People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1895 — WITH MANY DELEGATES. [ARTICLE]

WITH MANY DELEGATES.

Congregattonal Trienulal Session nt Syracuse, N. T. Syracuse, N. Y., Oct. 10. —The ninth triennial session of the national council of the Congregational churches of the United States opened at 10 o’clock yesterday at Plymouth church. The proceedings were opened with an address by Rev. Alonzo N. Quirt, of Boston, the retiring moderator. Nelson Dingley, M. C., of Maine, was chosen moderator, without opposition, and Rev. Charles O. Brown, of San Francisco, and Professor George W. Henderson (colored), of New Orleans, were elected assistant moderators. The report of the committee on church manual was given by Rev. A. H. Quint, D.D., of Boston. It consisted of suggestions for rules for the establishment and government of churches and members, and covered the entire church polity. It presented no changes, but was the compilation of many established rules into a convenient form. The report was referred to a special committee who will submit a eport. At the evening session, after prayer by Rev. Henry A. Hazen, of Auburndale, Mass., and a song, the council adjourned until this morning at 9 o’clock. At the meeting in the Fourth Baptist church short addresses were delivered.