Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1928 - Rparchives.org

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 37
pastors. One is unable to resume active service. One is engaged
in business.
George Mackay Robb, a member of the Los Angeles congregation,
is under our care as a theological student, expecting
to enter our Theological Seminary this fall, and is recommended
to the Board of Control for a share in the Student's
Aid fund.
W. A. Aikin is chairman of the Interim Commission.
J. D. Edgar is chairman of the Committee on Supplies.
D. Calderwood and F. D. Frazer are our representatives
on the Co-ordinating Committee.
S. Edgar and J. W. Wylie are our delegates to the Mission
Conference.
Our budget and traveling fund are paid in full.
Our statistical report was duly forwarded to the stated
clerk.
Respectfully submitted,
F. D. FRAZER, Clerk.
PHILADELPHIA
The Philadelphia Presbytery would respectfully report as
follows:
We wish to acknowledge with exceeding gratitude the
good hand of our Lord upon us, in our work as a Presbytery
this past year.
We have three settled pastors, and one congregation without
a pastor. W. J. McBurney at the meeting of Presbytery
on April 19, 1928, accepted the call made upon him by the
Princeton, Indiana, congregation thus leaving our Orlando
congregation vacant. We have on our roll also the names of
three licentiates, W. Wilbur Weir, of Larnaca, Cyprus, now at
home on furlough; Armour J. McFarland, who has been attending
the Biblical Seminary, New York City, and his time
is now at the disposal of the Synod, and Mr. J. G. Vos, who
completed his theological course in Princeton Seminary in
April this year. Our presbytery recommended to Mr. Vos the
advisability of attending our own theological Seminary this
coming year. And he expressed the earnest desire to do so,
if circumstances permit. Mr. Vos' time is at the disposal of
Synod.
There was a slight decrease in our membership this past
year, owing mainly to the large number of deaths in our
several congregations.
The work in the various congregations has been carried on
with a large degree of efficiency. "Personal Visitation Evangelization"
has been engaged in by the Philadelphia Congregations
this past year, and very profitably so.
Our pastors and people have taken an active part in the
work of the Jewish Mission, and other activities of a special
work the character presbytery.
The at the total have present contributions been time engaged is, of we in the by believe, different presbytery greater congregations to than the that Lord's of