Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1928 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 35
Special services have been held on days designated by Synod.
Our Y. P. conference deserves mention in this report. This
annual conference has become a potent factor in promoting not
only sociability among the Young People but deeper consecration
and more advanced spiritual power. Its spirit is reflected
in the fact that our Young People have organized voluntary
prayer groups to present their own needs and the need of the
church at the Throne of Grace. Two of our congregations,
Quinter and Sterling, have recently provided new parsonages
for the use of their pastors.
The time of J. W. Dill, Isaiah Faris, G. R. McBurney, and
J. R. Latimer are at the disposal of Synod. We are asking for
the time of one worker. R. C. Adams and J. J. McElroy are
our members on the Co-ordinating Committee. W. O. Ferguson
is our representative at the Home Mission Conference. D. R.
Taggart is Home Mission Secretary and Chairman of Committee
of Supplies. Mr. T. H. Reed is our financialagent.
Respectfully submitted,
M. R. JAMESON, Clerk.
NEW YORK
New York would respectfully report:
Since last Synod we have held one regular and one called
meeting. The Interim Commission has held four meetings.
We have thirteen congregations under our care. All but
two under pastoral oversight. The pastoral relationship was
dissolved in two congregations; in Walton congregation by
the resignation of the pastor, Boyd A. White, and the declaring
the pulpit vacant by the Presbytery on July 13, 1927; and in
the Newburgh congregation by the death of the pastor, J. W. F.
Carlisle, on April 5, 1928.
Boyd A. White at his own request was certified to Pittsburgh
Presbytery. .
Twelve ministers are on our roll, one a missionary to
China, home on furlough.
Walton congregation has called licentiate Franklin H.
Lathom to be their pastor. Mr. Lathom signified his acceptance
of the call and a commission has been appointed for his
ordination and installation. .
Newburgh congregation has been granted the privilege of
making its own arrangements for supplying the pulpit part
time. Presbytery asks for the time of one man for preaching
during the months of October, January, and April.
F. M. Foster is chairman of the Interim Commission and
of the committee on supplies, and Alvin W. Smith is the financial
agent. Our delegates to the Mission Conference were *. M.
Foster and A. M. Thompson; and to the coordination committee,
T. M. Slater and E. F. Thomson.
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