Show ASSEMBLY DIVIDED ON fiNANCES The Presbyterian Executive Commissioners Submit Two Reports AIM TO CONSOLIDATE EIGHT BOARDS IN ONE Afternoon at Denver Is Devoted De De Devoted voted to Honoring John Calvin DENVER May 21 The Thc The beginning of what bids fair to become one of the tho hot fights of the general assembly of the tho Presbyterian church that over the adoption ladop- ladop adoption tion of the report of the executive com commission com cm- mission took p place ace this morning The The Tho regular rep report rt of the commission was submitted and permission given for its consideration at a l later er time A few A fe few minutes this this' and report and the report of the committee on administrative adminis adminis- t agen agencies es had been sub submitted pro Pr B. B P. P Fullerton Louis the there there- re retiring tiring m moderator wh who is officio ex-officio chairman chairman chair chair- man man of the tho executive se commission sub submitted sub stub a special report providing forthe for forthe the discharge of the finance committee and tho apportionment of the budget for foi the tha benevolent and missionary boards This request occasioned se er several l sharp encounters principally brought about 1 by bythe bythe 3 the objection of several commissioners to the adoption of a sp special i l report before be be- e fore rt regular report had been acted arted on Dr Pr Fullerton then receded recede from his position and agreed to have the printed report in the tho hands bands of the assembly assembly as as- assembly that it mj might bt he be read by the tIle commissioners before it is made the subject sub sub- of debate To C Consolidated Work Dr Pr J J. J Pf- Pf Moffatt president of Wash Wah- Washington Wahington in ington ton and Jefferson college of Pittsburg Pitts Pitts- r burg submitted d tho the report of the tho special ape ape- cial dal committee on administrative agencies agen egen- cies and asked that these reports be made a special order for Monday after after- noon This was granted This committee has nas been beon at work upon tho the proposition of consolidating the work of the eight boards since the general general gen gen- eral oral assembly of cf 1905 and upon each cach report re re- rc- rc port rort has hns met with ith l such huch stron strong opposition that on and the closer bar bar- Continued on page parre 4 4 ASSEMBLY DIVIDED Continued from pa page t 1 1 mony sought by what is known as Ute Cleveland overture has seemed further away than ever To first recommendation in iii a l list 4 t of about fourteen suggests that the tho initial step for such consolidation Will ill Willbo willbe be bo fOr each board to obtain from competent competent com com- com coin lawyers vIers the limit to which it may extend its powers Thus it i is hoped that each missionary and benevolent be be- board will be able by slow process to absorb new powers from time to time under existing charters and 1 finally nany to consolidate the powers of such administration under tinder one working head i i I I I FINANCIAL STATUS OF or CHURCH IS ENCOURAGING DENVER May 21 The The executive commission which was appointed to act upon the financial reports of the several several several sev sev- eral boards and agencies of the Presbyterian Pres PresS church and to prepare a tentative ten ten- t tive budget and a tentative apportionment of funds made its report at today's session o of the I Presbyterian en general ral assembly S Under the he head d Aid to the Boards tho the report says Income eu on Increase The I The executive ye commission turned attention to the consideration of the sources of income received from churches and or organized societies within with with- within in tho the bounds of tho churches It was found foun that the income from these sources was larger for the year ending March l 31 1908 than any previous year in the history of the church and that it was above e the average a of of the past year Jear by Referring to the budget the report report- says the a aggregate regate of the estimates of the tho eight boards hoards and the temperance committee to carry forward during durin the coming year the work that has hits been carried on durin during the closing year lar in tn eluding deficits but including no DO new work except what has been n actually entered upon was 9 Deducting Deduct Deduct- in big ing from this amount the legacies interest in interest in in- terest and special gifts that may mav be he expected without the direct efforts of church organizations amounting to the thEl churches were asked to contribute 2 But in addition to this sum the th boards board's present request request re re- re quest for to meet needs of or their fields that in in their jul judgment are ur urgent ent To meet all alt these thes estimates would l require from churches in in addition to the tho that le legacies cies special gifts and interest t on investments investments- are arc expected to segregate aggregate makin making a grand rand total of iO Tho The rep report rt recommends Apportionment of ot Funds runds That the general assembly 1 I appropriate appropriate to the uses of the in following boards and permanent t agencies tho amounts of money set flet et opposite to their thir names respectively ly as these amounts their several organizations Home missions Foreign missions Education Publication and Sabbath school school Church erection Ministerial relief relic i 11 i Freedmen College 4 Temperance Total Proportion of ot Income That tho the general assembly urge urA upon church sessions SEssio to consider r earnestly earnestly earn earn- t estly whether they t may not increase the tho rt regular lar contributions of 01 th the members mem mm bers hers of the tho churches bv by selecting electing some orne form of subscription to fo be bp offered n nr ar 1 to the people whereby t thee hex hmay may dedicate a proportion of their m in n come eom to the tho support of the and benevolent work now regularly carried tarried on by tho the church That the general assembly would l ur urge e upon all aU representatives t of any anyone one cause rause to take occasion to emph emphasize size nize tho the principle le before the people of the Ibe churches that all an cause ause are lire parts Pars Q of one great eat work and sad that it is ii not desirable that any one ODe cause causo should prosper r at the expense fI of other causes Cannes I and that the fiscal year shall CO close P with March 31 for all the boards board and agencies I I |