Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 33FRIDAY FOEENOON.Same Place, 9:00 A. M.Synod met according to adjournment, was calledto order and constituted with prayer by the Moderator.Devotional exercises were led by E. L. McKnight.The Minutes of the previous session were readand approved.Rev. W. M. McNeel, recently received from theAssociate Presbyterian Church, was presented to thecourt, and spoke briefly of his reasons for coming toour church.The following resolutions offered by Paul Colemanwere adopted:In view of any difficulties in beginning the operationof the new system for supplying vacant congregations,we make the following provisions:1. That the new system shall go into effect on September1st. 1919.2. Presbyteries are hereby directed to provide for thecontinuance of the present system till September 1st., and tomake certain that vacant congregations under their care areprepared to use efficiently the new system after that time.Paper No. 14 was introduced. A memorial from GeorgeE. Bergen and others, transferred by Iowa Presbytery, wasreferred to the committee on Home Missions.The Witness Bearing Committee reported. Thereport was taken up item by item for adoption.Items 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 were adopted; Item 7 was amendedand referred to the committee on Finance.The filling of the places of those whose terms had expiredand the nominating of additional members of the committee wasreferred to the committee on Nominations.The report was adopted as a whole, and is as follows:REPORT OF THE WIN-THE-WAR, WITNESS BEARING,COMMITTEE.The great war just closed has done much to awakenthought and, like the Civil War fifty years ago, has turned theminds of devout men toward the Lord Jesus as the -Prince ofpeace, the only Saviour of nations. The jarring of conflictinginterests in our own country and occasional outbresks of domesticviolence have served to deepen this sense of need. Statesmentalk of the problems of reconstruction, but what we mustwork for is political regeneration. The people of our countrymust believe in the divine King of nations with a faith theynever yet have attained to before they will be ready to give himhis place in the supreme law of the land.