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JAN  S3  1914 


MINUTES 


OF   THE 


FIFTY-NINTH  ANNUAL  SESSION 


OF    THE 


SYNOD   OF   BALTIMORE 

HELD   IN   THE 

NORTHMINSTER  PRESBYTERIAN   CHURCH 

BALTIMORE.   MARYLAND 
OCXOBBR     27-29,    1913 


Published  by  Order  of  Synod,  Under  the  Direction 
of  the  vStated  Clerk 


Press  of  Fosnot  and  Williams  Co. 

514-Sle    W.    FRANKLIN    STREET 

Baltimore,  Md. 


OFFICERS  OF  THE  SYNOD. 


Moderator. 

Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Benham,  Ph.  D The  Cecil,  Baltimore.  Md. 

Stated  Clerk  and  Treasurer. 
Rev.  Charles  G.  Cady Sparrows  Point,  Md- 

Permanent  Clerk. 
Rev.  Joseph  R.  Milligan,  D.  D St.  Georges,  Del. 

Temporary  Clerk. 

Rev.  Wilson  T.  M.  Beale Salisbury,  Md. 


STATED    CLERKS    OF    THE    PRESBYTERIES. 

Baltimore. 
Rev.  Henry  Branch,  D.  D 3302  Clifton  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

New  Castle. 
Rev.  Joseph  R.  IMilligan,  D.  D St.  Georges,  Del. 

Washington  City. 
Rev.  Titus  E.  Davis 225  8th  St.  S.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 


COMMITTEES. 
Standing  Committees  of  the  Session  of  1913. 

Bills  and  Ozrrtiircs.—RL^v.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D.,  LL.  D..  Rev. 
Wm.  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D.,  Rev.  J.  Wynne  Jones,  D.  D.,  Mr.  B.  .\.  Nelson, 
Mr.  J.  Frank  McCoy. 

Judicial  Cases. — Rev.  Francis  H.  Moore,  D.  D.,  Rev.  David  T.  Neely, 
Rev.  Hubert  Rex  Johnson,  Mr.  J.  Henry  Wurdeman,  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Di.x. 

Finance. — Mr.  Fred  O.  Scherf,  Mr.  Eben  Frazer,  Judge  Stanton  J. 
Peelle. 

Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly. — Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D., 
Rev.  .Alfred  H.  Barr,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Paul  Hickok. 

Minutes  of  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore. — Rev.  Julius  -\.  Herold,  Mr. 
Raymond  Loranz. 

Minutes  of  the  Presbxtery  of  Xezc  Castle.— Rew  Joseph  T.  Kellv, 
D.  D.,  Mr.  H.  G.  Evans. 

Minutes  of  the  Presbyterv  of  Washington  Citv.—Rev  John  P.  Camp- 
bell, D.  D.,  Mr.  J.  Frank  McCoy. 


Leave  of  Absence. — Rev.  Thos.  C.  Easson,  Rev.  Thos.  S.  Annentrout, 
Rev.  Henry  Rumer,  D.  D.,  Mr.  William  Waters,  Mr.  Walter  Knipp. 

Resolutions. — Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok,  Rev.  Josiah  H.  Crawford,  Rev. 
Stanley  H.  Jewell. 

Permanent    Committees. 

(The  first  named  Minister  and  Elder  serve  for  three  years,  the  sec- 
ond for  two  and  the  third  for  one,  excepting  the  Executive  Committee.) 
E.recutive  Conunittcc. — The  Officers. 

Home  Missions. — Rev.  Joel  S.  GilfiUan,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Joseph  T.  Kelly, 
D.  D.,  Rev.  Alfred  H.  Barr,  D.  D.,  Mr.  Wm.  M.  Terrell,  Mr.  J.  A.  Welch, 
Mr.  C.  B.  Finley. 

Foreign  Missions. — Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok,  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson, 
D.  D.,  Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D.,  Mr.  B.  A.  Nelson,  Mr.  Lewis  A. 
Bower,  Mr.  W.  B.  Robison. 

Education. — Rev.  S.  M.  Engle,  Rev.  C.  L.  Candee,  Rev.  Robert  A- 
Davison,  D.  D.,  j\Ir.  Lewis  P.  Bush,  Judge  Stanton  J.  Peelle,  Mr.  H.  G. 
Evans. 

Publication  and  Sabbath  School  Jl'ork. — Rev.  B.  J.  Brinkema,  Rev. 
T.  C.  Clark,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Edward  Niles.  Mr.  W.  H.  H.  Smith.  Mr.  Wm.  M. 
Robinson,  Mr.  J.  F.  Price. 

Church  Erection. — Rev.  Henry  Rumer,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  P.  Camp- 
bell, D.  D.,  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  ]\Ir.  Richard  P.  Baer,  Mr.  E.  B. 
Frazer,  Mr.  O.  O.  Spicer. 

Relief  and  Sustentation.—Rev.  James  E.  Moffatt,  D.  D.,  Rev.  F.  H. 
Moore,  D.  D.,  Rev.  George  Robinson,  D.  D.,  Mr.  J.  S.  Price,  Mr.  A.  B. 
Garden,  Mr.  Geo.  R.  Cairnes. 

Frcedinen. — Rev.  John  D.  Blake,  Rev.  Francis  J.  Grimke,  D.  D.,  Rev. 
Robert  P.  Kerr.,  D.  D.,  Jas.  H.  X.  Waring,  Ph.  D.,  Dr.  J.  H.  Frazer,  Mr. 
Geo.  J.  Chandler. 

Colleges. — tRev.  Hubert  Rex  Johnson,  Rev.  David  T.  Xeely,  Rev.  J. 
L.  Rusbridge,  Dr.  J.  M.  T.  Finney,  Mr.  Jas.  M.  Smyth,  Dr.  E.  M.  Finch. 

Tein(yera>icc. — Rev.  T.  Freeman  Dixon,  D.  D.,  Rev.  R.  L.  Jackson,  Rev. 
T.  Davis  Ricnards,  D.  D.,  Mr.  J.  B.  Vandegrift.  Mr.  L.  H.  Dewey,  Mr.  W. 
S.  Norris. 

Sabbath  Observance. — Rev.  S.  Beattie  Wylie,  Rev.  John  C.  Palmer, 
D.  D..  Rev.  Kenneth  M.  Craig.  Mr.  Chas.  G.  Stott,  Mr.  W.  J.  Clendenin, 
Mr.  L.  W.  Gunby. 

Religious  Work  in  the  Army  and  Xavy. — Rev.  Jas.  T.  Marshall,  D.  D., 
Rev.  Chas.  G.  Cady.  Rev.  U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D.,  Mr.  Fred  O.  Scherf, 
Gen.  Chas.  Bird,  Mr.  John  F.  Carlson. 

Young  People's  Societies. — Rev.  Gustav  A.  Briegleb,  Rev.  Wilson  T. 
M.  Beale,  Rev.  C.  Everest  Granger,  D.  D.,  Mr.  A.  J.  Rumford,  Mr.  M.  A. 
Skinner,  Mr.  Spencer  E.  Sisco. 

Evangelism. — Rev.  Wm.  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D.,  Rev.  A.  W.  Spooner,  D.  D., 


Rev,  Francis   S.   Downs,  Mr.   Frank   Middleton,   Mr.   Elisha   H.    Perkins, 
Mr.  G.  M.  Jones. 

.-.Brotherhood.— Rev.  Chas.  Wood,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Edward  H.  Kistler, 
Rev.  J.  A.  Herold,  Mr.  OJiver  Cummings,  Mr.  J.  M.  C.  Carhart,  Mr.  H. 
S.  Irwin. 

Presbyterian  Training  School.— Rev.  Henry  A.  Grubbs,  Rev.  J.  W. 
Lowden,  Rev.  Geo.  M.  Cummings,  Mr.  G.  P.  Tunnel,  Judge  Stanton  J. 
Peelle,  Mr.  Jos.  B.  Bell. 

Special  Committees  (For  Specific  Tasks). 

Docket  for  1914.— Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Benham,  Ph.  D.,  Rev.  Edward 
Miles,  Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  C.  Palmer.  D.  D.,  Rev. 
Chas.  L.  Candee,  Rev.  Josiah  Crawford. 

Narrative  for  1914. — Rev.  T.  Davis  Richards,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Henry  A. 
Grubbs,  Rev.  Josiah  H.  Crawford,  Dr.  H.  J.  Hunt.  Mr.  Edward  Stinson. 

Memorials  for  1914. — Rev.  Edward  H.  Robbins,  D.  D.,  Rev.  H.  L. 
Bunstein,  Rev.  Jas.  W.  Wightman,  D.  D.,  Dr.  Bernard  C.  Steiner,  Mr. 
S.  T.  Wylie,  Mr.  T.  F.  Sargent. 

Arrangements  for  1914. — Rev.  Chas.  L.  Candee,  Rev.  Chas.  G.  Cady 
and  the  Session  of  the  Westminster  Church,  Wilmington. 

Synodical  Efficiency  (Continued). — Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D., 
Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok,  Mr.  Wm.  M.  Terrell,  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D., 
Dr.  Bernard  C.  Steiner,  Rev.  Josiah  H.  Crawford,  Mr.  John  J.  Hayes. 

Conference  With  the  IVoinen's  Societies  on  Time  of  M(^etings.—Rev. 
Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D.,  Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Edward 
Niles. 

West  Nottingham  College.— Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Benham.  Ph.  D.,  Rev. 
Henry  Rumer,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Robert  P.  Kerr,  D.  D.,  Rev.  W.  T.  M.  Beale, 
Judge  S.  J.  Peelle,  Mr.  John  McKenzie,  Mr.  A.  L.  Duyckinck. 

Wilson.  College. —  (Alternate  j^ear.) 

Synodical  Executive  Commission. — The  Executive  Committee. 

United  Committee  on  Every  Member  Canvass. — Rev.  John  P.  Camp- 
bell, D.  D.,  Rev.  Paul  }lickok,  Rev.  J.  H.  Crawford,  Mr.  Wm.  M.  Rob- 
inson, Mr.  F.  Sheppard. 


MINUTES. 


The  Synod  of  Baltimore  met  in  the  Northminster  Pres- 
byterian Church,  Bahimore,  Md.,  Monday,  October  I27tl\ 
1913,  at  8.00  P.  M.,  and  was  opened  with  a  sermon  by  the  re- 
tiring Moderator,  Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  from 
the  text  I  Tim.  2  :1 :  "I  exhort  therefore,  that,  first  of  all,  sup- 
plications, prayers,  intercessions,  and  giving  of  thanks,  be  made 
for  all  men." 

After  the  sermon  the  Synod  w^as  constituted  with  prayer 

by  the  Moderator. 

The  roll  of  those  in  attendance  at  the  Synod  is  as  follows, 
as  appears  from  the  registration  cards.  Those  marked  1  were 
present  the  first  evening,  those  marked  2  enrolled  the  second 
day,  and  those  marked  3  enrolled  the  third  day. 

ROLL. 

Presbytery  of  Baltimore. 

Ministers. 

Edward  Haines  Kistler,  i. 

Fred  Adam  Kullmar,  i. 

Thomas  H.  Lee.  Ph.  D.,  i. 

John  A.  MacSporran,  2. 

Luther  Martin,  i. 

Vaclav  Miniberger.  2. 

James  E.  Moffatt.  D.  D.,  i. 

David  Torrence  Neely,  i. 

John  A.  Nesbit,  i. 

Edward  Niles,  ,i. 

Frank  Novak,  i. 

Harold  F.  Pellegrin,  i. 

John  S.  Plumer,  D-  D.,  i. 

H.  Medley  Price,  2. 

Wm.  Albert  Price,  i. 

Lemuel  S.  Reichard,  i. 

Edward  H.  Robbins,  D.  D.,  2. 

Thomas  L.  Springer,  i. 

J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D.,  i. 

J.  M.  Stick,  3. 

S.  C.  Wasson,  i. 

W.  Edward  Williams,  D.  D.,  2. 

Frank  Churchill  Woods,  2. 


Alfred  H.  Barr,  D.  D.,  i. 

DeWitt  M.  Benham,  Ph.  D.,  i. 

Henry  Branch,  D.  D.,  i. 

Gustav  A.  Briegleb,  2. 

Charles  G.  Cady,  i. 

John  P.  Campbell,  D.  D.,  2. 

John  T.  Chase,  2. 

John  S.  Conning,  2. 

Kenneth  M.  Craig,  2. 

Francis  Shunk  Downs,  i. 

Thomas  C.  Easson,  i. 

S.  M.  Engle,  2. 

John  C.  Finney,  i. 

Paul  Fox,  2. 

James  Fraser,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  2 

Henry  Alexander  Grubbs,  i. 

A.  Burtis  Hallock,  i. 

L.  B.  Hensley,  r. 

J.  C.  Hughes,  2. 

Samuel  L.  Irvine,  2. 

Stanley  H.  Jewell,  i. 

Robert  P.  Kerr,  D.  D.,  I. 

J.  Wynne  Jones,  D.  D.,  i. 

Elders — 
George  A.  Bauer,  2. 
S.  M.  Bayless,  2. 
Wm.  H.  Buck,  Jr.,  3. 
William  H.  Dix,  i. 


Churches  Represented — 
Ridgely  Street,  Baltimore. 
Havre  de  Grace,  Md. 
Ashland,  Md. 
First,  Baltimore. 


H.  G.  Evans,  i. 
Wm.  S.  Faust,  i. 
A.  T.  Fields,  i. 
Elisha  Heath,  2. 
Theophilus  Hill,  2. 
Hugh  Hurlow,  r. 
Walter  Knipp,  i. 
John  Knoblauch,  i. 
B-.  A.  Nelson,  i. 
Dr.  Isham  R.  Page,  i. 
James  J.  Purser,  i. 
Dr.  H.  L.  Reckard,  i. 
Francis  Sanderson,  i. 
Frederick  O.  Scherf,  i 
Spencer  E.  Sisco,  i. 
Edward  Stinson,  i. 
William  A.  Webb,  i. 
W.  H.  Wilcox,  2. 


Roland  Park,  Baltimore. 
Calvary,  Baltimore. 
Waverly,  Baltimore. 
Westminster,  Baltimore. 
Faith,  Baltimore. 
Sparrows  Point,  Md. 
Catonsville,  Md. 
St.  Helena,  Md. 
Central,  Baltimore. 
Brown  Memorial,  Baltimore. 
Hamilton,  Md. 

Abbott  Memorial,  Highlandtown,  Md. 
Walbrook,  Baltimore. 
Second,  Baltimore. 
Northminster,  Baltimore. 
Babcock  Memorial,  Baltimore. 
Forest  Park,  Baltimore. 
Govanstown,  Md. 
(46  Ministers  and  22  Elders.) 


Presbytery 

Ml 
Thomas  S-  Armentrout,  i. 
John  D.  Blake,  2. 
Wilson  T.  M.  Beale,  i. 
Charles  L.  Candee,  2. 
William  Clews,  i. 
J.  H.  Crawford,  i. 
William  Crawford,  i. 
Henry  Cunningham,  i. 
J.  M.  L.  Eckard,  i. 
J.  Edgar  Franklin,  i. 
W.  L.  Freund,  i. 
Joel  S.  Gilfillan,  D.  D.,  i. 
Julius  A.  Herold,  i. 
Edwin  J.  Hopkins,  i. 


of  New  Castle. 

NISTERS. 

F.  H.  Huffman,  2. 
John  B.  Isaacs,  2. 
John  C-  Lane,  i. 
John  McElmoyle,  D.  D.,  i. 
Edward  A.  McLaury,  i. 
J.  R.  Milligan,  D.  D..  i. 
Francis  H.  Moore,  D.  D.,  i. 
William  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D.,  i. 
John  L.  Rushbridge,  Ph.  D..  i. 
U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D.,  i. 
J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  2. 
Joseph  Brown  Turner,  i. 
A.  Van  Oeveren,  i. 
William  C.  Watson,  i. 


Elders — ■ 
S.  S.  Armstrong,  2. 
Joseph  W.  Billingsley,  2. 
W.  D.  Condit,  i. 
J.  T.  Egnor,  i. 
Eben  B.  Eraser,  i. 
John  J.  Hayes,  i. 
Charles  R.  Jones,  i. 
G.  W-  Jones,  2. 
J.  Frank  McCoy,  i. 
Thomas  S.  Marshall,  2. 
Frank  Moody,  i. 
William  T.  Patten,  2. 
L.  Makemie  Porter,  i. 
S.  T.  Wyley,  2. 

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Churches  Represented — 
Red  Clay  Creek,  Del. 
Green  Hill,  Del. 
West,  Wilmington. 
Head  of  Christiana,  Del. 
Newark,  Del. 
Central,  Wilmington. 
Georgetown,  Del. 
First,  Wilmington. 
Westminster,  Wilmington. 
Lower  Brandywine,  Del. 
Christiana,  Del. 
Port  Deposit,  Md. 
Wicomico,  Md. 
West  Nottingham,  Md. 
Ministers  and  14  Elders.) 


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Presbytery  of  Washington  City. 

Ministers. 


E.  N.  Kirby,  2. 

James  T.  Marshall,  D.  D.,  3. 

James  M.  Nourse,  i. 

John  C.  Palmer,  D.  D.,  i. 

Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D..  LL.  D.,  i. 

David  A.  Reed,  i. 

T.  Davis  Richards,  D.  D.,  i. 

George  Robinson,  D.  D.,  i. 

Henry  Rumer,  D.  D.,  i. 

A.  W.  Spooner,  D.  D.,  i. 

James  W.  Wightman,  D.  D.,  i. 

Churches  Represented — 
Falls  Church,  Va.  '. 

Darnestown,  Md. 
Takoma  Park,  D.  C- 
Nothminster,  Washington. 
Gunton  Temple  Memorial,  Wash'ton. 
Fourth,  Washington. 
Eastern,  Washington. 
Metropolitan,  Washington. 
Church  of  the  Covenant,  Washington. 
Washington  Heights,  Washington. 
Garden  Memorial,  Washington. 
Gurley  Memorial,  Washington. 
Neelsville,  Md. 

New  York  Avenue,  Washington. 
(22  Ministers  and  14  Elders.) 
(Total  Attendance:  Ministers,  96;  Elders,  50.) 

The  following-  were  introduced  at  various  times  during 
the  sessions  of  Synod  and  invited  to  sit  as  Corresponding 
Members : 

Rev.  Joseph  W.  Cochran,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Pennsylvania. 

Rev.  W.  E.  Daugherty,  Pennsylvania  Conference  of 
United  Brethren. 

Rev.  Robert  H.  Fleming,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Virginia,  U.  S. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Foulkes,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  New  York. 

Rev.  John  Fox,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  New  York. 

Rev.  A.  W.  Halsey,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  New  York. 

Rev.  McLeod  Harvey,  Ph.  D.,  Synod  of  New  England. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Henderson,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Chicago. 

Rev.  Alexander  Henry,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Pennsylvania. 

Rev.  Chas.  M.  Levister,  D.  D.,  Baltimore  Conference  of 
M.  E.  Church. 

Rev.  Robert  McKenzie,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  New  York. 

Rev.  George  G.  Mahy,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Pennsylvania. 

Rev.  T.  C.  Moffett,  D.  D.,  Synod  of  Arizona. 

Rev.  W.  J.  Richards,  of  the  Association  of  Congregational 
Churches. 

Rev.  J.  T.  Zajonczkonski,  of  the  Polish  Catholic  Reformed 
Church. 

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W.  C.  Alexander,  D.  D.,  i. 

Alfred  E.  Barrows,  2. 

Henry  C.  Bird,  2. 

S.  A-  Bower,  2. 

Thomas  C.  Clark,  D.  D.,  i. 

Titus  E.  Davis,  r. 

Robert  A.  Davidson,  D.  D.,  2 

O.  A.  Gillingham,  i. 

Paul  R.  Hickok,  i. 

Hubert  Rex  Johnson,  i. 

Joseph  T.  Kelly,  D.  D.,  i. 

Elders — 
William  J.  Allen,  2. 
E.  H.  Darby,  2. 
J.  B.  Derrick,  i. 
William  Gibson,  2. 
Vernon  E.  Hodges,  2. 
H.  J.  Hunt,  M.  D.,  i. 
M.  T.  Hyer,  2. 
Raymond  Loranz,  i. 
Stanton  J.  Peelle,  i. 
William  B.  Robinson,  2. 
William  Arthur  Snell,  2. 
B.  D.  Stallings,  i. 
William  Waters,  i. 
J.  Henry  Wurdeman,  i 


Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Benham,  Ph.  D.,  was  elected  Moderator, 

Rev.  Chas.  G.  Cady  was  elected  Stated  Clerk  and  Treas- 
urer . 

Rev  Wilson  T.  M.  Beale  was  elected    Temporary  Clerk. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  of  Arrangements  was  pre- 
sented by  the  Chairman,  Rev.  R.  P.  Kerr,  D,  D.,  and  the 
printed  Docket  was  adopted  as  the  order  of  business  for  the 
sessions  of  the  Synod. 

Synod  adjourned  and  was  closed  with  prayer  by  the  Mod- 
erator. 


Tuesday,  October  28th,  1913,  9  A.  M. 
The  Synod  met  and  was  opened  with  prayer  by  the  Mod- 
erator. 

The  minutes  of  the  previous  session  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  Standing  Committees  for  the  Synod  were  appointed 
by  the  Moderator,  and,  together  with  all  the  Committees  ap- 
pointed later,  are  found  on  page  2. 

The  following  papers  which  had  come  into  the  hands  of 
the  Stated  Clerk  were  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Bills  and 
Overtures,  according  to  Rule  XI  of  General  Rules  for  Judica- 
tories :  1.  A  letter  from  the  Stated  Clerk  of  the  Assembly  in- 
closing the  call  to  prayer  issued  by  authority  of  the  Assembly. 
2.  A  communication  from  the  Woman's  Synodical  Temper- 
ance Association  of  the  Synod  of  Pennsylvania  relating  to  a 
Temperance  Day  in  the  Week  of  Prayer.  3.  A  letter  from 
the  Board  of  Ministerial  Relief  and  Sustentation  suggesting 
certain  action.  4.  The  statistical  reports  of  the  Women's 
Home  and  Foreign  ]\Iissionary  Societies. 

The  financial  report  of  the  Treasurer  was  presented  and 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance  for  audit. 

The  statistical  reports  of  the  Presbyteries  presented  by  the 
Stated  Clerks  are  as  follows : 

Presbytery  of  Baltimore. 

Ministers,  70;  Churches,  72;  Elders,  312;  Deacons,  208;  Communi- 
cants, 13,657;  S.  S.  Members,  ii,455;  Licentiates,  6;  Local  Evangelists,  2; 
Candidates,  15. 

Officers — Rev.  William  O.  Yates,  Hagerstown,  Md.,  Moderator.  Rev. 
Henry  Branch,  D.  D.,  Stated  Clerk,  3302  Clifton  Ave.,  Walbrook.  Baltimore, 

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Md.  Rev.  Thomas  L.  Springer,  Permanent  Clerk,  6oi  Windermere  Ave- 
nue, Baltimore,  Md. 

Chairmen  of  Committees : 

Home  Missions. — A.  H.  Barr,  D.  D. 

Foreign  Missions — J.  Ross  Stevenson,  D.  D. 

Education — Henry  A.  Grubbs. 

Ministerial  Relief  and  Sttstentaiion — J.  E.  MofFatt,  D.  D. 

Publication  and  Sunday  School  Work. — Henry  W.  Miller. 

Freedmen. — R.  C.  Jenkins. 

Colleges. — S.  M.  Engle. 

Temperance. — T.  F.  Dixon,  D.  D. 

Evangelism. — F.  S.  Downs. 

Young  People's  Societies — J.  A.  MacSporran. 

Historical  Collbction — C.  G.  Cady. 

Bible  Society— R.  A.  Boyle. 

Tract  Society — D.  T.  Neely. 

Army  and  Navy — J.  W.  Jones,  D.  D. 

Sabbath  Observance. — K.  M.  Craig. 

Brotherhood. — Edward  Niles. 

Executive  Commission. — J.  P.  Campbell,  D.  D. 

Committees  on  Examination  of  Candidates : 

Experimental  Religion. — H.  M.  Price. 

Ancient  Languages — James  Eraser,  D.  D. 

Arts  and  Sciences. — J.  W.  Douglas. 

Etiglish  Bible. — G.  A.  Briegleb. 

Church  History — J.  S.  Plumer,  D.  D. 

Theology— R.  P.  Kerr,  D.  D. 

Sacraments  and  Church  Government — H.  Branch,  D.  D. 

Minister  Deceased. — William  C.  Maloy,  20th  January,  1913. 

Ministers  Received — Frank  Churchill  Woods,  from  the  Baptist  Churclu 
10th  December,  1912.  Wilfred  W.  Shaw,  Seattle,  10th  December,  1912.  Wm. 
Bryson  Smith,  St.  Louis,  22d  April,  1913.  John  S.  Plumer,  D.  D.,  Shen- 
ango,  17th  June,  1913.  Edward  Haines  Kistler,  Monmouth,  17th  June,. 
1913.  J.  Monroe  Stick,  New  York,  17th  June,  1913.  Harold  Francis- 
Pellegrin,  Los  Angeles,  7th  October,  1913.  Vaclav  ^liniberger,  Omaha,. 
7th  October,  1913. 

Ordained  and  histalled. — John  T.  Chase,  Chestnut  Grove,  23d  January,. 

1913. 

Installed. — William  Bryson  Smith,  Southminster,  7th  May,  1913.  Edw. 
Haines  Kistler,  Babcock  Memoial,  20th  June,  1913.  J.  S.  Plumer,  D.  D., 
Waverly,  30th,   1913. 

Resigned — Thomas  T.  Brown,  Grove  Church,  Aberdeen,  17th  June,  1913. 

Resigned  and  Dismissed. — D.  E.  Craighead,  Waverly,  loth  December. 
1912,  dismissed  to  Ewing,  111.  E.  A.  McAlpin,  Jr.,  Babcock  Memorial,  6th 
January,  1913,  dismissed  to  Morris  and  Orange.  T.  G.  Koontz,  D.  D.,  West- 
minster, 7th  April,  1913,  dismissed  to  Wheeling,  W.  Va.  George  A.  Burs- 
lem,  Hampden,  5th  May,  1913,  dismissed  to  New  Brunswick.  James  E. 
Cook,  Fulton  Avenue,  dismissed  to  West  Hanover,  Va. 

Dismissed. — L  C.  Yeakel,  to  Whcehng,  W.  Va.,  17th  June,  1913.  W. 
W.  Shaw,  to  Presbytery  of  Potomac,  17th  June,  1913- 

Henry  Branch,  Stated  Clerk. 


New  Castle. 

Ministers,  51 ;  Elders,  195 ;  Deacons,  22 ;  Churches,  56 ;  Communicants, 
7,593;  Candidates  for  the  Ministry,  7;  Sunday  School  members,  7,442. 

Officers — Moderator,  Rev.  J.  W.  Lowden ;  Stated  Clerk,  Rev.  J.  R. 
Milligan,  D.  D. 

Chairmen  of  Standing  Committees : 

Siistenation  and  Home  Missions. — Rev.  J.  S.  Gilfillan,  D.  D. 

Foreign  Missio)is. — Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D. 

Education' — Rev.  C.  L.  Candee. 

Publication  and  Sunday  School  Work. — Rev.  B.  J.  Brinkema. 

Ministerial  Relief. — Rev.  H.  F.  Moore,  D.  D. 

Church  Erection  and  Manses. — Rev-  W.  J.  McCullough. 

Colleges. — Rev.  J.  L.  Rusbridge. 

Freedmen. — Rev.  John  D.  Blake. 

Temperance. — Rev.  R.  L.  Jackson. 

Young  People's  Societies  and  the  Brotherhood. — Rev.  W.  T.  M.  Beale. 

Systematic  Beneficence. — Rev.  J.  H.  Crawford. 

Evangelistic  Work. — Rev.  W.  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D. 

Credentials  and  Supplies. — Rev.  J.  R.  Milligan,  D.  D. 

Presbyterial  History. — Rev.  J.  B.  Turner. 

Defense  Before  Other  Judicatories. — Rev.  John  McEbiioyle,  D.  D. 

Examination  of  Candidates : 

Experimental  Religion. — Rev.  S.  B.  Wylie. 

Languages. — Rev.  W.  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D. 

Art,  Science  and  Philosophy. — Rev.  S.  W.  Reigart,  D.  D. 

Theology. — Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D. 

ChurchHistory. — Rev.  John  D.  Blake. 

English  Bible. — Rev.  A.  L.  Jackson. 

Church  Government  and  Sacraments. — Rev.  Charles  L.  Candee. 

Revision  of  Standing  Cotiimittees. — Rev.  J.  R.  Milligan,  D.  D. 

Ministers  Received- — U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D.,  Presbytery  of  West 
Jerse3%  Dec.  6th,  1912;  Henry  G.  Martin,  Presbytery  of  Chester,  Dec.  6th, 
1912;  James  M.  L.  Eckard,  Presbytery  of  Lackawanna,  Feb.  11th,  1913; 
George  L.  Smith,  Presbytery  of  West  Jersey,  April  16th,  1913;  John  Ben- 
amin  Isaacs,  Presbytery  of  Chester,  July  9th,  1913 ;  William  C.  Watson, 
Presbytery  of  St.  Lawrence,  Oct.  7th,  1913 ;  N.  C-  Sartorio,  Presbytery  of 
Upper  Missouri,  Presbyterian  Church  in  the  United  States,  Oct.  7th,  1913. 

Installations. — William  Clews,  Grace,  Westminster,  Md.,  Worton 
Churches,  Nov.  9th,  1912;  U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D..  West  Church,  Wil- 
mington, Dec  9th,  1912;  Henry  G.  Martin,  Rehoboth,  Md.,  Dec.  10th,  1912; 
J.  L.  Rusbridge,  Delaware  City,  Dec.  17th.  1912 :  E.  J.  Hopkins,  George- 
town, Cool  Spring,  Jan.  16th,  1913;  J.  M.  L.  Eckard,  Smyrna,  March 
nth,  1913;  J.  E.  Eggert,  Chesapeake  City,  March  20th,  1913;  J.  B.  Isaacs, 
Wil.  Gilbert,  Sept.  8th,  1913;  W.  C.  Watson,  Frankford,  Ocean  View, 
Oct.  23d,  1913. 

Pastoral  Dissolutions. — H.  Everett  Hallman,  Frankford,  Ocean  View, 
Nov.  3d,  1912;  J.  L.  Rusbridge,  Ocean  City,  for  transfer  to  Delaware 
City,  Dec.  6th,  1912;  E.  J.  Hopkins,  Elsmere,  for  transfer  to  Georgetown, 
Cool  Spring,  Dec.  6,  1912;  J.  E.  Eggert,  Felton,  Harrington,  for  transfer  to 
■Chesapeake  City,  Feb.   11th,   1913;  William  Crawford,   Port  Deposit,   for 

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transfer  to  Green  Hill,  in  effect  Oct.  31st,  1913. 

Ministers  DismisA^d. — H.  E.  Halleman,  to  the  Presbytery  of  Carlisle, 
Oct.  29th,  1912;  Thomas  de  Pamphilis,  to  the  Presbytery  of  Upper  Mis- 
souri, Presbyterian  Church  iii  the  United  States,  April  16th,  1913;  Wm. 
H.  Bancroft,  to  the  Presbytery  of  Chester,  Oct.  8th,  1913. 

Fresbyttfrial  Pastor-Evangelist. — Joel  S.  Gilfillan,  D.  D.,  June  1st,  1913. 

J.  R  MiLLiGAN,  Stated  Clerk. 

WASHINGTON   CITY   PRESBYTERY. 

Ministers,  60;  Churches,  30;  Communicants,  10,084;  Ruling  Elders, 
:216;  Deacons,  136;  Local  Evangelist,  1;  Licentiate,  1;  Candidates,  3; 
Sunday  School  Members,  8,444. 

Officers — Moderator,  Rev.  Hubert  Rex  Johnson ;  Vice  Moderator, 
Rev.  James  W.  Wightman,  D.  D;  Stated  Clerk,  Rev.  T.  E.  Davis; 
Permanent   Clerk,  Rev.   George  M.  Cummings. 

Chairmen  of  Standing  Committees 

Home  Missions — Rev.  Henr}   E.  Brundage,  D.  D. 

Foreign  Missions — Rev.  Alfred  E.  Barrows. 

Education — Rev.  George  M.  Cummings. 

Publication  and  Sunday  School  Work — Rev.  T.  C.  Clark,  D.  D. 

ChurcJi  Erection — Rev.  Robert  Robinson. 

Ministerial  R'^clief  and  Sustentation — Rev.  George  Robinson,  D.  D. 

Freedmcn — Rev.  Joseph  T.  Kelly,  D.  D. 

College  Board — Rev.  James  W.  Wightman,  D.  D. 

Temperance — Rev.  T.  Davis  Richards,  D.  D. 

American  Bible  Society — -Rev.  Samuel  A.  Bower. 

Young  People's  Societies — Rev.  Edward  N.  Kirby. 

Men's  Societies — Elder  Harry  S.  Irwin. 

Evangelistic  Committee — Rev.  J.  Harvey  Dunham. 

Presbyterial  Sustentation — Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok. 

Religious  Education — Rev.  Harry  B.  Angus. 

Sabbath  Observance — Elder  Judge  Stanton  J.  Peelle. 

Change  of  Residence — The  Stated  Clerk. 
Examination  of  Candidates. 

Languages — Rev.  W.  H.  Bates,  D.  D. 

Theology — Rev.  Arthur  W.  Spooner,  D.  D. 

Church  History — Rev.  C.  Everest  Granger,  D.  D. 

English  Bible— Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  D.  D. 

Church  Government  and  Sacratncnts — Rev.  Henry  Rumer,  D.  D. 

Ministers  Receiz'cd — Alfred  E.  Barrows,  December  2,  1912,  Pres- 
bytery of  Brooklyn;  John  Carpenter  Palmer,  D.  D.,  December  2,  1912, 
Presbytery  of  New  York;  John  Edgar  Winne,  June  2,  1913,  Classis  of 
5chenectady;  William  Irwin  Campbell,  June  2,  1913,  Presbytery  of 
Chillicothe;  McLeod  Harvey,  Ph.D.,  October  14,  1913,  Presbytery  of 
Providence. 

Licentiate  Recciz'cd — Howard  James  Bell,  December  2,  1912,  Pres- 
bytery of  Philadelphia. 

Candidates  Received — William  Albert  Eisenberger,  June  2,  1913. 
Presbytery  of  New  Brunswick ;  George  F.  McMiller,  15th  Street  Church, 
Presbytery  of  Washington  City. 

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Licensed — Lemuel  S.  A.  McCallum,  April  15,  1913;  William  Albright 
Eisenberger,  June   3,   1913 

Ordained — Howard  James  Bell,  December  2,  1912,  William  Al- 
bright Eisenberger,  June  10,  1913,  William  Wallace  Mc.Cary,  June  15, 
1913. 

Ministers  Released — Rev.  Thomas  B.  Thompson,  March  24,  191 3, 
Sherwood  Church;  Rev.  Charles  A  Thompson,  June  2,  1^913,  Fairmount 
Heights  Church;  Rev.  David  A.  Reed,  June  2,  1913,  Riverdale  Church; 
Rev.  Donald  C  MacLeod,  DD.,  June  23,  1913,  First  Church  of  Wash- 
ington  City. 

Ministers  Installed — Rev.  John  C.  Palmer,  D.D.,  December  15. 
1913,  Washington  Heights  Church;  Rev.  Alfred  E.  Barrows,  December 
17,  1913,  Eastern  Church;  Rev.  William  L  Campbell,  June  XI,  1913, 
Sherwood  Church;  Rev  William  W  McCary,  June  15,  1913,  Fairmount 
Heights  Church. 

Ministers  Dismissed — Rev.  Zed  Hetzel  Copp,  December  2,  1912, 
Presbytery  of  Philadelphia;  Rev.  James  Kelly  Argo,  May  5,  1913, 
Presbytery  of  Kittaning;  Rev.  Donald  C.  MacLeod,  D.D.,  June  23, 
1913,  Presbytery  of  Springfield. 

Ministers  Dvceased — Rev.  Henian  Hoyt  Allen,  D.D.,  June  17, 
1913,  aged  84;  Rev.  Benjamin  Franklin  Bittinger,  D.D.,  September  19,. 
1913,  aged  89. 

Rev.  Titus  Elwood  Davis,  Staged  Clerk. 


The  Stated  Clerk  was  instructed  to  have  500  copies  of  the 
Minutes  printed,  and  to  send  copies  to  the  Elders,  who  are 
commissioners,  as  well  as  to  those  already  being  supplied. 

On  motion  the  amendment  to  the  Standing  Rules  pro- 
posed last  year  was  laid  on  the  table. 

The  Stated  Clerk  reported  that  as  a  result  of  efforts  to 
obtain  a  complete  file  of  the  minutes  of  Synod,  the  only  suc- 
cess thus  far  was  in  receiving  from  the  Presbyterian  Historical 
Society,  Rev.  Joseph  Brown  Turner,  Secretary,  the  following: 
1854-1857,  1867-1868,  1874,  1888-1889.  These  include  the  Min- 
utes of  the  first  four  meetings  of  Synod.  The  file  in  the  hands 
of  the  Clerk  now  consists  of  1854-1857,  1867-1868,  1874-1879, 
1881,  1888-1912.  If  any  of  the  missing  issues  can  be  supplied  the 
Synod  will  be  aided  thereby  in  completing  its  file  for  binding. 

The  Stated  Clerk  reported  the  approval  of  the  certified  copy 
of  the  Minutes  of  1912  by  the  General  Assembly. 

The  Committee  on  Rules  appointed  at  last  meeting  re- 
ported recommending  that  no  action  be  taken  at  present,  and 
the  recommendation  was  adopted. 


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I 


SYNODICAL  EFFICIENCY. 

The  Committee  on  Synodical  Efficiency,  Rev.  Wallace 
Tiadcliffe,  D.  D.,  Chairman,  reported  as  follows : 

We  offer  recommendations  as  to  the  better  organization 
of  the  Synod,  and  also  as  to  the  increased  efficiency  of  our 
work. 

I.     As  to  organization  of  Synod. 

We  believe  that  the  General  Assembly  should  re-district 
this  Synod  so  that  it  shall  consist  of  five  Presbyteries,  and  sug- 
gest the  following  as  feasible  lines  of  partitions  : 

1.  Presbytery  of  Baltimore,  including  the  Counties  of 
Baltimore,  Harford.  Anne  Arundel,  IToward  and  Calvert. 

2.  Presbytery  of  Cumberland,  or  Western  Maryland,  in- 
•cluding  the  County  of  Carroll  and  all  of  the  State  of  Maryland 
Avest  thereof. 

0.  Presbytery  of  New  Castle,  including  the  Counties  of 
the  State  of  Delaware  and  the  Count}^  of  Cecil,  in  the  State  of 
]Mar)dand. 

4-.  Presbytery  of  Eastern  Shore,  or  Snow  Hill,  or  Maka- 
mie,  including"  the  Counties  of  Kent.  Queen  Anne,  Talbot,  Car- 
oline, Dorchester,  Wicomico,  Somerset  and  Worcester. 

5.  Presbytery  of  Washington  City,  including  the  Dis- 
trict of  Columbia,  the  northern  cluster  of  the  Counties  of  the 
State  of  \'irginia,  and  the  Counties  of  St.  Mary's,  Charles,  Mont- 
gomery and  Prince  Georges,  of  the  State  of  Mar3dand. 

II.  That  action  upon  this  recommendation  be  postponed 
imtil  the  next  meeting  of  Synod — 191-1 — in  order  to  secure  for 
it  full  consideration  by  the  respective  Presbyteries  in  the  in- 
tervening period. 

III.  As  to  the  methods  of  business  in  Synod : 

We  recommend  the  following  amendments  to  the  Stand- 
ing Rules  : 

1.  In  Standing  Rnle  I  strike  out  "Monday"  and  insert 
■"Tuesday." 

3.  Add  to  Standing  Rule  II  the  following:  "And  these 
officers  shall  constitute  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Synod." 

3.  In  Standing  Rule  VII,  in  place  of  the  words  "to  serve 
at  the  pleasure  of  the  Synod."  insert  the  words  "by  the  Exec- 
iitive  Committee,  the  initial  appointments  to  be  in  classes  of 

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one,  two  and  three  years,  and  their  successors  to  serve  the 
full  term  of  three  years." 

Insert  at  the  end  of  the  list,  "17,  Docket."  And  also  "No 
person  having  served  the  full  term  of  three  years  upon  any 
Standing  Committee  shall  be  eligible  for  reappointment  on 
said  Committee  until  after  the  expiration  of  one  full  term'. 
The  Executive  Committee  shall  also  designate  the  Chairmen 
of  these  respective  Committees."  Erase  the  words  "that  the 
Chairmen  of  the  Presbyterial  Committees  be  as  far  as  possible 
placed  upon  the  corresponding  Committees  of  Synod." 

4.  In  Standing  Rule  XI,  in  place  of  the  words  "of  Ar- 
rangements," insert  "on  Docket."  After  the  words  "evening 
meetings"  add  the  words  "or  Institutes."  Add  at  the  end  the 
words  "or  the  mission  work  of  Church." 

In  the  same  Rule  insert  after  the  first  clause  the  words 
"and  transmit  to  the  Stated  Clerk  a  copy  thereof  for  distribu- 
tion with  the  notice  of  the  meeting  of  Synod  a  least  two  weeks 
before  said  annual  meeting  of  Synod." 

Also,  strike  out  the  word  "Tuesday"  and  insert  "Wednes- 
day," and  in  the  next  succeeding  line  strike  out  "Wednesday" 
and  insert  "Thursday." 

IV.  We  recommend  that  the  Stated  Clerk,  with  the 
Chairman  of  this  Committee,  be  instructed  to  make  the  nec- 
essary changes  in  the  printed  copies  of  the  Standing  Rules  for 
1913. 

The  Report  was  received,  Section  II,  postponing  action 
on  Section  I,  was  adopted,  and  Sections  III  and  IV.  were  im- 
mediately adopted.  In  accordance  with  the  instruction  of 
Section  IV,  Rule  IV  is  changed  to  read  as  follows :  "The 
Stated  Clerk  shall  give  due  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of 
every  meeting  of  the  Synod,  and  he  shall  send  out  a  copy  of 
the  Docket  with  the  notice  of  the  meeting  not  less  than  ten 
days  before  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Synod." 

In  Rule  X  "of  Arrangements"  is  stricen  out  and  "on 
Docket"  is  inserted. 

In  taking  the  above  action  on  the  report  the  Committee 
was  continued  for  another  year.     The  Standing  Rules  as  printed; 
this  year  conform  to  the  above  action. 

The  Rev.  John  Fox,  D.  D.,  General  Secretary  of  the  Amer- 
ican Bible  Society,  addressed  the  Synod  in  behalf  of  the  Society. 

In  place  of  the  address  on  the  American  Tract  Society  which , 

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was  to  have  been  given  by  the  Secretary,  Rev.  Jiidson  Smith,  D. 
D.,  who  had  not  been  able  to  be  present,  the  following  resolution 
was  presented  and  adopted : 

AMERICAN  TRACT  SOCIETY. 

Resohrd,  That  the  Synod  reaffirms  its  former  endorsements 
of  the  work  of  the  American  Tract  Society.  It  believes  the 
printed  page  to  be  one  of  the  essential  instrumentalities  in  reap- 
ing the  world-wide  fields  already  white  unto  the  harvest.  It  re- 
joices in  the  ever-increasing  quantity  of  Christian  literature  that 
the  Society  has  furnished  and  distributed  in  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  languages  and  dialects  in  the  vernacular  at  the  for- 
eign mission  stations  and  in  the  languages  of  the  millions  of  im- 
migrants coming  to  our  shores,  as  well  as  for  the  non-church- 
going  of  our  English-speaking  population.  The  Synod  enter- 
tains the  hope  and  shares  the  conviction  that  the  income  for  this 
line  of  evangelistic  and  missionary  service  will  be  greatly  in- 
creased. We  are  pleased  to  look  upon  it  as  one  of  our  agencies 
in  its  effort  to  help  proclaim  the  Gospel  to  every  creature.  We 
commend  the  Society  to  our  churches  as  worthy  of  our  liberal 
and  regular  contributions  and  testamentary  gifts. 

The  Committee  on  Publication  and  Sabbath  School  Work, 
Rev.  T.  C.  Clark,  D.  D.,  Chairman,  presented  the  following  re- 
port, which  was  received  and  its  resolutions  were  adopted : 

PUBLICATION  AND  SABBATH  SCHOOL  WORK. 

The  nestor  of  the  Board  of  Home  Alissions,  Dr.  Charles  L. 
Thompson,  once  suggestively  declared  his  belief  that  a  mingling 
of  nationalities  on  this  continent  would  produce  the  finest  type 
of  man  the  world  has  ever  known,  and  that  Christianity  itself 
would  be  the  stronger  for  the  incoming  multitudes,  and  that  a 
live  Christian  people  could  absorb  millions  a  year. 

The  millions  are  here.  Millions  are  still  coming.  Shall  the 
type  of  their  manhood  be  the  finest?  Shall  the  Church  and  the 
country  be  enriched  by  the  Christianizing  of  these  people?  This 
is  the  question  facing  Christian  America  at  this  moment.  It  was 
an  important  question  20  years  ago;  it  was  an  urgent  question 
10  years  ago;  today,  it  is  vital.  The  impact  of  immigration  means 
accellerated  impulse  onward,  upward,  outward,  or  else  it  means 
reaction,  recoil,  revolution.  These  millions  will  make  or  mar. 
We  as  a  nation  will  progress  or  regress.     Which  shall  it  be? 

The  Board  of  Publication  and  Sunday  School  Work  is  solv- 
ing some  of  the  difficulties  of  the  immigration  problem,  though 

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as  yet  it  is  in  its  beginning-s.  By  its  literature  it  endeavors  to 
welcome  and  introduce  the  foreigner  to  the  thought  and  the  life 
of  a  Christian  civilization,  and  a  heart-religion  free  from  ecclesi- 
astical domination.  Already  it  has  its  publications  in  five  dif- 
ferent languages;  scripture  cards  in  many  more  languages,  with 
a  circulation  of  20,000  per  week ;  its  twenty-five  colporteurs  vis- 
iting last  year  35,000  families,  giving  out  many  thousands  of 
religious  books  and  tracts,  besides  Bibles  and  parts  of  Scriptures 
in  the  several  languages  of  the  fatherlands — all  this,  telling 
mightily  in   Americanizing  and  Christianizing  these   foreigners. 

Then,  there  is  the  immense  American-born  multitude.  Think 
of  it !  Churchless  children  in  Christ-less  homes  all  over  the  land 
— in  California  and  Nevada,  180,000  of  them;  in  Kansas,  400,- 
•000;  in  West  Virginia,  80  per  cent,  of  the  population  outside  of 
Sunday  School  influences.  On  good  authority  we  are  told  that 
within  a  single  year  more  than  100,000  settlers  took  up  homes  in 
Washington,  Oregon,  Idaho  and  Montana  who  were  so  remote 
they  from  all  church  influences,  that  Sunday  Schools  were  their 
only  source  of  religious  supply,  and  these  few  and  far  between. 
Similar  conditions  are  reported  in  Iowa,  Georgia  and  elsewhere. 
Hundreds  and  thousands  of  children  and  youths  scattered  over 
the  dreary  prairies  of  the  West  and  the  lonely  mountains  of  the 
South,  crowded  and  herded  like  cattle  in  certain  dense  districts 
in  New  York,  Chicago  and  other  great  centers.  These  multi- 
tudes of  children  must  be  g'athered  into  places  of  religious  in- 
struction if  they  are  to  be  saved  for  Christ  and  the  Church  and 
trained  in  Christian  citizenship.  Through  its  missionaries  the 
Board  endeavors  to  place  Sunday  Schools  within  the  reach  of 
this  mass  of  youthful  humanity,  organizing,  classifying,  simplify- 
ing, adapting  its  methods  to  the  conditions  and  necessities  of  the 
more  than  one  million  youth  needing  Christian  training.  These 
120  missionaries,  the  advance  guards  of  religious  instruction, 
plucky,  courageous,  full  of  grace  and  of  grit,  seizing  strategic 
points,  leaving  behind  them  as  they  go  and  come  Sunday  Schools 
scattered  through  the  wastes  of  forest  or  prairie,  maned  and 
womaned,  gladly  welcomed  by  grateful  parents,  and  the  fore- 
runners of  the  hundreds  of  churches  now  dotting-  the  land. 

But  the  time  is  ripe  for  advanced  steps.  The  Board  is  con- 
fronted with  the  herculean  task  of  the  Christian  education  of 
our  American  youth.  This  is  the  immense  problem  it  is  now 
endeavoring-  to  .solve.  The  home  has  largely  relinquished  this 
task,  relegating  it  to  the  Sunday  School.  Parents  are  turning 
over  to  the  Sunday   School  teacher  the  Christian  education  of 

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their  children.  Of  course,  there  must  always  be  organization, 
enlargement — the  placing  and  the  manning  of  schools  all  over 
the  land — for  never  was  the  call  louder,  with  half  of  the  child- 
hood of  America  still  outside  of  Sunday  School.  Thus,  not  only 
but  also,  must  there  be  thorough  equipment,  careful  instruction, 
educational  opportunity,  fuller,  freer,  more  refined  than  ever 
before  attempted.  Never  was  the  need  greater  for  thoroughly 
trained  teachers.  And  not  yet  is  it  laid  on  the  hearts  of  God's 
people  His  need  for  their  talents  in  the  Christian  culture  and 
care  of  our  youth.  These  days  of  heroic  endurance  and  striving 
on  the  firing  line  are  days  of  prevention.  Better  far  is  it  to  save 
the  boys  and  girls  through  the  Sunday  School  than  to  rescue 
them  from  lives  of  sin  later  in  years.  To  save  and  to  train  our 
destitute  youth  for  God  and  our  country,  to  give  them  Christian 
instruction,  to  lead  them  into  the  Kingdom,  to  make  them  God- 
fearing men  and  women — this  is  the  work  undertaken  by  the 
Board ;  these  the  results  already  achieved. 

But  what  shall  we  say  of  the  nearer  view?  Facing  about, 
what  is  disclosed  in  the  local  schools  with  which  we  have  to  do? 
Your  committee  is  utterly  unable  to  bring  to  you  anything  worth 
while,  based  on  known  conditions.  But,  in  a  general  way,  our 
Sunday  Schools  seem  to  be  normal.  Indications  point  to  earnest, 
single-minded  efforts  in  organizing,  energizing,  vitalizing  the 
Sunday  School  life  within  the  bounds  of  the  Synod.  This,  too, 
in  the  face  and  in  spite  of  agencies  diverting,  demoralizing,  de- 
vitalizing. 

The  ubiquitous  picture-show  beckons  the  boy,  fascinates  the 
girl,  and  both  are  drawn  as  by  a  mighty  magnet.  One  of  our 
most  thoroughly  organized  Sunday  Schools  attributes  a  large 
decrease  in  its  offerings  to  this  cause.  The  Sunday  newspaper, 
with  its  so-called  "funny  page,"  diverts  the  mind  both  of  the 
man  in  his  non-age  and  man  in  his  dotage ;  often  debauches  with 
its  course  cartoons,  its  escapades,  its  slanderous  suggestions,  its 
startling  headlines — ^all  this  dissipates  serious  thought  and  ob- 
literates spiritual  impressions.  Yet,  in  spite  of  it  all,  our  Sun- 
day School  conditions,  we  repeat,  seem  to  be  about  normal  after 
all. 

The  world-wide  attraction  of  the  Boy  Scout  movement;  the 
various  "club,"  or  "league,"  or  "fraternity,"  features  which  ap- 
peal to  the  boy's  imagination  and  to  his  latent  manhood ;  the 
splendid  equipment  and  promise  of  the  Boys'  Branch  of  the 
Y.  M.  C.  A.. — all  this  has  a  tremendous  influence  on  the  boy  na- 

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ture  everywhere — and  yet  the  boys  are  in  the  Sunday  Schools. 
The  secularizing  of  the  life  of  the  boy  and  girl  at  school,  with 
all  too  often  little  or  no  recognition  of  any  religious  obligation; 
at  home,  with  very  limited,  if  any,  religious  impression  attempted  ; 
a  seven-day-week  irreligious,  irresponsible  training,  breaking 
down  the  sense  of  moral  responsibility,  destructive  as  it  is  demor- 
alizing— yet,  in  spite  of  it  all,  our  Sunday  Schools  seem  to  be  in 
normal  condition,  with  generally  increased  enrollment  and  aug- 
mented efficiency,  so  far  as  can  be  noted  from  any  data  at  hand. 

Your  committee  notes  with  pleasure  the  introduction  of  the 
"New  Sunday  School  Standard."  It  is  proposed  to  push  the 
adoption  of  this  "Standard"  generally  throughout  our  Sunday 
Schools.  Leaflets  on  each  of  its  ten  points  of  excellence,  with 
suggestions  as  to  how  they  may  be  attained,  can  be  had  without 
charge  from  the  Board. 

Your  committee  would  urge  upon  all  Sessions  the  giving  of 
more  attention  to  the  Sunday  School  work.  The  Church  should 
come  into  closer  touch  with  the  Sunday  School.  The  Church  of 
tomorrow  is  in  the  Sunday  School  of  today.  The  Sunday  School 
of  today  has  in  training  the  man  and  the  woman  of  tomorrow. 
Money  and  men  now  put  into  Sunday  School  work  will  put  men 
and  money  into  the  Church-life  by  and  by.  The  Session  should 
recognize  in  the  Sunday  School  the  field  waiting  to  be  tilled,  the 
source  of  supply  needing  to  be  augmented,  the  training-school  in 
which  to  prepare  future  leaders  for  Christian  work. 

How  can  the  boys  be  tied  to  the  Sunday  School  and  Church, 
is  the  vital  problem  we  face.  To  this  problem  more  attention 
must  be  paid  by  the  officiary  of  our  churches.  What  special 
duties  can  be  assigned  to  them  ?  How  can  they  be  best  organized 
and  trained  and  interested?  What  about  "leagues"  and  "clubs" 
and  "organized  classes"  and  the  like?  How  are  the  non-attend- 
ing boys  to  be  secured?  Is  a  special  training-class  for  teachers 
of  boys  a  practicable  thing  in  many  Sunday  Schools?  Brethren,, 
the  supreme  task  of  the  Church  is  in  the  Sunday  School.  The 
supreme  work  of  the  Sunday  School  is  the  boy.  The  home  niusi 
be  near  neighbor  to  the  Sunday  School.  The  value  of  special 
effort  to  enlist  parents  in  the  work  of  the  Sunday  School  is  earn- 
estly suggested.  By  mutual  acquaintance  of  teacher  and  parent, 
by  social  appointments  under  the  auspices  of  the  Sunday  School 
officers  and  Sessions,  the  home-life  of  the  scholar  is  brought  into 
his  Sunday  School  life,  the  home  and  the  school  draw  nearer- 
together,  a  bond  of  sympathy  between  parent  and  teacher  is 
created  in  the  supreme  effort  to  train  and  save  the  child  for  the 

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Church.  We  have  in  each  one  of  our  churches  a  field,  if  not 
already  ripe  for  the  harvest,  a  least  ready  for  careful,  prayerful, 
intelligent  soul-culture  and  soul-saving.  The  end  and  aim  of 
the  Sunday  School  in  the  saving  of  a  pupil  for  a  life  of  Chris- 
tian usefulness. 

The  Board  would  emphasize  a  "Teachers'  Training  Course." 
Several  works  on  the  subject  are  among  their  later  books.  (The 
Sunday  Schools  are  urged  to  establish  classes  for  the  training 
of  teachers.)  Trained  teachers  are  becoming  more  and  more 
essential.  The  "Graded  Less  ons"  are  now  prepared  for  all 
grades  and  have  been  received  with  growing  adaptability.  Reg- 
ular promotion  days  are  being  observed,  with  the  use  of  ofificial 
certificates  presented  to  each  scholar  completing  the  required 
lesson-course  assigned  to  the  several  departments. 

"On  the  Firing-Line"  is  among  the  latest  additions  to  the 
Board's  mission-study  text-books.  It  overflows  with  latest  data 
from  the  front,  and  is  an  authority  on  the  difficulties,  the  ex- 
periences, the  perplexities  and  the  victories  of  the  Sunday  School 
missionary. 

One  Presbytery,  New  Castle,  has  successfully  carried  on 
pastoral  visiting  under  the  direction  of  its  Sunday  School  com- 
mittee with  great  profit,  it  is  reported,  to  the  committee  and, 
it  is  hoped,  to  the  schools  also.  So  far  no  successful  attempt  has 
been  possible  looking  to  the  conducting  of  "Institutes"  in  con- 
nection with  the  Presbyterial  meetings.  A  profitable  "Confer- 
ence" was  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  Washington  City  Pres- 
bytery a  few  weeks  ago  in  the  interests  of  Christian  education, 
with  addresses  by  Dr.  Worden,  of  our  Board ;  Dr.  Cochran,  of 
the  Board  of  Education,  and  Secretary  W.  J.  Bryan,  of  the  Pres- 
ident's Cabinet,  with  a  large  and  interested  hearing. 

Your  committee  would  recommend  for  adoption  the  follow- 
ing resolutions: 

FIRST — That,  under  the  direction  of  each  Church  Session, 
whenever  possible,  a  study  of  the  educational  work  of  the  church 
be  taken  up,  looking  to  the  adoption  of  a  unified  plan  for  the 
development  of  Christian  education  in  the  Sunday  Schools  and 
church  societies. 

SECOND — That  each  church,  so  far  as  possible,  co-operate 
with  the  Board  in  developing  this  important  work,  and  in  adopt-' 
ing  the  plans  which  the  Board  will  furnish  upon  application. 

THIRD — That  each  church  and  Sunday  School  endeavor  to 
observe  Home  Mission  Week  in  November,  the  topic  of  which  is 

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"New  America  for  New  Americans,"  with  special  reference  ta 
the  work  of  the  Board  in  behalf  of  foreigners. 

FOURTH — That  an  increase  of  25%  over  last  year's  offer- 
ing- be  attempted  by  each  church  and  Sunday  School  in  support 
of  the  pioneer  Sunday  school  for  the  saving  of  our  boys  and  girls 
and  the  Christianizing  of  our  country. 

(Signed)     Thomas  C.  Clark,  Chairman. 

The  report  was  followed  by  an  address  by  Rev.  Alexander 
Henry.  D.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  Board. 

Request  was  made  and  granted  to  change  the  hour  for  the 
report  of  the  Committee  on  Church  Erection  to  Wednesday  aft- 
ernoon following  the  report  on  Sabbath  Observance. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Freedmen's  Board,  Rev. 
John  D.  Blake,  Chairman,  was  presented  and  accepted. 

FREEDMEN. 

The  receipts  of  the  Board  during  the  past  year  were  $233,- 
729.58,  a  decrease  of  some  $2i,cxx)  as  compared  with  the  year  be- 
fore. While  on  account  of  this  shrinkage,  due  to  a  falling  off 
in  legacies  and  miscellaneous  sources,  no  forward  step  was  taken, 
yet  the  ground  already  occupied  was  held,  and  mat  without  in- 
curring any  debt.  There  was  even  a  slight  increase  in  the  number 
of  ministers  and  churches,  teachers  and  schools  on  the  roll.  Their 
support  does  not  call  for  the  payment  of  salaries  merely,  but  in 
addition  for  the  making  of  repairs,  adding  to  buildings  and  equip- 
ment and  the  purchase  of  new  property.  Eleven  churches  were 
aided  in  the  securing  and  repairing  houses  of  worship,  two  school 
buildings  were  erected  and  three  others  already  begun  were  coin 
pleted.  No  other  agency  of  the  church  has  a  wider  and  more 
varied  scope  of  activity.  The  substantial  and  permanent  nature 
of  the  work  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  the  invested  funds  and 
the  value  of  the  school  and  church  property  employed  amount  to 
$1,831,610.09.  Do  the  results  obtained  justify  this  large  invest- 
ment? 

A  recent  publication  of  Atlanta  University  classifies  the 
negroes  into  three  economic  groups :  f  i )  the  independents — 
farmers,  teachers,  professional  men  and  women ;  (2)  the  strug- 
gling artisans,  servants,  farm  tenants;  r3)  common  laborers.  It 
is  among  the  first  two  groups,  numbering  nearly  two  million  soub, 
that  the  Board  principally  has  its  field.  It  does  not  have  to  force 
its  way  into  an  unfriendly  soil,  but  it  goes  to  those  eager  to  take  ad- 
vatage  of  the  opportunities  it  offers.    The  truth  of  this  statement 

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is  borne  out  in  the  case  of  the  schools  by  the  fact  that  in  all  grades 
last  year  there  were  one  thousand  more  pupils  than  the  year  be- 
fore. The  demands  of  the  progressive  element  among  the  col- 
ored people  are  not  met  by  mere  elementary  training,  but  they  seek 
for  education  that  will  fit  them  for  successful  participation  in  all 
the  walks  of  life,  and  this  need  the  Board  is  striving  to  supply. 
Sixteen  of  the  one  hundred  and  thirty-six  schools  give  secondary 
or  collegiate  training.  Not  only  the  response  of  the  beneficiaries, 
but  also  such  an  appeal  as  that  of  the  Southern  Sociological  Con- 
gress at  its  late  meeting  for  better  negro  schools  and  better- 
trained  negro  teachers  indicates  the  possibilities  in  this  direction. 

The  Farm  Homes  Scheme,  near  Keysville,  Ga.,  is  still  in  the 
trial  stage.  Through  the  generosity  of  the  Harbison  estate  762 
acres  of  land  have  been  acquired  near  Irmo,  S.  C,  for  an  exten- 
sion of  the  plan.  The  number  who  will  be  directly  helped  in  a 
financial  way  will  probably  not  be  large,  but  the  moral  influence 
of  communities  composed  of  picked  members  will  be  widespread. 

As  a  result  of  the  evangelistic  work  among  the  churches 
there  were  1,852  additions  on  examination,  an  increase  of  310 
over  the  previous  year,  and  a  larger  percentage  of  growth  than 
obtained  in  the  church  at  large.  The  work  of  tne  special  evan- 
gelist, Rev.  J.  J.  Wilson,  met  with  such  success  that  it  is  planned 
to  have  at  least  one  additional  evangelist  in  the  field  during  the 
current  year. 

It  is  a  splendid  work  that  the  Board  is  doing  with  careful, 
energetic  and  sympathetic  management.  It  is  the  duty  of  the 
church  not  only  abundantly  to  furnish  its  support,  but  to  "educate 
a  public  sentiment  that  will  make  possible  to  the  colored  young 
men  and  women  an  adequate  use  of  the  training  which  our  mis- 
sionaries have  worked  so  hard  to  give  them." 

This  Synod  gave  to  the  cause  from  all  sources  $2,390.36, 
which  is  a  very  slight  increase.  Of  this  amount,  $905.79  came 
from  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore,  $473.77  came  from  the  Presby- 
tery of  New  Castle,  $1,010.80  came  from  the  Presbytery  of  Wash- 
ington City.  It  is  highly  creditable  to  the  Women's  Societies  that 
they  supplied  slightly  more  than  one-quarter  of  the  entire  sum. 
Sunday  schools  gave  $37.69  and  Young  People's  Societies  $26. 
There  is  a  delinquent  list  of  49  churches,  Washington  City  Pres- 
bytery being  the  least  guilty  in  this  regard.  The  Board  stands 
at  the  bottom  of  the  Synod's  column  of  benevolences  in  the 
amount  received.  While  the  Synod  stands  twelfth  in  the  commu- 
nicant roll  of  the  church,  it  is  only  fourteenth  in  its  contributions 
to  this  cause.  Are  our  churches  meeting  the  measure  of  their  re- 
sponsibility? John  D.  Blake,  Chamnan.  ...■ 

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The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  Narrative  of  Christian 
Life  and  Work,  presented  by  Rev.  F.  H.  Moore,  D.  D.,  Chairman, 
was  received  and  is  as  follows : 

NARRATIVE 

Dear  Fathers  and  Brethren  : 

Your  Committee  on  the  Narrative  of  the  State  of  Religion 
within  the  bounds  of  our  Synod  would  report  that  the  number 
of  communicants  received  upon  profession  of  faith  during  the 
last  year  was  1,399,  a  gain  over  the  preceding  year  of  193.  The 
Presbyteries  of  Baltimore  and  New  Castle  showed  marked  ad- 
v,ances,  and  the  Presbytery  of  Washington  City  reported  a  de- 
crease of  only  ten,  377  accessions  as  contrasted  with  387  in  the 
previous  year. 

The  great  majority  of  our  Churches  have  been  supplied  with 
preaching,  and  two  services  have  usually  been  held  on  Sundays, 
and  the  Sacraments  have  been  administered  in  almost  all  of  our 
Churches. 

Faithful  work  has  been  done  in  our  Sunday  Schools,  and 
we  note  with  gratitude  that  a  very  large  number  of  our  new  com- 
municants have  come  from  our  schools,  and  great  efforts  are 
being  made  by  our  Sunday  School  Board  to  increase  the  efftciency 
of  the  labors  of  our  faithful  officers  and  teachers  who  are  identi- 
fied with  this  important  work  of  our  Church. 

Concerning  the  benevolences  of  the  Church,  your  Committee 
believes  that  almost  all  of  the  Churches  have  contributed  to  each 
of  the  Boards  of  our  Church,  and  when  blanks  exist  in  columns, 
the  absence  of  a  pastor  will  in  most  cases  explain  the  failure  of 
the  Church  to  contribute  to  every  Board.  We  note  with  pleasure 
advances  in  the  contributions  of  our  Churches  to  the  imporant 
Boards  of  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  the  amounts  contributed 
to  the  Home  Board  during  the  last  year  being  $61,176,  as  con- 
trasted with  the  191 2  report  of  $59,981,  and  the  amount  given  to 
the  Foreign  Board  being  $42,399,  as  contrasted  with  $41,598. 

Indications  are  in  evidence  that  the  problem  of  holding  the 
boys  and  methods  of  securing  their  interest  in  Church  work  is 
engaging  the  serious  thought  of  some  of  our  ministers  and  elders, 
and  we  trust  that  the  importance  of  this  problem  may  engage  the 
serious  consideration  of  us  all. 

The  work  of  enlisting  the  men  of  our  Church  in  concentrated 
effort  through  Brotherhoods  and  similar  organizations  is  encour- 
aging, but  there  is  a  great  disparity  between  the  numbers  of  men 
in  Brotherhoods  and  the  numbers  of  women  organized  in  the  in- 

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terests  of  our  several  Boards  and  of  the  temporal  afifairs  of  our 
■Church. 

The  reports  indicate  that  the  parents  are  generally  faithful 
in  presenting  their  children  for  Christian  Baptism,  but  we  report 
with  deep  regret  that  we  fear  that  in  very  many  homes  the  family 
altar  is  either  obsolete  or  obsolescent.  We  hope  and  pray  that  the 
family  altar  may  be  revived. 

And  we  at  this  point  remind  you  of  the  very  significant  fact 
that  when  in  England  the  Churches  for  several  years  were  re- 
cording accessions  either  at  a  standstill  or  reporting  actual  de- 
clines in  Church  membership,  yet  the  Roman  Catholic  Bishop  of 
Liverpool  reported  very  large  accessions  to  his  Church,  and  he 
attributed  the  increase  to  the  thorough  systematic  instrucion  of 
the  children. 

The  British  Weekly  also  called  attention  to  the  fact  that 
when  the  Churches  were  lamenting  the  decline  in  membership, 
Church  congresses  and  conventions  were  unusually  numerous, 
and  the  same  paper  significantly  declared  that  the  increase  of 
power  and  Church  membership  was  to  be  expected  from  faithful, 
prayerful,  consecrated  work  in  the  individual  Churches. 

Brethren,  we  all  hold  the  great  historic  facts  of  our  holy  re- 
ligion; we  all  accept  the  supernatural  element  of  the  Holy  Scrip- 
tures ;  we  all  believe  in  the  Holy  Ghost !  Let  us,  therefore,  in  ac- 
cordance with  the  earnest  entreaty  of  our  General  Assembly, 
make  the  year  one  of  prayer  to  the  throne  of  the  heavenly  grace, 
and  may  we  all  rejoice  as  we  behold  the  great  Head  of  the  Church 
confirming  the  word  that  it  is  not  by  might  nor  by  power,  but  by 
my  Spirit,  saith  the  Lord,  and  with  gratitude  behold  accessions 
to  our  Churches  and  the  increase  of  their  spiritual  efficiency. 
All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 

F.  H.  Moore,  Chairman. 

The  Synod  was  then  led  in  prayer  by  Rev.  Henry  Rumer,  D. 
D..  after  which  Rev.  T.  S.  Armentrout,  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  the  Memorials,  presented  the  following  report,  which 
Avas  accepted : 

MEMORIALS. 

"Precious  in  the  sight  of  the  Lord  is  the  death  of  His  saints." 
Three  mighty  men  of  God  have  finished  their  course,  fought  the 
good  fight,  and  have  been  translated  to  the  General  Assembly  of 
the  Church  of  the  first  born,  who  are  written  in  heaven ;  and 


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have  joined  the  spirits  of  the  just  made  perfect;  the  Revs.  Wm. 
C.    Maloy,    Heman    Hoyt    Allen    and    Benjamin    F.    Bittinger. 
Rev.  B  F.  Bittinger,  D  D. 

Benjamin  Franklin  Bittinger  was  born  in  Waynesboro,  Franklin 
County,  Pa.,  August  lo,  1824.  He  was  of  German  stock,  his  great  grand- 
father, Adam  Bittinger,  was  born  near  Strasburg,  emigrating  to  this 
country  in  1737  and  settling  near  Philadelphia.  The  parents  of  Benjamin 
moved  to  Georgetown,  now  West  Washington,  when  he  was  two  years 
old,  and  thus  he  became  practically  a  life-long  resident  of  this  city.  After 
the  ordinary  schooling  of  the  day,  up  to  and  including  the  age  of  16 
years,  he  entered  upon  a  commercial  life,  intending  eventually  to  prepare 
himself  for  the  study  and  practice  of  medicine.  At  the  age  of  20  he  was 
making  arrangements  to  enter  the  office  of  a  prominent  physician  in 
Georgetown  when  in  the  Providence  of  God  he  met  with  that  great  change 
of  heart  which  was  not  only  to  dominate  his  whole  personal  life,  but 
eventually  to  decide  for  him  the  great  question  of  his  mission  in  life. 
Up  to  this  time,  according  to  his  own  statement,  though  he  dwelt  in  the 
midst  of  godly  surroundings  and  was  the  object  of  the  prayers  of  a  pious 
mother,  to  whom  at  her  death  he  paid  most  loving  tribute,  he  had  re- 
mained careless  in  regard  to  spiritual  things.  But  in  a  series  of  meetings 
in  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church,  he  was  convicted  of  sin  and  ultimately 
soundly  converted  at  the  same  time  with  his  younger  brother  Michael 
after  the  Rev.  Michael  Bittinger,  who  preceded  him  in  death  but  a  few 
months  since. 

It  was  not  long  after  that  God  very  clearly  called  him  to  the  ministry 
of  the  Gospel,  and  he  entered  Princeton  Theological  Seminary  in  Septem- 
ber, 1844,  graduating  from  the  same  institution  in  May,  1847.  He  was 
licensed  to  preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore,  April  15,  1847,  and  began 
his  active  work  in  the  mining  town  of  Tamaqua,  Pa.  He  was  ordained 
by  the  Presbytery  of  Luzerne  November  2,  1847,  and  in  a  short  time  suc- 
ceeded in  organizing  a  church  and  erecting  a  building  for  the  young  enter- 
prise. He  was  pastor  of  this  charge  for  four  years,  until  March,  1851, 
during  which  time  many  were  added  to  the  Church  as  the  result  of  his 
ministry,  and  a  strong  foundation  laid  for  the  future  life  of  the  church. 
During  this  time  also  he  was  married  to  his  first  wife.  Miss  Catherine 
Melvina  Libbey,  of  Georgetown,  by  whom  he  had  three  children,  only 
one  of  them  (Dr.  Charles  Bittinger)  surviving  to  manhood  and  dying  at 
the  age  of  27  years.  After  leaving  Tamaqua  and  preaching  for  a  time 
at  Winchester,  Va-,  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  church  at  Lewins- 
ville,  Va.,  beginning  his  work  there  October  i,  1851,  and  being  installed 
May  30,  1852.  He  added  to  his  work  at  Lewinsville  by  supplying  the 
church  at  Falls  Church,  at  that  time  worshiping  in  a  school  house.  In 
December,  1856,  as  a  result  of  his  being  heard  in  the  Seventh  Street 
Church  of  this  city,  he  was  called  to  that  church,  and  in  February,  1857. 
he  was  installed  as  pastor,  thus  beginning  that  long  pastorate  which,  with 
a  brief  interruption,  was  to  be  continued  until  the  end  of  his  active  min- 
istry, and  bringing  to  the  service  of  the  Presbyterian  Church  in  this  city 
one  of  its  most  devoted  and  earnest  laborers,  and  to  the  Councils  of  the 
Church  one  of  its  wisest  and  most  careful  advisers. 

During  his  early  pastorate  his  wife  died  early  in  1859,  and  two  years 

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thereafter  he  was  again  married,  this  time  to  Miss  Elizabeth  Rodgers.  of 
Jersey  City,  the  daughter  of  Captain  John  Rodgers,  and  the  great  grand- 
daughter of  Rev.  Dr.  John  Rodgers,  the  Moderator  of  the  first  General 
Assembly  of  the  Presbyterian  Church. 

His  ministry  in  the  Seventh  Street  Church  was  interrupted  by  the 
demoralizing  effects  of  the  Civil  War,  which  depleted  the  congregation 
to  such  an  extent  that  it  seemed  best  for  him  to  give  up  the  work  for  a 
while.  From  1863  to  1867  he  was  pastor  of  the  church  at  EUicott  City, 
Md.,  but  returned  to  Washington  and  took  up  again  the  pastorate  of  the 
Seventh  Street  Church,  where  he  was  once  more  installed  January  5,  1868. 
He  was  at  this  time  in  the  very  prime  of  life,  and  he  gave  himself  with 
unremitting  diligence  and  earnestness  to  the  rehabilitation  of  the  church, 
which  had  sufifered  depletion  and  loss.  Dr.  Bittinger  was  a  faithful  and 
devoted  pastor,  as  well  as  an  able  and  convincing  preacher,  and  during 
these  years  he  has  been  eminently  successful  in  building  up  a  good  working 
church  and  ensuring  its  strong  service  for  the  years  to  come.  During 
his  ministry  the  church  steadily  increased  in  numbers  and  influence,  and 
although  from  its  location  and  from  the  fact  that  its  members  were 
continually  removing  to  other  parts  of  the  city  and  adding  to  the  strength 
of  other  churches,  it  never  attained  to  the  membership  of  the  larger 
churches,  yet  under  Dr.  Bittinger's  leadership  it  has  always  main- 
tained a  dignified  and  respected  place  among  its  sister  churches.  During 
his  pastorate  a  new  church  and  chapel  have  been  erected  and  presented 
to  the  congregation  by  Dr.  Bittinger's  life-long  friends,  Mr.  Charles  B. 
Church  and  his  son  William,  both  of  them  for  many  years  elders  in  this 
church.  The  name  of  the  church  in  1873  was  changed  to  the  Westminster 
Church  and  after  the  donations  of  the  new  buildings  has  been  called  the 
Westminster  Church  Memorial. 

Dr.  Bittinger  was.  at  his  own  request,  released  from  the  active  pas- 
torate of  the  church  October  22,  1899,  at  the  age  of  75  years,  thus  termi- 
nating a  ministry  of  over  38  years  in  the  one  church,  in  which  he  had 
enjoyed  the  love  and  confidence  without  exception  of  all  his  people  and 
retiring  with  the  sincere  regret  and  sad  acquiescence  of  the  congregation. 

The  remainder  of  his  days  was  spent  in  frequent  ministrations  in  his 
own  church  and  in  the  vacant  churches  of  the  Presbytery,  and  in  his 
kind  and  fraternal  upholding,  by  his  presence  and  help,  the  hands  of  those 
brethren  who  have  succeeded  him  in  the  pastorate  of  the  Westminster 
Church  Memorial.  It  continued  to  be  his  church  dearly  loved  and  longed 
for,  and  his  presence  in  its  services  was  always  a  signal  to  his  people 
of  his  continued  interest  and  affection.  For  a  number  of  months  he  had 
been  largely  laid  aside  from  the  active  life  to  which  he  had  been  accus- 
tomed, but  to  the  end  his  mind  and  heart  were  set  upon  the  things  of 
the  kingdom  of  Christ  which  had  engaged  his  entire  life,  and  on  his  last 
day  he  was  preparing  the  address  for  the  Communion  Service  which  he 
hoped  to  give  on  October  5th.  But  God  meant  other  and  better  things 
for  him,  and  early  in  the  afternoon  of  September  19  he  received  the 
welcome  summons  and  by  the  early  evening  he  was  with  the  Lord  "whom 
having  not  seen  he  loved,  and  in  whom  though  seeing  not  he  believed 
and  rejoiced  with  joy  unspeakable." 

Dr.  Bittinger  received  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  from  the  Col- 
lege of  Pennsylvania  in  1877.     He  was  Moderator  of  the  Synod  of  Balti- 

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more  in  1880,  and  frequently  represented  the  Presbytery  of  Washington 
City  in  the  General  Assembly.  His  most  signal  service  to  the  Presbytery 
was  rendered  in  the  office  of  Stated  Clerk,  which  he  held  for  36  years, 
and  laid  down  at  last  quite  unexpectedly  to  his  brethren  and  amid  the 
•expression  of  their  sincere  sorrow  and  regret. 

Dr.  Bittinger  was  peculiarly  fitted  by  nature  and  acquirement  for  the 
discharge  of  the  delicate  and  onerous  duties  of  this  exacting  office.  He 
"brought  to  it  the  training  and  skill  of  an  exact  mind,  great  conscientious- 
ness and  attention  to  details,  accuracy  in  grasping  and  recording  the  most 
intricate  matters  acted  upon  by  the  Presbytery,  and  a  mastery  of  the 
constitution  and  laws  of  the  church,  which  made  him  an  authority  not  only 
in  the  Presbytery  but  in  the  church  at  large.  Added  to  this  was  a  cour- 
tesy and  geniality  of  disposition,  not  without  its  fire  at  times,  a  patience 
and  firmness  in  dealing  with  all  his  brethren,  and  a  keen  sense  of  the 
proprieties  at  all  times  that  made  him  the  ideal  man  for  the  place.  The 
liigh  place  which  the  Records  of  the  Presbytery  have  always  occupied 
among  the  records  of  the  church,  and  the  eminent  regard  for  the  work 
of  our  church  here,  bear  witness  to  the  wise  counsel  and  guidance  of  the 
man  who  during  all  these  years  has  been  vigilant  and  faithful  in  regard 
to  the  procedures  of  this  body. 

In  connection  with  his  work  as  Stated  Clerk  Dr.  Bittinger  has  ren- 
dered invaluable  service  as  Counsellor  in  the  affairs  of  the  individual 
churches  of  the  Presbytery,  and  by  reason  of  his  sound  advice  and  kind 
co-operation,  the  work  of  all  the  churches  has  been  advanced.  Out  of 
the  life-long  study  connected  with  this  office  grew  also  what  is  perhaps 
liis  greatest  service  to  the  church  at  large.  His  "Manual  of  Presbyterian 
Law  and  Order"  contains  in  complete  and  condensed  form  the  gist  of  the 
laws  and  procedure  in  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  is  in  a  sense  the 
authoritative  publication  of  the  church,  which  is  more  valuable  and  useful 
than  many  more  pretentious  volumes. 

The  relations  of  Dr.  Bittinger  with  his  brethren  were  characteried  by 
a  spirit  of  great  kindliness  and  helpfulness.  He  was  a  man  of  deep  and 
firm  conviction,  always  expressing  himself  in  strong  and  emphatic  lan- 
guage, but  ever  with  a  quaint  humor  and  genial  spirit  which  left  no  sting. 
The  Presbytery  places  on  record  this  brief  memorial  of  his  life,  with 
thankful  recognition  of  the  gracious  Providence  which  gave  him  to  us  and 
continued  him  so  long  in  his  work  among  us.  We  cherish  his  blessed 
memory,  gratefully  acknowledging  the  loving  fellowship  we  have  had  with 
him,  and  keep  as  a  holy  inspiration  to  better  and  larger  service  the  re- 
membrance. We  thank  God  for  his  presence  among  us  for  so  many  years, 
for  the  benediction  of  his  later  years,  and  for  his  unfailing  witness  to  the 
fulness  and  sufficiency  of  the  grace  of  God  as  made  known  to  us  in  Christ 
Jesus  our  Lord. 

Rev.  Heman  Hoyt  Allen,  D.  D. 

Heman  Hoyt  Allen,  born  in  Canton,  St.  Lawrence  County,  N.  Y.,  Oc- 
tober 16,  1828;  died  at  Ishpeming,  Mich.,  June  17,  1913;  buried  at  "Bethel 
Church,"  near  Lexington,  Ky.  His  parents  were  Marcus  and  Lucia  Allen, 
who  were  born  and  married  near  Middlebury,  Vt.  His  grandfather  Allen 
was  a  cousin  of  Colonel  Ethan  Allen,  of  Ticonderoga  fame.  His  grand- 
mother Allen  was  a  sister  of  Myron  Winslow,  one  of  the  earliest,  if  not 

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the  first,  of  American  missionaries.  His  parents  moved  West  in  1832  when 
the  son  Heman  was  not  quite  four  years  old.  They  settled  first  in  Harrison 
County,  Indiana,  but  in  October,  '  1838,  they  removed  to  Breckenridge 
County,  Kentucky.  Soon  after  the  first  and  only  Presbyterian  Church 
in  the  county  was  organized  at  Cloverport.  The  family  were  among  the 
charter  members,  his  father  being  an  elder  and  continuing  in  that  office 
until  his  death  in  1866.  Heman  united  with  this  church  in  the  spring  of 
1846,  in  his  eighteenth  year.  He  remained  on  his  father's  farm  until 
his  twenty-first  year,  when  he  decided  to  study  for  the  ministry.  He  was 
received  under  the  care  of  the  Presbytery  of  Louisville  in  the  spring 
of  1849.  He  entered  the  Freshman  Class  of  Centre  College,  Danville. 
Ky.,  in  September,  1851,  and  was  graduated  as  valedictorian  of  the  noted 
"class  of  '55."  He  afterwards  received  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Di- 
vinity from  this  same  institution.  He  entered  Danville  Theological 
Seminary  in  September,  1855,  and  was  graduated  in  1858  and  licensed  to 
preach  by  the  Presbytery  of  Louisville  at  Cloverport,  April,  1858  In 
June  of  this  same  year  he  took  charge  of  the  churches  of  Cynthiana  and 
Mount  Pleasant,  Harrison  County,  Ky.,  remaining  there  for  one  year. 
In  September,  1859,  he  was  installed  pastor  of  the  Bethel  Church,  Fay- 
ette County,  Ky.,  near  Lexington.  This  church  had  been  for  a  long  time 
under  the  care  of  Rev.  Robert  Marshall,  so  well  known  in  the  early 
ministry  of  Kentucky.  A  severe  attack  of  throat  disease  compelled  him 
to  give  up  preaching  and  he  resigned  his  charge  in  April,  1861. 

For  four  years  he  was  the  successful  Financial  Agent  of  the  Danville 
Theological  Seminary  and  Centre  College.  In  February,  1865,  he  resumed 
ministerial  work,  preaching  to  the  churches  of  Glasgow  and  Mumfordsville, 
Ky.,  for  one  year.  In  January,  1866,  he  became  editor  of  the  Western  Pres- 
byterian, in  Louisville,  Ky.,  and  remained  in  that  office  for  four  years. 
In  October,  1870,  he  was  called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Presbyterian 
Church,  St.  Charles,  Mo.,  where  he  remained  for  two  years.  During  this 
pastorate  a  beautiful  house  of  worship,  at  a  cost  of  over  $16,000,  was 
erected,  and  more  than  one  hundred  members  were  added  to  the  church. 
He  returned  to  Kentucky  in  October,  1872,  to  be  the  pastor  of  Olivet 
Church,  Shelby  County,  Ky.,  where  he  remained  until  1877,  when  he 
<accepted  a  call  to  Princeton,  Ky.  Failing  health  comeplled  him  to  resign 
this  charge  in  the  spring  of  1880. 

Through  his  untiring  efforts  and  at  much  personal  sacrifice,  the 
Princeton  Collegiate  Institute  was  founded,  under  the  care  of  the  Pres- 
bytery, and  he  became  the  Principal  in  the  fall  of  1880,  where  he  labored 
with  great  success  until  the  year  1892,  when  an  attack  of  his  life-long 
trouble  of  the  throat  compelled  him  to  give  up  his  work  as  a  teacher.  For 
the  past  18  years  he  has  made  his  horr^e  with  his  daughter  in  Washington, 
taking  up  his  work  as  a  teacher  and  preaching  occasionally.  Dr.  Allen 
was  a  member  of  the  General  Assemblies  of  1870  and  1880;  was  Mod- 
erator of  the  Synod  of  Kentucky  in  1876,  and  for  ten  years  was  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  Danville  Theological  Seminary. 

It  had  been  his  custom  for  a  number  of  years  to  spend  the  summer 
months  with  his  son  in  his  Michigan  home,  near  Lake  Superior,  and 
here  on  the  17th  of  June,  1913,  the  end  for  which  he  had  long  waited 
came  peacefully  and  beautifully.  To  the  very  last  moment  of  his  life  his 
mind  was  clear,  his   faith  triumphant.     He  simply  fell  asleep  as  though 

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he  had  heard  his  Master's  voice.  "Well  done,  thou  good  and  faithful 
servant." 

Dr.  Allen  possessed  the  warm  temperament  and  patriotic  pride  of  his 
native  commonwealth.  He  was  contemporary  with  those  mighty  men  of 
God,  Drs.  Breckenridge,  Robinson  and  Rice,  and  with  them  he  fought 
the  great  battles  for  truth  and  righteousness.  There  were  giants  in  those 
days,  and  Dr.  Allen  was  in  their  ranks.  He  was  a  thorough  Presbyterian 
in  doctrine  and  church  polity.  He  accepted  the  Bible  as  the  Word  of 
God  and  preached  its  truths  with  no  uncertain  sound.  He  was  an  in- 
tensely earnest  and  enthusiastic  preacher,  and  at  times  rose  to  sublime 
eloquence.  But  he  was,  above  all,  a  Godly  man,  living  in  close  com- 
munion with  Him  from  whom  he  derived  all  his  strength,  and  for  whose 
glory  he  gave  all  the  best  efforts  of  his  life. 

Dr.  Allen  was  twice  married — to  Anna  Palmer  Thavcr  July  6.  1858  who,, 
died  October  28,  1859.  and  to  Mary  W.  Marshall  in  1861,  who  died  June 
23,  1880.  Four  children  were  born  to  them — Mrs.  Marion  Allen  Martin- 
dell,  Dean  of  Fairmount  Seminary,  Washington,  D.  C. ;  Rev.  Marshall 
M.  Allen,  pastor  of  Ishpeming  Presbyterian  Church,  Michigan ;  Henry  B. 
Allen,  an  elder  in  the  Princeton  Presbyterian  Church,  Kentucky,  and 
Lucia  F.  Allen,  who  died  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  May  31,  1900. 

Rev  William  C.  Maloy. 

It  is  with  deep  sorrow  that  we  record  the  death  of  our  beloved 
brother,  William  C.  M.^loy,  who  departed  this  earthly  life  on  January 
20th,  1913. 

Mr.  Maloy  was  in  the  eightieth  year  of  his  age,  having  been  born 
March  loth,  1832.  His  birthplace  was  Centreville,  Queen  Anne's  County, 
Md.  His  father  was  William  Maloy,  a  farmer  on  the  "Eastern  Shore,'' 
that  garden  spot  of  Maryland.  The  boy  was  sent  to  scHbol  in  his  native 
county  until  he  was  prepared  for  college.  He  then  matriculated  at 
"Dickinson,"  Carlisle,  Pa.  That  was  in  the  year  1853.  In  his  sophomore 
year  he  left  college  that  he  might  engage  in  teaching,  having  accepted 
a  position  in  the  academy  at  Darlington,  Harford  County  Md.  He  re- 
mained at  Darlington  for  two  years,  and  resigned  to  become  assistant 
principal  of  the  high  school  at  Brunswick,  Mo.  Two  more  years  passed,, 
and  then  Mr.  Maloy  entered  the  University  of  Virginia  to  continue  his 
study  of  classical  languages  under  that  distinguished  instructor.  Prof. 
Basil  L.  Gildersleeve.  In  1861  he  was  back  again  at  his  old  employment 
of  teaching,  having  been  elected  principal  of  Holly  Springs  Academy, 
Marshall  County,  Mississippi.  But  the  war  had  broken  out,  and  with  uncon- 
trollable enthusiasm  the  newly-elected  principal  resigned  his  position 
on  February  24th,  1862,  to  enlist  as  a  private  soldier  in  the  army  of  the 
Confederacy.  He  was  placed  in  Col.  William  K.  Blythe's  Forty-fourtii 
Mississippi  Regiment.  Six  weeks  later  he  learned  what  war  was  in  the- 
fierce  fighting  at  Shiloh.  Later  still  he  was  promoted  to  the  chaplaincy 
of  the  regiment,  with  the  rank  of  major,  and  served  in  this  position 
with  his  command  until  the  close  of  the  war.  As  a  token  of  their  esteem 
the  members  of  his  company  presented  him  with  a  Greek  and  Latim. 
Testament. 

Mr.  Maloy's  first  ministerial  labors  were  in  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church,  where  he  rendered  most  efficient  service-     Upon  coming  to.  Balti- 

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more,  however,  he  sought  the  ministry  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and 
was  received  by  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore  at  its  spring  meeting,  1892. 
He  was  introduced  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  T.  Leftwich,  who  spoke  most  highly 
•of  his  educational  endowments  and  his  Christian  character.  At  the  close 
of  the  examination  the  Rev.  Dr.  J.  P.  Carter  remarked  that  it  was  the 
most  satisfactory  examination  he  had  ever  heard  in  the  Presbytery. 

For  a  time  Mr.  Maloy  acted  as  Superintendent  of  the  City  Evan- 
gelization Society,  and  while  studying  the  Baltimore  mission  field,  with 
its  outlying  districts,  he  became  interested  in  Christian  work  at  St.  Helena. 
As  a  result  of  his  enthusiastic  efforts  the  people  of  that  neighborhood 
were  gathered  for  worship,  a  Sunday  school  was  started,  and  later  a  con- 
■gregation  was  formed.  This  congregation  was  organized  into  the  St. 
Helena  Presbyterian  Church,  with  Mr.  Maloy  as  the  first  pastor.  Through 
his  untiring  zeal  a  neat  and  commodious  house  of  worship  was  erected, 
with  pleasant  Sunday  school  room  and  auditorium.  It  is  a  pretty  struc- 
ture, in  Queen  Anne  style,  and  will  seat  175  people. 

Owing  to  the  infirmities  of  his  advancing  years  Mr.  Maloy,  after  a 
very  successful  ministry  at  St.  Helena,  resigned  his  charge  to  continue 
his  studies  quietly  at  home  and  occasionally  supply  a  pulpit  for  one  of 
his  brethren.  It  was  always  a  delight  to  hear  him  speak,  as  the  warmth 
of  his  Christian  love  permeated  everything  that  he  said.  He  was  one  of 
the  most  kindly  of  men,  gifted  with  that  charity  which  thinketh  no  evil. 
"None  knew  him  but  to  love  him."  The  sincerity  of  his  faith  impressed 
itself  upon  all  his  brethren  in  the  ministry. 

Mr.  Maloy  is  survived  by  a  widow  and  five  children.  His  wife  was 
a  Miss  Margaret  A.  Hopkins,  daughter  of  Samuel  B.  Hopkins,  of  Easton, 
Md.  There  is  also  one  brother.  Rev.  James  Earle  Maloy,  a  minister  in 
the  Methodist  Protestant  Church. 

To  Mrs.  Maloy  and  the  family  of  our  deceased  brother  and  to  his 
brother  in  the  ministry,  we  extend  our  deep  sympathj^  and  assure  them 
of  the  sorrow  that  we  feel  in  separation  from  our  fellow-laborer  in  the 
service  of  the  Lord.  He  has  entered  into  his  rest  and  has  received  his 
reward.  He  has  joined  that  countless  multitude  of  the  redeemed  who 
surround  the  throne  of  God  with  robes  washed  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb. 
He  has  reached  home  first,  but  we,  following  after,  shall  see  his  face 
again.  The  lessons  of  his  life  are  sweet  and  beautiful,  and  our  lives  are 
richer  and  better  because  we  knew  him.  A  devoted  scholar,  a  faithful 
minister,  a  loyal  friend,  he  has  left  a  long  record  of  good  works  which 
do  follow  him.  Eternity  alone  can  reveal  the  full  story  of  that  life 
which  he  recorded  in  time.  And  if  we  listen  with  ear  of  faith  we  may 
hear  the  Saviour  say,  "Well  done,  good  and  faithful  servant." 

Following  the  Memorials  prayer  was  ofifered  by  Rev.  J. 
Ross  Stonesifer. 

The  devotional  service  was  conducted  by  Mr.  E.  H. 
Perkins. 

The  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper  was  administered, 
Rev.  U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D.,  presiding,  and  assisted  by 
Rev.  John  C.  Palmer,  D.  D.,  and  Elders  W.  H.  Dix,  Elisha 

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Heath,  Walter  Knipp.  W.  D.  Condit,  Eben  B.  Frazer,  J.  Frank 
McCoy,  J.  B.  Derrick,  Dr.  H.  J.  Hunt,  B.  A.  Nelson,  Fred.  O. 
Scherf,  S.  E.  Sisco,  J.  J.  Hayes.  Frank  Moody,  Stanton  J. 
Peelle,  J.  Henry  "Wurdeman  and  A\'.  B.  Robinson. 

Recess  was  taken  until  2.00  P.  M.,  closing  with  prayer  by 
the  Moderator. 


Tuesday,  October  38th,  1913,  2.00  P.  M. 

Synod  was  opened  with  prayer  by  Rev.  A.  H.  Barr,  D.  D.. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Religious  Work  in  the 
Army  and  Navy  was  presented  by  the  Chairman,  Rev.  Charles 
G.  Cady,  and  is  as  follows : 

ARMY  AND  NAVY. 

The  location  of  an  Army  post  within  the  bounds  of  our 
Synod,  where  there  are  between  600  and  700  people,  soldiers 
and  their  families  and  attendants,  with  practically  no  religious 
care,  directed  attention  to  the  importance  of  this  work.  Inquiry 
at  the  Department  of  War  at  Washington  not  resulting  satis- 
torily,  a  study  of  the  Army  List  and  Directory  disclosed  the 
following:  Practically  every  Synod  in  our  Church  contains  one 
or  more  of  the  i6i  garrisoned  posts  of  the  Army,  in  which  are 
located  about  100,000  soldiers,  besides  their  families  and  attend- 
ants, and  for  which  67  chaplains  are  provided  when  the  list  is  full. 
Some  of  these  posts  are  small,  containing  only  detacliments,  which 
are  changed  at  frequent  intervals,  but  more  than  one  hundred 
have  from  one  to  twelve  companies.  Some  of  these  are  located 
near  churches  which  might  minister  to  them,  but  many  are  quite 
inaccessible,  or  else  the  churches  which  may  be  near  them  are  too 
feeble  to  render  adequate  service. 

Finding  no  reference  to  this  work  in  the  minutes  of  the  Gen- 
eral Assembly,  letters  were  sent  to  the  Stated  Clerks  of  the  Synods 
in  order  to  discover  what  was  being  done  elsewhere.  The  follow- 
ing questions  were  asked  after  mentioning  the  posts  located  within 
the  bounds  of  the  Synod  addressed:  i.  Is  this  post  supplied  with 
a  U.  S.  chaplain?  2.  Is  the  post  sufficiently  near  Christian 
churches  having  resident  pastors  so  that  the  religious  needs  of 
the  soldiers  could  be  cared  for?  3.  Do  any  of  these  churches 
make  any  especial  effort  to  minister  to  the  soldiers  ?  4.  Has  your 
Synod  or  any  of  its  Presbyteries  any  committee  concerned  with. 


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this  work?    5.  Would  you  think  it  advisable  for  our  General  As- 
sembly to  have  a  committee  for  this  work? 

Replies  from  18  Synods  and  about  as  many  more  Presbyteries 
and  individuals  reveal  the  fact  that  there  does  not  appear  to  be  a 
single  committee  concerned  with  this  work  in  all  our  Presbyterian 
Church,  outside  of  the  Synod  of  Baltimore,  unless  possibly  in  the 
island  possessions,  which  were  not  addressed.  Much  interesting 
and  suggestive  information  was  received.  Many  of  the  men  ex- 
press surprise  at  the  neglect  of  this  work,  and  indicate  a  purpose 
of  taking  the  matter  up.  Others  frankly  discuss  the  difficulties  in 
connection  with  the  work  for  soldiers.  Many  think  the  cause 
ought  to  have  greater  consideration  by  our  Church.  In  view  of 
these  facts  brought  to  light  concerning  the  Army  alone,  and  which 
are  much  worse  in  the  Navy,  which  has  only  24  chaplains,  of 
which  twelve  were  on  shore  duty,  four  were  absent  or  unap- 
pointed,  and  eight  were  on  duty  on  the  33  battleships  and  cruisers 
and  68  smaller  war  vessels  actually  in  service  when  these  figures 
were  compiled,  we  respectfully 

Recommend,  That  the  Synod  overture  the  next  General  As- 
sembly to  appoint  a  Special  Committee  to  which  all  of  this  in- 
formation may  be  referred,  and  which,  after  considering  the 
same,  shall  recommend  what  action,  if  any,  ought  to  be  taken. 

Chas.  G.  Cady,  Chairman. 

Chaplain  George  Robinson,  D.  D.,  supported  the  report, 
referring  especially  to  the  present  critical  situation  in  Mexico. 
The  Moderator  called  upon  Chaplain  Robinson  to  offer  prayer 
for  the  Nation  and  its  defenders,  after  which  the  recommen- 
dation was  adopted. 

Rev.  E.  N.  Kirby,  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Young 
People's  Societies,  presented  the  following  report,  which  was 
received  and  its  recommendations  were  adopted : 

YOUNG  PEOPLE'S  SOCIETIES. 

According  to  custom,  your  Committee  has  tabulated  the 
salient  points  in  the  Presbyterial  reports  on  Young  People's  So- 
cieties for  1913.  It  should  be  noted,  however,  that,  owing  to  in- 
complete retvirns,  these  tables  indicate  only  in  a  general  way  the 
work  among  the  young  people  of  our  churches.  To  illustrate: 
The  failure  of  a  church  to  report  at  all  this  year,  when  it  reported 
$408  last  year,  vitiates  the  table  for  purposes  of  comparison. 

Taking  the  table  as  it  stands,  the  total  in  the  number  of  so- 
cieties and  the  total  in  membership  for  the  combined  presbyteries 

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are  somewhat  larger  than  last  year.  The  number  added  to  the 
churches  on  examination  exceeds  last  year's  by  36.  The  contri- 
butions to  missions  are  about  the  same,  but  the  grand  total  in 
contributions  is  less  by  $1,300  dollars,  being  $7,039  for  the 
year.  The  most  notable  increase  has  been  in  the  number  of  so- 
cieties in  the  Baltimore  Presbytery,  jumping  from  69  to  98,  and 
increasing  its  membership  by  1,131,  reporting  2,827  this  year. 

The  significant  thing  in  the  report  is  that  of  the  exceedingly 
small  number  of  churches  fostering  study  classes.  Although  this 
year  shows  a  slight  increase,  it  is  still  pitiably  small,  showing  the 
inadequacy  of  the  means  for  the  religious  education  of  the  young 
outside  of  the  Sunday  School.  In  making  a  plea  for  the  fuller 
recognition  of  the  educational  function  of  the  church,  your  com- 
mittee is  aware  that  it  is  speaking  for  a  wider  interest  than  the 
ordinary  program  of  our  Young  People's  Societies.  We  wish, 
however,  to  record  a  word  favoring  a  more  thorough-going  pur- 
pose in  the  religious  education  of  our  people.  One  of  the  funda- 
mental principles  of  Protestantism  is  that  every  man  is  allowed 
his  individual  judgment  in  matters  of  religion.  May  it  not  be 
<loubted  whether  the  church  today  adequately  qualifies  him  to 
form  this  judgment.  We  relegate  to  the  Sunday  School  the 
greater  part  of  the  teaching  work  of  the  church,  with  the 
knowledge  that  its  inadequate  time  and  equipment  are  not  equal 
to  the  task. 

The  problem  of  religious  education  is  beset  with  difficulties, 
"but  we  must  face  it. 

General  Assembly  has  had  in  commission  for  five  years  a 
Special  Committee  on  Religious  Education.  The  final  report  of 
the  Committee  was  presented  last  May.  Your  Committee  suggests 
that  every  member  of  Synod  should  read  this  urgent  report  found 
on  pages  236-251  of  the  Minutes  of  General  Assembly  for  1913. 

Pursuant  to  the  request  of  this  Special  Committee,  your 
committee  recommends  that  the  Synod's  Standing  Committee  on 
Young  People's  Societies  and  the  Committee  on  Sunday  Schools 
he  consolidated  to  form  a  Committee  on  Religious  Education. 


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^      ^         ^         ^  w  o 

Presbyteries  ^,7 1  ^         5^S  »o  ^ 

|-    I.        ?.     §1        «|.      e: 

n'  '^  §'  3 

as  3  u5 

Washington  City  ...  51         6         1506        45         $1400         $2450 

New  Castle  55         3         1763         80  1071  1266 

Baltimore  98       21         2827       in  1361  3343 

Total  204       30         6096       236         $3832         $7039 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 

E.  N.  KiRBY,  Chairman. 

The  Committee  on  Brotherhood  and  other  organizations 
of  men,  Rev.  J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  Chairman,  presented  the  fol- 
lowing report,  which  was  received,  and  was  followed  by  an 
address  by  Rev.  J.  T.  Henderson,  D.  D.,  of  Chicago. 

BROTHERHOOD. 

Your  Committee  on  Brotherhood  is  pleased  to  submit  the  fol- 
lowing report,  indicating,  as  it  does,  the  endorsement  and  anti- 
cipations of  the  General  Assembly  concerning  our  Presbyterian 
Brotherhood.  The  last  Assembly,  acting  upon  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  Executive  Commission  and  a  special  Advisory  Com- 
mittee appointed  by  the  Assembly  of  191 2,  placed  the  Brother- 
hood upon  a  new  basis,  effecting  a  more  vital  connection  and  sii- 
pervision  of  its  work,  guaranteeing  to  it  an  adequate  support  and 
confirming  with  a  new  emphasis  and  authority  its  claims  upon  our 
Presbyterian  men.  A  Permanent  Committee,  constituting  the 
Council  of  the  Brotherhood,  and  consisting  of  fifteen  members, 
nine  ministers  and  six  laymen,  was  appointed  by  the  Assembly, 
and  for  the  maintenance  of  the  work  a  budget  of  $15,000  was 
authorized.  In  the  past  the  support  was  a  matter  of  personal  con- 
tribution on  the  part  of  a  few  generous  laymen.  The  docket  of 
the  Assembly  also  provides  for  a  popular  meeting  in  the  interest 
of  this  particular  form  of  kingdom  service.  The  Brotherhood 
shares  rank  with  other  agencies,  admitted  to  the  counsels  of  the 
church  on  their  footing  and  enforcing  its  appeals  by  the  deliver- 
ances of  our  highest  court.  The  resources,  experience  and  ener- 
gies of  our  men  are  recognized  and  are  being  drafted  into  an 
efficient  organization,  equipped  for  the  maximum  of  service.  The 
conviction  that  "something  is  to  be  done"  follows  tnis  Assembly 
endorsement,    reorganization    and    financial    provision.      On    the 

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whole  the  Brotherhood  starts  upon  a  new  era  and  new  commis- 
sion. 

And  all  of  this  is  the  result  of  the  clear  definition  of  aim  to- 
ward which  the  Brotherhood  has  been  working  during  its  past. 
The  issue  before  the  church  is  resolving  itself  into  some  very  un- 
mistakable needs,  and  the  program  of  the  Brotherhood  anticipates 
m9.ny  of  these,  urging,  as  it  does,  evangelism,  Bible  study,  social 
service,  public  moral  conservation,  missions  as  carried  on  by  the 
agencies  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  and  local  mission  work 
among  immigrants  and  boys'  work.  The  Assembly  urges  these  ac- 
tivities emphatically,  and  charges  the  Sessions  with  the  responsi- 
bility of  securing  and  maintaining  such  organizea  work. 

And  yet,  these  objectives  are  so  generous  and  applicable 
to  every  field,  so  essentially  a  part  of  Christian  service,  that  even 
without  this  Brotherhood  declaration  of  purpose  many  of  our 
men  must  be  engaged  already  in  realizing  these  results.  The  aim 
is  so  general  that  the  Brotherhood  becomes  a  Clearing  House 
for  all  our  men's  work,  and  the  constitution  is  so  adjustable  that 
affiliation  is  possible  and  urged  upon  all  our  men's  organizations, 
though  known  now  as  clubs,  Bible  classes  or  otlier  associations. 
"The  idea  of  the  Brotherhood  is  to  arouse  the  conscience  and  to 
stimulate  men  to  perform  the  duties  and  fulfill  the  vows  which 
they  voluntarily  took  upon  themselves  when  they  united  with  the 
church."  Every  form  of  Christian  service  known  to  men  can  in 
corporate  itself  in  this  one  central  body.  If  this  were  realized  our 
Brotherhood  enrollment  would  be  very  materially  increased.  Our 
own  Synod  would  be  credited  at  the  Chicago  headquarters  in  a 
way  that  would  indicate  more  faithfully  the  work  being  done  by 
the  men  of  our  churches.  The  register  of  the  General  Council 
shows  only  ten  local  organizations  within  our  bounds,  six  being 
in  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore,  one  in  New  Castle  and  three  in 
Washington.  Similarly,  we  are  persuaded  that  the  930  organi- 
zations and  47,000  members  reported  for  the  year  191 3  indicate 
but  a  fraction  of  the  service  being  rendered  by  our  men.  And 
yet  conceding  all  this,  we  are  no  less  confident  that  the  church 
is  just  beginning  to  touch  the  vast  resources  of  masculine  strength 
and  consecration.  If  the  Brotherhood  can  serve  as  an  organizing 
power  and  basis,  bringing  all  forms  of  men's  activity  into  co- 
ordination and  making  widely  available  its  efficient  direction  and 
counsel,  a  great  work  will  have  been  accomplished.  There  is  in- 
calculable power  in  solidarity,  no  local  organization  being  strong 
enough  to  disregard  it  and  none  so  weak  that  it  cannot  profit  by  it. 

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Your  committee  urges  upon  pastors  and  Sessions  the  duty  of  or- 
ganizing and  affiliating  all  forms  of  local  men's  work  with  our 
National  Council. 

J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  Chairman. 

The  next  order  was  a  Conference  on  Problems  of  Re- 
ligious Education,  led  by  Rev.  John  S.  Conning.  There  was 
a  season  of  brief  prayers  for  the  leading  of  the  young  to  Christ, 
after  which  addresses  were  made  by  Revs.  J.  A.  MacSporran, 
John  C.  Palmer,  D.  D.,  Frank  C.  Woods  and  others. 

The  following  resolution  concerning  the  American  Bible 
Society  was  presented  and  adopted : 

BIBLE  SOCIETY. 

The  Synod  of  Baltimore  heartily  commends  the  American 
Bible  Society  to  the  attention  of  the  Presbyteries  and  Sessions 
under  its  jurisdiction.  It  deserves  and  should  receive  the  prayers 
and  gifts  of  all  our  membership.  We  second  the  recommenda- 
tions of  the  last  Assembly  that  the  Bible  Society  should  be  on 
every  church  budget  of  benevolence,  so  that  it  may  receive  an 
annual  and  adequate  gift.  In  every  way  it  should  be  held  up  be- 
fore the  people  as  indispensable  to  the  missionary  work  of  the 
Church. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Home  Missions  was  given 
by  the  Chairman,  Rev.  Joel  S.  Gilfillan,  D.  D..  and  was  re- 
ceived. It  was  followed  by  an  address  on  the  Church  in  a 
Rural  Community  by  Dr.  Gilfillan,  and  the  Church  in  a  For- 
eign Community,  by  Rev.  Edward  Niles.  The  latter  topic  was 
also  discussed  by  Rev.  Paul  Fox,  of  the  Polish  Church  of 
Baltimore,  Rev.  J.  T.  Zajonczkonski,  of  the  Polish  Church 
of  Wilmington,  and  Rev.  Frank  Novak,  of  the  Bohemian  and 
Moravian  Church,  of  Baltimore. 

Recess  was  taken  until  8.00  P.  M.,  the  closing  prayer  be- 
ing ofifered  by  Rev.  John  A.  Nesbit. 


Tuesday,  October  28th,  1913,  8.00  P.  M. 
This  was  a  popular  meeting,  with  Rev.  Alfred  H.  Barr, 
D.  D.,  presiding.  Addresses  were  made  by  Mrs.  M.  A.  Gilder- 
sleeve,  of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Home  Missions,  and  Rev. 
T.  C.  Mofifett.  D.  D..  of  the  Board  of  Home  Missions.  The 
offering  w^as  for  the  Woman's  Synodical  Society  for  Home 
Missions.     The  closing  prayer  was  by  Rev.  R.  P.  Kerr,  D.  D. 

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Wednesday,  October  29th,  1913,  9.00  A.  M. 
The  Moderator  opened  the  Synod  with  prayer. 

The  minutes  of  the  previous  sessions  were  read  and  ap- 
proved. 

The  Bills  and  Overtures  Committee,  Rev.  Wallace  Rad- 
cliffe,  D.  D.,  Chairman,  reported  as  follows : 

BILLS  AND  OVERTURES. 

1.  Concerning  the  General  Assembly's  Call  to  Prayer^ 
the  Synod  calls  the  attention  of  pastors  and  sessions  to  this 
impressive  and  imperative  call.  We  urge  upon  all  the  spirit 
of  intercession.  We  recommend  the  special  observance  in 
closet  and  family  altar  and  praper-meeting  and  the  services 
of  public  worship,  and  that,  "First  of  all.  supplications,  pray- 
ers, intercessions  and  giving  of  thanks  be  made  for  all  men."' 

2.  Concerning  the  communication  from  the  Woman's 
Synodical  Temperance  Association  of  the  Synod  of  Pennsyl- 
vania asking  us  to  petition  the  International  Committee  of  the 
Evangelical  Alliance  to  include  a  day  of  prayer  for  Temper- 
ance in  their  recommendations  for  the  Week  of  Prayer.  We 
recommend  that  this  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Tem- 
perance. (That  Committee  not  being  present  at  the  time  this 
was  later  called  up  and  the  Synod  decided  not  to  make  such  a 
petition.) 

3.  We  recommend  that  the  letter  from  the  General  Sec- 
retary of  the  Board  of  Relief  be  referred  to  the  Committee 
on  Relief. 

•4.  The  statistical  reports  of  the  Women's  Synodical  So- 
cieties are  noted  and  we  recommend  that  the  Stated  Clerk 
be  instructed  to  include  them  in  the  usual  form  in  the  printed 
Minutes. 

5.  Concerning  the  circulars  and  pamphlets  relating  to 
the  Every  Member  movement.  We  urge  upon  all  our  pastors 
and  sessions  earnest  co-operation  in  the  Every  Member  can- 
vass and  subscription  as  presented  in  these  pamphlets  and 
representing  the  action  of  the  General  Assembly.  We  call 
attention  to  the  fact  that  abundant  material  may  be  had  on 
application  to  the  Joint  Executive  Committee.  (See  also  action 
taken  later  relating  to  this  item  and  calling  for  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  United  Committee.) 

The  report  of  the  Committee  and  all  of  its  recommenda- 
tions were  received  and  adopted. 

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The  following  resolution  was  offered  by  Rev.  Wallace 
Raclcliffe,  D.  D.,  and  adopted : 

Resolved,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  the  Synod  that  the  pres- 
ent custom  of  synchronous  meetings  of  Synod  and  the  Wo- 
men's Synodical  Societies  at  the  same  place  does  not  subserve 
the  best  results,  and  we  hereby  appoint  a  Committee  of  Con- 
ference of  three  members  of  Synod  who  shall  communicate 
this  judgment  to  the  Women's  Synodical  Societies  and  to 
consider  with  them  the  propriety  of  securing  the  desired  mod- 
ification of  meetings. 

The  Committee  on  the  Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly, 
Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D.,  Chairman,  reported,  and  the 
report  was  received. 

The  Com.mittee  on  Wilson  College  presented  the  follow- 
ing report,  which  was  received : 

WILSON    COLLEGE. 

Your  committee  appointed  to  visit  Wilson  College  begs  to  re- 
port that  two  of  its  members  have  performed  this  service,  the 
third  having  found  it  impossible  to  accompany  the  committee. 
The  reception  accorded  your  representatives  was  so  cordial  and 
the  responses  and  data  available  for  their  examination  so  gra- 
ciously granted,  that  their  duties  were  discharged  with  pleasure 
and  enthusiasm.  This  institution,  throughout  ilie  forty- four 
years  of  its  history,  has  preserved  its  Presbyterian  connection  and 
traditions,  being  formally  recognized  by  the  General  Assembly  as 
a  Presbyterian  College  because  of  the  charter  provision  which  re- 
quires that  two-thirds  of  its  trustees  must  be  members  of  oui 
church.  And  its  faculty,  student  enrollment,  endowment,  current 
receipts  and  expenditures,  together  with  certain  religious  require- 
ments, are  made  matters  of  annual  report  by  the  College  Board. 
This  formal  Assembly  supervision  is  a  warrant  for  its  appeal  tu 
our  church  for  patronage  and  support,  and  a  pledge  of  fidelity  to 
the  intellectual  and  religious  interests  of  its  students. 

It  is  a  privilege  to  cite  in  particular  the  efforts  to  promote 
thoroughly  religious  habits  and  living.  Bible  study,  prescribed  by 
the  College  Board  and  the  College  for  all  classes,  is  required 
throughout  the  four  years.  Morning  worship,  together  with  re- 
ligious services  and  activities  conducted  through  missionary  so- 
cieties and  the  Young  Women's  Christian  x\ssociation,  are  regu- 
larly maintained.  There  are  now  five  student  volunteers  at  Wil- 
son, and  its  missionary  interest  and  endeavors  have  been  recog- 

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nized  by  the  Eastern  Association  of  Student  Volunteers  in  the 
selection  of  this  institution  as  its  convention  place  this  year,  an 
honor  never  accorded  a  woman's  college  heretofore.  It  is  most 
satisfying  to  read  in  President  McKeag's  inaugural  address  of  last 
year  the  unqualified  judgment  that  "the  moral  and  spiritual  values 
in  education  transcend  all  others."  And  again,  "that  student  has 
not  greatly  profited  by  four  years  at  college  who  does  not  emerge 
from  her  alma  mater  with  keener  sympathies,  wiiu  more  delicate- 
sensibilities,  with  a  greater  degree  of  self-control,  with  strength- 
ened moral  courage,  with  an  intensified  passion  for  social  service, 
with  a  finer  reverence,  with  a  deepened  religious  experience." 

The  academic  requirements  are  equally  as  high,  exceeding 
now  even  "the  standards  required  by  the  church,"  according  to 
our  College  Board.  With  the  advent  of  the  present  administra- 
tion the  conditions  of  both  entrance  and  graduation  were  so  ad- 
vanced that  Wilson  College  now  ranks  with  the  very  largest 
and  foremost  of  our  female  colleges.  Her  diploma  is  an  honor 
equal  to  that  of  older  and  more  widely  known  institutions.  The 
aim  of  her  curriculum  has  been  comprehensively  defined  as  one 
that  seeks  not  only  "to  lead  the  student  into  the  rich  and  full  in- 
formational inheritance  in  the  world  of  art  and  science  and  litera- 
ture and  human  history,"  and  to  secure  the  acquisition  of  some  one 
particular  method  of  discipline  or  approach,  but  "the  awakening 
of  the  love  of  learning,  scholarly  ambitions  and  intellectual  enthu- 
siasms." Necessarily  this  modification  and  advancement  of  the 
course  will  reduce  temporarily  the  student  body  and  income,  but 
it  must  follow  that  the  Presbyterian  Church,  always  noted  for  its 
leadership  in  scholarship,  will  quickly  endorse  this  eflt'ort  to  secure 
a  higher  type  of  college  privilege  for  its  daughters.  There  arc 
two  imperatives  in  our  educational  life,  and  never  have  they  so 
justified  themselves  as  now — true  scholarship  and  noble  character. 
And  both  of  these  Wilson  College,  through  its  curriculum,  fac- 
ulty supervision  and  student  spirit,  is  both  qualified  and  eager  to 
foster. 

Your  committee  unreservedly  commends  the  college  to  the 
Church,  confident  that  not  only  the  prescribed  mental  discipline, 
but  the  very  atmosphere  of  all  its  functions  and  student  activities, 
will  secure  efficiency  and  orderliness  of  thinking  and  living.  The 
growing  interest  and  participation  of  its  alumnae  in  the  mis- 
sionary, educational  and  welfare  movements  of  our  day  are  proof 
of  the  value  of  Wilson  training  as  a  life  stimulus  and  prepara- 
tion. And  we  would  further  remind  those  stewards  of  the  Lord's 
money  that  donations  and  bequests  for  the  endowment  of  Wilson 

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College  will  meet  the  highest  ends  of  educaiton  and  religion.  We 
are  persuaded  that  our  own  College  Board  can  very  wisely  sanc- 
tion the  high  standard  of  scholarship  and  assist  in  its  mainte- 
nance by  appropriating  some  of  the  church's  gifts  to  this  institu- 
tion for  a  few  years,  or,  at  least,  until  the  enrollment  adjusts  itself 
again  to  the  changed  curriculum  and  standards. 

J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  Chairman. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Chairman,  Rev.  Edward  Niles  pre- 
sented the  report  for  the  Committee  on  the  Deaconess  Home 
and  Training  School,  and  the  report  was  received,  and  is  as 
follows  : 

PRESBYTERIAN  TRAINING  SCHOOL. 

Your  Committee  on  the  Presbyterian  Training  School  would 
report  that  the  work  of  its  tenth  year  has  been  carried  on  with  en- 
couraging results,  and  churches  are  now  receiving  the  service  of 
those  who  graduated  in  the  Spring. 

The  enrollment  this  year  is  19,  two  being  the  first  Ruthenian 
women  to  be  trained  for  Christian  service.  Owing  to  the  growth 
of  the  school,  increased  accommodations  became  necessary,  so 
a  building  facing  on  McCulloh  street,  whose  yard  is  directly 
across  the  alley  from  the  yard  of  the  present  building,  has  been 
secured,  at  a  cost  of  $10,000. 

The  result  is  both  greater  comfort  and  efficiency. 

Your  committee  believes  that  every  pastor  should  present  to 
his  young  people  when  choosing-  life  occupation  the  opportuni- 
ties opened  by  such  an  institution,  and  that  Synod's  enthusiastic 
interest  should  accompany  its  official  sanction. 

Of  the  45  students  who  have  gone  out  from  these  doors  into 
Christian  work,  four  are  serving  in  the  foreign  field,  three  among 
the  mountain  whites,  four  among  the  immigrants.,  two  as  deacon- 
ess nurses  and  three  as  social  workers. 

Edward  Niles,  for  the  Committee. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  the  College  Board  was 
presented,  and  after  an  address  by  Rev.  Robert  Mackenzie, 
D.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  Board,  the  recommendations  were 
adopted.     The  report  is  as  follows : 

COLLEGE  BOARD. 

Dear  Fathers  and  Brethren  : 

In  view  of  the  urgent  need  for  a  large  increase  in  the  num- 
ber of  candidates  for  the  ministry  in  our  church,  and  in  order  that 
the  present  demand  for  laborers  in  the  vineyard  of  our  Master 

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may  be  fully  met,  your  committee  desires  to  call  the  special  atten- 
tion of  Synod  to  the  claims  of  the  College  Board  as  an  efficient 
agency  of  the  Church  to  this  end. 

The  fact  that  the  larger  state  colleges  and  universities  are 
furnishing  so  few  (about  6  per  cent.)  students  for  the  ministry 
would  indicate  that  the  Church  must  of  necessity  look  elsewhere 
for  young  men.  The  splendid  work  being  done  by  our  Christian 
colleges  deserves  favorable  mention.  With  larger  financial  re- 
sources and  better  equipment  the  results  would  be  tar  more  grat- 
ifying to  these  colleges  and  to  the  Church. 

With  the  present  conditions  of  student-life  in  the  larger  col- 
leges and  universities  there  seems  to  be  little  hope  of  reinforcing 
the  ranks  of  the  gospel  ministry  from  their  graduates.. 

•'The  harvest  truly  is  great,  but  the  laborers  nre  few."  The 
Church  must  have  more  men,  and  that  soon. 

At  present  the  Church  is  not  recognizing  and  supporting  the 
only  visible  source  of  supply — our  Christian  colleges. 

Of  73  churches  in  the  Baltimore  Presbytery,  22  gave  nothing 
last  year  to  the  College  Board.  Fifty -one  churches  gave  $722. 
In  the  Presbytery  of  New  Castle  there  are  58  churches,  24  of 
them  gave  nothing,  and  36  gave  $482.  There  are  38  churches  in 
the  Presbytery  of  Washington;  8  make  no  report  for  the  College 
Board  and  30  churches  gave  $805  to  this  cause.  One  hundred  and 
seventeen  (117)  churches  gave  a  total  of  $2,009  to  this  Board. 

Instead  of  being  nearly  among  the  weakest  of  the  benevo- 
lences of  our  Church,  the  College  Board  should  be  near  the  top. 

In  order  to  fill  the  places  of  those  who  are  called  to  their  re- 
ward from  the  ranks  of  the  Christian  ministry,  to  adequately  sup- 
ply our  Home  and  Foreign  ]\Iission  fields,  and  to  seize  the  unpar- 
alleled opportunities  that  now  present  themselves  to  the  Church 
for  the  advancement  of  the  Kingdom  of  our  Lord,  we  must  re- 
.spond  more  cheerfully,  more  promptly  and  more  liberally  to  the 
.urgent  calls  of  this  Board. 

With  this  end  in  view  your  committee  respectfully  recom- 
mends the  adoption  of  the  following  resolutions: 

1.  That  the  Synod  reaffirm  its  conviction  that,  as  stated  by 
the  conference  of  representatives  of  the  Board  of  Education  and 
the  C-ollege  Board,  "the  maintenance  of  the  Christian  college  is 
essential  to  a  Christian  civilization  and  fundamental  to  the  life  of 
the  Church,"  and,  therefore,  individuals  of  means  can  make  no 
better  investment  than  by  contributing  liberally  for  the  adequate 
equipment  of  these  institutions. 

2.  That  the  Synod  call  upon  all  of  its  pastors  and  churches 

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to  observe  Education  Week.     (See  page  12,  College  Board  Re- 
port). 

3.  That,  as  recommended  by  the  Assembly,  all  churches 
niake  liberal  offerings  for  the  work  of  the  College  Board  and  send 
these  offerings  undesignated  to  the  Board.  (See  pp.  33  and  34, 
•College  Board  Report.) 

4.  That  the  Synod  recommend  pastors,  Sessions  and  people 
to  pray  the  "Lord  of  the  harvest  that  He  send  forth  more  laborers 
into  His  harvest."      Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  L.  RusBRiDGE,  Chairman. 

Rev.  A\'.  T.  M.  Beale,  Chairman  of  a  Committee  on 
West  Nottingham  College,  presented  the  following  report, 
which  was  received  and  its  recommendations  adopted: 

WEST  NOTTINGHAM   COLLEGE. 

WherExKS,  There  was  founded  in  West  Nottingham,  Mary- 
land, in  1741.  an  institution  of  learning  for  the  education  and 
training  of  the  youth,  out  of  which  grew  the  West  Nottingham 
Academy,  chartered  as  such  by  special  act  of  the  Legislature  of 
Maryland  in  18 12,  and 

Whereas,  said  Acadeni}'  has  since  been  conducted  under  said 
charter  along  Christian  lines,  and  has  won  an  enviable  reputation 
in  the  character  of  those  who  have  been  educated  therein,  and 

Whereas,  for  the  greater  efficiency  of  said  Academy  under 
its  charter  the  Trustees  of  said  Academy  have  petitioned  to  the 
Synod  of  Baltimore  for  the  fostering  care  of  said  Synod. 

Therefore,  Be  it  Resolved  by  the  Synod  of  Baltimore,  That 
a  committee  of  seven,  two  from  each  Presbytery,  with  the  Mod- 
erator as  chairman  thereof,  be  appointed  to  fully  consider  and  re- 
port at  the  next  meeting  of  Synod  the  whole  subject  as  to  the 
power  of  said  Trustees  under  said  charter,  the  condition  of  the 
title  of  said  Academy,  including  the  real  estate  and  personal  prop- 
erty connected  therewith,  and  generally  any  and  all  things  per- 
taining to  said  Academy ;  and  what  further  legislation,  if  any, 
may  be  necessary  to  effectuate  the  usefulness  of  said  Academy 
if  taken  under  the  fostering  care  of  the  Synod,  to  the  end  that 
the  Synod  may  be  fully  advised  before  any  final  action  be  taken 
by  it  in  the  premises ;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  the  committee  so  appointed  in  the  meantime 
advise  and  co-operate  with  the  Trustees  of  said  Academy  as  said 
Trustees  mav  desire  in  the  interest  thereof. 


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A  devotional  service  was  conducted  at  this  point  by  Rev. 
Joseph  T.  Kelly,  D.  D. 

The  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Education  being 
called  away  from  Synod  left  the  following  resolution  with  the 
Stated  Clerk : 

Resolved,  That  the  eight  days  beginning  with  the  first 
Sunday  in  February.  1914,  be  designated  as  "Educational 
Week,"  the  first  Sunday  to  be  observed  as  "Young  People's 
Day"  and  "Vocation  Day;"  the  second  Sunday  as  "Educa- 
tional Day."  and  the  Thursday  between  as  the  "Day  of  Prayer 
for  Schools  and  Colleges."  This  was  adopted,  and  was  fol- 
lowed by  an  address  by  Rev.  J.  W.  Cochran,  D.  D.,  Secretary 
of  the  Board  of  Education. 

Rev.  James  E.  Mofifatt,  D.  D..  Chairman  of  the  Committee 
on  Relief  and  Sustenation,  presented  the  following  report, 
which  was  received  and  its  recommendations  were  adopted. 

RELIEF  AND  SUSTENTATION. 

In  the  ecclesiastic  year  of  1912-1913  was  accomplished  by 
direction  of  the  General  Assembly  of  1912  the  uniting  of  the 
two  agencies  of  the  Church  designed  to  bring  relief  to  dis- 
abled and  aged  ministers  and  their  widows. 

Under  one  Board  these  two  agencies  were  brought  to- 
gether and  Rev.  \\\  H.  Foulkes,  D.  D.,  was  chosen  General 
Secretary  in  charge  of  the  Relief  Department,  and  Rev.  J.  R. 
Sutherland,  D.  D.,  Associate  Secretary  in  charge  of  the  Sus- 
tentation  Department.  Rev.  W.  W.  Heberton.  D.  D.,  was 
chosen  Treasurer  of  both  funds.  The  first  annual  report  of 
the  Fund  is  virtually  the  fifty-eighth  report  of  ^Ministerial 
Relief  and  the  fourth  of  Sustentation. 

The  first  year  of  the  combined  agency  has  been  the  very 
best  in  the  history  of  either  department  of  the  work. 

In  the  Relief  Department  1,33  0  were  aided,  a  larger  num- 
ber than  ever  before. 

The  income  of  this  department  was  the  largest  in  its 
history,  $308,165.00. 

Out  of  the  increased  income  the  Board  was  able  to  ad- 
vance the  amount  granted  to  honorably  retired  ministers  from 
$350.00  to  $400.00  per  annum  when  needed. 

The  Relief  Department  secured  during  the  year  three 
noteworthy  gifts  for  the  permanent  fund  of  the  Board.  From 
the  so-called  Lady  Cartright  legacy,  $318,068.00.     Also  a  gift 

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of  $75,000.00  from  a  friend  in  New  York,  and  a  gift  of 
$10,000.00  from  a  member  of  the  Board,  the  income  of  which 
is  to  go  to  Rev.  B.  L.  Agnew,  D.  D.,  as  long  as  he  survives, 
and,  should  his  wife  survive  him,  to  her  during  life. 

Your  Committee  deem  it  worth  while  to  call  your  atten- 
tion to  the  comparatively  small  cost  of  administration, 
$17,136.80. 

The  present  membership  of  the  Sustenation  Department 
is  738.  The  Department  received  last  year  $104,692.00  in 
pledges;  in  cash  $107,423.86.  Of  this  sum  $26,090.88  was  re- 
ceived in  the  form  of  dues  from  the  members  of  the  fund. 
Since  the  beginning  of  the  Department  $119,016.67  has  been 
paid  to  the  scheme  by  the  members  of  the  Fund. 

The  Board  has  now  in  invested  funds  of  the  Department 
$352,966.00,  and  counting  pledges  of  April  1st,  1913,  $466,227 
These  pledges  are  to  be  paid  in  five  annual  installments. 

This  large  amount  of  $212,120.00  received  by  this  Depart- 
ment in  cash  and  pledges  was  due  in  part  to  the  employment 
of  field  agents  who  presented  this  cause  to  the  churches  in 
various  sections.  This,  of  course,  necessitated  the  expendi- 
ture of  considerable  money  for  this  work,  so  that  the  expense 
account  of  this  Department  seems  unusually  large. 

And  already  40  per  cent  of  the  full  amount  contemplated 
in  the  plan  of  Sustentation  has  been  paid  to  benefactors  this 
past  year,  an  increase  of  10  per  cent  over  the  previous  year. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  soon  the  Board  will  find  itself  able  to 
grant  the  full  benefit  proposed  in  the  plan. 

The  Relief  Department  now  has  invested  $2,576,889.28; 
the  Sustentation  Department  $466,277.00,  a  toal  of  $3,043,116. 

The  Board  has  planned  for  a  more  vigorous  effort  to  in- 
crease the  invested  fund  till  it  shall  reach  ten  millions.  To 
this  end  the  Board  has  elected  Rev.  W^illiam  S.  Holt,  D.  D., 
of  Portland,  Oregon,  Field  Secretary  to  aid  in  prosecuting  the 
work.     Others  may  be  also  called  to  aid  in  this  work. 

In  order  to  successfully  carry  out  this  effort  for  increased 
endowment  the  combined  Board  must  have  access  to  the 
churches  to  solicit  gifts  and  pledges  to  this  cause,  aside  from 
regular  offering,  made  by  collection,  as  from  a  Budget  Fund. 

We  recommend,  therefore,  First,  that  Synod  direct  all 
pastors  and  Sessions  of  Churches  within  the  bounds  of  the 
Synod  of  Baltimore  to  give  access  to  the  several  churches  to 
the  representatives  of  this  cause  to  present  its  claims  to  the 
benevolent  gifts  of  the  people. 

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Second,  Synod  recommends  all  the  ministers  within  our 
bounds  of  a  suitable  age  to  join  the  Sustentation  Department 
when  possible. 

This  report  was  followed  by  an  address  by  Rev.  W.  H. 
Foulkes,  D.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of  Relief  and  Susten- 
tation. 

The  Committees  on  the  ^Minutes  of  the  Presbyteries  of 
New  Castle  and  Baltimore  reported,  recommending  that  the 
Minutes  be  signed  as  approved.  The  Committee  on  the  Min- 
utes of  the  Presbytery  of  Washington  City  also  reported  find- 
ing them  correct,  but  that  the  action  of  1912  had  not  been  spread 
upon  the  Mintues,  and  recommended  that  it  be  now  done  and 
the  signature  of  the  Moderator  of  that  meeting  obtained,  thus 
completing  their  records.  The  recommendations  were  all 
adopted  and  the  Minutes  were  completed  as  directed. 

Attention  was  called  to  the  approaching  one  hundred  and 
-fiftieth  anniversary  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church  of  Bal- 
timore, and  the  Moderator  of  Synod  was  appointed  to  pre- 
sent the  greetings  of  the  Synod  on  that  occasion. 

Recess  was  taken,  the  closing  prayer  being  offered  by  the 
Rev.  J.  \V.  Wightman,  D.  D. 


Wednesday,  October  29th,  1913,  2.00  P.  M. 

The  session  was  opened  with  prayer  by  Rev.  H.  Medley 
Price. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Chairman  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Temperance,  which  had  been  printed,  was  pre- 
sented by  Rev.  T.  Davis  Richards,  D.  D.,  and  is  as  follows : 

TEMPERANCE. 

Fathers  and  Brothers  of  the  Synod  of  Baltimore : 

The  task  which  falls  to  the  lot  of  your  Temperance  Com- 
mittee annually  is  becoming  yearly  an  increasingly  pleasant 
one,  because  the  cause  whose  interests  it  is  our  duty  to  chron- 
icle is  one  which  is  steadily  gaining  both  in  fact  and  feeling, 
and  it  is  always  pleasant  to  report  good  things. 

There  was  a  time  in  the  memory  of  your  committee  when 
Temperance  was  considered  a  subject  by  itself,  in  which  a  man, 
and  particularly  a  woman,  might  be  interested  if  so  inclined, 
and   in   which   much   good    might   be   done,    but    which    was 

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being  greatly  exaggerated  by  those  who  had  become  absorb- 
ingly interested  in  it.  That  has  entirely  passed  away,  we  be- 
lieve, and  that  attitude  has  been  completely  banished  by  the 
demonstration  of  the  fact  that  intemperance  is  bound  up  with 
all  the  other  social  evils  in  such  an  intimate  way  that  to  rem- 
edy others  it  also  must  be  dealt  with,  and  the  workers  in  the 
church,  both  clerical  and  lay,  are  now  convinced  that  it  is  one 
of  the  most  serious  enemies  of  the  kingdom,  and  that  if  the 
kingdom  is  to  grow  intemperance  must  go. 

In  order  that  we  may  have  an  intelligent  knowledge  of  the 
situation  in  regard  to  the  temperance  question,  let  us  glance 
for  a  moment  at  the  statistics  for  the  year  1912. 

The  drink  bill  of  the  United  States  was  $1,750,000,000, 
which  is  an  average  of  22.79  gallons  per  capita. 

The  area  of  the  United  States  is  2,973,890  square  miles,  of 
which  2,132,746  square  miles  are  under  prohibition  laws. 
The  population  is  91,972,266  people,  of  whom  46,029,750  live 
under  prohibition.  Nine  states  have  state-wide  prohibition,  in 
fourteen  states  more  than  50%  of  the  population  are  under  no 
license,  in  thirteen  states  between  25%  and  50%  of  the  pop- 
ulation are  under  no  license,  and  in  ten  states  less  than  25%. 

A  study  of  these  figures  and  comparison  with  the  figures 
for  other  years  furnishes  abundant  food  for  thought.  It  gives 
us  some  very  great  encouragements,  but  at  the  same  time  it 
shows  the  ever-increasing  necessity  for  work  along  this  line. 

First  of  all,  our  attention  must  be  called  to  the  tremendous 
economic  waste  that  is  caused  by  the  drink  traffic,  for  despite 
what  may  be  said  about  the  numbers  of  men  employed  and  the 
money  put  into  circulation,  all  social  workers  know  that  the 
majority  of  men  employed  in  the  liquor  trade  are  debauched  by 
it,  and  that  the  money  put  into  circulation  goes  for  things  that 
are  not  only  unnecessary  for  daily  use,  but  usually  harmful  to 
those  who  have  them.  To  pay  this  enormous  drink  bill  for 
1912  it  must  have  been  necessary  for  every  piece  of  silver 
which  Uncle  Sam  had  in  circulation  to  have  passed  over  some 
bar  at  least  eight  times  in  the  courrse  of  the  year,  for  the 
bill  was  $1,750,000,000  and  there  is  only  $211,562,484  worth 
of  silver  in  circulation. 

The  money  spent  for  drink  amounted  to  more  than  four 
times  as  much  as  that  expended  for  public  schools  in  the  U.  S. ; 
it  was  nearly  three  times  the  amount  of  the  total  receipts  of 
of  the  United  States  Government,  and  would  have  paid  off  the 
whole  national  debt  ($963,776,770)  and  have  left  the  tidy  little 

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«um  of  $?86, 223.230  for  any  small  repairs  Uncle  Sam  might 
Tiave  fancied.  These  considerations  alone  are  enough  to  fur- 
nish thought  for  any  man  who  has  the  true  conception  of  citi- 
zenship, and  to  make  him  realize  that  if  from  no  other  stand- 
point, the  economic  at  least  would  force  a  man  to  see  that  the 
time  had  come  to  call  a  halt. 

Even  from  the  hygienic  and  eugenic  standpoint  the  fact 
that  the  per  capita  consumption  has  increased  from  6  gallons 
in  1860  to  22  gallons  in  1912,  coupled  with  the  now  well  rec- 
ognized scinetific  fact  that  alcohol  is  deleterious  to  the  human 
system  ;  that  it  damages  the  present  and  mortgages  the  future 
of  the  human  race ;  would  lead  men  to  suspect  that  the  popula- 
tion of  the  United  States  is  becoming  weakened  in  its  physical 
and  moral  powers,  and  again  indicate  that  the  time  has  indeed 
come  to  call  a  halt. 

Also  the  fact  that,  while  more  than  70%  of  the  territorv 
of  the  United  States  is  "dry,"  yet  only  50%  of  the  people  live 
in  it.  points  to  the  city  as  the  place  where  this  traffic  has  en- 
trenched itself  and  where  it  is  harder  to  control  or  drive  out,  but 
where  it  is  necessary,  therefore,  for  the  forces  of  morality  and 
good  government  to  concentrate  their  forces  and  fight  their 
Tiardest. 

One  other  thing  we  will  point  out  to  arouse  the  right-minded 
man.  By  the  federal  retail  liquor  tax  the  government  of  this 
"*"free  and  enlightened"  country  is  in  partnership  in  this  nefa- 
rious business  in  216,141:  places,  for  there  are  just  that  many 
people  holding  government  receipts. 

In  the  line  of  encouragements  in  the  general  field  there  is 
this  rapidly  increasing  sentiment  in  favor  of  prohibition,  the 
g-reat  increase  of  the  "dry"  territor}- ;  the  higher  and  higher 
licenses  that  are  being  put  upon  the  sale  of  liquor  where  it  is 
allowed,  but  above  all  the  passage  by  Congress  of  the  inter- 
state liquor  shipment  bill,  by  which  the  people  who  have  said 
hy  their  vote  that  they  do  not  want  liquor  sold  in  their  com- 
munities are  to  be  protected  from  liquor  which  is  shipped  in 
from  other  places  in  original  packages.  This  is  indeed  a  great 
victory,  and  the  way  in  which  it  was  gained  is  a  guarantee 
that  it  will  be  a  lasting  one. 

Coming  down  to  the  territory  within  the  bounds  of  this 
Synod,  we  find  that  Maryland  and  Delaware  are  among  those 
states  in  which  more  than  25%  and  less  than  50%  of  the  pop- 
ulation is  under  prohibition,  and  that  the  District  of  Columbia 

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has  less  than  25%  of  the  population.  To  be  exact,  the  popula- 
tion under  no  license  is  as  follows :  District  of  Columbia,  17%  ; 
Maryland,  35%  ;  Delaware,  39%.  But  here  another  great  vic- 
tory has  been  w^on  in  the  passage  of  the  District  bill  which  re- 
duces the  number  of  saloons  to  300  and  adds  very  many  safe- 
guards. 

In  regard  to  the  work  in  our  own  churches,  there  seems  to 
be  much  general  interest  and  wide  co-operation  with  local  or- 
ganizations. The  interest  in  our  contributions  to  the  Perma- 
nent Committee  increase,  and  are  from  the  last  report  as  fol- 
lows : 

Baltimore,  29  churches,  gave $207 

New  Castle,  26  churches,  gave 192 

Washington,  22  churches,  gave 207 

Totals,   77  churches,  gave $60fi 

Our  sole  recommendation  is  that  the  churches  be  urged  to 
increase  all  along  the  line  in  interest,  work  and  gifts  that 
this  absolutely  necessary  work  be  done  in  a  way  worthy  of  the 
■opportunity  before  us  and  the  powers  behind  us. 

Thomas  Freeman  Dixon. 

The  report  was  received  and  its  recommendation  adopted, 
and  Synod  also  adopted  as  its  own  Resolution  16  of  the  As- 
sembly's Committee,  found  on  page  113  of  the  Minutes,  as 
follows : 

Resolved,  That  this  Synod  respectfully  petitions  and  re- 
quests the  Hon.  Woodrow  Wilson,  President  of  the  United 
States,  to  incorporate  in  his  message  to  Congress  at  its  next 
session  a  recommendation  looking  to  the  enactment  of  a  law 
forbidding  the  issuing  of  Federal  tax  receipts  in  territory 
which  is  under  local  prohibition  and  has  banished  the  licensed 
saloon. 

The  report  was  followed  by  an  address  by  Rev.  Charles 
M.  Levister,  of  the  Anti-Saloon  League  of  Maryland. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Chairman  the  report  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Church  Erection  was  presented  by  Rev.  Hubert 
Rex  Johnson,  as  follows : 

CHURCH  ERECTION. 

On  account  of  the  absence  of  the  chairman  of  this  Com- 
mittee and  because  of  the  miscarriage  of  data  supplied  him, 
this  report  is  necessarily  brief  and  incomplete. 

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It  is  clearly  apparent  that  the  churches  of  the  Synod  are 
not  deeply  impressed  with  the  importance  of  this  Board,  its 
receipts  consisting  mainly  of  small  sums  apparently  desig- 
nated by  sessions  for  a  column  in  the  Assembly's  report  to 
avoid  a  blank,  rather  than  an  eager,  loving  offering  for  a  great 
cause. 

Thirty-five  out  of  one  hundred  and  sixty-five  churches 
failed  to  make  contributions.  These,  however,  were  all  small 
organizations,  representing  a  total  membership  of  1435  per- 
sons, or  a  loss  of  about  $80  at  the  rate  of  six  cents  per  mem- 
ber. There  were  16  delinquent  churches  in  the  Presbytery  of 
Baltimore,  15  in  New  Castle  and  4  in  Washington  City. 

The  minutes  of  the  Assembly  credit  the  Synod  with  gifts 
amounting  to  $5,647.00,  though  only  $1,856.72  went  directly 
to  the  Board. 

No  grants  have  been  made  during  the  Synodical  year  to 
any  church  in  the  Presbyteries  of  Washington  City  and  New 
Castle,  but  a  grant  has  been  made  to  Severna  Park  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Baltimore  for  the  erection  of  a  manse. 

Hubert  Rex  Johnson. 

The  report  was  accepted  and  followed  by  an  address  by 
Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok. 

The  pastor  and  Session  of  the  Westminster  Church  of 
Wilmington  invited  the  Synod  to  meet  with  them  next  year, 
and  the  invitation  was  accepted  with  thanks. 

Rev.  J.  Monroe  Stick,  Secretary  of  the  Maryland  Tract 
Society,  made  an  address  in  behalf  of  that  Society. 

A  Committee  on  Docket  was  here  appointed,  and  will  be 
found  in  the  list  of  committees. 

The  following  report  of  the  Committee  on  Evangelism 
was  presented  by  Rev.  William  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D.,  Chairman, 
and  received,  and  in  connection  therewith  Rev.  George  G. 
Mahy,  Secretary  of  the  Assembly's  Committee,  conducted  a 
Conference  on  Evangelism. 

EVANGELISM. 

Let  us  not  close  our  eyes  to  the  actual  condition  of  affairs 
in  the  religious  world.  Even  modern  fiction  is  concerned  about 
the  low  state  of  spirituality.  It  describes  the  godlessness  of 
the  present  age  as  that  is  manifest  in  the  paganism  of  the  rich, 
who,  while  making  a  pretense  of  being  religious,  are  all  the 

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while  so  intent  on  the  pursuit  of  wealth,  and  so  set  on  .appro- 
priating to  themselves  purely  secular  pleasures  that  they  have 
grown  indifferent  to  the  call  of  God,  and  have  no  anxiety  for 
the  spiritual  safety  of  their  offpring.  Materialism  has  crept 
into  the  Church  to  affect  for  evil  both  the  rich  and  the  poor, 
and  it  is  yearly  becoming  more  difficult  to  persuade  those  out- 
side of  the  Kingdom  to  accept  God's  gracious  invitation  to  at- 
tend the  wedding  feast  in  honor  of  His  Son.  Perhaps  the  per- 
ilous times  of  which  Paul  wrote  to  his  coadjutor,  Timothy,  have 
at  last  been  reached.  Men  differ  as  to  the  best  method  of  cor- 
recting this  materialism,  which  is  the  legitimate  outcome  of 
selfishness  and  greed.  A  fictionist  offers  as  a  remedy  for  ex- 
isting evils  what  we  might  term  Modernism;  that  is,  on  the 
one  hand  a  new  gospel  whittled  down  to  a  fine  point  to  make  it 
fit  in  with  progressive  thought  in  the  scientific  world,  and  on 
the  other  hand,  a  Social  Democracy,  a  high-sounding  name 
for  Socialism.  But,  however  alluring  such  a  scheme  may  seem 
to  the  novelist,  we,  whose  training  is  theological,  feel  justified 
in  rejecting  the  scheme  set  forth  by  a  Mrs.  Ward  and  re- 
echoed by  Mr.  Churchill.  An  emasculated  gospel  will  prove 
of  no  avail  in  making  the  church  a  power  in  the  w'orld.  Even 
if  it  succeeded  in  increasing  church  membersnip,  it  would 
leave  character  unchanged,  and  hence  there  would  be  a  repeti- 
tion of  the  Church's  experience  when  the  ban  was  removed 
from  Christianity,  and  thousands  upon  thousands  became  nom- 
inal Christians  without  any  change  of  heart.  The  gospel  of 
social  service,  in  spite  of  its  points  of  merit,  must  also  fail  to 
bring  about  the  desired  result,  because  it  is  guilty  of  the  error 
of  emphasizing  the  brotherhood  of  man  at  the  expense  of  the 
Fatherhood  of  God.  It  is  one  of  the  fads  of  our  age,  corre- 
sponding in  the  educational  realm  to  the  elevation  of  the  train- 
ing of  the  fingers  above  the  training  of  the  head.  The  pendulum 
in  the  two  realms  has  swung  too  much  to  one  side.  Let  us  trust 
that  in  a  short  time  a  proper  balance  will  be  struck.  What  if 
our  age  is  Godless?  What  if  men  are  apparently  too  prosper- 
ous in  their  material  affairs  to  give  their  eternal  welfare  due 
consideration?  Suppose  it  is  true  of  men  today  as  it  was  of 
ancient  Israel.  "But  Jeshurum  waxed  fat  and  kicked ;  thou 
art  waxed  fat,  thou  art  grown  thick,  thou  are  covered  with  fat- 
ness ;  then  he  forsook  God  which  made  him,  and  lightly  es- 
teemed the  Rock  of  his  salvation ;"  are  we  to  stand  by  supinely 
bewailing  our  inability  to  cope  with  the  situaiton?  What  ran 
we  do  to  stem  the  tide  of  indifference  and  polite  agnosticism 

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and  wickedness  beating  against  the  walls  of  the  church,  and 
threatening  to  make  great  breaches?  Why  not  resort  to  the 
only  instrument  God  has  placed  in  our  hands  to  stem  this  tide, 
namely  the  Gospel  of  Jesus  Christ,  which  has  always  been  the 
power  of  God  unto  salvation  to  everyone  one  believes  the  mes- 
sage ?  The  one  known  and  tried  remedy  for  the  quickening  of 
the  spiritual  life,  and  in  consequence  the  restoration  of  the 
Church  to  her  pristine  glory,  is  evangelism.  Let  us  then  urge 
upon  all  our  ministers  and  church  officials  the  need  of  mag- 
nifying the  evangelistic  spirit.  There  ought  to  be  no  misun- 
derstanding as  to  what  is  meant.  It  is  the  faithful,  earnest 
preaching  of  the  Word  of  God  with  the  specific  object  of  be- 
seeching the  unsaved  to  accept  Christ  as  their  Saviour,  and 
at  the  same  time  lifting  the  saved  to  the  heights  of  spirituality. 
And  when  we  speak  of  the  unsaved  we  dare  not  discriminate 
between  classes.  They  are  among  the  poor  and  the  rich.  Let 
us  not  limit  our  work  to  the  poor,  to  the  widows  and  orphans, 
to  the  destitute.  Let  us  work  and  pray  for  the  rich  man,  for 
as  one  has  said,  "The  rich  man  has  a  disease  worse  than  a 
fondness  for  liquor.  He  began  with  no  special  craving  for 
that  which  became  his  curse.  He  thought  he  would  make  a 
little  money,  and  as  wealth  grew  his  appetite  grew  with  it. 
The  dollar  ceased  to  be  his  slave  and  became  his  master,  but 
no  one  prayed  for  him.  And  yet  he  has  grave  responsibilities 
and  obligations  to  whom  he  knows  not.  nor  how  to  discharge 
them.  He  also  has  loneliness,  heartaches,  and  sufifers  the 
fate  of  the  misjudged  and  misunderstood."  What  if  the  men 
and  women  of  this  age  are  harder  to  reach  with  the  Gospel 
than  those  of  any  preceding  age?  This  fact  should  make  us 
all  the  more  determined  to  break  through  the  casement  of 
steel  with  which  they  have  surrounded  their  hearts.  Do  we 
not  recall  the  apostle's  plan  when  the  Jews  of  Corinth  united 
in  opposing  his  mission  among  them?  He  was  all  the  more 
resolved  to  compel  them  to  consider  his  message.  He  "was 
pressed  in  the  spirit  and  testified  to  the  Jews  that  Jesus  was 
Christ."  Hence  as  we  plead  with  you  to  take  to  your  churches 
the  Pauline  theology,  we  also  plead  with  you  as  leaders  to 
catch  his  evangelistic  fervor.  We  will  not  attempt  to  teach 
you  how  you  are  to  conduct  your  evangelistic  campaign,  for 
it  is  no  easy  matter  to  present  a  plan  that  could  be  followed 
in  every  church  in  the  Synod.  But  whatever  may  be  the  best 
plan  for  your  field,  whether  you  have  a  special  evangelist  in 
a  series  of  meetings,  or  a  brother  minister  or  a  number  of 

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brother  ministers,  or  whetlier  the  pastor  himself  does  the 
work  either  in  a  series  of  meeting's  or  throughout  the  entire 
year,  let  there  be  an  unusual  efYort  on  the  part  of  all  to  press 
home  the  claims  of  Christ  upon  men,  women  and  children. 
The  great  mission  of  the  church  is  to  seek  and  save  the  lost. 
It  is  not  a  question  of  methods.  The  parable  of  the  lost  coin 
may  serve  as  an  example.  The  coin  represents  lost  souls, 
and,  it  may  be,  lost  in  the  church.  The  woman  is  the  church. 
The  candle  is  the  Word  of  God.  How  important  it  is  to  have 
a  true  and  tried  light  to  help  in  the  work  of  recovering  the 
lost !  Let  the  dust  fly.  What  difference  does  that  make  if  the 
worthy  end  is  attained  ?  Let  your  community  be  turned  up- 
side down,  if  only  God  may  be  honored  in  the  saving  of  the 
lost.  William  J.  Row.\n,  Chainnan. 

The  Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok,  Chairman,  presented  the  fol- 
lowing report  of  the  Committee  on  Foreign  Missions : 

FOREIGN   MISSIONS. 

As  an  organized  agency  of  the  Presbyterian  Church,  For- 
eign Missions  dates  from  1826.  Prior  to  that  time  there  had 
been  definite  efforts  for  missionary  achievement,  both  at  home 
and  in  foreign  lands.  But  that  year  marked  the  actual  organi- 
zation of  a  Board,  with  executive  secretaries  and  full  authorit)^ 
of  the  General  Assembly.  It  was  a  day  of  small  things.  But 
the  years  since  then  have  witnessed  the  steady  increase  in 
power  of  this  agency,  until  this  last  year,  when  the  Board's  op- 
erations were  seen  to  be  the  largest  of  all  the  349  mission 
boards  and  societies  of  all  denominations  in  the  world. 

The  Assembly's  committee  of  19 13  noted  "'with  gratifica- 
tion the  increase  last  year  in  the  gifts  from  the  Church. 
Women's  Boards  and  Sabbath  Schools,  amountmg  to  $38,000 
more  than  the  preceding  year,  and  $12,000  more  than  was  ever 
before  received  from  these  sources  in  the  Board's  history.  The 
total  gifts  from  all  sources  amounted  to  almost  two  millions  of 
dollars." 

The  Board  reports  a  steadily  increasing  force  of  workers 
in  the  field,  and  a  rapid  growth  in  the  visible  results  of  their 
labors.     Recent  figures  are  as  follows : 

Missionaries   1157     Communicants   122,009 

Ordained    preachers 315         S.  S.  pupils 136,846 

Other  helpers 4970     Hospitals    73 

Organized  churches 678     Dispensaries  118 

Patients    treated 456,658 

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Today,  it  is  an  open  door  that  stands  before  the  Church 
in  every  land  to  which  our  ministers  and  messengers  have 
been  sent.  Never  before  in  all  history  have  such  opportuni- 
ties presented  themselves — lands  waiting  for  the  Gospel,  men 
willing  to  hear,  governments  willing  to  be  sympathetic  and 
even  helpful,  evidences  on  every  hand  of  the  Spirit's  work  of 
leadership. 

But  nowhere  do  such  conditions  exist  in  so  marked  a  de- 
gree as  in  China.  Many  lands  and  many  communities  have 
been  called  "places  of  opportunity"  in  times  past,  and  they 
were  such.  In  a  peculiarly  emphatic  way  it  must  be  said  that 
that  phrase  applies  to  the  new  Republic  of  China  today.  Ac- 
cordingly, the  interest  of  the  entire  Church  must  center  there 
for  the  present,  and  the  other  fields  of  Foreign  Mission  ac- 
tivity have  generously  and  sympathetically  recognized  this 
fact. 

The  General  Assembly's  Standing  Committee  at  Atlanta 
reiterated,  with  added  emphasis,  the  call  to  the  churches  made 
by  the  Louisville  Assembly  for  a  three-year  campaign  for  funds 
and  men,  which  should  enable  the  Board  to  send  out  a  hun- 
dred new  missionaries,  and  add  needed  equipment  for  the 
efficiency  and  increase  of  the  work.  The  Commfttee  declared  r 

"It  is  with  profound  gratitude  to  God  that  we  report  to 
the  Assembly  the  liberal  response  on  the  part  of  many  of  the 
churches  to  the  special  China  Emergency  Appeal  authorized 
by  the  last  Assembly.  More  than  three  hundred  thousand 
dollars  have  already  been  pledged,  and  about  forty  men  and 
women  have  offered  themselves  to  go  to  China.  We  woula 
urge  upon  the  churches  and  congregations  which  have  not  al- 
ready contributed  to  this  fund  for  reinforcing  the  China  Mis- 
sions to  do  so  now  without  delay,  in  view  of  the  extraordinary 
opportunity  now  confronting  the  Church  in  the  Republic  of 
China.  The  China  campaigns  as  carried  on  last  year  not  only 
did  not  interfere  with  the  other  benevolences  of  the  Board, 
but  so  far  as  can  be  judged  from  the  testimony  of  pastors  and 
elders  in  whose  churches  the  campaigns  were  held,  were  a 
great  spiritual  benefit  to  the  Church  and  community.  Tht 
appeal  sent  forth  by  the  Chinese  Cabinet,  asking  that  the 
Christians  of  China  set  apart  Sunday,  April  27th,  as  a  day  of 
special  prayer  for  the  new  Republic  of  China ;  the  recognition 
of  the  Republic  of  China  by  the  United  States  Government; 
the  enthusiasm  shown  by  thousands  of  students  in  connection 
with  the  meetings  held  under  the  auspices  of  the  World  Mis- 

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sionary  Conference;  the  reports  from  many  mission  stations 
of  tile  increased  attendance  at  services ;  and  tlie  very  large 
number  of  tliose  wlio  confessed  Ciirist,  present  an  emergency 
call  to  the  whole  Church  that  is  imperative.  Not  to  listen  to 
this  call  would  be  to  lose  an  opportunity  which  has  never  be- 
fore been  given  in  all  the  history  of  foreign  missions." 

The  campaign  conducted  last  year  entered  many  of  the 
cities  where  Presbyterianism  is  strong.  More  than  $300,000 
has  been  received  in  cash  and  pledges,  and  but  one  year 
of  the  campaign  is  completed.  But  the  goal  is  not  nearly 
reached.  $750,000  in  the  three  years  is  the  very  least  amount  we 
can  dare  to  aim  for. 

Does  this  seem  an  amazing  sum  to  place  in  China  at  the 
present  time?  Some  of  it  is  what  has  been  needed  and  asked 
for  for  the  last  ten  years  or  more.  The  rest  is  what  is  imper- 
atively called  for  as  a  result  of  the  sudden  changes  of  the 
past  year. 

One  hundred  new  missionaries,  exclusive  of  wives,  must 
be  sent  in  that  time.  During  the  present  fiscal  year  (1913-14) 
36  men  and  single  women  have  sailed  for  the  China  Missions, 
and  6  more  are  under  appointment  expecting  to  sail  before 
April  1,  1914.  Filling  the  vacancies  from  deaths  and  resigna- 
tions, 4,  this  means  a  net  addition  of  38. 

In  ordinary  years  we  have  been  sending  some  30  to  25 
new  missionaries  to  China  by  way  of  reinforcement,  so  this 
lyear  we  have  not  added  to  our  China  staff,  by  way  of  this 
special  need  and  authorization,  more  than,  say,  15-20,  or  one- 
sixth  of  the  new  missionaries  called  for. 

The  call  for  young  men  and  women  of  spiritual  and 
mental  gifts  equal  to  this  emergency  of  our  work  in  China  is 
almost  unequalled  in  the  history  of  the  Church. 

Is  it  wise  to  place  such  sums  of  money  in  China  at  this 
time,  when  the  future  looks  so  uncertain?  The  Board  is  sat- 
isfied that  it  is  right  to  send  men  and  money  NOW.  No  loss 
of  life  or  property  has  thus  far  been  reported  as  a  result  of 
the  revolution ;  and  both  parties  in  the  strife  have  been 
equally  careful  to  give  protection,  and  will  fully  indemnify  in 
case  of  loss. 

Many  of  the  churches  in  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore  partici- 
pated last  year  in  the  special  China  campaign,  with  good  results 
for  this  great  project  and  for  the  churches  responding. 

The   Foreign   Missions   Committee  of  the   Presbytery  of 

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Washington  City  has  completed  its  plan  for  the  campaign  in 
that  city,  which  will  be  held  November  14-17,  under  the  lead- 
ership of  the  China  Campaign  Team  of  nine  men. 

Paul  R.  Hickok.  Chairman. 
The  report  was  received  and  followed  by  an  address  by 
Rev.  A.  W.  Halsey,  D.   D.,   Corresponding  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions. 

The  Moderator  appointed  the  Committee  on  Resolutions, 
which  will  be  found  in  the  list  of  committees. 

The  Judicial  Committee  reported  that  no  business  had 
come  before  it. 

The  Finance  Committee  reported  as  follows : 

FINANCE. 

We,  the  Committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  accounts 
of  receipts  and  disbursements  of  the  Treasurer  of  the  Synod, 
report  that  we  have  examined  and  verified  the  same  with 
vouchers  submitted,  and  find  the  accounts  correct,  being  $289 
received  and  paid  out. 

The  condensed  report  of  the  Treasurer  is  as  follows : 
Receipts. 

From  the  Presbytery  of  Washington  City $85.00 

From  the  Presbytery  of  New  Castle 85.00 

From  the  Presbytery  of  Baltimore 100.00 

For  four  advertisements 1 9.00 

$289.00 

Expenditures. 

For  unpaid  bills  at  the  beginning  of  the  year $27.16 

Salaries  100.00 

Printing  400  copies  of  the  Minutes 125.25 

Postage,  stationery,  express,  etc 25.54 

Sexton  of  New  York  Avenue  Church 10.00 

Conference  with  the  Moderator 1.05 

— < $289.00 

In  connection  therewith  we  have  estimated  the  expenses 
for  the  next  year  at  $300.90,  and  therefore  recommend  the 
assessments  as  follows : 

Presbytery  of  Baltimore $112.00 

Presbytery  of  New  Castle 95.00 

Presbytery  of  Washington  City 95.00 

$302.00 
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This  is  upon  the  basis  of  the  assessment  of  last  year,  with 
an  increase  of  $32.00  to  meet  deficit  of  $22.90.  and  a  probal)le 
increase  in  the  cost  of  the  Minutes. 

Frederick  O.  Scheri',  Cliainiiaii. 

The  report  and  its  recommendations  were  adopted. 

The  following  resolution  was  presented  and  adopted : 
Resolved,  That  there  be  created  by  the  Executive  Com- 
mittee a  United  Committee  on  the  Every  member  Plan,  which 
shall  consist  of  five  members,  constituted  on  a  basis  similar  to 
the  General  Assembly's  Joint  Executive  Committee. 

The  following  preamble  and  resolution  was  presented 
and  adopted : 

Whereas,  There  has  been  incorporated  into  the  organic 
law  of  the  Church  what  is  known  as  the  Executive  Commis- 
sion, with  its  powers  and  limitations  clearly  defined,  and 
adapted  to  the  General  Assembly,  Synod  and  Presbytery ;  and 

Whereas,  A  form  of  organization  for  Executive  Commis- 
sions in  the  inferior  courts  of  the  Church  has  been  recom- 
mended by  the  General  Assembly ;  and 

Whereas,  The  primary  function  of  such  a  commission  is 
to  promote  the  Benevolent  and  Missionary  causes,  and  to 
stimulate  the  interest  of  the  Church  in  systematic  giving  and 
finance  by  educational  methods  in  connetcion  with  the  Joint 
Executive  Committee;  therefore. 

Resolved,  That  this  Synod  approve  of  the  creation  of  an 
Executive  Commission,  and  that  the  details  as  to  its  members 
and  functions  be  referred  to  the  Executive  Committee,  to  re- 
port their  recommendations  at  the  next  Stated  Meeting  of  the 
Synod  of  Baltimore.  '  •  ■ 

A  request  from  the  Rev.  S.  M.  Perry  to  be  excused  from 
attending  the  meeting  of  Synod  was  presented  and  granted. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Leave  of  Absence  was 
presented  by  Rev.  T.  C.  Easson,  Chairman,  after  which  the 
roll  was  called.  Twenty-two  Ministers  9  Elders  responded ; 
28  Ministers  and  10  Elders  had  been  excused  by  the  commit- 
tee ;  46  Ministers  and  30  Elders  were  found  to  be  absent  with- 
out excuse. 

The  minutes  thus  far  were  read  and  approved. 

Recess  was  taken,  closing  with  prayer  by  Rev.  E.  H. 
Kistler. 


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Wednesday,  October  29th,  1913,  8.00  P.  M. 
This  was  a  popular  meeting,  with  Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok 
presiding".  Addresses  were  given  by  Rev.  W.  C.  Johnston,  of 
Africa,  on  behalf  of  the  Woman's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions, 
and  by  Rev.  A.  W.  Halsey,  D.  D.,  Secretary  of  the  Board  of 
Foreign  Missions.  The  offering  was  for  the  Woman's  Synod- 
ical  Society  for  Foreign  Missions. 

The  Committee  on  Resolutions  presented  the  following 
report,  which  was  unanimously  adopted : 

The  Committee  on  Resolutions  beg  leave  to  express  the 
thanks  of  the  Synod — 

1.  To  the  Moderator,  Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Benham,  Ph.  D., 
for  his  fairness,  wisdom  and  cheerful  Christian  spirit  which  he 
has  manifested  in  the  conduct  of  the  business  of  the  Synod. 

2.  To  the  Committee  on  Entertainment  for  their  large- 
hearted  kindness  in  providing  for  the  entertainment,  comfort 
and  pleasure  of  the  Synod. 

3.  To  the  ladies  of  the  Church  for  the  delightful  lunch- 
eons so  generously  and  bountifully  provided  and  graciously 
served. 

4.  To  the  Organist  and  Choir  of  the  Church  for  their 
participation  in  the  popular  meetings  and  devotional  services 
of  the  Synod. 

5.  To  the  Boy  Scouts  for  their  efficient  service  of  direc- 
tion and  general  helpfulness. 

6.  To  the  Minister,  Session  and  Officers  of  the  Church 
we  extend  our  thanks  and  appreciation  for  the  thoughtfulness 
and  comfort  which  they  have  extended  to  the  Synod. 

All  of  which  is  respectfuly  submitted, 

Paul  R.  Hickok, 
J.  H.  Crawford, 
S.  H.  Jewell, 

Committee. 

All  the  business  being  completed  the  Synod  was  formally 
closed  with  prayer  and  Benediction  by  the  Rev.  Robert  P. 
Kerr,  D.  D.,  to  meet  again  at  8.00  P.  M.,  on  the  fourth  Tues- 
day of  October,  1914,  in  the  Westminster  Presbyterian 
Church,  Wilmington,  Delaware. 

Joseph  R.  Milligan.  Permanent  Clerk. 
Attest :    Chas.  G.  Cadv.  Stated  Clerk. 

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STANDING  RULES 

OF  THE 

SYNOD  OF  BALTIMORE 

1913. 


I. — The  Synod  shall  meet  annually  on  the  fourth  Tuesday  of  October, 
.■at  the  place  appointed  at  the  preceding  meetin^i'. 

II. — The  ofificers  of  the  Synod  shall  be  a  Moderator,  a  Stated  Clerk 
(who  shall  also  act  as  Treasurer),  Permanent  Clerk  and  one  Temporary 
Clerk,  and  these  officers  shall  constitute  the  Executive  Committee  of  the 
Synod. 

III. — The  Stated  Clerk  and  Treasurer,  and  Permanent  Clerk  shall  be 
elected  for  a  term  of  three  years.  The  salary  of  the  Stated  Clerk  shall 
lie  $7S.oo  per  year,  and  that  of  the  Permanent  Clerk,  $25.00  per  year. 
All  other  offices  shall  be  filled  by  election  at  the  opening  of  each  stated 
meeting  of  the  Synod. 

IV. — The  Stated  Clerk  shall  give  due  notice  of  the  time  and  place 
■of  every  meeting  of  the  Synod,  and  he  shall  send  a  copy  of  the  Docket 
with  the  notice  of  the  meeting  not  less  than  ten  days  before  the  annual 
meeting  of  the  Synod. 

V. — The  roll  of  each  meeting  of  the  Synod  shall  be  made  out  by  the 
Stated  Clerk  from  authentic  reports,  to  be  furnished  him  by  the  Stated 
Clerks  of  the  Presbyteries,  after  the  rising  of  the  meeting  of  those  bodies, 
next  preceding  the  meeting  of  the  Synod.  It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the 
Stated  Clerk,  at  the  opening  of  the  second  day's  session,  to  have  prepared 
and  ready  for  use  in  the  Synod's  business  a  roll  of  the  members  in  attend- 
ance and  to  add  thereto  the  names  of  any  additional  members  who  may 
report  their   attendance. 

VI. — The  Moderator  of  the  Synod  shall  at  each  stated  meeting  ap- 
point the  following  named  committees :  Bills  and  Overtures,  Judicial 
Cases,  Finance,  Minutes  of  the  General  Assembly,  Presbyterial  Records, 
Leave  of  Absence,  Narrative  for  the  ensuing  year,  and  a  Committee  on 
Rules. 

VII. — Standing  Committees  to  consist  of  one  minister  and  one  elder 
from  each  of  the  Presbyteries  composing  the  Synod,  shall  be  appointed  by 
the  Executive  Committee,  the  initial  appointments  to  be  in  classes  of 
one,  two,  and  three  years,  and  their  successors  to  serve  the  full  term  of 
three  years,  as  follows:  i.  Systematic  Beneficence.  2.  Home  Mis- 
sions. 3.  Foreign  Missions.  4.  Education.  5.  Church  Erection.  6. 
Publication  and  Sabbath  School  Work.  7.  Freedmen.  .8.  Relief  and 
.Sustentation.    9.     Colleges.    10.     Temperance.     11.     Religious  Work  in  the 

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Army  and  Navy.  12.  Sabbath  Observance.  13.  Evangelistic  Work.  14. 
Memorials.  15.  Young  People's  Societies.  16.  Arrangements.  17. 
Docket.  The  Pastor  of  the  Church  entertaining  the  Synod  shall  be  the 
Chairman  and  the  Stated  Clerk  of  the  Synod  the  Clerk  of  the  Committee 
of  Arrangements.  No  person  having  served  the  full  term  of  three  years 
upon  any  Standing  Committee  shall  be  eligible  for  reappointment  on  said 
Committee  until  after  the  expiration  of  one  full  term.  The  Executive 
Committee  shall  also  designate  the  Chairmen  of  these  respective  Com- 
mittees. 

VIII. — At  the  close  of  each  stated  meeting  of  the  Synod  the  roll 
shall  be  called,  and  the  absentees  who  have  not  been  excused  from  at- 
tendance shall  be  noted,  and  their  names  shall  be  recorded  in  the  Minutes. 

IX. — The  General  Rules  for  Judicatories,  recommended  by  the  General 
Assembly,  shall  be  the  Rules  for  the  transaction  of  business  in  this  Synod, 
unless  otherwise  ordered  by  the  Synod. 

X. — The  first  hour  of  each  morning  session  shall  be  spent  in  a  con- 
ference upon  some  practical  matter  of  Christian  life;  the  leaders  and 
subjects  to  be  selected  by  the  Docket  Committee ;  provided,  that  when 
the  administration  of  the  Lord's  Supper  is  deemed  desirable  at  a  meeting 
of  Synod,  this  service  shall  take  the  place  of  one  of  the  morning  con- 
ferences. 

XI. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Docket  to  prepare  the 
docket  of  business  for  Synod,  and  transmit  to  the  Stated  Clerk  a  copy 
thereof  for  distribution  with  the  notice  of  the  meeting  of  Synod  at  least 
two  weeks  before  said  annual  meeting  of  Synod,  to  select  topics  and  ap- 
point leaders  for  the  morning  conferences,  to  arrange  for  the  adminis- 
tration of  the  Lord's  Supper  when  it  is  deemed  desirable,  to  provide  for 
the  popular  evening  meetings  or  Institutes  of  Synod  by  selecting  topics 
and  appointing  speakers  from  the  members  of  Synod,  the  Wednesday 
evening  meeting  to  be  devoted  to  some  vital  and  timely  topic  of  personal 
or  organzied  Christianity,  and  the  Thursday  evening  meeting  to  the  pop- 
ular presentation  of  some  great  character  or  epoch  in  Presbyterianism 
or  the  mission  work  of  our  Church. 

XII. — The  Committee  on  the  Narrative  shall  prepare  from  the  several 
Presbyterial  Narratives  a  succinct  report  on  the  state  of  religion  within 
the  bounds  of  the  Synod,  and  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  .;ach  Presbytery  to 
send  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Synod's  Committee  on  the  Narrative  a  copy 
of  the  Presbyterial  Narrative  as  soon  as  it  has  been  adopted. 

XIII. — It  shall  be  the  regular  order  of  the  day,  immediately  after 
reading  the  Narrative  on  the  state  of  religion,  to  hear  brief  memorials  of 
members  who  have  died  during  the  year,  as  may  be  sent  down  by  the 
Presbyteries.  A  Standing  Committee  on  Memorials  shall  be  appointed  to 
prepare  such  memoranda  as  may  be  properly  inscribed  on  a  memorial 
page  in  the  printed  Minutes.  The  Stated  Clerk  shall  reserve  such  page 
and  digest  such  matter  as  may  be  furnished  by  this  Committee,  and  pub- 
lish  it  with   the   proceedings   each  year. 

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XIV. — The  Committees  on  Presbyterial  Records,  Judicial  Cases,  and 
on  Bills  and  Overtures  shall  be  charged  with  the  duties  usually  assigned 
to  such  Committees  in  Presbyterial  Judicatories. 

XV. — The  Committee  upon  Leave  of  Absence  shall  consider  and  pass 
upon  all  requests  and  all  reasons  assigned  for  absence  from  any  session 
or  meeting  of  the  Synod,  and  make  report  of  the  same  to  the  house  for 
record  before   final  adjournment. 

XIV. — The  Committee  on  Finance  shall  audit  the  annual  report  of 
the  Treasurer,  and  make  proper  assessment  upon  the  Presbyteries  to  meet 
the  expense  of  the  Synod. 

XVII. — 'It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Systematic  Benefi- 
cence to  report  to  Synod  on  tiie  whole  subject  of  Systematic  Beneficence, 
or  the  agencies,  efforts  and  comparative  success  on  behalf  of  the  Boards 
of  the  Church,  or  other  schemes  for  doing  good  within  the  bounds  of 
Synod.  And  it  shall  be  the  duty  of  each  corresponding  Presbyterial  Com- 
mittee to  transmit  to  the  Chairman  of  the  Synod's  Committee,  before  the 
meeting  of  Synod,  a  copy  of  the  report  which  it  may  have  made  to  the 
Presbytery. 

XVIII.— It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committtee  on  foreign  Missions 
to  correspond  with  the  Assembly's  Board  of  Foreign  Missions  and  thus 
to  obtain  information  of  the  progress  of  the  missionary  work  abroad,  and 
to  correspond  with  the  Presbyteries  and  individual  Churches  at  home  in 
order  to  obtain  knowledge  of  what  has  been  done  at  home  for  the  Foreign 
Missionary  work.  And  it  shall  be  their  duty,  also,  to  recommend  to  the 
Synod  such  plans  and  methods  as  may,  in  their  judgement,  most  effectu- 
ally promote  in  our  Churches  the  interest  of  this  great  cause. 

XIX. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committee  on  Home  Missions  to 
be  the  organ  of  communication  between  the  Synod  and  the  Assembly's 
Board  of   Home   Missions. 

XX. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  remaining  Committees  on  the  benev- 
olent work  of  the  Church  to  present  to  Synod  the  progress,  prospect,  and 
needs  of  the  respective  Boards,  and  to  recommend  such  action  as  may 
seem  best. 

XXI. — It  shall  be  the  duty  of  the  Committees  on  Temperance,  Religious 
Work  in  the  Army  and  Navy,  and  Sabbath  Observance  to  report  to 
Synod  the  progress  of  these  causes  and  to  recommend  any  action  they 
may  deem  advisable. 

XXII. — The  above  named  Standing  Committees  shall  each  present  to- 
Synod  a  carefully  written  annual  report  of  its  labors,  the  consideration 
of  which,  unless  otherwise  ordered,  shall  take  precedence  of  other  reports ; 
provided,  that  such  reports  and  all  speeches  upon  them  shall  not  exceed 
ten  minutes,  except  the  address  of  the  Secretaries  of  the  Boards ;  and,  pro- 
vided, that  these  reports  shall  be  received  and  considered  according  to  the 
Docket-  The  Stated  Clerk  four  weeks  before  the  meeting  of  Synod,  shall 
notify  the  Chairman,  or  in  case  of  the  removal  from  the  Synod  of  any 
Chairman,  the  next  man  on  the  Committee,  of  his  appointment  and  duty 

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to  report,  and  that  it  is  his  duty  to  secure  such  information  from  the 
Presbyteries  as  may  be  necessary  for  his  report  and  a  copy  of  said  reports 
shall  be  sent  to  the  Stated  Clerk  at  least  two  weeks  prior  to  the  meeting 
of  Synod,  which  shall  be  presented  for  distribution  among  the  members 
at  the  opening  of  the  sessions  of  Synod.  All  such  reports  shall  be  limited 
to  one  thousand  words. 

XXIII —A  Committee,  consisting  of  two  ministers  and  one  elder,  shall 
be  appointed  at  each  alternate  session  of  Synod  to  visit  Wilson  College, 
at  the  expense  of  the  College,  and  report  upon  its  condition. 

XXIV. — The  Stated  Clerk  shall  make  an  oflficial  statement  and  record 
of  the  fact  that  the  Minutes  of  the  Synod  have  been  submitted  to  the 
General  Assembl\^  with  its  actions  thereon. 

XXV. — The  Stated  Clerk  shall  send  one  copy  of  the  Minutes  of  Synod 
to  each  minister  and  one  copy  to  each  Church  Session  in  the  Synod.  The 
printed  Minutes  shall  be  forwarded  to  all  persons  who  are  not  entitled  to 
receive  free  copies  for  25  cents. 

XXVI. — These  Standing  Rules  may  be  suspended  at  any  meeting  of 
the  Synod  by  a  vote  of  the  members  present,  but  may  be  altered  or 
amended  only  at  a  stated  meeting. 


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LIST  OF  MODERATORS  AND  STATED  CLERKS. 

ELECTED.  MODERATORS.  STATED    CLERKS. 

1854— Rev.  N.   Grier  White.  Rev.  Thomas  E.  Peck 

1855— Rev.  Wm.  H.  Foote,  D.  D. 

1856— Rev.   Phineas   D.   Gurley,  D.  D. 

1857— Rev.  Thomas    Creigh,    D.    D.  " 

1858— Rev.  W.  V.  Wilson. 

1859 — Rev.    Austin    C.    Heaton.  Rev.  Phineas  D.  Gurley,  D.  D. 

1860— Rev.  Cyrus  Dickson,  D.  D.  " 

1861 — No  meeting  in  consequence  of  Civil  War. 

1862— Rev.  W.   W.   Eells. 

1863— Rev.  Septimus   Trustin,  D.  D. 

1864— Rev.  Jos.  T.   Smith,  D.    D. 

1865— Rev.  Isaac    N.    Hays.  "  " 

1,866 — Rev.  Andrew    B.   Cross.  "  " 

1867 — Rev.  John    Chester.  " 

1868 — Rev.  Andrevi^  D.  Mitchell.  Rev.  Thomas  Creigh.  D.   D. 

1869— Rev.   Robert    H.    Williams. 

1870— Rev.  John  Patton,  D.  D.  (June).      Rev.  John  Pym  Carter,  D.  D. 

1870 — Rev.  John    Cross    Smith,    D.  D.    (Oct.) 

1871— Rev.  John  Pym  Carter,  D.  D. 

1872— Rev.  Gaylord    L.    Aloore.  " 

1873— Rev.  Samuel    S.    Mitchell.  "  " 

1874— Rev.  David  C.  Marquis,  D.  D. 

1875 — Rev.  James  Jones  Smith.  " 

1876— Rev.  David  Wills,  D.  D. 

1877— Rev.  Robert  H.  Fulton. 

1878— Rev.  Samuel    A.    Gayley.  "  '■' 

1879 — Rev.  Banjamin    F.    Bittinger   D.  D. 

1880— Rev.  William  H.  Cooke. 

1881— Rev.  Lafayette  Marks,   D.  D. 

1882— Rev.  Samuel  H.  Howe,  D.  D. 

1883— Rev.  James  T.  Leftwich,   D.  D.  " 

1884— Rev.  Henry  Rumer,  D.  D.  "  " 

]  885— Rev.  Wm.  A.  Bartlett,  D.  D. 

1886— Rev.  Joseph  T.  Smith,  D.  D. 

1887— Rev.  J.  Howard  Nixon,  D.  D. 

1888— Rev.  Theodore    S.    Wjmkoop  "  " 

1889— Rev.  Wm.  Simonton,   D.   D. 

1890— Rev.  Albert  N.  Keigwin,  D.  D. 

1891— Rev.  Joseph  T.   Kelly,  D.  D.        Rev.  B.  F.  Bittinger.  D.D..  Acting. 

1892— Rev.  Samuel  McLanahan.  Rev.  Edward  H.  Robbins,  D.  D. 

1893 — Rev.  John     F.     Stonecipher.  "  " 

1894— Rev.  Geo.  O.  Little,  D.  D. 

1895— Rev.  Henry  Branch,  D.  D. 

1896— Rev.  Jos.  R.  Milligan,  D.  D.  Rev.  N.  H.  Miller,  D.  D. 

1897— Rev.  Chas.  B.  Ramsdell,  D  D. 

1898— Rev.  Edward  H.  Robbins,  D.  D. 

1899— Rev.  William    H.    Logan. 

1900— Rev.  Tennis  S.  Hamlin,  .D.  D 

1901— Rev.     Frank  E.  Williams-  " 

1902— Rev.  Samuel  W.  Reigart,  D.  D. 

1903— Rev.  Thos.   Chaimers   Easson. 

1904— Rev.  James  E.  Mofifatt,  D.  D. 

1905— Rev.  Francis   H.  Moore,  D.D. 

1906— Rev.  Charles    Alvin    Smith. 

1907 — Rev.  Thomas   Freeman   Dixon,  D.  D.  "  " 

1908— Rev.  John    McElmoyle,  D.  D. 

1909— Rev.  T.  Davis  Richards,  D.  D. 

1910— Rev.  J.  Wynne  Jones,  D.  D. 

1911 — Rev.  Jos.   Brown  Turner.  Rev.    Tames   M.    Nourse,   Acting.. 

1912— Rev.Wallace  Radclifife,  D.  D.,  LL.  D."  Rev.  Chas.  G.  Cadv.. 

1913— Rev.  DeWitt  M.   Benham,  Ph.  D. 

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Woman's  Synodlcal  Society  for  Home  Missions. 


President. 
Mrs.    M.   V.   Richards,  2934   Fourteenth    St,   N.  W.,   Washington,   D.   C 

Vice-Presidents. 
Mrs.  T.  K.  Noble,  1855  Mintwood  Place,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  J.  S.  Hopper,  Chesapeake  City,  Md. 
Mrs.  H.  a.  Grubbs.  2310  Elsinore  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Secretary  and   Treasurer. 
Miss  G.  E.  Leonard,  1307  Connecticut  Ave.,  N.  W.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Young  People's  Secretary. 
Miss  Elizabeth  S.  Hunting,  34  W.  Twenty-fifth  Street,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Secretary  of  Literature. 
Miss  Ann  B.  Ellison,  Summit  Bridge,  Del. 

Secretary  for  Freedutcu. 
Mrs.  Walter  D.  Bush.  2001  Willard  Street,  Wilmington.  Del. 

Study    Class   Secretary. 
Miss  Bertha  Harlan,  508  W.  Fourteenth  Street,  Wilmington.  Del. 

SECRETARY'S  REPORT. 

Tiventy-seventh  annual  report. 
There  have  been  many  changes  in  leadership  in  our  organization  dur- 
ing the  year.  In  the  Woman's  Board,  the  President,  Mrs.  Fred  Smith 
Bennett,  and  the  Secretary,  Miss  Julia  Eraser,  have  resigned  and  their 
places  have  not  been  filled.  The  three  Presidents  of  the  Presbyterial  So- 
cities,  who  are  our  Vice-Presidents  because  of  their  office,  have  all  been 
changed.    The  last  year  has  been  remarkable  in  this  respect. 

OUR  MEMBERSHIP. 

We  have  increased  in  the  number  of  organizations,  that  is  in  the  num- 
ber of  Woman's  Societies,  Westminster  Guilds,  Bands,  Study  Classes,  &c.. 
but  in  the  number  of  members  in  the  Woman's  Auxilaries  we  are  behind. 
Two  years  ago  we  made  a  tremendous  eflfort  along  the  line  of  increased 
membership  for  our  anniversary  gift,  but  we  have  not  kept  what  we  gained. 

OUR  FINANCES. 

New  Castle  Presbytery  again  comes  to  the  front  with  the  finest  finan- 
cial showing  this  year,  their  total  advance  being  over  $400,  the  amount 
given  being  $3861.  There  has  been  a  large  personal  gift  this  year  in  this 
organization  amounting  to  $600,  of  which  the  organization  is  very  proud. 
To  this  fine  showing  thirty-eight  of  the  Societies  contributed,  nineteen 
making  an  advance.  Baltimore  reports  that  they  have  made  a  gain  of 
$263,  the  total  amount  given  in  this  Presbytery  to  the  work  of  the  Woman's 
Board  being  $5293.  so  that  Baltimore  though  she  has  had  difficulties 
through  not  having  leadership  and  having  had  many  heavy  calls  in  other 
directions  has  been  most  loyal.  Washington  City  Presbyterial,  always  a 
strong  organization,  has  come  up  with  more  than  $8000  to  its  credit,  and 
while  there  has  not  been  so  large  an  advance,  still  this  amount,  about  half 
of  what  is  given  in  the  Synod,  contributed  so  regularily  and  cheerfully, 
is  a  great  factor  in  the  success  of  our  organization. 

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I  therefore  Iiave  the  honor  to  report  a  grand  total  of  $16,777,  a  total 
yaiii  of  over  $i,.soo,  so  tliat  we  have  no  cause  to  be  discouraged.  Over 
$800  was  given  to  tlie  debt.  Tlie  only  note  of  discouragement  is  the  fact 
that  Young  People's  Societies  and  Sunday  Schools  did  not  come  up  in 
gifts  to  the  amount  given  last  year. 

Our  Synod  has  been  particularly  favored  in  having  visits  frequently 
from  those  at  headquarters,  thus  keeping  our  enthusiasm  aroused,  our 
interest  quickened  and  ourselves  ready  to  do  the  work  committed  to  us. 

Baltimore  Society  has  the  great  immigrant  problem  right  at  its  doors. 
New  Castle  speaks  of  more  Study  Classes  and  great  faithfulness  in 
meetings  of  Societies,  and  of  an  honor  roll  which  they  have  adopted  which 
is  quarterly  payments,  giving  to  every  pledge,  and  ten  or  more  per  cent 
advance. 

Washington  reports  systematic  visiting  of  local  Societies  by  Pres- 
byterial  officers,  the  observation  of  Home  Mission  Week,  and  a  wonderful 
Study  Class  led  by  Mr.  D.  E.  Wiber,  generous  response  to  Fink's  Memor- 
ial College  and  the  sending  to  the  Sheldon  Jackson  school  of  the  sixty 
uniforms  needed  by  the  girls  at  the  cost  of  $270.  It  also  reports  as  its 
greatest  gift  the  going  to  the  Foreign  field  of  its  President,  Mrs.  S.  D. 
Luckett. 

As  a  Synodical  Society  we  report  that  we  have  seven  Honorary  Mem- 
bers of  the  Woman's  Board  and  are  fourth  in  the  list  of  Synods  in  this 
respect.  We  have  been  honored  by  the  Board  in  having  our  President, 
Mrs.  Richards,  appointed  on  its  Programme  Committee,  and  its  former 
President,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Kelly,  on  the  Honorary  Membership  Committee. 

Everywhere  from  the  field  comes  the  word  of  encouragement  and 
also  the  call  for  better  equipment,  larger  buildings  and  more  of  them.  The 
increased  cost  of  living  is  felt  everywhere  in  our  schools  so  that  greater 
efifort  is  demanded,  more  enthusiasm  and  greater  efficiency  in  all  our  work. 
But,  not  dwelling  on  what  tlie  year  has  brought  of  encouragements  and 
discouragements,  but  looking  towards  the  future,  may  I  not  use  the  words 
of  a  recent  letter  from  one  of  our  Mission  fields,  "We  are  entering  upon 
a  year  that  is  to  be  rich  in  the  blessings  for  all  our  organizations." 

Gertrude  F.  Leonard.  Secretary. 

SUMMARY  OF  THE  REPORTS. 

Presbyterial  Societies,  3.  Women's  Missionary  Societies,  121.  Mem- 
bers, 4449.  Young  Women's  Societies,  27.  W.  G.  Chapters,  5.  Bands,  50. 
Cradle  Roll  tens,  35.  S.  S.  contributing,  32.  Y.  P.  or  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.,  14. 
Home  Mission  Study  Classes,  14.  Copies  of  "H.  M.  M."  taken.  898. 
•Copies  of  "O,  S.  and  L."  taken.  3S4.     Total  gifts,  $16,777. 


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Woman's  Synodical  Society  for  Foreign  Missions. 


President. 
Mrs.  J.  A.  Tarvis,  1008  East  Capitol  Street,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Secretary  and  Treasurer. 
Miss  A.  M.  T.  Watson,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Vice-Presidents. 
Mrs.  Edward  Stinson,  Baltimore,  Md. 
Miss  Eva  B.  Taylor,  Wilmington,  Del. 
Mrs.  Wallace  Radcliffe,  Washington,  D.  C. 
Mrs.  Robert  Wylie.  Baltimore,  Md. 
Mrs.   J.   B.   Turner,   Philadelphia,   Pa. 
Mrs.  David  A.  McKnight,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Secretary  for  Literature. 
Mrs.  S.  B.  November,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Secretary  for   Young  People. 
Miss  Josephine  Prechett,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Secretary   for    Mission    Study 
Miss  Marietta  Little,  Washington,  D.  C. 

FINANCIAL  STATEMENT  FOR  THE  YEAR. 

Baltimore   Presbyterial    $4,804.17 

New   Castle   Presbyterial 3,010.34 

Washington   City    Presbyterial 8,697.09 

$16,511.60 
Total  in  1912 i3,9i3-76 

Gain    $2,597.84 

(A  change  of  officers,  and  an  incorrect  address  not  discovered  till  the 
letter  was  returned  on  the  day  the  last  copy  was  prepared  for  the  printer- 
must  explain  the  absence  of  the  Secretary's  report  this  year.) 

Stated  Clerk. 


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Roll  of  the  Synod  of  Baltimore. 


(The  name  of  the  postoftice  where  the  Church  is  located  is  omitted 
if  it  is  the  same  as  the  name  of  the  Church.  Date  of  organization  is  in 
parenthesis.  The  minister  named  is  pastor  of  the  Church  and  the  first 
Elder  named  is  Clerk  unless  otherwise  indicated.  Addresses  are  given 
if  different  from  that  of  the  Church.) 


PRESBYTERY  OF  BALTIMORE. 

ANNAPOLIS.  M(l  (1846).— Rev.  Geo.  S.  Bell.  D.  D.  C.  C.  Dorsey,  .31 
Franklin  St.     W.  G.  Gott,  School  St. 

ARLINGTON,  Md.  (1905).— Rev.  Gustav  A.  Briegleb,  116  Oakley  Ave., 
Baltimore.  Dr.  Newman  H.  D.  Cox.  Andrew  Hamilton,  Gwynn  Oak 
and   Thornton   Aves-,   W.   Arlington,   Md. 

ASHLAND,  Md.  (1874)-— Rev.  H.  Medley  Price.  J.  W.  Frankenfield, 
Cockcysville,  Md.  W.  H.  Buck,  Jr.,  Cockeysville,  Md.  Wm.  N.  Burns, 
Warren,  Md.     (With  WHITE  HALL.) 


BALTIMORE  CHURCHES. 

ABBOTT  MEMORIAL,  Highland  Ave.  and  Bank  St.  (1882).— Rev.  J. 
Wynne  Jones,  D.  D.,  321  S.  Highland  Ave.  Daniel  F.  Powell,  1447 
S.  Clinton  St.  Clias.  P.  Freeman,  207  S.  East  Ave.  George  Hughes, 
511  S.  Decker  St.  Geo.  Kane,  3718  Foster  Ave.  Philip  Keiner,  18 
S.  Highland  Ave.  Dr.  H.  L.  Reckard.  2643  Eastern  Ave.  E.  H.  San- 
ders, 514  S.  Third  St.  Albert  C.  Schweiger,  332  S.  Highland  Ave. 
Enoch  B.  Webb,  3421  E.  Pratt  St.  Christian  Webel,  3125  Foster  Ave. 
Joseph  E.  Wiley,  Curtis  Bay,  Baltimore. 

AISQUITH  ST.,  Cor.  North  Ave.  (1844).— Rev.  David  T.  Neely,  1641 
N.  Caroline  St.  Robert  Kinear,  1819  Aisquith  St.  W.  J.  Clendenin, 
1702  E.  North  Ave.  Dixon  Guy,  1238  N.  Broadway.  Arthur  L. 
Jackson,  1331  N.  Caroline  St.  J.  E.  Hutson,  Boone  and  Twentieth 
Sts.     J.  R.  Whitehurst,  1215  N.  Bond  St. 

BABCOCK  MEMORIAL,  Madison  and  North  Aves.  (1891).— Rev. 
Edward  Haines  Kistler,  22^7  Eutaw  PI.  John  A.  Welsh,  721  Res- 
ervoir St.  Wm.  C.  Cook,  2304  Chelsea  Ter.  J.  Marshall  Melvin,  728 
W.  North  Ave.  James  Shriver,  Chelsea  Ter.  Edward  Stinson,  2200 
Maryland  Ave.     Edward  Waters,   151 1    McCulloh   St. 

BOHEMIAN  AND  MORAVIAN,  836  N.  Washington  St.  (1890).— Rev. 
Frank  Novak,  834  N.  Washington  St.  Matej  Hlavacek,  942  N.  Castle 
St.  John  Gregor,  955  N.  Washington  St.  Chas.  Hurt,  416  N.  Wash- 
ington  St.     Vincent   Pavlik,  603   N.  Washington   St- 

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BROWN  MEMORIAL,  Park  and  Lafayette  Aves.  (1870).— Rev.  J.  Ross 
Stevenson,  D.  D.,  1316  Park  Ave.  Rev.  Harold  S.  Pellegrin,  Asst.  P., 
1416  Park  Ave.  Dr.  H.  M.  Simmons,  609  Professional  Bldg.  Richard 
Bernard,  54  Central  Savings  Bank  Bldg.  H.  H.  Fauntleroy,  222  W. 
Madison  St.  Dr.  J.  M.  T.  Finney,  1300  Eutaw  PI.  Dr.  Jas.  H.  Fra- 
zer,  1412  Eutaw  PI.  Thos.  L.  Gibson,  3004  Clifton  Ave.  N.  C.  Grasty, 
2206  Maryland  Ave.  Wm.  Gilmor  Hoffman,  841  University  Parkway. 
Geo.  L.  Irvin,  1702  Park  Ave.  P.  Bryson  Millikin,  209  S.  Charles  St. 
Dr.  Isham  R.  Page,  1327  Bolton  St.  John  B.  Ramsey,  Nat.  Mechanics 
Bank.     Chas.  D.  Reid,  334  St.  Paul  St. 

CALVARY,  Linwood  Ave.  and  McElderry  St.  (1910). — Rev  Francis 
Shunk  Downs,  621  N.  Kenwood  Ave.  Dr.  Wm.  H.  Johnson,  2017  E. 
Baltimore  St.  Herman  C.  Boerner,  1726  E.  Lanvale  St.  Wm.  S- 
Faust,  224  S.   Broadway.     Chas.  M.  McNinch,   141 1    N.   Broadway. 

CENTRAL,  Eutaw  PI.  near  Dolphin  St.  (1853).— Rev.  DeWitt  M.  Ben- 
ham,  Ph.  D..  The  Cecil.  B.  A.  Nelson,  1737  Park  PI.  Robt.  Cole, 
Edgevale  Road,  R.  P.  L.  H.  Durling,  Forest  Park.  John  T.  Hill, 
305  Roland  Ave.  Dr.  John  R.  Hooper,  1425  Linden  Ave.  Archibald 
McElmoyle,  906  N.  Fremont  Ave.  Howard  W.  Martin,  740  Dolphin 
St.  John  Parker,  812  W.  North  Ave.  L.  Irving  Pollitt,  1715  Park 
PI.     Dr.  Joseph  T.    Smith.   The  Cecil. 

COVENANT,  HoUins  and  Strieker  Sts.  (1889).— Rev.  Wm.  A.  Price, 
1413  Hollins  St.  Dr.  Justus  H.  Ehlers,  614  N.  CarroUton  Ave.  W. 
S.  Badgett,  1431  W.  Franklin  St.  W.  H.  Thomas,  Jr.,  29  S.  Strieker 
St.     W.  W.  Warfield.  120  S.  Fulton  Ave. 

FAITH,  Broadway  and  Biddle  St.  ( 1886).— Rev.  John  P.  Campbell,  D.  D., 
1728  N.  Broadway.  Edward  I.  Hyde,  iioo  E.  North  Ave.  Oliver 
W.  Cummings,  1505  Federal  St.  Addison  S.  Diggs,  1702  E.  Preston 
St.  Harry  W.  Hill,  1703  N.  Rutland  Ave.  Theophilus  Hill,  1303  E. 
Biddle  St.  Harry  L.  Hillegeist.  1330  N.  Caroline  St.  Andrew  G. 
Lowry,  2251  E.  Chase  St.     Chas.  D.  W.  Reid,  1724  E.  Lafayette  Ave. 

FIRST,  Park  Ave.  and  Madison  St.  (1761).— Rev.  Alfred  H.  Barr,  D.  D., 
808  Park  Ave.  Bernard  C.  Steiner,  Ph.  D.,  Enoch  Pratt  Free  Library. 
G.  Frank  Bayley,  28  Sl  Hanover  St.  Wm.  H.  Dix,  9  E.  Lombard 
St.  Dean  Edward  H.  Griffin,  Johns  Hopkins  University.  Calvin  W. 
Hendrick,  Sewerage  Commission.  Elisha  H.  Perkins,  Provident  Sav- 
ings Bank.  Wm.  Reynolds,  216  St.  Paul  St.  A.  Crawford  Smith, 
Law  Bldg.    Wm.  W.  Spence,  1205  St.  Paul  St. 

FOREST  PARK,  Dalrymple  and  Winfield  Aves.  (1907).— Rev.  John 
Clark  Finney.  4010  Penhurst  Ave.  Geo.  W.  Turner.  3703  Springdale 
Ave.  Joseph  B.  Bell,  Liberty  Heights  and  Berwyn  Sts.  Harry  C. 
Kilmer,  Piedmont  and  Allendale  Aves.  Wm.  A.  Webb,  Belle  Ave., 
W.  Arlington. 

FULTON  AVE,  cor.  Riggs  Ave.  (1886).— Vacant.  Wm.  D.  Haugh,  1007 
Appleton  St.  Geo.  H.  Conn,  1205  Clendenan  St.  Geo.  B.  M.  Fosnot, 
3934  Edmondson  Ave. 

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GRACE,  Dolphin  and  Etting  Sts.  (1881).— Rev.  Wm.  Edward  Williams, 
D.  D.,  623  W.  Lanvale  St.  W.  G.  Thomas.  2103  Druid  Hill  Ave. 
Chas.  W.  Davage,  1234  Druid  Hill  Ave.  R.  A.  Frey,  1921  Division  St. 
Jesse  Ireland,  1915  Druid  Hill  Ave.  John  T.  Nelson,  545  W.  Lan- 
vale St.  Jas.  W.  Nichols,  1921  Division  St.  Pratt  Wallace,  ^2:^  Mul- 
berry St. 

HAMPDEN,  Falls  Road  and  Hickory  Ave.  (i 881). —Vacant.  Mark  H. 
Thompson,  3625  Roland  Ave.  Geo.  W.  Rogers,  3816  Roland  Ave.  Jas. 
H.  Towson  342  Elm   St. 

IRVINGTON,   (1910).— Vacant. 

LAFAYETTE  SQUARE,  near  Lanvale  St.  (1880).— Rev.  John  A.  Mac 
Sporran,  11 15  W.  Lanvale  St.  Wm.  M.  Robinson,  3910  Brookline 
Ave.  Dr.  C.  M.  Cook,  1107  W.  Lanvale  St.  Samuel  R.  Hogg,  1006 
W.  Lanvale  St.  Wm.  J.  Mackee,  Hilton  Ave,  Catonsville,  Md.  Frank 
A.  Meikle,  31 15  Clifton  Ave.  Robt.  M.  Neilson,  921  N.  Arlington 
Ave.  S.  M.  Rankin.  1044  N.  Eden  St.  Geo.  S.  Rippard,  1602  W. 
Lafayette  Ave.    W.  B.  Wills,  1012  W.  Lanvale  St. 

LIGHT  STREET,  near  Montgomery  St.  (1855).— Rev.  Henry  W.  Miller, 
805  William  St.  Robert  L.  Butler,  223  Warren  Ave.  W.  Frank 
Downes,  724  N.  Mount  St.  Richard  W.  Fleming,  1419  Light  St. 
Robert  McMeikan,  215  E.  Montgomery  St.  Levi  A.  Merrill.  1035 
Hanover   St. 

MADISON  STREET,  near  Park  Ave.  (1848).— Rev.  Leonard  Z.  John- 
son. D.  D,  1615  Druid  Hill  Ave.  Geo.  E.  Frey,  1018  Linden  Ave. 
Geo.  W.  Anderson,  1317  N.  Calhoun  St.  Wm.  D.  Holland,  515  W. 
Lanvale  St.  Richard  Mack,  541  W.  Biddle  St-  Geo.  B.  Murphy,  1404 
Argyle  Ave.  Jos.  L.  Myers,  1013  Argyle  Ave.  Louis  Smith  1005 
Druid   Hill   Ave. 

MOUNT  HERMAN,  Mullikin  and  Spring  Sts.  (1911).— Rev.  Thomas  H. 
Lee,  Ph.  D.,  S.  S.,  552  Dolphin  St.  W.  B.  Marshall,  714  Ensor  St. 
Samuel  Distance,  620  N.  Eden  St. 

NORTHMINSTER,  St.  Paul  St.  and  North  Ave.  (1880).— Rev.  Robert 
P.  Kerr,  D.  D.,  1821  St.  Paul  St.  Spencer  E.  Sisco,  327  E.  22nd.  St. 
Douglass  Foster,  2220  N.  Charles  St.  Oliver  Hoblitzell,  Albion  Hotel. 
F.  C.  Laflin,  Roland  Park.  J.  Barry  Mahool,  2437  Maryland  Ave. 
John  Harry  Skeen,  208  Laurens  St.  Earl  E.  Taylor,  2439  Maryland 
Ave.     C.  W.  Wisner,  21 18  Oak  St. 

OLIVET.  Ellwood  Ave.  and  Fleet  St.  (1878).— Rev.  James  Charles 
Hughes,  .soo  S.  Curley  St.  Geo.  Becker.  2932  Elliott  St.  Geo.  H. 
Cairnes.  1006  S.  Potomac  St.  Wm.  J.  Gamble.  810  S.  East  Ave. 
Henry  McCall,  142  S.  East  Ave. 

RIDGELY  STREET,  corner  Hamburg  St.  ( 1892).— Rev.  Thos.  Chalmers 
Easson,  Hotel  Condon.  Henry  Ebert,  22)2.  E.  Twenty-fifth  St.  Geo. 
A.  Bauer,  1827  Mosher  St.  John  Hall,  919  Broadway.  R.  F.  Schroeder, 
36  Morley  St.  R.  J.  Spencer,  3718  Park  Heights  Ave.  Frank  Walter, 
1 126  Cross  St. 

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ROLAND  PARK,  Roland  Ave.  and  Upland  Road.  (1901)— Rev.  John 
W.  Douglas,  411  Woodlawn  Road.  C.  W.  Coggins,  312  Forest  Road. 
H.  G.  Evans,  218  Roland  Ave.  F.  R.  Haynes,  913  Roland  Ave.  John 
McKenzie,    116  Woodlawn  Road. 

SECOND,  Baltimore  and  Lloyd  Sts.  ( 1803)  — Rev.  Edward  Niles,  1214 
N.  Caroline  St.  Judge  H.  N.  Abercrombie,  2528  N.  Charles  St.  Wm. 
A.  Flowers,  2054  Kennedy  Ave.  John  W.  Janney,  Kennedy  Ave. 
Robert  J.  Kane.  1044  N.  Eden  St.  Fred  O.  Scherf,  2222,  Homewood 
Ave.  Robert  H.  Smith,  1230  N.  Calvert  St.  Chas.  F.  P.  Waters, 
141 7  Mount  Royal  Ave. 

WALBROOK,  Walbrook  and  Ellamont  Aves.  (1898).— Rev.  Henry 
Alexander  Grubbs,  2310  Elsinore  Ave.  Francis  Sanderson,  Dennison 
and  Mondawmin  Aves.     John  W.  Roman,  12  Dorchester  Road. 

WAVkRLY,  Old  York  Road  and  Windermere  Ave.     (1887).— Rev.  John 

S.   Plumer,   D.   D.,  2821   Frisby   St.     Robt.   L.  Graham,  513  Chestnut 

•■'•'  'fi'il'l  Ave.     A.  H.  Fields,  2821  Frisby  St.     Ed.  Meister,  Tinges  Lane. 

WESTMINSTER,  Fayette  and  Greene  Sts.  (1852).— Rev.  D.  Everett 
Lyon,  Ph.  D  ,  Pastor  Elect.  Elisha  S.  Heath,  312  Forest  Road.  S. 
Russell  Bayly,  4812  Delaware  Ave.  Alex.  P.  Gray,  4201  Belview 
Ave.  James  Maben,  1926  Hollins  St.  Emmet  L.  Pettit,  Laurel,  Md. 
W.  E.  Towns,  132  Augusta  Ave. 


BARTON,  Md.  (1859).— Rev.  Stanley  H.  Jewell,  Matthew  Longridge, 
Wm.   S.  Williams.     (With  LORD.) 

BELAIR,  Md.     (1852).— Rev.  A.   Burtis   Hallock.  Geo.  R.  Cairnes,  John 
B.  Hanna,  J.  Lawrence  McCormick.  John  D.  Worthington. 

BETHEL,  Md.  (1769).— Rev.  Robert  C  Jenkins,  White  Hall,  Md.  N. 
O:  Stokes,  Rocks,  Md.  Dr.  J.  W.  Barton,  White  Hall,  Md.  Chas. 
Bay,  White  Hall,  Md.  Geo.  A.  Cairnes,  Jarrettsville,  Md.  Wm. 
Jackson,  White  Hall,  Md.     J.  R.  Kirkwood,  White  Hall,  Md. 

BRUNSWICK,  Md.  ( 1892).— Vacant.  Robert  Russell,  Dr.  C.  W.  R. 
Crum. 

CATONSVILLE,  Md.  (1881).— Rev.  John  A.  Nesbit.  Richard  P.  Baer, 
Wm.  S.  Hoffman,  Walter  Knipp. 

CHESTNUT  GROVE,  near  Sweet  Air,  Md.  (1853).— Rev.  John  T.  Chase, 
Baldwin,  Md.  Thomas  J.  Jessop,  Sweet  Air,  Md.  Dr.  John  S.  Green, 
Gittings,  Md.     James  G.  Kane,  Long  Green,  Md. 

CHURCHVILLE,  Md.  (1738).— Rev.  Fred  A.  KuUmar.  R.  Harris 
Archer,  Bel  Air,  Md.  Amos  V.  Bailey,  Aberdeen,  Md.  Wm.  W.  Fin- 
ney, Churchville,  Md.     A.  Henry  Strasbaugh,  Creswell,  Md. 

CRISP  MEMORIAL,  Brooklyn,  Md.  (1893).— Rev.  Kenneth  M.  Craig, 
W.  G.  McClelland,  John  G.  Pumphreys. 

CUMBERLAND.  FIRST,  Md.  (1806).— Rev.  James  E.  Moffatt,  D.  D.,  D. 
Z  Clayton,  Judge  A.  H.  Boyd,  James  Grant,  David  F.  Kuvkendall,  F. 
C.  McKay,  F.  C.  Welton. 

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CUMBERLAND.  SOUTHMINSTER,  Md.  (1906).— Rev.  W.  Bryson 
Smith,  31  Pcnn  Ave.  John  R.  Donaldson,  220  Arch  St.  W.  C.  Heath, 
216  Springdale  St.     L.  D.  Weedy,  218  Penn.  Ave. 

DEER  CREEK  HARMONY,  Glenville,  Md.  (1855). ^Vacant.  George 
E.  Silver,  Darlington,  Md.  S.  Martin  Bayliss,  Havre  de  Grace,  Md. 
A.  Finney  Galbreath,  Darlington,  Md.  Benjamin  H.  Silver,  Havre 
de  Grace,  Md. 

ELLICOTT  CITY,  Md.  (1837)— Rev.  S.  M.  Engle.  Pastor  is  Clerk.  J. 
H.  Gaither,  Wm.  T.  Holmes,  Dr.  M.  G.  Sykes. 

EMMITSBURG,  Md.  (1760).— Rev.  Leighton  Beamnont  Hensley.  James 
A.  Helman,  John  G.  Allison,  Wm.  D.  Colliflower,  Elisha  A.  Seabrook. 

FALLSTON,  Md.   ( 1874).— Vacant.     Joseph  Crumlich,  Edwin  Deitz. 

FRANKLINVILLE,  Md.  ( 1839).— Vacant.  Under  the  care  of  the  Falls- 
ton  Session. 

FREDERICK,  Md.  (1780).— Rev.  Thomas  Freeman  Dixon,  D.  D.  S. 
Elmer  Brown,  Edward  S.  Eichelberger,  W.  O.  McCutchin,  Braddock, 
Md. 

FROSTBURG,  Md.  (1859)— Rev.  John  N.  Beall,  Ph.  D.  Reuben  An- 
thony, Daniel  Kropf,  Jr.,  Thos.  C.  Langford,  David  K.  Smith. 

GOVANSTOWN,  Govans,  Md.  (1846).— Rev.  Samuel  C.  Wasson,  H.  B. 
Everding,  Geo.  O.  Dell,  Towson,  Md.  C.  C.  Forman,  W.  S.  Norris, 
Chester  B.  Turnbull,  Rodgers  Forge,  Md.     Prof.  W.  H.  Wilcox. 

GRANITE,  Md.  (1848).— Rev.  Kalil  Asaph  Bishara,  Ptt.  D.,  Roslyn,  Md. 
George  Cavey,  Woodstock,  Md.  Wm.  Goswell,  Granite,  Md.  (With 
MT.   PARAN   AND    RANDALLSTOWN.) 

GROVE,  Aberdeen,  Md.  (1862).— Vacant.  Fred  O.  Mitchell,  Ferryman, 
Md.    Aubrey  N.  Mitchell,  Geo.  H.  Mitchell,  John  A.  Mitchell. 

HAGERSTOWN.  Md.  (1817).— Rev.  Robert  A.  Boyle.  G.  E.  Baker. 
Charles  E.  Bechtel,  J.  N.  Duffield,  Dr.  Augustus  Maisch,  Walter  Sum- 
mer. 

HAMILTON,  Md.  (1901).— Rev.  Lemuel  S.  Reichard.  Henry  K.  Diggs, 
Raspeburg,  Md.  A.  E.  Evans,  Harry  R.  Lewis,  Clifton  Apartments. 
David  McLeod,  Raspeburg,  Md.     James  J.  Purser,  George  T.  Rodenhi. 

HAVRE  DE  GRACE,  Md.  (1841 ).— Vacant.  Otho  Green.  Walter  D. 
Barnes,  John  E.  Green.  Chas.  B.  Osborn,  Aberdeen.  Md.  Dr.  R.  H. 
Smith. 

HIGHLAND,  Street.  Md.  (1889).— Rev.  Samuel  L.  Irvine,  W.  A. 
Wheeler,  James  W.  Davis,  Rocks,  Md.  Wm.  H.  Day,  Rocks,  Md. 
John  F.  De  Ran,  John  W.  Galbreath,  Hugh  T.  Heaps,  James  J.  Wil- 
son, Pylesville,  Md.     (With  NORTH  BEND.) 

LAKELAND,  Mt.  Winans,  Md.  (1910). — Vacant.  George  Swartz,  Wm. 
P.  Gruber,  826  N.  Mount  St ,  Baltimore.     Edward  Staff. 

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LONACONING,  Md.  (1861).— Rev.  Harry  L  Earnest.  Dr.  J.  D.  Skilling-, 
John  Abbott,  James  Atkinson,  Wm.  Gunning,  Joseph  Jones,  John 
Somerville,  W.  L.  Stotler,  G.  W.  Rank. 

LORD,  Midland,  Md.  (1898).— Rev.  Stanley  H.  Jewell,  Barton,  Md.  Geo. 
Shaw,  Lord,  Md.     (With  BARTON.) 

MIDLAND,  Md.  (   ).— Vacant.    Daniel  McMurdo. 

MOUNT  PARAN,  near  Harrisonville,  Md.  (1715) — Rev.  Kalil  Asaph 
Bishara,  Ph.  D.,  Roslyn,  Md.  Wm.  C.  O'Dell,  Hernwood,  Md.  W.  E. 
Fite,  Roslyn,  Md.  Harry  Parsley,  Hernwood,  Md.  Walter  Saumenig, 
Hernwood,  Md.     (With  GRANITE  and  RANDALSTOWN.) 

NEW  WINDSOR,  Md.  (1839).— Rev.  James  Eraser,  D.  D.,  LL.  D.  J. 
Walter  Getty,  Elsworth  Ecker,  D.  P.  Smelser. 

NORTH  BEND,  Harford  Co,  Md.  (1861).— Rev.  Samuel  L.  Irvine, 
Street,  Md.  Raymond  Watkins,  Rocks,  Md.  James  Baird,  Rocks,  Md. 
Robert  Baird,  Rocks,  Md.  Elmer  Coe.  Jarrettsville.  Md.  (With 
HIGHLAND.) 

OAKLAND,  Md.  (1870)— Rev.  John  Calvin  Ely,  D.  D.,  S.  S.  (Member 
of  Presbytery  of  Grafton).  Geo.  A.  Fraley,  G.  S.  Hamil,  S.  T.  Jones. 
Thos.  Little,  A.  Totten  Mathews.  (With  TERRA  ALfA,  Presb.  of 
Grafton). 

PINEY  CREEK,  Frederick  Co.,  Md.  ( 1763)— Rev.  Seth  Russell  Downie, 
Taneytown,  Md.  James  B.  Gait,  Taneytown,  Md.  Robert  W.  Gait, 
York  Road,  Md.  D.  H.  Hess,  Taneytown,  Md.  Judson  Hill,  Taney- 
town, Md.     (With  TANEYTOWN.) 

RANDALLSTOWN,  Md.  (1848).— Rev.  Kalil  Asaph  Bishara,  Ph.  D., 
Roslyn,  Md.  Wm.  Sudman.  (With  GRANITE  and  MOUNT  PARAN.) 

RELAY.  Md.  (1881).— Rev.  Albert  C.  Dudley.  W.  T.  Barker.  Monroe 
Mitchell. 

ST.  HELENA,  Md.  (1898).— Vacant.  Geo.  P.  Martell,  Colgate.  Md.  John 
Knoblauch. 

SEVERNA  PARK,  Anne  Arundel  Co.,  Md.  (1913).— Rev.  Frank  Church- 
hilt  Woods.  S.  S.  Abell  Bldg.,  Baltimore.  L.  Z.  Zimmerman,  Robin- 
son, Md.     Frank  D.  Kyle,  Waterbury,  Md. 

SPARROWS  POINT,  Md.  (1890).— Rev.  Charles  G.  Cady..  Lewis  Perry, 
H.  C.  Buzzell,  Hugh  Hurlow,  I.  G.  Mathews,  John  E.  Naudain. 

TANEYTOWN,  Md.  (1828).— Rev.  Seth  Russell  Downie,  R.  S.  McKin- 
ney.  Dr.  C.  Birnie.  Geo.  H.  Birnie,  John  E.  Davidson.  (With  PINEY 
CREEK). 

WHITE  HALL,  Md.  (1904).— Rev.  H.  Medley  Price.  Ashland,  Md.  John 
A.  Seitz,  Richard  Wiley.     (With  ASHLAND.) 

WILLIAMSPORT,  MD.     (1819).— Vacant.  C.  D.  Downs,  J.  A.  Brown. 

ZION,  Lothian,  Md.  (1884).— Rev.  Jeremiah  B.  Swann,  Lloyd  Brown, 
Chas.  Ennis,  Philip  Lindell. 

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MINISTERS  WITHOUT  CHARGE. 

Henry  Branch,  D.  D..  S.  C,  3302  Clifton  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Thomas  T.  Brown,  Arcadia,  Md. 

Wm.  W.  Campbell,  Highlands,  Wilmington,  Del. 

John  S.  Conning,  Prosb.  Supt.  H.  M.,  1002  Madison  Ave.,  Balto ,  Md. 

Paul  Fox,  Polish  Missionary,  513  Luzerne  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Morris  H.  Frank.  Ph.  D.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

S.  S.  Greenwell,  Lutherville,  Md. 

Donald  Guthrie,  D.  D.,  Montreal,  Que. 

R.  W.  Hazeltine,  310  W.  Hoffman  St.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

David  Jamison,  Aberdeen,  Md. 

Carl  Linn,  Accident,  Md. 

Luther  Martin,  2102  Greenmount  Ave..  Baltimore,  Md. 

Vaclav  Minniberger,  800  N.  Broadway,   Baltimore,  Md. 

Thos.  W.  Pulham,  644  20th  Ave.,  Vancouver,  B.  C. 

Edward  H.  Robbins,  D.  D.,  3101  Clifton  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Thomas  L.  Springer,  601  Windermere  Ave.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

J.  Monroe  Stick,  Sec.  Md.  Tract  Soc ,  Macht  Bldg.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

Wm.  O.  Yates,  F.  M..  Chieng  Mai,  Siam. 


PRESBYTERY  OF  NEW  CASTLE. 

BLACKWATER,  Sussex  Co.,  Del.  (1690).— Rev.  W.  C.  Watson,  S.  S, 
Frankford,  Del.  Geo.  W.  Chamberlain,  Blackwater,  Del.  Ebe  Wal- 
ter, Frankford,  Del.   (With  FRANKFORD  and  OCEAN  VIEW.) 

BRIDGEVILLE,  Del.  (1846)  — Vavant.     Edgar  L.  Kinder. 

BUCKINGHAM,  Berlin.  Md.  (1695).— Rev.  Thomas  Kerr.  Calvin  B. 
Taylor,  Horace  S.  Davis,   Robert  Massey. 

CHESAPEAKE  CITY,  Md.  (1857).— Rev.  John  E.  Eggert,  J.  M.  Reed, 
J.  S.  Hopper,  Fred  T.  Mclntire. 

CHRISTIANA,  Del.  (1738).— Rev.  Adrian  Van  Oeveren,  Newark,  Del. 
Geo.  L.  Appleby,  Porters,  Del.  Thomas  Appleby,  Jr..  New  Castle,  Del. 
Chas.  E.  Barrett,  Frank  Moody,  New  Castle,  Del.  (With  HEAD  OF 
CHRISTIANA.) 

COOL  SPRING,  Del.  (1735).— Rev.  E.  J.  Hopkins,  Georgetown,  Del.  Wm. 
Perry,  Thos.  J.  Perry,  Harbeson,  Del.  Frank  Waples,  Harbeson,  Del. 
(With  GEORGETOWN.) 

DELAWARE  CITY,  Del.  1847).— Rev.  J.  L.  Rusbridge,  Jas.  E.  Sadler, 
J.  R.  Bittle,  John  C.  Higgins,  Wm.  A.  Jester,  J.  T.  Whitman. 

DOVER,  DEL.  (1714).— Vacant.  Geo.  M.  Jones,  Victor  F.  Danner,  John 
Heitshu,  Frank  Martin.  Andrew  W.  Slaymaker,  Clarence  D.  Sypherd. 

DRAWYERS,  Odessa.  Del.  (1759.)— Rev.  Edward  A.  McLaury,  Daniel 
W.  Corbit.     Jos.  L.  Gibson.  Middletown,  Del.     A.  S.  Whittock. 

EDEN,  Worcester  Co..  Md.   (?).— Vacant.     P.  S.  Dale,   vVhaleyville,  Md. 

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ELKTON,  Md.  (1833).— Rev.  John  McElmoyle,  D.  D.  Charles  B.  Fin- 
ley,  Geo.  A.  Blake,  Wm.  Sterling  Evans,  Henry  M.  McCuUough,  Dr. 
Winifred  T.  Morrison. 

ELSMERE,  Del.  ( 191 1).— Vacant.  Wm.  Henderson,  N.  Smith  Barkley. 
Edward  Woodward. 

FARMINGTON,  Del.    ( 1895).— Vacant.  Shermizer  Fisher,  W.  B.  Thorp. 

FELTON,  Del.  ( i860).— Vacant.  M.  Morris  Stevenson,  John  Heyd,  James 
E.  Roland,  Viola,  Del.     Wm.  Schabinger. 

FOREST,  Middletown,  Del.  (1750).— Rev.  Francis  H.  Moore,  D.  D.  J. 
Fletcher  Deakyne,  Townsend,  Del.  H.  C.  Ellison,  Mt.  Pleasant,  Del. 
Alfred  Green. 

FRANKFORD,  Del.  (1894).— Rev.  Wm.  C.  Watson,  Robert  W.  Dasey, 
M.  T.  Gum,  Everett  Hickman,  W.  S.  Long.     (With  OCEAN  VIEW.) 

GEORGETOWN,  Del.  (i860).— Rev.  E.  J.  Hopkins,  Charles  R.  Jones. 
Robt.  G.  Houston,  W.  A.  Warrington,  Robert  C.  White.  (With 
COOL  SPRING.) 

GRACE,  Kennedyville,  Md.  (1874).  Rev.  Wm.  Clews,  Dr.  Wm.  Steele 
Maxwell,  Still  Pond,  Md.  Capt.  Daniel  Hill,  J.  E.  Hurlock,  Milling- 
ton,  Del.  C.  H.  Price,  Betterton,  Md.  (With  WESTMINSTER  and 
WO'RTON.) 

GUNBY,  Stockton,  Md.  (1894).— Vacant.  Lemuel  Ownly.  Stockton,  Md. 
Alfred  C.   Hancock,   Stockton,  Md. 

HARRINGTON,  Del.     (1872).— Vacant.     F.  H.  Gordon. 

HEAD  OF  CHRISTIANA,  near  Newark,  Del.  (1706).— Rev.  Adrian 
Van  Oeveren,  Newark,  Del.  Pastor  is  clerk.  R.  B.  Coak,  Elkton,  Md. 
J.  T.  Egnor,  Elkton,  Md.  Geo.  W.  Steel,  Newark,  Del.  John  T. 
Steel,  Newark,  Del.     (With  CHRISTIANA.) 

LEWES,  Del.  (1692).— Rev.  Julius  A.  Herold,  Geo.  P.  Tunnel,  H.  Geo. 
Bohm,  Jas.  R.  Kelly,  Edward  Russell,  Thos.  B.  Schellonjer,  Ebe  W. 
Tunnel. 

LOWER  BRAND YWINE,  New  Castle,  Del.  (1720).— Rev.  Thomas  S. 
Armentrout,  Montchanin,  Del.  Geo.  J.  Chandler,  Richardson  Park, 
Del.  Wm.  Frederick,  Marshallton,  Del.  Lawrence  Hobson,  Green- 
ville, Del.  Thos.  Marshall,  Marshallton,  Del.  John  Underwood, 
Montchanin,  Del. 

MAKEMIE  MEMORIAL,  Snow  Hill,  Md.  ( 1683)— Vacant.  J.Samuel 
Price,  Wm.  Bowman,  Sidney  F.  Nelson,  Wm.  S.  Parsons. 

MANOKIN,  Princess  Anne,  Md.  (1683- 1690). —Rev.  Wm.  L.  Freund,  S. 
S.,  Princeton,  N.  J.  Wm-  C.  Fountain,  Robert  W.  Adams,  Wm.  O. 
Langford,   Dr.   C.   W.   Wainwright. 

MILFORD,  Del.  (1849).— Rev.  Henry  L.  Bunstein,  James  B.  Gilchrist, 
Wm.  A.  Humes,  John  B.  Smith. 

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NEWARK.  DEL.  (1839).— Rev.  Wm.  J.  Rowan,  Ph.  D.,  H.  N.  Reed, 
Francis  A.  Coocli.  Ehen  B.  Fra/.cr,  N.  M.  Motlierall. 

NEW  CASTLE,  Del.  (1707).— Rev.  S.  Beattie  Wylie,  Geo.  H.  Rcnnie, 
W.  D.  Greer,  Wheeling,  W.  Va.     Dr.  David  Stewart. 

OCEAN  VIEW.  Del.  (1856).— Rev.  Wm.  C.  Watson,  James  M.  Evans, 
Asher  T.  Evans,  Hiram  lames,  G.  W.  Tunnell,  Chas.  B.  Williams. 
(With  FRANKFORD.) 

OCEAN  CITY,  Md.  ( ?).— Vacant.  John  E.  Lynch,  C.  T.  Jackson,  Samuel 
Johnson. 

PENCADER,  Glasgow,  Del.  (1707-1710)— Rev.  Geo.  L.  Smth.  S.  S.,  Por- 
ter, Del.     John  H.  Frazer.  Porter,  Del. 

PERRYVILLE,  Md.  (1888).— Rev.  Robert  H.  Hoove..  Pastor  is  clerk. 
Chas.    P.   Rutledge,   Jos.    P.   Wright. 

PITTS  CREEK,  Pocomoke  City,  Md.  (1683).— Rev.  W.  J.  McCullough, 
Dr.  I.  T.  Costen,  Edgar  Fontaine,  R.  M.  Stevenson. 

PORT  DEPOSIT,  Md.  (1837).— Vacant.  Wm.  T.  Patton,  Liberty  Groye, 
Md.    John  J.  Buck,  Wm.  B.  Steel. 

PORT  PENN,  Del.  (1837).— Rev.  J.  R.  Milligan,  D.  D.,  St.  Georges,  Del. 
John  B.  Vandegrift,  Delaware  City,  Del.  Wm.  McMullin,  Jr.,  Dela- 
ware City,  Del.     (With  ST.  GEORGES.) 

RED  CLAY  CREEK,  near  Marshallton,  Del.  (1722).— Rev.  John  D. 
Blake.  Marshallton,  Del.  Henry  B.  Klair,  Marshallton,  Del.  S.  S. 
Armstrong,  Hockessin,  Del.  Lewis  Derickson,  Newark,  Del.  R.  S. 
Fisher,  Hockessin,  Del.  A.  Frank  Klair,  Marshallton,  Del.  Egbert 
Klair,  Stanton,  Del. 

REHOBOTH,  Del.     (1876).— Vacant.    John  Futcher,  Midway,  Del.    Rob- 
ert Dodd,  Lewes,  Del.    Hiram  Fisher,  Lewes,  Del.    Charles  K.  Warring- 
ton, Lewes,  Del.     John  Wilson,  Lewes,  Del. 

REHOBOTH,  Md.  ( 1863- 1690)  .—Rev.  Henry  G.  Martin,  E.  G.  Polk,  Po- 
comoke City,  Md.    L.  W.  Beauchamp,  Westover,  Md.    Frank  Wilkins. 

ROCK,  Cecil  Co.,  Md.     (1720).— Rev.  B.  J.  Brinkema,   North  East,  Md. 

F.  H.  Huston,  Oxford,  Pa.    Caleb  C.  Brokaw,  Providence,  Md.  Samuel 

G.  Bye,  Denton,  Md.     Geo.  R.  Spence,  Childs,  Md.     (With  ZION). 

ST.  GEORGES,  Del.  (1710-1715).— Rev.  Joseph  R.  Milligan,  D.  D.  (With 
PORT  PENN.) 

SMYRNA.  Del.     (1846).— Rev.  James  M.  L.  Eckard,  Sam.  J.  Reynolds. 

WESTMINSTER,  Kent  Co.,  Md.  (1871).— Rev.  Wm.  Clews,  Kennedyville, 
Md.    R.  A.  Duhamell,  Earlville,  Md.  (With  GRACE  and  WORTON). 

WEST  NOTTINGHAM,  Colora,  Md.  (1724).— Rev.  F.  Harl  Huffman, 
Charles  S.  Pyle.  Rising  Sun,  Md.  Aaron  L.  Duyckinck.  Rising  Sun. 
Md.     Wm.  T.  Fryer.  Samuel  T.  Wylie. 

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WHITE  CLAY  CREEK,  New  Castle,  Del.  ( 175 1).— Rev.  J.  W.  Lowden, 
Newark,  Del.  Hervey  Walker,  Marshallton,  Del  Lewis  H.  Lynam, 
Marshallton,  Del.  Samuel  McCoy,  Stanton.  Del.  James  H.  Walker, 
Marshallton.  Del- 

WICOMICO,  Salisbury,  Md.  (1683-1690).— Rev.  Wilson  T.  M.  Beale,  Rev. 
Samuel  W.  Reigart,  D.  D.,  P.  Em.  L.  W.  Gunby,  J.  T.  Ellis,  Capt.  L. 
Makemie  Porter,  Dr.  H.  Laird  Todd. 


WILMINGTON  CHURCHES. 

CENTRAL,  King  St.  above  7th.  (1855).— Rev.  Josiah  H.  Crawford,  911 
Van  Buren  St.  Lewis  P.  Bush,  1301  Pennsylvania  Ave.  Prof.  A.  H. 
Berlin,  The  Belmont.  J.  H.  Burns,  1316  West  7th  St.  Wm.  K. 
Crosby,  2305  Delaware  Ave.  John  J.  Hayes.  1212  Market  St.  Wm. 
S.  Prickett,  1507  West  14th  St. 

EAST  LAKE,  27th  and  Market  Sts.  (1895)-— Rev.  Henry  Cunningham, 
2404  Jefferson  St.  Francis  R.  Vincent,  2905  West  St.  Nathaniel  Pa- 
pino,  2209  Pine  St.  Wm.  Stewart,  2308  Monroe  St.  Jas.  Watson,  3008 
Market  St. 

FIRST  (1737).— Rev.  J.  Ross  Stonesifer,  411  McCabe  Ave.  T,  F.  Price, 
1801  Washington  St.  J.  S.  Hamilton,  605  Franklin  St.  G.  W.  Jones, 
II  East  14th  St.     Alex  Thomson,  506  West  31st  St. 

GILBERT,  French  and  13th  Sts.  (1890). — Rev.  John  Benjamin  St.  Francis 
Isaacs,  1008  French  St.  T.  S.  Anderson,  1619  Wtst  3rd  St.  David 
Anderson,  811  Locust  St.  Elihu  Brewington,  701  East  Sth  St.  A.  B. 
McP.  Johnson,  5  Glenn  Ave. 

GREEN  HILL  (1849).— Rev.  Wm.  Crawford,  James  M.  Smyth,  2406  West 
i6th  St.  Joseph  Bllingsby,  Henry  Clay,  Del.  Wm.  S.  Matchett,  2347 
West  17th  St.  Thos.  Montgomery,  Henry  Clay,  Del.  John  B.  Moore, 
1513  Riverview  Ave.    John  Oliver,  Henry  Clay,  Del. 

HANOVER,  i8th  and  Boulevard.  (1772).— Rev.  Robt.  L.  Jackson,  2003 
Van  Buren  St.  U.  G.  Hackett,  1225  West  St.  Harry  A.  Hunt,  412 
West  23rd  St.  Thos.  K.  Porter,  19th  and  Boulevard.  Fred  Price,  310 
Concord  Ave.  J.  Chandler  Pyle,  1810  West  St.  Alfred  J.  Rumford, 
1407  N.  Harrison  St. 

OLIVET,  4th  and  Broome  Sts.  (1868).— Rev.  John  C.  Lane,  235  Rodney 
St.  Wm.  H.  Oliver,  2107  West  nth  St.  James  Calhoun,  207  Wood- 
lawn  Ave.  Elijah  Green,  736  East  22nd  St.  J.  G.  Hewlett,  406  N. 
Broome  St.  Wm.  J.  McKnight,  1304  Banning  St.  D.  H.  Stephey,  11  j 
Rodney  St. 

WEST,  8th  and  Washington  Sts.  (1869).  Rev.  U.  Franklin  Smiley,  D.  D, 
1107  Adams  St.  Rev.  Albert  N.  Keigwin,  D.  D.,  P.  Em.,  324  West 
103rd  St.,  New  York  City.  Isaac  S.  Baird,  903  West  9th  St.  Lewis 
A.  Bower,  2009  Boulevard.  W.  D.  Condit,  Y.  M.  C.  A.  Bldg.  M.  D. 
Crossan,  708  West  St.  J  Ed.  Fuller,  424  West  21st  St.  John  R.  Hud- 
son, 1804  Monroe  St.  Warden  R.  Humphrey,  Claymont,  Del.  Archi- 
bold  M.  Main,  1310  West  loth  St.  Frank  Sheppard,  914  Delaware  Ave. 
T.  W.  Triggs,   1320  Washington   St. 

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WESTMINSTER,  Pennsylvania  Ave.  and  Rodney  St.  (1886).  Rev.  Chas. 
L.  Candee.  1003  Broome  St.  Dr.  R.  J.  McKay.  The  Gables.  Gen. 
Chas.  Bird.  1200  Delaware  Ave.  Thos.  E.  Doremus,  908  West  nth 
St.    J.  Frank  McCoy,  1005  Adams  St.    S.  J.  Newman,  1605  Rodney  St. 


WORTON,   Kent   Co.,   Md.    (?).— Rev.   Wm.   Clews,     Kennedyville,   Md. 

Wm.  Ivins.    (Wth  GRACE  and  WESTMINSTER.) 
ZION,  North  East.  Md.     (1850).— Rev.  B.  J.  Brinkema,  J.  M.  C.  Carhart, 

Prof.  A.  B.  McVey,  Chas.  H.  Morris,  Wm.  Stewart.    (With  ROCK.) 

MINISTERS  WITHOUT  CHARGE. 

L.  P.  Bowen,  D.  D.,  Berlin,  Md. 

J.  Edgar  Franklin,  711  Washington  St.,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Joel  S.  Gilfillan,  D.  D.,  Presb.  Ev.,  Newark,  Del. 

Charles  H.  Holloway,  H.  R.,  548  loth  St..  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Edwin  W.  Long,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Henry  F.  Mason,  Doylestown,  Pa.,  R.  F.  D. 

Joseph  B.  North,  LL.  D.,  Snow  Hill,  Md. 

Samuel  M.   Perry,  H.  R.,   Elkton,  Md. 

H.  C.  Sartori©,  Italian  Mission,  Wilmington,  Del. 

Joseph  Brown  Turner,  Sec.  Presb.  Historical  Soc,  Witherspoon  Bldg., 

Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Lewis  R.  Watson.  Charlottesville,  Va. 


PRESBYTERY  OF  WASHINGTON  CITY. 

ARLINGTON,  Va.  (1908).— Rev.  Robert  Robinson,  Thomas  J.  De  Lash- 
mutt,  Thomas  T.  Burke,  Bancroft,  Va.  Dr.  H.  C.  Corbett,  Thomas 
R.  Gray,  M.  C-  Munson,  Stephen  P.  Wright,  Clarendon,  Va. 

BALLSTON,  Va.  (1895).— Rev.  Edward  N.  Kirby,  Ralph  Baldwin,  Clar- 
endon, Va.  Julian  P.  Baldwin,  A.  P.Douglas.  Washington,  D.  C..  R. 
F.  D.     H.  A.  Whallon,  Washington.  D.  C.  R.  F.  D.  4. 

BOYDS,  Md.  (1877)-— Rev.  Oscar  A.  Gillingham,  S.  S..  Gaithersburg, 
Md..  R.  F.  D.  3.  Smith  Hoyle.  E.  D.  Lewis.  Jas.  E.  Williams.  (With 
DARNESTOWN.) 

CLIFTON,  Va.  (1870).— Rev.  Wm.  H.  Edwards,  R.  R.  Buckley.  C.  H. 
Kemper,  Wm.  H.  Richards. 

DARNESTOWN,  Md.  (1857).— Rev.  Oscar  A.  Gillingham,  Gaithersburg, 
Md.,  R.  F.  D.  3.  E.  H.  Darby,  Germantown,  Md.,  R.  F.  D.  2.  J.  T. 
Kelley,  Germantown,  Md.,  R.  F.  D.  2.  Upton  Nourse,  Dawsonville, 
Md.  Brooke  Vincent,  Gaithersburg,  Md.,  R.  F.  D.  3.  J.  S.  Windsor, 
Germantown,  Md..  R.    F.    D.   2. 

FALLS  CHURCH,  Va.  (1873).— Rev.  Robert  A.  Davison,  D.  D.  Wm.  J. 
Allen,  East  End,  Va.  C.  H.  Buxton,  Dr.  Geo.  B.  Fadley.  Geo.  W. 
Hawkhurst,  Andrew  Smith. 

HERMON,  Montgomery  Co.,  Md.  (1752-1784). — Rev.  Geo.  S.  Duncan, 
Ph.  D.,  S.  S..  2900  7th  St.  N.  E..  Washington.  D.  C.  J.  D.  Moore, 
Cabin  John,  Md.  Frank  P.  Stone,  Bethesda,  Md.  Julian  P.  Vaughn, 
Cabin  John,  Md. 

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HYATTSVILLE,  Md.  (1704)  —Rev.  Wesley  D.  Skellenger,  D.  D.,  Wm. 
H.  Richardson,  Wm.  S.  Hotton,  17th  St.  and  Park  Road,  Washington, 
D.  C.    James  L.  King,  Harry  W.  Shepherd,  F.  Jerome  Wilsie. 

LEWINSVILLE,  Fairfax  Co.,  Va.  (1846).— Rev.  James  M.  Nourse,  S.  S., 
Vienna,  Va.  R.  T.  Bonham,  McLean,  Va.  Geo.  W.  Jones,  McLean, 
Va.    Anderson  A.  Mankin,  McLean,  Va.     (With  VIENNA. 

MANASSAS,  VA.  (1867).— Rev.  Wm.  Hart  Dexter,  Ph.D.,  S.  S.,  3011 
Georgia  Ave.,  Washington,  D.  C.  H.  P.  Dodge,  Wm.  Clarke,  Minne- 
ville,  Va.  J.  Chris.  Meetze,  E.  K.  Mitchell,  D.  H.  Prescott,  W.  J. 
Steere. 

NEELSVILLE,  Montgomery  Co.,  Md.  (1845).— Rev.  T.  Davis  Richards,. 
D.  D.,  Germantown,  Md.  Dr.  J.  E.  Deets,  Clarksburg,  Md.  James  R, 
Howes,  Germantown,  Md.  John  T.  Warfield,  Gaithersburg,  Md.  Wm> 
Waters,  Germantown,  Md. 

RIVERDALE,  Md.  (1896).— Rev.  Abbott  L.  R.  Waite,  Wm.  C.  Myers, 
Chas.  Wm.  Collier,  B.  H.  Gaither,  Wm.  Stein. 

VIENNA,  Va.  (1873).— Rev.  James  M.  Nourse,  G.  Wallace  King,  J.  R. 
Blake,  Ronald  Blake,  Wallace  Leeds,  C.  E.  Mower,  Nathan  Westcott. 

WARNER  MEMORIAL,  Kensington,  Md.  (1893)— Rev.  Henry  Rumer, 
D.  D.  Wm.  M.  Terrill,  H.  L.  McQueen,  Forest  Glen,  Md.  L.  W. 
Maxson,  J.  D.  Sumner. 


WASHINGTON  CHURCHES. 


BETHANY  Chapel  (Mission  of  the  NEW  YORK  AVENUE.)— Rev. 
Wm'.  H.  Bates,  D.  D.,  Minister,  The  Plymouth. 

CHEVY  CHASE,  5903  Connecticut  Ave.  (1908). — Rev.  Hubert  Rex 
Johnson,  2502  Cliffbourne  Pla.  Dr.  Wm.  T.  Dollison,  Chevy  Chase, 
Md.  Grant  Leet,  New  York  Ave  and  14th  St.  Matthew  T.  Moomaw, 
Williams  Lane,  Chevy  Chase,  D.  C.  A.  D.  Pienkowsky,  Bureau  of 
Standards,  Washington.  Capt.  Geo.  Redway,  Chevy  Chase,  Md.  John 
S.  Sheiry,  Bethesda,  Md. 

CHURCH  OF  THE  COVENANT,  Connecticut  Ave.  and  i8th  St.  (1885). 
— Rev.  Charles  Wood,  D.  D.,  21 10  S  St.  N.  W.  Rev.  Bernard  Bras- 
kamp,  Asst.  P.,  1103  24th  St.  N.  W.  J.  J.  Gilbert,  1410  M  St.  N.  W. 
Wm.  H.  Baldwin,  1415  21st  St.  N.  W.  W.  B.  Biyan,  1330  i8th  St. 
N.  W.  Charles  E.  Foster,  908  G  St.  N.  W.  Gen.  John  W.  Foster, 
1323  i8th  St.  N.  W.  Henry  B.  Macfarland,  1208  i8th  St.  N.  W.  F. 
L.  Moore,  1680  31st  St.  N.  W.  E.  Southard  Parker,  1738  Connecticut 
Ave.  N.  W.  Judge  Stanton  J.  Peelle,  Chevy  Chase,  Md.  Alfred  R. 
Quaiffe,  The  Concord.  Dr.  Joseph  N.  Rose,  1812  Calvert  St.  N.  W. 
Lloyd  W.  Wight,  1620  29th  St.  N.  W.  (Maintains  PECK  MEMO- 
RIAL Chapel.) 

EASTERN,  (kh  and  Maryland  Ave.  (1875). — Rev.  Alfred  A.  Barrows,  501 
8th  St.  N.  E.     Marshall  T.  Hyer,  1008  Maryland  Ave.  N.  E.     Thos. 

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Betts,  1116  D  St.  N.  E.,  G.  E.  Blew,  326  D  St.  N.  E.  Govven  W. 
Brooks,  636  E  St.  N.  E.  Dr.  Thos.  Calver,  207  A  St.  S.  E.  S.  S. 
English,  1116  D  St.  N.  E.  Myers  Hand,  639  Keefer  Pla.  N.  W.  Wm. 
T.  Hearst,  1205  B  St.  N.  E.     George  H.  Winslow,  612  D  St.  N.  E. 

ECKINGTON.  Q  and  North  Capitol  Sts.  (1896).— Rev.  Henry  E.  Brun- 
dage,  D.  D.,  2200  ist  St.  Wm.  Jardine,  45  O  St.  N.  E.  John  A. 
Cisco,  13  Quincy  Pla.  N.  E.  H.  G.  Kimball,  11  Quincy  Pla.  N.  E. 
John  A.  Marshall,  1729  3rd  St.  N.  E.  Robt.  H.  Martin,  232  R  St.  N. 
E.  James  A.  Messer,  10  S  St.  N.  W.  J.  M.  Nickles,  122  Florida 
Ave.  N.  W.     Wm.  A.  Taylor,  55  Q  St.  N.  E. 

FAIRMOUNT  HEIGHTS.  (1910),— Rev.  Wm.  Wallace  McCary,  1812^ 
nth  St.  N.  W.  Robert  S.  Nichols,  T.  N.  Brown,  John  Saunders.  (Ad- 
dress of  elders  Fairmount  Heights,  Washington,  D.  C) 

flFTEENTH  STREET,  between  I  and  K  Sts.  (1841).— Rev.  Francis  J. 
Grimke,  D.  D.,  1415  Corcoran  St.  Russell  N.  Boyd,  1742  K  St.  X.  W. 
Charles  A.  Booker,  202  N  St.  N.  W.  Edward  G.  Brooks,  408  B  St. 
S.  E.  John  C.  Hart,  1014  20th  St.  N.  W.  James  H.  N.  Waring, 
Ph.  D.,  414  N  St.  N.  W. 

FIRST,  John  Marshall  Pla.  (1795).— Vacant.  Rev.  C.  L.  Dubois,  clerk. 
1835  Monroe  St.  U.  O.  x\rner,  56  V  St.  N.  W.  J.  C.  Beveridge,  1751 
W.  St.  S.  E.  W.  F.  Carter,  502  B  St.  N.  E.  I.  N.  C.  Cole,  201  C  St. 
N.  W.  D.  N.  Hoover,  Jr.,  411  Seward  Sq.  S.  E.  Dr.  W.  N.  Newell. 
3309  i6th  St.  N.  W.  F.  A.  Preston,  421  4th  St.  N.  W.  Dr.  L.  A. 
Sadler,  1204  Decatur  St.  N.  W.  Theo.  F.  Sargent,  322  E  St.  N.  E.  B. 
T.  Welch,  121  nth  St.  N.  E.    R.  A.  Zimmerman,  n26  B  St.  N.  E. 

FOURTH.  13th  and  Fairmount  Sts.  (1828).— Rev.  Joseph  T.  Kelly,  D. 
D.,  1367  Irving  St.  N.  W.  Rev.  Howard  J.  Bell,  Asst.  P.,  1327  Irving 
St.  N.  W.  Jos.  A.  Sterling,  2523  Georgia  Ave.  Henry  I.  Bingham, 
434  Newton  St  Henry  W.  Gilbert,  noi  24th  St.  N.  W.  Dr.  Henry 
J.  Hunt,  1204  Girard  St.  N.  W.  Thomas  P.  Johnson,  2701  nth  St. 
James  A.  MacElwee,  1832  Lamont  St.  Dr.  Daniel  McFarlin,  The 
Woodley.  Frank  L.  Middleton,  1835  Lamont  St.  Thos.  C.  Newton, 
1750  Euclid  St.  N.  W.  Samuel  F.  Rynex,  515  L  St.  N.  W.  Dr.  W. 
H.  H.  Warman,  1601  Park  Road. 

GARDEN  MEMORIAL,  Anacostia,  D.  C.  (1892).— Rev.  Geo.  M.  Cum- 
mings,  1219  V  St.  S.  E.  Alex  B.  Garden,  Minnesota  Ave.  and  17th 
St.  S.  E.  Alex.  Davidson,  109  Baltimore  Ave.,  Takoma  Park,  D.  C. 
Wm.  Arthur  Snell,  551    Avalon  Ter.   S.    E. 

GUNTON-TEMPLE  MEMORIAL,  14th  and  R  Sts.  N.  W.  (1882).— Rev. 
C.  Everest  Granger,  D.  D..  1312  Columbia  Road.  Lyster  H.  Dewey, 
4512  9th  St.  N.  W.  John  B.  Bloss,  3309  Mt.  Pleasant  St.  Benj.  F. 
Brockett,  Kensington,  Md.  Vernon  E.  Hodges,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 
Chas.  E.  Johnson.  1450  V  St.  Geo.  A.  Prevost,  3562  13th  St.  Georgft 
E.  Reid,  1326  Euclid  St.  Samuel  Snow,  554  Shepherd  St.  H.  M.  Van- 
dervort,  1220  N  St.    Winfield  F.  Works.  1203  Decatur  St.  •' 

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GURLEY  MEMORIAL,  Florida  Ave.  near  7th  St.  N.  W.  (1889).— 
Vacant.  Chas.  H.  Merwin,  917  Westminster  St.  Dr.  Erastus  M.  Finch, 
2503  14th  St.  LeRoy  Finney,  615  Florida  Ave.  Samuel  A.  Gee,  615 
Florida  Ave.     Benj.  D.  Stallings,  2620  13th  St. 

KENILWORTH,  D.  C.  (1910).— Vacant.    Allen  W.  Mallery,  J.  R.  Lindsey. 

METROPOLITAN,  4th  and  B  Sts.  (1864) —Rev.  Paul  R.  Hickok,  i> 

5th  St.  S.  E.  Wm.  R.  Spilman,  1645  Hobart  St.  N.  W.  George  P. 
Bohrer,  326  Virginia  Ave.  S.  E.  Wm.  F.  Craig,  129  Tennessee  Ave. 
N.  E.  Dr.  George  W.  N.  Custis,  The  Cumberland.  Robert  L.  Ewing, 
604  North  Carolina  Ave.  S.  E.  Robert  B.  Handy,  Sr.,  3312  Highlands 
Ave.  N.  W.  Wm.  F.  Hutchinson,  4604  Georgia  Ave.  N.  W.  Judge 
Raymond  Loranz,  72  Adams  St.  N.  W.  Frank  O.  Maxson,  U.  S.  N.. 
647  East  Capitol  St.  Henry  K.  Simpson,  1207  East  Capitol  St.  Burr 
G.  Williams,  604  North  Carolina  Ave.  S.  E. 

NEW  YORK  AVENUE,  east  of  14th  St.  (1803).— Rev.  Wallace  Radcliffe, 
D.  D.,  LL.  D.,  1200  K  St.  N.  W.  Capt.  Harvey  S.  Irwin,  2823  13th  St. 
Chas.  B.  Bailey,  1424  Belmont  St.  Chas.  A.  Baker,  iiio  F  St.  N.  W. 
Gen.  Jos.  C.  Breckinridge,  U.  S.  A.,  2139  Wyoming  St.  Chas.  H. 
Fishbaugh.  1701  Q  St.  Thomas  P.  Keene,  1004  Q  St.  N.  W.  Charles 
G.  Stott,  3164  17th  St.  N.  W.  Edward  Tarring,  1783  Lanier  Pla. 
J.  H.  Wurdeman,  11 14  13th  St-  N.  W.  (Maintains  BETHANY 
Chapel.) 

NORTHMINSTER,  Rhode  Island  Ave.  and  nth  St.  N.  W.  (1906).— 
Rev.  Samuel  A.  Bower,  2528  nth  St.  Dr.  Jos.  B.  Bogan,  606  Massa- 
chusetts Ave.  N.  W.  Dr.  M.  C.  Bennett,  2623  13th  St.  N.  W.  Wm. 
Gibson,  1729  Taylor  St.  N.  W.  Wm.  A.  Countryman,  36  Quincey  St. 
N.  W.     L.  Cabel  Williamson,  24  Iowa  Circle. 

PECK  MEMORIAL  Chapel.— Rev.  Henry  B.  Angus,  Minister,  1103  24th 
St.  N.  W.     (Mission  of  CHURCH  OF  THE  COVENANT.) 

SHERWOOD,  22nd  St.  and  Rhode  Island  Ave.  N.  E.  (1909).— Rev.  Wm. 
I.  Campbell,  1800  Jackson  St.  N.  E.  John  F.  Carlson,  2527  Irving  St.. 
N.  E.  John  F.  Duncan,  Mt.  Ranier,  Md.  Clifford  H.  Harwood. 
Hamlin  St.  N.  E.  John  V.  LaGrange,  1300  i6th  St.  N.  E.  J.  Fred 
Orth,  1838  Jackson  St.   N.  E. 

SIXTH,  cor.  C  St.  (1853)— Rev.  Arthur  Willis  Spooner,  D.  D.,  936  B  St. 
S.  W.  John  J.  Murphy,  3917  Keokuk  St.  N.  W.  John  M.  Brown, 
1323  E  St.  S.  E.  Wm.  F.  Scott,  1519  loth  St.  N.  W.  Mitchell  A. 
Skinner.  1.S16  6th  St.  N.  W.  Dr.  Harry  C.  Thompson,  3.S00  13th 
St.  N.  W. 

TAKOMA  PARK,  D.  C.  (1893).— Rev.  Thomas  Culbertson  Clark,  D.  D. 
Edgar  V.  Crittenden,  308  Takoma  Ave.  Wm.  A.  Wallace,  108  Balti- 
more Ave.  Jacob  B.  Derrick,  14  Poplar  Ave.  Carl  C.  King,  530  Cedar 
St.  Edwin  S.  LaFetra,  301  Takoma  Ave.  F.  T.  McLaughlin,  212  Oak 
Ave.  Wm.  H.  H.  Smith,  304  Takoma  Ave.  Wm.  Stuart,  212  Car- 
roll Ave..     Geo.  Francis  Williams,  1235  Madison  St.  N.  W. 

WASHINGTON  HEIGHTS,  Kolorama  Ave.  near  Columbia  Ave.  (1901). 

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— Rev.  John  Carpenter  Palmer,  D.  D.,  1748  Euclid  Ave.  N.  W.  A. 
Lincoln  Hough,  902  F  St.  John  Duffy,  251 1  17th  St-  N.  W.  Dr.  How- 
ard Fisher,  The  Mendota.  Maurice  C.  Latta,  2836  27th  St.  N.  W. 
Jas.  T.  Newton,  1625  R.  St.  X.  W.  W.  B.  Robison,  1803  Monroe  St. 
N.  W. 

WESTERN,  H  St.,  between  19th  and  20th  St.  N.  W.  (1855)— Rev.  J. 
Harvey  Dunham,  2109  G  St.  N.  W.  W.  Spencer  Armstrong,  620  22nd 
N.  W.  James  H.  Beattie,  2137  Pennsylvania  Ave.  N.  W.  Jos-  A. 
Butterworth.  2532  14th  St.  N.  W.  James  I.  Campbell,  1800  Jackson 
Pla.  Howard  Clements,  2140  G  St.  N.  W.  Henry  C.  Coburn,  2111 
G  St.  N.  W.  Arthur  W.  Harkness,  The  Llewellyn.  Wm.  J.  Simpson, 
2037  F  St.  N.  W. 

WESTAHNSTER  CHURCH  MEMORLA.L,  7th  between  D  and  E  Sts.  S. 

W.     (1853).— Rev.  Titus  Elwood  Davis,  225  8th  St.  S.  W.     Oliver  O. 

Spicer,  613  G  St.  S.  W.     W.  A.   H.  Church,  912  B  St.   S.  W.     Geo 

E.  Crosswell,  811  C  St.  S.  W.    V.  C.  Woodbridge,  20  Adams  St. 
WEST  STREET,  P  near  31st  St.     (1780).— Rev.  Jas.  T.  Marshall,  D.  D., 

31 21  P  St.  N.  W.     Samuel  A-  Swindells,  3426  Macomb  St.  N.  W.  Jas. 

E.  Hanger,  3108  Q  St.  N.  W.     Wm.  A.  Hedrick,  1505  Delafield  Pla. 

Frank  P.  Leetch.  1696  31st  St.  N.  W.    Wm.  A.  Leetch,  3259  R  St-  N. 

W.     Lawrence    O.    Mallery,   Kenilworth,   D.   C.     John   A.    Swindells, 

3328  Q  St.  N.  W. 

MINISTERS  WITHOUT  CHARGE. 

Wm.  C.  Alexander,  D.   D.,  The  Monte  Vista,   Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Henry  C.  Bird,  Laurel,  Md. 

James  H.  Bradford,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 

Wilbur  F.  Crafts,  D.  D.,  Supt.,  206  Penna.  Ave..  S.  E.,  Washington. 

James  H.  Depue,  Cleveland  Park,  Washington.  D.  C. 

Wm.  A.  Eisenberger,  Berwyn,  Md. 

James  A.  Gale,  D.  D.,  F.  M.,  Seoul,  Korea. 

Thomas  Gordon,  D.  D.,  1310  Girard  St.  N.  W^,  Washington,  D.  C. 

McLeod  Harvey,  1800  loth  St.  N.  W.,  Washington. 

James  M.  Henry,  F.  M.,  Canton,  China. 

Prof.  Geo.  O.  Little,  D.  D.,  1363  Columbia  Road,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Walker  E.  McBath,  F.  M.,  Guatemala  City,  Cent.  America. 

David  A.  Reed,  828  loth  St.  N.  E,  Washington. 

S.  Ward  Righter,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 

George  Robinson,  D.  D.,  1951   Biltmore  St.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Robert  Shemeld,  The  Atherton,  Washington,  D.  C. 

T.  James  Smith,  Charleston,  S.  C. 

Charles  A.  Thompson,  411  T  St.  N.  W.,  Washington. 

T.  Berthier  Thompson,  Chap.  U.  S.  Navy. 

Thomas  Thompson,  D.  D.,  H.  R.,  1247  N.  Capitol  St.,  Washington. 

W.  Taliaferro  Thompson,  D.  D.,   North  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 

Solomon  N.  Vail,  Supt.,  The  Concord,  Washington,  D.  C. 

James  S.  Westcott,  Vienna,  Va. 

James  W.  Wightman,  D.  D.,  1726  Wiliard  St.  N.  W.,  Washnigton,  D.  C- 

J.  Edgar  Wynne,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Wm.  J.  Young,  D.  D.,  Ev-,  Clarendon,  Va. 

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ADDRESSES  OF  THE  MINISTERS  OF  THE  SYNOD. 

(The  pastoral  charge  is  within  the  parenthesis.  If  the  address  is 
the  same  it  is  not  repeated.  Balt.=Baltimore,  Md.  Wash.=Washington, 
D.  C.     Wil.=Wilmington,  Del.) 

Alexander,  Wm.  C,  D.  D.,  The  Monte  Vista,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Angus,  Harry  Baremore  (Minister  of  Peck  Memorial  Chapel),  1103  24th 
St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 

Armentrout,  Thos.  S.    (Lower  Brandywine),  Montchanin,  Del. 

Barr,  Alfred  H..  D.  D.  (First),  808  Park  Ave.,  Bait. 

Barrows,  Alfred  E.  (Eastern),  501  8th  St.  N.  E.,  Wash. 

Bates,    Wm.    H.,    D.    D.    (Minister   of    Bethany   Chapel),    The    Plymouth, 
Wash. 

Beale,  Wilson  T.  M.   (Wicomico),  Salisbury,  Md. 

Beall,  John  N..  Ph.  D.  (Frostburg,  Md.) 

Bell,  Geo.  S.,  D.  D.   (Annapolis,  Md.) 

Bell.  Howard  J.  (Assistant  at  Fourth),  1327  Irving  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 

Benham,  DeWitt  M.,  Ph.  D.   (Central),  The  Cecil,  Bait. 

Bird,  Henry  C ,  Laurel,  Md. 

Bishara,   Kalil   Asaph,    Ph.   D.    (Granite,   Mt.    Paran   and   Randallstown), 
Roslyn,  Md. 

Blake,  John  D.  (Red  Clay  Creek).  Marshallton,  Del. 

Bowen,  Littleton  P.,  D.  D.,  Berlin,  Md. 

Bower,  Samuel  A.   (Northminster),  2528  nth  St.,  Wash. 

Boyle,  Robert  A.  (Hagerstown.  Md.) 

Bradford,  James  H.,  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 

Branch,  Henry,  D.  D.,  3302  Clifton  Ave.,  Bait. 

Braskamp,  Bernard  G.   (Assistant  at  Church  of  the  Covenant),  1103  24th 
St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 

Briegleb,  Gustav  A.  (Arlington),  116  Oakley  St.,  Bait. 

Brinkema,  B.  J.   (Rock  and  Zion),  North  East,  Md. 
Brown,  Thos.  T.,  Arcadia,  Md. 

Brundage,  Henry  E.,  D.  D.   (Eckington),  2200  ist  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 
Bunstein,  Henry  L.  (Milford,  Del.) 
Cady,  Chas.  G.   (Sparrows  Point,  Md.) 
Campbell,  John  P.,  D.  D.   (Faith),  1728  Broadway,  Bait. 
Campbell,  Wm.  I.   (Sherwood),  1800  Jackson  St.  N.  E.,  Wash. 
Campbell,  Wm.  W.,  Highlands,  Wil. 

Candee,  Chas.  L.    (Westminster),  1003  Broome  St.,  Wil. 
Chase,  John  T.   (Chestnut  Grove),  Baldwin,  Md. 
Clark,  Thos.  Culbertson,  D.  D.  (Takoma  Park,  D.  C.) 
Clews,  Wm.  P.    (Grace,  Westminster  and  Worton),  Kennedj'ville.  Md. 
Conning,  John  S.  (Presb.  Missionary).  1002  Madison  Ave.,  Bait. 
Crafts,  Wilbur  F.,  D.  D.,  206  Pennsylvania  Ave.  S.  E.,  Wash. 
Craig,  Kenneth  M.   (Crisp  Memorial),  Brooklyn.  Md 
Crawford,  Josiah  H.   (Central),  911  Van  Buren  St.,  Wil. 
Crawford,  Wm.  (Green  Hill),  Wil. 

Cummings,  Geo.  M.  (Garden  Memorial),  1218  V  St.  S.  E.,  Wash. 
Cunningham,  Henry  (East  Lake),  2404  JeflFerson  St.,  Wil. 
Davis,   Titus    E.    (Westminster    Church    Memorial),    225    8th    St     S     W 
Wash. 

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Davison,  Robert  A.,  D.  D.  (Falls  Church.  Va.) 

Depue,  James  H.,  Cleveland  Park,  Wash. 

Dexter,  Wm.  Hart,  Ph.  D.  (S.  S.  of  Manassas),  301 1  Georgia  Ave.,  Wash. 

Dixon.  Thos.  Freeman.  D.  D.   (Frederick.  Md.) 

Douglas,  John  W.   (Roland  Park),  411  Woodlawn  Road,  Bait. 

Downie,  Seth  Russell    ( Piney  Creek  and  Taneytown),  Taneytown,  Md. 

Dovirns,  Francis  Shunk  (Calvary),  621  N.  Kenwood  Ave.,  Bait. 

Dudley,  Albert  C.  (Relay,  Md) 

Duncan,  Geo.  S.,  Ph.  D.  (Hermon),  2900  7th  St.  N.  E.,  Wash. 

Dunham,  J.  Harvey  (Western),  2109  G  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 

Earnest,  Harry  L.   (Lonaconing,  Md.) 

Easson,  Thos.  Chalmers  (Ridgely  St.),  Hotel  Condon,  Bait. 

Eckard.  Jas.  M.  L.   (Smyrna,  Del.) 

Edwards,  Wm.  H.   (Clifton,  Va.) 

Eggert,  John  E.   (Chesapeake  City,  Md.) 

Eisenberger,  Wm.  A.,  Berwyn,  Md. 

Engle,  S.  M.  (Ellicott  City,  Md.) 

Tinney,  John  Clark  (Forest  Park),  4010  Penhurst  Ave.,  Bait. 

Fox,  Paul,  513  N.  Luzerne  St.,  Bait. 

Frank,  Morris  H  ,  Ph.  D.,  Bait. 

Franklin,  J.  Edgar,  711  Washington  St.,  Wil. 

Eraser.  Jas.,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.   (New  Windsor,  Md.) 

Freund,  Wm.  L.  (S.  S.  of  Manokin),  Princeton,  N.  J. 

Gale,  Jas.  A.,  D.  D..  Seoul,  Korea. 

GilfiUan,  Joel  S.,  D.  D.  (Presby.  Ev.),  Newark,  Del. 

Gillingham,  Oscar  A.   (P.  of  Darnestown  and  S.  S.  of  Boyd's),  Gaithers- 

burg,  Md.,  R.  F.  D.  3. 
Gordon,  Thos,  D.  D.,  1310  Girard  St.,  Wash. 
Granger,  C.  Everest,  D.  D.    (Gunton  Temple  Memorial),   1312  Columbia 

Road,  Wash. 
Greenwell,  S.  S.,  Lutherville,  Md. 

Grimke,  Francis  J.,  D.  D.   (Fifteenth  St.),  1415  Corcoran  St.,  Wash. 
Grubbs,  Henry  Alexander  (Walbrook),  2310  Elsinore  Ave.,  Bait. 
Guthrie,  Donald,  D.  D.,  Montreal,  Canada. 
Hallock,  A.  Burtis  (Bel  Air,  Md.) 
Harvey.  MeLeod,  Ph.  D.,  1800  loth  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 
Hazehine,  R.  W..  310  W.  Hoffman  St.,  Bait. 
Henry,  James  M.,  Canton,  China. 
Hensley,  Leighton  Beaumont   (Emmitsburg,  Md.) 
Herold,  Julius  A.   (Lewes,  Del.) 

Hickok,  Paul  R.  (Metropolitan),  17  5th  St.  S.  E.,  Wash. 
Holloway,  Chas.  H.,  548  N.  loth  St.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 
Hoover,  Robt.  H.   (Perryville,  Md.) 

Hopkins,  Edwin  J.    (Cool   Spring  and  Georgetown),  Georgetown,  Del. 
Huffman,  F.  Harl.   (West  Nottingham),  Colora,  Md. 
Hughes,  James  Charles  (Olivet),  500  S.  Curley  St.,  Bait. 
Irvine,  Samuel  L.  (Highland  and  North  Bend),  Street,  Md. 
Isaacs,  J.  B.  St.  Francis  (Gilbert),  1008  French  St.,  Wil. 
Jackson,  Robt.  L.  (Hanover),  2003  Van  Buren  St.,  Wil. 
Jamison,  David,  Aberdeen,  Md. 

Jenkins.  Robt.  C.  (Bethel),  White  Hall,  Md  .  R.  F.  D. 
Jewell.  Stanley  H.   (Barton  and  Lord),  Barton.  Md. 


Johnson,  Hubert  Rex.  (Chevy  Chase),  2502  Cliffbourne  Pla.,  Wash. 
Johnson,  Leonard  Z.,  D.  D.   (Madison  St.),  1615  Druid  Hill  Ave.,  Bait. 
Jones,  J.  Wynne,  D.  D.  (Abbott  Memorial),  321  S.  Highland  Ave.,  Bait. 
Keigwin,  Albert  N.,  D.  D.    (P.   Em.  of  West.),  324  W.   103rd  St.,   New^ 

York  Cit}-. 
Kelly,  Jos.  T.,  D.  D.  (Fourth),  1367  Irving  St.,  Wash. 
Kerr.,  Robt.  P.,  D.  D.  (Northminster),  1821  St.  Paul  St.,  Bait. 
Kerr,  Thos.  (Buckingham).  Berlin,  Md. 
Kirby,  Edward  M.  (Ballston,  Va.) 

Kistler,  Edward  Haines   (Babcock  Memorial),  2237  Eutaw  Pla.,  Bait. 
Kullmar,  Fred  A.   (Churchville,  Md.) 
Lane,  John  C.  (Olivet),  235  Rodney  St..  Wil. 

Lee.  Thos.  H.,  Ph.  D.  (S.  S.  of  Mt.  Hermon).  552  Dolphin  St.,  Bait. 
Linn,  Carl.  Accident,  Md. 

Little,  Geo.  O.,  D.  D.,  1363  Columbia  Road,  Wash. 
Long,  Edwin  W.,  Wil. 

Lowden,  J.  W.  (White  Clay  Creek),  Newark,  Del. 
Lyon,  D.  Everett,  Ph.  D.   (Westminster),  2737  Maryland  Ave.,  Bait. 
McBath,  Walker  E.,  Guatemala  City,  Cent.  Amea. 

McCary,  William  Wallace   (Fairmount  Heights),   i8i2>^    nth   St.,  Wash. 
McCullough,  W.  J,   (Pitts  Creek),  Pocomoke  City,  Md. 
McElmoyle,  John,  D.  D.   (Elkton,  Md.) 
McLaury,  Edward  A.  (Drawyers),  Odessa,  Del. 

MacSporran,  John  A.  (Lafayette  Square),  11 15  W.  Lanvale  St.,  Bait. 
Marshall,  Jas.  T.,  D.  D.  (West  St),  3121  P.  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 
Martin,  Henry  G.   (Rehoboth,  Md.) 
Martin,  Luther.  2102  Greenmount  Ave..  Bait. 
Mason,  Henry  F.,  Doylestown,  Pa.,  R.  F.  D. 
Miller,  Henry  W.   (Light  St.),  805  William  St.,  Bait. 
Milligan,  Joseph  R.,   D.  D.    (Port   Penn   and   St.   Georges),   St.   Georges,. 

Del. 
Minniberger,  Vaclav,  800  N.  Broadway,  Bait. 
Mof¥att,  Jas.  E.,  D.  D.  (First),  Cumberland,  Md. 
Moore,  Francis  H.,  D.  D.   (Forest),  Middletown,  Del. 
Xeely,  David  T.  (Aisquith  St.),  1641  N.  Caroline  St.,  Bait. 
Xesbit,  John  A.    (Catonsville,  Md.) 
Niles,  Edward  (Second),  1214  N.  Caroline  St..  Bait. 
North.  Jos.  B.,  LL.  D.,  Snow  Hill,  Md. 

Nourse,  James  M.  (P.  of  Vienna  and  S.  S.  of  Lewinsville),  Vienna,  Va.. 
Novak,  Frank  (Bohemian  and  Moravian),  834  N.  Washington  St.,  Bait- 
Palmer,  John  Carpenter,   D.   D.    (Washington  Heights),   1748  Euclid   St.,. 

Wash. 
Pellegrin,  Harold  S.  (Asst.  at  Brown  Memorial),  1406  Park  Ave..  Bait. 
Perry,  Samuel  M..  Elkton.  Md. 

Plumer,  John  S.,  D.  D.  (Waverly),  2821  Frisby  St..  Bait. 
Price,  H.  Medley  (Ashland  and  White  Hall),  Ashland,  Md. 
Price,  Wm.  A.  (Covenant),  1413  Hollins  St.,  Bait. 
Pulham,  Thos.  W.,  644  20th  Ave.,  Vancouver,  B.  C. 
Radcliffe.  Wallace.  D.  D.,  LL.  D.   (New  York  Ave.),  1200  K  St.  N.  W., 

Wash. 
Reed.  David  A..  828  lOth  St.  N.  E.,  Wash. 
Reichard.  Lemuel  S.   (Hamilton,  Md.) 

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Reigart,  Samuel  W.,  D.  D.  (P.  Em.  Wicomico),  Salisbury,  Aid. 
Richards,  T.  Davis,  D.  D.   (Neelsville),  Germantown,  Md. 
Righter,  S.  Ward,  East  Orange,  N.  J. 
Robbins,  Edward  H.,  D.  D.,  3101  Clifton  Ave.,  Bait 
Robinson,  Geo.,  D.  D.,  1951  Biltmore  St.,  Wash. 
Robinson,  Robt.   (Arlington,  Va.) 
Rowan,  Wm.  J.,  Ph.  D.  (Newark,  Del.) 

Rumer,  Henry,  D.  D.   (Warner  Memorial),  Kensington,  Md. 
Rusbridge,  John  L.  (Delaware  City,  Del.) 
Sartorio.  H.  C,  Wil. 

Shaw,  David  E.   (P.  Em.  of  West  Nottingham),  Oxford,  Pa. 
Shemeld,  Robt,  The  Atherton,  Wash. 
Skellenger,  D.  Wesley,  D.  D.   { S.  S.  of  Hyattsville,  Md.) 
Smiley,  U.  Franklin,  D.  D.  (West.),  1107  Adams  St.,  Wil. 
Smith.  Geo.  L.  (Pencader).  Porter,  Del. 
Smith,  T.  James,  Charleston.  S.  C. 

Smith,  W.  Bryson  (Southminster).  31   Pennsylvania  Ave..  Cumberland,  Md, 
Spooner,  Arthur  Willis.  D.  D.   (Sixth),  936  B  St.  S.  W.,  Wash. 
Springer,  Thos.  L.,  601  Windermere  Ave.,  Bait. 

Stevenson,  J.  Ross,  D.  D.   (Brown  Memorial),  1316  Park  Ave.,  Bait. 
Stick.  J.  Monroe,  Md.  Tract  Soc,  Macht  Bldg.,  Bait. 
Stonesifer,  J.  Ross   (First),  411  McCabe  Ave.,  Wil. 
Swann,  Jeremiah  B.  (Zion),  Lothian,  Md. 
Thompson,  Chas.  A.,  411  T.  St.  N.  W..  Wash. 
Thompson,  Thos.,  D.  D.,  1247  N.  Capitol  St.,  Wash. 
Thompson,  Thos.  B.,  U.  S.  Navy  Dept.,  Wash. 
Thompson,  W.  Taliaferro,  D.  D.,  N.  Chevy  Chase,  Md. 
Turner,  Joseph   Brown,   Presb.   Hist.   Soc,   Witherspoon    Bldg.,   Philadel- 
phia, Pa. 
Vail,  Solomon  N.,  The  Concord,  Wash. 

Van  Oeveren,  Adrian  (Christiana  and  Head  of  Christiana),  Newark,  Del. 
Waite,  Abbott  L.  R.  (Riverdale,  Md.) 
Wasson,  Samuel  C.   (Govanstown),  Govans,  Md. 
Watson,  Lewis  R.,  Charlottesville,  Va. 

Watson,  Wm.  C.   (Frankford  and  Ocean  View),  Frankford,  Del. 
Westcott,  James  S.,  Vienna,  Va. 

Wightman,  Jas.  W.,  D.  D.,  1726  Willard  St.  N.  W.,  Wash. 
Williams,  Wm.  Edward,  D.  D.   (Grace),  623  W.  Lanvale  St.,  Bait. 
Winne,  J.  Edgar,  Wash. 

Wood,  Chas.,  D.  D.   (Church  of  the  Covenant),  21 10  S  St.  X.  W.,  Wash. 
Woods,  Frank  Churchill   (S.  S.  of  Severna  Park),  Abell  Bldg.,  Bait. 
Wylie,  S.  Beattie   (New  Castle,  Del.) 
Yates,  Wm.  O.,  Chieng  Mai.  Siam. 
Young,  Wm.  J.,  D.  D.,  Clarendon,  Va. 


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INDEX. 

PAGE 

Army  and  Navy 30 

Bible  Society    35 

Bills  and   Overtures 36 

Brotherhood    33 

Church  Erection    47 

College  Board    : 39 

Committees   2 

Corresponding  Members    7 

Education    42 

Evangelism    48 

Every   Member   Plan 55 

Executive   Commission    55 

Finance    54 

Foreign   Missions    51 

Freedmen    20 

Home  Missions   35 

Memorials   23 

Moderators  and  Stated  Clerks 61 

Narrative  22 

Relief    and    Sustentation 42 

Roll,  attendance    5 

Roll,  members    65 

Rules   57 

Sabbath  School    15 

Statistical  Reports    8 

Synchronous  meetings,  with  Women's   Societies 37 

Synodical  Efficiency  13 

Temperance   44 

Tract  Society  15 

Training  School    39 

West  Nottingham  College 41 

Wilson  College   ^y 

Women's  Societies,  reports 62 

Young-    People's    Societies 31 


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