MINUTES

OF THE

GENERAL ASSEMBLY

OF THE

PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

NEW SERIES, VOL. XII, AUGUST, 1912.

Proceedings, etc., of the 124th General Assembly.

PHILADELPHIA:

Office of the General Assembly, Witherspoon Building

BY THE STATED CLERK.

1912

New York
State Library

MINUTES,

ETC

THE ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-FOURTH GENERAL

AND ASSEMBLY OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA met, according to appointment, at Louisville, Kentucky, in the Warren Memorial Presbyterian Church, on Thursday, May 16, 1912, at 10.30 o'clock A.M., and was opened with a sermon by the Moderator, Rev. John F. Carson, D.D., from Haggai i :7, 8.

After the sermon, the Assembly was constituted with prayer.

The Committee of Arrangements made the following Report, which was adopted:

That the Assembly meet for devotional services at 9.00 A.M. each week-day, and for business from 9.30 A.M. to 12.30 P.M., and from 2.30 to 5.00 P.M.

The Assembly took recess, and was closed with prayer.

THURSDAY, May 16, 2.30 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