May 31 Today in OPC History

On this date in 1938 the Fourth General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of America (renamed Orthodox Presbyterian Church) convened at Faith Presbyterian Church in Quarryville, Pennsylvania. A proposed docket was presented by Leslie Sloat, stated clerk of the Third General Assembly, and was adopted. Then in the election of the new stated clerk, Mr. Sloat and John Skilton asked respectively that their names be withdrawn from consideration. The Assembly granted Mr. Sloat's request, but denied Mr. Skilton's request. Mr. Skilton was then elected as clerk. Immediately after the election, it was moved and carried that the Moderator appoint a committee of three to consider defining the duties of the Clerk of Assembly in the period between assemblies and to report at a later session of the Assembly.

Picture: Leslie Sloat (bottom right), Dorothy Sloat, Francis Sloat (top right), and Egbert Andrews in 1949.