Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1954

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 23
generous support this past year, and that they be requesed to devote
the offering on the 4th Sabbath of October to he work of the
committee.
4. The term for which A. W. Smith and R. Paul Wright were
elected, has expired and their successors should be chosen by this
Synod.
Respectfully submitted,
Alvin W. Smith, Chairman
Kermit S. Edgar
R. Paul Wright
Mrs. R. H. McKelvy
R. W. McMillan
J. E. McElroy
Kermit S. Edgar was heard for five minutes on the congressional
hearings of temperance bills.
The report of the Women's Association was read by Mrs. J. B.
Willson, adopted and is as follows:
FIFTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE
WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
The Recording Secretary of the Reformed Presbyterian Women's
Association respectfully submits the fifty-seventh annual
report of the Association.
The work in many ways has grown in the fifty-seven years
of our existence, and in some ways has not grown. The number of
the board of directors remains at thirty; also the number of regular
meetings held during the year at twelve. The house committee
was then called the visiting house committee, but it remains the
same number, two each month.
The members of the Home family have outgrown the term "inmates,"
as they were known ir. our firstreport. The duties asked
of our family are about the same as in the earliest days, except
that we do not require the care of chickens, cows and garden by
those who are able.
The largest growth is in the matter of finances.In the first
record we find "Total receipts for two years $6,274.60, Expenditures
$3,606.33."
We now have twenty-nine members in our Home family.
Mrs. Margaret Gibson was called to the service of her Master
on November 2, 1953 at the age of 100 years and 15 days. Mrs.
Gibson had been in bed for some months before this, but at times
was able to sit in a chair. She had been in our Home a little over
nine years. Funeral services were conducted at the Home, and her
body was laid to rest in a Reformed Presbyterian cemetery near
New Castle, Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Margaret Jones died August 21. Funeral services were
held at the Home. Burial was in the Bronxville, New York, cemetery.
Mrs. Jones had been with us not quite two years. Funeral