Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1916 — SLATE M’ELWIN FOR MODERATOR [ARTICLE]

SLATE M’ELWIN FOR MODERATOR

Presbyterians Predict Election of Pittsburg Minister—2,ooo Delegates Ready For Meet. Atlantic City, N. J., May 17. — Leaders tonight here for the general assembly of theAPresbyterian church, which opens its 128th annual session on the steel pier tomorrow to continue for ten days, declared that a precedent will be set, when the election of a moderator is taken up by the 2,000 delegates. They predict the election of the Rev. W. L. McElwin, of Pittsburg. Should this program prevail the usual custom of alternating from the east to the west each year in making a selection for the highest cifice in the gift of the assembly will be shattered. Preliminary sessions of the different committees and boards that will make their Reports to the ’convention Tater in the week were held today. The committee on foreign missions reported an increase of $74,000 in individual gifts over the previous year in the total of $374,000 contributed during the past twelve months.