Ogden Daily Standard | 1902-05-26 | Page 1 | Presbyterians Will Meet in Los Angeles Section

presbyterians RIANS WILL MEET IN LOS ANGELES charges made that a big railroad corporation influenced the presbyterian general assembly bew york may 26 the presbyterian general a ai session chose los angeles cal as the place of next meeting the general assembly acted adversely on an overture from the presbytery of loa angeles requesting that ministers coining from the South presbyterian church be honorably retired with the same privilege sas if they had served always with the church under the general assembly the matter came before the assembly in a report from the committee on ministerial alliance the bev william S young I 1 D pastor of alie emanuel presbyterian church los angeles advised that alie assembly act favorably on the overture in the west he said there were many ministers who had come from the southern branch and favorable action would alep to bring the two chur clies together the key dr thomaa parry of wil kinsburg pa chairman of the committee took the opposite view lie said it would open alie door for ministers of other denominations to come to the presbyterian by terian church and claim the same privileges as the ministers who had served the general assembly all their lives the rev dr benjamin L agnew of philadelphia spoke in the same vein lie said the result of granting the demand of the presbytery of los angeles would bo that many of the retiring ministers who have always been with the northern presbyterian church would have already scant allowances cut down when the civil war was closed he said we would have been willing to vote for the union of the two churches but I 1 am utterly opposed to holding out any money consideration to bring them over nicy will have the same privileges as our members if they come over to the principles kev james D of baltimore said it would be unfortunate if the overture did not receive favorable action when the question of selecting a meeting place was taken up the rev dr henry C minton former moderator made a ten minute address ill favor of los angeles rev dr richard S pointed out that there was a great difference lie tween the mileage for cleveland and los angeles if yon want to burden the membership for such a big sum aa this difference would be let the money go to home mission or to pay off the debt on the presbyterian building we have no right to do a thing to favor any big corporation or railroad