Reformed Presbyterian Minutes of Synod 1919

REFORMED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 35with considerable success. ' Even where the effort has failedfor the time, it has seemed worth making. The Win-the-WarCommittee of Kansas Presbytery mapped out a plan of theirown and your Committee has tried to second their work. Revs.S. J. Johnston, Paul Coleman, W. A. Aikin, F. E. Allen and J.Milligan Wylie have reported to us and nearly all the ministersof that Presbytery have done some work of this kind. Revs.)W. J. McKnight, W. J. McBurney, Robert Park, Paul Coleman,S. J. Johnston, W. J. Sanderson, F. E. Allen and John C. Slaterhave given many lectures and have canvassed pastors for sermons.In addition to these Revs. W. C. McClurkin, T. C. Mc­Knight, F. F. Reade and laymen D. S. Anderson and J. R. Dillhave canvassed pastors and sent in reports. J. C. McFeeters,W. J. McKnight and several others have addressed ecclesiasticalbodies.Urgent appeals came from several parties that some oneshould be sent to Paris to urge on the Peace Conference thepropriety of recognizing the Prince of peace in the Peace Covenant.Dr. T. H. Acheson was nominated in a letter sent out bythe Committee and his expenses guaranteed. He was chosen togo and accepted the appointment, but has failed to secure apassport.The soldiers and sailors engaged in the late war took stepsiji a convention held in St. Louis on May 7th and 8th to forman organization to commemorate their part in the great conflict.Your Committee endeavored by correspondence and bysending representatives to St. Louis to prevent the organization!adopting secret conditions such as are found in the Grand Armyof the Republic. A letter was sent to all our men in the service,urging them to use their influence to make the coming organizationan open one.The new title, Win-the-War, given this Committee, while agreat help in our work, is now out of date and we revert to ounformer name. We suggest that the word, "Bearing," in thistitle be omitted, as being somewhat archaic and that our namebe "The Witness Committee. This is short, simple and, wethink, sufficiently descriptive of our work.Our receipts for the year have been $8,857,177. This is morethan the dollar a member we asked for two years ago and morethan double the amount we have ever received and for this weare grateful to thie Lord and to the Covenanter Church. Theexpenditures have been $6,153.67, which is also much more thanwe have paid out any one year in the past. The balance onhand is $4,991.32, a good start for the coming year. W