People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — SOCIETIES GAIN ALL. [ARTICLE]

SOCIETIES GAIN ALL.

Gfeat Contest nt Saratoga Results in , Their Favor. Saratoga, N. Y., May 27. —Christian Endeavorers won a victory Tuesday in the presbyterian general assembly. The sum total of the assembly’s action was the adoption of a “statement of relations between individual societies and churches,” which was directed to be read in the various societies, and a provision for the collection of Christian Endeavor statistics. The moderator and clerks, acting as a committee on the next place of meeting, met with representatives of Pqtoskey, Mich., San Francisco and other places which desire to entertain the assembly in 1897. A strong effort was made on behalf of Saratoga. The result of the conference is not yet known. A popular meeting was held in the evening on behalf of home missions. The resolutions provide for closer presbyterial inspection of requisitions on the mission board; for a movement toward self-support within each presbytery and synod, and for a committee of nine to advise with the board as to retrenchment, the ca.. of the present debt and improved methods of retrench inent. The report on heme missions showed the present del to be almost $300,000; receipts, $72i\!33, and expenditures, $858,985. lor the reunion fund, receipts reached $191,230. The cost of administration aggregated $Bl,922. Under the beard is a total of 1,544 ministers, 1,830 churches and a membership of 100,000. During the year 9,179 new members have been added.