MINUTES OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. NEW SERIES, VOL. VII, No. 2, AUGUST, 1907. Proceedings, etc., of the 119th General Assembly. PHILADELPHIA: Office of the General Assembly, Witherspoon Building. BY THE STATED CLERK. 1907. す THE ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA met according to appointment in Memorial Hall, Columbus, Ohio, on Thursday, May 16, 1907, at 11 o'clock A.M. The Stated Clerk reported that the Moderator of the 118th General Assembly, Rev. Hunter Corbett, D.D., had returned to China under pressure of the demands of the foreign missionary work in that land, and announced that under the Rules of the Assembly the last Moderator present of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, being a Commissioner, viz., Rev. Robert F. Coyle, D.D., would preside. In accordance with the recommendation of the two Assemblies of 1906 of the now reunited Church, duly adopted upon the report of their joint Committee on Reunion and Union, the opening sermon was preached by Rev. Ira Landrith, D.D., LL.D., Moderator of the General Assembly of 1906 of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, his text being Deut. xxxiii. 25: "Possess thou the west and the south." After the sermon the Assembly was constituted by Rev. Robert F. Coyle, D.D., with prayer, all motions being put and declared adopted by him. ! The Assembly took recess until 3 o'clock P.M., and was closed with prayer. THURSDAY, May 16, 3 o'clock P.M. The Assembly met, and was opened with prayer. Upon the Report of the Permanent Committee on Commissions, the following ministers and elders were recognized as duly appointed Commissioners, and their names were entered upon the |