the  present. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
taken  from  the  table. 

Item  28  was  taken  up.  The  matter  referred  to  in  this  item 
was  referred  to  the  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  Theological 
Seminary  together  with  the  Professors  in  the  Seminary. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  was 
adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OF    COMMITTEE    ON    UNFINISHED    BUSINESS. 

The  Committee  on  Unfinished  Business  would  respectfully  re- 
port that  the  following  items  require  the  attention  of  Synod. 

Item  1.  Report  of  Fraternal  Delegate  to  the  Christian  Re- 
formed Synod.     Page  19 — J.  M.  Coleman. 

Item  2.  Witness  Bearing  Committee  to  publish  the  report 
of  the  Committee  on  Psalmody  in  tract  form.  Page  25 — W.  J. 
Coleman. 

Item  3.  Special  order  of  the  day  for  Saturday  morning  of 
last  Synod,  laid  on  the  table  until  this  meeting.  Page  34.  (See 
also  Minutes  of  1909,  page  115,  item  3,  and  Page  IIG,   Item  3). 

Item  4.  Committee  on  Preservation  of  Monument  to  Dr.  J. 
R.  Wilson.     Pages  43  and  158 — Thomas  Patton. 

Item  5.  Instructions  to  Treasurer  of  Foreign  Mission  Board 
respecting  Bond,  depositing  of  money,  etc.  Page  5  8,  Rem  1. — S. 
A.   S.  Metheny. 

Item  6.  Walter  T.  Miller  or  his  legal  representative  to  turn 
over  all  money,  books,  etc.,  connected  with  the  office  of  Treasurer 
to   the   new  Treasurer.      Pages   58    and    69. 

Item  7.  Foreign  Mission  Board  to  arrange  for  a  Conference 
on  Friday  evening  of  Synod.     Page  58,  Item  9. — R.  M.  Sommerville. 

Item  8.  Foreign  Mission  Board  to  designate  text  books  for 
Mission  Study  Classes.      Page   5  8,   Item   9. — R.   M.   Sommerville. 

Item  9.  Domestic  Mission  Board  to  establish  Mission  to 
Mountain  Whites  if  funds  are  contributed.  Page  76,  Item  5. — R. 
J.    G.   McKnight, 

Item  10.  Clerk  to  print  Minutes  of  1910,  Page  98,  Item  4. 
— J.  S.  Thompson. 

Item  11.  Report  of  J.  S.  Tibby  on  Printing  of  Minutes  of 
1910. 

Item   12.      Balance  in  Memorial  Building  Acount  to  be  trans- 


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ferred   to   Theological   Seminary  Current  Account.      Page   99,   Item 
10 — J.   S.  Tibby. 

Item  13.  Treasurer  to  pay  expenses  of  Presibyterian  Alliance. 
Page   99,   Item   14. — J.   S.  Tibby. 

Item  14.  Special  Committee  on  Marriage  of  a  Believer  with 
an  Unbeliever.  Page  148. — D.  H.  Coulter.  (See  also  Minutes 
1909,    Page    115,   Item    2.) 

Item  15.  Commission  to  hear  Appeal  and  Complaint  of  J. 
F.   Crozier.      Page  15  8 — D.   C.  Mathews. 

Item  16.  Delegate  to  Inter-Church  Temperance  Federation. 
Page  145. — T.  H.  Acheson, 

Item  17.  Committee  to  classify  Congregations  and  Ministers. 
Page  146. — P.  J.  McDonald. 

Item  18.  Committee  to  prepare  Bible  Reading  Folders.  Page 
154.     T.  H.  Acheson. 

Item  19.  Clerks  of  Boards  and  Permanent  Committees  to 
divide  members  into  three  divisions.     Page  159,  Item  2. 

Item  20.  Fraternal  Delegate  to  the  Synod  of  the  Brethi^en. 
Page  162.  —W.  J.  McKnight. 

Item  21.  Committee  on  Witness  Bearing  to  prepare  program 
for  a  Conference  on  Thursday  evening  of  Synod.  Page  162. — W. 
J.  Coleman. 

Item  22.  Covenanter  Members  of  Ex.  Com.  of  N.  R.  A.  to  pre- 
pare a  program  for  a  Conference  on  Monday  evening  of  Synod. 
Page  162. — J,  S.  Martin. 

Item  23.  Committee  to  complete  new  edition  of  the  Psalter. 
Page  165,  Item  3. — W.  J  .Coleman. 

Item  24.  Committee  to  select  music  for  the  new  Psalter. 
Page  165. — R.  C.  Wylie. 

Item  25.  Dr.  Metheny  to  supervise  the  preparation  of  the 
Music  Plates.     Page  165,  Item  2. 

Item  26.  Expenses  of  R.  A.  M.  Steele  for  attending  the  meet- 
ing of  the  Music  Committee  to  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary  Fund. 
Page  165,  Item  3. — J.  S,  Tibby. 

Item  27.  Committee  on  Catechism  and  Manual  of  Doctrine. 
Page  165. — G.  A.  Edgar. 

Item  28.  Item  19  of  Unfinished  Business  of  last  year,  laid 
on  the  table  till  this  meeting  of  Synod.     Page  176. 

Item  29.  Report  of  Bureau  of  Information.  Page  175. — - 
T.  M.  Slater. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.    S.    THOMPSON. 
C.    M.    SMITH. 

T.  A.  McElwain  and  D.  O.  Torrens  wevQ  excused  from  fur- 
ther attendance  on  the  sessions  of  the  Synod. 

Synod  took  recess  until  2  P.  M.     Prayer  by  James  G.  Love. 


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AFTERNOON  SESSION. 

Same  place,  June  8,  2  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  at  the  ap- 
pointed hour  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  A.  J.  ^IcFarland. 
The  roll  was  called  and  the  following  did  n(3t  answer  to  their 
names :  W.  J.  Adams,  Robert  Allen,  R.  C.  Allen,  W.  C.  Allen, 
Thomas  Boggs,  W.  J.  Beatty,  Wm.  Blair,  J.  H.  Braum,  J.  W. 
F.  Carlisle,  James  Clarke,  J.  M.  Coleman,  A.  Copeland,  A.  C. 
Coulter,  E.  A.  Crooks,  S.  J.  Crowe,  G.  A.  Edgar,  E.  M.  Elsey, 
D.  S.  Faris,  T.  L.  Faris,  C.  M.  Finley,  H.  G.  Foster,  J.  C. 
French,  W.  S.  Fulton,  James  Graham,  G.  N.  Greer,  Wm.  Han- 
na,  D.  O.  Tack,  S.  F.  Kingston,  T.  J.  Kynette,  James  G.  Love, 
W.  J.  McBurney,  P.  J.  McDonald,  J.  H.  McGee,  S.  McNaugher, 
J  S  Alartin,  Robert  Miller,  ].  S.  Oliver,  J.  G.  Reed,  W.  ^I. 
Robb,  James  Shields,  T.  C.  Sproull,  G.  R.  Steele,  J.  Z.  Sterrett. 
T  R  W  Stevenson,  James  Templeton,  John  J.  M.  Thompson, 
James  Torrens,  H.  B.  White,  A.  A.  Wylie,  and  H.  A.  Young 
most  of  whom  soon  appeared.  The  minutes  of  the  mornmg  ses- 
scion  were  read  and  approved. 

Yellow  Fish  and  R.  J.  McCracken  were  excused  from  fur- 
ther attendance  on  the  sessions  of  the  Synod. 

The  following  resolutions,  offered  by  T.  P.  Stevenson  were 
adopted : 

Resolved  that  the  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church 
earnestly  protests  against  the  acceptance  by  the  government  of  a 
tfuev  sLice  for  the  battleship  Utah  on  which  is  engraved  a  pic- 
ture of  the  Mormon  temple,  and  a  likeness  of  Brigham  Young. 
Wherever  this  service  would  be  used  it  would  suggest  to  the  rep- 
resentatives of  other  nations  and  governments  that  the  people  ot 
the  United  States  regard  the  Mormon  religion  with  respect  in- 
stead of  abhorrence,  and  Brigham  Young  as  a  benefactor  of  the 
nation  We  earnestly  pray  you  that  the  nation  may  be  spared  the 
pain  and  shame  of  this  disgrace. 

Resolved  that  the  officers  of  Synod  send  copies  of  this  reso- 
lution, properly  attested,  to  the  President  of  the  United  States  and 
the  Secretary  of  the  Navy. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and 
Geneva  College  was  taken  from  the  table. 

Robert  Clark  addressed  the  Synod  on  behalf  of  the  College. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and 
Geneva  College  was  adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY  AND 

GENEVA  COLLEGE. 

Committee  on  Theological  Seminary  and  Geneva  College  would 
report: 

Four  papers  have  been  referred  to  your  Committee.  The  re- 
ports of  the  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  Theological  seminary; 
of  the  Board  of  Corporators,  and  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Geneva 
College.  A  resoiutioi,  suggesting  the  establishment  of  a  course 
of  study  in  our  seminary  to  be  known  as  Reformed  Presbyterian 
Apologetics,  was  also  referred  to  your  committee. 

Speaking  of  the  Seminary  we  learn  from  the  report  that  seven 
students  have  been  enrolled  this  last  year,  all  of  the  second  and 
third  year.  With  the  exception  of  Dr.  K.  J.  George,  the  health 
of  the  profesr.ors  and  students  has  been  good.  The  work  has  been 
of  an  high  order. 

We   submit    the    following   recommendation: 

1.  That  the  claims  of  the  Christian  ministry  on  the  sons  of  the 
Church  be  brought  to  their  attention  by  pastors  and  that  earnest 
believing  prayer  be  offered  in  behalf  of  the  school  of  the  prophets. 

2.  That  we  note  with  appreciation  the  long  and  efficient  ser- 
vice rendered  our  church  by  the  Rev.  Prof.  R.  J.  George,  D.  D., 
in   the   position   which    he   occupied  in   the   Seminary. 

3.  That  we  establish  a  course  of  study  to  be  known  as  the 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Apologitics  covering  in  detail  those  fields 
of  Christian  doctrine  which  involve  the  Question  of  purity  of  wor- 
ship, anti-secrecy  national  reformation  and  political  dissent  under 
the  care  of  the  Rev.  Prof.  R.  C.  Wylie,  D.  D. 

4.  That  we  approve  of  the  re-adjustment  of  work  made  by  the 
Board  with  the  present  professors. 

5.  That  R.  M.  Sommerville,  T.  H.  Acheson  and  J.  R.  Steele  bo 
chosen  their  own  successors  on  this  Board. 

Speaking  of  Geneva  College  we  are  glad  to  note  the  good  year 
enjoyed.  Both  professors  and  students  have  been  faithful  and  evi- 
dently desirous  of  keeping  Geneva  in  the  fore  ranks,  as  an  efficient 
Christian    College. 

We   recommend : 

1.  That  the  reports  of  the  Boards  of  Trustees  and  corporators 
be   published   in   the    Minutes   of   Synod. 

2.  That  C.  D.  Trumbull  be  chosen  his  own  successor  on  the 
Board    of    corporators. 

As  a  committee  we  were  instructed  to  inquire  particularly  as 
to  the  curriculum  and  the  financial  condition  of  the  College. 

Concerning  the  matter  of  requiring  Greek  for  the  A.  B.  degree 
we  find  that  there  is  a  difference  of  opinion  among  educational 
leaders  at  the  present  time.  The  Board  of  Trustees  of  Geneva 
have  adopted  the  course  which  makes  Greek  elective.  Its  competi- 
tors have  taken  both  sides. 

3.  In  order  that  the  Seminary  may  not  be  open  to  students 
having  no  Greek  we  recommend  that  three  years  of  Greek  be  re- 
quired in  connection  with  the  A.  B.  Degree,  as  the  condition  of  en- 
trance to  the  Seminary  and  that  this  requirement  be  announced  in 
Geneva's  annual  catalogue. 


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In  regard  to  the  financial  condition  we  find  that  there  is  some 
indebtedness.  Concerning  the  expense  of  discharging  the  presiden- 
tial functions  we  believe  misunderstandings  have  arisen  owing  to 
the  names  given  certain  members  of  the  faculty.  The  secretary  is 
primarily  the  librerian  and  is  not  the  personal  secretary  to  the 
President.  The  assistant  to  the  President  is  treasurer  and  financial 
agent. 

As  to  the  debt  we  find  the  current  account  over  drawn  $13,- 
288.25  the  Geneva  College  endowment  note  account  $11,935.23,  and 
the  new  Gymnasium  account  at  present  $2,5  83.7  6.  In  these  three 
items  there  is  a  total  of  $27,807.24.  The  second  item  of  $11,935.- 
23  is  a  debt  incurred  to  secure  the  payment  of  the  Andrew  Carnegie 
gift  of  $15,000.  This  debt  is  secured  by  notes  of  subscribers  and  a 
note  given  by  t\he  College  Board.  The  deficit  in  current  account 
for  a  number  of  years  has  been  from  two  to  three  thousand  dol- 
lars. This  last  year  it  was  $589.53,  dispite  the  fact  that  a  number 
of  needed   improvements   have  been   made. 

We  recommend: 

4.  That  the  proposition  to  increase  the  endowment  of  the  Col- 
lege be  approved  and  that  the  financial  agents  of  the  College  be  in- 
structed to  give  special  attention  to  the  removal  of  the  present 
indebtedness. 

In  closing,  we  wish  to  appeal  to  the  Covenanter  Church  in  be- 
half of  Geneva  College.  Since  it  is  our  only  institution  of  this  kind 
and  doing  most  efficient  work,  let  the  entire  Church  give  it  both 
moral  and  financial  support. 

S.  J.  JOHNSTON 
THOMAS  PATTON 
JOHN  COLEMAN 
A.  C.  COULTER 
D.  O.  TORRENCE 

REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OP  SUPERINTENDENTS  OF  THE 
THEOLOGICAL  SEMINARY. 

The  Board  of  Superintendents  of  the  Theological  Seminary 
would  respectfully  report  that  it  met  in  the  closing  exercises  o"f 
the  Theological  Seminary  in  the  Seminary  Hall,  Allegheny,  Pa.,  on 
Tuesday,  April  25th,  1911,  at  9  A.  M.,  and  adjourned  the  same 
evening.  The  following  members  of  the  Board  attended  this  meet- 
ing: T.  P.  Stevenson,  T.  H.  Acheson,  W.  J.  Coleman,  W.  R.  Ster- 
rett,  J.  R.  Steele  and  J.  D.  McAnlis.  The  following  members  were 
absent:  R.  M.  Sommerville,  David  Boyd,  Walter  T.  Miller,  Charles 
McElhinney  and  S.   R    Wills. 

The  Professors  presented  their  reports  which  were  approved 
by  the  Board  and  have  been  published  for  the  information  of  the 
Church.  The  death  of  the  Rev.  Prof.  Robert  James  George,  D.  D., 
was  reported  and  a  committee  was  appointed  to  prepare  a  memorial 
which  is  as  follows: 

"The  Board  of  Superintendents  desires  to  place  on  record  its 
appreciation  of  the  character  and  work  of  the  Rev.  R.  J.  George, 
D.  D.,  Professor  of  Church  History,  Homiletics  and  Systematic  and 
Pastorial  Theology.  Ordained  in  the  year  1870,  he  served  in 
the  ministry  of  the  gospel  for  forty-one  years.  He  was  an  elo- 
quent preacher,   a  judicious  expositor  of  Scripture,   a  faithful   and 


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fearless  witness  against  the  sins  and  evils  of  his  day,  and  a  diligent 
affectionate  and  successful  pastor.  As  a  presbyter  he  was  conscien- 
tious in  his  attendance  on  the  courts  of  the  Church  and  a  devoted 
friend  of  ;all  her  institutions  and  enterprizes. 

"He  occupied  temporarily  the  chair  of  Systematic  Theology, 
after  the  death  of  Dr.  J.  R.  W.  Sloane,  for  the  year  1886-7.  He 
was  chosen  to  the  permanent  professorship  by  the  Synod  of  1887, 
but  declined  to  accept  the  position.  He  again  occupied  the  same 
ch;air  durmg  the  year  1891-2,  and  was  regularly  elected  to  the 
permanent  position  by  the  Synod  of  1892  at  Mansfield,  Ohio,  and 
performed  the  duties  of  his  position  until  a  short  time  before  his 
decease  in  1911. 

"As  professor  he  was  faithful  in  the  fulfillment  of  his  duties, 
and  zealous  for  the  truth,  as  God  gave  him  to  see  the  truth.  His 
experience  and  success  as  a  pastor  Had  prepared  him  eminently  for 
his  work  in  the  chair  of  Pastoral  Theology  and  his  ability  as  a 
preacher  gave  him  special  qualifications  for  his  work  as  a  professor 
of  Homiletics.  He  was  a  man  of  faith,  and  his  power  in  prayer 
indicated  that  he  had  learned  at  the  feet  of  the  Master.  We  earnest- 
ly commend  his  bereaved  and  sorrowing  family  to  the  tender  care 
of  the  Great  Shepherd  of  the  sheep." 

The  studies  of  Dr.  George's  department  were  carried  on  by  the 
other  professors  to  the  end  of  the  term.  The  Seminary  classes 
were  examined  orally,  or  in  writing,  upon  all  the  studies  of  the 
year  and  these  examinations  were  approved  by  the  Board.  Dis- 
courses showing  a  high  degree  of  ability  were  given  by  all  the 
students  and  these  discourses  were  reviewed  and  approved  by  the 
Board.  It  was  reported  that  all  the  students  were  present  at  the 
opening  session  and  that  no  absences  have  occurred  on  account 
of  sickness.  It  was  discouraging  to  note  that  there  wss  no  first 
year  class. 

The  following  students,  having  completed  the  second  year, 
were  recommended  to  their  respective  Presbyteries  for  licensure: 
George  Slater  Coleman,  Frederick  Francis  Reade  and  James  Boyd 
Tweed.  The  following  having  completed  the  full  Seminary  Course, 
were  given  certificates   of      graduation:        Frank      Emmett     Allen, 

Thomas  Copeland  McKnight,  Matthew  Steele  McMillan  and  John 
Milton  Rutherford. 

The  following  recommendations  are  submitted  to  the  Synod: 

1.  That  the  Board  of  Superintendents,  meeting  under  the  shad- 
ow of  the  death  of  Dr.  R.  J.  George  which  has  so  seriously  weaken- 
ed the  Faculty,  and  with  the  smallest  number  of  students  in  at- 
tendance for  many  years,  are  moved  to  call  upon  the  whole  Church 
for  earnest,  persevering  and  believing  prayer  in  behalf  of  this  vital 
interest. 

These  circumstances  enforce  the  command  of  the  Saviour, 
"Pray  ye  the  Lord  o-;  the  harvest  that  he  will  send  forth  laborers 
into  His  harvest."  We  also  request  all  pastors  to  preach  on  the 
claims  of  the  Christian  ministry  on  the  sons  of  the  Church,  and 
ask  Synod  to  press  these  suggestions  on  the  attention  of  the 
Church. 

2.  That  the  salary  of  Dr.  R.  J.  George  be  paid  for  the  remain- 
der of  the  year. 

3.  That    successors    be    chosen    to    R.    M.    Sommerville,    T    .H. 


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Acheson  and  J.   R.   Steele,   whose  terms  as   members  of   this   Board 
have  expired. 

4.  That  in  view  of  Prof.  Wilson's  restoration  to  health,  for 
which  We  record  our  thankfulness  to  God,  the  departments  of 
Hebrew  and  Greek  Languages  and  Exegesis,  Church  Government, 
Hermeneulics  and  Biblical  Introduction,  which  were  formerly  his 
charge,  be  committed  to  him  again;  and  that  Church  History, 
Homiletics,  and  Systematic  and  Pastoral  Theology  be  assigned  to 
Prof.  Wylie.  This  recommendation  is  made  with  the  concurrence 
of  the  Professors  themselves. 

We  request  the  same  appropriations  as  in  former  years. 

T.  P.  STEVENSON,  Pres. 
W.  J.  COLEMAN,  Sec. 

REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  CORPORATORS  OF  GENEVA 

COLLEGE. 

To  the  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterinn  Church: 

The  Board  of  Corporators  of  Geneva  College  respectfully  report: 
The  fiscal  year,  now  drawing  to  its  close,  has  been  one  of  pros- 
perity and  good  work  on  the  part  of  facility  and  students.  For  a 
full  record  of  which  we  refer  you  to  the  report  of  the  Board  of 
Trustees,  transferred  to  you  and  will  be  presented  by  the  secretary 
of  the  Board,  Rev.  R.  ^  .Martin. 

Faithful  work  on  the  part  of  professors  and  students;  the 
concord  among  members  of  faculty  and  between  students  and  fac- 
ulty; the  College  spirit  manifested  by  all;  and  especially  the  re- 
ligious influence  exerted  upon  the  students  all  call  for  gratitude 
to   God. 

The  generous  contribution  of  one  man,  with  assistance  from 
others,  made  possible  extensive  improvements  in  the  college  chapel; 
meeting  a  long  felt  need. 

The  completion  of  the  College  Gymnasium  erected  as  a  memor- 
ial in  the  honor  of  the  ex-president  of  the  College,  Rev.  W.  P. 
Johnston,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  who  labored  so  faithfully,  successfully  and 
long  in  behalf  of  the  college  has  been  one  great  achievement  of 
the  year.  Your  Board  hopes  that  the  entire  Synod  will  visit  the 
College  on  the  afternoon  appointed  for  the  dedication  of  this  build- 
ing. Great  credit  should  be  given  Rev.  Robert  Clark,  Financial 
Agent,  for  his  untiring  effort  in  securing  funds  for  the  erection 
of  this  building,  and  also  for  his  successful  effort  in  raising  funds 
for  other  equipments  of  the  College. 

Your  Board  asks  Synod  to  approve  the  purpose  of  the  Board 
of  Trustees  to  secure  an  endowment  adequate  to  the  growing 
needs  of  the  College.  We  also  approve  the  request  for  the  usual 
appropriation  and  collection  to  meet  the  current  expenses  of  the 
College. 

The  time  for  which  Rev.  C.  D.  Trumbull  was  elected  as  the 
Synodic  member  of  this  Board  has  expired,  and  his  successor 
should  be  chosen  at  this  meeting  of  Synod. 

We  have  elected  the  following  members  to  serve  as  the  Board 
of  Trustees  for  the  ensuing  year: 

Rev.  Messers.  W.  J.  Coleman,  A.  Kilpatrick,  H.  H.  George, 
J.  S.  Martin,  R.  H.  Martin,  S.  J.  Johnston,  R.  C.  Wylie,  J.  R.  Wylie, 


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and  the  Messers.  J.  H.  McBurney,  R.  M.  Downie,  J.  S  .Tibby  and  R. 
M.   Pearce. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

T.  P.  STEVENSON,  Pres. 

J.   R.   WYLIE,   Sec. 

REPORT  OF  THE  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES  OF  GENEVA  COLLEGE. 

To  the  Board  of  Corporators  of  Geneva  College: 

The  Board  of  Trustees  would  respectfully  report: 
Under  the  Divine  blessing,  the  College  Year,  soon  to  c'.ose, 
has  been  a  most  successful  one.  The  attendance  of  students  is 
as  follows:  Literary  and  Normal  Students,  165;  Summer  School, 
38;  Music,  124;  Oratory,  41;  Art,  28;  making  a  total  of  396,  ex- 
clusive of  duplications,  333.  We  have  had  this  year,  the  largest 
number  of  new  students  of  any  year  under  the  present  administra- 
tration.  We  note  also  an  increase  in  the  number  of  students  in  the 
Collegiate  Department  for  the  last  five  years,  the  increase  this  year 
being  40  per  cent  over  that  of  last  year.  This  year's  Freshman 
Class  numbers  43;   the  Graduating  Class,   25. 

We  note  also  the  good  order  and  fine  spirit  of  the  students. 
More  and  more  the  spirit  of  cooperation  prevails  between  students 
and  faculty.  That  the  moral  tone  of  our  student  body,  we  do  not  be- 
lieve is  equalled  by  that  of  any  student  body  in  the  land.  The 
class-room  work  of  the  students  has  been  good.  In  Literary  work 
also,  they  have  maintained  a  high  standard.  More  than  three 
times  as  many  books  were  taken  from  the  College  Library  this 
year  as  were  taken  four  years  ago. 

In  the  Prohibition  League  Contest  among  'Colleges  of  Pennsyl- 
vania, Mr.  Matthew  Mitchell  of  Bellefountaine,  Ohio,  represented 
the  College  creditably.  In  the  Inter-Collegiate  Oratorica'  Contest, 
Mr.  Thomas  Graham,  of  our  First  Beaver  Falls  congregation,  rep- 
resented Geneva  with  credit  to  himself  and  the  College. 

A  debating  club  has  been  organized  which  meets  weekly.  Ge- 
neva has  won  for  herself  a  good  name,  in  Inter-Collegiate  Debate. 
This  year  she  won  the  unanimous  decision  in  a  debate  with  Ohio 
Northern  University.  This  makes  the  fifth  successive  debate  in 
which  she  lias  come  off  victorious.  Geneva  s  endeavoring  to  de- 
velop vocal  talent  among  her  students.  A  large  chorus  class  meets 
weekly.  A  male  Glee  Club  has  been  organized  and  has  given  several 
concerts,  thus  advertising  the  College  in  the  community. 

The  religious  welfare  of  the  students  has  been  carefully  look- 
ed after.  All  students  in  the  Literary  Department  are  given  in- 
struction in  the  Bible  weekly,  in  the  class-room.  The  students  con- 
duct a  v/eekly  prayer  meeting.  Professor  Wylie  teaches  a  Sabbath 
School  class  of  students.  A  Mission  Study  class  was  taught  by  Rev. 
J.  C.  Slater.  A  Mission  Band  has  been  organized  this  year  with 
three  members.  Nearly  all  tlie  resident  students  are  members  eith- 
er of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.  or  Y.  W.  C.  A.,  which  hold  meetings  for  Bible 
study  ■  and  devotion  each  Sabbath  afternoon.  A  good  number  of 
the  students  have  engaged  in  Mission  work,  teaching  in  Mission 
Sabbath  Schools.  The  claims  of  the  Christian  Ministry  upon  the 
young  men  were  presented  to  the  students  during  the  year. 

The  faculty  deserves  commendation  for  the  excellent  work 
they  have  done  throughout  the  year.     President  George  has  labored 


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faithfully  and  efficiently.  He  has  the  respect  and  confidence  of 
the  students  and  community  and  is  becoming  more  and  more  valu- 
able to  the  College.  In  addition  to  his  teaching  and  administrative 
vsrork,  he  has  preached  and  made  addresses  on  educational  subjects 
in  the  community.  He  spent  last  summer  traveling  through  the 
church  to  secure  students.  The  members  of  the  faculty  all  have 
full  work,  some  of  them  teaching  ,as  many  as  five  classes  daily, 
besides  doing  work  outside  the  class-room.  Professor  R.  C.  Colwell 
of  the  department  of  Mathematics  who  had  leave  of  absence  this 
year  to  pursue  advance  work,  will  be  with  us  next  year.  Miss 
Pearl  Howe,  who  for  many  years  has  had  charge  of  the  department 
of  Oratory,  resigned  her  position  one  year  ago.  Miss  Elizabeth 
Randall,  who  formerly  held  this  position,  was  chosen  in  Miss  Howe's 
place,  and  has  filled  the  position  with  acceptance,  throughout  the 
year.  Professor  E.  W.  Van  Gueli)en,  an  experienced  and  capable 
teacher,  was  chosen  as  teacher  of  vocal  music  in  the  Fall,  and  has 
filled  the  position  with  great  acceptance.  Miss  Htlen  E.  McClin- 
tock  who  for  two  years  has  been  teacher  of  French  and  German 
and  assistant  Dean  of  Women,  has  resigned  her  position  that  she 
may  go  abroad  to  study.  The  College  is  sorry  to  lose  her,  as  she 
has  filled  her  position  with  great  credit  to  herself  and  acceptance 
to   the   College. 

Oratory,  which  heretofore  has  never  had  a  place  in  the  Col- 
lege Curriculum,  has  been  introduced  into  the  regular  Collegiate 
Course,  being  required  in  the  Sophomore  and  Junior  years.  The 
Curriculum  has  been  gradually  brought  up  until  it  meets  the  re- 
quirements of  the  Educational  Foundations  of  the  Country.  While, 
on  account  of  being  a  denominational  school,  we  are  excluded  from 
some  of  these  foundations,  it  is  a  satisfaction  to  know  that  from  the 
standpoint  of  scholarship,  we  meet  their  requirements. 

The  year  has  been  notable  for  improvements  in  the  material 
equipment  of  the  college.  Furnishings  for  the  bui  dings,  such  as 
chairs,  tables,  etc.,  to  the  amount  of  about  $1,350.00,  have  been 
secured  by  our  field  Representative,  Mr.  Clark,  as  donations.  A 
greatly  needed  improvement  is  being  made  in  the  College  Chapel. 
Electric  lights  are  being  'nstalled,  a  raised  floor  is  being  put  in 
and  the  Chapel  seated  with  Opera  chairs.  The  cost  will  be  about 
$1,350.00.  This  improvement  is  due  to  the  generous  contribution 
of  George  W.  Boggs  of  the  Third  Philadelphia  Congregation,  who 
gave  $1,000.00  for  this  specific  purpose.  The  remaining  expense 
will  be  covered  by  an  entertainment  arranged  by  Mr.  Clark,  and  giv- 
en by  the  Musical  and  Oratorical  Departments  of  the  College.  The 
latter  donate  their  services.  This  improvement  will  be  completed 
for  the  commencement  exercises.  Considerable  grading  has  been 
made  on  the  College  grounds  with  a  view  of  adding  to  their  useful- 
ness and  beauty.  Over  half  of  the  expense  of  grading  has  been 
donated  by  the  one  doing  the  work. 

The  new  Gymnasium  has  just  been  completed,  it  is  a  substan- 
tial and  beautiful  brick  structure,  fifty  by  seventy-five  feet  in  size, 
with  up-to-d^ate  equipment,  and  will  cost  between  twenty  and  twen- 
ty-one thousand  dollars.  Of  this  amount  several  thousand  dollars 
are  still  to  be  raised.  It  is  erected  in  honor  of  Dr.  W.  P.  Johnston, 
formerly  president  and  now  president  emeritus  of  the  College,'  and 
ibears  his  name.  It  is  a  great  addition  to  our  college  equipment 
and  will  be  a  lasting  memorial  to  him  who  for  many  years  so 
faithfully  served  the  college.     It  is  to  be  dedicated  Tuesday  After- 


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noon,   June   6th.     The   Board  of  Trustees  extends  through  you  an 
invitation  to  the  Synod  to  attend  these  exercises. 

The  Rev.  Robert  Clarke  continues  in  his  work  as  Field  Rep- 
resentative of  the  college,  with  unflaging  zeal  and  indomitable  per- 
severance. Since  he  began  his  work  he  has  turned  into  the  treasury 
in  cash  about  $15,000,  all  of  this  amount  except  $1,800  within  the 
present  year.  He  has  also  secured  as  donations  various  articles  of 
furniture  for  the  College  amounting  in  value  to  $1,350.00,  an 
amount  almost  sufficient  to  cover  his  salarJ^  He  also  has  secured 
pledges  of  money  to  be  paid  in  the  near  future  of  about  $4,500, 
not  to  mention  several  pledges  of  larger  amounts  which  will  come 
in  later.  We  consider  this  a  fine  record.  Mr.  Clarke  deserves  our 
highest  commendation  for  his  work.  The  man  who  leads  in  the 
movement  to  provide  for  Geneva  the  financial  resouces  which  will 
make  and  keep  her  in  every  respect  a  thoroughly  efficient  and 
up-to-date  college,  is  deserving  of  double  honor. 

The  current  account  is  overdrawn  to  the  amount  of  $13,288.- 
25,  which  is  five  hundred  eighty-nine  dollars  and  fifty-three  cents 
more  than  one  year  ago.  Had  it  not  been  for  the  extensive  improve- 
ments made,  which  we  have  felt  to  be  necessary,  and  for  the  erection 
of  a  new  Gymnasium,  this  deficit,  which  has  been  increasing  at 
the  rate  of  two  to  three  thousand  dollars  a  year,  would  have  been 
materially  reduced  this  year.  Practically  all  the  funds  secured  by 
Mr.  Clarke  this  year  were  for  the  Gymnasium.  An  encouraging 
item  in  the  financial  report  is  the  large  increase  in  receipts  from 
tuition  of  students. 

Much  as  the  success  of  a  College  depends  .upon  its  material 
equipment,  it  depends  more  by  far  upon  the  efficiency  of  its  corps 
of  teachers.  The  personality,  scholarship,  and  teaching  ability  of 
its  professors  do  more  than  anything  else  to  draw  students  and 
equip  them  for  life's  work.  Looking  back  over  the  past  history  of 
Geneva,  we  can  see  how  we  have  lost  teachers,  who  have  been  tow- 
ers of  strength  to  the  College,  because  when  they  increased  in 
efficiency,  we  were  unable  to  give  them  that  increase  in  compensation 
which  they  deserved  and  were  offered  elsewhere.  This  inability  has 
crippled  the  College  in  the  past  and  cannot  but  cripple  it  in  the  future 
unless  we  put  ourselves  in  position  to  increase  the  compensation  of 
teachers  who  merit  it.  The  way  to  meet  this  is  by  an  increase  in 
the  endowment  fund  of  from  $50,000  to  $100,000.  This  we  regard 
as  the  most  pressing  need  of  the  College  at  the  present  time. 

In  these  days  when  such  great  progress  is  being  made  along 
educational  lines,  when  the  Colleges  with  which  we  have  to  compete 
are  receiving  large  gifts  of  money  and  making  constant  progress, 
■we  believe  that  the  Covenanter  Church,  the  Alumni  and  other 
friends  of  Geneva  College,  will  see  to  it  that  the  College  receives 
that  financial  support  which  will  keep  her  fully  abreast  of  other 
colleges.  There  are  two  sources  from  which  we  must  draw  our 
support  both  in  finances  and  in  students;  the  Covenanter  Church 
and  the  local  community.  The  local  community  has  been  showing 
increased  interest  in  the  College  and  giving  it  increased  support. 
We  ask  the  Church  for  an  increased  financial  support  and  for  an 
increase  in  the  number  of  students  from  her  homes.  With  the  high 
standard  of  scholarship  at  Geneva,  with  the  personel  of  our  teach- 
ing force,  the  moral  tone  of  our  student  body  and  the  Covenanter 
atmosphere  of  our  College,  we  do  not  believe  that  the  young  people 


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oi'  our   Church   can   afford    to    go   elsewhere    for   their   college   edu- 
cation. 

To  the  end  that  we  may  increase  our  student  body,  cancel  the 
deficit  in  the  current  account  and  add  to  our  endowment,  Dr.  W. 
P.  Johnston  has  been  chosen  to  labor  in  the  interest  of  the  college, 
giving  his  time  as  he  is  able  to  securing  students  and  funds  fc(J  the 
College,  his  work  to  be  confined  largely  to  our  church.  It  is  fit- 
ting that  Dr.  Johnston  who  knows  the  College  so  well  and  who  is 
deeply  interested  in  it,  and  who  is  held  with  such  high  esteem 
throughout  the  Church  should  be  chosen  to  go  throughout  the 
Church  in  the  interest  of  the  College. 

We  ask  the  usual  appropriation  of  $3,000  from  the  church. 
President  W.  H.  George,  Rev.  Robert  Clarke  and  Rev.  R.  H.  Martin 
have    been    appointed    to    represent    the    College    on    the    floor    of 
Synod. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

R.   a.   WYLIE,   Pres. 
R.  k!  martin.  Sec. 

J.  F.  Crozier  read  his  reasons  of  dissent  from  the  action  of 
the  Synod  on  last  Wednesday  in  accepting-  the  report  of  the 
Judicial  Commission  appointed  by  last  Synod  to  hear  his  com- 
plaint against  the  Pittsburg  Presbytery.  J.  F.  Crozier  followed 
the  reading  of  his  reasons  of  dissent  from  the  action  of  the  Synod 
with  his  declinature  of  the  authority  of  the  Synod  of  the  Re- 
formed Presbyterian  Church,  and  took  his  appeal  to  the  Head  of 
the  Church. 

The  Committee  on  Finance  reported.  The  report  was  ac- 
cepted,  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Items  I  and  15  inclusive  were  adopted. 

Thomas  Patton  was  appointed  special  Treasurer  to  receive 
contributions  for  the  erection  of  the  monument  to  Dr.  J.  R.  Wil- 
son, and  he  together  with  }.  R.  Thompson,  J.  W.  F.  Carlisle 
and  D.  B.  Wilson  were  appointed  to  have  charge  of  the  selec- 
tion and  the  erection  of  the  same. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Finance  was  adopted  as  a 

whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT   OF    COMMITTEE   ON   FINANCE. 

The  Committee  on  Finance  would  respectfully  report  that  the 
following  papers  and  matters  were  referred  to  it: 

1.  The  annual  report  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Reformed  Presby- 
terian Church.     J.  S.  Tibby,  Treasurer. 

2.  Report  of  Aged  People's  Home:   Annette  G.  Wallace  Treas. 

3.  Report  of  Foreign  Mission  Board:      S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  Treas, 

4.  Report  of  Church  Erection,  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  Treas. 


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5.  Report  of  Jewish  Mission:    S.  A.   3.   Metheny,  Treas. 

6.  Report  of  Board  of  Jewish  Mission. 

7.  Report  of  Central  Board  of  Missions:  J.  S.  Tlbby,  Treas. 

8.  Report  of  Literary  Fund:   J.  S.  Tibby,  Treas. 

9.  Report  of  Domestic  Mission   Conference. 

10.  Report  of  the  Financia  Agent  for  National  Reform: 
J.  S.  Tibby,  Treas. 

11.  Report  of  Board  of  Church  Erection:  S.  A.  S.  Metheny, 
Treas. 

12.  Request   of  Witness   Bearing  Committee   for   $6,500. 

13.  Item  of  Expense  in  connection  with  Committee  on  Cate- 
chism and  Manual  of  Doctrine. 

14.  Request  of  Board  of  Control. 

15.  Request  of  Board  of  Theological  Seminary  for  same  amount 
as  last  year. 

16.  Report  of  Committee  on  Music  for  the  Revised  Psalter. 

17.  Report  of  Committee  on  Evangelistic  work. 

18.  Report  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  Ward,  recording  secretary  of  the 
Aged  People's  Home. 

20.  Report  of  Committee  on  the  J.  R.  Wilson  monument. 

21.  Item  of  Expense  of  W.  J.  McKnight  as  delegate  to  the 
Brethren  Synod. 

22.  Report  of  Committee  on  Temperance. 

We  have  found  the  reports  of  the  Treasurers  audited  and  ap- 
proved. In  vie'w  of  the  favorable  condition  of  the  treasuries  with 
the  exception  of  the  Domestic  Mission  Fund,  Geneva  College  and 
Temperance  We  express  our  gratitude  to  the  Head  of  the  Church 
for  his  continued  favor  evidenced  in  the  receipts  and  earnings  of 
the  past  year. 

Your  Committee  makes  the  following  recommendations: 

1.  That    500    copies   of   the   Testimony    be    printed. 

2.  That  the  insurance  on  the  plates  for  the  Old  Version  and 
the  1889  Version  of  the  Psalms  in  New  York  City  be  discontinued. 
Also  that  the  expenses  of  the  Committee  on  the  meter  of  the  New 
Psalter  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary  Fund. 

3.  That  the  matter  of  securing  non-interest  bearing  mortgages, 
wliich  heretofore  have  been  secured  by  and  kept. in  the  custody  of 
the  Board  of  Church  Erection,  be  transferred  to  Synod's  Board  of 
Trustees. 

4.  That  R.  M.- Sommerville  and  F.  M.  Foster  be  elected  their 
own  successors  on  the  Board  of  Church  Erection. 

5.  That  the  $712.62  of  the  Mrs.  J.  J.  McClurkin  donation  be 
transferred    to    the    Literary    Fund. 

6.  That  the  Clerk  be  instructed  to  cast  the  unanimous  ballot 
of  Synod  for  William  Blair,  John  M.  Allen  and  Oliver  Wylie  as  their 
own  successors  on  Synod's  Board  of  Trustees  for  a  term  of  three 
years  ending  June  15th,  1914.  Th^  Clerk  cast  the  unanimous  bal- 
lot of  Synod  as  above  directed. 

7.  That  the  railroad  expenses  of  the  Committee  on  Music 
to  Philadelphia,  amounting  to  $41.70,  be  paid  from  the  Literary 
Fund. 


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8.  That  $500.00  be  appropriated  from  the  Domestic  Mission 
Fund  for  the  Permanent  Committee  on  Evangel  stic  Work. 

9.  That  in  the  matter  of  the  purchase  and  erection  of  a  monu- 
ment to  Dr.  J.  R.  Wilson,  we  recommend,  that  $300.00  be  speci- 
fied as  the  amount  to  be  expended.  That  the  friends  of  Dr.  Wilson 
be  given  an  opportunity  to  make  a  contribution  for  this  purpose, 
and  that  the  balance,  if  any,  be  paid  out  of  the  Literary  Fund. 

10.  That  O.  L.  Samson  be  made  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Control,  and  that  A.  F.  Ried  be  chosen  his  own  successor  on  this 
Board.  Also  at  the  request  of  the  Board  pf  Control,  we  recom- 
mend that  the  Synod  remove  the  limitations  placed  on  grants  to 
students  of  theology.  Also  that  S.  E.  Greer  be  chosen  to  fill  the 
vacancy  on  the  Board  of  Control  by  the  removal  of  J.  S.  McGaw 
from  the  vicinity  in  which  this  Board  is  located. 

11.  That  the  salary  of  the  late  Professor  R.  J.  George  be  paid 
to  the  end  of  the  year. 

12.  That  the  synopses  and  summaries  of  Treasurer  J.  S. 
Tibby  and  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  and  the  report  of  Mrs.  W.  J.  Ward, 
Secretary  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Woman's  Association,  to- 
gether with  the  recapitulation  of  the  various  balance  sheets  be 
published   in   the   Minutes. 

13.  That  the  Clerk  of  Synod  be  directed  to  publish  1000 
copies  of  the  Minutes  of  the  Synod  of  1911,  that  the  price  be 
35  cents  per  copy,  and  that  they  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  J.  S. 
Tibby   for   sale   and   distribution. 

14.  We  recommend  the  untiring  zeal  and  persistent  efforts  of 
Robert  Clarke  the  financial  agent  of  Geneva  College,  and  com- 
mend him  to  the  liberality  of  the  Church.  And  that  we  as  a 
Synod  express  our  confidence  in  the  ability  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees of  Geneva  College  to  manage  the  financial  affairs  of  the 
Institution. 

15.  That  the  following  appropriations  with  the  dates  for  con- 
gregational   collections    be    adopted: 

June  3rd  Sabbath,  Students  Aid    $   1,500.00. 

July    1st    Sabbath,   Aged    Ministers    three-eights,    Widows 

Orphans    five-eights     4,000.00. 

July    3rd    Sabbath,    Aged    People's    Home    1,000.00. 

August  1st  Sabbath,  Theological  Seminary 4,000.00. 

August   3rd   Sabbath,    Jewish   Mission    2,500.00. 

September    1st   Sabbath,    Southern    Mission    5,000.0o. 

September    3rd   Sabbath,    Indian   Mission    6,000.00. 

October    1st    Sabbath,    Domestic    Mission     12,000.00. 

November    4th    Sabbath,   Temperance    2,000.00. 

December   1st   Sabbath,    Syrian   Mission    20,000.00. 

January   1st  Sabbath,  Mission  in  China    15,000.00. 

February   1st   Sabbath,   Witness   Bearing    5,000.00. 

,In  case  three  laborers  give  full  time   6,000.00. 

The  sum  of  $10,000.00  is  the  amount  which  Synod  names 
as  a  guide  to  our  people  in  their  contributions  to  National  Reform. 
See  page  44.  The  day  for  this  collection  is  November  1st 
Sabbath. 


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March    1st    Sabbath,    Geneva    Co^'lege     3,000.00. 

April   1st  Sabbath,   Church  Erection    4,000.00. 

Respectfully    submitted, 

JOHN  C.  FRENCH, 
ARCH.  A.  JOHNSTON, 
JESSE  W.  WILSON, 
S.  O.  CARSON. 

REPORT  OF  SYNOD'S  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

To    the    Moderator   and   Members   of   the    Synod, 

Dear   Brethren: 

Thankful  to  the  Head  of  the  Church  for  His  goodness  to  us 
during  the  year,  we  beg  leave  to  submit  our  report,  and  in  con- 
nection therewith  to  submit  the  report  of  the  Treasurer  for  the 
year  ending  May  first,  1911. 

First:  The  persons  elected  at  the  last  meeting  of  Synod  to 
serve  on  the  Board  accepted  their  appointment  viz:  Messrs.  Jas. 
A.  McAteer,  Jas.  H.  McBurney  and  Jas.  S.  Tibby. 

iSecond:  The  following  donations  received  some  years  ago, 
and  by  request  of  the  donors,  not  reported  to  Synod,  are  now 
closed  viz:  Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  McClurkin,  New  Alexandria,  Pa., 
$2,407.50  from  the  sale  of  Real  Estate.  $733.43  was  credited  to 
Southern  Mission  and  $1,466.85  to  Foreign  Missions  excepting  the 
Mission  in  China.  Mrs.  J.  J.  McClurkin,  New  Alexandria,  Pa., 
$1,967.40  less  expenses  incurred  and  money  returned  to  the  donor 
amounting  to  $1,254.78  which  leaves  a  balance  of  $712.62  to  be 
divided  as  Synod  directs.  Rev.  D.  J.  Shaw,  New  Alexandria,  Pa., 
$1,096.77  less  Attorney  fee  of  $25.00  received  from  sale  of  lots  in 
Kansas  City,  Mo.  Balance  credited  to  Foreign  Missions  as  per 
wishes  of  the  donor.  Bequests  were  received  as  follows:  Mrs. 
Sarah  Greer,  Medford,  Mass.,  Theo.  Seminary  $45.47,  Southern  Mis- 
sion $22.74,  Syrian  Mission  $298.60.  Jas.  Aiton,  Rochester,  N.  Y., 
Theo.  Seminary$300.00,  Mrs.  Marg.  Morrison,  Almonte,  Canada,  Aged 
People's  Home  $50.00.  John  Pollock,  Decatur,  Mich.,  Southern 
and  Indian  Missions,  $25.00  each.  James  Greer,  Medford,  Mass., 
Memorial  Fund,  from  his  Nieces  for  Theological  Seminary  $402.81 
and  Southern  Mission  $201.40.  George  and  Mary  A.  Cunningham, 
Morning  Sun,  Iowa,  Domestic,  Southern,  Indian  Missions,  $2  00.00 
each,  Geneva  College. and  National  Reform  $100.00  each.  W.  J.  C. 
Allen,  Mercer,  Pa.,  Indian  Mission  $47.75  and  Witness  Bearing 
$5.31.  William  J.  Ferguson,  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  $19,855.00  distri- 
buted as  follows:  Widows  and  Children,  Dec.  Ministers  $760.00; 
Aged  Ministers  $380.00,  Indian  Mission  $1,425.00,  Domestic  Mis- 
sion $3,135.00,  Jewish  Mission  $760.00,  Southern  Mission  $1,- 
425.00,  Syrian  Mission  $4,560.00,  National  Reform  $2,280.00,  Theo. 
Seminary  $1,140.00,  Mission  in  China  $1,425.00,  Witness  Bearing 
$1,425.00,  Church  Erection  $1,140.00.  Total  amount  of  Donations 
is  $5,471.67,  of  Bequests  $22,079.08,  received  direct  by  Synod's 
Treasurer. 

The  following  Bequests  for  Foreign  Missions  were  received  by 
Dr.  S.  A,  S.  Metheny,  Treas.:  Syrian  Mission,  Agnes  L.  Deary, 
Utica,  O.,  $5.00;  Mary  J.  Pierce,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  $190.00;  John 
Pollock,  Decatur,  Mich.,  $50.00;  John  Elliott,  New  Castle,  Pa., 
$46.45;  Robt.  H.  Rodgers,  Jamestown,  Pa.,   $50.50;   IsabeUa  Pierce 


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Wa  ton,  N.  Y.,  $950.00;  Mrs.  Eliz.  Dinsmore,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
$3,944.31;  George  and  Mary  A.  Cunningham,  Morning  Sun,  Iowa, 
$200.00.  China  Missions:  George  and  Mary  A.  Cunningham,  Morn- 
ing Sun,  Iowa,  $200.00;  Mrs.  S.  McLain,  Barnet,  Vt.,  $4.00;  John 
Elliott,  New  Castle,  Pa.,  $46.45;  E.  Steele,  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
$15.00.  Total  $5,701.71  or  a  grand  total  of  Bequests  amounting 
to    $27,780.79. 

Third:  The  aggregate  amount  of  Bonds,  Mortgages, 
Real  Estate  and  other  Assets  held  by  your  Board  is  $624,154.58. 
Out  of  the  earnings  for  the  vear  closed,  the  Board  declared  a 
dividend  on  Endowments  of  $422,445.63  at  5  1-2  per  cent  of  $23,- 
234.51. 

Fourth:  The  amount  of  profits  of  the  David  Gregg  Fund  is 
$9,446.51. 

Fifth:  The  Books  and  Accounts  of  the  Board  were  audited 
by  Mr.  W.  G.  Miller,  Auditor  and  found  correct  as  per  certificates 
attached    to    the    report   of    the    Treasurer. 

Sixith:  The  term  for  which  Messers.  John  M.  Allen,  William 
Blair  and  Oliver  Wylie  were  made  members  of  the  Board  will 
expire  June  15th.  1P11.  We  ask  that  their  successors  be  chosen 
by  ballot   as   required   by   law. 

Seventh:  Messers.  James  S.  Tibby  and  D.  C.  Martin  as  alter- 
nate were  appointed  to  represent  the  Board  on  the  floor  of  Synod. 

Eighth:  We  would  recommend  that  the  M^'S.  T.  r.  McClurkin 
Donation  of  $712.62  be  transferred  to  the  Domestic  Mission  Cur- 
renit   Account. 

Respectfully    submitted    by    order    of    the    Board, 

JAMES    S.    TIBBY    Secretary. 
Pittsburg,    Pa.,    May    25th,    1911. 

THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY    ENDOWMENT    FUND. 

May   1.      Balance     $    64,720    69 

Memorial   Bldg.   Account  transf  rred  4,918    06 

1911. 

May   1.      Balance     .  $69,638    75 

STUDENTS'    AID    ENDOWMENT    FUND. 

1910. 

May   1.      Balance     u.--  •  •  •  •  $    16,276    88 

Rev.  J.   3.   Duncan,   account  not'?.. 

1911. 
May    1.      Balance     $    16,286    88 

MISS  M.  REBECCA  EUWER,  GENEVA  COLLEGE  NOTE 

1910. 

May  1.      Balance ?         '^'^^   ^5 

1911    Dividend     42    36 

1911. 
May    1.      Balance     812    51 


REFORMED   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH  89 


THE  FOLLOWING  ENDOWMENTS  REMAIN  UNCHANGED: 

Geneva    Collego     $198,270  00 

Foreign    Mission     49,633  43 

Domestic    Mission     32,111  30 

Sustentation     100  00 

Southern   Mission 5,481  28 

Chinese    Home    Mission     400  00 

Indian    Mission     2,000  00 

Aged    Ministers     1Z,S  iS  b2 

Jas.    and   Mary   Carlisle   for  A.    Min.  500  00 

Mission  in  China    i;375U 

Widows  and  Cliiidren  Dec.  Ministers  6,770.02 

Church    Erection     3,400  00 

Rev.    D.    and    Mrs.    M.    E.    McKee.  .  10,000  00 

James    R.    McKee    3,000  00 

Mrs.    E.    S.    E.    Mcivee     3,i:>00  Ou 

Ryegaite  and  Barnet,  Vt.  Cong 850  00 

Brooklyn,   N.    Y 4,86  7  80 

Iowa    Presbytery     700  00 

Wilkinsburg,    Pa.    Cong 500  00 

American    Bible    Society     50  00 

Mrs.  Sarah  J.  Steele 1,000  00 

David  Gregg  Fund  not  gov^.    _ 

regular    dividend     157,015  73 

Total    Endowments    receiving    5    1-2 

per    cent     422,445  63 

DAVID  GREGG  ENDOWMENT  BEQUEST   MORTGAGE  ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance     $155,250    00 

Invested    in    Mortgages    during    year  9,000    00 

$164,250    00 

Mortgages    paid    off    8,850    00 

1911. 

May   1.      Balance     .  ; $155,400    Ou 

DAVID    GREGG    ENDOWMENT    BEQUEST    INTEREST    ACCOUNT. 

1911. 
April   30.   Interest   received   during  the 

year      $      9,446    51 

Charged  fund   5   per  cent  for 

handling     472    33 

Foreign      Missions      received  2,991    38 

Domestic  Missions  received.  .  1,794    84 

Sustentation   Fund    598   28 

Church    Erection     598    28 

Theo.    Seminary     598    28 

Southern    Mission     598    28 

Chinese  Home  Mission 598    28 

Widows    and    Children    Dec. 

Ministers     598    28 

Central  Allegheny,   Pa.,   Con- 
gregation      \ 598    28 

$      9,446    51 


90  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OP  THE 


REGULAR   MORTGAGE   ACCOUNT   . 

191(>. 

May   1.      Balance      ,/ $391,678    43 

Invested  in  Mortgages    ...  19,250   00 


$410,928    43 
Mortgage    paid     23,669    39 


1911. 
May   1.      Balance $387,259    04 

INTEREST  ACCOUNT. 
1911. 
April  30.    Receipts       from       Mortgages 

and    Notes     ./ 26,312   91 

Net  profits  from  Real  Estate  670    51 

$    26,983    42 


Expenditures. 

Interest    returned     5600 

Rev.  R.  Shield's  Donation  in- 
terest      56    00 

Dividends     on      sundry    items 

less  than  5   1-2  per  cent  605    88 

Pitts.    Presb.    Educat.    Fund 

interest     53    00 

Pitts.  Presb.  Invest.  Fund  in- 
terest     129    25 

62  per  cent  of  office  expenses        1,554    89 
1911   Dividend  on   $422,445- 
63   at  5    1-2   per  cent  viz: 
Geneva     College     En- 
dowment   of    $198,270    00         $10,904    85 

Mrs.  J.  S.  Steele  En- 
dowment   of     ....  1,000    00  55    00 

Theo.    Seminary   En- 
dowment     .......  69.638    75  3,830    13 

Students'    Aid    Fund. 

Endowment    16,286    88  895    78 

Foreign    Mission    En- 
dowment        49,633    43  2,729    84 

Domestic  Mission  En- 
dowment      ,.  32,111    30  1,766    12 

Sustentation     Endow- 
ment      100    00  5    50 

Southern    Mission     .  .  5,481    28  301    47 

Chinese  Home^Mission  40000  2200 

■^ndiar    Mission     ....  2.000    00  110    00 

Aged    Ministers    ....  12,878    52  708    32 

Jas.    and    Mary    Jane 

Carlisle      500    00  27    50 

Mission    in    China.  ..  23750  1306 

Widows  and  Children 

Dec.    Min 6,770    02  372    35 

Church    Erection     .  .  3,400    00  187    00 

Rev.     D.     and     Mrs. 

M.   E.   McKee    ....  10,000    00  550    00 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  91 


J.  R.  McKee  for  Wid- 
ows and  Chil 

J.R..McKeeFor.  Miiss. 

Mrs.  E.  S.  E.  McKee 
For.  Miss 

Mrs.   E.   S.   E.   McKee 
Widows    and    Chil. 

Ryegate     and      Bar- 
net,    Vt.    Cong.     .  . 

Brooklyn  N.  Y.  Cong. 

Iowa   Presbytery    .... 

Wilkinsl)  u  r  g  ,     Pa., 

Cong 500    00  27    50 

American      Bible      So- 
ciety       5  0    00  2    75 

Miss         M.         Rebecca 

Euwer      770    15  42    36 


2,000  00 
1,000  00 

110 

55 

00 
00 

2,000  00 

110 

00 

1,000  00 

55 

00 

850  00 

4,867  80 

700  00 

46 

267 

38 

75 
73 
50 

Balance  of  profits  to  % 

Cont.    Account     .  .  1,293    89 


$    26,983    42 


EXPENSE    ACCOUNT. 
1911. 

April  30.      Rent    of    office    $318   00 

Phone     34   44 

Stamps    30    00 

Bond  of  Treasurer    40   00 

Repairs   typewriter    2    00 

Supplies     8    50 

Printing       3-00 

Expense    of    Auditor    42   75 

R,  R.  Expenses 20   45 

Street  car  fares 8   74 

Salary     2,000   00 


$      2,507    88 


ABOVE    EXPENSES    DISTRIBUTED  AS    FOLLOWS,    VIZ. 

Southern   Mission    $  188  09 

Geneva  College   188  09 

Indian    Mission     188  09 

Theo.  Seminary 125  39 

Domestic   Mission    200  63 

Witness    Bearing     62  70 

Interest     account     1,5  54  89 


$      2,507   88 


CASH    ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance     2,102    98 

Receipts     159,579    96 


161,682    94 
Expenditures     150,850   54 


1911. 
May   1.      Balance     10,832    40 


92  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 

OFFICE  FURNITURE  ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance      484    68 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance     484    68 

CONTINGENT  ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance 1,244   59 

Balance  of  year's   profits    .... 

1910. 
.Tune  2  4.      Geneva  Co.   Ltd.   Note   Bal    .  .  68    39 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance     2,470    09 

REV.   AND   MRS.   J.   J.   McCLURKIN,    REAL   ESTATE   DONATION. 

1910. 
October   3.      Proceeds,      sale      of     house 
and  lot,  N.  Alex.,  Pa.,  J.  N. 

Ball     -.  .  .  2,400    00 

Cancelled    Insurance     ....  7   50 

2,407    50 
Expenditures. 

Sundry    items    since    1905  207    22 

2-3    to      Foreign      Missions        1,466    85 
1-3    to    Southern    Missions  733    43 

$      2,407    50 

MRS.  J.  J.   McCLURKIN,  DONATION  ACCOUNT 
1910. 
Oct.    27.      Cash    received    from    her    and 

sale    of    goods    1,967    40 

E.vpenditiires, 
Money       returned,       Nursing, 
Medical,      funeral      and      sup- 
plies              1,254    78 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance    for  -Synod's    disposal  712    62 

REV.  D.  J.  SHAW  DONATION  ACCOUNT  N.  ALEX.,   PA. 

1910. 
June   2  4.     Vacant  Lots  so'd   in   Kansas 

City,    Mo 1,096    77 

Attorney    fee     25    00 

1,071    77 
Dr.  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  Treas., 

For.   Miss 1,071    77 

CHAS.  McILROY  BEQUEST,  SPARTA,   ILL, 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance  2,920    55 

Witness       Bearing,       Current 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  93 


Account    401  98 

National    Reform     401  98 

Syrian    Mission    803  93 

Domestic   Mission    401  98 

Soutliern   Mission    401  98  2,411    85 


1911. 

May   1.      Balance     508    70 

Above  3rd.  payment  out  of  five. 

MRS.    SARAH   GREER,    BEQUEST,   MEDFORD,    MASS. 
1911. 
March   16.      Final    payment    for     Theo. 

Seminary     45    47 

Final  payment  for  South. 

Miss 22    74 

Final  payment  for  Syrian 

Miss 298    60 

-  366    81 

Expenditures. 
Cost    of    Bond    2nd    year.  .  10    00 

Theo.    Seminary    4047 

South.   Mission    17    74 

Syrian    Mission    298    60 

366    81 

JAMES  AITON,   BEQUEST,   ROCHESTER,   N.   Y. 
1910. 
June   3.      Theo.     Seminary    per     J.      A. 

Forrest     300    00 

Theo.    Seminary    Account    .  .  300   00 

MRS.    MARGARET   MORRISON,    BEQUEST,   ALMONTE,    CANADA. 

1910. 

July   25.      Aged    People's    Home 50    00 

To      Mrs.      A.      G.      Wallace, 

Treas , 50    00 

JOHN  POLLOCK,   BEQUEST,   DECATUR,   MICH. 
1910. 

July   25.      For   Southern   Mission 25    00 

For    Indian    Mission     25    00 

50    00 

To      Southern      Mission    Ac- 
count       25    00 

To  Indian  Mission  Account.  .  25    00 

50    00 

JAMES  GREER  MEMORIAL  FUND,   MEDFORD,  MASS. 
1911. 
April    27.      From    his   Nieces    for   Theo. 

Sem 402    81 

From  his  Nieces  for  South. 

Miss 201    40 

604    21 

To    Theo.     Sem.    Account.  .  402    81 

To    South.    Miss.    Account.  .  201    40 

6  04    21 


94  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OP  THE 


GEORGE  AND  MARY  A.  CUNNINGHAM,  BEQUEST,  MORN.  SUN, 

IOWA. 
1911. 

Feb.   18.      For    Domestic    Mission 
For   Soutliern   Mission 
For  Indian  Mission    .  .  , 
For  Geneva  College    .  . 
For  Nationa'  Reform    , 

800    00 

To  above  accounts  as  desired  800   00 

W.  J.   C.  ALLEN,  BEQUEST,  MERCER,  PA. 
1911. 

April   27.      For   Indian    Mission    47    75 

For  Witness  Bearing 5    31 

53    06 


200 

00 

200 

00 

200 

00 

100 

00 

100 

00 

To    Indian    Mission    Account  47    75 

To  Witness  Bearing  Account  5   31 

53    06 

WILLIAM  J.  FERGUSON,  BEQUEST,  PHIL.,  PA. 
1910. 
Oct.   17.     John    A.      Richmond,      Exe- 
cutor       19,855    00 

To    Widows      and      Children 

Current  Account    760    00 

Aged  Ministers    Current    Ac- 
count      380    00 

Indian  Mission  Current  Ac- 
count             1,425    00 

Domestic  Mission  Current  Ac- 
count             3,135    00 

Jewish    Mission     Current     Ac 

count     760    00 

Southern  Mission  Current  Ac- 
count             1,425    00 

Syrian    Mission    Current    Ac- 
count              4,560    00 

National  Reform  Current  Ac- 
count              2,280    00 

Theo.    Seminary   Current   Ac- 
count             1,140    00 

Mission  in  China  Current  Ac- 
count              1,425    00 

Witness  Bearing  Current  Ac- 
count             1,425    00 

Church  Erection  Current  Ac- 
count              1,140    00 

19,855    00 


REV.    CHAS.    CLYDE    HOME    FUND. 
1910. 

May  1.   Balance     1,070    84 

Average  interest  credited 41    88 


1,112    72 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


95 


Expenditures. 

1910  taxes 37    63 

Mrs.  S.  Clyde  on  account   ....  25    00 —  62    63 

1911. 
May  1.      Balance    1,050   09 

ANDREW    ALEXANDER    BEQUEST.  SEVENTH    PAYMENT. 
1911. 
April   30.      From      Mrs.      S.      Murtland, 

Exc 6,000    00 

To  Foreign  Missions 2,500   00 

To   Sustentation  Fund    ....  2,000    00 

To    Southern    Mission    ....  1,000   00 

To   Indian  Mission    500   00 

6,000    00 

BEQUESTS  TO  FOREIGN  MISSIONS 

June  9,  1910.   Agnes  L.  Deary,  Utica,  O., 

for  Syrian  Mission '  5   00 

July  14,  1910.     Mary  J.  Pierce,  Ogdens- 

burg,  N.  Y.  for  Syrian  Mission.  .  .  .  190   00 

July  28,  1910.     John  Pollock,  Decatur, 

Mich.,    for    Syrian    Mission     50   00 

Sept.    5,    1910.     John      Elliott,      New 

Castle,  Pa.,  for  Syrian  Mission    .  .  46    45 

Nov.  1,  1910.      Ro'bt.  H.  Rodgers,  James- 
town, Pa.,  for  Syrian  Mission  ....  5050 

Feb.    3'    1911.      Isabella    Price,    Walton, 

N.    Y.,    for    Syrian    Mission    950   00 

Feb.     7,     1911.      Mrs.     Eliz.    Dinsmore, 

Phil.,   Pa,,    for   Syrian   Mission    .  .  3,944   31 

Feb.  18,  1911.  G.  and  M.  A.  Cunning- 
ham, Morn.  Sun.,  lo.,  for  Syrian 
Mission 200   00 

Feb.  18,  1911.  G.  and  M.  A.  Cunning- 
ham, Morn.  Sun,  To.,  for  China 
Mission    200    00 

Feb.  6,  1911.      Mrs.  S.  McLain,  Barnet, 

Vt.,  for  China  Mission 4    00 

June  30,  1910.       E.  Steele,  Phil.,  Pa.,  for 

China  Mission 15    00 

Sept.     5,     1910.       John    Elliott,       New 

Castle,  Pa.,  for  China  Mission  ....  46   45 

To  Dr.    S.    A.    S.   Metheny,   Treas    ....  $5,701    71 

DOMESTIC  MISSION. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance  overdrawn    $      2,695    58 

Receipts. 

Congs.,  Indiv.  and  Societies.  .  5,170  48 
Sustentation  fund  transferred  2,608  54 
William  J.   Ferguson,   Bequest        3,135   00 


96  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


G.  and  M.  J.  Cunningham,  Be- 
quest    200    00 

Chas.   Mcllroy,   Bequest    .....  401    98 

1911   Dividend  D.  Gregg  Fund        1,794    84 

1911      Dividend      Endowment 

$32,111    30     1,766    12 

1911      Dividend      Endowment 

Rev.  D.  and  M.  McKee   ....  137    50 — $    15,214    46 

$    12,518    88 
Expeiiditiu'es. 

Colorado  Presbytery 2,951  54 

Illinois   Presbytery    750  00 

Iowa   Presbytery    349  00 

Kansas   Presbytery    1,620  50 

N.  B.  and  N.   S.  Presbytery   .  .  1,161  50 

New   York    Presbytery    1,8  67  50 

Ohio    Presbytery     2,172  00 

Pittsburg  Presbytery 1,849  90 

Rochester  Presbytery 934  62 

Colorado    Presbytery    (special 

work)    689  65 

Balance  E.  Crafts.  Vt.  Church 

exp 493  84 

Evangelistic  Comm 17  20 

Interest    on    overdraft    .......  222  43 

Expense  for  handling  funds   .  .  200  63 — $    15,280    31 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance  overdrawn $      2,'761    43 

SUSTENTATION  FUND. 
1910. 
May   1.      Balance    $      2,608    54 

Receipts. 

1911   Dividend  D.   Gregg  Fund  598  28 
1911       Dividend      Endowment 

$100    00     5  50 

A.  Aexander  Bequest,  7th.  pay  2,000  00 — $       2  603    78 

^     $       5,212    32 
Expenditures. 

Transferred   to  Domestic  Miss. 

Account     2,608    54 


1911. 
May   1.      Balance     ?       2,603    78 

SOUTHERN  MISSION. 
1910. 
May   1.      Balance $      1,713    63 

Receipts. 

Congs.,  Indiv.  and  Societies   .  .         3,437    81 


REFORMED   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH  97 


Receipts    at    Mission    per    W. 

J.     S 2,309    44 

John  Pollock,  Bequest    25    00 

W.  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest  ....  1,425  00 
G.  and  M.  A.  Cunningham,  Be- 

cuest     200    00 

Mrs.  S.  Greer,  Bequest,  bal- 
ance       17    74 

Chas.    McIIroy,    Bequest,     3rd. 

pay     401    98 

Andrew    Alexander,      Bequest, 

7th.    pay     1,000    00 

Rev.  and  Mrs.  J.  J.  McClurkin  73  3    43 

James  Greer,  Memorial  Fund  201  40 
1911     Dividend    of    D.     Gregg 

Fund     598    28 

1911       Dividend      Endowment 

$5,481    28     301    47 — $     10,651    55 


$     12,365    18 
E.xpenditures 

Traveling  expenses  of  workers  206  22 
Expenses    at    Mission    per    W. 

J.    S 1,455  78 

Expense  of  handling  funds    .  .  188  09 

Insurance     156  37 

Literature     2  40 

Salaries     5,321  13 

Real  Estate  purchased 2,224  00 — $       9,553    99 


1911. 
May   1.      Balance     $       2,811    18 

INDIAN    MISSION. 
H:10. 
May   J.      Baance     $       1,719    84 

Receipts. 

W.   P.   M.    S.    Pitts.   Presbytery  1,000    00 

Congs.,   Indiv.    and   Societies.  .  3,496    65 

John  Pollock,   Bequest 25    00 

W.  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest   ....  1,425    00 
G.  and  M.  A.  Cunningham  Be- 
quest       200    00 

W.     J.     C.    Allen,     Bequest     .  .  47    75 

Andrew  Alexander,  Bequest  .  .  500    00 
1911  Dividend  on  Endowment 

$2,000    00     200    00 

Local    Receipts   per   W.   W.    C.  2,322    22 — $       9,126    62 


$     10,846    46 
Expenditures, 


Expenses    at    Mission    per    W. 

W.     C 5,524    27 

Trav.  Expenses  of  Workers   .  .  179    42 


98  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Insurance     95  00 

Expenses    for    handling    funds  188  09 

Expenses  porch   10  00 

Salaries     2,650  63 — $       8,648    41 


1911. 
May   1.      Balance     $       2,198    05 

GENEVA   COLLEGE   CURRENT   ACCOUNT. 
1910. 
May   1.      Balance  overdrawn $     12,698   72 

Receipts. 

Congs.,  Indiv.  and  Societies  .  .  3,358    05 

Tuition  and  Local  Receipts    .  .  6,302    29 

Interest  on  Notes    242    30 

Chapel    Rent    50    00 

G.  and  M.  A.  Cunningham,  Be- 
quest       100    00 

1911    Div.    on    $198,279    00    at 

5    1-2    per   cent    10,904    85 

1911  Div.  of  Mrs.  S.  J.   Steele 

$1,000    00     55    00—$     21,012    49 

$       8,313    77 
Expenditures. 

Salaries  to  May   1,   1911    ....  13,430  00 

Prizes      5  5  00 

Printing    173  75 

Taxes    1910    Ath.    Field     ....  28  79 

Advertisement    140  91 

Interest  on  Notes    811  28 

Interest  on  Overdrafts    1,020  04 

Expense  for  handling  funds  .  .  188  09 

Traveling    expenses     365  56 

Local    Expenses     ^4,198  27 

Repairs     168  52 

Insurance      841  94 

Supplies  for  Library 179  87 — $     21,602    02 

1911. 
May  1.         Balance    overdrawn     $     13,288    25 

GENEVA  COLLEGE  DORMITORY  NOTE  ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May  1.      Balance     967    00 

1911. 
May   1.      Ba  ance     967    00 

GENEVA   COLLEGE    ENDOWMENT   NOTE    ACCOUNT. 
1910. 

May   1.      Balance     12,906    43 

Paid    on    account   of   Notes    .  .  971    20 

1911. 
May  1.      Balance     11,935    23 


REFORMED   PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH 


99 


1910. 
May  1. 


1910. 
May  1. 


1911. 
May  1. 

1910. 
May  1. 


1911. 
May  1. 

1910. 
May   1. 


607    50 


GENEVA   CO.    LTD.   ACCOUNT. 

Balance     998    19 

Closed  by  order  of  1910  Synod  998   19 

GENEVA  COLLEGE  GYMNASIUM  ACCOUNT 

Balance    

Receipts- 
Sale   of   old   Gymnasium    ....  155    00 

Contributions     11,504    16 — $     11,659    16 

Expenditures . 

Contractor  on  account    8,000  00 

Freigbt     47  82 

Brick     2,588  78 

Architect     •. 200  00 

Salary  and  R.  R.   Expenses   .  .  2,113  09 
Heating    and    Plumbing    Con- 
tract on  account    1,650  73 

Tile     250  00 — $     14,850    43 

Balance  overdrawn 

TEMPERANCE  ACCOUNT. 

Balance  overdrawn 

Collections  for  year 

Supplies,  Postage,  Saary   .... 

Balance    overdrawn     

THEOLOGICAL     SEMINARY    ACCOUNT. 

Balance  overdrawn    

Receipts. 

Congs.,  Indivi.  and  Societies  .  .  1,603  74 

James  Alton,  Bequest ".  .  300  00 

W.  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest 1,140  00 

Mrs.  S.  Greer,  Bequest 40  47 

James    Greer    Memorial    Fund  402  81 

1911  Dividend  D.  Gregg  Funds  598  28 
1911      Dividend       Endowment 

$69,638    75     3,830  13 

1911      Dividend       Endowment 

$325    00    Ryegate    Cong.    .  .  17  88 — $       7,933    31 


$       2,583    76 


353  24 

837  40 

484  16 

732  11 


247    95 


728    59 


$        7,654    72 


100  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Expenditures 

Salaries  June  1,  1910  to  June 

1,    1911     5,999    94 

R.  R    Fare  to  Board  Meetings  25    27 

Interest   on    Overdraft    44   16 

Expense    for    handling    funds  125    39 — $        6,194    76 

1911. 
May  1.      Balance     $       1,459   96 

THEOLOGICAL    SEMINARY    LIBRARY    ACCOUNT. 

1910. 

May   1.      Balance     849    49 

Sale    of    duplicate    books    ....  50 

849    99 
Books  and  Magazines  for  year  3  3    9  9 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance     816    00 

MEMORIAL   BUILDING    RENT    ACCOUNT. 
1910. 
May   1.      Balance     4^,918    06 

Receipts. 

Park    Institute,    rent    800   00 

Park  Institute,  water  tax  ...  .  25    25 — $  825    25 

$       5,743    31 
Expenditures. 

1911-   taxes    in    part    333  33 

Gas     29  82 

Repairs     292  81 

Insurance 96  00 

Balance  of  May  1,  1910  trans- 
ferred to  Endowment  Ac- 
count, order  1910  Synod    .  .  4,918  06—$       5,670    02 

1911. 
May   1       B^alance     $  73    29 

STUDENT'S  AID  ACCOUNT. 
1910. 
May  1.      Balance    $         764    331 

Receipts. 

Congs.,    Indiv.    and    Societies  755  88 
Rev.  H.  McCarroll  1st.  Note  in 

full     50  00 

1911  Div.  Endow.  16,286  83  895  78 — $   1,701  66 

$   2,465  97 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH 


101 


Expenditures. 

James    B.    Tweed     200  00 

T.    C     McKnight 120  00 

F     F.    Reade     200  00 

M.    S.    McMillan    120  00 

J.  M.  Rutherford 120  99 — $  7G0    00 

,1911. 
May   1.      Balance     $       1,705    97 

AGED   MINISTER'S   ACCOUNT. 

i;'io.  _ 

May   1.      Balance     - 844    61 

Receipts. 

Congs.,   Indiv.   and  Societies.  .  994   17 

W  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest  .  .  .  380  00 
1911     Dividend     on       Endow. 

$12,878    52    708    32 

1911  Dividend  on  Endow.  Mrs. 

E.    S.    E.    McKee    27    50 

1911  Dividend  on  Endow.  Rev. 

D.  and  Mrs.  M.  McKee  ....  13750 
1911  Dividend  on  Endow.  Jas. 

and    Mary    J     Carlisle    27    50 — $       2,274    99 

$       3,119    60 
Expenditures. 

R.     J.    Dodds     300  OO 

D.    S.    Faris    , 300  00 

J.   M.   Armour    400  00 

T.    A.    McElwain    200  00 

D.     H      Coulter        200  00 

J    C.  K.  Faris    200  00 — $       1,600    00 

1911. 
May   1.      Balance     ) $       1.519    60 

WIDOWS    AND     CHILDREN    DEC.     MINISTER'S    ACCOUNT. 

1910. 
May   1.      Balance     $       1.258    99 

Receii>:s. 

Congs  ,  Indiv.   and  Societies.  .  397  07 

W.  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest  ....  760  00 
1911  Dividend  Endow.  $6,770- 

02        372  35 

1911  Dividend  D.  Gregg  Fund  5  98  28 
1911    Dividend   Mrs.   E     S.    E. 

McKee     2  7  50 

1911  Dividend  Rev.  D  and  Mrs. 

M,   McKee    137  50 

1011    r)-v-riP,ul  J    R.  :McKee   ••  HO  00 — $       2,402    70 

$       3,661    69 


102  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Expenditures. 

Mrs.    S.  Love    75    00 

N.   Reid       200    00 

M.  Lawson 200    00 

E.   S.   Taylor    50    00 

S    I.  Clyde .        300    00 

R.  R.  Johnston    200    00 

A.  C.  Wilson    200    00 

Miss  J.   McDonald    150    00 

M.  Cannon 150   00 

J     H.    Cannon    100    00 

A.  B.  George 150    00 

E.    R.    Wilson    240    00 — $       2,015    00 


1911. 
May  1.      Balance     $       1,646   69 

OAKLAND,    CALIF.,    CHINESE    MISSION 
1910. 
May  1.      Balance    501    54 

Receipts. 

Congs.,   Indiv.    and  Societies.  .  50  56 

1911  Dividend  on  Endow.  $400  22  00 
1911    Dividend    on    D      Gregg 

Fund     598  28 — $           670    84 


$       1,172    38 


Expenditures. 

Rent    300    00 

Salary     290    00 — $  590    00 


1911. 
May  1.      Balance   $  582   38 

WITNESS    BEARING    FUND. 
1910. 
May  1.     Balance     , 1,286   56 

Receipts 

Congs.,   Indiv.    and   Societies..  2,109  41 

Receiprs  per  W.  J.  McKnight.  209  15 

W.  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest    ....  1,425  00 

Chas.  Mcllroy,  Bequest  3rd  pay.  401  98 

W.  J.  C.  Allen,  Bequest 5  31—$       4,150    85 


Expenditures. 

Printing    Tracts       89    46 

Advertisement 91    06 

Postage     30    9  6 

Salary  Rev.  W.  J.  McKnight.  .  1,350    00 

Salary  Rev.  J    M.  Coleman   .  .  958    32 

Expenses  Rev.   J.   M.    Coleman  152    76 


$       5,437    41 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         103 


Expenses  Rev.  W.  J.  McKnigM  529    15 

Expenses  handling  funds   ....  62    70 — $       3,264    41 


1911 
May   1.      Balance     $       2,173    00 

BALANCE    SHEET. 

I/iabilities. 

Total    Amount    of   Endowments    $589,391  21 

Sundry  Accownts. 

Sundries     368  10 

Contingent     2,470  09 

Indian     2,198  05 

Theo.  Seminary    Current  Account 1,459  96 

Theo.   Seminary,    Librarv   Account    ....  816  00 

Student's   Aid    " 1,705  97 

Memorial  Bldg.  Rent    73  29 

Aged    Ministers     1,519  60 

Widows   and   Children   Dec.    Ministers.  .  1J646  69 

Southern  Mission    2*811  19 

Chinese    Home    Mission     582  38 

Sustentation  Fund 2,603  78 

Witness  Bearing    2,173  00 

Dr.   S.  A.   S.  Metheny,  Treas.   For.  Miss.  2,5  00  00 

Rev     R.   Shield,   Donation       1,400  00 

Estate  John  Gibson 200  00 

Estate  Chas.  Mcllroy    508  70 

Estate  Miss  M.   Rebecca  Euwer    812  51 

Estate   Mrs.    J     J.    MoClurkin    712  62 

Chas.    Clyde 1,050  09 

South  Carolina  Cemetery  Lot 12  25 

Mortgage   Account    Special    808  34 

W.  P.  M.  S,  Pitts.  Presbytery 200  00 

Education    funds    Pitts.    Presbytery    ...  1,014  05 

Investment  funds  Pitts.  Presbytery  ....  2,350  00 

Current    funds,    Pitts.    Presbytery    ....  443  11 

Cash    Donation    Pitts     Presbytery    ....  2,000  00 

Adamsville,    Pa.,    Cong 304  50 — $       6,311    66 


$    624,154    58 
Assets. 

D     Gregg   Mortgage   Account    $155,400  00 

Regular  Mortgage  Account      387,259  04 

Real   Estate    50,329  07 

Office  Furniture    484  68 

Cash 10,832  40 

Temperance    247  95 

Domestic  Mission    2,761  43 

Geneva  College    13,288  25 

Geneva    College    Dormitory    Note     ....  967  00 

Geneva   College    Gymnasium    Note    ....  2,583  76 

Sundries 1  00 — $  624,154    58 


104  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


AUDITORS'  CERTIFICATE. 

The  iiiidersigTied,  appoiiitcd  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Synod  of 
the  Ref.  Pres.  Church,  of  X.  A.,  to  audit  the  Accounts  of  James  S. 
Tibby,  Treas.,  would  respectfully  report  that  I  have  examined  the 
Accounts,  Moi*tgages  and  other  Securities,  Cash  in  Bank,  and  find 
same  correct  as  per  Report  to  1911  Synod. 

W.  G.  MILLER,  Auditor 
Pittsburg,  Pa.,   May,   1911. 

BOARD  OF  FOREIGN  MISSIONS  OF  THE  REFORMED  PRESBY- 
TERIAN CHURCH  OF  NORTH  AMERICA 

Statement  of  Funds   on   April   30,    1911. 

Syrian  Mission,  General  Fund $  11,931    48 

Syrian  Hospital   Fund    2,586   98 

New   Station    in    China   Fund    4,790    74 

Latakia  Church   Building  Fund    192   58 

Tarsus  Building  Fund* 4,276   42 

Mersine  Hospital  Fund 393    86 

Rev.  D.  J.  Shaw,  Foreign  Mission  Fund  13,101   89 

Martha  Cunningham  Memoriai  Fund   .  .  4  6   08 

David  Oliver  Brown,  Memorial   Fund.  .  1,671   28 

Isabella  Stewart  Martin  Memorial  Fund  2,789   63 

Lanphear    Memorial    Fund     4,225    20 

Semi-Centennial  Mission  Fund 6,279    97 

Rev.  R.  A    Blair,  Field  Secretary  Account  1,048   08 
Money  in  hands  of  Treasurer  belonging 

to  Rev.   S.   H.   Kennedy    64   11 

Church  Erection  Fund 6,127    67 

Jewish  Mission  Fund 844    73 

Cash    balance    April    30,    1911     $'    60,370    70 

Cash  Balances  deposited 'as  follows: 

Brown  Brothers  &  Co.  Philadelphia,$  21,556    88 
Central  National  Bank,  Philadelphia  16,240    91 
Bank   of   North      America,      Phila- 
delphia     21,302    60 

Real  Estate  Trust  Co.,  Philadelphia  978   74 

Philadelphia  Saving  Fund  Society.  .  1    75 

Cash   in   Treasurer's   hands    289    82 

Total    ,  ?      60,370    70 

NOTE : 

There  has  been  transferred  uom 
the  Isabella  Stewart  Martin  Mem- 
orial Fund  $1,775  13  to  meet  over- 
>  draft  in  the  China  General  Fund, 
and  $1,463  45  to  meet  overdraft  in 
the  Building  Fund,  Hospital  in 
China 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  105 


SYRIAN    MISSION    GENERAL    FUND,    APRIL    3  0,    1911. 
1910. 


May   1.      Balance 

$        6,848 

71 

Receipts. 

Congregations    

$ 

9,441 

16 

Sabbath  Schools  and  Missionary  Societies 

.  2,674 

61 

Individuals 

1,297 

27 

Refunded  Traveling  Expenses   .  .  . 

165 

81 

Bequests: 

Mary  J.  Pierce   ....  $ 

190 

00 

William  J.  Ferguson 

Estate    

4,560 
950 

00 
00 

Isabella  Price  Estate 

Mrs.  E.  Dinsmore  .  • 

3,944 

31 

George      and      Mary 

Cunningham    .... 

200 

00 

Sarah  Greer    

298 

60 

Andrew      Alexander, 

7th  payment  .... 

2,500 

00 

J.  J.  McClurkin 

1,466 

85 

Charles  Mcllroy,  3rd 

payment    

803 

93 — $ 

14,913 

69 

Dividends: 

E    S.  McKee 

50 

00 

D    Gregs: 

2,991 

38 

J.  R.  McKee  Endow- 

ment     

55^00 

2,729    84 

On  Invested  Funds  . 

Barnett  and  Ryegate 

Congregation    En- 

dowment      

17 

87—$ 

5,844 

09 

Interest    to    date    

136 

96 

34,473 

Total    Receipts    .... 

59 

Total     

$ 

41,322 

30 

Disbursements . 

Latakia  and  Suedia   Station: 

Salaries     6,300  86 

Mission    Expense    .  .         5,269  98 
Traveling   and   Ship-      ' 

ping    Expense     .  .         1,254  41 — $    12,825    25 


Tarsus    Station: 

Salaries     .^ 5,488    32 

Mission    Expense    .  .  4,506    88 
Traveling   and    Ship- 
ping Expense    .  .  .  ,536    71 — $    10,531    91 


106  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Cyprus    Station: 

Salaries     3,310    53 

Mission    Expense    .  .         1,669    42 
Traveling  and   Ship- 
ping Expense    .  .  .         1,053    71 — $      6,033    66 

Total  Disbursements  29,390    82 

Balance  April  30,  1911.  .  11,931    48 

Total     $    41,322    30 

SYRIAN    HOSPITAL    FUND,     APRIL     30,     1911. 

Balance  May  1,  1910   ...  $      2,586   8« 

Receipts 

Contributions  from  Con- 
grega,  Sabbath  Schools 
and   Individuals: 

For  General  Purposes.  $         231    55 
For    Support    of    Beds  210    00 — $         441    55 

Dividend,  Mrs.  E.  S.  E. 
McKee  Fund  for  Sup- 
port  of  Bed    60    00 

Interest   to    date    50   14 

Total    Receipts    ....  551    69 

Total     $      3,138    49 

Disbursements. 

Montgomery    Ward   &    Co.,    supplies    ..$  51    51 

Remittances  to  Dr.  J.  M    Balph,  Treas.  500   00 

Total  Disbursements 551    51 

Balance   April    30,    1911    2,586    98 

Total     $      3,138    49 

NEW   STATION   IN  CHINA   FUND,   APRIL   30,    1911. 

Balance    May    1,    1910     $      5,696    82 

Interest    to    date     93    92 

Total    $      5,790    74 


Disbursements. 

Remittance  to  Rev.  J    K.  Robb,  Treas.    $      1,000   00 
Bialance  April  30,   1911    4,790    74 

Total    $      5,790    74 

LATAKIA   CHURCH   BUILDING  FUND,  APRIL   30,   1911. 

Receipts   from    all   sources    $         19258 

Balance  April   30,   1911    $         192   58 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  107 


TARSUS    BUILDING    FUND,    APRIL    30,    1911. 

Balance   May    1,    1910    $      4,151    89 

Interest    to    date     124'  53 


Balance   April    30,    1911    $      4,276    42 

MERSINE  HOSPITAL  FUND,  APRIL  30,  1911. 

Balance  May   1,    1910    ..  $  386    64 

Receipts. 

Missionary    Society    ....$  15    00 

Interest    to    date    772  2272 


Total     $  409 

Disbursements. 

P-hysicians  Supp'y  Co.    .  .  15    50 

Balance  April  30,  1911..  393    86 


Total     $  409    36 

REV     D.    J.    SHAW   FOREIGN   MISSION   FUND,    APRIL    30,    1911. 

Receipts. 

Balance  May  1,  1910    $   11,675    80 

Proceeds  of  sale  of  prop- 
erty, Kansas  City  .  .  .  .$      1,071    77 
Interest    to    date     3  65    15 


Total  Receipts    ....  1,43  6    92 


Total     $    13,112    72 

Disbursements 

Gunamia    Building     ....  10   83 

Balance    April    30,    1911      13,101    89 


Total     I    13,112    72 

MARTHA    CUNNINGHAM,    MEMORIAL    FUND,    APRIL    30,    1911. 

Balance    May    1,    1910     $  46    08 

No    change. 

DAVID    OLIVER    BROWN    MEMORIAL    FUND,    APRIL    30,    1911. 

Ba-ance    May    1,    1910     $      1,622    62 

Interest    to    date     48    66 


Balance   April   30,   1911    $      1,671    28 

ISABELLA    STEWART    MARTIN    MEMORIAL    FUND,    APRIL 

30,   1911. 

Balance  May  1,  1910    $      5,852    65 

Interest  to  date 175    56 


Total .  $      6,028    21 


108  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Disbursements. 

Transferred   to    China   General   Fund   to    • 

meet   overdraft    1,775    13 

Transferred  to  Building  Fund,  Hospital 

in    China,    to    meet    overdraft    .^..         1,463    45 

Balance    April    30,    1911     •      2,789    63 

Total $      6,028    21 

LANPHEAR     MEMORIAL    FUND,    APRIL     30,     1911. 
Balance    May    1,     1910     .$      5,572    16 

Receipts 

Mrs.  Tillie  Henn,  Blanchard,  Iowa,  con- 
ditions and  terms  same  as  those 
covering  contribution  of  June  8, 
1905     $  600    00 

Interest   to   date    82   84 

Total    Receipts     682    84 

Total $      6,255    00 

Disbursements 

Transferred  to  China  General  Fund,  on 
account  of  Salary  and  Expenses  of 
Rev.    J     A.    Kempf     2,029    80 

Balance    April    30,    1911     4,225    20 

Total     $      6,255    00 

SEMI-CENTENNIAL    MEMORIAL    FUND,     APRIL     30,     1911. 

Balance    May     1,     1910     $      6,223    91 

Intere&t   to    date    182    91 

Total     $      6,406    82 

Disbursements. 

Sundry    Expenses    ."  .' 12  6    85 

Balance   April    30,    1911     6,279    97 

Total     $      6,406    82 

REV.   R.   A.   BLAIR,  FIELD  SECRETARY,  ACCOUNT,   APRIL 

30,   1911. 

Balance   May   1,   1910,   Undistributed    .  .  $         885    78 

Receipts. 

From  Rev.   R.  A    Blair    $      1,560    82 

All    other    sources     6    00 

Total     Receipts     1,566    82 

Total     $      2,452    60 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         10  9 


Disbursenienrts . 

Expenses  paid  by  Treas.    $  194    02 

Transferred       to       China 

General    Fund    110   50 

Transferred       to       China 

Special    Fund     ....  100   00 

Transferred      to       China 

Special    Fund,     (Boys' 

Dormitory)      1,000    00 


Total    Disbursements     .  .  1,404    52 

Bialance       Undistributed 

April  30,  1911    1,048    08 


Total     $      2,452    60 

NOTE: 

Rev.  R.  A.  Blair 
makes  the  foUowing 
report: 

Total  Contributions  re- 
ceived   during   year    ..$      1,869    62 
Less      expenses    during 
year     308   80 


Amount  sent  to  Treas- 
urer      $      1,560    82 

MONEY  IN  HANDS  OF  TREASURER  BELONGING  TO  REV.  S.  H. 
KENNEDY,   APRIL   30,    1911 

Balance  April   30,   1911    , $  64    11 

CHINA   MISSION   GENERAL   FUND,   APRIL    30,    1911. 

Receipts. 

Congregations     $      7,639   17 

Sabbath  Schools  and  Missionary  Societies        2,673    12 

Individuals     771    2  6 

Refunded    Traveling    Expenses     23    00 

Bequests: 

William      J.    Ferguson 

Estate      $      1,425    00 

George  and  Mary  Cun- 


ninghiam    

200 

00 

1,625 
13 

2,564 

00 

Dividend    Endowment     .  .  .  , 

00 

Tiransferred    from    Lan_ 
phear  Memorial   Fund  $ 

Transferred   from   W.    M. 
Robb   Account    

Transferred    from    Treas- 
urer's       Discretionary 
Fund     

2,029 
352 

71 
110 

80 

5  2 

32 
50 

Transferred    from    R     A. 
Blair  Fund    

14 

Total   Receipts    

15,308 

69, 

110  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Transferred  from  I.  S.  Martin  Memorial 

Fund   to   meet   overdraft    1,775    13 


Total     $    17,083    82 

Disbui'sememts. 

Overdraft  May  1,  1910  $      1,174    88 

Salaries     $    11,633    77 

Mission  Expenses 1,819    31 

Traveling    and    Shipping 

Expense     2,455    86 


Total  Expenses  ....  15,90894 

Total     $    17,083    82 

BUILDING  FUND,  MISSION  IN  CHINA,  APRIL  30,  1911. 

Balance    May    1,    1910     $      3,010    71 

Interest    to    date     90    32 


Total     $      3,101    03 

Disbursements. 

Remittance  to  Rev.  J.  K.  Robb,  Treas- 
urer   $      3,101    03 

BUILDING   FUND,   LARNACA,    CYPRUS,   APRIL    30,    1911 

Balance  May   1,   1910    $  14   50 

Transferred    to    Cyprus    Special    Account  $  14    50 

DR.  J.  MAUDE  GEORGE  HOSPITAL  ACCOUNT,  APRIL   30,   1911. 

Balance  May  1,   1910    $         123    60 

Transferred  to  Hospital  in  China  Fund 

(by  consent  of  donor)    $         12360 

BUILDING  FUND,  HOSPITAL  IN  CHINA,  APRIL   30,   1911. 

Overdraft  May  1,   1910    $      1,463    45 

Transferred  from  I.  S.  Martin  Memorial 

Fund   to    meet    overdraft    $      1,463    45 

HOSPITAL  IN  CHINA,  DISPENSARY  ACCOUNT,  APRIL  30,  1911. 

Overdraft  May  1,  1910    $         204    20 

Transferred  from  Dr.  J.   Maude  George 
Memorial    Fund    by    consent    of 
donor    and    order    of    Board     $         123    60 

Transferred  from  China  Mission  Gen- 
eral Fund  and  charged  to  Mission 
Expense     80    60      $         204    20 

MISS  M.   B.   EDGAR,   CEMETERY  FENCE   ACCOUNT,   APRIL 

30,    1911. 

Balance    on    hand    May    1,    1910     $  35    GO 

Transferred  to  Latakia  Special  Fund   .  .  $  35   00 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  111 


TREASURER'S    DISCRETIONARY    ACCOUNT,     APRIL     30,     1911. 

B^alance    on    hand    May    1,    1910     $  71    32 

Transferred  to  China  General  Fund  ....  $  71   32 

REV     W.    M.    ROBE    ACCOUNT,    APRIL    30,    1911. 
Received    from    Rev.    W     M.    Robb     ..$         308    3  7 
Received  from  all  other  sources 5  9    35 


Total    Receipts     $  367    72 

Disbursements. 

Transferred   to    China    Special    Fund    .  .  15    20 

Transferred  to   China  General   Fund    .  .  352    52 


Total  Disbursements    $  36772 

NOTE: 

Rev.      W.       M.       Robb 

miakes    the      following 

report: 

Total    Contributions.  .$  35  8    63 

Less   Expenses    50    26 


Amount  sent  to    Treas.  $         308   37 

GUNAMIA   BUILDING   FUND,   APRIL   30,    1911. 
Receipts. 
Transferred  from  Rev.  D.  J.  Shaw  Fund   $  10   83 

From  all  other  sources    364   17 


Total   Receipts    .  $         375    00 

Remittance    to    Dr.    J.    M.    Ba'ph,    Treas.  $  375    00 

SPECIAL  CONTRIBUTION  FUNDS,  APRIL  30,  1911 
LATAKIA 

Receipts    from    all    sources    $         64346 

Remittances    to   Dr.    J     M.    Balph, 

Treasurer     $  632    76 

Mary    A.    Sterrett,       "Miss      Wylie 

Church    Fund"     10    70      $  643    46 

SUEDIA 

Receipts    from    all    sources     $  64   5  7 

Remittances    to    Dr.    J.    M.    Balph, 

Treasurer    $  64    5  7 

TARSUS 

Receipts  from  all  sources $         26350 

Remittances    to   Dr.    John    Peoples, 

Treasurer    $  263    50 

CYPRUS 

Balance     ?         542    00 

Receipts. 

Transferred    from      Cyprus      Build- 
ing   Fund     $  14    50 

All    o^her    sources     477    73 


Total    Receipts     $  492    23 


Total .  .  $      1,034    23 


112  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OP  THE 


Disbursements. 

Remittance  to  Rev.  J.      D.     Edgar, 

Treasurer    $      1,034    23 

CHINA    MISSION 

China  Special. 

Balance   May   1,    1910 $         955    85 

Receipts  from  all  sources 2,464   03      $      3,419   88 


Remittances    to    Rev.    J.    K.    Robb, 

Treasurer    ^ $      3,419    88 

Boys'  Dormitory. 

Receipts    from    all    sources    $      1,317   03 

Remittances    to    Rev.    J.    K.    Robb, 

Treasurer    $      1,317    03 

China  Famine  Fund. 

Receipts    from    all    sources     $         17757 

Remittances    to    Rev.    J     K.    Robb, 

Treasurer    $         177    57 

TREASURER'S  EXPENSE  ACCOUNT  FOR  YEAR  ENDING  APRIL 

30,   1911 

Stenographer     $ 

Typewriter     

Office  Furniture,  Steel  Files,  Desk,  etc. 

Office   Supplies   and   Stationery    

Postage     

Bond  of  Treasurer    


Total    $         472    19 

Distributed   as   follows: 


China  Mission  Expense  .  . 
Latakia  Mission  Expense 
Tarsus  Mission  Expense  . 
Cyprus  Mission  Expense   . 


216 

30 

70 

00 

86 

74 

15 

65 

33 

50 

50 

00 

188 

90- 

94 

43 

94 

43 

94 

43 

Total    $         472    19 

S.    A.    S.    METHENY. 

BOARD  OF  CHURCH  ERECTION  OP  THE  REFORMED  PRESBYr 
TERIAN  CHURCH  OF  NORTH  AMERICA,  APRIL  30,   1911. 

Balance    $      5,290    20 

Receipts. 

Congregations    $         928    31 

Sabbath    Schools    and    Missionary    So- 
cieties      

Individuals     

Bequests: 

William   J-    Ferguson    Estate    .... 

Dividends: 

Invested    Funds    ...$         187    00 

D.  Gregg 598    28  785    28 


12 

48 

65 

60 

1,140 

00 

REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         113 


Interest  to  date    105    80 


Total    Receips    ....  3,03' 


Total     $      8,327    67 

Disbursements. 

Billings,  Oklahoma,  Congregation 700   00 

Quinter,    Kansas,    Congregation    1,500   00 


Total  Disbursements 2,200    00 

Balance  April  30,   1911    6,127    67 


Total    $      8,327    67 

S.    A.    S.    METHENY. 

THE   JEWISH   MISSION   BOARD   OP   THE   REFORMED   PRESBY- 
TERIAN CHURCH  OP  NORTH  AMERICA,  APRIL  30,   1911 

Balance  May  1,   1911    $         174    90 

Receipts. 

Congregations     $  1,175  44 

Sabbath    Schools    and    Societies    410  38 

Individuals  and  Bequests 1,072  48 

Interest   on   Deposits    12  00              2,670   30 


Total    $      2,845    20 

Disbui*seinents 

Salaries $      1,558    91 

Mission 'Expenses    441    56  2,000    47 


Balance   on    hand    April    30,    1911    ....  844    73 


Total    ?      2,845    20 

S.    A.    S.    METHENY. 
Dr.   S.  A.   S.  Metheny,  Treasurer, 

Board  of  Foreign  Missions   of  the  Synod 
of   the   Reformed   Presbyterian   Church, 
Philadelphia. 
Dear  Sir: 

In  accordance  with  your  request  we  have  audited  the  books 
and  accounts  of  the  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  of  the  Reformed 
Presbyterian  Church  of  North  America,  from  May  1,  1910  to  April 
30,   1911,   and 

WE  CERTIFY'  that  the  statements  of  the  various  funds  which 
are   given   herewith   are   properly   prepared  therefrom. 
Yours  very  truly, 

PRICE,    WATERHOUSE    &    CO. 

REPORT  OF  JAMES  S.  TIBBY,  TREASURER  OF  LITERARY 

FUND 

1910. 
May   1.      Balance     $       1,847    28 


114  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OP  THE 


Receipts. 

Prom  Congregations $  3  05 

Sale  of  R.  P    Testimonies  and 

Disciplines    42  3  0 

Sale    of    Psalm      Books      and 

Psalters    167  21 

Sale    of    Psalm    Selections     .  .  41  64 

Sale    of    Confessions    of    Paitli  36  00 

Sale  of  1910  Minutes  of  Synod  302  40 

Sale  of  O'd   Minutes  of  Synod  2  60 
Sale   of   Daily   Bible      Reading 

Folders 69  65 

Sale  of  Miscellaneous  Books    ..  365      $          66850 


Expenditures. 

Printing   1910   Synod   order  of 

business    2   00 

Printing     1910     Appropriation 

Blanks    11    50 

Printing  1910  Minutes  of  Synod  210   20 

Printing      1910      Report      on 

Psalmody     15    00 

Printing  1911     Psalms     galley 

forms    134    50 

Printing   Dai'y   Bible   Reading 

Polders     42    00 

Insurance  on     Plates     N.      Y. 

City     22    57 

Storge    to      June      1st,      1911 

Synod's    Trunk     500 

Advertisements    12   00 

Expenses  Rev.   J.   M.   Coleman 
to    Christ.      Reformed     Synod, 

Muskegon,  Mich.,  6-14    16    60 

Our  Apportionment,      Alliance 

Ref.   Churches    40    00 

Expenses   Rev.   T.    H.   Acheson 

to  Indian.,  Ind  , 22    50 

Expenses   Rev.   T    H.   Acheson 

to   Washington,    D.    C,    13    85 

Comm.    1911    Version    Psalms 

expenses 108    17 

Services  Typewriter     at     1910 

Synod    4    60 

Services  Clerk     selling     books 

Synod    4    50 

Loaned  to  Trav.  Fund  Comm. 

1910  Synod    

Freight  on  books 

"Wrapping  Paper    

Envelopes  for  1910  Minutes.. 
Postage    on    1910    Minutes 
Postage  on  books   


$      2,515    76 


1911. 
May  1.      Balance 


21  40 

136 

2  16 

2  70 
32  39 
50  68 

775  68 

$ 

1,740  08 

REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         115 


We  have  compared  the  above  report  with  the  Treasurer's  books, 
whicli  have  been  audited  and  found  correct  by  the  undersigned  Com- 
mittee. 

J.  H.  McBURNEY, 
JOHN    M     AliLEN, 

Comm. 

The  supply  of  Ref.  Pres  Testimonies,  the  long  primer  and 
minion  editions  of  the  1889  version  of  the  Psalms  is  exhausted. 
Some  200  copies  of  the  1889  Double  Psalters  remain  unsold.  We 
are  paying  insurance  on  the  plates  of  the  1889  version  of  the  Psalms. 
We  await  yoiir  instructions. 

JAMES  S.  TIBBY,  Treasurer. 

REPORT    OF    FINANCIAL    AGENT    FOR    NATIONAL    REFORM. 
May  First,  1910,  to  May  First,  1911. 

1910. 
May   1.      Balance    $      1,724    36 

Receipts. 

Congregations,  Individuals  and 

Societies     $      5,910    06 

Subscriptions       to  '     Christian 

Statesman 947    35 

William  J.  Ferguson,  Bequest, 

Philadelphia,  Pa    2,280    00 

Chas.  Mcllroy,  Bequest,  Sparta, 

Illinois    401.  98 

G.   and  Mary  A.   Cunningham, 

Morn.    Sun,    lo 100    00 

Sale   of   Literature    739    19 

Subscriptions  to  World's  C.  C. 

Conference     4,617    86 

Miscellaneous     16    00      $    15,012    44 

$    16,736    80 

Expenditures. 

Office    Supplies    and    Expenses  906   30 

Trav.    Expenses     402    47 

Stamps     337    33 

Printing     3,031    90 

Salaries    and    Expenses    of    Of- 
ficers       4,975    50 

World's     C  C    Conference  Ex- 
penses       2,209    41 

Harrisburg,    Pa.,      Convention 

Expenses     31511 

Zelienople,      Pa  ,      Convention 

Expenses     18    25 

Special   Advertising    1,048    10           13,244    37 


1911 
•    May   1.      Balance $      3,492    43 


116  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


We  have  compai-ed  the  above  report  with  the  Treasiu-er's  books, 
whic!i  have  been  audited  and  found  coiTect  by  the  undersigned  Au- 
diting Committee. 

W.  A.  C.  BROWN, 
WM.  ESLER. 

Committee. 
Pittsbui-g,  Pa.,  May  30th,  1911. 

FOURTEENTH      ANNUAL      REPORT    OF    THE    R.    P.    WOMAN'S 

ASSOCIATION,   HAVING  IN   CHARGE   THE 

AGED   PEOPLE'S  HOME. 

Summary 

1910.  V 

March  1.      Balance     $      2,370    61 

Keceip.s. 

Wardrobe  Room    $  29   00 

Miss  Mehaffey  Account    ....  8    50 

Mrs.    Daugherty    Account     .  .  115    20 

Members    Contingent    7    00 

Congregational    Collections..  564    66 

Elizabeth    Gray    Account.  .  .  .  2,000    00 

Susan   Patterson   Account    .  .  202,  00 

Anna    Gemmill    Mem.    R.     .  .  100    00 

Interest     331    66 

Mrs.  Emma  Gemmill  Account  228    80 

Sallie   Watson   Account    1,350   00 

Admission    Fees   * 1,200    00 

Current    Expenses     3,302    22 

^      ,  

Total     $    11,981    41 

Expense. 

Eda    S.    E     McKee    Room     .  .  ^            2  70 

Jane    Lindsay    Room     *            1  40 

Manager's    Contingent     20  75 

Interest 1,102  22 

Salaries     1,357  35 

House  Expense    1,862  18 

Mortgage   Account    3,000  00 

Current  Expense 2,946  36 

Total    $    10,292    96 

1911. 
March  1.      Balance     $      1.688    45 

Respectfully  submitted, 

ANNETTE  G.  WALLACE, 

Treasurer. 

SPECIAL    BALANCE    SHEET 

Showing  the  condition  of  the   different  funds,   the  balance  on 
band   or   overdrawn. 


REFORMED  PREISBYTERIAN  CHURCH  117 


Overdrawn.  Balance. 

Students   Aid    $^     1,705    97 

Aged    Ministers'    Fund     1, 51960 

Widows'  and  Orphans'  Fund l]646    69 

Theological    Seminary    1,459    98 

Jewish  Mission 844    73 

Southern    Mission     2,811    18 

Indian  Mission    2,193    05 

Domestic   Mission $  2,761    43 

Chinese  Home  Mission 58238 

.Syrian  Mission 11,931    48 

Temperance    247    95 

Mission  in  China. 

Witness    Bearing    2,17300 

Geneva  College    13,288    25 

Church  Erection 6,127    67 

Sustentation    2,603    78 

Literary   Fund    1,740    08 

Aged  Peoples'  Home    1,688    45 

I    16,297    63      .$    39,028    04 

RECORDING  SECRETARY'S  REPORT 

To  the  Moderator  and  Members  of  Synod: 

Another  year  has  passed  in  the  history  of  the  Aged  People's 
Home,  a  year  in  which  we  have  received  abundant  blessings  from 
our  Heavenly  Father. 

Twenty-four  meetings  have  been  held  in  connection  with  the 
work  of  the  Home;  five  of  the  Association,  five  of  the  Board  of 
Directors  and  fourteen  of  the  Board  of  Managers. 

The  attendance  at  these  meetings  and  the  interest  shown  is 
proof  that  the  work  of  the  Home  is  dear  to  the  hearts  of  those 
in    charge. 

The  Corresponding  Secretary  has  written  one  hundred,  thirty- 
two  letters,  one  hundred,  twelve  postals,  sixty-one  pulpit  notices 
and  distributed  five  hundred,  eighty-five  printed  reports. 

The  committees  have  all  been  busy  in  the  performance  of  their 
several   duties. 

During  the  year  seven  membei's  have  been  received"  into  the 
Home,  Mrs.  Letitia  Dodds,  our  only  surviving  pioneer  Missionary  to 
the  Foreign  field,  entered  the  Home  June  22nd,  1910;  Mrs.  Emma 
Gemmill  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  September  22nd,  1910;  Miss  Elizabeth 
Reed  of  Beaver  Falls,  Penna.,  December  6th,  1910;  Miss  Margaret 
Mitchell  of  Allegheny,  Penna,  January  11th,  1911;  and  Miss  Hep- 
hizibah    Young    of    Darlington,    Penna.,    January    24th,    1911. 

One  of  our  members  was  removed  by  death.  Miss  Sarah  Gem- 
mill,  December  31st,  1910. 

Our  Matron,  Miss  Jamison,  is  still  with  us  and  is  a  great  com- 
fort and  blessing  to  all  the  members  of  the  Home  and  a  source  of 
inspiration  to  all  the  workers. 

Twenty-three  sermons  have  been  preached  in  the  Home  by  the 
following  Ministers  and  Licentiates,  McConoughy,  R.  J  Dodds,  Wal- 
ter  McClurkin,   T.   J.   Allen,   W.    McCarroll,   J.    M.    Coleman,    R.    C. 


118  MINUTES  OP  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Wylie,  R.  A.  Blair,  R  J.  Gault,  T.  H.  Acheson,  C.  M  Smith,  W.  J. 
Coleman,  John  Yates,  Mr.  McMillan,  Mr.  Allen,  Mr.  Thomas  Mc- 
Knight,  and  Mr.  Rutherford,  and  prayer  meeting  every  Wednesday 
evening.  An  interesting  and  he.pful  Thanksgiving  service 
was  held  on  Thanksgiving  evening,  conducted  by  W.  J.  Coleman 

Donation  and  Reception  Day  was  held  on  October  20th,   1910 
Pour  hundred,  seventy-nine  dollars  and  many  useful  gifts  were  re- 
ceived. 

We  desire  to  express  our  gratitude  to  all  those  who  on  Do- 
nation and  Reception  Day  and  throughout  the  year  have  contribu- 
ted to  the  Home,  and  to  the  physicians,  ministers,  and  students 
in  ministering  to  the  physical  ^and  spiritual  comfort  of  the  family 
in  the  Home. 

Three  new  Life  Members  have  been  added  to  the  Association: 
Mary  Ruth  George,  Mrs.  Henry  Martin  and  Elizabeth  Armistead 
Martin.      And   one  Life  Director,   Mrs     D.   S.   Galley. 

The  congregational  collections  amounted  to  five  hundred,  sixty- 
four   and    66-100    dollars. 

We  are  pleased  to  report  a  decrease  on  our  debt  of  three  thou- 
sand dollars. 

We  again  ask  for  an  appropriation  of  one  thousand  dollars. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

MRS.   W.  J.  WARD. 

The  report  of  the  Mission  Conference  w^s  taken  from  the 
table,  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.  Adopted.  J.  S.  Thompson  was  chosen  Home  Mis- 
sion Secretary. 

Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

The  matter  of  fixing  the  salary  of  the  Home  Mission  Sec- 
retary was  referred  to  the  Domestic  Mission  Board. 

The  report  of  the  Mission  Conference  was  adopted  as  a 
whole,    and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT  OP  DOMESTIC  MISSION  CONFERENCE. 

The  Domestic  Mission  Conference  composed  of  the  Central 
Board  of  Missions  and  representatives  of  Presbyteries  met  in 
Eighth  Street  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  May  29,  1911,  at 
7:30  P.  M.,  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  J  S.  Thompson.  J.  S. 
Thompson  was  reelected  chairman  and  Walter  C.  McClurkin  was 
chosen  secretary.  Appropriations  amounting  to  $16,760.00  were 
recommended  for  the  following  congregations: 

Colorado  Presbytery. 

Cannon    City    $  400  00 

Content     400  00 

Greeley     100  00 

La  Junta    250  00 

Los  Angeles 500  00 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  119 


Portland 500    00 

Regina    700   00 

Santa  Ana    575   00 

Kansas   Presb5i;ery 

Billings     $  150    00 

Hebron 250    00 

Kansas  City 500    00 

Stafford,    for    supplies     120    00 

Superior,  on  condition  their  pastor  receive  a  salary  of 

$1,000.00     400    00 

Tabor 200    00 

Wahoo,  for  supplies  an  amount  equal  to  what  they  raise 

not  to   exceed    200   00 

Iowa  Presbytery 

Hickory    Grove,    for    supplies    $6    per    Sabbath,    not    to 

exceed     200   00 

Washington    • 200   00 

Vernon     300   00 

Illinois  Presbytery. 

Couterville,  on  condition  the  congregation  raise  an  equal 

amount     400   00 

Selma     400    00 

Ohio    Presbytery. 

Belle  Center    ?  300   00 

Bellefontaine 450   00 

Cedarville,   for  supplies    200    00 

Detroit,  for  stated  supply    1,100   00 

Pairgrove     400   00 

Hetherton     350   00 

S'outhfield,  for  supplies   as  much  as  they  raise  not  to 

exceed   $200,   or   in  case   of  settlement    400    00 

Pittsburg  Presbytery. 

Bear  Run  and  Mahoning $  200   00 

Brookland    250   00 

McKeesport,  for  supplies  $300;   for  stated  supply  $500; 

,in    case   of   settlement    700    00 

Mercer,   in   case  of   settlement    300   00 

Middleton,  for  supplies,   $5   per  Sabbath  not  to  exceed  125   00 

North   Union    100    00 

Pine   Creek    150   00 

Slippery    Rock     250   00 

Youngstown     650    00 

New  York  Pi'esbytery, 

Brooklyn,    for    pastor     $  100    00 

Cambridge     340   00 

Coldenham     200    00 

Second    Boston    450    00 

West  Hebron 5  00    00 

White  Lake 150   00 

New  Brunswick  and  Nova  Scotia  Presbytery. 

Barnesville ^  450    00 


120  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE^ 


Cornwallis    ' 400    00 

St.   John   on   condition   the  congregaJon   raise   at  least 

$500  and  if  possible  $600    600'  00 

Rochester  Presbytery. 

Lochiel     $  300    00 

Libson 400    00 

Syracuse     200    00 

The  following  items  are  submitted: 

1.  The  Conference  expresses  its  hearty  appreciation  of  Licen- 
tiate F.  D  Fraser's  commendable  and  self  sacrificing  efforts 
to  establish  a  congregation  in  Portland,  Oregon,  thus  extending 
the  principles  of  our  Church. 

2.  Owing  to  the  encouraging  outlook  in  Regina,  Winnipeg, 
Vancouver  and  other  points  in  the  North  and  West,  ;he  Conference 
recommends  that  Synod  appoint  a  Home  Mission  Secretary  to  look 
for  openings  in  new  fields,  and  report  to  the  Central  Board  the 
possibilities  of  establishing  permanent  congregations  in  these 
fields. 

3.  The  Conference  recommends  that  the  Central  Board  be  au- 
thorized to  enter  new  and  peculiarly  promising  fields  and  to  expend 
so  much  money,  as  in  their  judgment,  may  seem  wise. 

4.  The  Conference  recommends  that  Synod  notify  the  Clerks  of 
Presbyteries  to  instruct  the  aid  receiving  congregations  that  their 
applications  would  not  be  considered  unless  the  questions  given 
in  the  application  blanks  be  definitely  answered. 

5     The   Conference  recommends  that   the   East  End   Congrega- 
tion be  granted  such  supplement  as  to  bring  their  pastor's  salary 
'up  to   $1,300,  supplement  not  to  exceed   $300;    on  condition,   also, 
the   congregation   fill   out   the   regular   application   blanks   and*  for- 
ward to  J.  S.  Tibby. 

J.  S.  THOMPSON,  Chairman. 
WALTER  C.  MAC  CLURKIN,  Secretary 

The^  following  resolutions,  proposed  by  A^^  J.  Coleman  and 
T.  H.  Acheson,  Avere  adopted: 

The  Mission  Conference  having  before  it  reports  from  nearly 
all  the  congregations  seeking  aid  from  the  Home  Mission  Fund, 
and  having  learned  from  these  reports  that  in  most  cases  but  very 
few  in  each  congregation  pay  the  tenth  to  the  Lord,  appointed  two 
of  its  members  to  bring  the  matter  to  the  attention  of  Synod.  We 
believe  that  the  tenth  is  not  the  measure  but  the  minimum  of 
what  we  should  give,  and  we  believe  also  that  not  only  those  in 
congregations  seeking  aid,  but  that  those  in  self-sustaining  congre- 
gations should  come  up  to  the  minimum  requirement. 

1.  We  recommend  that  the  Committee  on  Systematic  Benefi- 
cence begin  early  in  the  year  and  seek  to  find  out  how  many  in  all 
the  congregations  of  the  Church  are  paying  the  tenth,  and  also 
inquire  later  in  the  year  whether  there  has  been  any  gain  in  this 
matter. 

2  We  recommend  that  the  Committee  seek  out  the  best  lit- 
erature  on   this   subject  and   announce   where  it   may   be   secured; 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         ,121 


also  provide  a  pledge  in  the  simplest  form  that  congregations  may 
use  in  ascertaining  the  numher  of  those  who  have  adopted  this 
rule. 

3.  That  the  expense  incurred  in  this  work  be  paid  from  the 
Literary  Fund. 

The  Special  Committee  to  report  on  the  power  of  Synod 
to  review  the  reports  of  Judicial  Commissions  presented  its  re- 
port.    The  report  was  adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OP   SPECIAL    COMMITTEE   ON   RIGHT   OF    SYNOD   TO 
REVIEW  THE   REPORTS  OP   JUDICIAL   COMMISSIONS. 

Your  Committee  appointed  to  report  on  the  right  of  the  Synod 
to  review  the  findings  of  a  judicial  commission  respectfully  sub- 
mit the  following: 

In  order  to  guard  the  rights  of  those  whose  appeals  and  com- 
plaints may  be  referred  for  adjudication  to  judicial  commissions 
and  in  order  to  preserve  the  jurisdiction  of  the  Synod  in  such 
cases,  we  conclude  that  the  reports  of  such  commissions  are  sub- 
ject to  the  review  of  the  Synod  with  regard  to  the  questions  of 
law,  but  not  with  regard  to  questions  of  fact  ascertained  by  the 
commission. 

W.    J     COLEMAN 
T.   P.    STEVENSON 
D.    B.   WILLSON 

The  report  of  the  Stated  Clerk  was  read  and  adopted,  and  is 
as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  STATED  CLERK.  / 

Statistics  froni  May  1,   1910   to  May  1,   1911. 

There  are  reported  this  year  ten  Presbyteries,  115  congrega- 
tions, 7  Mission  Siatious,  144  Ministers,  one  of  whom  is  a  Greek, 
10  licentiates,  one  of  whom  is  a  Greek,  7  students  of  Theology,  all 
of  whom  have  been  licensed,  464  Elders,  344  Deacons,  9,336  com- 
municants, an  increase  of  596  and  a  decrease  of  614.  Eight  thous- 
and three  hundred  and  eighty-seven  in  attendance  at  Sabbath 
School,  and  1,914  in  attendance  at  the  Young  People's  societies.  Total 
contributions  of  $250,789,  or  $26.86  per  member,  an  increase  of 
$32,240.  The  treasurer  of  Foreign  Jlissions  reports  receipts  of 
$32,874.10,  or  $3.52  per  member. 

CONGREGATIONS — Eighty-five  have  pastors,  30  are  without 
pastors.  Detroit,  Michigan,  congregation  was  organized  June  29, 
1910;  Regina,  Canada,  May  20,  1911;  Stafford,  Kansas,  January 
19,  1911.  Oakland,  California,  was  disorganized  August  16,  1910; 
Staunton,  Illinois,  February,  1911;  Craftsburry,  March  31,  1911. 

MINISTER'S — There  are  144  ministers.  There  was  one  ordina- 
tion,- 7  installations,  6  ordinations  and  installations,  10  dissolu- 
tions of  the  pastoral  relation.  Four  pastors  have  double  charges, 
E.  L.  McKnight  was  installed  pastor  of  Sharon,  Iowa,  congregation 
.Tanuarv  31,  1911;  H.  G.  Patterson,  Vernon,  Wis.,  Feb.  27,  1911; 
J.  M.  Wylie,  Kansas  City,  Mo.,  April  7,  1911;  .i.  M.  Johnston,  Super- 
ior, Neb.,  April  20,  1911;   James  McCune,  Barnesville,  N.  B.,  July 


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1,  1910;  John  Yates,  Central  Allegheny,  June  16,  1910;  M.  M. 
Pearce,  East  End,  Pittsburg,  April  28,  1911;  D.  R.  Taggart  was 
ordained  for  the  Mission  in  China,  September  7,  1910;  Robert  Park 
was  ordained  and  installed  pastor  at  Parnassus,  Pa.,  November  11, 
1910;  S.  M.  Morrow  at  Syracuse,  N.  Y.,  October  12,  1910;  A.  A. 
Johnston  at  Walton,  N.  Y.,  October  20,  1910;  H.  G.  McConaughy  at 
C:arinda,  Iowa,  July  20,  1910;  F  E.  Allen  at  Lake  Reno,  Minn., 
April  28,  1911;  T.  C.  McKnight,  Chicago,  111.,  May  26,  1911.  The 
pastoral  relation  between  D.  O.  Jack  and  Cincinnati,  O.,  congrega- 
tlton  was  dissolved  September  14,  1910;  W.  J.  Sanderson  and 
Cedarville,  O.,  congregation  September  14,  1910;  J.  M.  Wylie  and 
Greeley,  Col.,  congregation  March  27,  1911;  I.  A.  Blackwood  and 
Evans,  Colorado,  congregation  April  25,  1911;  M.  M.  Pearce  and 
St.  Louis,  111.,  congregation  March  15,  1911;  Elmer  Russell  and 
Kansas  City,  Mo.,  congregation  December  16,  1910;  R.  C.  Montgom- 
ery and  Third  Philadelphia,  Pa.,  congregation  April  28,  1911;  J. 
M  Coleman  and  Mercer,  Pa.,  congregation  September  6.  1910;  J. 
R.  Wylie  and  Little  Beaver,  Pa.,  congregation  May  9,  1911. 

Of  the  ministers  without  charges  four  are  Stated  Supplies; 
11  are  Foreign  Missionaries,  2  in  Reform  work,  1  in  Sabbath 
School  work,  2  in  Witness  Bearing  work,  2  m  Jewish  Mission  work, 
6  are  engaged  for  part  time  in  secular  callings,  12  are  unable  to 
engage  actively  in  the  work  of  the  ministry,  5  are  engaged  at  Ge- 
neva College,  2  in  the  Theological  Seminary. 

COMMUNICANTS — The  total  number  is  9,336.  Rochester 
Presbytery  reports  a  net  increase  of  4,  Kansas  20,  Philadelphia  3, 
N.  B.  and  N.  S.  1,  New  York  9,  Colorado  30,  Syrian  Mission  12 
China  23,  Ilinois  Presbytery  reports  a  net  decrease  5,  Pittsburg 
18,  Ohio  67,  Iowa  30.  There  is  a  net  decrease  of  53  in  the  church 
in  America. 

CONTRIBUTIONS — Increased  contributions  are  reported  for 
the  Syrian  Mission  of  $9,480;  Mission  in  China,  $5,238;  Home  Mis- 
sions, $2,720.00;  Southern  Missions,  $1698.t)0;  Indian  Mis;- on, 
1,150;  Jewish  Mission,  ?835;  Theological  Seminary,  $1,312;  Na- 
tional Reform,  $4,151;  Witness  Bearing,  $1,886;  Aged  Ministers, 
$650;  Widows  and  Orphans  of  Deceased  Ministers,  $733;  Salaries, 
$547.  A  decrease  for  Church  Erect  on  $2,025.  The  increasi'  is 
caused  mainly  by  the  W.  J.  Ferguson  bequest  of  $19,855  Leaving 
that  out  there  is  still  an  increase  of  total  contributions  of  some 
$12,000.  The  number  of  parsonages,  24.  Certified  copies  of  minu- 
tes for  1908  and  1909  have  been  received  from  the  Clerk  of  Synod 
and  placed  in  Synod's  trunk.  The  Minu.es  of  Ohio  Presbytery  for 
1868  to  1906  and  Lakes  Presbytery  for  1868  to  1906  were  re- 
ceived from  Ohio  Presbytery  per  W.  J.  Sanderson  and  placed  in  the 
trunk.  I    '3 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JAMES  S.  TIBBY, 

Stated  Clerk. 

The  Committee  on  Young-  People's  Societies  reported.  The 
report  was  accepted  and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 

Item   I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     Amended  and  adopted. 


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Item  3.     Adopted. 

Item  4.     Adopted. 

Item  5.     Adopted. 

Item  6.     Adopted. 

Item  7.     Adopted. 

Item  8.     Adopted. 

The  deport  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    OF    COMMITTEE    ON    YOUNG    PEOPLE'S    SOCIETIES. 

The  Committee  on  Young  People's  Societies  would  respectfully 
report : 

Your  Committee  prepared  and  sent  out  l.'Kts  of  questions  to 
nearly  all  of  our  congregations  with  the  special  purpose  of  ascer- 
taining to  what  extent  the  recommendations  of  last  year's  committee 
had  been  carried  out,  and  also  to  find  out  the  degree  of  interest 
and  spirituality  manifested  in  the  societies. 

Notwithstanding  /the  fact  that  the  answering  of  these  ques- 
tions required  only  the  filling  in  of  blank  spaces  not  more  than  half 
the  number  sent  out  were  returned. 

Out  of  the  fifty-two  answers  received  thirty-nine  repor.t  orga- 
nized societies,  and  thirteen  no  society. 

In  last  year's  report  is  was  recommended  that  societies  be  urged 
to  do  evangelistic  work,  take  up  the  study  of  missions,  to  work 
in  the  interests  of  reform,  to  study  four  spcial  subjects  instead  of 
the  regular  C  E.  Topic  at  four  regular  meetings,  and  to  give  finan- 
cial support  to  some  aggressive  line  of  work  in  the  Master's  King- 
dom. 

Nine  societies  report  having  done  evangelistic  work,  six  as 
having  had  a  mission  study  class,  sixteen  as  having  aided  in  re- 
form work,  twenty-three  as  having  used  the  special  subjects  re- 
commended and  twenty-three  as  having  given  financial  support  to 
some  aggressive  Christian  work. 

These  reports  indicate  that  while  a  few  societies  have  carried 
out  Synod's  recommendation  many  have  failed  to  do  so 

The  Committee  a'so  inquired  in  regard  to  the  interest  taken 
by  sessions  in  Young  People's  work  and  in  regard  to  those  features 
which  contributed  most  to  the  success  of  societies  and  the  use  made 
of  the  daily  Bible  readings  prepared  by  the  special  committee. 

These  reports  seem  to  show  that  all  the  fault  of  the  failure  of 
societies  to  carry  out  Synod's  recommendation  should  not  be  placed 
on  the  Young  People  themselves,  but  much  of  it  upon  those  in  au- 
thority in  the  various  congregations. 

Some  answers  given  to  the  question  "What  has  contributed  to 
the  society,"  show  that  prayer,  zeal  and  a  social  spirit  on  the  part 
of  the  members  all  have  an  important  part.  These  taken  together 
with  encouragement  from  sessions  and  some  urging  to  carry  out 
Synod's  recommendations  seem  to  us  to  promote  the  success  of  so- 
cieties. 

The  general  use  made  of  the  folders  for  Bible  readings  indi- 
cate that  the  Young  People  are  responsive  and  willing  to  take  up  a 


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line  of  work  when  definitely  assigned,  for  even  in  some  congrega- 
tions having  no  organized  societies  the  young  people  have  followed 
out  this  line  of  work 

In  order  that  this  department  of  the  Church's  work  may  be 
more  effective  there  needs  to  be  a  better  understanding  of  the 
Young  People's  movement.  The  purpose  of  the  Young  People's  so- 
ciety can  be  stated  well  in  the  words  of  another.  "To  lead  the 
youth  of  the  church  to  become  intelligent  and  ioyal  disciples  of 
Jesus  Christ  as  their  Lord  and  Savior;  to  help  them  in  the  battle 
with  the  many  temptations  of  life;  to  build  up  strong  Christian  Faith 
and  symmetrical  Christian  character;  to  train  young  people  in  in- 
dividual and  associated  christian  work  in  order  that  they  may  be 
most  useful  in  the  Church,  to  place  upon  them  a  burden  of  re- 
sponsibility for  the  extension  and  up  building  of  the  Kingdom  of 
Christ  throughout  the  world,  and  to  influence  them  to  place  their 
lives  where  they  can  best  serve  their  generation." 

To  promote  these  ends  it  is  necessary  that  we  have  a  better 
organization  and  more  cooperation  among  the  young  people  of  the 
Church. 

In  the  reports  received  from  congregations  having  no  societies 
the  difficulties  usually  named  as  standing  in  the  way  of  organiza- 
tion are  such  as  seem  to  us  not  insurmountable  if  there  were  a  deep 
interest  in  the  work  as  should  be  inspired  and  maintained  by  the 
competent  and  consecrated  leadership  of  pastor  anxi  session. 

In  view  of  these  circumstances  your  Comnuttee  would  recom- 
mend the  following: 

1.  That  the  Rev.  John  Yates,  Chairman  of  the  Standing  Com- 
mittee on  Young  People's  Societies,  be  made  Secretary  of  Young 
People's  Societies;  and  that  the  special  offering  taken  last  year^ 
now  in  the  care  of  J.  S.  Tibby,  be  placed  at  the  disposal  of  the 
Committee  for  advancing  the  work  of  the  Young  People's  Societies. 
That  the  Rev.  R.  A.  Blair  be  associated  with  the  Rev.  John  Yates 
in  the  work  of  Secretary  of  Young  People's  Societies. 

2.  That  J.  S.  Tibby  be  instructed  to  have  1000  topic  cards 
printed  for  the  year  1912. 

.3.  That  our  Societies  be  urged  to  do  definite  Evangelistic 
and  Reform  work. 

4.  That  the  Societies  be  urged  ,to  form  Mission  Study  Classes, 
and  to  use  as  a  text  book  the  book  recommended  by  the  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions. 

5.  That  the  book  entitled  "The  Story  of  the  Covenanter 
Church,"  by  Symington,  be  taken  up  for  special  study  during  the 
year.     (This  book  may  be  obtained  from  J.  S.  Tibby.) 

6.  That  the  young  people  be  urged  to  use  the  Daily  Bible 
Rcadngs  prepared   by  the   Special   Committee. 

7.  That  in  the  congregations  where  a  Young  People's  organi- 
zation cannot  conveniently  be  maintained,  t^if;  Young  People  be 
urged  to  carry  out  these  recommendations  individually. 

8.  That  Synod  recognizes  with  gratitude  the  valuable  services 


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of  R.   A.    Blair  in   the   Young  People's   Societies   of   the   Reformed 

Presbyterian  Church. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
W.   O.    FEaCUSON 
J.   M.   JOHNSTON, 
J.   G.   McELHINNEY, 
JAMES    PARK. 

The  following  resolutions,  offered  by  E.  A.  Crooks,  was 
adopted : 

Resolved,  that  all  pending  matters  affecting  either  consti- 
tuent members  or  Congregations  of  the  Pacific  Coast  Presbytery 
be  adjusted  by  said  Presbytery. 

The  following"  resohition  was  adopted: 

Resolved,  that  our  relations  with  the  Inter-Church  Temper- 
ance Federation  be  continued,  and  that  T.  H.  Acheson  be  appoint- 
ed to  represent  us  during  the  coming  year. 

The  following  resolution  offered  by  W.  J.  Coleman  was 
;.dopted: 

Resolved,  that  Synod  heartily  commends  the  work  of  the 
American  Bible  Society  as  fundanitntal  and  indispensable  in  prose- 
cuting missionary  work  both  at  home  and  abroad,  and  recommends 
to  the  Church  the  continuance  and  increase  of  the  support  of  this 
time-honored  efficient  Gospel  agency. 

The  Committee  on  Psalmod}-  reported.     Tlie  re]x>rt  was  ac- 
cepted and  taken  up  item  by  item  for  adoption. 
Item  I.     Adopted. 

Item  2.     This  item  was  laid  on  the  table  until  next  year. 
Item  3.     Adopted. 

Tlie  report  was  adopted  as  a  whole     and  is  as  follows : 
REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON  PSALMODY. 

Singing  is  a  divinely  appointed  method  of  praise.  The  oft 
repeated  instruction  to  sing  praises,  should  secure  for  the  s  rvice 
of  song  a  large  place  in  every  meeting  for  worship.  We  have  rea- 
son to  thank  God  that  He  has  chosen  music,  one  of  the  most  pleas- 
ant exercises  as  a  part  of  His  worship.  He  might  in  justice  have 
perscribed  some  hard,  disagreeable  thing.  Instead  of  a  stern 
duty,  He  has  made  it  a  privilege.  And  when  a  congregation  train- 
ed to  unity  of  time  and  harmony  of  tune  pour  out  their  song  from 
hearts  overflowing  with  the  realization  of  God's  goodness,  it  is  a  de- 
lightful privilege  indeed.  When  the  soul  and  all  that  is  within  us 
is  stirred  up  to  praise  and  magnify  the  Lord,  then  will  the  heart 
train  the  lips  and  purify  the  voice,  and  with  each  new  inspiration 
of  effort  and  efficiencv  and  joy  in  the  song  service  will  be  increased. 
Surely  one  whose  heart  is  tuned  to  His  service  will  be  dil'gent  to 
enter  with  in*^elligence  and  skill  into  this  part  of  His  worship. 


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The  service  of  song  is  not  only  a  privilege,  it  is  a  duty.  It  is 
appointed  to  "ALL  people."  If  we  love  Him,  we  will  keep  His 
commandments.  Our  Glorious  King  has  appointed  when  we  meet 
together  in  His  presence,  we  shall  unite  our  voices  in  songs  of 
praise  to  His  name.  This  is  a  great  honor  to  all.  To  those  who 
have  ears  trained  to  the  appreciation  of  the  language  of  the  soul, 
and  lips  taught  to  respond  thereto,  it  is  a  blessed  privilege.  But 
whether  we  view  it  as  a  privileg; ,  or  only  as  a  duty,  we  prove  our- 
selves unworthy  of  the  honor  placed  upon  us,  if  we  do  not  give 
our  best  in  His  service.  Those  consecrated  to  the  service  of  our 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  should  tind  in  the  praise  service  the  highest 
incentive  to  the  development  of  the  power  of  song.  And  no  con- 
gregation that  is  touched  with  the  spirit  of  His  love  will  be  content 
to  enter  into  this  part  of  His  service  unprepared. 

In  view  of  the  great  importance  and  typical  character  of  this 
service,  God  has  seen  fit  to  give  us  the  words  that  we  are  to  use. 
They  are  found  in  the  Psalter  inscribed  by  the  Holy  Spirit.  We 
have  not  been  given  by  special  revelation  the  meters  or  the  tunes 
that  are  to  be  used.  The  responsibility  for  these  must  rest  with  the 
worshipers,  and  it  is  but  reason  that  the  best  of  consecrated  tal- 
ent at  the  command  of  the  church  in  each  particular  land  and  time, 
should  be  inlisted  in  the  preparation  of  the  Psalter  for  the  use  in 
the  service  of  song. 

The  human  voice  alone  is  authorized  for  the  musical  render- 
ing of  the  Psalms.  Hymns  of  human  composition,  and  instru- 
ments of  music  not  being  authorized  for  the  worship  of  God,  are  for- 
bidden; and  it"  is  our  duty  to  bear  testimony  against  them.  Now, 
obedience  is  the  position  of  power  in  protest.  Our  testimony 
against  a  given  evil  is  of  little  avail,  if  we  do  not  perform  the  cor- 
responding duty.  Neither  the  individual  nor  the  church  is  in  po- 
sition to  offer  a  worthy  testimony  against  the  use  of  hymns  and  in- 
struments in  worship,  who  has  not  brought  to  the  service  of  song 
his  best  power  and  preparation.  The  Psalter  a-s  an  exclusive  book 
of  praise  needs  no  defence  save  it's  own  proper  use  And  the  hu- 
man voice  as  the  exclusive  instrument  of  worship,  needs  no  de- 
fence but  its  own  proper  training  under  the  guidance  of  a  conse- 
crated  life. 

We  recommend: 

1.  That  the  able  and  paistaking  efforts  of  those  who  have 
labored  in  the  preparation  of  the  meters  and  music  for  our  church 
psalter  be  heartily  commended;  that  our  congregations  be  urged 
to  rise  to  their  obligation  and  show  their  appreciation  of  God's 
appointed  worship  by  beginning  in  earnest  the  study  of  music  in 
its  application,  to  the  worship  of  God  in  the  family  and  in  public 
meeting;  and  that  we  insist  upon  care  and  tr-^ining  for  the  musical 
exercises  of  the  Praise  Service,  as  being  essential  to  a  spiritual 
worship. 

2.  That  Synod  take  some  steps  toward  providing  for  the  in- 
strurtion  cf  the  students  of  our  Theological  Seminary  in  music. 
And  that  hereafter  no  one  be  considered  eligible  to  graduation 
from  that  institution,  who  has  not  been  thoroughly  traned  in  the 
rudiments  of  vocal  music,  and  their  application  to  congregational 
singing.      (Laid  on  the  table  until  next  year.) 

3.  That   we   do   not   desist   from   our   testimony   against   unau- 


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thorized   worship,   but   rather   strengthen   it   in   the   vantage   ground 
of  a  duty  well  performed,  an  opportunity  well  used. 

WILBUR  J.  MoBPRNEY 
JOHN  YATES 

Synod  took  recsss  until  7:30  P.  M.     Prayer  by  James  Park. 


EVENING  SESSION. 

Same  place,  June  7,  7:30  P.  M.  Synod  reconvened  at  the 
appointed  hour  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  J.  M.  Johnston. 
The  calling  of  the  roll  was  dispensed  with.  The  minutes  of  the 
afternoon  session  were  read  and  approved. 

The  following'  resolution  offered  by  J.  M.  Foster  was 
adopted : 

Whereas  the  World's  Conference  on  Missions  at  its  meeting  in 
Edinburg,  Scotland,  refused  to  al  ow  the  missionaries  to  Roman 
Catholic  countries  to  be  represented  on  their  program : 

Therefore    Resolved: 

1.  That  we  express  our  condemnation  of  tlie  course  pursued 
by  the  World's  Conference  on  Missions  in  this  matter,  and  protest 
against  the  continuance  of  this  policy,  because  the  Papal  Church 
obscures  and  perverts  the  doctrines  of  grace  to  riucb  degree  as  dis- 
qualifies her  to  be  called  an  adequate  teacher  of  the  way  of  sal- 
vation. 

2.  That  we  reiterate  our  condemnation  of  the  Papal  System,  as 
a  corrupt  and  apostate  form  of  Christianity. 

The  officers  of  the  Synod  were  authorized  to  communicate 
this  ^action,  properly  authenticated,  to  the  "Continuation  Com- 
mittee, Edinburg,  Scotland. 

The  Committee  on  Secret  Societies  reported.  The  report  was 
accepted  and  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  ON  SECRET  SOCIETIES. 

To  us  as  a  church,  the  sub.iect  of  Secret  Societies  is  one  of 
vital  importance.  We  exclude  all  oath  bound  secret  society  people 
from  membership  in  our  church.  Pew  churches  today  take  such 
an  advanced  position.  Some  of  those  who  did  so  some  years  ago 
have  weakened  and  now  permit  such  people  to  belong  to  their 
church.  This  backward  step  on  the  part  of  some  churches  only  goes 
to  sing  e  us  out  as  a  church  and  to  impress  on  us  the  greater  need 
for  our  testimony  along  this  particular  line 

Before  submitting  some  recommendations  let  us  refresh  our 
minds  with  a  few  reasons  for  our  position. 

As  a  churc'h  we  exclude  all  secret  society  people  because  of  the 
Lodge's  way  of  receiving  members.  A  man  has  to  do  wrong  to  be- 
come a  member  of  a  secret  order.     Here  we  refer  particularly  to  the 


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oath.  The  oath  is  a  divine  ordinance  and  is  only  to  be  administered 
by  a  civil  or  an  ecclesiastical  officer.  The  Lodge's  use  of  the  oath, 
therefore,  is  a  gross  profanation  of  a  sacred  ordinance  Besides 
this,  the  oath  administered  is  wrong.  He  who  takes  it  solemnly 
promises  to  conceal  what  he  hears  within  the  Lodge.  As  yet  he  does 
not  know  what  he  shall  hear.  He  may  hear  something  morally 
wrong  to  conceal.  What  he  is  to  keep  to  himself,  whether  good  or 
bad  makss  no  difference.  He  has  no  right  to  take  such  an  oath  and 
the  organization  has  no  right  to  exact  it  of  him. 

The  church  is  not  open  to  such  an  objection.  The  man  Who 
wishes  to  join  does  so  with  his  eyes  open.  Before  presenting  himself 
for  admission,  he  is  asked  to  carefully  study  all  the  doctrines  and 
practices  of  the  church  The  lodge  is  the  only  institution  of  which 
we  have  any  knowledge  where  men  enter  with  closed  eyes,  where 
they  will  take  an  oath  to  never  reveal  what  they  see  and  hear  on  the 
inside. 

As  a  church  we  exclude  all  secre*.  society  people  because  of  the 
Lodge's  claim  to  charity.  All  secret  societies  pretend  to  be  very 
charitable.  This  is  the  string  upon  which  they  harp  most.  They 
even  claim  to  be  doing  more  of  this  work  than  the  church  and  some 
people  partly  believe  it.  Of  course  the  Church  ought  to  do  more. 
That  we  will  readily  admit.  If  she  did,  there  would  be  less  apparent 
reason  for  the  Lodge.  But  the  so  called  charity  of  the  Lodge  is 
only  more  in  appearance.  We  hear  more  about  it.  That  makes  the 
difference.  The  Lodge  boastiugly  tells  of  all  that  she  has  done, 
while  the  church  does  not. 

Just  here  let  us  call  your  attention  to  the  Lodge's  use  of  the 
word,  "charity."  What  they  do  in  caring  for  the  sick,  they  call 
"charity."  But  is  that  the  proper  name  to  .be  applied?  Those  most 
like  y  to  need  charity  are  never  allowed  to  join  a  secret  order  If  a 
lodgeman  needed  some  attention,  has  he  not  already  settled  with  his 
lodge  for  such  attention?  How  can  such  action  be  called  charity?  A 
young  man  with  whom  we  were  acquainted  became  stranded  on  our 
western  coast.  He  appealed  to  that  secret  order  of  which  he  was 
a  member  for  help.  Though  suffering  intensely,  he  was  refused  any 
attention  until  they  had  telegraphed  over  two  thousand  miles  to 
ascertain  his  standing.  If  that  is  charity,  friends,  away  with  it.  Ir 
that  is  jjrotherly  kindness,  how  shall  we  describe  the  conduct  6f  the 
Good  Samaritan  and  of  thousands  of  others  today  doing  the  same 
thing  , 

As  a  church  we  exclude  all  secret  society  people  because  of  the 
Lodge's  interference  with  justice.  Secret  Societies  play  an  import- 
ant part  at  times  in  the  administration  of  justice.  By  signs  and 
grips  and  pass  words,  they  enter  our  Courts  and  attempt  to  say  what 
shall  and  what  shall  not  be  done.  If  the  criminal  belongs  to  the 
same  secret  order  as  the  jury,  to  say  the  least  he  is  shown  some 
preference.  Oftentimes  he  is  released  to  the  surprise  of  the  entire 
community.  If  compelled  to  pass  a  sentence  upon  him,  it  is  made  as 
ight  as  possible  and  simply  because  a  member  of  a  certain  secret 
order. 

Just  recently  our  attention  was  called- to  a  striking  illustration 
of  this.  Three  American  boys.  Converse,  Blatt  and  Brown,  were  ar- 
rested and  jailed  by  the  Mexican  government  for  taking  part  in  the 
Revolution.  Some  steps  looking  to  their  release  had  been  taken 
bv  the  Washington  Government,  but  without  success.     The  father  of 


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the  Converse  boy  went  to  Mexico,  secured  an  audience  with  President 
Diaz  and  the  boys  were  immediately  released  The  question  as  to 
their  guilt  was  not  brought  up.  Both  men  belong  to  the  same  secret 
organization.  Commenting  upon  this  incident  the  Path  Finder  says, 
"This  release  illustrates  how  sometimes  the  power  of  secret  societies 
can  be  used  to  secure  results  which  would  be  impossible  even  to 
governments." 

As  a  church  we  exclude  all  secret  society  people  because  of  the 
Lo4ge's  rejection  of  Christ.  All  secret  orders  reject  the  example 
of  Christ  Speaking  to  the  High  Priest,  Christ  said,  "I  spake  openly 
to  the  world;  I  ever  taught  in  the  synagogue,  and  in  the  temple, 
whither  the  Jews  always  resort;  and  in  secret  have  I  said  nothing." 
No  lodge  member  can  say  the  same  thing.  When  here  on  earth 
Christ  said  to  all  those  who  would  be  his  discip'es,  "Follow  me." 
The  man  who  joins  any  secret  order  refuses  just  at  this  point  to 
follow  Christ. 

Yet  that  is  not  all.  What  to  our  mind  is  still  worse  many  of 
these  secret  orders  deny  the  name  of  Chr<ist.  Speaking  of  the  Ma- 
sonic Order,  they  refuse  to  pray  in  the  name  of  Christ.  We  all  know 
that  from  observation  as  well  as  an  examination  of  their  Manual. 
In  addition  to  that  they  have  actually  blotted  out  the  name  of  Christ 
from  certain  parts  of  the  Bible.  I  Peter  2  and  5  reads,  "Ye  also  as 
lively  stones,  are  built  up  a  spiritual  house,  an  holy  priesthood,  to 
offer  up  spiritual  sacrifices,  acceptable  to  God  by  Jesus  Christ  "  In 
using  this  portion  at  the  opening  of  the  Mark  Master  degree,  the 
clause  "by  Jesus  Christ"  is  omitted.  The  same  is  true  of  II  Thess. 
3  and  6.  "Now  we  command  you,  brethren,  in  the  name  of  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ,  that  ye  withdraw  from  every  brother  that  walke^h  dis- 
orderly." In  using  this  portion  at  the  opening  of  the  Royal  Arch 
degree,  these  words  are  omitted,  "in  the  name  of  our  Lord  Jesus 
Christ  "  The  same  is  true  of  the  12th  verse  in  this  same  chapter. 
From  it  this  expression  is  omitted,  "by  our  Lord  Jesus  Christ." 
Friends,  it  would  be  difficult  to  co'nceive  of  anything  more  daring, 
and  yet  men  who  claim  to  be  Christians  belong  to  such  an  order. 

As  a  church  we  exclude  all  secret  society  people  because  of  the 
Lodge's  opposition  to  the  church.  This  is  tlie  fifth  and  last  reason 
which  we  offer.  The  Lodge  stands  in  the  way  of  the  church.  It  is 
one  of  her  enemies.  Its  existence  only  hinders  the  more  rapid  ad- 
vancement of  the  church.  No  man  can  be  a  good  member  of  the 
church  and  the  Lodge  at  the  same  time.  The  money,  the  time,  the 
attention  he  gives  the  Lodge,  is  just  so  much  taken  away  from  the 
church.  This  only  goes  to  illustrate  what  Christ  meant  when  he  said, 
"No  man  can  serve  two  masters;  for  either  he  will  hate  the  one  and 
love  the  other,  or  e'se  he  will  hold  to  the  one  and  despise  the  other 
Ye  can  not  serve  God  and  Mammon." 

In  addition  to  this  the  purpose  of  the  Lodge  is  different  from 
that  of  the  church.  Any  favor  is  first  offered  to  a  brother  in  the 
Lodge.  The  chief,  cornerstone  of  every  secret  organization  is  sel- 
fishness. All  of  its  acts  tend  to  produce  and  foster  just  such  a  spirit. 
Now  how  different  is  it  with  the  church  It  is  the  mission  of  the 
church  to  crush  out  the  very  spirit  which  the  lodge  cultivates.  The 
chief  cornerstone  of  the  church  is  unselfishness  as  exemplified  in  the 
death  of  Christ.  All  men  should  separate  from  all  oath  bound 
secret  organizations  but  especially  those  who  claim  -o  be  Christians. 
"Have    no    fellowship    with    thp    unfruitful    works    of    darkness,    but 


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rather   reprove  them.      For  it   is   a  shame   even   to   speak  of  those 
things  which  are  done  of  them  in  secret." 

In  closing   we   recommend: 

I.  That  as  parents,  teachers,  and  church  members  and  officers 
we  impress  upon  those  under  us  the  disloyalty  done  to  Christ  in  join- 
ing such  orders. 

II.  That  we  seek  in  every  possible  way  to  let  in  the  light  of 
God's  Word  upon  this  great  system  of  darkness  and  iniquity. 

Ill  That  sometime  during  the  year  at  least  one  service  be  de. 
voted  exclusively  to  a  full  discussion  of  this  subject,  that  we  make  a 
special  effort  to  get  out  those  of  our  neighbors  and  friends  belonging 
to  the  Lodge,  and  that  a  full  supply  of  Tracts  bearing  upon  this 
subject  be  secured  to  hand  out  at  the  door  at  the  c'ose  of  the  service. 
IV.  That  where  Adult  Bible  Classes  have  been  formed  to  study 
the  Principles  of  our  Church,  that  a  very  prominent  place  be  given  to 
a  careful  study  of  the  evils  of  the  Secret  Societies.  Suitable  Tracts 
either  for  distribution  or  study  can  be  secured  from  out  Committee 
on  Witness  Bearing. 

S.  J    JOHNSTON, 
S.   G.   CONNOR, 
S.    F.    KINGSTON, 
J.  B.  DODDS, 

Committee. 

The  Permanent  Committee  on  Temperance  reported.  The 
report  was  accepted  and  adopted  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  PERMANENT  COMMITTEE  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

The  Permanent  Committee  on  Temperance  would  respectfully 
report : 

The  work  done  this  year  has  been  of  the  same  nature  as  in  past 
years.  Our  specialty  is  publicity  in  the  form  of  posters  and  letter 
seals;  and  there  is  a  constantly  widenfng  circle  that  values  these 
silent  messengers.  We  have  aimed  especially  to  circulate  them 
where  there  was  an  election  pending,  for  then  men  are  thinking, 
and  are  more  likely  to  notice  such  posters  and  seals.  Great  numbers 
of  people  are  dumb  concerning  this  iniquity,  and  are  he'd  by  business 
or  political  influences  from  expressing  their  true  convictions;  but 
,  when  their  convictions  become  strong,  and  the  fire  is  once  kindled, 
their  latent  convictions  will  break  forth  into  speech  and  action.  So 
we  wish  to  appeal  to  the  men's  minds  and  consciences  on  the  basis 
of  what  is  right,  as  over  against  the  liquor  argument  which  appeals 
to  their  selfishness  on  the  basis  of  dollars  and  cents. 

So  long  as  the  great  amount  of  wealth  which  roMs  into  the 
Government's  coffers  is  counted  in  millions,  and  the  brewers  openly 
and  uncontradicted  boast  of  the  amount  they  contribute  to  the  treas- 
ury of  the  United  States;  and,  also,  so  much  other  money,  of  which 
they  do  not  boast  so  openly,  is  actually  distributed  all  along  the  line 
of  state  and  municipal  officers;  they  enjoy  all  the  benefits  of  an 
immunity  bath,  and  their  prominent  men  are  assured  of  'oving  cups 
and  gold  pieces  from  those  that  sit  in  the  seats  of  the  mighty. 

We  do  not  deem  it  necessary  to  go  into  any  long  argument 
against  the  use  of  liquor  as  a  beverage      The  reason  for  the  existence 


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of  the  traffic  plainly  lies  in  two  things,  self  gratification,  and  greed 
for  gain.  These  two  pillars  are  like  those  in  the  heathen  temple 
against  which  the  blind  giant  leaned;  it  may  be  that  when  they  fall 
they  will  involve  much  in  ruin,  but  out  of  the  wreck  will  arise  de- 
liverance for  God's  people.  Yet  we  need  not  spend  either  time  or 
breath  in  shouting  about  victories  won  while  these  two  pillars  sup- 
port the  traffic  in  a  staunch  way,  and  the  jolly  crowd  laughs  as  it 
watches  the  flood  of  intoxicating  drinks  rise  higher  and  higher,  and 
counts  that  every  increase  marks  the  strengthening  of  the  two  pillars 
on  which  it  sits  securely  enthroned.  Yet  still  we  need  not  be  dis- 
couraged, for  whi  e  the  Judgment  of  Almighty  God  waits,  like  the 
blind  giant  grinding  at  the  mill,  still  He  can  hear,  not  only  the 
shouts  and  jeers  of  the  crowd,  but  also  the  undertone  of  the  minor 
cadences  of  the  helpless  who  are  being  swept  along  by  the  river  of 
death,  and  to  this  noisy  throng,  so  bravely  intrenched  that  they  think 
they  can  safely  defy  the  judgments  of  God,  remains  only  one  thing 
more.  They  have  seen  the  manifestation  of  God's  power  and  might, 
and  they  exult  over  it  and  make  it  a  subject  of  holiday  mirth,  and 
they  think  tha+  even  it  may  be  brought  into  slavery  to  evi',  and  soon 
the  pil'ars  shall  crumble,  and  their  disaster  shall  be  as  the  ruin  in 
the  house  of  Dagon 

Men  or  nations  build  ruin  into  their  existence  when  they  are  in- 
volved in  any  way  with  a  traffic  that  rests  on  these  two  pillars  of 
wrong;  for  men  may  call  things  by  other  names,  or  see  them  with 
distorted  vision,  but  the  God  of  Samson  sees  things  today  just  as 
clearly  as  he  did  so  many  centuries  ago. 

We  emphaticaHy  reaffirm  all  past  deliverances  which  condemn 
all  use  of  intoxicants  as  a  beverage;  all  traffic  in  the  same,  and  all 
forms  of  legality  thrown  around  the  saloon  business. 

We  denounce  as  suicidal  the  government  policy  of  deriving  a 
revenue  from  the  business. 

In  accordance  with  Synod's  direction  we  have  divided  the  Com- 
mittee as  follows: 

W.  W.  Carithers  and  T.  G.  Graham,  whose  terms  of  office  expire 
in  1911;  J.  S.  McGaw  and  A  M.  Mitchell,  whose  terms  expire  in 
1912;  and,  M.  M    Pearce,  whose  term  expires  in  1913. 

W     W.    CARITHERS, 
J.   S.    M'GAW, 
M.  M.  PEARCE, 
T.  G.  GRAHAM, 
A.  M.  MITCHELL, 

Committee 

to 

The  members  of  the  Permanent  Committee  on  Temperance 
whose  term  of  office  expires  this  year  were  elected  their  own  suc- 
cessors to  serve  for  a  term  of  three  years. 

The   following   resolution,   introduced   by   John   Yates,   was 

adopted : 

Resolved,  that  the  Permanent  Committee  on  Temperance  be  in- 
structed to  prepare  a  Temperance  Day  Program  for  each  of  the  four 
Temperance  days  of  the  Sabbath  School,  to  be  used  in  connection 
with  the  Temperance  lesson. 


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The  Committee  on  the  Signs  of  the  Times  reported.  The 
report  was  accepted  and  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE   ON  THE   SIGNS   OF   THE  TIMES. 

A  survey  of  the  state  and  progress  of  the  kingdom  during  the 
past  year  reveals  much  for  which  we  may  devoutly  render  thanks, 
for  we  recognize  that  whatever  of  good  has  been  accomplished  is  the 
Lord's  doing  and  marvellous  in  our  eyes,  and  he  should  have  all  the 
praise. 

CAUSES  OF  THANKSGIVING. 

That  God  has  not  forgotten  his  covenant  with  the  day  and  with 
the  night,  nor  failed  to  send  seed-time  and  harvest  according  to  his 
promise.  He  has  sent  rains  from  heaven  and  fruitful  seasons,  filling 
our  hearts  with  food  and  gladness.  The  pastures  are  clothed  with 
flocks;  the  va  leys  also  are  covered  over  with  corn;  they  shout  for 
joy,  they  also  sing.  The  Lord  is  good  lo  all,  and  his  tender  mercies 
are  over  all  his  works.  He  opens  his  hand  and  satisfies  the  desire 
of  every  living  thing.  Oh  that  men  would  praise  the  Lord  for  his 
goodness,  and  for  his  wonderful  works  to  the  children  of  men. 

As  a  church  we  have  enjoyed  the  preserving  care  of  the  church's  ' 
Head  through  another  year.  There  has  been  no  serious  defection 
from  our  numbers,  and  while  there  has  been  difference  of  opinion,  a 
brotherly  spirit  and  an  evident  desire  to  attain  the  truth  has  been 
manifest.  The  public  testimony  of  the  church  has  been  more  widely 
proclaimed  than  for  many  years  and  has  been  received  with  surpris- 
ing favor.  The  evangelistic  spirit  has  been  growing,  and  a  deeper 
interest  has  been  manifested  in  home  mission  work.  The  Mission 
fieds  have  been  fairly  prosperous,  and  the  health  of  the  missionaries 
has  been  exceptionally  good.  There  have  been  none  of  those  trying 
breakdowns  which  have  tested  the  faith  of  the  church  in  past  years. 
The  response  to  the  call  for  more  laborers  has  been  encouraging. 
The  educational  work  of  the  church  has  been  carried  on  with  its 
usual  efficiency. 

In  the  wider  work  of  the  Kingdom  we  may  note  many  encour- 
aging signs.  Evangelistic  work  has  seemed  to  take  a  more  practical 
turn,  resulting  not  only  in  personal  reformation  but  also  in  social 
renovation.  While  the  temperance  reform  has  not  made  the  strides 
of  previous  years,  there  has  been  no  great  reversal,  and  the  minor 
defeats  have  been,  we  trust,  but  the  eddies  in  the  stream  of  progress. 
Sabbath  reform  has  made  notable  advance,  particularly  in  the  in- 
dustrial world  and  in  the  matter  of  closing  postoffices  on  that  day. 
The  World's  Conference  on  the  Christian  Principles  of  Civil  Govern- 
ment realized  the  hopes  and  expectations  of  its  promoters  Import- 
ant steps  have  been  taken  toward  insuring  world  peace,  and  the  na- 
tions are  alive  as  never  before  to  the  folly  of  maintaining  such  enor- 
mous armaments.  The  publication  and  dissemination  of  the  Scrip- 
tures goes  steadily  forward.  The  financial  equipment  of  the  great 
Bible  Societies  has  been  large'y  increased.  The  three  hundredth  an- 
niversary of  the  King  .James  version  has  served  to  call  public  atten- 
tion to  the  English  Bible  as  never  before,  and  the  demand  for  this 
and  other  versions  is  steadily  increasing. 

These  are  but  a  few  of  the  numberless  reasons  which  call  upon 
us  for  an  expression  of  gratitude.     Synod  appoints  the  last  Thursday 


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of  November,  1911,  to  be  observed  as  a  day  of  Thanksgiving  to  God 
for  the  bounties  of  his  providence  and  the  gifts  of  his  grace  through 
the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

A  general  survey  of  conditions  will  also  reveal  much  for  which 
we  should  be  ashamed  and  should  humble  ourselves  before  God  that 
his  righteous  judgments  may  be  averted. 

CAUSES  FOR  FASTING. 

If  we  turn  our  eyes  within  we  find  abundant  reason  for  humili- 
ation before  him  who  knows  the  secret  thoughts  of  our  hearts  How 
much  he  mus:  see  there  of  worldliness,  pride,  envy,  bitterness,  cove- 
tousness,  uncleanuess  and  even  idolatry,  all  of  which  are  hateful  in 
his  sight  and  unfit  us  for  the  enjoyment  of  his  favor  and  b  essing. 
How  much  he  must  miss  from  our  hearts  of  that  which  ought  to  be 
there!  How  little  he  finds  of  love!  Love  to  God  who  first  so  loved 
us!  Love  for  the  blessed  Saviour  who  gave  himself  for  us!  How  little 
of  'brotherly  love  and  kindness  for  fellow  Christians  and  even  for 
those  in  the  same  covenant  bonds  with  ourselves!  How  little  of  that 
love  of  pity  and  compassion  for 'the  perishing  which  so  character- 
ized the  Lord  Jesus!  How  Mttle  of  zeal  and  devotion  for  the  honor  of 
Christ  and  for  the  glory  of  his  kingdom!  How  barren  are  our  lives  of 
the  fruits  of  the  Spirit!    What  unprofitable  servants  we  are! 

If  we  look  about  us  we  cannot  bu'  see  much  to  distress  a  soul 
that  loves  the  honor  of  the  Lord,  that  reverences  his  laws  and  ordi- 
nances and  that  burns  with  a  holy  zeal  for  the  purity  of  his  house. 
The  Lord  is  still  dishonored  by  being  denied  his  rightful  place  as  the 
Governor  among  the  nations,  and  how  few  there  are  to  go  forth  with 
him  without  the  gate  bearing  his  reproach!  The  n-ations  continue  to 
say.  We  will  not  have  this  man  reign  over  us,  and  exalt  the  idol  of 
their  own  supremacy  into  the  place  which  the  Father  has  assigned 
the  Son.  It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  a  nation  which  thus  ignores 
the  person  of  the  Lord  will  show  great  respect  to  his  laws;  and 
hencd  we  find  national  laws  which  directly  contravene  the  devine 
law.  The  Sabbath  mail  service,  iniquitous  divorce  laws,  and  the 
licensing  of  the  liquor  business  serve  to  indicate  that  God  is  not  in 
all  their  thoughts  and  that  they  do  not  hesitate  to  frame  mischief  by 
a  law.  The  nation  which  ignores  God's  law  cannot  expect  that  its 
own  laws  will  command  the  utmost  respect,  and  hence  we  find  much 
of  lawlessness  in  high  and  low  places. 

The  sovereignty  of  God  and  the  exclusive  authority  of  his  law  is 
scarcely  more  recognized  and  acknowledged  in  the  ecclesiastical  than 
in  the  civil  sphere  It  is  not  for  us  to  bring  any  railing  accusation, 
but  faithfulness  to  the  Head  of  the  church  requires  us  to  testify 
against  all  false  systems  of  worship  and  against  all  corruptions  of  the 
true  worship.  What  will  please  and  attract  men  is  too  often  the  rul- 
ing principle  rather  than  what  will  please  God  and  secure  his  ap- 
proval and  blessing.  It  is  little  wonder  that  the  drift  is  Romeward 
when  the  outward,  sensuous  and  ritualistic  are  allowed  to  so  largely 
prevail-in  Protestant  churches.  The  growing  power  of  the  Papacy  in 
our  own  land  is  to  be  greatly  deplored.  Strange  that  this  system  of 
darkness,  oppression  and  bigotry  should  make  headway  in  a  land 
which  boasts  of  its  civilization  and  enlightenment  and  liberty.  But 
God  sends  strong  deusion  that  they  should  believe  a  lie,  upon  those 
who  will  not  obey  the  truth. 


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It  becomes  us  then  to  take  our  place  among  those  who  sigh  and 
cry  for  all  the  abominations  which  are  done  in  the  land,  that  the 
nation  may  be  brough:  to  repentance  and  thus  the  judgment  of  God 
be  averted,  or,  should  the  avengers  of  God's  justice  be  let  loose  upon 
a  sinful  nation,  that  we  may  not  be  accounted  partakers  in  her  sins. 
Synod  appoints  Thursday  of  the  Week  of  Prayer  as  a  day  of 
fasting,  humiliation,  confession  of  sin,  and  supplication  of  God's 
forgiving  grace  ihrough  the  meditation  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ. 

D     C.    MATHEWS, 
J.    G.   REED, 
G.  R.  M'BURNEY, 
JOHN   TAGGART, 
EDMUND  DUNN, 

Committee 

The  Judicial  Commission  appointed  to  hear  the  complaint 
and  appeal  of  T.  G.  Graham  against  the  Kansas  Presbytery,  and 
the  complaint  of  R.  !\1.  Moore  against  the  Kansas  Presbytery 
reported,  transmitting  its  minutes.  The  report  was  accepted  and 
adopted,  and  the  minutes  were  ordered  to  be  engrossed  in  the 
minutes  of  the  Synod.     The  report  and  minutes  follow: 

REPORT  OF  JUDICIAL  COMMISSION  TO  HEAR  THE  COMPLAINT 
AND    APPEAL    AGAINST    KANSAS    PRESBYTERY. 

The  Commission  to  which  was  referred  for  adjudication  the 
Complaint  and  Appeal  of  T  G.  Graham  against  Kansas  Presbytery; 
and  the  Complaint  of  R.  M.  Moore  et  al.  against  the  action  of  Kansas 
Presbytery  in  the  case  of  J.  C-  Duguid  and  R.  C  Redpath  against  T. 
G  I  Graham,  wou'd  report  that  the  Commission  heard  said  complaint" 
and  appeal,  and  complaint.  T.  G.  Graham's  appeal  against  the  Kan- 
sas Presbytery  was  sustained  and  the  action  of  Kansas  Presbytery 
was  reversed.     The  Complaint  was  also  sustained. 

The  minutes  of  the  Commission  are  herewith  transferred. 
Respectfully  submitted, 

F    M.  FOSTER,  Mod.  of  Commission. 

MINUTES  OF  JUDICIAL  COMMISSION 

Pittsburg,  Pa.,  June  6,  1911 

The  Commission  of  Synod  appointed  to  consider  a  "Complaint 
of  R.  M.  Moore  et  al,  against  the  action  of  Kansas  Presbytery  in  the 
case  of  J.  C.  Duguid  and  R.  C.  Redpath  vs.  T.  G.  Graham,"  and  the 
"Complaint  and  appeal  of  T.  G  Graham  vs.  Kansas  Presbytery"  met 
in  the  Eighth  Street  R.  P  Church  on  Tuesday  afternoon,  June  6, 
1911,  at  1:30.  The  Moderator  F.  M.  Foster,  led  in  prayer  consti- 
tuting the  commission.  John  H.  Pritchard  was  elected  clerk.  The 
roll  was  called  and  the  fol' owing  answered  to  their  names: 

F.  M.  Foster,  E.  A.  Crooks,  Wm.  McFarland,  D.  C.  Faris,  C.  A. 
Dodds,  J.  C.  McFeeters,  A  Kilpatrick,  J.  H  Pritchard,  Wm.  G.  Car- 
son, T.  L.  Faris,  Dr.  T.  C.   Cannon,  J.  S.  Bell,  Samuel  Carmichael. 

Shortly  afterward  James  Milligan  made  his   appearance. 

The  requisite  papers  and  documents  in  he  case  were  laid  before 
the  court.     The  sentence  appealed  from   was  read.        The     reasons 


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assigned  for  the  appeal  were  read.  The  proceedings  of  the  lower 
court  were  read  Mr.  T.  G.  Graham  was  heard.  A  paper  sustaining 
the  complaint  and  signed  by  six  of  the  complainants  was  read. 
J.  Boggs  Dodds,  F.  M.  Wilson  and  G.  R.  McBurney,  complainants, 
were  heard.  At  this  point  the  Commission  took  recess  till  7  o'clock 
J.  C.  McFeeters  leading  in  prayer. 

Same  place,    7   P.   M. 

The  Commission  came  to  order  and  was  lead  in  prayer  by  Elder 
William  Carson.  J  T.  Mitchell  and  John  A.  McKee  were  heard  in 
defense  of  the  action  of  the  Kansas  Presbytery.  In  response  to  the 
defenders  of  the  Presbytery,  T.  G.  Graham  and  J.  Boggs  Dodds 
were  heard  To  them,  John  A  McKee  and  J.  T.  Mitchell  replied. 
After  quesJoning,  the  parties  were  removed.  The  court  adjourned 
to  meet  on  Wednesday  morning  at  8  o'clock.  E.  A.  Crooks  led  in 
prayer  adjourning  the  court 

Same    place,    June    7,    1911. 

The  court  came  to  order  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by 
the  moderator.  The  minutes  of  the  preceeding  day  were  read  and 
approved.  The  roll  was  called.  E.  A.  Crooks,  James  Milligan  and 
D.  O.  Torrence  were  absent.  Mr  Crooks  soon  appeared.  The  ap- 
peal of  Mr.  Graham  from  the  deceision  of  the  Presbytery  was  sus- 
tained and  the  decision  of  Presbytery  reversed.  The  complaints  were 
sustained. 

The  following  action  was  taken:  It  is  the  judgment  of  your 
Commission  that  responsibility  for  the  disgraceful  conditions  in 
Olathe  congregation  is  not  resting  on  one  side,  nor  is  sustaining  the 
appeal  to  be  so  construed.  Rather,  all  need  admonition,  and  there 
should  be  earnest  prayer  among  themselves  to  God  to  heal  the 
breaches  in  the  congregation. 

The  Commission  was  led  in  prayer  on  behalf  of  the  Olathe 
congregation  by  J.  C.  McFeeters,  A.  Kilpatrick  and  Wm.  G.  Carson. 

The  Clerk  was  instructed  to  forward  the  action  of  the  Com- 
mission to  the  congregation  to  be  read  from  the  pulpit  The  minutes 
were  read  and  approved.  The  Commission  adjourned,  Wm.  McFar- 
land    eading  in  prayer. 

F.  M.  FOSTER,  Moderator. 
JOHN  PRITCHARD,   Clerk 

The  Jtidicial  Commission  appointed  to  hear  the  Complaint 
and  Appeal  of  A.  G.  Wilkinshaw  against  the  Colorado  Presby- 
tery reported,  transmitting-  the  minutes  of  the  Commission.  The 
report  of  the  Commission  was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  the 
minutes  were  ordered  engrossed  in  the  minutes  of  Synod.  The 
report  and  minutes  follow : 

REPORT  OF  JUDICIAL  COMMISSION  TO  HEAR  THE  COMPLAINT 
OF  A.  G.  WAKLINSHAW  AGAINST  COLORADO  PRESBYTERY. 

The  Commission  to  whom  the  papers  from  Colorado  Presbytery 
were  referred  would  respectfully  report: 

Two  papers.  No.  8  and  13  were  placed  in  our  hands. 

Paper  No.  8  is  entitled  "Appeal  and  complaint  of  A.  G  Walkin- 
shaw  reply  by  Colorado  Presbytery." 


136  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Paper  Xo.  13  is  entitled  "Petition  to  Synod  from  memDefs  of 
Santa  Ana  congregation." 

These  papers  were  careful  y  considered  according  to  the  na- 
ture of  their  contents  with  the  results  as  indicated  in  our  Minutes 
which  are  submitted  herewith. 

G.   A.   EDGAR,   Chairman 

MINUTES    OF    JUDICIAL    COMMISSION. 

Eighth  Street  Pittsburg  R.  P.  Church, 

June  6,  1911,  2  P.  M. 
The  Commission  consisting  of  G.  A  Edgar.  R.  J.  Dodds,  J.  G. 
McElhinney,  W.  M.  Robb,  D  P.  White,  R.  J.  Miller  and  David  Mc- 
Farland  to  consider  papers  referred  by  Colorado  Presbytery  met 
pursuant  to  appointment  and  was  constituted  with  prayer  by  the 
Modera'or. 

All  the  members  were  present.     W.  M.  Robb  was  chosen  clerk. 

Two  matters  came  before  the  Commisison  for  action. 

1.  The  complaint  and  appeal  of  A.  G  Walkinshaw.  The  sen- 
tence appealed  from,  reasons  of  appelant,  record  of  proceedings  in 
lower  court,  and  answers  to  reasons  of  complaint  and  appeal  were 
read. 

D.  C.  Mathews,  appointed  to  represent  the  complainant,  appear- 
ed and  was  heard  on  his  behalf  W.  C.  Allen  and  J.  M.  Wylie  ap- 
pointed to  defend  the  Colorado  Presbytery  likewise  appeared  and 
were  heard.  These  parties  were  then  removed  from,  the  floor  of 
the  Commission  and  after  due  consideration  the  court  resolved  that 
the  complaint  and  appeal  be  not  sustained. 

The  second  paper  labellel  "Petition  of  the  members  of  Santa 
Ana  congregation"  was  taken  up.  Upon  investigation  the  court 
found  this  paper  to  consist  virtually  of  three  parts 

A  complaint  against  the  action  of  Colorado  Presbytery  and  two  ' 
requests. 

In  relation  to  the  first  it  was  resolved  that  the  complaint  be  not 
sustained  except  in  the  matter  of  elders  J.  C.  Robb  and  Thos. 
McClement  sitting  as  members  of  Colorado  Presbytery  which  was  an 
irregularity,  but  which  we  do  not  deem  of  sufficient  weight  to  re- 
verse the  decision  in  the  case. 

In  regard  to  the  first  request:  "That  Colorado  Presbytery  be 
directed  not  to  appoint  the  Rev.  P.  J.  McDonald  on  any  commission 
or  committee  having  jurisdiction  over  this  congregation,"  this  court 
recommends  that  the  presbytery  having  jurisdiction  exercise  pru- 
dence in  the  appointment  of  those  who  shall  act  on  committees 
or  commissions  officiating  in  Santa  Ana  congregation 

As  to  the  second  request,  viz:  the  dissolution  of  the  pastoral 
relation  existing  between  Rev.  G.  N.  Greer  and  Santa  Ana  congre- 
gation the  court  respectfully  refers  the  petitioners  to  the  presbytery 
having  jurisdiction  in  the  case. 

The  court  then  took  recess  until  9  o'clock  tomorrow  morning. 
Prayer  by  R    J.  Dodds. 

Wednesday,  June  7,  9  A.  M. 

Commission  met  and  was  lead  in  prayer  by  J.  G.   McElhiney. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH  137 

The  minutes  were  read  and  adopted  and  the  court  was  adjourned 
with  prayer  by  W.  M.  Robb. 

G.    A     EDGAR,    Moderator. 
W.  M.  ROBB,  Clerk. 

The  Special  Committee  to  which  was  referred  the  memorial 
from  the  Session  of  the  Third  New  York  Congregation  reported. 
R.  J.  Dodds  offered  a  substitute  for  this  report.  \Miile  the  motion 
to  lay  the  report  on  the  table  to  entertain  the  substitute  was 
pending  the  whole  matter  was  laid  on  the  table  until  the  next 
meeting  of  Synod. 

The  Committee  on  Nominations  presented  its  final  report. 
The  report  was  accepted  and  adopted  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT   OF   COMMITTEE   ON   NOMINATIONS 

Com.  to  report  on  the  death  of  R.  J.  George— »W.  J.  McKnight, 
J.   M.   Coleman  and  D.   C.  Mathews 

Com.  to  consider  matters  of  reference  in  connection  with  the 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  Systematic  Beneficence — M.  M.  Pearce, 
R.  A    Bole,  O.  C.  Orr.  J.  W.  Wilson. 

Com  to  consider  the  memorial  from  the  Third  New  York  Ses- 
sion— C.  D.  Trumbull,  R.  Hargrave,  T.  M.  Slater,  James  Torrens, 
Robert  Allen. 

Com.  on  Divorce  Overture — R.  C  Wylie,  D.  B.  Wilson,  John 
Yates,  Mm.  Martin,  J    S.  Tibby 

Commission  to  hear  complaint  against  Colorado  Presbytery— 
G.  A.  Edgar,  R.  J.  Dodds,  J.  G.  McElhinney,  W.  M.  Robb,  D.  P. 
White,   R.  J.  'Miller,  and  David  McFarland 

Commission  to  hear  appeal  and  Complaint  against  Kansas  Pres- 
bytery— F.  M  Foster,  E.  A.  Crooks,  Wm.  McFarland,  D.  C.  Faris, 
C.  A.  Dodds,  J.  C.  McFeeters,  A.  Kilpatrick,  J.  H  Prirchard,  Wm. 
G.  Carson,  T.  L.  Faris,  Dr.  T.  C.  Cannon,  J  S.  Bell,  Samuel  Car- 
michael,  S.  O    Sterrett,  D.  O.  Torrens. 

To  defend  the  appeal  against  Colorado  Presbytery — D.  C. 
Mathews. 

To  fill  the  vacancy  on  the  Central  Board  occasioned  by  the 
resignation  of  J.  S    Thompson — S.  G.  Conner. 

To  serve  for  three  years  on  the  Permanent  Committee  on  Wit- 
ness Bearing — W.  J.  Coleman,  Robert  Park,  Oliver  Wy'.ie. 

Respectfully  submitted, 
A.   A.    SAMSON 
M.    M.    PEARCE 
R.   A.    BLAIR 
O.    C.    ORR 
J.  W    WILSON 

The  Committee  on  Place  of  Meeting  reported.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows: 


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REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE   ON   PLACE   OF   MEETING. 

Your  Committee  on  Place  of  Meeting  would  recommend  that  the 
invitation  to  meet  in  Morning  Sun,  Iowa,  be  accepted. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

JOHN  H.   PRITCHARD 
W.  T.  K.  THOMPSON 
W     A.    AIKIN 
J.   Z.   STERRETT 
T.    J.    KYNETTE 

The  time  of  the  next  mectinp^  of  Synod  was  fixed  for  Wed- 
nesday, ]\Iay  29th,  1912,  at  10:30  A.  ^I« 

The  time  for  the  meeting  of  the  Mission  Conference  was 
fixed  for  Tuesday,  May  28,  1912,  at  9  A.  M. 

The  motion  adopting  item  6  of  the  report  of  the  Committee 

on  Foreign  Missions  was  reconsidered.     The  whole  matter  was 
left  in  the  hands  of  the  Foreign  Mission  Board. 

The  Committee  on  Traveling  Fund  reported.  The  report 
was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  TRAVELING  FUND. 
Your  Committee  on  Traveling  Fund  would  respectfully  report: 

Ten  Presbyteries  report  one  hundred  eighty-two  delegates.  To 
meet  the  deficit  between  expenses  and  quotas  of  Congregations  re- 
quires a  tax  of  $7  20  per  delegate. 

Total    of    quotas    $      2,660    70 

Total    of    deficit    1,310    40 

Balance  from  last  year's  Committee 6   36 


$      3,976    46 
Expenses  of  delegates    ..$      3,958    07 
Bill  from  Synod's  Treas .  21    40  $      3,979    41 


Balance  due $              3    01 

Presbyteries.                 Delegates  Expenses.  Quota.  Deficit. 

N.    B.    and    N.    S 2  95    45  33  90  14    40 

Iowa 18  431    96  213  00  129    60 

Kansas 30  1354    97  486  00  216    00 

Pittsburg    59  120    77  614  70  424    80 

Ohio    18  206    49  243  60  129    60 

Colorado 10  790    93  173  70  72    00 

Philadelphia     6  68    40  153  00  43    20 

Rochester 10  180    99  83  10  72    00 

New  York 17  358    38  444  30  122    40 

Illinois                12  349    73  215  40  86    40 


182      $3,958    07      $2,660    70      $1,310    40 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         139 

I 

We  recommend  that  the  Traveling  Fund  quota  be  40c  per 
member.      Two   members   dissen:    from   this   item. 

P.   J.   Mcdonald,   chairman 

and  Financial  Agents  of  Presbyteries. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Witness  Bearing  was  taken 
from  the  table. 

Item  2  of  the  report  was  called  up.     The  motion  referring 
this  item  to  a  Special  Committee  was  reconsidered. 
The  item  was  adopted. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is 
as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  THE  WITNESS  BEARING  COMMITTEE. 

It  is  quite  evident  to  every  observer  of  public  affairs  in  our 
country  that  if  it  is  growing  better,  it  is  certainly  growing  more  and 
more  dissatisfied  with  present  conditions.  The  unrest  of  society  is 
disconcerting  to  all  those  who  have  an  interest  in  holding  things 
as  they  are.  While  the  mass  of  people  do  not  realize  the  cause 
of  their  difficulties,  they  have  no  doubt  of  the  need  of  some  sort  of 
reformation  and  they  seek  it  in  many  directions.  Insurgency  is  in 
the  air  and  while  those  who  have  been  using  other  men  for  their  own 
plans  and  profit  may  not  be  displaced,  they  are  at  least  obliged 
to  make  an  effort  to  retain  their  power. 

As  yet  the  great  body  of  men  do  not  look  to  the  Lord  to  de- 
liver them  from  their  troubles.  They  have  many  plans  and  many 
leaders  and  these  may  be  good  in  themselves,  but  they  do  not  show 
the  way  to  real  reformation.  This  whole  people  and  even  the  most 
of  professed  Christians  have  yet  to  learn  that  for  the  nation  there 
is  but  one  name  under  heaven  given  among  men  whereby  we  must 
be  saved.  To  lead  them  to  see  this  great  and  fundamental  truth 
the  strongest  testimony,  the  most  pungent  presentation  of  principle 
is  needed  to  catch  and  fix  public  attention.  Something  clear,  defi- 
nite and  convincing,  something  that  shows  the  ungodliness  of  poli- 
tics and  a  radical  remedy  is  demanded  by  the  necessities  of  our 
times 

This  is  what  our  Witness  Bearing  Committee  is  trying  to  give  to 
the  people  of  this  land.  We  have  advertised  our  literature  widely 
and  have  sent  it  to  inquirers  all  over  the  country.  Many  of  our 
own  people  keep  up  the  habit  of  scattering  our  tracts  far  and  wide 
Some  other  denominations  have  begun  the  same  work  of  sending 
out  free  arguments  and  on  kindred  lines  with  our  own.  It  is  a 
question  if  as  much  good  can  be  done  with  the  same  outlay  of  mon- 
ey in  any  other  way  as  to  excite  a  demand  for  information  upon 
the  subject  of  our  principles  and  then  to  supply  that  demand. 

Our  lecturers  have  followed  the  same  method  as  before  and 
possibly  with  more  radical  efforts  They  have  each  followed  the 
plan  of  staying  with  their  audiences  until  they  have  given  them 
a  somewhat  ful  and  broad  view  of  the  message  they  carry,  and 
it  is  no  small  tribute  to  the  message  and  to  the  messengers  that 
their    audiences    stay    with    them    from    start    to    finish.      Mr.    Mc- 


140  •       MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


Knight  has  kept  a  record  of  his  work  and  computes  that  the  au- 
diences to  which  he  has  given  his  lectures  sum  up  16,000  persons 
with  100  in  each  meeting.  He  gave  his  full  course  of  five  lectures 
thirteen  times  and  partially  eight  times,  besides  single  sermons  and 
lectures.  He  has  spoken  160  times,  in  twelve  denominations  and  in 
two  colleges. 

Mr.  Coleman  has  given  his  course  of  four  lectures  in  twenty- 
seven  CO  leges  and  seminaries  and  has  preached  nearly  every  Sab- 
bath of  the  year,  besides  giving  lectures  on  socialism  and  cigarettes, 
speaking  in  all  204  times.  According  to  the  statements  of  teachers 
419  young  men  studying  for  ;he  ministry  have  heard  these  lectures. 
In  most  places  arrangements  were  made  to  have  the  whole  school 
present. 

The  work  done  and  the  field  covered  depends  wholly  upon 
the  number  of  workers  and  the  energy  used  in  obtaining  hearing 
There  seems  to  be  no  other  limit  to  the  work. 

The  receipts  for  the  year  are  $4,150.85;  the  expenditures, 
$3,264.41,  and  the  balance  on  hand,  $2,173. 

In  accordance  with  the  instructions  of  Synod  as  to  the  tenure 
of  office  of  members  of  permanent  commi'tees,  we  have  divided  the 
Committee  on  Witness  Bearing  as  follows:  Members  whose  term 
expires  in  1913,  R.  J.  G.  McKnight,  and  J  C.  Slater;  in  1912,  J. 
S.  Thompson,  J.  S.  Tibby  and  J.  H.  McBurney;  in  1911,  W.  J.  Cole- 
man, R.  J  Gault  and  Oliver  Wylie.  The  successors  to  members 
in  the  1911  class  are  to  be  chosen  by  this  Synod. 

We  submit  the  forowing  recommendations: 

1.  That  W.  J  McKnight  and  J.  M.  Coleman  be  re-elected  to  the 
positions  they  now  hold   on  the  same  terms   as  before. 

2.  That  the  force  of  lecturers  be  increased  by  one  and  that 
W.  M.  Robb  be  chosen  to  this  place,  his  salary  to  be  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars  a  year  and  expenses. 

3.  That  six  thousand,  five  hundred  dollars  be  appropriated  to 
the  support  of  the  work  of  Witness  Bearing.  Referred  to  Com- 
mittee  on   Finance. 

4  That  our  ministers  be  urged  to  go  out  and  present  their 
principles  in  the  communities  surrounding  them  and  that  our 
elders  be  urged  to  aid  them  in  securing  opportunities  for  this 
work. 

5.  That  the  distribution  of  literature  be  commended  and  if  pos- 
sible be  made  more  extensive  than  heretofore. 

6.  That  as  this  work  is  pecu'iarly  difficult  and  requires  much 
faith  and  courage,  prayer  be  made  continually  for  the  lecturers 
and  others  engaged  in  this  work  that  with  all  boldness  they  may 
speak  the  word   of  the  Lord 

W.  J.  COLEMAN 
J.  S.  THOMPSON 
J.  C.  SLATER 

R.  J.  G.  Mcknight 

JAMES  S.  TIBBY 

O.  WYLIE 

J.  H.  McBURNEY 


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The  Special  Committee  to  which  was  referred  certain  re- 
commendations of  the  Committee  on  Systematic  beneficence  re- 
reported.  The  report  was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  items  2  and 
3  as  reported  by  this  Committee  were  ordered  incorporated  in  the 
recommendations  of  the  Committee  on  Systematic  Beneficence. 

Item  4,  offered  by  R.  A.  Blair,  was  added  to  the  report. 

The  report  was  adopted  as  a  whole,  and  is  as  follows : 

REPORT    ON    SYSTEMATIC    BENEFICENCE. 

Your  Comittee  would  submit  for  your  consideration,  the  fol- 
lowing thioughts: 

We  would  suggest  that  "Systematic  Giving"  is  a  better  ex- 
pression than  the  one  so  long  used  The  objections  to  the  word 
"Beneficence"  are  several.  Intelligent  people  outside  of  our  church, 
ask  what  is  meant  by  the  term.  Even  very  many  of  our  own  peo- 
p  e  confess  that  the  term  is  not  at  all  definite.  But  the  chief  ob- 
jection is  that  this  word  fosters  a  feeling  of  self-satisfaction;  a  feel- 
ing that  the  one  benefited  is  in  someway  under  obligation  to  the 
benefactor.  And,  further,  this  word  fosters  the  idea  that  the  giver 
is  doing  something  meritorious,  where  as  the  fact  often  is  that 
what  is  given  is  tained  with  parsimony  and  constraint  The  ety- 
mology of  the  word,  "to  do  good"  puts  the  giver  in  a  false  light. 
It  makes  man  do  good  to  his  Creator.  The  word  now  used  brings 
to  the  fore,  men  in  various  conditions,  as  the  recipients  of  our  of- 
ferings, whereas  the  attention  of  the  giver  should  be  directed  to 
the  Lord  as  the  recipient  of  our  gifts.  Probably  a  better  word 
would  be  "Systematic  Debt  Paying."  We  need  to  have  developed 
within  us  the  conviction  that  as  a  church,  we  are  in  debt  so  long 
as  the  tithe  is  withheld,  as  it  is  yet  in  a  large  measure.  .  We  need 
this  idea  of  obligation  impressed  upon  us.  We  need  also  to  look 
upon  giving  as  a  privilege. 

The  Tithe  is  an  institution  of  divine  appointment  by  which 
the  church  is  to  be  supplied  with  money  for  carrying  on  her  work. 
It  stands  with  the  Sabba:h  as  a  permanent  order.  As  the  Day 
of  Rest  properly  observed,  is  a  confession  of  a  man's  dependence 
on  God  for  every  moment  of  time,  so  the  Tithe  promptly  and  cheer- 
fully paid  into  the  treasury  of  the  Lord,  is  man's  acknowlege- 
ment  that  God  is  proprietor  of  all  the  wealth  of  the  world.  As  the 
Sabbath  is  a  time  for  soul-culture,  so  the  Tithe  loyally  given,  is 
a  means  of  developing  the  graces  of  fidelity  and  cheerfulness  in 
giving.  It  will  deepen  the  happy  conviction  of  partnership  with 
the  Lord  in  carrying  forward  the  work  of  His  Kingdom  The  Tithe 
is  as  surely  a  sign  of  covenant  relation  between  God  and  the  soul, 
as  is  the  Sabbath.  We  consider  that  Sabbath  Keeping  is  a  very 
fair  index  to  spiritual  life.  We  ought  to  give  equal  prominence, 
in  such  an  estimate,  to  one's  tithe  paying  habits.  By  the  payment 
of  the  tithe,  we  accept  God's  proffered  covenant  for  temporal 
blessings — blessings  that  surpass  man's  ability  to  receive. 

We  depricate  any  attempt  to  push  one  department  of  church 
work  at  the  expense  of  other  legitimate  lines  of  work  endorsed  by 


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Synod.  In  many  quarters,  there  is  an  effort  being  made  to  secure 
offerings  every  Sabbath  for  certain  lines  of  work,  without  due 
proportion  to  other  schemes.  On  account  of  this  propensity,  a  sis- 
ter denomination  reports  through  her  church  papers  that  at  least 
three  Boards  of  that  Church  were  left  almost  destitute  of  funds 
while  certain  other  lines  of  work  enjoyed  a  large  increase  in  re- 
sources. 

The  ideal  of  monetary  offerings  is  that  the  worshipers  make 
their  contributions  to  the  Lord's  work  every  Sabbath,  and  that 
these  offerings  be  put  into  a  common  fund  and  apportioned  by  the 
Board  of  Deacons  among  the  schemes  of  the  church,  on  a  per  cent 
basis,  calculated  upon  the  various  amounts  recommended  by  Synod 
for  the  several  schemes.  We  recognize  that  there  would  be  ob- 
jections to  suf'  1  .  but  we  propose  this  as  the  ideal  toward 
which  the  people  are  to  be  led.  This  will  not  interfere  with  pas- 
tors preaching  on  the  several  schemes  as  they  now  stand  in  our 
annual  budget.     This  is  a  very  important  thing  to  do 

The  ways  and  means  by  which  money  is  to  be  secured  for 
church  work  are  so  numerous  that  one  finds  it  difficult  to  decide 
what  plan  is  the  best.  Most  likely,  no  one  plan  will  work  every 
place. 

According  to  the  information  we  have  obtained,  it  appears  that 
pastors'  salaries  are  most  generally  raised  by  pledges  made  before- 
hand by  the  various  supporters  in  the  congregations.  In  some  cases, 
however,  the  pastors'  salary  is  paid  out  of  Sabbath  offerings  especi- 
ally lesignated  thereto.  This  plan  is  the  more  ideal,  but  is  best 
operated  in  a  congregation  in  which  the  supporters  are  receiving  a 
regular  weekly  wage  In  other  places,  where  money  returns  come 
from  the  sa  es  of  crops  and  stock  which  occur  at  rare  intervals  dur- 
ing the  year,  the  subscription  plan  is  the  better.  But  in  any  case, 
the  use  of  envelopes  by  the  individual  supporters  of  the  congrega- 
tion, seems  to  secure  greater  liberality  and  to  cultivate  a  conviction 
of  individual  responsibility  among  members.  Upon  inquiry,  we  find 
some  contending  that  only  wage  earners  should  use  the  envelopes. 
We  believe  that  there  is  an  important  educational  value  to  the  non- 
wage  earner  in  using  the  envelope  as  most  of  these  are  children  and 
young  people  who  may  thus  acquire  a  ho'y  habit  by  the  time  they 
become  wage  earners.  When  the  father  of  ten  children  puts  a 
quarter  on  the  plate  he  thinks  he  has  done  well,  whereas,  if  twenty 
cents  were  distributed  among  the  members  of  the  family  so  that  each 
one  could  give,  the  father  would  be  doing  good  mission  work  in  his 
own  family,  although  the  deacon  would  have  to  wait,  perhaps  until 
some  little  blunderer  picks  up  his  penny  from  the  floor  A  duplex 
enve'ope  is  highly  recommended.  By  this  means,  current  congre- 
gational expenses  including  pastor's  salary,  can  be  put  in^^o  one 
pocket  and  offerings  for  all  general  church  schemes  can  be  en- 
closed in  the  other.  A  simple,  plain  envelope  can  be  used  as  well 
if  the  offerer  would  only  indicate  on  it  how  the  money  is  to  be 
divided.  Better  still,  al'ow  the  deacons  to  divide  i',  as  suggested 
above.  These  plain  envelopes  are  much  less  expensive  than  the 
patented  Duplex  envelopes. 

We  believe  tha^-  the  current  custom  of  giving  on  the  basis  of  a 
quota,  which  simply  means  a  fla"  per  capita  rate,  is  pernic'ous  and 
should  not  be  heard  of.  It  is  not  Scriptural.  The  Tithe  is  God's 
rule  for  every  one.     This  rule  should  not  be  supplanted  by  the  man 


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devised  quota.  It  is  unfair.  Of  two  congregations,  one  is  composed 
largely  of  people  of  independent  means,  engaged  in  lucrative  enter- 
prises. The  other  company  of  believers  is  composed  of  people  who 
are  handicapped  by  poverty  and  misfortune  For  the  first  congre- 
gation to  report,  "our  quota  to  all  the  church  schemes  is  full,"  and 
expect  their  less  fortunate  brothers  to  report  the  same,  or  to  be 
penalized  for  their  lack,  is  manifestly  unfair. 

Deacons  throughout  the  church,  should  take  to  heart  seriously, 
their  responsibility  for  the  development  of  the  grace  of  liberality  in 
their  respective  congregations.  Pastors  should  give  p  ace  to  deacons 
in  making  appeals  for  money  when  needed.  The  deacon  is  more 
than  "a  handy  man"  whose  business  is  to  pass  the  hat.  He  or  she 
should  magnify  the  office  and  lead  the  people  to  see  that  the  officer 
has  authority  from  God  to  insist  on  right  giving  and  on  liberal  giving. 

We  recommend: 

1.  That  pastors,  elders  and  deacons  urge  the  tithe  system  up- 
on our  people. 

2  That  Synod  recommend  to  our  congregations  the  plan  of 
securing  a  weekly  offering  both  for  the  expenses  of  the  local  con- 
gregation and  for  the  public  work  of  the  church. 

3.  That  our  members  and  congregations  be  reminded  that 
quotas  are  not  the  limit  of  their  obligation;  but  that  the  ful!  pay- 
ment of  the  tithe  is  an  obligation  upon  all. 

4.  That  Synod  instruct  the  treasurer  in  getting  out  the  list  of 
appropriations  to  place  in  a  foot  note  the  statement  that  Synod  rec- 
ommends the  receiving  of  a  weekly  offering  for  these  schemes. 

Respectfully  submitted. 
J.    BOGGS    DODDS, 
JOHN   C.   SLATER, 
JAMES  G     LOVE, 
JAMES    M'CUNE, 

Committee. 

The  Committee  on  Sustentation  and  Church  Erection  re- 
ported.   The  report  was  accepted  and  adopted,  and  is  as  follows: 

REPORT    OF    COMMITTEE    ON    SUSTENTATION    AND    CHURCH 

ERECTION. 

Your  committee  would  respectfully  report,  that  two  reports, 
viz.,  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Sustentation  and  the  report  of  the 
Board  of  Church  Erection  have  been  placed  in  our  hands. 

The  Sustentation  Board  has  received  $2603  78  from  bequests, 
endowments  and  from  congregations.  The  Board  of  Sustentation 
recommends  that  this  money  be  turned  over  to  the  Domestic  Mis- 
sion Treasury  to  reimburse  it  for  the  suppliment  payed  to  Los  An- 
geles, Topeka,  Be'le  Center,  Bear  Run  and  Mahoning,  Second  Bos- 
ton,  Lisbon   and   Cornwallis. 

The  Board  of  Church  Erection  reports  that  it  has  received  only 
one  call  for  aid  during  the  fiscal  year,  that  from  Billings  congrega- 
tion for  $700,  which  was  granted,  and  the  work  of  repair  on  the 
House    of   Worship    has    been    completed. 

On  account  of -new  work  opened  up  in  the  promising  fields  of 
the  west,  it  would  appear  that  there  will  be  quite  a  number  of  re- 


144  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


quests  for  aid  during  the  coining  year,  so  that  the  balance  on  hand 
at  the  present  time  will  likely  all  be  used  in  the  near  future. 

The  receipts  were  $8327.67  for  the  year.  Disbursements  $2200. 
The  balance  now  is   $6127.67. 

We  recommend: 

1.  That   the  appropriation  made  be  sanctioned   by   Synod. 

2.  That  R.  M.  Sommerville  and  F.  M.  Foster  be  reelected  as 
members  of  the  Board 

3.  That  the  Sustentation  Board's  appropriations  be  sustained. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

H.    G.    PATTERSON, 
J.   G.   M'ELHINNEY, 
R.    C.   REED, 
J.    S.    BELL, 
WM.    MARTIN. 

REPORT   OF   BOARD   OF  SUSTENTATION. 

The  Board  of  Sustentation  would  respectfully  report: 

The  receipts  for  the  past  year  have  been  $2603.78,  which 
amount  is  now  in  the  treasury. 

We  recommend  that  this  money  be  used  to  pay  the  suppliment 
appropriated  by  last  Synod  to  pastors'  salaries  in  the  following  con- 
gregaJons:  Los  Angeles  $600,  Topeka  $200,  Be  le  Center  $300, 
Bear  Run  and  Mahoning  $200,  Second  Boston  $500,  Lisbon  $400, 
and  Cornwallis  $400  The  Sustentation  Fund  has  always  been  used 
to  suppliment  salaries  for  the  year  preceding  the  Synod  disposing  of 
the  Fund  As  the  suppliments  to  the  congregations  given  above 
has  been  advanced  out  of  the  treasury  of  Domestic  Mission  we  rec- 
ommend that  the  balance  in  hand  be  "turned  over  into  the  Domestic 
Mission  Treasury. 

J.    S.   THOMPSON,    Chairman. 

R.   J.   G.   M'KNIGHT,   Secretary. 

REPORT  OF  BOARD  OF  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

Board  of  Church  Erection  would  respectfully  report: 

That  your  Board  has  sought  to  attend  to  the  business  entrusted 
to  it,  with  care. 

The  newly  elected  members,  R.  J  Bole,  William  Browne,  Samuel 
Carmichaei  and  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  met  with  the  Board  at  first  meet- 
ing after  Synod,  excepting  S  A  S.  Metheny,  who  was  detained  in 
Philadelphia. 

First  of  all,  your  Board  records  sincere  sorrow  in  the  death  of 
Elder  Robert  McAfee,  long  years  a  member  of  the  Board,  and  for 
some  time  its  Chairman.  Mr.  McAfee  was  much  beloved.  He  was 
a  wise  counsellor,  and  was  deeply  interested  in  the  building  of 
churches.  We  miss  him  in  our  meetings;  but  we  believe  he  has 
gone  to  be  with  Christ. 

While  no  improvement  in  the  health  of  former  treasurer,  Mr. 
Walter  T.  Miller,  can  be  reported,  yet  he  is  remembered  for  his 
works'  sake.  May  the  Redeemer  give  him  the  peace  of  God  which 
passeth    understanding. 


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KANSAS   CITY. 

In  report  of  your  Board,  last  year,  reference  was  made  ro  con- 
ditional appropriations  to  Kansas  City,  West  Hebron,  and  Quinter 
congregations.  Kansas  City  congregation  was  to  receive  an  appro- 
priation of  "$1500  on  condition  tliat  tlie  money  is  to  be  paid  wlien 
said  $1500  will  put  the  congregation  out  of  debt."  Your  board  also 
added  this  word  of  counsel:  "The  undertaking  is  a  serious  one  finan- 
cially, and  should  receive  careful  and  prayerful  consideration  by  the 
congregation."  This  counsel  was  based  on  the  plans  and  estimaLed 
costs  submitted,  according  to  the  action  of  Synod  to  your  Board. 
The  estimated  cost  was  $10,000.  The  congregation  has  subscribed 
$500.     The  value  of  old  property  estimated  at  $3000. 

Through  change  of  pastors  and  financial  conditions,  little  pro- 
gress has  been  made  in  the  undertaking  during  the  past  year. 

J.  M.  Wy.ie  is  pastor  of  this  congregation. 

WEST  HEBRON. 

This  congregation  expected  to  rebuild  their  church  the  season 
of  1910.  Poor  crops  and  low  prices  caused  them  to  defer  the  work. 
An  appropriation  of  $500  was  made  to  this  congregation,  to  be  paid 
when  this  amount  vv'ould  put  .hem  out  of  debt. 

S.  G.   Shaw  is  pastor  of  this  congregation 

QUINTER 

As  reported  last  year,  Quinter  congregation  began  to  rebuild 
their  church.  They  carried  their  work  forward  .o  completion.  They 
now  have  a  church  34x46;  with  Sabbath  School  room  2  2x28.  The 
floor  is  sloping  and  pews  are  circular.  The  congregation  expended 
in  cost  $5,901.00,  and  donated  work  was  estimated  at  $150.00.  The 
congregation  itself  contributed  $2,182.40.  The  old  building  was  sold 
for  $250.00.  Your  Board  made  an  appropriation  of  $1,500  to  the 
Quinter  congregation,  to  be  paid  when  this  amount  would  enable 
the  congregation  to  go  out  of  debt.  Fulfi.ling  the  condition,  the 
money  was  paid  over,  and  Quin;er  congregation  rejoices  in  a  com- 
fortable and  commodious  house  of  worship.  The  pastor  writes,  "Our 
people  are  so  happy  and  thankful  " 

J.  G   McElhinney  is  pastor  of  this  congregation. 
BILLINGS. 

Your  Board  received  an  application  from  Billings  congregation, 
the  only  New  One  received  during  the  fiscal  year.  The  applica- 
tion was  for  $700,  and  was  recommended  by  the  Kansas  Presbyiery. 

The  Billings  congregation  had  a  church,  but  it  was  seated  with 
chairs,  nor  had  the  basement  been  dug  out.  The  congregation  de- 
sired much  to  seat  the  church  with  pews;  to  dig  out  and  equip  the 
basement  for  prayer  meeting  purposes,  and  other  meetings;  to  put 
in  furnace  to  heat  the  church;   and  to  put  in  be:ter  light. 

Money  contributed  by  congregations,  and  conservative  estimate 
of  labor,  footed  up  over  $700.  Your  Board  granted  the  appro- 
priation of  $700,  and  they  carried  the  work  to  completion.  The 
congregation  regretted  that  because  of  poor  crops,  they  were  un- 
able to  do  more  financially;  but  they  rejoice  in  the  improvements; 
a  basement  25x30;  Mother's  Room  10x12;  stairway,  furnace;  new 
pews;    and  a  gasoline  lighting  plant. 


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They  appreciate  the  help  the  church  gave  ihem. 

The  pastor  of  this  congregation  is  H.  G.  Foster,  who  said: 
"When  we  consider  the  discouraging  year  for  the  farmers,  we  feel 
the  congregation  has  done  well  For  them,  and  for  myself  as 
pastor,  please  allow  me  to  express  sincere  gratiiude.  It  was  a  very 
much  needed  improvement,  and  should  result  in  good  " 

From  report  of  the  Treasurer,  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  we  take  th3 
following  summary: 

Balance   reported   to   last   Synod    $5,290.20 

Receipt  from  all  sources 3,037.47 

Total    receipts $8,327.67 

DISBURSEMENTS. 

Billings,   Okla.,   congregaton    $     700.00 

Quinter,  Kansas,  congregat.on    1,500.00 

Total    disbursements    $2,200.00 

Balance  on  hand $6^127.67 

Inasmuch  as  non-interest-bearing  mortgages  are  made  to  th - 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Church,  officially  represented  in  Synod's 
Board  of  Trustees;  and  as  said  Board  of  Trustees  is  the  proper  cust- 
odian of  said  mortgages;  your  Board  of  Church  Erection  have  deem- 
ed it  wise  to  request  Synod  to  have  said  Board  of  Trustees  secure 
said  mortgages  from  such  congregations  and  for  such  amounts  as 
shall  be  included  in  official  notification  from  Secretary  of  Board 
of  Church  Erection. 

According  to  Synod's  action,  and  to  fulfil  Synod's  requirements 
that  active  members  of  the  board  of  Church  Erection  be  divided  into 
three  classes,  the  term  of  the  first  class  to  expire  in  one  year;  of 
the  second  class  in  two  years;  and  the  third  class  in  three  years: 
Your  board  would  say  that  the  term  of  service  in  this  Board  has 
always  been  three  years.  By  death  and  incoming  n  w  members  from 
time  to  time,  the  terms  are  modified  somewliat,  and  are  as  follows: 

R.  M.  Sommerv  lie  and  F.  M.  Fost.r,  terms  expire  1911. 

Henry  O'Neill  and  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  terms  expire  1912. 

R.  J.  Bole,  William  Browne,  Samuel  Carmichael,  terms  expire, 
1913. 

The  time  of  R.  M.  Sommerville  and  F.  M.  Foster  has  expired, 
and  their  places  should  be  filled. 

The  Board  asks  an  appropriation  of  four  thousand  dollars  for 
work  the  coming  year. 

F.  M.  Foster,  secretary,  was  appointed  to  represent  the  Board 
on  the  floor  of  Synod. 

Respectfully  submitted^ 

F.  M.  FOSTER,  Secretary. 

The  Committee  on  Discipline  presented  a  supplementary 
report,  which  was  received  and  taken  up  for  adoption.  Pending 
the  consideration  of  the  recommendation  of  the  Committee  the  re- 
commjendation   was   laid  on   the   table   to   entertain   a   substitute. 


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The  substitute  was  adopted.     The  report  as  thus  amended  was 

adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 

SUPPLEMENTARY    REPORT    OF    COMMITTEE    ON    DISCIPLINE. 

The  Committee  on  Discipline  would  report  on  the  paper  from 
the  Mission  in  China  that  was  referred  to  us:  :  : 

This  paper  is  a  request  tor  a  deliverance  on  the  case  of  a  woman 
who  has  applied  for  church  membership  who  is  a  second  wife  of  a 
man  whose  first  wif©  is  still  living,  but  is  not  living  with  her  hus- 
band. 

As  we  cannot  at  this  distance  understand  fully  the  conditions 
that  surround  the  family  relationship  in  China,  and  as  the  mission- 
aries in  China  are  now  organized  into  a  Commission  of  Synod,  we 
refer  the  case  back  to  the  Commission  for  adjudication  with  every 
confidence  in  the  wisdom  and  rectitude  with  which  it  will  be 
decided. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

D.  C.  FARIS, 
A.    KILPATRICK, 
R.    HARGRAVE, 
JAMES    MILLIGAN, 
J.    S.    BELL. 

The  Committee  on  Foreign  Correspondence  reported,  sub- 
mitting a  draft  of  a  letter  to  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Synod 
of  Ii  eland  in  answer  to  the  fraternal  letter  received  from  this 
Synod.  The  report  was  accepted,  and  adopted,  and  the  officers 
of  the  Synod  were  directed  to  sign  the  letter  and  forward  the 
same  to  the  Synod  of  Ireland. 

The  Committee  on  the  death  of  the  Rev.  R.  J.  George, 
D.  D.  reported.  J.  C.  McFeeters,  G.  M.  Robb,  S.  J.  Johnston 
and  others  spoke  in  appreciation  of  the  life  and  work  of  Dr. 
George.  J.  C.  McFeeters,  at  the  request  of  the  Moderator,  led 
the  Synod  in  prayer.    The  report  was  adopted,  and  is  as  follows : 

MINUTE  ON  THE  DEATH  OF  PROFESSOR  R.  J.  GEORGE,  D.  D. 

The  time  has  come  for  us  to  record,  with  sorrowing  heart,  the 
decease  of  Doctor  R.  J.  George.  For  two  years  the  cords  of  death 
encompassed  him,  hour  by  hour  narrowing  the  circle  of  his  labors 
until  at  last  on  the  eleventh  of  February,  of  the  present  year,  his 
triumphant  eye  beheld  the  King.  He  was  a  pastor  for  more  than 
twenty  years,  and  from  the  pastorate  was  called  to  the  chair  of 
Theology^  Church  History  and  Homiletics  in  the  Seminary,  in  Alle- 
gheny, and  there  he  died. 

And  what  a  life!  The  crowning  glory  of  the  Exposition  in  St 
Louis  was  the  brilliant  illumination  of  the  buildings  and  grounds. 
A  switch  was  turned;  a  thousand  lights  sprang  into  being.  Another, 
and  thousands  more  sent  their  rosy  fingers  out  into  the  darkness. 


148  MINUTES  OF  THE  SYNOD  OF  THE 


People  everywhere  were  ready  to  exclaim,  "The  night  shineth  as 
the  day."  The  deep  blue  sky  with  its  stars  and  suns  and  sola.-  sys 
terns  was  forgotten.  Men  would  sit  in  the  centre  of  that  splendid 
pageant  and  look  and  wonder  and  look  again.  The  eye  was  satis- 
fied; the  heart  was  filled.  Then  an  unseen  hand  touched  the  key3 
and  it  was  night.  For  a  moment  the  soul  would  yield  to  an  over- 
powering sense  of  vacancy  and  gloom  But  gradually  the  vision 
would  readjust  itself,  and  the  polar  star  that  guides  the  storm- 
tossed  sailors  over  swelling  sias  into  havens  of  rest  would  reassert 
its  calm  supremacy  and  fill  the  heart  with  silent  rapture.  There 
are  brilliant  men  today,  by  the  hundreds,  on  every  sid  ,  and  thous- 
ands speak  their  praises.  Yet  their  lives  have  no  abiding  value  a3 
touching  the  reclamation  of  the  losl,  or  the  amelioration  of  man- 
kind, or  the  building  of  character,  or  the  equipment  of  the  soul  for 
the  rhapsodies  of  eternity.  Their  light  falls  upon  the  pathway  with 
a  steady  glow  during  the  brief  period  of  heir  alloted  time.  They 
adorn  the  night  with  festal  lamps.  At  length  there  comes  the  touch 
of  the  unseen  hand,  and  people  say,  "How  dark  it  is!"  It  is  a^  such 
an  hour  that  the  serene  majestic  godly  character  reveals  its  power 
and  claims  its  own.  The  influence  of  Doctor  George  is  not  ephe- 
meral. His  life  can  never  lose  its  lustre.  He  is  oni'  of  the  f  xea 
stars  in  the  broad  rich  firmament  of  Covenanter  history.  He  was 
a  man  who  poured  out  his  soul  unto  death  for  his  fe  low  men.  The 
passion  of  his  life  was  to  seek  and  save  the  lost,  and  to  bring  be- 
lievers to  perfection  in  Jesus  Christ.  When  h''  rose  to  preach  or 
offer  prayer,  his  eyes,  his  voice,  his  whole  physique  his  soul  and  all 
within  him,  seemed  to  say,  "I  love  the  Lord."  He  had  an  absorbing 
personal  affection  for  the  Only  Begotten  Son  of  God,  and  for  all 
such  as  shall  be  His  at  His  coming.  No  congregation  was  too  smal^ 
to  draw  upon  his  love.  He  laid  upon  his  heart  the  care  of  all  the 
churches  His  life  was  rounded  out  in  perfect  peace.  In  the  morn- 
ing he  fell  asleep,  and  while  he  slept  the  Bridegroom  came.  And 
thus,  and  then,  as  we  all  believe,  he  enterd  in  with  the  King  to  the 
marriage. 

The  great  nian  is  gone.  His  pilgrimage  is  ended.  His  work  is 
done.  And  the  light  of  his  imperial  life  can  never  ba  extinguished, 
for  "they  that  be  wise  shall  shine  as  the  brightness  of  the  firma- 
ment; and  they  that  turn  many  to  righteousness  as  the  stars  for 
ever  and  ever." 

Respectfully  submitted, 

w.  J.  Mcknight, 

J.    M     COLEMAN, 
D.  C.  MARTIN. 

Tl  was  ordered  that  a  copy  of  tliis  miiinte  be  •sent  to  the 
family  of  the  late  Dr.  Georfje. 

The  following  comnnmication  from  a  Com'mission  of  the 
General  Conference  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  was 
read. 

JAMES  S.  TIBBY,  Esq.,  May  9,  1911. 

Stated     Clerk     of    the    Reformed     Presbyterian     Church     of    North 
America, 

411  Penn  Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 


REFORMED  PRESBYTERIAN  CHURCH         149 

Dear  Sir — At  the  Genera"  Convention  of  the  Pro'.estant  Episc- 
opal Church  held  in  Cincinnati  in  October,  1910,  a  Commiss  on  wa; 
appointed  to  bring  about,  if  possible,  a  Conference  for  the  consid- 
eration of  questions  touching  Faith  and  Order  and  to  ask  all  Chris- 
tian Communions  throughout  the  world  which  confess  our  Lord 
Jesus  Christ  as  God  and  Saviour  to  unite  with  us  in  arranging  for 
and  conducting  such  a  conference. 

The  nature  and  scope  of  the  proposed  Conference  are  indicated 
in  the  report  and  resolution  unanimously  adopted  by  both  Houses  of 
our  General  Convention.  A  printed  copy  of  the  Report  and  Resolu- 
tion is  enclosed  herewith,  which  we  ask  you  to  rec-ive  as  a  part  of 
our  communication  to  the  great  Communion  which  you  represent. 

The  Commission  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Church  respect- 
fully invites  the  cooperation  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church 
of  North  America  in  promoting  and  arranging  for  such  a  Confer- 
ence. It  is  our  earnest  hope  that  the  approaching  AssemTjly  of 
that  Church  may  appoint  a  Commission  with  powers  similar  to  our 
own  and  that  such  Commission  may  be  authorized  to  act  conjointly 
with  our  Commission  with  similar  Commissions  in  other  Com- 
munions. 

The  proposed  Conference  is  primarily  for  the  study  and  dis- 
cussion, in  the  spirit  of  Christian  Charity,  of  those  things  in  which 
we  differ,  without  power  to  legislate  for  participating  Communions 
or  adopt  resoluions.  It  is  our  belief  however  that  such  a  Con- 
ference, under  God's  guidance,  will  set  forward  the  Unity  of  the 
Christian  Church  for  which  we  all  pray. 

Hoping  that  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  of  North  Am- 
erica mav  be  able  to  lend  its  great  influence  and  cooperation,  we 
are  on  behalf  of  the  Commission  of  the  Protestant  Episcopal  Churchy 

Yours  very  truly, 
C.  P.  ANDERSON,  President, 
ROBERT  H.   GARDINER,   Secretary. 

It  V  a.'^  resolved  that  we  accept  the  invitation,  and  R.  J\I. 
Sommer\-ille  and  F.  ^L  Foster  were  appointed  to  represent  this 
Svnod  in  the  proposed  Conference.  ''' 

A  conmmnication  was  received  annonncinj::,'  the  formation- 
of  the  new  Pacific  Coast  Presbytery,  in  accordance  with  instrnc7 
tions  issued  by  this  Synod. 

The  Clerk  announced  that  the  docket  is  now  clear. 

The  minutes  of  the  evenino^  session  were  read  and  approved. 

The  Svnod  adi<^urned  with  prayer  by  T.  H.  Acheson,  the 
singing  of  the  133  Psalm  and  the  benediction  by  the  AToderator, 
to  meet  in  Morning  Sun,  Iowa,  May  29,  1912,  at  10:30  A.  M. 

SAMUEL  G.  SHAW.  Moderator. 
JOHN  S.  THOMPSON,  Clerk. 


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OFFICERS  OF  THE  SYNOD 

Moderator,  REV.  SAMUEL  G.  SHAW,  Ph.D.,      West     Hebron,   New 

York. 
Clerk,   REV.   JOHN  S.   THOMPSON,    Prosser,  Washington. 
Stated  Clerk,  MR.  JAMES  S.  TIBBY,  411  Penn  BuUding,  Pittsburg, 
•  Penna. 

BOARDS  OF  THE  CHURCH 

Trustees  of  Synod.  Term    Expires. 

Daniel  C.  Martin,  George  A.  McKee,  William  J.  Ward.  .  .  1912 
James  A.  McAteer,  James  H.  McBurney,  James  S.  Tibby.  .  1913 
John  M.  Allen,  William  Blair,  Oliver  Wylie    1914 

Stated  Meetings,  in  Room  411  Penn  Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.  on  the 
Third  Tuesday  of  February,  May,  August  and  November. 

President,  GEORGE  A.  AIcKee,  95  5  Liberty  Avenue,  Pictsburg,  Pa. 

Secretary-Treasurer,  JAMES  S,  TIBBY,    411    Penn    Building,    Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

Foreign  Mission  Board.  Term  E.xpires. 

Rev.  F.  M.  Foster,  Ph.  D;    Rev.  J.  C.  McFeeters,  D.  D.; 
Rev.    L   A.    B  ackwood,    A.M.,    B.D.;    Rev     W.    M.    George 

Rev.  J.  C.  Slater 1912 

Rev.  R    C.  Montgomery,  D.  D.;  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,,  M.  D.; 

William   G     Carson,    J.   M.    Steele    1913 

Rev.   T.    P.   Stevenson,   D.D,LL.D.;    Rev.    R.    M.    Sommer- 
ville,  D.  D.;  Walter  T.  Miller,  Henry  O'Neil ,     1914 

Stated  Meetings,  alternately  in  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  on  the 
last  Tuesday  of  January,  March,   May,    September    and    November. 

President.  HENRY  O'NEIL,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Vice-President,    REV.    J.    C.    McFEETERS,    D.    D.,    649    North    22nd 
Street,    Philadelphia,    Pa 

CorresponcUng  Secretary,    R.   M.   SOMMERVILLE,   D.D.,    325   W.    56 
Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

Central  Board  of  Missions.  Term  E.vpires. 

Rev.  H.  H.  George,  D.  D. ;    Rev.  M.  M.  Pearce,  Rev    D. 

C.    Martin,    D.D.;    James    S.    Tibby     1912 

Rev.  T.  H.  Acheson,  D.D.;  Rev.  R.  J.  G.  McKnight,  Ph.D. 
Rev.  S.  G.  Copner.  Rev.  John  Yates,  Rev.  J.  C.  Slater  .  .       1913 
Rev.  W.  J.  Coleman,  D.D.;  Rev    R.  C.  Wylie,  D  D.;  Samuel 
McNaugher,    A.    C    Coulter     1914 

Sated  Meetings,  in  Room  411  Penn  Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa.,  on  the 
Third   Wednesday   of   Each  Month. 

President,  REV.  JOHN  YATES,  Pitts,  N.  S.,  Pa 

Corresponding  Secretary,   REV.   R.   J.   G.   McKNIGHT,   Ph.    D.,   Wil- 

kinsburg,  Pa. 

Jewish  Mission  Board.  Term  Expires. 

Rev.   J.   C     McFeeters,   D.   D. ;    William   G.    Carson,   David 

Adams     1912 

Rev.  R.  C.  Montgomery,  D.  D.;   S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  M.  D.; 

John    Buchanan     1913 

Rev.  T.  P.  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.;  W.  C.  McLeod  ....      1914 

Stated  Meetings,  on  the  First  Tuesday  of  March,  June,   September 

and  December. 

Annvial  Meeting,  on  tlie  Second  Tuesday  of  May. 

President,  REV.  J    C.  McFEETERS,  D.  D.,  649  N.  22nd  Street,  Phila- 
delphia, Pa. 


Secretary,  REV.  T.  P.  STEVENSON,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  4502  Kingsessing 

Avenue.  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Board  of  Church  Erection.  Term  Expires. 

Henry  O'Neil,  S.  A.  S.  Metheny,  M.  D 1912 

R.  J.   Boe,  William   Browne,   Samuel  Carmichael    1913 

Rev.  R.  M    Sommerville,  D.  D.;  Rev.  F.  M.  Fos  er,  Ph.  D     1914 
President,  R.  J.  BOLE,  170  Broadway,  New  York,  N.  Y. 
Secretary,   REV.   F.   M.   FOSTER,    Ph.    D.,   345    West    29th   St.,   New 

York,    N.    Y. 
Board  of  Control.  Term  Expires 

Rev.  C.  D.  Trumbull,  D.  D.,  S.  E.  McElhinney    1912 

Rev.   S.   E.  Greer,   R.  J    Allen    19-13 

Rev.  G.  A.  Edgar,  S.  O.  Carson    1914 

O.  L.  Samson,  A.  F.  Reid 1915 

Stated  Meeting,  ihe  Second  Tuesday  of  November. 
President,  REV.  C  D.  TRUMBULL,  D.  D.,  Morning  Sun,  Iowa. 
Secretary,  REV.  G.  A.  EDGAR,  Wyman,    Iowa. 

Board  of  Superintendents  of  Theological  Seminary.         Term  Expires. 
Rev.  T.  P.  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.;   David  Boyd,  Charles 

McElhinney,    W.    R.    Sterrett     1912 

Rev.  W.  J.  Coleman,  D.  D. ;    Walter  T.  Miller,  S.  R.  Wills, 

J.    D.    McAnlis    1913 

Rev.  R.  M.  Sommerville,  D.  D  ;  Rev.  T.  H.  Acheson,  D.  D.; 

John  R    Steele    1914 

Stated  Mee  ings,  Date  of  closing  of  Seminary. 

President,  REV.  T.  P.  STEVENSON,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.;  45  02  Kingsessing 

Avenue.   Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Secretary,  REV    W.  J.  COLEMAN,  D.  D.;    12  05  Boyle  Street,  North 

Side,  Pittsburg,  Pa 
Trustees  of  Geneva  College.  (Chosen  to  serve  one  year).  Rev.  A.  Kil- 
patrick,  D.  D.;  Rev.  R.  C.  Wylie,  D.  D.;  Rev.  W.  J.Coleman,  D.  D.; 
Rev.  H.  H.  George,  D.  D.;  Rev,  J.  S.  Martin,  Rev.  R.  H.  Martin, 
Rev.  J.  Renwick  Wylie,  Rev.  S.  J.  Johnston,  J.  S.  Tibby,  R.  M. 
Downie,  J.  H  McBurney,  R.  M.  Pearce. 
Consultative  ]Members,    (Chosen   to   serve   one  year),   E.    F.   Wendt, 

Charles  R.  May,  Agnew  Hice,  John  T.  Reeves. 
Meetings,  at  such  times  as  business  demands. 
President.   REV.   R.   C.   WYLIE,   D.   D.;    119   West  Mclntyre  Avenue, 

Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Secretary,  REV    R.  H.  MARTIN,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa. 
Reformed  Preshj-terian  Woman's  Associaion. 
President,  MRS.  JOHN  T.  MORTON,  2212  Perrysville  Avenue,  N.  S. 

Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Secretary,  MRS.  J.W.  WARD,  818  Wallace  Avenue,  Wilkinsburg,  Pa. 
Com-esponding  Secretary,  MRS.  W.  M.  HICE,  2325  Osgood  Street,  N. 

S.,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Stated  Meetings,  in  the  Allegheny  R.  P.  Church  the  Third  Wednes- 
day of  March,  June,  September  and  December. 
Home  for  Aged,  Perrysville  Avenue  and-  Burgess  Street,  N.  S.  Pitts- 
burg, Pa.      Matron   of  Home,  Miss  Etta  Jamison. 
PRESBYTERIES. 
Colbrad(». 

Clerk,  REV.  J.  C  FRENCH,  293  S.  Carkson  St.,  Denver,  Col. 
Oliairnian,  Com.  of  Supplies,  REV.  J.  C  FRENCH. 
Illinois. 

Clerk,  REV.  D    C.  MATHEWS.  Houston,  Illinois. 

Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  REV.  D.  C.  MATHEWS,  Houston,  111. 


Iowa. 

Clerk,  REV.  GEORGE  A.  EDGAR,  Wyman,  Iowa. 

Chaii-man  Com.  of  Supplies   S.   TURNER  FOSTER,   Hopkinton, 

Iowa. 
N.  B.  and  N.  S. 

Clerk,  JAMES  McCUNE,  Barnesville,  N.  B. , 

Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies 
Kansas. 

Clerk,  REV.  W.  A.  AIKIN,  Eskridge,  Kan 

Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  JOHN  M.  JOHNSTON,  Superior,  Neb. 
New  York. 

Clerk,  REV.  JOHN  H.  PRITCHARD,  White  Lake,  N    Y. 

Chairman    Com.    of    Supplies,    REV.    JOHN    W.    F.    CARLISLE, 
Newburg,  N    Y. 
OMo. 

Clerk,  REV.  JOHN  COLEMAN,  New  Concord,  Ohio 

Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,   REV.      S.      R.      WALLACE,   Belle 
Center,  Ohio. 

Pacific  Coast. 

Clerk,  JAMES  G.  LOVE,  Boren  Ave.,  Seattle,  Wash. 
Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  REV.  T.  M.   SLATER,   1205   Belle- 
vue   Ave.,   Seattle,   Wash. 
Pittsburg. 

Clerk.  J.  C.  SLATER,  Beaver  Falls,  Pa. 

Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  S.  J.  JOHNSTON,  New  Castle,  Pa. 
Philadelphia. 

Clerk,  REV.  R.  C  MONTGOMERY,  129  W.  Susquehanna  Ave., 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  REV.  T.  P.      STEVENSON,       4502 
Kingsessing  Ave.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Clerk,  REV.  WALTER  McCLURKIN,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y.,  R.  F. 
D.  No.  1 
.  .  Chairman  Com.  of  Supplies,  REV.  WALTER  McCLURKIN. 
Treasurers  of  Funds. 

Aged  Ministers',  Domestic  Mission,  Geneva  College,  Indian  Mission, 
Literary  Fund,  National  Reform,  Southern  Mission,  Temperance, 
Witness  Bearing,  Theological  Seminary,  Widows  and  Orphan's 
Fund — JAMES  S.  TIBBY,  411  Penn  Building,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 
Church  Erection,  Jewish  Mission,  Mission  in  China,  Syrian  Mission 
— S  A.  S  METHENY,  M.  D.,  617  North  43rd  Str.,  Philadelphia, 
Pa. 
Reformed  Presbyterian  Woman's  Asssociation,  Aged  People's  Home 
MRS.  ANNETTA  G.  WALLACE,  108  Lafayette  Ave.,  N.  S.  Pitts- 
burg, Pa. 

FORM  OF  BEQUEST 
I  do  give  and  bequeath  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the  Synod 

of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  of  North  America 

dollars,  to  be  credited  to    (endowment  or  current  account 

according  to  wish  of  donor),  of  the  following  schemes: 

REAL  ESTATE. 
I  do  give,  devise  and  bequeath  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  the 
Synod  of  the  Reformed  Presbyterian  Church  in  North  America,  its 
successors  and  assigns  forever,  all  that  certain  piece  of  land  situated 

in and  described  as  follows:      

The  proceeds  from  the  sale  of  the  same 

to  be  devoted  to    (endowment  or  current  account,  according  to  the 
w^sh  of  the  donor),  of  the  following  schemes: