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19-June-1998 
GA98116 
 
       Ninety-eight Year Old Elder Attends General Assembly 
                        by Emett Barfield 
 
CHARLOTTE, N.C.-- Elder J. Houston Witherspoon, 98 year old observer, has 
been attending General Assembly since 1951.  He only misses the Assembly 
when it meets in July when he feels it important to be at home in Belvedere 
Club. 
   The first assembly attended by Witherspoon was held in Cincinnati and he 
says was unusual for two reasons: first, it was the only General Assembly 
to held in the same city for two consecutive years; second, it was at this 
Assembly that Dr. Harold Wright Anderson, minister of the Fourth 
Presbyterian Church of Chicago, gave the three crosses which now are worn 
by the moderator of the reunited church.  
   When asked which moderator he believed to be the most outstanding in his 
47 years of Assembly  experience. He responded, "There are far too many to 
select one. Each moderator has brought something outstanding in his own 
way."  He feels that the acceptance of the new catechisms will be 
remembered as the historical benchmark of this year's meeting. 
   Witherspoon is already making plans now for his annual attendance, 
expressing great  relief that it will not conflict with his very active 
summer social season. 

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