People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1896 — FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY. [ARTICLE]

FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

/ Presbyterian Commissioners Gather In Force at Saratoga. Saratoga, N. Y., May 20.—While the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the United States does not formally convene till Thursday a large number of commissioners from all parts of the country have already arrived. Among the principal ones named as the probable sucesscor of the retiring moderator, the Rev. Dr. Robert Russell Booth, the pastor of the Rutgers Riverside church, New York city, are the Rev. Dr. John L. Withrow of Chicago, the Rev. David R. Breed of Pittsburg, Pa., the Rev. Dr. Thomas L. Sextow of Howard, N©b., and the Rev. Dr. Francis C. Montfort of Cincinnati, Ohio. The vote will be an interesting one, and lines are sure to be closely drawn. It is reported that the Board of Home Missions will, when its report is presented to the General Assembly, show an indebtedneshs of between $200,000 and $300,000. The Missionary Conference Auxiliary to and conducted in connection with the General Assembly began in the First Presbyterian church this afternoon.