Covenanter Witness Vol. 53 - Rparchives.org

cooperation."men"The One Hundred andTwenty-FifthSynod(Continued from July 28th number)Friday MorningRev. C. E. Caskey was our leader in devotionalexercises this morning with Milton Harrington leading in prayer, Paul Robb presiding. Synod left DarbyHall immediately after devotionals to have theirmeeting in the College church and was constitutedin prayer by Prof. George Coleman. There was a discussion of the possible change in the wording of theCovenant but it was finally passed without anychange.The stated Clerk read his report and peopleare always interested in the statistics so we mightas well be frank and say the net loss this year was87 members.The Temperance Committee report was read byDr. A. W. Smith who told of the hearing on theBryson Bill in Washington, D. C, and this was followed by K. S. Edgar speaking on the hearing on theLangdon bill which happened the next week. TheHouse Committee which was considering the BrysonBill was very much more favorable to the Dry causethan was the Senate Committee which had referredthe bill to a sub committee on the economic side ofthe question, the loss in labor, advertising and salesof goods, etc, and they were not at all impressed bythe Temperance people. They both agreed that thebig interests are very much concerned about the return of prohibition. The latter committee consideredthe bill from the angle of"money vs. and"morality vs.The pressure was all fromthe money interests.Mrs. J. B. Willson and Mrs. R. H. George reported on the Woman's Association and the need fora new building. $50,000 has already been given for anew building by one who was once a member, orrather his sister was, in the Allegheny ChurchSabbath School. The present buildings are eitherasked for theout-worn or out-populated and theypermission to appeal to the people inside and outside the church for sufficient money to put up a newbuilding although no estimate was available of theamount that would be needed.Mrs. Greer gave the Jewish Mission report andit was to the affect that there was no opportunity tosell the Jewish Mission buildings for there seemed tobe no buyers for property in that part of town. Thequestion of moving the mission to New York Citywas brought up and Rev. Luther McFarland saidthat New York City was the largest Jewish opportunity in the world. There are 160,000 Jews in Jerusalem; there are 2,500,000 in New York with onemissionary to 160,000 Jews.The Committe on Bible readingthe report wasread by F. F. Reed and it was proposed that wechange the system of Sabbath School Lessons fromthe one used at the present time to the one that isunder the supervision of the N.A.E. This was theforenoon's work.Friday AfternoonThe matters first before the Synod this afternoon were the hearingof the representative of the84American Bible Society, Dr. Doster; and the reportof the Christian Education Committee by Dr. F. L.Lathom. Dr. George Coleman says that our Churchis not considered an Evangelistic Church but ourSabbath School is an evangelistic agency that hasalways brought results when it was properly mannedand made efficient. The $50,000 that had come intothe Aged People's Home Building Fund is the resultof one or two pupils in the Sabbath School years ago.The committee on Secret Orders reportedthrough Dr. J. G. Vos. The report has already appeared in the Witness. Dr. John Coleman talkedabout the advantage of making the annual report onsecret societies a discussion of one particular phaseof it. For instance, the College secret societies or theGrange. Dr. Coleman said he had been invited tomake an address at a Grange meeting and was metby two members in gay regalia and escorted into theroom. After the talk and the program they askedhim if he was a member of the Grange, and whenhe replied "No" they told him he would have toleave and no escort was provided. Rev. Robert Henningsaid there was a great movement of secretorders in high schools and Dr. McCracken recommended a piece that appeared in "Power" Magazinea short time ago which was very strong againstsecret orders. So much for Friday.Friday evening was a general assembly of allHall Gymnasium. After athe groups in the Darbyperiod of talent time the address of the evening wasgiven by Mr. Dawson Trotman. Mr. Trotman is thefollow-up director of the Billy Graham EvangelisticTeam and gave an account of how he had become aChristian through learning Bible verses and hadbeen the promoter of the Navigator course andsystem. He urged everyone to learn verses not onlyfor their own sake but for the sake of bringing othersto Christ. The Navigator Course is being used extensively by our young people.Saturday MorningThe subject this morning for devotions was ourCovenant obligations over which Robert McCrackenwas the presiding officer and Rev. J. Paul Wilsonwas the speaker.In Synod the report of the Witness Committeewas the order of the day and was read by Dr. T. C.McKnight. Dr. A. J. McFarland was the first speakercommenting on the work of the Witness Committee.He spoke of the net loss in printing the ChristianPatriot of $800.00 and urged that everycongregationback this periodical with more subscribers. TheBroadcast on "The Way Out" is now being presentedby 133 stations besides the large station in Chicagowhich is giving the recordings on paid time, butthe other 133 stations are giving it on contributedtime. On tomorrow (Sabbath) 70 stations will begiving this pogram in 25 states.Dr. Remo I. Robb reported on the hearing on thebill to have a Christian Amendment to the Constitution. The hearing had passed off well and Mr. Langdon who had charge of the hearing was ready togive them all the time they wanted to take. NoTHE COVENANTER WITNESS