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#000 — Reformed Presbytery, 1798-1809 #000-01, p. 300: Constitution New presbyteries; Rules and organization; Second presbytery. Ministers: 1-085, 1-165 #000-02, pp. 302-304: Creating a testimony, each member to compose portions [omitted; see #000-12] Directions to individuals; Testimony. #000-03, p. 304: Appointing a commission [elsewhere “committee”] to handle various business Home missions; New commissions; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-165, 1-291 #000-04, p. 308: Prohibiting slavery [no details given here; see #000-05 and Glasgow’s history page 79] Church membership; Pastoral calls; Slavery and race; Coldenham, New York 1. Ministers: 1-165, 1-170, 1-291 #000-05, p. 317: Slaveholders to meet with Presbytery’s committee regarding the reconsideration of #000-04 Slavery and race; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053, 1-165, 1-291 #000-06, pp. 318-319: Slaveholding is an enormous sin, and slaveholders may not remain in the church; instructing current slaveholders to emancipate their slaves Church membership; Slavery and race; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-165, 1-291 #000-07, pp. 327-328: Arrangements for #000-06 emancipation New commissions; Slavery and race; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053, 1-165, 1-291 #000-08, pp. 329-330: Opening communications with the RDP ARPC; Church union; Outside communications; RDP. Ministers: 1-013, 1-165, 1-291 #000-09, p. 333: Appointing a committee to treat with the RDP Church union; Outside communications; RDP. Ministers: 1-013, 1-291 #000-10, p. 335:#000-03 committee handled a pastoral call properly Limited-term pastorates; Pastoral calls; Reviewing commissions; Coldenham, New York 1. Ministers: 1-165, 1-170, 1-291 #000-11, pp. 336-337: Approving the spirit of a Presbyterial Address No information; Pastoral letters. #000-12, p. 337: Reiterating #000-02; delinquent members threatened with censure Church discipline; Delinquency; Testimony. #000-13, p. 338: Approving rules of procedure Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-013 #000-14, p. 340: Appointing standing Northern, Middle, and Southern committees, and specifying their jurisdiction and boundaries Canada; Devolution; New standing committees. Ministers: 1-013, 1-053, 1-085, 1-165, 1-170, 1-291 #000-15, p. 340: Regulating Presbytery meeting locations; no amendments without unanimous vote Meeting schedule; Rules and organization; Conococheague. #000-16, pp. 340-341: Quorum rules Rules and organization. #000-17, p. 341: Ascertaining #000-14 committees’ membership Agency membership. Ministers: 1-013, 1-053, 1-085, 1-165, 1-170, 1-291 #000-18, p. 341: Each #000-14 committee to prepare a draft of a covenant Covenant renovation. Ministers: 1-013, 1-053, 1-085, 1-165, 1-170, 1-291 #000-19, p. 341: Minister going to Europe authorized to serve as an ambassador and directed to bring back ministers and documents if possible Church history; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; Outside communications; RPCI; RPCS; Seeking candidates, HMB. Ministers: 1-291 #000-20, pp. 341-342: Creating a publication fund; ministers to raise money; rules for administration; loaning money to private members Collections; Publications. #000-21, p. 344: Committee instructed to revise #000-11 letter and authorized to publish it No information; Pastoral letters; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-22, p. 344:#000-18 not having been complied with, assigning this responsibility to #000-21 committee Covenant renovation. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-23, pp. 345-346: Judicial case of elder John McNinch: sustaining session’s judgement but weakening discipline, and McNinch to be restored to office Arbitration; Church discipline; Judicial cases; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053 #000-24, p. 347: Appointing a committee to oversee and ordain candidates Candidate examinations; Home missions HR; Licentiates; New commissions; Unlicensed candidates; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-25, p. 347: Sending a pastoral letter to the #000-23 parties Church discipline; Judicial cases; Pastoral letters; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-013, 1-053, 1-170 #000-26, p. 349: Declining to publish #000-11 letter No information; Pastoral letters; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-27, p. 351: Approving session’s handling of #000-23 case Church discipline; Judicial cases; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053 #000-28, p. 351: Sending another pastoral letter (#000-25) Church discipline; Judicial cases; Pastoral letters; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-013, 1-291 #000-29, p. 352: Rejoicing in RPCS response to #000-19; preparing to send them the Testimony when complete Fraternal relations; Outside communications; RPCS; Testimony. Ministers: 1-085, 1-170, 1-291 #000-30, p. 353: Denouncing RPCI response to #000-19 but sending them a letter Fraternal relations; Outside communications; RPCI. Ministers: 1-085, 1-170, 1-291 #000-31, pp. 353-354: Preparing the Testimony, naming it the Term of Communion, and making publication arrangements Publications; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 1-170 #000-32, p. 355: Returning a petition for a deliverance on certain questions: Presbytery cannot answer such questions No information. #000-33, p. 356: Declining to merge with the RDP, and notifying them Church union; Outside communications; RDP; Testimony. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-34, p. 357: Certifying the good standing of a minister Directions to individuals; Real property; RPCI. Ministers: 1-013, 1-085 #000-35, pp. 358-359: Drafting ruling elders from one congregation in place of non-attending elders from elsewhere Delegate qualifications; Elder attendance; New York 1. #000-36, p. 361: Swearing oaths and serving on juries prohibited Jury question; Oath question; Political office; Testimony. #000-37, pp. 362-363: Overturning an elder’s suspension Judicial cases; Restorations; Coldenham. #000-38, p. 363: Approving elements of the Testimony, and a committee to prepare them for the press Church history; Publications; Testimony. Ministers: 1-085, 1-170 #000-39, p. 364: Printing causes of fasting Publications; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-013, 1-085 #000-40, pp. 365-366: Amending the Testimony according to RPCS suggestions Church history; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Oath question; RPCS. Ministers: 1-053, 1-170, 1-291 #000-41, p. 366: Approving the whole Testimony Testimony. #000-42, p. 366: Any two ministers permitted to constitute as a committee to handle newly arisen matters Devolution; New commissions. #000-43, p. 367: Preparing a testimony of U.S. political dissent and publishing the Testimony as a whole Political dissent; Publications; Testimony. Ministers: 1-085, 1-170, 1-291 #000-44, p. 372: Preparing a Directory for Worship, a Book of Discipline, and a Form of Covenant Book of Discipline; Covenant renovation; Directory for Worship. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170 #000-45, p. 372: All ministers to furnish statistics; specific ministers to write congregational histories Church history; Directions to individuals; Statistics; Conococheague, Galway, Miller’s Run. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-46, p. 372: Amending the Terms of Communion Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #000-47, p. 372: Amending the ordination queries for ministers and elders Eldership; Ordination queries. Ministers: 1-013, 1-085 #000-48, p. 373: Approving basic plan for establishing a seminary; financial arrangements RPTS constitution; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-085, 1-170, 1-291 #000-49, pp. 373-374: Publishing #000-48 (OCLC 426006039) and organizing RPTS Publications; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #000-50, p. 374: Publishing extracts of Presbytery’s minutes (OCLC 34185955?) Minutes of Synod; Statistics. Ministers: 1-013, 1-273 #000-51, p. 374: Repealing #000-15 Meeting schedule; Rules and organization. #000-52, p. 374: Withdrawing a licentiate’s license and notifying him Directions to individuals; Licentiates. Ministers: 1-170, 1-277 #000-53, p. 375: Sending copies of #000-48 to Britain and requesting money and books Outside communications; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #000-54, p. 379: Recognizing RPCI discipline Church discipline; David Graham case; RPCI. Ministers: 1-089 #000-55, p. 380: Reiterating #000-50 Minutes of Synod; Statistics. Ministers: 1-013, 1-174, 1-291 #000-56, pp. 381-382: Restoring former RPCI minister (#000-54) to membership and appointing a committee to re-ordain him Church discipline; Church membership; David Graham case; New commissions; Restorations. Ministers: 1-089, 1-170, 1-174, 1-291 #000-57, p. 383: Recognizing RPCS discipline in a dispute; condemning the complainant and his “filthy, inconsistent, and impious rhapsody” Church discipline; Interchurch; John Kell case. Ministers: 1-118 #000-58, p. 384: Approving the general structure of the Directory for Worship Directory for Worship. #000-59, pp. 384-385: Planning to constitute a synod and to convert the #000-14 committees into presbyteries Rules and organization; Second presbytery. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #000-60, p. 386: Reiterating #000-57 on RPCS; not admitting complainant as a candidate until final judgement [“not” omitted in the original, but the context demands it] Church discipline; John Kell case. Ministers: 1-118 #000-61, pp. 386-387: Postponing all further re-trial of #000-57 until complainant repents John Kell case. Ministers: 1-118 #000-62, pp. 387-388: Ministers to prepare Directory for Worship, Book of Discipline, and Form of a Covenant, and submit them to a committee with authority to publish them Book of Discipline; Covenant renovation; Devolution; Outside communications; Publications; Requesting opinions; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #000-63, p. 388:#000-57 complainant must confess guilt and will be restored should he comply John Kell case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-118 #000-64, p. 390:#000-57 complainant recognized as a student of theology John Kell case; Restorations. Ministers: 1-118 #000-65, p. 390: Congregation must report on their support of a deceased minister’s heirs Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Paying ministers; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-165, 1-170 #000-66, pp. 390-391: All ministers who have preached opening sermons must prepare copies for printing Rules and organization. #000-67, p. 391: Declining to move RPTS to Walkill and publishing its constitution as soon as possible Publications; RPTS constitution; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-291 #000-68, p. 391: RPTS professor to oversee students’ education; expanding Superintendents; organizing RPTS; members to raise funds and books Agency membership; Directions to individuals; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-085, 1-174, 1-291 #000-69, p. 392: Committee instructed to send letters to the British presbyteries Devolution; Outside communications; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #000-70, p. 393: Former licentiate (#000-51) advised to give up on the ministry and find some other employment Directions to individuals; Parental responsibilities; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-277 #000-71, p. 393: Final dissolution in order to constitute a synod Abolishing presbyteries; Rules and organization. #001 — Synod of 1809 #001-01, p. 1: Constitution Abolishing presbyteries; Rules and organization; Second presbytery. #001-02, pp. 1-2: Northern, Middle, and Southern Committees changed to Northern, Middle, and Southern Presbyteries Abolishing standing committees; New presbyteries. #001-03, p. 2: Members to report to Synod of 1811 on the state of religion in their vicinity Directions to individuals; Signs of the Times. #001-04, p. 2: Members to inquire after non-oath methods of demonstrating fidelity to state authorities Naturalization. #001-05, p. 2: Clerk to buy a minutes book using Synod’s money Directions to individuals; Financial; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-013 #001-06, p. 2: Recognizing and approving all actions of the Presbytery Rules and organization; Second presbytery. #002 — Synod of 1811 #002-01, pp. 4-8: Middle Presbytery ordered to try a minister, who may not take a seat in Synod until after trial APCNA; Church discipline; David Graham case; Delegate qualifications; Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Restorations; RPCI; Rules and organization; Miller’s Run. Ministers: 1-089 #002-02, p. 9: Separating Presbyterial and RPTS funds, and appointing treasurers RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-170 #002-03, p. 10: Creating position of collector for RPTS funds, and clerk to notify new collectors Collections; Directions to individuals; New agencies; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-013 #002-04, p. 12: Declining to reconsider #002-01 Church discipline; David Graham case. Ministers: 1-089 #002-05, p. 13: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Home missions HR; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-211 #003 — Synod of 1812 #003-01, p. 17: Approving Middle Presbytery’s enforcement of #002-01; report to be printed (OCLC 32391771) Church discipline; David Graham case; Presbytery reports; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-089 #003-02, pp. 17-18: Appointing commissioners to petition the federal government for a non-oath method of demonstrating fidelity to state authorities Government communications; Naturalization; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-291 #003-03, p. 18: Refusing to accept RPTS professor’s resignation Resignations; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-291 #003-04, pp. 18-19: Middle Presbytery may enforce #002-01 with excommunication and exercise their own discretion as to other circumstances Church discipline; David Graham case; Devolution. Ministers: 1-089 #003-05, p. 19: Publishing the causes for fasting and thanksgiving, and the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-013, 1-089 #003-06, p. 19: Paying minister’s traveling fund Traveling Fund; New York 1. Ministers: 1-170 #003-07, p. 20: Reiterating #002-05 Home missions HR; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-211 #004 — Synod of 1814 #004-01, p. 23: RPTS Superintendents may examine four candidates with no college education, and admit them if qualified Higher-education standards; RPTS. Ministers: 1-040, 1-083, 1-215 #004-02, p. 26: Reiterating #003-03 Resignations; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-291 #004-03, p. 27: Amending RPTS constitution RPTS constitution. #005 — Synod of 1816 #005-01, pp. 30-31: Organizing Western Presbytery and specifying presbyterial boundaries New presbyteries. #005-02, p. 32: “Deficit Act”: congregations to pay their pastors fully, including for time spent on Presbytery or Synod service, and pastors of defaulting congregations may obtain outside employment Delinquency; Ministers in secular employment. #005-03, pp. 32-33: Assessing congregations $1.00 per male member annually for RPTS support, beginning in 1816 Collections; Licentiates; Reporting calendars; RPTS finances; Supply preaching. #005-04, p. 34: Appropriating money for paying RPTS professor Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-291 #005-05, p. 34: Publishing extracts of past minutes, and past opening sermons to be published before the opening of Synod 1817 Minutes of Synod; RPCI; RPCS; Rules and organization. #005-06, pp. 34-35: RPTS professor to compose a chart of all donors Directions to individuals; Donations; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-291 #006 — Synod of 1817 #006-01, p. 38: Declining petition to repeal #005-02, but suspending it until Synod of 1818 Ministers in secular employment; Coldenham. #006-02, pp. 40-41: Amending #005-03, RPTS fundraising requirement converted to a request Collections; RPTS finances. #006-03, p. 42:#005-02 repealed Ministers in secular employment. #006-04, pp. 42-43: Accepting RPTS professor’s resignation, professor to be paid money (#005-04), and suspending RPTS until Synod of 1818 Paying RPTS faculty; Resignations; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-291 #007 — Synod of 1818 #007-01, p. 50: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Home missions HR; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-290 #007-02, p. 51: Reiterating #005-05 on sermons Publications; Rules and organization. #007-03, p. 52: Ministers must not preach in other churches without a written request and complete control over the elements of worship Outside preaching. #007-04, p. 52:#006-04 suspension continued until Synod of 1819; church officers directed (#005-03, #006-02) to raise money Collections; RPTS suspension. #007-05, p. 53: Judicial case (#000-23), insufficient evidence for conviction, but due to defendant’s conduct and reputation, session ordered to suspend elder and publish this news Imposing discipline; Judicial cases; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053 #007-06, pp. 53-54: Appoint a missionary oversight committee, missionaries’ expenses to be reimbursed, voluntary contributions requested for their support, missionaries to be supervised by presbyteries Devolution; Home missions; Paying missionaries. #008 — Synod of 1819 #008-01, p. 57: Sessions may only appoint their own members as delegates Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization; Baltimore. #008-02, p. 58: New Milford societies (Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania?) transferred from Middle Presbytery to Northern Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Ballibay. #008-03, p. 60: Clerk to request RPTS-support arrears from Coldenham deacons Delinquency; Diaconate; Directions to individuals; RPTS finances; Coldenham. Ministers: 1-013 #008-04, p. 61: Western Presbytery should not have performed an ordination Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-215 #008-05, p. 62: Neither ministerial party in a dispute acted improperly; indefinitely postponing further action Judicial cases; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053, 1-211 #008-06, p. 63: Splitting Middle Presbytery into Philadelphia and Pittsburgh New presbyteries. #008-07, p. 63: Repealing #007-03 requirement for written request Outside preaching. #008-08, pp. 63-46: Adopting new Directory for Worship and Book of Discipline and preparing to publish it (OCLC 8013947); members must raise money for publication Book of Discipline; Directory for Worship; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-277, 1-291 #008-09, p. 64: Draft version of Form of Church Government to be sent down in overture and to be sent to RPCS and RPCI for comment Book of Church Government; Overtures; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-277, 1-291 #008-10, p. 64: Form of Process and related documents to be published with Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170, 1-277, 1-291 #008-11, p. 64: Members assigned Testimony portions must complete them by Synod of 1821 Directions to individuals; Testimony. #008-12, p. 64: Proposing a new SL&C to the RPCI and RPCS Covenant renovation; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-170, 1-277, 1-291 #008-13, p. 65:#007-04 suspension continued until Synod of 1821. Presbyteries must require seminary-admission standards of candidates; no licensure without two years’ study; no ordination without full examination; presbyteries must report to Synod on this topic Biblical languages; Candidate examinations; Higher-education standards; RPTS suspension. #008-14, p. 65: Members to raise money for RPTS RPTS finances. #008-15, p. 66: Returning invitations from Kaskaskia, and clerk to notify petitioners Directions to individuals; Bethel. Ministers: 1-013 #008-16, p. 66: Southern Presbytery (dissolved by inactivity) directed to re-assemble and examine ministerial candidates Candidate examinations; New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-176, 1-177 #008-17, p. 66: Judicial case of James Miller referred to Pittsburgh Presbytery Judicial cases; Xenia. #009 — Synod of 1821 #009-01, p. 68: Amending the rules to create six standing committees New standing committees; Rules and organization. #009-02, p. 70: Deacons to be ordained in any congregation as soon as needed; no connection with the state is prohibited if it does not involve compliance with immorality Diaconate; Political dissent; Bethel. #009-03, pp. 72-73: Declining to take a position on lining out the psalms, and modifying Directory for Worship in relation to banns of marriage Banns of marriage; Continuous singing; Directory for Worship; Coldenham. #009-04, pp. 74-75: All congregations to collect money before Synod to form a travel fund; money distributed to delegates in proportion to the distance travelled Collections; Traveling Fund. #009-05, p. 75: Sustaining session and Northern Presbytery decisions in a discipline case Judicial cases; Coldenham. #009-06, p. 75: Printing causes of fasting Publications; Signs of the Times. #009-07, p. 75: Broaden the Book of Discipline’s prohibition of Freemasonry to “all entangling associations with ungodly men” Book of Discipline; Secret societies. #009-08, pp. 75-76: Modifying Directory for Worship in relation to banns of marriage Banns of marriage; Directory for Worship; Coldenham. #009-09, p. 76: Presbyteries to cooperate in distributing supply preaching Devolution; Supply preaching. #009-10, p. 76: Petition for division of Pittsburgh Presbytery and/or visit by Presbytery; first half not granted and second half is Presbytery’s responsibility Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery visitation; Xenia. #009-11, p. 76: Southern Presbytery has been dissolved by one minister’s death; ordered that another minister visit South Carolina to participate in ordinations and conducting business Directions to individuals; New presbyteries; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053, 1-211 #009-12, p. 77: Ministers and candidates moving to a new presbytery may act without the presbytery’s permission for no more than six months Devolution; Individual relocation; Supply preaching. #009-13, p. 77: Declining petition to prohibit Freemasonry, as Freemasonry was already prohibited Secret societies. #009-14, p. 78: Remove prohibitions on jury service and oath-swearing before magistrates from Testimony and place them in Statute Book; begin preparation of a Digest of Deliverances of Synod Digest of deliverances; Jury question; Oath question; Testimony. #009-15, p. 78: Moderators of sessions must put all moved-and-seconded motions to a vote, regardless of propriety; improper motions to be appealed to Presbytery Rules and organization; Conococheague. #009-16, p. 79: Clerk authorized to use Synod’s money to buy a folio for minutes and hire a scribe Directions to individuals; Financial; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-013 #009-17, p. 79: Amending #009-11; appointing a committee to perform this responsibility New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-024, 1-130, 1-277, 1-291 #009-18, pp. 80-81: All members to work to resuscitate RPTS, presbyteries to seek good candidates, reiterating #008-14 Candidate examinations; Higher-education standards; RPTS suspension; Seeking candidates, RPTS. #010 — Synod of 1823 #010-01, p. 83: Admitting an elder delegate with a questioned certificate Delegate qualifications; Robert Lusk case; Conococheague. Ministers: 1-130 #010-02, p. 87: Moving congregations from Philadelphia Presbytery to Northern Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Ballibay, Paterson. #010-03, pp. 87-88: Lusk judicial case; Conococheague session to remove most references to the case from their minutes; Lusk’s petition to Synod for removal ignored as moot, the removal having been performed by Presbytery Dissolving pastorates; Robert Lusk case; Conococheague. Ministers: 1-130 #010-04, p. 90: Resuscitating RPTS and raising money; presbyteries allowed to retain 25% of monies for their own needs Financial; RPTS suspension. #010-05, p. 91: Chapter on adoption added to the Testimony Testimony. #010-06, pp. 92-94: Synod having previously legislated against occasional hearing, sessions should ensure attendance upon the ordinances of the Church Devolution; Occasional hearing; Society meetings; Bethel. #010-07, p. 94: Synod to become representative, each presbytery sending two elders and two ministers for every three ministerial members General and subordinate synods; Meeting schedule. Ministers: 1-170 #010-08, p. 95: Petition for direction regarding voting for candidates at an Illinois state convention to legalize slavery; petition referred to Western Presbytery Slavery and race; Voting; Bethel. #010-09, pp. 96-97: Resuscitate RPTS by forming support committees in each congregation, sending money through presbyteries to Synod; Synod must reorganize as soon as possible RPTS suspension; Rules and organization. #010-10, pp. 97-98: Appropriating late-arrived traveling fund contributions to publication costs Delinquency; Publications; Traveling Fund. #010-11, pp. 98-99: Print copies of the Testimony (OCLC 8013947) Publications; Testimony. #010-12, p. 99: Create a Contingent Fund for publication expenses, to be separated from RPTS fund and traveling fund Publications; RPTS finances; Traveling Fund. #010-13, p. 100: In enforcing prohibitions against slavery, sessions to consider local laws against emancipation Devolution; Slavery and race; South Carolina. #010-14, p. 100: Sessions and presbyteries to consider circumstances when deciding whether individuals’ jury service involve immorality Devolution; Jury question. #010-15, p. 101: Print draft copies of a Covenant, a pastoral letter on covenanting, and an address to the Christian world at large Covenant renovation; Outside communications; Pastoral letters; Publications. #010-16, p. 101: Expanding membership of RPTS superintendents Agency membership; RPTS. Ministers: 1-013, 1-030, 1-083 #010-17, p. 101: Presbytery treasurers (#010-09) to send monies to Synod by 1 August 1824 RPTS suspension; Rules and organization. #010-18, p. 102: Lusk judicial case; Philadelphia Presbytery to dismiss him to Western Presbytery Robert Lusk case; Walnut Ridge. Ministers: 1-130 #010-19, p. 102: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-013 #010-20, p. 102: Amending Terms of Communion, replacing reference to “Reformed Presbytery” with reference to Synod Second presbytery; Terms of Communion. #010-21, p. 102: Lusk judicial case; clerk to provide Lusk with all requested papers Directions to individuals; Robert Lusk case. Ministers: 1-013, 1-130 #010-22, p. 102: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-013, 1-085 #011 — Synod of 1825 #011-01, p. 105: Indefinitely postponing petition to define churches whose baptism is valid Baptism; Valid sacraments. #011-02, p. 107: Declining proposal to distribute Contingent Fund monies Minutes of Synod; Paying the clerk; Traveling Fund. #011-03, pp. 107-108: Appointing commissioners to PCUSA in preparation for fraternal relations Fraternal relations; Outside commissions; PCUSA. Ministers: 1-083, 1-130, 1-279 #011-04, p. 112:#010-14 does not change the prior law of the church in this area Directions to individuals; Jury question. Ministers: 1-013 #011-05, pp. 114-115: Lusk judicial case; Western Presbytery’s actions disapproved and Lusk summoned to trial Robert Lusk case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-130 #011-06, p. 115: Amending RPTS constitution RPTS constitution. #011-07, p. 117: Money raised for RPTS to be sent to treasurer; money now in the fund be paid to the professor Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-291 #011-08, p. 118: Lusk judicial case; money promised but not sent by his congregation to be deducted from his share in traveling fund Robert Lusk case; Traveling Fund; Walnut Ridge. Ministers: 1-130 #011-09, pp. 118-119: Lusk judicial case; Lusk suspended from membership and ministry; making arrangements for enforcement Directions to individuals; Imposing discipline; Robert Lusk case; Walnut Ridge. Ministers: 1-013, 1-130, 1-176, 1-290 #011-10, pp. 119-120: Collect money to pay printing expenses, and accept gifts from ministers; place Contingent Fund in the care of RPTS treasurer Collections; Paying the clerk; Publications. #011-11, p. 120: Lusk judicial case; all men accused by him are officially exonerated Robert Lusk case. Ministers: 1-130 #012 — Synod of 1827 #012-01, p. 132: Indefinitely postponing fraternal relations with PCUSA Fraternal relations; Outside commissions; PCUSA. Ministers: 1-030, 1-130 #012-02, pp. 132-135: APCNA having objected to their characterization in the Testimony, appoint commissioners to meet with APCNA commission APCNA; Outside commissions; Testimony. Ministers: 1-013, 1-040, 1-170, 1-174, 1-291 #012-03, p. 135: Notifying PCUSA of #012-01 Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; PCUSA. #012-04, pp. 135-138: Disapproving Pittsburgh Presbytery’s action regarding fraternal relations with PCUSA Fraternal relations; Licentiates; Paying ministers; PCUSA. #012-05, p. 138: Western and Southern Presbyteries boundary made Cumberland Mountain; society petition for reallocation out of Southern Presbytery granted Presbytery boundaries; Hephzibah. #012-06, p. 139: Reiterating #012-01 Fraternal relations; PCUSA; Roll call votes. #012-07, pp. 140-144: Requesting closer cooperation with RPCI and RPCS and a new covenant Church history; Church planting; Covenant renovation; Fraternal relations; Outside communications; RPCI; RPCS; Witness work. #012-08, p. 144: Declining to form subordinate synods but deciding to split large presbyteries General and subordinate synods; New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-013, 1-170 #012-09, p. 144: Appropriating late-arrived traveling fund contributions Delinquency; Traveling Fund; Baltimore. #012-10, p. 147: Suspending RPTS operations RPTS suspension. #013 — Synod of 1828 #013-01, p. 156: Disapproving licentiate who had joined a Masonic lodge; Presbytery to try the case Judicial cases; Licentiates; Secret societies. #013-02, pp. 156-158: More public covenanting is unnecessary because of the descending obligations of the first one; Synod should not be publishing books other than the church standards Covenant renovation; Publications; Greenfield. #013-03, p. 158: Thomas Donnelly judicial case; given his current situation, Donnelly cannot be expected to do more than preaching and attending church meetings Judicial cases; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-053 #013-04, p. 174: Ministers to raise money for publication of the Minutes of Synod; clerk to publish them as soon as possible, and ministers to subscribe for copies Collections; Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-013 #013-05, p. 175: Approving the American Colonization Society and recommending it to the Church ACS. Ministers: 1-177 #014 — Synod of 1830 #014-01, p. 179: Clerk to produce a list of delinquent subscribers for the published extracts of minutes Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-013 #014-02, p. 181: Approving the temperance cause and recommending it to the Church Directions to individuals; Temperance. Ministers: 1-013 #014-03, p. 181: Thomas Donnelly judicial case: Donnelly must submit to Western Presbytery until Southern Presbytery can be reorganized Directions to individuals; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-053 #014-04, p. 182: Publishing report of committee on government relations Overtures; Political dissent; Publications. Ministers: 1-013, 1-030, 1-170, 1-174, 1-277, 1-291 #014-05, pp. 183-184: RPTS having failed again, presbyteries must continue overseeing their candidates (#008-13) Candidate examinations; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-170, 1-291 #014-06, p. 184: Establish and regulate a church publication (future American Christian Expositor , OCLC 9007958) American Christian Expositor; Directions to individuals. Ministers: 1-170 #014-07, pp. 185-186: Pittsburgh Presbytery directed to oversee society in Knoxville, Tennessee Presbytery boundaries; Knoxville. #014-08, p. 187: Forming Ohio Presbytery out of Pittsburgh Presbytery and specifying its boundaries; Muskingum River to be eastern boundary New presbyteries. #014-09, p. 188: Northern Presbytery to oversee a society in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania (previously in Philadelphia Presbytery boundaries) Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 1-277 #015 — Synod of 1831 #015-01, p. 191: RPCI fraternal delegate William Henry made a full member (not merely consultative) of the court Delegate qualifications; Fraternal relations; RPCI. #015-02, p. 191: New standing committee, on Bills Business of Synod; New standing committees. #015-03, pp. 192-193: Specifying ratios for delegated representation in Synod; men approved by their presbytery to be seated, regardless of calculation errors Delegate qualifications; General and subordinate synods; Making exceptions. #015-04, p. 193: Bills Committee to comprise one member from each presbytery Agency membership; Business of Synod. #015-05, p. 195: Presbyterial assignment of pastor and congregation spanning Muskingum River (#014-09) Presbytery boundaries; New Concord. Ministers: 1-269 #015-06, pp. 195-196: Complaint from Mary McKinney alleging fraud by Alexander McLeod; paper deemed libellous Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-165, 1-170 #015-07, pp. 197-198: Actions of Alexander McLeod, visiting RPCI and RPCS, deemed official; thanks to the RPCI and RPCS for their collegiality Ex post facto; Fraternal relations; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-170 #015-08, pp. 198-199: Requesting from APCNA a brief statement of their views to be embodied in the next Testimony edition APCNA; Testimony. #015-09, p. 199: Clerk to notify #015-06 complainant of Synod’s decision Directions to individuals; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-013, 1-165 #015-10, pp. 199-200: Creating a mission board, to be organized as soon as possible; missionaries to be overseen by local presbyteries; fundraising to begin as soon as possible Collections; Devolution; Home missions; New agencies. #015-11, p. 200: Commending the Protestant (OCLC 7475143) for its anti-Catholic efforts Anti-Catholicism; Directions to individuals. Ministers: 1-013 #015-12, p. 200: Publishing the Book of Discipline and Directory for Worship (#008-08) as an overture in the American Christian Expositor American Christian Expositor; Book of Discipline; Directory for Worship; Overtures. #015-13, pp. 200-201: Disapproving individuals’ attempts to remove their pastor, disapproving Ohio Presbytery’s acquiescence, and overturning his removal Dissolving pastorates; Judicial cases; Cincinnati. Ministers: 1-161 #015-14, p. 201: Approving the work of the Auxiliary Sabbath Union Society and recommending it to the Church Sabbath-keeping organizations. #015-15, pp. 201-202: Committing to petition Congress in the future to establish oath-free naturalization Congressional petitions; Naturalization. #015-16, pp. 202-203: Printing copies of causes of fasting and thanksgiving Publications; Signs of the Times. #015-17, p. 203: Plan for dividing Northern Presbytery General and subordinate synods; New presbyteries. #015-18, p. 203: Recommending publishing of presbyterial reports in the American Christian Expositor American Christian Expositor; General and subordinate synods; Presbytery reports. #015-19, pp. 203-204: Deferring the publication of the argumentative portion of the Testimony Publications; Testimony. Ministers: 1-083, 1-176, 1-277 #015-20, pp. 204-205: Ministers responsible for fundraising to resuscitate RPTS and sessions responsible to provide Synod with fundraising estimates Collections; RPTS suspension. #015-21, p. 205: Permitting free discussions in the American Christian Expositor of disagreements on political dissent American Christian Expositor; Political dissent; Strict subscription. #015-22, p. 206: Excepting minister from following innovations in church government, including methods of ordination Directions to individuals; Eldership; Making exceptions; Roll call votes; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-170 #015-23, pp. 206-207: Declining petition to repeal #010-07 General and subordinate synods; Roll call votes. #015-24, pp. 207-208: Dividing Northern Presbytery into Southern, Western, and Northern Presbyteries (amending #015-17) New presbyteries. #015-25, p. 208: Three new presbyteries, plus Philadelphia, to form Eastern Subordinate Synod; all others to form Western Subordinate Synod General and subordinate synods. #015-26, p. 208: Paying traveling expenses for a fraternal delegate to the RPCI and RPCS Financial; Fraternal relations; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-013, 1-085 #015-27, p. 209: Approving the New York State Temperance Society Temperance organizations. #015-28, p. 209: All congregations to collect money for #015-26 Collections; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; RPCI; RPCS. #015-29, p. 209: All ministers to oversee congregational collections as soon as possible to support aged ministers Collections; Pensions. #016 — Synod of 1833 #016-01, p. 12: Traveling Fund money to be submitted to Finance Committee Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #016-02, p. 13: Publish the Book of Discipline as an overture in the Albany Quarterly (OCLC 17901491) Albany Quarterly; Book of Discipline; Overtures. #016-03, p. 24: Publish the Signs of the Times Committee’s report in the Albany Quarterly Albany Quarterly; Signs of the Times. #016-04, p. 24: Nothing at variance with Church doctrines was permitted by #015-20, which applied only to the American Christian Expositor American Christian Expositor; Construction; New Light church. #016-05, pp. 26-28: Annexing Philadelphia Presbytery to Southern Presbytery Abolishing presbyteries. Ministers: 1-085, 1-230, 1-279 #016-06, pp. 28-29: Disapproving Philadelphia Presbytery’s actions at First New York, and approving the actions of Eastern Subordinate Synod Judicial cases; New Light church; New York 1. Ministers: 1-043, 1-243, 1-269 #016-07, pp. 29-30: Continuing Argyle in Northern Presbytery and instructing all judicatories and members to reject New Light authority New Light church; Presbytery boundaries; West Hebron. Ministers: 1-030, 1-269 #016-08, pp. 30-32: Restating prohibitions on jury service, office-holding, and oaths of allegiance; denouncing the American Christian Expositor and Gilbert McMaster’s writings American Christian Expositor; Jury question; Oath question; Political office; Brush Creek. Ministers: 1-030, 1-174, 1-269 #016-09, pp. 32-33: Confirming a session’s sanctions against a member who had become a postmaster and reversing Pittsburgh Presbytery’s vacation of these sanctions Judicial cases; Oath question; Political office; Post office; Greenfield. Ministers: 1-030, 1-269 #016-10, p. 33: Nullifying all New Light actions New Light church; Cincinnati. Ministers: 1-030, 1-250, 1-269 #016-11, p. 34: Publishing a statement of differences from the New Light church, and the Minutes of Synod, as speedily as possible Minutes of Synod; New Light church. Ministers: 1-016, 1-185, 1-214, 1-243 #016-12, pp. 34-35: Forming a Board of Finance to raise funds for RPTS, and directing congregations to contribute; candidates must study under the direction of their presbyteries Collections; Higher-education standards; New agencies; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-216, 1-243 #017 — Synod of 1834 #017-01, p. 10: Ministers and presbyteries to comply more diligently with #015-28 Collections; Delinquency; Pensions. #017-02, pp. 11-12: Declining to prohibit occasional hearing, as the prohibition is unneeded Occasional hearing. #017-03, p. 12: Returning petition to withdraw approval of the American Colonization Society (#013-05) ACS. #017-04, pp. 12-13: Indefinitely postponing a memorial [no subject specified] No information; Greenfield. #017-05, pp. 13-14: Enacting detailed regulations on the training and qualification of ministerial candidates, and repealing all past regulations; this enactment to expire with the resuscitation of RPTS Biblical languages; Candidate examinations; Church history; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Making exceptions; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-109, 1-230 #017-06, pp. 22-23: Ohio Presbytery to try two ministers, who are suspended from office until they submit Directions to individuals; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-036, 1-176 #017-07, p. 23: Testimony to be published as soon as possible, with an extended historical section, and congregations to conduct collections for this purpose Church history; Collections; Publications; Testimony. Ministers: 1-238, 1-277 #017-08, pp. 23-24: Lusk judicial case; his repentance accepted, his past ignoring of the suspension rebuked, his suspension lifted, and him forbidden to act until further handled by Ohio Presbytery Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Restorations. Ministers: 1-130 #017-09, pp. 26-27: Terms of Communion to be printed with Testimony (and missing text restored), and congregations to conduct collections for this purpose Collections; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 1-030, 1-216 #017-10, p. 27:#016-08 restatement to be published with the minutes (OCLC 191248251); delegates to pledge themselves to buy copies of minutes in order to facilitate more efficient publication Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-085, 1-219 #017-11, p. 28: Repealing #010-19 Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-230 #018 — Synod of 1836 #018-01, pp. 4-5: Permitting withdrawal of a slavery-related petition from Vermont Slavery and race; Withdrawal of papers. Ministers: 1-230, 1-268, 1-269 #018-02, p. 5: Reiterating collections for aged ministers (#017-01) Collections; Delinquency; Pensions. #018-03, p. 15: Publishing in overture an argument on Arminianism (OCLC 765814865) Overtures; Publications; Soteriology. Ministers: 1-130, 1-214 #018-04, p. 15: Recommending that anyone republish the Guide to Private Social Worship (OCLC 10586140) Family worship; Publications; Society meetings. #018-05, pp. 15-18: Disapproving the American Colonization Society and the colonization concept (#017-03); approving abolitionism ACS; Brush Creek. Ministers: 1-185, 1-238, 1-243 #018-06, p. 18:#018-03 to be published with this year’s minutes Minutes of Synod; Soteriology. #018-07, p. 19: Adopting new Book of Discipline Book of Discipline. Ministers: 1-109, 1-185 #018-08, p. 19: Publishing new Book of Government [published with #018-03] Book of Church Government; Publications. Ministers: 1-130, 1-216 #018-09, pp. 19-20: Moving the location of RPTS to New Alexandria; the professor shall not simultaneously be required to serve as a pastor; #017-05 study topics to remain in force Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty as pastors; RPTS location; New Alexandria. #018-10, pp. 20-21: Condolence letter to Martha Cannon Sympathy. Ministers: 1-024, 1-185 #018-11, p. 21: New Book of Discipline to be published with the minutes [published with #018-03 and #018-08] Book of Discipline; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-109, 1-185 #018-12, p. 23: Recommending against business in alcohol sales Alcohol restrictions on all members. Ministers: 1-064, 1-266 #018-13, p. 23: Payments for copies of the 1833 minutes; presbyteries to submit statistics Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Statistics. Ministers: 1-219 #018-14, p. 23: Ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. #018-15, p. 23: Authorizing Philip Mowry to publish the Guide to private social worship (#018-04) and diverting profits to the RPTS coffers Directions to individuals; Publications; Society meetings. #019 — Synod of 1838 #019-01, p. 290: Clerk shall copy all minutes and reports into a book, as well as preserving the original documents Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-276 #019-02, p. 293: Thanking RPCI fraternal delegate and requesting a written copy of his address Canada; RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. Ministers: 1-234 #019-03, pp. 293-294: Francis Gailey and three associates suspended from membership, Gailey’s license cancelled, and Southern Presbytery to notify its congregations Imposing discipline; Licentiates. #019-04, p. 295: Appeals to be judged by all members not delegated by courts from which appeals are taken General and subordinate synods; Trial procedure. #019-05, p. 295: Affirming Western Subordinate Synod’s decision in the case of Nathan Johnston, and dismissing Johnston’s appeal. [No explanation given of the matter in question] Judicial cases; No information; Greenfield. #019-06, p. 295: Disapproving of Nathan Johnston’s conduct Judicial cases; No information; Greenfield. #019-07, p. 295: Urging all congregations to aid Albany in constructing a church building Church erection; Congregational aid; Albany. #019-08, pp. 295-296: Approving, then un-approving and postponing, a deacon-related overture on church government Book of Church Government; Deacon controversy; Overtures; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-068 #019-09, p. 298: Dismissing appeal against Southern Presbytery for lack of a party to appeal it Judicial cases; No information. #019-10, p. 299: Accepting Southern Presbytery’s proposed amendments to #016-08 on juries and sending amended act down in overture Jury question; Overtures. #019-11, p. 300: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #019-12, p. 300: Printing in the minutes a list of congregations not contributing to the traveling fund, and directing congregations to contribute more faithfully Collections; Delinquency; Traveling Fund. #019-13, p. 300: Clerk to reprint all previously published minutes, binding them in a single book, and also to send copies to RPCI and RPCS Minutes of Synod; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-276 #019-14, p. 300: Repealing #018-09; RPTS to be split into eastern and western seminaries, superintendents to oversee both, and Synod to appoint both professors RPTS faculty; RPTS location; New Alexandria. Ministers: 1-266, 1-279 #019-15, p. 301: Acknowledging debt to RPTS professor; congregations to collect for him Collections; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-277 #019-16, pp. 301-302: Superintendents for each half of RPTS to arrange together the curriculum, to oversee the combined finances, to establish an endowment, and to encourage fundraising Donations; Higher-education standards; RPTS finances. #019-17, pp. 302-303:#018-05 merely transferred approval from American Colonization Society to abolitionism, and reiterating opposition to the United States Constitution and to anti-slavery societies approving the Constitution; Directory for Worship’s instructions for banns of marriage are the only law of the church on this subject ACS; Banns of marriage; Construction; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-216, 1-238 #019-18, p. 303: Uniformity in worship being necessary, and continuous singing perhaps preventing some from singing, all congregations must obey Directory for Worship’s instructions on lining out Continuous singing; Directory for Worship. Ministers: 1-216, 1-238 #019-19, p. 308: Responding to dissent on #019-08: dissent is self-contradictory, deacons are biblical (unlike trustees or committees), deacons are used by other reformed churches and were used in the Church of Scotland, and we already have them in some churches Book of Church Government; Deacon controversy; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-016, 1-043, 1-068, 1-185, 1-216, 1-238, 1-243, 1-266, 1-268, 1-277 #020 — Synod of 1840 #020-01, p. 163: Overturning moderator’s ruling that a complaint was out of order because it called itself a petition Rules and organization; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-219 #020-02, p. 164: Returning a paper [no context] and sending a pastoral letter to the memorialists No information; Pastoral letters; Greenfield. #020-03, p. 165: Rejecting as redundant a paper recognizing Westminster’s enactment on deacons as the law of the church Deacon controversy. Ministers: 1-216, 1-277 #020-04, pp. 169-170: Returning petitions of Mary King and David Peoples [no context] Judicial cases; No information; New York 2. #020-05, p. 170: Members of Philadelphia congregation requesting separation from their congregation; petition returned Deacon controversy; Synod-organized congregations; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. #020-06, p. 170: James Hooks case: Hooks to submit to session; session to provide him extracts of their minutes and to transfer him to First New York Directions to individuals; James Hooks case; New York 1, New York 2. #020-07, pp. 172-173: Declining an invitation to join a Convention of Reformed Churches: its object is good, but participation would be unfaithful Ecumenical organizations; Outside communications. #020-08, p. 173: Consultative members to participate in Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. #020-09, pp. 173-174: Defeating a resolution recognizing the deacon’s authority as embracing all the temporalities of the Church [dissent, page 176] Deacon controversy; Roll call votes; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-043 #020-10, pp. 174-175: Clerk to write to congregations not contributing to Traveling Fund and notify them of their responsibility Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-109 #020-11, p. 175: Declining a judicial appeal from D. Kenan against Eastern Subordinate Synod [Discipline Committee report on #020-20 connects this with #019-18] Continuous singing; Judicial cases. #020-12, p. 176: Petition to resume discussion of overture on church government (#019-08); petition not granted [dissent, page 177] Deacon controversy; Overtures; Real property; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-277 #020-13, p. 180: Abolishing subordinate synods and the representative character of General Synod General and subordinate synods. #020-14, pp. 180-181: Overturning Southern Presbytery’s decision in a dispute between D.A. Grier and William Brown, and applying this decision to three other related cases Judicial cases; No information. #020-15, p. 181: Granting the #020-05 petition and appointing a commission to organize them separately Deacon controversy; New commissions; Synod-organized congregations; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-043, 1-238 #020-16, p. 181: Declining a judicial appeal from James McKinney against Southern Presbytery Judicial cases; No information. #020-17, pp. 181-182: Presbytery visitation teams to visit each congregation annually if possible; specifying procedures Banns of marriage; Membership transfer; Presbytery visitation; Psalm explanations; Society meetings; Strict subscription. #020-18, p. 182: Responding to dissent on #020-12: some reasons are misrepresentations or factually wrong, and real property is not by divine right under the deacons’ authority Deacon controversy; Real property; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-185, 1-277 #020-19, p. 182: Appointing an agent to seek donations in Europe for RPTS Canvassing; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-011 #020-20, pp. 182-183: Petition to overturn #019-18 and permit continuous singing; petition not granted Continuous singing; Written dissent; Topsham. Ministers: 1-185 #020-21, p. 183: Disapproving of Western Presbytery’s lack of communication with Synod Absences. #020-22, pp. 189-190: Individuals petitioning for a Synod or presbytery commission must pay the commission’s expenses Financial; New commissions. #020-23, p. 190: Repealing #019-14; RPTS reunited (keeping both professors) and to be located in Allegheny; five-month sessions to begin in November Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty; RPTS location. #020-24, p. 190: Ministers, elders, and licentiates are responsible for RPTS fundraising Collections; Licentiates; RPTS finances. #020-25, pp. 190-191: Ascertaining compensation for RPTS professor and dissolving his pastorate Dissolving pastorates; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS faculty as pastors; Coldenham. Ministers: 1-277 #020-26, p. 191: Clerk to collect and have bound all minutes of Synod (#019-13) Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-109 #021 — Synod of 1841 #021-01, p. 295: Whenever Synod rules on a protest or appeal from a presbytery, a committee shall prepare a summary of the case Construction; Judicial cases; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-216, 1-276 #021-02, p. 307: Returning one of several papers related to the organization of Second Philadelphia Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. #021-03, p. 307: Declining to accept a member of one congregation as the agent of members of another, and returning a related protest against Southern Presbytery Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Rules and organization; Trial procedure; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. #021-04, p. 308: James Hooks case: overturning Southern Presbytery decision and reiterating #020-06 Directions to individuals; James Hooks case; New York 1, New York 2. #021-05, p. 308: Reasons for #021-03 Construction; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-219 #021-06, p. 311: Reasons for #021-02 Construction; Deacon controversy; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-068, 1-246 #021-07, pp. 311-315: Approving commission’s actions as amended in regard to consistory and deacons, including that of overturning session’s sanctions against members of a poor-relief group Deacon controversy; Internal organizations; Judicial cases; Poor relief; Restorations; Reviewing commissions; Written dissent; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-043, 1-238 #021-08, p. 316: Committee to publish minutes of Synod (#020-26) Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-155, 1-276 #021-09, p. 316: Postponing recent overtures, aside from Book of Discipline and Forms of Process Book of Discipline; Overtures. Ministers: 1-219, 1-238 #021-10, pp. 318-319: Believers are not in danger of hell, and fear of hellfire is not necessarily a grace of the Holy Spirit Soteriology. #021-11, p. 319: Reasons for #021-07 Construction; Reviewing commissions; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-109, 1-219 #021-12, pp. 319-320: Adopting the new Book of Discipline, effective 1 April 1842, and publishing with it as an annex the Forms of Process Book of Discipline; Forms. Ministers: 1-219, 1-277 #021-13, pp. 320-321: Creating a scheme for funding missions, presbyteries to oversee local foreign missions, and begin preparing candidates for a foreign mission Devolution; Financial; Foreign missions HR; Home missions. Ministers: 1-109, 1-266 #021-14, pp. 322-323: Members should be wary of joining secular voluntary associations Descending obligations; Psalmody; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-068, 1-197, 1-276, 1-277 #021-15, pp. 323-324: Members prohibited from engaging in the alcohol business, and sessions directed to discipline violators Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-155, 1-276 #021-16, p. 325: Ascertaining RPTS professor’s salary Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-016, 1-238, 1-276 #021-17, pp. 325-326: Approving RPTS inspection, continuing professors’ temporary portfolios, and preparing a permanent curriculum and set of portfolios Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-219 #021-18, pp. 326-327: Preparing to expand RPTS library and to create a preparatory school in Allegheny Geneva; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-185, 1-219 #021-19, p. 328: Organize Second Philadelphia Deacon controversy; Directions to individuals; Synod-organized congregations; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-109, 1-155, 1-161 #021-20, p. 328: Regulations for administering the travel fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-068, 1-277 #021-21, p. 328: Publish all the church standards together Church constitution; Financial. Ministers: 1-219 #021-22, pp. 328-329: Amend first Term of Communion Terms of Communion. #021-23, p. 330: Sustaining appeal of John Holliday against Illinois Presbytery on a tithing-related issue Judicial cases; Tithing. #021-24, p. 331: Reasons for #021-23 Construction; Tithing. #021-25, p. 331: Repealing #020-22 New commissions; Traveling Fund. #022 — Synod of 1843 #022-01, p. 230: Disapproving congregations and presbyteries that have ignored the subject of missions, and reiterating #021-13 Devolution; Financial; Foreign missions HR; Home missions; Bethel, Brush Creek, Manchester, Monongahela, Old Bethel, Princeton, Rose Point. #022-02, p. 231: A foreign mission shall be started as soon as possible Foreign missions. #022-03, p. 235: Presbyteries to submit their minutes to Synod for review Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. #022-04, p. 245: Protest and appeal of M. Mulholland against Illinois Presbytery: appellant being absent and his argument being disorderly, appeal is dismissed with prejudice Judicial cases; No information. #022-05, p. 246: Foreign mission to be started at St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, and funded in line with #021-13; exploration to commence by end of 1844 Caribbean; Financial; Foreign missions. Ministers: 1-105, 1-238 #022-06, pp. 254-255: Reasons for #022-04 Construction; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-105, 1-245 #022-07, pp. 255-256: Renaming Southern and Western Presbyteries; adjusting boundary between Lakes and Pittsburgh; presbyteries requesting a college and a stronger RPTS to submit plans for implementation; all presbyteries to undertake visitation (#020-17); congregations to submit statistics to presbyteries Geneva; Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery visitation; Renaming; RPTS; Statistics; Muskingum and Tomica. Ministers: 1-185, 1-268, 1-276 #022-08, p. 257: Sending down in overture a renewal of the Covenants, publishing it in the Reformed Presbyterian (OCLC 4599165), and sending copies to the RPCS and RPCI Covenant renovation; Overtures, new; RP&C; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-030, 1-238, 1-276 #022-09, pp. 261-262, 268-269: James Hooks case: dismissing anti-Hooks complaint against Southern Presbytery, refusing (for cause) to review the case, and ordering Second minutes to be sent to First session [dissent, page 264] James Hooks case; Written dissent; New York 1, New York 2. Ministers: 1-016, 1-219, 1-245 #022-10, pp. 262-263, 269-270: Synod’s direct organization of Second Philadelphia to be deemed extraordinary, not a precedent Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Synod-organized congregations; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-016, 1-161, 1-219 #022-11, pp. 262-263, 270: Acquitting C.B. McKee of libelled charges, requiring him to disavow deacon-related sentiments contrary to the Testimony, and admonishing him for his The Anti-Deacon (OCLC 719445628) Deacon controversy; Imposing discipline; Philadelphia 1, Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-016, 1-161, 1-219, 1-276 #022-12, p. 267: Declining petition from members protesting their session’s refusal to handle a subject; only a decision, not a non-decision, can be appealed Deacon controversy; Rules and organization; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-016, 1-161 #022-13, pp. 267-268: Declining petition to rescind #020-20 and permit continuous singing Continuous singing; Topsham. Ministers: 1-185 #022-14, p. 268: Overturning session’s sanctions against two members for non-payment of subscribed funds, effective upon payment of subscriptions Judicial cases; Tithing; Rochester [New York]. #022-15, pp. 276-278: Assessing congregations for RPTS support, with procedural regulations; ascertaining professors’ salaries Collections; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-185 #022-16, p. 278: Cancelling plans to buy land for erecting an RPTS building Real property; RPTS. #023 — Synod of 1845 #023-01, p. 88: Church law recognizes only the deacon, not the trustee, and consistories may be held for consultation and advice, but may not exercise any power Book of Church Government; Deacon controversy. Ministers: 1-219 #023-02, pp. 91-92: Adopting a draft circular on scriptural education (OCLC 12137697), which is to be published in the Reformed Presbyterian [appears in 9.7, 145-157] Anti-Catholicism; Higher-education standards; Philosophy of education; RP&C. Ministers: 1-219 #023-03, p. 93: Appointing a commission to prepare and publish a new covenant; congregations to collect for the commission’s expenses Collections; Covenant renovation; New commissions. Ministers: 1-016, 1-030, 1-109, 1-219, 1-267 #023-04, p. 94: Overturning decision of Illinois Presbytery and sanctioning a member for going to secular courts against another member Debt; Judicial cases; Lawsuits among members; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-043, 1-214, 1-230, 1-267 #023-05, p. 94: Creating a form for reviewing presbytery minutes Forms; Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 1-219 #023-06, pp. 94-95: Creating a Board of Domestic Missions, whose revenues shall be divided among the presbyteries Collections; Home missions; New agencies. Ministers: 1-219 #023-07, p. 98: Sessions may not permit members of other congregations to take the sacraments without evidence of their good standing in their home congregations Close communion. Ministers: 1-219, 1-230 #023-08, p. 98: PCUSA licentiate’s certificate was received regularly, so he should be handled like other licentiates Licentiates; PCUSA. Ministers: 1-105, 1-195, 1-230 #023-09, p. 102: Dismissing complaint of John Robinson against an unspecified presbytery, as he had exceeded an unwritten statute of limitations for appeal Judicial cases; No information; Statute of limitations. #023-10, p. 103: Moving the location of RPTS RPTS location; Allegheny, Cincinnati. #023-11, p. 103: Paying Synod’s debts Debt; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-277 #023-12, pp. 103-104: Denying the legitimacy of Catholic sacraments Anti-Catholicism; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 1-245 #023-13, pp. 103-104: College diplomas not necessary for licensure or ordination, but presbyteries must examine candidates’ educational qualifications; adjusting statistical blanks Candidate examinations; Higher-education standards; RPTS; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-245 #023-14, p. 105: Fundraising for RPTS (#022-15) to be sent quickly to treasurer Collections; RPTS finances. #023-15, p. 105: Ascertaining RPTS professor’s salary Paying RPTS faculty. #023-16, p. 105: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #024 — Synod of 1847 #024-01, p. 100: Returning petition of Thomas Patterson and others on usury [dissent, page 105] Usury; Written dissent. #024-02, p. 105: Reasons for #024-01 Construction. Ministers: 1-216, 1-268 #024-03, p. 107: Adopting report regarding adult baptized members [footnote observes that the report is printed in the appendix, but no such report appears] Church discipline; Church membership; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-142, 1-245 #024-04, pp. 111-113: Rather than St. Thomas (#022-05), foreign mission to be located at Port-au-Prince in Haiti; two ministers to be sent, Psalms and Catechisms to be translated into French, and practical arrangements to be completed, as soon as possible Foreign missions HR; Haiti mission; Psalter editions; Real property. Ministers: 1-109, 1-216, 1-245 #024-05, p. 114: Dismissing appeal of R. Tease [no context provided] Judicial cases; No information. #024-06, p. 114: Bequest to be given to session on behalf of the congregation Bequests; Jonathan’s Creek. #024-07, pp. 114-115: Creating the form of bequest [earliest version of document appearing in Form 32, page H-24 of RPCNA Constitution] Bequests; Forms. #024-08, p. 115: Handling specific bequests Bequests; New York 2, Newburgh 1, Ryegate. Ministers: 1-011, 1-216, 1-245 #024-09, p. 117: Repealing #019-18 and permitting continuous singing [dissent, page 120] Continuous singing; Written dissent; Topsham. #024-10, p. 117: Sustaining complaint of Nathaniel Allen against Lakes Presbytery for summarily withdrawing his license, but withdrawing that license for cause [W.M. Glasgow page 432] Judicial cases; Licentiates. #024-11, pp. 117-119: Pledging to form a literary institution as soon as possible, directing presbyteries to submit plans for forming it, and reminding parents of the importance of a scriptural education Geneva; Parental responsibilities; Philosophy of education. Ministers: 1-016, 1-276 #024-12, pp. 117-119: Hebrew study should be completed in college, and not at RPTS, but this not being practical, students should begin Hebrew as early as possible Biblical languages; Higher-education standards; RPTS. Ministers: 1-016, 1-276 #024-13, p. 123: Responding to dissent on #024-09: requiring lining out is an innovation and distracts the church, Topsham has not been rebelling against Synod, and protestor makes irrelevant arguments Congregationalism; Continuous singing; Directory for Worship; Responses to dissent; Topsham. Ministers: 1-230, 1-245, 1-277 #024-14, p. 132: Accepting draft queries for presbyterial visitation and sending them to presbyteries for opinions Overtures; Presbytery visitation. #024-15, pp. 133-134: Denouncing as immoral the legal incorporation of congregations under New York law (1822 N.Y. Laws 187) and requiring congregations to disincorporate; and interpreting #023-01 regarding trustees, deacons, and consistories Deacon controversy; Incorporation; Judicial cases; Real property; Written dissent; New York 2. Ministers: 1-109, 1-195 #024-16, p. 136: Responding to dissent on #024-15: deacons are in accord with Church of Scotland practice, and with RPCNA law Deacon controversy; Real property; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-228 #024-17, pp. 138-139: Pittsburgh Presbytery directed to dissolve RPTS professor’s pastorate Dissolving pastorates; RPTS faculty as pastors; New Alexandria. Ministers: 1-185 #024-18, p. 139: Parties in a Pittsburgh Presbytery judicial case required to submit to arbitration Arbitration; Judicial cases. #024-19, p. 139: Responding to dissent on #024-15: consistories are unbiblical, not in accord with Church of Scotland practice, and dangerous Deacon controversy; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-109, 1-277 #024-20, p. 142: Congregations to contribute toward paying RPTS professors’ salaries (including back pay), and accepting donation of money and books for RPTS library Collections; Debt; Donations; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-219, 1-245 #024-21, p. 142: Ministers and licentiates to advocate for missions, and FMB to carry out #024-04 Foreign missions HR; Haiti mission; Licentiates; Psalter editions; Real property. Ministers: 1-109 #024-22, pp. 142-144: William Temple judicial case: Temple’s complaint against Illinois Presbytery returned, due to irregularities in the complaint Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-051, 1-109, 1-216 #024-23, pp. 142-144: Matthew Holiday judicial case: libel against Holiday not sustained, as it would amount to unjust enrichment (plaintiff exacted unscriptural usury) and would involve alienation of church property to a private individual, and alleged facts are not proven Judicial cases; Usury. Ministers: 1-051, 1-109, 1-216 #024-24, pp. 142-144: Petition from members for Synod to demand a deacon election, based on #023-01; petition not granted, as deacons are not mandatory, and petitioners reminded to maintain peace Construction; Deacon controversy; Devolution; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-051, 1-109, 1-216 #024-25, pp. 142-144: Prohibiting dancing [based on a misquotation of WLC 139] and promiscuous plays, and condemning parents permitting children to leave the house after family evening worship Dancing; Family worship; Theaters; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-051, 1-109, 1-195, 1-216 #024-26, pp. 142-144: Membership certificates from RPCS and Eastern Synod RPCI to be treated like all other membership certificates Membership transfer; New Light church; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-051, 1-109, 1-216, 1-276 #024-27, p. 144: Pittsburgh Presbytery directed to dissolve missionary’s pastorate Dissolving pastorates; Haiti mission. Ministers: 1-195 #024-28, p. 144: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #025 — Synod of 1849 #025-01, p. 131: Petition to remove R.J. Dodds from Synod’s roll, as he had never been called by a congregation nor installed in a congregation; petition not granted Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-052, 1-245 #025-02, pp. 131-132: Plan for trying a missionary for adopting and teaching a seventh-day sabbath Judicial cases; Sabbath-keeping; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-195, 1-219, 1-279 #025-03, p. 142: A set of papers is out of order; refusing to pass judgement on them Rules and organization; Miller’s Run, Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-185, 1-238, 1-245, 1-276, 1-277 #025-04, p. 143: Sustaining the moderator’s ruling prohibiting missionary from defending himself Judicial cases; Sabbath-keeping; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-030, 1-195 #025-05, p. 143: Revoking missionary’s commission and suspending his office and membership Abolishing agencies; Foreign missions HR; Haiti mission; Imposing discipline; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-195 #025-06, p. 145: Sustaining a privately prosecuted libel Private prosecutions; Real property. Ministers: 1-043, 1-277 #025-07, p. 146: Given the lack of presbyterial comment on #024-14, postponing decision until next meeting of Synod [not addressed at that meeting] Overtures; Presbytery visitation. #025-08, p. 148: Dismissing case arising from #025-06 and accepting explanation that no dissent from church doctrine was intended, although warning against its repetition Judicial cases; Real property. Ministers: 1-043, 1-230 #025-09, p. 154: Accepting a donation Donations; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-011 #025-10, p. 155: Declining to amend the rules on permitting exceptions Making exceptions; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-230 #025-11, p. 156: Permitting the withdrawal of a privately prosecuted libel for claiming in print that the church’s standards are weak Private prosecutions; RP&C; Westminster standards; Withdrawal of papers. Ministers: 1-095, 1-109, 1-276 #025-12, p. 156: Rejecting a privately prosecuted libel (#025-11) [dissent, page 164] Private prosecutions; Roll call votes; RP&C; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-095, 1-109, 1-276 #025-13, p. 157: Disapproving all publications that teach that the church’s standards are weak, although disclaiming any such intimation about the subject of #025-11 Judicial cases; Publications; Westminster standards. #025-14, pp. 157-158: Adopting financial regulations proposed by Finance Committee Bequests; RPTS finances; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-019, 1-182 #025-15, p. 158: Publishing presbytery statistics in the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod; Statistics. #025-16, pp. 160-161: Rejecting with prejudice a memorial Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Rules and organization; New York 1. Ministers: 1-238 #025-17, pp. 162-163: Declining an appeal of a decision by Lakes Presbytery not to organize an anti-deacon congregation Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Splits in congregations; Miami. Ministers: 1-020, 1-109, 1-155, 1-277, 1-287 #025-18, p. 163: Publishing the minutes of Synod and the Testimony Minutes of Synod; Testimony. #025-19, pp. 163-164: Moving RPTS from Cincinnati to Northwood; reducing professor’s salary due to lower cost of living and applying the savings to paying the previous professor Debt; Geneva; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-185, 1-277 #025-20, p. 165: Responding to dissent on #025-12: libel was so loosely and irregularly drawn that it could not be handled; no judgement was made upon the actions alleged Responses to dissent; RP&C; Trial procedure. #025-21, p. 172: Reimbursing former missionary-elect for mission-related expenses Financial; Foreign missions. Ministers: 1-052 #026 — Synod of 1851 #026-01, p. 135: Returning a paper, as it was not addressed to Synod No information. #026-02, p. 137: Congregations with only one elder may not be represented in Presbytery or Synod Delegate qualifications; Provisional sessions; Cincinnati. #026-03, p. 137: Returning a protest on account of informality Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-277 #026-04, p. 146: Fundraising for RPTS to be sent to the Finance Committee RPTS finances. #026-05, p. 146: Directing presbyteries to include names of newly organized congregations in their reports Church planting; Presbytery reports; Rules and organization. #026-06, p. 147: Overturning decision of Lakes Presbytery in the case of David Boyd and of elders and deacons of Miami congregation Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Roll call votes; Synod-organized congregations. #026-07, p. 149: Protest against Illinois Presbytery for acquitting an alleged slaveholder; dismissing and warning protesters Judicial cases; Slavery and race; Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064 #026-08, p. 149: Protest against Illinois Presbytery for refusing to prosecute a libel; sustaining Presbytery’s action Judicial cases; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064, 1-267 #026-09, pp. 149-150: Protest against Illinois Presbytery for refusing to organize a new congregation; confirming Presbytery’s action and directing Session to issue certificates upon request Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Membership transfer; Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064 #026-10, p. 150: Protest against Illinois Presbytery for permitting Old Bethel to raise pastor’s salary and permit him to serve St. Louis; sustaining Presbytery’s action Hill Prairie case; Old Bethel, St. Louis. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064, 1-267 #026-11, pp. 150-152: Protest against Pittsburgh Presbytery; sustaining protest and overturning Session’s decision Judicial cases; No information; Roll call votes; Monongahela. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064 #026-12, pp. 149-151: Protest against Lakes Presbytery for sustaining Session’s libel in a sustained dispute (e.g. #026-06); dismissing libel Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Miami. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064 #026-13, p. 151: Protest against Allegheny session in a commercial dispute between members; sustaining Session’s decision Arbitration; Judicial cases; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-030, 1-064 #026-14, p. 152: Appointing a special judicial commission to organize a new congregation and resolve persistent disputes and judicial cases (#025-17, #026-06, #026-12) Church membership; Deacon controversy; New commissions; Synod-organized congregations; Miami. Ministers: 1-129, 1-268 #026-15, pp. 152-153: Suspending RPTS, making housekeeping arrangements, and directing congregations to collect money to pay outstanding debts Collections; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-075, 1-155, 1-277 #026-16, p. 156: Making arrangements for a donation to RPTS library, and all RPTS funds to be handled by the chairman of a special committee Donations; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-245 #026-17, pp. 160-161: Establishing and regulating a fund for domestic missions; presbyteries to continue designating mission stations; distributing supplies; missionaries to be overseen by local presbyteries Church planting; Devolution; Paying missionaries; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-030, 1-267, 1-276 #026-18, pp. 162-164: All ministers are of equal standing and may sit in church assemblies, regardless of whether or not they are settled (#025-01) Rules and organization; Sine titulo; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-105, 1-292 #026-19, pp. 164-165: Condemning the Fugitive Slave Act (9 Stat. 462), its constitutional underpinnings, and its supporters within and without the church Acts of Congress; Political dissent; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-267, 1-278, 1-287 #026-20, p. 165: Affirming New York Presbytery’s decision and dismissing session’s complaint Judicial cases; No information; Philadelphia 1. Ministers: 1-185, 1-214 #026-21, p. 165: Permitting the Rev. William Willson of Cincinnati to withdraw papers Outside communications; Withdrawal of papers. #026-22, p. 166: Presbytery statistics to be published with the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod; Statistics. Ministers: 1-267 #026-23, p. 166: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #027 — Synod of 1853 #027-01, p. 131: Seating elders with informal certificates Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization. #027-02, pp. 131-132: Giving Synod’s thanks for the visit of a Waldensian visitor and expressing sympathy and commendation for his church Outside communications; Thanking visiting speakers; Waldensians. Ministers: 1-030 #027-03, p. 150: Disapproving the actions of the #026-14 commission in receiving members without certificates or under discipline [dissent, page 178] Deacon controversy; Membership transfer; Reviewing commissions; Roll call votes; Synod-organized congregations; Written dissent; Miami. Ministers: 1-030, 1-129, 1-268 #027-04, p. 150: Directing Lakes Presbytery to recognize Second Miami congregation Deacon controversy; Synod-organized congregations; Miami. #027-05, pp. 151-152: Anyone holding books belonging to the RPTS library must return them to the Seminary committee Directions to individuals; RPTS library. #027-06, p. 153: Permitting ministers to withdraw complaints against New York Presbytery for manner of organizing Third New York congregation Deacon controversy; Splits in congregations; Withdrawal of papers; New York 2. Ministers: 1-245, 1-276 #027-07, p. 153: William Ardry petition to Synod of 1849 (page 133): jury service is prohibited by the law of the church, and Ardry must submit to his session Judicial cases; Jury question. Ministers: 1-219, 1-279 #027-08, p. 154: Dismissing charge from Synod of 1849, permitting withdrawal of a complaint, and approving committee report condemning incorporation under 1822 N.Y. Laws 187 (#024-15) and resulting form of congregational government Congregationalism; Deacon controversy; Incorporation; Judicial cases; Real property; Withdrawal of papers; New York 2. Ministers: 1-219, 1-245, 1-279 #027-09, p. 170: Indefinitely tabling a proposal on the banns of marriage Banns of marriage. #027-10, p. 170: Approving an address by Dr. Fairchild of the American and Foreign Christian Union Ecumenical organizations; Thanking visiting speakers. #027-11, p. 170: Rejoicing in rising anti-Catholicism among Protestants Anti-Catholicism; Ecumenical organizations. #027-12, p. 170: Uniting with the AFCU would wrongly involve dispensing with certain biblical principles, but nevertheless AFCU is worthy of approbation in spreading the gospel Ecumenical organizations. #027-13, p. 171: Unsettled ministers to participate in travel fund Traveling Fund. #027-14, p. 171: Directing Rochester session to have deacons elected [dissent, page 179] Deacon controversy; Written dissent; Rochester [New York]. #027-15, pp. 171-172: Declining to warn sessions/deacons against forming consistories [dissent, page 172] Deacon controversy; Roll call votes; Written dissent; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-238 #027-16, p. 173: Sending down in overture a proposal of organizing three synods and a general assembly General and subordinate synods; Overtures. Ministers: 1-020, 1-182 #027-17, p. 177: Sustaining the appeal of T.C. Loudon against an unspecified presbytery, and overturning Presbytery’s decision Judicial cases; No information. #027-18, p. 177: Rejecting the reason of a supply preacher for not complying with his assignment Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-052, 1-245 #027-19, p. 180: Petition to organize a second congregation out of Old Bethel (continuation of #026-10); rejecting petition and petitioner’s actions, sustaining Presbytery’s decision, and deeming this decision a final disposition of the question Hill Prairie case; Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-267 #027-20, p. 180: Managing theological education during the suspension of RPTS, and paying debts to former professors Debt; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-105, 1-245 #027-21, p. 181: Sustaining appeal of J. McClurkin against Illinois Presbytery and overturning Presbytery’s decision Judicial cases; No information. #027-22, p. 181: Raising weekly pay of supply preachers and changing mode of transmitting presbytery-held money to Synod Minimum salaries; Supply preaching. #027-23, p. 181: Declining petition to remove Utica pastor Dissolving pastorates; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-155 #027-24, pp. 181-182: Regulations for administering the travel fund, bequests, and candidate funding Bequests; Graduate student aid; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-019, 1-150 #027-25, p. 183: Resurrecting Philadelphia Presbytery with original boundaries (#008-06) New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-020, 1-182 #027-26, p. 183: Aiding Lakes Presbytery’s efforts in southwestern Canada West (#027-29) Canada; Home missions; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-020, 1-182 #027-27, pp. 183-184: Responding to dissent on #027-03: this is not an extraordinary case, no situation warrants receiving members without certificates or under discipline, and commission failed to adjudicate outstanding discipline cases Deacon controversy; Membership transfer; Responses to dissent; Synod-organized congregations. Ministers: 1-276 #027-28, p. 184: Responding to dissent on #027-14: Synod already decided that deacons were the only biblical option for this process, the congregation supported deacons, dissenter misunderstands the function of deacons, and misuse of biblical institutions causes problems Deacon controversy; Responses to dissent; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-182 #027-29, p. 184: Distributing donations Donations; Home missions; Slavery and race; Oakdale. #027-30, p. 185: Supporting the prohibition movement Communion cup; Temperance. Ministers: 1-276 #027-31, p. 186: Permitting withdrawal of complaint against Lakes Presbytery Judicial cases; No information; Withdrawal of papers. #027-32, p. 186: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #028 — Synod of 1855 #028-01, p. 135: Minutes of a Synod session may be submitted to a committee to review accuracy, rather than being read at the next session Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #028-02, p. 153: Presbyteries to report statistics if they have not already Presbytery reports; Statistics. #028-03, p. 154: Sustaining one charge on a libel and overturning the other, and remanding to Session for disposition Judicial cases; No information; Philadelphia 1. #028-04, p. 160: Thanking a New Light delegation for giving Synod copies of Lecture on the Claims of the Church and Society on Young Men (OCLC 23524799) New Light church; Publications; Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-177 #028-05, p. 160: Adopting the Form of a Covenant in pieces, but not adopting the whole text Covenant renovation. #028-06, pp. 160-161: Ministers shall discuss covenant renovation with their congregations; publishing copies of #028-05 and planning for the Lord’s Supper at Synod in 1856 Covenant renovation; Sermon topics; Synod communion. #028-07, p. 162: Approving the RPCNA section in History of All the Religious Denominations in the United States (OCLC 15665156) Church history; RPCNA books. Ministers: 1-105, 1-230, 1-278 #028-08, p. 164: A.C. Culbert case [topic given in dissent, pages 165-166]: sustaining Session’s decision and not granting appeal Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Written dissent; Rochester [New York]. #028-09, p. 164: Reasons given in a privately prosecuted libel are not relevant Judicial cases; No information; Private prosecutions. Ministers: 1-182, 1-264 #028-10, p. 164: Honorarium for Synod’s former clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-276 #028-11, pp. 169-171: Responding to dissent on #028-08: Session followed Synod’s instructions, unlike congregation’s trustees, who also ignored the majority of the congregation Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; Responses to dissent; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-267, 1-276 #028-12, pp. 171-172: Handling bequests (including some to RPTS, which is inactive) and directing all persons concerned to report to a special committee Bequests; Directions to individuals; Home missions; RPTS finances; RPTS suspension. #028-13, p. 173: Partly sustaining, and partly rejecting, complaint of Lakes Presbytery against Illinois Presbytery for irregular judicial proceedings Judicial cases; No information; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-264 #028-14, pp. 173-174: Appeal of Hugh Mulholland against Rochester Presbytery: sustaining Presbytery’s decision and not sustaining appeal Judicial cases; No information. #028-15, p. 174: Appeal of M.M. Henry against New York Presbytery: sustaining appeal and overturning Presbytery’s decision Judicial cases; No information. #028-16, p. 174: Returning paper as out of order Judicial cases; No information; Oakdale. #028-17, p. 174: Congregation transferred from Rochester Presbytery to Illinois Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Vernon. #028-18, p. 177: Creating a home mission, to act outside presbyterial boundaries, and a foreign mission, with an eye to a mission in Mexico or South America should Haiti be unworkable; and creating a missions board to oversee both Haiti mission; Home missions; Latin America; New agencies. #028-19, p. 179: Permitting the withdrawal of several papers Judicial cases; Withdrawal of papers; St. Louis. #029 — Synod of 1856 #029-01, p. 135: Amending clerk’s responsibilities regarding reports and correspondence, and honorarium Paying the clerk; Rules and organization. #029-02, p. 138: Thanking RPCI fraternal delegate and requesting a written copy of his address RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #029-03, pp. 149-150: Appointing Syria the next foreign mission field, making arrangements, and postponing changes (#028-18) to home missions India; Islam; Levant missions; Orthodox; Paying missionaries. Ministers: 1-039, 1-052, 1-276 #029-04, pp. 152-153: Appropriating investment income Bequests. #029-05, p. 153: Declining petition of Nathaniel Allen for restoration of his license (#024-10), which will never be restored Directions to individuals; Licentiates. #029-06, p. 153: Specifying boundary between Lakes Presbytery and Pittsburgh Presbytery Presbytery boundaries. #029-07, pp. 154-156: Condemning slavery, its defenders, the Kansas-Nebraska affair, and the caning of U.S. Senator Charles Sumner, and commending abolitionism; publications editors requested to republish this paper Bleeding Kansas; Directions to individuals; Political dissent; RP&C; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 1-114, 1-182, 1-276 #029-08, p. 157: Reorganizing RPTS, appointing Board of Inspectors, and making other arrangements New agencies; Pentecostals; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; RPTS suspension. Ministers: 1-109, 1-245 #029-09, p. 158: Union with New Lights is impossible unless they accept Old Light positions Church union; New Light church; Outside communications. Ministers: 1-109, 1-238, 1-276 #029-10, pp. 158-169: Financial arrangements for domestic missions; presbyteries to report mission progress to Synod Church planting; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-276 #029-11, p. 159: Locating RPTS at Allegheny, Pennsylvania RPTS location. #029-12, p. 159: Declining to enter into covenant renovation [no time, due to multiple discipline cases; see page 195] Covenant renovation; Judicial cases; Roll call votes. #029-13, pp. 160-161: Handling bequests and directing a collection to pay a debt to a deceased RPTS professor’s estate Bequests; Paying RPTS faculty; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-025, 1-071, 1-155, 1-277 #029-14, p. 161: Approving a remonstrance to the Old School PCUSA General Assembly on slavery Outside communications; PCUSA; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-114, 1-182, 1-276 #029-15, p. 162: Case of Robert Shields: partly sustaining and partly declining complaint against New York Presbytery for not assigning him preaching, due to his apparent rejection of six-day creation [see page 168] Creation; Judicial cases; Licentiates. Ministers: 1-227 #029-16, pp. 163-166: Adopting a response to a letter from the Associate Synod APCNA; Covenant renovation; Foreign missions; Outside communications. Ministers: 1-109, 1-238 #029-17, p. 166: Indefinitely postponing the Lord’s Supper at Synod Special services; Synod communion. #029-18, p. 167: Paying a licentiate who was unable to supply pulpits Licentiates; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-271 #029-19, p. 167: Sustaining an appeal [topic not specified] against Rochester Presbytery and an unspecified session, and overturning their decisions Judicial cases; No information. #029-20, p. 167: Declining a petition from a group of members [topic not specified] Judicial cases; No information; New York 2. #029-21, pp. 168-169: Reiterating #028-02, boundary between Lakes Presbytery and Pittsburgh Presbytery (#029-06), and moving a congregation from New York Presbytery to Rochester Presbytery Canada; Licentiates; Presbytery boundaries; Statistics; Hudson/St.-Lazare. Ministers: 1-019, 1-150 #029-22, p. 169: Paying a bill Covenant renovation; Directions to individuals; Financial. Ministers: 1-244 #029-23, p. 169: Sustaining complaint against Illinois Presbytery [topic not specified] Judicial cases; No information. #029-24, p. 169: Distributing donation Donations; Traveling Fund; Boston 1. #029-25, p. 169: Congregation to be separately organized by Synod committee [sic; this should be “commission”] Deacon controversy; New commissions; Synod-organized congregations; Linn Grove. Ministers: 1-190, 1-228 #029-26, p. 170: Commending the Presbyterian Historical Society PHS. Ministers: 1-276 #029-27, p. 170: Issuing instructions to #029-25 committee Church membership; New commissions; Linn Grove. Ministers: 1-190, 1-228 #029-28, p. 170: Thanking RPCI visitor Thomas Houston for his speeches to Synod RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #029-29, p. 171: Related to 28-06 and #028-10: disapproving of election but confirming its result, removing suspension of certain trustees, and appointing a judicial commission Deacon controversy; Judicial cases; New commissions; Real property; Restorations; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-020, 1-182, 1-225, 1-244 #029-30, p. 171: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-030, 1-238 #029-31, p. 172: Sustaining appeal of J. Leighton against New York Presbytery [topic not specified] and overturning Presbytery’s decision Judicial cases; No information. #029-32, p. 172: Declining to instruct Illinois Presbytery to organize the congregation requested in #027-19 Hill Prairie case; Roll call votes; Old Bethel. #029-33, p. 177: Permitting the withdrawal of a complaint by Illinois Presbytery No information; Withdrawal of papers. Ministers: 1-238 #029-34, pp. 185-186: Publishing the minutes of Synod and making financial arrangements for RPTS and foreign missions Foreign missions; Minutes of Synod; RPTS finances. #030 — Synod of 1857 #030-01, p. 136: Synod is not yet ready to engage in covenanting Covenant renovation. Ministers: 1-276, 1-292 #030-02, p. 137: Synod’s clerk to ensure that minutes be recorded in a book with pagination Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #030-03, p. 141: Thanking RPCI visitor Robert Nevin for his visit to Synod and commending his fundraising in North American congregations RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #030-04, p. 142: Persons with funds raised for former RPTS professor (#029-13) to submit them to Finance Committee Debt; Directions to individuals; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-277 #030-05, p. 142: Rejecting the report of the #029-25 committee [dissent, page 165] Deacon controversy; Reviewing commissions; Roll call votes; Synod-organized congregations; Written dissent; Linn Grove. Ministers: 1-238, 1-244, 1-279 #030-06, pp. 142-143:#030-05 does not affect the congregation’s status, and Illinois Presbytery directed to recognize the congregation Construction; Deacon controversy; Synod-organized congregations; Linn Grove. #030-07, pp. 143-145: Congregations shall not be organized on the basis of elective affinity [deacon-related], Synod shall not organize congregations, Presbyteries to ensure that deacons with limited powers be elected in all congregations; actions of previous Synod were not meant to repeal #023-01 or #024-16 Construction; Deacon controversy; Roll call votes; Synod-organized congregations. Ministers: 1-276 #030-08, pp. 146-150: Recognizing the importance of Christian benevolence and directing ministers to preach on the subject; making arrangements for paying all ministers appropriately; beginning a program for congregational supplements Collections; Congregational aid; Home missions; Ministers in secular employment; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-276 #030-09, pp. 156-157: Reiterating #029-21 regarding statistics Statistics. Ministers: 1-229 #030-10, pp. 164-165: Financial arrangements, including abolishing the traveling fund, publishing the foreign missions treasurer’s report, and repeating the collection ordered in #029-13 Collections; Foreign missions; Home Missions; RPTS finances; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-082, 1-103, 1-277 #030-11, p. 165: Introducing specific textbooks to RPTS and instructing congregations to contribute to its support Collections; Higher-education standards; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-043, 1-109, 1-219, 1-229, 1-252, 1-276 #030-12, pp. 166-168: Condemning slavery, its defenders, all organizations that are neutral on the question, and Dred Scott v. Sandford , 60 U.S. 393 (1857) Bleeding Kansas; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Voting. Ministers: 1-114, 1-121 #030-13, pp. 168-169: Prohibiting the use of alcohol under pain of church discipline, with the exception of sacramental and medicinal uses Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Communion cup; Health and medicine. Ministers: 1-276, 1-292 #030-14, p. 175: Investment of RPTS funds and ascertaining professor’s salary Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-075, 1-109, 1-182 #030-15, p. 175: Delinquent presbyteries to send money to the Board of Missions, and all congregations to take collections for missions Collections; Delinquency; Home missions; Levant missions; Medical missions. Ministers: 1-182, 1-238, 1-279 #030-16, p. 180: Responding to dissent on #030-05: the commission admitted that they hadn’t followed Synod’s instructions, and the other reasons advanced are invalid Deacon controversy; Responses to dissent; Reviewing commissions; Synod-organized congregations; Linn Grove. Ministers: 1-155, 1-277 #030-17, p. 180: Returning a paper for lack of accompanying documents Judicial cases; No information. #030-18, p. 180: Declining protest against Illinois Presbytery, as protesters were not a party in the case Judicial cases; No information; Oakdale. #030-19, pp. 180-181: Not sustaining an appeal against Rochester Presbytery Judicial cases; No information. #030-20, p. 181: Not sustaining an appeal against Session and Illinois Presbytery for a separate congregation on Hill Prairie Hill Prairie case; Roll call votes; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230 #030-21, p. 181: Directing Illinois Presbytery to investigate the Hill Prairie situation (#030-20) carefully from the beginning Hill Prairie case; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-267 #030-22, pp. 181-182: Preparing for covenant renovation at Synod in 1858 Covenant renovation. Ministers: 1-238, 1-276, 1-292 #030-23, p. 182: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #031 — Synod of 1859 #031-01, p. 198: Synod will engage in covenant renovation Covenant renovation. #031-02, pp. 198-199: Indefinitely postponing covenant renewal, given the significant opposition to #031-01 Covenant renovation. Ministers: 1-292 #031-03, p. 204: Reiterating the preaching requirement of #030-08 Sermon topics; Tithing. #031-04, p. 209: Recommending that congregations take up an offering for PHS Collections; PHS. Ministers: 1-114, 1-182 #031-05, pp. 222-223: Sending down in overture the Rules of Ecclesiastical Business (proposed by committee appointed in 1853, minutes page 178) Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-219, 1-276 #031-06, pp. 223-224: Expanding RPTS library; appropriating money; resolving #029-13 debt; requiring congregations to take up collections for the traveling fund, and regulating its operations Collections; Debt; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS library; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-103, 1-150 #031-07, p. 225: A session may not grant a request for a letter of standing from members neither moving away nor joining another church Individual relocation; Membership transfer; Rehoboth [Iowa]. Ministers: 1-075, 1-252 #031-08, p. 225: A session may not accept the resignation of an elder who finds the office burdensome Eldership; Resignations; Rehoboth [Iowa]. Ministers: 1-075, 1-252 #031-09, p. 225: Protest and appeal of J.P. Herron against Lakes Presbytery [congregation and topic not specified]: dismissing, due to the disorderly state of the papers Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-075, 1-252 #031-10, p. 226: Protest and appeal of H. M’Cluey against Pittsburgh Presbytery [congregation and topic not specified]: dismissing Judicial cases; No information. #031-11, p. 226: Thanking the Rev. C.C. Foote, agent for the Colored Refugees in Canada, for his statements to Synod, and commending his efforts to the church Canada; Slavery and race; Thanking visiting speakers. #031-12, p. 227: Protest and appeal of William Sloane against Illinois Presbytery for salary arrears: sustaining appeal [most data from Synod of 1861, page 213] Hill Prairie case; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-188, 1-230 #031-13, p. 227: Approving letter to UPCNA Church union; Outside communications; Political dissent; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-214, 1-238 #031-14, p. 228: James Hooks case: sustaining Hooks’ appeal and overturning Presbytery’s decision James Hooks case; New York 1, New York 2. #031-15, p. 228: Expanding the Testimony with chapters opposing slavery and secret societies Secret societies; Slavery and race; Testimony. Ministers: 1-186 #031-16, p. 228: Financial matters for RPTS to be handed over to new treasurer Directions to individuals; RPTS finances. #031-17, pp. 234-235: Condemning slavery, its defenders, and the Fugitive Slave Act (9 Stat. 462), and binding the church to support for abolitionism Acts of Congress; Oath question; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-229, 1-292 #031-18, pp. 235-237: Congregations to take up collections for RPTS library; declining to permit licensure after three sessions Collections; Licentiates; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-219, 1-292 #031-19, p. 238: Individuals possessing books from the RPTS library to return them immediately (#027-05) Directions to individuals; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-150 #031-20, p. 238: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries; repealing #018-09 on professor-as-pastor Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS faculty as pastors. #031-21, pp. 238-239: Adopting Lakes Presbytery’s offer of Geneva Hall, beginning its oversight, and regulating payment of endowment subscriptions Donations; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva governance; Geneva library; Incorporation; Real property. Ministers: 1-182 #031-22, p. 240: Presbyteries to submit all statistics in a uniform manner Statistics. Ministers: 1-028, 1-182 #031-23, p. 240: Repealing #029-21 on Glengary Presbytery boundaries; Hudson/St.-Lazare. #031-24, pp. 240-241: Presbyteries must report in detail their spending of Missions Board funds; regulating the appointments of licentiates Financial; Home missions; Licentiates; Presbytery reports; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-229, 1-267 #031-25, p. 245: Current RPTS is the same institution as a previous incarnation Construction; RPTS. Ministers: 1-277 #031-26, pp. 245-246: Approving a memorial to Congress, requesting constitutional amendments recognizing Christianity and prohibiting slavery Congressional petitions; National Reform; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-150, 1-182, 1-278 #031-27, p. 246: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #032 — Synod of 1861 #032-01, p. 199: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-019 #032-02, p. 200: Indefinitely postponing further action on #031-03 Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-019, 1-121 #032-03, pp. 200-201: Reiterating #031-05 Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-019, 1-121 #032-04, p. 208: Returning a complaint against Illinois Presbytery as being out of order Judicial cases; No information. #032-05, p. 208: Approval of presbytery records by Synod to be certified by signatures of moderator and clerk Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-028, 1-207 #032-06, pp. 208-209: Adopting expansions to the Testimony on slavery and secret societies (#031-15); items had been published, so presbyteries could prepare input before Synod meeting Secret societies; Slavery and race; Testimony. Ministers: 1-238, 1-276 #032-07, p. 209: Disposing of a donation Donations; RPTS finances. #032-08, pp. 209-210: Reiterating #031-18; delinquent congregations to take up such collections Collections; Delinquency; Licentiates; RPTS library. #032-09, p. 210: Reiterating #031-19 Directions to individuals; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-150 #032-10, p. 210: Maintaining dissent from the Constitution, but pledging loyalty to the United States, disclaiming all foreign loyalties, and denouncing the Confederate States Civil War; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-238, 1-276, 1-279 #032-11, p. 211: Specific reports (including statistics) not to be printed in the minutes; clerk must deposit his records in a bank safe Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization; Statistics. Ministers: 1-019 #032-12, p. 211: Obtaining the records of the former Subordinate Synods Directions to individuals; General and subordinate synods; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-238, 1-245 #032-13, p. 212: Approving James Nichol’s reprints of Puritan authors, Nichol’s Series of Standard Divines Church history; Publications. #032-14, p. 213: Ordering session and Illinois Presbytery to comply with #031-12 [dissent, page 234] Directions to individuals; Hill Prairie case; Written dissent; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230 #032-15, pp. 214-215: Repealing #032-11 on publication of statistics and adopting a standard set of statistical blanks Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-075 #032-16, p. 218: Paying former RPTS professor following his deposition Judicial cases; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-030 #032-17, pp. 218-219: Indefinitely postponing a statement prohibiting congregations from using consistories and church officers from acting under any state law Deacon controversy; Incorporation; Roll call votes; New York 2. #032-18, p. 230: Handling a bequest Bequests. Ministers: 1-056 #032-19, pp. 231-232: Various financial arrangements; winding up payments to former RPTS professor’s estate (#029-13, #030-04); committee to publish a new edition of the Testimony Bequests; Debt; Directions to individuals; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS library; Testimony; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-079, 1-271, 1-276, 1-277, 1-292 #032-20, pp. 232-233: RPTS may not move from Allegheny to Philadelphia; students not to be admitted without prior Hebrew proficiency; ministers to preach on the importance of RPTS; reiterating #031-18 on collections; various other arrangements Biblical languages; Collections; Higher-education standards; RPTS library; RPTS location; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-150, 1-186 #032-21, p. 234: Refusing to accept RPTS professor’s resignation Resignations; RPTS faculty; Philadelphia 1. Ministers: 1-276 #032-22, p. 235: Responding to dissent on #032-14: the word of Synod is law, and sessions and presbyteries must comply Devolution; Hill Prairie case; Rules and organization; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230, 1-238 #032-23, pp. 235-236: Adopting regulations for RPTS endowment Delinquency; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-056, 1-292 #032-24, p. 241: Thanking donors Home missions; Thanking donors. #032-25, pp. 241-243: Recent opinion by Pennsylvania Supreme Court on jury service does not provide sufficient reason for permitting jury service (#016-08) Jury question. Ministers: 1-238, 1-276 #032-26, p. 243: Dismissing petition to overturn #031-14 James Hooks case; Rules and organization; New York 1, New York 2. Ministers: 1-020, 1-219 #032-27, p. 243: Established church law prohibiting occasional hearing must be heeded; Directory for Worship is sufficient guidance for funeral services Banns of marriage; Directory for Worship; Funerals; Occasional hearing; Elkins Park, New Alexandria, Rehoboth [Iowa], Rushsylvania. Ministers: 1-020, 1-219 #032-28, p. 244: Indefinitely postponing a petition from unspecified members of Lakes Presbytery No information. Ministers: 1-020, 1-219 #032-29, p. 244: Indefinitely postponing a request from Illinois Presbytery regarding a soldiers’ oath Civil War; Oath question. #032-30, p. 244: Declining a session’s protest against New York Presbytery Judicial cases; No information; New York 2. Ministers: 1-020, 1-219 #032-31, p. 244: Repealing #031-21 Donations; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva governance; Incorporation; Real property. Ministers: 1-075, 1-292 #032-32, p. 244: Returning a paper related to #032-14 Hill Prairie case; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230 #033 — Synod of 1862 #033-01, p. 195: Receiving elders without proper certificates upon presentation of evidence Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization; Londonderry, Manchester, New Concord, Rehoboth [Pennsylvania], Rose Point. #033-02, p. 195: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-019 #033-03, p. 197: Reiterating #032-08 Collections; Delinquency; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-019, 1-075, 1-079 #033-04, p. 198: Publishing the Narrative of the Division of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, U.S., 1833 (OCLC 20696957) Directions to individuals; New Light church; RPCNA books. Ministers: 1-214, 1-219, 1-238, 1-276 #033-05, pp. 198-199: Appointing commissioners to correspond with UPCNA in petitioning Congress for emancipation Congressional petitions; Constitutional amendments; Outside commissions; Slavery and race; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-079, 1-229, 1-238, 1-276 #033-06, p. 199: Disapproving session’s refusal to cooperate with RPTS endowment agent (#032-23) Delinquency; RPTS finances; New York 2. Ministers: 1-028 #033-07, p. 200: Someone not a member of Synod can still be appointed a member of a Synod committee Eldership; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-245, 1-279 #033-08, p. 200: Clerk to obtain reimbursement for the expenses of RPTS endowment agents (#032-23) Directions to individuals; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-019 #033-09, p. 201: Dismissing #032-27 petition for lack of action by petitioner Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-020, 1-219 #033-10, p. 201: Dismissing #032-30 protest on procedural grounds Judicial cases; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-020, 1-079, 1-188, 1-219 #033-11, p. 202: Approving joint letter with UPCNA to Congress, requesting prohibition of slavery Congressional petitions; Constitutional amendments; Directions to individuals; Outside commissions; Slavery and race; UPCNA. #033-12, p. 202: Approving the Presbyterian Historical Almanac (OCLC 852190350) and commending it to the church Church history; RPCNA books. #033-13, p. 205: Adopting regulations for RPTS endowment RPTS finances; Bethel. #033-14, pp. 205-206: James Hooks case: partly sustaining appeal and partly sustaining Presbytery’s decision James Hooks case; New York 1, New York 2. #033-15, p. 206: Adopting reasons for #033-14 Construction; James Hooks case; New York 1, New York 2. #033-16, pp. 206-207: Adopting financial regulations proposed by Finance Committee Bequests; Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Testimony; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-019, 1-056, 1-150, 1-188 #033-17, p. 208: Repealing #032-19 requirement to contribute to traveling fund in order to participate in it Traveling Fund. #033-18, p. 208: A candidate receiving aid must return his aid if he leave the church or abandon his studies, and he may not receive funding without prior approval by his presbytery Departing ministers; Graduate student aid; RPTS finances. #033-19, p. 208: Amending the Book of Discipline to restrict appeals from Presbytery to Synod Book of Discipline; Judicial cases; Overtures, new; Trial procedure. #033-20, p. 208: James Hooks case: Hooks restored to good standing upon confession of sin and pledge of obedience to Session James Hooks case; Restorations; New York 1, New York 2. #033-21, pp. 209-210: Directing the Board of Missions to send a physician to Syria, to purchase land for a cemetery, to prepare a freedmen’s mission; presbyteries to submit plans for home missions; financial arrangements Cemeteries; Devolution; Financial; Levant missions; Medical missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-229, 1-244 #033-22, p. 218: Protest of Joseph Dodds dismissed and Illinois Presbytery decision affirmed Judicial cases; No information. #033-23, p. 219: RPTS regulations, including prohibitions on students under care attending any other seminary Attending other seminaries; Higher-education standards; RPTS. #033-24, pp. 219-220: Declining petition to move RPTS from Allegheny to Philadelphia (#032-20) RPTS location; Philadelphia 1. #033-25, p. 220: Ascertaining RPTS professor’s salary and requiring him to resign his pastorate Directions to individuals; Paying RPTS faculty; Resignations; RPTS faculty as pastors; Philadelphia 1. Ministers: 1-276 #033-26, p. 220: Sustaining procedural appeal of T.M. Hutcheson, rejecting actions of Lakes Presbytery, and ordering Presbytery to re-try the case Judicial cases; No information; Trial procedure. #033-27, p. 221: Repealing the law requiring the banns of marriage, but ministers must exercise caution before solemnizing marriages Banns of marriage; Devolution; Overtures, new. #033-28, pp. 221-222: Organizing Ohio Presbytery and specifying its boundaries New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-075, 1-245 #033-29, pp. 226-227: Position statement on the Civil War: RPs may not identify with the state nor swear entangling oaths, despite the rightness of the war [see Glasgow 708] Civil War; Oath question; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-264 #033-30, p. 228: RPTS professor’s pulpit to be supplied by Pittsburgh Presbytery RPTS faculty as pastors; Supply preaching; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-238 #033-31, p. 229: Clerk to certify documents to Synod regarding a pastor (#033-25) Directions to individuals; Dissolving pastorates; RPTS faculty as pastors; Philadelphia 1. Ministers: 1-019 #033-32, p. 229: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #034 — Synod of 1863 #034-01, pp. 196-197: Reiterating #032-08 and #033-03 Collections; Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Licentiates; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-019 #034-02, p. 197: Handling a bequest Bequests; RPTS finances. #034-03, p. 197: Handling a bequest Bequests; Foreign missions. #034-04, p. 198: Appointing commissioners to a Pittsburgh convention on amending the U.S. Constitution [NRA was the result] NRA; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-182, 1-238, 1-276 #034-05, p. 202: RPTS endowment agents thanked and their appointments renewed RPTS finances; Thanks. #034-06, p. 202: Failed subscriptions for Geneva Hall to be applied to RPTS Donations; Geneva finances; RPTS finances. #034-07, p. 203: Reiterating #027-13 Traveling Fund. #034-08, p. 203: Recognizing the minority synod of the RPCS Political dissent; RPCS. #034-09, p. 204: Adopting Rules of Ecclesiastical Procedure (#031-05) Rules and organization. #034-10, p. 205: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-019 #034-11, p. 205: Rejecting #033-19 following unfavorable votes in overture, but adopting other amendments to the Book of Discipline, and making arrangements for publication Book of Discipline; Overtures, unsuccessful; Publications; Trial procedure. #034-12, p. 205: Adopting #033-27 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful; Roll call votes. #034-13, p. 206: Organizing Iowa Presbytery and specifying its boundaries Directions to individuals; New presbyteries. #034-14, pp. 206-207: Financial arrangements in Syria, sending a physician to Syria (#033-21), open a new school for the Fellahin; financial arrangements for domestic missions, opening the Southern Mission; preparing to send missionaries to western frontier Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Southern Mission. #034-15, p. 215: Reiterating #034-01, and #032-20 on Hebrew proficiency Biblical languages; Collections; Delinquency; Higher-education standards; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-186, 1-214 #034-16, p. 217: Ascertaining the salaries of western missionaries Paying missionaries. #034-17, p. 217: Should any of the missionaries-elect decline the office, Board of Missions authorized to choose replacements Devolution; Southern Mission. #034-18, p. 217: Rejecting a prohibition on ministers voluntarily entering the army (#033-29) Civil War; Political dissent; Roll call votes. Ministers: 1-264 #034-19, p. 219: Urging congregations to supply manses and glebes, and ordering presbyteries to furnish statistics (#031-21) Parsonages; Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 1-150, 1-261 #034-20, p. 224: Iowa Presbytery to try a persistently absent minister Absences; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-196 #034-21, p. 224: Church members shall announce upcoming marriages at least three weeks beforehand (#034-12) Banns of marriage. #034-22, p. 224: Appointing commissioners to visit President Abraham Lincoln and other federal officials to request National Reform Abraham Lincoln; National Reform; Outside commissions; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-229, 1-292 #034-23, pp. 224-225: Adopting financial regulations proposed by Finance Committee RPTS finances; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-147, 1-178 #034-24, p. 226: Handling members who join other churches; occasional hearing has always been clearly prohibited by the Church Judicial cases; Membership transfer; Occasional hearing; New York 1, Newburgh 1. Ministers: 1-043, 1-252 #034-25, p. 226: Removing suspension of J. Dodds for occasional hearing after permitting oath of purgation Judicial cases; Oath of purgation; Occasional hearing; Restorations; Rehoboth [Iowa]. #034-26, p. 226: Reiterating #032-14 Hill Prairie case; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230 #034-27, p. 226: Presbyteries shall minister to military hospitals in their boundaries Civil War; Health and medicine. Ministers: 1-267 #034-28, p. 226: Indefinitely postponing any action on a church newspaper Publications. Ministers: 1-114, 1-252 #034-29, pp. 227-228: On principle, ministers may enter the army if necessary (#034-18), but circumstances do not currently demand this, so they may not currently Civil War; Ministers in secular employment; Resignations; Roll call votes. Ministers: 1-264 #034-30, pp. 227-228: Current soldier’s oath is objectionable; #034-22 commissioners to request an alternate oath Civil War; Government communications; Oath question; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-229, 1-292 #034-31, pp. 227-228: Aliens may press their foreign status when called for draft, as long as no oath of foreign allegiance is required Civil War; Oath question. #034-32, p. 228:#034-30 should not be interpreted as encouragement to join the army, but as arrangements for those who feel that they must join Civil War; Construction; Oath question. #034-33, p. 229: Sanctioning minister for intentionally absenting himself from church courts without permission from Presbytery (#034-29) Absences; Civil War. Ministers: 1-264 #034-34, p. 229: Responding to dissent on #034-30: joining the army does not involve sinful union, and fighting rebels and the Slave Power is righteous Oath question; Responses to dissent; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-019, 1-276 #034-35, p. 229: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #035 — Synod of 1864 #035-01, p. 195: Commending the American Bible Society American Bible Society. #035-02, p. 195: Honorarium for Synod’s former clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-019, 1-278 #035-03, p. 197: Each year’s opening sermon to be preached before the court is constituted Rules and organization. #035-04, p. 201: Clerk to invite UPCNA General Assembly to attend a public missionary meeting Directions to individuals; Interchurch; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-278 #035-05, p. 201: Thanking W.J.R. Taylor of the American Bible Society for his speech to Synod American Bible Society; Thanking visiting speakers. #035-06, p. 201: Admitting a ruling elder without certificate Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization; Church Hill. #035-07, p. 206: Urging all church members to abstain completely from tobacco Tobacco. #035-08, p. 207: Reiterating #034-20 Absences; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-196 #035-09, p. 207: Thanking War Department Solicitor General William Whiting, U.S. Representative John Bingham, and President Abraham Lincoln for their response to the 34-22 commissioners Abraham Lincoln; National Reform; Outside commissions; Presidential communications; Specific congressmen; Thanking government officials. Ministers: 1-019, 1-278 #035-10, p. 207: Withdrawing #034-30 alternate proposal, the commissioners having been informed that no oath was required of soldiers Civil War; Government communications; Oath question. Ministers: 1-229, 1-292 #035-11, p. 208: Reiterating #031-04 PHS. #035-12, pp. 208-209: Dismissing slavery-related petition related to the early history of the church in North America, because of flawed historical arguments Second presbytery; Slavery and race; Testimony; Miami, Rushsylvania. Ministers: 1-046, 1-050, 1-085, 1-123, 1-127, 1-165, 1-219, 1-238 #035-13, p. 209: Thanking George H. Stuart of the Christian Commission for his speech to Synod Civil War; Thanking visiting speakers. #035-14, p. 209: Giving Synod’s thanks for the donation of a Aneitum New Testament (RPCS mission in Vanuatu) and sending it to the RPTS library Foreign missions; RPCS; RPTS library; Thanking donors; Vanuatu. Ministers: 1-229 #035-15, p. 210: Ending payment suit (#034-26) in view of the likelihood of a peaceful resolution Hill Prairie case; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-230 #035-16, p. 213: Thanking David Steele of the New Light church for his speech to Synod New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #035-17, pp. 213-214: Dismissing complaint against New York Presbytery [topic unspecified] Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-225 #035-18, p. 214: Accepting a bequest under conditions and supplying related paperwork Bequests. #035-19, pp. 214-215: Recommending a new psalter (OCLC 8800742) and urging sessions to sponsor singing classes to improve congregational music Improving praise; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-114, 1-182, 1-248, 1-264 #035-20, p. 223: Entering into correspondence with the UPCNA Fraternal relations; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-229, 1-276 #035-21, pp. 224-225: Approving a standard statistical form for presbyterial reporting, including requiring manse statistics per request of the Presbyterian Historical Almanac Parsonages; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-020, 1-225 #035-22, pp. 230-231: Calling for National Reform and abolition of slavery, supporting the United States and denouncing the Confederacy, and calling for justice for blacks Civil War; National Reform; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-229 #035-23, p. 231: Rejoicing in efforts for constitutional recognition of Christianity and abolition of slavery; supporting upcoming NRA convention Civil War; Methodists; NRA; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-114 #035-24, p. 232: Permitting withdrawal of #035-17 complaint and extending Book of Discipline’s procedure for severing pastoral relationship to elders and deacons Diaconate; Dissolving pastorates; Eldership; Withdrawal of papers. Ministers: 1-225 #035-25, p. 232: All ministers to spend one weekend advocating for RP principles outside the church Sermon topics; Witness work. #035-26, p. 233:#034-30 not to be interpreted as encouraging incorporation with the government Civil War; Construction; Oath question. Ministers: 1-219 #035-27, p. 233: Complaint of C.B. French against New York Presbytery: French permitted to withdraw his complaint, and Presbytery directed to try the case by libel Judicial cases; Withdrawal of papers. #035-28, p. 233: Complaint of John Nightingale against New York Presbytery (#035-27); Nightingale permitted to withdraw his complaint Judicial cases; Withdrawal of papers. #035-29, pp. 233-234: Marriage with dead wife’s sister is incest; parties to be suspended, and excommunicated if they do not abandon each other Dead wife’s sister; Divorce; Imposing discipline; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-252, 1-276 #035-30, pp. 234-235: Establishing a girls’ school in Syria, renewing efforts to find a physician (#034-14), establishing the Central Board of Missions for cultivating new home missions, and regulating its activities Church planting; Levant missions; Licentiates; Medical missions; Mission schools; New agencies; Sine titulo; Slavery and race; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-075, 1-245 #035-31, pp. 241-244: FMB responsible for choosing all foreign missionaries Devolution; Foreign missions HR. #035-32, p. 245: Returning six memorials to their authors, the questions being related to #034-30 and settled by #035-26 Civil War; Construction; Oath question; Written dissent. #035-33, p. 245: Responding to dissent on #035-32: #035-26 is sufficient to establish Synod’s intent, and putting down a sinful rebellion is different from identifying with the government Civil War; Oath question; Responses to dissent; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-095, 1-103, 1-113, 1-115, 1-188, 1-190, 1-238, 1-276 #035-34, p. 246: Sessions must not sanction members for hiring draft substitutes Church discipline; Civil War; Judicial cases. #035-35, p. 246: Sending copies of #035-10 and #035-22 to Congress and President Lincoln Abraham Lincoln; Congressional petitions; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-229, 1-278 #035-36, p. 246: All responses to overtures shall confine themselves to approving or disapproving the text, without comment or proposed alteration Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-219 #035-37, pp. 246-249: Adopting financial regulations proposed by Finance Committee Bequests; Paying missionaries. Ministers: 1-190, 1-265 #035-38, p. 249: Synod cannot repeal #033-27 by itself, the proposal having passed in overture (#034-12) Banns of marriage; Overtures. #035-39, p. 250: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #035-40, p. 250: Treasurer ordered to repay expenses of two delegates Directions to individuals; Financial. Ministers: 1-138, 1-155 #036 — Synod of 1865 #036-01, p. 197: Clerk to print statistical forms (#035-21) Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-278 #036-02, p. 197: Returning a session’s memorial on a judicial case, and instructing the session to use its best judgement Devolution; Judicial cases; Mercer. #036-03, p. 204: Setting minimum pay for supply preachers at $15 per week Licentiates; Minimum salaries; Supply preaching. #036-04, p. 205: Petitioning every evangelical minister in the United States to support National Reform; all members to promote the cause; appointing more #034-22 commissioners Congressional petitions; National Reform; Outside commissions; Outside communications; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-008, 1-182 #036-05, p. 206: Thanking John Brinkerhoof of the UPCNA for his speech to Synod Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #036-06, pp. 206-207: Modifying statistical blanks; assigning congregations to presbyteries (#029-21, #031-23) Presbytery boundaries; Real property; Statistical blanks; Hudson/St.-Lazare, Olathe. Ministers: 1-019, 1-182 #036-07, pp. 213-214: Urging continued contributions for missions; making arrangements in Syria; renewing a domestic Church Extension Scheme, including establishing a school; missionaries must report potential young leaders Church planting; Donations; Levant missions; Mission schools; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-138, 1-186 #036-08, p. 221: Congregations to collect for Church Extension Fund Church planting; Collections. #036-09, p. 221: Reiterating #030-13 and denouncing frequent use of medicinal alcohol; pastors must preach on the subject frequently Alcohol restrictions on all members; Sermon topics; Tobacco; Pittsburgh. Ministers: 1-182, 1-229 #036-10, pp. 221-222: Renewing efforts to increase the number of ministerial candidates for RPTS (pastors must preach on the subject) and raising professors’ salaries Paying RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-020, 1-141, 1-238, 1-276 #036-11, p. 223: Thanking members who supplemented RPTS professor’s salary Paying RPTS faculty; Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-276 #036-12, p. 223: Thanking the delegate of the New Light church for his speech to Synod New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #036-13, p. 223: Central Board of Missions to pay expenses of #036-04 commissioners Congressional petitions; Financial; Home missions; Presidential communications. #036-14, pp. 224-225: Abolishing Synod’s traveling fund and replacing it with distributions to presbyteries Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-147, 1-150 #036-15, p. 225: Celebrating the end of the war and of slavery, mourning the death of President Lincoln, demanding the execution of Confederate leaders, and calling for National Reform Abraham Lincoln; Civil War; National Reform; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-229 #036-16, pp. 225-226: Reiterating #034-30 and #035-26: Synod has never sought incorporation with the government, and its actions should not be so construed; sessions must ensure that returned soldiers remain faithful and must discipline voters and those swearing oaths of allegiance Civil War; Construction; Making exceptions; Oath question; Political office; Voting. #036-17, pp. 235-236: Presbyteries to ensure that all ministers be properly supported, all ministers to preach on proper giving; making arrangements to expand RPTS endowment; making arrangements for creating Sustentation Fund to support weak congregations Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Paying ministers; RPTS finances; Sermon topics. #036-18, p. 236: Education Board to purchase former Geneva Hall property Geneva; Real property. #036-19, p. 236: Returning complaint against Iowa Presbytery as out of order and resolving no action in the case of John Neill (#035-08), given the lack of a charge Judicial cases; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-043, 1-105, 1-196, 1-219 #036-20, p. 237: Congregations urged to collect for mission station Collections; Congregational aid; Urban church planting; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-043 #036-21, p. 237: Central Board of Missions to arrange for pulpit supplies for delegates to RPCI and RPCS synods Financial; Fraternal relations; Home missions; RPCI; RPCS; Supply preaching. #036-22, p. 237: Thanking the American Bible Society for supplying freedmen’s mission and commending the Society to the church American Bible Society; Slavery and race. #036-23, p. 237: Supporting any publication that will advocate for National Reform National Reform; Publications. #036-24, p. 237: Appealing for young men to enter the ministry Directions to individuals; Publications; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-238, 1-276 #036-25, p. 237: Ministers must spend as much time as possible in missionary work Witness work. #036-26, p. 237: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #037 — Synod of 1866 #037-01, p. 195: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #037-02, p. 195: Adjusting the default date and time for Synod’s annual meeting Meeting schedule. #037-03, p. 198: Honoring James McKinney (died 1802) by raising money for a gift to his surviving descendents McKinney Fund. Ministers: 1-165 #037-04, p. 199: Forming a commission to appoint fast and thanksgiving dates New commissions; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-182, 1-238, 1-276 #037-05, p. 199: Preparing a digest of deliverances Book of Discipline; Digest of deliverances. Ministers: 1-186, 1-219, 1-292 #037-06, pp. 200-201: Urging the payment of delinquent pledges for the RPTS endowment Delinquency; Donations; RPTS finances. #037-07, pp. 201-203: Finance Committee and Synod’s boards must produce estimates of the total costs of their responsibilities Financial; Rules and organization. #037-08, p. 203: Recommending that no new psalter be adopted at this time (#035-19) Psalter editions. #037-09, p. 203: Disposing of a donation Donations. #037-10, p. 203: Thanking the Rev. John Gaston of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church for his speech to Synod RCA; Thanking visiting speakers. #037-11, p. 204: Thanking the Rev. Andrew Gifford Wylie of the New Light church for his speech to Synod, and continuing correspondence Covenant renovation; New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. Ministers: 1-229 #037-12, pp. 204-205: Confirming #036-14 and issuing relevant regulations Collections; Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-147, 1-232 #037-13, pp. 207-208: Marriages must be publicized; ministers must not solemnize marriages without investigating them; approving Pennsylvania’s law publicizing marriage, and requiring presbyteries to urge other state legislatures to do likewise; reiterating prohibitions on mixed marriages Banns of marriage; Legislative petitions. Ministers: 1-019, 1-075, 1-292 #037-14, pp. 208-209: Condemning alcohol sale and use as inherently sinful, sessions to punish violators, church officers and parents to work to prevent their charges from drinking Alcohol restrictions on all members; Parental responsibilities. Ministers: 1-237, 1-261 #037-15, pp. 209-210: Regulations for domestic missions and for Syria Donations; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Real property; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 1-082, 1-155 #037-16, pp. 218-219: Ministers’ membership transfers by certificate, not automatically when they move elsewhere Individual relocation; Membership transfer; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-011, 1-156 #037-17, p. 224: Pastors and session clerks to comply with requests from the Presbyterian Historical Almanac Church history; Directions to individuals. #037-18, p. 224: Adopting report of Board of Education [footnote observes that the report is missing] No information. #037-19, p. 224: Principal of the Collegiate Institute to cooperate with Board of Education Directions to individuals; Geneva faculty. Ministers: 1-147 #037-20, p. 224: Tithes are the minimum gift to God, pastors shall preach on tithing, further requests to be made when needed, and presbyteries to ensure proper salaries for ministers Paying ministers; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-147, 1-232 #037-21, p. 225: Specifying dates for special offerings Church planting; Collections; Levant missions; Southern Mission. #037-22, p. 225: Board of Education to select a principal for the Collegiate Institute should the initial electee decline the honor Devolution; Geneva faculty; Synod HR. #037-23, p. 225: Paying the expenses of a deputation to Europe Collections; Outside commissions; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-276 #037-24, pp. 225-226: Board of Church Extension to give money only to congregations holding property in trust for the church; Board to incorporate; other financial arrangements; sessions to enforce payments for RPTS endowment Bequests; Fraternal relations; Graduate student aid; Incorporation; Levant missions; Property held in trust; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-025, 1-244 #037-25, p. 226: Paying the expenses of fraternal delegates sent by Synod Financial; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 1-182 #037-26, p. 227: Robert Boyd to give property to congregation, congregation to pay his expenses, T.C. Spears permitted to withdraw his appeal Judicial cases; Real property; Withdrawal of papers; Miami. #037-27, p. 227: Voting for state constitutional amendments is not necessarily wrong, but disapproved by Synod in favor of activities such as petitioning Legislative petitions; Voting for constitutional amendments; Salem. Ministers: 1-020, 1-182 #037-28, pp. 227-228: Appointing commissioners to advocate National Reform before Congress; other commissioners to advocate before meetings of large denominations; presbyteries to ensure that this matter be attended to; members ordered to circulate petitions among their acquaintances Congressional petitions; Interchurch; National Reform; Outside commissions; Publications; Witness work. Ministers: 1-186, 1-278 #037-29, p. 228: Directing congregations to take up collections for the Literary Fund as soon as possible Collections. #037-30, p. 228: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #038 — Synod of 1867 #038-01, p. 195: Sessions not appointing delegates to Synod are delinquent in their duty Delegate qualifications; Delinquency; Rules and organization. #038-02, p. 195: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #038-03, p. 196: Thanking the Rev. J.P. Lytle of the UPCNA for his speech to Synod Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #038-04, p. 196: Permitting Pittsburgh Presbytery to license a candidate who had studied privately Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Making exceptions. #038-05, p. 199: Rochester Presbytery to apportion traveling fund among its congregations Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #038-06, pp. 202-203: Specifying the organization of RPTS Superintendents, paying a temporary professor, and recognizing the importance of RPTS Agency membership; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-186, 1-219, 1-248 #038-07, p. 204: Approving a projected weekly church newspaper, establishing permanent National Reform committee, and congregations to take up collections for National Reform Collections; National Reform; New standing committees; Publications; Witness work. Ministers: 1-182, 1-229, 1-248, 1-292 #038-08, p. 205: Presbyteries to inquire after the fulfillment of #037-28 within their boundaries National Reform; Witness work. #038-09, pp. 209-210: Thanking the Rev. W.S. Bratton of the New Light church for his speech to Synod New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #038-10, p. 210: Financial arrangements, including McKinney Fund (#037-03), and clerk to support surviving relative of William Gibson (died 1838) McKinney Fund. Ministers: 1-085, 1-165 #038-11, p. 211: Deeming #036-10 on salaries to have taken effect immediately Construction; Paying RPTS faculty. #038-12, p. 211: Declining the petition of Westminster College [page 203] for Synod to endow a professorate and appoint a professor RPTS finances; Supporting colleges. Ministers: 1-009, 1-219 #038-13, p. 211: Declining a proposal for immediate covenant renewal Covenant renovation. #038-14, p. 221: Commending members of the Church for their liberal giving, making various arrangements for Syria and domestic missions; missions to be started farther west and restarted in South Carolina; Central Board to supplement Indianapolis mission work Congregational aid; Donations; Levant missions; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-091, 1-142, 1-150 #038-15, p. 227: Transferring a congregation from Lakes Presbytery to Illinois Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Indianapolis. #038-16, p. 227: Synod treasurer to pay minister from Domestic Mission funds Paying ministers; Urban church planting; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-043 #038-17, p. 227: Officeholding without an oath is still sinful as an incorporation with the state; reiterating #037-27; appointing a commission to try the case of John Stott (referred by Illinois Presbytery) and paying their expenses Canada; John Stott case; New commissions; Oath question; Political office; Trial procedure; Voting for constitutional amendments; Princeton. Ministers: 1-020, 1-079, 1-138, 1-219, 1-252, 1-292 #038-18, p. 228: Making various financial arrangements, reiterating #037-06 and #037-29 Collections; Home missions; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-062, 1-147 #038-19, pp. 228-230: Presbyteries to collect for Traveling Fund and supply Synod the proceeds; refusing the resignation of treasurer William Brown Resignations; Traveling Fund. #038-20, p. 230: Central Board of Missions and Signs of the Times Committee together appointed a commission to appoint fast and thanksgiving days Home missions; New commissions; Signs of the Times. #038-21, p. 230: Treasurers’ reports are to be filed but not printed in the minutes Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #038-22, p. 230: Reiterating #030-14 regarding collections for church extension Church planting; Collections. #038-23, p. 230: Declining union proposal from New Light church [see page 215] Church union; New Light church. #038-24, pp. 231-232: Praising the Board of Education for accepting black students at Geneva; refusing president’s resignation; board to have further administrative powers Devolution; Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Higher-education standards; Resignations; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-147, 1-244 #038-25, pp. 232-233: Recommending to the church the Week of Prayer; publishing the minutes of Synod Holidays; Minutes of Synod. #039 — Synod of 1868 #039-01, p. 195: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #039-02, p. 205: Approving actions of #038-16 commission, which acquitted party but urged a re-trial by Synod; directing commission to submit expenses Financial; John Stott case; Reviewing commissions; Trial procedure; Princeton. Ministers: 1-079, 1-252, 1-292 #039-03, p. 207: Disclaiming responsibility for publications in the Reformed Presbyterian and Covenanter , rejecting jury service and urging members’ commitment, and rejecting arguments against this and other church laws Jury question; RP&C; Strict subscription; Testimony. Ministers: 1-019, 1-292 #039-04, p. 207: Declining to take new positions on temperance, the old ones being sufficient, but warning members against patent medicines Church discipline; Health and medicine; Sermon topics; Temperance. Ministers: 1-011, 1-147 #039-05, pp. 209-210: Continuing correspondence with the UPCNA Church union; Fraternal relations; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-190, 1-238 #039-06, p. 211: Mission stations to be overseen by presbyteries when ready for organization; congregations to collect for domestic missions annually, and pastors to preach on the subject Church planting; Collections; Foreign missions HR; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-020, 1-186 #039-07, p. 217: Suspending minister for actions investigated by #038-17 commission; moderator pronounces deposition, not suspension Imposing discipline; John Stott case; Trial procedure; Princeton. Ministers: 1-252 #039-08, p. 217: Refusing RPTS professor’s resignation, asking him to resign his pastorate, and ascertaining professors’ salaries Dissolving pastorates; Paying RPTS faculty; Resignations; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-229, 1-238 #039-09, pp. 217-218: Congregations not already having collected for Church Extension Fund to collect in July (#038-19) Church planting; Collections; Delinquency. #039-10, p. 225: Returning appeal in case investigated by #038-16 commission and dissolving pastorate Directions to individuals; Dissolving pastorates; John Stott case; Princeton. Ministers: 1-252 #039-11, p. 225: Directing presbyteries to release RPTS professors from their pastorates Dissolving pastorates; RPTS faculty; Allegheny, New York 3. Ministers: 1-229, 1-238 #039-12, p. 226: Collections for any proper religious purpose may be conducted in the worship service Offerings in worship; Poor relief; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-136, 1-219 #039-13, p. 226: Commending to the church a project to erect a monument to RPTS professor (#081-08) Church history; RPTS faculty; Philadelphia 1. Ministers: 1-277 #039-14, p. 227:#033-27 cannot be repealed by Synod, no action is needed to permit continuous singing (#024-09), no action needed regarding the use of line-repeating tunes, any actions related to the war would be pointless, and requiring pastors and elders to warn members against occasional hearing Banns of marriage; Civil War; Continuous singing; Occasional hearing; Overtures; Repeating tunes; Allegheny, Rehoboth [Pennsylvania]. Ministers: 1-238, 1-261 #039-15, pp. 228-230: Pastors to promote giving for the schemes of the whole church Donations; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-082, 1-261 #039-16, p. 231: Financial arrangements Directions to individuals; Financial; Princeton. Ministers: 1-278, 1-292 #039-17, pp. 231-232: Candidates to be licensed after three RPTS terms, not four, but must attend fourth year before preaching frequently or receiving a call; financial arrangements; reforming superintendents Agency membership; Biblical languages; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS. Ministers: 1-135, 1-232 #039-18, p. 232: Returning appeal from Lakes Presbytery on continuous singing, as #039-14 has resolved the issue Continuous singing; Judicial cases. #039-19, pp. 232-233: Voting for state constitutional amendments is wrong (#037-27); holding office while disclaiming allegiance to the U.S. Constitution, and voting for such officeholders, is wrong Political office; Voting for constitutional amendments; New Concord. Ministers: 1-025, 1-075 #039-20, p. 233: Scheduling RPTS collections Collections; RPTS finances. #040 — Synod of 1869 #040-01, p. 195: New standing committee, on the traveling fund New standing committees; Traveling Fund. #040-02, p. 200: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #040-03, p. 200: Synod’s fiscal year to begin on 1 April; appointing businessmen to a standing Auditing Committee to examine all accounts, and regulating this committee Financial; Reporting calendars. #040-04, p. 201: Establish a Superannuated Ministers’ Fund, to be administered by presbyteries, and establishing regulations Collections; Pensions. Ministers: 1-019, 1-237 #040-05, p. 201: Rejecting resolutions changing the composition of Synod General and subordinate synods. Ministers: 1-114 #040-06, p. 204: Central Board of Missions to appoint fast and thanksgiving days Home missions; Signs of the Times. #040-07, p. 204: Iowa Presbytery to retain a minister on their rolls Church membership; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-008, 1-019, 1-196 #040-08, p. 206: Thanking the Rev. James Kennedy of the RPCI for his speech to Synod RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. Ministers: 1-120 #040-09, pp. 206-208: Deploring the nonreligious nature of the federal government, deeming its acceptance sinful, and rejoicing in National Reform efforts Congressional petitions; Financial; National Reform conventions; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts. Ministers: 1-186, 1-223, 1-229, 1-248 #040-10, pp. 209-210: Declining an invitation from the RCA to participate in a National Council of Evangelical Churches, cooperation being unhelpful with churches maintaining practices such as hymnody Ecumenical organizations; Outside communications; Psalmody; RCA. Ministers: 1-219, 1-238 #040-11, p. 210: Returning a third-party petition for removal of censure: such petitions can only be made by the party censured Book of Discipline; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-186, 1-248 #040-12, p. 210: Book of Discipline permits presbyteries to decide whether to admit parties to testify on their own behalf in judicial cases Book of Discipline; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-186, 1-248 #040-13, p. 210: Transfer certificates shall be made in duplicate (one to member, one to destination session), and members moving to another congregation shall be transferred automatically after one year Individual relocation; Membership transfer; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-186, 1-248 #040-14, pp. 211-212: Creating a Fiscal Board to procure new premises for RPTS; presbyteries to require higher Latin scholarship of candidates; extend sessions to seven months; take up a collection to expand the library Collections; Higher-education standards; Languages; RPTS library; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-028, 1-264 #040-15, p. 213: RPTS Treasurer to be an ex-officio member of the Superintendents RPTS; Rules and organization. #040-16, p. 213: Recommending that all congregations take collections for the American Bible Society American Bible Society; Collections. #040-17, p. 213: Condemning secret orders and commending anti-Masonry Secret societies. Ministers: 1-248 #040-18, p. 214: Continuing correspondence with the New Light church Fraternal relations; New Light church. Ministers: 1-091, 1-264 #040-19, p. 214: Ministers to preach on tithing; congregations must contribute to McKinney Fund (#037-03) if they have not already; other financial arrangements Collections; McKinney Fund; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-224, 1-236 #040-20, pp. 215-217: Ministers to present the needs of church programs to congregations in time for appointed collections Collections; Levant missions; National Reform; Sermon topics; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-224, 1-236 #040-21, pp. 219-220: Recommending foreign missions efforts at Killis, beginning cooperation with RPCI foreign missions, Central Board of Missions and freedmen’s missions to continue, transferring congregation to Illinois Presbytery Levant missions; Presbytery boundaries; RPCI; Southern Mission; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-075, 1-135 #040-22, p. 241: Pastors to preach on covenanting American Christian Expositor; Covenant renovation; Sermon topics. #040-23, p. 242: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #041 — Synod of 1870 #041-01, p. 197: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #041-02, p. 200: Accepting a donated James Renwick relic and appointing a guardian Church history; Donations. Ministers: 1-229 #041-03, pp. 201-204: Congregations should establish sabbath schools overseen by their officers, with pastors and elders to advocate for them; rejecting frivolous activities; all sessions ensure that children receive proper religious care Devolution; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-017, 1-135 #041-04, pp. 205-206: Approving letter to ill minister Incapacitated delegates; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-087, 1-292 #041-05, p. 207: Traveling Fund administration; committee to penalize presbyteries not paying their share of the fund Traveling Fund. #041-06, p. 208: Thanking the Rev. Dr. Clark of the New Light church for his speech to Synod, and desiring union with the New Light church Church union; New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #041-07, p. 208: Amending #041-05 formula Statistics; Traveling Fund. #041-08, p. 208: Approving the form of the Covenant of 1871, and sending it down in overture; rules on overture procedure Covenant of 1871; Overtures, new; Rules and organization. #041-09, p. 209: Reiterating established assessments for Traveling Fund Collections; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-025, 1-227 #041-10, pp. 209-210: Specifying length of RPTS sessions, students to be licensed after third year and must return for fourth, admission qualifications, minor other Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-150, 1-190 #041-11, p. 212: Condemning secret orders, membership warrants sanctions just as much as do rebellion or slavery, and pledging the church to Anti-Masonry Church discipline; Outside commissions; Outside communications; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-008, 1-135 #041-12, p. 213: Missions cooperation with RPCI (#040-21), sending domestic missionaries to the western frontier, various other arrangements Jewish missions; Levant missions; Pacific; RPCI; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-261, 1-267 #041-13, pp. 219-220: Arrangements for the Covenant of 1871, including sessions and presbyteries to act diligently to subscribe the bond Covenant of 1871; Financial; RP&C. Ministers: 1-229, 1-238, 1-245, 1-292 #041-14, pp. 220-221: Presbyterial statistical tables to be completed before Synod Directions to individuals; Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 1-028, 1-138 #041-15, p. 226: Public education is necessary; condemning secular education, sectarian education, and the removal of the Bible from the public schools Bible in schools; Philosophy of education. Ministers: 1-135 #041-16, pp. 226-227: Modifying the statistical form for presbyteries Directions to individuals; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-019, 1-135, 1-147 #041-17, pp. 227-228: Regulating RPTS superintendents; professors and presbyteries to examine candidates’ academic qualifications; admission standards Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-019, 1-237 #041-18, p. 235: Modifying proposed text of Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871. #041-19, p. 235: Paper is out of order, and directing Pittsburgh Presbytery to discipline author Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-095, 1-105, 1-219 #041-20, p. 235: Stott discipline case: dismissing complaint by his congregation against Illinois Presbytery, and reopening the case at Stott’s request John Stott case; Princeton. Ministers: 1-252 #041-21, p. 235: Stott discipline case: refusing to lift suspension Church discipline; John Stott case; Written dissent; Princeton. Ministers: 1-252 #041-22, pp. 236-239: Various financial arrangements; collections for McKinney (#037-03) and Superannuated Ministers’ Funds (#040-04), and RPTS library Collections; Debt; McKinney Fund; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RPTS library; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-117, 1-147 #041-23, p. 240: Congregations to collect for RPTS; warning to delinquent sessions Collections; Delinquency; RPTS finances. #041-24, pp. 240-242: Appointing Geneva faculty; congregations to take up collections for the college; replacing the Board of Education at its own request Agency membership; Collections; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Resignations. Ministers: 1-138, 1-190 #041-25, p. 243: Congregations to collect annually for NRA Collections; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 1-186, 1-223, 1-229, 1-248 #041-26, p. 246: Publishing the minutes of Synod Minutes of Synod. #042 — Synod of 1871 #042-01, pp. 197-198: Adopting #041-08 following favorable votes in overture; arrangements for the Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; Overtures, successful; Synod communion. #042-02, p. 198: Interpreting the Covenant of 1871: “Covenants of the Second Reformation” refers to National and Solemn League Construction; Covenant of 1871. #042-03, p. 198: Swearing the Covenant of 1871 [dissent, page 208] Covenant of 1871; Written dissent. #042-04, p. 199: Printing the Covenant of 1871 on parchment Covenant of 1871; Publications. #042-05, p. 199: Accepting a donation Covenant of 1871; Thanking donors. #042-06, p. 199: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-278 #042-07, p. 201: Expressing interest in and sympathy for Washington and Jefferson College Supporting colleges. #042-08, p. 201: Studying the creation of subordinate synods and a general synod General and subordinate synods; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-020, 1-025 #042-09, pp. 204-205: All congregations to ratify the Covenant of 1871 and to take special offerings for buying or erecting an RPTS building Collections; Covenant of 1871; RPTS location. #042-10, p. 206: Beginning the use of a Board of Trustees, incorporated under Pennsylvania law (1871 Pa. Laws 299), and making arrangements for their operation Financial; Incorporation; New agencies; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-244 #042-11, p. 207: Publishing a memorial volume for the Covenant of 1871 (OCLC 9742814) Memorial Volume. Ministers: 1-229, 1-236, 1-248 #042-12, p. 208: Thanking the New Light delegate for his speech to Synod, and resolving on seeking union with them Church union; New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #042-13, p. 209: Reinforcing the mission in Syria, establishing a mission in Toronto, sending missionaries to the West, and closing the freedmen’s mission in Washington Canada; Church planting; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Pacific; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-182, 1-190 #042-14, p. 216: Reiterating attendance and limited-preaching clauses of #039-17, with professors to report violations to the board; instructing the Fiscal Board to buy property for RPTS; modifying licensure procedures Candidate examinations; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS faculty; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-025, 1-248 #042-15, p. 218: Appointing trustees to manage and sell a piece of donated property Outside commissions; Real property; Pine Creek. #042-16, pp. 218-219: Arrangements for the Covenant of 1871, including ministers to preach on the subject, and appointing a fast day Covenant of 1871; Pastoral letters; Publications; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-120, 1-248, 1-292 #042-17, pp. 219-221: Free tuition in Geneva to be given to male or female students supported by specific individuals or churches, and to children of ministers Benefits for ministers; Geneva finances; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-079, 1-288 #042-18, p. 221: Sustaining an appeal against Pittsburgh Presbytery [following a church split, judging by presbytery minutes] Judicial cases; Splits in congregations; Allegheny, Central Allegheny. #042-19, pp. 231-233: Reiterating #034-19 regarding reporting statistics, and reiterating #041-14 Directions to individuals; Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 1-135, 1-232 #042-20, pp. 238-241: Various financial arrangements; Synod agencies to submit summaries of balance sheets; ministerial candidates may not draw from Education Fund unless they have financial need Collections; Graduate student aid; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-019, 1-188 #042-21, pp. 241-242: Organizing Kansas Presbytery and specifying its boundaries New presbyteries. Ministers: 1-135, 1-232 #042-22, p. 242: Not sustaining an appeal against Lakes Presbytery and returning a petition to its authors Judicial cases; No information; Southfield. Ministers: 1-238, 1-245 #042-23, p. 243: Making arrangements for National Reform Donations; NRA. Ministers: 1-135, 1-186, 1-223, 1-229, 1-248 #042-24, p. 243: Synod to pay the expenses of those publishing documents on Synod’s behalf Financial; Publications. #042-25, p. 245: Appropriating money for missions Financial; Southern Mission. #043 — Synod of 1872 #043-01, pp. 198-199: Appointing days of fasting and thanksgiving is in line with the Directory of Worship and the Testimony; sessions need to ensure adherence to these dates Directory for Worship; Signs of the Times; Testimony; New York 2. Ministers: 1-019, 1-020 #043-02, p. 199: Honorarium for Synod’s former clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-261, 1-278 #043-03, pp. 201-203: New standing committee, on temperance; pastors must preach against alcohol and work for temperance causes; and condemning the alcohol business as sinful and warning members against it, violations to attract sessional discipline Church discipline; New standing committees; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Temperance. Ministers: 1-245, 1-275 #043-04, p. 205: Clerk to publish draft copies of the new Rules of Order Directions to individuals; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-261 #043-05, pp. 206-208: Specifying a list of questions to be used in presbyterial visitation Collections; Communion frequency; Directory for Worship; Eldership; Membership transfer; Ministers in secular employment; Political dissent; Poor relief; Presbytery visitation; Psalm explanations; Sabbath schools; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Strict subscription; Youth. Ministers: 1-019, 1-135 #043-06, p. 210: The church is duty-bound to advocate sabbath-keeping; seeking to work with other churches on this issue Interchurch; Methodists; Outside commissions; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-232, 1-288 #043-07, p. 211: Latin scholarship is a necessary component of the licensure process Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Higher-education standards; Languages. Ministers: 1-190, 1-261 #043-08, pp. 211-213: All efforts to be expended in financing RPTS building (#042-14) Collections; RPTS finances; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-120, 1-248, 1-292 #043-09, p. 213: RPTS to relocate to Wilkinsburg RPTS location. #043-10, pp. 222-223: Financial arrangements; a licentiate may decide whether or not to accept a call, rather than the decision being made by presbytery; presbyteries must keep better statistics Congregational aid; Rules and organization; Statistics; Toronto. Ministers: 1-079, 1-237 #043-11, p. 228: Thanking NRA secretary and pledging continued support for National Reform Collections; NRA. Ministers: 1-135, 1-186, 1-223, 1-229, 1-248 #043-12, p. 231: Superannuated Ministers Fund to be used for the benefit of Mrs. M.J. Buck Pensions. Ministers: 1-023 #043-13, pp. 231-233: Assessing mission stations; presbyteries to take charge of missions upon organization Church planting; Collections; Minimum salaries; Pacific. Ministers: 1-120, 1-138 #043-14, p. 241: Homestead oaths are wrong, as they involve incorporation; appointing a committee to obtain substitutionary oaths for homesteaders and pensioners Naturalization; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-062, 1-292 #043-15, p. 241: Thanking the donor of land for RPTS in Wilkinsburg RPTS location; Thanking donors. #043-16, p. 242: Candidates to be licensed after three RPTS terms, not three calendar years; presbyteries not to assign seminarians to preach; terms should not be shortened; professors report students’ attendance and conduct to their presbyteries Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. #043-17, pp. 242-243: Appropriating money to Geneva; Board of Education may fill its own vacancies Devolution; Geneva finances; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-288 #043-18, pp. 243-247: Various financial arrangements Donations; McKinney Fund; Pensions; Real property; Resignations; RPTS library; Thanks. Ministers: 1-223, 1-275 #043-19, p. 248: Various financial arrangements following the resignation of William Brown as Synod’s missions treasurer Directions to individuals; Financial. #043-20, p. 248: Stott discipline case: closing the case with no further action and no lifting of suspension Church discipline; John Stott case; Princeton. Ministers: 1-020, 1-103, 1-252 #043-21, p. 249: Superannuated Ministers Fund to be used for the benefit of Miss Jane Gibson Directions to individuals; Pensions. #043-22, p. 249: Sustaining complaint and appeal against New York Presbytery for permitting a congregation to omit days of fasting and traditional method of dispensing the Lord’s Supper Lord’s supper; Signs of the Times; Special services; New York 2. #043-23, pp. 249-251: Covenant of 1871 is an update and new application of the Scottish covenants, but not exactly a renewal or renovation Construction; Covenant of 1871; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-229, 1-238 #043-24, p. 251: Dismissing a complaint against Lakes Presbytery Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-268 #044 — Synod of 1873 #044-01, p. 220: 1871 memorial volume is the responsibility of the treasurer of the Literary Fund Directions to individuals; Memorial Volume. Ministers: 1-229, 1-236, 1-244 #044-02, p. 223: Recommendation letter for minister canvassing for donations Canvassing; Boston 1. Ministers: 1-091, 1-147, 1-261 #044-03, p. 223: Pay the costs of publishing the Rules of Order, and honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk; Publications; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-261 #044-04, pp. 223-224: Reappointing the #043-14 committee, which is to petition Congress for relief Congressional petitions; Naturalization; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-062, 1-182 #044-05, p. 225: Repealing #043-09 and retaining RPTS in Allegheny RPTS location. #044-06, p. 225: Synod’s records to omit honorary titles Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #044-07, pp. 225-226: Patrons of RPTS library to notify librarian when borrowing books; pastors to assist in fundraising for the library; expanding Superintendents from six members to seven Agency membership; Collections; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-015, 1-245 #044-08, p. 227: Presbyteries to apply existing church law as they believe appropriate when handling ministers leaving the church Church discipline; Departing ministers; Devolution. Ministers: 1-020, 1-091, 1-248 #044-09, p. 229: Reiterating #043-12 Pensions. Ministers: 1-023 #044-10, pp. 230-232: Expanding the Board of Education by adding a member from each presbytery; raising the Geneva president’s salary; appropriating money for the college Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Higher-education standards; Political dissent; Presbytery-appointed membership; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-079, 1-213 #044-11, pp. 235-237: Modifying the statistical form for presbyteries; financial arrangements Church erection; Church planting; Collections; Congregational aid; Delinquency; National Reform; Statistical blanks; Toronto. Ministers: 1-156, 1-186 #044-12, pp. 242-243: Establish schools for missionary children, and other arrangements for Syrian mission; missionaries to call congregations to self-support; appropriating money for Southern Mission and other arrangements Collections; Foreign missions HR; Mission schools; Real property; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-112, 1-237 #044-13, p. 262: Rejecting a complaint against Illinois Presbytery as being severely out of order Judicial cases; No information; Statute of limitations; Olathe. Ministers: 1-228, 1-292 #044-14, p. 262: Stott discipline case: reiterating #043-20, and the case will not again be heard unless Stott submits to Illinois Presbytery and rejoins the RPCNA congregation Book of Discipline; Church discipline; John Stott case; Real property; Trial procedure; Princeton. Ministers: 1-133, 1-228, 1-252, 1-292 #044-15, pp. 262-263: Reiterating #043-23 (petition presented by same parties); incorporation procured by #042-10 is no more immoral than private members holding property; Synod is not responsible for every word in sermons published at its request Construction; Covenant of 1871; Incorporation; Publications; Real property; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-228, 1-292 #044-16, p. 263: Pittsburgh Presbytery directed to ordain a missionary Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-180 #044-17, p. 264: Construction arrangements for the new RPTS building in Allegheny RPTS finances; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-236 #044-18, pp. 264-267: Various financial arrangements; appointing dates for congregational special collections Collections; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; McKinney Fund; Pensions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-162, 1-232 #044-19, p. 268: Approving a standard form of mortgage for use by the Board of Church Extension Financial; Real property. Ministers: 1-186 #044-20, p. 269: Recognizing the congregation pastored by D.C. Martin as the only RP church in Princeton John Stott case; Princeton. Ministers: 1-133, 1-252 #044-21, p. 269: Permitting occasional hearing, as long as ministers and elders do not encourage it, and as long as it does not give offense Occasional hearing; Old Bethel. #045 — Synod of 1874 #045-01, pp. 201-202: Joint prayer meetings with members of other churches are permitted (as was participation in temperance and anti-slavery organizations), as long as they do not involve improper forms of worship, involve members in anything inconsistent with their beliefs, or draw members away from the church’s own activities Interchurch; National Reform; Slavery and race; Society meetings; Temperance organizations. Ministers: 1-120, 1-186, 1-245 #045-02, p. 207: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-261 #045-03, p. 207: Thanking John Comin of the UPCNA for his speech to Synod, and pledging collaboration with that church in National Reform National Reform; Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #045-04, p. 211: A minister living in Colorado is part of Kansas Presbytery Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 1-065 #045-05, pp. 211-212: The RPCNA should participate in ecumenical work with other Presbyterian churches on missions and other efforts Church union; Ecumenical organizations. Ministers: 1-135, 1-238 #045-06, pp. 212-214: Adjusting the composition of the Board of Education Collections; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Presbytery-appointed membership; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-021, 1-248 #045-07, p. 214: Renaming the Committee on the Theological Seminary to Committee on the Theological Society and Education Renaming; RPTS. #045-08, pp. 214-216: Domestic members to urge the government to press for the release of imprisoned members in Syria; various financial arrangements; establishing Syrian Commission; financial arrangements for Southern Mission; preparing for an Indian Mission Alawites; Collections; Foreign missions HR; Government communications; Indian Mission; Real property; Southern Mission; Syrian Commission; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-025, 1-028 #045-09, p. 227: Condemning the Patrons of Husbandry (the Grange) for their secrecy Secret societies. Ministers: 1-009, 1-138, 1-188 #045-10, pp. 227-228: Disposing of the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-138, 1-238 #045-11, pp. 228-233: Authorizing the Trustees of Synod to take over all accounts from James Campbell of Rochester [Minutes of 1873, page 269]; making various other arrangements Bequests; Collections; Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Foreign missions; McKinney Fund; National Reform; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-091, 1-147 #045-12, p. 233: Giving greetings to the New Light church Fraternal relations; New Light church; Outside communications. #045-13, pp. 233-235: Permitting a minister to partake of the superannuated fund; presbytery clerks to report their mission stations Church planting; Pensions; Presbytery reports. Ministers: 1-015, 1-017, 1-268 #045-14, p. 240: Declaring that National Reform is a means to the end of seeing the whole country submit to Christ; rejoicing in the movement’s progress; encouraging congregations to continued support Collections; Construction; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 1-135, 1-229, 1-248 #045-15, p. 242: Declaring further support for National Reform as a duty of the whole country National Reform. Ministers: 1-292 #045-16, p. 242: It is not yet time to revise the Terms of Communion Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-120, 1-229, 1-238 #045-17, p. 243: Congregations to collect for RPTS library; students must pass their courses before advancing to the next year; no preaching appointments may be accepted without professorial permission Collections; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-020, 1-237 #045-18, p. 245: Dismissing complaint of Isaac Taylors against the Trustees Judicial cases; No information; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-186, 1-238 #045-19, p. 246: There is no current need for a digest of the acts of Synod, since most of them are local in scope, deal with forgotten questions, or are otherwise no longer relevant Deacon controversy; Digest of deliverances. Ministers: 1-186, 1-248, 1-292 #045-20, p. 246: Adopting new Rules of Order, to be published independently and with the Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Publications; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-223, 1-248, 1-292 #045-21, p. 247: Congregations to collect for the Literary Fund Collections. #045-22, p. 247: Directing the publication of a new edition of the Testimony with the Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; Publications; Testimony. #045-23, pp. 247-248: Urging congregations not to use wine in the Lord’s Supper, prohibiting membership in secret temperance organizations, and urging participation in other temperance causes Communion cup; Secret societies; Temperance organizations. Ministers: 1-019, 1-182, 1-190 #046 — Synod of 1875 #046-01, p. 201: Permitting the Trustees to sell a piece of property Real property; Trustees of Synod. #046-02, p. 201: Thanking W.H. McMillan of the UPCNA for his address to Synod Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #046-03, pp. 206-208: Reminding the church of the importance of tithing, reiterating #037-20 on tithing and preaching Sermon topics; Tithing; Sharon. Ministers: 1-062, 1-186 #046-04, p. 208: Reimbursing minister his expenses on behalf of the church Financial; Real property; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-043, 1-062, 1-103, 1-259 #046-05, p. 208: Appropriating money for the Collection and Digest of Laws committee Digest of deliverances; Financial. #046-06, p. 209: Clerk to buy a new book for Synod’s minutes and to pay himself Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-261 #046-07, p. 210: Synod is not ready to move Geneva away from Northwood Geneva. #046-08, p. 211: Arrangements for #046-04 Financial; Real property; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-043 #046-09, p. 211: Thanking W.J. Smiley of the New Light church for his address to Synod New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #046-10, p. 211: Thanking R.A. McFarlane of the RPCI for his address to Synod RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #046-11, pp. 212-213: Petitioning President Grant to recognize the nation’s sins and call it to repentance Civil War; Post office; Presidential communications; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Signs of the Times; Temperance. Ministers: 1-062, 1-182, 1-186 #046-12, pp. 213-214: Appropriating money to Geneva; congregations to collect Collections; Geneva finances. Ministers: 1-248 #046-13, pp. 214-215: Directing congregations to take up collections for the Church Extension fund, and regulating the fund Church planting; Collections. Ministers: 1-091, 1-236, 1-245 #046-14, pp. 216-221: Various financial arrangements, including setting dates for congregational collections, and publishing a new edition of the Testimony Collections; Congregational aid; McKinney Fund; NRA; Pensions; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Testimony; Evans. Ministers: 1-019, 1-042, 1-091, 1-135, 1-248 #046-15, pp. 224-225: Reminding congregations from Lakes and Ohio Presbyteries to contribute their share of Synod’s assessments for the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-017, 1-100, 1-237 #046-16, p. 225: Returning with disapproval a petition from RPTS students (p. 214) regarding a senior professor’s quality of teaching; retiring the professor with a pension and replacing him with a new professor Higher-education standards; Pensions; RPTS faculty; Student activism. Ministers: 1-006, 1-120, 1-238, 1-289 #046-17, p. 226: Thanking the St. Louis Globe-Democrat for reporting on the proceedings Thanking newspapers. #046-18, p. 231: Fourth Term of Communion not to be adjusted, except by a minor phrase change to accommodate the Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-292 #046-19, p. 232: There is nothing necessarily wrong with purchasing life or fire insurance policies Insurance; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-020, 1-025, 1-292 #046-20, p. 232: Local matters with local peculiarities cannot always be pre-legislated; incorporation is wrong when it involves immoral oaths or actions, not wrong in all situations (#039-19) Devolution; Legal prohibition; Oath question; Voting; New Concord. Ministers: 1-020, 1-025, 1-292 #046-21, p. 232: Advising session to end Thomas McClurkin’s suspension should he agree not to impugn the church’s ministers Judicial cases; Restorations; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-020, 1-025, 1-292 #046-22, pp. 232-233: Ministers in regions attacked by locusts must remain with their people; other congregations to take a collection to support them Collections; Directions to individuals; Disaster relief; Paying ministers. #046-23, p. 236: Newly elected RPTS professor must resign his pastorate; ascertaining his salary Dissolving pastorates; RPTS faculty; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-275 #046-24, p. 244: Rejoicing in increased RPTS enrollment; increased expenses can be met; superintendents permitted to adjust professors’ portfolios Collections; Devolution; Higher-education standards; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-015, 1-121, 1-248 #047 — Synod of 1876 #047-01, p. 200: Repealing #017-11 Paying the clerk. #047-02, p. 200: Praising the Centennial Exposition board’s decision to open only Monday through Saturday National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping. #047-03, p. 205: Completing arrangements for #046-04 Directions to individuals; Financial; Real property; Indianapolis. Ministers: 1-043, 1-248 #047-04, p. 206: Removing a former minister from Synod’s roll Departing ministers; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-149 #047-05, pp. 206-207: Certifying each year’s printed minutes of Synod and distributing them; clerk urged to send original documents to PHS when it is ready to receive them Minutes of Synod; PHS; Trial procedure. #047-06, p. 207: Commending the PHS for donations; asking ministers and congregations to submit to it their own histories Donations; PHS. Ministers: 1-248, 1-292 #047-07, p. 208: Thanking RPCS delegates, congratulating the RPCS on its stances, and recognizing it as the only RP church in Scotland Political dissent; RPCS; Thanking fraternal delegates. #047-08, p. 208: Deploring tobacco use, urging all members to stop using tobacco and abandon commerce in it, and presbyteries to endeavor to prevent candidates from using it Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-188, 1-229, 1-248 #047-09, p. 210: Honorarium for Synod’s former clerk, notwithstanding #047-01 Making exceptions; Paying the clerk. Ministers: 1-248, 1-261 #047-10, pp. 210-211: Urging the church to build a permanent endowment for Geneva Donations; Geneva finances. Ministers: 1-028, 1-162, 1-207 #047-11, p. 211: Thanking the Rev. John Alford of the New Light church for his speech to Synod, reciprocating his greetings, and appointing a committee to meet with a corresponding New Light committee New Light church; Outside commissions; Thanking fraternal delegates; Written dissent. #047-12, pp. 212-217: Various financial arrangements; prohibiting ministerial candidates from receiving aid without a certificate from their presbytery Collections; Congregational aid; Graduate student aid; McKinney Fund; NRA; Pensions; Real property; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-082, 1-147, 1-156 #047-13, p. 217: Approving the current RPTS course of study and urging congregations to increase their giving Debt; Donations; Higher-education standards; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-028, 1-162, 1-207 #047-14, pp. 226-227: Taking a collection for the RPTS library Collections; RPTS library. #047-15, p. 228: Synod expected the RPTS professors to be full-time, not pastoring churches; if salary arrears cannot be met, Trustees shall secure a loan to pay them Paying RPTS faculty; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-229, 1-275 #047-16, pp. 228-231: Denouncing the alcohol industry, calling for total prohibition, and urging the church to greater zeal Communion cup; Legal prohibition; Taxation. Ministers: 1-079, 1-092, 1-233, 1-275 #047-17, pp. 231-232: Modifying the statistical form for presbyteries; presbyteries to submit better statistics; sending a delegate to RPCI missions in Maritime Canada to consider merger Canada; Presbytery reports; RPCI; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-015, 1-025, 1-275, 1-288 #047-18, pp. 238-239: Creating a Sustentation Fund to support weak congregations and pay their pastors, and establishing regulations; minimum salary; presbytery commissions shall strongly encourage liberality Collections; Congregational aid; Minimum salaries; New agencies; Presbytery visitation. Ministers: 1-120, 1-135, 1-186 #047-19, pp. 239-240: Rejoicing in the progress of the NRA, urging ministers and members to support it vigorously, and ordering collections for its finances Collections; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 1-135, 1-229, 1-248 #047-20, pp. 240-241: Southern Mission to start work in Camden, Alabama as soon as possible; make arrangements for building a school in Selma; congregations to reach out to Chinese immigrants; appealing for more efforts among the Chinese Chinese Home Mission; Church planting; Donations; Mission schools; Pacific; Real property; Seeking candidates, HMB; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-114, 1-186, 1-259, 1-264 #047-21, p. 250: Establishing a Sustentation Board to oversee the fund; congregations to collect for it, and setting a goal for receipts Collections; Congregational aid; New agencies. Ministers: 1-120, 1-135, 1-186 #047-22, p. 250: Pastors constantly to call their congregations to heed the Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; Sermon topics. #047-23, p. 251: Central Board of Missions permitted to publish church standards translated into Czech Covenant of 1871; Languages; Testimony; Westminster standards. #048 — Synod of 1877 #048-01, p. 168: New standing committee, on National Reform National Reform; New standing committees. #048-02, p. 170: Sympathy for minister experiencing severe chronic illness Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-196 #048-03, p. 171: Thanking the Rev. A.D. Clark of the UPCNA for his speech to Synod, and rejoicing in fraternal relations Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #048-04, p. 173: Permitting a call to be made upon an RPTS professor, notwithstanding the first clause of #047-15 Making exceptions; RPTS faculty; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-229 #048-05, p. 173: Digest of Laws to include relevant case summaries Digest of deliverances. #048-06, p. 174: Presbytery clerks to certify congregations eligible for aid Congregational aid; Directions to individuals. #048-07, p. 174: Thanking the New Light church for supporting Syria mission Interchurch; Levant missions; New Light church. Ministers: 1-292 #048-08, p. 176: Rochester Presbytery to give suspended minister a statement of his case [see Glasgow, page 533]; rejecting the legitimacy of Universalist baptism; remanding to Pittsburgh Presbytery the case of a minister suspended for adultery [see note, top of page 215] Baptism; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Universalism; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 1-020, 1-094, 1-112, 1-120, 1-229 #048-09, pp. 176-178: Modifying the regulations of the Sustentation Fund Congregational aid; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-186 #048-10, p. 178: Approving PHS’s attempt to obtain a suitable fireproof building and commending its financial appeals to the church Donations; PHS; Real property. #048-11, p. 179: Thomas McClurkin discipline case: urging session to handle him very tenderly Judicial cases; No information; Oakdale. Ministers: 1-020, 1-120, 1-229 #048-12, p. 180: Ministers of other denominations have never been permitted in RP pulpits, and there is no reason to begin permitting them Closed pulpits; Coldenham, New York 2, New York 4. Ministers: 1-141, 1-229, 1-238 #048-13, p. 182: New standing committee, on sabbath schools New standing committees; Sabbath schools. #048-14, pp. 183-184: Urging congregations to give more liberally to RPTS; permitting professor to be pastor and professor (#048-04), and ascertaining his salary; #046-16 was meant to lighten professor’s loan, not to retire him forcibly; urging him to return Construction; Donations; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS faculty as pastors; Allegheny. Ministers: 1-117, 1-224, 1-229, 1-233, 1-238, 1-292 #048-15, pp. 190-191: Reiterating previous rules for submission of statistics Directions to individuals; Levant missions; Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 1-091, 1-265 #048-16, p. 198: Candidates who have dropped out of RPTS are not to be licensed; they must resume their studies Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS. #048-17, pp. 198-199: Assigning mission to Ohio Presbytery; recognizing minister as missionary and urging donations; regarding petition as an informal call and directing Pittsburgh Presbytery to ordain a licentiate; declining FMB chairman’s resignation Chinese Home Mission; Donations; Islam; Presbytery boundaries; Resignations; Sine titulo; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; Mansfield, Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 1-011, 1-025, 1-037, 1-057 #048-18, pp. 210-212: Various financial arrangements, including setting dates for congregational collections; repealing #042-20 regarding Education Fund, and recipients to be nominated by presbytery committees Bequests; Collections; Graduate student aid; Levant missions; NRA; Pensions; Post office; Resignations; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-023, 1-082, 1-092, 1-188, 1-196, 1-268 #048-19, p. 213: Approving a draft of the revised Fourth Term of Communion, with the Covenant of 1871 included; final approval to wait for next year Covenant of 1871; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-020, 1-120, 1-225, 1-229, 1-238, 1-275 #048-20, pp. 213-214: Pledging readiness to receive RPCI missions in Maritime Canada when they request (#047-17) Canada; Financial; RPCI. Ministers: 1-275 #049 — Synod of 1878 #049-01, p. 198: Reciprocating the greetings brought by the Rev. David McDill of the UPCNA Fraternal relations; UPCNA. #049-02, p. 199: Declaring the Traveling Fund permanent, presbyteries be responsible for collecting funds, and other arrangements General and subordinate synods; Meeting schedule; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-120, 1-147 #049-03, p. 199: Reiterating #045-21 Collections. #049-04, p. 200: Commending the International Sabbath Association to the church and strongly discouraging members from attending functions requiring sabbath-breaking public transportation Boycotts; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 1-275 #049-05, p. 200: Recommendation letter for minister visiting Europe No information. Ministers: 1-091 #049-06, p. 202: Women may speak and lead in prayer at social prayer meetings Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Society meetings. #049-07, pp. 202-203: Total abstinence from alcohol is the only scriptural course of life; condemning alcohol-related activities (e.g. growing hops and grapes intended for alcohol); the state should enact prohibition; urging the church to activism Alcohol restrictions on all members; Legal prohibition. Ministers: 1-063, 1-117, 1-159 #049-08, p. 203: Assistant clerk to print forms for delegates traveling on the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and Northern Railroad Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-248 #049-09, p. 204: Appointing a committee to confer with other exclusive-psalmody churches Interchurch; Outside commissions; Psalmody. Ministers: 1-186, 1-229, 1-248 #049-10, pp. 210-211: Reiterating #047-06 on congregational histories; recommending the publication of a denominational history Church history; RPCNA books. Ministers: 1-227, 1-292 #049-11, p. 211: Adopting a final form of the new Fourth Term of Communion (#048-19) [dissent, page 240] Covenant of 1871; Terms of Communion; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-020, 1-105, 1-120, 1-129, 1-225, 1-229, 1-238, 1-275 #049-12, p. 212:#049-11 does not affect the standing of any of the present members of the church Covenant of 1871; Making exceptions; Terms of Communion. #049-13, pp. 213-214: Greatly reworking the Sustentation Fund; congregations to take up a collection for superannuated ministers Collections; Congregational aid; Minimum salaries; Pensions. Ministers: 1-120, 1-186 #049-14, pp. 214-215: Shortening the RPTS term and requiring all students to be present at the opening of the schoolyear; studying relocation of Geneva Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-021, 1-065, 1-162 #049-15, pp. 217-219: Presbyteries to appoint ministers to work for National Reform; appointing a collection for National Reform and setting a goal Bible in schools; Collections; Communism; Home missions; Methodists; National Reform conventions; Witness work. Ministers: 1-182, 1-213 #049-16, p. 219: Dismissing protest against unspecified presbytery [omitted from minutes; see 1879 Unfinished Business report, page 211] Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-147 #049-17, p. 219: Missionary among the Chinese permitted to baptize by himself; the Testimony comments on and interprets the Confession regarding the magistrate’s power circa sacra Baptism; Chinese Home Mission; Testimony; Westminster standards; Oakland. Ministers: 1-114, 1-135, 1-233, 1-275 #049-18, p. 220: Reiterating #048-15; moving congregation from Pittsburgh Presbytery to Illinois Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery reports; Southern Mission; Statistics; Selma. Ministers: 1-066, 1-122, 1-237 #049-19, pp. 225-226: Hiring another teacher in Syria; Central Board of Missions given discretion regarding Camden, Alabama, and to oversee all home missions not retained by presbyteries; congregations to collect for Chinese mission Chinese Home Mission; Foreign missions HR; Mission schools; Resignations; Southern Mission; Oakland. Ministers: 1-058, 1-082, 1-114, 1-147 #049-20, pp. 232-234: Adopting position paper on sabbath schools: sabbath schools to exist in all congregations, overseen by sessions, and all members urged to enroll. Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-079, 1-080, 1-141 #049-21, pp. 234-239: Permitting Trustees to dispose of any property except for RPTS building; appointing congregational collections; various other financial arrangements Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Debt; Geneva faculty; NRA; Pensions; Real property; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-019, 1-020, 1-232 #049-22, p. 240: Responding to dissent on #049-11: the Covenant of 1871 is another chain in the covenants, not a replacement of the old; mere simplification of the term was not the goal Covenant of 1871; Responses to dissent; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-105, 1-120, 1-188 #049-23, p. 241: Specific ministers appointed to publish tracts Christian Statesman; Interchurch; Our Banner; Political dissent; Psalmody; RP&C; Soteriology; Tracts. Ministers: 1-120, 1-133, 1-182, 1-186, 1-227, 1-229, 1-275 #050 — Synod of 1879 #050-01, pp. 196-197: Declining to celebrate the Lord’s Supper at Synod in 1879 Synod communion. Ministers: 1-233 #050-02, p. 197: Selling remainders of the 1871 memorial volume (#044-01) Financial; Memorial Volume. #050-03, p. 197: New standing committee, on order of business Business of Synod; New standing committees. #050-04, pp. 199-201: Sabbath schools to instruct on church manuals; urging the creation of outreach sabbath schools; all teachers to be capable members of the church who seek “to lead the soul of the scholar to Christ” Bible in schools; Evangelism; Home missions; Philosophy of education; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-009, 1-240, 1-270 #050-05, pp. 201-202: Reiterating previous pronouncements on alcohol; urging members to support temperance organizations; “total abstinence on the part of the individual, impartial discipline on the part of the church, absolute prohibition on the part of the state”; urging Congress and state legislatures to action Alcohol restrictions on all members; Congressional petitions; Dancing; Health and medicine; Legal prohibition; Temperance organizations; Theaters. Ministers: 1-065, 1-240, 1-289 #050-06, p. 209: Returning a session’s remonstrance and petition on #049-11 Covenant of 1871; Terms of Communion; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-292 #050-07, p. 210: Fraternal delegates will not be given a time for addressing Synod and will not be made consultative members Fraternal relations; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-120, 1-147, 1-229 #050-08, p. 211: Declining to adopt a plan of reducing the size of Synod General and subordinate synods. Ministers: 1-159, 1-227, 1-236, 1-275 #050-09, p. 212: Condemning all tobacco use and the tobacco industry, urging all members to stop using it (with medical exemption) and to campaign against it; advising against ordaining tobacco users Licentiates; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-159 #050-10, pp. 213-214: Receiving the RPCI Presbytery of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia upon its request, with the permission of the RPCI Canada; New presbyteries; RPCI. Ministers: 1-182, 1-242, 1-275, 1-292 #050-11, pp. 214-215: Two separate printings of the 1878 minutes had reported different Traveling Fund figures; identifying the correct reading Construction; Minutes of Synod; Our Banner; RP&C; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-037 #050-12, pp. 215-217: Reiterating #047-19; supporting any capable and general agent whom the NRA may appoint Christian Statesman; Collections; Congregationalism; Methodists; NRA; PCUSA; Tracts; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-077, 1-186, 1-224, 1-248 #050-13, p. 217: Appointing commissioners to meet a judge refusing to excuse a member from jury duty [results on page 221] Jury question; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-092, 1-135 #050-14, pp. 217-218: Adopting a new plan for the Superannuated Ministers’ Fund Pensions. #050-15, p. 218: Adopting Beaver Falls as Geneva’s new location; accepting Harmony Society’s donation of land and money Donations; Geneva; Real property. #050-16, p. 219: Reiterating condemnations of secret orders and committing the church to Anti-Masonry Secret societies. Ministers: 1-188 #050-17, pp. 219-220: Reiterating #035-29; #049-20 is sufficiently clear on the election of superintendents and teachers in sabbath schools Construction; Dead wife’s sister; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Baltimore. Ministers: 1-075, 1-119, 1-227 #050-18, p. 220: Creating a committee with authority to make arrangements for moving Geneva to Beaver Falls Debt; Donations; Geneva; Real property. Ministers: 1-080, 1-135, 1-232 #050-19, pp. 221-222: Declining petition to direct Rochester Presbytery to remove York session and have a new session elected (applying #035-24); appointing a judicial commission to handle the case Eldership; Judicial cases; New commissions; York. Ministers: 1-020, 1-135, 1-162, 1-275, 1-292 #050-20, pp. 222-231: Reducing RPTS professors’ salaries due to financial shortfalls; authorize a new printing of the Testimony; Trustees of Synod may send a consultative member to Synod if none of them are delegates; each delegates not voting against an appropriation binds himself to ensuring that his congregation pay its share; various other financial arrangements Bequests; Debt; Delegate qualifications; Our Banner; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; Resignations; RP&C; RPTS library; Rules and organization; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-023, 1-062, 1-236, 1-238, 1-275, 1-288 #050-21, p. 231: The Chinese Mission is regularly under the care of Synod Chinese Home Mission; Oakland. #050-22, pp. 231-232: Reiterating presbyterial responsibility clause of #049-02 Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-015, 1-138, 1-153 #050-23, pp. 232-233: FMB permitted to make staffing arrangements Chinese Home Mission; Foreign missions HR; Home missions HR; Levant missions; Licentiates; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-010, 1-019, 1-028, 1-264 #050-24, p. 241: Organizing the Oakland mission as a regular congregation Chinese Home Mission; Directions to individuals; New commissions; Oakland. Ministers: 1-114 #050-25, p. 242: Directing a collection to pay a debt to a deceased Geneva professor’s estate Collections; Debt; Geneva faculty. Ministers: 1-190 #050-26, pp. 242-243:#042-21 boundaries place a mission station in Kansas Presbytery; new standing committee, on distribution of supplies New standing committees; Presbytery boundaries; Supply preaching; Cameron. Ministers: 1-080, 1-091, 1-265 #050-27, p. 247: Return #050-19 petition to petitioners; congregation to pay the commission’s expenses Financial; Judicial cases; York. Ministers: 1-019 #050-28, p. 251: Walter T. Miller to publish a new edition of the Testimony reflecting #049-11 Covenant of 1871; Directions to individuals; Publications; Terms of Communion; Testimony. #050-29, p. 252: Encouraging the church’s devotion to Geneva; various arrangements for moving the college Geneva finances; Parental responsibilities. Ministers: 1-141, 1-232, 1-233 #051 — Synod of 1880 #051-01, p. 196: Giving official sanction to the sale of a piece of property in the District of Columbia by a trustee of Synod Ex post facto; Real property. #051-02, pp. 200-202: Presbyteries to oversee sabbath schools; assigning responsibilities to teachers; reiterating #050-04 on church manuals Devolution; Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-042, 1-213, 1-235 #051-03, pp. 204-206: Adopting a constitution for Geneva Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Geneva library; Higher-education standards; New agencies; Presbytery-appointed membership. #051-04, pp. 207-209: Approving actions of #050-19 commission Judicial cases; Lawsuits among members; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Oath of purgation; Reviewing commissions; York. Ministers: 1-020, 1-135, 1-162, 1-275, 1-292 #051-05, pp. 211-212: Reiterating latter half of #050-05; all use of alcohol deserves discipline; urging other churches to follow; directing members to vote for prohibition whenever possible Alcohol restrictions on all members; Legal prohibition; Outside communications; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 1-065, 1-240, 1-289 #051-06, pp. 212-213: Reiterating #050-09 Tobacco. #051-07, p. 213: Expanding Temperance Committee’s scope to include tobacco Rules and organization; Temperance; Tobacco. #051-08, p. 214: Exempting Presbytery of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia from traveling fund Making exceptions; Traveling Fund. #051-09, p. 222: Authorizing the Trustees of Synod to act in a financial decision Bequests; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-147 #051-10, pp. 222-225: Urging the church to support the NRA financially, and reminding the church of the Covenant of 1871 Christian Statesman; Covenant of 1871; Donations; National Christian Association; NRA; Oath question; Post office; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-020, 1-058 #051-11, pp. 226-227: Arrangements for Syria and domestic missions, Central Board of Missions to inform adjacent presbyteries of new missions, men working under the Board to report to presbyteries, and presbyteries to support the Board Chinese Home Mission; Church planting; Collections; Devolution; Foreign missions HR; Mission schools; Southern Mission; Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 1-043, 1-141, 1-240 #051-12, pp. 237-238: Arrangements for moving Geneva Geneva finances; Geneva library; Real property. Ministers: 1-042, 1-142, 1-224 #051-13, pp. 239-245: Restoring professors’ salaries (#050-20), congregations directed to make various contributions, and various other financial arrangements Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Collections; Debt; Graduate student aid; NRA; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; Resignations; RPTS library; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-043, 1-092, 1-103, 1-147, 1-190, 1-196, 1-229, 1-238, 1-268, 1-275 #051-14, p. 245: Thanking Geneva professors who waived salary to balance the college budget; trustees shall henceforth be fully responsible for paying professors Debt; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances. Ministers: 1-079, 1-138 #051-15, pp. 246-247: Dismissing appeal of Samuel Bowden against Rochester Presbytery but directing Presbytery to rescind a part of its decision Judicial cases; No information; Roll call votes; York. Ministers: 1-019, 1-020, 1-229, 1-292 #051-16, p. 247: Appointing commission to handle divorce case referred from Illinois Presbytery; #024-25 prohibits promiscuous dancing; re-returning a petition identical to #050-06; final clause of #051-05 is in harmony with #046-20 Covenant of 1871; Dancing; Divorce; Legal prohibition; New commissions; Terms of Communion; Voting for constitutional amendments; Bloomington, Rochester [New York], Selma. Ministers: 1-058, 1-213, 1-265 #051-17, pp. 248-249: Urging Presbyteries to care more attentively for their vacant congregations and to improve the accuracy of their statistics, Central Board of Missions to supply vacancies in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Presbytery, assigning congregation to Kansas Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery reports; Statistics; Supply preaching; Oakland. Ministers: 1-091, 1-288 #051-18, p. 254: Delegates to General Presbyterian Council shall strive for exclusive psalmody in the council’s worship services Ecumenical organizations; Psalmody. #051-19, pp. 254-255: Celebrating the bicentenary of the Sanquhar Declaration; ministers to preach on church history and distinctives on 19 June 1881 Church history; Sermon topics; Witness work. Ministers: 1-028, 1-080, 1-238 #052 — Synod of 1881 #052-01, pp. 205-207: Members visiting saloons shall be disciplined, whether or not they drink anything; all members are duty-bound to stop smoking; each pastor to urge quitting on all tobacco users in his congregation Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Legal prohibition; Political dissent; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 1-121, 1-131, 1-144 #052-02, p. 215: Sending fraternal delegates to the UPCNA Fraternal relations; UPCNA. #052-03, p. 215: Disposing of a bequest Bequests; Geneva finances; Conococheague. #052-04, p. 215: Authorizing William Brown to be a trustee and treasurer of Synod for legal purposes Financial. #052-05, pp. 215-216: Urging the Pennsylvania legislature to prohibit alcohol Constitutional amendments; Legislative petitions. #052-06, p. 216: Ordering the publication of a sermon (OCLC 23085659) Political dissent; Tracts. Ministers: 1-182 #052-07, p. 217: The liquor traffic and its results constitute one of the greatest obstacles in the way of the gospel in any land, so urging the Evangelical Alliance to pray for the temperance cause Evangelical Alliance; Outside communications; Temperance. #052-08, p. 218: Reiterating #048-10 and congratulating the Society on obtaining a fireproof building PHS; Real property. #052-09, p. 218: Authorizing a series of tracts on the distinctive principles of the church A cappella; Dancing; Directions to individuals; Jury question; Psalmody; Temperance; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-292 #052-10, p. 219: Thanking Philip Schaff for his speech to Synod about the American Standard Version of the Bible Bible texts and translations; Thanking visiting speakers. #052-11, pp. 221-224: Commending the Christian Statesman to the church; preparing to choose a full-time laborer for the NRA; all ministers to preach four times on National Reform outside the church Christian Statesman; National Reform conventions; NRA; Outside preaching; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Synod HR; Temperance. Ministers: 1-077, 1-079, 1-188 #052-12, p. 224: Thanking the Rev. W.J. Maxwell of the RPCI for his speech to Synod RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #052-13, p. 225: Various financial arrangements for Syria and domestic missions Chinese Home Mission; Mission schools; Southern Mission; Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 1-114, 1-125, 1-147, 1-225 #052-14, p. 234: Increasing the size of the print run for #052-06, and printing copies of the Covenant of 1871; rejecting a petition to disclaim some of the #052-06 sermon’s sentiments, but reiterating #044-15, final clause Covenant of 1871; Political dissent; Tracts. Ministers: 1-015, 1-182 #052-15, pp. 235-239: Approving the actions of the #051-16 commission, which include purporting to nullify a legal divorce Divorce; Imposing discipline; Individual relocation; Judicial cases; Lawsuits among members; Reviewing commissions; Temperance; Traveling Fund; Bloomington, Winchester. Ministers: 1-058, 1-213, 1-265 #052-16, pp. 245-246: Presbytery reports to include comments on the state of religion in their boundaries Presbytery reports; Rules and organization; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-009, 1-015, 1-213 #052-17, p. 252: New standing committee, on systematic beneficence Financial; New standing committees. #052-18, pp. 252-258: Various financial arrangements and appointments for congregational collections; Synod will not reverse financial decisions of the Trustees without giving notice Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Collections; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; NRA; Pensions; Real property; Resignations; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-091, 1-156, 1-265 #052-19, p. 263: Synod will not pay the #051-16 commission’s expenses; instead, presbyteries to pay Delinquency; Traveling Fund; Bloomington, Winchester. Ministers: 1-058, 1-213, 1-265 #052-20, pp. 263-264: Temporarily excepting two congregations from the traveling fund, following the departure of most members from both Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; York, Youngstown. Ministers: 1-227, 1-240, 1-289 #052-21, pp. 264-265: Sustaining appeal of S.R. Wallace and ordering Rochester Presbytery to remove a letter from its minutes Departing ministers; Judicial cases; Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 1-019, 1-062, 1-120, 1-188, 1-270 #052-22, pp. 264-265: Permitting withdrawal of complaint related to #051-16 commission’s expenses Judicial cases; Traveling Fund; Withdrawal of papers; Bloomington. Ministers: 1-058, 1-213, 1-265 #052-23, pp. 264-265: Lakes Presbytery and Central Board must recognize and support the work of W.M. Shanks in Detroit Judicial cases; Urban church planting. Ministers: 1-019, 1-062, 1-120, 1-188, 1-270 #052-24, p. 270: Refusing assistant treasurer’s resignation Resignations. #052-25, p. 270: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Presbytery to pay a delegate’s remaining travel expenses Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-251 #053 — Synod of 1882 #053-01, pp. 209-211: Reiterating past condemnations of alcohol industry, prohibitions on members drinking, etc.; reiterating first clause of #045-23; sabbath schools should add temperance to their curriculum; committing to advocate for a prohibitory federal constitutional amendment; prohibition on alcohol needs to be added to the Testimony; commending the Ohio General Assembly for prohibiting saloons from opening seven days per week; reiterating #050-09, but outright prohibiting licensure of tobacco users Alcohol restrictions on all members; Communion cup; Legal prohibition; Sabbath-keeping; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-079, 1-131, 1-261, 1-286 #053-02, pp. 212-215: Tithing is a permanent institution; churches’ proper officers to enforce good giving; pastors to preach on beneficence; offerings to be taken in worship; commending publications on beneficence Church discipline; Latin America; Offering envelopes; Pacific; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-080, 1-248 #053-03, p. 216: Appointing a commission to visit New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Presbytery Canada; New commissions. Ministers: 1-092, 1-182 #053-04, pp. 216-220: Commending Synod’s agent for the NRA; planning to appoint more agents; financial arrangements, including congregational collections; ministers to promote the NRA and members to support it Descending obligations; LDS; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Signs of the Times; Temperance. Ministers: 1-034, 1-080, 1-182, 1-232 #053-05, p. 223: Condemning secret societies as blasphemous and dangerous to the state (which should deny them recognition) and church; commending the Christian Association for the Suppression of Secret Societies Incorporation; National Christian Association; National Reform. Ministers: 1-229 #053-06, p. 224: Exempting congregations from the traveling fund Chinese Home Mission; Collections; Making exceptions; Southern Mission; Traveling Fund; Oakland, Selma. #053-07, p. 224: “Proper officers” in #053-02 are all constitutional officers Construction; Diaconate; Eldership; Financial. #053-08, p. 224: Condemning the Chinese Exclusion Act, Public Law 47-126, as a treaty violation, as unbiblical, and as calculated to prevent missionary work Acts of Congress; Chinese exclusion; Chinese Home Mission. Ministers: 1-229 #053-09, p. 228: Disapproving #051-03 because of the self-perpetuating nature of the board, which must be under the control of Synod; new charter to be created Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Higher-education standards; Incorporation; Presbytery-appointed membership. Ministers: 1-062, 1-153, 1-229, 1-265 #053-10, p. 229: Expressing Synod’s satisfaction with the speech of Syrian missionary Levant missions; Thanking visiting speakers. Ministers: 1-028, 1-055 #053-11, p. 229: Mission boards shall present shorter reports; arrangements for Selma; beginning training Chinese and American men to start a mission in China; urging the church to give China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Donations; Languages; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 1-020, 1-034, 1-062 #053-12, p. 237: Disapproving the American Standard Version’s willingness to use better manuscripts and to present alternate readings; advising the church to continue using the King James Version Bible texts and translations; Society meetings. Ministers: 1-229 #053-13, pp. 247-249: Position statement on the death of President James Garfield Abraham Lincoln; Oath question; Sabbath-keeping; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-080, 1-182 #053-14, pp. 249-250: Commending the Sustentation and Church Erection funds to the church and appropriating money Canvassing; Church erection; Church planting; Congregational aid; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-081, 1-162, 1-259 #053-15, pp. 252-253: Directing the church to pray for RPTS and Geneva; advertising in the church for enrollment; directing agents to raise funds for paying off debt on RPTS building Canvassing; Debt; Geneva; Parental responsibilities; Real property; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-037, 1-131, 1-261 #053-16, pp. 257-263: Various financial arrangements; requiring those subscribing funds to the Geneva endowment to pay their subscriptions Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; NRA; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-133, 1-147, 1-236 #053-17, p. 267: New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Presbytery to submit its records for inspection Presbytery reports; Rules and organization. #053-18, p. 268: Declarations of dissolutions of pastorates must be accompanied with prayer Dissolving pastorates; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-065, 1-069, 1-113 #053-19, p. 273: Offering newly elected National Reform workers to the NRA NRA; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-077, 1-131, 1-143, 1-289 #053-20, pp. 273-274: Ministers to preach annually on sabbath-keeping; members to cooperate with like-minded individuals; condemning seven-day mail service; prohibiting members from holding stock in, or working for, sabbath-breaking companies; members may only use the railroads Monday to Saturday Boycotts; Investment philosophy; Labor and capital; News media; Political dissent; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-079, 1-186 #053-21, pp. 274-275: Imploring all members moving out of RP congregations to notify Central Board of Missions of their new locations Home missions; Individual relocation; Publications. #053-22, p. 275: Reiterating #052-08, urging presbyteries to cooperate with PHS, and the clerk shall send it copies of the minutes of Synod each year Minutes of Synod; PHS. #053-23, p. 275: Committee may fill any vacancies in National Reform employee staff Devolution; NRA; Synod HR; Witness work. Ministers: 1-075, 1-079, 1-135 #053-24, pp. 275-276: Renewing the position on political dissent; members may participate with the state in non-immoral situations; each state being different, presbyteries and sessions shall apply the law of the church rather than Synod making blanket decisions Devolution; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 1-142, 1-229, 1-270 #053-25, p. 276: Disapproving the licensure of a ruling elder: except in extreme cases, licentiates must be college graduates with the proper seminary education who are preparing to enter the ministry full-time Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 1-142, 1-229, 1-270 #053-26, p. 276: Prohibiting ordinations sine titulo except in the most extreme situations, but an improperly hasty ordination is still a valid ordination Ex post facto; Sine titulo; Houlton. Ministers: 1-018, 1-142, 1-229, 1-270 #054 — Synod of 1883 #054-01, pp. 198-201: Approving the actions of the #053-03 commission and sending a pastoral letter regarding rebaptism of the immersed Baptism; Baptists; Canada; Pastoral letters; Reviewing commissions; Valid sacraments; Cornwallis. Ministers: 1-120, 1-182, 1-288 #054-02, p. 202: Pre-written sermons may be read to Synod, but this is not a precedent for reading them in church services Rules and organization; Sermon topics. #054-03, p. 202: Whether members in Syria may marry Alawites [“Ansairiyeh”] is to be determined on an individual basis Alawites; Devolution; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. Ministers: 1-092, 1-186, 1-233, 1-248, 1-292 #054-04, p. 203: Amending and adopting the revised Geneva charter Geneva governance. Ministers: 1-153, 1-232, 1-265 #054-05, p. 203: Making arrangements for fulfilling #054-04 Incorporation; New agencies; Presbytery-appointed membership. Ministers: 1-080 #054-06, p. 212: Signs of the Times Committee shall report on the state of religion Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-120, 1-238 #054-07, pp. 217-219: Keeping Synod’s National Reform agents in their current appointments; appropriating money to be raised by congregational collections Collections; National Reform conventions; NRA; Witness work. Ministers: 1-080, 1-131, 1-153 #054-08, p. 220: Committee handling #054-04 authorized to make specific changes if necessary for legal reasons Geneva governance. Ministers: 1-153, 1-232, 1-265 #054-09, pp. 220-221: Declining petition to declare baptism by immersion completely invalid (#054-01) : the church has never taken such a position before, sacraments are not rendered invalid by improper modes of administration, and completely invalidating immersion would be a complete rejection of Baptist churches, which would be utterly unjustifiable Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Baptists; Valid sacraments; Cornwallis. Ministers: 1-120, 1-182, 1-288 #054-10, pp. 231-233: Reiterating alcohol-related provisions of #053-01 Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Communion cup; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-009, 1-158, 1-213 #054-11, pp. 233-234: Reiterating #050-09 Slavery and race; Temperance; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 1-009, 1-158, 1-213 #054-12, p. 235: Sympathy for minister experiencing severe chronic illness Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-233, 1-248, 1-292 #054-13, pp. 235-236: Communion tokens are not an act of worship or a religious symbol, but a practical tradition (harmless unless elevated to unjust importance); advising their use unless Synod decides to dispense with them Church history; Close communion; Elements of worship; Special services; Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 1-162, 1-229, 1-233 #054-14, pp. 236-237: Approving #054-01 pastoral letter Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Canada; Pastoral letters; Valid sacraments; Cornwallis. Ministers: 1-120, 1-182, 1-288 #054-15, p. 238: Aid-receiving congregations must consult with the Central Board of Missions regarding the necessity of sending delegates to Synod Absences; Congregational aid; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-009, 1-159, 1-289 #054-16, pp. 238-240: All ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping by individuals and by the state Church discipline; Investment philosophy; Islam; LDS; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; News media; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-091, 1-135 #054-17, p. 242: Discharging committee on erection of Geneva; all outstanding financial arrangements to be the responsibility of the college trustees Canvassing; Donations; Geneva; Insurance; Real property. Ministers: 1-080 #054-18, p. 243: Expanding the Testimony with an anti-alcohol section (#053-01) and sending this expansion down in overture Alcohol restrictions on all members; Overtures, new; Testimony. Ministers: 1-232, 1-233, 1-259 #054-19, pp. 245-246: Pastors and sessions must exert themselves to see that congregations contribute fully to church programs; appropriating money to church erection and sustentation Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Delinquency. Ministers: 1-069, 1-081, 1-156 #054-20, p. 248: Renting rooms in the RPTS building to students, approving the current curriculum, and urging the church to give more to RPTS Delinquency; Donations; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-015, 1-042, 1-057 #054-21, pp. 251-260: Various financial arrangements Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Church planting; Collections; Debt; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; NRA; Pensions; Resignations; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Southern Mission; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-091, 1-227, 1-265 #054-22, p. 261: Commending the Christian Statesman ’s goal of becoming a national publication Christian Statesman; National Reform. Ministers: 1-008 #054-23, pp. 264-265: Organizing Vermont Presbytery and specifying presbyterial boundaries; preparing new statistical blanks Delinquency; New presbyteries; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-055, 1-066, 1-240 #054-24, p. 271: Declining an appeal of David Torrens from New York Presbytery Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-224, 1-225, 1-288 #054-25, p. 271: Dismissing an appeal of John Willdee from Selma session and Illinois Presbytery, and deeming the appeal libellous Judicial cases; No information; Trial procedure; Selma. Ministers: 1-224, 1-225, 1-288 #054-26, p. 271: Syrian Commission’s jurisdiction, which is limited to the exercise of discipline, extends to all members of the mission, but members of the commission are under the jurisdiction of their presbyteries Syrian Commission. Ministers: 1-224, 1-225, 1-288 #055 — Synod of 1884 #055-01, p. 205: Adopting #054-18 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful. #055-02, p. 210: Modifying the statistical form for presbyteries Chinese Home Mission; Donations; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-066, 1-240, 1-259 #055-03, pp. 210-211: Answering objections to #054-14 and instructing the petitioners to cease agitating, for Synod will not spend more time on this matter Baptism; Canada; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards; Cornwallis. Ministers: 1-043, 1-142, 1-238 #055-04, pp. 211-213: The church is duty-bound to use grape juice in the Lord’s Supper; condemning President Chester Arthur’s permission of alcohol in the White House; assorted other temperance provisions Communion cup; Evangelical Alliance; International Sunday School Lessons; Presidential communications; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-070, 1-131, 1-232 #055-05, pp. 218-219: Overseeing Synod’s agents for National Reform; congregations to collect for National Reform; ministers shall advocate for political dissent in their churches and among outsiders Christian Statesman; Civil War; Collections; Labor and capital; LDS; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 1-133, 1-213, 1-233 #055-06, p. 224: Accepting a donation and thanking the donor Geneva finances; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Southern Mission; Thanking donors. #055-07, p. 224: Commending the National Christian Association (anti-Masonry; see #053-05) National Christian Association. #055-08, p. 226: Congregations to collect for Oakland; placing Oakland under Central Board of Missions (#051-17); giving FMB authority to act in various areas Chinese Home Mission; Devolution; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Native ministers; Pensions; Presbytery boundaries; Oakland. Ministers: 1-009, 1-028, 1-092, 1-114 #055-09, pp. 242-244: Urging all members to tithe, including the young; congregations to follow Synod’s collection schedule and contribute in accordance with synodical appropriations; ministers to preach on giving; advising the use of offering envelopes Collections; Offering envelopes; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath-keeping; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 1-049, 1-135, 1-186 #055-10, pp. 247-248: All officers of the church (not just ministers) to advocate for sustentation and church erection; granting money to the Board of Sustentation; merging it with Board of Church Erection Abolishing agencies; Church erection; Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-044, 1-069, 1-213 #055-11, pp. 250-251: Sessions to be directed to report to presbyteries on the state of religion, using New York Presbytery’s guidelines, and presbyteries to report to Synod (#054-06) Presbytery reports; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-051, 1-065, 1-178 #055-12, pp. 259-260: Approving principles for revising the psalter Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-135, 1-233, 1-248 #055-13, pp. 261-262: Reminding members of their duty to support the church financially; ascertaining RPTS professor’s salary for full-time service; RPTS Superintendents may bring pastors to lecture on current topics; reiterating #033-23 on attending other seminaries, but presbyteries permitted to make exemptions in special cases; condemning students who attend seminaries that disagree on doctrine, worship, or distinctive principles; granting one exception Attending other seminaries; Collections; Paying RPTS faculty; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-057, 1-062, 1-144, 1-154, 1-229 #055-14, pp. 266-277: Various financial arrangements, including appointing two congregational collections, urging donations to the Geneva and RPTS libraries, and exempting mutes in a congregation from assessment calculations Bequests; Church planting; Collections; Disability; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Mission schools; Pensions; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Statistical blanks; Pittsburgh. Ministers: 1-147, 1-232, 1-289 #055-15, p. 280: Desiring that Geneva subscriptions be paid soon, commending the college treasurer, and requiring ministers to aid him Geneva finances. #056 — Synod of 1885 #056-01, p. 198: Paying dues to the Presbyterian Alliance and giving notice of withdrawal unless exclusive psalmody is restored at meetings Psalmody; WCRC. #056-02, pp. 205-208: Reiterating #037-20 on tithing and #055-08 on offering envelopes; when disagreements arise on methods of taking offerings, majorities to bear with minorities, since this is purely a matter of expediency Offering envelopes; Taxation; Tithing. Ministers: 1-186, 1-261, 1-270 #056-03, pp. 219-223: Members to support temperance causes, denouncing liquor licenses, denouncing wet political parties, the church must support organizations like the WCTU; reiterating #055-04 on the Lord’s Supper Communion cup; Legal prohibition; Political dissent; Taxation; WCTU. Ministers: 1-020, 1-080, 1-131 #056-04, p. 223: New standing committee, on secret societies New standing committees; Secret societies. #056-05, pp. 223-225: Condemning sabbath-breaking companies (and stock ownership, #053-20), tourism, business trips, etc., and urging members to commit to sabbath observance Investment philosophy; News media; Post office; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-008, 1-042, 1-069 #056-06, pp. 226-228: Overseeing Synod’s agents for National Reform; congregations to collect for National Reform; supporting the WCTU American Bible Society; Celebrity preachers; Covenant of 1871; Donations; National Christian Association; National Reform conventions; NRA; PCUSA; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Socialism; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 1-063, 1-141 #056-07, p. 229: Reiterating #053-01 on tobacco use by members and licentiates Licentiates; Sabbath schools; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-020, 1-080, 1-131 #056-08, pp. 239-240: Establishing queries for evaluating the state of religion (#055-10) Eldership; Family worship; National Reform; Presbytery visitation; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Society meetings; Strict subscription; Temperance; Theaters; Tithing; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-062, 1-079, 1-213 #056-09, p. 240: Greeting the UPCNA Outside commissions; Telecommunications; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-162 #056-10, pp. 240-241: Presbyteries and delegates to reduce traveling expenses whenever possible; disposing of small surplus Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-026, 1-133, 1-206 #056-11, p. 241: Regulating outside employment by aid-receiving ministers; merging Sustentation and Church Erection boards and making appropriations; congregational agents may not canvass the church for aid, except by the Board’s permission in extreme circumstances Canvassing; Church erection; Disaster relief; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-063, 1-178, 1-289 #056-12, p. 244: Disposing of a donation Donations; Geneva finances; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod; Conococheague. #056-13, p. 244: Central Board of Missions to send a minister or licentiate to Selma Home missions HR; Southern Mission; Selma. Ministers: 1-079 #056-14, pp. 244-245: Corresponding with other psalm-singing churches regarding a new standard psalter, cooperating with them whenever possible, and position statement on the importance of psalmody Fraternal relations; Outside communications; Psalmody; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-021, 1-135, 1-229, 1-233, 1-248 #056-15, pp. 245-253: Various financial arrangements Bequests; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Investment philosophy; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-007, 1-062, 1-147 #056-16, p. 254: Applying #055-13 Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS faculty as pastors. Ministers: 1-229 #056-17, pp. 258-261: Presbyterial Reports committee to be appointed at the synod before it reports, to receive reports by 15 May; regulations on the contents of reports, including all mission stations and membership; reminding congregations to collect for church needs Collections; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; Statistics. Ministers: 1-236, 1-263, 1-270 #056-18, p. 273: Sustaining appeal of A.T. Hunter against Illinois Presbytery and session for using Presbyterian literature in sabbath schools, due to irregular actions by the lower courts, but commending their motivation and directing Hunter not to use hymns in anything resembling the worship of God Judicial cases; PCUSA; Psalmody; Restorations; Sabbath schools; Old Bethel. Ministers: 1-028, 1-156, 1-194 #056-19, p. 273: Sending sympathy letter to ill minister and expressing sympathy to minister after his father’s death Absences; Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-081, 1-121, 1-275 #056-20, pp. 274-275: Dismissing complaint against Kansas Presbytery for disorganizing a congregation in a dispute, but Presbytery to reorganize them as soon as possible Closing churches; Debt; Judicial cases; Paying ministers; Superior. Ministers: 1-188, 1-264 #056-21, p. 275: Reiterating Book of Discipline that moderators must be ministers Book of Discipline; Rules and organization; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 1-028, 1-156, 1-194 #056-22, pp. 275-276: Indefinitely postponing action on a request for advice [see Our Banner 12: 315 — a minister had been elected a mayor with his congregation’s votes, and Kansas Presbytery had not acted on the subject] and disallowing the printing of reasons for dissent [page 276] Church discipline; Political office; Voting; Written dissent; Clarinda, Evans. Ministers: 1-005, 1-028, 1-156, 1-188, 1-194, 1-264 #056-23, p. 276: Permitting the licensure of a ruling elder (same elder as #053-25) Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 1-028, 1-156, 1-194 #056-24, p. 276: Thanking the local UPCNA for permitting the use of their church during Synod, and thanking local news reporters Thanking newspapers; UPCNA. #057 — Synod of 1886 #057-01, p. 201: Deciding not to withdraw from the Presbyterian Alliance (#056-01), given the Alliance’s satisfactory response on the use of the psalter Psalmody; WCRC. #057-02, p. 205: Sympathy for minister experiencing severe chronic illness Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-155 #057-03, pp. 212-214: Parents shall teach their children about sabbath-keeping, and ministers their congregations; deploring sabbath-breaking in society at large Creation; Labor and capital; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; News media; Parental responsibilities; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-028, 1-213 #057-04, pp. 216-219: Reiterating #021-15, #030-13, and #045-23 Alcohol restrictions on all members; Communion cup; Legal prohibition; Secret societies; WCTU. Ministers: 1-065, 1-265, 1-288 #057-05, pp. 219-220: Sessions and members should support sabbath schools, whose special aim shall be the conversion of students and shall seek to bring in non-Christian children; no non-Christians, drinkers, or smokers may teach; schools shall urge temperance; singing and missionary stories to be included in curriculum Alcohol restrictions on officers; Evangelism; Improving praise; Sabbath schools; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-058, 1-091, 1-261 #057-06, pp. 220-221: Reiterating #035-07, #047-08, and #053-01 on tobacco Licentiates; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Youth. Ministers: 1-065, 1-265, 1-288 #057-07, p. 221: Petitioning the Evangelical Alliance to dedicate a day to prayer for total prohibition Evangelical Alliance; Legal prohibition; Outside communications; Signs of the Times. #057-08, pp. 222-223: Appropriating money to Sustentation Fund, urging the raising of money for this fund, and urging presbyteries to request support for poor congregations Congregational aid; Donations; Paying ministers; Princeton. Ministers: 1-065 #057-09, pp. 225-227: Arrangements for missions; appointing a delegation to visit Secretary of State Thomas Bayard to request aid for the missions; continuing the Oakland mission and preparing to send missionaries to China Africa; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Donations; Government communications; International relations; Levant missions; Medical missions; Mission schools; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; Westminster standards; Oakland. Ministers: 1-069, 1-080, 1-114, 1-147 #057-10, pp. 236-237: Financial arrangements for RPTS; ministers and sessions to collect past-due subscriptions for Geneva Debt; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-070, 1-162, 1-293 #057-11, p. 241: Reiterating #053-09, because all men (except criminals and subversives) have the right to travel and live where they wish, and because it hinders evangelism Acts of Congress; Chinese exclusion; Chinese Home Mission; Evangelism. #057-12, pp. 243-245: Condemning the Knights of Labor (they are a secret society, they override individual rights, they enslave employers, they prevent the employment of non-members, they dictate to the government, and they take vengeance on their opponents), prohibiting members from joining, and urging members to aid their victims Labor and capital; Poor relief; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-062, 1-077, 1-260 #057-13, pp. 251-254: Presbyteries and congregations to hold meetings for National Reform, with the Bible as the sole basis of argument; urging collections for National Reform appropriations Collections; Congregationalism; National Reform conventions; News media; NRA; PCUSA; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance; Witness work; YMCA. Ministers: 1-092 #057-14, p. 255: Every worship service to implore the Holy Spirit’s presence throughout the church Elements of worship. Ministers: 1-061 #057-15, p. 259: Authorizing the Treasurer of the Literary Fund to import psalters from the PCI Directions to individuals; Financial; PCI; Psalter editions. #057-16, pp. 259-260: Approving a memorial to Congress, requesting the recognition of Christianity Congressional petitions; Divorce; National Reform; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-062, 1-135, 1-186, 1-248 #057-17, p. 260: Presbytery clerks to take care to avoid omissions and interlining in the transcription of minutes Directions to individuals; Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-049, 1-124, 1-135 #057-18, pp. 261-262: Accepting an invitation from the ARPC to join an association of psalm-singing churches; new standing committee, on psalmody ARPC; Ecumenical organizations; New standing committees; Psalmody. Ministers: 1-079, 1-162 #057-19, p. 271: The Lord’s Supper must be celebrated if possible; an elder’s participation is important, but granting dispensation to the missionary if this is impossible Chinese Home Mission; Lord’s supper; Making exceptions; Two- and three-office view; Oakland. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-114, 1-186 #057-20, p. 271: New York Presbytery to take original jurisdiction in a judicial case Judicial cases; No information; West Hebron. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-186 #057-21, p. 271: When preaching in other churches, ministers should use RP psalter if possible (but other good versions are permitted) and may not give out hymns; they may lead instrumental worship if they disclaim their use A cappella; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Boston 1. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-186 #057-22, pp. 271-272: Office-holding without oaths is permitted, but as the Constitution prohibits it, it cannot be done; working with secret societies is not wrong, but participating in their ceremonies creates a stumbling block for the weaker brother Oath question; Political office; Secret societies; Denison. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-186 #057-23, pp. 271-273: Jury service is not wrong per se, but current circumstances make it wrong; however, oath-free jury service under protest, when faced with legal penalties for non-compliance, is not wrong; this answer to be published for use when needed Jury question; Oath question; Publications; Union, Wilkinsburg. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-186 #057-24, pp. 271-273: Creating the status of Superannuated Minister for elderly ministers, who may participate in church courts but need not; and that of Retired Minister for ministers who have left the active ministry, who shall be ignored for presbytery purposes Absences; Ministers in secular employment; Pensions. Ministers: 1-008, 1-075, 1-147, 1-186 #057-25, pp. 276-286: Various financial arrangements; appointing dates for congregational special collections and urging liberality in giving; former Toronto church property to be sold Bequests; Canada; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Insurance; Mission schools; NRA; Pensions; Real property; RP&C; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-124, 1-156, 1-232 #057-26, p. 287: Prohibiting voting on state constitutional amendments; presbyteries to ignore examples raised in discussions but shall vigorously prosecute future violations [carried over from 1884 Discipline Committee] Making exceptions; Voting for constitutional amendments; Miami. Ministers: 1-037, 1-233, 1-240 #057-27, p. 287: Rescinding #056-22 on prohibiting the publication of a written dissent Church discipline; Political office; Rules and organization; Voting; Clarinda, Evans. Ministers: 1-005, 1-188, 1-264 #057-28, p. 287: Thanking the Rochester newspapers for covering Synod Thanking newspapers. #058 — Synod of 1887 #058-01, pp. 202-205: Ministers to preach on sabbath-breaking; maintaining strict discipline on the question; parents to teach sabbath-keeping; cooperate with PCC to suppress seven-day train travel; urging Congress to prohibit seven-day train travel Church discipline; Congressional petitions; Creation; Health and medicine; Interchurch; Investment philosophy; News media; Outside communications; Parental responsibilities; PCC; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; YMCA. Ministers: 1-027, 1-077, 1-233 #058-02, p. 206: Publishing extra copies of #058-01 Directions to individuals; Financial; Our Banner; RP&C; Tracts. Ministers: 1-114 #058-03, p. 206: Sabbath committee to work with other denominations to work for abolition of sabbath-breaking by the Post Office Department Interchurch; Outside communications; Post office; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-114 #058-04, p. 206: Commending the Rev. J.P. Dardier of the Evangelical Society of Geneva for his account of anti-Catholicism and other work in Switzerland Anti-Catholicism; Thanking visiting speakers. #058-05, pp. 206-208: Reiterating #057-05 Alcohol restrictions on officers; Evangelism; Labor and capital; LDS; Sabbath schools; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-090, 1-120, 1-265 #058-06, p. 208: Giving greetings to the RCA, in response to their greetings Outside communications; RCA. Ministers: 1-233, 1-275 #058-07, p. 209: New standing committee, on evangelistic work Evangelism; New standing committees. #058-08, pp. 214-217: Reiterating previous stances on National Reform, including #056-03 on the WCTU Christian Statesman; Descending obligations; NRA; WCTU. Ministers: 1-133, 1-159, 1-282 #058-09, pp. 217-222: Alcohol is the greatest enemy of religion and society; the federal government must prohibit it; condemning liquor licenses and dependence on alcohol taxation; appointing commissioners to petition the federal government for prohibition; urging RPCI to fight for prohibition; commending WCTU; doing everything possible to achieve prohibition Acts of Congress; Africa; Colonies; Congressional petitions; International relations; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Outside commissions; Slavery and race; Taxation; Voting for constitutional amendments; WCTU. Ministers: 1-156, 1-240, 1-259 #058-10, pp. 222-224: Reiterating previous stances on tobacco; rejoicing in the passage of state laws prohibiting tobacco sales to minors Temperance; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Youth. Ministers: 1-156, 1-240, 1-259 #058-11, p. 226: Thanking the Rev. James G.D. Finley of the UPCNA for his speech to Synod Thanking fraternal delegates; UPCNA. #058-12, p. 226: Thanking the Rev. A.P. Happer, a missionary to China, for his speech to Synod China mission; Thanking visiting speakers. #058-13, pp. 227-229: Secret orders are immoral, selfish, and unjust; degrading and enslaving to conscience; and Christless and counterfeiting of true worship. Their members may not join the church, and must be removed if they join surreptitiously Church discipline; Labor and capital; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-007, 1-062, 1-079, 1-135, 1-188 #058-14, pp. 230-231: Various arrangements in Syria; send a missionary to California; form an Indian mission Africa; China mission; Financial; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Pacific; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-135, 1-235, 1-259 #058-15, p. 240: Approving a desire for Presbyterian church union; Presbyterians are obliged to seek union; declaring a readiness for ecumenism “in all proper ways” Church union; Outside communications; PCUSA; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-066, 1-080, 1-120 #058-16, pp. 242-244: Committee to seek a new standard psalter; urging members to learn Anglican chant; ministers and members to continue testifying for psalmody; commending The Psalm-Singer of George Warrington (no OCLC record) to the church Chanting; Standard psalter; Witness work. Ministers: 1-058, 1-063, 1-186 #058-17, pp. 245-246: No appointments for licentiates after four years of candidating, but they may continue preaching; Committee on Supplies permitted to rearrange supply schedule if necessary Devolution; Licentiates; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-009, 1-081, 1-186 #058-18, pp. 247-248: Approving an aid-application form for RPTS students and regulating its use; professors shall report underperforming students to presbyteries after six months; constructing a Geneva dormitory; urging contributions to its endowment and library Departing ministers; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Real property; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-015, 1-063, 1-143 #058-19, p. 251: Commending the forthcoming A History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church in America (OCLC 172863); preparing to commemorate the bicentenary of the Glorious Revolution; arranging for the preservation of valuable church-history papers Archives; RPCNA books; RPCS; Youth. Ministers: 1-088, 1-206 #058-20, p. 253: Appointing a commission to try a divorce-related dispute in Vermont Presbytery; specific members appointed on page 273 Divorce; Financial; Judicial cases; New commissions. Ministers: 1-009, 1-091, 1-120, 1-226, 1-248, 1-261 #058-21, p. 253: Victims of irregular discipline must appeal, rather than ignoring the discipline; unlicensed ministerial candidates may teach sabbath schools and conduct evangelism under presbyterial direction; mute persons may be regular members of the Church and vote in its elections Church discipline; Church membership; Disability; Evangelism; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; Trial procedure; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-079, 1-133, 1-162 #058-22, pp. 260-261: Appropriating money for church support; urging churches to support an agent for St. John congregation Canvassing; Collections; Congregational aid; Real property; Burdette, St. John. Ministers: 1-057, 1-156, 1-256 #058-23, pp. 263-273: Various financial arrangements Church erection; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Mission schools; National Reform; Pensions; Resignations; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Southern Mission; Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-037, 1-077, 1-090 #058-24, pp. 273-276: Reiterating #046-03; all officers, not just ministers, to ensure giving in the congregations Collections; Tithing. Ministers: 1-009, 1-091 #058-25, p. 282: Repealing #055-14 on mutes Disability; Financial; Making exceptions; Pittsburgh. #059 — Synod of 1888 #059-01, p. 199: Abolishing standing committee on Signs of the Times; new standing committee, on Testimony-Bearing [essentially, a renaming] Abolishing standing committees; New standing committees; Signs of the Times; Witness work. #059-02, p. 201: As a result of #059-01, reports on the state of religion shall be sent to the Committee on Evangelistic Work Evangelism; Rules and organization; Signs of the Times. #059-03, pp. 201-202: Making special arrangements for RPTS fundraising Collections; Paying RPTS faculty. #059-04, pp. 208-209: Declaring in favor of union with the UPCNA, but only on RP terms Church union; Fraternal relations; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-069, 1-080, 1-159, 1-236, 1-286 #059-05, pp. 211-212: Reaffirming existing positions on political dissent, repudiating any interpretations of Synod decisions that look toward compromise, directing sessions and presbyteries to discipline compromise, and rejecting partial unions that merely produce a third denomination Church discipline; Church union; Construction; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-069, 1-080, 1-159, 1-236, 1-286 #059-06, pp. 213-215: Reaffirming existing positions on sabbath-keeping; sessions to discipline members who publish sabbath-breaking advertisements in newspapers Church discipline; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-075, 1-144, 1-202 #059-07, pp. 217-218: Condemning careless clerks who “are about to revolutionize the whole system of simple addition” and re-instructing clerks to submit statistics by 15 May Directions to individuals; Reporting calendars; Statistics. Ministers: 1-122, 1-187, 1-236 #059-08, pp. 224-229: Reiterating previous positions on political dissent, including the importance of staying out of the 1888 presidential election Canada; Donations; Hinduism; Islam; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; Publications; Sabbath-keeping; Voting; WCTU. Ministers: 1-007, 1-156, 1-284 #059-09, pp. 229-231: Welcoming social fellowship with other churches, but not ecclesiastical fellowship; sessions to enforce dissent; ministers to preach and write for dissent Church discipline; Church union; Political dissent; Sermon topics; Testimony; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-117, 1-238 #059-10, pp. 231-233: Church members to abstain from hymns in worship services on any day of the week; urging better singing; reiterating #058-16, first and last clauses Chanting; Family worship; Improving praise; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-029, 1-159, 1-265 #059-11, pp. 236-239: Condemning liquor traffic, of which the prohibition is of highest importance; urging cooperation with prohibition groups; Temperance Committee authorized to speak on behalf of Synod in this area; condemning tobacco use; RPTS and Geneva students, and ministers, reminded that tobacco use will result in discipline Church discipline; Evangelism; India; Japan; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; SCOTUS; Taxation; Tobacco restrictions on officers; WCTU. Ministers: 1-027, 1-119, 1-194 #059-12, p. 240: Setting targets for giving for Sustentation Fund Bequests; Canada; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Disaster relief. Ministers: 1-021, 1-122, 1-124 #059-13, pp. 245-246: Confirming decision of #058-20 commission [dissent, page 278] Directions to individuals; Divorce; Judicial cases; Lawsuits among members; News media; Reviewing commissions; Written dissent; St. Johnsbury. Ministers: 1-009, 1-091, 1-120, 1-226, 1-248, 1-261 #059-14, p. 247: Hoping for reunion with the New Light church Church union; New Light church. #059-15, p. 247: Reiterating #058-16 commendation Psalmody. #059-16, pp. 247-248: Approving and joining Psalmody Alliance (#057-18) Standard psalter; WCRC. Ministers: 1-079, 1-232, 1-261 #059-17, p. 250: Temporarily permitting use of a new revised psalter while a committee gathers feedback Chanting; PCI; Psalter editions; RCA; Requesting opinions; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-069, 1-135, 1-186, 1-233, 1-248, 1-261 #059-18, p. 256: Signing a WCTU petition for the protection of women Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Outside communications; WCTU. Ministers: 1-233, 1-236 #059-19, pp. 260-262: FMB directed to begin work in Cyprus as soon as possible; Central Board of Missions directed to find a new missionary for Oakland and to begin Indian mission as soon as possible Chinese Home Mission; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Real property; Southern Mission; Oakland. Ministers: 1-114, 1-241, 1-256, 1-265 #059-20, p. 268: Responding to dissent [earlier on same page] on acceptance of Sabbath School Committee report: not all of the report was read, because some parts were illegible Responses to dissent; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-063 #059-21, pp. 269-276: Various financial arrangements; New York Presbytery called to account for its failure to pay off debt on RPTS building; approving form of promissory note for RPTS student loans; property of disorganized congregations belongs to Synod’s trustees Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Delinquency; Graduate student aid; National Reform; Pensions; Property held in trust; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Southern Mission; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-018, 1-088, 1-090, 1-147 #059-22, p. 279: Condemning charity balls, cake auctions, and other routine fundraising techniques; all money to be raised through direct appeals for Christ’s sake Gambling; Theaters; Tithing. Ministers: 1-006, 1-062, 1-255 #059-23, pp. 280-283: Adopting a committee report on jury-sitting as the church’s official position; jurymen shall give a form of explanatory declaration if summoned; sessions to enforce the use of the declaration Church discipline; Explanatory declaration; Jury question. Ministers: 1-275 #059-24, pp. 283-284: Making publication arrangements for #059-23 Jury question; Publications. Ministers: 1-034, 1-275 #059-25, p. 286: Appointing committee to prepare and publish an article on women deacons Publications; Women deacons. Ministers: 1-120, 1-248 #059-26, pp. 286-287: Dismissing complaint of John Graham against Rochester Presbytery [dissent, page 286] Judicial cases; No information; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-090 #059-27, p. 287: Calls without a usual pledge for minister’s salary are valid if accompanied by some other legal bond ensuring the salary Pastoral calls; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-120, 1-159, 1-232 #059-28, p. 287: The ordination of women as deacons is in harmony with the New Testament and with the constitution of the Apostolic church Women deacons; McKeesport. Ministers: 1-120, 1-159, 1-232 #059-29, p. 287: Publication arrangements for congressional petitions on National Reform (#057-16) Congressional petitions; National Reform; Publications. Ministers: 1-070, 1-077, 1-248, 1-289 #059-30, pp. 287-288: RPTS endowment arrangements; presbyteries taking students under care shall consider their spiritual qualifications as well as their literary attainments; Geneva financial arrangements Collections; Debt; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-025, 1-061, 1-092 #059-31, pp. 291-292: Adopting special committee report on a dispute at the 1885 Synod (apparently related to #056-22): this was a concrete case, and Synod’s decision was no departure from historic principles Construction; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-005, 1-080, 1-162, 1-188, 1-248, 1-264 #059-32, p. 292: Commending movement for social purity of men and women; ministers to preach on the subject Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Sermon topics. #059-33, p. 292: Thanking the press News media; Thanks. #059-34, p. 292: Standing committees shall limit their reports to 1,200 words Rules and organization. #060 — Synod of 1889 #060-01, pp. 210-211: There are no theological differences between Old Light and New Light, aside from voting/not voting; urging closer cooperation between the two churches; both denominations to pray for union and to continue negotiating Church union; Elements of worship; New Light church; Political dissent; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Soteriology. Ministers: 1-079, 1-124 #060-02, p. 211: Clerk to issue new statistical blanks Directions to individuals; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-080 #060-03, pp. 214-215: Disapproving of sessions that have not reported on the state of religion; sessions to complete a questionnaire composed by the committee Congregationalism; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-027, 1-029, 1-256 #060-04, pp. 215-217: Urging pastors to preach on members’ responsibility for evangelism; extra meetings to be held in which members can speak of their own experiences of religion; commending the concept of a psalter for informal settings; sessions to report on evangelistic efforts A cappella; Evangelism; Immigration; Psalm selections; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Special services. Ministers: 1-027, 1-029, 1-256 #060-05, pp. 218-219: The church needs to dispose of donations wisely in order to attract more donations; officers to remind members of the duty of the tithe; urging the wealthy and the children to give Chinese Home Mission; Indian Mission; National Reform; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 1-006, 1-070, 1-286 #060-06, pp. 220-222: Urging congregations to organize mission sabbath schools; focus on sabbath schools as a means of evangelism; sessions to submit statistics on their schools; studying denominational sabbath school curriculum A cappella; Interchurch; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks; Tracts. Ministers: 1-143, 1-159, 1-202, 1-270 #060-07, pp. 222-223: Urging congregations to sign petitions for National Reform as soon as possible (#059-29); paying a bill Congressional petitions; Financial; National Reform. Ministers: 1-034, 1-070, 1-248, 1-289 #060-08, pp. 223-225: Commending the American Sabbath Association; ministers to preach, and parents to teach, on sabbath-keeping; condemning travel, although permitting members to attend the congregation of their choice Congressional bills; Labor and capital; Lord’s Day Alliance; News media; Parental responsibilities; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; WCTU; Youth. Ministers: 1-042, 1-275, 1-288 #060-09, p. 226: Thanking the Rev. C.B. Curtis of the Congregationalist church in Selma, Alabama Congregationalism; Thanking visiting speakers. Ministers: 1-066 #060-10, pp. 226-230: Alcohol traffic can be suppressed only if all segments of society cooperate; denouncing as evil the system of liquor licenses; the church must adopt all legitimate methods for suppressing alcohol; commending the WCTU and its youth wing; reiterating #055-04 on the Lord’s Supper Blasphemy of the Spirit; Communion cup; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Sabbath-keeping; Taxation; WCTU. Ministers: 1-080, 1-113, 1-283 #060-11, pp. 230-232: Efforts for National Reform produce fruit and do not lessen the guilt of participating in the government; declaring non-identification with all political parties; commending Synod’s agents for National Reform Christian schools; Congressional bills; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; National Reform; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 1-062, 1-156, 1-248 #060-12, p. 239: Restoring the standing committee on the Signs of the Times New standing committees; Signs of the Times. #060-13, p. 242: Thanking the Rev. J.W. Houston of the New Light church, and renewing a desire for reunion Church union; New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #060-14, pp. 242-243: Handling divorces inside and outside the church Church discipline; Divorce; Voting for constitutional amendments; Bear Run-Mahoning, Blanchard, Rehoboth [Pennsylvania], Selma. Ministers: 1-049, 1-120, 1-222, 1-248, 1-265 #060-15, pp. 248-249: Heroic measures to be put forth to compel congregations to submit statistics; ordering a form for presbytery statistical reports Foreign missions; Indian Mission; Presbytery reports; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-001, 1-187, 1-213 #060-16, p. 255: Presbytery clerks may not accept statistical reports received after 5 May Directions to individuals; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; Statistics. #060-17, pp. 256-257: Urging the church to contribute to sustentation and church erection, and all congregations to contribute Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations. Ministers: 1-025, 1-072 #060-18, pp. 259-260: Synod’s treasurer and the theology professors to approach wealthy members and request gifts; urging the payment of all pledges to Geneva, to be enforced by sessions; accepting the concept of including alumni in the college’s government Canvassing; Geneva finances; Geneva governance; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-147, 1-178, 1-224 #060-19, p. 264: Thanking President Benjamin Harrison and Postmaster General John Wanamaker for reducing weekend postal traffic Benjamin Harrison; Post office; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Thanking government officials. Ministers: 1-027 #060-20, p. 265: Voting for state constitutional amendments is not one of the political acts that are inconsistent with political dissent [dissent, page 284] Construction; Roll call votes; Voting for constitutional amendments; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-248 #060-21, pp. 266-273: Various financial arrangements; reiterating #059-21 on the property of disorganized congregations Bequests; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Levant missions; Mission schools; National Reform; Pensions; Property held in trust; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; WCRC. Ministers: 1-091, 1-143, 1-188 #060-22, pp. 274-276: Preparing to organize congregations and a presbytery in Syria; distinguishing presbyterial and Board responsibilities; approving of the organization of a Woman’s [sic] Synodical Society for missions; various other arrangements Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Mission schools; New agencies; New presbyteries; Real property; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Syrian Commission; Syrian Presbytery; WMF. Ministers: 1-037, 1-081, 1-222 #060-23, pp. 285-286: Giving Synod’s sympathy to the victims of the Johnstown Flood and urging the church to support relief; individuals and nations should be ready for God’s judgement Disaster relief; Donations; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-113, 1-133 #060-24, pp. 286-287: Commending the Psalmody Alliance; churches should cooperate to create a uniform psalter; selections to be published in a separate book for informal purposes Ecumenical organizations; Psalm selections; Sabbath schools; Special services; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-240, 1-263, 1-282 #060-25, pp. 288-289: Approving the new psalter and making arrangements for publication [partly approved on page 240, where dissent appears] Financial; Psalter editions; UPCNA; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-069, 1-135, 1-186, 1-233, 1-248, 1-261 #060-26, p. 289: Theological students may preach in settled congregations under the pastor’s direction Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-186 #060-27, p. 289: Indefinitely postponing a proposal about replacing elders on standing committees [minutes say Thursday evening, but actually Friday; see page 239] Rules and organization. #060-28, p. 290: Responding to dissent on #060-20: dissent is against the government, not the people, and the people are establishing amendments; dissenters misunderstand the nature of a constitution versus statutes; voters can judge proposed amendments by the law of Christ separately from the constitution to which they have not yet been added; members will not go from voting on amendments to participating in everything Responses to dissent; Slavery and race; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 1-135, 1-248 #060-29, p. 291: Thanking other denominations that permitted the use of their facilities for Synod-related meetings Congregationalism; Methodists; PCUSA; Thanks. #061 — Synod of 1890 #061-01, p. 211: Paying Synod’s share of the Alliance of Reformed Churches Directions to individuals; Financial; WCRC. Ministers: 1-080 #061-02, pp. 211-214: Advocating for sabbath-keeping is the church’s responsibility; instructing ministers to cooperate with the American Sabbath Union; recommending a week of prayer for sabbath-keeping; urging members to be a good example for sabbath-keeping and avoiding encouraging sabbath-breaking by the railways Congressional petitions; Health and medicine; Lord’s Day Alliance; NRA; Post office; Public transportation; Sermon topics; WCTU. Ministers: 1-062, 1-263, 1-293 #061-03, pp. 220-222: Reiterating the first part of #057-05; the Catechisms to be taught; urging congregations to canvass their neighborhoods for more students; responsibilities of officers and teachers Baptists; Congregationalism; Evangelism; Methodists; New Light church; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Statistics; UPCNA; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-006, 1-236, 1-256 #061-04, p. 222: Paying to print the order of business Docket and digest; Financial. #061-05, pp. 223-224: Urging the merger of all church periodicals into one, and issuing with it a sabbath school paper Publications; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-159 #061-06, p. 226: Thanking Drs. Talbot W. Chambers and G.D. Matthews of the Alliance of Reformed Churches [i.e. Presbyterian Alliance] for their speech to Synod; and desiring closer relations Thanking visiting speakers; WCRC. #061-07, pp. 226-229: NRA to focus more on love for Christ; practical arrangements for the NRA; urging members to become NRA life members Bequests; Christian Statesman; Divorce; NRA; Sabbath-keeping organizations; WCTU. Ministers: 1-079, 1-135, 1-289 #061-08, pp. 232-234: Ministers not to neglect psalm explanations and to use them to demonstrate their adequacy in New Testament worship; desiring a uniform psalter; commending True Psalmody(OCLC 63811534) and The Psalm-Singer (#058-16) to the church Jewish missions; Psalm explanations; Standard psalter; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-021, 1-034, 1-275 #061-09, pp. 234-235: Ordering a special collection for the cost of a new psalter, urging liberality, and specifying the book’s price Chanting; Collections; Psalm selections. Ministers: 1-069, 1-135, 1-186, 1-233, 1-248, 1-261 #061-10, p. 236: Thanking the Rev. Dr. W.J.R. Taylor of the American Sabbath Union for his speech to Synod, and commending the Union to the church Lord’s Day Alliance; Thanking visiting speakers. Ministers: 1-138 #061-11, p. 240: Commending youth groups, especially the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor Youth. Ministers: 1-027 #061-12, p. 241: Various financial arrangements; pastors and deacons to strive for congregations to raise a specified amount Collections; Making exceptions; Paying ministers; Hickory Grove. Ministers: 1-226, 1-259 #061-13, p. 245: Urging the commission overseeing the World’s Columbian Exposition to open only Monday-Saturday and to prohibit the sale of alcohol on the grounds Directions to individuals; Government communications; Interchurch; Legal prohibition; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-006 #061-14, pp. 254-255: Rejecting anti-Chinese laws as a violation of God’s law, urging other churches to object to such laws, and petitioning President Benjamin Harrison to veto any further bills on the subject Benjamin Harrison; Chinese exclusion; Chinese Home Mission; Interchurch; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-037, 1-080 #061-15, pp. 257-258: Agreeing to union with the New Light church, on the condition that Old Light political dissent be maintained [dissent, page 260] Church union; Covenant of 1871; New Light church; Oath question; Roll call votes; Voting; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-034, 1-079, 1-117, 1-122, 1-135 #061-16, pp. 259-260: Synod communion as part of the Covenant of 1871 vigesimal celebration; urging the New Light church to join on Old Light terms; biblical infallibility is the chief term of communion, but other terms may and do also bind the church, and proposing changes without overture is divisive Biblical inerrancy; Church union; Covenant of 1871; Overtures; Strict subscription; Synod communion; Testimony; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-135 #061-17, pp. 262-264: Various financial arrangements; regulating aid to RPTS students; Synod will not violate commitments by moving bequeathed-and-accepted funds to other locations Bequests; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Debt; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Mission schools; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-015, 1-062, 1-180 #061-18, p. 276: Condemning as unscriptural the latitude of reasons for which divorce may legally be obtained; state laws should be replaced with a single federal law based on constitutional amendment; ministers who marry wrongly divorced people are guilty; no marriages of divorced people may be performed without ensuring that they be properly divorced Congressional bills; Constitutional amendments; Divorce. Ministers: 1-120, 1-135, 1-248 #061-19, p. 277: Christians must oppose secret societies, ministers and members to fight them, reiterating #055-06, commending the Christian Cynosure (OCLC 1696795), presbyteries to organize anti-Masonry committees, ministers to preach against secret orders, and opposing college fraternities and other minor orders National Christian Association; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-180, 1-188, 1-213 #061-20, pp. 278-279: Prohibitions on alcohol to be enforced rigidly, members prohibited from medical alcohol except on doctor’s prescription, reiterating first clause of #045-23, total prohibition is the only right course for the state, condemning wet politicians, commending a Nebraska prohibition amendment, and members to fight for prohibition as much as is possible under political dissent Alcohol restrictions on all members; Benjamin Harrison; Communion cup; Constitutional amendments; Health and medicine; Legal prohibition; SCOTUS; WCTU. Ministers: 1-001, 1-213, 1-260 #061-21, pp. 279-280: Presbyteries to discipline tobacco-using ministers and licentiates, no tobacco-user to be licensed, condemning tobacco traffic and urging members to leave it, and pledging soon to condemn tobacco in the same manner as alcohol Licentiates; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 1-001, 1-213, 1-260 #061-22, pp. 280-281: Requesting the church’s support of RPTS, whole church to pray for RPTS, praying for Thomas Sproull in his age, and arranging for supplemental lectures Donations; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-080, 1-156, 1-186, 1-238, 1-240, 1-248 #061-23, p. 281: Commending retiring Geneva president and urging the church’s support for his replacement, urging the church to the Day of Prayer for colleges, and specifying a pledge for all new faculty members Geneva faculty; Higher-education standards. Ministers: 1-079, 1-117, 1-156, 1-240, 1-248, 1-265 #061-24, p. 285: Thanking the reporters of the New York newspapers for their coverage Thanking newspapers. Ministers: 1-006 #061-25, p. 288: Temporarily excepting a congregation from the traveling fund, with the deficiency to be made up next year Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; New York 1. #061-26, pp. 288-289: Responding to dissent on #061-16: union in current conditions would compromise the truth and the subordinate standards, human standards are to be adapted from age to age and Synod is in line with the past, union of all psalm-singing churches would still produce a single sect with numerous divisions, and this act retains historic principles; expanding the Testimony is merely codifying a longstanding principle Church union; Covenant of 1871; New Light church; Overtures; Psalmody; Responses to dissent; Strict subscription; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-135, 1-232 #061-27, pp. 290-292: Urging members’ attention to mission board reports and prayer for individual missionaries, urging the formation and activity of youth and women’s missionary societies, various arrangements for existing missions, and committing to missions in Africa and China as soon as possible Africa; China mission; Donations; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Mission schools; Real property; RPCI; RPCS; WMF. Ministers: 1-135, 1-213, 2-308 #061-28, pp. 300-301: Renewing the position on political dissent; urging other churches to join this position Bible in schools; Divorce; Legal prohibition; Political dissent; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-005, 1-113, 1-232 #061-29, p. 302: Sustaining decision of Kansas Presbytery and declining protest and appeal of Mrs. Anna McMillan in a divorce-related judicial decision (#060-14) Divorce; Judicial cases; Blanchard. Ministers: 1-061, 1-062, 1-066, 1-113, 1-120, 1-124, 1-156, 1-158, 1-232, 1-241, 2-154 #061-30, pp. 302-303: No union is possible if the truth be surrendered or abandoned, no oath of allegiance is permitted, and condemning contrary teachings Construction; Political office; Strict subscription; Voting for constitutional amendments; Bear Run-Mahoning. Ministers: 1-025, 1-162, 1-270 #061-31, p. 303: Syrian ruling elders, if licensed and called to a pastorate, shall be ordained but not re-ordained, as they had not previously been ordained as ministers Licentiates; Native ministers; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 1-025, 1-162, 1-270 #061-32, p. 303: Returning #061-29 papers Divorce; Judicial cases; Blanchard. Ministers: 1-222 #062 — Synod of 1891 #062-01, p. 214: Paying Synod’s share of the expenses of the Presbyterian Alliance Directions to individuals; Ecumenical organizations; Financial. Ministers: 1-080 #062-02, p. 215: Clerk to pay a bill Directions to individuals; Financial; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-236 #062-03, p. 217: Giving greetings to the PCUSA, in response to their greetings Directions to individuals; Outside communications; PCUSA; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-080, 1-289 #062-04, p. 218: New standing committee, on printing and publication New standing committees; Publications. #062-05, p. 218: Thanking the Rev. Dr. William Jacob Holland for his invitation of Synod to visit the Western University of Pennsylvania Thanks. #062-06, p. 222: Giving greetings to the UPCNA, in response to their greetings Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Telecommunications; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-080, 1-289 #062-07, p. 228: Delegates benefiting from the Traveling Fund may not leave early without permission; delegates leaving without permission may not draw from Traveling Fund Absences; East End case; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #062-08, pp. 235-238: Urging members to follow a specific giving plan; pastors to preach on giving Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-147, 1-233, 1-289 #062-09, pp. 244-245: Urging the church to read decisions on sabbath-keeping enacted by Synod since 1882 Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-141, 1-186, 1-232 #062-10, p. 245: Protesting the World’s Columbian Exposition being open seven days (#061-13) National exhibitions; Outside communications; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-080, 1-265 #062-11, pp. 247-248: Pastors to explain sustentation plans to their congregations and urge fuller giving Church erection; Church planting; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-001, 1-194, 1-270 #062-12, pp. 249-250: Modifying #056-17: statistics to reflect reality as of 1 April Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; Statistics. Ministers: 1-042, 1-065, 1-124 #062-13, pp. 255-256: Reiterating past statements on abstinence and church discipline, liquor licenses, Lord’s Supper grape juice, temperance organizations, general tobacco use, and the WCTU Acts of Congress; Communion cup; Constitutional amendments; Legal prohibition; Sermon topics; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-005, 1-113, 1-261 #062-14, p. 257: Expanding #062-06: delegates leaving without permission to be reported to their presbyteries Absences; East End case. #062-15, pp. 258-259: Appointing an interim committee to adjust supply-preaching schedule when necessary Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-240, 2-308 #062-16, pp. 259-260: Boycotting the World’s Columbian Exposition until it cease seven-day operation, cooperating with other protestors, memorializing Congress to prevent seven-day operation, and urging commercial sponsors to withdraw their support Boycotts; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-135, 1-147 #062-17, p. 261: Officers to continue advocating for RPTS giving, urging the wealthy to give, and urging all congregations to meet current needs Donations; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-133, 1-156, 1-159 #062-18, pp. 261-262: Education is parents’ responsibility, even higher education when appropriate, and reminding parents of Geneva; making exception to #041-10 on fourth year for new foreign missionary, and directing Kansas Presbytery to ordain him Foreign missions HR; Geneva faculty; Levant missions; Parental responsibilities; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-133, 1-156, 1-159 #062-19, p. 265: Cooperating with a memorial by the PCUS, urging Western governments to join a peace conference in New York in December 1891 Government communications; Interchurch; International relations. Ministers: 1-080, 1-265 #062-20, pp. 267-270: Renewing commitment to exclusive psalmody, directing all members to use the psalms; reiterating #060-25; psalms to be used more extensively in all forms of worship Chanting; Family worship; Psalmody; Society meetings; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-186, 1-202, 1-293 #062-21, pp. 271-272: Pastors must urge congregations to use new psalter; postponing #060-24 on informal psalter until expenses are met; thanking minister for proofreading and indexing the new psalter Chanting; Psalm selections; Thanks. Ministers: 1-135, 1-186, 1-233, 1-248, 1-261 #062-22, pp. 272-275: Conducting informal revival services; publishing a gospel tract; Young People’s Societies, church music classes, door-to-door evangelism, and receiving church visitors Church history; Home visitation; Improving praise; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Special services; Tracts; Urban church planting; Youth. Ministers: 1-088, 1-152, 1-283 #062-23, p. 276: Declining a proposal for renewing a delegated Synod General and subordinate synods. Ministers: 1-025, 1-035, 1-159, 1-213, 1-270 #062-24, p. 279: Paying a bill Directions to individuals; Financial; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-265 #062-25, pp. 279-282: Ministers to preach more often on seven-day mail service, liquor traffic, and other disagreements with governments; renewing political dissent; urging all congregations to be open to National Reform and other forms of reform Benjamin Harrison; Chinese exclusion; Congressional bills; Covenant of 1871; Gambling; Legal prohibition; National exhibitions; National Reform conventions; NRA; Post office; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance organizations; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-034, 1-079 #062-26, pp. 282-283: Condemning seven-day newspapers and forbidding members from subscribing to them Boycotts; News media; Sabbath-keeping. #062-27, p. 283: East End case: Pittsburgh Presbytery may not vote in appeal against it; Presbytery committed some irregularities, but none so substantial as to warrant overturning its decision; thus dismissing complaints East End case; Roll call votes; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-187, 1-189, 1-206, 2-214, 2-264 #062-28, p. 284: East End case: dismissing appeals of ministers who have claimed responsibility for the East End platform [dissent, page 285] East End case; Roll call votes; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-187, 1-189, 1-206, 2-214, 2-264 #062-29, p. 285: East End case: directing the retrial of one minister and removing his suspension in the interim East End case; Restorations. Ministers: 1-140 #062-30, p. 287: East End case: dismissing appeal of licentiate against Pittsburgh Presbytery for un-licensing him and refusing to ordain and install him East End case; Licentiates; Wilkinsburg. #062-31, p. 287: All citizens, Christians, and churches must oppose liquor licensing Temperance. #062-32, pp. 287-289: Various financial arrangements; policy for handling bequests; should any congregation leave because of the East End case, Trustees to enforce Synod’s ownership of affected real property Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Debt; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; National Reform; Paying missionaries; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-037, 1-122, 1-232 #062-33, pp. 301-302: Urging higher giving to missions, resuming mission work in Cyprus, various other arrangements, commending the Herald of Mission News (OCLC 7201995) Chinese Home Mission; Donations; Foreign missions HR; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-213, 1-248, 1-275 #062-34, pp. 312-313: Responding to dissent on #062-26: East End platform must be read in the light of similar statements by participants (see dissent to which #061-26 responds); suspensions were for denying the obligations of the Covenant of 1871; platform was highly insubordinate and incompatible with individual rights of opinion; no witnesses were needed for disruptive statements that the defendants had made publicly to Presbytery and elsewhere Covenant of 1871; East End case; Ex post facto; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-248, 1-275 #062-35, pp. 313-314: Communicating with the RCA about general principles and the PCUSA about a comity agreement and a semi-union of churches Church union; Divorce; Evangelical Alliance; Home missions; NRA; Outside communications; PCUSA; RCA; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance; WCRC. Ministers: 1-120, 1-233, 1-275 #062-36, p. 317: In discipline cases, Synod can only deal with parties who have standing, especially as those parties are able to speak for themselves Judicial cases; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-061, 1-124, 1-147, 1-162 #062-37, p. 318:#059-23 is a last resort when members cannot avoid jury service, not an encouragement or blanket permission for service Construction; Jury question; Oath question; Barnet. Ministers: 1-061, 1-147, 1-162 #062-38, p. 318: Declining to make new statements on amendment-voting or jury service Jury question; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 1-061, 1-069, 1-147, 1-162 #062-39, p. 318: Reiterating #057-06; it is inconsistent to prohibit ordination of tobacco-users while permitting ordained users to serve, but Synod cannot pass an ex post facto law Ex post facto; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Utica. Ministers: 1-061, 1-069, 1-147, 1-162 #062-40, p. 318: Commending the Christian Nation (OCLC 665221388) Christian Nation. Ministers: 1-156 #062-41, p. 319: East End case: appointing a commission to attend to libels in the western presbyteries, and making financial arrangements East End case; New commissions; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-037, 1-062, 1-077, 1-088, 1-162, 1-213, 1-265, 1-293 #063 — Synod of 1892 #063-01, p. 205: Printing copies of the order of business Docket and digest. #063-02, pp. 207-208: Confirming decision of #062-41 commission East End case; Reviewing commissions; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-037, 1-062, 1-077, 1-088, 1-162, 1-213, 1-265, 1-293 #063-03, p. 209: Temporary arrangements for Traveling Fund apportionment East End case; Traveling Fund. #063-04, p. 210: Paying for #063-01 Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Financial. Ministers: 1-265 #063-05, p. 213: Arrangements for publishing the new psalter Financial; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-135, 1-233 #063-06, p. 214: Thanking the Rev. John L. Ramsey of the RPCI for his speech to Synod, and sending greetings to the RPCI Outside communications; RPCI; Thanking fraternal delegates. #063-07, p. 215: Reiterating #044-06 Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #063-08, pp. 216-218: Re-approving the NRA, commending it to the church, and appointing collections Bible in schools; Civil War; Collections; Divorce; Legal prohibition; NRA; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-232, 1-240, 1-275 #063-09, pp. 219-220: Reiterating #050-05 on the only possible safe positions; expanding #062-16 boycott reasons to include sale of alcohol; commending American Bible Society and WCTU; reiterating tobacco condemnation American Bible Society; Benjamin Harrison; Boycotts; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-117, 1-144, 1-248 #063-10, pp. 220-223: Sabbath schools: congregations to support them more fully; condemning amateur theatricals; condemning the appearance of Christmas and Easter; statistical reporting Holidays; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks; Theaters; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-015, 1-044, 1-066 #063-11, pp. 223-225: Distinctive principles: RPTS professors to train students well, presbyteries to examine candidates carefully, and sessions to examine membership candidates carefully; courts to discipline faithfully for violations; all organs of the church to give special prominence to the advocacy of distinctive principles Candidate examinations; Church discipline; Church history; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Membership transfer; Political dissent; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Slavery and race; Strict subscription; Witness work. Ministers: 1-138, 1-156, 1-260 #063-12, p. 225: Giving Synod’s thanks for the donation of copies of the Stenographic Report of the Great Liberal Trial in the Covenanter Synod of 1891 (OCLC 1021255776) East End case; RPTS library; Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-135 #063-13, p. 226: Conveying sympathy to dying ruling elder and elderly minister Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-025, 1-135, 1-155, 1-265 #063-14, pp. 227-229: Sabbath-keeping: ministers to preach frequently, sessions to enforce among members and in sabbath schools, parents to teach children, members to cooperate as much as possible with other sabbathkeepers, commending and cooperating with the American Sabbath Union; re-condemning the World’s Columbian Exposition and reiterating boycott Boycotts; Congressional petitions; Labor and capital; Lord’s Day Alliance; National exhibitions; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-079, 1-236 #063-15, p. 230: Urging the federal government to prohibit exportation of alcohol and firearms to the South Seas, especially the New Hebrides; Christians should lead the world in such prohibitions; the United States is responsible to Christ to do this Benjamin Harrison; Congressional petitions; Interchurch; International relations; Legal prohibition; Political dissent; Presidential communications; Specific congressmen; Vanuatu. Ministers: 1-070, 1-135, 1-248 #063-16, p. 231: Publishing #063-14 Financial; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts. Ministers: 1-079, 1-236 #063-17, pp. 231-235: Pastors to preach on the sufficiency of the psalms; reiterating cooperation on a union psalter Church history; Directory for Worship; Psalmody; Sermon topics; Standard psalter; Testimony. Ministers: 1-233, 1-261, 1-288 #063-18, p. 236: New minimum-salary schedule for aid-receiving congregations Congregational aid; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 1-133, 1-248, 1-259 #063-19, p. 236: Sustaining F.M. Foster’s complaint against New York Presbytery in mis-handling the East End platform East End case. Ministers: 1-069 #063-20, p. 243: Reiterating #053-08 and condemning the Geary Act, Public Law 53-20 Acts of Congress; Benjamin Harrison; Chinese exclusion; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals. Ministers: 1-080, 1-265 #063-21, pp. 246-247: Urging fuller collections; Board of Sustentation to be given discretion in distributing funds Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Devolution. Ministers: 1-133, 1-248, 1-259 #063-22, pp. 248-250: Commending the establishment of an Aged Woman’s Home, under Synod’s Trustees; Trustees to collect RPTS tuition becoming due by young ministers leaving the church (#033-18); congregational collections; various other financial arrangements Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Departing ministers; East End case; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Levant missions; National Reform; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Thanks; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 1-026, 1-037, 1-213 #063-23, p. 260: Presbyteries must inquire diligently into the qualifications of applicants for Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund aid Pensions. #063-24, pp. 261-262: Condemning Freemasonry even more than other secret organizations; less condemnation for other secret organizations, but the only safe course is avoiding all of them; condemning labor unions and employers’ unions; reiterating #055-06 Labor and capital; National Christian Association. Ministers: 1-034, 1-049, 1-079, 1-124, 1-283 #063-25, pp. 264-265: Calling for a convention to help produce a uniform psalter Standard psalter; WCRC. Ministers: 1-079, 1-233, 1-248 #063-26, pp. 273-274: Commending the Geneva trustees for wise faculty choices; financial arrangements Geneva faculty; Parental responsibilities; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-034, 1-233, 2-308 #063-27, pp. 278-279: FMB authorized to make arrangements, thanking United States Envoy Solomon Hirsch for intervening for American mission schools in Turkey, arrangements for Indian Mission and Missionary Conference Chinese Home Mission; Devolution; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; International relations; Levant missions; Medical missions; Mission schools; Outside communications; Presbytery-appointed membership; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-232, 1-270, 1-289 #063-28, pp. 289-292: Urging door-to-door evangelism, mission sabbath schools, outdoor services, and Young People’s Societies; pastors to promote temperance, sabbath-keeping, anti-Masonry, and National Reform; the Bible has the answers for labor disputes; making more use of printed matter in evangelism; all congregations to evangelize Abraham Lincoln; Celebrity preachers; Civil War; Home visitation; Labor and capital; National Reform; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Slavery and race; Special services; Temperance; Youth. Ministers: 1-283 #063-29, pp. 292-293: Declining to expand the Testimony to address proper overtures (#061-26) Overtures; Strict subscription; Testimony. Ministers: 1-042, 1-135, 1-232, 1-275 #063-30, p. 295: Condemning lynchings in the South; urging Congress and the President to intervene Benjamin Harrison; Congressional petitions; Presidential communications; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-138 #064 — Synod of 1893 #064-01, p. 196: Printing the order of business; accepting a donated moderator’s gavel and thanking the donor Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-265, 1-286 #064-02, p. 196: New standing committee, on devotional exercises New standing committees. #064-03, p. 197: Printing the order of business and greeting the PCUSA Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Outside communications; PCUSA; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-156 #064-04, p. 198: Petitioning Chicago District Attorney Thomas E. Milchrist to permit the Columbian Exposition to open Monday-Saturday only Government communications; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Telecommunications. #064-05, p. 199: Paying Synod’s share of the expenses of the Presbyterian Alliance Directions to individuals; Financial; WCRC. Ministers: 1-265 #064-06, pp. 199-201: Urging studying and preaching on the church’s distinctive principles; cultivating the spirit of the Scottish martyrs; commending the church’s zeal; financial arrangements Covenant renovation; Sermon topics; Terms of Communion; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-099 #064-07, p. 201: Converting the standing committee on testimony bearing into a permanent committee Abolishing standing committees; Financial; New agencies; Witness work. #064-08, pp. 206-208: Pastors, teachers, and parents to instruct the young on the regulative principle of worship; urging devotional use of and memory of the psalms; families urged to train the voice; reiterating pledge for a union psalter A cappella; Improving praise; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-035 #064-09, p. 209: Reducing Vermont and New York presbytery quotas for Traveling Fund East End case; Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; New York 1, St. Johnsbury. #064-10, p. 210: Reiterating #063-13 Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-156, 1-265 #064-11, pp. 212-214: Permitting an ordination sine titulo; mission to southern white mountaineers is not currently financially feasible; congregations placed under Central Board of Missions; various other arrangements China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Civil War; Congregational aid; Donations; Home Mission Conference; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Levant missions; Real property; Sine titulo; Southern Mission; New York 1, St. Louis, Youngstown. Ministers: 1-015, 1-025, 1-070, 2-198 #064-12, pp. 224-225: Ministers to preach more fully on giving; all members to give fully to the church, with ministers and elders setting the example Eldership; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-061, 1-120, 1-159 #064-13, p. 226: Expressing Synod’s satisfaction with the speech of the Rev. Dr. Browne of the UPCNA, a representative of its committee on a uniform psalter Standard psalter; Thanking visiting speakers; UPCNA. #064-14, p. 227: Throughout Synod’s meetings, ministers shall be accounted as members of the presbytery of which they were members at the time of constitution Absences; Rules and organization. #064-15, pp. 228-230: Financial arrangements Debt; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-001, 1-120, 1-240 #064-16, pp. 233-235: Ministers to advise congregations of sabbath-keeping organizations; the church to beware opponents of sabbath-keeping and to oppose seven-day mail, trains, newspapers, etc.; reiterating opposition to the World’s Columbian Exposition Acts of Congress; Boycotts; National exhibitions; National Reform; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Temperance; Youth. Ministers: 1-042, 1-079 #064-17, pp. 235-237: Sabbath schools to focus on RP history; reiterating #063-10 on statistical forms Church history; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-027, 1-240, 1-286 #064-18, pp. 238-240: Reiterating testimony against secret societies, governments that permit them to exist, and churches that permit members to join them; commending the National Christian Association and the Christian Cynosure Marriage, sexuality, and gender; National Christian Association; National exhibitions; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-135, 1-289 #064-19, p. 240: Approving a RP convention to be held in Glasgow and appointing commissioners to confer with RPCI and RPCS Outside commissions; UK conference; WCRC. #064-20, p. 240: Family law must be bound by the Bible; laws permitting divorce for unscriptural reasons defy God, and high divorce rates are the result; the church must ignore such laws, and ministers must investigate the histories of unfamiliar persons so as to avoid solemnizing a marriage involving a wrongly divorced person Divorce. #064-21, pp. 241-243: Combining statistical columns in presbyterial reporting; prohibiting clerks from modifying the statistical forms on their own whims and requiring them to exercise care; creating Colorado Presbytery from Kansas Presbytery and specifying its boundaries Chinese Home Mission; Church planting; Collections; Congregational aid; Delinquency; Directions to individuals; Donations; East End case; Indian Mission; Licentiates; New presbyteries; NRA; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Statistical blanks; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-096, 1-122, 1-222 #064-22, p. 248: Congregational and presbyterial reports shall reflect the calendar year; presbyterial reports shall be sent to Presbyterial Reports Committee by 1 April Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars. #064-23, p. 249: Not sustaining James Reid’s appeal and complaint against Illinois Presbytery; disapproving of Presbytery’s approval of Reid’s divorce; requiring him to support his ex-wife, and restoring his membership should he comply; any further differences between him and session to be submitted to other Christian men for arbitration Arbitration; Divorce; Judicial cases; Restorations; Old Bethel. #064-24, p. 250: Protest of members from Rochester: removing suspension of members and remanding to Presbytery Judicial cases; No information; Restorations; Rochester [New York]. #064-25, p. 250: Sympathy letter to ill minister [see page 237] Incapacitated delegates; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-247, 2-248 #064-26, p. 250: Reiterating past statements on tobacco and awaiting its complete prohibition by Synod Tobacco. Ministers: 1-037, 1-069, 1-144 #064-27, pp. 253-256: Financial arrangements; directing presbyteries to visit congregations and potentially recommend them for financial assistance; Geneva may not incur debt without Synod’s permission Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Debt; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Insurance; News media; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; Denver, DeWitt, Houlton, New York 1, Rochester [New York], Sylvania. Ministers: 1-255, 1-270, 1-283 #064-28, p. 269: Demanding that Congress repeal all laws restricting Chinese immigration Acts of Congress; China mission; Chinese exclusion; Chinese Home Mission; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-156, 1-265 #064-29, pp. 269-271: Recognize the NRA as fulfilling the Covenant of 1871; urging ministers and members to aid the NRA Bible in schools; Chinese exclusion; Covenant of 1871; Divorce; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Tracts. Ministers: 1-077, 1-079, 1-156 #064-30, pp. 271-273: Reiterating #050-05 on the only possible safe positions; ministers to preach frequently on temperance; opposing alcohol sales at World’s Columbian Exposition and the government’s permission thereof, and re-urging boycott; reiterating first clause of #063-15; reiterating condemnation of the “filthy, expensive, and sinful habit of using tobacco”; renewing non-support and non-ordination of tobacco users Alcohol restrictions on all members; Boycotts; Church discipline; Graduate student aid; International relations; Legal prohibition; Licentiates; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Vanuatu. Ministers: 1-138, 1-236 #064-31, pp. 273-274: Arrangements for collections for sustentation and church erection; no person to canvass the church for building funds without approval from the Board; Board to consider focusing aid on one or a few needy congregations at a time Canvassing; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Devolution; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-021, 1-158, 1-213 #064-32, p. 277: Urging the children of the church to support church erection projects Church erection; Youth; Denver, Kansas City, Seattle, Topeka. #064-33, pp. 278-283: RPTS faculty to arrange for evangelistic summer work for unlicensed students; pastors to train youth in social meetings; all members to remain familiar with missions; giving for the missions Home visitation; Improving praise; Lutherans; Methodists; Offering envelopes; Presbytery conferences; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Seeking candidates, HMB; Society meetings; Tithing; Unlicensed candidates; WCTU; Youth. Ministers: 1-001, 1-088, 2-316 #064-34, p. 286: Modifying a financial arrangement in #064-27 Congregational aid. #065 — Synod of 1894 #065-01, pp. 198-199: Further arrangements for #064-19 convention and urging all North American attendees to notify Synod’s committee Church history; UK conference. Ministers: 1-133, 1-135, 1-236, 2-209 #065-02, pp. 202-203: Adopting sabbath school statistical form (#064-17) Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-058, 1-114, 1-147 #065-03, pp. 206-208: Committing the church’s entire efforts toward prohibition and mandatory total abstinence, and toward testifying against the government’s permission of alcohol; reiterating #064-30 on tobacco, first clause Canada; Church discipline; Legal prohibition; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-222, 1-233 #065-04, pp. 208-210: Urging attention to psalm memorization; commending psalm-explanations in worship; singing in worship to focus on simplicity, not elaboration; extending #062-21 postponement Church music; Ecumenical organizations; Holidays; Improving praise; International Sunday School Lessons; Psalm explanations; Psalm selections; Youth. Ministers: 1-226, 2-241, 2-316 #065-05, pp. 211-212: Testimony bearing is a duty required by Christ, the country, and countrymen; members to advocate for distinctive principles and to state them as truth rather than merely defending them as a condemnation of evil; members to support ministers in speaking out on distinctive principles, relying on biblical models A cappella; Church history; Descending obligations; Oath question; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Terms of Communion; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-240, 2-099 #065-06, pp. 216-217: Pastors to urge giving to Sustentation Fund; congregations to increase total giving, not to reduce giving for pastor’s salary; approving financial decisions Canvassing; Church erection; Congregational aid; Construction; Paying ministers; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-070, 1-232, 1-236 #065-07, p. 221: Protesting against Utah statehood: lovers of morals and good government must oppose Utah statehood, which would harm the best interests of Mormons, and which should be postponed until the rising generation takes power Congressional petitions; LDS; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. #065-08, p. 223: Sustaining complaint of J.C. Dodds and others against Pittsburgh Presbytery and ordering the rapid ordination of a new minister [dissent, page 234] Judicial cases; Roll call votes; Splits in congregations; Written dissent; College Hill, Geneva. #065-09, p. 224: Noting Synod’s interest in the Rev. Dr. Morrow’s speech to Synod about the American Bible Society, assuring him of the church’s commitment to his cause, and commending him and his agents to the church American Bible Society; Thanking visiting speakers. #065-10, pp. 225-226: Appointing commissioners to participate in producing a standard psalter Financial; Outside commissions; Standard psalter; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-034, 1-035, 1-248 #065-11, pp. 226-228: Testifying against secret organizations; reiterating final clause of #064-18 National Christian Association. Ministers: 1-232, 2-308 #065-12, pp. 229-232: Congregations to pray for the Holy Spirit’s aid in evangelism; pastors to emphasize the importance of evangelism and to train the youth; reiterating first clause of #064-33 Celebrity preachers; Chinese Home Mission; Evangelism; Indian Mission; Psalm selections; Psalmody; Repeating tunes; RPTS faculty; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Special services; Unlicensed candidates; Youth. Ministers: 1-001, 1-077 #065-13, pp. 235-239: Reaffirming the importance of National Reform, recognizing the efforts of the NRA; ministers serving the NRA shall speak out against incorporation when appropriate; financial arrangements Chinese exclusion; Congressional petitions; Construction; Divorce; Financial; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Secret societies; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-080, 1-159, 1-248 #065-14, pp. 239-242: Supporting sabbath-keeping efforts, including a national law; religious principles, not practical matters, to be the basis for support sabbath-keeping; urging better sabbath-keeping; praising observers of the World’s Columbian Exposition boycott; testifying against government-sanctioned sabbath-breaking; Panic of 1893 is God’s judgement for sabbath-breaking Acts of Congress; Boycotts; Constitutional amendments; National exhibitions; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-117, 1-135, 2-099 #065-15, pp. 243-245: Responding to dissent on #065-08: presbyteries may not take away rights from congregations and ministerial candidates without reason, and opposition by a minority of the congregation is no proper reason Devolution; Judicial cases; PCI; Responses to dissent; Splits in congregations; UPCNA; College Hill, Geneva. Ministers: 1-120, 1-275 #065-16, pp. 247-250: Choosing missionaries for China; starting a Jewish mission; assigning Chinese congregations to Central Board of Missions; Central Board to start missions wherever openings can be worked with; commending Southern mission’s industrial school to sabbath schools for support China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Real property; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; Urban church planting; Youth; Elliota, McKeesport, Monongahela, Muskingum and Tomica, Selma, Youngstown. Ministers: 1-027, 1-080, 2-316 #065-17, pp. 258-261: Various financial arrangements Bequests; Canvassing; China mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Debt; First New York property; Geneva; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Pensions; RPTS finances; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; WCRC; New York 1, New York 3, Rushsylvania, St. Johnsbury. Ministers: 1-037, 1-213, 1-233 #065-18, p. 276: Renaming Chinese mission in California to avoid confusion with new mission in China China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Renaming; Oakland. #065-19, p. 276: Paying publishing bills Financial; Publications. Ministers: 1-138 #065-20, pp. 277-278: Urging session clerks to accuracy; adjusting statistical tables; repealing #064-22 and specifying fiscal year as being 1 May to 30 April Chinese Home Mission; Geneva faculty; Indian Mission; Licentiates; NRA; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Statistics. Ministers: 1-096, 1-240, 1-289 #065-21, pp. 283-285: Urging tithing; collections to be taken in worship Church erection; Offerings in worship; Paying ministers; Paying missionaries; Taxation; Tithing. Ministers: 1-005, 1-079, 1-265 #065-22, pp. 285-286: Retaining existing RPTS schedule; Geneva trustees to seek a new charter from the Pennsylvania legislature; asking the faculty to prevent over-interest in athletics Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; Incorporation; RPTS; Sports. Ministers: 1-156, 1-240, 1-265, 1-286 #065-23, p. 290: Reiterating #064-20, first point; moderator and clerk to contact state governments and urge them to conform family law to the Bible Directions to individuals; Divorce; Legislative petitions. Ministers: 1-159, 1-265 #065-24, p. 290: Thanking the Philadelphia press for good reporting of Synod’s meetings Thanking newspapers. #065-25, p. 291: Clerk to negotiate with railroads for reduced fares for unsettled ministers Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-265 #066 — Synod of 1895 #066-01, p. 149: New standing committee, on nominations, and defining its responsibilities New standing committees; Rules and organization. #066-02, pp. 149-150: Reiterating #065-23, second clause, the contact not having been performed Directions to individuals; Divorce; Legislative petitions. Ministers: 1-265, 1-283 #066-03, pp. 154-155: Requesting other churches’ cooperation in a uniform psalter; metrical psalters must be faithful translations of original Hebrew; deauthorizing the inclusion of a chorus PCUSA; Repeating tunes; Standard psalter; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248, 1-275 #066-04, p. 155: Publication arrangements for revised psalter Financial; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-233 #066-05, pp. 159-161: National Reform is connected with Christ’s honor and the well-being of the government; the church must testify for it and work with other like-minded groups; commending the NRA for continued support Divorce; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-232, 1-236, 1-270, 2-316 #066-06, pp. 161-163: Urging freer giving, the activity of pastors and elders for testimony bearing, and continued prayer Donations; Political dissent; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-099 #066-07, p. 163: Declining further participation in an attempt to federate Presbyterian churches (#062-35) Church union. Ministers: 1-275 #066-08, pp. 165-166: Urging the church toward more energetic anti-Masonry and cooperation with National Christian Association; sessions must guard members (including with discipline) against joining secret organizations Church discipline; Donations; Insurance; Labor and capital; National Christian Association. Ministers: 1-122, 1-213, 2-316 #066-09, pp. 166-170: Presbyteries and Synod to hold evangelism conferences, pastors to preach on evangelism, young people to be trained in it, RPTS to welcome women who want to study missions and evangelism Conferences at Synod; Home visitation; Labor and capital; Presbytery conferences; RPTS finances; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Salvation Army; Sermon topics; Youth. Ministers: 1-027, 1-226, 2-251 #066-10, p. 171: Complaint of R.M. Downie against Pittsburgh Presbytery (#065-08): not sustaining two points but sustaining the third and directing Pittsburgh Presbytery to amend its minutes Judicial cases; Splits in congregations; College Hill, Geneva. #066-11, p. 172:#060-25 approved a new psalter but did not disapprove the Scots Version, so congregations may use either one Construction; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-034, 2-316 #066-12, pp. 172-174: All sabbath schools to include home visitation; the Bible to replace lesson helps in curricula; encouraging visual aids, e.g. blackboards; teachers to meet for mutual aid; teachers to purchase materials covering RP history; sabbath school offerings to support outside causes, with expenses to be paid by the congregations; advocating graded classes Home visitation; International Sunday School Lessons; Parental responsibilities. Ministers: 1-001, 1-135, 2-159 #066-13, pp. 174-175: Synod will carefully consider accepting Amity College’s offer to place itself under the church, and likewise will consider the alternate option of establishing a college at nearby Clarinda Supporting colleges; Clarinda. Ministers: 2-153 #066-14, pp. 175-176: Not sustaining a complaint by R.A. Bole and R.M. Downie against Pittsburgh Presbytery (separate from #066-10, but related) [dissent, page 191] Judicial cases; Roll call votes; Splits in congregations; Written dissent. #066-15, pp. 180-181: Urging the church’s financial support for #064-19 convention and urging as many people as possible to attend; reiterating notification clause of #065-02 Donations; Public transportation; UK conference. Ministers: 1-079, 1-135, 1-236, 2-209 #066-16, p. 184: Deploring nonreligious celebrations of Thanksgiving Day; ministers to preach against this sin Holidays; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-070, 1-079, 1-202 #066-17, p. 185: Replacing Syrian Commission with Syrian Presbytery and defining its bounds and membership (#060-22) Abolishing agencies; Mission schools; Native ministers; New presbyteries; Syrian Commission. Ministers: 1-080, 1-125, 1-236 #066-18, p. 185: FMB to choose a missionary to China, Synod having been unable to elect missionaries China mission; Devolution; Foreign missions HR. #066-19, pp. 186-187: Sustaining complaint of Cambridge residents against New York Presbytery and directing the organization of a congregation [allegedly so members need not use streetcars to reach church] Judicial cases; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Splits in congregations; Boston 1, Boston 2, Cambridge. Ministers: 1-070, 1-154, 1-233, 1-270, 2-099, 2-209 #066-20, p. 187: Converts from Armenian and Greek Orthodox churches need not be rebaptized, but converts from Catholic, Maronite, and Uniate churches must be. Addressed in 1881, page 265, and 1882, page 233, but no decision made by Synod Orthodox baptism; Uniate. Ministers: 1-015, 1-159, 1-270 #066-21, p. 187: Ignoring a complaint against Kansas Presbytery, as Presbytery acted appropriately and the complaint is abusive Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 1-015, 1-159, 1-270 #066-22, pp. 188-189: Ardently fighting for prohibition, opposing liquor licenses and churches that permit members to drink and vote, re-commending WCTU, re-condemning tobacco use and traffic Alcohol restrictions on all members; Legal prohibition; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-006, 1-037, 1-080 #066-23, pp. 190-191: Reiterating #037-20 on tithing and preaching, #064-13 on officers as an example, and #055-08 on envelopes; urging presbyteries and congregations to hold tithing conferences; commending Christian Endeavor societies for highlighting the tithe Conferences at Synod; Offering envelopes; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248, 1-275 #066-24, p. 193: Declining a petition to relocate the Board of Sustentation and Church Erection Church erection; Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-037, 1-232, 1-248 #066-25, pp. 194-196: Thanking the U.S. State Department for gunboat diplomacy in Mersin; sending missionaries to Cyprus and China; Syrian churches to be self-supporting; women to become medical missionaries; Pacific Coast missions; Jewish Mission; expanding Indian Mission; arrangements for Home Mission Conference China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Indian Mission; International relations; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Medical missions; Real property; Southern Mission; Thanks; Barnesville, Mansfield, Muskingum and Tomica, Seattle, Wahoo. Ministers: 1-025, 1-122, 1-248 #066-26, pp. 207-210: Working with other churches to advocate sabbath-keeping; scrupulous sabbath-keeping necessary; urging labor unions to remember sabbath-keeping as their only safeguard for a weekend; a federal constitutional amendment for sabbath-keeping is necessary Constitutional amendments; Interchurch; Investment philosophy; Labor and capital; News media; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Theaters; WCTU. Ministers: 1-158, 2-209, 2-246 #066-27, pp. 210-211: Pastors to advocate for sustentation and church erection, congregations to pay pastors first and sustentation second, various financial stipulations Church erection; Congregational aid; Debt; Paying ministers; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-049, 1-063, 1-072 #066-28, pp. 215-218: Various financial arrangements and collection dates Bequests; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Debt; First New York property; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Thanking donors; WCRC. Ministers: 1-001, 1-037, 1-288 #066-29, pp. 238-239: Responding to dissent on #066-10: majorities may not be deterred by minorities without just cause; edict was read a sufficient number of times; Presbytery asked congregation’s opinion despite not being required to ask it; this was a wise choice FCS; Judicial cases; PCI; Responses to dissent; Splits in congregations; College Hill, Geneva. Ministers: 1-062, 1-275 #066-30, p. 239: Members not to sing hymns when attending parachurch meetings Ecumenical organizations; Psalmody. Ministers: 1-270, 1-288, 2-308 #066-31, pp. 241-242, 247: Creating new statistical blanks and reiterating the importance of careful preparation of statistics China mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations; Indian Mission; NRA; Presbytery reports; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-137, 2-248, 2-257 #066-32, pp. 247-248: Commending RPTS and Geneva to parents, donors, and praying Christians Donations; Geneva finances; RPTS. Ministers: 1-062, 1-232, 2-308 #066-33, p. 251: Thanking the Denver press for good reporting of Synod’s meetings, and the Chamber of Commerce for providing a free excursion Thanking newspapers. #067 — Synod of 1896 #067-01, p. 5: Declining to celebrate the Lord’s supper at this Synod Special services; Synod communion; Cincinnati. #067-02, p. 8: New statistical forms Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-069, 1-088 #067-03, pp. 11-14: Changing RPTS term from four years of six months to three years of eight months Church history; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS. Ministers: 1-088 #067-04, p. 15: Giving greetings to the PCUSA, in response to their greetings Directions to individuals; Outside communications; PCUSA; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-069, 1-232 #067-05, p. 15: Sustaining a complaint against Pittsburgh Presbytery; no context given Judicial cases; No information; Roll call votes. Ministers: 1-034, 1-117, 1-236 #067-06, pp. 16-17: Commending the arrangements committees for the #064-19 convention, urging all members to buy a memorial volume (OCLC 81601963), and urging all churches to hold a memorial service for Scottish martyrs Church history; Levant missions; RPCA; UK conference. Ministers: 1-079, 1-133, 1-135, 2-209 #067-07, pp. 23-24: No home missions money to be given to a church not actively cultivating a mission; presbyteries and Home Missionary Conference to endorse applications; no congregation to receive both sustentation and home missions funding Church planting; Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-135, 1-236, 1-248 #067-08, pp. 25-27: Urging the church to support a proposed Christian amendment (54 H. Res. 28; ministers #001-079 and #001-135 testified before Congress); all ministers to advocate for National Reform Congressional bills; National Reform conventions; NRA; Witness work. Ministers: 1-001, 1-288, 2-064 #067-09, pp. 32-33: Urging congregations to contribute to testimony bearing; ministers and members to distribute literature and hold meetings for political dissent; urging continued prayer Donations; Family worship; National Reform; Society meetings; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-099, 2-198 #067-10, pp. 35-37: Reiterating first clause of #066-08; ministers to watch out for members and to preach against secret societies; printing copies of this report Labor and capital; National Christian Association; News media; Sermon topics; Tracts. Ministers: 1-202, 2-099 #067-11, pp. 37-38: Stated clerk to receive and prepare statistical reports; reports received after 15 May must be ignored, aside from changes in pastoral relations made during Synod; clerks must use #067-02 forms Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-088, 1-147, 1-270 #067-12, pp. 46-47: Urging the church’s support of RPTS and Geneva Geneva; Parental responsibilities; RPTS. Ministers: 1-270, 2-308 #067-13, pp. 53-54: Traveling fund regulations Sabbath-keeping; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-021, 1-061, 2-068 #067-14, pp. 55-56: Unjust governments lose their right to exist, and foreign governments must intervene to protect the innocent; churches must urge their governments to prevent Turkey from massacring Armenians; urging all Christian organizations to petition the government Armenians; Interchurch; International relations; Islam; Orthodox; Sabbath schools; WCTU; YMCA. Ministers: 1-005, 1-037, 1-158 #067-15, p. 56: All members of Synod attending the #064-19 convention to give official greetings UK conference. Ministers: 1-044, 1-248, 2-233 #067-16, pp. 58-61: Various financial arrangements Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; First New York property; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Paying ministers; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; WCRC; East End, New York 3. Ministers: 1-034, 1-154, 1-288 #067-17, pp. 91-92: Urging the federal government to settle disputes with arbitration, not with the sword Arbitration; Government communications; Pacifism. #067-18, pp. 92-98: Pastors to lead special fasting and prayer for the Holy Spirit’s intervention; all the gospel to be preached; urging fuller self-surrender, door-to-door evangelism, and care for the poor; all right methods for retaining the young should be employed Baptists; Church history; Divorce; Home visitation; Lutherans; Methodists; Moravians; National Reform; News media; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-236, 2-209 #067-19, pp. 99-100: Urging church planting in large cities, Central Board to oversee Jewish missions; various other arrangements China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Geneva; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Medical missions; PCUSA; RPTS; Southern Mission; Unlicensed candidates; Urban church planting; WCRC; WMF; Youth. Ministers: 1-027, 1-049, 1-133 #067-20, pp. 114-116: Reiterating #037-20 on preaching; parents to educate and provide for their children so they can give money; urging the rich to donate rather than bequeathing; congregations to choose their own fundraising methods, but prohibiting methods appealing to worldly motives Bequests; Donations; Parental responsibilities; Sermon topics; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 1-063, 2-088, 2-248 #067-21, pp. 116-119: Ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping; urging ecumenical sabbath-keeping conventions; parents to teach their children about sabbath-keeping National exhibitions; News media; Parental responsibilities; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics; Temperance. Ministers: 1-034, 1-070, 1-096 #067-22, pp. 119-121: Urging all members to work for temperance, ministers to preach on the subject, recognizing National Reform as the route to total prohibition, condemning tobacco usage Civil War; Divorce; Insurance; National Reform; News media; Sermon topics; Taxation; Temperance organizations; Tobacco; Voting; Youth. Ministers: 1-141, 2-233, 2-257 #067-23, pp. 121-125: Members (especially children) should be well taught on the importance of proper praise and urged to avoid conflicting activities Church union; Improving praise. Ministers: 1-034, 1-120, 1-240 #067-24, p. 126: Uniting in a “Mammoth petition” urging Congress to outlaw seven-day interstate commerce Congressional petitions; Sabbath-keeping. #067-25, p. 129: Deferring action on Orthodox baptism (ultimately answered in #069-29); in the absence of a complaint, there is no reason for Synod to do anything about a candidate attending another seminary (#033-23) Attending other seminaries; Orthodox baptism; Uniate. Ministers: 1-037, 1-088, 1-213, 2-033 #067-26, p. 129: Thanking the Cincinnati hotels and press Thanking newspapers. #068 — Synod of 1897 #068-01, p. 9: Indefinitely postponing action on church federation Church union. #068-02, p. 13: Thanking the RPWA for an invitation to visit the RP Home RPWA; Thanks. #068-03, pp. 14-15: Declining #066-13 offer Supporting colleges. Ministers: 1-037, 1-265 #068-04, p. 17: Exempting a congregation from the traveling fund Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; Topsham. #068-05, pp. 17-19: Presbyteries not to license or ordain men disagreeing with the church’s position on secret societies, and sessions not to receive disagreeing members; pastors to preach against secret organizations, and parents to teach their children Candidate examinations; Civil War; Licentiates; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Parental responsibilities; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Strict subscription. Ministers: 1-063, 1-156, 2-099 #068-06, pp. 20-23: Churches, prayer meetings, etc. to study giving under ministers’ and teachers’ encouragement, all must give generously, urging sessions to increase giving Foreign missions HR; Home missions HR; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Society meetings; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 1-141, 1-233, 1-289 #068-07, pp. 23-24: Petition to reconsider #066-24: sustentation to be overseen by Central Board of Missions, hiring a clerk to help church treasurer Church erection; Congregational aid; Paying Synod employees; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-138, 1-159, 1-233, 1-275 #068-08, pp. 24-25: Appointing a judicial commission; churches permitted to use or not use communion tokens, but close communion to be maintained Close communion; Elements of worship; Judicial cases; New commissions; Private prosecutions; Special services; Belle Center. Ministers: 1-001, 1-147, 1-275 #068-09, pp. 26-28: Urging all members to study Covenant of 1871, sessions to enforce political dissent, ministers to preach on it and members to distribute literature A cappella; Church discipline; Donations; Political dissent; Psalmody; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-099, 2-197 #068-10, pp. 28-30: Everyone to advocate for National Reform in their communities and before other churches Christian Statesman; Financial; Interchurch; National Reform conventions; NRA; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 1-049, 1-270, 2-209 #068-11, pp. 32-35: Renewing allegiance to sabbath-keeping, reiterating previous decisions, disapproving of all seven-day businesses and activities that are neither necessary nor merciful, commending American Sabbath Union and Women’s National Sabbath Alliance Gambling; Lord’s Day Alliance; News media; Parental responsibilities; Post office; Public transportation; Temperance; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-042, 2-257 #068-12, pp. 37-39: The Church must evangelize, both to win souls and build solid Christians; sessions and members to seek opportunities Church planting; Donations; Evangelism; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-001, 1-236, 2-068 #068-13, pp. 43-44: Approving another convention in the spirit of the #064-19 convention UK conference. Ministers: 1-080, 1-194, 1-265 #068-14, pp. 44-46: Approving #068-08 commission’s decision to sustain complaint against Lakes Presbytery; dismissing related appeal, as sustaining complaint renders it moot Judicial cases; No information; Reviewing commissions; Trial procedure; Belle Center. Ministers: 1-021, 1-034, 1-037, 1-122, 1-147, 1-226, 1-240 #068-15, pp. 48-49: Dispute between David McAllister and D.B. Willson: McAllister to cease publishing Christian Statesman articles on the organic unity of the church, and if he submit, to dismiss charges [dissent, pages 79 and 80] Christian Statesman; Church union; Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Private prosecutions; Roll call votes; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-015, 1-066, 1-135, 1-265, 1-270, 1-275, 1-288 #068-16, pp. 50-53: Various financial arrangements Bequests; China mission; Christian Statesman; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; First New York property; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Medical missions; Minutes of Synod; Mission schools; NRA; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; WCRC. Ministers: 1-133, 1-159, 2-190 #068-17, pp. 81-83: All sabbath schools to be governed by sessions; superintendents to procure pure literature; Synod to provide a graded curriculum Home visitation; Jewish missions; Methodists; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; UPCNA; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-122, 1-159, 1-240 #068-18, pp. 86-88: Commending Synod’s mission boards, placing congregations under boards or presbyteries, Jewish Mission, Levant arrangements (including presbytery), Chinese missionaries to choose a mission center Chinese Home Mission; Foreign missions HR; Indian Mission; Islam; Jewish missions; Medical missions; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Orthodox baptism; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Syrian Presbytery; Urban church planting; Chicago, Denver. Ministers: 1-141, 2-182, 2-257 #068-19, p. 104: Expanding collections for RPTS and Geneva; seminary supervisors given authority for arrangements, Geneva and RPTS to share in Library Fund Donations; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-021, 1-061, 1-285 #068-20, pp. 109-110: Support WCTU, special “Temperance Day”, reaffirming existing position, condemning liquor licensing, and condemning tobacco; requesting publication of this report Alcohol restrictions on all members; Holidays; Publications; Taxation; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-006, 1-133, 2-182 #068-21, p. 110: Abolishing standing committee on printing and publishing Abolishing standing committees; Publications. #068-22, pp. 110-112: Ministers to preach on exclusive psalmody; church discipline for singing in hymn-using contexts; reiterating #066-30 [dissent, page 110] Church discipline; Covenant of 1871; Ecumenical organizations; Psalmody; Sermon topics; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-069, 1-147 #068-23, p. 112: Declining UPCNA invitation for a common youth convention, unless they choose not to use instrumental music A cappella; Interchurch; UPCNA; Youth. Ministers: 1-063 #068-24, pp. 112-113: Presbyteries must submit statistics to Stated Clerk by 15 May; Stated Clerk an ex officio member of Presbyterial Reports Committee; regulating membership rolls Agency membership; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; Statistics; Syrian Presbytery. Ministers: 1-061, 1-285 #068-25, pp. 121-122: Appointing commissioners to attend New Light celebration of the centenary of the Reformed Presbytery New Light church; Second presbytery. Ministers: 1-159, 1-194, 1-248, 2-316 #069 — Synod of 1898 #069-01, p. 5: Protesting the seven-day opening schedule of the Trans-Mississippi Exposition Directions to individuals; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Telecommunications. #069-02, p. 9: Indefinitely postponing action on church paper (#061-05) [see page 124] Publications. #069-03, pp. 11-14: Pastors to lead congregations in evangelism, conversions to be the focus of sessions, sabbath school programs, families, and young people’s societies, and members to speak of the gospel publicly Celebrity preachers; Evangelism; Sabbath schools; Youth. Ministers: 1-058, 2-276 #069-04, pp. 14-16: Maintaining current testimony on secret organizations, doctrinally and in daily life; reiterating #061-19 commendations; investigating benefit organizations Insurance; National Christian Association. Ministers: 2-011, 2-227 #069-05, pp. 18-20: Reiterating demand for total national prohibition; condemnation of liquor licensing, licensing governments, and saloons near schools and colleges; parents should not send students to colleges whose professors do not support temperance; reiterating opposition to tobacco; ministers to preach on Temperance Day Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church history; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Sermon topics; Spanish-American War; Tobacco; WCTU; William McKinley; Youth. Ministers: 1-122, 1-147, 2-147 #069-06, p. 21: Republishing the minutes of the Reformed Presbytery and the early minutes of Synod Church history; Financial; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-088 #069-07, pp. 21-24: Church officers to exemplify sabbath-keeping; urging all families toward sabbath-keeping; no holding stock in sabbath-breaking companies or taking public transportation to church; commending sabbathkeepers; condemning seven-day companies, mail, congressional sessions, and military functions Investment philosophy; Labor and capital; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Spanish-American War; WCTU. Ministers: 1-080, 1-154, 1-265 #069-08, p. 24: Members to cooperate with American Sabbath Union whenever appropriate Lord’s Day Alliance. #069-09, pp. 24-26: Ministers to preach on exclusive psalmody; parents should continue teaching children to memorize the psalms Parental responsibilities; Psalmody; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-125, 2-226, 2-257 #069-10, p. 26: Members must not appear to give approval to hymns or instrumental music A cappella; Psalmody. #069-11, p. 26: Publishing new editions of the psalter Directions to individuals; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-233 #069-12, pp. 28-30: Commending better giving; tithes should be calculated on net income; re-commending envelopes (used weekly) versus subscriptions; congregational expenses to be paid from normal offerings, with special collections the source of denominational funding Collections; Delinquency; Offering envelopes; Paying ministers; Tithing. Ministers: 1-226, 1-247, 2-182 #069-13, pp. 33-34: All ministers and members should take a deep interest in National Reform Divorce; Donations; National Reform; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-099 #069-14, pp. 35-37: Commending missionaries; mission boards authorized to make staffing arrangements China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Devolution; Donations; Ecumenical organizations; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Medical missions; Mission schools; Outside commissions; Real property; Seeking candidates, HMB; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 1-265, 2-205, 2-280 #069-15, pp. 52-53: Sessions to oversee young people’s societies; presbyteries should form Covenanter Young People’s Unions; extending scope of Sabbath Schools Committee to cover youth work CYPU; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-001, 1-080, 1-265 #069-16, p. 54: Indefinitely postponing a petition to overturn #068-15 Christian Statesman; Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Roll call votes. Ministers: 1-135 #069-17, pp. 55-56: Spanish-American War is a righteous war to deliver the oppressed; rejoicing in its effects; sympathizing with soldiers’ families; churches should pray for the military and for National Reform National Reform; Spanish-American War; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-213, 1-248 #069-18, p. 56: Reminding all enlistees not to take oaths contrary to political dissent Oath question; Spanish-American War. #069-19, pp. 57-61: Financial arrangements; reprinting the Testimony; assorted collections; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; Canvassing; China mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; First New York property; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS library; Southern Mission; WCRC; Witness work; New York 3. Ministers: 1-063, 1-286, 2-018 #069-20, pp. 93-95: Abolishing standing committee on presbyterial reports and giving its responsibilities to the Stated Clerk, who may adjust statistical forms at his discretion Abolishing standing committees; Devolution; Presbytery reports; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-063, 1-236, 1-283, 2-246 #069-21, p. 104:#068-14 complainant and Lakes Presbytery to submit their differences to arbitration Arbitration; Judicial cases; Belle Center. Ministers: 1-096, 1-147, 2-106 #069-22, p. 104: Not sustaining appeal of James Park against Rochester Presbytery [see #069-24] Judicial cases; Real property; Sabbath-keeping; Syracuse. Ministers: 2-205, 2-251 #069-23, pp. 104-105: Refusing to ordain two Geneva professors: the Book of Church Government prohibits ordination without some sort of call [more details in dissent, pages 106-107] Book of Church Government; Geneva faculty; Sine titulo; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-096, 1-147, 2-045, 2-106 #069-24, p. 105:#069-22 followup: James Park is freed from responsibility for the use of electric lamps, having exhausted all means of discontinuing them, and therefore may attend worship without being responsible for their use Judicial cases; Making exceptions; Real property; Sabbath-keeping; Syracuse. #069-25, pp. 107-109: Reiterating #066-12 regarding graded curricula; all sabbath schools to study church standards Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Witness work. Ministers: 1-072, 2-088 #069-26, pp. 111-112: Financial arrangements for RPTS and Geneva; aid for ministerial candidates (to be repaid by men leaving the RP ministry); publishing Historical Catalogue of the Theological Seminary of R.P. Church (no OCLC record) Debt; Departing ministers; Directions to individuals; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Licentiates; Real property; RPCNA books; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-066, 1-088, 1-222, 2-068 #069-27, p. 119: Reiterating #068-23 [dissent, page 136] A cappella; Church history; Interchurch; UPCNA; Written dissent; Youth. #069-28, pp. 119-122: Missionaries in Syria to be part of their home presbyteries, and restoring Syrian Commission Church discipline; Rules and organization; Syrian Commission; Syrian Presbytery. Ministers: 1-088, 1-135, 1-275 #069-29, pp. 122-123: Reiterating #066-20: the reason being papal primacy, which is not an issue in the Orthodox churches Orthodox baptism; Uniate. Ministers: 1-088, 1-135, 1-275 #069-30, p. 124: Paying Synod’s share of the expenses of the joint psalter revision committee Directions to individuals; Financial; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-069 #069-31, p. 129: Procedural rule change: one-sixth of members are the minimum for calling for yeas and nays Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-062, 1-135, 1-275 #069-32, p. 130: Paying for printing Financial; Presbytery reports. #069-33, p. 130: Appointing a minister for Testimony Bearing and ascertaining his salary Devolution; Home missions HR; Paying Synod employees; Witness work; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-034, 1-037, 1-265, 2-099 #069-34, p. 137: Memorializing President William McKinley in reference to a fast Presidential communications; Signs of the Times; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-069, 1-117 #070 — Synod of 1899 #070-01, p. 5: Dividing Committee on Missions into two standing committees, Foreign Missions and Home Missions Abolishing standing committees; Foreign missions; Home missions; New standing committees. #070-02, p. 8: Original minutes of Synod and the Reformed Presbytery (1833 and prior), having been collected and reproduced, shall be published if enough subscribers commit to purchasing Church history; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-088, 1-135, 2-159 #070-03, pp. 8-9: Disapproving the training of Chinese converts in the United States as missionaries in South China China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Foreign missions HR; Geneva; RPTS. Ministers: 1-114, 1-233 #070-04, p. 11: Paying Synod’s share of the expenses of the Presbyterian Alliance Directions to individuals; Financial; WCRC. Ministers: 1-069 #070-05, p. 11: Responding to greetings from RPCI Directions to individuals; Outside communications; RPCI; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-015, 1-069 #070-06, pp. 11-13: All members shall publicly oppose secret societies; testifying against churches that accept societies; the state must not permit secret societies to exist; municipalities must not invite Masons to construction/cornerstone dedications; reiterating #055-07 LDS; National Christian Association. Ministers: 1-021, 1-122, 2-274 #070-07, p. 15: Money from selling disorganized church property applied to Church Erection funds Church erection; Closing churches; Elliota. #070-08, p. 16: Thanking the Rev. John Pierson of the American Bible Society for his speech to Synod American Bible Society; Thanking visiting speakers. #070-09, p. 17: Clerk to send extracts of minutes to railroad companies upon request Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-069 #070-10, p. 18: Asking newspapers reporting on Synod to wait until Monday to publish Saturday news, or at least wait until Monday to deliver copies to Synodical subscribers News media; Sabbath-keeping. #070-11, p. 18: Encouraging friends of the Chinese Home Mission to fund the educations of young Chinese men Chinese Home Mission; Home missions HR; Oakland. #070-12, p. 18: Repealing #068-15 Christian Statesman; Church union; Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Roll call votes. Ministers: 1-135, 1-248 #070-13, p. 22: Reiterating #064-31 on canvassing; urging the church to give to church erection and sustentation; sustentation board authorized to disqualify congregations not contributing their fair share Canvassing; Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-286, 2-106, 2-227 #070-14, p. 25: Urging the United States House of Representatives to disqualify the election of Brigham H. Roberts because of his practice of plural marriage Congressional petitions; LDS; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Specific congressmen. #070-15, p. 26: Missions boards to memorialize Congress against laws restricting Chinese immigrants Chinese exclusion; Congressional petitions. #070-16, p. 27: Recommending increased cooperation with Bible societies American Bible Society. Ministers: 1-159, 1-232 #070-17, pp. 27-30: Reiterating #062-26; commending members from avoiding seven-day companies; condemning sabbath-breaking travel (particularly rail); objecting to sabbath-breaking in the military; parents to teach their children sabbath-keeping; ministers to advocate sabbath-keeping in print Church discipline; Immigration; Labor and capital; News media; Parental responsibilities; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Spanish-American War; Temperance; Theaters; William McKinley; Witness work. Ministers: 1-138, 1-261 #070-18, pp. 30-31: Establishing and regulating a Board of Control to oversee funding for aged ministers, dependents of deceased ministers, and theological students Board of Control; Graduate student aid; New agencies; Pensions; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-062, 1-147, 1-233, 2-316 #070-19, pp. 31-32: Reiterating the importance of a uniform psalter, but admitting its unlikelihood; Synod is not ready to prepare a new psalter by itself Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-114, 1-135, 1-248, 1-275 #070-20, pp. 32-33: Only postmillennialism is scriptural, but some premillennialists are devoted friends of missions and reform National Reform conventions; NRA; Premillennialism. Ministers: 1-001, 1-015, 1-233 #070-21, pp. 35-36: Sabbath school statistics to be submitted more carefully; ministers to remind members of their responsibilities; sabbath schools to increase attention on church standards and to teach the importance of public worship; reiterating #066-12 on home visitation and grades Delinquency; Home visitation; Sabbath schools; Statistics; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-159, 2-198, 2-308 #070-22, pp. 36-38: Sessions to consider forming a CYPU if they have not already; societies to focus on particular lines of work; urging young people to focus on tithing CYPU; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-159, 2-198, 2-308 #070-23, pp. 38-39: Regulating composition of the Traveling Fund Committee James S. Tibby; Presbytery-appointed membership; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-035, 1-232 #070-24, pp. 39-40: Financial arrangements for RPTS and Geneva; RPTS students to be taught music and elocution Donations; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Higher-education standards; RPTS library. Ministers: 1-042, 1-063, 1-289 #070-25, pp. 53-55: HMB made the Interim Committee on Supplies; no supply assignments for full-time pastors Devolution; Home missions; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-133, 1-283, 2-248 #070-26, p. 55: Not sustaining complaint against Kansas Presbytery; some minor elements of the decision were not in harmony with church law, but the course was substantially correct Dissolving pastorates; Judicial cases; Trial procedure; Written dissent; Blanchard. Ministers: 1-265, 1-285 #070-27, pp. 57-59: Objecting to the sale of alcohol in military canteens; reiterating #069-05 on saloons near schools and on Temperance Day; sessions to ask about tobacco when examining prospective members; reiterating final clause of #061-22 Government communications; Holidays; National exhibitions; Pacific; Parental responsibilities; Presidential communications; Slavery and race; Spanish-American War; Tobacco restrictions on officers; WCTU; William McKinley; Youth. Ministers: 1-077, 1-213, 2-246 #070-28, pp. 60-61: Church must pray for evangelism and use all means in its power for evangelism; holding an evangelism conference at Synod in 1900 Bible texts and translations; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; Levant missions; Sabbath schools; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-099, 2-190 #070-29, pp. 61-64: Reiterating commitment to National Reform and #066-05 commendation; financial arrangements Arbitration; Bible in schools; Collections; National Reform conventions; News media; NRA; Pacifism; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Temperance; Tracts; YMCA. Ministers: 1-080, 1-202, 2-248 #070-30, pp. 64-65: Financial arrangements; encouraging members to speak and distribute literature on political dissent; praying for National Reform Political dissent; Synod HR; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #070-31, pp. 66-68: Recognizing that many members are giving sacrificially, boards to report funding, ministers to approach giving with confidence Christian Nation; Evangelism; Olive Trees; Sermon topics; Thanks; Tithing. Ministers: 1-026, 1-042, 1-159 #070-32, pp. 68-71: Reiterating #069-08 first and second clauses; members must avoid confusing others on the proper use of psalms v. hymns, especially in non-church settings Chanting; Family worship; Psalmody; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 1-135, 2-105 #070-33, pp. 72-76: Various financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Collections; Congregational aid; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Pensions; RP Home; RPCI; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-007, 2-159, 2-308, 2-316 #070-34, p. 108: Responding to dissent on #070-26: arguments are unproven, indefinite, overly technical, misunderstanding, and based merely upon opinion Judicial cases; Responses to dissent; Trial procedure; Blanchard. Ministers: 1-265, 1-285 #070-35, pp. 108-110: Reiterating #066-20 [dissent, page 133]; complainant in #068-14 to be given papers at his request, and the matter settled by arbitration; urging Third New York to pay debts, but not requiring it; reminding Second Newburgh that Traveling Fund contributions are the price it pays for being supported by the rest of the church; Syrian Commission may not appoint sub-commissions, and its committees may not ordain or license Arbitration; Autonomous commissions; Delinquency; Directions to individuals; First New York property; New commissions; Orthodox baptism; Rules and organization; Syrian Commission; Traveling Fund; Written dissent; New York 1, New York 3, Newburgh 2. Ministers: 1-037, 1-222, 1-248, 2-059 #070-36, pp. 111-112: Urging members to familiarize themselves with foreign missions via church publications and FMB’s sabbath school materials, and to give to missions China mission; Levant missions; Olive Trees; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-096, 1-135, 1-213 #070-37, pp. 117-119: Continuing the Cincinnati Jewish Mission, presbyteries to hold missionary institutes Chinese Home Mission; Financial; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Real property; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 1-070, 1-159, 2-233 #070-38, p. 133: Thanking Mansfield news reporters for their coverage of the meetings Thanking newspapers. #071 — Synod of 1900 #071-01, p. 12: Participating in a renewed effort for a uniform psalter and urging the aid of British churches New Light church; PCC; RPCI; RPCS; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248, 1-275 #071-02, pp. 15-16: Approving actions of #070-35 arbitration committee Arbitration; Judicial cases. Ministers: 1-021 #071-03, p. 16: Compiling an RP Catechism is not currently satisfactory; if ever compiled, it should be one person’s effort, not that of a committee Publications; Witness work. Ministers: 1-015, 1-080, 1-159, 1-265 #071-04, p. 17: Sending a letter of sympathy to an absent minister Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-135 #071-05, pp. 18-20: Church shall retain its positions on sabbath-breaking; reiterating #061-10 and #068-20 commendations and #056-05 on companies and personal commitments Investment philosophy; Lord’s Day Alliance; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; News media; Post office; Public transportation; WCTU. Ministers: 1-037, 1-042, 2-198 #071-06, pp. 22-23: Urging Congress to prohibit seven-day opening of federally funded world’s fairs and to end seven-day mail Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Legislative petitions; National exhibitions; Post office; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-069, 1-226 #071-07, pp. 23-25: Reiterating historical testimony against secret societies and cooperation with anti-Masonic groups, Christians should be open to everyone (not merely society brothers), and pastors to preach against secret societies Secret societies; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-034, 1-147, 2-227 #071-08, p. 26: Urging members and congregations to donate for famine relief in India Disaster relief; India. #071-09, pp. 26-28: Praise from the psalter remains necessary, human paraphrases of the psalms are as evil as human paraphrases of other parts of the Bible, uninspired prose also may not be used but is less of a temptation, reiterating commitment to uniform psalter APCNA; ARPC; Baptists; Bible texts and translations; Congregationalism; CRCNA; Lutherans; Methodists; Moravians; New Light church; Orthodox; PCC; PCUSA; RCA; RCUS; RPCI; RPCS; Standard psalter; Universalism; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-061, 1-070, 1-289 #071-10, pp. 28-30: Ministers to preach on beneficence and to obtain relevant literature for church libraries Church history; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-233, 1-275, 2-068 #071-11, pp. 30-32: Parents must bring their children to sabbath schools but must not forget home instructions; sessions to choose teachers carefully; students must be taught the gospel and trained for active service in the church; reiterating the necessity of supporting sabbath schools; students must also attend worship services; reiterating #066-12 on home visitation and grades Home visitation; Parental responsibilities; Publications; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-058, 1-236, 2-059, 2-233 #071-12, pp. 32-34: Regulating the establishment, attendance, giving, organization, and efforts of young people’s societies CYPU; Home visitation; Interchurch; Parental responsibilities; Publications; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; UPCNA; WMF; YMCA. Ministers: 1-058, 1-236, 2-059, 2-233 #071-13, p. 36: Retiring moderator’s sermon shall be preached in Synod’s opening session Rules and organization. #071-14, pp. 39-43: Church’s purpose is to speak for Christ as king, and Holy Spirit will not be sent if this is not done, as doing otherwise is ingratitude; ministers to preach National Reform to their communities; cooperating with reform organizations, including NRA Decline; Divorce; Donations; LDS; National Reform conventions; NRA; Pacifism; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen; Temperance; Witness work. Ministers: 1-079, 1-213, 2-064 #071-15, pp. 44-46: Various financial arrangements, approving Missionary Conference and Board of Control decisions (except RPTS student aid is a gift as long as students remain in the church); publishing psalters and the minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Christian Statesman; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Pensions; Psalm selections; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-122, 1-147, 1-233 #071-16, p. 82: Adjusting RPTS student aid process to comply with #071-15 Graduate student aid; Rules and organization. #071-17, pp. 82-83: Expressing Synod’s disappointment with undiminished alcohol traffic, reiterating #050-05 on the only possible safe positions, and condemning all tobacco use Alcohol restrictions on all members; Legal prohibition; Tobacco restrictions on officers; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-240, 2-182, 2-209 #071-18, pp. 83-84: Working with the New Light church to maintain an old RP cemetery in South Carolina South Carolina cemetery; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-062, 1-194, 2-251 #071-19, pp. 84-86: Holy Spirit is necessary in evangelism, the church must preach conversion directly to its hearers, and the Christian life too; another evangelism conference (#070-28) to be held Conferences at Synod; Decline; Evangelism; Sermon topics; Strict subscription; Tracts. Ministers: 1-001, 1-284, 2-293 #071-20, pp. 87-88: Renewing political dissent and opposition to non-dissenting churches, churches with impure worship and doctrine, and a financial arrangement Baptists; Elements of worship; Lutherans; Methodists; Moravians; PCUSA; Political dissent; UPCNA; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #071-21, p. 89: Sessions set times for worship services, but a congregation may petition its session; Kansas Presbytery may determine the status of a non-participating minister Delinquency; Elements of worship; Ministers in secular employment. Ministers: 1-061, 1-159, 1-275, 2-059, 2-153 #071-22, p. 89: Reiterating #069-05 on Temperance Day Holidays; WCTU. #071-23, pp. 89-90: Urging young men to seek the pastorate and presbyteries to find summer employment for candidates; RPTS and Geneva need the church’s financial support; reiterating #068-19 funding Donations; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; RPTS library; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-156, 1-213, 2-205 #071-24, p. 94: Selling remainders of the 1871 memorial volume (#044-01, #050-02) Financial; Memorial Volume. #071-25, pp. 94-96: Approving FMB personnel actions and granting them wider authority China mission; CYPU; Devolution; Donations; Levant missions; Medical missions; Mission schools. Ministers: 1-063, 1-080, 1-265 #071-26, pp. 104-105: Continuing the Cincinnati Jewish Mission and the Chinese Home Mission Chinese Home Mission; Collections; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-037, 1-114, 2-088 #071-27, pp. 112-113: Various financial arrangements Canvassing; Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations. Ministers: 1-001, 1-062, 1-133, 2-051 #071-28, pp. 127-128: Reiterating #070-16; congregations to collect for American Bible Society; modifying statistical forms American Bible Society; Collections; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 1-133, 1-159, 1-265 #071-29, pp. 128-129: Disapproving Syrian Commission’s appointment of a sub-commission (#070-35) Autonomous commissions; Licentiates; Reviewing commissions; Syrian Commission. Ministers: 1-249 #071-30, p. 129: Ascertaining Chinese Home Missionary’s salary and ordering a collection for the same Collections; Paying missionaries; Oakland. Ministers: 2-017 #071-31, p. 130: Disapproving of an avowedly Christian political party, as the party is still incorporating with the state Political office; Voting. Ministers: 1-147, 1-213, 1-289 #072 — Synod of 1901 #072-01, p. 7: Continuing cooperation with uniform psalter project APCNA; CRCNA; Financial; New Light church; PCC; PCUSA; Standard psalter; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248 #072-02, pp. 7-8: Approving #071-18 arrangements and reserving money for future improvements Financial; South Carolina cemetery; South Carolina. Ministers: 1-062 #072-03, p. 8: Selling remainders of minutes of Synod Directions to individuals; Financial; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod. #072-04, pp. 10-12: Reiterating positions on alcohol and tobacco Acts of Congress; Legal prohibition; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 1-015, 1-117, 1-270 #072-05, pp. 14-16: Heads of families to exemplify sabbath-keeping, ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping, members not to benefit from or work for sabbath-breaking companies; condemning and boycotting the seven-day Pan-American Exposition Boycotts; National exhibitions; News media; NRA; PCC; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-072, 1-154, 2-105 #072-06, pp. 16-19: Urging unflinching fidelity to exclusive psalmody Baptists; Congregationalism; LDS; Methodists; Moravians; Standard psalter; Universalism. Ministers: 1-021, 1-137, 1-202 #072-07, pp. 19-21: Urging greater piety, greater readiness for evangelism, church courts to proclaim the whole truth, prayer for the Holy Spirit’s guidance, all churches to announce the offer of salvation and press them to accept that offer Bible texts and translations; Descending obligations; Elements of worship; Evangelism; Labor and capital; LDS; Methodists; News media; PCUSA; Public transportation; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; UPCNA; Voting; YMCA. Ministers: 1-125, 1-222, 2-280 #072-08, p. 24: Expressing Synod’s satisfaction with the speech of the Rev. Arie J. Vanden Heuvel of the CRCNA [full name from CRCNA minister database] and opening relations with them CRCNA; Thanking fraternal delegates. #072-09, pp. 26-27: Reiterating #037-20 on tithing and preaching; urging better giving; church periodicals to write on giving Publications; Sermon topics; Taxation; Tithing. Ministers: 1-065, 2-246 #072-10, p. 30: Petitioning the Commission on Uniform Laws on marriage and divorce Divorce; Legislative petitions; SCOTUS. #072-11, p. 31: Thanking the Rev. Dr. Watters of the New Light church for his speech to Synod New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #072-12, p. 31: Exploring missions among whites in the southern Appalachians (#064-11) Kentucky Mission. #072-13, p. 32: Exploring closer cooperation with the CRCNA A cappella; Bible in schools; Covenant theology; CRCNA; Family worship; Fraternal relations; Political dissent; Secret societies; Temperance. Ministers: 1-015, 1-069, 1-080, 1-135 #072-14, p. 33: Geneva debt needs to be resolved Debt; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Real property; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-233, 2-106, 2-212 #072-15, p. 38: Joining in a day of prayer for colleges and students and urging college churches to pay special attention to their needs Holidays; Supporting colleges. #072-16, pp. 38-39: Paying a Traveling Fund expense and making traveling arrangements to reduce cost Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #072-17, p. 39: Regulating Stated Clerk’s report regarding ministerial movements Dissolving pastorates; Presbytery reports; Rules and organization; Statistics. #072-18, pp. 41-42: Financial arrangements related to the Literary Fund, and thanking longtime treasurer Directions to individuals; Financial; James S. Tibby; Resignations; Thanks. Ministers: 1-233, 1-275, 1-286, 2-235 #072-19, p. 42: Participating in the Psalmody Conference of 1902 Ecumenical organizations; Psalmody. #072-20, p. 43: Protesting prostitution in military camps in Manila and petitioning Congress to suppress it and prostitution in Hawaii Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Philippines; Presidential communications; Spanish-American War; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-005, 1-049, 1-248 #072-21, pp. 43-46: Urging greater interest in home missions and focus on God’s power in conversions; home missions among Indians, Jews, and foreigners is crucial Chinese Home Mission; Evangelism; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-006, 1-069, 2-051 #072-22, pp. 55-57: Urging greater support for foreign missions and approving personnel decisions China mission; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions. Ministers: 1-070, 1-213, 2-280 #072-23, pp. 62-63: Petitioning Congress to abolish Chinese exclusion (and quoting Confucius) and to permit unlimited immigration, except for paupers, the ill, and subversives Acts of Congress; Anarchism; Chinese exclusion; Congressional petitions. Ministers: 1-070, 1-079, 1-289, 2-190 #072-24, pp. 63-64: Declaring sympathy with all seeking equal rights for the Chinese, American Indians, and blacks; sessions to poll congregations regarding their support for this measure Acts of Congress; Chinese Home Mission; Congregational meetings; Congressional petitions; Outside commissions. #072-25, p. 64: Declining a petition to meet permanently in the Pittsburgh area Rules and organization; Syracuse. #072-26, pp. 66-69: Reiterating past regulations on sabbath schools, which are not meant to supplant family training or the worship service; all CYPUs are under the church courts, sessions must ensure that societies are in harmony with and obedience to church testimony and principles, and counselling against interdenominational societies Baptists; Church history; Construction; CYPU; Interchurch; Lutherans; Methodists; Parental responsibilities; PCUSA; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Universalism; UPCNA; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-276 #072-27, pp. 70-72: Various financial arrangements; directing the RPWA to incorporate in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Board of Control; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Donations; Geneva finances; Home Mission Conference; Incorporation; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Medical missions; NRA; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalm selections; RP Home; RPTS finances; South Carolina cemetery; Standard psalter; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-265, 2-160, 2-251 #072-28, p. 113: Reconfiguring regulations on Sustentation and Domestic Mission funds Congregational aid; Rules and organization. #072-29, pp. 115-116: Adopting regulations for Board of Control Board of Control; Graduate student aid; Pensions; Rules and organization; Statistical blanks. #072-30, pp. 116-117: Condemning seven-day opening of the Pan-American Exposition (#072-05) Directions to individuals; National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-133, 1-226 #072-31, p. 117: Publishing the minutes of Synod and paying a bill Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Financial; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-135, 1-226 #072-32, pp. 117-118: Ministers to urge giving to sustentation and church erection Church erection; Church planting; Congregational aid; Paying ministers. Ministers: 1-015, 1-058 #072-33, pp. 131-134: Urging the church to learn more about labor unions and advocate for the rights of capital and of labor; advocating Christ to both; sympathizing with the oppressed worker; condemning secret unions; conferring with other churches on labor issues Insurance; Labor and capital; Outside commissions; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-283, 1-289, 2-159 #072-34, p. 134: Republishing the Testimony and Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Directions to individuals; Publications; Terms of Communion; Testimony. #072-35, pp. 134-138: Reiterating commitment to National Reform, NRA, Christian Amendment, and #071-15 on communities Construction; Covenant of 1871; Divorce; Financial; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; Oath question; Philippines; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race; Unitarianism; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-042, 1-070, 1-079 #072-36, pp. 138-140: Younger ministers urged to study political science as part of their testimony for National Reform; the church must stand firm on its distinctive principles Close communion; National Reform; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #072-37, p. 146: Three sympathy letters Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-037, 1-133, 1-141, 1-247, 1-275, 1-289 #073 — Synod of 1902 #073-01, pp. 8-11: Church officers must teach other members about biblical giving and about the church’s financial needs, aided by church board reports Directions to individuals; Publications; Tithing. Ministers: 2-159, 2-209, 2-293 #073-02, pp. 15-16: Urging ministers to maintain psalm explanations, church officers to provide psalmody literature, and parents to maintain psalms in family worship Conferences at Synod; Family worship; PCC; PCI; Psalm explanations; Witness work. Ministers: 1-158, 1-275, 2-088 #073-03, p. 20: Appointing a day of prayer for schools Christian schools; Holidays; NRA. #073-04, pp. 23-25: Financial arrangements, urging liberal giving by the church, and approving Political Loyalty Conferences wherever possible Close communion; Donations; Psalmody; RPTS; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #073-05, p. 25: Notifying the Presbyterian Alliance of Synod’s dissent on various matters No information; Outside communications; WCRC. Ministers: 1-275 #073-06, pp. 25-26: Approving queries for applicants for graduate student aid Board of Control; Graduate student aid; Pensions. Ministers: 1-213 #073-07, p. 26: Congregation must contribute to the traveling fund whenever possible, and outright refusal is insubordination; New York Presbytery must address the situation and may use discipline Judicial cases; Traveling Fund; Newburgh 2. Ministers: 1-213 #073-08, p. 26: Urging ministers and elders to direct members’ attention to Political Loyalty Conference report and seek to give copies to all families Political dissent. #073-09, pp. 27-28: Maintaining current testimony on secret organizations, pastors to preach on the subject, sessions to enforce church law, and youth organizations to study the subject Church discipline; CYPU; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Temperance. Ministers: 1-072, 2-311 #073-10, pp. 28-29: Seeking to expand the Geneva endowment and appropriating money for debts and current spending Geneva finances; Geneva library; Licentiates; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-037, 1-062, 2-088 #073-11, pp. 34-35: All ages must attend sabbath schools with good preparation; regulating subjects, teachers, superintendents, and prayers; pastors and members to pray for sabbath schools Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Westminster standards; Youth. Ministers: 1-007, 2-190, 2-233 #073-12, p. 35: Youth meetings are not a substitute from society prayer meetings, are under session’s control, and may not deviate from the church standard; pastors and other adults to attend to youth meetings CYPU; Sermon topics; Society meetings. Ministers: 1-007, 2-190, 2-233 #073-13, p. 36: Sympathy letter to Mr. J.M. Sloane Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-114 #073-14, p. 36: Peace among nations is as right as peace among individuals; promoting worldwide friendship and brotherhood; urging arbitration in place of war Arbitration; Pacifism. #073-15, pp. 36-37: Approving of FMB plans, congregations to study missions systematically China mission; Disaster relief; Donations; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Real property; Resignations. Ministers: 1-159, 1-289, 2-059, 2-252, 2-308 #073-16, p. 52: Delegates not complying with #072-16 may not participate in Traveling Fund Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-015, 1-042, 1-072, 1-096, 1-194, 2-196, 2-212, 2-263 #073-17, pp. 54-57: Urging ministers and members to speak for National Reform and appeal to other Christians’ sense of right; urging zeal and fuller giving Bible in schools; Caribbean; Chinese exclusion; Christian Statesman; Divorce; Donations; Legislative petitions; National Reform conventions; NRA; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Theodore Roosevelt; Tracts; WCRC; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-062, 1-286 #073-18, pp. 58-59: Urging church officers to work strenuously to obtain gifts for domestic missions; recipients must report their efforts to presbytery clerks; commending missionary to the church; closing Chinese Home Mission [dissent, page 126] Chinese Home Mission; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Donations; Health and medicine; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Reporting calendars; Southern Mission; Written dissent; Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 1-114, 1-194, 1-265, 1-286, 2-246 #073-19, p. 80: Warning members against sitting in public prayer, as it is irreverent and indicates lack of devotion; only standing and kneeling are appropriate Elements of worship. #073-20, p. 80: Thanking the Syracuse Chamber of Commerce and the city streetcar company for an enjoyable outing during a recess Directions to individuals; Thanks. #073-21, pp. 82-83: Urging vacant congregations to support supply preachers, supply preachers to visit the sick and speak at non-worship events, all to pray for supply preachers CYPU; Licentiates; Sabbath schools; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-248, 1-275, 2-051 #073-22, pp. 83-84: Declining to direct Trustees to engage in a test case over the legality of the charter of the RPWA Bequests; Incorporation; Real property; Roll call votes; RP Home; Trustees of Synod. #073-23, pp. 85-89: Amending the RPWA charter regarding membership, property ownership, worship services, and financial responsibilities; publishing Arabic psalters; other financial arrangements Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Medical missions; Membership transfer; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-069, 1-147, 1-284 #073-24, pp. 123-125: Parents and sabbath schools to teach temperance, urging temperance in public schools, reiterating tobacco disapproval, sessions to counsel tobacco-using new members to cease “this sinful indulgence”, reiterating #069-05 on licensing Acts of Congress; Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Congressional petitions; International relations; Pacific; Parental responsibilities; Public transportation; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-119, 1-223, 1-270 #073-25, pp. 125-126: A minister having apostatized [to the Church of Christ, Scientist] cannot effectively be disciplined, so he should be dropped from the roll; ordaining a missionary sine titulo; handling congregations with one elder Christian Science; Church discipline; Closing churches; Departing ministers; Eldership; Jewish missions; Sine titulo; Sterling [New York]. Ministers: 1-159, 1-213, 2-068, 2-112, 2-165 #073-26, p. 128: Ministers and elders to advocate for giving to sustentation and church erection; churches receiving construction aid must obtain the board’s approval first Church erection; Donations. Ministers: 1-255, 2-136, 2-160 #073-27, pp. 136-138: Reiterating past decisions on sabbath-keeping and #060-08 commendation; applying #053-20 to seven-day milk delivery, creameries, and factories, and sessions and presbyteries to enforce this Anarchism; Church discipline; Immigration; Investment philosophy; National exhibitions; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Telecommunications; Theaters; William McKinley. Ministers: 1-224, 2-099, 2-181 #073-28, pp. 140-141: Reiterating #053-09 and #072-23 in general; European countries and China should be treated equally; admitting a man but rejecting his family is inhuman; implicitly appealing for repealing the Scott Act, Public Law 57-90, enacted one month earlier Anarchism; Chinese exclusion; Medical missions. Ministers: 1-114, 1-138 #074 — Synod of 1903 #074-01, p. 11: Presbyteries to itemize traveling expenses in accordance with #072-16 Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #074-02, p. 13: Petitioning President Theodore Roosevelt to make explicit reference to Christ in the 1903 Thanksgiving holiday proclamation Directions to individuals; Holidays; Presidential communications; Theodore Roosevelt. Ministers: 1-122, 1-226 #074-03, pp. 14-16: Continuing support for National Reform effort; abolishing standing committee on National Reform and requesting instead an annual report from NRA executive committee Abolishing standing committees; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Financial; National exhibitions; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-122, 2-280 #074-04, pp. 17-19: Syrian Commission had exempted session records from inspection, due to difficulties in transport and customs; disapproving Commission’s decision Reviewing commissions; Rules and organization; Syrian Commission. #074-05, pp. 20-22: Financial arrangements for testimony bearing; all ministers to preach annually on distinctive principles in other churches, elders to make arrangements; young people urged to study principles; advocating presbyterial conventions [dissent, page 35] Outside preaching; Political dissent; Presbytery conferences; Tracts; Witness work; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #074-06, pp. 28-29: Parents to guide their children and sessions to guide their congregations in giving; literature on giving to be provided via church publications, and ministers to preach on giving Parental responsibilities; Publications; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-061, 2-251, 2-263 #074-07, pp. 29-32: Reiterating latter half of #050-05; warning of the sin and danger of liquor or tobacco traffic; reminding youth of businessmen’s opposition to cigarettes; appealing to all members, especially officers, to avoid tobacco Church discipline; Congressional bills; Immigration; Insurance; Legal prohibition; Public transportation; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Vanuatu. Ministers: 1-042, 1-066, 1-080 #074-08, pp. 38-39: Continuing cooperation on uniform psalter, paying the project’s expenses, commending the project to the church’s prayers Directions to individuals; Financial; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248 #074-09, p. 51: Appointing a committee to work with CRCNA on moral reform CRCNA; Interchurch; Outside communications. Ministers: 1-147 #074-10, p. 52: Opposing the seating of Reed Smoot in the United States Senate because his apostleship implicitly supports Mormon plural marriage, despite his personal monogamy Reed Smoot. Ministers: 1-275 #074-11, p. 52: Sympathizing with persecuted Eastern European Jews and approving the United States government’s protective efforts Directions to individuals; International relations; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-275 #074-12, pp. 53-54: Reiterating #073-15, first clause; urging greater familiarity with and giving to missions; pastors to preach on missions China mission; Donations; Levant missions; Seeking candidates, FMB; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-076, 1-194, 2-212, 2-327 #074-13, pp. 61-62: Urging presbyteries and congregations to open the way for more supply preaching; preaching arrangements, as far as possible, to be made through presbyteries Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-049, 2-088, 2-276 #074-14, pp. 63-64: Reiterating #033-23; setting RPTS schedule; urging parents to send children to Geneva and to give to its endowment Attending other seminaries; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; Parental responsibilities; RPTS. Ministers: 1-034, 1-073, 2-251 #074-15, p. 70: Replacing all members of a committee on sustentation and home missions funds Agency membership; Financial. Ministers: 1-037, 1-069, 1-133 #074-16, pp. 70-72: Commending home missions work and workers; human resources for Jewish Mission; urging prayer for ill missionaries; not reopening Chinese Home Mission, but permitting Central Board to reopen it if they believe it best Chinese Home Mission; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Southern Mission; Oakland. Ministers: 1-007, 1-222, 2-308 #074-17, pp. 85-87: Various financial arrangements; reiterating #073-23 on RPWA and #068-19, final clause; adjusting statistical forms; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Medical missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Statistical blanks; Thanks; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-159, 1-289, 2-263 #074-18, p. 129: Returning donations made conditionally upon RPWA ownership of property (ended by #073-23) Donations; Real property; RP Home. Ministers: 1-159 #074-19, pp. 130-132: Urging ministers and members to speak of “Lord’s day” or “sabbath” rather than “Sunday”; sabbath-keeping to be determined by the Bible; congratulating Trans-Mississippi Exhibition for opening Monday-Saturday only; cooperating with other sabbath-keeping organizations Directions to individuals; Labor and capital; National exhibitions; News media; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations; WCTU. Ministers: 1-077, 2-106, 2-275 #074-20, pp. 132-137: Urging members to abhor secrecy; reiterating #073-09 on ministers and sessions; reasoning against secrecy is wiser than fire and brimstone; holding anti-secrecy conventions Labor and capital; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-079, 2-182, 2-205 #074-21, pp. 137-140: Reiterating commitment to exclusive psalmody; pastors to address current applicability in psalm explanations Psalm explanations; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-202, 2-235 #074-22, pp. 141-143: Urging better reporting on sabbath schools; parents to study their children’s lesson topics but not abandon their own responsibilities; bringing unchurched children into mission schools and advocating home visitation Home visitation; International Sunday School Lessons; Parental responsibilities; Statistics; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-001, 1-222, 2-181 #074-23, pp. 143-145: Splitting Sabbath School and Young People’s Societies Committee into two; urging congregations with no society to form one; approving study lessons for distinctive principles; urging the youth to participate in National Reform etc. meetings Abolishing standing committees; CYPU; Interchurch; National Reform; New Light church; New standing committees; Witness work. Ministers: 1-001, 1-222, 2-181 #074-24, pp. 145-146: Trustees to seek to recover a loan to a congregation Church erection; Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Trustees of Synod; Baltimore. Ministers: 1-069, 1-233, 2-167, 2-226, 2-246 #074-25, p. 150: Paying a printing bill Financial; Statistical blanks. #074-26, p. 152: Scheduling the Mission Conference Devolution; Home Mission Conference. #074-27, p. 152: Holding an evangelism conference at Synod in 1904 Conferences at Synod; Evangelism. #074-28, pp. 152-153: Sending greetings to the UPCNA Outside communications; Telecommunications; UPCNA. #074-29, p. 153: Thanking Lenox College and the local press Thanking newspapers. #075 — Synod of 1904 #075-01, p. 6: Reiterating #074-08 Financial; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248 #075-02, p. 10: Thanking longtime clerk upon his retirement Thanks. Ministers: 1-226 #075-03, pp. 14-15: Pastors to preach on the necessity of activity for Christ, including evangelism; sessions to hold retreats to encourage spiritual activity CYPU; Evangelism; Indian Mission; National Reform conventions; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Testimony; Tithing; Westminster standards; Witness work. Ministers: 2-106, 2-181, 2-205 #075-04, p. 15: Boards and committees must submit reports in typescript Rules and organization. #075-05, pp. 15-17: Pastors to hold political dissent classes; officers and members to arrange for political dissent conferences; petitioning Congress and urging congregations to do likewise; members to give liberally Congressional petitions; Donations; Elements of worship; Political dissent; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #075-06, p. 18: Selling remainders and publishing new minutes of Synod James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-226 #075-07, pp. 19-20: Petitioning railroads on sabbath-keeping and declaring to Northwest Sabbath Association that all expositions should be open Monday-Saturday only National exhibitions; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-026, 1-058, 1-265 #075-08, pp. 20-22: Reiterating prohibitions on joining secret societies; reiterating #055-06; warning members against non-secret organizations (e.g. labor unions) with evils similar to secret organizations Labor and capital; National Christian Association. Ministers: 2-068, 2-190, 2-265 #075-09, p. 32: Arrangements for printing #075-07; sending copies to other churches and sabbath-keeping organizations Interchurch; Outside communications; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #075-10, pp. 32-35: Reiterating #050-05; rejoicing in railroads’ opposition to alcohol; adopting World’s Temperance Day 1904; reiterating position on tobacco Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Public transportation; Sermon topics; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 2-014, 2-160, 2-202 #075-11, p. 35: Returning complaint against Kansas Presbytery so that Presbytery may re-address the situation Judicial cases; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-006 #075-12, p. 36: Commending the Monday-Saturday schedule of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-034, 1-240 #075-13, p. 38: Reiterating #057-16 Congressional petitions; Divorce; National Reform; Sabbath-keeping. #075-14, pp. 41-43: Reiterating #074-16, first and last clauses; urging Ladies’ Missionary Societies to help Selma; arrangements for Jewish Mission Chinese Home Mission; Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Medical missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Tithing; Oakland, Selma. Ministers: 2-159, 2-196, 2-212 #075-15, pp. 52-53: Financial and human resources arrangements for foreign missions; founding a training school in Cyprus Bequests; China mission; Collections; Debt; Devolution; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Mission schools; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-289, 2-051, 2-160 #075-16, p. 60: Appropriating money Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Cedarville. #075-17, p. 60: Thanking the Rev. W.J. Smiley of the New Light church for his speech to Synod, and goodwill for his denomination New Light church; Thanking fraternal delegates. #075-18, pp. 60-61: Individuals and classes to study political dissent, youth meetings to take offerings for Bibles in public schools, collections for National Reform Bible in schools; Collections; CYPU; NRA; Society meetings. Ministers: 1-135, 1-226, 1-265 #075-19, p. 65: Scheduling the Mission Conference Home Mission Conference. #075-20, pp. 65-68: Reiterating #066-12; parents to teach children church standards; continue recruiting for mission schools Home visitation; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-072, 1-222, 2-014 #075-21, pp. 68-70: A minister absent from his pulpit should request a supply preacher who has been assigned to his presbytery, if possible Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-021, 2-181, 2-308 #075-22, pp. 70-73: Spiritual rewards, not temporal, should be the incentive for giving; parents should distribute offerings among children, so all may put into the offering plate in worship services; urging ministers to preach on tithing and members to sign pledge leaflets; printing copies of this report Directions to individuals; Foreign missions; Lord’s supper; Offerings in worship; Publications; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-069, 1-154, 2-233 #075-23, pp. 73-76: Parents and church officers to focus on youth instruction; youth to study missions; warning faithful youth against worldly temptations A cappella; China mission; Church discipline; CYPU; Dancing; Levant missions; Parental responsibilities; Playing cards; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Society meetings; Temperance; Theaters. Ministers: 1-035, 2-051, 2-105, 2-209 #075-24, pp. 76-78: Pastors, teachers, and parents to teach the importance of exclusive psalmody; families to maintain singing in devotions; members to remain silent in contexts of hymn singing A cappella; Church music; Family worship; Improving praise; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-006, 1-270, 2-159 #075-25, pp. 82-83: Parents to dedicate their children to God and send them only to Christian institutions Attending other seminaries; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Parental responsibilities; Real property; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-015, 1-233, 2-327 #075-26, pp. 88-89: A presbytery may control a congregation’s choice of location for meeting place Church erection; Congregationalism. Ministers: 2-017, 2-068, 2-280 #075-27, p. 95: New standing committee, on correspondence with RPCI and RPCS; different meeting times had complicated correspondence New standing committees; Outside communications; RPCI; RPCS. #075-28, pp. 95-99: Various financial arrangements; ascertaining title to church-owned property in Greensburg, Pennsylvania; approving Geneva dormitory work; approving individual congregational support of missionaries Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Donations; Fraternal relations; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Memorial Volume; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Resignations; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Standard psalter; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work; Belle Center. Ministers: 1-007, 1-062, 1-248, 2-039 #075-29, pp. 140-141: Approving non-sectarian Bible reading in the public schools and deploring different constitutional interpretations on the question; appointing special prayer for schools; reiterating #064-20, investigation clause Bible in schools; Divorce; Holidays; Home missions; Philippines; WCRC. Ministers: 1-248, 1-265 #076 — Synod of 1905 #076-01, pp. 9-10: Continuing cooperation on uniform psalter, paying the project’s expenses, obtaining copies for examination Copyright; Financial; Requesting opinions; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248 #076-02, pp. 11-13: Judicial case of Yusef Jadeed: approving Syrian Commission’s actions Judicial cases; Levant missions; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 2-057, 2-168 #076-03, p. 13: Indefinitely postponing a communication from the National Federation of Churches National Council of Churches. #076-04, p. 18: Returning the resignation of the Foreign Mission Board treasurer Foreign missions; Resignations. Ministers: 1-069, 2-017 #076-05, p. 23: Literary Fund treasurer to prepare forms for various types of certificates Directions to individuals; Forms. #076-06, pp. 24-26: Sending testimony-bearing leaflets to other churches, aided by youth societies; ministers and elders to set up conventions on distinctive principles, and urging members to advocate aggressively for distinctives A cappella; Congressional petitions; National Reform conventions; Psalmody; Secret societies; Tracts; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #076-07, p. 27: Appointing a judicial commission for J.S. Dodds’ appeal from Pittsburgh Presbytery in a case of voting Judicial cases; New commissions; Voting; East End. Ministers: 1-015, 1-061, 1-062, 1-248, 1-265, 1-289, 2-280 #076-08, p. 28: Approving #076-07 commission’s declining appeal and confirming action of Pittsburgh Presbytery Judicial cases; Reviewing commissions; Voting; East End. Ministers: 1-015, 1-061, 1-062, 1-248, 1-265, 1-289, 2-280 #076-09, pp. 40-42: Urging increased prayer for conversions and evangelistic activity, and Presbyteries to discuss evangelism Evangelism; Gambling; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Sports; Temperance; Theaters. Ministers: 2-051, 2-131, 2-205 #076-10, pp. 47-48: Financial support for the NRA; urging members to support its conventions Evangelism; National Reform conventions; NRA; Offering envelopes; Sabbath-keeping; College Hill. Ministers: 1-063, 1-283, 2-235 #076-11, p. 50: Appointing commissioners to attend celebration of the bicentenary of the PCUSA Outside commissions; PCUSA. Ministers: 1-159, 1-194, 1-248 #076-12, pp. 50-51: Reminding members of the four hundredth anniversary of the birth of John Knox; urging ministers to preach on his life and theology Church history; Sermon topics. #076-13, pp. 51-52: Urging greater interest in foreign missions; ministers to preach on the wrongness of insufficient missions giving; approving teacher-training school in Larnaca Alawites; China mission; Delinquency; Financial; Foreign missions HR; Islam; Levant missions; Medical missions; Orthodox. Ministers: 1-240, 2-209 #076-14, pp. 59-61: Young people to study the Covenant of 1871, pastors to teach some study sessions; urging for prayer for missionary work China mission; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Evangelism; Interchurch; Political dissent. Ministers: 2-075, 2-291, 2-327 #076-15, p. 62: Board of Control to distribute funds according to established procedure Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Pensions. Ministers: 1-122, 2-114, 2-166 #076-16, p. 67: Chorus-using psalm selection deauthorized in #066-03 is unfaithful to the text and must not be used Repeating tunes; Standard psalter. #076-17, pp. 68-70: Various financial arrangements Bequests; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Standard psalter; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-154, 1-275, 2-156 #076-18, pp. 122-123: Ministers and elders to advocate for emergency giving to home missions; urging all members to pray and give for home missions; missions demand more ministers Chinese Home Mission; Delinquency; Donations; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Seeking candidates, HMB; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-159, 2-212, 2-275 #076-19, p. 130: Christmas and Easter are Catholic and pagan-influenced; ministers to remind members that only divinely instituted activities may appear in worship Elements of worship; Holidays. #076-20, pp. 133-134: Reiterating #073-09 minus youth organizations Evangelism; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-070, 1-236, 2-308 #076-21, pp. 134-135: Reiterating opposition to secret societies; urging ministers to preach on the subject; sessions to look carefully for society membership when receiving members Labor and capital; Membership transfer; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Strict subscription. Ministers: 1-070, 1-236, 2-308 #076-22, p. 136: Church officers to focus on the underlying rationale for tithing when speaking on the subject Sabbath-keeping; Tithing. Ministers: 1-079, 1-248, 1-275 #076-23, pp. 141-142: Two ministers are required for a presbytery to be formed, but if ministerial membership falls to one, he and ruling elders may conduct a valid meeting Rules and organization; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 1-061, 1-289, 2-280 #076-24, pp. 145-146: Committee on Supplies converted to an “interim” committee with power to adjust assignments as necessary (#058-17) Devolution; Supply preaching. #076-25, p. 146: Holding evangelism and state-of-religion conferences at Synod in 1906 Conferences at Synod; Devolution; Evangelism; Signs of the Times. #076-26, p. 149: Jewish Mission financial arrangements Financial; Jewish missions. #076-27, p. 149: Events like the Russo-Japanese War are demonstrations of Christ’s power; the church to watch for fuller demonstrations International relations; Signs of the Times. #076-28, p. 149: Scheduling the Mission Conference Devolution; Home Mission Conference. #076-29, pp. 149-150: Thanking the reporters of the New Castle newspapers for their coverage Thanking newspapers. #077 — Synod of 1906 #077-01, p. 8: Printing copies of the order of business Docket and digest. Ministers: 1-226 #077-02, p. 10: Handling a bequest Bequests; China mission. #077-03, p. 23: Continuing cooperation on uniform psalter and paying the project’s expenses Financial; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248 #077-04, p. 24: Giving thanks for the installation of a telephone in the church hosting Synod Telecommunications; Thanks; Belle Center. #077-05, p. 24: Temporarily excepting a congregation from the traveling fund, following the departure of most of its members Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; Craftsbury. #077-06, p. 24: Aiding a chronically ill minister Health and medicine; Pensions. Ministers: 1-194, 2-105 #077-07, pp. 25-27: Reiterating #055-05, last clause, and #074-05 on young people; sessions to prepare locations and give vacations A cappella; Baptists; Covenant of 1871; Cumberland Presbyterians; CYPU; Methodists; Outside preaching; PCUSA; Secret societies; Synod HR; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099, 2-202, 2-308 #077-08, pp. 30-31: Adopting study topics for young people’s societies and printing copies to ensure awareness of the program A cappella; China mission; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Directions to individuals; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Political dissent; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Southern Mission; Temperance; Tithing; Tracts. Ministers: 1-049, 1-133, 2-156 #077-09, p. 32: Ministers to study, preach, and write on giving Christian Nation; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 2-114, 2-280 #077-10, p. 33: Reiterating condemnation of the government’s dependence on alcohol money; leaders and parents to teach against alcohol and tobacco; urging the end of liquor licensing; Temperance Day Holidays; Parental responsibilities; PCUSA. Ministers: 1-137, 1-158, 2-227 #077-11, pp. 34-36: Celebrating the 50th anniversary of foreign missions; urging the young to consider missions and all members to read reports; human resources changes; commending giving to foreign missions and requesting continued giving; FMB to provide textbooks on foreign missions (to be used by societies) and to continue cooperating with other boards; tributes to deceased missionaries Arbitration; China mission; CYPU; Donations; Interchurch; Levant missions; Seeking candidates, FMB; WMF. Ministers: 1-034, 2-051, 2-068 #077-12, pp. 42-43: Financial arrangements for Jewish Mission; renewed Chinese Home Mission placed under Colorado Presbytery but conducted as a mission Chinese Home Mission; Financial; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Oakland. Ministers: 1-070, 2-014, 2-156 #077-13, p. 51: Declining to amend Synod’s Rules of Order regarding motions to postpone indefinitely or to table Rules and organization. #077-14, pp. 51-53: Various financial arrangements; Synod’s money not to be lent to individual trustees; no salary for Trustees’ secretary; Clerk of Synod must return over-long committee reports (#059-34); publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-007, 1-248, 2-160 #077-15, pp. 92-95: Ministers to focus on calling hearers to repentance; members to invite others to church; sessions to prepare new believers for church membership but admit them only if they adhere to the Testimony Bible texts and translations; Celebrity preachers; Evangelism; Political dissent; Psalmody; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Strict subscription; Testimony. Ministers: 1-066, 1-069, 1-202 #077-16, pp. 96-97: Approving a “World’s Conference on the Christian Principles of Civil Government”; ministers and members to distribute National Reform literature; youth to study National Reform CYPU; National Reform conventions; NRA; Publications; Witness work. Ministers: 1-265, 2-106, 2-235 #077-17, p. 104: Sustaining session’s complaint against Trustees; trustees to pay congregation Judicial cases; Trustees of Synod; Brooklyn. #077-18, p. 104: Reiterating #040-13, and #066-20 on rebaptism of Uniates Individual relocation; Membership transfer; Orthodox baptism; Uniate; Brooklyn, Los Angeles. Ministers: 1-001, 1-015, 1-070, 1-275 #077-19, p. 104: Appropriating money for western Canadian mission works Canada; Church planting. #077-20, p. 105: Thanking the CRCNA delegate, Herman Matthew Vander Ploeg [full name from CRCNA minister database], for his speech to Synod CRCNA; Thanking fraternal delegates. #077-21, p. 105: Synod’s treasurer to make good a deficit in the Traveling Fund Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. #077-22, p. 105: Merging Vermont Presbytery into New York Presbytery, and Lakes Presbytery into Ohio Presbytery Abolishing presbyteries. Ministers: 1-015, 1-096, 2-265 #077-23, pp. 107-108: Postponing action on uniform psalter and requesting opinions on it Requesting opinions; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-015, 1-069, 1-265, 1-275 #077-24, pp. 109-110: Merging sustentation and domestic missions funds, Central Board to oversee both; regulating Mission Conference and distribution of Domestic Mission Fund Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Presbytery-appointed membership; Reporting calendars; Tithing. Ministers: 1-026 #077-25, p. 111: Scheduling the Mission Conference Home Mission Conference. #077-26, pp. 111-112: Money from a disorganized congregation reverts to Synod Closing churches; Indian Mission; Property held in trust; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; Mansfield. Ministers: 1-055, 2-308, 2-339 #077-27, pp. 117-119: Secret societies are wrong because they violate Christ’s command to be the light of the world, they shelter wrongdoers, and they hinder the gospel by religiously satisfying the unsaved Divorce; Labor and capital; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-062, 1-265, 2-125, 2-131 #077-28, pp. 119-120: Reiterating #073-02, final clause; #061-08 on psalm explanation; #075-24, final clause; hope for unity with the uniform psalter Family worship; Psalm explanations; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-015, 2-181, 2-311 #077-29, p. 123: Urging the expulsion of Reed Smoot from the United States Senate (#074-10) Reed Smoot. #077-30, p. 123: Forming a Bureau of Information to track all members moving out of bounds of a congregation, and to correspond with such members Bureau of Information; New agencies. Ministers: 2-190 #078 — Synod of 1907 #078-01, p. 9: Reiterating #077-28 on uniform psalter Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-135, 1-248 #078-02, p. 13: Disposing of a donation Donations; Levant missions; RPTS. #078-03, p. 14: Greeting the PCUSA, in response to their greetings Outside communications; PCUSA; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-154 #078-04, pp. 14-15: Appropriating money per Board of Control request Board of Control; Chinese Home Mission; Graduate student aid; Pensions. Ministers: 1-015 #078-05, p. 22: Central Board of Missions to prepare and distribute new statistical forms Statistical blanks. #078-06, pp. 22-23: Urging earnest, constant, and believing prayer for evangelism Evangelism; Soteriology. Ministers: 2-039, 2-051, 2-327 #078-07, pp. 24-26: Publishing literature advocating the distinctive principles A cappella; Baptists; Conferences at Synod; Covenant of 1871; Geneva; Methodists; National Reform conventions; PCUSA; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work; Hebron, Ray, Southfield, Tabor . Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099, 2-308 #078-08, pp. 29-30: Urging members to read missions reports; endorsing FMB decisions on human resources and finances; FMB to oversee missions studies by youth; scheduling foreign missions conference China mission; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Mission schools; Real property; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-137, 1-286, 2-248 #078-09, pp. 38-40: Urging members to support home missions; Central Board to oversee Alberta work until Colorado Presbytery is ready to organize it; various other arrangements Canada; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Southern Mission; Delburne. Ministers: 2-196, 2-308 #078-10, pp. 48-50: Youth to study the Terms of Communion; reiterating #078-08 on youth; ministers to assist youth societies in missions study and preach more often on missions China mission; Church history; CYPU; Levant missions; Publications; Sermon topics; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-058, 2-017, 2-166 #078-11, pp. 50-51: Urging sabbath schools to take great care in selecting thoroughly qualified teachers Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-263, 2-265, 2-291 #078-12, p. 52: Aiding a chronically ill minister Health and medicine; Pensions. Ministers: 2-329 #078-13, pp. 52-53: Reiterating existing stance on secret societies and commending like-minded churches Covenant of 1871; Outside communications; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-037, 1-049, 1-226 #078-14, pp. 58-59: Ministers and members to urge Congress to pass future anti-polygamy constitutional amendments; urging prayer and financial support for National Reform Bible in schools; Collections; Congressional petitions; Constitutional amendments; Divorce; LDS; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-099, 2-156 #078-15, pp. 62-68: Urging the adoption of pro-temperance stickers; appropriating money for temperance in Oklahoma; Temperance Day Congregationalism; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Lutherans; Mennonites; Methodists; Moravians; National Council of Churches; PCUSA; Publications; Quakers; SCOTUS; Taxation; UPCNA; Voting. Ministers: 1-026 #078-16, pp. 68-69: Urging the church to support Geneva in a financial crisis Geneva finances. Ministers: 2-182, 2-206, 2-251 #078-17, pp. 73-75: Tithing on gross income, minus only production costs, is God’s law; urging members to give freely, congregations to adopt envelopes; ministers to preach on giving Donations; Offering envelopes; Taxation; Tithing. Ministers: 1-080, 1-265, 2-235 #078-18, pp. 75-77: Urging ministers to focus on certain topics when preaching on psalmody; urging congregations to cease using unauthorized psalters Church music; Psalm explanations; Psalter editions. Ministers: 2-131, 2-205 #078-19, p. 78: Sabbath-keeping demands only mercy and necessity use of the telephone; #069-06 on stockholding applies to telephone companies Investment philosophy; Jewish missions; Sine titulo; Telecommunications; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-015, 2-136 #078-20, p. 80: Financial arrangements; urging donations for a specific church’s construction Canvassing; Church erection; Congregational aid; Donations; Mansfield, Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-270, 1-289, 2-246 #078-21, p. 83: Appropriating extra sustentation money Congregational aid; Kansas City. #078-22, p. 83: Ordering a special collection for the traveling fund Collections; Traveling Fund. #078-23, pp. 83-85: Financial arrangements; paying printing costs; aiding Geneva in a crisis; publishing new psalters and minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; Canada; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Outside communications; Paying Synod employees; PCUSA; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Telecommunications; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work; Cornwallis, Delburne, Denver, Los Angeles, Manchester. Ministers: 1-026, 1-265, 2-275 #079 — Synod of 1908 #079-01, pp. 8-9: Dividing aid-receiving congregations into classes by location and paying different supplements to each class; raising minimum ministerial salaries (#037-20) due to cost of living; presbyteries to consider finances when reviewing pastoral calls Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries; Pastoral calls. Ministers: 2-051, 2-263 #079-02, p. 9: Reiterating #077-28, final clause Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248 #079-03, p. 11: Minor traveling fund details Traveling Fund. #079-04, p. 21: Thanking the Rev. John Dolfin [full name from CRCNA minister database] of the CRCNA for his speech to Synod CRCNA; Thanking fraternal delegates. #079-05, pp. 22-23: Preparing a catechism, church history, doctrinal manual, and recommended-books list for youth; publication committee to correspond with others preparing covenantal Bible studies Church history; International Sunday School Lessons; Outside communications; Publications; Youth. Ministers: 1-079, 1-283, 2-125, 2-280 #079-06, p. 23: Declaring a desire for denominations to act in union on temperance; RPCNA will cooperate whenever not inconsistent with its testimony Interchurch; Temperance. #079-07, p. 25: Requiring uniform enforcement of paperwork rules for congregations requesting aid; Clerk of Synod to oversee printing of forms Congregational aid; Debt; Directions to individuals; Forms; Paying ministers; Real property; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-236, 2-068 #079-08, p. 26: Sliding scales for aid are a good idea, but impractical to administer uniformly; congregations requesting aid to seek financial independence and reduce their requests; favoring tithing congregations Congregational aid; Tithing. Ministers: 2-068, 2-248, 2-327 #079-09, pp. 28-32: Reiterating exclusive psalmody; hymns are sectarian, while psalms are universal; abandoning the psalter is covenant-breaking; urging congregations to better singing Covenant of 1871; Improving praise. Ministers: 1-159, 2-166, 2-276 #079-10, pp. 32-33: Composing a new psalter, based on the Scots Version; omitting old selections of little use; adopting tune philosophy of the Keys psalter (OCLC 12299098); urging congregations to adopt new psalter, but permitting older psalters Church music; New agencies. #079-11, p. 34: Removing an RPTS professor at his own request Health and medicine; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-275 #079-12, pp. 34-36: Financial arrangements; ministers to preach on distinctive principles outside of churches, aided by elders, and to teach classes on distinctive principles Christian Nation; Financial; Outside preaching; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-099 #079-13, pp. 38-40: Recognizing the importance of community evangelism; simple worship services are an evangelistic tool; important to teach the gospel in sabbath schools A cappella; Church planting; Close communion; Evangelism; Geneva; Home missions HR; National Reform; Psalm explanations; RPTS; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Temperance. Ministers: 2-136, 2-202, 2-265 #079-14, pp. 40-42: Re-condemning sabbath-breaking and urging proper sabbath-keeping; no ordinations or installations of sabbathbreakers; urging cooperation with others on sabbath-keeping and prayers for societal sabbath-keeping Labor and capital; News media; Offerings in worship; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-035, 2-293 #079-15, pp. 43-44: Sessions to report to Synod on the state of religion and to improve their current state; parents to train their children spiritually, not relying on sabbath schools, but sabbath schools to focus on evangelism; expanding communion seasons with evangelistic meetings Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Special services; Tithing. Ministers: 2-039, 2-071, 2-227 #079-16, pp. 49-51: Urging close contact with and support for the proletariat; members to avoid secret organizations; emphasizing the brotherhood of all men and partnerships between employers and employees Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Socialism. Ministers: 1-058, 2-088, 2-308 #079-17, pp. 52-53: Urging increased donations to RPTS; reiterating #078-23 on Geneva and urging parents to send their children there Geneva finances; Parental responsibilities; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-070, 1-122, 2-339 #079-18, pp. 60-61: Ministers to announce foreign missions from the pulpit; arrangements for Cyprus and China; financial and human resources arrangements; scheduling foreign missions conference Conferences at Synod; Donations; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; New commissions; Sermon topics; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-042, 1-154, 2-090 #079-19, p. 67: FMB to choose a textbook on missions for congregational study Publications; Society meetings. #079-20, p. 68: Rejecting a proposal to permit unlicensed candidates to preach under sessional oversight Roll call votes; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-248, 2-280 #079-21, p. 69: Thanking a foreign missionary for his service Levant missions; Thanks. Ministers: 2-059 #079-22, p. 70: Scheduling a conference celebrating the centenary of the Synod and quadricentenary of John Calvin’s birth Church history; Conferences at Synod. #079-23, pp. 71-73: Ministers to preach and pray on public schools; commending bequests to National Reform cause; petitioning Congress for a constitutional amendment prohibiting polygamy and recognizing Christianity; appropriating money Bequests; Christian Statesman; Conferences at Synod; Congressional petitions; Holidays; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; National Reform conventions; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-001, 2-106, 2-160 #079-24, p. 75: New RPTS professor must be a full-time professor; RPTS Superintendents to determine professors’ responsibilities; ascertaining professors’ salaries Higher-education standards; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS faculty as pastors. Ministers: 1-236, 1-248, 1-275, 1-289 #079-25, p. 76: Members leaving the church without finding another and without moving away, or members joining other churches, to be given letters of standing; members living locally may transfer elsewhere, but sending session may incorporate restrictions Individual relocation; Membership transfer; UPCNA; Clarinda. Ministers: 1-034, 1-159, 1-240 #079-26, p. 76: In homes with one RP parent and one credobaptist parent, sessions to advise infant baptism, but not to compel when the peace of the home is at risk Baptism; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Parental responsibilities; Olathe. Ministers: 1-034, 1-159, 1-240 #079-27, pp. 76-77: Sessions may govern non-church uses of a church building; sessions have authority in financial matters that touch spiritual matters; deacons or trustees must submit in such cases Real property; Wilkinsburg. Ministers: 1-034, 1-159, 1-240 #079-28, pp. 77-78: Central Board of Missions may open a mission in southern Appalachia; administering two congregations; urging the church to support home missions; permitting Philadelphia Presbytery to ordain Jewish missionary Canada; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Sine titulo; Craftsbury, Delburne. Ministers: 1-289, 2-014, 2-071, 2-084 #079-29, p. 85: Presbyteries should license ministerial candidates after one year at RPTS, but they may not receive calls or preaching appointments until a year later, and preaching may not interfere with their studies (#039-17) Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Pastoral calls. #079-30, pp. 85-88: Various financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod and new psalters (OCLC 10413466) Board of Control; Canada; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Paying ministers; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RP Home; Southern Mission; Statistical blanks; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-283, 2-083, 2-196 #079-31, p. 117: Resolving a Traveling Fund deficit Traveling Fund. #079-32, pp. 118-119: Urging ministers and sabbath school teachers to emphasize the Holy Spirit’s influence in giving; urging the church to give more fully Tithing. Ministers: 1-077, 1-286 #079-33, p. 120: Holding a temperance conference at Synod in 1909 Conferences at Synod; Temperance. #079-34, p. 120: Urging Illinois officials to enforce their law requiring Bible reading in the public schools Bible in schools; Legislative petitions. Ministers: 1-062, 1-194, 2-039, 2-308 #079-35, p. 121: Financial arrangements for sustentation and church erection Church erection; Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Sabbath schools; Barnet, Greeley, Mercer, Old Bethel, Rehoboth [Iowa], Santa Ana, Syracuse, White Lake. Ministers: 2-131, 2-248, 2-280 #079-36, pp. 124-125: Declining to join the Federal Council of Churches: its objects are good, but it uses hymns in its meetings, and it attempts to govern churches National Council of Churches; Psalmody. Ministers: 1-233, 2-071 #080 — Synod of 1909 #080-01, p. 8: Printing copies of the order of business Docket and digest. #080-02, p. 8: Continuing cooperation on uniform psalter Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248 #080-03, p. 9: Voting’s morality or immorality doesn’t depend on the topic being voted on; reiterating #053-24 on the impossibility of blanket decisions and sessional responsibility Devolution; Political office; Voting. Ministers: 1-026, 2-196, 2-235 #080-04, p. 10: Adopting revised texts for a revised psalter Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-001, 1-015, 1-034, 1-265, 2-205 #080-05, p. 11: Approving schedule for #079-22 conference Church history; Conferences at Synod. Ministers: 1-015, 1-080 #080-06, p. 14: Repealing #079-29, but leaving intact the licensure of anyone licensed thereby Licentiates; Making exceptions. #080-07, p. 18: Recommending retired missionary for aid Board of Control; Pensions. Ministers: 2-059 #080-08, pp. 19-20: Reiterating #079-12 on ministers and elders; members to advertise #078-07 literature in newspapers; forming apologetics classes for distinctive principles; calling for donations Donations; News media; Psalmody; Secret societies; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-202, 2-308 #080-09, pp. 20-22: Forming Time and Place Committee (not yet named), Traveling Fund administration, pastors to remind congregations of their assessments, elderly and disabled ministers given optional attendance at Synod (#057-24) Absences; Collections; General and subordinate synods; Meeting schedule; New standing committees; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-154, 1-194, 2-014, 2-113, 2-136, 2-196, 2-265, 2-311, 2-339 #080-10, pp. 22-24: Reiterating #075-24 on devotions Church music; Family worship; Improving praise; Lord’s supper. Ministers: 1-063, 2-106, 2-280 #080-11, pp. 24-26: Reminding members to continue fighting alcohol, including by using church literature; preparing to insert a Testimony section prohibiting all tobacco use Taxation; Temperance; Testimony; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026, 2-196, 2-235 #080-12, pp. 27-29: Appointing a permanent committee on evangelistic work and defining its responsibilities and budget; all members should be ready to give one week annually to special evangelism Elements of worship; Evangelism; Financial; Home missions HR; New standing committees; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Soteriology; Special services; Voting. Ministers: 2-235, 2-265 #080-13, pp. 39-41: Urging CYPUs to conduct evangelism and distribute reform literature; reiterating #078-10 on youth and ministers A cappella; China mission; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Evangelism; Immigration; Islam; NRA; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Temperance; Testimony; Urban church planting; Voting; Westminster standards; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071, 2-083, 2-291 #080-14, pp. 41-43: Ministers and elders to work to bring all available persons into sabbath schools; parents to cooperate with their children’s teachers; reinforcing #066-12 on grades; sabbath schools should have performance expectations comparable to businesses and public schools Church music; Parental responsibilities; Psalmody; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-001, 1-072, 1-096 #080-15, pp. 46-48: Reiterating #079-14, first clause; urging members to cooperate with sabbath-keeping organizations; condemning Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition for seven-day opening Abraham Lincoln; Civil War; National exhibitions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping organizations; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 1-042, 1-240, 2-327 #080-16, pp. 49-51: Ministers and elders to impress on members the importance of covenant vows, conduct family visitation, and report state of religion more carefully Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Evangelism; Family worship; Lord’s supper; Outside preaching; Public transportation; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Signs of the Times; Special services; Temperance; Tithing; Tracts. Ministers: 1-202, 2-075, 2-230 #080-17, p. 55: Presbyteries to continue appointing transportation agents, who shall work with the Traveling Fund Committee Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-182 #080-18, pp. 57-58: Reiterating #078-08, first clause; parents to consecrate children to God and teach them of missions; calling for donations and congregational assessments China mission; Collections; Conferences at Synod; Family worship; Levant missions. Ministers: 1-194, 2-051, 2-090 #080-19, pp. 67-68: Reiterating #074-16, first clause; forming #072-12 mission if possible; human resources for #077-30; congregation overseen by Central Board; separating Chinese Home Mission from white mission in Oakland Bequests; Bureau of Information; Chinese Home Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Real property; Craftsbury, Oakland. Ministers: 1-007, 1-034, 1-159, 2-276, 2-291 #080-20, pp. 74-75: Financial arrangements; publishing psalter selections and minutes of Synod Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Directions to individuals; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform; Pensions; Psalm selections; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-062, 2-196, 2-209, 2-251 #080-21, pp. 109-110: Commending candidates for serving God rather than pursuing riches; no new RPTS departments; all congregations to be sent Geneva board reports Donations; Geneva; Publications; RPTS faculty; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-222, 2-106, 2-190 #080-22, pp. 115-116: Clarifying #079-29; directing Kansas Presbytery to ordain a missionary, subject to FMB recommendation [two other decisions in this report were not adopted; see Minutes of 1910, page 14] Candidate examinations; Closed pulpits; Licentiates; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Sine titulo. Ministers: 1-062, 1-096, 2-069, 2-275 #080-23, pp. 117-118: Urging members to hold and distribute National Reform conventions and literature; approving new NRA charter but urging an amendment [dissent, page 120] Incorporation; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-265, 2-071, 2-235 #080-24, p. 121: Responding to dissent on #080-23: charters should contain general statements of principles, not all the details, and the NRA’s constitution demonstrates its continued commitment to the Christian Amendment NRA; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-248, 2-159 #080-25, pp. 122-124: Supporting those fighting to abolish college fraternities, and urging ministers, elders, and parents to guard their sons; protesting laws protecting secrecy and urging the revocation of charters; reiterating #055-06 Dancing; Divorce; Labor and capital; National Christian Association; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Society meetings; Theaters; Youth. Ministers: 2-131, 2-196, 2-251 #080-26, pp. 124-125: Declining to join the Interchurch Temperance Union and the Anti-Saloon League because of political dissent, but supporting their causes Legal prohibition; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-026 #080-27, p. 125: Reiterating #078-18, second clause Psalmody; Psalter editions. #080-28, pp. 125-126: Financial arrangements for church erection and sustentation Church erection; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-045, 2-059, 2-183 #080-29, p. 127: Sympathy letter to minister following the death of his son Sympathy. Ministers: 1-026, 1-270 #080-30, p. 128: Holding a testimony-bearing conference at Synod in 1910 Conferences at Synod; Witness work. #081 — Synod of 1910 #081-01, p. 12: Printing copies of the order of business Docket and digest. #081-02, pp. 12-13: Rejecting the final version of the uniform psalter because of its many needless deviations from the original text James S. Tibby; Standard psalter. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248 #081-03, p. 19: Expressing Synod’s satisfaction with the speech of the Rev. Cornelius De Leeuw [full name from CRCNA minister database] of the CRCNA CRCNA; Thanking fraternal delegates. #081-04, p. 20: Renaming the Committee on Theological Seminary and Education to the Committee on Theological Seminary and Geneva College Geneva; Renaming; RPTS. #081-05, pp. 23-25: Publishing the 1910 Psalmody Committee report as a tract Financial; Psalmody; Tracts; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-283, 2-068, 2-311 #081-06, p. 27: Minister should not have moderated a Chicago session meeting without the pastor’s permission, but Iowa Presbytery’s sanctions were unduly harsh Judicial cases; Rules and organization; Chicago. Ministers: 1-037, 1-275, 2-230 #081-07, pp. 35-38: Reiterating #069-03, first point, especially via sabbath schools; reiterating #079-15, final clause, and pastors to follow up with contacts; urging a reading list; appropriating money Financial; Home visitation; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Special services; Youth. Ministers: 1-286, 2-160, 2-308 #081-08, p. 43: Preserving the Willson monument in the Coldenham graveyard (#039-13) Cemeteries; Church history; Coldenham. Ministers: 1-202, 1-261, 1-277 #081-09, pp. 44-46: Ministers, elders, parents, and teachers to present the evils of secret societies to the youth; the church takes the place of benefit societies; reiterating #066-08, final clause Church discipline; Insurance; Parental responsibilities; Secret societies. Ministers: 2-069, 2-113, 2-251 #081-10, pp. 47-49: Continuing appropriations to the NRA despite objections to new charter (#080-23) [dissent, page 136] Financial; NRA; Roll call votes; Written dissent. #081-11, p. 50: Approving sustentation and church-erection appropriations Church erection; Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-070, 2-136, 2-246 #081-12, pp. 57-59: Approving fundraising plans and goals of the FMB Canvassing; Conferences at Synod; Directions to individuals; Donations. Ministers: 1-026, 1-265, 2-330 #081-13, p. 76: Urging increased giving and increased prayer for home missions Debt; Donations; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-194, 1-286, 2-223 #081-14, p. 85: Resolving a Traveling Fund deficit Traveling Fund. #081-15, pp. 86-87: Urging the church to give RPTS more young men and more money Debt; Donations; Geneva; Health and medicine; James S. Tibby; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-096, 2-099, 2-263 #081-16, p. 96: Deciding not to rule on the question of a common cup versus individual communion cups, as the question may disturb the church unnecessarily Communion cup. Ministers: 1-026, 1-069, 1-233 #081-17, p. 96: Expressing confidence in the faithfulness of missionaries in China and their wisdom in making arrangements China mission; Foreign missions HR. Ministers: 2-160 #081-18, pp. 96-99: Commending the hiring of outside auditors for Synod’s accounts; financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod; declining to reinstitute #010-19 China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; National Reform conventions; NRA; Paying the clerk; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Southern Mission; Temperance; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 2-039, 2-203, 2-248, 2-327 #081-19, pp. 137-138: Responding to dissent on #081-10: Synod is convinced that this is Christ’s will; past generations knew what they were doing when they started collecting for the NRA; dissenters’ proposal would end all collections for outside agencies; the church has a moral responsibility to support the NRA; Synod can stop collections at any time if necessary American Bible Society; Collections; NRA; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-001, 1-248, 1-289 #081-20, p. 138: Appointing a judicial commission to handle an appeal against Pittsburgh Presbytery Judicial cases; New commissions. Ministers: 1-044 #081-21, pp. 139-141: Non-pastors moderating sessions; jury service is prohibited, with reasons annexed; Ohio Presbytery directed to adjudicate the case of T.C. Mathews; presbytery judicial commissions should not normally include elders from other presbyteries or inactive elders, but this is permitted if the circumstances require Devolution; Divorce; Judicial cases; Jury question; Oath question; Rules and organization; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-035, 1-044, 1-063 #081-22, pp. 143-145: Only total legal prohibition can solve the alcohol problem; condemning all parties deriving revenue from alcohol; urging all members to abandon tobacco; sabbath school lessons and appropriating money Collections; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Sabbath schools; Tobacco; WCTU; Youth. Ministers: 1-026, 2-196, 2-235 #081-23, p. 145: Sending a delegate to the Interchurch Temperance Union (#080-26) to discuss their advocacy of voting for temperance Temperance organizations; Voting. Ministers: 1-001 #081-24, pp. 145-146: Appropriating money to the Board of Control Board of Control; Graduate student aid; Pensions. Ministers: 2-196 #081-25, pp. 147-151: Reiterating #037-20 on tithing and preaching, #064-13 on officers as an example, and #074-06, second clause; perhaps prohibiting ordination of non-tithers Church history; Higher-education standards; RPTS; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 1-222, 2-071, 2-202 #081-26, pp. 153-155: Preparing Bible-reading literature; reiterating #080-13, first clause; youth study topics; congregational collections Bible reading folders; Church history; Collections; CYPU; Evangelism; Foreign missions; National Reform; Temperance. Ministers: 2-104, 2-160, 2-209 #081-27, p. 155: Urging congregations to send delegates to a Christian government conference, and urging ministers to secure delegates for local conferences National Reform conventions. Ministers: 2-159 #081-28, p. 159: All board memberships to be for three-year terms with the opportunity for re-election; regulating the procedures Agency membership; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-154, 1-265, 2-106 #081-29, p. 159: Reiterating #075-29 on special prayer, and appointing prayer for Geneva and other colleges Bible in schools; Geneva; Holidays. Ministers: 1-248 #081-30, pp. 160-161: Renaming Testimony-Bearing Committee to Witness-Bearing Committee; appropriating money; approving advertising (#080-08); reiterating #079-12 on ministers, elders, and apologetics classes Church of the Brethren; Financial; Outside preaching; Political dissent; Psalmody; Renaming; Secret societies; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 1-222, 2-202, 2-308 #081-31, pp. 162-165: Approving psalter revision committees’ work and future plans; requiring retention of 11.11.11.11-meter translation of Psalm 23; urging congregations to train in singing APCNA; Church music; Financial; Improving praise; PCI; Psalter editions; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 1-289, 2-205, 2-308, 2-330 #081-32, pp. 172-175: Holding a conference at Synod in 1911 on the Covenant of 1871 Conferences at Synod; Covenant of 1871; Evangelism. Ministers: 1-248 #081-33, p. 176: Thanking the Winona Lake management for the use of their facility, and the Winona Review (OCLC 11060009) for providing summaries of the meetings Thanking newspapers. Ministers: 2-280 #082 — Synod of 1911 #082-01, pp. 10-11: Approving actions of #081-20 commission Church discipline; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 1-044, 2-156, 2-181, 2-223 #082-02, p. 14: Sending sympathy note to ill minister Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-099, 2-308 #082-03, pp. 14-15: Paying committee expenses Financial; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-205, 2-308, 2-330 #082-04, p. 16: Evening conference programs to conclude by 9 PM Conferences at Synod; Rules and organization. #082-05, pp. 19-21: Ministers to preach on responsibility for evangelism, all congregations to plan evangelistic work, including special services when possible; urging prayer and appropriating money Evangelism; Financial; Sermon topics; Special services. Ministers: 1-286, 2-160, 2-308 #082-06, p. 31: Paying printing bill and cost of sending #082-02 Docket and digest; Financial; Telecommunications. #082-07, pp. 35-36: Synod’s committee on supplies to work with presbytery committees; restricting presbytery stated supplies; classifying congregations and setting minimum salaries (#079-01) Board of Control; Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries; Pensions; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-069, 1-096, 1-122, 1-154, 2-068, 2-106, 2-156, 2-182 #082-08, pp. 36-37: Paying committee expenses Church music; Financial. Ministers: 1-034, 1-289 #082-09, p. 37: Paying committee expenses and publishing the Reformed Presbyterian Catechism (OCLC 24183538) Church history; Financial; Publications. Ministers: 2-068 #082-10, p. 38: Appointing two judicial commissions New commissions; Santa Ana case. #082-11, pp. 39-40: Ministers, elders, and parents to teach children their obligations to the church; urging those moving away to settle near other churches or near likely mission locations, and to notify the church Canada; Individual relocation; Parental responsibilities; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-276 #082-12, pp. 42-43: Applying #081-21 to non-judicial commissions; defining “wilful desertion” for divorce purposes and regulating responding actions; forming Pacific Coast Presbytery out of Colorado Presbytery and specifying its boundaries; interpreting Book of Discipline on trial examination Construction; Divorce; New presbyteries; Pacific; Rules and organization; Santa Ana case. Ministers: 1-061, 1-096, 1-122 #082-13, pp. 44-45: NRA is not part of the RPCNA, but close cooperation is important; requesting NRA financial statistics and regulating contributions Collections; Donations; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 2-059, 2-068, 2-209 #082-14, pp. 50-52: Ministers and elders to cultivate mission-mindedness; approving human resources decision; forming mission-study classes in churches; forming South China Commission China mission; Conferences at Synod; Donations; Levant missions; Youth. Ministers: 1-070, 2-276, 2-293 #082-15, p. 62: Urging better giving to home missions Church planting; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission; Temperance. Ministers: 2-051, 2-125, 2-147 #082-16, p. 68: Urging research foundations to study the scientific and sociological aspects of “alcohol and other narcotics” Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Temperance. #082-17, pp. 69-72: The purpose of sabbath schools is to teach the Bible, its influence on personal and national life, and the doctrines of salvation, and to bring in the unsaved; permitting Bible-based curricula and urging congregations to bring in the unchurched Evangelism; International Sunday School Lessons; Political dissent; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance. Ministers: 1-072 #082-18, p. 72: Protesting the International Lesson Committee’s inclusion of lessons on the Maccabees and early modern Christians; congregations to substitute Bible lessons for these Directions to individuals; International Sunday School Lessons. Ministers: 1-226, 2-308 #082-19, p. 76: Protesting to President Taft and Navy Secretary Meyer the use on the dreadnought Utah (BB-31) of tableware depicting the Salt Lake Temple and Brigham Young Directions to individuals; LDS; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-226, 1-248, 2-308 #082-20, pp. 77-78: Ministers to preach on the need for ministers; adding RP Apologetics to RPTS program; requiring Greek for A.B. degree at Geneva and approving fundraising Biblical languages; Debt; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-202, 2-044, 2-136 #082-21, pp. 84-87: Various financial arrangements; printing the Testimony and the minutes of Synod; Synod’s Trustees to handle mortgages Board of Control; Cemeteries; China mission; Church erection; Church history; Church music; Church of the Brethren; Collections; Directions to individuals; Donations; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Insurance; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; Southern Mission; Temperance; Testimony; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; Coldenham. Ministers: 1-072, 1-277, 2-130 #082-22, pp. 118-120: Appointing a home missionary section for work in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest; urging the Central Board to enter new fields; no aid to congregations not completing paperwork; financial supplements Canada; Church planting; Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Rules and organization; Supply preaching; East End. Ministers: 2-176, 2-308 #082-23, pp. 120-121: Ascertaining which congregations maintain tithing; obtaining tithing literature Publications; Tithing. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034 #082-24, p. 121: Synod may review judicial commissions’ judgements on law, but their judgements on facts are final Reviewing commissions; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-034, 1-248, 1-275 #082-25, pp. 123-125: Youth societies, and individuals in congregations with no societies, urged to evangelism and missions study Bible reading folders; Church history; CYPU; Evangelism; James S. Tibby. Ministers: 2-083, 2-131 #082-26, p. 125: Pacific Coast Presbytery to decide all pending matters involving its members or congregations Judicial cases; New presbyteries. Ministers: 2-051 #082-27, p. 125: Continuing relations with the Inter-Church Temperance Federation Interchurch; Temperance. Ministers: 1-001 #082-28, p. 125: Commending American Bible Society and recommending contributions to it American Bible Society; Donations. Ministers: 1-034 #082-29, pp. 125-127: Re-urging better congregational singing; maintaining Regulative Principle of Worship A cappella; Family worship; Higher-education standards; Improving praise; Psalmody; RPTS. Ministers: 2-166, 2-339 #082-30, p. 127: Condemning the World’s Conference on Missions’ decision to exclude Protestant missionaries working in Catholic countries and re-condemning the Catholic Church Anti-Catholicism; Foreign missions. Ministers: 1-070 #082-31, pp. 127-130: Reiterating #081-09, first clause; seeking to uncover secrecy; congregations to hold a special anti-Masonic service; adult Bible classes to study anti-Masonry Parental responsibilities; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts. Ministers: 1-035, 2-059, 2-136, 2-147 #082-32, p. 131: Temperance Committee to prepare materials for sabbath schools Sabbath schools; Temperance. Ministers: 1-026, 2-196, 2-235 #082-33, pp. 134-135: Approving first #082-10 commission’s overturning of Kansas Presbytery decision and holding that all parties are at fault in a dispute at Olathe Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; No information; Reviewing commissions; Olathe. Ministers: 1-061, 1-069, 1-122, 1-158, 1-159, 2-051, 2-057 #082-34, pp. 135-137: Not sustaining an appeal and two complaints against Colorado Presbytery; recommending prudence in the appointment of commissions Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-061, 2-068, 2-113, 2-182, 2-183, 2-256 #082-35, pp. 138-139: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-182 #082-36, pp. 139-140: Reiterating #079-12 on ministers and elders (but no classes); human resources and financial arrangements Eldership; Outside preaching; Paying Synod employees; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-203, 2-275, 2-308 #082-37, pp. 141-143: Reiterating tithing, weekly offerings, and reminders to go beyond tithing; editing financial paperwork Debt; Directions to individuals; Offering envelopes; Parental responsibilities; Paying ministers; Sabbath-keeping; Tithing. Ministers: 2-059, 2-275 #082-38, pp. 143-144: Appropriating money for sustentation and church erection Church erection; Church planting; Congregational aid. Ministers: 2-183, 2-230, 2-246 #082-39, p. 147: South China Commission to handle a complex family-law case, due to Synod’s unfamiliarity with Chinese family customs China mission; Devolution; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. Ministers: 1-061, 1-096, 1-122 #082-40, pp. 147-148: Sending a copy of a deceased minister’s memorial to his family Sympathy. Ministers: 1-080, 1-133, 2-045, 2-205 #082-41, pp. 148-149: Participating in a Faith and Order conference sponsored by the Protestant Episcopal Church Church union; Outside commissions. #083 — Synod of 1912 #083-01, pp. 17-20: Urging elders and members to arrange for speakers on distinctive principles; sending ministers on month-long speaking trips; urging prayer and literature Canada; Financial; Outside preaching; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-203, 2-275 #083-02, pp. 28-31: Urging increased evangelistic work and evangelism classes, presbyteries to hold evangelism conferences, cooperating with PCUSA evangelism committee; appropriating money CYPU; Evangelism; Financial; Interchurch; PCUSA; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath schools; Special services. Ministers: 2-160, 2-235, 2-308 #083-03, pp. 31-33: Reiterating #082-17, final clause; investigating graded curricula and considering creating RPCNA curriculum Elements of worship; Evangelism; Sabbath schools; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-071, 2-083, 2-106 #083-04, p. 37: Thanking Dr. Hugh Archibald Clark of the University of Pennsylvania for assisting in creating the new psalter Church music; Psalter editions; Thanks. #083-05, p. 37: Thanking the CRCNA delegate, Henry J. De Vries [full name from CRCNA minister database], for his speech to Synod CRCNA; Thanking fraternal delegates. #083-06, pp. 38-40: Renewing call for men, money, and prayers for foreign missions; missionaries to focus on training a native ministry Alawites; Armenians; China mission; Conferences at Synod; Family worship; International relations; Islam; Levant missions; Lord’s supper; Mission schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; Society meetings; Thanks; Uniate. Ministers: 1-070, 2-069, 2-330 #083-07, pp. 53-54: Starting and overseeing CYPUs; promoting Bible study programs; CYPUs to study church history, missions, distinctive principles, and tithing Bible reading folders; Church history; CYPU. Ministers: 2-339 #083-08, pp. 54-55: Study topics for youth societies, the missions book to be chosen by the FMB Church history; CYPU; Decline; Foreign missions. Ministers: 1-027, 2-160, 2-339 #083-09, p. 55: Committee on sabbath schools to create new lessons to replace standard lessons for Easter and Christmas Holidays; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-034 #083-10, pp. 56-57: Financial and human resources arrangements for National Reform Donations; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 1-226, 1-283, 2-159, 2-182, 2-196 #083-11, p. 61: Sessions to choose between common v. individual cups in the Lord’s Supper, as it is a matter of hygiene, not doctrine, and biblical references to “cup” address the contents, not the vessel [dissent, page 62] Communion cup; Devolution; Health and medicine; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-114 #083-12, p. 63: It is not time for renewing the Covenant of 1871, but urging reprinting of the original text Covenant of 1871; Directions to individuals; Tracts. Ministers: 1-037, 1-062, 1-275 #083-13, p. 64: Condemning the Catholic Church as “Man of Sin”, “Babylon”, etc., and condemning President Taft’s permission of religious habits in Indian schools; ministers to preach anti-Catholicism and members to distribute anti-Catholic literature; sending protest to President Taft and Woodrow Wilson Anti-Catholicism; Presidential communications; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-117 #083-14, pp. 65-66: Home Mission Secretary and Central Board may investigate opportunities; urging congregations to evangelism; presbyteries to appoint home missions superintendents Church planting; Evangelism; Financial; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Jewish missions; Southern Mission; Special services. Ministers: 2-131, 2-229, 2-263, 2-308 #083-15, p. 71: Letter of sympathy to David Popoweetie and his son Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-045 #083-16, p. 71: Repealing #082-07 on congregational classifications and salaries, and creating new classifications and salary standards Minimum salaries. Ministers: 1-069, 1-122, 2-068, 2-106, 2-156, 2-182 #083-17, pp. 71-73: Various financial arrangements Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Collections; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Evangelism; Geneva; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying RPTS faculty; RP Home; Southern Mission; Taxation; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 1-159, 1-194, 2-203 #083-18, pp. 100-101: Reiterating #048-12, but a minister of another evangelical church may preach a special message on an approved topic if overseen by an RP minister Closed pulpits; Roll call votes. Ministers: 2-071 #083-19, p. 101: Communicating with APCNA regarding Catholic political activity Anti-Catholicism; APCNA; Outside communications. Ministers: 1-072 #083-20, pp. 104-105: Reiterating tithing, weekly offerings, envelopes; deacons to discuss finances with members; members to support pastor first and other topics second Congregational aid; Diaconate; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New standing committees; Offering envelopes; Sabbath-keeping; Tithing. Ministers: 1-222, 1-283, 2-203 #083-21, p. 108: Editing and reprinting the Reformed Presbyterian Catechism Publications. Ministers: 2-068 #083-22, p. 108: Ending the Bureau of Information and moving its responsibilities to the Home Mission Secretary Abolishing agencies; Bureau of Information. Ministers: 2-182, 2-276 #083-23, pp. 108-109: Position statement on divorce; declining to add it to the Testimony Divorce; James S. Tibby; Testimony. Ministers: 1-275, 1-289, 2-339 #083-24, p. 111: Reiterating #081-31 on singing training Improving praise. #083-25, pp. 113-115: Extending #053-01 on licentiates to students under care; no supply preacher to use tobacco; no ordination of tobacco users as elders or deacons; reiterating #073-24 on new members Government communications; Licentiates; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-026, 2-196, 2-235 #083-26, p. 116: Thanking a local PCUSA for permitting the use of their church during Synod PCUSA; Thanks. #083-27, p. 118: Authorizing the 1911 psalter for all uses, and printing a words-only edition Psalter editions. #083-28, pp. 118-119: Responding to dissent on #083-10: the Bible doesn’t discuss the Holy Grail, the vessel has no significance unlike the wine, sanitation is adiophoran, and the Lord’s Supper consists of a minister distributing consecrated elements to believers Communion cup; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-072, 1-289, 2-069 #083-29, p. 119: Commending minister for publishing Hand-book for Young Christians (OCLC 16342919); publication arrangements Financial; James S. Tibby; Publications. Ministers: 2-071, 2-339 #083-30, pp. 119-122: Maintaining current testimony on psalmody, needing to adopt one metrical version quickly, children to memorize psalms A cappella; Choirs; Church history; Church music; Improving praise; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Woodrow Wilson; Youth. Ministers: 1-240, 2-061, 2-225 #083-31, pp. 123-124: Congregations renting their buildings to other churches are not responsible for improper worship elements by the tenants; returning an appeal for lack of proper paperwork A cappella; No information; Psalmody; Real property; Special services; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-026, 2-045, 2-276 #083-32, pp. 127-128: Appropriating money for sustentation and church erection Church erection; Congregational aid. Ministers: 2-044, 2-246 #083-33, pp. 130-131: Reiterating #082-20, first and second clauses; Geneva’s primary purpose is providing RP higher education, and focusing on this; commending board for finding RP professors and approving closure of preparatory department Geneva; Higher-education standards; RP Home; RPTS location; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-004, 2-190, 2-251 #083-34, p. 139: RPTS professors to prescribe minimum Greek qualifications for students coming under care Biblical languages; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-275, 1-289 #083-35, p. 139: Scheduling the Mission Conference Conferences at Synod; Home Mission Conference. #083-36, p. 140: Approving judicial commission’s decisions: sustaining appeals against Pacific Coast Presbytery because of tainted procedure, and remanding; violations of written pledges are censurable Church discipline; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-226, 2-045, 2-106, 2-275 #084 — Synod of 1913 #084-01, p. 13: Printing copies of the order of business and devotional exercises Docket and digest. #084-02, pp. 13-14: Repealing #060-26, but urging candidates to engage in public evangelism and to speak in prayer meetings and sabbath schools Evangelism; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 1-034 #084-03, pp. 15-16: Making physical improvements to the RPTS building RP Home; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-203, 2-235 #084-04, p. 17: Presbyteries must temporarily require new candidates to have taken one year of Greek and be able to read the New Testament in the original Biblical languages; Higher-education standards. Ministers: 1-275, 1-289 #084-05, pp. 21-23: Urging members to evangelize their neighbors, and pastors to preach on the subject; human resources and finances Evangelism; Financial; Sermon topics; Special services. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-229, 2-235 #084-06, pp. 24-26: Urging donations for witness bearing; reiterating #083-01, first clause Canada; China mission; Financial; Government communications; Outside preaching; Resignations; RPCI; RPCS; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229 #084-07, p. 26: Arranging to petition the Chinese government for Christian provisions in their new constitution China mission; Government communications; Tracts. Ministers: 2-205, 2-252 #084-08, p. 34: Petitioning President Woodrow Wilson to make explicit reference to Christ in the 1913 Thanksgiving holiday proclamation (#074-02) Holidays; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. #084-09, pp. 34-35: Appointing a judicial commission New commissions; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-063, 1-096, 1-154, 2-051, 2-070, 2-203, 2-205, 2-230, 2-330 #084-10, pp. 35-39: Pastors and sessions to find all members responsibilities in congregations and constantly to remind them of the church’s mission and activities Armenians; China mission; Decline; Financial; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Islam; Jewish missions; Levant missions; NRA; Orthodox; Society meetings; Southern Mission; Statistics; Strict subscription; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-204 #084-11, p. 41: Reducing First Boston quota for Traveling Fund Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; Boston 1. #084-12, pp. 41-43: Publishing literature and holding conferences on giving; urging giving; pastors to preach on giving; forming study groups in each congregation; supporting offering envelopes China mission; Evangelism; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Offering envelopes; Presbytery conferences; Publications; Sermon topics; Tithing; Youth. Ministers: 2-019, 2-156, 2-256 #084-13, p. 44: Inviting Billy Sunday to speak to Synod Celebrity preachers. Ministers: 1-072, 2-249 #084-14, p. 44:#048-12 prohibits other ministers from ordinary preaching in RP pulpits Closed pulpits; Construction. #084-15, pp. 44-45: Rejecting syndicated lessons for sabbath school use (they advocate evolution, reject the supernatural, and study extrabiblical topics) and planning for a replacement set of lessons Church history; Creation; PCUSA; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-045, 2-069, 2-106 #084-16, pp. 49-52: No tobacco users permitted to serve in sabbath schools; urging presbyterial anti-tobacco conferences; pastors to preach against tobacco; continuing legislative petitions and literature publication Government communications; Legal prohibition; Presbytery conferences; Publications; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Tobacco restrictions on officers. #084-17, pp. 54-55: Urging donations and prayers for foreign missions; approving taking over a mission station from the Christian and Missionary Alliance; permitting human resources arrangements China mission; Devolution; Donations; International relations; Islam; Levant missions. Ministers: 1-034, 1-283, 2-088 #084-18, p. 65: Financial and human resources arrangements for National Reform CRCNA; Donations; Holidays; NRA; Presidential communications. Ministers: 1-035, 2-113, 2-235 #084-19, pp. 69-70: Declining to repeal #060-20; postponing all new legislation and all repeals on this subject until the church shall have come to more harmony Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 1-122, 1-265, 2-045, 2-276 #084-20, p. 72: Thanking the Westminster Hotel and Winona Association Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 1-072, 2-068, 2-249 #084-21, p. 72: Scheduling the Mission Conference Home Mission Conference. #084-22, pp. 72-73: Interpreting #083-16 in a congregation spanning two communities of different sizes; the Westminster Confession is a single system of doctrine that stands together, and removing one part mars the whole system Construction; Directions to individuals; Minimum salaries; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards; Beaver Falls 1. Ministers: 1-072, 1-096, 2-051, 2-203 #084-23, p. 73: Thanking W.B. Stoddard, Secretary of the National Christian Association, for his speech to Synod, and commending it to the people National Christian Association; Thanking visiting speakers. #084-24, pp. 73-76: Warning youth against college fraternities and urging parents to consider fraternities in selecting colleges Christian Nation; Gambling; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Labor and capital; Parental responsibilities; Secret societies; Temperance; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-070, 2-044, 2-083 #084-25, p. 76: Sending a letter to an absent minister Absences; No information. Ministers: 1-072, 2-212, 2-249, 2-304 #084-26, p. 78: Urging ministers and congregations to begin a campaign against divorce in the pulpit and the press; urging ministers to work with Christian lawyers to work for better state divorce laws Divorce; Government communications; Sermon topics. #084-27, pp. 79-80: Pastors and Geneva faculty to speak often of the importance of pursuing the ministry Geneva faculty; Seeking candidates, FMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-159, 1-194, 2-308 #084-28, pp. 88-89: Reiterating #084-27 on pastors; urging the formation or continuation of personal work classes; appointing youth study topics on distinctives and for Easter and Christmas Church history; CYPU; Dancing; Evangelism; Holidays; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Playing cards; Psalmody; Society meetings; Theaters. Ministers: 2-229, 2-263, 2-276 #084-29, p. 90: Human resources and financial arrangements; reiterating #083-13, final clause Congregational aid; Ex post facto; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-071, 2-160, 2-309 #084-30, p. 97: Standing committees shall publish their reports before Synod, and delegates must read these reports before arriving Reporting calendars. Ministers: 1-283 #084-31, pp. 97-99: Financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; CYPU; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Offering envelopes; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; South Carolina cemetery; Southern Mission; Temperance organizations; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 2-019, 2-156, 2-248 #084-32, pp. 128-131: Reiterating #073-02, final clause, and #035-19, final clause; singing to become more common in prayer meetings; urging more wholehearted singing A cappella; Family worship; Improving praise; Psalm selections; Psalmody. Ministers: 1-077, 1-289, 2-309 #084-33, pp. 133-135: Reiterating #079-14, first clause; #072-05, second clause; and #067-21, final clause; also, sessions to discipline sabbath-breaking Church discipline; Gambling; Interchurch; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; News media; Parental responsibilities; Post office; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Sports; Theaters; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-079, 1-154, 2-230 #084-34, p. 137: Approving financial decisions Church erection; Donations. Ministers: 1-154, 2-059, 2-275 #084-35, pp. 139-140: Reiterating #079-15, second clause; preferring teachers with active conversion experiences; teachers may not use tobacco or impure language and may not attend the theater or dance Dancing; Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Sports; Theaters; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 2-045, 2-068, 2-330 #084-36, p. 141: Presbytery financial agents to investigate inexpensive travel to Synod Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-068 #084-37, p. 141: The church has the responsibility to bequeath prosperity and freedom to future generations, and the papacy is the enemy of that responsibility Anti-Catholicism. Ministers: 1-117 #084-38, pp. 141-146: Approving actions of #084-09 commission Reviewing commissions; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-063, 1-096, 1-154, 2-051, 2-070, 2-203, 2-205, 2-230, 2-330 #085 — Synod of 1914 #085-01, p. 17: Reiterating #059-34; five-minute time limit for Synod speeches, except those representing boards Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-136, 2-183, 2-255 #085-02, pp. 17-18: Merging the Signs of the Times and State of Religion standing committees; abolishing Young People’s Societies standing committee; remaining standing committees to report biennially Abolishing agencies; CYPU; Evangelism; Psalmody; Reporting calendars; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Signs of the Times; Tithing. Ministers: 2-136, 2-183, 2-255 #085-03, p. 18: No subject may be the focus of Synod conferences in two consecutive years or may share a topic with a standing committee report (#085-02) Conferences at Synod; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-136, 2-183, 2-255 #085-04, pp. 19-21: Adopting a system of graded sabbath school lessons with curricula Church history; Evangelism; International Sunday School Lessons; PCUSA; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-045, 2-069, 2-106 #085-05, pp. 23-25: Human resources and financial arrangements; producing literature for distinctive principles; reiterating “four times” clause of #052-11, but on all distinctive principles; weeknight meetings China mission; Outside preaching; Paying Synod employees; Political dissent; Synod HR; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #085-06, pp. 26-28: Adopting new form and new regulations for Board of Control funds Board of Control; Forms; Pensions. Ministers: 2-114 #085-07, p. 29: Urging all ministers to preach against tobacco or to hold a conference on the subject; presbyteries to oversee compliance Sermon topics; Tobacco. #085-08, pp. 29-32: Continuing to send temperance literature and urging its use; ministers to spend time fighting alcohol Congressional petitions; Legal prohibition; News media; Sermon topics; Taxation; Testimony; Tobacco; Tracts. Ministers: 1-026, 2-183, 2-235 #085-09, pp. 33-34: Reiterating #084-28 CYPU; Sabbath schools; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-005, 2-240, 2-309 #085-10, pp. 35-37: Urging individual pledges for evangelism; pastors to preach, lead classes, and set examples in evangelism; presbyteries to hold evangelism conferences; appropriating money Evangelism; Financial; Interchurch; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-229, 2-235 #085-11, pp. 44-45: Adopting a platform for social justice for the proletariat, including a living wage, abolition of sweatshops, limited working hours, occupational safety and health, and child labor Arbitration; Immigration; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Real property; Sabbath-keeping; Socialism; Usury; Youth. Ministers: 1-289, 2-045, 2-104 #085-12, pp. 46-48: Ministers to continue speaking on giving; officers to set an example; forming financial boards, holding giving conferences, and reiterating #084-12, final clause CYPU; Every Member Canvass; Offering envelopes; Presbytery conferences; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-019, 2-156, 2-256 #085-13, pp. 49-51: Presbytery conferences to focus on Christian stewardship, and pastors and parents to teach this topic to children Interchurch; Lord’s supper; Parental responsibilities; Presbytery conferences; Special services; Tithing. Ministers: 1-194, 2-004, 2-276 #085-14, pp. 52-54: Re-condemning instrumental music in church; urging the church to demonstrate its commitment to the worship position; urging publication and preaching on this topic A cappella; Interchurch; Psalmody; Publications; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-043, 2-088, 2-114 #085-15, pp. 54-56: The business at Santa Ana having been repeatedly presented to Synod with nothing new, returning everything to petitioners and urging them to drop it entirely Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-160 #085-16, p. 56: Printing more psalters Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Psalter editions. #085-17, pp. 57-58: Churches to pray for missionaries to have compassion; urging constant prayer and better giving China mission; Family worship; Financial; Foreign missions HR; Government communications; Levant missions; Society meetings. Ministers: 1-070, 1-117, 2-083 #085-18, pp. 71-72: Encouraging the Central Board to continue developing new fields, human resources arrangement, and commending Jewish, Indian, and Southern Missions Church planting; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-283, 2-044, 2-249, 2-308 #085-19, pp. 80-83: Financial arrangements, publishing the minutes of Synod, reiterating #029-26 and urging donations, reiterating #055-08 on envelopes, New York Presbytery to work to merge Boston congregations Board of Control; China mission; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Collections; Conferences at Synod; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; PHS; Psalm selections; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Temperance organizations; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work; Boston 1, Boston 2. Ministers: 1-154, 1-194, 2-308 #085-20, pp. 117-118: Systematic Beneficence Committee to send all congregations literature on canvassing the church Canvassing; Tithing. #085-21, p. 119: Appointing another commission to resolve matters at Santa Ana New commissions; Restorations; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-159 #085-22, pp. 119-120: Reiterating #075-25 on RPTS, advancing RPTS professors’ salaries, urging collections for the Geneva debt Debt; Geneva finances; Parental responsibilities; Paying RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-130, 2-159, 2-237 #085-23, pp. 126-127: Officially considering a biennial Synod; Synod’s precentor to participate in traveling fund; congregations to consider reimbursing their delegates’ traveling expenses Delinquency; Meeting schedule; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-072, 1-096, 2-251 #085-24, pp. 128-130: Financial arrangements Church erection; Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-035, 2-131, 2-203, 2-256, 2-276 #085-25, p. 131: Declining to participate in an international peace sabbath celebration; approving of peace movement and urging its attention in the church; peace can only come if nations recognize Christianity CYPU; Holidays; Labor and capital; Outside communications; Pacifism; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-027, 2-051 #085-26, p. 143: Rejecting alleged Catholic attempts to control the United States, condemning attacks on public lecturers and newspapers, deploring a Vatican ambassador to the United States, protesting politicians’ appearances at church functions, and urging all to view Catholic expansion as an enemy News media; Vatican ambassador; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-117 #085-27, pp. 144-145: Financial arrangements, urging giving in life and in death Bequests; Collections; LDS; National Reform conventions; NRA. Ministers: 1-079, 2-051, 2-106, 2-263 #085-28, p. 148: Setting a target amount for donation to National Reform Donations; NRA. #085-29, p. 149: Petitioning Congress to pass an anti-polygamy amendment to the U.S. Constitution (63 S. J. Res. 91 and 96, H. J. Res. 200 and 201) Congressional bills; LDS; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-159 #085-30, pp. 149-150:#085-21 commission: urging Pacific Coast Presbytery to remember parties’ willingness to reconcile when handling the Santa Ana case Reviewing commissions; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-159, 2-069, 2-235, 2-263 #085-31, pp. 154-155: Sabbath school committee to publish articles for use by the sabbath schools of the church Conferences at Synod; Publications; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-166, 2-263, 2-275 #085-32, pp. 159-160: Specifying tunes to use in the new psalter Church music; Psalter editions. #085-33, pp. 165-166: Urging members living out of bounds of a congregation to move within bounds Individual relocation; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 1-035, 2-176, 2-251 #085-34, pp. 167-168: British subjects living in Canada may homestead, but the law’s requirement of naturalization (with oath) prevents foreigners from homesteading; giving Board of Control money to ministers’ widows now in other denominations Board of Control; Canada; Devolution; Membership transfer; Naturalization; Pensions; Voting. Ministers: 1-034, 1-159, 2-160 #085-35, p. 168: Ending participation in the Inter-Church Federation on Temperance, given its absorption into the Federal Council of Churches of Christ National Council of Churches; Temperance organizations. #085-36, p. 168: Thanking one of the Methodist churches in Bloomington for permitting its property’s use for certain meetings during Synod Methodists; Thanks. #086 — Synod of 1915 #086-01, p. 10: Printing copies of the order of business and devotional exercises Directions to individuals; Docket and digest. Ministers: 2-068 #086-02, pp. 13-15: Adopting the proposed course of the Sunday School Times (OCLC 1777748), with amendments, for use in the church’s sabbath schools Church history; Covenant of 1871; Evangelism; International Sunday School Lessons; Testimony. Ministers: 2-044, 2-069, 2-106 #086-03, pp. 16-17: Publishing the minutes of Synod Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 2-068 #086-04, pp. 21-22: Reiterating #085-05, human resources and financial arrangements A cappella; Financial; National Reform; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #086-05, p. 23: Thanking President Woodrow Wilson for keeping the nation out of war and petitioning him to seek world peace on Christian principles First World War; Pacifism; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-072, 2-068 #086-06, pp. 28-29: Reiterating #085-31; sabbath school committee to review books relevant to study topics and to urge superintendents to build a library of such books Christian Nation; Conferences at Synod; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-046, 2-242 #086-07, pp. 29-30: Young people’s societies to promote biblical worship, growth in faith and character, fellowship, and evangelism CYPU; Elements of worship; Evangelism. Ministers: 1-001, 2-339 #086-08, p. 33: Biennial synods (#085-23) would be unwise for several reasons Meeting schedule. Ministers: 1-072, 1-096 #086-09, pp. 34-37: Approving a tract on psalmody, ministers to ensure that children take notes on psalm explanations, urging less use of hymnbooks at home, members to keep silent in all types of group hymn singing; advocating more openly for the psalms and praying for Spirit-filled praise and against self-righteousness Church history; Family worship; Improving praise; Occasional hearing; Psalm explanations; Psalm selections; Sabbath schools; Tracts; Youth. Ministers: 2-043, 2-091, 2-311 #086-10, p. 40: Publishing The Second Coming of Christ: Is It Pre-millennial? (OCLC 9221269) Directions to individuals; Financial; James S. Tibby; Premillennialism; Publications. Ministers: 2-068, 2-203 #086-11, pp. 46-47: Financial arrangements; thanking the donors of the new Connellsville church Church erection; Congregational aid; Thanking donors; Urban church planting; Connellsville. Ministers: 1-034, 2-083, 2-238 #086-12, p. 49: Reiterating #085-20, and #085-19 on envelopes; approving and urging biblical fundraising (#059-22) Every Member Canvass; Offering envelopes. Ministers: 2-019, 2-256 #086-13, pp. 61-63: Members to pray daily for foreign missions; urging self-support for mission churches; approving women as missionaries in China China mission; Evangelism; First World War; Foreign missions HR; Health and medicine; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-202, 2-260 #086-14, pp. 76-78: Appointing a judicial commission; condemning a session for accepting a non-resident member and removing his suspension, and directing Kansas Presbytery to handle; commissions may not appoint other commissions Canada; Devolution; Membership transfer; Sabbath-keeping; Santa Ana case; Taxation; Voting; Hebron, Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-043, 2-156, 2-203 #086-15, pp. 86-87: Holding a pre-Synod conference on education in 1916 Business of Synod; Conferences at Synod; Geneva; RPTS. Ministers: 1-026 #086-16, p. 87: Using pledge cards on World’s Temperance Day 1915 Holidays; Sabbath schools; WCTU. #086-17, pp. 87-88: The World War is a prime opportunity for promoting National Reform; commending the NRA, urging distribution of their publications, and urging donations Christian Statesman; Donations; First World War; LDS; NRA; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-096, 1-122, 2-248 #086-18, pp. 91-92: Anti-Catholicism to be promoted in church publications, discussed in youth societies, and preached by ministers; urging distribution of relevant literature Anti-Catholicism; Church history; CYPU; Publications; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-117 #086-19, pp. 93-94: Financial arrangements; reiterating #085-19 on envelopes; presbytery-approved decisions of the Mission Conference need not be reviewed by Finance Committee; publishing new psalters China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Every Member Canvass; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Offering envelopes; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Telecommunications; Temperance; WCRC; Witness work; Woodrow Wilson; Sterling [New York], Wahoo. Ministers: 2-059, 2-160, 2-330 #086-20, pp. 130-131: Approving actions of #086-14 commission in rejecting complaint against Pacific Coast Presbytery Reviewing commissions; Santa Ana case; Santa Ana. Ministers: 1-159, 2-069, 2-263 #086-21, p. 132: Thanking a donor; Christian Amendment proposal to include Christ as savior as well as king; commending domestic Syrian mission by Pittsburgh Presbytery; approving study topics for young people’s societies; premillennialism is not a fundamental of Christianity, and protesting its inclusion in The Fundamentals (OCLC 769355618) Bequests; CYPU; NRA; Premillennialism; Thanking donors; Witness work. #086-22, p. 132: Sending sympathy note to ill minister Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-037, 2-057 #086-23, p. 133: Participating in celebrations for the centenary of the American Bible Society American Bible Society. Ministers: 1-069, 2-106, 2-181, 2-327 #087 — Synod of 1916 #087-01, p. 13: Paying printing costs for the minutes of Synod Financial; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod. #087-02, pp. 14-15: Reiterating #043-05; presbyteries to report the results of visitations Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Presbytery visitation; RP&C. Ministers: 1-275 #087-03, p. 22: Synod’s reporters to publish bulletins of synodical news Directions to individuals; Rules and organization. #087-04, p. 23: Committee recommended sending down in overture an anti-tobacco position statement; declining recommendation Overtures; Tobacco. #087-05, pp. 23-25: Human resources for National Reform; ministers and elders to advocate for Christian Amendment; members to advocate for National Reform Congressional petitions; Financial; First World War; NRA; Synod HR; Tracts. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #087-06, pp. 27-29: Sessions and young people’s societies to sponsor temperance events; ministers to speak to youth against tobacco; petitioning Congress against alcohol and tobacco ads in the mail; urging periodicals to reject tobacco and alcohol ads; appropriating money CYPU; Financial; Legal prohibition; News media; Presbytery conferences; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026 #087-07, p. 29: Financial arrangement Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-035 #087-08, pp. 29-32: Condemning Masonry and its supporters; warning against fraternities; ministers to preach and distribute literature against Masonry Islam; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-114, 2-265, 2-314 #087-09, pp. 33-35: Urging donation canvassing (“Every Member Canvass”), led by ministers and elders; appointing related documents; presbyteries to report on progress in this area Christian Nation; Every Member Canvass; Olive Trees; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071 #087-10, pp. 35-38: Funerals must be Monday-Saturday only; pledging to seek governmental sabbath-keeping; advocating against Seventh-day Adventism Funerals; Holidays; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race; Temperance. Ministers: 2-182, 2-238, 2-255 #087-11, p. 39: Catholic Church is the antichrist, it is the assassin of liberty, its presence is one reason for the World War and the Mexican Revolution; condemning political parties for betraying the United States to the Catholic Church; opposing Catholic schools for attacking the public schools; urging prayer against the Catholic Church Anti-Catholicism; Christian schools; Church history; First World War; Latin America. Ministers: 2-202, 2-230 #087-12, p. 40: Accepting a donation and thanking the donor Bequests; Sympathy; Thanking donors. #087-13, pp. 40-42: Commending biblical land laws to the present, as they ensure homes and equal opportunity while preventing monopolies; Fourth Commandment requires economies to ensure zero unemployment for worthy workers; advocating individual and community redistribution of wealth Labor and capital; Real property; Taxation. Ministers: 2-045 #087-14, p. 44: Presbyterial agents to advocate before congregational meetings for giving and to investigate disproportionate giving to pastor’s salary versus other church schemes Congregational aid; Congregational meetings; Home Mission Conference; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-232 #087-15, p. 45: Approving a Geneva fundraising campaign Canvassing; Geneva finances. #087-16, p. 50: Responding to a letter from Paul Rader of the Moody Tabernacle Directions to individuals; Outside communications. Ministers: 2-068 #087-17, pp. 52-54: Praying for foreign missions; Olive Trees (OCLC 33356604) to be a missionary magazine; elders and ministers to see to its wide distribution; financial reporting rules China mission; First World War; Levant missions; Native ministers; Olive Trees; Rules and organization; Self-supporting missions. Ministers: 2-069, 2-251, 2-304 #087-18, pp. 76-77: Exploring a re-revision of the psalter Church music; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-072, 2-071, 2-276, 2-330 #087-19, pp. 77-78: Reiterating #086-17, World War and commendation clauses; setting a donation target Collections; First World War; LDS; NRA; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-001, 1-072, 2-232 #087-20, pp. 85-86: RPTS Superintendents to consider adding an English Bible course; Geneva to add an English Bible course as soon as possible Geneva; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-071, 2-106, 2-131 #087-21, pp. 93-94: Urging donations for Jewish Mission and other home missions purposes; urging aid-receiving congregations to strive for self-support Congregational aid; Debt; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-046, 2-070, 2-265 #087-22, pp. 100-101: Financial arrangements; no raises for RPTS professors, but needs to be met with special appropriations; ascertaining new professor’s salary Bequests; Bible reading folders; China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Collections; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; RP Home; Southern Mission; Temperance; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 1-283, 2-203, 2-256, 2-276 #087-23, p. 114: Reminding sessions to submit delegate names to Synod’s clerk at least one week before the constitution Reporting calendars. #087-24, pp. 115-116: Ministers to preach on international peace and urge members’ interest, and to speak for it outside of their churches Church history; First World War; NRA; Pacifism; PCC; Sermon topics; Waldensians; WCRC. Ministers: 2-051, 2-088 #087-25, p. 117: Approving Kansas Presbytery action in response to #086-14 Membership transfer; Santa Ana case; Hebron, Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-259 #087-26, p. 119: Permitting an ordination sine titulo; declining a petition to permit five-year terms for pastors, elders, and deacons; trustees may not assume diaconal office, but permitting vice versa, and congregations should have all three offices Diaconate; Eldership; Rotary service; Sine titulo; Urban church planting; Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 1-063, 2-230, 2-275 #087-27, pp. 119-120: Notifying President Woodrow Wilson of Synod’s approval of his Mexico policy and urging his support of Ambassador Henry Morgenthau’s proposal for war relief Disaster relief; First World War; Latin America; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 2-068, 2-252 #087-28, pp. 120-121: Church Erection funds must not be used for repairs, except in extreme circumstances Church erection; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-159, 2-181, 2-183 #088 — Synod of 1917 #088-01, p. 13: Thanking donors Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-327 #088-02, p. 13: Abolishing standing committee on sustentation and church erection Abolishing standing committees; Church erection; Congregational aid. #088-03, pp. 18-21: Issuing supplements for Temperance Day, ministers and congregations to use Temperance Committee literature, entire church to fight alcohol and tobacco, sessions to report tobacco users to Temperance Committee for informal admonition Congressional petitions; First World War; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Publications; Sabbath schools; Taxation; Tobacco; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-026, 2-005, 2-183 #088-04, p. 30: Southern Mission and congregation to be operated separately; approving home missionaries’ work Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Presbytery boundaries; Southern Mission; Selma. Ministers: 1-007, 2-121, 2-229 #088-05, pp. 35-36: The World War is a just war; it is God’s judgement on the world; admitting the excellence of American government, but reiterating political dissent; petitioning President Woodrow Wilson to dedicate a day for prayer to God through Christ; urging other churches to support National Reform First World War; Holidays; Political dissent; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Signs of the Times; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-275, 2-157 #088-06, pp. 36-38: Officials of sabbath schools to work to stop “leakage” of unconverted students from the church; reiterating #078-11, and establishing teacher training classes; urging procurement of proper equipment and adoption of graded schools; using Covenanter martyr stories Church history; Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; News media; Publications; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-147, 2-202, 2-314 #088-07, pp. 39-40: Pastors to focus on evangelistic preaching; forming home departments in sabbath schools; forming evangelism-training classes and appropriating money Christian Nation; Financial; Home visitation; Olive Trees; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Special services. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-229, 2-235 #088-08, pp. 41-43: Human resources and financial arrangements; urging National Reform literature distribution; officers and members to advocate distinctive principles in wartime; commending pulpit exchanges; petitioning President Woodrow Wilson to appoint a day for national prayer and humiliation Civil War; Close communion; Donations; First World War; Holidays; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Outside preaching; Presidential communications; Psalmody; Publications; Pulpit exchanges; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Witness work; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-034, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #088-09, p. 44: Appropriating money Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-286 #088-10, pp. 44-45: The Protestant Reformation was the hand of God; the Catholic Church remains the enemy of civil and religious liberty; urging churches to celebrate the quadricentenary of the Reformation Anti-Catholicism; Church history. Ministers: 1-070, 2-044, 2-176 #088-11, pp. 47-50: Reiterating exclusive psalmody and calling members to act loyally when in other churches; children should memorize the psalms; distributing psalmody tracts; ministers to continue psalm explanations; commending President Woodrow Wilson for using Psalm 46 in his reinauguration and pointing him to Psalm 2 Directions to individuals; Evangelism; First World War; Pacifism; Presidential communications; Psalm explanations; Temperance; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work; Woodrow Wilson; Youth. Ministers: 2-047, 2-136, 2-207 #088-12, p. 50: Recreating the Bureau of Information with responsibilities similar to before (#077-30) Bureau of Information; Christian Nation; Directions to individuals; Financial; James S. Tibby. #088-13, pp. 51-54: Naming the young people’s organization “Covenanter Young People’s Union”, approving its pledge, forming presbytery-level organizations where they do not exist, minor arrangements Anti-Catholicism; Bible reading folders; Christian Nation; Church history; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Geneva finances; National Reform; Pacific; Sabbath-keeping; Special services; Testimony; Theaters. Ministers: 2-069 #088-14, pp. 57-59: Fighting malaria in China, recommending books for mission study classes, union missionary work is not the practice nor the policy of the church, ordinations sine titulo authorized China mission; Disaster relief; First World War; Interchurch; Levant missions; Medical missions; Native ministers; Sine titulo. Ministers: 2-002, 2-222, 2-276, 2-314, 2-330 #088-15, p. 74: Requesting a study of medical conditions at Tak Hing in order to overcome the prevalence of malaria China mission; Health and medicine; Publications. Ministers: 2-156 #088-16, p. 74: Supporting the Every Member Canvass, providing necessary literature, and forming local committees to aid in the process Every Member Canvass; Publications. Ministers: 2-019, 2-071, 2-156 #088-17, pp. 75-76: Supporting NRA efforts and the Christian Statesman , urging them to exploit wartime unrest, ministers to preach and everyone to use the press in advocating National Reform; human resources and financial arrangements Christian Statesman; Collections; LDS; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-070, 1-283, 2-051 #088-18, pp. 84-89, 134-140: Position statement opposing premillennialism [split into two parts by printer’s error] Church history; National Reform; Premillennialism; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 1-289, 2-017, 2-276 #088-19, p. 91: Declining to publish a one-volume church constitution containing all church standards with reference notations, because it will be expensive and not useful Church constitution; Directory for Worship; Financial; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-001, 2-131 #088-20, pp. 92-93: Petitioning President Woodrow Wilson to support a modified oath for naturalization and government service Naturalization; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. #088-21, p. 93: Publishing the 1889 psalter Directions to individuals; Psalter editions. #088-22, p. 93: Awarding diplomas for consistent Bible reading; pastors to speak publicly for the use of a Bible reading plan Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial. Ministers: 2-004, 2-046 #088-23, p. 94: Improving spiritual conditions at Geneva and strengthening testimony for distinctive principles; urging the church to supply more students for RPTS and Geneva and more Geneva faculty; RPTS superintendents to consider more English Bible courses Geneva; Higher-education standards; RPTS. Ministers: 1-154, 2-017, 2-091 #088-24, pp. 100-101: Financial arrangements Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Collections; Congregational aid; CYPU; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work. Ministers: 2-057, 2-071, 2-202 #088-25, p. 126: Supporting women’s suffrage Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Oath question; Political office. Ministers: 2-176, 2-196 #088-26, p. 126: Approving letter for #088-03 informal admonition Forms; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026, 2-005, 2-183 #088-27, p. 126: Petitioning President Woodrow Wilson to fight for complete wartime prohibition and to suppress unspecified vice in the military First World War; Legal prohibition. Ministers: 2-045, 2-068 #088-28, pp. 127-129: Organizing a presbytery in China and authorizing ordinations sine titulo; forming Central Canada Presbytery and specifying its boundaries; political dissent prohibits the citizenship oath; no voting for school-board members (see #089-23); the military oath is not inappropriate, but petitioning military authorities to receive members who cannot take it for conscience; no need to revise Terms of Communion Canada; China mission; Covenant of 1871; First World War; Native ministers; Naturalization; New presbyteries; Sine titulo; Voting; Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 1-001, 2-136, 2-222 #088-29, p. 130: Clerk to notify sessions of new minimum salaries [appears in Home Mission Conference report, p. 130, but #088-24 has no record of adoption of this report’s recommendations] Directions to individuals; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 2-068 #088-30, p. 130: Publishing an annual docket for Synod Docket and digest; Financial. #088-31, p. 133: Permitting the publication of two memorials after Synod [one appears on p. 133; the other doesn’t appear] First World War; Levant missions; Medical missions; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Publications. Ministers: 1-001, 1-261, 2-061, 2-240, 2-314 #089 — Synod of 1918 #089-01, pp. 11-13: Specifying a list of questions to be used in presbyterial visitation (#043-05) Church discipline; Communion frequency; CYPU; Eldership; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Membership transfer; Paying ministers; Presbytery visitation; Psalm explanations; Sabbath schools; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Strict subscription; Testimony. Ministers: 2-071, 2-293 #089-02, pp. 14-16: Expanding the Aged Ministers’ Fund; urging collections for this purpose; drawing up a pension plan Baptists; Collections; Congregationalism; Methodists; PCUSA; Pensions; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-034, 2-156, 2-232 #089-03, p. 19: Alcohol is as harmful as the merciless Germans, opposes freedom, and wastes war resources; therefore, urging President Woodrow Wilson to support total prohibition First World War; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 2-121 #089-04, pp. 22-23: Urging new measures for testifying for Christ; inviting other churches to a new Solemn League and Covenant Covenant renovation; First World War; National Reform; Signs of the Times; Witness work; Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-159 #089-05, p. 30: Petitioning U.S. Representative Hubert Dent, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, to support modifying the military oath Congressional bills; First World War; Oath question; Specific congressmen; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-068, 2-156, 2-203 #089-06, p. 30: Urging the Christian Nation to publish the locations of army camps, and presbyteries to visit them and look after members who are soldiers Christian Nation; First World War. Ministers: 2-182 #089-07, pp. 30-31: Thanking John W. Pritchard of the Christian Nation Publishing Company for preparing the Covenanter service flag and tracking members in the military Christian Nation; First World War. Ministers: 2-182, 2-240 #089-08, pp. 32-33: Loaning a missionary to another mission, but not doing union mission work (#088-14); considering a new mission field; reiterating #087-17 on Olive Trees China mission; First World War; Interchurch; Levant missions; Olive Trees; Self-supporting missions. Ministers: 1-072, 1-122 #089-09, pp. 40-41: Commending Central and Jewish Mission Boards Abolishing agencies; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-027, 2-083, 2-230 #089-10, p. 45: Paying a bill Conferences at Synod; Financial; Trustees of Synod. #089-11, p. 45: Indefinitely postponing a position paper on oath-free voting in Canada [paper appears in 1916 minutes, pages 124-125] Canada; Oath question; Voting. Ministers: 1-154, 2-045 #089-12, pp. 46-48: God’s kingdom cannot be established without the destruction of Prussian militarism and other tyranny; the Allied war effort is a righteous cause; pledging loyalty to the United States and urging loyal service; reiterating prohibitions on oaths of allegiance, reminding members of honorable oath-less opportunities and efforts for relief (65 H. R. 10266) First World War; New commissions; Oath question; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-034, 1-289, 2-203, 2-263 #089-13, p. 49: Committee on government relations to work with presbyteries and sessions to obtain relief from required oaths of allegiance First World War; Government communications; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-183 #089-14, p. 49: Advising members to petition their legislators to exempt political dissenters from laws requiring oaths of allegiance Legislative petitions; Oath question. Ministers: 1-034 #089-15, pp. 50-51: Considering modifications to the psalter’s tunes and canvassing the church for opinions Church music; Improving praise; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 1-072, 2-071, 2-157, 2-330 #089-16, p. 51: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-300 #089-17, pp. 51-52: Renaming Witness-Bearing Committee to Win the War Committee First World War; Renaming; Witness work. #089-18, pp. 52-53: Human resources; urging ministers to preach for National Reform; urging sessions to release their pastors temporarily for this purpose; reiterating #088-08, second clause China mission; James S. Tibby; Languages; National Reform; Outside preaching; Paying Synod employees; Publications; Society meetings; Synod HR; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #089-19, pp. 55-57: Ministers to enlist youth for church service; encouraging youth to evangelize; circulating Covenanter service flag; distributing literature; appropriating money Christian Nation; CYPU; Financial; First World War; Foreign missions HR; Presbytery conferences; TFY. Ministers: 2-069 #089-20, pp. 57-58: Reiterating opposition to secret societies; all church officers to guard those under their care and watch out for temptation by secrecy Parental responsibilities; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-063, 2-242 #089-21, pp. 58-59: Petitioning U.S. Representative Hubert Dent, Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, to report 65 H. R. 10266 to the full House (#089-12, final clause) Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; First World War; Oath question; Specific congressmen; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-068, 2-156 #089-22, pp. 59-60: Upholding political dissent; members may not join objectionable unions; business owners must protest if forced into running a union shop Labor and capital; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-051, 2-069, 2-207 #089-23, pp. 60-61: Repealing part of #088-28 on school-board voting due to its confusing wording Construction; Voting. Ministers: 1-001, 2-136 #089-24, p. 64: If it is impossible for the moderator of a presbytery to sign the official minutes, the clerk may sign for him Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. #089-25, pp. 65-66: New standing committee on the budget; preparing a leaflet of all the church’s needs and distributing to all congregations; each congregation to discuss Synod’s and its own budget, and urging Every Member Canvass with tithing in mind Baptists; Budget; Every Member Canvass; First World War; Methodists; New standing committees; PCUSA; Publications; Taxation; YMCA. Ministers: 2-019, 2-071, 2-156 #089-26, pp. 66-68: Financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Collections; CYPU; Directions to individuals; First World War; Geneva finances; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Southern Mission; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC; Witness work; Clarksburg. Ministers: 1-001, 1-289, 2-249 #089-27, p. 86: Presbyteries must ensure that the funds of the church have been protected before giving letters of standing Departing ministers; Financial. Ministers: 2-308 #089-28, p. 86: Reminding all congregations of Synod’s recommendation for 20% raises for pastoral salaries Directions to individuals; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 2-156 #089-29, p. 86: Paying a bill Financial; Telecommunications. #089-30, pp. 87-88: Reiterating #088-17, first and second clauses; continuing current National Reform agents; setting a target goal for National Reform collections Christian Statesman; Collections; First World War; LDS; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-071, 2-238, 2-263 #089-31, p. 93: John W. Pritchard to raise money for a car for Southern Mission work Canvassing; Donations; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Selma. #089-32, pp. 93-94: Urging parents and ministers to influence the young toward good education; urging support for RPTS and Geneva; requesting donations for English Bible chair at Geneva First World War; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Parental responsibilities; RPTS finances. Ministers: 1-159, 2-182, 2-183 #089-33, p. 99: Reiterating #088-22 Bible reading folders. Ministers: 2-004, 2-046 #089-34, p. 100: Condemning Irish Home Rule as a plot for Catholic dominance and oppression of Protestants; claims of Catholic oppression are a lie; separation of Ulster from the plan is reasonable Anti-Catholicism; RPCI. Ministers: 2-039, 2-046, 2-260 #089-35, p. 102: Urging members to affirm the military oath, rather than swearing it First World War; Oath question. Ministers: 2-046 #089-36, pp. 102-103: Responding to a group of members in Red Cross war service First World War. Ministers: 2-068, 2-156 #089-37, pp. 103-104: Implementing #089-04; permitting modifications for use in Canada Canada; Covenant renovation; First World War; National Reform; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Witness work; Philadelphia 2. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-196 #089-38, pp. 106-107: Urging financial support and appropriating money for temperance committee; urging opposition to tobacco Constitutional amendments; Financial; Legal prohibition; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026 #089-39, p. 108: Scheduling the Mission Conference Home Mission Conference. #090 — Synod of 1919 #090-01, p. 14: Thanking John W. Pritchard for donating a copy of his book Soldiers of the Church (OCLC 975946096) Church history; First World War; RPCNA books; Thanking donors. #090-02, pp. 16-17: Exploring covenant renovation with the RPCI and RPCS Christian Nation; Covenant renovation; CYPU; Presbytery conferences; RPCI; RPCS; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-160, 2-275, 2-314 #090-03, p. 19: Beginning a Forward Movement for coordination in the work of the church Forward Movement; New agencies. Ministers: 2-183 #090-04, pp. 19-22: Continuing testimony for exclusive psalmody; commending the 1911 psalter to churches not yet using it; reiterating final clauses of #068-22, #073-02, and #081-30, plus #088-11 on psalm explanations and #085-15 on preaching Biblical inerrancy; Church union; Family worship; First World War; Improving praise; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Theodore Roosevelt; Tithing; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 2-005, 2-182, 2-255 #090-05, pp. 24-27: Communion seasons should include evangelistic campaigns Christian Nation; Evangelism; Financial; Geneva; Methodists; RPIC; Special services; Supply preaching; UPCNA. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-229 #090-06, pp. 29-31: New permanent committee, on the oath Government communications; New standing committees; Oath question; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. #090-07, pp. 31-32: Procedure for supplying and filling vacant pulpits; restricting presbytery appointments of stated supplies Directions to individuals; Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 1-289 #090-08, p. 33: Postponing #090-07 until 1 September 1919 Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-046 #090-09, pp. 33-36: New text for Christian Amendment proposal; extra effort for Christian Amendment in current circumstances; financial and human resources arrangements; repealing #089-17, new name Witness Committee American Legion; Christian Nation; Civil War; Financial; First World War; National Reform; Renaming; Secret societies. Ministers: 1-034, 2-136, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275 #090-10, p. 37: Petitioning the United States Senate to seek a reference to Christ in the League of Nations Covenant Congressional bills; League of Nations and UN. Ministers: 1-001 #090-11, pp. 37-39: Continuing prohibition efforts, strengthening 18th Amendment, testifying in schools, fighting tobacco, sessions to inform new members of anti-tobacco position Legal prohibition; Slavery and race; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026, 2-005, 2-183 #090-12, p. 39: Petitioning Congress and President Woodrow Wilson against the repeal of wartime prohibition Congressional petitions; First World War; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 1-026, 2-005, 2-183 #090-13, p. 40: Memorials for deceased ministers shall be limited to 200 words Rules and organization. #090-14, pp. 46-47: Reiterating #088-22 Bible reading folders; Christian Nation; Financial. Ministers: 2-004, 2-046 #090-15, pp. 47-50: Establishing an English Bible training program for laymen; appointing a full-time secretary of young people’s work and defining his responsibilities CYPU; Financial; Geneva; Parental responsibilities; Political dissent; Secret societies; Seeking candidates, FMB; Seeking candidates, HMB; TFY; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-069 #090-16, p. 50: Appropriating money Congregational aid. Ministers: 1-035 #090-17, pp. 51-53: Reiterating #088-06 on graded lessons and teacher training; scheduling a sabbath schools conference at Synod in 1920 Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; Sabbath schools; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-106, 2-206 #090-18, pp. 54-55: Ministers to advocate for home missions; aiding returned soldiers to obtain government grants of land; accepting an offer to take over another Alabama mission; noting rise of Native American Church and peyote usage Church planting; First World War; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-061, 2-265, 2-320 #090-19, p. 61: Heartily approving the new Women’s Synodical Missionary Society New agencies; WMF. #090-20, p. 61: Thanking Dr. J.R. Withrow of Ohio State University for his speech to Synod about teacher oaths in Ohio Teachers’oaths; Thanking visiting speakers. #090-21, p. 62: Preparing a digest of the deliverances of Synod Digest of deliverances; Testimony. Ministers: 1-289, 2-308, 2-330 #090-22, pp. 69-72: Commending members of Levant missions who died in the war, commending the church’s giving for foreign missions and requesting more, adding a new Chinese field in Yunan China mission; Church history; Congregational aid; CYPU; Decline; Donations; Evangelism; First World War; Levant missions; New martyrs; Sine titulo; Tithing. Ministers: 1-069, 2-140, 2-276 #090-23, p. 83: Sending fraternal delegates to the Swedish Lutheran Church and the Church of the Nazarene Church of the Nazarene; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; Lutherans. #090-24, p. 84: Congregation exempted from paying traveling fund Making exceptions; Traveling Fund; St. Louis. #090-25, p. 85: Approving tunes for the new 1919 psalter (OCLC 9985728), making publication arrangements, and urging its use in all congregations Church music; James S. Tibby; Psalter editions. Ministers: 1-072, 2-071, 2-157, 2-330 #090-26, p. 86: Desiring to have a recording made of Synod singing psalms Psalm recordings. #090-27, p. 86: Terms of Communion may be explained without constitution of session; approving an Arabic psalter and authorizing its use; no need for another Presbyterian ecumenical organization Church union; Languages; PCUSA; Psalter editions; Terms of Communion; WCRC. Ministers: 1-289, 2-046 #090-28, p. 89: Reiterating #090-01 First World War; Thanking donors. Ministers: 1-122, 2-183 #090-29, pp. 90-92: Financial arrangements, publishing the minutes of Synod, raising RPTS professors’ salaries Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; Church music; Collections; Congregational aid; Digest of deliverances; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Oath question; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Telecommunications; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; WCRC. Ministers: 2-243, 2-263, 2-330 #090-30, pp. 116-118: Reiterating #075-25 on dedication, elders and ministers to point youth to Christian institutions, youth evangelism, praying for church growth, creating a scholarship fund for future ministers and missionaries, expanding Geneva dormitory Board of Control; First World War; Geneva faculty; Higher-education standards; Parental responsibilities; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-019, 2-069, 2-196 #090-31, pp. 123-124: Commending NRA efforts and appropriating money; praying for and sending delegates to Third World’s Christian Citizenship Conference Collections; International relations; National Reform conventions; NRA; Outside commissions. Ministers: 1-072, 2-068, 2-113 #090-32, p. 129: Urging giving to both NRA and Forward Movement Forward Movement; NRA. Ministers: 1-001 #090-33, p. 129: Sessions to enforce church law on officers’ oaths, but to enforce it tactfully and sympathetically Church discipline; First World War; Oath question. Ministers: 2-203 #090-34, pp. 134-136: Setting up and regulating the Forward Movement (#090-03), including establishing an oversight commission Board of Control; China mission; Church erection; CYPU; Evangelism; First World War; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Headquarters; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; New commissions; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RP Home; RPTS; Southern Mission; Temperance organizations; Witness work. Ministers: 2-183, 2-263 #090-35, p. 138: Financial arrangements for Forward Movement, presbyteries to encourage envelope giving, officers to promote tithing “as never before” Every Member Canvass; Forward Movement; Presbytery-appointed membership. Ministers: 2-019, 2-071, 2-156 #090-36, p. 138: Sending a letter to a member of the mission in China China mission; Directions to individuals; No information. Ministers: 2-156 #091 — Synod of 1920 #091-01, p. 8: Stated Clerk to adjust statistical figures Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Statistics; Hillside. #091-02, pp. 8-9: Sending a letter to the Swedish Lutheran Church and fraternal delegates to the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of North America Fraternal relations; Lutherans. Ministers: 2-176, 2-265 #091-03, p. 15: Appropriating money Congregational aid. Ministers: 2-229 #091-04, p. 20: Note of sympathy to Thomas Patton No information; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-190 #091-05, pp. 20-25: Human resources and financial arrangements A cappella; Baptists; Communism; Covenant of 1871; First World War; League of Nations and UN; Legal prohibition; Methodists; National Reform; PCUSA; Psalmody; Secret societies; Slavery and race; Tracts; UPCNA; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 2-045, 2-202 #091-06, pp. 27-28: Adjusting meeting schedule for Board of Control Board of Control; Graduate student aid; Pensions. Ministers: 2-202 #091-07, pp. 28-31: Approving actions of #090-34 commission Paying Synod employees; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 1-035, 1-289, 2-051, 2-071, 2-160, 2-203, 2-229, 2-248, 2-263, 2-275, 2-325 #091-08, p. 32: Paying a bill Financial; South Carolina cemetery. #091-09, p. 33: Delegates from a congregation hosting Synod need not pay toward travel fund deficits Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #091-10, p. 33: Home Mission Secretary to work with the Forward Movement and to fulfill the responsibilities of the Young People’s Secretary CYPU; Directions to individuals; Forward Movement; Home missions. #091-11, p. 33: Paying bills Board of Control; Conferences at Synod; Directions to individuals; Pensions; Sabbath schools; Telecommunications; Thanks. #091-12, p. 34: Honorarium for Synod’s clerk Paying the clerk. Ministers: 2-156 #091-13, p. 34: Paying a bill Financial; Fraternal relations; UPCNA. #091-14, p. 41: Sending fraternal delegates to the ARPC APCNA; Fraternal relations. #091-15, pp. 41-44: All CYPUs to study the Covenant of 1871; approving a synodical CYPU and literature; appropriating money Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Donations; Evangelism; First World War; Forward Movement; Holidays; Society meetings; Tithing; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-069 #091-16, pp. 44-47: Reiterating #089-20, first clause, and #064-18, final clause; urging authorities to oppose secrecy; urging Geneva to conduct various anti-Masonic activities; urging further prayer against secrecy Anti-Catholicism; Geneva library; National Christian Association. Ministers: 2-034, 2-061, 2-320 #091-17, pp. 47-48: Appropriating remaining funds from the War Service Commission Geneva finances; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-001, 2-248 #091-18, p. 49: Approving committee’s exclusion of #090-25 tunes from psalter, due to technical issues with the printing process Church music; Psalter editions. Ministers: 2-157 #091-19, pp. 49-51: Position statement on social justice Labor and capital; Real property; Taxation. Ministers: 2-045 #091-20, pp. 53-54: FMB to oversee infrastructure repairs; no new expenses until budget is balanced; transferring Suadia mission to RPCI and RPCS China mission; Levant missions; Medical missions; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Real property; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-069, 2-230, 2-314 #091-21, pp. 67-70: Approving regulations for the Forward Movement, including creating Synod’s budget Bequests; Budget; Christian Nation; Church erection; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Temperance; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-183 #091-22, p. 71: Presbyteries and sessions may use loose-leaf minutes books Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. #091-23, p. 72: Sympathizing with the RPCI during the Irish War of Independence, urging H.M. Government to suppress the rebels and establish justice and freedom in Ireland, and urging the U.S. government not to recognize the Irish Republic Anti-Catholicism; Government communications; International relations; RPCI. Ministers: 1-001 #091-24, pp. 73-74: Congregations to petition Congress to outlaw seven-day newspapers, as they waste scarce newsprint and anger God News media; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Woodrow Wilson; New Alexandria. Ministers: 2-136, 2-156 #091-25, pp. 74-78: Urging congregations to seek real revival and avoid strife; praying for youth; leaders to maintain contact with out-of-bounds members and send them literature; presbyteries to promote joint pastorates; approving Forward Movement program China mission; Christian Nation; Decline; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Family worship; Forward Movement; Individual relocation; Interchurch; Joint pastorates; Presbytery-appointed membership; Thanking donors; Youth. Ministers: 2-071 #091-26, pp. 78-79: Refusal to pay pledges, despite counsel from church officers, leaves a member not in good standing; defining “innocent party” for divorce purposes; reiterating #048-12; American Legion’s oath makes membership wrong; jury service and military service are different, so permitting the latter does not demand permitting the former; declining to overturn #081-16 American Legion; Closed pulpits; Communion cup; Divorce; Jury question; Membership transfer; Military service; Oath question; Wilkinsburg. Ministers: 2-068, 2-136, 2-325 #091-27, p. 80: Sympathy to Mrs. J.R. Steele following her husband’s death Sympathy; New Alexandria. Ministers: 2-275 #091-28, p. 80: Traveling fund money shall not be paid until Synod’s last session, unless a member leaves early with Synod’s permission Absences; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #091-29, pp. 81-83: Urging greater effort for home missions; presbyteries to appoint home missions secretaries to oversee vacant congregations CYPU; Drugs; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-283, 2-005, 2-202 #091-30, pp. 89-90: Human resources and financial arrangements; reiterating #052-11, first clause Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Divorce; Labor and capital; LDS; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-001, 2-238, 2-259 #091-31, pp. 97-98: Adopting a permanent order of business for Synod meetings; the Clerk shall publish a complete docket before the meeting Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-034, 1-289, 2-068 #091-32, pp. 101-102: Reiterating #088-22; publishing more Bible reading folders Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #091-33, pp. 105-106: Commending increased giving by the church Every Member Canvass; Forward Movement; Methodists; PCUSA. Ministers: 2-071, 2-156 #091-34, p. 108: Appointing the Central Board of Missions a commission to oversee a congregation, per Illinois Presbytery request New commissions; Southern Mission; Selma. Ministers: 2-229 #091-35, pp. 109-110: Reiterating #090-29, second clause; RPTS candidates be recruited with emphasis on public speaking; RPTS students to have their coursework graded; Geneva trustees must prevent the indefinite expansion of the curriculum Geneva faculty; Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-043, 2-168, 2-204 #091-36, p. 119: Appealing to all Christians to fight the Catholic church’s attempts at subverting Bible reading and American government Anti-Catholicism; Bible in schools. Ministers: 2-205 #091-37, p. 119: Holding a prayer meeting at Synod in 1921 Meeting schedule. #091-38, p. 122: Rejecting resignation of Witness Committee chairman Resignations; Witness work. Ministers: 2-203 #091-39, p. 122: Thanking minister for preparing stereopticon slides on church history Church history; Thanks. Ministers: 2-071, 2-276 #091-40, pp. 122-123: Authorizing Central Board to plan its own mission work and appoint a Home Mission Secretary Devolution; Home missions HR. Ministers: 2-308 #091-41, pp. 124-125: Financial arrangements; publishing the minutes of Synod Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; RP Home; RPTS; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-039, 2-255 #092 — Synod of 1921 #092-01, pp. 14-18: Human resources for the Witness Committee Africa; Canada; Caribbean; Christian Nation; Directions to individuals; Elements of worship; First World War; Geneva finances; Japan; Lutherans; Methodists; National Reform; Outside communications; Paying Synod employees; Philippines; RPTS location; Secret societies; Teachers’oaths; Tracts; UPCNA; WCTU; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 1-034, 2-045, 2-156, 2-160, 2-202, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #092-02, pp. 24-26: An “added statement” reflecting on events from 1871 until 1921 A cappella; Anti-Catholicism; China mission; Church union; Communism; Covenant of 1871; Decline; First World War; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; LDS; League of Nations and UN; Levant missions; National Reform; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-289 #092-03, p. 28: Publishing #092-02 and adding it to future editions of the Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; Publications. Ministers: 1-289 #092-04, p. 38: Board of Church Erection to consider aiding in the construction of parsonages Church erection; Parsonages. Ministers: 1-034 #092-05, pp. 39-40: Anti-Catholic position statement; protesting Sinn Fein propaganda Anti-Catholicism. Ministers: 1-070 #092-06, pp. 40-41: Reiterating #091-32; pastors opposed to the use of folders to give them a second chance Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial; Sabbath schools; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #092-07, p. 43: Investigating the creation of a RP Historical Society of North America Archives; Internal organizations; New agencies. Ministers: 2-314 #092-08, pp. 44-45: Petitioning President Warren G. Harding, Senate President Pro Tem Albert Cummins, and Speaker of the House Frederick Gillett to aid persecuted Armenians Congressional petitions; International relations; Presidential communications; Specific congressmen; Warren G. Harding. Ministers: 1-001 #092-09, pp. 46-51: Urging targeted evangelism efforts, renewed focus on spiritual matters, and prayer for more ministers; focusing on biblical stewardship; members to study RP history Budget; Celebrity preachers; Christian Nation; Church history; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Forward Movement; Geneva; Joint pastorates; Presbytery conferences; Special services; Testimony; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071 #092-10, p. 51: Central Board of Missions made a commission to replace the Forward Movement Secretary should an emergency arise Forward Movement; New commissions; Synod HR. #092-11, pp. 51-54: Preparing new statistical forms; churches transferring members shall notify the receiving church; using evangelistic tracts; ministers to preach on and exemplify evangelism Christian Nation; Decline; Evangelism; Forms; Membership transfer; Paying ministers; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 2-229 #092-12, pp. 55-56: Sessions to consider how to expand their sabbath schools, ministers and church agencies to advocate sabbath school volunteering; reiterating #066-12 on RP history, #086-06 on libraries, and #088-06 on teacher training Christian Nation; Church history; CYPU; Forward Movement; Sabbath schools; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-044, 2-242, 2-263 #092-13, pp. 57-58: Minister may return to the church if he withdraws his declinature (Synod of 1911, page 84); reiterating #083-10 and #084-14; regulating purging the rolls; reiterating #066-20 on Uniates (erroneously attributing this to the Synod of 1889); native Syrian ministers are not members of Syrian Commission unless appointed by Synod Abolishing presbyteries; Canada; Church discipline; Closed pulpits; Jury question; Orthodox baptism; Syrian Commission; Syrian Presbytery; Trial procedure; Uniate; Hopkinton, Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 1-044, 1-069, 1-122, 2-205, 2-308 #092-14, pp. 58-60: Parents to dedicate their sons to the ministry; reiterating #082-20, first clause; diplomas for RPTS graduates; specifying passing grades (#091-35) Bequests; Debt; Geneva faculty; Higher-education standards; James S. Tibby; Parental responsibilities; Real property; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 1-159, 1-286, 2-263 #092-15, p. 67: Noting Synod’s appreciation for its reception at Geneva and supporting the college’s future Geneva; Thanks. #092-16, pp. 67-68: Celebrating Flag Day at Synod and celebrating the acceptance of the Covenanter service flag (#089-19) into the United States Quartermaster General’s museum in D.C. First World War; Political dissent. Ministers: 2-196 #092-17, p. 68: Praising President Warren G. Harding for refusing to engage in sabbath-breaking golfing Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Sports; Warren G. Harding. Ministers: 2-260 #092-18, pp. 68-69: Human resources and financial arrangements Christian Statesman; Collections; Naturalization; NRA; Pacifism; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-072, 2-232, 2-242 #092-19, p. 74: Studying the publication of a memorial volume for the Covenant of 1871 semi-centenary celebration Church history; Covenant of 1871; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-051 #092-20, pp. 77-80: Reiterating #091-21; financial arrangements; no church-wide fundraising drives without Synod’s permission (#056-11); apportioning synodical budget among presbyteries, which shall apportion their share among congregations; statistical blanks; ministers to warn members against targeted giving; commending American Bible Society American Bible Society; Bequests; Board of Control; Budget; Canvassing; Christian Nation; Church erection; Collections; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Forms; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071, 2-325 #092-21, p. 80: Amending #090-33 clause on Coordination Committee membership; new regulations for committee and Forward Movement operations Forward Movement; Presbytery-appointed membership; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-308 #092-22, pp. 81-83: Financial and human resources arrangements. FMB not to enter into union-related arrangements with other organizations; missionaries may not moonlight without permission, and even if permitted, they remain part of the mission China mission; Church union; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Mission schools; Publications; WMF. Ministers: 2-182, 2-202, 2-300 #092-23, pp. 93-94: Commending John W. Pritchard for compiling his Covenanter Bibliography (OCLC 29290893), and forming a Covenanter Collection at Geneva and RPTS of the catalogued resources Christian Nation; Church history; Geneva library; RPCNA books; RPTS library. Ministers: 2-017 #092-24, pp. 94-95: Financial arrangements; permitting Geneva property to be mortgaged; publishing the minutes of Synod Geneva; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Real property; Brooklyn, Muskingum and Tomica. Ministers: 2-046, 2-229, 2-251 #092-25, p. 95: Making #091-12 permanent Paying the clerk. #092-26, p. 118: Requesting updates to Glasgow’s history (ultimately Sketches of the Ministers of the Reformed Presbyterian Church , OCLC 7910688) Church history; Directions to individuals; RPCNA books. Ministers: 1-026, 2-309 #092-27, pp. 119-120: Synod to oversee Syrian mission in Pittsburgh; repealing #090-07; approving a letter to be read from all pulpits, urging more ministerial candidates and other workers Home visitation; Jewish missions; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Rules and organization; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-097, 2-157, 2-240 #092-28, p. 125: Minister to participate in Board of Control funding should he be recommended by a presbytery Pensions. Ministers: 1-044 #092-29, pp. 131-134: Abolishing Permanent Committee on Change of Oath; Witness Committee to oversee oath questions Christian Nation; Explanatory declaration; Geneva; Legislative petitions; RPTS location; Teachers’oaths; Witness work. #092-30, p. 137: Scheduling a “why young men do not enter the ministry” conference at Synod in 1922 Conferences at Synod; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-039 #092-31, p. 137: A missionary is in good standing, regardless of any recent irregularities China mission; Making exceptions. #092-32, p. 137: Vacation time for Forward Movement secretary Benefits for ministers; Forward Movement; Paying Synod employees. Ministers: 2-157 #092-33, p. 137: Corresponding Secretary of Foreign Missions authorized to hire clerical help Foreign missions; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-069 #092-34, p. 137: Committee of ruling elders to advocate throughout the church for ministerial salaries Elders’Conference; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-043 #093 — Synod of 1922 #093-01, pp. 6-7: Clerk to prepare forms for non-attending delegates; regulating requests for optional attendance and excuse; publishing attendance record Absences; Directions to individuals; Forms; Rules and organization. #093-02, p. 10: Thanking the Rev. A.F. Ragatz of the American Bible Society for his speech to Synod American Bible Society; Thanking visiting speakers. #093-03, p. 14: Adopting standards for sabbath schools Forward Movement; International Sunday School Lessons; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-071 #093-04, p. 15: Reiterating #066-20 on Greek Orthodox baptism [dissent, page 30] Bible texts and translations; Orthodox baptism; Written dissent. Ministers: 1-070, 1-249, 1-289 #093-05, pp. 16-17: Forming an RP Historical Society (#092-07), housing its collections at RPTS, and making relevant arrangements Financial; New agencies; PHS; RPTS location. Ministers: 1-289, 2-314, 2-325 #093-06, p. 17: Not publishing a new memorial volume (#092-19), due to lack of interest Christian Nation; Church history; Covenant of 1871. Ministers: 2-051 #093-07, p. 19: Congratulating and giving money to Mr. and Mrs. John W. Pritchard on their 50th anniversary Congratulations; Financial; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Telecommunications. #093-08, p. 19: Giving money to Winona staff as thanks; appropriating money for Christian education purposes Congregational aid. Ministers: 2-229 #093-09, p. 19: Published minutes to include statistics on WMF Statistical blanks; WMF. #093-10, pp. 20-26: Human resources and financial arrangements Biblical inerrancy; Creation; CYPU; Financial; League of Nations and UN; Levant missions; Lutherans; Mennonites; National Reform; Oath question; Pacifism; PHS; Presidential communications; Psalmody; Secret societies; Tracts; Warren G. Harding; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-045, 2-156, 2-202, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #093-11, pp. 26-27: Appropriating money Financial; Legal prohibition; Tobacco. Ministers: 1-026, 2-005, 2-183 #093-12, p. 31: Psalter Revision Committee to prepare a book of psalm selections Psalm selections. Ministers: 2-166 #093-13, pp. 31-33: When communities lie at the edge of population classifications for congregations (#083-16), Home Missions Conference to decide how to classify affected congregations; presbyteries to appoint separate delegations for conference and Coordinating Committee Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission. Ministers: 2-202, 2-325 #093-14, p. 33: Presbytery reports must state the extent to which they have accounted for their members Presbytery reports; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-043 #093-15, pp. 40-43: Officers and members to fight secret societies more aggressively; reiterating #087-08, final clause, and #089-20, on Geneva and applying also to RPTS; ministers and elders to lead others out of Masonry Budget; Dancing; Hinduism; International relations; Islam; National Christian Association; Playing cards; Slavery and race; Temperance; Tracts; Unitarianism; Warren G. Harding. Ministers: 2-036, 2-059, 2-246, 2-320 #093-16, p. 43: Financial arrangement; decertifying the Christian Nation as an official church periodical and removing it from the budget, but buying advertising in its pages Budget; Christian Nation; RPTS finances; RPTS library. #093-17, pp. 43-45: Financial arrangements Church erection; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; Renaming; Reporting calendars; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Temperance; Witness work. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071 #093-18, pp. 46-47: Appropriating money for aged ministers, Board of Control to administer the fund; preparing to place ministers, missionaries, widows, and orphans in a single fund Board of Control; Directions to individuals; Donations; Pensions. Ministers: 2-051, 2-156, 2-230, 2-232 #093-19, pp. 47-48: Approving new Yearly Bible Reader (and commending it to the church) and the formation of Bible-reading clubs; renaming committee to “Bible Reading” American Bible Society; Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial; Renaming; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #093-20, pp. 50-51: Raising minimum salaries, ascertaining minimum compensation for supply preachers; Elders’ Conference to meet each year at Synod (growing out of #092-34) Elders’Conference; Minimum salaries; Supply preaching. #093-21, pp. 52-58: Preaching and teaching focus on the gospel; pastoral calls must be answered within two months; approving Bible-study Synod preconference Budget; China mission; Christian Nation; Church history; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Individual relocation; Pastoral calls; Reporting calendars; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Southern Mission; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071 #093-22, pp. 58-59: Financial and human resources arrangements for foreign missions; reiterating #091-20 on Suadia China mission; Devolution; Levant missions; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-036, 2-106, 2-265 #093-23, pp. 80-81: Drafting a new RPTS constitution; selling or leasing current building and obtaining a new one; Geneva endowment may not be used for any other purpose; transferring other money; reiterating #091-35, final clause Debt; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; RPTS constitution; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-004, 2-252, 2-259 #093-24, pp. 91-92: Petitioning both houses of Congress in favor of three bills (67 H. R. 9753, 67 H. J. Res. 131, and 67 S. J. Res 31); approving of the Fourth World’s Christian Citizenship Conference, and human resources and financial arrangements Bible in schools; Collections; Legislative petitions; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-168, 2-246, 2-320 #093-25, pp. 96-99: Noting the possibility of losing all blue laws, and ministers and other members to speak on their importance; reiterating the importance of sabbath-keeping and requiring the same of members; commemorating sabbath-keeping organizations and their efforts Anti-Catholicism; Labor and capital; Sabbath-keeping organizations; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Theaters. Ministers: 1-042, 2-160, 2-210 #093-26, p. 99: Reiterating #083-17 Closed pulpits; Construction. Ministers: 2-045 #093-27, p. 100: Responding to dissent on #093-04: dissent exaggerates Orthodox corruption, Orthodox baptism includes necessary components, baptism does not depend on the baptizer’s merits; second reason is irrelevant; conversion is sufficient separation from the Orthodox Church; lack of a pope is sufficient difference between Orthodox and Catholic Orthodox baptism; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 1-070, 1-289, 2-070, 2-168, 2-275 #093-28, pp. 101-102: Arranging to form a Covenanter Ex-Soldier’s Colony on lands given to World War soldiers Christian Nation; Church planting; First World War; Hemet, Los Angeles. Ministers: 2-004, 2-204 #093-29, pp. 103-104: Remaining in the Alliance of Reformed Churches but protesting its use of hymns and instrumental music A cappella; Psalmody; WCRC. Ministers: 1-034, 1-289, 2-156 #093-30, pp. 104-106: Letters of standing remove the recipient from the church, unless asked merely as a statement of character; declining to authorize rotary election of elders and deacons; regulating handling of pastoral calls; the Covenanter service flag was not meant to exclude immoral oath-swearers who repented First World War; Membership transfer; Oath question; Ordination queries; Pastoral calls; PCUSA; Purging rolls; Rotary service; Terms of Communion; UPCNA; Kansas City, Winnipeg. Ministers: 1-034, 2-034, 2-070 #093-31, p. 108: Approving a letter for Forward Movement secretary to send to out-of-bounds members China mission; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Jewish missions; Levant missions; NRA; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-156, 2-293 #093-32, p. 109: Modifying statistics reporting American Bible Society; National Reform; Paying ministers; Statistical blanks. #093-33, p. 109: FMB to adjust financial statements to account for wartime destruction Disaster relief; Financial; First World War; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-300 #093-34, pp. 109-110: Various financial arrangements American Bible Society; Bible reading folders; Collections; Disaster relief; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Olive Trees; RPWA; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-207, 2-243, 2-309 #093-35, pp. 138-139: Sending fraternal delegates to the RPCI, but only men who volunteer to pay their own way Financial; Fraternal relations; RPCI. Ministers: 1-096, 2-019, 2-260 #093-36, p. 139: Studying the inclusion of the Traveling Fund under the Coordinating Committee Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-202 #093-37, p. 139: Synod’s Clerk to provide an official briefcase for storing current documents Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 1-026, 2-156 #094 — Synod of 1923 #094-01, p. 11: Accepting the first Moderator’s Bouquet and congratulations from the moderator’s congregation Telecommunications; Thanking donors; New Castle, Orlando. Ministers: 2-051, 2-166 #094-02, pp. 14-17: Human resources for Witness Committee Church history; CYPU; Financial; Lutherans; National Reform; PCUSA; Psalmody; RPCI; Sports; Synod HR; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work. Ministers: 2-045 #094-03, p. 17: Board of Sustentation and Church Extension renamed to Board of Home Missions and Sustentation [references to “Central Board of Missions” disappear gradually over the next few years] Congregational aid; Home missions; Renaming. #094-04, p. 17: No financial aid to be given to ministerial candidates studying at other seminaries, unless directed by Synod Attending other seminaries; Graduate student aid; RPTS; Rules and organization. #094-05, pp. 18-19: Sessions, CYPUs, and sabbath schools to hold anti-tobacco meetings; urging wider use of temperance stickers Forward movement; News media; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-036 #094-06, p. 19: Commending President Warren G. Harding for enforcing the Volstead Act, Public Law 66-66 Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Warren G. Harding. Ministers: 2-036 #094-07, p. 34: Arranging terms for the church’s support of the Christian Nation Christian Nation; Financial. Ministers: 1-096, 2-235, 2-309 #094-08, pp. 35-37: Approving and publishing psalter selections (OCLC 10007574); all congregations to emphasize the importance of praise; reiterating #073-02, final clause; precentors to seek other qualified leaders; ministers to spur members to evangelism; congregational societies to study evangelism and music CYPU; Evangelism; Improving praise; Psalm selections; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; WMF. Ministers: 2-157 #094-09, pp. 37-38: Approving needed work of and cooperation with “Near East Relief” organization; urging protection for Christian minorities Disaster relief; Interchurch; Levant missions. #094-10, pp. 38-45: Amending Geneva charter; urging trustees and faculty to improve spiritual life and spur male students to enter the ministry; commending trustees for opposing professionalism in athletics [pages 49-50 contain resolution: athletic scholarships are professionalism]; reiterating #093-23 on Geneva financial arrangements Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva governance; Real property; Sports; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-160, 2-243, 2-327, 2-330 #094-11, pp. 53-54: Developing #093-23, second clause, but leaving RPTS in existing location temporarily; adopting new RPTS constitution; encouraging students’ evangelistic work under experienced men; endorsing reading list; presbyteries to give certificates of licensure and ordination Evangelism; Higher-education standards; RPTS constitution; RPTS location; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-114, 2-207, 2-248 #094-12, p. 61: Restoring minister to membership (#092-13) Restorations. Ministers: 1-044 #094-13, pp. 61-62: Urging prayer and contributions for foreign missions; handling targeted contributions for foreign missions China mission; Donations; Rules and organization; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 2-220, 2-252, 2-293 #094-14, pp. 75-77: Central Board of Missions to decide whether or not to give Southern Mission school to public schools; paying supplements for ministerial salaries Decline; Devolution; Directions to individuals; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Seeking candidates, HMB; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Selma. Ministers: 2-043, 2-182, 2-248 #094-15, p. 90: Thanking the Winona Lake Christian Church for permitting its property’s use for certain meetings during Synod Congregationalism; Thanks. #094-16, pp. 90-94: Endorsing the NRA’s Consultation Conference and urging members’ attendance; human resources and financial arrangements Christian Statesman; Divorce; Donations; National Reform conventions; NRA; Pacifism; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-106, 2-160, 2-235, 2-243 #094-17, p. 96: Continuing fundraising for Aged Ministers Fund Pensions. #094-18, pp. 96-97: Reiterating allegiance to the church standards, in particular plenary inspiration, deity of Christ, virgin birth, resurrection of Christ, and vicarious atonement; commending William Jennings Bryan and C.E.N. Macartney for their stance and urging them to support National Reform; Witness Committee to publicize political dissent Biblical inerrancy; Construction; Elders’Conference; Interchurch; Modernism; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Witness work. #094-19, p. 97: Seeking to expand deacons’ role in church finances; adding deacons to the Forward Movement Coordinating Committee Diaconate; Elders’Conference; Financial; Presbytery-appointed membership. #094-20, p. 97: Commending hard-working deacons across the church Diaconate; Thanks. Ministers: 2-046 #094-21, pp. 98-101: Ministers to evangelize from the pulpit and in daily life; urging special evangelistic services; approving new statistical report with baptized members included Evangelism; Forward Movement; Soteriology; Special services; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 2-300 #094-22, pp. 102-108: Commending CYPU in North America and Ireland; urging unions of small adjacent congregations; presbyteries to improve scheduling of supply preaching, with preference to weak presbyteries Christian Nation; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Jewish missions; Joint pastorates; RPCI; Sabbath-keeping; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Society meetings; Southern Mission; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-051, 2-071, 2-156 #094-23, pp. 108-110: Financial arrangements; limiting annual aid to ministerial candidates; urging congregations to make up traveling fund deficits; ministers to preach on giving Board of Control; Budget; Church erection; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Tithing; Traveling Fund; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071, 2-300 #094-24, pp. 111-112: Urging joint pastorates and mergers of six sets of congregations Decline; Financial; Joint pastorates; New commissions; Belle Center, Bellefontaine, Boston 1, Boston 2, Bovina, Cambridge, College Hill, Geneva, Miami, New Castle, Rehoboth [Iowa], Rose Point, Walton [New York], Washington. Ministers: 2-071, 2-182, 2-276 #094-25, p. 113: Declining to modify the Terms of Communion; some changes would help, but the change itself would be unduly disruptive Terms of Communion. Ministers: 2-252, 2-309, 2-330 #094-26, p. 113: Supplying all vacant congregations, hiring women to do sabbath school home missionary work, re-urging all members to move only into other congregations, all out-of-bounds members to be reported to Home Mission Secretary Home Mission Conference; Home missions HR; Individual relocation; Supply preaching. #094-27, p. 114: Buying insurance on RPTS students as a means of providing for them in their old age Insurance; Pensions; RPTS. Ministers: 2-044, 2-157 #094-28, pp. 114-115: Minor changes to RP Historical Society constitution; permitting their incorporation in Pennsylvania; providing for their physical location; appropriating money Archives; Financial; Incorporation; RPTS location. Ministers: 2-043, 2-325 #094-29, pp. 115-116: Thanking Dr. T.J. Johnson of the Lord’s Day Alliance for his speech to Synod and commending the Alliance to the church Lord’s Day Alliance; Thanking visiting speakers. Ministers: 2-196, 2-252 #094-30, p. 116: Financial arrangements for Bible reading Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #094-31, pp. 117-118: Publishing report of Psalmody Committee as a tract Covenant theology; Psalmody; Tracts. Ministers: 2-045, 2-157, 2-210 #094-32, pp. 118-119: Sabbath school workers to create an evangelistic environment; Forward Movement to examine schools’ compliance with the Movement; facilitating use of Easter and Christmas lessons (#083-09) Christian Nation; Evangelism; Forward movement; Holidays; International Sunday School Lessons. Ministers: 2-131, 2-204 #094-33, pp. 120-122: Syrian ministers and elders should appear on Synod’s roll and may be made part of Syrian Commission, but have only congregational authority otherwise; reiterating #035-29; radio and movies are not immoral and may be shown in church buildings, but must be done in Christian morality and must not cause offense; merging New Brunswick and Nova Scotia Presbytery into New York Presbytery, because no presbytery can have just one congregation, and disorganized presbyteries may not have representation in church boards Abolishing presbyteries; Dead wife’s sister; Native ministers; New commissions; Presbytery-appointed membership; Radio and TV; Real property; Rules and organization; Syrian Commission; Theaters; Barnesville, Cornwallis, Sharon, Wilkinsburg. Ministers: 1-154, 1-289, 2-083, 2-088, 2-097 #094-34, p. 125: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Indian Mission; Sine titulo. Ministers: 2-038, 2-202 #094-35, p. 125: Witness Committee permitted to send a lecturer to China China mission; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034 #094-36, p. 126: Various financial arrangements Church erection; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Olive Trees; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-005, 2-230, 2-242 #095 — Synod of 1924 #095-01, pp. 8-9: Money from sale of church buildings shall go into the Church Erection Fund Church erection; Closing churches; Parsonages; Rules and organization; St. Louis, West Hebron. Ministers: 2-114 #095-02, pp. 10-12: Continuing to send distinctives literature to other denominations; human resources; ministers to preach on each of the distinctive principles annually; filling the pulpit of a witness lecturer and paying his expenses Biblical inerrancy; Dancing; Financial; Methodists; National Reform; Playing cards; Sermon topics; Supply preaching; Synod HR; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-203 #095-03, pp. 16-18: All ministers to preach on enforcement of the 18th Amendment; holding public meetings supporting law enforcement; ministers to send anti-tobacco literature to members; sessions to stress sinfulness of tobacco to new members; ministers to preach against tobacco annually Legal prohibition; RPCI; RPCS; Sermon topics; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-036 #095-04, pp. 21-22: Approving the purchase of 7418 Penn Avenue for RPTS RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-001, 1-034, 1-289, 2-203 #095-05, p. 22: Dividing the Committee on Theological Seminary and Geneva College Geneva; New standing committees; RPTS. #095-06, p. 23: Sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. T.D. Russell and Mr. and Mrs. George R. Thompson after their sons’ drowning in the Beaver River Sympathy; Telecommunications. #095-07, p. 30: Appointing a judicial commission upon request by Philadelphia Presbytery Judicial cases; New commissions; No information; Orlando. Ministers: 2-136 #095-08, pp. 31-32: Approving budget; Forward Movement to produce church calendar of topics to be focused on weekly; treasurers to remit money bimonthly; no sustentation money to locations with no ongoing work; renewing #094-07; appropriating money; reiterating tithing; planning equal spending on home and foreign missions Bequests; Board of Control; Budget; Christian Nation; Church erection; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Temperance; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071, 2-127 #095-09, pp. 34-36: Urging a joint pastorate; human resources; presbyteries responsible to care for vacancies; urging monthly paychecks for ministers; new colonies should not occur without presbyterial approval, and failing colonies should move to another congregation; minimum salaries; supplement money and paying supply preachers Church planting; Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Individual relocation; Inflation; Joint pastorates; Minimum salaries; Presbytery-appointed membership; Supply preaching; Bellefontaine, Cedarville, Delburne. Ministers: 2-202, 2-325 #095-10, p. 36: Buying psalters for Geneva Financial; Geneva. Ministers: 2-039 #095-11, pp. 37-42: Considering a church sabbath school paper; apportioning Synod’s budget to congregations; evangelism committee to report annually, not biennially Budget; Christian Nation; Church planting; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Dancing; Decline; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Playing cards; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Special services; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071 #095-12, p. 42: Declining to adopt a plan for rotary service, effectively reiterating #093-30 Rotary service. #095-13, p. 43: Expanding jurisdiction of #095-07 commission Judicial cases; Clarinda. #095-14, p. 43: Publishing the minutes of Synod Financial; Minutes of Synod. #095-15, p. 46: Indefinitely postponing any changes in the Terms of Communion Terms of Communion. #095-16, p. 47: Reiterating #094-26, final clause Individual relocation. #095-17, pp. 49-50: Continuing work in Mersin; sabbath schools requested to contribute for a mission car Levant missions; Medical missions; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-291, 2-293, 2-300 #095-18, pp. 58-61: Ministers to urge their people toward more effort for home missions; HMB may decide about reopening Indian Mission school; thanking W.W. Carithers Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 1-007, 1-026, 2-259 #095-19, pp. 69-70: Preparing an image of the new RPTS building for placing in CYPUs; CYPU conventions to include sessions on “The Gospel Ministry” CYPU; Evangelism; Improving praise; RPTS location. Ministers: 2-106, 2-210, 2-252 #095-20, pp. 72-73: RPTS to begin a short diploma program for individuals not seeking the ministry Higher-education standards; RPTS. Ministers: 2-256 #095-21, pp. 73-75: Reiterating #057-03 and #068-11, first clauses; ministers to urge members to support blue laws, particularly in Pennsylvania; commending Lord’s Day Alliance Immigration; Legal prohibition; Lord’s Day Alliance; Pacifism; Parental responsibilities; Slavery and race; Taxation. Ministers: 1-070, 2-248, 2-296 #095-22, pp. 80-83: Commending Geneva administration, trustees, and faculty for their work; financial arrangements; prohibiting mortgaging of Geneva property without Synod’s consent (#092-24) Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; James S. Tibby; Parental responsibilities; Real property; Sports; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-204, 2-242, 2-309 #095-23, pp. 88-89: Human resources and financial arrangements for National Reform Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Donations; National Reform conventions; NRA; Resignations. Ministers: 1-286, 2-051, 2-160, 2-168, 2-196, 2-232 #095-24, pp. 94-95: Ministers to urge use of Bible reading folders, using yearly readers more often, and appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial; RPCI. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #095-25, p. 95: Appointing a collection for American Bible Society American Bible Society; Collections. #095-26, p. 95: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Indian Mission; Sine titulo. Ministers: 2-321 #095-27, p. 95: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #095-28, pp. 95-97: Higher offices include lower offices, so an elder serving as deacon is not to be re-ordained; a church-acceptable modified oath must not be taken, since it does not have legal approval; reiterating #040-13 on year time-limit; loans for RPTS graduates are cancelled after four years’ service, and this is retroactive; determining quorum for congregational meeting; membership should be revised annually; reiterating #093-04; New York Presbytery to oversee a mission station Canada; Deacon delegates; Debt; Eldership; Graduate student aid; Individual relocation; Membership transfer; Oath question; Orthodox baptism; Political office; Presbytery boundaries; Purging rolls; Rules and organization; Statistics; Barnesville, Hopkinton. Ministers: 1-070, 2-205, 2-229, 2-330 #095-29, pp. 100-101: Financial arrangements; declining to amend the RPTS constitution; Synod to be provided with psalters annually; urging church to support Near East relief Bequests; China mission; Church erection; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Disaster relief; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Insurance; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Olive Trees; Paying Synod employees; RP Home; RPTS constitution; Sabbath schools; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-182, 2-230 #095-30, p. 132: Amending #062-32 on policy for handling bequests Bequests; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-069, 2-202, 2-327 #095-31, pp. 132-133: Accounting for Thankofferings in congregational contributions to Synod’s budget Budget; Collections; Levant missions; Mission schools; WMF. Ministers: 2-325 #095-32, pp. 134-135: Urging increased appropriations to missions, with more money for promising locations, due to severe shortfalls Financial; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-043, 2-071, 2-300 #095-33, pp. 135-137: Ministers to inform themselves and their congregations about the Ku Klux Klan, and to preach against secret societies Anti-Catholicism; Bible in schools; KKK; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Spanish-American War. Ministers: 2-157, 2-160, 2-207 #095-34, pp. 137-139: Withdrawing from the Alliance of Reformed Churches (#093-29) A cappella; Psalmody; WCRC. Ministers: 1-034, 1-286 #095-35, pp. 139-140: Money from sale of church buildings may not be used for ordinary expenses, especially ministers’ salaries Closing churches; Paying ministers; Real property. Ministers: 2-114, 2-182, 2-330 #095-36, pp. 140-141: Urging the federal government: seek to outlaw war, join the Permanent Court of International Justice and the League of Nations (which should recognize Christianity), end economic imperialism, support general disarmament, and end Japanese exclusion. Adopting “International Ideals of the Churches” from the Federal Council of Churches. Immigration; Japan; League of Nations and UN; National Council of Churches; Pacifism; Slavery and race; World government. Ministers: 1-289, 2-168 #096 — Synod of 1925 #096-01, pp. 6-7: Thanking the publisher of the minutes of Synod; preparing a sabbath school conference for Synod in 1926; new statistical blanks; publishing Synod’s docket Church history; Conferences at Synod; Docket and digest; Elders’Conference; Financial; Foreign missions; Geneva faculty; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Statistical blanks; Thanks; WCRC. Ministers: 2-156 #096-02, p. 8: Board reports that will be referred to committees must include lists of matters requiring action Rules and organization. #096-03, pp. 8-9: Approving actions of the Board of Church Erection Church erection; Parsonages. Ministers: 2-114 #096-04, pp. 12-14: Reiterating #095-02, first and last clauses; preparing lists of literature recipients; members urged to evangelism; appropriating money A cappella; Bequests; Canada; Divorce; Methodists; National Reform; Psalmody; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-156, 2-202, 2-275 #096-05, pp. 14-15: Continuing the superintendent of the church’s witness work and ascertaining his salary Paying Synod employees; Witness work. Ministers: 2-045, 2-325 #096-06, p. 15: Two letters of sympathy, and permitting a departing member to share in the traveling fund Absences; Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-045, 2-156, 2-202 #096-07, p. 16: Publishing the #090-21 digest Digest of deliverances. Ministers: 1-289, 2-248, 2-325 #096-08, p. 17: Abandoning the plans for the RP Historical Society; replacing it with a funded committee Abolishing agencies; Archives; Financial; Internal organizations; New standing committees. Ministers: 2-325 #096-09, pp. 18-25: Sending down in overture part of a new doctrinal portion of the Testimony; rewriting the historical portion; publishing all church standards in a single volume Anti-Catholicism; Church constitution; Church discipline; Church history; Forward Movement; Overtures, new; Political dissent; Taxation; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 1-289, 2-091, 2-205 #096-10, pp. 30-32: Reiterating #073-02, first and last clauses, and #082-29, first clause; ministers and members to testify to others of the psalms frequently; publishing this report in the Christian Nation and as a tract Christian Nation; Creation; Family worship; Improving praise; Psalm explanations; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-125, 2-039, 2-246 #096-11, pp. 43-45: Preparing statistical blanks for aid-receiving congregations; no aid to congregations whose property does not revert to Synod if no longer used; aid-receiving congregations to perform Every Member Canvas; aid applications to be submitted before Synod; urging strong congregations to loan their pastors to weak congregations Christian Nation; Congregational aid; Every Member Canvass; Forward Movement; Geneva; Home Mission Conference; Joint pastorates; Paying ministers; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Property held in trust; Reporting calendars; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-043, 2-071, 2-161, 2-202 #096-12, pp. 47-48: Resolving confusion in the membership of the Jewish Mission Board Agency membership; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Soteriology; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-004, 2-251, 2-276 #096-13, p. 60: Human resources in Syria; urging native congregations to self-support; thanking WMF for supporting Cyprus mission China mission; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Mission schools; Self-supporting missions; WMF. Ministers: 2-190 #096-14, p. 70: Adopting Synod’s budget (overlap with #096-16); congregations surpassing their share permitted to give wherever they wish Budget. Ministers: 2-296 #096-15, p. 70: Every Member Canvass to be conducted in March or April; Synod’s budget to be paid by May 1 Every Member Canvass; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 2-019 #096-16, pp. 70-72: Adopting Synod’s budget (overlap with #096-14); human resources and financial arrangements; renewing #094-07 Budget; Christian Nation; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Olive Trees; Pensions; Reporting calendars; RPTS finances; RPTS location; RPWA; Southern Mission; Synod HR; Witness work. Ministers: 2-036, 2-071 #096-17, pp. 73-76: Urging congregations to hold evangelistic services; human resources and financial arrangements; urging individual evangelism China mission; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Improving praise; Indian Mission; Paying Synod employees; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Southern Mission; Special services. Ministers: 2-046, 2-070, 2-232, 2-300 #096-18, pp. 76-78: Geneva property transfer (handling red tape); suggesting increased Geneva tuition with traveling aid for non-local RP students First World War; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Real property; Sports; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-159, 2-046, 2-246 #096-19, pp. 84-85: Amending RPTS constitution; traveling aid for students; tuition financial aid for students; paying for dormitory Agency membership; Board of Control; Graduate student aid; Health and medicine; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-131, 2-161, 2-309 #096-20, pp. 88-89: Human resources and financial arrangements Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Donations; NRA; Slavery and race. Ministers: 1-070, 1-283, 2-114 #096-21, pp. 93-94: Geneva should accept students regardless of their religion; urging continued disregard of Christmas, Easter, etc.; Mothers’ Day, Children’s Day, etc. may attract special sermons, but in accord with sabbath-keeping; nothing wrong with Latin terms such as “vespers”, as other established terms are Latin; congregations should not sell to buyers following “false or superstitious methods in teaching or worship” Anti-Catholicism; Higher-education standards; Holidays; Languages; Real property; Sports. Ministers: 2-036, 2-131, 2-330 #096-22, pp. 94-102: Adopting church calendar (#095-08) and approving another one; deacons to submit detailed budgets; CYPU Synodical Conference in 1926 Bible in schools; Bible reading folders; Budget; Christian Nation; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Diaconate; Donations; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Geneva; Graduate student aid; Individual relocation; International Sunday School Lessons; NRA; PCUSA; Pensions; Reporting calendars; RP Home; RPIC; RPTS; Society meetings; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071 #096-23, p. 102: Congratulating two ministers with 50+ years of unbroken attendance at Synod Congratulations. Ministers: 1-063, 1-159, 2-156 #096-24, pp. 102-107: Approving actions of #095-07 commission [Philadelphia Presbytery minutes show that this was a case of adultery between Johnston, living in Orlando in 1925, and a woman from Clarinda] Financial; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Membership transfer; Reviewing commissions; Clarinda, Orlando. Ministers: 2-131, 2-136, 2-156, 2-203, 2-206, 2-229, 2-235, 2-242, 2-311, 2-314, 2-327 #096-25, p. 108: Declining request from Central Canada Presbytery for merger with another presbytery Abolishing presbyteries; Canada. Ministers: 1-063, 2-210 #096-26, p. 108: Pacific Coast Presbytery must submit its minutes properly transcribed in a book Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 2-232 #096-27, p. 108: Deacons attending Synod functions shall participate in the traveling fund Deacon delegates; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-259 #096-28, p. 109: Reiterating #095-24, first clause; urging annual complete reading of the Bible; appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial; RPCI. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #096-29, pp. 113-114: Reiterating #093-03 Church history; Elements of worship; Evangelism; Foreign missions HR; Mission schools; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-182 #096-30, p. 117: Forward Movement secretary to make arrangements for 1926 Elders’ Conference Directions to individuals; Elders’Conference; Forward Movement. Ministers: 2-071 #096-31, pp. 117-118: Approving China Commission’s acceptance of Chinese-American council’s membership rules; de-authorizing participation of deacons in church courts and committees; it would be appropriate to inspect minutes of all boards, but there are too many to handle (#188-08) China mission; Deacon delegates; Internal organizations; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-168, 2-230, 2-252 #096-32, pp. 120-122: Sessions to work with Temperance Committee; anti-tobacco literature in sabbath schools; elders to help ministers speak against tobacco; petitioning President Calvin Coolidge to enforce the Volstead Act; ministers to preach against illegal alcohol Calvin Coolidge; Christian Nation; First World War; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Sermon topics; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 1-026, 2-036 #096-33, p. 122: Declining appeal of A.M. George against the Christian Nation : George’s paper opposes church standards and was properly refused by the paper Christian Nation; Judicial cases; Tithing. Ministers: 2-182, 2-275 #096-34, pp. 122-123: Commending the Golden Rule Sunday for Near East relief; contributions to be sent to Synod and expended by Levant missions Disaster relief; Levant missions; PCUSA; Tithing. Ministers: 2-075, 2-243 #096-35, pp. 123-124: Approving congregation’s desire for a building; permitting a church-wide canvas for funds Canvassing; Making exceptions; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Real property. Ministers: 2-248, 2-325 #096-36, p. 124: Petitioning the United States Senate to support membership in the Permanent Court of International Justice Congressional petitions; Pacifism; World government. Ministers: 2-168, 2-248 #096-37, pp. 126-127: Financial arrangements; urging members to use Synod’s Trustees’ annuity plans Bequests; China mission; Church history; Jewish missions; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-051 #096-38, p. 127: Expressing continued confidence in, and thanks to, Joseph M. Steele, treasurer for FMB, Jewish Mission, and Church Erection Church erection; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; Thanks. Ministers: 2-019 #097 — Synod of 1926 #097-01, pp. 5-6: Finance Committee responsible for handling Control and Church Erection board reports Board of Control; Church erection; Docket and digest; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Home Mission Conference; Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization; Statistics. Ministers: 2-156 #097-02, pp. 10-12: Human resources; reiterating #096-04 on literature recipients; ministers and members to contribute articles to periodicals advocating distinctive principles; circulating Christian Amendment for signature and presentation as a petition to Congress Congressional petitions; CYPU; Financial; National Reform; Psalm selections; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-045, 2-202, 2-203, 2-275 #097-03, pp. 12-14: Congregations to be centers for temperance causes; reiterating condemnation of tobacco use as sinful; petitioning President Calvin Coolidge and Assistant Treasury Secretary Lincoln Andrews to continue enforcing the Volstead Act Calvin Coolidge; Canada; CYPU; Forward Movement; Government communications; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-242, 2-293 #097-04, pp. 31-32: Reiterating #096-34 and appropriating money Disaster relief; Levant missions; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-327 #097-05, pp. 33-34: Book of Discipline revision: specifying sections to be revised or not revised; adding more forms and an index; #090-21 committee to work with revisers; publishing drafts Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Christian Nation; Digest of deliverances; Forms; Membership transfer; Terms of Communion; Trial procedure. Ministers: 1-034, 2-005, 2-036, 2-051 #097-06, pp. 34-36: Finances and human resources for evangelism Evangelism; Financial; Home missions HR; Special services. Ministers: 2-046, 2-070, 2-232, 2-300 #097-07, pp. 38-40: Appropriations; new statistical blanks; urging high attendance at congregational meetings; Presbyteries must send representatives to Mission Conference; ministers to preach on home missions and urge support for weak churches Congregational meetings; Forms; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Presbytery-appointed membership; Property held in trust; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-161, 2-202 #097-08, pp. 40-45: Ministers and members urged to support “Pocket Testament and School-bag Gospel League” and “Christian Laymen’s Association”; preparing visual aids for congregational use; temporarily permitting individual contributions to individual church programs; synodical CYPU conference to meet at Winona Lake Bible texts and translations; Budget; Christian Nation; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; First World War; Forward Movement; Geneva; James S. Tibby; Mission schools; National exhibitions; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; RPIC; RPTS; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-071 #097-09, pp. 45-46: E. Raymond Wilson named Synod’s ambassador to other participants in a Japanese Brotherhood Scholarship study-abroad program Foreign missions; Japan; Morning Sun. #097-10, pp. 46-47: Reiterating #096-28, all clauses Bible reading folders; Financial; Youth. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #097-11, pp. 49-50: Approving unusual circumstances in Pacific Coast Presbytery meeting; reviving the Syrian Commission; sessions may not restore members disciplined by Synod’s instruction (possible reference to #095-07 commission); reiterating #088-28 on presbytery formation Judicial cases; Making exceptions; Restorations; South China Presbytery; Syrian Commission. Ministers: 2-083, 2-136, 2-293, 2-300 #097-12, pp. 51-53: Reiterating #096-12, final clause Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-097, 2-106, 2-265 #097-13, pp. 61-64: Expressing Synod’s confidence in FMB management; reiterating call for missionaries and #073-15 on missions study China mission; CYPU; First World War; Japan; Pastoral letters; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; WMF. Ministers: 2-051, 2-202, 2-232 #097-14, pp. 73-74: Reiterating importance of family worship; ministers and elders to urge all members to attend prayer meetings and to visit each family at least annually; all members to observe fast days wholeheartedly Elders’Conference; Family worship; Signs of the Times; Society meetings. #097-15, pp. 75-79: Condemning all sabbath-breaking amusements; supporting blue laws and urging efforts on their behalf; urging support for 69 H. R. 10311; ministers to urge similar efforts by ministerial associations; reiterating #095-21, final clause, and likewise for NRA; urging better sabbath-keeping; commending Sesquicentennial Exposition for opening Monday-Saturday only Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Interchurch; National exhibitions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sports; Theaters. Ministers: 1-034, 1-042, 2-160 #097-16, p. 80: Jury service is not necessarily wrong, but members must carefully consider their covenant engagements Covenant of 1871; Jury question. Ministers: 1-289, 2-051, 2-203 #097-17, pp. 80-82: Appropriating money; procedure for appointing Coordinating Committee members; renewing #094-07 Christian Nation; Church erection; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071 #097-18, p. 82: Calculating appropriations for Geneva Geneva finances. Ministers: 2-235 #097-19, pp. 83-84: Reiterating support for NRA; setting contribution goals; NRA agents to speak in pulpits and sabbath schools Closed pulpits; Donations; NRA; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 1-069, 2-114, 2-327 #097-20, pp. 87-88: Reiterating #092-14, first clause; members to pray for RPTS; financial arrangements; approving 94-11 certificates Attending other seminaries; Church history; Forms; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 2-131, 2-161, 2-276 #097-21, pp. 90-91: Commending a tentative church sabbath school curriculum; abolishing standing committee on sabbath schools and creating new permanent committee to oversee new curriculum; financial arrangements Abolishing standing committees; Financial; International Sunday School Lessons; Psalmody; Publications; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-071, 2-183, 2-276, 2-300 #097-22, pp. 92-93: Congregations to support weekday religious education in schools; ministers and elders to ensure purity of worship among children of the church; urging young people to enter this field as a career Bible in schools; Creation; Elements of worship; Geneva. Ministers: 2-044, 2-235 #097-23, p. 93: Compulsory military training in schools and colleges unnecessarily imparts a militaristic spirit; urging unilateral disarmament, tax reduction, and social spending; petitioning various national political figures Calvin Coolidge; Congressional petitions; Government communications; Higher-education standards; Pacifism; Presidential communications; Taxation. Ministers: 2-044 #097-24, pp. 97-100: Sending down in overture more parts of a new doctrinal portion of the Testimony Military service; Overtures, new; Political dissent; Taxation; Testimony. Ministers: 1-034, 1-289, 2-004, 2-005, 2-166, 2-183, 2-203, 2-205, 2-207, 2-230, 2-235, 2-265, 2-276, 2-330 #097-25, p. 105: Memorial services and minutes for deceased ministers Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-243 #097-26, pp. 106-108: Giving psalters to Geneva; authorizing Geneva Trustees to sell a piece of land Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Real property; Soteriology; Sports; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-002, 2-304, 2-309 #097-27, pp. 117-118: Publishing psalm selections and deliverances of Synod (#090-21); financial arrangements; reiterating #097-26, second clause Board of Control; Church erection; Digest of deliverances; Foreign missions; Geneva; Jewish missions; Psalm selections; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-046, 2-157, 2-291 #097-28, pp. 145-147: Reiterating #087-08, final clause; all members to seek to lead individuals out of secret societies Fascism; KKK; Parental responsibilities; Publications; Secret societies; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-027, 2-051 #098 — Synod of 1927 #098-01, pp. 5-7: Rules related to recess and adjournment American Bible Society; Bequests; Calvin Coolidge; China mission; Christian Nation; Docket and digest; Forms; James S. Tibby; Japan; Minutes of Synod; Overtures; Pacifism; Presidential communications; RPIC; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-156 #098-02, p. 8: Publishing the #090-21 digest Digest of deliverances. Ministers: 1-289 #098-03, pp. 9-11: Human resources; ministers to preach and teach on distinctive principles; reiterating #096-04 on literature recipients; holding local conventions on distinctive principles A cappella; Christian Nation; James S. Tibby; Outside communications; Political dissent; Post office; Psalmody; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-156, 2-202, 2-275, 2-325 #098-04, pp. 12-14: Members to continue writing for temperance; sabbath schools to work on temperance lessons; signing temperance pledges; reiterating #096-32 presidential petition Calvin Coolidge; Christian Nation; CYPU; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Specific congressmen; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-242, 2-293 #098-05, pp. 31-36: Reiterating #097-08 on individual contributions; human resources for Forward Movement Budget; Christian Nation; Closed pulpits; Conferences at Synod; Congregational aid; CYPU; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Forms; Forward Movement; Geneva; Headquarters; Individual relocation; Joint pastorates; Paying Synod employees; Presbytery conferences; Resignations; RPIC; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Testimony. Ministers: 2-071 #098-06, pp. 37-39: Reiterating past statements on mission work, Every Member Canvass, and tithing; all aid-receiving congregations must submit detailed reports, and non-complying congregations will not receive aid; presbyteries to follow Home Missions Conference requirements Canvassing; Church erection; Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Home Mission Conference; Parsonages; Pittsburgh Syrian Mission; Property held in trust; Statistics. Ministers: 1-069, 2-036 #098-07, p. 39: Two presbyteries permitted to allow congregations to canvass the church, if approved by Board of Church Erection Canvassing; Church erection; Devolution; Fresno, Montclair. #098-08, pp. 40-42: Budget approvals; Forward Movement to send financial literature, and ministers urged to preach on the church’s work; appointing collections; renewing #094-07 Budget; Christian Nation; Church erection; Delinquency; Evangelism; Every Member Canvass; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-330 #098-09, pp. 42-43: Ministers, sabbath school officials, and parents to focus on Bible memory among children Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-183 #098-10, pp. 43-46: Warning ministers not to conduct praise services in churches not practicing exclusive psalmody; counseling members not to sing hymns in churches not practicing exclusive psalmody A cappella; Improving praise; Occasional hearing; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Radio and TV. Ministers: 2-062, 2-097, 2-177 #098-11, pp. 46-48: Supporting the principle of ecumenism, but refusing to participate in the Faith and Order Movement’s ecumenical conference Church union; Covenant of 1871; Ecumenical organizations. Ministers: 1-034 #098-12, pp. 49-50: Reiterating #095-29, final clause, and #097-04, with all congregations to take collections Collections; Disaster relief; Holidays; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-168, 2-327 #098-13, pp. 50-52: Urging prayer by name for missionaries; sending Synod’s dockets to missionaries; congregation-funded missionaries are still responsible to FMB; urging study of mission reports China mission; Docket and digest; Levant missions; Paying missionaries. Ministers: 2-039, 2-069, 2-127 #098-14, pp. 57-58: Approving the latest activities of the NRA and urging the church’s support; setting a target goal for National Reform collections Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Divorce; Donations; National Reform conventions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-002, 2-114, 2-330 #098-15, pp. 62-63: Printing more #088-22 diplomas Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-309, 2-320 #098-16, p. 63: Postponing action on #096-09 and #097-24 Overtures; Testimony. Ministers: 1-034 #098-17, p. 64: Paying supply preachers; making arrangements for unemployed preachers Licentiates; Paying ministers; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-161, 2-320 #098-18, pp. 65-66: All members to cooperate with HMB, which shall gather names of volunteers for mission work Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Seeking candidates, HMB; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-005, 2-046, 2-140 #098-19, pp. 76-78: Geneva to do everything possible to maintain a balanced budget; training students in evangelism; urging donations to the college Anti-Catholicism; Bequests; Devolution; Donations; Evangelism; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva governance; Higher-education standards; James S. Tibby; Sports. Ministers: 2-051, 2-182, 2-243 #098-20, pp. 86-89: Ministers to preach on Christian international relations; supporting Kuomintang opposition to unequal treaties in China, and Mexican popular opposition to foreign concessions; commending President Calvin Coolidge’s efforts for disarmament and the Kellogg-Briand Pact, and urging federal support for it and for arbitration; urging the end of racial quotas for immigration; urging membership in the League of Nations and the Permanent Court of International Justice; deploring nonreligious nature of the League covenant Anti-Catholicism; Calvin Coolidge; First World War; Immigration; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; Presidential communications; Sermon topics; Slavery and race; World government. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #098-21, pp. 89-90: RPTS professors to devise a plan for increasing enrollment; it is the duty of ministerial candidates to attend RPTS, and presbyteries to permit exceptions only in extraordinary circumstances; ministers to preach on the ministry Attending other seminaries; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-069, 2-183, 2-300 #098-22, p. 92: Urging prayer for physical healing as a component of God’s providence, but rejecting faith healing Health and medicine; Pentecostals. Ministers: 2-046 #098-23, pp. 94-95: Reiterating prohibition on jury service, even in oath-free contexts (#097-16) Covenant of 1871; Jury question; Oath question; Second presbytery; Testimony. Ministers: 1-289, 2-203, 2-314 #098-24, p. 95: Mission stations should be assessed for traveling fund; reiterating #093-04; Illinois Presbytery may appoint a non-member to declare vacant a distant pulpit Collections; Home missions; Levant missions; Making exceptions; Orthodox baptism; Selma. Ministers: 1-070, 2-198, 2-246, 2-248 #098-25, p. 96: Petitioning President Calvin Coolidge for stronger enforcement of the prohibition laws Calvin Coolidge; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-044 #098-26, pp. 96-98: Renaming Forward Movement to “Department of Young People’s Work and Home Resources” and changing its scope; human resources and financial arrangements; HMB a commission to administer CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Headquarters; New commissions; Paying Synod employees; Renaming; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-019, 2-069, 2-157, 2-166, 2-183 #098-27, pp. 99-100: Human resources for Evangelistic Committee CYPU; Evangelism; Improving praise; Soteriology; Special services; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-046, 2-070, 2-232, 2-300 #098-28, pp. 104-105: Financial arrangements; considering the merger of Olive Treesand the Christian Nation Board of Control; Christian Nation; Church erection; Minutes of Synod; Olive Trees; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-265, 2-275, 2-309 #098-29, pp. 133-134: Ministers to preach on tithing; city missionaries to focus on raising sabbath school enrollment; all ministers to preach on all distinctive principles annually and report to presbyteries; members to blame all people, not just the wicked, for national calamities Elders’Conference; Immigration; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Tithing. #098-30, p. 139: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #099 — Synod of 1928 #099-01, pp. 4-6: Synod’s roll shall be called only once daily Absences; Agency membership; Calvin Coolidge; Christian Nation; Church union; Government communications; International relations; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Overtures; Presbytery conferences; Presidential communications; Rules and organization; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-156 #099-02, p. 9: Sending a letter to the PCC Outside communications; PCC. Ministers: 1-249 #099-03, p. 9: Dropping the matter of the Geneva property transfer, no action having occurred (#097-26); ascertaining the form of the new ministers’ book (#092-26); Synod’s trustees to set aside a room at the RPTS building for historical materials Archives; Directions to individuals; Foreign missions; Geneva; RPCNA books; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 1-088, 2-309, 2-325 #099-04, pp. 10-12: Reiterating #096-04 on literature recipients; printing new tracts; urging particular anti-political activity during presidential campaign; ministers to preach political dissent and church to support them, and members to petition Congress for the Christian Amendment Calvin Coolidge; Geneva faculty; National Reform; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Sermon topics; Testimony; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-156, 2-202, 2-229, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #099-05, pp. 12-13: Members to use all Christian means to support prohibition; church officers to fight tobacco use and sale; CYPU to fight tobacco Christian Nation; Congressional bills; CYPU; First World War; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-242, 2-293 #099-06, p. 13: Sympathy to family and congregation of newly deceased minister Sympathy; Central Allegheny. Ministers: 2-057, 2-071, 2-248 #099-07, p. 14: Permitting an absent delegate to participate in the traveling fund, due to unusual circumstances Absences; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-073 #099-08, p. 14: Rejecting #098-28 merger proposal Christian Nation; Olive Trees; Our Banner. Ministers: 2-240, 2-276, 2-327 #099-09, pp. 15-17: Reiterating #098-26, first clause; preparing to establish a single church paper Budget; Christian Nation; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; Psalmody; Society meetings. Ministers: 1-034, 1-035, 1-289, 2-019, 2-062, 2-071, 2-202, 2-248, 2-275, 2-325, 2-330 #099-10, pp. 21-25: Rejoicing in the adoption of the Kellogg-Briand Pact; commending non-intervention in China and settlement with Mexico by Ambassador Dwight Morrow; opposing Asiatic exclusion; petitioning President Calvin Coolidge for more arms reduction; reiterating #098-20 on the court and the League; adopting pacifistic Five Point Program of the Federal Council of Churches Calvin Coolidge; Chinese exclusion; Holidays; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; National Council of Churches; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Thanking government officials; World government; Youth. Ministers: 2-160, 2-168 #099-11, pp. 25-27: Congregational contributions to Synod to be paid monthly; reiterating #097-07 on congregational meetings Congregational aid; Congregational meetings; Home Mission Conference; Joint pastorates; Minimum salaries; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 1-069, 2-036 #099-12, pp. 27-28: Budget approvals Budget; Christian Nation; Church erection; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-161 #099-13, pp. 28-30: Reiterating #083-09; members to train on sabbath school oversight; providing new graded lessons; new church paper to include sabbath school helps on distinctive principles Anti-Catholicism; Covenanter Witness; Holidays; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-156, 2-183 #099-14, p. 40: Appointing a judicial commission to try an appeal against Pittsburgh Presbytery for selling the Eighth Street church property Closing churches; Judicial cases; New commissions; Real property; North Hills. Ministers: 1-283, 2-114, 2-183, 2-205, 2-230, 2-246, 2-259, 2-265, 2-279 #099-15, pp. 42-43: Reiterating #096-34; financial arrangements Disaster relief; Donations; Holidays; Orthodox. Ministers: 2-168, 2-327 #099-16, p. 44: Making two individuals eligible for Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. #099-17, pp. 45-46: Urging prayer for youth work; reiterating #098-26, except the commission; other human resources, and ascertaining salary; urging personal evangelism and prayer group evangelism; reporting results of evangelism, including “persons interviewed or brought to a decision for Christ”. [No item #5 appears anywhere, but items #4 and #6 are present, and nine delegates dissent from the adoption of #5.] Agency membership; Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Forward Movement; Paying Synod employees. Ministers: 2-157, 2-202, 2-232, 2-314 #099-18, p. 47: Reiterating #098-26 on the commission; should new secretary need to move, paying his expenses Benefits for ministers; CYPU; Individual relocation. #099-19, pp. 47-49: HMB to support presbyteries in settling pastors; reiterating #098-18; donations for Jewish and Southern Missions; ministers publicly to urge support for HMB Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-005, 2-091, 2-255 #099-20, pp. 57-58: Human resources and financial arrangements for National Reform; appointing Christian Statesman agents; cooperating with NRA on reform conferences Agency membership; Christian Statesman; NRA; Post office. Ministers: 1-070, 2-127, 2-207 #099-21, pp. 62-68: Appointing thanksgiving and fast days; all ministers to preach on topics for fasting; fast day preparatory services before communion; presbyteries to oversee faithfulness of fasting; reiterating #084-08 to President Calvin Coolidge Abraham Lincoln; Calvin Coolidge; Church history; Civil War; Divorce; Holidays; Interchurch; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Presidential communications; Rules and organization; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Slavery and race; Special services; Sports. Ministers: 2-071, 2-202, 2-276 #099-22, p. 68: Sending special sympathy notes to absent aged ministers Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 1-063, 1-289, 2-156, 2-182 #099-23, p. 69: Presbytery clerks to introduce new ordinands to Synod annually Delegate qualifications; Rules and organization. #099-24, pp. 69-70: Pledging to convince the public and other churches of impending divine wrath in international conflict unless countries recognize Christianity First World War; Interchurch; League of Nations and UN; Second World War; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-159 #099-25, pp. 70-72: Maintaining foreign missions connections with prayer meetings; reiterating #098-13, final clause; urging self-support for all missions; opening new missions as soon as possible China mission; Directions to individuals; Islam; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Paying missionaries; Self-supporting missions; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-027, 2-036, 2-253 #099-26, pp. 77-78: All prospective RPTS students to submit evidence of their own evangelism; Pittsburgh-area ministers to give lectures on evangelism to RPTS students and other interested individuals; non-licensed candidates to perform weekly internship work with interested congregations Evangelism; Higher-education standards; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS faculty; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-046, 2-131, 2-161 #099-27, pp. 80-82: Urging prayer and donations for Geneva Bequests; Donations; Evangelism; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Health and medicine; Parental responsibilities; Sports; YMCA. Ministers: 2-070, 2-114, 2-156, 2-258 #099-28, pp. 87-89: Creating Bible reading folders for children; certificates and #088-22 diplomas; ministers to urge members to use these reading plans; paying for new printings Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-230, 2-242 #099-29, pp. 89-90: Approving decision of #099-14 commission sustaining presbytery’s decision and declining appeal Closing churches; Judicial cases; Real property; Reviewing commissions; North Hills. Ministers: 1-283, 2-114, 2-183, 2-230, 2-259, 2-265 #099-30, pp. 94-95: Financial arrangements; selling a former church property and giving cemetery to association; ministers to urge all families to purchase minutes of Synod Cemeteries; Closing churches; First World War; Labor and capital; Secret societies; Ray. Ministers: 2-088, 2-094, 2-240 #099-31, p. 123: Paying a bill Financial; Publications; Testimony. #099-32, p. 123: Paying expenses of Kate McBurney incurred in investigating citizenship for alien members Financial; Naturalization. #099-33, p. 125: Disposing of a donation Disaster relief; Donations. Ministers: 1-063 #099-34, p. 125: Paying the moving expenses of the Secretary of Young People’s Work and Human Resources (#099-18), and HMB made a commission to fill any vacancies in the department Benefits for ministers; New commissions; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-069 #099-35, p. 125: Stated Clerk to sell copies of The Menace of Masonry(no OCLC record; perhaps OCLC 859896260, The Menace of Freemasonry , mentioned on page 91) Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Publications; Secret societies. #099-36, pp. 130-131: Psalter revision committee authorized to make needed changes and directed to expand the index; copies to be provided to Synod Financial; Psalter editions. Ministers: 2-002, 2-051, 2-157, 2-252, 2-314, 2-330 #099-37, p. 131: Establishing a new church paper (#099-09); appointing staff, who are to determine name, size, etc. (ultimately Covenanter Witness , OCLC 2446225); ascertaining salary for editor; no salary for associate editors; appropriating money; repealing #099-13 on sabbath school helps Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees; Sabbath schools; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-034, 1-283, 2-051, 2-160, 2-240, 2-327 #099-38, p. 132: Urging the discontinuation of Olive Trees Olive Trees. #099-39, pp. 132-133: Adopting new Testimony portions following successful overture (#097-24); presbyteries cannot vote on overtures Overtures, successful; Rules and organization. Ministers: 1-034, 2-004, 2-005, 2-166, 2-183, 2-205, 2-207, 2-230, 2-265, 2-276, 2-330 #099-40, pp. 133-134: New ministers’ book (#092-26, #099-03) shall relegate unordained missionaries to an appendix Foreign missions HR; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-083, 2-127, 2-207, 2-309 #099-41, p. 134: Reiterating #095-21, final clause; ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping; commending U.S. Representative William Lankford’s bill 70 H. R. 78 and urging support for it Congressional bills; CYPU; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics. #100 — Synod of 1929 #100-01, pp. 5-7: Reiterating #074-02 to President Herbert Hoover American Bible Society; Calvin Coolidge; Christian Nation; Church history; CYPU; Disaster relief; Docket and digest; Herbert Hoover; Legal prohibition; Minutes of Synod; Pacifism; Presidential communications; Thanks; WMF. Ministers: 2-131, 2-156 #100-02, pp. 10-12: Sending tracts to congregations; reiterating #095-02, first clause, and #096-04 on literature recipients; concentrating Witness Committee efforts in one state when possible; taking steps to form a new Federation of Psalm-singing Churches Financial; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Psalmody; RPCI; Secret societies; Testimony; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-179, 2-202, 2-203, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #100-03, pp. 14-15: Appropriations; presbyteries to use first-year ministerial candidates to lead vacant churches in the summer Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Minimum salaries; Supply preaching; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-183, 2-259 #100-04, p. 24: Secretary of Home Resources and Young People’s Work given a month of vacation annually Benefits for ministers. Ministers: 2-069, 2-071 #100-05, pp. 33-37: Reiterating #099-10 on Kellogg-Briand and Asiatic exclusion; commending Pan-American Arbitration Conference, Slavery and Liquor Traffic Conventions, Act of Berlin revision, war-debt forgiveness, abandonment of unilateral warfare, Friendship Treasure Chests for Philippine children, President Hoover’s opposition to protective tariffs, and non-recognition of the Holy See as a sovereign state; deploring lack of Christianity in international agreements Africa; Anti-Catholicism; Arbitration; Chinese exclusion; CYPU; Debt; Herbert Hoover; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; National Council of Churches; Philippines; Sabbath schools; Thanking government officials; World government. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #100-06, pp. 42-46: Ministers to keep the psalms meaningful in their churches; advocating responsive or concerted readings; urging children’s memorization of metrical psalms; training members for singing Improving praise; Methodists; National Council of Churches; Parental responsibilities; Psalm explanations; Sabbath schools; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-019, 2-179, 2-243 #100-07, pp. 46-47: The church is responsible for teaching all nations how to submit to Christ, both in national and international affairs; reiterating #099-10 on Kellogg-Briand and pledging political dissent should this be renounced Pacifism; Political dissent. Ministers: 1-289, 2-045, 2-114, 2-168, 2-265 #100-08, pp. 47-48: Adopting financial procedures, urging all congregations to follow it, and withholding all aid from noncompliant congregations Congregational aid; Donations; Rules and organization. #100-09, pp. 48-49: Reiterating #099-41 and commending President Herbert Hoover for sabbath-keeping Congressional bills; CYPU; Herbert Hoover; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping organizations. #100-10, pp. 49-50: Ministers, parents, etc. to encourage future seminarians to study the classics; presbyteries must require college transcripts and must commend qualifying students, and may admit non-qualifying students on probation; RPTS superintendents’ secretary to be the registrar; incorporating RPTS; electing part-time professors and ascertaining their salary Biblical languages; Higher-education standards; Incorporation; Parental responsibilities; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183, 2-243, 2-259, 2-279 #100-11, p. 50: Regulating the annual RPTS opening lecture Higher-education standards; RPTS faculty. #100-12, pp. 53-54: New children’s Bible Reader; ministers of congregations not using readers to urge regular Bible reading Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial; Levant missions; RPCI. Ministers: 2-230, 2-242 #100-13, pp. 55-56: Continuing cooperation with Near East Relief for a final year; urging extra giving at the end Disaster relief; Donations; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-168, 2-327 #100-14, pp. 63-65: Appropriations for home missions Bequests; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, HMB; Tracts; WMF. Ministers: 2-004, 2-114 #100-15, pp. 73-75: The Supreme Court opinion in Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States , 143 U.S. 457 (1892), does not remove the need for political dissent. Preparing a substitute teachers’ oath Buddhism; Immigration; Islam; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths; Voting; Bloomington. Ministers: 2-043, 2-159, 2-204 #100-16, pp. 77-78: New ministers’ book (#092-26) shall indeed be published as a book, and shall include photos of moderators of Synod Church history; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-309 #100-17, p. 79: Paying a bill Church history; Covenanter Witness; Financial; RPCI; RPCS. #100-18, p. 80: Publishing a new edition of the psalter with typos fixed Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Psalter editions. #100-19, pp. 80-82: Budget approvals Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Witness work. #100-20, pp. 83-84: Financial and human resources for foreign missions; FMB allowed to make special appeals; urging a cultivation of mission spirit Bequests; Budget; Canvassing; China mission; CYPU; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; WMF. Ministers: 2-051, 2-207, 2-252 #100-21, p. 88: Permitting licensure of ministerial candidates after one year, due to manpower shortage Licentiates. Ministers: 2-034, 2-051, 2-183, 2-325 #100-22, p. 89: Modifying statistical forms Canvassing; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 2-243 #100-23, pp. 89-90: Human resources for National Reform; urging giving; ministers and members to cooperate with the NRA whenever possible Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-045, 2-149, 2-168 #100-24, pp. 94-95: Oath qualifications must be added at the end; advising a specific wording for qualification Explanatory declaration. Ministers: 2-043, 2-159, 2-204 #100-25, p. 98: RP Home Donation Day receipts to be ignored when calculating Synod’s budget Budget; Donations; RPWA. #100-26, pp. 100-101: Financial arrangements; Synod’s various funds to maintain balanced budgets; ministers and deacons to advocate for Synod’s financial needs Bequests; Board of Control; China mission; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; RP Home; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-083, 2-182, 2-253 #100-27, pp. 129-130: Presbyteries may provide for the Lord’s Supper in mission stations with no elders; in Cyprus, where divorces are granted by clergy, ministers may grant divorces for adultery and irremediable desertion; appointing a commission to determine the status of former members of secret societies Divorce; Levant missions; Lord’s supper; New commissions; Provisional sessions; Secret societies; Orlando. Ministers: 1-034, 1-069, 2-071, 2-246, 2-275, 2-330 #100-28, pp. 130-131: New plan for assigning supplies to save traveling expenses Financial; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-075, 2-088, 2-265 #100-29, p. 132: Appropriating money to provide meals for RPTS students Board of Control; RPTS. Ministers: 1-069, 2-229 #100-30, pp. 132-133: Publishing a new, unofficial edition of the historical part of the Testimony Church history; Financial; Publications; Testimony. Ministers: 2-045, 2-071 #100-31, pp. 133-135: Reiterating #099-05, first clause; ministers to preach against tobacco, and officers, members, and CYPU to fight it; urging opposition to tobacco advertising; commending British embassy’s dryness CYPU; International relations; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Presbytery conferences; Radio and TV; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-293 #100-32, p. 138: Ministers to emphasize foreign missions when urging tithing; seeking more ministerial candidates and urging personal evangelism; holding fast to distinctive principles; endorsing Back to the Bible Movement Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Tithing. #100-33, pp. 140-141: Clarifying the intent of #099-26 Evangelism; Higher-education standards; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-051 #101 — Synod of 1930 #101-01, pp. 5-6: Reiterating #100-01 American Bible Society; Congressional petitions; CYPU; Disaster relief; Docket and digest; Government communications; Herbert Hoover; Holidays; Minutes of Synod; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 2-156, 2-205 #101-02, pp. 6-7: Protesting to Congress and President Hoover the situation of aliens lacking naturalization merely because of the oath question Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Herbert Hoover; Naturalization; PCUSA; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-293 #101-03, p. 12: Thanking the author of the new ministers’ book for his continued efforts Church history; RPCNA books; Thanks. Ministers: 2-309 #101-04, pp. 13-14: Reiterating #096-04 on literature and #099-04 on preaching and church support A cappella; Close communion; Evangelism; Naturalization; Outside preaching; Post office; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-202, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #101-05, p. 15: Author of new ministers’ book (#092-26) to be given free copies Church history; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-309 #101-06, pp. 15-17: Reiterating #099-05, first clause; congregational officers to dissuade youth from tobacco; urging tobacco-avoidance pledging; supporting 71 S. 1468 and an anti-peyote bill by U.S. Senator Elmer Thomas [apparently an error; Thomas sought to protect peyote use] Anti-Catholicism; Canada; CYPU; Drugs; International Sunday School Lessons; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; Reed Smoot; SCOTUS; Taxation; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-293 #101-07, p. 17: Thanking Homer Rodeheaver [a Billy Sunday-associated musician] for his music instruction and giving him a special psalter Improving praise; Thanks. #101-08, pp. 28-31: Christ is king, but union not acknowledging him is better than disunion; ministers and other leaders to focus on world peace under Christ; seeking to reform unjust and war-causing elements of society; opposing military training in schools; urging abandonment of military intervention and of drafting conscientious objectors; political dissenters should be welcome as citizens; urging support for London Naval Conference despite weaknesses; thanking Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King for suppressing Canadian alcohol exports to the United States Canada; Communism; Congressional petitions; CYPU; Herbert Hoover; Interchurch; Japan; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; Naturalization; Presidential communications; Slavery and race; Taxation; Temperance; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #101-09, pp. 31-33: No aid to be given to congregations until they have paid all they can; remedying lack of prayer meetings; grants for weak congregations Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-002, 2-202 #101-10, pp. 33-35: Synod’s budget; extra effort for meeting the budget; presbyteries to hold prayer conferences for ordained men; urging intra-presbyterial budget assistance Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-069 #101-11, p. 35: Reiterating #101-02 Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Herbert Hoover; Naturalization; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-156, 2-205, 2-293 #101-12, pp. 42-43: Congregations to promote training for sabbath school teachers; commending and distributing a specific graded curriculum Evangelism; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-156, 2-183 #101-13, pp. 43-46: Approving #100-27 commission decision: inactive but due-paying members of secret organizations may not be ordained, urging elder-elect G.A. Slawson to abandon his Modern Woodmen insurance, and urging objectors in his congregation to support him financially Insurance; Poor relief; Reviewing commissions; Secret societies; Orlando. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-330 #101-14, p. 46: Repeating #101-07 for Prof. J.R. Withrow Thanks. #101-15, pp. 47-48: Supporting Geneva, its faculty and students, and its organizations Celebrity preachers; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Geneva library; James S. Tibby; YMCA. Ministers: 2-036, 2-097, 2-259 #101-16, p. 55: Financial arrangement for RPTS Bequests; RPTS finances. Ministers: 2-094, 2-149, 2-318 #101-17, p. 56: Repealing #100-21, the manpower shortage having been resolved Licentiates. #101-18, p. 56: Giving psalters to Geneva Geneva. #101-19, p. 57: Conveying to C.E.N. Macartney appreciation for his friends’ donation of the Geneva library, and asking him to speak to Synod Celebrity preachers; Geneva library; Thanks. Ministers: 2-156, 2-205 #101-20, p. 67: Reiterating #087-08 on fraternities Secret societies; Youth. Ministers: 2-044 #101-21, pp. 68-69: Using Bible reading folders in mission sabbath schools Bible reading folders; Levant missions; RPCI; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-230, 2-242 #101-22, p. 69: Weakening approval of the Kellogg-Briand Pact Kellogg-Briand Pact. Ministers: 2-176, 2-204, 2-251 #101-23, p. 71: Publishing this year’s Signs of the Times Committee position paper and instructions Publications; Signs of the Times. #101-24, p. 81: RPTS Superintendents to consider doubling the endowment and encouraging other churches’ students to attend Interchurch; RPTS finances. Ministers: 2-039 #101-25, p. 81: Home Mission Secretary to be a clearinghouse for supply preaching Home missions; Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-176, 2-183 #101-26, pp. 84-85: Ascertaining senior RPTS professor’s salary Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 1-069, 2-315 #101-27, p. 85: Declining to discontinue the Mission Conference Home Mission Conference. Ministers: 2-183 #101-28, pp. 87-88: Supporting cooperative mission support as far as possible; approving a Manchuria mission and expanding mission force; FMB to publish pension policy and current salaries China mission; Colonies; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Self-supporting missions. Ministers: 2-002, 2-045, 2-300 #101-29, p. 95: Thanking Dr. D.G. Wylie of the Lord’s Day Alliance for his A Misunderstood Church: A Tribute to the Church of My Fathers (OCLC 46926416), and appropriating him money Financial; Lord’s Day Alliance; RPCNA books; Thanking visiting speakers. Ministers: 2-168 #101-30, pp. 95-96: Reiterating #099-41 minus Lankford bill CYPU; Donations; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-070 #101-31, pp. 96-98: Financial arrangements; publishing Sketches of the Ministers ; pensions for ministers whose age and years of service add up to 100; considering ministerial group insurance Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Church history; Insurance; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; RPCNA books; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-127, 2-309, 2-330 #101-32, pp. 128-129: NRA human resources and finances; ministers to preach on National Reform and cooperate with NRA; urging wealthy members’ support; ministers and members to find volunteers Bible in schools; Collections; LDS; Legal prohibition; NRA; Pacifism; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Voting. Ministers: 2-182, 2-258, 2-265 #101-33, p. 136: RP members of the NRA board to submit a program for the Christian Amendment Directions to individuals; NRA. Ministers: 2-204 #101-34, pp. 136-137: Reiterating #101-13 commission on insurance abandonment; if a moderator cannot sign minutes, the moderator of the approving meeting may instead; commissions cannot add to their own membership Insurance; Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization; Secret societies. Ministers: 2-046, 2-083, 2-229 #102 — Synod of 1931 #102-01, pp. 6-7: Endorsing and thanking the American Tract Society, and urging tract use and donations Donations; Sabbath schools; Thanks; Tracts. #102-02, p. 10: Treasurers’ reports are to be referred to Finance Committee without detailed reading before Synod Financial; Rules and organization. #102-03, pp. 10-12: Urging the church to stand firm for distinctive principles, using personal appeals and literature A cappella; Close communion; Covenant of 1871; Decline; Legal prohibition; Occasional hearing; Secret societies; Strict subscription; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-203, 2-229, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #102-04, pp. 13-14: Reiterating #101-06, except for congressional legislation Covenanter Witness; Great Depression; Legal prohibition; Reed Smoot; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-293 #102-05, pp. 17-18: Maintaining life insurance on ministers is no different from maintaining insurance of any other sort Benefits for ministers; Gambling; Insurance; Pensions. Ministers: 2-127, 2-157, 2-161 #102-06, p. 19: Petitioning President Herbert Hoover to appoint a day of national prayer Herbert Hoover; Holidays; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-327 #102-07, pp. 19-21: Approving appropriations of the Mission Conference; supply preachers to cultivate a spirit of liberality, conduct pastoral work, and perform Every Member Canvass, and congregation to meet for sabbath school and prayer without a preacher; interpreting “wage earner” and “tithe” Congregational aid; Construction; Every Member Canvass; Home Mission Conference; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-002, 2-202 #102-08, pp. 21-23: Postponing #101-31 on ministerial relief for two years, due to the Depression; reiterating prohibition on aid to RPTS students for whom it is not necessary; the Depression is a challenge to members’ faith Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Great Depression; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-069, 2-161 #102-09, p. 23: All financial matters, aside from Mission Conference and Coordinating Committee reports, must go to Finance Committee, and Synod’s treasurer to be an ex-officio member Agency membership; Home Mission Conference; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-051 #102-10, pp. 23-29: Moderator to write to all 1931 CYPU conferences; studying and implementing a plan for revival Budget; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; First World War; Great Depression; Indian Mission; Pacifism; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; Quakers; RPIC; Sabbath-keeping; Southern Mission; Special services; Supply preaching; Tithing. Ministers: 2-069, 2-311 #102-11, pp. 29-30: Thanking the author of the new ministers’ book Church history; RPCNA books; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094, 2-309 #102-12, p. 30: Taking steps for National Reform in all countries worldwide International relations; National Reform. Ministers: 2-038 #102-13, p. 30: Secretary of Home Resources and Young People’s Work to cooperate with RPCI and RPCS to retain members moving to America CYPU; Immigration; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-005 #102-14, pp. 31-32: Supporting the concept of conscientious objection, and condemning and refusing to participate in any war not approved by an international tribunal, due to sympathy with Kellogg-Briand Pact and loyalty to Christ; petitioning President Herbert Hoover, Secretary of State Henry Stimson, Secretary of War Patrick Hurley, and Attorney General William Mitchell Government communications; Herbert Hoover; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Presidential communications; World government. Ministers: 1-034, 2-156, 2-166, 2-311 #102-15, p. 40: Presbyteries with loose-leaf minutes books ordered to secure books with other bindings (repealing #091-22) Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. #102-16, pp. 40-42: Ministers and elders to enlist congregation prayer for NRA, ministers to inform congregations about National Reform issues, setting a donation target for NRA, seeking to spread National Reform message and distribute literature; human resources Bible in schools; Donations; Legal prohibition; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Sports; Synod HR; WCTU. Ministers: 2-019, 2-071, 2-182 #102-17, p. 50: Sending a sympathy telegram to Dr. McCandless of Chicago Sympathy; Telecommunications. #102-18, p. 51: Reiterating #092-20, final clause; cooperating with American Bible Society on a specific date American Bible Society; Holidays. Ministers: 2-168 #102-19, p. 52: Reiterating #095-21, final clause; urging continued support by congregations Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 2-168 #102-20, pp. 52-53: Gradually reducing emphasis on schools in foreign missions; cooperating with RPCI/RPCS missions in the Levant; abandoning Mersin, given new situation on site; commending new Manchuria mission Evangelism; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Mission schools; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-243, 2-293, 2-318 #102-21, pp. 61-62: Commending a proposed national daily newspaper to support Prohibition and public morals, and to publicize Christian and moral organizations Legal prohibition; News media. Ministers: 2-160 #102-22, pp. 72-73: Voting on amendments and other oath-free measures is permitted (#060-20 and #060-28), so registering to vote is appropriate; courts to read minutes at subsequent meetings; adding native ministers to Syrian Commission Oath question; Presbytery minutes; Syrian Commission; Syrian Presbytery; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 2-003, 2-005, 2-010, 2-015, 2-038, 2-088, 2-190, 2-314 #102-23, p. 73: Paying a bill Board of Control; Church erection; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034, 2-204, 2-325 #102-24, p. 104: Approving an International Call to Prayer from businessmen of Lethbridge, Alberta; urging similar efforts by RP businessmen; petitioning President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister Richard Bennett to call their countries to prayer Canada; Christian Statesman; Covenanter Witness; Herbert Hoover; Holidays; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-069, 2-160, 2-204 #102-25, pp. 104-106: Planning for covenant renewal in the near future, ideally 1938 Covenant renovation; CYPU; Elders’Conference; WMF. Ministers: 1-034, 2-276 #102-26, pp. 106-109: Reducing armaments to police basis, petitioning President Herbert Hoover to appoint sympathetic delegates to the World Disarmament Conference; urging national policy renouncing war and militant nationalism; urging Permanent Court of International Justice participation and Pan-American arbitration treaty ratification; endorsing non-interventionism in Latin America, spirit of world brotherhood, and reduction of tariffs and war debts Calvin Coolidge; Debt; First World War; Great Depression; Herbert Hoover; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; Taxation; World government. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #102-27, pp. 112-113: Supporting Geneva with prayer, gifts, and students; commending administration and faculty; urging economy; Trustees to appoint a purchasing agent; athletics made part of the Department of Physical Education Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Great Depression; James S. Tibby; RPCNA books; Sports. Ministers: 2-039, 2-051, 2-156, 2-168, 2-235, 2-309 #102-28, p. 127: Levant Commission to form a Levant Presbytery New presbyteries; Syrian Presbytery. #102-29, pp. 127-128: Sessions to appoint congregational committees on evangelism; members to tithe and Synod contributions to be made monthly; encourage members to support sabbath-keeping laws and contribute toward NRA’s sabbath-keeping manual Congressional petitions; Donations; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Legislative petitions; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Tithing. #102-30, p. 128: Holding programs at Synod in 1932 for WMF and celebrating decenary of Elders’ Conference Conferences at Synod; Elders’Conference; WMF. Ministers: 2-034 #102-31, pp. 129-130: James S. Tibby appointed Railway Transportation Agent James S. Tibby; Traveling Fund. #102-32, pp. 130-132: Parents, sabbath schools, and churches to emphasize psalm memorization; providing trained psalm leaders; parents to teach children to read music; reiterating #088-11 on psalm explanations APCNA; ARPC; Congregationalism; FCS; Improving praise; New Light church; Parental responsibilities; PCI; Psalm explanations; RPCI; RPCS; Sabbath schools; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-114, 2-275 #102-33, p. 132: Continuing the collection of ministerial data after the completion of the new ministers’ book (#092-26) Church history; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-309 #102-34, p. 132: Sending a letter to the Moderator’s congregation Directions to individuals; Mercer. Ministers: 2-156, 2-311 #103 — Synod of 1932 #103-01, p. 7: Appointing a judicial commission New commissions; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. #103-02, p. 8: Reiterating #102-01, minus thanks clause Donations; Sabbath schools; Tracts. #103-03, p. 9: Financial arrangements Financial; Real property. Ministers: 2-051, 2-127, 2-179 #103-04, p. 9: Finance Committee responsible for finding money to supplement ministerial salaries Congregational aid; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-051, 2-127, 2-179 #103-05, p. 10: Continuing the current life insurance on ministers Benefits for ministers; Insurance; Pensions. Ministers: 2-127 #103-06, p. 11: Petitioning for Monday-Saturday opening schedule for the 1932 Summer Olympics and the Century of Progress Exposition National exhibitions; Sabbath-keeping; Sports. Ministers: 2-044 #103-07, pp. 11-14: Striving for National Reform during the Great Depression, despite opposition; urging bequests for National Reform, but not endowments A cappella; Bequests; Budget; Great Depression; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Naturalization; Post office; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Signs of the Times; Theaters; Tobacco; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-314, 2-325 #103-08, pp. 14-16: Reiterating support for Prohibition, and any modification of the law is a national sin; members to support the government and urge dry causes; reiterating opposition to voting for elected officials; reiterating importance of a tobacco-free church and #098-04, final clause American Legion; Covenanter Witness; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; Oath question; SCOTUS; Secret societies; Taxation; Tobacco; Voting; Youth. Ministers: 2-044, 2-127, 2-293 #103-09, pp. 16-20: Petitioning President Herbert Hoover and Secretary of State Stimson on the World Disarmament Conference and the Kellogg-Briand Pact; joining Permanent Court of International Justice without reservation; opposing 72 S. 51; ministers to preach on international questions and congregations to petition politicians Congressional petitions; Government communications; Great Depression; Herbert Hoover; Kellogg-Briand Pact; League of Nations and UN; Presidential communications; Second Sino-Japanese War; Sermon topics; Taxation; World government. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #103-10, pp. 22-24: Ministers to familiarize themselves with moving picture propaganda and to discourage their congregations from becoming theater-goers Baptists; Congressional bills; Great Depression; Legal prohibition; National Council of Churches; Sabbath-keeping; Theaters. Ministers: 2-157, 2-259 #103-11, pp. 34-35: Approving appropriations of the Mission Conference; HMB to provide a way for Conference to obtain additional information Canada; Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-259, 2-330 #103-12, pp. 36-38: Financial arrangements; limiting budgets and temporarily repealing #096-27, due to the Depression Bequests; Board of Control; Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Deacon delegates; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Great Depression; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-183 #103-13, pp. 40-41: Continuing existing human resources arrangements for RPTS RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-036, 2-083 #103-14, p. 44: Congregations to distribute NRA prohibition literature; financial arrangements Christian Statesman; Donations; Legal prohibition; NRA; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-044, 2-168, 2-235 #103-15, pp. 54-55: Witness Committee to commend other anti-Masonic denominations and to send anti-Masonic literature to other denominations; ministers and members to fight secrecy and distribute anti-Masonic literature APCNA; Baptists; Church of the Brethren; CRCNA; Interchurch; KKK; Lutherans; Mennonites; Methodists; National Christian Association; Pentecostals; Publications; Witness work. Ministers: 2-131, 2-176, 2-202 #103-16, pp. 56-57: Commend the giving of Bibles with reader helps; urging sabbath school superintendents to induce regular Bible reading Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; RPCI. Ministers: 2-230, 2-242 #103-17, pp. 58-61: Infant baptism by an evangelical minister is invalid if parents are not members of evangelical churches; location of baptism does not invalidate its validity; sessions need not require certificates of baptism for new members; sessions to keep records of their own baptisms Baptism; Book of Discipline; Church membership; Forms; Parental responsibilities; PCUSA; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-182, 2-293, 2-325 #103-18, pp. 61-64: Administering sacraments in a mission field with no congregation, admitting members and ordaining officers unable to read English, and Synod’s commission can organize a mission congregation; interpreting Book of Discipline on statute of limitations; futures markets are fundamentally gambling; libelled elders and ministers may not vote in their own cases; not authorizing ordination, due to lack of information Book of Discipline; Gambling; Lord’s supper; Manchuria mission; Ordination queries; Presbytery minutes; Sine titulo; South China Presbytery; Statute of limitations; Strict subscription; Syrian Commission; Terms of Communion; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards; Winnipeg case. Ministers: 2-044, 2-075, 2-276 #103-19, pp. 64-66: Reiterating #102-27, first two clauses Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Great Depression. Ministers: 2-114, 2-131, 2-182, 2-235, 2-276 #103-20, p. 70: Paying a bill Conferences at Synod; Financial. #103-21, pp. 71-73: Human resources; congregation to trial operating the Southern Mission; reverting Depression-related budget cuts when possible; paying supply preachers; reducing congregational supplements; no supplements may exceed congregation’s own contributions Congregational aid; CYPU; Great Depression; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Self-supporting missions; Southern Mission; Selma, White Lake. Ministers: 2-258, 2-327, 3-011 #103-22, p. 81: Reiterating #102-25 minus the date; ministers and members to comment on proposed text; ministers and elders to prepare congregations for covenanting Covenant renovation; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 1-034, 2-051, 2-071, 2-156, 2-276, 2-314, 2-327 #103-23, pp. 82-83: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #103-24, pp. 83-84: Financial arrangements; creating a fund for relieving boards’ fiscal emergencies Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Foreign missions; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying ministers; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-051, 2-127, 2-179 #103-25, p. 113: Reiterating #101-25 Rules and organization; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-207, 2-242, 2-260 #103-26, pp. 113-114: Reiterating #102-19 Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 2-168 #103-27, p. 114: Declining to participate in the Faith and Order Conference, 1933 Ecumenical organizations. Ministers: 2-168, 2-309 #103-28, p. 114: Geneva officials to advise Howard Spencer [full name from page 68], student and potential Olympian, of the school’s position on sabbath-keeping Directions to individuals; Geneva faculty; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sports. Ministers: 2-091 #103-29, p. 117: Ascertaining prices for obituaries in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Financial. #103-30, p. 117: Giving psalters to Geneva (#101-18) Geneva. #103-31, pp. 117-121: Approving decisions of #103-01 commission; minister and elders to resign, and stated supply may unilaterally determine the status of any individual member Dissolving pastorates; Home Mission Conference; Resignations; Reviewing commissions; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-005, 2-183, 2-202, 2-242, 2-243 #103-32, pp. 121-122: Continuing #103-01 commission; aiding resigned minister Parsonages; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-183, 2-202, 2-242, 2-243 #103-33, p. 123: Retaining Secretary of Young People’s Work and Home Resources CYPU; RPIC; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-069, 2-259 #103-34, pp. 123-126: Filling Cyprus missions schools with Protestant teachers; teaching more Bible and less arts and sciences; more evangelism programs; sending more missionaries when possible; FMB to plan for educating Chinese ministers China mission; Evangelism; Foreign missions HR; Great Depression; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Mission schools; Native ministers; New martyrs; Paying missionaries; RPCI; RPCS; Self-supporting missions; Tithing. Ministers: 2-070, 2-182, 2-330 #103-35, p. 136: Sabbath schools committee to prepare curricula to urge students to serve in sabbath schools and to publish materials focusing on RP missions Financial; Foreign missions; Home missions; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-046 #103-36, p. 136: Publishing an article on duties of eldership, and ministers to advocate it to sessions Covenanter Witness; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Meeting schedule. Ministers: 2-230 #103-37, pp. 137-138: Plans for rebuilding the church, including evangelism, reaching out-of-bounds members, supporting weak churches, and church planting Church planting; Congregational aid; Decline; Evangelism; Individual relocation; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-034, 2-036, 2-071, 2-149, 2-161, 2-183, 2-232, 2-242, 2-259, 2-296, 2-314 #103-38, pp. 138-146: Ministers to advocate for denominational programs; reiterating #102-29, second clause; presbyteries to urge congregations to hold evangelism programs; holding an evangelism program at Synod in 1933 Budget; Bureau of Information; Canada; Conferences at Synod; Covenant renovation; CYPU; Decline; Elements of worship; Great Depression; Home Mission Conference; Home visitation; Immigration; Paying ministers; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Special services; Supply preaching; Tithing; UPCNA; Urban church planting; WMF. Ministers: 2-069 #104 — Synod of 1933 #104-01, p. 7: Committees reviewing board reports to confine their reports to items needing action Rules and organization. #104-02, pp. 8-10: Reiterating #092-20, final clause; cooperating with American Bible Society on a specific date American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Collections; Disability; Great Depression; Holidays. Ministers: 2-168 #104-03, pp. 13-16: Ministers and members to study the causes of war and what would happen were those causes removed Arbitration; First World War; Herbert Hoover; Immigration; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; League of Nations and UN; Second Sino-Japanese War; World government. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-168 #104-04, pp. 16-18: Reiterating #083-01 on ministers speaking, but for two weeks; CYPUs to select tracts for distribution; employing lecturers when possible; urging adherence to Covenant of 1871 Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Financial; Great Depression; James S. Tibby; National Reform; Outside preaching; SCOTUS; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325, 3-011 #104-05, pp. 18-19: Ensuring continued publication for the Covenanter Witness and appointing new editors, the originals having died or completed their terms; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; Financial; James S. Tibby; Synod HR. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-327 #104-06, p. 19: Commending the volunteer who helped to operate the Covenanter Witness following the senior editor’s death Covenanter Witness; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-168, 2-327 #104-07, pp. 20-21: Reaffirming positions on worship (and re-instructing members to worship only with unaccompanied psalms), on the separated life, on service to Christ, on political dissent, on avoiding wrongs that one would correct, and on establishmentarianism A cappella; Political dissent; Psalmody. #104-08, p. 21: Missionary to participate in Traveling Fund, and sending two sympathy notes Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 1-049, 2-071, 2-075, 2-083, 2-330 #104-09, p. 22: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #104-10, pp. 22-23: Reiterating #103-31 on elder resignation and recognizing one delegate claimant versus another Delegate qualifications; Resignations; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-106, 2-252, 2-275 #104-11, pp. 23-24: Appropriations on a wide variety of topics Board of Control; Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005 #104-12, pp. 25-28: Reiterating latter half of #050-05, and first clause of #055-04 (long usage now mandates grape juice); warning against voting to maintain Prohibition and against patronizing alcohol-selling businesses; ministers to support Prohibition and oppose tobacco from the pulpit; protesting against Cullen-Harrison Act, Public Law 73-3, to President Franklin Roosevelt Boycotts; Church discipline; Communion cup; CYPU; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Legal prohibition; Methodists; National Reform; Oath question; Presbytery conferences; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Slavery and race; Taxation; Tobacco; Voting; WCTU. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-161, 2-293 #104-13, pp. 29-30: Forming the Publication Board with authority over the Covenanter Witness and its editor Covenanter Witness; New agencies; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-034, 2-046, 2-051, 2-127, 2-149, 2-183, 2-207, 2-232, 2-300, 2-309 #104-14, p. 30: Thanking the volunteers who had run the Covenanter Witness since its initial editor’s death Covenanter Witness; Thanks. Ministers: 2-157 #104-15, p. 42: Authorizing RPTS student to apply for naturalization with a church-acceptable oath, as a test case; ministers to report members who might benefit from a favorable ruling James S. Tibby; Naturalization; RPTS; SCOTUS. Ministers: 2-204, 2-243, 3-220 #104-16, p. 43: Moving RP historical collection from RPTS to Geneva, but not transferring ownership Archives; Geneva library; RPTS. Ministers: 2-314 #104-17, p. 44: Urging ministers to warn members against the evils of movies Congressional petitions; Theaters. Ministers: 2-157, 2-259 #104-18, p. 45: Ministers, elders, and members interested in changes in Terms of Communion directed to petition Terms revision committee; articles on the subject may appear in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Requesting opinions; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 2-114, 2-259, 2-293 #104-19, pp. 46-47: Approving appropriations of the Mission Conference Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference. #104-20, p. 48: Temporary co-editorship for the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-046, 2-300, 2-309 #104-21, pp. 51-53: Congregations and deacons to buy new psalters in sufficient numbers; members to buy new psalters for personal use; all members to devote themselves to the Psalms; identifying and training youth skilled in music CYPU; Improving praise; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RPIC. Ministers: 2-019, 2-106, 3-156 #104-22, pp. 54-61: Presbyteries to ensure vigorous evangelism campaigns; human resources; presbyteries to form Placement Bureaus to track scattered members; concurrent Synod and CYPU Synodical in 1934; all to support preparations for 1934 CYPU Synodical Budget; Canada; Communion cup; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Great Depression; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Presbytery conferences; Pulpit exchanges; Real property; Society meetings; Synod at RPIC; Traveling Fund; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-069 #104-23, pp. 61-63: Printing reports of Bible reading successes in the Covenanter Witness ; reiterating #103-16, final clause Bible reading folders; Covenanter Witness; Great Depression; Levant missions; RPCI; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-230, 2-242 #104-24, p. 64: Congratulating a missionary who will soon be married Congratulations; Foreign missions; Mission schools. Ministers: 2-327 #104-25, p. 65: Commending Geneva’s president and board for splendid leadership Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Great Depression; James S. Tibby. Ministers: 2-114, 2-179, 2-235, 2-276 #104-26, p. 72: Commending NRA for expanding work despite the Depression; urging congregations to use NRA literature; reiterating #083-01 on ministers speaking, minus time period; human resources; RPs on the NRA board to be a committee of Synod Collections; Great Depression; New standing committees; NRA; Outside preaching. Ministers: 2-166, 2-168, 3-011 #104-27, p. 78: New standing committee, on social justice, and specifying its responsibilities; abolishing committee on international relations Abolishing standing committees; International relations; Labor and capital; New standing committees. Ministers: 2-168 #104-28, pp. 78-79: Ending seventh and eighth grades in Southern Mission school, and selling property; sending psalm selections to Jewish Mission James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Mission schools; Psalm selections; Real property; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; Selma. Ministers: 2-243, 2-258, 2-296, 3-203 #104-29, pp. 89-90: RPTS Superintendents to oversee student aid; appropriating money; commending board treasurers for frugality in the Depression Board of Control; Church erection; Directions to individuals; Graduate student aid; Great Depression; James S. Tibby; RPTS finances. Ministers: 2-204, 2-232 #104-30, pp. 116-117: Commending foreign missionaries for persevering through hard times, and urging prayer for them; FMB has done well in enforcing #103-34, first and second clauses, but more can be done Autonomous commissions; Mission schools; Self-supporting missions; Syrian Commission. Ministers: 2-057, 2-127, 2-253 #104-31, p. 129: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-260 #104-32, pp. 129-130: Reiterating #104-22 on joint meetings, and also WMF; finances are difficult, but it should be done in light of faith CYPU; Great Depression; Synod at RPIC; WMF. Ministers: 2-192, 3-011, 3-203 #104-33, p. 130: Empowering an Executive Commission to alter dates for Synod’s meeting, should an emergency arise Great Depression; Meeting schedule; New commissions. #104-34, pp. 130-132: Reiterating #103-22; urging the whole church to focus on covenant faithfulness, including preaching and conference discussions; approving Covenant-promotion groups Covenant renovation; CYPU; Psalmody; Sermon topics. Ministers: 1-034, 2-005, 2-027, 2-036, 2-043, 2-051, 2-071, 2-091, 2-127, 2-149, 2-156, 2-176, 2-253, 2-259, 2-265, 2-276, 2-314, 2-321, 2-327 #104-35, pp. 132-137: Men complying with #103-31, not their opponents, have done the right thing, approving actions of #103-01 commission and #103-31 stated supply in an exceptional situation, sending new stated supply, and Lake Reno session a commission of Synod to oversee affairs temporarily Delegate qualifications; Making exceptions; Supply preaching; Trial procedure; Winnipeg case; Lake Reno, Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-106, 2-242, 2-252, 2-275, 2-293, 3-156, 3-209 #104-36, pp. 132, 137: Members of closed mission stations to join nearby other congregations if they want to remain in the church, and it is their duty to support the church; approving a qualified oath Closing churches; Explanatory declaration; Membership transfer. Ministers: 2-106, 2-252, 2-275 #104-37, pp. 137-138: Suspending minister for refusing to comply with #104-35 Imposing discipline; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-242 #104-38, pp. 138-139: Further arrangements for Winnipeg; should #104-35 arrangements fail, HMB a commission to oversee everything Licentiates; New commissions; Supply preaching; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-242, 3-209 #104-39, p. 139: Presbytery supply committee chairmen to be clearinghouses for preaching in their presbyteries Licentiates; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-097, 2-176 #104-40, p. 140: Renaming “letters of sympathy” to “letters of remembrance”, and reporting of Presbytery-record-inspection committees Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-069 #104-41, p. 140: Amending #077-24 on composition of Mission Conference Home Mission Conference; Presbytery-appointed membership. Ministers: 2-019, 2-300 #104-42, pp. 141-142: Profit is not quite always wrong, and nationwide economic planning not quite always the best idea, urging pensions for the old and poor, giving up the gold standard, and urging federal and university acceptance of conscientious objectors for military and ROTC-type service Insurance; Methodists; Pacifism; Quakers; Social Security; Socialism. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-243 #104-43, p. 144: Specifying the position of the church to individuals desiring wine in the Lord’s Supper Canada; Communion cup; Directions to individuals; Toronto. Ministers: 2-071, 2-330 #105 — Synod of 1934 #105-01, pp. 8-9: Witness Committee to send out literature on distinctives, and members to distribute it; reiterating #079-12 on outside preaching; missionary in China to engage in similar work there China mission; Financial; Great Depression; National Reform; Synod HR; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325, 3-011 #105-02, pp. 10-12: Human resources for Covenanter Witness ; all homes to subscribe; distributing to libraries, other ministers, and non-member homes; subscribers’ clubs Covenanter Witness; Financial; Great Depression; Labor and capital; Thanks. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-232, 2-300, 2-309 #105-03, p. 13: Thanking a donor APCNA; Covenant renovation; Thanking donors. #105-04, pp. 22-24: Approving Mission Conference and Coordinating Committee appropriations Budget; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home Mission Conference; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-161 #105-05, pp. 30-31: Approving rescheduling and financial decisions of #104-33 commission Budget; CYPU; Reviewing commissions; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-071, 2-157, 2-204, 2-229 #105-06, pp. 31-32: Removing all members of the Board of Church Erection at their own request; new members shall be residents of eastern Kansas churches Church erection; Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby. Ministers: 2-036, 2-255, 2-330 #105-07, pp. 33-34: Reiterating #104-34 Covenant of 1871; Elders’Conference. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-314 #105-08, pp. 36-38: Reiterating #104-17, urging anti-movie pledge Boycotts; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance; Theaters; Youth. Ministers: 2-027, 2-157, 2-259 #105-09, pp. 38-39: Lifting #104-37 suspension Directions to individuals; Restorations; Winnipeg case. Ministers: 2-242 #105-10, pp. 39-41: Synod’s irregular actions in Winnipeg case must not be seen as precedent; restoring suspended members and resolving paperwork issues; dissolving Central Canada Presbytery and assigning its congregations to presbyteries; permitting mission station and congregation to co-exist; urging stated supply’s ordination Abolishing presbyteries; Licentiates; Making exceptions; Restorations; Reviewing commissions; Supply preaching; Winnipeg case; Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-157, 2-242, 2-325, 3-209 #105-11, pp. 47-51: Emphasizing moral problems of alcohol and tobacco; reminding officers of temperance ordination vows and urging their loyalty and their efforts to urge members to follow; temperance to be taught in all circles of the church; new slogan; protesting renewed alcohol to President Franklin Roosevelt Boycotts; Congressional bills; Constitutional amendments; CYPU; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gambling; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; Methodists; NTPC; Ordination queries; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Taxation; Tobacco; Voting. Ministers: 2-046, 2-127, 2-161, 2-293 #105-12, p. 52: Setting compensation rates for Synod delegates Traveling Fund. #105-13, pp. 53-54: Financial arrangements Bequests; Canada; Closing churches; Foreign missions; Great Depression; Home missions HR; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; Toronto. Ministers: 1-069, 2-202, 2-243 #105-14, p. 81: Congregations may not sell property without permission of Presbytery and Synod’s Trustees Property held in trust; Trustees of Synod. #105-15, pp. 81-83: Reiterating condemnations of secret societies; congregations and CYPUs to distribute anti-Masonic literature CYPU; National Christian Association; Tracts. Ministers: 2-300, 2-311, 2-325 #105-16, pp. 84-85: Costs for Bible Readers; new printing of Children’s Readers; Bible Reading Committee permitted to canvass for funds; urging ministers and sabbath school superintendents to advocate for daily Bible reading Bible reading folders; Canada; Financial; NRA. Ministers: 2-253 #105-17, pp. 85-86: Urging churches to guard sabbath-keeping, ministers to preach on the subject, and commending Lord’s Day Alliance Lord’s Day Alliance; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-168 #105-18, p. 86: Reiterating #035-01 and renewing #095-25 American Bible Society; Collections. Ministers: 2-168 #105-19, p. 88: Ending ninth and tenth grades in Southern Mission school Debt; Mission schools; Southern Mission; Selma. Ministers: 2-071, 2-223, 3-022 #105-20, p. 99: Urging continued loyalty of ministers and congregations to support Geneva; approving extension courses Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Higher-education standards; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-070, 2-094, 2-168 #105-21, p. 104: Appropriating money Canada; Financial; Home missions; Cornwallis. #105-22, pp. 105-109: Commending NRA as an agent of Christ for National Reform, and pledging cooperation; ministers and congregations to distribute sabbath-keeping literature and call for reform; taking offering and urging prayer Christian Statesman; Gambling; Geneva; Great Depression; Legal prohibition; Methodists; National Reform conventions; NRA; PCUSA; Quakers; Sabbath-keeping; Theaters; UPCNA; YMCA. Ministers: 2-160 #105-23, pp. 110-112: Continuing young people’s work under church employees’ work; human resources and financial arrangements CYPU; Devolution; New commissions; Paying ministers; Society meetings; Synod HR; Eskridge. Ministers: 2-046, 2-069, 2-071, 2-114, 2-230, 2-243 #105-24, pp. 113-115: Applying #048-12 and #093-26 to the situation in Manchuria; all may evangelize but not preach; prayer meetings but not preaching are appropriate Alcohol restrictions on all members; Closed pulpits; Manchuria mission; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Society meetings; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-131, 2-176, 2-275, 2-315 #105-25, p. 123: Philadelphia Presbytery made a commission for reviewing Syrian Commission minutes New commissions; Syrian Commission. #105-26, p. 123: Paying a bill Financial; Terms of Communion. #105-27, pp. 128-130: Urging a union presbytery for RPCI, RPCNA, and RPCS missions in the Levant; human resources; missionaries must learn local languages; only evangelicals hired for schools, and RPs as ministers; condemning Orthodox holidays, but schools may cancel then out of necessity China mission; Closed pulpits; Foreign missions HR; Holidays; Languages; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Orthodox; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-038, 2-044, 2-176, 2-179, 2-252, 3-011 #105-28, pp. 139-140: Supporting conscientious objectors and the federal arms embargo on Bolivia and Paraguay, urging a federal embargo on arms to any foreigners and a total repudiation of armed foreign intervention, reiterating #099-10 on the court, urging unilateral arms reduction and commitment to foreign social justice, and pledging to work for Christian socialism Government communications; Kellogg-Briand Pact; Latin America; Socialism; Wars. Ministers: 2-005, 2-070, 2-160, 2-168, 2-203 #105-29, p. 140: Reiterating #104-39, presbyteries to take much care of vacancies, and vacancies to obtain as much preaching as possible Licentiates; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-192, 2-296, 3-175 #105-30, pp. 140-141: Thanking the Winona Lake PCUSA for its assistance during Synod PCUSA; Thanks. Ministers: 2-005 #105-31, p. 141: Commending Henry Lester Smith for winning the presidency of the National Education Association and for supporting biblical education and international peace Pacifism; Bloomington. Ministers: 2-291 #105-32, p. 141: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Sine titulo. Ministers: 2-296, 3-220 #106 — Synod of 1935 #106-01, pp. 8-11: All sessions to study Covenant of 1871 in order to heed it better, and presbyteries to form Covenant Promotion Committees to aid in this purpose Anti-Catholicism; Covenant of 1871; Creation; Great Depression; Holidays; International relations; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Modernism; Paying ministers; Paying missionaries; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Voting for constitutional amendments; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-091, 2-161, 2-182, 3-203 #106-02, pp. 12-14: Reiterating #104-17; cooperating with other organizations fighting evil in movies; urging congregations to supply alternate entertainments; ministers to exemplify means of uplifting moral and ethical standards Boycotts; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; News media; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance; Theaters; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-157 #106-03, pp. 15-17: Witness Committee to cooperate as far as possible with organizations sharing principles; ministers to visit state capitals to oppose teacher-oath laws American Legion; ARPC; Communism; Interchurch; Legislative petitions; Teachers’oaths; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-229, 2-275, 2-325 #106-04, pp. 17-21: Deploring legal alcohol, reiterating #050-05 on the only possible safe positions, urging renewed anti-tobacco fight; protesting alcohol and narcotic advertising to President Franklin Roosevelt, Federal Alcohol Control Commission Director Joseph H. Choate, Jr., and Federal Communications Commission Chairman Anning Prall; ministers and sabbath schools to teach temperance Covenanter Witness; Drugs; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government communications; Insurance; Legal prohibition; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Taxation; Tobacco restrictions on officers; WCTU. Ministers: 2-046, 2-114, 2-161 #106-05, pp. 22-24: Human resources for the Covenanter Witness , and congregational club rates Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Great Depression; Sabbath schools; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-034, 2-046, 2-127, 2-300, 2-309 #106-06, pp. 32-34: Reiterating #035-01, plus its plans; Universal Bible Sabbath; delegate to Society advisory council Africa; American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Church history; Directions to individuals; Disability; Holidays; Latin America; Philippines. Ministers: 2-275, 2-276 #106-07, pp. 34-36: Approving Mission Conference appropriations; all aid-receiving congregations to report to HMB monthly; all congregations urged to hold weekly prayer meetings; reiterating #105-10 Congregational aid; Home Mission Conference; Society meetings; Winnipeg case. Ministers: 3-220 #106-08, pp. 36-38: Ascertaining budget; church officers to emphasize tithing; endorsing Belmont Covenant Tither Plan and Every Member Canvass; publishing tithing articles in Covenanter Witness , and reiterating #105-02, second clause Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005 #106-09, p. 39: Candidates must not be licensed or ordained without attending RPTS for at least one year Attending other seminaries; Licentiates. #106-10, pp. 39-41: Approving development of new CYPU study topics curriculum, and Covenanter Witness to participate China mission; Construction; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Paying missionaries; Presbytery conferences. Ministers: 2-071, 3-156 #106-11, pp. 44-49: Commending NRA; ministers and congregations urged to cooperate with NRA events and distribute The Day (OCLC 2845333); appointing collections, urging bequests, and adopting sabbath-keeping program; human resources Christian Statesman; CYPU; Gambling; Interchurch; International Sunday School Lessons; Legal prohibition; Methodists; National Reform conventions; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics; Sports; Theaters; UPCNA; WCTU; WTS. Ministers: 2-051, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-243 #106-12, p. 50: Thanking the minister of Beaver Falls’ First PCUSA for opening his church to a union worship service PCUSA; Thanks. #106-13, p. 50: Sending copies of Synod’s docket to foreign missionaries Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Foreign missions. Ministers: 2-327 #106-14, p. 52: Paying a bill Financial. #106-15, p. 52: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Sine titulo; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-149, 2-259, 2-325, 3-046 #106-16, p. 53: Reiterating #083-09 Holidays; Sabbath schools. #106-17, pp. 53-54: Endorsing adjustment to RPTS curriculum and authorizing financial changes Higher-education standards; RPTS finances. Ministers: 2-168, 2-252, 3-203 #106-18, pp. 56-58: Adjusting scope of Finance Committee; financial arrangements; Mutual Insurance plan Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Foreign missions; Geneva faculty; Insurance; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; RPWA; Rules and organization; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-127, 2-182, 2-309 #106-19, p. 86: Urging the church’s increased attention toward and prayers for Geneva Geneva faculty. Ministers: 2-091, 2-296 #106-20, pp. 94-95: Human resources and financial arrangements for foreign missions [one omitted; see 1936 minutes, page 5]; clarifying #105-01 on China Alawites; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-243, 3-011, 3-143 #106-21, pp. 104-105: Abolishing position of Home Missionary Secretary but commending incumbent’s efforts; Pacific Coast Presbytery to handle new work; financial arrangements Debt; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; Cache Creek, San Diego. Ministers: 2-069, 2-114, 2-222, 2-253 #106-22, p. 113: Reiterating #104-39; HMB and presbyteries to use unemployed ministers in church planting Church planting; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-176, 2-179, 3-116 #106-23, pp. 113-114: Financial arrangements; Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #106-24, pp. 114-115: Paying bills; giving Bible reading awards without selling readers; advocating Bible reading from the pulpit, in the sabbath school, and in literature Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-230, 2-253 #106-25, pp. 116-117: Rejoicing in the influence of psalmody and the lack of modernism in the RPCNA; psalm explanations to be done carefully, not superficially Biblical inerrancy; Modernism; Psalm explanations. Ministers: 1-034, 2-276, 2-314 #106-26, p. 122: Paying a bill Licentiates; Southern Mission; Traveling Fund. #106-27, pp. 123-125: Legally required teachers’ oaths may be sworn if qualified Civil War; Communism; Covenant of 1871; Explanatory declaration; Naturalization; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-034, 2-229, 2-259 #106-28, p. 126: Extending #105-28, first clause, to include those dissenting from compulsory military training Construction; Pacifism. Ministers: 2-063 #106-29, p. 126: Research committees may use Synod funds for printing reports [accidentally omitted; see final page of index] Financial. #106-30, pp. 127-128: Parents, officers, and sabbath school teachers must teach sabbath-keeping; reiterating #095-21, final clause Donations; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 2-168 #106-31, p. 128: Granting letters of standing Directions to individuals; Membership transfer. Ministers: 2-149, 2-259, 2-325, 2-330 #106-32, p. 129: Chairman of the Co-ordinating Committee to conduct its meetings at Synod Rules and organization. #106-33, p. 129: Honorarium for R.A.M. Steele, Synod’s long-time precentor Financial; Improving praise. #106-34, p. 131: HMB to consider hiring a full-time employee for advocating stewardship, and sabbath schools committee given money to spend Home missions HR; Sabbath schools; Tithing. Ministers: 2-243 #106-35, p. 131: Petitioning President Franklin Roosevelt to appoint a national day of repentance and prayer Directions to individuals; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Holidays; Presidential communications. Ministers: 2-275 #107 — Synod of 1936 #107-01, p. 8: Sending copies of Synod’s docket to foreign missionaries Docket and digest; Foreign missions. #107-02, pp. 8-15: Financial arrangements; urging mission-history budgets for church society study; Levant commissions permitted to add to their own membership; urging medical missionaries to return to China Alawites; American Bible Society; Autonomous commissions; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Great Depression; Languages; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Real property; RPCI; RPCS; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; South China Presbytery; Syrian Presbytery; WMF. Ministers: 2-168, 3-011, 5-007 #107-03, p. 16: Petitioning Congress to open its sessions Monday-Saturday only Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-156, 2-160, 2-330 #107-04, pp. 16, 91-93: Witness Committee may spend money; urging ministers to preach on distinctives; elders to find outside preaching opportunities A cappella; Close communion; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Fascism; Financial; Gambling; James S. Tibby; Legal prohibition; National Reform; Outside preaching; Pacifism; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Teachers’oaths; Tracts; Witness work; World government. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #107-05, pp. 16, 96-98: Removing and replacing all members of the Sabbath Schools Committee at their own request; expanding scope to include VBS, and renaming to Christian Education Committee; reiterating #083-09 ARPC; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Holidays; International Sunday School Lessons; Parental responsibilities; PCUSA; Renaming; Statistics; UPCNA; VBS. Ministers: 2-253, 2-259, 2-330, 3-203 #107-06, pp. 16, 93-96: Legalizing alcohol is a covenant with death and hell, making the government guilty; reiterating #050-05 on the only possible safe positions; temperance education in sabbath schools and CYPUs Church discipline; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Legal prohibition; News media; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-114, 2-161 #107-07, p. 19: New standing committee, on evangelism, and specifying eligibility for membership Evangelism; New standing committees; Presbytery-appointed membership. Ministers: 2-300 #107-08, pp. 19-20: Reiterating #092-20, final clause; cooperating with American Bible Society American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Collections; Holidays. Ministers: 2-275 #107-09, pp. 31-33: Reminding youth that secret-society membership violates the Testimony Secret societies; Testimony; Youth. Ministers: 2-106, 2-204 #107-10, pp. 34-36: Adopting Mission Conference appropriations; no supplements to congregations not working actively, paying their pastors fully, or Every Member Canvassing Congregational aid; Directions to individuals; Every Member Canvass; Home Mission Conference; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-296 #107-11, pp. 36-37: Appropriations for Coordinating Committee; setting a target giving goal; presbyteries to hold conferences to raise interest in giving Board of Control; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-255 #107-12, p. 38: Sending fraternal delegates to the Church of the Brethren [page 33, peace-movement delegates received from Brethren, Quakers, and Mennonites] Church of the Brethren; Financial; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 2-327 #107-13, pp. 38-39: Reiterating #092-14, first clause; Synod’s memorial service to include elders who served on church boards Parental responsibilities; RPTS finances; Rules and organization; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 2-034, 2-183, 2-318 #107-14, pp. 41-44: Young People’s Secretary to seek out members ready to serve the church; preparing lantern slides for church use; CYPU conferences to focus on church work; ministers to teach promising youth; paying a bill Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Levant missions; Medical missions; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 2-071 #107-15, pp. 44-50: Commending NRA and its sabbath-keeping advocacy; ministers urged to cooperate with NRA representatives and preach on National Reform; appointing giving; human resources Christian Statesman; Collections; Communism; CRCNA; CYPU; Gambling; Interchurch; Methodists; National Reform conventions; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Sports; Temperance; Theaters; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-051, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160 #107-16, p. 50: Sending a speaker on request by Manchester College Church of the Brethren. Ministers: 2-044 #107-17, p. 51: Protesting President Franklin Roosevelt’s sabbath-breaking and commending Kansas Governor Alf Landon for sabbath-keeping Directions to individuals; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-300 #107-18, p. 57: Publishing a list of this year’s Synod actions requiring action, and presbyteries to study officers’ and members’ adherence to them; presbyteries to enforce covenant-keeping; individuals given transfer letters remain members of the transferring congregation until transfer is accepted Church discipline; Covenanter Witness; Digest of deliverances; Directions to individuals; Membership transfer. Ministers: 2-094, 2-205, 2-230 #107-19, p. 58: Abolishing standing committee on supplies; HMB to assume its responsibilities. Board and presbytery supply committees to cooperate in supplying congregations and employing ministers Abolishing standing committees; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-063, 3-116, 3-209 #107-20, pp. 60-61: Financial arrangements; reminding the church of the importance of parsonages and of the Ministerial Relief and the Widows’ and Orphans’ Funds; urging continued support of the RP Home Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Pensions; RP Home. Ministers: 2-069, 2-207, 2-314 #107-21, p. 61: Appropriating money Bequests; Church erection. #107-22, pp. 62-67: Congregations to provide parsonages whenever possible; aid-receiving congregations must demonstrate tithing and evidence of seeking self-support; Synod’s budget must be balanced; rejecting #106-34 Canada; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Forms; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Mission schools; Outside preaching; Parsonages; PCUSA; Psalmody; Society meetings; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Synod HR; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; VBS; WCTU; WMF. Ministers: 2-325 #107-23, p. 68: Abolishing Mission Conference and assigning its responsibilities to HMB Abolishing agencies; Home Mission Conference. Ministers: 2-168 #107-24, p. 68: Mission board reports to be discussed by Synod directly, without reference to committees Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-036 #107-25, pp. 70-71: Urging greater attention to evangelism, especially to families; organizing evangelism teams; mission sabbath schools; distributing evangelistic tracts; financial arrangements Conferences at Synod; Decline; Evangelism; Financial; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Tracts. Ministers: 2-036, 2-069, 2-179, 2-183, 2-192, 2-207, 2-259, 2-279, 2-296, 2-314, 3-156 #107-26, p. 72: Reiterating #106-24, minus literature; premiums for Bible readers; financial arrangement Bible reading folders; Canada; Financial; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Mission schools; RPCI. Ministers: 2-253 #107-27, p. 73: Appropriating money CYPU; Financial. #107-28, p. 77: Indefinitely postponing action on the concept of limited-term pastorates Limited-term pastorates. #107-29, p. 78: Declining to apply Levitical laws to the present day Real property. #107-30, p. 78: Reaffirming position on mandatory total abstinence Alcohol restrictions on all members. Ministers: 2-044, 2-315 #107-31, pp. 79-82: All members to be given copies of the Covenant of 1871 and urged to study and keep it; ministers and elders to lead in understanding of it; breaking it violates the Third Commandment Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; Decline; Sermon topics; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-091, 2-161, 2-182, 3-203 #107-32, pp. 83-85: Church must convince society of the evils of current movies and of the possible benefits of the technology if used properly Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Theaters. Ministers: 2-207 #107-33, pp. 85-86: Reiterating #106-08 on Belmont Plan and canvassing Covenanter Witness; Tithing. Ministers: 2-243, 2-321 #107-34, pp. 87-88: Appropriating money Financial; Sabbath schools; Thanks. #108 — Synod of 1937 #108-01, p. 7: Reiterating #103-02 Donations; Sabbath schools; Tracts. #108-02, pp. 9, 95-97: Witness Committee may spend money; reiterating #079-12 on outside preaching; maintenance of distinctives preserves the truth and prevents division; praying for success A cappella; Abraham Lincoln; Close communion; Covenant theology; Financial; Premillennialism; Psalmody; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Testimony; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-157, 2-179, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #108-03, p. 11: Commending Pittsburgh Presbytery’s clerk for his careful work; renaming Rochester Presbytery to St. Lawrence Presbytery Renaming; Thanks. Ministers: 2-243 #108-04, p. 22: Reiterating #107-18 on list of actions Digest of deliverances; Directions to individuals. #108-05, pp. 22, 105-111: All aid-receiving congregations to insert reversionary clauses in their deeds; selling Selma school property; various financial arrangements Bequests; Canada; Civil War; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Every Member Canvass; Home Mission Conference; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Mission schools; Paying ministers; Property held in trust; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-325 #108-06, pp. 22, 83-85: Ministers to report on religious instruction in their communities and train leaders for instruction; considering a department of Christian education in Geneva and RPTS; appropriating money Communism; Financial; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Lutherans; Release time; RPTS; Sabbath schools; UPCNA; VBS. Ministers: 2-149, 2-259, 3-022, 3-203 #108-07, pp. 22, 80-81: Using evangelistic tracts, paying bills, reiterating #107-25 on evangelism teams Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Financial; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Tracts. Ministers: 2-069, 2-179, 2-183, 2-192, 2-207, 2-259, 2-279, 3-156 #108-08, p. 23: Letters of sympathy Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Telecommunications. #108-09, p. 24: Selling the Young People’s Manual (OCLC 10433931) CYPU; Financial; Publications. Ministers: 2-205 #108-10, pp. 24, 81-83: Financial arrangements, urging adoption of new tithing plan; financial needs to be published in Covenanter Witness Board of Control; Budget; Collections; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPWA; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Temperance; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-063, 2-069, 2-094, 2-183, 2-205, 2-230, 2-252, 2-253, 2-291, 2-300, 2-327, 3-220 #108-11, pp. 24, 97-105: Reiterating #107-01, final clause; financial arrangements; urging giving for missions; recommending study of mission history Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Canvassing; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Fascism; Great Depression; Home visitation; International relations; Islam; Languages; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Presbytery conferences; Real property; RPCI; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Slavery and race; South China Presbytery; Syrian Presbytery; Witness work. Ministers: 2-168 #108-12, pp. 24-26: Appropriating money; holding the 1938 CYPU convention Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Financial; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 2-179 #108-13, pp. 26, 111-120: Commending NRA; urging donations; ministers to preach on National Reform, serve as activists, and report names of potential members; prayer for NRA; human resources ARPC; Christian Statesman; Collections; Communism; CYPU; Dancing; Fascism; Gambling; Great Depression; Legal prohibition; Legislative petitions; Methodists; National Reform conventions; NRA; Outside preaching; Pacifism; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen; Theaters; UPCNA; WMF. Ministers: 2-051, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-243 #108-14, pp. 26, 120-123: Numerous social problems are partly the church’s responsibility; renouncing violence and class warfare; supporting democracy; advocacy for Christian amendment; Bible studies for National Reform; evangelism Debt; Great Depression; Health and medicine; Interchurch; Labor and capital; Methodists; National Reform; Poor relief; Real property; Sermon topics; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-243 #108-15, pp. 27, 127-131: All members to live out their testimony for exclusive psalmody; urging attention to congregational singing and music practice; ministers to urge psalm study in their explanations; urging the young to commit to psalmody; this report to be published Church history; Improving praise; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Witness work; Youth. Ministers: 2-019, 2-046, 2-202 #108-16, p. 27: Approving a new psalter selections book Financial; Psalm selections. Ministers: 2-071 #108-17, p. 28: Reiterating #107-30 Alcohol restrictions on all members. Ministers: 2-043, 2-091, 2-168, 2-205, 2-325 #108-18, pp. 28, 76-80: Commending WCTU and American Business Men’s Research Foundation of Chicago; protest and commendation letters to President Franklin Roosevelt, Attorney General Homer Cummings, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes, Federal Alcohol Administration Administrator W.S. Alexander; congregations to advocate temperance on outdoor signage; reiterating testimony against alcohol, #104-12 (but making it optional), and anti-tobacco; leaders to study temperance and sabbath schools to advocate it Acts of Congress; Boycotts; Collections; Constitutional amendments; Covenanter Witness; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government communications; Holidays; Legal prohibition; News media; NTPC; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Tobacco; WCTU; Youth. Ministers: 2-046, 2-114, 2-161, 3-044 #108-19, pp. 28-29: Social Justice Committee to include a young man to be a liaison between CYPU and Synod; rejecting prohibition of war service without Synod permission, and rejecting an absolute anti-war declaration Agency membership; CYPU; Labor and capital; Overtures; Pacifism. Ministers: 1-034, 2-034, 2-044, 2-051, 2-168 #108-20, p. 29: Permitting exemption from #106-09 and sine titulo ordination for future missionary who had attended Westminster Seminary Attending other seminaries; Foreign missions HR; Sine titulo; WTS. Ministers: 3-090 #108-21, pp. 29-31: Confirming Cyprus Commission decision in judicial case; congregation, not session or deacons, has ultimate authority over spending; membership of minister attempting to transfer to another presbytery, which refuses him; non-members must agree with all Terms of Communion if taking the sacrament Congregationalism; Diaconate; Eldership; Judicial cases; Levant missions; Licentiates; Membership transfer; South China Presbytery; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 1-034, 2-235, 3-143 #108-22, p. 31: Commending Geneva Trustees’ decisions on athletics, business and music departments, and Christian standards, and paying for college psalters Financial; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Sports. Ministers: 2-179, 2-252, 3-205 #108-23, pp. 31-32: Urging, sabbath schools and ministers to urge, and church to pray for, young men to pursue the ministry; approving RPTS Superintendents’ human resources and location decisions Parental responsibilities; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-149, 2-202, 3-046 #108-24, pp. 32-33: Financial arrangements; Board of Church Erection to aid in securing parsonages, and urging indebted churches to pay their debts to the Board Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Debt; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-039, 2-070, 2-275 #108-25, pp. 33-34, 85-86: Selling bonds to pay for opening Synod’s own printing facility China mission; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Labor and capital; Levant missions; Service Print Shop; Society meetings; Synod HR; Tracts; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-046 #108-26, pp. 34-35: Financial arrangements; ministers, sessions, and sabbath schools to urge the use of Synod’s Bible Readers Bible reading folders; Financial; Indian Mission; RPCI; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-230, 2-253 #108-27, pp. 37-38: Arrangements for attending the RPCS Tercentenary Conference, and paying a bill Church history; Financial; UK conference. Ministers: 2-005 #108-28, pp. 38-39: Commending American Bible Society and its new building; urging congregational contributions American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Financial; Holidays; Real property. #108-29, pp. 39-40: New form for dismissing members, replacing forms for transfers and letters of standing, and sending copies to all sessions Forms; Membership transfer. Ministers: 2-243, 2-300 #108-30, pp. 40-41: Sending down in overture new Terms of Communion and Covenant of Church Membership, and paying a bill COCM; Financial; Overtures, new; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 2-046, 2-051, 2-071, 2-156, 2-204, 2-205, 2-243, 2-259, 2-325 #108-31, pp. 41-46: Re-urging a test case on the oath, and securing legal counsel; the church to pray for a successful conclusion Communism; Fascism; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Naturalization; Pacifism; Political office; Quakers; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #108-32, pp. 46-47: Commission to publish confession of sin; ministers to preach on covenant loyalty, and Covenanter Witness to publish articles on it; weekly studies on confession of sin; 1938 to be “Covenant Loyalty Year” and covenants studied in conferences; 17-24 April to be a communion season church-wide Church history; Covenant renovation; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Holidays; New commissions; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Sermon topics; Synod communion. Ministers: 2-276, 2-309 #108-33, pp. 48-49: Ministers to pay attention to developments in cinema and warn members accordingly; discouraging movie-going Boycotts; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Sabbath-keeping; Theaters. Ministers: 2-157, 2-207, 2-259 #108-34, pp. 49-50: Sessions to promote “Tithers’ Leagues” in congregations Internal organizations; Tithing. Ministers: 2-243, 2-321 #108-35, p. 52: Financial aid for a new printing of A Study in Standards (OCLC 650885346) Financial; Publications. Ministers: 2-205 #108-36, p. 52: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #108-37, pp. 52-53: Appropriating money Conferences at Synod; Financial; Thanks. #109 — Synod of 1938 #109-01, p. 17: Amending #090-13 (now 500 words) and expanding it to non-ministerial workers Rules and organization. #109-02, pp. 19-21: Reiterating #108-25 on printing facility, but appropriating money instead of selling bonds; urging prayer for the Covenanter Witness Bequests; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Debt; Geneva; Minutes of Synod; RP Home; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Service Print Shop; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-046 #109-03, p. 21: Levant commissions’ reports to be assigned to FMB and to be printed in Synod’s minutes Levant missions; Reviewing commissions; Rules and organization. #109-04, pp. 22-23: Schedule for ministers preaching on distinctives; reiterating #079-12 on outside preaching; urging bequests to Witness Committee; out-of-bounds members to distribute literature, including tracts, to be given free A cappella; Bequests; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-157, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #109-05, p. 24: Greeting absent elderly minister and missionaries Absences; Directions to individuals; Manchuria mission; Telecommunications. Ministers: 1-069, 2-070, 2-315, 2-330 #109-06, pp. 24-35: Reiterating #107-01, final clause; new Manchuria commission, which is to handle all purely ecclesiastical matters; human resources; RPCI/RPCS to take over Mersin; permitting two ordinations sine titulo; sabbath schools and CYPU to give to missions; financial arrangements Africa; American Bible Society; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Bequests; Church erection; Colonies; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; Foreign missions HR; Geneva; Languages; Manchuria mission; Mission schools; New commissions; Paying missionaries; RPCI; RPCS; Sabbath schools; Second Sino-Japanese War; Sine titulo; South China Presbytery; Syrian Commission; VBS; WTS; YMCA. Ministers: 2-179, 2-315, 2-327, 3-070, 3-083, 3-090, 4-284 #109-07, pp. 36-40: All congregations to advocate for temperance, silence being cowardly; opposing alcohol advertising in public libraries; urging the use of an Anti-Tobacco Covenant Congressional petitions; CYPU; Drugs; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government communications; Great Depression; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Sabbath schools; Taxation; Temperance organizations; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 2-222, 3-044 #109-08, pp. 41-46: Home mission budget and congregational supplements Church erection; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Indian Mission; Mission schools; Parsonages; Southern Mission; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-325 #109-09, pp. 47-48: Appropriating money for Jewish Mission Anti-Catholicism; Financial; Jewish missions; Languages; Public transportation; Sabbath-keeping; Theaters. #109-10, p. 58: Letter of sympathy Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-070 #109-11, p. 58: Sending a fraternal delegate to the ARPC ARPC; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 2-258 #109-12, pp. 58-60: Ministers and elders to cooperate with Christian Education Committee and try new fields of work in Christian education; appropriating money Financial; Sabbath schools; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-149, 2-259, 3-022, 3-203 #109-13, pp. 60-62: Church to pray for evangelism; pastors to preach the gospel; special evangelistic meetings, mission sabbath schools, evangelism teams, and community canvassing; urging workers to adopt Child Evangelism Fellowship plans; adopting wider variety of tracts; appropriating money Evangelism; Financial; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Short-term missions; Soteriology; Tracts; Youth. Ministers: 2-069, 2-183, 2-192, 2-207, 2-259, 2-296, 2-321, 3-044, 3-156, 3-209 #109-14, pp. 62-63: Approving Coordinating Committee grants, including transportation aid for RPs attending Geneva; presbyteries reminded to send committeemen Board of Control; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-230 #109-15, pp. 65-68: Position paper on redistribution of wealth: the Bible approves work, not speculation; the Bible plans work for all; when the church cannot be supported, economic justice is a religious issue Debt; Great Depression; Labor and capital; Methodists; Real property; Sabbath-keeping; Taxation; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-243 #109-16, pp. 70-71: Teachers’, naturalization, and passport oaths may be taken, but only if qualified; urging ministers and members to oppose teachers’ oath legislation Explanatory declaration; Naturalization; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-243 #109-17, pp. 71-77: Congratulating NRA on its 75th anniversary; urging ministers and elders to support NRA programs and oppose alcohol advertisements; special collection, and ministers to preach on NRA; Christian Statesman subscriptions; human resources; urging constant prayer Anti-Catholicism; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Communism; Fascism; Holidays; Interchurch; LDS; Legal prohibition; Methodists; Modernism; National Reform conventions; NRA; NTPC; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping organizations; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 2-051, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-243 #109-18, pp. 78-79: Reiterating #108-26 Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-230, 2-253 #109-19, p. 84: Sending copies of the RPIC program booklet to foreign missionaries Foreign missions; Publications; RPIC. #109-20, p. 84: Ministers and congregations to pray for more ministerial candidates, and RPTS professors to write on the subject; Superintendents authorized to hire interim professor and bring in other lecturers Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Paying RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-069, 3-133 #109-21, p. 91: Urging all, even the world, to remember that Christ’s program is the solution for all human problems Outside communications. Ministers: 3-175 #109-22, p. 92: Covenant of Church Membership to be taken publicly by new members before the congregation, but sessional examination not to be forsaken; repealing #108-21, final clause; considering ordaining women as elders COCM; Construction; Elements of worship; Terms of Communion; Women elders. Ministers: 2-083, 2-166, 3-209 #109-23, pp. 92-93: Converting ministers’ life insurance and other funds into a pension plan, and related financial arrangements Bequests; Insurance; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-051, 2-094, 2-325 #109-24, p. 94: Temperance Committee to publish paper related to #107-30 (OCLC 37821889), but not as Synod’s official position; use of alcohol, like opium, damages the body and thus violates the Sixth Commandment; missionary to exercise his own judgement on rice wine in Manchuria Alcohol restrictions on all members; China mission; Drugs; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 2-222, 2-315, 2-325, 3-044 #109-25, p. 94: Affirming current Chapter XXII, Section 6 of the Declaration and Testimony, and associated passages Alcohol restrictions on all members; Testimony. Ministers: 2-325 #109-26, pp. 94-96: Reaffirming #090-09, first clause, and adopting two proposed expansions Church history; National Reform; Oath question. Ministers: 1-034, 2-071, 2-203 #109-27, p. 97: Publishing new psalter selections (#108-16) once enough orders have been received Covenanter Witness; Psalm selections. Ministers: 2-069, 2-071 #109-28, pp. 97-110: Financial arrangements for #108-32 commission; approving their confession and their plans for a special congregation to hold communion at Synod in 1938 A cappella; Anti-Catholicism; Biblical inerrancy; Church history; Church union; Communion cup; Communism; Covenant renovation; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Family worship; Fascism; Financial; First World War; Gambling; Holidays; League of Nations and UN; Membership transfer; Modernism; Premillennialism; Psalm explanations; Reviewing commissions; RPCI; RPCS; Sabbath-keeping; Special services; Synod at RPIC; Synod communion; Synod-organized congregations; Telecommunications; Temperance; Terms of Communion; Tobacco; WMF. Ministers: 2-005, 2-051, 2-176, 2-179, 2-235, 2-243 #109-29, p. 111: Reiterating #092-20, final clause; cooperating with American Bible Society on a specific date American Bible Society; Financial; Holidays. Ministers: 3-022 #109-30, p. 112: Adopting #108-30 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 2-002, 2-083, 2-156 #109-31, pp. 112-113: Appropriating money; Oath Committee permitted to secure legal counsel Bequests; Oath question. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #109-32, pp. 113-115: Commending loan repayment; psalters to be priced at cost; other financial arrangements Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Covenant renovation; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Directions to individuals; Geneva finances; Jewish missions; NRA; Oath question; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-207, 2-223, 3-116 #109-33, p. 115: Thanking a donor Bequests; Directions to individuals; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-070, 2-330 #109-34, pp. 116-119: Members to inform themselves about Masonic attitudes toward Christianity; ministers and teachers to fight secret societies; providing additional anti-Masonic literature Secret societies; Sermon topics; Witness work. Ministers: 2-091, 2-205, 2-252 #109-35, p. 119: Conferring with labor unions to secure concessions for RPs working in unionized industries Labor and capital. Ministers: 2-044 #109-36, p. 121: Stated Clerk’s report to be sent to Evangelism Committee before Synod’s meeting Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Evangelism. #109-37, p. 121: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #109-38, p. 121: Printing Terms of Communion and Covenant of Church Membership in a form useful for pasting in Bibles and psalters COCM; Publications; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 3-209 #110 — Synod of 1939 #110-01, pp. 17-20: Continuing Witness Committee literature distribution and public speaking, with a focus on recognition of Christ; each congregation to be a center for National Reform; continuing to work for this goal A cappella; Decline; Financial; National Reform; Oath question; Outside preaching; Political office; Psalmody; Secret societies; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-043, 2-094, 2-156, 2-157, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #110-02, p. 20: Preparing a leaflet for petitioning legislators Legislative petitions; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-043, 2-094, 2-156, 2-157, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #110-03, pp. 20-23: Petitioning Vice-President John Nance Garner and Senators Edwin Johnson and Arthur Capper to support bills (76 S. 517 and 76 S. 575) to restrict alcohol advertising; members to write senators urging passage of S. 517; reiterating opposition to alcohol sales; total abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, etc. for health reasons; financial arrangements Alcohol restrictions on all members; Congressional bills; Covenanter Witness; Drugs; Financial; Holidays; Legislative petitions; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Specific congressmen; Telecommunications; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 2-222, 3-044 #110-04, pp. 24-27: Urging prayers for the Service Print Shop (#108-25), at which all Synod publications are to be printed, and urging other church printing being done there; CYPUs urged to pay for Covenanter Witness being sent to libraries; Board of Publication to make editorial arrangements Bequests; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Methodists; PCUSA; Resignations; RPWA; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-309 #110-05, pp. 29-30: Continuing tract and leaflet printing; reiterating #109-13, second clause; ministers to enlist others in evangelism Evangelism; Sermon topics; Tracts. Ministers: 2-069, 2-192, 2-259, 2-296, 3-156 #110-06, pp. 30, 100: Approving the principle of the Presbyterian Ministers’ Fund; Trustees and Pension Committee given discretion to join the plan; thanking Carol Loebel and Alexander Machie of the Fund for their speech to Synod Devolution; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-094, 2-204, 2-230 #110-07, pp. 31-40: Reiterating #109-06 on Manchuria; human resources; prayer for China, and petitioning President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull to oppose Japanese aggression in China; urging contributions for war refugees; thanking American Mission to Lepers for funding church leper hospital Africa; Alawites; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Bequests; Church history; Colonies; CYPU; Donations; Drugs; Fascism; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gambling; Geneva; Holidays; Languages; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Orthodox; Paying missionaries; Presidential communications; Real property; Sabbath schools; Second Sino-Japanese War; Second World War; South China Presbytery; WMF. Ministers: 2-010, 2-015, 2-038, 2-168, 2-315, 3-008, 3-070, 3-090, 4-284, 5-007 #110-08, p. 51: Reiterating #098-13 on docket Docket and digest; Foreign missions. #110-09, p. 51: Congratulating Synod’s treasurer on his birthday and thanking him for his service Congratulations; James S. Tibby; Thanks. #110-10, pp. 51-53: Commending ministers and teachers for education work; ministers to emphasize Christian education; financial arrangements CYPU; Financial; Interchurch; Release time; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Temperance; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 2-259, 3-022, 3-203 #110-11, p. 53: Abolishing committee on evangelism; HMB to form an evangelism committee under its inspection Abolishing standing committees; Home missions. #110-12, p. 53: Preparing certificates of baptisms; giving baptism booklets to new parents and young adolescent baptized members; Covenanter Witness to publish articles on baptism Baptism; Church membership; Covenanter Witness; Forms. #110-13, pp. 61-64: CYPU committee to prepare study topics; urging CYPUs to contribute to missions; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Paying missionaries; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; RPIC; Special services. #110-14, pp. 65-66: Ministers and Covenanter Witness to draw attention to church budget needs; preparing posters on church work for all congregations Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-243, 2-300, 3-133 #110-15, pp. 71-72: Reiterating #108-15; holding Psalm Festivals (psalm sings), urging congregations to buy enough psalters for everyone Improving praise; Psalmody; Special services. Ministers: 2-255, 3-203, 3-207 #110-16, pp. 74-75: Printing testimonies of Bible Reader use in the Covenanter Witness ; new Children’s Reader for schoolchildren; reiterating #108-26 Bible reading folders; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Levant missions; RPCI; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-230, 2-253 #110-17, pp. 75-76: Commending congregations for repaying loans; printing new edition of the psalter (OCLC 23018838) Church erection; Debt; Psalter editions. Ministers: 2-057, 2-094, 2-318 #110-18, pp. 99-100: Memorial service to be held in the second session of Synod; including elders and ministers’ wives; no need for minutes on ordinary board members; replacing Memorial Address with psalm and prayer Church history; Docket and digest; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-039, 2-156 #110-19, pp. 101-102: Reiterating #102-01 Languages; Latin America; Tracts. Ministers: 2-168 #110-20, pp. 102-105: Endorsing an explanatory declaration and its use; Oath Committee to produce an alternative form if the law renders this declaration unnecessary; sending report to all ministers Bequests; Explanatory declaration; James S. Tibby; Naturalization; Political office; Quakers; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #110-21, pp. 105-106: Eligibility of men for licensure, procedures for licensure, ordination, and installation, and installing already-ordained men Book of Discipline; Candidate examinations; Licentiates. Ministers: 2-005, 2-071, 2-325 #110-22, pp. 107-108: New queries for licensure, ordination, and installation; publication arrangements Covenant of 1871; Diaconate; Eldership; Licentiates; Strict subscription; Vow 8; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-083, 2-243 #110-23, pp. 112-114: Urging ministers to study application of the Bible in current political and economic situations; Great Depression is punishment for alcohol traffic, sabbath-breaking, etc.; economic institutions and businesses can themselves be sinful; petitioning Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Senator Key Pittman for arms embargo on Japan Government communications; Great Depression; Labor and capital; Legal prohibition; Pacifism; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Second Sino-Japanese War; Second World War; Slavery and race; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-044, 2-160, 2-243 #110-24, p. 114: Condemning a proposed new calendar with an eight-day week; protesting to Calendar Reform Committee Outside communications; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-005 #110-25, p. 118: Abolishing standing committees on RPTS and Geneva; board reports be submitted directly to Synod Abolishing standing committees; Geneva; RPTS; Rules and organization. #110-26, p. 119: Traveling Fund administration Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #110-27, pp. 119-120: Praying for more RPTS students; each professor to write for Covenanter Witness on the ministry; reiterating #109-20 on guest lecturers Covenanter Witness; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 2-034, 2-161, 2-253 #110-28, pp. 121, 132: HMB to emphasize evangelism; Book of Discipline to include instructions on purging rolls while leaving details to sessions; printing a discussion; publishing elders’ addresses in minutes of Synod Book of Discipline; Covenanter Witness; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Minutes of Synod; Purging rolls. Ministers: 2-202 #110-29, pp. 121-128: Commending NRA effort; reiterating #107-15 on cooperation and preaching; taking special offering; urging prayer Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; Gambling; Great Depression; James S. Tibby; Legal prohibition; National Reform conventions; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-051, 2-159, 2-160, 2-243 #111 — Synod of 1940 #111-01, pp. 19-21: Urging prayer for the Publication Board; Service Print Shop deemed the church’s official printing plant Covenanter Witness; Financial; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-046 #111-02, pp. 22-23: Continuing Witness Committee literature distribution and public speaking; urging faith in future National Reform; adhering to distinctive principles; urging prayer; ministers to preach and pray on National Reform Financial; National Reform; Outside preaching; Psalmody; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-156, 2-157, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325, 3-198 #111-03, p. 23: Presenting a declaration of hope in Christ and calling upon Christians for true faith in the chaos of the Second World War Second World War; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-156, 2-157, 2-202, 2-204, 2-275, 2-325 #111-04, pp. 24-27: Reiterating #110-03 on health reasons for opposing alcohol and tobacco, plus marijuana and unspecified others [declaring all narcotics, despite their chemical properties]; commending renewed strength of temperance; whole church to fight these substances; reiterating #095-03 on sessions; financial arrangements Abortion; Collections; Drugs; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 2-222, 3-044 #111-05, p. 27: Commending Curtis Publishing, the publisher of the Saturday Evening Post(OCLC 642393301), Ladies’ Home Journal(OCLC 966515631), Country Gentleman(OCLC 659390964), and Jack and Jill (OCLC 1058101956), for refusing alcohol advertisements Outside communications; Temperance. #111-06, pp. 28-35: Foreign mission commissions permitted to expand themselves; wartime human resources Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Indian Mission; Languages; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Philippines; Presidential communications; Second Sino-Japanese War; Second World War; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-315 #111-07, pp. 38-39: Urging expanded arms embargoes; the Allies are in the right, and urging Washington to give them non-belligerent support; church to support Red Cross; praying for RPCI and RPCS; ministers to preach on national repentance; petitioning President Roosevelt to call for a national day of humiliation; studying anew the causes of war; reiterating call for a Christian version of the League of Nations Communism; Fascism; Franklin D. Roosevelt; League of Nations and UN; Pacifism; Presidential communications; RPCI; RPCS; Second Sino-Japanese War; Second World War; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-044, 2-203, 2-207 #111-08, pp. 39-40: Appropriating money for Jewish Mission Anti-Catholicism; Financial; Jewish missions; Sabbath schools. #111-09, pp. 42-48: Financial arrangements for home missions; urging ministers to lead congregations in evangelism, sessions to pray on it, RPTS and Geneva to focus on it, all to communicate with Committee, “budgets of souls” in each congregation Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Geneva faculty; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Paying ministers; Real property; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Special services; Tracts; VBS. Ministers: 2-204 #111-10, p. 48: Modifying #111-09 financial arrangement Congregational aid; Paying ministers; Portland. Ministers: 2-036 #111-11, p. 48: Sending a letter to George VI of the United Kingdom Government communications; No information. #111-12, pp. 48-49: Three delegates going to a mid-Synod funeral permitted to use Traveling Fund money Funerals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-019, 2-057, 3-046 #111-13, pp. 49-51: Commending lawyer assisting with #110-20 declaration; ministers and members to cooperate with Oath Committee; those planning to use this declaration to proceed under committee’s direction China mission; Directions to individuals; Explanatory declaration; Medical missions; Naturalization; Political office; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #111-14, pp. 51-57: Reiterating #110-29; all congregations to pray for NRA in current international situation; members to raise money to publish God in Our Public Schools (OCLC 937071555); National Reform workers are missionaries to the country Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; CYPU; Gambling; James S. Tibby; Legal prohibition; Methodists; National Reform conventions; News media; NRA; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War; Specific congressmen; Theaters. Ministers: 2-071, 2-159, 2-160 #111-15, pp. 60-61: Evangelism Committee to promote the spiritual life and consecration of the church; two new standing committees, on information and on promoting the church’s financial efforts Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; New standing committees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-083, 3-205 #111-16, pp. 62-63: Approving RPTS Superintendents’ seeking further donations; Superintendents to be responsible for building and grounds maintenance Budget; Debt; Graduate student aid; New Light church; Real property; RPCI; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-094 #111-17, pp. 67-68: Commending ministers and members working in Christian education; adding relevant courses in RPTS and Geneva; experienced ministers to aid new workers; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; Financial; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Psalmody; Release time; RPTS; Sabbath schools; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #111-18, p. 77: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-198 #111-19, pp. 77, 130-131: Ministers to remind members frequently of their duties and urge sessions to send ruling elders; church officers reminded of vows on devotions, prayer meetings, worship, and church courts, and ministers to urge all members to attend the prayer meeting; printing reminders in Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Elders’Conference; Parental responsibilities; Society meetings. #111-20, pp. 77-79: Appropriating money; reiterating #110-13 on contributions Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Foreign missions; Home missions; International relations; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-179 #111-21, pp. 83-84: The establishment of the Kingdom of God on Earth is the only true solution to social problems and national problems; studying God’s economic law and presenting it to the general public Communism; First World War; Latin America. Ministers: 2-034, 2-044, 2-160, 2-196 #111-22, p. 84: Social Justice Committee to discuss concrete examples of social problems Labor and capital. #111-23, p. 85: Issuing a news release summarizing Synod’s actions on current war and political conditions Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Second World War. Ministers: 2-327 #111-24, pp. 85-86: Reiterating #095-22 on Geneva funds, and urging Trustees to proceed with a new project; honorarium for minister Board of Control; Church constitution; Church erection; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-038, 2-051, 2-156, 2-230 #111-25, p. 86: Reiterating #110-06; adding more ministers to the plan Insurance; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-062, 2-179, 2-258, 2-321 #111-26, p. 115: Witness Committee and NRA to point national attention to National Reform in a wartime context Congressional petitions; Financial; Franklin D. Roosevelt; NRA; Presidential communications; Second World War; Witness work. #111-27, pp. 116-117: Forming Bible Reading Clubs in each congregation, especially for children, and sending certificates to active members; appropriating money American Bible Society; Bible reading folders; Financial; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; RPCI; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-192, 3-075, 3-203 #111-28, pp. 118-119: Conscientious objection misinterprets the Bible, but genuine objectors deserve protection; setting up system for protecting objectors, and notifying the War Department Directions to individuals; Government communications; Pacifism; WTS. Ministers: 2-051, 2-168, 2-179 #111-29, pp. 119-120: Protesting President Franklin Roosevelt’s sending an unofficial ambassador to the Holy See, and urging the recall of Ambassador Myron Taylor Franklin D. Roosevelt; Presidential communications; UPCNA; Vatican ambassador. Ministers: 2-159, 2-321 #111-30, p. 120: Rejecting proposal to ordain women to the eldership (#109-22) Women elders. #111-31, p. 120: Paying a bill Financial; Women elders. Ministers: 2-156 #111-32, p. 121: Ministers and Christian workers to increase attention on sabbath-keeping; reiterating #095-21, final clause NRA; Sabbath-keeping organizations. Ministers: 2-168 #111-33, pp. 121-123: Plymouth Brethren baptism is valid; sessions should write their own letters of standing, rather than using Synod’s certificates of dismission; procedure on long-absent members; reiterating exclusive psalmody, and variant practice is a breach of pledge Baptism; Book of Discipline; Forms; Membership transfer; Occasional hearing; Premillennialism; Psalmody; Purging rolls; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 2-046, 2-202, 2-259 #111-34, p. 123: All sessions must keep permanent records of baptisms Baptism; Rules and organization. #111-35, p. 123: Paying bills Financial. Ministers: 3-046 #111-36, p. 123: Arrangements Committee to produce a recording of Synod’s singing in 1941, if possible Business of Synod; Psalm recordings. #112 — Synod of 1941 #112-01, pp. 18-20: Printing the 1942 Bible Reader; certificates for those following alternate minister-approved plans; appropriating money American Bible Society; Bible reading folders; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Indian Mission; RPCI; Second World War; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-192, 3-075, 3-203 #112-02, p. 20: Permitting the distribution of a questionnaire for #111-36 Business of Synod; Paper distribution; Psalm recordings. #112-03, pp. 21-23: Continuing Witness Committee activities; rejoicing in National Reform progress; ministers and members to advocate and pray for Christian Amendment Donations; National Reform; Second World War; Secret societies; Tracts; Voting; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-043, 2-094, 2-157, 2-183, 2-204, 2-325, 3-198 #112-04, pp. 23-26: Urging members to petition Congressmen in favor of 77 S. 860 and 77 H.R. 4000, to complain to travel agents about alcohol and tobacco, to urge legislators to support “scientific temperance” laws; reminding all ordained men of their temperance vows; life in Christ is better than chemical dependence Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; CYPU; Divorce; Holidays; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Vow 8. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 2-222, 3-044 #112-05, pp. 32-42: Reiterating #111-06, and #110-07, final clause; appeals for war relief Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Church erection; Disaster relief; Foreign missions HR; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; National Reform; Sabbath schools; Second Sino-Japanese War; Second World War; Self-supporting missions; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-327 #112-06, pp. 49-56: Appropriating money for home missions Bible reading folders; Congregational aid; CYPU; Decline; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Licentiates; Mission schools; Real property; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Southern Mission; VBS. Ministers: 2-204 #112-07, p. 56: Traveling Fund administration Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. #112-08, pp. 57-60: Reiterating paragraph 5 of the Covenant of 1871; ministers and sessions to employ useful methods of evangelism; choosing evangelism workers from congregations; training the youth in church principles; presbytery evangelism conferences and evangelism chairmen Covenanter Witness; Decline; Home visitation; Minutes of Synod; Presbytery conferences; Quakers; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Special services; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-253 #112-09, pp. 60-62: Reiterating #111-17; members to pray for National Reform; adopting new Standard of Achievement Baptism; Canada; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Forms; RPTS; Sabbath schools; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #112-10, pp. 63-69: Reiterating #110-29, final clause; urging sabbath-keeping topics in the International Sunday School Lessons; ministers to preach on America’s Christian responsibility in world affairs, and on National Reform; urging donations to publish God in Our Public Schools (OCLC 5654085) and requesting frequent prayer Christian Statesman; Collections; Fascism; First World War; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Holidays; International Sunday School Lessons; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; Methodists; National Reform conventions; NRA; Outside communications; Pacifism; Philosophy of education; Release time; Second World War; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-071, 2-159, 2-160 #112-11, pp. 69-70: Distributing Traveling Fund forms at Synod (#110-26); reiterating #112-07; Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #112-12, p. 74: Appointing Synod’s budget; forming Stewardship Guidance Committee, which shall have a liaison with each congregation Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; New agencies; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-070, 3-156 #112-13, p. 76: Merging the two committees that had been assigned to revise the Book of Discipline Abolishing agencies; Book of Discipline. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-235, 2-253 #112-14, pp. 76-77: Preparing for covenant renovation at Synod in 1942 Covenant renovation. Ministers: 2-314 #112-15, pp. 77-79: Reiterating #111-20; planning for national CYPU conference, 1942 Budget; Canada; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; James S. Tibby; Paying missionaries; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Second World War. Ministers: 2-179 #112-16, p. 92: Committing to maintain the China mission despite the Second Sino-Japanese War Foreign missions HR; Manchuria mission; Second Sino-Japanese War; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-038, 2-070, 2-222 #112-17, pp. 92-93: Financial arrangements Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; Graduate student aid; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; Psalm recordings; RPWA; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034, 2-051, 2-168 #112-18, p. 115: Paying bills Financial. Ministers: 3-046, 3-205 #112-19, pp. 115, 138: Appointing one elder to plan for work by elders throughout the church; paying his expenses Elders’Conference; Financial. #112-20, p. 120: The Second World War is Christ’s judgement on the world; hoping for postwar revival Second World War; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 1-034, 2-325 #112-21, pp. 121-122: Thanking attorneys who assisted with oath-related issues; reiterating #111-13, second clause Bequests; Explanatory declaration; Naturalization; Teachers’oaths; Temperance organizations; Thanks. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160 #112-22, pp. 125-126: Reiterating #112-13 [identical except for punctuation] Abolishing agencies; Book of Discipline. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-235, 2-253 #112-23, p. 131: Thanking Senator Guy Gillette and President Franklin Roosevelt for calling for a national day of prayer (#111-07) Franklin D. Roosevelt; Holidays; Legislative petitions; Presidential communications; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-044 #112-24, pp. 131-132: Forming a Stewardship Guidance Committee to advocate for giving, and arranging its activities; congregations to cooperate with the committee and report number of tithers Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 2-182 #112-25, p. 132: Preparing for covenant renovation at Synod in 1942 Covenant of 1871. Ministers: 2-043 #112-26, pp. 132-133: Establishing a sinking fund to pay debts, using other endowment income, if legally possible Debt; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-179, 2-204, 3-198 #112-27, pp. 134-135: Focusing Covenanter Witness page space on giving for church purposes Covenanter Witness; Financial. #112-28, pp. 135-136: Writing letters of remembrance to all absent ministers and all sessions with no delegate Absences; Rules and organization; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-203, 2-235, 2-276 #113 — Synod of 1942 #113-01, pp. 15-16: Appointing Synod’s budget; Stewardship Committee to develop a plan for advertising the budget Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-070, 3-116 #113-02, pp. 17-21: Reiterating #111-06, first clause, and #112-05, final clause Attending other seminaries; Baptists; China mission; Covenanter Witness; Disaster relief; Foreign missions HR; Geneva; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Philippines; RPTS; Second World War. Ministers: 2-168 #113-03, pp. 21-22: Appropriating money for Jewish Mission Financial; Jewish missions; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War. #113-04, p. 22: Commending a small congregation for their diligent work Church erection; Parsonages; Bellefontaine. Ministers: 2-088 #113-05, p. 24: Commending Covenanter Witness editor and Publication Board Covenanter Witness; Thanks. Ministers: 2-300 #113-06, pp. 24-30: Thanking all Covenanter Witness contributors and congregational agents, urging donations, approving of double issues, financial arrangements, and urging its use for uniting the church Bequests; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Debt; Donations; James S. Tibby; Labor and capital; Paying Synod employees; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #113-07, pp. 31-33: Commending National Price Administrator Leon Henderson for restricting wartime alcohol transportation, and urging similar restrictions on other alcohol-related commerce; petitioning Congress for total wartime prohibition, petitioning President Franklin Roosevelt to prohibit alcohol sales in the military, urging members to petition their senators for 77 S. 860, and congregations to fight alcohol and tobacco Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government communications; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Presidential communications; Second World War; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 3-044 #113-08, pp. 37-43: Home missions financial arrangements China mission; Congregational aid; Congressional petitions; Covenant renovation; Home missions HR; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Interchurch; Mission schools; Paying ministers; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Society meetings; Southern Mission; VBS; WMF; YMCA. Ministers: 2-204 #113-09, pp. 43-44: Celebrating tercentenary of the Solemn League and Covenant, and of the Westminster Assembly, with special preaching, prayer meetings, CYPU events, and Synod activities Church history; CYPU; Sermon topics; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-276 #113-10, pp. 44-45: Continuing Standard of Achievement (#112-09), cooperating with United Christian Education Advance; appropriating money and publishing a booklet Baptism; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Interchurch; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod; Sabbath schools; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #113-11, pp. 45-47: Printing the 1943 Bible Readers; urging continued family worship, and Covenanter Witness to print relevant readings; appropriating money and publishing a children’s reader Bible reading folders; CYPU; Family worship; Financial; RPCI; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-192, 3-075, 3-203 #113-12, p. 48: Sending pastoral letters to all RP servicemen Directions to individuals; Pastoral letters; Second World War. Ministers: 2-202, 2-330 #113-13, pp. 51-53: Raising funds for RPTS; establishing and regulating an annuity fund American Bible Society; Bequests; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Graduate student aid; Levant missions; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-094 #113-14, pp. 53-56: Appropriating money Church history; Covenant renovation; CYPU; Financial; Geneva; Health and medicine; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Second World War. Ministers: 2-179 #113-15, pp. 56-57: Trialling a singing recording (#111-36) CYPU; Financial; Psalm recordings; RPIC. Ministers: 2-046, 3-046, 3-205 #113-16, pp. 57-59: Human resources for Witness Committee; ministers to preach National Reform to congregations and outsiders, aided by elders; not joining National Association of Evangelicals for United Action, but sending observers Church history; Elements of worship; NAE; National Reform; Outside preaching; Paying Synod employees; Premillennialism; Tracts; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-183, 2-202, 2-204, 3-011 #113-17, p. 60: Petitioning federal authorities for military prohibition Government communications; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Second World War. Ministers: 2-046, 2-161, 3-044 #113-18, p. 62: Reiterating #112-11 Traveling Fund. #113-19, pp. 82-85: United Nations victory in the war is essential; victory without repentance makes situations worse, so calling Christians to repent; assuring military of prayer for victory; assenting to Ten Foundations of Peace from the Malvern Conference (see OCLC 874317603) Baptists; Fascism; First World War; Interchurch; Japan; Labor and capital; Abraham Lincoln; Lutherans; Methodists; Oath question; Pacifism; PCUSA; Philippines; SCOTUS; Second World War; Slavery and race; World government. Ministers: 2-034, 2-044, 2-160, 2-196 #113-20, p. 85: Holding a psalmody conference at Synod in 1943, and appointing a commission with authority to change the date of Synod Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Meeting schedule; New commissions; Psalmody; RPIC. Ministers: 2-005, 2-069, 2-071, 2-094, 2-185, 2-202, 2-204 #113-21, pp. 85-86: Distributing bequests Bequests; Board of Control; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-207, 3-110, 3-133 #113-22, pp. 108-109: Participating in upkeep of Old Brick Church Burial Ground Financial; South Carolina cemetery; South Carolina. Ministers: 2-051 #113-23, pp. 109-111: Considering a federation of Bible-believing Presbyterian and Reformed churches; South China Presbytery ministers named a commission to study close communion; #111-33 permits sessions to use an “inactive” or “suspended” roll; general sabbath-keeping principles, but a precise deliverance would be gnat-straining Book of Discipline; Directions to individuals; Interchurch; New commissions; OPC; Purging rolls; Sabbath-keeping; South China Presbytery; Strict subscription; Telecommunications; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 2-230, 2-309, 3-022 #113-24, pp. 112-120: Commending NRA work, including publishing God in Our Public Schools ; NRA agent(s) in each congregation, ministers to preach and teach classes on world situation in and out of congregations; giving and prayer for NRA, and for federal authorities and foreign allies Abraham Lincoln; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Civil War; Collections; Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; First World War; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gambling; Government communications; Holidays; James S. Tibby; National Council of Churches; National Reform conventions; NRA; NTPC; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War; Tracts; WCTU; Woodrow Wilson; World government. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-183 #113-25, pp. 120-121: Ministers and sessions to emphasize covenanting and Covenant of 1871, including in communicants’ classes and CYPUs Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; RPIC. Ministers: 2-114, 2-205, 2-253, 2-314 #113-26, pp. 121-124: Oath Committee to continue use of explanatory declaration (#111-13) Bequests; Explanatory declaration; Naturalization; Political office; Second World War. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #113-27, pp. 124-125: Paying a bill Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Directory for Worship; Financial; Geneva; Thanks. #113-28, pp. 125-126: Reiterating #112-24 on activities and cooperation; printing Covenanter Witness articles on stewardship, and ministers to preach it Budget; Collections; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 2-069, 2-071, 2-168 #113-29, pp. 127-128: Reiterating #102-01 Celebrity preachers; Languages; Latin America; Second World War; Tracts. Ministers: 2-168 #113-30, pp. 128-129: Reiterating #095-21, final clause, and urging donations; ministers to preach on sabbath-keeping Donations; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics; Sports. Ministers: 2-168 #113-31, pp. 130-131: Paying bills Business of Synod; Elders’Conference; Financial; Psalm recordings; Thanks. Ministers: 3-205 #113-32, p. 131: Important debatable matters to be the order of business on Synod’s first day of business Rules and organization. #113-33, pp. 131-134: Reiterating opposition to secrecy, and ministers to advocate for this position; church to be loyal to Christ above all; commendation to other anti-Masonic denominations, and reiterating #066-08 Baptists; Fascism; Modernism; National Christian Association; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-075, 2-265, 3-116 #113-34, p. 135: HMB permitted to assign unsettled ministers to preach at vacancies or at church-planting opportunities Church planting; Devolution; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-204 #114 — Synod of 1943 #114-01, p. 13: Letter of thanks and sympathy Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Telecommunications; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094, 2-330 #114-02, p. 15: Applying #091-12 to Synod’s newly retired clerk Directions to individuals; Paying the clerk. Ministers: 2-330 #114-03, pp. 15-16: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 3-071, 3-205 #114-04, p. 17: Paying traveling expenses for a visitor, Konstantine Jaroshewick, President of the Union of Churches of Christ in Russia Ecumenical organizations; Financial; Russian churches. #114-05, p. 18: Arrangements for #113-09 Church history; Financial. #114-06, p. 19: Renewing #113-16 on observer NAE. #114-07, pp. 19-20: Paying a bill Book of Discipline; Financial. Ministers: 2-044, 2-051, 2-071, 2-094, 2-185, 2-204, 2-235, 2-253, 2-325 #114-08, pp. 21-22: Printing the 1944 Bible Readers and children’s readers; appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-192, 3-075, 3-203 #114-09, pp. 28-36: Condemning Christians who participate in Shinto shrine worship, and commending Manchurian converts and missionaries for resisting; publishing reviews of Christian World Facts(OCLC 1774586) in the Covenanter Witness ; urging prayer and giving for foreign missions; publishing mission data; preparing for returning to mission fields after the war Africa; China mission; Colonies; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions HR; Geneva; Home visitation; Inflation; Japan; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Outside communications; Paying missionaries; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Shinto; WMF. Ministers: 2-315, 2-327 #114-10, pp. 39-40: Continuing Standard of Achievement (#112-09), urging sabbath schools in all congregations to conduct mission work; using Shorter Catechism for mission purposes; appropriating money Church history; Financial; Home visitation; Sabbath schools; Second World War; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 3-022, 3-203 #114-11, p. 41: Thanking a donor and sending Synod’s sympathy to an ill minister Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-094, 2-230, 2-276, 3-044 #114-12, pp. 41-44: Appropriating money; HMB to examine new fields for home missions A cappella; Baptists; Church planting; Congregational aid; CYPU; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Inflation; Mission schools; Occasional hearing; Paying ministers; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Southern Mission; Taxation; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-071 #114-13, pp. 46-47: Arrangements for #114-12, new fields Kentucky Mission; New Light church; VBS. Ministers: 2-183, 2-253, 2-325 #114-14, p. 47: Condemning the Office of Price Administration for sabbath-breaking deliveries of wartime ration books Directions to individuals; Government communications; Outside communications; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War. Ministers: 2-315 #114-15, p. 49: Publishing two tracts: Boyd Walker, the Elder(OCLC 15265938) and The Deacon Meeting at Covenant Ridge (OCLC 813807930) Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; Diaconate; Eldership; Financial; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071, 3-090 #114-16, pp. 50-51: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. #114-17, pp. 51-52: Creating posters on the components of Synod’s budget, publishing relevant details in the Covenanter Witness , and urging all members to tithe; appropriating money Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Renaming; Tithing. Ministers: 2-071, 2-168, 3-156 #114-18, pp. 52-56: Commending congregations for bearing with Covenanter Witnessprice increases, and approving those increases; urging prayers for the Witness and urging boards and committees to consider publishing in it; commending WMF for sending copies to servicemen Covenanter Witness; Donations; James S. Tibby; Labor and capital; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Tracts; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-300 #114-19, pp. 56-57: Continuing Witness Committee activities; revising #113-16 expense payments; all members to aid ministers in outside preaching, and pray for them; God the Father’s supreme goal is exalting Christ, and the church’s distinctives all aim for that purpose National Reform; Outside preaching; Paying ministers; Psalmody; Synod HR; Tracts; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-183, 2-202, 2-204, 2-325, 3-011 #114-20, pp. 58-59: Reiterating #092-20, final clause; observing Bible Sabbath American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Holidays; Second World War. Ministers: 2-327 #114-21, pp. 59-62: Reiterating past positions on total abstinence and legal prohibition; protesting alcohol to President Franklin Roosevelt, cabinet secretaries Henry Stimson, Frank Knox, and Henry Morgenthau, and Office of Price Administration Administrator Prentiss Brown; urging members to support anti-alcohol bills such as 78 S. 860 and 78 H. R. 2082; ministers to guard youth against tobacco Alcohol restrictions on all members; Canada; Congressional bills; Covenanter Witness; Donations; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Government communications; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Presidential communications; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-044, 2-046, 2-161, 3-044 #114-22, pp. 62-63: Appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Service Print Shop. Ministers: 2-179 #114-23, p. 64:#111-36 being impossible in wartime conditions, postponing until it is possible, and urging recordings to be made by any group capable of such a project Financial; Psalm recordings; Second World War. Ministers: 2-046, 3-046, 3-205 #114-24, pp. 65-67: Sympathy letter to the acquaintances of one of the #112-21 attorneys, now deceased Bequests; Explanatory declaration; Second World War; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160 #114-25, pp. 67-68: Paying bills; thanking Free Methodist Publishing Company for assisting Synod Financial; Methodists; Thanks. Ministers: 3-022, 3-116, 3-207 #114-26, pp. 68-69: Urging congregations to pay more than just traveling costs for ruling elders; holding an evening conference for elders at Synod; using unlicensed RPTS students to assist ministers; ministers to visit military camps and contact members in uniform, and congregations to maintain contact with those members; new elder delegates to be introduced at Synod’s first evening, like new ministers Absences; Conferences at Synod; Elders’Conference; Rules and organization; Second World War; Synod HR; Traveling Fund. #114-27, p. 77: Appointing a committee to promote prayer, in light of fifty years of decline Decline. Ministers: 2-051 #114-28, p. 77: Letter to Prime Minister Winston Churchill Directions to individuals; Government communications; No information. Ministers: 2-039 #114-29, pp. 77-83: Members to support NRA in advocating Bible reading and nonsectarian religious instruction in schools, and urging members to advocate for a postwar Christian World Order; approving NRA human resources arrangements, and appointing National Reform offerings and prayer Bible in schools; Canada; Christian Statesman; Congressional petitions; Covenanter Witness; Franklin D. Roosevelt; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; Legal prohibition; Legislative petitions; National Reform conventions; NRA; NTPC; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War; Sermon topics; Sports; Theaters; VBS; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-183 #114-30, p. 84: Sending a goodwill letter to the Union of Churches of Christ in the USSR Directions to individuals; Ecumenical organizations; Russian churches. Ministers: 2-094, 2-230 #114-31, p. 84: Thanking the Free Methodist Church of Winona Lake for assisting Synod Directions to individuals; Methodists; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094 #114-32, pp. 84-85: Presbytery has authority over congregational property; disposing of property of disorganized congregations Closing churches; Property held in trust; Trustees of Synod; Allegheny. Ministers: 2-005, 2-161, 2-325, 3-044 #114-33, pp. 85-87: Financial arrangements; endowment funds may not be used for paying bills; urging donors not to require that their gifts be used for endowment perpetually Bequests; Church erection; Foreign missions; James S. Tibby; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-071, 2-183, 2-204 #114-34, p. 107: Hiring a lecturer for the Witness Committee Paying Synod employees; Synod HR; Witness work. Ministers: 3-011, 3-156 #114-35, p. 108: Letter of sympathy Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-230 #114-36, p. 108: Ministers, elders, and members to strengthen their testimony for psalmody; precentors reminded of their position’s responsibility, ministers to read metrical versions in diligent psalm explanations and apply psalms to daily life, and both to emphasize good and heartfelt singing; advertising psalter in religious periodicals Improving praise; Psalm explanations; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-192, 2-279, 3-205 #114-37, p. 109: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-094, 2-230, 3-110 #114-38, p. 109: Appointing Synod’s officers a commission to adjust the 1944 meeting dates if appropriate CYPU; New commissions; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-069, 2-094, 2-179, 2-192, 2-230, 3-046 #115 — Synod of 1944 #115-01, p. 17: Requesting the ordination of a minister by Kansas Presbytery Levant missions; Sine titulo; Eastvale. Ministers: 3-033, 3-207 #115-02, pp. 18-19: Appointing Synod’s budget; financial arrangements for RPTS Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS location; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 3-071, 3-205 #115-03, pp. 20-21: Ministers to preach on tithing or other stewardship issues; Covenanter Witness to write on tithing and other stewardship; urging use of Layman Tithing Foundation literature; advertising Synod’s programs in a leaflet; paying bills Budget; China mission; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Geneva; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Manchuria mission; Renaming; Sermon topics; Southern Mission; Tithing. Ministers: 2-071, 2-168, 3-156 #115-04, pp. 23-24: Paying bills; urging delegates to study proposed new Book of Discipline, and lacking objections, sending the Book down in overture; considering publication of all church standards in one book Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Directions to individuals; Directory for Worship; Financial; James S. Tibby; Overtures, new; Requesting opinions; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094, 2-185, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #115-05, p. 26: Two missionaries made eligible for the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-033 #115-06, p. 27: Urging self-supporting congregations to budget for Christian education projects; appropriating money Congregational aid; Forms; Home visitation; Sabbath schools; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #115-07, p. 30: Appropriating money for a dinner at the RP Home and thanking longtime RPWA treasurer Mrs. R.A.M. Steele for her service Financial; RP Home; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183 #115-08, pp. 30-32: Financial arrangements for RPTS; urging presbyteries to recognize ministerial candidates for draft-deferment purposes Bequests; Canada; Debt; Donations; Evangelism; Fascism; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Second World War; Seeking candidates, RPTS; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-325 #115-09, pp. 33-38: Reiterating #111-06, first clause; urging contributions for China relief; withdrawing from Foreign Missions Conference of North America, due to its support for participation in Shinto shrine worship (#114-09) Africa; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Colonies; Covenanter Witness; Disaster relief; Ecumenical organizations; Evangelism; Inflation; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Medical missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Real property; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; Shinto; South China Presbytery; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-168, 2-327 #115-10, pp. 38-43: Endorsing relocation of the Service Print Shop and related financial arrangements; Publication Board urged to request Confession of Faith lessons in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Ex post facto; Insurance; Property held in trust; Sabbath schools; Service Print Shop; Society meetings; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-300 #115-11, pp. 43-46: Appropriating money Bible in schools; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; WMF. Ministers: 2-071 #115-12, p. 47: When evangelistic work is conducted, arrangements for receiving members and celebrating sacraments should be made; publishing all recommendations of each year’s Synod in a single document; reiterating #114-26, first clause Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Minutes of Synod; Traveling Fund. #115-13, pp. 50-52: Ministers and other leaders to advocate opposition to alcohol, tobacco, and various drugs; support for drug addicts; petitioning President Franklin Roosevelt against alcohol; supporting 78 H. R. 2082 and petitioning Representatives Joseph Bryson and Sam Hobbs Congressional bills; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Franklin D. Roosevelt; International Sunday School Lessons; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Presidential communications; Second World War; Specific congressmen; Tobacco; Woodrow Wilson. Ministers: 2-044, 2-046, 2-161, 3-044 #115-14, p. 53: Thanking longtime Temperance Committee chairman Temperance; Thanks. Ministers: 2-161 #115-15, pp. 53-54: Abolishing #113-16 and #114-19 expense payments; ministers to advocate for the Christian Amendment; urging congregations to release ministers for this advocacy and pray for their efforts National Reform; Outside preaching; Paying ministers; Tobacco; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-325, 3-011, 3-198 #115-16, p. 54: Accepting resignation of Witness Committee chairman after forty-seven years’ service, and thanking him Resignations; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034 #115-17, pp. 54-55: Reiterating #114-36; rail fare is to be coach class, not first class Second World War; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-045, 3-088 #115-18, p. 55: Ministers to continue advocating for National Reform in their communities Conferences at Synod; Government communications; Meeting schedule; Sermon topics. Ministers: 3-045 #115-19, p. 56: Replacing the entire Bible Reading Committee at its request; publishing a new children’s Bible reader; appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial; Resignations. Ministers: 2-192, 3-075, 3-203 #115-20, pp. 56-60: Reiterating opposition to secret societies, including in the Covenant of 1871, and ministers to preach against them; reiterating #055-06; deeming modernism a threat to historic Christianity Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Funerals; Islam; Lutherans; Modernism; National Christian Association; Sermon topics; Unitarianism. Ministers: 2-063, 2-179, 2-279, 3-205 #115-21, pp. 60-61: Home Mission Secretary Committee to act as a clearinghouse for home mission efforts between presbyteries Absences; Elders’Conference; Home missions; Individual relocation; Second World War; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-034, 2-314 #115-22, pp. 61-63: Appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial. Ministers: 2-179 #115-23, p. 63: Paying bills; thanking Free Methodist Publishing House for assistance during Synod Business of Synod; Donations; Methodists; Thanks. Ministers: 3-071, 3-116 #115-24, pp. 63-67: Adopting an Over-all Plan of Endeavor for church revitalization Baptism; Bible in schools; Bible reading folders; Business of Synod; Church history; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Family worship; Holidays; Home visitation; Languages; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Soteriology; Special services; Testimony; Tithing. Ministers: 2-034, 2-314 #115-25, pp. 68-72: Approving of NRA work; reiterating #114-28 on Christian World Order; urging Geneva and ministers to cooperate with NRA; advocating donations to and prayer for NRA Baptists; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Church of the Brethren; Collections; Congregationalism; Congressional petitions; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Geneva; Government communications; James S. Tibby; Methodists; NRA; Presidential communications; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War; Slavery and race; Specific congressmen; Temperance. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-183 #115-26, pp. 72-73: On the evening of D-Day, uniting with President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a prayer petition for the success of Operation Overlord (see page 68) Franklin D. Roosevelt; Second World War. #115-27, pp. 82-84: Sustaining New York Presbytery’s permission of officeholding when no oath is required or when the #110-20 explanatory declaration is used, and not sustaining an appeal against the use of the declaration; ministers may marry couples regardless of their church memberships; presbyteries, not sessions, oversee ministers, but ministers should take sessions’ counsel; there is no affinity restriction on cousin marriages; endorsing a procedure for judicial cases in Cyprus mission Armenians; Eldership; Explanatory declaration; Inflation; Levant missions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Orthodox; Political office; Westminster standards; White Lake. Ministers: 1-069, 2-036, 2-069, 2-202 #115-28, p. 84: Financial arrangement Donations; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-071, 3-116, 3-205 #115-29, pp. 113-114: Paying a bill Financial; NAE. Ministers: 2-207 #115-30, p. 114: Paying a bill Financial; Home missions. #115-31, pp. 115-116: Implementing #115-07 Financial; RP Home. #116 — Synod of 1945 #116-01, p. 16: Reiterating #113-19, first clause, but urging Congress not to adopt peacetime military conscription Congressional petitions; Military service; Second World War; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-005, 2-044, 2-203, 2-325, 3-011, 3-012 #116-02, p. 16: Financial assistance for a disabled minister building a house Board of Control; Disability; Parsonages. Ministers: 2-019 #116-03, pp. 16-17: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Thanks; Witness work. Ministers: 2-149, 2-161 #116-04, pp. 17-18: Distributing a poster highlighting Synod programs, and advertising them and parsonage-provision in the Covenanter Witness ; reminding ministers of proper stewardship; publishing bulletin inserts; paying bills Budget; Covenanter Witness; Great Depression; Tithing. Ministers: 2-071, 2-168, 3-156 #116-05, p. 19: Appropriating money Tithing. Ministers: 3-156 #116-06, pp. 19-20: Urging a specific salary for Jewish Mission workers Financial; Jewish missions; Psalmody; Second World War; WMF. #116-07, pp. 22-25: Protesting to President Harry Truman against the continued availability of alcohol in the military, especially in the event of peacetime conscription; reiterating opposition to alcohol; ministers and sessions to give temperance instruction and urge temperance pledges; publishing this report as a pamphlet Congressional bills; Debt; Harry Truman; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Presidential communications; Second World War; Taxation; Testimony; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-005, 2-044, 3-044, 3-046 #116-08, p. 26: Missionaries permitted a share in the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. #116-09, pp. 27-30: Ascertaining Covenanter Witness subscription rates; all members to work for a better church paper; thanking donors Budget; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Decline; James S. Tibby; Labor and capital; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Thanks; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-300 #116-10, pp. 32-35: Financial arrangements American Legion; Church planting; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Licentiates; Medical missions; Mission schools; Outside preaching; Parsonages; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Southern Mission; UPCNA; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-325 #116-11, pp. 36-38: Ministers to advocate for the Christian Amendment; petitioning federal officeholders on the subject; human resources; presbyteries to oversee their own activities in this area; urging prayer for the editor of the Christian Patriot (OCLC 1644431) Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Harry Truman; National Reform; Outside commissions; Paying Synod employees; Psalmody; Telecommunications; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183, 2-202, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-011, 3-198 #116-12, p. 38: Commending President Harry Truman for his humility and appeal to God for help, and for appointing a special day of thanksgiving and prayer for VE Day, and assuring him of the church’s support and prayer Harry Truman; Holidays; Presidential communications; Second World War. Ministers: 2-192 #116-13, p. 39: Arrangements for Bible reading folders; publishing a children’s Bible reader; appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial; Reporting calendars; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-069, 2-255, 3-189 #116-14, p. 40: Petitioning Secretary of State Edward Stettinius in connection with his participation at the United Nations Conference on International Organization Directions to individuals; Government communications; Harry Truman; League of Nations and UN. Ministers: 2-203 #116-15, pp. 43-44: Repeating #115-23 Business of Synod; Financial; Methodists; Thanks. Ministers: 3-133, 3-189, 3-203 #116-16, p. 44: Petitioning the Mennonite Brethren Church to consider exclusive psalmody for its new manual of praise Directions to individuals; Mennonites; Outside communications; Psalmody. Ministers: 2-094, 2-207 #116-17, pp. 44-45: Position statement on autonomy of foreign churches Covenant renovation; Foreign missions HR; Independent missions; RPCI; RPCS; Slavery and race; South China Presbytery; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 2-069, 2-315, 2-327, 3-011 #116-18, pp. 46-48: Permitting early licensure for three RPTS students Church history; Graduate student aid; Licentiates; National Reform; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Second World War; Witness work. Ministers: 2-325 #116-19, p. 48: Traveling Fund administration; missionaries eligible for fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-088 #116-20, pp. 49-50: Paying retired ministers; planning for limited-term pastorates with expiration dates; evangelism training at RPTS; financial arrangements; commending CYPUs with good congregational singing Absences; Bequests; CYPU; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Improving praise; Limited-term pastorates; RPIC; RPTS. #116-21, pp. 51-53: Paying a bill Evangelism; Financial; Interchurch; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-203 #116-22, p. 53: Printing new psalters with better bindings; treasurers to provide more details in reports; Synod’s Trustees to invest in safer funds Foreign missions HR; Investment philosophy; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Psalter editions; RPWA; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-069, 2-296, 2-315 #116-23, pp. 74-75: Reiterating #116-01 in a letter to the United States Senate Congressional petitions; Government communications; Harry Truman; Military service; Political dissent; Presidential communications; Second World War. Ministers: 2-005, 2-044, 2-203, 2-325, 3-011, 3-012 #116-24, pp. 75-80: Approving NRA’s current activities and commending its efforts for Bible reading in the schools, and directing ministers to cooperate with it; members urged to donate and pray Bequests; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; Covenant of 1871; Franklin D. Roosevelt; Gambling; Government communications; Hinduism; Islam; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; Legal prohibition; Methodists; NRA; NTPC; Pacific; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160, 2-183 #116-25, pp. 80-81: Urging major labor organizations to advocate for sabbath-keeping Labor and capital; Outside communications; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094, 2-207 #116-26, p. 81: Protesting the inclusion of hymns in American Bible Society printings of the Bible American Bible Society; Directions to individuals; Military service; Psalmody. Ministers: 2-063, 2-094 #116-27, pp. 81-86: Reiterating #111-06, first clause; appeals for relief money in China; human resources; procedures for operations in South China Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Disaster relief; Independent missions; India; Inflation; Languages; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Real property; Second Sino-Japanese War; Seeking candidates, FMB; Soteriology; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-327 #116-28, pp. 89-90: Committeemen’s and board members’ resignations are submitted to Synod, and remaining members are responsible for work; defining moderators’ rights; ordaining a ruling elder to the ministry [dissent, page 89]; congregations should not use recent Bible translations Bible texts and translations; CYPU; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Resignations; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; Two- and three-office view; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-005, 2-036, 2-205, 3-198 #116-29, p. 94: Adopting new Book of Discipline (#115-04) following favorable votes in overture; individual session disagreements must be submitted as requests for amendments Overtures, successful; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #116-30, pp. 94-95: Publishing all the church standards in a single volume (#096-09, #115-04) Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Financial; Foreign missions; Languages; Methodists; Overtures; Service Print Shop; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #116-31, pp. 97-98: Dividing the church into geographic zones for home mission work; appropriating money Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Individual relocation; Second World War. Ministers: 2-034, 2-183, 2-314 #116-32, pp. 98-101: Holding the national CYPU conference in 1946; appropriating money; Young People’s Secretary to provide certificates for Gold Star families Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Forms; Geneva; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; Real property; Second World War; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-205 #116-33, pp. 109-111: Reiterating #088-11 on psalm explanations; urging regular psalm practice; urging Psalm Festivals; prayer meetings to review psalmody literature Covenant of 1871; First World War; Improving praise; Psalm explanations; Special services; Tracts. Ministers: 2-205, 2-296, 3-049, 3-220 #116-34, pp. 111-112: Petitioning President Harry Truman on behalf of the Waldensian church in Italy Harry Truman; Presidential communications; Waldensians. Ministers: 2-005 #116-35, p. 112: Moderator to write to a foreign missionary China mission; Directions to individuals. Ministers: 2-207, 2-222 #116-36, p. 112: Combining the committees on Signs of the Times and on Social Justice Abolishing standing committees; Conferences at Synod; Labor and capital; Signs of the Times. #116-37, p. 113: Petitioning the Federal Communications Commission to protect religious groups’ presence in radio Government communications; NAE; Radio and TV; Temperance. Ministers: 2-242, 3-143 #117 — Synod of 1946 #117-01, pp. 13-14: Renaming the Traveling Fund Committee to “Traveling Fund and Absences Committee” and assigning it responsibility over excused absences; clerk shall write letters on behalf of Synod when requested by individuals or committees Absences; Docket and digest; Elders’Conference; Foreign missions; Outside communications; Renaming; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-094 #117-02, pp. 17-18: Replacing entire Stewardship Committee at its own request; paying a bill; recommending minimum ministerial salary Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Resignations. Ministers: 2-071, 2-168, 3-156 #117-03, pp. 18-19: Stewardship Committee to send a representative to Coordinating Committee; appointing Synod’s budget Agency membership; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044 #117-04, p. 19: Trustees of Synod to loan money (#116-02) Disability; Financial; Real property; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-019 #117-05, p. 22: Giving greetings to the UPCNA, in response to their greetings Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Telecommunications; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-094, 3-049 #117-06, p. 22: Whenever a committee report is changed on the floor of Synod, this change shall be reflected in the minutes Rules and organization. #117-07, pp. 27-35: Reiterating #111-06, first clause; China relief funds Africa; Alawites; Armenians; Bequests; Covenanter Witness; Disaster relief; Donations; Independent missions; Inflation; Islam; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Real property; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; Shinto; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 3-207 #117-08, pp. 35-39: Articles and congregational reports for the Covenanter Witness ; urging prayer for Publication Board Christian Patriot; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Debt; Methodists; New Light church; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Synod HR. #117-09, p. 40: Supporting the American Bible Society’s regular and special postwar work, and observing Bible Sabbath American Bible Society; Holidays; Second World War. Ministers: 2-296 #117-10, pp. 41-44: Ministers to preach against alcohol; anti-alcohol lectures at RPTS; ministers to provide alcohol-alternative community entertainment; appealing for funds; supporting 79 H. J. R. 325 and a bill prohibiting alcohol advertisements on the radio; commending railroads that prohibit smoking and condemning railroads that permit it Christian Science; Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Divorce; Financial; Gambling; Higher-education standards; Holidays; Labor and capital; NTPC; RPTS location; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 2-005, 2-044, 3-044, 3-046 #117-11, p. 44: Publishing #117-10 as a tract Temperance; Tracts. Ministers: 2-005, 2-044, 3-044, 3-046 #117-12, pp. 44-47: Forming ministerial committees for Christian Amendment advocacy; forming CAM and opening an office; urging introduction of amendment; urging ministers and members to obtain Christian Patriot subscriptions; human resources Baptists; CAM; Christian Patriot; Congregationalism; OPC; Outside preaching; PCUSA; UPCNA; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-202, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-011, 3-088, 3-207 #117-13, pp. 47-50: Appropriating money; paying ministers who provide weekday religious instruction and teach in Vacation Bible School, if not otherwise paid Choirs; CYPU; Ecumenical organizations; Paying ministers; Release time; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #117-14, pp. 50-52: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries Evangelism; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Paying RPTS faculty; Political dissent; Psalmody; RPTS library; RPTS location; Second World War; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-203, 2-229 #117-15, p. 52: Preparing to replace unsuitable tunes when issuing the next new psalter Church music; Psalter editions. #117-16, pp. 52-53: A couple must recognize the authority of the minister marrying them, so ministers may not marry members of churches rejecting Protestant authority Anti-Catholicism; Armenians; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Orthodox; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 2-203, 2-314 #117-17, pp. 53-59: Repealing #110-11; appropriating money Closing churches; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Drugs; Evangelism; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Languages; New standing committees; PCUSA; RCA; Real property; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Southern Mission; UPCNA; VBS. Ministers: 2-325 #117-18, p. 59: Thanking a donor Thanking donors; WMF. Ministers: 2-205 #117-19, p. 59: Paying a bill Financial; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts. #117-20, pp. 59-63: CYPU conferences and congregations to advertise church needs to youth; preparing films; appointing a commission to schedule 1947 CYPU convention, and urging ministers and members to suggest topics; approving procedure for choosing CYPU officers; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Second World War; Temperance; Theaters; Witness work. Ministers: 3-205 #117-21, pp. 64-68: Reiterating #116-24, first clause, including commending lobbying in DC; urging contributions and prayers Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Government communications; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; Methodists; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Taxation. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160, 2-183 #117-22, pp. 69-71: Reminding church courts of their responsibility for oversight; presbyteries urged to appoint Home Mission Secretaries, and HMB may grant them funds for church planting; favoring concept of official presbytery boundaries (but not specifying any), with areas outside boundaries under Synod’s control and the responsibility of Synod’s home mission secretary; ascertaining his salary Church planting; Decline; Individual relocation; Paying Synod employees; Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 2-071, 2-315, 3-046 #117-23, pp. 73-74: Appropriating money Bible reading folders; Financial. Ministers: 2-069, 3-189 #117-24, pp. 74-75: Arrangements for publishing all church standards in the single-volume Constitution Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Financial; Labor and capital; Methodists; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #117-25, p. 76: Requesting admission to the NAE and paying a bill Financial; NAE. Ministers: 2-005 #117-26, p. 76: Traveling Fund administration Forms; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-053, 3-075 #117-27, p. 77: Recording psalm singing at Synod CYPU; Psalm recordings; Second World War; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-046, 2-253, 2-314, 3-046, 3-205 #117-28, pp. 77-81: Advocating for protections in teacher-oath bills; studying Girouard v. United States , 328 U.S. 61 (1946) for applicability to the church; Oath Committee to publish their work Acts of Congress; Canada; Covenanter Witness; Explanatory declaration; Financial; James S. Tibby; Military service; National Reform; Naturalization; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160, 2-161, 3-022, 3-205 #117-29, p. 81: Urging ministers to preach on tithing and supporting Synod’s budget; distributing leaflets and publishing articles in the Covenanter Witness ; sending letters to ministers and congregations Budget; Covenanter Witness; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-016, 3-156 #117-30, p. 82: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial. Ministers: 3-045, 3-075 #117-31, p. 83: Paying a bill Church erection; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-002, 2-242, 2-279 #117-32, p. 113: Urging delegates to advocate prayer for more ministers and urge youth to enter the ministry or missions; urging parents to send their children into church work Parental responsibilities; Seeking candidates, FMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 3-070 #117-33, p. 116: Participating in celebrations for Geneva’s centenary Church history; Geneva. Ministers: 2-253, 2-325, 3-016, 3-129 #117-34, p. 117: Setting minimum pastoral salaries, with presbyteries to ameliorate lesser salaries; reiterating #088-11 on psalm explanations; new standing committee, on literature, appropriating money Congregational aid; Elders’Conference; Minimum salaries; Psalm explanations; Publications; Trustees of Synod. #117-35, p. 117: Reiterating #103-21 on paying supply preachers Licentiates; Paying ministers; Supply preaching. #117-36, p. 117: Paying expenses of Home Mission Secretary; HMB to work out the details Home missions; Paying Synod employees. #117-37, p. 129: Adding a word to the Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Congregational meetings. #117-38, pp. 129-130: Petitioning President Harry Truman to withdraw his unofficial Vatican ambassador, for various reasons; federal restrictions on organized capital need to be matched with restrictions on organized labor; social justice should be advocated as a component of Christ’s kingdom; appointing fast and thanksgiving dates Harry Truman; Holidays; Labor and capital; Presidential communications; Signs of the Times; Vatican ambassador. Ministers: 2-038, 2-046, 2-166, 3-012 #117-39, p. 130: Repealing #112-22 Labor and capital; New standing committees; Signs of the Times. #117-40, pp. 130-131: Protesting the inclusion of hymns in NAE meetings NAE; Psalmody. Ministers: 2-046 #118 — Synod of 1947 #118-01, p. 20: Delegate absent on Synod business to share in Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-156 #118-02, p. 20: Implementing #117-27 and planning financial arrangements Financial; Psalm recordings; Trustees of Synod. #118-03, pp. 20-22: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Witness work. Ministers: 2-279, 3-189 #118-04, pp. 22-24: Reviewing stewardship books and publishing reports of Synod’s programs in the Covenanter Witness ; sending ministers and congregations reports of Synod’s needs; ministers to preach on giving Budget; Covenanter Witness; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-016, 3-156 #118-05, pp. 26-31: Appropriating money; minimum ministerial salaries (including housing), and supplements for congregations unable to pay Baptists; Budget; Canada; China mission; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Health and medicine; Indian Mission; Inflation; Kentucky Mission; Methodists; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Release time; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 2-325 #118-06, pp. 31-38: Human resources for foreign missions; appealing for relief money for China; financial arrangements for Cyprus; reiterating #111-06, first clause Armenians; Bequests; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Disaster relief; Evangelism; Geneva; Inflation; Kentucky Mission; Languages; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Real property; RPIC; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; Soteriology; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 3-207 #118-07, pp. 38-39: Appealing for money for a vacation for Manchurian native mission workers Jeannette Li and Kong Lu Ping Donations; Manchuria mission; Second World War. #118-08, pp. 39-42: Suggesting future editorial policy for Covenanter Witness ; it belongs to Synod and must publish in accordance with church standards Covenanter Witness; Modernism; Soteriology; Strict subscription; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-069, 2-161, 2-235, 2-300 #118-09, pp. 42-44: Commending ministers-recommended Bible-reading participants; reiterating #112-01 on alternate plans; financial and printing arrangements for the Bible readers Bible reading folders; Financial; International Sunday School Lessons; James S. Tibby; NAE; Southern Mission; Youth. Ministers: 2-242, 3-076 #118-10, pp. 45-47: Appropriating money; reiterating #117-13 on paying ministers; converting Christian Education Committee into a board, and permitting them to appeal for funds Abolishing standing committees; Canada; Church history; Home visitation; Interchurch; New agencies; Paying ministers; Release time; Sabbath schools; Theaters; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #118-11, pp. 53-55: Removing limits on maximum aid to RPTS students; Superintendents given complete authority over aid fund Baptists; Church history; Closing churches; Graduate student aid; Military service; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-203, 2-229 #118-12, pp. 57-61: Appropriating money; honorarium for Secretary of Young People’s Work Congregationalism; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Geneva; Paying Synod employees; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; RPWA. Ministers: 3-205 #118-13, pp. 61-62: Clerk and Treasurer of Synod shall distribute mimeographed reports to delegates before they are read publicly Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Elders’Conference; Health and medicine; Rules and organization. #118-14, p. 62:#116-02 money to be deemed a grant; property to be owned by Trustees, with joint life tenancy to the minister and his wife (reverts to Trustees only after both die) Disability; Insurance; Parsonages; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-019, 3-088 #118-15, p. 63: Voting confidence in the Covenanter Witness editor and in the Publication Board Covenanter Witness. Ministers: 2-300 #118-16, p. 64: Home missionaries to share in Traveling Fund Home missions; Traveling Fund. #118-17, pp. 65-66: Establishing fixed-term pastorates; providing for ministers who are not retained Congregational meetings; Dissolving pastorates; Limited-term pastorates; Paying ministers. #118-18, pp. 66-71: Permitting the sale of the Service Print Shop; until then, permitting it to print generally biblical materials somewhat disagreeing with church teachings Christian Patriot; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Inflation; Interchurch; Labor and capital; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Slavery and race; Tracts; Trustees of Synod. #118-19, pp. 72-76: Reiterating #116-24, first clause; human resources; establishing memorial fund and urging donations; Christian Statesman subscriptions; urging prayer Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; Home missions; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; NRA; NTPC; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-159, 2-160, 2-183 #118-20, p. 76: Beginning to prepare a memorial record of members in World War II Financial; Second World War memorial book. Ministers: 3-083 #118-21, pp. 76-78: Permitting Geneva to conduct a fundraising campaign Canvassing; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Real property; Second World War. Ministers: 2-034 #118-22, p. 78: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-053, 3-212 #118-23, p. 79: Urging ministers and members to request tune changes for new psalter; appropriating money Church music; Financial; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 2-063, 2-179, 2-314 #118-24, pp. 79-80: Paying bills; sending down in overture small changes to the Terms of Communion Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Directory for Worship; Financial; Overtures, new; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #118-25, p. 80: Declining to permit a method of canvassing the church for construction money; paying bills Canvassing; Church erection; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Los Angeles. Ministers: 3-046, 3-198 #118-26, p. 104: Paying bills; thanking Grinnell College and its president Samuel Stevens for hosting Synod CYPU; Directions to individuals; Financial; Synod at RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094, 2-179, 3-205 #118-27, pp. 104-108: Urging the church to continue working for National Reform and ministers to lecture to outsiders; human resources and salaries for Witness Committee; members of other churches on CAM board Baptists; CAM; China mission; Christian Patriot; Church of the Nazarene; Congressional bills; Cumberland Presbyterians; Headquarters; James S. Tibby; Lutherans; Methodists; NAE; Paying Synod employees; PCUSA; Pentecostals; Service Print Shop; Specific congressmen; Tracts; UPCNA; Urban church planting; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-161, 2-183, 2-192, 2-202, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-011, 3-207 #118-28, pp. 108-111: Reiterating #088-11 on psalm explanations Psalm explanations. Ministers: 2-205, 3-076 #118-29, pp. 111-112: Approving #117-25 on NAE and reiterating #117-40; declining to make a statement on premillennialism A cappella; Military service; NAE; Political dissent; Premillennialism; Psalmody; Taxation; WCTU. Ministers: 2-002, 2-043, 2-230, 3-110 #118-30, p. 112: Commending U.S. Representative Louis Graham and U.S. Senator Arthur Capper for introducing the Christian Amendment, 80 H. J. R. 239 and 80 S. J. R. 150 Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Specific congressmen; Thanking government officials. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094 #118-31, pp. 112-113: Adopting Home Mission Secretary’s goal (#118-32) of 5,000 new members and 25 new ministers by 1952; preparing a new grand strategy for the church Board of Control; Church erection; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; RPTS; RPWA; United Front; Witness work. Ministers: 2-071, 2-149, 3-143 #118-32, pp. 113-119: Advocating more aggressively the church principles; setting a growth goal (#118-31); seeking union with the Church of Scotland in Prince Edward Island; ministers to urge young men to seek the ministry; ascertaining Home Mission Secretary’s salary Anti-Catholicism; Baptists; CAM; Canada; Church planting; Church union; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Geneva; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Levant missions; Ministers in secular employment; Pacific; Paying Synod employees; PCUSA; RP Home; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Society meetings; Southern Mission; Westminster standards; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-253 #118-33, pp. 119-121: Talking films may not be used in worship (and members must not operate projectors), but may be used in teaching; procedures on harmonizing South China Presbytery’s practice on non-close communion (#113-23) A cappella; Close communion; Independent missions; Occasional hearing; Psalmody; South China Presbytery; Theaters; Denison. Ministers: 1-069, 2-038, 2-161, 3-011, 3-220 #118-34, p. 130: Reimbursing Synod’s clerk for his expenses; buying a briefcase for Synod’s records Paying the clerk. Ministers: 2-094 #118-35, p. 130: Commending the publication of Blue Banner Faith and Life (OCLC 4155794) and its editor Blue Banner Faith and Life. Ministers: 2-315 #118-36, pp. 131-133: Reaffirming political dissent and non-oathtaking in Canada; urging Canadian members to advocate for national recognition of Christ Canada; Oath question; RPCI. Ministers: 2-166, 2-200 #118-37, p. 133: Buying a camera Financial; Home missions. Ministers: 2-253 #118-38, pp. 133-134: Arrangements for #117-27 and #118-02 CYPU; Financial; Psalm recordings; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-046, 2-253, 2-314, 3-046, 3-205 #118-39, p. 134: Iowa Presbytery may donate psalm recordings to the University of Iowa in Synod’s name [decision says Iowa State, but Iowa Presbytery minutes say University of Iowa and specify Marcus Bach, a prominent U of I religion professor] Psalm recordings. #118-40, pp. 134-138: Continuing Oath Committee work; aiding test cases; supporting teachers facing oaths Canada; Communism; Explanatory declaration; Financial; First World War; James S. Tibby; Naturalization; Publications; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160, 2-161, 3-022, 3-205 #118-41, pp. 138-139: Commending the Covenanter Witness as a news source for social justice; urging advocacy for race equality; opposing Catholic aggression while maintaining friendships with individual Catholics; urging prayer and mailing of letters for social justice Acts of Congress; Agency membership; Anti-Catholicism; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Disaster relief; Fascism; League of Nations and UN; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-046, 3-012 #118-42, p. 142: Giving money to the NAE Financial; NAE. #118-43, p. 142: Printing a report on the NAE in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; NAE. Ministers: 3-011 #118-44, p. 143: Declining to elect moderator and vice-moderator one year ahead of time; declining to give all ruling elders a vote at Synod Elders’Conference; Officer elections; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 2-005, 2-114, 2-166 #118-45, pp. 143-144: Clerk to publish Synod’s rules in the Covenanter Witness before Synod time; time limits and a courtesy committee for outside organizations; Synod’s recommendations to be published as an appendix in the minutes; rotating all committee memberships; urging officers of Synod to seek methods of expedition Agency membership; American Bible Society; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Meeting schedule; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-149, 2-315, 3-203 #118-46, p. 144: Publishing articles on communism in the Covenanter Witness Communism; Covenanter Witness. #118-47, p. 144: Protesting proposed World Calendar and similar concepts (#110-24) Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-005 #118-48, pp. 144-145: Reiterating support for the government in wartime, but opposing peacetime training in immoral conditions Military service. Ministers: 2-207 #118-49, p. 147: Protesting alcohol advertisements in Time(OCLC 1311479), Life(OCLC 34142982), and Fortune (OCLC 671813873), and reiterating #111-05 Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Temperance. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094 #118-50, p. 147: Reiterating #118-26, second clause CYPU; RP Home; RPIC; Second World War; Thanks. Ministers: 2-325, 3-127 #119 — Synod of 1948 #119-01, pp. 17-18: Church boards and the Covenanter Witness to work with Stewardship Committee; publications and financial arrangements; ministers to preach on giving Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; James S. Tibby; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-016, 3-189 #119-02, p. 18: Adopting #118-24 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #119-03, pp. 19-20: Prohibition on marrying a deceased wife’s sister is unbiblical; sending down in overture a repeal of existing Testimony prohibition of the practice Dead wife’s sister; Overtures, new; Testimony. Ministers: 2-205, 3-156 #119-04, pp. 24-27: Renewing the church’s opposition to tobacco Congressional bills; Financial; Legal prohibition; Military service; NTPC; Radio and TV; Tobacco; WCTU; Youth. Ministers: 2-044, 3-044, 3-046, 3-129 #119-05, pp. 27-29: Financial arrangements for publishing Bible Readers Bible reading folders; Financial; James S. Tibby; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-076 #119-06, pp. 29-30: All boards and committees to send representatives to strategy committee (#118-31), which is to be named United Front Committee Agency membership; Geneva; United Front. Ministers: 3-207 #119-07, pp. 30-31: Adopting Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-019, 2-063, 2-070, 2-083, 2-149, 2-253, 2-279, 2-300, 2-315, 2-321, 2-325, 3-046, 3-156, 3-189, 3-205 #119-08, pp. 31-32: Binding the Memorial Record of the Service of American Covenanters in World War II (OCLC 9216597) as a permanent book; urging ministers to supply full data; urging CYPUs to furnish copies to veterans; publication arrangements CYPU; First World War; Second World War memorial book. Ministers: 3-083 #119-09, p. 33: Minutes of Synod to include contact information for session clerks and treasurers, and pastors of city churches Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; Statistical blanks. #119-10, p. 33: Raising ministerial pensions Board of Control; Pensions. #119-11, p. 34: Amending #116-20 on ministerial pensions Licentiates; Limited-term pastorates; Pensions. #119-12, pp. 41-49: Financial resources, human resources, and property arrangements for foreign missions; publishing missionary salary schedules in minutes of Synod; reiterating #111-06, first clause; urging appeals for giving Africa; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; BPC; Closed pulpits; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Israel; James S. Tibby; Languages; League of Nations and UN; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Minutes of Synod; Mission schools; New martyrs; Orthodox; Paying missionaries; Real property; RPCI; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 3-207 #119-13, p. 49: FMB and Board of Control to consult on missionary pensions Board of Control; Foreign missions; Paying missionaries; Pensions. #119-14, p. 49: Returning a paper on limited-term service to New York Presbytery, as it is a question of administration Ministers in secular employment; Rotary service. #119-15, pp. 49-53: Sending out-of-bounds members’ addresses to Home Mission Secretary and defining “out of bounds”; urging prayer and League of Covenanter Intercessors; reiterating importance of evangelism, and #118-31 on new ministers Canada; Church union; Decline; Disaster relief; Evangelism; Financial; Individual relocation; Internal organizations; Lutherans; National Reform; Radio and TV; Seeking candidates, RPTS; United Front; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-253 #119-16, pp. 54-55: Commending CYPU members volunteering for full-time service; commending CYPU for its activities, and Secretary to urge members to fulfill their goals; appropriating money Coviechords; CYPU; Evangelism; Financial; Foreign missions; NAE; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; RPTS. #119-17, pp. 57-58: Ministers and members to support evangelism; appropriating money, including for the Covichords [Roy Blackwood, J. Paul McCracken, Donald McCracken, Norman Carson, Ken Smith] Covenanter Witness; Coviechords; Evangelism; Financial; Home missions. Ministers: 2-046, 2-179, 2-202, 3-009, 3-019, 3-053, 3-075, 3-104, 3-133, 3-171 #119-18, pp. 58-60: Congregations and sabbath schools urged to use Christian Education Committee film resources and leader-training books; ministers urged to take advantage of #117-13, second clause CAM; Kentucky Mission; Paying ministers; Release time; Sabbath schools; SCOTUS; Theaters; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-022, 3-203 #119-19, p. 71: Letters of sympathy Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-094, 2-114, 2-222, 2-311 #119-20, p. 72:Covenanter Witness to publish a list of all publications by the church, its boards, and its committees; Stated Clerk to supply this information Covenanter Witness; Financial. #119-21, p. 72: Repairing the Tabernacle model held by RPTS Financial; RPTS. Ministers: 1-006, 3-156 #119-22, pp. 79-83: Urging prayers and support for CAM; cooperating with it and paying its bills; raising public sentiment for Christian Amendment; studying effects of McCollum v. Board of Education , 333 U.S. 203 (1948) CAM; Christian Patriot; Financial; Forms; Government communications; James S. Tibby; NAE; National Council of Churches; Outside communications; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Tracts; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 2-183, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-016, 3-049, 3-088, 3-207 #119-23, p. 83:Covenanter Witness to publish this Synod’s calls for intercessory prayer Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Society meetings. #119-24, p. 89: Thanking a donor Directions to individuals; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-094, 2-243 #119-25, pp. 89-90: Making and publishing more psalm recordings (#118-38) China mission; Financial; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Psalm recordings; RPIC. Ministers: 2-046, 3-046, 3-205 #119-26, p. 92: Modifying statistical blanks Statistical blanks. #119-27, p. 92: HMB to buy a car for the Southern Mission Financial; Southern Mission. Ministers: 3-012 #119-28, pp. 92-97: Minimum ministerial salaries, including housing, and supplements for congregations unable to pay Bequests; Bible in schools; Canada; Closed pulpits; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Decline; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Inflation; Kentucky Mission; Methodists; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-325 #119-29, pp. 97-98: Publication Board to enforce Synod’s policies on the Covenanter Witness ; repealing #118-18 on sale; ascertaining editor’s salary; composition of the Board; new Editorial Committee to judge acceptability of articles; process for electing editors; basics of editorial policy, with the Board to develop it more fully Agency membership; Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees; Service Print Shop. Ministers: 2-046, 2-069 #119-30, pp. 99-101: Urging agencies addressing the whole church to use the Covenanter Witness , and urging members to request articles on important topics; stressing the importance of brief writing; urging prayer for Publication Board Anti-Catholicism; Bequests; Donations; Inflation; Labor and capital; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Sabbath-keeping; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod. #119-31, pp. 103-105: Non-professing children may not be baptized if their parents are not members; only communicant members may vote on a pastor, but permitting a past exception due to circumstances; permitting a ministerial call on a non-RP if he accepts church standards; permitting ordination of a minister without seminary training Alcohol restrictions on all members; Armenians; Baptism; Congregational meetings; Directory for Worship; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Parental responsibilities; Pastoral calls; RPCI; RPCS; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Los Angeles, Syracuse. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-083, 3-033 #119-32, p. 105: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-073, 3-212 #119-33, p. 106: Commending Joseph M. Steele for long service as missions treasurer; financial arrangements, including for the Covichords Bequests; Church erection; Church music; Coviechords; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Jewish missions; RPWA; Southern Mission; Thanks; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-259, 3-009, 3-019, 3-104, 3-171, 3-189, 3-212 #119-34, pp. 128-129: Paying bills; contributing to Geneva Centennial Fund Geneva finances; Thanks. Ministers: 3-046, 3-049 #119-35, p. 129: Appropriating money Church music; Financial. #119-36, p. 129: Appointing three parliamentarians for Synod meetings; stressing tithing Elders’Conference; Rules and organization; Tithing; Urban church planting. #119-37, pp. 130-133: Reiterating #110-29, first clause; urging members to support #118-49 and to donate to Bible in the School memorial fund; taking a collection for the NRA, and urging prayer Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Civil War; James S. Tibby; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race; Temperance. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160, 2-183 #119-38, p. 134: Paying a bill Church constitution; Financial. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #119-39, pp. 134-137: Seeking more explanatory declaration test cases, including outside the church; publishing reports on United States v. Macintosh, 283 U.S. 605 (1931), Girouard v. United States , 328 U.S. 61 (1946), and a naturalization case in the Southern District of Iowa Explanatory declaration; Naturalization; Political office; Publications; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths; Morning Sun. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160, 2-161, 3-022, 3-205 #119-40, pp. 140-141: Accepting fraternal relations with the CRNCA and declining membership in the International Council of Christian Churches CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Ecumenical organizations; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 2-046, 2-094, 2-242 #119-41, pp. 141-143: Deploring McCollum v. Board of Education , 333 U.S. 203 (1948), as an injustice and urging efforts to overturn it; members to follow Christ in serving the oppressed, including war- and communism-oppressed countries; education on social justice; praying for problem resolution Anti-Catholicism; Baptists; Communism; League of Nations and UN; Real property; Release time; SCOTUS; Slavery and race. Ministers: 2-046, 2-091, 3-012 #119-42, p. 143: Petitioning President Harry Truman to grant amnesty to unpardoned draft resisters Harry Truman; Pacifism; Presidential communications; Second World War. Ministers: 2-046, 3-012 #119-43, pp. 143-144: Adopting limited-term pastorates and arranging for support of non-retained ministers; amending #116-20; pensions for retired ministers Congregational meetings; Departing ministers; Insurance; Licentiates; Limited-term pastorates; Paying ministers; Pensions. Ministers: 2-161, 2-166, 2-207 #120 — Synod of 1949 #120-01, p. 15: Transferring a congregation from Iowa Presbytery to Illinois Presbytery Presbytery boundaries; Chicago. #120-02, pp. 18-20: Adopting Synod’s budget Budget; Church constitution; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Second World War memorial book; Southern Mission; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-005, 2-036, 2-063, 2-094, 2-149, 2-230, 2-252, 2-253, 2-279, 2-327, 3-012, 3-046, 3-076, 3-088, 3-110, 3-129, 3-205, 3-207 #120-03, pp. 20-21: New standing committee, on prayer meeting topics Covenanter Witness; New standing committees; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-168 #120-04, pp. 21-22: Each congregation to purchase a number of Memorial Record copies (#119-08) equal to the number of its servicemen Financial; Second World War memorial book. Ministers: 3-083, 3-179 #120-05, pp. 22-23: Abolishing United Front Committee at its own request, there being no need for it Abolishing standing committees; United Front. Ministers: 2-253, 3-207 #120-06, pp. 23-25: Replacing delegates to NAE who cannot attend; supporting any national repentance petitions Anti-Catholicism; Christian schools; International Sunday School Lessons; Modernism; NAE; Radio and TV; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 2-161 #120-07, pp. 25-26: Reiterating #119-25 Psalm recordings. Ministers: 2-046, 3-046, 3-205 #120-08, pp. 26-27: Printing the new Constitution (#117-24), related financial arrangements, and selling and advertising copies Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Covenant of 1871; Directions to individuals; Directory for Worship; Inflation; James S. Tibby; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #120-09, pp. 27-28: Stewardship Committee to work with church boards, and advertise and write book reviews in Covenanter Witness ; committee chairman an ex officio member of Coordinating Committee; sending giving bulletins to congregations, and ministers to preach on tithing; paying bills Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Ecumenical organizations; James S. Tibby; Sermon topics; Tithing. #120-10, p. 29: Completely revising the psalter and reconfiguring revision committees Psalter editions. #120-11, p. 31: Giving thanks and pledging prayer for large RPTS incoming class; clerk to send this resolution to new candidates Directions to individuals; RPTS. Ministers: 2-094 #120-12, p. 31: Presbytery reports to include “Every member is accounted for” Presbytery reports; Rules and organization. #120-13, pp. 31-32: Jewish Mission Board urged to raise money for Annie Forsythe’s salary Jewish missions; Paying missionaries; Public transportation; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Seeking candidates, HMB; Theaters; WMF. #120-14, p. 32: Declining to transfer missionaries’ pension funds to the Board of Control Board of Control; Paying missionaries; Pensions. #120-15, p. 33: Accepting RPTS professor’s resignation and sending a sympathy letter Directions to individuals; Resignations; RPTS faculty; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-044, 2-325 #120-16, pp. 33-38: Appropriating money Canada; China mission; Closed pulpits; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Holidays; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Licentiates; Methodists; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; NAE; Parsonages; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Temperance; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 2-325 #120-17, pp. 39-40: Ministers and elders to lead congregations in studying Covenanter Crusade(OCLC 15265878), Bible Truths for Young Christians(OCLC 16344680), Reformed Presbyterian Catechism(OCLC 16345577; see #082-09), and What We Believe (OCLC 16296591); appropriating money Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Financial; Home missions. Ministers: 2-253, 3-053, 3-110, 3-133 #120-18, pp. 41-44: Members to pray for Christian Amendment; leaders to promote it on local radio; ministers to lead various publicity projects; thanking Synod’s attorney, James R. Withrow, and stations that have accepted Movement programming, and all others who have contributed CAM; Christian Patriot; Lutherans; Methodists; PCUSA; Radio and TV; Secret societies; Specific congressmen; Thanks; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work; YMCA. Ministers: 2-314 #120-19, p. 44: Honorarium to the longtime FMB secretary Foreign missions; Paying ministers. Ministers: 2-327 #120-20, pp. 45-53: Appeals for money and workers for foreign missions Armenians; Communism; CYPU; Debt; Disaster relief; Israel; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Real property; RTF; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; South China Presbytery; VBS. #120-21, p. 53: If new psalters render current Synod psalters obsolete, some of the old ones to be sent to Syria Levant missions; Psalter editions. #120-22, p. 53: FMB authorized to explore a mission in Japan Japan mission. #120-23, pp. 54-55: Appropriating money Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial; James S. Tibby; Levant missions; Sabbath schools; Service Print Shop; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-076 #120-24, pp. 55-57: Ministers urged to set up temperance programs in congregations and in local schools Legal prohibition; NTPC. Ministers: 2-044, 3-044, 3-046, 3-129 #120-25, pp. 58-59: Advocating efforts to expand sabbath schools (including growth target), recognizing officers and teachers, and offering courses in Bible memory Christian schools; Paying ministers; Release time; Sabbath schools; Theaters; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 3-181, 3-203 #120-26, p. 60: Letter of sympathy to J.M. Blackwood following Mrs. Blackwood’s death Directions to individuals; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-094 #120-27, p. 60: Rejecting a committee report on close communion Close communion. #120-28, p. 66: Identifying pages and psalm selections in new psalter (future Book of Psalms with Music , OCLC 23019061) Psalter editions. #120-29, pp. 66-71: Approving wording changes from previous psalter and new editions; publishing new psalter as soon as possible Church music; Covenanter Witness; Psalter editions. Ministers: 2-038, 2-063, 2-179, 2-205, 2-252, 2-314, 3-016, 3-156 #120-30, pp. 71-73: Reiterating #119-15 on League and new ministers CYPU; Geneva; NAE; Publications; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-253 #120-31, pp. 74-76: Commending and urging attendance at CYPU conferences; special topics for future conferences; national conference, 1950; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Presbytery conferences; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-253 #120-32, p. 77: First-year ministerial candidates may work under their presbyteries’ direction Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-253, 3-207 #120-33, p. 77: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Methodists. Ministers: 2-034, 2-179, 3-205 #120-34, pp. 78-82: Urging continued loyalty to exclusive psalmody Psalmody. Ministers: 2-179, 3-044, 3-127 #120-35, pp. 83-87: Urging article contributions for Covenanter Witness ; financial arrangements Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Debt; Evangelism; Inflation; James S. Tibby; Minimum salaries; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-046 #120-36, p. 87: Paying any shortfall for Blue Banner Faith and Life Blue Banner Faith and Life; Financial. Ministers: 2-315 #120-37, p. 87: Modifying statistical blanks Directions to individuals; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 2-094 #120-38, pp. 88-89: Using clergy certificates for traveling purposes; committee to have power to prevent absenteeism Absences; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-073, 3-181 #120-39, p. 89: Praying for the end of Soviet oppression in China China mission; Communism. Ministers: 2-046, 2-222 #120-40, p. 89: Obtaining copies of the new psalter for Synod’s use Psalter editions. #120-41, p. 90: New psalter page layout Psalter editions. #120-42, p. 93: Minutes of Synod to include salary figures of members of Synod who teach at Geneva Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Minutes of Synod. #120-43, pp. 93-96: Reiterating existing positions on marriage and divorce; sessions to inform members of this; temporary exceptions to Terms of Communion in Cyprus and translating into Armenian; jury service with explanatory declaration is allowed, as jurymen are not an office but civil servants; not voting for declaration-using candidates; officer rotation is not unbiblical A cappella; Armenians; Diaconate; Directory for Worship; Divorce; Explanatory declaration; Jury question; Languages; Levant missions; Limited-term pastorates; Political office; Psalmody; SCOTUS; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-253, 3-022, 3-203 #120-44, pp. 99-100: Financial arrangements; instructions on financial reporting; salaries for Treasurer and Assistant Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; James S. Tibby; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-046, 3-073 #120-45, pp. 118-119: Appropriating money; merging Ministers Relief Fund with pension plan, and making arrangements Board of Control; Insurance; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-230 #120-46, pp. 121-124: Reiterating #110-29, first and Christian Statesman clauses; fundraising; urging prayer Bible in schools; CAM; Christian Statesman; Collections; Legal prohibition; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-071, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143 #120-47, p. 134: Congregations should reimburse ruling elders who suffer loss of income from attending Synod Elder attendance; Financial; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 2-183, 3-143 #120-48, p. 135: Reiterating #119-40 on declining to participate, due to impossibility, unless a minister or missionary should happen to be in Europe already RES. Ministers: 2-259 #120-49, p. 135: Clerk to select fraternal delegate to CRCNA CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 2-094 #120-50, pp. 135-136:#119-03 overture failed, largely for lack of participation (resubmission ordered); elders on provisional sessions may vote, as long as they are not counted twice Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Overtures, new; Overtures, unsuccessful; Provisional sessions; Testimony. Ministers: 2-063, 3-205 #120-51, p. 143: Thanking Mrs. Billy Sunday for welcoming delegates to visit her home Celebrity preachers; Thanks. Ministers: 3-179, 3-212 #121 — Synod of 1950 #121-01, pp. 15-16: Not appointing W.R. McEwen (RPCA) as Synod’s observer to International Council of Christian Churches, but asking him to tour the RPCNA and paying expenses Ecumenical organizations; Financial; RPCA. #121-02, pp. 18-20: Appointing Synod’s budget; Coordinating Committee officers to act as an information clearinghouse; congregations to pay their share quarterly, or monthly if possible Budget; Chester Fox; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Rules and organization; Southern Mission; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-005, 2-034, 2-083, 2-114, 2-149, 2-200, 2-230, 2-327, 3-074, 3-127, 3-129, 3-143, 3-207, 3-220 #121-03, p. 21: Commending members of the Psalter Revision Committee who are not members of Synod Psalter editions; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094 #121-04, pp. 21-22: Congregational treasurers to make monthly financial reports to their congregations Budget; Reporting calendars. #121-05, p. 22: Printing plates for old psalter editions are at the disposal of Trustees Psalter editions; Trustees of Synod. #121-06, p. 22: Reprinting psalter selections (#108-16) Psalm selections. #121-07, p. 22: Reimbursing Charles McBurney for costs of producing new psalter Financial; Psalter editions. #121-08, pp. 24-25: Declining official support for Pine Rest Sanitarium, Grand Rapids, because the institution is full to capacity already CRCNA; Health and medicine; Mennonites; Protestant Reformed Church; RCA. Ministers: 2-315, 3-189 #121-09, pp. 25-28: Permitting sabbath schools to use National Sunday School Association curricula, but retaining International Curriculum material for Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; International Sunday School Lessons; PCUSA; Premillennialism; RCA; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-161, 3-203 #121-10, pp. 28-29: Stewardship Committee to work with church boards; chairman to be a member of Coordinating Committee ex officio; urging ministers to preach on tithing; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 3-049, 3-189 #121-11, p. 31: Removing a member of the Social Justice Committee at his own request Labor and capital; Resignations. Ministers: 2-044 #121-12, p. 31: Traveling Fund assessments to be based on communicant membership Traveling Fund. #121-13, pp. 31-37: Appropriating money for congregational supplements Bequests; Bible reading folders; Church erection; Congregational aid; Incorporation; Indian Mission; James S. Tibby; Kentucky Mission; Methodists; Mission schools; Parsonages; Paying missionaries; Property held in trust; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Theaters; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-325 #121-14, p. 39: C.J. Ulrich, Central Region director for American Leprosy Mission, asked to write for Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Health and medicine. #121-15, pp. 39-43: Ministers and congregations to advocate for Christian Patriot subscriptions; urging all members to join CAM; praying for National Reform; urging members to submit radio broadcast scripts; recruiting support from other denominations; new #034-22 committee to visit President Harry Truman Abraham Lincoln; CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Harry Truman; Interchurch; James S. Tibby; League of Nations and UN; Outside commissions; Radio and TV; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-016, 3-088, 3-207 #121-16, p. 47: Petitioning President Harry Truman to appoint a day of national confession and prayer to Christ Harry Truman; Holidays; Presidential communications; Signs of the Times; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-094, 2-179 #121-17, pp. 47-49: Reiterating #120-17 book recommendations; urging rededication of vows; emphasis on family worship; appropriating money Evangelism; Family worship; Financial; Home missions; Publications; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-179, 2-253, 3-053, 3-110, 3-133 #121-18, pp. 49-51: Declining a plan to modify RPTS professor elections, and continuing RPTS on its present basis for one year RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-204 #121-19, p. 51: Seeking means for obtaining a charter for RPTS, including merging with Geneva Geneva; RPTS accreditation. Ministers: 2-204 #121-20, pp. 51-52:#120-42 to be performed by publishing faculty salary schedule in the minutes Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; James S. Tibby; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #121-21, p. 53: Petitioning President Harry Truman not to reappoint his unofficial Vatican ambassador, because this violates the separation of church and state Harry Truman; Presidential communications; Vatican ambassador. #121-22, p. 53: Rejecting RPTS professor’s resignation, but replacing him following his insistence to give it up Resignations; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-071 #121-23, p. 54: Adopting #119-03 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-034, 2-160 #121-24, pp. 56-58: Emphasizing leadership training in sabbath schools and church conferences; catechism memorization in sabbath schools; sessions to oversee sabbath school lesson helps Baptists; Communism; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; International Sunday School Lessons; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Release time; Soteriology; Theaters; VBS; Westminster standards; WMF. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-181, 3-203 #121-25, pp. 61-64: Financial arrangement, and thanking Oath Committee chairman Explanatory declaration; Financial; Geneva; Holidays; Naturalization; Post office; SCOTUS; Thanks; Witness work. Ministers: 2-034, 2-043, 2-071, 2-160, 2-161, 3-022, 3-205 #121-26, pp. 64-73: Human resources for foreign missions; appealing for relief money for China; moving missionaries to Japan and beginning work A cappella; Alawites; Armenians; Canvassing; Communism; CYPU; Evangelism; Geneva; Holidays; Islam; James S. Tibby; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Orthodox; Paying missionaries; PCUSA; Psalmody; Real property; RTF; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; Soteriology; South China Presbytery; Tracts; VBS; Westminster standards; YMCA. Ministers: 3-207 #121-27, p. 74: FMB authorized to appeal for money to buy a car for work in Japan Financial; Japan mission. #121-28, pp. 74-75: New edition of the Bible Readers; financial arrangements Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-076 #121-29, pp. 75-79: Urging ministers and members to support #118-49; day of prayer for religion in schools, with ministers urged to preach on the subject; reiterating #110-29 on efforts and Christian Statesman; urging donations and prayer Anti-Catholicism; Chester Fox; Christian schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; Cumberland Presbyterians; James S. Tibby; News media; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 2-071, 2-160, 3-046 #121-30, pp. 79-83: Emphasizing opposition to tobacco; supporting opponents of alcohol advertising; supporting 81 H. R. 886 and 3114 and their sponsors, Stephen Pace and Edward Rees Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Covenanter Witness; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Radio and TV; Specific congressmen; Taxation; Tobacco; Youth. Ministers: 3-044, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #121-31, pp. 83-87: Paying for office space for Home Mission Secretary; new ministers (#118-31) are needed quickly, so ministers and CYPU leaders to advocate for the topic Canada; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; RPCNA books; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Service Print Shop; Supply preaching; Telecommunications; Urban church planting; WMF. Ministers: 2-253 #121-32, pp. 87-90: Publishing CYPU election results in minutes of Synod; approving Covenanter Crusader’s Corps; appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Geneva; Holidays; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Short-term missions. Ministers: 2-253 #121-33, pp. 90-91: Urging congregations to use midweek times primarily for prayer and hold Bible study and discussion times on other evenings Society meetings. Ministers: 3-127, 3-203 #121-34, pp. 92-93: Renewing #118-18 on sale, and disposing of sale money Bequests; CAM; Covenanter Witness; Labor and capital; Minutes of Synod; Real property; Second World War; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034 #121-35, pp. 94-95: Labor union membership is permitted if no binding oath or pledge is required; thanking inquirer for his loyalty Directions to individuals; Labor and capital; Oath question; Telecommunications; Topeka. Ministers: 2-094 #121-36, p. 96: Subsidizing Blue Banner Faith and Life Blue Banner Faith and Life; Financial. Ministers: 2-203, 2-315 #121-37, p. 96: RPTS professors shall begin their work one year after their election RPTS faculty; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-179 #121-38, pp. 96-99: Reiterating opposition to secret societies, including school fraternities; opposing multi-faith religious activity [a reference to the Grange]; publishing this report as a tract Modernism; Secret societies; Tracts; Unitarianism; Universalism; Youth. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-203 #121-39, pp. 99-100: Exempting psalmody and secret societies committee from #085-02; instead, four-year cycle for instrumental music, political dissent, psalmody, and secret societies committees A cappella; Political dissent; Psalmody; Rules and organization; Secret societies. Ministers: 3-143 #121-40, p. 100: Deacons, not ministers, to present financial matters to congregations; ministers to preach on giving; working to emphasize evangelism in congregations; urging prayer for more elders; Social Justice Committee to include men capable of applying the Bible to current situations Diaconate; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Labor and capital; Sermon topics; Tithing. #121-41, p. 100: Annual docket to include meeting times for all standing committees and presbyteries Directions to individuals; Docket and digest. #121-42, p. 113: Cyprus Commission minutes to be filed without printing in minutes of Synod; committee to report on them annually Directions to individuals; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Reviewing commissions. #121-43, pp. 113-114: Reiterating #120-43 on not voting; in light of #119-03, rejecting final sentence of Section 4 of Chapter 24 of the Confession of Faith, and printing stickers to place in published constitution Dead wife’s sister; Divorce; Explanatory declaration; Political office; Testimony; Voting; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-044, 2-205, 3-127 #121-44, p. 114: Procedure for marking portions of the Westminster Standards that are rejected or given alternate interpretations Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-043 #121-45, p. 117: FMB and Cyprus Commission to consider forming a Cyprus Presbytery Levant missions. Ministers: 2-038 #121-46, p. 118: Reports of boards and standing committees to be mimeographed and distributed before reading (#118-13) Docket and digest; Rules and organization. #121-47, p. 118: Arrangements for ministerial retirement fund Insurance; Pensions. #121-48, p. 118: Honorarium for Secretary of Young People’s Work CYPU; Financial. Ministers: 2-253 #121-49, p. 119: Electing women to the Mission Boards Agency membership; WMF. Ministers: 2-205, 2-279, 3-205 #121-50, p. 119: Approving decision of Kansas Presbytery in a marriage/divorce discipline case Divorce; Judicial cases. #121-51, pp. 119-120: Removing a member of the Oath Committee at his own request Oath question; Resignations. Ministers: 2-043 #121-52, pp. 120-121: Financial arrangements; declining to permit deacon delegates, given past unsuccessful attempt (#094-19, #096-31), but delegates to discuss Synod business with deacons; renaming Literary Fund to Miscellaneous Fund and creating new Christian Literature Fund; salary for Synod’s treasurer Bequests; Board of Control; Chester Fox; Church erection; Deacon delegates; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Renaming; RPWA; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod; WMF; Orlando. Ministers: 2-161, 2-176, 3-083 #121-53, p. 143: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-179, 3-181 #121-54, p. 147: Appointing a day of prayer for the looming Korean war Korean War; Signs of the Times. #121-55, p. 147: Honoraria to two members Financial. Ministers: 2-161, 2-192 #122 — Synod of 1951 #122-01, pp. 17-19: Adopting rules for doing business at Synod, and printing them in the Constitution Business of Synod; Church constitution; Conferences at Synod; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Minutes of Synod; RPCI; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #122-02, pp. 19-21: Appointing Synod’s budget; Stewardship Committee to supply ministers with sample materials from Layman’s Company Bequests; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Inflation; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-034, 2-149, 2-179, 2-230, 2-253, 2-259, 2-279, 2-325, 3-044, 3-046, 3-049, 3-073, 3-143, 3-156, 3-181, 3-203, 3-205, 3-207 #122-03, pp. 21-22: Reiterating #121-10, second clause; urging ministers to preach on tithing; paying bills Budget; Chester Fox; Covenanter Witness; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 3-049 #122-04, p. 28: Thanking Annie Forsythe of the Jewish Mission for her service Jewish missions; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094 #122-05, pp. 28-30: Fixing Covenanter Witness subscription rates; urging individuals and directing church agencies to write articles for publication Covenanter Witness; Real property; Service Print Shop; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-034 #122-06, pp. 31-33: Position statement on marriage and divorce (#121-50) Divorce. Ministers: 2-038, 2-071, 2-091 #122-07, p. 34: Individuals are responsible to God for contracting improper marriages ignorantly; warning ministers and members to warn individuals against such ignorance Construction; Divorce; Parental responsibilities. Ministers: 2-043 #122-08, p. 34: Sympathy telegram to minister’s widow Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-229, 2-276 #122-09, p. 34: Missionary made eligible for the Traveling Fund Levant missions; Native ministers; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-284 #122-10, pp. 34-36: Reiterating #114-10 on mission sabbath schools; sabbath schools to emphasize the Bible; congregations to honor their workers; workers urged to hold planning meetings with ministers; urging use of #117-13 payments to ministers Home visitation; Paying ministers; Release time; Sabbath schools; Theaters; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-181, 3-203 #122-11, pp. 36-37: Parents must not send their children to Vacation Bible schools where the children will be asked to sing hymns in worship Psalmody; VBS. Ministers: 2-315 #122-12, pp. 37-41: Formally establishing Japan mission; human resources for Cyprus; foreign mission commissions not permitted to expand themselves Alawites; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Bequests; China mission; Communism; CYPU; Islam; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Real property; RPCI; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-207 #122-13, p. 41: Permitting ordinations at Larnaca Armenian congregation (as if #120-43 had never been passed) until the situation can be studied more fully [repeated on page 42] A cappella; Armenians; Levant missions; Making exceptions; Psalmody. Ministers: 3-207 #122-14, p. 41: Sympathy note to elderly minister Sympathy. Ministers: 3-033, 3-045 #122-15, p. 41: Human resources for Syria Levant missions; Military service; Mission schools. #122-16, p. 42: Sympathy note to minister taken ill while traveling to Synod; he is to participate in traveling fund Incapacitated delegates; Sympathy; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-320, 3-074 #122-17, pp. 46-47: Reprinting the Bible Readers; urging ministers to advocate for Reader use; coordinating private Bible reading with texts read from the pulpit Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; Mennonites; Sermon topics; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-181 #122-18, pp. 47-50: Ministers, sessions, and members to support CAM CAM; Christian Patriot; Close communion; Congressional bills; Methodists; Radio and TV; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen; Tracts; UPCNA; Witness work. #122-19, p. 51: Urging congregations to continue emphasizing prayer meetings; regulating meetings Society meetings. Ministers: 3-127, 3-203 #122-20, pp. 52-57: New pension plan, and regulations for it; renaming Board of Control to Board of Pensions Board of Control; Congregational meetings; Insurance; Pensions; Renaming; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-063, 3-205 #122-21, pp. 59-61: Rejecting obtaining a separate charter for RPTS (#121-19), given legal impossibility; exploring merger with Geneva; appropriating money Geneva; Incorporation; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 3-049, 3-088, 3-143 #122-22, p. 62: Declining to hear an appeal from Cyprus, as the appellant is defying Commission’s authority Judicial cases; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-242, 2-279 #122-23, pp. 62-64: Ministers to distribute copies of anti-alcohol speech; temperance leaders to use committee’s media items; collecting money and pledges for temperance Collections; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Holidays; Korean War; NTPC; Second World War; Theaters; WCTU. Ministers: 3-044, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #122-24, pp. 64-68: Congregational supplements Canada; Congregational aid; CYPU; Holidays; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Levant missions; New Light church; Parsonages; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; UPCNA; Urban church planting; WMF. Ministers: 3-129 #122-25, p. 69: Creating a committee as a point of contact for married RPTS students seeking housing Marriage, sexuality, and gender; RPTS. Ministers: 3-083 #122-26, pp. 69-73: Commending CYPU staff for developing Crusader’s Corps [apparently predecessor to RP Missions teams]; congregations to conduct outreach and sponsor mission sabbath schools; Home Mission Secretary to be given contact information for all those entering the military Book of Discipline; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Directions to individuals; Evangelism; Geneva chapel; Improving praise; Individual relocation; Korean War; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Supply preaching; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 2-253 #122-27, pp. 74-75:Covenanter Witness to publish on evangelism, special days and times for evangelism; ministers to press for decisions to accept Christ, consider new Covenant; renewing League of Covenanter Intercessors, forming new prayer groups, men’s brotherhoods, and evangelism seminars; emphasizing sabbath schools and city missions, supporting CYPU in evangelism, appropriating money Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Financial; Holidays; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Soteriology. Ministers: 2-046, 2-179, 2-296, 3-053, 3-110, 3-133 #122-28, p. 75: Reiterating tithing; assistant clerk to appoint someone to make arrangements for Elders’ Conference; congregations to raise their share of Synod’s budget by 1 April Budget; Elders’Conference; Tithing; WMF. #122-29, p. 77: Raising minimum salary; condemning congregations that intentionally pay nothing more; urging congregations to pay more for more experience; honorarium for communion assistance to be included with invitation Minimum salaries; Special services. #122-30, p. 77: Publishing #122-29 in Covenanter Witness and distributing copies to all congregational treasurers and session clerks Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Minimum salaries; Special services. Ministers: 2-094 #122-31, pp. 77-78: Geneva financial report to be made available annually for publication in the minutes of Synod Geneva finances; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #122-32, pp. 90-94: Reiterating #110-29, first clause; ministers to preach on the Bible in the schools and to work with NRA on sabbath-keeping; all to inform themselves on and pray for NRA activities; raising money Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; First World War; Gambling; News media; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Second World War; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143 #122-33, p. 95: Financial arrangements Bequests; Board of Control; Church erection; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Jewish missions; RPTS accreditation; RPWA; Sympathy; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-036, 2-204 #122-34, pp. 128-129: HMB regulations for church planting, including a new work every two or three years; financial arrangements; urging all RPTS graduates to seek pastorates immediately; reiterating #122-26 on outreach and sabbath schools; paying a bill Church erection; Evangelism; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Urban church planting; Hot Springs, Phoenix, San Diego. Ministers: 2-179, 2-183, 2-253 #122-35, p. 130: Paying bills for Arrangements Committee Business of Synod; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-088 #122-36, p. 130: Reiterating support for current position on close communion Close communion. #122-37, p. 133: Women on mission boards changed from consultative members to full members Agency membership; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. #122-38, pp. 134-138: Oath Committee made a standing committee, and defining its responsibilities Civil War; Communism; Explanatory declaration; Financial; First World War; Geneva; Great Depression; Korean War; Naturalization; Pacifism; Post office; Quakers; SCOTUS; Second World War; Teachers’oaths; Voting. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160 #122-39, pp. 138-140: Declining to reconsider use of explanatory declaration, but reiterating not running for office; the Eighth Commandment forbids gambling, and expanding its definition; reiterating #048-12, #084-14, and #093-26 and urging other arrangements for services; a bigamist in Syria must divorce one wife but provide for her Alawites; Church history; Closed pulpits; Explanatory declaration; Gambling; Indian Mission; Levant missions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; SCOTUS; Society meetings; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-005, 2-176, 2-325 #122-40, pp. 140-141: Merging Colorado and Kansas Presbyteries upon request from Colorado, but maintaining separate CYPUs and WMF, and appointing arrangements commission; new name Midwest Presbytery Abolishing presbyteries; CYPU; New commissions; WMF; Denver. Ministers: 2-222, 2-253, 2-325, 3-033, 3-044, 3-053, 3-076, 3-110 #122-41, pp. 141-142: Opposing the exclusive use of government to enforce social justice and committing to advocate biblical love as justice; paying a bill Financial; Labor and capital; Modernism. Ministers: 3-046, 3-129 #122-42, p. 142: Paying a bill Financial; No information. #122-43, p. 144: Increasing #122-24 because of #122-29 on minimum salaries Canada; Congregational aid; Home missions. #122-44, p. 144: Thanking members for their donations and publishing in the Covenanter Witness Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission. Ministers: 3-046, 3-083 #122-45, p. 145: Traveling Fund administration; including provision for air travel Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-074, 3-179 #122-46, p. 146: Raising salaries for Witness worker, Covenanter Witness editor, and Young People’s Secretary; raising 91-08 honorarium CYPU; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; Witness work. Ministers: 2-036, 2-192, 2-204, 2-253, 2-300 #123 — Synod of 1952 #123-01, pp. 16-18: Regulations for pension plan, including bequests, withholding from salaries, ministerial candidates, eligibility, and ministers not in the pastorate Bequests; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 3-044, 3-110 #123-02, pp. 19-20: Various programs may use first-year ministerial candidates, who may preach under session and professor approval; first-summer candidates may work anywhere under session or presbytery approval; retaining licensure process Baptists; Congregationalism; Covenanter Witness; Licentiates; Methodists; PCUSA; RPTS faculty; Short-term missions; Unlicensed candidates; UPCNA; VBS. Ministers: 2-179, 2-300 #123-03, pp. 24-28: Approving decisions of #122-40 commission: each former presbytery to handle its pending business as a commission of the new merged presbytery Abolishing presbyteries; CYPU; Presbytery conferences; Reviewing commissions; WMF. Ministers: 2-253, 3-044 #123-04, pp. 30-33: Preparing for a new covenant, but 1871 is perpetually the basis of everything; ministers and sessions to prepare congregations Brief Covenant; Covenant of 1871; Elders’Conference; RPIC. Ministers: 2-071, 3-046, 3-074 #123-05, pp. 34-36: Urging Geneva to offer a Christian-education course, and RPTS to host guest lectures; urging congregations to send young people to “Crusader’s school” Financial; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Home visitation; Kentucky Mission; NRA; Release time; RPTS; Sabbath schools; SCOTUS; VBS. Ministers: 2-149, 2-176, 3-181, 3-203 #123-06, pp. 36-37: Appointing Synod’s budget; urging aid-receiving congregations to reduce their requests; handling a bequest; recognizing the effect of inflation; Synod’s treasurer to provide statistics Bequests; Budget; Chester Fox; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Directions to individuals; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-036, 2-149, 2-179, 2-242, 2-253, 2-300, 3-044, 3-046, 3-049, 3-076, 3-090, 3-143, 3-179, 3-205, 3-212 #123-07, pp. 37-39: Anti-narcotic workers in all congregations, and related programs in CYPU conferences; reiterating opposition to tobacco; anti-narcotic issue of the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; CYPU; NTPC; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath schools; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #123-08, p. 41: RPTS students to engage in informal internships CYPU; Evangelism; Sabbath schools; Unlicensed candidates. #123-09, pp. 42-43: Paying a bill Budget; Covenanter Witness; Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 3-049, 3-189 #123-10, p. 43: Sympathy telegram to Dr. J.R. Withrow Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-094 #123-11, pp. 43-46: Urging prayer for CAM; reiterating #121-15, first clause; urging congregations to find free radio time CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Health and medicine; NAE; Radio and TV; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-016, 3-049, 3-143, 3-207 #123-12, p. 46: Thanking CAM secretaries for their work CAM; Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094 #123-13, pp. 47-48: Paying bills for Bible Readers; each congregation to have an agent; reiterating #122-17 on coordination; preparing a small booklet for men in the military Bible reading folders; Financial; Korean War; Levant missions; RPCI; Sermon topics; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-181 #123-14, p. 54: Re-protesting to President Harry Truman his sending an ambassador to the Vatican Harry Truman; Presidential communications; Vatican ambassador. #123-15, pp. 54-55: Closing the books on the Memorial Record (#119-08) and disposing of remainders Chester Fox; Financial; Geneva library; RPTS library; Second World War memorial book. Ministers: 3-083, 3-179 #123-16, p. 55: Thanking a donor Directions to individuals; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-315 #123-17, pp. 57-65: Urging the church to re-commit itself to the Great Commission; appealing for a new missionary to Japan Armenians; China mission; Church erection; Communism; Disaster relief; Geneva; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Second World War; Seeking candidates, FMB; Soteriology; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-207 #123-18, p. 65: Foreign missions may decide to affiliate with national or international evangelical organizations Ecumenical organizations; Foreign missions. Ministers: 2-038 #123-19, pp. 65-66: Declining to publish a sabbath school curriculum, for financial/practical reasons; urging WMF and Board of Christian Education to plan lesson topics, and Covenanter Witness to publish children’s lessons Covenanter Witness; Sabbath schools; WMF. Ministers: 2-038, 2-149, 2-253 #123-20, pp. 66-67: Each presbytery to adopt the Evangelism Committee’s “Plan of Action”; CYPU “Soul Winner’s Project Kit” to be adopted by congregations; appropriating money Conferences at Synod; CYPU; Evangelism; Financial; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-179, 2-253, 2-296, 3-053, 3-133 #123-21, p. 71: Forming men’s clubs in congregations Close communion; Elders’Conference; Gambling; Internal organizations; Temperance; Tithing; Tobacco; Youth. #123-22, pp. 72-76: Ministers to inform Home Mission Secretary of jobs and job-seekers; committing to support new works with men and resources Church erection; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Geneva; Goal Post; Individual relocation; Presbytery conferences; RP Home; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Tracts; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 2-253 #123-23, p. 76: Reprinting Six Great Certainties (OCLC 15245447) Chester Fox; Directions to individuals; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071 #123-24, pp. 76-82: Transferring a piece of property; congregational supplements Church erection; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Korean War; Labor and capital; Licentiates; Mission schools; Parsonages; Pentecostals; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Southern Mission; Tobacco; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting; VBS; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-046 #123-25, pp. 83-84: Arrangements for RPTS president emeritus; all professors to serve three-year terms; ascertaining standard salaries, but Superintendents permitted to adjust salaries and curriculum; Home Mission Secretary to lecture on evangelism Biblical languages; Church history; Higher-education standards; Home missions; Paying RPTS faculty. Ministers: 2-203, 2-315, 3-143, 3-205 #123-26, pp. 116-117: Abolishing standing committee on Social Justice, given significant disagreements in the church on political matters Abolishing standing committees; Labor and capital. Ministers: 2-036, 3-012, 3-203 #123-27, pp. 117-120: Ministers to lead congregations in studying the Covenant of 1871; appointing fast and thanksgiving dates Covenant of 1871; Holidays; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 2-149, 3-156 #123-28, p. 120: Surveying sessions to discover whether an alternate meeting date might enable more elders to attend Elder attendance; Meeting schedule. Ministers: 3-205 #123-29, pp. 120-128: Reiterating #090-30 commendation; members to distribute NRA literature; holding NRA meetings; urging support for Crusade Against Liquor Advertising; financial and prayer requests Bequests; Christian Statesman; Collections; Gambling; NRA; NTPC; Radio and TV; Release time; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Theaters. Ministers: 2-071, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143 #123-30, p. 128: Presbyteries must stop stapling and taping documents into their minutes, for the sake of permanence and neatness; repealing #102-15 and urging typewritten minutes Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 2-094, 3-049 #123-31, pp. 128-129: Petitioning the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee to support 82 S. 3153 Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Immigration; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-038, 5-001 #123-32, pp. 129-131: Moderator’s signature on session minutes taken in his absence (#089-24); repealing #122-39 on bigamist, but he may not be ordained; #073-25 on disorganization applies when elders leave the church; commending Greek Nicosia congregation and Cyprus Commission and approving some of their requests, and FMB to handle the rest Alawites; Book of Church Government; Closing churches; Directions to individuals; Divorce; Levant missions; Presbytery minutes; Provisional sessions. Ministers: 2-314, 3-033, 3-083 #123-33, p. 132: Relocating the Jewish Mission and selling its property Jewish missions; Real property; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-183, 2-327, 3-045, 3-046 #123-34, p. 135: Paying bills and giving money to Geneva Business of Synod; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-073, 3-217 #123-35, p. 135: Using pension funds as an endowment Pensions. Ministers: 3-044 #123-36, pp. 135-136: Traveling Fund administration Directions to individuals; Geneva; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-074, 3-217 #123-37, pp. 139-144: Reiterating #122-38 Explanatory declaration; Military service; Naturalization; Political office; Post office; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 3-022, 3-205 #123-38, p. 146:#123-14 may be sent without Synod approving the precise wording Harry Truman; Presidential communications; Vatican ambassador. #124 — Synod of 1953 #124-01, pp. 8-10: Financial arrangements; men needing more income urged to apply for social assistance; aiding such men’s wives Bequests; Insurance; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-044, 3-110 #124-02, pp. 10-12: Disposing of money realized from selling real estate; preparing for a campaign highlighting bequests to the church Canada; Chester Fox; Church erection; Closing churches; Parsonages; Urban church planting; Boston 1. Ministers: 2-046, 2-242 #124-03, pp. 12-14: Appointing Synod’s budget; advertising Synod’s budget in Stewardship Committee-prepared bulletins and the Covenanter Witness ; reiterating #123-06, final clause Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-036, 2-063, 2-149, 2-200, 2-253, 2-279, 2-300, 3-019, 3-044, 3-046, 3-133, 3-179, 3-208, 3-217, 3-220 #124-04, pp. 14-15: Making an elder the chairman of Stewardship Committee; reiterating #124-03 on bulletins and Covenanter Witness ; urging tithing and further giving; appropriating money Agency membership; Covenanter Witness; Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 3-189 #124-05, pp. 19-21: Sponsoring the Blue Banner Faith and Life and appealing for contributions to meet its deficits; Coordinating Committee to consider Christian Literature Fund Blue Banner Faith and Life; Canvassing; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Labor and capital; Real property; Service Print Shop. Ministers: 2-034, 2-300, 2-315 #124-06, p. 22: Reiterating #048-12, #084-14, and #093-26 Closed pulpits; Construction; Covenanter Witness. Ministers: 3-074 #124-07, pp. 22-25: Ministers to preach and work with sabbath schools on temperance; anti-narcotics in vacation Bible schools and children’s summer camps; temperance speaking at CYPU national conference; Covenanter Witness temperance number; sabbath schools urged to collect for temperance Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Drugs; Financial; Korean War; NTPC; Parental responsibilities; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Tobacco; WCTU; VBS. Ministers: 2-279, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #124-08, pp. 25-28: Stressing home department of Christian education; reiterating #119-18 on film CYPU; Financial; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Interchurch; Release time; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; Theaters; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-181, 3-203 #124-09, pp. 30-35: Reiterating #122-33 on Bible in schools, and #123-29 on #090-30 and literature; Christian Statesman subscription agents in congregations; giving Bible readers and anti-alcohol publications to local schools; urging anti-alcohol-advertising efforts; congregations urged to host NRA representatives; collecting and praying for NRA Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Gambling; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143 #124-10, p. 35: Approving letter to U.S. Senator Ralph Flanders [#124-12 connects this to CAM work] CAM; Congressional petitions; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-192, 2-300, 3-049 #124-11, p. 36: Retroactively approving an ordination sine titulo Ex post facto; Levant missions; Sine titulo. Ministers: 3-219 #124-12, pp. 39-42: Reiterating #123-11 on prayer and #110-01 on congregations as centers; urging congregations to pay for members’ Christian Patriot subscriptions, and urging members to work to subscribe their friends in other churches; commending U.S. Senator Ralph Flanders and U.S. Representative Robert Harrison for their sympathy, and urging members to send commendations CAM; Christian Patriot; Donations; Individual relocation; Interchurch; Methodists; Pentecostals; Radio and TV; Sabbath-keeping; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-183, 2-204, 2-253, 2-314, 2-325, 3-016, 3-049, 3-143, 3-207, 3-217 #124-13, pp. 43-46: Urging congregational prayer, evangelism by ministers and members, “adopt-a-family” plan, evangelism emphasis in sabbath schools, “Christ for Everyone” and “Bible Mastery Month” campaigns, regular teaching and preaching on church standards, advocating family worship, and Bible memory work; appropriating money Bible Mastery Month; Celebrity preachers; Conferences at Synod; Home visitation; Methodists; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Society meetings; Theaters; Tracts; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-179, 2-253, 2-296, 3-053, 3-110 #124-14, p. 47: Reaffirming close communion; urging all sessions to study procedures for church discipline and its biblical basis, and to apply it consistently Church discipline; Close communion. #124-15, p. 47: Appropriating money Bequests. #124-16, pp. 47-54: Permitting a missionary to be ordained sine titulo; appointing a Japan commission for ordinations and congregational organizations; appealing for teachers in Larnaca A cappella; Alawites; Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Chester Fox; Communism; Family worship; Financial; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Modernism; PCUSA; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Shinto; Sine titulo; VBS; Westminster standards; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-011, 3-207, 3-216 #124-17, pp. 54-56: Amending Geneva charter to expand trustee board’s membership Geneva. Ministers: 2-094 #124-18, pp. 58-64: Appealing for a worker in Kentucky; visiting preachers to be paid more if they work Saturday or Monday; deadline for presbytery aid applications; supplemental aid for congregations Church erection; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Donations; Indian Mission; Insurance; Kentucky Mission; Mission schools; PCUSA; Psalmody; Reporting calendars; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Temperance; Unlicensed candidates; UPCNA; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 3-046 #124-19, pp. 64-65: Statement of appreciation for RPTS president emeritus, and specifying his annual pension Outside preaching; PCUSA; Pensions; Psalm explanations; RPTS faculty; Thanks; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-203, 2-229 #124-20, pp. 66-67: Paying bills; reiterating #123-13 on agents Bible reading folders; Financial; Korean War; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242, 3-181 #124-21, p. 67: Oversight of White Lake Camp Presbytery conferences; Real property. Ministers: 2-200, 2-279, 3-181 #124-22, pp. 67-72: Urging greater use of Home Mission Secretary’s resources; committing to the finances and men for #122-34 on new works Brief Covenant; Canada; Church planting; Goal Post; Health and medicine; Higher-education standards; Home visitation; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; Korean War; RPIC; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, HMB; Short-term missions; Special services; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-253 #124-23, pp. 72-73: All delegates to prepare the rest of the church for covenanting in 1954 Brief Covenant; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Evangelism; RPIC; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-179, 2-296 #124-24, pp. 73-78: Close communion and communing in other churches; official certificates of ordination; ad interim commissions may install ministers, but not ordain them; popular vote on denominational business is anti-presbyterian; arrangements for Greek Nicosia congregation; rejecting hymnody/instruments in Armenian churches and translating church documents A cappella; Armenians; Book of Church Government; Congregationalism; Construction; Directions to individuals; Directory for Worship; Forms; GEC; Languages; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Mission schools; Occasional hearing; Peponiades Trust; Popular vote; Psalmody; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Self-supporting missions; Soteriology; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards; Geneva. Ministers: 2-005, 2-094, 3-019 #124-25, pp. 78-81: Approving “Brief Covenant”, but not making it obligatory for members; preparing for implementation and future covenanting; focusing on Psalms 42/43 in discouragement; paying bills A cappella; Biblical inerrancy; Brief Covenant; Covenant of 1871; Covenant theology; CYPU; Financial; Japan mission; Levant missions; Modernism; Political dissent; Psalmody; RPIC; Sabbath-keeping; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-038, 3-016, 3-156, 3-179, 3-205 #124-26, pp. 85-86: Elders to pray daily for church members and unsaved neighbors; reiterating #124-13 on family worship, ministers to preach against lotteries, drawings, door prizes, etc.; campaign to increase tithing; reiterating #122-28 on chairman; urging monthly congregational contributions to Synod’s budget Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Family worship; Gambling; Radio and TV; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tithing. #124-27, pp. 94-95: Financial arrangements; rejecting Synod-underwritten fire insurance; price for minutes of Synod; ascertaining church treasurer’s salary Bequests; Chester Fox; Church planting; Closing churches; Insurance; Japan mission; Jewish missions; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Real property; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-242, 3-053, 3-074 #124-28, pp. 124-125: Traveling Fund administration Directions to individuals; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-019, 3-217 #124-29, p. 125: Opposing biennial Synod meetings, as they would unnecessarily reinforce a sense of the church’s failure; opposing Synod meetings being moved to late July or later, due to schedule conflicts Budget; Decline; Elder attendance; Meeting schedule; Presbytery conferences; Boston 1. Ministers: 2-253, 3-116 #124-30, p. 126: Paying bills and giving money to Geneva Business of Synod; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-143, 3-203 #124-31, p. 126: Commending U.S. Senator Charles Tobey and Secretary of the Air Force Harold Talbott on their temperance positions Congressional petitions; Government communications; Specific congressmen; Temperance; Thanking government officials. Ministers: 2-300 #124-32, p. 126: Publishing a summary of #124-14 reaffirmation in the Covenanter Witness Close communion; Covenanter Witness. #125 — Synod of 1954 #125-01, p. 8: Appointing a judicial commission to handle FMB request New commissions; South China Presbytery. #125-02, pp. 8-9: Urging giving; Coordinating Committee to adopt a budget in a businesslike manner; considering falling membership in budget preparation; urging tithing because of its spiritual benefits as well; educating all membership on giving; CYPU to advocate giving Budget; CYPU; Decline; Tithing. Ministers: 2-043, 3-019 #125-03, pp. 10-11: Cutting pensions. Pension Board to study 83 H. R. 9366 (Public Law 83-761); should it be enacted, polling delegates by mail regarding participating, and results to be considered a formal vote of Synod Budget; Insurance; Pensions. #125-04, pp. 11-14: Position paper on church union; new standing committee, on church union; urging other denominations to examine and address RPCNA positions APCNA; ARPC; BPC; Church constitution; Church union; Close communion; Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Modernism; OPC; Outside communications; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-149, 2-315 #125-05, p. 14: Trustees to permit other churches to use psalter selections in their hymnbooks, provided no unauthorized changes be made, and similar permissions given for using other books’ tunes Church music; Psalm selections; Trustees of Synod. #125-06, pp. 14-16: Paying a bill Blue Banner Faith and Life; Brief Covenant; Church history; Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Goal Post; RPIC; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-046, 2-179, 2-296, 2-300 #125-07, p. 17: Original copy of Brief Covenant (#124-25) to be kept at RPTS RPTS. #125-08, pp. 20-23: Covenanter Witness to publish a temperance issue; observing Temperance Commitment Day; thanking sabbath schools for giving, and urging another collection Alcohol restrictions on all members; Congressional bills; Covenanter Witness; NRA; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Tobacco; WMF. Ministers: 2-279, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #125-09, p. 26: RPWA may proceed with Home construction and canvass for funds Canvassing; RP Home. #125-10, p. 27: Paying bills for publishing The Covenant of 1954 (OCLC 8230466) Brief Covenant; Financial; RPCNA books. #125-11, pp. 27-28: Publishing 1954 Bible and Children’s readers; reiterating #123-13 on agents Bible reading folders; Canada; Financial; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-242 #125-12, pp. 29-30: Declining to amend Brief Covenant Brief Covenant; Making exceptions; Ordination queries; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-315, 3-127 #125-13, pp. 35-36: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-036, 2-063, 2-149, 2-179, 2-253, 3-044, 3-046, 3-076, 3-104, 3-110, 3-156, 3-179, 3-208 #125-14, pp. 36-39: Leadership training classes for Bible teachers; presbyteries to form Christian Education committees; congregations doing special work to report in the Covenanter Witness Interchurch; Release time; Sabbath schools; Short-term missions; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-149, 2-176, 3-032, 3-181, 3-203 #125-15, p. 41: Publishing Witness Committee tracts in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Tracts; Witness work. #125-16, pp. 42-43: Commending RPTS faculty for publishing a catalogue; amending #095-28 and forgiving RPTS student loans after ten years’ service Graduate student aid; Japan mission; Licentiates; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-143 #125-17, p. 43: Thanking R.M. Young for long service on church boards Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 2-005 #125-18, p. 44: Presbyteries to compel delinquent congregations to contribute to pension fund, and presbytery reports to note whether pension funds be fully paid Collections; Pensions. #125-19, p. 44: Thanking F.M. Wilson for long service on RPTS Superintendents Directions to individuals; RPTS; Thanks. Ministers: 2-005, 2-327, 3-049, 3-133 #125-20, pp. 44-49: Witness Committee to distribute tracts, and ministers and congregations to distribute them and Christian Patriot ; reiterating #123-11 on prayer; approving attempted introduction of amendment in the 84th Congress CAM; Canada; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Cumberland Presbyterians; Donations; Dwight Eisenhower; NAE; Pentecostals; Radio and TV; RCA; Sabbath schools; Specific congressmen; Telecommunications; Tracts; WCTU; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 2-192, 2-253, 2-325, 3-049, 3-143 #125-21, p. 50: Revisiting a decision of Synod requires a two-thirds vote for discussion or the passage of five years Rules and organization. #125-22, p. 50: Syria mission may campaign for a short-term worker Canvassing; Levant missions; Mission schools; Seeking candidates, FMB. #125-23, p. 51: Appropriating money, and church departments to report their proposed budgets to the Coordinating Committee Budget; Rules and organization. #125-24, pp. 52-53: Presbytery and session records to be kept better; commending treasurers complying with #124-26 on Synod’s budget; minimum ministerial salaries, and sessions to review salaries with deacons; urging sessional prayer with minister before each morning service Brief Covenant; Budget; Elders’Conference; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Presbytery minutes. #125-25, p. 53: In times of financial stress, it is not derogatory for a minister to seek outside employment Ministers in secular employment. #125-26, pp. 53-59: Urging self-supporting congregations to comply with minimum salaries or request supplements; approving supplements CAM; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Legal prohibition; Licentiates; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Parsonages; Poor relief; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Scouting; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 2-019, 2-039, 3-046, 3-049, 3-068, 3-071 #125-27, pp. 59-62: Printing CYPU national officers’ names in Synod’s directory; commending New York Presbytery for church-planting; observing need for men and money; calling for more ministerial candidates; HMB permitted to replace Young People’s Secretary Bible Mastery Month; Brief Covenant; CAM; Closing churches; CYPU; Geneva; Kentucky Mission; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Specific congressmen; Supply preaching; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-253 #125-28, p. 64: Appropriating money; Covenanter Witness to provide free advertising to Stewardship Committee Covenanter Witness; Tithing. #125-29, p. 64: Sending #125-24 on ministerial salaries to all congregations with no elder delegate Minimum salaries. #125-30, p. 64: Licentiate-and-ruling-elder Wilbur W. Weir made a full member of the court; women missionaries to participate in Traveling Fund Delegate qualifications; Traveling Fund. #125-31, pp. 69-73: Reiterating #124-09 Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; NRA; NTPC; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #125-32, pp. 73-77: Appointing fast and thanksgiving dates; petitioning Secretary of State John Dulles not to grant visas for Communist-sympathizing delegates to World Council of Churches meeting Communism; Government communications; Latin America; Methodists; Modernism; Nuclear weapons; Second World War; Signs of the Times; Vietnam War; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-022, 3-071, 3-129 #125-33, pp. 77-80: Renaming Japan Commission to Far East Commission and giving it authority over Chinese affairs; human resources for Japan Autonomous commissions; Canvassing; Covenanter Witness; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Pensions; Real property; Renaming; RPIC; Seeking candidates, FMB; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 3-023, 3-033, 3-075, 3-179, 3-216 #125-34, p. 80: Home Mission Secretary to be elected a year in advance Home missions; Rules and organization. #125-35, p. 80: Sending #125-29 together with #125-132 Minimum salaries. #125-36, pp. 80-81: Subsidizing the Covenanter Witness; raising salaries for Home Mission and CAM secretaries and Covenanter Witness editor; honorarium for Young People’s Secretary Budget; CAM; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Jewish missions; Paying Synod employees; RPIC; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-038, 2-179, 3-044 #125-37, pp. 104-105: Enacting un-enacted #117-28 opinion against explanatory declaration use in officeholding, and publishing 1954 report in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Explanatory declaration; Political office; SCOTUS; Voting. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-160, 3-022, 3-205 #125-38, p. 106: Optional procedure for congregational signing of Brief Covenant Brief Covenant; Synod at RPIC. #125-39, pp. 107-108: Procedure for electing RPTS professors; all professors to serve three-year terms RPTS faculty; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-200, 2-279, 3-009, 3-017, 3-074, 3-143, 3-179, 3-196, 3-207, 3-208 #125-40, pp. 109-112: Paying bills; plan of evangelistic effort Agency membership; Bible Mastery Month; Evangelism; Family worship; Financial; Prison ministry; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; VBS. Ministers: 2-046, 2-063, 2-179, 2-253, 2-296, 3-021, 3-053, 3-110 #125-41, pp. 112-113: Dismissing Armenian Cyprus congregations if they “wish to continue in this heresy” of hymns and instrumental music; congregational business meetings and elections must be Monday-Saturday, but not necessarily ordinations/installations; official requests for removal of pastors must come from constituted sessions A cappella; Armenians; Book of Church Government; Church history; Congregational meetings; Eldership; Independent missions; Property held in trust; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-315, 3-009, 3-019, 3-127, 3-205 #125-42, p. 113: Renaming Discipline Committee to Judicial Committee Renaming. #125-43, pp. 113-114: Commending New York Presbytery for planning church planting near Poughkeepsie; presbyteries may appeal for funds within their own boundaries Canvassing; Home missions HR; Urban church planting. #125-44, pp. 114-117: Declining to approve Revised Standard Version of the Bible for more than reference or comparison purposes [dissent, page 132] Bible texts and translations; Modernism; National Council of Churches; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-071, 3-083 #125-45, p. 118: Rejecting the American Bible Society’s publication of portions of the Revised Standard Version American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations. #125-46, pp. 118-119: Adjusting rules on amending motions; notifying congregation that close communion will be addressed at Synod of 1955 Close communion; Rules and organization; Santa Ana. Ministers: 2-207 #125-47, p. 127: Printing a tithing letter in the Covenanter Witness and setting a goal of tithers for 1955 Covenanter Witness; Tithing; Sharon. Ministers: 2-043, 3-019 #125-48, p. 128: Traveling Fund administration Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-019, 3-208 #125-49, pp. 128-129: Financial arrangements Business of Synod; CYPU; Geneva finances. Ministers: 2-253, 3-044, 3-110 #125-50, pp. 129-130: Continuing #124-02 campaign with more intensity; urging all ordained men and sabbath school teachers to aid the campaign Bequests; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-021 #125-51, pp. 130-131: Repealing and replacing #119-43 with a new plan on the same topic Departing ministers; Limited-term pastorates; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees. Ministers: 2-034, 3-171 #125-52, p. 133: Despite financial need, the church must not cut pensions; it would be breaking faith Pensions. #125-53, pp. 133-135: Adopting #125-01 commission’s rulings on South China and Hong Kong situation; ending aid to Chinese church until communications can be restored; property arrangements [deeds still held at RP Archives as of 2008] Abolishing agencies; Departing ministers; Real property; Reviewing commissions; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-179, 3-011, 3-073, 3-156, 3-216 #125-54, p. 138: Nominating Committee to alert Synod when changing membership of a committee Agency membership; Rules and organization. #125-55, p. 138: Arrangements for publishing #125-10 volume Brief Covenant; Covenanter Witness; RPCNA books. #125-56, p. 138: Syrian Mission and Latakia congregation permitted to counsel [sic] together Levant missions; Medical missions. Ministers: 2-010 #125-57, p. 138: Financial arrangements for #125-04 committee Church union; Financial. #125-58, p. 138: Retired ministers are not obligated to attend church courts, but encouraging them to attend and permitting them to share in Traveling Fund Absences; Construction; Ordination queries; Pensions; Traveling Fund. #125-59, p. 138: Removing sabbath school lessons from Bible Readers and printing them in the Covenanter Witness Bible reading folders; Covenanter Witness; Sabbath schools. #126 — Synod of 1955 #126-01, p. 5: Electing an honorary moderator Officer elections. Ministers: 2-046 #126-02, p. 8: Reprinting Hand-book for Young Christians (OCLC 16343461) Publications; Youth. Ministers: 2-071 #126-03, pp. 9-10: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-149, 2-204, 2-230, 2-242, 2-253, 2-279, 2-300, 3-019, 3-044, 3-046, 3-067, 3-076, 3-116, 3-127, 3-179, 3-189 #126-04, pp. 10-11: Continuing to emphasize stewardship; setting a new tithing goal Budget; Covenanter Witness; Japan mission; RPCNA books; Tithing. Ministers: 2-071, 3-019 #126-05, pp. 12-14: New standing committee, on continuing covenanting; Covenanter Witness to publish articles on the nature of the church; urging congregations to use Brief Covenant in worship once per quarter; printing Brief Covenant Brief Covenant; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New standing committees; Tithing. Ministers: 2-091, 3-127, 3-205 #126-06, p. 14: Trustees to publish procedures for selling church property Closing churches; Real property; Trustees of Synod. #126-07, p. 15: Jewish Mission Board permitted to appeal for assistance in starting work in New York City Home missions HR; Jewish missions; Pensions. Ministers: 3-073, 3-149 #126-08, p. 16: Repealing #126-07, declining to revive Jewish Mission, and using moneys for other purposes Abolishing agencies; Financial; Jewish missions. #126-09, p. 16:#125-51 is complete and repeals all contrary legislation; publishing copies of it Construction; Directions to individuals; Financial; Forms; Limited-term pastorates. Ministers: 2-043, 3-207 #126-10, p. 16: Ministers’ installation years to appear in Synod’s directory Church history; Directions to individuals; Limited-term pastorates; Minutes of Synod. #126-11, pp. 17-20: Human resources for Japan Autonomous commissions; Budget; Communism; Foreign missions HR; Israel; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Paying missionaries; Philosophy of education; Psalter editions; VBS. Ministers: 3-174, 3-179 #126-12, p. 22: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Foreign missions HR; Japan mission; Sine titulo. Ministers: 3-174 #126-13, pp. 26-27: Prices for Bible Readers and diplomas for participants Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242 #126-14, pp. 27-30: Ministers to continue preaching against tobacco and alcohol; commending congregational work and offerings; emphasizing British Doctors’ Study to CYPU; commending U.S. Representative Eugene Siler for introducing 84 H. R. 4627 and U.S. Senator William Langer for introducing 84 S. 923 Alcohol restrictions on all members; Collections; Congressional bills; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Thanking government officials; UPCNA; Youth. Ministers: 2-279, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #126-15, pp. 33-36: Adjusting fund for RPTS student aid Church of God; Congregationalism; Graduate student aid; Japan mission; Levant missions; RPTS finances; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-143 #126-16, pp. 36-41: Planning for Publicity Committees to submit articles to Covenanter Witness , and church departments to do likewise; printing articles on oath question A cappella; Alcohol restrictions on all members; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Brief Covenant; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Modernism; Nuclear weapons; Oath question; Psalmody; RPCNA books; Secret societies; Service Print Shop; Signs of the Times; Testimony; UPCNA. #126-17, p. 42: Duplicate copies of calls to be sent to those called Pastoral calls. #126-18, p. 42: Foreign missionaries may participate in traveling fund Foreign missions; Traveling Fund. #126-19, pp. 42-44: Commending U.S. Representatives Robert Ashmore, James Utt, and Eugene Siler for introducing 84 H. J. R. 315 and 324 and the amendment on 101 Cong. Rec. 6848, 1955 CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Explanatory declaration; Financial; Specific congressmen; Thanking government officials; Witness work. Ministers: 2-176, 3-049, 3-181 #126-20, pp. 46-52: Congregational supplements Brief Covenant; Canada; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Mission schools; Parsonages; Pentecostals; Revitalization; Sabbath schools; Scouting; Soteriology; Southern Mission; Temperance; Tobacco; Urban church planting; YMCA. Ministers: 3-046 #126-21, pp. 52-56: Finance Committee to review CYPU finances; approving and publishing Bible study resources; appealing for CYPU training funds; praying for church extension Brief Covenant; Church planting; Financial; Goal Post; Levant missions; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; RPTS faculty; Short-term missions; VBS. Ministers: 2-253 #126-22, p. 62: Amending #125-39 RPTS faculty. #126-23, pp. 64-65: Appointing men to write on topics for the Covenanter Witness Bible reading folders; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; Interchurch; National Reform; Oath question; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS; Society meetings; Temperance; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-044, 2-063, 2-149, 2-168, 2-242, 2-279, 2-300, 3-016, 3-021, 3-022, 3-033, 3-044, 3-046, 3-053, 3-076, 3-083, 3-088, 3-127, 3-143, 3-156, 3-203, 3-205 #126-24, pp. 65-66: Declining to reconsider RPTS professor elections; appealing for new ministers; urging congregational meetings in time for 15 April statistics reporting, and urging balanced statistics; considering funding a Leadership Training Program and paying retired ministers for writing in the Covenanter Witness Budget; Church planting; Diaconate; Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; Higher-education standards; Psalm explanations; Reporting calendars; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Statistics. #126-25, pp. 67-71: Modifying Geneva bylaws Biblical inerrancy; Elements of worship; Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Real property; Secret societies. Ministers: 3-196 #126-26, pp. 71-76: Reiterating #124-09 Bible in schools; Canada; Christian Statesman; Collections; Methodists; NAE; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics; Tobacco; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 2-160, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #126-27, pp. 77-79: Members permitted to use explanatory declaration with soldier’s oath if conscience demands; urging ministers and members to give information to Oath Committee Agency membership; Civil War; Explanatory declaration; First World War; Military service; Second World War; Slavery and race; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-160, 3-022, 3-143, 3-205 #126-28, pp. 79-80: Further arrangements for #125-41 Armenians; Elements of worship. Ministers: 2-192, 2-325, 3-207 #126-29, pp. 80-81: Continuing #125-04 contacts APCNA; ARPC; BPC; CRCNA; Directions to individuals; New Light church; OPC; Outside communications; UPCNA; WTS. Ministers: 3-127, 3-203 #126-30, pp. 81-82: Reiterating #126-06 Closing churches; CYPU; Financial; Jewish missions; Real property; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-034, 2-279, 3-009 #126-31, pp. 114-115: Sending #125-53 to affected parties; further matters to be handled by Far East Commission Construction; South China Presbytery. Ministers: 2-179, 3-073, 3-156 #126-32, pp. 115-120: Urging congregations to be wary of accuracy and dignity in English Bible translations; appointing committees to review new translations; repealing #116-28 on recent translations, and #125-44 Bible texts and translations; Biblical inerrancy; China mission; Japan mission; Modernism; Responses to dissent. Ministers: 2-044, 3-009, 3-011 #126-33, pp. 124-126: Covenanter Witness to publish articles on close communion, subject to Publication Board approval; appointing a man on each side to collect his side’s arguments Close communion; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Lord’s supper. Ministers: 2-176, 2-253, 2-315, 3-012, 3-083 #126-34, pp. 126-129: Preparing to rewrite Book of Discipline on removal of suspensions from office Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Construction; Forms; Trial procedure. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #126-35, p. 129: Prohibiting publication of papers on close communion, except for #126-33 articles Close communion; Covenanter Witness; Strict subscription. #126-36, pp. 129-130: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-195, 3-208 #126-37, p. 135: Paying bills Business of Synod. #127 — Synod of 1956 #127-01, p. 7: Time and Place Committee to be appointed two years before the Synod that it is planning Meeting schedule. #127-02, pp. 9-10: Appointing Synod’s budget; raising Covenanter Witness subscription rates; raising pensions Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Social Security; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-149, 2-200, 2-253, 2-300, 3-009, 3-021, 3-046, 3-071, 3-088, 3-104, 3-116, 3-149, 3-156, 3-171 #127-03, pp. 10-11: Urging ministers to preach on tithing and the financial needs of the church, and to distribute tithing literature; appropriating money Budget; CYPU; Sermon topics; Tithing; Tracts. Ministers: 2-071, 3-019, 3-156 #127-04, p. 12: Paying the expenses of a fraternal delegate CRCNA; Financial; Fraternal relations. #127-05, pp. 14-15: Commending Bible studies to the church for evangelism and training; urging prayer for evangelistic studies Evangelism; Financial; Society meetings; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-253, 3-049, 3-104, 3-130, 3-205 #127-06, p. 16: Church law does not require Synod’s Treasurer to hold the physical deeds to the properties of aid-receiving congregations, and there is no need for such a provision Congregational aid; Construction; Property held in trust; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-046 #127-07, pp. 17-19: Expanding the Board of Church Erection Agency membership; Church erection. #127-08, pp. 24-28: Defining “group plan” for Covenanter Witness subscriptions; setting subscription rates (#127-02); reiterating #126-23; paying bills for publishing 1954 Covenant memorial volume Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Health and medicine; RPCA; RPCI; RPCNA books; RPCS; Sabbath schools; Society meetings. #127-09, pp. 28-31: Amending #123-01 on contributions; no changes in benefits Benefits for ministers; Insurance; Pensions. #127-10, pp. 31-33: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries; amending RPTS term schedules; urging presbyteries to reschedule exams; holding a pre-Synodic conference in 1957 Baptists; Candidate examinations; Church of God; Conferences at Synod; Congregationalism; Evangelism; Levant missions; Licentiates; Psalmody; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-076 #127-11, pp. 35-38: Pledging temperance at congregations and sabbath schools, and taking temperance offerings; commending President Dwight Eisenhower for Christian leadership and urging him to ban alcohol on Air Force bases; using International Sunday School lessons; warning youth against tobacco, and adults to set the example Canada; Congressional bills; Drugs; Dwight Eisenhower; Holidays; Legal prohibition; Methodists; NRA; NTPC; Presidential communications; Radio and TV; RPTS; Theaters; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #127-12, pp. 38-39: Special study, with Covenanter Witness articles, of Christian separation; urging ministers to focus on covenant obligations during communion seasons; reiterating #126-05 on committee establishment Brief Covenant; Church membership; Evangelism; New standing committees. Ministers: 2-091, 3-205 #127-13, pp. 39-40: Notifying President Dwight Eisenhower of Synod’s prayers and concerns in his life-threatening intestinal emergency [Eisenhower underwent surgery for ileitis a few hours earlier] Directions to individuals; Dwight Eisenhower; Health and medicine; Presidential communications; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-069 #127-14, p. 39: A short life sketch to be given for each newly introduced delegate [placed between two parts of #127-13] New delegates; Rules and organization. #127-15, pp. 40-41: Ministers to promote Bible reading and the Bible Readers; resuming printing the International Sunday School Topics in the Bible readers Bible reading folders; Financial; International Sunday School Lessons; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242 #127-16, pp. 43-44: FMB authorized to send a member of Synod to visit mission fields; appropriating money for this purpose Armenians; Autonomous commissions; Bequests; China mission; Foreign missions HR; Japan mission; Levant missions; Manchuria mission; Mission schools; RPCNA books; Self-supporting missions; Westminster standards. #127-17, p. 44: Commending Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) [specific case not identified, but see #135-20 letter] and praying for affected Christians SCOTUS; Slavery and race. #127-18, p. 44: Ascertaining church treasurer’s salary Chester Fox; Paying Synod employees. #127-19, pp. 44-49: Additional supplements for parsonage-lacking congregations in high-rent districts; specifying supplements; ascertaining salary of Home Mission Secretary American Bible Society; Bequests; Budget; Church planting; Congregational aid; Health and medicine; Improving praise; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Mission schools; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Scouting; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 2-253, 3-046 #127-20, pp. 50-51: Continuing prayer and support for Witness Committee work; ascertaining secretary of Field Secretary CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Paying Synod employees; Radio and TV; Secret societies; Specific congressmen; Witness work. Ministers: 2-192 #127-21, p. 51: Ministers to preach on secret societies, especially the Grange (#045-09) and college fraternities Secret societies; Sermon topics. #127-22, pp. 52-53: Assorted evangelism efforts, urging prayer for new mission station, appropriating money Bible Mastery Month; Financial; Home visitation; Prison ministry; Publications; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Special services; Urban church planting; VBS; Park City. Ministers: 2-063, 2-253, 2-296, 3-021, 3-053, 3-068 #127-23, pp. 54-57: Urging presbyteries to seek new sources of funding; special services for revival and evangelism; financial arrangement; calling young men into the ministry Budget; Church planting; CYPU; Presbytery conferences; Real property; Synod communion; WCTU. Ministers: 2-253 #127-24, p. 64: Emphasizing Bible reading and private prayer; preparing to oppose opponents of Christ’s kingdom, and supporting supporters thereof; appointing fast and thanksgiving dates Anti-Catholicism; Bible texts and translations; CAM; Celebrity preachers; Church union; Holidays; Islam; Japan mission; Modernism; Orthodox; Signs of the Times; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 2-200, 2-325, 3-115 #127-25, pp. 65-69: Reiterating #124-09 minus work in schools Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; LDS; NRA; NTPC; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #127-26, pp. 70-72: Preparing to rewrite Testimony on political dissent, clarifying language and adding scripture proofs without modifying meaning Holidays; National Reform; Parental responsibilities; Presbytery conferences; Sabbath schools; Scouting; Sermon topics; Testimony; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-067, 3-076, 3-195 #127-27, p. 72: Returning a paper that requested an overture overturning close communion Close communion; Covenanter Witness; Santa Ana. #127-28, p. 73: Rewriting Book of Discipline on removal of suspensions from office (#126-34), but confirming validity of past actions in conformity with old wording; sending down in overture Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Diaconate; Eldership; Forms; Overtures, new. Ministers: 2-044, 2-071, 2-094, 2-204, 2-253, 2-325 #127-29, p. 73: Reaffirming close communion Close communion. #127-30, p. 74: Urging all delegates to seek members’ prayers for Geneva; Corporators to report in 1957 on the conditions of the dormitories Geneva; Real property. #127-31, pp. 74-75: Commending ministers and members for activity on the oath question Acts of Congress; Congressional bills; Financial; Military service; Naturalization; Pacifism; Specific congressmen; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 3-205 #127-32, pp. 75-76: Board of Church Erection to have a share in Synod’s budget; handling a bequest Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Closing churches; Jewish missions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-017, 3-044, 3-088 #127-33, p. 100: Continuing #125-04 contacts; studying other denominations’ standards in the manner requested in #125-04; permitting Committee on Church Union to rename itself Church union; CRCNA; Financial; Minutes of Synod; OPC; Outside communications; UPCNA. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127 #127-34, p. 101: Advocating bequests for church purposes; ministers to preach on the subject together with #127-03 tithe preaching; deacons to advocate on this topic Bequests; Covenanter Witness; Sermon topics; Tithing. #127-35, pp. 101-102: Studying the possibility of publishing the minutes of Synod as a yearbook; beginning preparation of a new ministers’ book (ultimately Covenanter Ministers , OCLC 8204806) Church history; Directions to individuals; Minutes of Synod; RPCNA books. Ministers: 3-127, 3-203, 3-205 #127-36, pp. 102-103: Urging congregations not to make requests of candidates except as part of an official call; urging no calls on licentiates until 1 January of their senior year at RPTS; presbyteries to process calls as quickly as possible, and licentiates to respond within six weeks Licentiates; Pastoral calls; RPTS. Ministers: 2-179, 3-127 #127-37, pp. 103-105: Sessions to be careful of modernism when considering joining a local council of churches and to investigate joining with evangelical councils Biblical inerrancy; Book of Church Government; Modernism; NAE. Ministers: 2-149, 3-044, 3-127, 3-196 #127-38, pp. 105-106: Paper questioning #125-37 is inadmissible because of #125-21 Explanatory declaration; Political office; Rules and organization; Cambridge. Ministers: 2-094, 2-176, 3-071 #127-39, p. 106: Modifying statistical blanks Statistical blanks. Ministers: 2-149, 3-053 #127-40, p. 114: Non-pastoring ministers should not attend session meetings without invitations and must be careful not to influence their sessions; presbyteries must attend carefully to this matter Ministers in secular employment. #127-41, p. 115: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-068, 3-195 #127-42, p. 119:Covenanter Witness to print modifications made to Synod’s rules since 1951 Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-133 #127-43, p. 119: Congratulating minister on the 40th anniversary of his service as moderator Congratulations. Ministers: 2-252 #127-44, p. 119: Paying bills Business of Synod; Chester Fox; Financial. #128 — Synod of 1957 #128-01, pp. 9-10: Amending #127-02 to increase raises for ministers not on Social Security; setting pensions for ministers on Social Security Bequests; Insurance; Pensions; Social Security. #128-02, pp. 10-11: Providing tithing literature to congregations and urging use of Layman Tithing Foundation; Covenanter Witness to publish on stewardship; ministers to preach on stewardship of time, talents, opportunities, etc. as well as of money; appropriating money Budget; Covenanter Witness; Tithing. Ministers: 2-071, 3-019, 3-156 #128-03, pp. 16-17: Retaining current system of boards and committees, rather than consolidating into a central administration; omitting one Synod session annually to accommodate board and committee meetings Foreign missions; Home missions; Meeting schedule. Ministers: 2-315, 2-325 #128-04, pp. 17-19: Urging members to submit proposed changes to #127-26 committee Requesting opinions; Slavery and race; Socialism; Testimony. Ministers: 2-315, 3-076 #128-05, p. 20: Paying bills; publishing existing Bible studies but no new ones; hiring clerical help; expanding Bible studies committee Directions to individuals; Financial; Society meetings; Synod HR. Ministers: 3-049, 3-104 #128-06, p. 21: Appointing a judicial commission upon request by Midwest Presbytery Japan mission; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New commissions. #128-07, pp. 26-27: Trustees to loan money upon request by the RP Home, if feasible Financial; RP Home; Trustees of Synod. #128-08, p. 27: Thanking a donor Directions to individuals; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-243, 3-049 #128-09, pp. 27-29: Applying for a charter for RPTS; new full-time professorate of systematic theology and waiving #121-37 Biblical languages; Church of God; Japan mission; Making exceptions; Methodists; Pentecostals; Psalmody; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. #128-10, pp. 30-32: Presbyteries to advocate for Christian education; prizes for sabbath schools with record enrollment increases; participating in state Sunday School conventions; considering rescheduling Synod to simplify Vacation Bible School; subsidizing VBS or weekday religion classes; reconfiguring committee membership Agency membership; Baptists; Decline; Ecumenical organizations; Financial; Meeting schedule; Release time; Sabbath schools; Theaters; VBS. Ministers: 2-149, 3-032, 3-181, 3-195, 3-203 #128-11, pp. 32-33: Ascertaining salary of Young People’s Secretary CYPU; Paying Synod employees. Ministers: 2-179, 2-242, 3-009, 3-070, 3-083, 3-110, 3-156, 3-179, 3-181 #128-12, p. 34: Preparing to rewrite Chapter VIII of the Declaration and Testimony Testimony. #128-13, pp. 34-38: Urging prayers for Publication Board; seeking ways to increase circulation; encouraging members to contribute to publications; urging #126-23 men to fulfill their obligations; ministers and elders to urge sales of 1954 Covenant Memorial volume Blue Banner Faith and Life; Brief Covenant; Closing churches; Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees; Real property; RPCNA books; Service Print Shop. #128-14, pp. 39-40: Reiterating #127-15, first clause; urging congregations to send orders early; #123-13 agents to be someone other than the pastor Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242 #128-15, pp. 40-41: Paying retired ministers to write for church publications in order to qualify them for Social Security; Publications and Pensions boards to work together and with other agencies to find qualifying employment Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Social Security. Ministers: 2-038, 3-068 #128-16, pp. 41-43: Ministers and congregations to support CAM; CYPUs to secure Christian Patriot subscriptions; emphasizing psalmody in the church CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Methodists; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Specific congressmen; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 3-016 #128-17, pp. 44-46: Position paper on a Reformed philosophy of education; urging its adoption by Geneva; new standing committee, on Christian General Education, and renaming Board of Christian Education to Board of Christian Religious Education; requesting reprints of a Blue Banner Faith and Life article (OCLC 18793890) Baptism; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Geneva; Higher-education standards; New standing committees; Parental responsibilities; Philosophy of education; Renaming. Ministers: 2-315, 3-074, 3-189 #128-18, p. 46: Preparing to grant autonomy to the Syrian churches based upon #116-17 position statement Independent missions; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-179, 3-071 #128-19, p. 46: Increasing FMB budget because of #127-16 Financial; Japan mission. Ministers: 3-011 #128-20, pp. 47-49: Scheduling Temperance Sabbath, with lessons and sermons against alcohol and tobacco; urging members to support 85 H. R. 4835 and 85 S. 582 Congressional bills; Financial; Holidays; Legal prohibition; NAE; NRA; NTPC; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Theaters; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #128-21, p. 50: Protesting to President Dwight Eisenhower his nomination of Robert L. King to the Federal Communications Commission Dwight Eisenhower; Presidential communications; Temperance. Ministers: 2-279 #128-22, p. 50: Ascertaining the salary of the Home Mission Secretary Home missions; Paying Synod employees. #128-23, p. 51: Holding a pre-Synod refresher course for pastors in 1959 Pastors’Refresher Course. #128-24, p. 51: Minimum ministerial salaries, but congregations able to pay more should not consider themselves bound to the minimum Minimum salaries; Parsonages. #128-25, pp. 51-55: Congregational supplements; arrangements for fulfilling #128-24 Bible in schools; Budget; Canada; Church erection; Church planting; Congregational aid; Donations; Geneva; Health and medicine; Home visitation; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Paying ministers; Revitalization; Sabbath schools; Scouting; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Temperance; VBS; YMCA. Ministers: 3-046 #128-26, pp. 55-58: Reiterating #128-18; approving FMB human resources arrangement Autonomous commissions; China mission; Communism; Covenant theology; Health and medicine; Independent missions; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Mission schools; Native ministers; Paying missionaries; Shinto; Tracts. #128-27, p. 58: Human resources for new ministers’ book (#127-35); departed ministers to be covered only until when they left the church Church history; Departing ministers; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-207, 3-127 #128-28, pp. 59-60: Presbyteries to consider evangelism-training schools for adults, and congregations to train members; urging daily devotions; ministers to urge evangelism; “Bible Mastery Month”; appropriating money Bible Mastery Month; CYPU; Evangelism; Financial. Ministers: 2-063, 2-296, 3-021, 3-053, 3-068 #128-29, p. 66: Commending Geneva boards for fine reports, especially their emphasis on applying Christian principles in education Geneva; Philosophy of education. #128-30, pp. 68-69: Appointing Synod’s budget and making related arrangements and regulations Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing. Ministers: 2-094, 2-149, 3-011, 3-032, 3-044, 3-046, 3-068, 3-104, 3-106, 3-110, 3-115, 3-116, 3-149, 3-154, 3-156, 3-171, 3-179, 3-189, 3-217 #128-31, pp. 70-71: Studying CRCNA and OPC doctrinal standards (#127-33) CRCNA; OPC; Outside commissions. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127 #128-32, p. 71: Producing a new psalter selection book (OCLC 10003624): committee authorized to create new arrangements, RPTS professors to judge resulting book, and paying bills Financial; Psalm selections; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-016, 3-171 #128-33, p. 73: Sessions with men under care yet not RPTS students to report their status at presbytery meetings; purging the Cyprus Commission’s ministerial roll Armenians; Levant missions; Native ministers; Purging rolls; RPTS; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-005, 2-094, 3-106, 4-284, 5-008 #128-34, pp. 76-80: Congregations to support NRA with offerings and prayer; NRA representative or pastor to speak annually in each congregation Bible in schools; CAM; Christian Statesman; Collections; Gambling; International relations; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; NRA; Oath question; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Sermon topics. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #128-35, p. 80: Sharing rent on Home Mission and Young People’s Secretary’s former office CYPU; Financial; Home missions; Real property. #128-36, pp. 80-81: Resubmitting #127-28 overture, the first having failed for lack of responses despite getting more than 90% support Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Diaconate; Eldership; Forms; Overtures, new; Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 3-080, 3-195 #128-37, pp. 81-85: Printing anti-fraternity tracts for high-school and college students, and congregations to run anti-fraternity programs Gambling; Pornography; SCOTUS; Secret societies; Slavery and race; Temperance; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-009 #128-38, p. 85: Financial arrangements; new printing of the psalter with better quality proofreading and binding Bequests; CAM; Elders’Conference; Jewish missions; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-063, 3-143, 3-208 #128-39, p. 110: Honorarium for minister’s widow Chester Fox; Directions to individuals; Pensions. Ministers: 2-253 #128-40, p. 111: Ascertaining salaries for CAM field secretary and Covenanter Witness editor CAM; Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees. #128-41, p. 111: Clerk to notify congregations of #128-23 Directions to individuals; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 3-049 #128-42, pp. 121-123: Job description for Synod’s Young People’s Secretary; Presbytery young people’s secretaries to work with him; secretary to work with boards only if they are directly relevant to him Covenanter Witness; Goal Post; Individual relocation; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Synod HR. Ministers: 2-179, 3-009, 3-130, 3-171, 3-181 #128-43, pp. 123-124: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Celebrity preachers; Conferences at Synod; Financial; Geneva; NAE. Ministers: 2-149, 3-130 #128-44, p. 124: Traveling Fund administration Directions to individuals; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-068, 3-106 #128-45, p. 128: Given the death of the Time and Place chairman and the absence of one other member, Synod’s officers authorized to rearrange time and place for 1958 Synod CYPU; Synod at RPIC; WMF. Ministers: 2-253, 2-325, 3-049, 3-110 #128-46, pp. 129-131: Approving decision of #128-06 commission suspending a missionary who confessed adultery, and thanking another missionary for his extraordinary efforts Japan mission; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 2-036, 2-279, 3-011, 3-070, 3-156, 3-174, 3-216 #129 — Synod of 1958 #129-01, pp. 9-10: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-005, 2-149, 2-179, 2-242, 2-279, 2-300, 3-009, 3-016, 3-046, 3-068, 3-071, 3-110, 3-114, 3-154, 3-156, 3-159 #129-02, pp. 10-11: Ministers and sessions to hold stewardship-education programs with tithing pledges; paying bills CYPU; Tithing. Ministers: 3-017, 3-019, 3-054 #129-03, pp. 16-17: FMB requested to send a delegate to the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association; Geneva requested to send a delegate to the Commission on Schools and Colleges Celebrity preachers; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; NAE; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-070 #129-04, p. 18: Financial arrangement for Publication Board Financial. #129-05, pp. 18-19: Reiterating #128-14 on early orders; reprinting certificates and Children’s Readers Bible reading folders; Financial; Levant missions; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242 #129-06, pp. 19-21: Repealing #128-17 on Board of Christian Religious Education Decline; Financial; NRA; Release time; Renaming; Sabbath schools; Theaters; VBS. Ministers: 2-149, 3-195, 3-203 #129-07, pp. 21-22: Selling Bible study packets Chester Fox; Society meetings. Ministers: 3-049, 3-076, 3-104, 3-130, 3-205 #129-08, pp. 22-23: Publishing a draft revision of Testimony chapter VIII (#128-12) in the Covenanter Witness and soliciting comment Covenanter Witness; Requesting opinions; Testimony. Ministers: 2-091, 2-094, 3-205 #129-09, pp. 25-26: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1959 Baptism; Budget; Pastors’Refresher Course; RPTS location; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-083, 3-100, 3-156, 3-181 #129-10, p. 26: New standing committee, on sponsoring Covenanter refugees New standing committees; Refugee sponsorship. #129-11, pp. 26-27: Renaming the published minutes of Synod to Minutes and Yearbook; rearranging its contents Budget; Church history; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; Minutes of Synod; Renaming; RPTS; WMF. Ministers: 3-203, 3-205 #129-12, pp. 27-28: Abolishing standing committee on Continuing Covenanting, it having become redundant Abolishing standing committees; Brief Covenant. Ministers: 3-196, 3-205 #129-13, p. 37: Renaming Church Union Committee to Committee on Interchurch Correspondence and Study Interchurch; Renaming. #129-14, pp. 37-38: Approving decision of #128-06 commission restoring suspended missionary, and allowing missionary to participate in Traveling Fund Japan mission; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Reviewing commissions; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-036, 2-279, 3-070, 3-216 #129-15, pp. 42-46: Forming the Syrian Presbytery and ascertaining its boundaries, and appointing a commission to grant it autonomy; human resources; exploring for a new mission field; new missionary-candidate course at RPTS Africa; Colonies; Communism; Higher-education standards; Independent missions; Japan mission; Latin America; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; New commissions; New presbyteries; PCUSA; Real property; RPTS; Seeking candidates, FMB; Self-supporting missions; Shinto. Ministers: 2-010, 3-008, 3-179 #129-16, pp. 46-49: Reiterating #129-15 on missionary-candidate course; electing part-time RPTS instructors; reallocating one professor’s term; requesting support from Pennsylvania Council of Education; approving concurrent-study plan between RPTS and Pitt-Xenia Seminary Baptists; Biblical languages; Budget; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Pentecostals; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS location. Ministers: 2-038, 2-094, 2-325, 3-076, 3-171, 3-205 #129-17, pp. 50-54: Ministers and sabbath schools to continue preaching and teaching against alcohol; petitioning President Dwight Eisenhower to stop serving alcohol at the White House; paying a bill Canada; Christian schools; Congressional bills; Dwight Eisenhower; Financial; Legal prohibition; Methodists; NTPC; Presidential communications; Public transportation; Publications; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Synod at RPIC; Theaters; Tobacco; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-110 #129-18, pp. 54-59: Ministers to preach covenant theology and stress parental training of children (#079-15), including against marriages with unbelievers; church committees and boards to report on their purpose and long-range objectives Bequests; Bible reading folders; Church erection; Covenant theology; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; Goal Post; Home missions; Interchurch; Oath question; OPC; Parental responsibilities; Pensions; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; RPTS; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Temperance; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 3-171 #129-19, pp. 62-63: Training members in evangelism; “Bible Mastery Month”; appropriating money Bible Mastery Month; Evangelism; Financial. Ministers: 2-063, 2-296, 3-021, 3-053, 3-068, 3-159 #129-20, p. 64: Arrangements for sponsoring Jeannette Li as a refugee and employing her Chinese Home Mission; Refugee sponsorship; WMF. Ministers: 3-083, 3-205 #129-21, pp. 64-66: Producing a new psalmody tract; Witness Committee to produce broadcast-quality psalm recordings; soliciting psalmody-advocacy suggestions for the Covenanter Witness ; ministers and sessions to attend to psalmody Improving praise; Psalm explanations; Psalm recordings; Radio and TV; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-067, 3-106 #129-22, pp. 66-67: Preparing lesson materials for sabbath schools and Vacation Bible Schools, and including them in Synod’s budget; favoring the concepts of long-range planning for all church departments and of electing officers one year in advance CYPU; Elders’Conference; Foreign missions; Inflation; Long-range planning; Officer elections; Paying ministers; RPTS; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; VBS. #129-23, p. 68: Publishing copies of a supplemental Oath Committee report and refusing the resignations of three committeemen Oath question; Resignations. Ministers: 3-022, 3-130, 3-205 #129-24, p. 95: Sending a fraternal delegate to the APCNA APCNA; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 2-315 #129-25, pp. 106-108: Postponing election of Home Mission Secretary, defining the position’s responsibilities and relationship with HMB, and considering appointing a layman Church planting; CYPU; Home missions HR; Individual relocation; Revitalization. Ministers: 2-179, 3-009, 3-070, 3-130, 3-171, 3-181 #129-26, pp. 108-110: Ministers and congregations to continue supporting CAM, including preaching and distributing literature; preaching and teaching on a cappella singing A cappella; CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Holidays; Radio and TV; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 1-034, 2-192, 3-016 #129-27, pp. 110-111: Specifying paper to be used in printing the Covenanter Witness ; all ministers to contribute an article to it Covenanter Witness; Second World War; Service Print Shop. #129-28, pp. 111-115: Congregational supplements Bible in schools; Canada; Chinese Home Mission; Church erection; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; Parsonages; RTF; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-046 #129-29, p. 115: Permitting occasional preaching by other evangelical ministers, but discouraging the practice of securing outside pulpit supply Closed pulpits. #129-30, p. 115: Amending #129-01 in light of #129-25, first clause Budget; Home missions HR. #129-31, p. 115: Oath Committee to focus on concrete cases of activity Oath question. #129-32, p. 115: Committee on Christian General Education to study racial integration of public schools and report in 1959 [did not happen; see 1959 page 108] Philosophy of education; Slavery and race. #129-33, p. 116: Traveling Fund administration; all reimbursement requests to be rounded to the nearest 50¢ Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-106, 3-115 #129-34, p. 117: Thanking the Lake Koronis Assembly Grounds management for hosting Synod Thanks. Ministers: 2-242, 3-184, 3-189 #129-35, p. 118: Preparing celebrations for 400th anniversary of the RP Church and the 150th anniversary of the Synod of 1809 Church history. #129-36, p. 118: Until 1963, presbyteries may hire ministerial candidates as lay workers after their first year at RPTS Unlicensed candidates. #129-37, pp. 118-119: Honorarium for Synod’s secretary; financial arrangement CYPU; Directions to individuals; Paying Synod employees; Synod at RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 3-009, 3-071, 3-171 #129-38, pp. 119-121: Approving a draft revision of Testimony chapters XXIX and XXX, but not yet sending them down in overture Lawsuits among members; Oath question; Pacifism; Testimony. Ministers: 2-315, 3-076 #129-39, p. 121: Preparing blanks for use in submitting overtures Forms; Overtures. #129-40, pp. 121-122: Urging all officers and members to consider bequests to the church Bequests; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Tithing. Ministers: 3-021 #129-41, p. 122: Special pension arrangements for ministers serving Indian Mission and NRA Indian Mission; NRA; Pensions. Ministers: 3-143, 3-198 #129-42, pp. 122-123: Adopting #127-28 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 3-154 #129-43, p. 123: When a church court postpones a sentence of discipline, it shall give its reasons and the postponement date to the disciplined party Church discipline; Construction; Trial procedure. #129-44, pp. 123-124: Favoring the CRCNA’s idea of producing a faithful contemporary Bible translation, and conferring with their committee on the question Bible texts and translations; CRCNA; Outside commissions. Ministers: 2-038, 2-315, 2-325 #129-45, pp. 124-128: Defining “special work” in #083-17 and #093-26; Synod was not intending to permit outside ministers to preach in evangelistic services; the Testimony specifically distinguishes between Christians’ civil and political obligations in relation to the state; Oath Committee to oversee explanatory declaration use, including officeholding if done to secure a test case; no voting except in such a case; approving an irregular two-minister-one-elder session in Cyprus; nothing wrong with Thanksgiving services on other days; five-year limit for licentiates applies only to men licensed after limit’s enactment [see W.W. Weir] American Bible Society; Book of Church Government; CAM; Church history; Closed pulpits; Construction; Evangelism; Explanatory declaration; Holidays; Jury question; Licentiates; Military service; NRA; Political office; Provisional sessions; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Signs of the Times; Society meetings; Special services; Temperance organizations; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Voting. Ministers: 2-200, 3-044, 3-054 #129-46, pp. 128-130: Ministers to preach on NRA efforts, and hosting NRA representatives; ministers and members to advocate for Christian Statesman subscriptions; giving and praying for NRA; NRA to cooperate with CAM Bible in schools; CAM; Canada; Christian Statesman; Collections; NRA; NTPC; Pacific; Pornography; Sabbath-keeping organizations; Sermon topics; Theaters. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #129-47, pp. 130-131: If #129-22 lesson materials cannot be produced, producing lesson helps on distinctive principles Sabbath schools. #129-48, pp. 131-132: Declining to adopt a delegated synod, with reasons annexed General and subordinate synods. Ministers: 2-071, 3-076, 3-083 #129-49, p. 136: Thanking longtime board members Home missions; RPTS. Ministers: 2-204 #130 — Synod of 1959 #130-01, p. 12: Sending congregations instructions for filling out their statistical blanks Directions to individuals; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 3-049 #130-02, pp. 14-16: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1961 Baptism; Budget; CYPU; Geneva; Pastors’Refresher Course; PCUSA; Pentecostals; RPTS location; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-083, 3-100, 3-156, 3-181 #130-03, p. 16: Committee studying the explanatory declaration may secure legal advice Explanatory declaration. Ministers: 3-022, 3-053, 3-156 #130-04, p. 20: Missionaries to participate in Traveling Fund Foreign missions; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-033 #130-05, pp. 20-21: Petitioning the U.S. State Department to admit Jeannette Li; paying bills Acts of Congress; Chinese Home Mission; Directions to individuals; Financial; Government communications; Refugee sponsorship; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-315, 3-083, 3-205 #130-06, pp. 21-22: Appointing a judicial commission upon request by Midwest Presbytery [two separate requests are made for a commission in this situation] Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New commissions; Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 2-192 #130-07, pp. 25-27: Reiterating #123-13 on agents and #128-14 on early orders; urging prayer for Bible reading work Bible reading folders; CYPU; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242 #130-08, pp. 29-33: Reiterating #129-22 on sabbath school curriculum; adopting plan for publication process ARPC; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Budget; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; Decline; Directory for Worship; Evangelism; Mennonites; Paying Synod employees; PCUSA; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-054 #130-09, pp. 33-35: Witness Committee permitted to replace retiring CAM secretary; ministers to preach on Christian Amendment and political dissent CAM; Chester Fox; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Holidays; Mennonites; Oath question; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Sermon topics; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-192, 2-325, 3-067 #130-10, p. 35: Permitting RPTS to canvass the church for donations Canvassing; Publications; RPTS finances; RPTS location. #130-11, pp. 35-36: Presbytery boundaries reorganized: disorganizing Philadelphia, allocating congregations to Ohio and New York, and moving some New York congregations to St. Lawrence Abolishing presbyteries; Archives; NRA; Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery minutes; Barnet, Broomall, Elkins Park, Orlando, Walton [New York]. Ministers: 2-036, 2-179, 2-242, 3-073, 3-143, 3-149 #130-12, pp. 36-38: Reiterating #112-12 on liaison; Synod’s Treasurer to be ex officio on the Stewardship Committee; specifying terms and qualifications of committeemen; committee to set giving goals; paying bills Agency membership; Budget; Chester Fox; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Long-range planning; Tithing. Ministers: 3-019, 3-054 #130-13, pp. 38-41: Ensuring officers’ observance of temperance vows; ministers and members to advocate for temperance and against legal alcohol etc.; commending CYPU staff, ministers, and sabbath schools for advocacy on the subject; urging members to petition legislators on alcohol bills; appropriating money Collections; Congressional bills; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Gambling; Holidays; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Presbytery conferences; Public transportation; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Tracts; Vow 8; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-046, 3-110, 3-129 #130-14, pp. 41-46:Covenanter Witness publication arrangements following the editor’s death; reiterating #129-27 on ministers’ contributions, and welcoming lay contributions; new co-editors to sit on Publication Board Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Paying Synod employees; RPCNA books; Service Print Shop; Thanks. Ministers: 2-034, 2-063, 2-300, 2-315, 3-021, 3-022, 3-053 #130-15, pp. 49-50: Declining to elect moderator and clerks one year ahead of time Book of Church Government; Officer elections. Ministers: 2-094, 2-242 #130-16, pp. 50-54: Witness Committee to publish or republish a tract on instrumental music; publishing slides on a cappella singing, and preparing slides on other distinctives; paying a bill A cappella; Baptists; Celebrity preachers; Congregationalism; Financial; Lutherans; Methodists; Orthodox; Psalmody; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-114 #130-17, pp. 55-56: Ministers to study oath requirements of the National Defense and Educational Act of 1958, Public Law 85-864, and assist students needing federal loans; preparing a form for explanatory declaration use; litigating for a member whose declaration use was rejected Acts of Congress; Explanatory declaration. Ministers: 2-034, 3-016, 3-143 #130-18, p. 56: Petitioning the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare about the #130-17 refusal Directions to individuals; Explanatory declaration; Government communications. Ministers: 2-036, 3-049, 3-133 #130-19, pp. 56-58: Presbyteries to appoint evangelism committees and conduct evangelism seminars; sessions to form evangelism plans, and ministers to preach evangelism services monthly; publishing evangelism materials; paying bills; “Bible Mastery Month”, and Christian Education Board to oversee future months Bible Mastery Month; Budget; CYPU; Decline; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Long-range planning; Pastors’Refresher Course; Publications; Special services. Ministers: 2-063, 2-296, 3-053, 3-100, 3-159 #130-20, pp. 59-62: Combining Young People’s Secretary’s work with Christian education work, and developing long-term plans; urging ministers and sessions to search their congregations for useful youths Abolishing agencies; Financial; Goal Post; Long-range planning; RPIC; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-171 #130-21, p. 62: Dissolving Philadelphia Presbytery (#130-11) Abolishing presbyteries. Ministers: 3-083 #130-22, pp. 62-68: Merging boards and committees into a new Christian Education Department; renaming Prayer Meeting Topics Committee to Prayer Meeting, and HMB to “Home Missions and Church Extension” and regulating its activities; target groups for evangelism; committee strategies and responsibilities; limiting ministers’ concurrent service; urging no non-Synod activities by delegates during Synod Bible reading folders; Chester Fox; CYPU; Decline; Elders’Conference; Home missions; Ministers in secular employment; New standing committees; Presbytery-appointed membership; Renaming; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; Signs of the Times; Slavery and race; Society meetings; Tithing; VBS; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-046, 3-106, 3-171 #130-23, pp. 68-69: Financial arrangements Jewish missions; Pastors’Refresher Course; Refugee sponsorship; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-043, 3-095, 3-156 #130-24, pp. 98-99: RPTS human resources; ascertaining professors’ salaries; remodeling the building, campaigning for funds, and authorizing a loan; assisting candidates given field work in aid-receiving congregations Biblical languages; Budget; Canvassing; Church history; Congregational aid; CYPU; Graduate student aid; Methodists; Paying RPTS faculty; Pentecostals; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-038, 2-094, 2-325, 3-033, 3-171, 3-205 #130-25, pp. 99-100: Reiterating #129-08 on comment Requesting opinions; Testimony. Ministers: 2-094, 3-196, 3-205 #130-26, pp. 101-102: Discouraging but regulating home communion worship services, in contrast to “private communion”; provisional sessions at congregations with no elders; purging rolls; interpreting “private baptism” Baptism; Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Lord’s supper; Provisional sessions; Purging rolls; Terms of Communion; Cambridge, Hebron. Ministers: 2-279, 3-021, 3-181 #130-27, pp. 102-103: Elders attending Synod to be given time to report when back home; producing a book of instructions on training church officers; urging sessions to maintain contact with out-of-bounds members; urging congregations to reimburse elders for attendance costs; commending Covenanter Layman’s League Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; Individual relocation; Internal organizations; Publications. #130-28, pp. 104-108: Ministers to preach on National Reform; reiterating #124-11 on agents; National Reform offerings and special messages; commending results of #129-46, final clause CAM; Christian Statesman; Collections; Minutes of Synod; NRA; PCUSA; Sermon topics; Tracts; UPCNA; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 2-149, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #130-29, pp. 108-111: Supplements for congregations; merging Home Mission and Young People’s Work secretaryships into one office Abolishing agencies; Attending other seminaries; Bible Mastery Month; Congregational aid; CYPU; Health and medicine; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; Licentiates; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 3-046 #130-30, pp. 112-113: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-100, 3-115 #130-31, p. 122: Activating roll-purging per #128-33 Levant missions; Native ministers; Purging rolls. Ministers: 4-284 #130-32, p. 123: Commending the Hebron RP Church of Nigeria, and sending them Bibles Africa; Colonies; Outside communications; Hebron. #130-33, pp. 123-126: Human resources; reiterating #129-15 on a new mission field Attending other seminaries; Autonomous commissions; Church constitution; Covenant theology; Covenanter Witness; Japan mission; Languages; Latin America; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Psalter editions; Radio and TV; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-179 #130-34, p. 126: Financial arrangements Financial; Trustees of Synod. #130-35, p. 126: Memorial arrangements “[u]pon the announcement of the death of R.S. McCloy”, elder delegate from Fresno Incapacitated delegates; Fresno. #130-36, pp. 127-128: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; VBS; Witness work. Ministers: 2-038, 2-149, 2-279, 2-296, 2-321, 3-022, 3-044, 3-046, 3-054, 3-080, 3-095, 3-106, 3-130, 3-133, 3-189 #130-37, p. 129: Urging ministers to use and advocate use of Synod’s Bible studies; studies on distinctive principles; urging submission of suggestions and criticisms Society meetings. Ministers: 3-049, 3-076, 3-104, 3-114, 3-130, 3-205 #130-38, pp. 130-133: Approving decisions of #129-15 commission; paying a bill Covenant of 1871; Independent missions; New presbyteries; Reviewing commissions; Syrian Presbytery; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-073, 3-179, 3-207 #130-39, pp. 133-136: Holding a church history conference at Synod in 1960 Church history; Conferences at Synod. Ministers: 3-009, 3-016, 3-067, 3-130, 3-196, 3-205 #130-40, p. 136: Declining to merge Illinois and Iowa Presbyteries CYPU; Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 3-009, 3-032, 3-044, 3-110, 3-156 #130-41, p. 138: Republishing The Communicants’ Class (OCLC 16972550) Church membership; Publications. Ministers: 2-314 #130-42, pp. 138-139: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial; Foreign missions; Fraternal relations; OPC; Pastors’Refresher Course. Ministers: 3-104 #131 — Synod of 1960 #131-01, p. 8: Sending the RPCI Synod a call upon minister Hugh Blair Pastoral calls; RPCI; Allegheny. #131-02, p. 9: Thanking a donor to the RPWA Real property; RPWA; Thanking donors. #131-03, p. 9: Thanking church treasurers Thanks. #131-04, p. 9: Trustees to hire an accounting firm to review and improve their procedures Trustees of Synod. #131-05, pp. 9-13: Reiterating #129-27 on ministers’ contributions Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Goal Post; Service Print Shop. #131-06, pp. 13-14: Church Erection Board money may be used by foreign churches, if practical Budget; Church erection; Foreign missions; Parsonages; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-156 #131-07, pp. 21-23: Appealing for missionaries to Ecuador; FMB permitted to appoint Cyprus Commission; Far East Commission membership to include all ministers in Japan and one ruling elder from each congregation Africa; Armenians; Independent missions; Japan mission; Languages; Latin America; Levant missions; Mission schools; Real property; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-179 #131-08, pp. 23-26: Retaining current Terms of Communion and Testimony language about Christ as savior of nations; ministers to explain difference between salvation of nations and of individuals CAM; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-315, 3-067, 3-076 #131-09, p. 26: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Indian Mission; Sine titulo; Cache Creek. Ministers: 3-069 #131-10, p. 27: Permitting #131-09 ordinand to participate in Traveling Fund Indian Mission; Sine titulo; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-069 #131-11, p. 35:#130-06 judicial commission: issuing a restraining order against a minister for causing widespread disturbances; commending his service to the church; paying a bill CAM; Church discipline; Financial; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 2-192 #131-12, pp. 35-36: Sympathy note to R.J.G. McKnight Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-203, 2-320 #131-13, pp. 36-41: Defining relationship between Director and Board of Christian Education; presbytery boards/committees/secretaries of Christian Education; cooperating with GCP for short- and long-term publishing projects Agency membership; Bible Mastery Month; Bible reading folders; CYPU; Financial; GCP; Interchurch; OPC; Presbytery conferences; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; VBS; Westminster standards; WMF. #131-14, pp. 42-43: Stewardship Committee to produce a booklet on financial responsibilities; appropriating money; committee to present a publicity plan each year at Synod Budget; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Tithing. Ministers: 3-054, 3-088 #131-15, pp. 43-48: Reiterating #131-09; supplements for congregations Canada; Chinese Home Mission; Church discipline; Congregational aid; Debt; Geneva; Health and medicine; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Licentiates; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Radio and TV; RPTS; RTF; Sabbath schools; Sine titulo; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS; WMF. Ministers: 3-046 #131-16, p. 48: Missionaries to participate in Traveling Fund Foreign missions; Traveling Fund. #131-17, pp. 48-51: Human resources and financial arrangements for RPTS; approving new constitution Baptists; Biblical languages; Evangelism; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Temperance. Ministers: 3-171, 3-205 #131-18, pp. 51-52: Waiving board-membership clause of #130-22 for two men for one year Agency membership; Geneva finances; Making exceptions. Ministers: 3-046, 3-049, 3-195 #131-19, pp. 54-57: Publishing psalm recordings; ministers to preach against secret societies; observing Christian Amendment Sabbath with sermon on national reform Budget; CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Explanatory declaration; Holidays; Psalm recordings; Radio and TV; Sermon topics; Temperance organizations; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-325, 3-067 #131-20, p. 57: Advertising new psalter selection book (#128-32), and authorizing reprints when necessary Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Psalm selections. Ministers: 3-016, 3-171 #131-21, pp. 58-60: Encouraging the church to support prohibition causes; congregations urged to show anti-tobacco films; appropriating money Communism; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Legal prohibition; Methodists; Public transportation; Radio and TV; Theaters; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-044, 2-279, 3-044, 3-110, 3-129 #131-22, pp. 61-63: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-036, 2-149, 2-179, 3-009, 3-022, 3-044, 3-046, 3-054, 3-067, 3-068, 3-073, 3-095, 3-106, 3-114, 3-133, 3-156, 3-159, 3-195, 3-205 #131-23, pp. 63-67: Plans for evangelism by congregations; new full-time position for evangelism secretary; committee to conduct training and visitation programs Bible Mastery Month; Home visitation; Sermon topics; Society meetings; VBS. Ministers: 2-063, 3-053, 3-100, 3-159 #131-24, p. 68: Paying a bill and requesting suggestions for changes to the explanatory declaration Explanatory declaration; Financial; Requesting opinions. #131-25, pp. 68-70: Oath Committee to develop test cases for explanatory declaration Explanatory declaration; Military service; Naturalization; Political office; SCOTUS; Teachers’oaths. Ministers: 2-034, 2-044, 3-022, 3-130, 3-143 #131-26, pp. 70-74: Urging the church to use NRA printing services; urging offerings and prayers for the NRA Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Gambling; Legislative petitions; NRA; Pacific; Pentecostals; Pornography; Post office; Sermon topics; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 3-017, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #131-27, p. 75: Sessions to support Christian Education, Evangelism, and Stewardship committees; ministers to advertise NAE efforts; delegates to thank hotels for keeping Gideon Bibles, and to support local Gideons; exit interviews for members leaving the church Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Individual relocation; NAE; Tithing. #131-28, p. 75: Board of Pensions to consider investing in mutual funds Pensions. #131-29, pp. 75-77: Membership status of baptized children of suspended members; removing disinterested baptized members at age 18; plebiscites are permitted in church law only in the contexts of elders voting on overtures; ordinations must be by presbyteries, not commissions Autonomous commissions; Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Church membership; Overtures; Parental responsibilities; Popular vote; Statistical blanks; North Hills, Seattle. Ministers: 2-094, 3-009, 3-044 #131-30, pp. 77-80: Interpreting “good standing” in the context of discipline and purging rolls Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Construction; Purging rolls. Ministers: 2-071, 3-207 #131-31, pp. 81-87: Printing long-range planning document; presbyteries to conduct long-range planning and look for opening new works in growing areas; urging proper recordkeeping by clerks; congregations to spare ministers from outside work; requiring all documents to be submitted three weeks before Synod starts; hiring a typist; declining a biennial synod Budget; Church planting; CYPU; Decline; Elders’Conference; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Individual relocation; Licentiates; Long-range planning; Ministers in secular employment; Minutes of Synod; RPTS finances; Synod at RPIC; Tithing; WMF; Phoenix. Ministers: 2-149, 3-009, 3-046, 3-049, 3-070, 3-106, 3-171, 3-195 #131-32, pp. 88-90: Approving decisions of #129-15 commission Financial; Real property; Reviewing commissions; RPCI; Syrian Presbytery. Ministers: 2-010, 3-073, 3-127, 3-179, 3-207, 5-010 #131-33, p. 93: RPTS Superintendents to pay the #130-24 field-work candidates as a form of student aid Congregational aid; Graduate student aid; RPTS finances; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 3-017, 3-130 #131-34, p. 93: Paying a bill Financial. #131-35, p. 94: Financial arrangements China mission; Financial; Refugee sponsorship; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-063, 3-076, 3-179 #131-36, pp. 121-122: Paying bills Business of Synod; Church history; Financial; Psalm explanations. Ministers: 3-053 #131-37, p. 122: Financial arrangement Financial. #131-38, pp. 122-123: Traveling Fund administration; permitting air travel for trips of 1000 miles or more Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-095, 3-100 #131-39, pp. 126-127: Thanking the city of Sterling for a flag salute to incoming delegates, and Sterling College for hosting Synod Thanks. Ministers: 2-179, 3-017 #132 — Synod of 1961 #132-01, p. 7: Sympathy note to Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lamont in the death of Mr. Lamont’s father Sympathy; Telecommunications; Seattle. #132-02, p. 9: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Sine titulo; Urban church planting; Phoenix. Ministers: 3-103 #132-03, p. 9: Authorizing a reprint of the Book of Psalms with Music Financial; Psalter editions. #132-04, p. 10: Preparing a program for the American Bible Society’s 150th anniversary American Bible Society. #132-05, pp. 12-14: Church Erection Board permitted to treat old “continuous loans” as gifts and thus cancel associated mortgages Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Closing churches; Debt; Parsonages; Property held in trust. Ministers: 3-156 #132-06, pp. 14-15: Waiving Synod’s one-year pre-election rule for Covenanter Witness editors [no such rule appears to exist; see #121-37] Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Making exceptions. Ministers: 2-063, 3-022, 3-129 #132-07, pp. 19-21: Financial arrangements; pensions may be given at age 65 in some cases; continuing #131-28 Insurance; Pensions; Social Security. Ministers: 3-044, 3-146 #132-08, p. 22: Autonomy for Armenian churches in Cyprus, effective 1 September 1961, given differences in theology of worship A cappella; Armenians; Independent missions; Levant missions; Psalmody. Ministers: 3-033 #132-09, p. 22: Licentiate to participate in Traveling Fund Licentiates; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-138 #132-10, p. 22: Thanking a donor Directions to individuals; Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-243 #132-11, pp. 25-28: Accepting RPTS professor’s resignation and ascertaining his pension; faculty housing allowance; ascertaining current faculty salaries Baptists; Biblical languages; Congregationalism; Evangelism; RPTS accreditation; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; WTS. Ministers: 2-094, 2-203, 3-033, 3-074, 3-205 #132-12, p. 29: Ratifying an agreement with the APCNA to add their library to that of RPTS APCNA; RPTS library. #132-13, p. 29: Amending #132-08: date moved to 1 January 1962 A cappella; Armenians; Independent missions; Levant missions; Psalmody. #132-14, p. 30: Congregations to study the danger of communism, encouraging U.S. Representative Francis Walter in his activities as chairman of the House Un-American Activities Committee, petitioning President John Kennedy to support that committee, denouncing National Council of Churches’ support for the People’s Republic of China, and continuing to press for recognition of Christ in the Constitution Communism; Congressional petitions; League of Nations and UN; National Council of Churches; Specific congressmen; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-315, 3-009, 3-017, 3-033, 3-053, 3-073, 3-083, 3-106, 3-115, 3-133, 3-143, 3-159, 3-181 #132-15, p. 40: All Presbytery reports to cover events since the last Synod Directions to individuals; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars. #132-16, pp. 41-42: Presbyteries to require their evangelism committees to remain active; sessions to (re)activate evangelistic visitation programs Covenanter Witness; Evangelism. Ministers: 2-063, 2-296, 3-009, 3-053, 3-100, 3-159 #132-17, pp. 43-44: Urging congregations to study the church’s financial needs and programs Budget; Covenanter Witness; Tithing; Tracts. Ministers: 3-071, 3-189 #132-18, p. 45: Dissolving the Jewish Mission Board, the mission having ceased to exist Abolishing agencies; Jewish missions. #132-19, p. 45: Thanking donors Thanking donors. Ministers: 2-149, 2-279 #132-20, pp. 45-46: Reiterating #129-20 on employment; paying bills Chinese exclusion; Congressional bills; Financial; Refugee sponsorship. Ministers: 2-315, 3-083, 3-205 #132-21, p. 49: Appointing a fraternal delegate to the Bible Presbyterian Church APCNA; BPC; CRCNA; New Light church; Pastors’Refresher Course; PCUSA. Ministers: 2-038, 3-076, 3-127, 3-181 #132-22, pp. 49-54: Director of Christian Education to hold office for three years; presbyteries to report on Christian Education activity; distributing a handbook of church boards and committees; sessions to emphasize individual and family devotions; “Bible Mastery Month”; 1962 National Conference Attending other seminaries; Bible Mastery Month; Bible reading folders; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Goal Post; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Paying Synod employees; RPIC; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-149, 3-068, 3-076, 3-171, 3-181, 3-203 #132-23, pp. 54-57: Ministers to preach on exclusive psalmody; observing Christian Amendment Sabbath with sermon on national reform; urging men to write for the Witness Committee; Committee urged to exhibit on the psalms at the National Sunday School Association Convention A cappella; CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional bills; Financial; Holidays; Methodists; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Witness work. Ministers: 3-067 #132-24, p. 59: Increasing minimum salary; urging greater distribution of anti-communist information; preparing a handbook on filling out Synod’s forms; considering changing Synod’s fiscal year Communism; Elders’Conference; Forms; Graduate student aid; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Reporting calendars. #132-25, pp. 60-69: Congregational supplements; reiterating #132-24 on minimum salaries, and congregations unable to meet it to request aid through presbyteries; procedures for all future aid applications and new aid form Bequests; Budget; Canada; Church erection; Church planting; Congregational aid; Forms; Geneva; Health and medicine; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Parsonages; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; VBS. Ministers: 3-046 #132-26, p. 69: Jewish Mission Board funds to be used for church planting Church planting; Financial; Jewish missions. #132-27, p. 69: Dissolving the Cyprus Commission, effective 1 January 1962 Abolishing agencies; Armenians; Levant missions. Ministers: 3-179 #132-28, pp. 72-75: Reiterating #131-07 on Far East Commission; human resources for foreign missions Covenanter Witness; Japan mission; Latin America; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. #132-29, p. 75: The church’s position on political dissent remains unchanged; authorizing the Covenanter Witness to publish discussions of changes Covenanter Witness; Political dissent; Testimony. #132-30, pp. 75-77: Tentative approval of new portions of Testimony chapter XXIX National Reform; Testimony. Ministers: 2-315, 3-067, 3-130 #132-31, p. 78: Supporting the concept of racial equality and supporting federal efforts to support the concept; commending a minister for his efforts, and all members to consider their opinions on the question Slavery and race; Selma. Ministers: 3-012 #132-32, p. 78: Vote of confidence in FMB efforts for a mission in Ecuador Foreign missions; Latin America. #132-33, pp. 78-80: Appointing Synod’s budget Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-279, 3-016, 3-044, 3-046, 3-067, 3-071, 3-073, 3-080, 3-100, 3-104, 3-114, 3-130, 3-156, 3-159, 3-176, 3-195, 3-207 #132-34, pp. 80-83: Advocating familiarity with explanatory declaration; members to seek elders’ counsel if planning an oath; authorizing a member to run for election as a test case, and other members permitted to vote only for him; defining Oath Committee’s scope Explanatory declaration; Military service; Naturalization; Political office; Teachers’oaths; Testimony; Voting; Rose Point. Ministers: 2-034, 2-044, 3-016, 3-022, 3-130, 3-143 #132-35, pp. 83-88: Reiterating #131-26; ministers to preach on National Reform in the absence of an NRA agent Bible in schools; CAM; Chester Fox; Christian Statesman; Collections; Docket and digest; Goal Post; Modernism; NRA; PCUSA; Pornography; RPWA; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Temperance; Theaters; Witness work. Ministers: 2-034, 2-071, 3-017, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #132-36, pp. 88-91: Ministers to preach and speak, and sabbath and Vacation Bible schools to teach, against alcohol and tobacco; reiterating support for mandatory total abstinence; offerings for Temperance Committee; appropriating money Alcohol restrictions on all members; Alcohol restrictions on officers; Financial; Legal prohibition; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-044, 2-279, 3-044, 3-110, 3-129 #132-37, p. 92: New explanatory declaration, and recommending its use whenever desired by oath-taker; Oath Committee to support legislation explicitly permitting its use Explanatory declaration. Ministers: 3-022, 3-053, 3-156 #132-38, pp. 92-94: Reiterating #132-24 on minimum salaries; ascertaining salaries for RPTS professors and other employees; printing psalters with better bindings; pension for RPTS president emeritus; Graduate Study Fund for ministerial candidates; church fiscal year to be the calendar year; other financial arrangements Bequests; CAM; Chester Fox; Elders’Conference; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Jewish missions; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; Reporting calendars; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF; Portland. Ministers: 2-203, 3-106, 3-156, 3-174 #132-39, pp. 128-129: Spiritual and legal-property oversight for White Lake Camp, and repealing #124-21; permitting an exception to #131-29 on commissions; procedures for presbytery oversight of candidates; church social gatherings, in relation to non-worship hymnody and sabbath-keeping Autonomous commissions; Canada; Oath question; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; Real property; Sabbath-keeping; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 2-321, 3-033, 3-083 #132-40, p. 130: Appropriating money Tithing. #132-41, pp. 130-131: Traveling Fund administration; urging delegates to travel together when possible; reiterating #120-38 Absences; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-095, 3-146 #132-42, p. 131: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial. Ministers: 3-070 #132-43, pp. 132-133: No evening conferences at Synod, unless otherwise ordered; merging committees on arrangements and devotions Abolishing agencies; Conferences at Synod; New agencies; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-179, 3-205 #132-44, pp. 133-134: Board of Christian Education to assume responsibilities of standing committee on Prayer Meeting Topics Abolishing standing committees; Covenanter Witness; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-036, 3-021, 3-184 #132-45, pp. 134-136: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1963; considering publishing material on covenant theology vs. dispensationalism Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenant theology; Financial; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Pastors’Refresher Course; Premillennialism; RPTS location; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 2-038, 3-017, 3-114, 3-205 #132-46, pp. 136-137: Granting autonomy to the Syrian churches; paying bills Independent missions; Levant missions; Reviewing commissions; Splits in congregations. Ministers: 3-070, 3-073, 3-106, 3-127, 3-207 #132-47, pp. 138-140: Approving, but not sending in overture, a proposed rewrite of Chapter VIII of the Testimony; publishing rewrite in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Soteriology; Testimony. Ministers: 2-044, 2-094, 3-196, 3-205 #132-48, pp. 140-141: Clerk to ask the CRCNA to rejoin NAE CRCNA; Directions to individuals; NAE; Outside communications. Ministers: 3-049, 3-130 #133 — Synod of 1962 #133-01, pp. 6-7: All reports for Synod of 1963 to be sent to the Clerk one month before the meeting A cappella; Business of Synod; Covenanter Witness; Docket and digest; Minutes of Synod; Reporting calendars; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 3-049 #133-02, p. 7: Participating in the RES RES. #133-03, p. 8: Reprinting A Brief History of the Reformed Presbyterian Church (original OCLC 16972883; reprint OCLC 9817743) Church history; RPCNA books. #133-04, pp. 11-12: Reiterating #129-27, final clause Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; Financial. #133-05, pp. 13-15: New plan for Church Erection Board funds Budget; Church erection; Debt; Disaster relief; Parsonages; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-156 #133-06, pp. 20-26: Approving new chapter XXIX for Testimony and sending it down in overture Overtures, new; Testimony. Ministers: 2-315, 3-067, 3-130, 3-171 #133-07, pp. 28-29: Declining to approve new chapter XXX for Testimony Political dissent; Testimony. #133-08, pp. 29-30: Creating new statistical blanks and reiterating the importance of careful preparation of statistics Statistical blanks. Ministers: 3-181 #133-09, pp. 30-36: Financial procedures, including congregational audits, financial boards, tithers, fire insurance, appropriating money, handling bequests, and church employee pensions; paying a bill Chester Fox; Insurance; Tithing. Ministers: 3-118, 3-143 #133-10, p. 37: WMF petition granted: giving missionary Ruth Reade a Synod salary, rather than a WMF salary Foreign missions; Paying missionaries; WMF. #133-11, p. 37: FMB to cooperate with Japan mission and RTF Japan mission; RTF. #133-12, p. 37: Reports sent out before Synod time to be discussed without public reading Docket and digest; Rules and organization. #133-13, pp. 37-43: Handling a bequest; policy changes for aid grants; congregational supplements Baptists; Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Congregational aid; CYPU; Forms; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Licentiates; Medical missions; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Parsonages; Poor relief; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 3-046 #133-14, pp. 46-49: Reiterating #132-36, first clause; temperance pledges and offerings; planning to expand Testimony on temperance; including WMF representatives on Temperance Committee Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Slavery and race; Temperance; Tobacco; VBS. Ministers: 2-279 #133-15, p. 50: Abolishing standing committee on Prayer Meeting Topics, due to #132-44 Abolishing standing committees; Covenanter Witness; Society meetings. Ministers: 2-036, 3-021, 3-184 #133-16, pp. 51-62: Collecting money for Christian Education Board’s visual library; embarking in a denominational strategic plan; human resources; financial arrangements; ascertaining director’s salary Bible Mastery Month; Bible reading folders; Budget; CAM; Christian schools; Church erection; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; GCP; Goal Post; NAE; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Social Security; Synod HR; UK conference; VBS. Ministers: 2-149, 3-181 #133-17, pp. 62-64: Converting Evangelism Committee into Board of Evangelism, and establishing its location; human resources; observing Evangelism Day Church planting; Covenant of 1871; Covenant theology; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Holidays; Renaming; Seeking candidates, HMB. Ministers: 3-159 #133-18, pp. 65-68: Studying merger of CAM and NRA; studying relationship with Lord’s Day Alliance, National Temperance Council, etc.; studying church use of money for political action CAM; Christian Patriot; Christian Statesman; Lord’s Day Alliance; NRA; NTPC; Taxation; Witness work. Ministers: 3-019, 3-046, 3-070 #133-19, p. 69: Discharging the Committee on Covenanter Refugees and paying a bill Abolishing agencies; Financial; Refugee sponsorship. Ministers: 2-315, 3-083, 3-205 #133-20, pp. 70-73: Expressing gratitude for deceased CAM field agent’s life and work; preaching on a cappella singing; observing Christian Amendment Sabbath with sermon on national reform A cappella; Baptists; Bible in schools; Budget; CAM; Christian Patriot; Church of the Nazarene; Close communion; Congressional bills; CYPU; Oath question; PCUSA; Pentecostals; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Specific congressmen; Synod HR; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-192, 2-325 #133-21, p. 73: Witness Committee to explore a commercial recording of psalmody Psalm recordings; Witness work. #133-22, pp. 73-75: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries APCNA; Baptists; Biblical languages; Church history; Church of God; Congregationalism; Higher-education standards; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions; Pentecostals; Psalmody; RPTS constitution; RPTS library; RPTS location; Testimony; WTS. Ministers: 2-094, 3-130, 3-205 #133-23, pp. 78-79: Traveling Fund administration; regulating absences for National Conference purposes Absences; Health and medicine; Synod at RPIC; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-138, 3-146 #133-24, pp. 79-85: Relationship between RPTS and presbyteries in judging candidates’ theological soundness; ministerial vacations, and ministers must also be released for church purposes; presbyteries to determine other seminaries’ graduates’ qualifications, but advising one year at RPTS (#106-09); studying the place of unsettled ministers; women’s participation in sabbath schools, prayer meetings, and teaching in missions; warning Cyprus Commission for going against #048-12; no associate memberships for college students, but urging college student ministries; commission membership; strict subscription for licentiates Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; Benefits for ministers; Candidate examinations; Church discipline; Closed pulpits; CYPU; Foreign missions HR; Geneva; Higher-education standards; Levant missions; Licentiates; Ministers in secular employment; Mission schools; Pensions; Presbytery conferences; RPTS faculty; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Women deacons; Women elders; Topeka. Ministers: 3-011, 3-017, 3-044, 3-076, 3-110 #133-25, pp. 85-86: Reiterating #128-02 on stewardship preaching; Elders’ Conference chairman automatically to participate in Traveling Fund; mail for Session business to be mailed to minister Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; Pensions; Sermon topics; Traveling Fund. #133-26, pp. 86-87: Praying and collecting for the NRA; reiterating #132-35 on preaching Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Collections; Methodists; NRA; NTPC; PCUSA; Radio and TV; Sermon topics. Ministers: 3-017, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #133-27, pp. 87-90: Appealing for foreign missionaries; withdrawing Ecuador plans (#132-32) but seeking another field Armenians; Autonomous commissions; China mission; Covenanter Witness; Elements of worship; Health and medicine; Independent missions; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-179 #133-28, pp. 91-92: Establishing the Graduate Study Fund and regulating its activities Covenanter Witness; Debt; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-171, 3-205 #133-29, pp. 92-94: Approving arrangements for Syrian autonomy, including property transfers, as done by #129-15 commission Elements of worship; Independent missions; Real property; Sabbath schools; Syrian Presbytery. Ministers: 3-127, 3-179 #133-30, p. 94: FMB not to release funds to Syria pending the resolution of a dispute Financial; Syrian Presbytery. #133-31, p. 95: Canadian members to use old explanatory declaration, the new one being specifically written for the U.S. Constitution Canada; Explanatory declaration; Military service; Naturalization. Ministers: 2-034, 3-016, 3-022, 3-118, 3-130, 3-143 #133-32, pp. 95-96: Financial arrangements; raising salary of church employee and RPTS professors Bequests; Church erection; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPWA; Testimony; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-094, 3-088, 3-143, 3-171, 3-184, 3-205 #133-33, p. 122: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial. Ministers: 3-095, 3-176 #133-34, pp. 122-123: Thanking Carleton College for hosting Synod Synod at RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 2-321, 3-195 #133-35, pp. 124-126: Appointing Synod’s budget (two budgets, per #132-38 on fiscal year); urging ministers to promote Synod’s budget and tithing; notifying congregations of #132-38 on fiscal year; presbyteries to submit Coordinating Committee names as soon as possible Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Thanks; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-094, 2-179, 2-279, 3-046, 3-071, 3-073, 3-088, 3-114, 3-138, 3-146, 3-156, 3-159, 3-176, 3-195 #133-36, p. 126: Thanking all members of Congress who proposed variations of the Christian Amendment or amendments in response to Engel v. Vitale , 370 U.S. 421 (1962), and thanking Florida Governor Farris Bryant for similar advocacy Bible in schools; CAM; SCOTUS; Thanking government officials; Witness work. #134 — Synod of 1963 #134-01, p. 6: Permitting the distribution of a paper related to #134-24 Paper distribution; Political dissent; Testimony. Ministers: 2-315, 3-070, 3-127, 3-146 #134-02, p. 6: Continuing to read treasurer’s reports on the floor of Synod, but considering alternate arrangements Financial; Meeting schedule; Rules and organization. #134-03, pp. 7-8: Preparing a brochure advertising Synod’s programs; paying bills; ministers urged to preach on tithing and stewardship, inform congregations of budget receipts, and urge bequests; observing Stewardship Sabbath Bequests; Budget; Chester Fox; Holidays; Tithing. Ministers: 3-088, 3-114 #134-04, pp. 9-10: No requirement for annual application for Widows and Orphans Fund participation Bequests; Church discipline; Elders’Conference; Insurance; Pensions; Social Security. #134-05, p. 11: Creating an Educational and Retirement Fund for ministers; other financial arrangements on mutual funds Insurance; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. #134-06, pp. 14-16: Declining to establish a national church headquarters CAM; Chester Fox; Church erection; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva; Headquarters; Home missions; NRA; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; RPWA; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-321, 3-129 #134-07, pp. 16-18: Financial arrangements; electing Stewardship Committee chairman for two years; renaming “Funds Functioning as Endowment” to “Temporary Investments”; no more preferred claims in the budget; new form of bequest; no church fire insurance; auditing congregational books Bequests; Insurance; Renaming; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-118, 3-143 #134-08, p. 18: Covenanter Witness to publish articles on UPCUSA’s position on church-state relations PCUSA; Political dissent. #134-09, pp. 19-21: Appealing for human resources for foreign missions Armenians; Church erection; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Outside preaching; Psalter editions; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-073 #134-10, p. 22: “D.H. Elliott collapsed on the floor of Synod”, emergency recess, clerk pro tem appointment, funeral arrangements, and sending sympathy notes to his family Funerals; Incapacitated delegates; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-038, 2-071, 2-094, 3-049 #134-11, pp. 22-25: Adopting and publishing position paper and response to UPCUSA statement on separation of church and state Bible in schools; CAM; Communism; Modernism; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 2-071 #134-12, pp. 26-27: Church officers, particularly treasurers, to work diligently to secure Covenanter Witness subscriptions Covenanter Witness; Financial; Labor and capital; Service Print Shop. #134-13, pp. 27-28: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1965 Budget; CRCNA; OPC; Pastors’Refresher Course. Ministers: 3-016, 3-021, 3-059, 3-139, 3-205 #134-14, pp. 28-30: Funding for RPTS; ascertaining professors’ salaries Biblical languages; Church history; Congregationalism; Higher-education standards; Pastors’Refresher Course; Paying RPTS faculty; Pentecostals; RP Home; RPTS library; RPTS location. Ministers: 2-094, 3-033, 3-130, 3-205 #134-15, pp. 33-34: Declining a resolution that would have declared it sinful to vote or take office without the explanatory declaration Explanatory declaration; Political office; Voting. Ministers: 3-205 #134-16, pp. 34-39: Financial arrangements; urging continued use of Vacation Bible School materials; trialling Great Commission Publications’ sabbath school materials; congregations to form Christian Education Committees to oversee affairs; ascertaining Director of Christian Education salary Bible reading folders; Budget; Covenanter Witness; GCP; Higher-education standards; Home visitation; Paying Synod employees; RPIC; RPTS location; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; VBS. Ministers: 3-181 #134-17, pp. 39-40: Approving cooperation plan with RTF, permitting an ordination sine titulo, endorsing FMB support for a missionary, and urging Paying Synod employees; RTF. Ministers: 3-170 #134-18, p. 40: Permitting an ordination sine titulo, and endorsing a Foreign Mission Board personnel decision Foreign missions HR; Sine titulo. Ministers: 3-170 #134-19, pp. 41-42: Committees working on doctrinal positions of the church should include ordained men only; reinforcing reading of Presbytery reports at Synod; electing a missionary as a congregational elder; no circulating proposed constitutional documents without an overture Agency membership; Book of Discipline; Eldership; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; Testimony; Hopkinton. Ministers: 2-043, 2-279, 3-053, 3-083 #134-20, p. 42: Declining a proposal to split FMB into Eastern and Western boards, but FMB to consider appointing an advisory committee from Pacific Coast Presbytery Foreign missions; Pacific. Ministers: 2-036, 3-115, 3-207 #134-21, pp. 42-43: Reiterating #091-28, and #130-15 on moderator, because the position is a Synod office, not a church office; alternating dates for Synod as a trial Elder attendance; Meeting schedule; Officer elections; RPIC; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 2-315, 3-019 #134-22, pp. 47-48: Studying adjustment in travel fund; urging extra giving for church extension Budget; Church constitution; Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; Geneva faculty; Political dissent; RPTS faculty; Traveling Fund. #134-23, pp. 48-52: Ascertaining the salary of Synod’s treasurer; congregational supplements, with the HMB authorized to adjust them if necessary Bequests; Chester Fox; Church erection; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; Medical missions; Mission schools; Parsonages; PCUSA; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-017 #134-24, pp. 53-54: Observing Evangelism Days, and urging preparation for them; Covenanter Witness to write on church evangelism program; human resources; expanding Board of Evangelism; duties of director of evangelism Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Holidays; Paying Synod employees; Testimony. Ministers: 3-009, 3-053 #134-25, pp. 54-59: Approving new chapter XXX for Testimony (modified from document rejected in #133-07) and sending it down in overture [dissent, page 86] Military service; Oath question; Overtures, new; Political office; Voting; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-315, 3-070, 3-127, 3-146 #134-26, p. 60: Urging congregations to pay ministers’ utilities; applying this decision to church employees Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees. #134-27, pp. 60-62: Ministers to preach against secret societies; observing Christian Amendment Sabbath with sermon on national reform CAM; Chester Fox; Christian Patriot; Congressional petitions; NAE; PCUSA; Radio and TV; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 2-038, 2-325 #134-28, p. 62: Reiterating #133-21 Psalm recordings; Witness work. #134-29, pp. 62-63: Financial arrangements; all treasurers’ reports to be discussable but not read on the floor of Synod (#134-02), and to have an auditor’s approval; ascertaining employee and RPTS professor salaries Bequests; Chester Fox; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Home missions; NAE; Paying Synod employees; RPTS finances; Rules and organization. Ministers: 2-321, 3-033, 3-059, 3-171, 3-195, 3-205 #134-30, pp. 84-86: Appointing Synod’s budget; gathering information from other boards and committees; reiterating #133-35, final clause Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 2-179, 3-017, 3-022, 3-034, 3-044, 3-049, 3-071, 3-073, 3-083, 3-114, 3-117, 3-138, 3-146, 3-159, 3-184, 3-208 #134-31, p. 88: Coordinating Committee to modify its reporting form and to recommend disposition of surplus funds Budget. #134-32, p. 91: Reiterating #132-31 on equality; commending legitimate efforts to overturn inequality and assuring members of prayerful support Slavery and race; Selma. #134-33, p. 93: Observing Commitment Day for temperance pledging; taking an offering Collections; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Tobacco; Tracts. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-110, 3-184 #134-34, p. 93: Commending Harry Bellmon, Governor of Oklahoma, for opposing alcohol Government communications; Temperance. Ministers: 2-038 #134-35, p. 101: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Sine titulo; New York [only]. Ministers: 3-173 #134-36, pp. 101-102: Congregational reports to provide extensive detail in 1964 and 1965; Presbyteries to submit results to Board of Christian Education Church membership; Decline; Home visitation; Individual relocation; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks; Youth. #134-37, p. 102: Permitting judicious discussion of submitted overtures in the Covenanter Witness , but prohibiting submissions of amendments to overtures Covenanter Witness; Overtures. Ministers: 2-279, 3-053, 3-083 #134-38, pp. 102-104: Congregations to use instrumental-music Bible study; directing members not to sing when visiting services where instruments are used A cappella; Blue Banner Faith and Life. Ministers: 2-279, 3-106 #134-39, p. 105: Ministers and licentiates preaching in instrumental churches shall not announce psalms or hymns A cappella; Outside preaching; Psalmody. #134-40, p. 105: Responding to dissent on #134-25: new form does not reject political dissent, some removed portions have long been ignored, dissent misattributes motives, covenants are not paramount to the Bible, and new chapter does not violate ordination vows Covenant of 1871; Explanatory declaration; Jury question; Political office; Responses to dissent; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Voting for constitutional amendments. Ministers: 2-315, 3-011, 3-070, 3-127, 3-146 #134-41, p. 106: Urging Geneva professor Uladyslau Ryzhy-Ryzhski to apply for licensure and/or ordination [Ryzhy-Ryzhski was consecrated an Orthodox bishop in 1965], and commending him to the church for prayer and fellowship Attending other seminaries; Geneva faculty. Ministers: 2-315, 3-070, 3-083 #134-42, p. 107: Urging boards to consider sending delegates to the NAE convention in 1964 Methodists; NAE. Ministers: 3-070 #134-43, p. 107: Approving the naming of an RP Day at the 1963 National Sunday School Convention Ecumenical organizations; Sabbath schools. #134-44, pp. 107-112: Commending past National Reform leaders; urging prayer for NRA’s future and its centennial celebration; urging a National Reform day with NRA speaker, or minister to preach on National Reform Bible in schools; Chester Fox; Christian Statesman; Church history; Collections; Gambling; Geneva; Levant missions; NRA; NTPC; PCUSA; SCOTUS; Specific congressmen; Theaters; Tracts. Ministers: 2-034, 3-017, 3-046, 3-143, 3-171 #134-45, p. 113: Sending Synod’s minutes to the RPCS and RPCI annually and exchanging fraternal delegates; also sending fraternal delegates to the OPC, CRCNA, New Light, and ARPC APCNA; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; Minutes of Synod; New Light church; OPC; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127, 3-181 #134-46, pp. 113-114: Paying bills Business of Synod; CAM; Financial; NRA. Ministers: 3-070 #134-47, p. 115: Investing the Graduate Study Fund until it is needed Graduate student aid. Ministers: 3-171, 3-205 #134-48, p. 118: Appropriating money for #129-15 commission Financial; Independent missions; Mission schools; Real property; Syrian Presbytery. Ministers: 3-127 #134-49, p. 118: Traveling Fund administration; urging delegates to follow cost-saving measures Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-042, 3-138 #134-50, pp. 118-119: Not requiring pre-Synod distribution of all reports, but requiring it for reports requiring special study, and clerk to distribute any reports submitted to him for distribution Docket and digest; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 2-200, 3-130 #134-51, p. 119: Publishing in the Covenanter Witness the Traveling Fund and attendance regulations Absences; Directions to individuals; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-181 #134-52, p. 119: Publishing in the Covenanter Witness in late April 1964 a list of congregations not yet responding to #134-25 Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Overtures; Testimony. Ministers: 3-049 #134-53, pp. 119-120: Resubmitting #133-06 overture, the first having failed for lack of responses despite getting almost 90% support, and reiterating #129-39 Directions to individuals; Forms; Overtures, new; Overtures, unsuccessful; Testimony. Ministers: 3-049, 3-110, 3-207 #135 — Synod of 1964 #135-01, p. 6: Appointing a commission to determine the relationship between Synod and the RPWA New commissions; RPWA. #135-02, pp. 9-10: Reiterating #134-03 Budget; CYPU; Evangelism; Holidays; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Tithing; WMF. Ministers: 3-088, 3-114 #135-03, pp. 10-12: Raising pensions; presbytery clerks to certify pension-eligible members; church employees eligible for pensions Paying Synod employees; Pensions. #135-04, p. 12: Accepting new ministers’ book (Covenanter Ministers , #127-35) and appointing a committee to promote its sale Church history; Financial; RPCNA books. Ministers: 2-279 #135-05, pp. 15-18: Appealing for human resources for foreign missions Cemeteries; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Orthodox; Seeking candidates, FMB; Tracts; Wars. Ministers: 3-073 #135-06, pp. 18-19: Pastors’ Refresher Course made a permanent part of Synod’s budget; paying bills; expanding oversight committee; urging all ministers to attend Budget; Pastors’Refresher Course. Ministers: 2-038, 3-017, 3-033 #135-07, pp. 21-22: Reiterating #035-01; urging prayer and contributions for Society, including in congregational budgets, and participating in its sesquicentennial celebrations American Bible Society; Donations. Ministers: 3-049, 3-149 #135-08, pp. 23-24: Approving the concept of RPTS professors taking sabbaticals, and related human resources arrangements; using Graduate Study Fund to aid students in summer study Biblical languages; BPC; Congregationalism; Evangelism; Pentecostals; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130, 3-205 #135-09, pp. 25-26: Agreeing with RES principles, but delaying action on membership RES; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-005, 3-083 #135-10, pp. 27-29: Congregational supplements; increasing minimum ministerial salaries and church treasurer’s salary; reiterating #132-25 on presbytery aid and #134-24 on HMB authorization Chester Fox; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Medical missions; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 3-017 #135-11, pp. 32-36: Reiterating #134-16 on GCP, and using RPCNA edition of their vacation Bible school materials; reiterating #132-22 on devotions, and sessions to strive to increase prayer meeting attendance; Bible Mastery Month; Christian Education committees in congregations; financial arrangements Bible Mastery Month; CYPU; GCP; Interchurch; New Light church; OPC; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Testimony; UK conference; VBS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-117, 3-129, 3-171, 3-181, 3-203 #135-12, pp. 37-41: Congregations and presbyteries urged to appoint evangelism committees or secretaries; secretaries to meet with Synod’s board; evangelism conferences in presbyteries; Evangelism Day Celebrity preachers; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Financial; Urban church planting. Ministers: 2-321, 3-009, 3-106, 3-129 #135-13, pp. 42-45: Providing funds to enable special Geneva Corporators meeting; approving a fundraising campaign; authorizing a Corporator-Trustee joint committee to study implementation and development of Geneva’s witness and character Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-070 #135-14, pp. 45-47: Soliciting Covenanter Witness articles from all able members, and ministers to solicit for this purpose; congregations to secure subscriptions, including by non-members; ascertaining editor’s salary Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Paying Synod employees; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-156 #135-15, pp. 47-50: Urging continued prayer for NRA work; sessions to identify possible #124-09 agents; congregations to choose their own National Reform Sabbaths for special messages and offerings American Bible Society; CAM; Christian Statesman; Collections; Congressional bills; NRA; Sermon topics; Temperance organizations; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts. Ministers: 2-034, 3-017, 3-046, 3-088, 3-143, 3-171 #135-16, pp. 50-55: Position statement on diaconate; presbyteries to ensure that all congregations have deacons; when the law mandates the existence of trustees, these to be drawn from deacons; Synod’s Trustees to be ordained individuals as far as possible; sending down in overture modifications to the Book of Church Government, but postponing to 1965 Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Church history; Overtures, new; Poor relief; Trustees of Synod; Women deacons. Ministers: 2-038, 2-179, 3-184 #135-17, pp. 56-57: Trustees to select and recommend a health insurance plan for ministers Benefits for ministers; Insurance; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-118, 3-208 #135-18, p. 57: Amending #135-16: sending overture immediately, rather than waiting Overtures, new. Ministers: 2-038, 2-179, 3-184 #135-19, p. 66: Adopting #133-06 and #134-25 following favorable votes in overture Military service; Oath question; Political office; Testimony; Voting. Ministers: 3-012, 3-080 #135-20, pp. 66-68: Sympathy for churches in cities suffering from racial issues; commending multiracial churches; presbyteries to prevent race discrimination in churches; sessions to look for opportunities to participate in race-related local affairs; petitioning Senator Hubert Humphrey and the U.S. House of Representatives to support Civil Rights Act of 1964 (88 H. R. 7152, Public Law 88-3532) Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; SCOTUS; Slavery and race; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-005, 3-104, 3-129 #135-21, pp. 68-69: Ministers to preach temperance sermons; reiterating #134-33 Canada; Collections; Holidays; Methodists; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-110 #135-22, p. 70: Surveying preachers’ and Synod employees’ salaries and costs of living in order to make salary recommendations; endorsing NRA proposal of distributing New Testaments Diaconate; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; NRA; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees. #135-23, pp. 70-71: Traveling Fund administration; reiterating #134-49 on cost savings Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-034, 3-042 #135-24, pp. 71-72: Ministers attending 1964 RPCI conference be a committee to confer with RPCI and RPCS on cooperation; paying expenses of fraternal delegates; initiating correspondence with Canadian Reformed Church APCNA; BPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church union; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; New Light church; OPC; Outside commissions; UK conference. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127, 3-181 #135-25, pp. 72-74: Paying moving expenses of ministers when congregations cannot; reprinting psalter selection book (#128-32); prices for new ministers’ book (#127-35); paying Synod’s share of RES expenses; salary increases for RPTS professors and other employees; other financial arrangements, including complying with #133-09 on bequests; 1965 budget surpluses to be used for youth scholarships Benefits for ministers; Bequests; Chester Fox; Church erection; Church history; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Pastors’Refresher Course; Paying Synod employees; Psalm selections; RPCNA books; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; WMF. Ministers: 3-017, 3-076, 3-143 #135-26, pp. 97-99: Appointing Synod’s budget; reiterating #134-30 on gathering information, and #133-35, final clause Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Tithing; Witness work. Ministers: 2-200, 2-325, 3-017, 3-034, 3-044, 3-070, 3-073, 3-079, 3-080, 3-088, 3-097, 3-106, 3-127, 3-132, 3-156, 3-201 #135-27, p. 99: Miss Mary Adams recommended for pension eligibility Paying missionaries; Pensions. #135-28, p. 99: Sessions to exercise judgement in the matter of Santa Claus Church discipline; Parental responsibilities; Kansas City. #135-29, p. 99: When using explanatory declaration, Christians may swear oaths to U.S. Constitution as involving only due submission in the Lord and not accepting unchristian government principles Explanatory declaration. #135-30, pp. 99-102: Interpreting a passage in #134-40 [this act made a wording mistake], and violating the spirit of a covenant is never right; retaining the descending obligations of the covenants; political dissent as a condition of church membership; reiterating #084-16, first clause (and applying it to prayer meetings), and #050-09 urging; RPWA Appendix report is not libellous; publishing political dissent clause in the Covenanter Witness Construction; Covenant of 1871; CYPU; Jury question; Licentiates; Oath question; Political office; RPWA; Sabbath schools; Sine titulo; Society meetings; Terms of Communion; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Voting for constitutional amendments; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-094, 3-011, 3-071, 3-156, 3-207 #135-31, pp. 103-104: Oath Committee report on voting (no decisions), and publishing the report in the Covenanter Witness Construction; Covenanter Witness; Oath question; Testimony; Voting. Ministers: 3-022, 3-118, 3-130, 3-143 #135-32, pp. 104-106: Ministers to preach on National Reform; observing Christian Amendment Sabbath with sermon on national reform CAM; Chester Fox; Christian Patriot; Financial; Holidays; Pentecostals; Psalm recordings; Radio and TV; RTF; Sermon topics; WCTU; Witness work. Ministers: 2-038 #135-33, pp. 106-107: RPWA to prepare a plan for adding a Synod representative on their board of directors Budget; RP Home. Ministers: 3-022, 3-053, 3-156 #135-34, pp. 107-108: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Indian Mission; Japan mission; Levant missions; Psalm explanations; Sabbath schools; Southern Mission. Ministers: 3-053, 3-141 #135-35, pp. 109-110: Apportioning Synod investments income Financial; Trustees of Synod. #135-36, pp. 110-111: Some non-pastoring ministers not to vote at Synod nor participate in Traveling Fund; multiple ruling elders for large congregations; appointing extra ruling elders to allow equal representation; sending down in overture relevant Book of Church Government provisions; removing #131-38 distance rule for ruling elders Book of Church Government; CAM; Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; General and subordinate synods; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Ministers in secular employment; Overtures, new; RTF; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-106, 3-133 #135-37, pp. 112-114: RTF affiliation to be maintained through FMB; continuing financial support China mission; Financial; RTF; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-011, 3-023, 3-083, 3-143, 3-205 #135-38, p. 117: Defining the term “mission station” and describing its status Church planting; Construction. Ministers: 2-043, 2-179, 2-279, 3-139 #135-39, p. 118: Churches to watch for and protest against inappropriate civil-defense infringements on religious liberty Disaster relief; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 2-315, 3-201 #136 — Synod of 1965 #136-01, pp. 9-10: Financial arrangements for pensions Pensions; RP Home. #136-02, pp. 11-12: Reminding congregations of Covenanter Witness club rates; editor permitted to assign topics to writers, and strongly urging acceptance of assignments; congregations to request outstanding sermons for publication; urging gift subscriptions to students, soldiers, and non-members Bible in schools; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race; Temperance. Ministers: 3-156 #136-03, pp. 13-14: Appointing Synod’s budget; reiterating #133-35, final clause Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Witness work. Ministers: 2-179, 3-022, 3-044, 3-053, 3-059, 3-070, 3-073, 3-079, 3-088, 3-106, 3-127, 3-132, 3-138, 3-176 #136-04, pp. 14-15: Paying Synod’s share of RES conference expenses; ministers to speak of RES regional conference, and congregations to make it possible for their leaders to attend Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Financial; OPC; RES. Ministers: 3-074, 3-132 #136-05, p. 15: Permitting a part-time attendee to participate in the traveling fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-011, 3-023 #136-06, pp. 16-17: Reiterating #135-05 Africa; Autonomous commissions; Ecumenical organizations; Japan mission; Levant missions; Real property; RTF; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, FMB; Tracts. Ministers: 3-073 #136-07, pp. 18-19: Reiterating confessional anti-Catholicism; working ecumenically on a biblical basis but warning believers against ecumenism without a biblical basis and against unbiblical “modern popular protestantism” Anti-Catholicism; Biblical inerrancy; Church union; PCUSA; Signs of the Times; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-137, 3-139 #136-08, pp. 19-20: Adopting #135-16 following a favorable vote in overture and recognizing the failure of #135-36 Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 3-110 #136-09, p. 20: Appointing a judicial commission to handle an appeal against Midwest Presbytery Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New commissions. Ministers: 3-068 #136-10, p. 20: Providing a program for the Week of Prayer Directions to individuals; Holidays. Ministers: 2-063 #136-11, pp. 20-21: Adopting report of #135-22 survey committee (#136-19) Paying ministers. Ministers: 3-022 #136-12, pp. 21-22: Procedures on paperwork for 1966 short Synod Rules and organization; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 2-315, 3-009, 3-021, 3-049, 3-070, 3-083, 3-171, 3-181, 3-195, 3-196 #136-13, pp. 22-25: Presbyteries urged to conduct evangelism-training programs, and congregations to train in the subject; studying a complete revision of the psalter Covenanter Witness; Home visitation; Psalm selections; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Special services; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-009, 3-011, 3-106, 3-171 #136-14, p. 26: Sending a sympathy note to an ill minister Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 2-203, 3-156 #136-15, pp. 26-27: Church Erection Board authorized to appeal for donations and bequests Bequests; Canvassing; Church erection; Debt; Parsonages. #136-16, pp. 27-29: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries Biblical languages; Evangelism; Graduate student aid; Levant missions; Paying RPTS faculty; Pentecostals; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130 #136-17, pp. 29-34: Continuing fundraising for a curriculum campaign; reiterating #135-11 on Great Commission; reminding everyone of #133-16 strategic plan on sabbath schools; commending Pittsburgh Presbytery for hosting Christian Education seminars and welcoming members of other churches; Bible Mastery Month; ascertaining Director of Christian Education salary Bible Mastery Month; Canvassing; Church union; Covenant of 1871; GCP; New Light church; OPC; Paying Synod employees; Psalmody; UK conference; VBS. Ministers: 3-033 #136-18, pp. 34-35: Observing Stewardship Sabbath with sermons on tithing; Stewardship Committee to provide tithing information, and urging members to pledge tithing; deacon seminar at 1966 National Conference; handling budget surplus Budget; Chester Fox; Church planting; Covenanter Witness; Holidays; RPIC; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-034, 3-097, 3-176 #136-19, p. 35: Un-adopting report of #135-22 survey committee (#136-11) Paying ministers. Ministers: 3-022 #136-20, pp. 35-38:#135-24 committee report: conferring with RPCI and RPCS on a common psalter and undertaking other coordination projects Africa; Church planting; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Japan mission; Levant missions; Psalmody; Pulpit exchanges; RPCA; Sabbath schools; Trustees of Synod; UK conference; Witness work. Ministers: 3-009, 3-044, 3-171, 3-201 #136-21, pp. 40-42: Urging delegates to advocate for donations to Geneva for building a chapel Dancing; Donations; Geneva finances; Geneva library; Playing cards; Real property; Student activism; Tobacco. #136-22, pp. 42-43: Reiterating #135-13, first clause; paying a bill Dancing; Geneva finances; Playing cards; Student activism; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-070 #136-23, pp. 48-51: Urging prayer for NRA work; urging all members to read the Christian Statesman American Bible Society; Canada; Christian Statesman; Congressional bills; Geneva faculty; Interchurch; Methodists; National exhibitions; NRA; PCUSA; Pornography; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Theaters; WCTU. Ministers: 2-034, 3-017, 3-046, 3-088, 3-143, 3-171 #136-24, pp. 52-54: Ministers, sabbath school officials, parents, and CYPU leaders to advocate against alcohol Communism; NTPC; Parental responsibilities; Radio and TV; Sabbath-keeping; Second World War; Sermon topics; Tobacco; Vietnam War; WCTU. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044, 3-110 #136-25, pp. 54-55: Working with the RPWA in the wake of #135-33 RP Home. Ministers: 3-083, 3-129, 3-181 #136-26, pp. 58-63: Reaffirming opposition to women in the eldership or ministry; women may participate in informal church activities, including teaching sabbath school classes, although male teachers are ideal; roles of female missionaries; paying bills Elements of worship; Financial; Foreign missions; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Women deacons; Women elders. Ministers: 3-080, 3-083, 3-127, 3-196 #136-27, p. 63: Reiterating #134-19, first clause Agency membership; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Temperance. Ministers: 3-080, 3-083, 3-127, 3-196 #136-28, pp. 63-64: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1967; ministers urged to attend Baptism; Financial; New Light church; Pastors’Refresher Course; Philosophy of education; Youth. Ministers: 2-038, 3-017, 3-033 #136-29, p. 65: Urging prayer and donations for the American Bible Society American Bible Society; Collections. Ministers: 3-049, 3-149 #136-30, pp. 65-66: Ordination is permanent, but there is nothing wrong with rotating officer boards (especially given #119-43 on limited-term pastorates) Limited-term pastorates. Ministers: 3-033, 3-079 #136-31, p. 66: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-034, 3-079 #136-32, pp. 67-69: Ministers to preach against secret societies; observing Christian Amendment Day with relevant sermon; comparing Covenanter theology of the state with other Reformed positions CAM; Christian Patriot; CYPU; Financial; Holidays; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tracts; WCTU. Ministers: 2-038, 3-011 #136-33, p. 69: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Geneva; Thanks. Ministers: 3-201 #136-34, p. 70: Urging the distribution of Psalmody(OCLC 16696459) and other tracts and publications on the topic, and advertising them in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Psalmody; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 3-115, 3-129, 3-195 #136-35, pp. 71-74: HMB permitted to train retired ruling elders as “special stated supplies”; ending aid to vacant congregations; presbyteries required to endorse aid applications; congregational supplements, and HMB permitted to adjust them if necessary Abolishing agencies; Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Indian Mission; Kentucky Mission; LDS; Minimum salaries; Mission schools; Real property; Second World War; Southern Mission; Two- and three-office view; Urban church planting; VBS. Ministers: 3-059 #136-36, p. 74: Approving decisions of #136-09 commission; commending formerly-suspended minister to the church; paying bills Financial; Health and medicine; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 2-179, 3-068 #136-37, pp. 75-77: Statement on what the fundamental laws of the church are; discipline for those who publicly voted for those not planning to take the explanatory declaration, and disapproving a presbytery approval of the same; no appeals of presbytery decisions by individuals not members of the church Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Lutherans; Real property; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Voting; Westminster standards; Bloomington, Los Angeles, New Castle, San Diego, Winnipeg. Ministers: 2-038, 2-179, 3-044, 3-053, 3-080, 3-127 #136-38, pp. 85-86: Urging members to submit feedback on Midwest Presbytery voting-guidance form; CAM to evaluate candidates; reiterating members’ duty to witness to Christ; advertising #131-25 explanatory declaration, mandating its use with oaths, and requesting anecdotes of use Covenanter Witness; Explanatory declaration; Voting. Ministers: 2-034, 3-016, 3-022, 3-130 #136-39, pp. 86-88: Ministers to be eligible for #135-17 health insurance, and regulations for the plan Benefits for ministers; Canada; Health and medicine; Insurance. Ministers: 3-118, 3-208 #136-40, pp. 88-90: Applying for membership in the RES Biblical inerrancy; CRCNA; Financial; RCUS; RES; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-071 #136-41, p. 90: Appointing and accrediting delegates to the RES APCNA; ARPC; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; New Light church; OPC; Outside commissions; RES. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127, 3-181 #136-42, p. 91: Merging Illinois and Ohio Presbyteries, naming the result Ohio-Illinois Presbytery, and appointing an arrangements commission Abolishing presbyteries; Renaming. Ministers: 3-009, 3-012, 3-033, 3-034, 3-118, 3-179 #136-43, p. 92: Paying bills Financial. Ministers: 2-179, 3-017, 3-143 #136-44, pp. 92-93: Urging sessions to organize outreach campaigns; commending Christian Education fundraising; Stewardship Committee instructed to help calculating tithing; considering changes to #134-25 Elders’Conference; Evangelism; Financial; GCP; Meeting schedule; NRA; Testimony; VBS. #136-45, p. 93: Dissolving #129-15 commission, its work having been completed Financial; Independent missions; Levant missions; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 3-127 #136-46, pp. 93-95: Ascertaining salaries for RPTS professors and other church employees; urging increases in housing allowances; other financial arrangements Canvassing; Chester Fox; Church erection; Graduate student aid; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; RPWA; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 2-063, 2-094, 3-011, 3-022, 3-033, 3-104, 3-171, 3-195, 3-205 #136-47, pp. 121-122: Setting minimum pastoral salaries and preparing to supplement weak congregations; presbyteries to report on this to Synod Congregational aid; Inflation; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 3-022 #136-48, pp. 122-123: Clerk to notify congregations of #136-47 and urge them to discuss salaries at each annual meeting Congregational meetings; Directions to individuals; Paying ministers. Ministers: 3-049 #136-49, p. 125: Reaffirming commitment to #134-25 Oath question; Political office; Testimony; Voting. #136-50, p. 125: Removing a female member from a committee in compliance with #134-19, first clause Agency membership; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Temperance; Tobacco. #136-51, p. 129: Clerk to fulfill requests to petition telephone companies to list churches as “RP” in Yellow Pages Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Telecommunications. #137 — Synod of 1966 #137-01, pp. 9-12: Accepting Cecil MacLauglin bequest and transferring half to Geneva Bequests; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. #137-02, p. 13: Stewardship Sabbath 1965, with sermon on tithing, or signing Tither’s Pledge Cards, or special offering Budget; Chester Fox; Collections; Holidays; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-176 #137-03, pp. 13-15: Urging congregations to request evangelism training, and presbyteries and congregations to implement evangelism program Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Geneva. Ministers: 3-080 #137-04, pp. 16-19: Reiterating #135-05 Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Health and medicine; Interchurch; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Orthodox; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Real property; RPIC; RPTS; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-073 #137-05, p. 20: Dissolving #136-09 commission, its work being complete Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. Ministers: 3-068, 3-071 #137-06, pp. 21-23: Approving non-addition of Testimony statement on charismatic gifts; sending down in overture a revised Chapter VIII of the Testimony [dissent, page 32]; paying a bill Filioque; Financial; Overtures, new; Pentecostals; Testimony; Written dissent. Ministers: 2-094, 3-009, 3-196, 3-205 #137-07, pp. 24-26: Bible Mastery Month 1967; urging special attention to evangelism Bible Mastery Month; Church planting; CYPU; Evangelism; GCP; New Light church; OPC; Paying Synod employees; RPIC; Sabbath schools. Ministers: 3-033 #137-08, pp. 26-28: Approving program for supervised preparation for RPTS professorships; psychological testing of students Biblical languages; Evangelism; Graduate student aid; Lutherans; Methodists; Paying RPTS faculty; Pentecostals; RPCI; RPTS constitution. Ministers: 3-130 #137-09, p. 28: Preparing a memorial of work in Canada in time for the centennial of Confederation Canada; Church history. #137-10, pp. 28-29: Paying bills for Geneva Corporators Budget; Dancing; Geneva faculty; Philosophy of education; Temperance; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-044 #137-11, pp. 32-38: Position statement on foundational concepts of Christian education Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Philosophy of education; Westminster standards. #137-12, p. 39: Continuing Indian Mission Financial; Indian Mission; Cache Creek. #137-13, pp. 39-41: Urging aid-receiving congregations to contribute to Synod’s budget; congregational supplements; reiterating #136-35 on adjustments Bible in schools; Chester Fox; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; Paying ministers; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-059 #137-14, pp. 41-44: Paying a bill Financial; RP Home; Trustees of Synod; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-073, 3-104 #137-15, p. 44: Urging Midwest Presbytery to review the status of a congregation Indian Mission; Cache Creek. #137-16, pp. 44-46: Handling bequests; ascertaining RPTS professors’ and church employee’s salaries Bequests; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Pastors’Refresher Course; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-094, 3-033, 3-171, 3-205 #137-17, pp. 71-74: Approving actions of #136-42 commission Abolishing presbyteries; CYPU; Presbytery conferences; Reviewing commissions. Ministers: 3-009, 3-012, 3-033, 3-034, 3-179 #137-18, pp. 74-75: Reiterating #136-20 on international conference with British churches; encouraging participation in the RES APCNA; ARPC; CRCNA; Financial; Fraternal relations; Geneva; New Light church; OPC; RES; UK conference. Ministers: 3-181 #137-19, pp. 76-78: Ministers to preach on psalmody; Christian Amendment Sabbath 1966 Bible in schools; CAM; Covenanter Witness; Holidays; Presbytery conferences; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Sermon topics; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-038 #137-20, pp. 78-79: Missionaries’ widows eligible for pensions; raising Widows’ and Orphans’ Fund pensions; missionary pensions Budget; Foreign missions; Inflation; Insurance; Pensions. #137-21, p. 80: Deadlines and word limits for Synod of 1967 reports, which are not to be read on the floor of Synod Docket and digest; RPTS; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. #137-22, pp. 81-82: Visiting RPCI minister permitted to moderate a session and administer sacraments, provided he comply with RPCNA standards; members may vote for any explanatory declaration-using candidate, but no others, and instructing sessions to receive members accordingly; sending in overture an amendment to Chapter XXX of the Testimony Explanatory declaration; Overtures, new; Political office; Pulpit exchanges; Requesting opinions; RPCI; Testimony; Voting; Bloomington, Geneva, Oakdale, Phoenix. Ministers: 2-179, 2-315, 3-033, 3-133, 4-281 #137-23, pp. 82-85: Covenanter Witness to publish articles on psalter revision; approving survey administration on revision; ministers and precentors to stimulate concern for divine worship and seek better use of the psalter Church music; Evangelism; Financial; Psalter editions; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-038, 3-009, 3-171 #137-24, pp. 85-86: Appointing Synod’s budget; HMB work at Indian mission; reiterating #133-35, final clause Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work; Cache Creek. Ministers: 2-036, 3-022, 3-044, 3-070, 3-073, 3-088, 3-097, 3-104, 3-129, 3-133, 3-138, 4-264 #137-25, pp. 86-87: Paying a bill Directions to individuals; Financial; Synod at RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 3-106, 3-117, 3-130, 4-003 #137-26, pp. 87-88: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-079, 3-137 #137-27, p. 92: Visiting RPCI ministers made consultative members of boards and Psalter committee and permitted to share in traveling fund Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; Psalter editions; RPCI. Ministers: 3-070, 4-281 #138 — Synod of 1967 #138-01, pp. 9-10: Ascertaining church treasurer’s salary Bequests; Canada; Chester Fox; Foreign missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Trustees of Synod. #138-02, pp. 10-12: Pension arrangements; Board given latitude in certain areas Devolution; Indian Mission; Insurance; Levant missions; Mission schools; Pensions; Social Security; Trustees of Synod. #138-03, pp. 13-14: Paying a bill Elements of worship; Financial. Ministers: 3-115, 3-179, 4-216 #138-04, pp. 14-16: Ministers and congregational evangelism committees to submit reports for Covenanter Witness ; seeking to improve the psalter for evangelism; congregations to make special evangelistic efforts American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Psalter editions. Ministers: 3-080, 3-133 #138-05, pp. 17-19: Preparations for new psalter, with the committee to present updates annually, and authorizing trial use of new selections and Covenanter Witness printing of certain discussions Chester Fox; Covenanter Witness; Geneva library; Psalter editions; Requesting opinions; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-038, 3-009, 3-171, 4-281 #138-06, pp. 19-20: Procedures for Nominating Committee operation, including making it a standing committee and instructing it always to nominate at least one substitute for all boards or committees Agency membership; New standing committees; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-071, 3-088, 3-106 #138-07, pp. 21-24: Reiterating #135-05 China mission; Communism; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Native ministers; OPC; Real property; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; Seeking candidates, FMB; Tracts. Ministers: 3-073 #138-08, p. 24: Synod schedule to include time for evening conferences (repealing #132-43, first clause) Business of Synod; Conferences at Synod. #138-09, pp. 24-27: Reiterating #136-17, first clause, and #135-11 on Great Commission; Bible Mastery Month; ascertaining Christian Education Director’s salary; endorsing RPCS International Convention and planning RPCNA National Convention; strategic planning slogan Bible Mastery Month; Bible reading folders; Canvassing; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; GCP; Home missions; New Light church; OPC; Paying Synod employees; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Synod HR; Tracts; UK conference; Vietnam War. Ministers: 3-049, 3-171 #138-10, p. 27: Stewardship Committee chairman to report Synod’s budget to congregations monthly Budget; Holidays; Tithing. Ministers: 3-042 #138-11, pp. 27-30: Amending RPTS constitution Biblical languages; Church history; Evangelism; OPC; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS library. #138-12, pp. 33-37: Urging prayer for Christians to stand for Christ; donations for NRA American Bible Society; Bible in schools; Christian Statesman; Congressional bills; Gambling; Legal prohibition; NAE; NTPC; Pornography; Specific congressmen; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts. #138-13, p. 38: Thanking attorney John P. Hickey for assisting the RP Home Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 3-022, 3-049 #138-14, p. 47: Urging those attending RPCS International Convention (#138-09) to visit RES meeting; encouraging Interchurch Committee representatives to continue conversations with other churches CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; New Light church; OPC; RES; UK conference. Ministers: 3-181 #138-15, pp. 48-50: Planning a Covenanter Council and conference for 1968, immediately before Synod, and sending its results directly to RPCI and RPCS Church discipline; Close communion; Levant missions; Outside communications; Pastors’Refresher Course; Political dissent; RPCI; RPCS; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-011, 3-017, 3-049, 3-205 #138-16, p. 50: Sending results of #138-15 discussions to RPCI and RPCS RPCI; RPCS. #138-17, p. 51: Publishing historical papers in the Covenanter Witness Covenanter Witness; Witness work. Ministers: 3-016, 3-133, 3-149, 3-156 #138-18, p. 51: Advertising the church in Christianity Today (OCLC 01554505) Church planting; Publications; RPTS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-049, 3-181 #138-19, pp. 52-53: Adopting #137-22 following a favorable vote in overture and recognizing the failure of #137-06 Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 3-076 #138-20, pp. 53-54: Urging congregations to donate to Geneva; paying a bill Dancing; Financial; Geneva; Philosophy of education; Playing cards; Student activism; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-044 #138-21, pp. 56-62: Adopting Geneva statement personnel and admissions decisions, education philosophy, and miscellaneous matters Covenanter Witness; Geneva faculty; Philosophy of education. Ministers: 3-017, 3-044, 3-143, 3-171, 3-201 #138-22, p. 63: Creating board of trustees to oversee Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus, and appointing trustees New agencies; Peponiades Trust. Ministers: 3-024, 3-073, 3-075 #138-23, pp. 63-66: Congregational supplements; restoring Indian Mission to HMB budget; urging congregations to support Southern Mission Congregational aid; Elders’Conference; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Kentucky Mission; Minimum salaries; Real property; Scouting; Southern Mission; Cache Creek, Selma. Ministers: 2-321, 3-012, 3-069, 3-088 #138-24, pp. 66-67: Sending down in overture modifications to the Book of Church Government permitting and regulating rotary election of elders and deacons; departure from service does not remove ordination Church discipline; Eldership; Overtures, new; Resignations; Rotary service. Ministers: 3-033, 3-079, 3-179 #138-25, pp. 67-70: Ministers to preach against instrumental music; Christian Amendment Day with sermon; printing CAM committee membership in minutes of Synod; ascertaining CAM director’s salary A cappella; CAM; Christian Patriot; Covenanter Witness; Holidays; Paying Synod employees; PCUSA; Post office; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Radio and TV; RPTS; Sermon topics; Specific congressmen; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 2-038, 3-011 #138-26, p. 70: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Geneva; Thanks. Ministers: 3-021 #138-27, pp. 72-74: Position paper on political dissent; reiterating #134-25; the oath to the United States Constitution cannot be proven to be sinful; urging members and sessions to witness for Christ; recommending explanatory declaration with oath [dissent, page 71] Church discipline; Explanatory declaration; Political office; SCOTUS; Testimony; Voting; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130, 3-176 #138-28, p. 74: Returning a paper on political dissent, due to the position taken in #138-27 Licentiates; Political dissent; Strict subscription; San Diego. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130, 3-176 #138-29, pp. 75-76: Paying bills for Oath Committee and urging donations to support Marshall Smith family; congregations and presbyteries to appoint committees on explanatory declaration use, and printing the declaration Explanatory declaration; Fascism; Financial; SCOTUS; Tracts. Ministers: 3-016, 3-022, 3-059, 3-067, 3-130 #138-30, pp. 76-77: Statement of support for those using explanatory declaration, including legal fee payments in test cases Explanatory declaration; Financial. Ministers: 3-022 #138-31, p. 77: Appointing those attending #138-09 convention a special committee, and paying travel expenses for RES delegates Directions to individuals; Financial; Fraternal relations; RES; UK conference. Ministers: 3-022 #138-32, pp. 78-80: Permitting two RPTS students from RPCI to preach without formal licensure; procedure for receiving congregations from other denominations; reaffirming filioque ; Pacific Coast Presbytery to handle a member not accepting political dissent; treating primary and general elections alike for Oath and voting purposes; Lord’s Support should only be celebrated at ordinary services, but exceptional circumstances might exist; presbyteries may elect officers one meeting before they take office Book of Church Government; Church history; Filioque; Levant missions; Lord’s supper; Oath question; Officer elections; Orthodox; Receiving congregations; RPCI; Unlicensed candidates; Voting; Phoenix. Ministers: 3-017, 3-053, 3-083 #138-33, pp. 80-83: Sponsoring a Temperance Essay Contest; taking offerings for Temperance Committee Collections; Congressional bills; CYPU; Drugs; Insurance; Sabbath schools; Temperance; Tobacco; Vietnam War. Ministers: 2-279, 3-044 #138-34, p. 83: Continuing a Saturday-to-Friday schedule for Synod; annual sermon on reverence in worship; fast-growing congregations to publish this in the Covenanter Witness ; all elders not delegates to be made consultative members of Synod; urging increases in compensation for ministers and church employees Covenanter Witness; Elders’Conference; Meeting schedule; Paying ministers; Paying missionaries; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Sermon topics. #138-35, p. 83: Publishing the RTF, RPWA, and NRA reports in Synod’s digest, and making the digest a permanent feature of Synod’s business Docket and digest; NRA; RPWA; RTF; Rules and organization. #138-36, pp. 83-84: Those traveling on church business permitted to canvas for funds if they experience an accident; investigating insurance for the same; ascertaining salaries for RPTS professors and other church employees; Graduate Study Fund may receive bequests CAM; Canvassing; Chester Fox; Graduate student aid; Insurance; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-094, 3-011, 3-033, 3-088, 3-106, 3-127, 3-171, 3-205 #138-37, pp. 106-107: Adopting CAM director’s work as an official ministerial appointment for Internal Revenue Service purposes CAM; Taxation. Ministers: 3-011 #138-38, p. 107: Expressing dismay and alarm at the adoption of the Confession of 1967 by the UPCUSA, and notifying all churches in fraternal relations and the UPCUSA Directions to individuals; Outside communications; PCUSA; Westminster standards. #138-39, pp. 107-109: American congregations to support Canadian congregations and ministers; urging attention to mission work in Canada; providing for former church building; paying bills Canada; Church history; Financial; Real property; RPCI; RPCNA books; Urban church planting; Barnesville. Ministers: 2-200, 2-242, 3-137 #138-40, pp. 109-110: Traveling Fund administration; adopting a form for standard use Forms; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-137, 4-264 #138-41, p. 112: Delegates traveling to Synod may be reimbursed for bridge and highway tolls Traveling Fund. #138-42, pp. 112-114: Approving plans for a Pastors’ Refresher Course in 1969; financial arrangement Church history; Ecumenical organizations; Evangelism; Financial; Latin America; Pastors’Refresher Course; PCUSA; Pornography; Pulpit exchanges; RPCI; RPTS. Ministers: 3-046, 3-088, 3-110, 3-203 #138-43, p. 114: Urging the church to supply opinions on the status of ministers leaving the ministry Departing ministers; Requesting opinions. #138-44, pp. 114-115: Appointing Synod’s budget; urging Stewardship Committee to advertise budget needs; long-range planning in the spirit of #131-31; reiterating #133-35, final clause; financial arrangement Budget; Home missions; Long-range planning; Presbytery-appointed membership; Sermon topics; TFY; Tithing. Ministers: 3-017, 3-022, 3-032, 3-042, 3-106, 3-132, 3-137, 3-146, 3-156, 3-170 #138-45, p. 117: Continuing the filioque discussion, despite #138-32 reaffirmation Directions to individuals; Filioque; Levant missions. Ministers: 2-038, 3-024, 3-075 #139 — Synod of 1968 #139-01, p. 6: RPCI visiting minister to participate in traveling fund Pulpit exchanges; RPCI; Traveling Fund. #139-02, pp. 11-13: Pension arrangements; missionaries and ministers to have the same standard of benefits Budget; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Social Security. #139-03, pp. 19-23: FMB membership composition; reiterating #135-05 Agency membership; Autonomous commissions; China mission; Church history; CYPU; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; OPC; RPCI; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Self-supporting missions; Wars. Ministers: 3-073 #139-04, p. 23: FMB to consider opening work in Taiwan, and thanking Presbyterian and Reformed Missions Council for proposing such a work China mission; Directions to individuals; Ecumenical organizations; Thanks. Ministers: 3-133 #139-05, pp. 28-31: Publishing a monograph on the Christian home; urging members to social action Acts of Congress; Christian Statesman; Congressional bills; Evangelism; New Light church; NRA; NTPC; Parental responsibilities; PCUSA; Pornography; Post office; Sabbath-keeping; Specific congressmen; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts. #139-06, pp. 32-33: Reaffirming approval of RTF and its work Covenanter Witness; Ecumenical organizations; Modernism; RTF. #139-07, p. 33: Sessions reminded to oversee all elements in worship and not neglect preaching (context: a study of non-liturgical elements in worship) Book of Church Government; Directory for Worship; Sermon topics. #139-08, pp. 38-40: Arrangements for merging with the APCNA under the terms of #138-27, including assigning congregations to presbyteries and permitting tobacco use by former APs; financial arrangements for #138-31; paying a bill A cappella; Alcohol restrictions on all members; APCNA; Church union; Close communion; Covenant renovation; Making exceptions; Pensions; Presbytery boundaries; Psalmody; Renaming; RES; Secret societies; Testimony; Tobacco restrictions on officers; Trustees of Synod; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-038, 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-205, 4-016, 4-100 #139-09, pp. 40-42: Praying for the attorney in the Marshall Smith case (#138-29) and for National Reform Chester Fox; Communism; Explanatory declaration; Tracts. Ministers: 3-016, 3-022, 3-067, 3-130, 3-181 #139-10, p. 42: Excluding educational benefits from pension plan and adding a board member with accounting experience Agency membership; Pensions. #139-11, pp. 42-45: Ministers not in ministerial employment and not retired to be reviewed annually by their presbyteries, which may declare them inactive and remove their voting privileges CAM; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Home missions; Ministers in secular employment; Minutes of Synod; NRA; RPTS faculty; RTF; Supply preaching. Ministers: 2-279, 2-315, 3-203 #139-12, pp. 45-47: Ministers to preach on Christ the King; Christian Amendment Day with sermon Agency membership; CAM; Christian Patriot; Church constitution; Holidays; Paying Synod employees; Psalmody; Radio and TV; Sermon topics; Taxation; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-011, 3-019 #139-13, p. 47: Licentiate to participate in Traveling Fund Licentiates; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-216 #139-14, pp. 47-50: Preparing to consolidate several boards into one and three committee into one; considering denominational headquarters in Pittsburgh; paying a bill Abolishing agencies; CAM; Christian schools; Church erection; Church planting; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; Headquarters; Interchurch; Long-range planning; NRA; Oath question; Pensions; RPTS; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 3-083, 3-106, 3-146, 3-181 #139-15, p. 50: Board of Christian Education to study and report on parochial schools’ education quality Christian schools. Ministers: 3-009 #139-16, pp. 50-51: Studying session-controlled communion; reiterating and strengthening #138-34 on reverence; tithing is just as mandatory as psalmody Close communion; Deacon delegates; Elders’Conference; Psalmody; Sermon topics; Tithing. #139-17, pp. 51-52: Urging temperance pledges Alcohol restrictions on all members; Drugs; Parental responsibilities; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-279 #139-18, pp. 53-57: Board of Christian Education to distribute all church publications; urging and handling bequests and other gifts; ascertaining director’s salary; approving participation in RES youth conference; Bible Mastery Month and Double in a Decade program; 1970 national conference Bequests; Bible Mastery Month; Budget; Collections; Covenanter Witness; Eldership; Goal Post; Headquarters; Paying Synod employees; RES; RPCNA books; RPIC; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049, 3-171 #139-19, p. 57: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial. Ministers: 3-034, 3-130, 3-205 #139-20, pp. 58-60: Ascertaining Covenanter Witness editor’s salary Blue Banner Faith and Life; Canada; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Goal Post; Inflation; Temperance; Tobacco; WMF. Ministers: 2-063, 3-097 #139-21, pp. 61-64: Studying pastoral salaries, congregations to pay pastors’ expenses and provide fringe benefits, setting minimum salary and abolishing modifications for dependents, providing for part-time pastors, and urging pay above the minimum Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; Inflation; Insurance; Minimum salaries; Ministers in secular employment; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Pensions; Social Security. Ministers: 3-073 #139-22, p. 68: Commending Geneva president Edwin Clarke in his illness and urging prayer for his recovery Directions to individuals; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Sympathy. Ministers: 3-181 #139-23, pp. 68-74: Ministerial membership (congregation vs. presbytery) is a purely practical matter, not theological, and declining to change; discouraging use of Today’s English Version of the Bible, those using it to publicize errors they find, and urging caution with all translations and paraphrases; #136-37 on political dissent was correct; receiving ruling elders from other denominations similarly to receiving ministers; sending down an overture on members voting in congregational meetings American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Book of Church Government; Church constitution; Church discipline; Congregational meetings; Overtures, new; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Valid sacraments; Voting; Westminster standards; Orlando, San Diego. Ministers: 3-011, 3-067, 3-127 #139-24, pp. 74-75: Adopting #138-24 following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. #139-25, pp. 75-76: Ascertaining salaries for RPTS professors and other church employees; honorarium; paying bills and handling bequest; price for minutes of Synod CAM; Chester Fox; Covenanter Witness; Minutes of Synod; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; RES; Sabbath schools; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-094, 2-097, 3-011, 3-033, 3-044, 3-118, 3-146, 3-171, 3-205 #139-26, p. 117: 1970 national conference to include celebration of the Covenant of 1871, and making arrangements Church history; Covenant of 1871; RPIC; Sermon topics. Ministers: 3-171 #139-27, p. 117: Fraternal delegates to be appointed by the Moderator in consultation with the Interchurch Committee Fraternal relations; Rules and organization. #139-28, p. 118: Reiterating support for Civil Rights Act of 1964 (#135-20), condemning sabbath-breaking and violent race activism, and condemning injustice resulting from race prejudice Acts of Congress; Church history; Financial; Sabbath-keeping; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-012 #139-29, pp. 119-120: Thanking Calvary Baptist College for hosting Synod Thanks. Ministers: 3-046, 3-117 #139-30, p. 120: Traveling Fund administration; encouraging air travel, as it is cheaper than driving Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-137, 4-185 #139-31, p. 121: Publication arrangements for A Manual for Elders (OCLC 860384751) Eldership; Publications. #139-32, pp. 121-123: Appointing Synod’s budget; reiterating #133-35, final clause; financial arrangement Budget; Church erection; Church planting; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Witness work. Ministers: 3-017, 3-044, 3-053, 3-073, 3-083, 3-088, 3-104, 3-106, 3-116, 3-129, 3-130, 3-132, 3-137, 3-138, 3-207, 4-174 #139-33, p. 123: Scheduling meetings of Coordinating Committee and other committees and boards Elders’Conference; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-205 #139-34, p. 123: Amending #138-08: only one evening conference per Synod meeting Conferences at Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #139-35, p. 124: Seeking to complete new psalter in time for the 1971 covenant centennial Covenant of 1871; Psalter editions. Ministers: 3-115 #139-36, pp. 124-126: Arrangements for new psalter, including paying a committee member and reiterating #138-05 on trial uses Church music; Financial; Psalter editions; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 2-038, 3-009, 3-033, 3-171, 4-216 #139-37, pp. 126-130: Ministers and sessions to inform members of possibilities for Christian cooperation; ministers to preach on national repentance Africa; Communism; Holidays; Inflation; Modernism; National Council of Churches; Political office; Radio and TV; SCOTUS; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times; Slavery and race; Vietnam War; WMF; Youth. Ministers: 3-080, 3-156 #139-38, pp. 130-131: Declining to require notification of unsuccessful pastoral candidates and declining to make changes in pastoral-call process, although studying other churches’ processes Pastoral calls. Ministers: 3-070, 3-071, 3-118 #139-39, pp. 131-133: Sending down in overture the requirement for strict subscription in receiving ministers; courts may permit members and ministers to hold limited scruples, such scruples to be recorded Book of Church Government; Licentiates; Strict subscription; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-071, 3-127, 3-207 #139-40, pp. 134-136: Presbyteries to strengthen oversight of weak and declining congregations; sessions to keep in contact with out-of-bounds members; reiterating #136-35 on adjustments Congregational aid; Devolution; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Parsonages; Scouting; Southern Mission; Supply preaching; Urban church planting. Ministers: 3-088 #139-41, pp. 137-148: Adopting and publishing further position statement on #138-38; sending down in overture a requirement that members joining from other churches convince sessions of their faith in Christ; requiring a specific faith statement of Geneva faculty; prohibiting UPCUSA ministers in RPCNA pulpits; guarding against intermarriage; paying a bill Biblical inerrancy; Book of Church Government; Church union; Closed pulpits; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Geneva faculty; Higher-education standards; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Membership transfer; Modernism; PCUSA; Soteriology; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-019, 3-074, 3-104, 3-201 #139-42, p. 148: Declining to hire anyone as Director of Public Relations, but appointing a man as Publicity Director, paying his expenses, and making him responsible to Synod’s clerk Financial; Synod HR. Ministers: 3-079, 3-130, 4-264 #139-43, pp. 148-150: New edition of #111-28 conscientious objector form Covenanter Witness; Forms; Pacifism; Second World War; Vietnam War; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-038, 3-046 #139-44, p. 150: Clerk permitted to hire limited clerical help Financial; Synod HR. Ministers: 3-181 #139-45, pp. 151-153: Arrangements for accident insurance for those traveling on church business (#138-36) CYPU; Geneva; Insurance; RPIC; RPTS; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #139-46, p. 154: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Thanks. Ministers: 3-097, 3-117, 3-141, 3-195 #139-47, p. 155: Any member may petition his session for a congregational meeting; congregations may overturn deacon board Church erection; Congregational meetings; Diaconate; Paying ministers. #139-48, p. 159: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. #139-49, p. 159: In congregational meetings, urging no discussion before a #125-51 retention vote; urging deacons to note Covenanter Witness publication of financial matters Congregational meetings; Limited-term pastorates. #139-50, pp. 160-165: Reaffirming confessional church membership with terms of communion; studying session-controlled communion; continuing opposing secrecy Biblical inerrancy; COCM; Labor and capital; Secret societies; Slavery and race; Strict subscription; Temperance; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Tobacco restrictions on officers. Ministers: 3-017, 3-088 #139-51, p. 166: Deadlines and word limits for Synod of 1969 reports; reminding sessions of their responsibility to vote on overtures Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-181 #139-52, p. 166: Regulations for publishing materials and paying for moving materials to the Christian Education office Headquarters. Ministers: 3-044, 3-141 #140 — Synod of 1969 #140-01, p. 2: Consummating the merger with the APCNA APCNA; Church union. Ministers: 3-133, 3-181 #140-02, pp. 2-3: Setting the price of the minutes of Synod Docket and digest; Financial; Minutes of Synod. Ministers: 3-181 #140-03, p. 4: Permitting the distribution of a minority report on the rebaptism of Catholics Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Paper distribution; Valid sacraments. #140-04, p. 12: Each presbytery to appoint a deacon delegate to serve as a member of the Coordinating and Stewardship Committees and as a consultative member to Synod Deacon delegates; Presbytery-appointed membership; Tithing; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-049, 3-097 #140-05, pp. 13-14: Adopting a new pension plan Insurance; Paying missionaries; Paying Synod employees; Pensions. #140-06, p. 14: All papers presented to Synod, all matters referred to committees, and all minority reports to appear in the appendix of Synod’s published minutes if not printed elsewhere Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-132 #140-07, pp. 16-19: Financial arrangements for Synod’s publications; ascertaining director’s salary Bequests; Bible Mastery Month; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Budget; Christian schools; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Eldership; GCP; Headquarters; Paying Synod employees; Philosophy of education; Presbytery conferences; RES; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Thanks; WMF. Ministers: 3-171 #140-08, pp. 20-22: Winding up arrangements for unfinished business before the APCNA APCNA; Church history; Church union; Financial; Westminster standards; Beaver, Minneola, Tusca. Ministers: 4-016 #140-09, pp. 22-24: Urging prayer for National Reform; abolishing the Oath Committee; distributing a response to a judicial ruling in the Marshall Smith case Abolishing standing committees; Explanatory declaration; National Reform; Witness work. #140-10, pp. 24-25: Appropriating money and urging congregations to use this money for evangelism projects Evangelism; Financial; Special services; WMF. Ministers: 3-034, 3-117, 3-118 #140-11, pp. 27-28: Accepting the resignation of retiring church treasurer Chester Fox and commending him for his 33 years of service Chester Fox; James S. Tibby; Lou Hutmire; Resignations; Thanks; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-181 #140-12, pp. 28-29: Financial arrangements Bequests; Budget; Chester Fox; Church erection; Closing churches; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; Connellsville. #140-13, p. 33: Reiterating #139-04, first clause China mission. Ministers: 3-023 #140-14, pp. 33-36: Reiterating #135-05 Budget; China mission; Covenanter Witness; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; VBS. #140-15, p. 36: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. Ministers: 3-075 #140-16, pp. 40-42: Christian Amendment Day with sermon; participating in Social Action Congress at Dordt College; human resources for Witness Committee; appointing commissioners to visit President Richard Nixon to request National Reform; Witness Committee to prepare a worship tract CAM; Congressional petitions; CRCNA; Holidays; Outside commissions; Presidential communications; Richard Nixon; Sermon topics; Synod HR; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 4-065 #140-17, p. 42: Giving CAM tracts to all worshippers on Christian Amendment Day, with request to distribute among their acquaintances CAM; Holidays; Tracts. #140-18, pp. 45-46: Pension arrangements; permitting Pension Board to raise pensions and increase congregational assessments APCNA; Insurance; Paying missionaries; Pensions. #140-19, pp. 47-48: Arrangements for widows’ and single missionary workers’ pensions Budget; Inflation; Pensions; Social Security. #140-20, pp. 48-51: Presbyteries to study and report on the state of aid-receiving congregations and to maintain lists of out-of-bounds members; approving congregational supplements; reiterating #136-35 on adjustments Church planting; Congregational aid; Devolution; Indian Mission; Individual relocation; Minimum salaries; Ministers in secular employment; Mission schools; RCA; Southern Mission. Ministers: 3-088 #140-21, pp. 52-55: Commitment to Christ to be the basis of arguments for social reform; urging congregations to collect for the NRA Celebrity preachers; Christian Statesman; Collections; Drugs; NRA; Parental responsibilities; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Temperance; Theaters; Tobacco; Youth. #140-22, pp. 55-56: Approving congregations’, individuals’, and FMB’s support of RTF China mission; RTF; Sabbath schools. #140-23, pp. 56-57: Making the Graduate Study Fund eligible for distribution of funds Graduate student aid. Ministers: 3-171, 3-205 #140-24, p. 58: Commending an elderly elder emeritus Directions to individuals; Marion [Iowa]. Ministers: 3-181 #140-25, pp. 58-65: Adopting RES statement on race relations; maintaining communication with it on missions and sabbath-keeping, biblical inspiration, and the introductory chapters of Genesis; sending minutes of Synod to all other member denominations and requesting reciprocity; urging congregational contributions Africa; Biblical inerrancy; Directions to individuals; Donations; ICRC; Lord’s supper; Minutes of Synod; Modernism; Radio and TV; RES; Slavery and race; Women elders; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-083, 3-201 #140-26, p. 65: Interchurch Committee chairman to study other RES denominations’ movements and urge Synod to give brotherly admonition when warranted Directions to individuals; RES. Ministers: 4-270 #140-27, pp. 65-66: Merging the boards of Christian Education and Publication into a new Board of Publication and Education, effective 1971, and making relevant arrangements Abolishing agencies; Agency membership. #140-28, p. 66: Strongly urging fraternal delegates between RPCNA and OPC to “make extended visits”, reaffirming adherence to the Westminster Standards on sabbath-keeping, and urging OPC to “hold fast to the Confession of Faith” Fraternal relations; OPC; Sabbath-keeping; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-067 #140-29, p. 67: Removing the chairman of the Coordinating Committee at his own request Agency membership. Ministers: 3-137 #140-30, p. 80: Trustees and Pension Board to review the church’s finances and seek to liberalize pension benefits for retirees Elders’Conference; Insurance; Paying missionaries; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. #140-31, p. 81: Adopting #139-23, #139-39, and #139-41 following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. #140-32, pp. 81-84: Church leaders and parents to seek children’s conversion as an anti-addiction safeguard, and warning children against even moderate use of addictive substances; petitioning Congress to prohibit cigarette advertising on the public airwaves Acts of Congress; Congressional petitions; CYPU; Drugs; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Parental responsibilities; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Theaters; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-279 #140-33, pp. 84-85: UPCUSA ministers may not preach in RPCNA pulpits unless they are fighting to overturn the Confession of 1967 (#138-38, #139-41) Closed pulpits; PCUSA; College Hill. #140-34, pp. 85-86: Appointing Synod’s budget; urging sacrificial giving; Trustees to investigate legal issues; financial arrangements; boards and stated committees to prepare financial goals for 1970 Budget; Church erection; Church planting; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Indian Mission; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-179, 3-044, 3-053, 3-067, 3-073, 3-088, 3-090, 3-118, 3-130, 3-137, 3-138, 3-156, 3-179, 3-207, 4-003 #140-35, pp. 87-89: Ascertaining RPTS professors’ and other church employees’ salaries; honorarium for retiring treasurer; various financial arrangements; publishing The Church a Covenant Community (OCLC 861083786); closing APCNA accounts; reporting endowment funds; commending Trustees’ investment strategy; investigating tax shelters in case of taxation for church property APCNA; Bequests; CAM; Chester Fox; Church union; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Lou Hutmire; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Real property; RPIC; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 2-094, 3-011, 3-033, 3-044, 3-115, 3-171, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016 #140-36, p. 121: Beginning a wholesale revision of the Testimony without changes in doctrine Testimony. #140-37, p. 121: Preparing to publish an index to the RPCNA Constitution Church constitution; Financial. #140-38, p. 122: Repealing #140-33 and adopting temporary guidelines for determining whether outside ministers might occupy RPCNA pulpits Closed pulpits; PCUSA. #140-39, p. 125: Trustees authorized to adopt a Blue Cross health insurance plan for ministers Devolution; Insurance; Trustees of Synod. #140-40, p. 126: Declining to consolidate boards (#139-14) but instructing them to exchange minutes regularly Church erection; Home missions; Long-range planning. #140-41, p. 127: Members of Synod to supply materials and suggestions for a position statement on labor unions Labor and capital; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-137, 3-207 #140-42, p. 127: Committee to Revise the Credo on Civil Rights renamed to Race Relations Committee Renaming; Slavery and race. #140-43, pp. 127-128: Appropriating money Covenant of 1871; Publications; RPIC. Ministers: 3-011 #140-44, pp. 128-129: Sending down in overture procedural changes on the processing of ministerial calls Book of Church Government; Overtures, new; Pastoral calls. Ministers: 3-070, 3-071, 3-118 #140-45, p. 129: Presbyteries to appoint home mission secretaries for supporting vacancies, and process for making calls and appointing stated supplies Supply preaching. Ministers: 3-070, 3-071, 3-118 #140-46, p. 129: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-117, 4-185 #140-47, p. 130: Paying bills Business of Synod; CRCNA; Directions to individuals; Financial; Fraternal relations; Geneva faculty; OPC; Thanks. Ministers: 2-279, 3-074, 4-185 #140-48, pp. 130-131: Recommending Let There Be Light (no OCLC record), an anti-Masonic publication of the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church Lutherans; Publications; Secret societies. Ministers: 3-080, 4-264 #140-49, pp. 132-135: Arrangements Committee to explore using IBM equipment Business of Synod; Computing. Ministers: 3-083, 3-129, 4-003, 4-016 #140-50, p. 136: Statistical blanks Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 3-071, 4-264 #140-51, pp. 136-137: Procedures on paperwork for 1970 short Synod (#137-21), and thanking Mrs. Robert Harsh for bringing the Digests of Reports to Synod Budget; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Elders’Conference; NAE; NRA; RTF; Rules and organization; Signs of the Times; Synod at RPIC; Telecommunications; Temperance; Thanks; Tithing; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-181 #141 — Synod of 1970 #141-01, pp. 11-14: Financial arrangements Agency membership; APCNA; Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Incorporation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Pensions; RPTS finances; Southern Mission; Taxation; Temperance; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. #141-02, pp. 19-24: Regulations for the new Board of Publication and Education Bible reading folders; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Devolution; GCP; Geneva; Headquarters; New agencies; Paying Synod employees; RPIC; RPTS; Sabbath schools; Tracts. Ministers: 3-049 #141-03, pp. 25-26: Urging congregations to use funds to hire help for evangelism campaigns; urging sessions to plan pulpit exchanges Budget; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Psalmody; Pulpit exchanges; RPTS faculty; Special services. #141-04, pp. 27-30: Reiterating #135-05 Agency membership; Budget; China mission; Church history; Health and medicine; Home visitation; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Psalter editions; Real property; RPIC; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-073 #141-05, p. 30: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. Ministers: 3-024 #141-06, p. 38: New Board of E&P [note name change] to begin functioning immediately after Synod adjourns New agencies; Renaming. #141-07, pp. 38-41: Human resources for Christian Government Movement (formerly CAM), Witness Committee permitted to send observers to other groups, ministers urged to preach on Christian government; sessions to keep distinctive principles before congregations CAM; Congressional petitions; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Holidays; Improving praise; Levant missions; Minutes of Synod; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Sermon topics; Thanks; Tracts; Vietnam War; Witness work. Ministers: 3-011, 3-016 #141-08, p. 41: Pacific Coast Presbytery to secure a history of the Marshall Smith case Explanatory declaration; Witness work. #141-09, p. 41: Declining to cancel plans for the Tuesday night program, and studying the place of modern music in Christian life [dissent, page 95] Tuesday evening program; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-171 #141-10, pp. 42-45: Christian Education Board permitted to solicit offerings; the church to focus on family responsibilities in Christian education Bible Mastery Month; Bible reading folders; Canvassing; Church constitution; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; CYPU; GCP; Paying Synod employees; Philosophy of education; RPCI; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; TFY; VBS. #141-11, pp. 45-48: Reiterating #140-20, first clause, #136-35 on adjustments, and #139-21 on fringe benefits; approving congregational supplements; urging presbyteries to seek opportunities for new works; urging Midwest Presbytery to close Indian Mission Abolishing agencies; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Devolution; Holidays; Indian Mission; Parsonages; Short-term missions; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; Cache Creek. Ministers: 3-088 #141-12, pp. 48-50: Commending retired RPTS professor for continued service Directions to individuals; RPTS faculty; Thanks. Ministers: 2-094, 3-044 #141-13, pp. 51-53: Carrying on conversations with other conservative Reformed churches; paying bills; urging regional conferences of Reformed churches ARPC; Congregationalism; CRCNA; Elements of worship; Financial; National Council of Churches; New Light church; OPC; PCA; PCUSA; RCA; RES; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-038, 3-127, 3-181, 3-205 #141-14, p. 53: Conducting a systematic comparison of the standards of the OPC, BPC, and New Light church BPC; New Light church; OPC. Ministers: 4-264 #141-15, p. 53: Expanding the Interchurch Committee Agency membership; Interchurch. #141-16, p. 53: Paying bills Financial; Labor and capital. #141-17, pp. 54-55: Appointing Synod’s budget; reiterating #140-34, second clause; financial arrangements Budget; Church erection; Church planting; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049, 3-053, 3-067, 3-073, 3-088, 3-117, 3-138, 3-141, 3-156, 3-196, 3-207, 4-003, 4-270 #141-18, pp. 55-56: Financial arrangements; ascertaining of salaries of RPTS professors and other employees; paying bills APCNA; CAM; Church union; Labor and capital; Lou Hutmire; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Temperance; Tobacco; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 2-063, 3-011, 3-033, 3-054, 3-088, 3-139, 3-171, 3-176, 3-205, 4-003, 4-011 #141-19, p. 56: Financial arrangements Financial. Ministers: 3-139, 4-003 #141-20, pp. 77-78: Sending down in overture procedural changes to the Book of Church Government; considering alternation of full and slim Synod meetings Book of Church Government; Overtures, new; Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 3-053, 3-083, 3-133, 3-176 #141-21, p. 78: Amending #141-06: dissolving old boards and forming new board immediately Abolishing agencies; Financial; New agencies. Ministers: 3-049 #141-22, pp. 88-93: Adopting a statement on race relations, which is to be studied by sessions and presbyteries; presbyteries to counsel urban congregations to resist white flight and conduct minority ministry; letter to black and white Reformed churches in South Africa; participating in RES race relations conference Africa; Evangelism; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Outside communications; RES; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-012, 3-076, 3-118, 3-201 #141-23, p. 93: Announcing #141-09 on modern music to the conference Church music; Psalmody; Student activism; Synod at RPIC. #141-24, p. 95: Individuals must determine for themselves the question of military service in Vietnam, and announcing this to the conference Pacifism; Synod at RPIC; Vietnam War. #141-25, p. 95:#141-09 modern music study to examine worship versus non-worship use of the psalms Church music; Psalmody. Ministers: 3-196 #141-26, p. 95: Studying and evaluating the Tuesday night program (#141-09, first clause) Tuesday evening program. #141-27, p. 97: Notifying congregations of the reasons for their pastors’ election to church positions and providing encouragement Pastoral letters; Beaver Falls 1, Lisbon. Ministers: 3-044, 3-139, 4-003 #141-28, pp. 98-100: Approving procedure for operations of #140-36 committee; permitting it to solicit outside assistance; travel arrangements for meetings; paying bills Church constitution; Covenant theology; Financial; Modernism; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-104, 4-016, 4-270, 4-281 #141-29, p. 100: Studying whether altar calls are biblical Elements of worship; Evangelism; Soteriology. #141-30, pp. 100-101: Reprinting and distributing Outline Studies in the Covenant (OCLC 10742288); paying bills Church history; Covenant of 1871; Financial; Publications; RPIC. Ministers: 2-091, 3-011, 3-017, 3-033 #141-31, pp. 101-102: Adopting #140-44 following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. #141-32, p. 102: Continuing debate on mandatory total abstinence; permitting one meeting with travel expenses Alcohol restrictions on all members; Financial; Tobacco restrictions on officers. #141-33, pp. 102-103: Authorizing opening of work in Taiwan (#139-04) assuming relevant boards approve; appealing for donations and workers Canvassing; China mission; Japan mission. Ministers: 3-023 #141-34, p. 103: Arrangements committee given power to plan 1972 Synod before the 1971 meeting Business of Synod; Devolution. #141-35, pp. 103-104: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-115, 3-117 #141-36, p. 105: Foreign missions commissions may submit copies of their minutes, rather than the originals Levant missions; Reviewing commissions; Rules and organization. #141-37, p. 105: Paying a bill; clerk to thank Carleton College Directions to individuals; Financial; Outside communications; Synod at RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 3-049, 3-106, 3-171, 4-016 #141-38, p. 110:#141-25 study to be done by #141-26 committee, not #141-09 committee Tuesday evening program. #142 — Synod of 1971 #142-01, pp. 14-15: Urging deacon boards to present denominational needs to congregations; reiterating #121-02, final clause; urging special offering; emphasizing tithing Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directory for Worship; Tithing. Ministers: 3-021, 3-088 #142-02, pp. 17-19: Authorizing publication of the new psalter; employing a part-time editor; permitting the use of new selections Church music; Financial; Psalter editions; Witness work. Ministers: 3-009, 3-033, 4-216, 4-270, 4-281 #142-03, pp. 21-22, 134-139: Reiterating #141-03; adopting new constitution for Board of Evangelism [printed in appendix] Agency membership; Evangelism; Insurance; Pulpit exchanges; Sabbath schools; Special services; VBS. #142-04, p. 23: Declining to amend the Testimony to require moderation, rather than abstinence, from alcohol etc. Alcohol restrictions on all members; Testimony; Written dissent. #142-05, pp. 24-28: Financial support for RPTS professors finishing graduate work; amending composition of Superintendents APCNA; Biblical languages; Church history; Graduate student aid; Paying RPTS faculty; RPCI; RPTS constitution; RPTS library; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod; WTS. Ministers: 3-033, 3-046, 3-176, 3-205 #142-06, pp. 29-31: Reiterating #139-21 Benefits for ministers; Inflation; Minimum salaries. #142-07, pp. 31-34: Reiterating #135-05 Africa; Bequests; China mission; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Paying missionaries; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-073 #142-08, p. 36: Thanking RPWA for its work in maintaining the RP Home RP Home; Thanks. #142-09, pp. 49-50: Adopting new Statement of Purpose and Functions for the Church Erection Board Budget; Church erection; Usury. #142-10, p. 51: Adopting #141-20 portion following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. #142-11, p. 51: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial. Ministers: 3-079 #142-12, p. 52: Declining to amend the Testimony on mandatory total abstinence [dissent, page 54] Alcohol restrictions on all members; Testimony; Tobacco; Written dissent. #142-13, p. 54: Paying a bill Alcohol restrictions on all members; Tobacco. #142-14, pp. 54-55: Responding to dissent on #142-12: the church’s stand on mandatory total abstinence is biblical, ordained men are bound to obey church law, and dissenters’ refusal to be bound by church law is out of order Alcohol restrictions on all members; Book of Church Government; Responses to dissent; Strict subscription; Testimony; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-049, 3-083, 3-090, 3-139, 4-174, 4-270 #142-15, pp. 55-56: Presbyteries directed to libel #142-12 dissenters for their refusal to be bound by church law; dissenters must not follow divisive courses. [Responses by dissenters follow.] Church discipline; Responses to dissent; Strict subscription. Ministers: 3-071, 3-090, 3-127, 3-139, 3-156, 4-174, 4-270, 4-281 #142-16, pp. 59-61: Appointing Synod’s budget; financial arrangements; requesting further auditing reports Budget; Church erection; Docket and digest; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Minutes of Synod; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. Ministers: 3-016, 3-017, 3-049, 3-073, 3-079, 3-088, 3-103, 3-118, 3-127, 3-138, 4-003, 4-016, 4-129, 4-216, 4-260 #142-17, p. 61: Supplements for congregations will reduce by 20% annually, ending five years after the start of aid Congregational aid. Ministers: 3-067 #142-18, p. 62: Presbyteries to make support arrangements with congregations in light of #142-17 Congregational aid; Home missions. Ministers: 3-139 #142-19, p. 62: Traveling Fund administration Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-115, 3-138 #142-20, pp. 63-64: Tithing to be emphasized to new members just as firmly as other disciplines, e.g. worship and secret societies; ministers to preach on tithing; deacons reminded of their responsibility to teach on tithing; paying a bill A cappella; Diaconate; Psalmody; Secret societies; Sermon topics; Tithing. Ministers: 3-079, 3-117 #142-21, p. 64: New York Presbytery required to take action on a congregation’s practice of session-controlled communion and report back Close communion; Elkins Park. #142-22, p. 64: Next pastors’ refresher course or pre-Synod conference to include a day for optional fasting and prayer Pastors’Refresher Course. Ministers: 3-117, 4-264 #142-23, p. 65: Amending structure for Peponiades Trust funds, and appointing trustees Peponiades Trust. Ministers: 3-073 #142-24, pp. 65-68: Witness Committee to oversee psalter revision; urging use of a study on the Covenant of 1871; commending The Christian Nation (OCLC 9709511 and 9709575) CAM; Christian Patriot; Congressional petitions; Covenant of 1871; Oath question; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Thanks; Vietnam War; Witness work. Ministers: 3-011, 3-016 #142-25, p. 68: Reiterating #140-17 CAM; Holidays; Tracts. #142-26, pp. 68-75: Position paper on altar calls: urging sinners to confess Christ is biblical, seeking actual conversion, using only biblical methods, and abjuring methods that confuse actual and imagined conversions Baptism; Celebrity preachers; Covenant theology; CRCNA; Elements of worship; Evangelism; Westminster standards. #142-27, p. 76: Paying bills Business of Synod; Conferences at Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; WTS. Ministers: 3-073 #142-28, pp. 76-78: Adopting new ministerial minimum salaries; ascertaining RPTS and church employee salaries; honorarium for retiring Covenanter Witness editor and Christian Education Director; various other financial arrangements; preparing to merge Trustees with the Board of Church Erection Abolishing agencies; Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Indian Mission; Lou Hutmire; Minimum salaries; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; Trustees of Synod; Tuesday evening program; Witness work. Ministers: 2-063, 3-033, 3-139, 3-171, 3-176, 3-205, 4-003, 4-280 #142-29, pp. 93-95: Reiterating #140-20 on studying/reporting, #136-35 on adjustments, and #139-21 on fringe benefits; approving congregational supplements; presbyteries to assist weak congregations and seek planting opportunities Abolishing agencies; Benefits for ministers; Congregational aid; Indian Mission; Real property; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; VBS; Cache Creek. Ministers: 3-088 #142-30, pp. 96-101: Preaching arrangements for isolated vacant congregation, and oversight process by Presbytery; urging greater collegiality between sessions and deacons; leaving the RPCNA does not per se affect a man’s ordination status; sending down in overture modifications to the Directory of Church Government regarding Every Member Canvass and deacons’ responsibilities; election and faculty status for RPTS librarian Book of Church Government; BPC; Closed pulpits; Departing ministers; Diaconate; Every Member Canvass; OPC; Overtures, new; Pentecostals; Real property; RPTS library; Supply preaching; Two- and three-office view; Valid sacraments; Geneva, Lake Reno, Quinter. Ministers: 3-046, 3-071, 3-106, 3-118, 3-127, 3-156, 3-179, 3-195, 4-174, 4-264, 4-281 #142-31, p. 101: Papers submitted to the Judicial Committee to be printed in full in the minutes Minutes of Synod; Rules and organization. #142-32, pp. 101-104: Commending NRA and urging prayer and financial support; urging members to express themselves on moral issues; praying for a new administrative secretary CAM; Christian Statesman; Donations; Drugs; Evangelism; Legislative petitions; News media; NRA; Theaters; Tracts. #142-33, pp. 104-107: Participating in and supporting new National Presbyterian and Reformed Fellowship [NAPARC predecessor], urging RES to define its position on liberalizing churches; expanding relations with the OPC and the New Light church ARPC; BPC; Church union; CRCNA; Creation; Financial; Fraternal relations; Incorporation; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCUSA; RCA; RES; Westminster standards; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-067, 3-083, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-264, 4-270 #142-34, pp. 108-110: Temperance Committee to continue advocating against alcohol, tobacco, and psychedelic drugs Alcohol restrictions on all members; Church discipline; Civil War; Communion cup; CYPU; Drugs; Legal prohibition; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Testimony; Tobacco; Vietnam War. Ministers: 2-279 #142-35, pp. 111-114: Taking offerings for new Great Commissions sabbath school curriculum; ascertaining salaries of Directors of Publication and Educational Services; approving E&P Board curriculum Church erection; Collections; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; CYPU; GCP; International Sunday School Lessons; Lou Hutmire; National Council of Churches; OPC; Paying Synod employees; UK conference. Ministers: 4-016 #142-36, p. 114: Reiterating #142-31 on session and deacons; studying distinction between ministers and ruling elders; holding an Elders Conference at the next International Conference Elders’Conference; RPIC; Two- and three-office view. #142-37, pp. 114, 131-134: Evangelism methods are to be derived from the Bible alone, and rejecting “new medium” of evangelism via art; freedom of artistic expression is biblical within general guidelines, and Tuesday Night Program was not inherently unchristian. [Report is split between two locations] Evangelism; Tuesday evening program; Westminster standards. #142-38, pp. 115-116: Planning a wholesale revision of the Westminster Standards to update wording without changing meaning, urging sister denominations to join, and studying appropriateness of proof texts; approving the general tone of the Testimony revision (#140-36) and requesting comment; paying bills Financial; Interchurch; Requesting opinions; Testimony; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-104, 4-016, 4-270, 4-281 #142-39, p. 117: Modifying statistical blanks; urging deacon boards to establish a single congregational treasury and to report only a single audited treasurer’s report Paying ministers; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 3-049, 4-216 #142-40, pp. 118-122: Position paper on the war in Vietnam; the war’s lack of success is God’s judgement on the nation, and praying for wise decisions by American leaders and for all affected; focusing on mercy ministry to those affected Bible texts and translations; Civil War; Communism; Diaconate; Military service; Pacifism; Signs of the Times; Spanish-American War; Testimony; Vietnam War. Ministers: 3-011, 3-016, 3-110, 3-127, 4-216 #142-41, pp. 123-125: Urging congregations, presbyteries, and church agencies to study RES position on race relations; reiterating #141-22 on white flight and minorities; exploring denominational ministry to minorities Africa; CRCNA; Latin America; RES; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-012, 3-076, 3-118, 3-201 #142-42, p. 125: Paying a bill Financial; Labor and capital. #142-43, pp. 125-126: Urging NRA to affiliate with the Lord’s Day Alliance and members to support it ARPC; Church of God; CRCNA; Lord’s Day Alliance; NRA; PCUSA; Pentecostals; Premillennialism; RCA. Ministers: 3-104 #143 — Synod of 1972 #143-01, pp. 11-13, 144-147, 150-152: Approving job descriptions for Stated Clerk, Treasurer, and Trustees, and a procedure for disposing of property of disorganized congregations; distributing gifts APCNA; Archives; Bequests; Budget; Cemeteries; Closing churches; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; CYPU; Debt; Docket and digest; Donations; Elders’Conference; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Indian Mission; Insurance; Jewish missions; Lou Hutmire; Parsonages; Property held in trust; RPIC; RPTS finances; RPWA; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #143-02, pp. 15-16: Pension benefits upon beneficiary’s death; pension recipients may engage in ministerial work without losing their pensions Budget; Insurance; Pensions. #143-03, pp. 17-20: Amending constitution of the Board of Evangelism; declining to participate in Key 73 interdenominational evangelism campaign, with reasons Budget; Celebrity preachers; Covenant theology; Home visitation; Methodists; National Council of Churches; PCUSA; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; VBS. #143-04, pp. 20-23: Desiring that new psalter’s title refer equally to psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; appointing a committee with authority to make final approvals of new psalter contents; human resources for promotion of the new psalter Church music; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Geneva faculty; Psalter editions; Synod HR; Witness work; WTS. Ministers: 3-009, 3-033, 3-139, 4-216, 4-270, 4-281 #143-05, pp. 24-28: Approving RPCI minister Edward Donnelly’s work in Cyprus and adding him to the Commission; reiterating #135-05 Attending other seminaries; China mission; Church history; CRCNA; CYPU; Financial; Health and medicine; Japan mission; Languages; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Orthodox; RPCI; Seeking candidates, FMB; WMF. Ministers: 3-073 #143-06, p. 28: Re-studying mission work in Taiwan (#139-04) China mission. #143-07, p. 28: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. Ministers: 3-075 #143-08, pp. 31-33: Approving NRA cooperation arrangements with Lord’s Day Alliance (#142-43); urging ministers to apply biblical teachings to social needs and members to distribute marked copies of the Gospel of John for evangelism Christian Statesman; Evangelism; India; Lord’s Day Alliance; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; NRA; PCUSA; Temperance; Theaters; Tobacco; Tracts. #143-09, pp. 33-34: Urging support for RTF RPCNA books; RTF; WMF. Ministers: 3-083 #143-10, pp. 34-37: Trustees authorized to make financial arrangements for new psalter; amending #091-12 by raising honorarium; ascertaining salaries of directors; price for minutes of Synod Bible reading folders; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Budget; Canada; Covenanter Witness; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; RPCNA books; Trustees of Synod; UK conference. Ministers: 3-139, 3-181, 3-195, 4-003 #143-11, pp. 37-38: Approving the expanded scope of the Christian Government Movement CAM; Christian Nation; Christian Patriot; Improving praise; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-019 #143-12, pp. 39-43: New RPTS professorate in pastoral theology Bequests; Biblical languages; Evangelism; Insurance; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS accreditation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-281 #143-13, pp. 43-54: Procedures for a new pension plan, and repealing all conflicting provisions Inflation; Insurance; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. #143-14, p. 54: Permitting an ordination by commission Making exceptions. Ministers: 4-011 #143-15, p. 54: Consultative member to participate in Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. #143-16, p. 54: Rejecting proposal to remove mandatory total abstinence as a condition for membership Alcohol restrictions on all members. #143-17, p. 55: Reconsidering relationship with NAE Covenant of 1871; NAE. #143-18, pp. 66-67: Appropriating money Budget; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-033 #143-19, p. 72: Dissenting ordained men are still bound not to follow divisive courses [context is #142-12 dissenters] Responses to dissent; Strict subscription; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-090, 4-174, 4-270 #143-20, p. 73: Non-delegate to participate in Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. #143-21, p. 73: Adopting #142-30 following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 3-116 #143-22, pp. 73-76: Church officers, parents, and teachers to promote abstinence from alcohol, tobacco, and illegal drugs Drugs; Holidays; Legal prohibition; NTPC; Parental responsibilities; Public transportation; Specific congressmen; Tobacco. Ministers: 2-279, 3-097 #143-23, pp. 77-79: Studying the definition of “evangelical church” for the purposes of rebaptism Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Testimony; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-103, 3-115, 4-264 #143-24, p. 81:#143-13 was strictly an approval of the general principles; the Pension Board and Synod’s Trustees are responsible for implementing these principles Construction; Pensions; Trustees of Synod. #143-25, pp. 82-83: Appointing Synod’s budget; financial arrangements; preparing to make the Christian Government Movement independent CAM; Church erection; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Lou Hutmire; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Witness work. Ministers: 3-021, 3-053, 3-073, 3-079, 3-088, 3-103, 3-116, 3-118, 3-132, 3-179, 3-195, 4-003, 4-016, 4-093, 4-129 #143-26, pp. 83-86: Approving congregational supplements; reiterating #136-35 on adjustments, #140-20 on studying and reporting (expanded to include new works), and #141-11 on seeking new works; presbyteries to study patterns of congregations complying with #139-21 on expenses and fringe benefits Church planting; Congregational aid; Devolution; Donations; Inflation; Insurance; Interchurch; Mission schools; Parsonages; Pensions; Southern Mission; VBS. Ministers: 3-088 #143-27, p. 87: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-138, 4-058 #143-28, p. 87: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial; Thanks. Ministers: 2-063, 3-116 #143-29, pp. 88-90: Contributing to National Presbyterian and Reformed Fellowship, and urging elders and ministers to join individually; communicating with other psalm-singing churches about new psalter; continuing #142-38 on urging revision cooperation; exploring ways of union with OPC and the New Light church Church union; Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Creation; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RES; Updating Westminster; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-181 #143-30, pp. 91-97, 99-101: Approving a plan for permitting RPCNA pulpits to be served by other ministers preparing to enter the RPCNA; defining licensure and its purpose; Presbytery to determine validity of an incoming Congregationalist minister; confirming double standard of permitting former APCNA elders, but no others, to continue tobacco use; declining to apologize to tobacco-using APCNA elders for not urging them to quit APCNA; Biblical inerrancy; Book of Church Government; Closed pulpits; Congregationalism; Construction; Covenant of 1871; Ex post facto; Licentiates; Making exceptions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; OPC; Strict subscription; Supply preaching; Valid sacraments; Vow 8; Westminster standards; Written dissent; New Castle, Park City. Ministers: 3-033, 3-046, 3-073, 3-074, 3-079, 3-129, 3-132, 4-270 #143-31, pp. 97-98: Arrangements for Pre-Synodic Conference for 1973 Conferences at Synod; OPC; PCUSA; Psalmody; WTS. Ministers: 2-315, 3-033, 3-067, 3-090, 3-127, 3-139, 3-196, 3-201, 3-205, 4-216, 4-281 #143-32, p. 102: Entreating minister not to leave the denomination because of #143-30 double standard; urging Midwest Presbytery to exempt him from enforcing it personally and to provide for his needs Departing ministers; Making exceptions; Paying ministers; Vow 8; Park City. Ministers: 4-270 #143-33, pp. 102-104: Declining a plan for alternating full and partial Synods, due to practical difficulties Pastors’Refresher Course; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-049, 3-139, 3-195, 3-196, 4-016 #143-34, pp. 105-109: Position paper on worship, evangelism, and art — expansion of #142-37 on Tuesday Night Program, which is ruled not to be a violation of church position on worship. Paying a bill. Biblical languages; Financial; Tuesday evening program. #143-35, pp. 110-111: Merging Trustees of Synod and Board of Church Erection; procedures for merger and post-merger Abolishing agencies; Church erection; Trustees of Synod. #143-36, pp. 111-112: Urging congregations to study and apply biblical principles for mercy ministry, and to donate Vietnam War relief monies to established relief agencies Diaconate; Financial; NAE; Poor relief; Vietnam War. #143-37, pp. 112-113: Commending to the church a plan for oversight of individuals (in particular, college students) attending one congregation while on the roll of another Book of Church Government; Individual relocation; Testimony; College Hill, Quinter. Ministers: 3-118, 3-201, 4-228 #143-38, pp. 114-115: Coordinating Committee made a standing committee, directing them to work with Trustees, establishing a plan for committee membership, and regulating their activities Budget; Lou Hutmire; New standing committees; Presbytery-appointed membership; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-088, 3-138 #143-39, p. 116: Amending #143-04 on psalter title: converting Synod’s desire into instructions for the committee to consider it Psalter editions. #143-40, pp. 116-119: All boards and standing committees to submit names of members with expiring terms to Nominating Committee chairman, and setting deadline Agency membership; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 3-012, 3-034, 3-137, 3-196 #143-41, pp. 119-121: Expressing distress over The Troubles in Northern Ireland, creating a fund for RPCI relief, and urging contributions; financial arrangements; ascertaining RPTS professors’ salaries; reiterating #143-10; committees to report their expenses in their reports, and these expenses to be paid automatically without further referral Budget; Canada; Close communion; Devolution; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Minutes of Synod; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; Psalter editions; RPCI; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod; Tuesday evening program; Valid sacraments; Los Angeles. Ministers: 3-033, 3-088, 3-139, 3-176, 3-205, 4-003 #143-42, p. 138: Deadlines for submitting papers for Synod of 1973; expanding Assistant Clerk’s job description Docket and digest; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 3-181 #144 — Synod of 1973 #144-01, pp. 11-14: Declining to establish a unified personnel policy for Synod employees; establishing unified travel rate for all boards and committees; repealing #077-13 prohibition on loans to individual trustees Abolishing agencies; Budget; CAM; Church erection; Debt; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Inflation; Insurance; Pensions; RPCI; RPTS finances; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. #144-02, p. 14: Congratulating Mr. and Mrs. Charles Marston Lee on the date of their 60th anniversary Congratulations; Geneva faculty; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; College Hill. Ministers: 4-228 #144-03, pp. 18-19: Encouraging sessions to report results of evangelism programs; appropriating money Budget; Celebrity preachers; Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; Geneva; Pulpit exchanges; Westminster standards. #144-04, pp. 20-23: Urging careful study of biblical texts regarding praise; holding a symposium at Synod in 1975 on the doctrine of the church and ministry Baptism; Biblical inerrancy; Conferences at Synod; Directory for Worship; Levant missions; Offerings in worship; Psalmody; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 3-024, 3-090, 3-127, 3-201, 4-216 #144-05, pp. 28-30: Declining to repeal #143-25 on Christian Government Movement; position statement on public and Christian schools CAM; Christian schools; Labor and capital; NRA; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Slavery and race; Tracts; Witness work. #144-06, pp. 30-33: Reiterating #142-32, first clause; urging members to apply Christian truth in social situations without fear Christian Statesman; Drugs; Evangelism; Lord’s Day Alliance; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; NRA; NTPC; RPCI; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Theaters; Tracts; WCTU; YMCA. #144-07, p. 33: Congratulating Mr. and Mrs. R. Paul Wright and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew D. Robb on the date of their 38th and 48th anniversaries Congratulations; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. #144-08, p. 34: Appropriating money to RTF, and reiterating #143-09 Communism; Financial; Foreign missions; International relations; Lutherans; RTF. #144-09, pp. 37-38: Appropriating money Budget; Geneva finances. #144-10, pp. 42-45: Graduate Study Fund to continue supporting RPTS professors’ doctoral studies, and Superintendents permitted to canvass for funds APCNA; Biblical languages; CAM; Canvassing; Church history; Evangelism; Graduate student aid; OPC; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-033, 3-176, 3-181, 4-281 #144-11, pp. 45-49: Missionary Eleanor Faris granted a pension; preparing to grant autonomy to remaining Cyprus missions; preparing to cease using the Academies as the focus of evangelism; reiterating #135-05 Africa; Church history; Inflation; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPCI; RPCS; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Self-supporting missions; Social Security; Society meetings; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-073 #144-12, p. 49: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. #144-13, pp. 50-52: Distributing report on RES; reaffirming the unity of the invisible church and the necessity of seeking unity for the visible church; considering a general assembly for RPCA, RPCI, RPCNA, and RPCS; joint synod meeting with the OPC and the New Light church in 1975; contributing to National Presbyterian and Reformed Fellowship; commemorating founding of the first RP church in America; thanking Free Christian Reformed Church for sending a delegate BPC; Church history; Church union; Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; General and subordinate synods; Joint Synods; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; Outside communications; RES; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; WTS; Paxtang. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-174, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-228, 4-264 #144-14, pp. 64-69: Abolishing Stewardship Committee; delegates to report eligibility for committee service; boards and permanent committees to submit goals and future objectives; Clerk to compile digest of decisions 1953-1973, and presbyteries to submit information; modifying statistical blanks and preparing a statistical study; paying bills Abolishing standing committees; APCNA; Budget; Celebrity preachers; Decline; Digest of deliverances; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Evangelism; Geneva faculty; Home missions; Individual relocation; Long-range planning; Presbytery reports; Psalter editions; Statistical blanks; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-012, 3-118, 3-181 #144-15, pp. 69-71: Preparing revision of Chapter V of the Directory for Worship; amending E&P Board constitution; appropriating money; approving 1974 National Convention schedule Budget; Covenanter Witness; Directory for Worship; RPIC; RPTS. Ministers: 3-117 #144-16, pp. 71-72: Life begins at conception, and induced abortions are sinful; explicitly not condemning contraceptives, sterilization, and abortions for the life of the mother Abortion. Ministers: 3-146 #144-17, pp. 73-82: Disapproving New York Presbytery’s ordination of a ruling elder (presbyteries may not ordain ruling elders, and the ordinand’s service is not peculiar to the eldership), and denying permission for a second such ordination; temporarily permitting both men to preach and teach; condemning Temperance Committee paper for suggesting that Genesis 19: 30-38 is unsuitable for public reading; denying petition to choose Synod officers one year ahead of time (#130-15); Pittsburgh Presbytery has not erred in preparing to disorganize a congregation, not everything displeasing is a ground for process; procedures for disorganizing a congregation and denying request to make this congregation independent; declining to modify Book of Church Government, past disorganization not to be precedential, and directing Presbytery to reconsider Alcohol restrictions on all members; Biblical inerrancy; Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Closing churches; Congregationalism; Directions to individuals; Foreign missions HR; Judicial cases; Levant missions; Membership transfer; Officer elections; PCUSA; Property held in trust; Resignations; Sine titulo; Testimony; Trial procedure; Trustees of Synod; Two- and three-office view; Unlicensed candidates; Westminster standards; Connellsville, New Castle. Ministers: 2-279, 3-046, 3-053, 3-067, 3-071, 3-073, 3-097, 3-146, 3-176, 3-179, 4-016, 4-065, 4-129, 4-197, 4-228 #144-18, pp. 82-88: Today’s English Version is an acceptable Bible translation; reiterating #035-01, and urging continued donations; ditto for New York Bible Society, World Home Bible League, and Trinitarian Bible Society American Bible Society; Bible texts and translations; Interchurch; Sabbath-keeping; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-315, 3-046, 3-074 #144-19, p. 89: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Foreign missions HR; Japan mission; Sine titulo. Ministers: 4-240 #144-20, pp. 90-91: Temperance Committee expenses to be met by outside donations Alcohol restrictions on all members; Donations; NTPC; Specific congressmen; Tobacco. #144-21, pp. 92-93: Approving grants and loans [dissent, page 92]; reiterating #144-01 repeal, and #143-41 final clause; ascertaining salaries for Synod employees CAM; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Inflation; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; Real property; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; Written dissent; Clarinda. Ministers: 3-067, 3-080, 3-097, 3-201, 4-003 #144-22, p. 109: Schedule and deadlines for 1974 Synod Docket and digest; Reporting calendars; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-181 #144-23, pp. 109-110: Abolishing Coordinating Committee and assigning its responsibilities to Finance Committee, whose elder members shall be ex officio Synod delegates, and whose deacon delegates to be given floor privileges; considering renaming Synod’s budget; Finance Committee may propose revising current budget; Trustees to work vigorously to raise money; boards and committees to save money; appointing Synod’s budget Bequests; Budget; Delegate qualifications; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Home missions; Pensions; Renaming; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Witness work. #144-24, p. 110: Finance Committee to propose standards for deacon-delegate functions Deacon delegates. #144-25, p. 110: Loaning money to E&P Board for publishing results of worship symposium Conferences at Synod; Elements of worship; Financial; Trustees of Synod. #144-26, p. 111: Traveling Fund arrangements; minister preparing to come in permitted to participate in Traveling Fund if approved by his presbytery Levant missions; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-006, 4-058, 4-084 #144-27, pp. 111-112: Paying bills Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Financial; Geneva faculty; Thanks; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-228 #144-28, p. 116: Distributing the first 200 copies of the Book of Psalms for Singing (OCLC 43531103) Church music; Psalter editions. #144-29, pp. 116-117: Reiterating #133-24 on graduates of other seminaries and year at RPTS; declining to amend Book of Church Government on ministerial candidacy Attending other seminaries; Book of Church Government. Ministers: 3-017, 3-034 #144-30, pp. 117-120: Minimum ministerial salaries; Presbyteries to appoint committees for ensuring appropriate salaries Joint pastorates; Minimum salaries; Parsonages; PCUSA; Pensions; Social Security. #144-31, pp. 121-123: Continuing membership and recommendation of membership in, but continuing to evaluate, the NAE Baptists; Bible in schools; Covenant of 1871; Covenant theology; NAE; National Council of Churches; Premillennialism. Ministers: 3-049, 4-006, 4-093 #144-32, p. 123: Synod’s boards and committees to account for disparate conditions in foreign congregations when making statistical recommendations Foreign missions; Minimum salaries. Ministers: 3-103 #144-33, pp. 123-128: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments, #140-20 on presbyteries, and #141-11 on new works; presbyteries to improve compliance with #139-21 on expenses and fringe benefits; congregational supplements; approving HMB’s new Statement of Philosophy and Purpose Benefits for ministers; Book of Church Government; Church planting; Congregational aid; Devolution; Inflation; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; New Light church; Presbytery-appointed membership; Short-term missions; Southern Mission. #144-34, pp. 128-129: Approving plan for fulfilling #142-38 on Westminster Standards revision New Light church; OPC; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 2-315, 3-016, 4-281 #144-35, pp. 129-132: Presbytery clerks to submit full list of ordained officers to Nominating Committee chairman; reiterating #143-40, first clause; studying the writing of letters of remembrance to absent ministers and unrepresented congregations; Clerk of Synod to notify new committee chairman; Nominating Committee to prepare ballots for nominations Agency membership; Directions to individuals; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-141 #145 — Synod of 1974 #145-01, pp. 12-14: In light of the cancellation of the 1974 National Conference due to the oil crisis, rescheduling it for 1976; approving amendments to E&P Board constitution; Synod’s clerk to prepare an annual church directory Budget; Church constitution; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Geneva; Lou Hutmire; Minutes of Synod; Psalter editions; RPIC; Synod HR. Ministers: 3-117 #145-02, p. 15: Merging Boards of Evangelism and of Home Missions and Church Extension, the result to be HMB; #144-33 statement to be applicable to new board; new constitution Abolishing agencies; Agency membership; Evangelism. Ministers: 3-104, 4-058 #145-03, p. 17: Appropriating money Financial; New Light church; OPC; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 2-315, 3-016, 4-281 #145-04, pp. 17-18: Dissolving the Long Range Planning Committee; assigning its responsibilities to E&P Board Abolishing agencies; Long-range planning; Publications. #145-05, pp. 19-21: Appropriating money Geneva faculty; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-088 #145-06, pp. 23-26: Thanking Wilbur W. Weir and his wife for their years of service to the NRA; reiterating #142-32, first clause; urging Christians to testify for the world’s need of righteousness Celebrity preachers; Inflation; NRA; NTPC; Radio and TV; Richard Nixon; Sabbath-keeping organizations; SCOTUS; Thanks; Theaters; Tracts; WCTU. Ministers: 3-022 #145-07, p. 30: Appropriating money to RTF, and reiterating #143-09 Financial; Foreign missions; RTF. #145-08, pp. 32-35: Preparing to sell the American Academy for Girls and reserving sale money for FMB use; authorizing FMB to arrange for American Academy for Boys to be governed by its alumni China mission; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Interchurch; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Real property; RPTS; RTF; Short-term missions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-073 #145-09, p. 35: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus Peponiades Trust. #145-10, pp. 35-37: Reiterating #144-10, first clause APCNA; Baptists; Biblical languages; Donations; Elements of worship; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Lou Hutmire; Methodists; New Light church; PCUSA; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-033, 3-176, 3-181, 4-281 #145-11, pp. 38-39: Renaming Pension Board to Pension Trustees of Synod; amending size of the board, and Synod’s Treasurer to be a consultative member; thanking 38-year secretary Ralph Wilson and other long-serving members Agency membership; Directions to individuals; Native ministers; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Renaming; Taxation; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-024, 3-044, 3-138, 3-156, 3-181 #145-12, pp. 53-55: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments and #140-20 on presbyteries; approving supplements Congregational aid; Devolution; Short-term missions; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-058 #145-13, pp. 56-57: Urging sessions and congregations to recruit students for Geneva, and urging sessions to exercise diligent oversight of members Budget; Church membership; Elders’Conference; Geneva. #145-14, p. 57: The Bible teaches that the terms of admission to membership and to communion are identical Construction; Terms of Communion. #145-15, pp. 57-59: Urging ministers to preach on Christ’s sovereignty over all human institutions CAM; Congressional bills; Explanatory declaration; Military service; NAE; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; Sermon topics; Witness work. #145-16, pp. 60-62: Continuing letters of remembrance; amending 112#026 to write only to elderly and incapacitated ministers and those absent for good reason; reminding other ministers of their duty, and presbyteries to do the same for congregations with no ruling elder Absences; Book of Church Government; Foreign missions; Sympathy. Ministers: 3-141 #145-17, pp. 62-65: Ascertaining salaries of Synod employees; defining responsibilities of deacon delegates, whose expenses are to be paid; permitting RPWA to canvass the church for funds, but declining similar request for a congregation; declining to permit an investment strategy by Trustees; financial arrangements Budget; Canvassing; Deacon delegates; Geneva finances; Home missions; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod; Witness work; WMF; Christ Covenant. Ministers: 3-139 #145-18, pp. 78-83: Urging congregations and presbyteries to maintain mercy ministry, session and deacons to work together on evangelism, and ministers to preach on good works by Christians; modifying statistical blanks; sending down in overture Book of Church Government amendments on diaconate Book of Church Government; Budget; Diaconate; Evangelism; Overtures, new; Paying ministers; Poor relief; Real property; Sermon topics; Statistical blanks; Thanks. Ministers: 3-012, 3-149, 4-174, 4-259 #145-19, pp. 83-84: Repealing #144-14 clause on presbytery submission of information Docket and digest; Inflation; Long-range planning; Presbytery reports. Ministers: 3-017, 3-181 #145-20, pp. 84-86: Repealing #144-16 and replacing it with new position paper on abortion; urging churches to fight abortion and members to support right-to-life organizations; paying a bill; Testimony Revision committee instructed to consider abortion Abortion; Canada; Investment philosophy; Testimony; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-129, 3-137, 4-259 #145-21, pp. 87-90: Financial arrangements; presbyteries to require congregations to provide detailed accounting of ministerial compensation; deacons to ensure clear title to congregational real property Budget; Church erection; Closing churches; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Foreign missions; Geneva faculty; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; Paying ministers; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Renaming; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; Written dissent. #145-22, pp. 91-96: Approving new Terms of Communion and Membership, and sending them down in overture Church constitution; Church history; Directory for Worship; Overtures, new; RPCI; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-132, 3-133, 3-196 #145-23, pp. 97-101: No need to amend Book of Church Government on receiving members from other churches; repealing #125-51; the Temperance Committee has wrongly distributed error, and while sessions must teach church doctrine, they may choose which materials to use; reiterating #130-31, denouncing contrary claims, and upholding FMB decisions Biblical languages; Church membership; Levant missions; Limited-term pastorates; Mission schools; Native ministers; WCTU; Westminster standards; Park City. Ministers: 3-022, 3-033, 3-073, 3-127, 3-156, 4-016, 4-259, 4-284 #145-24, pp. 102-104: Reiterating #144-13 on joint meetings; fraternal relations with National Presbyterian Church [future PCA], the North American synod of the FCS, and the Presbyterian Reformed Church of Canada; expressing concern and prayer regarding modernist controversy in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church Biblical inerrancy; Church history; Church union; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; FCS; Fraternal relations; General and subordinate synods; Geneva; Joint Synods; Lutherans; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; Outside communications; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; RCUS; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 3-181 #145-25, pp. 106-107: Discouraging delegates from driving alone to Synod when airfare is cheaper; Traveling Fund administration Absences; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-006, 4-259 #145-26, pp. 107-108: Paying a bill and making arrangements for #144-13 joint meetings Financial; Geneva faculty; Joint Synods; Thanks. Ministers: 3-017 #145-27, p. 108: Modifying statistical blanks Lou Hutmire; Statistical blanks. #145-28, pp. 110-111: Declining a petition for additional aid to RPCNA students at Geneva Agency membership; Debt; Geneva finances; Trustees of Synod; Eastvale. Ministers: 4-011 #145-29, p. 112: Presbyteries are responsible for handling congregational oversight in situations not specifically addressed in the Book of Church Government (#144-17) Book of Church Government; Closing churches; Construction; Devolution; Diaconate. Ministers: 3-049, 3-181, 4-016 #145-30, p. 112: Planning for pre-Synod symposium in 1975 Conferences at Synod. #146 — Synod of 1975 #146-01, p. 7: Moderator shall appoint multiple judicial committees if needed, in order to ensure that no judicial committee handle more than five papers Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-156, 4-016 #146-02, pp. 14-15: Publishing documents for #145-30 symposium, and holding another in 1977 Conferences at Synod; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Publications; Two- and three-office view; Women elders. Ministers: 3-104, 3-181, 4-011 #146-03, pp. 19-21: Reiterating #142-32, minus administrative secretary Christian Statesman; Donations; Inflation; NRA; Richard Nixon; Sabbath-keeping. #146-04, p. 27: Sympathy notes to Ted Grayson and to Cloyd and Frances Caskey Directions to individuals; Health and medicine; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 2-038, 3-181, 4-084 #146-05, p. 27: Thanking the RCUS for fraternal relations Fraternal relations; Outside communications; RCUS. Ministers: 3-139 #146-06, p. 47: Petitioning the Geneva Trustees to reverse their own decision permitting dancing on campus Dancing; Geneva. Ministers: 3-195 #146-07, pp. 47-50: Continuing to support two RPTS professors’ graduate studies and congratulating a third for completing his APCNA; Baptists; Biblical languages; Congratulations; Congregationalism; Evangelism; Methodists; New Light church; OPC; PCUSA; Pentecostals; Premillennialism; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-033, 3-176, 3-181, 4-281 #146-08, p. 50: Synod’s docket shall include a synopsis of Synod’s rules of order Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Rules and organization. Ministers: 4-228 #146-09, pp. 50-51: Declining request from Cyprus churches to repeal #145-08 but thanking them for their concern Levant missions; Mission schools; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-009, 3-073, 4-284 #146-10, p. 51: Endorsing decisions by FMB and Trustees to turn over the Nicosia schools to a responsible evangelical agency Levant missions; Mission schools; Trustees of Synod. #146-11, pp. 53-55: All work not prohibited by the Bible is a service to God; urging members not to join organizations compromising their testimony; encouraging support of explicitly Christian unions; preparing to merge Witness Committee and E&P Board; Synod’s clerk to handle oath and explanatory declaration issues; hearing report from Christian Government Movement annually; closer relations with Lord’s Day Alliance and urging members’ support for it Agency membership; CAM; Canada; Directions to individuals; Disability; Explanatory declaration; Labor and capital; Lord’s Day Alliance; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Witness work. #146-12, pp. 56-57: Amending the Directory for Worship to replace close communion with restricted communion, and sending it down in overture; Covenanter Witness to publish balanced discussion on the question Baptism; Book of Church Government; Covenanter Witness; Overtures, new; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Written dissent; Coldenham, North Hills, Washington. Ministers: 3-129, 4-016, 4-110, 4-216 #146-13, p. 58: Restricted communion to be known as “Session Controlled Communion” Close communion; Renaming. #146-14, pp. 58-60: Scheduling 1976 North America Conference; appropriating money to E&P Board; sessions may observe Week of Prayer, and the Board to publish topics if a majority of sessions wish; reiterating #146-11 on merger and Synod’s clerk Abolishing agencies; Baptism; Budget; Church constitution; Explanatory declaration; Geneva faculty; Holidays; New Light church; OPC; Psalm selections; RPCNA books; RPIC; Witness work. Ministers: 3-117 #146-15, p. 60: E&P Board to study the promotion of Christian schools and the church’s responsibility in the matter Christian schools. Ministers: 4-123 #146-16, pp. 60-62: Appointing Synod’s budget and making appropriations; raising salaries for Synod employees Bequests; Budget; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; WMF. Ministers: 3-049, 3-139, 4-011 #146-17, pp. 82-83: Presbyteries to assume responsibility for overseeing ministers’ salaries by 1979; appointing an arrangements committee for this; minimum ministerial salaries Benefits for ministers; Inflation; Minimum salaries; New agencies. Ministers: 3-132 #146-18, p. 83: Determination of passage or failure of overtures shall be calculated on the basis of all sessions, not on voting sessions Book of Discipline; Overtures; Rules and organization. #146-19, p. 84: Recognizing the failure of #145-22 in overture and re-studying it with a view to resubmission, and resubmitting #145-18 due to unintentional tallying errors Book of Church Government; Budget; Diaconate; Incorporation; Overtures, new; Overtures, unsuccessful; Paying ministers; Poor relief; Real property. Ministers: 3-139 #146-20, p. 85: Amending the Book of Discipline in regard to overture procedures, and sending the amendments down in overture Book of Discipline; Overtures, new; Provisional sessions. Ministers: 3-059, 3-079 #146-21, p. 85: Amending the Books of Discipline and Church Government in regard to overture procedures, and sending the amendments down in overture Book of Church Government; Overtures, new. Ministers: 4-003 #146-22, pp. 85-88: Approving financial arrangements for Trustees; Chester Fox entitled “Treasurer Emeritus”; Trustees handling congregational funds; new Nominee Partnership Bequests; Chester Fox; Church erection; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #146-23, pp. 88-92: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus; accepting irregular Cyprus Commission minutes in light of the chaos of the 1974 coup d’état and Turkish invasion Church history; Evangelism; Japan mission; Mission schools; Peponiades Trust; RP Home; RPCI; RTF; Wars; WMF; WTS. Ministers: 3-073 #146-24, p. 93: Preparing to grant Cyprus mission autonomy (#116-17) and amending their proposed standards Book of Church Government; Church history; Independent missions; Languages; Traveling Fund; Westminster standards. Ministers: 2-315, 3-033, 3-171 #146-25, p. 94: Deploring improprieties in #130-31; noting that the minister had not fulfilled his responsibilities since that time, but communicating with him regarding reinstatement Departing ministers; Directions to individuals; Levant missions; Native ministers. Ministers: 3-033, 3-106, 3-127, 3-201, 3-205, 4-284 #146-26, pp. 95-101: Reaffirming women’s place in the life of the church, judicatories are responsible for overseeing all church activities, and other groups must to submit to them; relations between WMF and judicatories; urging WMF to submit a report to Synod Agency membership; Budget; CYPU; Evangelism; Long-range planning; Paying missionaries; Sabbath schools; Society meetings; Witness work; WMF; Women deacons; Women elders. Ministers: 3-117, 3-156, 3-195 #146-27, pp. 103-104: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments and #140-20 on presbyteries; approving supplements; new HMB constitution Church planting; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Lou Hutmire; Southern Mission. Ministers: 4-058 #146-28, pp. 105-110: Position paper on ordination vows binding the conscience, particularly regarding alcohol Close communion; Descending obligations; Financial; Military service; Oath question; Strict subscription; Testimony; Vow 8; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-104, 4-006, 4-093 #146-29, p. 111: Preparing to invite young people at the 1976 national conference to attend Synod and be instructed on its procedures CYPU; Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; Geneva library; NRA; Synod at RPIC; Tobacco. #146-30, pp. 112-113: Procedures for 1976 short Synod; clerk to follow procedures discussed in #140-51 and #144-22 Rules and organization; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-156, 4-011 #146-31, pp. 113-114: Approving non-pastoring ministers sitting on sessions and ruling elders holding any presbytery office; reserving judgement on ruling elders moderating sessions and Synod Book of Church Government; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 3-046, 3-139, 4-011, 4-281 #146-32, pp. 114-119: Seeking closer relationships with RPCS/RPCI/RPCA and encouraging personnel exchanges, and paying expenses for RPCS delegates at 1976 National Conference; approving NAPARC constitution, joining it, and fraternal relations with all other members; protesting “RP” name for planned OPC/New Light merger Attending other seminaries; Biblical inerrancy; Church discipline; Church union; Closed pulpits; Covenant renovation; CRCNA; FCS; Fraternal relations; Independent missions; Japan mission; Levant missions; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS; RES; RPCA; Short-term missions; UK conference; Wars; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-228, 4-264, 4-280 #146-33, p. 120: Inviting RPCS/RPCI/RPCA, plus Japanese and Cypriot churches, to participate in 1976 National Conference Japan mission; Levant missions; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC. Ministers: 3-009, 3-171 #146-34, p. 120: Investigating a joint Synod meeting with another body in 1977 Joint Synods. Ministers: 4-003 #146-35, pp. 120-121: Procedures for appointing boards and committees and for receiving their responses Agency membership; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-049, 3-079, 3-080, 3-127, 3-132, 4-123 #146-36, pp. 123-124: Traveling Fund administration Absences; Health and medicine; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-127, 4-259 #146-37, pp. 124-127: Permitting exception to #106-09 on a year at RPTS; reiterating #125-41 on business meetings; declining to resubmit #145-22 Attending other seminaries; Benefits for ministers; Congregational meetings; Covenanter Witness; Licentiates; Sabbath-keeping; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards; Broomall, North Hills. Ministers: 3-017, 3-133, 3-195, 4-047, 4-058, 4-110, 4-228 #146-38, p. 130: Electing and appointing members of #146-17 committee Agency membership; Paying ministers. Ministers: 3-181 #146-39, p. 130: Interchurch Committee authorized to appoint delegates to NAPARC Devolution; Fraternal relations; NAPARC. #147 — Synod of 1976 #147-01, p. 15: Modifying statistical blanks to include congregational attendance Directions to individuals; Statistical blanks. #147-02, pp. 37-38: Urging an adjustment to the National Conference schedule Synod at RPIC. #147-03, pp. 39-40: Distributing the Testimony draft revision (#140-36), urging study, and preparing for discussion at the Synod of 1977 Meeting schedule; Requesting opinions; Rules and organization; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #147-04, p. 41: Dismissing the committee on the revision of the Directory for Worship Directory for Worship; Written dissent. #147-05, pp. 41-42: Arrangements for Pre-Synodic Conference for 1977 Conferences at Synod; Financial; Joint Synods. Ministers: 3-097, 3-104 #147-06, p. 44: Continuing Synod’s offering [see page 38, a proposal to discontinue the offering is referred to Finance, and on page 44 the report is adopted and followed immediately by the offering] Financial; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-049 #147-07, pp. 45-47: Continuing to support two RPTS professors’ graduate studies Biblical languages; Candidate examinations; Church history; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; PCA; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-019, 3-033, 3-176 #147-08, p. 62: Thanking Geneva president Edwin Clarke for his work Directions to individuals; Geneva faculty; Thanks. Ministers: 4-129 #147-09, pp. 62-63: Urging sessions and individuals to submit written materials and feedback to the committee on church officers Agency membership; Covenanter Witness; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-139, 4-216 #147-10, p. 63: Replacing an ill member of the Westminster Standards revision committee Agency membership; Health and medicine; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 2-315 #147-11, pp. 65, 121-132: Position paper on covenanting, including rejecting the doctrine of descending obligations, urging officers to study the topic, and preparing for an overture at the Synod of 1977 APCNA; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Church history; COCM; Construction; Covenant of 1871; Directory for Worship; Military service; Ordination queries; RP&C; RPCI; RPCS; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 4-011, 4-123, 4-129, 4-280 #147-12, p. 65: Granting autonomy to the Greek Evangelical Church GEC; Independent missions. Ministers: 3-024, 3-071, 3-073 #147-13, p. 66: Reiterating #146-18 Book of Discipline; Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-071 #147-14, pp. 66-67: Adopting #146-19, #146-20, and #146-21 following successful votes in overture, and recognizing the failure of #146-12 Book of Church Government; Budget; Diaconate; Incorporation; Overtures, new; Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful; Paying ministers; Poor relief; Real property. Ministers: 3-156 #147-15, p. 67: Resubmitting #146-12 overture Baptism; Book of Church Government; Close communion; Covenanter Witness; Directory for Worship; Overtures, new; Testimony. #147-16, pp. 68-71: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments; presbyteries to evaluate their mission works; approving supplements; appropriating money; employing ministers who resign pastorates without receiving a new call Budget; Church planting; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Devolution; Higher-education standards; Paying ministers; Resignations; RPTS faculty; Southern Mission; WMF. Ministers: 4-058 #147-17, pp. 71-73: Encouraging the church’s NAE representatives to be active and report news; appropriating money for NAE building program Abortion; Chaplains; Drugs; Evangelism; Financial; NAE; Pornography; Radio and TV; Sabbath schools; Soteriology; Specific congressmen; Temperance; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #147-18, pp. 78-79: Resubmitting amended version of #145-22 overture (#146-19) [dissent, page 83] Biblical inerrancy; COCM; Overtures, new; Sabbath-keeping; Terms of Communion; Tithing; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-083, 3-176, 4-216 #147-19, pp. 80-81: Traveling Fund administration; permitting licentiate to participate in the Fund Absences; Levant missions; Licentiates; Lou Hutmire; RPCS; Synod at RPIC; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-082, 4-127, 4-197 #147-20, pp. 81-83: Closer interaction with NAPARC and other member denominations; joint Synods in 1978; closer cooperation with other RP churches, including approving the concept of a Consultative Assembly for all Africa; ARPC; Church history; CRCNA; Financial; Fraternal relations; General and subordinate synods; Japan mission; Joint Synods; Levant missions; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS; RES; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-228, 4-264, 4-280 #147-21, p. 83: Considering breaking ties with the CRCNA over its position on biblical infallibility Biblical inerrancy; CRCNA; Fraternal relations. #147-22, pp. 84-86: Further study of conscience-binding ordination vows; modifying overture process and sending modifications down in overture (#146-20); urging a congregation to listen to presbytery’s desire for merger, but reminding presbytery that a merger requires the consent of both congregations [compare appeal comments with 187th Synod’s handling of Communication 18-4] Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Closing churches; Judicial cases; Officer elections; Overtures, new; Provisional sessions; Strict subscription; Trial procedure; Two- and three-office view; Morning Sun, Sharon. Ministers: 3-017, 3-080, 3-129 #147-23, pp. 86-90: Appointing trustees for Peponiades Trust funds in Cyprus; abolishing Cyprus Commission; post-autonomy arrangements for property in Nicosia and Larnaca, and financial assistance for obtaining a minister Abolishing agencies; Congregational meetings; Disaster relief; GEC; Independent missions; Languages; Mission schools; Native ministers; Orthodox; Paying ministers; Peponiades Trust; Wars. Ministers: 3-024 #147-24, pp. 91-92: Arrangements for #146-10 Cemeteries; Directions to individuals; GEC; Independent missions; Mission schools; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-133 #147-25, pp. 92-97: Reiterating #147-23, first clause; biblical and procedural guidelines for FMB personnel; Cyprus property transfers Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; China mission; Church history; Disaster relief; Japan mission; Levant missions; Mission schools; Native ministers; Real property; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; RTF; Trustees of Synod; Wars; WMF; WTS. Ministers: 3-073 #147-26, pp. 98-99: Appropriating money; price for the printed minutes of Synod, and publishing the 1976 minutes; amending #144-05 on schools A cappella; Agency membership; Christian schools; Church history; Close communion; Covenanter Witness; Disability; Financial; GCP; Geneva; Minutes of Synod; New Light church; OPC; Psalter editions; RPIC; RPTS faculty; Tracts; Witness work. #147-27, pp. 102-104: Urging continued support for the NRA Abortion; Baptists; Bible in schools; CAM; Christian Statesman; Donations; Drugs; Lutherans; Methodists; NRA; PCUSA; Sabbath-keeping; Temperance; Youth. Ministers: 3-022 #147-28, pp. 104-106: Appointing Synod’s budget; other financial arrangements; ascertaining salaries for Synod’s employees Budget; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA. Ministers: 3-049, 3-139, 4-011 #147-29, pp. 106-107: Paying bills Business of Synod; Docket and digest; Financial; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-016, 3-181, 4-129 #147-30, pp. 107-108: Committees reviewing presbytery minutes in 1977 to note whether past years’ irregularities have been corrected Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Rules and organization. #147-31, p. 108: Ohio-Illinois Presbytery’s irregular actions in a judicial case were warranted by an exceptional situation Chicago case; Church discipline; Chicago. Ministers: 3-046, 3-181 #148 — Synod of 1977 #148-01, p. 12: Approving the general plan and the introduction of the proposed new Testimony Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-02, p. 13: Synod’s minutes to list devotions at their chronological places, rather than as a single report Business of Synod; Minutes of Synod. #148-03, pp. 13, 131-140, 146-148, 153-155: Approving chapters 1, 3, and 7 of the new Testimony Bible texts and translations; Biblical inerrancy; Covenant theology; Creation; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-04, p. 14: Adopting #146-12, #147-18, and #147-22 following successful votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 3-079, 3-133, 4-075 #148-05, pp. 14-15, 141-146, 148-151, 155-158, 162-164: Approving chapters 2, 5, 8, and 11 of the new Testimony Biblical inerrancy; Creation; Drugs; Gambling; Pentecostals; Soteriology; Testimony; Universalism. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-06, pp. 15, 164-168: Approving chapters 12 and 13 of the new Testimony Soteriology; Testimony; Universalism. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-07, pp. 18-19: Urging presbyteries to devote parts of their stated meetings to prayer for revival Baptists; Conferences at Synod; Financial; Geneva faculty. Ministers: 3-097, 3-104 #148-08, pp. 22-26: Financial arrangements, including removing the Geneva Corporators from Synod’s budget and assigning priorities to various programs as part of balancing the budget Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Closing churches; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Debt; GEC; Geneva finances; Independent missions; Indian Mission; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; Mission schools; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Tithing; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #148-09, pp. 57-58: Position paper on ordination vows binding the conscience Biblical languages; Ordination queries; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-132, 3-196, 4-216 #148-10, pp. 59-65: Director of Educational Services to promote Christian schools within the church; urging congregations to be concerned about public schools and to pray for parental wisdom in education; reprinting the psalter; publishing the minutes of Synod A cappella; Abortion; Budget; Christian schools; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Directions to individuals; GCP; Geneva faculty; Minutes of Synod; NAPARC; Parental responsibilities; Paying Synod employees; Philosophy of education; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Synod at RPIC; Tracts; VBS. Ministers: 4-006 #148-11, pp. 66, 151-152, 159-162: Approving chapters 6 and 10 of the new Testimony Creation; Evangelism; Soteriology; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-12, pp. 66-67: Urging study and comment submissions for the unapproved sections of the Testimony Church constitution; Creation; Geneva; Meeting schedule; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #148-13, pp. 71-73: Approving policies for Graduate Study Fund operations Agency membership; Budget; Debt; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Health and medicine; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-181 #148-14, pp. 73-75: Urging presbyteries to increase church-planting activity; recommending World Relief for congregational mercy funds Abortion; Africa; Church planting; Disaster relief; Financial; Geneva; NAE; PCUSA; Radio and TV; RPTS; WTS. Ministers: 3-080 #148-15, pp. 75-77: Procedures for implementing session-controlled communion, including analysis of other denominations as true churches Baptism; Church discipline; Close communion; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-011, 3-118, 3-127, 3-132, 3-203, 4-228, 4-280 #148-16, p. 78: Returning a paper on baptized members communing, due to the position taken in #148-15 Lord’s supper; Youth. #148-17, pp. 79-80: Traveling Fund administration; directing presbyteries to counsel delegates who refuse to attend Synod Absences; Business of Synod; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-020, 4-082 #148-18, pp. 81-83: Adjusting RPTS professors’ portfolios and ascertaining their salaries APCNA; Biblical languages; Church history; Graduate student aid; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS accreditation; RPTS library; WMF. Ministers: 3-019, 3-033, 3-176, 3-181, 4-281 #148-19, pp. 83-86: FMB and HMB to work together on North American cross-cultural or inner city missions Attending other seminaries; Foreign missions HR; GEC; Home missions; Independent missions; Japan mission; Mission schools; Real property; RPCS; Self-supporting missions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-073 #148-20, pp. 101-104: Studying relations with NAPARC, relations with the RES, and a definition of “fraternal relations”; urging congregations to study NAPARC race-relations resolutions; sending psalters to an RCUS congregation; “Ecclesiastical Fellowship” with CRCNA ARPC; Biblical inerrancy; Chicago case; Closed pulpits; Construction; CRCNA; Evangelism; Fraternal relations; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Psalmody; RCUS; RES; RPCI; RPCS; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-228, 4-264, 4-280 #148-21, pp. 104-106: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments and #147-16 on evaluations, and approving congregational supplements Bequests; Budget; Congregational aid; Devolution; Higher-education standards; Lou Hutmire; Mission schools; NAPARC; RPTS faculty; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-058 #148-22, p. 106: Temperance Committee chairman to respond to those protesting the publication of a temperance booklet Church history; Covenanter Witness; NRA; RPTS; Temperance; WMF. #148-23, pp. 107-108: Recognizing the dissolution of the Elders’ Conference in light of the new two-office position Abolishing agencies; Elders’Conference; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 3-106, 4-065 #148-24, pp. 110-111: RPTS Trustees to re-examine practice of maintaining a retirement plan separate from Pension Trustees Insurance; Paying RPTS faculty; Pensions. Ministers: 3-138 #148-25, pp. 111-112: Advising against the appointment of a committee to consult with a seceding congregation Book of Discipline; Chicago case; Chicago. Ministers: 3-097, 3-129, 3-171, 4-003, 4-076 #148-26, pp. 112-113: Retroactively permitting an ordination sine titulo Ex post facto; Sine titulo; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 3-106, 4-207 #148-27, pp. 115-116: Commending the Testimony Revision Committee; planning a shorter testimony (modelled on the RPCI’s) for evangelism; communicating with RPCA, RPCI, and RPCS on the subject RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Testimony. Ministers: 3-115, 3-117, 4-065 #148-28, pp. 116-124: Position paper on Christianity in education, including urging testimony for Christ in state schools and promoting Christian schools Biblical languages; Christian schools; Creation; Parental responsibilities; Philosophy of education; SCOTUS; Theonomy; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-080, 3-090 #148-29, pp. 125-127: Financial arrangements, including ascertaining RPTS professors’ and Synod employees’ salaries; studying moving RPTS to Beaver Falls; permitting Geneva to canvass for funds; urging appointment of deacon delegates Canvassing; Conferences at Synod; Deacon delegates; Donations; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Levant missions; NAE; NAPARC; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RES; RPTS location; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #148-30, p. 127: Paying expenses for Finance Committee members who are not Synod delegates Agency membership; Traveling Fund. #148-31, pp. 127-128: Reiterating #148-29 on Geneva canvassing Canvassing; Geneva finances. Ministers: 3-033 #148-32, p. 131: Reiterating #146-08 Docket and digest; Rules and organization. #149 — Synod of 1978 #149-01, p. 11: Licentiates are to be listed in Synod’s directory [no record of adoption, but licentiates are listed beginning in this year] Licentiates; Minutes of Synod. #149-02, pp. 12, 156-161, 162-165, 168-170: Approving chapters 15, 16, 18, and 20 of the new Testimony Blasphemy of the Spirit; Church discipline; Soteriology; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #149-03, pp. 18-20: Approving the basic form of a #148-27 short testimony, deeming it not a subordinate standard, and requesting comments on the content Abortion; Bible in schools; Church planting; Creation; Labor and capital; Publications; RPTS; Sabbath-keeping; Soteriology; Testimony. #149-04, p. 31: Abolishing the Elders Conference (#148-23) Abolishing agencies; Elders’Conference. #149-05, pp. 32-35: FMB authorized to send a minister and other workers to RPCA and to act on any calls for support from RPCS Attending other seminaries; China mission; GEC; Independent missions; Japan mission; Mission schools; Real property; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-073 #149-06, p. 35: Urging FMB to consider changing its name and expanding its scope Foreign missions; Renaming. #149-07, pp. 36-39: Reiterating #136-35 on adjustments and #147-16 on evaluations, and approving congregational supplements; appropriating money; amending HMB constitution Budget; Congregational aid; Devolution; Higher-education standards; Lou Hutmire; NAPARC; Pacific; Publications; Renaming; RPTS; Southern Mission; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-058 #149-08, pp. 39-43: Publishing the minutes of Synod and scheduling the 1980 national conference A cappella; Budget; Christian schools; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Improving praise; Lou Hutmire; Minutes of Synod; New Light church; Psalm recordings; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Sabbath-keeping; Synod at RPIC; Witness work. Ministers: 4-006 #149-09, pp. 44, 150-153, 161-162, 165-167: Approving chapters 4, 14, 17, and 19 of the new Testimony Creation; Labor and capital; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Testimony; Tithing. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #149-10, pp. 46-48: Approving a Pastor’s Refresher Course for 1979 Bequests; Biblical languages; Higher-education standards; Pastors’Refresher Course; Pensions; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; Social Security. Ministers: 3-019 #149-11, p. 48: Recognizing the Greek Evangelical Church in Cyprus as a sister church Fraternal relations; GEC; Independent missions. #149-12, p. 50: Adopting paragraphs 2, 6, 10, 12, 13, and 14 of proposed new procedural rules Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-067, 3-079, 3-179, 4-041, 4-202 #149-13, pp. 51-59: Financial arrangements; ascertaining the salary of Synod’s treasurer; renaming Synod’s Budget to the “Denominational Ministries Giving Fund”; approving bylaw on indemnification Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Insurance; Levant missions; Long-range planning; Lou Hutmire; Mission schools; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Renaming; Trustees of Synod. #149-14, pp. 96-99: Adopting new procedural rules and sending them down in overture, and repealing #125-21 Docket and digest; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-067, 3-079, 3-179, 4-041, 4-202 #149-15, pp. 99-100: Reiterating #148-12 Meeting schedule; Requesting opinions; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #149-16, pp. 101-104: Procedures for transferring ministerial candidates from one presbytery to another; handling a call from a Christian counselling organization upon a licentiate, and deeming it not a regular gospel call; declining to amend the Book of Church Government on pro re nata Synod meetings Book of Church Government; Licentiates; Meeting schedule; Membership transfer; Ministers in secular employment; Pastoral calls; Rules and organization; Sine titulo; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 3-073, 3-127, 3-176, 3-196, 4-065, 4-079, 4-127, 4-202, 4-228 #149-17, pp. 104-105: Notifying President Jimmy Carter, Chief Justice Warren Burger, and Congress of a position statement on abortion Abortion; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Presidential communications; SCOTUS. Ministers: 3-171, 3-176, 3-181 #149-18, pp. 105, 138-150: Position paper rejecting historic position on covenanting; amending ordination queries and sending amendment down in overture Biblical languages; COCM; Covenant of 1871; Lord’s supper; Ordination queries; Overtures, new; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-033, 4-011, 4-123, 4-129, 4-216, 4-280 #149-19, p. 106: Adopting guideline for minimum ministerial salaries and directing Pension Trustees to modify assessment scheme Minimum salaries; Pensions. Ministers: 4-065 #149-20, p. 108: Deeming appropriate the actions of Iowa Presbytery and urging dissenting elders to submit to Presbytery Judicial cases; No information; Sharon. Ministers: 3-097, 3-106, 4-082, 4-202 #149-21, pp. 108-109: Thanking Calvin College for hosting Synod Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 3-207 #149-22, pp. 109-110: Paying bills and urging the submission of comments to the committee on the status of church officers Eldership; Financial; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-009, 3-046, 3-139, 4-006, 4-110 #149-23, pp. 110-111: Traveling Fund administration; directing presbyteries to counsel delegates who accept Fund money without attending Synod Absences; Lou Hutmire; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-099, 4-202 #149-24, p. 112: Amending the Book of Church Government on interim moderators of Synod, and sending this change down in overture Book of Church Government; Overtures, new; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-033, 3-071, 3-083, 3-132, 4-129 #149-25, pp. 113-117: RP Consultative Assembly in 1979; remaining in the RES and paying bills, and Trustees may participate in incorporating it; fraternal delegates from FCS, and studying questions of church union ARPC; Church union; Close communion; Closed pulpits; Covenanter Witness; Eldership; FCS; Fraternal relations; Incorporation; NAPARC; RCUS; RES; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-076, 4-228, 4-264, 4-280 #149-26, p. 117: Churches in fraternal relations are to be listed in Synod’s directory Fraternal relations; Minutes of Synod. #149-27, pp. 118-121: Position paper on psalm explanations, including deeming some sort of explanation essential Book of Church Government; Closed pulpits; Directory for Worship; Psalm explanations; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Lake Reno. Ministers: 3-080, 3-132, 3-156, 4-006 #149-28, p. 123: Presbyteries authorized to submit names of all elders for Synod’s directory Eldership; Minutes of Synod. #149-29, pp. 123-125: Financial arrangements and ascertaining salaries of Synod’s employees Budget; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-049, 3-139, 4-011 #149-30, p. 125: Greeting other Reformed Presbyterian churches and the Greek Evangelical Church Directions to individuals; GEC; Outside communications; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 3-181 #150 — Synod of 1979 #150-01, p. 15: Adding a minister to pension plan B Making exceptions; Pensions. Ministers: 4-016, 4-045 #150-02, pp. 15-16, 213-226: Approving chapters 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, and 33 of the new Testimony Baptism; Church discipline; Close communion; Covenant theology; Lord’s supper; Parental responsibilities; Premillennialism; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #150-03, p. 16: Westminster Standards revision committee may distribute drafts, and requesting comments Geneva faculty; Requesting opinions; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 2-315, 3-019, 4-123, 4-281 #150-04, p. 18: Sending greetings to the RPCI Directions to individuals; Outside communications; RPCI. Ministers: 4-129, 4-281 #150-05, pp. 19-20: Protesting Pennsylvania Governor Richard Thornburgh’s proclamation of Gay Pride Week, and notifying him of the protest (q.v. page 107) Government communications; Holidays; LGBT. Ministers: 4-129, 4-281 #150-06, p. 21: Urging the FMB to consider a candidate for Australia (#149-05) Foreign missions HR; RPCA. Ministers: 4-263 #150-07, pp. 22-32: Urging careful use of Synod funds; studying financial costs of fraternal relations; considering HMB/FMB merger; Finance Committee regulations; working with RPWA; limiting concurrent board and committee service, and committee sizes; urging greater use of consultative members; seeking better investments in congregations; regulating publications Agency membership; Bequests; Book of Church Government; Budget; Canvassing; Church history; Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; Every Member Canvass; Foreign missions; Forward Movement; Fraternal relations; Home missions; Inflation; Investment philosophy; NAE; NAPARC; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Poor relief; Psalter editions; Real property; RES; RP Home; RPCI; Testimony; Trustees of Synod; Westminster standards; Witness work. Ministers: 3-009, 3-044, 3-118, 3-176, 4-110 #150-08, p. 45: Urging the Trustees to re-examine their investments in light of the church’s responsibilities Investment philosophy; Trustees of Synod. #150-09, pp. 46-48: Congregational supplements Bequests; Budget; Canada; Congregational aid; Long-range planning; Lou Hutmire; Pacific; RPTS; Southern Mission; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-058 #150-10, pp. 49-51: Printing the minutes of Synod; merging directorates of publication and education into one directorate, and ascertaining director’s salary; scheduling 1980 national conference A cappella; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Budget; Church constitution; Covenanter Witness; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; RPIC; Synod HR; Testimony; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 4-006 #150-11, p. 51: Urging the E&P Board to consider merging the Covenanter Witnesswith the Presbyterian Journal (OCLC 1777073) Covenanter Witness; Financial. #150-12, pp. 54-55: Adopting #149-14, #149-18, and #149-24 following successful votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 3-097 #150-13, p. 86: Trustees to amend their policies in order to assist a retired minister Pensions; Trustees of Synod. #150-14, pp. 86-87, 173-178: Adopting a two-office position, permitting all elders to serve on sessions, directing ministers to join congregations, and directing presbyteries to continue overseeing pastors Church membership; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 3-009, 3-046, 3-139, 4-006, 4-110, 4-281 #150-15, pp. 88-93: Urging other Reformed denominations to a joint study of various biblical principles Blue Banner Faith and Life; Church union; Covenant of 1871; Fraternal relations. Ministers: 3-097, 3-129, 3-195 #150-16, p. 99: Affirming the current wording of the ordination queries on covenanting Descending obligations; Ordination queries. #150-17, pp. 107-111: Reiterating #149-05 on RPCA; appropriating money Bible texts and translations; Budget; China mission; CRCNA; Foreign missions HR; Japan mission; Mission schools; NAE; Paying missionaries; RPCA; RTF; Taxation. Ministers: 3-073 #150-18, pp. 113-134: Amending ordination queries and sending amendment down in overture Biblical languages; Book of Church Government; Brief Covenant; COCM; Memorial Volume; Ordination queries; Overtures, new; RPCS; Terms of Communion; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-033, 4-011, 4-093, 4-123, 4-280 #150-19, pp. 134, 182-186: Approving chapter 21 of the new Testimony A cappella; Offerings in worship; Parental responsibilities; Psalmody; Sabbath-keeping; Society meetings; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #150-20, p. 134: Commending the Pennsylvania Legislature for replacing Governor Thornburgh’s Gay Pride Week with Family Pride Week, and memorializing Representative Clarence Dietz and the governor Government communications; Holidays; LGBT. Ministers: 3-181 #150-21, pp. 135, 186-213: Approving chapters 22, 23, 24, 25, and 26 of the new Testimony Abortion; Christian schools; Church membership; Covenant renovation; Dead wife’s sister; Drugs; Eldership; Oath question; Pacifism; Parental responsibilities; Political office; Temperance; Testimony; Tobacco; Voting. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #150-22, pp. 135-136: Approving entire new Testimony (including chapter 9, not previously approved) and sending it down in overture Overtures, new; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #150-23, p. 136: Urging retired missionaries to greet the Greek Evangelical Church Directions to individuals; GEC; Outside communications. Ministers: 3-075 #150-24, pp. 141-142: Traveling Fund administration Absences; Agency membership; Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-041, 4-099 #150-25, pp. 142-143: Preparing for a Pre-Synodical Conference in 1981 on church discipline Church discipline; Conferences at Synod. Ministers: 4-016, 4-258 #150-26, pp. 143-144: Re-studying ordination vows binding the conscience (#148-09) Strict subscription; Vow 8. Ministers: 3-059, 4-047, 4-082 #150-27, p. 144: Financial arrangements for RTF Bequests; Foreign missions; RTF. #150-28, pp. 144-150: Relationships with other NAPARC churches, including occasional communion; RES participation; HMB to consider denominational diaconal work; exploring relations with OPC and FCS in Canada Agency membership; ARPC; Canada; Close communion; Closed pulpits; CRCNA; Diaconate; Directory for Worship; Divorce; FCS; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Home missions; Incorporation; Joint Synods; NAPARC; OPC; Psalmody; RCUS; RES; RPCI; RPCS; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-076, 4-129, 4-264, 4-280 #150-29, p. 151: Reiterating #150-04 to the RPCA, RPCS, and Greek Evangelical Church GEC; RPCA; RPCS. Ministers: 4-281 #150-30, pp. 151-152: Amending Book of Church Government on ministerial candidates (repealing #106-09 and #144-29; cf. #133-24) and sending this down in overture, and official interpretation of this amendment Attending other seminaries; Book of Church Government; Higher-education standards. Ministers: 3-103, 4-006, 4-016, 4-047 #150-31, pp. 152-153: Financial arrangements; ascertaining church employees’ salaries Budget; Foreign missions; Fraternal relations; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RES; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. #150-32, pp. 154-158: Declining appeal from suspended elders against Ohio-Illinois Presbytery but urging forbearance given the context; reiterating opposition to secret societies and requiring all sessions to enforce this; modifying statistical blanks; presbyteries to exercise greater caution in minute-taking; accepting St. Lawrence Presbytery’s handling of irregularities COCM; Judicial cases; Secret societies; Sine titulo; Slavery and race; Statistical blanks; Supply preaching; Testimony; Selma. Ministers: 3-049, 3-067, 3-071, 3-079, 3-195, 4-006, 4-020, 4-129 #150-33, pp. 158-160: Process for electing members to boards and committees Absences; Rules and organization; Sympathy. #150-34, p. 160: Sending the Moderator as an ambassador to the RPCI and raising money for his expenses Canvassing; Financial; Fraternal relations; RPCI. Ministers: 4-281 #150-35, p. 160: One minister to contact another and encourage him Sympathy. Ministers: 3-117, 4-202 #151 — Synod of 1980 #151-01, pp. 37-38: Raising pensions Budget; Forms; Licentiates; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Taxation. Ministers: 3-138 #151-02, p. 38: Urging comment submissions for the verbal revision of the Confession New Light church; OPC; Requesting opinions; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 2-315, 4-123, 4-281 #151-03, p. 43: Time and Place Committee to attempt scheduling Synod in even-numbered years in July or August, to improve ruling elder attendance Meeting schedule. #151-04, pp. 45-46: Adopting #150-18, #150-22, and #150-30 following favorable votes in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 3-032, 3-097, 3-103 #151-05, p. 46: Testimony Revision Committee made responsible for editing the new Testimony Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-033, 3-049, 3-176, 3-205, 4-016, 4-281 #151-06, pp. 55-58: Officially closing Southern Mission and making concluding arrangements; modifying HMB membership and approving its constitutional changes; supplements for 1981 Abolishing agencies; Agency membership; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Higher-education standards; Lou Hutmire; Mission schools; RPTS; Southern Mission; Urban church planting; Selma. Ministers: 4-058 #151-07, pp. 66-67: Commending And He Had Compassion on Them (OCLC 12755026) as a basis for mercy-ministry and world relief efforts CRCNA; Diaconate; Disaster relief; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; Poor relief; Publications. Ministers: 3-073, 3-127 #151-08, pp. 72-75: Reiterating #149-05 on RPCA, and ditto for Japan; appropriating money; urging closer cooperation between FMB and HMB, but not merging them; Japanese delegate included in Traveling Fund Abolishing agencies; Agency membership; Budget; Foreign missions HR; GEC; Japan mission; Mission schools; Native ministers; PCUSA; Real property; RPCA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-073, 3-092 #151-09, p. 75: Urging E&P Board to appoint a volunteer youth secretary and to reconsider its junior-level work in congregations WMF; Youth. #151-10, pp. 75-78: Adopting new chapters for Book of Church Government and Directory for Worship regarding two-office view of ordination, but not yet sending them down in overture Book of Church Government; Closing churches; Diaconate; Directory for Worship; Two- and three-office view. #151-11, p. 90: Memorializing President Jimmy Carter and Governor Ronald Reagan in relation to the kingship of Christ and the explanatory declaration Covenanter Witness; Explanatory declaration; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan. Ministers: 3-011 #151-12, pp. 91-93: Preparing a petition to Congress to grant conscientious-objector status for individual wars, as well as for all wars Congressional petitions; Lutherans; Pacifism; Vietnam War. Ministers: 3-104, 3-117, 4-079 #151-13, pp. 94-99: Deeming existing forms for pastoral calls to be advisory only and adopting new forms with equal advisory weight; placing #150-30 official interpretation into the Book of Church Government as a footnote; requiring all ordinands to sign the ordination queries, and sending down in overture a relevant change to the Book of Church Government Attending other seminaries; Benefits for ministers; Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Elements of worship; Forms; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Ordination queries; Pastoral calls; Terms of Communion. Ministers: 3-127 #151-14, pp. 99, 161-175: Recognizing that education has been placed above evangelism and diaconal ministry, and seeking to change; focusing on families in all levels of programs, in order to strengthen marriage and unite families; Geneva must remain an RP institution Bequests; Budget; Church constitution; Church planting; Congregationalism; CYPU; Decline; Diaconate; Evangelism; Geneva finances; Inflation; Long-range planning; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Parental responsibilities; Real property; RPTS; RPWA; Second World War; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-009, 3-044, 3-118, 3-176, 4-110 #151-15, pp. 99-103: Studying the Regulative Principle with the OPC, and joint synod/general assembly in 1981; changing from member to observer at the RES; declining invitation to merge with the PCA, but thanking them for the invitation Alcohol restrictions on all members; ARPC; Biblical inerrancy; Church union; Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Elements of worship; FCS; Financial; Fraternal relations; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; RCUS; RES; RPCI; RPCS; Secret societies; Testimony; Westminster standards; Women deacons; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 3-205, 4-076, 4-129, 4-280 #151-16, pp. 103-104: Adopting job description for Arrangements and Devotions committee, and regulating its membership Agency membership; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-075, 3-103, 4-127 #151-17, pp. 105-106: Appointing Synod’s budget; financial arrangements; ascertaining salaries of Synod’s employees Budget; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. #151-18, pp. 110-111: Traveling Fund administration Absences; Lou Hutmire; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-041, 4-120 #152 — Synod of 1981 #152-01, pp. 9-16: Loans to ministers for housing assistance are to be made from pension fund, not church erection fund Agency membership; Bequests; Cemeteries; Closing churches; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Insurance; Levant missions; Long-range planning; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPWA; Trustees of Synod. #152-02, pp. 17-19: Position statement on two-office position (#150-14), preparing to rewrite the Book of Church Government, and publishing a pamphlet on the position Book of Church Government; Church membership; Delegate qualifications; Testimony; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 3-009, 3-046, 3-139, 4-006, 4-281 #152-03, pp. 20-21: Promoting the use of the completed verbal revision of the Confession and considering adding it to the church constitution New Light church; OPC; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 3-176, 4-123, 4-281 #152-04, pp. 24-25: Declining to participate in CRCNA world relief efforts and diaconal training, but thanking them for offering the training CRCNA; Debt; Diaconate; NAPARC; OPC; Poor relief; Publications. Ministers: 3-073, 3-127 #152-05, pp. 25-26: Procedure for handling reports of irregularities in presbytery records Book of Church Government; Presbytery reports; Rules and organization. Ministers: 4-046, 4-129 #152-06, p. 43: Adopting #151-13 following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-237, 4-264 #152-07, pp. 43-46: Amending the HMB constitution, renaming and amending the purpose of two committees, and ending HMB financial aid for congregations older than 10 years Congregational aid; CRCNA; Evangelism; Geneva; Mission schools; NAPARC; OPC; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-197 #152-08, pp. 47-49: New York Presbytery followed the spirit of church law in not prohibiting a new convert from quiet alcohol use; sessions urged to apply the Testimony carefully to new converts Alcohol restrictions on all members; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 3-201, 4-006, 4-127 #152-09, p. 50: Reports may not be changed significantly on the floor of Synod: they must be accepted or recommitted Rules and organization. #152-10, pp. 67-76: Synod’s treasurer made an ex officio FMB member; permitting executive secretary to be re-re-elected; appropriating money to FMB; loaning missionary to RTF Agency membership; GEC; Geneva; Interchurch; Japan mission; Lou Hutmire; Ministers in secular employment; Mission schools; Paying Synod employees; Publications; Real property; RPCA; RPCS; RPTS; RTF; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-023, 3-073 #152-11, p. 76: Urging FMB to consider cooperating with the FCS in foreign missions FCS; Foreign missions; Interchurch. #152-12, pp. 76-84: Approving new E&P Board constitution; new position of Coordinator of Youth Activities, and making arrangements A cappella; Agency membership; Blue Banner Faith and Life; Budget; Canvassing; Covenanter Witness; Creation; Geneva; New Light church; Paying Synod employees; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RPIC; Sabbath schools; Testimony; Tracts; Westminster standards; Youth. #152-13, p. 85: Preparing to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the First Secession APCNA; Church history. #152-14, pp. 88-89: Appropriating money to the Pension Fund, setting rates for pastoral contributions, making a missionary eligible for pensions, and raising pensions Pensions; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-023, 4-016 #152-15, pp. 90-104: Statement on denominational programs, priorities, and finances, including planning, mercy, family, Geneva, stewardship, board membership, home missions, youth activity, and RPTS Abortion; Bequests; Budget; CAM; Church planting; Congregationalism; Decline; Departing ministers; Divorce; Geneva finances; Inflation; Long-range planning; Parental responsibilities; Paying ministers; Poor relief; Real property; RP Home; RPIC; Testimony; TFY; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule; Westminster standards; Witness work. Ministers: 3-009, 3-044, 3-118, 3-176, 4-110 #152-16, p. 104: Congratulating Dr. and Mrs. Charles Marston Lee on the date of their 68th anniversary Congratulations; Geneva faculty; Marriage, sexuality, and gender. #152-17, pp. 105-111: Joint statement with other RP churches, including maintaining separate testimonies in separate countries, teaching Christ’s lordship, a uniform psalter, and theological education; and studying the proper use of non-psalms Agency membership; ARPC; Church history; Church union; Conferences at Synod; Covenant renovation; CRCNA; FCS; Graduate student aid; KAPC; Membership transfer; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Pensions; Psalm explanations; Psalter editions; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS; RES; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS; Terms of Communion; Testimony. Ministers: 3-083, 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 4-006, 4-129, 4-280 #152-18, p. 111: Studying ways of ensuring that fraternal greetings be useful Fraternal relations. #152-19, pp. 112-113: Confessing sin in “irregular and unjust” treatment of a minister at the Synod of 1966, and seeking forgiveness Apologies; Statute of limitations. Ministers: 3-033, 3-059, 3-088, 3-129, 3-133, 4-016 #152-20, pp. 114-115: Position statement on the nature of the visible church and the sacraments, applied to interchurch relations Baptism; Close communion; Interchurch; OPC. Ministers: 4-011, 4-016, 4-082 #152-21, pp. 116-117: Petitioning all U.S. Senators and President Ronald Reagan to support 97 S. 158, and notifying newspapers and the Christian Action Council Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; News media; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan. Ministers: 3-171, 3-196, 4-125, 4-129, 4-197, 4-237 #152-22, p. 118: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-120, 4-239 #152-23, pp. 120-121: New standing committee, to counsel and support men on draft issues and to petition Congress; publishing related material in the Covenanter Witness Congressional petitions; Covenanter Witness; Military service; Pacifism; Specific congressmen; Vietnam War. #152-24, pp. 121-123: Studying the concept of “associate membership”; minor changes in the Form of Church Government; congregations may decide whether or not to have flags in churches; amending Form of Church Government on pastoral calls, and sending this down in overture; ordination of ministers formerly ruling elders Book of Church Government; Church membership; Elements of worship; Forms; Pastoral calls; Strict subscription; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Vow 8. Ministers: 3-179, 4-047, 4-065, 4-099 #152-25, pp. 124-129: Position paper on ordination vows binding the conscience Making exceptions; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Ordination queries; Political office; Strict subscription; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-176, 4-047, 4-082 #152-26, pp. 130-131: Appointing Synod’s budget; various other financial arrangements; ascertaining salaries for Synod’s employees; permitting the RPWA to canvass the church for funds; aiding a new minister Bequests; Budget; Canvassing; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Home missions; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod; Clarinda. Ministers: 4-118 #152-27, pp. 149-151: Presbytery clerks to counsel congregations not sending delegates to Synod; reviewing the membership of Geneva Corporators Absences; Geneva governance. #153 — Synod of 1982 #153-01, pp. 26-27: Expanding plans for #152-13 celebration APCNA; Business of Synod; Church discipline; SCOTUS. Ministers: 3-016, 4-058, 4-200 #153-02, pp. 27-30: Declining to change any church law related to children professing faith and becoming communicant members; urging sessions to consider faith and life more strongly than age; rejecting #152-24 on associate membership Baptism; Church membership; Congregational meetings; Covenant theology; Lord’s supper; Strict subscription; Testimony; Youth; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 3-117, 4-079, 4-093, 4-202 #153-03, pp. 31-32: Modifying statistical blanks and providing further directions on filling them out; sessions must be careful in dealing with neglectful and disinterested members Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Long-range planning; Membership transfer; Statistical blanks. Ministers: 3-059 #153-04, pp. 32-35: Adopting plan for reworking the Form of Church Government by moving parts to the Testimony and the rest to a new Directory for Church Government Book of Church Government; Overtures; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-019, 3-181, 4-006 #153-05, pp. 36-38: New standing committee on diaconal mercy-ministry coordination Agency membership; Congregational aid; Diaconate; Evangelism; Forms; New standing committees; RPTS faculty; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-197 #153-06, p. 52: Adopting #152-24 fourth clause following favorable vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-041, 4-193 #153-07, pp. 53-54: Presbyteries are responsible for receiving ministers from other churches; process for handling receptions and providing financial assistance to new ministers Home missions; Paying ministers; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 3-088, 4-123 #153-08, pp. 54-55: Paying bills Covenanter Witness; Drugs; Financial; NTPC; Sabbath schools; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-049, 3-083, 3-115 #153-09, p. 57: Appointing a judicial commission to handle disputes in Indianapolis Indianapolis case; New commissions; Indianapolis. Ministers: 3-033, 3-067, 3-130, 3-201, 4-047, 4-093, 4-228 #153-10, pp. 58-60: Reaffirming current position on holding property in trust, and addressing departing churches in the Book of Church Government Biblical inerrancy; Book of Church Government; Closing churches; Divorce; Financial; Property held in trust; Psalmody; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049, 3-071, 3-132 #153-11, pp. 62, 133-134: Urging churches and members to support RTF and to pray for openings and translators in China Publications; RTF; WTS. Ministers: 3-023 #153-12, p. 75: Individuals questioning the makeup of the #153-09 commission must communicate with Nominating Committee chairman Directions to individuals; Indianapolis case; Indianapolis. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130, 3-201, 4-197, 4-228 #153-13, p. 75: Directing the E&P Board to permit the creation of a psalter concordance Psalter editions. Ministers: 4-046 #153-14, pp. 76-78: Sessions to report on interchurch activities; approving ARPC and KAPC joining NAPARC and requesting fraternal relations with them; referring #152-18 to other denominations; raising money to support the NAE ARPC; Biblical inerrancy; Canvassing; CRCNA; FCS; Financial; Fraternal relations; Geneva; KAPC; Minutes of Synod; NAE; NAPARC; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Psalmody; RCUS; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-181, 3-201, 4-006, 4-129, 4-257, 4-280 #153-15, pp. 80-81: Declining to reactivate the Signs of the Times Committee Covenanter Witness; Signs of the Times; Cambridge. Ministers: 3-080, 3-130, 4-076 #153-16, pp. 86-90: 1984 National Conference; Trustees responsible for preparing “will” forms; new position, Director of Youth Ministries; continuing to support Great Commissions Publications curriculum; preparing a new covenant; appointing E&P Board budget Bequests; Conferences at Synod; Covenant renovation; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; GCP; Insurance; Labor and capital; Minutes of Synod; OPC; Paying Synod employees; PCA; Psalmody; Psalter editions; Repeating tunes; RPCI; RPCNA books; RPCS; Sabbath schools; Synod at RPIC; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod. #153-17, pp. 92-94: Reiterating #152-15 on board and committee membership (members may be re-elected only once) Two-term rule. #153-18, pp. 94-96: St. Lawrence Presbytery may operate Ottawa Theological Hall, but it must report that activity (like others) to Synod; publishing the OTH constitution; supporting the concept of a Canadian seminary Insurance; OTH. Ministers: 3-017, 3-054, 3-195, 4-244 #153-19, pp. 96-98: Appointing Synod’s budget; various arrangements; ascertaining salaries of church employees; urging Japanese congregations to contribute and assist ministers in attending Synod Home missions; Japan mission; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Native ministers; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. #153-20, pp. 120-121: Position statement on nuclear warfare; submitting it to President Ronald Reagan, United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, and USSR General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev; and submitting it to NAE conference on Peace in the Nuclear Age Communism; Government communications; League of Nations and UN; NAE; Nuclear weapons; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan. Ministers: 3-009, 4-093, 4-118, 4-237 #153-21, pp. 121-122: Position statement on abortion and human life; submitting it to President Ronald Reagan and U.S. Senator Jesse Helms; delegates to urge their congregations to promote it to legislators, and Interchurch Committee to notify other NAPARC churches Abortion; Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; NAPARC; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan; Specific congressmen. Ministers: 3-171, 4-129 #153-22, pp. 122-123: Forgiving a former theological candidate’s loans Debt; Making exceptions; RPTS. #153-23, pp. 123-124: Traveling Fund administration; including Japanese ministers in the traveling fund (#153-19) Japan mission; Lou Hutmire; Native ministers; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-040, 4-239 #153-24, p. 124: Continuing to seek closer relations with the OPC, although not organic union Interchurch; OPC. #154 — Synod of 1983 #154-01, pp. 19-23: Prohibiting pension-fund loans to retired Synod employees; approving a tax-sheltered pension plan Insurance; Pensions; Taxation. Ministers: 3-138 #154-02, p. 23: Synod’s Trustees and Pension Trustees to form a committee to resolve their differences Pensions; Trustees of Synod. #154-03, pp. 29-31: Urging the Geneva Trustees and Corporators to proceed with a planned charter revision Geneva governance; Philosophy of education; Thanks. Ministers: 3-083, 4-058 #154-04, pp. 31-32: Paying a bill Business of Synod; Financial; Geneva. Ministers: 3-059, 3-068, 3-179, 4-274 #154-05, p. 32: Reiterating #152-03 on promotion Church membership; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 3-176, 4-123, 4-281 #154-06, pp. 34-36: Procedures on paperwork for 1984 short Synod (#137-21, #140-51) Rules and organization; Synod at RPIC; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-129 #154-07, pp. 46-48: Appointing delegates to attend a mission conference, making them a study committee, and considering training programs for cross-cultural ministry Foreign missions; Higher-education standards; Home missions; Interchurch; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-118 #154-08, pp. 48-51: Sessions to advertise the need of teachers for Japan and Cyprus Budget; Foreign missions HR; GEC; Geneva; India; Japan mission; Jewish missions; Mission schools; NAPARC; PCA; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS; RTF; WTS. Ministers: 3-073 #154-09, pp. 61-64: Considering amending the RPTS constitution to allow for non-RPCNA trustees Baptists; Biblical inerrancy; NAPARC; OPC; Pastors’Refresher Course; PCA; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. #154-10, pp. 65-66: Procedures for handling the records of the #153-09 commission Indianapolis case; Reviewing commissions; Indianapolis. Ministers: 3-097, 3-132, 4-196, 4-258 #154-11, p. 86: Thanking a congregation for furnishing several elders to the #153-09 commission Directions to individuals; Indianapolis case; Thanks; College Hill, Indianapolis. Ministers: 3-053, 4-129 #154-12, pp. 86-88: Procedures for long-range financial planning, including pensions, personnel appointments, Synod’s budget, and considering merging FMB and HMB Abolishing agencies; Budget; Home missions; Independent missions; Investment philosophy; Japan mission; Long-range planning; Pensions; RPWA; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-017, 3-195, 4-216 #154-13, pp. 89-90: Appointing Synod’s budget; special offering for Synod’s budget; publishing a new edition of the psalter; salaries for Synod employees; various other arrangements Collections; Computing; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-049 #154-14, pp. 112-115: Appropriating money to the E&P Board Budget; Covenanter Witness; GCP; Minutes of Synod; NAE; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Psalter editions; RP Home; Synod at RPIC; Two-term rule; UK conference. Ministers: 4-258 #154-15, pp. 115-116: Paying a bill Drugs; Financial; Gambling; News media; Pornography; Temperance. Ministers: 3-083, 3-115 #154-16, pp. 117-119: Returning a judicial appeal to Midwest Presbytery with instructions to report back in 1984; studying the concept of ministers leaving Presbytery’s roll without losing ordination; the church is right to make political declarations; urging E&P Board to devise a system for referring to Testimony sections Abortion; Book of Church Government; Canada; Departing ministers; Judicial cases; Political dissent; Sabbath schools; SCOTUS; Society meetings; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-097, 3-132, 4-196, 4-258 #154-17, pp. 119-120: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-082, 4-200 #154-18, p. 120: Urging the use of the Civil Disobedience Committee’s paper for stimulating discussion Political dissent. #154-19, p. 125: Authorizing FMB to explore alternate finance routes; urging youth interested in missions to contact FMB and HMB as early as possible Budget; Paying missionaries; Seeking candidates, FMB. Ministers: 3-127, 4-123 #154-20, pp. 126-127: Closer relations with the OPC; joint synod/assembly meetings in 1986; initiating correspondence with Evangelical Presbyterian Church; sessions to study and practice unity on the local level ARPC; Church union; CRCNA; EPC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Protestant Reformed Church; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS. Ministers: 3-132, 3-181, 4-006, 4-129, 4-257 #154-21, pp. 130-141: Position paper on sabbath-keeping: reaffirming existing position as expressed in new paper, urging sessions to use its points, and E&P Board to publish it Church discipline; Holidays; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Publications; Sabbath-keeping; Sports; Theonomy. Ministers: 3-176, 4-082, 4-186 #154-22, p. 142: Reaffirming commitment to exclusive psalmody Pastoral letters; Psalmody. Ministers: 3-103, 3-146, 4-006 #154-23, pp. 143-145: Approving new baptismal vows and modifications to Directory for Worship, and sending them down in overture Baptism; Directory for Worship; Overtures, new; Parental responsibilities; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-093, 4-202 #154-24, p. 146: Deploring legal abortion, notifying Congress and the Supreme Court of the United States of this position, and instructing elders to send copies of this position to abortion-supporting churches Abortion; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Government communications; Outside communications; SCOTUS. Ministers: 3-009, 3-067, 3-117, 4-216, 4-218, 4-244, 4-263, 4-274 #155 — Synod of 1984 #155-01, pp. 15-16: Declining to merge FMB and HMB (#154-12) Home missions; Independent missions; Japan Presbytery. Ministers: 3-146, 4-127, 4-197 #155-02, pp. 17-18: Dissolving the #153-09 commission, its work being complete Abolishing agencies; Indianapolis case. Ministers: 3-033, 3-130, 3-201, 4-228 #155-03, pp. 20-21: Paying bills Business of Synod; Financial. Ministers: 3-059, 4-101, 4-274 #155-04, pp. 22-24: Amending #154-20 on joint meetings (1987, not 1986), appointing delegates to the National Consultation on Pornography, urging submission of comments on church unity ARPC; Church union; Covenant renovation; CRCNA; EPC; Financial; Fraternal relations; Joint Synods; Minutes of Synod; NAE; NAPARC; Nuclear weapons; OPC; PCA; Pornography; Protestant Reformed Church; Psalter editions; RCUS; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-132, 3-201, 4-006, 4-129, 4-257 #155-05, pp. 24-25: Urging congregations to urge all families to subscribe to the Christian Statesman Christian Statesman; Covenanter Witness; Drugs; NRA; NTPC. Ministers: 3-083, 3-115 #155-06, pp. 31-34: Permitting exception to #153-17 GEC; Geneva; Interchurch; Japan mission; Mission schools; Real property; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RTF; Short-term missions; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 3-073 #155-07, pp. 41-45: Pension Fund administration and regulations; presbyteries must report a newly installed teaching elder’s first day of work Directions to individuals; Disability; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Taxation; Thanks. Ministers: 3-138, 4-264 #155-08, pp. 45-60: Approving amendments to the RPTS constitution and bylaws; preparing to celebrate its 175th anniversary Agency membership; Baptists; Biblical languages; Budget; Church history; Church music; Computing; Evangelism; Inflation; Interchurch; OPC; PCA; Pentecostals; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race; Trustees of Synod. #155-09, pp. 60-61: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-083, 4-200 #155-10, pp. 61-62: Adopting #154-23 following successful vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-065, 4-122 #155-11, p. 62: Permitting Japanese congregations to use old baptismal vows for one year, pending translation of new vows Baptism; Japan mission; Languages; Making exceptions. #155-12, p. 82: Endorsing the NAE’s objection to the appointment of an ambassador to the Holy See, and communicating this endorsement to President Ronald Reagan, officers of Congress, and the NAE Congressional petitions; NAE; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan; Vatican ambassador. #155-13, pp. 82-83: Salaries for Synod employees; various other financial arrangements Budget; Computing; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-118 #155-14, p. 108:#153-09 commission minutes to be filed with the Stated Clerk Indianapolis case; Lou Hutmire. #155-15, pp. 108-112: Holding a conference on cross-cultural work, and sending delegates to other conferences Baptists; Chinese Home Mission; Indian Mission; Jewish missions; Kentucky Mission; NAE; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-033, 3-104, 4-082 #156 — Synod of 1985 #156-01, pp. 14-15: Paying bills Business of Synod; Church history; Financial; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Pornography; RPTS. Ministers: 4-101 #156-02, p. 15: Retaining the original Confession as authoritative, but printing the modernized-language version as a teaching tool Testimony; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 3-176, 4-123, 4-281 #156-03, pp. 16-21: Urging sessions to submit complete lists of members and adherents for church mailing program; boards’ financial reports to be discussed with their other reports Bequests; Church erection; Closing churches; Computing; Headquarters; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Licentiates; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; RPTS library; Sabbath-keeping; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule exceptions. #156-04, pp. 21-26: Pension Fund administration and regulations, including amending pension plan B; reiterating #155-07 on new installations; declining to make licentiates to participate in Fund Insurance; Investment philosophy; Licentiates; Pensions; Taxation; Temperance; Tobacco. Ministers: 4-264 #156-05, pp. 33-35: Holding a pre-Synod conference on church extension and evangelism in 1986; approving NAPARC comity agreement Budget; Church planting; Closing churches; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva; NAE; NAPARC. Ministers: 4-244 #156-06, pp. 39-42: Reiterating #066-20 on Catholic rebaptism Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; LDS; New Light church; OPC; PCA; Unitarianism; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-082, 4-123, 4-200, 4-263, 4-281 #156-07, p. 42: Dismissing the committee on the revision of the Westminster Confession (#142-38) Abolishing agencies; Updating Westminster. #156-08, p. 42:#156-06 does not affect the status of any member currently in good standing Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Construction; Valid sacraments. #156-09, p. 48: Declining to realign Iowa Presbytery’s boundaries Presbytery reports. Ministers: 4-196, 4-239, 4-257 #156-10, pp. 48-59: Appropriating money for graduate study Biblical languages; Computing; Graduate student aid. Ministers: 3-181, 4-129, 4-216, 4-263 #156-11, p. 51: Permitting an ordination sine titulo Sine titulo; Chicago. Ministers: 3-053, 3-171, 3-196, 4-173 #156-12, p. 51: Notifying President Ronald Reagan of Synod’s prayers for the ongoing TWA Flight 847 hostage situation Presidential communications; Public transportation; Ronald Reagan; Telecommunications. Ministers: 4-041 #156-13, p. 51: Renaming Pittsburgh Presbytery to Alleghenies Presbytery Renaming. #156-14, pp. 51-52: Thanking the RP Home staff for serving Synod Directions to individuals; RP Home; Thanks. Ministers: 3-195 #156-15, p. 52:#156-06 is intended as guidance, but not as an inviolable rule Anti-Catholicism; Baptism; Construction; Valid sacraments. #156-16, p. 53: Congratulating Mrs. Velma Dougherty on the date of her 80th birthday Congratulations. Ministers: 4-202 #156-17, pp. 56-57: Ascertaining salaries of Synod employees; reiterating #156-10; other financial arrangements Bequests; Computing; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS location; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049 #156-18, p. 78: Parliamentarians to be specifically elected, not drafted from previous moderators New standing committees; Rules and organization. #156-19, pp. 78-79: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-083, 4-121 #156-20, pp. 79-82: Sending delegates and donating to the National Coalition on Pornography; commemorating the semicentenary of the OPC; arrangements for 1987 concurrent NAPARC synods; shortening Interchurch Committee name; addressing PCA on comity agreement Church discipline; Church planting; Church union; Covenant of 1871; CRCNA; Financial; Joint Synods; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; NRA; PCA; Pornography; Renaming; Ronald Reagan; RPTS; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-132, 3-181, 3-201, 4-006, 4-186, 4-200, 4-257 #156-21, pp. 82-83: Position statement on pornography, urging congregations to oppose it, supporting National Coalition Against Pornography, and petitioning President Ronald Reagan to use the Justice Department against it Holidays; Pornography; Presidential communications; Radio and TV; Ronald Reagan; Youth. #156-22, p. 83: Position statement on abortion, notifying President Ronald Reagan, Senate Majority Leader Alan Cranston, and Speaker of the House Tip O’Neill, and reiterating #154-24 elder instructions Abortion; Congressional petitions; Presidential communications; Ronald Reagan; SCOTUS; Specific congressmen. #156-23, pp. 84-85: Exempting the denominational treasurer from #153-17 Two-term rule exceptions. #156-24, p. 86: Thanking Geneva food service director Steve Huggins for his assistance Directions to individuals; Geneva; Thanks. Ministers: 4-129 #156-25, pp. 87-91: Appropriating money to RPTS and permitting them to canvass for funds; amending the constitution Agency membership; Biblical languages; Budget; Canvassing; Church history; Computing; Lou Hutmire; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race; Trustees of Synod; Women elders. #156-26, p. 91: New committee, on anti-pornography, and providing for paying its bills Financial; New agencies; Pornography. #156-27, p. 91: Until the Synod of 1986, military chaplains shall be considered missionaries under presbytery oversight Chaplains. Ministers: 3-079, 4-082, 4-256 #156-28, pp. 91-93: Considering minor revisions to the psalter Chanting; Psalm selections. Ministers: 3-059, 4-127 #156-29, pp. 93-94: Urging members to prioritize time with spouses and children; elders to preach and teach on family issues, and to prepare for counselling in troubled marriages; deacons to prepare for financial counselling Diaconate; Eldership; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Parental responsibilities. Ministers: 3-071, 4-244, 4-280 #156-30, pp. 94-96: Endorsing cross-cultural ministry to international students, the Moderator to correspond with sessions on this topic; urging congregations to pray for evangelism zeal; day of mission emphasis and prayer; FMB and HMB to form new Cross-Cultural Committee Church planting; Directions to individuals; Holidays; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-033, 3-104, 3-118, 4-082, 4-220 #156-31, p. 96: Urging prayer for expanded cross-cultural work, increased attention to #156-30; coordination between FMB and Cross-Cultural Committee in domestic efforts Foreign missions; Slavery and race. #156-32, pp. 97, 98: Adopting chapter VIII of the new Book of Church Government and chapter XXV of the new Testimony Book of Church Government; Testimony; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-019, 3-104, 3-181, 4-006 #156-33, p. 97: The new Testimony strongly commends total abstinence, but members are not required to practice it Alcohol restrictions on all members; COCM; Construction; Written dissent. #156-34, p. 98: Pledging love, care, and prayer for a minister undergoing a divorce Directions to individuals; Divorce; Sympathy. Ministers: 4-006, 4-281 #156-35, pp. 98-100: Adopting chapters XXVI and XXVIII of the new Testimony; committee to distribute adopted chapters [XXVI not recorded as adopted, but #157-16 treats it as having been] Book of Church Government; Church constitution; Testimony. Ministers: 3-019, 3-104, 3-181, 4-006 #157 — Synod of 1986 #157-01, p. 13: Sending a sympathy telegram to former Geneva president Edwin Clarke Directions to individuals; Sympathy; Telecommunications. Ministers: 3-127, 4-129 #157-02, pp. 20-21: Thanking Kansas University for hosting Synod Business of Synod; Lou Hutmire; Thanks. Ministers: 3-132, 4-118 #157-03, p. 21: Receiving former minister following his forgiveness and reception by Ohio-Illinois Presbytery Chicago case; Restorations. Ministers: 4-003 #157-04, pp. 23-24: Sending delegates to the National Coalition on Pornography News media; Outside commissions; Pornography. Ministers: 3-103, 3-201, 4-122, 4-186 #157-05, pp. 24-26: Deploring legal abortion, notifying the Supreme Court of the United States of this position, and reiterating #154-24 elder instructions Abortion; Baptists; Congregationalism; Methodists; Outside communications; PCUSA; SCOTUS. #157-06, pp. 26-30: Authorizing a psalter supplement (OCLC 29290942), beginning a revision process in conjunction with RPCA/RPCI, and preparing for training members in singing A cappella; Improving praise; Psalm selections; Repeating tunes; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 4-123, 4-220 #157-07, pp. 30-34: Position statement on the status of chaplains, regulating their activities, and joining the Presbyterian and Reformed Joint Commission on Chaplains and Military Personnel Baptism; Church constitution; Forms; Lord’s supper; Pensions; PRJC; Testimony; Westminster standards; Women elders. Ministers: 3-079, 4-082, 4-256 #157-08, pp. 34-46: Pension Fund administration and regulations; reiterating #155-07 on new installations Acts of Congress; Africa; Chaplains; Licentiates; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Taxation. Ministers: 4-075, 4-264 #157-09, p. 47: Asking the RPWA to study services for the disabled [future Board of Disability Concerns] Disability; RP Home. Ministers: 4-186 #157-10, pp. 62-63: Renaming New York Presbytery to Atlantic Presbytery Renaming. Ministers: 3-103 #157-11, pp. 64-66: Appropriating money to RPTS; reactivating #137-08 Attending other seminaries; Budget; Graduate student aid; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; Second presbytery. #157-12, pp. 67-70: Appropriating money to the E&P Board; preparing to establish denominational headquarters; new position of Director of Publications, and regulating its activities Book of Church Government; Church constitution; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Long-range planning; Paying Synod employees; Psalter editions; RPIC; Sabbath schools; UK conference. Ministers: 3-130 #157-13, pp. 71-72: Various financial arrangements Budget; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Home missions; Paying ministers; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. #157-14, pp. 96-98: Sessions must control the use of their minutes, and while members may inspect minutes, sessions may restrict sensitive portions; sessions may regulate teaching but should permit women to teach men Book of Church Government; Sabbath schools; Women deacons; Marion [Iowa]. Ministers: 3-106, 4-007, 4-095, 4-274 #157-15, p. 99: Traveling Fund administration Absences; Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-121, 4-122 #157-16, pp. 100-148: Replacing the Book of Church Government with a new Directory for Church Government (including implicitly repealing #031-08), and amending the Testimony; sending these changes down in overture Absences; Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Canada; Candidate examinations; Chaplains; Church constitution; Church discipline; Church history; Church planting; COCM; Congregational meetings; Departing ministers; Docket and digest; Elder attendance; Evangelism; Fraternal relations; Higher-education standards; Improving praise; Individual relocation; Licentiates; Meeting schedule; Membership transfer; Ordination queries; Overtures, new; Parental responsibilities; Pastoral calls; Paying ministers; Poor relief; Property held in trust; Provisional sessions; Purging rolls; Resignations; Rotary service; Rules and organization; Sine titulo; Strict subscription; Supply preaching; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Trial procedure; Two- and three-office view; Valid sacraments; Westminster standards; Women deacons; Women elders; Youth. Ministers: 3-019, 3-104, 3-181, 4-006 #157-17, pp. 150-160: Position paper on non-necessity of total abstinence; interpreting and amending ordination query #8, and sending the amendment down in overture Alcohol restrictions on all members; Book of Church Government; Church history; Communion cup; Construction; Legal prohibition; Making exceptions; Overtures, new; Strict subscription; Testimony; Vow 8; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-075 #157-18, p. 160:#157-17 strongly recommends but does not demand total abstinence Construction; Vow 8. #157-19, pp. 160-165: Interchurch Committee may meet with the corresponding PCA committee and send a delegate to the RCUS classical meeting; comity agreement with other NAPARC churches, including respecting discipline Africa; ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church discipline; FCS; Fraternal relations; Joint Synods; NAE; NAPARC; Outside commissions; Outside communications; PCA; Pornography; Publications; RCUS. Ministers: 3-132 #157-20, pp. 165-166: Members were facing a court injunction against bringing a child to church and petitioned Synod for support. Declining official support, lest it prejudice the case, but directing Atlantic Presbytery to support the members, encouraging them to consult Christian Legal Society, and welcoming further requests in 1987 if appropriate Financial; Parental responsibilities; PCA; Coldenham-Newburgh. Ministers: 3-016, 3-103, 4-065 #158 — Synod of 1987 #158-01, pp. 16-21: Permitting the Trustees to contract with a moving company for a reduced-cost moving program for church members Bequests; Budget; Church erection; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Incorporation; Individual relocation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Levant missions; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod. #158-02, p. 25: Thanking Calvin College officials Business of Synod; Directions to individuals; Joint Synods; Psalmody; Thanks. Ministers: 3-095, 3-117, 3-132, 4-121 #158-03, pp. 25-27: Urging delegates to supply comments to Psalter Revision Committee; approving the production of a psalmody training video (Improving Our Praise, OCLC 28911345); E&P Board asked to republish Sing Up (OCLC 8663859) Church music; Family worship; Improving praise; Psalm selections; Requesting opinions; Theaters. Ministers: 3-106, 4-220 #158-04, pp. 28-31: Approving principles for psalter translation; adding RPCA and RPCI representatives to translation committee; paying bills Bible texts and translations; Biblical inerrancy; Church music; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Psalter editions; Requesting opinions; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-033, 4-121, 4-123 #158-05, pp. 43-44: Adopting #157-16 following successful votes in overture, and recognizing the failure of #157-17 Book of Discipline; Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 3-196, 4-030 #158-06, pp. 45-52: Appropriating money to RPTS Attending other seminaries; Biblical languages; Budget; Church history; Civil War; Covenant theology; CUBM; Elements of worship; Graduate student aid; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Southern Mission; UK conference; WTS. #158-07, pp. 53-61: Pension Fund administration and modifying pension plan; reiterating #155-07 on new installations; declining St. Lawrence Presbytery request for other modifications Departing ministers; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Taxation; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-075 #158-08, pp. 62-64: The RP Home should only serve the aged, not those otherwise handicapped; reiterating #157-09 and giving directions to the committee; disability program at 1988 national conference; position statement on disability Disability; Evangelism; Parental responsibilities; RP Home; RPIC. #158-09, pp. 69-73: Financial arrangements for E&P Board; approving positions of Director of Publications and Youth Ministries and of Managing Editor of Crown and Covenant Publications Church history; Church music; Computing; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Financial; Headquarters; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RPCNA books; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-130 #158-10, p. 76: Graduate Study Fund Committee directed to propose revisions to its policies and procedures Agency membership; Graduate student aid. #158-11, pp. 76-79: Approving modified version of #156-05 comity agreement; 1989 joint Synod meeting with OPC General Assembly Church discipline; Church planting; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Joint Synods; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; Outside communications; PCA; Pornography; RCUS; RPCI; RPCS. Ministers: 3-132, 3-181, 3-201, 4-206, 4-257 #158-12, pp. 79-80: E&P Board to publish Synod’s minutes and its docket and digest; adopting minor corrections to the new Directory for Church Government Book of Church Government; Docket and digest; Minutes of Synod; Reporting calendars; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 4-129 #158-13, pp. 81-83: Procedures on paperwork for 1988 short Synod (#137-21, #140-51, #154-06) Rules and organization; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 4-121, 4-129 #158-14, pp. 83-84: Traveling Fund administration Absences; Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-122, 4-173 #158-15, pp. 84-87: Urging presbyteries to choose deacon delegates long before Synod; publishing numerous reports; setting assessment levels; approving proposed budgets and raises for Synod employees; permitting Geneva, but not the FMB, to canvass for funds; FMB to use other promotions; various financial arrangements; presbyteries to advocate for RPM&M; paying Synod’s clerk for his services Budget; Canvassing; Deacon delegates; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Interchurch; Lou Hutmire; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Pornography; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. #158-16, p. 90: Process for handling undesignated gifts Donations; Geneva finances. #158-17, pp. 90-91: Commending youth advocacy for temperance and publishing their work in the Covenanter Witness and the 1988 National Conference Covenanter Witness; RPIC; Temperance; Youth. Ministers: 3-115, 4-075 #158-18, p. 92: Innocent divorced persons may hold church office; defining “innocent” Diaconate; Divorce; Eldership. Ministers: 4-041, 4-200, 4-257, 4-280 #158-19, p. 97: Clerks to distribute Resolution of Thanks to interested parties Directions to individuals; Thanks. Ministers: 4-121, 4-129 #158-20, pp. 97-102: Appropriating money to FMB; electing non-board-member to executive secretary; permitting appeals for funds; approving FMB plans for a third-world urban mission team with plans for Liberia; thanking former executive secretary ARPC; Baptists; Computing; Financial; Japan mission; Latin America; Levant missions; Liberia mission; Publications; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; Theaters; WMF. Ministers: 3-073, 3-104 #158-21, pp. 102-106: Creating and regulating status of “inactive teaching elder” Book of Church Government; Ministers in secular employment; Pastoral calls; Traveling Fund; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-058, 4-186, 4-215 #158-22, pp. 107-122: Modifying forms, certificates, edicts, etc. in the Constitution, and replacing those included in #116-30 Benefits for ministers; Chaplains; Church constitution; Congregational meetings; Delegate qualifications; Diaconate; Eldership; Foreign missions; Forms; Inflation; Insurance; Licentiates; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Membership transfer; Paying missionaries; Pensions; Presbytery conferences; Purging rolls; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 3-073, 4-256 #158-23, p. 122: Suggesting specific elements to include in presbyterial reports to Synod Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 3-195, 4-123 #158-24, pp. 123-125: Creating the concept of “mission church” and amending Directory for Church Government accordingly Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Church membership; Financial; Home missions; Provisional sessions; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-181 #158-25, p. 125: Asking the E&P Board to produce a new index of Synod’s policy statements Digest of deliverances. #158-26, p. 125: Studying procedures to increase efficiency and biblical consistency of church administration Long-range planning; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171 #159 — Synod of 1988 #159-01, p. 7: Returning petition to take action on Call Me Blessed (OCLC 40484706) Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Publications. #159-02, p. 8: Directing FMB to reject a petition for money for Cyprus Church erection; Levant missions. #159-03, p. 14: Permitting HMB to distribute a brochure at the International Conference [apparently renamed from “National Conference”] without prior Synod review Home missions; Paper distribution; Publications; Synod at RPIC. #159-04, pp. 28-29: Preparing to picket an abortion center at Synod in 1989, inviting the OPC and other churches to join, and announcing this to the International Conference Abortion; Directions to individuals; Joint Synods; OPC; RPIC. Ministers: 4-065, 4-079, 4-257 #159-05, pp. 38-50: Approving new constitution for Pension Trustees, reiterating #155-07 on new installations, pension arrangements, and amending pension plan B Agency membership; Inflation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation; Usury. Ministers: 4-075, 4-215 #159-06, pp. 50-51: Holding an evening conference at Synod in 1989 on HMB plans; exempting HMB from #153-17 for the next two years Budget; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Two-term rule exceptions; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-244 #159-07, pp. 52-54: Asking Psalter Translation Committee to produce additional supplements; asking E&P Board to handle additional printing costs for supplements; dissolving Psalter Revision Committee Improving praise; Psalm selections; Theaters. Ministers: 3-106, 4-220 #159-08, pp. 54-56: Requesting reappointment of RPCI and RPCA representatives to psalter translation committee (#158-04) and paying bills Bible texts and translations; Financial; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI; RPIC. Ministers: 3-009 #159-09, pp. 56-60: Holding a pre-Synod conference on preaching in 1990; urging prayer and suggestions of names for future RPTS professors Attending other seminaries; Biblical languages; Budget; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; Delinquency; Departing ministers; Geneva; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; NAE; OTH; Requesting opinions; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Seeking candidates, RPTS; WTS. #159-10, pp. 61-65: Postponing planning for Liberia mission (#158-20) until 1989 Bequests; Budget; Congregational missionaries; Geneva; Health and medicine; Japan mission; Latin America; Levant missions; Liberia mission; Paying missionaries; RTF; Short-term missions. Ministers: 3-104 #159-11, pp. 66-68: Expanding the Graduate Study Committee and preparing to revise its policies and procedures Agency membership; Budget; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty; WTS. Ministers: 3-130, 3-181 #159-12, pp. 69-70: Position paper on pornography Boycotts; Computing; Congressional bills; Health and medicine; Parental responsibilities; Pornography; Radio and TV; Theaters. Ministers: 3-103 #159-13, pp. 71-73: Appropriating money for pre-Synod conference in 1989 Church constitution; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; Digest of deliverances; Financial; Improving praise; Individual relocation; Joint Synods; Minutes of Synod; OPC; RPCNA books; RPIC; Testimony; Theaters; UK conference; Westminster standards; Youth. Ministers: 3-130 #159-14, pp. 74-77: Expanding #158-11 joint-meeting arrangements; adopting NAPARC agreement on transfers of members and congregations [“Written dissent” represents RPCA delegate’s note, pages 77-78] Church discipline; Church history; Church music; Church union; Closing churches; Conferences at Synod; CRCNA; Financial; Fraternal relations; ICRC; Joint Synods; Membership transfer; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; Outside communications; PCA; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-127, 3-132, 3-181, 3-201, 4-129, 4-206 #159-15, pp. 78-80: Reiterating #158-15 on deacon delegates; various financial arrangements, including Synod employee salaries and congregational sponsorship of missionaries; distributing Synod revenues to congregations Bequests; Budget; Congregational missionaries; Deacon delegates; Directions to individuals; Docket and digest; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Lou Hutmire; NAE; New delegates; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-049, 4-123 #159-16, p. 80: Financial assistance for a minister’s graduate studies Graduate student aid. Ministers: 4-093 #159-17, p. 95: Expressing gratitude for a bequest Bequests; Thanking donors; Sparta. #159-18, pp. 95-98: Emphasizing prayer for revival and growth; urging all delegates to pray for the unsaved; calling for fasting and prayer; presbytery reports to consider mission plans and opportunities, and prayer to follow each report’s reading at Synod Church planting; Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; Fraternal relations; Long-range planning; New delegates; Presbytery reports; Signs of the Times; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171 #159-19, pp. 98-99: Traveling Fund arrangements; Japanese delegates to be paid for expenses within the United States Absences; Japan mission; Lou Hutmire; Native ministers; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-173, 4-196 #159-20, p. 101: Approving St. Lawrence Presbytery’s administration of the ordination vows; permitting a minister to remain a member of Presbytery on conscientious scruples Church membership; Making exceptions; Two- and three-office view; Vow 8. Ministers: 3-205, 4-001, 4-095, 4-200, 4-206, 4-228 #159-21, pp. 101-102: Returning a paper questioning exclusive psalmody and directing petitioners to discuss the matter with their presbyteries Financial; Psalmody. Ministers: 3-017, 4-075, 4-197 #160 — Synod of 1989 #160-01, p. 28: Replacing the assistant clerk, due to his other responsibilities Officer elections; Publications. Ministers: 3-146, 4-127 #160-02, p. 34: Stated clerk shall publish whatever financial figures are provided him Directions to individuals; Paying Synod employees; Syracuse. Ministers: 4-216 #160-03, pp. 34-39: Pension Board to handle health insurance program; presbyteries must review congregational finances; reiterating part of #141-01, and Finance Committee to reject non-compliant requests Bequests; Chester Fox; Church erection; Insurance; Investment philosophy; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Presbytery reports; Trustees of Synod. #160-04, pp. 57-61: Approving investment policies and return objectives for Pension Fund; reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Licentiates; Pensions; Taxation. #160-05, pp. 62-64: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Bible texts and translations; Chaplains; Psalmody; RPCA; RPCI; RPIC; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-121, 4-123 #160-06, pp. 65-68: Postponing Liberia mission plans (#158-20) until the early 1990s Attending other seminaries; Budget; Congregational missionaries; Japan mission; Liberia mission; Paying missionaries; Self-supporting missions; WTS. Ministers: 3-104 #160-07, p. 68: Apologizing to the OPC for failure to consider their non-political stance in #159-04, but objecting to their stance Abortion; Apologies; OPC; Outside communications. #160-08, pp. 73-75: Approving the position of the PRJC on praying in Jesus’ name Financial; PRJC. Ministers: 4-082, 4-256 #160-09, pp. 75-78: Endorsing an Interdenominational Psalmody Conference for 1990 Computing; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Interchurch; Presbytery conferences; Psalmody; Short-term missions. Ministers: 4-122 #160-10, pp. 81-83: Supporting actions by Christian Leaders for Responsible Television and notifying them of the same; urging members to boycott companies engaging in offensive television programming; sending a delegate to the Religious Alliance Against Pornography Conference Boycotts; Interchurch; Pornography; Radio and TV. Ministers: 3-103 #160-11, pp. 84-85: Plans for making church buildings and parsonages handicapped-accessible; congregations to focus one day annually on disability and dignity; commending Geneva for accessibility initiatives and urging similar action by RPTS Trustees; congregations to form disability-support groups Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Disability; Geneva; RPIC; RPTS location; Sabbath schools; Trustees of Synod. #160-12, pp. 86-90: Developing a church “Statement of Purpose”; orientation for new delegates; using ministerial candidates as Synod pages; all elders to pray for conversions and worldwide revival Attending other seminaries; Business of Synod; Deacon delegates; Docket and digest; Financial; Geneva; Long-range planning; New delegates; Pages; Presbytery reports; RPTS faculty; Rules and organization; Signs of the Times; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171 #160-13, pp. 95-96: Holding a pre-Synod conference in 1990 Business of Synod; Conferences at Synod; Financial; Long-range planning; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171, 4-197, 4-206, 4-223, 4-281 #160-14, pp. 96-97: Paying Synod’s clerk for his services; studying equipment purchase for the clerk Business of Synod; Computing; Long-range planning; Paying the clerk. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171, 4-129 #160-15, pp. 98-104: Adopting partial position paper (primarily hermeneutical principles) on the role of women Bible texts and translations; Biblical inerrancy; CRCNA; New Light church; OPC; Testimony; Westminster standards; Women deacons. Ministers: 4-058, 4-206, 4-237, 4-263, 4-281 #160-16, pp. 105-106: Traveling Fund arrangements Lou Hutmire; Native ministers; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-148, 4-196 #160-17, pp. 106-108: Studying expanding the RPTS building to provide space for church headquarters Headquarters; Long-range planning; RPTS library; RPTS location. #160-18, pp. 108-111: Deacon delegates and Synod’s treasurer to be members of Finance Committee; reiterating #158-15 on deacon delegates; various financial arrangements; salaries for Synod employees; setting contributions goal Agency membership; Bequests; Budget; Church history; Church planting; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Congregational missionaries; Deacon delegates; Geneva finances; Long-range planning; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; WMF. Ministers: 3-049, 4-075 #160-19, pp. 113-117: Postponing RPTS pre-Synod conference on preaching Biblical languages; Budget; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Donations; PCA; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS location. #160-20, p. 117: Distributing reports about #159-04 protest Abortion; News media; Publications. Ministers: 3-201 #160-21, pp. 117-120: Further study of ordination query #08 Strict subscription; Testimony; Vow 8; Westminster standards; State College. Ministers: 3-179, 3-196, 4-075, 4-083, 4-228 #160-22, pp. 120-122: Approving new policies for Graduate Study Fund Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; Debt; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty; WTS. Ministers: 3-181, 4-122, 4-228 #160-23, pp. 123-125: Pastoral Severance Assistance Program to be handled by Pension Board; approving changes to HMB constitution; declaring high priority for home missions, “Time to Plant”; goal for new planting by 1994; HMB mandate Agency membership; Benefits for ministers; Bequests; Budget; Church planting; Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; NAPARC; Publications; Theaters. #160-24, pp. 130-134: Approving points of agreement regarding desirability of union with OPC Abortion; ARPC; Canada; Church union; CRCNA; Divorce; EPC; Fraternal relations; ICRC; Joint Synods; NAE; OPC; Pentecostals; Psalmody; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Testimony; Westminster standards; Women elders. Ministers: 3-127, 3-181, 3-201, 4-129, 4-186, 4-206 #160-25, p. 134: Current RPCNA standards are faithful expressions of biblical truth, biblical churches must always seek to be more biblical, and organic union must occur only on the basis of biblical agreement and spiritual unity Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church union; Directory for Worship; Testimony. #161 — Synod of 1990 #161-01, pp. 8-9: Appropriating money to purchase Bibles in Eastern Europe Business of Synod; Financial; Interchurch; Russian churches. Ministers: 3-079, 4-180 #161-02, p. 10: Returning an irregularly transferred paper (about the #159-04 protest) for regular transfer Abortion; Beaver Falls 1. Ministers: 3-201 #161-03, p. 27: The #161-02 paper having been properly transferred, concurring with the paper and pledging to be more sensitive to local congregations in such situations Abortion; Apologies; Beaver Falls 1. Ministers: 3-201 #161-04, pp. 37-43: Continuing congregational missionaries program (#159-15) Bequests; Church erection; Computing; Congregational missionaries; Headquarters; Insurance; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod; WMF. #161-05, pp. 61-62: Dissolving Iowa Presbytery and merging it into Midwest Presbytery; declining proposal for automatic merger of small presbyteries Abolishing presbyteries; Book of Church Government. Ministers: 4-082, 4-148, 4-206, 4-280 #161-06, pp. 62-67: Reiterating #160-12 on prayer; orientation for new delegates; paying Synod’s clerk for his services Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Evangelism; Long-range planning; New delegates; Pages; Paying the clerk; Presbytery reports; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171 #161-07, p. 67: All members of the church must cease discussion of a specific dispute; unreservedly commending and supporting a minister involved Judicial cases; No information; Phoenix. Ministers: 3-019, 4-039, 4-065, 4-079, 4-129, 5-073 #161-08, p. 76: Recommending that the Geneva Corporators consider tuition remission for children of active Reformed Presbyterian ministers and missionaries, treating them like faculty children Benefits for ministers; Geneva finances. #161-09, p. 80: When making Synod’s schedule, considering prioritizing critical matters Business of Synod; Long-range planning; Rules and organization. #161-10, pp. 81-86: Pastor’s Refresher Court at Synod in 1991; presbyteries to be responsible for ministerial candidates’ stipends Bequests; Biblical languages; Budget; Computing; CUBM; Graduate student aid; OPC; Pastors’Refresher Course; RPCI; RPTS accreditation; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. #161-11, pp. 86-90: Japanese licentiate to participate in Traveling Fund; affirming FMB decision on human resources for Liberia Attending other seminaries; China mission; Congregational missionaries; Geneva; Health and medicine; Kentucky Mission; Languages; Latin America; Liberia mission; Lou Hutmire; Real property; Short-term missions; Society meetings; Traveling Fund; WTS. Ministers: 3-071, 4-237 #161-12, pp. 92-93: Traveling Fund administration Lou Hutmire; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-113, 4-148 #161-13, pp. 94-95: Appropriating money to the Graduate Study Fund Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-181, 4-093, 4-122, 4-224, 4-228, 4-263 #161-14, pp. 96-98: Financial arrangements; boards to set salaries for Synod employees; E&P Board permitted to canvass for funds to publish Reformed Presbyterian Ministers 1950-1993 (OCLC 466899014); presbyteries to appoint agents to advocate for RPM&M; paying Synod’s clerk for his services Canvassing; Chaplains; Church history; Deacon delegates; Devolution; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPCNA books; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-049, 4-075, 4-125, 4-127 #161-15, p. 99: Agencies receiving money from Synod must report the effect of budget reductions Budget; Rules and organization. #161-16, pp. 99-100: Alleghenies Presbytery must enforce church law by ensuring that a pair of deacons take ordination query #8 rather than merely acting in accord with it Strict subscription; Vow 8; State College. Ministers: 4-065, 4-079, 5-073 #161-17, p. 100: Amending ordination query #8 and sending amendment down in overture (part of #161-26) Overtures, new; Vow 8. #161-18, pp. 102-109: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; regulations for pension plan; Pension Trustees are a board for legal purposes; returning an Ohio-Illinois paper on employment of retired ministers, and encouraging presbyteries to employ the paper’s proposals; returning a paper from 1989 proposing changes to a form Canada; Devolution; Forms; Licentiates; Long-range planning; Lou Hutmire; Pensions; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-075, 4-215 #161-19, pp. 109-112: Joint meetings with OPC in 1991; preparing a joint declaration with RPCA, RPCI, and RPCS; preparing to hold Synod 1993 in Scotland American Presbyterian Church; ARPC; Church history; Closed pulpits; Covenant renovation; CRCNA; EPC; Fraternal relations; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; NAE; OPC; PCA; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Updating Westminster; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-127, 3-181, 4-129, 4-186, 4-257 #161-20, pp. 112-114: Admonishing St. Lawrence Presbytery for suspending a minister without charge or libel, and removing suspension; directing Presbytery to conduct a speedy trial if evidence warrants and to grant a letter of standing if requested; acknowledging complaint to have been brought properly and in good faith Departing ministers; Judicial cases; Restorations; Trial procedure; Syracuse. Ministers: 3-019, 4-039, 4-065, 4-218, 5-073 #161-21, pp. 117-120: FMB to consider efforts to aid churches in Eastern Europe Abortion; Canada; Christian schools; Covenant theology; Debt; Divorce; Foreign missions; Interchurch; News media; Parental responsibilities; Premillennialism; Russian churches; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 4-001, 4-125 #161-22, pp. 120-121: Preparing to revise the Directory for Worship Directory for Worship; Elements of worship. Ministers: 4-093 #161-23, pp. 121-122: HMB to oversee a capital fund to fund new works’ construction or acquisition of churches, and to develop policies and procedures Budget; Church erection; Home missions. Ministers: 3-118, 4-030, 4-125, 4-197, 4-223, 4-228, 4-263, 4-274 #161-24, pp. 123-130: Position paper on gender roles Biblical languages; NAPARC; Women elders. Ministers: 4-058, 4-206, 4-237, 4-263, 4-281 #161-25, p. 130: Thanking arrangements committeemen and their wives for bearing with the difficulties of the committee’s work Business of Synod; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Thanks. Ministers: 3-079, 4-039, 4-180 #161-26, pp. 131-134: Position paper on ordination query #8, which is to accompany #161-17 in overture Covenanter Witness; Overtures, new; RPTS location; Strict subscription; Testimony; Vow 8; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-127, 3-171, 3-196, 4-065 #161-27, p. 134: Current church standards’ position on gender roles are fully adequate for the guidance of the church and remain as valid as when they were composed [full text, page 130] Construction; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Testimony; Westminster standards. #161-28, pp. 134-135: Directing St. Lawrence Presbytery to take order in several cases of irregularities, and amending #161-20 to postpone deadline for trial Close communion; Divorce; Judicial cases; Making exceptions; Vow 8; Oswego, Smiths Falls. Ministers: 4-083, 4-218 #162 — Synod of 1991 #162-01, pp. 17-27: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; increasing pension benefits; declining to permit lump-sum payments Benefits for ministers; Budget; Canada; Individual relocation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Radio and TV; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-075 #162-02, p. 27: Renaming Ohio-Illinois Presbytery to Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery Renaming. #162-03, p. 27: Returning a Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery paper on the diaconate Diaconate. #162-04, pp. 29-31: Listing youth leaders in Synod’s directory and publishing the E&P Board’s policy for reproductions of the Book of Psalms for Singing A cappella; Budget; Church history; Copyright; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Minutes of Synod; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RPCNA books; RPIC; Short-term missions; Traveling Fund. #162-05, p. 38: Geneva Corporators’ committee studying chapel services must be composed of individuals completely committed to RPCNA worship standards Agency membership; Geneva chapel. #162-06, p. 42: Urging RPTS Trustees to reconsider their reduced biblical-languages requirement for non-RP students Biblical languages; Budget; Computing; CUBM; Graduate student aid; NAE; Pastors’Refresher Course; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library. #162-07, p. 46: Temperance Committee newsletters, although sent to congregational leaders, shall be shared with entire congregations Drugs; Publications; Temperance; Tobacco. Ministers: 3-115, 5-020 #162-08, pp. 47-48: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Bible texts and translations; Gulf War; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-121, 4-123 #162-09, pp. 49-50: Delegates to study medical ethics under the leadership of Synod’s committee on the subject Abortion; Docket and digest. Ministers: 3-067 #162-10, pp. 54-69: Health, growth, and multiplication of congregations is church priority; financial procedures; boards/committees may canvass the church without prior permission; new standing committee, on the Business of Synod; committee shall handle travel and arrangements; new procedures for receiving papers etc.; statement of purpose and Clerk’s job description; paying Synod’s clerk for his services; reiterating #160-12 on prayer Bequests; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Budget; Business of Synod; Canvassing; Church constitution; Church history; Church planting; COCM; Directory for Worship; Docket and digest; Donations; Evangelism; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Long-range planning; NAPARC; New delegates; New standing committees; Officer elections; Overtures; Pages; Pensions; Presbytery reports; RP Home; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS finances; Signs of the Times; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Westminster standards; WMF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171, 4-127 #162-11, pp. 74-76: Urging prayer for chaplains; presbyteries urged to pay Synod fees for their chaplains Financial; Gulf War; KAPC; OPC; PCA; PRJC. Ministers: 4-082, 4-256 #162-12, pp. 77-78: Traveling Fund administration; delegates must be appointed at least 60 days before Synod’s meeting Absences; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-113, 4-188 #162-13, p. 78: Business of Synod Committee (#162-10) to develop priorities for routine Synod business Business of Synod; Rules and organization. #162-14, pp. 78-79: Recognizing the failure of #161-17 in overture Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 3-181 #162-15, pp. 79-84: Amending HMB constitution; reiterating #160-23 on Time to Plant Bequests; Budget; Canada; Church erection; Church planting; Evangelism; Languages; Latin America; Presbytery-appointed membership; Two-term rule; WMF. #162-16, p. 86: Seminar at Synod in 1992 on renewal of declining congregations Revitalization; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-104, 3-132, 4-118 #162-17, pp. 89-91: Appropriating money; declining RPTS request for funds; adopting budget for 1992; pension arrangements; Trustees limited in distribution of funds; all agency budgets must be balanced; various financial arrangements; paying expenses for delegates and others; paying Synod’s clerk and assistant clerk for their services Benefits for ministers; Canvassing; Church planting; Deacon delegates; Elder attendance; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; MacLaughlin Trust; Pages; Paying the clerk; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125 #162-18, p. 106: Pages without congregational support reimbursed for expenses Financial; Pages. Ministers: 4-069 #162-19, pp. 109-112: Elders’ wives to be listed in Synod’s directory; procedures for 1992 short Synod Docket and digest; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Graduate student aid; Minutes of Synod; NRA; OTH; Pensions; Presbytery reports; Reporting calendars; RPTS; RPWA; RTF; Synod at RPIC; Temperance; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-127 #162-20, pp. 113-115: Declining to amend Directory for Church Government on absent members; voting by non-delegates in Synod Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Church discipline; COCM; Deacon delegates; Forms; Individual relocation; Overtures; Purging rolls; Rules and organization; Columbus, Southfield. Ministers: 3-067, 3-127, 4-203, 4-215 #162-21, pp. 115-121: Continuing congregational missionaries program (#159-15, #161-04) Bequests; Church erection; Closing churches; Congregational missionaries; Covenanter Witness; Headquarters; Inflation; Insurance; Levant missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. #162-22, p. 122: Trustees to supply documentation on church finances for the Digest and Docket Docket and digest; Financial; Rules and organization; Trustees of Synod. #162-23, p. 145: Making arrangements for the records of Iowa Presbytery lest they be lost Book of Church Government; Making exceptions; Overtures; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; Vow 8. Ministers: 4-095 #162-24, pp. 146-147: Requesting comment on new Directory for Worship; procedures for enacting it in 1993 Book of Church Government; Directory for Worship; Overtures; Psalmody; Requesting opinions; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-080, 3-132, 3-181 #162-25, p. 149: Dividing Synod’s offering with the concurrent OPC General Assembly meeting Financial; Joint Synods; OPC. #163 — Synod of 1992 #163-01, pp. 21-22: Deploring past injustice toward the women of the church, directing the International Conference director to withdraw a seminar, and urging more care to ensure that seminars comply with church law Apologies; Deacon delegates; Directions to individuals; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Strict subscription; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-104, 3-117, 3-171, 4-001, 4-006, 4-039, 4-048, 4-065, 4-079, 4-103, 4-118, 4-122, 4-125, 4-143, 4-173, 4-186, 4-200, 4-206, 4-222, 4-232, 4-263, 4-282 #163-02, pp. 22-24: Appropriating money; dealing with budget deficits; other financial arrangements; reiterating #162-17 on delegate expenses; Business of Synod Committee to make specific recommendations on finances Business of Synod; Deacon delegates; Elder attendance; Foreign missions; Home missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPTS finances. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125 #163-03, p. 25: Repealing #163-01 on seminar withdrawal and directing Moderator to appoint an oversight committee [no record of enactment, but committee appointed on page 85] Directions to individuals; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-080, 3-171, 4-058, 4-123, 4-200, 4-281 #163-04, pp. 25-32: Financial policies; handling funds from disorganized congregations; modifying statistical blanks Bequests; Canvassing; Church erection; Docket and digest; Foreign missions; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying ministers; Pensions; RPTS finances; Statistical blanks; Synod at RPIC; Trustees of Synod. #163-05, pp. 73-79: Approving job description for Business of Synod Committee; developing Statement of Purpose for Synod Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Geneva; Interchurch; Long-range planning; New delegates; Overtures; Reporting calendars; Synod at RPIC; Traveling Fund; Vow 8. #163-06, pp. 79-82: Thanking longtime Pension Trustee; reiterating #155-07 on new installations; increasing pension benefits Budget; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security. #163-07, pp. 84-85: Postponing #162-24 until 1994 Directory for Worship; Psalmody; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-080, 3-132 #163-08, pp. 85-91: Making grants from #161-23 fund; delegates to Synod of 1993 to conduct outreach during Synod breaks Bequests; Church erection; Conferences; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Languages; Latin America; Ministers in secular employment; Presbytery-appointed membership; Trustees of Synod; Urban church planting. #163-09, pp. 91-93: Extending terms of FMB members Africa; Bible texts and translations; Congregational missionaries; Disability; Japan mission; RPCI; RTF; TCCF. #163-10, pp. 93-96: Urging prayer for chaplains and other missionaries Baptism; Communism; Gulf War; Health and medicine; Insurance; KAPC; NAE; OPC; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC; Women elders. Ministers: 4-082, 4-256 #163-11, pp. 96-98: Congregations and presbyteries to work with nearby OPC congregations and presbyteries; contributing to NAPARC; urging congregations to send ministers to 1993 Commemorative Conference in London, and underwriting expenses for members presenting at it Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Church history; Fraternal relations; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-129 #163-12, pp. 98-99:#161-19 joint-declaration committee to plan for commemorating the signing of the Covenants Church history; NAPARC; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS. #163-13, p. 99: Thanking retiring Geneva president Joseph McFarland for his work Agency membership; Geneva chapel; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Thanks. #163-14, pp. 116-119: Appropriating money to the E&P Board; combining Directorship of Publications with Managing Editorship Bequests; Church history; Church music; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Individual relocation; Minutes of Synod; Psalm recordings; RPCNA books; RPIC; Sabbath-keeping; Synod HR; Testimony; TFY; Updating Westminster. Ministers: 4-122 #163-15, pp. 120-121: Paying a bill Abortion; Drugs; Financial; Publications; Temperance. Ministers: 3-115, 5-020 #163-16, pp. 123-124: Traveling Fund administration; reiterating #162-12 on delegate appointments Canada; Native ministers; Thanks; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-126, 4-188 #163-17, pp. 124-125: Ordination query #8 does not prohibit taking communion in churches that use wine; addressing St. Lawrence Presbytery response to #161-28 Church discipline; Communion cup; Making exceptions; Occasional hearing; Vow 8; Oswego, Smiths Falls. Ministers: 3-097, 4-095, 4-118, 4-129 #163-18, pp. 126-127: Praying for circumstances surrounding #161-16 and Call Me Blessed (#159-01) Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; Publications; Vow 8; State College. #163-19, pp. 147-149: All matters and circumstances of worship are under sessional control; the use of symbols such as crosses is not forbidden by church standards; studying the appropriateness of such symbols; urging unity in divided congregation Directory for Worship; Elements of worship; Real property; Westminster standards; Seattle. Ministers: 3-106, 3-118, 4-173, 4-186, 4-200, 4-220, 4-281 #164 — Synod of 1993 #164-01, p. 8: Returning a paper because its vagueness makes any action impracticable, but permitting resubmission after clarification Officer elections. #164-02, pp. 8-9: Declining a petition to undertake a detailed study of gender roles in the church Marriage, sexuality, and gender. Ministers: 4-001, 4-263 #164-03, p. 11: Returning a paper to Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery: Presbytery sought permission for what it was already permitted to do Directory for Worship; Rules and organization; Evansville. #164-04, p. 11: Appropriating money from Synod’s offering Financial; Levant missions. #164-05, pp. 31-36: Abolishing the Committee on Travel Fund and Absences and reassigning its responsibilities; “Statement of Purpose for Synod”; amending Directory for Church Government on Synod’s procedures; “Understanding the Times” report to be presented annually; reiterating #159-18 on the unsaved; handling Synod’s offering Abolishing agencies; Absences; Book of Church Government; Budget; Business of Synod; Forms; Interchurch; Long-range planning; New delegates; Signs of the Times; Traveling Fund; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171, 4-127, 4-173, 4-183 #164-06, pp. 37-39: Making an exception to #153-17; urging ministers to preach on foreign missions Africa; Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; Budget; Chaplains; Japan mission; Latin America; Mission schools; RPCI; RTF; Sermon topics; TCCF; Telecommunications; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 3-106 #164-07, pp. 39-43: Praying and urging prayer for chaplains and their families; approving statements on the prohibition of homosexuals in the military and on chaplains’ ministry to sexual offenders, and notifying President Bill Clinton, Senator Sam Nunn, and Defense Secretary Les Aspin; delegates and members urged to notify their legislators Bill Clinton; Congressional petitions; Disability; Disaster relief; Government communications; LGBT; NAE; News media; Parental responsibilities; Presidential communications; PRJC. #164-08, pp. 50-56: Declining to amend existing policy on presbyteries co-signing loans for ministerial housing Canada; Church erection; Church planting; Closing churches; Debt; Foreign missions; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Pensions; RP Home; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod. #164-09, pp. 57-62: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; pension contributions; appropriating money; amending Pension Trustees’ constitution to permit non-ordained trustees Agency membership; Individual relocation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security. Ministers: 4-058 #164-10, pp. 62-67:#163-03 committee report: printing part in Synod’s minutes, delivering part as a pastoral letter to the seminar speaker, other parts to be delivered by presbyteries to sessions, and small portions to be reserved from publication Construction; Directory for Worship; Pastoral letters; Synod at RPIC; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-171, 4-058, 4-123, 4-281 #164-11, pp. 67-70: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments, and paying bills Bible texts and translations; Church music; Financial; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI; Russian churches. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-121, 4-123 #164-12, pp. 74-77: Seeking observer status in the International Conference of Reformed churches; adopting NAPARC recommendations on commemorating the Westminster Assembly; fraternal relations with American Presbyterian Church; exchanging fraternal delegates with RPCI American Presbyterian Church; BPC; Church history; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; ICRC; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; RCUS; RPCI; Sabbath-keeping; Westminster standards; Women elders. Ministers: 4-129 #164-13, p. 78: Creating an Advocate’s Fund under RPWA, to assist the disabled; amending Testimony on the disabled (not sent down in overture; see #167-11); Business of Synod Committee to decide the future of Committee to Address Disability Issues Baptism; Church membership; Disability; Geneva; RPIC; RPWA. #164-14, pp. 89-92: Thanking the E&P Board for its study of possibly improper seminars at the 1992 International Conference and forgiving any negligence; completely skipping Synod in 1996 Budget; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Languages; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Minutes of Synod; Parental responsibilities; PCA; Psalm recordings; Synod at RPIC; TFY. #164-15, p. 93: New standing committee, to gather tunes for psalter translation, local congregations, and psalter supplements Church music; New standing committees; Psalm selections. #164-16, pp. 93-94: Paying a bill Biblical languages; Docket and digest; Financial; Testimony; Vow 8. Ministers: 5-020 #164-17, pp. 95-97: Financial arrangements, including Pension Fund details and new funding, new Graduate Study Fund arrangements, general budget, declining requests based on #162-17 Trustee limits; reiterating #162-17 on delegate expenses Deacon delegates; Elder attendance; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125, 5-021 #164-18, pp. 119-123: Appropriating money to RPTS Biblical languages; Budget; Church history; Computing; CUBM; Donations; Paying RPTS faculty; RPTS accreditation; RPTS library; RPTS location; Russian churches; Westminster standards. #164-19, pp. 126-129: Urging prayer for new ministers; appropriating money to HMB; electing an HMB member proposed by WMF; HMB to choose an experienced minister to visit congregations and ministers Canada; Conferences; Latin America; Ministers in secular employment; Pastors’pastor; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Urban church planting; WMF. #164-20, pp. 129-130: Traveling Fund arrangements Absences; Native ministers; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-126, 4-143 #164-21, p. 134: Procedures for calling and receiving ministers from denominations in fraternal relations Book of Church Government; Church membership; Strict subscription; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 4-129, 4-256, 4-257 #164-22, pp. 141-155: Prohibiting discipline in recent ordination query #8 cases; the vow binds behavior but not conscience; no future exceptions, unless the vow be changed, and noncompliance must be disciplined; no further delays in implementation; commending a session for submitting; amending ordination queries, and sending them down in overture; procedures for overture, including a definition of “provisional session” Alcohol restrictions on all members; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; China mission; Church constitution; Church history; COCM; Construction; Directory for Worship; Forms; Lord’s supper; Making exceptions; Overtures, new; Provisional sessions; Strict subscription; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Vow 8; Westminster standards; Women deacons; Youth; Oswego, Smiths Falls, State College. Ministers: 3-104, 4-186, 4-280 #165 — Synod of 1994 #165-01, pp. 11-12: Returning an appeal against Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery as out of order Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Church discipline; Church planting; Diaconate; Eldership; Judicial cases; Long-range planning; Officer elections; Pastoral calls; Purging rolls; Testimony; Southfield. Ministers: 3-080 #165-02, pp. 37-46: Praying, and urging the church to pray, for more ministers; amending HMB constitution; urging presbyteries to appoint home missions committees and to utilize new “Pastors’ pastor” program Bequests; Budget; Canada; Church erection; Church planting; Conferences at Synod; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Pastors’pastor; Presbytery-appointed membership; Special services; Two-term rule. Ministers: 4-281 #165-03, pp. 46-49: Recognizing chaplains present at Synod; praying and urging the church to pray for chaplains and servicemen; urging the church to support the PRJC Bill Clinton; Financial; LGBT; OPC; PCA; PRJC; Specific congressmen; Two-term rule. Ministers: 4-121, 4-203 #165-04, pp. 58-63: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Covenanter Witness; Individual relocation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058 #165-05, p. 63: Pension Board to determine and implement adequate provision for Pension Plan A beneficiaries Pensions. #165-06, pp. 64-66: New standing committee, on church history, and new position of Church Historian, and ascertaining duties; urging cooperation by the church Agency membership; Archives; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Geneva library; Lou Hutmire; New standing committees; Paying Synod employees; RPCI; RPTS library; Second presbytery. Ministers: 3-016, 3-019 #165-07, pp. 67-80: Urging RPM&M participants to evaluate their programs and report the results; administering RPM&M; restructuring Committee on Disability Issues; amending Testimony with statement on disability; skipping the Synod of 1996 entirely; amending #164-05 on committee responsibilities A cappella; Bible texts and translations; Book of Church Government; Budget; Church history; Church music; Church planting; Computing; Delegate qualifications; Disability; Docket and digest; Elder attendance; Foreign missions; Fraternal relations; General and subordinate synods; Geneva finances; Holidays; Minutes of Synod; New delegates; Overtures, new; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Psalm selections; RP Home; RPTS finances; Signs of the Times; Synod at RPIC; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-009, 3-017, 3-171, 4-127, 4-173, 4-183 #165-08, pp. 84-87: Declaring a “Year for Reaching Out”; asking psalter translation committee to consider PCA’s request to consider participation Budget; Church constitution; Church history; Conferences at Synod; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Evangelism; GCP; Geneva; Interchurch; PCA; Psalm recordings; RPCNA books; RPIC. #165-09, pp. 95-97: Appropriating money to FMB; confirming FMB’s decision to advertise for a new missionary in Japan Bequests; Budget; Church discipline; Church erection; Congregational missionaries; Health and medicine; Japan mission; RPCI; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; TCCF. #165-10, p. 104: Recognizing the failure of #164-22 in overture Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 4-188, 4-200 #165-11, pp. 105-107: Joining International Conference of Reformed Churches; Youth Ministries and Disability Committee to consider ARPC short-term missions projects; fraternal relations with TCCF; urging elders visiting other countries with RPCs to make themselves available as fraternal delegates ARPC; Church history; CRCNA; Disability; Fraternal relations; ICRC; Japan mission; NAE; NAPARC; PCA; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Sabbath-keeping; Short-term missions; TCCF; Women elders. Ministers: 4-186 #165-12, p. 107: Recognizing TCCF as an RP sister church TCCF. Ministers: 3-009 #165-13, pp. 108-110: Financial arrangements, including Graduate Study Fund arrangements and paying Synod’s clerk for his services Church history; Computing; Deacon delegates; Disability; Graduate student aid; Home missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI; RPTS finances; RPWA; TCCF; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125 #165-14, pp. 58, 128: Continuing policy on distributing investment income, with Trustees to review annually [printed on page 58, but not handled until 128] Financial; Trustees of Synod. #165-15, pp. 129-130: Adopting declaration on relationships among RPCA, RPCI, RPCNA, RPCS Church constitution; Fraternal relations; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; TCCF; Testimony. Ministers: 3-009, 3-106 #165-16, pp. 131-134: Joint worship services, including the Lord’s Supper, are permitted; encouraging joint communions under session oversight, but not at conferences or camps Business of Synod; Church history; CYPU; RPIC; Special services; Synod communion; WMF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-118, 3-146, 4-222 #165-17, pp. 136-138: Declining to amend procedures on electing Synod’s officers and other positions, or to amend Directory of Church Government on excommunication; preparing to revise Book of Discipline Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Officer elections; Pastoral calls; Purging rolls; RPTS constitution. Ministers: 3-118, 3-176, 4-006, 4-058, 4-069 #165-18, pp. 143-145: Amending the Testimony on gender roles, and sending amendments down in overture; sending position papers on these amendments to the sessions Covenanter Witness; Overtures, new; Telecommunications; Testimony; Women elders; San Diego, Washington. Ministers: 4-065, 4-076, 4-206, 4-280 #165-19, p. 146: Resubmitting #164-22 in overture with slight amendment Overtures, new; Vow 8. #165-20, pp. 146-147: Accepting Geneva president’s reasons for signing Evangelicals and Catholics Together and his withdrawal of his name from it Abortion; Anti-Catholicism; Covenant of 1871; Geneva faculty; Interchurch. Ministers: 3-201 #165-21, p. 147: Recognizing common ground with Catholics, but rejecting Evangelicals and Catholics Together because of remaining differences, urging all evangelical signatories to withdraw endorsement, and clerk to publish this decision Abortion; Directions to individuals; Interchurch; Written dissent. #165-22, pp. 148-153: Reiterating #164-10 on session deliveries; Cornerstones (OCLC 927437641) editors urged to submit ordination-of-women papers to church courts; sessions to shepherd members writing theologically; judicatories encouraged to oversee forums for free discussion; urging all debaters to avoid belligerence Book of Church Government; COCM; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Ordination queries; Telecommunications; Westminster standards; Women elders. Ministers: 3-130, 3-201, 4-001, 4-197, 4-274 #166 — Synod of 1995 #166-01, pp. 8-10: Returning a paper from Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery requesting a repeal of #164-14 and #165-07 on skipping Synod of 1996: it is now too late to change anything Book of Church Government; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 3-017, 3-171, 4-127, 4-173, 4-183 #166-02, pp. 27-30: Organizing Japan Presbytery out of congregations overseen by the Japan Commission; declining to permit missionaries to have dual presbytery memberships Abolishing agencies; Attending other seminaries; Church constitution; Church discipline; Disaster relief; Fraternal relations; Incorporation; Japan Presbytery; New presbyteries; Presbytery conferences; Psalter editions; RTF. Ministers: 3-073, 3-092, 3-127, 3-174, 4-006, 4-178, 4-240, 4-247, 4-283, 5-016 #166-03, pp. 37-40: Renaming Graduate Study Fund Committee to Graduate Study Committee; adjusting committee procedures Graduate student aid; Meeting schedule; Renaming; Reporting calendars. Ministers: 3-181, 3-201 #166-04, pp. 40-51: Amending Pension Board constitution and policy on asset allocation; reiterating #155-07 on new installations; encouraging employees to enroll in health insurance plan Agency membership; Covenanter Witness; Individual relocation; Inflation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058 #166-05, p. 52: Specifying the basis for the revision of the Directory for Worship, and expanding the #161-22 committee Agency membership; Directory for Worship. Ministers: 4-110 #166-06, pp. 54-56: Reiterating #165-09 on advertising, provided that finances be in order Bequests; Budget; China mission; Church history; Congregational missionaries; Disaster relief; Japan mission; Parsonages; RPCI; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Self-supporting missions; TCCF. Ministers: 3-073, 3-174, 4-006 #166-07, pp. 57-58: Reiterating #165-03 Financial; Latin America; OPC; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC. Ministers: 4-121, 4-203 #166-08, pp. 59-60: Approving plans for revitalizing declining congregations Forms; Revitalization. Ministers: 3-104, 4-118, 4-173, 4-280, 4-281 #166-09, pp. 61-62: Reiterating #165-06, final clause; urging congregations to deposit unused records with the Stated Clerk Archives; Business of Synod; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Geneva library; Lou Hutmire; RPTS library; Second presbytery; Telecommunications. Ministers: 3-016, 4-206 #166-10, pp. 62-68: Procedures for skipping the Synod of 1996, including a Special Interim Commission; amending Directory for Church Government to permit Moderator and Clerks to fill board and committee vacancies Book of Church Government; Budget; Chaplains; China mission; Computing; Devolution; Docket and digest; Geneva; Graduate student aid; Inflation; Interchurch; Long-range planning; Meeting schedule; New commissions; Pensions; RP Home; RTF; Second presbytery; Seeking candidates, FMB; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Statistics; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-017, 3-171, 4-001, 4-127, 4-143, 4-173, 4-183 #166-11, p. 70: Rejecting a committee proposal regarding the role of deacons and sessions, and indefinitely postponing the committee report Diaconate; Eldership. Ministers: 4-057, 4-075 #166-12, p. 75: Reiterating #166-11 postponement Diaconate; Eldership. Ministers: 4-057, 4-075 #166-13, pp. 76-77: Adopting #165-18 following successful votes in overture, and recognizing the failure of #164-22/ #165-19 Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 4-118, 4-122 #166-14, p. 83: Congratulating RPTS librarian Rachel George for her faithful service RPTS library; Thanks. #166-15, p. 89: Sessions with tie votes on overtures are to be ignored in passage calculation Overtures; Rules and organization. Ministers: 3-181, 4-001, 4-223 #166-16, p. 90: Abolishing standing committee on Temperance Abolishing standing committees; Temperance. #166-17, pp. 92-93: Interchurch Committee to ask editors of the New Geneva Study Bible (OCLC 757686151) to remove a statement Bible texts and translations; Elements of worship; Interchurch; Outside communications. Ministers: 4-222 #166-18, pp. 94-96: Returning a complaint against Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery (#165-01); encouraging congregation and presbytery to work together; warning session to temper its language; praying for all parties; ad interim commissions may notify elders of incoming calls Book of Church Government; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Judicial cases; Pastoral calls; Testimony; Urban church planting; Lansing, Southfield. Ministers: 3-130, 5-023 #166-19, pp. 96-100: Financial arrangements, including Pension Fund details and RPM&M distribution Chaplains; Church history; Congregational aid; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; MacLaughlin Trust; Meeting schedule; Pensions; Real property; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPWA; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-125 #166-20, pp. 117-124: Reiterating #165-02 on prayer and “Pastors’ Pastor”; new church-planting goals; urging HMB to work with presbyteries to evaluate potential planters Budget; Business of Synod; Canada; Church planting; Conferences; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; Long-range planning; Pastors’pastor; Presbytery-appointed membership; Seeking candidates, HMB; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Statistics; WMF. Ministers: 4-281 #166-21, p. 124: Missionaries in Japan urged to transfer credentials to Japan Presbytery (compare #060-22, #066-17, and #069-28) Foreign missions HR; Japan Presbytery. Ministers: 3-174, 4-240 #166-22, pp. 124-125: Interchurch Committee to investigate reports of women eldership in the CRCNA; approving RCUS membership in NAPARC; reiterating #165-11, final clause CRCNA; FCS; Fraternal relations; Geneva; ICRC; KAPC; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; TCCF; Women elders. Ministers: 4-222 #166-23, p. 125: Apologizing to a Geneva student worker whom delegates had offended (see page 117) Apologies; Directions to individuals. Ministers: 4-127 #166-24, p. 125: Commending retiring RPTS professor William Russell for his service Directions to individuals; RPTS faculty; Thanks. #166-25, pp. 125-126: Amending Directory for Church Government on abstentions from overture votes, including codifying #166-15 Book of Church Government; Overtures. Ministers: 3-181, 4-001, 4-223 #166-26, pp. 126-128: Approving amended version of #165-15 and favoring frequent appointment of fraternal delegates Fraternal relations; Japan Presbytery; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; TCCF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-106 #166-27, p. 129: Declining petition on election procedures, similar to #165-17 Congregational meetings; Officer elections. Ministers: 3-079, 4-065, 4-197, 4-232 #166-28, pp. 131-134: Renaming Presbytery Review Committee to State of the Church Committee Book of Discipline; Budget; Chaplains; Church discipline; Church erection; Church history; Church planting; CYPU; Directory for Worship; Disaster relief; Eldership; Inflation; Japan Presbytery; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Meeting schedule; OTH; Presbytery conferences; Psalter editions; Renaming; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; RPTS finances; RTF; Sabbath schools; Seeking candidates, RPTS; TCCF; Vow 8. #166-29, pp. 134-135: Sustaining the parliamentarians’ ruling: overtures must be calculated based on church law when they were sent down Construction; Overtures; Rules and organization; Vow 8. Ministers: 3-181, 4-001, 4-223 #166-30, p. 135: Prohibiting discipline of, and permitting officeholding by, men not in compliance with ordination query #8 who comply with all other standards Church discipline; Making exceptions; Overtures; Vow 8. #166-31, p. 136: Urging study and comment submissions for the proposed new Directory for Worship Directory for Worship; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-181, 4-110 #167 — Synod of 1997 #167-01, pp. 8-9: Returning a paper to Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery: Presbytery had not studied the issue properly, and there was no issue on which Synod might rule Business of Synod; No information. #167-02, p. 11: Returning a paper to Atlantic Presbytery: the paper is not ready for action, Presbytery can already handle the situation, and the Interchurch Committee disagrees American Presbyterian Church; Business of Synod; Church union. #167-03, p. 12: Permitting a licentiate to participate in the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 5-026 #167-04, p. 34: Urging presbyteries to report on their advocate for disability concerns Disability. #167-05, p. 34: Commending RPWA for its work RPWA. #167-06, pp. 39-47: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; pension funding; approving a pension decision for IRS purposes; permitting exception to #153-17; amending plan B Abortion; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Individual relocation; Inflation; Insurance; Licentiates; Lou Hutmire; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058 #167-07, pp. 48-49: Considering a celebration of Geneva’s sesquicentenary at the Synod of 1998 Church history; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-039 #167-08, pp. 55-58: Praying for and seeking more missionaries to Japan Health and medicine; India; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Requesting opinions; RPCI; RPTS; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-095 #167-09, pp. 58-60: Reiterating #165-03; permitting exception to #153-17 Financial; KAPC; NAE; OPC; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC; Two-term rule exceptions; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-121, 4-203 #167-10, pp. 60-63: Committee on Revitalization of Declining Congregations to prepare a revitalization handbook; presbyteries to give attention to requests for aid in revitalization; considering a Board of Church Restoration Congregational aid; Publications; Revitalization; Synod at RPIC; Bloomington. Ministers: 3-104, 4-118, 4-173, 4-280, 4-281 #167-11, pp. 65-69: Holding a seminar at Synod in 1999; addressing #164-13 non-overture; paying expenses for bicentenary celebration at Synod in 1998 Conferences at Synod; Disability; Docket and digest; Email; Geneva; RP Home; Second presbytery; Synod at RPIC; Testimony; Traveling Fund. #167-12, pp. 69-71: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Church history; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-123, 5-022 #167-13, pp. 72-78: Reiterating #165-02 on “Pastors’ pastor” utilization and continuing the incumbent, and #166-20 on evaluation Budget; Church planting; Conferences; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Geneva; NAPARC; OPC; Pastors’pastor; Psalm recordings; Seeking candidates, HMB; Statistics. Ministers: 4-281 #167-14, pp. 82-88: Slowing transition of Japan Presbytery from mission to established presbytery; reiterating #166-06 and retaining current missionary; agreement between RPTS and Kobe Theological Hall; statement of relationship between RPCNA and Japan Presbytery, including delegates attending Synod Foreign missions HR; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Languages; Self-supporting missions. Ministers: 3-174, 4-120, 4-216, 4-247 #167-15, pp. 79-80, 89-91: Repealing #166-15; as most ordination queries were never overtured (cf. #110-22 and #150-18), sending them down in overture, and treating approved queries as constitutional; rescinding #166-30, but permitting beneficiaries to remain in office Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Business of Synod; Church constitution; Making exceptions; Overtures, new; Rules and organization; Vow 8; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-065, 4-076, 4-200 #167-16, pp. 92-94: Procedure for adopting new Directory for Worship Church history; Directory for Worship; Family worship; Renaming; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-080, 3-132, 3-181, 4-110, 4-222 #167-17, pp. 95-100: Financial arrangements, including pension funding and RPM&M distribution Bequests; Computing; Deacon delegates; Disability; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Japan Presbytery; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; PRJC; Publications; RP Home; RPTS location; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-125, 4-215 #167-18, p. 120:#167-15 overture to omit total abstinence from query #8 Overtures, new; Vow 8. #167-19, pp. 121-123: Repealing #164-12 on American Presbyterian Church, but inviting them to join the RPCNA; Interchurch Committee to be responsible for future work on #165-15 American Presbyterian Church; BPC; CRCNA; Elements of worship; EPC; FCS; Fraternal relations; ICRC; NAE; NAPARC; PCA; RCUS; RPTS library. Ministers: 3-073, 3-181, 3-201, 4-110, 4-222 #167-20, pp. 124-129: New standing committee, on Youth Ministries, and assigning its responsibilities; new regulations for E&P Board; appropriating money Budget; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Geneva; New agencies; Presbytery-appointed membership; Psalm recordings; RPIC; Short-term missions. #167-21, p. 129: Amending #167-17 to accommodate #167-21 financial arrangements Budget; CYPU. #167-22, pp. 129-131: Preparing a revised psalter by 2002, with only minor changes; appointing a revision committee; procedures for the process Bible texts and translations; Church music; Psalter editions. #167-23, p. 131: Clerk to notify sessions of #167-15 (repealing #166-15) when sending out overtures Directions to individuals; Overtures. Ministers: 3-181, 4-001, 4-127, 4-223 #167-24, pp. 132-135: Forgiving RPTS for racism toward past students ARPC; Budget; Computing; CUBM; Donations; OPC; PCA; Radio and TV; RPTS accreditation; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race. Ministers: 3-012, 4-065, 5-005 #167-25, p. 135: Discharging Psalm Music Committee and assigning its responsibilities to Psalter Revision Committee Abolishing agencies; Church music. #167-26, pp. 138-141: Procedures for exchanging minutes with other RPCs, notification of meeting dates for fraternal-delegate appointments; reviewing similarities and differences; encouraging exchanges; periodical editors encouraged to exchange copies and republish announcements Fraternal relations; Minutes of Synod; Overtures; Pulpit exchanges; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; TCCF; Testimony. Ministers: 3-009, 3-106 #167-27, p. 141: Declining to fund the Board to Address Disability Concerns Disability; Financial. Ministers: 4-173 #168 — Synod of 1998 #168-01, p. 11: Returning a petition to introduce instrumental music, as the matter has not obtained the proper study A cappella; Docket and digest; Orlando. Ministers: 4-093, 4-222 #168-02, pp. 15-18: Continuing “Pastors’ Pastor” program Bequests; Budget; Church planting; Conferences at Synod; Congregational aid; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; NAPARC; Pastors’pastor; Presbytery-appointed membership; Seeking candidates, HMB; Statistics. Ministers: 4-281 #168-03, pp. 19-21: Praying for short-term missionaries preparing to visit Japan; praying to find missionary pastors, and urging name submissions Fraternal relations; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Mission schools; RPCI; RTF; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF. #168-04, p. 21: Reiterating #167-10 on aid requests Financial; Revitalization. #168-05, pp. 42-48: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B; rejecting authorization for a mandatory health-insurance plan for all ministers and Synod employees Covenanter Witness; Debt; Departing ministers; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058 #168-06, p. 48: Directing Pension Trustees to be more aggressive in providing for pension plan A beneficiaries Pensions. Ministers: 4-058 #168-07, pp. 51-57: Procedural changes for committee nominations; Synodical conference in 1999, and canvassing for funds; preparing to cancel Synod in 2000; sending #164-13 down in overture; wording changes to Directory for Church Government; handling ties in overture votes; pricing the published minutes of Synod; permitting individuals to participate in Traveling Fund; adjusting statistical blanks Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church constitution; COCM; Conferences at Synod; Construction; Delegate qualifications; Directory for Worship; Disability; Geneva; Long-range planning; Meeting schedule; Minutes of Synod; Ordination queries; Overtures, new; Parsonages; RPIC; Rules and organization; Sabbath schools; Statistical blanks; Telecommunications; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-171, 4-173, 4-179 #168-08, pp. 57-58: Adopting ordination queries 1, 2, 4-7, new 8, and 9 following successful votes in overture, and recognizing failure of old 8 (#167-15) Overtures, successful; Overtures, unsuccessful; Vow 8; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-118, 3-181, 4-282 #168-09, pp. 59-60: Declining to declare the ordination queries part of the Constitution, the matter having been handled by #167-15 and #167-18 Ordination queries. Ministers: 4-095, 4-203, 4-263 #168-10, p. 60: Declining to circulate a pastoral letter on alcohol use Pastoral letters; Vow 8; Youth; Sterling [Kansas]. #168-11, pp. 68-70: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Computing; FCS; PCEA; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI; RPIC. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-123, 5-022 #168-12, p. 72: Approving proposed organizational structure of Book of Discipline; requesting comment on drafts Book of Church Government; Requesting opinions. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 4-200 #168-13, pp. 72-73: Discontinuing revision of the Directory for Worship and discharging committee Directory for Worship; Elements of worship. Ministers: 3-080, 3-132, 3-181, 4-110, 4-222 #168-14, p. 73: Reiterating #168-07 on cancelling Synod in 2000 Meeting schedule; Written dissent. #168-15, pp. 79-81: Regulations for presbyteries to follow in overseeing youth ministry CYPU; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPIC; Thanks. Ministers: 4-107, 4-143 #168-16, p. 83: Synod’s directory to designated handicapped-accessible church buildings Disability; Minutes of Synod. #168-17, pp. 83-85: Praying for chaplains; six-year term for representatives on PRJC [omitted; see pages 6-7 of minutes of 2001] Agency membership; Financial; PRJC. #168-18, pp. 85-86: Position paper on women in combat, presbyteries and sessions to exercise oversight, and to counsel women on military matters; notifying NAPARC, NAE, and existing chaplains, and President Bill Clinton and both houses of Congress Bill Clinton; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; NAE; NAPARC; Outside communications; Presidential communications; Women in the military. #168-19, pp. 86-91: Plan for replacing denominational treasurer; procedures for funding requests; membership and responsibilities for Finance Committee; responsibilities for Trustees; handling Y2K computer issues Bequests; Church erection; Covenanter Witness; Deacon delegates; Docket and digest; Email; Foreign missions; Headquarters; Home missions; Incorporation; Insurance; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Reporting calendars; RPIC; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Synod HR; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. #168-20, pp. 92-96: Financial arrangements, including pensions, RPM&M distributions, requiring budgets of beneficiaries, assisting Korean American Presbyterian Church, and Graduate Study Fund Bequests; CYPU; Deacon delegates; Foreign missions HR; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Japan Presbytery; KAPC; Levant missions; MacLaughlin Trust; Minutes of Synod; Pensions; PRJC; RPTS finances; RPWA; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-125, 4-215 #168-21, pp. 108-109: Book of Discipline Revision Committee to consider electronic means of recording ecclesiastical proceedings; returning Paper 98-5 to its authors, its goals having been accomplished, and 98-7 to St. Lawrence Presbytery; declining to take further action in Almonte situation, local process being incomplete, but directing provisional session to act expeditiously and to review relevant papers Almonte case; Book of Discipline; Computing; Provisional sessions; Hillside. Ministers: 4-095, 4-183, 4-203, 4-263 #168-22, p. 110: Studying the release of ordained men from old ordination query #8, it having been repealed Making exceptions; Vow 8; Sterling [Kansas]. Ministers: 4-095, 4-263 #168-23, p. 111: When a court’s authority is declined, cases may be appealed, but the declinature may not Book of Discipline; Trial procedure. #168-24, pp. 111-130: Suspending fraternal relations with the CRCNA, and notifying it; plan of union with American Presbyterian Church; funding fraternal delegates from other RPCs; sending minutes of Synod to all churches in fraternal relations A cappella; Agency membership; American Presbyterian Church; APCNA; ARPC; Church history; Church union; Close communion; CRCNA; Fraternal relations; Geneva; ICRC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; Outside communications; PCA; Premillennialism; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; Strict subscription; TCCF; Temperance; Women deacons; Women elders. Ministers: 3-181, 3-201, 4-110, 4-222 #168-25, pp. 130-131: Approving intention of rearranging and simplifying Covenant of Church Membership, but declining a specific plan; interpreting covenant vow #04 Book of Church Government; COCM; Construction; RPCI; Soteriology; Strict subscription. Ministers: 3-171, 4-001, 4-006, 4-222 #168-26, pp. 134-135: Alleghenies Presbytery to submit its minutes for review; St. Lawrence Presbytery to provide further details in the Almonte situation Almonte case; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; Hillside. Ministers: 4-183 #169 — Synod of 1999 #169-01, pp. 10-11: Returning without explanation a paper seeking the replacement of chapter 21 of the Testimony, “Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day” Elements of worship; Testimony. Ministers: 3-017, 3-176, 4-120, 4-127, 4-148, 4-183 #169-02, pp. 38-44: Trustees and HMB authorized to develop a system to fund construction; thanking retiring Stated Clerk Lou Hutmire for his many years of service Bequests; Chester Fox; Church erection; Computing; Congregational aid; Deacon delegates; Disability; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Insurance; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; Lou Hutmire; MacLaughlin Trust; Minutes of Synod; Paying the clerk; Pensions; PRJC; RP Home; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-127 #169-03, pp. 46-50: Permitting distribution of A Manual of Interchurch Relations (OCLC 71247655) and commending it to the sessions American Presbyterian Church; ARPC; Church union; CRCNA; FCS; Fraternal relations; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Publications; RPCA; RPCS; RPIC; TCCF; URCNA; Women elders. Ministers: 3-181, 3-201, 4-110, 4-222 #169-04, p. 50: Appointing a minister and his wife to interview applicants for American coordinator of the Covenanter Holiday Tour, and thanking them for their service Directions to individuals; Interchurch; UK conference. Ministers: 3-118 #169-05, pp. 50-53: Reiterating #167-26; dismissing committee on Declaration of Relationship Directions to individuals; Fraternal relations; Minutes of Synod; Pulpit exchanges; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Youth. Ministers: 3-009, 3-106 #169-06, pp. 54-57: Procedures for skipping the Synod of 1996, including a Special Interim Commission; declining to require that all documentation be submitted in paper rather than via email Computing; Conferences at Synod; Docket and digest; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; Meeting schedule; New commissions; Pensions; RP Home; RPIC; RPTS; Rules and organization; Statistics; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-017, 3-176, 4-120, 4-127, 4-183 #169-07, pp. 58-59: “Yahveh”, “Yahweh”, and “Yah” may be used sparingly in the new psalter, as well as “Jehovah” and “LORD” Bible texts and translations; Psalm selections. Ministers: 4-123, 4-232, 5-022 #169-08, pp. 59-60: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments A cappella; Japan Presbytery; Languages; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI; TCCF. Ministers: 3-009, 3-019, 3-033, 4-123, 5-022 #169-09, pp. 61-67: Continuing “Pastors’ Pastor” program Bequests; Budget; Canada; Church erection; Computing; Conferences at Synod; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Evangelism; NAPARC; OPC; Pastors’pastor; Presbytery-appointed membership; RCUS; Urban church planting. Ministers: 4-281 #169-10, pp. 67-69: Praying for chaplains Baptists; BPC; Financial; Geneva; Japan; OPC; PCA; PRJC; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-046, 4-121, 4-180, 4-203 #169-11, pp. 69-70: Approving generalities of a revitalization plan; each presbytery to appoint an elder delegate for a revitalization conference; new standing committee, on church revitalization ARPC; Conferences at Synod; Interchurch; New standing committees; Revitalization. Ministers: 4-173 #169-12, pp. 70-71: Adopting #168-07 following successful vote in overture Forms; Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-179, 4-206 #169-13, pp. 75-77: Recognizing Joseph Lamont for his long service on the Geneva Trustees Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Higher-education standards; Thanks. #169-14, pp. 80-82: Amending RPTS constitution on appointments and mandatory retirement age Bequests; Budget; Donations; Japan; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-203 #169-15, p. 83: Permitting exception to #153-17 Pensions; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058 #169-16, pp. 83-86: Presbyteries urged to hear from a youth ministries representative CYPU; Geneva; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Presbytery conferences; TFY. #169-17, pp. 86-88: Praying for more missionaries Budget; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF. #169-18, p. 89: Thanking Taylor University staff and secretary Kim Johnston Thanks. Ministers: 4-173 #169-19, pp. 89-98: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; funding pensions; approving response on lump sum payments; encouraging presbyteries and congregations to investigate health care options; permitting exception to #153-17 Computing; Covenanter Witness; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Licentiates; Lou Hutmire; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058, 4-216 #169-20, p. 98: Temporarily assisting ministers with high health insurance premiums Health and medicine; Insurance; Pensions; Poor relief. #169-21, p. 98: Pension Board to consider providing professional financial counselling to ministers Pensions. #169-22, pp. 100-102: Former ordination query #8 imposes no continuing obligation to the church, and all who took it only to submit to the church are released; those who took it as a matter of conscience should consider the matter with prayer and counsel Making exceptions; Vow 8. Ministers: 3-176, 4-244, 4-282 #169-23, pp. 110-113: Financial arrangements, including pension funding, mileage compensation, appropriating RPM&M money; considering using non-delegate Finance Committee members as support staff Business of Synod; Deacon delegates; Devolution; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPIC; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-125, 4-215 #169-24, pp. 124-125: Encouraging Japan Presbytery to develop its own standards for future use; returning an appeal against St. Lawrence Presbytery, as Presbytery had reversed itself and supported the appellants Independent missions; Japan Presbytery; Judicial cases; Ordination queries; Testimony; Trial procedure; Westminster standards; Walton [New York]. Ministers: 4-039, 4-041, 4-282, 5-026 #169-25, pp. 128-129: All parties in the Almonte situation to reconcile; directions to specific parties Almonte case; Imposing discipline; Restorations; Hillside. Ministers: 3-104, 3-130, 4-093, 4-183 #169-26, p. 129: Reversing #169-01 and studying the paper Elements of worship; Testimony. Ministers: 4-148 #169-27, pp. 129-130: Atlantic Presbytery to submit its minutes for review Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 4-183 #170 — Synod of 2001 #170-01, p. 8: Permitting distribution of papers on worship practices Elements of worship; Paper distribution. Ministers: 4-093 #170-02, p. 10: Appointing a judicial commission to address the Almonte situation Almonte case; New commissions; Provisional sessions; Hillside. Ministers: 3-130, 4-173, 4-183, 5-028 #170-03, pp. 57-59: Reiterating #169-17 Africa; Budget; China mission; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Mission schools; Philippines; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF; Theaters. #170-04, pp. 59-61: Congratulating chaplains on their promotions, reiterating #169-10, and paying a bill Agency membership; Congratulations; Donations; NAE; PCA; PRJC. Ministers: 4-121, 4-186, 4-196, 5-028 #170-05, pp. 61-63: Renaming Committee on Revitalization of Declining Churches to Committee on Church Revitalization; declining to make it a standing committee [ignoring #169-11, which made it standing] but encouraging preparations for that goal Abolishing standing committees; ARPC; Budget; Interchurch; PCA; Publications; Renaming; Revitalization; RPIC. Ministers: 3-104, 4-118, 4-126, 4-173 #170-06, pp. 64-65: Continuing Psalter Revision Committee Psalm selections. Ministers: 4-123, 5-022 #170-07, p. 66: Psalter Revision Committee to present its work to the Synod of 2002 Psalter editions. Ministers: 4-123, 5-022 #170-08, pp. 67-71: Asking the Interchurch Committee to consider appointing Business of Synod committeemen as fraternal delegates Book of Church Government; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Officer elections; Pages; Synod at RPIC; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-176, 4-120, 4-126, 4-127, 4-173 #170-09, pp. 74-75, 333-335, 337-339: Adopting Section I, chapters 1-3, 5, and 6, and Section II, introduction and chapter 1, of the new Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Church constitution; Church discipline; Private prosecutions; Purging rolls; Restorations. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 4-200 #170-10, p. 75: Permitting a licentiate to participate in the Traveling Fund Traveling Fund. Ministers: 5-041 #170-11, pp. 75-86: Extending #168-24 CRCNA suspension; expressing concern over NAE bylaw changes and encouraging it to exclude National Council of Churches member denominations; commending World Relief Commission to deacons; preparing fraternal relations with URCNA; permitting exception to #153-17 ARPC; Chaplains; Christian schools; CRCNA; FCS; Fraternal relations; ICRC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; National Council of Churches; OPC; PCA; Radio and TV; RCA; RCUS; RPCS; Two-term rule exceptions; URCNA; Women elders. Ministers: 3-181, 4-110, 4-188 #170-12, pp. 88-119: Declining to adopt a response to one of the #170-01 papers; adopting paper on Reformed theology of worship, and requesting study and comment on it Eldership; Elements of worship; Email; Lutherans; Requesting opinions; Sabbath-keeping; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-067, 3-176, 4-001, 4-065, 4-148, 4-247 #170-13, pp. 119, 339-343: Adopting Section II, chapters 2 and 3, of the new Book of Discipline Absences; Book of Discipline; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Oath of purgation; Post office; Private prosecutions; Strict subscription. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 4-200 #170-14, p. 124: Thanking non-retained RPTS professor for his service Directions to individuals; RPTS faculty; Thanks. Ministers: 4-123, 4-127, 4-197 #170-15, pp. 129-130: Urging ministers and sessions to familiarize themselves with, and advocate for, Youth Ministries Committee programs CYPU; Geneva; RPIC; TFY. Ministers: 4-107, 4-143, 5-036, 5-109 #170-16, pp. 147-154: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; funding pensions; amending pension plan B, including making provisions for Canadian ministers; health insurance; permitting exception to #153-17 Canada; Covenanter Witness; Headquarters; Health and medicine; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #170-17, pp. 155-156: Declining to permit an exception to #152-07 on financial aid, returning request to St. Lawrence Presbytery, urging Presbytery to aid congregation, and permitting canvassing the church for funds Canvassing; Congregational aid; Jim McFarland; Revitalization; Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 3-104, 4-228 #170-18, pp. 156-158: Financial arrangements, including pension funding, traveling fund, distributing RPM&M, Graduate Study Committee, and studying financial decision-making Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125, 4-215 #170-19, pp. 171-172: Interpreting #158-24 (three variant readings existed); declining an appeal due to numerous procedural errors Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Construction; Judicial cases; Ministers in secular employment; Walton [New York]. Ministers: 3-176, 4-006, 4-107, 4-127, 4-200, 5-020 #170-20, p. 176:#170-02 commission retained to ensure compliance with #169-25; directing Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery to disband a commission on the same subject Almonte case; Hillside. Ministers: 3-130, 4-173, 4-183, 5-028 #170-21, p. 176: Dispensing with letters of remembrance Rules and organization; Sympathy. #170-22, pp. 176-177, 346-350: Adopting forms for matters of church discipline, and moving a section of the Book of Discipline to the Directory for Church Government Book of Discipline; Church discipline; RPIC. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 4-200 #170-23, pp. 182-183: Alleghenies, Atlantic, and St. Lawrence Presbyteries to form a joint committee to study realignment Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 4-075, 4-110, 4-122 #170-24, p. 184: Directing presbyteries to make necessary corrections in their minutes Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports. Ministers: 4-183 #170-25, pp. 185-186: Revitalization Committee to explore specific options for financial aid (#170-17), and Synod to provide additional members if requested Congregational aid; Revitalization. #171 — Synod of 2002 #171-01, pp. 33-36: Encouraging presbyteries to exchange fraternal delegates and to plan for daughter presbyteries Book of Church Government; Canada; Congregationalism; Presbytery boundaries; Presbytery conferences; PRJC. Ministers: 3-171, 4-120, 4-127, 4-232, 5-030, 5-040 #171-02, pp. 36-43: Policies and procedures for the Building Loan and Grant Committee of the Trustees Bequests; Canada; Church erection; Closing churches; Debt; Foreign missions; Home missions; Insurance; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPIC; RPTS finances; RPWA; Trademark; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-127 #171-03, pp. 48-50: Making an exception to #153-17 Budget; China mission; Cush for Christ; Japan Presbytery; KTH; Philippines; Psalmody; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-122 #171-04, pp. 50-55: Conducting a revitalization program in Midwest Presbytery; approving a plan for financial assistance to established congregations Church planting; Conferences; Congregational aid; Forms; Revitalization; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-104, 3-118, 4-126, 4-173 #171-05, p. 56: Reiterating #165-03, first clause; presbyteries encouraged to urge suitable men into the chaplaincy Health and medicine; PRJC; Women in the military. #171-06, pp. 57-60: New standing committee, on Finance (converted from a committee of the day), and assigning its responsibilities; studying the purpose and function of deacon delegates Budget; Canvassing; Congregationalism; Deacon delegates; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; New standing committees; Presbytery-appointed membership; RP Home; RPTS finances; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-173, 4-215 #171-07, p. 61: Permitting distribution of remarks on Covenant of Church Membership revision COCM; Paper distribution. Ministers: 4-247 #171-08, p. 67: Declining to make any changes on congregational officers, but recommitting a study committee’s report Congregational meetings. #171-09, pp. 67-84: Adopting all remaining portions of the new Book of Discipline, and sending it down in overture Arbitration; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Eldership; Forms; Lawsuits among members; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Oath of purgation; Overtures, new; Presbytery minutes; Private prosecutions; Purging rolls; Strict subscription; Written dissent. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 4-200 #171-10, p. 89:#153-17 applies to Geneva Corporators elected by Synod, but not to the rest of the Corporators Geneva governance; Presbytery-appointed membership; Two-term rule. Ministers: 4-001, 4-200, 4-223 #171-11, pp. 98-102: Concurring with NAPARC expulsion of the CRCNA, and terminating fraternal relations; given positive response to #170-11, remaining in NAE; process for bringing RP fraternal delegates; considering fraternal relations with Greek Evangelical Church ARPC; Canvassing; Church erection; CRCNA; ERQ; Fraternal relations; GEC; ICRC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; National Council of Churches; OPC; PCA; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; RPTS library; TCCF; URCNA; Women elders; World Council of Churches. Ministers: 3-118, 3-181, 4-188 #171-12, pp. 104-105: American coordinator of the Covenanter Holiday Tour to be chosen by Interchurch Committee Geneva; Interchurch; Short-term missions; UK conference; Youth. Ministers: 3-118 #171-13, pp. 105-108: Urging presbyteries to find representatives for Youth Ministries Committee; praying for youth and for new ministers Baptism; CYPU; Parental responsibilities; Presbytery conferences; Presbytery-appointed membership; Seeking candidates, HMB; TFY. Ministers: 4-143, 5-109 #171-14, pp. 114-122: Sustaining existing positions on the role of the diaconate and the eligibility of women to the office Biblical languages; Book of Church Government; Creation; Eldership; OPC; Ordination queries; Poor relief; Testimony; Westminster standards; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-132, 4-103, 4-244, 5-031 #171-15, p. 123: Approving a statement of principles and practices in home mission work, but declining to convert HMB into a committee Church planting. Ministers: 3-171, 4-006, 4-274 #171-16, pp. 134-136: Revising Covenant of Church Membership and renaming it to Covenant of Communicant Membership, and sending it down in overture Biblical inerrancy; Church constitution; COCM; Evangelism; Overtures, new; Renaming; Sabbath-keeping; Tithing. Ministers: 3-171, 4-001, 4-006, 4-222 #171-17, pp. 136-137: Declining to adopt a position paper on six-day creation Church discipline; Creation; Strict subscription; Testimony; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-110, 4-263, 5-027 #171-18, pp. 139-142: Amending ordination queries for deacons, and sending this down in overture; reasons for the propriety of #170-20, second clause; addressing wine, grape juice, and split cup in the Lord’s Supper [dissent, page 146] Almonte case; Book of Church Government; Church history; Communion cup; Construction; Diaconate; Directory for Worship; Fraternal relations; Occasional hearing; Overtures, new; Poor relief; Vow 8; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-083, 4-186, 4-215, 5-031 #171-19, pp. 143-145: Reiterating #065-20, first clause; statistics to appear in Synod’s digest; presbytery reports and State of the Church Committee report to comment on statistics; Business of Synod Committee to plan for better statistics gathering Business of Synod; China mission; Cush for Christ; Docket and digest; Drugs; New delegates; Philippines; Poor relief; Presbytery reports; Statistics. Ministers: 4-099, 4-228, 5-024 #171-20, p. 148: HMB to consider a position of Coordinator of Home Missions and Church Revitalization Financial; Home missions; Revitalization; Cambridge. #171-21, pp. 149-151: Financial arrangements, including RPM&M distribution, pension funding, paying Synod’s clerk and assistant clerk for their services; declining to participate in church-wide adoption program, but urging families to support adoption and the Reformed Presbyterian Witness (OCLC 48802496) to publish on the question Church history; Covenanter Witness; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Revitalization; RPIC; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation. Ministers: 4-075, 4-125 #171-22, pp. 170-174: Seminar on pastoral finances at Synod in 2003; declining to elect Synod’s officers one year in advance; volunteers for letters of remembrance; Traveling Fund administration Absences; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Church constitution; COCM; Conferences at Synod; Geneva; Licentiates; Officer elections; Ordination queries; Overtures; Paying ministers; Pensions; Provisional sessions; RPIC; Sympathy; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Trial procedure; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-176, 4-120, 4-126, 4-127, 4-173 #171-23, pp. 175-183: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Canada; Covenanter Witness; Headquarters; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #172 — Synod of 2003 #172-01, pp. 38-42: Stated Clerk to use the previous year’s statistics for congregations that fail to submit current statistics Directions to individuals; Statistics. #172-02, pp. 48-52: Implementing #170-22 section move; abolishing deacon delegates; declining to amend statistical blanks; reduced Traveling Fund compensation for absent delegates Absences; Baptism; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Budget; Business of Synod; Church constitution; COCM; Conferences at Synod; Deacon delegates; Docket and digest; Ordination queries; Overtures; Pages; Parsonages; Poor relief; Provisional sessions; Reporting calendars; Statistical blanks; Sympathy; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-176, 4-120, 4-126, 4-127, 4-173 #172-03, p. 53: Making no changes on congregational officers, and recommitting the report Congregational meetings. #172-04, pp. 58-60: Conducting a biennial revitalization program; encouraging presbyteries to oversee congregations carefully and actively, and use Revitalization Committee materials Church planting; Conferences at Synod; Congregational aid; Interchurch; Jim McFarland; PCA; Psalmody; Revitalization; Hebron, Quinter, Sharon, Shawnee, Topeka, Winchester. Ministers: 3-104, 3-118, 4-126, 4-173 #172-05, pp. 65-66: Reiterating #169-10 OPC; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-186 #172-06, pp. 67-68: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Agency membership; Bible texts and translations; Japan; Psalmody; RPCA; RPCI; RPIC. Ministers: 3-009, 3-033, 4-123, 5-022 #172-07, pp. 69-70: Adopting #171-09, #171-16 on rename, and #171-18 following successful votes in overture, and recognizing the failure of #171-16 on revision Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-200, 5-042 #172-08, pp. 70-76: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Canada; Email; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #172-09, p. 77: Making an exception to #153-17 Pensions; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058 #172-10, pp. 78-83: Approving the NAPARC candidacy of l’Eglise reformee du Québec; remaining in the NAE for three years ARPC; Church discipline; Church union; Computing; CRCNA; ERQ; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Joint Synods; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; National Council of Churches; OPC; PCA; RCUS; Receiving congregations; RPCA; TCCF; UK conference; URCNA; Women elders. Ministers: 3-118, 3-181, 4-188 #172-11, pp. 83-86: Declining to amend the Directory for Church Government on publicizing sessional nominations for office and on permitting session meetings to be private; declining to strengthen ordination query #4 on worship position or to require counselling for dissidents; church officers must declare any disagreements with church standards Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Congregational meetings; Covenant renovation; Elements of worship; Pastoral calls; Strict subscription; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-079, 3-174, 4-065, 4-203 #172-12, pp. 87-90: Reiterating #171-13, second clause Conferences; CYPU; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS location; Seeking candidates, HMB; Short-term missions; TFY. Ministers: 4-143, 5-109 #172-13, pp. 90-113: Adopting position paper on worship, and publishing it in print and electronically Baptism; Church history; Covenant theology; Delinquency; Email; Family worship; Lord’s supper; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Premillennialism; Psalmody; Publications; RPCS; Sabbath-keeping; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-067, 3-176, 4-001, 4-048, 4-065, 4-093, 4-148, 4-247, 5-039 #172-14, p. 117: Urging the E&P Board to publish a festschrift honoring retiring RPTS professor (The Faith Once Delivered , OCLC 122261745) Budget; Church history; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Health and medicine; Psalmody; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-176 #172-15, pp. 123-127: Amending RPTS constitution regarding faculty members; permitting advertising for faculty candidates Computing; Higher-education standards; Islam; Orthodox; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 4-186 #172-16, pp. 127-135: Financial arrangements, including RPM&M distribution, requiring budgets of church agencies, and directing Graduate Study Fund to recommend policy changes; bringing Japanese delegates to Synod Covenanter Witness; Disability; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying the clerk; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; Revitalization; RP Home; RPIC; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 3-171, 4-125, 4-173, 4-215, 4-223 #172-17, pp. 149-152: Graduate Study Committee remains Synod’s agent for implementing #133-28 and #148-13 and prioritizing future recipients complying with those provisions; forgiving loans received through 2002 Bequests; Budget; Computing; Debt; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Higher-education standards; Jim McFarland; Reporting calendars; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-201, 4-048, 4-186, 4-200 #172-18, pp. 157-158: Approving actions of #170-02 commission and directing all parties to seek reconciliation Almonte case; Directions to individuals; Provisional sessions; Restorations; Reviewing commissions; Written dissent; Hillside. Ministers: 3-130, 4-173, 4-183, 5-028 #172-19, pp. 159-160: St. Lawrence Presbytery must read all sessional records annually; no motions, votes, etc. may be taken in executive session Candidate examinations; Licentiates; Lord’s supper; Presbytery minutes; Trial procedure; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 4-183 #172-20, p. 161: Noting the irregularity of re-ordination to the eldership and directing Alleghenies Presbytery to heed the Testimony Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 4-183, 5-046 #173 — Synod of 2004 #173-01, p. 6: RPTS Trustees permitted to distribute information about professor candidates Paper distribution; RPTS faculty. #173-02, pp. 39-45: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #173-03, pp. 45-46: Making an exception to #153-17; considering holding Synod in Philadelphia in 2009 to commemorate the bicentenary of the Synod Archives; Business of Synod; Donations; OPC; Publications; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-200, 4-206 #173-04, p. 46: Declining to conduct a study of justification controversies, and returning requests to the presbyteries that made them Soteriology. #173-05, pp. 47-49: Making an exception to #153-17 Church history; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Geneva; Health and medicine; Inflation; Insurance; NAPARC; PCA; Psalter editions; RPIC; RPTS location; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-048, 4-110 #173-06, pp. 57-59: Reiterating #172-17 on Synod’s agent; approving specific loans Attending other seminaries; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Japan Presbytery; KTH; OTH; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 3-201, 4-006, 4-012, 4-048, 4-186, 4-200, 5-016, 5-021, 5-028, 5-063 #173-07, pp. 59-62: Reiterating #171-13, second clause Budget; Canada; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; RP Home; RPIC; TFY. Ministers: 4-143, 5-109 #173-08, p. 63: Reiterating #159-08 on reappointments Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 3-033, 4-123 #173-09, p. 63: Declining to instruct Psalter Revision Committee (1) to strive to use “Yahweh” or “Jehovah” in some psalms and (2) to exclude repeating lines Bible texts and translations; Psalter editions; Repeating tunes. #173-10, pp. 64-66: Asking the E&P Board to cease selling Psalm Updates (OCLC 47959073) and to begin publishing a new booklet; urging prayer for psalter revision committee Biblical languages; Church music; Computing; Psalm selections; RP Home. Ministers: 4-123, 4-222, 5-022 #173-11, pp. 68-74: Working with the ARPC on a focused study of worship and heritage; corresponding relationship with URCNA; making an exception to #153-17 ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church union; EPC; ERQ; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; GEC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions; UK conference; URCNA; Women deacons; Women elders. Ministers: 3-118, 3-181, 4-046, 4-188 #173-12, pp. 75-77: Ending study of communion cup and returning papers to submitting presbyteries [dissent, page 78] Communion cup; Written dissent. #173-13, pp. 81-83: Reiterating #169-17 Canada; Cush for Christ; Japan Presbytery; RPCA; RPCI; Short-term missions; TCCF. #173-14, pp. 84-86: New standing committee, on church revitalization (#169-11), which is to continue with planned work Budget; New standing committees; Poor relief; Revitalization. Ministers: 3-104, 3-118, 4-126, 4-173 #173-15, pp. 86-90: Praying for more Reformed chaplains; approving PRJC resolution on non-military chaplains; presbyteries to note reports from chaplains; urging members to support the Veterans Guardian Corps Christian schools; Financial; PRJC; Scouting; Specific congressmen; Sports; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #173-16, pp. 90-120: Position paper on unaccompanied psalmody; declining to permit accompaniment and hymnody; urging elders to advocate existing positions A cappella; Baptism; Biblical languages; Church history; Church music; Computing; Covenant theology; Creation; Japan Presbytery; Psalmody; Publications; Sabbath-keeping; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-067, 3-176, 4-001, 4-048, 4-065, 4-093, 4-148, 4-247, 5-039 #173-17, pp. 125-127: Moderator of Synod made an ex officio member of the Business of Synod Committee Agency membership; Business of Synod; Church history; Computing; Docket and digest; Geneva; RPTS; Sympathy. Ministers: 3-176, 4-120, 4-126, 4-127, 4-173, 4-232 #173-18, pp. 128-134: Amending Directory for Church Government: sessions to oversee congregational meetings, rather than separate congregational officers; and sending this down in overture Book of Church Government; Congregational meetings; Congregationalism; Diaconate; Directions to individuals; Eldership; Overtures, new; Paying ministers; RPCS; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-110, 4-127, 5-014, 5-025, 5-049 #173-19, pp. 135-141: Financial arrangements, including RPM&M; reiterating #172-16 on budgets; pension and Graduate Study funding Benefits for ministers; Bequests; Church union; Computing; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Inflation; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Revitalization; RP Home; RPIC; RPTS finances; Testimony; Traveling Fund; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-171, 4-125, 4-173, 4-215, 4-223 #174 — Synod of 2005 #174-01, pp. 51-58: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B; amending Pension Trustees’ constitution regarding Trustee membership; printing deacon board chairmen’s names and addresses in Synod’s directory Acts of Congress; Agency membership; Canada; Diaconate; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Minutes of Synod; Parsonages; Pensions; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #174-02, p. 59: Ending #158-04 translation committee Abolishing agencies; Bible texts and translations; Psalter editions; RPCA; RPCI. Ministers: 3-009, 3-033, 4-123 #174-03, pp. 60-62: Reiterating #172-17 on Synod’s agent Attending other seminaries; Departing ministers; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Japan Presbytery; KTH; OTH; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 4-186, 4-200, 5-041 #174-04, pp. 62-65: Expanding E&P Board membership and lengthening members’ terms Agency membership; ARPC; Church constitution; Church history; Computing; Covenanter Witness; OPC; PCA; Psalmody; Psalter editions; RPCNA books; RPIC; Scouting. Ministers: 5-041 #174-05, pp. 67-68: Exempting the Church Revitalization Committee from #153-17; reminding presbyteries to support congregations seeking revitalization Budget; Conferences; Congregational aid; Geneva faculty; Geneva finances; Revitalization; RPTS; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 3-104, 3-171, 4-126, 4-173, 4-215 #174-06, pp. 72-76: Requesting that ARPC delegates play a role at Synod; approving the NAPARC candidacy of the URCNA, and entering into fraternal relations with them; permitting exceptions to #153-17 Abortion; ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church history; Church planting; Church union; Close communion; Constitutional amendments; CRCNA; Disaster relief; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; KPCAK; LGBT; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; Publications; Pulpit exchanges; RCUS; RPCA; Slavery and race; Soteriology; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions; UK conference; URCNA; Westminster standards; Women elders. Ministers: 3-181, 4-046, 4-188, 5-043 #174-07, pp. 78-81: Reiterating #169-17 Budget; Cush for Christ; Japan Presbytery; OPC; Paying ministers; Seeking candidates, FMB; Self-supporting missions; Short-term missions. Ministers: 4-122 #174-08, pp. 81-83: Receiving communications from former Chinese Mission congregation; #162-10 on receiving papers had unintentionally been repealed by #170-22, so amending the Directory for Church Government to restore #162-10 Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; China mission; Church history; Computing; Docket and digest; Geneva; Meeting schedule; RPTS; Sympathy. Ministers: 3-079, 4-126, 4-127, 4-173, 4-232, 4-244, 5-053 #174-09, p. 84: Preparing to compose a new Directory for Worship Directory for Worship. Ministers: 3-181, 4-001, 4-065, 4-110, 5-013, 5-055 #174-10, p. 85: Encouraging the use of Psalms for Singing (OCLC 472605664) throughout the church Church music; Computing; Psalter editions. Ministers: 4-123, 4-222, 5-022 #174-11, p. 87: Dismissing an appeal as out of order, it having been filed too late, and directing Midwest Presbytery to report on the question in 2006 Book of Discipline; Judicial cases; Trial procedure; Youth; Christ Covenant. Ministers: 4-232, 5-022, 5-049, 5-052, 5-053 #174-12, p. 89: Directing Pacific Coast Presbytery to bring its minutes book to Synod in 2006 Presbytery minutes. Ministers: 4-183 #174-13, pp. 91-107: Financial arrangements, including pension funding, RPM&M distribution, and Graduate Study Fund Bequests; Covenanter Witness; CYPU; Foreign missions; Geneva faculty; Home missions; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Meeting schedule; PCA; Pensions; Psalter editions; Revitalization; RP Home; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances. Ministers: 3-017, 4-125, 4-173, 4-215, 4-223 #174-14, pp. 120-121: Reaffirming the church’s commitment to and active support of Geneva Geneva chapel; Geneva faculty; Philosophy of education; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 4-200 #174-15, p. 124: Recognizing the failure of #173-18 in overture Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 5-025, 5-057 #174-16, pp. 124-127: Renewing a commitment to evangelism and church planting as a priority for the church: the “2020 Vision” goal, to have 100 congregations and mission churches by 2020 Church planting; Congregational aid; Evangelism; RPIC. Ministers: 4-188 #175 — Synod of 2006 #175-01, pp. 7-8: Returning to Midwest Presbytery a petition for re-ordination of a deposed minister, as Presbytery has original jurisdiction Restorations. Ministers: 4-126, 4-127, 4-129, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #175-02, p. 8: Returning to Midwest Presbytery a paper on the contents of the communion cup, as this was handled by #171-18 Communion cup; Clarinda. Ministers: 4-126, 4-127, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #175-03, p. 8: Returning to St. Lawrence Presbytery a petition to determine what constitutes a true church, as this was handled by #148-15 Valid sacraments. Ministers: 4-126, 4-127, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #175-04, pp. 11-14: Reiterating #169-17 Budget; Cush for Christ; Japan Presbytery; KTH; RPCA; RPCS; Short-term missions; TCCF. Ministers: 4-122 #175-05, pp. 14-16: Reiterating #174-05, first clause ARPC; Christian schools; Conferences; Congregational aid; Geneva; PCA. Ministers: 3-171, 4-126, 4-173, 4-215, 4-244 #175-06, pp. 16-19: Reiterating #169-10 Christian schools; Departing ministers; OPC; PRJC; Publications. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #175-07, pp. 28-30: National Reform Association to report to Understanding the Times Committee, not Synod directly; presbyteries to consider how to pay non-pastoring ministers’ Synod expenses Business of Synod; Computing; Digest of deliverances; Docket and digest; Geneva; Ministers in secular employment; New delegates; NRA; Signs of the Times; Sympathy; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-126, 4-127, 4-232, 4-244, 4-263, 5-035, 5-053 #175-08, pp. 31-32: Reiterating #172-17 on Synod’s agent Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; KTH; OTH; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 4-186, 4-200, 5-041 #175-09, pp. 32-34: Praying that God will bring youth into faithful service CYPU; Financial; Geneva; TFY. Ministers: 5-058, 5-109 #175-10, pp. 84-92: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; permitting exception to #153-17 Acts of Congress; Bequests; Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Inflation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #175-11, pp. 100-105: Approving the NAPARC candidacy of the Canadian Reformed Churches; approving NAPARC statement on women in the military; closer cooperation with other RP churches; remaining in NAE; reiterating #174-06, first clause Abortion; Africa; ARPC; Business of Synod; Canadian Reformed Church; Chaplains; Church union; Constitutional amendments; Disaster relief; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; KAPC; LGBT; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; Paying Synod employees; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; RCUS; RPCA; RPTS location; TCCF; UK conference; URCNA; Women in the military. Ministers: 3-181, 4-046, 4-188, 5-043 #175-12, pp. 106-111: Continuing preparations for a new psalter Bible texts and translations; Chanting; Computing; Psalter editions. Ministers: 4-123, 4-222, 5-022 #175-13, pp. 112-120: Financial arrangements; pension contributions; RPM&M distribution Archives; Bequests; Church planting; Computing; Cush for Christ; CYPU; Graduate student aid; Insurance; Interchurch; Japan mission; Jim McFarland; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Psalter editions; Reporting calendars; Revitalization; RP Home; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-017, 4-125, 4-232 #175-14, p. 133: Interchurch Committee to begin communications with EA EAC; Interchurch. Ministers: 3-181, 4-046, 4-188, 5-043 #175-15, pp. 134-135: Rejecting a petition to restudy membership vows, instructing petitioner to cease submitting papers and to submit to lower courts, and commending lower courts’ actions COCM; Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Westminster standards; Sparta. Ministers: 3-017, 4-082, 4-110, 4-244, 5-045 #175-16, pp. 138-139: Returning a petition to support financially a new congregation as a semi-foreign mission, but directing parties to approach FMB and Trustees on the question Canada; China mission; Church planting; Congregational aid; Hudson/St.-Lazare. Ministers: 4-093, 4-122, 4-148, 5-027 #175-17, pp. 139-140: Declaring that #174-11 situation cannot be resolved further by judicial action, due partly to delays, and directing all parties to forgive Judicial cases; Youth; Christ Covenant. Ministers: 3-171, 4-001, 4-120, 5-028, 5-049 #175-18, pp. 141-142: Adopting a session’s position on the question of open session meetings in response to an appeal against them Book of Discipline; Eldership; Judicial cases; Lafayette. Ministers: 3-017, 4-082, 4-110, 4-244, 5-045 #176 — Synod of 2007 #176-01, p. 17: Studying other churches’ positions on the justification controversy BPC; OPC; PCA; RCUS; Soteriology; WTS. Ministers: 5-046, 5-050 #176-02, pp. 43-47: Studying strategic planning; State of the Church Committee to be appointed at the meeting to which it reports Business of Synod; Computing; Digest of deliverances; Docket and digest; Geneva; Long-range planning; New delegates; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; Sympathy. Ministers: 3-146, 4-127, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #176-03, pp. 60-67: Amending RPTS constitution Agency membership; Biblical languages; Church history; Computing; Licentiates; RPCNA books; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS finances; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race; Strict subscription. Ministers: 5-059 #176-04, p. 68: Reiterating #172-17 on Synod’s agent Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 4-186, 5-041 #176-05, pp. 71-82: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; new pension supplement program; amending pension plan B; agreement with MFS Retirement Services; Pension treasurer to contact presbytery clerks regarding ministers’ pension participation Acts of Congress; Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Parsonages; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #176-06, pp. 83-90: Approving the NAPARC candidacy of the Heritage Reformed Congregations; reiterating #174-06, first clause; official status for Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia observer Abortion; Africa; ARPC; Biblical inerrancy; Chaplains; Church union; EAC; EPC; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; KAPC; LGBT; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; PCEA; RCUS; RPCA; TCCF; UK conference; URCNA. Ministers: 3-181, 4-110, 4-188, 5-043, 5-050, 5-135 #176-07, pp. 94-97: Significantly increasing commitment of resources to Cush for Christ without reducing support for other foreign missions Budget; Canada; Church erection; Cush for Christ; Geneva; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; KTH; RPTS; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF. Ministers: 4-095 #176-08, pp. 97-103: Financial arrangements, including pension funding and RPM&M distribution Bequests; Business of Synod; Church history; Cush for Christ; CYPU; Docket and digest; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Long-range planning; MacLaughlin Trust; Native ministers; Paying ministers; Pensions; Reporting calendars; Revitalization; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation. Ministers: 4-125, 4-232 #176-09, pp. 118-120: Amending the Book of Discipline regarding uncontested charges; non-RP NAPARC ministers may occasionally celebrate the sacraments in RPCNA churches Book of Discipline; Closed pulpits; NAPARC; Trial procedure; Valid sacraments. Ministers: 4-095, 5-050 #176-10, p. 128: Business of Synod Committee to conduct #176-02 strategic planning Business of Synod; Long-range planning. #176-11, pp. 128, 131-134: Adopting chapter I of the new Directory for Worship Creation; Directory for Worship; Elements of worship; Family worship; Health and medicine; Sabbath-keeping. Ministers: 3-176, 5-027, 5-045, 5-049 #176-12, pp. 128-130: Urging men to consider the chaplaincy [two recommendations were adopted, but only one listed] Marriage, sexuality, and gender; PRJC. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #176-13, pp. 135-138: Urging presbyteries to require pastoral-development clauses and to urge arrangements for conferences etc. in pastoral calls; new Professional Development Fund Benefits for ministers; Computing; Conferences; Congregational aid; Revitalization; WTS. Ministers: 3-171, 4-126, 4-173, 4-215, 4-244 #176-14, p. 139: Interchurch Committee to oversee relations with the church in East Asia, including seminary teaching, and appropriating money EAC; Financial; Interchurch; RPTS; RTF. Ministers: 3-146, 4-127, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #177 — Synod of 2008 #177-01, p. 10: Returning paper from St. Lawrence Presbytery (no study having been performed) on whether sessions may prohibit minors who are communicant members from voting in meetings Business of Synod; Church membership; Congregational meetings; Youth. #177-02, p. 37: Repealing #177-01 and receiving paper Business of Synod; Church membership; Congregational meetings; Youth. Ministers: 5-022 #177-03, pp. 37-52: Declining to require Synodical approval before new psalter’s publication, and encouraging electronic circulation of new psalter and comment submissions; praying for remaining publication process Bible texts and translations; Chanting; Copyright; Docket and digest; Psalm recordings; Psalm selections. Ministers: 4-123, 4-222, 5-022 #177-04, p. 53: Making an exception to #153-17 Church planting; Computing; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Islam; Two-term rule exceptions; Unlicensed candidates; WMF. Ministers: 5-049 #177-05, p. 55: FMB to consider whether its Sudan-oversight commission should be a Synod commission Cush for Christ. Ministers: 4-095, 5-054 #177-06, pp. 59-61: Approving Korean American Presbyterian Church participation in PRJC; approving amendments to PRJC constitution, and permitting its staff to contact sessions; praying for chaplains and soldiers Computing; Financial; KAPC; PRJC; URCNA. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #177-07, pp. 67-69: New position of Corresponding Clerk (at request of existing clerk), to handle existing clerk’s correspondence responsibilities ARPC; Business of Synod; Church history; CYPU; Docket and digest; Foreign missions; Geneva; Home missions; Jim McFarland; New delegates; Outside communications; Revitalization; RPTS; RPWA; Rules and organization; Sympathy. Ministers: 4-125, 4-127, 4-173, 4-232, 5-035, 5-053 #177-08, pp. 70-79: Joining with other NAPARC churches in rejecting New Perspective on Paul and the Federal Vision, and reaffirming existing position; recommending ministers and members to study other NAPARC reports, and urging lower courts to examine potential officeholders diligently on this matter BPC; Candidate examinations; OPC; PCA; RCUS; Soteriology; Testimony; Westminster standards; WTS. Ministers: 5-017, 5-039, 5-050 #177-09, pp. 81-89: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Acts of Congress; Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #177-10, pp. 89-92: Appointing an oversight commission in South Sudan; renaming FMB to RP Global Missions Africa; Budget; Diaconate; GEC; Immigration; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; KTH; New commissions; Paying missionaries; PCA; Renaming; Short-term missions; TCCF. Ministers: 4-095, 5-024, 5-054, 5-062 #177-11, pp. 93-97: Approving the NAPARC candidacy of the Canadian Reformed Churches and the Presbyterian Reformed Church; fraternal relations with Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia; EA relationship Abortion; ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church union; EAC; Financial; Fraternal relations; Heritage Reformed Congregations; Islam; KAPC; NAE; OPC; PCA; PCEA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; RCUS; Strict subscription; Testimony; UK conference; URCNA; Youth. Ministers: 4-188, 5-027, 5-043, 5-050 #177-12, pp. 108-116: Amending RPTS constitution Church history; Geneva; RPCNA books; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS location; Westminster standards. Ministers: 5-059 #177-13, pp. 116-118: Graduate Study grant; approving and amending policies; changing the committee composition Agency membership; Attending other seminaries; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; Native ministers; RPTS faculty; WTS. Ministers: 4-186, 5-016, 5-041 #177-14, pp. 120-126: Financial arrangements, including pension fund, RPM&M distribution, and presbyteries to make it a priority to appoint interested and qualified committeemen Business of Synod; Cush for Christ; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Interchurch; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Psalter editions; Reporting calendars; Revitalization; RP Home; RPTS finances; Taxation; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-125, 4-232 #177-15, pp. 126-127:#177-01 proposed prohibition is not lawful; studying contents of communion cup Church membership; Communion cup; Congregational meetings; Youth. Ministers: 4-217, 5-039, 5-064 #177-16, pp. 128-145: Adopting chapters II and III of the new Directory for Worship A cappella; Baptism; Bible texts and translations; Choirs; Close communion; COCM; Covenant theology; Directory for Worship; Improving praise; Offerings in worship; Parental responsibilities; Psalm explanations; Sabbath-keeping; Two- and three-office view; Unlicensed candidates. Ministers: 3-176, 5-027, 5-045, 5-049 #177-17, pp. 145-146: Commending to sessions a circular on influenza from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention First World War; Health and medicine. Ministers: 5-017 #178 — Synod of 2009 #178-01, pp. 11-15: Receiving and beginning to use the Book of Psalms for Worship (OCLC 756039482) Chanting; Computing; Copyright; Docket and digest; Psalter editions. Ministers: 4-123, 4-222, 5-022 #178-02, pp. 21-22: Adopting chapters IV and V of the new Directory for Worship, and sending the entire directory down in overture Banns of marriage; COCM; Covenant of 1871; Directory for Worship; Funerals; Overtures, new; Sabbath-keeping; Secret societies; Signs of the Times; Testimony. Ministers: 3-176, 5-027, 5-045, 5-049 #178-03, pp. 73-74: Urging sessions and presbyteries to deposit old minutes books with the Archives (#166-09) Albany Quarterly; Archives; Christian Nation; Covenanter Witness; EAC; Email; Financial; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPCI; RPCNA books; RPTS location; Tracts. Ministers: 3-079, 4-200, 4-206 #178-04, pp. 75-79: Declining to abolish the Understanding the Times Committee; amending the Directory of Church Government to permit an annual Synod meeting not to be held, and to make relevant arrangements Book of Church Government; Geneva; Interchurch; Meeting schedule; New delegates; Presbytery minutes; Presbytery reports; RPTS; Signs of the Times; Sympathy. Ministers: 4-127, 4-173, 4-203, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #178-05, p. 87: Thanking retiring Trustee Joe Lamont for his service Directions to individuals; Thanks; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-127 #178-06, p. 87: Trustees must report a self-evaluation to the Synod of 2010 Bequests; Church erection; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Taxation; Telecommunications; Temperance; Tobacco; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-041 #178-07, pp. 102-104: Returning requests for guidelines on private and family worship and on cremation to Japan Presbytery for clarification and resubmission; returning protests against Alleghenies Presbytery as out of order Directory for Worship; Family worship; Funerals; Judicial cases; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Covenant [Pennsylvania]. Ministers: 4-127, 4-173, 4-203, 4-232, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #178-08, pp. 105-114: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B; declining to make exceptions to #153-17 Acts of Congress; Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; Parsonages; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation; Two-term rule. Ministers: 4-058, 4-075 #178-09, pp. 115-117: Approving PRJC dues changes Financial; LGBT; OPC; PRJC. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #178-10, pp. 120-124: Creating position of executive secretary for Interchurch Committee and exempting position from #153-17; retracting NAE membership immediately ARPC; Budget; Canadian Reformed Church; Church history; Computing; EAC; ERQ; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; KAPC; NAE; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; RCUS; RPCA; RPIC; RPTS location; RTF; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions; UK conference; URCNA. Ministers: 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-043, 5-050, 5-056, 5-135 #178-11, pp. 125-128: Mission works in dangerous locations are to be referred to by abbreviations, and personnel are to be left nameless; making exception to #153-17 Budget; Church planting; Cush for Christ; EAC; Islam; Japan Presbytery; Paying missionaries; PCA; Radio and TV; Short-term missions; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions; WMF. Ministers: 4-122, 5-054 #178-12, p. 128: Interchurch Committee to notify NAE of withdrawal and reasons [dissent, page 143] NAE; Outside communications; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-127, 5-027, 5-043, 5-050, 5-056 #178-13, p. 128: Permitting distribution of an Alleghenies Presbytery paper on a discipline case appealed against them Judicial cases; Paper distribution; State College. #178-14, pp. 129-135: Financial arrangements, including pension contributions and RPM&M distribution Archives; Bequests; Congregationalism; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Inflation; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Poor relief; Reporting calendars; Revitalization; RP Home; RPTS finances; Social Security; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-215, 5-053 #178-15, pp. 135-138: Studying informal worship [extensive quotes from #143-34]; returning a paper on preparatory services and clearing a session from all allegations, because such services are not required by the Directory for Worship A cappella; Communion frequency; Directory for Worship; Judicial cases; Special services; Tuesday evening program; Westminster standards; Christ [New York]. Ministers: 3-132, 4-120, 4-125, 4-148, 5-050 #178-16, pp. 138-140: Amending suggested forms for pastoral call [part omitted; see page 8 of minutes of 2012]; appropriating money Benefits for ministers; Conferences; Congregational aid; Forms; Pastoral calls; Renaming; Revitalization; RPTS; Two- and three-office view; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-171, 4-126, 4-173, 4-215, 4-244 #178-17, p. 142: Alleghenies Presbytery members may not vote in #178-13 decision; directing them to rescind their judgement (but not their overturning of a judicial commission); communicating results to appellant Directions to individuals; Judicial cases; Soteriology; Trial procedure; Written dissent; State College. Ministers: 4-072, 4-126, 4-143 #178-18, pp. 143-144: Amending Directory for Church Government on voting in constituted court Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Congregational meetings; Licentiates; Rules and organization; North Hills. Ministers: 4-006, 4-082, 5-077 #179 — Synod of 2010 #179-01, pp. 11-12: Encouraging deacons to participate in a diaconal website and declining to place it under Finance Committee jurisdiction Computing; Diaconate; Rules and organization. Ministers: 4-093, 4-127, 4-173, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053, 5-069 #179-02, pp. 11-12: Returning a paper on paying Synod fees for retired ministers Financial. Ministers: 4-093, 4-127, 4-173, 4-244, 5-035, 5-053 #179-03, pp. 13-18: Biblical descriptions of communion elements are generic, without regard to alcohol and yeast; urging sessions to split cup/bread, and declining to direct them to provide alternatives in cases of dispute Bible texts and translations; Communion cup; Email; Health and medicine. Ministers: 5-028, 5-039, 5-065 #179-04, p. 18: Permitting the reception of late-submitted overture ballots Making exceptions; Overtures; Higashisuma, Mukonoso. #179-05, pp. 25-38: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B and Pension Trustees constitution Acts of Congress; Agency membership; Canada; Chaplains; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS faculty; Social Security; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-058 #179-06, p. 39: Thanking longtime Trustees employee Judy Linhart for her service Church erection; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Telecommunications; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-127 #179-07, pp. 47-48: Reiterating #178-03 Archives; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Presbytery minutes; RPTS faculty; RPTS location; UK conference. Ministers: 3-079, 4-200, 4-206 #179-08, pp. 87-91: Renaming Church Revitalization Committee to Vital Churches Committee; replacing a member at his own request Computing; Conferences; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Ecumenical organizations; Renaming; Revitalization; Theaters. Ministers: 3-171, 4-173, 4-215, 4-244 #179-09, pp. 92-94: Requesting nominations for a new RPTS professor Church history; Ecumenical organizations; Publications; RPTS faculty as pastors; RPTS finances; RPTS library; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 5-059 #179-10, pp. 95-98: Supporting Geneva Corporators’ proposed governance reform Geneva governance. Ministers: 3-079, 4-083, 5-109 #179-11, pp. 108-125: Approving the PRJC’s proposed changes to its chaplains’ manual; petitioning federal authorities not to remove “Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell”; praying for chaplains Baptism; Barack Obama; Bill Clinton; Computing; Congressional bills; Congressional petitions; Financial; Government communications; Health and medicine; Higher-education standards; LGBT; Presidential communications; PRJC; Westminster standards; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-046, 4-186 #179-12, p. 126: Declining the #177-10 commission’s request for dismissal Church planting; Cush for Christ; Ordination queries. Ministers: 5-024, 5-054, 5-062 #179-13, p. 127: Global Mission Board to study theological bases of foreign-mission-work governance Budget; Church planting; Cush for Christ; EAC; International relations; Islam; Japan Presbytery; Parental responsibilities; PCA; RPTS; Short-term missions; TCCF. Ministers: 4-122, 4-263, 5-020, 5-054 #179-14, pp. 130-133: New standing committee, on East Asia, and ascertaining its responsibilities; exploring fraternal relationships with RPC of South Sudan and Reformation Presbytery of the Midwest ARPC; Budget; Canadian Reformed Church; Covenanter Witness; Cush for Christ; EAC; ERQ; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; KAPC; NAE; New agencies; OPC; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; Psalter editions; RCUS; RPTS; RTF; Telecommunications; UK conference; URCNA. Ministers: 4-127, 5-027, 5-043, 5-050 #179-15, pp. 134-143: Financial arrangements, including assessments and RPM&M distribution Bequests; Church history; Collections; CYPU; Delinquency; Docket and digest; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Interchurch; MacLaughlin Trust; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Revitalization; RP Home; RPCI; RPTS finances; RPTS location; Taxation; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule. Ministers: 3-106, 5-053 #179-16, pp. 174-176: Returning an Atlantic Presbytery petition to amend the Book of Discipline on trials of no-show defendants Book of Discipline; Church discipline; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Trial procedure. Ministers: 5-054, 5-063 #179-17, p. 176: Adopting #178-02 following successful vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 4-143, 5-077 #179-18, pp. 176-177: Rejoicing in and greeting the new presbytery in South Sudan Business of Synod; Cush for Christ; Directions to individuals; Outside communications; Paying missionaries. Ministers: 3-106, 3-138, 4-107, 4-125, 4-143, 4-282, 5-053, 5-058, 5-059, 5-060, 5-063, 5-074, 5-083 #179-19, pp. 178-180: E&P Board to remove psalter selections with choruses and refrains, and print all of Psalm 136 [latter clause omitted; see page 9 of minutes of 2011]; procedures for future psalter adoption, including requiring the overture process Bible texts and translations; Overtures; Psalter editions; Repeating tunes; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-065, 4-244, 5-099 #179-20, p. 182: Amending #179-15 on RP Home funding Financial; RP Home. #179-21, pp. 186-188: Returning a complaint against Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery as without merit, and denying a related appeal Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Congregational meetings; Eldership; Judicial cases; Lord’s supper; Youth; Durham. Ministers: 4-120, 5-014 #179-22, pp. 188-190: Repealing #178-15 on informal worship A cappella; Book of Church Government; Tuesday evening program. Ministers: 4-126, 4-215, 4-282, 5-027 #179-23, p. 193: Repealing #179-14 on Reformation Presbytery and referring to Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery Fraternal relations. #180 — Synod of 2011 #180-01, pp. 13-23: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Acts of Congress; Canada; Computing; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Pensions; Publications; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058 #180-02, pp. 33-34: Reiterating #178-03 Archives; Covenanter Witness; Email; Financial; Presbytery minutes; RPCNA books; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod; UK conference. Ministers: 3-079, 4-200 #180-03, pp. 71-73: Creating EAC and ascertaining responsibilities A cappella; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Directory for Worship; EAC; Immigration; Languages; New commissions; Ordination queries; Paying missionaries; Psalmody; RPTS faculty; Seeking candidates, FMB; Testimony; Westminster standards. #180-04, pp. 73-77: Amending Revitalization Grant Program Computing; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Pastoral calls; Revitalization; RPTS; Theaters. Ministers: 3-171, 4-173 #180-05, pp. 77-84: Reiterating #177-06, final clause Acts of Congress; Bill Clinton; Health and medicine; LGBT; OPC; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC; Strict subscription; WTS. Ministers: 4-196 #180-06, pp. 85-131: Adopting position paper on the gospel and sexual orientation, sending it to other NAPARC denominations, and directing E&P Board to consider publication (OCLC 800427164) Baptists; Biblical languages; Boycotts; Celebrity preachers; Creation; Dancing; Directions to individuals; Divorce; LGBT; NAPARC; Outside communications; PCUSA; Publications; Slavery and race; Temperance; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-171, 5-059, 5-063, 5-078 #180-07, pp. 141-143: Ministers and elders to urge members to attend the International Conference CYPU; Heritage Reformed Congregations; RPIC. Ministers: 3-118, 4-095, 5-053 #180-08, pp. 146, 234-237: Declining to amend Directory for Worship and procedures on candidate examinations, and returning petition Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Directory for Worship; Email; Funerals; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; North Hills. Ministers: 4-006, 4-126 #180-09, pp. 146-156: Procedures for 2012 short Synod; declining to study tithing; presbyteries to submit certificates for all non-pastoring ministers at Synod, and ending the seating of uncertified ruling elders; requiring compliance with #158-21 Business of Synod; Computing; Delegate qualifications; Elder attendance; Fraternal relations; Geneva faculty; MacLaughlin Trust; Ministers in secular employment; New delegates; Presbytery reports; Psalter editions; RPTS faculty; Rules and organization; Tithing. Ministers: 4-127, 4-173, 4-186, 4-244, 5-035 #180-10, p. 161: Amending Graduate Study allocation guidelines Computing; Geneva faculty; Graduate student aid; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 4-186, 5-041 #180-11, pp. 164-172: Financial arrangements, including pension contributions, RPM&M distribution, guidelines for congregational giving, sessions to promote and collect for church efforts, and agencies to estimate direct giving by congregations and members Archives; Bequests; Budget; EAC; Geneva finances; Pensions; Psalter editions; Revitalization; RP Home; RPCI; RPTS finances; Tithing. Ministers: 3-021, 3-106 #180-12, pp. 201-203: Sending delegate to attend RPCI Synod, and participating in RP Global Consultative Committee APCNA; ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church union; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; KAPC; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; Psalter editions; RCUS; Receiving congregations; RPCI; URCNA; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-132, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-043, 5-049, 5-050, 5-053, 5-135 #180-13, p. 203: Dismissing #177-10 commission Baptism; COCM; Cush for Christ; Reviewing commissions. #181 — Synod of 2012 #181-01, pp. 11-15: Approving a statement on the Bible’s positions on homosexuality, and directing the E&P Board to publish it (OCLC 1020321400) LGBT; News media; Publications; Temperance; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-171, 5-059, 5-063, 5-078 #181-02, pp. 15-18: Requesting nominations for a new RPTS professor; amending RPTS constitution ARPC; Publications; Resignations; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; Seeking candidates, RPTS. Ministers: 5-059 #181-03, pp. 27-31: Fraternal relations with RPC of South Sudan; modifying term lengths for Interchurch Committee and its executive secretary; seeking a joint synod with ARPC ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Church planting; Church union; Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; Cush for Christ; ERQ; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; Joint Synods; KAPC; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; Pensions; Presbyterian Reformed Church; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS; TCCF; Two-term rule; URCNA; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-132, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-050 #181-04, pp. 35-44: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Inflation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Pensions; Publications; RPTS location; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-065 #181-05, pp. 54-61: Financial arrangements, including pension contributions; RPM&M distribution; and reiterating #180-11 on giving guidelines, promotion and special collections, and agency estimates Church history; Collections; Congregational aid; CYPU; Disaster relief; Donations; Foreign missions; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Japan; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Revitalization; RPWA; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-021, 3-106 #181-06, pp. 120-124: Studying presbytery realignment American Presbyterian Church; Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Computing; Congregational aid; Home missions HR; Latin America; Ordination queries; Presbytery boundaries; Receiving congregations; RPIC; RPTS. Ministers: 4-143, 4-188, 5-046, 5-049, 5-077 #181-07, p. 127: EAC report, all recommendations adopted EAC. #181-08, pp. 127-134: Receiving ARPC in PRJC; approving name change to Presbyterian and Reformed Commission on Chaplains and Military Personnel; reiterating #177-06, final clause ARPC; Computing; Conferences; Health and medicine; Holidays; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; OPC; Outside preaching; PCA; Prison ministry; PRJC; Renaming; Telecommunications. Ministers: 4-196 #181-09, p. 134: All church agencies to review health-insurance policies for abortion coverage in light of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Public Law 111-148) [page 33, delayed to await SCOTUS decision in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius , 567 U.S. 519 (2012)] Abortion; Acts of Congress; Insurance; Publications; RPTS; RPWA; SCOTUS. #181-10, pp. 138-141: Declining to remove RTF from the Synod reporting schedule; retiring moderator an ex officio member of the Nominating Committee; reiterating #178-04, first clause; studying relationship with RPWA; declining to cancel certain upcoming Synod meetings Agency membership; Budget; Covenanter Witness; Fraternal relations; Geneva; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Meeting schedule; New delegates; Psalter editions; RPIC; RPTS faculty; RPWA; RTF; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 4-127, 4-173, 5-017, 5-051 #181-11, pp. 143-144: Clarifying relationship between Japan Presbytery, the Global Missions Board, and Synod; Presbytery is subject to the Global Missions Board Canvassing; Construction; Japan Presbytery; Self-supporting missions. Ministers: 4-095, 5-027 #182 — Synod of 2013 #182-01, p. 12: Abolishing position of Corresponding Clerk (#177-07), due to lack of incoming correspondence Outside communications. Ministers: 3-181 #182-02, p. 14: Returning an Alleghenies Presbytery paper on offering plates in worship services, due to lack of study, and a Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery paper on pastoral status, due to insufficient clarity Docket and digest; Offerings in worship. Ministers: 4-122, 4-127, 4-173, 5-017, 5-051 #182-03, pp. 14-16: Delegates to publicize new opportunities for church planting Church planting; Computing; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Higher-education standards; Languages; Latin America; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 4-143, 4-188, 5-046, 5-049, 5-077 #182-04, pp. 16-22: Amending composition of Global Mission Board and adjusting class assignments; making exception to #153-17; #181-11 was wrong to make Japan Presbytery subject to Global Mission Board China mission; Cush for Christ; Evangelism; Financial; India; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; KTH; Latin America; Mission schools; Radio and TV; Seeking candidates, FMB; Short-term missions; TCCF; Two-term rule exceptions; WMF; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-122, 4-263, 5-020, 5-054 #182-05, pp. 61-66: Encouraging lower courts and members to rely on Understanding the Times report, and urging Reformed Presbyterian Witness to publish it Abortion; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Directions to individuals; Directory for Worship; Holidays; Japan; LGBT; Real property; Signs of the Times; Westminster standards. Ministers: 5-070, 5-075, 5-078 #182-06, pp. 70-76: Reiterating #165-03 and #177-06, final clauses Africa; ARPC; Congregationalism; Financial; Government communications; Health and medicine; LGBT; OPC; Outside preaching; Poor relief; PRJC; Psalmody; Renaming; Tracts; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-196 #182-07, pp. 77-79: RPTS Trustees may nominate a Biblical Counselling professor Abortion; Elements of worship; Email; Jim McFarland; KTH; Publications; RPTS faculty; RPTS library. #182-08, pp. 95-101: Joint synod with ARPC ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Caribbean; Church union; Covenant of 1871; Cush for Christ; Docket and digest; EPC; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; Heritage Reformed Congregations; Home missions; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; Latin America; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; PCEA; Pensions; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; RPTS; TCCF; URCNA. Ministers: 3-132, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-050, 5-109 #182-09, pp. 102-117: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B and approving default investment strategy; vacant Canadian churches exempted from pension contributions Acts of Congress; Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Inflation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Pensions; RPTS location; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-065 #182-10, pp. 123-127: Amending Directory for Church Government on status of associate pastors Book of Church Government; Church discipline; Church membership; Pastoral calls; Paying ministers; PCA; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 4-110, 4-126, 5-022, 5-100 #182-11, pp. 127-134: Declining to commit to support retired ministers, missionaries, etc. wherever they live; supporting them at the RP Home, and urging members’ support thereof; commending RPWA for its work and continuing to receive its reports; Trustees to report financial involvement with RPWA; studying denominational diaconal ministry Budget; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Debt; Diaconate; Foreign missions; Geneva finances; Home missions; OPC; Pensions; Poor relief; Real property; RP Home; RPTS finances; Rules and organization; Social Security; Trustees of Synod; WMF. Ministers: 3-079, 4-125, 4-244 #182-12, pp. 141-146: Studying obstacles to ruling elder attendance and participation Computing; Elder attendance; Elders’Conference; New delegates; Synod at RPIC. Ministers: 4-122, 4-127, 4-173, 5-017, 5-051 #182-13, p. 146: Presbytery and commission records to be reviewed before Synod meets, and relevant procedures Presbytery minutes; Reporting calendars. #182-14, pp. 146-148: Reiterating #178-03 Archives; Church constitution; Computing; Financial; RPCS; RPIC; RPTS location; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-079, 4-200 #182-15, pp. 149-158: Financial arrangements, including pension contributions, RPM&M distribution, and reiterating #180-11 on promotion and special collections Bequests; Church history; Church planting; Congregational aid; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPTS location; RPWA. Ministers: 3-106 #182-16, p. 195: Abolishing travel agent’s report and assigning responsibility to Business of Synod Committee Business of Synod; Reporting calendars; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 5-054 #183 — Synod of 2014 #183-01, p. 13: Returning a paper requesting action against St. Lawrence Presbytery, for multiple reasons Judicial cases; No information. Ministers: 4-006, 4-127, 5-017, 5-051 #183-02, pp. 18-22: Making exception to #153-17 Cush for Christ; EAC; India mission; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; Languages; Latin America; Pakistan mission; Short-term missions; TCCF; WMF; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-122, 4-263, 5-020, 5-054 #183-03, pp. 63-73: Abolishing Signs of the Times Committee (which last reported in 1969); studying mediatorial kingship of Christ and its applications; declining proposal to require elders to give serious attention to the growing reality of life in an openly hostile culture Abolishing standing committees; Abortion; Acts of Congress; APCNA; ARPC; Bill Clinton; Canada; Church history; Church union; Covenanter Witness; Decline; Geneva; India; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Japan Presbytery; Latin America; LGBT; Long-range planning; NRA; Psalmody; Sabbath schools; Secret societies; Signs of the Times; Testimony; VBS. Ministers: 5-070, 5-075, 5-078 #183-04, p. 73: Adjusting EAC structure Agency membership; EAC. #183-05, pp. 76-85: Reiterating #165-03 and #177-06, final clauses Acts of Congress; Attending other seminaries; Church planting; Civil War; CRCNA; Diaconate; Financial; LGBT; PRJC; Psalmody; Supply preaching; Vietnam War. Ministers: 4-196 #183-06, pp. 93-96: Appropriating money for Youth Ministries Committee Conferences; CYPU; Financial; Geneva; TFY. Ministers: 5-074, 5-090, 5-109 #183-07, pp. 96-97: Moving a congregation from St. Lawrence Presbytery to Atlantic Presbytery Canada; Presbytery boundaries. Ministers: 5-017, 5-035, 5-046, 5-068, 5-080, 5-083 #183-08, p. 98: Indefinitely tabling report on denominational diaconal ministry (#182-11) Diaconate. Ministers: 5-052 #183-09, pp. 104-107: Amending Book of Discipline procedures on appeals Book of Discipline; Church discipline; Email; Trial procedure; Beaver Falls 1. Ministers: 4-093, 4-186 #183-10, pp. 108-121: Pension Trustees to consider replacing pension plan B with alternate individual plans; reiterating #155-07 on new installations Canada; Email; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; LGBT; Licentiates; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Publications; RPTS location; SCOTUS; Social Security; Taxation; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-058, 4-065 #183-11, pp. 131-136: Developing relationship with Reformed churches in Latin America; “more intentional visiting” of other RP churches; approving revised NAPARC constitution; approving the NAPARC candidacy of the Korean Presbyterian Church of America (Koshin); principially approving RP Global Conference ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Computing; Cush for Christ; Docket and digest; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; KPCAK; Latin America; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; PCEA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS; TCCF; URCNA; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-132, 4-006, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-109 #183-12, pp. 147-151: Traveling Fund administration; joint synod with ARPC; procedures for 2016 short Synod ARPC; Elder attendance; Joint Synods; New delegates; Psalter editions; RPIC; Taxation; Telecommunications; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-006, 4-127, 5-017, 5-051 #183-13, pp. 151-158: Sessions and presbyteries to scan old minutes books and other significant documents, and urging them to submit them to the Archives; adding “History of the Standards” to the church constitution Alcohol restrictions on all members; Archives; Armenians; Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Brief Covenant; Church constitution; Computing; Covenant of 1871; Covenanter Witness; Directory for Worship; Financial; Levant missions; Lord’s supper; Lutherans; Minutes of Synod; PCUSA; Political dissent; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPCI; RPCS; RPTS location; RTF; Second presbytery; Secret societies; Slavery and race; Terms of Communion; Testimony; Two- and three-office view; Vow 8; Westminster standards. Ministers: 3-079, 4-200 #183-14, pp. 159-169: Financial arrangements, including paying for additional Asian delegates, pension contributions, RPM&M distribution, and reiterating #180-11 on promotion and special collections. [Recommendation #10, reconsider joint synod with ARPC, was withdrawn but erroneously not so marked] ARPC; Bequests; Church history; Collections; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; Joint Synods; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; RPTS finances; RPTS location; RPWA; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-106, 4-215 #184 — Synod of 2015 #184-01, p. 62: Seeking to develop a plan for engaging Muslims, declining to provide guidance on reacting to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria; praying for revival [contents are not listed here; they are supplied by minister 5-033] Evangelism; Islam; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 5-033 #184-02, p. 70: Encouraging the preaching and teaching of the mediatorial kingship of Christ [again, not listed] Sermon topics; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 5-033 #184-03, p. 70: Repealing #184-01 and #184-02 Evangelism; Islam; Sermon topics; Signs of the Times. Ministers: 5-033 #184-04, pp. 87-118: Recommending fast dates related to Obergefell v. Hodges, 14-556, and Carter v. Canada (AG) , 2015 SCC 5; approving revised International Council of Reformed Churches constitution A cappella; Abortion; ARPC; Baptists; Biblical inerrancy; Canadian Reformed Church; Church union; Cush for Christ; EAC; Email; ERQ; FCS; Financial; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; Geneva; Heritage Reformed Congregations; Home missions; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; KPCAK; LGBT; New agencies; OPC; PCA; PCEA; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCNA books; RPCS; SCOTUS; Signs of the Times; TCCF; URCNA; Westminster standards; Women deacons. Ministers: 3-132, 4-006, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-109 #184-05, pp. 129-130: Reiterating #183-13, first clause Archives; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Jewish missions; Minutes of Synod; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-079, 4-206 #184-06, pp. 132-146: Approving changes to PRCCMP constitution; urging congregations to sponsor chaplains; reiterating #165-03 and #177-06, final clauses Barack Obama; Close communion; Conferences; Congressional petitions; Directions to individuals; Elements of worship; Financial; Government communications; Health and medicine; Islam; LGBT; NAE; Presidential communications; PRJC; Sabbath-keeping; SCOTUS; Supply preaching; Westminster standards; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-196 #184-07, pp. 146-147: The Directory for Worship requires strict oversight of public prayer, but does not prohibit prayer by non-elders Construction; Directory for Worship; Eldership; Elements of worship; Christ [Rhode Island]. Ministers: 4-126, 4-143, 4-244 #184-08, pp. 148-153: Procedures for 2016 short Synod; retaining memorials for deceased ministers, but limiting them to five minutes, and permitting written memorials for ruling elders ARPC; Church history; Covenanter Witness; Docket and digest; Fraternal relations; Geneva faculty; Joint Synods; New delegates; Pensions; Presbytery minutes; RPIC; RPTS faculty; RPWA; Rules and organization; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod; Two- and three-office view. Ministers: 4-127, 4-200, 5-017, 5-020 #184-09, pp. 155-163: Amending Directory for Church Government on congregational officers and ordained officers, and sending this down in overture Book of Church Government; Congregational meetings; Diaconate; Overtures; Paying ministers; Real property; Testimony; Christ [Indiana], Durham. Ministers: 5-063 #184-10, pp. 164-177: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; amending pension plan B Canada; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; LGBT; Licentiates; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS location; SCOTUS; Social Security; Taxation; Two-term rule exceptions. Ministers: 4-058, 4-065 #184-11, p. 177: Amending statistical blanks Book of Church Government; Jim McFarland; Statistical blanks. #184-12, pp. 190-197: Financial arrangements, including assessments, pension contributions, RPM&M distributions, and reiterating #180-11 on promotion and special collections Abortion; Church erection; Collections; Docket and digest; Donations; Gambling; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pornography; Taxation; Temperance; Tobacco; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-106, 4-183, 4-215 #185 — Synod of 2016 #185-01, pp. 10-13: Adjusting procedures for counting EAC-related ballots on overtures; releasing retired ministers from requesting excused absences from Synod Absences; Book of Church Government; Computing; EAC; Japan Presbytery; Languages; Making exceptions; Minutes of Synod; Overtures; Post office; Provisional sessions; Rules and organization; Telecommunications. Ministers: 4-127 #185-02, pp. 21-28: Appointing Pakistan and South Asia Commissions Agency membership; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Cush for Christ; India mission; Inflation; Japan Presbytery; Jim McFarland; Latin America; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Mission schools; New commissions; Pakistan mission; Poor relief; Short-term missions. Ministers: 4-263, 5-020, 5-053, 5-054, 5-057, 5-120 #185-03, pp. 33-40: Declining to urge sessions to counsel young women on military issues; reiterating #184-06 on sponsorship; thanking PRCC executive director Douglas Lee for his service; reiterating #177-06, final clause ARPC; Computing; Dancing; Financial; Pacifism; PCA; PRJC; Thanks; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-196 #185-04, p. 42: Receiving late overture ballots Japan Presbytery; Making exceptions; Overtures. Ministers: 4-127 #185-05, pp. 49-52: Geneva policy on sexual identity is required by church law Barack Obama; Computing; Geneva faculty; Geneva governance; Health and medicine; LGBT; Publications; Sports; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-200 #185-06, pp. 65-69: Joint Synod with ARPC in 2019; fraternal relations with GEC A cappella; ARPC; Canadian Reformed Church; Conferences at Synod; Covenant of 1871; Cush for Christ; ERQ; FCS; Fraternal relations; FRCNA; GEC; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; Joint Synods; KAPC; KPCAK; NAPARC; OPC; PCA; PCEA; Presbyterian Reformed Church; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; TCCF; URCNA. Ministers: 3-132, 4-006, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027, 5-109 #185-07, pp. 69-71: Expanding Central and South America Committee (created by #183-11) from 4 members to 6 Caribbean; Church constitution; Email; Financial; International relations; Languages; Latin America; PCA. Ministers: 5-046, 5-050 #185-08, p. 135: Recognizing the failure of #184-09 in overture Overtures, unsuccessful. Ministers: 4-129, 5-093 #185-09, pp. 140-147: Financial arrangements, including assessments, pension contributions, RPM&M distributions, and reiterating #180-11 on promotion and special collections Church history; Congregational aid; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Interchurch; Jim McFarland; Latin America; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Presbytery-appointed membership; Revitalization; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation. Ministers: 4-183, 4-215 #185-10, pp. 168-189: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations; replacing pension plan B (plan A having ended at the death of the final participant, 3-088) with a new retirement plan; position paper on Christian ethical criteria in investing Canada; Email; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Investment philosophy; Jim McFarland; LGBT; MacLaughlin Trust; Parsonages; Paying RPTS faculty; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; Publications; SCOTUS; Social Security; Taxation; Thanks; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 3-088, 4-058, 4-065, 5-068 #185-11, pp. 197-198: Bruce Hemphill case: studying a judicial appeal rather than handling it; rejecting a complaint as out of order Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-093, 4-148, 4-274, 5-017, 5-053 #185-12, pp. 199-203: Nominating Committee to append nominees’ information to ballots; declining to convert Nominating into a standing committee; abolishing standing committee on Understanding the Times Abolishing standing committees; Business of Synod; Canada; Cush for Christ; EAC; India mission; New delegates; New standing committees; Pages; Pakistan mission; Signs of the Times; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-095, 4-127, 5-017, 5-020, 5-070 #185-13, pp. 204-205: Sessions and presbyteries to submit old minutes books and other significant documents to the Archives for scanning Archives; Blue Banner Faith and Life; CAM; Email; Financial; Jewish missions; Languages; Minutes of synod; NRA; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPTS location; Witness work. Ministers: 3-079 #185-14, pp. 205-206: RPWA executive Bill Weir asked to express Synod’s appreciation to RP Home staff Directions to individuals; RP Home; Thanks. #186 — Synod of 2017 #186-01, p. 11: Bruce Hemphill case: declining to dismiss #185-11 study committee Bruce Hemphill case; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-093, 4-244, 5-017, 5-112 #186-02, pp. 14-16: Studying, and declining to return a paper on, the optional collection of offerings within the worship service; returning for further study a paper on a congregation’s financial arrears Business of Synod; Construction; Delinquency; Divorce; Offerings in worship; Trustees of Synod; Messiah’s Church. Ministers: 4-127, 5-017, 5-020, 5-070, 5-082 #186-03, p. 17: Bruce Hemphill case: #185-11 study committee has complied with Book of Discipline Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 3-132, 4-093, 4-244, 5-017, 5-112 #186-04, p. 18: Bruce Hemphill case: declining to appoint a judicial commission Bruce Hemphill case. Ministers: 4-093, 4-244, 5-017, 5-112 #186-05, p. 20: Reiterating #186-04 Bruce Hemphill case. Ministers: 4-093 #186-06, pp. 20-21: Bruce Hemphill case: postponing until 2018 and appointing a committee to gather papers and prepare procedures Bruce Hemphill case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-093 #186-07, p. 21: Bruce Hemphill case: reversing #186-01, thanking the committee, and confessing failure to follow Book of Discipline procedure and seeking forgiveness from all parties Apologies; Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-093, 4-244, 5-017, 5-112 #186-08, pp. 22-27: Reiterating #184-06 on sponsorship and #177-06, final clause; thanking former PRCC executive director for his service ARPC; Financial; LGBT; PCA; PRJC; Publications; Thanks; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-196 #186-09, pp. 33-41: Members maintain liberty of conscience on contents of communion cup; permitting the withdrawal of a complaint against Pacific Coast Presbytery Church history; COCM; Communion cup; Directory for Worship; Judicial cases; Occasional hearing; Testimony; Westminster standards; Withdrawal of papers; Las Vegas. Ministers: 5-059, 5-082, 5-097, 5-099 #186-10, pp. 41-44: Continuing to recognize Directory for Public Worship provisions as a guide for worship, sessions to lead and oversee prayer in worship, and declining to adopt a single position on vocalization of prayer in worship Construction; Directory for Worship; Elements of worship; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Two- and three-office view; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-274, 5-053, 5-065, 5-099 #186-11, pp. 61-75:#182-12 report: indicating delegate status in printed minutes of Synod; declining to require permission not to send a ruling elder, to reduce threshold for multiple ruling elders, or to admit elders on boards as delegates ex officio; stipends for ruling elders needing compensation for attending Synod Absences; Agency membership; Book of Church Government; Church planting; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Delegate qualifications; Delinquency; Docket and digest; Elder attendance; Meeting schedule; Ministers in secular employment; Minutes of Synod; Parental responsibilities; Pastoral calls; Rules and organization; Telecommunications. #186-12, pp. 75-79: Amending Directory for Church Government on ruling elder attendance and quorums Absences; Book of Church Government; Construction; Email; Trinity [Maryland]. Ministers: 4-206, 5-052 #186-13, pp. 80-89: Amending Directory for Church Government on process for establishing congregations, and adding new forms Book of Church Government; COCM; Delegate qualifications; Licentiates; Overtures; Pastoral calls; Provisional sessions; Receiving congregations; RPIC; Society meetings; Supply preaching; Telecommunications. Ministers: 4-125, 4-127, 5-017, 5-087 #186-14, pp. 90-128: Position paper on transgenderism; sending copies to other NAPARC churches, and directing E&P Board to publish copies (OCLC 1020321400) Abortion; Barack Obama; Creation; Directions to individuals; Divorce; Insurance; LGBT; News media; Outside communications; Parental responsibilities; SCOTUS; Soteriology; Sports; Westminster standards; Women in the military; Youth. Ministers: 5-044, 5-063, 5-069 #186-15, pp. 132-134: Amending Directory for Church Government on congregational officers, and sending it down in overture Book of Church Government; Congregational meetings; Diaconate; Eldership; Overtures, new; Paying ministers; Post office; Telecommunications; Youth. Ministers: 5-063, 5-086 #186-16, pp. 135-138: Urging sessions seeking HMB internship funding to seek candidates from other presbyteries; declining to study non-elder members of boards and gender-based membership (#122-37, #134-19) Agency membership; Chaplains; Church planting; Computing; Congregational aid; Evangelism; Licentiates; NAPARC; WMF. Ministers: 4-143, 5-077, 5-080, 5-107 #186-17, pp. 138-147: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Acts of Congress; Canada; Congressional bills; Email; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Licentiates; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RP Home; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-065, 5-121 #186-18, pp. 147-155: Financial arrangements, including assessments, pension contributions, RPM&M distributions, and reiterating #180-11 on promotion and special collections Bequests; Church history; Collections; Computing; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Jim McFarland; Latin America; MacLaughlin Trust; Presbytery-appointed membership; Revitalization; RPTS finances; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 4-183 #186-19, pp. 242-248: Amending Directory for Church Government on overtures as far as ballot distribution and provisional sessions (codifying #164-22); retired ministers encouraged, but no longer required, to attend church courts (#057-24, #125-58) Absences; ARPC; Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Construction; EAC; Elder attendance; Geneva; Interchurch; Japan Presbytery; New delegates; Overtures; Pages; Provisional sessions; Reporting calendars; RPTS location; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-127, 5-017, 5-020, 5-070, 5-082 #186-20, pp. 265-267: Reiterating #185-13 Archives; Blue Banner Faith and Life; CAM; Covenanter Witness; Email; Financial; Foreign missions; Indian Mission; Minutes of Synod; NRA; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPCNA books; RPIC; RPTS location; Tracts; Witness work. Ministers: 3-079, 4-110 #186-21, p. 273: Sessions reminded to look out for overture instructions Overtures. #187 — Synod of 2018 #187-01, p. 16: Amending Directory for Church Government on overtures Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Directory for Worship; Overtures. Ministers: 3-132, 5-020, 5-022, 5-070, 5-082 #187-02, p. 16: Adding a tenth ordination query, and sending this down in overture Baptism; Business of Synod; COCM; Ordination queries; Overtures, new. Ministers: 3-132, 5-020, 5-022, 5-070, 5-082 #187-03, p. 16: Birmingham mission transferred from Great Lakes-Gulf Presbytery to Alleghenies Presbytery Business of Synod; Presbytery boundaries; Birmingham. Ministers: 3-132, 5-020, 5-022, 5-070, 5-082 #187-04, p. 17: Congregation transferred from St. Lawrence Presbytery to Pacific Coast Presbytery Business of Synod; Presbytery boundaries; Shelter. Ministers: 3-132, 5-020, 5-022, 5-070, 5-082 #187-05, p. 17: Amending Directory for Church Government on absentee voting in congregational meetings Book of Church Government; Business of Synod; Congregational meetings; Pastoral calls. Ministers: 3-132, 5-020, 5-022, 5-070, 5-082 #187-06, p. 18: Defining Stegall complaint as one of injustice and wrong Business of Synod; Ron Stegall case; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-237 #187-07, p. 28: Business of Synod Committee to provide means of electronic voting Business of Synod; Computing; Rules and organization. #187-08, pp. 29-32: Sessions have discretion in choosing the manner of collections in worship Church constitution; Construction; Directory for Worship; Offerings in worship; Testimony. Ministers: 5-028, 5-031, 5-049, 5-063, 5-083, 5-093 #187-09, pp. 33-37: Recommending guidelines for use by RPTS and presbyteries for candidate written examinations Biblical languages; Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Church history; Computing; Covenant theology; Higher-education standards; Licentiates; Presbytery-appointed membership; RPTS faculty. Ministers: 5-028, 5-059, 5-081, 5-108, 5-118 #187-10, pp. 58-61: Reiterating #177-06 final clause on chaplains and #184-06 on sponsorship ARPC; Disaster relief; Financial; LGBT; PCA; PRJC; Women in the military. Ministers: 4-196 #187-11, pp. 62-64: Central and South America Committee given commission status; church standards and website to be published in Spanish Agency membership; Caribbean; Church constitution; Church history; Computing; Fraternal relations; Languages; Latin America; Licentiates; New commissions; Paying missionaries; Testimony; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-069, 5-046, 5-050, 5-132 #187-12, p. 66: Bruce Hemphill case: “parties” defined as appellant, prosecutor, and counsel Church constitution; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-093, 5-031 #187-13, pp. 71-73: Bruce Hemphill case: reviewing specifications of error [dissent, page 75] Bruce Hemphill case; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-093 #187-14, pp. 72-73: Sustaining moderator’s ruling that defense counsel may register dissents Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-127 #187-15, pp. 74-75: Bruce Hemphill case: declining appeal and sustaining Presbytery’s action Church discipline; Bruce Hemphill case. Ministers: 4-093 #187-16, pp. 83-84: Reviewing specifications of error in and dismissing Stegall complaint Ron Stegall case; Written dissent. Ministers: 4-237 #187-17, pp. 100-106: Bruce Hemphill case: final approval of appeal process, including a rationale committee (#021-01), caring for family members, and archiving papers and recordings Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Church history; Construction; Trial procedure. Ministers: 4-093, 5-025, 5-033, 5-080, 5-095 #187-18, pp. 106-107, 111-115: Declining to instruct presbyteries to be responsible for congregational health (as this is already required) and to move revitalization grants to HMB oversight; declining to abolish Vital Churches Committee Church constitution; Financial; Home missions; Revitalization. Ministers: 4-148, 5-048, 5-072, 5-082, 5-099 #187-19, pp. 107-111: Endorsing RPTS, KTH, and OTH for ICRC purposes, and RTF branches as mission agencies; requesting fraternal relations with Heritage Reformed Congregations ARPC; Church union; Diaconate; Fraternal relations; GEC; Geneva; Heritage Reformed Congregations; ICRC; India; Joint Synods; KAPC; KTH; NAPARC; OPC; OTH; PCA; Psalmody; RCUS; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; RPIC; RPTS; RTF; Sports; URCNA; Women elders; Youth. Ministers: 3-132, 4-006, 4-127, 4-188, 5-027 #187-20, pp. 116-124: Publishing a digest of deliverances, naming official texts for pre-1833 Synod minutes, and Clerk to include lists of decisions in published minutes, all conditional upon approval by review committee American Christian Expositor; Bible texts and translations; Budget; Computing; Covenanter Witness; CRCNA; Cush for Christ; Digest of deliverances; Directions to individuals; Divorce; Bruce Hemphill case; General and subordinate synods; Geneva; Heritage Reformed Congregations; LGBT; Minutes of Synod; New Light church; OPC; PCA; PCUSA; Psalm recordings; Second presbytery; Ron Stegall case; UPCNA; Westminster standards. Ministers: 1-013, 1-088, 1-170, 1-171, 2-325, 4-127, 5-068, 5-077, 5-108, 5-109, 5-113 #187-21, p. 125: Expanding committee studying divorce and desertion Agency membership; Divorce. Ministers: 5-057, 5-124, 5-136 #187-22, pp. 125-128: Rationale for #187-13 and #187-15 Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Church discipline; Construction; Ordination queries. Ministers: 5-025, 5-077, 5-094, 5-107, 5-121 #187-23, pp. 133-134: Reiterating #185-13 Archives; Cemeteries; Covenanter Witness; Email; Financial; Indian Mission; Minutes of Synod; Presbytery minutes; RP&C; RPTS location. Ministers: 3-079 #187-24, pp. 138-147: Trustees of Synod may forgive congregational assessments in specific cases Abortion; Bequests; Book of Church Government; Church erection; Computing; Covenanter Witness; Delinquency; Docket and digest; Gambling; Geneva faculty; Incorporation; Inflation; Jim McFarland; MacLaughlin Trust; Pornography; Property held in trust; RPWA; Statistics; Synod HR; Temperance; Tobacco; Trademark; Traveling Fund; Trustees of Synod. Ministers: 5-113 #187-25, pp. 168-177: Financial arrangements, including setting Synod assessments, pensions, RPM&M, and studying Global Missions consolidation Bequests; Canada; Church history; Collections; Computing; CYPU; EAC; Graduate student aid; Home missions; Interchurch; Jim McFarland; Latin America; MacLaughlin Trust; Pensions; Reporting calendars; Revitalization; RP Home; RPTS finances; Taxation; Traveling Fund. Ministers: 4-183, 5-082 #187-26, p. 179: Appointing a judicial commission to address #143-30 and #143-32 APCNA; Departing ministers; Strict subscription; Vow 8; Park City. Ministers: 4-200, 4-270 #187-27, pp. 179-180: Adopting #186-15 following successful vote in overture Overtures, successful. #187-28, p. 191: Postponing action on joint statement by HMB/Global Mission Board [pages 55-57] until 2019 Canada; Caribbean; EAC; Fraternal relations; Home missions; Independent missions; Japan Presbytery; Languages; Latin America; Slavery and race. Ministers: 4-247, 5-054, 5-077 #187-29, pp. 191-206: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Acts of Congress; Canada; Disability; Email; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Parsonages; Paying Synod employees; Pensions; RPTS location; Social Security; Taxation; Thanks; Donald Trump. Ministers: 4-058, 5-121 #187-30, p. 259: Apologizing to David Weir for inappropriate responses to a past incident Apologies; Church history. Ministers: 4-127 #188 — Synod of 2019 #188-01, pp. 16-23: Returning paper on communion cup [distinct from judicial appeal by same author, #188-13] and status paper from Japan Presbytery to their authors ARPC; Candidate examinations; Church constitution; Communion cup; Internal organizations; Japan Presbytery; Judicial cases; Minutes of Synod; Paying Synod employees; Rules and organization; Trial procedure; Immanuel, Shawnee. Ministers: 4-127, 5-020, 5-022, 5-038, 5-070, 5-082 #188-02, pp. 24-32: Indefinitely tabling #187-26 commission report APCNA; Book of Church Government; Computing; Departing ministers; Licentiates; Reviewing commissions; Strict subscription; Vow 8; Park City. Ministers: 4-069, 4-200, 4-270 #188-03, pp. 34-43: Reiterating #177-06 final clause on chaplains and #184-06 on sponsorship ARPC; Financial; LGBT; Occasional hearing; PCA; PRJC. Ministers: 4-180, 4-196, 5-089, 5-117 #188-04, pp. 96-99: Declining to affirm a specific interpretation of “departing” in the context of divorce and desertion [dissent, page 95] Construction; Divorce; OPC; PCA; Testimony; Westminster standards; Written dissent. Ministers: 5-057, 5-095, 5-110, 5-124, 5-136 #188-05, pp. 101-109: Amending RPTS constitution [amendments intentionally not included in minutes] Baptists; Church planting; Debt; Email; Geneva faculty; Health and medicine; Immigration; OPC; Publications; RPTS accreditation; RPTS constitution; RPTS faculty; RPTS library; RPTS location; Slavery and race; Beaver Falls 1, Christ [Indiana], Columbus, Covenant [Ohio], Gibsonia, Manchester, Ottawa, Providence, Tusca. Ministers: 4-006, 4-012, 4-095, 4-126, 4-186, 4-206, 4-263, 4-282, 5-025, 5-028, 5-031, 5-039, 5-050, 5-059, 5-062, 5-063, 5-064, 5-074, 5-086 #188-06, pp. 109-111: Publishing copies of the booklet “Christ-centered voting” [no OCLC record] Publications; RPTS constitution; Voting. Ministers: 4-006, 5-017, 5-057, 5-094, 5-102, 5-106 #188-07, pp. 138-147: Amending Book of Discipline regarding complaint process Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Bruce Hemphill case; Trial procedure; Westminster standards. Ministers: 4-093, 4-173, 4-228, 4-232, 5-020, 5-047, 5-052 #188-08, pp. 148-149: Synod’s boards to submit their minutes for review (#096-31) Internal organizations; Presbytery minutes; Rules and organization. Ministers: 4-065, 4-127 #188-09, p. 150: Returning paper on publication of Synod employees’ salaries for clarification Paying Synod employees. Ministers: 5-080 #188-10, pp. 150-151: “English Bible Knowledge” exam renamed to “Bible Knowledge” Book of Church Government; Candidate examinations; Languages; Renaming; All Saints [Irvine]. Ministers: 4-148, 5-081, 5-133 #188-11, pp. 158-167: Amending Global Alliance constitution and appointing a day of prayer for more ministers A cappella; Africa; Biblical inerrancy; China mission; Computing; EAC; Financial; Japan Presbytery; Languages; Latin America; Levant missions; Psalmody; RPCA; RPCI; RPCS; Seeking candidates, RPTS; Westminster standards. Ministers: 5-027, 5-109, 5-135 #188-12, pp. 168-170: Parties holding Hemphill trial documents to furnish copies to Church History Committee (#187-17) Agency membership; APCNA; Archives; Computing; Financial; Bruce Hemphill case; RPCI. Ministers: 4-093, 5-074 #188-13, pp. 180-184: Returning a judicial appeal to Midwest Presbytery [dissent, page 181] Book of Church Government; Book of Discipline; Communion cup; Computing; Directory for Worship; Judicial cases; Ordination queries; Trial procedure; Written dissent; Shawnee. Ministers: 4-200, 5-038, 5-085, 5-136 #188-14, pp. 184-192: Reiterating #155-07 on new installations Acts of Congress; Canada; Disability; Email; Health and medicine; Individual relocation; Insurance; Jim McFarland; Parsonages; Pensions; RPTS; Social Security; Taxation. Ministers: 4-058, 4-232 #188-15, p. 197: Delegates may meet to discuss a separate Canadian church Canada. #188-16, pp. 197-202: Amending HMB constitution regarding female membership Agency membership; Congregational aid; Covenanter Witness; Financial; Marriage, sexuality, and gender; Pastors’pastor; Prison ministry; RPTS faculty; WMF; Birmingham, Casper, Christ [Rhode Island], Grace and Truth, Living Way, Los Angeles, Louisville, Providence, San Antonio. Ministers: 4-030, 4-129, 4-143, 4-148, 4-282, 5-028, 5-046, 5-048, 5-049, 5-077, 5-114, 5-127, 5-136 #188-17, pp. 203-213: Declining to revisit GMB/HMB joint statement (#187-28) Canada; Computing; Cush for Christ; India mission; Japan Presbytery; Languages; Latin America; Liberia mission; Jim McFarland; Mission schools; Pakistan mission; Radio and TV; Second World War; Self-supporting missions; VBS; Women elders; Indianapolis, Manhattan, Rochester [New York]. Ministers: 4-120, 5-050, 5-053, 5-054, 5-057, 5-062, 5-070, 5-087 #188-18, pp. 217-225: Financial arrangements, including setting Synod assessments, pensions, and RPM&M Canada; Church history; Collections; Computing; Donations; EAC; Geneva finances; Graduate student aid; Headquarters; Interchurch; Latin America; MacLaughlin Trust; Jim McFarland; Pensions; Revitalization; RPTS finances; RPWA; Taxation; Theaters; Trustees of Synod; Two-term rule; Youth. Ministers: 4-183, 5-082, 5-146 #188-19, p. 266: Adopting #187-02 following successful vote in overture Overtures, successful. Ministers: 5-032, 5-124 #188-20, p. 268: Permitting distribution of a paper on a specific ministry-of-mercy situation Health and medicine; Paper distribution; State College. Ministers: 4-006 #188-21, p. 275: Returning appeal for lack of substantiating evidence Judicial cases; No information; College Hill. Ministers: 5-047, 5-065 #188-22, pp. 275-276: Thanking Geneva chaplain for his work Geneva faculty; Thanks. Ministers: 5-064