Show RECEIVED BACK INTO FOLD Cumberland Presbyterians Au Ac Accorded corded Grand Reception by b Y 4 Northern Church BOTH SIDES ENTHUSIASTIC JOYOUS SPEECHES MADE IN THE ASSEM ASSEMBLY BL Y YDes Des Moines ea la Ia May Church union sentiMent reached Ita pitch in the Pres general en here to today today day when hen a d tion of seventeen enteen com commis commissioners mis missioners d rs from the Cumberland Presby Presbyterian Presbyterian terian assembly was received in the as ass s x of the northern church now In session In this city eity As the hour bour of 1030 time set for receiving the visitor dead silence fell feU over the great reat convention hall containing the theo i o commissioners and about 00 visitors The next instant the air was rent with r heers as the whole gathering came nie to its feet follo following ing the appearance of t the vis ting delegation un at the front doors of the auditorium auditorium Wildly Enthusiastic Half the delegation was led down one lIsle aisle and half down don the other by are a re committee of prominent Before they had progressed five feet had broken loose Men climbed Into their chairs women leaned leaDed far out over the nd box railings s sand and every one waved a hat bat or handkerchief handkerchief chief The applause e WAS deafening and continued while the visitors were marched to the front of the hall and escorted to the stage and for five minutes after afterwards afterwards wards Actual Union at Last The seventeen visitors were ere drawn up in a row facing the crowd Stated Clerk W H Roberts announced to the assem assembly bly who they were and then introduced them one by one to Moderator Hunter Corbett the Cumberland moderator Ira Landrith being first pr presented When the moderators of the churches which were two yesterday esterd Y and one today clasped hands exactly in the center and at the front edge of the stage the demonstration reached its zenith commissioners and vis visitors visitors realizing that actual union had at last come to pass As each visitor was wac formally introduced to Moderator Corbett he be stepped forward the treat great and the two clasped hands while hail swelled with round after round of ap applause applause When ben the ceremony r was concluded In the ed there was as scarcely a dry eye cye auditorium Brief Addresses to the The visitors were then presented assembly md and each delivered a brief ad address d dress e expressing joy and gratitude at the of the reunion of the two churches hurches The visitors included L C Kirkes Texas and W Y J 1 Fisher San l Francisco The report of the standing committee on hurch erection adopted by the assembly showed ho ed that tt churches had been heen erect erected erected including a ed at an expense of splendid church at Havana Cuba The largest award for church erection went to South Dakota Total receipts of the board from aU all de departments departments were 31 The board caned called attention tt to the necessity of contributions for Cuba and California the latter be because cause ause of the recent earthquake and fire War on Liquor Traffic The assembly today passed a resolution providing for a combination of all evan eran evangelical churches against the liquor traffic In n invitation was as extended by the assem assembly bly to other churches to appoint commit committees tees to meet for the purpose e of drafting plans Mans for the work woric The meeting place of oft t i he general ral committee wilt will be named later Without comment thet report on church was adopted |